The Tyrannosaur Chronicles: Difference between revisions

* [[Action Girl]]: Amanda, who easily subdued a fossil poacher that beat up [[Badass Labcoat|Professor Paradigm]].

* [[Affably Evil]]: Most tyrannosaurids are this to humans. To keep up their [[Tyrannosaurus Rex|image]] they enjoy scaring humans, but because they are also celebrities they can't actually ''kill'' anyone. Their attitude towards other ''dinosaurs'', however, is a different thing.

* [[Alternate Animal Affection]]: Muzzle nudging in tyrannosaurids.

* [[Amazing Technicolor Wildlife]]

* [[Ambiguous Gender]]: Boom and Rang the Leaellynasaura. Lampshaded by Traumador. The rules of the paired ice skating competition in the Dinosaur Winter Games imply that one of them is male and the other female at least, but at the moment there's no telling which is which.

* [[Amplified Animal Aptitude]]: All the dinosaurs appear to be able to understand what humans are saying, even though most of them can't actually speak human languages. Dip the Serendipaceratops even ''has a PhD''. (She's the first literal ''dinosaur'' paleontologist in the world!)

* [[Anonymous Benefactor]]: No one knows who gave Traumador his plane ticket to Canada for his fifth hatching day.

** “Ruffled Feather”, a mysterious informant of Traum’s who claims to be a displeased member of the Pack of the Primordial Feather.

** The highest-ranking dinosaurs in the Pack of the Primordial Feather are all females.

* [[Darker and Edgier]]: Traum's adventures have been largely going this way.

* [[Dead Person Conversation]]: Fossil dinosaurs (such as Traumador's mom) can still communicate with Vivus dinosaurs, at least to some degree.

* [[Deep-Cover Agent|Deep Cover Agents]]: {{spoiler|Craig and Dan.}}

* [[Deus Ex Machina]]: Literally. Traumador is saved by a Maori god from [[Evil Counterpart|another]] ([[God of Evil|evil]]) Maori god.

* [[Fantastic Racism]]: The various theropod Packs (gangs). Traumador wants nothing to do with any of them, but by turning down his cousin's coelurosaur-only [[Feathered Fiend|Pack of the Primordial Feather]], he is not only becoming their enemy but also attracting the attention of rival Packs.

* [[Feathered Fiend|Feathered Fiends]]: [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|The Pack of the Primordial Feather]]. All its members are coelurosaurs, the fuzzy and feathery dinosaurs that also include birds. (Incidentally, birds are the only coelurosaur lineage who aren’t part of the Pack.)

* [[Five-Bad Band]]

** [[Big Bad|The Big Bad]] – Teresa Tyrannosaur

** [[Evil Genius|The Evil Genius]] – Layla Oviraptor/Razi Saurornithoides

** [[The Brute]] – Desdemona Deinonychus/Larry

* [[Fragile Speedster]]: Boom and Rang the Leaellynasaura. They easily took first place in the first couple of events in the Dinosaur Winter Games (especially taking into account that their homeland [[Shown Their Work|Australia was one of the snowy areas during the Cretaceous]]), but were defeated by [[Team Spirit|Team]] [[Eagle Land|America's]] power play during ice hockey and are forced to drop out when Bronko the Stygimoloch gives Rang a particularly [[Incredibly Lame Pun|hard-headed]] check.

** Traumador himself to some degree. Being a small tyrannosaurid, he is [[Shown Their Work|very fast]], but his enemies are usually much stronger or more experienced in physical combat.

* [[Friend or Foe]]: Traumador and Professor Paradigm as well as Lance the Lambeosaur, at least until quite recently.

** At one point Traumador suspected Peter Bond of working for the Pack of the Primordial Feather.

* [[Improvised Weapon]]: Related to [[Improbable Weapon User]], Professor Paradigm is an expert at utilizing the digging tools he finds at crime scenes in fights.

* [[Interspecies Romance]]: Traumador and Lillian.

* [[Jerkass]]: Larry the Tyrannosaur is said to be this by Traumador.

** The Germ Man.

* [[Land Down Under]]: At one point Traum went to Melbourne on vacation. (By chance, he also avoided a yet-to-be-revealed trap that the Pack of the Primordial Feather set for him in New Zealand.) His boss Ms. Rhonwyn is Australian.

** Team Australia in the Dinosaur Winter Games.

* [[Left Hanging]]: There are still many, many plot threads left hanging, but it'll probably be [[Series Hiatus|a while]] (if ever) before they are wrapped up.

* [[Literal-Minded]]: Traumador. Sometimes Peter Bond as well.

* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]: The cast list ''is'' growing rather quickly. So much so that Traumador is working on a [http://traumador.blogspot.com/p/character-profile.html character page] to help keep track of the more notable ones.

* [[Painting the Fourth Wall]]: Although Traumador writes most of the blog entries, we occasionally see the thoughts of other characters, too, as indicated by a change in the color of the text. Different characters have varying degrees of grammatical accuracy and distinctive styles of wording. (For example, Traumador's green text never contains any capital letters and is often rather conversational in tone, while Professor Paradigm's white text is not only more grammatically correct but also carries an air of seriousness and and greater literacy.)

* [[Parental Substitute]]: Craig to Traumador.

* [[Proud Scholar Race Guy]]: Oviraptorosaurs and troodonts.

** Coelurosaurs in general are more manipulative and deceptive than carnosaurs.