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* BrickJoke: When Helena and Victoria discuss going out on a mission, Victoria says that she has to go because Helena's Chinese is terrible. Later, when Helena meets Mei Yin, she tries to communicate with her....only for Mei Yin to wince and insist they SwitchToEnglish because it's better than hearing Helena's Chinese.
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* IslandOfMystery: Dinosaurs, reincarnation from across time, and magic/high-tech artifacts.
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* TrainingMontage: Mei Yin trains Helen in medieval martial arts. They face Nerva and Helen doesn't die, so it was a very effective montage!
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* SwitchToEnglish: Despite coming from all over the globe and different time periods, modern English seems to be the lingua franca for the island, and both Nerva and Mei Yin start off in their native languages before switching to English.
* TrainingMontage: Mei Yin trainsHelen Helena in medieval martial arts. They face Nerva and Helen Helena doesn't die, so it was a very effective montage!
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* DecoyProtagonist: Not Helena, but Bob, the first person she meets on the beach. He offers to teach her to survive, they build an interesting rapport, he's voiced by a well-known actor, and [[AdvertisedExtra he's featured in a lot of promotional material]] (including the cover). He has a SurprisinglySuddenDeath less than 15 minutes in, leaving Helena over her head.
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* DecoyProtagonist: Not Helena, but Bob, the first person she meets on the beach. He offers to teach her to survive, they build an interesting rapport, he's voiced by a well-known actor, and [[AdvertisedExtra he's featured in a lot of promotional material]] (including the cover).poster up top). He has a SurprisinglySuddenDeath less than 15 minutes in, leaving Helena over her head.
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* DecoyProtagonist: Not Helena, but Bob, the first person she meets on the beach. He offers to teach her to survive, they build an interesting rapport, he's voiced by a well-known actor, and [[AdvertisedExtra he's featured in a lot of promotional material]] (including the cover). He has a SurprisinglySuddenDeath less than 15 minutes in, leaving Helena over her head.
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* AdaptationalDiversity: Understated. Many characters' ethnicities are not mentioned in the original explorer notes, and they are brown in the series.
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* AdaptationalDiversity: Understated. Many characters' ethnicities are not mentioned in the original explorer notes, and they are brown in the series.so they've been interpreted as a wide range of races.
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* NoEqualOpportunityTimeTravel: While the brutality of the island is somewhat of an equalizing factor (even Nerva, a Roman general, allows women in his forces), many people from different times arrived on the island and brought their prejudices with them. Bob is surprised that women can be professors in the future, Rockwell thinks that Helena's affinity with dinosaurs is because women are have an inherent affinity for [[{{Satan}} the Serpent]], and Nerva is acting like the ideal Roman general by trying to conquer the island and enslave those who won't comply.
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* SmartPeopleKnowLatin: Helena picked up Latin in her studies as a paleontologist, which lets her converse with Nerva somewhat.
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''Ark: The Animated Series'' is a 2024 {{Animesque}} adult AnimatedAdaptation of ''VideoGame/ARKSurvivalEvolved'', released on Creator/ParamountPlus. Written by Creator/MargueriteBennett, it boasts an AllStarCast for the voice acting, including Creator/MadeleineMadden, Creator/GerardButler, Creator/DavidTennant, Creator/MichelleYeoh, Creator/JeffreyWright, Creator/ElliotPage, Creator/KarlUrban, Creator/RussellCrowe, and Creator/VinDiesel, the latter two whom also serve as an executive producer.
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''Ark: The Animated Series'' is a 2024 {{Animesque}} adult AnimatedAdaptation of ''VideoGame/ARKSurvivalEvolved'', released on Creator/ParamountPlus. Written by Creator/MargueriteBennett, it boasts an AllStarCast for the voice acting, including Creator/MadeleineMadden, Creator/GerardButler, Creator/DavidTennant, Creator/MichelleYeoh, Creator/JeffreyWright, Creator/ElliotPage, Creator/KarlUrban, Creator/RussellCrowe, and Creator/VinDiesel, the latter two whom also serve as an executive producer.
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''Ark: The Animated Series'' is a 2024 {{Animesque}} adult AnimatedAdaptation of ''VideoGame/ARKSurvivalEvolved'', released on Creator/ParamountPlus. Written by Creator/MargueriteBennett, it boasts an AllStarCast for the voice acting, including Creator/MadeleineMadden, Creator/GerardButler, Creator/DavidTennant, Creator/MichelleYeoh, Creator/JeffreyWright, Creator/ElliotPage, Creator/KarlUrban, Creator/RussellCrowe, and Creator/VinDiesel, who the latter two whom also serve as an executive producer.
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** In the game lore, the only tamed ''Giganotosaurus'' belonged to Mei Yin and proved instrumental in her battle against the Megapithecus and confrontation with Nerva's army. In the series, instead it is Nerva whom is its master.
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* ArtisticLicensePaleontology:ArtisticLicensePaleontology: The series naturally retains the inaccuracies made by the game, but also has a few additional ones which stand out.
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** The ''Tyrannosaurus'' in the series have three-fingered hands, which both their real and game counterparts lacked.
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** The ''Tyrannosaurus'' in the series have three-fingered hands, which rather than the two-fingered hands both their real and game counterparts lacked.had.
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** A ''Leedsichthys'' manages to kill a megalodon, even causing it to bleed with a bite. ''Leedsichthys'' was a ''filter-feeding fish'' with thousands of tiny teeth used for skimming through the water not unlike a whale shark.
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** A ''Leedsichthys'' manages to kill a megalodon, even causing it to bleed with a bite. ''Leedsichthys'' was a ''filter-feeding fish'' with thousands of tiny teeth used for skimming sifting through the water for plankton not unlike a whale shark.
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** A ''Leedsichthys'' manages to kill a megalodon and causes megalodon, even causing it to bleed with a bite. ''Leedsichthys'' was a ''filter-feeding fish'' with thousands of tiny teeth used for skimming through the water not unlike a whale shark.
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* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: The ''Tyrannosaurus'' in the series have three-fingered hands, which both their real and game counterparts lacked.
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** A ''Leedsichthys'' manages to kill a megalodon and causes it to bleed with a bite. ''Leedsichthys'' was a ''filter-feeding fish'' with thousands of tiny teeth used for skimming through the water not unlike a whale shark.
** The ''Tyrannosaurus'' in the series have three-fingered hands, which both their real and game counterparts lacked.
** A ''Leedsichthys'' manages to kill a megalodon and causes it to bleed with a bite. ''Leedsichthys'' was a ''filter-feeding fish'' with thousands of tiny teeth used for skimming through the water not unlike a whale shark.
** The ''Tyrannosaurus'' in the series have three-fingered hands, which both their real and game counterparts lacked.
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* AllStarCast: Russell Crowe, Vin Diesel, David Tenant, Jeffrey Wright, Michelle Yeoh.
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* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Nerva's Rex is red, while the Alliances' are green.
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* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Nerva's Rex is red, while the Alliances' are green.ContrivedCoincidence: Why does Bob just so happen to have clothes for Helen in her size? They could have easily shown him or Helena crafting it during a survival TrainingMontage or even a [[CampfireCharacterExploration campfire scene]].
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* PlotArmor: Mei Yin is plausibly an even match for Nerva, even with the size difference, as they have both been fighting their entire lives. Helena, on the other hand, is a squishy modern woman with almost zero training in sword fighting, and so should have been killed even more quickly than the RedShirts. Instead, she holds her own against him for a while and survives.
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* AndroclesLion: How Helena befriends her parasaur, Scary.
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* AndroclesLion: How Helena befriends her parasaur, Parasaur, Scary.
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* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Nerva's T-Rex is red, while the Alliances' are green.
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* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Nerva's T-Rex rex is red, while the Alliances' are green.
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** [[spoiler:John]] manages to kill [[spoiler:Nerva's ''giganatosaurus'' using some conveniently-placed [[ExplodingBarrel Exploding Barrels]]]].
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''Ark: The Animated Series'' is a 2024 {{Animesque}} adult AnimatedAdaptation of ''VideoGame/ARKSurvivalEvolved'', released on Creator/ParamountPlus. Written by Creator/MargueriteBennett, it boasts an AllStarCast for the voice acting, including Creator/MadeleineMadden, Creator/GerardButler, Creator/DavidTennant, Creator/MichelleYeoh, Creator/JeffreyWright, Creator/ElliotPage, Creator/KarlUrban, Creator/RussellCrowe, and Creator/VinDiesel, who also serve as an executive producer.
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''Ark: The Animated Series'' is a 2024 {{Animesque}} adult AnimatedAdaptation of ''VideoGame/ARKSurvivalEvolved'', released on Creator/ParamountPlus. Written by Creator/MargueriteBennett, it boasts an AllStarCast for the voice acting, including Creator/GerardButler, Creator/DavidTennant, Creator/MichelleYeoh, Creator/JeffreyWright, Creator/ElliotPage, Creator/KarlUrban, Creator/RussellCrowe, and Creator/VinDiesel, who also serve as an executive producer.
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Adaption of ''VideoGame/ARKSurvivalEvolved''.
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* NonActionGuy: Edmund Rockwell, gentleman scholar, and Henry, engineer. Which in this setting means they pick up crossbows and get their asses kicked.
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* NonActionGuy: Edmund Rockwell, gentleman scholar, and Henry, engineer. Which Which, in this setting setting, means they occasionally pick up crossbows and get their asses kicked.
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* WideEyedIdealist: Helena has an arc about the necessity of killing.
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* WideEyedIdealist: Helena has an arc about the necessity of killing.killing.
* WorthyOpponent: How Nerva sees Mei Yin (a feeling she does not reciprocate). To the point where he [[spoiler:is angered when Rockwell cuts their duel short with a well-aimed tranquilizer dart]].
* WorthyOpponent: How Nerva sees Mei Yin (a feeling she does not reciprocate). To the point where he [[spoiler:is angered when Rockwell cuts their duel short with a well-aimed tranquilizer dart]].
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* AdventurerArchaeologist: Helena, though she is aboriginal Australian, and despite the primitive setting, the idea of a "native tribe" doesn't exactly make sense on the island.
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* AdaptationalDiversity: Understated. Many characters' ethnicities are not mentioned in the original explorer notes, and they are brown in the series.
* AdaptationalSexuality: Helena's sexuality isn't mentioned in the game, but in the series, she had a wife.
* AdaptationalVillainy: Rockwell is a conniving snake in both continuities. But in the game, he initially befriends Helena over their mutual love of science, while in the series, they get off on the wrong foot very quickly.
* AdventurerArchaeologist: Helena, though she is aboriginal Australian, and despite the primitive setting, the idea of a "native tribe" doesn'texactly make sense on the island.
* AllStarCast: Russell Crowe, Vin Diesel, David Tenant, Jeffrey Wright, MichelleYeohYeoh.
* AdaptationalSexuality: Helena's sexuality isn't mentioned in the game, but in the series, she had a wife.
* AdaptationalVillainy: Rockwell is a conniving snake in both continuities. But in the game, he initially befriends Helena over their mutual love of science, while in the series, they get off on the wrong foot very quickly.
* AdventurerArchaeologist: Helena, though she is aboriginal Australian, and despite the primitive setting, the idea of a "native tribe" doesn't
* AllStarCast: Russell Crowe, Vin Diesel, David Tenant, Jeffrey Wright, Michelle
* AndroclesLion: How Helena befriends her parasaur, Scary.
* EqualOpportunityEvil: Downplayed. Nerva placed former gladiatrix Octavia in charge of one of his mining outposts and one of his slaving raiders (the first Helena encounters) is a woman.
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* TranslatorMicrobes: Averted, unlike in the game's backstory. Helena speaks Latin and Chinese (''very'' poorly), but it turns out English is the Lingua Franca of the island.
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* TrainingMontage: Mei Yin trains Helen in medieval martial arts. They face Nerva and Helen doesn't die, so it was a very effective montage!
* TranslatorMicrobes: Averted, unlike in the game's backstory. Helena speaks Latin well and Chinese(''very'' poorly), poorly, but it turns out English is the Lingua Franca of the island.
* TranslatorMicrobes: Averted, unlike in the game's backstory. Helena speaks Latin well and Chinese
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* NaginatasAreFeminine: Downplayed. Mei Yin's weapon of choice on the island is a polearm, but in her past life, many male fighters used the same, so it's more about time period (and the fact that they're fighting dinosaurs) than gender.
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* NaginatasAreFeminine: Downplayed. Mei Yin's weapon of choice on the island is a polearm, but in her past life, many male fighters used the same, so it's more about time period (and the fact that they're fighting they fight dinosaurs) than gender.
* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: Bob helps Helen survive her first day on the island, but being from the 1940s, is incredulous that she could be a professor.
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* DeathWorld: Downplayed compared to the game. Arrows actually hurt the giant beasts, and the BigCreepyCrawlies are of a more manageable size.
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* DyingMomentofAwesome:
** [[spoiler:John]] manages to kill [[spoiler:Nerva's ''giganatosaurus'' using some conveniently-placed [[ExplodingBarrel Exploding Barrels]]]].
** [[spoiler:Mei Yin]] falls into a trap but ''still'' manages to kill [[spoiler:the general who set it]] through HeroicWillpower.
* GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler:John]], knowing that [[spoiler:Mei Yin and Helena]] are safe.
** [[spoiler:John]] manages to kill [[spoiler:Nerva's ''giganatosaurus'' using some conveniently-placed [[ExplodingBarrel Exploding Barrels]]]].
** [[spoiler:Mei Yin]] falls into a trap but ''still'' manages to kill [[spoiler:the general who set it]] through HeroicWillpower.
* GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler:John]], knowing that [[spoiler:Mei Yin and Helena]] are safe.
* MadeASlave: In this new world, Nerva continues doing Roman things.
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* AnachronismStew: Naturally, given the setting. While Nerva continues to dress like a Roman general, his FacelessMooks wear the plate mail from the games.
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* GetBackToTheFuture: Nerva believes that the legendary artifacts of the arc will let him return to Rome to finish his rebellion -- with an unstoppable army of dinosaurs!
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* GetBackToTheFuture: Nerva believes that the legendary artifacts of the arc Ark will let him return to Rome to finish his rebellion -- with an unstoppable army of dinosaurs!
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Contemporary professor of archeology Helena Walker wakes up on a mysterious tropical island, populated by extinct animals and humans from many eras of history. She must survive the savage world and the only thing more dangerous than primeval beasts: human politics.
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* AdventurerArchaeologist: Helena, though she is aboriginal Australian, and despite the primitive setting, the idea of a "native tribe" doesn't exactly make sense on the island.
* AllStarCast: Russell Crowe, Vin Diesel, David Tenant, Jeffrey Wright, Michelle Yeoh
* BeenThereShapedHistory: Mei Yin was a (forgotten) leader during the Yellow Turban Rebellion.
* CompressedAdaptation: The pacing is very fast compared to the story told in Helena Walker and Edmund Rockwell's notes from the game. (Compare the runtime of the fanmade machinima of said notes to the show itself.)
* CurseCutShort: A variation: Bob cannot believe that Helena is a professor, because she's a wo--
* DeathWorld: Downplayed compared to the game. Arrows actually hurt the giant beasts, and the BigCreepyCrawlies are of a more manageable size.
* TheDreaded: Mei Yin.
--> '''Imperial general''': ''My own soldiers speak of you in whispers -- the language of fear.''
* {{Foil}}: Mei Yin and Nerva both rebelled against corrupt and decadent empires.
* [[HonorThyParent Honor Thy Brother]]: A key part of Mei Yin's backstory is her choice [[spoiler:to attack the palace instead of rescuing her brother]] to the surprise of [[spoiler:the imperial general]].
* IslandOfMystery: Dinosaurs, reincarnation from across time, and magic/high-tech artifacts.
* GetBackToTheFuture: Nerva believes that the legendary artifacts of the arc will let him return to Rome to finish his rebellion -- with an unstoppable army of dinosaurs!
* GuileHero: How Helena gets the better of so many bloodthirsty warlords and raiders.
* NaginatasAreFeminine: Downplayed. Mei Yin's weapon of choice on the island is a polearm, but in her past life, many male fighters used the same, so it's more about time period (and the fact that they're fighting dinosaurs) than gender.
* NamesToRunAwayFrom: ''The Beast Queen''.
* NonActionGuy: Rockwell, a gentleman scholar, and Henry, an engineer.
* TranslatorMicrobes: Averted, unlike in the game's backstory. Helena speaks Latin and Chinese (''very'' poorly), but it turns out English is the Lingua Franca of the island.
* WideEyedIdealist: Helena has a whole arc about the necessity of killing.
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* AdventurerArchaeologist: Helena, though she is aboriginal Australian, and despite the primitive setting, the idea of a "native tribe" doesn't exactly make sense on the island.
* AllStarCast: Russell Crowe, Vin Diesel, David Tenant, Jeffrey Wright, Michelle Yeoh
* BeenThereShapedHistory: Mei Yin was a (forgotten) leader during the Yellow Turban Rebellion.
* CompressedAdaptation: The pacing is very fast compared to the story told in Helena Walker and Edmund Rockwell's notes from the game. (Compare the runtime of the fanmade machinima of said notes to the show itself.)
* CurseCutShort: A variation: Bob cannot believe that Helena is a professor, because she's a wo--
* DeathWorld: Downplayed compared to the game. Arrows actually hurt the giant beasts, and the BigCreepyCrawlies are of a more manageable size.
* TheDreaded: Mei Yin.
--> '''Imperial general''': ''My own soldiers speak of you in whispers -- the language of fear.''
* {{Foil}}: Mei Yin and Nerva both rebelled against corrupt and decadent empires.
* [[HonorThyParent Honor Thy Brother]]: A key part of Mei Yin's backstory is her choice [[spoiler:to attack the palace instead of rescuing her brother]] to the surprise of [[spoiler:the imperial general]].
* IslandOfMystery: Dinosaurs, reincarnation from across time, and magic/high-tech artifacts.
* GetBackToTheFuture: Nerva believes that the legendary artifacts of the arc will let him return to Rome to finish his rebellion -- with an unstoppable army of dinosaurs!
* GuileHero: How Helena gets the better of so many bloodthirsty warlords and raiders.
* NaginatasAreFeminine: Downplayed. Mei Yin's weapon of choice on the island is a polearm, but in her past life, many male fighters used the same, so it's more about time period (and the fact that they're fighting dinosaurs) than gender.
* NamesToRunAwayFrom: ''The Beast Queen''.
* NonActionGuy: Rockwell, a gentleman scholar, and Henry, an engineer.
* TranslatorMicrobes: Averted, unlike in the game's backstory. Helena speaks Latin and Chinese (''very'' poorly), but it turns out English is the Lingua Franca of the island.
* WideEyedIdealist: Helena has a whole arc about the necessity of killing.
