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* FutureSlang: The cretaceous period is called the "Cret" by Trans-Time workers

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* AssholeVictim: Claw Carver is an [[AxCrazy violent]], {{manipulative|Bastard}} and greedy scumbag whose selfishness and belligerence often cause and contributes to the worsening crisis as much as he helped other survive it (and even then only out of self-preservation or self-gain). Needless to say, no one in-universe mourn him when he was sent to be lost across time in his time shuttle at the end of Book 1, and no reader likely had any issues with him getting eaten by the Nothosaur Big Hungry whose children he killed at the end of Book 2.
* AnArmAndALeg: Claw Carver previously lost a hand in a fight with a ''Deinonychus''. He replaces it with the dinosaur's claw.
* AnyoneCanDie: Almost any human character in the comic, named or not, ended up buying it over the course of Book 1 and 2, up to and including a SpoiledBrat named Orville, as well as Earl Reagan's buddy Joe Brontowski, who spent the whole series sympathising with the Dinosaurs, had his life saved several times by Earl, only to finally die fighting and being killed by a giant spider when they and the dinosaurs finally broke through and invaded the Trans Time base at the end of Book 1.
** In Book 2, basically the entire Human cast of Atlantis station in the Triassic Era died. Even Claw Carver bought it at the end of Book 2 when he ran into the Nothosaur Big Hungry.
* ArchEnemy: Both Earl Reagan and Claw Carver in Book 1 knew and hated each other for past transgressions. Not helped by the fact Claw Carver is a mean and despicable scumbag of the highest order, whom Earl Reagan can't stand. And of course, Old One Eye served as an AnimalNemesis version of this trope for not only Earl Reagan but eventually all humans of the Trans-Time corporation.
* ArcWords: From Book 1, ''"There's gonna be a reckoning"'' or similar phrases are often repeated as various characters, starting with Earl Reagan, noted it's only a matter of time before Human dino-hunting/herding activity starts a conflict which would decide the fate of both Humans and Dinosaurs in the prehistoric eras. Said reckonings finally came in the later parts of Books 1 and 2 when whole hordes of prehistoric dinosaurs launch all-out assaults on the Trans-Time bases.

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* AssholeVictim: Claw Carver is an [[AxCrazy violent]], {{manipulative|Bastard}} and greedy scumbag whose selfishness and belligerence often cause and contributes to the worsening crisis as much as he helped other survive it (and even then only out of self-preservation or self-gain). Needless to say, no one in-universe mourn him when he was sent to be lost across time in his time shuttle at the end of Book 1, and no reader likely had any issues with him getting eaten by the Nothosaur Big Hungry whose children he killed at the end of Book 2.
* AnArmAndALeg: Claw Carver previously lost a hand in a fight with a ''Deinonychus''. He replaces it with the dinosaur's claw.
* AnyoneCanDie: Almost any human character in the comic, named or not, ended up buying it over the course of Book 1 and 2, up to and including a SpoiledBrat named Orville, as well as Earl Reagan's buddy Joe Brontowski, who spent the whole series sympathising with the Dinosaurs, had his life saved several times by Earl, only to finally die fighting and being killed by a giant spider when they and the dinosaurs finally broke through and invaded the Trans Time base at the end of Book 1.
** In Book 2, basically the entire Human cast of Atlantis station in the Triassic Era died. Even Claw Carver bought it at the end of Book 2 when he ran into the Nothosaur Big Hungry.
* ArchEnemy: Both Earl Reagan and Claw Carver in Book 1 knew and hated each other for past transgressions. Not helped by the fact Claw Carver is a mean and despicable scumbag of the highest order, whom Earl Reagan can't stand. And of course, Old One Eye served as an AnimalNemesis version of this trope for not only Earl Reagan but eventually all humans of the Trans-Time corporation.
* ArcWords: From Book 1, ''"There's gonna be a reckoning"'' or similar phrases are often repeated as various characters, starting with Earl Reagan, noted it's only a matter of time before Human dino-hunting/herding activity starts a conflict which would decide the fate of both Humans and Dinosaurs in the prehistoric eras. Said reckonings finally came in the later parts of Books 1 and 2 when whole hordes of prehistoric dinosaurs launch all-out assaults on the Trans-Time bases.


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* AnyoneCanDie: Almost any human character in the comic, named or not, ended up buying it over the course of Book 1 and 2, up to and including a SpoiledBrat named Orville, as well as Earl Reagan's buddy Joe Brontowski, who spent the whole series sympathising with the Dinosaurs, had his life saved several times by Earl, only to finally die fighting and being killed by a giant spider when they and the dinosaurs finally broke through and invaded the Trans Time base at the end of Book 1.
** In Book 2, basically the entire Human cast of Atlantis station in the Triassic Era died. Even Claw Carver bought it at the end of Book 2 when he ran into the Nothosaur Big Hungry.
* AnArmAndALeg: Claw Carver previously lost a hand in a fight with a ''Deinonychus''. He replaces it with the dinosaur's claw.
* ArchEnemy: Both Earl Reagan and Claw Carver in Book 1 knew and hated each other for past transgressions. Not helped by the fact Claw Carver is a mean and despicable scumbag of the highest order, whom Earl Reagan can't stand. And of course, Old One Eye served as an AnimalNemesis version of this trope for not only Earl Reagan but eventually all humans of the Trans-Time corporation.
* ArcWords: From Book 1, ''"There's gonna be a reckoning"'' or similar phrases are often repeated as various characters, starting with Earl Reagan, noted it's only a matter of time before Human dino-hunting/herding activity starts a conflict which would decide the fate of both Humans and Dinosaurs in the prehistoric eras. Said reckonings finally came in the later parts of Books 1 and 2 when whole hordes of prehistoric dinosaurs launch all-out assaults on the Trans-Time bases.


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* AssholeVictim: Claw Carver is an [[AxCrazy violent]], {{manipulative|Bastard}} and greedy scumbag whose selfishness and belligerence often cause and contributes to the worsening crisis as much as he helped other survive it (and even then only out of self-preservation or self-gain). Needless to say, no one in-universe mourn him when he was sent to be lost across time in his time shuttle at the end of Book 1, and no reader likely had any issues with him getting eaten by the Nothosaur Big Hungry whose children he killed at the end of Book 2.
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* WhipItGood: The dino cowboys working for Trans-Time has them to help herd Dinosaurs, and they are electric to boot. Earl Reagan used one to stop a herd of stampeding dinosaurs they were herding from going off a cliff.

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* WhipItGood: WhipOfDominance: The dino cowboys working for Trans-Time has them have whips to help herd Dinosaurs, and [[LightningLash they are electric to boot.boot]]. Earl Reagan used one to stop a herd of stampeding dinosaurs they were herding from going off a cliff.

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* PteroSoarer: The pterosaurs seen in Book 1 and Book 2 are among the least accurate in all fiction-- leathery bat wings, long tails, crests, teeth, and able to [[KidnappingBirdOfPrey carry people off in their claws]]. Later issues have pterosaurs that are more in keeping with modern knowledge.


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* TerrorDactyl: The pterosaurs seen in Book 1 and Book 2 are able to [[KidnappingBirdOfPrey carry people off in their claws]].
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* InformedSpecies: A forgivable case, given when the comic was written, but still worth mentioning that the ''Deinonychus'' and ''Spinosaurus'' in Book 1 bear no resemblance whatsoever to the real animals. Big Hungry the ''Nothosaurus'' in book 2 also counts-- ironically, with his crocodile-like snout, tailfin, and massive claws, he looks more like a ''real'' spinosaur!

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* InformedSpecies: A forgivable case, given when the comic was written, but still worth mentioning that the ''Deinonychus'' ''Deinonychus'', ''Deinocheirus'', and ''Spinosaurus'' in Book 1 bear no resemblance whatsoever to the real animals. Big Hungry the ''Nothosaurus'' in book 2 also counts-- ironically, with his crocodile-like snout, tailfin, and massive claws, he looks more like a ''real'' spinosaur!

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* DentedIron: The T-Rex matriarch Old One Eye, on account of being 120 years old and clearly well past her prime from years of surviving, predating and fighting. [[spoiler:Indeed, her accumulated wounds and exhaustion over the years and over the series ultimately kills her after the dinos won against the humans]]. She's still the most dangerous creature the Humans faced throughout the story, being the undisputed [[KingOfTheDinosaurs queen among not only her pack but also among the other Dinosaurs]] through experience, determination and sheer ferocity.

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* DentedIron: The T-Rex matriarch Old One Eye, on account of being 120 years old and clearly well past her prime from years of surviving, predating and fighting. [[spoiler:Indeed, her accumulated wounds and exhaustion over the years and over the series ultimately kills her after the dinos won against the humans]]. She's still the most dangerous creature the Humans faced throughout the story, being the undisputed [[KingOfTheDinosaurs queen among not only her pack but also among the other Dinosaurs]] Dinosaurs through experience, determination and sheer ferocity.



* KingOfTheDinosaurs: Old One-Eye is regularly shown to be the undisputed ruler of her prehistoric domain, and even the other tyrannosaurs are afraid of her.

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* GoodIsNotSoft: Earl Reagan is the closest thing to a hero among the Humans' side, but he's still a rough and tough dino-herding/hunting cowboy who don't take insults and threats lying down. One example was when Claw Carver threaten to kill him for bringing his sick buddy Joe into his town for treatment (as he could infect them all with a Crestacous Era disease). Earl's response is to pounce at Carver and try to kill him first.

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* FutureSlang: The cretaceous period is called the "Cret" by Trans-Time workers
* GoodIsNotSoft: Earl Reagan is the closest thing to a hero among the Humans' side, humans, but he's still a rough and tough dino-herding/hunting cowboy who don't take insults and threats lying down. One example was when Claw Carver threaten to kill him for bringing his sick buddy Joe into his town for treatment (as he could infect them all with a Crestacous Era disease). Earl's response is to pounce at Carver and try to kill him first.
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* AssholeVictim: Claw Carver is an [[AxCrazy violent]], [[ManipulativeBastard manipulative]] and greedy scumbag whose selfishness and belligerence often cause and contributes to the worsening crisis as much as he helped other survive it (and even then only out of self-preservation or self-gain). Needless to say, no one in-universe mourn him when he was sent to be lost across time in his time shuttle at the end of Book 1, and no reader likely had any issues with him getting eaten by the Nothosaur Big Hungry whose children he killed at the end of Book 2.

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* AssholeVictim: Claw Carver is an [[AxCrazy violent]], [[ManipulativeBastard manipulative]] {{manipulative|Bastard}} and greedy scumbag whose selfishness and belligerence often cause and contributes to the worsening crisis as much as he helped other survive it (and even then only out of self-preservation or self-gain). Needless to say, no one in-universe mourn him when he was sent to be lost across time in his time shuttle at the end of Book 1, and no reader likely had any issues with him getting eaten by the Nothosaur Big Hungry whose children he killed at the end of Book 2.



* AntiChrist: While not openly stated, T-Rex matriarch Old One Eye's son Gorehead is given this vibe between his seemingly supernatural powers (due to being unanchored in time from being caught in Time-Base 3's time reactor meltdown), demonic-looking appearance (There's a reason why he's called Gorehead), and becoming a figure rallying T-Rexes and other dinosaurs around him to wage war against Humans in their era like his mother before him. To add to the imagery, he was branded with the NumberOfTheBeast by a cowboy trying to kill him and he is [[https://external-preview.redd.it/GA7Y5KYkLVWaEr5yeroUvP77mXDhBn-P04QR9MrXq-s.jpg?auto=webp&s=b1f69edb470b14a003c700beb7257bba61f62b0c last seen]] readying to fight Humans with a horde of Dinosaurs during an actual apocalypse brought about by the Cret-ending comet impact. This is all Lampshaded by the insane religious SerialKiller Pastor Sunday, who's absolutely convinced Gorehead is the BeastOfTheApocalypse mentioned in Revelations after seeing his branding (Fittingly considering he is also convinced the Cret is Hell).

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* AntiChrist: TheAntichrist: While not openly stated, T-Rex matriarch Old One Eye's son Gorehead is given this vibe between his seemingly supernatural powers (due to being unanchored in time from being caught in Time-Base 3's time reactor meltdown), demonic-looking appearance (There's a reason why he's called Gorehead), and becoming a figure rallying T-Rexes and other dinosaurs around him to wage war against Humans in their era like his mother before him. To add to the imagery, he was branded with the NumberOfTheBeast by a cowboy trying to kill him and he is [[https://external-preview.redd.it/GA7Y5KYkLVWaEr5yeroUvP77mXDhBn-P04QR9MrXq-s.jpg?auto=webp&s=b1f69edb470b14a003c700beb7257bba61f62b0c last seen]] readying to fight Humans with a horde of Dinosaurs during an actual apocalypse brought about by the Cret-ending comet impact. This is all Lampshaded by the insane religious SerialKiller Pastor Sunday, who's absolutely convinced Gorehead is the BeastOfTheApocalypse mentioned in Revelations after seeing his branding (Fittingly considering he is also convinced the Cret is Hell).



* ArtisticLicensePalaeontology: Leaving aside instances of the work becoming outdated, there are a lot of things the comic gets just plain wrong. For example, none of the dinosaurs depicted in it lived in England. And out of them, only ''Tyrannosaurus, Triceratops'', and ''Alamosaurus'' were actually present at the very end of the Cretaceous. Most of them are actually North American, but the African ''Ouranosaurus'' is inexplicably thrown in too. Additionally, pterosaurs and marine reptiles are regularly referred to as dinosaurs.

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* ArtisticLicensePalaeontology: ArtisticLicensePaleontology: Leaving aside instances of the work becoming outdated, there are a lot of things the comic gets just plain wrong. For example, none of the dinosaurs depicted in it lived in England. And out of them, only ''Tyrannosaurus, Triceratops'', and ''Alamosaurus'' were actually present at the very end of the Cretaceous. Most of them are actually North American, but the African ''Ouranosaurus'' is inexplicably thrown in too. Additionally, pterosaurs and marine reptiles are regularly referred to as dinosaurs.



--> '''Earl Reagan:''' ''Nobody'' makes Earl Reagan extinct!
* BattleAmongstTheFlames: Earl Reagan is briefly forced to fight for his life against Old One Eye when after burning the town to drive the dinosaurs out, Claw Carver ended the truce between them and left Earl Reagan at the mercy of Old One Eye, unarmed and with the T-Rex matriarch out for blood. Earl Reagan barely managed to hold his own long enough to escape, using a large wooden beam to hold her jaws open as she came in to chomp him and almost breaking her jaw.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: While the dinosaurs are depicted as dumb animals whose intellect are no match of that of Humans, the narration noted that this by no means make them harmless. They survived for millions of years in a prehistoric DeathWorld, and their 'kitten-sized brains' are more than enough for them to hunt prey and kill anyone and anything that stands in their way, and even ultimately defeat the Humans for all their advantages with a combination of sheer ferocity, enemy complacency and good fortune on the dinos' side.

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--> '''Earl -->'''Earl Reagan:''' ''Nobody'' makes Earl Reagan extinct!
* BattleAmongstTheFlames: Earl Reagan is briefly forced to fight for his life against Old One Eye when after burning the town to drive the dinosaurs out, Claw Carver ended the truce between them and left Earl Reagan at the mercy of Old One Eye, unarmed and with the T-Rex matriarch out for blood. Earl Reagan barely managed to hold his own long enough to escape, using a large wooden beam to hold her jaws open as she came in to chomp him and almost breaking her jaw.
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* BewareTheSillyOnes: While the dinosaurs are depicted as dumb animals whose intellect are no match of that of Humans, the narration noted that this by no means make them harmless. They survived for millions of years in a prehistoric DeathWorld, and their 'kitten-sized brains' are more than enough for them to hunt prey and kill anyone and anything that stands in their way, and even ultimately defeat the Humans for all their advantages with a combination of sheer ferocity, enemy complacency and good fortune on the dinos' side.



--> '''Earl Reagan:''' You don't kill Earl Reagan without a fight!

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--> '''Earl -->'''Earl Reagan:''' You don't kill Earl Reagan without a fight!



--> '''Joe Brontowski:''' I'll claw the evil breath outta ya - before you kill me!
* GaiasVengeance: Several characters in Book 1 remark that the mass dinosaur attack on the Trans-Time base could be considered this. The villain of the ''Chronocide'' arc considers ''himself'' to be this.

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--> '''Joe --->'''Joe Brontowski:''' I'll claw the evil breath outta ya - before you kill me!
* GaiasVengeance: Several characters in Book 1 remark that the mass dinosaur attack on the Trans-Time base could be considered this. The villain of the ''Chronocide'' arc considers ''himself'' to be this.



--> '''Earl Reagan:''' This hell world's turned you into an animal!
--> '''Claw Carver:''' [[ShutUpKirk So what?]]

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--> '''Earl -->'''Earl Reagan:''' This hell world's turned you into an animal!
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'''Claw Carver:''' [[ShutUpKirk So what?]]



--> '''Claw Carver:''' [Deinonychus leaps at him with claw] Claw against claw - I like yer style! Yer got CLASS!

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--> '''Claw -->'''Claw Carver:''' [Deinonychus leaps at him with claw] Claw against claw - I like yer style! Yer got CLASS!



* SinisterMinister: Preacher Sunday, a crazy preacher who constantly rants about how the Cretaceous is actually hell and, oh yes, [[spoiler: is actually a serial killer who murders the girlfriend of one of the protagonists]].
* SmugSnake: The controller responsible for the Trans-Time Base Three processing dinosaur meat and sending them back to the 23rd century is one of these, being insufferably arrogant and self-assured about the superiority of Human technology and the dinosaurs being no threat and being more concerned about meeting company quotas for meat supply then the genuine threat of the starving carnivorous dinosaurs gathering into a horde to besiege the base, ignoring Earl Reagan's warnings and even having him and Joe arrested for trying to stop him hanging some of Earl's own men for perceived cowardice. He suffers a massive dose of BreakTheHaughty and VillainousBreakdown over the course of the last third of Arc 1 as the Dinosaurs repeatedly prove his assumptions wrong and eventually overran the base.

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* SinisterMinister: Preacher Sunday, a crazy preacher who constantly rants about how the Cretaceous is actually hell and, oh yes, [[spoiler: is [[spoiler:is actually a serial killer who murders the girlfriend of one of the protagonists]].
* SmugSnake: The controller responsible for the Trans-Time Base Three processing dinosaur meat and sending them back to the 23rd century is one of these, being insufferably arrogant and self-assured about the superiority of Human technology and the dinosaurs being no threat and being more concerned about meeting company quotas for meat supply then the genuine threat of the starving carnivorous dinosaurs gathering into a horde to besiege the base, ignoring Earl Reagan's warnings and even having him and Joe arrested for trying to stop him hanging some of Earl's own men for perceived cowardice. He suffers a massive dose of BreakTheHaughty and VillainousBreakdown over the course of the last third of Arc 1 as the Dinosaurs repeatedly prove his assumptions wrong and eventually overran the base.



* SpoiledBrat: One of the guests on the Trans-Time Dino-Express is a bratty kid who clearly doesn't appreciate his parents taking him on a vacation millions of years in the past. [[spoiler: He ends up as dinosaur food]].
* StableTimeLoop: Humans hunt/eat large modern-day animals out of existence, thereby necessitating the need to invent time-travel and do the same to the dinosaurs living in the Late Cretaceous, reducing their numbers beyond what is ecologically sustainable and paving the way for mammals to take over, leading to the evolution of humans who go on to hunt/eat large modern-day animals out of existence, thereby necessitating.....

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* SpoiledBrat: One of the guests on the Trans-Time Dino-Express is a bratty kid who clearly doesn't appreciate his parents taking him on a vacation millions of years in the past. [[spoiler: He [[spoiler:He ends up as dinosaur food]].
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* StableTimeLoop: Humans hunt/eat large modern-day animals out of existence, thereby necessitating the need to invent time-travel and do the same to the dinosaurs living in the Late Cretaceous, reducing their numbers beyond what is ecologically sustainable and paving the way for mammals to take over, leading to the evolution of humans who go on to hunt/eat large modern-day animals out of existence, thereby necessitating.....



** In recent Flesh stories taking place in the Cret, Earl Reagan is revealed to be very loyal to the Trans-Time Corporation and believed in their work, since he grew up in desperate poverty in the polluted 23rd century and his family survived through the cheap food products Trans-Time provided harvesting meat from dinosaurs, while he grew up hearing tales of their harvesting operations, all of them inspiring him to become a Trans-Time Trail Boss himself. Carl Carver for his part simply believed Earl Reagan is [[UnwittingPawn an idiot]] [[TykeBomb who got himself brainwashed]] by Trans-Time's corporate propaganda, even as Earl Reagan continued to make excuses to defend Trans-Time's business practices and condemn those who oppose them like Carl Carver's eco-terrorist daughter.

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** In recent Flesh stories taking place in the Cret, Earl Reagan is revealed to be very loyal to the Trans-Time Corporation and believed in their work, since he grew up in desperate poverty in the polluted 23rd century and his family survived through the cheap food products Trans-Time provided harvesting meat from dinosaurs, while he grew up hearing tales of their harvesting operations, all of them inspiring him to become a Trans-Time Trail Boss himself. Carl Carver for his part simply believed Earl Reagan is [[UnwittingPawn an idiot]] [[TykeBomb [[{{Tykebomb}} who got himself brainwashed]] by Trans-Time's corporate propaganda, even as Earl Reagan continued to make excuses to defend Trans-Time's business practices and condemn those who oppose them like Carl Carver's eco-terrorist daughter. daughter.



* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: While a 'reckoning' was coming between Humans and Dinosaurs anyways, Earl Reagan himself [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] that a lot of death and destruction could had been avoided if he had actually killed Old One Eye, as the old tyrannosaur matriarch's survival and her subsequent vengeful hatred towards Humans for the loss of her one eye started the chain of events that led to the dinosaurs overrunning and destroying the Trans Time base.

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* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: While a 'reckoning' was coming between Humans and Dinosaurs anyways, Earl Reagan himself [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] {{lampshade|Hanging}}d that a lot of death and destruction could had been avoided if he had actually killed Old One Eye, as the old tyrannosaur matriarch's survival and her subsequent vengeful hatred towards Humans for the loss of her one eye started the chain of events that led to the dinosaurs overrunning and destroying the Trans Time base. base.



* VillainousLegacy: Long after the T-Rex matriarch Old One Eye passed away at the end of Book 1, the consequences of her actions continued to be felt. In the most recent stories Gorehead, one of Old One Eye's ''many'' sons in her long life, ended up [[GenerationXeros fulfilling his mother's role]] as the Humans' biggest AnimalNemesis in the Cret between being unanchored in time rendering him immune to many of their weapons as well as rallying other T-rexes and dinosaurs to fight the Humans.
* VillainousValor: Claw Carver is a violent, lying, and greedy scumbag who exemplifies the general villany of the Humans in Flesh, but his courage cannot be overlooked. He would take on even the meanest and deadliest dinosaurs without hesitation if it meant his self-preservation or gain, literally fighting them claw to claw or mowing down rampaging dinosaurs with whatever gun or turret he could get his hands on or into.
* WeAREStrugglingTogether: There is initial unity among the Humans, but mistrust, grudges and disagreements (Such as Earl Reagan's feud with Claw Carver and conflicts with the Base Controller) often end up tearing apart Human cooperation at the worst moments, giving dinosaurs opportunities to exploit. Conversely, there are no alliances between Dinosaurs and other prehistoric beasts, with the predatory Dinosaurs often fighting each other as frequently as they fight the Humans, but as prey populations dwindle and hatred for Humans grew they instinctively started working together more and more, culminating in a massive siege of the Trans-Times Base by a horde of carnivorous Dinosaurs.
* WhipItGood: The dino cowboys working for Trans-Time has them to help herd Dinosaurs, and they are electric to boot. Earl Reagan used one to stop a herd of stampeding dinosaurs they were herding from going off a cliff.
* YankTheDogsChain: Repeatedly with Claw Carver. Him saving the life of a ranger from giant spiders? Turns out that's because he owed Claw money from a poker game. Claw helping with evacuations of the Trans-Time Base? Nope, turns out he was looting. Joe Brontoski was literally the only one/instance he really wasn't doing this, on account of legitimately owing Joe for having save his life.
* YourSizeMayVary: Present in most of the dinosaurs, but especially egregious with Big Hungry, who may appear anywhere from the size of an orca to the size of Godzilla.

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* VillainousLegacy: Long after the T-Rex matriarch Old One Eye passed away at the end of Book 1, the consequences of her actions continued to be felt. In the most recent stories Gorehead, one of Old One Eye's ''many'' sons in her long life, ended up [[GenerationXeros [[GenerationXerox fulfilling his mother's role]] as the Humans' biggest AnimalNemesis in the Cret between being unanchored in time rendering him immune to many of their weapons as well as rallying other T-rexes and dinosaurs to fight the Humans.
* VillainousValor: Claw Carver is a violent, lying, and greedy scumbag who exemplifies the general villany of the Humans in Flesh, but his courage cannot be overlooked. He would take on even the meanest and deadliest dinosaurs without hesitation if it meant his self-preservation or gain, literally fighting them claw to claw or mowing down rampaging dinosaurs with whatever gun or turret he could get his hands on or into.
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* WeAREStrugglingTogether: WeAreStrugglingTogether: There is initial unity among the Humans, but mistrust, grudges and disagreements (Such as Earl Reagan's feud with Claw Carver and conflicts with the Base Controller) often end up tearing apart Human cooperation at the worst moments, giving dinosaurs opportunities to exploit. Conversely, there are no alliances between Dinosaurs and other prehistoric beasts, with the predatory Dinosaurs often fighting each other as frequently as they fight the Humans, but as prey populations dwindle and hatred for Humans grew they instinctively started working together more and more, culminating in a massive siege of the Trans-Times Base by a horde of carnivorous Dinosaurs.
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* WhipItGood: The dino cowboys working for Trans-Time has them to help herd Dinosaurs, and they are electric to boot. Earl Reagan used one to stop a herd of stampeding dinosaurs they were herding from going off a cliff.
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* YankTheDogsChain: Repeatedly with Claw Carver. Him saving the life of a ranger from giant spiders? Turns out that's because he owed Claw money from a poker game. Claw helping with evacuations of the Trans-Time Base? Nope, turns out he was looting. Joe Brontoski was literally the only one/instance he really wasn't doing this, on account of legitimately owing Joe for having save his life.
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* YourSizeMayVary: Present in most of the dinosaurs, but especially egregious with Big Hungry, who may appear anywhere from the size of an orca to the size of Godzilla.
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* {{Gotterdammerung}}: The recent stories had the comet which destroyed the Dinosaurs arriving a millennia earlier than expected due to Trans-Time's mucking with the timeline, with the Dinosaurs and Humans continuing to fight each other (and amongst themselves) even as the Age of the Dinosaurs ended all around them.


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** Years later, one of Old One Eye's many sons Gorehead [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge is set on a warpath against Humanity]] ([[HistoryRepeats again]]) after the Humans returned to not only steal their food, but also killed his mate and branded him.
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* AntiChrist: While not openly stated, T-Rex matriarch Old One Eye's son Gorehead is given this vibe between his seemingly supernatural powers (due to being unanchored in time from being caught in Time-Base 3's time reactor meltdown), demonic-looking appearance (There's a reason why he's called Gorehead), and becoming a figure rallying T-Rexes and other dinosaurs around him to wage war against Humans in their era like his mother before him. To add to the imagery, he was branded with the NumberOfTheBeast by a cowboy trying to kill him and he is [[https://external-preview.redd.it/GA7Y5KYkLVWaEr5yeroUvP77mXDhBn-P04QR9MrXq-s.jpg?auto=webp&s=b1f69edb470b14a003c700beb7257bba61f62b0c last seen]] readying to fight Humans with a horde of Dinosaurs during an actual apocalypse brought about by the Cret-ending comet impact.

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* AntiChrist: While not openly stated, T-Rex matriarch Old One Eye's son Gorehead is given this vibe between his seemingly supernatural powers (due to being unanchored in time from being caught in Time-Base 3's time reactor meltdown), demonic-looking appearance (There's a reason why he's called Gorehead), and becoming a figure rallying T-Rexes and other dinosaurs around him to wage war against Humans in their era like his mother before him. To add to the imagery, he was branded with the NumberOfTheBeast by a cowboy trying to kill him and he is [[https://external-preview.redd.it/GA7Y5KYkLVWaEr5yeroUvP77mXDhBn-P04QR9MrXq-s.jpg?auto=webp&s=b1f69edb470b14a003c700beb7257bba61f62b0c last seen]] readying to fight Humans with a horde of Dinosaurs during an actual apocalypse brought about by the Cret-ending comet impact. This is all Lampshaded by the insane religious SerialKiller Pastor Sunday, who's absolutely convinced Gorehead is the BeastOfTheApocalypse mentioned in Revelations after seeing his branding (Fittingly considering he is also convinced the Cret is Hell).
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* AntiChrist: While not openly stated, T-Rex matriarch Old One Eye's son Gorehead is given this vibe between his seemingly supernatural powers (due to being unanchored in time from being caught in Time-Base 3's time reactor meltdown), demonic-looking appearance (There's a reason why he's called Gorehead), and becoming a figure rallying T-Rexes and other dinosaurs around him to wage war against Humans in their era like his mother before him. To add to the imagery, he was branded with the NumberOfTheBeast by a cowboy trying to kill him and he is [[https://external-preview.redd.it/GA7Y5KYkLVWaEr5yeroUvP77mXDhBn-P04QR9MrXq-s.jpg?auto=webp&s=b1f69edb470b14a003c700beb7257bba61f62b0c last seen]] readying to fight Humans with a horde of Dinosaurs during an actual apocalypse brought about by the Cret-ending comet impact.


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* VillainousLegacy: Long after the T-Rex matriarch Old One Eye passed away at the end of Book 1, the consequences of her actions continued to be felt. In the most recent stories Gorehead, one of Old One Eye's ''many'' sons in her long life, ended up [[GenerationXeros fulfilling his mother's role]] as the Humans' biggest AnimalNemesis in the Cret between being unanchored in time rendering him immune to many of their weapons as well as rallying other T-rexes and dinosaurs to fight the Humans.

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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Earl Reagan in Book 1 is presented as the most reasonable person among the Humans in the Trans-Time operation to harvest dinosaur meat (sometimes to the point of being the OnlySaneMan). As a Trail Boss he often put the safety and welfare of other Human beings first before himself or the company's profits.

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* PushedAtTheMonster: Claw Carver in Book 1 pushed a fellow survivor of Carver Town off the raft they were on at a pursuing Old One Eye in order to distract her and [[ColdEquation lighten up the raft so they can get away faster]]. Earl Reagan was not amused nor grateful in the slightest.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Earl Reagan in Book 1 is presented as the most reasonable person among the Humans in the Trans-Time operation to harvest dinosaur meat (sometimes to the point of being the OnlySaneMan). As a Trail Boss he often put the safety and welfare of other Human beings first before himself or the company's profits. Even in later stories where his flaws are more apparent is presented in a somewhat sympathetic light, such as his devotion to Trans-Time Corporation which stemmed from gratitude as he and his poor family survived on the cheap food they provided when he was young, leading to him idolising their Trail Bosses and becoming one himself.
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* SignatureScene: The cover above is from the issue where Earl Reagan faces off against Old One Eye for a second time, armed with a knife and ready to carve out her neck for a gland which could save his buddy Joe from a disease, while Old One Eye bears down on him with rage and hatred for poking out her right eye in their first battle. This sets up the man-versus-beast fight in the following issue - which would be far from the last time the two fight each other over the course of Book 1.
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* DoubleMeaningTitle: "Flesh" can refer both to what dinosaurs are hunted for, and to what the human characters [[KillEmAll inevitably become]] thanks to said dinosaurs.

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* DoubleMeaningTitle: "Flesh" can refer both to what dinosaurs are hunted for, and to what the human characters [[KillEmAll inevitably become]] become thanks to said dinosaurs.
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* StockDinosaurs: Book 1 has ''Tyrannosaurus, Deinonychus, Styracosaurus, Triceratops, Parasaurolophus,'' and ''Spinosaurus''. Although, at the time, both ''Deinonychus'' and ''Spinosaurus'' were actually rather obscure. The Chronocide arc adds the mosasaur ''Tylosaurus'' and saber-toothed cats.

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* SoleSurvivor: Out of the possibly hundreds who lived or were present in Carver City trading outpost/town when the dome was breached and the Dinosaurs poured in, there were only six depicted survivors including Earl Reagan, his friend Joe, and Claw Carver, and even then only Earl, Joe and Claw are definitively confirmed to have made it back to the Trans Time Base. Everyone else were presumably eaten by the dinosaurs or died in the fire burning what's left of the town which Earl and Claw were forced to set in order to drive the rampaging Dinosaurs away and have any chance of survival.

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Out of the possibly hundreds who lived or were present in Carver City trading outpost/town when the dome was breached and the Dinosaurs poured in, there were only six depicted survivors including Earl Reagan, his friend Joe, and Claw Carver, and even then only Earl, Joe and Claw are definitively confirmed to have made it back to the Trans Time Base. Everyone else were presumably eaten by the dinosaurs or died in the fire burning what's left of the town which Earl and Claw were forced to set in order to drive the rampaging Dinosaurs away and have any chance of survival.
** JM Grosse is the only Trans Time employee to make it off Atlantis Station alive by fleeing in a lifeboat before it can sink. However, since Peters sends the platform forward in time, Grosse is stranded 200 million years from home.
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* StockDinosaurs: Book 1 has ''Tyrannosaurus, Deinonychus, Styracosaurus, Triceratops, Parasaurolophus,'' and ''Spinosaurus''. Although, at the time, both ''Deinonychus'' and ''Spinosaurus'' were actually SeldomSeenSpecies. The Chronocide arc adds the mosasaur ''Tylosaurus'' and saber-toothed cats.

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* StockDinosaurs: Book 1 has ''Tyrannosaurus, Deinonychus, Styracosaurus, Triceratops, Parasaurolophus,'' and ''Spinosaurus''. Although, at the time, both ''Deinonychus'' and ''Spinosaurus'' were actually SeldomSeenSpecies.rather obscure. The Chronocide arc adds the mosasaur ''Tylosaurus'' and saber-toothed cats.
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* SeldomSeenSpecies: At the time Book 1 was originally released, the ''Deinonychus'' would have been this, since it would be more than a decade before raptors truly became StockDinosaurs. ''Alamosaurus'', ''Deinocheirus'', and ''Ouranosaurus'' also appear in Book 1. Book 2 contains more, such as ''Askeptosaurus, Tanystropheus, Mixosaurus,'' and ''Nothosaurus''. Notably, none of the animals in Book 2 are technically dinosaurs.
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* AnyoneCanDie: Almost any Human character in the comic, named or not, ended up buying it over the course of Book 1 and 2, up to including a SpoiledBrat named Orville, as well as Earl Reagan's buddy Joe Brontowski, who spent the whole series sympathising with the Dinosaurs, had his life saved several times by Earl, only to finally die fighting and being killed by a giant spider when they and the dinosaurs finally broke through and invaded the Trans Time base at the end of Book 1.

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* AnyoneCanDie: Almost any Human human character in the comic, named or not, ended up buying it over the course of Book 1 and 2, up to and including a SpoiledBrat named Orville, as well as Earl Reagan's buddy Joe Brontowski, who spent the whole series sympathising with the Dinosaurs, had his life saved several times by Earl, only to finally die fighting and being killed by a giant spider when they and the dinosaurs finally broke through and invaded the Trans Time base at the end of Book 1.



* ArchEnemy: Both Earl Reagan and Claw Carver in Book 1 knows and hated each other for past transgressions. Not helped by the fact Claw Carver is a mean and despicable scumbag of the highest order whom Earl Reagan can't stand. And of course, Old One Eye served as an AnimalNemesis version of this trope for not only Earl Reagan but eventually all Humans of the Trans-Time corporation.

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* ArchEnemy: Both Earl Reagan and Claw Carver in Book 1 knows knew and hated each other for past transgressions. Not helped by the fact Claw Carver is a mean and despicable scumbag of the highest order order, whom Earl Reagan can't stand. And of course, Old One Eye served as an AnimalNemesis version of this trope for not only Earl Reagan but eventually all Humans humans of the Trans-Time corporation.
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* BittersweetEnding: Book 1 ends with one arguably for both Dinosaurs and Man. By destroying the Trans-Time Base and driving the Humans back to the 23rd century, the Dinosaurs have for the time being got their world back, although this is implied to likely be temporary as the Humans would eventually come back and continue hunting/herding them for their meat, [[ForegoneConclusion leading to their extinction]]. While Old One Eye never truly got to avenge herself on Earl Reagan, she still finally got the carnivorous Dinosaurs' food supply back, and when the exertion proved too much for her old body she was still able to make it to the T-Rex Graveyard and die on her own terms, undefeated and triumphant. Meanwhile, although Earl Reagan lost his buddy Joe Brontowski and was arrested upon returning to the 23rd century and being misblamed in part for the disaster, his efforts still ensured he and the remaining Human survivors of the base make it back home, and he's at least content to know Claw Carver, whose TimeMachine controls he sabotaged, would be lost in time and would never come back (indeed, he would meet his end in Book 2 to a Triassic creature whom he crossed).

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* BittersweetEnding: Book 1 ends with one arguably for both Dinosaurs and Man. By destroying the Trans-Time Base and driving the Humans back to the 23rd century, the Dinosaurs have for the time being got their world back, although this is implied to likely be temporary as the Humans would eventually come back and continue hunting/herding them for their meat, [[ForegoneConclusion leading to their extinction]]. While Old One Eye never truly got to avenge herself on Earl Reagan, she still finally got the carnivorous Dinosaurs' food supply back, and when the exertion proved too much for her old body she was still able to make it to the T-Rex Graveyard and die on her own terms, undefeated and triumphant. Meanwhile, although Earl Reagan lost his buddy Joe Brontowski and was arrested upon returning to the 23rd century and being misblamed in part for his 'part' for the disaster, his efforts still ensured he and the remaining Human survivors of the base make it back home, and he's at least content to know Claw Carver, whose TimeMachine controls he sabotaged, would be lost in time and would never come back (indeed, he would meet his end in Book 2 to a Triassic creature whom he crossed).
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** In recent Flesh stories taking place in the Cret, Earl Reagan is revealed to be very loyal to Trans Time Corporation and their work, since he grew up in poverty in the polluted 23rd century and he and his family survived through the cheap food products Trans-Time provided harvesting meat from dinosaurs and grew up hearing tales of their work, inspiring him to become a Trail Boss himself. Carl Carver for his part simply believed Earl Reagan is [[UnwittingPawn an idiot]] [[TykeBomb who got himself brainwashed]] by Trans-Time's corporate propaganda.

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** In recent Flesh stories taking place in the Cret, Earl Reagan is revealed to be very loyal to Trans Time the Trans-Time Corporation and believed in their work, since he grew up in desperate poverty in the polluted 23rd century and he and his family survived through the cheap food products Trans-Time provided harvesting meat from dinosaurs and dinosaurs, while he grew up hearing tales of their work, harvesting operations, all of them inspiring him to become a Trans-Time Trail Boss himself. Carl Carver for his part simply believed Earl Reagan is [[UnwittingPawn an idiot]] [[TykeBomb who got himself brainwashed]] by Trans-Time's corporate propaganda.propaganda, even as Earl Reagan continued to make excuses to defend Trans-Time's business practices and condemn those who oppose them like Carl Carver's eco-terrorist daughter.

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