History WesternAnimation / TheGoodDinosaur

* BigGuyLittleGuy: Spot the human is a mere 3-feet tall. Arlo, is a 70-foot-tall dinosaur. Needless to say, [[ColossusClimb its challenging for Spot to interact with his massive animal friend]].

* RaptorAttack: May be on its way of averting this, as WordOfGod confirms ''Velociraptor'' will have feathers.

* StockDinosaurs: What ordinarily would be a case of ArtisticLicensePaleontology is subverted by the premise of the film. [[WhatIf Set in an alternate universe]], where the cataclysmic asteroid that forever changed life on Earth actually missed the planet completely and giant dinosaurs never became extinct.
* SwallowedWhole: Played with. [[AttackAttackAttack Spot starts attacking Arlo (who is a hundred times bigger than him)]], forcing the dinosaur [[TimeOut to close him in his mouth until he can behave himself]]. Spot then attacks Arlo's uvula like a punching-bag. The dinosaur struggles not to swallow him, then is forced to cough him out. (Good thing, too, considering apatosaurs are herbivorous).

* AlternateHistory: The movie sets in a world where [[WhatIf dinosaurs never became extinct]] and Jurassic dinosaurs like ''Apatosaurus'' and ''Stegosaurus'' coexist with Cretaceous dinosaurs like ''Triceratops'' and ''Parasaurolophus''.

* GiantEqualsInvincible: Subverted. Arlo maybe huge, but the world is ''far bigger'', and natural hazards and obstacles will often make him vulnerable.

* StockDinosaurs: What ordinarily would be a case of ArtisticLicensePaleontology is subverted by the premise of the film. [[WhatIf Set in an alternate universe]], where the cataclysmic asteroid that forever changed life on Earth, actually missed the planet completely and giant dinosaurs never became extinct.

* KidHero: Arlo, the lively teenage Apatosaurus with a big heart.

* SeldomSeenSpecies: The teaser shows ''Nyctosaurus'', ''Ludodactylus'', and a herd of long-horned bison.

* FloralThemeNaming[=/=]LocationThemeNaming: Momma and Poppa Apatosaurus named their children, 'Forrest', 'Cliff', 'Ivy' and 'Arlo'. Arlo is the Old English word for ''hill''.

* TyrannosaurusRex: At least three ''Tyrannosaurus'' characters have been revealed.

* ABoyAndHisX: Inverted. The "X" (in this case, an apatosaurus) adopts a boy, in the style of the IceAge movies.

* SwallowedWhole: Averted. [[AttackAttackAttack Spot starts attacking Arlo (who is a hundred times bigger than him)]], forcing the dinosaur [[TimeOut to close him in his mouth until he can behave himself]]. Spot then attacks Arlo's uvula like a punching-bag. The dinosaur struggles not to swallow him, then is forced to cough him out. (Good thing, too, considering apatosaurs are herbivorous).

* AlternateHistory: The movie sets in a world where [[WhatIf dinosaurs never became extinct]] and Jurassic dinosaurs like Apatosaurus and Stegosaurus coexist with Cretaceous dinosaurs like Triceratops and Parasaurolophus.

* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Arlo the youngest child of the Apatosaurus family, is a bit of a misfit. He's obsessed with studying bugs and insects, which the other dinosaur farmers despise since they ruin their crops.

* DomesticatedDinosaurs: Dinosaurs are the dominant race on Earth, having evolved through the ages, and the herbivores became farmers, forming an agrarian society. It is unknown what the carnivores' roles would be.

* UnusualAnimalAlliance: The different species of dinosaur all work together to farm the land, each function as their own farm equipment. Triceratops act as bulldozers. Stegosaurus mow down and gather up crops. Apatosaurus work as giant ploughs in preparation for sowing seeds, and so on.

'''''The Good Dinosaur''''' is an upcoming American 3D computer-animated comedy film produced by {{Creator/Pixar}} Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It is currently scheduled to be released on November 25, 2015. It is the studio's sixteenth feature film. Bob Peterson, who came up with the idea for the story, directed ''The Good Dinosaur'' until August 2013, when he was removed from the film. It will now be directed by Peter Sohn.

'''The Good Dinosaur''' is an upcoming American 3D computer-animated comedy film produced by {{Creator/Pixar}} Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It is currently scheduled to be released on November 25, 2015. It is the studio's sixteenth feature film. Bob Peterson, who came up with the idea for the story, directed ''The Good Dinosaur'' until August 2013, when he was removed from the film. It will now be directed by Peter Sohn.

'''The Good Dinosaur''' is an upcoming American 3D computer-animated comedy film produced by {{Creator/Pixar}} Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It is currently scheduled to be released on November 25, 2015. It is the studio's sixteenth feature film. Bob Peterson, who came up with the idea for the story, directed The Good Dinosaur until August 2013, when he was removed from the film.

* StockDinosaurs: What ordinarily would be a case of SomewhereAPalaeontologistIsCrying is subverted by the premise of the film. [[WhatIf Set in an alternate universe]], where the cataclysmic asteroid that forever changed life on Earth, actually missed the planet completely and giant dinosaurs never became extinct.

* AlternateHistory: The movie sets in a world where dinosaurs never became extinct and Jurassic dinosaurs like Apatosaurus and Stegosaurus coexist with Cretaceous dinosaurs like Triceratops and Parasaurolophus.

* StockDinosaurs: What ordinarily would be a case of SomewhereAPalaeontologistIsCrying is subverted by the premise of the film. Set in an alternate universe, where the cataclysmic asteroid that forever changed life on Earth, actually missed the planet completely and giant dinosaurs never became extinct.

* DomesticatedDinosaurs: Dinosaurs are the dominant race on Earth, having evolved through the ages, they became farmers, forming an agrarian society.

* SwallowedWhole: Averted. [[AttackAttackAttack Spot starts attacking Arlo who is a hundred times bigger than him]], forcing the dinosaur [[TimeOut to close him in his mouth until he can behave himself]]. Spot then attacks Arlo's uvula like a punching-bag. The dinosaur struggles not to swallow him, and coughs him out. (Good thing, too, considering apatosaurs are herbivorous).

* SwallowedWhole. Averted. [[AttackAttackAttack Spot starts attacking Arlo who is a hundred times bigger than him]], forcing the dinosaur [[TimeOut to close him in his mouth until he can behave himself]]. Spot then attacks Arlo's uvula like a punching-bag. The dinosaur struggles not to swallow him, and coughs him out.

* ThisIsMyHuman: During his travels through the wilderness, Arlo gains an unlikely companion. A small, but feisty orphan human. He's utterly alone in the world. Humans have only started to emerge in the world, they haven't evolved to the point where they're capable of communicating beyond yells, grunts and cries. [[HumanPet Arlo kindly adopts the little boy, and names him "Spot"]].

* KidHero: Arlo, the lively 70-foot-tall teenage Apatosaurus with a big heart.

* StockDinosaurs: What ordinarily would be a case of SomewhereAPalaeontologistIsCrying is subverted by the premise of the film. Set in an alternate universe, where the cataclysmic asteroid that forever changed life on Earth, actually missed the planet completely and giant dinosaurs never became extinct.

* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs

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