History ComicBook / XenozoicTales

* AndManGrewProud: Whether the Old Blood Mechanics story of what caused the end is true or not is a matter of debate.

* CoolGuns: Lovingly emphasized are the large holsters with large revolvers worn on nearly everyone's hip all the time.

* GoodGunsBadGuns: As described above, nearly everyone are wearing revolvers throughout. The total number of times that semiautomatic pistols appear can be counted on one hand, and were only used by the nastiest of bad guys.
** Also, all the rifles are strictly bolt-action models, and no automatic weapons (machine guns and the like) appear anywhere.

* BerserkButton: ''Don't abuse the dinosaurs while Jack's watching.''

->''In the 26th century, mankind faces an epic struggle for survival. The forces of nature have spun wildly out of control. Mighty cities have crumbled, and the dinosaurs have returned to reclaim the earth. In this savage land, one man stands alone: Jack Tenerc. Defending humanity in a world gone mad. A world where only the strong survive. A world of... [[TitleDrop Cadillacs and Dinosaurs]]!''

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: When attempting to speak on Mustapha's behalf during the gubernatorial election, Jack lets his temper get the better of him and launches into an angry tirade against Mustapha's less than scrupulous competitor, [[CorruptPolitician Scharnhorst]]. This ends up swaying the other three governors to elect Scharnhorst, which in turn leads to Jack being incarcerated (and forced to seek asylum in Wassoon after he's sprung) and Scharnhorst calling open season on the City's Old Blood population.

The series was popular enough to have several [[SpinOff spin-offs]], usually under the ''Cadillacs and Dinosaurs'' label, including a Saturday morning cartoon by Creator/{{Nelvana}}[[note]] and animated by Creator/{{APPP}}[[/note]], an RPG setting, two video games (an arcade beat 'em up ''VideoGame/CadillacsAndDinosaurs'' by Creator/{{Capcom}} and a visual novel ''The Second Cataclysm'' for the UsefulNotes/SegaCD), and even comics published by other companies during the lengthy gaps between issues of the main title.

* {{Hypocrite}}: Jack openly opposes nearly all technology, seeing it as an evil that endangers the natural balance. However, he has no problem resurrecting mid-20th century gas guzzling cars that certainly contributed to pre-Cataclysmic Earth's pollution for his own enjoyment. To be fair, he's refurbished them to run on "slither guano", as in dinosaur excrement, of all things. Hannah even points it out to him.

--> '''Jack''': [[HypocrisyNod Well, we '''all''' have our little quirks...]]

* {{Hypocrite}}: Jack openly opposes nearly all technology, seeing it as an evil that endangers the natural balance. However, he has no problem resurrecting mid-20th century gas guzzling cars that certainly contributed to pre-Cataclysmic Earth's pollution for his own enjoyment. To be fair, he's refurbished them to run on "slither guano", as in dinosaur excrement, of all things.

* BothSidesHaveAPoint: While Jack is correct in that over reliance on industry and technology will simply repeat the errors made that caused the Cataclysm in the first place and that generally make the Earth a toxic place to live in any case if allowed to progress unchecked, his opponents' contend that over reliance on the mechanics to the point of fanaticism and completely shunning technology designed to make human survival easier isn't necessarily a good thing, either.

* TyrannosaurusRex: The shivats.

* CoolPet: Hermes, Jack's pet [[CallARabbitASmeerp "cutter"]]. In the comics and the cartoon, he's portrayed as an adloescent ''Allosaurus''; in the toy line and the video game he's a ''Deinonychus'', probably to cash in on the ''Franchise/JurassicPark'' raptor's popularity.

* CoolPet: Hermes, Jack's pet [[CallARabbitASmeerp "cutter"]]. In the comics and the cartoon, he's portrayed as an ''Allosaurus''; in the toy line and the video game he's a ''Deinonychus'', probably to cash in on the ''Franchise/JurassicPark'' raptor's popularity.

* DreamSequence: Used at least twice. It's also how the Grith communicate with jack and Hannah long distance.

* DreamSequence: Used at least twice.

* CoolCar: Modified to run without gasoline. Any car that has to outrun a charging mammoth, ''Brontotherium'', or ''Styracosaurus'' is automatically cool.

* AmazonBrigade: Big Red and her all-female biker crew in "The Wild Ones". Subverted in that the reason it's all-female is because a mystery disease wiped out the men in their population when they were still underground as opposed to them actively shunning men. Not that this keeps Big Red and her crew seeing the men they do encounter (i.e. Jack and co.) as the weaker gender and expendable breeding stock.

* CallARabbitASmeerp: Different names have developed for the dinosaurs (slithers), which makes sense if you assume that dinosaur books weren't a priority inclusion in the underground shelters. Examples include ''Tyrannosaurus'' (shivats), ''Allosaurus''/''Deinonychus'' (cutters), ''Triceratops'' (macks), and pterosaurs (zekes). Inexplicably, every isolated city seems to have independently used the same names. Averted in the case of mammoths which are called mammoths.

* BelligerentSexualTension: Between Jack and Hannah. Argue LikeAnOldMarriedCouple? Check. Have sex with each other in several issues? Check. Go back to old-married couple mode in the issue following--if not just the later in-- the one they just had sex in? Check.

* CoolGuns: Lovingly emphasized are the large holsters with large revolvers worn on nearly everyone's hips all the time.

* AmazonBrigade: Big Red and her all-female biker crew in "The Wild Ones". Subverted in that the reason it's all-female is because a mystery disease wiped out the men in their population when they were still underground as opposed to them actively shunning men.

->''"How did extinct species come back to life? Hard to say — but it should be noted that it's at least consistent with some pre-Darwin theories attempting to explain fossils, which hypothesized grand life cycles affecting world-wide ecology over millions of years.\\
Whatever. It had dinosaurs."''
-->-- '''[[http://www.toonopedia.com/xenozoic.htm Don Markstein]]'''

In 2015, Mark Schultz released '''''Storms At Sea''''', an illustrated novella which is not directly connected with ''Xenozoic Tales'' and is set in what appears to be the late twentieth century. But in a trope of RecursiveCanon, the characters in ''Storms'' find a prediction warning of the world becoming exactly as shown in ''Xenozoic'', including warnings of the causes of this dire future to come.

* FatBastard: Gorgostamos, Scarnhorst, Hammer Terhune. I sense a Aesop about overconsumption...

* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: It has to be admitted. Not because Schultz didn't know better, but because he very consciously chose to discard it to make a better story. Schultz dinosaurs, at least in the later issues, are actually very well-researched and as accurate as he could make them.

* HotScientist: Hannah, arguably. She never is seen actually '''doing''' anything scientific, but she represents science as a positive force in the series.