Despite being a hunting game, Carnivores has enough personality to warrant a characters page. This page should cover all of the games; Carnivores, Carnivores 2, Carnivores: Ice Age, Carnivores: Cityscape, Carnivores: Dinosaur Hunter HD and Carnivores: Dinosaur Hunter Reborn; all the tropes of each animal's incarnations should be listed here.
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Dinosaurs and Birds
The main quarry of most of the games, and often the most dangerous game. Since birds are evolved from dinosaurs, this list also contains the two Arctic Sector birds that appear in Ice Age.
Stegosaurus
Appears in: Carnivores, Carnivores 2, Carnivores: Dinosaur Hunter HD and Carnivores: Dinosaur Hunter Reborn
The least dangerous of the non-ambient animals, Stegosaurus is a easy kill, and is often one of the first animals available to hunt. In most incarnations, it's senses are mediocre.- Acrofatic: Very chubby, but quite a fast runner.
- Adaptational Wimp: It's unknown what temperment the average Stegosaurus had, but they were likely nowhere near as harmless as the ones in the game.
- Art Evolution: Received a very drastic redesign for Dinosaur Hunter HD and Reborn.
- Artistic License – Paleontology: Its design is based on outdated portrayals of the animal, including having sprayed forelimbs, a dragging tail, vertical tail spikes, and a shorter neck. Its version in Dinosaur Hunter HD, however, is more scientifically accurate except its neck is still too short.
- Beware My Stinger Tail: Averted in the original games; it never gets to use its spiky tail for defense. It finally does in the reboot.
- Took a Level in Badass: Becomes more dangerous like its real-life counterpart in Dinosaur Hunter HD.
- Tough Armored Dinosaur: Averted with its original counterpart as it always runs away. Played straight with its reboot counterpart in Dinosaur Hunter HD which will attack and kill the player.
Amargasaurus
Appears in: Carnivores: Dinosaur Hunter Reborn
A mostly unintelligent, social herbivore, Amargasaurus was a newly-introduced sauropod for Dinosaur Hunter. It is the first official pointable sauropod, as Brachiosaurus only fulfills the role of an ambient animal.- Adaptational Wimp: Despite its impressive set of neck spikes, it's rather scaredy and won't even use them to defend itself.
- Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: Has a mostly yellow/orange color scheme with maroon spots and sprites.
- Acrofatic: Despite being a heavy sauropod, it can run away from the hunter with no problem. According to Tatem games, it was meant to be slower, but was made fast for programming reasons.
- Dumb Muscle: Described as "unintelligent".
- Gameplay and Story Segregation: The Dinopedia claims it to be social, but it's as solitary as the other dinosaurs in the game proper. It is likely that hunting a whole herd of them would have been somewhat confusing for the player.
- Gentle Giant Sauropod: A very scaredy sauropod that never retaliates even when shot.
Ankylosaurus
Appears in: Carnivores 2, Carnivores: Dinosaur Hunter HD and Carnivores: Dinosaur Hunter Reborn
Slightly more dangerous than the Stegosaurus, Ankylosaurus are slightly harder to kill, due to the heavy armor. Despite this, they are still beginner animals. It's smell and hearing are good, but it's sight is rather poor.- Acrofatic: While it's less bulky than Stegosaurus, it's still rather portly yet fast.
- Adaptational Wimp: Just like Stegosaurus.
- Art Evolution: Has a more impressive redesign in HD and Reborn.
- Artistic License – Paleontology: Not only is it much smaller and more slender than the real animal, it also has a dragging tail. Its redesign HD and Reborn fares a lot better.
- Beware My Stinger Tail: Subverted. It has a tail club, but never actually uses it.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Replaces Pachycephalosaurus in the second game.
- Took a Level in Badass: In Dinosaur Hunter HD.
- Tough Armored Dinosaur: Averted by its original counterpart which is small and harmless. Played straight with its much larger and more accurate Dinosaur Hunter HD incarnation.
Pachycephalosaurus
Appears in: Carnivores and Carnivores: Dinosaur Hunter Reborn
Small and not very dangerous, Pachycephalosaurus are better in the sensory department, and can thus be harder to hunt, and don't fight back. However, they lack much in the way of defense, and will run if they hear gunfire.- Adaptational Wimp: A real Pachycephalosaurus probably wouldn't hesitate to use its head against you.
- Headbutting Pachy: Subverted. It never tries to headbutt you at all, despite what the manual states.
- Informed Species: It has a blunter snout than the real animal, making it look more like a Prenocephale or a Stegoceras.
- Put on a Bus: Was removed along with Triceratops from the dinosaur roster in Carnivores 2. However, it is available to hunt once more in Dinosaur Hunter.
Parasaurolophus
Appears in: Carnivores, Carnivores 2, Carnivores: Dinosaur Hunter HD and Carnivores: Dinosaur Hunter Reborn
A large herbivore, Parasaurolophus is the first "hard" quarry; it's senses are quite good, and as such it's often able to smell you before you see it. However, like the Pachycephalosaurus, it will flee if it hears gunfire. This is only "difficult" because of it's high sensory abilities making it flee before you even knew it was there.- Adaptational Wimp: The true Parasaurolophus was a massive, bulky duckbill that could hold its own rather decently against predators. Here, it's portrayed as the usual scaredy herbivore that runs away at any sign of danger.
- Animal Gender-Bender: The Parasaurolophus in the games are all male, as they all have long crests.
- Art Evolution: Was given a more accurate redesign in HD and Reborn.
- Four Legs Good, Two Legs Better: Unlike its real-life counterpart, the game version does not walk on all fours and is completely bipedal. Averted in Dinosaur Hunter HD and Reborn.
- Social Ornithopod: Averted as it is always shown by itself (though to be fair, all the animals are). In Dinosaur Hunter HD, it defies the "harmless hadrosaur" stereotype by attacking and killing the player with a headbutt.
- Took a Level in Badass: Surprisingly, in Dinosaur Hunter HD.
Triceratops
Appears in: Carnivores and Carnivores: Dinosaur Hunter HD
The first dangerous animal you can hunt, the Triceratops will not hesitate to charge at you if you shoot it. It will not flee from gunfire, instead choosing to charge at it.- Acrofatic: One of the chubbiest dinosaurs you'll find, but still a rather speedy runner.
- Art Evolution: Was given a somewhat more accurate redesign for HD and Reborn.
- Expy: Behaves much like a real-world rhinoceros, and won't attack unless you wound it.
- Horn Attack: Of course!
- Rhino Rampage: Can be best summed up as a reptilian rhino.
- Put on a Bus: For Carnivores 2, both it and Pachycephalosaurus were replaced by Chasmosaurus and Ankylosaurus respectively. While Pachycephalosaurus has been re-added to the game's mobile ports, Triceratops has yet to be re-implemented. On the other hand, it did return in HD and Reborn.
- Temper-Ceratops: It is the first aggressive dinosaur the player hunts, in contrast to the other herbivorous dinosaurs.
- The Cameo: Can be seen in the menu art of Carnivores: Dinosaur Hunter.
- Warm-Up Boss: Being the first dangerous animal the player can unlock, this counts.
Chasmosaurus
Appears in: Carnivores 2 and Carnivores: Dinosaur Hunter Reborn
Like the Triceratops, Chasmosaurus will attack only if wounded, and will otherwise run from the hunter.- Acrofatic: One of the chubbiest dinosaurs you'll find, but still a rather speedy runner.
- Expy: Not only of a rhinoceros, but it's also obviously based on the Triceratops. As you may have noticed, they both share several tropes. In fact, the Chasmosaurus was made from the Trike's AI, which can allow players to swap this dino for the Trike rather easily.
- Horn Attack: Of course!
- Informed Species: Looks less like a Chasmosaurus (which had a longer, hollow frill and shorter horns as seen here
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- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: It's pretty much here just to fill the gap left by its bigger cousin.
- Temper-Ceratops: It plays the same role as its bigger cousin as the only dangerous herbivorous dinosaur in the sequel.
- Warm-Up Boss: Being the first dangerous animal the player can unlock in the sequel, this counts.
Iguanodon
Appears in: Carnivores: Dinosaur Hunter Reborn
A dinosaur added to the April 18, 2014 update of Dinosaur Hunter, Iguanodon was first added as a pointable, secret ambient animal that would give points to the player when killed. Now, it's available as a huntable animal the players can choose.- Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: Has a creamy skin with bright-maroon splotches and sprites.
- Herbivores Are Friendly: Averted real hard.
- Idle Animation: Has quite a number of them. When walking, sometimes it will stop either to smell the air, stretch a leg, shake its body or rear on its hind legs and hoot.
- Killer Rabbit: Looks rather harmless at first glance and will run away from the hunter if it's spotted, but will trample the player to death if they injure it.
- Noisy Nature: Hoots and roars at times.
- Non-Standard Character Design: In contrast with the game's other ornithopod, Parasaurolophus, this guy has a more accurate design.
- Social Ornithopod: Averted. Not only is it shown by itself, but its the only other herbivorous dinosaur besides the ceratopsids that is aggressive.
- Stock Sound Effects: Utters boar sounds.
Allosaurus
Appears in: Carnivores, Carnivores 2 and Carnivores: Dinosaur Hunter Reborn
The first predator most people are able to hunt, Allosaurus boasts an impressive sense of smell, but its sight and hearing aren't that developed. Plus, its rather low health makes it easy to bring down quickly.- Adaptational Wimp: While it can still kill and eat you, it's decidedly smaller and weaker than a real Allosaurus.
- Animals Not to Scale: It's a fair bit smaller than the real animal was on average.
- Artistic License – Paleontology: There are plenty of things wrong with its portrayal. First, it bears little to no resemblance to the real deal, is rather small and its role in the food chain with Ceratosaurus has been swapped here.
- Informed Species: Looks more like some type of 90's inspired dromaeosaur. Apparently, its model was originally intended for the Raptor, before the latter got an overhaul and this model was used to represent Allosaurus instead.
- Mook: The weakest and most common carnivore, it will spawn even if players aren't hunting it.
- Put on a Bus: It is absent in Dinosaur Hunter HD and Reborn. Interviews suggested it was going to be implemented in Reborn (apparently as a large, powerful predator like its real-life counterpart), but was cut out due to budget problems.
- The Goomba: The first predator the players unlock, the weakest of them all and the most abundant.
Velociraptor
Appears in: Carnivores, Carnivores 2 and Carnivores: Dinosaur Hunter Reborn
Smaller than Allosaurus, but faster and more brutal, hunting this predator requires good reflexes, very few missed shots and needs the utmost care to hunt. With good senses, high speed and small size, it's no surprise that Velociraptor is off-limits for novice hunters.- Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: Has striped skin.
- Animals Not to Scale: Like the Jurassic Park raptors it's based on, it's closer in size to Deinonychus.
- Historical Badass Upgrade: Being based on the Jurassic Park raptors, this is a given.
- Mascot Mook: It's present in the main menu of the first game and also shows up in the cover for the sequel.
- Mook: Can show up even if you're not hunting it.
- Primal Fear: It's small size and similarity to the harmless Gallimimus from a distance, in addition to it's high speed, leads to many being attacked from behind.
- Put on a Bus: Despite its considerable popularity, it's absent from the HD and Reborn remakes of the game. There were plans for it to be added in Reborn, but unfortunately budget problems prevented that from happening.
- Raptor Attack: Standard 90's pseudo-Jurassic Park fare. The only redeeming thing about it is possibly its portrayal as a solitary hunter.
- Stock Sound Effects: Not to the extent of the T. rex roar, but the Carnivores raptor calls have shown up in a number of works since.
- The Cameo: For Carnivores: Cityscape, it shows up in the game's cover and the disc art.
- Underground Monkey: Shares the same AI as Allosaurus
- Wake-Up Call Boss: While it behaves much like Allosaurus, it's faster, possesses some more health, it's more vicious in its attacks and will surely be the first predator to give you a hard time.
Dilophosaurus
Appears in: Carnivores: Dinosaur Hunter Reborn (unreleased)
A new dinosaur species planned for Dinosaur Hunter. It hasn't been released yet, but it's found within the game's files.- Artistic License – Paleontology: Unknown since it's still unreleased. However chances are it will be modeled after the Jurassic Park Dilophosaurus one way or another.
- Canon Immigrant: It was only a matter of time before this species appeared in a Carnivores game given its popularity. However fans have already made their own versions as mods before.
- Carnivores Are Mean: Presumably, since most of the series' predators can and will try to kill the player. Then again, anything can and will kill the player.
Troodon
Appears in: Carnivores: Dinosaur Hunter Reborn
A new animal for Dinosaur Hunter, Troodon is a slender carnivore with excellent vision that can spot hunters and preys alike from a large distance.- Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: Is light green with orange stripes.
- Historical Badass Upgrade: It's larger and more fierce than its Earth counterpart. Albeit there were rather big-sized troodontids living in the Artic regions of Earth during Cretaceous times.
- Informed Species: Lacks the famous "killing claw" most deinonychosaurs are known to have, making it look more like an oversized compsognathid of sorts. Even worse, its official art does depict it with one on each foot.
- Raptor Attack: Lack of feathers aside, this guy is mistakenly represented without the "killing claw" most members of the deinonychosaur family were known to possess.
Spinosaurus
Appears in: Carnivores 2 and Carnivores: Dinosaur Hunter Reborn
Despite the ungainly appearance, large sail and rather weak-sounding calls, Spinosaurus is as dangerous as Allosaurus. This predatory animal has good speed and senses, and is slightly larger than the Allosaurus. It requires good skills, but is not as dangerous as the biggest quarry available.- Adaptational Wimp: Downplayed, it still can kill and eat you, but does have more health than Allosaurus and Velociraptor. It's smaller than the real Spinosaurus though. The September 2015 iOS update for Dinosaur Hunter did increase its size, however.
- Artistic License – Paleontology: New discoveries imply that Spinosaurus was a largely aquatic predator. This Spino, on the other hand, is differently proportioned and spends its time on land where it hunts other creatures.
- Giant Mook: Pretty much a bigger, meaner version of Allosaurus and Velociraptor. Like those two, it can also spawn even if you're not hunting it. This is more evident in the iOS version of Dinosaur Hunter, where an update dramatically increased its size.
- Idle Animation: Has the same walking animations as Allosaurus and Velociraptor, but will occasionally stop to sniff the air.
- Never Smile at a Crocodile: It has a very crocodile-like face and can prove itself to be a big threat.
- Savage Spinosaurs: While smaller than the real animal (though more built for terrestrial life), it is still a threat.
- Shown Their Work: Before Jurassic Park III came out, this was one of the few depictions of Spinosaurus that showed it with an accurate (for the time) head and jaw during a time when lay dinosaur enthusiasts still thought it was Allosaurus with a sail on its back.
- Underground Monkey: Has the same AI and behavior as Allosaurus and Velociraptor, the only major difference being its Idle Animation.
Utahraptor
Appears in: Carnivores: Dinosaur Hunter Reborn
A big-sized dromaeosaur from the mobile port, Utahraptor boasts great speed, excellent sight and smell. It's rather ruthless in its attacking methods and does not get scared easily.- Artistic License – Paleontology: The real Utahraptor was a much more bizarre animal and didn't really look like an oversized Deinonychus.
- Expy: The way it kills its prey is a throwback to the Smilodon from the third game, Ice Age.
- Feathered Fiend: Albeit barely as it only has a small pelt on its head.
- Fragile Speedster: It's quite speedy, but not very strong, yet it can still take some more punishment than the smaller Velociraptor.
- Raptor Attack: As usual, it's portrayed as a huge, scaly beast with nothing more than a feathery mohawk on its head.
- Shown Their Work: Its hands are not pronated (they face each other, rather than facing backwards), making it rather accurate in this regard.
- Underground Monkey: Is for all intents and purposes, a bigger and meaner Velociraptor.
Ceratosaurus
Appears in: Carnivores 2, Carnivores: Dinosaur Hunter HD and Carnivores: Dinosaur Hunter Reborn
Introduded in Carnivores 2, this theropod is noticeable for the horn on its nose. Ceratosaurus boasts impressive senses and is strong enough to take a fair share of punishment before falling down. Furthermore, it is one of the largest predators on the planet, and one of the strongest.- Adaptational Wimp: In Carnivores 2, it is the second largest carnivorous dinosaur to hunt and basically a slightly downsized T. rex with a horn. Its HD version, however, is a medium-sized predator.
- Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: Its HD and Reborn incarnation has red scales with black stripes and a creamy underbelly. Mutant Ceratosauruses are golden with black or green spots too.
- Animals Not to Scale: See Historical Badass Upgrade below.
- Art Evolution: For HD and Reborn it was given a somewhat more accurate redesign and a size closer to its real life counterpart.
- Big Eater: In HD and Reborn, it will gladly eat the downed dinos the player has killed or tranquilized. This can be used to lure them, though.
- Elite Mook: Very powerful and resistent, it's rather hard to bring it down and it's more challenging than all the previous predators you've hunted.
- Historical Badass Upgrade: This Ceratosaurus is much larger and more monstrous than its Earth counterpart, apparently having a case of insular gigantism. Subverted in HD and Reborn.
- Idle Animation: Much like Spino and T. rex, it will stop in its track to smell the air.
- Implacable Man: If you shoot it, the creature will storm at you from the other side of the island until either of you will die. Not as bad as T. rex though
- Kick the Dog: Its HD and Reborn incarnation will eat any of the dinos you've shot down, which can be rather frustrating, but can also be used against it.
- Lightning Bruiser: Very quick on its feet despite its size and bulk.
- Slasher Smile: Sports a rather chilling one that can make The Joker himself proud.
- Wake-Up Call Boss: The first big-sized predator you unlock in the sequel, and one of the most difficult hunts.
- You Are Already Dead: Unlike Tyrannosaurus, which roars once it spots you, Ceratosaurus gives no warning whatsoever, so when a Cerato sees you, it'll just suddenly spring towards you and chow on your dead body.
Carnotaurus
Appears in: Carnivores: Dinosaur Hunter Reborn
Yet another new dinosaur for the mobile port, Carnotaurus was the second new huntable animal made for the game, after Utahraptor and Troodon. It is a very fast dinosaur, but has a hard time turning around, which players can exploit, and is also surprisingly skittish for its size.- Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: Has orange skin, a white underbelly and dark brown stripes, similar to a tiger.
- Beware the Silly Ones: When not hunting, it walks around the map in a rather clumsy, even somewhat adorable-looking gait, but it's still a very ferocious predator and can run way faster than other animals.
- Cowardly Lion: Unusually scaredy for an animal of its size.
- Crippling Overspecialization: It's a very speedy dinosaur, but can only run well in a straight line and is not good at laps. This is Truth in Television.
- Historical Badass Upgrade: Bigger and more powerful than the real animal.
- Lightning Bruiser.
- Signature Roar: A throaty, guttural growl.
- Shown Their Work: Much like the real Carnotaurus, it is an adept runner but can't make sharp turns. And while its forelimbs are facing the wrong way, they are realistically stubby and lack claws.
- Underground Monkey: Has a more-or-less similar role to Ceratosaurus.
Gigantoraptor
Appears in: Carnivores: Dinosaur Hunter Reborn
An incredibly tall, feathered theropod, Gigantoraptor was added along with Carnotaurus to the 2013 update of Dinosaur Hunter. This bird-like being may not look very intimidating at first glance, but its speed and hunger for meat make it a force to be reckoned with.- Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: Has green feathers on most of its body with a blue stripe running down from its neck to its back and scarlet feathers on its head, arms and tail.
- Artistic License – Paleontology: While it does have feathers adorning its body, its arms are still incorrectly covered in them.
- Beauty Is Bad: Gigantoraptor is a fairly beautiful, colorful creature, but is a ferocious hunter. Granted, it is not an outright villain, just a predator trying to survive.
- The Big Guy: The tallest known theropod on FMM UV-32, but Tyrannosaurus and Giganotosaurus are still larger and heavier than it.
- Bright Is Not Good: Very pretty to look at, but also very aggressive.
- Feathered Fiend: So very much.
- Mix-and-Match Critters: Looks like a hybrid between a parrot and an ostrich at first glance.
- Lean and Mean: Is very tall, lanky and downright ferocious.
- Lightning Bruiser: Gigantoraptor moves very nimbly for its size, which is justified thanks to its slender built.
- Shown Their Work: It is (mostly) accurately depicted with a healthy feathery covering on its body.
- Stock Sound Effects: Its roars seem to have been modified from elk bugles.
Tyrannosaurus rex
Appears in: Carnivores, Carnivores 2, Carnivores: Dinosaur Hunter HD and Carnivores: Dinosaur Hunter Reborn
The biggest, baddest and most dangerous carnivore in the game. This theropod is the epitome of perfection; extreme speed, awesome senses, great size; the T. rex has it all. The only place any hunter could feasibly shoot to kill a T. rex in is it's rather small eyes.- Art Evolution: Like many other classic dinosaurs of the series, it earns a more updated redesign in Dinosaur Hunter Reborn and HD.
- Attack Its Weak Point: Only two known; the eye and the roof of the mouth. In HD and Reborn, shooting inside its mouth is a One-Hit Kill.
- Big Eater: In HD and Reborn, it will gladly eat the downed dinos the player has killed or tranquilized. This can be used to lure them, though.
- Boss in Mook Clothing: AND HOW.
- Go for the Eye: The most known place to hit this tyrant to put it out.
- Final Boss: The closest thing these games have to one, it's the biggest, most powerful of all the huntable dinosaurs, is often the last prey to be unlocked and you almost always fight it in the game's most difficult maps, where many environmental hazards or wandering dinosaurs can kill you as well.
- Historical Badass Upgrade: Real Rexes were pretty badass, but this guy has extreme senses, super speed, can climb mountains up and down and is perfectly fine with chasing you across a whole island just to get you. The HD and Reborn incarnation is tamer, but still quite dangerous on its own.
- Kick the Dog:
- Once it's killed you, rather than eating you, it will swing your body from side to side and then smash it on the ground repeatedly.
- Its HD and Reborn incarnation will eat any of the dinos you've shot down, which can be rather frustrating, but can also be used against it.
- Lightning Bruiser: Running away from one is of no use, as this Rex is way faster than you.
- Implacable Man: If it sees you, it hunts you down. Nothing gets in it's way.
- Knight of Cerebus: The game's mood gets real dark when you get to hunt this guy, as any wrong movement could easily give away your position. Even worse, the Fort Ciskin map from the second game reveals that the titular settlement was brutally attacked and destroyed by one of these guys.
- Roar Before Beating: Once it's seen you, it will roar loudly before going in for the kill.
- Super-Persistent Predator: As mentioned above, a single Rex can chase you across an entire island just to get you.
- Stock Sound Effects: The Carnivores T-Rex roars have become this over the years; for example, the Dino Crisis Tyrannosaurus uses them.
- You Are Already Dead: If you weren't fast enough to shoot the Rex's eye while it was roaring, you are already dino fodder.
Gastornis/Diatryma
Appears in: Carnivores: Ice Age (including mobile ports)
- Ascended to Carnivorism: It is portrayed as an omnivore, rather than a herbivore like in real life. Justified in that it wasn't officially declared a herbivore until 2014.
- Feathered Fiend: Only when it's disturbed.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Uses the A.I. for the Allo, Velo, and Spino.
Titanis
Appears in: Carnivores: Ice Age (mobile ports)
- Feathered Fiend: The aptly-named Terror Bird.
Coelophysis
Appears in: Carnivores: Cityscape
- Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: One of the more colorful dinosaur species in the series.
- Fragile Speedster: In Cityscape, it is the fastest dinosaur, but consequently the weakest.
- Shout-Out: Its coloring and patterns in Dinosaur Hunter is very similar to in Walking with Dinosaurs.
- Zerg Rush: Especially in Cityscape, where many of them tend to gang up on players. In Dinosaur Hunter, they act a bit different...
Rinchenia/Oviraptor
Rinchenia (left) and Oviraptor (right)
Appears in: Carnivores: Cityscape and Carnivores: Dinosaur Hunter Reborn
- Feathered Fiend: They possess feathers on their body, even if they somewhat lack them.
- Zerg Rush: Gangs of these pesky little dinosaurs tend to mob players.
Nanotyrannus
Appears in: Carnivores: Cityscape
Suchomimus
Appears in: Carnivores: Cityscape
- Jack of All Stats
- Savage Spinosaurs: The second largest predator in Cityscape after Giganotosaurus.
Giganotosaurus
Appears in: Carnivores: Cityscape
- Mighty Glacier: This giant theropod is not very easy to kill.
Mammals
Exclusive to Carnivores: Ice Age and its ports, they appear in the Arctic Sector. It's worth mentioning that on FMM UV-32 all of them inhabit only the North Pole and live in a snowy tundra environment, while the prehistoric mammals on Earth lived in different biomes and regions.
Megacerops/Brontoteriy
Appears in: Carnivores: Ice Age (including mobile ports)
- Rhino Rampage: Not a true rhino, but it closely resembles one.
- The Goomba: Despite its large size and fearsome horns, it's ironically the first and weakest animal you can hunt in the game.
Dire Wolf
Appears in: Carnivores: Ice Age (including mobile ports)
- Canis Major: It’s a wolf that stands about as tall as a man.
- Early-Bird Boss: The wolf is the third animal to appear in the third game, and created as a challenge for beginners. Unlike the Brontoteriy and wild boar before it, this creature will start pursuing you once it detects you, and is quite fast as well. This will give you an especially hard time if you are armed with just a pistol, though once you get a shotgun it becomes much easier since the wolf is a one-hit kill.
- Expy: Of a normal gray/timber wolf. Justified, since it wasn't until 2021 that the dire wolf was reassigned to the genus Aenocyon, due to its genetic dissimilarities with the gray wolf.
- Kick the Dog: Rather than eating you, it will thrash you around like a chew toy.
- Savage Wolves
Wild Boar
Appears in: Carnivores: Ice Age (including mobile ports)
- Full-Boar Action
- Informed Species: It looks more like a warthog than a wild boar.
- Token Minority: The only huntable animal in the series not to be extinct on Earth (though one could argue it's meant to be the prehistoric giant warthog Metridiochoerus).
Woolly Rhinoceros
Appears in: Carnivores: Ice Age (including mobile ports)
- Expy: Of modern-day African rhinos hunted in safaris.
- Rhino Rampage
Megaloceros/Giant Deer
Appears in: Carnivores: Ice Age (including mobile ports)
- Animal Gender-Bender: The Megaloceros featured in the game are all male, as they all have antlers.
- Expy: Basically a bigger version of regular elks and deers.
- The Marvelous Deer: It stands tall and has quite the impressive rack of antlers.
Paraceratherium/Indricotherium
Appears in: Carnivores: Ice Age (mobile ports)
- Animals Not to Scale: It's smaller than its Earth counterpart. Strangely, its in-game bio says it's the largest mammal on the planet even though it appears shorter and smaller than the other large mammals like the Mammoth and the Yeti.
- Rhino Rampage
Doedicurus
Appears in: Carnivores: Ice Age (mobile ports)
- Beware My Stinger Tail: It has spikes on the end of its tail that it can use to knock down the player.
- Holiday Mode: Originally had a Santa hat during the mobile port's Christmas release. A later update removed it.
- Mighty Glacier: It's hilariously slow, however it can take alot of damage and its tail is a fearsome weapon. Justified since glyptodonts had large heavy armor-like shells and short legs.
- Wake-Up Call Boss: The introduction of the Doedicurus marks a point in which the game really starts challenging you, mostly due to its extremely high health (it takes five hits with a shotgun to kill it).
Smilodon
Appears in: Carnivores: Ice Age (including mobile ports)
- Expy: Is likely meant to be representative for large cats, such as lions, tigers and leopards.
- Kick the Dog: It smashes you on the ground around instead of eating you.
- Mascot Mook: Appears on the boxart and in promotional images.
- Panthera Awesome: While not a part of the family Panthera, it is still an intimidating big cat.
Woolly Mammoth
Appears in: Carnivores: Ice Age (including mobile ports)
- Animals Not to Scale: It's one of the most massive animals in the series, rivalling the T. rex of the first two games in size. The real woolly mammoth wasn't even as large as the biggest African elephants today.
- Cruel Elephant: It will kill you at the first given opportunity.
- Expy: Of African and Asian elephants.
- Mammoths Mean Ice Age: Obviously. See below for more information.
- Mascot Mook: Even moreso than the Smilodon- it appears on everything associated with Carnivores: Ice Age, in particular the boxart and the main menu.
Hyaenodon
Appears in: Carnivores: Ice Age (mobile ports)
- Savage Wolves: Acts like a more powerful version of the Dire Wolf.
Andrewsarchus
Appears in: Carnivores: Ice Age (mobile ports)
- Artistic License – Paleontology: Its design is based on its now-outdated portrayal in Walking with Beasts. We now know Andrewsarchus was a hoofed mammal closely related to cetaceans, hippos, and entelodonts.
- Expy: Has exactly the same appearance, behavior and coloring as in Walking with Beasts.
Short-faced/Cave Bear
Appears in: Carnivores: Ice Age (including mobile ports)
- Ambiguous Situation: The games never specify if it's supposed to be a Short-faced, a Cave or another prehistoric species of bear.
- Expy: A larger and meaner Ice Age version of the grizzly bear.
- Bears Are Bad News: Oddly subverted, the bear is pretty cowardly, all things considered.
Yeti
Appears in: Carnivores: Ice Age (including mobile ports)
- Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti
- Final Boss: Of Ice Age.
- Four-Fingered Hands: Or rather three-fingered hands. For some reason its hands and feet are shaped more like a theropod's as opposed to a usual hominid's.
- Idle Animation: Humorously, it will sometimes scratch its butt and sniff its hand when it stops walking.
- Kick the Dog: Once it's grabbed you, rather than eating you, it will smash you on the ground repeatedly.
- Killer Gorilla: It resembles a white gorilla with red face, hands, feet and stomach (possibly covered with blood).
- Knight of Cerebus: As the first "bonus" animal of the franchise, it remains a dark mystery until unlocked. After unlocking it, the Yeti is the scariest animal to hunt in the entire game, thanks to it's mostly-white fur and absurd speed.
- Lightning Bruiser: Once a Yeti sees you, it barrels towards you.
- Non-Standard Character Design: It stands out among the other creatures in the series, since it is based on a cryptid instead of an extinct animal from Earth's prehistory. It is possible that it is loosely based on the prehistoric ape Gigantopithecus, which was an ape that was larger than a human.
- Primal Chest-Pound: Its other Idle Animation has it pounding its chest while roaring.
- Shown Their Work: Like real-life gorillas, it beats its chest by slapping rather than punching.
- You Are Already Dead: You only need to get in range of it's long arms for it to kill you. And it moves ridiculously fast, so you may get blindsided by Yetis a few times.
Ambient Species
These creatures will not attack at all and are simply used as ambience to provide enrichment to the games' various areas. Since they are considered harmless to human hunters and are easy to kill, they wield no points.
Dimetrodon
Appears in: Carnivores 2 and Carnivores: Dinosaur Hunter Reborn
- Informed Species: It's got a smaller head and shorter sail making it more like the herbivorous Edaphosaurus. It does not help it has the same A.I. as Moschops
- Misplaced Wildlife: Same deal as the Moschops.
- Vegetarian Carnivore: Subverted. It is seemingly portrayed as a herbivore due to sharing the same A.I. as Moschops, but the Dinopedia clarifies that it's actually eating animal matter.
Moschops
Appears in: Carnivores, Carnivores 2 and Carnivores: Dinosaur Hunter Reborn
- Inconsistent Spelling: Was erroneously named "Moshops" in the second game.
- Misplaced Wildlife: A Permian period/Paleozoic Era synapsid in an area populated by dinosaurs and pterosaurs from the Mesozoic Era.
Gallimimus
Appears in: Carnivores, Carnivores 2, Carnivores: Dinosaur Hunter HD and Carnivores: Dinosaur Hunter Reborn
- Artistic License – Paleontology: It is depicted without any feathers on its body. It is also much smaller than the real animal.
- Inconsistent Spelling: Incorrectly spelled as "Galimimus" in the second game.
- Informed Species: Its HD and Reborn version looks nothing like the real animal, instead looking more like Compsognathus. Especially jarring considering the original games subverted this.
Pelecanimimus
Appears in: Carnivores: Dinosaur Hunter HD
- Informed Species: It is identical to Gallimimus, who already looks more like Compsognathus in HD.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: It's basically a downsized version of the game's Gallimimus.
Brachiosaurus
Appears in: Carnivores 2 and Carnivores: Dinosaur Hunter Reborn
- Artistic License – Paleontology: The real Brachiosaurus would not spend most of its time in water like in the game. Plus, its tail would be held more erect. At least it nostrils are not on the top of the head for once.
- Aquatic Sauropods: Although they are never fully submerged, they will sometimes wade in the water.
- Gentle Giant Sauropod: It is the biggest dinosaur in the game, yet is unable to harm the player.
- Giant Equals Invincible: It' the largest dinosaur on the planet and it has nothing to fear from anything, be it predators or human hunters. Gameplay-wise, it is completely unkillable (even if using debug mode and/or hacks).
- Historical Badass Upgrade: The real life Brachiosaurus is still killable (obviously, seeing as it's extinct), unlike the one in this game.
- Informed Species: Like most pop-culture depictions, it's more closely based on Giraffatitan than the real Brachiosaurus (seeing as the former is better represented from fossil material and was formerly considered a species of Brachiosaurus).
Dimorphodon
Appears in: Carnivores, Carnivores 2 and Carnivores: Dinosaur Hunter Reborn
- Artistic License – Paleontology: It is always shown flying high in the sky, although the real Dimorphodon is considered to have been a poor flyer. It also lacks the vane at the end of its tail, and it's got pointy wing-tips. On the other hand, it appears to have pycnofibres (hair-like structures pterosaurs possess).
Pteranodon
Appears in: Carnivores 2, Carnivores: Dinosaur Hunter HD and Carnivores: Dinosaur Hunter Reborn
- Artistic License – Paleontology: Downplayed: anatomy-wise it doesn't look that bad, although it's got pointy wing-tips. However, its HD and Reborn version is misproportioned, including a head that's rather small.
- Animal Gender-Bender: The Pteranodon in the games are all male, as they all have long crests.
Tapejara
Appears in: Carnivores: Cityscape
- Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: It has a very brightly colored head.
Alphadon
Appears in: Carnivores: Cityscape
- You Dirty Rat!: They act like and fulfill the same role as rats and mice.
Tylosaurus
Appears in: Carnivores: Cityscape
- Adaptational Wimp: The real Tylosaurus was both larger and probably more dangerous than this version.
- Artistic License – Paleontology: It is smaller than in Real Life and can swim in freshwater, while mosasaurs were specifically large ocean and sea dwellers.
- Border Patrol: Presumably, they were meant to eat anything that wandered too far into the water. However, they are harmless to the player regardless if he/she is playing as a human or a dinosaur.
- Carnivores Are Mean: One of the few aversions. Due to it being an ambient animal, it won't attack you.
- Sea Monster: Averted in both ways. It is encountered in freshwater and it doesn't try to kill or harass anyone.
- Sewer Gator: Some of them can be seen swimming in the city's sewers.
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Unexpected Character: Since the marine wildlife on FMM UV-32 is never fully explored upon, why and how it appears is unknown.
Archaeopteryx
Appears in: Carnivores: Ice Age (including mobile ports)
- Artistic License – Paleontology: For similar reasons as the first game's Dimorphodon. It's only ever seen in the air, despite most existing evidence suggesting that the real Archaeopteryx was a rather clumsy flier that likely spent more time on the ground or in trees.
- Feathered Fiend: Averted, it's a harmless ambient.
- Misplaced Wildlife: Despite being from the Jurassic period, it is shown living in an arctic region alongside Cenozoic mammals.
Pig
Appears in: Carnivores: Ice Age (including mobile ports)
- Gluttonous and Messy Pig: Averted. It's a rather clean and well-mannered suid, unlike the wild boars.
- Misplaced Wildlife: Seriously, what is a domestic pig doing in an arctic region alongside Ice Age animals?
