History Roleplay / DinoAttackRPG

Dino Attack RPG is also a LongRunner; active for over seven and a half years, it is the longest-running LEGO-based RPG on [[{{BZPower}} BZPower]], its host site.

The original Dino Attack RPG can be found [[http://www.bzpower.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=181493 here]]. After the [[{{BZPower}} BZPower]] forum upgrade, Dino Attack RPG was finished in the form of Dino Attack: At War's End, which can be found [[http://www.bzpower.com/board/index.php?showtopic=3955 here]].

This page is for the LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters of the role playing game {{Dino Attack RPG}}.
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!!!'''''Main Characters'''''

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[[folder:The Dino Attack Team]]

!!Elite Agent Rex

!!Elite Agent Zachary Virchaus

!!Elite Agent Minerva Fabello

!!Elite Agent Rotor

!!Elite Agent Andrew

!!Elite Agent Charlie "Hertz" Schultz

!!Elite Agent David "Hotwire" O'Neil

!!Standard Agent Kate Bishop

!!Elite Agent Randal "Semick" Tennoly

!!Standard Agent Amanda "Claw" Remous

!!Standard Agent Zelda Frodongan

!!Elite Agent Cabin

!!Founding Agent Specs

!!Elite Agent Garry Moffat

!!Elite Agent Reptile

!!Standard Agent Laxus

!!Standard Agent Greybeard

!!Standard Agent Cdr. Joseph "Pharisee" St. John

!!Standard Agent Andrew "Pyro" Jackson

!!Standard Agent Spy

!!Standard Agent Stranger

!!Standard Agent Windows

!!Standard Agent Swerve "Septimus"

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[[folder:Dino Team Allies]]

!!Elite Agent Dr. Matthew "Cyborg" Cyrista

!!Trigger

!!Gahiji "Dust" Thutmose

!!Commander Holly Vinyaya

!!Dr. Frank Einstein

!!Kareem Nazareno

!!Snake

!!Sarah Bishop

!!Elite Agent Peter "Frozeen" Abody

!!General

!!Katerina "Kat" Schattenburg

!!Montoya

!!Andrea "Pyro" Jackson

!!Ogel

!!Sam Race

!!Clint Wayne

!!Agent Epic Winston

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[[folder:Dino Team Personal]]

!!Dr. Alan Pierce

!!Dr. Nicholas Saran

!!Dr. Medic

!!Dr. Joel Fuchs

!!Dr. Copper

!!Dr. Gates Crusher

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[[folder:The Mealstorm]]

!!The Darkitect

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[[folder:XERRD]]

!!Dr. Rex

!!Ata

!!Dr. Michelle Glados

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[[folder:XERRD Allies]]

!!Dr. Inferno

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!!!'''''Secondary Characters'''''

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[[folder:The Dino Attack Team]]

!!Standard Agent Lance Williams

!!Standard Agent Cdr. Rockford

!!Standard Agent Carl Lutsky

!!Standard Agent Sniper

!!Rookie Agent Kara Wise

!!Standard Agent Bluetooth

!!Standard Agent Soldier

!!Standard Agent Engineer

!!Standard Agent Lucy Write

!!Standard Agent Ben Shiller

!!Elite Agent Zenna

!!Standard Agent Dude

!!Standard Agent Tracer

!!Standard Agent Johanna "Catless" Evergreen

!!Founding Agent Digger

!!Elite Agent Adventure

!!Standard Agent Elizabeth Winsor

!!Founding Agent Viper

!!Standard Agent Scout

!!Standard Agent Barry "Shotgun" Jackson

!!Founding Agent Shadow

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[[folder:Dino Team Allies]]

!!Batholomew Helmutson

!!Angle Eyes

!!Dr. Solomon Koplowitz

!!Maria

!!Firecracker

!!The Brikster

!!Walter

!!Det. Bogart

!!Athena Fabello

!!Sam Sinister

!!Carrie Enderson

!!Agent Mort

!!Agent Osprey

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[[folder:Dino Team Personal]]

!!Dr. Giovanni Wade

!!Dr. Noomi Shaw

!!Dr. Martinet

!!Enter & Return

!!Nurse Naomi Carver

!!The Brikolinis

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[[folder:The Mealstrom]]

!!Agent Pulmer

!!Loop

!!Ahua

!!Colonel

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[[folder:XERRD]]

!!Oswald Fabello

!!Dr. Carolyne Provencal

!!Blaire Darkling

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[[folder:XERRD allies]]

!!Willa the Witch

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[[folder:The XERRD]]

[[folder:The XERRD allies]]

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This page is for the LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters of the role playing game {{Dino Attack RPG}}.
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!!!'''''Main Characters'''''

[[foldercontrol]]

[[folder:The Dino Attack Team]]

!!Elite Agent Rex

!!Elite Agent Zachary Virchaus

!!Elite Agent Minerva Fabello

!!Elite Agent Rotor

!!Elite Agent Andrew

!!Elite Agent Charlie "Hertz" Schultz

!!Elite Agent David "Hotwire" O'Neil

!!Standard Agent Kate Bishop

!!Elite Agent Randal "Semick" Tennoly

!!Standard Agent Amanda "Claw" Remous

!!Standard Agent Zelda Frodongan

!!Elite Agent Cabin

!!Founding Agent Specs

!!Elite Agent Garry Moffat

!!Elite Agent Reptile

!!Standard Agent Laxus

!!Standard Agent Greybeard

!!Standard Agent Cdr. Joseph "Pharisee" St. John

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[[folder:Dino Team allies]]

!!Elite Agent Dr. Matthew "Cyborg" Cyrista

!!Trigger

!!Gahiji "Dust" Thutmose

!!Commander Holly Vinyaya

!!Dr. Frank Einstein

!!Kareem Nazareno

!!Snake

!!Sarah Bishop

!!Elite Agent Peter "Frozeen" Abody

!!General

!!Katerina "Kat" Schattenburg

!!Montoya

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[[folder:Dino Team personal]]

!!Dr. Alan Pierce

!!Dr. Nicholas Saran

!!Dr. Medic

!!Dr. Joel Fuchs

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[[folder:The Mealstorm]]

!!The Darkitect

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[[folder:XERRD]]

!!Dr. Rex

!!Ata

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[[folder:XERRD allies]]

!!Dr. Inferno

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* AbandonedHospital: [[Left4Dead Mercy Hospital]].
* AbdicateTheThrone: Despite being next in line as alpha of the Adventurers' Island T-Rex pack, Rex knew that this would conflict with his duties to Dino Attack Team, and so Abdicated the Throne in favor of letting Chompy, his oldest sibling, rule in his stead.
* AbortedArc: The fate of any character's story when their player leaves Dino Attack RPG. Probably the most infamous example of an Aborted Arc would be Databoard's quest to rescue Stealth, which was left unresolved after Chronicler of Ko-Koro left Dino Attack RPG.
** Players do not even need to leave Dino Attack RPG for their story arcs to be aborted. For example, [=TakunuvaC01=] had some plans for the Dino Aliens that were ultimately aborted with the introduction of Dino Attack RPG's story arc formula.
** The [[WhatIf alternate ending]] ''L.E.G.O.'' was aborted after only two chapters.
* AcePilot: Zenna, Prince Samuel Race, Mac, Cabin, Rotor, and Kara.
* AchievementsInIgnorance: In an effort to get rid of [[LEGOIsland Enter and Return]], David gave them some money to go about getting their desired items. Enter and Return somehow managed to go to a store, buy a fishing pole, go the harbor, catch a shark, and then return to the hospital in about 30 seconds.
* ActionGirl: Amanda Claw, Dromus, Aravis, Minerva, Vinyaya, Cabin, Kat, Maria, Zelda, Zealot, and Kara.
** Although not actually agent Pyro, Andrea Jackson Orange is a pretty darn good action girl who specializes in flamethrowers.
** ActionMom: Sarah Bishop.
** DarkActionGirl: Silencia Venomosa.
* ActionSurvivor: Many Dino Attack agents were former civilians suddenly thrust into the action.
* ActorAllusion: More of an Author Allusion, but Sam Throramebi drew comparisons between [[LEGOAlphaTeam Evil Ogel]] and [[{{Bionicle}} Makuta Teridax]], who are two of Greg Farshtey's favorite villains to write.
** Several of Atton Rand's characters' names follow a ShoutOutThemeNaming, usually consisting of the surname of the character's inspiration and the given name of the actor who played that role.
*** Similarly, Marco Martinet's surname is derived from the voice actor of [[SuperMarioBros Mario]], Charles Martinet.
** Kurt [=MacReady=] was the one sent to catch Snake, and the two of them subsequently got into a brawl. They were inspired by [[TheThing R.J. MacReady]] and [[EscapeFromNewYork Snake Plissken]], respectively, both of whom were played by Kurt Russel, and served as the lead to JohnCarpenter movies released a year apart from each other.
** Hauk and Angel Eyes, both of whom are inspired by characters portrayed by LeeVanCleef, are revealed to be cousins.
** In celebration of ''[[LEGOIsland LEGO Island's]]'' 15th Anniversary, the Brickster referred to himself as "Thumper" and quoted a number of lines from Smartass, the lead weasel of ''WhoFramedRogerRabbit'''s Toon Patrol. David L. Lander, the original voice actor of the Brickster in ''LEGOIsland'', also voiced Thumper in ''ABugsLife'' and Smartass in ''WhoFramedRogerRabbit''.
* ActuallyADoombot: Wondering why [[LEGOAlphaTeam Ogel]] was killed [[RuleOfThree three times]] during the final battle and yet ''still'' managed to survive? Maybe you should read the March-April 2001 issue of LEGO Mania.
* AdaptationExpansion: [[LEGODinoAttack The original LEGO theme]] had a [[ExcusePlot very simple plot]]: mutant dinosaurs are attacking the city, and four guys are trying to stop them. However, the Dino Attack RPG revealed that this has happened all over the world, bringing in other LEGO-themed locations and showing the impact that these events have had on them. The Dino Attack Team of the original theme consisted of four men, but the RPG has shown that it is actually much larger and there are women helping out. It's also explained what happened to the citizens of the various places that have been invaded (an issue completely ignored in the original line), and there is even some background as to why the heck all this is happening in the first place.
* AdultFear: Both Sarah Bishop and Helen Rutherford were worried sick about their children being out on the battlefield. Unfortunately, Kate is bullied by [[ColonelKilgore Rotor]] while [[ArmyScout Scout]] is killed by [[spoiler:[[TheMole Ata]]]].
** Somewhat understandably, Sarah was uncertain when Andrew started to talk Kate into joining him, as she was worried about the very real possibility of Kate being killed in action.
* AdventurerArchaeologist: Dust and Adventure.
* AffablyEvil: Some members of XERRD, most notably Walter Breen. Dust also can be well-mannered but is not evil.
** Edward Korrupte, CEO of Dacta Corporation, may have been a ruthless businessman who was willing to hire a renowned criminal and permitted her to commit murder for a profit, but he sure did know how to make himself sound like the good guy when it came to his rivalry with Mindstorms, Inc.
** As Matthew Vherestorm, Blaire Darkling was described as being extremely polite by Nazareno.
* AffirmativeActionGirl: Kate Bishop was introduced solely because Atton Rand noticed that all of his characters, sans Zenna and Elizabeth, were male.
** Kat was introduced because, at the time, the only other female character ''in the entire RPG'' was Amanda, who had been turned into a mutant T-Rex
* AfterActionPatchup: Hertz gets one at the end of both the battle for the forbidden ruins and the battle of the temple of creation.
* AfterTheEnd: ''[[WhatIf December 21, 2010]]'' takes place in horrible post-apocalyptic world that makes ''TheRoad'' look romanticized. All life on the planet has been reduced to six people and a dinosaur, who are all crammed into one temple. The [[LEGOUniverse Maelstrom]] is destroying the entire planet, and cannot be stopped. There are explicit references to the deaths of major characters, and finally concluding with the entire planet being blown up and an explicit statement that "[[KillEmAll there were no survivors]]".
* TheAgeless: Dr. Rex, so long as he is injecting himself with Jugend Serum.
* AggressiveNegotiations: Silencia Venomosa seems to love these.
* AgonyBeam: Carolyne Provencal's staff causes a great deal of Maelstrom-influenced excruciating pain before killing the victim.
* AirVentPassageway: The XERRD Fortress is full of these... then again, since these are the same air vents that blow out neurotoxins and other poisonous gases, it might not be such a bright idea to crawl through them.
** Mary Rose hid in the air vents when Mutant Dinos attacked Dino Attack Headquarters. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]], since she ''is'' a little girl.
* AirborneMook: Mutant Pterosaurs. The ''Quasifigus pterisa'' was originally intended by XERRD to be developed into one.
* TheAlcoholic: Demoman, Clint Wayne, and the various {{pirate}}s on the team.
* AlcoholicParent: David Johnson Glados and Mr. Thutmose. Athena Fabello was this at one point before losing her mind.
* AlienTropes: With the presence of Dino Aliens and [[LEGOLifeOnMars a Martian]], some of these were inevitably invoked.
** AlienInvasion: A recon group of Dino Aliens was scouting the LEGO Planet in preparation for the full invasion.
** AliensSpeakingEnglish: Laxus.
** AmusingAlien: Laxus, being a Deadpan Snarker, has several pretty amusing lines.
** DescriptivelyNamedSpecies: Dino Aliens. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] because Reptile did not know their true name and, when writing about them in the Dino Attack Database, nicknamed them after their appearance and tactics.
** HumanoidAliens: Laxus and Dino Aliens both fit the standard.
*** TheReptilians: Dino Aliens.
** LowCultureHighTech: The Dino Aliens are invaders and conquerors who view the LEGO Planet as primitive and Minifigs as a lesser race.
* AllAbusersAreMale: Invoked by Greybeard's flashback/dream sequence.
* AllCrimesAreEqual: Rotor tried to have a whole T-1 typhoon crew shot because the pilot had disobeyed orders, among them were James [=McGregor=] (pretty much the one person besides Pierce that Kate got along with).
* AllGermansAreNazis: Not quite, but it is worth noting that, out of four figures from the FictionalCountry of Barron (which is essentially a representation of stereotypical Germany), three are villains and one is a MadDoctor. Additionally, Kuru met a German scientist working for XERRD.
** On top of that, there's [[NamesToRunAwayFrom/ForeignLanguageNames Dunkelheit]], who was actually a [[EverythingsDeaderWithZombies Stromling Agent]], and [[NamesToRunAwayFrom/ForeignLanguageNames Schattenberg]], the founding family of [=ShadowTech=].
*** [[WriteWhatYouKnow Though the name 'Schattenberg' resulted more from the fact that German is the only non-english language with which Jackson Lake is familiar.]]
** [[SubvertedTrope Ironically]], the only character who is revealed to actually be German and not Barron, Frank Einstein, is a complete [[AvertedTrope aversion]] of this trope.
* AllThereInTheManual: [[TheWikiRule The Dino Attack RPG Wiki]] contains a boatload more information on various characters and events, ranging from Offical LEGO Canon some readers might not be aware of, to backstory of secondary characters like Laxus and Semick that are not fully explored in the RPG proper. There are even some characters, such as Cyber-Bully and Bacon, whose names were never mentioned in Dino Attack RPG and can only be found by looking on the wiki.
* AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs: Cam O'Cozy's efforts to turn the team against itself resulted in a Civil War ''inside'' the Dino Attack Headquarters that got so chaotic it made the average ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' map look peaceful.
** There was also the mutant dinos' invasion of the camp on Adventurers' Island.
** Not to mention Dino Attack Headquarters in the later stages of the final battle...
* AlmostDeadGuy: Sir Robert Batrick.
* AlmostKiss: Rotor and Cabin.
* AloneWithThePsycho: Dust and Lutsky in the confinement tent. [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation Which one is the psycho is up for debate.]]
** Whose idea was it to leave a HeroicBSOD Rex alone in a T-1 Typhoon cabin with [[{{Pyromaniac}} Andrew Jackson]]?
* AlwaysABiggerFish: The triceratops stampede during the battle of the Aztec Village.
* AlwaysAccurateAttack: Most of the team has invoked this concept at some point.
** Subverted twice by Lance Williams. The first time he attempted to fire and Loop while he was jumping out of a helicopter, only causing minor damage. Later on he tried to fire at two "Stromlings" (in actuality Clint Wayne and Kate Bishop) but somehow managed to avoid hitting either of them despite using a machine gun.
* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Although for the most part this trope has been averted thanks to exceptions to every "evil" race, [[EverythingsDeaderWithZombies Stromlings]] are always evil, cunning, ruthless, and [[CardCarryingVillain proud to be so]], without exception.
* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: [[LEGOIsland Enter and Return.]]
* TheAmazon: [[LEGOAdventurers Adventurers' Island]], Dinosaur Island, and [[LEGOAlphaTeam Ogel's Island]].
* AmbiguousGender: In a reference to [[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 his inspiration]], some characters argued about [[{{Pyromaniac}} Pyro's]] gender. Officially, Pyro was said by [=PeabodySam=] to be a man... until the suit was removed by Atton Rand and [[SamusIsAGirl Pyro was revealed to be a woman]]. And then, because Pyro was NotAsYouKnowThem, this was {{Retcon}}ned so that Pyro was male all along and the female Pyro was actually an imposter.
* AmbiguousRobots: Libo.
* AmbiguousSituation: The entire scene [[spoiler:in the hotel]] with Trigger is up to interpretation. Is it real, or just a hallucination? Is it even ''[[CanonDiscontinuity canon]]''? No further details can be offered on the subject, as [=PeabodySam=] is understandably reluctant [[spoiler:to explore themes of afterlife]] in Dino Attack RPG.
* AmbitionIsEvil: A character analysis of [[BigBad Dr. Rex]] revealed that ambition is one of his tragic flaws. Every evil act he has committed, from kidnapping Talia Kaahs to starting the Dino Attack, was due to ambition.
** Many other XERRD scientists, most notably Michelle Glados and Walter Breen, also became evil due to their ambition.
* AmericanAccents: Maria speaks in a "Texas Drawl" style.
* AmericaSavesTheDay: After a heated debate on what to do with Rotor after his court-martial, Tesh Carrey wins by calling the American Air Force to pick him up. However it is ultimately [[SubvertedTrope subverted]], as the man who arrives is Canadian.
* AmnesiacHero: Rex and Dr. Cyborg.
* AmplifiedAnimalAptitude: It seems that all animals are just as intelligent as, if not more than, Minifigs.
** Becomes integral to the story as the AmplifiedAnimalAptitude is what inspires Rex and other Dino Attack agents to become idealists, finding that they cannot bring harm to other intelligent beings.
* AnachronicOrder: Some posts will take place just before the one prior.
** To provide a straightforward example, the flashback alternates between the perspectives of Schiess and Silencia. [=PeabodySam's=] descriptions of her murder of Orange and Scorsese as well as Uærlig Sindstorme were all written after Atton Rand had already described Schiess's reactions to them.
** This could be used to explain why the Adventurers' Island arc in ''At War's End'' took place over the course of a day while the Gold City arc took place over two. However, this could also be justified by taking into account the real-life practice of time zones.
** Everything written after the final battle makes heavy use of AnachronicOrder.
* AnachronismStew: As a result of MedievalStasis, the LEGO Planet and Dino Attack Team is a NinjaPirateZombieRobot AnachronismStew.
** During the 1957 flashback, characters notably spoke with modern slang words and phrases such as "bro", "my man", and "dude". However, [[InvokedTrope this was intentional]]. [[WordOfGod PeabodySam]] wanted the characters to seem much younger than their 2010 counterparts, and so chose these words and phrases since readers would associate them with youth; however, [=PeabodySam=] did not want to use slang from TheFifties such as "swell" or "golly", fearing that they would distract readers with their "corniness" and thus detract from the point of the flashback.
*** In the same flashback, "Duplo School" was mentioned, but Duplo did not exist until 1973.
* AndIMustScream: Katerina Schattenberg when she was essentially being [[MindRape Mind Raped]] by Lupus Schattenberg.
** [[spoiler:After [[LEGOUniverse Baron Typhonus's]] DivineIntervention, Dr. Rex was still fully conscious, but suffering a FateWorseThanDeath as he was forced to keep living and keep fighting while suffering terrible pain and agony due to the Darkitect's possession.]] While he ''could'' and ''did'' scream, that one scream could not possibly account for every passing second of AndIMustScream suffered by [[spoiler:Dr. Rex]].
* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: Players are given the opportunity to change their primary character. If their current primary character is an elite agent, players have the choice whether to avert this trope (their new character is also an elite agent) or play it straight (their new character is a standard agent). To date, only Atton Rand has played this trope straight, with standard agent Trigger replacing elite agent Zenna.
* AndTheAdventureContinues: Jackson Lake's story ends with David O'Neal, Lucy Wright, and Ben Shiller starting a cross-country car trip.
* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: And then Axel, Snake, Amanda Claw, and Zorikk were Mutant Dinos.
** And then Zachary Virchaus was a [[EverythingsDeaderWithZombies Stromling]].
** And then Swerve was an Ogel Drone.
* AndroclesLion: Rex tamed Trouble and, as a result, freed Trouble from the slavery of Dr. Rex [[spoiler:and [[LEGOUniverse the Darkitect]]]]. In gratitude, Trouble was willing to die to save Rex's life.
* {{Angrish}}: [[{{Pyromaniac}} Andrew Jackson]] eventually descended into this. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by the comm chatter.
* AnimalTalk: All dinosaurs speak the same language. And all Mutant Dinosaurs speak the same language.
* AnimateDead: Skeleton Mummies have the ability to instantly animate the corpses of people they kill, turning them into [[EverythingsDeaderWithZombies zombie minions]].
* {{Animorphism}}: The effects of Mutant Dino serum.
* AnotherDimension: The Torn World.
* AntiHero: Dust and Trigger, both of whom have very little concern for the team. Dust just wanted to find a temple, and Trigger openly admitted that he's only in it for the money.
** SlidingScaleOfAntiHeroes: Dust seems fall under Type III. Rotor, Lutsky, and Snake would all probably qualify as Type IV. Clint Wayne would probably be somewhere between Type II and III. Greybeard and Elizabeth are cases of Type II (although they have slipped into Type III on some occasions). Lance would be a case of Type I. Trigger is definitely close to a Type VI.
* AntiVillain: [[LEGOAlphaTeam Evil Ogel]], [[LEGOAdventurers Sam Sinister]], [[LEGOIsland the Brickster]], and [[KnightsKingdom2 Vladek]] while working with the Dino Attack Team. Also, Katerina Schattenberg and Oswald Fabello.
** SlidingScaleOfAntiVillains: The four Anti-Villains listed above are best described as Type I while working with Dino Attack Team. Additionally, General Evil was a Type II example who eventually became a true villain before performing a Heel Face Turn. Oswald Fabello is a Type II.
* AnyoneCanDie: While most deaths are [=NPCs=], several important [=NPCs=] such as PBB and Aravis have been killed off. Primary character deaths are very rare, but Rev Raptor and Sereve both died in the battle against Landro while Louis "Dryptosaurus" was killed by a Mutant T-Rex, both rather early in the RPG. [[spoiler:Dust]] did end up being killed in the Pharaoh's Forbidden Ruins. If it were not for a ThrowItIn situation created by that guy from that show, Atton Rand's primary character Zenna might have been unexpectedly killed off. And then, [[spoiler:[[YourDaysAreNumbered Rex's Days Are Numbered]].]]
** Terrifyingly exemplified by the final battle. The final battle has taken the lives of [[spoiler:long-runners such as Rex, Amanda Claw, and Trouble, as well as fan-favorites Adventure, Semick, Septimus/Swerve, and Kareem Nazareno. Other notable casualties of the final battle include King Joseph Race, Trigger, Athena Fabello, Contest, Coral, Anubis, and General]].
* ApocalypseHow: Class 3a, considering that the entire Dino Attack was engineered by a group of [[MadScientist mad scientists]].
** Class X, in ''[[WhatIf December 21, 2010]]''.
* ApocalypticLog: [[MadDoctor Medic]] had a tape recorder he was presumably using to record the results of his autopsy on [[TheEngineer Engineer]]. Instead, it recorded the last few minutes of his life and the immediate aftermath of his murder.
* AprilFoolsDay: Dino Attack RPG has observed three April Fools' Days, starting in 2010. In 2010, [[HostileShowTakeover Dr. Rex hacked the Dino Attack RPG Wiki and changed into a XERRD propaganda website]]. In 2011, playing off players' expectations of Dr. Rex returning to the wiki, [=PeabodySam=]'s IC post contained a [[EasterEgg hidden message]] from Dr. Rex himself. In 2012, [=PeabodySam=] released a list of spoilers that [[RunningGag most frequently]] involved [[OverlyLongGag characters slipping on a banana peel and having a heart attack while sipping a cup of tea]].
* AreTheseWiresImportant: Little Bot managed to cut the ''[[CoolAirship Voltage]]'''s power by cutting a few wires.
* AnArmAndALeg: It has happened frequently throughout the Dino Attack RPG, with victims including Zachary and Fullmetal.
* ArmCannon: Dr. Cyborg has one in his alt-mode, and Sam Throramebi's prosthetic mechanical arm has a retractable hand that doubles as a plasma cannon.
* ArmyScout: [[CaptainObvious Scout]].
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Quoted nearly word-for-word by [[LEGOIsland the Brickster]].
** Hertz compares acting without a plan to suicide, a kamikaze attack, and marching "into a ''StarWars'' convention with the intent of [[TakeThat declaring midichlorians as the best thing the prequels ever gave us]]".
** Snake is guilty of "bank robbery, murder, arson, carjacking, mugging, multiple accounts of physical assault including several on officers of the law, smuggling, and selling pirated [=DVDs=]."
** Matthew Vherestorm/Blaire Darkling is described as having little problem with murder, arson, violence, destruction, chaos, and punting kittens out of airlocks. That last bit apparently really upset humane societies.
* TheArtifact: Rex's T-Rex body and Frozeen's G.E. Body, which is why they were both nullified in the Dino Island Laboratory battle.
* ArtificialHuman: Kat and Cameron O'Cozy.
* ArtificialLimbs: The Frickster, Zachary, Fullmetal, Zed Provhezor, and Paulie Gonepus.
** While he does not have any confirmed artificial limbs, Kareem Nazareno specializes in creating these.
** Dr. Cyborg not only has artificial limbs, he also has an artificial trunk and artificial half-face!
* {{Asexuality}}: Hotwire is confirmed to be an aromantic asexual; he feels little to no romantic attraction to others.
* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: A character with a FunetikAksent is implied to have come from a foreign country.
* AsTheGoodBookSays: Pharisee ([[BeamMeUpScotty mis]])quotes Ezekiel 25:17 and later quotes the beginning of Psalm 94 (MSG) in his non-canon confrontation with Trigger.
** One comment over the comm chatter was a quote from the Bible, Psalm 23:4.
* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: Greybeard mentions this trope when he suggests that, by sacrificing his Creative Spark to save the world, [[spoiler:Rex]] lives on in everyone.
* AscendedExtra: Rex, Trouble, Kat, Ata, Helmie, Hertz, Frank Einstein, Zelda Frodongan, and the alpha female T-Rex.
* AssholeVictim: When Trigger died, he was rather unpopular in the RPG.
* TheAssimilator: [[LEGOUniverse The Maelstrom]]. While [[spoiler:Baron Typhonus himself seems more concerned with destruction,]] Stromlings will often infiltrate the team by assimilating unsuspecting agents, generally quiet characters who will be less likely to be noticed, as was seen with Zelda, Norris, and Palmer.
* TheAtoner: Amanda, General, George Brown, Solomon Koplowitz, and Blaire Darkling.
** Heck, if you want to start bringing in real-life examples, Atton Rand could qualify. He spend much of the Adventurers' Island arc deliberately introducing good realists such as Rotor, Clint Wayne, Cabin, and Garry, in an effort to undo the realist image he had unwittingly created in the LEGO Island arc. Also in order to make up for the damage he unwittingly caused he specifically brought back French Fries so that everyone could get back at him for the trouble he put them through (although admittedly [[GoneHorriblyRight the results were a lot more brutal than anticipated]]- Atton had expected him to get insulted and maybe eventually arrested... he didn't quite count on Rex's [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown beatdown]], which did leave him somewhat shocked).
* AudienceSurrogate: Kate Bishop more or less acts like anyone who had been sent on their first mission to a tropical island inhabited by mutant dinos probably would. Pierce could also be considered an example, as his perspective on the issues at hand often reflects that of the players.
** In ''HTTYML'', Rex serves as the AudienceSurrogate as readers see the Dino Attack from the perspective of someone who just woke up in a collapsed building while suffering from LaserGuidedAmnesia.
* AuthorAvatar: Players often (but not always) model their primary characters after themselves. A classic example would be the characters Canama and Cookieo, who were clearly [[AuthorAvatar Author Avatars]] of their respective players.
** [[WordOfGod avmatoran]] has explicitly stated that he based Dr. Cyborg on himself.
** Zachary and Andrew share the names of their creators, so this trope may also be present there.
** Of all of [=PeabodySam's=] characters, Frozeen comes the closest to an AuthorAvatar; [=PeabodySam=] is aware of this and has even taken steps to [[WriteWhoYouKnow make Frozeen even more similar to himself]], such as diagnosing Frozeen as having Asperger's syndrome. However, nearly all of [=PeabodySam's=] characters carry some of his different personality traits, making them all [[AuthorAvatar Author Avatars]] to a degree... the only notable exception being [[{{Troll}} Grease]], who was specifically modeled as the exact type of person [=PeabodySam=] hates the most.
*** It speaks for itself that that guy for that show would cast Jim Parsons in the role of Frozeen, and [=PeabodySam's=] real-life friends often tell him that he reminds them of [[BigBangTheory Sheldon Cooper]].
* AxCrazy: Most of the Second Headquarters Squad. Firecracker with anything that goes boom!
** [[{{Pyromaniac}} Andrew Jackson]]. Just... [[InsaneEqualsViolent Andrew Jackson]].
* BackForTheDead: Although Sir Robert Batrick never appeared in any RPG or story before, since this is the first time [=PeabodySam=] used the character since ''LEGORacers'', he considers Batrick's [[TheCameo cameo appearance]] a case of BackForTheDead.
** Mur lasted only a handful of posts in ''At War's End'' before his death.
** [[ChekhovMIA After being M.I.A. for six years, seven months, and seven days (real-time)]], [[spoiler:Trouble]] finally made his long-anticipated return... [[spoiler:and got killed by Glados.]]
* BackForTheFinale: [[spoiler:Trouble and Zenna.]]
** After completely vanishing following the death of the original [[LEGOPirates Pirates RPG]], and not being given so much as a mention in the Dino Attack RPG or even the short-lived remake, Elizabeth's old friend Lt. Robert Maynard was finally brought back in the final story arc, not that anyone really wondered what happened to him.
* BackFromTheDead: After dying, Frozeen met a mysterious voice which tells deceased Minifigs "It is time" but will revive them if convinced that said Minifigs' friends are in danger. Of course, Frozeen successfully convinces the voice, but finds it harder than either Databoard or Kotua.
* BackStab: Spy specializes in these, though he was never actually seen to do one on-screen.
** Silencia Venomosa was revealed to have done this to Deniro and Keaton, two of Trigger's old partners.
* BadBoss: [[BigBad Dr. Rex]], especially just before the final battle, was well-acknowledged as mad by his fellow XERRD scientists, but ruled over them through fear. He showed little regard for their safety and saw their suggestions as treason. He refused to acknowledge [[spoiler:[[TheManBehindTheMan Baron Typhonus's]] involvement in the Dino Attack]], forcing his fellow scientists to continue their work.
** [[spoiler:[[LEGOUniverse Baron Typhonus]]]], who cares very little for his minions and has no second thoughts about killing them if they fail him or if he has no use for them any longer.
* BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork: Three of the four villains working with Dino Attack Team participated in the black ops Antarctica mission because Specs knew that they would have no problem killing the cold-adapted Mutant Dinos and destroying their nests.
* BadassAndChildDuo: Greybeard and Mary Rose.
* BadassBeard: Semick, Greybeard, Rex, Dr. Rex, and Blaire Darkling. Zachary Virchaus had one briefly.
* BadassBystander: Ben Gunn during [[spoiler:[[TheMole Ata's]]]] attempted escape.
* BadassDriver: Montoya and Sam Race.
* BadassInANiceSuit: Spy and imaginary Dust.
* BadassInCharge: Commander Pharisee for Dino Attack's internal affairs. Blaire Darkling for XERRD.
* BadassLongcoat: Greybeard wears one of the pirate captain variety. Blaire Darkling also sports one carrying XERRD's emblem. During the heist on Dacta Corporation, Silencia Venomosa wore one. Pharisee wears one as head of internal affairs.
* BadassMustache: Marco Martinet, thanks to his [[SuperMarioBros inspiration]].
* BadassPreacher: Pharisee is the closest thing the Dino Attack Team has to a preacher.
* TheBait: Lutsky's plan to use Kate as a means to catch Dr. Wallace Bishop, although it didn't exactly go well with the other agents and it certainly didn't help that he first proposed the idea right in front of her when she was already under extreme stress.
** In the final battle, Rex attempted to lure Dr. Rex into a trap by using his [[TankGoodness Iron Predator]] as TheBait. Almost worked, [[DangerouslyGenreSavvy but Dr. Rex realized that it was a trap too soon]]. The trap only worked when [[LEGOAlphaTeam Evil Ogel]] was used as TheBait.
* BaitAndSwitch: There was a ''lot'' of build-up with Andrew's dreams and dark consciousness that seemed to foreshadow a Face Heel Turn, or at the very least a mutation. What happened in the end? Andrew got over it. Ironically, another Dino Attack agent from LEGOIsland, Zachary, ended up fulfilling the FaceHeelTurn role.
** [[WhatCouldHaveBeen This was mainly the unintentional result of Andrewnuva199 changing his plans for Andrew.]]
** XERRD succeeded in pulling off a BaitAndSwitch against Dino Attack Team ''[[RuleOfThree thrice]]''. First, Dr. Rex lured the Dino Attack Team into Quadrant 14 of the [[UndergroundLevel Goo Caverns]] with the promise of looking for a powerful weapon, where they were instead ambushed by a Mutant Dino army. Second, Paulie Gonepus led the Dino Attack Team to the Pharaoh's Forbidden Ruins, tricking them into thinking that it was the Maelstrom Temple, only for them to eventually discover that it was merely a RedHerring. Third, a random Mutant T-Rex in silver armor was at the front lines of XERRD's Mutant Dino army, and everyone naturally assumed that it was Dr. Rex, while the real Dr. Rex was leading some Mutant Dinos through the subway system and sneaking past Dino Attack Team's front lines.
* BaitAndSwitchGunshot: Type A example: Breen is pointing a gun at Kate. The ensuing gunshot was not Breen firing at Kate, but [[spoiler:Wallace Bishop]] shooting Breen.
** Type A example: [[spoiler:Dust]] is killed by Lutsky when he pointed his gun at the Dino Attack members. This is a variation on the trope in which the gunman is killed by a bad guy and the person [[spoiler:Dust]] was pointing the gun at was not the hero in question.
** Type B example: Glados is arguing with Rex, then she raises her weapon and fires. While the following paragraph is written to trick the reader into thinking that she shot Rex... she didn't. Instead, as revealed by the very next paragraph, Glados actually [[spoiler:shot Amanda instead]].
* BagOfHolding: Spy sometimes carries around a briefcase containing the clothes of various Dino Attack agents and allies so that he can disguise himself. Imagine having to pack that thing.
** In one of Kat's earliest appearances, she pulled a bag of styrofoam packing peanuts seemingly out of nowhere while making an improvised firebomb.
* BaldOfAwesome: Rex, Dust, and Kareem Nazareno.
* BaldOfEvil: Dr. Rex, Zed Provhezor, and Ahua.
* BandOfBrothers: Dino Attack Team... most of the time.
** There is a lot of this. Zenna, Andrew, Zach, David, and Hotwire are just a few among one such group.
** Just about all the medics stationed on Adventurers' Island, namely Pierce, Wade, Crusher, and Carver.
* BarBrawl: A lengthy fight scene between Snake and Plastic Serpent in Outpost 4's cafeteria, in the process knocking over a lot of dishes and chairs.
** This is essentially how Shiller and Wright met each other.
* TheBartender: Bart and Carrie Enderson, along with the [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep unnamed]] deceased pirate bartender.
* BashBrothers: Heavy and Medic.
* BatmanGambit: Dust's plans and manipulations of Dino Attack agents to get to the Pharaoh's Forbidden Ruins.
** [[LEGOIsland Captain Click]] manipulated the Dino Attack Team into bringing him the Constructopedia.
** [[BigBad Dr. Rex]] and [[spoiler:[[TheMole Attila Hunstman]]]] collaborated on a BatmanGambit to leak information on a secret Antarctica mission through their android, Cam O'Cozy, to stir distrust and animosity between realists and idealists.
** [[LEGOAdventurers Sam Sinister]] actually engineered a minor BatmanGambit, counting on the personalities of those involved, to ensure that he [[spoiler:saved the alpha female T-Rex from Paulie Gonepus by sending Mr. Cunningham to hunt her.]]
* BattleAmongstTheFlames: The final battle against Dr. Rex took place on the roof of a burning Dino Attack Headquarters.
* BattleCouple: Rex and Amanda Claw, and Zachary Virchaus and Minerva Fabello.
** Barry Jackson and Teri Dactyl were intended to be such. It did not work quite as originally planned due to their love story being rushed.
** Rotor and Cabin definitely come close to qualifying.
** And now Maria and Andrea Jackson Orange are a lesbian battle couple.
* BattleInTheRain: The final battle.
* BeardOfEvil: Walter Breen.
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: [[AvertedTrope Harshly averted]] in the cases of Talia Kaahs and Holly Vinyaya, both of whom received some nasty scars across their faces.
* BecomingTheMask: General has implied that this was what made him become General Evil.
** Rex was supposed to be aware that he was a Mutant T-Rex disguised as a Minifig pretending to help the Dino Attack Team. [[GoneHorriblyRight Instead, he ended up believing that he was actually a Minifig and actually supposed to help the Dino Attack Team.]]
** Katerina Schattenberg closed off most of her mind and memories in order to keep Cane from realizing she had survived as Kat.
*** And then this turned into a slight [[SubvertedTrope subversion]] when it was revealed that the mask that she became became a separate entity.
* BeepingComputers: [[MontyPythonsTheMeaningOfLife The machine that goes "BING!"]]
* BelatedBackstory: The characterizations of Libo, Amanda Claw, and Katerina Schattenberg underwent massive shifts after their backstories were revealed.
** A similar thing happened with Kate, who was initially built up as something of a resourceful young girl with [=McGyvering=] skills and the potential to become an action girl. She turned into a much more insecure and sympathetic character once Atton Rand started hinting at her troubled childhood.
* BelievingTheirOwnLies: It is implied that this was the case with [[BigBad Dr. Rex]], who, despite mounting evidence that [[spoiler:[[LEGOUniverse Baron Typhonus]] was [[TheManBehindTheMan behind this]] (including Dr. Rex actually hearing Typhonus's voice in his head), refused to believe that the Darkitect was anything more than a myth and]] asserted that XERRD's purpose was to repopulate the world with dinosaurs, not to [[spoiler:destroy LEGO Planet]].
* BeneathTheEarth: [[UndergroundLevel The Goo Caverns]].
* BenevolentBoss: Despite seeming cold and harsh, Specs genuinely cares about the welfare of his team.
* BerserkButton: Never mention "Dr. Rex" to [[BewareTheSillyOnes Ben Gunn]].
** Whatever you do, do not talk dismissively of [[DisappearedDad Zachary Abody]] in front of Frozeen.
** Somehow, [[{{Troll}} Grease]] knows how to push ''everybody's'' [[BerserkButton Berserk Buttons]].
** Pierce may normally be a calm and decent man, but if you lay a hand on Kate or put her in a risky situation of any kind, [[BewareTheNiceOnes he'll be all over you]].
** Rotor has managed to push the [[BerserkButton Berserk Buttons]] of most of the main characters, ranging from facing an angry Pierce after sending Kate alone into an enemy fortress filled with neurotoxins (something he still hasn't forgiven him for) to facing prosecution from every elite agent on Adventurers' Island after attempting to have a group of agents executed.
** After Kotua's [[FaceHeelTurn betrayal]], Rex has developed a BerserkButton towards Dino Attack agents who are traitors or try to hurt other agents without reason. Even worse, if you dare to try hurting one of his friends, you're just asking for a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown.
** Semick and Bluetooth don't respond well to complete idiocy (the former to someone actually thinking [[LEGOIsland LEGO Island's]] disappearance was faked, the latter to French Fries's final folly).
** Because of his manipulative skills, [[ManipulativeBastard Dust]] knows how to find anyone's BerserkButton and can successfully use it to accomplish his goals, as he did with Carl Lutsky.
** [[LEGOAdventurers Señor Palomar]] takes pride in his Spanish Honor. Insulting it will push his BerserkButton, ironically, to the point where he will break his own code of honor out of anger.
** Taken to the extreme with Walter, whose berserk button can literally be triggered by ''anything'', including some guy ''putting a single toe'' over the line in a bowling alley.
** If you want to call Sergeant Ronald E. Army "[[EmbarrassingNickname Soldier]]", never do so while he is in earshot.
** Ordinarily, Sarah Bishop is a polite, kind and caring woman... just so long as you stay away from her daughter.
** Blaire Darkling has only lost his composure when being accused that he still operates as Matthew Vherestorm.
** And Nazareno doesn't appreciate it when he is unmasked unwillingly.
** Word of God says Dr. Cyborg does ''not ''like it when people make references to [[ThoseWackyNazis certain dictorial groups]] or [[AllGermansAreNazis anything else related to that]] to him. So don't do it.
* BerserkerTears: Rex was still noticeably crying over the deaths of [[spoiler:Amanda and Trouble]] while he mercilessly slaughtered Mutant Lizards and a Mutant Raptor with a [[NoKillLikeOverkill Sonic Screamer, flamethrower, Cosmotronic Ray, and shotgun]].
* BetaCouple: General and Talia Kaahs, to Rex and Amanda's Alpha Couple.
* BewareOfHitchhikingGhosts: A variation with Kotua's cameo appearance during the final battle. Kotua [[ChekhovMIA mysteriously shows up after being M.I.A. for a long time]] (and assumed by some to be dead), then [[StealthHiBye mysteriously disappears]] after Sherlock looks away. An interesting twist is that it's Kotua who offers Sherlock a ride, not the other way around. Note that while Kotua is actually neither dead nor a ghost, this scene has all the proper elements of this trope and was intended to [[InvokedTrope invoke]] this trope.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Rotor's decision to send Kate alone into the XERRD Fortress didn't exactly go over well with Pierce and Wade.
* BewareTheQuietOnes: Amanda Claw.
** At first glance, A.J. Orange just seems shy and insecure. That's until you give her a flamethrower and a few enemies.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass Ben Gunn]] in the [[UndergroundLevel Goo Caverns]].
* {{BFS}}: Lt. Winston "Epic Winston" Grendelwulf's five-foot broadsword.
* BigBad: Dr. Rex... [[spoiler:until it was [[HijackedByGanon Hijacked by]] [[LEGOUniverse Typhonus]].]]
** BigBadEnsemble: The final battle pits Dino Attack Team against [[BigBad Dr. Rex]], [[spoiler:[[LEGOUniverse Baron Typhonus]]]], [[LEGOAgents Dr. Inferno]], and [[ClassicLEGOCastle Willa the Witch]].
* BigBrotherInstinct: Ultimately why Oswald Fabello chose to care for Minerva after their brother's death and mother's institutionalization. Even with his mental instability, he still wished to save his sister from the apocalypse.
** Even after 76 years of separation, [[BigBad Dr. Rex]] still felt Big Brother Instinct towards Katerina Schattenberg. [[spoiler:However, this BigBrotherInstinct was absolutely obliterated during the final battle thanks to Katerina renouncing him as her brother and [[LEGOUniverse the Darkitect]] goading him on.]]
* BigDamnHeroes: Most of the team has become this at some point. Even Kate had one or two moments.
** The founding members' T-1 Typhoon during the battle for the power station.
** In the [[UndergroundLevel Goo Caverns]], when Rex was held prisoner in an abandoned Ogel outpost and about to watch the Brickspider Bot kill Ben Gunn, General and Shock barge in with their Ogel Drilling Vehicle and save the day.
** Rex, Amanda, Rotor, and Kate [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] this trope, hoping to play it straight by going to the Temple of Creation, gathering Imagination, and then arriving at the Maelstrom Temple in the Dino Attack Team's darkest hour to save the day. Unfortunately, due to the UnspokenPlanGuarantee, this trope was ultimately [[SubvertedTrope subverted]].
* TheBigDamnKiss: Hertz has one with Naomi before she leaves on the teleport pad.
** Rex and Amanda's "you may kiss the bride" moment during their Wartime Wedding, as a ShoutOut to the scene from ''[[PiratesOfTheCaribbean At World's End]]''.
* BikerBabe: Cabin.
* BilingualBonus: See [[NamesToRunAwayFrom/ForeignLanguageNames Foreign Language Names]] for the full list of BilingualBonus character names, but here are a few notable examples:
** The Schattenberg family founded [=ShadowTech=]. What does "schatten" mean in German? "Shadow".
** Dr. Dunkelheit was a Dino Attack nurse. Anyone who speaks German would know that "dunkelheit" is German for "darkness", spoiling the fact that she was actually a [[EverythingsDeaderWithZombies Stromling Agent]] in disguise.
** Minerva's older brother, Tod Fabello, was accidentally killed in 2004. Not only is Tod a common first name, [[MeaningfulName but it is also the German word for "death".]]
** [[WordOfGod Toa Antrakha]] may have [[ShoutOut named Ragnorok after]] a mech from ''Videogame/MechAssault'', but it is likely derived from the Norse word Ragnarok. According to NorseMythology, Ragnarok was essentially the apocalypse in the form of ultimate destruction of the gods and men in a cataclysmic battle with evil, monsters, and darkness. Sounds rather close to the Dino Attack, doesn't it?
** If one were to interpret the "[[MysteriousMiddleInitial L]]" as the Spanish article "la", Greybeard's real name, Grisbarba L. Pirata, basically translates into "Greybeard the Pirate".[[note]]Technically, though, "grisbarba" would translate to "[[BlindIdiotTranslation beardgrey]]", but [[WordOfGod PeabodySam]] says that "Grisbarba" sounds better than "Barbagris".[[/note]]
** The [[SuperMarioBros Dr. Mario/Super Mario]] CaptainErsatz is from Madarch City. "Madarch" is a Welsh word for "mushrooms".
** One of Dr. Rex's BossSubtitles, Mutant Tyrant Lizard King, basically translates into Mutant Tyrannosaurus Rex.
** The anti-aging serum was recently revealed to be named Jugend Serum. "Jugend" is the German word for "youth".
* BilingualDialogue: Quite conveniently, most dinosaurs and Mutant Dinosaurs understand English quite perfectly, even if they cannot speak it.
** The above scenario is inverted with Rex, who can understand the language of dinosaurs and can loosely translate the language of Mutant Dinosaurs, but he can no longer speak either language.
** [[AvertedTrope Averted]] with the female T-Rex encountered by Rex and Chompy on Adventurers' Island, who did not know English and needed Chompy as a translator.
* BittersweetEnding: [[BigBad Dr. Rex]], [[spoiler:[[LEGOUniverse Baron Typhonus]]]], and the [[PrehistoricMonster Mutant Dinos]] were finally defeated, but at the cost of the lives of [[spoiler:Rex, General, Semick]], and many others. However, a lot of emphasis is put on the "sweet" aspect of "bittersweet", such as it being said that their deaths should not be mourned but instead celebrated, to prevent this from sounding like a DownerEnding.
** The resolution of the Wallace Bishop side plot is that, despite cutting out the part of his brain that should contain his memories, Wallace still remembers his love for his family. Aww, so sweet, right? But don't forget that Wallace Bishop is still unfit for society and must remain in Napoleon XIV Mental Institution for the rest of his life. That's... rather bitter.
** Aside from the final post focused on Angel Eyes and Clint Wayne (who have bonded together to the point they are a ruthless duo in Gold City), many of Atton Rand's last posts deliberately tried to focus on the darker elements but as a compromise retained some degree of hope. Montoya goes home to his wife and promises a better life for his kids, but he could very easily come down with PTSD.
*** Sarah Bishop manages to survive the war with her daughter and is reunited with her daughter's biological father, but she is riddled with guilt over her actions and consequently suffering from insomni. Her daughter meanwhile has a severe case of PTSD and a drug addiction, but now the family has a loving husband and father in Pierce who is very clearly determined to help them.
** BlackAndGrayMorality: Pharisee's perspective regarding himself and the people he hunts, Trigger in particular.
* BlackAndWhiteInsanity: Pharisee suffers from this.
* BlackCloak: Fssinister, the Frickster, Frozeen as The Phantom, and the spirit in Greybeard's dream.
* BlackGalOnWhiteGuyDrama: Naomi and Hertz.
* BlackHelicopter: [=ShadowTech=]'s air vehicles are black T-1 Typhoons.
* BlatantLies: Elizabeth's story about how she totally did ''not ''hijack an [[TankGoodness Iron Predator]] and cargo ship in order to get to LEGOIsland.
** Dust's cover-up stories in general.
* BlessedAreTheCheesemakers: One Dino Attack agent [[Videogame/HalfLife2 dreams about cheese]].
* BlindIdiotTranslation: Yes, "von" is the German word for "of", but in the context of a title like "[[LEGOAdventurers Baron von Barron]]", it does not mean "Baron of Barron". "Baron von Barron" refers to a baron whose name is Barron, not a baron of a place called Barron. However, seeing as Sam's surname is definitely Sinister, since it is also his sister Alexia's maiden name, this "Blind Idiot" Translation was done [[InvokedTrope intentionally]] as a means to canonize both names for the character. And, seeing as Barron is essentially "[[{{Expy}} not-Germany]]", it might make some sense that some German words do not mean ''quite'' the same thing in Barron, meaning that "Baron von Barron" might mean "Baron of Barron" in Barron.
* BlindWithoutEm: Zach's field of vision is extremely limited without glasses.
** [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] while Zach was a [[EverythingsDeaderWithZombies Stromling]]. [[LEGOUniverse The Maelstrom]]] presumably improved his eyesight, defeating the purpose of glasses.
* BlondGuysAreEvil: Agent Ghost ended up being a [[EverythingsDeaderWithZombies Stromling]] and Oswald Fabello [[FaceHeelTurn ended up a XERRD mercenary]].
** Carl Lutsky turned out to be a narcissistic and murderous jerk driven by his lust for revenge against Dust.
** [[AvertedTrope Averted]] with Zyra and Shiller.
* BloodFromTheMouth: After being shot by Lutsky, [[spoiler:Dust]] coughed up blood. True to the trope, it was fatal.
** [[spoiler:Amanda]] was coughing up blood after being fatally shot by Michelle Glados.
* BloodKnight: Ronald E. Army.
* BloodlessCarnage: For the most part, blood and gore has been kept down to minimum.
** Of course, one way you could look at it is that there is blood and some degree of gore, but it just is not usually described in depth.
** The [[InstantWinCondition Einstein Device]] wiped out an entire army of Mutant Dinos without shedding a single drop of blood.
* BodyBackupDrive: Katerina Schattenberg has at least two of these, the first one being Kat, and the second one currently in use.
* BolivianArmyEnding: A number of Dino Attack agents whose players dropped out shortly after joining, such as [=GoldEagle=], Jordan, Spark, and Zap, were last seen on this note.
* BootCampEpisode: A short flashback in which James [=McGregor=] recalls an incident during his training, which apparently took place in a boot camp straight out of ''FullMetalJacket''.
* BornAsAnAdult: When Frozeen was reborn after Dr. Rex's fatal Choke Hold, he was restored to a 6-year-older version of his pre-G.E. Body self.
* BossSubtitles: A few were given to [[BigBad Dr. Rex]], including [[BilingualBonus Mutant Tyrant Lizard King]] and Evil Madman
* BothSidesHaveAPoint: Specs' perspective on the conflicting views of the Dino Attack Team's elite agents.
* BottomlessMagazines: Partially [[SubvertedTrope subverted]]. Just how often is the team seen reloading their weapons? And yet, occasionally a Sonic Screamer or Cosmotronic Ray will run low or even out of ammo.
** [[AvertedTrope Averted]] by Clint Wayne, who's revolver realistically only holds six shots and he usually has to stop and reload.
** Most of the team's pirates use flintlock pistols, which are only capable of firing a single shot before one has to clean the barrel, place more gunpowder into the chamber before shoving a tiny metal ball inside. They're not usually seen to reload, but a logical justification is that people like Greybeard simply have multiple pistols so that they can keep shooting while under fire.
* BountyHunter: Silencia Venomosa and Van Cleef.
* BoxedCrook: Snake.
* BrainUploading: Katerina Schattenberg practiced this.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Kotua during his betrayal.
* BreadEggsMilkSquick: The only Mutant Dino phrases that Dromus understands are "yes", "no", and "back away now, or [[IllKillYou I'll kill you]]".
* BreakTheCutie: Kate Bishop somewhat, but moreso with Jenny.
* BreakTheHaughty: Sam Race wasn't ever haughty, per se, but he was very confident in his own abilities. His failed rescue attempt of Greybeard and King Race, which resulted in King Race's death, really broke Sam Race.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: When Aster Oid's memory card gets dusty, he doesn't just break the fourth wall; he ''demolishes'' it.
** Dr. Cyborg broke the fourth wall as well when he downloaded too much in the XERRD fortress.
** LeaningOnTheFourthWall: When talking about [[EverythingsDeaderWithZombies Stromlings]], Trigger told his companions to "forget everything you've seen in [[PlayByPostGames text-based RPGs]]" and proceeded to explain how a person who was a Stromling is practically dead, and love doesn't work. It's ironic when one considers that he ''is'' in a text-based RPG and [[DramaticIrony there actually was a character who overcame his Stromling infection through the power of love]]. Of course to be fair it might be that the latter was just a once-in-a-lifetime case that only occurs with true, genuine love, and that such a thing does not happen very often, in which case his statement still makes sense.
*** [[BZPower For reasons he cannot explain, Zachary Virchaus cannot bring himself to say the word "idiot", censoring the word with the phrase "cool dude".]]
*** In a conversation played both for laughs and drama, Shaw, talking about her faith, mentioned "[=PeabodySam=]" as a possible deity.
** MediumAwareness: Although Trigger slightly touched upon this when he [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall Leaned on the Fourth Wall]], Aster Oid is the only one who figured out that he was actually ''in'' a [[PlayByPostGames text-based roleplay game]] (and, before that, [[LEGORacers a polygon-based videogame]]).
*** Dr. Cyborg knows that it is a RolePlayingGame as well.
** NoticingTheFourthWall: Again, when Aster Oid's memory card is dusty.
*** Again, Dr. Cyborg. Notice a pattern here?
* BreakThemByTalking: Many of [[spoiler:[[LEGOUniverse the Darkitect's]] [[FaceYourFears illusions]]]] employ this trope, and some of them even succeeded in reducing their victims to [[HeroicBSOD Heroic BSODs]].
* BreathWeapon: Fire-breathing Mutant Lizards.
** Mutant T-Rexes that have been mutated beyond their normal capabilities tend to use this trope. For example, both Tex and Crunchbite, who were mutated by [[LEGOAlphaTeam Green Goo]] exposure, and [[BigBad Dr. Rex]], who was possessed by the [[LEGOUniverse Maelstrom]].
* TheBrigadier: A number of Elite Agents.
* BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu: Pterisa's lightning bolt barely even hurt [[spoiler:[[LEGOUniverse the Darkitect]]]], and was more akin to [[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu Flipping Off Cthulhu]] than [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu Punching Out Cthulhu]]. [[spoiler:The Darkitect responded by knocking off her helmet, causing Pterisa to suffer a HeroicBSOD.]]
** The team did eventually expel [[LEGOUniverse the Maelstrom]] from the planet, but much like [[CthulhuMythos Cthulhu]] it is still very much alive and could come again. Additionally, [[AnyoneCanDie half the cast died]] in the process of achieving that temporary victory, as well as the fact that Kate, Sam Race, Sarah Bishop, and untold numbers of other survivors were severely traumatized by the experience.
*** In a few Steam chats, Atton Rand's Lovecraftian take on the Maelstrom led him to joke about ending all his final posts with his characters going insane and being put in the asylum.
* BrokenBird: Silencia Venomosa/Amanda Claw bares some traits of a BrokenBird.
* BuiltWithLEGO: The Dino Attack RPG takes place on a planet literally called the LEGO Planet.
* BullyingADragon: Greybeard, King Joseph Race, and Sam Race tried to anger and confuse [[BigBad Dr. Rex]] by driving circles around him and taking turns firing at him. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Laxus, who knew that it would not end well.
* BuryYourGays: Samantha Orange died before Dino Attack RPG even began.
** Averted by her girlfriend, however. Andrea Jackson and Maria made it through the war okay, even if they only got together at the very end.
* ButForMeItWasTuesday: For Schiess, the day Silencia Venomosa killed his team was the most important day of his life. But for Silencia Venomosa... it was Tuesday.
* ButYourWingsAreBeautiful: Although Pterisa is very insecure about her appearance, numerous Dino Attack agents have comforted her. Specifically, Dr. Cyborg invoked this trope and Rex even referred to it by name.
* ButtMonkey: Plastic Serpent just can't seem to go anywhere without getting beaten up by Snake. Also French Fries was specifically brought back to serve such a role (so that players could get back at him for all the trouble he put them through in the LEGOIsland arc, [[GoneHorriblyRight though Atton Rand didn't expect it to be quite as... brutal as his comeuppance ended up being]]).
* CainAndAbel: Minerva and Oswald Fabello's sibling relationship became strained over the fact they fight for different causes.
* CallBack: Elizabeth claimed she could drive an [[TankGoodness Iron Predator]] because she once tried to steal one, referencing her rather controversial theft of an Iron Predator in order to get to LEGOCity harbor early in the LEGOIsland arc.
** In a case used to emphasize a man's stress, Pierce briefly became determined to operate on Amanda. This was intentionally written to set up a miraculous healing like Atton Rand had attempted with Kat. However, it was handled more realistically this time, as Pierce is implied to simply be under stress (which makes sense given he is dealing with massive numbers of casualties at once) and maybe not thinking clearly, as well as the fact that Shaw realistically points out that [[spoiler:Amanda was already dead]] ''before'' putting her on the operating table. Unfortunately, Atton Rand had tried to invoke AnachronicOrder a bit too early, leading to some confusion among his fellow players and forcing this otherwise emotional event to be {{Retcon}}ned into CanonDiscontinuity.[[note]]It also did not help that Atton Rand seemed surprised to learn that Amanda was still out in the battlefield in a situation where it would be impossible to recover her body.[[/note]]
* CallingTheOldManOut: Oswald told off Athena as a horrible mother just before shooting her.
* TheCameo: Tons of Cameo appearances of characters from everyone's favorite LEGOThemes took place in Antarctica to support Greybeard's effort to end the riots.
* {{Canada}}: This is where Commander Johnson is from.
* CanisLatinicus: While lacertilia is Latin, the rest of the Hybrids' species names (quasifigus, pterisa, tyrannus, and velosis) are simply made-up vaguely-Latin-sounding names.[[note]]"Quasifigus" is a portmanteau of "quasi" and "minifigure", while "pterisa", "tyrannus", and "velosis" are corruptions of "pterosaur", "tyrannosaur", and "velociraptor", respectively.[[/note]]
* CannonFodder: Just about every Mutant Dino and unnamed Dino Attack agent.
* CannotSpitItOut: Frozeen still loves Shannon, but could not bring himself to say it out loud prior to the final battle.
* CanonDiscontinuity: Much material from the RPG's early days, ranging from [[LEGOAdventurers Lord Sam Sinister]] going blind to the infamous {{BIONICLE}} [[XMeetsY Meets]] [[{{LEGO Exo-Force}} Exo-Force]] RPG incident, has been retconned into CanonDiscontinuity.
** At one point in the Alpha Team: Ogel's Last Stand RPG, a man named Bishop was among the trainees learning to defend himself against fresh fruit. He mentioned having a wife and a daughter around the age of twelve. This was initially a reference to Kate (who is in her late teens in the Dino Attack RPG, and probably would have been somewhere around the age of 11 or 12 at the time). However, this is no longer canon due to Kate's backstory revealing Sarah Bishop to be a single mother.
** At one point, Amanda was revealed to be [[{{Telepathy}} telepathic]] for shock value. It didn't work and was immediately retconned into discontinuity.
** Atton Rand's {{Deconstruction}} of LEGOIsland. That is all.
* CanonWelding: After the death of [[LEGOPirates Pirates]] RPG, its continuity became welded with that of Dino Attack RPG.
* CaptainCrash: This is why you should never let Sam Throramebi drive.
* CaptainErsatz: Clint Wayne is pretty much a CaptainErsatz of [[DollarsTrilogy The Man With No Name]], and Dude, Walter, and Donnie are more or less Ersatzes of the main characters in ''TheBigLebowski''.
** The entire Second Headquarters Squad is based off of the main cast of ''Videogame/TeamFortress2'', right down to Heavy's love for [[EverythingsSatiatingWithSandwiches sandwiches]]. All they're missing is a mysterious voice to tell them how much time they have left in their missions.
** While the Second Headquarters Squad is heavily inspired by the ''Team Fortress 2'' cast but intended to be separate characters (for example, although very similar, there are quite a few distinctions between Jane Doe's Soldier and Ronald E. Army's Soldier), Chaos is for all intents and purposes ''the'' [[SonicAdventure Chaos]] from the ''SonicTheHedgehog'' series. Right down to seven Chaos Emeralds hidden around the globe that transform Chaos into Perfect Chaos.
** Most XERRD scientists are CaptainErsatz versions of science-oriented characters from various forms of media, ranging from Dr. Wily from ''{{Megaman}}'' to GLaDOS from ''Videogame/Portal''; from Professor Elvin Gadd of ''SuperMarioBros'' to Ze Professor from ''ConkersBadFurDay''; from Dr. O'Brien of ''{{1984}}'' to Dr. Insano of ''TheSpoonyExperiment''.
** Cranky and Kiddy are Dino Attack RPG's versions of [[VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong]]. Marco Martinet is a CaptainErsatz of [[SuperMarioBros Mario]], Louie Martinet of Luigi, Pearl of Peach, Primrose of Paulina, Rosalie Mercedes of Rosalina... so on and so forth.
** In one particularly confusing case, Atton Rand introduced a CaptainErsatz that got repeatedly mistaken for an Ersatz of an entirely different character. Many of his fellow players believed Snake to be an Ersatz of Solid Snake from ''MetalGearSolid'' rather than Snake Plissken from ''EscapeFromNewYork''. To be fair, Solid Snake himself is a homage to Snake Plissken, so similarities are inevitable.
** Now we've got a cast of CaptainErsatz characters from ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer''... who were introduced solely because of a character named Giles (who wasn't even related to the show, but rather named after the character from ''TheCrucible'').
** More or less the case with Baldrick. However, {{Blackadder}} is based around history in general (with each season set in a different time period of British History) meaning that his namesake is not so much one character as a whole bunch of identical grandsons, although if anything Agent Baldrick is probably closest to the version of his namesake seen in ''Blackadder Goes Forth'' (from which his "escape kit" was inspired).
** Walker, Lovhaug, and Dr. Insano are all CaptainErsatz versions of ThatGuyWithTheGlasses characters.
* CaptainSmoothAndSergeantRough: Many of the Elite Agents, particularly people like Rex and Zenna are known to try and operate in a humane manner as much as possible, trying to balance their objectives with doing what is best for those under there command. Then you got people like Rotor and Lutsky, who are known to be a lot more aggressive in their strategies, sometimes even placing their ultimate objective over the lives of their men.
* CapuletCounterpart: Covert, who started as Magma's arch-nemesis and, after [[LEGOAlphaTeam Alpha Team]] and [[LEGOAgents Agents]] joined forces in the Dino Attack, ultimately fell in love with him.
* CardCarryingVillain: [[LEGOAlphaTeam Ogel]], [[LEGOIsland the Brickster]], [[KnightsKingdom2 Vladek]], [[LEGOAdventurers Sam Sinister]], and [[LEGOAgents Dr. Inferno]]. Ogel, Vladek, and Dr. Inferno are part of the Control sphere, and the Brickster falls under the Destruction sphere; while Sam Sinister sees himself as a villain and fits the CardCarryingVillain trope, he does not fall under any of the three main spheres, as his main motivation is personal greed.
* CarnivoreConfusion: For the most part, we have seen little interaction between carnivores and herbivores. The most we have seen is a T-Rex, four Minifigs, and a pterosaur in the same room, and said T-Rex did not eat or attack any of her fellow roommates, which may invoke (but not necessarily confirm) the idea that non-mutant carnivores are abnormally civil.
** A T-Rex and a Minifig (for example, Chompy and Frozeen, the unnamed T-Rex and Taglong, the other unnamed T-Rex and Zachary) will often get along, never mind the fact that, under more realistic circumstances, the T-Rex would likely see the Minifig as prey. However, Chompy can be a brutal predator when he wants to be, an unnamed female T-Rex seemed opposed to helping Minifigs (which, in a case of Fridge Brilliance, she may see as her prey), the other unnamed T-Rex killed Gonnerman, and the queen T-Rex was eager to tear Mr. Cunningham apart on the spot.
** Let's not forget that Rex was in fact a Tyrannosaurus rex, and yet he's perfectly fine around herbivores. Although, to be fair, Rex has not really been around herbivores since before the Dino Attack (the closest he has been is watching a Triceratops stampede), and his dinosaur instincts were suppressed by XERRD experiments. Not to mention that he is, in fact, no longer a T-Rex.
*** Although, it is worth noting that shortly before the freak accident that switched Rex and Dr. Rex's bodies, Rex attacked Dr. Rex and picked him up with his ''maw''. If Rex had not been still reeling from a prior Sonic Screamer attack, would Rex have done to Dr. Rex what any true T-Rex would have done?
** PredatorsAreMean: There are four main types of mutant dinosaurs (two of which technically aren't actually dinosaurs), all of which are carnivorous breeds. There have been no known sightings of a Mutant Triceratops, a Mutant Stegosaurus, or Mutant Brontosaur.
* {{Catchphrase}}: Walter has a habit of shouting "SHUT THE [[PardonMyKlingon ZNAP]] UP DONNIE!"
* TheCavalry: The Adventurers' Island dinosaurs and [=TumTum=] tribesmen in during the battle for the Pharaoh's Forbidden Ruins.
** [[LEGOAlphaTeam Alpha Team]], the [[KnightsKingdom2 Rogue Knights]], [[LEGOAdventurers Emperor Chang Wu's fleet]], and Ogel's forces during the final battle.
*** A villainous example from the same battle: [[ClassicLEGOCastle the Fright Knights]].
* CavalryBetrayal: The Hybrids arrived to help the Dino Attack Team in the [[UndergroundLevel Goo Caverns]], but one of the Hybrids captured Rex so [[BigBad Dr. Rex]] could lure the team into a trap. Later, they arrived to aid the Dino Attack Team in the Torn World, and then immediately revealed their true allegiance to XERRD after the battle was over.
* CelibateHero: Holly Vinyaya was this in the [[LEGOSpacePolice Space Police]].
* CerebusSyndrome: Big time. While the RPG's early days were far from [[LighterAndSofter Light and Soft]], there was a definite gradual shift to a much [[DarkerAndEdgier darker]] and more serious tone over the course of the RPG's lifetime.
** [=PeabodySam=] and Atton Rand both had Cerebus Syndromes of their own, as they both started with very idealistic characters who usually ended up in amusingly absurd situations, and by the RPG's end, their writing was far darker and much more mature and cynical in tone.
* ChainPain: Dromus's weapon of choice. Used to be Amanda's weapon of choice, but after her ReTool which made her less of a Dromus {{Expy}}, she dropped the ChainPain in favor of being a KnifeNut.
* ChairReveal: PBB was introduced through one of these.
* ChaoticStupid: Baldrick.
* CharacterCustomization: Every little trait, be it personality or physical, is up to the players.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: In the Alpha Team: Mission Deep Freeze RPG, [[WordOfGod PeabodySam]] made an explicit point stating that PBB would never be killed off. A year later, PBB was killed off in the Dino Attack RPG.
** Rex was originally introduced as the ultimate idealist, who mourned the death of a random Mutant T-Rex he accidentally killed. As Characterization Marched On, the horrors of war eventually drove Rex to a considerably more cynical outlook.
** Stranger was going to be more of a tough, no-nonsense kind of hunter person (not unlike Titan, who in retrospect seems more like a Suspiciously Similar Substitute), but his snide remarks about the ludricousness of the situations he found himself in came to define his more humorous LampshadeHanging attitude.
** Rotor was initially introduced in the Alpha Team RPG as a companion to Zenna whose primary role was simply that of a helicopter pilot who could get her and other agents to and from places. While he may still have been a little over-enthusiastic about his job, he was still taking orders and a lot less aggressive, even saving the life of a stranded agent. Then he was introduced to the Dino Attack RPG, where he was suddenly leading squads of helicopters and even attempting to operate behind the backs of his superiors, becoming the tough, battle-hardened, aggressive, classical-music playing Elite Agent with whom most players are familiar.
** Kate was initially set up as something of a rookie with the potential to become an ActionGirl before evolving into a more [[{{Deconstruction}} deconstructive]] portrayal of a teenager who joined the team never really knowing what she was getting into.
** Hertz was introduced as a disposable agent who could fill in a gap created by Reptile's removal. [[RedShirt While intended as a character who could easily be killed off]], [[MauveShirt Hertz has gained a notable role in the RPG since his introduction]].
** Garry was originally conceived as a far more brutal character who would not only torture the XERRD prisoners alongside Rotor but ''blackmail'' Copper into keeping quiet about their actions. Eventually Atton's posts started to humanize him, making the character somewhat more sympathetic and likeable.
** When Jenny first appeared, she was described as being "slightly older than Kate". Given that Kate is 18, that would have put Jenny around 19-20. Later posts implied her to be younger, around 12-14.
** Pierce was originally considered as a love interest for Zenna before his backstory with Kate made Sarah Bishop into ''his ''love interest.
** In a similar situation as Rex, Dr. Cyborg started off a a very idealist agent, thanks to his XERRD background. However, as the game went on, this devolved until it wasn't mentioned much at all.
* ChasteHero: Nazareno.
* ChastityCouple: Zach and Minerva; even while spending the night outside in midwinter -- a situation in which cuddling would have been not only heartwarming, but ''practical'' -- they roll away from one another before going to sleep.
* ChekhovsGun: The T-1 Typhoon that was left in the desert after Zenna and George were attacked by Natives ended up having a brief but important role in driving an invading army of Mutant Dinosaurs out of the Dino Attack Team's camp on Adventurers' Island.
** Shortly before the [[UndergroundLevel Goo Caverns]] mission, it was established that Dino Attack Team began developing a weapon powerful enough to [[InstantWinCondition destroy an entire army without leveling a city]]. Think this is going to be important sometime in the future?
** Hotwire's PDA malfunctioned after Kat's death. Turns out that's what happens when a human consciousness stores itself in a pocket-sized communication device.
** ChekhovsBoomerang: The return of Ata during the LEGOIsland story arc, during which time he found the Constructopedia. And again, Ata became important just before the final battle... [[spoiler:when it was revealed that he was a [[TheMole mole]] working for XERRD.]]
** ChekhovsGag: Ben Gunn's "[[{{Videogame/Portal}} That cake is a lie]]" was nothing more than an amusing line at first... [[spoiler:that Rex later remembered and helped him break away from [[LEGOUniverse the Darkitect's]] [[FaceYourFears illusions]].]] Similarly, Frozeen's insanity from the Alpha Team: Mission Deep Freeze RPG had a brief relapse to grant him InsanityImmunity.
** ChekhovsGunman: Ghost was character that rode on a Fire Hammer with Minerva to the rear guard camp. After Brikman [=McStudz=] reread the Dino Attack RPG and remembered the existence of Ghost, he reintroduced him as being [[TheMole a spy]] for [[LEGOUniverse the Maelstrom]] for his entire existence.
*** Loop was initially an unnamed [[LEGOAgents Inferno]] henchman who framed Kat and B for murder, only to later return and be revealed as part of [=ShadowTech=].
*** Ata, at first, was a seemingly-random unnamed communications expert who thought his GPS was glitching. He ended up helping Rex and Amanda return to the Dino Attack Team. Then, he became a ChekhovsBoomerang... twice.
*** Oh, Frank Einstein. Started off as a seemingly-random extra, ascended to [[spoiler:an ultimate DeepCoverAgent / ReverseMole]].
*** Matthew Vherestorm was just some guy apart of Nazareno's past. As the final battle rolled around, he was revealed to have reformed as Blaire Darkling, a member of XERRD.
** ChekhovMIA.: Ben Gunn, who became M.I.A. at the end of the [[UndergroundLevel Goo Caverns]] mission only to return after the [[LEGOAdventurers Adventurers' Island]] mission to warn the Dino Attack Team about the upcoming final battle.
*** [[spoiler:Trouble]] returned to save Rex in the final battle after being M.I.A. for six years, seven months, and seven days (in real-time).
* ChessMotifs: A few of them surrounding, [[SarcasmMode you'd never believe this]], [[spoiler:the false]] Wallace ''Bishop''. Especially in the way that [[spoiler:his messages were contained within chess pieces]] and his declaration that, sometimes, "the bishop must be sacrificed" to win.
* TheChessmaster: Cam O'Cozy, who intentionally created a violent feud between the idealist and realist sides of the team (simply taking advantage of a high period of tension between them at the time), with the ultimate goal of destroying the team. Of course one could also go a step farther and label [[BigBad Dr. Rex]] himself as such, seeing as he had planted Cam O'Cozy along with some Maelstrom-infected bricks to achieve that goal.
** The original Chaos served as TheChessmaster controlling Kotua's actions for much of the early Dino Attack in a grand scheme to get its revenge on the Alpha Team agent and free itself from its Mayan prison.
** Dust has had a master plan for some time considering his plains to take the temple of Hotep III ranging from dropping care packages for himself on strategic points across the island, blackmailing members of the D.A., infiltrating the XERRD base and destroying critical data, and falsely translating the blueprints to the temple.
** Agent Cane, who surruptitiously hijacked all of Katerina Schattenberg's work in order to settle a feud that started a generation before him.
** Then there's Palmer, who tricked Garry both into leading him to the source of the Maelstrom (essentially making him a super-Stromling of sorts, especially now that Zach was cured and Ahua is dead, leaving him to take their places) and made his fellow teammates paranoid to the extent that one of them was murdered... by Garry himself.
** The ultimate Chessmaster of the entire Dino Attack is [[spoiler:[[LEGOUniverse Baron Typhonus]]. [[TheManBehindTheMan He]] manipulated XERRD into creating the Dino Attack in the first place and led [[LEGOAdventurers Lord Sam Sinister]] into the Maelstrom Temple with the Maelstrom Crystal, to name a few examples. Even after being defeated at the Maelstrom Temple, Baron Typhonus had a back-up plan to [[DemonicPossession possess Dr. Rex's body]].]]
* ChildSoldiers: Kate is occasionally seen as one. Technically she's in her late teens, but that is still fairly young when compared to the other agents, most of whom are a lot older.
** Interestingly, there are thirteen other agents that are officially eighteen-years (three that are Elite Agents) and they are not seen as ChildSoldiers.
** In the Dino Attack RPG's early days, there were numerous players whose primary characters were ChildSoldiers as young as 9 years old. This was something that [=PeabodySam=] had not considered when he made the Dino Attack RPG's sign-up form, so he later altered the form to state that primary characters had to be at least 18 years old. The ChildSoldiers were later {{retcon}}ned to be 17 years old and lying about their age when listed in the [[http://dinoattackrpg01.wikia.com/wiki/Dino_Attack_Team/Agents Dino Attack Team/Agents]] page on [[TheWikiRule the wiki]].
* ChokeHolds: Dr. Rex once used one against Frozeen, surprisingly while the latter was in a G.E. Body, to intimidate the other prisoners. Later, he Choke Held Frozeen again, and this time actually strangled him to death.[[note]]He got better, though.[[/note]]
** In its final moments, the Brickspider Bot v1.0 had one against Rex and nearly succeeded in killing the Dino Attack agent.
** Minerva received one from Ahua which involved the Maelstrom choking her as well. She was only saved when Zach refused to watch her die.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: This has happened to many characters when the player controlling them leaves the RPG.
** [[LEGORockRaiders Axle]] had a notable role in the RPG as a member of the Dino Attack Team, something nobody seems to remember anymore.
** There was also Trouble, who was a major character at one point before inexplicably vanishing, and [=PeabodySam=] openly refused to bring him back [[spoiler:because he was secretly saving Trouble for the final battle]].
** Mort, until he returned during the hunt for TheMole.
** This nearly happened to Septimus several times.
** "[[FanNickname Gene Rick]]," the body-swapped XERRD scientist whom Andrew and Laxus rescued, got dropped shortly before Zach's camp ambush.
* CirclingMonologue: [[spoiler:The illusion of]] Kotua gave one of these to Rex, who was lying paralyzed on the floor.
** Loop gave one to Swerve before mutating him with a Mind-Control Orb.
* {{Claustrophobia}}: Implied to be the case with A.J. Orange, explaining why she suffers from hallucinations when wearing [[{{Pyromaniac}} her father's]] gas mask.
* CloudCuckooLander: Ben Gunn, who was suffering from senility during his time in the [[UndergroundLevel Goo Caverns]].
** [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] with Cam O'Cozy, who was initially set up as such a character, but the later [[RoboticReveal revelation of him being an android]] would suggest that this was just a ruse.
** [[spoiler:The real]] Wallace Bishop (the one locked up in Napoleon XIV Mental Institution in Antarctica).
** When Frozeen goes insane, it's the CloudCuckooLander type of insanity. He believes that everyone around him is a leprechaun out to steal his gold; the cows must be defeated to save the monkeys; and everything has to do with Mexican food.
** Athena Fabello comes across as this, primarily when meeting Oswald and Blaire in Napoleon XIV and as a nineteen-year-old.
** When wearing a helmet, Andrea Jackson Orange thinks that she's in a SugarBowl setting populated by cute baby dinosaurs as a result of hallucinations she experienced while suffering from {{claustrophobia}} in a makeshift bunker for who-knows-how-long.
* ClusterFBomb: Trigger is a walking Cluster [=MegaBlok=]-Bomb.
** One agent on the comm chatter dropped a bomb following [[spoiler:[[DivineIntervention Dr. Rex's revival]]]].
* TheCoconutEffect: Many inaccuracies regarding the nature of dinosaurs and Mutant Dinosaurs are intentionally preserved in Dino Attack RPG to accurately follow [[LEGODinoAttack its source material]].
* ColdBloodedTorture: Rotor beating the living daylights out of ''an already terrified and confused child''. [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation How much of it was for information and how much was just Rotor being Rotor is up to the reader's interpretation.]]
* ColdSniper: [[CaptainObvious Sniper]].
** A guard at the XERRD Fortress who briefly caused Rotor's attacking force some trouble.
** Barry Jackson can also come across as one at times, at least whenever he's actually sniping.
* ColonelKilgore: Rotor. The trope-naming character was a major inspiration, right down to his frequent habit of playing classical music while attacking his enemies.
** Ronald E. Army, to some extent, could also be considered an example.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Green Mutant Lizards are camouflage, red Mutant Lizards are fire-breathing, yellow Mutant Lizards are acid-spitting, purple Mutant Lizards are stealth, and black Mutant Lizards are darkness.
* CombatMedic: Zenna, Medic, and Marco Martinet.
* CombatTentacles: Paulie Gonepus has these of the robotic kind.
* CommandRoster: The Elite Agents working operating on Adventurers' Island. Rex serves more or less as the Captain as well as a CunningLinguist, Zenna serves as TheHeart, Rotor is the Marine, Hertz is the CommunicationsOfficer, Rotor and Cabin both serve as Ace Pilots, and they have a small but helpful medical staff including a psychologist.
* CommunicationsOfficer: Ata, Hertz, Windows, Bluetooth, and Shannon Gromtin.
* CommonTongue: Dust talks to Skeleton Mummies. Also see AnimalTalk.
* ConflictBall: Idealists versus realists, ''especially'' during Digger's revolt, although that was [[JustifiedTrope justified]] due to Digger's emotions being manipulated by [[LEGOUniverse the Maelstrom]].
* ConservationOfNinjutsu: A possible explanation regarding the notable difference in strength between [[EverythingsDeaderWithZombies Stromling Agents and Stromling Explorers]]. There are rarely more than one or two Stromling Agents on-screen at a time, and they prove very hard to defeat. Stromling Explorers almost always act as a group, leaving them as nothing more than CannonFodder.
** Even noticeable with common [[PrehistoricMonster Mutant Dinos]]. Compare how hard it is to kill one [[RaptorAttack Mutant Raptor]] versus an entire pack of Mutant Raptors.
* ConspiracyRedemption: After hanging out with Cam O'Cozy and French Fries, Zenna helped leak information regarding the Antarctica mission and inadvertently caused riots and an idealist-realist conflict of escalated violence. However, she redeemed herself through working quickly and efficiently to defeat Cam O'Cozy, who was fueling the fires of the idealist-realist conflict, and provide medical aid to those injured in the riots, and received a promotion to Elite Agent as a result.
** Tracer was part of a group of realist agents supporting O'Cozy, but managed to redeem himself by working with Hotwire.
* ContinuityCavalcade: In many ways, the final battle, especially due to the comm chatter.
* ContinuityNod: Rex and Reptile used [[TankGoodness Iron Predators]] to defend a power station from a Mutant T-Rex attack, which culminated in the arrival of the founding members in a [[DeathFromAbove T-1 Typhoon]] to save the day and drive the T-Rexes back across the river. This whole scene was a ContinuityNod to a battle described on the LEGODinoAttack website.
** In the Ugalego temple, there was a wrecked [[LEGOAlphaTeam Scorpion Orb Launcher]]. The last time a Scorpion Orb Launcher was seen on [[LEGOAdventurers Adventurers' Island]] was early in the Alpha Team: Mission Deep Freeze RPG, during the same mission that ended with Frozeen adopting Chompy.
** The T-1 Typhoon battle against Dr. Rex and the occasional Mutant Pterosaur atop a burning Dino Attack Headquarters was modeled after the box art for the T-1 Typhoon set.[[note]]Although, in the RPG, Specs and Viper are in a separate T-1 Typhoon from the one flown by Shadow and Digger.[[/note]]
** According to Frozeen, aside from a mishap involving a billboard and a stray Mutant Raptor, reconstruction of LEGOCity has been going smoothly. The incident involving the billboard and Mutant Raptor was a reference to a comic in LEGO Brickmaster Magazine's November-December 2005 issue.
** The celebration on LEGOIsland is full of these, sure to please any long-time fan of the series.
* ContinuityPorn: With over seven years of canon, ''plus'' references to other [=RPGs=] and numerous LEGOThemes, it's not hard to get overwhelmed by all the canon in Dino Attack RPG.
* ContinuitySnarl: The Brickspider Bot v1.0 initially denied any connections to [[LEGOAgents Dr. Inferno]] and referred to the MadScientist as a "pitiful fool". When writing later plot developments, [=PeabodySam=] forgot about this detail and revealed that the Brickspider Bot was an ally of Dr. Inferno.
* ConvectionSchmonvection: [[LEGOAdventurers Lord Sam Sinister]] could stand at the edge of a volcanic crater with boiling lava below him without any sort of heat-resistant suit.
* CoolAirship: Although Dino Attack RPG has seen a large number of these in its early days, including PBB's Airship, the ''Saber'', Villains Headquarters, and the ''Iron Hammer'', the ''Voltage'' will always stand out in the minds of Dino Attack RPG's early players as one of the definitive traits of the early Dino Attack RPG experience.
* CoolMask: Specs always wears a balaclava.
* CoolOldGuy: Solomon is in his eighties. General, Ben Gunn, and Frank Einstein are in their late seventies. Greybeard is supposedly older than everyone else, as part of a running joke.[[note]]According to WordOfGod, Greybeard is at least ninety years old.[[/note]]
* CoolShades: Blaire Darkling always wears dark, reflective sunglasses presumably after an accident during the creation of the Mutant Dinos. Trigger also wears them sometimes, as does Viper, Pharisee, and Rotor. True to his inspiration, Paulie Gonepus also wears Cool Shades.
* TheCoronerDothProtestTooMuch: Variation... er... sort of, though the victim in question wasn't actually murdered so much as hidden and too frightened to say anything. To see that Jenny gets proper medical attention without Copper finding out that she'd been deliberately tortured, Garry explained that she tried to escape (she was after all, a prisoner), ran into him, and put up a fight, so he simply acted in self-defense. Somewhat subverted in that he ended up eventually confessing to Copper anyway.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Walter Breen, especially during his days as administrator of Brick League United. Even after he left the company, he retained many traits of a CorruptCorporateExecutive.
** Cane had a bit of this in him as well, though in his early characterization by Kotua in Space, he was more of a ColonelKilgore.
** Uærlig Sindstorme and Edward Korrupte seem to be examples of such, given that they're willing to hire bounty hunters, criminals, mercenaries, and any other form of hired gun to perform armed robberies against each other (which has gotten a few innocent people killed), not to mention the fact that Sindstorme seemed genuinely pleased when his hired guns set up the murder of an innocent bystander as a tragic accident (though it might have been more because he expected to avoid the potential consequences than it was the murder itself). The reason for all this violence? [[EvilIsPetty They're trying to steal each other's products for money.]]
*** [[NamesToRunAwayFrom/ForeignLanguageNames If it wasn't obvious enough, the surname of Dacta's CEO is Danish for "corrupt" and the given name of Mindstorms' president is Danish for "dishonest".]]
** Implied to be the case with Mr. Bonaparte. He prescribes his patients with "classified" medications, but we have not seen anyone at Napoleon XIV Mental Institution whose mental health has improved under his supervision. Napoleon XIV also has a history of security issues, such as when Wallace Bishop escaped and when Athena Fabello went missing; in the latter case, to avoid bad press and investigations into Napoleon XIV, Mr. Bonaparte wrote a formal letter stating that Athena had passed away.
* TheCorruption: [[LEGOUniverse The Maelstrom]].
* CosmicHorrorStory: Not neccessarily intentional, but let's see. Planet that's relatively small and insignificant in the grand sceme of a vastly infinite cosmos? Check. EldritchAbomination capable of destroying entire worlds with little to no effort? Check. Chances of said Eldritch Abomination being stopped permenantly being non-existant? Check. Eldritch Abomination being so weird an alien that simply looking at it will drive you mad? Partial check, since it at least leaves those who face it severely traumatized if nothing else. Yeah, we got one. The [[WhatIf alternate ending]] ''December 21, 2012'' would also qualify as this taken up a few notches.
* CowTools: The machine that goes "BING!", which, despite being the most expensive machine in Dino Attack Headquarters, has no clear function other than going "BING!".
** For the most part, [[LEGOIsland Enter and Return's]] arsenal. However, we did once get to see Enter use a shark in CPR, but what they do with trees is anyone's guess.
* CPRCleanPrettyReliable: [[AvertedTrope Averted]]. Upon being revived by Enter, the first thing Zelda did was vomit in his face.
* CranialProcessingUnit: The Brickspider Bot v1.0 can only be disabled by destroying its head. Interestingly, if the head is detached from the body but still intact, the body can still function, but as soon as the head is destroyed, the Brickspider Bot ceases to move.
** [[AvertedTrope Averted]] by Aster Oid, whose vital innerworkings were located in his torso, not in his head.
* CrateExpectations: Injection needles containing the antidote to XERRD's toxic gases were contained in a crate, which Reptile opened using a crowbar.
* CreatorCameo: avmatoran appeared as Mathew Wise, and several people suspect that Samuel Piaker is actually [=PeabodySam=].
* CreepyMonotone: Michelle Glados.
* CrisisCrossover: If there's a [[LEGOThemes LEGO Theme]] that does not take place on another planet, it will likely show up in some form or another in Dino Attack RPG. And even if it takes place on another planet (for example, [[LEGOLifeOnMars Life on Mars]]), it still may show up.
* CrossOver: Essentially, the Dino Attack RPG has crossed over with the Alpha Team: Mission Deep Freeze RPG and the original Pirates RPG.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: [[BewareTheSillyOnes Ben Gunn]].
* CruelMercy: Rex attempted to give this to Dr. Rex, believing that it would be a fate that he deserved. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, it didn't quite work out as planned, as it gave [[LEGOUniverse Baron Typhonus]] enough time to make his DivineIntervention.]]
* CrucifiedHeroShot: [[spoiler:Dust's]] appearance at his death was partly inspired by the classic death of William Dafoe's character in ''{{Platoon}}''.
** When [[spoiler:Rex's Creative Spark was extracted from his body]], his arms were raised in a way that put him in a T-position, which might bring forth imagery of the Cross.
* CryIntoChest: Kate while talking to her mother about Frank Einstein's reveal.
* CrypticBackgroundReference: Dino Attack RPG takes place in 2010 and was first started in 2005. Since the details of what would happen over the next five years (in both official LEGO story and in [[BZPower BZPower]] LEGO RPG story) could not be predicted, [=PeabodySam=] seized the opportunity to make Cryptic Background References regarding the fates of his Alpha Team: Mission Deep Freeze RPG characters, such as the death of Rebel Drone and the mysterious disappearance of Frozeen. Although some of this background information was intended to be explained by a later Alpha Team RPG (likely Ogel's Last Stand), even in 2012 many questions about what exactly happened in this six-year span between Alpha Team RPG and Dino Attack RPG remain unanswered.
* CueTheSun: Dino Attack RPG's final post ended with sunrise on Adventurers' Island.
* CunningLinguist: Hertz.
* CurseCutShort: General, immediately after discovering the stasis tube of Talia Kaahs. Mind you, this was before the phrase "Son of a [[PardonMyKlingon MegaBlok]]" became widely used in the RPG, so at the time it was implied that he did not say "[=MegaBlok=]".
** Just before leaving the [[UndergroundLevel Goo Caverns]], Greybeard thought about Ben Gunn and, in order to express his pity for the old hermit, was about to describe him as a "poor bastard". Before he could finish the last word, he was cut off.
** Oswald was describing Athena (and by extension, Minerva) with a phrase that would have been ended with a word not appropriate for [[BZPower BZPower]], only to be interrupted by Minerva.
** In a Shout Out to ''[[Videogame/HalfLife2 Half-Life 2]]'', Andrew's message to [[spoiler:[[LEGOUniverse Baron Typhonus]]]] was obscured by Hertz shouting.
* TheCutie: Kate.
* CurbStompBattle: Rex vs. French Fries and Pharisee vs. French Fries.
** Pharisee vs. Trigger was actually a [[SubvertedTrope subversion]]. For most of the fight, it was definitely a CurbStompBattle, as Pharisee easily overpowered Trigger in the fight. However, it was ultimately subverted because Trigger knocked out Pharisee in the end, emerging as the victor of that fight.
* {{Cyborg}}: [[CaptainObvious Dr. Cyborg]] and General.
* DancePartyEnding: The various parties across the LEGO Planet after the Dino Attack war ended, most notably the celebration on LEGOIsland.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Amanda Claw, General, Scratch, Minerva and Oswald Fabello, Dust, Greybeard, and the list goes on.
* DarkFic: Look at [[LEGODinoAttack the source material]]. Now look at Dino Attack RPG. Notice a difference in tone?
* DarkerAndEdgier: Definitely, considering [[{{LEGO}} its source material]].
* DarkestHour: Did it begin with [[spoiler:[[LEGOUniverse Baron Typhonus's]] DivineIntervention, the death of Amanda Claw, or the Mutant Lizard invasion of Dino Attack Headquarters]]? Regardless of where it began, it's certain that the final battle definitely had its DarkestHour.
* DatingCatwoman: While Covert (as well as the rest of the [[LEGOAgents Agents Defense Organization]]) is not a villain, she served as an antagonist to Magma for at least two years during the inter-agency rivalry between [[LEGOAlphaTeam Alpha Team]] and the Agents. After the Dino Attack, Magma and Covert openly declared their love for one another, making this too explicit to be FoeRomanceSubtext.
* ADayInTheLimelight: Many of Atton Rand's first posts in ''At War's End'' were written from the perspective of the staff of Outpost 4, showing their reactions to the mutant dinos' attack on the Rear Guard camp. His primary character Zenna was reduced to little more than one or two passing mentions.
* DeaderThanDisco: In-universe; how [[{{Troll}} Grease]] views [[LEGOAlphaTeam Alpha Team]] and [[LEGORockRaiders Rock Raiders]].
* DeadlyGas: The toxins in the air vent system of XERRD establishments.
* DeadpanSnarker: Just about every character who does LampshadeHanging, especially Andrewnuva199's characters.
* DeadManSwitch: Demoman's death trap during the mole hunt was set up so that if anything happened to him, the explosives would detonate. Luckily, the explosives were not exactly wired up properly.
* DeathByOriginStory: Amadeus and Rosaria Remous, Alfred the butler, and Bricassius all kicked the bucket in Amanda's origin story.
** Also in the flashback, Uærlig Sindstorme and Edward Korrupte, along with five of the seven people Schiess worked with.
** Isaac and Tod Fabello were both killed in Minerva and Oswald's origin story.
* DeathEqualsEmotion: [[spoiler:[[InvokedTrope Invoked]] in Dust's death. In his dying moments, he asked his teammates to tell Rockford that [[ItHasBeenAnHonor it was an honor]] to work with him and to send his apologies, something that Dust would never have requested in life.]]
* DeathEqualsRedemption: [[spoiler:Dust's]] teammates went from hating him for tricking them to trying in vain to save his life after he was fatally shot.
** Minerva finally [[{{Forgiveness}} forgave]] [[spoiler:Athena]] in the latter's dying moments.
* DeathFromAbove: Pretty much any combat action once Rotor gets involved. Of course this should hardly come as a surprise to anyone who's seen ''ApocalypseNow'' and is familiar with Rotor's inspiration.
** Came in the form of fireballs in ''[[WhatIf December 21, 2010]]''.
* DeathIsDramatic: [[spoiler:Amanda Claw and Athena Fabello]] were both fatally shot, but still able to deliver heartwarming speeches to their loved ones before they died.
** In [[spoiler:Amanda's]] case, this was actually deliberately invoked. Originally, [=PeabodySam=] considered having her die immediately after being shot, with no parting speech. However, believing that this felt too much like [[DroppedABridgeOnHim Dropping a Bridge]] on such an important long-runner character, [=PeabodySam=] decided to opt for DeathIsDramatic instead.
* DeathNotification: After J.D.'s death, Wade began writing several letters to J.D.'s family and his old friend Marco Martinet.
** Rex and Specs wrote a letter to Helen Rutherford informing her of the deaths of [[ArmyScout Scout]] and [[LadykillerInLove Spy]].
* DeathSeeker: Oswald Fabello started to become this as his insanity began to take hold. He even thanked Minerva for killing him.
** After [[spoiler:being [[DemonicPossession possessed by Baron Typhonus]]]], [[TragicVillain Dr. Rex]] made it his one goal to die as quickly as possible. [[spoiler:First, he unwillingly followed the Darkitect's orders, hoping that defeating Dino Attack Team would make Typhonus allow him to die. Then, when the Einstein Device was fired at him, Dr. Rex had an ObiWanMoment and did not attempt to dodge.]]
** After finding out that his mother died in the refugee facilities, [[spoiler:B]] decided that he had nothing to live for anymore.
* DecapitatedArmy: The death of Dr. Rex basically negated the threat of the Mutant Dino army. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]], in that the weapon that took Dr. Rex's life also killed the majority of the Mutant Dinos, and [[spoiler:the death of Dr. Rex cut off Baron Typhonus, the one compelling the Mutant Dinos to be destructive in the first place, from the LEGO Planet for good]].
* DeconReconSwitch: Placing the [[CloudCuckooLander zany]] paramedics [[LEGOIsland Enter and Return]] in the Dino Attack Hospital Wing, where more realistic doctors like Alan Pierce work, resulted in them constantly being called out on their questionable procedures that would never be allowed in a real hospital. However, this {{Deconstruction}} was ultimately [[{{Reconstruction}} Reconstructed]], as it turned out that Enter and Return's methods, however zany, are still proven to work quite effectively.
* DeepCoverAgent: [[spoiler:As Wallace Bishop, Frank Einstein was ''second-in-command'' of XERRD.]]
* DefeatMeansFriendship: Cyrista's Bane.
* DefectorFromDecadence: General, Kat, Dr. Strangebrick, Dr. Cyborg, and Solomon Koplowitz.
** Dr. Gadd and Dr. Lee attempted to do this during the final battle, only to learn that XERRD was calling a truce with Dino Attack Team, rendering their defection redundant.
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Many of the citizens of El Paso are incredibly sexist, a trait inspired by common views during the real Wild West (and pretty much everywhere else during that era).
* DemBones: Dino Attack agents turned into skeletons and reanimated by Skeleton Mummies.
** [[LEGOIsland Captain Click]] and allied [[LEGOAlphaTeam Skeleton Drones]] such as Septimus count as rare non-villain examples.
* {{Demonization}}: Realist agents are often depicted as overly aggressive or sometimes even downright evil, especially by Atton Rand. It does not help that Kotua, Cam O'Cozy, and Rotor are some of the most well-known examples of realist agents (although Kotua went insane and O'Cozy was just a ploy). Thankfully, there are a number of exceptions such as Tail and Tracer, who are likeable realist characters.
* DemotedToExtra: Atton Rand introduced a number of [=NPCs=] during the Adventurers' Island story arc, resulting in his own primary character being taken out of focus in favor of stories focusing on the various medics and Kate's efforts to fit in with the team.
** While technically they do have a significant part in the story, the four official members of the Dino Attack Team have barely appeared in the RPG.
** Libo, who once appeared frequently in the Dino Attack RPG, has barely been seen or mentioned, especially following the idealist-realist debate. He was finally revealed to have had a [[DroppedABridgeOnHim Bridge Dropped on Him]] (literally).
* DependingOnTheWriter: Rex is notably more stern and serious when written by Chronicler of Ko-Koro or Brikman [=McStudz=].
** The mood of the RPG can shift from post to post, from dark and serious to goofy and light-hearted. For example, after LEGOIsland entered the Torn World, [[MoodWhiplash the mood shifted between Andrew's despair over the destruction of his hometown and the comic relief antics of Enter and Return]].
** Small details will often vary from post to post due to different players interpreting things differently. A good example of this would be in the weapons used. [=PeabodySam=] often talks about the characters using "Sonic Screamers" whilst many of Atton Rand's posts describe them to be using standard issue rifles and other conventional weaponry.
** When [=PeabodySam=] writes [[EverythingsDeaderWithZombies Stromlings]], they are nothing more than weak CannonFodder. When Brikman [=McStudz=] writes Stromlings, they range from mindless minions to cunning, intelligent, and ruthless. When Atton Rand writes Stromlings, they are an elusive monster that seeks to assimilate other life forms in a [[Franchise/StarTrek Borg]] or [[TheThing Thing]]-esque manner, and frequently manipulate people against each other by fueling their paranoia.
*** Similarly, Atton Rand's interpretation of the [[LEGOUniverse Maelstrom]] is far more Lovecraftian than what [=NetDevil=] probably intended.
** When Atton Rand writes Heavy, he depicts Heavy as absolutely obsessed with [[EverythingsSatiatingWithSandwiches sandwiches]]. When [=PeabodySam=] writes Heavy, he instead focuses on Heavy's relationship with Medic.
** From the perspective of Andrewnuva199's posts during the final battle, the general outlook on Dino Attack Team's progress in the battle was fairly optimistic. However, things looked much bleaker from the points of view of [=PeabodySam=] and [=TakunuvaC01=].
** A rather noteworthy example is how the post-war world is handled, as most writers believe that a world BuiltWithLEGO will rebuild fairly quickly while Atton Rand wanted a more realistic depiction of a post-war apocalyptic society. This is visible in even minor details; in a post by [=PeabodySam=], [[TheBartender Bartholomew Enderson]] remarked how quickly LEGOCity was being rebuilt, and then in a following post by Atton Rand, Carrie Enderson noticed how slowly the construction crews were working.
** Literally every player has their own style. For instance [=PeabodySam=], Brikman [=McStudz=] and Andrewnuva very clearly try to play up the LEGO-based elements in the style of classic LEGO video games. For instance they'll often make explicit reference to actual LEGO pieces (i.e. "And then he grabbed a 2x4 brick"). imperial officer, Atton Rand, and that guy from that show, on the other hand, both tend to downplay the LEGO elements as much as possible, and focus more on creating a more realistic world.
* DespairEventHorizon: [[TragicVillain Dr. Rex]] finally crossed this line after [[spoiler:Katerina renounced him as her brother.]]
** Oswald Fabello finally lost all hope upon realizing [[spoiler:[[LEGOUniverse Baron Typhonus]] was controlling the Maelstrom]] and no matter his plan, both he and his sister would die.
** Rex crossed this line after the death of [[spoiler:Amanda]], as most evidenced by his AntiHero personality and lust for revenge after recovering from his HeroicBSOD.
* DestinationDefenestration: [[LEGOAlphaTeam Ogel]] had a [[RunningGag bad habit]] of doing this to his drones.
* DetachmentCombat: [[LEGOIsland Captain Click]] is able to pull this off.
** Apparently, according to the comm chatter, one of the [[LEGOIsland Flying Legondos]] participated in the final battle and used this ability.
* {{Determinator}}: Silencia Venomosa. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by a quote from ''TheTerminator''.
* DeusAngstMachina: [[spoiler:Dr. Rex [[DivineIntervention gets back up]], Adventure performs a heroic sacrifice, his [[TankGoodness Iron Predator]] is destroyed, Amanda is murdered, and Trouble is BackForTheDead...]] [[{{Understatement}} Rex hasn't been having a good day.]]
* DeusExMachina: There are many examples, but here are a few notable ones:
** The exact nature of the mysterious voice that Frozeen heard upon death is unclear, but it originated from Alpha Team: Mission Deep Freeze RPG as a DeusExMachina created by Kotua in Space to restore Kotua's Minifig body through death and revival. It was again used as a Deus Ex Machina to restore Frozeen's Minifig body, and its true nature has not been revealed beyond that which Kotua in Space created (aside from a NeverHeardThatOneBefore moment). Aside from this one example (which was in fact intended to strip Frozeen of his G.E. Body and thus reduce his strength), [=PeabodySam=] does not wish to have this feature reappear in Dino Attack RPG, especially due to its ability to be easily abused (Databoard and Kotua were frequently revived as such in the Alpha Team RPG).
*** Given the context, the mysterious voice might very well be a literal case of DeusExMachina.
*** Spoofed by Atton Rand. When [[spoiler:Trigger]] died, the voice retorted by saying it had to take somebody, and claimed to have revived Databoard "like fifty times".
** When the Dino Attack Team arrived at the base of the Ogel's Island [[DeathMountain volcano]], they had no means of ascending the mountainside. Quite conveniently, Reptile's T-1 Typhoon crash-landed into the volcano and dropped off some climbing gear.
** Although set up and foreshadowed several posts before it arrived, the stampeding Triceratops herd that ended the battle for the Aztec Village was [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] as a DeusExMachina. Interestingly, unlike most examples of Lampshading, this was not played for laughs but for drama, since Rex realized that relying on a Deus Ex Machina to save the day is a poor strategy that could easily backfire.
** [[DefiedTrope Defied]], in that Rex's plan to travel to the Temple of Creation is in response to all the DeusExMachina examples of the past, intending to avert yet another Deus Ex Machina saving the day. Unfortunately, due to the UnspokenPlanGuarantee, Rex was punished for defying Deus Ex Machina.
* DiabolusExMachina: While not actually the end of the story, the conclusion to the LEGOIsland Arc was a fairly joyous moment (at least from the point of view of those in the Torn World, who didn't know what was happening outside- for others it would have been more of a BittersweetEnding). They finally got out of the Torn World, LEGO Island is restored, and the Brickspider Bot is gone for good. Then all of a sudden the hybrids turned against the team and things got pretty dark.
** Andrew's "dark conciousness" reappearing virtually out of nowhere during his and Minerva's encounter with Zach didn't exactly help matters. At least it proved a minor obstacle.
** Things were looking pretty optimistic during the final battle after Dr. Rex's defeat... [[spoiler:and then he got [[DemonicPossession possessed by the Maelstrom]], and it all went downhill from there.]]
** Hertz and Naomi had a pretty happy ending. [[spoiler:And then everything went downhill for them in the teaser for [[LEGODino Dino 2012]].]]
* DidNotDoTheBloodyResearch: In an effort to [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar Get Crap Past The Radar]], "bloody" was frequently used as a curse word, since it was not censored by the word filter and most of Dino Attack RPG's players live in North America, where the word is not particularly offensive. When Dino Attack RPG actually had a player from the United Kingdom, imperial officer, "bloody" could no longer be used because he took offense to the word.
** This did not stop [[ColdSniper Sniper]] from saying "bloody" as a curse word later on. In fact, during the mission brief that he was assigned to Second Headquarters Squad, Sniper referred to the Hybrids as "buggers", which is a seemingly innocent word in North America with a much more offensive meaning elsewhere in the world.
** French Fries also referred to Mutant Lizards as "buggers".
* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: [[spoiler:Pterisa struck [[LEGOUniverse the Darkitect]] in the chest with a bolt of lightning. It barely hurt him, but the fact that he was actually hit by another being who was turning his own powers against him was a huge insult to the Darkitect. The good news is that it broke his concentration long enough for Rex and Hotwire to realize that they were fighting illusions. The bad news is that Pterisa [[BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu Broke Her Arm Flipping Off Cthulhu]].]]
** This trope applies to anyone, such as Pointman or Semick, who attacked [[SNKBoss Dr. Rex]] after [[spoiler:Baron Typhonus's DivineIntervention]].
* DiedInYourArmsTonight: Ingrid Tromsø in Solomon Koplowitz's arms, and [[spoiler:Amanda Claw]] in Rex's arms.
* DinosaursAreDragons: Literally with Tex, who is a hybrid between a Mutant T-Rex and a dragon. Additionally, her brother Crunchbite was inspired by the Kardas Dragon.
* DirtyCoward: Walter Breen.
** Trigger. For someone who takes his jobs so seriously that anyone who interferes must die, Trigger has no problem walking out on his most important job of all time and deserting the Dino Attack Team... ''during the final battle''... and tries to justify it as the money not being worth it.
* DisappearedDad: Zachary Abody is Frozeen's disappeared adoptive father.
* DisconnectedByDeath: Happened a few times over the comm chatter, but also notably happened with [[spoiler:Adventure]].
* DiscontinuityNod: Andrew and Laxus occasionally dismiss retconned information as faults of the "anybody can edit" system of the Dino Attack Database.
** When [[spoiler:refusing [[LEGOUniverse Baron Typhonus's]] offer]], [[LEGOAdventurers Sam Sinister]] talked about how, in the past, he was blind in a metaphorical sense. In fanon material earlier in the Dino Attack RPG which was later {{retcon}}ned into CanonDiscontinuity, Sam Sinister actually ''was'' blind in a literal sense.
** The comm chatter occasionally references the EarlyInstallmentWeirdness that has fallen into CanonDiscontinuity.
** Greybeard mispronounced Anubis's name as "Arubis", referencing a typo that [=PeabodySam=] made when first introducing Anubis.
* DiskOneFinalBoss: XERRD seemed to be nearly defeated in the Maelstrom Temple. Victory was nearly at hand... [[spoiler:and then [[TheManBehindTheMan Baron Typhonus]] showed up.]]
* DisneyDeath: Amanda Claw was last seen attacked by villains, and her torn up uniform was found outside a wrecked police station. Don't worry, Rex, she's alright... [[spoiler:''this time'', at least.]]
** Kat was shot in the neck and killed... or so we thought. Good thing she backed herself up on Hotwire's PDA.
* DisneyVillainDeath: Brickspider Bot v1.0, although [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] in that it was already dead before it fell.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Rotor tried to make an example of a T-1 crew by having them executed because the pilot had refused an order to fire on the XERRD fortress while Dino Attack Agents were still inside.
** If Sarah's anythiing to go by, then apparently Walter ''pulled a gun'' on someone for stepping over the line during a bowling match.
** Edward Korrupte's response to Uærlig Sindstorme sending a team of mercenaries to steal some blueprints? Giving Venomosa permission to kill everyone.
** Pharisee's retribution could be considered disproportionate. It is actually intentional so he can make a statement and provide a warning to others.
* DitzyGenius: Naomi Carver was originally introduced as TheDitz, and indeed this was Hertz's first impression of her. Later, however, Hertz commented on Naomi's intelligence.
* DwindlingParty: Happened in two intersecting (but mostly unrelated) segments, both of the "hunted" variety- The Second Headquarters Squad being picked off one by one by [[spoiler:[[TheMole Ata]]]] until only [[spoiler:Pyro and Demoman]] were left, and also in the Trigger/Silencia flashback, where a seven man-team of criminals (eight-people depending on whether you include Silencia herself) are picked off one-by-one following Silencia's double-crossings until only two remained. The latter arguably continued into the present day, too, [[spoiler:with Silencia and Trigger's deaths leaving Montoya as the sole survivor.]]
** On a related note, [[WordOfGod Atton Rand]] does somewhat regret not using this with his "Stromling paranoia" sub-plot with the crew of Outpost 4, with the already paranoid cast getting picked off one by one trying to figure out who's a Stromling.
* DistaffCounterpart: Cabin is basically a female, slightly less aggressive version of Rotor. Teri is intended to be one for Barry Jackson.
** Also Bartholomew Enderson's sister Carrie Enderson, who also happens to be a successful [[TheBartender bartender]], and they both happen to be secret-keepers to two rival mercenaries.
** Blaire Darkling could be seen as a DistaffCounterpart to Amanda Remous in a sense that they were both infamous terrorists/assassins who both attempted to redeem themselves of their crimes.
* DivineIntervention: [[spoiler:[[LEGOUniverse Baron Typhonus]] saved [[BigBad Dr. Rex]] from death... [[FateWorseThanDeath in about the cruelest and most agonizing manner possible]].]]
* DoNotGoGentle: With their Fire Hammers destroyed and an endless number of Mutant Dinos surrounding them, this trope became the primary motivation for Greybeard and King Joseph Race during the final battle. [[spoiler:Although Greybeard [[SubvertedTrope survived]], King Race played it straight.]]
** [[spoiler:B, Sucker, Knuckles, Crooks, and Rookie]] died in a battle against bandits, which ended with StuffBlowingUp.
* DoesNotLikeShoes: Athena Fabello.
* DoesNotLikeSpam: Sarah Bishop does ''not'' like [[LEGOIsland Brickolini's pizza]].
** [[ItRunsInTheFamily It even runs in the family]], as it turns out her daughter can't stand it either.
* DoesntLikeGuns: [[KnightsKingdom2 Lord Vladek]].
* TheDogBitesBack: Dr. Strangebrick, [[LEGOAdventurers Rudo Villano]], and Pterisa started helping the Dino Attack Team after realizing that they were considered "disposable" by their superiors.
** Invoked by Wallace Bishop, who briefly considered turning himself in to Dino Attack Team just so he could lead them to the Maelstrom Temple and get revenge on [[LEGOAdventurers Señor Palomar]]. [[SubvertedTrope Ultimately subverted]] when he decided against it, placing his mission before his emotions.
* DolledUpInstallment: When Dino Attack RPG first began, it was basically Alpha Team: Mission Deep Freeze RPG [[RecycledInSpace in a Dino Attack setting]]. Much of the original expository post was copied from the Alpha Team RPG, and many members of that time were originally members of the Alpha Team RPG.
* DonutMessWithACop: Elizabeth once managed to get rid of a cop who was trying to stop her from hijacking a ship in [[LEGOCity LEGO City's]] harbor by [[RunningGag telling him the tavern was offering free donuts]].
* DoomMagnet: Rex, during the final battle. [[spoiler:To elaborate, his attempt to defeat [[BigBad Dr. Rex]] only made things worse and caused the death of Adventure, and shortly afterward Rex's wife Amanda and close friend Trouble were both killed.]]
* DoomedByCanon: [[LEGOAdventurers Johnny Thunder]] and [[LEGOIsland Sky Lane]] had to forsake their cameo appearances thanks to ''LEGOUniverse''.
** In a more positive meaning of the word "doom", Dino Attack Team will ultimately win the war and, based upon the LEGO set line-up for 2011 and on, the LEGO Planet recovers fairly quickly from the Dino Attack, meaning that any worries about post-Dino Attack anarchy and chaos from having to rebuild society will be laid to rest.
* DoubleWeapon: Blaire's modified Shinobi katanas.
* DownerEnding: ''[[WhatIf December 21, 2010]]''.
** One of Atton Rand's final posts revealed Rotor to be a miserable alcaholic in the aftermath of the war, unable to adjust to modern society and finding his relationship with Cabin rapidly deteriorating.
* DrJerk: Medic.
* TheDragon: General Evil to [[LEGOAlphaTeam Evil Ogel]]. While they are both very intelligent, Ogel was the mastermind while General Evil was the muscle.
** Loop to Cane, though this was only revealed posthumously.
* DragonRider: Formerly Raptor. Played with by Fullmetal, who rides the dragon-dinosaur hybrid Tex.
* DramaticGunCock: Ronald E. Army did one of these after [[spoiler:killing Spy]].
* DramaticIrony: Wade was forced to perform a mercy kill on J.D. by giving him a morphine overdose. His ''SavingPrivateRyan'' namesake was also involved in a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BX0sYXFJwhA very similar scene]], except ''he'' was the one who was fatally wounded.
** A group of Dino Attack agents stationed in Antarctica, after expressing worry about the riots in the refugee facilities, heard the sound of thunder and thought nothing of it. The thunder was the result of [[KnightsKingdom2 Vladek]] trying to get the attention of the Antarctica refugees so Greybeard could end the riots.
** After [[spoiler:Amanda's death]], Frozeen, Greybeard, and Sam Race were listening to the comm chatter and heard someone say that [[spoiler:Rex was down, but heard nothing about Amanda]]. They incorrectly deduced that [[spoiler:Amanda survived and Rex was killed]].
** In Scott's interview of Dr. Cyborg, Dr. Cyborg wanted Contest to know that he was alright. Readers would know that Contest [[spoiler:perished in the final battle]].
* DramaticThunder: A Type 3 variant, {{foreshadowing}} the final battle.
* DreamingOfThingsToCome: Oddly [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] with Andrew, who had dreams about being mutated and yet ultimately managed to overcome them. However, it is more or less played straight with Zachary.
** Actually played straight subtley, in regards to comments in his dreams about [[PeripheryDemographic taking interest]] in [[MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic small, oddly-colored horses]]...
* DressingAsTheEnemy: An infiltration squad, as well as Zachary, dressed up as XERRD scientists and guards while sneaking through the XERRD Fortress.
* DrillSergeantNasty: Ronald E. Army and Carl Lutsky.
* DrillTank: Ogel Drilling Vehicles and [[LEGOPowerMiners Thunder Drillers]].
* TheDriver: Montoya. In the flashback it's implied he is the designated driver for the team (although the others seemed to be capable of driving when neccessary), as he is the one entrusted with driving a stolen Dact Corporation truck to the headquarters of Mindstorms, Inc. (and later making it look like a nasty roadside accident), and later goes on to become the getaway driver during the less than successful heist.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Aster Oid and Aravis.
** Literally done with Libo, and subsequently [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Shadow.
** [[spoiler:Naomi Carver]] in the [[LEGODino Dino 2012]] teaser.
* DrowningMySorrows: Athena Fabello after the death of Isacc Fabello.
** Grisbarba L. Pirata after the violent break-up with "Bad Luck" Beatrice.
* DrunkenMaster: Greybeard and Demoman.
* TheDrunkenSailor: Given the nature of where they're from, the various {{pirates}} on the team are all known to enjoy drinking bottles of rum.
* DualBoss: Zach's fight against both Michelle Glados and Carolyne Provencal in the Maelstrom Temple.
** Dr. Rex and Cyrista's Bane could be seen as Dual Bosses of the final battle.
* DualWielding: Kareem Nazareno, Zelda Frodongan, and Blaire Darkling wield two katanas each. [[LEGOAdventurers Señor Palomar]] wielded two pistols during the Maelstrom Temple battle.
* DudeWheresMyRespect: [[{{Pyromaniac}} Andrew Jackson]] felt this way during the final battle. After helping the Dino Attack Team retake LEGOIsland and Gold City, he is rewarded by his teammates telling him to shut up and put some clothes on. Given that he was running around in his underwear and shouting loudly into the radio, [[SweetPollyOliver while his daughter was posing as him]] so no one recognized him as agent Pyro, the lack of respect ''was'' justified, though.
* DumbMuscle: Heavy.
* DyingMomentOfAwesome: With his dying breaths, [[spoiler:Trouble killed Michelle Glados, and in doing so saved Rex's life and avenged his own death as well as Amanda's.]] A surefire awesome way for [[spoiler:the beloved Mutant Lizard]] to go.
** DefiantToTheEnd: [[spoiler:Adventure's]] last words were a big "''[[PardonMyKlingon ZNAP]] YOU!''" to [[SNKBoss Dr. Rex]].
** HeroicSacrifice: Tracer, who allowed his entire Creative Spark to be used as Maelstrom antidote after having been fatally shot by Zelda Frodongan.
*** Mur allowed himself to be killed by the Dino Attack Team so Cranky could finally be defeated.
*** [[spoiler:Frank Einstein]] sacrificed his life so that his Creative Spark could empower the Imagination orb and defeat [[spoiler:[[LEGOUniverse the Darkitect]]]].
*** [[spoiler:Adventure]] sacrificed himself to buy Rex and others enough time to escape [[SNKBoss Dr. Rex]].
*** Libo performed one to save General, Shock, and Sam Throramebi.
*** [[spoiler:Semick and Swerve/Septimus]] each performed one to hold off [[SNKBoss Dr. Rex]] from reaching the headquarters.
*** [[spoiler:Rex]] sacrificed himself to let his team use his Creative Spark to power the Einstein Device.
*** HeroicSuicide: Rev Raptor, to avoid [[InTheBlood turning out like his father]].
*** YouShallNotPass: Libo, who destroyed the [[ClassicLEGOCastle Stone Tower Bridge]] (while still standing on it) to prevent the Mutant Dinos from following his friends.
* DyingDeclarationOfLove: [[spoiler:Nazareno]] gave one to [[spoiler:Zelda]] in his final moments.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: It can seem strange reading Atton Rand's early posts, which at best were a rough summary of what was happening, full of contrived coincidences and artistic license in medicine (with his characters repeatedly suffering absurd injuries and recovering quickly) along with his three characters- Zenna, [[LEGORockRaiders Axle]], and Elizabeth- compared to his numerous [=NPCs=] now. Also his depiction in the LEGOIsland arc of a very clear cut "[[{{Demonization}} realists are evil]]" ideology is noticeably different from his more recent posts, which are more morally gray and tend to be somewhat grounded in reality whenever possible.
** Hoo boy. Just read some of [=PeabodySam=]'s early posts and try not to get weirded out. Most notably, the whole plot twist about a Mutant T-Rex being disguised as a Minifig. No wonder he later {{retcon}}ned so much of it.
*** Also, it's amusing to mention that, compared to how much DarkerAndEdgier the RPG currently is, many of [=PeabodySam=]'s early posts were very... childish. For example, the harshest insult that Fogel could come up with for Amanda Claw is "[[BigStupidDoodooHead Mrs. Dumb-Mouth]]".[[note]]Although, given that "dumb" has multiple meanings, this could have potentially been a somewhat-clever insult... if that was how [=PeabodySam=] originally intended it.[[/note]]
** Heck, just read the early Dino Attack RPG in general. Minifigs turning into [[{{Bionicle}} Toa]]? A villain from ''SonicTheHedgehog''? Rahaga in [[{{LEGO Exo-Force}} Exo-Force Mechs]]? EarlyInstallmentWeirdness indeed.
** Not exempt from some of the later posts. Andrew's "dark conciousness", anybody?
* EarnYourHappyEnding: Just about every characters went through the death of loved ones, injuries, loss, hopelessness, and more before finally defeating [[spoiler:[[LEGOUniverse Baron Typhonus]]]] and ending the Dino Attack war.
* EarthIsABattlefield: Mutant Dinos have destroyed most of the world with the exception of Antarctica, and even then an invasion was attempted, although some of the damage has been repaired recently.
** Noteworthy though is that battles are rarely shown to take place in any locations outside those exclusive to LEGO Canon. One wonders of the untold adventures of Dino Attack fighting in Tokyo, New York, London, Belgium, Billund...
* EinsteinHair: Frank Einstein, [[CaptainObvious but what did you expect?]]
* ElegantWeaponForAMoreCivilizedAge: Solomon views katanas this way but will not hesitate to use a gun when necessary.
* EldritchAbomination: The [[LEGOUniverse Maelstrom]] as depicted in the RPG would make H.P. Lovecraft proud.
** [[WordOfGod Atton Rand]] has actually joked about introducing a plot thread in which it turns out that the Eldritch Abominations written by Lovecraft such as Cthulu, Yog-Sothoth, ect. were all based on Stromlings.
* EldritchLocation: The Torn World.
** The Maelstrom Temple, to a degree.
* ElectricTorture: The torture of Little Bot in Villains Headquarters.
* EliteMooks: Minifig/Mutant Lizard Hybrids.
* EmperorScientist: [[BigBad Dr. Rex]], [[LEGOAgents Dr. Inferno]], and (to an extent) Zed Provhezor.
* Emphasize Everything: Blaire Darkling intentionally speaks like this, often emphasizing random words with little relevence.
* EndingMemorialService: One of the last events to take place on Adventurers' island was the memorial for [[spoiler:Dust]].
** And then at the end of the RPG, funerals were held for [[spoiler:Nazareno, Athena and Oswald Fabello, and Winston and Mathias Grendelwulf.]]
*** Additionally, Frozeen and Shannon were making plans for [[spoiler:Rex, Amanda, and]] Roger's memorial services.
* EnemyMine: [[LEGOAlphaTeam Evil Ogel]], [[KnightsKingdom2 Lord Vladek]], [[LEGOAdventurers Lord Sinister]], and [[LEGOIsland the Brickster]] allied with the Dino Attack Team to ensure the defeat of XERRD.
** A slightly less intense version occurred after the mutant dinos had overrun the team's camp on Adventurers' Island. A group made up of three men who fled into the jungle turned out to be Rotor (who at the time had gained a significant amount of distrust after court-martialling and trying to execute an agent), George (the man who Rotor had tried to have executed), and Commander Johnson (the man sent to apprehend Rotor for his attempt to execute George), and they now had to work together after getting lost. Of course the tension was lowered once they were joined by Lance and Cabin.
** Clint Wayne and Angel Eyes were old rivals in Gold City before teaming up in the Dino Attack.
* EnforcedMethodActing: In-universe example. Trigger initially did not tell Carrie that the gun he had pressed to her head was loaded with blanks because he wanted a genuine reaction. Later he relented and just asked Carrie to play along.
* TheEngineer: [[CaptainObvious Engineer.]]
* EnsembleCast: The Dino Attack RPG has no single main protagonist.
** RotatingProtagonist: Every post in Dino Attack RPG shifts the perspective to another character, especially since players are not allowed to post twice in a row due to BZPower forum rules.
*** It can even happen in just one post. Many players in the RPG have a number of NPC's besides their main character, and a single post will often shift between the perspectives of different characters. For instance, Atton Rand's post frequently switched between the point of view of Rotor, Pierce, Cabin, Kate, and occasionally Clint Wayne.
* EnsignNewbie: Carl Lutsky.
* EurekaMoment: When Frozeen said that he was ''shocked'' by the news of Ogel's ([[ActuallyADoombot apparent]]) demise, Rex realized that [[ShockAndAwe electricity]] was [[AttackItsWeakPoint key to defeating Dr. Rex]].
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: [[AvertedTrope Averted]] with Oswald Fabello, who absolutely hates his mother for what she did to him and his siblings. [[spoiler:After losing all hope and realizing there is nothing left to lose, he shot and killed her.]]
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Although he has not shown true affection towards Kate, Wallace Bishop went out of his way to ensure that Dr. Strangebrick did not harm her. [[spoiler:Of course, given what we later learn about [[ReverseMole "Wallace Bishop"]], this trope isn't actually played as straight as it first seemed.]]
** Dr. Strangebrick was very close to his daughter Jenny, seeing as he personally tutored her in the ways of science and had a close friendship with her as his lab assistant.
** Though Oswald is extremely conflicted, half of him wanted to save his sister from being killed by Mutant Dinos by having her join XERRD.
** Despite all that he went through, Dr. Rex still had BigBrotherInstinct towards Katerina Schattenberg, even up until the final battle. [[spoiler:However, between Katerina renouncing him and [[TheManBehindTheMan Baron Typhonus]] goading him, the absolute obliteration of his Big Brother Instinct is what absolutely left Dr. Rex past the point of redemption.]]
* EverybodyIsSingle: For the most part, everyone was single upon joining the Dino Attack Team. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] with Helm, who has a wife and son; Spy, who had a wife and multiple children; and Wright and Shiller, who were dating prior to the Dino Attack. Also Sarah Bishop and Elizabeth Winsor ''had'' been in relationships prior.
* EveryoneIsRelated: Katerina Schattenberg is the aunt of Cane and the biological sister of Dr. Rex, who switched bodies with Rex, who is the brother of Chompy, who is the offspring of the alpha female T-Rex and was adopted by Frozeen, who was created by the Brickster and is the adopted son of Dr. Zachary Abody, who used to work with Dr. Rex and General, who is Evil Ogel's brother... ''[[YiddishAsASecondLanguage Oy vey]]''.
* EveryoneIsASuspect: They did say that ''anyone ''could be TheMole, and it's notable to say that Specs and Amanda Claw were both top suspects for a time.
* EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether: Dr. Rex, Zachary Abody, and General; Dr. Cyborg, Catless, Charon, and Crystal; Frozeen and Gromtin; and Hotwire and Shiller.
* EverythingSoundsMenacingInGerman: Probably the reason why [[MadDoctor Medic]] and [[EvilGenius Zed Provhezor]] have stereotypical East European [[FunetikAksent Funetik Aksents]], why one unnamed XERRD scientist [[GratuitousGerman only speaks German]], and why the surnames Schattenberg and Dunkelheit are German-based.
* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: The very premise of the RPG.
* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: Kiddy and the army of Stromling Monkeys.
* EverythingsBetterWithSamurai: ''Quasifigus lacertilia'' and Pterisa wear samurai armor, while Solomon Koplowitz is actually a samurai.
* EverythingsDeaderWithZombies: [[LEGOUniverse Stromlings]].
* EverythingsSatiatingWithSandwiches: Heavy [[TrademarkFavoriteFood really likes sandwiches]].
* EvilCanNotComprehendGood: While Dust was not evil, he could not understand the selflessness exhibited by the rest of the team.
* EvilCounterpart: Rex and Dr. Rex.
** Before the [[EnemyMine villain alliance]], Frozeen and General Evil.
* EvilCripple: Zed Provhezor.
* EvilEvolves: An InformedAbility of Mutant Lizards is their ability to adapt, making it difficult to defeat Mutant Lizards with the same battle strategy twice. Additionally, various breeds of Mutant Dinosaurs adapted to the cold arctic climate of Antarctica.
* EvilGenius: Of all the XERRD scientists, Zed Provhezor probably best fits this trope.
* EvilIsHammy: Stromling!Zach. Even called out by Andrew.
* EvilIsNotAToy: [[SarcasmMode Go ahead, Dr. Rex. Just inject yourself with trace amounts of a dark and malicious force known to destroy the universe. It's most certainly not going to come back to bite you...]]
** [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] at the last minute by Andrew abruptly having second thoughts on being able to use the Maelstrom for his own purposes.
* EvilKnockoff: [=ShadowTech=]'s vehicles are the same as Dino Attack's, only painted black.
* EvilLaugh: Stromling!Zach. [[LEGOAlphaTeam Evil Ogel]] and [[spoiler:[[LEGOUniverse the Darkitect]]]] also seem to enjoy this to some extent.
* EvilMakesYouUgly: [[IWasQuiteALooker General used to look handsome.]] Then he became General Evil and got his skin burned off...
* EvilOldFolks: [[OlderThanTheyLook Dr. Rex, who is eighty years old despite his looks.]] General Evil and presumably [[LEGOAlphaTeam Evil Ogel]] also count, at least before the [[EnemyMine villains' alliance]].
* EvilPoacher: Scratch, [[LEGOAdventurers Rudo Villano, and Mr. Cunningham]].
* EvilRedhead: Carolyne Provencal and Paulie Gonepus.
** Inverted with Stromling Zach. Although redhaired as a minifig (and his minifig disguise), [[PurpleIsTheNewBlack his hair is purple as a Stromling]].
* EvilSoundsDeep: [[LEGOAdventurers Lord Sam Sinister]], [[LEGOAlphaTeam Evil Ogel]], and [[spoiler:[[LEGOUniverse the Darkitect]]]].
* EvilVersusEvil: The Villains versus XERRD.
** XERRD versus [[LEGOUniverse the Maelstrom]].
** [=ShadowTech=] versus [[LEGOUniverse the Maelstrom]].
** EvilVersusOblivion: Pretty much the justification for the above cases of EvilVersusEvil. For example, [[LEGOAlphaTeam Ogel]] wishes to rule the world, while [[spoiler:[[LEGOUniverse Baron Typhonus]] seeks to destroy it through XERRD]], prompting Ogel to ally with Dino Attack Team to help defeat the Maelstrom.
* TheEvilsOfFreeWill: [[LEGOAlphaTeam Evil Ogel]] and General Evil's primary justification for being evil.
* ExploringTheEvilLair: Kate, Dust, and Zachary all made efforts to explore the XERRD fortress on their own (although the former had no real choice in the matter). Kate and Zachary were captured and Dust was discovered snooping around by Minerva.
** On two separate occasions in two separate XERRD establishments, Rex and Amanda Claw were part of groups that Explored the Evil Lair.
* {{Expy}}: General Evil is, more or less, a fused {{Expy}} of [[StarWars General Grievous]] and [[ABugsLife Hopper]].
** A mad, brilliant inventor in control of an airship, an army of robots, and a water monster powered by seven emeralds who later betrays him? Well, when you put it like that, Kotua certainly seems like an {{Expy}} of [[SonicTheHedgehog Dr. Eggman]].
** In a time when Amanda Claw's personality was still severely underdeveloped, she nearly became an {{Expy}} of Dino Attack RPG's only female primary character at the time, Dromus. How so? Her weapon of choice, a chain whip, was blatantly stolen from Dromus. However, especially following the revelation of her backstory, Amanda's DivergentCharacterEvolution led to her dropping the chain whip and picking up the knife, helping to distance her from Dromus as well as most other characters.
** Talia Kaahs can be seen as an {{Expy}} of [[StarWars Shaak Ti]], especially when one considers the popular Crack Pairing of Shaak Ti and General Grievous.
** Although Greybeard is not really based upon any particular character, he does act as an {{Expy}} of [[PiratesOfTheCaribbean Captain Hector Barbossa]] in certain scenes, especially during Rex and Amanda's WartimeWedding.
** [=PeabodySam=]'s characterization of Specs is essentially an {{Expy}} of [[{{Fringe}} Colonel Philip Broyles]].
** Toa Antrakha did this twice to his characters who were turned into villains. While enslaved by [[LEGOAgents Dr. Inferno]], Spino was an {{Expy}} of Duskmon from ''DigimonFrontier''. As Enox Phorm, Raptor became an Expy of the titular creatures from ''{{Alien}}''.
** Much of Atton Rand's cast that does not consist of [[CaptainErsatz Captain Ersatzes]] often consists of [[{{Expy}} Expies]] of movie characters, though many of them manage to break off enough from their inspirations to become seperate individuals. Frank Bowman is loosely inspired by [[TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey Dave Bowman]]. Cam O'Cozy started as an Expy of Major "King" Kong from the movie ''[[DrStrangelove Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb]]'' and ended as an Expy of Ash from ''{{Alien}}'', while Dr. Strangebrick is an Expy of the titular character of ''Dr. Strangelove''. Barry Jackson and Giovanni Wade were loosely inspired by characters in ''SavingPrivateRyan''. The staff of Outpost 4 drew inspiration from characters in ''TheThing''. Rotor drew inspiration from Lt. Colonel Kilgore from ''ApocalypseNow'', and Lance also drew inspiration from the same movie (his last name was changed to Williams, rather than Johnson as in the film, to seperate him from the movie), Pierce is an expy of the main character from ''{{MASH}}''. Cabin's appearance drew some inspiration from Michelle Rodriguez in ''{{Avatar}}'', and Trigger was a loose expy of James Woods' performance in ''JohnCarpentersVampires''.
*** Firecracker is an interesting case. While he was based on a character from the obscure spaghetti Western ''DuckYouSucker'', his depiction isn't so much based on the actual movie's depiction of him as a guilt-ridden ex-terrorist as it is the humorous depictions of him in Atton Rand's {{Downfall}} Parodies, where he is shown to be a trigger-happy maniac who loves seeing things explode and has made it his life's ambition to blow up Hitler for reasons unknown.
*** Stromling!Palmer is basically an {{Expy}} of Stromling!Zach and Stromling!Ahua, created to fill the gap by the former's HeelFaceTurn and the latter's death.
** Silencia Venomosa and Bricassius are [[{{Expy}} Expies]] of O-Ren Ishii and the crime boss who killed her parents from ''KillBill''.
** As a friendly raptor partner who follows Demoman around, See the "prototype" Mutant Raptor was developed into an Expy of Rappy from the ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhKW66JLwiY Rappy "n" Demo]]'' series.
* EyeBeams: Mutant T-Rexes have laser vision.
* EyeScream: Greybeard lost all vision in his right eye due to a Mutant Raptor attack. Holly Vinyaya's own right eye was clawed at by an acid-dipped Mutant Raptor claw.
** [[LEGOUniverse The Maelstrom]] entered General's G.E. Body through the eyeholes in his helmet, [[InvokedTrope invoking]] this trope.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: WordOfGod says that this is how Roger Remous died at the hooks of Fssinister, which has considerably helped Amanda Claw accept his death.
** [[spoiler:Adventure]] willingly and eagerly performed a HeroicSacrifice to buy Rex and others enough time to escape.
** [[spoiler:Semick's]] death might be one of the most dignified deaths in the entire RPG.
* FaceHeelTurn: Oswald Fabello and Raptor did this when they joined XERRD.
** Zachary also preformed a FaceHeelTurn against his will.
* FaceYourFears: [[spoiler:[[LEGOUniverse The Darkitect]] brought Dino Attack Team's worst fears to life and forced them to fight.]]
* TheFaceless: Spy always wears a mask in public, even getting married to Mrs. Rutherford.
** Specs too, [[TheUnreveal including (for the reader, anyways) when he is actually unmasked]]!
* FacelessGoons: When Quasifigus Hybrids wear their helmets.
* FailedaSpotCheck: French Fries was briefly seen casually talking to Zenna in the Dino Attack Headquarters... apparently completely oblivious to the fact that members of both the idealist and realist sides of the team are inside trying to kill each other, and for that matter the entire conflict that ''he'' unintentionally caused.
** When Firecracker tried to pull that TakingYouWithMe stunt, he failed to notice that only a small fraction of the Mutant Dino army was actually inside the building at that point.
* FailureHero: Just look at Rex in the events following Dr. Rex's apparent defeat.
* FailureKnight: Libo bears several qualities of a FailureKnight. Due to hubris, his entire organization was decimated by Ogel's forces, forcing Libo to advocate for a replacement organization ([[LEGOAlphaTeam Alpha Team]]). As Little Bot, he worked from behind-the-scenes in Ogel's bases to ensure that Alpha Team would succeed where his own organization had failed.
* FairPlayWhodunnit: [[TheMole XERRD's mole]], while not too obvious, can be figured out by paying attention to minor details and allowing oneself to distrust anyone. In fact, it was such Fair Play that [=PeabodySam=] had to go out of his way to put less emphasis on the real mole and instead focus on [[RedHerringMole Red Herrings]].
* Fallen Hero: Kotua, Spino, Raptor, Zachary Virchaus, and Oswald Fabello, to name a few examples.
* FalseGunshot: This happened at least once while the mutant dinos were invading the Dino Attack Camp on Adventurers' Island. Of course it probably felt like this for everyone in the camp when Rotor suddenly arrived with a T-1 Typhoon and began gunning the dinos from above.
* FamousLastWords: Considering all the deaths in Dino Attack RPG, this is ''not'' going to be a complete list, but here's a few examples:
** You've... grown up... Uncle Wallace would have been... so... proud." [[spoiler:Frank Einstein]]
** "''Hey, Dr. Rex! I've got a message for you! ZNAP YOU!''" [[spoiler:Adventure]]
** "Mom...? Dad...? Alfred...? Roger...? Is... is that really you...? I have... I have waited... so long... to see you... again..." [[spoiler:Amanda Claw]]
** "Goodbye." [[spoiler:Rex]]
** "[[DisappearedDad Your father]]... would be proud..." [[spoiler:General]]
* FanDisservice: [[{{Pyromaniac}} Andrew Jackson]], who is dirty, sweaty, pale, and unshaven to begin with, was apparently running through the battlefield ''in his underwear''. BrainBleach now, please.
* FantasticRacism: The extremists of the idealist-realist bordered on this trope, attacking anyone with opposing views.
** Non-mutated dinosaurs always refer to Mutant Dinos as "abominations".
** Minifigs display Fantastic Racism towards Quasifigus Hybrids. Andrew helping Pterisa integrate into Minifig society are him trying to get people to avert this.
* FascinatingEyebrow: Many characters express confusion or amusement with the raise of an eyebrow.
* FateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler:[[TragicVillain Dr. Rex]] was unable to die due to [[TheManBehindTheMan Baron Typhonus's]] DivineIntervention. However, he was still on the brink of death and suffering terrible agony and pain from his wounds and the Maelstrom, compounded with the knowledge that he was the Darkitect's plaything all along.]] It's not hard to feel a little pity for him in this state.
* AFatherToHisMen: With some exceptions, many of the elite agents are like this.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Carolyne Provencal can be downright terrifying... when she's acting sweet and polite.
** While not evil, per se, Amanda Claw was able to infuriate Trigger by smiling sweetly at him.
** [[spoiler:[[LEGOUniverse Baron Typhonus]]]] carried a kind demeanor when speaking. Until you infuriated him...
* FictionalCountry: LEGOLAND and Barron.
* FinalBattle: Dino Attack Team fought one against [[FinalBoss Dr. Rex]] and his Mutant Dino forces in LEGO City.
* FinalBoss: Dr. Rex.
* FinalSolution: An extremely rare example in that it's actually somewhat justified. The whole point of the Dino Attack Team was to eliminate the threat of mutant dinosaurs, namely by destroying them.
** A much more brutal case occurred with Cam O'Cozy, whose plan seemed to involve complete genocide against everyone in the team with the slightest idealistic views. It turned out that his target was actually the ''entire'' Dino Attack team, and he simply taken advantage of an already intense rivalry between two sides by manipulating the more aggressive one into violence, hoping that a significant number of both would die in the resulting civil war. Of course the whole thing was planned by Dr. Rex, who in addition to programming Cam O'Cozy used the [[LEGOUniverse Maelstrom]] to corrupt Digger's mind.
* FireBreathingDiner: ''Never'' eat super-spicy-tongue-melting-jail-cell-door-opening-hot pizza unless you're Aravis, Helmie, or from LEGO Island.
* FireBreathingWeapon: The weapon of choice of [[{{Pyromaniac}} Pyro]], [[SweetPollyOliver A.J. Orange]], [[ActionMom Sarah Bishop]], and now Rex.
* FireForgedFriends: While most of the Dino Attack Team is a BandOfBrothers, there are others who would be classified as FireForgedFriends, such as [[NobleMaleRoguishMale Greybeard and Frozeen]], since they would likely have never gotten along if it were not for the Dino Attack.
** The entire Second Headquarters Squad appears to get along very well with each other, but Soldier and Demoman notably began friends [[AWizardDidIt after they worked together to defend a small castle from an angry wizard's dragon.]]
** Hotwire and Kat, though admittedly they did have some sort of platonic chemistry from the moment they met.
** There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and saving someone's life on mutliple occations like Andrew has for Zach is one of them.
* FiveBadBand:
** Using prominent characters involved in XERRD
*** [[BigBad The Big Bad]]: Dr. Rex
*** TheDragon: Michelle Glados
*** [[EvilGenius The Evil Genius]]: Zed Provhezor and Walter Breen
*** TheBrute: Blaire Darkling, Oswald Fabello, and [[spoiler:Attila Huntsman]]
*** [[DarkChick The Dark Chick]]: Carolyne Provencal and Paulie Gonepus
*** SixthRanger: Raul
*** SixthRangerTraitor: Matthew Cyrista, Soloman Koplowitz, and Dr. Strangebrick
*** [[spoiler:TheManBehindTheMan: [[LEGOUniverse Baron Typhonus]]]]
** The Maelstrom's forces on Adventurers' Island
*** [[BigBad The Big Bad]]: [[spoiler:Baron Typhonus]]
*** [[CoDragons The Co Dragons]]: Zachary Virchaus and Ahua
*** [[EvilGenius The Evil Genius]]: Palmer
*** TheBrute: Colonel
*** [[DarkChick The Dark Chick]]: Zelda Frodongan
*** SixthRanger: Loop
*** TeamPet: Cranky and Kiddy
* FiveManBand:
** Using only At War's End primary characters:
*** TheLeader: Rex, Andrew, Reptile, or Zachary Virchaus
*** TheLancer: Fullmetal, Hotwire, or B
*** TheBigGuy: Peter Walter
*** TheSmartGuy: Dust, Hertz, Doctor Cyborg or David Norman
*** TheChick: Zenna
*** SixthRanger: Kuru
** Using only Medics:
*** TheLeader: Pierce
*** TheLancer: Wade
*** TheBigGuy: Medic and Marco Martinet
*** TheSmartGuy: Crusher
*** TheChick: Carver
*** SixthRanger: Copper, Shaw, and possibly Hale.
** Using only that guy from that show's characters:
*** TheLeader: Dust
*** TheLancer: Lutsky
*** TheBigGuy: Pharisee
*** TheSmartGuy: Hertz
*** TheChick: Naomi
*** SixthRanger: Solomon
*** [[{{Mentors}} The Mentor]]: Dr. Saran
** Using only Atton Rand's initial party on Adventurers' Island
*** TheLeader: Zenna
*** TheLancer: Pierce
*** TheSmartGuy: Kate
*** SixthRanger: George Brown
** Using Atton Rand's characters in the LEGO Island Arc
*** TheLeader: Zenna
*** TheLancer: Elizabeth
*** TheSmartGuy: Pierce or Frank Bowman
*** TheBigGuy: Cam O'Cozy at first.
*** Using Atton Rand's characters early during his time in the RPG:
*** TheLeader: Zenna
*** TheLancer: Elizabeth
*** TheSmartGuy: Axle (yes, ''[[LEGORockRaiders that]]'' Axle)
** Using only the non-Second Headquarters Squad agents present in Gold City:
*** TheLeader: Clint Wayne
*** TheLancer: Angel Eyes (though he somewhat took on the leader role later on)
*** TheBigGuy: Firecracker
*** TheSmartGuy: Maria
*** SixthRanger: Harmonica
** Using [=PeabodySam=]'s main cast:
*** TheLeader: Rex
*** TheLancer: Greybeard
*** TheSmartGuy: Frozeen
*** TheBigGuy: Chompy or General
*** TheChick: Amanda Claw
*** SixthRanger: Sam Throramebi or Sam Race
** Using Brikman [=McStudz=]'s main cast:
*** TheLeader: Zachary Virchaus
*** TheLancer: Minerva Fabello
*** TheBigGuy: Holly Vinyaya
*** [[{{Mentors}} The Mentor]]: Kareem Nazareno
*** SixthRanger: Zelda Frodongan
** Using Andrewnuva199's main cast:
*** TheLeader: Semick (also doubles as [[{{Mentors}} The Mentor]])
*** TheLancer: Raider/Stranger
*** TheSmartGuy: Bluetooth/Andrew
*** SixthRanger: Laxus
* {{Flanderization}}: A minor note in the [[LEGOIsland LEGO Island Comic Adventures]] stated that the Brickster wished to be as evil as [[LEGOAlphaTeam Evil Ogel]]. In Dino Attack RPG, the Brickster has been Flanderized to the point of being Ogel's self-proclaimed #1 fanboy.
** Especially in Atton Rand and imperial officer's posts, [[LEGOIsland Enter and Return]] have been Flanderized to the point that the ''only'' jokes they are capable of are variations of their "stretcher, megaphone, shark, tree, umbrella, and mailbox" sketch. In some other peoples' posts, their humor extends a little farther (for example, in one of [=PeabodySam=]'s posts, they were arguing about the color of their shirts), but for the most part, we only hear jokes about bringing a shark.
** A minor note on Heavy's profile on [[TheWikiRule the wiki]] stated that he opened a [[EverythingsSatiatingWithSandwiches sandwich]] shop after being discharged from the army. He also got into a food debate with other Dino Attack agents and argued that sandwiches were the best food. Apparently, Atton Rand took these two minor notes about sandwiches and blew them completely out of proportion, to the point where sandwiches overshadowed everything else about Heavy when he appeared in Atton Rand's posts.
** Happens to minor extents for characters certain players aren't quite familiar with. One post between Digger and Solomon Flanderizes Digger's status and agendas with the rest of the team based on somewhat outdated information, protraying him as feeling mistrusted by the other Founding Members and wanting to collaborate with Solomon in secret to more effectively cure Mutant Dinos and not have to kill them all to ensure victory.
** In the [[CanonDiscontinuity non-canon]] scene where [[LEGOIsland Papa Brickolini]] was arrested by the Nick Brick, the Brickolinis were Flanderized ''heavily''. In the original games, the Brickolinis spoke with a light Italian accent and accidentally freed the Brickster twice (and the second time, they were GenreSavvy enough to try to prevent it from happening again). In this scene, the Brickolinis' Italian accents were turned UpToEleven, and the two chefs were depicted as completely oblivious as they incompetently freed the Brickster again and again over the years by constantly sending super-spicy pizzas to the jail, even after what happened the first two times.
* FlippingTheTable: After hearing his sister's name from his interrogator, Oswald Fabello flew into a rage and flipped over a table trying to reach the interrogator, Zach.
* TheFlorenceNightingaleEffect: Pierce apparently got close to a young Sarah Bishop while taking care of her injuries following an accident. Interestingly, they later rekindled their old romance when they met again, but their places switched, with Sarah now taking care of Pierce's injuries. It's also heavily implied that the former case is how Kate was born.
* FluffyTamer: Rex.
* {{Foil}}: Rotor, the aggressive commander who tries to think realistically and practically, putting his own personal morals aside and embracing the dark side of the war makes him the perfect {{foil}} for Zenna, the kind and compassionate idealist who thinks things through and puts her friends above all else. It's interesting to even note the two different fates of the characters, Zenna ended up paralyzed in one arm and with every bone in her body broken, while Rotor's so far made through most of the war without a scratch.
** Lance. the good-natured but trigger-happy rookie is a {{foil}} to Kate, the inexperienced rookie who has trouble adjusting to her surroundings.
** When they work together, the cranky, pessimistic, and down-to-earth Greybeard is often a {{Foil}} to the idealistic and romantic Rex.
** When Atton Rand started planning his new primary character, he intentionally tried to make the exact opposite of Zenna. She is a woman, the new character's a man. Zenna was a kind and compassionate idealist, the new guy is a cold, selfish realist. Zenna actually cared for the good of her planet and the cause of the team, he doesn't give a [[PardonMyKlingon znap]] and is only in it for the money. The result was the character of Trigger, whom he found a lot more enjoyable.
*** Interestingly, in the flashback, Montoya arguably serves as a {{foil}} to Trigger/Schiess. Whereas Schiess is professional and practical, Montoya is probably the most moral of the group. While Schiess is simply in it for the money Montoya is actually trying to provide for his girlfriend who he seems to genuinely love and is only involved with crime due to financial problems. For that matter, Montoya was the first person out of the lot who objected when Scorsese refused to pay a waitress's tip. Also Montoya was probably the one person who did the least illegal things out of them all, given that he's simply the driver.
*** Montgonel was partially intended as a {{foil}} for Pharisee. Where Pharisee is very "preachy" acting as though he has divine rights to justice, Montgonel is more calm and professional, preferring to follow protocol. Montgonel also thinks more in shades of grey, unlike Pharisee's perceptions of black and white morality. Finally, where Pharisee judges based soley on the crime itself, Montgonel looks more into the details, i.e. motives, background, ect. so while he probably would have nothing against capturing an agent like say... Snake, who was an unrepenetent criminal already charged with bank robbery who had attempted to desert, he would be a bit more lenient toward Montoya, a family man who attempted to kill the woman responsible for killing five of his partners.
*** An unintentional example, as the two were created by entirely different people, comes from looking at the two semi-religious characters of Shaw and Pharisee. Shaw is a good person and capable doctor, but she is left shy and somewhat insecure in her beliefs, simply finding comfort in her faith. Meanwhile, Pharisee uses his faith to give his life meaning, believing that the world is black and white, and it is his divine right to impart justice on others.
* ForDoomTheBellTolls: Played with. While no actual bells are tolling, the sound of thunder before the final battle sounded suspiciously like church bells ringing, according to the prose.
** [[http://youtu.be/nbUN2OWSeyg Anyone Can Die]], the soundtrack for a scene that takes place in the final battle, makes appropriate use of the Clock Tower bell from ''TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask''.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Dust's nightmare way back at Outpost 108.
** There were a few hints towards [[spoiler:both Frank Einstein and Wallace Bishop]] being the ReverseMole. [[spoiler:Frank Einstein's biography revealed that he was personally sent by [[LEGOUniverse Albert Overbuild and Vanda Darkflame]] to spy on XERRD, while Wallace Bishop's [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes relationship to Kate Bishop]] made him seem like prime HeelFaceTurn material, not to mention that Dino Attack's Reverse Mole delivered messages in a ''[[LawOfConservationOfDetail bishop]]''.]]
** Greybeard's RousingSpeech in Antarctica was intended as a "preview" of Greybeard's speech before the final battle.
** Andrew mentioning that he felt, in spite of being about to face Stromling!Zach in a duel, that all would be well by Christmas when they would partcipate in an island-wide celebration. Cue Andrewnuva199's final posts nearly two years later...
** [[spoiler:Amanda's death and Rex's HeroicSacrifice]] were both heavily foreshadowed in Greybeard's flashback/dream sequence.
** As Rex was mourning [[spoiler:illusion!]]Amanda's death in the Maelstrom Temple, Stranger's Mutant Lizard arrived to protect him from [[spoiler:illusion!]]Kotua. Although this was [[WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants Written by the Seat of Your Pants]], it served as perfect {{foreshadowing}} towards the scene in which Rex was [[spoiler:mourning Amanda's actual death in the final battle, and Trouble arrived to protect him from Michelle Glados.]]
* {{Forgiveness}}: Greybeard finally forgave Beatrice just before he died in ''[[WhatIf December 21, 2010]]''.
** Minerva Fabello finally forgave her mother, Athena, after she [[spoiler:[[DeathEqualsRedemption was fatally wounded by Oswald.]]]]
* ForegoneConclusion: As of November 2005, Dino Attack RPG had a ForegoneConclusion in that Dino Attack Team ''had'' to win the war.
** Trigger himself outright stated that Silencia killed five of his six partners at Mindstorms, Inc. Given that we actually see Trigger trying to call Montoya, it becomes clear that it doesn't end well for Orange, Scorsese, Verbal, Keaton, or Deniro.
*** Due to Silencia Venomosa's threat to Michelle Glados, it's obvious that the flashback won't end well for Uærlig Sindstorme or Edward Korrupte either.
* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: When he tried to appeal to [[LEGOAdventurers Lord Sinister]], [[spoiler:[[LEGOUniverse the Darkitect]] appeared as Baron Typhonus. Only after Lord Sinister rejected his proposal did the Darkitect reveal his true form.]]
* FourIsDeath: that guy from that show likes to use the number four and Lutsky drew the four of clubs in Dust's card trick. Imaginary Dust explained that the four of clubs is one of the most ominous cards becuse it is sometimes called "the devil's bedstead".
* FourLinesAllWaiting: Every player writes from a different character's perspective, resulting in various interconnected plot threads.
** The Adventurers' Island campaign alone was made up of at least 30 different stories. Aside from the actual mission at hand, there was Zach's corruption, Kate's efforts to fit in with the rest of the team, her gradual relationship with Pierce, Rex's quest to form an alliance with the dinosaurs, Rotor's relationship with the rest of the team, and Minerva's efforts to save Zach.
** Similarily, the previous story arc had not one, not two, but ''three ''different plots going on. Much focus was on the LEGOIsland mission, but it wasn't long before we were jumping back and forth between the agents in the Torn World, the mission in Antarctica, the refugee riots, Zenna's exposure of the Antarctica mission and ensuing chaos, an entire civil war going on as the result of a genocidal maniac wanting to murder anyone with the slightest idealistic beliefs, the comic relief provided by Enter and Return, Zenna's working relationship with Pierce in the hospital, and Hotwire and B gallivanting off to find Kat after Cane returned and captured her.
** Some of Atton Rand's more recent posts have played this in a more straight forward fashion, shifting between the actual mission though occasionally switching between different individuals involved, Pierce's arrival in Antarctica and his meeting with Sarah Bishop, and the humorous shenanigans of Clint Wayne, Angel Eyes, and the Second Headquarters Squad.
* FreudianExcuse: Dust never knew his mother and his father was an [[AlcoholicParent alcoholic]] and [[WouldHurtAChild abusive]].
** Similarly, Michelle Glados's mother died in childbirth, her father was often drunk and abusive, [[FriendlessBackground and she grew up without any friends]].
** Dr. Rex was separated from his sister at a very early age, scarring the young boy for life.
* FrickinLaserBeams: Mutant T-Rexes have [[EyeBeams laser vision]].
* FriendOrFoe: Lutsky's infiltration squad unwittingly massacred a group of Dino Attack Agents disguised as XERRD personnel.
** Sometime afterword, a half-asleep Lance was keeping watch with a machine gun on hand, and panicked when he saw two "Stromlings", and opened fire. Turned out he was actually shooting at Kate and Clint Wayne.
** Poor Clark, shot through the head because Palmer tricked his teammates into thinking he was a Stromling.
* FriendlessBackground: Kate seems to have experienced this during her childhood.
** Michelle Glados literally had no friends, which ultimately led to her becoming a bitter loner.
** Before joining [[LEGOAlphaTeam Alpha Team]], Frozeen had very few friends.
** Dust never did nor has any desire to have friends. Likely becuse of the emotional barrers he has placed around himslef
* FriendlyEnemy: This was roughly the relationship between Angel Eyes and Clint Wayne before the war- the two roughest, toughest gunslingers in town, and the only ones stand a chance against each other- and part of why they're able to work together when they're both assigned to Gold City.
* FriendlySniper: Barry Jackson A.K.A. Shotgun. He's quite a likeable guy... just don't give him any reason to target you.
* FriendlyTarget: Keith Empson.
* FromBadToWorse: The events following [[spoiler:Baron Typhonus's DivineIntervention]] in a nutshell.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: Dr. Ronald Alexander was just an ordinary scientist who grew up in the Great Depression. He would one day become [[BigBad Dr. Rex]], the monstrous and maddened Mutant T-Rex who leads the Maelstrom's forces in the apocalypse itself.
** Amanda Remous was only a young and innocent girl when her parents were murdered. She would later become one of the most infamous assassins in LEGOLAND.
** Zachary Virchaus was just an average LEGOIsland civilian. When he was corrupted into a Stromling, he became one of the most dangerous (and [[EvilIsHammy hammiest]]) generals serving the Maelstrom.
* FunWithAcronyms: XERRD and D.I.N.O. Attack.
* FunetikAksent: Spy, Heavy, Medic, and Zed Provhezor have varying levels of a stereotypical East European Funetik Aksent. Spy's accent pronounces "th" as "z", Heavy's accent pronounces "w" as "v", Medic's accent combines Spy and Heavy's accents and pronounces "s" as "z" and "f" as "v", and Zed Provhezor's accent is Medic's accent plus replacing "c" with "k". Additionally, Heavy drops his articles, while Medic and Provhezor use a few German words such as "und" and "ja". The sentence "Yes, I was at the car dealership the other day and purchased a Volkswagen, but then I crashed it and it caught on fire" would be pronounced the following ways:
** Spy: "Yes, I was at ze car dealership ze ozer day and purchased a Volkswagen, but zen I crashed it and it caught on fire."
** Heavy: "Yes, I vas at car dealership other day and purchased Volksvagen, but then I crashed it and it caught on fire."
** Medic: "Ja, I vaz at ze car dealership ze ozer day und purchazed a Volkzvagen, but zen I crashed it und it caught of vire."
** Provhezor: "Ja, I vaz at ze kar dealership ze ozer day und purchazed a Volkzvagen, but zen I krashed it und it kaught on vire."
* GDayMate: Hunter 2000, Adventure, Sniper, and other Australian characters tend to talk like this.
* GatlingGood: Heavy's specialty. Minerva ended up using one after her Fire Hammer was downed by Oswald.
* GenderNeutralWriting: In the Maelstrom Temple, to reflect the ignorance of his characters, [=PeabodySam=] refrained from identifying Pterisa's gender. Amusingly, although [=PeabodySam=] struggled to play the trope straight, Brikman [=McStudz=] simply averted the trope by using "her" right off the bat.
* GeneralRipper: Ronald E. Army used to be one of these ([[SarcasmBlind or so he thought]]), and Rotor comes dangerously close.
* GeniusBruiser: Blaire Darkling is said to be this.
* GeniusCripple: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted.]] Shannon Grimton is a biomedical engineer and technology expert, but she learned all this before breaking both her legs in the Dino Attack and being confined to a wheelchair, so her Genius is unrelated to her Cripple.
* GenreSavvy: Evil Ogel appears quite aware that Rex has an uncanny ability to survive.
** Amanda Claw, when it comes to disposing of bodies.
** Rex, Reptile, and other characters have mused that XERRD seems to follow nearly every villain cliche, right down to HerrDoktor.
** Anybody from LEGOIsland, apparently. Stranger too, to a lesser extent.
* GenreShift: Granted it's very hard to determine exactly what genre this would be, but different writers lean toward different angles. While it could be consistently classified as a war story, Between That Guy and Atton Rand it comes closer to science fiction of varying degrees of hardness, with efforts to keep things semi-grounded in reality; whereas Andrewnuva treats it more like fantasy. Many of Atton Rand's later posts could almost border on cosmic horror on a potentially Lovecraftian scale, while Andrewnuva199's still opted for the relatively lighthearted tone of the source material.
* GentlemanAndAScholar: Doctor Solomon Koplowitz.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: In fiction, swearing is good because it conveys strong emotion. On [[{{BZPower}} BZPower]], swearing is not good and is censored. The solution? [[PardonMyKlingon Take non-offensive terms and use them as cusswords.]]
** For a LEGO RPG on the family-friendly website [[BZPower BZPower]], Dino Attack RPG ''does'' contain (some subtle, others not-so-subtle) references to sex, drugs, and alcohol.
** In the Maelstrom Temple, Henderson had an OhCrap moment when he realized that "Kate" was actually a Stromling. What happens when you combine a LastSecondWordSwap with an order to fire? "Holy... ''Shoot''!"
** In one of Ronald E. Army's nonsensical rants, [[UrineTrouble what exactly stained the white flag so it turned yellow?]]
** When Solomon and Trigger are arguing, an amused Shiller asks if he sould get a ruler. It could be a juvenile measure of who is taller, [[BiggerIsBetterInBed but it could also be a measure of something else]]...
** On the eve of the final battle, Wright and Shiller decided that there was some "[[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything weird business]]" they needed to take care of.
** Generally, BZPower frowns on religious discussion (which is understandable due to it being a family-friendly website). Shaw and Pharisee are both characters who are in a way religious or spiritual. It helps somewhat that Atton Rand and That Guy From that Show, their respective players, are generally vague on exactly ''what religion'' they are (Pharisee quotes the Bible, but it's never actually been said that he ''is'' Christian or that he believes in God- likewise Shaw wears a cross, but her prayers are never described in detail, and it is partially hinted that while she believes in faith, she is undecided on what faith to believe in).
** After the initial [[HideYourLesbians controversy]] over the notion of [[SweetPollyOliver Andrea Jackson]] being gay, Atton Rand initially opted to continue to include those elements, but to downplay them and keep them as subtle as possible (starting with Maria and Andrea holding hands, references to Andrea's old spouse "[[GenderBlenderName Sam]]", and a brief moment in which it was heavily implied they had been engaging in intercourse, but Maria tried to cover it up). Later on once the disputes were settled he was able to get more explicit with their relationship.
** [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything Holly Vinyaya and Zelda Frodongan were probably not betting on when Zach and Minerva would go see some landmark on LEGOIsland...]]
* GiantSquid: The Octosaur and Mutant Vinscale Octomus.
* TheGhost: In a humorous shout-out to ''TheUsualSuspects'', there have been a few passing references to "Keyser Soze", a crime boss (one who Pierce believed to be a myth). Given the film actually treats Soze as a mythical figure (an in the process makes him even more terrifying), a Keyser Soze CaptainErsatz does not appear in the RPG.
* GhostCity: LEGOCity was initially this, although it is been somewhat repaired and some of the population is back. However, it is still played with [[LEGORacers Sandy Bay]] and other cities occasionally visited.
* GhostTown: Gold City.
* GhostPlanet: This was pretty much the state of the LEGO Planet in ''[[WhatIf December 21, 2010]]''.
* GladiatorGames: GAIA Squad was forced to partake in these.
* TheGlassesComeOff: Inverted; Frank Einstein's Wham Line came as the result of him putting ''on'' the glasses.
* GoMadFromTheIsolation: Ben Gunn.
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: Oswald Fabello finally snapped upon realizing that [[spoiler:[[LEGOUniverse Baron Typhonus]]]] was truly alive.
* GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler:Amanda and Trouble. Adventure too, according to WordOfGod.]]
* GodzillaThreshold: The [[InstantWinCondition Einstein Device]] is reserved for only this sort of occasion.
* GoingToGiveItMoreEnergy: The Overloader's function.
* GondorCallsForAid: Chompy sought the aid of the dinosaurs and [=TumTum=] tribesmen during the battle for the Pharaoh's Forbidden Ruins.
** Dino Attack Team asked [[LEGOAlphaTeam Alpha Team]] for aid during the final battle.
* GoneHorriblyRight: XERRD intended to make Rex act like a Minifig. They succeeded... a little too well.
* GoodIsNotNice: Trigger.
** Commander Pharisee, Head of Internal Affairs.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: Greybeard has a cool scar over his eye, while General received some nasty burns as General Evil. [[EvilPoacher Scratch]] also has multiple scars on his face, primarily from his work with [[LEGOAdventurers Sam Sinister]].
** Talia Kaahs received some nasty scars across her face, harshly averting BeautyIsNeverTarnished.
* GoodShepherd: Shaw seems to have some elements of this.
* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: Smoking usually designates that a character is either a {{badass}} or a {{jerkass}}.
** CigarChomper: Bricassius, Clint, Snake, and Trigger.
** DistinguishedGentlemansPipe: Angel Eyes.
* GoshDangItToHeck: Although characters PardonMyKlingon most of the time nowadays, sometimes they resort to this. Usually more common earlier on in the RPG's lifetime.
* GratuitousGerman: Kuru met an unnamed XERRD scientist who only spoke German.
** Zed Provhezor and Medic will throw in some German (usually "ja" and "und") into their English speech.
* GratuitousSpanish: Señor Palomar will throw in some Spanish into his English speech.
* GrayingMorality: Many of Atton Rand's earlier posts started off as standard black-and-white morality, with the kind and compassionate Zenna with her loyal friends against definitely evil characters. When the idealist-realist feud broke out, he specifically portrayed the idealists as good and the realists as downright evil. During the Adventurers' Island campaign meanwhile, he introduced Rotor, the agressive and outright brutal realist as a good guy
* GreatWhiteHunter: Sniper and Adventure both have traits of this trope, especially in their pre-Dino Attack lives.
* GreenEyedMonster: Dr. Rex, whose first true act of evil was kidnapping Talia Kaahs on her wedding day out of jealousy.
* TheGrimReaper: The spirit from Greybeard's dream. To a much lesser extent, Frozeen as The Phantom.
* TheGrotesque: Pterisa.
* GunTwirling: Clint Wayne enjoys doing this from time to time.
* TheGunslinger: Clint Wayne and Angel Eyes.
* GutturalGrowler: Dr. Rex in his Mutant T-Rex form.
* GuysSmashGirlsShoot: Zachary Virchaus used a knife while Minerva Fabello used a gun in the Maelstrom Temple. Zig-Zagged later on during the fight with Blaire Darkling; Minerva and Holly shot, Zach alternated between shooting and smashing, and Zelda smashed.
* HairTriggerTemper: Clint Wayne once nearly shot Cabin because of this.
* HalfHumanHybrid: The Quasifigus Hybrids.
** Landro, Stealth, and, briefly, Databoard also count.
* HalloweenEpisode: One of [=PeabodySam=]'s posts, written on October 31, 2010, was intended as a Halloween Episode as it prominently featured [[EverythingsDeaderWithZombies Stromlings]] and Skeleton Mummies.
* HandWave: How did XERRD fit a Mutant T-Rex, [[{{LEGO}} LEGO's]] largest non-Creator dinosaur, in a disguise the size of a Minifig? Some sort of shrinking serum that reacts with oxygen. But, if you think that's bad, [=PeabodySam=]'s original explanation was [[AssPull even worse]]: XERRD just somehow ''stuffed'' Rex into that disguise really, really well.
** How did [[LEGORockRaiders Axle]] suddenly end up at Eldorado Fortress? Teleporter malfunction.
* HandicappedBadass: Rex.
* HangingJudge: Rotor's already pretty aggressive on the battlefield. If you want the defendant to live, you should keep him out of the court room. French Fries, too.
* HannibalLecture: Dust is a master of this trope.
* HardboiledDetective: Bogart.
* HasTwoMommies: A non-homosexual example; Minerva was raised by her two older brothers for the better part of eight years before Tod died.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Pharisee
* HeadsOrTails: It has been [[WordOfGod confirmed]] that [[spoiler:Nazareno's death]] was decided based on the flip of a coin.
* HesBack: Rex after recovering from his HeroicBSOD during the FinalBattle. [[ItsPersonal And he's back... with a vengeance!]]
* TheHeart: Zenna, Rex, and Pierce.
* TheHeartless: Stromlings.
* HeartwarmingOrphan: Kate, though she's technically not an orphan seeing as her mother is still alive and well, but she still experienced a rough childhood, never knew her own father, and lost the only other close relative at a young age.
* HeelFaceTurn: Of the five villains allied with Dino Attack Team, General is the only one who performed a HeelFaceTurn.
** Dr. Strangebrick and Dr. Cyborg have arguably performed heel face turns seeing as they are both former XERRD scientists now working with the Dino Attack team.
** In a very Darth Vader-esque example, not only does Minerva’s suffering force Zach to change his ways but overthrow the big boss and save the girl.
** XERRD itself pulled a HeelFaceTurn in the final battle, seeing the error of their ways and join the Dino Attack Team in stopping the Mutant Dinos.
* HeelRaceTurn: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] by the Quasifigus Hybrids. They appear to have switched sides twice during the war: first a HeelFaceTurn, then a FaceHeelTurn. However, they never actually were on Dino Attack Team's side; they were working for XERRD the whole time, and their Heel Face Turn was just a ploy and thus there was no real Face Heel Turn.
* HeelRealization: What ultimately led to [[TheAtoner General's]] HeelFaceTurn. Rex also had a Heel Realization in the form of a TomatoInTheMirror. Garry also had a turn of sorts, when he started to feel bad about his role in torturing Jenny.
** Dust had his HeelRealization at the last possible moment. While he stood atop the steps of the temple, he came to the sudden realization he was a jerk. [[spoiler:Sadly, he was shot moments later.]]
** Many members of XERRD, including Blaire Darkling, William Lee, Robert Nicholas, and Alvin Gadd, began to realize that their so-called destiny to repopulate the planet with dinosaurs was nothing more than [[spoiler:a plot by [[OmnicidalManiac Baron Typhonus]] to destroy the LEGO Planet]]. As a result, Blaire Darkling had XERRD align itself with the Dino Attack Team to fix its mistakes.
** Oswald Fabello had one upon realizing [[spoiler:Baron Typhonus was alive and had manipulated the entire Dino Attack]].
** It's debatable, but after nearly being killed by a High-Voltage Half-Track, [[BigBad Dr. Rex]] might have had one. Rex, at least, was trying to invoke this trope by drawing out Dr. Rex's death long enough for him to reflect upon all the pain and suffering that he caused when he created the Dino Attack. It's also worth noting that Dr. Rex did not want to continue the fight when he was [[spoiler:[[DemonicPossession possessed by the Darkitect]] and [[ObiWanMoment allowed himself to be killed]] by the Einstein Device, though how much of this was affected by a HeelRealization versus affected by being a DeathSeeker is unknown.]]
* HellishCopter: The T-1 Typhoon used by Rex, Hotwire, and Zyra to travel to the [[UndergroundLevel Goo Caverns]] was probably the least safe method of traveling to Ogel's Island imaginable.
** And then there's the ''Talon'' after it became Maelstrom-infected...
* TheHermit: Ben Gunn.
* TheHeroDies: [[spoiler:Rex.]]
* HeroKiller: General Evil, prior to his HeelFaceTurn.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: Many of the recurring [=NPCs=] who are off on their own adventures when they are not in the spotlight.
* HeroicBSOD: The goal of [[spoiler:[[FaceYourFears the Darkitect's illusions.]]]] He succeeded in giving Rex, Katerina, Minerva, and Hotwire Heroic [=BSODs=], although the effects did not last as long as he had hoped.
** Andrew hit a minor BSOD upon realizing fully that LEGOIsland, his hometown whose salvation was a major factor in him signing up for the team, had vanished into the Torn World.
** Pterisa suffered a massive HeroicBSOD once [[spoiler:the Darkitect]] revealed her identity to the Dino Attack Team. One moment, she was confident and stoic. Her Heroic BSOD left her extremely fragile and insecure.
** Sam Race crashed hard after he [[spoiler:failed to save his father]].
** Rex was suffering a massive HeroicBSOD after the deaths of [[spoiler:Amanda and Trouble]].
** Minerva suffered a minor HeroicBSOD after [[spoiler:Athena's death]]. She then entered another one after [[spoiler:killing Oswald]], only forcing herself out of it after [[spoiler:being goaded by the Darkitect into keep fighting and to avenge her fallen family.]]
** Kate had one for a while but recovered enough to help in the final battle. However, the aftereffects of said Heroic BSOD include PTSD.
* HeroicComedicSociopath: The entire Second Headquarters Squad in one form or another, but Heavy is probably the worst. Of course, it should hardly come as a surprise given [[Videogame/TeamFortress2 their inspiration]].
* HeroicSafeMode: Rex is prone to this. The results range from rescuing Dr. Einstein from a Mutant Raptor while using only rope to beating a Mutant Lizard to death with a metal pipe after it threatened Amanda Claw.
** Frozeen also has his own Hero Safe Mode which results in [[UnstoppableRage Unstoppable Rages]].
* HeroicSecondWind: [[spoiler:Trouble's]] HeroicSecondWind is probably the most notable, since he [[spoiler:got up from being mortally wounded, withstood being shot several more times, and was able to kill Michelle Glados with his dying breaths.]]
* HeroicWillpower: Amanda Claw is the only known individual to have been infected with Mutant Dino serum and fought off the mental effects through sheer willpower alone. [[{{Animorphism}} It still transformed her into a Mutant T-Rex, though.]]
** Pterisa had enough mental willpower to break free of the Maelstrom's control and Dr. Rex's enslavement.
** ADO Captain Yena reversed Maelstrom infection with nothing but his own mind.
* HerrDoktor: Frank Einstein.
** While they are not actually German, Medic and Zed Provhezor hail from Barron, which is essentially a stereotypical {{expy}} of Germany.
* HesitationEqualsDishonesty: Every time. For instance, when Rex was bluffing about Dr. Rex [[BlatantLies being a distant relative]], he took very long pauses between his words.
* HiddenHeartOfGold: Cabin may be a tough pilot under normal circumstances, but she is still the only agent to have gained any sense of trust from a captured XERRD teenager, and has since gone out of her way to ensure that both XERRD prisoners are given fair treatment.
* HideYourLesbians: Before ([[SweetPollyOliver the imposter]]) Pyro's [[SamusIsAGirl gender reveal]], Pyro's wiki page stated that he had a wife and kids. When Pyro was revealed to actually be a woman, this made Pyro the Dino Attack RPG's first explicitly homosexual character. However, as [[ExecutiveMeddling not everyone was not happy with this revelation and wanted Pyro to remain heterosexual]], [=PeabodySam=] changed Pyro's biography from "wife and kids" to a more generic "family" to avoid any further controversies. This, of course, may give rise to certain UnfortunateImplications...
** Ultimately averted when Andrea Jackson Orange and Maria shared a kiss.
* HijackedByGanon: [[spoiler:[[LEGOUniverse Baron Typhonus]] did not actually appear until the last few months of this seven-year-long RPG. In that time, he revealed himself to be TheManBehindTheMan and ultimately [[DemonicPossession took control of Dr. Rex's body]].]] [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by the comm chatter in the FinalBattle.
* HiredGuns: Trigger. He isn't really an agent so much as a mercenary who's willing to fight with them because he was offered money.
** Also in the past, Silencia Venemosa, as well as Trigger's colleagues Montoya, Deniro, Orange, and Keaton.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Two examples by [[BigBad Dr. Rex]] in the FinalBattle. First, he wore armor fashioned from silge metal, which is [[MadeOfIndestructium completely invincible]]... but, like all metal, [[AttackItsWeakPoint is a high electrical conductor]], allowing Adventure to deal a particularly-excruciating almost-death blow upon Dr. Rex with his [[ShockAndAwe High-Voltage Half-Track]]. Then, [[spoiler:the Maelstrom experiments he performed plus his self-induced Mutant Dino mutation allowed [[TheManBehindTheMan the Darkitect]] to [[DemonicPossession take control of his body]], giving him a FateWorseThanDeath.]]
* HoldingHands: Considering the amount of love stories in the seven-year-old RPG, it would be too impractical to list every time this happened.
** Everyone held hands and calmly accepted their fate in ''[[WhatIf December 21, 2010]]''.
* HolierThanThou: Pharisee. [[AvertedTrope Averted]] by Shaw, who despite being religious is still a reasonably likeable person who mainly uses her spirituality as a means of comfort.
* HollywoodHeartAttack: Possibly averted. Norris's heart attack happened off-screen.
** Rex's chest pains, although slightly justified in that it's not actually a normal heart attack and actually a side effect of [[spoiler:[[YourDaysAreNumbered the Maelstrom poisoning his body]]]].
* HollywoodNerd: Hertz is a type 2.
* {{Hologram}}: The messages contained within the chess pieces from [[spoiler:[[ReverseMole Frank Einstein]]]].
* HolyHitman: Pharisee.
* HospitalHottie: Naomi Carver.
* HostageSituation: Done numerous times to poor Kate Bishop in the Maelstrom, first by Rotor and then by Walter Breen. In Rotor's case, it would have failed to work, because [[YouWouldntShootMe shooting Kate would have prompted Wallace Bishop to shoot Rotor]]; Walter Breen, on the other hand, was using Kate as a HumanShield.
* HotMom: Sarah Bishop.
** Played with by Athena Fabello. While her physical appearance is never really elaborated on, Zach sees Athena as attractive because of her resemblance to Minerva.
* HotScientist: Dr. Provencal and Crusher.
* HumanShield: Stromling!Zachary used Holly Vinyaya as one, and Kate Bishop became Walter Breen's Human Shield as part of his HostageSituation. Blaire Darkling later used Zachary as one.
* HumansAreBastards / RousseauWasRight: Dust's philosophy for most of his life.
* TheHunter: Scratch.
* HuntingTheMostDangerousGame: [[TheMostDangerousGame The Trope Namer]] was referenced by Stromling Zachary as he prepared to hunt down Frozeen and Greybeard.
* HypocriticalHumour: Zed Provhezor mockingly told [[HandicappedBadass Rex]] a variation of the SorryBillyButYouJustDontHaveLegs trope. [[EvilCripple Look who's talking]]...
** Rotor talking to [[BoxedCrook Snake]] about how absurd it is that they let unrependant criminals into the team in exchange for pardons... lampshaded when Rotor cuts himself off upon remembering that ''he himself'' is a war criminal guilty of attempted murder and torturing a ''child''.
* ICannotSelfTerminate: In the original version of Rev Raptor's Heroic Suicide, he asked Banchicto to do the deed. However, since Banchicto was {{retcon}}ned into CanonDiscontinuity in order to work with modern RPG canon, this trope might no longer apply.
* IDieFree: [[spoiler:Trouble]].
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: As a child, Kate never really had any close friends aside from her mother. She still has trouble getting along with the rest of the team, although she has recently started to form a bond with Pierce.
* IKnowWhatYouFear: Type 3 example with [[spoiler:[[LEGOUniverse Baron Typhonus]]]].
* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: Andrew tries this before fighting Stromling Zach during Mutant Dino attack in the camp. It was later used by both Minerva and Andrew while fighting Zach in the Temple of Hotep III.
* ILetGwenStacyDie: How Rex felt after the death of [[spoiler:Amanda Claw]].
* TheILoveYouStigma: In his senior year of high school, Frozeen made the mistake of finally confessing his love to Shannon Grimton... while she was already in a relationship with another man.
* IWasQuiteALooker: In his youth, General was considerably handsome. Assuming the recurring male figure in Ben Gunn's photographs is a younger version of himself, he was also handsome in his youth.
** [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] with Dr. Rex and Katerina Schattenberg, [[OlderThanTheyLook who are ''still'' (to a degree) lookers]].
* ImDyingPleaseTakeMyMacGuffin: J.D., Tracer, [[spoiler:Frank Einstein]], and [[spoiler:Rex]], with the MacGuffin in question being their Creative Sparks which would be used to stop [[LEGOUniverse the Maelstrom]].
* ImNotAfraidOfYou: Said by Rex to Rotor during his speech about fear versus respect, to enforce the idea that Rex had greater authority than Rotor.
* ImmortalityBeginsAtTwenty: Dr. Rex began injecting himself with Jugend Serum when he was 27 years old. Kat appears to be in her mid-twenties.
* ImmortalityInducer: Jugend Serum for Dr. Rex, Kat for Katerina Schattenberg.
* ImmortalitySeeker: [[ItRunsInTheFamily One of the few qualities shared by Dr. Rex and Katerina Schattenberg]]; neither of them cared to suffer the ravages of age if they could avoid it.
* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: A whole Maelstrom Temple of XERRD Space Marauders and Sorcerers... and not one of them could hit Rex, Amanda, or Rotor. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Walter Breen.
* ImplacableMan: Between his [[MadeOfIndestructium silge armor]] and [[spoiler:Baron Typhonus's DivineIntervention]], [[SNKBoss Dr. Rex]] was essentially invincible during the FinalBattle.
* ImpossiblyDeliciousFood: Brickolini's pizza. [[DoesNotLikeSpam At least, for everyone not in the Bishop family.]]
* ImpostorExposingTest: In a ShoutOut to ''TheThing'', Copper proposed a test for identifying Stromlings that involved mixing their blood with uncontaminated blood. Unfortunately, in yet another shout-out to the same movie, Outpost 31's blood samples were sabotaged before the test could be implemented. Atton Rand toyed with using a similar method to the blood test that ultimately was used in the movie, but this never actually made it into the RPG.
* ImpoverishedPatrician: Dust realized he was one after researching his genealogy. He was descended from the kings of Egypt but was born to an alcoholic father and a drug addicted mother. Both were horrible and pathetic people and dishonored the family name. When Dust left, the knowledge of his royal heritage was all he had.
* ImprobableAge: Dust became a respected archeologist at the Cairo museum at age 20.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: Silencia Venomosa was able to throw a switchblade at a fleeing Keaton and successfully land it in his spine.
* InMediasRes: Dino Attack RPG begins anywhere from a week to a month after the Dino Attack officially started in April 2010. At this point, Mutant Dinos are already widespread and Rex is already an Elite Agent.
* InTheBlood: According to WordOfGod, this trope was heavily involved in Frozeen's relationship with Baron von Brickthief and decision to go into hiding and become The Phantom.
** Rev Raptor was afraid that this trope would cause him to follow in the footsteps of his father Landro, so he committed [[HeroicSuicide suicide]] to prevent this from happening.
* InTheHood: Anyone wearing a BlackCloak.
* InYourNatureToDestroyYourselves: The fate of Mutant Dinosaurs in ''[[WhatIf December 21, 2010]]''.
* IndyEscape: [[LEGOAdventurers Sam Sinister's]] squad had to escape a rolling boulder.
** Much earlier in the RPG, Rex rolled a boulder after Phantom's [[LEGOAlphaTeam Blizzard Blaster]].
* InescapableNet: In his days as a FluffyTamer, Rex had dozens of Inescapable Nets.
** [=ShadowTech=] used Inescapable Nets quite often... which is why several [=ShadowTech=] agents were stumped that Rex managed to escape from one of them.
* InferredHolocaust: The initial Dino Attack itself. Mutant Dinosaurs appeared all over the world, often times without any warning, in highly-populated areas. Sure, [[LEGOAlphaTeam Alpha Team]] managed to evacuate populations to Antarctica, but some refugee facilities in Antarctica cannot hold an entire planet's population. [[FridgeHorror Fridge Horrifically]], that means much of the world population either died in the initial invasion or never made it to Antarctica in time.
** For that matter, it is possible that some people did make it to Antarctica, but for one reason or another weren't able to get into the refugee facilities, and ended up freezing to death.
* TheInfiltration: Perhaps thanks to its Alpha Team: Mission Deep Freeze RPG predecessor, Dino Attack RPG reeks of this trope. Examples of Infiltrations include Dr. Rex planting Rex in the Dino Attack Team (which led to Rex BecomingTheMask), XERRD planting TheMole in Dino Attack Team, Dino Attack Team planting a ReverseMole in XERRD, and the infiltration squads DressingAsTheEnemy while sneaking about the XERRD Fortress.
* InformalEulogy: Doctor Cybrog's informal but heartfelt Eulogy of Dust which was carved into the wall of the temple of Hotep III.
->Inside these walls lies Gahiji "Dust" Thutmose.
->May the temple he was
->devoted to in life,
->Become his resting place
->in death.
->He acted like a [[{{Jerkass}} jerk]],
->but seemed to be changing
->[[DeathEqualsRedemption when he died]].
* InformedAttribute: Sometimes, the way a character is depicted is not exactly how the character is described.
** InformedAbility: Rex is incredibly skilled with ropes, [[ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything even though he only uses ropes about three or four times the entire RPG]]. Aster Oid, Greybeard, Sam Race, King Joseph Race, and Sir Robert Batrick are apparently skilled racers, but we've only really seen Sam Race behind the wheel. Many other examples exist. Mostly, these are ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything.
*** Mutant Lizards (and by extension, ''Quasifigus lacteriilia'') are said to be adaptable, never falling for the same trick twice. This really has not been displayed much in Dino Attack RPG, though. Although, numerous times in the final battle, it was mentioned that Greybeard and Frozeen had to occasionally switch tactics to keep the Mutant Lizards from adapting.
*** Kat, who is supposedly an expert in security systems, has never demonstrated this beyond escaping a pair of handcuffs.
*** Hertz is said to be an expert in cryptology and [[CunningLinguist linguistics]] but has never exhibited this skill.
*** Trigger is described as cold and logical, but all of his actions so far have shown him to be hotheaded and almost entirely ruled by emotion.
*** Trigger was hired by Dino Attack Team for his driving skills... and we've ''never'' seen him behind the wheel.
** InformedFlaw: Frozeen's Asperger's syndrome, which, despite the character's eight-year-long literary history, never really presented itself until the last few months when Gromtin was introduced.
** [[InformedJudaism Informed Islam]]: WordOfGod says Dust is Muslum, however there is no evidence that he follows the faith since he comes off as a skeptic and drinks liquor. Given his background, a rational explanation would be that he is of Islamic descent, and maybe grew up learning Islamic culture, but Dust himself is not very religious and so does not follow the all of standard traditions.
** InformedJudaism: WordOfGod says that Frank Einstein is Jewish. Given his [[AlbertEinstein namesake]], this shouldn't be ''too'' much of a surprise.
*** Dr. Solomon Koplowitz is also Jewish.
** InformedLoner: Despite Voltage, Kai, Hammer, Magma, and Reptile being Informed Loners, they all ended up working closely with other Dino Attack agents.
* InnocentBystander: Trigger's flashback contained a few unfortunate bystanders who happened to be in the way of his illegal job. Of particular note is the unnamed truck driver that was murdered when his cargo was hijacked (though that was self-defense, as he did try to pull a gun), Edward Korrupte's secretary Ursula Bennett who was shot during the heist, and even Dust became one briefly.
** According to Amanda, one of the reasons that the Korrupte assassination is so infamous is because it apparently involved the deaths of many Innocent Bystanders.
* InnocuouslyImportantEpisode: The scene in which Rex learned that Frank Einstein was no longer working in the Dino Attack Hospital Wing, which ultimately set into motion the events leading up to [[spoiler:the reveal of the ReverseMole]].
* InsaneAdmiral: French Fries.
* InsaneEqualsViolent: Andrew Jackson.
* InsaneTrollLogic: French Fries claimed he chose his codename because "It's a codename so stupid it'll be the last codename anyone expects".
* InsanityImmunity: Whenever Frozeen goes insane, his mind is essentially shielded.
* InspectorJavert: Pharisee had a few traits of this during the mole hunt, especially when he was convinced that Silencia Venomosa was behind the murders.
* InstantAwesomeJustAddDragons: Valencia and the Maelstrom Dragons.
* InstantAwesomeJustAddMecha: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] by the [[DorkAge infamous]] {{BIONICLE}} [[XMeetsY Meets]] [[{{LEGOExo-Force}} Exo-Force]] RPG incident.
* InstantAwesomeJustAddNinja: Kareem Nazareno and Clarke Deadworth.
* InstantEmergencyResponse: Justified in most instances. J.D.'s murder recieved a quick response because it was ''inside'' the medical tent, right in front of at least three Doctors. The sudden death of Engineer arguably recieved similar, as did Medic.
** Turned UpToEleven in a non-justified example that is probably considered non-canon is that Amanda's body was brought in by the medical department... ''before her body was even retrieved''. Atton Rand admitted to somehow missing that crucial fact.
* InstantWinCondition: The Einstein Device had (and used) the ability to wipe out practically the entire Mutant Dino army without turning LEGOCity into a nuclear fallout zone. Because of this, [=PeabodySam=] went to great measures to make sure that preparing the Einstein Device required teamwork and cooperation from other players, and during the FinalBattle against [[FinalBoss Dr. Rex]], the Einstein Device could only be fired when Viper had a clear shot at Dr. Rex from aboard the ''Amanda''.
* IntellectualAnimal: Most dinosaurs.
* IntelligenceEqualsIsolation: Hertz was like this before he joined the Dino Attack Team, but he developed more social skills since working with them.
* IntendedAudienceReaction: Atton Rand feels repulsed by Andrewnuva199's illustration of Pterisa, which was the exact impression that [=PeabodySam=] wanted [[TheGrotesque Pterisa's appearance]] to invoke.
** Brikman [=McStudz=]'s pity for [[TragicVillain Dr. Rex]], understanding that he is a [[spoiler:tragic pawn of the Maelstrom]], was the intended reaction [=PeabodySam=] was hoping for.
* IntentionalEngrish: A few [[ShoutOut Shout Outs]] in the comm chatter.
* InterspeciesFriendship: So much of this apparently exists between Minifigs and dinosaurs. There's also the partnerships of Andrew, Pterisa, and Laxus, Stromling Zach and Cranky, and Raptor and Valencia.
* InterspeciesRomance: [[AvertedTrope Averted]]. When Rex and Amanda realized that they were not of the same species, they dropped their relationship. On the other hand, after a freak accident that permanently turned Rex into a Minifig, their relationship was free to continue.
** Played straight by Andrew and Pterisa, ultimately.
* ItCanThink: Jones, Wilkes, and Henderson had a debate regarding how sentient the [[LEGOUniverse Maelstrom]] could be, with Jones believing that ItCanThink. [[spoiler:Jones was right.]]
* ItRunsInTheFamily: Both Kate and Sarah Bishop are [[DoesNotLikeSpam disgusted by the taste of Brickolini's pizza]].
** The Alexander family has an aversion to aging, which is one of the few things that Dr. Rex and Katerina Schattenberg have in common.
* ItsASmallWorldAfterAll: In less than a year, Rex has met some of the biggest names in the LEGO Universe.
** Somehow Barry Jackson keeps bumping into old army buddies by chance. On Adventurers' Island alone there was Wade, Garry, and Teri.
** In a flashback intended to develop the relationship between Trigger and Amanda Claw, many other major characters from the Dino Attack made appearances, including Gahiji Thutmose, Kate Bishop, Sarah Bishop, Minerva Fabello, and Walter Breen.
* ItsAWonderfulFailure: ''[[WhatIf December 21, 2010]]''.
* ItsGoingDown: Fort Legoredo.
** [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] by Dino Attack Headquarters. After Firecracker filled the building with explosives and detonated it, it seemed likely that it would collapse, but it withstood the explosions. Then, Mutant Dinos attacked the building, creating huge structural damage and setting the upper floors on fire. Still, as a symbol of what the Dino Attack Team stood for, when the smoke cleared, Dino Attack Headquarters was still standing. [[WhatCouldHaveBeen However, it's notable that, in earlier drafts of the final battle, PeabodySam actually intended for this trope to be Played Straight.]]
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Clint Wayne may initially seem ruthless and amoral, but he is still responsible for saving a large group of agents from being executed by Rotor and he did promise Pierce that he would ensure Kate's safety while the two of them were alone in the jungle.
** Greybeard can be a real jerk at times, such as when he mutinied against Rex and nearly killed Sauro-Hunter because he disagreed with their morals, but he does have a very soft spot in his heart, especially seen when he cares for Mary Rose.
** While Trigger seems to be pretty cold, his relationship with Snake and Carrie Enderson does seem to suggest that he is in fact capable of making friends.
* {{Jerkass}}: Dust, Lutsky, and Trigger.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Dust was right oh so many times.
* JudgeJuryAndExecutioner: This is why you should keep Rotor and French Fries out of the courtroom.
* JudgmentOfSolomon: After Rex attacks French Fries, Pharisee resolves to beat up French Fries himself so neither French Fries's supporters nor Rex's supporters would take offense, althought it would have made more sense to beat up Rex.
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: [[BigBad Dr. Rex]] always was losing his mental stability, but at a very slow rate. Through [[spoiler:[[TheManBehindTheMan the Darkitect's]] manipulation]] and the Dino Attack, he's really lost it in the past few months.
* JustAFleshWound: Played straight alot in the earlier RPG. Zenna once got her arm ''bitten by a Mutant T-Rex'' and recovered as though nothing happened. [[AvertedTrope Averted]] more recently, with both Rex and Zenna suffering permanent damage (the latter also very nearly ''bled to death'').
* JustAStupidAccent: Although [[HerrDoktor Medic and Zed Provhezor]] throw in some GratuitousGerman words every now and then, all they do is speak English with a very heavy accent; they are never seen speaking a full sentence in German.
** Similarly, [[LEGOAdventurers Señor Palomar]] is described as having a faint Spanish accent in the prose ([[InformedAttribute but never actually reflected in his dialogue]]) and a few GratuitousSpanish words thrown in. [[WhatCouldHaveBeen However, PeabodySam originally intended to subvert this by having Señor Palomar and Greybeard chat entirely in Spanish at one point, though this scene was ultimately never written.]]
* JustBeforeTheEnd: The RPG is about a world being destroyed by mutant dinosaurs, with the entire LEGO Planet's population being confined to cramped facilities in Antarctica, which were badly damaged in several riots. Granted, there is hope that the actual invasion will be stopped, but restoring society is easier said than done.
* JustFriends: Minerva claimed that she and Zach were this. However, it was apparent before and after her statement that their feelings for each other was beyond being "just friends".
** Averted with Kat and Hotwire, who ''actually are'' just friends. Given their behavior, plus Howire's rant to Shiller and Wright about how the word "just" devalues friendship by implying it is somehow less than romantic love, perhaps this is actually more of a subversion.
* KangarooCourt: Rotor's court-martial and French Fries's trial.
* KarmaHoudini: Rotor almost got punished for his court-martial, but got out due to things getting out of control. Otherwise he's also more or less gotten away scott-free with torturing a child while the Garry (who actually felt bad about it and tried to put a stop to it) ends up taking the blame.
* KatanasAreJustBetter: Despite Nazareno's status as a sci-fi ninja-type guy, he primarily uses two golden katanas to fight everything from cutting down fortress guards to ''shattering ''the skull of a Mutant Raptor. Enforced by Solomon Koplowitz and Zelda Frodongan.
** RuleOfCool is definitely at play here as well, given that real-life katanas -- while indeed incredibly sharp -- are not all that strong.
* KeystoneArmy: All Mutant Dinos have Maelstrom in their bodies. Imagination is Maelstrom's only known weakness. [[InstantWinCondition Meaning, if you have enough Imagination]]...
* KickTheDog: Rotor had a quite a few of these for a good guy. Among such moments are arresting an ''entire T-1 crew'' because the pilot disobeyed orders and then trying to have them all shot, ordering Kate (an innocent and inexperienced teenager) to enter a fortress filled with toxins on her own, and of course there is his habit of scaring his enemies by playing classical music.
* KillEmAll: ''[[WhatIf December 21, 2010]]'' ended with ''the entire world'' blowing up, and an explicit description saying that none of the six main characters survived. It's made more heartbreaking by the references to some of the most likable characters having died long before, meaning this small group of people were the only ones left.
** While it was established that Minifig life exists on other planets, the destruction of their home world and largest population would be harsh blow to Minifigkind and a major victory for the Maelstrom, which would have spread to the LEGO System and began destroying other worlds such as [[LifeOnMars Mars]] and [[LEGOSpace Ice Planet 2002]].
** Benton Kabrinsky's last post ended with [[spoiler:his entire cast dying in one swift blow]].
* KillItWithFire: [[{{Pyromaniac}} Pyro]], [[ActionMom Sarah Bishop]], [[SweetPollyOliver Andrea Jackson Orange]], and Rex.
* KillTheOnesYouLove: Wade knew that J.D.'s gunshot wound was fatal, and Pierce's efforts were only delaying the inevitable, leading him to intentionally give him a morphine overdose to keep him from standing the pain.
* KilledMidSentence: [[spoiler:Walter Breen.]]
* TheKirk: Rotor to some extent.
* KirkSummation: Clint Wayne's efforts to pursuade Rotor to end his court martial and release the captured agents.
* KnifeFight: Although not many knife fights have occurred, Dust fits the persona of a knife fighter rather well. Since a hero often gets a sword, the anti-hero is thematically forbidden to use such extravagant weapons. Hence, Dust preferred weapon is the knife. Dust actually does use a scimitar in the fight against the [[NeverSmileAtACrocodile Stromling Crocodile]].
** [[ColdSniper Sniper]] versus [[spoiler:TheMole Ata]]. Although Sniper's "knife" was a machete, [[spoiler:Ata]] won.
* KnifeNut: Dust, Spy, Silencia Venomosa, [[spoiler:[[TheMole Ata]]]], and Oswald Fabello
* KnightInSourArmor: Solomon fits this trope perfectly.
* KnightTemplar: Pharisee. He answers to no authority except his own, believes in BlackAndWhiteMorality [[BlackAndWhiteInsanity even in the face of demonstrable evidence to the contrary]], and is willing to murder anyone whom he sees as anything short of saintly.
* TheKnightsWhoSaySquee: Bart Helmutson was ''very'' happy to meet Junkbot in Antarctica.
* LackOfEmpathy: Pharisee's opinion is somewhat hypocritical, he feels no empathy toward the people he kills but on the other hand he uses their humanity to acknowledge the moral ambiguity of his actions. Well he understands that feeling empathy toward his targets is liability, he also knows he should accept it so he can punish himself for sins he commits. He feels empathy toward the victims but rarely those who he sees as unrighteous.
** Trigger seemed to not care about the man he killed [[spoiler:[[DeathEqualsEmotion until he died]]]].
** Dust seemed not to show empathy toward the people he killed and conned until the end when he had a HeelRealization.
* LadyMondegreen: In-universe; Semick once referred to Sam Throramebi as "Thornabi". In fact, Sam's bitterness about this suggests that people often mispronounce his last name.
** Also in-universe, Donnie couldn't remember [[HerrDoktor Dietrich Luzwheit's]] name. When he tried to tell Walter about it, he ended up saying "Ludwig" (a fairly common German first name, made famous by Ludwig Van Beethoven), "Luftwaffe" (the name given to the German air force during World War II) and "Luxan" (an alien species from the TV show ''{{Farscape}}'').
** Again in-universe, Greybeard mispronounced Anubis's name as "Arubis", subtly referencing a typo that [=PeabodySam=] made when first introducing the character.
* LadyOfBlackMagic: Carolyne Provencal.
* LadykillerInLove: Spy, the typical JamesBond-esque spy, genuinely fell in love with Helen Rutherford.
* LampshadeHanging: Prone to happen in [=PeabodySam=], Andrewnuva199, and Brikman [=McStudz=]'s writing, especially whenever a DeadpanSnarker opens his/her mouth.
* TheLancer: Cabin towards Rotor.
* LandDownunder: Hunter 2000, Sniper, Crock, and Adventure.
* LargeAndInCharge: Pharisee is the 6'9", over 200 lbs badman head of Internal Affairs.
* LargeHam: [[EvilIsHammy Evil Ogel, Stromling!Zach]], and Adventure, to name only a few examples.
* LaserBlade: The Space Knights' [[StarWars laser saber]].
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Rex and Phantom both suffered from this, inflicted upon then by XERRD experiments and General Evil, respectively. While Rex eventually recovered most of his memories, Phantom's current state is unknown, although WordOfGod states that Phantom's amnesia was intended to be only temporary.
** Dr. Cyborg suffered from LaserGuidedAmnesia, too, after XERRD betrayed him and left him to die. He eventually recovered all of his memories during the Adventurers' Island mission.
* LastKiss: The kiss between Nazareno and Zelda. Doubled as a FirstKiss.
* LastMinuteHookup: Frozeen finally admits his feelings for Shannon at the end of it all. The same goes for Vinyaya and Bluetooth.
** Magma and Covert were not hooked up until literally the very last minute, in [=TakunuvaC01=]'s final IC post.
* LastMinuteReprieve: Sort of... George was saved just as Rotor was organizing the firing squad.
* LastRequest: J.D.'s final request was that Minerva used his prototype Maelstrom cure to save Zach.
* LastSecondWordSwap: Henderon's OhCrap moment in the Maelstrom Temple, leading to some GettingCrapPastTheRadar.
* LatexSpaceSuit: Holly Vinyaya's zero suit underneath her Space Police armor.
* LaughingMad: [[InsaneEqualsViolent Pyro]] and [[MadScientist Dr. Insano]].
* LauncherOfAThousandShips: In-universe; Holly Vinyaya, according to Zachary Virchaus.
* TheLawOfConservationOfDetail: How many people payed attention to the throwaway line that revealed that Pterisa's chess piece was a knight, while all the other chess pieces sent by the ReverseMole were ''bishops''?
** The ramblings of the Wallace Bishop in Antarctica revealed that he was once the lab partner of Einstein. Bartholomew Enderson thought that he was talking about AlbertEinstein, but from what we later learned from [[spoiler:Frank Einstein in the Maelstrom Temple]]... Other things said by Wallace Bishop foreshadowed the big reveal.
** WordOfGod states that one can easily deduce [[TheHermit Ben Gunn's]] true identity simply by paying attention to the things that he kept in his cave.
** Rex was having some heart problems throughout At War's End. [[YourDaysAreNumbered Guess that meant something important...]]
** Minor details about [[spoiler:Ata's]] whereabouts and actions hinted that he was acting [[TheMole a little suspicious]]...
** Greybeard was right; there ''was'' a very specific reason why, in his flashback/dream sequence, Grisbarba was replaced by Rex and Beatrice was replaced by Amanda. A detail like that cannot possibly be unimportant!
* LawfulEvil: [[LEGOAlphaTeam Evil Ogel]] and General Evil are Type 1 examples as seen when Ogel convinced General to join him in 2000, [[TheEvilsOfFreeWill promising that the world would have order and control under his rule, especially making a note that a world population of Skeleton Drones meant that everyone would be equal and united.]]
** [[LEGOAdventurers Señor Palomar]] is a Type 2 example, as he is a strong believer in Spanish Honor. However, insulting his pride in having such honor is pushing his BerserkButton to the point where he will ignore his own code of honor.
* LeftForDead: Rex and the Brickspider Bot both left Ben Gunn for dead in the [[UndergroundLevel Goo Caverns]]. However, the Brickspider Bot almost averted this (it was about to make sure Ben Gunn was dead when suddenly the Big Darn Heroes arrived), and in Rex's case, he didn't have time to go digging through rubble to find Ben Gunn still alive.
** Although he was aware that Dr. Rex was still alive, Rex made a big mistake when he [[CruelMercy left Dr. Rex for dead]] during the FinalBattle.
** Had Michelle Glados just made sure that [[spoiler:Trouble]] was dead when she tried to kill Rex, she might have actually succeeded.
* LegacyCharacter: [[KnightsKingdom2 King Jayko VIII]].
** Kate Bishop is implied to be the granddaughter of Johnny Thunder RPG's Roy Bishop; by extension, that makes Wallace and Sarah Bishop children of Roy Bishop.
** Peter "Frozeen" Abody was retconned to be a LegacyCharacter of [[DisappearedDad Zachary "Frozeen" Abody]].
** Shannon "Gromtin" Grimton is the daughter of [[RedShirt Gromit "Gromtin" Grimton]] from Alpha Team: Mission Deep Freeze RPG.
* LetsSplitUpGang: Played with. Garry was initially reluctant to do this in the Maelstrom temple. He relented when it was down to him and Palmer.
* LieToTheBeholder: Temple Stromlings have this ability, [[FaceYourFears appearing as their beholder's worst fears]].
* LifeOrLimbDecision: When Hotwire's leg became infected by Maelstrom, he chose the "life" option.
* LineageComesFromTheFather: Frozeen and Gromtin both inherited their fathers' [[LEGOAlphaTeam Alpha Team]] codenames.
* LizardFolk: Quasifigus Hybrids, especially Minifig/Mutant Lizard Hybrids, fall somewhere between this trope and TheReptilians. Unlike the generally fantasy-based Lizard Folk, Quasifigus Hybrids are more sci-fi, but unlike The Reptilians, the Quasifigus are not aliens.
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Not an exaggeration.
* LockedIntoStrangeness: A consistent after-effect of close encounters with the Maelstrom, as evidenced with Zelda's black and red hair becoming black and purple and Zach gaining a purple stripe in his red hair. Minerva also gained several white streaks in her hair after nearly being suffocated by the Maelstrom. Blaire Darkling's blonde hair turned white after an accident during the corruption of the Temple of Creation into a Maelstrom Temple.
* LongLostRelative: Katerina Schattenberg turned out to be Ronald Alexander's sister.
* LongRunners: Now over seven years old, Dino Attack RPG has outlasted every {{LEGO}} [[PlayByPostGames TBRPG]] on [[BZPower BZPower]].
* LoveConfession: Trigger confessed his love for Carrie Enderson... just before pretending to hold her hostage.
** Frozeen finally confessed his love for Shannon Grimton during the later stages of the FinalBattle.
* LoveMakesYouDumb: Hertz proposed to Naomi after only starting a relationship with her three days prior. Neither really knows enough about the other for that level of commitment.
* LoveRedeems: Among a variety of other factors, Zach's love for Minerva prevented him from standing by and watching Ahua kill her and Andrew.
* LovecraftLite: For a malevolent and seemingly indestructible entity, the [[LEGOUniverse Maelstrom]] was ultimately defeated by the power of [[spoiler:just two Creative Sparks]]. There have also been no confirmed cases of insanity (at least not directly caused by the Maelstrom), though at least two people (Kate and Samuel Race) are left traumatized by it.
** However, the Maelstrom wasn't rendered "dead" by any means of the imagination, and this is understood in-universe. Its presence on the LEGO Planet, anchored by the Maelstrom temple and the infection in Mutant Dinos, was a weak but threatening connection to its primary location at the remains of Crux Prime, and said presence was eradicated by the Imagination from the Orb and Einstein Device, respectively. It is still a threat to the LEGO Universe, but that is a battle meant to be finished through the plotline of the ''LEGOUniverse'' game (even if circumstances mean that we never get to see it).
* LovedOnesMontage: Rex used one in order to break free of [[spoiler:[[FaceYourFears the Darkitect's illusions]]]].
* LoweredRecruitingStandards: The Dino Attack Team has so many crazy people. Some RPG players, such as Andrewnuva199 and that guy from that show, offered commentary on this in regards to Duke and Kuru.
* LukeIAmYourFather: Happened twice with Kate, with the reveal that Wallace Bishop is her uncle, and the reveal that Pierce is actually her biological father.
** [[ArmyScout Scout]] finds out that [[LadykillerInLove Spy]] is his father.
** Rev Raptor learned that Landro, a [[HalfHumanHybrid mutated]] and maddened XERRD scientist, was actually his father, Jecht Raptor.
* MacGuffin: Green Goo during the [[UndergroundLevel Goo Caverns]] mission and the Constructopedia during the LEGOIsland mission.
** DismantledMacGuffin: The Constructopedia, which had many missing pages gradually recovered by Dino Attack agents.
** MacGuffinEscortMission: Frozeen and Greybeard bringing the Maelstrom Crystal to the Maelstrom Temple.
** ThePresidentsDaughter: During the invasion of XERRD Fortress, [[LEGOAdventurers Lord Sinister]] became an example of this.
* MadDoctor: How Medic is often viewed. The DeadlyDoctor subtrope also applies, and he seems to have a MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate.
* MadScientist: Nearly every member of XERRD.
** [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] by Dr. Strangebrick, who was initially introduced as a MadScientist, [[CharacterizationMarchesOn but has recently started to show]] [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes a much more caring and compassionate side.]]
** [[AvertedTrope Averted]] by Dr. Breen, who has shown no signs of insanity, sadism, or other traits frequently carried by XERRD scientists. In fact, as pointed out by Michelle Glados, he barely even qualifies as a scientist.
** [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] by [[spoiler:Dr. Bishop, who was set up as a mad scientist but ultimately turned out to be [[ReverseMole a very sane scientist in disguise]]]].
* MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter: Jenny Strangebrick.
* MadeOfEvil: [[LEGOUniverse The Maelstrom]].
* MadeOfIndestructium: On their own, G.E. and Ssol are two NighInvulnerable metals. Combined, they form the completely-indestructible Silge.
* MadeOfIron: This happened a lot in the early days of the RPG, with characters getting into potentially lethal scenarios and only taking on minor damage.
** It's been [[AvertedTrope averted]] a lot more recently. Zenna actually spent several days lying on a bed in the hospital after being injured in the destruction of the refugee facilities. Just before the Adventurers' Island mission, and during said mission Zenna lost the functions of one arm after being shot by an enemy sniper and nearly bleeding to death followed by multiple broken bones in a mutant dino rampage. Pierce also suffered a broken leg when the medical tent collapsed on him.
** Blaire Darkling. Could possibly be explained (or [[HandWave Hand Waved]]) that he's dealt with much worse attacks as Matthew Vherestorm.
* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: Garry and Rotor covered up their torture of Jenny by making it appear that they fought back in self-defense when she tried to escape and put up a fight. Granted they didn't actually kill her, but poor Jenny is probably too traumatized to tell anyone. He also later performed a less sinister variation, where he sent Jenny off of Adventurers' Island for further medical care, but set it up to look like she'd died from her injuries.
* MakeOutPoint: Barry and Teri... somehow ended up making out in a Fire Hammer in the parking lot outside Outpost 4.
* MalevolentMaskedMen: Even among the Dino Attack Team, wearing a mask is usually a warning of a dangerous character.
** Dust wore a cowl, balaclava, ''and'' googles when he first arived on the island.
** Cowls and Hoods: Spy wears a cowl, while Frozeen and the Future Villains were all InTheHood.
** DominoMask: [[BlatantBurglar The Brickster]].
** Ski Masks: Specs and X wear balaclavas, and of course Spy has his cowl.
* TheManBehindTheMonsters: [[BigBad Dr. Rex]].
** TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler:Baron Typhonus.]]
* MamaBear: Sarah Bishop was driven to the brink of insanity by her determination to protect her daughter.
** Athena Fabello tackled, fought, and strangled to death a Mutant Lizard for attacking her son.
* ManipulativeBastard: Dust.
* MasterOfDisguise: Spy reportedly is good at it.
* MasterSwordsman: Greybeard bested Fullmetal in a swordfight and is implied to be a master swordsman [[DrunkenMaster even while drunk]].
* TheMatchmaker: Minerva Fabello to Bluetooth and Vinyaya.
* MayanDoomsday: Because of Dino Attack's post-apocalyptic setting, the date December 21 had great significance in Dino Attack RPG, although in-universe the prophesied date was two years earlier to coincide with the 2010 setting.
** ''December 21, 2010'' is an [[WhatIf alternate ending]] to Dino Attack RPG, showing what would have happened if [[spoiler:[[LEGOUniverse the Darkitect]] got hold of the Maelstrom Crystal]]. Appropriately enough, it's a [[ApocalypseHow Class X apocalypse]].
** In the primary continuity, December 21, 2010 is the date of the FinalBattle. Had Dino Attack Team lost the battle, the [[ApocalypseHow Class X apocalypse]] of the alternate ending could very well have been put into place, albeit a few days late.
** A meta example. On midnight (EST), December 21, 2012 - the actual MayanDoomsday - [=PeabodySam=] posted the final IC post of Dino Attack RPG. Before the day was done, [[BZPower Black Six]] closed the topic, ending Dino Attack RPG for good.
* TheMcCoy: Pierce and Wade.
* MauveShirt: Engineer, Medic, Sniper, Spy, Soldier, Scout, and Heavy, all of the "''more'' likely to be Killed Off for Real" variety.
** Hertz, who was initially introduced as a RedShirt but did not die, and ultimately proved successful enough to graduate from MauveShirt to become a member of the main cast.
* MeaningfulBackgroundEvent: How exactly did Amanda's knife get from inside her sheath to [[spoiler:planted in Sniper's back]]? [[TheLawOfConservationOfDetail Carefully pay attention to a throwaway line in the prose.]]
* MeatgrinderSurgery: [[MadDoctor Medic]] apparently doesn't believe in anesthetics, and he will perform ''heart transplants'' on fully conscious patients. He also somehow ''removed a man's skeleton'', though to this day nobody knows how or why he did it.
** [[LEGOIsland Enter and Return]] to a lesser extent, although they have yet to actually be seen performing surgery, [[CloudCuckooLander they still hold the strong belief that sharks, trees, and umbrellas are vital tools for the job]].
** Some of Atton Rand's post focusing on Zenna in the hospital after LEGOIsland dissapeared tended to slip into this. Of particular note was a patient who couldn't feel his legs because he didn't have any, resulting in Zenna casually asking for another pair of legs and then placing them on the patient (who was, after all, a {{LEGO}} minifigure). He even tried to do this with another character's arm but was stopped by [=PeabodySam=]. However it has been subverted in the Adventurers' Island plot arc, where the medics are much more serious and operate somewhat realistically (at least as realistic as one can get when nobody in the RPG actually knows anything about medicine).
* {{Mediator}}: Rex, Dr. Pierce, and Dr. Saran.
* TheMedic: Pierce, Wade, Crusher, J.D., Zenna, Enter and Return, Carver, Copper, [[CaptainObvious Medic]], and Shaw.
* MedievalStasis: Due to Dino Attack RPG's timeline, this has happened all over LEGO Planet. Medieval Stasis is literally found in [[ClassicLEGOCastle Castle Cove]], although the [[LEGOPirates Tropical Sea]] still uses 1700s technology and [[LEGOAdventurers Adventurers' Island]] still uses early-1900s technology, not to mention that Gold City still resembles the post-Civil War American West of the 1870's, complete with 19th-century technology.
** Many of the characters from such locations prefer to use their outdated weapons. For instance, Elizabeth still uses a cutlass, Greybeard still uses flintlock pistols even though they are extremely unreliable and can only fire one shot before requiring a lengthy reloading process, and Clint Wayne is only ever armed with his old revolver.
* MeleeATrois: The battle in the Maelstrom Temple, and the Adventurers' Island mission as a whole, is a fight between the Dino Attack Team, XERRD, and the Maelstrom.
** During the Kotua crisis, there were usually three factions fighting each other: Dino Attack, Kotua, and [=ShadowTech=]. Not to mention the Mutant Dinos caught in the crossfire.
* MenAreTheExpendableGender: Most, if not all, [[RedShirt Red Shirts]] are male. Somewhat justified, as there is a greater ratio of men to women in the team.
** Interestingly, at one point during the Adventurers' Island arc, a female RedShirt was mentioned, but she was only wounded and never explicitly said to have died.
* MenDontCry: Played straight and then [[SubvertedTrope subverted]]. After Naomi rejects him, Hertz does not cry... until he is out of her sight.
* TheMentallyDisturbed: [[InsaneEqualsViolent Pyro]].
* MentorOccupationalHazard: This is why [[spoiler:Frank Einstein]] had to die.
** [[spoiler:Kareem Nazareno]] as well.
* MerchandiseDriven: Given [[{{LEGO}} its source material]].
* MercyKill: While testing his old rocket launcher, Wallace Bishop killed a Dino Attack agent. Why? He saved the agent from a slow, painful death by neurotoxins and Skeleton Mummies.
** Wade also found himself reluctantly injecting J.D. with several doses of morphine at his request, apparently with the intent that he would die quickly from the overdose and thus would thus not have to stand the pain from from his gunshot wound. It's made all the more ironic by the fact that this event was inspired by a very similar scene in which Wade's namesake met exactly the same fate.
** Minerva, despite her reluctance, killed [[spoiler:Oswald]] because she knew he would institutionalized if she captured him, something that would have destroyed him more than he already was.
** The deaths of [[KeystoneArmy all the Mutant Dinos who were killed by the Einstein Device]] were described as Mercy Kills.
* MessyHair: [[SweetPollyOliver Andrea Jackson Orange]] after being unmasked.
* {{Metaphorgotten}}: Most of Adventure's metaphors go this way, as well as some of Ben Gunn's senile philosophies.
* MexicanStandOff: In the Maelstrom Temple, Rotor pointed a gun at Kate Bishop, Wallace Bishop pointed a rocket launcher at Rotor, Rex pointed a Sonic Screamer at Wallace Bishop, Amanda Claw pointed a knife at Rotor, and [[LEGOAdventurers Señor Palomar]] pointed his [[DualWielding dual pistols]] at Rex and Amanda Claw. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Señor Palomar.
** A smaller-scale MexicanStandOff took place immediately after [[TheEngineer Engineer's]] death. Trigger pointed a gun at Amanda Claw, Dr. Cyborg pointed a gun at Trigger, and Hotwire pointed a gun at Snake.
* {{MIB}}: [=ShadowTech=].
* MillionToOneChance: According to Glados, this is how unlikely it is that Dino Attack Team will win the final battle. Of course, given this trope, we all know what it ''really'' means.
* TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody: After Rex's mutation was cured, he gradually lost the ability to understand the language of the Mutant Dinos, which was an instinctual part of his brain while he was a Mutant T-Rex. It became even more difficult for him to understand after he became a Minifig.
* MindRape: Dust plays with Lutsky's mind to such a degree that he turns him into a paranoid psychopath. Eventually, that comes back to bite him.
** More or less what Loop was doing to Katerina Schattenberg just before he died.
* [[HumansAreWhite Minifigs Are Yellow]]: Somewhat justified, as {{LEGO}} people tend to be yellow-skinned by default.
* MinoredInAssKicking: Solomon is an esteemed graduate from a prestigious collage. He has a doctorate in philosophy and teaches classes as a professor. He also has training as a Samurai, fought in the Ninja wars, and was a member of Nexus Force.
* MinorMajorCharacter: Frank Einstein.
* MisanthropeSupreme: XERRD, especially Dr. Rex.
* MissionFromGod: Pharisee belives he is on one from whatever deity is acceptable in the RPG.
* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: Dr. Strangebrick, Pterisa, Tyrannus, and Velosis.
* TheMole: XERRD had a Mole planted in Dino Attack Team: [[spoiler:Ata]].
** Palmer turned out to be working for the Maelstrom.
** At Mindstorms, Inc., Silencia Venomosa was actually working undercover for Dacta Corporation.
** RedHerringMole: [=PeabodySam=] has numerous Red Herring Moles planted in Dino Attack Team. For a list of them, see the Wild Mass Guessing page.
*** There was also Clark, who Palmer fooled people into thinking was infected by the Maelstrom.
** ReverseMole: Dino Attack Team had a ReverseMole planted in XERRD: [[spoiler:Frank Einstein, under the identity of "Wallace Bishop".]]
* MonochromeCasting: The fact that [[HumansAreWhite everyone is yellow]] aside, the characters whose races have been revealed have been mostly white. With the exception of Dust (Arabic), Naomi (Black), Pharisee ([[ScaryBlackMan Black]]), and Cabin (Latino).
* MoodDissonance: The conversation between Crusher and Shaw about their beliefs was supposed to be a very emotional talk about believing in faith and a major step in developing Shaw's character. It still didn't stop Brickman [=McStudz=] from bursting into laughter when Shaw mentioned "[=PeabodySam=]" as a possible deity.
* MoodWhiplash: The tone can literally go from being incredibly dark and serious in one post to light-hearted and goofy in the next, often as a result of DependingOnTheWriter. For example, the LEGOIsland story arc went between the serious efforts to recover survivors from the island after its disappearance, an investigation into the disappearance of the island, the efforts by Zenna and Pierce to take care of the wounded patients, a top secret mission in Antarctica, Andrew's despair over the loss of his hometown, mass chaos caused by an insane psychopathic agent trying to exterminate everyone in the team with the slightest idealistic views (which later turned out to be part of a XanatosGambit by [[BigBad Dr. Rex]]) as well as the exposure of the Antarctica mission which resulted in riots in the refugee facilities and... [[PluckyComicRelief Enter and Return's]] persistent efforts to get LEGO City's hospitals to start using sharks, trees, and umbrellas.
** A much smaller-scale MoodWhiplash occurred immediately after the LEGOIsland mission, in which the triumph and joy over saving LEGO Island was suddenly interrupted by the betrayal of the Minifig/Mutant Lizard Hybrids.
** Early in the RPG, amidst all the chaos and fighting created by Kotua's betrayal, Rex suddenly has a... love interest? It was [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Greybeard during the Goo Caverns mission as a result of being pointed out by Jackson Lake.
** The serious tone of Garry trying to get his feelings of guilt over torturing Jenny off his chest was briefly inturrupted when he tried to speak to Copper privately in a fire hammer... [[MakeOutPoint only to find his old war buddy Barry Jackson making out with his girlfriend inside]].
** First, there was a very somber scene of Chompy accepting the role of alpha male after the death of his mother, the alpha female... then came a MoodWhiplash and suddenly we're dealing with the amusing antics of the Second Headquarters Squad.
** Rex is hit with the hard and devastating news that [[spoiler:[[YourDaysAreNumbered His Days Are Numbered]]]]. While he's trying to cope with it in a very somber scene, everyone else is ''incredibly'' overjoyed to learn that the [[LEGOIsland Brickolinis]] are now serving pizza in the Dino Attack cafeteria... and then ''that'' is interrupted by [[{{TheEngineer}} Engineer's]] sudden death and an intense MexicanStandoff as a result of the Whodunnit.
** A deliberate example during the FinalBattle, to illustrate the dire hopelessness of the situation. Rex was pretty high, having [[WartimeWedding just married]] Amanda and [[AttackItsWeakPoint defeated]] [[FinalBoss Dr. Rex]]. Then suddenly, [[spoiler:[[DivineIntervention Dr. Rex gets back up]], [[HeroicSacrifice Adventure sacrifices himself]], the Iron Predator explodes, [[KilledOffForReal Amanda is murdered]], and [[BackForTheDead Trouble is killed]].]] Just like that, Rex went from rather high to very low.
* {{Mooks}}: Mutant Dinos, ''Quasifigus lacertilia'', and guards for XERRD. [[EverythingsDeaderWithZombies Stromlings]] for the [[LEGOUniverse Maelstrom]].
* MookFaceTurn: Despite working for XERRD, Tom is fairly cooperative with the team once captured.
** Pterisa, the prototype Mutant Dinos, and tamed Mutant Dinos all performed [[MookFaceTurn Mook Face Turns]].
* MookHorrorShow: Resident ScaryBlackMan Pharisee is a terrifying sight to behold when he unleashes his justice.
* MoralDissonance: As a medic, Pierce is responsible for helping his patients, yet he was the one who tried to keep J.D. alive when it was clear that his wound was fatal, probably also keeping him in extreme, simply so that he could get some information that might have been written down.
** Trigger has made it very clear that finishing a job is one of the only things in the world that matters to him, and when Silencia Venomosa him from completing one job, then he vows revenge and won't rest until she is killed, holding the grudge for eight years. Then, despite the fact that he was hired by Dino Attack Team, Trigger deserts them in the darkest hour when they need him the most, because apparently a battle that will decide the fate of the planet is not only "just another job", but also not worth the money.
* MoralityKitchenSink: The team contain tons of different people with their own philosophies. For example Rex is an idealist and AFatherToHisMen who prefers to tame mutant dinosaurs rather than kill them. Now contrast him to Rotor, the ruthless ColonelKilgore who will massacre the enemy whilst happily listening to classical music, and put an ''entire T-1 crew'' on trial because the pilot disobeyed orders, and tries to have them executed publicly to make an example hoping to use fear to keep the team together. He was even willing to have two unarmed XERRD prisoners shot when he knew that one of them was an innocent child. However, neither of these characters are shown as being fully good or evil. Rotor does in fact mean well in his methods and gets the job done, whilst Rex has had moments of cruelty.
* {{Mordor}}: The Maelstrom-corrupted region of Adventurers' Island.
* MoreDakka: Heavy. Rotor arguably has a habit of this as well, using ''helicopters''.
* MoreDeadlyThanTheMale: Silencia Venomosa, Michelle Glados, and Carolyne Provencal.
* MoreHeroThanThou: Rex and Greybeard got into a brief argument over [[spoiler:whose Creative Spark should be sacrificed to power the Einstein Device. Rex won the debate; although Greybeard is elderly, Rex was SecretlyDying anyways, and Greybeard still had Mary Rose to look after.]]
* MrExposition: Rotor.
** Most of the cast in ''[[WhatIf December 21, 2010]]''.
** Dr. Frank Einstein in ''HTTYML''.
* MuggingTheMonster: [[LEGOAdventurers Sam Sinister]] and [[LEGOIsland the Brickster]] had no idea what they were getting into when they threatened Amanda Claw in the subway station.
* {{Muggles}}: In Trigger's flashback, basically anyone who appears that wasn't involved in any of the illegal activities that took place.
* MuggleFosterParents: Zachary and Faith Abody.
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: General, Frozeen (formerly), and Paulie Gonepus.
* MulticoloredHair: Zelda Frodongan had a red (later purple) streak running through her black hair. Zachary Virchaus has a purple streak running through his hair that he has dyed to match his normal hair style. Raine Dashworthy, considering her inspiration, has her hair dyed with a multitude of colors.
* MultinationalTeam: The Dino Attack team includes [[LEGOPirates pirates]], gunslingers, [[ClassicLEGOCastle knights]], ninjas, [[LEGOLifeOnMars space aliens]], and [[ActionSurvivor civilians]] from LEGOCity.
* MultipleChoicePast: Before the Adventurers' Island story arc, every time the origin story of Greybeard's hook was brought up, it was different, with some examples including being locked up by [[LEGOPirates Islanders]] to losing it in battle against [[DemBones Skeleton Pirates]], to the point where it was turned into a minor RunningGag with Greybeard. Ultimately, the "correct" choice of this MultipleChoicePast was revealed during the flashback/dream sequence.
* {{Mummy}}: Skeleton Mummies. The mummy of [[LEGOAdventurers Pharaoh Hotep III]] also had a humorous cameo appearance in a brief cutaway gag.
* MusicalSpoiler: The demo version of [[http://youtu.be/wQ8CpOI5Xv8 In The Maelstrom Temple]] contained several Musical Spoilers regarding what [=PeabodySam=] was planning (including WhatCouldHaveBeen the original death of Michelle Glados), but most blatantly was the use of the ''SonicGenerations'' [[SonicAdventure Perfect Chaos Revival]] music, spoiling what would have otherwise been the surprise appearance of Chaos in the Maelstrom Temple.
* {{Musings}}: [[CloudCuckooLander Ben Gunn's]] specialty.
* MutagenicGoo: Mutant Dino serum, a solution containing Mutant Dino DNA that is capable of transforming Minifigs into Mutant Dinos.
** The Green Goo can mutate unhatched Mutant Dinos, causing them to develop unique traits and immunity to Green Goo upon birth. The best-known examples are Tex and Shade.
* MutualKill: [[spoiler:Michelle Glados fatally shot Trouble, and Trouble snapped Glados's neck in his dying moments.]]
* MyBelovedSmother: While it's clear that Sarah Bishop really does genuinely care for her daughter she does seem to go to some unusual lenghts to keep her safe.
** This actually does make some sense from a psychological standpoint. Considering her father, Roy Bishop fought in ''World War I ''(1914-1918), he's probably long dead along with her unnamed mother (if he isn't he'd be pretty friggin' old), Her brother [[spoiler:pulled his own brains out]] and is now locked in an institution, so at this point Kate really is all she has left. Under the current circumstances, she feels compelled to protect her daughter because otherwise she'll be alone.
* MyFriendsAndZoidberg: The team of three Fire Hammers and one Dino 4WD Trapper was referred to by Sam Race as "LEGORacers... and Anubis". Justified, in that while Greybeard, King Joseph Race, and Sam Race all originated as custom LEGO Racers characters, Anubis was never connected to the LEGO Racers line.
* MyFutureSelfAndMe: The villains and Future Villains.
** FutureMeScaresMe: [[LEGOAdventurers Lord Sam Sinister]] made it known that he was afraid of Fssinister. Even [[LEGOAlphaTeam Evil Ogel]] felt uncomfortable around Fogel.
* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch: Pterisa, when compared to most other Quasifigus Hybrids.
* MysteriousAntarctica: In this word, if you know where to look and you can survive the cold, you might just stumble across an intelligent, sentient, ice snake. There were also mysterious encounters with cold-adapted Mutant Dinosaurs. Most of the crew of Outpost 4 worked here in the past, and Mac's page mentions him once finding a flying saucer.
* MythologyGag: When writing Trigger's flashback, Atton Rand was originally just going to have him hijack a car belonging to a regular family before deciding to tie it in with the main narrative. The result ended up being a cameo by a young Dust, which also poked fun at many comparisons between the two characters when Trigger was first introduced.
** Time flows much slower in-universe than in real time, and there have been plenty of nods to this, especially with characters saying that this eight-month-long war [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall has felt like it has lasted for over seven years]].
*** After the 2009 [[BZPower BZPower]] Time Slip (also known as the [[FanNickname Great Dataclysm]]), which erased six months of Dino Attack RPG content (including the entire [[UndergroundLevel Goo Caverns]] story arc up to that point), the Dino Attack RPG players agreed to start up again at a time and place shortly before the Time Slip occurred. Since this led to [[Rewrite rewriting several scenes that were erased by the Time Slip]], one of Toa Antrahka's characters commented that they were experiencing deja vu.
*** During his time as a [[EverythingsDeaderWithZombies Stromling]], Zachary aged at an accelerated rate. The amount of time he physically aged is equal to the time between the end of Dino Attack RPG and the start of Dino Attack: At War's End.
** The temple of Tribe Ugalego is a nod to a [[WhatCouldHaveBeen deleted scene]] from ''[[LEGOIsland LEGO Island 2: The Brickster's Revenge]]''.
** At one point, Minerva Fabello mispronounced Zed Provhezor's name as "Ze Professor", which is the name of the ''ConkersBadFurDay'' character whom Provhezor is based upon.
*** Similarly, Sam Sinister kept mispronouncing Paulie Gonapus's name, and one such mispronunciation was "Octo Gonapus". [[TheLazerCollection Dr. Octogonapus]] serves as the inspiration for Paulie Gonapus.
** According to Dino Attack RPG's timeline, LEGOThemes take place during their year of release unless otherwise noted. Some Dino Attack RPG players were confused on whether or not Pharaoh's Quest is one of those exceptions, since it was released in 2011 but some sources say that it takes place in 1924; however, 1924 was confirmed as the canon date by Word of God. As a result of this confusion, [[LEGOAdventurers Lord Sam Sinister]] announced that he was going on an expedition to Egypt in 2011 to recover the golden treasures of Pharaoh Amset-Ra, unaware that Professor Archibald Hale's team had already uncovered those treasures in 1924.
** The last known sighting of [[LEGOAlphaTeam Evil Ogel]] was apparently aboard his personal rocket en route to Nimbus System. File divers have discovered a DummiedOut NPC named "Ogel" in the ''LEGOUniverse'' files, who appears to be modeled after Evil Ogel but bearing the Paradox emblem on his sleeve, hinting that ''LEGO Universe'' developers intended to bring Ogel back as a Paradox operative [[WhatCouldHaveBeen had the game not been cancelled]]. Based on this, it is most likely that Evil Ogel is traveling to Nimbus System so that he can join the Paradox faction of Nexus Force.
* NamingConventions: Conventionally.
** AppropriatedAppellation: The "zeen" in "Frozeen" came from a kindergarten teacher's botched attempt at reading Zachary Abody's handwriting.
*** According to WordOfGod, this is the origin of Amanda's nickname "Amanda Claw".
*** The name "Fogel" was originally coined as an insult, but Fogel decided to bear it with pride.
** CaptainColorbeard: Greybeard, Goldbeard, and [[LEGOPirates Redbeard]].
** CodeName: Many Dino Attack agents signed up under codenames.
** TheDanza: Andrew's name (most likely) come from Andrewnuva199's first name; Andrew Olin's (before being retconned into Leonidas Spartana) first name come from Toa Antrakha's first name; Zachary Virchaus' first name comes from Brikman [=McStudz=]'s first name; David Norman's first name comes from imperial officer's first name; David O'Neal's first name comes from (part of) Jackson Lake's first name; Carl Lutsky's first name comes from that guy from that show's first name; Matthew Cyrista's first name and Kara Wise's last name comes from avmatoran's name; and now Sam Throramebi and Sam Race's first names come from [=PeabodySam=]'s first name.
** EmbarrassingNickname: Ronald E. Army, whose nickname "Soldier" is actually an insult to his status as a sergeant.
** FirstNameBasis: Kate, David, Zachary, Jenny, and Rex.
*** Some players prefer to identify the medics by their first name when one is given (i.e. Alan, Giovanni, Gates, and Naomi).
** FullNameBasis: Sam Throramebi, [[LEGOAdventurers Sam Sinister]], and Sam Race are victims of this trope for obvious reasons.
*** When referred to by his real name, Andrew Jackson, Pyro falls under this trope in order to avoid confusing players, what with two other Dino Attack agents named Andrew and Barry Jackson.
** GenderBlenderName: While multiple characters are named "Sam" (all being male), Andrea's spouse Sam Orange's gender was originally left ambiguous in part due to HideYourLesbians. Ultimately, "Sam" was revealed to be short for "Samantha".
** GivenNameReveal: Greybeard's real name was left unknown until illusion!Beatrice referred to him as "Grisbarba" in the Maelstrom Temple.
** IHaveManyNames: A major character trait of Trigger, although we've only seen two of his names in-universe (the other name being "Schiess").
** IronicName: An unintentional example, but one of Trigger's old partners who was killed by Silencia Venomosa was named "Verbal". While it was never actually stated if this was his last name, a nickname, or just an alias, it's interestingly ironic on two fronts. First, the guy didn't talk much. Second, it's funny when you consider his name was meant as a shout-out to Verbal Kint, Kevin Spacey's character in the 1995 film ''TheUsualSuspects''. In that film, Verbal Kint was the only survivor of a job organized by a shady criminal mastermind, with most of the plot centered around him telling the story of how it all happened.
** IronicNickname: Soldier, who is a sergeant, and Shotgun, who is a sniper.
** AKindOfOne: It's unclear whether the egg came before the chicken, but what is known is that the species names for the three unused Quasifigus species (''Quasifigus tyrannus'', ''Quasifigus velosis'', and ''Quasifigus pterisa'') also happen to be the names of the three specimens created by Wallace Bishop (Tyrannus, Velosis, and Pterisa, respectively).
** LastNameBasis: Most of the medics, depending on who is writing the post, as well as the majority of XERRD's scientists.
*** Also applies to Dave O'Neal and Ben Shiller.
** LetXBeTheUnknown: Agent X.
** MeaningfulName: General Evil, Little Bot, Rex, Trouble, Stealth, Dr. Rex, Greybeard, Dr. Wolf, Pilot, Gunner, Dr. Cyborg, Colonel, Scratch, Hacker, the entire Second Headquarters Squad... the list goes on.
*** Dust's surname, Thutmuse, is a reference to his royal heritage.
*** Anyone who'd seen JohnCarpenter's ''TheThing'' should have quickly realized the significance of the names Clark and Palmer.
*** Many of Trigger's former colleagues had names referring to crime films. Two of them (Deniro and Scorsese) were named after famous people associated with them, while another three were named after specific characters. The one exception to this rule is Montoya, who was named after Daniel Baldwin's character in ''JohnCarpentersVampires'', which was nothing more than a shout-out to the inspiration behind Trigger/Schiess, as the characters look similar but are otherwise completely different.
**** Interestingly, Montoya's name has an unintentional double meaning. While it was originally intended as a shout-out to Trigger's inspiration, he also shares the name with Inigo Montoya, a swordsman from ''ThePrincessBride''. Much like how [[MyNameIsInigoMontoya Inigo]] [[PrepareToDie was determined to find]] [[YouKilledMyFather the man who killed his father]], Montoya is determined to find revenge on the woman who killed his partners.
*** The name Amanda means "having to be loved," "deserving to be loved," or "worthy of love." When you consider Amanda Claw's role in Dino Attack RPG, you realize that there could not have possibly been a more fitting name.
** MeaningfulRename: When Agent X renamed himself Xeke.
*** From George Ogel [[FaceHeelTurn to]] General Evil [[HeelFaceTurn to simply]] General, a rename for this character means a significant change in personality.
*** ShedTheFamilyName: Blaire did this after falling out with his parents and running away from home.
** MysteriousMiddleInitial: Ronald E. Army, Tex S. Holdem, and Grisbarba L. Pirata.
** NamedByDemocracy: [[EmbarrassingNickname Soldier]] and Medic.
** NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Many examples of this trope, most notably including [[RLeeErmey Ronald E. Army]] and [[ClintEastwood Clint]] [[JohnWayne Wayne]].
** NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Anyone familiar with the namesakes of [[Videogame/HalfLife2 Dr. Breen]] and [[Videogame/{{Portal}} Dr. Glados]] would know to stay ''far'' away from them.
*** NamesToRunAwayFrom/{{Adjectives}}: [[LEGOAlphaTeam Evil Ogel]], [[spoiler:[[LEGOUniverse the Darkitect]]]], and Blaire Darkling.
*** NamesToRunAwayFrom/{{Animal}}: Dragon and Brickspider Bot v1.0.
*** NamesToRunAwayFrom/BodyPart: "Robo-Limb" (also known as the Frickster).
*** NamesToRunAwayFrom/{{Conquerors}}: Ivan Tzenovich, Napoleon XIV Mental Institution, and Mr. Bonaparte.
*** NamesToRunAwayFrom/ForeignLanguageNames: Schattenberg ("schatten" is German for "shadow"), Silencia Venomosa ("silencio" and "venomosa" are Spanish for "silent" and "venom"), Gahiji Thutmose ("Gahiji" is Arabic for "hunter"), Doctor Dunkelheit ("dunkelheit" is German for "darkness") Dino Attack Agent Verrat ("verrat" is German for "betrayal"), Tod Fabello ("tod" is German for "death"), Grisbarba L. Pirata ("barba gris" and "pirata" are Spanish for "gray beard" and "pirate"), Edward Korrupte ("korrupte" is Danish for "corrupt"), and Uærlig Sindstorme ("uærlig" and "sind storme" are Danish for "dishonest" and "mind storms").
**** Zachary's last name, Virchaus, is an amalgamation of "Virtus Chaos", which roughly means "Power of Chaos" in Latin.
*** NameOfCain: Canis "Cane" Schattenberg
*** NamesToRunAwayFrom/NotoriousKillers: Bricassius.
*** NamesToRunAwayFrom/ReligiousNames: Bonus points goes to the Mutant T-Rex named Ragnorok, since "Ragnarok" of Norse Mythology essentially refers to the apocalypse.
*** NamesToRunAwayFrom/{{Titles}}: Doctor Bishop (covering both the Bishop and Doctor categories), "Boss" (also known as Fogel), Doctor Breen, Doctor Provencal, Doctor Glados, Doctor Gonepus, Doctor Strangebrick, Sergeant Army, Colonel Quartich, and [[spoiler:[[LEGOUniverse Baron Typhonus]]]].
*** NamesToRunAwayFrom/{{Weapons}}: "Hooks" and "Dark Sword" (also known as Fssinister and Fladek).
*** NamesToRunAwayFrom/XtremeKoolLetterz: XERRD and Enox Phorm.
*** NamesToRunAwayFrom/MixAndMatch: Doctor Wolf (Animal and Titles), Doctor Ronald "Rex" Alexander (Animal, Conquerors, and Titles), Doctor Dunkelheit (Foreign Language Names and Titles), Doctor Zed Provhezor (Titles and Xtreme Kool Letterz), General Evil (Adjectives and Titles), and [[LEGOAdventurers Lord Sam Sinister von Barron]] (Adjectives and Titles).
** NoNeedForNames: Many characters never have their names revealed.
*** EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: The bartender in Greybeard's flashback/dream sequence.
**** Helmie was simply referred to as "the barge helmsman" during the beginning of the Goo Caverns story arc.
*** OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: The majority of Dino Attack Agents are only ever referred to by their codenames. Most of the time, we never find out their real names.
**** A major part of Trigger's character is that he never gives his real name. Every job he's done he's operated under a codename or pseudonym.
** NonIndicativeName: Barry Jackson's codename is "Shotgun" even though he's a professional sniper and his main weapon is a sniper rifle. This is largely due to the codename "sniper" already being taken by [[ColdSniper Brixton Hale]].
*** There's also Clint Wayne, who draws a lot out of inspiration from Clint Eastwood, but almost nothing out of John Wayne.
** OnlyKnownByInitials: Formerly [[SweetPollyOliver A.J. Orange]] (A.J. was eventually revealed to be short for Andrea Jackson).
** OnlyOneName: Dr. Strangebrick, Andrew, and Maria. Formerly Katerina "Kat" Schattenberg, Zachary Virchaus, Jenny Strangebrick, and Rex Alexander.
** OneSteveLimit: Partially [[SubvertedTrope subverted]]. There have been at least two agents operating under the codenames of Pilot and Alpha, and at least three agents with the codenames Hunter and Snake. Played straight when Barry Jackson received the codename Shotgun because Sniper was already in use.
** PunnyName: Pick any member of Second Headquarters Squad. His real name is a pun. Bart Helmutson, Cameron O'Cozy, Gonnerman, Mailstorm, and Bartholomew Enderson are a few other examples of pun-based names.
** RealNameAsAnAlias: Rex and Zero both adopted variants of their players' [[PenName usernames]] ("Peasam" from [=PeabodySam=] and "Norik" from Norik the Silver Toa) while trying to hide their identities from Phantom.
** RedBaron: Rex, who earned his name by showing the bravery of a T-Rex.
** RobotNames: [=A5T3R=]-01D falls under the category of "A similar string of numbers or letters which resembles a word or name, either as written, or when read aloud" since it reads aloud to "asteroid". Purple-Headed Frozeen's Model of a Brickster-Bot (PBB) and Brickspider Bot fall under the category of "Something-tron or Something-bot".
** ShoutOutThemeNaming: Many of Atton Rand's characters were inspired by characters from other works. Their names are often a combination of the first name of the actor who played the character and the last name of the person. For example:
*** Alan Pierce- [[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000257/ Alan Alda]], who played Benjamin Franklin Pierce in {{MASH}} ("Donald" was considered as a middle name, which would have referred to Donald Sutherland, who plays him in the movie).
*** Giovanni Wade- [[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000610/ Giovanni Ribisi]], who played Irwin Wade in ''SavingPrivateRyan''.
*** Gates Crusher- [[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000533/ Gates McFadden]], who played Dr. Beverly Crusher on ''StarTrekTheNextGeneration''.
*** Noomi Shaw- [[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0636426/ Noomi Rapace]], who played Elizabeth Shaw in ''{{Prometheus}}''.
*** Barry Jackson- Barry Pepper, who played Private Daniel Jackson in ''SavingPrivateRyan''.
*** Kurt [=MacReady=]- [[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000621/ Kurt Russel]], who played R.J. [=MacReady=] in ''TheThing''.
*** Inverted with Garry Moffat. The last name was taken from actor [[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0595567/ Donald Moffat]] who played Garry in ''TheThing''. This was because the film never stated the last name of the character.
** SpellMyNameWithAThe: [[LEGOIsland The Brickster]], The Frickster, The Phantom, and [[spoiler:[[LEGOUniverse The Darkitect]]]].
** StevenUlyssesPerhero: With a name like Grisbarba L. Pirata, [[SarcasmMode who would have guessed]] that he one day would have become a pirate with a gray beard?
*** Although it was not his real name, Ronald Alexander loved going by his nickname Dr. Rex. [[SarcasmMode Who would have ever guessed]] that he would not only be a scientist, but also a T-Rex one day?
** StockForeignName: AsLongAsItSoundsForeign.
*** German: Dietrich Luzwheit.
*** Russian: Ivan Tzenovich.
** ThemeNaming: Most Dino Attack agents' codenames are based upon dinosaurs, including Reptile, Tail, and Rev Raptor.
*** Rotor and Cabin are both helicopter pilots whose names refer to parts of a helicopter.
*** All of Enter Fishstick's characters have names that begin with the letter Z.
** TheyCallHimSword: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] with Barry Jackson, who was given the codename "Shotgun" even though his weapon of choice is a standard issue sniper rifle.
** TwoFirstNames: The Alexanders (Ronald, Catherine, Rex, and Amanda), Joe Harry, and Athena Chase.
** TheVonTropeFamily: An interesting variation with [[LEGOAdventurers Lord Sam Sinister von Barron]]. Dino Attack RPG interprets the "von" of "Baron von Barron" as the German word for "of", making "Baron von Barron" a title meaning "Baron of Barron" rather than a Baron with the surname Barron; this is because Lord Sinister's surname seems to be truly Sinister, since his sister is named Alexis Sinister. This lead to the creation of Barron, a FictionalCountry seemingly populated by [[HerrDoktor Herr Doktors]] with stereotypical East European [[FunetikAksent Funetik Aksents]] (a nod to the Baron's accent in ''LEGORacers'').
** {{Tuckerization}}: Kara Wise seems to be based on and named after a friend of avmatoran.
*** While his name was created in a name generator, Kareem Nazareno's initials were intended to reference [=KillerNinja7=], the former username of a friend of Brikman [=McStudz=]'s who created Nazareno's minifig. Desiree and Kayla Virchaus are named after two of Brikman [=McStudz=]'s friends and James Virchaus is named after Brikman's father.
*** Amanda Claw and Shannon Grimton are named after two of [=PeabodySam=]'s friends. Zachary Abody is named after [=PeabodySam=]'s friend Stormcrow926, while Faith Abody is named after [=PeabodySam=]'s cousin flamingchibi.
** WhoNamesTheirKidDude: Gates Crusher seems like a pretty strange name, made all the more bizarre by the fact that her first name was taken from a real-life actress.
* NaiveNewcomer: Kate Bishop.
* NarniaTime: WordOfGod states that this exists between the real world and the Torn World, explaining why so much happened in the real world while so little happened in the Torn World.
* NarrativeProfanityFilter: "cursed under his breath" is a common phrase used in the prose.
* ANaziByAnyOtherName: XERRD comes close, but [=ShadowTech=] comes closer. Not to mention that its founders were German, because AllGermansAreNazis.
** If it weren't all just a ploy by XERRD to stir distrust in the Dino Attack Team, Cam O'Cozy's alleged ideas about dealing with idealists can become shockingly similar to the events leading to the Holocaust when one things about it at length.
* TheNeidermeyer: Ronald E. Army.
** Lutsky started out caring for his men but he became a Neidermeyer once his newfound authority got to his head.
* NerdActionHero: Hertz.
* NeverFoundTheBody: Should have been a clue towards the fact that [[LeftForDead Ben Gunn]] survived the Goo Caverns mission...
* NeverSmileAtACrocodile: There was a huge Stromling Crocodile in the Pharaoh's Forbidden Ruins.
* NewOldFlame: Teri, Barry Jackson's ex-military girlfriend and army buddy. Also Sarah Bishop toward Pierce.
* NewOldWest: Sort of, the Wild West still exists in the modern day, but if [[{{TheEngineer}} Engineer]] is anything to go by than at least some modernization has taken place in that region.
* NewMeat: Kate Bishop and James [=McGregor=]. Lance Williams could also be considered a case of this.
* NiceGuy: Pierce, Kate, and David.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Dino Attack agents attacking the XERRD Fortress eventually realized that [[FriendOrFoe some of the XERRD grunts they killed]] [[DressingAsTheEnemy were actually disguised Dino Attack agents]].
** Garry travelled halfway across Adventurers' Island and narrowly survived a crash landing just to get to the real Maelstrom Temple and help Rex. Turns out all he did was bring a power-hungry Stromling to the source of Maelstrom itself, and of course with Zach and Ahua out of the picture...
** Rex and Adventure's plan to defeat Dr. Rex resulted in [[spoiler:Baron Typhonus's DivineIntervention]], making things go FromBadToWorse.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Ahua planned bring Minerva to the Pharaoh's Forbidden Ruins in hopes that she would weaken and leave Zach defenseless so he could kill him. His plan ended up freeing Zach from the Maelstrom's corruption and resulted in his own death at the hands of [[spoiler:the Darkitect]].
* {{Ninja}}: Kareem Nazareno, Zelda Frodongan, Clarke Deadworth, [[spoiler:Attila Huntsman]], and Blaire Darkling.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: As a space ninja who is skilled with prosthetics, Kareem Nazareno comes close.
** The Dino Attack Team as a whole can be considered this. Agents and allies include {{ninja}}s (i.e. Kareem Nazareno), {{pirates}} (i.e. Greybeard), [[DemBones zombies]] (i.e. Septimus), and [[RobotBuddy robots]] (i.e. Aster Oid).
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Clint Wayne is heavily based on ClintEastwood. Soldier also bears some similarities to RLeeErmey's various military roles.
** A much more literal case occurs in the form of various rock bands arriving to calm down the refugees. Among the rock stars were DavidBowie and {{Queen}} (including their lead singer Freddie Mercury, despite the fact that he's been dead for 20 years) who both appeared in person during the climax of the Antarctica story arc.
** Also, Bogart is heavily based off of HumphreyBogart, though mainly his PrivateDetective roles.
* NoEndorHolocaust: Being a world BuiltWithLEGO, the post-war society will rebuild fairly quickly, and there will ''not'' be any worries of anarchy or chaos.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: In one of Dino Attack RPG's more brutal moments, Rex beat a Mutant Lizard to death with a metal pipe. While [=PeabodySam=] did not go into much detail regarding the lizard's death, picturing the event itself can produce some {{Squick}} or even AccidentalNightmareFuel.
** A more traditional example occured early in ''At War's End ''in the form of Rotor and Garry ''beating the crap ''out of Jenny. Tom attempted to get revenge on Garry, except the latter being ex-military, he was able to fight back.
** Colonel beat the crap of Commander Vinyaya outside of the Pharaoh's Forbidden Ruins.
** Ghost decided to viciously beat Minerva in hopes of knocking her unconscious so he could take her to Ahua.
** ExtremeMeleeRevenge: Rex let loose bottled-up anger from [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Kotua]] and [[ColonelKilgore Rotor]] upon [[InsaneAdmiral French Fries]] in a particularly brutal moment of Dino Attack RPG.
* NoPlansNoPrototypeNoBackup: According to WordOfGod, the Einstein Device. This is intentionally so, since Specs is well aware that, while the Einstein Device's intended payload was Imagination, the device could theoretically be altered to release much more devastating effects. He did all in his power to keep the Einstein Device from ever falling into the hands of someone like Evil Ogel.
** In a case of WhatCouldHaveBeen, before the Doctor Device was redesigned into the Einstein Device, [=PeabodySam=] considered Specs going to great extremes to accomplish this, even going so far as to order the executions of the engineers who designed the Doctor Device to ensure that Evil Ogel could never extract their memories.
* NoSwastikas: While designing the XERRD emblem, [=PeabodySam=] went out of his way to ensure that the Maelstrom's curves were pointing in the opposite direction of the Nazi Germany swastika.
* NobleMaleRoguishMale: Depending on which one he's working with, Rex or Frozeen may be the Noble Male to Greybeard's Roguish Male.
* NominalHero: Trigger, Dust, Snake, and Firecracker. [[HiredGuns One was in it for money]], [[ManipulativeBastard one just wanted to find a temple belonging to an ancestor and was using the team to get him there]], [[BoxedCrook one is an unrependent criminal trying to get out of a prison sentence]], and one only joined the team ''because he wanted to blow stuff up ''and the Dino Attack Team (fortunately) got to him before XERRD did.
* NonActionGuy: Most of the medics with the exceptions of Zenna and Medic. Hertz is a techy so his skills tend to be confined to whatever he can do in the command tent. Kate could also be considered an unusual female version of this.
* NonHumanUndead: The Mutant Pterosaur skeletons reanimated by the Skeleton Mummies.
* NonMammalianHair: Pterisa apparently has hair as her TertiarySexualCharacteristics, although to be fair she ''is'' [[HalfHumanHybrid half-Minifig]].
* NonStandardCharacterDesign: Libo, who barely resembles anything that can be assembled with LEGO bricks. For a while, this was the case with the G.E. Body, until a recent "Minfigization" of its design. However, in Libo's case, he became even less standard following a redesign in mid-2011, since beforehand he could be easily visualized with TECHNIC and {{BIONICLE}} pieces.
* NoodleIncident: We never did find out exactly what happened to Pyle, beyond the fact that it "[[TakeOurWordForIt did not end well]]". Of course, considering [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysRLZIlcQsU what happened to his namesake]], it's probably for the better.
** Ronald E. Army believed that he was a general after a NoodleIncident involving the [[ClassicLEGOCastle Black Falcons]]. Although this incident will not be elaborated upon, WordOfGod states that it did not end well.
** Trigger wasn't exactly too keen to elaborate on just ''what ''jobs he committed against Paradox. Then again, he did also seem to imply that there was a very specific reason to keep quiet about it.
** Similarly, Silencia Venomosa did not go into much detail regarding what happened to the Brickfather. Commander Pharisee looked in Silencia Venomosa's files and saw something pertaining to a hospital fire, but did not go into further detail. Her jobs with Mindstorms, Inc. and Dacta Corporation were originally intended to be Noodle Incidents as well... until Atton Rand decided to help [=PeabodySam=] flesh out these events in a flashback.
** We never did find out about that LEGO Studios incident in which Bluetooth apparently demonstrated his leadership capabilities.
** Who exactly rebuilt Matthew Cyrista as a cyborg after a Raptor Hunter pack nearly killed him? Who knows, other than the fact they had ''great ''technology!
* NoodleImplements: Atton Rand had to abandon the idea of Pierce completing Medic's failed examination of Engineer because he couldn't figure out a way to work with the process described (sticking two needles in the person's eyes and somehow projecting the last thing they saw onto a screen) without it sounding incredibly stupid and unrealistic.
** According to the comm chatter, you can apparently put a mutant t-rex to sleep by rubbing bacon on it.
** We never did find out just what happened with Edward Korrupte. We saw the background to Silencia Venomosa's most infamous assassination, but we never did find out just what exactly ''what'' made it so infamous beyond the fact that it had to do with Korrupte getting police escorts after Trigger tried to burn down his office.
*** [=PeabodySam=] originally intended for the Mindstorms, Brickfather, and Dacta incidents to be completely [[NoodleIncident Noodle Incidents]], believing that it would be best if left up to players' imaginations as to ''what'' made them so infamous. When Atton Rand chose to expand upon the Mindstorms incident, PeabodySam planned on detailing the events of the Dacta assassination, but once again decided that it would be most effective if it remained unwritten. However, based upon what Amanda told Dr. Cyborg, the police escorts and even a number of [[InnocentBystander innocent bystanders]] were all killed in what she referred to as a massacre... so whatever happened that day, it was ''not'' pretty.
** A half-asleep Shaw gets the job of keeping an eye on [[LEGOIsland Enter and Return]]. From what little she could gather their operation involved the use of a megaphone, a pineapple, a DVD copy of ''TheHurtLocker'', a basketball, two lumps of sugar, a steering wheel, a baseball bat, a film camera, a mailbox, a pine tree, a shrubbery, a herring, 16 tons of TNT, a frying pan, a model train, a bicycle wheel, a single dollar, a map of LEGO Island, a book on aeronautics, a toy car, a lunchbox, a suitcase, a spoonful of honey, a bananna, a pointed stick, a fedora, running into each other and then arguing over whose clothes were whose, [[EverythingsSatiatingWithSandwiches a sandwich]], a copy of the complete works of HPLovecraft, a bag of nitroglycerin, a rolled up magazine, a few raspberries, a chicken leg, a turkey dinner, another bush, a brick, a can of soda, a WaferThinMint, a slip of paper, and a jolly roger. Too bad Shaw wasn't awake enough to observe the process for medical research.
** We're not told what exactly happened to [[TheBartender Enderson's]] bar in the initial Dino Attack, but apparently it involved a pack of hungry Mutant Lizards, a Mutant Raptor that was too smart to be locked in the wine cellar, and a Mutant T-Rex with poor eyesight.
* NostalgiaFilter: Sam Throramebi's distaste towards [[LEGOPowerMiners Power Miners]] mostly stems from this.
* NotAsYouKnowThem: While [=PeabodySam=] wrote the character before the mask came off, Andrew Jackson "Pyro" Orange was undoubtedly a man who JumpedOffTheSlipperySlope and became a psychotic and AxCrazy {{pyromaniac}} who lusted for revenge against the Mutant Dinos by fighting fire with fire for killing his wife and kids. Once the mask came off and Atton Rand took over writing the character, Andrea Jackson "Pyro" Orange became [[SamusIsAGirl a woman]] who acts calm and rather sane unless she's actually on the battlefield and armed with a flamethrower, in which case she sometimes gets carried away and [[CloudCuckooLander hallucinates]] about a SugarBowl setting in which she is acting nice to Mutant Dinos, and may or may not be homosexual depending on whether or not we're choosing to HideYourLesbians today... Are they even the same character anymore?
** Guess what? They ''aren't'' the same character anymore, after all. As a result of all this, it was [[Retcon ultimately revealed]] that Andrew Jackson and Andrea Jackson Orange are two separate characters, with the former being the real agent Pyro who participated in the LEGO Island and Gold City missions, and the latter [[SweetPollyOliver posing as him]] during the mole hunt to protect him from the mole.
** Over the years, Dino Attack RPG has taken some rather... notable liberties with the characterizations of Specs and Digger. Most notably, in [[LEGODinoAttack the original Dino Attack line]], Specs was depicted as an extreme idealist scientist whose arguments with Shadow could only be broken up by Viper. In Dino Attack RPG, Specs holds a much more balanced view of idealist and realist morals, and his role as a scientist is downplayed in favor of focusing on his leadership of the team. His original "extreme idealist" stance was instead given to Digger, who, despite being a paleontologist like Specs, was less interested in studying the dinosaurs and more interested in the thrills and excitement of battle, which is again downplayed in Dino Attack RPG. During the final battle, there were a few attempts by [=PeabodySam=] to rectify this, such as Specs privately admitting that he's a scientist at heart and Digger choosing to join Shadow and Viper on the battlefield while Specs works on the Einstein Device, but it probably won't be enough.
* NotInThisForYourRevolution: Dust, Trigger, and Snake.
* NotQuiteDead: The Brickspider Bot v1.0 and Raptor were both seemingly killed, only to return several pages later as quite alive, if not always in the same body. Kat, after she became a computer-dwelling disembodied consciousness.
** Cam O'Cozy initially appeared to be a case of this, seeing as he inexplicably survived riding a bomb. However, considering his later reveal as an android, a logical explanation is that the version who had been responsible for the idealist-realist feud was a separate model with the same appearance.
* NotSoDifferent: When Digger took over the Dino Attack Team and fought against the realists, Libo told him that he was acting Not So Different from his Demonization of realist agents. However, Digger's negative emotions were influenced by the Maelstrom at the time, and the whole conflict was part of a XanatosGambit by Dr. Rex, so a calmer, more rational Digger may have acted differently.
** Even Pierce has slipped into this occasionally. Rotor sends Kate (whom he has a particularly strong bond with) alone into a fortress filled with neurotoxins, so what does Pierce do? Walk up to Rotor and punch him in the face.
* NotSoInvincibleAfterAll: Played with in the case of the Grendelwulf brothers. Despite being portrayed as [[MemeticBadass Memetic Badasses]], they were both [[spoiler:killed fairly mundanely -- at least in comparison to many of the situations they survived -- and more or less due to twists of bad luck.]]
* NotThatKindOfDoctor: Fuchs was ordered to work in the operating room despite technically being a biologist. Somewhat justified as Garry was simply trying to get the doctors as much help as possible, and Fuchs was the only other person around with a PH.D.
* NothingButSkulls: Gathered at the base of the wrecked [[SpiderMech Scorpion Orb Launcher]] in the Ugalego Temple. Implied to be the skulls of the [[DemBones Ice Drone]] army that attacked Adventurers' Island in Alpha Team: Mission Deep Freeze RPG.
* ObiWanMoment: [[spoiler:Semick, Rex, and even Dr. Rex]] had Obi-Wan Moments when they died.
* ObligatorySwearing: If it weren't for the fact that most of the swears are [[PardonMyKlingon humorous LEGO curses like "MegaBlok"]], Dino Attack RPG would have dropped more f-bombs than an R-rated movie.
** Likely to show that he's one of the most cynical agents we've ever seen, Trigger turns ObligatorySwearing UpToEleven.
* ObligatoryWarCrimeScene: Rotor's court martial, when he tried to have several agents executed to make an example. There was also the scene where he and Garry tortured Jenny and Tom.
* ObliviousToLove: Kareem Nazareno.
** Played with in the case of Hotwire. He's aware of the existence of romantic love and the effect it has on others; [[{{Asexuality}} he just doesn't feel it himself]].
* OffTheRails: Despite repeated warnings about the consequences of failing to keep the Antarctica mission a secret, [[WhatTheHellPlayer Atton Rand's characters spilled the beans]]. [=PeabodySam=] had not originally intended for this to happen, but decided to [[ThrowItIn roll with it]].
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: [[BashBrothers Heavy and Medic's]] charge through the armies of mutant dinosaurs in Gold City. For a while, much of the action went unseen before Clint and Angel Eyes arrived.
** King Joseph Race and [[KnightsKingdom2 Lord Vladek]] battling [[WickedWitch Willa the Witch]] and her hijacked [[DrillTank Thunder Driller]] atop the tallest tower of the [[ClassicLEGOCastle Night Lord's Castle]].
* OfficialCouple: Rex and Amanda, General and Talia, Zachary and Minerva, Shiller and Wright, and Frozeen and Gromtin.
* OhCrap: Ahua after he realized Zach had escaped the Maelstrom's control. Ahua later has another one when the Maelstrom intended to kill him. Yet another Maelstrom-related instance occured when Garry realized Palmer was a Stromling and when Henderson realized that [[LieToTheBeholder "Kate" was a Stromling]].
** MassOhCrap: Dino Attack Team when they saw the size of the Mutant Dino army at the dawn of the FinalBattle.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Dr. Rex and Katerina Schattenberg.
* OldSoldier: Barry Jackson. He's not really that old, but due to his service in the army he certainly has more combat experience than most of the rest of the team.
* OminousCrack: Invoked when a pair of Mutant T-Rexes began smashing in the gate of the Aztec Village.
* OmnicidalManiac: [[spoiler:[[LEGOUniverse Baron Typhonus]]]].
* OneDegreeOfSeparation: Minerva Fabello once knew and stole from a couple that is heavily implied to be the couple that adopted and trained Blaire Darkling.
* OneHitKill: Carolyne Provencal's Sorcerer staff.
* OneManArmy: Blaire Darkling.
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: Trigger. Dust also came seeking riches, just a different kind...
** Downplayed somewhat, but one of Atton Rand's preludes to ''At War's End'' revealed that Angel Eyes was actually paid in hard cash to assist in Gold City. This was later alluded to when he was first seen back at Dino Attack Headquarters- trying to split his money evenly with Clint and Maria.
* OnlyMostlyDead: Zenna after being shot by an enemy sniper.
* OnlySaneMan: Clint Wayne and Angel Eyes appear to be such while working with the Second Headquarters Squad, though it could be argued that Spy also qualifies.
* OoCIsSeriousBusiness: If someone acts out-of-character, pay attention. It's important.
** BatmanGrabsAGun: Rex, the extreme idealist who swore to never kill Mutant Dinos, went into HeroicSafeMode, grabbed a metal pipe, and beat a Mutant Lizard to death with it. Followed by a moment of MyGodWhatHaveIDone
** EvenEvilHasStandards: [[LEGOAdventurers Señor Palomar]] has his Spanish Honor. Additionally, several high-ranking XERRD scientists, most notably Dr. Breen and Dr. Bishop, seemed opposed to the idea of abandoning XERRD Fortress and leaving the lower-ranking scientists for death.
*** Dr. Strangebrick is more than willing to help XERRD take control of the Maelstrom, but when he's betrayed by his superiors that's where he draws the line.
*** [[LEGOAlphaTeam Evil Ogel]], whose minions are literally [[DemBones zombies]], expressed disgust at the concept of the Quasifigus Hybrids.
** NotSoStoic: As an anonymous samurai, Pterisa appears to be TheStoic... but as soon as her identity is revealed, she is revealed to actually be NotSoStoic after all.
*** Under great stress, Michelle Glados will break character and show her true emotions.
*** Whenever Silencia Venomosa acted NotSoStoic, [[TheBartender Bartholomew Enderson]] was surprised.
** OldMaster: When angered, [[BewareTheSillyOnes Ben Gunn]] single-handedly bested Rex and Greybeard.
** SuddenlyVoiced: Amanda Claw forsakes her vow of silence during the LEGO Island mission upon learning about Roger's death.
** YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious: Variation. If Chompy says "please", it must be serious.
*** Rex usually refers to Zachary Virchaus as "Zachary" or "Virchaus". He called him "Zach" just before he sacrificed his Creative Spark.
* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Although Greybeard's [[TalkLikeAPirate pirate accent]] has slowly become heavier and heavier over the course of Dino Attack RPG, there was one moment where [=PeabodySam=] intentionally slipped up his accent: during his ShoutOut to [[StarWars Admiral Ackbar]]. After all, "''It's a trap!''" [[MemeticMutation sounds much funnier]] than "''It be a trap!''"
* OpenHeartDentistry: Upon arriving in the emergency room, Fuchs, a biologist, was ordered to help a psychiatrist.
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: The dragons of [[ClassicLEGOCastle Castle Cove]] are primarily Western Dragons, although Valencia depicts dragons as more civilized than the average wild dragon encountered in the Fright Knights region.
** There are also Maelstrom Dragons, which were corrupted by the Maelstrom and appeared to serve the Fright Knights.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Spike, being a CaptainErsatz of the character of the same name, is of the ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' variety. This seems a little out-of-place when compared to the [[ClassicalMovieVampire Classical Movie Vampires]] of LEGO canon, such as the Vampire from LEGOStudios, Rutger Hemoglobin from [[LEGOMinifigures Minifigures Series 2]], and Lord Vampyre from [[LEGOMonsterFighters Monster Fighters]].
* OutOfFocus: Whenever a player leaves Dino Attack RPG, his or her characters become Out of Focus.
** [=PeabodySam=] has taken steps to ensure that no other player can decide the fate of another former player's character, since there is still a chance that said former player might return and want to reuse their character. For example, while characters can [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse discuss the fact that Databoard's whereabouts are currently unknown]], players are prohibited from revealing Databoard's fate.
* OutrunTheFireball: Dino Attack Team fleeing the [[UndergroundLevel Goo Caverns]] during the eruption of Quadrant 14.
* OutsideRide: Silencia Venomosa hitched a ride on the side of Schiess and Montoya's getaway car, during which she slashed their tires before they could shake her off.
* OverlyLongGag: Contrary to popular belief, the original joke behind the super-spicy-tongue-melting-jail-cell-door-opening-hot pizza was not its incredible spiciness... it was how many times [[KnightsKingdom2 Vladek]] was forced to repeat its overly-long name when talking to [[LEGOIsland the Brickster]], to the point that Rex and Chompy (whom the villains were spying upon) walked away in the meantime.
* PapaWolf: Pierce might be a good-natured doctor whose main focus is on healing, but you lay one hand on Kate and [[BewareTheNiceOnes you're in for a world of pain]]. For example, Pierce punched Rotor in the face just for sending Kate alone into an enemy fortress filled with toxic gas.
** This trope is Inverted by Frozeen; speak dismissively of his [[DisappearedDad father]], and Frozeen will teach you the true meaning of pain.
** Although he is not Kate's father, [[spoiler:the false]] Wallace Bishop is ''very'' protective of her, even threatening his fellow XERRD scientists in an attempt to keep her safe.
** Greybeard shows shades of this toward Mary Rose.
* TheParagonAlwaysRebels: While Dr. Rex was never really a Paragon, WordOfGod says that he was the first member of XERRD to fall victim to [[spoiler:[[TheManBehindTheMan Baron Typhonus's]] grand scheme]], and the rest of XERRD followed suit.
* PardonMyKlingon: [=MegaBlok=], Znap, and 4+ Figures are examples of LEGO swears.
** Some writers' posts take this a bit farther and use specific words in place of specific cusses. "Znap" in particular is often used as a replacement for the f and s words (as in "What the znap" or "Oh znap"). "Megablok" is more often used as a substitute for a variation of the f word with the prefex "mother" (as in "megabloking" or "megabloker", though "motherznapper" isn't too uncommon a phrase either).
** Also [=MegaBlokland=] is often used in place of "Hell".
* TheParalyzer: Rex was impaled by a fully-charged electro-spear and paralyzed from the waist-down; while these spears are designed to stun enemies on impact, a direct stab can kill enough nerves to cause permanent damage.
** [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] with Frank Einstein's revelation that [[spoiler:[[YourDaysAreNumbered Rex's Days Were Numbered]]. It was revealed the electro-spears were designed ''only'' for stunning. Rex's paralysis mostly came from the Maelstrom poisoning in his body.]]
* ParentalSubstitute: Pierce has become this towards Kate. Ironically subverted when he turned to actually ''be'' Kate's father.
* ParodyFailure: The battle between Snake and Plastic Serpent would have been a humorous satire of [[MetalGear Solid Snake]] and a scathing commentary by Atton Rand about the similarities between Solid Snake and [[EscapeFromNewYork Snake Plissken]]... if it weren't for the fact that the ''Metal Gear'' series already openly acknowledges and fully embraces this fact, and JohnCarpenter actually gave his blessing to the series.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: Pharisee's idea of justice
* ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish: [[LEGOAgents Dr. Inferno's]] password is "password".
* PeacefulInDeath: [[spoiler:Amanda and Trouble.]]
* PeerPressureMakesYouEvil: Carolyne Provencal was extremely hesitant about working with XERRD prior to and after the Dino Attack began. A little coaxing from her colleagues turned her into a sadistic monster that shows little regard to both her allies and enemies.
* PensieveFlashback: Greybeard's flashback was presented as a dream sequence to allow present-day Greybeard to offer commentary on Grisbarba's actions.
* PeopleJars: XERRD keeps some subjects contained in stasis tubes filled with Jugend serum. These subjects included Talia Kaahs and Pterisa.
* PercussiveMaintenance: As a humorous ShoutOut to ''[[Videogame/TeamFortress2]]'', all it took was a single hit from [[TheEngineer Engineer's]] wrench to fix the bomb cart's engine.
* PersonalEffectsReveal: Pierce and Wade went through J.D.'s few belongings after he died, although mainly with the intention to find any trace of his research. Wade still has several letters from him which he hopes to send eventually.
** Rex, Frozeen, and Amanda looked through Spy's briefcase after he died, discovering a love letter addressed to Helen Rutherford.
* {{Pirate}}: Just about everyone from Pirates Forbidden Island. They are almost always Type 2 examples.
** HookHand: Sam Sinister, Fssinister, Greybeard, and briefly Zachary.
** InstantPlunderJustAddPirates: Greybeard, Coral, and Elizabeth.
** APirate400YearsTooLate: Greybeard, Coral, Goldbeard, Elizabeth, [[LEGOPirates Redbeard]]... the list goes on.
** PirateGirl: Elizabeth Winsor, "Bad Luck" Beatrice, and Tetra Frodongan.
** {{Privateer}}: Arguably Greybeard and Coral, since they are both official Dino Attack agents.
** SwordAndGun: Greybeard's weapons of choice are a cutlass and a flintlock pistol.
** TalkLikeAPirate: Greybeard.
* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: Considering that there are several pirates working with the Dino Attack Team, they really have not committed much piracy.
** Zenna is apparently a [[AcePilot good pilot]], but how often has she actually been seen flying something?
** Rex is skilled with rope, but went for a long time without actually using this. Following a LampshadeHanging of this trope, Rex tied himself to a Mutant Lizard with, you guessed it, ''rope''.
* PistolWhipping: In the [[UndergroundLevel Goo Caverns]], Greybeard commandeered an Ogel Drilling Machine after Pistol Whipping Rex into unconsciousness.
* PlatonicLifePartners: Hotwire and Kat.
* PlayfulHacker: Hertz has his moments.
* PlotArmor: How else do you think that so many important characters live while so many minor characters are [[RedShirt Red Shirts]]?
** Brutally [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] with [[spoiler:Amanda Claw, who was a long-runner in the RPG thanks to her PlotArmor only to be killed in the final battle.]]
* PluckyComicRelief: [[LEGOIsland Enter and Return]]. Dude could also qualify, as so far all he's done in the story is humorously ruin the romantic moments between Pierce and Sarah, and of course there's Walter.
* PointyHairedBoss: French Fries, the crazy Elite Agent who apparently thought that upon discovery of the Antarctica mission it would be a smart move to broadcast it all over LEGOCity.
* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: Trigger's openly criticized Hotwire and Rex for continuing to fight despite physical disabilities (the former being right in front of him at the time).
** Possibly justified, though, as it doesn't seem to be quite so much out of prejudice (although there hasn't yet been anything suggesting he ''isn't'' prejudiced against cripples) so much as the impracticality of relying on people who can't walk properly. After all, he is technically a soldier, a soldier for hire whose loyalties can be bought by anyone but a soldier nonetheless, so he's probably got a lot of experience to draw on.
* PortmanteauCoupleName: When Page 24 of At War's End turned into a shipping harbor, pretty much every fan nickname for a ship was a Portmanteau Couple Name. Vinyareno (Vinyaya/Nazareno) actually was mentioned in canon by the comm chatter.
* PostFinalBoss: Blaire Darkling.
* PosthumousCharacter: Edward Korrupte and Uærlig Sindstorme, as well as Orange, Keaton, Deniro, Verbal, and Scorsese, all of whom meet rather nasty ends in the flashback.
* PosthumousCollaboration: Long after Kotua in Space left the RPG, Jackson Lake wrapped up the story of [=ShadowTech=] and Canis Schattenberg.
** In a way, the Dino Attack RPG itself can be considered a PosthumousCollaboration of the [[LEGODinoAttack Dino Attack line]], as it answered many questions raised by the original [[LEGOThemes LEGO theme]] such as the very cause of the Dino Attack. This particular question remained unanswered for years until [=PeabodySam=] realized that {{LEGO}} was never going to provide an official answer, leading to the introduction of [[BigBad Dr. Rex]], XERRD, and [[LEGOUniverse the Maelstrom]].
* POVSequel: Many of Atton Rand's posts in ''At War's End ''are written from the perspective of Outpost 4's staff, who were gradually drawn into the events his characters from the previous RPG were involved in.
* ThePowerOfRock: In a nod to ''[[LEGOAdaptationGame LEGO Rock Band]]'', various rock groups such as DavidBowie and {{Queen}} attempted to calm the Antarctica riots with rock music. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Greybeard, who doubted that it would work, and [[KnightsKingdom2 Lord Vladek]], who [[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant reminisced about times when The Power of Rock meant dropping a boulder on someone]].
** Technically, it's Classical music that Rotor always plays, but that still doesn't change the fact that if you're an enemy of the Dino Attack team, and you hear "'Ride of the Valkyries" in the distance, you'd better start running.
* PowerTrio: Early in the RPG, Atton Rand only had three characters; Zenna, [[LEGORockRaiders Axle]], and [[PirateGirl Elizabeth]]. However, Axle's role was dropped in favor of focusing on characters that were introduced by Atton Rand himself[[note]]although most of Atton Rand's cast consists of CaptainErsatz and {{Expy}} characters[[/note]] rather than the [[{{LEGO}} LEGO Company]] after his return from hiatus, and Zenna was critically wounded in the Adventurers' Island campaign, leaving Elizabeth as the only one of them to still be present in ''At War's End''.
** Even though we never saw them in action, Alex Tage, Dyno, and Jet are apparently a PowerTrio.
* PrayerIsALastResort: Dr. Noomi Shaw finds enough comfort in faith (even if she's not sure exactly which deity to believe in) that she wears a cross and sometimes tries to get a prayer in during surgery, though she does try not to draw attention from her fellow doctors by doing so.
** In ''[[WhatIf December 21, 2010]]'', it was noted that even those who never believed in a deity had resorted to prayer... given that it was literally [[ApocalypseWow the end of the world]].
* PreMortemOneLiner: Specs and Viper worked together to deliver one to [[FinalBoss Dr. Rex]]: "The [[BilingualBonus Mutant Tyrant Lizard King]]... now extinct!"
** A bit of a RunningGag with Adventure during the final battle is that he kept trying to deliver Pre-Mortem One-Liners to Dr. Rex, but the trope would always be subverted. On his first attempt, [[DangerouslyGenreSavvy Dr. Rex]] did not show up, rendering the one-liner useless. On his second attempt, the one-liner appeared to work at first (although it nearly worked against Adventure, giving himself away to Dr. Rex in what should have been a surprise attack), but then it was horrifically subverted by [[spoiler:the Darkitect's DivineIntervention]], which turned the Pre-Mortem One-Liner into just a One-Liner.
* PreacherMan: Sort of. Given it's on a family friendly board there isn't much religious discussion. As a result, the closest people in the cast to an actual preacher are probably Pharisee and Shaw, the former of whom uses the Bible to justify his actions, while the latter is a doctor who wears a cross and tries to find comfort in faith and the belief in a deity.
** Interestingly, Shaw subverts many elements commonly associated with depictions of Preachers (though she was never explicitly said to be Christian), having conducted a homosexual wedding.
* PrehistoricMonster: The Mutant Dinos.
* [[PrecisionFStrike Precision Z-Strike]]: Whenever Garry gets mad.
** An example of OoCIsSeriousBusiness: Rex rarely swears out loud, but after [[spoiler:[[SNKBoss Dr. Rex]] survived a near-death experience due to Baron Typhonus's DivineIntervention and subsequently killed Adventure]], Rex dropped a few [[PardonMyKlingon MegaBloks]].
** Minerva, who does not swear frequently, let out one precise "[[PardonMyKlingon znapping]]" when called by her family nickname by Oswald while fighting him.
* PreviousPlayerCharacterCameo: Samuel "Lay" Go and Ben Baseplate, both from the LEGO Island RPG.
** Although not exactly cameo appearances, Frozeen, Magma, Greybeard, Coral, and Elizabeth Winsor are all former RPG primary characters who returned as NPCs in the Dino Attack RPG.
** The cameo appearance of Sir Robert Batrick, who originated as "Bob the Bat", one of [=PeabodySam=]'s custom characters in ''LEGORacers''.
* PrinciplesZealot: Pharisee
* PrivateDetective: Bogart.
* ProfessionalKiller: Silencia Venomosa.
* TheProfessor: Frank Einstein and Fuchs.
* PromotionToParent: Oswald to Tod, Minerva, and even Athena Fabello after their father's death and mother's decline in mental health. Tod promoted himself to a parent over Minerva as he grew older.
* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: Nearly every character working for the [[LEGOAgents Agents]], who wished to take care of the Dino Attack themselves rather than fund a new Dino Attack Team's foundation, is depicted as snobby and pretentious. The [[TheWikiRule Dino Attack RPG Wiki]] page for the Agents Defense Organization [[AllThereInTheManual notes that]], because Dino Attack RPG is told from the perspective of the Dino Attack Team, the depiction of Agents in the RPG has been biased against them. In reality, the Agents just want to stop the Mutant Dinos and bring peace to the world; unfortunately, because of the inter-organization disputes, they have been depicted as more antagonistic. Nonetheless, following the decision by Agents and Dino Attack to put aside their differences and work together, the Agents have been portrayed in a better light.
* PsychoForHire: In keeping with [[Videogame/TeamFortress2 their inspiration]], the Second Headquarters Squad has some elements of this, though Soldier, Heavy, and Pyro might be the worst of the lot. Rotor also comes pretty darn close.
** For supposedly being cold and only caring about money, Trigger certainly has proven to be violent and unpredictable toward whoever is closest.
** The first thing Snake did once he arrived at the headquarters is beat up a man [[OneSteveLimit just because said man had the same name as him]].
* PsychoticSmirk: Dust really smiles a lot. Usually when he's freaking somebody out.
** Palmer had one just before his reveal, as did a Maelstrom projection of Kate Bishop.
** When Silencia Venomosa smiles, it's most likely a PsychoticSmirk.
** Blaire Darkling frequently did this.
* PteroSoarer: Mutant Pterosaurs.
* PunchClockVillain: Trigger's former partner Montoya is implied to be simply trying to make a living for him and his waitress girlfriend. He also got very defensive when one of his partners refused to pay for a waitress's tip.
** Even Silencia Venomosa has some traits of a PunchClockVillain, seeing as she won't go out of her way to kill someone unless she is hired to do so.
* PunctuatedForEmphasis: [[LEGOAdventurers Lord Sam Sinister]] while [[spoiler:rejecting [[LEGOUniverse Baron Typhonus's]] proposal.]]
** Rex during his NoHoldsBarredBeatdown of French Fries.
** Michelle Glados while reiterating her belief that emotion is weakness, then proving her point by [[spoiler:killing Amanda]].
* PunishmentDetail: Played with by Digger following the idealist-realist conflict. He is officially demoted to Standard Agent rank by Specs, Shadow, and Viper, but he also chooses to punish himself by volunteering to be a janitor. Of course, following the revelation that the Maelstrom was behind Digger's mutiny, Digger was relieved of these duties and allowed to resume his status as Elite Commando Agent.
* PurpleIsTheNewBlack: [[EverythingsDeaderWithZombies Stromlings]] and [[LEGOUniverse the Maelstrom]].
* PutOnABus: When a player stops contributing to Dino Attack RPG, their characters are Put on a Bus until their return.
** When [=PeabodySam=] realized that he had accidentally subjected Trouble to ChuckCunninghamSyndrome, he instead decided to officially Put Trouble on a Bus [[spoiler:until his [[BackForTheFinale inevitable return in the final battle]].]]
** After the Adventurers' Island mission, Chompy was left behind on the island to lead the T-Rex pack, as part of an effort by [=PeabodySam=] to reduce [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters his number of NPCs]] for the FinalBattle.
** Characters who have been teleported to Antarctica during the FinalBattle, such as Talia Kaahs, Sam Throramebi, Ben Gunn, and Naomi Carver, are considered to be Put on a Bus until the final battle is over.
** TheBusCameBack: [[spoiler:Trouble and Zenna]], both in a BackForTheFinale fashion.
** BusCrash: If a player is banned from Dino Attack RPG, their characters are said to be formally discharged by Specs.
*** Libo was killed off-screen sometime during his absence, a la DroppedABridgeOnHim.
** PutOnABusToHell: While there doesn't seem to be any malicious intent on Atton Rand's part, Zenna was Put on a Bus after having nearly died from blood loss and has not even been mentioned in Dino Attack: At War's End, with all of Atton Rand's posts focusing on his NPCs instead. Additionally, had Atton Rand not decided to just ThrowItIn after that guy from that show confirmed that Zenna survived, Zenna might have even died. [[spoiler:Luckily, though, Zenna was ultimately able to catch a bus leaving from Hell and was BackForTheFinale.]]
* PuttingOnTheReich: Brikman [=McStudz=]'s interpretation views the XERRD guard uniforms as strikingly similar to the uniforms worn by the Nazi Schutzstaffel. Blaire Darkling's trenchcoat also sports XERRD's emblem on his shoulder as a reference to soldiers wearing a swastika armband.
* {{Pyromaniac}}: [[CaptainObvious Pyro]] and [[SweetPollyOliver Andrea Jackson Orange]]. Kat in her earliest appearances in the RPG.
* QuickDraw: You really got to be careful around Clint Wayne because of this. Lutsky is also said to have one.
* TheQuietOne: Clint Wayne is often on his own and isn't usually a huge talker, but if he has something to say he isn't afraid to say it.
** Even though she now speaks, Amanda Claw is still often quiet and only speaks when she finds it necessary.
** Jenny hasn't exactly said much, although considering she was raised by XERRD, the main enemy of the Dino Attack Team, it is probably at least partially out of fear.
* QuirkyMinibossSquad: The main group of high-ranking XERRD scientists includes a mental patient [[TheDragon Dragon]], a CreepyMonotone inventor, a CorruptCorporateExecutive, and a HerrDoktor [[EvilCripple with a hover chair]].
** Additionally, there was the group of villains consisting of [[LEGOAlphaTeam Evil Ogel]], [[LEGOAdventurers Sam Sinister]], [[LEGOIsland the Brickster]], and [[KnightsKingdom2 Vladek]], as well as [[MyFutureSelfAndMe another group consisting of their futuristic counterparts]].

** Additionally, there was the group of villains consisting of [[LEGOAlphaTeam Evil Ogel]], [[LEGOAdventurers Sam Sinister]], [[LEGOIsland the Brickster]], and [[KnightsKingdom2 Vladek]], as well as [[MyFutureSelfAndMe another group consisting of their futuristic counterparts]].

** Additionally, there was the group of villains consisting of [[LEGOAlphaTeam Evil Ogel]], [[LEGOAdventurers Sam Sinister]], [[LEGOIsland the Brickster]], and [[KnightsKingdom2 Vladek]], as well as [[MyFutureSelfAndMe another group consisting of their futuristic counterparts]].

** Additionally, there was the group of villains consisting of [[LEGOAlphaTeam Evil Ogel]], [[LEGOAdventurers Sam Sinister]], [[LEGOIsland the Brickster]], and [[KnightsKingdom2 Vladek]], as well as [[MyFutureSelfAndMe another group consisting of their futuristic counterparts]].

* OverlyLongGag: Contrary to popular belief, the original joke behind the super-spicy-tongue-melting-jail-cell-door-opening-hot pizza was not its incredible spiciness... it was how many times [[KnightsKingdom2 Vladek]] was forced to repeat its overly-long name when talking to [[LEGOIsland the Brickster]], to the point that Rex and Chompy (whom the villains were spying upon) walked away in the meantime.

* OverlyLongGag: Contrary to popular belief, the original joke behind the super-spicy-tongue-melting-jail-cell-door-opening-hot pizza was not its incredible spiciness... it was how many times [[KnightsKingdom2 Vladek]] was forced to repeat its overly-long name when talking to [[LEGOIsland the Brickster]], to the point that Rex and Chompy (whom the villains were spying upon) walked away in the meantime.

* OverlyLongGag: Contrary to popular belief, the original joke behind the super-spicy-tongue-melting-jail-cell-door-opening-hot pizza was not its incredible spiciness... it was how many times [[KnightsKingdom2 Vladek]] was forced to repeat its overly-long name when talking to [[LEGOIsland the Brickster]], to the point that Rex and Chompy (whom the villains were spying upon) walked away in the meantime.

** Averted with Kat and Hotwire, who ''actually are'' just friends. Given their behavior, plus Howire's rant to Shiller and Wright about how the word "just" devalues friendship by implying it is somehow less than romantic love, perhaps this is actually more of a subversion.

* DyingDeclarationOfLove: [[spoiler:Nazareno]] gave one to [[spoiler:Zelda]] in his final moments.

* AnyoneCanDie: While most deaths are [=NPCs=], several important [=NPCs=] such as PBB and Aravis have been killed off. Primary character deaths are very rare, but Louis "Dryptosaurus" was killed by a Mutant T-Rex and [[spoiler:Dust]] did end up being killed in the Pharaoh's Forbidden Ruins. If it were not for a ThrowItIn situation created by that guy from that show, Atton Rand's primary character Zenna might have been unexpectedly killed off. And then, [[YourDaysAreNumbered Rex's Days Are Numbered]].

** [[{{Pyromaniac}} Andrew Jackson]]. Just... Andrew Jackson.

* ContinuityPorn: With over seven years of canon, ''plus'' references to other RPGs and numerous LEGOThemes, it's not hard to get overwhelmed by all the canon in Dino Attack RPG.

** The exact nature of the mysterious voice that Frozeen heard upon death is unclear, but it originated from Alpha Team: Mission Deep Freeze RPG as a DeusExMachina created by Kotua in Space to restore Kotua's Minifig body through death and revival. It was again used as a Deus Ex Machina to restore Frozeen's Minifig body, and its true nature has not been revealed beyond that which Kotua in Space created (aside from a NeverHeardThatOne Before moment). Aside from this one example (which was in fact intended to strip Frozeen of his G.E. Body and thus reduce his strength), [=PeabodySam=] does not wish to have this feature reappear in Dino Attack RPG, especially due to its ability to be easily abused (Databoard and Kotua were frequently revived as such in the Alpha Team RPG).

* Doesn'tLikeGuns: [[KnightsKingdom2 Lord Vladek]].

* DrillTank: Ogel Drilling Vehicles.

* DualWielding: Kareem Nazareno, Zelda Frodongan, and Blaire Darkling wield two katanas each.

* DyingDeclarationOfLove: [[spoiler:Nazareno]] gave one to [[spoiler:Zelda]] in his final moments.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: It can seem strange reading Atton Rand's early posts, which at best were a rough summary of what was happening, full of contrived coincidences and artistic license in medicine (with his characters repeatedly suffering absurd injuries and recovering quickly) along with his three characters- Zenna, [[LEGORockRaiders Axle]], and Elizabeth- compared to his numerous [=NPCs=] now. Also his depiction in the LEGOIsland arc of a very clear cut "[[{{Demonization}} realists are evil]]" ideology is noticeably different from his more recent posts, which are more morally gray and tend to be somewhat grounded in reality whenever possible.
** Hoo boy. Just read some of [=PeabodySam=]'s early posts and try not to get weirded out. Most notably, the whole plot twist about a Mutant T-Rex being disguised as a Minifig. No wonder he later {{retcon}}ned so much of it.
*** Also, it's amusing to mention that, compared to how much DarkerAndEdgier the RPG currently is, many of [=PeabodySam=]'s early posts were very... childish. For example, the harshest insult that Fogel could come up with for Amanda Claw is "[[BigStupidDoodooHead Mrs. Dumb-Mouth]]".[[note]]Although, given that "dumb" has multiple meanings, this could have potentially been a somewhat-clever insult... if that was how [=PeabodySam=] originally intended it.[[/note]]
** Heck, just read the early Dino Attack RPG in general. Minifigs turning into [[{{Bionicle}} Toa]]? A villain from ''SonicTheHedgehog''? Rahaga in [[{{LEGO Exo-Force}} Exo-Force Mechs]]? EarlyInstallmentWeirdness indeed.
** Not exempt from some of the later posts. Andrew's "dark conciousness", anybody?
* EarnYourHappyEnding: Just about every characters went through the death of loved ones, injuries, loss, hopelessness, and more before finally defeating [[spoiler:[[LEGOUniverse Baron Typhonus]]]] and ending the Dino Attack war.
* EarthIsABattlefield: Mutant Dinos have destroyed most of the world with the exception of Antarctica, and even then an invasion was attempted, although some of the damage has been repaired recently.
** Noteworthy though is that battles are rarely shown to take place in any locations outside those exclusive to LEGO Canon. One wonders of the untold adventures of Dino Attack fighting in Tokyo, New York, London, Belgium, Billund...
* EinsteinHair: Frank Einstein, [[CaptainObvious but what did you expect?]]
* ElegantWeaponForAMoreCivilizedAge: Solomon views katanas this way but will not hesitate to use a gun when necessary.
* EldritchAbomination: The [[LEGOUniverse Maelstrom]] as depicted in the RPG would make H.P. Lovecraft proud.
** [[WordOfGod Atton Rand]] has actually joked about introducing a plot thread in which it turns out that the Eldritch Abominations written by Lovecraft such as Cthulu, Yog-Sothoth, ect. were all based on Stromlings.
* EldritchLocation: The Torn World.
** The Maelstrom Temple, to a degree.
* ElectricTorture: The torture of Little Bot in Villains Headquarters.
* EliteMooks: Minifig/Mutant Lizard Hybrids.
* EmperorScientist: [[BigBad Dr. Rex]], [[LEGOAgents Dr. Inferno]], and (to an extent) Zed Provhezor.
* Emphasize Everything: Blaire Darkling intentionally speaks like this, often emphasizing random words with little relevence.
* EndingMemorialService: One of the last events to take place on Adventurers' island was the memorial for [[spoiler:Dust]].
** And then at the end of the RPG, funerals were held for [[spoiler:Nazareno, Athena and Oswald Fabello, and Winston and Mathias Grendelwulf.]]
*** Additionally, Frozeen and Shannon were making plans for [[spoiler:Rex, Amanda, and]] Roger's memorial services.
* EnemyMine: [[LEGOAlphaTeam Evil Ogel]], [[KnightsKingdom2 Lord Vladek]], [[LEGOAdventurers Lord Sinister]], and [[LEGOIsland the Brickster]] allied with the Dino Attack Team to ensure the defeat of XERRD.
** A slightly less intense version occurred after the mutant dinos had overrun the team's camp on Adventurers' Island. A group made up of three men who fled into the jungle turned out to be Rotor (who at the time had gained a significant amount of distrust after court-martialling and trying to execute an agent), George (the man who Rotor had tried to have executed), and Commander Johnson (the man sent to apprehend Rotor for his attempt to execute George), and they now had to work together after getting lost. Of course the tension was lowered once they were joined by Lance and Cabin.
** Clint Wayne and Angel Eyes were old rivals in Gold City before teaming up in the Dino Attack.
* EnforcedMethodActing: In-universe example. Trigger initially did not tell Carrie that the gun he had pressed to her head was loaded with blanks because he wanted a genuine reaction. Later he relented and just asked Carrie to play along.
* TheEngineer: [[CaptainObvious Engineer.]]
* EnsembleCast: The Dino Attack RPG has no single main protagonist.
** RotatingProtagonist: Every post in Dino Attack RPG shifts the perspective to another character, especially since players are not allowed to post twice in a row due to BZPower forum rules.
*** It can even happen in just one post. Many players in the RPG have a number of NPC's besides their main character, and a single post will often shift between the perspectives of different characters. For instance, Atton Rand's post frequently switched between the point of view of Rotor, Pierce, Cabin, Kate, and occasionally Clint Wayne.
* EnsignNewbie: Carl Lutsky.
* EurekaMoment: When Frozeen said that he was ''shocked'' by the news of Ogel's ([[ActuallyADoombot apparent]]) demise, Rex realized that [[ShockAndAwe electricity]] was [[AttackItsWeakPoint key to defeating Dr. Rex]].
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: [[AvertedTrope Averted]] with Oswald Fabello, who absolutely hates his mother for what she did to him and his siblings. [[spoiler:After losing all hope and realizing there is nothing left to lose, he shot and killed her.]]
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Although he has not shown true affection towards Kate, Wallace Bishop went out of his way to ensure that Dr. Strangebrick did not harm her. [[spoiler:Of course, given what we later learn about [[ReverseMole "Wallace Bishop"]], this trope isn't actually played as straight as it first seemed.]]
** Dr. Strangebrick was very close to his daughter Jenny, seeing as he personally tutored her in the ways of science and had a close friendship with her as his lab assistant.
** Though Oswald is extremely conflicted, half of him wanted to save his sister from being killed by Mutant Dinos by having her join XERRD.
** Despite all that he went through, Dr. Rex still had BigBrotherInstinct towards Katerina Schattenberg, even up until the final battle. [[spoiler:However, between Katerina renouncing him and [[TheManBehindTheMan Baron Typhonus]] goading him, the absolute obliteration of his Big Brother Instinct is what absolutely left Dr. Rex past the point of redemption.]]
* EverybodyIsSingle: For the most part, everyone was single upon joining the Dino Attack Team. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] with Helm, who has a wife and son; Spy, who had a wife and multiple children; and Wright and Shiller, who were dating prior to the Dino Attack. Also Sarah Bishop and Elizabeth Winsor ''had'' been in relationships prior.
* EveryoneIsRelated: Katerina Schattenberg is the aunt of Cane and the biological sister of Dr. Rex, who switched bodies with Rex, who is the brother of Chompy, who is the offspring of the alpha female T-Rex and was adopted by Frozeen, who was created by the Brickster and is the adopted son of Dr. Zachary Abody, who used to work with Dr. Rex and General, who is Evil Ogel's brother... ''[[YiddishAsASecondLanguage Oy vey]]''.
* EveryoneIsASuspect: They did say that ''anyone ''could be TheMole, and it's notable to say that Specs and Amanda Claw were both top suspects for a time.
* EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether: Dr. Rex, Zachary Abody, and General; Dr. Cyborg, Catless, Charon, and Crystal; Frozeen and Gromtin; and Hotwire and Shiller.
* EverythingSoundsMenacingInGerman: Probably the reason why [[MadDoctor Medic]] and [[EvilGenius Zed Provhezor]] have stereotypical East European [[FunetikAksent Funetik Aksents]], why one unnamed XERRD scientist [[GratuitousGerman only speaks German]], and why the surnames Schattenberg and Dunkelheit are German-based.
* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: The very premise of the RPG.
* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: Kiddy and the army of Stromling Monkeys.
* EverythingsBetterWithSamurai: ''Quasifigus lacertilia'' and Pterisa wear samurai armor, while Solomon Koplowitz is actually a samurai.
* EverythingsDeaderWithZombies: [[LEGOUniverse Stromlings]].
* EverythingsSatiatingWithSandwiches: Heavy [[TrademarkFavoriteFood really likes sandwiches]].
* EvilCanNotComprehendGood: While Dust was not evil, he could not understand the selflessness exhibited by the rest of the team.
* EvilCounterpart: Rex and Dr. Rex.
** Before the [[EnemyMine villain alliance]], Frozeen and General Evil.
* EvilCripple: Zed Provhezor.
* EvilEvolves: An InformedAbility of Mutant Lizards is their ability to adapt, making it difficult to defeat Mutant Lizards with the same battle strategy twice. Additionally, various breeds of Mutant Dinosaurs adapted to the cold arctic climate of Antarctica.
* EvilGenius: Of all the XERRD scientists, Zed Provhezor probably best fits this trope.
* EvilIsHammy: Stromling!Zach. Even called out by Andrew.
* EvilIsNotAToy: [[SarcasmMode Go ahead, Dr. Rex. Just inject yourself with trace amounts of a dark and malicious force known to destroy the universe. It's most certainly not going to come back to bite you...]]
** [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] at the last minute by Andrew abruptly having second thoughts on being able to use the Maelstrom for his own purposes.
* EvilKnockoff: [=ShadowTech=]'s vehicles are the same as Dino Attack's, only painted black.
* EvilLaugh: Stromling!Zach. [[LEGOAlphaTeam Evil Ogel]] and [[spoiler:[[LEGOUniverse the Darkitect]]]] also seem to enjoy this to some extent.
* EvilMakesYouUgly: [[IWasQuiteALooker General used to look handsome.]] Then he became General Evil and got his skin burned off...
* EvilOldFolks: [[OlderThanTheyLook Dr. Rex, who is eighty years old despite his looks.]] General Evil and presumably [[LEGOAlphaTeam Evil Ogel]] also count, at least before the [[EnemyMine villains' alliance]].
* EvilPoacher: Scratch, [[LEGOAdventurers Rudo Villano, and Mr. Cunningham]].
* EvilRedhead: Carolyne Provencal and Paulie Gonepus.
** Inverted with Stromling Zach. Although redhaired as a minifig (and his minifig disguise), [[PurpleIsTheNewBlack his hair is purple as a Stromling]].
* EvilSoundsDeep: [[LEGOAdventurers Lord Sam Sinister]], [[LEGOAlphaTeam Evil Ogel]], and [[spoiler:[[LEGOUniverse the Darkitect]]]].
* EvilVersusEvil: The Villains versus XERRD.
** XERRD versus [[LEGOUniverse the Maelstrom]].
** [=ShadowTech=] versus [[LEGOUniverse the Maelstrom]].
** EvilVersusOblivion: Pretty much the justification for the above cases of EvilVersusEvil. For example, [[LEGOAlphaTeam Ogel]] wishes to rule the world, while [[spoiler:[[LEGOUniverse Baron Typhonus]] seeks to destroy it through XERRD]], prompting Ogel to ally with Dino Attack Team to help defeat the Maelstrom.
* TheEvilsOfFreeWill: [[LEGOAlphaTeam Evil Ogel]] and General Evil's primary justification for being evil.
* ExploringTheEvilLair: Kate, Dust, and Zachary all made efforts to explore the XERRD fortress on their own (although the former had no real choice in the matter). Kate and Zachary were captured and Dust was discovered snooping around by Minerva.
** On two separate occasions in two separate XERRD establishments, Rex and Amanda Claw were part of groups that Explored the Evil Lair.
* {{Expy}}: General Evil is, more or less, a fused {{Expy}} of [[StarWars General Grievous]] and [[ABugsLife Hopper]].
** A mad, brilliant inventor in control of an airship, an army of robots, and a water monster powered by seven emeralds who later betrays him? Well, when you put it like that, Kotua certainly seems like an {{Expy}} of [[SonicTheHedgehog Dr. Eggman]].
** In a time when Amanda Claw's personality was still severely underdeveloped, she nearly became an {{Expy}} of Dino Attack RPG's only female primary character at the time, Dromus. How so? Her weapon of choice, a chain whip, was blatantly stolen from Dromus. However, especially following the revelation of her backstory, Amanda's DivergentCharacterEvolution led to her dropping the chain whip and picking up the knife, helping to distance her from Dromus as well as most other characters.
** Talia Kaahs can be seen as an {{Expy}} of [[StarWars Shaak Ti]], especially when one considers the popular Crack Pairing of Shaak Ti and General Grievous.
** Although Greybeard is not really based upon any particular character, he does act as an {{Expy}} of [[PiratesOfTheCaribbean Captain Hector Barbossa]] in certain scenes, especially during Rex and Amanda's WartimeWedding.
** [=PeabodySam=]'s characterization of Specs is essentially an {{Expy}} of [[{{Fringe}} Colonel Philip Broyles]].
** Toa Antrakha did this twice to his characters who were turned into villains. While enslaved by [[LEGOAgents Dr. Inferno]], Spino was an {{Expy}} of Duskmon from ''DigimonFrontier''. As Enox Phorm, Raptor became an Expy of the titular creatures from ''{{Alien}}''.
** Much of Atton Rand's cast that does not consist of [[CaptainErsatz Captain Ersatzes]] often consists of [[{{Expy}} Expies]] of movie characters, though many of them manage to break off enough from their inspirations to become seperate individuals. Frank Bowman is loosely inspired by [[TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey Dave Bowman]]. Cam O'Cozy started as an Expy of Major "King" Kong from the movie ''[[DrStrangelove Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb]]'' and ended as an Expy of Ash from ''{{Alien}}'', while Dr. Strangebrick is an Expy of the titular character of ''Dr. Strangelove''. Barry Jackson and Giovanni Wade were loosely inspired by characters in ''SavingPrivateRyan''. The staff of Outpost 4 drew inspiration from characters in ''TheThing''. Rotor drew inspiration from Lt. Colonel Kilgore from ''ApocalypseNow'', and Lance also drew inspiration from the same movie (his last name was changed to Williams, rather than Johnson as in the film, to seperate him from the movie), Pierce is an expy of the main character from ''Series/{{Mash}}''. Cabin's appearance drew some inspiration from Michelle Rodriguez in ''{{Avatar}}'', and Trigger was a loose expy of James Woods' performance in ''JohnCarpentersVampires''.
*** Firecracker is an interesting case. While he was based on a character from the obscure spaghetti Western ''DuckYouSucker'', his depiction isn't so much based on the actual movie's depiction of him as a guilt-ridden ex-terrorist as it is the humorous depictions of him in Atton Rand's {{Downfall}} Parodies, where he is shown to be a trigger-happy maniac who loves seeing things explode and has made it his life's ambition to blow up Hitler for reasons unknown.
*** Stromling!Palmer is basically an {{Expy}} of Stromling!Zach and Stromling!Ahua, created to fill the gap by the former's HeelFaceTurn and the latter's death.
** Silencia Venomosa and Bricassius are [[{{Expy}} Expies]] of O-Ren Ishii and the crime boss who killed her parents from ''KillBill''.
** As a friendly raptor partner who follows Demoman around, See the "prototype" Mutant Raptor was developed into an Expy of Rappy from the ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhKW66JLwiY Rappy "n" Demo]]'' series.
* EyeBeams: Mutant T-Rexes have laser vision.
* EyeScream: Greybeard lost all vision in his right eye due to a Mutant Raptor attack. Holly Vinyaya's own right eye was clawed at by an acid-dipped Mutant Raptor claw.
** [[LEGOUniverse The Maelstrom]] entered General's G.E. Body through the eyeholes in his helmet, [[InvokedTrope invoking]] this trope.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: WordOfGod says that this is how Roger Remous died at the hooks of Fssinister, which has considerably helped Amanda Claw accept his death.
** [[spoiler:Adventure]] willingly and eagerly performed a HeroicSacrifice to buy Rex and others enough time to escape.
** [[spoiler:Semick's]] death might be one of the most dignified deaths in the entire RPG.
* FaceHeelTurn: Oswald Fabello and Raptor did this when they joined XERRD.
** Zachary also preformed a FaceHeelTurn against his will.
* FaceYourFears: [[spoiler:[[LEGOUniverse The Darkitect]] brought Dino Attack Team's worst fears to life and forced them to fight.]]
* TheFaceless: Spy always wears a mask in public, even getting married to Mrs. Rutherford.
** Specs too, [[TheUnreveal including (for the reader, anyways) when he is actually unmasked]]!
* FacelessGoons: When Quasifigus Hybrids wear their helmets.
* FailedaSpotCheck: French Fries was briefly seen casually talking to Zenna in the Dino Attack Headquarters... apparently completely oblivious to the fact that members of both the idealist and realist sides of the team are inside trying to kill each other, and for that matter the entire conflict that ''he'' unintentionally caused.
** When Firecracker tried to pull that TakingYouWithMe stunt, he failed to notice that only a small fraction of the Mutant Dino army was actually inside the building at that point.
* FailureHero: Just look at Rex in the events following Dr. Rex's apparent defeat.
* FailureKnight: Libo bears several qualities of a FailureKnight. Due to hubris, his entire organization was decimated by Ogel's forces, forcing Libo to advocate for a replacement organization ([[LEGOAlphaTeam Alpha Team]]). As Little Bot, he worked from behind-the-scenes in Ogel's bases to ensure that Alpha Team would succeed where his own organization had failed.
* FairPlayWhodunnit: [[TheMole XERRD's mole]], while not too obvious, can be figured out by paying attention to minor details and allowing oneself to distrust anyone. In fact, it was such Fair Play that [=PeabodySam=] had to go out of his way to put less emphasis on the real mole and instead focus on [[RedHerringMole Red Herrings]].
* FalseGunshot: This happened at least once while the mutant dinos were invading the Dino Attack Camp on Adventurers' Island. Of course it probably felt like this for everyone in the camp when Rotor suddenly arrived with a T-1 Typhoon and began gunning the dinos from above.
* FamousLastWords: Considering all the deaths in Dino Attack RPG, this is ''not'' going to be a complete list, but here's a few examples:
** You've... grown up... Uncle Wallace would have been... so... proud." [[spoiler:Frank Einstein]]
** "''Hey, Dr. Rex! I've got a message for you! ZNAP YOU!''" [[spoiler:Adventure]]
** "Mom...? Dad...? Alfred...? Roger...? Is... is that really you...? I have... I have waited... so long... to see you... again..." [[spoiler:Amanda Claw]]
** "Goodbye." [[spoiler:Rex]]
** "[[DisappearedDad Your father]]... would be proud..." [[spoiler:General]]
* FanDisservice: [[{{Pyromaniac}} Andrew Jackson]], who is dirty, sweaty, pale, and unshaven to begin with, was apparently running through the battlefield ''in his underwear''. BrainBleach now, please.
* FantasticRacism: The extremists of the idealist-realist bordered on this trope, attacking anyone with opposing views.
** Non-mutated dinosaurs always refer to Mutant Dinos as "abominations".
** Minifigs display Fantastic Racism towards Quasifigus Hybrids. Andrew helping Pterisa integrate into Minifig society are him trying to get people to avert this.
* FascinatingEyebrow: Many characters express confusion or amusement with the raise of an eyebrow.
* FateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler:[[TragicVillain Dr. Rex]] was unable to die due to [[TheManBehindTheMan Baron Typhonus's]] DivineIntervention. However, he was still on the brink of death and suffering terrible agony and pain from his wounds and the Maelstrom, compounded with the knowledge that he was the Darkitect's plaything all along.]] It's not hard to feel a little pity for him in this state.
* AFatherToHisMen: With some exceptions, many of the elite agents are like this.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Carolyne Provencal can be downright terrifying... when she's acting sweet and polite.
** While not evil, per se, Amanda Claw was able to infuriate Trigger by smiling sweetly at him.
** [[spoiler:[[LEGOUniverse Baron Typhonus]]]] carried a kind demeanor when speaking. Until you infuriated him...
* FictionalCountry: LEGOLAND and Barron.
* FinalBattle: Dino Attack Team fought one against [[FinalBoss Dr. Rex]] and his Mutant Dino forces in LEGO City.
* FinalBoss: Dr. Rex.
* FinalSolution: An extremely rare example in that it's actually somewhat justified. The whole point of the Dino Attack Team was to eliminate the threat of mutant dinosaurs, namely by destroying them.
** A much more brutal case occurred with Cam O'Cozy, whose plan seemed to involve complete genocide against everyone in the team with the slightest idealistic views. It turned out that his target was actually the ''entire'' Dino Attack team, and he simply taken advantage of an already intense rivalry between two sides by manipulating the more aggressive one into violence, hoping that a significant number of both would die in the resulting civil war. Of course the whole thing was planned by Dr. Rex, who in addition to programming Cam O'Cozy used the [[LEGOUniverse Maelstrom]] to corrupt Digger's mind.
* FireBreathingDiner: ''Never'' eat super-spicy-tongue-melting-jail-cell-door-opening-hot pizza unless you're Aravis, Helmie, or from LEGO Island.
* FireBreathingWeapon: The weapon of choice of [[{{Pyromaniac}} Pyro]], [[SweetPollyOliver A.J. Orange]], [[ActionMom Sarah Bishop]], and now Rex.
* FireForgedFriends: While most of the Dino Attack Team is a BandOfBrothers, there are others who would be classified as FireForgedFriends, such as [[NobleMaleRoguishMale Greybeard and Frozeen]], since they would likely have never gotten along if it were not for the Dino Attack.
** The entire Second Headquarters Squad appears to get along very well with each other, but Soldier and Demoman notably began friends [[AWizardDidIt after they worked together to defend a small castle from an angry wizard's dragon.]]
** Hotwire and Kat, though admittedly they did have some sort of platonic chemistry from the moment they met.
** There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and saving someone's life on mutliple occations like Andrew has for Zach is one of them.
* FiveBadBand:
** Using prominent characters involved in XERRD
*** [[BigBad The Big Bad]]: Dr. Rex
*** TheDragon: Michelle Glados
*** [[EvilGenius The Evil Genius]]: Zed Provhezor and Walter Breen
*** TheBrute: Blaire Darkling, Oswald Fabello, and [[spoiler:Attila Huntsman]]
*** [[DarkChick The Dark Chick]]: Carolyne Provencal and Paulie Gonepus
*** SixthRanger: Raul
*** SixthRangerTraitor: Matthew Cyrista, Soloman Koplowitz, and Dr. Strangebrick
*** [[spoiler:TheManBehindTheMan: [[LEGOUniverse Baron Typhonus]]]]
** The Maelstrom's forces on Adventurers' Island
*** [[BigBad The Big Bad]]: [[spoiler:Baron Typhonus]]
*** [[CoDragons The Co Dragons]]: Zachary Virchaus and Ahua
*** [[EvilGenius The Evil Genius]]: Palmer
*** TheBrute: Colonel
*** [[DarkChick The Dark Chick]]: Zelda Frodongan
*** SixthRanger: Loop
*** TeamPet: Cranky and Kiddy
* FiveManBand:
** Using only At War's End primary characters:
*** TheLeader: Rex, Andrew, Reptile, or Zachary Virchaus
*** TheLancer: Fullmetal, Hotwire, or B
*** TheBigGuy: Peter Walter
*** TheSmartGuy: Dust, Hertz, Doctor Cyborg or David Norman
*** TheChick: Zenna
*** SixthRanger: Kuru
** Using only Medics:
*** TheLeader: Pierce
*** TheLancer: Wade
*** TheBigGuy: Medic and Marco Martinet
*** TheSmartGuy: Crusher
*** TheChick: Carver
*** SixthRanger: Copper, Shaw, and possibly Hale.
** Using only that guy from that show's characters:
*** TheLeader: Dust
*** TheLancer: Lutsky
*** TheBigGuy: Pharisee
*** TheSmartGuy: Hertz
*** TheChick: Naomi
*** SixthRanger: Solomon
*** [[{{Mentors}} The Mentor]]: Dr. Saran
** Using only Atton Rand's initial party on Adventurers' Island
*** TheLeader: Zenna
*** TheLancer: Pierce
*** TheSmartGuy: Kate
*** SixthRanger: George Brown
** Using Atton Rand's characters in the LEGO Island Arc
*** TheLeader: Zenna
*** TheLancer: Elizabeth
*** TheSmartGuy: Pierce or Frank Bowman
*** TheBigGuy: Cam O'Cozy at first.
*** Using Atton Rand's characters early during his time in the RPG:
*** TheLeader: Zenna
*** TheLancer: Elizabeth
*** TheSmartGuy: Axle (yes, ''[[LEGORockRaiders that]]'' Axle)
** Using only the non-Second Headquarters Squad agents present in Gold City:
*** TheLeader: Clint Wayne
*** TheLancer: Angel Eyes (though he somewhat took on the leader role later on)
*** TheBigGuy: Firecracker
*** TheSmartGuy: Maria
*** SixthRanger: Harmonica
** Using [=PeabodySam=]'s main cast:
*** TheLeader: Rex
*** TheLancer: Greybeard
*** TheSmartGuy: Frozeen
*** TheBigGuy: Chompy or General
*** TheChick: Amanda Claw
*** SixthRanger: Sam Throramebi or Sam Race
** Using Brikman [=McStudz=]'s main cast:
*** TheLeader: Zachary Virchaus
*** TheLancer: Minerva Fabello
*** TheBigGuy: Holly Vinyaya
*** [[{{Mentors}} The Mentor]]: Kareem Nazareno
*** SixthRanger: Zelda Frodongan
** Using Andrewnuva199's main cast:
*** TheLeader: Semick (also doubles as [[{{Mentors}} The Mentor]])
*** TheLancer: Raider/Stranger
*** TheSmartGuy: Bluetooth/Andrew
*** SixthRanger: Laxus
* {{Flanderization}}: A minor note in the [[LEGOIsland LEGO Island Comic Adventures]] stated that the Brickster wished to be as evil as [[LEGOAlphaTeam Evil Ogel]]. In Dino Attack RPG, the Brickster has been Flanderized to the point of being Ogel's self-proclaimed #1 fanboy.
** Especially in Atton Rand and imperial officer's posts, [[LEGOIsland Enter and Return]] have been Flanderized to the point that the ''only'' jokes they are capable of are variations of their "stretcher, megaphone, shark, tree, umbrella, and mailbox" sketch. In some other peoples' posts, their humor extends a little farther (for example, in one of [=PeabodySam=]'s posts, they were arguing about the color of their shirts), but for the most part, we only hear jokes about bringing a shark.
** Happens to minor extents for characters certain players aren't quite familiar with. One post between Digger and Solomon Flanderizes Digger's status and agendas with the rest of the team based on somewhat outdated information, protraying him as feeling mistrusted by the other Founding Members and wanting to collaborate with Solomon in secret to more effectively cure Mutant Dinos and not have to kill them all to ensure victory.
** In the [[CanonDiscontinuity non-canon]] scene where [[LEGOIsland Papa Brickolini]] was arrested by the Nick Brick, the Brickolinis were Flanderized ''heavily''. In the original games, the Brickolinis spoke with a light Italian accent and accidentally freed the Brickster twice (and the second time, they were GenreSavvy enough to try to prevent it from happening again). In this scene, the Brickolinis' Italian accents were turned UpToEleven, and the two chefs were depicted as completely oblivious as they incompetently freed the Brickster again and again over the years by constantly sending super-spicy pizzas to the jail, even after what happened the first two times.
* FlippingTheTable: After hearing his sister's name from his interrogator, Oswald Fabello flew into a rage and flipped over a table trying to reach the interrogator, Zach.
* TheFlorenceNightingaleEffect: Pierce apparently got close to a young Sarah Bishop while taking care of her injuries following an accident. Interestingly, they later rekindled their old romance when they met again, but their places switched, with Sarah now taking care of Pierce's injuries. It's also heavily implied that the former case is how Kate was born.
* FluffyTamer: Rex.
* {{Foil}}: Rotor, the aggressive commander who tries to think realistically and practically, putting his own personal morals aside and embracing the dark side of the war makes him the perfect {{foil}} for Zenna, the kind and compassionate idealist who thinks things through and puts her friends above all else. It's interesting to even note the two different fates of the characters, Zenna ended up paralyzed in one arm and with every bone in her body broken, while Rotor's so far made through most of the war without a scratch.
** Lance. the good-natured but trigger-happy rookie is a {{foil}} to Kate, the inexperienced rookie who has trouble adjusting to her surroundings.
** When they work together, the cranky, pessimistic, and down-to-earth Greybeard is often a {{Foil}} to the idealistic and romantic Rex.
** When Atton Rand started planning his new primary character, he intentionally tried to make the exact opposite of Zenna. She is a woman, the new character's a man. Zenna was a kind and compassionate idealist, the new guy is a cold, selfish realist. Zenna actually cared for the good of her planet and the cause of the team, he doesn't give a [[PardonMyKlingon znap]] and is only in it for the money. The result was the character of Trigger, whom he found a lot more enjoyable.
*** Interestingly, in the flashback, Montoya arguably serves as a {{foil}} to Trigger/Schiess. Whereas Schiess is professional and practical, Montoya is probably the most moral of the group. While Schiess is simply in it for the money Montoya is actually trying to provide for his girlfriend who he seems to genuinely love and is only involved with crime due to financial problems. For that matter, Montoya was the first person out of the lot who objected when Scorsese refused to pay a waitress's tip. Also Montoya was probably the one person who did the least illegal things out of them all, given that he's simply the driver.
*** Montgonel was partially intended as a {{foil}} for Pharisee. Where Pharisee is very "preachy" acting as though he has divine rights to justice, Montgonel is more calm and professional, preferring to follow protocol. Montgonel also thinks more in shades of grey, unlike Pharisee's perceptions of black and white morality. Finally, where Pharisee judges based soley on the crime itself, Montgonel looks more into the details, i.e. motives, background, ect. so while he probably would have nothing against capturing an agent like say... Snake, who was an unrepenetent criminal already charged with bank robbery who had attempted to desert, he would be a bit more lenient toward Montoya, a family man who attempted to kill the woman responsible for killing five of his partners.
*** An unintentional example, as the two were created by entirely different people, comes from looking at the two semi-religious characters of Shaw and Pharisee. Shaw is a good person and capable doctor, but she is left shy and somewhat insecure in her beliefs, simply finding comfort in her faith. Meanwhile, Pharisee uses his faith to give his life meaning, believing that the world is black and white, and it is his divine right to impart justice on others.
* ForDoomTheBellTolls: Played with. While no actual bells are tolling, the sound of thunder before the final battle sounded suspiciously like church bells ringing, according to the prose.
** [[http://youtu.be/nbUN2OWSeyg Anyone Can Die]], the soundtrack for a scene that takes place in the final battle, makes appropriate use of the Clock Tower bell from ''TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask''.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Dust's nightmare way back at Outpost 108.
** There were a few hints towards [[spoiler:both Frank Einstein and Wallace Bishop]] being the ReverseMole. [[spoiler:Frank Einstein's biography revealed that he was personally sent by [[LEGOUniverse Albert Overbuild and Vanda Darkflame]] to spy on XERRD, while Wallace Bishop's [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes relationship to Kate Bishop]] made him seem like prime HeelFaceTurn material, not to mention that Dino Attack's Reverse Mole delivered messages in a ''[[LawOfConservationOfDetail bishop]]''.]]
** Greybeard's RousingSpeech in Antarctica was intended as a "preview" of Greybeard's speech before the final battle.
** Andrew mentioning that he felt, in spite of being about to face Stromling!Zach in a duel, that all would be well by Christmas when they would partcipate in an island-wide celebration. Cue Andrewnuva199's final posts nearly two years later...
** [[spoiler:Amanda's death and Rex's HeroicSacrifice]] were both heavily foreshadowed in Greybeard's flashback/dream sequence.
** As Rex was mourning [[spoiler:illusion!]]Amanda's death in the Maelstrom Temple, Stranger's Mutant Lizard arrived to protect him from [[spoiler:illusion!]]Kotua. Although this was [[WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants Written by the Seat of Your Pants]], it served as perfect {{foreshadowing}} towards the scene in which Rex was [[spoiler:mourning Amanda's actual death in the final battle, and Trouble arrived to protect him from Michelle Glados.]]
* {{Forgiveness}}: Greybeard finally forgave Beatrice just before he died in ''[[WhatIf December 21, 2010]]''.
** Minerva Fabello finally forgave her mother, Athena, after she [[spoiler:[[DeathEqualsRedemption was fatally wounded by Oswald.]]]]
* ForegoneConclusion: As of November 2005, Dino Attack RPG had a ForegoneConclusion in that Dino Attack Team ''had'' to win the war.
** Trigger himself outright stated that Silencia killed five of his six partners at Mindstorms, Inc. Given that we actually see Trigger trying to call Montoya, it becomes clear that it doesn't end well for Orange, Scorsese, Verbal, Keaton, or Deniro.
*** Due to Silencia Venomosa's threat to Michelle Glados, it's obvious that the flashback won't end well for Uærlig Sindstorme or Edward Korrupte either.
* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: When he tried to appeal to [[LEGOAdventurers Lord Sinister]], [[spoiler:[[LEGOUniverse the Darkitect]] appeared as Baron Typhonus. Only after Lord Sinister rejected his proposal did the Darkitect reveal his true form.]]
* FourIsDeath: that guy from that show likes to use the number four and Lutsky drew the four of clubs in Dust's card trick. Imaginary Dust explained that the four of clubs is one of the most ominous cards becuse it is sometimes called "the devil's bedstead".
* FourLinesAllWaiting: Every player writes from a different character's perspective, resulting in various interconnected plot threads.
** The Adventurers' Island campaign alone was made up of at least 30 different stories. Aside from the actual mission at hand, there was Zach's corruption, Kate's efforts to fit in with the rest of the team, her gradual relationship with Pierce, Rex's quest to form an alliance with the dinosaurs, Rotor's relationship with the rest of the team, and Minerva's efforts to save Zach.
** Similarily, the previous story arc had not one, not two, but ''three ''different plots going on. Much focus was on the LEGOIsland mission, but it wasn't long before we were jumping back and forth between the agents in the Torn World, the mission in Antarctica, the refugee riots, Zenna's exposure of the Antarctica mission and ensuing chaos, an entire civil war going on as the result of a genocidal maniac wanting to murder anyone with the slightest idealistic beliefs, the comic relief provided by Enter and Return, Zenna's working relationship with Pierce in the hospital, and Hotwire and B gallivanting off to find Kat after Cane returned and captured her.
** Some of Atton Rand's more recent posts have played this in a more straight forward fashion, shifting between the actual mission though occasionally switching between different individuals involved, Pierce's arrival in Antarctica and his meeting with Sarah Bishop, and the humorous shenanigans of Clint Wayne, Angel Eyes, and the Second Headquarters Squad.
* FreudianExcuse: Dust never knew his mother and his father was an [[AlcoholicParent alcoholic]] and [[WouldHurtAChild abusive]].
** Similarly, Michelle Glados's mother died in childbirth, her father was often drunk and abusive, [[FriendlessBackground and she grew up without any friends]].
** Dr. Rex was separated from his sister at a very early age, scarring the young boy for life.
* FrickinLaserBeams: Mutant T-Rexes have [[EyeBeams laser vision]].
* FriendOrFoe: Lutsky's infiltration squad unwittingly massacred a group of Dino Attack Agents disguised as XERRD personnel.
** Sometime afterword, a half-asleep Lance was keeping watch with a machine gun on hand, and panicked when he saw two "Stromlings", and opened fire. Turned out he was actually shooting at Kate and Clint Wayne.
** Poor Clark, shot through the head because Palmer tricked his teammates into thinking he was a Stromling.
* FriendlessBackground: Kate seems to have experienced this during her childhood.
** Michelle Glados literally had no friends, which ultimately led to her becoming a bitter loner.
** Before joining [[LEGOAlphaTeam Alpha Team]], Frozeen had very few friends.
** Dust never did nor has any desire to have friends. Likely becuse of the emotional barrers he has placed around himslef
* FriendlyEnemy: This was roughly the relationship between Angel Eyes and Clint Wayne before the war- the two roughest, toughest gunslingers in town, and the only ones stand a chance against each other- and part of why they're able to work together when they're both assigned to Gold City.
* FriendlySniper: Barry Jackson A.K.A. Shotgun. He's quite a likeable guy... just don't give him any reason to target you.
* FriendlyTarget: Keith Empson.
* FromBadToWorse: The events following [[spoiler:Baron Typhonus's DivineIntervention]] in a nutshell.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: Dr. Ronald Alexander was just an ordinary scientist who grew up in the Great Depression. He would one day become [[BigBad Dr. Rex]], the monstrous and maddened Mutant T-Rex who leads the Maelstrom's forces in the apocalypse itself.
** Amanda Remous was only a young and innocent girl when her parents were murdered. She would later become one of the most infamous assassins in LEGOLAND.
** Zachary Virchaus was just an average LEGOIsland civilian. When he was corrupted into a Stromling, he became one of the most dangerous (and [[EvilIsHammy hammiest]]) generals serving the Maelstrom.
* FunWithAcronyms: XERRD and D.I.N.O. Attack.
* FunetikAksent: Spy, Heavy, Medic, and Zed Provhezor have varying levels of a stereotypical East European Funetik Aksent. Spy's accent pronounces "th" as "z", Heavy's accent pronounces "w" as "v", Medic's accent combines Spy and Heavy's accents and pronounces "s" as "z" and "f" as "v", and Zed Provhezor's accent is Medic's accent plus replacing "c" with "k". Additionally, Heavy drops his articles, while Medic and Provhezor use a few German words such as "und" and "ja". The sentence "Yes, I was at the car dealership the other day and purchased a Volkswagen, but then I crashed it and it caught on fire" would be pronounced the following ways:
** Spy: "Yes, I was at ze car dealership ze ozer day and purchased a Volkswagen, but zen I crashed it and it caught on fire."
** Heavy: "Yes, I vas at car dealership other day and purchased Volksvagen, but then I crashed it and it caught on fire."
** Medic: "Ja, I vaz at ze car dealership ze ozer day und purchazed a Volkzvagen, but zen I crashed it und it caught of vire."
** Provhezor: "Ja, I vaz at ze kar dealership ze ozer day und purchazed a Volkzvagen, but zen I krashed it und it kaught on vire."
* GDayMate: Hunter 2000, Adventure, Sniper, and other Australian characters tend to talk like this.
* GatlingGood: Heavy's specialty. Minerva ended up using one after her Fire Hammer was downed by Oswald.
* GenderNeutralWriting: In the Maelstrom Temple, to reflect the ignorance of his characters, [=PeabodySam=] refrained from identifying Pterisa's gender. Amusingly, although [=PeabodySam=] struggled to play the trope straight, Brikman [=McStudz=] simply averted the trope by using "her" right off the bat.
* GeneralRipper: Ronald E. Army used to be one of these ([[SarcasmBlind or so he thought]]), and Rotor comes dangerously close.
* GeniusBruiser: Blaire Darkling is said to be this.
* GeniusCripple: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted.]] Shannon Grimton is a biomedical engineer and technology expert, but she learned all this before breaking both her legs in the Dino Attack and being confined to a wheelchair, so her Genius is unrelated to her Cripple.
* GenreSavvy: Evil Ogel appears quite aware that Rex has an uncanny ability to survive.
** Amanda Claw, when it comes to disposing of bodies.
** Rex, Reptile, and other characters have mused that XERRD seems to follow nearly every villain cliche, right down to HerrDoktor.
** Anybody from LEGOIsland, apparently. Stranger too, to a lesser extent.
* GenreShift: Granted it's very hard to determine exactly what genre this would be, but different writers lean toward different angles. While it could be consistently classified as a war story, Between That Guy and Atton Rand it comes closer to science fiction of varying degrees of hardness, with efforts to keep things semi-grounded in reality; whereas Andrewnuva treats it more like fantasy. Many of Atton Rand's later posts could almost border on cosmic horror on a potentially Lovecraftian scale, while Andrewnuva199's still opted for the relatively lighthearted tone of the source material.
* GentlemanAndAScholar: Doctor Solomon Koplowitz.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: In fiction, swearing is good because it conveys strong emotion. On [[{{BZPower}} BZPower]], swearing is not good and is censored. The solution? [[PardonMyKlingon Take non-offensive terms and use them as cusswords.]]
** For a LEGO RPG on the family-friendly website [[BZPower BZPower]], Dino Attack RPG ''does'' contain (some subtle, others not-so-subtle) references to sex, drugs, and alcohol.
** In the Maelstrom Temple, Henderson had an OhCrap moment when he realized that "Kate" was actually a Stromling. What happens when you combine a LastSecondWordSwap with an order to fire? "Holy... ''Shoot''!"
** In one of Ronald E. Army's nonsensical rants, [[UrineTrouble what exactly stained the white flag so it turned yellow?]]
** When Solomon and Trigger are arguing, an amused Shiller asks if he sould get a ruler. It could be a juvenile measure of who is taller, [[BiggerIsBetterInBed but it could also be a measure of something else]]...
** On the eve of the final battle, Wright and Shiller decided that there was some "[[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything weird business]]" they needed to take care of.
** Generally, BZPower frowns on religious discussion (which is understandable due to it being a family-friendly website). Shaw and Pharisee are both characters who are in a way religious or spiritual. It helps somewhat that Atton Rand and That Guy From that Show, their respective players, are generally vague on exactly ''what religion'' they are (Pharisee quotes the Bible, but it's never actually been said that he ''is'' Christian or that he believes in God- likewise Shaw wears a cross, but her prayers are never described in detail, and it is partially hinted that while she believes in faith, she is undecided on what faith to believe in).
** After the initial [[HideYourLesbians controversy]] over the notion of [[SweetPollyOliver Andrea Jackson]] being gay, Atton Rand initially opted to continue to include those elements, but to downplay them and keep them as subtle as possible (starting with Maria and Andrea holding hands, references to Andrea's old spouse "[[GenderBlenderName Sam]]", and a brief moment in which it was heavily implied they had been engaging in intercourse, but Maria tried to cover it up). Later on once the disputes were settled he was able to get more explicit with their relationship.
** [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything Holly Vinyaya and Zelda Frodongan were probably not betting on when Zach and Minerva would go see some landmark on LEGOIsland...]]
* GiantSquid: The Octosaur and Mutant Vinscale Octomus.
* TheGhost: In a humorous shout-out to ''TheUsualSuspects'', there have been a few passing references to "Keyser Soze", a crime boss (one who Pierce believed to be a myth). Given the film actually treats Soze as a mythical figure (an in the process makes him even more terrifying), a Keyser Soze CaptainErsatz does not appear in the RPG.
* GhostCity: LEGOCity was initially this, although it is been somewhat repaired and some of the population is back. However, it is still played with [[LEGORacers Sandy Bay]] and other cities occasionally visited.
* GhostTown: Gold City.
* GhostPlanet: This was pretty much the state of the LEGO Planet in ''[[WhatIf December 21, 2010]]''.
* GladiatorGames: GAIA Squad was forced to partake in these.
* TheGlassesComeOff: Inverted; Frank Einstein's Wham Line came as the result of him putting ''on'' the glasses.
* GoMadFromTheIsolation: Ben Gunn.
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: Oswald Fabello finally snapped upon realizing that [[spoiler:[[LEGOUniverse Baron Typhonus]]]] was truly alive.
* GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler:Amanda and Trouble. Adventure too, according to WordOfGod.]]
* GodzillaThreshold: The [[InstantWinCondition Einstein Device]] is reserved for only this sort of occasion.
* GoingToGiveItMoreEnergy: The Overloader's function.
* GondorCallsForAid: Chompy sought the aid of the dinosaurs and [=TumTum=] tribesmen during the battle for the Pharaoh's Forbidden Ruins.
** Dino Attack Team asked [[LEGOAlphaTeam Alpha Team]] for aid during the final battle.
* GoneHorriblyRight: XERRD intended to make Rex act like a Minifig. They succeeded... a little too well.
* GoodIsNotNice: Trigger.
** Commander Pharisee, Head of Internal Affairs.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: Greybeard has a cool scar over his eye, while General received some nasty burns as General Evil. [[EvilPoacher Scratch]] also has multiple scars on his face, primarily from his work with [[LEGOAdventurers Sam Sinister]].
** Talia Kaahs received some nasty scars across her face, harshly averting BeautyIsNeverTarnished.
* GoodShepherd: Shaw seems to have some elements of this.
* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: Smoking usually designates that a character is either a badass or a badguy.
** CigarChomper: Bricassius, Clint, Snake, and Trigger.
** DistinguishedGentlemansPipe: Angel Eyes.
* GoshDangItToHeck: Although characters PardonMyKlingon most of the time nowadays, sometimes they resort to this. Usually more common earlier on in the RPG's lifetime.
* GratuitousGerman: Kuru met an unnamed XERRD scientist who only spoke German.
** Zed Provhezor and Medic will throw in some German (usually "ja" and "und") into their English speech.
* GratuitousSpanish: Señor Palomar will throw in some Spanish into his English speech.
* GrayingMorality: Many of Atton Rand's earlier posts started off as standard black-and-white morality, with the kind and compassionate Zenna with her loyal friends against definitely evil characters. When the idealist-realist feud broke out, he specifically portrayed the idealists as good and the realists as downright evil. During the Adventurers' Island campaign meanwhile, he introduced Rotor, the agressive and outright brutal realist as a good guy
* GreatWhiteHunter: Sniper and Adventure both have traits of this trope, especially in their pre-Dino Attack lives.
* GreenEyedMonster: Dr. Rex, whose first true act of evil was kidnapping Talia Kaahs on her wedding day out of jealousy.
* TheGrimReaper: The spirit from Greybeard's dream. To a much lesser extent, Frozeen as The Phantom.
* TheGrotesque: Pterisa.
* GunTwirling: Clint Wayne enjoys doing this from time to time.
* TheGunslinger: Clint Wayne and Angel Eyes.
* GutturalGrowler: Dr. Rex in his Mutant T-Rex form.
* GuysSmashGirlsShoot: Zachary Virchaus used a knife while Minerva Fabello used a gun in the Maelstrom Temple. Zig-Zagged later on during the fight with Blaire Darkling; Minerva and Holly shot, Zach alternated between shooting and smashing, and Zelda smashed.
* HairTriggerTemper: Clint Wayne once nearly shot Cabin because of this.
* HalfHumanHybrid: The Quasifigus Hybrids.
** Landro, Stealth, and, briefly, Databoard also count.
* HalloweenEpisode: One of [=PeabodySam=]'s posts, written on October 31, 2010, was intended as a Halloween Episode as it prominently featured [[EverythingsDeaderWithZombies Stromlings]] and Skeleton Mummies.
* HandWave: How did XERRD fit a Mutant T-Rex, [[{{LEGO}} LEGO's]] largest non-Creator dinosaur, in a disguise the size of a Minifig? Some sort of shrinking serum that reacts with oxygen. But, if you think that's bad, [=PeabodySam=]'s original explanation was [[AssPull even worse]]: XERRD just somehow ''stuffed'' Rex into that disguise really, really well.
** How did [[LEGORockRaiders Axle]] suddenly end up at Eldorado Fortress? Teleporter malfunction.
* HandicappedBadass: Rex.
* HangingJudge: Rotor's already pretty aggressive on the battlefield. If you want the defendant to live, you should keep him out of the court room. French Fries, too.
* HannibalLecture: Dust is a master of this trope.
* HardboiledDetective: Bogart.
* HasTwoMommies: A non-homosexual example; Minerva was raised by her two older brothers for the better part of eight years before Tod died.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Pharisee
* HeadsOrTails: It has been [[WordOfGod confirmed]] that [[spoiler:Nazareno's death]] was decided based on the flip of a coin.
* HesBack: Rex after recovering from his HeroicBSOD during the FinalBattle. [[ItsPersonal And he's back... with a vengeance!]]
* TheHeart: Zenna, Rex, and Pierce.
* TheHeartless: Stromlings.
* HeartwarmingOrphan: Kate, though she's technically not an orphan seeing as her mother is still alive and well, but she still experienced a rough childhood, never knew her own father, and lost the only other close relative at a young age.
* HeelFaceTurn: Of the five villains allied with Dino Attack Team, General is the only one who performed a HeelFaceTurn.
** Dr. Strangebrick and Dr. Cyborg have arguably performed heel face turns seeing as they are both former XERRD scientists now working with the Dino Attack team.
** In a very Darth Vader-esque example, not only does Minerva’s suffering force Zach to change his ways but overthrow the big boss and save the girl.
** XERRD itself pulled a HeelFaceTurn in the final battle, seeing the error of their ways and join the Dino Attack Team in stopping the Mutant Dinos.
* HeelRaceTurn: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] by the Quasifigus Hybrids. They appear to have switched sides twice during the war: first a HeelFaceTurn, then a FaceHeelTurn. However, they never actually were on Dino Attack Team's side; they were working for XERRD the whole time, and their Heel Face Turn was just a ploy and thus there was no real Face Heel Turn.
* HeelRealization: What ultimately led to [[TheAtoner General's]] HeelFaceTurn. Rex also had a Heel Realization in the form of a TomatoInTheMirror. Garry also had a turn of sorts, when he started to feel bad about his role in torturing Jenny.
** Dust had his HeelRealization at the last possible moment. While he stood atop the steps of the temple, he came to the sudden realization he was a jerk. [[spoiler:Sadly, he was shot moments later.]]
** Many members of XERRD, including Blaire Darkling, William Lee, Robert Nicholas, and Alvin Gadd, began to realize that their so-called destiny to repopulate the planet with dinosaurs was nothing more than [[spoiler:a plot by [[OmnicidalManiac Baron Typhonus]] to destroy the LEGO Planet]]. As a result, Blaire Darkling had XERRD align itself with the Dino Attack Team to fix its mistakes.
** Oswald Fabello had one upon realizing [[spoiler:Baron Typhonus was alive and had manipulated the entire Dino Attack]].
** It's debatable, but after nearly being killed by a High-Voltage Half-Track, [[BigBad Dr. Rex]] might have had one. Rex, at least, was trying to invoke this trope by drawing out Dr. Rex's death long enough for him to reflect upon all the pain and suffering that he caused when he created the Dino Attack. It's also worth noting that Dr. Rex did not want to continue the fight when he was [[spoiler:[[DemonicPossession possessed by the Darkitect]] and [[ObiWanMoment allowed himself to be killed]] by the Einstein Device, though how much of this was affected by a HeelRealization versus affected by being a DeathSeeker is unknown.]]
* HellishCopter: The T-1 Typhoon used by Rex, Hotwire, and Zyra to travel to the [[UndergroundLevel Goo Caverns]] was probably the least safe method of traveling to Ogel's Island imaginable.
** And then there's the ''Talon'' after it became Maelstrom-infected...
* TheHermit: Ben Gunn.
* TheHeroDies: [[spoiler:Rex.]]
* HeroKiller: General Evil, prior to his HeelFaceTurn.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: Many of the recurring [=NPCs=] who are off on their own adventures when they are not in the spotlight.
* HeroicBSOD: The goal of [[spoiler:[[FaceYourFears the Darkitect's illusions.]]]] He succeeded in giving Rex, Katerina, Minerva, and Hotwire Heroic [=BSODs=], although the effects did not last as long as he had hoped.
** Andrew hit a minor BSOD upon realizing fully that LEGOIsland, his hometown whose salvation was a major factor in him signing up for the team, had vanished into the Torn World.
** Pterisa suffered a massive HeroicBSOD once [[spoiler:the Darkitect]] revealed her identity to the Dino Attack Team. One moment, she was confident and stoic. Her Heroic BSOD left her extremely fragile and insecure.
** Sam Race crashed hard after he [[spoiler:failed to save his father]].
** Rex was suffering a massive HeroicBSOD after the deaths of [[spoiler:Amanda and Trouble]].
** Minerva suffered a minor HeroicBSOD after [[spoiler:Athena's death]]. She then entered another one after [[spoiler:killing Oswald]], only forcing herself out of it after [[spoiler:being goaded by the Darkitect into keep fighting and to avenge her fallen family.]]
** Kate had one for a while but recovered enough to help in the final battle. However, the aftereffects of said Heroic BSOD include PTSD.
* HeroicComedicSociopath: The entire Second Headquarters Squad in one form or another, but Heavy is probably the worst. Of course, it should hardly come as a surprise given [[Videogame/TeamFortress2 their inspiration]].
* HeroicSafeMode: Rex is prone to this. The results range from rescuing Dr. Einstein from a Mutant Raptor while using only rope to beating a Mutant Lizard to death with a metal pipe after it threatened Amanda Claw.
** Frozeen also has his own Hero Safe Mode which results in [[UnstoppableRage Unstoppable Rages]].
* HeroicSecondWind: [[spoiler:Trouble's]] HeroicSecondWind is probably the most notable, since he [[spoiler:got up from being mortally wounded, withstood being shot several more times, and was able to kill Michelle Glados with his dying breaths.]]
* HeroicWillpower: Amanda Claw is the only known individual to have been infected with Mutant Dino serum and fought off the mental effects through sheer willpower alone. [[{{Animorphism}} It still transformed her into a Mutant T-Rex, though.]]
** Pterisa had enough mental willpower to break free of the Maelstrom's control and Dr. Rex's enslavement.
** ADO Captain Yena reversed Maelstrom infection with nothing but his own mind.

* SociopathicHero: Rotor has massacred his enemies while playing classical music, had an ''entire T-1 Typhoon'' crew put on trial because the piot disobeyed orders (not to mention trying to have them all shot), ordered an inexperienced teenager into an enemy fortress filled with toxins, bombed said fortress while his own men ''might'' have still been inside, tortured children for fun... and did I mention that he's a good guy who ''[[DownerEnding nearly]]'' [[EarnYourHappyEnding earned his happy ending]]?

* UrgentMedicalAlert: The deaths of [[TheEngineer Engineer]] quickly led to Pierce and Medic rushing to the scene of the crime. Pierce more or less did the same again when Medic was killed (though he was implied to be in a different part of the same room).