History Characters / TheFutureIsWild

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: The franchise only portrays them as eating Flish, which are ''thousands'' of times smaller than the squid. Unless they also eat larger varieties of Silver Swimmers, there's no way they'd be able to sustain themselves on such tiny fare.

* AllegoricalCharacter: Of neoteny, in particular in the context of the early evolution of vertebrates; and as successort to fish, of the emergence of new dominant classes in the oceans that completely replace previous ones (like how jawless fish replaced trilobites, then were replaced by jawed armored fish, the by jawed unarmored fish).

* AllegoricalCharacter: The Toraton represents the culmination of the evolutionary trend towards greater size in a context of long-time stability and great abundance of resources, at which point only physics is the only obstacle left to grow even further.

* AllegoricalCharacter: Another example of diversification from a single ancestor in a stable, new seed "world".

* FantasticFaunaCounterpart: Of baboons... and australopithecines (at the very least, their making of fish traps makes them smarter than chimpanzees).

* AllegoricalCharacter: The evolution of sociality and predation-based mutualism (a.k.a. farming).

* AllegoricalCharacter: Of evolutionary divergence, as this and its relative above are the first showcased animals said explicitly to have evolved from the same modern day animal. Doubles as areference to the Great American Interchange, and the evolution of new clades after the colonization of new landmasses and environments, in general (previous examples are all animals whose ancestors already live in the same area today).

* AllegoricalCharacter: Sharks are really old as a group (like, older than trees), yet largely unchanged, and are probably going to stay here for a long while longer.

* FantasticFaunaCounterpart: Bordering on CompositeCharacter, the Scrofa is a long-snouted mammal adapted to suction food from crevices, like an anteater, and has the compressed body and high hooves of the klipspringer, which is another artiodactyl adapted to climb bare rocks.

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* FantasticFaunaCounterpart: Of fish. Oddly, fish still exist, but have become their predators.

* NestedMouths: Ocean flish contain protusible jaws, designed to snatch and grab Silverswimmers beneath the waves.

* FantasticFaunaCounterpart: Of the shark, obviously.

* AllegoricalCharacter: Of the adaptation of tree-dwelling primates to the ground, particularly in a context of tree cover loss like it happened with baboons and hominids (though the latter has become a case of ScienceMarchesOn after the show's production, as hominids are now know to have become terrestrial before the clearing of the African savana), and of human evolution.

* FantasticFaunaCounterpart: Of the baboon.

* FantasticFaunaCounterpart: Of polar bears and sabre-toothed cats.

* FantasticFaunaCounterpart: Of the Musk ox, being of similar size, having shaggy fur, and migrating in herds.

* FantasticFaunaCounterpart: Of the frilled lizard.

* {{Expy}}:
** Of the zarander and turmi from ''Literature/AfterManAZoologyOfTheFuture''.
** The compressed body and high hooves are clearly based on the klipspringer, which is another artiodactyl adapted to climb bare rocks.

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* {{Expy}}: Of the zarander and turmi from ''Literature/AfterManAZoologyOfTheFuture''.

* AmbiguouslyBrown: She and her father are both brown-skinned, but she has red hair and green eyes, and it's unlikely any modern-day countries still exist 10,000 years in the future.

* SignificantGreenEyedRedhead: Has red hair, and green eyes, with a few blue streaks, and is the one sent on the time-travel mission.

* {{Invisibility}}: Attempts this against Sharkopaths, turning itself blue to blend in with the ocean's surface. Unfortunately, it doesn't work. Not only because the sharks can smell it, but because they can also detect the electrical impulses of its nervous system. This causes the squid to panic and give up its invisibility, frantically changing different colors until the sharks close in for the kill.

* SignificantGreenEyedRedhead: Has red hair, and green eyes, [[SkunkStripe with a few blue streaks]], and is the one sent on the time-travel mission.

* GradualGrinder: It hunts Shagrats by inflicting a deep wound. Then it leaves the fight, and follows the wounded Shagrat until it bleeds out.

A rather peculiar insect with a rather peculiar life cycle. The Bumblebeetle spends its life in a race against the clock. It can only live for exactly one day, and it spends that one day flying over the desert in the hopes of finding a "flishwreck". No two Bumblebeetles can share a carcass, and if two of them come across the same one, they engage in an aerial dogfight over it. The carcass is the only essential place where the Bumblebeetle can release its young: large, carnivorous maggots known as Grimworms. After splitting its abdomen open to release the Grimworms, the Bumblebeetle then dies. The Grimworms then spend every moment they can munching away at the carcass. Grimworms also practice neoteny, mating before they reach adulthood. During mating, the largest female Grimworm eats all of the males, then digs itself underground to pupate. As a result, every single Bumblebeetle is female, already pregnant with new Grimworms.

* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: They're evolved Uakaris who have learned live in large groups like baboons, even being intelligent enough to make fish traps.

A relative of the Spitfire Bird. Fortunately, the False Spitfire Bird is harmless, only using its mimicry to avoid predators.

* MercurysWings: Its legs also have wings on them for extra surface area and updrift, so it can be more maneuverable at low speeds.

* AnimalsHateHim: Extremely {{Downplayed|Trope}}, but C.G. is the only member of the team who never bonds with a wild animal during one or more of the show's episodes - Emily is a FriendToAllLivingThings (especially Squibby), Ehtan has bonded with a Shagrat and a Megasquid, while Luis briefly adopted a pair of Toraton hatchlings that imprinted on him.

* OnlySaneMan: {{Downplayed|Trope}}, but she is the one most devoted to the Time Flyer’s mission, and her personal quirks (e.g. NoSocialSkills and ControlFreak) normally aren’t as pronounced as her teammates.

* UniformityException: While the rest of the cast wears clothing from UsefulNotes/TheNewTens, C.G. wears are futuristic body suit from her home time, ten-thousand years in the future.

* MissingMom: Her mother isn’t even mentioned in the series. It's confirmed in a later episode she didn't have any friends before going on the mission to the future.
* NoSocialSkills: C.G. has trouble interacting with others, and is especially awkward when trying to spend girl time with Emily.

* TheStoic: She doesn't show a lot of emotion. [[NotSoStoic If she is being openly emotive]], [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness it's usually a sign she is very stressed out]].

* WhyDoesItHaveToBeSnakes: C.G. has Arachnophobia (fear of spiders), and is noticeably uncomfortable whenever she has to deal with Silver Spiders. She’s also quite unhappy when dealing with Spindletroopers, but since she has her laser cutter to defend herself, her reaction is more one of annoyance than fear.

* BibotryException: C.G.'s Father seems to hold him in higher regard than Ethan and Emily. [[CommonalityConnection This stems from how the two have similar interests in technology and thus have common ground to work with]].

* ParentalNeglect: {{Implied|Trope}} by [[WellDoneSoneGuy just how much C.G. wants to earn his approval]].

-->'''Voiced by:''' Marc Donato