History Literature / PalaeOhNo

* ShippingGoggles: In-universe, a student misinterprets the use of "partner" to refer to Kollin and Corrie's relationship. [[invoked]]

* PrehistoricMonster: Parodied.
* PteroSoarer: Parodied.

* RaptorAttack: Averted, though often parodied.

* SuperOCD: Kollin.

** Due to FantasticRacism, Kollin and Corrie are officially considered Sampson's "pets", even though he certainly doesn't treat them that way. One of Sampson's students, named [[IncrediblyLamePun Collin]], calls [[NamesTheSame Kollin]] a [[FantasticSlur "stumpo"]], and the students are shocked to find out Kollin (an ''Albertonykus'', alverezsaur) and Corrie (an ''Epichirostenotes'', oviraptorosaur) can speak. Needless to say, Kollin is not amused.

'''''[[http://tyrannotitan333.deviantart.com/gallery/37549017 Palae-oh-no]]''''' is a series of stories on Website/DeviantArt by paleontology enthusiast and fellow troper Tropers/{{Tyrannotitan}}. The stories feature a [[CivilizedAnimal Late Cretaceous society]] run by troodonts in [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laramidia Laramidia]], the main characters being two friends studying at university, Sampson Pterygius and Lora Anuscler. Both of them have relatively unusual interests, with Sampson advocating against the [[FantasticRacism Fantastic Speciesism]] that is present in this society (troodonts are the only maniraptors granted full rights) and Lora being interested in synapsids, which are considered little more than food by most troodonts. The two are often joined by Jeff Breud, Sampson's high school science teacher.

* CriticalResearchFailure:
** InUniverse example with the programme below, which has heaps of errors.
** A creationist calls ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scutosaurus Scutosaurus]]'' and ''[[UsefulNotes/StockDinosaursTrueDinosaurs Diplodocus]]'' synapsids... [[ArtisticLicensePaleontology when they are not at all]].

* CoolPet: Ptilly, Lora's multituberculate, who is implied to have corvid intelligence.

* StockDinosaurs: ''Edmontosaurus'', and that's about it so far (due to the avoidance of AnachronismStew and MisplacedWildlife). "Planet Not-Theropod" further emphasizes this by showing that some of the most famous StockDinosaurs (e.g.: ''UsefulNotes/TyrannosaurusRex'' and ''Triceratops'') are unknown to the main characters, as those taxa lived after their time.[[note]]Although this emphasis is actually subverted in a sense, since some of the main characters had [[ItMakesSenseInContext attended a showing]] of ''Film/JurassicPark'' by that point and had seen those dinosaurs in the film.[[/note]]

* TurtlePower: The bimorphs have a turtle form, but subverted in that they are harmless in this state.

* SeldomSeenSpecies: Many mentioned and shown, with major ones including [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therocephalia therocephalians]], ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albertonykus Albertonykus]]'', ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epichirostenotes Epichirostenotes]]'', ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrociraptor Atrociraptor]]'', ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaoyangopterus Chaoyangopterus]]'', [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avisauridae avisaurids]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notosuchidae notosuchids]], ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemicolopterus Nemicolopterus]]'', ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_solo_(trilobite) Han solo]]'', [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leptoceratopsidae leptoceratopsids]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champsosauridae champsosaurs]], ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bistahieversor Bistahieversor]]'', ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labocania Labocania]]'', ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrhinoceratops Arrhinoceratops]]'' and ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beelzebufo Beelzebufo]]''.

* BigNo: [[Film/RevengeOfTheSith Darth Vader's]] [[{{Narm/StarWars}} is parodied]].

* ChekhovsGunman: Primus and Partay_Animal.
* ChildProdigy: Kollin has revealed to have been this.

* CoolTeacher: Jeff.

* FanDumb: Referenced in "The Bone Wars", as a [[ShoutOut nod to]] ''StarWars''' own.[[invoked]]

* UnfortunateNames: The ShowWithinAShow, ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars The Bone Wars]]'', has Nast E. Drink, who keeps on getting called alcohol references to the point where he even [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] it.

* RealityEnsues: Vegid builds a device that can ''invoke'' this, [[spoiler:causing the pristichampsosaurs to succumb to SquareCubeLaw]].

* StockDinosaurs: ''Edmontosaurus'', and that's about it so far (due to the avoidance of AnachronismStew and MisplacedWildlife). "Planet Not-Theropod" further emphasizes this by showing that some of the most famous StockDinosaurs (e.g.: ''TyrannosaurusRex'' and ''Triceratops'') are unknown to the main characters, as those taxa lived after their time.[[note]]Although this emphasis is actually subverted in a sense, since some of the main characters had [[ItMakesSenseInContext attended a showing]] of ''Film/JurassicPark'' by that point and had seen those dinosaurs in the film.[[/note]]

* BreathWeapon: The pristichampsosaurs can shoot FrickinLaserBeams from their mouths.

'''''[[http://tyrannotitan333.deviantart.com/gallery/37549017 Palae-oh-no]]''''' is a series of stories on Website/DeviantArt by paleontology enthusiast and [[OneOfUs fellow troper]] Tropers/{{Tyrannotitan}}. The stories feature a [[CivilizedAnimal Late Cretaceous society]] run by troodonts in [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laramidia Laramidia]], the main characters being two friends studying at university, Sampson Pterygius and Lora Anuscler. Both of them have relatively unusual interests, with Sampson advocating against the [[FantasticRacism Fantastic Speciesism]] that is present in this society (troodonts are the only maniraptors granted full rights) and Lora being interested in synapsids, which are considered little more than food by most troodonts. The two are often joined by Jeff Breud, Sampson's high school science teacher.

* PunctuatedForEmphasis: A palaeontologist in Early Extraterrestrials does this in a ShoutOut to ThreeHundred.

* BigNo: [[RevengeOfTheSith Darth Vader's]] [[{{Narm/StarWars}} is parodied]].

** A creationist calls ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scutosaurus Scutosaurus]]'' and ''[[StockDinosaursTrueDinosaurs Diplodocus]]'' synapsids... [[ArtisticLicensePaleontology when they are not at all]].

** Some of the characters have traits of AspergersSyndrome, something the author is diagnosed with.

* FollowTheLeader: The author has admitted the idea for a [[http://palaeohno.tumblr.com/ Tumblr blog]] was inspired by Webcomic/{{Raptormaniacs}}.

* BadassBookworm:
** Kollin helps defeat Djhey's army of mutants.
* BerserkButton: For Kollin, [[ArtisticLicensePaleontology depicting prehistoric animals inaccurately]].

* {{Parody}}: Quite common, considering it is meant to be a satire of palaeontology. This has so far been done to the [[ArtisticLicensePaleontology BAND]], ''Series/AncientAliens'', ''Series/JurassicFightClub'', creationists, ''Series/{{Primeval}}'', ''Series/WalkingWithMonsters'', ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerbTheMovieAcrossThe2ndDimension'' and a double parody involving [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bone_Wars The Bone Wars]] and ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars''.

* AuthorAppeal: The author is quite fond of ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' and ''Franchise/StarWars'', so there are multiple references to both franchises (and other references tend to be from things he likes too).

* ActionGirl: Lora [=RPRs=] a ''Beelzebufo'' and kills it.

* AmplifiedAnimalAptitude: Even non-sapient animals appear to be reasonably intelligent.

* BackFromTheDead: "The Bone Wars" parodies [[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars Darth Maul's]] case of this.

* BadassBookworm: Kollin helps defeat Djhey's army of mutants.

* BewareTheSillyOnes: Djhey Pterus is a complete maniac, but he was competent enough to [[spoiler:infiltrate Primus's society and steal blueprints for a time machine, as well as capture the heroes and nearly succeed in ''killing'' them]].

* BilingualBonus: The title of the second episode, "Ke Makana", is [[UsefulNotes/{{Hawaii}} Hawai'ian]] for "the gift", and in the same episode, the island called "Te Piro Nui" is [[{{UsefulNotes/Chile}} Rapa Nui]] for "the great rotten".
** BlindIdiotTranslation: An Indonesian on Website/DeviantArt pointed out that the author translated a term wrong, as an attempt at BilingualBonus. WordOfGod admits to using an online translator, so it isn't surprising.

* CarnivoreConfusion: Due to her interest in mammals, Lora refuses to eat them and even has one as a pet.

* CriticalResearchFailure: InUniverse example with the programme below, which has heaps of errors.

* DitzyGenius: Kollin has his moments.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Gangs of ''Atrociraptor'' are mentioned on the news in the first episode. One with a more important role shows up in the fourth one.

* FurryConfusion: Due to FantasticRacism, Kollin and Corrie are officially considered Sampson's "pets", even though he certainly doesn't treat them that way. One of Sampson's students, named [[IncrediblyLamePun Collin]], calls [[NamesTheSame Kollin]] a [[FantasticSlur "stumpo"]], and the students are shocked to find out Kollin (an ''Albertonykus'', alverezsaur) and Corrie (an ''Epichirostenotes'', oviraptorosaur) can speak. Needless to say, Kollin is not amused.

* HopeSpot: The phoenix that appears when Jeff is being chased by some ''Atrociraptor'' is just a remote-controlled toy.

* InterspeciesRomance: Jeff's girlfriend is Chera, Rob the ''Atrociraptor'''s daughter, hence Rob's grudge against him.

* LargeHam: Kollin can become this when he is annoyed.

* MisplacedWildlife: The author took pains to avoid this, though some taxa from the Early Cretaceous of China are present, having arrived by time machine.

* MoneyDearBoy: InUniverse: Jeff references this trope when he thinks about why the ''Atrociraptor'' would decide to fight an ''Edmontosaurus''.

* PlatonicLifePartners: Sampson and Lora appear to be this, as they are very kind to each other, get along well and seem fairly close.

* ResetButton: Vegid's time machine is designed to do this. Time travelers who use it remember their trip, but otherwise the timeline remains unaltered and {{Temporal Paradox}}es cannot happen.

* ShipTease: Subverted in "It was MARITANS! 2/2", as when Kollin meets Lora, he becomes catatonic, but is merely stunned at the sight of a lizard. He acts normally once he turns his attention to her.

* [[LionsAndTigersAndHumansOhMy Troodontids and Alvarezsaurids and Humans Oh My!]]: "Planet Not-Theropod". [[spoiler:Later revealed to be the result of time travel.]]

* UnfortunateNames: The ShowWithinAShow, ''[[StarWarsTheCloneWars The Bone Wars]]'', has Nast E. Drink, who keeps on getting called alcohol references to the point where he even [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] it.