Basic Trope: Children think that dinosaurs are cool.
- Straight: Charlie is a young child who loves dinosaurs.
- Exaggerated:
- Charlie is completely obsessed with dinosaurs.
- All of the children in the work love dinosaurs.
- Downplayed: Charlie thinks that dinosaurs are cool, but it's not a major part of him.
- Justified:
- Charlie's father Bob is a paleontologist, so it's understandable that his son would follow his father's interests.
- Truth in Television - a lot of children in real life love dinosaurs.
- Inverted:
- Charlie doesn't care at all about dinosaurs.
- Charlie is an adult that loves dinosaurs.
- Charlie is a dinosaur who loves children.
- Subverted: It seems like Charlie is obsessed with dinosaurs, but in reality he's mostly obsessed with dragons.
- Double Subverted: He still thinks dinosaurs are cool, though.
- Parodied:
- Charlie is a young Funny Animal dinosaur that finds dinosaurs interesting.
- Charlie loves dinosaurs very much he even wants to be made into a dinosaur.
- A university class on paleontology is taught by a six-year-old.
- Zig-Zagged:
- Some kids are obsessed with dinosaurs, and some aren't.
- Charlie loved dinosaurs but as he ages, he loses interest in dinosaurs and instead he falls in love with sports, video games and girls.
- Averted:
- There aren't any kids that find dinosaurs interesting.
- Enforced:
- "We need Charlie to have a main interest." "He's a little kid, right? A lot of kids are obsessed with dinosaurs, let's go with that."
- Dinosaurs actually are important to the work in some way, so it would make sense for a kid to find them interesting.
- Lampshaded: "You know, our son Charlie really loves dinosaurs."
- Implied: Charlie is seen playing with dinosaur toys and his bedroom is decorated with many dinosaur posters and drawings.
- Invoked:
- Charlie's aunt Debra decides to show him how interesting dinosaurs are.
- Charlie's mother Alice works at a natural history museum and brings her son to work where there are dinosaurs on display.
- Exploited:
- Dinosaurs are somehow brought back to life (such as through time travel, or some sort of Jurassic Park-styled cloning), and Charlie is able to recognize them and identify the ones that are dangerous and the ones that aren't.
- On a more mundane level, Charlie's parents use his obsession with dinosaurs to help him with various things he has difficulty with, such as using dinosaurs in math problems.
- Defied: Charlie decides to have an interest in something else instead.
- Discussed: "Do you want to talk to me about dinosaurs?"
- Conversed: "I wonder why children are often obsessed with dinosaurs in fiction." "What's not to enjoy?"
- Deconstructed: Since the other kids at his school perceive dinosaurs to be a childish interest, they bully Charlie mercilessly.
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