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** Bob and Alice encounter a lone dodo which is the LastOfItsKind.

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* '''Zig-Zagged''': Bob and Alice encounter what they think is a dodo, but is actually just an unusually large pigeon... which is strange because that particular species of pigeon had become extinct.

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* '''Zig-Zagged''': '''Zig-Zagged''':
** possibly because of their time shenanigans [[ButterflyOfDoom changing some key event(s)]].
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Bob and Alice encounter what they think is a dodo, but is actually just an unusually large pigeon... which is strange because that particular species of pigeon had become extinct.

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* '''Exaggerated''': All supposedly extinct animals are present somewhere.

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* '''Exaggerated''': All supposedly extinct animals are not merely present but thriving somewhere.



** Bob and Alice find some skeletons of dodos that go back several years after their supposed extinction

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** Bob and Alice find some skeletons of dodos that go back several years after their supposed extinctionextinction.



** A ChaoticGood philanthropist captures a large amount of animals in a heavily hunted, endangered species to start a breeding program, and announces that the species finally went extinct so that no-one will try to locate them.
** TruthInTelevision Many species that were believed extinct turned out to be not.

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** A ChaoticGood philanthropist captures a large amount of animals in a heavily hunted, endangered species to start a breeding program, and announces that the species finally went extinct so that no-one no one will try to locate them.
** TruthInTelevision TruthInTelevision: Many species that were believed extinct turned out to be not.



* '''Subverted''': It turns out that Alice and Bob had traveled back in time.

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* '''Subverted''': It turns out that Alice and Bob AliceAndBob had traveled back in time.



* '''Exploited''': ??
* '''Defied''': ???

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* '''Exploited''': ??
Discovering that dodos aren't extinct, Alice and Bob capture them and use them for research, labour, food, entertainment, and anything else that comes to mind.
* '''Defied''': ???'''Defied''':
** [[GreatWhiteHunter Charlie]] makes it his mission to drive dodos to extinction, even [[WouldHurtAChild destroying their eggs]].
** As soon as [[TheDitz Adam]] claims there are still living dodos, Betty corrects him.



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Back to [[red:Not So Extinct]] Extinct]].[[note]][[NotSoExtinct ...wait, that ISN'T a redlink?]][[/note]]

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* '''Implied''':
** In a zoo, you can see an area dedicated to the dodos.

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* '''Implied''':
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'''Implied''': In a zoo, you can see an area dedicated to the dodos.

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* '''Implied''': in a zoo, you can see an area dedicated to the dodos.
* '''Invoked''': ???
* '''Exploited''': ???

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* '''Implied''': in '''Implied''':
** In
a zoo, you can see an area dedicated to the dodos.
* '''Invoked''': ???
Somebody gets [[{{Animorphism}} accidentally transformed]] into a dodo.
* '''Exploited''': ?????

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* '''Downplayed''': Bob and Alice find some skeletons of dodos that go back several years after their supposed extinction

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* '''Downplayed''': '''Downplayed''':
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Bob and Alice find some skeletons of dodos that go back several years after their supposed extinctionextinction
** There are still people who claim to have seen dodos, but without solid evidence.

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* '''Justified''': A ChaoticGood philanthropist captures a large amount of animals in a heavily hunted, endangered species to start a breeding program, and announces that the species finally went extinct so that no-one will try to locate them.

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* '''Justified''': A '''Justified''':
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ChaoticGood philanthropist captures a large amount of animals in a heavily hunted, endangered species to start a breeding program, and announces that the species finally went extinct so that no-one will try to locate them.them.
** TruthInTelevision Many species that were believed extinct turned out to be not.

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enforced example was removed because it was just "this trope is used because the creators wanted to include it"


* Right: Bob and Alice are on some dodos, who thought they were extinct
* Exaggerated: all supposedly extinct animals are present somewhere.
* Disappointed: Bob and Alice find some skeletons of dodos that go back several years after their supposed extinction
* Justified: truth on television
* Inverted: an animal that is not extinct, it turns out that it is.
* Subverted: it turns out that Alice and Bob had traveled back in time
* Double subverted: when they return to our time, there are still dodos.
* Parodied: ???
* Zig-Zagged: Bob and Alice encounter a dodo. As it turns out, it was an unusually large pigeon, which is strange because that particular species of pigeon had become extinct.
* Avoided: the dodos are extinct
* . Completed: the creators wanted to make a lost world-like story, but they wanted to make it more realistic.
* Shading: a dodo? I thought they were extinct
* Implicit: in a zoo, you can see an area dedicated to the dodos.
* Summoned: ???
* Exploited: ???
* Challenge: ???
* Discuss: ???
* Discussed: ???

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'''Basic Trope''': A species originally thought to be extinct turns out to not be extinct after all.
* Right: '''Straight''': Bob and Alice are on some encounter a pack of dodos, who which they thought they were extinct
extinct.
* Exaggerated: all '''Exaggerated''': All supposedly extinct animals are present somewhere.
* Disappointed: '''Downplayed''': Bob and Alice find some skeletons of dodos that go back several years after their supposed extinction
* Justified: truth on television
* Inverted: an animal
'''Justified''': A ChaoticGood philanthropist captures a large amount of animals in a heavily hunted, endangered species to start a breeding program, and announces that is not the species finally went extinct so that no-one will try to locate them.
* '''Inverted''': A species goes
extinct, but it turns out that it is.
takes a long time for people to realize this.
* Subverted: it '''Subverted''': It turns out that Alice and Bob had traveled back in time
time.
* Double subverted: '''Double Subverted''': ...but when they return to our time, there are still dodos.
* Parodied: '''Parodied''': ???
* Zig-Zagged: '''Zig-Zagged''': Bob and Alice encounter what they think is a dodo. As it turns out, it was dodo, but is actually just an unusually large pigeon, pigeon... which is strange because that particular species of pigeon had become extinct.
* Avoided: the dodos '''Averted''': Extinction is permanent and there are extinct
* . Completed: the creators wanted to make a lost world-like story, but they wanted to make it more realistic.
no false alarms.
* Shading: a '''Enforced''': ???
* '''Lampshaded''': "A
dodo? I thought they those were extinct
extinct!"
* Implicit: '''Implied''': in a zoo, you can see an area dedicated to the dodos.
* Summoned: '''Invoked''': ???
* Exploited: '''Exploited''': ???
* Challenge: '''Defied''': ???
* Discuss: '''Discussed''': ???
* Discussed: ???'''Conversed''': ???
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* Right: Bob and Alice are on some dodos, who thought they were extinct
* Exaggerated: all supposedly extinct animals are present somewhere.
* Disappointed: Bob and Alice find some skeletons of dodos that go back several years after their supposed extinction
* Justified: truth on television
* Inverted: an animal that is not extinct, it turns out that it is.
* Subverted: it turns out that Alice and Bob had traveled back in time
* Double subverted: when they return to our time, there are still dodos.
* Parodied: ???
* Zig-Zagged: Bob and Alice encounter a dodo. As it turns out, it was an unusually large pigeon, which is strange because that particular species of pigeon had become extinct.
* Avoided: the dodos are extinct
*. Completed: the creators wanted to make a lost world-like story, but they wanted to make it more realistic.
* Shading: a dodo? I thought they were extinct
* Implicit: in a zoo, you can see an area dedicated to the dodos.
* Summoned: ???
* Exploited: ???
* Challenge: ???
* Discuss: ???
* Discussed: ???
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* . Completed: the creators wanted to make a lost world-like story, but they wanted to make it more realistic.

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* .*. Completed: the creators wanted to make a lost world-like story, but they wanted to make it more realistic.

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