History Literature / TheLostWorld1912

Inspired a bunch of films and TV series, including a [[Film/TheLostWorld 1925 film adaptation]] that featured groundbreaking StopMotion animation and was a TropeMaker for movies about dinosaurs, as well as the television series ''Series/SirArthurConanDoylesTheLostWorld'' and ''Series/TheLostWorld2001''.

* CoolGuns: Roxton is a gun collector and has quite a few rifles. He gives Malone a Bland's .577 axite express to use on the expedition, while he himself is always armed with his personal .470 ("[[GunPorn telescopic sight, double ejector, point blank up to three-fifty]]"), the gun he killed Pedro Lopez with.

* TokenEvilTeammate: Gomez and Manuel, who are "treacherous half-breeds."

* UnbuiltTrope: The heroes discover LostWorld. However, they never get any validation or recognition for their deeds, end up mostly mocked by the outside world and their biggest achievement is [[spoiler:Roxton hauling back a small fortune[[note]]He earns 200,000 pounds when selling them, which was over 14 ''million'' a century after the book's publication[[/note]] in form of a pocketful of diamonds]]. The SequelHook in the end is more about the characters' ''desperation'' to prove they were right than AndTheAdventureContinues - and despite Doyle writing books using the same characters, it is never turned into an actual sequel or the subject even brought up again.

* RedHerring: As the gang is trying to figure out how to escape from the plateau, Challenger finds a mudpot that is venting hydrogen. It seems like a ChekhovsGun, and in fact he does later start building a balloon, but they never use it, instead escaping through a secret way in one of the caves.

** ContagiousCassandraTruth: Members of his expedition, while initially sceptical of his claims (Summerlee joins it solely to prove to Challenger personally that he's a charlatan and a fraud), end up sharing Challenger's predicament - nobody buys their story.

* GentlemanAdventurer: Lord John Roxton, who goes off on the expedition for fun.

** Describing a semi-inflated hot air balloon as a "flaccid organ" probably falls under this.

** Dr. Illingworth also qualifies; he's such a HateSink that virtually nobody sides with him in his efforts to discredit Challenger and Summerlee at the end.

* MenActWomenAre: This trope is almost described word-for-word in this novel. In the first chapter protagonist Edward proposes to his girlfriend, who rejects it and basically says she is going to dump him. He asks why and she describes that she wants her boyfriend to be a man of action and heroism who is constantly acting, and she then says that women are meant to sit on the sidelines being proud of their pro-active boyfriends, and she says she feels he is not a man of action. This prompts him to undertake the journey which forms the plot. As this novel was written in 1912, it shows this trope is well over a century old. That being said, even here this trope is [[{{Main/SubvertedTrope}} somewhat subverted]] as, while the party is away, [[{{Main/Hypocrite}} Gladys ends up marrying a decidedly non-active legal clerk instead.]] Perhaps she was just [[HintDropping trying to let him down gently.]]

* [[YouKilledMyFather You Killed My Brother]]: Gomez wants revenge on Roxton for having killed his brother Pedro Lopez.
* UnbuiltTrope: The heroes discover LostWorld. However, they never get any validation or recognition for their deeds, end up mostly mocked by the outside world and their biggest achievement is [[spoiler: Roxton hauling back a small fortune[[note]]He earns 200 thousand pounds when selling them, which was over 14 ''million'' a century after the book's publication[[/note]] in form of a pocketful of diamonds]]. The SequelHook in the end is more about the characters' ''desperation'' to prove they were right than AndTheAdventureContinues - and despite Doyle writing books using the same characters, it is never turned into an actual sequel or the subject even brought up again.

* AdventurerArchaeologist: Professor Challenger is an Adventure Paelaeontologist, who goes off into the depths of the Amazon jungle to find dinosaurs.