Big Tina
Names: Big TinaTina
First appears in Book 5: The Butcher’s Masquerade, chapter 28 (28)
Appearances
What you know
Book 5: The Butcher’s Masquerade
- Ch 28Big Tina is a young, angry dinosaur in a pink boa who eats ursine, often runs away from the mongoliensis, and attacks Point Mongo.
- Ch 44Big Tina was once Tina, an eight-year-old ursine ballerina, transformed into a dinosaur by Scolopendra's nine-tier attack.
- Ch 44Tina's cleric father stormed her secret ballet recital, whipped her mother and broke her performance wand just before the cataclysm.
- Ch 44A glamoured fragment reveals Big Tina is a vampire whose victims' body parts become her minions.
- Ch 45Big Tina and other dinosaurs gather slaughtered body parts in town so they can reform into powerful glamoured minions.
- Ch 52Big Tina is a level 80 Immortalized allosaurus city boss, once an ursine ballet student, wearing a tiara and tutu grown into her skin.
- Ch 52Big Tina carries deep rage from watching her cleric father beat her mother Kiwi, and barely remembers who she was.
- Ch 54After meeting Mongo under Kiwi's supervision, Big Tina's map dot turns from red to white.
- Ch 61Big Tina breaks away from Kiwi and eats sleeping mushroom guards in town.
- Ch 71Signet tells Carl that Tina doesn't want to dance; she wants her mother back, and her mother is Kiwi.
- Ch 72Big Tina's recharged wand casts The Recital, enrapturing the audience while she dances with Mongo, Kiwi and thirty costumed velociraptors.
- Ch 73On seeing her mother transformed, Big Tina speaks for the first time, calling 'Mommy', completing The Recital quest.
Book 7: This Inevitable Ruin
- Ch 17Tina, a giant allosaurus in a pink tutu, is being kept inside the stronghold and escapes when the door opens.
- Ch 18Tina, who woke up during the Butcher's Masquerade, has started talking and calls Mongo 'Papa'.
- Ch 38Tina is a giant allosaurus in a pink tutu with a magic wand who can find invisible enemies.
- Ch 90Big Tina single-handedly destroyed a fire lance tower and refuses her mother Kiwi's call to return to the FUPA.
Connections
- related toKiwiusually travels with the mongoliensisKiwi sends her pack to protect Big Tina
- family ofKiwiher mother
- related toGlamoured Fragmenther minions
- enemy ofMiriam Domfought; Miriam likely infected her
- related toOdious Creeperformed from her undead army
- friend ofSimoom
Key moments
- Book 5 · Ch 28South shore massacre
Samantha scouts the far shore and finds the ursine defenders killed by a large dinosaur, which Areson identifies as Big Tina, triggering the quest The Recital.
- Book 5 · Ch 39Massacre at Prepotente Town Number Four
Carl, Donut and Samantha arrive at a shadowed ursine town to find its streets covered in day-old bear corpses and pink feathers, all killed by Big Tina, with a few survivors hiding.
- Book 5 · Ch 44Prudence tells Big Tina's story
Hiding in the pub, ursine barmaid Prudence explains Big Tina was a girl whose ballet recital was crushed by her cleric father before Scolopendra transformed her.
- Book 5 · Ch 44Big Tina is a vampire
A bear claw crawls away as a glamoured minion of Big Tina, revealing the rampaging dinosaur is a vampire.
- Book 5 · Ch 45The body-part pile
Leaving the pub, Carl and Donut find the streets swarming with reanimated body parts gathered into a pile by vampire dinosaurs; Carl bombards it with missiles as they flee.
- Book 5 · Ch 48The Creeping Apocalypse begins
Miriam's death cures the vampirism but leaves Big Tina's undead army uncontrolled; a world quest demands all fifty Odious Creepers die before sunset.
- Book 5 · Ch 52Big Tina arrives
Big Tina, an enormous allosaurus, arrives with the raptor pack and roars at Mongo; Kiwi restrains her daughter.
- Book 5 · Ch 54Big Tina accepts Mongo
Kiwi brokers a meeting between Big Tina and Mongo, and Tina turns non-hostile, prompting Carl to plan a dance recital.
- Book 5 · Ch 61Big Tina breaks loose
Big Tina slips away from her mother and devours unconscious mushroom guards until Kiwi and the pack surround her.
- Book 5 · Ch 63Caravan to the castle
Theobold escorts Carl, Britney, Donut and the dinosaurs toward the high elf castle, explaining that the queen's protection covers all guests.
- Book 5 · Ch 64Arrival at the castle
The changeling posing as Signet is turned away, the dinosaurs are caged and moved to the hunters' attendant room, and the crawlers pass security into Ballroom A.
- Book 5 · Ch 72Donut's talent show performance
Donut charms Ferdinand into her minion, sings 'All Eyes on Me', and Big Tina dances with the velociraptors, transfixing the whole room.
- Book 5 · Ch 73Kiwi restored and Tina speaks
Donut turns Kiwi back into a bear with a hidden potion ball, and Big Tina recognises her mother and calls for her.
- Book 7 · Ch 17Tina escapes
As Carl and Tipid open the stronghold's huge door, Tina the allosaurus bursts out to greet Mongo.
- Book 7 · Ch 18Mongo meets pregnant Kiwi
Tina greets Mongo as 'Papa', and Kiwi, now an ursine and heavily pregnant, hugs Mongo before taking Tina back inside.
- Book 7 · Ch 37Carl kills a worm-controlled mage
Carl beats Charles Andrew to death and kills the worm Goldblum, warns the army about brain worms, and orders Tina unleashed.
- Book 7 · Ch 38Donut unleashes Tina
Kiwi refuses to let Tina fight; Carl relents, but Donut orders Tina out, rallies the troops from the castle roof, and leads a charge on the paratroopers.
- Book 7 · Ch 39Destroying the Reaver beachhead
Tina charges the cyborg paratroopers while summoned card monsters join the fight; Carl detonates their bomb automatons with Tripper, and the defenders finish them off.