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1->"I am a bundle of pure trouble!"
2-->--'''Kyra''', ''Uh-oh, it's a Dinosaur''
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4'''[[http://www.fulltimeink.com/dino Uh-oh, it's a Dinosaur]]''' (which began life titled ''Paul and Kyra'') is a LifeEmbellished {{Webcomic}} by Andrew Bilitz (who also does ''Webcomic/PhilLikesTacos'') which updates three times a week.
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6The main character is Kyra who, as the title indicates, is more than likely a dinosaur in modern times. She's highly energetic and intelligent, even understanding and speaking human languages. She is also some bizarre escaped lab experiment with an occasional genius for mechanics and killing and slashing things that pops up at rather unexpected times.
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8Kyra lives with washed-up artist Paul, who works a thankless retail job, is rather timid, and is loath to venture beyond his apartment. While the comic takes place in what seems to be our regular world, every adventure they stumble upon ends up becoming over exaggerated and insane.
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10!! The tropes in play
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12* AbsurdlySharpBlade: Kyra's claws, which can slice and dice small neighborhood animals with ease.
13* AnimalTalk: Animals talk in emojis, which Kyra understands. She can also understand the English of the human characters, and bridges the gap with strange broken English. The occasional person who hears her talk can get completely weirded out by the experience.
14* AnimalWrongsGroup: Jill gets between them and a group of gun-toting carnivores.
15* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Example on page 332:
16-->[[spoiler:'''Jill''']]: If she wants to come out of hiding she's going to be confronted with [[http://itsadinosaur.com/comic/dino_332/ politics, religion, and favorite movies]] like the rest of us.
17%%* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Kyra has a bad case of this.
18%%* BluntMetaphorsTrauma: Kyra suffers from this, too.
19* TheCameo: The Series/MythBusters appear on [[http://fulltimeink.com/archives/9418 this page]]. Many other pages hold cameos as well, such as a mustached man named "Mario" working at a shop.
20* CerebusSyndrome: Intentionally averted. Bilitz wanted the comic to ''not'' head this way and at one point he realized it was headed this way.
21%%* CloudCuckooLander: Kyra and Beatrice.
22* CrazyCatLady: Mrs. Lucinda, with her one cat. You will eventually learn to feel sorry for the poor thing.
23%%* FriendToAllLivingThings: Beatrice.
24* LateArrivalSpoiler: The weird beekeeper girl's name is Beatrice. What, you ''weren't'' expecting a pun?
25* LifeEmbellished: Paul's (torturous) work experience in retail, aspirations, need to budget and mete out a schedule? Very realistically grounded. Kyra's whole existence? Insane adventures with bounty hunters, mad scientists, and so forth? Not so much.
26* MakeoverMontage: Ann decides to [[http://itsadinosaur.com/comic/dino_373/ help Kyra become "cute"]] as all girls should be. Kyra is skeptical, at least until the CostumeTestMontage.
27--> '''Ann''': [[http://itsadinosaur.com/comic/dino_376/ How about a fuzzy pink boa?]]
28--> '''Kyra:''' Oh! It's a matter of taste because I want eight!
29%%* MeanBoss: Martha.
30* PunnyName: Beatrice. Also Tyrone Asarus and Jill Anjack.
31* RelaxOVision: When Paul is given his special assignment by his MeanBoss, the poor [[TerrifiedOfGerms clean freak]] is assigned to the bathroom. The extent to which cleaning is necessary is censored by replacing the offensive material with [[PreciousPuppies cute puppies]]. ''[[BigNo Hundreds of them]].''
32-->'''Paul''': Ohhhh puppy!
33%%* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Kyra.
34%%* SewerGator: "Oh, [[http://itsadinosaur.com/comic/dino_342/ that's where our liberated zoo animals]] escaped to..."
35* ShapedLikeItself: Stray Cat the, well... stray cat.
36* SpeaksFluentAnimal: It never occurred to Beatrice that animals don't talk, so Kyra's talking is not at all strange to her. It is thus far unclear to what extent she can communicate ''to'' animals, but her beekeeping habits suggest it's at least a little.
37%%* StrangeSyntaxSpeaker: Partly defines Kyra's speech.
38* TerrifiedOfGerms: Paul is a clean/neat freak.
39* ThereWasADoor: Paul uses a tarp to cover the missing door to the apartment's balcony. Instead of simply peeling one side of it away, Kyra prefers to throw herself through it every time she enters or exits. This results in a funny moment when Paul reattaches it to keep rain out... And it's in tatters from Kyra-sized holes.
40* WebcomicTime: It's only been a few days in-story.

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