This page lists the characters of Dinosaur King and their associated tropes.
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D-Team (D-Kids)
From left to right: Rex, Ace, Max, Chomp, Dr. Taylor, Paris, Zoe
The main characters from the series. A trio of dinosaur-loving friends that get into the conflict of the dinosaur cards after discovering the Stone Fragments of Lightning, Wind and Grass in the forest where the meteorite that was carrying them fell, allowing them to summon their dinosaur partner. Guided by Max’s father (a famous paleontologist) and Zoe’s sister (an accomplished scientist), they fight against the Alpha Gang to recover the dinosaur cards spreaded through the world so the evil organization doesn’t abuse the dinosaurs inside them. In General
- Armor-Piercing Attack: When Chomp, Ace, and Paris are applied with Dinotector armor, they can use Ultimate Thunder, Ultimate Wind, and Ultimate Leaf respectively to charge themselves with their elemental energy and ram into their opponents. The force of these attacks are so strong, they often break through the Spectral Armor of the Spectral Space Pirate’s dinosaurs.
- Blond, Brunette, Redhead: Rex, Max and Zoe, respectively (Zoe being pinkheaded instead, however).
- Fighter, Mage, Thief: The three dinosaurs of the D-Team follow this dynamic with their fighting styles. Chomp, the strongest physically and who fights head to head with other dinosaurs, is the Fighter; Paris, who doesn’t has powerful offensive attacks and instead uses buff, debuffs and summoning move cards, is the Mage; and Ace, who relies in very fast attacks but lacks the raw power of Chomp, is the Thief.
- Power Trio: Max, Rex and Zoe fit this dynamic perfectly, being a trio of friends in which one is the main character, another his best friend, and the last one is a female friend.
Max Taylor (Ryuta Kodai)
Voiced by: Megumi Matsumoto (Japanese), Veronica Taylor (English), Mercedes Espinosa (European Spanish)
The protagonist of the story. A young boy who loves dinosaurs whose father is a renowned paleontologist. He finds a set of strange stones that fell from a meteorite in a forest, where he meets his dinosaur partner Chomp the Triceratops. He is usually hotblooded and brash, but also compassionate and righteous.
- Anime Hair: He has the wild, spiky hair usual from anime protagonists. He inherited it from his father.
- Catchphrase: In the DS game, anytime he wins against a powerful enemy he says “That was an awesome battle!”.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Red to Rex’s Blue. Max is impulsive and acts before thinking, compared to Rex, more analytical and down to earth.
- Serious Business: Lunch is this for him. In the 39th episode of the anime, he loses it when a Mapusaurus ruins his lunch and spends most of the episode trying to make it pay for that.
- Signature Mon: He’s associated with the Triceratops (either Chomp or the normal playable Triceratops) in both the arcade, the anime and the DS game.
Chomp (Gabu)
Voiced by: Asuka Tanii (Japanese, episodes 01-62), Yuka Nakatsukasa (Japanese, episodes 63-79), Kether Donohue (English)
Battle form
A Triceratops and Max's dinosaur partner through the story. Very playful and with a habit of affectionately biting Max.
- The Ace: Chomp might be the best fighter in the series. He boasts an impressive set of Lightning move cards, has defeated the most dinosaurs in the series, and rarely displays moments of weakness like the rest of the main dinosaurs.
- Bash Brothers: He and Ace often frequently team up to fight other dinosaurs. Sometimes, they defeat certain dinosaurs together.
- The Big Guy: As a ceratopsian, he is physically the strongest of the D-Team’s dinosaurs, usually doing most of the heavy work in battles.
- Bite of Affection: His name is Chomp for a reason!
- Bruiser with a Soft Center: While Chomp may be a formidable fighter, he prefers to play and coexist peacefully with other dinosaurs than fight them.
- Expy: He looks very similar to Pikachu in his chibi form. Both of them are even pets of the main character who use lightning-based attacks and receive a significant amount of attention acting as the mascots for their series.
- Interspecies Friendship: Chomp is great friends with Ace and Paris, two vastly different dinosaurs who play with him and fight alongside him. He also quickly befriends fellow Ceratopsians like Styracosaurus, Anchicertops, and Torosaurus.
- Pint-Sized Powerhouse: He is still pretty strong in his chibi form, as he was able to flip over an alligator with his head while lost in the jungle!
- Shock and Awe: As a ceratopsian, he fights using powerful lightning attacks.
- Temper-Ceratops: Downplayed. Chomp is a tough fighter when the time to battle comes, but most of the time he’s a docile, playful dinosaur.
- Tropey, Come Home: Chomp wanders off on his own in a lot of episodes. He always ends up eventually coming back to Max though.
- Uniformity Exception: He is the only Triceratops in the entire series to be colored a goldish-orange color. All the other Triceratops in the DS Game and Arcade are colored a dull blue. Even the Triceratops herd seen in the premiere of Season 2 are colored dull grays.
Rex Owen
Voiced by: Matsuri Mizuguchi (Japanese), Sebastian Arcelus (English), Julia Martínez (European Spanish)
- Dub Name Change: Averted. He’s one of the few characters whose name doesn’t change in the Japanese and English version, likely because he has an English name.
- The Lancer: He is Max’s adopted brother and is just as skilled as he is when it comes to fighting with their dinosaurs.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Blue to Max (and Zoe)’s Red. He is calm and usually thinks before acting, contrasting the hotblooded attitude of his friends. He even wears primarily blue clothes.
- Signature Mon: He’s associated with the Carnotaurus (either Ace or the normal playable Carnotaurus) in both the arcade, the anime and the DS game.
Ace
Voiced by: Seiko Tamura (Japanese), Eric Stuart (English)
Battle form
A Carnotaurus and Rex's dinosaur partner through the story. A very fast dinosaur specialized in quick attacks. He has a crippling fear of large bodies of water.
- Bash Brothers: He and Chomp often frequently team up to fight other dinosaurs. Sometimes, they defeat certain dinosaurs together.
- Blow You Away: As a medium sized theropod, he fights using fast wind attacks.
- Blue Is Heroic: He is a blue Carnotaurus who is a part of the D-Team.
- Doppleganger Attack: Ace's Ninja Attack gives him the ability to create translucent duplicates of himself that rapidly run through his opponent from all sides. Tank is often on the receiving end of this attack.
- Dub Name Change: Like his owner, he averts this, as his name is unchanged in the English version from the Japanese one.
- Fragile Speedster: He hits hard and his attacks are very fast, but lacks the physical endurance of Chomp. As such, if he’s hit with a very powerful move he’s usually defeated.
- Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Ace is still a dinosaur that is 7 feet tall and 20 feet long, but he is capable of beating dinosaurs even bigger and heavier than him.
- Predators Are Mean: Subverted. Despite being a predatory dinosaur, Ace is one of the heroes and a good natured dinosaur.
- Super-Speed: When move cards like Ninja Attack are activated, he can move extremely fast and attack his opponent from all sides at rapid fire speed.
- Token Minority: A species case. Ace is the only theropod and saurischian dinosaur of the D-Team.
- Use Your Head: Thanks to his pair of brow horns, he often rams into his opponents.
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Ace is very uncomfortable around water.
Zoe Drake (Malm Tatsuno)
Voiced by: Tomoko Kobashi (Japanese), Kether Donohue (usually) Annice Moriarty (credited in a few episodes) (English), Marta Argota (European Spanish)
The only girl of the trio and another friend from Max. Though sweet and bubbly usually, she can be fearsome when angered. She has a rivalry with Ursula because she has a tendency to call her an old lady.
- Adaptational Wimp: In the DS game, Zoe isn’t playable and remains as a supporting character that doesn’t has her own DinoShot nor a dinosaur under her command, thus she remains irrelevant for the plot except for the post-game, when the player has to retrieve personal objects of hers that the Alpha Gang stole as revenge for their defeat in Antarctica.
- Bare Midriffs Are Feminine: She's the only girl among the main characters, and both of her outfits in the anime and the arcade game leave her middle section uncovered. Beside indicating her gender, it also shows her as someone used for hot climates due to her paleontological activities. In the anime at least is shown her shirt is full length, she just rolls up the bottom to show her midriff.
- Canon Immigrant: Originally created for the animated series, she was eventually introduced as a character in the arcade.
- Demoted to Extra: She’s a NPC in the DS game and her contribution to the story is minimal except for kickstarting the post-game of the story.
- Fiery Redhead: A pink variant. She’s normally sweet and caring, but she can be fierce, competitive and bossy on certain instances.
- Ms. Fanservice: Especially in the original Japanese version. She has her midsection exposed and some of the poses she does when she activates her dinosaur cards are very suggestive.
- Rose-Haired Sweetie: Though she can be bossy and tough, Zoe is ultimately a good person that genuinely cares for her friends.
- Tomboy with a Girly Streak: She likes hobbies usually liked by males such as paleontology or football, but on occasions she has shown feminine behavior such as dressing Paris in cute clothing or fawning over boys.
- Signature Mon: She’s associated with the Parasaurolophus (either Paris or the normal playable Parasaurolophus) in both the arcade and the anime.
- Shorttank: A bossy, midriff-baring, Badass Adorable Fiery Pinkhead in short shorts? Yep, she counts.
- Valley Girl: Like any other character played by Annice Moriarty/Kether Donohue.
Paris (Parapara)
Voiced by: Yuriko Fuchizaki (Japanese)
Battle form
A Parasaurolophus and Zoe's dinosaur partner through the story. Loves to sing and dance like her master.
- Character Tic: She likes to sing at all times (independently if it sounds good or not), a reference to the sounds the real Parasaurolophus made with its crest.
- Cute, but Cacophonic: Her singing usually can get annoying if she’s left unchecked.
- Four Legs Good, Two Legs Better: She is normally quadrupedal like the real Parasaurolophus was believed to have been, but she sometimes moves on two legs to move faster.
- Gentle Giant: She’s the biggest dinosaur of the D-Team, but she’s generally sweet and peaceful (though still a competent fighter).
- Glass Cannon: Paris may be a tougher than she looks, but she cannot take a whole lot of punishment compared to Chomp or even Ace.
- Green Thumb: As an ornithopod, she fights using Grass moves, usually as support as opposed to offensive attacks.
- Make Some Noise: She can use her powerful voice to generate sound waves able to stun enemies, another reference (albeit a very exaggerated one) to real hadrosaur noises.
- Summon Bigger Fish: Her Big Foot Assault move card allows her to summon a humongous Seismosaurus that is so big no dinosaur can even scratch it.
- White Magician Girl: Paris’s move cards usually center in healing allies or debuffing enemies, contrasting the more offensive movesets of Chomp and Ace. The times she performs an offensive attack, it usually is by summoning other dinosaurs/pterosaurs.
Spike Taylor (Kenryu Kodai)
Voiced by: Naoya Uchida (Japanese), David Wills (English), Iñaki Alonso (European Spanish)
- Adventurer Archaeologist: Or Adventurer Paleontologist in this case. Dr. Taylor is clearly based in Indiana Jones and his clothes and looks clearly evoke this trope.
- Anime Hair: The times he doesn’t wears his hat, it is shown he has the same spiky hairstyle as Max.
- Demoted to Extra: In the DS game, he’s barely relevant in the story of the game, and his main contribution to it is to supply the player with Mystery Fossils in his Dinoman persona if they find enough dinosaurs.
- Dishing Out Dirt: Though he never owns a dinosaur properly in the anime, in the arcade game he’s usually associated with the Earth element.
- Expy: As a variant of an Adventurer Archaeologist, wearing a hat and using a whip, Dr. Taylor seems to be based in Indiana Jones.
- Happily Married: He’s very much in love with his wife Aki, and their relationship still goes strong after years of marriage.
- Manchild: Very energetic and excitable for his age, especially if something is related to dinosaurs, to the embarrassment of Max. He can still be serious when the situation is needed, however.
- Manly Facial Hair: He sports a rather impressive beard that serves to enhance his looks as a paleontologist that usually works on field instead of expending time in the laboratory.
- Out of Focus: As a result of being kidnapped by the Spectral Space Pirates in the second season, his role gets severely diminished as a result.
Reese Drake (Riasu Tatsuno)
Voiced by: Eri Komiyama (Japanese), Rachael Lillis (English), Silvia Evora (European Spanish)
- Adaptational Personality Change: Compared to her stern and no-nonsense anime self, her DS version usually smiles gently and is a lot more openly nice.
- Ascended Extra: Not that she was a minor character, but the DS game upgrades her to the Big Good of the story, while in the anime she acts as the Number Two of Dr. Taylor, the closest thing to a Big Good in the first season of the anime.
- Big Good: In the DS game, she provides the player and their partner with everything they need for their quest (including upgrading their DinoShots) and in general acts as the primary commanding figure of the D-Team.
- Emotionless Girl: In the anime, she rarely expresses her feelings beyond mild annoyance at Dr. Taylor’s antics. She’s more emotional in the arcade and the DS game, however.
- Green Thumb: She doesn’t use any dinosaurs either in the anime or the DS game, but in the arcade she’s associated with the Grass element like her sister.
- Morality Pet: Is this to Zander. He’s willing to go against the Alpha Gang and Dr. Z (that for all purposes is his adoptive father) just for her sake.
- Out of Focus: In the second season she stays in the present while the D-Team and the Alpha Gang go to the past to retrieve the Cosmos Stones, so she appears less frequently.
- Smart People Wear Glasses: As a genius able to create most of the technology of the D-Lab, she’s shown wearing glasses.
- Stoic Spectacles: A female version. While Reese wears glasses and is attractive, she comes across as a cool beauty rather than your average Bespectacled Cutie.
- When She Smiles: She’s normally serious and stoic, but can smile sweetly in certain instances.
Alpha Gang (Team ACT)
From left to right: Ursula, Terry, Dr. Z, Ed, Spiny, Zander, Rod, Tank, Laura, Seth
The antagonists of the first season. A mysterious organization led by Dr. Z that wants to retrieve their dinosaur cards, which were dropped around the world. They use robots and strange machinery for their purposes. It is eventually revealed that they brainwash the dinosaurs they capture, making them fight for their cause, which makes the D-Team more determined to recover the dinosaur cards themselves. In General
- Adaptational Badass: In the DS game, tough they still retain some quirks, each one of them is a serious threat for the world, including the more incompetent members like Dr. Z and the Alpha Trio.
- Adaptational Villainy: Unlike in the anime, the Alpha Gang members remain as villains in the DS game and never turn over a new leaf.
- Armor-Piercing Attack: When Terry, Spiny, and Tank are applied with Dinotector armor, they can use Ultimate Fire, Ultimate Water, and Ultimate Earth respectively to charge themselves with their elemental energy and ram into their opponents. The force of these attacks are so strong, they often break through the Spectral Armor of the Spectral Space Pirate’s dinosaurs.
- Butt-Monkey: The Alpha Trio and Dr. Z are often subjected to multiple abuse (physical or not) and disrespect through the series, sometimes due to their own incompetence, sometimes cause their luck just suck.
- Evil Is Petty: In the DS game, after completing the main story they attack Zoe and steal her personal things to spite the D-Team for thwarting their plans in Antarctica.
- Hazy-Feel Turn: Despite allying themselves with the D-Team to stop Seth at the end of the first season, Dr. Z and the Alpha Trio still want to fulfill their goal of being rulers of the dinosaurs and in the second season, during some instances they end up betraying Max and his friends and fighting against them again. It is however Played for Laughs, as their bad luck and the new threat of the Spectral Space Pirates really impedes their betrayal from succeeding.
- Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: The Alpha Trio (and Dr. Z for that matter) is so incompetent it gives Team Rocket a run out for their money. They, however, sometimes DO have success and there are episodes where they end stealing the dinosaur of the week from the D-Team.
- Laughably Evil: With the exception of Seth, the remaining members are incompetently comedic and tend to be more amusing than evil.
- Mecha-Mook: They use a bunch of robots known as Alpha Droids as their main mooks, usually for heavy tasks or restraining dinosaurs. The Alpha Droids depending on their function feature a different design each one.
- Oddly Small Organization: Other than the Alpha Droids, the dinosaurs they use and Helga the maid (which later is also revealed to be another android), the actual organization is composed of 7 members. It is even smaller in the arcade and the DS game, where Helga (being an anime only creation) doesn’t appear.
- Perpetual Frowner: Unlike the dinosaurs of the D-team, the Alpha Gang’s main dinosaurs are less emotional and their expression is set in a perpetual scowl.
- Team Rocket Wins: The Alpha Gang sometimes beat the dinosaur of the episode and take their cards from Max and his friends. Unfortunately, in most instances their own incompetence ends with them losing their cards sooner or later.
- Terrible Trio: Ursula, Zander and Ed form one in similar lines to the Dorombo Gang and Team Rocket, being a trio composed of an assertive, temperamental female and two males (one lanky and another round) with a more submissive personality.
- Two Girls to a Team: Ursula and Laura are the only girls of the group in the arcade and the DS game. The anime averts this with Helga acting as a third female member (albeit as a maid rather than a proper member).
Dr. Z (Dr. Sonoida)
Voiced by: Tetsuo Goto (Japanese), Eric Stuart (English), Jaime Roca (European Spanish)
- Adaptational Badass: In the DS game he’s never betrayed by Seth and remains as the main threat of the game, and much of his silly quirks from the anime are replaced with a more serious personality.
- Adaptational Wimp: In the anime he remains as a Non-Action Big Bad that rarely uses dinosaurs and leaves most of the heavy work to his subordinates. In the arcade game, however, he does have dinosaurs he uses to fight the player.
- Antagonist Title: Both the Japanese (roughly translated as “Ancient King of the Dinosaurs”) and English titles of the franchise refer to Dr. Z’s desire to obtain all the dinosaur cards and name himself the king of the dinosaurs.
- Bad People Abuse Animals: In the anime, he experimented on Pachycephalosaurus by fusing energy into his skull, trained and punished Therizinosaurus, and put the Deinonychus trio through rigorous ninja tests to make them the perfect ninja. Even though Dr. Z still loves his Secret dinosaurs, each of them do not have very fond memories of him to say the least. They even end up attacking him in some capacity when they see him again.
- Big Bad: As the leader of the Alpha Gang, he’s the main antagonist of the first season, as well as the DS game. He loses this position to Seth and later Spectre later in the anime, in which he pulls a Heel–Face Turn.
- Big Bad Wannabe: Despite being the main villain of season 1, his short temper, incompetence and bad luck makes him look like an utter fool. It culminates with Seth betraying him at the end of the season.
- Bald of Evil: He’s practically bald except for a few locks of hair that sprout out of his head. It serves to show he’s both evil and old.
- Beard of Evil: His spiky white beard serves to show him as a villainous character.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He genuinely loves the modified dinosaurs he raised, even if they loathe him. He also really loves his grandsons and even the Alpha Trio (that he adopted along with the father of Rod and Laura), even if he treats them like dirt most of the time.
- Evil Old Folks: A shriveled, nasty old man who betrayed Rex’s parents and wants the dinosaur cards for selfish reasons.
- Labcoat of Science and Medicine: Almost always seen wearing a white lab coat, showing him as a scientist (a mad one at that).
- Mad Scientist: As much of a wimp Dr. Z is, there’s no denying he’s a true genius. He can turn dinosaurs into stronger Alpha variants (like he did with the Acrocanthosaurus in the anime) and he’s the one who invented the Secret attribute, the only one rivaling his intellect being Seth. Unfortunately, he tends to use his mind for selfish and evil purposes.
- Miniature Senior Citizens: He's barely any taller than his grandchildren, and the elementary schooler protagonists tower over him.
- Non-Action Big Bad: He doesn’t has a dinosaur properly in the anime, unlike his arcade and DS counterparts, meaning he usually doesn't get into the action. There have been some instances where he has unoffically used one of the secret dinosaurs he raised to fight the D-Team.
- Pet the Dog: He adopted the father of Rod and Laura, as well as the Alpha Trio, from an orphanage for completely selfless motives, and is shown he really cares for them despite how short-tempered he can be.
- Playing with Fire: In the arcade and DS game, he’s commonly associated with fire dinosaurs. In the DS game, all of his dinosaurs (except the Eoraptor he uses against the player in the post -game rematch) are from the fire attribute, including a Tyrannosaurus, a Mapusaurus and two Saurophaganax.
- Psychopathic Manchild: Played for Laughs. Dr. Z is a nasty, evil old man with an obsession with dinosaurs (especially being their king) and self-entitlement that wouldn’t be strange from a child.
- Signature Mon: All versions of him are heavily associated with the Tyrannosaurus rex, referencing his ambition to become the dinosaur king. Ironically, in the first episode of the anime, he gets mad at Ed because in his virtual recreation of his kingdom of dinosaurs he only used Tyrannosaurus, instead of other dinosaur species, claiming he wants to be the king of all dinosaurs, not just T. rexes.
Ursula (Usarapa)
Voiced by: Misa Watanabe (Japanese), Rachael Lillis (English), Yolanda Quesada (European Spanish)
- Adaptational Modesty: In the arcade game, Ursula wears a short dress that leaves her shoulders and legs exposed. The dress also brings attention to her cleavage. In the anime, Ursula wears a jumpsuit-like outfit that covers most of her body except her arms. That being said, she still has a diamond shaped cutout that shows her bellybutton. She also has quite the voluptuous body.
- Attention Whore: In the DS game, she craves for male attention, to the point ignoring her leads to her threatening the player.
- Beauty Is Bad: While she tends to fail to seduce others in the anime despite being a good looking woman (with the exception of Dr. Owen), in the DS she uses her beautiful appearance to mind control the male workers from the Dustberg.
- Berserk Button: Being called an old lady drives her incredibly livid. It goes to a point that she can hear someone calling her an old lady even if the perpetrators are kilometers from her, or even if they aren’t referring to her!
- Control Freak: She bosses Zander and Ed around like there is no tomorrow. When Dr. Z or Helga enter the picture though, she immediately becomes subservient.
- Elemental Hair Colors: She has green hair like the grass dinosaurs she uses.
- Green Thumb: She specializes in grass dinosaurs in the DS game, using a Maiasaura, a Tsintaosaurus, a(n) (Alpha) Ouranosaurus and a (Super Alpha) Iguanodon.
- It's All About Me: She’s usually self-centered and selfish, but has a good side underneath.
- Played straight in the DS game, when she gets furious if you reject her offer to join the Alpha Gang and claims that you shouldn’t waste your time saving the dinosaurs and should love her instead.
- Noblewoman's Laugh: In the DS game, she laughs like this when things go her way, with the usual pose that goes with the laugh too.
- Number Two: With Seth out of the picture, she more or less becomes Dr. Z's second in command during the second season thanks to being the de-facto boss of the Alpha Trio, the main servants of the doctor.
- Old Maid: She’s beyond her twenties, and mentioning her age is a very sore point to her. Calling her old is a certified way to make her explode into an endless rage.
- Proud Beauty: Both in the anime and the DS game she shows pride in her appearance, with her Berserk Button being called old and unattractive. In the DS game, the brainwashed workers from Dustberg even call her “Ursula the beautiful”.
- Signature Mon: In the anime she frequently switches between the main dinosaurs of the Alpha Gang, so she doesn’t have any assigned one. The game gives her both the Alpha Ouranosaurus and the Super Alpha Iguanodon, however.
- Smug Snake: She thinks she is a lot smarter than she actually is, which often ends up backfiring in her face in some sort of way.
- The Vamp: In the DS game, she abducts and hypnotizes the male workers from the North American zone so they all worship her unconditionally, making them abandon their wives. She even goes her way to add children like the player and Max/Rex to her fanclub.
- We Can Rule Together: When Max and Rex confront her in the DS game, she offers them to become her slaves and join the Alpha Gang. You can even say “Yes” to her offer if you desire, but in that case, the character you don’t play will intercede and claim you won’t join her.
Zander (Noratty)
Voiced by: Kenyuu Horiuchi (Japanese), Sean Schemmel (English), Miguel Campos (European Spanish)
- Adaptational Intelligence: His anime counterpart is a moron and a Butt-Monkey. His Ds version, however, is shown to be much smarter and well versed in chemistry.
- Adaptational Villainy: In the DS game, he’s more nefarious and cruel than his anime counterpart, at some point even stating he’s creating a chemical so strong the people from the Gobi Village will never wake up from it.
- Evil Laugh: Loves to cackle maliciously in the DS game.
- Hero Killer: Downplayed in that he never kills any of the main characters, but in the DS game, he knocks Max/Rex with his new sleeping sickness to test its power, leaving the Player to deal with him alone.
- Hidden Depths: He turns out to be a decent singer when he performs his love song to Reese.
- Lean and Mean: Downplayed in the anime, where he works for an evil organization, but his incompetence and generally good disposition make him one of the least evil members of the organization. Played straight in the DS game, however, where he’s portrayed as an evil, arrogant chemist with a slender physique.
- Mad Scientist: He’s skillful enough to create a sleeping slickness strong enough to make almost the entire Gobi Village fall asleep.
- Maniac Tongue: Has a habit to stick his tongue to mock his enemies in the DS game.
- Playing with Fire: He specializes in fire dinosaurs in the DS game, using a Torvosaurus, an Acrocanthosaurus, a(n) (Alpha) Gorgosaurus, a Carcharodontosaurus, a Daspletosaurus and a (Super Alpha) Acrocanthosaurus.
- Signature Mon: In the anime he frequently switches between the main dinosaurs of the Alpha Gang, so he doesn’t have any assigned one. The game gives her both the Alpha Gorgosaurus and the Super Alpha Acrocanthosaurus, however.
- Smug Smiler: In the DS game, he’s always sporting a shit eating grin anytime things go well for him.
- Sunglasses at Night: No matter the situation, he always carries his sunglasses with himself, to the point we never get to see how his eyes look in truth.
- This Cannot Be!: Once you defeat him in Asia, he dumbfoundedly wonders how his perfect plan could have failed like that.
- Villainous Crush: He falls in love with Reese after she along with Dr. Owen and Patrick rescue him in a Mexican desert. He maintains his crush till the end of the series, where he’s forced to return to the future.
Ed (Edo)
Voiced by: Junichi Endou (Japanese), Darren Dunstan (English), Iñaki Alonso (European Spanish)
- Adaptational Intelligence: While he’s good with machines in the anime, in the DS game he becomes a master hacker and is generally more confident and smart than his anime version.
- Dishing Out Dirt: He specializes in earth dinosaurs in the DS game, using an Edmontonia, a(n) (Alpha) Wuerhosaurus and a (Super Alpha) Kentrosaurus.
- Fat Bastard: Downplayed in the anime, where he works for an evil organization, but his incompetence and generally good disposition make him one of the least evil members of the organization. Played straight in the DS game, however, where he’s portrayed as a smug and obnoxious evil hacker with a portly physique.
- Hidden Depths: He’s shown to be technology savvy, as in the first episode he makes a virtual recreation of Dr. Z’s dinosaur kingdom.
- Signature Mon: In the anime he frequently switches between the main dinosaurs of the Alpha Gang, so he doesn’t have any assigned one. The game gives him both the Alpha Wuerhosaurus and the Alpha Kentrosaurus, however.
Laura (Roa)
Voiced by: Asuka Tanii (Japanese, episodes 01-62), Yuka Nakatsukasa (Japanese, episodes 63-79), Rachael Lillis (English)
- Berserk Button: In the DS game, calling her a little girl prompts her to cry, to disastrous effect.
- Berserker Tears: In the DS game, her tears actually invigorate her enough to send people flying away with her tantrum.
- Blow You Away: She specializes in wind dinosaurs in the DS game, using a Ceratosaurus, a(n) (Alpha) Dilophosaurus, a Utahraptor and a (Super Alpha) Allosaurus.
- Brother–Sister Team: She often works with her brother in the anime.
- Daddy's Little Villain: In the DS game, she’s this to Dr. Z, who spoils her a lot and cannot ignore a petition from her when she starts to cry.
- Ocular Gushers: Very frequently in the DS game when she’s upset.
- Signature Mon: In the anime she frequently switches between the main dinosaurs of the Alpha Gang, so she doesn’t have any assigned one. The game gives her both the Alpha Dilophosaurus and the Super Alpha Allosaurus, however.
- Super-Scream: The scream from her tantrums in the DS game is so powerful it sends Max/Rex flying away just before the player confronts her.
Rod (Roto)
Voiced by: Yuriko Fuchizaki (Japanese), Zoe Martin (English), Silvia Evora (European Spanish)
A member of the Alpha Gang and grandson of Dr. Z. He can come as arrogant, but has a good heart. He’s not normally sent to missions, but proves to be more competent than the Alpha Trio when he does.
- Avenging the Villain: After you defeat the Alpha Gang in Europe in the DS game, he decides to go to Asia to avenge the defeat of her sister at the hands of the player.
- Big Brother Instinct: He’s very protective of Laura and messing with her is a sure way to anger him. He exclusively comes to Asia in the DS game to make the player pay for making her cry in his battle with her in Europe.
- Brother–Sister Team: He often works alongside his sister in the anime.
- Even Evil Has Standards: In the DS game, after you defeat him the first time in the Darkwood forest, he tells Max and Rex that Zander is the culprit of the sleeping sickness affecting the inhabitants of the Gobi village, arguing that, though he’s not betraying the Alpha Gang, he dislikes Zander’s methods and that’s why he tells the main characters that information.
- Evil Counterpart: Can be seen as one to Max, especially in the DS game. Both are kids around the same age with a very impulsive personality who specialize in lightning dinosaurs.
- Hot-Blooded: In the DS game, he’s shown to be as competitive and impulsive as Max.
- Motor Mouth: He’s fond of giving lengthy speeches in the DS game. Even Max lampshades this after he defeats him for the first time.
- Signature Mon: In the anime he frequently switches between the main dinosaurs of the Alpha Gang, so he doesn’t have any assigned one. The game gives him both the Alpha and the Super Alpha, however.
- Shock and Awe: He specializes in lightning dinosaurs in the DS game, using a Chasmosaurus, Torosaurus, a(n) (Alpha) Einiosaurus and a (Super Alpha).
Terry (Tirano)
Voiced by: Yuuka Nakatsukasa (Japanese)
Battle form
A Tyrannosaurus Rex who is the Alpha Gang’s most used dinosaur.
- The Ace: Though often subjected to The Worf Effect, Terry nonetheless remains as the strongest and most competent dinosaur of the Alpha Gang, being the dinosaur in their possession who has defeated the most enemies and the only one of them who has defeated all three main dinosaurs of the D-Team at least once. His losses mostly steem from the incompetence of the Alpha Trio or Dr. Z.
- Cute Little Fangs: He has 4 fangs in his mouth when in his chibi form.
- Evil Egg Eater: In episode 6, Terry is shown to be interested in eating the egg of the Maiasaura. He almost bites it until the timely intervention of Paris manages to save the egg.
- Killer Rabbit: Terry in his chibi form is adorable and chubby, but also very aggressive and prone to bite others.
- Mascot Villain: Terry is featured prominently in promotional material for the series, yet he is the main dinosaur for the antagonists.
- Oh, Crap!: Has an spectacular one when he sees the Black T. rex for the first time and realizes how much it outclasses him in size.
- Playing with Fire: As a tyrannosaur, Terry primarily uses devastating fire move cards.
- Red Is Violent: He is a bright red Tyrannosaurus who acts aggressive to everyone. Even when not in his battle mode, he isn’t exactly cuddly.
- The Rival: To Chomp, following the traditional rivalry between the T. rex and the Triceratops that happens in media (and happened in real life).
- Terrifying Tyrannosaur: Terry is a villainous dinosaur used by the Alpha Gang for their nefarious purposes, and is shown as a fearsome and strong fighter that is also the powerhouse of the dinosaurs of the Alpha Gang.
- The Worf Effect: To show how tough another dinosaur of the week is, Terry is more often than not the one to be overpowered and defeated.
Spiny (Spino)
Battle form
A Spinosaurus who started out as a wild dinosaur in Egypt before being used as another dinosaur to fight for the Alpha Gang.
- A Lizard Named "Liz": Spiny is a Spinosaurus.
- Butt-Monkey: Spiny is regularly thrown around and beaten by other dinosaurs. He just might be the most abused dinosaur out of the main dinosaur cast with how constantly he gets overpowered.
- Lean and Mean: He has a rather thin build compared to Terry and Tank, but makes up for it by being a ferocious adversary.
- Making a Splash: As a spinosaurid, he uses several water-based attacks.
- Paper Tiger: He may be the largest dinosaur on the Alpha Gang’s team, but he is actually quite a pushover. He can be a formidable fighter on occasions, but usually against smaller dinosaurs. That being said, some smaller dinosaurs like Ace can have an easy time taking him down.
- Running Gag: He is constantly sent flying into the air by another dinosaur. Variants of this gag include him landing on top of the Alpha Gang and squashing them flat.
- Savage Spinosaurs: He is a hostile Spinosaurus that is used by the Alpha Gang to attack other dinosaurs.
- Tail Slap: Spiny’s preferred method of attack.
- Throw the Dog a Bone: After multiple fights of him either defeating weak dinosaurs or getting easily beaten in return, Spiny finally has his chance to shine during an impressive fight against Foolscap's Jobaria, that he ends winning at the end.
- He is also the only Alpha Gang dinosaur who is still left standing after defeating one of the Spectral Space Pirates armored dinosaurs (Terry and Gigas defeated each other, while Tank did not defeat any of them). To be fair, having Ace and Chomp to assist him probably played a role in that.
Tank (Saika)
Battle form
A Saichania who started out as a wild dinosaur activated in a museum in London only to be used as another dinosaur to fight for the Alpha Gang.
- Artistic License – Paleontology: Tank is much taller and wider than the real Saichania. She also possesses very pointy spikes across her body, even though a Saichania like her would have more rounded osteoderms covering her body.
- Be the Ball: In her chibi form, Tank can move herself around by curling her body into a ball like an armadillo.
- Dishing Out Dirt: As a thyreophoran, she uses earth-based movements.
- Elemental Barrier: Tank uses the move card Earth Barrier to slam into the ground so chunks of earth will be forced into the air and fuse into a protective glowing shield. Despite its effectiveness against Daspletosaurus’s attack, this move card was only used once.
- Flipping Helpless: When she is thrown onto her back, she is rendered unable to get back up.
- Herbivores Are Friendly: Averted. After being modified to be more aggressive by Dr. Z, Tank is just as hostile as her theropod teammates, and has even defeated a few herbivorous dinosaurs herself.
- Meaningful Name: Tank is a fitting name for an ankylosaur, dinosaurs which were known as “living tanks” by paleontologists.
- Redemption Demotion: Once the Alpha Gang start fighting alongside the D-Team in Season 2, Tank is not used that often and is not as successful when she fights. The only fight she wins in Season 2 is against the armored Carcharadontosaurus. Otherwise, she loses every other fight she is in.
- Samus Is a Girl: As a result of having a less feminine behavior compared to Paris, it's easy to miss that she's a female dinosaur. The English dub at first even referred to her as male (tough correctly called her a female in later appearances).
- The Smurfette Principle: The only female among the Alpha Gang dinosaurs.
- Tough Armored Dinosaur: She is an ankylosaur who can hold her own very well in a fight.
Seth (Nopis)
Voiced by: Daisuke Hirakawa (Japanese), Marc Thompson (English), Ángel Moron (European Spanish)
- The Ace: Of the Alpha Gang as a whole, both in the anime and the DS game, being the most competent and effective of its members. In the DS game, Ursula even refers to him as a powerhouse.
- Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: All the damn time. If he serves anyone, he will surely betray them at some point in order to complete his ambition. He did it to Dr. Ancient and Dr. Cretacia, later to the Alpha Gang, and ultimately to the Spectral Space Pirates. It goes to a point where Dr. Z complains in the climax of the second season why do they keep trusting Seth when it’s obvious he’s gonna betray them sooner or later.
- The Dragon: Acts as the second in command of both Dr. Z and later Spectre, being also the strongest member of the Alpha Gang.
- Dragon-in-Chief: Compared to his boss Dr. Z, Seth comes off as more professional and threatening.
- Evilutionary Biologist: At the end of the first season, his endgame is revealed to be creating mutant dinosaurs so the Earth can be ruled by them again.
- An Ice Person: In the second season his Signature Mon is a Cryolophosaurus, a secret dinosaur with the ability to use ice attacks. It remains as the only dinosaur of the franchise able to achieve such a feat.
- Knight of Cerebus: Anytime he has an active role in an episode expect things to get much more serious. The darkest parts of the show have involved him in some way or another.
- Mad Scientist: Almost as good, or even better, than Dr. Z. Seth’s skills to create altered dinosaurs and move cards is impeccable, with his magnum opus being the Black Tyrannosaurus, a sauropod-sized T. rex with a huge amount of power. In the second season he also engineers the special dinosaurs the Spectral Space Pirates use in the last two arcs of the series.
- Making a Splash: He specializes in water dinosaurs in the DS game, using two Spinosaurus, (an) Alpha Suchomimus, a Baryonyx and (a) Super Alpha Irritator.
- Mask of Sanity: While he appears at first as an impeccable and serious man, as the series advances and his cover is blown it is clear that Seth is in truth a deranged individual that only cares about his goals and will sacrifice anyone if that means he can fulfill them. All his cool goes away when his Black Tyrannosaurus is created, Laughing Mad at the sight of the destruction caused by the beast. Though he returns to his calm and collected persona in season 2, by that time he only usually hides his nasty side when it's convenient for him.
- Mysterious Past: Though the past of the rest of the Alpha Gang members is revealed in more or less detail, Seth’s background is a total enigma except for the part that he once worked for Dr. Ancient and later betrayed him. As such the origin from aspects of his personality such as his obsession with dinosaurs ruling the Earth again remain uncovered.
- Playing with Fire: He favors fire dinosaurs in the first season of the anime, like the Saurophaganax and the Black Tyrannosaurus.
- Pretty Boy: Compared to his male teammates (in both the Alpha Gang and the Spectral Space Pirates), Seth possesses a more youthful and attractive face.
- Psychopathic Manchild: A darker version than Dr. Z. Seth shows an almost child-like interest in dinosaurs and wants them to rule the world again without caring about how that may affect people. Overall his interest in dinosaurs comes as twistedly childish.
- The Starscream: He betrays Dr. Z in the last episodes of the first season to use the technology of the Alpha Gang’s Zeta Point to create his Black T. rex and begin his plan of creating mutated dinosaurs to rule the world. In the second season, he also ends up betraying the Spectral Space Pirates to get the Cosmos Stones for himself and his goals, though unfortunately for him, Spectre and his forces end up being more competent than Dr. Z.
- The Stoic: He is quite reserved, especially early on in the series.
- Token Human: After being rescued by them, he becomes the only human among the Spectral Space Pirates.
- Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: While Dinosaur King is a lighthearted anime and the Alpha Gang are mostly Laughably Evil, Seth certainly is not, and unlike the other members, he never gets Played for Laughs at all, with most of his scenes being noticeably grimmer than the usual. It tells something when the Spectral Space Pirates (who are more evil than the Alpha Gang were) still have some quirks and comedic moments, while Seth remains serious to the very end.
- Walking Spoiler:
- It’s difficult to talk about him without mentioning his betrayal to the Alpha Gang and his involvement in creating the Black Tyrannosaurus.
- Considering his fate of falling into a dimensional vortex in the climax of season 1, his reappearance as one of the Spectral Space Pirates in the second season comes as a huge reveal.
Spectral Space Pirates (Space Pirates Zanjark)
From left to right: Seth, Spectre, Shear, Gabbro, Foolscap
The antagonists of the second season. A quartet of winged humanoid aliens that were freed from the time-space vortex where they were trapped (as a result of the meteorite that killed the dinosaurs) after the end of the first season, kidnapping the parents of Max, Zoe and Rex to force them to help in their goals. They are searching seven mysterious stones known as "Cosmos Stones", that will grant them domination over space and time. They possess many dinosaurs in their arsenal, which they use to fight against the D-Team and the Alpha Gang through the second anime. In General
- Aliens Are Bastards: A group of humanoid extraterrestrials that want to conquer space and time with the power of the Cosmos Stones.
- Amazing Technicolor Population: Among other characteristics, to show they aren’t humans, they have non-human skin color. Spectre is green, Gabbro red and Foolscap blue, while Shear’s skin is unnaturally white.
- And I Must Scream: At the end of the second season, they all survive the collision between the Dark Pterosaur and the combination of the Backlander fused with the Pterosaur’s power, but end confined to a pod of their ship, forever condemned to spend the eternity drifting through the space, and, worse of all, listening to Spectre’s singing.
- Chromatic Arrangement: Gabbro, Foolscap and Shear each one is associated with one of the primary colors; Gabbro with red (red skin, hair and wings), Foolscap with blue (blue hair and wings) and Shear with yellow (yellow bow and wings). This is not random, as each represents one of the colors of the Rock-Paper-Scissors signs that the ‘’Dinosaur King’’ arcade uses (Gabbro-Rock-Red, Foolscap-Paper-Blue, Shear-Scissors-Yellow). Additionally, each one of their signature dinosaurs belongs to the sign they symbolize (Gigas-Rock, Armatus-Paper, Maximus-Yellow).
- Flat Character: Contrary to the rest of the main dinosaurs (including Brontikens), Gigas, Armatus and Maximus barely display any personality and are basically used as glorified weapons by their owners.
- The Heavy: While Spectre is the Big Bad and leader of the group, he spends most time in the ship, with his three subordinates being the ones who go after the Cosmos Stones.
- Instant Armor: Brontikens, Gigas, Maximus, and Armatus are all activated with built-in spectral armor. In fact, all their appearances in the anime only show them in their spectral armor.
- Mysterious Past: Nothing about the past of the crew is elaborated beyond the fact that before being freed in the modern day they were trapped in a time-spatial vortex as a result of the K/T mass extinction.
- Oddly Small Organization: Even worse than the Alpha Gang, as, not counting Seth, the entire group is composed of only 4 members, plus the Gel Jarks they employ as mooks.
- Pointy Ears: They all have long, elf-like ears, to convey the feeling that they aren’t humans.
- Signature Mon:
- Gigas, Armatus and Maximus serve as the main dinosaurs for Gabbro, Foolscap and Shear (respectively) in both the arcade and the anime, as they're the strongest dinosaurs in their possession, as well as the ones they use the most.
- Brontikens is this for Spectre, being his only dinosaur in the anime, being practically inseparable and always seen together.
- Space Pirates: They’re a group of alien pirates with their own spaceship. They are even after a “treasure”, the Cosmos Stones in this case.
- Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Despite being on the same team, Gabbro, Foolscap and Shear don’t get along well and often bicker and even trample each other to get the credit of retrieving the Cosmos Stone.
- Terrible Trio: Downplayed. While, outside Big Bad Spectre, the Spectral Space Pirates have three prominent members and their constitution fits the spirit of the trope, they for the most part act independently of each other and usually only group together at the end of each arc.
- Viler New Villain: Unlike the Alpha Gang, the Spectral Pirates are less sympathetic, less comedic, and lack many of the redeeming qualities of the Alpha Gang by being generally more malevolent than them.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: Since the Spectral Space Pirates were unable to retrieve Gigas, Maximus, Armatus, and Brontikens when they turned into cards after being defeated, it is unknown if their cards were retrieved or if they were just left to float in the essence of the Dark Pterosaur.
- Winged Humanoid: They all possess a pair of bat-like wings that allows them to cover longer distances and monitor their dinosaurs more easily. It’s not made clear if they are natural or artificial.
Spectre (Jark)
Voiced by: Katsuhisa Houki (Japanese), Maddie Blaustein (English, first episodes), Sean Schemmel (English, rest of the series)
The main antagonist of the second series. A ruthless space pirate who ambitions the conquest of the Cosmos Stones to become the ruler of everything. Despite his intimidating design, he’s a sensible soul and likes to sing (though he’s not very good at it).- Ambiguously Gay: He seems to have a crush on Seth, but also has a grandson in the arcade game, implying he may have married a woman in the past.
- Beard of Evil: Like Dr. Z he sports a spiky white beard, though his is much more impressive and intimidating, showing him as a bigger threat than the doctor ever was.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: He wants to get his hands on the Cosmo Stones to achieve power over the universe, but compared to his underlings he is a lot more silly.
- Big Bad: The main antagonist of the second season. His actions of both kidnapping the parents of Max, Rex and Zoe and his search of the Cosmos Stones for nefarious purposes is what drives the plot of the second series. And, unlike Dr. Z, despite being betrayed by Seth he remains the main villain till the end.
- Black Eyes of Crazy: Unlike the other members of his race, his sclera is completely black. Combined with his general appearance, it makes him look intimidating.
- Hollywood Tone-Deaf: His singing is hilariously bad.
- Orcus on His Throne: He spends most of the second season inside the Spectral ship while his three henchmen do the dirty job of retrieving the Cosmos Stones. It isn’t until the last arc of the season where he personally appears to confront the D-Team and the Alpha Gang to obtain the last Stone.
- Sissy Villain: Despite his intimidating appearance, Spectre is actually very feminine and sensitive, showing girly characteristics and behavior. In the arcade game he's even shown Biting the Handkerchief when you defeat him.
Gabbro (Gunenco)
Voiced by: Yasuhiro Mamiya (Japanese), David Wills (English)
- The Brute: The hulking musclehead of the trio, to the point he’s strong enough to deal with dinosaurs by himself to an extent. He’s even associated with the Rock sign in the Rock-Paper-Scissors dynamic he has with Foolscap and Shear.
- Dumb Muscle: He’s all muscle and no brain, so he tends to rely on brute strength rather than strategies. This makes him the only of the Spectral Space Pirates that never retrieves one of the Cosmos Stones.
- Made of Iron: In the Ancient Persia arc, he ends up trapped in a cave-in after Genie throws him towards a stalagmite that causes the cave to collapse. He escapes from the crumbled rocks unharmed, attributing it to his tough head.
- Power Fist: His main weapon is a pair of gauntlets that give him Super-Strength.
- Red Is Violent: As a result of his dim-witted persona, Gabbro tends to be short-tempered and impatient, often resorting to violence. He is fittingly depicted as a red-skinned alien, as well as associated with the color red in general.
- Starter Villain: His Torvosaurus is the first antagonistic dinosaur to be dealt with at the start of the second season.
- Super-Strength: His gauntlets give him a considerable amount of strength, to the point he can crush small buildings with a single punch.
- Wake-Up Call Boss: His Torvosaurus (equipped with an Spectral Armor) proves to be tougher than dinosaurs fought previously. This forces the main characters to upgrade their dinosaurs with Elemental Armors and new move cards later in the series.
Foolscap (Zapper)
Voiced by: Setsuji Sato (Japanese), Marc Thompson (English), Jaime Roca (European Spanish)
- Butt-Monkey: Often the victim to physical abuse among the trio, sometimes by his own teammates no less.
- Lean and Mean: He’s as lanky and lithe as he’s evil. This comes at the risk of him being very fragile, as a minor wound is enough to make him go search for some bandages.
- Sinister Schnoz: He possesses a long, pointy nose that shows he’s up to no good.
- Smug Snake: Often talks big and disrespect his enemies, only to end humiliated instead. In his defense, at least he managed to obtain one of the Cosmos Stones, unlike Gabbro.
- Thin Chin of Sin: He is an evil lackey with a very pointy chin.
Shear (Mihasa)
Voiced by: Asuka Tanii (Japanese, episodes 53-62), Saori Yumiba (Japanese, episodes 63-79), Erica Schroeder (English), Julia Martinez (European Spanish)
- Acrophobic Bird: Despite having wings and flying rather high above the ground, Shear is apparently afraid of heights. This could be interpreted as Shear simply being afraid of falling from great heights though.
- Battle Boomerang: Her main weapon is a sharp-edged crescent boomerang she uses both for offense and retrieve objects.
- Dark Action Girl: Unlike other villains from the anime, she actually gets involved in a fight against Foolscap in the 64th episode after believing to be a kunoichi following the loss of her memories.
- Easy Amnesia: In the Ancient Japan arc, she loses her memories after being slammed by a tree by her own Gojirasaurus (thrown by Ace) and is taken by a kunoichi quartet serving Shingen Takeda. They make her believe she’s one of them and joins them, fighting against her former allies and the D-Team through the arc. She recovers her memories after a similar process (involving one of her Deinonychus) and returns to the Space Pirates with the White Cosmos Stone.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Even she is horrified at the level of destruction her Mapusaurus cause in China with the Heat Eruption move, albeit mostly for pragmatic reasons and self-preservation.
- Evil Is Petty: In the Ancient China arc she summons her Mapusaurus at a group of woodcutters just because they disturbed her sleep (they didn’t even know she was sleeping on a tree).
- Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon: She’s a very pretty woman, but is also cruel and ruthless.
- Irony: Shear's actions through the Ancient Persia arc involve kidnapping and threatening Zahrah so she reveals the whereabouts of the Red Cosmos Stone. She could have obtained it if she would have recalled Genie once she makes him her dinosaur, but instead uses the titanosaur to attack the D-Team and the Alpha Gang, and by the time the Red Cosmos Stone is revealed, she cannot retrieve it in time (as she was tied) and Helga ends obtaining it, thus leading to the first time the Spectral Space Pirates end an arc without getting the Cosmos Stone.
- More Deadly Than the Male: She’s the only girl on the Space Spectral Pirates and the most competent of the trio, taking a total of 3 out of the 7 Cosmos Stones.
- The Smurfette Principle: The only female member among the Spectral Pirates.
- Villain Decay: Starts as the more effective of the Spectral Space Pirates, retrieving 3 of the Cosmos Stones (the first two all by herself). However, starting with the Ancient Persia arc she becomes as incompetent as Gabbro and Foolscap and fails to capture any of the remaining Cosmos Stones.
Brontikens (Bronto)
Battle form
Spectre's pet Apatosaurusnote , that is always seen sleeping on his lap and that he dotes on a lot. An unemotional dinosaur, he turns out to be more than what meets to the eye.
- The Ace: Implied to be the strongest dinosaur of the Spectral Space Pirates, as he utterly dominates the main dinosaurs in most battles he had with them and to defeat him Chomp, Ace and Paris had to combine their Ultimate moves.
- Ambiguous Situation:
- Because Apatosaurus and Brontosaurus were considered the same dinosaur genus until 2015, it's never made clear if Brontikens is supposed to be the former or the latter. The Dinosaur King franchise uses both names interchangeably in different media, with Apatosaurus seemingly being the correct species.
- How he came to be under Spectre's ownership is never revealed, as the Spectral Space Pirates got most of their dinosaur cards thanks to Seth's aid. If Seth was the one who gave Spectre Brontikens or if the sauropod was with the Spectral Space Pirates before is never made clear.
- Evil Is Bigger: As a medium-sized (but still huge) sauropod, Brontikens is by far the biggest of the main dinosaurs and easily towers over them all.
- Fluffy the Terrible: "Brontikens" is not a very intimidating name for the dinosaur of the main antagonist.
- Making a Splash: Weirdly enough, the arcade game considers his Spectral Armor version (as well as his Spectral Destroy) a water attribute dinosaur (and attack), in line with sauropods usually belonging to the water element. The Spectral Armor version of Brontikens along with his Spectral Destroy in the anime is a secret dinosaur/move just like the regular Apatosaurus in the arcade.
- Non-Indicative Name: His name in both the Japanese and English version of the anime comes from the fact that when Dinosaur King was active, Apatosaurus and Brontosaurus were considered different species of the same genus (with Brontosaurus, one of the most iconic dinosaurs ever, becoming an Apatosaurus species). However,
a studio in 2015 revealed that Brontosaurus was different enough from Apatosaurus to be its own genus again, thus Brontosaurus "returned". With this, if Brontikens was supposed to be Apatosaurus ajax instead of Brontosaurus excelsus, it would make his name non-sensical. - Right-Hand Cat: He's often cradled in Spectre's lap sitting around while being baby talked by his master. That is, until the final arc of the series, where Spectre summons a full sized Brontikens for battle, complete with armor all over his body with a giant laser built in.
- The Stoic: Compared to the other chibi dinosaurs, Brontikens barely shows any emotion and is mostly seen either sleeping or looking at things with an uninterested gaze.
- Walking Spoiler: Since he's often treated as a pet rather than a fighting dinosaur, his battle form in the last arc of the anime comes as a big surprise.
- Wave-Motion Gun: His Signature Move, the Spectral Destroy, involves the arc around his armor to reunite energy in Brontikens's back and then shoot a powerful purple beam that is potent enough to make a dormant volcano erupt.
Gigas
- At Arm's Length: When Spiny and Tank use their Ultimate moves to attack him from both sides, he stops both of them at the same time by using most of his body weight to block Spiny and using his leg to push Tank away.
- Evil Counterpart: To Terry (who becomes heroic during the second season as a result of the Alpha Gang's Heel–Face Turn), being an evil Tyrannosaurus serving the evil ambitions of the Spectral Space Pirates. Fittingly, in the final battle of the series both he and Terry defeat each other in a fierce last clash.
- Playing with Fire: As a tyrannosaur, his attribute is Fire. Interestingly enough, unlike Armatus and Maximus, he does use a move from his element apart of his personal Spectral move (Magma Blaster).
- Terrifying Tyrannosaur: As a modified Tyrannosaurus that Seth created for Gabbro, he shows the perception of the T. rex as a mean yet powerful apex predator.
- White and Red and Eerie All Over: Compared to the Black T. rex, Gigas is white with some reddish/orangish spots all over his body. He's as antagonistic as the Black T. rex was, albeit not as uncontrollable.
Armatus
- Dark Is Evil: A black Stegosaurus with white spots through his body used by the Spectral Space Pirates and their nefarious goals.
- Dishing Out Dirt: As a thyreophoran, he belongs to the Earth attribute. However, in the anime he only uses his Spectral move in fights, not employing any Earth based move card.
- Spike Shooter: His built-in move card Spectral Stinger allows him to shoot glowing spikes from all over his spectral armor to hit his opponent with great accuracy.
- Tough Armored Dinosaur: An evil, fierce Stegosaurus. In fact, along with Brontikens he's the only main dinosaur of the Spectral Space Pirates who is only defeated once.
Maximus
- Dark Is Evil: A black Triceratops with golden patterns through his body used by the Spectral Space Pirates and their nefarious goals.
- Evil Counterpart: To Chomp, being a violent Triceratops used by the Space Pirates. Despite this, Maximus develops more of a rivalry with Paris after she manages to defeat him in his very first fight by powering herself up with the green cosmos stone she swallowed.
- One-Hit Kill: His built-in move card Spectral Punisher allows him to shoot a laser that instantly defeats whoever it touches.
- Shock and Awe: As a ceratopsian, he belongs to the Lightning attribute. However, in the anime he only uses his Spectral move in fights, not employing any Lightning based move card.
- Temper-Ceratops: A vicious, evil Triceratops, a far cry from the affable and playful Chomp.
Seth (Nopis)
A former member of the Alpha Gang, joins the Space Pirates after being defeated at the end of the first season. For more information, see his entries in the Alpha Gang folder.
Supporting characters
Secondary and minor characters from the anime, arcade and DS game
Dr. Owen
Voiced by: Hiroshi Shirokuma (Japanese), Sean Schemmel (English), Miguel Campos (European Spanish)
- Abhorrent Admirer: To Ursula. He's madly in love with her, but she doesn't wants anything to do with him and always reacts horrified to his proposals.
- Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Almost as bad as Dr. Taylor in that regard, to Rex's chagrin.
- Canon Foreigner: Only appears in the anime, with no known arcade or DS game counterpart.
- Give Him a Normal Life: Downplayed, as he still gets into contact with Rex and they see each other from time to time, but he pretty much made him stay with the Taylors because he wanted him to experience a normal family life, as his job as a paleontologist keeps him too busy from spending time with the boy.
- Named After Someone Famous: His name almost likely comes from the biologist Sir Richard Owen, who was the one who coined the word "dinosaur" to the great land-dwelling reptiles of the Mesozoic.
Dr. Drake
Voiced by: Kōzō Shioya (Japanese), Maddie Blaustein (English, episodes 08-62), Mike Pollock (English, episodes 63-79)
The father of Zoe and Reese, a veterinarian that works alongside his wife and is a friend of the Taylors. He loves animals, but they tend to fear him due to the giant syringe he always carries.
- A Day in the Limelight: The Sengoku Period arc of the second season has him replacing Ieyasu Tokugawa when he goes missing after Shear attacks the real one, having a considerable role compared to his other appearances in the series.
- Canon Foreigner: Only appears in the anime, with no known arcade or DS game counterpart.
- Identical Stranger: For some reason, he looks a lot like Ieyasu Tokugawa (the only major difference between them is that Tokugawa has facial hair) to the point of having a similar sounding voice. This makes his subordinates to mix him with the real one and make him take his role until the end of the Sengoku Period arc.
- Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: He's overweight and plain looking, while his wife looks more youthful and beautiful.
Miscellaneous Dinosaurs
Various dinosaurs and prehistoric creatures associated with them that have appeared in the anime.
Fire Dinosaurs
General
- Breath Weapon: Most of the Fire move card abilities involve the theropods shooting fire from their mouths.
- Color-Coded Elements: The icon of the attribute is portrayed as red. The dinosaurs belonging to it are also associated with the color red, as well with orange.
- Dinosaurs Are Dragons: Perhaps playing with the Japanese name for dinosaurs ("kyoryuu", that roughly translates as "fearsome dragon"), dinosaurs of the fire attribute are the ones who come the closest to the image of a Western dragon (sans the wings), with the members of the attribute being big, predatory dinosaurs with the ability to breathe and generate fire.
- Playing with Fire: Dinosaurs of this attribute are able to summon and manipulate fire, ranging from shooting flames out of their mouth, generate fire around their opponents, shape their flames into a giant sword of fire, to provoke volcanic eruptions.
- Predators Are Mean: With the exception of the Daspletosaurus, Fire dinosaurs tend to be violent and dangerous, occasionally causing a lot of destruction when they appear. Of course, since at the end they're just predatory animals following their instincts, this is downplayed. Interestingly enough, the Wind attribute dinosaurs, that are all also predatory theropods, tend to be portrayed as less aggressive and prone to attack, instead minding their own business most of the time.
- Terrifying Tyrannosaur: The Tyrannosaurus rex and all of its cousins (Daspletosaurus, Tarbosaurus, Albertosaurus...) are all included in this attribute. Except for the Daspletosaurus, the three T. rexes that appear in the anime (Terry, the Black T. rex and Gigas) are villainous, ferocious and powerful.
Carcharodontosaurus
A second Carcharodontosaurus appears in season two under Gabbro's command in the Ancient China arc.
- Fireballs: Thanks to his super move card Fire Cannon, the Carcharodontosaurus can shoot destructive fireballs from his mouth.
- Green and Mean: The body of the Carcharodontosaurus is covered in scales of a beautiful green color, but the theropod itself is nasty and aggresive.
- Pyromaniac: It has a predilection to burn things, as the first things it does after being activated is to shoot several fireballs out of its mouth and roar triumphantly at the destruction it caused.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: Its red eyes serve to show how dangerous and destructive it is.
- Ungrateful Bastard: Even after Ace helps him defeat Terry, the Carcharodontosaurus still decides to fight him.
- The Unpronounceable: Ursula, Zander, and Ed have a really hard time saying Carcharadontosaurus’ name.
Acrocanthosaurus
Alpha Acrocanthosaurus
A wild dinosaur that appears in Devon Island, Canada. Motivated by reuniting with its mate and chick (who were fossilized into the dormant volcano of the island), it confronted the D-Team. After being defeated by Terry and having its card taken by the Alpha Gang, Dr. Z turned him into the Alpha Acrocanthosaurus, a stronger but more destructive dinosaur with the ability to shoot fire without a move card.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: A more extreme case than Tank and other dinosaurs mind controlled by the Alpha Gang. As his conversion to an Alpha dinosaur was so drastic, it became more aggressive and destructive than previously.
- Breath Weapon: Thanks to the modifications performed on him, the Alpha Acrocanthosaurus can shoot a blast of fire out of his mouth without using a super move card.
- Evil Is Burning Hot: The Alpha Acrocanthosaurus possesses the ability to generate fire out of his mouth without a move card, causing a lot of destruction around him and actually seeming to enjoy it.
- In a Single Bound: Despite his hefty size, Acrocanthosaurus leaps very high into the air and lands with enough force to knock away Chomp.
- Kill It with Water: Ace ends up using his move card Cyclone to encase himself and Alpha Acrocanthosaurus in a funnel of water. Naturally, a fiery beast getting completely submerged in water for a few good seconds severely weakens it, causing it to revert back into a card.
- Playing with Fire: The Alpha Acrocanthosaurus is special in the fact that, due to being altered by Dr. Z to be more powerful, he can produce fire by himself with no need of a super move card.
- Psycho Pink: When turned into an Alpha dinosaur, the Acrocanthosaurus trades his original orange color for a black body and a spine and a tail of a bright, dark pink coloration (like the color of the symbol of the Alpha Gang). It is also a very unstable, destructive theropod.
- Pyromaniac: After being turned into an Alpha dinosaur, he seems to develop a liking to set things on fire.
- Shout-Out: Alpha Acrocanthosaurus’s raised spine glows whenever it shoots it fire, just like another super-powered giant reptile.
- She's a Man in Japan: Acrocanthosaurus was a female dinosaur in the Japanese version, but was changed to a male in the English dub.
- Transformation Sequence: Curiously, it is the only non-main dinosaur that has a transformation sequence similar to that of the main dinosaurs (in the fact it slowly ascends to the screen and properly reveals itself), though it appears in its battle form rather than as a chibi dinosaur.
- With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: Dr. Z greatly increases his power when he turns him into an Alpha dinosaur, but that comes at the cost of making the theropod more aggressive and destructive.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: After Ace defeats him, the fate of the Acrocanthosaurus is never revealed, as it never makes another appearance after that. It is unknown if he remained an Alpha dinosaur or the D-Team was able to revert those changes.
Daspletosaurus
- Back for the Finale: He can be seen in the final episode doing a little dance to himself.
- Happy Dance: When not threatened by anything, Daspletosaurus dances by raising his tiny arms up and moving from side to side while swaying his head.
- Predators Are Mean: Subverted. While most fire dinosaurs are aggresive and hungry, the Daspletosaurus is shown instead as a playful animal that only wants to be left alone with its dance. In fact, when Ace, Chomp and Paris join it during its dance, the tyrannosaur happily lets them join it instead of attacking them note .
- Terrifying Tyrannosaur: Subverted. He's a smaller relative of the Tyrannosaurus rex, as well as the only tyrannosaur that appears in the anime other than Terry, the Black T. rex and Gigas (who all belong to the same species). However, it's portrayed as more chill and fun-loving rather than as a vicious predator, being an oddity among the usually fierce Fire dinosaurs.
Saurophaganax
- Animals Not to Scale: Saurophaganax appears to be just as big as Terry, even though the real dinosaur was slightly smaller than Tyrannosaurus and not as heavily built.
- Meteor-Summoning Attack: Saurophaganax has been altered by Seth to use the move card Fire Scorcher. It is an extremely powerful move card that allows Saurophaganax to shoot a massive burning meteor at his opponents, severely burning them on impact.
- One-Hit Kill: Fire Scorcher instantly defeats whoever it is used against. Even when Chomp, Ace, and Paris were summoned with full energy ready to fight Saurophaganax, they were quickly defeated from the devastating effects of the move card.
- One-Man Army: Fire Scorcher makes him capable of beating multiple dinosaurs at once. He is the only dinosaur who defeats all the six main dinosaurs (alongside Ampelosaurus) thanks to Fire Scorcher.
- Playing with Fire: His original move card was Magma Blaster, which makes him shoot a thick stream of lava at his opponents.
- Pre-Final Boss: It is the second to last dinosaur to be fought in the final arc of Season 1 before the Black T-Rex is brought to life.
- Red and Black and Evil All Over: His scales are orange on the upper side of his body and black on the lower side. While he's not evil in his debut, by the end of season 1 Seth employs him for his evil goals.
- Recurring Boss: Saurophaganax is faced off against in 3 out of the 4 episodes in Season One’s final arc.
- Right-Hand Attack Dog: Seth starts using him as his personal attack dinosaur in the final arc of Season 1.
- Showdown at High Noon: He and Chomp actually have a duel arranged like this in the middle of a small Western-like town. They even manage to draw their attacks at each other, with Chomp using Lightning Strike and Saurophaganax using Magma Blaster.
Mapusaurus
A second Mapusaurus appears in season two under Shear's command in the Ancient China arc.
- Apathetic Pet: Downplayed with the season two Mapusaurus. While it follows Shear's orders it mostly doesn't cares about what its owner wants, as it throws Sanzo Hoshi towards the nearby volcano when it begins fighting Chomp and its reaction to the destruction it caused with Heat Eruption is complete indifference.
- Convection, Schmonvection: All the lava summoned by the second Mapusaurus's Heat Eruption doesn't manages to kill any character despite the fact the theropod makes a literal sea of lava to come out of the volcano.
- Fireballs: Just like his fellow carcharodontosaur Carcharodontosaurus before him, he's able to use Fire Cannon to launch fireballs from its mouth.
- Magma Man: Thanks to Heat Eruption, the Mapusaurus used by Shear can make nearby volcanos erupt. Unfortunately, the dinosaur cannot control the lava that comes out of the volcano, so the carcharodontosaur almost ends causing a local disaster.
- Right-Hand Attack Dog: Shear's Mapusaurus acts like one in episode 60, as she basically uses it to threaten and attack people who displeases her.
- Person of Mass Destruction: The Mapusaurus from season 2 can use the Heat Eruption super move card, which involves a nearby volcano to erupt a rain of meteors from it. However, it also causes a lot of lava to come violently out of the volcano, something that almost destroys the village that was next to it.
Black Tyrannosaurus (Black Tyranno)
- Adaptational Badass: In the arcade game, it was only slightly bigger than the average T-Rex. Here it towers over Terry and every other dinosaur.
- Disc-One Final Boss: The last dinosaur to be fought at the end of the first season, as well as the strongest one. Things seems to be over when it is finally defeated, but the appearance of the Spectral Space Pirates at the beginning of the next series shows that the plot was far from ending.
- Evil Is Bigger: It is the largest dinosaur in the anime. Next to him, Terry looks like a chick.
- Killed Off for Real: After being defeated, it doesn't leaves any card at all and just vanishes into energy, implying it was destroyed forever.
- No-Sell: Move cards like Chomp’s Lightning Spear, Terry’s Volcano Burst, and Daspletosaurus’s Fire Bomb have absolutely no effect on the beast.
- Prehistoric Monster: It was created from a T-Rex skeleton and was made to be a giant, ferocious, durable beast.
- Red and Black and Evil All Over: More like black, orange and evil all over. Nonetheless, it’s fiery patterns and black skin makes it look really imposing.
- Terrifying Tyrannosaur: An exaggeration of the trope mixed with Prehistoric Monster. The Black T. rex is a huge Tyrannosaurus rivaling in size with some of the largest sauropods, possesses a lot of power and it's designed to be as badass as possible.
- Super-Toughness: It is not very easy to take down. When Chomp and Terry used Lightning Spear and Volcano Burst respectively against the Black T-Rex, the creature was barely fazed from the attacks. It takes two fusion moves from 14 dinosaurs to bring it down.
Torvosaurus
- Breath Weapon: Its Magma Blaster attack makes the Torvosaurus shoot a powerful torrent made of fire and lava out of its mouth.
- Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: Thanks to its Spectral Armor, it manages to take a direct hit of Chomp's Thunder Bazooka.
- Red and Black and Evil All Over: While not evil, it is still a ferocious black beast with reddish orange lines through its body that is mind controlled to do Gabbro’s dirty work.
- Right-Hand Attack Dog: Gabbro pretty much uses it as its personal attack animal, either to threaten people (like he did with the Ancients) or to get rid of annoyances (like the Roman soldiers of episode 51)
- Small Role, Big Impact: Even though it is a mere Starter Villain, Dr. Z designs the Elemental Boosters based in a fragment of Spectral Armor the Torvosaurus left after its defeat, that gives the main dinosaurs of the D-Team and the Alpha Gang the DinoTectors that allow them to win many other battles through the season.
- Starter Villain: For the second season. It is the first dinosaur to be fought at the beginning of the season, and dealing with him requires more effort than the one used for the wild dinosaurs of the first season.
- Wake-Up Call Boss: It is the first dinosaur with spectral armor the D-Team fights. This requires Ace and Chomp to use a fusion move to defeat the theropod.
Yangchuanosaurus
- A Lizard Named "Liz": Shear nicknames it "Yang".
- Dark Is Evil: Its body is mainly black and is a powerful theropod serving the Spectral Space Pirates.
- Dual Boss: During its second fight against the D-Team's dinosaurs, Shear activates the Venom Fang card, who activates a Piatnitzkysaurus to fight Chomp while Yang deals with Paris and Ace.
- Playing with Fire: Its super move card Burning Dash allows Yang to bite an opponent, lift them and then ram them towards a rock, that makes a burst of fire to appear after the deal is done. Yang manages to defeat both Ace and Paris with this super move.
- Wake-Up Call Boss: It is the first dinosaur that had to be defeated with elemental boosters. Thanks to Chomp’s Dinotector armor activated from the elemental boosters, he was able to defeat Yangchuanosaurus.
Rajasaurus
- Artistic License – Paleontology: Its arms are too long and developed for an abelisaur (and also pronated), and it possesses three fingers instead of the four it should have.
- Anvil on Head: After being sent flying into the orphanage by Chomp’s Lightning Strike, Rajasaurus gets back up to finish Chomp off only to have the orphanage’s tower fall on his head, defeating him.
- Karmic Death: Or karmic defeat in this case. The Rajasaurus was used by Shear to destroy the orphanage where D'Artagnan and his friends lived. It is defeated when the tower of the orphanage (damaged by its battle against Chomp), falls on his head.
- Spin Attack: More like Blazing Spin Attack. Rajasaurus uses this Fire move card to bite Chomp with a flaming mouth and spin him around.
Water Dinosaurs
General
- Aquatic Sauropods: Perhaps referencing the pre-Dinosaur Renaissance trope of sauropods being slow beasts that could only move properly in water, sauropods in Dinosaur King are water attribute dinosaurs.
- Color-Coded Elements: The icon of the attribute is portrayed as blue. The dinosaurs belonging to it are also associated with the color blue.
- Making a Splash: Dinosaurs of this attribute are able to create and manipulate water as they please, using hydrokinesis to shape their attacks or trap the enemy dinosaur in bodies of water.
- Savage Spinosaurs: Spinosaurids fall into this attribute, including the Spinosaurus and Baryonyx as well as the Suchomimus and Irritator. In the anime, Spiny is one of the dinosaurs used by the Alpha Gang, while Gabbro uses a Baryonyx in the second season during the Sengoku Period arc.
- Summon Magic: Certain water attribute move cards allows water dinosaurs to summon marine reptiles to assist them in fights, including a Futabasaurus (Futaba Super Cannon) and a school of Ophtalmosaurus (Ocean Panic).
Saltasaurus
- Artistic License – Paleontology: Mr. Taylor states that Saltasaurus was following the little lizard because its name translates to "Lizard from Salta", which means the Saltasaurus is a lizard too. Any real paleontologist would know dinosaurs and lizards are not related other than both being a type of reptile.
- Dumb Dinos: Going by Dr. Taylor’s logic, he apparently assumed a little green lizard was his relative, despite multiple differences.
- Gentle Giant Sauropod: Averted; It is not particularly aggressive, but it isn’t exactly a pushover either.
- Tail Slap: It manages to defeat Spiny by hitting him with his long tail.
Suchomimus
- Lightning Bruiser: Not only is it quick enough to run after a truck without exhausting itself, but it is strong enough to give Ace quite a beating.
- One-Track-Minded Hunger: The Suchomimus is obsessed with eating as much fish as possible.
- Savage Spinosaurs: While he is not interested in attacking humans, Suchomimus is still a very reckless and intrusive dinosaur who steals fish from fishermen and crashes into an aquarium to eat the fish there.
- Sea Monster: For the monegasque fishermen, a huge, swimming reptilian creature that eats all the fish it finds is the closest thing to a real sea monster.
- Ungrateful Bastard: Although Ace saves Suchomimus from Spiny attacking him, Suchomimus starts attacking Ace anyways.
Amargasaurus
- Aquatic Sauropods: She makes her presence known by emerging out of the Loch Ness lake.
- Gentle Giant Sauropod: Averted. Once she gets riled up from all the action, she starts attacking everyone.
- Not the Nessie: When it appears, the Alpha Gang eventually thinks it is Nessie due to the sauropod fitting the description of Nessie as a long necked aquatic creature, and try to capture it to win the prize for capturing Nessie the news were announcing. However, a local boy named John quickly dismiss the Amargasaurus as the Loch Ness monster, and the real Nessie DO appear at the very end of the episode.
Baryonyx
A second Baryonyx appears in season two under Gabbro's command in the Sengoku Period arc.
- Combat Tentacles: The Baryonyx used by the Spectral Space Pirates is fitted with the move card Aqua Whip, which allows it to grab Ace in a long tendril of water and throw him around.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: When Paris appears to aid Ace after it is about to finish him, the Baryonyx tries to escape into the water, seeing itself surpassed in number. However, Ace manages to draw him out of the water with Cyclone before Chomp finally finishes it with Lightning Spear.
Ampelosaurus
- Gentle Giant Sauropod: Subverted; Even though Ampelosaurus isn’t looking for trouble, he clearly knows how to defend himself.
- Guest-Star Party Member: He is used to fight alongside the Alpha Gang when confronting Saurophaganax and the Black T. rex.
- Making a Splash: Its’ move card Aqua Vortex submerges it’s opponent in a vortex made of water, which makes them spin uncontrollably before falling onto the ground.
- Music Soothes the Savage Beast: To stop the Ampelosaurus from moving around too much on the train car, Paris sings it a lullaby to go to sleep.
Shunosaurus
- Dual Boss: During its second fight against the D-Team's dinosaurs, the Shunosaurus gets the help from a Majungasaurus.
- Beware My Stinger Tail: The most remarkable trait of the species is a spiked tail club like those ankylosaurs would evolve millions of years later. However, Foolscap's Shunosaurus barely uses its spiked club during the fight (only briefly in the first he has against Chomp) and rather relies on its natural strength and super move card.
- Gentle Giant Sauropod: Averted. The Shunosaurus follows Foolscap's orders faithfully and is shown to be a ruthless, fierce sauropod.
- Making a Splash: It uses Aqua Vortex to trap Paris in a spinning vortex of water, but it doesn’t do much to her as Paris defeats Shunosaurus with Emerald Garden.
Jobaria
- Aquatic Sauropods: It spends most of its screen time swimming in the ocean.
- Behemoth Battle: At 18 meters long, it is a huge sauropod who then fights against Spiny (who is also quite big at 15 meters long) in the high sea.
- Mundane Utility: Foolscap initially brings it to help Blackbeard's ship to move through a storm. Turns out, a big, swimming super sauropod comes in handy when you want to break out through a nasty sea tempest.
- Summon Magic: His Ocean Panic super move card allows five Opthalmosauruses to appear and hit the enemy from multiple angles. To deal with this, Ursula summons Futaba so he can fight the ichthyosaurs while Spiny takes on the Jobaria.
Genie
- Ambiguous Situation: Genie’s card is shown to be contained in an egg capsule, just like all the other dinosaur cards displaced all over the world in Season 1. However, it is not made clear how Genie’s card ended up in Ancient Persia while all the other dinosaur cards contained in egg capsules remained in the modern era.
- Back for the Finale: He is shown as his gentle self once again amongst a crowd of dinosaurs in the final episode.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: Shear ends up placing a control emblem on his head that turns him very aggressive and equips him with an Spectral Armor.
- The Corruptible: As a result of being a wild dinosaur with no master, this makes him susceptible to be mindcontrolled by the Spectral Space Pirates. Shear takes advantages of this in episode 70 and turns Genie into one of her dinosaurs in her last attempt to retrieve the Red Cosmos Stone.
- Gentle Giant Sauropod: He is the only sauropod to play this completely straight. That is, until he gets mind controlled by Shear.
- Guest-Star Party Member: He's the non-main dinosaur who spends the most time with the D-Team as an ally, being with them through the four episodes comprising the Ancient Persia arc.
- Horse of a Different Color: His huge size makes him a convenient ride for the D-Team and Zahrah in their journey through the desert, and Genie is docile enough to comply.
- Making a Splash: When mind controlled, Genie uses the Water move card Hydro Cutter to send giant blades made out of water at Spiny, Tank, and Terry, which end up defeating them all.
- Martial Pacifist: Genie is a powerful dinosaur, but also a gentle, peaceful one. The times he attacks anyone is when someone tries to harm Zahrah, and most of the time he stays away from fights, leaving the dinosaurs from the D-Team to deal with enemies. His true power ends being revealed when Shear takes control of him in the climax of the Ancient Persia arc and uses him to fight all of the six main dinosaurs, managing to defeat all the dinosaurs from Alpha Gang and Paris and forcing Chomp and Ace to mix their strongest attacks to take him down.
- Non-Indicative Name: In the arcade and the anime, Genie's species is identified as "Titanosaurus colberti", which is an outdated name (the true one being Isisaurus). Funnily enough, the Titanosaurus holotype is also a playable dinosaur in Dinosaur King, but it never appears in the anime.
Lightning Dinosaurs
General
- Color-Coded Elements: The icon of the attribute is portrayed as yellow. The dinosaurs belonging to it are also associated with the color yellow.
- Headbutting Pachy: Artwork on the website showed Pachycephalosaurus as being part of this group, implying that pachycephalosaurs as a whole belong to the Lightning element, making the group's full roster cover all of the marginocephalians.
- Shock and Awe: Dinosaurs of this attribute are able to summon and manipulate electricity and lightnings, ranging from shooting lightnings out of their horns, shocking their enemies with electric attacks or creating electric constructs to hit their opponents with.
- Temper-Ceratops: The lightning attribute includes all members of the Ceratopsia family, but unlike most examples of this trope the level of aggression depends on the dinosaurs. Some like Chomp and the Styracosaurus are docile and friendly, while others like the Pentaceratops and the lightning dinosaurs used by the Spectral Space Pirates are aggressive and easy to attack others.
Styracosaurus
- Brainwashed and Crazy: He was a really friendly dinosaur before the Alpha Gang got their hands on his card. When Max and Chomp meet him again, Styracosaurus greets them by lashing out at them and defeating Chomp with no holds barred.
- Fighting Your Friend: Styracosaurus is forced to fight Chomp when they cross paths again.
- Guest-Star Party Member: He fights alongside the Alpha Gang’s dinosaurs to stop the D-Team from leaving Zeta Point.
- Temper-Ceratops: Subverted. The Styracosaurus is one of the friendlest of the ceratopsians in the series, and doesn't takes much to accept Chomp as one of his own, even happily surfing with him. This is played straight when Dr. Z modifies him to become more aggresive and puts him to fight against Chomp, the previously gentle dinosaur turned into a fierce warrior.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: Since he was last used under the Alpha Gang’s control, it is unknown if he was ever turned back to normal after being modified into a more aggressive dinosaur.
Anchiceratops
A second Anchiceratops appears in season two under Gabbro's command in the Ancient France arc.
- Body Paint: Jonathan assumes the profession of a painter and covers his body in paint with many random colorful patterns.
- Fartillery: His move card, Death Grind, makes him fart on the enemy dinosaur after hitting them with its tail and then dragging them around the ground, as Spiny learns the hard way. This was removed from the dub for censorship reasons, simply having the Anchiceratops hitting and ramming Spiny.
- Fish out of Temporal Water: The first Anchiceratops does not take a liking to the modern world thanks to being in a completely different time and place from its natural environment.
- Monumental Damage: He rams into the Arc de Triomphe a few times and leaves a big crater in its side.
- Sensory Overload: All the noise and flashing lights he was exposed to made him very irritable.
- Temper-Ceratops: Zigzagged. The Anchiceratops is not normally an aggressive dinosaur, and is even shown to be friendly with Chomp, but the noise and lighting from Paris makes it go berserk multiple times through the episode.
- Trapped in Another World: Inverted; The D-Team realize Anchiceratops is so upset because he is from the Cretaceous period, so seeing all sorts of modern things in France has made him react aggressively.
Torosaurus
- Shock and Awe: He is able to shoot a blast of lightning from his horns when using Lightning Strike alongside Chomp in their fight with Terry. Besides Chomp, he is the only other ceratopsian in the show to use a Lightning based move card (Styracosaurus had the move card Lightning Spear, but he never used it).
- Stealthy Colossus: Despite being a pretty large dinosaur roaming around a savannah with a lot of open space, he manages to stay pretty well hidden for most of the episode.
Pentaceratops
A second Pentaceratops appears in season two under Gabbro's command in the Sengoku Period arc.
- Cargo Ship: An in-universe example. The Pentaceratops thinks the mother Triceratops animatronic on the movie set is real.
- Crazy Jealous Guy: When he sees Chomp alongside the Triceratops animatronic, he immediately becomes defensive due to seeing him as a rival for her affections.
- Manly Tears: He pours a Single Tear out of his eye when he falls defeated, lamenting the fact he couldn't get with the "female" he courted.
- Temper-Ceratops: Played it straight. The Pentaceratops acts like any male animal in heat would and it's the only ceratopsian from the first season that never befriends Chomp at all, instead viewing him as a rival for the love of the animatronic he fell in love with.
- Tragic Villain: While being an animal with no morals, the first Pentaceratops is still the antagonist of the episode in which he appears. Regardless, the sight of him crying in defeat and failing to get the affection of the animatronic (that would have never returned it to him) is still a sad sight.
Diceratops
- Dual Boss: Subverted. As the Edmontonia was losing to Ace, Gabbro decides to summon the Diceratops to aid him. When it looks like Ace will face the two herbivores alone, Dr. Z and the Alpha Trio quickly appear and call Terry, with the two dinosaurs fighting different opponents.
- Non-Indicative Name: The name "Diceratops" was used before on an insect, so the ceratopsian previously known by that name was renamed "Nedoceratops", making the name used in Dinosaur King inaccurate.
- Recurring Boss: It manages to remain undefeated in the first episode where it appears and becomes the main antagonist of the latter, where it fights Paris.
- Reused Character Design: Its CG model is a tweaked version of Chomp’s with erect brow horns, no nose horn, and different coloring. It is also slightly smaller than Chomp. Funnily enough, Diceratops (or more properly, Nedoceratops) is a dubious genus and some scientists consider it a Triceratops's species.
- Temper-Ceratops: When fighting it Paris, it is shown to be a very aggressive fighter.
Achelousaurus
- Adaptational Badass: The Attack Burst move card is stronger in the anime, as it doesn't only increases the attack of the Achelousaurus, but also summons a sandstorm that confuses the enemy and later some lightnings strike them when the ceratopsian throws the enemy to the sky.
- Deadly Dust Storm: Thanks to Attack Burst, the Achelousaurus can bring a sandstorm that blinds the enemy to give it the chance to attack by surprise.
- Magic Enhancement: Attack Burst allows the Achelousaurus to increase its attack a lot by surging itself with lots of energy.
- Shock and Awe: Despite not being a lightning super move card, Attack Burst in the anime also makes some lightnings to attack the enemy when it is in the air after the first attack of the Achelousaurus.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: Interestingly enough, Gabbro bothers to recover its card after Chomp defeats it, which is surprising as the Spectral Space Pirates tend to abandon their dinosaurs when they lose. Despite this, it never appears again after its debut episode.
Pachyrhinosaurus
- Artistic License – Paleontology: It has a large thick nose horn, which the real Pachyrhinosaurus did not have. The real animal had a flat boss with horns only forming on the top of its frill and the center of it. Interestingly, Achelousaurus is still portrayed with a boss despite Pachyrhinosaurus not having one here.
- Summon Magic: Its move card, Anhanguera Dive allows it to summon the titular Anhanguera, who hits the enemy from multiple angles and then divebombs it. The attack it's strong enough to defeat Ace of a single usage.
- Temper-Ceratops: Despite its scarce screentime, the Pachyrhinosaurus proves to be a fierce fighter, being able to go toe to toe against Chomp, throwing Ace away like nothing and being defeated through Ultimate Thunder.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: It is defeated by Chomp just as quickly as it appears.
Earth Dinosaurs
General
- Color-Coded Elements: The icon of the attribute is portrayed as purple. The dinosaurs belonging to it are also associated with the color purple, as well with brown.
- Dishing Out Dirt: Dinosaurs of this attribute are able to create and manipulate earth. Their range of abilities goes from creating crevices on the ground, to generate sandtraps, raise their defense with chunks of earth, or manipulating crystals.
- Tough Armored Dinosaur: Members of the Stegosauria and Ankylosauria groups are found in this attribute, and as per depiction in popular culture, most of them are shown to be fierce fighters.
Ankylosaurus
A second Ankylosaurus appears in season two commanded by Foolscap during the Ancient France arc.
- Beware My Stinger Tail: After flipping Tank onto her back, Ankylosaurus slams his clubbed tail into Tank’s belly two times, which defeats her.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Foolscap’s Ankylosaurus also has the move card Mole Attack, and is able to defeat Tank in a matter of seconds by burrowing underneath her and pushing her far off into the air.
- Fast Tunneling: Both Ankylosauruses can travel really quickly underground when their move card Mole Attack is activated.
- Sensory Overload: The first Ankylosaurus is overwhelmed by all the sounds in the city when he is just trying to sleep, which makes him go berserk.
- Tunnel King: Its’ move card, appropriately named Mole Attack, allows the Ankylosaurus to dig underground and burst out of the ground where it’s opponent is standing to launch them into the air.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: The Ankylosaurus used by Foolscap in the second season has the honor of being the only dinosaur used by the Spectral Space Pirates to never lose at all, as it was recalled by its owner before the combined attack of Chomp, Ace and Paris could hit both it and Armatus, and overall was shown to be a strong dinosaur. Despite this, Foolscap never uses it again, only using Armatus for the rest of the season and leaving the fate of the Ankylosaurus unadressed.
Euoplocephalus
- Beware My Stinger Tail: It’s move card Quake Saber allows a long crystal to grow on its tail and strike down its opponent.
- Crystal Weapon: Thanks to Quake Saber, he can form a crystal sword on his tail.
- Gentle Giant: The Euoplocephalus is very docile towards Amy, a meek and short girl.
- Herbivores Are Friendly: Plays it straight, being a peaceful herbivore that makes friends with Amy easily.
- She's a Man in Japan: Euoplocephalus is a female dinosaur in the Japanese version, but is referred to with masculine pronouns in the English version of the anime.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: Euoplocephalus is one of many dinosaurs summoned to fight the Black T-Rex, but oddly enough, he just disappears from the fight and doesn’t even attack the evil tyrannosaur.
Stegosaurus
- Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: He is distracted by Helga standing in front of him, which allows Chomp to charge into him with Thunder Bazooka, defeating him.
- Beware My Stinger Tail: Not only does he swing his spiky tail to ward off Helga and Terry, but his tail can also shoot spikes out of it when he activists his Spike Arrows move card.
- Sensory Overload: He is not fond of the locals and their gong ringing, so he moves away from them as quickly as possible.
- Spike Shooter: His move card Spike Arrows makes him shoot glowing arrows out of his tail. They manage to impale Terry and defeat him, but Helga pulls one spike out of her shoulder as if it were nothing.
Edmontonia
- Dishing Out Dirt: His super move card, Rock Roller, allows the Edmontonia to summon a huge boulder that it throws to the enemy. However, it's no match for Terry's Ultimate Fire, who easily deviates the boulder and defeats the Edmontonia.
- Dual Boss: Subverted. As it was losing to Ace, Gabbro summons his Diceratops to aid him. When it looks like Ace will face the two herbivores alone, Dr. Z and the Alpha Trio quickly appear and call Terry, with the two dinosaurs fighting different opponents.
- No Ontological Inertia: The boulder created by Rock Roller doesn't disappears with the Edmontonia's defeat, as it almost crushes the D-Team and Jim after it descends the cliff where Terry sent it.
- Shoulders of Doom: It is a brutish dinosaur controlled by the Spectral Space Pirates that has massive spikes facing outwards on its shoulders.
Tuojiangosaurus
- Beware My Stinger Tail: It tries using Quake Saber against Paris, but is quickly defeated.
- Crystal Weapon: Thanks to Quake Saber, it can form a sword made of crystal on its tail.
- Spikes of Villainy: Apart of the multiple spikes on the back and the thagomizer, it also possesses two long spikes coming out of its shoulders. It is also a battle beast used for the nefarious purposes of the Spectral Space Pirates.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: As most of its battle happens offscreen, the stegosaur doesn't gets to do much before being defeated by Paris.
Lexovisaurus
- Quicksand Sucks: It’s move card Sand Trap causes Zoe, Paris, and Zahrah to sick in a pit of sand that appears beneath their feet.
- Red and Black and Evil All Over: It is a dinosaur controlled by Shear with bold red and black markings on its head, plates, and body mixed in with yellow.
- Spikes of Villainy: It has two prominent shoulder spikes and is mind-controlled by Shear to due her bidding.
- Tough Armored Dinosaur: Despite its size, Lexovisaurus is strong enough defeat Chomp by simply ramming him into the air.
Grass Dinosaurs
General
- Color-Coded Elements: The icon of the attribute is portrayed as green. The dinosaurs belonging to it are also associated with the color green.
- Green Thumb: Dinosaurs of this attribute are able to summon and manipulate vegetation and nature in general, albeit for buffing/debuffing purposes more than to harm directly the enemy.
- Summon Magic: Grass dinosaurs can summon several other dinosaurs, pterosaurs or even plesiosaurs with the right move card. They are the ones that usually hurt the enemy dinosaur instead of the grass dinosaur itself.
- White Mage: Compared to other attributes, grass dinosaurs don't specialize as much in inflicting direct damage to the enemy as much as they do in debuffing them or healing themselves or their allies. The few Grass move cards that deal direct damage to the opponent come from Summon Magic.
Maiasaura
Mother
Baby
A wild dinosaur that appears in the Swiss Alps. Having an egg alongside her, she turns into an angry, protective mother when she feels someone is threatening her offspring despite her otherwise gentle nature.
- Artistic License – Paleontology: Maiasaura has only laid a single egg, which is inaccurate because hadrosaurs were well known for laying more than 20 eggs in a nest.
- A Handful for an Eye: Maiasaura kicks a big cloud of dust at Terry before using her move card Diving Press to launch herself onto him while biting his neck.
- Leeroy Jenkins: When she is one of the many dinosaurs summoned to fight the Black T-Rex, she impulsively leaps towards it only to be effortlessly pushed away and defeated.
- Mama Bear: Making honor to the name of her species ("Good Mother Lizard"), she is devoted to keeping her egg safe.
- Ridiculously Cute Critter: Her baby is very adorable with its big eyes and tiny body.
- Xenophobic Herbivore: She is very defensive and fights any dinosaur that poses a potential threat to her egg. She attacks Terry and Chomp, and even beats up Paris (who’s a hadrosaur like her). She almost would have attack the D-Team kids too if her egg did not hatch in time.
Altirhinus
- Big Guy, Little Guy: While Altirhinus is still a dinosaur the size of an elephant, the Supersaurus it is later allied with is much, much bigger.
- Gag Nose: Or rather, "gag snout". The Altirhinus has a tall arch on the top of its snout that gives him a rather goofy appearance.
- Summon Magic: In his second appearance, the Alpha Gang manage to get their hands on the Super Impact card, which allows Altirhinus to summon a humongous Supersaurus.
- Rolling Attack: When it uses the move card Super Impact, a Supersaurus is summoned to carry and launch Altirhinus into the air, where he will tuck his body into a ball and spin into his opponent with devastating force.
Saurolophus
Orange crest Saurolophus
Green crest Saurolophus
A couple of Saurolophus (each one with a distinct card), one with an orange crest and the other with a green one. They're found by Zander (who got lost from Ursula and Ed) in a Mexican desert, who then separates their cards when he finds the capsule where they were contained, activating the one with the orange crest who starts to chase Zander (who kept the green one) to reunite with its mate.- Ambiguous Gender: The genders of the orange-crested individual and green-crested individual are never made clear. It's implied the one with the orange crest is a male, while the one with the green crest is female.
- Back for the Finale: The Saurolophus couple can be seen nuzzling their heads together in the final episode.
- Canon Foreigner: The Saurolophus with the green crest is exclusive to the anime, not appearing neither in the arcade or the DS game.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Both Saurolophuses are taken out with minimal effort by Tank and Spiny, the latter who is known for being notoriously weak for his size.
- Social Ornithopod: Both Saurolophuses are deeply in love with each other.
Iguanodon
- Back for the Finale: He is briefly seen again being ridden by Dr. Owen in the final episode.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Since he is a very docile dinosaur, Terry has a one-sided fight with him and wins without much effort.
- Herbivores Are Friendly: He is nothing but gentle to Ursula, which makes her realize that dinosaurs are not just creatures she can use to fight.
- Morality Pet: For Ursula. The friendship she establishes with him makes her oppose the Alpha Gang ideals for the first time and she even indirectly gives his card to the D-Team so that Dr. Z wouldn't abuse the dinosaur.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Being an ornithopod found in a desert that one member of the Alpha trio finds while lost and eventually is given to the D-Team by them for the sake of the dinosaur makes the Iguanodon similar to the Saurolophus couple from a couple of episodes early.
Fukuisaurus
- Back for the Finale: He is shown again being ridden by Rod and Laura in the final episode.
- Energy Absorption: Emerald Garden allows the Fukuisaurus to shoot a sphere of green energy towards a target. Once the target is hit, a garden that drains the energy of the opponent appears and then gives that energy to the Fukuisaurus.
- One-Hit Kill: The Emerald Garden super move card is potentially this. The Fukuisaurus only had to hit both Tank and Spiny once to defeat them.
- Pint-Sized Powerhouse: As a cow sized ornithopod, he is relatively small compared to other elephant sized and above relatives. However, thanks to his move card the Fukuisaurus manages to defeat both Tank and Spiny. He is even shown to be a good physical fighter against bigger dinosaurs too.
- Stronger Than They Look: Who would expect a small ornithopod to push aside two dinosaurs that outweigh him by several tons?
Shantungosaurus
- Anti-Villain: It's not shown to be very malicious despite being controlled by Foolscap, only fighting when it was necessary.
- Gentle Giant: Zigzagged. The Shantungosaurus rivals in size with some medium/large sauropods, but for the most part it is shown as a friendly animal. However, once in combat the hadrosaur becomes more aggressive and shows to be a rather good fighter.
- Herbivores Are Friendly: Upon meeting Sazo Hoshi, the Shantungosaurus licks him on his face playfully. Despite later fighting the D-Team and defeating Paris easily, Sanzo Hoshi says it is actually a good hearted creature, which implies all of the misdeeds of the giant herbivore where influenced by Foolscap.
- Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: Implied; While Foolscap treated Shantungosaurus rather poorly, Sanzo Hoshi believed there was still good inside him. Later when Foolscap tries to order Shantungosaurus around again, he swats Foolscap away with his tail. He does not gain full control of himself though, as Chomp had to defeat him with Plasma Anchor to break the spectral armor technology controlling him.
- Summon Magic: Its Green Impulse super move card allows it to summon a Tupuxuara that attacks its enemies.
Lanzhousaurus
- Gasshole: It burps after draining Chomp's energy, a side-effect from Power Drain.
- Energy Absorption: Lanzhousaurus uses the move card Power Drain to suck up Chomp’s energy to power itself up. This doesn’t provide it an advantage though, as Chomp quickly defeats it with Ultimate Thunder.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: One of the most short-lived dinosaurs, being featured for only a few seconds before being defeated.
Wind Dinosaurs
General
- Blow You Away: Dinosaurs of this attribute are able to generate and manipulate wind, particularly specializing in quick and powerful attacks to overwhelm the opponent.
- Color-Coded Elements: The icon of the attribute is portrayed as white. The dinosaurs belonging to it are also associated with the color white, as well light blue, dark blue, and purple.
Utahraptor
- Afraid of Needles: One individual in Season 2 is shown to be cowering in fear at the sight of Dr. Drake’s giant syringe needle.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: On the receiving end by Tank. She defeats him rather easily with her Dino Swing move card.
- Fragile Speedster: The Utahraptor may be light on his feet, but he isn’t too durable.
- Raptor Attack: It's portrayed as a scaly dromaeosaur with pronated hands, although it has some slight feathers on his head.
Ceratosaurus
- Guest-Star Party Member: He is summoned to fight alongside the D-Team’s dinosaurs in two episodes, the first one against the brainwashed Styracosaurus and the second one against the Black T. rex.
- Leeroy Jenkins: It tries charging headfirst towards the Black T-Rex only to be kicked away.
Megaraptor
- A Lizard Named "Liz": Shear nicknames her Megaraptor "Meg".
- Ambiguous Gender: The second Megaraptor controlled by Shear is nicknamed "Meg". It is unclear whether the Megaraptor is actually a female though considering Shear simply calls it a shortened part of its species name.
- Artistic License – Paleontology: Its depiction in Dinosaur King portrays it as a particularly large dromaeosaur, including a sickle claw on the feet of the animal. The actual animal wasn't closely related to dromaeosaurs, being related to a different group of theropods (appropriately named "megaraptorans") that scientists have debated if they were related to carnosaurs or coleurusaurs (recent studies situates them close to coleurusaurs for now). Furthermore, the sickle claws turned out to be claws belonging to the arms of the Megaraptor instead of its feet. It is currently uncertain if megaraptorans had a lot of feathers though.
- Leeroy Jenkins: The first Megaraptor tries charging headfirst towards the Black T-Rex, only to be kicked away.
- Lightning Bruiser: Shear’s Megaraptor is strong enough to go toe-to-toe with Ace, Paris, and Chomp. It is fast, agile, and pretty strong. While it did not defeat the D-Team dinosaurs, it certainly was giving them a rough time until Ace used his Ultimate Wind move card to defeat it.
- Paper Tiger: Although Zoe calls the first Megaraptor a dangerous dinosaur, it doesn’t really seem all that aggressive. It just walks around the airport never really attacking anyone and only frightens the people because it is a big carnivorous dinosaur. In fact, it gets easily beaten up by Spiny, who is usually a Paper Tiger himself.
- Single-Stroke Battle: Ace and Shear’s Megaraptor end up running towards each other using Ultimate Wind and Ninja Strike respectively. After a few seconds when they cut through each other, Megaraptor falls defeated while Ace is still left standing.
Deltadromeus
- Artistic License – Paleontology: He is shown swimming the butterfly stroke, which would be impossible for a theropod dinosaur like him thanks to the way their shoulders and arms were structured.
- Back for the Finale: He briefly makes a cameo in the finale swimming with Futabasaurus and Opthalmosaurus.
- Carnivores Are Mean: Subverted. Deltadromeus may cause a bit of collateral damage, but he is one of the few wild carnivorous dinosaurs to not be portrayed as all that aggressive. The only reason he is running across the town is because he is looking for the Ganges River.
- Curb Stomp Cushion: While Spiny ultimately ends up overwhelming Deltadromeus, he at least knocked Spiny around two times.
Allosaurus
- Bull Seeing Red: A prehistoric, reptilian variant, as well as a subversion. After two attempts to get him fail, Ace manages to lure the Allosaurus towards a bullfigting plaza wearing a red cape similar to those used by bullfighters. However, the thing that brings the Allosaurus's attention are the hams hold by the cape. Bonus points because the episode happens in Spain.
- Lightning Bruiser: It’s light on its’ feet and strong for its size. He's one of the few dinosaurs that manages to defeat Chomp despite his size and power. He also defeats Spiny, who is a much larger theropod tan him.
- Monumental Damage: The Allosaurus manages to destroy the Sagrada Familia (one, if not the most, iconic monument of Barcelona and one of the most emblematic of Spain) when he throws Chomp towards the building during their fight.
- One-Track-Minded Hunger: The Allosaurus is simply looking for ham to eat while roaming around in Barcelona.
- Super-Speed: When it activates the move card Mayfly, he is charged with energy that can make him attack his opponent at blinding speeds.
Majungasaurus
- Artistic License – Paleontology: Its arms are longer than the real animal, which is saying a lot because abelisaurs were well known for their stiff, stubby, useless arms.
- Dual Boss: It and the Shunosaurus fight together against the three of the D-Team's dinosaurs in the climax of episode 52.
- Fragile Speedster: It's a very fast and agile theropod, but a single attack from Chomp is all it takes to defeat it.
- Red and Black and Evil All Over: Combines this with White and Red and Eerie All Over. Has black and white bands going across its red body and is a vicious theropod controlled by Foolscap.
- Super-Speed: It uses Mayfly against Ace and and is able to strike him from all sides in rapid succession.
- White and Red and Eerie All Over: Combines this with Red and Black and Evil All Over. Has black and white bands going across its red body and is a vicious theropod controlled by Foolscap. This overall coloration makes it resemble a milk snake.
Gojirasaurus
- Attack Reflector: Defense Burst allows the Gojirasaurus to intercept enemy attacks, shape them into a ball of energy and then throw it at them, as it does with Chomp's Plasma Anchor.
- Catch and Return: Its move card Defense Burst allows it to catch Chomp’s Plasma Anchor attack, and throw it right back at him in a destructive ball of energy.
- Immune to Bullets: When Hanzo throws it two kunais (closest equivalent of bullets in the Sengoku Period), the Gojirasaurus calmly deflects them with its scales, completely unharmed.
- Lightning Bruiser: Gojirasaurus is very quick, very agile, and surprisingly strong for its size.
- Small Role, Big Impact: It only appears in one episode and ends defeated by the end of it, but it hitting Shear thanks to Ace's attack ends up shaping Shear's role for the rest of the arc.
- Stronger Than They Look: Despite being small for theropod standards, the Gojirasaurus is a powerful beast able to throw around Ace and Chomp like ragdolls.
- Token Minority: It is the only dinosaur from the Triassic time period to appear in the anime.
Afrovenator
- Glass Cannon: It has a strong attack, being able to defeat Spiny with his DinoTector equipped (being the first dinosaur of the Spectral Space Pirates to defeat one of the 6 main dinosaurs with DinoTector). Its defense however isn't as good, as Ace manages to beat it after using a single super move card.
- Stronger Than They Look: Despite being a medium-sized theropod, it manages to one-shot Spiny (who even if it isn't the strongest dinosaur, had his DinoTector active) with a single move.
- Tornado Move: Using the move card Tornado Toss, the Afrovenator runs around Spiny so fast it creates a tornado that launches him into the air.
- Unrelated in the Adaptation: An owner-pet/tool case. The anime has Gabbro own it, but in the manga that adapts the second season the Afrovenator is instead used by Shear.
- Use Your Head: Gabbro calls him at first to open the cave of the 39 thieves by headbutting the cave repeatedly until creating an opening. As this proves to be useless, the alien recalls the theropod to find a new way to open the cave.
Assist Dinosaurs
General
- Non-Elemental: While some assist cards belong to the Water and Grass attributes, the rest don't possesses any element at all and don't have any particular advantage over any dinosaur.
- Summon Magic: They are summoned to support and aid the dinosaur they're partnered with, the effects depending on the function of the card.
Pteranodon
- Artistic License – Paleontology: While they are accurately sized, they have naked bodies, pointy wing tips, and grasping feet.
- Demoted to Extra: While they appear a lot of times in Season 1, they are used far less frequently in Season 2, and are even less successful in fights.
- Razor Wings: In the Grass move card Metal Wing, they are summoned to cut through an opponent with their wings by flying really fast towards them. Spiny is often on the receiving end of this attack.
- The Worf Effect: They are easily knocked aside by the Tupuxuara in the Ancient China arc of season two, who ends up replacing them as the main assist pterosaur.
Seismosaurus
- Giant Equals Invincible: It is a gargantuan dinosaur that has never been defeated. It has been briefly overpowered in a fight against Supersaurus though, a dinosaur roughly the same size as it.
- Giant Foot of Stomping: Being a part of the appropriately named Big Foot Assault move card, Seismosaurus uses its massive feet to crush Terry, Spiny, and Tank in its first appearance by stepping on them.
- Non-Indicative Name: It is referred to Seismosaurus, but in recent years Seismosaurus has been reclassified into a species of Diplodocus.
- Story-Breaker Power: The Big Foot Assault move card is basically an autowin, as the Seismosaurus is so big and powerful it defeats every dinosaur it fights against. For that, it is only used thrice through the series, as otherwise the D-Team would have won all the battles easily.
Supersaurus
- Artistic License – Physics: The whole Super Impact move card is built on this and Rule of Cool. It basically involves the dinosaur who summons the Supersaurus to jump onto its neck and then being thrown by the sauropod at great speeds to impact the enemy dinosaur. Not only would an animal (even something as big as the Supersaurus) be unable to lift something as heavy as a big ornithopod without breaking its neck, but such neck wouldn't be as flexible as the one from the Supersaurus from Dinosaur King.
- Behemoth Battle: Has one against Zoe's Seismosaurus in the 20th episode of the anime, first using the Altirhinus as a proxy and later fighting it directly itself. Noticeably, it was winning the fight until Chomp distracted it.
Futabasaurus
- Because You Were Nice to Me: When Zoe has Paris use her Nature’s Blessing move to heal Futaba’s wound, he reacts grateful to Zoe and plays with her in the lake. When he is summoned by Spiny again later, he realizes he is fighting against Zoe, and decides to turn on the Alpha Gang, defeating Tank and Spiny. Since the latter was summoning his card, this meant Futabasaurus turned into a card after defeating Spiny.
- The Bus Came Back: Futaba is summoned again in the Caribbean arc of Season 2 to help Spiny fight Jobaria. He is shown to still remember Zoe as he smiles when she says hi to him.
- A Lizard Named "Liz": Zoe simply refers to him as Futaba.
- Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: After being hit by Tank and remembering Zoe's kindness towards him, he decides to betray the Alpha Gang and defeats Tank and Spiny by himself (also disappearing as Spiny was the one who summoned him).
- One-Hit Kill: While it doesn’t kill anyone, Futaba’s Super Cannon ability allows him to shoot a powerful blast of water that was able to revert Ace, Tank, and even Spiny into cards with just a single blast.
Pawpawsaurus
- Adaptational Wimp: In the arcade game, Pawpawsaurus was not only an Assist Creature, but a Secret Dinosaur with its’ own set of powerful moves. In the anime, it is only seen as an Assist Dinosaur.
- A Lizard Named "Liz": Ursula refers to Pawpawsaurus as Pawpaw.
- Made of Iron: It is still standing after getting struck with Chomp’s Lightning Strike move and getting repeatedly hit by Ace’s Ninja Attack.
- Tag Team: It is a part of a move card with this very name. When Terry gets to use Tag Team, Pawpawsaurus switches places with him and takes in all the attacks meant for Terry.
- Tough Armored Dinosaur: Thanks to the move card Tag Team, Pawpawsaurus can fill in for Terry in a fight and take in all the attacks meant for him. He doesn’t even get defeated by any attacks from Chomp or Ace.
Velociraptor
- Raptor Attack: More accurate than the other dromaeosaurs of Dinosaur King, but it still needs more feathery coverage, has pronated hands and once again their social behaviour is used as the main point of their movements.
- Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Despite their small size, they manage to take down the bigger and heavier Chomp.
- Terrible Trio: Three Velociraptors are contained in the move card.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: Despite being given some focus and being shown to be a particullary powerful, they are only used two times in back-to-back episodes throughout the series. The final episode shows them together with some of the other minor dinosaurs, running alongside a Deinonychus trio.
Piatnitzkysaurus
- Artistic License – Paleontology: Oddly enough, this dinosaur is portrayed with a venomous bite. No dinosaurs were ever known to be venomous. A small theropod called Sinornithosaurus was thought to have venom sacs in its skull, but this was later disproven.
- Blow You Away: The Piatnitzkysaurus started as an assist dinosaur from a move card, but in the last iteration of the arcade game it was made as a playable dinosaur belonging to the Wind attribute.
- Dual Boss: It is summoned by Shear so it and Yang could deal with the dinosaurs of the D-Team, taking on Chomp. It proves to be way weaker than its partner, as Chomp defeats him rather easily and proves to be more of an annoyance rather than a legit threat.
- Four-Fingered Hands: The real animal only had three fingers, but for whatever reason, Piatnitzkysaurus is given four fingers here.
- Poisonous Person: It is summoned under Yangchuanosaurus’s control in the move card Venom Fang, which allows it to infect its opponent with a nasty bite. Chomp never gets bitten though as he evades Piatnitzkysaurus through most of the fight and defeats it with Thunder Bazooka.
- Red and Black and Evil All Over: A venomous black dinosaur with red stripes and patterns through its body employed by Shear.
- Toxic Dinosaur: It is a venomous dinosaur.
Opthalmosaurus
- Devious Dolphins: While ichthyosaurs are obviously not dolphins, they behave a whole lot like aggravated dolphins with how they flip out of the water and gang up on their opponent.
- Zerg Rush: Their main method of attack is to gang up against the enemy dinosaur to overwhelm it with numbers and hit it through multiple angles.
Tupuxuara
- Adaptational Wimp: In the arcade, Green Impulse manages to summon 8 Tupuxuaras instead of only one, plus it also steals energy from the enemy dinosaur. In the anime, the first three times it is used it only brings a single Tupuxuara, though that is fixed a bit when Zoe used the super move card against Gigas, who summons 7 Tupuxuaras. The energy stealing ability of the attack is never used or alluded to in the anime, however.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: In the second season, they replace the Pteranodons in the role of move card pterosaurs.
- Zerg Rush: When used against Gigas, Green Impulse brings seven Tupuxuara instead of one, ganging up on the theropod and slicing him in a flying ring after which they drop him so he crashes into the ground.
Anhanguera
- Belly-Scraping Flight: How Tupuxuara manages to defeat the Anhanguera.
- Glass Cannon: It manages to defeat Ace easily of a single use of its move, but its stamina proves to be not as impressive when the Tupuxuara defeats it by throwing it against the desert in a single maneuver.
- High-Altitude Battle: Anhanguera has a fight against Tupuxuara in the Ancient Persia arc. The fight ends when Tupuxuara latches onto Anhanguera and drags it across the ground.
Secret Dinosaurs
General
- Gold-Colored Superiority: All the Secret dinosaurs have bright gold cards and are considerably more powerful than most average unaltered dinosaurs.
- Light 'em Up: Tough not all Secret dinosaurs are associated with light, they are represented by a rainbow, their cards are activated with light and their attacks tend to have some light power associated to them.
- Rainbow Motif: Unlike other dinosaurs, they are associated with the rainbow instead of a single color, as seen in their symbol and their attacks.
Pachycephalosaurus
- Headbutting Pachy: While Pachycephalosaurus never butts heads with another Pachy, his dome is the main source of his power, which he uses to ram things with.
- Power Glows: When he was young, Pachycephalosaurus was fused with a move card, which had the move card’s energy fuse into his dome, making it glow all the time.
- Running Gag: Whenever Dr. Z tries to hug him as a baby, he repeatedly head-butts the doctor.
- Troubled Teen: Pachycephalosaurus is identified as a young dinosaur and is frequently compared to the dinosaur equivalent of a teenager. Ed even suggests getting him video games to calm down his rowdy nature.
- Use Your Head: He uses his dome to ram into various things. He is able to take down Ace and defeat Spiny by ramming into them, and even shoots a beam of laser energy from his dome that weakens Chomp and defeats Terry.
Therizinosaurus
- Absurdly Sharp Claws: He attacks his opponents with his really long claws. He's also shown using his claws to climb on buildings and cut apart street lamps like butter.
- Easily Forgiven: Despite the abuse Dr. Z inflicted on him as a child, he ends up being the only Secret dinosaur to forgive Dr. Z when the old man reminds him of the good times they had together, particularly whenever Therizinosaurus got to cut Dr. Z’s behind with his long claws. He even ends up catching Dr. Z when they both fall and takes the impact of the fall for the doctor.
- One-Man Army: Therizinosaurus is able to defeat Tank, Spiny, Terry, Ace, and Paris with minimal effort. Even though he doesn’t defeat Chomp, he is severely weakened after attacking him.
- She's a Man in Japan: The Therizinosaurus is a female in the Japanese version, but the English dub changed the dinosaur to a male one.
- Shown Their Work: The Therizinosaurus correctly has four toes on its feet. The real creature had four toes so its feet could support its weight better thanks to having a different body structure than other theropods.
- Spin Attack: His Gyro Claw attack allows Therizinosaurus to spin around with his claws out. He throws Spiny and Terry off the building they are fighting on using this attack.
- Trauma Button: The mere sight of Dr. Z puts Therizinosaurus into a blind rage, thanks to Dr. Z’s abuse on him as a child.
- Wolverine Claws: The main trait of the species, and this one is no exception, being able to cause a lot of destruction with them thanks to Dr. Z's experiments enhancing its effectiveness.
Deinonychus
A second Deinonychus trio appears in season two commanded by Shear during the Sengoku Period arc.
- Anime Hair: The Deinonychus leader of both trios has long feathers on its head resembling a headdress.
- Ninja: The Deinonychus have a strong ninja motif going on. Both trios were summoned in Japan in a place and a time related to ninjas. The first trio were even trained by Dr. Z to be ninjas just because he liked ninjas. Also, their fast, agile movement and great stealth are also reminiscent of one.
- Odd Name Out: Dr. Z’s Deinonychus trio are named Dino, Dano, and Sue. Sue was apparently named after a pet turtle Dr. Z once owned.
- Pint-Sized Powerhouse: They are not much bigger than a human, yet both Deinonychus trios are able to take down large theropods like Terry and Foolscap’s Megalosaurus.
- Raptor Attack: While they have some feathery headress, they're still not feathered enough, have pronated hands and their social behaviour is so pronounced their special moves are based on team cooperation.
- Rolling Attack: One of their moves involve curling their bodies into a ball and striking their opponent.
- Stealth Expert: Dino, Dano, and Sue are very sneaky as they nab Ed, Zander, and Ursula without Dr. Z even noticing. They also try sneaking up on Max in a tunnel, who is completely unaware of their presence.
- Terrible Trio: They are an efficient team made up of three Deinonychus.
Megalosaurus
A second Megalosaurus appears in season two commanded by Foolscap during the Sengoku Period arc.
- Animals Not to Scale: Recent studies on Megalosaurus estimate it to be 20 feet in length, which is smaller than Dinosaur King’s 30 foot long portrayal of the creature.
- Battle Aura: A rainbow aura surrounds the bodies of both Megalosauruses whenever they use their powers.
- Glass Cannon: Both Megalosauruses appear to be very strong offensively, but have a less effective defense. The first Megalosaurus defeated Ace with no problem, but he and Foolscap's Megalosaurus were defeated from a single very strong attack from Chomp/Shear's Deinonychuses.
- Irony: It is one of the first dinosaurs to ever be described as a dinosaur in the fossil record, yet it is the last new dinosaur card in Season 1 (the Black T. rex doesn’t count because it is just a genetically altered Tyrannosaurus).
- Mind over Matter: It is able to lift objects and opponents with its mind. Whenever it does this, a rainbow aura surrounds its body and the object/dinosaur that is being picked up.
- The Un-Favourite: Unlike the other Secret dinosaurs of Season 1, Dr. Z didn’t really like raising Megalosaurus because he was too violent and uncontrollable.
Cryolophosaurus
- Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: In the first season, Seth uses large fire-based dinosaurs like Saurophaganax and the Black T. rex in the final arc. Come season two, he uses a lean theropod with ice-based powers.
- Harmless Freezing: It's freezing attacks never manage to defeat any dinosaur and return them to cards, just incapacitate them via Human Popsicle.
- Human Popsicle: Its technique Blizzard Smash manages to freeze Gigas, Armatus and Maximus into a giant wall of ice, incapacitating them from fighting further.
- An Ice Person: Cryolophosaurus uses many ice-based attacks. This may allude to the fact its fossils were found in Antarctica.
- Lightning Bruiser: He is quick enough to dodge every attack from Gigas, Armatus, and Maximus, but he is also strong enough to push around several dinosaurs that are much bigger than him.
- Right-Hand Attack Dog: He is used as Seth’s personal attack dinosaur in the final arc of the second season.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: It's last seen knocking away the main dinosaurs as Seth retreats to the D-lab with all the Cosmos Stones. It doesn't appear more beyond that point and nothing about its state or whereabouts is ever mentioned.
