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3''Jabberwocky'' is a manga by Hisa Masato and "adventure/sci-fi/action" doesn't really do it justice.
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5British secret agent [[MsFanService Lily Apricot]] gets an assignment to steal back a Russian treasure only to discover that dinosaurs are real, they walk among us, and they're really pissed at being overthrown by humans!
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7[[SimilarlyNamedWorks Not to be confused with]] Creator/LewisCarroll's poem ''Literature/{{Jabberwocky}}'' or The Jabberwockeez dance group.
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10!! Tropes associated with ''Jabberwocky'':
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12* TheAlcoholic / FunctionalAddict(?): Lily loves her booze. "I drank two bottles, I can't be drunk!"
13** Exacerbated by the fact that she creates her weapons from wine bottles.
14%%* AllMythsAreTrue: or at least have a rather disturbing twist.
15* AncientConspiracy: [[spoiler: Dinosaurs have been living in the shadows, though their control over human affairs is spotty as of the time of the story.]]
16* {{Animesque}}: Inverted, it's pretty ''ComicBook/SinCity'' / ''ComicBook/{{HellBoy}}''-esque aside from Lily and the head of the [[Literature/TheCountOfMonteCristo Chateau L'If]].
17* BadassLongCoat: Nice and tattered; sometimes makes it seem as if he has wings or multiple tails.
18* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: [[spoiler: Galileo was a humanoid dinosaur and so was Helen of Troy! Surprisingly, Nicola Tesla is human, just really insane.]]
19%%* BunnyEarsLawyer: Nicola Tesla.
20* ChessMotif: Lily repeatedly refers to herself as just a pawn to be sacrificed in order to take the king, which irritates Sabata to no end (she gets better).
21* CleavageWindow: Lily's outfit has a cleavage on par with [[WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers Molotov Cocktease]], but with a proper clasped collar.
22* CombatStilettos: Lily actually wears chunky stripper heels but impractically high heels for fighting nonetheless.
23%%* OfCorsetsSexy
24* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Lily's mother couldn't take being an exiled traitor and killed herself in front of Lily]]
25* EyePatchOfPower: D'Jango has one with a coffin on it where [[spoiler: Sabata ''ripped his eye out with his broken arm bones'' after D'Jango shot his arm off.]]
26* FeatheredFiend: [[spoiler: The flying dinos and their cruel "mother". The "ninjas" that they carry bear a striking similarity to the monkey ninjas of ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible''.]]
27* AGodAmI: [[spoiler: A dinosaur who claimed to be descended from Adam (they were dinosaurs) wanted to use Adam's rib to unite dino-kind to defeat the monkeys. He's actually just DumbMuscle being manipulated by D'Jango.]]
28%%* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: Definitely of the "good, cigar-chomping badass" variety.
29* GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler: The GloryHound archaeologist who found Adam's Rib dies with a smile -- after all this date will now be the anniversary of his death!]]
30%%* TheGunSlinger: Has ''at least six guns'' on his belt.
31* HeadbuttingPachy: Tuzo, a bodyguard for Dorohov, is a humanoid Pachycephalosaurid who fights by using his thick bone skull to ram through his opponents.
32%%* HistoricalInJoke
33* HollywoodCyborg: [[spoiler: Has a mechanical lower right arm]]
34* HolyHandGrenade: [[spoiler: It's actually the unborn son of the Russian dinosaur king]]
35%%* ImprobableAimingSkills: Him and D'Jango.
36* InSpace: ''ComicBook/{{HellBoy}}'' / ''Film/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'' / ''Film/VanHelsing'' with [[spoiler: dinosaurs]]!
37* IncendiaryExponent / MonumentalDamage: [[spoiler: The Leaning Tower of Pisa is turned into a flaming cannon]]
38%%* KillAllHumans: [[spoiler: A lot of dinosaurs don't like being kept underground.]]
39* KillItWithFire / ShockAndAwe / DeathFromAbove: [[spoiler: Tesla accidentally discovered how to spontaneously combust people]]
40* LastOfHisKind: [[spoiler: After it was [[ScienceMarchesOn (erroneously)]] reported that the ruling oviraptor family were -- from a dinosaur's point of view -- descended from baby-snatching cannibals, dinosaur kind turned against them and Sabata's entire family was murdered.]]
41* LatexPerfection / TheMasquerade: [[spoiler: The dinosaurs can pass as humans by wearing masks... somehow.]]
42* LivingMacGuffin: The orb that the Russian royal family uses is secretly an egg which contains the future prince of the dinosaur kingdom. The egg can be used to take control of the dinosaur kingdom by threatening the egg's father, with Dorohov intending to steal it and use it to launch a war against humanity.
43* TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler: The Empress of China has two dinosaur advisers.]]
44* MeaningfulName: Lily and Sabata are named after a real life idol singer and a spy novelist, respectively.
45* TheMenInBlack: The Pinkertons are really eccentric and really deadly.
46%%* MsFanService: Lily Apricot.
47%%* OddCouple:[[spoiler: Lily and Sabata; possibly Paris and Helen.]]
48* OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler: The first time we meet him Lily knocks off his head; it's actually a prosthetic.]]
49* PaperThinDisguise: Somehow manages to get away with a beard and hat combo in public despite, you know, ''[[spoiler: being a freaking dinosaur]]''.
50* PetTheDog: [[spoiler: The feathered dino saves one of her "experiments" despite not caring about them as living creatures, let alone her own children.]]
51%%** KickTheDog: [[spoiler: She crushes it anyway.]]
52** TheDogBitesBack / HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler: Her "perfectly trained" children don't like that one bit.]]
53* PurelyAestheticEra
54* RoomFullOfCrazy: Tesla's. He takes notes while he has a weird machine hooked up to his head and has notes on top of notes and takes note of all of them [[spoiler: or lack thereof]].
55* ScienceMarchesOn: [[spoiler: Oviraptors aren't baby-stealing jerks (noted by the author) and the "evolution cycle" of embryos has since been debunked (not noted).]]
56%%* ShoutOut: Too many.
57%%** ShownTheirWork: The author's notes at the end of the chapters.
58* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism: Very much on the ideal side, after all, [[spoiler: little Mao hasn't done all the terrible things ''three kinds of divination'' say he'll do ''yet''...]]
59%%* SpyCatSuit
60%%* {{Stripperiffic}}
61* TykeBomb: [[spoiler: Lily's father/parents were traitors; the only thing anyone felt she was good for was dying for her country.]]
62%%* UnderBoobs:
63%%* WhatMeasureIsANonhuman
64* WhoYouGonnaCall: The [[Literature/TheCountOfMonteCristo Chateau D'If]], that's who!
65* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: [[spoiler: Dorohov (Dolohov?) had to basically perform dinosaur abortions, smashing living eggs for years.]]

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