The Super Dinosaurs is a DeviantArt original series by user Artapon, featuring well, superpowered dinosaurs. The series follows Rex, a Tyrannosaurus rex, and his other dinosaurian henchmen as they defeat the evil forces of the Every Villain Is Lemons (E.V.I.L.) organization.
This work provides examples of:
- A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Subverted. Though some one the dinosaurs can transform into robots, every one from the E.V.I.L. organization is a robot.
- Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: Most of the dinosaurs have colorful bodies.
- Animesque: The robot forms of Dolichorhynchops, Huabeisaurus and Atopodentatus. Given, they're inspired by Neptunia.
- Balloon Belly: Therizinosaurus and Deinocheirus.
- Barefoot Cartoon Animal
- The Cameo: Faded images of mythical creatures appear in the backgrounds of the Legendary creatures' profiles.
- Character Signature Song: A fan of the series has created a list of songs that he thinks fits with the 12 main factions of dinosaurs.
- Civilized Animal
- Early-Bird Cameo: Sometimes an animal will be mentioned before its official profile is revealed. This has been used in the past to determine that Nundasuchus and Charonosaurus will appear.
- Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors: Each element has its own strengths and weaknesses.
- Fantastic Racism: Based on its classification, an animal is assigned to one of 12 elements: Fire, Electric, Earth, Fighter, Water, Sky, Ice, Plant, Yin and Yang, Somic, Plasma and Gravity.
- Father Neptune: The Sauroposeidon. It's even named Poseidon.
- Feathered Fiend: The raptors, which are properly feathered. Albertosaurus, Gorgosaurus, Yutyrannus and Dilong all have feathers, and so are the non-coelurosaurian Concavenator and Condorraptor.
- Fun with Acronyms: The Every Villain Is Lemons organization. When shortened, the name reads as "evil".
- Honorable Elephant: Woolly mammoths, mastodons, Platybelodon, Anacus, Palaeoloxodon (three species in fact!), Stegodon and the obscure Zygolophodon appear.
- Instant Awesome: Just Add Mecha!:
- The leader and people of each element can merge into one giant "Megazord".
- The CPU animals can transform into Animesque robots.
- Killer Gorilla: The Gigantopithecus. It even has the power of King Kong.
- The Marvelous Deer: The Megaloceros appears.
- Mythology Gag: Egyptian Carcharodontosaurus has the power of Ra, an Egyptian god, and Sauroposeidon has the power of Poseidon, a Greek god.
- Naming Conventions:
- Most of the characters' names are shortened forms of their species' names. Additionally, all the Mega creatures have the prefix "-mega" in their species name (ex. Megalosaurus, Megaraptor, Megalodon etc.)
- Other non-Mega creatures have this too, such as Supersaurus being in the Super rank, and Aerotitan and Titanoceratops in the Titan rank.
- Never Smile at a Crocodile: Sarcosuchus, Metriorhynchus, Mahajangasuchus and the obscure Sunosuchus appear. Several stem-crocodiles (basal Archosauria) also appear in the Sonic tribe.
- Panthera Awesome: Smilodon, Thylacosmilus, Megistotherium and Thylacoleo. A real member of the genus Panthera, the American lion (P. (l) atrox) also appears.
- Power Levels: The Mega, Supreme and even Spirit ranks tend to be highly OP.
- Predators Are Mean: Many theropod dinosaurs are shown as ruthless carnivores.
- Predatory Business: The Every Villain Is Lemons (E.V.I.L.) organization.
- Raptor Attack: Averted. The raptors have the correct amount of feathers, and Microraptor is the correct color.
- Rhino Rampage: Elasmotheium and its obscure cousin, Sinotherium, appear. There's also the giant rhino relative Paraceratherium (refered to as "Indricotherium")
- Rodents of Unusual Size: Castoroides the Giant Beaver makes an appearance.
- Rule of Cool: Depending on their element, the dinosaurs can either shoot fireballs, lightning bolts, snowballs and more.
- Savage Wolves: The Dire Wolf makes an appearance. It's also part of the super-powered Spirit rank.
- Shout-Out:
- The Fortress creatures' robot modes are based on characters from Team Fortress 2.
- With the exception of Triadobatrachus and Sahaliyania, which is based on Star Wars. Ironically, Xenokeryx amidalae, which itself was named after Princess Amidala, doesn't have Star Wars powers.
- Zygolophodon's color is based on the Pokémon Zygarde.
- The robot from of Teleocrater is a reference to Doctor Who and the Sonic Screwdriver.
- The inclusion of Nundasuchus, Umoonasaurus, Bonitasaura and Labyrinthodon appears to be inspired by Jurassic World: The Game.
- Several of the Plasma Dinosaurs were inspired by the toy line of the same name by Mega Blok.
- Alioramus - Tyrannogon
- Edaphosaurus - Sailslice
- Lexovisaurus - Goliahide
- Neovenator - Raptillion
- Pinacosaurus - Ramtail
- Tapuiasaurus - Razorneck
- Sinoceratops - Gnawhorn
- Albertaceratops - Triceradar
- Note that the species names have changed, this is because the species represented by the toys have already been used in the series.
- The entire Sonic tribe
- The Fortress creatures' robot modes are based on characters from Team Fortress 2.
- Shown Their Work:
- Aside from the long list of obscure species above, there are also interesting things to note, namely:
- Spinosaurus being able to walk and swim.
- Many mnairaptorans have feathers attaching to their second finger.
- Carnotaurus being portrayed with armor.
- The aforementioned long plams on pterosaurs.
- While we're on it, the Nyctosaurus has no fingers at all.
- Supreme Chef: Allo the Allosaurus. Apparently, he sometimes cooks his own poop and shapes it into dinosaur-shapes.
- Talking Animal: Some of the Super Dinosaurs can speak English.
- Threatening Sharks: Megalodon and Hybodus appear. That's until you realize that the former is on the superpowered Mega rank.
- Unexplained Accent:
- El Pelicano, the Pelecanimimus, has a Spanish accent.
- Another ornithomimid, Ornitho the Ornithomimus, has a Colorado accent, despite some fossils being found in Alberta, Canada.