Extreme Dinosaurs is an animated television series, produced by DIC. The series originally aired in syndication between 1 September[1]–24 December 1997.[2]
The show is in the same vein as both the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Jurassic Park and is itself a spinoff to the show Street Sharks, in which the group first appeared in under the name of "Dino Vengers".
Plot[]
The series starred a Tyrannosaurus, a Triceratops, a Stegosaurus, and a Pteranodon that were transformed into super warriors by an interdimensional criminal named Argor Zardok. They rebelled against the alien criminal and battle with Argor's second group of warriors known as the evil Raptors (being based on scaly dromaeosaurs). Eventually, the Raptors' objective is to cause global warming by increasing the Earth's temperature, which will make life on earth more comfortable for dinosaurs.
Characters[]
Protagonists[]
- T-Bone - a Tyrannosaurus and the team's leader who is usually attentive to the primary objective even where the others are distracted. His signature move is that he can perform alone or with any in the group, is the "Saurian Stomp" which shakes the local ground.
- Spike - a Triceratops with one broken horn who is the Extreme Dinosaurs' martial arts expert and the residential chef. Despite his eagerness to fight, he tends a garden in his free time.
- Bullzeye - a wise-cracking Pteranodon whose chief weapon is a shriek of ear-splitting frequency. Bullzeye is lazy and given to impulse buying.
- Stegz - a Stegosaurus who is the team's technological specialist and the most contemplative of the four. He can curl his body into a destructive saw blade, using the plates on his back as its cutting edge.
- Hardrock - an Ankylosaurus from an alternate reality inhabited by humanoid dinosaurs. After helping them against the Raptors, Hard Rock joined the Extreme Dinosaurs. He is the principal pacifist.
Antagonists[]
- Bad Rap - the leader of the Raptors. He is orange with yellow stripe tail and a metal brace-like device attached to his mouth. He briefly had a weapon on one hand that dissolved solid matter effortlessly. This is later replaced by a rocket-launcher. His goal is to permanently alter the Earth's biosphere to closely resemble the Mesozoic.
- Spittor - the brains of the Raptors. He is mulberry-purple with white on his neck, chest and feet. Spittor wears no clothing and carries a tank of various liquids released from nozzles on his hands, tail, and mouth.
- Haxx - a mahogany Raptor with implants on the backs of each wrist that produce green blades. His tail has been replaced with a blade that is capable of spinning like a drill. Haxx is the most-gifted among of all of the main characters with his abilities, but he is set back by his low intelligence.
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