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In addition, ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' should never be confused for [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._rex_<!-- 28disambiguation29 another]] '' [[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8623332.stm T. rex.]]'' -->
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== Advertising ==
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* The Ray Harryhausen film ''[[The Valley of Gwangi]]'' featured the title dinosaur, Gwangi, who was [[In Name Only|billed as an Allosaurus]] but was modelled after a Tyrannosaurus.
* The ''T. rex'' is the [[Designated Villain]] in the B-movie ''[[Planet of the Dinosaurs]]''.
* The [[So Bad ItsIt's Good]] ''Aztec Rex'' featured what the [[Mayincatec|Aztec]] [[In Name Only]] local tribe called "Thunder Lizards", worshipping them and leaving sacrifices because they keep the valley free of intruders.
* ''[[Night At the Museum (Film)|Night At the Museum]]'' has the skeleton of a ''T. Rex'' coming to life at night. It likes drinking water out of a fountain, play fetch with its own bone, and generally [[All Animals Are Dogs|behave like a dog]].
* One ''T. rex'' appears in the 2009 ''[[Land of the Lost (Film)|Land of the Lost]]'', nicknamed "Grumpy". [[Will Ferrell]]'s character, Dr. Rick Marshall, insults him, by claiming that his brain is the size of a walnut, causing a personal grudge to develop between them. Grumpy later tosses a huge walnut at the group during the night, bigger than a baby carriage, before slinking off into the jungle with a sinister smirk on his face. After a few further chases, Grumpy swallows Marshall whole, before returning at the end of the film with Marshall on his back [[Big Damn Heroes|to save the others]]. Turns out, whilst Marshall was in Grumpy's stomach, he dislodged some sort of intestinal blockage, causing Grumpy to [[Squick|literally poop him out]] and be in a much better mood afterwards. The walnut joke is perhaps made funnier in that it is actually false that Tyrannosaurus had a brain that size (it was actually almost as large as a human brain).
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** The [[Filk Song]] "Jurassic Park": ''"Someone let ''T. rex'' out of his pen I'm afraid those things'll harm me 'Cause they sure don't act like [[Barney and Friends (TV)|Barney]]...''"
** A better example is the line ''"a huge Tyrannosaurus ate our lawyer, which only goes to show, they're really not all bad"''.
* A list here wouldn't be complete without listing "[http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=&search_query=Mesozoic+ Mind&aq=f Mesozoic Mind]": "''I hid behind a wall of rock when Allosaurus roared''". Poor ''Allosaurus''. The [[Poor MansMan's Substitute|Poor Man's]] ''T. rex''.
* Since the above says he's based on one, [[Blue Oyster Cult (Music)|oh no! They say he got to go, go go]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ed0IixNz71M Godzilla]!
* [[School House Rock]] has a song called "Tyranosaurus Debt", which portrays America's national debt as a dinosaur that keeps growing larger and is always hungry for more money.
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== Tabletop Games ==
* Partially subverted (like many things) in ''[[Exalted (Tabletop Game)|Exalted]]'', where a Tyrant Lizard, while a seriously dangerous creature to mortals, is not only not the toughest of the animals in the world, it's not even a real challenge for an Exalt (you play an Exalt in most games). However, if you are one of the said mortals, then run. Run as fast as you can, 'cause this thing will eat you and your house [[And Your Little Dog, Too|and your village]].
* ''[[Warhammer 40000 (Tabletop Game)|Warhammer 40000]]'': While technically belonging to a birdlike species, [http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080303213907/warhammer40k/images/b/b8/Greater_Knarloc_Model.jpg there is no denying a Kroot Greater Knarloc] is just as badass.
* The [[Lizard Folk|Lizardmen]] of [[Warhammer Fantasy]] can use a Carnosaur as a mount, which is essentially a ''T. Rex'' in all but name.
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* ''[[Kingdom of Loathing (Video Game)|Kingdom of Loathing]]'' has a ''Tyrannosaurus "Tex"'' as a boss.
* In ''[[World of Warcraft]]'', beware of the [[Boss in Mook Clothing|Devilsaurs]] in [[Lost World|Un'goro Crater]]. Unless of course you're a hunter who has learned the "Tame Exotic Beasts" skill.
* ''[[Turok (Video Game)|Turok]]: Dinosaur Hunter''. The second-to-last boss is a [[Hollywood Cyborg]] ''T. rex'' with armed [[Frickin' Laser Beams]].
* Burn Dinorex/[[Shout Out|Mattrex]] from ''[[Mega Man X (Video Game)|Mega Man X]] 5'', which is yet ''another'' fire-breather. Well, he is a ''robot''.
** Another robot one shows up as a [[Mid Boss]] in ''[[Mega Man (Video Game)|Mega Man]] 7'' in Slashman's stage. And the fossils (again, robotic?) appear in Freezeman's stage in the same game.
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* ''3-D Ultra Pinball: The Lost Continent'' has at least one, who can eat the pinball whole. To make matters worse, the protagonist is named Rex, leading a scientist to this: "That's interesting... Rex meets ''T. rex''."
* ''Lineage II'' has an entire island of dinosaurs. The ''T. rex'' is a raid-boss like, aggressive mob that will, occasionally, eat other dinosaurs and be surrounded by a glowing blue effect. They normally wander around a set area (per 'rex) but there's one or two that walk around the whole Primeval Forest. And they're also aggro. The developers actually kept the poor eyesight of the ''T. rex'', and have given players a chance to run away: if you see the ''T. rex'' say "?" it means you have been noticed.
* ''[[Fossil Fighters]]'' uses ''T. rex'' as its mascot. However, the only way to obtain one without trading is during the [[Playable Epilogue]], ''after'' beating the game! It's also the hardest single dinosaur to find. The game treats it as an [[Infinity Plus One+1 Sword]], but it is much less so in comparison to the likes of {{spoiler|King Dynal}}. The sequel, ''Fossil Fighters: Champions'', makes it available much earlier in the game but its Infinity+1 attributes only emerge with leveling now, and it's been made only a secondary mascot after ''Triceratops''.
* The original ''[[Ape Escape (Video Game)|Ape Escape]]'' has our protagonist travel through many different eras from pre-history through to the far future... in order to catch rogue monkeys with a net. One early level featured a mini-boss monkey astride a ''T. rex''.
* ''[[Banjo-Kazooie|Banjo-Tooie]]'' features the Baby T-Rex and Daddy T-Rex transformations. The latter has a roar powerful enough to frighten cavemen.
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** "The Scary Door" segment in ''Bender's Game'' features "the humblest of God's creatures: The ''Tyrannosaurus rex''" taking down alien saucers.
** Fry rides one in a kiddie park in "I Dated a Robot". He even feeds it a live pig (from a food dispenser). It eats his hands.
* Watch ''[[Teen Titans (Animation)|Teen Titans]]'', ''[[Justice League]]'', and several other animated series [[DCAU|set in the DC universe]] and you'll [[Epileptic Trees|eventually come to the conclusion]] that all the [[Animorphism|animal-specific shapeshifters]] had a meeting and decided that ''[[Dinosaurs Are Dragons|T. rex]]'' would be their go-to [[One -Winged Angel]] equivalent.
* ''[[Batman the Brave And The Bold (Animation)|Batman the Brave And The Bold]]'' has an episode set in Dinosaur Island. Guess what's the first species Bats and Plastic Man encounter?
* The one and only time-travelling episode of ''[[The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest (Animation)|The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest]]'' features Jonny and Jessie spending a short time in the late Cretaceous being chased by a ''T. rex'', of course.
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* Tina from ''[[The Amazing World of Gumball (Animation)|The Amazing World of Gumball]]''.
* Completely subverted in ''[[Dinosaur Train]]'' where all of the ''T. rex'' characters are friendly.
* In the ''[[Phineas and Ferb (Animation)|Phineas and Ferb]]'' episode "It's About Time" (not the only time travel episode, but the only one where they go into prehistoric times), Phineas, Ferb, Candace, and eventually Isabella's entire [[Scout Out|Fireside Girl troop]] go back to 300 million BC and almost get eaten by a ''T. rex''. 300M BC is waaaaaay too early to meet a tyrannosaur, but [[Where the Hell Is Springfield?|Danville]]... ''might'' be in Central North America...
* Tyrannor from ''[[Dink the Little Dinosaur]]''.
* ''[[Generator Rex (Animation)|Generator Rex]]'' follows the [[Time Travel]] corollary. In the episode "Lions and Lambs", Providence faces off against an EVO with [[Time Travel]] powers. She opens a portal and brings forth, yeah, you guessed it. Our hero, not knowing yet that he's facing a [[Time Master]], assumes that what looks like a Tyrant Lizard King is actually an EVO, and tries to [[Brought Down to Normal|Bring It Down To Normal]]. Yeah, that's not going to work, because it's a real [[A Worldwide Punomenon|Tyrannosaurus, Rex]].
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== Real Life ==
* Recently, the science of paleontology has [[Science Marches On|begun to march on]], and has discovered many new predators who were either bigger or more [[Badass]] than ''T. rex''. Among these the most likely contenders for next top Badass are the allosauroids (yes [[Poor MansMan's Substitute|those]] [[Butt Monkey|allosauroids]]). These include ''Allosaurus'' (duh), who could reach sizes larger that the average tyrannosaur, probably hunted in packs, used its head as a hatchet to take chunks of flesh from a living prey, and [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|could take on sauropods (at least weaker ones) many times their size]]. Their carcharodontosaurid relatives, like ''Giganotosaurus'' and ''Mapusaurus'', matched in size or even surpassed the largest tyrannosaurs, had 2-meter long skulls that worked like giant serrated scissors, and were specialized on taking down giant sauropods. In packs. Then, we have spinosaurs like the eponymous ''Spinosaurus'', which, despite being often taken lightly due to their fish-catching lifestyle, were able to outcompete [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcosuchus SuperCroc] in its own game (better at being crocodiles that crocodiles themselves, ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suchomimus Suchomimus]'' was aptly named), and dealt with freshwater coelacanths and sharks like storks do with trout. Not to mention that ''Spinosaurus'' reached almost 1.5 times the size of ''T. rex'' or ''Giga'', despite a lighter and more awkward build. Pretty useful when you live in a hot, muggy swamp with [[Beyond the Impossible|two rex-sized predator species running around.]]
** Ultimately, it's an exercise in futility to argue which dinosaur was truly the most [[Badass]]; paleontologists only ever get into the question when doing shows like ''[[Jurassic Fight Club (TV)|Jurassic Fight Club]]'', and we should probably remember that all these theropods were probably pretty successful at what they had evolved to do. That being said, ''T. rex'' was a very sophisticated predator very well suited to taking out prey animals quickly and efficiently. Tyrannosaurs as a group were also pretty Badass, outcompeting all other predators wherever they went; by the time the meteor was just about to hit, the allosaurs were virtually extinct in North America and Asia, and even the dromaeosaurs were mostly reduced to being coyote-analogues, the bigger raptors having been outcompeted in the big game niche by the tyrannosaurs and carcharodontosaurs. We may make fun of ''T. rex'' and tyrannosaurs as being old news, but they were the ultimate upstarts of their time, starting out as lowly [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coelurosauria coelurosaurs] and methodically making their way up to the top.
*** Largest carnivore from the Hell Creek formation: Elephant-sized ''Tyrannosaurus''. Second largest (dinosaurian<ref>The pterosaur ''[[Giant Flyer|Quetzalcoatlus]]'' was larger than ''Saurornitholestes'' ''[[Up to Eleven|and had a wingspan as long as ''T.rex'''s entire body]]'', but no one cares because it's not a [[EverythingsEverything's Better With Dinosaurs|dinosaur]]. Nonetheless, there was a lack of medium-sized predatory dinosaurs at the end of the Late Cretaceous wherever tyrannosaurids roamed.</ref>) carnivore from said formation: Beaver-sized ''Saurornitholestes''. Draw your own conclusion.
** There is evidence that ''T. rex'' and other tyrannosaurs hunted in packs as well. Specifically, two relatives of ''T. rex'', ''Albertosaurus'' and ''Daspletosaurus'', have a few bonebeds consisting of multiple individuals fossilized together, and the most famous ''Tyrannosaurus'' specimen, Sue, was found with the fragmentary remains of another ''T. rex''. Also the largest known ''Mapusaurus'' skeleton has a frame quite lighter that that of ''Tyrannosaurus''.
*** Repeat: '''[[It Got Worse|THEY HUNT IN PACKS]]'''.
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