What would you do if you could transform into any dinosaur? DinoKid has it clear: have a great time with his friends!.
A Comic Book series created by the Spanish author David Ramirez, published monthly in the Spanish magazine ¡Dibus! since December 2000 and up until the magazine folded in 2015, alongside Mini Monsters, another one of his creations.
A recompilation of the comic was released two times; One simply called DinoKid, back in 2008, back when the magazine was still in publication, and another one in 2021 “Todo DinoKid” that was relesed years after ¡Dibus! finished its publication, including the remaining pages that appeared in between 2008 and 2015 and various extras, including an exclusive final episode.
The comic revolves around the mundane life of a superheroic kid with the ability to transform in various types of dinosaur
Quotes are translated, as they’re in Spanish.
This comic contains examples of:
- Animorphism:
- DinoKid can turn himself into Dinosaurs
- Mammal Boy can transform into mammals
- Insect Girl can transform herself into insects.
- The Incredible Boy Able to Transform into All Kind of Birds can transform into… well… birds
- Peza can transform into fishes
- Anfiboy can transform himself into amphibian
- Artifact of Power: The mysterious eggs, which give anyone who touches any of these transformative powers based on an animal species. At the finale, Cirene explains to the kids that they serve as an encyclopedia to study the animals of the planet
- Art Shift: The comics of Saurus-H are drawn in a similar way to Mini Monsters , another comic made by the same author as DinoKid, David Ramirez's
- Awesome, but Impractical:
- Mineralia Milenaria can transform herself into any mineral, at the expense of being unable to move.
- Peza can transform into any kind of fish, but she can’t stay long on the surface as a fish before needing water to breathe.
- Bullying a Dragon: Before becoming good, Terraria attempts to bully the SuperZoo’s members, but backs on when they reveal they can become poisonous animals. She becomes wiser to this, as she backs off when DinoKid reveals there were poisonous dinosaurs.
- Book Ends: The first strip starts with DinoKid unsuccessfully trying to save a damsel from a thief. In the last one, the same thief is seen stealing the same woman again, but this time, DinoKid stops him alongside his group of superpowered friends.
- The Cameo: As she's getting prepared to antagonize DinoKid and his friends, Dra. Olvido analyzes Mortadelo, declaring him to be the most dangerous shapeshifter.
- Convenience Store Gift Shopping: Exaggerated: On DinoKid’s birthday, everyone gives DinoKid a dinosaur plush with the excuse that they thought that he would like it due to having dinosaur-related powers. Moments later, at the party, DinoKid’s mother informs DinoKid that a truck loaded with dinosaur plushes has tipped in front of his house while showing another dinosaur plush.
- Create Your Own Villain: DinoKid starts his feud with the Acorn king by scratching with his sharp dinosaur nails “I hate the damn forest!!” on Acorn king’s back. To be fair to DinoKid, he didn’t know he was scratching a sentient tree.
- Creepy Child: Gore Li, a classmate who likes to draw the SuperZoo members in comics featuring them in gory and grotesque situations and often requests them to transform into specific animals to kill them easily, with no success.
- Easy Sex Change: Thanks to the human egg, Terricola can switch into her gender easily.
- Egomaniac Hunter: A incompetent one named the animal’s collector is often seen antagonizing the SuperZoo’s members.
- Embarrassing Nickname: Mammal boy hates being referred to as Mambo by DinoKid
- Finders Rulers: Only the first person who touches an empowering egg can wield its powers, as Terraria finds out the hard way when she stole it from Anfiboy.
- Fingerless Hands: The characters are normally drawn as simple balls without fingers, unless they're pointing at something.
- Freudian Excuse: Terricola explains to the SuperZoo group that she acts like a brute so people can’t laugh at her for being feminine and to please her parents, who according to her words, don’t seem to support her.
- Innocent Aliens: Cirene, who created the mysterious eggs as a way to study and preserve information about the life on the planet earth
- Irony: Despite being able to transform into any kind of Fish, Peza doesn’t know how to swim in her human form.
- Kid Hero: All the members of SuperZoo are children.
- Legion of Doom: SuperZoo’s enemies, consisting of Dra. Olvido, the acorn king, the hunter, and Caccharrobot.
- All Love Is Unrequited:
- The Incredible Boy Able to Transform into All Kind of Birds has a crush on Insect Girl, but ends up accidentally shipping her with Mammal boy, the two of them becoming a couple.
- Rosita has a crush on DinoKid, who never seems to notice she’s interested in him. Unlike the former example, she finally abandons all hope when she witnesses DinoKid being kissed by Cirene, and moves on by getting in love with Gore Li after seeing him drawing a comic where DinoKid is mauled by other dinosaurs.
- Must Have Nicotine: Due to pollution, the acorn king has turned into a smoke addict.
- Mundane Made Awesome: DinoKid and the other kids are often seen exploiting their transformation powers to make things easier for themselves.
- Obvious Rule Patch: Due to frequently going to the movies, the owners of a cinema created a rule to forbid DinoKid to use his shapeshifting powers inside.
- Overly Long Name: The Incredible Boy Able to Transform into All Kind of Birds
- Punny Name: Dra. Olvido (Dra. Forgetful in english) is an old woman who tends to quickly forget things.
- Reformed Bully: Terricola, who reforms herself after the SuperZoo was nice to her.
- Reformed, but Not Tamed: Despite abandoning Dra. Olvido and becoming friends with the SuperZoo members, Cacharrobot wants to obtain an egg to become powerful, with DinoKid wondering if Cacharrobot is sure that he wants to become good.
- Scatterbrained Senior: Dra. Olvido, an evil old woman who tends to forget stuff, such as her being an enemy of DinoKid.
- Self-Destruct Mechanism: Subverted: Cacharrobot has one implemented in his system, but fortunately for everyone, cacharrobot has a fake one with a drawn on it, as its owner didn’t have enough money to implement a true one
- Show Within a Show: DinoKid is a fan of Saurus-H, a comic where a Dinosaur can transform himself into a human.
- Super Team: SuperZoo, consisting on DinoKid, Mammal boy, Insect Girl, The Incredible Boy Able to Transform into All Kind of Birds, Peza, Anfi Boy and Terricola
- Taken for Granite: Mineralia Milenaria can transform into an immobile mineral at any time on her own.
- Trans Nature: Terricola admits to Insect Girl that despite being born as a male, she would prefer to have long hair, wear long dresses, and have a girl’s name
- The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: DinoKid and his friends are rarely seen fighting crime despite being superheroes themselves.
- Voluntary Shapeshifting: Anyone who gets superpowers from an egg can transform at any time they like.
