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Maybe what killed all the dinosaurs wasn't a meteor, or a flood, a drought, or any other sort of geological event that might have happened 65 million years ago. Maybe it wasn't even due to powerful aliens intervening or time-travelers messing around. No, some writers prefer the theory that the dinosaurs were responsible for their own extinction. They were too stupid to take sensible precautions for their future survival, or were intelligent enough to develop the means of their own destruction. Either way, this provides a lesson for the human race and other sapient species if they want to avoid the same fate, though paleontologists might not believe the story. Contrast The Day the Dinosaurs Died. |
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The Far Side jokes that dinosaurs died out because they practiced excessive smoking. This becomes even funnier if you know that the cannabis family (which also includes marijuana) first originated in the late Mesozoic. Another strip implies the equally erroneous belief that the dinosaurs were wiped out by an ice age, showing several scaly dinosaurs ridiculing a nondescript furry creature (possibly an ancient mammal relative) — with only one of the former group noticing that it's starting to snow. |
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The Simpsons: In one episode, lampooning The Bible, a pig in the Garden of Eden warns Adam (Homer) against eating fruit from the Tree of Knowledge. One of the dinosaurs ate one and well... that's why there aren't any more of them. | |
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Dinosaurs: The True Story: The dinosaurs have evolved enough to have a nuclear arsenal to destroy the incoming meteor. Unfortunately their President is a T. rex whose tiny arms can't reach the Big Red Handprint Scanner. | |
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal: One comic shows a spaceship trying to tow an asteroid into lunar orbit and accidentally sending it careening towards Earth, the last panel revealing that the pilot was a dinosaur. | |
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This trope appears as a vampire fable in The Dresden Files. The White Court claim that mammals feel love and take care of their children while dinosaurs didn't. Dresden says he thinks that probably isn't true (he's right) but since it's a parable about The Power of Love that's not really the point. | |
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A dinosaur holding the wrong end of the wand when performing his vanishing spell, so they all went to the Land of Lost Things (Donald Duck). Remember kids, improper handling of dangerous equipment grants horrible consequences. | |
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Paraphrased in Schlock Mercenary 9/8/18 (which is amusing trope-wise, because an earlier strip shows they did see the asteroid coming... far too late): | |
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Primal Rage stars dinosaur gods (along with two giant ape ones) who fought each other in the Mesozoic, eventually causing the extinction of the dinosaurs. And they're reawakened After the End of human civilization. | |
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Pacific Rim: It's claimed the alien creators of the Kaiju attacking Earth first attempted to colonize the planet during the time of the dinosaurs, but gave up because the atmosphere wasn't hospitable for them. The exposition leaves it deliberately ambiguous as to whether the Kaiju killed the dinosaurs or were the dinosaurs, which in case of the latter means their extinction impeded the efforts of an alien invasion. | |
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The Perry Bible Fellowship posits that the dinosaurs chose to go willingly. | |
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A New Yorker cartoon by Donald Reilly has a mother disciplining her daughter in a natural history museum, telling her "They got extinct because they didn't listen to their mommies." | |
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The 2001 miniseries of The Lost World combines this with an in-universe instance of Science Marches On, with Professor Summerlee arguing that dinosaurs' size and lethargy prevented them from competing with the smaller, more agile mammals. Given that the series is set in 1911, this would not be an unreasonable view for a respected paleontologist to have. | |
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Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods and Dragon Ball Super say that Beerus the God of Destruction wiped the dinosaurs out because they were rude to him. This despite the series' Fictional Earth having Living Dinosaurs, some of whom are anthropomorphic. | |
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Occurs indirectly in Of Ants and Dinosaurs. There, the dinosaurs went extinct because of overcrowding and a cold war between two states, leading to the ants deciding to regress the dinosaurs' civilisation to save themselves. The thing which killed them in the end though was the antimatter bombs that they made, which went off without anyone there (the ants had killed off all the important figures) to stop them from going off. | |
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Discussed in Ice Age: The Meltdown, in which Manny, who is widely believed to be the last mammoth, claims it's impossible for mammoths to go extinct since they're the biggest animals on Earth. When someone brings up the dinosaurs, he states that "the dinosaurs got cocky, they made enemies". Humorously enough, he says this in response to a question from a Gastornis, which is a type of bird. As in, you know, an actual dinosaur. It's later revealed in Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs that some of the dinosaurs are still around. | |
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