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{{trope}}
[[File:Dino F-14s.png|link=Calvin and Hobbes|frame|See, this is what ''[[Jurassic Park]]'' should've done.]]
{{quote|'''Roy:''' But the rooster was determined to get it back with the aid of his trained dinosaurs!
'''Orson:''' Trained dinosaurs? Where did the trained dinosaurs come from?
'''Roy:''' Same place all those [[Instant Awesome, Just Add Ninja|ninjas came from]].
|''[[Garfield and Friends|U.S. Acres]]'', "The Name Game"}}
[[Dinosaur Media|Ever notice how popular dinosaurs are these days?]] Just look around, you see them in cartoons, movies, there are dinosaur toys, posters... Even [https://preview.redd.it/mc0gzmaev4351.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=3dc81f503609c12683466102b1b481606755510b little dinosaur stickers on bananas]! And you'd be hard-pressed to find an exhibit at the Museum of Natural History more popular than the huge dinosaur fossils. Considering that they haven't been around for about 65 million years, dinosaurs are [[Rule of Cool|cool]]. No exceptions. (Well, [[Barney and Friends|almost none.]])
Of course, that is the point. Since dinosaurs [[Real Life|actually existed]] in the past, some writers like to throw them into their stories. In many cases, this makes no sense at all, but when dinosaurs show up, we're generally in the realm of [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|awesome for the sake of awesome]]. Generally, the dinosaurs seen will be [[Stock Dinosaurs|restricted to a few well-known types]].
The essence of this trope is the presence of dinosaurs which are not ultimately critical to the plot. If the story would be essentially the same without dinosaurs, it's an example. On the other hand, if [[Dinosaur Media|dinosaurs are integral to the premise]], it's not an example.
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See also [[Dinosaurs Are Dragons]] and [[Somewhere a Palaeontologist Is Crying]]. Compare [[Dinosaur Media]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
* The random and gratuitous dinosaurs are practically everywhere in the ''[[Dragon Ball]]'' and ''[[Dragonball Z]]'' setting. "Fly home safely, and look out for rampaging dinosaurs!"
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** The island of Little Garden, which is populated by Dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures.
▲== Comics ==
* In a classic example, DC did a good deal of war comics in the 60s. One was called "The War that Time Forgot". It was [[World War II]]... but there was an island full of giant apes, military test robots, an elite military unit called "The Suicide Squad" (related to the later DC group), circus acrobats, and, of course, dinosaurs.
* ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'' gives us Tyrannosaurs in F-14s, as you can see on this page.▼
{{quote|'''Calvin''': This is '''so''' cool!▼
'''Hobbes''': This is '''so''' stupid. }}▼
* Gert in ''[[Runaways]]'' has a pet ''Deinonychus'' named [[Fluffy the Terrible|Old Lace]].
* ''[[Gold Digger (Comic Book)|Gold Digger]]'' has a race of technologically advanced dinosaurs who serve as both a major source of archaeological finds for the scientists in the cast to dig up and the cause of a whole lot of bad events in ages past. They also made two dinosaur-esque races via genetic engineering, the Amonians and the Dragons, who both have regular characters in the cast.
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'''Alfred''': [[Sarcasm Mode|And here I thought]] [[Deadpan Snarker|Batman was the detective.]] }}
** A [[Golden Age]] comic (1946's "Batman" #35) shows the original origin of the T. Rex trophy: a "souvenir" from an adventure Batman and Robin had on "Dinosaur Island," a ''[[Jurassic Park]]''-style theme park with robotic dinosaurs (versus genetically-engineered ones).
* ''[[2000
** The title character of ''[[Sláine]]'' has gone up against dinosaurs animated from amber.▼
* Major Bummer gave us [https://web.archive.org/web/20121026061628/http://filmonic.com/coolness-tyrannosaurus-reich-dc-nazi-dinosaur Tyrannosaurus Reich]. Can't believe that got a mention in the other wiki before getting here.
* Bob, Dawn, and Rex, from ''[[Dilbert]]''.▼
* ''Dinosaur Bop / Wanda et les dinosaures'' (''Wanda and the dinosaurs'') is set in a comical (with realist drawings) post-apocalyptic world were humanity regressed at prehistoric age (but more like "American sixties in a prehistoric setting"). For no reason, dinosaurs are here anew, and are used as pets, food or... cars (but ''T. rex'' is still a predator and wreck poor Eddy's car).
▲* The title character of ''Sláine'' has gone up against dinosaurs animated from amber.
* [[FoxTrot|Jason FOX]] has a major dinosaur obsession. He once sent an electronic message to the White House saying "increase dinosaur DNA research" over and over again.▼
* The Tar Pits in ''[[Sin City]]'' feature dinosaur statues. Frank Miller said he put them there as an excuse to draw dinosaurs.
* In ''[[All-Star Superman
* The villain in [[Neil Gaiman]]'s ''[[Mr. Hero:
* [http://twitter.com/Dr_Dinosaur AH!] [https://web.archive.org/web/20100722013650/http://www.nuklearpower.com/2009/05/01/fcbd-09-page-5/ DECEPTION!] MAMMAL '''''DECEPTION!'''''
** [[Atomic Robo|MAMMAL ROBOT!]]
* The Malibu Comics franchise ''[[Dinosaurs For Hire]]'' is [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]. An anthropomorphic tyrannosaur, stegosaur, and triceratops (and later a pteranodon) [[They Fight Crime|fight crime]]!
* One of the antagonist races in ''Shakara'' is called the Teknosaurs. And yes, they're a race of cyborg dinosaurs.
* [[Marvel Comics]] also has [http://marvel.wikia.com/Devil_Dinosaur_(Earth-78411) Devil Dinosaur], [[X-Men/Characters/Villains|Sauron]], and [http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/stegro.htm Stegron]. Dinosaurs are also bound to appear in any story that takes place in the [[Lost World|Savage Land]]
* Dinosaurs are cool. [[Venom (Comic Book)|Venom]] and the [[Evil Is Cool| symbiotes are cool.]] So Venomsaurus Rex (a symbiote with a T-Rex as a host) is ''really'' cool.
* The [[Fantasy Kitchen Sink]] that is ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' also has the [http://tmnt.wikia.com/wiki/Triceraton Triceratons]
* ''[[Xenozoic Tales]]'' features lots of dinosaurs. [[After the End|after an environmental apocalypse]] drove humanity into underground bunkers, humanity returns to the surface to find dinosaurs along with species from all prehistoric eras roaming around. The series came to be associated with the name "Cadillacs and Dinosaurs", just to make sure people understood the coolness.
* The graphic novel ''[[Dinosaurs vs. Aliens]]'' adds aliens to the mix.
== Films ==
* Kong Island in ''[[King Kong]]'' generally has dinosaurs scattered around.
** Don't forget that [[King Kong]] also fought [[Godzilla|a certain mutant dinosaur]] in another film.
** And a non-mutated Gorosaurus in ''[[King Kong Escapes]]''.
* The 1951 film ''Two Lost Worlds'' is a Cowboy/Australian Pirate/Dinosaur movie (). It fits this trope well because the only dinosaurs are some stock footage from a previous dinosaur movie that menace some people the pirates maroon on an island. They could have easily been left out, or replaced with more normal dangerous animals.
* The ''[[Ice Age]]'' films are generally accurate in depicting only animals which lived during the Ice Age, or at least after the dinosaurs died out. Guess, then, what the third film featured. Go on.
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* ''[[Future War]]'', because the blatant ''[[Terminator]]'' meets ''Bloodsport'' plot wasn't enough, so they decided to throw in a little ''[[Jurassic Park]]'', too.
* ''[[Night at the Museum]]'' features a T. rex skeleton [[All Animals Are Dogs|that acts like a dog]].
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130826204739/http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1918385_1918401_1918398,00.html This] ''[[Time Magazine|Time]]'' article on lessons from the 2009 Summer Movies shows that despite the success of the second ''Night at the Museum'' and ''[[Ice Age]] 3'' (it says ''[[Up (animation)|Up]]'' features dinosaurs - and it does have a giant bird), two other films with dinos, ''[[Land of the Lost (film)|Land of the Lost]]'' and ''[[Year One]]'', bombed.
* Probably not a great example, but the '[[Future Imperfect|Time Masheen]]' scene of ''[[Idiocracy]]'', where [[World War II]] was depicted by two T-rexes fighting, one wearing an American flag, one wearing a Swastika.
* [[Hammer Horror|Hammer Studios]] made a few [[One Million BC|prehistoric epics]]. The ones ''with'' dinosaurs are so, SO much better than the ones without.
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* The found-footage film ''[[Tape 407]]''.
* ''[[Fighting Fantasy]]'':
▲== Gamebooks ==
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** The Pit Fiend in ''Deathtrap Dungeon'' looks very much like a Tyrannosaurus Rex, except it has no arms.
== Literature ==
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* ''[[The Icemark Chronicles]]'''s third book has the enemy Basilea use 'Tri-Horns' as cavalry. Three guesses as to what they are.
* ''Far-Seer'' is basically the story of Galileo if he was a T-Rex. It is indeed as awesome as it sounds.
* The world in which the fantasy novel ''[[Ten Ghost]]'' takes place has domesticated dinosaurs everywhere, and the less that domesticated variety prowling the wilderness, for seemingly no reason other than to have them.
* The Fel Beasts, flying monsters used as mounts by the Nazgul in ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' were in fact pterodactyls corrupted by Sauron's dark magic. Tolkien confirmed in his notes that they were "pterodactyllic survivors of older geological eras", or in Middle Earth terms, the Elder Days.
== Live Action TV ==
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* Dunedin
* ''[[Danger 5]]'' revolves around the eponymous team's efforts to stop Hitler and the Nazis from taking all of Europe. Given the [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made on Drugs?|nature of the show]], this involves facing various oddities including bullet-proof women and ''[[Rule of Cool|Nazi-controlled dinosaurs]]''.
== Music ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20131227004708/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aovaRsVV28 Hevisaurus]
* [["Weird Al" Yankovic|Weird Al Yankovic]]'s "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gh4zvQfDhi0 Jurassic Park]", turning the [[melodrama]]tic ([[Narm|to the point of hilarity]]) "MacArthur Park" into a [[Filk Song|retelling of]] [[Jurassic Park|Spielberg's movie]].
== Newspaper Comics ==
▲* ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'' gives us Tyrannosaurs in F-14s, as you can see on this page.
▲{{quote|'''Calvin''': This is '''so''' cool!
▲'''Hobbes''': This is '''so''' stupid. }}
▲* Bob, Dawn, and Rex, from ''[[Dilbert]]''.
▲* Jason Fox from ''[[FoxTrot
== Tabletop Games ==
* ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' has dinosaurs in the main books, [[Rule of Cool|seemingly for no reason other than coolness]].
** The Arms and Equipment Guide list several of them as possible mounts, and gives several examples on how to use them, like a Dwarven pike squad on the back of a triceratops.
*** Duplicated in ''[[Eberron]]'', where Halflings use some of the smaller dinosaurs as mounts.
** They can be found in 4th Edition as Behemoths and Drakes, and given Cadillacs and Dinosaurs style names—Macetail, Bloodspike, et cetera—apparently because while dinosaurs are cool, sciencyish names aren't fantasyish enough.
** They made a miniature of a Fiendish T-Rex. As if a T-rex wasn't enough, they slapped the Fiendish template on it.
** ''[[Forgotten Realms]]'' had dinosaurs ''mostly'' hunted to extinctions back when the dragons overran the world, but they remain in isolated places like Chult and Malatra. Where they are [[Call a Rabbit a Smeerp|called]] "thunderers" or "garuda" respectively.
*** Also, Saurials/Lacerials, humanoid [[Lizard Folk|mini-dinosaur people]] introduced in ''Finder's Stone'' trilogy (including human sized stegosaur-folk, fin-headed ones, horse sized triceratops-folk and eagle sized pterodactyl-folk).
* ''[[Exalted]]'', being a setting whose content is decided entirely by [[Rule of Cool]] and [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot]], has gigantic "Tyrant Lizards" that look remarkably like ''T. rex'''es. Presumably due to ''Tyrannosaurus'' being Latin for "Tyrant Lizard". It also has the [[Dinosaurs Are Dragons|Dragon Kings]], which are roughly human-sized sentient dinosaurs who wear armor, can learn to breathe fire, and have enormous crystal clubs with laser blades to hit you with if you piss them off.
* ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]'' Fantasy's Lizardmen are a dinosaur race, their basic troops being "Saurus" and them using "Stegadons" and "Carnosaurs" as mounts and war engines. There are also "Cold Ones," Velociraptor-like things used by the Lizardmen and Dark Elves for cavalry. The beasts eat everything, so the Dark Elves cover themselves in poison to fool the lizards.
*** Also in the Realms, [https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/eberron/images/a/a2/Battletitan.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20120129004050 the mighty battletitan] is a war mount created via nonmagical crossbreading (much like mules are) combining the ferocity of carnivorous dinosaurs with the durability of armored herbivores. They appear in ''Eberron'' too, where the process used to breed them was invented by actual dragons.
** The Cold Ones are mentioned (literally or metaphorically) to be dragon-kin...the ones the Dark Elves use also are subterranean, can live in the cold climate of the Dark Elves' territory, and, IIRC, sweat poisonous goo, which might make them more of a freaky lizard-horse than a dinosaur.
* A lot of [[Death World]]s in ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'' are covered in dinosaur-esque creatures, and the Tyranids themselves are also somewhat dinosaur-y, at least in terms of teeth - the Termagaunts, especially, look like an odd cross between Armadillos, Zerg Hydralisks and ''Velociraptors''.
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** Possibly explained in older literature. Death Worlds were likely worlds seeded by the mysterious Old Ones in the time before the Eldar started to record their history. Since the Lizardmen of Warhammer Fantasy were servants of the Old Ones, it's likely that worlds they settled would have dinosaur-like creatures 'imported' to those worlds.
* ''[[Werewolf: The Apocalypse]]'' has the Mokole, which are [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|weredinosaurs]]. Technically, they're supposed to be werecrocodiles, but since they serve as Gaia's Memory, their battle form can include body parts of any reptile from Earth's history.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120717071027/http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=74235 Old Fogey]
** That's only if you don't count the velociraptors, allosauruses and other made up fantasy dinosaurs in the game.
* In ''[[Pathfinder]]'', druids can take dinosaurs as animal companions, as can clerics with the Saurian domain. Cavaliers can also ride dinosaurs if they choose a beastrider archetype, and there's even a special druid archetype called "Saurian Shaman" which is basically a mechanical version of this, They do anything related to dinosaurs better than the same non-dinosaur-related actions (such as summoning, wild empathy, and wild shape).
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* ''Ellen's Energy Adventure'' at [[Disney Theme Parks|EPCOT]], which is about power sources, contains an extended sequence involving dinosaurs. This in itself was based on the Primevil World diorama at the Disneyland Railroad.
** There's also the ride called [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Dinosaur.]]
== Toys ==
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** Then, there's LEGO's new venture into prehistoric themes: ''Dino'', which features a similar approach as the above described ''Adventurers'' line: people packing serious gear going after dinosaurs. The dino figures themselves are without doubt the best LEGO has ever made, though unfortunately, these are ''still'' ''[[Jurassic Park]]''-inspired, '80s or '90s-styled reptilian beasts.
* As mentioned, quite a few ''[[Transformers]]'' have dinosaur altmodes. The Dinobots were some of the fans' favorites, and of course Grimlock became a classic nearly on par with Optimus Prime and Megatron.
** Grimlock would rarely even assume robot form in the cartoon - why bother? His alternate form was ''much'' cooler.
** Megatron himself got a dinosaur alt-mode in ''[[Beast Wars]]''.
** And who could ever forget Dinobot? Or his arguments with his [http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Scott_McNeil rodent alter-ego]? His greatest asset? Being a 'raptor with [[Frickin' Laser Beams|laser-firing]] [[Eye Beams|eyes]].
** In the video game ''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron]]'', Trypticon still has his Tyrannosaurus body design despite the game being set at the beginning of The Great War, millions of years before the Transformers knew about Earth and dinosaurs. Truly the awesomeness of dinosaurs transcends space and time.
*** Fall of Cybertron has the Dinobots making an appearance with their dino-modes.
== Video Games ==
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* ''[[Rad Gravity]]'' had a dinosaur planet as one level.
* ''[[Turok (series)|Turok]]'' would just be another FPS if it didn't pit you against dinosaurs.
* ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' has Raptors as fairly common animals (and mount for trolls, and player character, and baby ones for pets), and gigantic ''T. rex''es, called Devilsaurs, as a rarer sort. To be precise, they only appear in a few areas (Un'Goro Crater, where there are only about five of them at any given time; The Netherstorm, where a single Devilsaur rules over an eco-dome filled with raptors; Drak'Tharon Keep, with the optional boss King Dred; and Sholazar Basin, home of the rare-spawn King Krush). For being such enormous beasts they move like ninjas, and many players have had their adventure cut short by a sneak attack.
** One of the most awesome quests in the Suramar storyline, you have to break into the menagerie to release the animals held with [[Slave Collar]]s, including a devilsaur named Su'esh. But it doesn't end there. You then have to ''ride'' Su'esh and go all kaiju on Suramar, [[Catharsis Factor|crushing and devouring the Legion soldiers.]]
**
*** [[Mulan|They become travel size for your convenience]].
** There are also Dragonspawn,
* ''[[Guild Wars]]'' introduces a dinosaur-rich jungle in its ''Eye of the North'' expansion. Being a fantasy game, it includes feathered Raptor Assasins, Armor-plated ceratopsians with shoulder-horns, [[Tyrannosaurus Rex|Tyrannosaurs]], therapods with multiple heads and tails, and other bizarre reptiles.
* The ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]'' series of games already had Bowser as some sort of dragon-dinosaur-turtle... thing, and then in ''[[Super Mario World (video game)|Super Mario World]]'' along came Yoshi and his friends....
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* The ''[[EverQuest]]'' games feature velociraptors, normally found in deserts and jungles.
* Take ''[[Resident Evil]]'', but make the main [[mook]]s dinosaurs instead of zombies. You end up with ''[[Dino Crisis]]''.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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* ''[[8-Bit Theater|Eight Bit Theater]]'' provides a [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2003/05/20/episode-284-what-could-it-be/ ninja riding a dinosaur armed with Febreeze].
* ''[[Diesel Sweeties]]'' [http://dieselsweeties.com/archive.php?s=1516 posits] that there are two types of people in the world: those who would travel back in time to get drunk with pirates, and those that would go back to see what color the dinosaurs really were.
* ''[[Xkcd]]'' has a [http://xkcd.com/135/ serious] [http://xkcd.com/292/ problem] [http://xkcd.com/87/ with] [https://web.archive.org/web/20090213191156/http://xkcd.com/155/ raptors], though the problem may have been [http://xkcd.com/758/ minimized] by now. The fascination with dinosaurs extends to [http://xkcd.com/650/ other dinosaur species].
** Remember that search history? Look [
* In ''[[Irregular Webcomic]]'', the President of the United States is an ''Allosaurus'', for no readily explained reason. (Apart from the fact that he's insanely popular.)
** He won the [http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/polls/poll0021.html election]. [http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/polls/poll0409.html Twice]
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* In ''[[American Barbarian]]'' [http://www.ambarb.com/?p=196 thrown to the dinosaurs].
* ''[[Dinosaur Comics]]'', [[Sarcasm Mode|surprisingly enough]].
* ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'' had a plot thread [//www.schlockmercenary.com/2018-07-25 starting 73 million years ago] when a relativistic worldship passed through cometary halo of Sol system and disturbed the orbits of some local objects, [[Phlebotinum Killed the Dinosaurs|one of which later killed dinosaurs]]. Someone also decided to drop a probe, so when dinosaurs invented radio, noticed the impending doom and called for help, the aliens heard and evacuated them. Which much later resulted in the Plenipotent Dominion's extragalactic explorations vessel being named "Pursuing Dinosaurs" and sent on this cold trail. Finally making the [[First Contact]] led to [[Brain Uploading|uploaded copy]] of Sorlie clearly [//www.schlockmercenary.com/2019-09-02 squeeing internally] at the sight (the alien providing [[exposition]] knows what's going on because uploads run on ''their'' hardware now).
== Web Original ==
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** The story has [[Jesus Was Way Cool|Raptor Jesus]]...the ''best'' kind of Jesus. Who [[Barack Obama]] then jump-kicks. Yeah, its [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made on Drugs?|that kind of story]].
** A [http://www.writing.com/main/view_item/item_id/1580313 sequel] was later created which retcons the sister's death in the first story and [[POV Sequel|takes place from her perspective]].
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100515082201/http://comixed.com/2010/02/23/washington/ This.]
* On a related note, [https://web.archive.org/web/20110120134807/http://epicwinftw.com/2010/09/16/awesome-photos-only-lempereur-gets-a-dinosaur/ this]
* The [http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/philosoraptor Philosoraptor] (of [[Memetic Mutation|meme]] fame).
** ...Which started as a tee-shirt design on [https://web.archive.org/web/20130828151735/http://www.lonelydinosaur.com/collections/frontpage/products/philosoraptor lonelydinosaur.com].
* Apparently [[That Guy With The Glasses|The Other Guy]] is a dinosuar sometimes. [[Non Sequitur Scene|Okay...]]
* IGN did a whole [https://web.archive.org/web/20120614084953/http://games.ign.com/articles/116/1163759p1.html Dinosaur Week] once.
* And then there's always [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDNzzhCpqxA The VelociPastor]
* ''Dinosaur Office'' on College Humor.
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== Web Video ==
* Lee in ''[[Source Fed]]'' loves dinosaurs. This little fact turned into a [[Running Gag]] of epic proportions.
== Western Animation ==
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* In ''[[Futurama]]: Bender's Game'', Leela and Hermes are watching ''[[The Twilight Zone|The Scary Door]]'', this episode about a typical alien invasion being defeated by 'God's humblest of creatures'...The Tyrannosaurus Rex!
{{quote|'''Leela''': I can't believe Tivo suggested that piece of crap!}}
* The show up from time-to-time on ''[[The Fairly OddParents]]''.
* In an early episode of ''[[The Venture Brothers]]'', Brock Samson, while in a [[Lotus Eater Machine]], and dreams that he is fighting flamethrower-wielding cowboys. Only, they're riding T. Rexes. Yet Brock, in his sheer awesomeness (and mainly because it's ''his'' dream) easily dispatches them.
* An episode of ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'' has [[Mad Scientist|Heloise]] building a large T-Rex skeleton as an instrument of misery [[My Little Panzer|aimed at kids]].
* Both ''[[Batman: The Animated Series|Batman the Animated Series]]'' and ''[[Superman: The Animated Series]]'' feature the titular heroes fighting an animatronic Tyrannosaurus at one point, with ''Superman'' very early on in the first season.
* Because sometimes just a guy in a mask isn't enough for [[Scooby
* ''[[Extreme Dinosaurs]]''.
* Possibly the [[Trope Codifier]] is ''[[The Flintstones]]''; there is not ''one'' episode where this Trope does not apply in some way, the protagonist even [[Cool Pet|having one for a pet]]. They're just so cool.
== Real Life ==
* Vermont's children's health coverage system is named "Dr. Dynasaur" [https://p2004.org/dean/dean0702/drdynasaur.html precisely due to this trope]. Kids find dinosaurs to be cool and are thus much more eager to accept some sort of dinosaur-themed name, causing parents and pediatricians much less headaches.
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