This is a list of characters that appear in Dinosaur King. The English versions of the series use names differing from the Japanese versions; in this article the English names are used.Dinosaur King brochure. Sega.
Humans D-Team The D-Team are the protagonists of the series who are very knowledgeable about dinosaurs. They prevent the Alpha Gang from succeeding in their goal by saving the dinosaurs they can find.
Max Taylor is the son of a paleontologist Dr. Spike Taylor. He is the unofficial leader of D-Team. Max is mostly seen wearing a visor that has Triceratops horns which double as flashlights. He is brash, impulsive and does not generally think his actions through. Max deeply cares for dinosaurs and hates how the Alpha Gang abuses them. His partner is a Triceratops called Chomp, which he named because he chomps away on anything he can get his mouth on. Besides having Chomp, Max owns some most of the lightning and water wild dinosaurs that they claim.
True name: Rex Ancient (used in the 4Kids English dub only)
Max's best friend, Rex was found as an infant by paleontologist Dr. Owen in an egg-like container within a dinosaur exhibit in New York. Rex is now 11 and has been left with Max and his family while his father goes searching for fossils with Dr. Owen being a family friend of the Taylor family. It is revealed in one episode that Rex was left at Max's house because his father wanted him to be near a real family. Rex's partner is a Carnotaurus he named Ace. Rex also owns most of the fire and wind dinosaurs. Rex is a good-hearted boy and is relatively quiet, but also quite short-tempered from the beginning. At the end of the first series, it is revealed that Rex's real parents are Dr. Ancient and Dr. Cretacia and he reunites with them. In the finale, Rex, the Alpha Gang, Seth, Chomp, Ace, Paris and the Ancients return to the year 2126.
The younger sister of Dr. Reese Drake whose sunglasses double as a camera. Zoe knows when to keep focused and cares deeply for her friends. Zoe sometimes shows to be excessively fond of some stars. She owns a Parasaurolophus called Paris and also most of the grass dinosaurs. Zoe's parents are both veterinarians and own an animal hospital. In the dub of episode "Vaccination Vacation", the Drake's home as well as the family was transported onto Zeta Point.
Dr. Spike Taylor is Max's father and a paleontologist. Like Max, Spike is obsessed with dinosaurs and runs the D-Lab. He wields a whip that often gets caught on things which are generally things he is not aiming for. Dr. Taylor can also be over-reactive when a dinosaur appears. He also saves the D-Team when they are cornered by the Alpha Gang, catches the new cards, and reclaims the lost Dino Holders from Seth. His name is a pun on "Spike Tail" (a nickname for Stegosaurus). In the "Mesozoic Meltdown" episodes, the Taylors, the Ancients, and the Drakes get captured by Spectral Space Pirates.
A scientist who is Zoe's older sister, Dr. Spike Taylor's assistant, a certified pilot, and the creator of the D-Team's Dino Holders. She maintains a calm personality at all times when around others and has a rather monotonic voice even when angry or embarrassed. Zander has feelings for Reese which she may or may not return given that she couldn't recognize Zander without her glasses. Reese stays at the D-Lab in the Mesozoic Meltdown with Rod and Laura and is later taken hostage by Seth and his Cryolophosaurus.
Alpha Gang The Alpha Gang are the primary antagonists of the first series who abduct any dinosaur cards they find using their own dinosaurs as their muscle. They conduct experiments on the dinosaur cards they find. The Alpha Gang's headquarters is the mobile island called Zeta Point which was later revealed to be a disguised timeship called the Backlander. They later renounce their evil ways in the finale of the first season when Seth turns on them and later help the D-Team in their fight with the Spectral Space Pirates. Among its members are:
The zany, egotistic, and incompetent mad scientist who is the leader of the Alpha Gang and the grandfather of Laura and Rod. Dr. Z plans to use the dinosaur cards in his plans to rule the world. He also seems to know the history of these cards, though he was not the creator as the method was created by Dr. Ancient and Dr. Cretacia. Dr. Z did invent the Move Cards that Dr. Ancient had been dissatisfied with. When Dr. Ancient and Dr. Cretacia wanted to return to the year 2126 to raise baby Rex, Dr. Z and Seth jettisoned their pods into the timestream and tried to do the same for baby Rex only for the intervention of Jonathan to prevent that. This accident caused the Alpha Gang to end up in the present day and the dinosaur cards were scattered throughout the Earth. Dr. Z often sends Ursula, Zander and Ed to obtain dinosaur cards (which were scattered when his time machine exploded) for him while he stays in his lab on Zeta Point researching and experimenting with the dinosaur cards that he already has, unless it is a certain occasion. When Ursula, Zander, and Ed fail, he always berates them for their incompetence and punishes them in different ways. Dr. Z sometimes attempts to aid them with some of his inventions, but his inventions often explode as a running gag. Dr. Z has accompanied Ursula, Zander, and Ed when it came to missions that involved Dr. Z reclaiming his Secret Dinosaurs which he worked on. When he had a bad back from holding up Alpha Metal, he didn't like Seth's idea of having his grandchildren obtaining the Dinosaur Cards. In the battle against the Spectral Space Pirates, Dr. Z invented the Dino-Tectors so that the dinosaurs of the D-Team and the Alpha Gang can armor up.
A member of the Alpha Gang, Ursula works with Zander and Ed to obtain dinosaur cards for Dr. Z. She is often conceited, acting like a queen in front of her two cohorts and possessing an elevated, almost delusional, opinion of her beauty. Whenever failure occurs with the three, Ursula thinks that it is not her own fault (even when it is), but blames the other two who keep bringing her down. A running gag is that she is often called an "old lady" (usually by Zoe, "Obasan" in Japanese, meaning grandma or grandmother) which drives her crazy, and she always knows when somebody calls her that no matter how far away they are. Dr. Owen later develops a crush on her which she doesn't return. In the second series, Ursula was being asked to marry Dr. Owen in the final episode, but she rejected him in return.
The tall sunglasses-wearing member of the Alpha Gang, Zander works with Ursula and Ed to obtain dinosaur cards for Dr. Z. He is usually the one who comes up with a plan that always goes horribly wrong. Zander is also the person who buys the Alpha Gang's vehicles and has to deal with the consequences when they are destroyed or lost. He tries to act smart and sophisticated, but is nervous, awkward, and cowardly most of the time. In episode 30, he develops a crush on Reese.
The short fat member of the Alpha Gang, Ed works with Ursula and Zander to obtain dinosaur cards for Dr. Z. Despite his cowardly behavior, he follows the other two anywhere even if they end up in a dangerous predicament. Ed likes cute girls and enjoys eating bananas though he is something of a glutton and is fond of eating in general. Ed is the funny one on the team and is rather stupid. His only sign of intelligence is in "The Forest Fire Effect" when he shows them what kind of damage would be done by the fire the fight against the Spectral Space Pirates caused in the Jurassic Period (which resulted in sentient plants and giant insects). In the video game however, he is the complete opposite of how he is in the show. Ed also had a running gag in the first series on jinxing his team during missions. He doesn't have an official partner, but Ed prefers to use "Tank" a lot. and Rod Laura Rod and Laura Dr. Z's grandchildren. Rod is gifted with science and often helps his grandfather with his inventions. Laura is a genius with numbers and makes money playing in the stock market to fund the Alpha Gang's activities. Despite the pair being considerably more intelligent than Ursula, Zander and Ed, they generally just stay at the base and rarely come up with any plans. Seth later appoints them to obtain the dinosaurs for him when both of them feel homesick. Around the time when Seth turns against Dr. Z, Laura and Rod find out about what Dr. Z and Seth did with Dr. Ancient and Dr. Cretacia during the trip back to their own time. In the second series, they stay with Reece while the rest of the gang travel through time, although later on they rejoin the gang when a plant invasion occurs. Unlike other members of the Alpha Gang, Rod and Laura seem to get along with Max and the others by the second series.
Seth is a mystical human with knowledge about the dinosaurs and the cards as he was the former assistant of Dr. Ancient. He is manipulative, calm and cunning, but Seth's goals were to actually alter time with the altered dinosaurs he created to negate the dinosaurs' extinction. To achieve that, Seth allies himself with Dr. Z, playing on the man's agenda and even helping him in jettisoning Dr. Ancient and Cretia's pods into the timestream. Being the most intelligent member of the Alpha Gang, Seth is often annoyed by the antics of Ursula, Zander, and Ed with whom he denies association. He is often seen assisting some of the Alpha Droids in repairing Dr. Z's time machine and even giving him a status report. At the time when Dr. Z was recuperating from a bad back, Seth had Laura and Rod obtain the dinosaur cards for his own agenda. When Jonathan manages to expose his plot, Seth finally turns on his comrades by using the Fire Scorcher move on Saurophaganax causing the D-Team and the Alpha Gang to retreat. He then caused the Alpha Gang to retreat as he turns a complete Tyrannosaurus fossil into the Black Tyrannosaurus to hold them and the D-Team at bay while he attempts to go back to the past. However, as Black Tyrannosaurus was defeated by the combined powers of the D-Team and the Alpha Gang with Max and Chomp attempting to stop him on their own, the time ship's systems overloaded with Seth sucked into the timestream as a result. He was later rescued by the Spectral Space Pirates and ally with them under the alias of . When working for the Spectral Space Pirates, Seth created Gigas, Maximus, and Armatus (presumably from the fossils that he had based their dinosaur forms off of in the same way he created the Black Tyrannosaurus). Seth later sets up a trick to sneak into the D-Team's time ship and get the Cosmos Stones. He eventually attacks the Spectral Space Pirates with his Cryolophosaurus after this. After a battle with the D-Team, he manages to get the Cosmos Stones before Jark reclaims them and forms the Black Pterosaur. Seth ended up unconscious after ramming the Backlander into the Black Pterosaur. His comatose body was taken back to the future with Rex and the Alpha Gang.
Helga serves as a strict and short-tempered housekeeper of the Alpha Gang. Sometimes she seems too large and too strong to be a human. It is later revealed that she is actually a robot created by Dr. Z when the D-Team encounter her again in Cambodia and even protects Laura and Rod from the Stegosaurus. When in Chinatown to reclaim Laura and Rod, Seth ends up deactivating Helga causing Zeta Point to end up a mess without her. She was retrieved when her body ended up in Hollywood, but with bad programming. When Seth turns on the Alpha Gang, Helga holds off the Saurophaganax enough for Dr. Z, Ursula, Zander, Ed, and Rod to escape. She was later repaired by Jonathan and later ends up accompanying the D-Team and the Alpha Gang in fighting the Spectral Space Pirates. Helga was the one who discovered that the Gel-Jarks have a weakness to salt. Alpha Droids