Raptor Attack/Playing With
Basic Trope: Deinonychosaur dinosaurs are portrayed inaccurately.
- Straight: The Velociraptor does not have feathers and is Deinonychus-sized.
- Exaggerated: The Velociraptor does not have feathers, is Utahraptor-sized, extremely intelligent, and lives in North America in the Jurassic.
- Justified: The Velociraptor has been specifically bred to be featherless and huge.
- Inverted: The raptors are too birdlike.
- Subverted: It turns out only a few Velociraptors are featherless
- Double Subverted:..but they are all still Deinonychus-sized.
- Parodied: It turns out the Velociraptor has shaved.
- Deconstructed: Said genetically-engineered Velociraptors, without insulating feathers, cannot survive in our present-day climate
- Reconstructed: ...but, introduced further south, the featherless Velociraptors do great.
- Zig Zagged: The show keeps on switching between accurately-feathered Velociraptors and featherless ones.
- Velociraptor, Deinonychus, Utahraptor, and Troodon do not have feathers, while Saurornitholestes, Graciliraptor, Unquillosaurus, and Xixiasaurus do.
- Averted: The Velociraptor is correctly-sized and correctly-feathered.
- Enforced: Originally, feathered Velociraptors were introduced, but the public demanded featherless ones.
- Lampshaded: "Look, see, he doesn't have feathers!"
- Defied: Someone glued feathers onto the scaly Velociraptor.
- Discussed: "Should our raptors have feathers..." "NO!"'
- Conversed: "I told you, make the raptors have feathers! God damnit!"
- Played For Laughs: See Parodied.
- Played For Drama: See Deconstructed