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== Anime & Manga ==
* The villains in ''[[Dinosaur King]]'' mainly use a ''T. rex'' for fighting. [[Fridge Brilliance|The word "King" isn't there for nothing]].
* In ''[[One Piece (Manga)|One Piece]]'', former Rear Admiral [[Defector From Decadence|X. Drake]] of [[Future Badass|The Eleven Supernovas]] has eaten a Ancient Zoan type [[Touched Byby Vorlons|Devil's Fruit]] that turns him into this. His is smaller than a real one, but like other Zoans, he has a yet-to-be seen half-man, half-''T. Rex'' form, and can bite through a [[Mecha Mook]] whose head is harder than steel.
* A large number of Dinosaur-type monsters, especially the more powerful ones, in the ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh (Tabletop Game)|Yu-Gi-Oh]]'' card game are based on ''T. rex''. The menacing looking Black Tyranno, the inaptly named Ultimate Tyranno whose effect could backfire, Super Conducter Tyranno, who currently holds the title of the most powerful monster that can be normal summoned, and finally, Tyranno Infinity, [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|whose effect can make him the most powerful monster in the game]].
* While the ''[[Zoids]]'' franchise has mecha based off all sorts of animals, one of the most common appears to be ''Tyrannosaurus rex''. Many of them are completely fantastic and bear no resemblance to the real animal (even accounting for their being huge robots), but even then they are supposedly "Tyrannosaurus-types". Oddly enough, several Zoids that aren't Tyrannosaurus-types, such as Deadborder, Gravity Saurer and Gojulas Giga are often mistakenly identified as Tyrannosauruses, both in English and Japanese (and, for the record, are ''Tarbosaurus'', ''Suchomimus'' and ''Giganotosaurus'', respectively).
* The ''[[Digimon]]'' franchise really loves loves ''T. rex'', specifically ones that [[Dinosaurs Are Dragons|breathe fire]]:
** [[Digimon Adventure (Anime)|Agumon, Greymon]], [[Digimon Savers (Anime)|GeoGreymon]], [[Digimon Adventure 02 (Anime)|Tyrannomon, DarkTyrannomon]], [[Digimon Tamers (Anime)|Guilmon, Growlmon]] and [[All There in the Manual|Dinorexmon]] are all permutations of the concept of the ''T. rex''. Special mention goes to [[Digimon Adventure (Anime)|MetalGreymon]], a ''[[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|missile-launching flying cyborg T. rex]]'', and similarly to [[Digimon Tamers (Anime)|MegaloGrowlmon]] and [[Digimon Savers (Anime)|RizeGreymon]], who follow the same vein.
** Tyrannomon also has a Metal evolution, [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|MetalTyrannomon]], but the special prize goes to the Tyrannomon's line fully-evolved form: [[Big Bad|the Dark Master Mugendramon]], a gargantuan robotic tyrannosaurus built with quite possibly every weapon imaginable. There are also anthropomorphic armoured tyrannosaur warriors ([[Digimon Adventure (Anime)|WarGreymon]], [[Digimon Next (Manga)|VictoryGreymon]], [[Digimon Savers (Anime)|ShineGreymon]]). Digimon really, ''really'', loves the rex.
** They also have Allomon, which really does look like an ''Allosaurus'' (apart from the Native American chief getup).
* The title character from ''[[Gon (Manga)|Gon]]'' is one.
* In ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima (Manga)|Mahou Sensei Negima]]'', the overly elaborate [[School Festival]] includes a full-size ''T. rex'' robot built by the engineering club, apparently because "[[Rule of Cool|why the hell not?]]" It was so realistic that Negi briefly thought it was real.
* The protagonist of the film ''[[You Are Umasou]]'' is a ''T. rex'' named "Heart", who raises a baby ''Ankylosaurus''.
 
 
== Card Games ==
* ''[[Magic: theThe Gathering (Tabletop Game)|Magic the Gathering]]''
** ''T. rex'''s [[Badass]] status is parodied with their joke set card [http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=74235 Old Fogey].
** But in a "serious" set, they have [http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?name=Imperiosaur Imperiosaur], who is an obvious [[Expy]] of the ''T. rex'', down to the name.
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== Comic Books ==
* [[Batman (Comic Book)|Batman]] has a giant animatronic ''T. rex'' in the Batcave, a souvenir from one of his earliest adventures.
* The Old Man Logan arc of ''[[Wolverine]]'' features a ''Tyrannosaurus''. [[It Got Worse|Which was infected by]] [[Spider -Man|Venom]].
* The humorous [[The DCU]] character [[wikipedia:Major Bummer|Major Bummer]] features a Nazi dinosaur from a parallel universe named "[http://sadpanda.us/images/153656-QXMDTP8.jpgh Tyrannosaurus Reich]".
* ''[[Two Thousand AD (Comic Book)|2000 AD]]'' has rich people riding "tame" (and anatomically inaccurate) ''T. rex''es across Mars hunting poor people. Said ''T. rex''es were sourced by time travellers who went back to hunt dinosaurs for their "flesh".
* ''[[Monica's Gang]]'': Horacio, a '''vegetarian''' ''T. rex'' created by Brazilian artist Maurício de Sousa (who is basically his [[Author Avatar]], being the only of Mauricio's characters that continues to be only written by him).
* Invoked in ''[[Empowered (Comic Book)|Empowered]]'' by villain King Tyrant Lizard (the literal translation of "Tyrannosaurus rex"), although he's "just" nine feet tall and also hasn't the short arms.
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== Comic Strips ==
* Quoth ''[[Calvin and Hobbes (Comic Strip)|Calvin and Hobbes]]'': "[[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|Tyrannosaurs in F-14s!]]"
{{quote| '''Calvin:''' This is so cool!<br />
'''Hobbes:''' This is so ''stupid''. }}
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== Films -- Animation ==
* One pops up in ''[[Meet the Robinsons (Disney)|Meet the Robinsons]]''. He's actually not so bad once the bowler hat comes off. He did hog up a lot of the ads, though. The focus on his only speaking scene lead to him becoming the [[Ensemble Darkhorse]].
* ''[[Fantasia (Disney)|Fantasia]]'' features a fight between a ''T. rex'' and a ''Stegosaurus''. Guess who wins? Though some fans mistake the creature for an ''Allosaurus'', they pretty explicitly call it a ''Tyrannosaurus'' in the intro to the Rite of Spring sequence, and concept art also refers to it as a ''rex''. It has three fingers simply because [[Artistic License|Walt thought it looked better that way]].
* Rex from ''[[Toy Story]]'' is an inversion of the usual depictions, as he is very timid and insecure. He does try to be fearsome, but he fears it might come across as annoying instead.
* ''[[Ice Age]] 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs'' features a mother ''T. rex'', who turns out not to be that bad at all. In fact, even she is afraid of the film's real [[Big Bad]], a huge white ''Baryonyx'' (related to ''Spinosaurus'', but lacking a sail) that goes by the unlikely name of [[Fluffy the Terrible|Rudy]]. That still doesn't stop her from coming back in the end and [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|kicking his ass]].
* The Carnotaurus in Disney's ''[[Dinosaur (Disney)|Dinosaur]]'' is another (particularly banal) example of the "Pseudo-Rex" trope in action. While much smaller than ''T. rex'' in reality, the filmmakers beefed it up to tyrannosaur size in the film, resulting in something kids ended up calling a ''T. rex'' anyway. This issue is compounded by the fact that the animatics for the film depict a ''T. rex'' in place of the Carnotaurus, suggesting that the filmmakers merely shoehorned the Carno's into a role originally written for ''T. rex''. Considering the film is set in North America, where the ''T. rex'' lived but ''not the Carnotaurus'', the ''T. rex'' would actually be more accurate. [[Hand Wave|Handwaved]] by Kron being surprised about the Carno being "this far North". No kidding.
* [[Call a Rabbit Aa Smeerp|Sharptooth]] is the antagonist in ''[[The Land Before Time]]'', and Chomper (who appeared in two of the sequels) joins the cast in the TV adaptation.
 
 
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** The sequel upped this by having ''three'', including a baby, and the [[Papa Wolf|Papa Rex]] goes on a rampage in southern California.
** [[Contested Sequel|The third one]] has the ''T. rex'' killed by the larger ''Spinosaurus'', which is more likely a [[Somewhere a Palaeontologist Is Crying|fish eater]] or [[wikipedia:Spinosaurus#Feeding ecology|generalist carnivore]] than the unstoppable [[Big Bad]] the film made it out to be. The ''[[JP 3]] Spinosaurus'', arguably, falls under the "Pseudo-Rex" trope mentioned above. Somewhat justified, as Grant mentions, since these aren't real dinosaurs, but mutations. The animals were bred by InGen using non-dinosaur filler-DNA and raised in environments (and with other animals) they may have never otherwise encountered. This would lead to strange behavior at best, and outright mutation into new species at worst (which is essentially what happened).
* In ''[[Black AdderBlackadder]] Back and Forth'', Blackadder and Baldrick briefly end up in the late Cretaceous period. Guess what's waiting for them.
* ''[[King Kong]]''
** The original (1933) King Kong battles a ''T. rex''.
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* The ''T. rex'' is the [[Designated Villain]] in the B-movie ''[[Planet of the Dinosaurs]]''.
* The [[So Bad It'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 Atat 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 (Filmfilm)|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).
* The ''[[Super Mario Bros. (Filmfilm)|Super Mario Bros]].'' movie featured King Koopa, a tyrannical ruler whose ancestry dated back to the prehistoric ''T. rex''. This heritage gives Koopa a feeling of entitlement and divine right, which was the pretense under which he took control of the government. After a brief stint in a devo chamber, Koopa periodically "flicks" in and out of a reptilian appearance before finally {{spoiler|de-evolving backwards through four different stages of ''T. rex'' and then primordial sludge.}}
** Subverted for Bowser from the [[Super Mario Bros.|main game series]] (whom King Koopa is an incarnation of). He's mostly based on a turtle crossed with an ox, but possesses a few rex-like features (such as his protruding snout with sharp teeth).
* The 2008 version of ''[[Journey to The Center of The Earth]]'' has a ''T. rex'' chasing the protagonists.
* The little-seen movie ''Tammy and the T. rex'' has the brain of Tammy's boyfriend put into a robotic ''T. rex'' by a [[Mad Scientist]] for... some reason. Never really explained.
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== Literature ==
* Sue, the ''T. rex'' at the Chicago Field Museum shows up in ''[[The Dresden Files (Literature)|The Dresden Files]]'' book ''Dead Beat'', though mostly only as the display of bones you'd expect in a museum. {{spoiler|Until the climax, where Harry [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|reanimates it]] and ''[[Crowning Moment of Awesome|rides it into battle]]'' against a [[Night of the Living Mooks|horde of zombies]] and necromancers.}}
* ''T. rex''es are featured in the ''[[Dinotopia]]'' books, obviously. The spinoff novel ''Dinotopia Lost'' explores the full implications of ''T. rex'' parents going [[Mama Bear]]! James Gurney does his homework, though, and numerous other large theropods appear as well, including ''Allosaurus'' and ''Giganotosaurus''. (How the narrator knows to call it ''Giganotosaurus'' over a century before the species was described by science, though, is anyone's guess. [[Translation Convention]]?)
** In fact, the story is set in the 1860s, and ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' itself wasn't named until 1905, from bones discovered around the turn of the century. For that matter, most of the [[Stock Dinosaurs]] weren't discovered until the 1870s-1890s, so the narrator should have known almost none of them!
** ''Journey to Chandra'' also portrays some ''T. rex''es who are scavengers, and don't actually hassle the unarmored human and tiny ceratopsian passing through. Given that many smaller carnivores are apparently able to live in civilization and eat fish, one wonders if these might join them.
* Robert Sawyer's ''End of an Era'' featured ''T. rex''es.
* As did his ''[[Quintaglio Ascension (Literature)|Quintaglio Ascension]] Trilogy''. Not only is the "Blackdeath" clearly a tyrannosaur, the Quintaglios themselves are [[Humanoid Animals]] descended from the smaller Tyrannosauroids.
* The [[Animorphs (Literature)|Animorphs]] encountered ''T. rex'' in the time-traveling Megamorphs special, and, of course, used it as their go-to battle morph once they managed to acquire one (that morph [[Reset Button|was lost]] in the transition back to the present). Two of them, however, only had Deinonychus morphs. [[Blood Knight|Rachel]] complains about this.
* In ''[[A Sound of Thunder]]'', hunters go back in time to shoot a ''T. rex.''
* [[L. Sprague Dede Camp (Creator)|L Sprague De Camp]]'s "A Gun for Dinosaur" (more time-traveling big game hunters) features ''Tyrannosaurus trionyches'', a fictional cousin of "the famous ''rex''."
* The first book of Steve Alten's ''Meg'' series, has a ''Tyrannosaurus'' being killed by a [[Megalodon]] (a really big prehistoric shark supposedly related to the Great White) whilst chasing Hadrosaurs in the shallow sea. This scene is case of [[Did Not Do the Research]], as not only did Megalodon not even live in the same time period as any dinosaur (try almost 50 million years after they went extinct), but the scene was clearly thrown in [[The Worf Effect|purely to try and present Megalodon as a more lethal predator]] (an oceanic predator being more effective in its element than a land predator? [[Sarcasm Mode|Never!]]). No prizes for guessing what would happen if (in Alten's version of prehistory) a Megalodon beached itself on the shore whilst a hungry Rex was passing by.
* Nina Bangs's ''Gods of the Night'' series features 11 immortal men, 10 of which are fused with the souls of the ultimate prehistoric predators, among them (of course), a ''T. rex'' called Ty. It's worth noting that each of these characters were referred to by some shortened form of the dinosaur or predator they were fused with.
* In the first set of ''[[Dinoverse (Literature)|Dinoverse]]'' books, a boy ends up inhabiting the body of a ''Tyrannosaurus rex'', while three others ended up possessing different prehistoric creatures. On their quest to get back to their own time and bodies, they are menaced by a "''Tyrannosaurus imperator''", a fictional dino even bigger than the rex but otherwise identical. Other books feature different kids in the bodies of different dinosaurs from other periods of time, but there's always someone in each group in a huge theropod which gets compared to ''T. rex''.
 
 
== Live-Action TV ==
* There were ''T. rex''es in all versions of ''[[Land of the Lost (TV series)|Land of the Lost]]''.
* ''[[Super Sentai]]''
** Two dino-themed series feature a ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' as the Red Ranger's mecha: ''[[Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger]]'' and ''[[Bakuryuu Sentai Abaranger]]''. They carry over into ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]'' and ''[[Power Rangers Dino Thunder]]''.
** Also featured in ''[[Mirai Sentai Timeranger]]'' / ''[[Power Rangers Time Force]]'', with the V-Rex/Quantasaurus Rex (Q-Rex) mecha. And sure enough, when [[The Hero|Wes]] and [[Sixth Ranger|Er]][[Jerk Withwith a Heart of Gold|ic]] visit [[Prehistoria]] in ''Time Force'', they encounter the real thing.
** There's also the GouJyuJin (mainly GouJyuRex mode) from ''[[Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger (TV)|Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger]]'' which, fittingly enough, is intended as a [[Internal Homage]] to the above three series.
* In ''[[Mr. Bean]]'' our hero sees a Nativity set in a department store and stages a special drama. Guess what menaces the Holy Family before being driven off by tanks and [[Doctor Who|a Dalek]]? [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z42AxgFMb8k See it to believe.]
* In ''[[Sliders]]'', the heroes sometimes slide into Earths where dinosaurs have survived (alongside humans or not). Initially averted, as the first big predator to chase them is an ''Allosaurus'' (and described as such). In a later episode, of course, they meet the obligatory ''Tyrannosaurus rex''.
* The last episode of ''[[Walking Withwith Dinosaurs]]'' focused on a mother ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' trying to raise her three babies in the unforgiving Late Cretaceous. [[Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies|A meteorite fell]], [[Downer Ending|and everyone died.]]
* The first episode of ''Prehistoric Park'' centers on Nigel's attempts to obtain a ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' for the park. {{spoiler|He does -- two juveniles who grow up over the course of the series.}}
* Speaking of Impossible Pictures and dinosaurs... it was refreshingly [[Averted]] in ''[[Primeval]]''... except for [[wikipedia:Extinction Event|one of]] [[Expanded Universe|the novels]]. Finally makes an onscreen appearance in the penultimate episode of series 5. Of course, by this point the show had already dealt with other large predators like ''Giganotosaurus'' and ''Spinosaurus'', so the ''T. rex'' feels much less egregious.
* Referenced, but not seen, in an episode of ''[[Stargate Atlantis (TV)|Stargate Atlantis]]''. One particular member of the expedition have begun to suspect [[Proud Warrior Race Guy|Teyla]] of leading the Wraith to her team because of how often they seem to show up. When Sheppard's team is yet ''again'' running for their lives back to the gate, he immediately assumes this is the case again... when Sheppard and Ford inform him the Wraith had nothing to do with it, and they were just chased by something very much like a ''T. rex''.
* ''[[Doctor Who]]'''s "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S11 E2 Invasion of the Dinosaurs|Invasion of the Dinosaurs]]" has a ''T. rex'' brought to London via [[Time Travel]].
* The final episode of ''[[Dinosaur Revolution (TV)|Dinosaur Revolution]]'' focussed on a family of ''T.rexes'' and an antagonistic ''T.rex''. {{spoiler|They all die.}}
 
 
== Music ==
* "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfHzJU-Rlo4 Your two-penny prince, he'll give you hot love, oh-ho-ho...]"
* [["Weird Al" Yankovic (Music)|Weird Al Yankovic]]
** 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 Man's Substitute|Poor Man's]] ''T. rex''.
* Since the above says he's based on one, [[Blue OysterÖyster Cult (Music)|oh no! They say he got to go, go go]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ed0IixNz71M Godzilla]!
* [[School HouseSchoolhouse 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.
* Gor-Gor by [[GWAR (Music)|GWAR]] is about the [[Crazy Awesome|titular giant, mutant, crack-fueled Tyrannosaur destroying America.]]
 
 
== Puppet Shows ==
* Although many are loath to acknowledge it, [[Barney and Friends (TV)|Barney]] is (supposedly) a ''T. rex''. Indeed, the sight of one of the most [[Badass]] animals ever being turned into a cuddly giant plush toy who is friend to children everywhere is certainly one of the reasons why Barney is so despised.
** Some artists set out to [http://th07.deviantart.net/fs13/PRE/f/2007/086/4/9/PC_Barney_by_lucky2563.jpg make things] [http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_83_22-awesome-ways-to-reboot-classic-tv-shows_p22 right], however.
** Lampshaded in Ian McDowell's short story "Bernie". A cloned (and very well-trained, and sedated) mini-theropod is created to do public appearances as a Barney-[[Expy]]. [[Kill All Humans|It does not end well...]].
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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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== Video Games ==
* ''[[Dead or Alive]] 4'' has a stage filled with dinosaurs, including a ''T. rex'', despite taking place in the modern day. A story-mode cutscene that takes place in the stage has the dino terrorize Hitomi before Jann Lee kicks it in the face and knocks it out with one punch, saving her life. Hitomi chastises him for hurting it, the ungrateful bitch.
* ''[[Star Fox Adventures (Video Game)|Star Fox Adventures]]''
** The RedEye tribe in is a tribe of ''T. rex''es.
** The SharpClaw tribe is based slightly more on ''Allosaurus''. Their leader, [[Big Bad|General Scales]] even seems to resemble a ''Giganotosaurus'' a bit more than a ''T. rex''.
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* The appearance of Rexy in the first ''[[Tomb Raider]]'' game was so iconic that he even made a cameo appearance in ''Tomb Raider II'', ''III'' and ''Golden Mask'', later returning in ''Anniversary''. Three guesses who's on the menu each time.
* A common enemy type in ''[[Final Fantasy]]''. See also [[Dinosaurs Are Dragons]]. To name a few:
** The ''Allosaurus'' from ''[[Final Fantasy I (Video Game)|Final Fantasy I]]'', as well as the ''[[Metal Slime|Tyrannosaur]]''.
** Tyrannosaurs from ''[[Final Fantasy VI (Video Game)|Final Fantasy VI]]''. The Earth Dragon also took on this form.
** T-Rexaurs from ''[[Final Fantasy VIII (Video Game)|Final Fantasy VIII]]''. You will occasionally find one roaming the Training Area in Balamb Garden if you walk around long enough, which tends to be fatal if you attempt this at the start of the game.
** The Tyrant enemy class in ''[[Final Fantasy XII (Video Game)|Final Fantasy XII]]'' definitely count. Notably, the Earth Wyrm, which is larger than all the other ''T. rex'' types, and the ''T. rex'' boss from the demo.
* One of the more awesome segments of ''[[Parasite Eve (Videovideo Gamegame)|Parasite Eve]]'' takes place in a museum with a dinosaur exhibit. Her nemesis has control over a large quantity of mitochondrial goo that can apparently bring the fossilized dinosaurs back to life. The boss of the area is, of course, a ''T. rex''. [[Dinosaurs Are Dragons|That breathes fire.]]
* A recurring boss from ''[[Joe and Mac Caveman Ninja]]''. The last level took place [[Womb Level|inside it, even]].
* ''[[Chrono Trigger (Video Game)|Chrono Trigger]]'' has the heroes square off against a ''T. rex'' that ''[[Dinosaurs Are Dragons|breathes fire]]'' in the prehistoric era. Its descendent shows up in a later optional dungeon.
* ''[[Primal Rage]]'' has two ''Tyrannosaurus rex''-shaped gods named [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Diablo and Sauron]].
* ''[[Pokémon]]''
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** Averted for Cranidos and Rampardos, which are based on the lesser-known, plant-eating pachycephalosaurs.
* The Tyrant Rex dream eater in ''[[Kingdom Hearts 3D]]''. Aside from a special one fought as a miniboss, it's not particularly large (Though still large by normal enemy standards), being only a head or two taller then Sora and Riku, doesn't sound nearly as fearsome as you might expect (Its "roars" resemble the sounds a stepped-on cat might make), and is flamboyantly colored, as is the norm for dream eaters. They are, however, as dangerous as they look, as they possess a great deal of HP and attack power, [[Dinosaurs Are Dragons|can breathe fire]], and won't budge if hit by weak attacks.
* ''[[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 Gameseries)|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 (Videovideo Gamegame)|Mega Man]] 7'' in Slashman's stage. And the fossils (again, robotic?) appear in Freezeman's stage in the same game.
* Both ''[[Dino Crisis]]'' 1 and 2 (think ''[[Resident Evil]]'' meets ''[[Jurassic Park]]'') have the protagonists being pursued by [[Super-Persistent Predator]] ''T. rex''es.
* Both ''[[Freedom Force]]'' games feature ''T. rex''es.
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* ''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+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.
* ''[[Culdcept]]'' games feature a ''T. rex'' card as well as the "Mesozoic Song" spell which causes all of your placed monsters to become ''T. rexes'' in battle!
* ''[[Prehistoric Isle|Prehistoric Isle in 1930]]'' features a Godzilla-sized ''T. rex'' as the final boss, the sequel has (sorta) normal sized ones as sub-bosses.
* ''Tyrannosaurus'' is one of the playable dinosaurs in ''[[Primal Carnage]]'', and the [[Mighty Glacier|toughest of any class]].
* In the [[PC 88]] version of ''[[Dragon Slayer (Video Game)|Dragon Slayer]]'', one of the enemies sort of looks like a Tyrannosaurus, and apparently is supposed to be one. Oddly enough, it's the second weakest enemy.
* In ''[[Adventures of Dino Riki (Video Game)|Adventures of Dino Riki]]'', the second boss is a fire-breathing Tyrannosaurus.
 
 
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* [[Poharex]] is one.
* A zombie ''T. rex'' shows up in [http://www.th3rdworld.com/web-comic/Holiday-Wars/episode/Holiday-Wars-Episode-47 this episode] of ''[[Holiday Wars]]''.
* The main character of ''[[Dinosaur Comics (Webcomic)|Dinosaur Comics]]'' is a ''T. rex'' named T-Rex.
* ''[[Penny Arcade (Webcomic)|Penny Arcade]]'': [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/11/7/ This is what happens] when Gabe is left to write the comic on his own.
* If there was anyone out there who doubted that ''[[Axe Cop (Webcomic)|Axe Cop]]'' is something truly special, it dissipated once [http://axecop.com/index.php/acask/read/ask_axe_cop_8/ Axe Cop's pet], Wexter the ''T. rex'', is introduced.
 
 
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* The main villain of ''[[The Land Before Time]]'' series is Red Claw, the "biggest, meanest, most ferocious Sharptooth of all". Which is a HUGE example of an [[Informed Ability]] as Red Claw is probably among the least dangerous Sharpteeth to appear in the entire series (he retreated after having fruit catapulted at him), especially in comparison with the first film's antagonist, who actually caused the death of Littlefoot's mother.
* "Me Grimlock most famous [[Transformers|Transformer]] to have ''T. rex'' alt mode!"
** A number of others have had ''T. rex'' modes (or at least [[Broad Strokes|ones that to a layman resemble a]] ''[[Broad Strokes|T. rex]]'') such as Trypticon, and ''[[Beast Wars (Animation)|Beast Wars]]'' [[Big Bad|Megatron]], ''[[Verbal Tic|yeeeessss]]''.
* There was a cartoon called ''[[wikipedia:The Adventures of T-Rex|The Adventures Of T-Rex]]'', about a group of anthropomorphic ''T. rex''es that [[Animal Superheroes|fight crime]]. Yeah.
* Naturally, there is a ''T. rex'' in ''[[Cadillacs and Dinosaurs]]''.
* In ''[[Dino Riders|Dino-Riders]]'', [[Big Bad]] Krulos rides a ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' into battle. In one episode, the Rulons plopped a young ''T. rex'' in the middle of the Valorians' camp and let its parents wreak havoc.
* The [[Big Bad]] of ''[[Dinosaucers (Animation)|Dinosaucers]]'' was a ''T. rex'' named "Genghis Rex". Funnily enough, the leader of the heroes was an ''Allosaurus'', the first of many [[Ryu and Ken]]-ish counterparts that make up the cast, and the show also features Teryx, a very rare heroic maniraptor.
* ''[[Futurama (Animation)|Futurama]]''
** "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 (Animationanimation)|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: theThe 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 ''[[Jonny Quest: 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.
* ''[[School HouseSchoolhouse Rock]]'' depictes the National Debt as a hungry Godzilla-sized ''Tyrannosaurus'' that sits on Capitol Hill, constantly eating money received from taxpayers. And "Tyrannosaurus Debt" is still growing.
* In ''[[X-Men (Animationanimation)|X-Men]]'', Xavier and Magneto find themselves trapped in the Savage Land, an island that contains dinosaurs, among other oddities. Of course the two wind up being chased around by a ''T. rex''.
* T-Bone from ''[[Extreme Dinosaurs]]'' is an anthropomorpic T. rex and is the leader of the heroes.
* Because it [[Lampshades]] on the idea of [[Secret Hero Mutant Team]], ''Kung Fu Dino Posse'' has one being the leader.
* 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]].
* A T. rex wearing a wristwatch and sipping tea makes an appearance in one episode of ''[[Bonkers (Animation)|Bonkers]]''.
* One episode of ''[[Xiaolin Showdown]]'' featured a T. rex that spoke with a British accent.
 
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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 Man'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 [[wikipedia:Sarcosuchus|SuperCroc]] in its own game (better at being crocodiles that crocodiles themselves, ''[[wikipedia: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 [[wikipedia: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 [[Everything's Better Withwith 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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