Line #40 WesternAnimation/IceAgeDawnOfTheDinosaurs


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:''"We've been living above an entire world, and we didn't even know it!"'']]
3	''Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs'' is the sequel to ''WesternAnimation/IceAgeTheMeltdown'', and the third film in the ''WesternAnimation/IceAge'' franchise, released on July 1st, 2009.
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5	The third movie involves a LostWorld filled with DINOSAURS! It turns out there is an entire prehistoric world that somehow survived by being located underneath the surface of the Earth. Manny and Ellie are expecting their first child, and Manny becomes compulsively over-protective of her as he tries to be readily prepared for when the time comes. Sid is jealous and raises three abandoned eggs. They turn out to be baby T-rexes, and when their real mother finds out they were stolen, she takes her three babies and Sid underground, and Sid's friends all go to his rescue. There they meet a seasoned, [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} slightly insane adventurer weasel]] named Buck (Creator/SimonPegg), who becomes their guide in surviving this new world, and with an agenda of his own.
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7	Reviews for the film were mostly mixed from critics, but it was well-received by the general public and was a blockbuster success. The film grossed $196 million domestically and $886 million worldwide against its $90 million budget, making the highest-grossing film in the franchise.
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9	This film is followed by ''WesternAnimation/IceAgeContinentalDrift''.
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11	!!This film provides examples of:
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13	* AccidentalPervert: Sid tries to milk a muskox to feed his "kids", except...
14	-->'''Sid:''' ''(running away from the enraged muskox)'' I THOUGHT YOU WERE A FEMALE!!!!
15	* ActorAllusion: When the eggs hatch and the hatchlings start playing with Sid, the song "Walk the Dinosaur" comes on. The song appeared in John Leguizamo's first movie, ''Film/SuperMarioBros1993'' ([[OldShame even if he didn't admit it at first]]).
16	* AerialCanyonChase: Includes plane noises.
17	* AgonyOfTheFeet: Sid tries to escape the lava flow by paddling; the stick he's using catches on fire, Sid tries to put it out, burning his foot by dipping it in the lava.
18	* AmbiguouslyGay: Buck makes a crack that he knew a giant moth creature when he was a caterpillar, before he "came out." He means he knew the moth from before his metamorphosis, but his tone suggests it's a DoubleEntendre referring to something else about the moth.
19	* AnimalsNotToScale:
20	** Many of the dinosaurs are portrayed as if Manny were the size of a human, and are therefore roughly double in height compared to real life. This is exaggerated with the ''Brachiosaurus'', which are close to Godzilla-sized as a result.
21	** Rudy is meant to be a ''Baryonyx'', but is portrayed as being significantly larger than a ''T. rex'', when the reverse is true in reality (''Baryonyx'' being estimated at around two tons, and ''Tyrannosaurus'' being estimated at over nine tons).
22	* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Buck listing the rules for getting his help.
23	-->'''Buck:''' He who has gas, travels at the back of the pack!
24	-->'''Eddie:''' Aw... ''[hangs head, walks to the back of the pack]''
25	* AscendedToCarnivorism: The ''Ankylosaurus'' that attacks the herd is depicted with sharp teeth like a carnivorous dinosaur, [[ArtisticLicensePaleontology despite being a]] ''[[ArtisticLicensePaleontology herbivorous]]'' [[ArtisticLicensePaleontology dinosaur]]. That said, many herbivorous reptiles do have sharp teeth for cutting tough plants, and the beast did try to smash Crash and Eddie while they were playing dead as oppose to eating them on the spot, [[SubvertedTrope so...]]
26	* AttackAttackRetreatRetreat: Crash and Eddie charge toward a carnivorous plant while carrying sticks like swords and yelling battle cries...then run away screaming from the plant's attacking vines.
27	* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: The dinos are scaled as if the about 11-foot-tall mammoths were the size of a human, making Mama ''T. rex'' and Rudy around 40 to 50 feet ''tall'' (real life ''Tyrannosaurus'' was 13 feet tall at the hips, ''Baryonyx'' was 9 feet tall, and for comparison ''Spinosaurus'' was 15 feet tall). And that's not getting into the very-oversized ''Ankylosaurus'' and ''Pachycephalosaurus'', the ''Stegosaurus''-sized ''Kentrosaurus'', and the Franchise/{{Godzilla}}-proportioned ''Brachiosaurus''. Pretty much the only animals decently sized are ''Triceratops'', ''Iguanodon'', ''Guanlong'', and ''Troodon''.
28	** Mama is stated to be about 80 feet long, and Rudy about 40 feet longer (coming out to 120 feet long). The mammoths to be barely as tall as the theropods' feet.
29	* ArgumentOfContradictions: Happens between Sid and a beaver child and its mother when Sid's dinosaur-"kids" harass the other kids on the playground built by Manny.
30	-->'''Beaver mother:''' Aren't you going to do something?!
31	-->'''Sid:''' Why? My kid had it first!
32	-->'''Beaver child:''' Did not!
33	-->'''Sid:''' Did, too!
34	-->'''Beaver child:''' Did not!
35	-->'''Sid:''' Did, too!
36	-->'''Beaver child:''' Did not!
37	-->'''Sid:''' Liar, liar, fur on fire!
38	* AweInspiringDinosaurShot: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]; the gang is initially awed at the sight of an underground world where dinosaurs have survived. The dinosaurs, not so much, as an ''Ankylosaurus'' immediately attacks them on sight not long after this, and then surrounded by a crowd of herbivorous dinosaurs who do not like the presence of the Pleistocene group and are prepared to attack them before Buck shows up to save the gang.
39	* BadAssMindsThinkAlike: Upon grabbing berries to use against a pack of pterosaurs, Crash and Eddie don’t hesitate in what do to at first as almost instantly, Eddie uses the others tail to fire while his brother aims. Smoothly knocking down several pterosaurs throughout the canyon and finishing with a balloon.
40	* BeneathTheEarth: The dinosaurs' LostWorld is directly under the icy surface world.
41	* BigDamnHeroes:
42	** Buck's [[EstablishingCharacterMoment first scene]] has him saving the Herd from some surrounding herbivores by bombarding the dinosaurs with stink bombs and performing a SmokeOut so they can all escape.
43	** Twofold during the climax: first Diego saves Buck from being eaten by Rudy, then Momma Dino saves Sid by [[DisneyVillainDeath pushing Rudy into a chasm]].
44	* BodyBridge: The heroes exit the subterranean world by crossing a chasm bridged by a gigantic dinosaur skeleton. As Buck returns to the underground world, he cuts the vines that had been holding up the skeleton, making it fall and causing a tremor that seals off the cave.
45	* BoringReturnJourney: Most of the film revolves around Buck leading the herd on a perilous trek through the Lost World in their search for Sid. After they find him, the next scene shows them all arriving safely back at the cave where they started their adventure.
46	* BreadEggsMilkSquick: As Buck prepares to transfer Ellie to the other side of the Chasm of Death:
47	-->'''Buck:''' Now then, eyes forward. Back straight. Oh, and if you breathe in the toxic fumes, you will probably die.\
48	'''Ellie:''' ''[[OhCrap Toxic fumes?!]]''
49	* ButtSticker: Sid is stuck on Manny’s butt for a few seconds after Sid accidentally forces Manny off a cliff. Manny is fine, but Sid falls off his butt with a dazed look.
50	* CallBack: The ''Ankylosaurus'' that pursued the main cast early on reappears briefly as the group flee from Rudy, itself cowering in terror.
51	-->'''Diego:''' Wuss.
52	* ChasedOffIntoTheSunset: Played with, the movie ends with Buck realizing his nemesis Rudy (the great white ''Baryonyx'') is still alive, [[SealedEvilInADuel and goes back to continue fighting him.]]
53	* ChekhovsGun: The [[AbnormalAmmo exploding purple berries]] buck uses to rescue the herd later helps the possums stop hungry predators from eating them.
54	* ChestMonster: This movie has a giant carnivorous plant that disguises itself as an innocuous fruit bush.
55	* CleanPrettyChildbirth: The baby mammoth Peaches is born, then shown dry and fluffy within seconds after birth. Given that modern-day elephants are born in an absolutely torrential downpour of blood and fluids, and it's a movie for kids, this is probably for the best.
56	* CoversAlwaysLie: The poster prominently depicts Scrat staring down the mouth of a dinosaur. Scrat has little to no interaction with the dinosaurs in this film -- instead, most of his screen time is dedicated to his rivalry/romance with Scratte. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thuW0qbLjNE This actually derives]] from a [[TrailersAlwaysLie teaser trailer]], featuring Scrat falling into the underground world and hanging from the tail of Momma as she roars at him, with the same mouth-first view.
57	* CraftedFromAnimals: Buck's knife, which was created from the tooth of Rudy. Unlike several other instances of this trope, Rudy was no worse for wear for not having the tooth.
58	* CutlassBetweenTheTeeth: Buck holds his knife with his teeth when he swims through the carnivorous plant's digestive fluids.
59	* DatingCatwoman: Scrat and Scratte spend most of the movie fighting over an acorn, but go through a RelationshipUpgrade and put the acorn behind them. [[DidNotGetTheGirl It doesn't last]].
60	* DavidVersusGoliath: Buck is a weasel not much larger than Crash and Eddie who can go toe-to-toe with Rudy, a savage dinosaur bigger than the mammoths, Mama T-Rex, and even some of the long-necked sauropods seen in the film.
61	* DidNotGetTheGirl: Scrat and Scratte go through a RelationshipUpgrade, but it ultimately falls apart when Scrat picks [[CompanionCube his acorn]] over Scratte.
62	* DidYouDie: When Buck is telling the story of his encounter with Rudy, Crash or Eddie asks, "Did you die?" Buck answers, "Sadly yes... but I lived!"
63	* DieLaughing: The way to the subterranean world goes through a crevasse full of toxic fumes, which is revealed to have very similar properties to [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Joker's laughing gas]] in that it causes anyone who inhales it to laugh until they stop breathing.
64	* DisneyVillainDeath: Momma Dino knocks Rudy into a chasm to stop him from eating Sid. [[spoiler:{{Subverted}} in that he survives the fall.]]
65	* DynamicEntry: "Way To Go, Momzilla!"
66	* EatMyDust: A gazelle mocks Diego after outrunning him.
67	-->'''Gazelle''': Eat my dust, Diego!
68	* EatenAlive: Little Johnny the aardvark gets eaten by one of the baby ''T. rex''. Thankfully, the baby ''T. rex'' spits him out.
69	* EdibleThemeNaming: Sid finds three unhatched dino eggs that he adopts as his children. He draws faces on them and names them ''Eggbert'', ''Shelly'', and ''Yoko''.
70	* EyelashFluttering: Scratte flutters her eyelashes titillatingly [[CrushFilter in slow motion]] when Scrat sees her for the first time.
71	* FeedItABomb: A hungry Pterosaur flies up closer to Crash and Eddie, screeching loudly to frighten the possums and snare them. As he screeches with his maw wide open, he's fed one of their last gas-bomb berries as it goes right down his throat and explodes.
72	* FeelingTheBabyKick: Ellie is pregnant throughout the film and the signs that her baby is about to be born come in the form of kicks that she feels throughout the film... Which unfortunately pop out at the worst possible moments while the Herd attempts to rescue Sid from the dinosaur world.
73	* FireworksOfLove: Invoked. At the exact moment that Scrat and Scratte have their first kiss, a massive lava geyser goes off in the background. To further hammer in the invocation of this trope, small sparks from the lava geyser come showering down on the area around Scrat and Scratte kissing in romantic fashion immediately after said geyser has finished going off (complete with said geyser's finishing revealing a heart shaped natural environmental design) in a style somewhat similar to the remnant sparks of a firework.
74	* FluffyTheTerrible: Rudy, the fearsome white Baryonyx. {{Lampshaded}} by Manny:
75	-->'''Manny:''' Oh, good. Good. I was worried it'd be something intimidating, like... ''Sheldon'', or [[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail Tim]].
76	* {{Foreshadowing}}: Manny says in the film that one day Sid will "find a girl with low standards, and no real options...". In the fifth movie, Brooke, a female sloth, appears who is attracted to Sid instantly. There also don't seem to be any other sloths in Geotopia, where she lives.
77	* GentleGiantSauropod: The ''Brachiosaurus'' is one of the few residents of the LostWorld that isn't hostile.
78	* GoodLipsEvilJaws: The good Mommy dinosaur vs the Albino dino monster.
79	* GroinAttack: Buck implies he once castrated a T-rex with a clam shell.
80	-->'''Buck:''' Now let me tell you about the time I used a sharpened clam shell to turn a T-rex... into a T-''Rachel''.
81	* HartmanHips: Scratte has a big bottom which is handy for distracting Scrat while she steals his acorn.
82	* HeartInTheWrongPlace: When the acorn is abandoned by Scrat and Scratte, it drifts out to sea and washes up inside an intact ribcage on the beach, right where people who believe this trope ''expect'' a heart to be.
83	* HungryJungle: Not only is the Mesozoic LostWorld this in general, but it includes the aptly-named "Jungle of Misery" inhabited by flesh-eating plants.
84	* IChooseToStay: When offered the chance to return to the surface world with the herd, Buck briefly considers it before deciding to stay in the prehistoric world. [[spoiler: Mostly because he realizes Rudy is still alive.]]
85	* IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace: The path to Sid.
86	* InflatingBodyGag: As a charging pterosaur screeches at the possums, they take the opportunity to shoot an explosive berry right down it’s vulnerable gullet.
87	* InstantBirthJustAddLabor: Ellie gives birth in the middle of a ''Guanlong'' fight, screaming and wincing, and Peaches comes out already clean, happy and sleepy. One of the most exaggerated Hollywood births ever.
88	* JerkassRealization: Both Manny and Diego have this as they spend the first night in the valley. Manny for his insensitive remarks towards Sid which led to this whole mess, and Diego for his selfishness in leaving the herd.
89	* KillItThroughItsStomach: Buck successfully frees Manny and Diego from the ManEatingPlant by entering through its mouth and forcing it to vomit, using WireDilemma as a RuleOfFunny. Not only does the plant regurgitate the two, but ''[[CoveredInGunge it explodes into a gooey mess]]''.
90	* LastMinuteBabyNaming: Manny and Ellie have apparently not decided on what to name their child. After the baby mammoth's birth, Manny suggests they name her Ellie, but Ellie decides on the name "Peaches", which had been their code word for Ellie to tell Manny she was going into labor.
91	* LaughingGas: The way to the subterranean world goes through a crevasse full of toxic fumes, which is revealed to have very similar properties to [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Joker's laughing gas]] in that it causes anyone who inhales it to [[DieLaughing laugh until they stop breathing]]. Although the laughter may not have been caused directly by the gas but by the HeliumSpeech effect, prompting the victim to start laughing at their own voice. It caused the characters who inhaled the fumes to sound like chipmunks, which they found incredibly funny.
92	* LetsGetDangerous:
93	-->'''Buck:''' It's time to get...Buckwild!
94	* LighterAndSofter: Compared to the somber, dramatic ''Ice Age'' and the perilous, apocalyptic ''Meltdown''.
95	* LivingDinosaurs: Discovered in a LostWorld BeneathTheEarth.
96	* ManEatingPlant: Or mammal-eating plant.
97	* MeadowRun: Spoofed when Scrat is "reunited" with his acorn after running away from Scratte, and the acorn falls down a hill in slow motion towards Scrat who is also running in slow motion.
98	* MidairRepair: Buck performs mouth-to-mouth on their pterosaur after being knocked unconscious in a mid-air collision with another pterosaur. Only to bonk it awake.
99	* MirrorCrackingUgly: Sid falls through into a cave because of this.
100	* MistakenForPregnant: Sid mistakes a female beaver's fat for a baby bump. Said beaver promptly nails him with a stick.
101	* MobySchtick: The film plays this out with Buck and Rudy.
102	* MonsterDelay: Rudy doesn't appear in full for most of the film. Only certain parts of him are seen in a few glimpses (such as his feet or eyes), and he's often obscured by shadows or clouds in wider shots. It's only until the climax that the audience gets a decent look at him when he finally attacks the Herd.
103	* {{Narm}}: Discussed in-universe. One of the opossums asks why the Chasm of Death is called the Chasm of death, so Buck replies that the original name was "Big Smelly Crack", but nobody could stop giggling about it.
104	* NewBabyEpisode: A recurring theme in this movie is that Ellie is pregnant and may go into labour at any time. At the end of the movie, a baby named Peaches is born.
105	* NoTimeToThink: Buck ends up facing a WireDilemma while inside the carnivorous plant, with only minutes before he, Manny, and Diego are digested. After doing the classic "Eenie-Meenie-Miney-Mo" (in a muffled voice due to being under the digestive juices), he just shrugs and cuts one of the "wires".
106	* NotReallyABirthScene: Ellie is giving birth while Diego fights off some ''Guanlong'' trying to kill her. At one point Diego is the one appearing to go through labor pains and Ellie comforting him, and then the camera pulls back to show him pushing a log against a pair of ''Guanlong'' off a ledge.
107	* OpenMouthInsertFoot: During the NotReallyABirthScene, Ellie's telling Diego to push, and he claims that she has no idea what he's going through. When the camera reveals Diego is pushing back a pair of ''Guanlong'', there's a moment of silence as he processes what he just said before sheepishly apologizing.
108	* OutlivingOnesOffspring:
109	** Manny, who witnessed the deaths of his first mate and son, is essentially waiting for the bubble to pop. Then his new mate goes into labor during a dinosaur attack.
110	** At least two kids are SwallowedWhole by one of the dinosaur babies. Although they turn out to be alive, the parents are appropriately horrified.
111	* PainfulAdhesiveRemoval: Scrat gets stuck to the trunk of a tree and with the nut stuck to his chest, when Scratte shows up. She smiles seductively at him, then yanks the nut off his chest and his fur with it, like she was waxing him. He screams, of course.
112	* PlatonicDeclarationOfLove: Between Crash and Eddie while they're falling from the sky to their deaths
113	-->'''Eddie:''' I love you, dude!\
114	'''Crash:''' I know!
115	* PlotMandatedFriendshipFailure: Diego and Manny have a rift in their friendship when the former decides he's leaving the herd, which greatly offends the latter. The rift starts to close when Diego offers to protect Ellie from the ''Guanlong'', and he and Manny finally reconcile when the saber declares he's staying.
116	* PostClimaxConfrontation: Following the climatic battle with Rudy, during the very last scene before the end credits, Scrat finds [[CompanionCube his acorn]] again, only for him to end up fighting Scratte for it one final time. Said FinalBattle results in Scrat and his acorn getting propelled back up into the above-ground Ice Age world by an airborne rock and Scratte getting permanently stranded in the [[LostWorld subterranean dinosaur world]] upon falling off of said airborne rock, concluding their subplot for good.
117	* RapidFireNailBiting: One of the possum twins bites off his own nails, then his brother offers him one of his hands so he can continue biting
118	* RaptorAttack: Averted, for ''Guanlong'' (a primitive tyrannosaur) is used as a substitute for raptors. Played straight with the ''Troodon'', which look more like ''Coelophysis'' and lack feathers, and the ''Archaeopteryx'', which has a lizard-like head and is flightless.
119	* RescueRomance: Scrat and Scratte's relationship really kicks off after he rescues her from death by lava when they are hanging by a thin root on a cliff.
120	* RedWireBlueWire: Hilariously spoofed in the carnivorous-plant action-sequence. Buck cuts the red wire, but that causes more digestive juice to flow, so he barely cuts the blue wire just in time, causing the plant to explode.
121	* RhetoricalQuestionBlunder: When Sid is on the playground that Manny built for his yet unborn child.
122	-->'''Manny:''' Sid, I don't want you touching anything. This place is for kids. Are you a kid?\
123	'''Sid:''' Uh--\
124	'''Manny:''' Don't answer that!
125	* SafetyFreak: Manny has baby-proofed the playground he made for his kid by putting snowballs on pointy branches and breaking icicle tips. He even puts a snowball on a bird’s beak.
126	* SandInMyEyes: Invoked and subverted by Diego after Peaches is born, as well as Crash and Eddie.
127	* SceneOfWonder: When Manny, Ellie, and the possums go through the underground caverns to find Sid, they walk into a hidden world full of dinosaurs. All of them take in the atmosphere, but they don’t do it for long as an angry Ankylosaurus attacks them.
128	* ScrewThisImOuttaHere:
129	** When the Herd track down Momma to the hole, Crash and Eddie decide to write off Sid as dead and leave, but Ellie stops them.
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131	-->'''Crash:''' Have you thought about a family\
132	'''Eddie:''' Real shame.\
133	'''Buck:''' Hm.
134	** The pteranodon that assists the mammals gets asked about starting its own family by Buck. The question is enough to snap the reptile out of its perched trance, quickly realizing that it doesn’t need to be here anymore and takes off.
135	-->'''Crash:''' Well, he's dead.\
136	'''Eddie:''' Real shame.\
137	'''Crash:''' He will be missed.
138	* SherlockScan: Buck tries to make it seem like he has this, but it is really but another product of his madness. At one notable occasion, Buck uses his supposed awesome deduction skills to deduce from a broccoli on the ground that Sid had gone AxCrazy and beat down Momma with the broccoli and turned the giant dinosaur into a vegetable. After being told this was implausible because Sid was not violent, he remakes his theory to that Sid was eating the broccoli when he was eaten by Momma, thereby turning the broccoli into a vegetable.
139	* ShoutOut:
140	** After inhaling the laughing gas, Crash and Eddie promptly start singing a part of Franchise/AlvinAndTheChipmunks' Christmas Don’t be late with "Christmas time is Here."
141	** When Ellie takes a slide down a Brachiosaurus's neck, she goes ''"[[WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones Yabba-dabba-doo]]!"''
142	-->'''Manny:''' Don't ever ''yabba-dabba-do'' that again!
143	** Crash personally gives a pterosaur it’s own farewell: ''“[[Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay Hasta la vista, birdie]]!”''
144	* StockDinosaurArchetypes: ''Tyrannosaurus'' is depicted as a fearsome, yet maternal and sympathetic role with a mother and her three young who eventually warm up to Sid, with the mother still being feared by the other dinosaurs. The antagonistic predator instead goes to a ''Baryonyx'' named Rudy whose main trait is having a grudge against Buck for knocking out one of his teeth. Almost every dinosaur is unpleasant, though they're more territorial than leaning on PrehistoricMonster; ''Triceratops'' don't tolerate the presence of other animals other than herd members, ''Ankylosaurus'' attacks the main herd upon first notice, and the ''Guanlong'' are opportunistic pack hunters. The exceptions are ''Brachiosaurus'', which doesn't mind the herd sliding at its tail and back, and "pterodactyls" which are placid enough to be tamed and ridden upon by Buck, albeit briefly.
145	* TakeThat: Possibly one against ''Film/JurassicParkIII''. In the third JP, a ''Tyrannosaurus'' is killed after [[SpinosaurusVersusTRex a brief fight]] with the ''Spinosaurus''. Well, at the end of the third Ice Age, Mama (a ''Tyrannosaurus'') turns up just at the last moment and attacks Rudy (an overgrown ''Baryonyx'', related to ''Spinosaurus''), effortlessly charging him, slamming him through the jungle and knocking him off a cliff. He doesn't actually die, but it was an incredible asskicking for the supposed BigBad of all dinosaurs in the series.
146	* TakingTheKids: The storyline with Sid, Mama Dino and the baby dinos is a parody of this trope, with Sid and Mama Dino playing the divorced parents fighting for custody.
147	* TerrorDactyl: A flock of blue, aggressive pterosaurs appear.
148	* TemptingFate: In the Jungle of Misery, Diego warns Manny when the latter is trying to pick some fruit. Manny scoffs that he'll be afraid of a "pretty flower''. Cue carnivorous plant...
149	* ThatCameOutWrong:
150	** When Manny and Diego are inside the carnivorous plant, they have this awkward exchange as the plant's digestive juices start to rise:
151	--->'''Diego:''' I feel all tingly.\
152	'''Manny:''' Don't say that when you're pressed up against me.\
153	'''Diego:''' Not ''that'' kind of tingly!
154	** After seeing Peaches for the first time, Buck innocently asks a pterosaur "Have you ever thought about having kids?" The pterosaur gives Buck an awkward glance, then [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere quickly takes off]].
155	* ThirdIs3D
156	* TheVamp: Scratte, who might also count as a squirrel version of LadyInRed.
157	* TheVoiceless: All of the dinosaurs.
158	* UvulaEscapeRoute: Buck tells the rest of the gang the story of how he lost his eye and obtained his tooth dagger, which entails him having to escape from a dinosaur's mouth by swinging on its uvula.
159	* VerbalTic: Listening closely to Buck reveals that the weasel is somehow prone to neglecting the usage of the letter H in his speech...which is probably due to Simon Pegg (his voice actor) being English.
160	* VineTentacles: The giant carnivorous plant that almost devours Diego and Manny has several vine tentacles that it uses to keep Crash and Eddie away from it when they try to rescue their friends. Buck then uses the vines to swing his way up and spiral into the plant from the top and get inside its stomach.
161	* WhamLine: Followed by a WhamShot. The rest of the herd become affected by the fumes in the Chasm of Death and laugh themselves silly, against Buck's commands. Buck then shows Ellie (and the viewers) why the chasm lives up to its name.
162	-->'''Ellie:''' They're just laughing. What's so bad about that?\
163	'''Buck:''' ''(points to skeletons below)'' They ''died'' laughing!
164	* WhoIsDriving: Buck captures a pterosaur and commandeers it like an aircraft, along with possums Crash and Eddie, in a tow to rescue Sid. This trope plays with all three of them looking down to check on Sid as they escape; apparently, the pterosaur ''can't'' be trusted to [[FridgeLogic fly by itself]].
165	* XenophobicHerbivore: An ''[[ToughArmoredDinosaur Ankylosaurus]]'' attacks the group when they arrive in the dinosaur world. They escape from it with the help of a [[HerbivoresAreFriendly much friendlier]] ''[[GentleGiantSauropod Brachiosaurus]]'', only to be surrounded by a whole herd of aggressive herbivorous dinosaurs.

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