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* [[Alternate Character Interpretation]]: Ryan North thinks ''everything is awesome!''

* [[And That's Terrible]]: [http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=1790 "sometimes no matter how much we prepare, boats will sink and that is terrible."]

* [[Audience-Alienating Premise]]: Lampshaded, as demonstrated.

* [[Bathos]]: Much of the humor.{{context}}

* [[Catch Phrase]] T-Rex's "Today is a good day I think for _____"

* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: T-Rex. Also, [[God]].{{context}}

* [[Choose Your Own Adventure]]: "[http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=1027 CYOA]" that amusingly features a [[But Thou Must!]]. A [http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=1486 later guest strip] by [[MS Paint Adventures|Andrew Hussie]] features T-Rex attempting to do an animated strip version of a CYOA, with Dromiceiominus and Utahraptor discussing with him about the problems with handling a CYOA in said format. {{spoiler|It falls apart in the fifth panel, where T-Rex and Utahraptor end up carrying their conversation through the panel shifts.}} In case you want to read the whole thing at your own pace, [http://new.megaswf.com/file/1392935 here you go]. Click the swf(image) after clicking the link and then use the left and right arrow keys (on your keyboard) to navigate.

* [[Cliff Hanger]]: The "Literary Technique Comics" series [http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=1866 explains it].

* [[Colony Drop]]: The "[http://qwantz.com/index.php?butiwouldratherbereading=thelastdinosaurcomicever the last Dinosaur Comic ever" overlay] replaces the last panel of every comic with one.

* [[Continuity Nod]]: After espousing the benefits of having a truly gender-neutral third person singular pronoun (and deciding that 'thon' [[Rule of Cool|sounded coolest]]) T-Rex uses it in a blink-and-you'll-miss-it way later on referring to [http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=2106 gender-neutral babies].

* [[Cut and Paste Comic]]: One of the first.

* [[Dada Comics]]: The premise is played surprisingly straight, and the sheer repetition of the art eventually makes it all feel perfectly normal.

** In 2005, T-Rex came up with [http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=675 an idea for a book]. In 2010, [http://machineofdeath.net/ this was published].

* [[Deus Ex Machina]]: T-Rex [http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=1354 explains it] in the "Literary Technique Comics" series.

* [[The Ditz]]: T-Rex, although he can be highly intelligent at times. He is not, however, a [[Genius Ditz]] ([[Negative Continuity|except when he is]]).

* [[Easter Egg]]: Add "&butiwouldratherbereading=nedroid" to the end of a Dinosaur Comics URL to change T-Rex and Utahraptor into [[Nedroid|Reginald and Beartato.]] You can also change them into [http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?butiwouldratherbereading=problemsleuth Problem Sleuth and Pickle Inspector], [http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?butiwouldratherbereading=xkcd xkcd characters], [http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?butiwouldratherbereading=onewheretrexgotassimilated make T-Rex into a Borg], [http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?butiwouldratherbereading=onewheretrexswearsmore make T-Rex swear more], and [http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?butiwouldratherbereading=onewheretrexwearsmore make T-Rex wear more.]

* [[Everything's Better with Dinosaurs]]: '''Duh.'''

* [[Everything's Squishier with Cephalopods]]: ''CREEPY CEPHALOPODS WHO LIVE NEXT DOOR TO T-REX AND WONDER ABOUT HIS OPINIONS CONCERNING THE NATURE OF CONSENT.''

* [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]: It's a comic... about dinosaurs. In some cases, [http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=121 it's used as the punchline.]

* [[Faked Kidnapping]]: T-Rex in [http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=1800 this guest comic].

* [[Fetish]]: For T-Rex, it's entropy decreasing in a closed system.

* [[Flat What]]: To the point where other web cartoonists will attribute its invention to Ryan North.

* [[A God Am I]]: T-Rex [[Freaky Friday Flip|swaps places]] with [[God]] for about 2 minutes, until God forces them to swap back after realizing {{spoiler|much to his disgust}} that T-Rex's mouth tastes like T-Rex spit.

** {{spoiler|And just when T-Rex had figured out the controls too >:|}}

* [[A Hell of a Time]]: In Hell you can play video games and do whatever you want, but you have to sing songs with all the lyrics replaced by "party".

* [[Just Testing You]]: God asks T-Rex where wind comes from, and then defends himself: "UM OF COURSE I KNOW I JUST WANT TO SEE IF YOU DO"

* [["Kick Me" Prank]]: Instead of 'kick me' T-Rex wants to plant a sign that says [http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=578 'kiss me'.]

* [[King of All Cosmos]]: God.{{context}}

* [[Large Ham]]: T-Rex{{context}}

* [[Light Gun Game]]: [http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=709 The Devil is a fan of them.]

* [[Long Runner]]: There are over 2,000 pages. So... yeah.

* [[Minimalism]]: Of course, given that it has the same six panels on every single issue only with different texts.

* [[Noodle Incident]]: T-Rex's idea of a party anecdote is the time he lost someone's baby.

* [[No Pronunciation Guide]]: drom-iss-ee-oh-MY-muss

* [[Oh Crap|Oh Frig]]: Its not all that uncommon for panel 2 or panel 6 to be T-Rex [[Oh Crap]] moments.

* [[Overly Long Title]]: [http://www.qwantz.com/archive.php Most of the strip titles.]

* [[Painting the Fourth Wall]]: God talks in '''BOLD ALL CAPS'''. The Devil meanwhile speaks in '''{{color|Maroon| BIG RED LETTERS}}''', and the raccoons and cephalopods ''ARE UNNERVINGLY ITALICISED''.

* [[Pungeon Master]]: T-Rex. It can get ''bad.''{{context}}

{{quote|sometimes i imagine my life where i write the same comics i've been writing, but instead of publishing them online i put them in a big stack, or, you know, wallpaper my house with them and never invite anyone over. hah! WHO IS THE CRAZY ONE NOW}}

* [[Satan]]: One of the odder incarnations of the Adversary in fiction, he's a nerd obsessed with [[Video Games]] whose voice comes in from the bottom of the panel. Like [[God]], he talks in all-caps without punctuation.

* [[Self-Referential Humor]]: The strip above, among other things.

* [[Shout-Out]]:

** Another MS Paint Adventures-related [[Shout-Out]] can be found in [http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=1574 this comic], if you look close enough.

** [http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=265 The Dinosaur At the End of This Comic].

** Apparently, [http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=1894 the Greek myths] were [[Axe Cop|made up by a five-year-old and transcribed onto scrolls by his 30-year-old brother]].

** In a bit of [[Alt Text]]:

** [http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?butiwouldratherbereading=onewheretrexwearsmore The one where T-Rex wears more] features an actual [[Nedroid]] [http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TO&Product_Code=NED-BEARTATO-SHIRT&Category_Code=NED T-shirt.]

** [http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=811 Apparently,] "too crazy" is like [[Homestar Runner|"fhqwhgads."]]

'''T-rex:''' No it's 3:31 pm EST. }}

** [[Xkcd]] get in some good natured ribbing in [http://xkcd.com/114/ this comic's] [[Alt Text]]

* [[Sophisticated As Hell]]: T-rex's entire friggin' speech pattern.

* [[Invisible to Gaydar]]: Utahraptor (and by extension... T-Rex? The very first story arc involved the two having sex ... [[Male-to-Female Universal Adaptor|somehow]]). It's not a big deal, and is seldom mentioned. T-Rex is probably bisexual; he and Dromiceiomimus have also had dinosaur sex. Then again, T-Rex doesn't remember the event, and questions if it really ever happened. (Non-consensual dinosaur sex?) We're pretty sure that time travel was involved. [[Word of God]] confirms that Utahraptor is gay but "doesn't go on about it that much because he has interests outside of being gay?".

** [[The Voice]]: [[God]], [[Satan]], Morris the Bug, the Cephalopods and Raccoons

** [[The Ghost]]: Tarbosaurus, among others

* [[This Is for Emphasis, Bitch]]{{context}}

* [[Title Drop]]:

'''[[God]]:''' '''OH GOD''' }}

* [[Totally Radical]]: T-rex is quite fond of the word "rad".

* [[Tonight Someone Dies]]:

* [[Translation Convention]]

{{quote|'''T-Rex:''' "I am a new man, cats and kittens!"

{{quote|''later: i confess that i write comics by just filling a binary file with about 65k of 1s and 0s and somehow it ALWAYS WORKS''|[http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic{{=}}2036 Title of September 6th, 2011]

}}

 

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