Basic Trope: A species originally thought to be extinct turns out to not be extinct after all.
- Straight: Bob and Alice encounter a pack of dodos, which they thought were extinct.
- Exaggerated: All supposedly extinct animals are not merely present but thriving somewhere.
- Downplayed:
- Bob and Alice find some skeletons of dodos that go back several years after their supposed extinction.
- There are still people who claim to have seen dodos, but without solid evidence.
- Bob and Alice encounter a lone dodo which is the Last of Its Kind.
- Justified:
- A Chaotic Good philanthropist captures a large amount of animals in a heavily hunted, endangered species to start a breeding program, and announces that the species finally went extinct so no one will try to locate them.
- Truth in Television: Many species that were believed extinct turned out to be not.
- Inverted: A species goes extinct, but it takes a long time for people to realize this.
- Subverted: It turns out that Alice and Bob had traveled back in time.
- Double Subverted: ...but when they return to our time, there are still dodos.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged:
- possibly because of their time shenanigans changing some key event(s).
- Bob and Alice encounter what they think is a dodo, but is actually just an unusually large pigeon... which is strange because that particular species of pigeon had become extinct.
- Averted: Extinction is permanent and there are no false alarms.
- Enforced: ???
- Lampshaded: "A dodo? I thought those were extinct!"
- Implied: In a zoo, you can see an area dedicated to the dodos.
- Invoked: Somebody gets accidentally transformed into a dodo.
- Exploited: Discovering that dodos aren't extinct, Alice and Bob capture them and use them for research, labour, food, entertainment, and anything else that comes to mind.
- Defied:
- Charlie makes it his mission to drive dodos to extinction, even destroying their eggs.
- As soon as Adam claims there are still living dodos, Betty corrects him.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
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