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* BottleEpisode: Every so often, it became fairly obvious that the videos that were chosen were done so because they would be the cheapest to replicate. An especially noticeable one was the Nelly Furtado Music/NellyFurtado episode. They decided to remake "On the Radio" despite it being a minor hit compared to "I'm Like a Bird" or "Turn Out The Light."
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A lucky fan of a band or singer would be chosen to be taken to Los Angeles for one weekend, get pampered and showered with expensive gifts, have their hair cut, taught how to dance or play an instrument (or at least fake it) and finally recreate one of their idol's music videos. The singers imitated included Music/BritneySpears, {{Music/Eminem}}, Music/Blink182, {{Music/Pink}}, Music/KylieMinogue, Music/RedHotChilliPeppers, {{Music/Usher}}, Music/JenniferLopez and loads more. There was even a recreation of the famous "Lady Marmalade" video. The show ran for four seasons.
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A lucky fan of a band or singer would be chosen to be taken to Los Angeles for one weekend, get pampered and showered with expensive gifts, have their hair cut, taught how to dance or play an instrument (or at least fake it) and finally recreate one of their idol's music videos. The singers imitated included Music/BritneySpears, {{Music/Eminem}}, Music/Blink182, {{Music/Pink}}, Music/KylieMinogue, Music/RedHotChilliPeppers, Music/RedHotChiliPeppers, {{Music/Usher}}, Music/JenniferLopez and loads more. There was even a recreation of the famous "Lady Marmalade" video. The show ran for four seasons.
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* AmbiguouslyGay: Several people on the show, typically male stylists. Because it was a family show, they couldn't outright state it. Then there's the obvious fact that teenage guys becoming the likes of Music/{{NSYNC}} and O-Town are hardly straight.
* BackUpTwin: A pair of twins were used to recreate Music/JenniferLopez's "Love Don't Cost a Thing". One twin played Jennifer as she walked and danced on the beach while the other performed the complicated dance routine on the postcard.
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* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: The first set of twins to be contestants were identical. Justified because they were both becoming Jennifer Lopez.
* AmbiguouslyGay: Several people on the show, typically male stylists. Because it was a family show, they couldn't outright state it.Then there's the obvious fact that teenage guys becoming the likes of Music/{{NSYNC}} and O-Town are hardly straight.
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* ImportantHaircut: Nearly every episode featured the fan getting his or her artist's hairstyle. This would often be the biggest step toward looking like the artist. At least one aversion occurred with the girl who "became" Eve. She cut her hair, but wasn't quite ready to go blonde.
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* FakeNationality: [[invoked]] Since the fans were only lipsyncing there were a couple of different nationalities - a German girl becoming the Australian Kylie Minogue, a British girl becoming the American Beyonce etc. Averted with Avril Lavigne (who is Canadian); the girl becoming her was the first Canadian to imitate someone on the show.
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* TechnologyPorn: Usually the gifts included plenty of state-of-the-art gadgets for the early 2000s time period.
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Chances are if you were a kid or teenager in the early 2000s, and if you watched MTV, you dreamed of being on ''Becoming''.
A lucky fan of a band or singer would be chosen to be taken to Los Angeles for one weekend, get pampered and showered with expensive gifts, have their hair cut, taught how to dance or play an instrument (or at least fake it) and finally recreate one of their idol's music videos. The singers imitated included Music/BritneySpears, {{Music/Eminem}}, Music/Blink182, {{Music/Pink}}, Music/KylieMinogue, Music/RedHotChilliPeppers, {{Music/Usher}}, Music/JenniferLopez and loads more. There was even a recreation of the famous "Lady Marmalade" video. The show ran for four seasons.
There was also a spin-off titled ''Wannabes'' where three sets of fans would take part in a live impersonation contest - and the winner would perform on stage.
!!'''This Show Provides Examples of:'''
* AmbiguouslyGay: Several people on the show, typically male stylists. Because it was a family show, they couldn't outright state it. Then there's the obvious fact that teenage guys becoming the likes of Music/{{NSYNC}} and O-Town are hardly straight.
* BackUpTwin: A pair of twins were used to recreate Music/JenniferLopez's "Love Don't Cost a Thing". One twin played Jennifer as she walked and danced on the beach while the other performed the complicated dance routine on the postcard.
* BottleEpisode: Every so often, it became fairly obvious that the videos that were chosen were done so because they would be the cheapest to replicate. An especially noticeable one was the Nelly Furtado episode. They decided to remake "On the Radio" despite it being a minor hit compared to "I'm Like a Bird" or "Turn Out The Light."
* BlatantLies: When four girls became the band Dream, an Asian girl was chosen to be Ashley and after her makeover the others were saying how much she now looked like her. The Ashley in question was white and had blonde hair with blue eyes.
* TheCameo:
** Kelly Osbourne appeared on the show, making her the only celebrity to have met her fan in person.
** Jenna Jameson also appeared on the show as one of the women in Eminem's "Without Me" video, as she did in the actual Eminem video.
* CostumePorn: Every episode would feature many displays of the various different outfits required for the video. They seldom picked music videos that had only one outfit.
* DancingIsSeriousBusiness: Justified, since they had to learn a routine in a matter of hours.
* GenkiGirl: Kristen, the girl who became Britney Spears.
* HilariousOuttakes: Highlights included one 'member' of Sugar Ray ordering room service pretending to be the real thing, one 'member' of Sum 41 dropping a series of terrible pickup lines on an extra and the actor playing the boyfriend in the Mandy Moore video hitting on the dance instructor.
* IdenticalTwinIDTag: The twins that played Jennifer Lopez looked pretty much the same but then one was given corn rows and the other hair extensions so telling them apart was easier.
* ImportantHaircut: Nearly every episode featured the fan getting his or her artist's hairstyle. This would often be the biggest step toward looking like the artist. At least one aversion occurred with the girl who "became" Eve. She cut her hair, but wasn't quite ready to go blonde.
* MakeoverMontage: The haircut scenes usually took this form.
* RaceLift: The producers certainly weren't picky about what ethnicity the fans were, even if it didn't match that of the artist. As such, we got an Asian Music/{{Pink}}, white Michelle Williams (from Music/DestinysChild, to avoid any confusion), Hawaiian Ashley Poole and various others. This was noticeably more common in groups with a LesserStar: They probably had their choice of look-a-likes in the pool of Superfans for Beyonce or Justin Timberlake, but when it came time to fill in the [[ButtMonkey Michelle Williams[=/=]Joey Fatone]] section of the group, they probably just had to take what they could find.
* TheRemake: All the music videos.
* SceneryPorn: The show featured several shots of the Beverly Hills scenery, as well as various scenic shots of the location from which they picked the fans up.
* SpiritualSuccessor: The British show "Reach For The Stars" was very similar though featured younger kids and more varied careers.
* StrictlyFormula: The fans get picked up and learn the routines, get the clothes, get the makeover and a whole lot of gifts on day 1 and shoot the video on day 2 (sometimes additional shooting on day 3).
* TotallyRadical: The show is very MTV and is dripping with early 2000s pop culture.
* WeAllLiveInAmerica: The majority of teens were from America though a couple from Canada and the UK were brought in as well.
* WigDressAccent: A lot of the time without the accent, sometimes with.
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Chances are if you were a kid or teenager in the early 2000s, and if you watched MTV, you dreamed of being on ''Becoming''.
A lucky fan of a band or singer would be chosen to be taken to Los Angeles for one weekend, get pampered and showered with expensive gifts, have their hair cut, taught how to dance or play an instrument (or at least fake it) and finally recreate one of their idol's music videos. The singers imitated included Music/BritneySpears, {{Music/Eminem}}, Music/Blink182, {{Music/Pink}}, Music/KylieMinogue, Music/RedHotChilliPeppers, {{Music/Usher}}, Music/JenniferLopez and loads more. There was even a recreation of the famous "Lady Marmalade" video. The show ran for four seasons.
There was also a spin-off titled ''Wannabes'' where three sets of fans would take part in a live impersonation contest - and the winner would perform on stage.
!!'''This Show Provides Examples of:'''
* AmbiguouslyGay: Several people on the show, typically male stylists. Because it was a family show, they couldn't outright state it. Then there's the obvious fact that teenage guys becoming the likes of Music/{{NSYNC}} and O-Town are hardly straight.
* BackUpTwin: A pair of twins were used to recreate Music/JenniferLopez's "Love Don't Cost a Thing". One twin played Jennifer as she walked and danced on the beach while the other performed the complicated dance routine on the postcard.
* BottleEpisode: Every so often, it became fairly obvious that the videos that were chosen were done so because they would be the cheapest to replicate. An especially noticeable one was the Nelly Furtado episode. They decided to remake "On the Radio" despite it being a minor hit compared to "I'm Like a Bird" or "Turn Out The Light."
* BlatantLies: When four girls became the band Dream, an Asian girl was chosen to be Ashley and after her makeover the others were saying how much she now looked like her. The Ashley in question was white and had blonde hair with blue eyes.
* TheCameo:
** Kelly Osbourne appeared on the show, making her the only celebrity to have met her fan in person.
** Jenna Jameson also appeared on the show as one of the women in Eminem's "Without Me" video, as she did in the actual Eminem video.
* CostumePorn: Every episode would feature many displays of the various different outfits required for the video. They seldom picked music videos that had only one outfit.
* DancingIsSeriousBusiness: Justified, since they had to learn a routine in a matter of hours.
* GenkiGirl: Kristen, the girl who became Britney Spears.
* HilariousOuttakes: Highlights included one 'member' of Sugar Ray ordering room service pretending to be the real thing, one 'member' of Sum 41 dropping a series of terrible pickup lines on an extra and the actor playing the boyfriend in the Mandy Moore video hitting on the dance instructor.
* IdenticalTwinIDTag: The twins that played Jennifer Lopez looked pretty much the same but then one was given corn rows and the other hair extensions so telling them apart was easier.
* ImportantHaircut: Nearly every episode featured the fan getting his or her artist's hairstyle. This would often be the biggest step toward looking like the artist. At least one aversion occurred with the girl who "became" Eve. She cut her hair, but wasn't quite ready to go blonde.
* MakeoverMontage: The haircut scenes usually took this form.
* RaceLift: The producers certainly weren't picky about what ethnicity the fans were, even if it didn't match that of the artist. As such, we got an Asian Music/{{Pink}}, white Michelle Williams (from Music/DestinysChild, to avoid any confusion), Hawaiian Ashley Poole and various others. This was noticeably more common in groups with a LesserStar: They probably had their choice of look-a-likes in the pool of Superfans for Beyonce or Justin Timberlake, but when it came time to fill in the [[ButtMonkey Michelle Williams[=/=]Joey Fatone]] section of the group, they probably just had to take what they could find.
* TheRemake: All the music videos.
* SceneryPorn: The show featured several shots of the Beverly Hills scenery, as well as various scenic shots of the location from which they picked the fans up.
* SpiritualSuccessor: The British show "Reach For The Stars" was very similar though featured younger kids and more varied careers.
* StrictlyFormula: The fans get picked up and learn the routines, get the clothes, get the makeover and a whole lot of gifts on day 1 and shoot the video on day 2 (sometimes additional shooting on day 3).
* TotallyRadical: The show is very MTV and is dripping with early 2000s pop culture.
* WeAllLiveInAmerica: The majority of teens were from America though a couple from Canada and the UK were brought in as well.
* WigDressAccent: A lot of the time without the accent, sometimes with.
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Chances
->''"Awaken an era."''
[[caption-width-right:200:Can you dig it?]]
A {{Mons}} series from Creator/{{Nintendo}} and Creator/RedEntertainment, ''Fossil Fighters'' (''Kaseki Horider'', or "Fossil Hunters", in Japan) is a collection Mon RPG/paleontology sim series for the DS and 3DS.
On the tropical Vivosaur island, the Richmond archaeological foundation has built a fantastic resort. Using the brilliance of Dr. Diggins, they have developed a process to revive dead animals from fossil fragments. ([[Film/JurassicPark Sound familiar?]]) As a side-effect of this process, the dead animals are
A lucky fan of a band or singer would be chosen to be taken to Los Angeles
Like most games, this one
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* ''Fossil Fighters'' (''Bokura wa Kaseki Horider'', or "We Are Fossil Hunters", in Japan), 2008 JP/2009 US Nintendo DS
* ''Fossil Fighters: Champions'' (''Super Kaseki Horider'', or "Super Fossil Hunters" in Japan), 2010 JP/2011 US Nintendo DS: This game features improved, [[CelShaded cel-shaded graphics]] (with FMV cutscenes), a
* ''Fossil Fighters: Frontier'' (''Kaseki Horider Mugengear'', or "Fossil Hunters Infinite Gear" in Japan), 2014 JP/2015 US Nintendo 3DS: The new feature for this title is the ability to fight wild Vivosaurs and to drive around in customizable vehicles. The combat system has also been entirely overhauled.
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!! This game provides examples of:
* AbsentMindedProfessor: Dr. Diggins in the first game, Professor Scatterly in ''Champions''.
* AbsurdlyLowLevelCap: In the first game, it's set surprisingly low at just twelve, and you can get as high as rank eight by fossil cleaning alone (''ten'' if you get a full set of rare red fossils). The second game ups the cap to 20, though viviosaurs gain stats more slowly to go with it.
* AcceptableHobbyTargets: InUniverse. The three commanders of the Barebones Brigade? They're a hipster, a hippie, and a metalhead. The game especially has fun taking potshots at Cole, the hipster, and Todd remarks that it's no wonder everyone was so terrified of him.
** [[spoiler: It's later {{deconstructed}}. The fact that they were such acceptable targets meant [[FriendlessBackground no one wanted to have anything to do with them]], meaning they desperately attached themselves to the first charismatic figure who appeared to them and had no trouble [[WhosLaughingNow turning on
!!'''This Show Provides Examples of:'''
* AdventurerArchaeologist: Nevada Montecarlo, who is a DarkSkinnedRedhead version of [[Franchise/TombRaider Lara Croft]] (with Franchise/IndianaJones' whip).
** ''Champions'' has an even more direct CaptainErsatz of Franchise/IndianaJones called Joe Wildwest.
* AllNaturalGemPolish: Everything you find in the Jewel Rocks.
* AncientAstronauts: [[spoiler:The dinaurians.]]
* AndYourRewardIsClothes: The first two games include a series of masks that your character can collect and wear.
* AgentPeacock: Ryne from the ''Champions'' DLC. He wears the only pink Brigade suit in the game and draws attention to himself because of it. But he is also the first character in the franchise to actually make his own Vivosaur, discounting [[spoiler: Zongazonga and his [[PurpleIsTheNewBlack purple evil]] zombiesaurs. [[WordSchmord Magic shmagic.]] [[MemeticMutation Booo!]]]]
* AmbiguouslyGay:
* AnnouncerChatter: In the first two games, the two announcers like to prattle on with each other about nonsensical things only tangentially related to the battles taking place.
* AntiFrustrationFeatures: ''Frontier'' cleans up some of the issues with finding fossils in the field; identifying fossils on sight and allowing immediate excavations, rather than requiring the player to haul an entire inventory back to base before they even know what they have. Vivosaurs can also be revived from any fossils, not just the heads.
* ArtEvolution: ''Champions'' featured a much more detailed, and more {{Animesque}}, art style than the original's more cartoony look.
** ArtShift: [[spoiler: Rosie's icon in ''Champions'' is in the same style as the first game, making her stand out next to the anime-style characters from the second game.]]
** ''Fossil Fighters: Frontier'' seems to have significant change in the design of... just about everything, really.
* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: Fully justified by the fact that vivosaurs are explicitly stated to be dinosaur-''like'' creatures and not actual dinosaurs. Beyond that, it's generally averted since the creators have ShownTheirWork and keep their data as accurate as possible.
* AuthorAvatar: The first game's announcers are the game's two creators, and the idea of putting them in the game started out as a joke.
* AwesomeButImpractical: Many high-level vivosaurs with really high Attack or LP are devastating from the Attack Zone... but if they end up in the Support Zone somehow, they'll turn your attacker into a quivering pile of useless mush. T-Rex is a perfect example--he has the highest attack in the game and can attack all of your enemies at once, but, if he ends up in the support zone, he reduces all your attacker's stats by ''30%!''
** Zino and Centro. Every hit from them will be a critical-but their accuracy is so terrible that the rest of the team needs to be focused around buffing accuracy/evasion stats to get them to even land a hit. In other words: CriticalHitClass meets ATeamFiring.
* AwesomeMcCoolname: Joe Wildwest in ''Champions'' and Captain Stryker in ''Frontier''.
* [[BadJobWorseUniform Bad Sidequest, Worse Costume]]: So... how 'bout that Hare Club? Y'know, the one where you have to wear a bunny mask, then clean 100 fossils to 80 points or higher?
* BagOfHolding: We really have ''no'' idea how a twelve-year-old can lug around up to ''64'' fossils as long as his entire body and not get sore, esecially when some of those rocks contain an ''entire skeleton''. Justified and averted in ''Frontier'', where A) you travel by car, which can much more easily accommodate the size and weight, and B) fossils are processed automatically, so you're not even carrying them around in the first place.
* BigOlEyebrows: The samurai, with a BigOlUnibrow chaser.
* BittersweetEnding: Subverted in the first game. [[spoiler:Guhnash]] is defeated, but your partner didn't quite make it out of [[spoiler:stone sleep]]. You've saved the world, at a cost, and that's how it has to be... [[spoiler:and then the Digadig chieftain shows up and tells you to use the hip-shaker dance!!]]
* BlackAndNerdy: Dr. Diggins in the first game is a professional-grade [[Series/{{Scrubs}} blerd]]. Who's dorky enough to wear shorts and a Hawaiian shirt beneath his lab coat, no less.
* BluntMetaphorsTrauma: It's no wonder Nick Nack mangles foreign languages so bad--he barely gets ''English!'' "I can have my snacks and feet them too!"
* BodySurf: This is how [[spoiler:Zongazonga's immortality spell]] works in ''Champions''. His latest victim is actually [[spoiler:the owner of the Fossil Park, Joe Wildwest.]]
* BonusBoss: After you beat the final boss of the first game, almost ''every character you've fought before becomes a BonusBoss.'' Almost all of them have maxed-out teams, some of them you have to fight one right after the other, and the prizes for beating them range from "BraggingRightsReward" to "OlympusMons." You can even take on the FinalBoss again as often as you like! The most difficult BonusBoss fight, however, is probably against [[spoiler: Dynal, Duna, and Raptin]] ''all at once.''
** There's also an {{Early Bird|Boss}} BonusBoss named Petey, who requires you fight him with three very specific vivosaurs. If you take the time to max out said three and wait until you're near the end of the game, he's not so tough... But try him ''without'' copius LevelGrinding, and he proves to be quite the KillerRabbit.
* ABoyAndHisX: Thanks to the player getting a sidekick, ''Frontier'' is a "Boy/Girl and his/her dinosaur" story.
* ButtBiter: A RunningGag in ''Frontier'' involves your little vivosaur sidekick chomping down on Nate's butt. In the little guy's defense, Nate is usually literally asking for it by sticking his butt out and taunting him.
* ButtMonkey: Rosie.
* CallARabbitASmeerp: The names have been changed to emphasize that Vivosaurs aren't really dinosaurs, and to trim down the {{Overly Long Name}}s that real dinos often have. There's a mode that gives detailed information on the animals that inspired each dinosaur.
* CanonName: The main character of the first doesn't really have one, but Nintendo's guide suggests "Buckland", after an early paleontologist. The official mini-manga gives his name as "Hunter." The second game's protagonists, though, are [[AnimalThemeNaming Dino and Dina]].
** ''Frontier'' has nameable protagonists "Jura" and "Tria". The puns just don't stop. The canonical name for their little dino sidekick is "Nibbles".
* CardboardPrison: Only in the first game, but it's exaggerated. [[PoliceAreUseless What happens in that police station is anybody's guess.]]
* CelShading: ''Champions'' uses cel-shaded graphics, as well as more detailed graphics in general.
* ChekhovsSkill: [[spoiler:The hip-shaking dance, used to revive Rosie/Duna from tainted stone sleep.]]
* [[TheChiefsDaughter The Chief's Granddaughter]]: [[spoiler:Pauleen.]]
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Trip Cera in the second game. His first name [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs seems appropriate]].
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: The vast majority of Vivosaurs are absent in ''Frontier'', in particular nearly all of the non-dinosaur Vivosaurs are gone, with the exception of a few pterosaurs.
* CollectorOfTheStrange: Since you can't use them to revive vivosaurs, nobody wants dropping fossils. Except Nick Nack...
** John Guano replaces him in the sequel. John's even ''weirder,'' if that's possible. He's standing not three feet away from a lady who offers dropping fossils in exchange for fossil cleaning. The only catch is, he'd have to wear the Hare Mask to join the club to do so. EveryoneHasStandards?
* CombatCommentator: In ''Fossil Fighters'', they're {{Author Avatar}}s. In ''Champions'' we have a two talking Vivosaurs. ''Frontier'' doesn't have any announcers.
* ContinuityNod:
** In ''Champions'', Pauleen is a throwback to the first game's Digadig tribe. [[spoiler:You also get to fight Rosie in the post-game.]] [[spoiler:Duna, Raptin, and Dynal]] also make appearances in some bonus content.
** In ''Frontier'', the Vivosaur Island and Caliosteo Fossil Parks from the first two games get mentioned occasionally. Characters from ''Champions'' (or at least people
* ConvectionSchmonvection: Mt. Lavaflow in the first game, and Mt. Krakanak in the second.
* CowardlyLion: Todd in ''Champions''.
* CrooksAreBetterArmed: Wanted vivosaur thief Blambeau carries around a shotgun. The [[PoliceAreUseless unarmed and largely ineffective police force]] send [[KidHero Hunter]] after him. Thrice.
* DarkSkinnedRedhead: Nevada Montecarlo, who also likes to WhipItGood.
* {{Deconstruction}}: Rosie can be seen as a deconstruction of TheLoad[=/=]DamselInDistress. She is those things, but realizes it, and is sorry for the times when you have to save her. After one instance she even asks if you hate her.
* DefiedTrope: The final boss of ''Fossil Fighters Champions'':
-->''"Yes, well, [[BondVillainStupidity let's not waste any more time with empty threats]] or [[JustBetweenYouAndMe the revealing of plans]], mmm?"''
* DemBones: The [=BareBones=] Brigade's boneysaurs in ''Champions''.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Averted. When the bad guy pulls out an {{Olympus Mon|s}}, you need to get your own before you can properly challenge him. (Unfortunately, you can't keep it - see NoPlansNoPrototypeNoBackup below)
** However, it's later played straight with [[spoiler:Guhnash--apparently, all you have to do is destroy his brains. Easy-peasy.]]
** In ''Champions'' [[spoiler:The FinalBoss, Zongazonga, is pretty much exactly this. A body-snatching skull that turns into a literally on fire zombie T-Rex with giant, bloody skeleton arms coming out of it? Just send some kid with his pet dinosaurs to beat it up.]]
* DinosaursAreDragons: The Fire-type Vivosaurs breathe fire, but remember - they're no longer Dinosaurs, they're ''[[CallARabbitASmeerp Vivosaurs]]''.
** In ''Champions'', the Super Revive function in the sequel plays this to the hilt, essentially morphing your Vivosaurs from dinosaur-like creatures into more draconic monsters. Also, [[spoiler:the BigBad Zongazonga literally refers to the dinosaurs as dragons in his magic chant in the penultimate battle.]]
* [[AnimalMotif Dinosaur Motif]]: In ''Champions,'' the male
* DiscOneFinalBoss: Frigisaur, and the leader of the BB Bandits with him.
* DiscOneFinalDungeon: Boy, isn't Mt. Lavaflow climactic! The lava! The HeelFaceTurn! The impending epic battle between the opposing forces of Frigisaur and Ignosaur! ...Wait, whaddiya ''mean'' half the plot threads still haven't been followed up on?
* DiscOneNuke: The Spinax you're given at the beginning of the first game is strong enough to last you until endgame.
** In ''Champions'' the starters are powerful enough to last you the entire game, particularly Dimetro.
** The 'Donation Point' dinosaurs also count, particularly Compso in the first game. There's nothing to stop you from grinding all the way to him the moment you get access to your first dig-site, and his support-effects will make you basically unstoppable for the rest of the game. To a lesser degree, Stego - being the cheapest of the DP-dinosaurs, you can, again, fairly easily get all 4 parts of him, in [[RareRandomDrop 'red' quality]], for an instantly high-level 'Tank' who can solo practically anything up to late-mid-game if needs be.
** Giga Raja in Champions, which is created by evolving Raja (available in the first area) with a gold fossil (can be found early with some dedication). Giga Raja's already powerful attacks can be bolstered by his ability to Charge-Up for a turn, causing him to hit like a meteor and deal damage exceeding the highest possible Life Points for anything in the game!
* DoWellButNotPerfect: In ''Champions,'' there's a man who wants your help making hard-boiled eggs in the
* DownloadableContent:
** The original game briefly featured four of the five Mysterious Egg fossils available for download on the Nintendo Channel, but they were taken down eventually. (They're still available in-game, though; it just takes longer.)
** ''Champions'' features [[OlympusMons Frigisaur and Ignosaur]] from the first game, along with sidequests from a... ''strange'' character named Ryne, and downloadable fights with [[spoiler: Duna, Raptin, and Dynal.]]
** ''Frontier'' distributed its bonus content through AR cards rather than actual downloads; including some Bone Buggys, versions of Yutie in all four elements, the villains' dark vivosaurs, and some ''actual'' dinosaurs.
* DudeWheresMyRespect: Averted. The [=NPC=]s' dialogue changes to praise you as you progress through the story and ranks.
* {{Eagleland}}: The Fossil Park America in ''Frontier''. The whole place is lit up like Las Vegas, the Warden in charge is TotallyRadical and [[AmericansAreCowboys dresses like a cowboy]], and the first dig site is in a southwest canyon. To its' credit, the Starry Falls dig site is a South American jungle instead of being a US stereotype. Fossil Parks Asia and Europe aren't all that much better when it comes to cultural stereotypes.
* ElementalPowers: It turns out that the cloning process gives these to animals as a [[CursedWithAwesome side-effect]].
** BlowYouAway
** DishingOutDirt
** MakingASplash
** PlayingWithFire
** NonElemental
** InfinityPlusOneElement: "Legendary" in the first two games, though in practice these vivosaurs are treated as Neutral; they just have better stats. The first game has [[spoiler:Frigisaur, Ignosaur, and all the parts of Guhnash]] and ''Champions'' has [[spoiler:Zombie Tricera, Zombie Ptera, Zombie Rex, Zombie Plesio, and Zongazonga; plust the return of Frigi and Igno]]. ''Frontier'' drops the designation.
* ElementalRockPaperScissors: Fire beats Air, which beats Earth, which beats Water, which beats Fire. Neutral has no advantages or disadvantages.
* ElvisImpersonator: Rockin' Billy from ''Champions.'' Did you catch the PunnyName?
* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: Duh!
* [[EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses Everything's Better With Princessaurs]]: Maia (Maiasaurus) is a pink dinosaur with a feminine face and a princess-crown. She's also a support-skill powerhouse, the only one in the game to have both healing and anti-status-ailment skills.
* EvolutionaryLevels: [[spoiler:The Dinaurians have a devolution beam. It turns humans into "triconodonta", a ratlike mammal ancestor.]]
** The three "Transformation-Class" Vivosaurs also transform into later descendants of theirs: Guan turns into T-Rex, and Proto turns into Tricera. Aoptryx is somewhat more confusing--it can turn into ''any'' neutral-type Vivosaur. Even those that technically came before it. And even those it ''could not possibly be related to'' (Apato isn't even a ''theropod!'').
** In ''Champions'', some vivosaurs can "Super Evolve" into stronger forms.
* {{Expy}}: Pauleen in ''Champions'' has a lot in common with Rosie from the first game. In addition to being your designated female hanger-on and being surprisingly powerful for such a young age, both have bright pink TwinTails... and the same (accidental, in Rosie's case) VerbalTic.
* FeatheredFiend: Aopteryx. It can semi-reliably steal FP with Thieving Talons, recover LP with Life Drain and as mentioned above, transform into any Neutral vivosaur. [[JokeCharacter Unfortunately, it needs significant support to dish out and/or take damage...]]
* FetchQuest: AND HOW. The first game is loaded with these. Thankfully, most of them go by quickly enough to keep the story rolling.
* FireWaterJuxtaposition: Frigisaur and Ignosaur in the first game represent the Fire/Ice version.
* FlyingSeafoodSpecial: And [[WaterIsAir inverted]] when fighting in [[UnderTheSea Bottomsup Bay]].
* FossilRevival: ...It's the backbone of the series.
* GeniusSweetTooth: Dr. Diggins has a weakness for Dino Cakes.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Professor Scatterly in the second game manages to slip a [[DidNotDoTheBloodyResearch "Sod it"]] past the radar. Similarly, the game goes to absolutely ''zero'' lengths to disguise the fact that
* BackUpTwin: A pair of twins were used to recreate Music/JenniferLopez's "Love Don't Cost
* GlobalCurrencyException: Redundant fossils are donated to the
* BottleEpisode: Every so often, it became fairly obvious that the videos that were chosen were done so because
* {{Gonk}}: Baron von Blackraven, especially
* GoodAllAlong: [[spoiler:Don Boneyard and the [=BareBones=] Brigade, trying to stop the Caliosteo Cup in order to stop Zongazonga's scheme. Well, the Brigade didn't know Don Boneyard was a
* GottaCatchEmAll
* GreenHillZone: Greenhorn Plains in the first game, Treasure Lake in ''Champions'', and Paradise Beach in ''Frontier''.
* HarmlessFreezing: Frigisaur freezes you and Rosie completely after your first fight with it. But you're still OK.
* HarmlessVillain: The
** [[spoiler: It's later {{justified|Trope}} when you learn that Don Boneyard is, in fact, the real Joe Wildwest in disguise. He didn't want to hurt anybody. When
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: The BB Bandits - well, the TerribleTrio team, anyway; the {{Mooks}} don't seem to turn.]]
** [[spoiler: The entire [=BareBones=] Brigade.]]
* HelloInsertNameHere: All games actually allow you to change your main character's name at any time! The first game doesn't allow you to name your {{Mon}}s, strangely, though this was changed in the second.
* HopelessBossFight: [[spoiler: Round one against Frigisaurus.]]
* HotSpringsEpisode: In the second game, there's a hot spring-themed dig site called Hot Spring Heights. Not surprisingly, most of the plot in that area revolves around the hot springs.
* HumansAreSpecial [[spoiler: Not only do they have the sci-fi standard "pluck," but the dinaurians are impressed by their capacity for both compassion and forgiveness.]]
* HypnotizeThePrincess: Comes into play late in Champions. [[spoiler: It's Todd.]]
* InconsistentDub: ''Frontier'' changes a couple names from previous games. The coin-like items vivosaurs are stored in were "Dino Medals" but are now
* InfinityPlusOneSword: T-Rex in the first game, natch. Also, [[KillerRabbit Compso, who debuffs the enemy's attack power by 90%]]. Even moreso are [[spoiler:Duna, Dynal, and
*
** Kelly Osbourne appeared on
* ItemGet: Every last fossil is one of these in the first two games. The hero bends over, picks up the rock, faces the camera and thrusts it above his/her head triumphantly. The fanfare plays, and a blurb appears stating the nature of the rock found. It's a thing of beauty.
* JokeCharacter: In the first game, Anato. Its expression can only
** Jenna Jameson
** LethalJokeCharacter in ''Champions '' It gets an [[TookALevelInBadass upgrade]] to gold confusion which means that the
* CostumePorn: Every episode would feature many displays of the various different outfits required for the video. They seldom picked music videos
* DancingIsSeriousBusiness: Justified, since they had to learn a routine in a matter of hours.
* GenkiGirl: Kristen, the girl who became Britney Spears.
* HilariousOuttakes: Highlights included one 'member' of Sugar Ray ordering room service pretending to be the real thing, one 'member' of Sum 41 dropping a series of terrible pickup lines on an extra and the actor playing the boyfriend in the Mandy Moore video hitting on the dance instructor.
* IdenticalTwinIDTag: The twins that played Jennifer Lopez looked pretty
* ImportantHaircut: Nearly every episode featured
*
* RaceLift: The producers certainly weren't picky about what ethnicity the fans were, even if it
** Driven home in ''Frontier'', where [[spoiler:you travel back in time and
* KatanasAreJustBetter: Mihu, a ceratopsian found in Japan, has ''katanas for horns.''
* KidHero: The main characters.
* KingIncognito: During ''Champions'', you're tasked with finding the
*
-->'''P.A. Leon''': I was wondering, why do we talk through every fight?
-->'''Slate Johnson''': I'm wondering how we can ''see'' every fight happening!
-->'''P.A. Leon''': Excellent point, Slate.
* LargeHamAnnouncer: All the
-->Not as excited as me! BOOYAH, GRANDMA!
-->'''Trip:''' Just like my wife with a credit card! Zing!\\
'''Ty:''' You're not married, Trip.\\
'''Trip:''' I'M SO LONELY!
-->There is a literal river of sweat running over my laptop! Seriously, I may electrocute myself before the day is over!
*
** More generally, you may find yourself gritting your teeth over the last lousy point of every single fossil you can clean. Properly-cleaned fossils are worth a ton of experience points, way more than you can reasonably give any specific vivosaur through combat. It's not ''mandatory'' to get everything perfect, but for perfectionists...
* LeakedExperience: Three vivosaurs participate in each fight, but all five that you're carrying (including defeated ones) get the experience. Averted in ''Frontier'', where all vivosaurs are available to use at all times but only the one used in battle gets experience.
* LizardFolk: In the second half of the
* [[GratuitousForeignLanguage Gratuitous Foreign]] {{Malaproper}}: Nick Nack does this. Airy cat oh! Donkey shine!
* MaskedLuchador: There seems to be a thriving masked-battler community, since each game involves some:
** Saurhead in the first game, who wears [[RefugeInAudacity no less than]] ''[[RefugeInAudacity thirty]]'' full-head dinosaur masks at any given time. [[TheUnreveal Can't risk]] [[DramaticUnmask being unmasked]], after all.
** Pauleen from ''Champions'' also wears a mask. [[spoiler: She wears it because it's shy, and it helps her feel more confident--but the mask is enchanted to bestow confidence, and ''evil,'' so it takes over the wearer's body in a rather literal case of BecomingTheMask.]]
** In ''Frontier'', it's Dino Gigante. You have to find his old rival, the Flying Smile Kid, and draw him out of retirement to try and win his belt in order to get the piece of MacGuffin on it.
* MetalDetectorPuzzle: This is your entire means of finding {{Mons}}--you have sonar and need to search the ground for stuff.
* MisterMuffykins: Joannie and Madame Pooch in ''Champions''. [[spoiler:Joannie's pampering is justified as
* {{Mon}}: It's a dinosaur-collecting and battling game.
* MythologyGag: Many visual details of the Vivosaurs are based on facts about their dinos:
** Some are [[PunnyName name puns]] (Krona is covered in clock-like Roman numerals, and Coatlus was made to look like its namesake, Quetzalcoatl.)
** Others are based on the location of their discovery (U-Raptor (''Utahraptor'') has feathers that look like a Native American headdress, Carchar has Egyptian details, Chinese Shanshan is designed to look like a ChineseGirl crossed with an Asian dragon.)
*** The fact that Breme (''Bradycneme draculae'') is vampiric is both a name and location reference, as it was discovered in Transylvania and and consequently named after {{Dracula}}.
** And more have their own fun facts (M-Raptor was exceptionally bird-like and so resembles a parrot; Megalo was one of the first discoveries ever, so according to the graphic designer "[[http://www.fossilfighters.com/html/making-of/5/ I deliberately used the design of a dinosaur as it was conceived by people long ago.]]")
* {{Nerf}}: Support effects were nerfed quite heavily in ''Champions.'' In the first game, vivosaurs had their full support effects regardless of their level, making things like [[GameBreaker Compso]] incredibly dangerous. In the sequel, support effects grow when your levels do... meaning the game gives you a Compso in the ''very beginning of the game,'' and feels no remorse.
** But there's also an inversion, as some game mechanics got stronger in the transition from
* SpiritualSuccessor: The British show "Reach For The Stars"
** A similar inversion applies to counterattacks. In the first game, counterattacks only had a 40% chance of working, making them a rather weak and luck-based strategy. In the sequel, counterattacks were upped to a 70% success rate, making them far more dangerous.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: The Dinomatons are robot dinosaurs, and the aforementioned Breme is a vampire dinosaur.
** And the sequel brings us skeleton [[spoiler:and zombie]] dinosaurs.
* NoPlansNoPrototypeNoBackup: A rare living example in [[OlympusMons Frigi(saur) and Igno(saur)]]. As soon as you defeat the former, the latter vanishes as well due to them cancelling each other's powers out. Still, it removes a god-like power from your party to prevent a Game Breaker. [[spoiler:Until you can win them from post-game {{Bonus Boss}}es, anyway.]]
* NothingIsScarier: When [[spoiler: the BB Bandits take over Vivosaur Island]], no music plays even in friendly areas.
* NotQuiteBackToNormal: Poor Rosie. The other girl's ending shows she hasn't fully thrown off the effects of the Digadig charm ''or'' the [[spoiler: deevolution ray]].
* OddNameOut: Three of Holt's V-Raptors in the mini-manga are Odin, Thor, and Steve.
* OlympusMons: Frigisaur and Ignosaur.
* OneWingedAngel: [[spoiler:The main villains of both ''Champions'' and ''Frontier'' turn themselves into monstrous dino-beasts for the final battle.]]
* OverlyLongName: Avoided. Many dinos have these, but their Vivosaur counterparts have them cut short.
* PaletteSwap: In ''Frontier,'' certain dinos have variants (based off famous specimens) that are colored differently. They sometimes differ in elements and skills, too--Hypsi comes in Air, Water, and Fire versions.
* {{Panspermia}}: Subverted. [[spoiler: The Dinaurians seeded the planet with life, but it was Earth's own species that survived instead.]]
* PeninsulaOfPowerLeveling: There's a bonus boss post-game that most people have trouble with. However, with the right team (ex. Seismo, Hoplo, and Compso) you can consistently defeat said bonus boss over and over again in about 6 turns each time by abusing a team skill and how long-range attacks work, making leveling up all your vivosaurs to rank 12 easy.
** In the second game, there's the three Barebones Brigade officials. They use teams made up entirely of Boneysaurs; although Boneys have powerful support effects, they're also extreme {{Glass Cannon}}s, meaning vivosaurs several levels lower of them can take them out with some decent planning. They grant a full 30 points (in a game where level-ups come every 50 points) on defeat, making them great for grinding.
** Also in the second game, after you beat the game, you can talk to Prof. Scatterly to "reenact" the final battle with Zongazonga. By thee end of the game your vivosaurs will probably be strong enough to take him out no problem, and he gives you 50 points, so any dinosaurs can be leveled up just by being put in the support group.
* PlanetEater: [[spoiler:Guhnash.]]
* PlayableEpilogue: A whole crop of stuff opens up after you beat the game. UnusableEnemyEquipment becomes [[InfinityPlusOneSword usable]], new areas open up, everyone becomes a BonusBoss, you get ''both'' the OlympusMons...
* PhlebotinumKilledTheDinosaurs: [[spoiler:Inverted; Dinosaurs were introduced on Earth by the Dinaurians.]]
* PopQuiz: The second go through the Secret Tunnels has you correctly answering dinosaur trivia to advance in the maze.
** In ''Champions'' there's a roaming quiz show sidequest run by Tess Score.
* PowerTrio: Hunter, Rosie, and Holt become one of these in the mini-manga. In ''Champions'', it's the player, Todd, and Pauleen; with Rupert as SixthRanger.
* PowerupLetdown: Getting the upgrade for Dark Fossils lets you find red fossils, which you could already find anyway, jewels, which you could find anyway, and dino droppings, which you ''couldn't''. Also, dark fossils have an outer shell that can only be broken with a hammer. If there's a speck of outer shell covering that perfect red fossil, expect to lose some points smashing it.
** Yes, but you don't get challenged for finding Dark Fossils in the original. Meaning you don't have to fight tooth-and-nail for every [[VendorTrash Emerald and Diamond]] that you dig up. In addition, the best jewels are available in Dark Fossils, meaning you can now get those all-important case, sonar, and cleaning tool upgrades without running around swinging a pickaxe like a maniac for hours on end. BoringButPractical.
* PunnyName / MeaningfulName: Where to start? We've got name changer Ty Tull, advice giver Tipper, Sam Inaro who teaches seminars... And these are just from the ''first'' game.
** Gets lampshaded:
--->'''Rosie:''' Oh, I can't believe I didn't make the connection before... Knickknacks... ''Nick Nack''. Ugh. Waa ha ha! To think we're out looking for knickknacks for a guy named Nick Nack... It's like some awful joke!
** NeverHeardThatOneBefore: Even the [=NPC=]s warn you that "We've heard all the jokes" about Bea Ginner (who teaches novices).
* PurelyAestheticGender: Your gender has no effect on the plot in ''Champions'' or ''Frontier''.
* QuintessentialBritishGentleman: In ''Champions,'' both Professor Scatterly and Rupert show signs of it. Rupert is more of a nascent one, though
* RandomlyDrops: Some fossils are ''much'' rarer than others, and you'll have to go back and forth between the main town and the area where they're found if you want to complete your fossil collection. Averted in ''Frontier'', where fossils for a specific vivosaur can be counted on to show up near each other and always in the same areas; plus they're identified on sight and you no longer need to go back to town to excavate them.
* TheReptilians: [[spoiler:The dinaurians in the original game.]]
* RibcageRidge: Treasure Lake in the second game has a gigantic skull of some variety, smack dab in the middle of the lake.
** Could also be a parody DesertSkull. Food for thought.
* RichBitch: Bling sisters Ruby and Sapphire, aka "the Posh Pair", in ''Frontier'''s postgame; who consider the player a commoner and recruit him/her in a few schemes to get rare jewels. Averted with [[spoiler:Penny]], who is only revealed to come from a rich family in the postgame and is SpoiledSweet.
* RichIdiotWithNoDayJob: A great deal of the Fossil Fighters are implied to be this.
* RoadApples: Yes, you can dig up fossilized dino dung. Nick Nack and John Guano are the only ones who want it for whatever reason (the shop will ''accept'' it, but will pay next to nothing).
* RobotBuddy: [=KL-33N=], the cleaning robot. Rupert has a prototype digging robot called [=Di66-R=]. In ''Frontier'', the Bone Buggies have an onboard AI called [=VR-00M=] (whose picture looks like the robots from the prior games).
* RoseHairedSweetie: Nate from ''Frontier'' is a RareMaleExample, in {{Adorkable}} flavor.
* RuleOfCool: Dinosaurs battling it out is cool enough, but the sequels give them even more powerful, awesome-looking forms.
* RunningGag: In ''Champions'', every time [[spoiler: someone's skull jumps into your pocket]], it is always described as "lumpy."
* SamusIsAGirl: In ''Frontier,'' it's revealed that the MascotMook T-Rex--the big red, yellow, and black one that appears on the box art of every game--is specifically a female version (named [[GeniusBonus Sue]]). The male version is a [[RealMenWearPink purple]] variant named [[FluffyTheTerrible Stan.]]
* SaveScumming: If you save before you talk to the cleaning robot, you can reload the save until he gives satisfactory results. No longer the case in ''Frontier'', where you do all the cleaning out in the field where you ''can't'' save.
* SchmuckBait: The Secret Tunnels of the Mole Brothers contain several treasure chests, but a nearby plaque warns you that "greed is its own setback." Opening them keeps you from advancing in the maze. It's later confirmed that opening these chests is why Lemo and O'Mel got separated in the first place.
* SetBonus: Putting three vivosaurs with something in common on the field can unlock a special attack for each.
* ShoutOut:
** One poor nameless NPC is tasked with standing guard over a warehouse, and nothing else. Keep talking to him, and he'll eventually reveal the "deep, philosophical" thoughts he's been having: "'''What is a man''''s life worth? Nothing but guarding '''a miserable pile of secrets?'''"
** The cleaning robots resemble Japanese emoticons.
** A cinematic from the sequel shows [[Film/JurassicPark a helicopter transporting new people to the island.]]
** In ''Champions'', one park staffer is trying to come up with new ideas:
-->Fast cars are exciting, right? Maybe we could [[Anime/YuGiOh5Ds have people battle while driving around a racetrack]]! [[TakeThat No, you're right. That's a dumb idea.]]
** Stella, Staff leader of Ribular Island informs the Hero(ine) that "[[VideoGame/SuperMarioBros1 Your dig site is on another island!]]" once they progress past Round 2 of the Cup. She then wonders why that sounds familiar.
** ''Champions'' also features a fisherman who became lost at sea. His name is [[Literature/RobinsonCrusoe Robinson,]] and he also talks to [[Film/CastAway a ball, whom he calls his best friend]].
** When its programming goes haywire, Rupert's robot says things such as "[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZelda I AM ERROR.]]" and "[[Videogame/ProWrestling A WINNER IS YOU.]]"
** In ''Frontier'', if you talk to a shopkeeper about cleaning a daily random fossil, they'll say [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZelda "It's a secret to everybody."]] During a tournament during one of the postgame quests, one character will also reference [[UsefulNotes/NintendoEntertainmentSystem "playing with power"]].
* ShownTheirWork: The information on the extinct animals, also see MythologyGag above.
* SignificantAnagram: The Mole Brothers' names are Lemo and O'Mel. Hm. I wonder what ''those'' [[SarcasmMode are anagrams of]]?
* SinisterSchnoz: Snivels, no question.
* SkullForAHead: Don Boneyard [[spoiler:and anyone else who became a victim of Zongazonga]].
* SlasherSmile: [[spoiler: Guhweep]] has one, but it's not immediately obvious until it [[spoiler: uses Tears of Dark Light... and turns upside down]].
* SlippySlideyIceWorld: The Glacier dig site from the first game, though it doesn't open up until the endgame.
** All of the Ilium Island digsites in ''Champions'' apply. Ilium isn't called "The island where warmth goes to die" for nothing!
* TheSlowPath:
** In the first game, [[spoiler:Dr. Diggins after he's sent back to the Jurassic. Thank goodness he manages to find the Stone Sleep device!]]
** Also seen in ''Frontier''. [[spoiler:While time-traveling, your vivosaur partner gets left behind in the late Cretaceous in order to make sure you get home safely. Eventually, you realize that a fossilized Dino Gear-like artifact you'd found earlier in the game really ''is'' your partner's Dino Gear.]]
* StanceSystem: Used in ''Frontier''. While previous games had tactical systems based on a vivosaur's placement on the field, ''Frontier'' instead focuses on how your vivosaur is standing: straight ahead, rearing up, ducking down, or turned around and baring its tail. Each vivosaur has a different set of strong and weak stances, and different attacks can change your or your opponents' stances (though a vivosaur's stance is always reset when it takes its turn).
* StarterMon: Each game in the series does it differently:
** ''Fossil Fighters:'' You start the game with a Spinax who, while common, is decently powerful. However, at the game start, you also get a free bonus fossil of a dinosaur based on how you answer some questions about what you like in your dinos.
** ''Champions:'' Joe Wildwest lets you pick between dinos of the four basic elements, which are hard to get until late game. All can [[MagikarpPower Super Evolve.]] Plus, boys get a T-rex and girls get a Tricera.
** ''Frontier:'' You befriend Chomp, the most traditionally mons-like dino in the series. He's no recognizable dinosaur species, he's quite powerful, and he evolves at certain points in the game. Plus, he's your TeamPet and your close friend.
* StatGrinding: A mild case in the first game; most stat gains are at levelups but vivosaurs also gain HP gradually between levels. ''Champions'' removes this.
* StockDinosaurs: But also includes any new prehistoric mammals and dinosaurs discovered during the creation of the game.
** The sequel appears to be continuing this, including many other prehistoric creatures from before and after the age of dinosaurs.
* StopHavingFunGuys: [[{{In-Universe}} Rupert]] in ''Champions''. After witnessing Todd take his loss to you in stride, he's baffled as to why Todd's not upset about losing. Though it turns out it's less arrogance that his way is the right one and more
* StrictlyFormula: The fans get picked up
** Turns out it comes from his dad, who tried to drive the "have fun" mentality out of him and
* StrangelyEffectiveDisguise: [[spoiler: Somehow, the
* TotallyRadical: The show is very MTV and is dripping with early 2000s pop culture.
* WeAllLiveInAmerica: The
** See also ''Champions'', where the hero(ine) receives a Ty Ranno mask for disguise purposes. No other mask keeps [=NPC=]s from
* SummonBiggerFish: Calling up Ignosaur to fight Frigisaur.
* TakeThat: After completing the main quest and all the
* TakenForGranite: [[spoiler:The [[LizardFolk dinaurians]] have technology that can do this. The technology that un-stones them is also responsible for how you can revive dinosaurs in the first place.]]
* ATasteOfPower: Do you go straight to the confrontation with [[spoiler: Ignosaur]] in your party... or do you have some fun with the [[OlympusMons godlike beast]] beforehand?
* TerribleTrio: The BB Gang. Also counts as the GoldfishPoopGang for the first half of the game. In the sequel, it's the Barebones Brigade. ''Frontier'' has Baron von Blackraven and his gang.
* TheTetrisEffect: Expect to see fossils in various states of cleaning every time you close your eyes.
* TyrannosaurusRex: The game's mascot, and somewhat of the InfinityPlusOneSword. One NPC ensures the player near the end of the game that "all the hype you've ever heard about it is true!"
* TheUnintelligible: Rex of the BB Bandits.
** EloquentInMyNativeTongue: [[spoiler:His true speech patterns tend toward SesquipedalianLoquaciousness. Those kooky English bulldogs...]]
* UnknownItemIdentification: In the first two games, fossils had to be brought back to base and excavated before they could be identified. In ''Frontier'', fossils are "unknown" the first time they're excavated but the sonar will be able to ID them afterward.
* UnusableEnemyEquipment: Boy, the Dinatomatons sure are cool, aren't they? Who wouldn't want a [[VideoGame/RobotDinosaursThatShootBeamsWhenTheyRoar Robot Dinosaur That Shoots Beams When It Roars?]] Well, sorry, but ''you don't get none.'' And you'll have to keep your paws off [[spoiler:Duna, Dynal, and Raptin]] too... [[spoiler:until they all become available in
*
* VerbalTic: The Digadigs, including Pauleen in ''Champions''. Rosie [[GotMeDoingIt picks it up]] when she is mystically made part of the
* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: Roise asks "you probably hate me now, don't you?". You actually are ABLE to say "yes".
** In ''Frontier,'' when you [[spoiler: travel back in time]], you can encounter dino nests. You can cheerfully drive your Bone Buggy over them and shatter them to pieces, for no other reason than they're there. (Though they magically reform themselves if you wait.)
* XMeetsY: ''Franchise/JurassicPark'' meets {{Mon}}s. (''Magazine/NintendoPower'' said "meets ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}''", but "meets ''VideoGame/{{Spectrobes}}''" is much more apt.)
* WeCannotGoOnWithoutYou: In the
* WellDoneSonGuy: Rupert's father is... difficult to please, shall we say.
* {{Whateversaurus}}: Along with the term "vivosaur" itself, this is used liberally for the various made-up species.
* WindIsGreen: Air-type Viviosaurs are revived from green fossils.
* WombLevel: The Bonehemoth in ''Champions.''
* WordSaladTitle: In ''Champions,'' all the songs in the sound test have silly and non-indicative names, like "Sleepy Robin," "Chocolate Soiree," or "Raspberry Bell."
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Rosie's pink hair could be passed off as an [[LiteraryAgentHypothesis artistic rendtion]] of a strawberry blonde, but there's ''really'' no explaining why Dr. Diggins' hair is ''green.''
** Siamo actually has blue hair, despite being a dinosaur.
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* RaceLift: The producers certainly weren't picky about what ethnicity the fans were, even if it didn't match that of the artist. As such, we got an Asian Music/{{Pink}}, white Michelle Williams (from Music/DestinysChild, to avoid any confusion), Hawaiian Ashley Poole and various others.
** This was noticeably more common in groups with a LesserStar: They probably had their choice of look-a-likes in the pool of Superfans for Beyonce or Justin Timberlake, but when it came time to fill in the [[ButtMonkey Michelle Williams[=/=]Joey Fatone]] section of the group, they probably just had to take what they could find.
* RaceLift: The producers certainly weren't picky about what ethnicity the fans were, even if it didn't match that of the artist. As such, we got an Asian Music/{{Pink}}, white Michelle Williams (from Music/DestinysChild, to avoid any confusion), Hawaiian Ashley Poole and various others.
** This was noticeably more common in groups with a LesserStar: They probably had their choice of look-a-likes in the pool of Superfans for Beyonce or Justin Timberlake, but when it came time to fill in the [[ButtMonkey Michelle Williams[=/=]Joey Fatone]] section of the group, they probably just had to take what they could find.
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MakeoverMontage: The haircut scenes usually took this form.
* RaceLift: The producers certainly weren't picky about what ethnicity the fans were, even if it didn't match that of the artist. As such, we got an Asian Music/{{Pink}}, white Michelle Williams (from Music/DestinysChild, to avoid any confusion), Hawaiian Ashley Poole and variousothers.
**others. This was noticeably more common in groups with a LesserStar: They probably had their choice of look-a-likes in the pool of Superfans for Beyonce or Justin Timberlake, but when it came time to fill in the [[ButtMonkey Michelle Williams[=/=]Joey Fatone]] section of the group, they probably just had to take what they could find.
* RaceLift: The producers certainly weren't picky about what ethnicity the fans were, even if it didn't match that of the artist. As such, we got an Asian Music/{{Pink}}, white Michelle Williams (from Music/DestinysChild, to avoid any confusion), Hawaiian Ashley Poole and various
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** MTV later had another show called "Wannabes" which was the same principle except it featured three sets of fans becoming the star(s) and they would compete against each other with the winner getting to do a live performance of one of the songs.
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** FridgeBrilliance: The fans can't miss school now can they?
* TotallyRadical: And how.
* TotallyRadical: And how.
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''Becoming'' was a reality TV series produced by {{MTV}} Creator/{{MTV}} around 2001. Each episode would follow one fan or a group of fans of a particular singer or band. Said fan(s) would be chosen to become the band/singer for a weekend and re-create a music video of one of their songs, as well as getting various gifts revolving around the artist being imitated. There was also a spin-off called ''Wannabes'', which featured three sets of fans becoming the same band/artist and competing on a live Q&A to see who had the best impersonation. The winner would then get to perform one of the songs on stage.
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* BackUpTwin: A pair of twins were used to recreate JenniferLopez's "Love Don't Cost a Thing". One twin played Jennifer as she walked and danced on the beach while the other performed the complicated dance routine on the postcard.
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* BackUpTwin: A pair of twins were used to recreate JenniferLopez's Music/JenniferLopez's "Love Don't Cost a Thing". One twin played Jennifer as she walked and danced on the beach while the other performed the complicated dance routine on the postcard.
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* RaceLift: The producers certainly weren't picky about what ethnicity the fans were, even if it didn't match that of the artist. As such, we got an Asian {{Pink}}, white Michelle Williams (from Music/DestinysChild, to avoid any confusion), Hawaiian Ashley Poole and various others.
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* RaceLift: The producers certainly weren't picky about what ethnicity the fans were, even if it didn't match that of the artist. As such, we got an Asian {{Pink}}, Music/{{Pink}}, white Michelle Williams (from Music/DestinysChild, to avoid any confusion), Hawaiian Ashley Poole and various others.
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* AbilityOverAppearance: Presumably the choice to cast teens that were different races from the artists they were imitating. MTV do need people who will be entertaining on television afterall.
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* ActingForTwo: Inverted. Several celebrities got imitated twice on the show including Music/BritneySpears, Music/ChristinaAguilera, *NSYNC, Pink etc.
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* DawsonCasting: Inverted. Teenagers were cast as the 20-something artists.
* DyeingForYourArt
* EnforcedMethodActing: In order to pick out someone to the love interest in the Enrique Iglesias "Escape" video the fan in question was required to make out with all the hopefuls to see which girl he had the best chemistry with. Yes, seriously.
** The dance routines that would have to be learned in a day would serve as a team building exercise for most of the teens that didn't know each other.
* DyeingForYourArt
* EnforcedMethodActing: In order to pick out someone to the love interest in the Enrique Iglesias "Escape" video the fan in question was required to make out with all the hopefuls to see which girl he had the best chemistry with. Yes, seriously.
** The dance routines that would have to be learned in a day would serve as a team building exercise for most of the teens that didn't know each other.
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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The show was never actually released on VHS or DVD so the only way to see any episodes is to find recorded clips on Youtube.
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* OldShame: Try looking up some of the kids who were on the show now years later.
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* RomanceOnTheSet: Played with. A couple of times real life boyfriends and girlfriends were brought in to play on screen love interests. The girl becoming Shakira and the guy becoming Eminem for example.
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* ThrowItIn: The boys becoming Sum 41 for the "Fat Lip" video were only supposed to lipsynch the rapping at the start, but their voices were put in anyway.
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* BizarroEpisode: One featured a fan from Germany getting flown into London to make a Kylie Minogue video with no explanation for the change in the typical location.
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* CriticalResearchFailure: Remaking the Destiny's Child "Say My Name" video they only chose three girls despite there being four members in Destiny's Child at the time the video was made. One wonders why they picked that video.
** Likely because it would be one of the cheapest to recreate.
** Likely because it would be one of the cheapest to recreate.
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* TheyJustDidntCare: One rather aggravating example occurred when they re-created the Music/DestinysChild song "Say My Name". The girl chosen to be Michelle was white and the girl chosen to be Kelly didn't even get her hair done to resemble Kelly. Only the girl chosen to be Beyoncé was actually given an effort.
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* UnnecessaryMakeover: Obviously, if the fan is required to look a certain way for their video. The girl who became Pink for "Don't Let Me Get Me" and the girl who became Shakira for "Underneath Your Clothes" stick out.
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* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: Billed as a family friendly show but quite a few of the music videos chosen certainly blur the lines such as Enrique Iglesisas's "Escape", Eminem's "Without Me" and Britney Spears's "I'm A Slave 4 U".
** Though they did draw the line with some videos, notably cutting out the end of Jennifer Lopez's "Love Don't Cost A Thing" where Jennifer strips off.
** Though they did draw the line with some videos, notably cutting out the end of Jennifer Lopez's "Love Don't Cost A Thing" where Jennifer strips off.
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* AmbiguouslyGay: Several people on the show, typically male stylists. Because it was a family show, they couldn't outright state it. Then there's the obvious fact that teenage guys becoming the likes of N*Sync and O-Town are hardly straight.
* ActingForTwo: Inverted. Several celebrities got imitated twice on the show including Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, N*Sync, Pink etc.
* ActingForTwo: Inverted. Several celebrities got imitated twice on the show including Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, N*Sync, Pink etc.
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* AmbiguouslyGay: Several people on the show, typically male stylists. Because it was a family show, they couldn't outright state it. Then there's the obvious fact that teenage guys becoming the likes of N*Sync Music/{{NSYNC}} and O-Town are hardly straight.
* ActingForTwo: Inverted. Several celebrities got imitated twice on the show includingBritney Spears, Christina Aguilera, N*Sync, Music/BritneySpears, Music/ChristinaAguilera, *NSYNC, Pink etc.
* ActingForTwo: Inverted. Several celebrities got imitated twice on the show including
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** This was noticeably more common in groups with a LesserStar: They probably had their choice of look-a-likes in the pool of Superfans for Beyonce or Justin Timberlake, but when it came time to fill in the [[ButtMonkey Michelle Williams[=/=]Joey Fatone]] section of the group, they probably just had to take what they could find.
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* ActingForTwo: Inverted. Several celebrities got imitated twice on the show including Britney Spears, Christina Aguleira, N*Sync, Pink etc.
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* ActingForTwo: Inverted. Several celebrities got imitated twice on the show including Britney Spears, Christina Aguleira, Aguilera, N*Sync, Pink etc.
* BottleEpisode: Every so often, it became fairly obvious that the videos that were chosen were done so because they would be the cheapest to replicate. An especially noticeable one was the Nelly Furtado episode. They decided to remake "On the Radio" despite it being a minor hit compared to "I'm Like a Bird" or "Turn Out The Light."
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** Jenna Jameson also appeared on the show as one of the women in Eminem's "Without Me" video.
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** Jenna Jameson also appeared on the show as one of the women in Eminem's "Without Me" video, as she did in the actual Eminem video.
** Likely because it would be one of the cheapest to recreate.
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* ImportantHaircut: Nearly every episode featured the fan getting his or her artist's hairstyle. This would often be the biggest step toward looking like the artist.
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* ImportantHaircut: Nearly every episode featured the fan getting his or her artist's hairstyle. This would often be the biggest step toward looking like the artist. At least one aversion occurred with the girl who "became" Eve. She cut her hair, but wasn't quite ready to go blonde.
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* CriticalResearchFailure: Remaking the Destiny's Child "Say My Name" video they only chose three girls despite there being four members in Destiny's Child at the time the video was made. One wonders why they picked that video.
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* HilariousOuttakes: Highlights included one 'member' of Sugar Ray ordering room service pretending to be the real thing, one 'member' of Sum 41 dropping a series of terrible pickup lines on an extra and the actor playing the boyfriend in the Mandy Moore video hitting on the dance instructor.
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* RaceLift: The producers certainly weren't picky about what ethnicity the fans were, even if it didn't match that of the artist. As such, we got an Asian {{Pink}}, white Michelle Williams (from DestinysChild, to avoid any confusion), Hawaiian Ashley Poole and various others.
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* RaceLift: The producers certainly weren't picky about what ethnicity the fans were, even if it didn't match that of the artist. As such, we got an Asian {{Pink}}, white Michelle Williams (from DestinysChild, Music/DestinysChild, to avoid any confusion), Hawaiian Ashley Poole and various others.
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* TheyJustDidntCare: One rather aggravating example occurred when they re-created the Destiny's Child song "Say My Name". The girl chosen to be Michelle was white and the girl chosen to be Kelly didn't even get her hair done to resemble Kelly. Only the girl chosen to be Beyoncé was actually given an effort.
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* TheyJustDidntCare: One rather aggravating example occurred when they re-created the Destiny's Child Music/DestinysChild song "Say My Name". The girl chosen to be Michelle was white and the girl chosen to be Kelly didn't even get her hair done to resemble Kelly. Only the girl chosen to be Beyoncé was actually given an effort.
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* BLAMEpisode: One featured a fan from Germany getting flown into London to make a Kylie Minogue video with no explanation for the change in the typical location.
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* AbilityOverAppearance: Presumably the choice to cast teens that were different races from the artists they were imitating. MTV do need people who will be entertaining on television afterall.
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* BLAMEpisode: One featured a fan from Germany getting flown into London to make a Kylie Minogue video with no explanation for the change in the typical location.
* BlatantLies: When four girls became the band Dream, an Asian girl was chosen to be Ashley and after her makeover the others were saying how much she now looked like her. The Ashley in question was white and had blonde hair with blue eyes.
* BlatantLies: When four girls became the band Dream, an Asian girl was chosen to be Ashley and after her makeover the others were saying how much she now looked like her. The Ashley in question was white and had blonde hair with blue eyes.
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** The dance routines that would have to be learned in a day would serve as a team building exercise for most of the teens that didn't know each other.
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* IdenticalTwinIDTag: The twins that played Jennifer Lopez looked pretty much the same but then one was given corn rows and the other hair extensions so telling them apart was easier.
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** MTV later had another show called "Wannabes" which was the same principle except it featured three sets of fans becoming the star(s) and they would compete against each other with the winner getting to do a live performance of one of the songs.
* StrictlyFormula: The fans get picked up and learn the routines, get the clothes, get the makeover and a whole lot of gifts on day 1 and shoot the video on day 2 (sometimes additional shooting on day 3).
** FridgeBrilliance: The fans can't miss school now can they?
* StrictlyFormula: The fans get picked up and learn the routines, get the clothes, get the makeover and a whole lot of gifts on day 1 and shoot the video on day 2 (sometimes additional shooting on day 3).
** FridgeBrilliance: The fans can't miss school now can they?
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* WeAllLiveInAmerica: The majority of teens were from America though a couple from Canada and the UK were brought in as well.
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* GenkiGirl: Kristen, the girl who became Britney Spears.
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** Jenna Jameson also appeared on the show as one of the women in Eminem's "Without Me" video.
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* DyeingForYourArt
* EnforcedMethodActing: In order to pick out someone to the love interest in the Enrique Iglesias "Escape" video the fan in question was required to make out with all the hopefuls to see which girl he had the best chemistry with. Yes, seriously.
* EnforcedMethodActing: In order to pick out someone to the love interest in the Enrique Iglesias "Escape" video the fan in question was required to make out with all the hopefuls to see which girl he had the best chemistry with. Yes, seriously.
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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The show was never actually released on VHS or DVD so the only way to see any episodes is to find recorded clips on Youtube.
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* TheRemake: All the music videos.
* RomanceOnTheSet: Played with. A couple of times real life boyfriends and girlfriends were brought in to play on screen love interests. The girl becoming Shakira and the guy becoming Eminem for example.
* RomanceOnTheSet: Played with. A couple of times real life boyfriends and girlfriends were brought in to play on screen love interests. The girl becoming Shakira and the guy becoming Eminem for example.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: The British show "Reach For The Stars" was very similar though featured younger kids and more varied careers.
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* UnnecessaryMakeover: Obviously, if the fan is required to look a certain way for their video. The girl who became Pink for "Don't Let Me Get Me" and the girl who became Shakira for "Underneath Your Clothes" stick out.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: Billed as a family friendly show but quite a few of the music videos chosen certainly blur the lines such as Enrique Iglesisas's "Escape", Eminem's "Without Me" and Britney Spears's "I'm A Slave 4 U".
** Though they did draw the line with some videos, notably cutting out the end of Jennifer Lopez's "Love Don't Cost A Thing" where Jennifer strips off.
* WigDressAccent: A lot of the time without the accent, sometimes with.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: Billed as a family friendly show but quite a few of the music videos chosen certainly blur the lines such as Enrique Iglesisas's "Escape", Eminem's "Without Me" and Britney Spears's "I'm A Slave 4 U".
** Though they did draw the line with some videos, notably cutting out the end of Jennifer Lopez's "Love Don't Cost A Thing" where Jennifer strips off.
* WigDressAccent: A lot of the time without the accent, sometimes with.
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''Becoming'' was a reality TV series produced by MTV around 2001. Each episode would follow one fan or a group of fans of a particular singer or band. Said fan(s) would be chosen to become the band/singer for a weekend and recreate a music video of one of their songs, as well as getting various gifts revolving around the artist being imitated. There was also a spin-off called ''Wannabes'' which featured three sets of fans becoming the same band/artist and competing on a live Q&A to see who had the best impersonation. The winner would then get to perform one of the songs on stage.
!!'''This Show Provides Examples Of:'''
* AmbiguouslyGay: Several people on the show, typically male stylists. Being a family show they couldn't outright state it. Then there's the obvious fact that teenage guys becoming the likes of N*Sync and O-Town are hardly straight.
!!'''This Show Provides Examples Of:'''
* AmbiguouslyGay: Several people on the show, typically male stylists. Being a family show they couldn't outright state it. Then there's the obvious fact that teenage guys becoming the likes of N*Sync and O-Town are hardly straight.
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''Becoming'' was a reality TV series produced by MTV {{MTV}} around 2001. Each episode would follow one fan or a group of fans of a particular singer or band. Said fan(s) would be chosen to become the band/singer for a weekend and recreate re-create a music video of one of their songs, as well as getting various gifts revolving around the artist being imitated. There was also a spin-off called ''Wannabes'' ''Wannabes'', which featured three sets of fans becoming the same band/artist and competing on a live Q&A to see who had the best impersonation. The winner would then get to perform one of the songs on stage.
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* AmbiguouslyGay: Several people on the show, typically male stylists.Being Because it was a family show show, they couldn't outright state it. Then there's the obvious fact that teenage guys becoming the likes of N*Sync and O-Town are hardly straight.
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* AmbiguouslyGay: Several people on the show, typically male stylists.
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* BackUpTwin: A pair of twins were used to recreate Jennifer Lopez's "Love Don't Cost A Thing". One twin played Jennifer as she walked and danced on the beach while the other performed the complicated dance routine on the postcard.
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* BackUpTwin: A pair of twins were used to recreate Jennifer Lopez's JenniferLopez's "Love Don't Cost A a Thing". One twin played Jennifer as she walked and danced on the beach while the other performed the complicated dance routine on the postcard.
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* CostumePorn: Every episode would feature plenty of displaying of the various different outfits required for the video. They almost never picked music videos that had only one outfit.
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* CostumePorn: Every episode would feature plenty of displaying many displays of the various different outfits required for the video. They almost never seldom picked music videos that had only one outfit.
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* ImportantHaircut: Nearly every episode featured the fan getting their artist's hairstyle. This would often be the biggest step towards looking like them.
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* ImportantHaircut: Nearly every episode featured the fan getting their his or her artist's hairstyle. This would often be the biggest step towards toward looking like them.the artist.
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* RaceLift: The producers certainly weren't picky about what ethnicity the fans were, even if it didn't match the artist's. As such we got an Asian Pink, white Michelle Williams (from Destiny's Child to avoid any confusion), Hawaiian Ashley Poole and various others.
* SceneryPorn: Featured several shots of the Beverley Hills scenery as well as various scenic shots of whatever location they picked the fans up from.
* TheyJustDidntCare: One rather aggravating example when they recreated Destiny's Child "Say My Name". The girl chosen to be Michelle was white and the girl chosen to be Kelly didn't even get her hair done to resemble her. Only the girl chosen to be Beyonce was actually given an effort.
* ThrowItIn: The boys becoming Sum 41 for the "Fat Lip" video were only supposed to lipsynch the rapping at the start but their voices were put in anyway.
* TotallyRadical: And how.
* SceneryPorn: Featured several shots of the Beverley Hills scenery as well as various scenic shots of whatever location they picked the fans up from.
* TheyJustDidntCare: One rather aggravating example when they recreated Destiny's Child "Say My Name". The girl chosen to be Michelle was white and the girl chosen to be Kelly didn't even get her hair done to resemble her. Only the girl chosen to be Beyonce was actually given an effort.
* ThrowItIn: The boys becoming Sum 41 for the "Fat Lip" video were only supposed to lipsynch the rapping at the start but their voices were put in anyway.
* TotallyRadical: And how.
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* RaceLift: The producers certainly weren't picky about what ethnicity the fans were, even if it didn't match that of the artist's. artist. As such such, we got an Asian Pink, {{Pink}}, white Michelle Williams (from Destiny's Child DestinysChild, to avoid any confusion), Hawaiian Ashley Poole and various others.
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* ThrowItIn: The boys becoming Sum 41 for the "Fat Lip" video were only supposed to lipsynch the rapping at thestart start, but their voices were put in anyway.
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* ThrowItIn: The boys becoming Sum 41 for the "Fat Lip" video were only supposed to lipsynch the rapping at the
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