History Fanfic / PrehistoricParkReimagined

* SuperPersistentPredator: PlayedForLaughs in regards to Spiny the juvenile dimetrodon. He will stop at nothing to try to hunt and eat Larry the petrolacosaurus. Unfortunately, his efforts more often than not end with him suffering [[HumiliationConga one embarrassing injury after another]] rather than any semblence of success in his goal.

* BadassInCharge: Many of the leaders of rescued groups of animals turn out to be very much capable of defending themselves and their groups.

* DistressedDamsel: Yolanda briefly ends up as one of these when she is accidentally knocked into the crassigyrinus pool in ''South of Heaven''.

* GiantSpider: The undiscovered prehistoric spider species introduced in ''Alien Empire'' qualify to a degree (with a single female being at least the same size as Leon's head).

* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: Averted. This being a zoo, and one that very much wishes for dinosaurs to be amongst the rescued extinct animals, reptiles (including, naturally, dinosaurs) are very much allowed amongst the park's animal repertoire.

* SavageSpinosaurs: Largely averted since the spinosaurs encountered are largely portrayed as just animals trying to survive. That being said, the spinosaurus encountered by the rescue team over the course of the mission in which the species is rescued due prove particularly eager to try to take a bite out of Drew after he causes both a carcass they wanted to try to eat and a pair of carcharodontosaurus that they'd been fighting for the right to eat said carcass due to being especially hungry at the time. And as a result, they also prove temperamental enough to very swiftly go charging at the rest of the team when they goad them into rushing at them with loud noises.

* TerrifyingTyrannosaurs: ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' is the main target for ''Return of the King'', and an entire family is successfully rescued and brought to the park during this mission. Over the course of the story, the species is presented as both fearsome and awe-inspiringly majestic, with the entire rescued family proving themselves TheDreaded KnightOfCerebus to both the rescue team and the majority of the herbivorous dinosaurs from Cretaceous period Hell Creek as a result of their carnivorous diet and just how vicious they prove in their hunts before showing off their more gentle and peaceful side while feasting alone together at their lair before being rescued just in time from being killed in the KT event. And during their time at the park, adolescent female Matilda starts acting particularly fearsome over the course of the antagonism that eventually develops between her and her brother Terrence, who himself starts showcasing a particularly high amount of the more noble aspects of the species' portrayal, all while their parents Tyrannor and Rexy continue to display more of a balance between both portrayals. Several other tyrannosaur species rescued for the park prove similarly majestic and terrifying in equal measure over the course of their rescues.

* KingOfTheDinosaurs: ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' is the main target for ''Return of the King'', and an entire family is successfully rescued and brought to the park during this mission. Over the course of the story, the species is presented as both fearsome and awe-inspiringly majestic, with the entire rescued family proving themselves TheDreaded KnightOfCerebus to both the rescue team and the majority of the herbivorous dinosaurs from Cretaceous period Hell Creek as a result of their carnivorous diet and just how vicious they prove in their hunts before showing off their more gentle and peaceful side while feasting alone together at their lair before being rescued just in time from being killed in the KT event. And during their time at the park, adolescent female Matilda starts acting particularly fearsome over the course of the antagonism that eventually develops between her and her brother Terrence, who himself starts showcasing a particularly high amount of the more noble aspects of the species' portrayal, all while their parents Tyrannor and Rexy continue to display more of a balance between both portrayals.

* RaptorAttack: Mostly averted - the dromaeosaurs (and other small theropods) are accurately portrayed as feathered and bird-like. However, many of them are slightly oversized compared to the real animals.

* RaptorAttack: Mostly averted with the Ornitholestes and all the various other raptor dinosaurs introduced in the story by virtue of being accurately portrayed as feathered, aggressive to a realistic degree, and with enough intelligence to be considered smart for an animal without coming across as borderline human-level sapient. Played straight in a more downplayed form, on the other hand, with the pectinodon that end up infected with a HatePlague over the course of ''Hell's Labyrinth''.

* TakeThatCritics: Both the main story and the spinoff ''Prehistoric Park: Extras'' have each featured at least one subtle lighthearted jab at [[NamesTheSame writer!Drew Luczynski's]] [[CausticCritic needlessly harsh and mean spirited]] slamming of how Prehistoric Earth ultimately turned out in his opinion.

* VileVulture: The teratornis duo Rocco and Laverne not only prove entirely willing to personally finish off a badly wounded Eshe the American cheetah so they can eat her without waiting for her to die of her existing wounds while they're still in their home time in the Pleistocene, but also prove particularly aggressive compared to the other rescued La Brea birds. This is also initially played straight with the argentavis duo Hannibal and Imilce while they're still living in the wilds of their home time period by virtue of their arrival being treated as a sign of fear by two herds of prehistoric horse they end up hunting and also acting very menacingly towards Drew when he works to deliberately goad them into chasing after him for the sake of rescuing them and then largely averted once they're living at the park by virtue of becoming much more calm and easy going to work with to the point that Hannibal even ends up forming a close bond with Collete the security guard.

* AccidentalPassenger: * In the chapter ''South of Heaven'', a combined group of acleistorhinus, captorhinus, kahneria, and rothianiscus end up getting brought to the future for display at the titular park completely by accident when, at a time in which the rescue team happen to have their backpacks lying around unzipped on the ground, the animals in question crawl inside in curiosity to see if there's anything inside that they can eat, only for the rescue team to reclaim their bags and zip them closed while the animals are still inside. From there, the animals end up trapped inside the backpacks until the rescue team return home to the safety of the park, at which point they end up in ideal position to join the other rescued contemporary animals from their home period amongst the park's repertoire.

* StockDinosaurs: Quite a few appear in just the 1st mission alone. And even more appear in subsequent chapters.

* ToughArmoredDinosaur: Several such animals are rescued over the course of the story, with examples including StockDinosaurs like stegosaurus and ankylosaurus as well as lesser-known species such as gargoyleosaurus, hesperosaurus, and denversaurus. All of them are portrayed as formidable animals that neither the rescue team, nor carnivorous animals, are willing to mess with without good reason (even if some of them are more explicitly described this way than others).

* AwesomeDearBoy: Kyle, Linda, and Khatin were heavily motivated to accept Theodore's offer to work at Prehistoric Park by the chances to work with [[EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs real extinct prehistoric animals alive and in the flesh]]. This also proved a key motivator for Adrian, Jack, and Alice's accepting the same offer.

* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: Arguably one of the simplest justifications behind some of the chiefs of staff's acceptance of Theodore's offer to work at the park once they found out ''exactly'' what they were signing up for.

* TurtlePower: Jack very much proves a believer in this over the course of rescuing the axestemys and basilemys in ''Return of the King'', and it can be inferred that reptile keepers Carmen Perez and Maria Gonzales are likewise believers in this power.

** Downplayed with Matt's friendship with Will and Alice. While he ''was'' claimed by the narrative to be close friends with them in ''Fanfic/Prehistoric Earth'', his noticeable lack of prominent time in the spotlight in that story (brought about by behind the scenes strife that occurred during the writing process) made said close bond with them come across as an InformedAttribute. Here, however, the [[AscendedExtra noticeably larger amount of time prominently in the narrative spotlight he gets this time around]] makes it very clear that he's 100% exactly the kind of close friend to Will and Alice that the narrative of this story claims him to be.

* CirclingVultures: In ''Red in Tooth and Claw'', a mated pair of wingegyps cartellei are seen circling in the sky over a duel between a single female arctotherium and a mated pair of megatherium, hoping to feed on the scraps that remain in the event the bear defeats the sloths. Likewise, the presence of various other wingegyps cartellei partnered up with other large carnivores in the area likewise prove a sign for concern, with the only exceptions being the starving pair that are seen alongside the equally starving pride of smilodon populator. Similarly, in ''Oozing from the Pit'', a flock of [[SeldomSeenSpecies neophrontops americanus]] are quick to descend upon a dead mammoth that had previously been the subject of a fight between [[BearsAreBadNews a sleuth of arctodus]] and a six-member group of [[PantheraAwesome American cheetah]], as are a pair of teratornis upon a badly wounded and exhausted American cheetah. Played with in the case of multiple other prehistoric vultures and condors found trapped in the La Brea Tar Pits by virtue of their ''own'' doom being at risk of unfolding alongside that of the other animals that are trapped alongside them. And even after their rescue, the two teratornis [[BrutalBirdOfPrey prove highly aggressive]].

* NeverSmileAtACrocodile: In ''Novum Initium'', the Ceratosaurus pack that tries to take the lone apatosaurus in quick sand as prey have to contend with a float of [[SeldomSeenSpecies Diplosaurus and Amphicotylus]]. Several species of small terrestrial crocodilians encountered by the Denhams in a denuded Jurassic forest also prove a bit of an annoyance in getting through the portal as well. Several more speculative small terrestrial crocodilians similarly prove an annoyance to capture in ''All Creatures Great and Small''. Even phytosaurs and rauisuchians get in on the act in ''New Blood'', as do several temnospondyls and other large amphibians in ''Alien Empire''. And there are plenty more crocodilians that prove troublesome or vicious to deal with over the course of subsequent missions.

* SeldomSeenSpecies: Quite a few appear in just the 1st mission alone. And even more appear in subsequent missions.

* StockDinosaurs: As with SeldomSeenSpecies above, quite a few appear in just the 1st mission alone. And even more appear in subsequent chapters.

* ToughArmoredDinosaur: Several such animals are rescued over the course of the story, with examples including StockDinosaurs like stegosaurus and ankylosaurus as well as SeldomSeenSpecies such as gargoyleosaurus, hesperosaurus, and denversaurus. All of them are portrayed as formidable animals that neither the rescue team, nor carnivorous animals, are willing to mess with without good reason (even if some of them are more explicitly described this way than others).

* EverythingsBetterWithLlamas: Florida guanaco are amongst the animals rescued in ''Building Bridges''. Furthermore, while not truly llamas themselves, the macrauchenia, xenorhinotherium, and theosodon [[FantasticFaunaCounterpart are shown to engage in very llama-like behavior]]. And naturally, since they are amongst the prehistoric animals successfully rescued from extinction, the rescue team and park staff have very good reason indeed to feel happy about their presence at the park.

* DinosaursAreDragons: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] via how several individual prehistoric animals amongst the park's roster of rescued animals end up named after dragons.

* RhinoRampage: The elasmotherium and coelodonta rescued for the park both prove quite happy to charge violently towards anything that incurs their wrath.

* SlipperyAsAnEel: While shown to engage in a vicious post bite thrashing behavior similar to that of a shark, the onychodus also engage in a lunging ambush style of hunting similar to the kind used by some modern species of eel (complete with having a body that makes it look largely like an eel with a couple of features similar to those of coelacanths and sharks).

* ThreateningShark: Very much averted with the shiver of small and seemingly quite docile lonchidion in ''Return of the King''. Likewise averted with the shiver of xenacanthus rescued in ''South of Heaven''. Similarly, the gogoselachus and stethacanthus in ''Devils of the Deep'' prove yet another aversion. The dunkleosteus, however, despite not being true sharks, prove dangerous enough to at least fulfill the spirit of this trope.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** Unlike in Prehistoric Earth, where this was barely (if at all) touched upon, it is quite clear as early as the very first mission that, since Jack and Alice don't know Drew, Leon, and Adrian nearly as well as they know each other, and vice versa, the team proves understandably rusty in working together when they first start work in rescuing animals for the park.
** Generally, when a predator attacks, ''there is no warning''.
** With a lot of the bonds between the staff and the animals, the process isn't rapid - sometimes, taking ''weeks'' to build up a sense of trust.

* FantasticNatureReserve: Prehistoric Park itself is explicitly designed to be a zoo for prehistoric animals brought back from extinction via TimeTravel.

* KingOfTheDinosaurs: ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' is the main target for ''Return of the King'', and an entire family is successfully rescued and brought to the park during this mission. And over the course of the story, the species is presented as both fearsome and awe inspiringly majestic, with the entire rescued family proving themselves TheDreaded KnightOfCerebus to both the rescue team and the majority of the herbivorous dinosaurs from Cretaceous period Hell Creek as a result of their carnivorous diet and just how vicious they prove in their hunts before showing off their more gentle and peaceful side while feasting alone together at their lair before being rescued just in time from being killed in the KT event. And during their time at the park, adolescent female Matilda starts acting particularly fearsome over the course of the antagonism that eventually develops between her and her brother Terrence, who himself starts showcasing a particularly high amount of the more noble aspects of the species' portrayal, all while their parents Tyrannor and Rexy continue to display more of a balance between both portrayals.