Characters / Dinosaur Comics

T-Rex

A Tyrannosaurus rex who gets really enthusiastic about ideas. Appears in all six panels.

• Feigning Intelligence: His entire shtick in a nutshell. He can instantly whip up Insane Troll Logic on any subject.
• Fetish: Specifically, a recurring sexual interest in 1920s flappers.
  • Also in entropy spontaneously reversing itself.
• Genius Ditz: He is not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but he knows all the tropes and writing conventions known to man, as well as obscure details about science, programming, linguistics, and history.
• Hearing Voices: It's never clear whether God and the Devil are actually talking to T-Rex.

• Pals with Jesus: Regularly talks with God.

Utahraptor

T-Rex's somewhat saner friend and comedic foil. Appears in panels four and five.

• Better as Friends: Early on in the comic, it's revealed that T-Rex had a brief sexual fling with Utahraptor in the past. But they both seem to be more comfortable as just friends.
• Deadpan Snarker: Often.
• Not So Above It All: Despite generally being the voice of reason, he gets irrationally angry about homeopathy and can be just as silly at T-Rex at times
• Spell My Name with a "The": T-Rex calls him "the Utahraptor" in the first hundred or so strips. As the relationship between them became more amicable, this was phased out.
• Straight Man: To T-Rex's silliness.
• Straight Gay: "He has interests outside of being gay?"
• Yaoi Fanboy: He likes turning T-Rex's stories into romantic fanfiction.

Dromiceiomimus

T-Rex's supportive (that is, less aggressively critical) friend. Appears in panel three.

• Women Are Wiser: She tends to be much more sensible than T-Rex.

God

Creator and maintainer of the cosmos. Seems to have a lot of free time.

• Cool Old Guy: He seems happy to banter with T-Rex.
• Cloudcuckoolander: He has his moments.
• God Is Flawed: Despite having omniscience, he's still pretty fallible and can be tripped up by a stray question from T-rex.
• The Voice: Appears in no panels, and is represented by speech bubbles aimed above the comic instead.

The Devil

The Adversary. Very serious about videogames.

• Geek: If a discussion about videogames comes up, he's usually involved
• Satan
• The Voice

Morris

A very small insect with problems.

• A Day in the Limelight: In a guest comic, along with Mr. Tusks.
• Apologises a Lot: Largely because of his various problems

Mr. Tusks

An elephant afflicted with island dwarfism. Vice-mayor of Tiny Towne.

• A Day in the Limelight: In a guest comic, along with Morris.
• Pungeon Master: But only a little bit.
  • Aren't you exaggerating just a... tiny bit?
• Ridiculously Cute Critter: Especially remarkable when one considers that he never appears on panel.

Professor Science

A Diplodocus with a square graduation hat that for some reason, T-Rex answers SCIENCE mail for. The Professor seems to just ignore T-Rex.

• The Ghost: More so than other characters not physically appearing in the comic, he never reacts even when he is ostensibly just off camera. It can't even be said for sure he knows Ask Professor Science is a thing because he never gets his mail.

The Tiny Woman in Panel Four

• They Killed Kenny Again: T-Rex stomps her in every comic.
  • It's revealed in one Alt Text that she actually throws down a smoke bomb and escapes, and that she is actually the most competent character in comic!... She still never actually says anything.
• Throw the Dog a Bone: It was a fan comic but she Took a Level in Badass, blocked Rex's foot and kicked him in the face.