History Blog / TheTyrannosaurChronicles

* ThreeAmigos: The various dinosaur Winter Olympics teams. Subverted for a few of the teams in that the members don't actually get along that well.

* ActionGirl: Amanda, who easily subdued a fossil poacher that beat up [[BadassLabcoat Professor Paradigm]]. In addition, WordOfGod has mentioned that Traumador would have eventually befriended a ''Dilophosaurus'' who fit this role.

* ChekhovMIA: Norman. Hints of Zendin making an actual appearance as well often get dropped (and is good as confirmed by WordOfGod) but the SeriesHiatus has prevented him from yet making an appearance.

** Norman A Centrosaur was first mentioned when Traumador did a post on his pre-blog life. Zendin the Troodon, who was also featured in that post (and occasionally referenced now and then) is [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse likely]] [[WordOfGod also one]].

** The mosasaur, which appeared once in 2007. It has yet to have any followup, but WordOfGod is that it would have played a role in a future story arc had the series continued.

** Boom and Rang the Leaellynasaura. They are athletic enough to easily take first place in the first couple of events in the Dinosaur Winter Games (especially taking into account that their homeland [[ShownTheirWork Australia was one of the snowy areas during the Cretaceous]]), but were defeated by [[TeamSpirit Team]] [[{{Eagleland}} America's]] power play during ice hockey and are forced to drop out when Bronko the Stygimoloch gives Rang a particularly [[IncrediblyLamePun hard-headed]] check.

* LeftHanging: There are still many, many plot threads left hanging, but it'll probably be [[SeriesHiatus a while]] (if ever) before they are wrapped up. WordOfGod has revealed the original plans for resolving many of the outstanding ones.

** Traumador is upset when the local news media calls a large marine reptile ([[WordOfGod a mosasaur]]) a “dinosaur”.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Desdemona and Valor are the only Crimson Talons to [[spoiler: ''not'' get flattened by Lance when he comes to Traumador's rescue]].

* AffablyEvil: Most tyrannosaurids are this to humans. To keep up their [[KingOfTheDinosaurs 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.

* KingOfTheDinosaurs: Tyrannosauroids lead the Pack of the Primordial Feather, as they include the largest and strongest coelurosaurs.

* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch: Traumador does his best not to fall into the "[[KingOfTheDinosaurs tyrannosaur stereotype]]".

* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: Of course!

* ProudScholarRaceGuy: Oviraptorosaurs and troodonts. Coelurosaurs in general are more manipulative and deceptive than carnosaurs.
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy:
** Dromaeosaurids. Desdemona feels underused and disrespected when Layla and Razi's "Crate" plan (the details of which have yet to be fully disclosed) is being carried out.
** Carnosaurs appear to be this.

* StockDinosaurs: ''Tyrannosaurus'', ''Velociraptor'', ''Troodon'', ''Styracosaurus'', ''Deinonychus'', ''Oviraptor'', ''Stegosaurus'', ''Spinosaurus'', ''Parasaurolophus'', ''Struthiomimus'', and ''Giganotosaurus''.

* ButtMonkey: Traumador. Gangs of theropods, fossil poachers, [[TheEvilGenius a mad scientist]], a German, and an [[GodOfEvil evil Maori god]] all want a piece of him. And he doesn't even fully know why!

* TheEvilGenius:
** Dr. Spectre.
** Razi Saurornithoides and Layla Oviraptor from the Pack of the Primordial Feather.

* [[SeldomSeenSpecies Seldom Seen Genera]]: ''Saurornithoides'', ''Einiosaurus'', ''Pinacosaurus'', ''Thescelosaurus'', ''Hypacrosaurus'', ''Heterodontosaurus'', ''Stegoceras'', and ''Serendipaceratops''.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: 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.

** [[StarWars Darth Vader]] makes an appearance as a [[MoreThanMeetsTheEye fishwatcher]] whose [[ShroudedInMyth evil side is overly hyped up in movies]].

* PowerTrio
** Id: Lillian
** Superego: Norman
** Ego: Traumador

* AffablyEvil: Most tyrannosaurids are this to humans. To keep up their [[TyrannosaurusRex 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.

* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch: Traumador does his best not to fall into the "[[TyrannosaurusRex tyrannosaur stereotype]]".

** Larry the Tyrannosaur and Desdemona Deinonychus are both movie stars, being the TyrannosaurusRex and lead raptor in ''Franchise/JurassicPark''. Teresa the Tyrannosaur joins them in the sequel. Matter of fact, Larry is just about every adult ''Tyrannosaurus'' to appear in modern pop culture.

* TyrannosaurusRex: Several show up in Traum’s adventures, especially his cousin Larry. [[spoiler: Traumador himself turns out to be a distinct species of ''Tyrannosaurus'', ''T. traumadori''.]]

* ReverseMole: "Ruffled Feather" is presumably this. WordOfGod has revealed their identity: [[spoiler:the therizinosaur matriarch]].

* ConspicuousCG: All the dinosaurs except Traum (who is a puppet) are visibly CGI, as are some of the effects (like the Olympic torch).

* TakeThat: When Traumador is told that only luck or [[DeusExMachina intervention by God]] can save him from the Crimson Talons, he replies that, first of all, he doesn't know anyone named "God", and if they mean supernatural gods then he still [[CrowningMomentOfFunny disagrees on account of them making dinosaurs go extinct]], and lastly the last god he met was a "[[BuffySpeak very un-nice dude]]" who [[GodOfEvil tried to kill him]]. He [[CrowningMomentOfFunny prefers luck instead]].

** Twice Traumador expects Professor Paradigm to bring forth an [[CrazyAwesome awesome]] weapon that will [[OneHitKill oneshot]] Dr. Spectre, but Paradigm instead takes out a [[ImprobableWeaponUser digging awl]] or a scientific paper. Subverted in that in both cases Paradigm actually [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome put these to good use]]. Double subverted [[spoiler: with the digging awl. Even though Professor Paradigm succeeds in disarming Dr. Spectre, Dr. Spectre still beats him eventually]].

** Boom and Rang are the ''Leaellynasaura'' from ''WalkingWithDinosaurs''

* FriendOrFoe: Traumador and Professor Paradigm as well as Lance the Lambeosaur, at least until quite recently.

* DumbDinos: A few dinosaur characters, such as Dollie Stegosaurus and Traumador himself, are shown to be slow-witted at least on occasion. However, this is not true of all dinosaurs in the setting; the maniraptors in particular come across as being more eloquent and cunning and Dip the Serendipaceratops was able to earn a doctorate. Additionally, ''all'' Vivus dinosaurs are portrayed as being more intelligent than their real life counterparts, being able to understand humans and hold jobs.