History Literature / StielaugeDerUrkrebs

** One happens when God creates a new moon.
** [[spoiler: The ice age later in the book is a class 0 on a pretty big scale.]]
** [[spoiler: And when the second moon crashes on earth, another class 4 happens, and this time it borders on class 5.]]

* BeachKiss: The humans do this in chapter 10.

** The Großkopf (Bighead) trilobite in the beginning.
** The Kerfe in the desert.

** The sea spider also towers over Stielauge

* TheDulcineaEffect: The reason why Stielauge attacks Krummhorn

* FourthDateMarriage: More like first date marriage. Stielauge and his wive marry immediately.
* FragileSpeedster: The only reason why Stielauge manages to fight off Krummhorn.

* TheGreatFlood:
** Happens after the moon is created.
** [[spoiler: Another even bigger flood happens near the end of the book when the moon is destroyed. In one of ''Literature/TheBible'' quotes it's specifically mentioned that God created it to wipe out humanity except for Noah and his family. However, this is later proven wrong since the only human surivors are shown to be the nameless and his wife and he is then given the name Manu.]]

* HoldingHands: Or rather touching antennas.
* HordeOfAlienLocusts: The black trilobites in chapter 1.

* NoRomanticResolution: The romantic arc in chapter seven just ends when Stielauge's love interest disappears while he fights Krummhorn and he forgets her afterwards due to not having a brain.
** His marriage ends in a similar way after fighting Kokk.
* NoahsStoryArc: The trope namer is mentioned near the end of the book.

* TheOldNorthWind: The iceberg is treated this way.

* PoisonousPerson: The yellow starfish

* [[PsychoElectricEel Psycho Electric Ray]]: The ray is stated to use electricity to kill its pray, in addition to being the biggest animal in the sea.
* PteroSoarer: The "dragon" is surrounded by pterosaurs in the picture. Due to ScienceMarchesOn, they fit this trope.

* SpidersAreScary: While it isn't technically a spider, the sea spider fits this trope.

* TheSwarm: The "Breitköpfe" at the beginning of the story.

* WomenAreDelicate: Stielauge's love interest.

* OneMillionBC: Despite being pretty accurate for its day, the book starts featuring humans at one point, which moves it into this trope.[[spoiler: Apart from humans being present from the devonian age until today, earth's history works out like in reality (aside from ScienceMarchesOn).]]

* DireBeast: Despite all the BigCreepyCrawlies, this trope is averted. The animals are not bigger than their real life counterparts, the protagonist is just much smaller than a human.

* KnightInShiningArmor: Averted. Stielauge himself is sometimes depicted as a knight, but he's far from noble.

* SpikesOfVillainy: Averted. While Stielauge is black and has three long spikes, he's the hero of the book.

* UniversalUniverseTime: Averted. When the moon comes closer to earth, the months become shorter and, due to the moon's gravity slowing earth's rotation, the days get longer.

* AbsentMindedProfessor: August Goldfuß

* AfterTheEnd: The last three chapters.

* AmplifiedAnimalAptitude: ZigZagged, see AnthropomorphicZigZag.

* DeliciousDistraction: Stielauge when he meets the horseshoe crab on land

* ElderAbuse: Stielauge does this among other things when he reaches maturity.

* TookALevelInJerkass: Stielauge when he reaches maturity.

''Stielauge der Urkrebs'' (German for ''Stalk-eye the Primal Crab'') is a novel by the German author Batti Dohm, released in 1933. It tells the story of the [[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeOtherExtinctCreatures trilobite]] Stielauge in the primordial ocean.

* AnthropomorphicZigZag: It's repeatedly mentioned that Stielauge has no brain and acts purely on instinct, but all of his actions are told in an antropomorphised way, as if it was more than instinct. He is even seen talking with his love interest and other trilobites talk about him.
** In chapter seven it is [[HandWave handwaved]] that GibberishOfLove doesn't need intelligence anyway, so trilobites might as well be able to do it.
* TheApocalypseBringsOutTheBestInPeople: Deliberately invoked by god when he uses the flood and the harsh desert conditions not only to wipe out weaker creatures but also to strenghten the stronger ones.
* ApocalypseHow: A class 4 happens when god creates a new moon.

* DealWithTheDevil: The ray is accused of making a DealWithTheDevil to get his electric powers.

* Determinator: Stielauge when he runs towards his new wife in chapter 11. He doesn't even stop to eat.

* DetonationMoon: What happened to the first moon.
** [[spoiler: And later to the second one.]][[spoiler: And three others before today.]]

* DisasterScavengers: Stielauge has to resort to this when he is dropped in the desert.

* DoomedByCanon: Stielauge lives in the devonian age, so it's only natural that he doesn't survive until today unless he's immortal.

* GoodIsNotNice: Invoked with god, who realizes that in order to prevent an OverpopulationCrisis, he has to destroy a lot of life and make conditions harder in order to strenghten the survivors.
* TheGreatFlood: Happens after the moon is created.
** [[spoiler: Another even bigger flood happens near the end of the book when the moon is destroyed. In one of the bible quotes it's specifically mentioned that god created it to wipe out humanity except for Noah and his family. However, this is later proven wrong since the only human surivors are shown to be the nameless and his wife and he is then given the name Manu.]]

* {{Lunacy}}: The moon is created by god in order to destroy a lot of lifeforms to prevent an OverpopulationCrisis.

* TheNameless: The humans. It's implied that they are Adam and Eve[[spoiler: before god calls the male Manu near the end of the book.]]

* SexIsGood: When Stielauge and his wife finally mate, it's treated as something that god himself approves of.

* ShownTheirWork: Despite some cases of ScienceMarchesOn and ArtisticLicense, the writer also shows good knowledge about trilobites. For example, Stielauge has to go through a molt early in the book, and rolls into a ball when threatened, like real trilobites did.
** It's also noted that crinoids are indeed animals and that their young are not sessile.

* TheSocialDarwinist: God of all people takes this stance.

* UsefulNotes/StockDinosaursNonDinosaurs: Trilobites count, but in this case we get to know the specific species of the main character, which is rare in other media.

* TheWorfEffect: The adult Stielauge is stated as an apex predator for whom every creature is nothing more than food, but immediately after it is told that even he is small and insignificant compared to god. Cue god creating a great flood in which Stielauge only barely avoids being killed.

* [[spoiler:ADeathInTheLimelight: The ray first appears in ]]chapter 14[[spoiler:, after Stielauge's death, is the protagonist of this chapter and then dies like all the other animals.]]
* [[spoiler:AfterTheEnd: The last three chapters]]
* [[spoiler:AnyoneCanDie: At first it seems like Stielauge has PlotArmor, as he survives lots of troubles against all odds, but then he finally succumbs to his injuries after fighting Kokk.]]
* [[spoiler:DyingAlone: The title character dies alone in the great disaster near the end of the book, far away from his wife.]]
* [[spoiler:FantasyKeepsake: After the boys find out that Stielauge's adventures were AllJustADream, they really find Stielauge's spikes in Kokk's skull.]]
* [[spoiler:FossilRevival: In the end of the book, god revives Stielauge to show the boys all of his adventures. Then it turns out it was AllJustADream.]]
* [[spoiler:TheHeroDies]]

* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: Of course there is a dinosaur ([[DinosaursAreDragons which is called a dragon]]) when they briefly gloss over the time between Stielauge's death and today.

* SeldomSeenSpecies: Stielauge belongs to the species ''Cyphaspis ceratophtalmus''.
** The book also features a wide array of marine life, extinct and extant, including brachiopods, various trilobite species, sea cucumbers, crinoids, annelids, polychaetes, nematodes, lycopodiopsida, placodermi etc.

* [[spoiler:AfterTheEnd: The last three chapters]]

* [[spoiler:AnyoneCanDie: At first it seems like Stielauge has PlotArmor, as he survives lots of troubles against all odds, but then he finally succumbs to his injuries after fighting Kokk.]]

* BeTheBall: Like pill bugs and real trilobites, Stielauge and other trilobites roll into balls to shield themselves from damage.

* [[spoiler:ADeathInTheLimelight: The ray first appears in ]]chapter 14[[spoiler:, after Stielauge's death, is the protagonist of this chapter and then dies like all the other animals.]]

* DireBeast: Despite all the BigCreepyCrawlies, this trope is averted. The animals are not bigger than their real life counterparts, the protagonist is just much smaller than a human.

* [[spoiler:DyingAlone: The title character dies alone in the great disaster near the end of the book, far away from his wife.]]

* [[spoiler:FantasyKeepsake: After the boys find out that Stielauge's adventures were AllJustADream, they really find Stielauge's spikes in Kokk's skull.]]

* [[spoiler:FossilRevival: In the end of the book, god revives Stielauge to show the boys all of his adventures. Then it turns out it was AllJustADream.]]

* FourLeggedInsect: The creature Stielauge encounters in the desert is called "Kerfe", which means insect, but it has only four limbs and looks a bit like a scorpion.

* [[spoiler:TheHeroDies]]

* HoldYourHippogriffs: "Bis über beide Ohren verliebt sein" (literally: to be in love over both ears), a German expression for being head over heels in love, is replaced with "Bis über beide Antennen verliebt sein" (literally: to be in love over both antennas).

* InstantAwesomeJustAddDragons: The ray is described as a dragon twice. Later, dinosaurs are described as dragons.

* KilledOffScreen: [[spoiler: After Stielauge's fight with Kokk, we see Stielauge succumb to his injuries. Later it's revealed that Kokk died even before Stielauge from his own injuries.]]

* NamesToRunAwayFrom/KNames: Kokk, the placoderm, manages to have a name which is 75% K and he's the most powerful monster Stielauge meets.

* NoahsStoryArc: The trope namer is mentioned near the end of the book.

* [[PsychoElectricEel Psycho Electric Ray]]: The ray is stated to use electricity to kill its pray, in addition to being the biggest animal in the sea.

* SecondLove: Stielauge ends up marrying the female trilobite he meets in chapter 11, long after his first love.

* FirstLove: The female ammonite from chapter seven is this for Stielauge

* BibleTimes: The early days of life on earth a likened to events from Genesis.

* WeirdMoon: It's actually the second moon.[[spoiler: And there are at least three more to come befor the modern age.]]

* EverythingsSquishierWithCephalopods: Ammonites are sometimes mentioned as "Spiralträger" (spiral bearers).
** Later in the book, there is Krummhorn, a giant ammonite.

* OneMillionBC: Despite being pretty accurate for its day, the book starts featuring humans at one point, which moves it into this trope.[[spoiler: Apart from humans being present from the devonian age until today, earth's history works out like in reality (aside from ScienceMarchesOn).

* DinosaursAreDragons: At some point between Stielauge's death and the modern day, humanity has to deal with dragons. The timespan implies that they are dinosaurs. There's also a picture of one of those dragons which looks like a Slurpasaur and is surrounded by Pterosaurs.

* InstantAwesomeJustAddDragons: The ray is described as a dragon twice.

* OneMillionBC: Despite being pretty accurate for its day, the book starts featuring humans at one point, which moves it into this trope.[[spoiler: Apart from humans being present from the devonian age until today, earth's history works out like in reality (aside from ScienceMarches On).