Extreme Dinosaurs

Extreme Dinosaurs is an American animated series from 1997 based on a toy line from Mattel starring a foursome of heroic anthropomorphic dinosaurs and their nemeses: a trio of malevolent dromeosaurids with plans for world domination. Eventually, the evil dinosaurs' objective is to cause global warming, which will make life on earth more comfortable for reptiles. In Extreme Dinosaurs, the prehistoric reptiles were transformed by an alien criminal, and were given increased intelligence and an anthropomorphic form. A new female, alien, police officer character who became involved in the struggle by accident was also added. The key hero and villain characters first appeared in the cartoon series Street Sharks in the last few episodes of that series, the heroes where dubbed the Dino Vengers and were slightly different than the Extreme Dinosaurs. They also seem to be somewhat prejudice of raptors except for maybe Stegz.

Characters

Extreme Dinosaurs

• T-Bone: The leader of the Dinosaurs, T-Bone is a Tyrannosaurus rex. He is easily the most serious of the group, although he does have a more casual side. Whereas the others often become distracted by their own interests, T-Bone is always focused. His signature move is the "Saurian Stomp" which causes an earthquake. Voice done by Scott McNeil.
• Stegz: The show's technological specialist, Stegz is a Stegosaurus. He can roll into a saw blade like attack. Voice done by Sam Khouth.
• Bullzeye: A wise-cracking Pteranodon, his shriek creates sonic waves. Bullzeye has a habit of buying many things from many places, such as the shopping channel. Voice done by Jason Gray-Stanford.
• Spike: A martial arts expert, Spike is a Triceratops armed with a hard head that can bust through, apparently, anything. Voice done by Cusse Mankuma.
• Hardrock: Joined the team partway through the series. Hard Rock is an Ankylosaurus. In the group, he is the nicest, most caring, and most understanding. Voice done by Blu Mankuma.

Raptors

Their enemies are the Raptors, a gang of cyborg dromeosaurids.

• Bad Rap: the leader, has a metal braces-like device attached to his mouth (and, briefly, a weapon on one claw that can dissolve solid rock effortlessly). His goal is to permanently alter the earth's biosphere to closer resemble the mesozoic. Voice done by Gary Chalk.

• Spittor: has launchers on the backs of each wrist and in the throat that spray potent, adhesive acid. His supply runs out in the first episode and he spends other episodes trying to find a substitute. The "brain" is quite skilled at making up sophisticated plans. Voice done by Terry Klassen.

• Haxx: has implants on the backs of each wrist that produce energy blades, tail has been replaced with a blade covered spinning duplication. Less gifted dinosaur: Too clumsy and idiotic to carry out his companions' plans usually spoiling the whole plot. Voice done by Lee Tockar.

(during the episodes of Street Sharks they also appeared. Bad Rap and Spittor had their basic hide colors exchanged)

Quadrainians

• Chedra: a female law officer who has been stranded on Earth. Companion of the Extreme Dinosaurs. Resembles a human but for her blue skin and hair. Chedra is obsessed with law and always carries a Codebook wherein the many rules of her race are inscribed. Although her book is (as T-Bone observes) sixty-five million years out of date, Chedra persists in quoting from it and in scolding her friends when they violate its edicts. Voice done by Louise Vallance.

• Argor: a criminal on the run who created both the Extreme Dinosaurs and the Raptors out of ordinary Earth saurians 65 million years ago. He then fled to another dimension when the planet began volcanically erupting (thanks to a machine he gave Bad Rap), abandoning his creations. Voice done by Terry Klassen.

Humans

• Porcupine McVells: Paleontologist and owner of a private Dinosaur Museum. Being very used to oddities, he has no objection to allowing the ravenous Extreme Dinosaurs to stay in his establishment for as long as they choose. He lends them a "crock-pot" to use as an incubator for the then-unhatched egg that would later become Stegz's pet Ostrich, Ditto; shares his knowledge of machinery; and presumably keeps their existence a secret.

• Becky Scarwell: a secretive Scientist who has been researching mutations and extra-terrestrials. She captures the Extreme Dinosaurs more than once, learning in the process how intelligent they are. voice by Adam Gardiner

• Prince H: the prince of England who sometimes helps the Extreme Dinosaurs with some missions. He keeps their secret too.

List of Episodes

• 1 Out of Time
• 2 Fossil Fooled
• 3 Ick-thysaurus Vacation
• 3.5 Raptors For Breakfast!
• 4 Inevitable Eggstinction
• 5 Raptoroid
• 6 Bullseye Surfs The Web
• 7 Saurian Sniffles
• 8 Jurassic Art
• 9 Mission Implausible
• 10 Loch Ness Mess
• 11 Rebels without a Clue
• 12 Dialing for Dinosaurs
• 13 Cyber-Raptors
• 14 Lunar Toons
• 15 Raptorian Crude
• 16 Incredible Shrinking Dinosaurs
• 17 Shrink Rap
• 18 Jurassic Art
• 19 There's no Place like Dome
• 20 The Rule Book of Love
• 21 Have a Nice Daynosaur
• 22 The Dinosaur Prophesy
• 23 Bones of Contention
• 24 The Bad Seed
• 25 The Return of Argor
• 26 Holiday on Ice
• 27 Earth VS. The Flying Raptors
• 28 The Raptor who would be King
• 29 Jelousaurus on Ice
• 30 Day of the Condorsaurus
• 31 Night of the Living Pumpkins
• 32 Lights Camera Raptors
• 33 A Few Good Dinosaurs
• 34 Captain Pork
• 35 Jinxed
• 36 Enter the Dinosaur
• 37 The Weresaur
• 38 Colosso-Dome
• 39 Dinosaur Warriors
• 40 Tiptoe Through the Tulips
• 41 Safari-Saurus
• 42 Cliff Notes
• 43 The Mysterious Island of Dr. Monstromo
• 44 Agent Double O Dinosaur
• 45 T-Foot
• 46 Zogwalla-Con
• 47 Surfasaur's Up
• 48 Salsafied
• 49 Sir Gus and the Dragon
• 50 Medusasaur
• 51 The Extreme Files
• 52 A Bone to Pick

See also

• Anthropomorphic Superheroes

Extreme Dinosaurs Toy Line

The Extreme Dinosaurs, like Beast Wars, had a toy line to accompany the show. The toys were mostly made of soft vinyl and included either one or several weapons. Repaints to many of the Extreme Dinosaurs also proliferated during the nineties.