Upon accidentally eating some artificial dinosaur tissue from a petri dish, paleontologist Dinosaur Neil ends up transforming into an actual dinosaur and rampages across the City. The Tick and Arthur attempt to get involved... but Arthur's sister Dot is coming to eat dinner at their apartment and they can't just ditch her.
Tropes pertaining to The Tick vs. Dinosaur Neil
- Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: Dinosaur Neil turns into a giant dinosaur after mistaking dinosaur genetic material for his pasta salad.
- Disney Death: Arthur and the army think that the Tick is Swallowed Whole by a mutated Dinosaur Neil, though the "gulp" Neil makes indicates that it is not the Tick that he has swallowed, but rather the special aspirin pill that our blue hero tries getting him to swallow while struggling inside Neil's mouth, until he manages to get the aspirin down Neil's throat successfully. It's just that the army doesn't see the action inside Neil's mouth as much as we, the viewers, do; and just when they think they lost the Tick and are about to shoot Neil, our hero manages to open the dinosaur's mouth and escape unharmed (though covered in saliva) in front of everyone.
- Kaiju: Dinosaur Neil becomes one.
- Magic Pants: Averted; Dinosaur Neil's monstrous transformation renders him completely nude, causing a group of top scientists outside of The City to attempt to clothe him with the largest pair of pants, then they decide it's his problem and leave him to find his own pants.
- Mundane Solution: The cure for Dinosaur Neil's condition turns out to be a simple aspirin (although it has to be a big one).
- Saw It in a Movie Once: Neil explains to the Tick and Arthur that he got the idea of regrowing dinosaur issue from a movie. It's likely Jurassic Park, which came a year before.
