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* SpellMyNameWithAnS: "Brontoteriy" was most likely a mangled misspelling of ''Brontotherium'' (an animal now synonymous with ''Megacerops'').
* InconsistentSpelling: Was erroneously named "Moshops" in the second game.
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* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Was erroneously named "Moshops" in the second game.
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* InconsistentSpelling: Incorrectly spelled as "Galimimus" in the second game.
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* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Spelled ingame as ''Archeopterics''.
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* AdaptationalWimp: Real ''Stegosaurus'' were nowhere near as harmless as the ones in the game.
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* AdaptationalWimp: Real It's unknown what temperment the average ''Stegosaurus'' had, but they were likely nowhere near as harmless as the ones in the game.
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* AdaptationalWimp: In ''Carnivores 2'', it is the second largest carnivorous dinosaur to hunt and basically a slightly downsized ''T. rex'' with a horn. Its ''HD'' version, however, is a medium-sized predator.
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* GentleGiant: It is the biggest dinosaur in the game, yet is unable to harm the player.
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* GentleGiant: GentleGiantSauropod: It is the biggest dinosaur in the game, yet is unable to harm the player.
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* BewareMyStingerTail: Averted; It never gets to use its spiky tail for defense.
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* BewareMyStingerTail: Averted; It Averted in the original games; it never gets to use its spiky tail for defense.defense. It finally does in the reboot.
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* ToughArmoredDinosaur: Averted with its original counterpart as it always runs away. Played straight with its reboot counterpart in ''Dinosaur Hunter HD'' which will attack and kill the player.
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* GentleGiant: A very scaredy sauropod that never retaliates even when shot.
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* GentleGiant: GentleGiantSauropod: A very scaredy sauropod that never retaliates even when shot.
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* ToughArmoredDinosaur: Averted by its original counterpart which is small and harmless. Played straight with its much larger and more accurate ''Dinosaur Hunter HD'' incarnation.
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* HeadbuttingPachy: Subverted. It never tries to headbutt you at all, despite what the manual states.
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* SocialOrnithopod: Averted as it is always shown by itself (though to be fair, all the animals are). In ''Dinosaur Hunter HD'', it defies the "harmless hadrosaur" stereotype by attacking and killing the player with a headbutt.
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* TemperCeratops: It is the first aggressive dinosaur the player hunts, in contrast to the other herbivorous dinosaurs.
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* TemperCeratops: It plays the same role as its bigger cousin as the only dangerous herbivorous dinosaur in the sequel.
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* SocialOrnithopod: Averted. Not only is it shown by itself, but its the only other herbivorous dinosaur besides the ceratopsids that is aggressive.
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* SavageSpinosaurs: While smaller than the real animal (though more built for terrestrial life), it is still a threat.
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* SavageSpinosaurs: The second largest predator in ''Cityscape'' after ''Giganotosaurus''.
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* InformedSpecies: Like most pop-culture depictions, it's more closely based on ''Giraffatitan'' than the real ''Brachiosaurus'' (seeing as the former is better represented from fossil material and was formerly considered a species of ''Brachiosaurus'').
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* StockSoundEffects: Not to the extent of the ''T. rex'' roar, but the ''Carnivores'' raptor calls have shown up in a number of works since.
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Could've sworn "Historical Badass Downgrade" was a trope. Oh, well...
* AdaptationalWimp: Real ''Stegosaurus'' were nowhere near as harmless as the ones in the game.
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* HistoricalBadassDowngrade: Real ''Stegosaurus'' were nowhere near as harmless as the ones in the game.
* AdaptationalWimp: Despite its impressive set of neck spikes, it's rather scaredy and won't even use them to defend itself.
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* AdaptationalWimp: Just like ''Stegosaurus''.
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* HistoricalBadassDowngrade: Just like ''Stegosaurus''.
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* HistoricalBadassDowngrade: A real ''Pachycephalosaurus'' probably wouldn't hesitate to [[HeadbuttingPachy use its head]] against you.
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* HistoricalBadassDowngrade: AdaptationalWimp: A real ''Pachycephalosaurus'' probably wouldn't hesitate to [[HeadbuttingPachy use its head]] against you.
* AdaptationalWimp: The true ''Parasaurolophus'' was a massive, bulky duckbill that could hold its own rather decently against predators. Here, it's portrayed as the usual scaredy herbivore that runs away at any sign of danger.
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* HistoricalBadassDowngrade: The true ''Parasaurolophus'' was a massive, bulky duckbill that could hold its own rather decently against predators. Here, it's portrayed as the usual scaredy herbivore that runs away at any sign of danger.
* AdaptationalWimp: While it can still kill and eat you, it's decidedly smaller and weaker than a real ''Allosaurus''.
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* HistoricalBadassDowngrade: While it can still kill and eat you, it's decidedly smaller and weaker than a real ''Allosaurus''.
* AdaptationalWimp: Downplayed, it still can kill and eat you, but does have more health than ''Allosaurus'' and ''Velociraptor''. It's smaller than the real ''Spinosaurus'' though. The September 2015 iOS update for ''Dinosaur Hunter'' did increase its size, however.
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* HistoricalBadassDowngrade: Downplayed, it still can kill and eat you, but does have more health than ''Allosaurus'' and ''Velociraptor''. It's smaller than the real ''Spinosaurus'' though. The September 2015 iOS update for ''Dinosaur Hunter'' did increase its size, however.
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* AdaptationalBadass: Bigger and more powerful than the real animal.
* HistoricalBadassUpgrade: Bigger and more powerful than the real animal.
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* TokenMinority: The only huntable animal in the series not to be extinct on Earth (though one could argue it's meant to be the prehistoric giant warthog ''Metridiochoerus'').
* AdaptationalWimp: The real ''Tylosaurus'' was both larger and probably more dangerous than this version.
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* HistoricalBadassDowngrade: The real ''Tylosaurus'' was both larger and probably more dangerous than this version.
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* AdaptationalWimp: Real ''Stegosaurus'' were nowhere near as harmless as the ones in the game.
* HistoricalBadassDowngrade: Real ''Stegosaurus'' were nowhere near as harmless as the ones in the game.
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* AdaptationalWimp: Despite its impressive set of neck spikes, it's rather scaredy and won't even use them to defend itself.
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* HistoricalBadassDowngrade: Despite its impressive set of neck spikes, it's rather scaredy and won't even use them to defend itself.
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* AdaptationalWimp: Just like ''Stegosaurus''.
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* BewareMyStingerTailBewareMyStingerTail: Subverted. It has a tail club, but never actually uses it.
* HistoricalBadassDowngrade: Just like ''Stegosaurus''.
* HistoricalBadassDowngrade: Just like ''Stegosaurus''.
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* AdaptationalWimp: A true ''Pachycephalosaurus'' wouldn't hesitate to use its head against you.
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* AdaptationalWimp: HistoricalBadassDowngrade: A true real ''Pachycephalosaurus'' probably wouldn't hesitate to [[HeadbuttingPachy use its head head]] against you.
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* AdaptationalWimp: The true ''Parasaurolophus'' was a massive, bulky duckbill that could hold its own rather decently against predators. Here, it's portrayed as the usual scaredy herbivore that runs away at any sign of danger.
* HistoricalBadassDowngrade: The true ''Parasaurolophus'' was a massive, bulky duckbill that could hold its own rather decently against predators. Here, it's portrayed as the usual scaredy herbivore that runs away at any sign of danger.
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* AdaptationalWimp: While it can still kill and eat you, it's decidedly smaller and weaker than a real ''Allosaurus''.
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* AdaptationalWimp: While it can still kill and eat you, it's decidedly AnimalsNotToScale: It's a fair bit smaller and weaker than a the real ''Allosaurus''.animal was on average.
* HistoricalBadassDowngrade: While it can still kill and eat you, it's decidedly smaller and weaker than a real ''Allosaurus''.
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* AdaptationalBadass: Being based on the ''Franchise/JurassicPark'' raptors, this is a given.
*AnimalsNotToScale: Like the ''Franchise/JurassicPark'' raptors it's based on, it's closer in size to ''Deinonychus''.
* HistoricalBadassUpgrade: Being based on the ''Franchise/JurassicPark'' raptors, this is a given.
* HistoricalBadassUpgrade: Being based on the ''Franchise/JurassicPark'' raptors, this is a given.
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* AdaptationalBadass: It's larger and more fierce thatn its Earth counterpart. Albeit there were rather big-sized troodontids living in the Artic regions of Earth during Cretaceous times.
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* InformedSpecies: Lacks the famous "killing claw" most raptors are known to have, making it look more like a compsognathid of sorts. Even worse, its official art does depict it with one on each foot.
* RaptorAttack: Lack of feathers aside, this guy is mistakenly represented without the "killing claw" most members of the dromaeosaur family were known to possess.
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* HistoricalBadassUpgrade: It's larger and more fierce than its Earth counterpart. Albeit there were rather big-sized troodontids living in the Artic regions of Earth during Cretaceous times.
* InformedSpecies: Lacks the famous "killing claw" mostraptors deinonychosaurs are known to have, making it look more like a an oversized compsognathid of sorts. Even worse, its official art does depict it with one on each foot.
* RaptorAttack: Lack of feathers aside, this guy is mistakenly represented without the "killing claw" most members of thedromaeosaur deinonychosaur family were known to possess.
* InformedSpecies: Lacks the famous "killing claw" most
* RaptorAttack: Lack of feathers aside, this guy is mistakenly represented without the "killing claw" most members of the
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* AdaptationalWimp: Downplayed, it still can kill and eat you, but does have more health than ''Allosaurus'' and ''Velociraptor''. It's smaller than the real ''Spinosaurus'' though. The September 2015 iOS update for ''Dinosaur Hunter'' did increase its size, however.
* HistoricalBadassDowngrade: Downplayed, it still can kill and eat you, but does have more health than ''Allosaurus'' and ''Velociraptor''. It's smaller than the real ''Spinosaurus'' though. The September 2015 iOS update for ''Dinosaur Hunter'' did increase its size, however.
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* AdaptationalBadass: This ''Ceratosaurus'' is much larger and monstrous than its Earth counterpart, apparently having a case of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_gigantism insular gigantism]]. Subverted in ''HD'' and ''Reborn''.
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* AnimalsNotToScale: See AdaptationalBadass above.HistoricalBadassUpgrade below.
* HistoricalBadassUpgrade: This ''Ceratosaurus'' is much larger and more monstrous than its Earth counterpart, apparently having a case of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_gigantism insular gigantism]]. Subverted in ''HD'' and ''Reborn''.
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* AdaptationalBadass: Real Rexes were pretty badass, but this guy has extreme senses, super speed, can climb mountains up and down and is perfectly fine with chasing you across a whole island just to get you. The ''HD'' and ''Reborn'' incarnation is tamer, but still quite dangerous on its own.
* HistoricalBadassUpgrade: Real Rexes were pretty badass, but this guy has extreme senses, super speed, can climb mountains up and down and is perfectly fine with chasing you across a whole island just to get you. The ''HD'' and ''Reborn'' incarnation is tamer, but still quite dangerous on its own.
* AnimalsNotToScale: It's one of the most massive animals in the series, rivalling the ''T. rex'' of the first two games in size. The real woolly mammoth wasn't even as large as the biggest African elephants today.
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* ArtisticLicenseBiology: It is depicted without any feathers on its body. It is also much smaller than the real animal.
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* ArtisticLicenseBiology: ArtisticLicensePaleontology: It is depicted without any feathers on its body. It is also much smaller than the real animal.
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* AdaptationalBadass: The real life Brachiosaurus is still killable, unlike the one in this game.
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* HistoricalBadassUpgrade: The real life ''Brachiosaurus'' is still killable ([[CaptainObvious obviously]], seeing as it's extinct), unlike the one in this game.
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* HistoricalBadassDowngrade: The real ''Tylosaurus'' was both larger and probably more dangerous than this version.
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* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: For similar reasons as the first game's ''Dimorphodon''. It's only ever seen in the air, despite most existing evidence suggesting that the real ''Archaeopteryx'' was a rather clumsy flier that likely spent more time on the ground or in trees.
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* GentleGiant: It is the biggest dinosaur in the game, yet is unable to harm the player.
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* PteroSoarer: It is always shown flying high in the sky, although the real ''Dimorphodon'' is considered to have been a poor flyer. It also lacks the vane at the end of its tail, and it's got pointy wing-tips. On the other hand, it appears to have pycnofibres (hair-like structures pterosaurs possess).
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* PteroSoarer: ArtisticLicensePaleontology: It is always shown flying high in the sky, although the real ''Dimorphodon'' is considered to have been a poor flyer. It also lacks the vane at the end of its tail, and it's got pointy wing-tips. On the other hand, it appears to have pycnofibres (hair-like structures pterosaurs possess).
* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: Downplayed: anatomy-wise it doesn't look that bad, although it's got pointy wing-tips. However, its ''HD'' and ''Reborn'' version is misproportioned, including a head that's rather small.
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* KingOfTheDinosaurs: Obviously.
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* PrimalChestPound: Its other IdleAnimation has it roaring and pounding is chest.
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* PrimalChestPound: Its other IdleAnimation has it roaring and pounding is chest.its chest while roaring.
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* PrimalChestPound: Its other IdleAnimation has it roaring and pounding is chest.
* ShownTheirWork: Like real-life gorillas, it beats its chest by slapping rather than punching.
* ShownTheirWork: Like real-life gorillas, it beats its chest by slapping rather than punching.