Dexter and Blossom's Prehistoric Adventures/Tropes

This is the list of tropes for Dexter and Blossom's Prehistoric Adventures.

Tropes

 * Action Girl - Ms. Bellum fights off a pride of American lions in Feathered Forest.
 * Adaptation Dye-Job - Mandark's duck was yellow in Dexter's Laboratory. In this crossover series, she was colored white as yellow only occur in ducklings.
 * Adaptation Species Change - Dexter's monkey was a generic brown monkey in Dexter's Laboratory. In this crossover series, he is a white-headed capuchin.
 * Animal Talk - Most of the animals can talk to one another, but not to humans. Expect for Bubbles, who has an ability to talk to them. However in Down Under, Dee Dee makes an attempt to talk to the thylacine brothers in their own vocalizations. And then, the thylacines understood her. And also, Percy, Professor Utonium's pet parrot, is the only animal that can be understood by humans, due to his talking ability.
 * Animation Bump - The animation in this series is a lot more smoother and fluid than the original shows.
 * Ascended Extra - Beau was originally an one shot character, but his character was developed and became Dee Dee's love interest. Bunny, Bullet, Robin, Mike, Lalavava and Soyen were also originally one shot characters.
 * Ms. Keane also counts as Professor Utonium's new wife.
 * Princess Morbucks also counts as well.
 * Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny! - During In the Beginning, Diana and Dave, along with a pack of Acheroraptor, were seen feeding on a dead Torosaurus. Then, they hear Dee Dee screaming as she gets kidnapped by Mandark. Only Diana and Dave have left the carcass to see what happened. The Acheroraptor pack, however, spot a Cimolestes passing by and chase it.
 * Bears are Bad News - In Feathered Forest, a short-faced bear chases Bubbles, Bunny, Bullet, Dee Dee and Beau into Ms. Sara Bellum's office, only to get sourrounded by a pride of American lions.
 * Back for the Finale - Many dinosaurs and other extinct animals (as well as present-day animals) return in Back from Extinction.
 * The Bus Came Back - Mee Mee and Lee Lee return after their last appearance in Dexter's Laboratory season 2.
 * The Cameo - Mac and Frankie Foster from Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends make a brief non-speaking cameo appearance in Feathered Forest as they hear Bubbles' various animal calls to the animals from the previous episode that rampage Townsville as she annouces the fight duel between Fang and the alpha of the dire wolf pack.
 * Omega 09 from Jurassic World: The Game appears as the Big Bad of Back from Extinction.
 * Canon Foreigner - Percy the African grey parrot and Chester the Chinese crested dog.
 * Cats are Mean - Averted with Fang, Valentino and Ginger. Played straight with Eurasian cave lion, American lion, scimitar cat and Dinofelis.
 * Crossover - Mixed with dinosaurs!
 * Cunning as a Fox - Reynard the red fox.
 * Darker and Edgier - This crossover series has many dark moments.
 * A Day in the Limelight - Professor Utonium and Ms. Keane are the main focus in Feathered Forest.
 * Life at its Origins focuses more on Stan the Tyrannosaurus and Diana the Dakotaraptor than the main cast's adventure in the Cambrian seas to find an Anomalocaris.
 * In Lost in Dinosaur Park, Bullet was stayed behind with Percy, Buddy, Reynard, Valentino and Ginger to guard the Powerpuff Girls' house while the main cast is in the Late Cretaceous Canada. But, when Buddy got kidnapped by Mandark and the Rowdyruff Boys, Bullet and her friends have a rescue mission, with the help of the two spies in their black bodysuits, that are really Professor Utonium and Ms. Keane in disguise.
 * Demoted to Dragon - Mandark and Princess Morbucks became this as Omega 09 becomes the Big Bad of Back from Extinction.
 * Everything's Better with Dinosaurs - Including James Woods-voiced Tyrannosaurus rex as one of the good guys!
 * Expy - Buddy is a complete expy of Bugs Bunny.
 * Grand Finale - Back from Extinction.
 * Happily Married - Professor Utonium is married to Ms. Keane piror to the events of the first episode.
 * Heel-Face Turn - The Rowdyruff Boys were originally henchmen to Mandark or Princess Morbucks. But during Back from Extinction, after they heard that Mandark and Princess Morbucks make a deal with HIM and Omega 09, the Rowdyruff Boys escape, joining Dexter and Blossom's side and eventually reform themselves.
 * Knight of Cerebus - The alpha dire wolf.
 * Mistaken for an Imposter - In Lost in Dinosaur Park, Mandark and the Rowdyruff Boys kidnap Buddy by mistaking him for Dexter being transformed into a rabbit.
 * Mythology Gag
 * Mandark and the Rowdyruff Boys mistake Buddy for Dexter being transformed into a rabbit. Dexter himself was transformed into a rabbit by Dee Dee in one of the Dexter's Lab episodes of What A Cartoon.
 * Never Smile at the Crocodile - Borealosuchus, Quinkana, Deinosuchus, Piscogavialis, Crocodylus thorbjarnarsoni, Sarcosuchus, Voay, Purussaurus and Kaprosuchus. Modern crocodilians also count.
 * Non-Standard Character Design - All designs for animals are realistic when compared to the human characters' more cartoony designs.
 * Bullet the squirrel is the only animal character to remain a cartoony design, when compared to the more realistic squirrels.
 * Only Sane Man - Beau and to lesser extent, Blossom.
 * Panthera Awesome - Fang the saber-tooth cat.
 * Polly Wants a Microphone - Percy, the African grey parrot who can talk.
 * Ptero-Soarer - Pteranodon, Quetzalcoatlus and among others are all protrayed as quadrupedal.
 * Raptor Attack - Diana and Dave the Dakotaraptor, Vinney and Julie the Velociraptor and Hal the Halszkaraptor. This is averted as all maniraptors are feathered.
 * Rascally Rabbit - Buddy the eastern cottontail.
 * Savage Wolves - A pack of dire wolves pose a big threat to Fang the saber-tooth cat.
 * Seldom Seen Species - Mixes with Loads and Loads of Characters.
 * Shoo Out the Clowns - The Mayor of Townsville is completely absent in the entire series, and Ms. Sara Bellum takes over the Mayor's role.
 * Shown Their Work - All dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures had modern accurate features, such as feathered maniraptors and quadrupedal pterosaurs.
 * Scarlett the Spinosaurus is correctly protrayed as a huge, semi-aquatic theropod.
 * Species Lost and Found - The animals that returned to the present with Dexter and Blossom's team and stayed in Dexter's laboratory are Stan and Sue the pair of Tyrannosaurus, Diana the mother Dakotaraptor and her chick Dave, Penny the Purgatorius, a herd of woolly mammoths, Reynard the red fox, Fang the saber-tooth cat, Martha and Paul the pair of passenger pigeons, a Psittacosaurus, a pack of Sinosauropteryx, Benjamin and Tyler the thylacine brothers, Vinney and Julie the pair of Velociraptor, Hal the Halszkaraptor, a Gastornis, a Leptictidium, a Volaticotherium, Archie the Anchiornis, Sudan the northern white rhinoceros and his mate, Bushie the Senegal bushbaby and Big Al the Allosaurus.
 * Spy Catsuit - Professor Utonium and Ms. Keane wear their shiny, black bodysuits in Lost in Dinosaur Park and then again in Back from Extinction.
 * Stock Dinosaurs - Everything from Tyrannosaurus to Triceratops to Velociraptor to Apatosaurus.
 * Token Good Teammate - Mandark's duck.


 * Tyrannosaurus rex - Stan, Sue and their two hatchlings. And then, there's the T. rex Big Good, Black Beauty.


 * Vitriolic Best Buds - Stan the Tyrannosaurus and Diana the Dakotaraptor.