History Fanfic / PrehistoricEarth

* HypotheticalCasting: Nathanoraptor has commented that he sees Creator/ScarlettJohansson as Linda Eberhart, Creator/IdrisElba as Kyle Taymor and Creator/DaisyRidley as Alice Denham. He's also quite partial to the idea of Ivana Baquero as Collete and Nicola Peltz as Yolanda. He has also found appeal in the idea of casting Creator/TomHolland as Leon Gilbertson and Tim Roth as Nikolai. He even managed to later agree to casting Charlie Heaton as Drew, Harry Shum Jr. as Adrian, Thomas Brodie-Sangster as Jack, Alex Pettyfer as Will, and Wil Traval as Khatin.

* SpannerInTheWorks: In their eagerness to get ahold of the time portal after getting most of the other park staff distracted by their rampaging female t-rex, they completely forgot about Adrian. [[spoiler: And sure enough, he shows up in time to catch them in the act of stealing it, and also sound the alarm when their subsequent tasing of him ends up taking longer than they'd hoped to knock him unconscious.]]

* Due to the mentioned DecompositeCharacter case below, the Diplodocus that gets ambushed by the Allosaurus peck at the back of the herd dies rather than being saved by another Diplodocus.

* DecompositeCharacter: Due to the passing of time being condensed for ''Prehistoric Earth'''s take on the second episode of ''Walking With Dinosaurs'', the Diplodocus hatchlings who grow throughout the episode are subject to being split into several different animals assuming the roles of the hatchlings in the original episode (the hatchlings who escape the Ornitholestes, the juveniles who escape the Allosaurus and the forest fire and meet the Brachiosaurus, and the subadult that gets targeted by an Allosaurus pack and is saved by another Diplodocus).

** {{Subverted}}, however, with the baby cynodonts.

** That same chapter has Drew joke to Leon that he [[WesternAnimation/{{Madagascar}} "probably won't survive"]].

* SlidingScaleOfPlotVsCharacters: The story largely appears to have relatively equal focus on both plot and characters, while also seeming to alternate at times between placing more focus on the plot[[note]]i.e. the adventures in the past, rescues, care for the animals in present time, and a later conspiracy involving corporate spies and a smuggling operation[[/note]] and on the characters[[note]]many of the characters had important character arcs to fulfill, issues to resolve, and romance arcs to blossom[[/note]]. Part of this alternation has since been revealed to have been caused by [[CreativeDifferences behind the scenes upheaval between the two writers]].

** The mother gastornis's chicks are safely spared and able to live alongside their mother in the park by virtue of the team sending the titanomyrma that [[WouldHurtAChild would have killed and eaten them]] through the portal before they can do so.

* HandicappedBadass: Baloo.

* MaybeEverAfter: Ultimately, whether or not Alice and Will become an OfficialCouple at the end is left ambiguous.

* TheMole: [[spoiler: A security guard named Duncan turns out to have been hired by Novum senior board member Percival von Grimm to help sabotage the park for the sake of a sinister secret dinosaur trafficking operation. And over the course of Cynthia's attempts at finding and exposing him, she herself [[RedHerring initially makes ''herself'' appear to be the mole]]]]

** Lightning and Thunder are named after chacters from the Wonderbook game, though they aren't related in this story.

* HeinousHyena: The wolves that attacked Martha in the original Prehistoric Park episode are replaced by an entire pack of hungry cave hyenas (all of which get sent to the park).

* RhinoRampage: A woolly rhino ends up briefly at risk of menacing a neanderthal before then getting goaded into charging at Drew and Leon (at which point it ends up rushing right through the portal). A crash of elasmotherium encountered by Cynthia and Adrian in the same mission likewise prove unamused by them seemingly intruding on their territory.

* NeverSmileAtACrocodile: The deinosuchus is amongst the animals rescued for the park. And the ones that get rescued naturally prove quite a handful to deal with over the course of their capture.

* ThreateningShark: The megalodon; albeit, in a more realistic fashion compared to most examples.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In some of the earlier 'episodes', an 'introductory theme page-break' was included. This eventually got done away with later in the series.

* ActionGirl: Alice and Collete.

* MeanwhileInTheFuture: The [[TwoLinesDifferentTimes format]] of the episodes. While Drew and his companions are millions of years in the past trying to catch a prehistoric creature, the park crews in the present are trying to put together suitable habitats for the creatures they have captured, and dealing with other issues to pop up.

* MeanwhileInTheFuture: The format of the episodes. While Drew and his companions are millions of years in the past trying to catch a prehistoric creature, the park crews in the present are trying to put together suitable habitats for the creatures they have captured, and dealing with other issues to pop up.

** This wouldn't be the first time Scarlett Johansson has played a NiceGirl who works at a zoo.

** Considering Leon's alter-ego in the MCU, it's somewhat amusing to see him act unnerved around arachnids.
** If Captain Bogo were a human and the head keeper of a zoo as opposed to the captain of a police force, or if Heimdall were an ordinary human in similar conditions, you'd get Kyle Taymor.
** This is also not the first time Yolanda has had experience with something [[Film/TheLastAirbender water-related]].

** Drew is very serious and no-nonsense; Cynthia is a happy go lucky and carefree Maverick who more often than not leaps before she looks.

As of April 12, 2020, the story is finally complete.