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The Future Is Wild (Franchise)
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The Future is Wild is a franchise focused on the possibility of how life would evolve in the future, focusing entirely on three distinct eras: an Ice Age 5 million years into the future, a wetter, warmer era 100 million years from now, and a period 200 million years ahead in which all the continents have merged into one. Starting as a book co-written by Dougal Dixon (who also wrote After Man: A Zoology of the Future), it was later made into a TV miniseries aired by Animal Planet, being a Canadian/European co-production. Eventually, it became popular enough to spawn a children's animated series; being made entirely in Canada, it lacked the detailed models of the miniseries and added cartoonish animal CGI models. | |
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Speculative Biology | |
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Speculative Biology: It's a "documentary" speculating on the possible future of life on Earth. | |
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"Well Done, Son" Guy | |
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"Well Done, Son!" Guy: C.G. wants to impress her father and make him proud. The problem is that he is cold, stern, aloof and serious, especially towards his daughter. Not helping with this is that he at first doesn't approve of C.G. brnging "Primitives" aboard the Time Flyer. He does get better though as C.G. and her crew proved their worth for the mission throughout the series. | |
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Artistic License – Biology | |
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Artistic License – Biology: Some of the predictions are, to say the least, less than likely. For instance, it's quite unlikely for all mammals to be simply outcompeted into total extinction by other vertebrates in the way depicted in the show, and certainly quite impossible for arthropods and cephalopods to totally displace vertebrates in general in all large animal niches. | |
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Running on All Fours | |
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Running on All Fours: The spink, while a bird, walks on all fours due to its subterranean lifestyle and spikes its wings into the ground with each step. | |
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Ambiguously Brown | |
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Ambiguously Brown: C.G. and her father. | |
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Carnivore Confusion | |
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Carnivore Confusion: Since every single animal is sentient, carnivores are portrayed as villains, ranging from genuine Affably Evil examples into at least one full fledged evil monster without a mind of its own. This is despite this being averted in the documentary-style minieseries, however, where many carnivores are portrayed sympathetically. Averted in the show itself on one occasion: a carakiller was portrayed as sympathetic in "Monkey Brains" and Gill and Butch, the lurkfish, are just hilarious. | |
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No Flow in CGI | |
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No Flow in CGI: This common problem was a reason for showing so few mammals, and having them die out in the end. Hair is hard to animate! | |
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Psycho Electric Eel | |
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Psycho Electric Eel: The Lurkfish is a gigantic, carnivorous electric fish. | |
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After the End | |
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After the End: The premise is about how life will evolve millions of years after humans are gone. | |
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Rule of Cool | |
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Rule of Cool: A lot of the predictions aren't especially plausible, but the series is as much about exploring the coolest and weirdest possible outcomes of evolution as it is about actually making serious predictions. | |
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Crapsaccharine World | |
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Crapsaccharine World: This is pretty much the Poggle's natural habitat. They are farmed by Silver Spiders, who provide them with loads of food, look after them, and protect them until they are fully grown, at which point they are brutally slaughtered and fed to the spider colony's queen. | |
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Ragnarök Proofing | |
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Ragnarök Proofing: Completely and utterly averted. The only times it's brought up are during the Paris time lapse scene and occasional mentions of how geological processes would have long destroyed any sign of human civilization. | |
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Bat Out of Hell | |
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Bat Out of Hell: The Deathgleaner, a species of giant predatory bats inhabiting the deserts the new Ice Age. | |
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Bioluminescence Is Cool | |
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Bioluminescence Is Cool: Employed by the Rainbow Squid to put on amazing light displays during mating, as well as Sharkopaths that use it to signal to each other when hunting down rainbow squids. | |
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Planimal | |
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Planimal: Garden worms have photosynthesizing algae in their body appendages, making them look like a cross between a fern and a worm. | |
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Shock and Awe | |
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Shock and Awe: The Lurkfish. | |
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Wham Line | |
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Wham Line: "Adult toraton." To explain, the toraton is introduced as an elephant-sized herbivore descended from tortoises. It is then killed by a swampus. We then find out that it was only a baby. Adult toraton are the heaviest land animals ever, and have no predators. | |
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Too Important to Walk | |
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Too Important to Walk: Every terabyte caste except the porters, which haul the other castes' members around. | |
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Dark Is Not Evil | |
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Dark Is Not Evil: A few of the more cute and harmless future critters, such as the Spinks and Desert Hoppers, are mostly nocturnal and come out at night to avoid the heat and the predators. | |
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Named After Somebody Famous | |
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Named After Somebody Famous: C.G.'s birth name Cassiopeia, meaning "she whose words excel", is the name of an infamously vain Queen from Greek mythology. Apparently, one or both of C.G.'s parents really like Greek mythology and give her that name thinking it would be great for her and its aforementioned meaning does suit her very well. | |
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NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast | |
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Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Some animals have names that are as scary as their appearance: the Sharkopath is a bioluminescent shark, the Carakiller is a flightless Feathered Fiend, and the Deathgleaner is a giant Bat Out of Hell. Also the Deathbottle, an enormous carnivorous plant, though since it can't actually move, it's more like "Names to Stay at Least Five Metres Away From at All Times". | |
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Threatening Shark | |
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Threatening Shark: 200 MY in the future and they are still there! The consulting scientists state that sharks have been able to survive and evolve throughout hundreds of millions of years simply because they're the perfect killing machines and most likely will be around for a very, very long time. | |
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Missing Mom | |
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Missing Mom: C.G.'s mother. The time flyer's captain's father is both shown and mentioned many times throughout the series, but her mother is never once mentioned, nor did she appear. | |
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Giant Flyer | |
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Giant Flyer: The Great Blue Windrunner. The sources don't seem to agree on its size; some offer a realistic approach at 3 meters (about the same size as the largest modern flying birds), but the official site states a wingspan of 15 meters, which would make flight impossible given how thin the atmosphere is at the altitudes it flies at and how narrow its wings are (though it can increase the wing area by raising its legs, which have wing feathers). | |
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Ascended to Carnivorism | |
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Ascended to Carnivorism: The baboons of the future have gone from eating fruit, to eating fish. This isn't particularly far-fetched, as most species of primate are some level of omnivorous as it is. | |
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Punny Name | |
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Punny Name: Sharkopath, Squibbon, Carakiller, Bumblebeetle, Baboukari, Swampuss, Flish. | |
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Rodents of Unusual Size | |
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Rodents of Unusual Size: The shagrats (big as sheep!) and rattlebacks. | |
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Viewers Are Goldfish | |
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Viewers Are Goldfish: The TV adaptation's 100-million-years-from-now segment explains that all mammals but one are extinct. Then the 200-million-years-from-now segment states that all mammals are extinct by then ... and goes on to list several human-era mammal types that are no longer around, just in case viewers forgot the previous segment of the program. | |
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KillerRabbit | |
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Killer Rabbit: The Spitfire Bird looks like a harmless orange bird, but it can shoot hot toxin from its nasal cavity. The Snowstalker and Gryken are mustelids, and like their relatives from the time of humans, they are both cute and vicious. Downplayed compared to the Spitfire Bird: they are larger than the largest modern mustelid, the wolverine, and they have exposed sabre teeth which make them look scarier. | |
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Flying Seafood Special | |
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Flying Seafood Special: The two species of flish. Most people would assume a flying fish would evolve from modern gliding species (or at least any pelagic one), but the makers decided to make it a codfish descendant. | |
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Animal Talk | |
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Animal Talk: All animals (even literally brainless invertebrates like jellyfish and sea spiders) are capable of sentience and speak a language of their own (which can apparently be understood by all species). | |
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Portmanteau | |
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Portmanteau: Boy, does this series ever love them. We have Babookaris, Bumblebeetles, Carakillers, Sharkopaths and Squibbons, and that's just the tip of the iceberg. | |
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Humanity's Wake | |
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Humanity's Wake: The British version was about after humanity went extinct, the American version changed it so that the human race simply left the system. | |
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Reality Is Unrealistic | |
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Reality Is Unrealistic: The rainbow squid may seem unrealistic, but it's just an Up to Eleven version of real bio-luminescent squid. In fact, it's probably the most realistic of all the cephalopods in the show. | |
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The Hunter Becomes the Hunted | |
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The Hunter Becomes the Hunted: 100 million years in the future, the predator/prey roles in the Antarctic Jungle have reversed, and bugs now prey on birds instead of the other way around. The Ocean Phantom preys on small aquatic creatures such as young Reef Gliders. Reef Gliders that make it to adulthood become its predator, and the Ocean Phantom requires help from Spindletroopers to fend them off. | |
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Apocalypse How | |
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Apocalypse How: Planetary Species Extinction. In the US release, humans simply left to settle/live in space. The probes documenting the various creatures were sent by them/their descendants. In the UK release, humans are extinct but it's never said exactly how they went extinct. In nature, there are two ways an animal can become extinct: by being killed off, or by evolving enough that you're eventually considered a different species. The US version and the UK version are not mutually exclusive: humans could have gone off into space and diverged into multiple "alien" species over the millions of years, thus rendering Homo sapiens to be extinct while leaving other species of humans alive. | |
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Vomit Indiscretion Shot | |
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Vomit Indiscretion Shot: Literally. The Gannetwhales regurgitate and spit their last meal at possible predators while they are incubating their eggs at the shore. | |
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Crippling Overspecialization | |
The Future Is Wild (Franchise) / int_9aaf8eca | comment |
Crippling Overspecialization: This causes some species to go extinct. Terabytes have it in the literal and trope sense. Most of the castes are overspecialized in their job to the point where their legs are vestigal or even completely absent. As such, they require a transporter caste to carry them around. | |
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The Future Is Wild (Franchise) / int_9adcd93a | type |
Bizarre Alien Locomotion | |
The Future Is Wild (Franchise) / int_9adcd93a | comment |
Bizarre Alien Locomotion: The ocean phantom uses extensible sails to direct its journeys via wind power. The megasquid's numerous walking-tentacles give it a unique gait. Most terabyte castes are Too Important to Walk, but are carried by the transporter caste. | |
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The Future Is Wild (Franchise) / int_a51467fe | type |
Chest Monster | |
The Future Is Wild (Franchise) / int_a51467fe | comment |
Chest Monster: The Spitfire Beetle acts as this to the Spitfire Bird — four of these assemble into a fake flower to attract the bird, and then they jump on it and take it down. The Deathbottle's top looks and reeks like a rotting fish , which attracts the Bumblebeetle. Thankfully for the bug, this one isn't lethal to them. | |
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The Future Is Wild (Franchise) / int_a783166f | type |
StockSoundEffect | |
The Future Is Wild (Franchise) / int_a783166f | comment |
Stock Sound Effect: Bear cub cries for the young Snowstalkers. | |
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The Future Is Wild (Franchise) / int_a8559a9f | type |
RealLife | |
The Future Is Wild (Franchise) / int_a8559a9f | comment |
Refreshingly averted in many cases. The Snowstalker reastically flees after the Gannetwhales bombard it with their vomit, the Deathgleaners give up on attacking the baby Rattleback after its mother charges them, and the Falconfly flees after the Spitfire Bird starts squirting it with reactive chemicals. Granted, the Snowstalker does wound a Shagrat and track it down until it dies from blood loss, but this is a Real Life tactic that many predators use. | |
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The Future Is Wild (Franchise) / int_a8559a9f | |
The Future Is Wild (Franchise) / int_aa42306e | type |
Totally Radical | |
The Future Is Wild (Franchise) / int_aa42306e | comment |
Totally Radical: In the children's series, the Antarctic Forest is described as "trippy". Uh, that's not really what trippy means... | |
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The Future Is Wild (Franchise) / int_aa42306e | |
The Future Is Wild (Franchise) / int_ad1db87c | type |
Oh, Crap! | |
The Future Is Wild (Franchise) / int_ad1db87c | comment |
Oh, Crap!: The Rainbow squid assaulted by Sharkopaths panics when it realizes the Sharkopaths are undeterred by its Invisibility Cloak, causing it to have an Invisibility Flicker. | |
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The Future Is Wild (Franchise) / int_ad1db87c | |
The Future Is Wild (Franchise) / int_ad982e04 | type |
Super-Persistent Predator | |
The Future Is Wild (Franchise) / int_ad982e04 | comment |
Super-Persistent Predator: Refreshingly averted in many cases. The Snowstalker reastically flees after the Gannetwhales bombard it with their vomit, the Deathgleaners give up on attacking the baby Rattleback after its mother charges them, and the Falconfly flees after the Spitfire Bird starts squirting it with reactive chemicals. Granted, the Snowstalker does wound a Shagrat and track it down until it dies from blood loss, but this is a Real Life tactic that many predators use. Played straight with the Sharkopaths, who aren't deterred by the Rainbow Squid's invisibility cloak, use their sense of electromagnetic detection to locate it, pressure it into panicking, before the school tears into it. | |
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The Future Is Wild (Franchise) / int_ae3d6438 | type |
Deadpan Snarker | |
The Future Is Wild (Franchise) / int_ae3d6438 | comment |
Deadpan Snarker: Luis, and C.G. at times too. | |
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The Future Is Wild (Franchise) / int_b0485a20 | type |
Ditzy Genius | |
The Future Is Wild (Franchise) / int_b0485a20 | comment |
Ditzy Genius: C.G. is this often. | |
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The Future Is Wild (Franchise) / int_b42e16fb | type |
Feathered Fiend | |
The Future Is Wild (Franchise) / int_b42e16fb | comment |
Averted in the show itself on one occasion: a carakiller was portrayed as sympathetic in "Monkey Brains" and Gill and Butch, the lurkfish, are just hilarious. | |
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The Future Is Wild (Franchise) / int_b58b4e3c | type |
Too Dumb to Live | |
The Future Is Wild (Franchise) / int_b58b4e3c | comment |
Too Dumb to Live: If you're a juvenile Toraton, then walking straight into a nest of amphibious squid, with a highly venomous bite, may not be such a good idea. The lost baby Scrofa, that, separated from its parents, runs out into the salt desert until it dies of heatstroke. When it was already on a safe place among the rocks, at that! | |
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Cockroaches Will Rule the Earth | |
The Future Is Wild (Franchise) / int_b6034ac5 | comment |
Cockroaches Will Rule the Earth: Not cockroaches per se, but the series ends with the implication that the descendants of squid will evolve into a new civilization. It's squid that get this treatment, with the tree-dwelling ape-like squibbon implied to be the ancestor of a future sapient species of squid people (or "squeople"). | |
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The Future Is Wild (Franchise) / int_c335b9ec | type |
Irony | |
The Future Is Wild (Franchise) / int_c335b9ec | comment |
Irony: "These strange creatures are called Babookari." Yeah, compared to tree-swinging squid, jumping snails, flying fish, acid-shooting birds and dinosaur turtles, a blue-assed baboon would look really strange. To be fair, the babookari appears in one of the first episodes, whereas the more bizarre animals appear later in the show. | |
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The Future Is Wild (Franchise) / int_c34a1799 | type |
Kaiju | |
The Future Is Wild (Franchise) / int_c34a1799 | comment |
Kaiju: The Toraton. Weighing 120 tonnes and 15 times the size of an elephant, the Toraton is the biggest land animal ever to live (dwarfing even the largest known dinosaur, the 90-ton Argentinosaurus). | |
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The Future Is Wild (Franchise) / int_c8b7513e | type |
Cub Cues Protective Parent | |
The Future Is Wild (Franchise) / int_c8b7513e | comment |
Cub Cues Protective Parent: Although it's not necessarily the parent, the killing of a toraton hatchling by the swampus makes a nearby adult toraton rather annoyed. | |
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Everything's Squishier with Cephalopods | |
The Future Is Wild (Franchise) / int_d4c104be | comment |
Everything's Squishier with Cephalopods: The Swampus, Rainbow Squid, Megasquid and Squibbon. | |
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The Future Is Wild (Franchise) / int_d525f857 | type |
Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale | |
The Future Is Wild (Franchise) / int_d525f857 | comment |
Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale: Spindletroopers are said to grow a metre across, yet when compared to the adult reef glider — which is three metres long — only look to be a few centimetres in length. Possibly justified if the majority of 'troopers aren't fully grown. | |
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The Future Is Wild (Franchise) / int_dcb9c541 | type |
Ship Tease | |
The Future Is Wild (Franchise) / int_dcb9c541 | comment |
Ship Tease: Emily with Ethan, and C.G. with Louis. | |
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The Future Is Wild (Franchise) / int_dcb9c541 | |
The Future Is Wild (Franchise) / int_e21faf11 | type |
Friend to All Living Things | |
The Future Is Wild (Franchise) / int_e21faf11 | comment |
Friend to All Living Things: Emily. | |
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The Future Is Wild (Franchise) / int_e26f04b4 | type |
Last of His Kind | |
The Future Is Wild (Franchise) / int_e26f04b4 | comment |
Last of His Kind: 100 million years in the future, nearly all mammals are extinct. The only one left is the Poggle, a tiny rodent-like animal farmed by giant spiders in mountain caves. | |
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The Future Is Wild (Franchise) / int_e26f04b4 | |
The Future Is Wild (Franchise) / int_e5421161 | type |
Expy | |
The Future Is Wild (Franchise) / int_e5421161 | comment |
Expy: Many creatures are expies of other animal species, both living and extinct, since they all fill similar ecological niches, and were subject to convergent evolution. There are also a lot of expys from After Man: A Zoology of the Future. Snow Stalker: Bardelot Shagrat: Woolly Gigantelope Gannetwhale: Vortex and Porpin Cryptile: Fin lizard Gryken: Pamthret Scrofa: Zarander and Turmi Spink: Termite Burrower Great Blue Windrunner: Bootie Bird Rattleback: The Grassland Rattleback is an expy of the Testadon and Spine-tailed Squirrel. The Desert Rattleback is an expy of the Rootsucker. | |
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The Future Is Wild (Franchise) / int_e543a655 | type |
Light Is Not Good | |
The Future Is Wild (Franchise) / int_e543a655 | comment |
Light Is Not Good: The Sharkopaths, whose yellow bioluminescence fits them well. They're very ferocious and co-operative predators that viciously hunt and kill the more gentle Rainbow Squid. Also, one of the main problems for life in the high plateau is ultraviolet radiation, and thus both the Windrunner and the Silver Spider reflect it, looking as if glowing in blue and silver light respectively. | |
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The Future Is Wild (Franchise) / int_eb4086e3 | type |
Big Creepy-Crawlies | |
The Future Is Wild (Franchise) / int_eb4086e3 | comment |
Big Creepy-Crawlies: Silver spiders, falconflies, slickribbons... hell, the future seems to be especially wild for invertebrates. | |
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The Future Is Wild (Franchise) / int_eb4086e3 | |
The Future Is Wild (Franchise) / int_eb81c601 | type |
Big Damn Heroes | |
The Future Is Wild (Franchise) / int_eb81c601 | comment |
Big Damn Heroes: The squibbons rescue one of their young from a megasquid. It actually plays out like a Saturday Morning Cartoon. | |
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The Future Is Wild (Franchise) / int_ecac4c42 | type |
Why Won't You Die? | |
The Future Is Wild (Franchise) / int_ecac4c42 | comment |
Why Won't You Die?: The Carakiller trying to attack the armoured Rattleback. | |
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The Future Is Wild (Franchise) / int_f1d05e8e | type |
Spider Swarm | |
The Future Is Wild (Franchise) / int_f1d05e8e | comment |
Spider Swarm: One of the speculative future creatures is the Silver Spider, which has a similar eusocial caste system to ants or bees. | |
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The Future Is Wild (Franchise) / int_f9f2c33 | type |
RunningGag | |
The Future Is Wild (Franchise) / int_f9f2c33 | comment |
Running Gag: A surprising amount of creatures are described as being three meters in size, whether it be three meters long, three meters tall, or having a three meter wingspan. | |
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The Future Is Wild (Franchise) / int_fb9e2ffd | type |
Team Pet | |
The Future Is Wild (Franchise) / int_fb9e2ffd | comment |
Team Pet: Squibby the Squibbon. | |
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The Future Is Wild (Franchise) / int_fbd285b7 | type |
Comically Missing the Point | |
The Future Is Wild (Franchise) / int_fbd285b7 | comment |
Comically Missing the Point: In "Sign Of The Time Flyer": | |
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