History Anime / Dinozaurs

** It is stated several times that a group called the Ancients gave the Dino Knights their powers. We never learn anything about them or what they even looked like.

* ButtMonkey: Drago Wing increasingly falls into this role as the series goes on.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Rick

* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Gigano to Tyranno.

* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Gigano towards Tyranno, even if it means disrupting his ruler's plan.

* BadBoss: Diamond Ryugu. At best she'll berate her subordinates for failing, worse case she once punished Drago Wing with her BreathWeapon for questioning her decisions.

* FreeRangeChildren: Kaito, Rena and Rick can leave for hours, if not days, to go adventuring with the Dino Knights without worrying about explaining their absences to their families. They're also never seen going to school.

* LargeAndInCharge: Diamond Ryugu. Most of the characters are least two stories tall, and she dwarfs all of them.

* TheLostLenore: Dino Stego's long dead girlfriend Daisy.

* PapaWolf: The reason for Gigano's grudge against Tyranno stated in canon is that back during the first war for Earth, is that Tyranno defeated him in battle. Tyranno is the better fighter and stronger but never bothered to permanently rid himself of his AxCrazy stalker. Once Gigano takes a swing at Kaito, Tyranno promptly knocks his old rival over a cliff.
* PsychicDreamsForEveryone: Averted in that Mammoth is specifically stated to be psychic. Played straight when Kaito, an ordinary human for the most part, has a prophetic dream about the rise of Dino Ramph.

* ShownTheirWork: Even though they lumped non-dinosaurian prehistoric animals into the the title of "Dino Knights," the authors did know quite a bit about some lesser-known prehistoric species.

* TakingTheBullet: A variation, when Kaito and Rena fall/jump down an airduct in some ancient ruins, it tosses them out into the middle of a near by field were Tyranno and Gigano are duking it out. Gigano, EvilBadass that he is, takes immediate advantage of suddenly having a pair of disoriented easy targets sprawled on the ground at his feet and decides that now is a good time to kill Kaito. Cue Close up of Kaito's face tensing in expectation of a blow from a sword longer than his body... only to open his eyes again when he realizes Tyranno thrown himself on his hands and knees over the children shielding them, while letting Gigano have multiple free shots at his back.

[[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial By no means a rip-off of]] ''{{Franchise/Transformers}}''. Not to be confused with ''VideoGame/DinsoaurKing''.

[[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial By no means a rip-off of]] ''{{Franchise/Transformers}}''.

'''''[=DinoZaurs=]: The Series''''', also known as '''''Prehistoric Warriors''''' and '''''[=DinoZone=]''''' (ダイノゾーン) in Japan, is a Japanese anime which is a combination of traditional animation and computer animation.

* SlapSlapKiss: Kaito and Rena.

* ConspicuousCGI: The Dino Knights and the Dragozaurs are both made of CGI on an otherwise traditionally animated anime.

* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: Even though six of the "Dino" Knights are actually [[YouFailBiologyForever not dinosaurs at all]].

** In "A New Friend", a fossil hunter said they "[[WesternAnimation/BugsBunny took a wrong turn at Albuquerque.]]"

* ForgotICouldntSwim: Rena, on a trip to Africa. Kaito has to save her.

* NearVillainVictory: Both times Diamond Ryugu stops playing OrcusOnHisThrone, he nearly wipes out all life on Earth.
* NoodleIncident: Though solidly in their side for the series's time, Dark Dragon is stated to have had one against the Dragozaurs in the past. Sadly, such an interesting twist is never brought up or shown on-screen.

* TheVamp: The bad guys send one to use her feminine wiles to get close to Kaito so she can steal his Dino Dagger. Kaito doesn't seem overly interested in her, either because he's gay, asexual or simply twelve years old, but is just too nice to tell her to get lost.

* ShoutOut: The show often uses sound effects from ''Film/JurassicPark''.

* DragonsAreDinosaurs: "Dragozaurs" (except for Gigano Dragon, who pretty much looks like an Asian dragon, and for Drago Wing, [[BatOutOfHell who is a bat]], although given that they presumably belong all to the same species, it sort of qualifies). The Dragozaurs may be considered a subversion, however; because they are actually an alien race, they may not count both as dinosaurs and/or dragons.

* HeelFaceTurn: Though solidly in their side for the series's time, Dark Dragon is stated to have had one against the Dragozaurs in the past. Sadly, such an interesting twist is never brought up or shown on-screen.

* {{Mooks}}: Dragozaur Army Forces

* [[LastOfHisKind Last of Their Kind]]: The Dino Knights were once dinosaurs. And Dino Sabre and Dino Mammoth were once a Sabretooth Tiger and a Woolly Mammoth, respectively.

* FiveBadBand:
** BigBad: Diamond Ryugu
** TheDragon: Gigano Dragon
** TheEvilGenius: Dark Dragon
** TheBrute / TheDarkChick: Dragon Wing

* FiveManBand:
** TheHero: Tyranno
** TheLancer: Brachio
** TheSmartGuy: Mammoth
** TheBigGuy: Tricera and Stego
** TheChick: Ptera
** TagAlongKid: Sabre

* HeelFaceTurn: Though solidly in their side for the series's time, Dark Dragon is stated to have had one against the Dragozaurs in the past. Sadly, such an interesting twist is never shown on-screen.

* TheVamp: The BigBad sends one to use her feminine wiles to get close to Kaito so she can steal his Dino Dagger. Kaito doesn't seem overly interested in her wiles, either because he's gay, asexual or twelve years old, but is just too nice to tell her to get lost.

* ForgotICouldntSwim: Rena, on a trip to Africa. Kaito has to save her.

* TheVamp: The BigBad sends one to use her feminine wiles to get close to Kaito so she can steal his Dino Dagger. Kaito doesn't seem overly interested in her wiles, either because of non-existent HoYay or beacause [[GirlsHaveCooties he's twelve]], but is just too nice to tell her to get lost.

* EarWorm: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQR-T-aHw_Y The theme song.]] ''DINOS ARE BACK, DINOZAUUURRS''

* OrphansOrdeal: Averted. Rick's kindly grandfather mentions that Rick's parents are dead mostly to explain why Rick is living with him. Beyond that this troper can't remember it ever being brought up again.

* ConspicuousCGI: The Dino Knights and the Dragosaurs are both made of CGI on an otherwise traditionally animated anime.
* DarkIsEvil / GoodColorsEvilColors: There's not a lot of efford on the part of the Dragosaurs to look less malevolent.
* DragonsAreDinosaurs: "Dragosaurs" (except for Gigano, who pretty much looks like an asian dragon, and for Drago Wing, [[BatOutOfHell who is a bat]], although given that they presumably belong all to the same species it sort of qualifies). May be considered a subversion, however; because they are actually an alien race they may not count both as dinosaurs and/or dragons.

* [[LastOfHisKind Last of Their Kind]]: The Dino Knights were once dinosaurs. And Dino Sabre and Dino Mammoth were once a Sabretooth Tiger and a Wolly Mammoth, respectively.

* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Gigano, an evil asian style dragon. Arguably the whole of the Dragosaurs, to which Gigano belongs; in this case, [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Our Dragons Are Alien Lifeforce-Sucking Vampires]].

* PapaWolf: The reason for Gigano's grudge against Tyranno stated in canon is that back during the first war for Earth, is that Tyranno defeated him in battle. Tyranno is the better fighter and stronger but never bothered to permantly rid himself of his AxCrazy stalker. Then Gigano takes a swing at Kaito and Tyranno promply knocks his old rival over a cliff.

* ShownTheirWork: Even though they lumped non-dinosaurian prehistoric animals into the the title of "Dino Knights" the authors did knew quite some lesser known prehistoric species.
* SoftWater: Kaito surviving a couple hundred foot fall into a raging river.

* TakingTheBullet: A variation, when Kaito and Rena fall/jump down an airduct in some ancient ruins, it tosses them out into the middle of a near by field were Tyranno and Gigano are duking it out. Gigano, EvilBadass that he is, takes immediate advantagge of suddenly having a pair of disoriented easy targets sprawled on the ground at his feet and decides that now is a good time to kill Kaito. Cue Close up of Kaito's face tensing in expectation of a blow from a sword longer than his body... only to open his eyes again when he realizes Tyranno thrown himself on his hands and knees over the children shielding them, while letting Gigano have multiple free shots at his back.