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* '''Parodied''': Bob goes back in time and sees an obvious European styled dragon hunting dinosaurs. Everyone acts like its just another dinosaur

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* '''Parodied''': Bob goes back in time and sees an obvious European styled dragon hunting dinosaurs. Everyone acts like its it's just another dinosaur

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* '''Exaggerated''': What is described to Bob in story as a dinosaur, has batlike wings, horns, breathes fire, [[DragonsPreferPrincesses kidnaps princesses]] and hoards treasures.

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* '''Exaggerated''': '''Exaggerated''':
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What is described to Bob in story as a dinosaur, has batlike wings, horns, breathes fire, [[DragonsPreferPrincesses kidnaps princesses]] and hoards treasures.treasures.
** The "dinosaur" Bob encounters is a dinosaur [[InformedAttribute only in name]]. It is completely a dragon otherwise.
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* '''Straight''': Bob encounters a theropod dinosaur while time traveling. It has a horn and breathes fire.

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* '''Straight''': Bob encounters a theropod dinosaur while time traveling. It has a horn and breathes fire.fire and otherwise has dragon-like traits the real thing didn't have.
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* '''Invoked''': A MadScientist takes a ''TyrannosaurusRex'' and gives it a pyrosac to make it a fire-breathing dragon.

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* '''Invoked''': A MadScientist takes a ''TyrannosaurusRex'' ''UsefulNotes/TyrannosaurusRex'' and gives it a pyrosac to make it a fire-breathing dragon.
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* '''Exaggerated''': What is described to Bob in story as a dinosaur, has batlike wings, horns, breathes fire, kidnaps maidens and hoards treasures.

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* '''Exaggerated''': What is described to Bob in story as a dinosaur, has batlike wings, horns, breathes fire, [[DragonsPreferPrincesses kidnaps maidens princesses]] and hoards treasures.
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** The dragons that Bob encounters are revealed to have branched off from ''Saurischia'' millions of years ago, meaning that they are taxonomically dinosaurs.
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* '''Downplayed''': Bob encounters a theropod dinosaur, it has a horn and vaguely resembles classic dragon art (think Ceratosaurus or Carnotaurus), but otherwise is depicted as a normal animal.

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* '''Downplayed''': Bob encounters a theropod dinosaur, it dinosaur. It has a horn and vaguely resembles classic dragon art (think Ceratosaurus ''Ceratosaurus'' or Carnotaurus), ''Carnotaurus''), but otherwise is depicted as a normal animal.
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* '''Invoked''': ????

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* '''Invoked''': ????A MadScientist takes a ''TyrannosaurusRex'' and gives it a pyrosac to make it a fire-breathing dragon.

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* '''Justified''': The creature is actually a magical being that just resembles a dinosaur. Thus, it really is a dragon.

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* '''Justified''': '''Justified''':
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The creature is actually a magical being that just resembles a dinosaur. Thus, it really is a dragon.dragon.
** Bob is in an AlternateUniverse where dragons take the place of our universe's dinosaurs.
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'''Basic Trope''': Dinosaurs are being portrayed as either dragons or as having draconic trains
* '''Straight''': Bob encounters a theropod dinosaur while time traveling. It has a horn and breathes fire

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'''Basic Trope''': Dinosaurs are being portrayed as either dragons or as having draconic trains
traits.
* '''Straight''': Bob encounters a theropod dinosaur while time traveling. It has a horn and breathes firefire.



* '''Downplayed''': Bob encounters a theropod dinosaur, it has a horn and vaguely resembles classic dragon art (think Ceratosaurus or Carnotaurus), but otherwise is depicted as a normal animal
* '''Justified''': The creature is actually a magical being that just resembles a dinosaur. Thus, it really is a dragon

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* '''Downplayed''': Bob encounters a theropod dinosaur, it has a horn and vaguely resembles classic dragon art (think Ceratosaurus or Carnotaurus), but otherwise is depicted as a normal animal
animal.
* '''Justified''': The creature is actually a magical being that just resembles a dinosaur. Thus, it really is a dragondragon.



* '''Subverted''': The creature, while appearing to be a dragon, is just a genetically modified dinosaur and not a dragon at all
* '''Double Subverted''': It can still breathe fire somehow

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* '''Subverted''': The creature, while appearing to be a dragon, is just a genetically modified dinosaur and not a dragon at all
all.
* '''Double Subverted''': It can still breathe fire somehowsomehow.



* '''Zig Zagged''': Bob encounters a dinosaur that looks like a dragon.... but it is just genetically engineered... but then it breathes fire inexplicably... but then it turns out it had a hidden pyrotechnic device on it.... but then it sprouts wings and flies off.

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* '''Zig Zagged''': Bob encounters a dinosaur that looks like a dragon....dragon... but it is just genetically engineered... but then it breathes fire inexplicably... but then it turns out it had a hidden pyrotechnic device on it....it... but then it sprouts wings and flies off.



* '''Defied''': Someone confuses the dinosaur for a dragon, but Bob explains that its not, and not really like one at all

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* '''Defied''': Someone confuses the dinosaur for a dragon, but Bob explains that its it's not, and not really like one at allall.

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* '''Straight''':
** Bob encounters a theropod dinosaur while time traveling. It has a horn and breathes fire
* '''Exaggerated''':
** What is described to Bob in story as a dinosaur, has batlike wings, horns, breathes fire, and kidnaps maidens

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* '''Straight''':
**
'''Straight''': Bob encounters a theropod dinosaur while time traveling. It has a horn and breathes fire
* '''Exaggerated''':
**
'''Exaggerated''': What is described to Bob in story as a dinosaur, has batlike wings, horns, breathes fire, and kidnaps maidensmaidens and hoards treasures.



* '''Justified''':
** The creature is actually a magical being that just resembles a dinosaur. Thus, it really is a dragon
* '''Inverted''':
** Bob, while traveling time, encounters a T. rex in medieval Europe. Its not portrayed as different from the real animal, but its still called a dragon by the locals.
* '''Subverted''':
** The creature, while appearing to be a dragon, is just a genetically modified dinosaur and not a dragon at all
* '''Double Subverted''':
** It can still breathe fire somehow
* '''Parodied''':
** Bob goes back in time and sees an obvious European styled dragon hunting dinosaurs. Everyone acts like its just another dinosaur
* '''Zig Zagged''':
** Bob encounters a dinosaur that looks like a dragon.... but it is just genetically engineered... but then it breathes fire inexplicably... but then it turns out it had a hidden pyrotechnic device on it.... but then it sprouts wings and flies off.
* '''Averted''':
** Any dinosaur in the work is portrayed as a mundane animal.
* '''Enforced''':
** "Dinosaurs are cool and all, but you know what's even cooler? Dragons! make the dinosaur a dragon too."

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* '''Justified''':
**
'''Justified''': The creature is actually a magical being that just resembles a dinosaur. Thus, it really is a dragon
* '''Inverted''':
**
'''Inverted''': Bob, while traveling time, encounters a T. rex in medieval Europe. Its not portrayed as different from the real animal, but its still called a dragon by the locals.
* '''Subverted''':
**
'''Subverted''': The creature, while appearing to be a dragon, is just a genetically modified dinosaur and not a dragon at all
* '''Double Subverted''':
**
Subverted''': It can still breathe fire somehow
* '''Parodied''':
**
'''Parodied''': Bob goes back in time and sees an obvious European styled dragon hunting dinosaurs. Everyone acts like its just another dinosaur
* '''Zig Zagged''':
**
Zagged''': Bob encounters a dinosaur that looks like a dragon.... but it is just genetically engineered... but then it breathes fire inexplicably... but then it turns out it had a hidden pyrotechnic device on it.... but then it sprouts wings and flies off.
* '''Averted''':
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'''Averted''': Any dinosaur in the work is portrayed as a mundane animal.
* '''Enforced''':
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'''Enforced''': "Dinosaurs are cool and all, but you know what's even cooler? Dragons! make the dinosaur a dragon too."



* '''Deconstructed''': ???
* '''Reconstructed''': ???
* '''Played For Laughs''': ???
* '''Played For Drama''': ???



%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???

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%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': '''Deconstructed''': ???
%%* '''Reconstructed''': ???
%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???
%%* '''Played For Drama''':
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'''Basic Trope''': Dinosaurs are being portrayed as either dragons or as having draconic trains
* '''Straight''':
** Bob encounters a theropod dinosaur while time traveling. It has a horn and breathes fire
* '''Exaggerated''':
** What is described to Bob in story as a dinosaur, has batlike wings, horns, breathes fire, and kidnaps maidens
* '''Downplayed''': Bob encounters a theropod dinosaur, it has a horn and vaguely resembles classic dragon art (think Ceratosaurus or Carnotaurus), but otherwise is depicted as a normal animal
* '''Justified''':
** The creature is actually a magical being that just resembles a dinosaur. Thus, it really is a dragon
* '''Inverted''':
** Bob, while traveling time, encounters a T. rex in medieval Europe. Its not portrayed as different from the real animal, but its still called a dragon by the locals.
* '''Subverted''':
** The creature, while appearing to be a dragon, is just a genetically modified dinosaur and not a dragon at all
* '''Double Subverted''':
** It can still breathe fire somehow
* '''Parodied''':
** Bob goes back in time and sees an obvious European styled dragon hunting dinosaurs. Everyone acts like its just another dinosaur
* '''Zig Zagged''':
** Bob encounters a dinosaur that looks like a dragon.... but it is just genetically engineered... but then it breathes fire inexplicably... but then it turns out it had a hidden pyrotechnic device on it.... but then it sprouts wings and flies off.
* '''Averted''':
** Any dinosaur in the work is portrayed as a mundane animal.
* '''Enforced''':
** "Dinosaurs are cool and all, but you know what's even cooler? Dragons! make the dinosaur a dragon too."
* '''Lampshaded''': "I didn't know dinosaurs could breathe fire..."
* '''Invoked''': ????
* '''Exploited''': ???
* '''Defied''': Someone confuses the dinosaur for a dragon, but Bob explains that its not, and not really like one at all
* '''Discussed''':???
* '''Conversed''': ???
* '''Deconstructed''': ???
* '''Reconstructed''': ???
* '''Played For Laughs''': ???
* '''Played For Drama''': ???
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%%* '''Implied''': ???
%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???

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