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[[File:rexfamily1024.jpg|link=Jurassic Park|rightframe|<small>A ''T. rex'' family. It's probably not a good idea to [[Mama Bear|bother]] the baby.</small> ]]

As noted in [[Stock Dinosaurs]], ''T. rex'' is by far the most common dinosaur that appears in fiction. While it may not have been the biggest carnivorous dinosaur ever, it was probably among the most powerful and dangerous. It is certainly the most famous, mainly because it looks [[Badass]], and is also the ''only'' dinosaur popularly known for the whole scientific name (genus ''Tyrannosaurus'', species ''rex'') instead of just the first term.

In earlier fiction especially, ''all'' carnivorous dinosaurs on the bigger-than-a-human side tend to be confused with ''T. rex'', and ''T. rex'' itself will sometimes be depicted with non-tyrannosaur features, such as three fingered hands (tyrannosaurs only have two). Sometimes the authors will dismiss ''T. rex'' as "cliché" and use another large theropod as their [[Designated Villain]]. The attempt to be anti-cliché will usually be self-defeating, as the other theropod will tend to be used in such an inaccurate, Pseudo-Rex fashion that they might as well have just used the obligatory ''T. rex'' anyway. This tends to happen to poor ''[[Stock Dinosaurs|Allosaurus]]'' most often, despite that fact that they really don't look that much like ''T. rex'', aren't that closely related, and aren't nearly as large. Fortunately, as new fossil evidence helps us straighten out how the various Theropods are related, this is becoming a lost subtrope. (See [http[wikipedia://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theropoda |that other Wiki]] for more information about this.)

If a work of fiction involves [[Time Travel]], the probability of a ''T. rex'' appearing is directly proportional to the number of episodes. If the characters time-travel once in a series, they will either end up in a hilariously inaccurate version of the late Cretaceous and meet a ''T. rex'' or a hilariously inaccurate version of the old west -- wherewest—where they may meet a ''T. rex'' anyway. Likewise, a machine that merely pulls things out of the past, or other dimensions, seemingly has a 90% chance of grabbing a ''T. rex''. If the work of fiction supposedly ''doesn't'' involve [[Time Travel]], there's a good chance of the ''T. rex'' nevertheless [[Misplaced Wildlife|encountering critters from wildly different eras]], such as ''Stegosaurus'', which predates ''T. rex'' by roughly as long as ''T. rex'' predates us.

'''Note''' -- While we're here, a word about spelling, punctuation, and [[Taxonomic Term Confusion]]: the correct way to refer to the species is ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' or ''T. rex'' -- upper—upper-case T, lower-case r, period after the T in the abbreviated version. And italicized. Not "T Rex", "T-Rex", "t-rex" and so on.

Also, there was far more than one kind of "tyrannosaur". The word "tyrannosaur" can be used to describe various relatives of ''T. rex'' belonging to the superfamily [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/:Tyrannosauroidea |Tyrannosauroids]]. It turns out this group included members both large and powerful like the almost-identical Asian ''[[Useful Notes/Prehistoric Life|Tarbosaurus]]'' and the smaller North American ''[[Useful Notes/Prehistoric Life|Albertosaurus]]'' , ''[[Useful Notes/Prehistoric Life|Daspletosaurus]]'' and ''[[Useful Notes/Prehistoric Life|Gorgosaurus]]'' -- and—and relatively small and quick, like the recently discovered ''[[Useful Notes/Prehistoric Life|Eotyrannus]]'' and ''[[Useful Notes/Prehistoric Life|Guanlong]]''.

In addition, ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' should never be confused for [[httpwikipedia://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._rex_<!-- 28disambiguation29rex (disambiguation)|another]] '' [[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8623332.stm T. rex.]]'' -->

* [[YoutubeYouTube Poop|Tyrannosaurus Alan]].

* What better animal to [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Dudley_The_Dinosaur:Dudley The Dinosaur|teach your kids to take better care of their teeth]]?

* 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.

** [[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.

* 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.

* [[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 [http[wikipedia://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_BummerMajor Bummer|Major Bummer]] features a Nazi dinosaur from a parallel universe named "[http://sadpanda.us/images/153656-QXMDTP8.jpgh Tyrannosaurus Reich]{{Dead link}}".

* ''[[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".

* 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.

* 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 (franchise)|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.

* 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 Chomperis a terrifying, hungry menace of a Rex (who appearedobsessively stalks Littlefoot and his friends in twohopes of theeating sequels)them. joinsThe sequel would introduce Chomper, a baby Sharptooth who befriends the castgang. inHis parents are the TVantagonists of that film, but aren't malevolent so much as they are [[Mama Bear|violently]] [[Papa Wolf|protective]] of their baby and part ways with Littlefoot and friends on good adaptationterms.

** The first movie has a ''T. rex'' chasing the heroes all over the place -- thoughplace—though it's somewhat of a subversion, as the real threat is the Velociraptors. Additionally, in the original film, she ''is'' seen hunting actual dinosaurs, and at one point gives up on chasing the protagonists when they outrun her in a jeep. And finally, she comes back at the climax of the film to [[Big Damn Villains|save the protagonists from the raptors]].

** [[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 [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/:Spinosaurus#Feeding_ecologyFeeding 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.

* 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 [[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 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 Thethe Center of Thethe Earth]]'' has a ''T. rex'' chasing the protagonists.

* 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. Because the number one rule of necromancy is, "the longer it's been dead, the more powerful it is when you raise it."}}

* 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.

* [[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''."

* 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''.

* There were ''T. rex''es in all versions of ''[[Land of the Lost (TV series)|Land of the Lost]]''.

** 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 (TV)|a Dalek]]? [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z42AxgFMb8k See it to believe.]

* 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.]]

* Speaking of Impossible Pictures and dinosaurs... it was refreshingly [[Averted]] in ''[[Primeval]]''... except for [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction_Event: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 (TV)|Doctor Who]]'''s "[[Doctor Who (TV)/Recap/S11 E2/E02 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.}}

* [["Weird Al" Yankovic]]'s (Music)|Weird"Jurassic AlPark": Yankovic]]

** The [[Filk Song]] "Jurassic Park": {{quote|''"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]]...''"

* 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] [https://web.archive.org/web/20120923154621/http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_83_22-awesome-ways-to-reboot-classic-tv-shows_p22/ right], however.

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* 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 4000040,000]]'': 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.

* ''[[Star Fox Adventures (Video Game)|Star Fox Adventures]]''

** The RedEye tribe in is aan entire ''tribe'' of ''T. rex''esrexes.

** 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.]]

* ''[[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.

** Tyranitar, which is obviously named after good ol' ''T. rex'', though it looks more like [[Godzilla]]. Still, it being a big badass lizard with short arms definitiely brings them to mind.

* ''[[Kingdom of Loathing (Video Game)|Kingdom of Loathing]]'' has a ''Tyrannosaurus "Tex"'' as a boss.

* ''[[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.

* In the end of the Soviet campaign in ''Red Alert: Yuri's Revenge'', the defeated villain Yuri highjacks a time machine and attempts to escape. Soviets manage to override the controls of the machine and overload its core and send Yuri one-way straight to prehistoric times. Gues who's waiting for him there. Note that in this case the ''T. rex'' is actually a [[Chekhov's Gunman]], as in the first Soviet mission if you move really quickly when you're accidentally sent back there you can capture one and return it to the present -- wherepresent—where you can send it on a rampage in present-day San Francisco. It seems to have gained much tougher skin in the time travel tripe than the dozens you have no choice but to slaughter before you make the return trip -- youtrip—you can take out most of the enemy base with "Rexy" alone.

* ''[[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''.

* 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.

* A zombie ''T. rex'' shows up in [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20160314015648/http://th3rdworld.com/web-comic/Holidayholiday-Warswars/episode/Holidayholiday-Warswars-Episodeepisode-47 this episode] of ''[[Holiday Wars]]''.

* The main character of ''[[Dinosaur Comics (Webcomic)|Dinosaur Comics]]'' is a ''T. rex'' named T-Rex.

* If there was anyone out there who doubted that ''[[Axe Cop (Webcomic)|Axe Cop]]'' is something truly special, it dissipated once [https://web.archive.org/web/20130529104821/http://axecop.com/index.php/acask/read/ask_axe_cop_8/ Axe Cop's pet], Wexter the ''T. rex'', is introduced.

** 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 ''[http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_T:The Adventures of T-Rex |The Adventures Of T-Rex]]'', about a group of anthropomorphic ''T. rex''es that [[Animal Superheroes|fight crime]]. Yeah.

* 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]]''

* 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''.

* Because it [[Lampshadeslampshade]]s 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]]''.

* 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...

* ''[[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]]''.

* 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 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.

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