Everything's Better with Dinosaurs: Difference between revisions

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* ''[[The Five Star Stories]]'' has dinosaurs on a few of the planets, which are inexplicably identical to various species that once roamed the Earth. The level of dinosaurs a planet has is actually a pretty good way to measure its age. The young planet Juno has quite a few, although they're now threatened by humans and other introduced mammal species; the older Delta Belune also has dinosaurs, but they're small and birdlike; Kallamity, supposedly the oldest inhabitable planet, doesn't seem to have any dinos at all.

* In ''[[JoJo's Bizarre Adventure|Steel Ball Run]]'', Diego Brando becomes a Wereraptor after he gains a stand ability.

* ''[[Getter Robo]]''. Just... Getter Robo. If there's room for a dinosaur at any given time, then they '''will''' be there. And it will be [[Holy Shit Quotient|awesome]].

** Dinosaur mecha piloted by dinosaurs. YEAAAAAH

* What if Barney was green, female, Australian, ''much'' less obnoxious and actually likeable by people over 6? You'd have Dorothy the Dinosaur, one of the extended cast members of ''[[The Wiggles]]''.

* [[Top Gear]] recently had a car review that, for no apparent reason, incorporated dinosaurs into the usual shots of Clarkson driving the car, including one where he is briefly pursued by a tyrannosaurus. It's actually very well done for a series that doesn't really use special effects very much.

* ''[[Torchwood]]'' had a chocolate-loving pterosaur as the team pet. Why ''not?''

* ''[[iCarly]]''. Yeah. The episode where Carly almost moves to Yakima, where Spencer says to the granddad: "These are all the vitamins she needs to take. I ''only'' give her the ones shaped like dinosaurs." "...Why?" "...Dinosaurs are cool."

== Music ==

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aovaRsVV28 Hevisaurus], a Finnish [[Heavy Metal]] band aimed towards children.

 

 

** 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.

** In 3rd and 3.5, you could play as dinosaur inspired player races called saurials.

** They made a miniature of a Fiendish T-Rex. As if a T-rex wasn't enough, they slapped the Fiendish template on it.

* ''[[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.

** 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.

** It is worth noting that the Zerg Hydralisks (from ''[[Starcraft]]}'') are probably inspired by Termagaunts (not the other way around). Meanwhile, Termagaunts look like a cross between ''[[Alien]]'' Xenomorphs and bugs from ''[[Starship Troopers (film)|Starship Troopers]]''.

** [[Our Elves Are Better|Eldar]] Exodites dwell on lush, primeval worlds inhabited by saurian "dragons," which they joust on with laser lances.

* [[Fighting Game]] + this trope = ''[[Primal Rage]]''

* The ''[[EverQuest]]'' games feature velociraptors, normally found in deserts and jungles.

 

 

== Web Original ==

* While [[Toyless Toyline Character|sadly never released as toys]], the ''[[Bionicle]]'' web serials feature [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|cyborg dinosaurs]] that shoot [[Frickin' Laser Beams]] [[Eye Beams|from their eyes.]]

* One of Yotam Perel's cartoons involved a man buying his wife a bouquet.

{{quote|'''Woman:''' Aww, you got me flowers. That's so sweet.