History InformedSpecies / AnimatedFilms

** Oscar looks less like a cleaner wrasse and more like [[InkSuitActor a miscolored]] Creator/WillSmith with a tailfin.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}: Jafar's parrot Iago is supposed to be a scarlet macaw-[[MisplacedWildlife How a South American bird ended up in Ancient Persia is anyone's guess]]-but his short stature and the color of his feathers make him look more like a red lory or a-[[AnimalGenderBender female]]-eclectus parrot.

** The ''Triceratops'' from ''Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs'' have overly large frills and shorter horns, which make them look more like ''Chasmosaurus''. Also, the ''Troodon'' look more like ''Coelophysis'' or scaly ''Pelecanimimus''.

** Also, the ''Troodon'' are featherless and look more like ''Coelophysis'' or ''Compsognathus''.
** Despite being claimed by the creators to be a ''Baryonyx'', [[SuperPersistentPredator Rudy]], the {{Big Bad}} of the third film, doesn't look all that much like this genus. He exceeds ''Spinosaurus'' in size (in RealLife ''Baryonyx'' was only about 7 or 8 meters long, although Rudy may just be overgrown), and has several exaggeratedly crocodilian features such as bony scutes down his back and nostrils at the end of his snout. He would actually make a pretty good ''Suchomimus'', a fairly close relative of ''Baryonyx'' that approached ''Spinosaurus'' in size.

** As noted by many youtube commentators of ''WesternAnimation/{{Felidae}}'' Kong is decidedly dissimilar to the more anatomically correct cats that populate the movie, looking more like a bear/bulldog hybrid than an actual cat.

* The animals of ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'' are pretty easy to identify, even when their features are changed or exaggerated for artistic license. Shifu is another matter, and unless you've [[AllThereInTheManual read the guidebooks]] you might guess anything from raccoon dog (face, tail) to lemur (hands, ears) [[labelnote:*]]non-native to China[[/labelnote]]. Creator/DustinHoffman, who plays Shifu, went for, "I don't know... some kind of raccoon?" He's officially a red panda, but since red pandas look like [[https://www.google.es/search?q=red+panda&tbm=isch this]] and Shifu looks like [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Shifu_5_4093.png this]], you can understand his confusion. Shifu has huge round ears, more whitish orangey fur, and dark brown hands, while [[http://www.pluspets.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Red-Panda4.jpg red]] [[http://www.pluspets.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Red-Panda2.jpg pandas]] have medium sized, rounded triangular ears and are more reddish with a black underside and legs.

* Flounder in ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid'' is portrayed as a large yellow fish with blue fins and stripes and nothing like actual flounders (which are large, flat brown fish whose eyes are both on one side of its face) at all. However, that could just be his name, not his species. A possible identity for him may be the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acanthurus_triostegus Manini]], a tropical fish also known as Convict Tang, but even then the ressemblance is vague at best. Also, many of the species described in the song "Under the Sea" look ''nothing'' like their real-life counterparts.

** Jiminy Cricket is so heavily anthropomorphized that he looks more like a little green man with a rabbit nose and no ears. Animator Creator/WardKimball, who designed him, admitted that "he's a cricket because we ''say'' he's a cricket." And then the live-action adaptation actually had him as a tiny human.

** Poor Ducky. Sources can't decide if she's a ''Parasaurolophus'', an ''Edmontosaurus'', or a ''Saurolophus'' since she doesn't really look completely like one or the other. Some sources even say that she's a ''platypus!''

* A few of the reviews for ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail'' when it first came out complained about how un-catlike Tiger looked. [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/anamericantail/images/e/eb/Cossackcats.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/745?cb=20120315200727 The Cossack Cats]] in the beginning scene could easily be mistaken for weasels or even wolves.

** The main sharptooth villain of the fifth film is apparently a ''Giganotosaurus'', but looks more like some kind of abelisaurid (aside from the arms). The fourteenth film introduces proper abelisaurid ''Carnotaurus''...which looks more like a generic large carnivorous theropod with horns, a short snout, and armor.

** ''The Secret of Saurus Rock'' had an ''Allosaurus'' which looked more like a ''T. rex'', to the point of having two fingers instead of three ([[OffModel though it's sometimes shown with three fingers]]).
** The ''Styracosaurus'' that appear starting in ''The Stone of Cold Fire'' have short nose horns, and their spiky frills barely resemble what the real dinosaur had.
** The "Tinysauruses" are apparently ''Mussaurus'', but they look more like generic sauropods the size of mice.[[note]]''Mussaurus'' was initially thought to have been mouse-sized (hence the name meaning "Mouse Reptile") based on the first specimens discovered, but these turned out to be infants and the adults were quite big albeit still one of the smaller sauropodomorphs.[[/note]]
** Guido from ''The Great Day of the Flyers'' is supposed to be a ''Microraptor'', but with his toothless parrot-like beak, lack of claws (including its raptorial claw), and more humanoid frame he barely looks like the real animal.
** The ''Beipiaosaurus'' (Yellow Bellies) from ''The Wisdom Of Friends'' hardly look like the dinosaurs they're supposed to be either, looking more like Muppet-esque Dodos instead. And the ''Baryonyx'' from the same film don't remotely resemble the real animals, having too broad skulls instead of the crocodilian jaws of spinosaurs and lacking the huge thumb claw.

* A few of the reviews for ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail'' when it first came out complained about how un-catlike Tiger looked. [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/anamericantail/images/e/eb/Cossackcats.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/745?cb=20120315200727 The Cossack Cats]] in the beginning scene could easily be mistaken for wolverines.

* The title character of ''WesternAnimation/{{Bolt}}'' is supposed to be a white German Shepherd (also known as a "White Shepherd") and, from the looks of it, an adult as well. One of the most noticeable errors is he's way too small. He's barely larger than a cat. In fact, Bolt looks more a Hinks Bull Terrier and there is even some concept art of him with a slightly curved head. There's [[http://images.wikia.com/disney/images/a/a0/BoltMittensPF.jpg concept art]] of him looking much more accurate than in the final product, but the final film opted for an unusually small White Shepherd instead.

** Thunderclap. His crest would indicate he's a ''Nyctosaurus'', but since he also has teeth and wing claws (''Nyctosaurus'' is known for being the pterosaur to lack wing claws) his exact genus is impossible to clarify.

* The large theropod featured in the "Rite of Spring" segment of ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}'' is supposed to be a ''Tyrannosaurus rex'', but it looks more like an ''Allosaurus'' instead, with a blocky head and three claws on each hand. Amusingly, it's shown fighting a ''Stegosaurus'', which lived millions of years before the ''T. rex'' but indeed coexisted with ''Allosaurus'', so having simply made it an ''Allosaurus'' to begin with would have been more accurate.

* Orson from ''WesternAnimation/TheIceAgeAdventuresOfBuckWild'' is supposedly a ''Protoceratops''. Aside from having a large frill on his head, he looks nothing like one— he's bipedal, with tiny arms, sharp teeth, and a spiky tail.

* While the WolfMan didn't look much like a wolf already (see far below), his animated design in ''WesternAnimation/AlvinAndTheChipmunksMeetTheWolfman'' looks even less so. He has a shorter muzzle and a mane around his head, making him more resemble a lion than a wolf. He also has only three toes in each foot, unlike in the original where he has four toes like a wolf.

* A few of the reviews for ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail'' when it first came out complained about how un-catlike Tiger looked.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Balto}}'':
** Steele is a malamute with IcyBlueEyes. Malamutes can only have brown eyes, As a result, Steele looks more like a husky than a malamute.
** In ''WesternAnimation/BaltoIIWolfQuest'', it's repeatedly mentioned that Aleu looks and acts more like a wolf than her wolf-dog father, to the point where no one wants to adopt her. She has IcyBlueEyes and a brownish pelt. Neither of these attributes are associated with grey wolves, but fit well with the Husky breed.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994''

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing''

** Timon looks almost nothing like a meerkat either, having peach-yellow colored fur (real meerkats are usually sand colored) bigger, downturned ears and a head full of red hair like a human would have. Plus, they walk on all fours and have black eyes.

* The Sarco Brothers from ''Dino Time'' are supposed to be ''Sarcosuchus'' as their name suggests, but they look more like mutated crocodiles instead.

** Aladar and Neera, for that matter, possess flexible lips instead of beaks. This detail apparently was changed after it was decided that the characters would speak (in the original draft, the only spoken lines came from a narrator) and it would have been too difficult to get the ''Iguanodon'' beaks to look good while moving in such a way.
** The ''Carnotaurus'' have heavily-built bodies more akin to ''T. rex''.