The Faceless: The entire point of the special is for Nigel to uncover the face of this creature.His reasoning is that it will recognize him as a mammal, despite his size and walking on two feet, and don't fear it because all contemporary mammals are small and inoffensive to it. Conviction by Counterfactual Clue: Nigel dares to walk up to one and touch it.Camera Abuse: At the end, one licks Nigel's camera.Anachronism Stew: Like Tarbosaurus, Saurolophus, and Mononykus, it lived around 4-5 million years after the setting of the episode.The titular "giant claw", a large vegetarian theropod of the little-known therizinosaur family. Uncertain Doom: "Land of Giants" ends with the Sarcosuchus attacking him while Nigel yells him to watch out.So the only time we hear him is when he alerts Nigel of a danger. The Quiet One: He's not supposed to speak either, as he is just the cameraman.Oh, Crap!: Every time he lets out a worried " Nigel.".No Name Given: Because Nigel never calls him by name.
Except when Nigel tells him to, but then he immediately begins to record again from a few feet away. Intrepid Reporter: No matter how much Camera Abuse goes on, he never stops filming.He Who Must Not Be Seen: Justified because he is a cameraman and doesn't want to ruin the shot.Camera Abuse: Forced to fend off a Mama Bear Protoceratops with a microphone, hide from a Tarbosaurus while Nigel frantically tells him to stop recording, woke up in the middle of the night by Mononykus, chased by a Velociraptor pack, and also chased twice by Sarcosuchus.Butt-Monkey: Due to the constant instances of Camera Abuse.Nigel's unnamed, unseen, unlucky cameraman. He describes his plane ride as "Flying with Pterosaurs". If we factor in Prehistoric Park and Primeval, he might be capable of creating or controlling one of the time anomalies in the latter. Riddle for the Ages: So how does he travel back in time? It is never explained, but nobody cares anyway.He is not miserable, but he seems to enjoy being threatened or (literally) spit on by prehistoric creatures. Exposition: His main role, as he replaces the narrator. Be it a red cloth to distract Protoceratops, enough truck weights for an adult Argentinosaurus or a plane to find a herd of them. Crazy-Prepared: He never misses anything.Bunny-Ears Lawyer: He seems Lethally Stupid at times, but he always comes out unscratched and succeeding.Be Careful What You Wish For: He spends all of "Land of Giants" wishing to witness the "ultimate hunt" - Argentinosaurus by Giganotosaurus.However, this is undone by the fact that 1) he has a filming crew, presumably carrying more supplies and 2) he has access to a jeep and a small plane in "Land of Giants". Bag of Holding: In "The Giant Claw", he appears to carry everything he uses in his backpack.
Badass Bookworm: He actually carries a field book, like any self-respecting naturalist.As You Know: He already knows that the creature in "The Giant Claw" is a Therizinosaurus, but he doesn't know how it looks or that it is a vegetarian.As Himself: Marven is a real host of wildlife documentaries.Adventurer Archaeologist: Not an actual archaeologist, but he nails the look.
He later repeats in Sea Monsters, Prehistoric Park, and even has a cameo in an episode of Primeval, acting in the same fashion (see character pages of each for tropes relating to Marven's role in them). A real British zoologist and adventurer who hosts the show after travelling back in time.
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