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* Dinosaurs frequently show up in ''AxeCop'', which makes sense, considering the author is six years old.
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* Dinosaurs frequently show up in ''AxeCop'', ''WebComic/AxeCop'', which makes sense, considering the author is six years old.
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* Take ''ResidentEvil'', but make the main {{mook}}s dinosaurs instead of zombies. You end up with ''DinoCrisis''.
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* ''FinalFantasyVI'' had a few dinosaurs as random encounters. It also has Dinosaur Island, a place which does not provide any plot or gameplay bonuses, but has a lot of tough fights which are good for [[LevelGrinding levelling up]].
** ''FinalFantasyVIII'' has [[CallARabbitASmeerp ''T. Rexaurs'']] to fight.
*** As does ''FinalFantasyXII''
*** ''FinalFantasyI'' did it first with the rare Tyrannosaurs and their palette swap, Allosaurus.
** ''FinalFantasyXI'' has lightning-spewing raptors.
** ''FinalFantasyVIII'' has [[CallARabbitASmeerp ''T. Rexaurs'']] to fight.
*** As does ''FinalFantasyXII''
*** ''FinalFantasyI'' did it first with the rare Tyrannosaurs and their palette swap, Allosaurus.
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* ''FinalFantasyVI'' ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'' had a few dinosaurs as random encounters. It also has Dinosaur Island, a place which does not provide any plot or gameplay bonuses, but has a lot of tough fights which are good for [[LevelGrinding levelling up]].
**''FinalFantasyVIII'' ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'' has [[CallARabbitASmeerp ''T. Rexaurs'']] to fight.
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***''FinalFantasyI'' ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyI'' did it first with the rare Tyrannosaurs and their palette swap, Allosaurus.
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Well, it's true. Dinosaurs are [[RuleOfCool cool]]. No exceptions. (Well, [[BarneyAndFriends almost none.]])
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* [[BarneyAndFriends [[Series/BarneyAndFriends Barney]]. The less said the better.
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* ''{{Dinosaucers}}''. Perhaps most noteworthy in that both sides seemed to have a counterpart for each character, rather than each faction specializing in one particular type of dinosaur (Allosaurus/Tyrannosaurus, Triceratops/Styracosaurus, Apatosaurus/Brachiosaurus, Archaeopteryx/Pterodactyl, etc.)
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* ''{{Dinosaucers}}''.''WesternAnimation/{{Dinosaucers}}''. Perhaps most noteworthy in that both sides seemed to have a counterpart for each character, rather than each faction specializing in one particular type of dinosaur (Allosaurus/Tyrannosaurus, Triceratops/Styracosaurus, Apatosaurus/Brachiosaurus, Archaeopteryx/Pterodactyl, etc.)
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* ''Series/DANGER5'' revolves around the eponymous team's efforts to stop Hitler and the Nazis from taking all of Europe. Given the [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs nature of the show]], this involves facing various oddities including bullet-proof women and ''[[RuleOfCool Nazi-controlled dinosaurs]]''.
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* ''{{Turok}}'' would just be another FPS if it didn't pit you against dinosaurs.
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* ''{{Turok}}'' ''{{VideoGame/Turok}}'' would just be another FPS if it didn't pit you against dinosaurs.
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*** Fall of Cybertron has the Dinobots making an appearance with their dino-modes.
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** They made a miniature of a Fiendish T-Rex. As if a T-rex wasn't enough, they slapped the Fiendish template on it.
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** Another Source Mod, Jailbreak, has this as part of the premise: It's [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Dinosaurs]] [[{{ptitlenfhgfvh962l5}} vs]] [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Robots]].
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** Another Source Mod, Jailbreak, has this as part of the premise: It's [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Dinosaurs]] [[{{ptitlenfhgfvh962l5}} [[LetsYouAndHimFight vs]] [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Robots]].
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* ''Series/DoctorWho'' "Invasion of the Dinosaurs": London is under martial law in response to the dinosaurs that have been mysteriously appearing there, [[spoiler: brought by a conspiracy, using time travel technology]].
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* In the ''Series/DoctorWho'' "Invasion serial ''Invasion of the Dinosaurs": Dinosaurs'', London is under martial law in response to the dinosaurs that have been mysteriously appearing there, [[spoiler: brought by a conspiracy, using time travel technology]].
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* An episode of ''SaberRiderAndTheStarSheriffs'' took place on a planet populated by dinosaurs. The episode was titled [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Oh Boy! Dinosaurs!"]], appropriately enough.
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* An episode of ''SaberRiderAndTheStarSheriffs'' ''Anime/SaberRiderAndTheStarSheriffs'' took place on a planet populated by dinosaurs. The episode was titled [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Oh Boy! Dinosaurs!"]], appropriately enough.
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** [[{{Squick}} Like]] [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean that?]]
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** Then, there's LEGO's new venture into prehistoric themes: ''Dino'', which features a similar approach as the above described ''Adventurers'' line: people packing serious gear going after dinosaurs. The dino figures themselves are without doubt the best LEGO has ever made, though unfortunately, these are ''still'' ''JurassicPark''-inspired, '80s or '90s-styled reptilian beasts.
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* ''KamenRiderOOO'' has the [[MidSeasonUpgrade PuToTyra]] (Pterodactyl - Triceratops - Tyrannosaurus) [[SetBonus Combo]], a dinosaur-themed SuperMode. Unlike his other ComboPlatterPowers, the three dino medals ''only'' work in their combined SetBonus form.
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* Riptor in ''KillerInstinct''''VideoGame/KillerInstinct''
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* In ''AmericanBarbarian'' [[http://www.ambarb.com/?p=196 thrown to the dinosaurs]].
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[[caption-width-right:330:See, this is what ''JurassicPark'' should've done.]]
->'''Roy:''' But the rooster was determined to get it back with the aid of his trained dinosaurs!\\
'''Orson:''' Trained dinosaurs? Where did the trained dinosaurs come from?\\
'''Roy:''' Same place all those [[InstantAwesomeJustAddNinja ninjas came from]].\\
-- ''[[GarfieldAndFriends U.S. Acres]]'', "The Name Game"
Well, it's true. Dinosaurs are [[RuleOfCool cool]]. No exceptions. (Well, [[BarneyAndFriends almost none.]])
Since dinosaurs [[RealLife actually existed]] in the past, some writers like to throw them into their stories. In many cases, this makes no sense at all, but when dinosaurs show up, we're generally in the realm of [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot awesome for the sake of awesome]]. Generally, the dinosaurs seen will be [[StockDinosaurs restricted to a few well-known types]].
The essence of this trope is the presence of dinosaurs which are not ultimately critical to the plot. If the story would be essentially the same without dinosaurs, it's an example. On the other hand, if [[DinosaurMedia dinosaurs are integral to the premise]], it's not an example.
Note that just because a series [[JustifiedTrope provides a reason]] for there to be dinosaurs does not mean it isn't an example of this trope. Sure, a dinosaur altmode might very well be a good idea for a Transformer, but the real reason for a dinosaur form is to [[MerchandiseDriven appeal to young boys]].
Despite the name of this trope, it can cover examples that are not technically dinosaurs. Other extinct reptiles, like pterosaurs, plesiosaurs, and dimetrodons would fall under this trope. And while it may be a stretch, since we don't have individual tropes for Everything is Better with Woolly Mammoths/Woolly Rhinos/Saber-tooth Cats/etc., these examples would get grouped here.
See also DinosaursAreDragons and SomewhereAPalaeontologistIsCrying. Compare DinosaurMedia.
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[[folder: Anime and Manga ]]
* The random and gratuitous dinosaurs are practically everywhere in the ''DragonBall'' and ''DragonBallZ'' setting. "Fly home safely, and look out for rampaging dinosaurs!"
* The hentai fantasy anime ''{{Dragon Knight 4}}: Wheel of Time'' has soldiers riding dinosaur-like creatures.
** [[{{Squick}} Like]] [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean that?]]
* ''ThePrinceOfTennis'': Tezuka's [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome amazing tennis move]] is what ''really'' killed the dinosaurs.
* The ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh}}!'' card game has a dinosaur type, the number of dinos expanded by Tyranno Kenzan in ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh GX}}''. Dinosaur Ryuuzaki (Rex Raptor) uses a dinosaur-themed deck in the anime.
* So does ''{{Digimon}}''.
* Chibi-Usa of ''SailorMoon'' befriended a Nessie-like dinosaur in one episode.
* An episode of ''SaberRiderAndTheStarSheriffs'' took place on a planet populated by dinosaurs. The episode was titled [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Oh Boy! Dinosaurs!"]], appropriately enough.
* ''TheFiveStarStories'' has dinosaurs on a few of the planets, which are inexplicably identical to various species that once roamed the Earth. The level of dinosaurs a planet has is actually a pretty good way to measure its age. The young planet Juno has quite a few, although they're now threatened by humans and other introduced mammal species; the older Delta Belune also has dinosaurs, but they're small and birdlike; Kallamity, supposedly the oldest inhabitable planet, doesn't seem to have any dinos at all.
* In ''[[JoJosBizarreAdventure Steel Ball Run]]'', Diego Brando becomes a Wereraptor after he gains a stand ability.
* ''DinosaurKing'' isn't a strict example as it's focused completely on dinosaurs, not just throwing them in for RuleOfCool. But consider this: In Japan it was preceded by an insect-battling game called ''Mushi King''. Then the designers sat down to plan a spinoff and asked themselves "What's better than insects?" before concluding that EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs.
* ''GetterRobo''. Just... Getter Robo. If there's room for a dinosaur at any given time, then they '''will''' be there. And it will be [[HolyShitQuotient awesome]].
** Dinosaur mecha piloted by dinosaurs. YEAAAAAH
* The SchoolFestival arc in ''MahouSenseiNegima'' has the engineering club construct a robotic ''T. rex'' because it would make the festival parades that much more awesome. This fooled TheHero at first since it was so life-like. They occasionally go berserk (though no one is ever hurt), giving [[KenAkamatsu the author]] the opportunity to have the lead heroine slice off its head with her {{BFS}} [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman since it was a robot]].
* In Law of Ueki Plus the main characters [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome ride into the Big Bad 's lair on a]] ''Tyrannosaurus rex'', destroying a tower and defeating a bunch of guards all in one fell swoop.
* {{Gon}} has a miniature ''T. rex'' for a protagonist, fighting large modern mammals most of the time. No, [[SomewhereAPalaeontologistIsCrying palaeontologist did not hang himself]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swing_%28seat%29 so that you
* OnePiece has "Red Flag" Diez Drake, a pirate captain and former Rear Admiral of the Marines that has eaten a Devil Fruit that turns him into a tyrannosaurus. [[CrazyAwesome This is pretty]] [[RuleOfCool much par for]] [[WorldOfHam the course in]] OnePiece, though.
** The island of Little Garden, which is populated by Dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures.
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[[folder: Comics ]]
* In a classic example, DC did a good deal of war comics in the 60s. One was called "The War that Time Forgot". It was WorldWarII... but there was an island full of giant apes, military test robots, an elite military unit called "The Suicide Squad" (related to the later DC group), circus acrobats, and, of course, dinosaurs.
* ''CalvinAndHobbes'' gives us Tyrannosaurs in F-14s, as you
--> '''Calvin''': This is '''so''' cool!
--> '''Hobbes''': This is '''so''' stupid.
* Gert in ''{{Runaways}}'' has a pet ''Deinonychus'' named [[FluffyTheTerrible Old Lace]].
* ''ComicBook/GoldDigger'' has a race of technologically advanced dinosaurs who serve as both a major source of archaeological finds for the scientists in the cast to dig up and the cause of a whole lot of bad events in ages past. They also made two dinosaur-esque races via genetic engineering, the Amonians and the Dragons, who both have regular characters in the cast.
* ''{{Marvel 1602}}'' had little dinosaurs running around Europe, including at least one seeming to be [[strike:[[XMen Professor Xavier's]]]] Carlos Javier's pet. Not to mention that the standard big dinos can be found in North America.
* There is a ''[[TyrannosaurusRex T. rex]]'' trophy [[GiantRobot robot]] in the [[{{Batman}} Batcave]]. [[FridgeLogic How it got there]] or why is generally ignored, but the DCAU provides the hypothesis that Dick (Robin, at the time) [[SoCoolItsAwesome wanted to keep it]].
** The Episode ''Starcrossed'' in JLU, has Flash agreeing with this trope through and through. Alfred being [[DeadpanSnarker Alfred]] [[HilarityEnsues well...]]
--> '''The Flash''': [[SoCoolItsAwesome Hey!]] [[CaptainObvious That's a Giant Dinosaur!]] :D
--> '''Alfred''': [[SarcasmMode And here I thought]] [[DeadpanSnarker Batman was the detective.]]
* ''[=~2000 AD~=]'' had ''Flesh'', a story about future cowboys going back in time and killing dinosaurs for their meat, which was then exported back to their own time. This was used to provide STOMPY DINOSAUR ACTION crossovers into both ''JudgeDredd'' and ''ABCWarriors''. In the case of the latter, dinosaurs ended up on a terraformed dystopian Mars.
* Major Bummer gave us [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrannosaurus_Reich Tyrannosaurus Reich]]. Can't believe that got a mention in the other wiki before getting here.
* Bob, Dawn, and Rex, from ''{{Dilbert}}''.
* ''Dinosaur Bop / Wanda et les dinosaures'' (''Wanda and the dinosaurs'') is set in a comical (with realist drawings) post-apocalyptic world were humanity regressed at prehistoric age (but more like "American sixties in a prehistoric setting"). For no reason, dinosaurs are here anew, and are used as pets, food or... cars (but ''T. rex'' is still a predator and wreck poor Eddy's car).
* The title character of ''Sláine'' has gone up against dinosaurs animated from amber.
* [[FoxTrot Jason Fox]] has a major dinosaur obsession. He once sent an electronic message to the White House saying "increase dinosaur DNA research" over and over again.
* The Tar Pits in Sin City feature dinosaur statues. Frank Miller said he put them there as an excuse to draw dinosaurs.
* In All-Star Superman. the Subterranosaur are descendants of dinosaurs who escaped extinction by digging their way to the center of the Earth. Their leader is the Dino-Czar.
* The villain in NeilGaiman's ''MrHeroTheNewmaticMan'' is Henry Phage, an immortal velociraptor at the head of a multidimensional corporation whose flagship product is the corruption of souls.
* [[http://twitter.com/Dr_Dinosaur AH!]] [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2009/05/01/fcbd-09-page-5/ DECEPTION!]] MAMMAL '''''DECEPTION!'''''
** [[AtomicRobo MAMMAL ROBOT!]]
* The Malibu Comics franchise ''DinosaursForHire'' is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. An anthropomorphic tyrannosaur, stegosaur, and triceratops (and later a pteranodon) [[TheyFightCrime fight crime]]!
* One of the antagonist races in ''Shakara'' is called the Teknosaurs. And yes, they're a race of cyborg dinosaurs.
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[[folder: Films ]]
* Kong Island in ''KingKong'' generally has dinosaurs scattered around.
** Don't forget that KingKong also fought [[{{Godzilla}} a certain mutant dinosaur]] in another film.
** And a non-mutated Gorosaurus in ''King Kong Escapes''.
* The 1951 film ''Two Lost Worlds'' is a Cowboy/Australian Pirate/Dinosaur movie (). It fits this trope well because the only dinosaurs are some stock footage from a previous dinosaur movie that menace some people the pirates maroon on an island. They could have easily been left out, or replaced with more normal dangerous animals.
* The ''IceAge'' films are generally accurate in depicting only animals which lived during the Ice Age, or at least after the dinosaurs died out. Guess, then, what the third film featured. Go on.
* In ''{{D-War}}'' (a film very much driven by the {{Rule of Cool}}), the evil Buraki commands an evil army of dark warriors that ride big dinosaurs and fire barrages of fireballs.
* ''{{Meet the Robinsons}}'' stars mind-controlled ''[[TyrannosaurusRex T. rex]]'' brought back from the past with a flying time machine by a bowler-hat-less bowler hat wearing guy surely deserves mention here.
* The ''StarWars'' 20th anniversary re-release inserts cgi [[strike:dinosaurs]] beasts which vaguely resemble dinosaurs into various scenes in the movie, mostly in Mos Eisley.
* The HarryhausenMovie ''TheValleyOfGwangi'' is this trope incarnate. Little can prepare a viewer for the sheer unadulterated awesome of [[TheWestern Cowboys]] [[CoolVsAwesome roping]] an Allosaurus.
* Rex from ''ToyStory''.
* ''FutureWar'', because the blatant ''{{Terminator}}'' meets ''Bloodsport'' plot wasn't enough, so they decided to throw in a little ''JurassicPark'', too.
* ''NightAtTheMuseum'' features a T. rex skeleton [[AllAnimalsAreDogs that acts like a dog]].
* [[http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1918385_1918401_1918398,00.html This]] Time article on lessons from the 2009 Summer Movies shows that despite the success of the second ''Night at the Museum'' and ''IceAge 3'' (it says ''{{Up}}'' features dinosaurs - and it does have a giant bird), two other films with dinos, ''LandOfTheLost'' and ''YearOne'', bombed.
* Probably not a great example, but the '[[FutureImperfect Time Masheen]]' scene of ''{{Idiocracy}}'', where World War II was depicted by two T-rexes fighting, one wearing an American flag, one wearing a Swastika.
* [[HammerHorror Hammer Studios]] made a few [[OneMillionBC prehistoric epics]]. The ones ''with'' dinosaurs are so, SO much better than the ones without.
* The "Rite of Spring" segment from ''{{Disney/Fantasia}}''.
* ''TheodoreRex'' is quite possibly one of the few example that makes this trope worse then it should be.
* An upcoming, untitled {{Pixar}} film will tell what would it be like if the astroid miss Earth, with dinosaurs and humans living together, even being able to communicate with humans.
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[[folder: Gamebooks ]]
* The ''FightingFantasy'' gamebook ''Island of the Lizard King'' involved the reader trying to assassinate the king of a race of lizardmen. For no particular reason, one of said lizardmen is seen riding a ''Styracosaurus'' at one point.
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[[folder: Literature ]]
* [[TheDresdenFiles Harry Dresden]] ''lives'' this trope at TheClimax of ''Dead Beat''. To say more would be a {{spoiler}}. [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome An AWESOME spoiler.]]
** [[Awesome/TheDresdenFiles Oh, what the hell]]: [[spoiler: Necromancy practiced on human remains is forbidden on pain of death for wizards, but Harry needs a source of necromantic energy to avoid getting killed by the NegativeSpaceWedgie the bad guys are trying to claim for [[AGodAmI awesome godlike power]]. It's been previously established that animal remains leave thinner "psychic footprints" than human remains, but that the longer a thing's dead, the more powerful it is when it's finally raised. Harry puts two and two and two together and necromantically animates "Sue," the mostly-complete ''{{Tyrannosaurus rex}}'' skeleton at the Field Museum of Natural History. [[RaisingTheSteaks That's right]], ''[[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Zombie T. rex]]''!]]
*** Which he then proceeds to [[spoiler:ride across Chicago to fight an army of ghosts and zombies.]] [[CoolVersusAwesome It doesn't get any cooler than that]].
*** Actually it does get cooler when you
** He also does it in CodexAlara: turns out that aside from picking up [[LostRomanLegion hapless romans]], [[Starcraft Zerg]] [[Expy expies]], and [[OurElvesAreBetter elves]], Alara also grabbed a few giant ground sloths and terror birds in it's day. They're bond creatures with the elves.
* Arguably, {{Jules Verne}}'s classic novel ''Journey to the Center of the Earth'' is an example of this trope. Most of the book is about really ambitious spelunking, the adventurers just happen to run into a few surviving prehistoric beasts in one section of caves. It makes that part of the book more exciting, but wasn't completely necessary to the plot. Of course none of the creature they meet are technically members of the superorder ''Dinosauria'', they were mostly icthysaurs, plesiosaurs, and crocodilians. That makes this trope OlderThanRadio.
* Eric Garcia's series of noirish mysteries (starting with ''AnonymousRex''), which feature dinosaurs living in modern-day America, disguised as humans.
* The recent science fiction story "Rejiggering the Thingamajig", published in Analog, stars an alien sentient T. Rex Buddihst. And it's awesome.
* In the epic children's book ''Dinosaur vs. Bedtime,'' the titular dinosaur engages in ferocious battle with all manner of opponents. When faced with the likes of a pile of leaves, a bowl of spaghetti or talking grownups, DINOSAUR WINS! ROAR! But Dinosaur still has to face his greatest challenge: Dinosaur vs. Bedtime! [[spoiler: Bedtime wins]].
* Steve Alten's ''Meg'' novels do this. The first scene of the first book, has a Tyrannosaurus get eaten by a Megalodon (giant presumed relative to the Great White Shark) whilst attempting to chase down Hadrosaurs in the shallow sea. Nevermind that Megalodon evolved [[SomewhereAPaleontologistIsCrying almost 50 million years after the Dinosaurs went extinct]].
* Aleksandar Žiljak's (Croatian SF writer) story "Opal eyes" ("Oči boje opala") features a Wild west setting in a world where dinosaurs roam the plains. Also, the main character is a lesbian vampire gunslinger.
* ''TheIcemarkChronicles'''s third book has the enemy Basilea use 'Tri-Horns' as cavalry. Three guesses as to what they are.
* ''Far-Seer'' is basically the story of Galileo if he was a T-Rex. It is indeed as awesome as it sounds.
* The world in which the fantasy novel [[TenGhost Ten-Ghost]] takes place has domesticated dinosaurs everywhere, and the less that domesticated variety prowling the wilderness, for seemingly no reason other than to have them.
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* ''{{Primeval}}'' was advertised as being about dinosaurs despite none appearing in the first series. Presumably they thought saying it was about giant centipedes, dodos and flying lizards wouldn't draw in as many viewers.
* The ''SuperSentai'' and ''PowerRangers'' franchises have had no fewer than two dinosaur-themed series (''[[KyoryuSentaiZyuranger Zyuranger]]'' and ''[[BakuryuuSentaiAbaranger Abaranger]]'', localized as ''[[MightyMorphinPowerRangers the original MMPR]]'' and ''[[PowerRangersDinoThunder Dino Thunder]]''); and three others with their own dinosaur mecha: ''[[{{Engine Sentai Go-Onger}} Go-Onger]]'' / ''[[Series/PowerRangersRPM RPM]]'', based on animal/vehicle hybrids, has dinosaur trains; ''[[MiraiSentaiTimeranger Timeranger]]''/''[[PowerRangersTimeForce Time Force]]'' has one of the TimePolice's mecha be saurian for [[RuleOfCool no adequately explained reason]]; and ''[[KaizokuSentaiGokaiger Gokaiger]]'' has a dino mecha in homage to three Rangers who died, who just so happened to share a dino motif (a Zyuranger, an Abaranger, and the Timeranger who owned the gratuitous dinosaur robot).
* From ''Pee-Wee's Playhouse'', Pterri, Pee-Wee's talking pet pterosaur, and the (unrelated) Dinosaur Family.
* [[BarneyAndFriends Barney]]. The less said the better.
* What if Barney was green, female, Australian, ''much'' less obnoxious and actually likeable by people over 6? You'd have Dorothy the Dinosaur, one of the extended cast members of ''TheWiggles''.
* TopGear recently had a car review that, for no apparent reason, incorporated dinosaurs into the usual shots of Clarkson driving the car, including one where he is briefly pursued by a tyrannosaurus. It's actually very well done for a series that doesn't really use special effects very much.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'' "Invasion of the Dinosaurs": London is under martial law in response to the dinosaurs that have been mysteriously appearing there, [[spoiler: brought by a conspiracy, using time travel technology]].
* {{iCarly}}. Yeah. The episode where Carly almost moves to Yakima, where Spencer says to the granddad: "These are all the vitamins she needs to take. I ''only'' give her the ones shaped like dinosaurs." "...Why?" "...Dinosaurs are cool."
** There's also the episode where iCarly gets turned into a TV show, and [[ExecutiveMeddling they put a guy in a dinosuar costume in the show]] because "kids love dinosaurs".
* DinoDan
* TerraNova
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* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aovaRsVV28 Hevisaurus]], a Finnish Music/HeavyMetal band aimed towards children.
* WeirdAlYankovic's "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gh4zvQfDhi0 Jurassic Park]]", turning the {{melodrama}}tic ([[{{Narm}} to the point of hilarity]]) "[=MacArthur=] Park" into a [[FilkSong retelling of]] [[JurassicPark Spielberg's movie]].
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* ''[[DungeonsAndDragons Dungeons & Dragons]]'' has dinosaurs in the main books, [[RuleOfCool seemingly for no reason other than coolness]].
** The Arms and Equipment Guide list several of them as possible mounts, and gives several examples on how to use them, like a Dwarven pike squad on the back of a triceratops.
*** Duplicated in {{Eberron}}, where [[strike:Hobbits]] Halflings use some of the smaller dinosaurs as mounts.
** They can be found in 4th Edition as Behemoths and Drakes, and given Cadillacs and Dinosaurs style names--Macetail, Bloodspike, et cetera--apparently because while dinosaurs are cool, sciencyish names aren't fantasyish enough.
** In 3rd and 3.5, you
* ''{{Exalted}}'', being a setting whose content is decided entirely by RuleOfCool and NinjaPirateZombieRobot, has gigantic "Tyrant Lizards" that look remarkably like ''T. rex'''es. Presumably due to ''Tyrannosaurus'' being Latin for "Tyrant Lizard".
** It also has the [[DinosaursAreDragons Dragon Kings]], which are roughly human-sized sentient dinosaurs who wear armor, can learn to breathe fire, and have enormous crystal clubs with laser blades to hit you
* ''{{Warhammer}}'' Fantasy's Lizardmen are a dinosaur race, their basic troops being "Saurus" and them using "Stegadons" and "Carnosaurs" as mounts and war engines. There are also "Cold Ones," Velociraptor-like things used by the Lizardmen and Dark Elves for cavalry. The beasts eat everything, so the Dark Elves cover themselves in poison to fool the lizards.
** The Cold Ones are mentioned (literally or metaphorically) to be dragon-kin...the ones the Dark Elves use also are subterranean, can live in the cold climate of the Dark Elves' territory, and, IIRC, sweat poisonous goo, which might make them more of a freaky lizard-horse than a dinosaur.
* A lot of {{Death World}}s in ''{{Warhammer 40000}}'' are covered in dinosaur-esque creatures, and the Tyranids themselves are also somewhat dinosaur-y, at least in terms of teeth - the Termagaunts, especially, look like an odd cross between Armadillos, Zerg Hydralisks and ''Velociraptors''.
** It is worth noting that the Zerg Hydralisks (from ''{{Starcraft}}}'') are probably inspired by Termagaunts (not the other way around). Meanwhile, Termagaunts look like a cross between ''{{Alien}}'' Xenomorphs and bugs from ''{{Starship Troopers}}''.
** [[OurElvesAreBetter Eldar]] Exodites dwell on lush, primeval worlds inhabited by saurian "dragons," which they joust on with laser lances.
** Possibly explained in older literature. Death Worlds were likely worlds seeded by the mysterious Old Ones in the time before the Eldar started to record their history. Since the Lizardmen of Warhammer Fantasy were servants of the Old Ones, it's likely that worlds they settled would have dinosaur-like creatures 'imported' to those worlds.
* ''[[WorldOfDarkness Werewolf: The Apocalypse]]'' has the Mokole, which are [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot weredinosaurs]]. Technically, they're supposed to be werealligators, but since they serve as Gaia's memory, they can take the form of any reptile from Earth's history.
* [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=74235 Old Fogey]] from the Unhinged parody set of ''MagicTheGathering'', the only Dinosaur creature in the game.
** That's only if you
* In {{Pathfinder}}, druids can take dinosaurs as animal companions, as can clerics with the Saurian domain.
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* ''Ellen's Energy Adventure'' at [[DisneyThemeParks EPCOT]], which is about power sources, contains an extended sequence involving dinosaurs. This in itself was based on the Primevil World diorama at the Disneyland Railroad.
** There's also the ride called [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Dinosaur.]]
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* {{LEGO}}'s ''Adventurers'' line couldn't pass up the chance to include a sub-line that brought its characters to a LostWorld, where they had to stop the bad guys from capturing a prehistoric AnachronismStew. The dinosaur figures were [[StockDinosaurs the standard]] ''TyrannosaurusRex'', ''Triceratops'' and ''Stegosaurus''. Many sets came with a "''Pteranodon''" figure as well, though that particular type of pterosaur may have actually been ''[[ScienceMarchesOn Geosternbergia]]''.
** Released around the same time was a line of easily buildable and reconfigurable dinosaur sets, simply titled ''Dinosaurs''. Each model could be rebuilt into various other prehistoric animals with their spare parts, though these "extra models" were often [[SomewhereAPalaeontologistIsCrying too inaccurate for comfort]].
** The later action-oriented ''Dino2010''/''Dino Attack'' lines. Had mutated prehistoric critters that bore a very faint resemblance to their real-life counterparts, and although both lines were essentially the same, there were slight differences between the European and US releases: in the European ''Dino2010'', the protagonists merely wanted to contain the beasts; while their US counterparts came equipped with guns instead of capturing equipment.
** ''{{Bionicle}}'' very nearly averted this trope. Rumors say they originally intended to introduce cybernetic dinosaurs, but that set line got canceled. However the dinosaurs themselves eventually ended up in official canon, and WordOfGod says that a released model (Skirmix, a [[HorseOfADifferentColor rock steed]]) was actually a close relative to these cyber-dinos.
* As mentioned, quite a few ''{{Transformers}}'' have dinosaur altmodes. The Dinobots were some of the fans' favorites, and of course Grimlock became a classic nearly on par with Optimus Prime and Megatron.
** Megatron himself got a dinosaur alt-mode in ''BeastWars''.
** And who could ever forget Dinobot? Or his arguments with his [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Scott_McNeil rodent alter-ego]]? His greatest asset? Being a 'raptor with [[FrickinLaserBeams laser-firing]] [[EyeBeams eyes]].
** In the video game "TransformersWarForCybertron", Trypticon still has his Tyrannosaurus body design despite the game being set at the beginning of The Great War, millions of years before the Transformers knew about Earth and dinosaurs. Truly the awesomeness of dinosaurs transcends space and time.
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* ''Saturn {{Bomberman}}'' traded the [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter adorable]] [[EverythingsBetterWithKangaroos kangaroos]] for [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter equally adorable]] dinosaurs as the PowerupMount of choice. They're also available as alternate choices to the roois/ruis/Louies in ''Bomberman Fantasy Race''.
* The game ''TheKingOfDragonPass'' is vaguely based on old Norse traditions and mythology. So, naturally, you
* ''FinalFantasyVI'' had a few dinosaurs as random encounters. It also has Dinosaur Island, a place which does not provide any plot or gameplay bonuses, but has a lot of tough fights which are good for [[LevelGrinding levelling up]].
** ''FinalFantasyVIII'' has [[CallARabbitASmeerp ''T. Rexaurs'']] to fight.
*** As does ''FinalFantasyXII''
*** ''FinalFantasyI'' did it first with the rare Tyrannosaurs and their palette swap, Allosaurus.
** ''FinalFantasyXI'' has lightning-spewing raptors.
* ''DragonQuest'' has the recurring Hackasaurus (or Battle Rex), [[AnAxeToGrind an axe-wielding]], [[DinosaursAreDragons fire-breathing]] tyrannosaurus. ''DragonQuestVI'', in particular, has Lizzie the Hackasaurus, whom you
* Despite taking place in the modern day, ''DeadOrAlive 4'' has an area populated entirely by dinosaurs.
* ''CommandAndConquer: [[ExpansionPack The Covert Ops]]'' had a secret level which involved fighting dinosaurs.
** Also don't forget that in ''Red Alert 2'''s expansion ''Yuri's Revenge'', the first Soviet mission deals with time travel and you're accidentally sent back to the dinosaur period to fight off hordes of ''T. rex''es. This of course includes the fate of the game's antagonist Yuri in the same campaign who after stealing the time machine from the Soviets tries to use it to "command and conquer" the world and all its history. Unfortunately for Yuri, the Soviets still had the command codes for the time machine and depleted all of its energy reserves to send Yuri back to the dinosaur era while he was gloating. Then Yuri lets off a BigNo as a ''T. rex'' smashes through the time machine to devour him.
* The first ''TombRaider'' game had dinosaurs and a ''T. rex'' as enemies for no particular reason other than RuleOfCool, though an FMV later in the game implied that they were created by the [[MacGuffin Scion]]. The dinosaurs returned without explanation in ''Tomb Raider 3''.
** ''Tomb Raider 2'' and its GaidenGame ''Golden Mask'' both feature secret, difficult-to-reach battles with more ''T. rex''es, the sole reason being that they were considered the coolest part of the first game.
* ''RadGravity'' had a dinosaur planet as one level.
* ''{{Turok}}'' would just be another FPS if it didn't pit you
* ''WorldOfWarcraft'' has Raptors as fairly common animals (and mount for trolls), and gigantic ''T. rex''es, called Devilsaurs, as a rarer sort. To be precise, they only appear in a few areas (Un'Goro Crater, where there are only about five of them at any given time; The Netherstorm, where a single Devilsaur rules over an eco-dome filled with raptors; Drak'Tharon Keep, with the optional boss King Dred; and Sholazar Basin, home of the rare-spawn King Krush). For being such enourmous beasts they move like ninjas, and many players have had their adventure cut short by a sneak attack.
** With the latest patch, Beast Mastery Hunters can tame one of these giants (although it inexplicably shrinks to a more manageable size in the progess). It's undoubtedly the coolest of the exotic class pets (although that isn't saying much when the competition consists out of prime choices like bugs and worms).
*** [[{{Mulan}} They become travel size for your convenience]].
** There are also Dragonspawn, bascially flightless dragons.
* ''GuildWars'' introduces a dinosaur-rich jungle in its ''Eye of the North'' expansion. Being a fantasy game, it includes feathered Raptor Assasins, Armor-plated ceratopsians with shoulder-horns, [[TyrannosaurusRex Tyrannosaurs]], therapods with multiple heads and tails, and other bizarre reptiles.
* The ''SuperMario'' series of games already had Bowser as some sort of dragon-dinosaur-turtle... thing, and then in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld'' along came Yoshi and his friends....
** Not to mention the cute bruiser herself, Birdo.
* ''{{Pokemon}}'' uses several dinosaur and related species-themed Mons over the years. Lapras (Plesiosaur), Tyranitar (vaguely T.Rex-ish), Meganium (Diplodocus), Cranidos/Rampardos ([[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pachycephalosauria Pachycephalosaurs]], not ''T. rex''), Shieldon/Bastiodon.
** Oddly, most prehistoric Pokemon are part-Rock types, at least the ones that have to be [[ShoutOut reanimated from fossils]]. Even [[LightningBruiser Aerodactyl]], a ''pterosaur made of rock''.
** Now joined by Archen and Archeops, a basal bird/flying deinonychosaur Pokemon.
* ''BarkleyShutUpAndJamGaiden'': [[spoiler:The OneWingedAngel form of the last boss is ''T-Rex Barkley.'' I laughed for a good three minutes after the reveal.]]
* ''Adventure Island'', from the second game onward, gave Master Higgins dinosaur buddies that granted him extra powers.
* The Triscene terror units from ''{{X-COM}}: Terror From The Deep'', which are [[{{Cyborg}} cyborg dinosaurs]] that come equipped with [[MakeMeWannaShout Sonic Cannons]].
* The upcoming game (currently available as a proof-of-concept [[HalfLife Source]] mod) ''[[http://www.dinodday.com/ Dino D-Day]]'' is all about this trope, showcasing an AlternateHistory version of WorldWarII where the Third Reich unleashes their new secret weapon: '''''[[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Nazi dinosaurs!]]'''''
** Another Source Mod, Jailbreak, has this as part of the premise: It's [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Dinosaurs]] [[{{ptitlenfhgfvh962l5}} vs]] [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Robots]].
* The ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter'' series features raptors as mooks. With the sequels and updates, you
* ''DwarfFortress'' sends goblins after you. Survive long enough, and they come mounted on velociraptors (known in-game as Beak Dogs).
* ''ChronoTrigger'''s dinos actually appear in 65 million BC ([[{{Prehistoria}} along with people]], oddly inverting that trope) as well as in a 600 AD bonus dungeon (where millions of years of underground living have made them tough as nails).
* [[{{Prehistoria}} Dinosaur Jungle]] from ''[[SonicStorybookSeries Sonic and the Secret Rings]]'' are filled with dinosaurs. At one point, Sonic must evade the jaws of a rampaging Carnotaur. The game is based around ArabianNights.
* It might be AllInTheManual, but by looking at the physique of [[MassEffect turians]], it becomes clear that they are pretty much [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Roman Space Velociraptors]]. Which is f* cking [[RuleOfCool awesome]].
* [[MOTHER3 Dragos]], which are a more or less friendly species of T-Rexes. The [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Mecha-Drago]] on [[UnwillingRoboticisation the]] [[CyberneticsEatYourSoul other]] [[ThatOneBoss hand...]]
* ''NeverwinterNights2: Storm of Zehir'' allows Level 3 Ranger classes to automatically receive the 'Animal Companion' feat. Which is all well and good until you
* ''SupremeCommander2'' features a ''[[NinjaPirateZombieRobot giant Godzilla-sized cybernetic dinosaur]] as an experimental unit.
* ''FurFighters'' had the characters discover a whole advanced society of Dinosaurs living under the surface of the planet. The plotline had something about the BigBad stealing the advanced technology and selling it for cash but it didn't really work out. Oh, and the heroes were on a popular children's TV show for some reason.
* ''StarFoxAdventures''
* The [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Krogan]] from ''MassEffect'' are vaguely dinosaur-like.
* ChampionsOnline, being inspired by nearly every generation of comic books ever, has Monster Island - the western section of Monster Island is covered with raptor-sized "Teleiosaurus hatchlings" of various kinds, and the island is also home to the ginormous (30-40' tall) Teleiosaurus, a dinosaur egg several stories tall, and Mega-Terak - a ROBOT dinosaur.
* Riptor in ''KillerInstinct''
* FightingGame + this trope = ''PrimalRage''
* The ''{{Everquest}}'' games feature velociraptors, normally found in deserts and jungles.
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* In ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'', Dr. [=McNinja=]'s {{Bandito}} boy {{Sidekick}} has a pet raptor named Yoshi.
** And now we've got the BadFuture [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/20p20 where dinosaurs have taken over Earth.]].
* ''[=~8-Bit Theater~=]'' provides a [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2003/05/20/episode-284-what-could-it-be/ ninja riding a dinosaur armed with Febreeze]].
* ''DieselSweeties'' [[http://dieselsweeties.com/archive.php?s=1516 posits]] that there are two types of people in the world: those who would travel back in time to get drunk with pirates, and those that would go back to see what color the dinosaurs really were.
* ''{{xkcd}}'' has a [[http://xkcd.com/135/ serious]] [[http://xkcd.com/292/ problem]] [[http://xkcd.com/87/ with]] [[http://xkcd.com/155/ raptors]], though the problem may have been [[http://xkcd.com/758/ minimized]] by now. The fascination with dinosaurs extends to [[http://xkcd.com/650/ other dinosaur species]].
** Remember that search history? Look [[http://www.causes.com/causes/7945 here]].
* In ''IrregularWebcomic'', the President of the United States is an ''Allosaurus'', for no readily explained reason. (Apart from the fact that he's insanely popular.)
** He won the [[http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/polls/poll0021.html election]]. [[http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/polls/poll0409.html Twice]]
* ''MinionsAtWork'': [[http://www.minionsatwork.com/2006/06/minions-12-feeding-time.html Never offer to feed the dinosaurs.]]
* They pop up from time to time in ''{{The KAMics}}''
* ''DES comics'', vaguely related to ''ElGoonishShive'' has a [[http://danshive.deviantart.com/art/Some-Comic-of-Mine-009-81483916 Velocitoaster]] [[ParodyCommercial advertisement]].
* ''Webcomic/OrderOfTheStick'', Everything Is Better With Dinosaurs can be seen [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0726.html here]]
* Dinosaurs frequently show up in ''AxeCop'', which makes sense, considering the author is six years old.
* In ''{{Endstone}}'', [[http://endstone.net/2011/02/14/5-09/ they appear through a ]] CoolGate in a place where time and space don't work right.
* As Molly plays with her dollhouse, ''TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob'' dares to ask if [[http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20110702.html Ibsen's plays]] would be better with dinosaurs.
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* While [[ToylessToylineCharacter sadly never released as toys]], the ''{{Bionicle}}'' web serials feature [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot cyborg dinosaurs]] that shoot FrickinLaserbeams [[EyeBeams from their eyes.]]
* ''DragonCave'' includes spotted dinosaur eggs- dinosaurs apparently being, in the absence of the former Yoshis, the second best choice, since no lawyer can complain about real-life creatures. The end results are very chubby, cheerful-looking cartoonish [[GentleGiant Gentle Giants]] that ''wear shoes''. Of course, this site presumably being set in medieval times with quite lax witchcraft-prosecuting policies, this is the least of their problems.
* One of Yotam Perel's cartoons involved a man buying his wife a bouquet.
->'''Woman:''' Aww, you
->'''Man:''' THAT'S NOT SWEET. DINOSAURS ARE SWEET.
* Inverted in ''ProtectorsOfThePlotContinuum''; bad smut is ''worse'' with dinosaurs.
* One of the most famous stories posted on the Current Events social board on GameFAQs is [[http://www.writing.com/main/view_item/item_id/1508080 the Raptor Story]]. It starts off as an allegedly true, real-time first-person account by a poster who claims to hear his sister and her friends playing spin the bottle. However, when [[BrotherSisterIncest the author and his sister are about to kiss]], the sister and her friends are inexplicably revealed to be velociraptors. In the biggest UnexpectedGenreChange ever, the story then follows the author as he attempts to flee the dinosaur-filled city and defeat the person responsible for the dinosaurs...BarackObama.
** The story has [[JesusWasWayCool Raptor Jesus]]...the ''best'' kind of Jesus. Who BarackObama then jump-kicks. Yeah, its [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs that kind of story]].
** A [[http://www.writing.com/main/view_item/item_id/1580313 sequel]] was later created which retcons the sister's death in the first story and [[POVSequel takes place from her perspective]].
* [[http://comixed.com/2010/02/23/washington/ This.]]
* On a related note, [[http://epicwinftw.com/2010/09/16/awesome-photos-only-lempereur-gets-a-dinosaur/ this]].
* The [[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/philosoraptor Philosoraptor]] (of [[MemeticMutation meme]] fame).
** ...Which started as a tee-shirt design on [[http://www.lonelydinosaur.com/collections/frontpage/products/philosoraptor lonelydinosaur.com]].
* Apparently [[ThatGuyWithTheGlasses The Other Guy]] is a dinosuar sometimes. [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment Okay...]]
* IGN did a whole [[http://games.ign.com/articles/116/1163759p1.html Dinosaur Week]] once.
* And then there's always [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDNzzhCpqxA The VelociPastor]]
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* ''GarfieldAndFriends'' used dinosaurs mostly to parody this trope, specially in "UsAcres" (the quote above comes from an episode where Orson started telling {{Rumpelstiltskin}} to the children, adding ninjas and such for them to keep interested, but Wade and Roy started changing the story to work in their [[AuthorAvatar respective characters']] favors).
* There's also ''CadillacsAndDinosaurs''.
* ''{{Dinosaucers}}''. Perhaps most noteworthy in that both sides seemed to have a counterpart for each character, rather than each faction specializing in one particular type of dinosaur (Allosaurus/Tyrannosaurus, Triceratops/Styracosaurus, Apatosaurus/Brachiosaurus, Archaeopteryx/Pterodactyl, etc.)
* Beast Boy in ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' favours a ''T. Rex'' for sheer AwesomeButImpractical, because while it may look devastating, it doesn't fit under bridges, and it weighs too much for many floors to handle.
* They managed to work a dinosaur even into ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'' (Steggy in "[[AWorldwidePunomenon Prehysterical]] Pet").
* In ''{{Futurama}}: Bender's Game'', Leela and Hermes are watching ''[[TheTwilightZone The Scary Door]]'', this episode about a typical alien invasion being defeated by 'God's humblest of creatures'...The Tyrannosaurus Rex!
---> '''Leela''': I can't believe Tivo suggested that piece of crap!
** In one episode Fry sets out to enjoy the wonders of the year 3000, one being a T'Rex petting zoo. Pretty obvious what happens when he tries to feed it.
* The show up from time-to-time on ''TheFairlyOddparents''.
* In an early episode of ''TheVentureBrothers'', Brock Samson, while in a LotusEaterMachine, and dreams that he is fighting flamethrower-wielding cowboys. Only, they're riding T. Rexes. Yet Brock, in his sheer awesomeness (and mainly because it's ''his'' dream) easily dispatches them.
* An episode of ''{{Jimmy Two-Shoes}}'' has [[MadScientist Heloise]] building a large T-Rex skeleton as an instrument of misery [[MyLittlePanzer aimed at kids]].
* Both ''BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' and ''SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' feature the titular heroes fighting an animatronic Tyrannosaurus at one point, with ''Superman'' very early on in the first season.
* Because sometimes just a guy in a mask isn't enough for Mystery Inc., the gang has faced dinosaurs (besides dragons, sea serpents, and the Loch Ness Monster) in ''What's New Scooby Doo'' and more recently ''Scooby Doo! Legend of the Phantosaur.''
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->'''Roy:''' But the rooster was determined to get it back with the aid of his trained dinosaurs!\\
'''Orson:''' Trained dinosaurs? Where did the trained dinosaurs come from?\\
'''Roy:''' Same place all those [[InstantAwesomeJustAddNinja ninjas came from]].\\
-- ''[[GarfieldAndFriends U.S. Acres]]'', "The Name Game"
Well, it's true. Dinosaurs are [[RuleOfCool cool]]. No exceptions. (Well, [[BarneyAndFriends almost none.]])
Since dinosaurs [[RealLife actually existed]] in the past, some writers like to throw them into their stories. In many cases, this makes no sense at all, but when dinosaurs show up, we're generally in the realm of [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot awesome for the sake of awesome]]. Generally, the dinosaurs seen will be [[StockDinosaurs restricted to a few well-known types]].
The essence of this trope is the presence of dinosaurs which are not ultimately critical to the plot. If the story would be essentially the same without dinosaurs, it's an example. On the other hand, if [[DinosaurMedia dinosaurs are integral to the premise]], it's not an example.
Note that just because a series [[JustifiedTrope provides a reason]] for there to be dinosaurs does not mean it isn't an example of this trope. Sure, a dinosaur altmode might very well be a good idea for a Transformer, but the real reason for a dinosaur form is to [[MerchandiseDriven appeal to young boys]].
Despite the name of this trope, it can cover examples that are not technically dinosaurs. Other extinct reptiles, like pterosaurs, plesiosaurs, and dimetrodons would fall under this trope. And while it may be a stretch, since we don't have individual tropes for Everything is Better with Woolly Mammoths/Woolly Rhinos/Saber-tooth Cats/etc., these examples would get grouped here.
See also DinosaursAreDragons and SomewhereAPalaeontologistIsCrying. Compare DinosaurMedia.
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* The random and gratuitous dinosaurs are practically everywhere in the ''DragonBall'' and ''DragonBallZ'' setting. "Fly home safely, and look out for rampaging dinosaurs!"
* The hentai fantasy anime ''{{Dragon Knight 4}}: Wheel of Time'' has soldiers riding dinosaur-like creatures.
** [[{{Squick}} Like]] [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean that?]]
* ''ThePrinceOfTennis'': Tezuka's [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome amazing tennis move]] is what ''really'' killed the dinosaurs.
* The ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh}}!'' card game has a dinosaur type, the number of dinos expanded by Tyranno Kenzan in ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh GX}}''. Dinosaur Ryuuzaki (Rex Raptor) uses a dinosaur-themed deck in the anime.
* So does ''{{Digimon}}''.
* Chibi-Usa of ''SailorMoon'' befriended a Nessie-like dinosaur in one episode.
* An episode of ''SaberRiderAndTheStarSheriffs'' took place on a planet populated by dinosaurs. The episode was titled [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Oh Boy! Dinosaurs!"]], appropriately enough.
* ''TheFiveStarStories'' has dinosaurs on a few of the planets, which are inexplicably identical to various species that once roamed the Earth. The level of dinosaurs a planet has is actually a pretty good way to measure its age. The young planet Juno has quite a few, although they're now threatened by humans and other introduced mammal species; the older Delta Belune also has dinosaurs, but they're small and birdlike; Kallamity, supposedly the oldest inhabitable planet, doesn't seem to have any dinos at all.
* In ''[[JoJosBizarreAdventure Steel Ball Run]]'', Diego Brando becomes a Wereraptor after he gains a stand ability.
* ''DinosaurKing'' isn't a strict example as it's focused completely on dinosaurs, not just throwing them in for RuleOfCool. But consider this: In Japan it was preceded by an insect-battling game called ''Mushi King''. Then the designers sat down to plan a spinoff and asked themselves "What's better than insects?" before concluding that EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs.
* ''GetterRobo''. Just... Getter Robo. If there's room for a dinosaur at any given time, then they '''will''' be there. And it will be [[HolyShitQuotient awesome]].
** Dinosaur mecha piloted by dinosaurs. YEAAAAAH
* The SchoolFestival arc in ''MahouSenseiNegima'' has the engineering club construct a robotic ''T. rex'' because it would make the festival parades that much more awesome. This fooled TheHero at first since it was so life-like. They occasionally go berserk (though no one is ever hurt), giving [[KenAkamatsu the author]] the opportunity to have the lead heroine slice off its head with her {{BFS}} [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman since it was a robot]].
* In Law of Ueki Plus the main characters [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome ride into the Big Bad 's lair on a]] ''Tyrannosaurus rex'', destroying a tower and defeating a bunch of guards all in one fell swoop.
* {{Gon}} has a miniature ''T. rex'' for a protagonist, fighting large modern mammals most of the time. No, [[SomewhereAPalaeontologistIsCrying palaeontologist did not hang himself]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swing_%28seat%29 so that you could use his corpse as a swing]].
* OnePiece has "Red Flag" Diez Drake, a pirate captain and former Rear Admiral of the Marines that has eaten a Devil Fruit that turns him into a tyrannosaurus. [[CrazyAwesome This is pretty]] [[RuleOfCool much par for]] [[WorldOfHam the course in]] OnePiece, though.
** The island of Little Garden, which is populated by Dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures.
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* In a classic example, DC did a good deal of war comics in the 60s. One was called "The War that Time Forgot". It was WorldWarII... but there was an island full of giant apes, military test robots, an elite military unit called "The Suicide Squad" (related to the later DC group), circus acrobats, and, of course, dinosaurs.
* ''CalvinAndHobbes'' gives us Tyrannosaurs in F-14s, as you can see on this page.
--> '''Calvin''': This is '''so''' cool!
--> '''Hobbes''': This is '''so''' stupid.
* Gert in ''{{Runaways}}'' has a pet ''Deinonychus'' named [[FluffyTheTerrible Old Lace]].
* ''ComicBook/GoldDigger'' has a race of technologically advanced dinosaurs who serve as both a major source of archaeological finds for the scientists in the cast to dig up and the cause of a whole lot of bad events in ages past. They also made two dinosaur-esque races via genetic engineering, the Amonians and the Dragons, who both have regular characters in the cast.
* ''{{Marvel 1602}}'' had little dinosaurs running around Europe, including at least one seeming to be [[strike:[[XMen Professor Xavier's]]]] Carlos Javier's pet. Not to mention that the standard big dinos can be found in North America.
* There is a ''[[TyrannosaurusRex T. rex]]'' trophy [[GiantRobot robot]] in the [[{{Batman}} Batcave]]. [[FridgeLogic How it got there]] or why is generally ignored, but the DCAU provides the hypothesis that Dick (Robin, at the time) [[SoCoolItsAwesome wanted to keep it]].
** The Episode ''Starcrossed'' in JLU, has Flash agreeing with this trope through and through. Alfred being [[DeadpanSnarker Alfred]] [[HilarityEnsues well...]]
--> '''The Flash''': [[SoCoolItsAwesome Hey!]] [[CaptainObvious That's a Giant Dinosaur!]] :D
--> '''Alfred''': [[SarcasmMode And here I thought]] [[DeadpanSnarker Batman was the detective.]]
* ''[=~2000 AD~=]'' had ''Flesh'', a story about future cowboys going back in time and killing dinosaurs for their meat, which was then exported back to their own time. This was used to provide STOMPY DINOSAUR ACTION crossovers into both ''JudgeDredd'' and ''ABCWarriors''. In the case of the latter, dinosaurs ended up on a terraformed dystopian Mars.
* Major Bummer gave us [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrannosaurus_Reich Tyrannosaurus Reich]]. Can't believe that got a mention in the other wiki before getting here.
* Bob, Dawn, and Rex, from ''{{Dilbert}}''.
* ''Dinosaur Bop / Wanda et les dinosaures'' (''Wanda and the dinosaurs'') is set in a comical (with realist drawings) post-apocalyptic world were humanity regressed at prehistoric age (but more like "American sixties in a prehistoric setting"). For no reason, dinosaurs are here anew, and are used as pets, food or... cars (but ''T. rex'' is still a predator and wreck poor Eddy's car).
* The title character of ''Sláine'' has gone up against dinosaurs animated from amber.
* [[FoxTrot Jason Fox]] has a major dinosaur obsession. He once sent an electronic message to the White House saying "increase dinosaur DNA research" over and over again.
* The Tar Pits in Sin City feature dinosaur statues. Frank Miller said he put them there as an excuse to draw dinosaurs.
* In All-Star Superman. the Subterranosaur are descendants of dinosaurs who escaped extinction by digging their way to the center of the Earth. Their leader is the Dino-Czar.
* The villain in NeilGaiman's ''MrHeroTheNewmaticMan'' is Henry Phage, an immortal velociraptor at the head of a multidimensional corporation whose flagship product is the corruption of souls.
* [[http://twitter.com/Dr_Dinosaur AH!]] [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2009/05/01/fcbd-09-page-5/ DECEPTION!]] MAMMAL '''''DECEPTION!'''''
** [[AtomicRobo MAMMAL ROBOT!]]
* The Malibu Comics franchise ''DinosaursForHire'' is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. An anthropomorphic tyrannosaur, stegosaur, and triceratops (and later a pteranodon) [[TheyFightCrime fight crime]]!
* One of the antagonist races in ''Shakara'' is called the Teknosaurs. And yes, they're a race of cyborg dinosaurs.
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* Kong Island in ''KingKong'' generally has dinosaurs scattered around.
** Don't forget that KingKong also fought [[{{Godzilla}} a certain mutant dinosaur]] in another film.
** And a non-mutated Gorosaurus in ''King Kong Escapes''.
* The 1951 film ''Two Lost Worlds'' is a Cowboy/Australian Pirate/Dinosaur movie (). It fits this trope well because the only dinosaurs are some stock footage from a previous dinosaur movie that menace some people the pirates maroon on an island. They could have easily been left out, or replaced with more normal dangerous animals.
* The ''IceAge'' films are generally accurate in depicting only animals which lived during the Ice Age, or at least after the dinosaurs died out. Guess, then, what the third film featured. Go on.
* In ''{{D-War}}'' (a film very much driven by the {{Rule of Cool}}), the evil Buraki commands an evil army of dark warriors that ride big dinosaurs and fire barrages of fireballs.
* ''{{Meet the Robinsons}}'' stars mind-controlled ''[[TyrannosaurusRex T. rex]]'' brought back from the past with a flying time machine by a bowler-hat-less bowler hat wearing guy surely deserves mention here.
* The ''StarWars'' 20th anniversary re-release inserts cgi [[strike:dinosaurs]] beasts which vaguely resemble dinosaurs into various scenes in the movie, mostly in Mos Eisley.
* The HarryhausenMovie ''TheValleyOfGwangi'' is this trope incarnate. Little can prepare a viewer for the sheer unadulterated awesome of [[TheWestern Cowboys]] [[CoolVsAwesome roping]] an Allosaurus.
* Rex from ''ToyStory''.
* ''FutureWar'', because the blatant ''{{Terminator}}'' meets ''Bloodsport'' plot wasn't enough, so they decided to throw in a little ''JurassicPark'', too.
* ''NightAtTheMuseum'' features a T. rex skeleton [[AllAnimalsAreDogs that acts like a dog]].
* [[http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1918385_1918401_1918398,00.html This]] Time article on lessons from the 2009 Summer Movies shows that despite the success of the second ''Night at the Museum'' and ''IceAge 3'' (it says ''{{Up}}'' features dinosaurs - and it does have a giant bird), two other films with dinos, ''LandOfTheLost'' and ''YearOne'', bombed.
* Probably not a great example, but the '[[FutureImperfect Time Masheen]]' scene of ''{{Idiocracy}}'', where World War II was depicted by two T-rexes fighting, one wearing an American flag, one wearing a Swastika.
* [[HammerHorror Hammer Studios]] made a few [[OneMillionBC prehistoric epics]]. The ones ''with'' dinosaurs are so, SO much better than the ones without.
* The "Rite of Spring" segment from ''{{Disney/Fantasia}}''.
* ''TheodoreRex'' is quite possibly one of the few example that makes this trope worse then it should be.
* An upcoming, untitled {{Pixar}} film will tell what would it be like if the astroid miss Earth, with dinosaurs and humans living together, even being able to communicate with humans.
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* The ''FightingFantasy'' gamebook ''Island of the Lizard King'' involved the reader trying to assassinate the king of a race of lizardmen. For no particular reason, one of said lizardmen is seen riding a ''Styracosaurus'' at one point.
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[[folder: Literature ]]
* [[TheDresdenFiles Harry Dresden]] ''lives'' this trope at TheClimax of ''Dead Beat''. To say more would be a {{spoiler}}. [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome An AWESOME spoiler.]]
** [[Awesome/TheDresdenFiles Oh, what the hell]]: [[spoiler: Necromancy practiced on human remains is forbidden on pain of death for wizards, but Harry needs a source of necromantic energy to avoid getting killed by the NegativeSpaceWedgie the bad guys are trying to claim for [[AGodAmI awesome godlike power]]. It's been previously established that animal remains leave thinner "psychic footprints" than human remains, but that the longer a thing's dead, the more powerful it is when it's finally raised. Harry puts two and two and two together and necromantically animates "Sue," the mostly-complete ''{{Tyrannosaurus rex}}'' skeleton at the Field Museum of Natural History. [[RaisingTheSteaks That's right]], ''[[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Zombie T. rex]]''!]]
*** Which he then proceeds to [[spoiler:ride across Chicago to fight an army of ghosts and zombies.]] [[CoolVersusAwesome It doesn't get any cooler than that]].
*** Actually it does get cooler when you remember [[spoiler:the only thing holding the ''T. rex'' together is Harry's buddy and his one-man polka suit. [[ThePowerOfRock Polka will never die!]]]]
** He also does it in CodexAlara: turns out that aside from picking up [[LostRomanLegion hapless romans]], [[Starcraft Zerg]] [[Expy expies]], and [[OurElvesAreBetter elves]], Alara also grabbed a few giant ground sloths and terror birds in it's day. They're bond creatures with the elves.
* Arguably, {{Jules Verne}}'s classic novel ''Journey to the Center of the Earth'' is an example of this trope. Most of the book is about really ambitious spelunking, the adventurers just happen to run into a few surviving prehistoric beasts in one section of caves. It makes that part of the book more exciting, but wasn't completely necessary to the plot. Of course none of the creature they meet are technically members of the superorder ''Dinosauria'', they were mostly icthysaurs, plesiosaurs, and crocodilians. That makes this trope OlderThanRadio.
* Eric Garcia's series of noirish mysteries (starting with ''AnonymousRex''), which feature dinosaurs living in modern-day America, disguised as humans.
* The recent science fiction story "Rejiggering the Thingamajig", published in Analog, stars an alien sentient T. Rex Buddihst. And it's awesome.
* In the epic children's book ''Dinosaur vs. Bedtime,'' the titular dinosaur engages in ferocious battle with all manner of opponents. When faced with the likes of a pile of leaves, a bowl of spaghetti or talking grownups, DINOSAUR WINS! ROAR! But Dinosaur still has to face his greatest challenge: Dinosaur vs. Bedtime! [[spoiler: Bedtime wins]].
* Steve Alten's ''Meg'' novels do this. The first scene of the first book, has a Tyrannosaurus get eaten by a Megalodon (giant presumed relative to the Great White Shark) whilst attempting to chase down Hadrosaurs in the shallow sea. Nevermind that Megalodon evolved [[SomewhereAPaleontologistIsCrying almost 50 million years after the Dinosaurs went extinct]].
* Aleksandar Žiljak's (Croatian SF writer) story "Opal eyes" ("Oči boje opala") features a Wild west setting in a world where dinosaurs roam the plains. Also, the main character is a lesbian vampire gunslinger.
* ''TheIcemarkChronicles'''s third book has the enemy Basilea use 'Tri-Horns' as cavalry. Three guesses as to what they are.
* ''Far-Seer'' is basically the story of Galileo if he was a T-Rex. It is indeed as awesome as it sounds.
* The world in which the fantasy novel [[TenGhost Ten-Ghost]] takes place has domesticated dinosaurs everywhere, and the less that domesticated variety prowling the wilderness, for seemingly no reason other than to have them.
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[[folder: Live Action TV ]]
* ''{{Primeval}}'' was advertised as being about dinosaurs despite none appearing in the first series. Presumably they thought saying it was about giant centipedes, dodos and flying lizards wouldn't draw in as many viewers.
* The ''SuperSentai'' and ''PowerRangers'' franchises have had no fewer than two dinosaur-themed series (''[[KyoryuSentaiZyuranger Zyuranger]]'' and ''[[BakuryuuSentaiAbaranger Abaranger]]'', localized as ''[[MightyMorphinPowerRangers the original MMPR]]'' and ''[[PowerRangersDinoThunder Dino Thunder]]''); and three others with their own dinosaur mecha: ''[[{{Engine Sentai Go-Onger}} Go-Onger]]'' / ''[[Series/PowerRangersRPM RPM]]'', based on animal/vehicle hybrids, has dinosaur trains; ''[[MiraiSentaiTimeranger Timeranger]]''/''[[PowerRangersTimeForce Time Force]]'' has one of the TimePolice's mecha be saurian for [[RuleOfCool no adequately explained reason]]; and ''[[KaizokuSentaiGokaiger Gokaiger]]'' has a dino mecha in homage to three Rangers who died, who just so happened to share a dino motif (a Zyuranger, an Abaranger, and the Timeranger who owned the gratuitous dinosaur robot).
* From ''Pee-Wee's Playhouse'', Pterri, Pee-Wee's talking pet pterosaur, and the (unrelated) Dinosaur Family.
* [[BarneyAndFriends Barney]]. The less said the better.
* What if Barney was green, female, Australian, ''much'' less obnoxious and actually likeable by people over 6? You'd have Dorothy the Dinosaur, one of the extended cast members of ''TheWiggles''.
* TopGear recently had a car review that, for no apparent reason, incorporated dinosaurs into the usual shots of Clarkson driving the car, including one where he is briefly pursued by a tyrannosaurus. It's actually very well done for a series that doesn't really use special effects very much.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'' "Invasion of the Dinosaurs": London is under martial law in response to the dinosaurs that have been mysteriously appearing there, [[spoiler: brought by a conspiracy, using time travel technology]].
* {{iCarly}}. Yeah. The episode where Carly almost moves to Yakima, where Spencer says to the granddad: "These are all the vitamins she needs to take. I ''only'' give her the ones shaped like dinosaurs." "...Why?" "...Dinosaurs are cool."
** There's also the episode where iCarly gets turned into a TV show, and [[ExecutiveMeddling they put a guy in a dinosuar costume in the show]] because "kids love dinosaurs".
* DinoDan
* TerraNova
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[[folder: Music]]
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aovaRsVV28 Hevisaurus]], a Finnish Music/HeavyMetal band aimed towards children.
* WeirdAlYankovic's "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gh4zvQfDhi0 Jurassic Park]]", turning the {{melodrama}}tic ([[{{Narm}} to the point of hilarity]]) "[=MacArthur=] Park" into a [[FilkSong retelling of]] [[JurassicPark Spielberg's movie]].
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[[folder: Tabletop Games ]]
* ''[[DungeonsAndDragons Dungeons & Dragons]]'' has dinosaurs in the main books, [[RuleOfCool seemingly for no reason other than coolness]].
** The Arms and Equipment Guide list several of them as possible mounts, and gives several examples on how to use them, like a Dwarven pike squad on the back of a triceratops.
*** Duplicated in {{Eberron}}, where [[strike:Hobbits]] Halflings use some of the smaller dinosaurs as mounts.
** They can be found in 4th Edition as Behemoths and Drakes, and given Cadillacs and Dinosaurs style names--Macetail, Bloodspike, et cetera--apparently because while dinosaurs are cool, sciencyish names aren't fantasyish enough.
** In 3rd and 3.5, you could play as dinosaur inspired player races called saurials.
* ''{{Exalted}}'', being a setting whose content is decided entirely by RuleOfCool and NinjaPirateZombieRobot, has gigantic "Tyrant Lizards" that look remarkably like ''T. rex'''es. Presumably due to ''Tyrannosaurus'' being Latin for "Tyrant Lizard".
** It also has the [[DinosaursAreDragons Dragon Kings]], which are roughly human-sized sentient dinosaurs who wear armor, can learn to breathe fire, and have enormous crystal clubs with laser blades to hit you with if you piss them off.
* ''{{Warhammer}}'' Fantasy's Lizardmen are a dinosaur race, their basic troops being "Saurus" and them using "Stegadons" and "Carnosaurs" as mounts and war engines. There are also "Cold Ones," Velociraptor-like things used by the Lizardmen and Dark Elves for cavalry. The beasts eat everything, so the Dark Elves cover themselves in poison to fool the lizards.
** The Cold Ones are mentioned (literally or metaphorically) to be dragon-kin...the ones the Dark Elves use also are subterranean, can live in the cold climate of the Dark Elves' territory, and, IIRC, sweat poisonous goo, which might make them more of a freaky lizard-horse than a dinosaur.
* A lot of {{Death World}}s in ''{{Warhammer 40000}}'' are covered in dinosaur-esque creatures, and the Tyranids themselves are also somewhat dinosaur-y, at least in terms of teeth - the Termagaunts, especially, look like an odd cross between Armadillos, Zerg Hydralisks and ''Velociraptors''.
** It is worth noting that the Zerg Hydralisks (from ''{{Starcraft}}}'') are probably inspired by Termagaunts (not the other way around). Meanwhile, Termagaunts look like a cross between ''{{Alien}}'' Xenomorphs and bugs from ''{{Starship Troopers}}''.
** [[OurElvesAreBetter Eldar]] Exodites dwell on lush, primeval worlds inhabited by saurian "dragons," which they joust on with laser lances.
** Possibly explained in older literature. Death Worlds were likely worlds seeded by the mysterious Old Ones in the time before the Eldar started to record their history. Since the Lizardmen of Warhammer Fantasy were servants of the Old Ones, it's likely that worlds they settled would have dinosaur-like creatures 'imported' to those worlds.
* ''[[WorldOfDarkness Werewolf: The Apocalypse]]'' has the Mokole, which are [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot weredinosaurs]]. Technically, they're supposed to be werealligators, but since they serve as Gaia's memory, they can take the form of any reptile from Earth's history.
* [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=74235 Old Fogey]] from the Unhinged parody set of ''MagicTheGathering'', the only Dinosaur creature in the game.
** That's only if you don't count the velociraptors, allosauruses and other made up fantasy dinosaurs in the game.
* In {{Pathfinder}}, druids can take dinosaurs as animal companions, as can clerics with the Saurian domain.
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[[folder: Theme Parks]]
* ''Ellen's Energy Adventure'' at [[DisneyThemeParks EPCOT]], which is about power sources, contains an extended sequence involving dinosaurs. This in itself was based on the Primevil World diorama at the Disneyland Railroad.
** There's also the ride called [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Dinosaur.]]
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[[folder: Toys]]
* {{LEGO}}'s ''Adventurers'' line couldn't pass up the chance to include a sub-line that brought its characters to a LostWorld, where they had to stop the bad guys from capturing a prehistoric AnachronismStew. The dinosaur figures were [[StockDinosaurs the standard]] ''TyrannosaurusRex'', ''Triceratops'' and ''Stegosaurus''. Many sets came with a "''Pteranodon''" figure as well, though that particular type of pterosaur may have actually been ''[[ScienceMarchesOn Geosternbergia]]''.
** Released around the same time was a line of easily buildable and reconfigurable dinosaur sets, simply titled ''Dinosaurs''. Each model could be rebuilt into various other prehistoric animals with their spare parts, though these "extra models" were often [[SomewhereAPalaeontologistIsCrying too inaccurate for comfort]].
** The later action-oriented ''Dino2010''/''Dino Attack'' lines. Had mutated prehistoric critters that bore a very faint resemblance to their real-life counterparts, and although both lines were essentially the same, there were slight differences between the European and US releases: in the European ''Dino2010'', the protagonists merely wanted to contain the beasts; while their US counterparts came equipped with guns instead of capturing equipment.
** ''{{Bionicle}}'' very nearly averted this trope. Rumors say they originally intended to introduce cybernetic dinosaurs, but that set line got canceled. However the dinosaurs themselves eventually ended up in official canon, and WordOfGod says that a released model (Skirmix, a [[HorseOfADifferentColor rock steed]]) was actually a close relative to these cyber-dinos.
* As mentioned, quite a few ''{{Transformers}}'' have dinosaur altmodes. The Dinobots were some of the fans' favorites, and of course Grimlock became a classic nearly on par with Optimus Prime and Megatron.
** Megatron himself got a dinosaur alt-mode in ''BeastWars''.
** And who could ever forget Dinobot? Or his arguments with his [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Scott_McNeil rodent alter-ego]]? His greatest asset? Being a 'raptor with [[FrickinLaserBeams laser-firing]] [[EyeBeams eyes]].
** In the video game "TransformersWarForCybertron", Trypticon still has his Tyrannosaurus body design despite the game being set at the beginning of The Great War, millions of years before the Transformers knew about Earth and dinosaurs. Truly the awesomeness of dinosaurs transcends space and time.
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[[folder: Video Games ]]
* ''Saturn {{Bomberman}}'' traded the [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter adorable]] [[EverythingsBetterWithKangaroos kangaroos]] for [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter equally adorable]] dinosaurs as the PowerupMount of choice. They're also available as alternate choices to the roois/ruis/Louies in ''Bomberman Fantasy Race''.
* The game ''TheKingOfDragonPass'' is vaguely based on old Norse traditions and mythology. So, naturally, you can [[http://img107.imageshack.us/img107/9225/whoabv0.png train dinosaurs as battle mounts.]]
* ''FinalFantasyVI'' had a few dinosaurs as random encounters. It also has Dinosaur Island, a place which does not provide any plot or gameplay bonuses, but has a lot of tough fights which are good for [[LevelGrinding levelling up]].
** ''FinalFantasyVIII'' has [[CallARabbitASmeerp ''T. Rexaurs'']] to fight.
*** As does ''FinalFantasyXII''
*** ''FinalFantasyI'' did it first with the rare Tyrannosaurs and their palette swap, Allosaurus.
** ''FinalFantasyXI'' has lightning-spewing raptors.
* ''DragonQuest'' has the recurring Hackasaurus (or Battle Rex), [[AnAxeToGrind an axe-wielding]], [[DinosaursAreDragons fire-breathing]] tyrannosaurus. ''DragonQuestVI'', in particular, has Lizzie the Hackasaurus, whom you can get to join your team in a special encounter; in the DS remake, she's the ''only'' non-[[MascotMook Slime]] you can recruit.
* Despite taking place in the modern day, ''DeadOrAlive 4'' has an area populated entirely by dinosaurs.
* ''CommandAndConquer: [[ExpansionPack The Covert Ops]]'' had a secret level which involved fighting dinosaurs.
** Also don't forget that in ''Red Alert 2'''s expansion ''Yuri's Revenge'', the first Soviet mission deals with time travel and you're accidentally sent back to the dinosaur period to fight off hordes of ''T. rex''es. This of course includes the fate of the game's antagonist Yuri in the same campaign who after stealing the time machine from the Soviets tries to use it to "command and conquer" the world and all its history. Unfortunately for Yuri, the Soviets still had the command codes for the time machine and depleted all of its energy reserves to send Yuri back to the dinosaur era while he was gloating. Then Yuri lets off a BigNo as a ''T. rex'' smashes through the time machine to devour him.
* The first ''TombRaider'' game had dinosaurs and a ''T. rex'' as enemies for no particular reason other than RuleOfCool, though an FMV later in the game implied that they were created by the [[MacGuffin Scion]]. The dinosaurs returned without explanation in ''Tomb Raider 3''.
** ''Tomb Raider 2'' and its GaidenGame ''Golden Mask'' both feature secret, difficult-to-reach battles with more ''T. rex''es, the sole reason being that they were considered the coolest part of the first game.
* ''RadGravity'' had a dinosaur planet as one level.
* ''{{Turok}}'' would just be another FPS if it didn't pit you against dinosaurs.
* ''WorldOfWarcraft'' has Raptors as fairly common animals (and mount for trolls), and gigantic ''T. rex''es, called Devilsaurs, as a rarer sort. To be precise, they only appear in a few areas (Un'Goro Crater, where there are only about five of them at any given time; The Netherstorm, where a single Devilsaur rules over an eco-dome filled with raptors; Drak'Tharon Keep, with the optional boss King Dred; and Sholazar Basin, home of the rare-spawn King Krush). For being such enourmous beasts they move like ninjas, and many players have had their adventure cut short by a sneak attack.
** With the latest patch, Beast Mastery Hunters can tame one of these giants (although it inexplicably shrinks to a more manageable size in the progess). It's undoubtedly the coolest of the exotic class pets (although that isn't saying much when the competition consists out of prime choices like bugs and worms).
*** [[{{Mulan}} They become travel size for your convenience]].
** There are also Dragonspawn, bascially flightless dragons.
* ''GuildWars'' introduces a dinosaur-rich jungle in its ''Eye of the North'' expansion. Being a fantasy game, it includes feathered Raptor Assasins, Armor-plated ceratopsians with shoulder-horns, [[TyrannosaurusRex Tyrannosaurs]], therapods with multiple heads and tails, and other bizarre reptiles.
* The ''SuperMario'' series of games already had Bowser as some sort of dragon-dinosaur-turtle... thing, and then in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld'' along came Yoshi and his friends....
** Not to mention the cute bruiser herself, Birdo.
* ''{{Pokemon}}'' uses several dinosaur and related species-themed Mons over the years. Lapras (Plesiosaur), Tyranitar (vaguely T.Rex-ish), Meganium (Diplodocus), Cranidos/Rampardos ([[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pachycephalosauria Pachycephalosaurs]], not ''T. rex''), Shieldon/Bastiodon.
** Oddly, most prehistoric Pokemon are part-Rock types, at least the ones that have to be [[ShoutOut reanimated from fossils]]. Even [[LightningBruiser Aerodactyl]], a ''pterosaur made of rock''.
** Now joined by Archen and Archeops, a basal bird/flying deinonychosaur Pokemon.
* ''BarkleyShutUpAndJamGaiden'': [[spoiler:The OneWingedAngel form of the last boss is ''T-Rex Barkley.'' I laughed for a good three minutes after the reveal.]]
* ''Adventure Island'', from the second game onward, gave Master Higgins dinosaur buddies that granted him extra powers.
* The Triscene terror units from ''{{X-COM}}: Terror From The Deep'', which are [[{{Cyborg}} cyborg dinosaurs]] that come equipped with [[MakeMeWannaShout Sonic Cannons]].
* The upcoming game (currently available as a proof-of-concept [[HalfLife Source]] mod) ''[[http://www.dinodday.com/ Dino D-Day]]'' is all about this trope, showcasing an AlternateHistory version of WorldWarII where the Third Reich unleashes their new secret weapon: '''''[[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Nazi dinosaurs!]]'''''
** Another Source Mod, Jailbreak, has this as part of the premise: It's [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Dinosaurs]] [[{{ptitlenfhgfvh962l5}} vs]] [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Robots]].
* The ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter'' series features raptors as mooks. With the sequels and updates, you are getting a lot of dinosaurs (that happen to be changed slightly) that stand out. There may be odd hybrids and creatures that are outright dragons but the sheer number of dinos in the series is definitely worth looking through. That and the giant T-rex that Monster Hunter Tri introduces to you all.
* ''DwarfFortress'' sends goblins after you. Survive long enough, and they come mounted on velociraptors (known in-game as Beak Dogs).
* ''ChronoTrigger'''s dinos actually appear in 65 million BC ([[{{Prehistoria}} along with people]], oddly inverting that trope) as well as in a 600 AD bonus dungeon (where millions of years of underground living have made them tough as nails).
* [[{{Prehistoria}} Dinosaur Jungle]] from ''[[SonicStorybookSeries Sonic and the Secret Rings]]'' are filled with dinosaurs. At one point, Sonic must evade the jaws of a rampaging Carnotaur. The game is based around ArabianNights.
* It might be AllInTheManual, but by looking at the physique of [[MassEffect turians]], it becomes clear that they are pretty much [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Roman Space Velociraptors]]. Which is f* cking [[RuleOfCool awesome]].
* [[MOTHER3 Dragos]], which are a more or less friendly species of T-Rexes. The [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Mecha-Drago]] on [[UnwillingRoboticisation the]] [[CyberneticsEatYourSoul other]] [[ThatOneBoss hand...]]
* ''NeverwinterNights2: Storm of Zehir'' allows Level 3 Ranger classes to automatically receive the 'Animal Companion' feat. Which is all well and good until you get to Level 5 or so, and you discover an optional upgrade: 'Dinosaur companion', which switches your animal to a ''deinonychus''. [[RuleOfCool Even if it will stunt your character growth, you just have to have it]].
* ''SupremeCommander2'' features a ''[[NinjaPirateZombieRobot giant Godzilla-sized cybernetic dinosaur]] as an experimental unit.
* ''FurFighters'' had the characters discover a whole advanced society of Dinosaurs living under the surface of the planet. The plotline had something about the BigBad stealing the advanced technology and selling it for cash but it didn't really work out. Oh, and the heroes were on a popular children's TV show for some reason.
* ''StarFoxAdventures''
* The [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Krogan]] from ''MassEffect'' are vaguely dinosaur-like.
* ChampionsOnline, being inspired by nearly every generation of comic books ever, has Monster Island - the western section of Monster Island is covered with raptor-sized "Teleiosaurus hatchlings" of various kinds, and the island is also home to the ginormous (30-40' tall) Teleiosaurus, a dinosaur egg several stories tall, and Mega-Terak - a ROBOT dinosaur.
* Riptor in ''KillerInstinct''
* FightingGame + this trope = ''PrimalRage''
* The ''{{Everquest}}'' games feature velociraptors, normally found in deserts and jungles.
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* In ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'', Dr. [=McNinja=]'s {{Bandito}} boy {{Sidekick}} has a pet raptor named Yoshi.
** And now we've got the BadFuture [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/20p20 where dinosaurs have taken over Earth.]].
* ''[=~8-Bit Theater~=]'' provides a [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2003/05/20/episode-284-what-could-it-be/ ninja riding a dinosaur armed with Febreeze]].
* ''DieselSweeties'' [[http://dieselsweeties.com/archive.php?s=1516 posits]] that there are two types of people in the world: those who would travel back in time to get drunk with pirates, and those that would go back to see what color the dinosaurs really were.
* ''{{xkcd}}'' has a [[http://xkcd.com/135/ serious]] [[http://xkcd.com/292/ problem]] [[http://xkcd.com/87/ with]] [[http://xkcd.com/155/ raptors]], though the problem may have been [[http://xkcd.com/758/ minimized]] by now. The fascination with dinosaurs extends to [[http://xkcd.com/650/ other dinosaur species]].
** Remember that search history? Look [[http://www.causes.com/causes/7945 here]].
* In ''IrregularWebcomic'', the President of the United States is an ''Allosaurus'', for no readily explained reason. (Apart from the fact that he's insanely popular.)
** He won the [[http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/polls/poll0021.html election]]. [[http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/polls/poll0409.html Twice]]
* ''MinionsAtWork'': [[http://www.minionsatwork.com/2006/06/minions-12-feeding-time.html Never offer to feed the dinosaurs.]]
* They pop up from time to time in ''{{The KAMics}}''
* ''DES comics'', vaguely related to ''ElGoonishShive'' has a [[http://danshive.deviantart.com/art/Some-Comic-of-Mine-009-81483916 Velocitoaster]] [[ParodyCommercial advertisement]].
* ''Webcomic/OrderOfTheStick'', Everything Is Better With Dinosaurs can be seen [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0726.html here]]
* Dinosaurs frequently show up in ''AxeCop'', which makes sense, considering the author is six years old.
* In ''{{Endstone}}'', [[http://endstone.net/2011/02/14/5-09/ they appear through a ]] CoolGate in a place where time and space don't work right.
* As Molly plays with her dollhouse, ''TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob'' dares to ask if [[http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20110702.html Ibsen's plays]] would be better with dinosaurs.
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* While [[ToylessToylineCharacter sadly never released as toys]], the ''{{Bionicle}}'' web serials feature [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot cyborg dinosaurs]] that shoot FrickinLaserbeams [[EyeBeams from their eyes.]]
* ''DragonCave'' includes spotted dinosaur eggs- dinosaurs apparently being, in the absence of the former Yoshis, the second best choice, since no lawyer can complain about real-life creatures. The end results are very chubby, cheerful-looking cartoonish [[GentleGiant Gentle Giants]] that ''wear shoes''. Of course, this site presumably being set in medieval times with quite lax witchcraft-prosecuting policies, this is the least of their problems.
* One of Yotam Perel's cartoons involved a man buying his wife a bouquet.
->'''Woman:''' Aww, you got me flowers. That's so sweet.
->'''Man:''' THAT'S NOT SWEET. DINOSAURS ARE SWEET.
* Inverted in ''ProtectorsOfThePlotContinuum''; bad smut is ''worse'' with dinosaurs.
* One of the most famous stories posted on the Current Events social board on GameFAQs is [[http://www.writing.com/main/view_item/item_id/1508080 the Raptor Story]]. It starts off as an allegedly true, real-time first-person account by a poster who claims to hear his sister and her friends playing spin the bottle. However, when [[BrotherSisterIncest the author and his sister are about to kiss]], the sister and her friends are inexplicably revealed to be velociraptors. In the biggest UnexpectedGenreChange ever, the story then follows the author as he attempts to flee the dinosaur-filled city and defeat the person responsible for the dinosaurs...BarackObama.
** The story has [[JesusWasWayCool Raptor Jesus]]...the ''best'' kind of Jesus. Who BarackObama then jump-kicks. Yeah, its [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs that kind of story]].
** A [[http://www.writing.com/main/view_item/item_id/1580313 sequel]] was later created which retcons the sister's death in the first story and [[POVSequel takes place from her perspective]].
* [[http://comixed.com/2010/02/23/washington/ This.]]
* On a related note, [[http://epicwinftw.com/2010/09/16/awesome-photos-only-lempereur-gets-a-dinosaur/ this]].
* The [[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/philosoraptor Philosoraptor]] (of [[MemeticMutation meme]] fame).
** ...Which started as a tee-shirt design on [[http://www.lonelydinosaur.com/collections/frontpage/products/philosoraptor lonelydinosaur.com]].
* Apparently [[ThatGuyWithTheGlasses The Other Guy]] is a dinosuar sometimes. [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment Okay...]]
* IGN did a whole [[http://games.ign.com/articles/116/1163759p1.html Dinosaur Week]] once.
* And then there's always [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDNzzhCpqxA The VelociPastor]]
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* ''GarfieldAndFriends'' used dinosaurs mostly to parody this trope, specially in "UsAcres" (the quote above comes from an episode where Orson started telling {{Rumpelstiltskin}} to the children, adding ninjas and such for them to keep interested, but Wade and Roy started changing the story to work in their [[AuthorAvatar respective characters']] favors).
* There's also ''CadillacsAndDinosaurs''.
* ''{{Dinosaucers}}''. Perhaps most noteworthy in that both sides seemed to have a counterpart for each character, rather than each faction specializing in one particular type of dinosaur (Allosaurus/Tyrannosaurus, Triceratops/Styracosaurus, Apatosaurus/Brachiosaurus, Archaeopteryx/Pterodactyl, etc.)
* Beast Boy in ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' favours a ''T. Rex'' for sheer AwesomeButImpractical, because while it may look devastating, it doesn't fit under bridges, and it weighs too much for many floors to handle.
* They managed to work a dinosaur even into ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'' (Steggy in "[[AWorldwidePunomenon Prehysterical]] Pet").
* In ''{{Futurama}}: Bender's Game'', Leela and Hermes are watching ''[[TheTwilightZone The Scary Door]]'', this episode about a typical alien invasion being defeated by 'God's humblest of creatures'...The Tyrannosaurus Rex!
---> '''Leela''': I can't believe Tivo suggested that piece of crap!
** In one episode Fry sets out to enjoy the wonders of the year 3000, one being a T'Rex petting zoo. Pretty obvious what happens when he tries to feed it.
* The show up from time-to-time on ''TheFairlyOddparents''.
* In an early episode of ''TheVentureBrothers'', Brock Samson, while in a LotusEaterMachine, and dreams that he is fighting flamethrower-wielding cowboys. Only, they're riding T. Rexes. Yet Brock, in his sheer awesomeness (and mainly because it's ''his'' dream) easily dispatches them.
* An episode of ''{{Jimmy Two-Shoes}}'' has [[MadScientist Heloise]] building a large T-Rex skeleton as an instrument of misery [[MyLittlePanzer aimed at kids]].
* Both ''BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' and ''SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' feature the titular heroes fighting an animatronic Tyrannosaurus at one point, with ''Superman'' very early on in the first season.
* Because sometimes just a guy in a mask isn't enough for Mystery Inc., the gang has faced dinosaurs (besides dragons, sea serpents, and the Loch Ness Monster) in ''What's New Scooby Doo'' and more recently ''Scooby Doo! Legend of the Phantosaur.''
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[[caption-width-right:330:See, this is what ''JurassicPark'' should've done.]]
->'''Roy:''' But the rooster was determined to get it back with the aid of his trained dinosaurs!\\
'''Orson:''' Trained dinosaurs? Where did the trained dinosaurs come from?\\
'''Roy:''' Same place all those [[InstantAwesomeJustAddNinja ninjas came from]].\\
-- ''[[GarfieldAndFriends U.S. Acres]]'', "The Name Game"
Well, it's true. Dinosaurs are [[RuleOfCool cool]]. No exceptions. (Well, [[BarneyAndFriends almost none.]])
Since dinosaurs [[RealLife actually existed]] in the past, some writers like to throw them into their stories. In many cases, this makes no sense at all, but when dinosaurs show up, we're generally in the realm of [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot awesome for the sake of awesome]]. Generally, the dinosaurs seen will be [[StockDinosaurs restricted to a few well-known types]].
The essence of this trope is the presence of dinosaurs which are not ultimately critical to the plot. If the story would be essentially the same without dinosaurs, it's an example. On the other hand, if [[DinosaurMedia dinosaurs are integral to the premise]], it's not an example.
Note that just because a series [[JustifiedTrope provides a reason]] for there to be dinosaurs does not mean it isn't an example of this trope. Sure, a dinosaur altmode might very well be a good idea for a Transformer, but the real reason for a dinosaur form is to [[MerchandiseDriven appeal to young boys]].
Despite the name of this trope, it can cover examples that are not technically dinosaurs. Other extinct reptiles, like pterosaurs, plesiosaurs, and dimetrodons would fall under this trope. And while it may be a stretch, since we don't have individual tropes for Everything is Better with Woolly Mammoths/Woolly Rhinos/Saber-tooth Cats/etc., these examples would get grouped here.
See also DinosaursAreDragons and SomewhereAPalaeontologistIsCrying. Compare DinosaurMedia.
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[[folder: Anime and Manga ]]
* The random and gratuitous dinosaurs are practically everywhere in the ''DragonBall'' and ''DragonBallZ'' setting. "Fly home safely, and look out for rampaging dinosaurs!"
* The hentai fantasy anime ''{{Dragon Knight 4}}: Wheel of Time'' has soldiers riding dinosaur-like creatures.
** [[{{Squick}} Like]] [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean that?]]
* ''ThePrinceOfTennis'': Tezuka's [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome amazing tennis move]] is what ''really'' killed the dinosaurs.
* The ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh}}!'' card game has a dinosaur type, the number of dinos expanded by Tyranno Kenzan in ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh GX}}''. Dinosaur Ryuuzaki (Rex Raptor) uses a dinosaur-themed deck in the anime.
* So does ''{{Digimon}}''.
* Chibi-Usa of ''SailorMoon'' befriended a Nessie-like dinosaur in one episode.
* An episode of ''SaberRiderAndTheStarSheriffs'' took place on a planet populated by dinosaurs. The episode was titled [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Oh Boy! Dinosaurs!"]], appropriately enough.
* ''TheFiveStarStories'' has dinosaurs on a few of the planets, which are inexplicably identical to various species that once roamed the Earth. The level of dinosaurs a planet has is actually a pretty good way to measure its age. The young planet Juno has quite a few, although they're now threatened by humans and other introduced mammal species; the older Delta Belune also has dinosaurs, but they're small and birdlike; Kallamity, supposedly the oldest inhabitable planet, doesn't seem to have any dinos at all.
* In ''[[JoJosBizarreAdventure Steel Ball Run]]'', Diego Brando becomes a Wereraptor after he gains a stand ability.
* ''DinosaurKing'' isn't a strict example as it's focused completely on dinosaurs, not just throwing them in for RuleOfCool. But consider this: In Japan it was preceded by an insect-battling game called ''Mushi King''. Then the designers sat down to plan a spinoff and asked themselves "What's better than insects?" before concluding that EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs.
* ''GetterRobo''. Just... Getter Robo. If there's room for a dinosaur at any given time, then they '''will''' be there. And it will be [[HolyShitQuotient awesome]].
** Dinosaur mecha piloted by dinosaurs. YEAAAAAH
* The SchoolFestival arc in ''MahouSenseiNegima'' has the engineering club construct a robotic ''T. rex'' because it would make the festival parades that much more awesome. This fooled TheHero at first since it was so life-like. They occasionally go berserk (though no one is ever hurt), giving [[KenAkamatsu the author]] the opportunity to have the lead heroine slice off its head with her {{BFS}} [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman since it was a robot]].
* In Law of Ueki Plus the main characters [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome ride into the Big Bad 's lair on a]] ''Tyrannosaurus rex'', destroying a tower and defeating a bunch of guards all in one fell swoop.
* {{Gon}} has a miniature ''T. rex'' for a protagonist, fighting large modern mammals most of the time. No, [[SomewhereAPalaeontologistIsCrying palaeontologist did not hang himself]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swing_%28seat%29 so that you could use his corpse as a swing]].
* OnePiece has "Red Flag" Diez Drake, a pirate captain and former Rear Admiral of the Marines that has eaten a Devil Fruit that turns him into a tyrannosaurus. [[CrazyAwesome This is pretty]] [[RuleOfCool much par for]] [[WorldOfHam the course in]] OnePiece, though.
** The island of Little Garden, which is populated by Dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures.
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* In a classic example, DC did a good deal of war comics in the 60s. One was called "The War that Time Forgot". It was WorldWarII... but there was an island full of giant apes, military test robots, an elite military unit called "The Suicide Squad" (related to the later DC group), circus acrobats, and, of course, dinosaurs.
* ''CalvinAndHobbes'' gives us Tyrannosaurs in F-14s, as you can see on this page.
--> '''Calvin''': This is '''so''' cool!
--> '''Hobbes''': This is '''so''' stupid.
* Gert in ''{{Runaways}}'' has a pet ''Deinonychus'' named [[FluffyTheTerrible Old Lace]].
* ''ComicBook/GoldDigger'' has a race of technologically advanced dinosaurs who serve as both a major source of archaeological finds for the scientists in the cast to dig up and the cause of a whole lot of bad events in ages past. They also made two dinosaur-esque races via genetic engineering, the Amonians and the Dragons, who both have regular characters in the cast.
* ''{{Marvel 1602}}'' had little dinosaurs running around Europe, including at least one seeming to be [[strike:[[XMen Professor Xavier's]]]] Carlos Javier's pet. Not to mention that the standard big dinos can be found in North America.
* There is a ''[[TyrannosaurusRex T. rex]]'' trophy [[GiantRobot robot]] in the [[{{Batman}} Batcave]]. [[FridgeLogic How it got there]] or why is generally ignored, but the DCAU provides the hypothesis that Dick (Robin, at the time) [[SoCoolItsAwesome wanted to keep it]].
** The Episode ''Starcrossed'' in JLU, has Flash agreeing with this trope through and through. Alfred being [[DeadpanSnarker Alfred]] [[HilarityEnsues well...]]
--> '''The Flash''': [[SoCoolItsAwesome Hey!]] [[CaptainObvious That's a Giant Dinosaur!]] :D
--> '''Alfred''': [[SarcasmMode And here I thought]] [[DeadpanSnarker Batman was the detective.]]
* ''[=~2000 AD~=]'' had ''Flesh'', a story about future cowboys going back in time and killing dinosaurs for their meat, which was then exported back to their own time. This was used to provide STOMPY DINOSAUR ACTION crossovers into both ''JudgeDredd'' and ''ABCWarriors''. In the case of the latter, dinosaurs ended up on a terraformed dystopian Mars.
* Major Bummer gave us [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrannosaurus_Reich Tyrannosaurus Reich]]. Can't believe that got a mention in the other wiki before getting here.
* Bob, Dawn, and Rex, from ''{{Dilbert}}''.
* ''Dinosaur Bop / Wanda et les dinosaures'' (''Wanda and the dinosaurs'') is set in a comical (with realist drawings) post-apocalyptic world were humanity regressed at prehistoric age (but more like "American sixties in a prehistoric setting"). For no reason, dinosaurs are here anew, and are used as pets, food or... cars (but ''T. rex'' is still a predator and wreck poor Eddy's car).
* The title character of ''Sláine'' has gone up against dinosaurs animated from amber.
* [[FoxTrot Jason Fox]] has a major dinosaur obsession. He once sent an electronic message to the White House saying "increase dinosaur DNA research" over and over again.
* The Tar Pits in Sin City feature dinosaur statues. Frank Miller said he put them there as an excuse to draw dinosaurs.
* In All-Star Superman. the Subterranosaur are descendants of dinosaurs who escaped extinction by digging their way to the center of the Earth. Their leader is the Dino-Czar.
* The villain in NeilGaiman's ''MrHeroTheNewmaticMan'' is Henry Phage, an immortal velociraptor at the head of a multidimensional corporation whose flagship product is the corruption of souls.
* [[http://twitter.com/Dr_Dinosaur AH!]] [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2009/05/01/fcbd-09-page-5/ DECEPTION!]] MAMMAL '''''DECEPTION!'''''
** [[AtomicRobo MAMMAL ROBOT!]]
* The Malibu Comics franchise ''DinosaursForHire'' is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. An anthropomorphic tyrannosaur, stegosaur, and triceratops (and later a pteranodon) [[TheyFightCrime fight crime]]!
* One of the antagonist races in ''Shakara'' is called the Teknosaurs. And yes, they're a race of cyborg dinosaurs.
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* Kong Island in ''KingKong'' generally has dinosaurs scattered around.
** Don't forget that KingKong also fought [[{{Godzilla}} a certain mutant dinosaur]] in another film.
** And a non-mutated Gorosaurus in ''King Kong Escapes''.
* The 1951 film ''Two Lost Worlds'' is a Cowboy/Australian Pirate/Dinosaur movie (). It fits this trope well because the only dinosaurs are some stock footage from a previous dinosaur movie that menace some people the pirates maroon on an island. They could have easily been left out, or replaced with more normal dangerous animals.
* The ''IceAge'' films are generally accurate in depicting only animals which lived during the Ice Age, or at least after the dinosaurs died out. Guess, then, what the third film featured. Go on.
* In ''{{D-War}}'' (a film very much driven by the {{Rule of Cool}}), the evil Buraki commands an evil army of dark warriors that ride big dinosaurs and fire barrages of fireballs.
* ''{{Meet the Robinsons}}'' stars mind-controlled ''[[TyrannosaurusRex T. rex]]'' brought back from the past with a flying time machine by a bowler-hat-less bowler hat wearing guy surely deserves mention here.
* The ''StarWars'' 20th anniversary re-release inserts cgi [[strike:dinosaurs]] beasts which vaguely resemble dinosaurs into various scenes in the movie, mostly in Mos Eisley.
* The HarryhausenMovie ''TheValleyOfGwangi'' is this trope incarnate. Little can prepare a viewer for the sheer unadulterated awesome of [[TheWestern Cowboys]] [[CoolVsAwesome roping]] an Allosaurus.
* Rex from ''ToyStory''.
* ''FutureWar'', because the blatant ''{{Terminator}}'' meets ''Bloodsport'' plot wasn't enough, so they decided to throw in a little ''JurassicPark'', too.
* ''NightAtTheMuseum'' features a T. rex skeleton [[AllAnimalsAreDogs that acts like a dog]].
* [[http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1918385_1918401_1918398,00.html This]] Time article on lessons from the 2009 Summer Movies shows that despite the success of the second ''Night at the Museum'' and ''IceAge 3'' (it says ''{{Up}}'' features dinosaurs - and it does have a giant bird), two other films with dinos, ''LandOfTheLost'' and ''YearOne'', bombed.
* Probably not a great example, but the '[[FutureImperfect Time Masheen]]' scene of ''{{Idiocracy}}'', where World War II was depicted by two T-rexes fighting, one wearing an American flag, one wearing a Swastika.
* [[HammerHorror Hammer Studios]] made a few [[OneMillionBC prehistoric epics]]. The ones ''with'' dinosaurs are so, SO much better than the ones without.
* The "Rite of Spring" segment from ''{{Disney/Fantasia}}''.
* ''TheodoreRex'' is quite possibly one of the few example that makes this trope worse then it should be.
* An upcoming, untitled {{Pixar}} film will tell what would it be like if the astroid miss Earth, with dinosaurs and humans living together, even being able to communicate with humans.
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* The ''FightingFantasy'' gamebook ''Island of the Lizard King'' involved the reader trying to assassinate the king of a race of lizardmen. For no particular reason, one of said lizardmen is seen riding a ''Styracosaurus'' at one point.
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[[folder: Literature ]]
* [[TheDresdenFiles Harry Dresden]] ''lives'' this trope at TheClimax of ''Dead Beat''. To say more would be a {{spoiler}}. [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome An AWESOME spoiler.]]
** [[Awesome/TheDresdenFiles Oh, what the hell]]: [[spoiler: Necromancy practiced on human remains is forbidden on pain of death for wizards, but Harry needs a source of necromantic energy to avoid getting killed by the NegativeSpaceWedgie the bad guys are trying to claim for [[AGodAmI awesome godlike power]]. It's been previously established that animal remains leave thinner "psychic footprints" than human remains, but that the longer a thing's dead, the more powerful it is when it's finally raised. Harry puts two and two and two together and necromantically animates "Sue," the mostly-complete ''{{Tyrannosaurus rex}}'' skeleton at the Field Museum of Natural History. [[RaisingTheSteaks That's right]], ''[[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Zombie T. rex]]''!]]
*** Which he then proceeds to [[spoiler:ride across Chicago to fight an army of ghosts and zombies.]] [[CoolVersusAwesome It doesn't get any cooler than that]].
*** Actually it does get cooler when you remember [[spoiler:the only thing holding the ''T. rex'' together is Harry's buddy and his one-man polka suit. [[ThePowerOfRock Polka will never die!]]]]
** He also does it in CodexAlara: turns out that aside from picking up [[LostRomanLegion hapless romans]], [[Starcraft Zerg]] [[Expy expies]], and [[OurElvesAreBetter elves]], Alara also grabbed a few giant ground sloths and terror birds in it's day. They're bond creatures with the elves.
* Arguably, {{Jules Verne}}'s classic novel ''Journey to the Center of the Earth'' is an example of this trope. Most of the book is about really ambitious spelunking, the adventurers just happen to run into a few surviving prehistoric beasts in one section of caves. It makes that part of the book more exciting, but wasn't completely necessary to the plot. Of course none of the creature they meet are technically members of the superorder ''Dinosauria'', they were mostly icthysaurs, plesiosaurs, and crocodilians. That makes this trope OlderThanRadio.
* Eric Garcia's series of noirish mysteries (starting with ''AnonymousRex''), which feature dinosaurs living in modern-day America, disguised as humans.
* The recent science fiction story "Rejiggering the Thingamajig", published in Analog, stars an alien sentient T. Rex Buddihst. And it's awesome.
* In the epic children's book ''Dinosaur vs. Bedtime,'' the titular dinosaur engages in ferocious battle with all manner of opponents. When faced with the likes of a pile of leaves, a bowl of spaghetti or talking grownups, DINOSAUR WINS! ROAR! But Dinosaur still has to face his greatest challenge: Dinosaur vs. Bedtime! [[spoiler: Bedtime wins]].
* Steve Alten's ''Meg'' novels do this. The first scene of the first book, has a Tyrannosaurus get eaten by a Megalodon (giant presumed relative to the Great White Shark) whilst attempting to chase down Hadrosaurs in the shallow sea. Nevermind that Megalodon evolved [[SomewhereAPaleontologistIsCrying almost 50 million years after the Dinosaurs went extinct]].
* Aleksandar Žiljak's (Croatian SF writer) story "Opal eyes" ("Oči boje opala") features a Wild west setting in a world where dinosaurs roam the plains. Also, the main character is a lesbian vampire gunslinger.
* ''TheIcemarkChronicles'''s third book has the enemy Basilea use 'Tri-Horns' as cavalry. Three guesses as to what they are.
* ''Far-Seer'' is basically the story of Galileo if he was a T-Rex. It is indeed as awesome as it sounds.
* The world in which the fantasy novel [[TenGhost Ten-Ghost]] takes place has domesticated dinosaurs everywhere, and the less that domesticated variety prowling the wilderness, for seemingly no reason other than to have them.
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* ''{{Primeval}}'' was advertised as being about dinosaurs despite none appearing in the first series. Presumably they thought saying it was about giant centipedes, dodos and flying lizards wouldn't draw in as many viewers.
* The ''SuperSentai'' and ''PowerRangers'' franchises have had no fewer than two dinosaur-themed series (''[[KyoryuSentaiZyuranger Zyuranger]]'' and ''[[BakuryuuSentaiAbaranger Abaranger]]'', localized as ''[[MightyMorphinPowerRangers the original MMPR]]'' and ''[[PowerRangersDinoThunder Dino Thunder]]''); and three others with their own dinosaur mecha: ''[[{{Engine Sentai Go-Onger}} Go-Onger]]'' / ''[[Series/PowerRangersRPM RPM]]'', based on animal/vehicle hybrids, has dinosaur trains; ''[[MiraiSentaiTimeranger Timeranger]]''/''[[PowerRangersTimeForce Time Force]]'' has one of the TimePolice's mecha be saurian for [[RuleOfCool no adequately explained reason]]; and ''[[KaizokuSentaiGokaiger Gokaiger]]'' has a dino mecha in homage to three Rangers who died, who just so happened to share a dino motif (a Zyuranger, an Abaranger, and the Timeranger who owned the gratuitous dinosaur robot).
* From ''Pee-Wee's Playhouse'', Pterri, Pee-Wee's talking pet pterosaur, and the (unrelated) Dinosaur Family.
* [[BarneyAndFriends Barney]]. The less said the better.
* What if Barney was green, female, Australian, ''much'' less obnoxious and actually likeable by people over 6? You'd have Dorothy the Dinosaur, one of the extended cast members of ''TheWiggles''.
* TopGear recently had a car review that, for no apparent reason, incorporated dinosaurs into the usual shots of Clarkson driving the car, including one where he is briefly pursued by a tyrannosaurus. It's actually very well done for a series that doesn't really use special effects very much.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'' "Invasion of the Dinosaurs": London is under martial law in response to the dinosaurs that have been mysteriously appearing there, [[spoiler: brought by a conspiracy, using time travel technology]].
* {{iCarly}}. Yeah. The episode where Carly almost moves to Yakima, where Spencer says to the granddad: "These are all the vitamins she needs to take. I ''only'' give her the ones shaped like dinosaurs." "...Why?" "...Dinosaurs are cool."
** There's also the episode where iCarly gets turned into a TV show, and [[ExecutiveMeddling they put a guy in a dinosuar costume in the show]] because "kids love dinosaurs".
* DinoDan
* TerraNova
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[[folder: Music]]
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aovaRsVV28 Hevisaurus]], a Finnish Music/HeavyMetal band aimed towards children.
* WeirdAlYankovic's "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gh4zvQfDhi0 Jurassic Park]]", turning the {{melodrama}}tic ([[{{Narm}} to the point of hilarity]]) "[=MacArthur=] Park" into a [[FilkSong retelling of]] [[JurassicPark Spielberg's movie]].
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* ''[[DungeonsAndDragons Dungeons & Dragons]]'' has dinosaurs in the main books, [[RuleOfCool seemingly for no reason other than coolness]].
** The Arms and Equipment Guide list several of them as possible mounts, and gives several examples on how to use them, like a Dwarven pike squad on the back of a triceratops.
*** Duplicated in {{Eberron}}, where [[strike:Hobbits]] Halflings use some of the smaller dinosaurs as mounts.
** They can be found in 4th Edition as Behemoths and Drakes, and given Cadillacs and Dinosaurs style names--Macetail, Bloodspike, et cetera--apparently because while dinosaurs are cool, sciencyish names aren't fantasyish enough.
** In 3rd and 3.5, you could play as dinosaur inspired player races called saurials.
* ''{{Exalted}}'', being a setting whose content is decided entirely by RuleOfCool and NinjaPirateZombieRobot, has gigantic "Tyrant Lizards" that look remarkably like ''T. rex'''es. Presumably due to ''Tyrannosaurus'' being Latin for "Tyrant Lizard".
** It also has the [[DinosaursAreDragons Dragon Kings]], which are roughly human-sized sentient dinosaurs who wear armor, can learn to breathe fire, and have enormous crystal clubs with laser blades to hit you with if you piss them off.
* ''{{Warhammer}}'' Fantasy's Lizardmen are a dinosaur race, their basic troops being "Saurus" and them using "Stegadons" and "Carnosaurs" as mounts and war engines. There are also "Cold Ones," Velociraptor-like things used by the Lizardmen and Dark Elves for cavalry. The beasts eat everything, so the Dark Elves cover themselves in poison to fool the lizards.
** The Cold Ones are mentioned (literally or metaphorically) to be dragon-kin...the ones the Dark Elves use also are subterranean, can live in the cold climate of the Dark Elves' territory, and, IIRC, sweat poisonous goo, which might make them more of a freaky lizard-horse than a dinosaur.
* A lot of {{Death World}}s in ''{{Warhammer 40000}}'' are covered in dinosaur-esque creatures, and the Tyranids themselves are also somewhat dinosaur-y, at least in terms of teeth - the Termagaunts, especially, look like an odd cross between Armadillos, Zerg Hydralisks and ''Velociraptors''.
** It is worth noting that the Zerg Hydralisks (from ''{{Starcraft}}}'') are probably inspired by Termagaunts (not the other way around). Meanwhile, Termagaunts look like a cross between ''{{Alien}}'' Xenomorphs and bugs from ''{{Starship Troopers}}''.
** [[OurElvesAreBetter Eldar]] Exodites dwell on lush, primeval worlds inhabited by saurian "dragons," which they joust on with laser lances.
** Possibly explained in older literature. Death Worlds were likely worlds seeded by the mysterious Old Ones in the time before the Eldar started to record their history. Since the Lizardmen of Warhammer Fantasy were servants of the Old Ones, it's likely that worlds they settled would have dinosaur-like creatures 'imported' to those worlds.
* ''[[WorldOfDarkness Werewolf: The Apocalypse]]'' has the Mokole, which are [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot weredinosaurs]]. Technically, they're supposed to be werealligators, but since they serve as Gaia's memory, they can take the form of any reptile from Earth's history.
* [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=74235 Old Fogey]] from the Unhinged parody set of ''MagicTheGathering'', the only Dinosaur creature in the game.
** That's only if you don't count the velociraptors, allosauruses and other made up fantasy dinosaurs in the game.
* In {{Pathfinder}}, druids can take dinosaurs as animal companions, as can clerics with the Saurian domain.
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* ''Ellen's Energy Adventure'' at [[DisneyThemeParks EPCOT]], which is about power sources, contains an extended sequence involving dinosaurs. This in itself was based on the Primevil World diorama at the Disneyland Railroad.
** There's also the ride called [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Dinosaur.]]
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[[folder: Toys]]
* {{LEGO}}'s ''Adventurers'' line couldn't pass up the chance to include a sub-line that brought its characters to a LostWorld, where they had to stop the bad guys from capturing a prehistoric AnachronismStew. The dinosaur figures were [[StockDinosaurs the standard]] ''TyrannosaurusRex'', ''Triceratops'' and ''Stegosaurus''. Many sets came with a "''Pteranodon''" figure as well, though that particular type of pterosaur may have actually been ''[[ScienceMarchesOn Geosternbergia]]''.
** Released around the same time was a line of easily buildable and reconfigurable dinosaur sets, simply titled ''Dinosaurs''. Each model could be rebuilt into various other prehistoric animals with their spare parts, though these "extra models" were often [[SomewhereAPalaeontologistIsCrying too inaccurate for comfort]].
** The later action-oriented ''Dino2010''/''Dino Attack'' lines. Had mutated prehistoric critters that bore a very faint resemblance to their real-life counterparts, and although both lines were essentially the same, there were slight differences between the European and US releases: in the European ''Dino2010'', the protagonists merely wanted to contain the beasts; while their US counterparts came equipped with guns instead of capturing equipment.
** ''{{Bionicle}}'' very nearly averted this trope. Rumors say they originally intended to introduce cybernetic dinosaurs, but that set line got canceled. However the dinosaurs themselves eventually ended up in official canon, and WordOfGod says that a released model (Skirmix, a [[HorseOfADifferentColor rock steed]]) was actually a close relative to these cyber-dinos.
* As mentioned, quite a few ''{{Transformers}}'' have dinosaur altmodes. The Dinobots were some of the fans' favorites, and of course Grimlock became a classic nearly on par with Optimus Prime and Megatron.
** Megatron himself got a dinosaur alt-mode in ''BeastWars''.
** And who could ever forget Dinobot? Or his arguments with his [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Scott_McNeil rodent alter-ego]]? His greatest asset? Being a 'raptor with [[FrickinLaserBeams laser-firing]] [[EyeBeams eyes]].
** In the video game "TransformersWarForCybertron", Trypticon still has his Tyrannosaurus body design despite the game being set at the beginning of The Great War, millions of years before the Transformers knew about Earth and dinosaurs. Truly the awesomeness of dinosaurs transcends space and time.
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* ''Saturn {{Bomberman}}'' traded the [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter adorable]] [[EverythingsBetterWithKangaroos kangaroos]] for [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter equally adorable]] dinosaurs as the PowerupMount of choice. They're also available as alternate choices to the roois/ruis/Louies in ''Bomberman Fantasy Race''.
* The game ''TheKingOfDragonPass'' is vaguely based on old Norse traditions and mythology. So, naturally, you can [[http://img107.imageshack.us/img107/9225/whoabv0.png train dinosaurs as battle mounts.]]
* ''FinalFantasyVI'' had a few dinosaurs as random encounters. It also has Dinosaur Island, a place which does not provide any plot or gameplay bonuses, but has a lot of tough fights which are good for [[LevelGrinding levelling up]].
** ''FinalFantasyVIII'' has [[CallARabbitASmeerp ''T. Rexaurs'']] to fight.
*** As does ''FinalFantasyXII''
*** ''FinalFantasyI'' did it first with the rare Tyrannosaurs and their palette swap, Allosaurus.
** ''FinalFantasyXI'' has lightning-spewing raptors.
* ''DragonQuest'' has the recurring Hackasaurus (or Battle Rex), [[AnAxeToGrind an axe-wielding]], [[DinosaursAreDragons fire-breathing]] tyrannosaurus. ''DragonQuestVI'', in particular, has Lizzie the Hackasaurus, whom you can get to join your team in a special encounter; in the DS remake, she's the ''only'' non-[[MascotMook Slime]] you can recruit.
* Despite taking place in the modern day, ''DeadOrAlive 4'' has an area populated entirely by dinosaurs.
* ''CommandAndConquer: [[ExpansionPack The Covert Ops]]'' had a secret level which involved fighting dinosaurs.
** Also don't forget that in ''Red Alert 2'''s expansion ''Yuri's Revenge'', the first Soviet mission deals with time travel and you're accidentally sent back to the dinosaur period to fight off hordes of ''T. rex''es. This of course includes the fate of the game's antagonist Yuri in the same campaign who after stealing the time machine from the Soviets tries to use it to "command and conquer" the world and all its history. Unfortunately for Yuri, the Soviets still had the command codes for the time machine and depleted all of its energy reserves to send Yuri back to the dinosaur era while he was gloating. Then Yuri lets off a BigNo as a ''T. rex'' smashes through the time machine to devour him.
* The first ''TombRaider'' game had dinosaurs and a ''T. rex'' as enemies for no particular reason other than RuleOfCool, though an FMV later in the game implied that they were created by the [[MacGuffin Scion]]. The dinosaurs returned without explanation in ''Tomb Raider 3''.
** ''Tomb Raider 2'' and its GaidenGame ''Golden Mask'' both feature secret, difficult-to-reach battles with more ''T. rex''es, the sole reason being that they were considered the coolest part of the first game.
* ''RadGravity'' had a dinosaur planet as one level.
* ''{{Turok}}'' would just be another FPS if it didn't pit you against dinosaurs.
* ''WorldOfWarcraft'' has Raptors as fairly common animals (and mount for trolls), and gigantic ''T. rex''es, called Devilsaurs, as a rarer sort. To be precise, they only appear in a few areas (Un'Goro Crater, where there are only about five of them at any given time; The Netherstorm, where a single Devilsaur rules over an eco-dome filled with raptors; Drak'Tharon Keep, with the optional boss King Dred; and Sholazar Basin, home of the rare-spawn King Krush). For being such enourmous beasts they move like ninjas, and many players have had their adventure cut short by a sneak attack.
** With the latest patch, Beast Mastery Hunters can tame one of these giants (although it inexplicably shrinks to a more manageable size in the progess). It's undoubtedly the coolest of the exotic class pets (although that isn't saying much when the competition consists out of prime choices like bugs and worms).
*** [[{{Mulan}} They become travel size for your convenience]].
** There are also Dragonspawn, bascially flightless dragons.
* ''GuildWars'' introduces a dinosaur-rich jungle in its ''Eye of the North'' expansion. Being a fantasy game, it includes feathered Raptor Assasins, Armor-plated ceratopsians with shoulder-horns, [[TyrannosaurusRex Tyrannosaurs]], therapods with multiple heads and tails, and other bizarre reptiles.
* The ''SuperMario'' series of games already had Bowser as some sort of dragon-dinosaur-turtle... thing, and then in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld'' along came Yoshi and his friends....
** Not to mention the cute bruiser herself, Birdo.
* ''{{Pokemon}}'' uses several dinosaur and related species-themed Mons over the years. Lapras (Plesiosaur), Tyranitar (vaguely T.Rex-ish), Meganium (Diplodocus), Cranidos/Rampardos ([[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pachycephalosauria Pachycephalosaurs]], not ''T. rex''), Shieldon/Bastiodon.
** Oddly, most prehistoric Pokemon are part-Rock types, at least the ones that have to be [[ShoutOut reanimated from fossils]]. Even [[LightningBruiser Aerodactyl]], a ''pterosaur made of rock''.
** Now joined by Archen and Archeops, a basal bird/flying deinonychosaur Pokemon.
* ''BarkleyShutUpAndJamGaiden'': [[spoiler:The OneWingedAngel form of the last boss is ''T-Rex Barkley.'' I laughed for a good three minutes after the reveal.]]
* ''Adventure Island'', from the second game onward, gave Master Higgins dinosaur buddies that granted him extra powers.
* The Triscene terror units from ''{{X-COM}}: Terror From The Deep'', which are [[{{Cyborg}} cyborg dinosaurs]] that come equipped with [[MakeMeWannaShout Sonic Cannons]].
* The upcoming game (currently available as a proof-of-concept [[HalfLife Source]] mod) ''[[http://www.dinodday.com/ Dino D-Day]]'' is all about this trope, showcasing an AlternateHistory version of WorldWarII where the Third Reich unleashes their new secret weapon: '''''[[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Nazi dinosaurs!]]'''''
** Another Source Mod, Jailbreak, has this as part of the premise: It's [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Dinosaurs]] [[{{ptitlenfhgfvh962l5}} vs]] [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Robots]].
* The ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter'' series features raptors as mooks. With the sequels and updates, you are getting a lot of dinosaurs (that happen to be changed slightly) that stand out. There may be odd hybrids and creatures that are outright dragons but the sheer number of dinos in the series is definitely worth looking through. That and the giant T-rex that Monster Hunter Tri introduces to you all.
* ''DwarfFortress'' sends goblins after you. Survive long enough, and they come mounted on velociraptors (known in-game as Beak Dogs).
* ''ChronoTrigger'''s dinos actually appear in 65 million BC ([[{{Prehistoria}} along with people]], oddly inverting that trope) as well as in a 600 AD bonus dungeon (where millions of years of underground living have made them tough as nails).
* [[{{Prehistoria}} Dinosaur Jungle]] from ''[[SonicStorybookSeries Sonic and the Secret Rings]]'' are filled with dinosaurs. At one point, Sonic must evade the jaws of a rampaging Carnotaur. The game is based around ArabianNights.
* It might be AllInTheManual, but by looking at the physique of [[MassEffect turians]], it becomes clear that they are pretty much [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Roman Space Velociraptors]]. Which is f* cking [[RuleOfCool awesome]].
* [[MOTHER3 Dragos]], which are a more or less friendly species of T-Rexes. The [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Mecha-Drago]] on [[UnwillingRoboticisation the]] [[CyberneticsEatYourSoul other]] [[ThatOneBoss hand...]]
* ''NeverwinterNights2: Storm of Zehir'' allows Level 3 Ranger classes to automatically receive the 'Animal Companion' feat. Which is all well and good until you get to Level 5 or so, and you discover an optional upgrade: 'Dinosaur companion', which switches your animal to a ''deinonychus''. [[RuleOfCool Even if it will stunt your character growth, you just have to have it]].
* ''SupremeCommander2'' features a ''[[NinjaPirateZombieRobot giant Godzilla-sized cybernetic dinosaur]] as an experimental unit.
* ''FurFighters'' had the characters discover a whole advanced society of Dinosaurs living under the surface of the planet. The plotline had something about the BigBad stealing the advanced technology and selling it for cash but it didn't really work out. Oh, and the heroes were on a popular children's TV show for some reason.
* ''StarFoxAdventures''
* The [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Krogan]] from ''MassEffect'' are vaguely dinosaur-like.
* ChampionsOnline, being inspired by nearly every generation of comic books ever, has Monster Island - the western section of Monster Island is covered with raptor-sized "Teleiosaurus hatchlings" of various kinds, and the island is also home to the ginormous (30-40' tall) Teleiosaurus, a dinosaur egg several stories tall, and Mega-Terak - a ROBOT dinosaur.
* Riptor in ''KillerInstinct''
* FightingGame + this trope = ''PrimalRage''
* The ''{{Everquest}}'' games feature velociraptors, normally found in deserts and jungles.
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[[folder: WebComics]]
* In ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'', Dr. [=McNinja=]'s {{Bandito}} boy {{Sidekick}} has a pet raptor named Yoshi.
** And now we've got the BadFuture [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/20p20 where dinosaurs have taken over Earth.]].
* ''[=~8-Bit Theater~=]'' provides a [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2003/05/20/episode-284-what-could-it-be/ ninja riding a dinosaur armed with Febreeze]].
* ''DieselSweeties'' [[http://dieselsweeties.com/archive.php?s=1516 posits]] that there are two types of people in the world: those who would travel back in time to get drunk with pirates, and those that would go back to see what color the dinosaurs really were.
* ''{{xkcd}}'' has a [[http://xkcd.com/135/ serious]] [[http://xkcd.com/292/ problem]] [[http://xkcd.com/87/ with]] [[http://xkcd.com/155/ raptors]], though the problem may have been [[http://xkcd.com/758/ minimized]] by now. The fascination with dinosaurs extends to [[http://xkcd.com/650/ other dinosaur species]].
** Remember that search history? Look [[http://www.causes.com/causes/7945 here]].
* In ''IrregularWebcomic'', the President of the United States is an ''Allosaurus'', for no readily explained reason. (Apart from the fact that he's insanely popular.)
** He won the [[http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/polls/poll0021.html election]]. [[http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/polls/poll0409.html Twice]]
* ''MinionsAtWork'': [[http://www.minionsatwork.com/2006/06/minions-12-feeding-time.html Never offer to feed the dinosaurs.]]
* They pop up from time to time in ''{{The KAMics}}''
* ''DES comics'', vaguely related to ''ElGoonishShive'' has a [[http://danshive.deviantart.com/art/Some-Comic-of-Mine-009-81483916 Velocitoaster]] [[ParodyCommercial advertisement]].
* ''Webcomic/OrderOfTheStick'', Everything Is Better With Dinosaurs can be seen [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0726.html here]]
* Dinosaurs frequently show up in ''AxeCop'', which makes sense, considering the author is six years old.
* In ''{{Endstone}}'', [[http://endstone.net/2011/02/14/5-09/ they appear through a ]] CoolGate in a place where time and space don't work right.
* As Molly plays with her dollhouse, ''TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob'' dares to ask if [[http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20110702.html Ibsen's plays]] would be better with dinosaurs.
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* While [[ToylessToylineCharacter sadly never released as toys]], the ''{{Bionicle}}'' web serials feature [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot cyborg dinosaurs]] that shoot FrickinLaserbeams [[EyeBeams from their eyes.]]
* ''DragonCave'' includes spotted dinosaur eggs- dinosaurs apparently being, in the absence of the former Yoshis, the second best choice, since no lawyer can complain about real-life creatures. The end results are very chubby, cheerful-looking cartoonish [[GentleGiant Gentle Giants]] that ''wear shoes''. Of course, this site presumably being set in medieval times with quite lax witchcraft-prosecuting policies, this is the least of their problems.
* One of Yotam Perel's cartoons involved a man buying his wife a bouquet.
->'''Woman:''' Aww, you got me flowers. That's so sweet.
->'''Man:''' THAT'S NOT SWEET. DINOSAURS ARE SWEET.
* Inverted in ''ProtectorsOfThePlotContinuum''; bad smut is ''worse'' with dinosaurs.
* One of the most famous stories posted on the Current Events social board on GameFAQs is [[http://www.writing.com/main/view_item/item_id/1508080 the Raptor Story]]. It starts off as an allegedly true, real-time first-person account by a poster who claims to hear his sister and her friends playing spin the bottle. However, when [[BrotherSisterIncest the author and his sister are about to kiss]], the sister and her friends are inexplicably revealed to be velociraptors. In the biggest UnexpectedGenreChange ever, the story then follows the author as he attempts to flee the dinosaur-filled city and defeat the person responsible for the dinosaurs...BarackObama.
** The story has [[JesusWasWayCool Raptor Jesus]]...the ''best'' kind of Jesus. Who BarackObama then jump-kicks. Yeah, its [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs that kind of story]].
** A [[http://www.writing.com/main/view_item/item_id/1580313 sequel]] was later created which retcons the sister's death in the first story and [[POVSequel takes place from her perspective]].
* [[http://comixed.com/2010/02/23/washington/ This.]]
* On a related note, [[http://epicwinftw.com/2010/09/16/awesome-photos-only-lempereur-gets-a-dinosaur/ this]].
* The [[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/philosoraptor Philosoraptor]] (of [[MemeticMutation meme]] fame).
** ...Which started as a tee-shirt design on [[http://www.lonelydinosaur.com/collections/frontpage/products/philosoraptor lonelydinosaur.com]].
* Apparently [[ThatGuyWithTheGlasses The Other Guy]] is a dinosuar sometimes. [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment Okay...]]
* IGN did a whole [[http://games.ign.com/articles/116/1163759p1.html Dinosaur Week]] once.
* And then there's always [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDNzzhCpqxA The VelociPastor]]
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* ''GarfieldAndFriends'' used dinosaurs mostly to parody this trope, specially in "UsAcres" (the quote above comes from an episode where Orson started telling {{Rumpelstiltskin}} to the children, adding ninjas and such for them to keep interested, but Wade and Roy started changing the story to work in their [[AuthorAvatar respective characters']] favors).
* There's also ''CadillacsAndDinosaurs''.
* ''{{Dinosaucers}}''. Perhaps most noteworthy in that both sides seemed to have a counterpart for each character, rather than each faction specializing in one particular type of dinosaur (Allosaurus/Tyrannosaurus, Triceratops/Styracosaurus, Apatosaurus/Brachiosaurus, Archaeopteryx/Pterodactyl, etc.)
* Beast Boy in ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' favours a ''T. Rex'' for sheer AwesomeButImpractical, because while it may look devastating, it doesn't fit under bridges, and it weighs too much for many floors to handle.
* They managed to work a dinosaur even into ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'' (Steggy in "[[AWorldwidePunomenon Prehysterical]] Pet").
* In ''{{Futurama}}: Bender's Game'', Leela and Hermes are watching ''[[TheTwilightZone The Scary Door]]'', this episode about a typical alien invasion being defeated by 'God's humblest of creatures'...The Tyrannosaurus Rex!
---> '''Leela''': I can't believe Tivo suggested that piece of crap!
** In one episode Fry sets out to enjoy the wonders of the year 3000, one being a T'Rex petting zoo. Pretty obvious what happens when he tries to feed it.
* The show up from time-to-time on ''TheFairlyOddparents''.
* In an early episode of ''TheVentureBrothers'', Brock Samson, while in a LotusEaterMachine, and dreams that he is fighting flamethrower-wielding cowboys. Only, they're riding T. Rexes. Yet Brock, in his sheer awesomeness (and mainly because it's ''his'' dream) easily dispatches them.
* An episode of ''{{Jimmy Two-Shoes}}'' has [[MadScientist Heloise]] building a large T-Rex skeleton as an instrument of misery [[MyLittlePanzer aimed at kids]].
* Both ''BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' and ''SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' feature the titular heroes fighting an animatronic Tyrannosaurus at one point, with ''Superman'' very early on in the first season.
* Because sometimes just a guy in a mask isn't enough for Mystery Inc., the gang has faced dinosaurs (besides dragons, sea serpents, and the Loch Ness Monster) in ''What's New Scooby Doo'' and more recently ''Scooby Doo! Legend of the Phantosaur.''
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->'''Roy:''' But the rooster was determined to get it back with the aid of his trained dinosaurs!\\
'''Orson:''' Trained dinosaurs? Where did the trained dinosaurs come from?\\
'''Roy:''' Same place all those [[InstantAwesomeJustAddNinja ninjas came from]].\\
-- ''[[GarfieldAndFriends U.S. Acres]]'', "The Name Game"
Well, it's true. Dinosaurs are [[RuleOfCool cool]]. No exceptions. (Well, [[BarneyAndFriends almost none.]])
Since dinosaurs [[RealLife actually existed]] in the past, some writers like to throw them into their stories. In many cases, this makes no sense at all, but when dinosaurs show up, we're generally in the realm of [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot awesome for the sake of awesome]]. Generally, the dinosaurs seen will be [[StockDinosaurs restricted to a few well-known types]].
The essence of this trope is the presence of dinosaurs which are not ultimately critical to the plot. If the story would be essentially the same without dinosaurs, it's an example. On the other hand, if [[DinosaurMedia dinosaurs are integral to the premise]], it's not an example.
Note that just because a series [[JustifiedTrope provides a reason]] for there to be dinosaurs does not mean it isn't an example of this trope. Sure, a dinosaur altmode might very well be a good idea for a Transformer, but the real reason for a dinosaur form is to [[MerchandiseDriven appeal to young boys]].
Despite the name of this trope, it can cover examples that are not technically dinosaurs. Other extinct reptiles, like pterosaurs, plesiosaurs, and dimetrodons would fall under this trope. And while it may be a stretch, since we don't have individual tropes for Everything is Better with Woolly Mammoths/Woolly Rhinos/Saber-tooth Cats/etc., these examples would get grouped here.
See also DinosaursAreDragons and SomewhereAPalaeontologistIsCrying. Compare DinosaurMedia.
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* The random and gratuitous dinosaurs are practically everywhere in the ''DragonBall'' and ''DragonBallZ'' setting. "Fly home safely, and look out for rampaging dinosaurs!"
* The hentai fantasy anime ''{{Dragon Knight 4}}: Wheel of Time'' has soldiers riding dinosaur-like creatures.
** [[{{Squick}} Like]] [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean that?]]
* ''ThePrinceOfTennis'': Tezuka's [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome amazing tennis move]] is what ''really'' killed the dinosaurs.
* The ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh}}!'' card game has a dinosaur type, the number of dinos expanded by Tyranno Kenzan in ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh GX}}''. Dinosaur Ryuuzaki (Rex Raptor) uses a dinosaur-themed deck in the anime.
* So does ''{{Digimon}}''.
* Chibi-Usa of ''SailorMoon'' befriended a Nessie-like dinosaur in one episode.
* An episode of ''SaberRiderAndTheStarSheriffs'' took place on a planet populated by dinosaurs. The episode was titled [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Oh Boy! Dinosaurs!"]], appropriately enough.
* ''TheFiveStarStories'' has dinosaurs on a few of the planets, which are inexplicably identical to various species that once roamed the Earth. The level of dinosaurs a planet has is actually a pretty good way to measure its age. The young planet Juno has quite a few, although they're now threatened by humans and other introduced mammal species; the older Delta Belune also has dinosaurs, but they're small and birdlike; Kallamity, supposedly the oldest inhabitable planet, doesn't seem to have any dinos at all.
* In ''[[JoJosBizarreAdventure Steel Ball Run]]'', Diego Brando becomes a Wereraptor after he gains a stand ability.
* ''DinosaurKing'' isn't a strict example as it's focused completely on dinosaurs, not just throwing them in for RuleOfCool. But consider this: In Japan it was preceded by an insect-battling game called ''Mushi King''. Then the designers sat down to plan a spinoff and asked themselves "What's better than insects?" before concluding that EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs.
* ''GetterRobo''. Just... Getter Robo. If there's room for a dinosaur at any given time, then they '''will''' be there. And it will be [[HolyShitQuotient awesome]].
** Dinosaur mecha piloted by dinosaurs. YEAAAAAH
* The SchoolFestival arc in ''MahouSenseiNegima'' has the engineering club construct a robotic ''T. rex'' because it would make the festival parades that much more awesome. This fooled TheHero at first since it was so life-like. They occasionally go berserk (though no one is ever hurt), giving [[KenAkamatsu the author]] the opportunity to have the lead heroine slice off its head with her {{BFS}} [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman since it was a robot]].
* In Law of Ueki Plus the main characters [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome ride into the Big Bad 's lair on a]] ''Tyrannosaurus rex'', destroying a tower and defeating a bunch of guards all in one fell swoop.
* {{Gon}} has a miniature ''T. rex'' for a protagonist, fighting large modern mammals most of the time. No, [[SomewhereAPalaeontologistIsCrying palaeontologist did not hang himself]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swing_%28seat%29 so that
* OnePiece has "Red Flag" Diez Drake, a pirate captain and former Rear Admiral of the Marines that has eaten a Devil Fruit that turns him into a tyrannosaurus. [[CrazyAwesome This is pretty]] [[RuleOfCool much par for]] [[WorldOfHam the course in]] OnePiece, though.
** The island of Little Garden, which is populated by Dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures.
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* In a classic example, DC did a good deal of war comics in the 60s. One was called "The War that Time Forgot". It was WorldWarII... but there was an island full of giant apes, military test robots, an elite military unit called "The Suicide Squad" (related to the later DC group), circus acrobats, and, of course, dinosaurs.
* ''CalvinAndHobbes'' gives us Tyrannosaurs in F-14s, as
--> '''Calvin''': This is '''so''' cool!
--> '''Hobbes''': This is '''so''' stupid.
* Gert in ''{{Runaways}}'' has a pet ''Deinonychus'' named [[FluffyTheTerrible Old Lace]].
* ''ComicBook/GoldDigger'' has a race of technologically advanced dinosaurs who serve as both a major source of archaeological finds for the scientists in the cast to dig up and the cause of a whole lot of bad events in ages past. They also made two dinosaur-esque races via genetic engineering, the Amonians and the Dragons, who both have regular characters in the cast.
* ''{{Marvel 1602}}'' had little dinosaurs running around Europe, including at least one seeming to be [[strike:[[XMen Professor Xavier's]]]] Carlos Javier's pet. Not to mention that the standard big dinos can be found in North America.
* There is a ''[[TyrannosaurusRex T. rex]]'' trophy [[GiantRobot robot]] in the [[{{Batman}} Batcave]]. [[FridgeLogic How it got there]] or why is generally ignored, but the DCAU provides the hypothesis that Dick (Robin, at the time) [[SoCoolItsAwesome wanted to keep it]].
** The Episode ''Starcrossed'' in JLU, has Flash agreeing with this trope through and through. Alfred being [[DeadpanSnarker Alfred]] [[HilarityEnsues well...]]
--> '''The Flash''': [[SoCoolItsAwesome Hey!]] [[CaptainObvious That's a Giant Dinosaur!]] :D
--> '''Alfred''': [[SarcasmMode And here I thought]] [[DeadpanSnarker Batman was the detective.]]
* ''[=~2000 AD~=]'' had ''Flesh'', a story about future cowboys going back in time and killing dinosaurs for their meat, which was then exported back to their own time. This was used to provide STOMPY DINOSAUR ACTION crossovers into both ''JudgeDredd'' and ''ABCWarriors''. In the case of the latter, dinosaurs ended up on a terraformed dystopian Mars.
* Major Bummer gave us [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrannosaurus_Reich Tyrannosaurus Reich]]. Can't believe that got a mention in the other wiki before getting here.
* Bob, Dawn, and Rex, from ''{{Dilbert}}''.
* ''Dinosaur Bop / Wanda et les dinosaures'' (''Wanda and the dinosaurs'') is set in a comical (with realist drawings) post-apocalyptic world were humanity regressed at prehistoric age (but more like "American sixties in a prehistoric setting"). For no reason, dinosaurs are here anew, and are used as pets, food or... cars (but ''T. rex'' is still a predator and wreck poor Eddy's car).
* The title character of ''Sláine'' has gone up against dinosaurs animated from amber.
* [[FoxTrot Jason Fox]] has a major dinosaur obsession. He once sent an electronic message to the White House saying "increase dinosaur DNA research" over and over again.
* The Tar Pits in Sin City feature dinosaur statues. Frank Miller said he put them there as an excuse to draw dinosaurs.
* In All-Star Superman. the Subterranosaur are descendants of dinosaurs who escaped extinction by digging their way to the center of the Earth. Their leader is the Dino-Czar.
* The villain in NeilGaiman's ''MrHeroTheNewmaticMan'' is Henry Phage, an immortal velociraptor at the head of a multidimensional corporation whose flagship product is the corruption of souls.
* [[http://twitter.com/Dr_Dinosaur AH!]] [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2009/05/01/fcbd-09-page-5/ DECEPTION!]] MAMMAL '''''DECEPTION!'''''
** [[AtomicRobo MAMMAL ROBOT!]]
* The Malibu Comics franchise ''DinosaursForHire'' is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. An anthropomorphic tyrannosaur, stegosaur, and triceratops (and later a pteranodon) [[TheyFightCrime fight crime]]!
* One of the antagonist races in ''Shakara'' is called the Teknosaurs. And yes, they're a race of cyborg dinosaurs.
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* Kong Island in ''KingKong'' generally has dinosaurs scattered around.
** Don't forget that KingKong also fought [[{{Godzilla}} a certain mutant dinosaur]] in another film.
** And a non-mutated Gorosaurus in ''King Kong Escapes''.
* The 1951 film ''Two Lost Worlds'' is a Cowboy/Australian Pirate/Dinosaur movie (). It fits this trope well because the only dinosaurs are some stock footage from a previous dinosaur movie that menace some people the pirates maroon on an island. They could have easily been left out, or replaced with more normal dangerous animals.
* The ''IceAge'' films are generally accurate in depicting only animals which lived during the Ice Age, or at least after the dinosaurs died out. Guess, then, what the third film featured. Go on.
* In ''{{D-War}}'' (a film very much driven by the {{Rule of Cool}}), the evil Buraki commands an evil army of dark warriors that ride big dinosaurs and fire barrages of fireballs.
* ''{{Meet the Robinsons}}'' stars mind-controlled ''[[TyrannosaurusRex T. rex]]'' brought back from the past with a flying time machine by a bowler-hat-less bowler hat wearing guy surely deserves mention here.
* The ''StarWars'' 20th anniversary re-release inserts cgi [[strike:dinosaurs]] beasts which vaguely resemble dinosaurs into various scenes in the movie, mostly in Mos Eisley.
* The HarryhausenMovie ''TheValleyOfGwangi'' is this trope incarnate. Little can prepare a viewer for the sheer unadulterated awesome of [[TheWestern Cowboys]] [[CoolVsAwesome roping]] an Allosaurus.
* Rex from ''ToyStory''.
* ''FutureWar'', because the blatant ''{{Terminator}}'' meets ''Bloodsport'' plot wasn't enough, so they decided to throw in a little ''JurassicPark'', too.
* ''NightAtTheMuseum'' features a T. rex skeleton [[AllAnimalsAreDogs that acts like a dog]].
* [[http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1918385_1918401_1918398,00.html This]] Time article on lessons from the 2009 Summer Movies shows that despite the success of the second ''Night at the Museum'' and ''IceAge 3'' (it says ''{{Up}}'' features dinosaurs - and it does have a giant bird), two other films with dinos, ''LandOfTheLost'' and ''YearOne'', bombed.
* Probably not a great example, but the '[[FutureImperfect Time Masheen]]' scene of ''{{Idiocracy}}'', where World War II was depicted by two T-rexes fighting, one wearing an American flag, one wearing a Swastika.
* [[HammerHorror Hammer Studios]] made a few [[OneMillionBC prehistoric epics]]. The ones ''with'' dinosaurs are so, SO much better than the ones without.
* The "Rite of Spring" segment from ''{{Disney/Fantasia}}''.
* ''TheodoreRex'' is quite possibly one of the few example that makes this trope worse then it should be.
* An upcoming, untitled {{Pixar}} film will tell what would it be like if the astroid miss Earth, with dinosaurs and humans living together, even being able to communicate with humans.
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* The ''FightingFantasy'' gamebook ''Island of the Lizard King'' involved the reader trying to assassinate the king of a race of lizardmen. For no particular reason, one of said lizardmen is seen riding a ''Styracosaurus'' at one point.
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* [[TheDresdenFiles Harry Dresden]] ''lives'' this trope at TheClimax of ''Dead Beat''. To say more would be a {{spoiler}}. [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome An AWESOME spoiler.]]
** [[Awesome/TheDresdenFiles Oh, what the hell]]: [[spoiler: Necromancy practiced on human remains is forbidden on pain of death for wizards, but Harry needs a source of necromantic energy to avoid getting killed by the NegativeSpaceWedgie the bad guys are trying to claim for [[AGodAmI awesome godlike power]]. It's been previously established that animal remains leave thinner "psychic footprints" than human remains, but that the longer a thing's dead, the more powerful it is when it's finally raised. Harry puts two and two and two together and necromantically animates "Sue," the mostly-complete ''{{Tyrannosaurus rex}}'' skeleton at the Field Museum of Natural History. [[RaisingTheSteaks That's right]], ''[[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Zombie T. rex]]''!]]
*** Which he then proceeds to [[spoiler:ride across Chicago to fight an army of ghosts and zombies.]] [[CoolVersusAwesome It doesn't get any cooler than that]].
*** Actually it does get cooler when
** He also does it in CodexAlara: turns out that aside from picking up [[LostRomanLegion hapless romans]], [[Starcraft Zerg]] [[Expy expies]], and [[OurElvesAreBetter elves]], Alara also grabbed a few giant ground sloths and terror birds in it's day. They're bond creatures with the elves.
* Arguably, {{Jules Verne}}'s classic novel ''Journey to the Center of the Earth'' is an example of this trope. Most of the book is about really ambitious spelunking, the adventurers just happen to run into a few surviving prehistoric beasts in one section of caves. It makes that part of the book more exciting, but wasn't completely necessary to the plot. Of course none of the creature they meet are technically members of the superorder ''Dinosauria'', they were mostly icthysaurs, plesiosaurs, and crocodilians. That makes this trope OlderThanRadio.
* Eric Garcia's series of noirish mysteries (starting with ''AnonymousRex''), which feature dinosaurs living in modern-day America, disguised as humans.
* The recent science fiction story "Rejiggering the Thingamajig", published in Analog, stars an alien sentient T. Rex Buddihst. And it's awesome.
* In the epic children's book ''Dinosaur vs. Bedtime,'' the titular dinosaur engages in ferocious battle with all manner of opponents. When faced with the likes of a pile of leaves, a bowl of spaghetti or talking grownups, DINOSAUR WINS! ROAR! But Dinosaur still has to face his greatest challenge: Dinosaur vs. Bedtime! [[spoiler: Bedtime wins]].
* Steve Alten's ''Meg'' novels do this. The first scene of the first book, has a Tyrannosaurus get eaten by a Megalodon (giant presumed relative to the Great White Shark) whilst attempting to chase down Hadrosaurs in the shallow sea. Nevermind that Megalodon evolved [[SomewhereAPaleontologistIsCrying almost 50 million years after the Dinosaurs went extinct]].
* Aleksandar Žiljak's (Croatian SF writer) story "Opal eyes" ("Oči boje opala") features a Wild west setting in a world where dinosaurs roam the plains. Also, the main character is a lesbian vampire gunslinger.
* ''TheIcemarkChronicles'''s third book has the enemy Basilea use 'Tri-Horns' as cavalry. Three guesses as to what they are.
* ''Far-Seer'' is basically the story of Galileo if he was a T-Rex. It is indeed as awesome as it sounds.
* The world in which the fantasy novel [[TenGhost Ten-Ghost]] takes place has domesticated dinosaurs everywhere, and the less that domesticated variety prowling the wilderness, for seemingly no reason other than to have them.
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* ''{{Primeval}}'' was advertised as being about dinosaurs despite none appearing in the first series. Presumably they thought saying it was about giant centipedes, dodos and flying lizards wouldn't draw in as many viewers.
* The ''SuperSentai'' and ''PowerRangers'' franchises have had no fewer than two dinosaur-themed series (''[[KyoryuSentaiZyuranger Zyuranger]]'' and ''[[BakuryuuSentaiAbaranger Abaranger]]'', localized as ''[[MightyMorphinPowerRangers the original MMPR]]'' and ''[[PowerRangersDinoThunder Dino Thunder]]''); and three others with their own dinosaur mecha: ''[[{{Engine Sentai Go-Onger}} Go-Onger]]'' / ''[[Series/PowerRangersRPM RPM]]'', based on animal/vehicle hybrids, has dinosaur trains; ''[[MiraiSentaiTimeranger Timeranger]]''/''[[PowerRangersTimeForce Time Force]]'' has one of the TimePolice's mecha be saurian for [[RuleOfCool no adequately explained reason]]; and ''[[KaizokuSentaiGokaiger Gokaiger]]'' has a dino mecha in homage to three Rangers who died, who just so happened to share a dino motif (a Zyuranger, an Abaranger, and the Timeranger who owned the gratuitous dinosaur robot).
* From ''Pee-Wee's Playhouse'', Pterri, Pee-Wee's talking pet pterosaur, and the (unrelated) Dinosaur Family.
* [[BarneyAndFriends Barney]]. The less said the better.
* What if Barney was green, female, Australian, ''much'' less obnoxious and actually likeable by people over 6? You'd have Dorothy the Dinosaur, one of the extended cast members of ''TheWiggles''.
* TopGear recently had a car review that, for no apparent reason, incorporated dinosaurs into the usual shots of Clarkson driving the car, including one where he is briefly pursued by a tyrannosaurus. It's actually very well done for a series that doesn't really use special effects very much.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'' "Invasion of the Dinosaurs": London is under martial law in response to the dinosaurs that have been mysteriously appearing there, [[spoiler: brought by a conspiracy, using time travel technology]].
* {{iCarly}}. Yeah. The episode where Carly almost moves to Yakima, where Spencer says to the granddad: "These are all the vitamins she needs to take. I ''only'' give her the ones shaped like dinosaurs." "...Why?" "...Dinosaurs are cool."
** There's also the episode where iCarly gets turned into a TV show, and [[ExecutiveMeddling they put a guy in a dinosuar costume in the show]] because "kids love dinosaurs".
* DinoDan
* TerraNova
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* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aovaRsVV28 Hevisaurus]], a Finnish Music/HeavyMetal band aimed towards children.
* WeirdAlYankovic's "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gh4zvQfDhi0 Jurassic Park]]", turning the {{melodrama}}tic ([[{{Narm}} to the point of hilarity]]) "[=MacArthur=] Park" into a [[FilkSong retelling of]] [[JurassicPark Spielberg's movie]].
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* ''[[DungeonsAndDragons Dungeons & Dragons]]'' has dinosaurs in the main books, [[RuleOfCool seemingly for no reason other than coolness]].
** The Arms and Equipment Guide list several of them as possible mounts, and gives several examples on how to use them, like a Dwarven pike squad on the back of a triceratops.
*** Duplicated in {{Eberron}}, where [[strike:Hobbits]] Halflings use some of the smaller dinosaurs as mounts.
** They can be found in 4th Edition as Behemoths and Drakes, and given Cadillacs and Dinosaurs style names--Macetail, Bloodspike, et cetera--apparently because while dinosaurs are cool, sciencyish names aren't fantasyish enough.
** In 3rd and 3.5,
* ''{{Exalted}}'', being a setting whose content is decided entirely by RuleOfCool and NinjaPirateZombieRobot, has gigantic "Tyrant Lizards" that look remarkably like ''T. rex'''es. Presumably due to ''Tyrannosaurus'' being Latin for "Tyrant Lizard".
** It also has the [[DinosaursAreDragons Dragon Kings]], which are roughly human-sized sentient dinosaurs who wear armor, can learn to breathe fire, and have enormous crystal clubs with laser blades to hit
* ''{{Warhammer}}'' Fantasy's Lizardmen are a dinosaur race, their basic troops being "Saurus" and them using "Stegadons" and "Carnosaurs" as mounts and war engines. There are also "Cold Ones," Velociraptor-like things used by the Lizardmen and Dark Elves for cavalry. The beasts eat everything, so the Dark Elves cover themselves in poison to fool the lizards.
** The Cold Ones are mentioned (literally or metaphorically) to be dragon-kin...the ones the Dark Elves use also are subterranean, can live in the cold climate of the Dark Elves' territory, and, IIRC, sweat poisonous goo, which might make them more of a freaky lizard-horse than a dinosaur.
* A lot of {{Death World}}s in ''{{Warhammer 40000}}'' are covered in dinosaur-esque creatures, and the Tyranids themselves are also somewhat dinosaur-y, at least in terms of teeth - the Termagaunts, especially, look like an odd cross between Armadillos, Zerg Hydralisks and ''Velociraptors''.
** It is worth noting that the Zerg Hydralisks (from ''{{Starcraft}}}'') are probably inspired by Termagaunts (not the other way around). Meanwhile, Termagaunts look like a cross between ''{{Alien}}'' Xenomorphs and bugs from ''{{Starship Troopers}}''.
** [[OurElvesAreBetter Eldar]] Exodites dwell on lush, primeval worlds inhabited by saurian "dragons," which they joust on with laser lances.
** Possibly explained in older literature. Death Worlds were likely worlds seeded by the mysterious Old Ones in the time before the Eldar started to record their history. Since the Lizardmen of Warhammer Fantasy were servants of the Old Ones, it's likely that worlds they settled would have dinosaur-like creatures 'imported' to those worlds.
* ''[[WorldOfDarkness Werewolf: The Apocalypse]]'' has the Mokole, which are [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot weredinosaurs]]. Technically, they're supposed to be werealligators, but since they serve as Gaia's memory, they can take the form of any reptile from Earth's history.
* [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=74235 Old Fogey]] from the Unhinged parody set of ''MagicTheGathering'', the only Dinosaur creature in the game.
** That's only if
* In {{Pathfinder}}, druids can take dinosaurs as animal companions, as can clerics with the Saurian domain.
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* ''Ellen's Energy Adventure'' at [[DisneyThemeParks EPCOT]], which is about power sources, contains an extended sequence involving dinosaurs. This in itself was based on the Primevil World diorama at the Disneyland Railroad.
** There's also the ride called [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Dinosaur.]]
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* {{LEGO}}'s ''Adventurers'' line couldn't pass up the chance to include a sub-line that brought its characters to a LostWorld, where they had to stop the bad guys from capturing a prehistoric AnachronismStew. The dinosaur figures were [[StockDinosaurs the standard]] ''TyrannosaurusRex'', ''Triceratops'' and ''Stegosaurus''. Many sets came with a "''Pteranodon''" figure as well, though that particular type of pterosaur may have actually been ''[[ScienceMarchesOn Geosternbergia]]''.
** Released around the same time was a line of easily buildable and reconfigurable dinosaur sets, simply titled ''Dinosaurs''. Each model could be rebuilt into various other prehistoric animals with their spare parts, though these "extra models" were often [[SomewhereAPalaeontologistIsCrying too inaccurate for comfort]].
** The later action-oriented ''Dino2010''/''Dino Attack'' lines. Had mutated prehistoric critters that bore a very faint resemblance to their real-life counterparts, and although both lines were essentially the same, there were slight differences between the European and US releases: in the European ''Dino2010'', the protagonists merely wanted to contain the beasts; while their US counterparts came equipped with guns instead of capturing equipment.
** ''{{Bionicle}}'' very nearly averted this trope. Rumors say they originally intended to introduce cybernetic dinosaurs, but that set line got canceled. However the dinosaurs themselves eventually ended up in official canon, and WordOfGod says that a released model (Skirmix, a [[HorseOfADifferentColor rock steed]]) was actually a close relative to these cyber-dinos.
* As mentioned, quite a few ''{{Transformers}}'' have dinosaur altmodes. The Dinobots were some of the fans' favorites, and of course Grimlock became a classic nearly on par with Optimus Prime and Megatron.
** Megatron himself got a dinosaur alt-mode in ''BeastWars''.
** And who could ever forget Dinobot? Or his arguments with his [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Scott_McNeil rodent alter-ego]]? His greatest asset? Being a 'raptor with [[FrickinLaserBeams laser-firing]] [[EyeBeams eyes]].
** In the video game "TransformersWarForCybertron", Trypticon still has his Tyrannosaurus body design despite the game being set at the beginning of The Great War, millions of years before the Transformers knew about Earth and dinosaurs. Truly the awesomeness of dinosaurs transcends space and time.
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* ''Saturn {{Bomberman}}'' traded the [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter adorable]] [[EverythingsBetterWithKangaroos kangaroos]] for [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter equally adorable]] dinosaurs as the PowerupMount of choice. They're also available as alternate choices to the roois/ruis/Louies in ''Bomberman Fantasy Race''.
* The game ''TheKingOfDragonPass'' is vaguely based on old Norse traditions and mythology. So, naturally,
* ''FinalFantasyVI'' had a few dinosaurs as random encounters. It also has Dinosaur Island, a place which does not provide any plot or gameplay bonuses, but has a lot of tough fights which are good for [[LevelGrinding levelling up]].
** ''FinalFantasyVIII'' has [[CallARabbitASmeerp ''T. Rexaurs'']] to fight.
*** As does ''FinalFantasyXII''
*** ''FinalFantasyI'' did it first with the rare Tyrannosaurs and their palette swap, Allosaurus.
** ''FinalFantasyXI'' has lightning-spewing raptors.
* ''DragonQuest'' has the recurring Hackasaurus (or Battle Rex), [[AnAxeToGrind an axe-wielding]], [[DinosaursAreDragons fire-breathing]] tyrannosaurus. ''DragonQuestVI'', in particular, has Lizzie the Hackasaurus, whom
* Despite taking place in the modern day, ''DeadOrAlive 4'' has an area populated entirely by dinosaurs.
* ''CommandAndConquer: [[ExpansionPack The Covert Ops]]'' had a secret level which involved fighting dinosaurs.
** Also don't forget that in ''Red Alert 2'''s expansion ''Yuri's Revenge'', the first Soviet mission deals with time travel and you're accidentally sent back to the dinosaur period to fight off hordes of ''T. rex''es. This of course includes the fate of the game's antagonist Yuri in the same campaign who after stealing the time machine from the Soviets tries to use it to "command and conquer" the world and all its history. Unfortunately for Yuri, the Soviets still had the command codes for the time machine and depleted all of its energy reserves to send Yuri back to the dinosaur era while he was gloating. Then Yuri lets off a BigNo as a ''T. rex'' smashes through the time machine to devour him.
* The first ''TombRaider'' game had dinosaurs and a ''T. rex'' as enemies for no particular reason other than RuleOfCool, though an FMV later in the game implied that they were created by the [[MacGuffin Scion]]. The dinosaurs returned without explanation in ''Tomb Raider 3''.
** ''Tomb Raider 2'' and its GaidenGame ''Golden Mask'' both feature secret, difficult-to-reach battles with more ''T. rex''es, the sole reason being that they were considered the coolest part of the first game.
* ''RadGravity'' had a dinosaur planet as one level.
* ''{{Turok}}'' would just be another FPS if it didn't pit
* ''WorldOfWarcraft'' has Raptors as fairly common animals (and mount for trolls), and gigantic ''T. rex''es, called Devilsaurs, as a rarer sort. To be precise, they only appear in a few areas (Un'Goro Crater, where there are only about five of them at any given time; The Netherstorm, where a single Devilsaur rules over an eco-dome filled with raptors; Drak'Tharon Keep, with the optional boss King Dred; and Sholazar Basin, home of the rare-spawn King Krush). For being such enourmous beasts they move like ninjas, and many players have had their adventure cut short by a sneak attack.
** With the latest patch, Beast Mastery Hunters can tame one of these giants (although it inexplicably shrinks to a more manageable size in the progess). It's undoubtedly the coolest of the exotic class pets (although that isn't saying much when the competition consists out of prime choices like bugs and worms).
*** [[{{Mulan}} They become travel size for your convenience]].
** There are also Dragonspawn, bascially flightless dragons.
* ''GuildWars'' introduces a dinosaur-rich jungle in its ''Eye of the North'' expansion. Being a fantasy game, it includes feathered Raptor Assasins, Armor-plated ceratopsians with shoulder-horns, [[TyrannosaurusRex Tyrannosaurs]], therapods with multiple heads and tails, and other bizarre reptiles.
* The ''SuperMario'' series of games already had Bowser as some sort of dragon-dinosaur-turtle... thing, and then in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld'' along came Yoshi and his friends....
** Not to mention the cute bruiser herself, Birdo.
* ''{{Pokemon}}'' uses several dinosaur and related species-themed Mons over the years. Lapras (Plesiosaur), Tyranitar (vaguely T.Rex-ish), Meganium (Diplodocus), Cranidos/Rampardos ([[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pachycephalosauria Pachycephalosaurs]], not ''T. rex''), Shieldon/Bastiodon.
** Oddly, most prehistoric Pokemon are part-Rock types, at least the ones that have to be [[ShoutOut reanimated from fossils]]. Even [[LightningBruiser Aerodactyl]], a ''pterosaur made of rock''.
** Now joined by Archen and Archeops, a basal bird/flying deinonychosaur Pokemon.
* ''BarkleyShutUpAndJamGaiden'': [[spoiler:The OneWingedAngel form of the last boss is ''T-Rex Barkley.'' I laughed for a good three minutes after the reveal.]]
* ''Adventure Island'', from the second game onward, gave Master Higgins dinosaur buddies that granted him extra powers.
* The Triscene terror units from ''{{X-COM}}: Terror From The Deep'', which are [[{{Cyborg}} cyborg dinosaurs]] that come equipped with [[MakeMeWannaShout Sonic Cannons]].
* The upcoming game (currently available as a proof-of-concept [[HalfLife Source]] mod) ''[[http://www.dinodday.com/ Dino D-Day]]'' is all about this trope, showcasing an AlternateHistory version of WorldWarII where the Third Reich unleashes their new secret weapon: '''''[[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Nazi dinosaurs!]]'''''
** Another Source Mod, Jailbreak, has this as part of the premise: It's [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Dinosaurs]] [[{{ptitlenfhgfvh962l5}} vs]] [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Robots]].
* The ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter'' series features raptors as mooks. With the sequels and updates,
* ''DwarfFortress'' sends goblins after you. Survive long enough, and they come mounted on velociraptors (known in-game as Beak Dogs).
* ''ChronoTrigger'''s dinos actually appear in 65 million BC ([[{{Prehistoria}} along with people]], oddly inverting that trope) as well as in a 600 AD bonus dungeon (where millions of years of underground living have made them tough as nails).
* [[{{Prehistoria}} Dinosaur Jungle]] from ''[[SonicStorybookSeries Sonic and the Secret Rings]]'' are filled with dinosaurs. At one point, Sonic must evade the jaws of a rampaging Carnotaur. The game is based around ArabianNights.
* It might be AllInTheManual, but by looking at the physique of [[MassEffect turians]], it becomes clear that they are pretty much [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Roman Space Velociraptors]]. Which is f* cking [[RuleOfCool awesome]].
* [[MOTHER3 Dragos]], which are a more or less friendly species of T-Rexes. The [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Mecha-Drago]] on [[UnwillingRoboticisation the]] [[CyberneticsEatYourSoul other]] [[ThatOneBoss hand...]]
* ''NeverwinterNights2: Storm of Zehir'' allows Level 3 Ranger classes to automatically receive the 'Animal Companion' feat. Which is all well and good until
* ''SupremeCommander2'' features a ''[[NinjaPirateZombieRobot giant Godzilla-sized cybernetic dinosaur]] as an experimental unit.
* ''FurFighters'' had the characters discover a whole advanced society of Dinosaurs living under the surface of the planet. The plotline had something about the BigBad stealing the advanced technology and selling it for cash but it didn't really work out. Oh, and the heroes were on a popular children's TV show for some reason.
* ''StarFoxAdventures''
* The [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Krogan]] from ''MassEffect'' are vaguely dinosaur-like.
* ChampionsOnline, being inspired by nearly every generation of comic books ever, has Monster Island - the western section of Monster Island is covered with raptor-sized "Teleiosaurus hatchlings" of various kinds, and the island is also home to the ginormous (30-40' tall) Teleiosaurus, a dinosaur egg several stories tall, and Mega-Terak - a ROBOT dinosaur.
* Riptor in ''KillerInstinct''
* FightingGame + this trope = ''PrimalRage''
* The ''{{Everquest}}'' games feature velociraptors, normally found in deserts and jungles.
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* In ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'', Dr. [=McNinja=]'s {{Bandito}} boy {{Sidekick}} has a pet raptor named Yoshi.
** And now we've got the BadFuture [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/20p20 where dinosaurs have taken over Earth.]].
* ''[=~8-Bit Theater~=]'' provides a [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2003/05/20/episode-284-what-could-it-be/ ninja riding a dinosaur armed with Febreeze]].
* ''DieselSweeties'' [[http://dieselsweeties.com/archive.php?s=1516 posits]] that there are two types of people in the world: those who would travel back in time to get drunk with pirates, and those that would go back to see what color the dinosaurs really were.
* ''{{xkcd}}'' has a [[http://xkcd.com/135/ serious]] [[http://xkcd.com/292/ problem]] [[http://xkcd.com/87/ with]] [[http://xkcd.com/155/ raptors]], though the problem may have been [[http://xkcd.com/758/ minimized]] by now. The fascination with dinosaurs extends to [[http://xkcd.com/650/ other dinosaur species]].
** Remember that search history? Look [[http://www.causes.com/causes/7945 here]].
* In ''IrregularWebcomic'', the President of the United States is an ''Allosaurus'', for no readily explained reason. (Apart from the fact that he's insanely popular.)
** He won the [[http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/polls/poll0021.html election]]. [[http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/polls/poll0409.html Twice]]
* ''MinionsAtWork'': [[http://www.minionsatwork.com/2006/06/minions-12-feeding-time.html Never offer to feed the dinosaurs.]]
* They pop up from time to time in ''{{The KAMics}}''
* ''DES comics'', vaguely related to ''ElGoonishShive'' has a [[http://danshive.deviantart.com/art/Some-Comic-of-Mine-009-81483916 Velocitoaster]] [[ParodyCommercial advertisement]].
* ''Webcomic/OrderOfTheStick'', Everything Is Better With Dinosaurs can be seen [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0726.html here]]
* Dinosaurs frequently show up in ''AxeCop'', which makes sense, considering the author is six years old.
* In ''{{Endstone}}'', [[http://endstone.net/2011/02/14/5-09/ they appear through a ]] CoolGate in a place where time and space don't work right.
* As Molly plays with her dollhouse, ''TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob'' dares to ask if [[http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20110702.html Ibsen's plays]] would be better with dinosaurs.
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* While [[ToylessToylineCharacter sadly never released as toys]], the ''{{Bionicle}}'' web serials feature [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot cyborg dinosaurs]] that shoot FrickinLaserbeams [[EyeBeams from their eyes.]]
* ''DragonCave'' includes spotted dinosaur eggs- dinosaurs apparently being, in the absence of the former Yoshis, the second best choice, since no lawyer can complain about real-life creatures. The end results are very chubby, cheerful-looking cartoonish [[GentleGiant Gentle Giants]] that ''wear shoes''. Of course, this site presumably being set in medieval times with quite lax witchcraft-prosecuting policies, this is the least of their problems.
* One of Yotam Perel's cartoons involved a man buying his wife a bouquet.
->'''Woman:''' Aww,
->'''Man:''' THAT'S NOT SWEET. DINOSAURS ARE SWEET.
* Inverted in ''ProtectorsOfThePlotContinuum''; bad smut is ''worse'' with dinosaurs.
* One of the most famous stories posted on the Current Events social board on GameFAQs is [[http://www.writing.com/main/view_item/item_id/1508080 the Raptor Story]]. It starts off as an allegedly true, real-time first-person account by a poster who claims to hear his sister and her friends playing spin the bottle. However, when [[BrotherSisterIncest the author and his sister are about to kiss]], the sister and her friends are inexplicably revealed to be velociraptors. In the biggest UnexpectedGenreChange ever, the story then follows the author as he attempts to flee the dinosaur-filled city and defeat the person responsible for the dinosaurs...BarackObama.
** The story has [[JesusWasWayCool Raptor Jesus]]...the ''best'' kind of Jesus. Who BarackObama then jump-kicks. Yeah, its [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs that kind of story]].
** A [[http://www.writing.com/main/view_item/item_id/1580313 sequel]] was later created which retcons the sister's death in the first story and [[POVSequel takes place from her perspective]].
* [[http://comixed.com/2010/02/23/washington/ This.]]
* On a related note, [[http://epicwinftw.com/2010/09/16/awesome-photos-only-lempereur-gets-a-dinosaur/ this]].
* The [[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/philosoraptor Philosoraptor]] (of [[MemeticMutation meme]] fame).
** ...Which started as a tee-shirt design on [[http://www.lonelydinosaur.com/collections/frontpage/products/philosoraptor lonelydinosaur.com]].
* Apparently [[ThatGuyWithTheGlasses The Other Guy]] is a dinosuar sometimes. [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment Okay...]]
* IGN did a whole [[http://games.ign.com/articles/116/1163759p1.html Dinosaur Week]] once.
* And then there's always [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDNzzhCpqxA The VelociPastor]]
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* ''GarfieldAndFriends'' used dinosaurs mostly to parody this trope, specially in "UsAcres" (the quote above comes from an episode where Orson started telling {{Rumpelstiltskin}} to the children, adding ninjas and such for them to keep interested, but Wade and Roy started changing the story to work in their [[AuthorAvatar respective characters']] favors).
* There's also ''CadillacsAndDinosaurs''.
* ''{{Dinosaucers}}''. Perhaps most noteworthy in that both sides seemed to have a counterpart for each character, rather than each faction specializing in one particular type of dinosaur (Allosaurus/Tyrannosaurus, Triceratops/Styracosaurus, Apatosaurus/Brachiosaurus, Archaeopteryx/Pterodactyl, etc.)
* Beast Boy in ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' favours a ''T. Rex'' for sheer AwesomeButImpractical, because while it may look devastating, it doesn't fit under bridges, and it weighs too much for many floors to handle.
* They managed to work a dinosaur even into ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'' (Steggy in "[[AWorldwidePunomenon Prehysterical]] Pet").
* In ''{{Futurama}}: Bender's Game'', Leela and Hermes are watching ''[[TheTwilightZone The Scary Door]]'', this episode about a typical alien invasion being defeated by 'God's humblest of creatures'...The Tyrannosaurus Rex!
---> '''Leela''': I can't believe Tivo suggested that piece of crap!
** In one episode Fry sets out to enjoy the wonders of the year 3000, one being a T'Rex petting zoo. Pretty obvious what happens when he tries to feed it.
* The show up from time-to-time on ''TheFairlyOddparents''.
* In an early episode of ''TheVentureBrothers'', Brock Samson, while in a LotusEaterMachine, and dreams that he is fighting flamethrower-wielding cowboys. Only, they're riding T. Rexes. Yet Brock, in his sheer awesomeness (and mainly because it's ''his'' dream) easily dispatches them.
* An episode of ''{{Jimmy Two-Shoes}}'' has [[MadScientist Heloise]] building a large T-Rex skeleton as an instrument of misery [[MyLittlePanzer aimed at kids]].
* Both ''BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' and ''SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' feature the titular heroes fighting an animatronic Tyrannosaurus at one point, with ''Superman'' very early on in the first season.
* Because sometimes just a guy in a mask isn't enough for Mystery Inc., the gang has faced dinosaurs (besides dragons, sea serpents, and the Loch Ness Monster) in ''What's New Scooby Doo'' and more recently ''Scooby Doo! Legend of the Phantosaur.''
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[[caption-width-right:330:See, this is what ''JurassicPark'' should've done.]]
->'''Roy:''' But the rooster was determined to get it back with the aid of his trained dinosaurs!\\
'''Orson:''' Trained dinosaurs? Where did the trained dinosaurs come from?\\
'''Roy:''' Same place all those [[InstantAwesomeJustAddNinja ninjas came from]].\\
-- ''[[GarfieldAndFriends U.S. Acres]]'', "The Name Game"
Well, it's true. Dinosaurs are [[RuleOfCool cool]]. No exceptions. (Well, [[BarneyAndFriends almost none.]])
Since dinosaurs [[RealLife actually existed]] in the past, some writers like to throw them into their stories. In many cases, this makes no sense at all, but when dinosaurs show up, we're generally in the realm of [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot awesome for the sake of awesome]]. Generally, the dinosaurs seen will be [[StockDinosaurs restricted to a few well-known types]].
The essence of this trope is the presence of dinosaurs which are not ultimately critical to the plot. If the story would be essentially the same without dinosaurs, it's an example. On the other hand, if [[DinosaurMedia dinosaurs are integral to the premise]], it's not an example.
Note that just because a series [[JustifiedTrope provides a reason]] for there to be dinosaurs does not mean it isn't an example of this trope. Sure, a dinosaur altmode might very well be a good idea for a Transformer, but the real reason for a dinosaur form is to [[MerchandiseDriven appeal to young boys]].
Despite the name of this trope, it can cover examples that are not technically dinosaurs. Other extinct reptiles, like pterosaurs, plesiosaurs, and dimetrodons would fall under this trope. And while it may be a stretch, since we don't have individual tropes for Everything is Better with Woolly Mammoths/Woolly Rhinos/Saber-tooth Cats/etc., these examples would get grouped here.
See also DinosaursAreDragons and SomewhereAPalaeontologistIsCrying. Compare DinosaurMedia.
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[[folder: Anime and Manga ]]
* The random and gratuitous dinosaurs are practically everywhere in the ''DragonBall'' and ''DragonBallZ'' setting. "Fly home safely, and look out for rampaging dinosaurs!"
* The hentai fantasy anime ''{{Dragon Knight 4}}: Wheel of Time'' has soldiers riding dinosaur-like creatures.
** [[{{Squick}} Like]] [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean that?]]
* ''ThePrinceOfTennis'': Tezuka's [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome amazing tennis move]] is what ''really'' killed the dinosaurs.
* The ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh}}!'' card game has a dinosaur type, the number of dinos expanded by Tyranno Kenzan in ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh GX}}''. Dinosaur Ryuuzaki (Rex Raptor) uses a dinosaur-themed deck in the anime.
* So does ''{{Digimon}}''.
* Chibi-Usa of ''SailorMoon'' befriended a Nessie-like dinosaur in one episode.
* An episode of ''SaberRiderAndTheStarSheriffs'' took place on a planet populated by dinosaurs. The episode was titled [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Oh Boy! Dinosaurs!"]], appropriately enough.
* ''TheFiveStarStories'' has dinosaurs on a few of the planets, which are inexplicably identical to various species that once roamed the Earth. The level of dinosaurs a planet has is actually a pretty good way to measure its age. The young planet Juno has quite a few, although they're now threatened by humans and other introduced mammal species; the older Delta Belune also has dinosaurs, but they're small and birdlike; Kallamity, supposedly the oldest inhabitable planet, doesn't seem to have any dinos at all.
* In ''[[JoJosBizarreAdventure Steel Ball Run]]'', Diego Brando becomes a Wereraptor after he gains a stand ability.
* ''DinosaurKing'' isn't a strict example as it's focused completely on dinosaurs, not just throwing them in for RuleOfCool. But consider this: In Japan it was preceded by an insect-battling game called ''Mushi King''. Then the designers sat down to plan a spinoff and asked themselves "What's better than insects?" before concluding that EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs.
* ''GetterRobo''. Just... Getter Robo. If there's room for a dinosaur at any given time, then they '''will''' be there. And it will be [[HolyShitQuotient awesome]].
** Dinosaur mecha piloted by dinosaurs. YEAAAAAH
* The SchoolFestival arc in ''MahouSenseiNegima'' has the engineering club construct a robotic ''T. rex'' because it would make the festival parades that much more awesome. This fooled TheHero at first since it was so life-like. They occasionally go berserk (though no one is ever hurt), giving [[KenAkamatsu the author]] the opportunity to have the lead heroine slice off its head with her {{BFS}} [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman since it was a robot]].
* In Law of Ueki Plus the main characters [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome ride into the Big Bad 's lair on a]] ''Tyrannosaurus rex'', destroying a tower and defeating a bunch of guards all in one fell swoop.
* {{Gon}} has a miniature ''T. rex'' for a protagonist, fighting large modern mammals most of the time. No, [[SomewhereAPalaeontologistIsCrying palaeontologist did not hang himself]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swing_%28seat%29 so that you
* OnePiece has "Red Flag" Diez Drake, a pirate captain and former Rear Admiral of the Marines that has eaten a Devil Fruit that turns him into a tyrannosaurus. [[CrazyAwesome This is pretty]] [[RuleOfCool much par for]] [[WorldOfHam the course in]] OnePiece, though.
** The island of Little Garden, which is populated by Dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures.
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[[folder: Comics ]]
* In a classic example, DC did a good deal of war comics in the 60s. One was called "The War that Time Forgot". It was WorldWarII... but there was an island full of giant apes, military test robots, an elite military unit called "The Suicide Squad" (related to the later DC group), circus acrobats, and, of course, dinosaurs.
* ''CalvinAndHobbes'' gives us Tyrannosaurs in F-14s, as you
--> '''Calvin''': This is '''so''' cool!
--> '''Hobbes''': This is '''so''' stupid.
* Gert in ''{{Runaways}}'' has a pet ''Deinonychus'' named [[FluffyTheTerrible Old Lace]].
* ''ComicBook/GoldDigger'' has a race of technologically advanced dinosaurs who serve as both a major source of archaeological finds for the scientists in the cast to dig up and the cause of a whole lot of bad events in ages past. They also made two dinosaur-esque races via genetic engineering, the Amonians and the Dragons, who both have regular characters in the cast.
* ''{{Marvel 1602}}'' had little dinosaurs running around Europe, including at least one seeming to be [[strike:[[XMen Professor Xavier's]]]] Carlos Javier's pet. Not to mention that the standard big dinos can be found in North America.
* There is a ''[[TyrannosaurusRex T. rex]]'' trophy [[GiantRobot robot]] in the [[{{Batman}} Batcave]]. [[FridgeLogic How it got there]] or why is generally ignored, but the DCAU provides the hypothesis that Dick (Robin, at the time) [[SoCoolItsAwesome wanted to keep it]].
** The Episode ''Starcrossed'' in JLU, has Flash agreeing with this trope through and through. Alfred being [[DeadpanSnarker Alfred]] [[HilarityEnsues well...]]
--> '''The Flash''': [[SoCoolItsAwesome Hey!]] [[CaptainObvious That's a Giant Dinosaur!]] :D
--> '''Alfred''': [[SarcasmMode And here I thought]] [[DeadpanSnarker Batman was the detective.]]
* ''[=~2000 AD~=]'' had ''Flesh'', a story about future cowboys going back in time and killing dinosaurs for their meat, which was then exported back to their own time. This was used to provide STOMPY DINOSAUR ACTION crossovers into both ''JudgeDredd'' and ''ABCWarriors''. In the case of the latter, dinosaurs ended up on a terraformed dystopian Mars.
* Major Bummer gave us [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrannosaurus_Reich Tyrannosaurus Reich]]. Can't believe that got a mention in the other wiki before getting here.
* Bob, Dawn, and Rex, from ''{{Dilbert}}''.
* ''Dinosaur Bop / Wanda et les dinosaures'' (''Wanda and the dinosaurs'') is set in a comical (with realist drawings) post-apocalyptic world were humanity regressed at prehistoric age (but more like "American sixties in a prehistoric setting"). For no reason, dinosaurs are here anew, and are used as pets, food or... cars (but ''T. rex'' is still a predator and wreck poor Eddy's car).
* The title character of ''Sláine'' has gone up against dinosaurs animated from amber.
* [[FoxTrot Jason Fox]] has a major dinosaur obsession. He once sent an electronic message to the White House saying "increase dinosaur DNA research" over and over again.
* The Tar Pits in Sin City feature dinosaur statues. Frank Miller said he put them there as an excuse to draw dinosaurs.
* In All-Star Superman. the Subterranosaur are descendants of dinosaurs who escaped extinction by digging their way to the center of the Earth. Their leader is the Dino-Czar.
* The villain in NeilGaiman's ''MrHeroTheNewmaticMan'' is Henry Phage, an immortal velociraptor at the head of a multidimensional corporation whose flagship product is the corruption of souls.
* [[http://twitter.com/Dr_Dinosaur AH!]] [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2009/05/01/fcbd-09-page-5/ DECEPTION!]] MAMMAL '''''DECEPTION!'''''
** [[AtomicRobo MAMMAL ROBOT!]]
* The Malibu Comics franchise ''DinosaursForHire'' is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. An anthropomorphic tyrannosaur, stegosaur, and triceratops (and later a pteranodon) [[TheyFightCrime fight crime]]!
* One of the antagonist races in ''Shakara'' is called the Teknosaurs. And yes, they're a race of cyborg dinosaurs.
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[[folder: Films ]]
* Kong Island in ''KingKong'' generally has dinosaurs scattered around.
** Don't forget that KingKong also fought [[{{Godzilla}} a certain mutant dinosaur]] in another film.
** And a non-mutated Gorosaurus in ''King Kong Escapes''.
* The 1951 film ''Two Lost Worlds'' is a Cowboy/Australian Pirate/Dinosaur movie (). It fits this trope well because the only dinosaurs are some stock footage from a previous dinosaur movie that menace some people the pirates maroon on an island. They could have easily been left out, or replaced with more normal dangerous animals.
* The ''IceAge'' films are generally accurate in depicting only animals which lived during the Ice Age, or at least after the dinosaurs died out. Guess, then, what the third film featured. Go on.
* In ''{{D-War}}'' (a film very much driven by the {{Rule of Cool}}), the evil Buraki commands an evil army of dark warriors that ride big dinosaurs and fire barrages of fireballs.
* ''{{Meet the Robinsons}}'' stars mind-controlled ''[[TyrannosaurusRex T. rex]]'' brought back from the past with a flying time machine by a bowler-hat-less bowler hat wearing guy surely deserves mention here.
* The ''StarWars'' 20th anniversary re-release inserts cgi [[strike:dinosaurs]] beasts which vaguely resemble dinosaurs into various scenes in the movie, mostly in Mos Eisley.
* The HarryhausenMovie ''TheValleyOfGwangi'' is this trope incarnate. Little can prepare a viewer for the sheer unadulterated awesome of [[TheWestern Cowboys]] [[CoolVsAwesome roping]] an Allosaurus.
* Rex from ''ToyStory''.
* ''FutureWar'', because the blatant ''{{Terminator}}'' meets ''Bloodsport'' plot wasn't enough, so they decided to throw in a little ''JurassicPark'', too.
* ''NightAtTheMuseum'' features a T. rex skeleton [[AllAnimalsAreDogs that acts like a dog]].
* [[http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1918385_1918401_1918398,00.html This]] Time article on lessons from the 2009 Summer Movies shows that despite the success of the second ''Night at the Museum'' and ''IceAge 3'' (it says ''{{Up}}'' features dinosaurs - and it does have a giant bird), two other films with dinos, ''LandOfTheLost'' and ''YearOne'', bombed.
* Probably not a great example, but the '[[FutureImperfect Time Masheen]]' scene of ''{{Idiocracy}}'', where World War II was depicted by two T-rexes fighting, one wearing an American flag, one wearing a Swastika.
* [[HammerHorror Hammer Studios]] made a few [[OneMillionBC prehistoric epics]]. The ones ''with'' dinosaurs are so, SO much better than the ones without.
* The "Rite of Spring" segment from ''{{Disney/Fantasia}}''.
* ''TheodoreRex'' is quite possibly one of the few example that makes this trope worse then it should be.
* An upcoming, untitled {{Pixar}} film will tell what would it be like if the astroid miss Earth, with dinosaurs and humans living together, even being able to communicate with humans.
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[[folder: Gamebooks ]]
* The ''FightingFantasy'' gamebook ''Island of the Lizard King'' involved the reader trying to assassinate the king of a race of lizardmen. For no particular reason, one of said lizardmen is seen riding a ''Styracosaurus'' at one point.
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[[folder: Literature ]]
* [[TheDresdenFiles Harry Dresden]] ''lives'' this trope at TheClimax of ''Dead Beat''. To say more would be a {{spoiler}}. [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome An AWESOME spoiler.]]
** [[Awesome/TheDresdenFiles Oh, what the hell]]: [[spoiler: Necromancy practiced on human remains is forbidden on pain of death for wizards, but Harry needs a source of necromantic energy to avoid getting killed by the NegativeSpaceWedgie the bad guys are trying to claim for [[AGodAmI awesome godlike power]]. It's been previously established that animal remains leave thinner "psychic footprints" than human remains, but that the longer a thing's dead, the more powerful it is when it's finally raised. Harry puts two and two and two together and necromantically animates "Sue," the mostly-complete ''{{Tyrannosaurus rex}}'' skeleton at the Field Museum of Natural History. [[RaisingTheSteaks That's right]], ''[[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Zombie T. rex]]''!]]
*** Which he then proceeds to [[spoiler:ride across Chicago to fight an army of ghosts and zombies.]] [[CoolVersusAwesome It doesn't get any cooler than that]].
*** Actually it does get cooler when you
** He also does it in CodexAlara: turns out that aside from picking up [[LostRomanLegion hapless romans]], [[Starcraft Zerg]] [[Expy expies]], and [[OurElvesAreBetter elves]], Alara also grabbed a few giant ground sloths and terror birds in it's day. They're bond creatures with the elves.
* Arguably, {{Jules Verne}}'s classic novel ''Journey to the Center of the Earth'' is an example of this trope. Most of the book is about really ambitious spelunking, the adventurers just happen to run into a few surviving prehistoric beasts in one section of caves. It makes that part of the book more exciting, but wasn't completely necessary to the plot. Of course none of the creature they meet are technically members of the superorder ''Dinosauria'', they were mostly icthysaurs, plesiosaurs, and crocodilians. That makes this trope OlderThanRadio.
* Eric Garcia's series of noirish mysteries (starting with ''AnonymousRex''), which feature dinosaurs living in modern-day America, disguised as humans.
* The recent science fiction story "Rejiggering the Thingamajig", published in Analog, stars an alien sentient T. Rex Buddihst. And it's awesome.
* In the epic children's book ''Dinosaur vs. Bedtime,'' the titular dinosaur engages in ferocious battle with all manner of opponents. When faced with the likes of a pile of leaves, a bowl of spaghetti or talking grownups, DINOSAUR WINS! ROAR! But Dinosaur still has to face his greatest challenge: Dinosaur vs. Bedtime! [[spoiler: Bedtime wins]].
* Steve Alten's ''Meg'' novels do this. The first scene of the first book, has a Tyrannosaurus get eaten by a Megalodon (giant presumed relative to the Great White Shark) whilst attempting to chase down Hadrosaurs in the shallow sea. Nevermind that Megalodon evolved [[SomewhereAPaleontologistIsCrying almost 50 million years after the Dinosaurs went extinct]].
* Aleksandar Žiljak's (Croatian SF writer) story "Opal eyes" ("Oči boje opala") features a Wild west setting in a world where dinosaurs roam the plains. Also, the main character is a lesbian vampire gunslinger.
* ''TheIcemarkChronicles'''s third book has the enemy Basilea use 'Tri-Horns' as cavalry. Three guesses as to what they are.
* ''Far-Seer'' is basically the story of Galileo if he was a T-Rex. It is indeed as awesome as it sounds.
* The world in which the fantasy novel [[TenGhost Ten-Ghost]] takes place has domesticated dinosaurs everywhere, and the less that domesticated variety prowling the wilderness, for seemingly no reason other than to have them.
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* ''{{Primeval}}'' was advertised as being about dinosaurs despite none appearing in the first series. Presumably they thought saying it was about giant centipedes, dodos and flying lizards wouldn't draw in as many viewers.
* The ''SuperSentai'' and ''PowerRangers'' franchises have had no fewer than two dinosaur-themed series (''[[KyoryuSentaiZyuranger Zyuranger]]'' and ''[[BakuryuuSentaiAbaranger Abaranger]]'', localized as ''[[MightyMorphinPowerRangers the original MMPR]]'' and ''[[PowerRangersDinoThunder Dino Thunder]]''); and three others with their own dinosaur mecha: ''[[{{Engine Sentai Go-Onger}} Go-Onger]]'' / ''[[Series/PowerRangersRPM RPM]]'', based on animal/vehicle hybrids, has dinosaur trains; ''[[MiraiSentaiTimeranger Timeranger]]''/''[[PowerRangersTimeForce Time Force]]'' has one of the TimePolice's mecha be saurian for [[RuleOfCool no adequately explained reason]]; and ''[[KaizokuSentaiGokaiger Gokaiger]]'' has a dino mecha in homage to three Rangers who died, who just so happened to share a dino motif (a Zyuranger, an Abaranger, and the Timeranger who owned the gratuitous dinosaur robot).
* From ''Pee-Wee's Playhouse'', Pterri, Pee-Wee's talking pet pterosaur, and the (unrelated) Dinosaur Family.
* [[BarneyAndFriends Barney]]. The less said the better.
* What if Barney was green, female, Australian, ''much'' less obnoxious and actually likeable by people over 6? You'd have Dorothy the Dinosaur, one of the extended cast members of ''TheWiggles''.
* TopGear recently had a car review that, for no apparent reason, incorporated dinosaurs into the usual shots of Clarkson driving the car, including one where he is briefly pursued by a tyrannosaurus. It's actually very well done for a series that doesn't really use special effects very much.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'' "Invasion of the Dinosaurs": London is under martial law in response to the dinosaurs that have been mysteriously appearing there, [[spoiler: brought by a conspiracy, using time travel technology]].
* {{iCarly}}. Yeah. The episode where Carly almost moves to Yakima, where Spencer says to the granddad: "These are all the vitamins she needs to take. I ''only'' give her the ones shaped like dinosaurs." "...Why?" "...Dinosaurs are cool."
** There's also the episode where iCarly gets turned into a TV show, and [[ExecutiveMeddling they put a guy in a dinosuar costume in the show]] because "kids love dinosaurs".
* DinoDan
* TerraNova
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* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aovaRsVV28 Hevisaurus]], a Finnish Music/HeavyMetal band aimed towards children.
* WeirdAlYankovic's "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gh4zvQfDhi0 Jurassic Park]]", turning the {{melodrama}}tic ([[{{Narm}} to the point of hilarity]]) "[=MacArthur=] Park" into a [[FilkSong retelling of]] [[JurassicPark Spielberg's movie]].
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* ''[[DungeonsAndDragons Dungeons & Dragons]]'' has dinosaurs in the main books, [[RuleOfCool seemingly for no reason other than coolness]].
** The Arms and Equipment Guide list several of them as possible mounts, and gives several examples on how to use them, like a Dwarven pike squad on the back of a triceratops.
*** Duplicated in {{Eberron}}, where [[strike:Hobbits]] Halflings use some of the smaller dinosaurs as mounts.
** They can be found in 4th Edition as Behemoths and Drakes, and given Cadillacs and Dinosaurs style names--Macetail, Bloodspike, et cetera--apparently because while dinosaurs are cool, sciencyish names aren't fantasyish enough.
** In 3rd and 3.5, you
* ''{{Exalted}}'', being a setting whose content is decided entirely by RuleOfCool and NinjaPirateZombieRobot, has gigantic "Tyrant Lizards" that look remarkably like ''T. rex'''es. Presumably due to ''Tyrannosaurus'' being Latin for "Tyrant Lizard".
** It also has the [[DinosaursAreDragons Dragon Kings]], which are roughly human-sized sentient dinosaurs who wear armor, can learn to breathe fire, and have enormous crystal clubs with laser blades to hit you
* ''{{Warhammer}}'' Fantasy's Lizardmen are a dinosaur race, their basic troops being "Saurus" and them using "Stegadons" and "Carnosaurs" as mounts and war engines. There are also "Cold Ones," Velociraptor-like things used by the Lizardmen and Dark Elves for cavalry. The beasts eat everything, so the Dark Elves cover themselves in poison to fool the lizards.
** The Cold Ones are mentioned (literally or metaphorically) to be dragon-kin...the ones the Dark Elves use also are subterranean, can live in the cold climate of the Dark Elves' territory, and, IIRC, sweat poisonous goo, which might make them more of a freaky lizard-horse than a dinosaur.
* A lot of {{Death World}}s in ''{{Warhammer 40000}}'' are covered in dinosaur-esque creatures, and the Tyranids themselves are also somewhat dinosaur-y, at least in terms of teeth - the Termagaunts, especially, look like an odd cross between Armadillos, Zerg Hydralisks and ''Velociraptors''.
** It is worth noting that the Zerg Hydralisks (from ''{{Starcraft}}}'') are probably inspired by Termagaunts (not the other way around). Meanwhile, Termagaunts look like a cross between ''{{Alien}}'' Xenomorphs and bugs from ''{{Starship Troopers}}''.
** [[OurElvesAreBetter Eldar]] Exodites dwell on lush, primeval worlds inhabited by saurian "dragons," which they joust on with laser lances.
** Possibly explained in older literature. Death Worlds were likely worlds seeded by the mysterious Old Ones in the time before the Eldar started to record their history. Since the Lizardmen of Warhammer Fantasy were servants of the Old Ones, it's likely that worlds they settled would have dinosaur-like creatures 'imported' to those worlds.
* ''[[WorldOfDarkness Werewolf: The Apocalypse]]'' has the Mokole, which are [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot weredinosaurs]]. Technically, they're supposed to be werealligators, but since they serve as Gaia's memory, they can take the form of any reptile from Earth's history.
* [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=74235 Old Fogey]] from the Unhinged parody set of ''MagicTheGathering'', the only Dinosaur creature in the game.
** That's only if you
* In {{Pathfinder}}, druids can take dinosaurs as animal companions, as can clerics with the Saurian domain.
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* ''Ellen's Energy Adventure'' at [[DisneyThemeParks EPCOT]], which is about power sources, contains an extended sequence involving dinosaurs. This in itself was based on the Primevil World diorama at the Disneyland Railroad.
** There's also the ride called [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Dinosaur.]]
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* {{LEGO}}'s ''Adventurers'' line couldn't pass up the chance to include a sub-line that brought its characters to a LostWorld, where they had to stop the bad guys from capturing a prehistoric AnachronismStew. The dinosaur figures were [[StockDinosaurs the standard]] ''TyrannosaurusRex'', ''Triceratops'' and ''Stegosaurus''. Many sets came with a "''Pteranodon''" figure as well, though that particular type of pterosaur may have actually been ''[[ScienceMarchesOn Geosternbergia]]''.
** Released around the same time was a line of easily buildable and reconfigurable dinosaur sets, simply titled ''Dinosaurs''. Each model could be rebuilt into various other prehistoric animals with their spare parts, though these "extra models" were often [[SomewhereAPalaeontologistIsCrying too inaccurate for comfort]].
** The later action-oriented ''Dino2010''/''Dino Attack'' lines. Had mutated prehistoric critters that bore a very faint resemblance to their real-life counterparts, and although both lines were essentially the same, there were slight differences between the European and US releases: in the European ''Dino2010'', the protagonists merely wanted to contain the beasts; while their US counterparts came equipped with guns instead of capturing equipment.
** ''{{Bionicle}}'' very nearly averted this trope. Rumors say they originally intended to introduce cybernetic dinosaurs, but that set line got canceled. However the dinosaurs themselves eventually ended up in official canon, and WordOfGod says that a released model (Skirmix, a [[HorseOfADifferentColor rock steed]]) was actually a close relative to these cyber-dinos.
* As mentioned, quite a few ''{{Transformers}}'' have dinosaur altmodes. The Dinobots were some of the fans' favorites, and of course Grimlock became a classic nearly on par with Optimus Prime and Megatron.
** Megatron himself got a dinosaur alt-mode in ''BeastWars''.
** And who could ever forget Dinobot? Or his arguments with his [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Scott_McNeil rodent alter-ego]]? His greatest asset? Being a 'raptor with [[FrickinLaserBeams laser-firing]] [[EyeBeams eyes]].
** In the video game "TransformersWarForCybertron", Trypticon still has his Tyrannosaurus body design despite the game being set at the beginning of The Great War, millions of years before the Transformers knew about Earth and dinosaurs. Truly the awesomeness of dinosaurs transcends space and time.
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* ''Saturn {{Bomberman}}'' traded the [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter adorable]] [[EverythingsBetterWithKangaroos kangaroos]] for [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter equally adorable]] dinosaurs as the PowerupMount of choice. They're also available as alternate choices to the roois/ruis/Louies in ''Bomberman Fantasy Race''.
* The game ''TheKingOfDragonPass'' is vaguely based on old Norse traditions and mythology. So, naturally, you
* ''FinalFantasyVI'' had a few dinosaurs as random encounters. It also has Dinosaur Island, a place which does not provide any plot or gameplay bonuses, but has a lot of tough fights which are good for [[LevelGrinding levelling up]].
** ''FinalFantasyVIII'' has [[CallARabbitASmeerp ''T. Rexaurs'']] to fight.
*** As does ''FinalFantasyXII''
*** ''FinalFantasyI'' did it first with the rare Tyrannosaurs and their palette swap, Allosaurus.
** ''FinalFantasyXI'' has lightning-spewing raptors.
* ''DragonQuest'' has the recurring Hackasaurus (or Battle Rex), [[AnAxeToGrind an axe-wielding]], [[DinosaursAreDragons fire-breathing]] tyrannosaurus. ''DragonQuestVI'', in particular, has Lizzie the Hackasaurus, whom you
* Despite taking place in the modern day, ''DeadOrAlive 4'' has an area populated entirely by dinosaurs.
* ''CommandAndConquer: [[ExpansionPack The Covert Ops]]'' had a secret level which involved fighting dinosaurs.
** Also don't forget that in ''Red Alert 2'''s expansion ''Yuri's Revenge'', the first Soviet mission deals with time travel and you're accidentally sent back to the dinosaur period to fight off hordes of ''T. rex''es. This of course includes the fate of the game's antagonist Yuri in the same campaign who after stealing the time machine from the Soviets tries to use it to "command and conquer" the world and all its history. Unfortunately for Yuri, the Soviets still had the command codes for the time machine and depleted all of its energy reserves to send Yuri back to the dinosaur era while he was gloating. Then Yuri lets off a BigNo as a ''T. rex'' smashes through the time machine to devour him.
* The first ''TombRaider'' game had dinosaurs and a ''T. rex'' as enemies for no particular reason other than RuleOfCool, though an FMV later in the game implied that they were created by the [[MacGuffin Scion]]. The dinosaurs returned without explanation in ''Tomb Raider 3''.
** ''Tomb Raider 2'' and its GaidenGame ''Golden Mask'' both feature secret, difficult-to-reach battles with more ''T. rex''es, the sole reason being that they were considered the coolest part of the first game.
* ''RadGravity'' had a dinosaur planet as one level.
* ''{{Turok}}'' would just be another FPS if it didn't pit you
* ''WorldOfWarcraft'' has Raptors as fairly common animals (and mount for trolls), and gigantic ''T. rex''es, called Devilsaurs, as a rarer sort. To be precise, they only appear in a few areas (Un'Goro Crater, where there are only about five of them at any given time; The Netherstorm, where a single Devilsaur rules over an eco-dome filled with raptors; Drak'Tharon Keep, with the optional boss King Dred; and Sholazar Basin, home of the rare-spawn King Krush). For being such enourmous beasts they move like ninjas, and many players have had their adventure cut short by a sneak attack.
** With the latest patch, Beast Mastery Hunters can tame one of these giants (although it inexplicably shrinks to a more manageable size in the progess). It's undoubtedly the coolest of the exotic class pets (although that isn't saying much when the competition consists out of prime choices like bugs and worms).
*** [[{{Mulan}} They become travel size for your convenience]].
** There are also Dragonspawn, bascially flightless dragons.
* ''GuildWars'' introduces a dinosaur-rich jungle in its ''Eye of the North'' expansion. Being a fantasy game, it includes feathered Raptor Assasins, Armor-plated ceratopsians with shoulder-horns, [[TyrannosaurusRex Tyrannosaurs]], therapods with multiple heads and tails, and other bizarre reptiles.
* The ''SuperMario'' series of games already had Bowser as some sort of dragon-dinosaur-turtle... thing, and then in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld'' along came Yoshi and his friends....
** Not to mention the cute bruiser herself, Birdo.
* ''{{Pokemon}}'' uses several dinosaur and related species-themed Mons over the years. Lapras (Plesiosaur), Tyranitar (vaguely T.Rex-ish), Meganium (Diplodocus), Cranidos/Rampardos ([[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pachycephalosauria Pachycephalosaurs]], not ''T. rex''), Shieldon/Bastiodon.
** Oddly, most prehistoric Pokemon are part-Rock types, at least the ones that have to be [[ShoutOut reanimated from fossils]]. Even [[LightningBruiser Aerodactyl]], a ''pterosaur made of rock''.
** Now joined by Archen and Archeops, a basal bird/flying deinonychosaur Pokemon.
* ''BarkleyShutUpAndJamGaiden'': [[spoiler:The OneWingedAngel form of the last boss is ''T-Rex Barkley.'' I laughed for a good three minutes after the reveal.]]
* ''Adventure Island'', from the second game onward, gave Master Higgins dinosaur buddies that granted him extra powers.
* The Triscene terror units from ''{{X-COM}}: Terror From The Deep'', which are [[{{Cyborg}} cyborg dinosaurs]] that come equipped with [[MakeMeWannaShout Sonic Cannons]].
* The upcoming game (currently available as a proof-of-concept [[HalfLife Source]] mod) ''[[http://www.dinodday.com/ Dino D-Day]]'' is all about this trope, showcasing an AlternateHistory version of WorldWarII where the Third Reich unleashes their new secret weapon: '''''[[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Nazi dinosaurs!]]'''''
** Another Source Mod, Jailbreak, has this as part of the premise: It's [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Dinosaurs]] [[{{ptitlenfhgfvh962l5}} vs]] [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Robots]].
* The ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter'' series features raptors as mooks. With the sequels and updates, you
* ''DwarfFortress'' sends goblins after you. Survive long enough, and they come mounted on velociraptors (known in-game as Beak Dogs).
* ''ChronoTrigger'''s dinos actually appear in 65 million BC ([[{{Prehistoria}} along with people]], oddly inverting that trope) as well as in a 600 AD bonus dungeon (where millions of years of underground living have made them tough as nails).
* [[{{Prehistoria}} Dinosaur Jungle]] from ''[[SonicStorybookSeries Sonic and the Secret Rings]]'' are filled with dinosaurs. At one point, Sonic must evade the jaws of a rampaging Carnotaur. The game is based around ArabianNights.
* It might be AllInTheManual, but by looking at the physique of [[MassEffect turians]], it becomes clear that they are pretty much [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Roman Space Velociraptors]]. Which is f* cking [[RuleOfCool awesome]].
* [[MOTHER3 Dragos]], which are a more or less friendly species of T-Rexes. The [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Mecha-Drago]] on [[UnwillingRoboticisation the]] [[CyberneticsEatYourSoul other]] [[ThatOneBoss hand...]]
* ''NeverwinterNights2: Storm of Zehir'' allows Level 3 Ranger classes to automatically receive the 'Animal Companion' feat. Which is all well and good until you
* ''SupremeCommander2'' features a ''[[NinjaPirateZombieRobot giant Godzilla-sized cybernetic dinosaur]] as an experimental unit.
* ''FurFighters'' had the characters discover a whole advanced society of Dinosaurs living under the surface of the planet. The plotline had something about the BigBad stealing the advanced technology and selling it for cash but it didn't really work out. Oh, and the heroes were on a popular children's TV show for some reason.
* ''StarFoxAdventures''
* The [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Krogan]] from ''MassEffect'' are vaguely dinosaur-like.
* ChampionsOnline, being inspired by nearly every generation of comic books ever, has Monster Island - the western section of Monster Island is covered with raptor-sized "Teleiosaurus hatchlings" of various kinds, and the island is also home to the ginormous (30-40' tall) Teleiosaurus, a dinosaur egg several stories tall, and Mega-Terak - a ROBOT dinosaur.
* Riptor in ''KillerInstinct''
* FightingGame + this trope = ''PrimalRage''
* The ''{{Everquest}}'' games feature velociraptors, normally found in deserts and jungles.
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* In ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'', Dr. [=McNinja=]'s {{Bandito}} boy {{Sidekick}} has a pet raptor named Yoshi.
** And now we've got the BadFuture [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/20p20 where dinosaurs have taken over Earth.]].
* ''[=~8-Bit Theater~=]'' provides a [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2003/05/20/episode-284-what-could-it-be/ ninja riding a dinosaur armed with Febreeze]].
* ''DieselSweeties'' [[http://dieselsweeties.com/archive.php?s=1516 posits]] that there are two types of people in the world: those who would travel back in time to get drunk with pirates, and those that would go back to see what color the dinosaurs really were.
* ''{{xkcd}}'' has a [[http://xkcd.com/135/ serious]] [[http://xkcd.com/292/ problem]] [[http://xkcd.com/87/ with]] [[http://xkcd.com/155/ raptors]], though the problem may have been [[http://xkcd.com/758/ minimized]] by now. The fascination with dinosaurs extends to [[http://xkcd.com/650/ other dinosaur species]].
** Remember that search history? Look [[http://www.causes.com/causes/7945 here]].
* In ''IrregularWebcomic'', the President of the United States is an ''Allosaurus'', for no readily explained reason. (Apart from the fact that he's insanely popular.)
** He won the [[http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/polls/poll0021.html election]]. [[http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/polls/poll0409.html Twice]]
* ''MinionsAtWork'': [[http://www.minionsatwork.com/2006/06/minions-12-feeding-time.html Never offer to feed the dinosaurs.]]
* They pop up from time to time in ''{{The KAMics}}''
* ''DES comics'', vaguely related to ''ElGoonishShive'' has a [[http://danshive.deviantart.com/art/Some-Comic-of-Mine-009-81483916 Velocitoaster]] [[ParodyCommercial advertisement]].
* ''Webcomic/OrderOfTheStick'', Everything Is Better With Dinosaurs can be seen [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0726.html here]]
* Dinosaurs frequently show up in ''AxeCop'', which makes sense, considering the author is six years old.
* In ''{{Endstone}}'', [[http://endstone.net/2011/02/14/5-09/ they appear through a ]] CoolGate in a place where time and space don't work right.
* As Molly plays with her dollhouse, ''TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob'' dares to ask if [[http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20110702.html Ibsen's plays]] would be better with dinosaurs.
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* While [[ToylessToylineCharacter sadly never released as toys]], the ''{{Bionicle}}'' web serials feature [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot cyborg dinosaurs]] that shoot FrickinLaserbeams [[EyeBeams from their eyes.]]
* ''DragonCave'' includes spotted dinosaur eggs- dinosaurs apparently being, in the absence of the former Yoshis, the second best choice, since no lawyer can complain about real-life creatures. The end results are very chubby, cheerful-looking cartoonish [[GentleGiant Gentle Giants]] that ''wear shoes''. Of course, this site presumably being set in medieval times with quite lax witchcraft-prosecuting policies, this is the least of their problems.
* One of Yotam Perel's cartoons involved a man buying his wife a bouquet.
->'''Woman:''' Aww, you
->'''Man:''' THAT'S NOT SWEET. DINOSAURS ARE SWEET.
* Inverted in ''ProtectorsOfThePlotContinuum''; bad smut is ''worse'' with dinosaurs.
* One of the most famous stories posted on the Current Events social board on GameFAQs is [[http://www.writing.com/main/view_item/item_id/1508080 the Raptor Story]]. It starts off as an allegedly true, real-time first-person account by a poster who claims to hear his sister and her friends playing spin the bottle. However, when [[BrotherSisterIncest the author and his sister are about to kiss]], the sister and her friends are inexplicably revealed to be velociraptors. In the biggest UnexpectedGenreChange ever, the story then follows the author as he attempts to flee the dinosaur-filled city and defeat the person responsible for the dinosaurs...BarackObama.
** The story has [[JesusWasWayCool Raptor Jesus]]...the ''best'' kind of Jesus. Who BarackObama then jump-kicks. Yeah, its [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs that kind of story]].
** A [[http://www.writing.com/main/view_item/item_id/1580313 sequel]] was later created which retcons the sister's death in the first story and [[POVSequel takes place from her perspective]].
* [[http://comixed.com/2010/02/23/washington/ This.]]
* On a related note, [[http://epicwinftw.com/2010/09/16/awesome-photos-only-lempereur-gets-a-dinosaur/ this]].
* The [[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/philosoraptor Philosoraptor]] (of [[MemeticMutation meme]] fame).
** ...Which started as a tee-shirt design on [[http://www.lonelydinosaur.com/collections/frontpage/products/philosoraptor lonelydinosaur.com]].
* Apparently [[ThatGuyWithTheGlasses The Other Guy]] is a dinosuar sometimes. [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment Okay...]]
* IGN did a whole [[http://games.ign.com/articles/116/1163759p1.html Dinosaur Week]] once.
* And then there's always [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDNzzhCpqxA The VelociPastor]]
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* ''GarfieldAndFriends'' used dinosaurs mostly to parody this trope, specially in "UsAcres" (the quote above comes from an episode where Orson started telling {{Rumpelstiltskin}} to the children, adding ninjas and such for them to keep interested, but Wade and Roy started changing the story to work in their [[AuthorAvatar respective characters']] favors).
* There's also ''CadillacsAndDinosaurs''.
* ''{{Dinosaucers}}''. Perhaps most noteworthy in that both sides seemed to have a counterpart for each character, rather than each faction specializing in one particular type of dinosaur (Allosaurus/Tyrannosaurus, Triceratops/Styracosaurus, Apatosaurus/Brachiosaurus, Archaeopteryx/Pterodactyl, etc.)
* Beast Boy in ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' favours a ''T. Rex'' for sheer AwesomeButImpractical, because while it may look devastating, it doesn't fit under bridges, and it weighs too much for many floors to handle.
* They managed to work a dinosaur even into ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'' (Steggy in "[[AWorldwidePunomenon Prehysterical]] Pet").
* In ''{{Futurama}}: Bender's Game'', Leela and Hermes are watching ''[[TheTwilightZone The Scary Door]]'', this episode about a typical alien invasion being defeated by 'God's humblest of creatures'...The Tyrannosaurus Rex!
---> '''Leela''': I can't believe Tivo suggested that piece of crap!
** In one episode Fry sets out to enjoy the wonders of the year 3000, one being a T'Rex petting zoo. Pretty obvious what happens when he tries to feed it.
* The show up from time-to-time on ''TheFairlyOddparents''.
* In an early episode of ''TheVentureBrothers'', Brock Samson, while in a LotusEaterMachine, and dreams that he is fighting flamethrower-wielding cowboys. Only, they're riding T. Rexes. Yet Brock, in his sheer awesomeness (and mainly because it's ''his'' dream) easily dispatches them.
* An episode of ''{{Jimmy Two-Shoes}}'' has [[MadScientist Heloise]] building a large T-Rex skeleton as an instrument of misery [[MyLittlePanzer aimed at kids]].
* Both ''BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' and ''SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' feature the titular heroes fighting an animatronic Tyrannosaurus at one point, with ''Superman'' very early on in the first season.
* Because sometimes just a guy in a mask isn't enough for Mystery Inc., the gang has faced dinosaurs (besides dragons, sea serpents, and the Loch Ness Monster) in ''What's New Scooby Doo'' and more recently ''Scooby Doo! Legend of the Phantosaur.''
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->'''Roy:''' But the rooster was determined to get it back with the aid of his trained dinosaurs!\\
'''Orson:''' Trained dinosaurs? Where did the trained dinosaurs come from?\\
'''Roy:''' Same place all those [[InstantAwesomeJustAddNinja ninjas came from]].\\
-- ''[[GarfieldAndFriends U.S. Acres]]'', "The Name Game"
Well, it's true. Dinosaurs are [[RuleOfCool cool]]. No exceptions. (Well, [[BarneyAndFriends almost none.]])
Since dinosaurs [[RealLife actually existed]] in the past, some writers like to throw them into their stories. In many cases, this makes no sense at all, but when dinosaurs show up, we're generally in the realm of [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot awesome for the sake of awesome]]. Generally, the dinosaurs seen will be [[StockDinosaurs restricted to a few well-known types]].
The essence of this trope is the presence of dinosaurs which are not ultimately critical to the plot. If the story would be essentially the same without dinosaurs, it's an example. On the other hand, if [[DinosaurMedia dinosaurs are integral to the premise]], it's not an example.
Note that just because a series [[JustifiedTrope provides a reason]] for there to be dinosaurs does not mean it isn't an example of this trope. Sure, a dinosaur altmode might very well be a good idea for a Transformer, but the real reason for a dinosaur form is to [[MerchandiseDriven appeal to young boys]].
Despite the name of this trope, it can cover examples that are not technically dinosaurs. Other extinct reptiles, like pterosaurs, plesiosaurs, and dimetrodons would fall under this trope. And while it may be a stretch, since we don't have individual tropes for Everything is Better with Woolly Mammoths/Woolly Rhinos/Saber-tooth Cats/etc., these examples would get grouped here.
See also DinosaursAreDragons and SomewhereAPalaeontologistIsCrying. Compare DinosaurMedia.
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[[folder: Anime and Manga ]]
* The random and gratuitous dinosaurs are practically everywhere in the ''DragonBall'' and ''DragonBallZ'' setting. "Fly home safely, and look out for rampaging dinosaurs!"
* The hentai fantasy anime ''{{Dragon Knight 4}}: Wheel of Time'' has soldiers riding dinosaur-like creatures.
** [[{{Squick}} Like]] [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean that?]]
* ''ThePrinceOfTennis'': Tezuka's [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome amazing tennis move]] is what ''really'' killed the dinosaurs.
* The ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh}}!'' card game has a dinosaur type, the number of dinos expanded by Tyranno Kenzan in ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh GX}}''. Dinosaur Ryuuzaki (Rex Raptor) uses a dinosaur-themed deck in the anime.
* So does ''{{Digimon}}''.
* Chibi-Usa of ''SailorMoon'' befriended a Nessie-like dinosaur in one episode.
* An episode of ''SaberRiderAndTheStarSheriffs'' took place on a planet populated by dinosaurs. The episode was titled [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Oh Boy! Dinosaurs!"]], appropriately enough.
* ''TheFiveStarStories'' has dinosaurs on a few of the planets, which are inexplicably identical to various species that once roamed the Earth. The level of dinosaurs a planet has is actually a pretty good way to measure its age. The young planet Juno has quite a few, although they're now threatened by humans and other introduced mammal species; the older Delta Belune also has dinosaurs, but they're small and birdlike; Kallamity, supposedly the oldest inhabitable planet, doesn't seem to have any dinos at all.
* In ''[[JoJosBizarreAdventure Steel Ball Run]]'', Diego Brando becomes a Wereraptor after he gains a stand ability.
* ''DinosaurKing'' isn't a strict example as it's focused completely on dinosaurs, not just throwing them in for RuleOfCool. But consider this: In Japan it was preceded by an insect-battling game called ''Mushi King''. Then the designers sat down to plan a spinoff and asked themselves "What's better than insects?" before concluding that EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs.
* ''GetterRobo''. Just... Getter Robo. If there's room for a dinosaur at any given time, then they '''will''' be there. And it will be [[HolyShitQuotient awesome]].
** Dinosaur mecha piloted by dinosaurs. YEAAAAAH
* The SchoolFestival arc in ''MahouSenseiNegima'' has the engineering club construct a robotic ''T. rex'' because it would make the festival parades that much more awesome. This fooled TheHero at first since it was so life-like. They occasionally go berserk (though no one is ever hurt), giving [[KenAkamatsu the author]] the opportunity to have the lead heroine slice off its head with her {{BFS}} [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman since it was a robot]].
* In Law of Ueki Plus the main characters [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome ride into the Big Bad 's lair on a]] ''Tyrannosaurus rex'', destroying a tower and defeating a bunch of guards all in one fell swoop.
* {{Gon}} has a miniature ''T. rex'' for a protagonist, fighting large modern mammals most of the time. No, [[SomewhereAPalaeontologistIsCrying palaeontologist did not hang himself]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swing_%28seat%29 so that you could use his corpse as a swing]].
* OnePiece has "Red Flag" Diez Drake, a pirate captain and former Rear Admiral of the Marines that has eaten a Devil Fruit that turns him into a tyrannosaurus. [[CrazyAwesome This is pretty]] [[RuleOfCool much par for]] [[WorldOfHam the course in]] OnePiece, though.
** The island of Little Garden, which is populated by Dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures.
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[[folder: Comics ]]
* In a classic example, DC did a good deal of war comics in the 60s. One was called "The War that Time Forgot". It was WorldWarII... but there was an island full of giant apes, military test robots, an elite military unit called "The Suicide Squad" (related to the later DC group), circus acrobats, and, of course, dinosaurs.
* ''CalvinAndHobbes'' gives us Tyrannosaurs in F-14s, as you can see on this page.
--> '''Calvin''': This is '''so''' cool!
--> '''Hobbes''': This is '''so''' stupid.
* Gert in ''{{Runaways}}'' has a pet ''Deinonychus'' named [[FluffyTheTerrible Old Lace]].
* ''ComicBook/GoldDigger'' has a race of technologically advanced dinosaurs who serve as both a major source of archaeological finds for the scientists in the cast to dig up and the cause of a whole lot of bad events in ages past. They also made two dinosaur-esque races via genetic engineering, the Amonians and the Dragons, who both have regular characters in the cast.
* ''{{Marvel 1602}}'' had little dinosaurs running around Europe, including at least one seeming to be [[strike:[[XMen Professor Xavier's]]]] Carlos Javier's pet. Not to mention that the standard big dinos can be found in North America.
* There is a ''[[TyrannosaurusRex T. rex]]'' trophy [[GiantRobot robot]] in the [[{{Batman}} Batcave]]. [[FridgeLogic How it got there]] or why is generally ignored, but the DCAU provides the hypothesis that Dick (Robin, at the time) [[SoCoolItsAwesome wanted to keep it]].
** The Episode ''Starcrossed'' in JLU, has Flash agreeing with this trope through and through. Alfred being [[DeadpanSnarker Alfred]] [[HilarityEnsues well...]]
--> '''The Flash''': [[SoCoolItsAwesome Hey!]] [[CaptainObvious That's a Giant Dinosaur!]] :D
--> '''Alfred''': [[SarcasmMode And here I thought]] [[DeadpanSnarker Batman was the detective.]]
* ''[=~2000 AD~=]'' had ''Flesh'', a story about future cowboys going back in time and killing dinosaurs for their meat, which was then exported back to their own time. This was used to provide STOMPY DINOSAUR ACTION crossovers into both ''JudgeDredd'' and ''ABCWarriors''. In the case of the latter, dinosaurs ended up on a terraformed dystopian Mars.
* Major Bummer gave us [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrannosaurus_Reich Tyrannosaurus Reich]]. Can't believe that got a mention in the other wiki before getting here.
* Bob, Dawn, and Rex, from ''{{Dilbert}}''.
* ''Dinosaur Bop / Wanda et les dinosaures'' (''Wanda and the dinosaurs'') is set in a comical (with realist drawings) post-apocalyptic world were humanity regressed at prehistoric age (but more like "American sixties in a prehistoric setting"). For no reason, dinosaurs are here anew, and are used as pets, food or... cars (but ''T. rex'' is still a predator and wreck poor Eddy's car).
* The title character of ''Sláine'' has gone up against dinosaurs animated from amber.
* [[FoxTrot Jason Fox]] has a major dinosaur obsession. He once sent an electronic message to the White House saying "increase dinosaur DNA research" over and over again.
* The Tar Pits in Sin City feature dinosaur statues. Frank Miller said he put them there as an excuse to draw dinosaurs.
* In All-Star Superman. the Subterranosaur are descendants of dinosaurs who escaped extinction by digging their way to the center of the Earth. Their leader is the Dino-Czar.
* The villain in NeilGaiman's ''MrHeroTheNewmaticMan'' is Henry Phage, an immortal velociraptor at the head of a multidimensional corporation whose flagship product is the corruption of souls.
* [[http://twitter.com/Dr_Dinosaur AH!]] [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2009/05/01/fcbd-09-page-5/ DECEPTION!]] MAMMAL '''''DECEPTION!'''''
** [[AtomicRobo MAMMAL ROBOT!]]
* The Malibu Comics franchise ''DinosaursForHire'' is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. An anthropomorphic tyrannosaur, stegosaur, and triceratops (and later a pteranodon) [[TheyFightCrime fight crime]]!
* One of the antagonist races in ''Shakara'' is called the Teknosaurs. And yes, they're a race of cyborg dinosaurs.
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[[folder: Films ]]
* Kong Island in ''KingKong'' generally has dinosaurs scattered around.
** Don't forget that KingKong also fought [[{{Godzilla}} a certain mutant dinosaur]] in another film.
** And a non-mutated Gorosaurus in ''King Kong Escapes''.
* The 1951 film ''Two Lost Worlds'' is a Cowboy/Australian Pirate/Dinosaur movie (). It fits this trope well because the only dinosaurs are some stock footage from a previous dinosaur movie that menace some people the pirates maroon on an island. They could have easily been left out, or replaced with more normal dangerous animals.
* The ''IceAge'' films are generally accurate in depicting only animals which lived during the Ice Age, or at least after the dinosaurs died out. Guess, then, what the third film featured. Go on.
* In ''{{D-War}}'' (a film very much driven by the {{Rule of Cool}}), the evil Buraki commands an evil army of dark warriors that ride big dinosaurs and fire barrages of fireballs.
* ''{{Meet the Robinsons}}'' stars mind-controlled ''[[TyrannosaurusRex T. rex]]'' brought back from the past with a flying time machine by a bowler-hat-less bowler hat wearing guy surely deserves mention here.
* The ''StarWars'' 20th anniversary re-release inserts cgi [[strike:dinosaurs]] beasts which vaguely resemble dinosaurs into various scenes in the movie, mostly in Mos Eisley.
* The HarryhausenMovie ''TheValleyOfGwangi'' is this trope incarnate. Little can prepare a viewer for the sheer unadulterated awesome of [[TheWestern Cowboys]] [[CoolVsAwesome roping]] an Allosaurus.
* Rex from ''ToyStory''.
* ''FutureWar'', because the blatant ''{{Terminator}}'' meets ''Bloodsport'' plot wasn't enough, so they decided to throw in a little ''JurassicPark'', too.
* ''NightAtTheMuseum'' features a T. rex skeleton [[AllAnimalsAreDogs that acts like a dog]].
* [[http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1918385_1918401_1918398,00.html This]] Time article on lessons from the 2009 Summer Movies shows that despite the success of the second ''Night at the Museum'' and ''IceAge 3'' (it says ''{{Up}}'' features dinosaurs - and it does have a giant bird), two other films with dinos, ''LandOfTheLost'' and ''YearOne'', bombed.
* Probably not a great example, but the '[[FutureImperfect Time Masheen]]' scene of ''{{Idiocracy}}'', where World War II was depicted by two T-rexes fighting, one wearing an American flag, one wearing a Swastika.
* [[HammerHorror Hammer Studios]] made a few [[OneMillionBC prehistoric epics]]. The ones ''with'' dinosaurs are so, SO much better than the ones without.
* The "Rite of Spring" segment from ''{{Disney/Fantasia}}''.
* ''TheodoreRex'' is quite possibly one of the few example that makes this trope worse then it should be.
* An upcoming, untitled {{Pixar}} film will tell what would it be like if the astroid miss Earth, with dinosaurs and humans living together, even being able to communicate with humans.
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[[folder: Gamebooks ]]
* The ''FightingFantasy'' gamebook ''Island of the Lizard King'' involved the reader trying to assassinate the king of a race of lizardmen. For no particular reason, one of said lizardmen is seen riding a ''Styracosaurus'' at one point.
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[[folder: Literature ]]
* [[TheDresdenFiles Harry Dresden]] ''lives'' this trope at TheClimax of ''Dead Beat''. To say more would be a {{spoiler}}. [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome An AWESOME spoiler.]]
** [[Awesome/TheDresdenFiles Oh, what the hell]]: [[spoiler: Necromancy practiced on human remains is forbidden on pain of death for wizards, but Harry needs a source of necromantic energy to avoid getting killed by the NegativeSpaceWedgie the bad guys are trying to claim for [[AGodAmI awesome godlike power]]. It's been previously established that animal remains leave thinner "psychic footprints" than human remains, but that the longer a thing's dead, the more powerful it is when it's finally raised. Harry puts two and two and two together and necromantically animates "Sue," the mostly-complete ''{{Tyrannosaurus rex}}'' skeleton at the Field Museum of Natural History. [[RaisingTheSteaks That's right]], ''[[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Zombie T. rex]]''!]]
*** Which he then proceeds to [[spoiler:ride across Chicago to fight an army of ghosts and zombies.]] [[CoolVersusAwesome It doesn't get any cooler than that]].
*** Actually it does get cooler when you remember [[spoiler:the only thing holding the ''T. rex'' together is Harry's buddy and his one-man polka suit. [[ThePowerOfRock Polka will never die!]]]]
** He also does it in CodexAlara: turns out that aside from picking up [[LostRomanLegion hapless romans]], [[Starcraft Zerg]] [[Expy expies]], and [[OurElvesAreBetter elves]], Alara also grabbed a few giant ground sloths and terror birds in it's day. They're bond creatures with the elves.
* Arguably, {{Jules Verne}}'s classic novel ''Journey to the Center of the Earth'' is an example of this trope. Most of the book is about really ambitious spelunking, the adventurers just happen to run into a few surviving prehistoric beasts in one section of caves. It makes that part of the book more exciting, but wasn't completely necessary to the plot. Of course none of the creature they meet are technically members of the superorder ''Dinosauria'', they were mostly icthysaurs, plesiosaurs, and crocodilians. That makes this trope OlderThanRadio.
* Eric Garcia's series of noirish mysteries (starting with ''AnonymousRex''), which feature dinosaurs living in modern-day America, disguised as humans.
* The recent science fiction story "Rejiggering the Thingamajig", published in Analog, stars an alien sentient T. Rex Buddihst. And it's awesome.
* In the epic children's book ''Dinosaur vs. Bedtime,'' the titular dinosaur engages in ferocious battle with all manner of opponents. When faced with the likes of a pile of leaves, a bowl of spaghetti or talking grownups, DINOSAUR WINS! ROAR! But Dinosaur still has to face his greatest challenge: Dinosaur vs. Bedtime! [[spoiler: Bedtime wins]].
* Steve Alten's ''Meg'' novels do this. The first scene of the first book, has a Tyrannosaurus get eaten by a Megalodon (giant presumed relative to the Great White Shark) whilst attempting to chase down Hadrosaurs in the shallow sea. Nevermind that Megalodon evolved [[SomewhereAPaleontologistIsCrying almost 50 million years after the Dinosaurs went extinct]].
* Aleksandar Žiljak's (Croatian SF writer) story "Opal eyes" ("Oči boje opala") features a Wild west setting in a world where dinosaurs roam the plains. Also, the main character is a lesbian vampire gunslinger.
* ''TheIcemarkChronicles'''s third book has the enemy Basilea use 'Tri-Horns' as cavalry. Three guesses as to what they are.
* ''Far-Seer'' is basically the story of Galileo if he was a T-Rex. It is indeed as awesome as it sounds.
* The world in which the fantasy novel [[TenGhost Ten-Ghost]] takes place has domesticated dinosaurs everywhere, and the less that domesticated variety prowling the wilderness, for seemingly no reason other than to have them.
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* ''{{Primeval}}'' was advertised as being about dinosaurs despite none appearing in the first series. Presumably they thought saying it was about giant centipedes, dodos and flying lizards wouldn't draw in as many viewers.
* The ''SuperSentai'' and ''PowerRangers'' franchises have had no fewer than two dinosaur-themed series (''[[KyoryuSentaiZyuranger Zyuranger]]'' and ''[[BakuryuuSentaiAbaranger Abaranger]]'', localized as ''[[MightyMorphinPowerRangers the original MMPR]]'' and ''[[PowerRangersDinoThunder Dino Thunder]]''); and three others with their own dinosaur mecha: ''[[{{Engine Sentai Go-Onger}} Go-Onger]]'' / ''[[Series/PowerRangersRPM RPM]]'', based on animal/vehicle hybrids, has dinosaur trains; ''[[MiraiSentaiTimeranger Timeranger]]''/''[[PowerRangersTimeForce Time Force]]'' has one of the TimePolice's mecha be saurian for [[RuleOfCool no adequately explained reason]]; and ''[[KaizokuSentaiGokaiger Gokaiger]]'' has a dino mecha in homage to three Rangers who died, who just so happened to share a dino motif (a Zyuranger, an Abaranger, and the Timeranger who owned the gratuitous dinosaur robot).
* From ''Pee-Wee's Playhouse'', Pterri, Pee-Wee's talking pet pterosaur, and the (unrelated) Dinosaur Family.
* [[BarneyAndFriends Barney]]. The less said the better.
* What if Barney was green, female, Australian, ''much'' less obnoxious and actually likeable by people over 6? You'd have Dorothy the Dinosaur, one of the extended cast members of ''TheWiggles''.
* TopGear recently had a car review that, for no apparent reason, incorporated dinosaurs into the usual shots of Clarkson driving the car, including one where he is briefly pursued by a tyrannosaurus. It's actually very well done for a series that doesn't really use special effects very much.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'' "Invasion of the Dinosaurs": London is under martial law in response to the dinosaurs that have been mysteriously appearing there, [[spoiler: brought by a conspiracy, using time travel technology]].
* {{iCarly}}. Yeah. The episode where Carly almost moves to Yakima, where Spencer says to the granddad: "These are all the vitamins she needs to take. I ''only'' give her the ones shaped like dinosaurs." "...Why?" "...Dinosaurs are cool."
** There's also the episode where iCarly gets turned into a TV show, and [[ExecutiveMeddling they put a guy in a dinosuar costume in the show]] because "kids love dinosaurs".
* DinoDan
* TerraNova
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[[folder: Music]]
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aovaRsVV28 Hevisaurus]], a Finnish Music/HeavyMetal band aimed towards children.
* WeirdAlYankovic's "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gh4zvQfDhi0 Jurassic Park]]", turning the {{melodrama}}tic ([[{{Narm}} to the point of hilarity]]) "[=MacArthur=] Park" into a [[FilkSong retelling of]] [[JurassicPark Spielberg's movie]].
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[[folder: Tabletop Games ]]
* ''[[DungeonsAndDragons Dungeons & Dragons]]'' has dinosaurs in the main books, [[RuleOfCool seemingly for no reason other than coolness]].
** The Arms and Equipment Guide list several of them as possible mounts, and gives several examples on how to use them, like a Dwarven pike squad on the back of a triceratops.
*** Duplicated in {{Eberron}}, where [[strike:Hobbits]] Halflings use some of the smaller dinosaurs as mounts.
** They can be found in 4th Edition as Behemoths and Drakes, and given Cadillacs and Dinosaurs style names--Macetail, Bloodspike, et cetera--apparently because while dinosaurs are cool, sciencyish names aren't fantasyish enough.
** In 3rd and 3.5, you could play as dinosaur inspired player races called saurials.
* ''{{Exalted}}'', being a setting whose content is decided entirely by RuleOfCool and NinjaPirateZombieRobot, has gigantic "Tyrant Lizards" that look remarkably like ''T. rex'''es. Presumably due to ''Tyrannosaurus'' being Latin for "Tyrant Lizard".
** It also has the [[DinosaursAreDragons Dragon Kings]], which are roughly human-sized sentient dinosaurs who wear armor, can learn to breathe fire, and have enormous crystal clubs with laser blades to hit you with if you piss them off.
* ''{{Warhammer}}'' Fantasy's Lizardmen are a dinosaur race, their basic troops being "Saurus" and them using "Stegadons" and "Carnosaurs" as mounts and war engines. There are also "Cold Ones," Velociraptor-like things used by the Lizardmen and Dark Elves for cavalry. The beasts eat everything, so the Dark Elves cover themselves in poison to fool the lizards.
** The Cold Ones are mentioned (literally or metaphorically) to be dragon-kin...the ones the Dark Elves use also are subterranean, can live in the cold climate of the Dark Elves' territory, and, IIRC, sweat poisonous goo, which might make them more of a freaky lizard-horse than a dinosaur.
* A lot of {{Death World}}s in ''{{Warhammer 40000}}'' are covered in dinosaur-esque creatures, and the Tyranids themselves are also somewhat dinosaur-y, at least in terms of teeth - the Termagaunts, especially, look like an odd cross between Armadillos, Zerg Hydralisks and ''Velociraptors''.
** It is worth noting that the Zerg Hydralisks (from ''{{Starcraft}}}'') are probably inspired by Termagaunts (not the other way around). Meanwhile, Termagaunts look like a cross between ''{{Alien}}'' Xenomorphs and bugs from ''{{Starship Troopers}}''.
** [[OurElvesAreBetter Eldar]] Exodites dwell on lush, primeval worlds inhabited by saurian "dragons," which they joust on with laser lances.
** Possibly explained in older literature. Death Worlds were likely worlds seeded by the mysterious Old Ones in the time before the Eldar started to record their history. Since the Lizardmen of Warhammer Fantasy were servants of the Old Ones, it's likely that worlds they settled would have dinosaur-like creatures 'imported' to those worlds.
* ''[[WorldOfDarkness Werewolf: The Apocalypse]]'' has the Mokole, which are [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot weredinosaurs]]. Technically, they're supposed to be werealligators, but since they serve as Gaia's memory, they can take the form of any reptile from Earth's history.
* [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=74235 Old Fogey]] from the Unhinged parody set of ''MagicTheGathering'', the only Dinosaur creature in the game.
** That's only if you don't count the velociraptors, allosauruses and other made up fantasy dinosaurs in the game.
* In {{Pathfinder}}, druids can take dinosaurs as animal companions, as can clerics with the Saurian domain.
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[[folder: Theme Parks]]
* ''Ellen's Energy Adventure'' at [[DisneyThemeParks EPCOT]], which is about power sources, contains an extended sequence involving dinosaurs. This in itself was based on the Primevil World diorama at the Disneyland Railroad.
** There's also the ride called [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Dinosaur.]]
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[[folder: Toys]]
* {{LEGO}}'s ''Adventurers'' line couldn't pass up the chance to include a sub-line that brought its characters to a LostWorld, where they had to stop the bad guys from capturing a prehistoric AnachronismStew. The dinosaur figures were [[StockDinosaurs the standard]] ''TyrannosaurusRex'', ''Triceratops'' and ''Stegosaurus''. Many sets came with a "''Pteranodon''" figure as well, though that particular type of pterosaur may have actually been ''[[ScienceMarchesOn Geosternbergia]]''.
** Released around the same time was a line of easily buildable and reconfigurable dinosaur sets, simply titled ''Dinosaurs''. Each model could be rebuilt into various other prehistoric animals with their spare parts, though these "extra models" were often [[SomewhereAPalaeontologistIsCrying too inaccurate for comfort]].
** The later action-oriented ''Dino2010''/''Dino Attack'' lines. Had mutated prehistoric critters that bore a very faint resemblance to their real-life counterparts, and although both lines were essentially the same, there were slight differences between the European and US releases: in the European ''Dino2010'', the protagonists merely wanted to contain the beasts; while their US counterparts came equipped with guns instead of capturing equipment.
** ''{{Bionicle}}'' very nearly averted this trope. Rumors say they originally intended to introduce cybernetic dinosaurs, but that set line got canceled. However the dinosaurs themselves eventually ended up in official canon, and WordOfGod says that a released model (Skirmix, a [[HorseOfADifferentColor rock steed]]) was actually a close relative to these cyber-dinos.
* As mentioned, quite a few ''{{Transformers}}'' have dinosaur altmodes. The Dinobots were some of the fans' favorites, and of course Grimlock became a classic nearly on par with Optimus Prime and Megatron.
** Megatron himself got a dinosaur alt-mode in ''BeastWars''.
** And who could ever forget Dinobot? Or his arguments with his [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Scott_McNeil rodent alter-ego]]? His greatest asset? Being a 'raptor with [[FrickinLaserBeams laser-firing]] [[EyeBeams eyes]].
** In the video game "TransformersWarForCybertron", Trypticon still has his Tyrannosaurus body design despite the game being set at the beginning of The Great War, millions of years before the Transformers knew about Earth and dinosaurs. Truly the awesomeness of dinosaurs transcends space and time.
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[[folder: Video Games ]]
* ''Saturn {{Bomberman}}'' traded the [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter adorable]] [[EverythingsBetterWithKangaroos kangaroos]] for [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter equally adorable]] dinosaurs as the PowerupMount of choice. They're also available as alternate choices to the roois/ruis/Louies in ''Bomberman Fantasy Race''.
* The game ''TheKingOfDragonPass'' is vaguely based on old Norse traditions and mythology. So, naturally, you can [[http://img107.imageshack.us/img107/9225/whoabv0.png train dinosaurs as battle mounts.]]
* ''FinalFantasyVI'' had a few dinosaurs as random encounters. It also has Dinosaur Island, a place which does not provide any plot or gameplay bonuses, but has a lot of tough fights which are good for [[LevelGrinding levelling up]].
** ''FinalFantasyVIII'' has [[CallARabbitASmeerp ''T. Rexaurs'']] to fight.
*** As does ''FinalFantasyXII''
*** ''FinalFantasyI'' did it first with the rare Tyrannosaurs and their palette swap, Allosaurus.
** ''FinalFantasyXI'' has lightning-spewing raptors.
* ''DragonQuest'' has the recurring Hackasaurus (or Battle Rex), [[AnAxeToGrind an axe-wielding]], [[DinosaursAreDragons fire-breathing]] tyrannosaurus. ''DragonQuestVI'', in particular, has Lizzie the Hackasaurus, whom you can get to join your team in a special encounter; in the DS remake, she's the ''only'' non-[[MascotMook Slime]] you can recruit.
* Despite taking place in the modern day, ''DeadOrAlive 4'' has an area populated entirely by dinosaurs.
* ''CommandAndConquer: [[ExpansionPack The Covert Ops]]'' had a secret level which involved fighting dinosaurs.
** Also don't forget that in ''Red Alert 2'''s expansion ''Yuri's Revenge'', the first Soviet mission deals with time travel and you're accidentally sent back to the dinosaur period to fight off hordes of ''T. rex''es. This of course includes the fate of the game's antagonist Yuri in the same campaign who after stealing the time machine from the Soviets tries to use it to "command and conquer" the world and all its history. Unfortunately for Yuri, the Soviets still had the command codes for the time machine and depleted all of its energy reserves to send Yuri back to the dinosaur era while he was gloating. Then Yuri lets off a BigNo as a ''T. rex'' smashes through the time machine to devour him.
* The first ''TombRaider'' game had dinosaurs and a ''T. rex'' as enemies for no particular reason other than RuleOfCool, though an FMV later in the game implied that they were created by the [[MacGuffin Scion]]. The dinosaurs returned without explanation in ''Tomb Raider 3''.
** ''Tomb Raider 2'' and its GaidenGame ''Golden Mask'' both feature secret, difficult-to-reach battles with more ''T. rex''es, the sole reason being that they were considered the coolest part of the first game.
* ''RadGravity'' had a dinosaur planet as one level.
* ''{{Turok}}'' would just be another FPS if it didn't pit you against dinosaurs.
* ''WorldOfWarcraft'' has Raptors as fairly common animals (and mount for trolls), and gigantic ''T. rex''es, called Devilsaurs, as a rarer sort. To be precise, they only appear in a few areas (Un'Goro Crater, where there are only about five of them at any given time; The Netherstorm, where a single Devilsaur rules over an eco-dome filled with raptors; Drak'Tharon Keep, with the optional boss King Dred; and Sholazar Basin, home of the rare-spawn King Krush). For being such enourmous beasts they move like ninjas, and many players have had their adventure cut short by a sneak attack.
** With the latest patch, Beast Mastery Hunters can tame one of these giants (although it inexplicably shrinks to a more manageable size in the progess). It's undoubtedly the coolest of the exotic class pets (although that isn't saying much when the competition consists out of prime choices like bugs and worms).
*** [[{{Mulan}} They become travel size for your convenience]].
** There are also Dragonspawn, bascially flightless dragons.
* ''GuildWars'' introduces a dinosaur-rich jungle in its ''Eye of the North'' expansion. Being a fantasy game, it includes feathered Raptor Assasins, Armor-plated ceratopsians with shoulder-horns, [[TyrannosaurusRex Tyrannosaurs]], therapods with multiple heads and tails, and other bizarre reptiles.
* The ''SuperMario'' series of games already had Bowser as some sort of dragon-dinosaur-turtle... thing, and then in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld'' along came Yoshi and his friends....
** Not to mention the cute bruiser herself, Birdo.
* ''{{Pokemon}}'' uses several dinosaur and related species-themed Mons over the years. Lapras (Plesiosaur), Tyranitar (vaguely T.Rex-ish), Meganium (Diplodocus), Cranidos/Rampardos ([[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pachycephalosauria Pachycephalosaurs]], not ''T. rex''), Shieldon/Bastiodon.
** Oddly, most prehistoric Pokemon are part-Rock types, at least the ones that have to be [[ShoutOut reanimated from fossils]]. Even [[LightningBruiser Aerodactyl]], a ''pterosaur made of rock''.
** Now joined by Archen and Archeops, a basal bird/flying deinonychosaur Pokemon.
* ''BarkleyShutUpAndJamGaiden'': [[spoiler:The OneWingedAngel form of the last boss is ''T-Rex Barkley.'' I laughed for a good three minutes after the reveal.]]
* ''Adventure Island'', from the second game onward, gave Master Higgins dinosaur buddies that granted him extra powers.
* The Triscene terror units from ''{{X-COM}}: Terror From The Deep'', which are [[{{Cyborg}} cyborg dinosaurs]] that come equipped with [[MakeMeWannaShout Sonic Cannons]].
* The upcoming game (currently available as a proof-of-concept [[HalfLife Source]] mod) ''[[http://www.dinodday.com/ Dino D-Day]]'' is all about this trope, showcasing an AlternateHistory version of WorldWarII where the Third Reich unleashes their new secret weapon: '''''[[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Nazi dinosaurs!]]'''''
** Another Source Mod, Jailbreak, has this as part of the premise: It's [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Dinosaurs]] [[{{ptitlenfhgfvh962l5}} vs]] [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Robots]].
* The ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter'' series features raptors as mooks. With the sequels and updates, you are getting a lot of dinosaurs (that happen to be changed slightly) that stand out. There may be odd hybrids and creatures that are outright dragons but the sheer number of dinos in the series is definitely worth looking through. That and the giant T-rex that Monster Hunter Tri introduces to you all.
* ''DwarfFortress'' sends goblins after you. Survive long enough, and they come mounted on velociraptors (known in-game as Beak Dogs).
* ''ChronoTrigger'''s dinos actually appear in 65 million BC ([[{{Prehistoria}} along with people]], oddly inverting that trope) as well as in a 600 AD bonus dungeon (where millions of years of underground living have made them tough as nails).
* [[{{Prehistoria}} Dinosaur Jungle]] from ''[[SonicStorybookSeries Sonic and the Secret Rings]]'' are filled with dinosaurs. At one point, Sonic must evade the jaws of a rampaging Carnotaur. The game is based around ArabianNights.
* It might be AllInTheManual, but by looking at the physique of [[MassEffect turians]], it becomes clear that they are pretty much [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Roman Space Velociraptors]]. Which is f* cking [[RuleOfCool awesome]].
* [[MOTHER3 Dragos]], which are a more or less friendly species of T-Rexes. The [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Mecha-Drago]] on [[UnwillingRoboticisation the]] [[CyberneticsEatYourSoul other]] [[ThatOneBoss hand...]]
* ''NeverwinterNights2: Storm of Zehir'' allows Level 3 Ranger classes to automatically receive the 'Animal Companion' feat. Which is all well and good until you get to Level 5 or so, and you discover an optional upgrade: 'Dinosaur companion', which switches your animal to a ''deinonychus''. [[RuleOfCool Even if it will stunt your character growth, you just have to have it]].
* ''SupremeCommander2'' features a ''[[NinjaPirateZombieRobot giant Godzilla-sized cybernetic dinosaur]] as an experimental unit.
* ''FurFighters'' had the characters discover a whole advanced society of Dinosaurs living under the surface of the planet. The plotline had something about the BigBad stealing the advanced technology and selling it for cash but it didn't really work out. Oh, and the heroes were on a popular children's TV show for some reason.
* ''StarFoxAdventures''
* The [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Krogan]] from ''MassEffect'' are vaguely dinosaur-like.
* ChampionsOnline, being inspired by nearly every generation of comic books ever, has Monster Island - the western section of Monster Island is covered with raptor-sized "Teleiosaurus hatchlings" of various kinds, and the island is also home to the ginormous (30-40' tall) Teleiosaurus, a dinosaur egg several stories tall, and Mega-Terak - a ROBOT dinosaur.
* Riptor in ''KillerInstinct''
* FightingGame + this trope = ''PrimalRage''
* The ''{{Everquest}}'' games feature velociraptors, normally found in deserts and jungles.
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* In ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'', Dr. [=McNinja=]'s {{Bandito}} boy {{Sidekick}} has a pet raptor named Yoshi.
** And now we've got the BadFuture [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/20p20 where dinosaurs have taken over Earth.]].
* ''[=~8-Bit Theater~=]'' provides a [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2003/05/20/episode-284-what-could-it-be/ ninja riding a dinosaur armed with Febreeze]].
* ''DieselSweeties'' [[http://dieselsweeties.com/archive.php?s=1516 posits]] that there are two types of people in the world: those who would travel back in time to get drunk with pirates, and those that would go back to see what color the dinosaurs really were.
* ''{{xkcd}}'' has a [[http://xkcd.com/135/ serious]] [[http://xkcd.com/292/ problem]] [[http://xkcd.com/87/ with]] [[http://xkcd.com/155/ raptors]], though the problem may have been [[http://xkcd.com/758/ minimized]] by now. The fascination with dinosaurs extends to [[http://xkcd.com/650/ other dinosaur species]].
** Remember that search history? Look [[http://www.causes.com/causes/7945 here]].
* In ''IrregularWebcomic'', the President of the United States is an ''Allosaurus'', for no readily explained reason. (Apart from the fact that he's insanely popular.)
** He won the [[http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/polls/poll0021.html election]]. [[http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/polls/poll0409.html Twice]]
* ''MinionsAtWork'': [[http://www.minionsatwork.com/2006/06/minions-12-feeding-time.html Never offer to feed the dinosaurs.]]
* They pop up from time to time in ''{{The KAMics}}''
* ''DES comics'', vaguely related to ''ElGoonishShive'' has a [[http://danshive.deviantart.com/art/Some-Comic-of-Mine-009-81483916 Velocitoaster]] [[ParodyCommercial advertisement]].
* ''Webcomic/OrderOfTheStick'', Everything Is Better With Dinosaurs can be seen [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0726.html here]]
* Dinosaurs frequently show up in ''AxeCop'', which makes sense, considering the author is six years old.
* In ''{{Endstone}}'', [[http://endstone.net/2011/02/14/5-09/ they appear through a ]] CoolGate in a place where time and space don't work right.
* As Molly plays with her dollhouse, ''TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob'' dares to ask if [[http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20110702.html Ibsen's plays]] would be better with dinosaurs.
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* While [[ToylessToylineCharacter sadly never released as toys]], the ''{{Bionicle}}'' web serials feature [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot cyborg dinosaurs]] that shoot FrickinLaserbeams [[EyeBeams from their eyes.]]
* ''DragonCave'' includes spotted dinosaur eggs- dinosaurs apparently being, in the absence of the former Yoshis, the second best choice, since no lawyer can complain about real-life creatures. The end results are very chubby, cheerful-looking cartoonish [[GentleGiant Gentle Giants]] that ''wear shoes''. Of course, this site presumably being set in medieval times with quite lax witchcraft-prosecuting policies, this is the least of their problems.
* One of Yotam Perel's cartoons involved a man buying his wife a bouquet.
->'''Woman:''' Aww, you got me flowers. That's so sweet.
->'''Man:''' THAT'S NOT SWEET. DINOSAURS ARE SWEET.
* Inverted in ''ProtectorsOfThePlotContinuum''; bad smut is ''worse'' with dinosaurs.
* One of the most famous stories posted on the Current Events social board on GameFAQs is [[http://www.writing.com/main/view_item/item_id/1508080 the Raptor Story]]. It starts off as an allegedly true, real-time first-person account by a poster who claims to hear his sister and her friends playing spin the bottle. However, when [[BrotherSisterIncest the author and his sister are about to kiss]], the sister and her friends are inexplicably revealed to be velociraptors. In the biggest UnexpectedGenreChange ever, the story then follows the author as he attempts to flee the dinosaur-filled city and defeat the person responsible for the dinosaurs...BarackObama.
** The story has [[JesusWasWayCool Raptor Jesus]]...the ''best'' kind of Jesus. Who BarackObama then jump-kicks. Yeah, its [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs that kind of story]].
** A [[http://www.writing.com/main/view_item/item_id/1580313 sequel]] was later created which retcons the sister's death in the first story and [[POVSequel takes place from her perspective]].
* [[http://comixed.com/2010/02/23/washington/ This.]]
* On a related note, [[http://epicwinftw.com/2010/09/16/awesome-photos-only-lempereur-gets-a-dinosaur/ this]].
* The [[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/philosoraptor Philosoraptor]] (of [[MemeticMutation meme]] fame).
** ...Which started as a tee-shirt design on [[http://www.lonelydinosaur.com/collections/frontpage/products/philosoraptor lonelydinosaur.com]].
* Apparently [[ThatGuyWithTheGlasses The Other Guy]] is a dinosuar sometimes. [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment Okay...]]
* IGN did a whole [[http://games.ign.com/articles/116/1163759p1.html Dinosaur Week]] once.
* And then there's always [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDNzzhCpqxA The VelociPastor]]
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* ''GarfieldAndFriends'' used dinosaurs mostly to parody this trope, specially in "UsAcres" (the quote above comes from an episode where Orson started telling {{Rumpelstiltskin}} to the children, adding ninjas and such for them to keep interested, but Wade and Roy started changing the story to work in their [[AuthorAvatar respective characters']] favors).
* There's also ''CadillacsAndDinosaurs''.
* ''{{Dinosaucers}}''. Perhaps most noteworthy in that both sides seemed to have a counterpart for each character, rather than each faction specializing in one particular type of dinosaur (Allosaurus/Tyrannosaurus, Triceratops/Styracosaurus, Apatosaurus/Brachiosaurus, Archaeopteryx/Pterodactyl, etc.)
* Beast Boy in ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' favours a ''T. Rex'' for sheer AwesomeButImpractical, because while it may look devastating, it doesn't fit under bridges, and it weighs too much for many floors to handle.
* They managed to work a dinosaur even into ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'' (Steggy in "[[AWorldwidePunomenon Prehysterical]] Pet").
* In ''{{Futurama}}: Bender's Game'', Leela and Hermes are watching ''[[TheTwilightZone The Scary Door]]'', this episode about a typical alien invasion being defeated by 'God's humblest of creatures'...The Tyrannosaurus Rex!
---> '''Leela''': I can't believe Tivo suggested that piece of crap!
** In one episode Fry sets out to enjoy the wonders of the year 3000, one being a T'Rex petting zoo. Pretty obvious what happens when he tries to feed it.
* The show up from time-to-time on ''TheFairlyOddparents''.
* In an early episode of ''TheVentureBrothers'', Brock Samson, while in a LotusEaterMachine, and dreams that he is fighting flamethrower-wielding cowboys. Only, they're riding T. Rexes. Yet Brock, in his sheer awesomeness (and mainly because it's ''his'' dream) easily dispatches them.
* An episode of ''{{Jimmy Two-Shoes}}'' has [[MadScientist Heloise]] building a large T-Rex skeleton as an instrument of misery [[MyLittlePanzer aimed at kids]].
* Both ''BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' and ''SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' feature the titular heroes fighting an animatronic Tyrannosaurus at one point, with ''Superman'' very early on in the first season.
* Because sometimes just a guy in a mask isn't enough for Mystery Inc., the gang has faced dinosaurs (besides dragons, sea serpents, and the Loch Ness Monster) in ''What's New Scooby Doo'' and more recently ''Scooby Doo! Legend of the Phantosaur.''
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[[caption-width-right:330:See, this is what ''JurassicPark'' should've done.]]
->'''Roy:''' But the rooster was determined to get it back with the aid of his trained dinosaurs!\\
'''Orson:''' Trained dinosaurs? Where did the trained dinosaurs come from?\\
'''Roy:''' Same place all those [[InstantAwesomeJustAddNinja ninjas came from]].\\
-- ''[[GarfieldAndFriends U.S. Acres]]'', "The Name Game"
Well, it's true. Dinosaurs are [[RuleOfCool cool]]. No exceptions. (Well, [[BarneyAndFriends almost none.]])
Since dinosaurs [[RealLife actually existed]] in the past, some writers like to throw them into their stories. In many cases, this makes no sense at all, but when dinosaurs show up, we're generally in the realm of [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot awesome for the sake of awesome]]. Generally, the dinosaurs seen will be [[StockDinosaurs restricted to a few well-known types]].
The essence of this trope is the presence of dinosaurs which are not ultimately critical to the plot. If the story would be essentially the same without dinosaurs, it's an example. On the other hand, if [[DinosaurMedia dinosaurs are integral to the premise]], it's not an example.
Note that just because a series [[JustifiedTrope provides a reason]] for there to be dinosaurs does not mean it isn't an example of this trope. Sure, a dinosaur altmode might very well be a good idea for a Transformer, but the real reason for a dinosaur form is to [[MerchandiseDriven appeal to young boys]].
Despite the name of this trope, it can cover examples that are not technically dinosaurs. Other extinct reptiles, like pterosaurs, plesiosaurs, and dimetrodons would fall under this trope. And while it may be a stretch, since we don't have individual tropes for Everything is Better with Woolly Mammoths/Woolly Rhinos/Saber-tooth Cats/etc., these examples would get grouped here.
See also DinosaursAreDragons and SomewhereAPalaeontologistIsCrying. Compare DinosaurMedia.
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[[folder: Anime and Manga ]]
* The random and gratuitous dinosaurs are practically everywhere in the ''DragonBall'' and ''DragonBallZ'' setting. "Fly home safely, and look out for rampaging dinosaurs!"
* The hentai fantasy anime ''{{Dragon Knight 4}}: Wheel of Time'' has soldiers riding dinosaur-like creatures.
** [[{{Squick}} Like]] [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean that?]]
* ''ThePrinceOfTennis'': Tezuka's [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome amazing tennis move]] is what ''really'' killed the dinosaurs.
* The ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh}}!'' card game has a dinosaur type, the number of dinos expanded by Tyranno Kenzan in ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh GX}}''. Dinosaur Ryuuzaki (Rex Raptor) uses a dinosaur-themed deck in the anime.
* So does ''{{Digimon}}''.
* Chibi-Usa of ''SailorMoon'' befriended a Nessie-like dinosaur in one episode.
* An episode of ''SaberRiderAndTheStarSheriffs'' took place on a planet populated by dinosaurs. The episode was titled [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Oh Boy! Dinosaurs!"]], appropriately enough.
* ''TheFiveStarStories'' has dinosaurs on a few of the planets, which are inexplicably identical to various species that once roamed the Earth. The level of dinosaurs a planet has is actually a pretty good way to measure its age. The young planet Juno has quite a few, although they're now threatened by humans and other introduced mammal species; the older Delta Belune also has dinosaurs, but they're small and birdlike; Kallamity, supposedly the oldest inhabitable planet, doesn't seem to have any dinos at all.
* In ''[[JoJosBizarreAdventure Steel Ball Run]]'', Diego Brando becomes a Wereraptor after he gains a stand ability.
* ''DinosaurKing'' isn't a strict example as it's focused completely on dinosaurs, not just throwing them in for RuleOfCool. But consider this: In Japan it was preceded by an insect-battling game called ''Mushi King''. Then the designers sat down to plan a spinoff and asked themselves "What's better than insects?" before concluding that EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs.
* ''GetterRobo''. Just... Getter Robo. If there's room for a dinosaur at any given time, then they '''will''' be there. And it will be [[HolyShitQuotient awesome]].
** Dinosaur mecha piloted by dinosaurs. YEAAAAAH
* The SchoolFestival arc in ''MahouSenseiNegima'' has the engineering club construct a robotic ''T. rex'' because it would make the festival parades that much more awesome. This fooled TheHero at first since it was so life-like. They occasionally go berserk (though no one is ever hurt), giving [[KenAkamatsu the author]] the opportunity to have the lead heroine slice off its head with her {{BFS}} [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman since it was a robot]].
* In Law of Ueki Plus the main characters [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome ride into the Big Bad 's lair on a]] ''Tyrannosaurus rex'', destroying a tower and defeating a bunch of guards all in one fell swoop.
* {{Gon}} has a miniature ''T. rex'' for a protagonist, fighting large modern mammals most of the time. No, [[SomewhereAPalaeontologistIsCrying palaeontologist did not hang himself]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swing_%28seat%29 so that you could use his corpse as a swing]].
* OnePiece has "Red Flag" Diez Drake, a pirate captain and former Rear Admiral of the Marines that has eaten a Devil Fruit that turns him into a tyrannosaurus. [[CrazyAwesome This is pretty]] [[RuleOfCool much par for]] [[WorldOfHam the course in]] OnePiece, though.
** The island of Little Garden, which is populated by Dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures.
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* In a classic example, DC did a good deal of war comics in the 60s. One was called "The War that Time Forgot". It was WorldWarII... but there was an island full of giant apes, military test robots, an elite military unit called "The Suicide Squad" (related to the later DC group), circus acrobats, and, of course, dinosaurs.
* ''CalvinAndHobbes'' gives us Tyrannosaurs in F-14s, as you can see on this page.
--> '''Calvin''': This is '''so''' cool!
--> '''Hobbes''': This is '''so''' stupid.
* Gert in ''{{Runaways}}'' has a pet ''Deinonychus'' named [[FluffyTheTerrible Old Lace]].
* ''ComicBook/GoldDigger'' has a race of technologically advanced dinosaurs who serve as both a major source of archaeological finds for the scientists in the cast to dig up and the cause of a whole lot of bad events in ages past. They also made two dinosaur-esque races via genetic engineering, the Amonians and the Dragons, who both have regular characters in the cast.
* ''{{Marvel 1602}}'' had little dinosaurs running around Europe, including at least one seeming to be [[strike:[[XMen Professor Xavier's]]]] Carlos Javier's pet. Not to mention that the standard big dinos can be found in North America.
* There is a ''[[TyrannosaurusRex T. rex]]'' trophy [[GiantRobot robot]] in the [[{{Batman}} Batcave]]. [[FridgeLogic How it got there]] or why is generally ignored, but the DCAU provides the hypothesis that Dick (Robin, at the time) [[SoCoolItsAwesome wanted to keep it]].
** The Episode ''Starcrossed'' in JLU, has Flash agreeing with this trope through and through. Alfred being [[DeadpanSnarker Alfred]] [[HilarityEnsues well...]]
--> '''The Flash''': [[SoCoolItsAwesome Hey!]] [[CaptainObvious That's a Giant Dinosaur!]] :D
--> '''Alfred''': [[SarcasmMode And here I thought]] [[DeadpanSnarker Batman was the detective.]]
* ''[=~2000 AD~=]'' had ''Flesh'', a story about future cowboys going back in time and killing dinosaurs for their meat, which was then exported back to their own time. This was used to provide STOMPY DINOSAUR ACTION crossovers into both ''JudgeDredd'' and ''ABCWarriors''. In the case of the latter, dinosaurs ended up on a terraformed dystopian Mars.
* Major Bummer gave us [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrannosaurus_Reich Tyrannosaurus Reich]]. Can't believe that got a mention in the other wiki before getting here.
* Bob, Dawn, and Rex, from ''{{Dilbert}}''.
* ''Dinosaur Bop / Wanda et les dinosaures'' (''Wanda and the dinosaurs'') is set in a comical (with realist drawings) post-apocalyptic world were humanity regressed at prehistoric age (but more like "American sixties in a prehistoric setting"). For no reason, dinosaurs are here anew, and are used as pets, food or... cars (but ''T. rex'' is still a predator and wreck poor Eddy's car).
* The title character of ''Sláine'' has gone up against dinosaurs animated from amber.
* [[FoxTrot Jason Fox]] has a major dinosaur obsession. He once sent an electronic message to the White House saying "increase dinosaur DNA research" over and over again.
* The Tar Pits in Sin City feature dinosaur statues. Frank Miller said he put them there as an excuse to draw dinosaurs.
* In All-Star Superman. the Subterranosaur are descendants of dinosaurs who escaped extinction by digging their way to the center of the Earth. Their leader is the Dino-Czar.
* The villain in NeilGaiman's ''MrHeroTheNewmaticMan'' is Henry Phage, an immortal velociraptor at the head of a multidimensional corporation whose flagship product is the corruption of souls.
* [[http://twitter.com/Dr_Dinosaur AH!]] [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2009/05/01/fcbd-09-page-5/ DECEPTION!]] MAMMAL '''''DECEPTION!'''''
** [[AtomicRobo MAMMAL ROBOT!]]
* The Malibu Comics franchise ''DinosaursForHire'' is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. An anthropomorphic tyrannosaur, stegosaur, and triceratops (and later a pteranodon) [[TheyFightCrime fight crime]]!
* One of the antagonist races in ''Shakara'' is called the Teknosaurs. And yes, they're a race of cyborg dinosaurs.
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* Kong Island in ''KingKong'' generally has dinosaurs scattered around.
** Don't forget that KingKong also fought [[{{Godzilla}} a certain mutant dinosaur]] in another film.
** And a non-mutated Gorosaurus in ''King Kong Escapes''.
* The 1951 film ''Two Lost Worlds'' is a Cowboy/Australian Pirate/Dinosaur movie (). It fits this trope well because the only dinosaurs are some stock footage from a previous dinosaur movie that menace some people the pirates maroon on an island. They could have easily been left out, or replaced with more normal dangerous animals.
* The ''IceAge'' films are generally accurate in depicting only animals which lived during the Ice Age, or at least after the dinosaurs died out. Guess, then, what the third film featured. Go on.
* In ''{{D-War}}'' (a film very much driven by the {{Rule of Cool}}), the evil Buraki commands an evil army of dark warriors that ride big dinosaurs and fire barrages of fireballs.
* ''{{Meet the Robinsons}}'' stars mind-controlled ''[[TyrannosaurusRex T. rex]]'' brought back from the past with a flying time machine by a bowler-hat-less bowler hat wearing guy surely deserves mention here.
* The ''StarWars'' 20th anniversary re-release inserts cgi [[strike:dinosaurs]] beasts which vaguely resemble dinosaurs into various scenes in the movie, mostly in Mos Eisley.
* The HarryhausenMovie ''TheValleyOfGwangi'' is this trope incarnate. Little can prepare a viewer for the sheer unadulterated awesome of [[TheWestern Cowboys]] [[CoolVsAwesome roping]] an Allosaurus.
* Rex from ''ToyStory''.
* ''FutureWar'', because the blatant ''{{Terminator}}'' meets ''Bloodsport'' plot wasn't enough, so they decided to throw in a little ''JurassicPark'', too.
* ''NightAtTheMuseum'' features a T. rex skeleton [[AllAnimalsAreDogs that acts like a dog]].
* [[http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1918385_1918401_1918398,00.html This]] Time article on lessons from the 2009 Summer Movies shows that despite the success of the second ''Night at the Museum'' and ''IceAge 3'' (it says ''{{Up}}'' features dinosaurs - and it does have a giant bird), two other films with dinos, ''LandOfTheLost'' and ''YearOne'', bombed.
* Probably not a great example, but the '[[FutureImperfect Time Masheen]]' scene of ''{{Idiocracy}}'', where World War II was depicted by two T-rexes fighting, one wearing an American flag, one wearing a Swastika.
* [[HammerHorror Hammer Studios]] made a few [[OneMillionBC prehistoric epics]]. The ones ''with'' dinosaurs are so, SO much better than the ones without.
* The "Rite of Spring" segment from ''{{Disney/Fantasia}}''.
* ''TheodoreRex'' is quite possibly one of the few example that makes this trope worse then it should be.
* An upcoming, untitled {{Pixar}} film will tell what would it be like if the astroid miss Earth, with dinosaurs and humans living together, even being able to communicate with humans.
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* The ''FightingFantasy'' gamebook ''Island of the Lizard King'' involved the reader trying to assassinate the king of a race of lizardmen. For no particular reason, one of said lizardmen is seen riding a ''Styracosaurus'' at one point.
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[[folder: Literature ]]
* [[TheDresdenFiles Harry Dresden]] ''lives'' this trope at TheClimax of ''Dead Beat''. To say more would be a {{spoiler}}. [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome An AWESOME spoiler.]]
** [[Awesome/TheDresdenFiles Oh, what the hell]]: [[spoiler: Necromancy practiced on human remains is forbidden on pain of death for wizards, but Harry needs a source of necromantic energy to avoid getting killed by the NegativeSpaceWedgie the bad guys are trying to claim for [[AGodAmI awesome godlike power]]. It's been previously established that animal remains leave thinner "psychic footprints" than human remains, but that the longer a thing's dead, the more powerful it is when it's finally raised. Harry puts two and two and two together and necromantically animates "Sue," the mostly-complete ''{{Tyrannosaurus rex}}'' skeleton at the Field Museum of Natural History. [[RaisingTheSteaks That's right]], ''[[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Zombie T. rex]]''!]]
*** Which he then proceeds to [[spoiler:ride across Chicago to fight an army of ghosts and zombies.]] [[CoolVersusAwesome It doesn't get any cooler than that]].
*** Actually it does get cooler when you remember [[spoiler:the only thing holding the ''T. rex'' together is Harry's buddy and his one-man polka suit. [[ThePowerOfRock Polka will never die!]]]]
** He also does it in CodexAlara: turns out that aside from picking up [[LostRomanLegion hapless romans]], [[Starcraft Zerg]] [[Expy expies]], and [[OurElvesAreBetter elves]], Alara also grabbed a few giant ground sloths and terror birds in it's day. They're bond creatures with the elves.
* Arguably, {{Jules Verne}}'s classic novel ''Journey to the Center of the Earth'' is an example of this trope. Most of the book is about really ambitious spelunking, the adventurers just happen to run into a few surviving prehistoric beasts in one section of caves. It makes that part of the book more exciting, but wasn't completely necessary to the plot. Of course none of the creature they meet are technically members of the superorder ''Dinosauria'', they were mostly icthysaurs, plesiosaurs, and crocodilians. That makes this trope OlderThanRadio.
* Eric Garcia's series of noirish mysteries (starting with ''AnonymousRex''), which feature dinosaurs living in modern-day America, disguised as humans.
* The recent science fiction story "Rejiggering the Thingamajig", published in Analog, stars an alien sentient T. Rex Buddihst. And it's awesome.
* In the epic children's book ''Dinosaur vs. Bedtime,'' the titular dinosaur engages in ferocious battle with all manner of opponents. When faced with the likes of a pile of leaves, a bowl of spaghetti or talking grownups, DINOSAUR WINS! ROAR! But Dinosaur still has to face his greatest challenge: Dinosaur vs. Bedtime! [[spoiler: Bedtime wins]].
* Steve Alten's ''Meg'' novels do this. The first scene of the first book, has a Tyrannosaurus get eaten by a Megalodon (giant presumed relative to the Great White Shark) whilst attempting to chase down Hadrosaurs in the shallow sea. Nevermind that Megalodon evolved [[SomewhereAPaleontologistIsCrying almost 50 million years after the Dinosaurs went extinct]].
* Aleksandar Žiljak's (Croatian SF writer) story "Opal eyes" ("Oči boje opala") features a Wild west setting in a world where dinosaurs roam the plains. Also, the main character is a lesbian vampire gunslinger.
* ''TheIcemarkChronicles'''s third book has the enemy Basilea use 'Tri-Horns' as cavalry. Three guesses as to what they are.
* ''Far-Seer'' is basically the story of Galileo if he was a T-Rex. It is indeed as awesome as it sounds.
* The world in which the fantasy novel [[TenGhost Ten-Ghost]] takes place has domesticated dinosaurs everywhere, and the less that domesticated variety prowling the wilderness, for seemingly no reason other than to have them.
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* ''{{Primeval}}'' was advertised as being about dinosaurs despite none appearing in the first series. Presumably they thought saying it was about giant centipedes, dodos and flying lizards wouldn't draw in as many viewers.
* The ''SuperSentai'' and ''PowerRangers'' franchises have had no fewer than two dinosaur-themed series (''[[KyoryuSentaiZyuranger Zyuranger]]'' and ''[[BakuryuuSentaiAbaranger Abaranger]]'', localized as ''[[MightyMorphinPowerRangers the original MMPR]]'' and ''[[PowerRangersDinoThunder Dino Thunder]]''); and three others with their own dinosaur mecha: ''[[{{Engine Sentai Go-Onger}} Go-Onger]]'' / ''[[Series/PowerRangersRPM RPM]]'', based on animal/vehicle hybrids, has dinosaur trains; ''[[MiraiSentaiTimeranger Timeranger]]''/''[[PowerRangersTimeForce Time Force]]'' has one of the TimePolice's mecha be saurian for [[RuleOfCool no adequately explained reason]]; and ''[[KaizokuSentaiGokaiger Gokaiger]]'' has a dino mecha in homage to three Rangers who died, who just so happened to share a dino motif (a Zyuranger, an Abaranger, and the Timeranger who owned the gratuitous dinosaur robot).
* From ''Pee-Wee's Playhouse'', Pterri, Pee-Wee's talking pet pterosaur, and the (unrelated) Dinosaur Family.
* [[BarneyAndFriends Barney]]. The less said the better.
* What if Barney was green, female, Australian, ''much'' less obnoxious and actually likeable by people over 6? You'd have Dorothy the Dinosaur, one of the extended cast members of ''TheWiggles''.
* TopGear recently had a car review that, for no apparent reason, incorporated dinosaurs into the usual shots of Clarkson driving the car, including one where he is briefly pursued by a tyrannosaurus. It's actually very well done for a series that doesn't really use special effects very much.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'' "Invasion of the Dinosaurs": London is under martial law in response to the dinosaurs that have been mysteriously appearing there, [[spoiler: brought by a conspiracy, using time travel technology]].
* {{iCarly}}. Yeah. The episode where Carly almost moves to Yakima, where Spencer says to the granddad: "These are all the vitamins she needs to take. I ''only'' give her the ones shaped like dinosaurs." "...Why?" "...Dinosaurs are cool."
** There's also the episode where iCarly gets turned into a TV show, and [[ExecutiveMeddling they put a guy in a dinosuar costume in the show]] because "kids love dinosaurs".
* DinoDan
* TerraNova
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* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aovaRsVV28 Hevisaurus]], a Finnish Music/HeavyMetal band aimed towards children.
* WeirdAlYankovic's "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gh4zvQfDhi0 Jurassic Park]]", turning the {{melodrama}}tic ([[{{Narm}} to the point of hilarity]]) "[=MacArthur=] Park" into a [[FilkSong retelling of]] [[JurassicPark Spielberg's movie]].
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* ''[[DungeonsAndDragons Dungeons & Dragons]]'' has dinosaurs in the main books, [[RuleOfCool seemingly for no reason other than coolness]].
** The Arms and Equipment Guide list several of them as possible mounts, and gives several examples on how to use them, like a Dwarven pike squad on the back of a triceratops.
*** Duplicated in {{Eberron}}, where [[strike:Hobbits]] Halflings use some of the smaller dinosaurs as mounts.
** They can be found in 4th Edition as Behemoths and Drakes, and given Cadillacs and Dinosaurs style names--Macetail, Bloodspike, et cetera--apparently because while dinosaurs are cool, sciencyish names aren't fantasyish enough.
** In 3rd and 3.5, you could play as dinosaur inspired player races called saurials.
* ''{{Exalted}}'', being a setting whose content is decided entirely by RuleOfCool and NinjaPirateZombieRobot, has gigantic "Tyrant Lizards" that look remarkably like ''T. rex'''es. Presumably due to ''Tyrannosaurus'' being Latin for "Tyrant Lizard".
** It also has the [[DinosaursAreDragons Dragon Kings]], which are roughly human-sized sentient dinosaurs who wear armor, can learn to breathe fire, and have enormous crystal clubs with laser blades to hit you with if you piss them off.
* ''{{Warhammer}}'' Fantasy's Lizardmen are a dinosaur race, their basic troops being "Saurus" and them using "Stegadons" and "Carnosaurs" as mounts and war engines. There are also "Cold Ones," Velociraptor-like things used by the Lizardmen and Dark Elves for cavalry. The beasts eat everything, so the Dark Elves cover themselves in poison to fool the lizards.
** The Cold Ones are mentioned (literally or metaphorically) to be dragon-kin...the ones the Dark Elves use also are subterranean, can live in the cold climate of the Dark Elves' territory, and, IIRC, sweat poisonous goo, which might make them more of a freaky lizard-horse than a dinosaur.
* A lot of {{Death World}}s in ''{{Warhammer 40000}}'' are covered in dinosaur-esque creatures, and the Tyranids themselves are also somewhat dinosaur-y, at least in terms of teeth - the Termagaunts, especially, look like an odd cross between Armadillos, Zerg Hydralisks and ''Velociraptors''.
** It is worth noting that the Zerg Hydralisks (from ''{{Starcraft}}}'') are probably inspired by Termagaunts (not the other way around). Meanwhile, Termagaunts look like a cross between ''{{Alien}}'' Xenomorphs and bugs from ''{{Starship Troopers}}''.
** [[OurElvesAreBetter Eldar]] Exodites dwell on lush, primeval worlds inhabited by saurian "dragons," which they joust on with laser lances.
** Possibly explained in older literature. Death Worlds were likely worlds seeded by the mysterious Old Ones in the time before the Eldar started to record their history. Since the Lizardmen of Warhammer Fantasy were servants of the Old Ones, it's likely that worlds they settled would have dinosaur-like creatures 'imported' to those worlds.
* ''[[WorldOfDarkness Werewolf: The Apocalypse]]'' has the Mokole, which are [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot weredinosaurs]]. Technically, they're supposed to be werealligators, but since they serve as Gaia's memory, they can take the form of any reptile from Earth's history.
* [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=74235 Old Fogey]] from the Unhinged parody set of ''MagicTheGathering'', the only Dinosaur creature in the game.
** That's only if you don't count the velociraptors, allosauruses and other made up fantasy dinosaurs in the game.
* In {{Pathfinder}}, druids can take dinosaurs as animal companions, as can clerics with the Saurian domain.
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* ''Ellen's Energy Adventure'' at [[DisneyThemeParks EPCOT]], which is about power sources, contains an extended sequence involving dinosaurs. This in itself was based on the Primevil World diorama at the Disneyland Railroad.
** There's also the ride called [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Dinosaur.]]
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* {{LEGO}}'s ''Adventurers'' line couldn't pass up the chance to include a sub-line that brought its characters to a LostWorld, where they had to stop the bad guys from capturing a prehistoric AnachronismStew. The dinosaur figures were [[StockDinosaurs the standard]] ''TyrannosaurusRex'', ''Triceratops'' and ''Stegosaurus''. Many sets came with a "''Pteranodon''" figure as well, though that particular type of pterosaur may have actually been ''[[ScienceMarchesOn Geosternbergia]]''.
** Released around the same time was a line of easily buildable and reconfigurable dinosaur sets, simply titled ''Dinosaurs''. Each model could be rebuilt into various other prehistoric animals with their spare parts, though these "extra models" were often [[SomewhereAPalaeontologistIsCrying too inaccurate for comfort]].
** The later action-oriented ''Dino2010''/''Dino Attack'' lines. Had mutated prehistoric critters that bore a very faint resemblance to their real-life counterparts, and although both lines were essentially the same, there were slight differences between the European and US releases: in the European ''Dino2010'', the protagonists merely wanted to contain the beasts; while their US counterparts came equipped with guns instead of capturing equipment.
** ''{{Bionicle}}'' very nearly averted this trope. Rumors say they originally intended to introduce cybernetic dinosaurs, but that set line got canceled. However the dinosaurs themselves eventually ended up in official canon, and WordOfGod says that a released model (Skirmix, a [[HorseOfADifferentColor rock steed]]) was actually a close relative to these cyber-dinos.
* As mentioned, quite a few ''{{Transformers}}'' have dinosaur altmodes. The Dinobots were some of the fans' favorites, and of course Grimlock became a classic nearly on par with Optimus Prime and Megatron.
** Megatron himself got a dinosaur alt-mode in ''BeastWars''.
** And who could ever forget Dinobot? Or his arguments with his [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Scott_McNeil rodent alter-ego]]? His greatest asset? Being a 'raptor with [[FrickinLaserBeams laser-firing]] [[EyeBeams eyes]].
** In the video game "TransformersWarForCybertron", Trypticon still has his Tyrannosaurus body design despite the game being set at the beginning of The Great War, millions of years before the Transformers knew about Earth and dinosaurs. Truly the awesomeness of dinosaurs transcends space and time.
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* ''Saturn {{Bomberman}}'' traded the [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter adorable]] [[EverythingsBetterWithKangaroos kangaroos]] for [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter equally adorable]] dinosaurs as the PowerupMount of choice. They're also available as alternate choices to the roois/ruis/Louies in ''Bomberman Fantasy Race''.
* The game ''TheKingOfDragonPass'' is vaguely based on old Norse traditions and mythology. So, naturally, you can [[http://img107.imageshack.us/img107/9225/whoabv0.png train dinosaurs as battle mounts.]]
* ''FinalFantasyVI'' had a few dinosaurs as random encounters. It also has Dinosaur Island, a place which does not provide any plot or gameplay bonuses, but has a lot of tough fights which are good for [[LevelGrinding levelling up]].
** ''FinalFantasyVIII'' has [[CallARabbitASmeerp ''T. Rexaurs'']] to fight.
*** As does ''FinalFantasyXII''
*** ''FinalFantasyI'' did it first with the rare Tyrannosaurs and their palette swap, Allosaurus.
** ''FinalFantasyXI'' has lightning-spewing raptors.
* ''DragonQuest'' has the recurring Hackasaurus (or Battle Rex), [[AnAxeToGrind an axe-wielding]], [[DinosaursAreDragons fire-breathing]] tyrannosaurus. ''DragonQuestVI'', in particular, has Lizzie the Hackasaurus, whom you can get to join your team in a special encounter; in the DS remake, she's the ''only'' non-[[MascotMook Slime]] you can recruit.
* Despite taking place in the modern day, ''DeadOrAlive 4'' has an area populated entirely by dinosaurs.
* ''CommandAndConquer: [[ExpansionPack The Covert Ops]]'' had a secret level which involved fighting dinosaurs.
** Also don't forget that in ''Red Alert 2'''s expansion ''Yuri's Revenge'', the first Soviet mission deals with time travel and you're accidentally sent back to the dinosaur period to fight off hordes of ''T. rex''es. This of course includes the fate of the game's antagonist Yuri in the same campaign who after stealing the time machine from the Soviets tries to use it to "command and conquer" the world and all its history. Unfortunately for Yuri, the Soviets still had the command codes for the time machine and depleted all of its energy reserves to send Yuri back to the dinosaur era while he was gloating. Then Yuri lets off a BigNo as a ''T. rex'' smashes through the time machine to devour him.
* The first ''TombRaider'' game had dinosaurs and a ''T. rex'' as enemies for no particular reason other than RuleOfCool, though an FMV later in the game implied that they were created by the [[MacGuffin Scion]]. The dinosaurs returned without explanation in ''Tomb Raider 3''.
** ''Tomb Raider 2'' and its GaidenGame ''Golden Mask'' both feature secret, difficult-to-reach battles with more ''T. rex''es, the sole reason being that they were considered the coolest part of the first game.
* ''RadGravity'' had a dinosaur planet as one level.
* ''{{Turok}}'' would just be another FPS if it didn't pit you against dinosaurs.
* ''WorldOfWarcraft'' has Raptors as fairly common animals (and mount for trolls), and gigantic ''T. rex''es, called Devilsaurs, as a rarer sort. To be precise, they only appear in a few areas (Un'Goro Crater, where there are only about five of them at any given time; The Netherstorm, where a single Devilsaur rules over an eco-dome filled with raptors; Drak'Tharon Keep, with the optional boss King Dred; and Sholazar Basin, home of the rare-spawn King Krush). For being such enourmous beasts they move like ninjas, and many players have had their adventure cut short by a sneak attack.
** With the latest patch, Beast Mastery Hunters can tame one of these giants (although it inexplicably shrinks to a more manageable size in the progess). It's undoubtedly the coolest of the exotic class pets (although that isn't saying much when the competition consists out of prime choices like bugs and worms).
*** [[{{Mulan}} They become travel size for your convenience]].
** There are also Dragonspawn, bascially flightless dragons.
* ''GuildWars'' introduces a dinosaur-rich jungle in its ''Eye of the North'' expansion. Being a fantasy game, it includes feathered Raptor Assasins, Armor-plated ceratopsians with shoulder-horns, [[TyrannosaurusRex Tyrannosaurs]], therapods with multiple heads and tails, and other bizarre reptiles.
* The ''SuperMario'' series of games already had Bowser as some sort of dragon-dinosaur-turtle... thing, and then in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld'' along came Yoshi and his friends....
** Not to mention the cute bruiser herself, Birdo.
* ''{{Pokemon}}'' uses several dinosaur and related species-themed Mons over the years. Lapras (Plesiosaur), Tyranitar (vaguely T.Rex-ish), Meganium (Diplodocus), Cranidos/Rampardos ([[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pachycephalosauria Pachycephalosaurs]], not ''T. rex''), Shieldon/Bastiodon.
** Oddly, most prehistoric Pokemon are part-Rock types, at least the ones that have to be [[ShoutOut reanimated from fossils]]. Even [[LightningBruiser Aerodactyl]], a ''pterosaur made of rock''.
** Now joined by Archen and Archeops, a basal bird/flying deinonychosaur Pokemon.
* ''BarkleyShutUpAndJamGaiden'': [[spoiler:The OneWingedAngel form of the last boss is ''T-Rex Barkley.'' I laughed for a good three minutes after the reveal.]]
* ''Adventure Island'', from the second game onward, gave Master Higgins dinosaur buddies that granted him extra powers.
* The Triscene terror units from ''{{X-COM}}: Terror From The Deep'', which are [[{{Cyborg}} cyborg dinosaurs]] that come equipped with [[MakeMeWannaShout Sonic Cannons]].
* The upcoming game (currently available as a proof-of-concept [[HalfLife Source]] mod) ''[[http://www.dinodday.com/ Dino D-Day]]'' is all about this trope, showcasing an AlternateHistory version of WorldWarII where the Third Reich unleashes their new secret weapon: '''''[[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Nazi dinosaurs!]]'''''
** Another Source Mod, Jailbreak, has this as part of the premise: It's [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Dinosaurs]] [[{{ptitlenfhgfvh962l5}} vs]] [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Robots]].
* The ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter'' series features raptors as mooks. With the sequels and updates, you are getting a lot of dinosaurs (that happen to be changed slightly) that stand out. There may be odd hybrids and creatures that are outright dragons but the sheer number of dinos in the series is definitely worth looking through. That and the giant T-rex that Monster Hunter Tri introduces to you all.
* ''DwarfFortress'' sends goblins after you. Survive long enough, and they come mounted on velociraptors (known in-game as Beak Dogs).
* ''ChronoTrigger'''s dinos actually appear in 65 million BC ([[{{Prehistoria}} along with people]], oddly inverting that trope) as well as in a 600 AD bonus dungeon (where millions of years of underground living have made them tough as nails).
* [[{{Prehistoria}} Dinosaur Jungle]] from ''[[SonicStorybookSeries Sonic and the Secret Rings]]'' are filled with dinosaurs. At one point, Sonic must evade the jaws of a rampaging Carnotaur. The game is based around ArabianNights.
* It might be AllInTheManual, but by looking at the physique of [[MassEffect turians]], it becomes clear that they are pretty much [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Roman Space Velociraptors]]. Which is f* cking [[RuleOfCool awesome]].
* [[MOTHER3 Dragos]], which are a more or less friendly species of T-Rexes. The [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Mecha-Drago]] on [[UnwillingRoboticisation the]] [[CyberneticsEatYourSoul other]] [[ThatOneBoss hand...]]
* ''NeverwinterNights2: Storm of Zehir'' allows Level 3 Ranger classes to automatically receive the 'Animal Companion' feat. Which is all well and good until you get to Level 5 or so, and you discover an optional upgrade: 'Dinosaur companion', which switches your animal to a ''deinonychus''. [[RuleOfCool Even if it will stunt your character growth, you just have to have it]].
* ''SupremeCommander2'' features a ''[[NinjaPirateZombieRobot giant Godzilla-sized cybernetic dinosaur]] as an experimental unit.
* ''FurFighters'' had the characters discover a whole advanced society of Dinosaurs living under the surface of the planet. The plotline had something about the BigBad stealing the advanced technology and selling it for cash but it didn't really work out. Oh, and the heroes were on a popular children's TV show for some reason.
* ''StarFoxAdventures''
* The [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Krogan]] from ''MassEffect'' are vaguely dinosaur-like.
* ChampionsOnline, being inspired by nearly every generation of comic books ever, has Monster Island - the western section of Monster Island is covered with raptor-sized "Teleiosaurus hatchlings" of various kinds, and the island is also home to the ginormous (30-40' tall) Teleiosaurus, a dinosaur egg several stories tall, and Mega-Terak - a ROBOT dinosaur.
* Riptor in ''KillerInstinct''
* FightingGame + this trope = ''PrimalRage''
* The ''{{Everquest}}'' games feature velociraptors, normally found in deserts and jungles.
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* In ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'', Dr. [=McNinja=]'s {{Bandito}} boy {{Sidekick}} has a pet raptor named Yoshi.
** And now we've got the BadFuture [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/20p20 where dinosaurs have taken over Earth.]].
* ''[=~8-Bit Theater~=]'' provides a [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2003/05/20/episode-284-what-could-it-be/ ninja riding a dinosaur armed with Febreeze]].
* ''DieselSweeties'' [[http://dieselsweeties.com/archive.php?s=1516 posits]] that there are two types of people in the world: those who would travel back in time to get drunk with pirates, and those that would go back to see what color the dinosaurs really were.
* ''{{xkcd}}'' has a [[http://xkcd.com/135/ serious]] [[http://xkcd.com/292/ problem]] [[http://xkcd.com/87/ with]] [[http://xkcd.com/155/ raptors]], though the problem may have been [[http://xkcd.com/758/ minimized]] by now. The fascination with dinosaurs extends to [[http://xkcd.com/650/ other dinosaur species]].
** Remember that search history? Look [[http://www.causes.com/causes/7945 here]].
* In ''IrregularWebcomic'', the President of the United States is an ''Allosaurus'', for no readily explained reason. (Apart from the fact that he's insanely popular.)
** He won the [[http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/polls/poll0021.html election]]. [[http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/polls/poll0409.html Twice]]
* ''MinionsAtWork'': [[http://www.minionsatwork.com/2006/06/minions-12-feeding-time.html Never offer to feed the dinosaurs.]]
* They pop up from time to time in ''{{The KAMics}}''
* ''DES comics'', vaguely related to ''ElGoonishShive'' has a [[http://danshive.deviantart.com/art/Some-Comic-of-Mine-009-81483916 Velocitoaster]] [[ParodyCommercial advertisement]].
* ''Webcomic/OrderOfTheStick'', Everything Is Better With Dinosaurs can be seen [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0726.html here]]
* Dinosaurs frequently show up in ''AxeCop'', which makes sense, considering the author is six years old.
* In ''{{Endstone}}'', [[http://endstone.net/2011/02/14/5-09/ they appear through a ]] CoolGate in a place where time and space don't work right.
* As Molly plays with her dollhouse, ''TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob'' dares to ask if [[http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20110702.html Ibsen's plays]] would be better with dinosaurs.
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* While [[ToylessToylineCharacter sadly never released as toys]], the ''{{Bionicle}}'' web serials feature [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot cyborg dinosaurs]] that shoot FrickinLaserbeams [[EyeBeams from their eyes.]]
* ''DragonCave'' includes spotted dinosaur eggs- dinosaurs apparently being, in the absence of the former Yoshis, the second best choice, since no lawyer can complain about real-life creatures. The end results are very chubby, cheerful-looking cartoonish [[GentleGiant Gentle Giants]] that ''wear shoes''. Of course, this site presumably being set in medieval times with quite lax witchcraft-prosecuting policies, this is the least of their problems.
* One of Yotam Perel's cartoons involved a man buying his wife a bouquet.
->'''Woman:''' Aww, you got me flowers. That's so sweet.
->'''Man:''' THAT'S NOT SWEET. DINOSAURS ARE SWEET.
* Inverted in ''ProtectorsOfThePlotContinuum''; bad smut is ''worse'' with dinosaurs.
* One of the most famous stories posted on the Current Events social board on GameFAQs is [[http://www.writing.com/main/view_item/item_id/1508080 the Raptor Story]]. It starts off as an allegedly true, real-time first-person account by a poster who claims to hear his sister and her friends playing spin the bottle. However, when [[BrotherSisterIncest the author and his sister are about to kiss]], the sister and her friends are inexplicably revealed to be velociraptors. In the biggest UnexpectedGenreChange ever, the story then follows the author as he attempts to flee the dinosaur-filled city and defeat the person responsible for the dinosaurs...BarackObama.
** The story has [[JesusWasWayCool Raptor Jesus]]...the ''best'' kind of Jesus. Who BarackObama then jump-kicks. Yeah, its [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs that kind of story]].
** A [[http://www.writing.com/main/view_item/item_id/1580313 sequel]] was later created which retcons the sister's death in the first story and [[POVSequel takes place from her perspective]].
* [[http://comixed.com/2010/02/23/washington/ This.]]
* On a related note, [[http://epicwinftw.com/2010/09/16/awesome-photos-only-lempereur-gets-a-dinosaur/ this]].
* The [[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/philosoraptor Philosoraptor]] (of [[MemeticMutation meme]] fame).
** ...Which started as a tee-shirt design on [[http://www.lonelydinosaur.com/collections/frontpage/products/philosoraptor lonelydinosaur.com]].
* Apparently [[ThatGuyWithTheGlasses The Other Guy]] is a dinosuar sometimes. [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment Okay...]]
* IGN did a whole [[http://games.ign.com/articles/116/1163759p1.html Dinosaur Week]] once.
* And then there's always [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDNzzhCpqxA The VelociPastor]]
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* ''GarfieldAndFriends'' used dinosaurs mostly to parody this trope, specially in "UsAcres" (the quote above comes from an episode where Orson started telling {{Rumpelstiltskin}} to the children, adding ninjas and such for them to keep interested, but Wade and Roy started changing the story to work in their [[AuthorAvatar respective characters']] favors).
* There's also ''CadillacsAndDinosaurs''.
* ''{{Dinosaucers}}''. Perhaps most noteworthy in that both sides seemed to have a counterpart for each character, rather than each faction specializing in one particular type of dinosaur (Allosaurus/Tyrannosaurus, Triceratops/Styracosaurus, Apatosaurus/Brachiosaurus, Archaeopteryx/Pterodactyl, etc.)
* Beast Boy in ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' favours a ''T. Rex'' for sheer AwesomeButImpractical, because while it may look devastating, it doesn't fit under bridges, and it weighs too much for many floors to handle.
* They managed to work a dinosaur even into ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'' (Steggy in "[[AWorldwidePunomenon Prehysterical]] Pet").
* In ''{{Futurama}}: Bender's Game'', Leela and Hermes are watching ''[[TheTwilightZone The Scary Door]]'', this episode about a typical alien invasion being defeated by 'God's humblest of creatures'...The Tyrannosaurus Rex!
---> '''Leela''': I can't believe Tivo suggested that piece of crap!
** In one episode Fry sets out to enjoy the wonders of the year 3000, one being a T'Rex petting zoo. Pretty obvious what happens when he tries to feed it.
* The show up from time-to-time on ''TheFairlyOddparents''.
* In an early episode of ''TheVentureBrothers'', Brock Samson, while in a LotusEaterMachine, and dreams that he is fighting flamethrower-wielding cowboys. Only, they're riding T. Rexes. Yet Brock, in his sheer awesomeness (and mainly because it's ''his'' dream) easily dispatches them.
* An episode of ''{{Jimmy Two-Shoes}}'' has [[MadScientist Heloise]] building a large T-Rex skeleton as an instrument of misery [[MyLittlePanzer aimed at kids]].
* Both ''BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' and ''SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' feature the titular heroes fighting an animatronic Tyrannosaurus at one point, with ''Superman'' very early on in the first season.
* Because sometimes just a guy in a mask isn't enough for Mystery Inc., the gang has faced dinosaurs (besides dragons, sea serpents, and the Loch Ness Monster) in ''What's New Scooby Doo'' and more recently ''Scooby Doo! Legend of the Phantosaur.''
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->'''Roy:''' But the rooster was determined to get it back with the aid of his trained dinosaurs!\\
'''Orson:''' Trained dinosaurs? Where did the trained dinosaurs come from?\\
'''Roy:''' Same place all those [[InstantAwesomeJustAddNinja ninjas came from]].\\
-- ''[[GarfieldAndFriends U.S. Acres]]'', "The Name Game"
Well, it's true. Dinosaurs are [[RuleOfCool cool]]. No exceptions. (Well, [[BarneyAndFriends almost none.]])
Since dinosaurs [[RealLife actually existed]] in the past, some writers like to throw them into their stories. In many cases, this makes no sense at all, but when dinosaurs show up, we're generally in the realm of [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot awesome for the sake of awesome]]. Generally, the dinosaurs seen will be [[StockDinosaurs restricted to a few well-known types]].
The essence of this trope is the presence of dinosaurs which are not ultimately critical to the plot. If the story would be essentially the same without dinosaurs, it's an example. On the other hand, if [[DinosaurMedia dinosaurs are integral to the premise]], it's not an example.
Note that just because a series [[JustifiedTrope provides a reason]] for there to be dinosaurs does not mean it isn't an example of this trope. Sure, a dinosaur altmode might very well be a good idea for a Transformer, but the real reason for a dinosaur form is to [[MerchandiseDriven appeal to young boys]].
Despite the name of this trope, it can cover examples that are not technically dinosaurs. Other extinct reptiles, like pterosaurs, plesiosaurs, and dimetrodons would fall under this trope. And while it may be a stretch, since we don't have individual tropes for Everything is Better with Woolly Mammoths/Woolly Rhinos/Saber-tooth Cats/etc., these examples would get grouped here.
See also DinosaursAreDragons and SomewhereAPalaeontologistIsCrying. Compare DinosaurMedia.
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* The random and gratuitous dinosaurs are practically everywhere in the ''DragonBall'' and ''DragonBallZ'' setting. "Fly home safely, and look out for rampaging dinosaurs!"
* The hentai fantasy anime ''{{Dragon Knight 4}}: Wheel of Time'' has soldiers riding dinosaur-like creatures.
** [[{{Squick}} Like]] [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean that?]]
* ''ThePrinceOfTennis'': Tezuka's [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome amazing tennis move]] is what ''really'' killed the dinosaurs.
* The ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh}}!'' card game has a dinosaur type, the number of dinos expanded by Tyranno Kenzan in ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh GX}}''. Dinosaur Ryuuzaki (Rex Raptor) uses a dinosaur-themed deck in the anime.
* So does ''{{Digimon}}''.
* Chibi-Usa of ''SailorMoon'' befriended a Nessie-like dinosaur in one episode.
* An episode of ''SaberRiderAndTheStarSheriffs'' took place on a planet populated by dinosaurs. The episode was titled [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Oh Boy! Dinosaurs!"]], appropriately enough.
* ''TheFiveStarStories'' has dinosaurs on a few of the planets, which are inexplicably identical to various species that once roamed the Earth. The level of dinosaurs a planet has is actually a pretty good way to measure its age. The young planet Juno has quite a few, although they're now threatened by humans and other introduced mammal species; the older Delta Belune also has dinosaurs, but they're small and birdlike; Kallamity, supposedly the oldest inhabitable planet, doesn't seem to have any dinos at all.
* In ''[[JoJosBizarreAdventure Steel Ball Run]]'', Diego Brando becomes a Wereraptor after he gains a stand ability.
* ''DinosaurKing'' isn't a strict example as it's focused completely on dinosaurs, not just throwing them in for RuleOfCool. But consider this: In Japan it was preceded by an insect-battling game called ''Mushi King''. Then the designers sat down to plan a spinoff and asked themselves "What's better than insects?" before concluding that EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs.
* ''GetterRobo''. Just... Getter Robo. If there's room for a dinosaur at any given time, then they '''will''' be there. And it will be [[HolyShitQuotient awesome]].
** Dinosaur mecha piloted by dinosaurs. YEAAAAAH
* The SchoolFestival arc in ''MahouSenseiNegima'' has the engineering club construct a robotic ''T. rex'' because it would make the festival parades that much more awesome. This fooled TheHero at first since it was so life-like. They occasionally go berserk (though no one is ever hurt), giving [[KenAkamatsu the author]] the opportunity to have the lead heroine slice off its head with her {{BFS}} [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman since it was a robot]].
* In Law of Ueki Plus the main characters [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome ride into the Big Bad 's lair on a]] ''Tyrannosaurus rex'', destroying a tower and defeating a bunch of guards all in one fell swoop.
* {{Gon}} has a miniature ''T. rex'' for a protagonist, fighting large modern mammals most of the time. No, [[SomewhereAPalaeontologistIsCrying palaeontologist did not hang himself]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swing_%28seat%29 so that
* OnePiece has "Red Flag" Diez Drake, a pirate captain and former Rear Admiral of the Marines that has eaten a Devil Fruit that turns him into a tyrannosaurus. [[CrazyAwesome This is pretty]] [[RuleOfCool much par for]] [[WorldOfHam the course in]] OnePiece, though.
** The island of Little Garden, which is populated by Dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures.
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* In a classic example, DC did a good deal of war comics in the 60s. One was called "The War that Time Forgot". It was WorldWarII... but there was an island full of giant apes, military test robots, an elite military unit called "The Suicide Squad" (related to the later DC group), circus acrobats, and, of course, dinosaurs.
* ''CalvinAndHobbes'' gives us Tyrannosaurs in F-14s, as
--> '''Calvin''': This is '''so''' cool!
--> '''Hobbes''': This is '''so''' stupid.
* Gert in ''{{Runaways}}'' has a pet ''Deinonychus'' named [[FluffyTheTerrible Old Lace]].
* ''ComicBook/GoldDigger'' has a race of technologically advanced dinosaurs who serve as both a major source of archaeological finds for the scientists in the cast to dig up and the cause of a whole lot of bad events in ages past. They also made two dinosaur-esque races via genetic engineering, the Amonians and the Dragons, who both have regular characters in the cast.
* ''{{Marvel 1602}}'' had little dinosaurs running around Europe, including at least one seeming to be [[strike:[[XMen Professor Xavier's]]]] Carlos Javier's pet. Not to mention that the standard big dinos can be found in North America.
* There is a ''[[TyrannosaurusRex T. rex]]'' trophy [[GiantRobot robot]] in the [[{{Batman}} Batcave]]. [[FridgeLogic How it got there]] or why is generally ignored, but the DCAU provides the hypothesis that Dick (Robin, at the time) [[SoCoolItsAwesome wanted to keep it]].
** The Episode ''Starcrossed'' in JLU, has Flash agreeing with this trope through and through. Alfred being [[DeadpanSnarker Alfred]] [[HilarityEnsues well...]]
--> '''The Flash''': [[SoCoolItsAwesome Hey!]] [[CaptainObvious That's a Giant Dinosaur!]] :D
--> '''Alfred''': [[SarcasmMode And here I thought]] [[DeadpanSnarker Batman was the detective.]]
* ''[=~2000 AD~=]'' had ''Flesh'', a story about future cowboys going back in time and killing dinosaurs for their meat, which was then exported back to their own time. This was used to provide STOMPY DINOSAUR ACTION crossovers into both ''JudgeDredd'' and ''ABCWarriors''. In the case of the latter, dinosaurs ended up on a terraformed dystopian Mars.
* Major Bummer gave us [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrannosaurus_Reich Tyrannosaurus Reich]]. Can't believe that got a mention in the other wiki before getting here.
* Bob, Dawn, and Rex, from ''{{Dilbert}}''.
* ''Dinosaur Bop / Wanda et les dinosaures'' (''Wanda and the dinosaurs'') is set in a comical (with realist drawings) post-apocalyptic world were humanity regressed at prehistoric age (but more like "American sixties in a prehistoric setting"). For no reason, dinosaurs are here anew, and are used as pets, food or... cars (but ''T. rex'' is still a predator and wreck poor Eddy's car).
* The title character of ''Sláine'' has gone up against dinosaurs animated from amber.
* [[FoxTrot Jason Fox]] has a major dinosaur obsession. He once sent an electronic message to the White House saying "increase dinosaur DNA research" over and over again.
* The Tar Pits in Sin City feature dinosaur statues. Frank Miller said he put them there as an excuse to draw dinosaurs.
* In All-Star Superman. the Subterranosaur are descendants of dinosaurs who escaped extinction by digging their way to the center of the Earth. Their leader is the Dino-Czar.
* The villain in NeilGaiman's ''MrHeroTheNewmaticMan'' is Henry Phage, an immortal velociraptor at the head of a multidimensional corporation whose flagship product is the corruption of souls.
* [[http://twitter.com/Dr_Dinosaur AH!]] [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2009/05/01/fcbd-09-page-5/ DECEPTION!]] MAMMAL '''''DECEPTION!'''''
** [[AtomicRobo MAMMAL ROBOT!]]
* The Malibu Comics franchise ''DinosaursForHire'' is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. An anthropomorphic tyrannosaur, stegosaur, and triceratops (and later a pteranodon) [[TheyFightCrime fight crime]]!
* One of the antagonist races in ''Shakara'' is called the Teknosaurs. And yes, they're a race of cyborg dinosaurs.
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* Kong Island in ''KingKong'' generally has dinosaurs scattered around.
** Don't forget that KingKong also fought [[{{Godzilla}} a certain mutant dinosaur]] in another film.
** And a non-mutated Gorosaurus in ''King Kong Escapes''.
* The 1951 film ''Two Lost Worlds'' is a Cowboy/Australian Pirate/Dinosaur movie (). It fits this trope well because the only dinosaurs are some stock footage from a previous dinosaur movie that menace some people the pirates maroon on an island. They could have easily been left out, or replaced with more normal dangerous animals.
* The ''IceAge'' films are generally accurate in depicting only animals which lived during the Ice Age, or at least after the dinosaurs died out. Guess, then, what the third film featured. Go on.
* In ''{{D-War}}'' (a film very much driven by the {{Rule of Cool}}), the evil Buraki commands an evil army of dark warriors that ride big dinosaurs and fire barrages of fireballs.
* ''{{Meet the Robinsons}}'' stars mind-controlled ''[[TyrannosaurusRex T. rex]]'' brought back from the past with a flying time machine by a bowler-hat-less bowler hat wearing guy surely deserves mention here.
* The ''StarWars'' 20th anniversary re-release inserts cgi [[strike:dinosaurs]] beasts which vaguely resemble dinosaurs into various scenes in the movie, mostly in Mos Eisley.
* The HarryhausenMovie ''TheValleyOfGwangi'' is this trope incarnate. Little can prepare a viewer for the sheer unadulterated awesome of [[TheWestern Cowboys]] [[CoolVsAwesome roping]] an Allosaurus.
* Rex from ''ToyStory''.
* ''FutureWar'', because the blatant ''{{Terminator}}'' meets ''Bloodsport'' plot wasn't enough, so they decided to throw in a little ''JurassicPark'', too.
* ''NightAtTheMuseum'' features a T. rex skeleton [[AllAnimalsAreDogs that acts like a dog]].
* [[http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1918385_1918401_1918398,00.html This]] Time article on lessons from the 2009 Summer Movies shows that despite the success of the second ''Night at the Museum'' and ''IceAge 3'' (it says ''{{Up}}'' features dinosaurs - and it does have a giant bird), two other films with dinos, ''LandOfTheLost'' and ''YearOne'', bombed.
* Probably not a great example, but the '[[FutureImperfect Time Masheen]]' scene of ''{{Idiocracy}}'', where World War II was depicted by two T-rexes fighting, one wearing an American flag, one wearing a Swastika.
* [[HammerHorror Hammer Studios]] made a few [[OneMillionBC prehistoric epics]]. The ones ''with'' dinosaurs are so, SO much better than the ones without.
* The "Rite of Spring" segment from ''{{Disney/Fantasia}}''.
* ''TheodoreRex'' is quite possibly one of the few example that makes this trope worse then it should be.
* An upcoming, untitled {{Pixar}} film will tell what would it be like if the astroid miss Earth, with dinosaurs and humans living together, even being able to communicate with humans.
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* The ''FightingFantasy'' gamebook ''Island of the Lizard King'' involved the reader trying to assassinate the king of a race of lizardmen. For no particular reason, one of said lizardmen is seen riding a ''Styracosaurus'' at one point.
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* [[TheDresdenFiles Harry Dresden]] ''lives'' this trope at TheClimax of ''Dead Beat''. To say more would be a {{spoiler}}. [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome An AWESOME spoiler.]]
** [[Awesome/TheDresdenFiles Oh, what the hell]]: [[spoiler: Necromancy practiced on human remains is forbidden on pain of death for wizards, but Harry needs a source of necromantic energy to avoid getting killed by the NegativeSpaceWedgie the bad guys are trying to claim for [[AGodAmI awesome godlike power]]. It's been previously established that animal remains leave thinner "psychic footprints" than human remains, but that the longer a thing's dead, the more powerful it is when it's finally raised. Harry puts two and two and two together and necromantically animates "Sue," the mostly-complete ''{{Tyrannosaurus rex}}'' skeleton at the Field Museum of Natural History. [[RaisingTheSteaks That's right]], ''[[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Zombie T. rex]]''!]]
*** Which he then proceeds to [[spoiler:ride across Chicago to fight an army of ghosts and zombies.]] [[CoolVersusAwesome It doesn't get any cooler than that]].
*** Actually it does get cooler when
** He also does it in CodexAlara: turns out that aside from picking up [[LostRomanLegion hapless romans]], [[Starcraft Zerg]] [[Expy expies]], and [[OurElvesAreBetter elves]], Alara also grabbed a few giant ground sloths and terror birds in it's day. They're bond creatures with the elves.
* Arguably, {{Jules Verne}}'s classic novel ''Journey to the Center of the Earth'' is an example of this trope. Most of the book is about really ambitious spelunking, the adventurers just happen to run into a few surviving prehistoric beasts in one section of caves. It makes that part of the book more exciting, but wasn't completely necessary to the plot. Of course none of the creature they meet are technically members of the superorder ''Dinosauria'', they were mostly icthysaurs, plesiosaurs, and crocodilians. That makes this trope OlderThanRadio.
* Eric Garcia's series of noirish mysteries (starting with ''AnonymousRex''), which feature dinosaurs living in modern-day America, disguised as humans.
* The recent science fiction story "Rejiggering the Thingamajig", published in Analog, stars an alien sentient T. Rex Buddihst. And it's awesome.
* In the epic children's book ''Dinosaur vs. Bedtime,'' the titular dinosaur engages in ferocious battle with all manner of opponents. When faced with the likes of a pile of leaves, a bowl of spaghetti or talking grownups, DINOSAUR WINS! ROAR! But Dinosaur still has to face his greatest challenge: Dinosaur vs. Bedtime! [[spoiler: Bedtime wins]].
* Steve Alten's ''Meg'' novels do this. The first scene of the first book, has a Tyrannosaurus get eaten by a Megalodon (giant presumed relative to the Great White Shark) whilst attempting to chase down Hadrosaurs in the shallow sea. Nevermind that Megalodon evolved [[SomewhereAPaleontologistIsCrying almost 50 million years after the Dinosaurs went extinct]].
* Aleksandar Žiljak's (Croatian SF writer) story "Opal eyes" ("Oči boje opala") features a Wild west setting in a world where dinosaurs roam the plains. Also, the main character is a lesbian vampire gunslinger.
* ''TheIcemarkChronicles'''s third book has the enemy Basilea use 'Tri-Horns' as cavalry. Three guesses as to what they are.
* ''Far-Seer'' is basically the story of Galileo if he was a T-Rex. It is indeed as awesome as it sounds.
* The world in which the fantasy novel [[TenGhost Ten-Ghost]] takes place has domesticated dinosaurs everywhere, and the less that domesticated variety prowling the wilderness, for seemingly no reason other than to have them.
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* ''{{Primeval}}'' was advertised as being about dinosaurs despite none appearing in the first series. Presumably they thought saying it was about giant centipedes, dodos and flying lizards wouldn't draw in as many viewers.
* The ''SuperSentai'' and ''PowerRangers'' franchises have had no fewer than two dinosaur-themed series (''[[KyoryuSentaiZyuranger Zyuranger]]'' and ''[[BakuryuuSentaiAbaranger Abaranger]]'', localized as ''[[MightyMorphinPowerRangers the original MMPR]]'' and ''[[PowerRangersDinoThunder Dino Thunder]]''); and three others with their own dinosaur mecha: ''[[{{Engine Sentai Go-Onger}} Go-Onger]]'' / ''[[Series/PowerRangersRPM RPM]]'', based on animal/vehicle hybrids, has dinosaur trains; ''[[MiraiSentaiTimeranger Timeranger]]''/''[[PowerRangersTimeForce Time Force]]'' has one of the TimePolice's mecha be saurian for [[RuleOfCool no adequately explained reason]]; and ''[[KaizokuSentaiGokaiger Gokaiger]]'' has a dino mecha in homage to three Rangers who died, who just so happened to share a dino motif (a Zyuranger, an Abaranger, and the Timeranger who owned the gratuitous dinosaur robot).
* From ''Pee-Wee's Playhouse'', Pterri, Pee-Wee's talking pet pterosaur, and the (unrelated) Dinosaur Family.
* [[BarneyAndFriends Barney]]. The less said the better.
* What if Barney was green, female, Australian, ''much'' less obnoxious and actually likeable by people over 6? You'd have Dorothy the Dinosaur, one of the extended cast members of ''TheWiggles''.
* TopGear recently had a car review that, for no apparent reason, incorporated dinosaurs into the usual shots of Clarkson driving the car, including one where he is briefly pursued by a tyrannosaurus. It's actually very well done for a series that doesn't really use special effects very much.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'' "Invasion of the Dinosaurs": London is under martial law in response to the dinosaurs that have been mysteriously appearing there, [[spoiler: brought by a conspiracy, using time travel technology]].
* {{iCarly}}. Yeah. The episode where Carly almost moves to Yakima, where Spencer says to the granddad: "These are all the vitamins she needs to take. I ''only'' give her the ones shaped like dinosaurs." "...Why?" "...Dinosaurs are cool."
** There's also the episode where iCarly gets turned into a TV show, and [[ExecutiveMeddling they put a guy in a dinosuar costume in the show]] because "kids love dinosaurs".
* DinoDan
* TerraNova
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* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aovaRsVV28 Hevisaurus]], a Finnish Music/HeavyMetal band aimed towards children.
* WeirdAlYankovic's "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gh4zvQfDhi0 Jurassic Park]]", turning the {{melodrama}}tic ([[{{Narm}} to the point of hilarity]]) "[=MacArthur=] Park" into a [[FilkSong retelling of]] [[JurassicPark Spielberg's movie]].
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* ''[[DungeonsAndDragons Dungeons & Dragons]]'' has dinosaurs in the main books, [[RuleOfCool seemingly for no reason other than coolness]].
** The Arms and Equipment Guide list several of them as possible mounts, and gives several examples on how to use them, like a Dwarven pike squad on the back of a triceratops.
*** Duplicated in {{Eberron}}, where [[strike:Hobbits]] Halflings use some of the smaller dinosaurs as mounts.
** They can be found in 4th Edition as Behemoths and Drakes, and given Cadillacs and Dinosaurs style names--Macetail, Bloodspike, et cetera--apparently because while dinosaurs are cool, sciencyish names aren't fantasyish enough.
** In 3rd and 3.5,
* ''{{Exalted}}'', being a setting whose content is decided entirely by RuleOfCool and NinjaPirateZombieRobot, has gigantic "Tyrant Lizards" that look remarkably like ''T. rex'''es. Presumably due to ''Tyrannosaurus'' being Latin for "Tyrant Lizard".
** It also has the [[DinosaursAreDragons Dragon Kings]], which are roughly human-sized sentient dinosaurs who wear armor, can learn to breathe fire, and have enormous crystal clubs with laser blades to hit
* ''{{Warhammer}}'' Fantasy's Lizardmen are a dinosaur race, their basic troops being "Saurus" and them using "Stegadons" and "Carnosaurs" as mounts and war engines. There are also "Cold Ones," Velociraptor-like things used by the Lizardmen and Dark Elves for cavalry. The beasts eat everything, so the Dark Elves cover themselves in poison to fool the lizards.
** The Cold Ones are mentioned (literally or metaphorically) to be dragon-kin...the ones the Dark Elves use also are subterranean, can live in the cold climate of the Dark Elves' territory, and, IIRC, sweat poisonous goo, which might make them more of a freaky lizard-horse than a dinosaur.
* A lot of {{Death World}}s in ''{{Warhammer 40000}}'' are covered in dinosaur-esque creatures, and the Tyranids themselves are also somewhat dinosaur-y, at least in terms of teeth - the Termagaunts, especially, look like an odd cross between Armadillos, Zerg Hydralisks and ''Velociraptors''.
** It is worth noting that the Zerg Hydralisks (from ''{{Starcraft}}}'') are probably inspired by Termagaunts (not the other way around). Meanwhile, Termagaunts look like a cross between ''{{Alien}}'' Xenomorphs and bugs from ''{{Starship Troopers}}''.
** [[OurElvesAreBetter Eldar]] Exodites dwell on lush, primeval worlds inhabited by saurian "dragons," which they joust on with laser lances.
** Possibly explained in older literature. Death Worlds were likely worlds seeded by the mysterious Old Ones in the time before the Eldar started to record their history. Since the Lizardmen of Warhammer Fantasy were servants of the Old Ones, it's likely that worlds they settled would have dinosaur-like creatures 'imported' to those worlds.
* ''[[WorldOfDarkness Werewolf: The Apocalypse]]'' has the Mokole, which are [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot weredinosaurs]]. Technically, they're supposed to be werealligators, but since they serve as Gaia's memory, they can take the form of any reptile from Earth's history.
* [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=74235 Old Fogey]] from the Unhinged parody set of ''MagicTheGathering'', the only Dinosaur creature in the game.
** That's only if
* In {{Pathfinder}}, druids can take dinosaurs as animal companions, as can clerics with the Saurian domain.
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* ''Ellen's Energy Adventure'' at [[DisneyThemeParks EPCOT]], which is about power sources, contains an extended sequence involving dinosaurs. This in itself was based on the Primevil World diorama at the Disneyland Railroad.
** There's also the ride called [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Dinosaur.]]
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* {{LEGO}}'s ''Adventurers'' line couldn't pass up the chance to include a sub-line that brought its characters to a LostWorld, where they had to stop the bad guys from capturing a prehistoric AnachronismStew. The dinosaur figures were [[StockDinosaurs the standard]] ''TyrannosaurusRex'', ''Triceratops'' and ''Stegosaurus''. Many sets came with a "''Pteranodon''" figure as well, though that particular type of pterosaur may have actually been ''[[ScienceMarchesOn Geosternbergia]]''.
** Released around the same time was a line of easily buildable and reconfigurable dinosaur sets, simply titled ''Dinosaurs''. Each model could be rebuilt into various other prehistoric animals with their spare parts, though these "extra models" were often [[SomewhereAPalaeontologistIsCrying too inaccurate for comfort]].
** The later action-oriented ''Dino2010''/''Dino Attack'' lines. Had mutated prehistoric critters that bore a very faint resemblance to their real-life counterparts, and although both lines were essentially the same, there were slight differences between the European and US releases: in the European ''Dino2010'', the protagonists merely wanted to contain the beasts; while their US counterparts came equipped with guns instead of capturing equipment.
** ''{{Bionicle}}'' very nearly averted this trope. Rumors say they originally intended to introduce cybernetic dinosaurs, but that set line got canceled. However the dinosaurs themselves eventually ended up in official canon, and WordOfGod says that a released model (Skirmix, a [[HorseOfADifferentColor rock steed]]) was actually a close relative to these cyber-dinos.
* As mentioned, quite a few ''{{Transformers}}'' have dinosaur altmodes. The Dinobots were some of the fans' favorites, and of course Grimlock became a classic nearly on par with Optimus Prime and Megatron.
** Megatron himself got a dinosaur alt-mode in ''BeastWars''.
** And who could ever forget Dinobot? Or his arguments with his [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Scott_McNeil rodent alter-ego]]? His greatest asset? Being a 'raptor with [[FrickinLaserBeams laser-firing]] [[EyeBeams eyes]].
** In the video game "TransformersWarForCybertron", Trypticon still has his Tyrannosaurus body design despite the game being set at the beginning of The Great War, millions of years before the Transformers knew about Earth and dinosaurs. Truly the awesomeness of dinosaurs transcends space and time.
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* ''Saturn {{Bomberman}}'' traded the [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter adorable]] [[EverythingsBetterWithKangaroos kangaroos]] for [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter equally adorable]] dinosaurs as the PowerupMount of choice. They're also available as alternate choices to the roois/ruis/Louies in ''Bomberman Fantasy Race''.
* The game ''TheKingOfDragonPass'' is vaguely based on old Norse traditions and mythology. So, naturally,
* ''FinalFantasyVI'' had a few dinosaurs as random encounters. It also has Dinosaur Island, a place which does not provide any plot or gameplay bonuses, but has a lot of tough fights which are good for [[LevelGrinding levelling up]].
** ''FinalFantasyVIII'' has [[CallARabbitASmeerp ''T. Rexaurs'']] to fight.
*** As does ''FinalFantasyXII''
*** ''FinalFantasyI'' did it first with the rare Tyrannosaurs and their palette swap, Allosaurus.
** ''FinalFantasyXI'' has lightning-spewing raptors.
* ''DragonQuest'' has the recurring Hackasaurus (or Battle Rex), [[AnAxeToGrind an axe-wielding]], [[DinosaursAreDragons fire-breathing]] tyrannosaurus. ''DragonQuestVI'', in particular, has Lizzie the Hackasaurus, whom
* Despite taking place in the modern day, ''DeadOrAlive 4'' has an area populated entirely by dinosaurs.
* ''CommandAndConquer: [[ExpansionPack The Covert Ops]]'' had a secret level which involved fighting dinosaurs.
** Also don't forget that in ''Red Alert 2'''s expansion ''Yuri's Revenge'', the first Soviet mission deals with time travel and you're accidentally sent back to the dinosaur period to fight off hordes of ''T. rex''es. This of course includes the fate of the game's antagonist Yuri in the same campaign who after stealing the time machine from the Soviets tries to use it to "command and conquer" the world and all its history. Unfortunately for Yuri, the Soviets still had the command codes for the time machine and depleted all of its energy reserves to send Yuri back to the dinosaur era while he was gloating. Then Yuri lets off a BigNo as a ''T. rex'' smashes through the time machine to devour him.
* The first ''TombRaider'' game had dinosaurs and a ''T. rex'' as enemies for no particular reason other than RuleOfCool, though an FMV later in the game implied that they were created by the [[MacGuffin Scion]]. The dinosaurs returned without explanation in ''Tomb Raider 3''.
** ''Tomb Raider 2'' and its GaidenGame ''Golden Mask'' both feature secret, difficult-to-reach battles with more ''T. rex''es, the sole reason being that they were considered the coolest part of the first game.
* ''RadGravity'' had a dinosaur planet as one level.
* ''{{Turok}}'' would just be another FPS if it didn't pit
* ''WorldOfWarcraft'' has Raptors as fairly common animals (and mount for trolls), and gigantic ''T. rex''es, called Devilsaurs, as a rarer sort. To be precise, they only appear in a few areas (Un'Goro Crater, where there are only about five of them at any given time; The Netherstorm, where a single Devilsaur rules over an eco-dome filled with raptors; Drak'Tharon Keep, with the optional boss King Dred; and Sholazar Basin, home of the rare-spawn King Krush). For being such enourmous beasts they move like ninjas, and many players have had their adventure cut short by a sneak attack.
** With the latest patch, Beast Mastery Hunters can tame one of these giants (although it inexplicably shrinks to a more manageable size in the progess). It's undoubtedly the coolest of the exotic class pets (although that isn't saying much when the competition consists out of prime choices like bugs and worms).
*** [[{{Mulan}} They become travel size for your convenience]].
** There are also Dragonspawn, bascially flightless dragons.
* ''GuildWars'' introduces a dinosaur-rich jungle in its ''Eye of the North'' expansion. Being a fantasy game, it includes feathered Raptor Assasins, Armor-plated ceratopsians with shoulder-horns, [[TyrannosaurusRex Tyrannosaurs]], therapods with multiple heads and tails, and other bizarre reptiles.
* The ''SuperMario'' series of games already had Bowser as some sort of dragon-dinosaur-turtle... thing, and then in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld'' along came Yoshi and his friends....
** Not to mention the cute bruiser herself, Birdo.
* ''{{Pokemon}}'' uses several dinosaur and related species-themed Mons over the years. Lapras (Plesiosaur), Tyranitar (vaguely T.Rex-ish), Meganium (Diplodocus), Cranidos/Rampardos ([[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pachycephalosauria Pachycephalosaurs]], not ''T. rex''), Shieldon/Bastiodon.
** Oddly, most prehistoric Pokemon are part-Rock types, at least the ones that have to be [[ShoutOut reanimated from fossils]]. Even [[LightningBruiser Aerodactyl]], a ''pterosaur made of rock''.
** Now joined by Archen and Archeops, a basal bird/flying deinonychosaur Pokemon.
* ''BarkleyShutUpAndJamGaiden'': [[spoiler:The OneWingedAngel form of the last boss is ''T-Rex Barkley.'' I laughed for a good three minutes after the reveal.]]
* ''Adventure Island'', from the second game onward, gave Master Higgins dinosaur buddies that granted him extra powers.
* The Triscene terror units from ''{{X-COM}}: Terror From The Deep'', which are [[{{Cyborg}} cyborg dinosaurs]] that come equipped with [[MakeMeWannaShout Sonic Cannons]].
* The upcoming game (currently available as a proof-of-concept [[HalfLife Source]] mod) ''[[http://www.dinodday.com/ Dino D-Day]]'' is all about this trope, showcasing an AlternateHistory version of WorldWarII where the Third Reich unleashes their new secret weapon: '''''[[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Nazi dinosaurs!]]'''''
** Another Source Mod, Jailbreak, has this as part of the premise: It's [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Dinosaurs]] [[{{ptitlenfhgfvh962l5}} vs]] [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Robots]].
* The ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter'' series features raptors as mooks. With the sequels and updates,
* ''DwarfFortress'' sends goblins after you. Survive long enough, and they come mounted on velociraptors (known in-game as Beak Dogs).
* ''ChronoTrigger'''s dinos actually appear in 65 million BC ([[{{Prehistoria}} along with people]], oddly inverting that trope) as well as in a 600 AD bonus dungeon (where millions of years of underground living have made them tough as nails).
* [[{{Prehistoria}} Dinosaur Jungle]] from ''[[SonicStorybookSeries Sonic and the Secret Rings]]'' are filled with dinosaurs. At one point, Sonic must evade the jaws of a rampaging Carnotaur. The game is based around ArabianNights.
* It might be AllInTheManual, but by looking at the physique of [[MassEffect turians]], it becomes clear that they are pretty much [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Roman Space Velociraptors]]. Which is f* cking [[RuleOfCool awesome]].
* [[MOTHER3 Dragos]], which are a more or less friendly species of T-Rexes. The [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Mecha-Drago]] on [[UnwillingRoboticisation the]] [[CyberneticsEatYourSoul other]] [[ThatOneBoss hand...]]
* ''NeverwinterNights2: Storm of Zehir'' allows Level 3 Ranger classes to automatically receive the 'Animal Companion' feat. Which is all well and good until
* ''SupremeCommander2'' features a ''[[NinjaPirateZombieRobot giant Godzilla-sized cybernetic dinosaur]] as an experimental unit.
* ''FurFighters'' had the characters discover a whole advanced society of Dinosaurs living under the surface of the planet. The plotline had something about the BigBad stealing the advanced technology and selling it for cash but it didn't really work out. Oh, and the heroes were on a popular children's TV show for some reason.
* ''StarFoxAdventures''
* The [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Krogan]] from ''MassEffect'' are vaguely dinosaur-like.
* ChampionsOnline, being inspired by nearly every generation of comic books ever, has Monster Island - the western section of Monster Island is covered with raptor-sized "Teleiosaurus hatchlings" of various kinds, and the island is also home to the ginormous (30-40' tall) Teleiosaurus, a dinosaur egg several stories tall, and Mega-Terak - a ROBOT dinosaur.
* Riptor in ''KillerInstinct''
* FightingGame + this trope = ''PrimalRage''
* The ''{{Everquest}}'' games feature velociraptors, normally found in deserts and jungles.
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* In ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'', Dr. [=McNinja=]'s {{Bandito}} boy {{Sidekick}} has a pet raptor named Yoshi.
** And now we've got the BadFuture [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/20p20 where dinosaurs have taken over Earth.]].
* ''[=~8-Bit Theater~=]'' provides a [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2003/05/20/episode-284-what-could-it-be/ ninja riding a dinosaur armed with Febreeze]].
* ''DieselSweeties'' [[http://dieselsweeties.com/archive.php?s=1516 posits]] that there are two types of people in the world: those who would travel back in time to get drunk with pirates, and those that would go back to see what color the dinosaurs really were.
* ''{{xkcd}}'' has a [[http://xkcd.com/135/ serious]] [[http://xkcd.com/292/ problem]] [[http://xkcd.com/87/ with]] [[http://xkcd.com/155/ raptors]], though the problem may have been [[http://xkcd.com/758/ minimized]] by now. The fascination with dinosaurs extends to [[http://xkcd.com/650/ other dinosaur species]].
** Remember that search history? Look [[http://www.causes.com/causes/7945 here]].
* In ''IrregularWebcomic'', the President of the United States is an ''Allosaurus'', for no readily explained reason. (Apart from the fact that he's insanely popular.)
** He won the [[http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/polls/poll0021.html election]]. [[http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/polls/poll0409.html Twice]]
* ''MinionsAtWork'': [[http://www.minionsatwork.com/2006/06/minions-12-feeding-time.html Never offer to feed the dinosaurs.]]
* They pop up from time to time in ''{{The KAMics}}''
* ''DES comics'', vaguely related to ''ElGoonishShive'' has a [[http://danshive.deviantart.com/art/Some-Comic-of-Mine-009-81483916 Velocitoaster]] [[ParodyCommercial advertisement]].
* ''Webcomic/OrderOfTheStick'', Everything Is Better With Dinosaurs can be seen [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0726.html here]]
* Dinosaurs frequently show up in ''AxeCop'', which makes sense, considering the author is six years old.
* In ''{{Endstone}}'', [[http://endstone.net/2011/02/14/5-09/ they appear through a ]] CoolGate in a place where time and space don't work right.
* As Molly plays with her dollhouse, ''TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob'' dares to ask if [[http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20110702.html Ibsen's plays]] would be better with dinosaurs.
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* While [[ToylessToylineCharacter sadly never released as toys]], the ''{{Bionicle}}'' web serials feature [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot cyborg dinosaurs]] that shoot FrickinLaserbeams [[EyeBeams from their eyes.]]
* ''DragonCave'' includes spotted dinosaur eggs- dinosaurs apparently being, in the absence of the former Yoshis, the second best choice, since no lawyer can complain about real-life creatures. The end results are very chubby, cheerful-looking cartoonish [[GentleGiant Gentle Giants]] that ''wear shoes''. Of course, this site presumably being set in medieval times with quite lax witchcraft-prosecuting policies, this is the least of their problems.
* One of Yotam Perel's cartoons involved a man buying his wife a bouquet.
->'''Woman:''' Aww,
->'''Man:''' THAT'S NOT SWEET. DINOSAURS ARE SWEET.
* Inverted in ''ProtectorsOfThePlotContinuum''; bad smut is ''worse'' with dinosaurs.
* One of the most famous stories posted on the Current Events social board on GameFAQs is [[http://www.writing.com/main/view_item/item_id/1508080 the Raptor Story]]. It starts off as an allegedly true, real-time first-person account by a poster who claims to hear his sister and her friends playing spin the bottle. However, when [[BrotherSisterIncest the author and his sister are about to kiss]], the sister and her friends are inexplicably revealed to be velociraptors. In the biggest UnexpectedGenreChange ever, the story then follows the author as he attempts to flee the dinosaur-filled city and defeat the person responsible for the dinosaurs...BarackObama.
** The story has [[JesusWasWayCool Raptor Jesus]]...the ''best'' kind of Jesus. Who BarackObama then jump-kicks. Yeah, its [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs that kind of story]].
** A [[http://www.writing.com/main/view_item/item_id/1580313 sequel]] was later created which retcons the sister's death in the first story and [[POVSequel takes place from her perspective]].
* [[http://comixed.com/2010/02/23/washington/ This.]]
* On a related note, [[http://epicwinftw.com/2010/09/16/awesome-photos-only-lempereur-gets-a-dinosaur/ this]].
* The [[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/philosoraptor Philosoraptor]] (of [[MemeticMutation meme]] fame).
** ...Which started as a tee-shirt design on [[http://www.lonelydinosaur.com/collections/frontpage/products/philosoraptor lonelydinosaur.com]].
* Apparently [[ThatGuyWithTheGlasses The Other Guy]] is a dinosuar sometimes. [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment Okay...]]
* IGN did a whole [[http://games.ign.com/articles/116/1163759p1.html Dinosaur Week]] once.
* And then there's always [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDNzzhCpqxA The VelociPastor]]
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* ''GarfieldAndFriends'' used dinosaurs mostly to parody this trope, specially in "UsAcres" (the quote above comes from an episode where Orson started telling {{Rumpelstiltskin}} to the children, adding ninjas and such for them to keep interested, but Wade and Roy started changing the story to work in their [[AuthorAvatar respective characters']] favors).
* There's also ''CadillacsAndDinosaurs''.
* ''{{Dinosaucers}}''. Perhaps most noteworthy in that both sides seemed to have a counterpart for each character, rather than each faction specializing in one particular type of dinosaur (Allosaurus/Tyrannosaurus, Triceratops/Styracosaurus, Apatosaurus/Brachiosaurus, Archaeopteryx/Pterodactyl, etc.)
* Beast Boy in ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' favours a ''T. Rex'' for sheer AwesomeButImpractical, because while it may look devastating, it doesn't fit under bridges, and it weighs too much for many floors to handle.
* They managed to work a dinosaur even into ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'' (Steggy in "[[AWorldwidePunomenon Prehysterical]] Pet").
* In ''{{Futurama}}: Bender's Game'', Leela and Hermes are watching ''[[TheTwilightZone The Scary Door]]'', this episode about a typical alien invasion being defeated by 'God's humblest of creatures'...The Tyrannosaurus Rex!
---> '''Leela''': I can't believe Tivo suggested that piece of crap!
** In one episode Fry sets out to enjoy the wonders of the year 3000, one being a T'Rex petting zoo. Pretty obvious what happens when he tries to feed it.
* The show up from time-to-time on ''TheFairlyOddparents''.
* In an early episode of ''TheVentureBrothers'', Brock Samson, while in a LotusEaterMachine, and dreams that he is fighting flamethrower-wielding cowboys. Only, they're riding T. Rexes. Yet Brock, in his sheer awesomeness (and mainly because it's ''his'' dream) easily dispatches them.
* An episode of ''{{Jimmy Two-Shoes}}'' has [[MadScientist Heloise]] building a large T-Rex skeleton as an instrument of misery [[MyLittlePanzer aimed at kids]].
* Both ''BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' and ''SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' feature the titular heroes fighting an animatronic Tyrannosaurus at one point, with ''Superman'' very early on in the first season.
* Because sometimes just a guy in a mask isn't enough for Mystery Inc., the gang has faced dinosaurs (besides dragons, sea serpents, and the Loch Ness Monster) in ''What's New Scooby Doo'' and more recently ''Scooby Doo! Legend of the Phantosaur.''
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->'''Roy:''' But the rooster was determined to get it back with the aid of his trained dinosaurs!\\
'''Orson:''' Trained dinosaurs? Where did the trained dinosaurs come from?\\
'''Roy:''' Same place all those [[InstantAwesomeJustAddNinja ninjas came from]].\\
-- ''[[GarfieldAndFriends U.S. Acres]]'', "The Name Game"
Well, it's true. Dinosaurs are [[RuleOfCool cool]]. No exceptions. (Well, [[BarneyAndFriends almost none.]])
Since dinosaurs [[RealLife actually existed]] in the past, some writers like to throw them into their stories. In many cases, this makes no sense at all, but when dinosaurs show up, we're generally in the realm of [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot awesome for the sake of awesome]]. Generally, the dinosaurs seen will be [[StockDinosaurs restricted to a few well-known types]].
The essence of this trope is the presence of dinosaurs which are not ultimately critical to the plot. If the story would be essentially the same without dinosaurs, it's an example. On the other hand, if [[DinosaurMedia dinosaurs are integral to the premise]], it's not an example.
Note that just because a series [[JustifiedTrope provides a reason]] for there to be dinosaurs does not mean it isn't an example of this trope. Sure, a dinosaur altmode might very well be a good idea for a Transformer, but the real reason for a dinosaur form is to [[MerchandiseDriven appeal to young boys]].
Despite the name of this trope, it can cover examples that are not technically dinosaurs. Other extinct reptiles, like pterosaurs and plesiosaurs, would fall under this trope. And while it may be a stretch, since we don't have a individual tropes for Everything is Better with Woolly Mammoths or Everything is Better with Saber-tooth Cats, these examples would get grouped here.
See also DinosaursAreDragons and SomewhereAPalaeontologistIsCrying. Compare DinosaurMedia.
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* The random and gratuitous dinosaurs are practically everywhere in the ''DragonBall'' and ''DragonBallZ'' setting. "Fly home safely, and look out for rampaging dinosaurs!"
* The hentai fantasy anime ''{{Dragon Knight 4}}: Wheel of Time'' has soldiers riding dinosaur-like creatures.
** [[{{Squick}} Like]] [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean that?]]
* ''ThePrinceOfTennis'': Tezuka's [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome amazing tennis move]] is what ''really'' killed the dinosaurs.
* The ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh}}!'' card game has a dinosaur type, the number of dinos expanded by Tyranno Kenzan in ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh GX}}''. Dinosaur Ryuuzaki (Rex Raptor) uses a dinosaur-themed deck in the anime.
* So does ''{{Digimon}}''.
* Chibi-Usa of ''SailorMoon'' befriended a Nessie-like dinosaur in one episode.
* An episode of ''SaberRiderAndTheStarSheriffs'' took place on a planet populated by dinosaurs. The episode was titled [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Oh Boy! Dinosaurs!"]], appropriately enough.
* ''TheFiveStarStories'' has dinosaurs on a few of the planets, which are inexplicably identical to various species that once roamed the Earth. The level of dinosaurs a planet has is actually a pretty good way to measure its age. The young planet Juno has quite a few, although they're now threatened by humans and other introduced mammal species; the older Delta Belune also has dinosaurs, but they're small and birdlike; Kallamity, supposedly the oldest inhabitable planet, doesn't seem to have any dinos at all.
* In ''[[JoJosBizarreAdventure Steel Ball Run]]'', Diego Brando becomes a Wereraptor after he gains a stand ability.
* ''DinosaurKing'' isn't a strict example as it's focused completely on dinosaurs, not just throwing them in for RuleOfCool. But consider this: In Japan it was preceded by an insect-battling game called ''Mushi King''. Then the designers sat down to plan a spinoff and asked themselves "What's better than insects?" before concluding that EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs.
* ''GetterRobo''. Just... Getter Robo. If there's room for a dinosaur at any given time, then they '''will''' be there. And it will be [[HolyShitQuotient awesome]].
** Dinosaur mecha piloted by dinosaurs. YEAAAAAH
* The SchoolFestival arc in ''MahouSenseiNegima'' has the engineering club construct a robotic ''T. rex'' because it would make the festival parades that much more awesome. This fooled TheHero at first since it was so life-like. They occasionally go berserk (though no one is ever hurt), giving [[KenAkamatsu the author]] the opportunity to have the lead heroine slice off its head with her {{BFS}} [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman since it was a robot]].
* In Law of Ueki Plus the main characters [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome ride into the Big Bad 's lair on a]] ''Tyrannosaurus rex'', destroying a tower and defeating a bunch of guards all in one fell swoop.
* {{Gon}} has a miniature ''T. rex'' for a protagonist, fighting large modern mammals most of the time. No, [[SomewhereAPalaeontologistIsCrying palaeontologist did not hang himself]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swing_%28seat%29 so that you could use his corpse as a swing]].
* OnePiece has "Red Flag" Diez Drake, a pirate captain and former Rear Admiral of the Marines that has eaten a Devil Fruit that turns him into a tyrannosaurus. [[CrazyAwesome This is pretty]] [[RuleOfCool much par for]] [[WorldOfHam the course in]] OnePiece, though.
** The island of Little Garden, which is populated by Dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures.
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* In a classic example, DC did a good deal of war comics in the 60s. One was called "The War that Time Forgot". It was WorldWarII... but there was an island full of giant apes, military test robots, an elite military unit called "The Suicide Squad" (related to the later DC group), circus acrobats, and, of course, dinosaurs.
* ''CalvinAndHobbes'' gives us Tyrannosaurs in F-14s, as you can see on this page.
--> '''Calvin''': This is '''so''' cool!
--> '''Hobbes''': This is '''so''' stupid.
* Gert in ''{{Runaways}}'' has a pet ''Deinonychus'' named [[FluffyTheTerrible Old Lace]].
* ''ComicBook/GoldDigger'' has a race of technologically advanced dinosaurs who serve as both a major source of archaeological finds for the scientists in the cast to dig up and the cause of a whole lot of bad events in ages past. They also made two dinosaur-esque races via genetic engineering, the Amonians and the Dragons, who both have regular characters in the cast.
* ''{{Marvel 1602}}'' had little dinosaurs running around Europe, including at least one seeming to be [[strike:[[XMen Professor Xavier's]]]] Carlos Javier's pet. Not to mention that the standard big dinos can be found in North America.
* There is a ''[[TyrannosaurusRex T. rex]]'' trophy [[GiantRobot robot]] in the [[{{Batman}} Batcave]]. [[FridgeLogic How it got there]] or why is generally ignored, but the DCAU provides the hypothesis that Dick (Robin, at the time) [[SoCoolItsAwesome wanted to keep it]].
** The Episode ''Starcrossed'' in JLU, has Flash agreeing with this trope through and through. Alfred being [[DeadpanSnarker Alfred]] [[HilarityEnsues well...]]
--> '''The Flash''': [[SoCoolItsAwesome Hey!]] [[CaptainObvious That's a Giant Dinosaur!]] :D
--> '''Alfred''': [[SarcasmMode And here I thought]] [[DeadpanSnarker Batman was the detective.]]
* ''[=~2000 AD~=]'' had ''Flesh'', a story about future cowboys going back in time and killing dinosaurs for their meat, which was then exported back to their own time. This was used to provide STOMPY DINOSAUR ACTION crossovers into both ''JudgeDredd'' and ''ABCWarriors''. In the case of the latter, dinosaurs ended up on a terraformed dystopian Mars.
* Major Bummer gave us [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrannosaurus_Reich Tyrannosaurus Reich]]. Can't believe that got a mention in the other wiki before getting here.
* Bob, Dawn, and Rex, from ''{{Dilbert}}''.
* ''Dinosaur Bop / Wanda et les dinosaures'' (''Wanda and the dinosaurs'') is set in a comical (with realist drawings) post-apocalyptic world were humanity regressed at prehistoric age (but more like "American sixties in a prehistoric setting"). For no reason, dinosaurs are here anew, and are used as pets, food or... cars (but ''T. rex'' is still a predator and wreck poor Eddy's car).
* The title character of ''Sláine'' has gone up against dinosaurs animated from amber.
* [[FoxTrot Jason Fox]] has a major dinosaur obsession. He once sent an electronic message to the White House saying "increase dinosaur DNA research" over and over again.
* The Tar Pits in Sin City feature dinosaur statues. Frank Miller said he put them there as an excuse to draw dinosaurs.
* In All-Star Superman. the Subterranosaur are descendants of dinosaurs who escaped extinction by digging their way to the center of the Earth. Their leader is the Dino-Czar.
* The villain in NeilGaiman's ''MrHeroTheNewmaticMan'' is Henry Phage, an immortal velociraptor at the head of a multidimensional corporation whose flagship product is the corruption of souls.
* [[http://twitter.com/Dr_Dinosaur AH!]] [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2009/05/01/fcbd-09-page-5/ DECEPTION!]] MAMMAL '''''DECEPTION!'''''
** [[AtomicRobo MAMMAL ROBOT!]]
* The Malibu Comics franchise ''DinosaursForHire'' is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. An anthropomorphic tyrannosaur, stegosaur, and triceratops (and later a pteranodon) [[TheyFightCrime fight crime]]!
* One of the antagonist races in ''Shakara'' is called the Teknosaurs. And yes, they're a race of cyborg dinosaurs.
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* Kong Island in ''KingKong'' generally has dinosaurs scattered around.
** Don't forget that KingKong also fought [[{{Godzilla}} a certain mutant dinosaur]] in another film.
** And a non-mutated Gorosaurus in ''King Kong Escapes''.
* The 1951 film ''Two Lost Worlds'' is a Cowboy/Australian Pirate/Dinosaur movie (). It fits this trope well because the only dinosaurs are some stock footage from a previous dinosaur movie that menace some people the pirates maroon on an island. They could have easily been left out, or replaced with more normal dangerous animals.
* The ''IceAge'' films are generally accurate in depicting only animals which lived during the Ice Age, or at least after the dinosaurs died out. Guess, then, what the third film featured. Go on.
* In ''{{D-War}}'' (a film very much driven by the {{Rule of Cool}}), the evil Buraki commands an evil army of dark warriors that ride big dinosaurs and fire barrages of fireballs.
* ''{{Meet the Robinsons}}'' stars mind-controlled ''[[TyrannosaurusRex T. rex]]'' brought back from the past with a flying time machine by a bowler-hat-less bowler hat wearing guy surely deserves mention here.
* The ''StarWars'' 20th anniversary re-release inserts cgi [[strike:dinosaurs]] beasts which vaguely resemble dinosaurs into various scenes in the movie, mostly in Mos Eisley.
* The HarryhausenMovie ''TheValleyOfGwangi'' is this trope incarnate. Little can prepare a viewer for the sheer unadulterated awesome of [[TheWestern Cowboys]] [[CoolVsAwesome roping]] an Allosaurus.
* Rex from ''ToyStory''.
* ''FutureWar'', because the blatant ''{{Terminator}}'' meets ''Bloodsport'' plot wasn't enough, so they decided to throw in a little ''JurassicPark'', too.
* ''NightAtTheMuseum'' features a T. rex skeleton [[AllAnimalsAreDogs that acts like a dog]].
* [[http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1918385_1918401_1918398,00.html This]] Time article on lessons from the 2009 Summer Movies shows that despite the success of the second ''Night at the Museum'' and ''IceAge 3'' (it says ''{{Up}}'' features dinosaurs - and it does have a giant bird), two other films with dinos, ''LandOfTheLost'' and ''YearOne'', bombed.
* Probably not a great example, but the '[[FutureImperfect Time Masheen]]' scene of ''{{Idiocracy}}'', where World War II was depicted by two T-rexes fighting, one wearing an American flag, one wearing a Swastika.
* [[HammerHorror Hammer Studios]] made a few [[OneMillionBC prehistoric epics]]. The ones ''with'' dinosaurs are so, SO much better than the ones without.
* The "Rite of Spring" segment from ''{{Disney/Fantasia}}''.
* ''TheodoreRex'' is quite possibly one of the few example that makes this trope worse then it should be.
* An upcoming, untitled {{Pixar}} film will tell what would it be like if the astroid miss Earth, with dinosaurs and humans living together, even being able to communicate with humans.
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* The ''FightingFantasy'' gamebook ''Island of the Lizard King'' involved the reader trying to assassinate the king of a race of lizardmen. For no particular reason, one of said lizardmen is seen riding a ''Styracosaurus'' at one point.
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* [[TheDresdenFiles Harry Dresden]] ''lives'' this trope at TheClimax of ''Dead Beat''. To say more would be a {{spoiler}}. [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome An AWESOME spoiler.]]
** [[Awesome/TheDresdenFiles Oh, what the hell]]: [[spoiler: Necromancy practiced on human remains is forbidden on pain of death for wizards, but Harry needs a source of necromantic energy to avoid getting killed by the NegativeSpaceWedgie the bad guys are trying to claim for [[AGodAmI awesome godlike power]]. It's been previously established that animal remains leave thinner "psychic footprints" than human remains, but that the longer a thing's dead, the more powerful it is when it's finally raised. Harry puts two and two and two together and necromantically animates "Sue," the mostly-complete ''{{Tyrannosaurus rex}}'' skeleton at the Field Museum of Natural History. [[RaisingTheSteaks That's right]], ''[[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Zombie T. rex]]''!]]
*** Which he then proceeds to [[spoiler:ride across Chicago to fight an army of ghosts and zombies.]] [[CoolVersusAwesome It doesn't get any cooler than that]].
*** Actually it does get cooler when you remember [[spoiler:the only thing holding the ''T. rex'' together is Harry's buddy and his one-man polka suit. [[ThePowerOfRock Polka will never die!]]]]
** He also does it in CodexAlara: turns out that aside from picking up [[LostRomanLegion hapless romans]], [[Starcraft Zerg]] [[Expy expies]], and [[OurElvesAreBetter elves]], Alara also grabbed a few giant ground sloths and terror birds in it's day. They're bond creatures with the elves.
* Arguably, {{Jules Verne}}'s classic novel ''Journey to the Center of the Earth'' is an example of this trope. Most of the book is about really ambitious spelunking, the adventurers just happen to run into a few surviving prehistoric beasts in one section of caves. It makes that part of the book more exciting, but wasn't completely necessary to the plot. Of course none of the creature they meet are technically members of the superorder ''Dinosauria'', they were mostly icthysaurs, plesiosaurs, and crocodilians. That makes this trope OlderThanRadio.
* Eric Garcia's series of noirish mysteries (starting with ''AnonymousRex''), which feature dinosaurs living in modern-day America, disguised as humans.
* The recent science fiction story "Rejiggering the Thingamajig", published in Analog, stars an alien sentient T. Rex Buddihst. And it's awesome.
* In the epic children's book ''Dinosaur vs. Bedtime,'' the titular dinosaur engages in ferocious battle with all manner of opponents. When faced with the likes of a pile of leaves, a bowl of spaghetti or talking grownups, DINOSAUR WINS! ROAR! But Dinosaur still has to face his greatest challenge: Dinosaur vs. Bedtime! [[spoiler: Bedtime wins]].
* Steve Alten's ''Meg'' novels do this. The first scene of the first book, has a Tyrannosaurus get eaten by a Megalodon (giant presumed relative to the Great White Shark) whilst attempting to chase down Hadrosaurs in the shallow sea. Nevermind that Megalodon evolved [[SomewhereAPaleontologistIsCrying almost 50 million years after the Dinosaurs went extinct]].
* Aleksandar Žiljak's (Croatian SF writer) story "Opal eyes" ("Oči boje opala") features a Wild west setting in a world where dinosaurs roam the plains. Also, the main character is a lesbian vampire gunslinger.
* ''TheIcemarkChronicles'''s third book has the enemy Basilea use 'Tri-Horns' as cavalry. Three guesses as to what they are.
* ''Far-Seer'' is basically the story of Galileo if he was a T-Rex. It is indeed as awesome as it sounds.
* The world in which the fantasy novel [[TenGhost Ten-Ghost]] takes place has domesticated dinosaurs everywhere, and the less that domesticated variety prowling the wilderness, for seemingly no reason other than to have them.
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* ''{{Primeval}}'' was advertised as being about dinosaurs despite none appearing in the first series. Presumably they thought saying it was about giant centipedes, dodos and flying lizards wouldn't draw in as many viewers.
* The ''SuperSentai'' and ''PowerRangers'' franchises have had no fewer than two dinosaur-themed series (''[[KyoryuSentaiZyuranger Zyuranger]]'' and ''[[BakuryuuSentaiAbaranger Abaranger]]'', localized as ''[[MightyMorphinPowerRangers the original MMPR]]'' and ''[[PowerRangersDinoThunder Dino Thunder]]''); and three others with their own dinosaur mecha: ''[[{{Engine Sentai Go-Onger}} Go-Onger]]'' / ''[[Series/PowerRangersRPM RPM]]'', based on animal/vehicle hybrids, has dinosaur trains; ''[[MiraiSentaiTimeranger Timeranger]]''/''[[PowerRangersTimeForce Time Force]]'' has one of the TimePolice's mecha be saurian for [[RuleOfCool no adequately explained reason]]; and ''[[KaizokuSentaiGokaiger Gokaiger]]'' has a dino mecha in homage to three Rangers who died, who just so happened to share a dino motif (a Zyuranger, an Abaranger, and the Timeranger who owned the gratuitous dinosaur robot).
* From ''Pee-Wee's Playhouse'', Pterri, Pee-Wee's talking pet pterosaur, and the (unrelated) Dinosaur Family.
* [[BarneyAndFriends Barney]]. The less said the better.
* What if Barney was green, female, Australian, ''much'' less obnoxious and actually likeable by people over 6? You'd have Dorothy the Dinosaur, one of the extended cast members of ''TheWiggles''.
* TopGear recently had a car review that, for no apparent reason, incorporated dinosaurs into the usual shots of Clarkson driving the car, including one where he is briefly pursued by a tyrannosaurus. It's actually very well done for a series that doesn't really use special effects very much.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'' "Invasion of the Dinosaurs": London is under martial law in response to the dinosaurs that have been mysteriously appearing there, [[spoiler: brought by a conspiracy, using time travel technology]].
* {{iCarly}}. Yeah. The episode where Carly almost moves to Yakima, where Spencer says to the granddad: "These are all the vitamins she needs to take. I ''only'' give her the ones shaped like dinosaurs." "...Why?" "...Dinosaurs are cool."
** There's also the episode where iCarly gets turned into a TV show, and [[ExecutiveMeddling they put a guy in a dinosuar costume in the show]] because "kids love dinosaurs".
* DinoDan
* TerraNova
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* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aovaRsVV28 Hevisaurus]], a Finnish Music/HeavyMetal band aimed towards children.
* WeirdAlYankovic's "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gh4zvQfDhi0 Jurassic Park]]", turning the {{melodrama}}tic ([[{{Narm}} to the point of hilarity]]) "[=MacArthur=] Park" into a [[FilkSong retelling of]] [[JurassicPark Spielberg's movie]].
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* ''[[DungeonsAndDragons Dungeons & Dragons]]'' has dinosaurs in the main books, [[RuleOfCool seemingly for no reason other than coolness]].
** The Arms and Equipment Guide list several of them as possible mounts, and gives several examples on how to use them, like a Dwarven pike squad on the back of a triceratops.
*** Duplicated in {{Eberron}}, where [[strike:Hobbits]] Halflings use some of the smaller dinosaurs as mounts.
** They can be found in 4th Edition as Behemoths and Drakes, and given Cadillacs and Dinosaurs style names--Macetail, Bloodspike, et cetera--apparently because while dinosaurs are cool, sciencyish names aren't fantasyish enough.
** In 3rd and 3.5, you could play as dinosaur inspired player races called saurials.
* ''{{Exalted}}'', being a setting whose content is decided entirely by RuleOfCool and NinjaPirateZombieRobot, has gigantic "Tyrant Lizards" that look remarkably like ''T. rex'''es. Presumably due to ''Tyrannosaurus'' being Latin for "Tyrant Lizard".
** It also has the [[DinosaursAreDragons Dragon Kings]], which are roughly human-sized sentient dinosaurs who wear armor, can learn to breathe fire, and have enormous crystal clubs with laser blades to hit you with if you piss them off.
* ''{{Warhammer}}'' Fantasy's Lizardmen are a dinosaur race, their basic troops being "Saurus" and them using "Stegadons" and "Carnosaurs" as mounts and war engines. There are also "Cold Ones," Velociraptor-like things used by the Lizardmen and Dark Elves for cavalry. The beasts eat everything, so the Dark Elves cover themselves in poison to fool the lizards.
** The Cold Ones are mentioned (literally or metaphorically) to be dragon-kin...the ones the Dark Elves use also are subterranean, can live in the cold climate of the Dark Elves' territory, and, IIRC, sweat poisonous goo, which might make them more of a freaky lizard-horse than a dinosaur.
* A lot of {{Death World}}s in ''{{Warhammer 40000}}'' are covered in dinosaur-esque creatures, and the Tyranids themselves are also somewhat dinosaur-y, at least in terms of teeth - the Termagaunts, especially, look like an odd cross between Armadillos, Zerg Hydralisks and ''Velociraptors''.
** It is worth noting that the Zerg Hydralisks (from ''{{Starcraft}}}'') are probably inspired by Termagaunts (not the other way around). Meanwhile, Termagaunts look like a cross between ''{{Alien}}'' Xenomorphs and bugs from ''{{Starship Troopers}}''.
** [[OurElvesAreBetter Eldar]] Exodites dwell on lush, primeval worlds inhabited by saurian "dragons," which they joust on with laser lances.
** Possibly explained in older literature. Death Worlds were likely worlds seeded by the mysterious Old Ones in the time before the Eldar started to record their history. Since the Lizardmen of Warhammer Fantasy were servants of the Old Ones, it's likely that worlds they settled would have dinosaur-like creatures 'imported' to those worlds.
* ''[[WorldOfDarkness Werewolf: The Apocalypse]]'' has the Mokole, which are [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot weredinosaurs]]. Technically, they're supposed to be werealligators, but since they serve as Gaia's memory, they can take the form of any reptile from Earth's history.
* [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=74235 Old Fogey]] from the Unhinged parody set of ''MagicTheGathering'', the only Dinosaur creature in the game.
** That's only if you don't count the velociraptors, allosauruses and other made up fantasy dinosaurs in the game.
* In {{Pathfinder}}, druids can take dinosaurs as animal companions, as can clerics with the Saurian domain.
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* ''Ellen's Energy Adventure'' at [[DisneyThemeParks EPCOT]], which is about power sources, contains an extended sequence involving dinosaurs. This in itself was based on the Primevil World diorama at the Disneyland Railroad.
** There's also the ride called [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Dinosaur.]]
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* {{LEGO}}'s ''Adventurers'' line couldn't pass up the chance to include a sub-line that brought its characters to a LostWorld, where they had to stop the bad guys from capturing a prehistoric AnachronismStew. The dinosaur figures were [[StockDinosaurs the standard]] ''TyrannosaurusRex'', ''Triceratops'' and ''Stegosaurus''. Many sets came with a "''Pteranodon''" figure as well, though that particular type of pterosaur may have actually been ''[[ScienceMarchesOn Geosternbergia]]''.
** Released around the same time was a line of easily buildable and reconfigurable dinosaur sets, simply titled ''Dinosaurs''. Each model could be rebuilt into various other prehistoric animals with their spare parts, though these "extra models" were often [[SomewhereAPalaeontologistIsCrying too inaccurate for comfort]].
** The later action-oriented ''Dino2010''/''Dino Attack'' lines. Had mutated prehistoric critters that bore a very faint resemblance to their real-life counterparts, and although both lines were essentially the same, there were slight differences between the European and US releases: in the European ''Dino2010'', the protagonists merely wanted to contain the beasts; while their US counterparts came equipped with guns instead of capturing equipment.
** ''{{Bionicle}}'' very nearly averted this trope. Rumors say they originally intended to introduce cybernetic dinosaurs, but that set line got canceled. However the dinosaurs themselves eventually ended up in official canon, and WordOfGod says that a released model (Skirmix, a [[HorseOfADifferentColor rock steed]]) was actually a close relative to these cyber-dinos.
* As mentioned, quite a few ''{{Transformers}}'' have dinosaur altmodes. The Dinobots were some of the fans' favorites, and of course Grimlock became a classic nearly on par with Optimus Prime and Megatron.
** Megatron himself got a dinosaur alt-mode in ''BeastWars''.
** And who could ever forget Dinobot? Or his arguments with his [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Scott_McNeil rodent alter-ego]]? His greatest asset? Being a 'raptor with [[FrickinLaserBeams laser-firing]] [[EyeBeams eyes]].
** In the video game "TransformersWarForCybertron", Trypticon still has his Tyrannosaurus body design despite the game being set at the beginning of The Great War, millions of years before the Transformers knew about Earth and dinosaurs. Truly the awesomeness of dinosaurs transcends space and time.
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* ''Saturn {{Bomberman}}'' traded the [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter adorable]] [[EverythingsBetterWithKangaroos kangaroos]] for [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter equally adorable]] dinosaurs as the PowerupMount of choice. They're also available as alternate choices to the roois/ruis/Louies in ''Bomberman Fantasy Race''.
* The game ''TheKingOfDragonPass'' is vaguely based on old Norse traditions and mythology. So, naturally, you can [[http://img107.imageshack.us/img107/9225/whoabv0.png train dinosaurs as battle mounts.]]
* ''FinalFantasyVI'' had a few dinosaurs as random encounters. It also has Dinosaur Island, a place which does not provide any plot or gameplay bonuses, but has a lot of tough fights which are good for [[LevelGrinding levelling up]].
** ''FinalFantasyVIII'' has [[CallARabbitASmeerp ''T. Rexaurs'']] to fight.
*** As does ''FinalFantasyXII''
*** ''FinalFantasyI'' did it first with the rare Tyrannosaurs and their palette swap, Allosaurus.
** ''FinalFantasyXI'' has lightning-spewing raptors.
* ''DragonQuest'' has the recurring Hackasaurus (or Battle Rex), [[AnAxeToGrind an axe-wielding]], [[DinosaursAreDragons fire-breathing]] tyrannosaurus. ''DragonQuestVI'', in particular, has Lizzie the Hackasaurus, whom you can get to join your team in a special encounter; in the DS remake, she's the ''only'' non-[[MascotMook Slime]] you can recruit.
* Despite taking place in the modern day, ''DeadOrAlive 4'' has an area populated entirely by dinosaurs.
* ''CommandAndConquer: [[ExpansionPack The Covert Ops]]'' had a secret level which involved fighting dinosaurs.
** Also don't forget that in ''Red Alert 2'''s expansion ''Yuri's Revenge'', the first Soviet mission deals with time travel and you're accidentally sent back to the dinosaur period to fight off hordes of ''T. rex''es. This of course includes the fate of the game's antagonist Yuri in the same campaign who after stealing the time machine from the Soviets tries to use it to "command and conquer" the world and all its history. Unfortunately for Yuri, the Soviets still had the command codes for the time machine and depleted all of its energy reserves to send Yuri back to the dinosaur era while he was gloating. Then Yuri lets off a BigNo as a ''T. rex'' smashes through the time machine to devour him.
* The first ''TombRaider'' game had dinosaurs and a ''T. rex'' as enemies for no particular reason other than RuleOfCool, though an FMV later in the game implied that they were created by the [[MacGuffin Scion]]. The dinosaurs returned without explanation in ''Tomb Raider 3''.
** ''Tomb Raider 2'' and its GaidenGame ''Golden Mask'' both feature secret, difficult-to-reach battles with more ''T. rex''es, the sole reason being that they were considered the coolest part of the first game.
* ''RadGravity'' had a dinosaur planet as one level.
* ''{{Turok}}'' would just be another FPS if it didn't pit you against dinosaurs.
* ''WorldOfWarcraft'' has Raptors as fairly common animals (and mount for trolls), and gigantic ''T. rex''es, called Devilsaurs, as a rarer sort. To be precise, they only appear in a few areas (Un'Goro Crater, where there are only about five of them at any given time; The Netherstorm, where a single Devilsaur rules over an eco-dome filled with raptors; Drak'Tharon Keep, with the optional boss King Dred; and Sholazar Basin, home of the rare-spawn King Krush). For being such enourmous beasts they move like ninjas, and many players have had their adventure cut short by a sneak attack.
** With the latest patch, Beast Mastery Hunters can tame one of these giants (although it inexplicably shrinks to a more manageable size in the progess). It's undoubtedly the coolest of the exotic class pets (although that isn't saying much when the competition consists out of prime choices like bugs and worms).
*** [[{{Mulan}} They become travel size for your convenience]].
** There are also Dragonspawn, bascially flightless dragons.
* ''GuildWars'' introduces a dinosaur-rich jungle in its ''Eye of the North'' expansion. Being a fantasy game, it includes feathered Raptor Assasins, Armor-plated ceratopsians with shoulder-horns, [[TyrannosaurusRex Tyrannosaurs]], therapods with multiple heads and tails, and other bizarre reptiles.
* The ''SuperMario'' series of games already had Bowser as some sort of dragon-dinosaur-turtle... thing, and then in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld'' along came Yoshi and his friends....
** Not to mention the cute bruiser herself, Birdo.
* ''{{Pokemon}}'' uses several dinosaur and related species-themed Mons over the years. Lapras (Plesiosaur), Tyranitar (vaguely T.Rex-ish), Meganium (Diplodocus), Cranidos/Rampardos ([[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pachycephalosauria Pachycephalosaurs]], not ''T. rex''), Shieldon/Bastiodon.
** Oddly, most prehistoric Pokemon are part-Rock types, at least the ones that have to be [[ShoutOut reanimated from fossils]]. Even [[LightningBruiser Aerodactyl]], a ''pterosaur made of rock''.
** Now joined by Archen and Archeops, a basal bird/flying deinonychosaur Pokemon.
* ''BarkleyShutUpAndJamGaiden'': [[spoiler:The OneWingedAngel form of the last boss is ''T-Rex Barkley.'' I laughed for a good three minutes after the reveal.]]
* ''Adventure Island'', from the second game onward, gave Master Higgins dinosaur buddies that granted him extra powers.
* The Triscene terror units from ''{{X-COM}}: Terror From The Deep'', which are [[{{Cyborg}} cyborg dinosaurs]] that come equipped with [[MakeMeWannaShout Sonic Cannons]].
* The upcoming game (currently available as a proof-of-concept [[HalfLife Source]] mod) ''[[http://www.dinodday.com/ Dino D-Day]]'' is all about this trope, showcasing an AlternateHistory version of WorldWarII where the Third Reich unleashes their new secret weapon: '''''[[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Nazi dinosaurs!]]'''''
** Another Source Mod, Jailbreak, has this as part of the premise: It's [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Dinosaurs]] [[{{ptitlenfhgfvh962l5}} vs]] [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Robots]].
* The ''MonsterHunter'' series features raptors as mooks. With the sequels and updates, you are getting a lot of dinosaurs (that happen to be changed slightly) that stand out. There may be odd hybrids and creatures that are outright dragons but the sheer number of dinos in the series is definitely worth looking through. That and the giant T-rex that Monster Hunter Tri introduces to you all.
* ''DwarfFortress'' sends goblins after you. Survive long enough, and they come mounted on velociraptors (known in-game as Beak Dogs).
* ''ChronoTrigger'''s dinos actually appear in 65 million BC ([[{{Prehistoria}} along with people]], oddly inverting that trope) as well as in a 600 AD bonus dungeon (where millions of years of underground living have made them tough as nails).
* [[{{Prehistoria}} Dinosaur Jungle]] from ''[[SonicStorybookSeries Sonic and the Secret Rings]]'' are filled with dinosaurs. At one point, Sonic must evade the jaws of a rampaging Carnotaur. The game is based around ArabianNights.
* It might be AllInTheManual, but by looking at the physique of [[MassEffect turians]], it becomes clear that they are pretty much [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Roman Space Velociraptors]]. Which is f* cking [[RuleOfCool awesome]].
* [[MOTHER3 Dragos]], which are a more or less friendly species of T-Rexes. The [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Mecha-Drago]] on [[UnwillingRoboticisation the]] [[CyberneticsEatYourSoul other]] [[ThatOneBoss hand...]]
* ''NeverwinterNights2: Storm of Zehir'' allows Level 3 Ranger classes to automatically receive the 'Animal Companion' feat. Which is all well and good until you get to Level 5 or so, and you discover an optional upgrade: 'Dinosaur companion', which switches your animal to a ''deinonychus''. [[RuleOfCool Even if it will stunt your character growth, you just have to have it]].
* ''SupremeCommander2'' features a ''[[NinjaPirateZombieRobot giant Godzilla-sized cybernetic dinosaur]] as an experimental unit.
* ''FurFighters'' had the characters discover a whole advanced society of Dinosaurs living under the surface of the planet. The plotline had something about the BigBad stealing the advanced technology and selling it for cash but it didn't really work out. Oh, and the heroes were on a popular children's TV show for some reason.
* ''StarFoxAdventures''
* The [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Krogan]] from ''MassEffect'' are vaguely dinosaur-like.
* ChampionsOnline, being inspired by nearly every generation of comic books ever, has Monster Island - the western section of Monster Island is covered with raptor-sized "Teleiosaurus hatchlings" of various kinds, and the island is also home to the ginormous (30-40' tall) Teleiosaurus, a dinosaur egg several stories tall, and Mega-Terak - a ROBOT dinosaur.
* Riptor in ''KillerInstinct''
* FightingGame + this trope = ''PrimalRage''
* The ''{{Everquest}}'' games feature velociraptors, normally found in deserts and jungles.
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* In ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'', Dr. [=McNinja=]'s {{Bandito}} boy {{Sidekick}} has a pet raptor named Yoshi.
** And now we've got the BadFuture [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/20p20 where dinosaurs have taken over Earth.]].
* ''[=~8-Bit Theater~=]'' provides a [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2003/05/20/episode-284-what-could-it-be/ ninja riding a dinosaur armed with Febreeze]].
* ''DieselSweeties'' [[http://dieselsweeties.com/archive.php?s=1516 posits]] that there are two types of people in the world: those who would travel back in time to get drunk with pirates, and those that would go back to see what color the dinosaurs really were.
* ''{{xkcd}}'' has a [[http://xkcd.com/135/ serious]] [[http://xkcd.com/292/ problem]] [[http://xkcd.com/87/ with]] [[http://xkcd.com/155/ raptors]], though the problem may have been [[http://xkcd.com/758/ minimized]] by now. The fascination with dinosaurs extends to [[http://xkcd.com/650/ other dinosaur species]].
** Remember that search history? Look [[http://www.causes.com/causes/7945 here]].
* In ''IrregularWebcomic'', the President of the United States is an ''Allosaurus'', for no readily explained reason. (Apart from the fact that he's insanely popular.)
** He won the [[http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/polls/poll0021.html election]]. [[http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/polls/poll0409.html Twice]]
* ''MinionsAtWork'': [[http://www.minionsatwork.com/2006/06/minions-12-feeding-time.html Never offer to feed the dinosaurs.]]
* They pop up from time to time in ''{{The KAMics}}''
* ''DES comics'', vaguely related to ''ElGoonishShive'' has a [[http://danshive.deviantart.com/art/Some-Comic-of-Mine-009-81483916 Velocitoaster]] [[ParodyCommercial advertisement]].
* ''OrderOfTheStick'', Everything Is Better With Dinosaurs can be seen [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0726.html here]]
* Dinosaurs frequently show up in ''AxeCop'', which makes sense, considering the author is six years old.
* In ''{{Endstone}}'', [[http://endstone.net/2011/02/14/5-09/ they appear through a ]] CoolGate in a place where time and space don't work right.
* As Molly plays with her dollhouse, ''TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob'' dares to ask if [[http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20110702.html Ibsen's plays]] would be better with dinosaurs.
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* While [[ToylessToylineCharacter sadly never released as toys]], the ''{{Bionicle}}'' web serials feature [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot cyborg dinosaurs]] that shoot FrickinLaserbeams [[EyeBeams from their eyes.]]
* ''DragonCave'' includes spotted dinosaur eggs- dinosaurs apparently being, in the absence of the former Yoshis, the second best choice, since no lawyer can complain about real-life creatures. The end results are very chubby, cheerful-looking cartoonish [[GentleGiant Gentle Giants]] that ''wear shoes''. Of course, this site presumably being set in medieval times with quite lax witchcraft-prosecuting policies, this is the least of their problems.
* One of Yotam Perel's cartoons involved a man buying his wife a bouquet.
->'''Woman:''' Aww, you got me flowers. That's so sweet.
->'''Man:''' THAT'S NOT SWEET. DINOSAURS ARE SWEET.
* Inverted in ''ProtectorsOfThePlotContinuum''; bad smut is ''worse'' with dinosaurs.
* One of the most famous stories posted on the Current Events social board on GameFAQs is [[http://www.writing.com/main/view_item/item_id/1508080 the Raptor Story]]. It starts off as an allegedly true, real-time first-person account by a poster who claims to hear his sister and her friends playing spin the bottle. However, when [[BrotherSisterIncest the author and his sister are about to kiss]], the sister and her friends are inexplicably revealed to be velociraptors. In the biggest UnexpectedGenreChange ever, the story then follows the author as he attempts to flee the dinosaur-filled city and defeat the person responsible for the dinosaurs...BarackObama.
** The story has [[JesusWasWayCool Raptor Jesus]]...the ''best'' kind of Jesus. Who BarackObama then jump-kicks. Yeah, its [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs that kind of story]].
** A [[http://www.writing.com/main/view_item/item_id/1580313 sequel]] was later created which retcons the sister's death in the first story and [[POVSequel takes place from her perspective]].
* [[http://comixed.com/2010/02/23/washington/ This.]]
* On a related note, [[http://epicwinftw.com/2010/09/16/awesome-photos-only-lempereur-gets-a-dinosaur/ this]].
* The [[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/philosoraptor Philosoraptor]] (of [[MemeticMutation meme]] fame).
** ...Which started as a tee-shirt design on [[http://www.lonelydinosaur.com/collections/frontpage/products/philosoraptor lonelydinosaur.com]].
* Apparently [[ThatGuyWithTheGlasses The Other Guy]] is a dinosuar sometimes. [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment Okay...]]
* IGN did a whole [[http://games.ign.com/articles/116/1163759p1.html Dinosaur Week]] once.
* And then there's always [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDNzzhCpqxA The VelociPastor]]
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* ''GarfieldAndFriends'' used dinosaurs mostly to parody this trope, specially in "UsAcres" (the quote above comes from an episode where Orson started telling {{Rumpelstiltskin}} to the children, adding ninjas and such for them to keep interested, but Wade and Roy started changing the story to work in their [[AuthorAvatar respective characters']] favors).
* There's also ''CadillacsAndDinosaurs''.
* ''{{Dinosaucers}}''. Perhaps most noteworthy in that both sides seemed to have a counterpart for each character, rather than each faction specializing in one particular type of dinosaur (Allosaurus/Tyrannosaurus, Triceratops/Styracosaurus, Apatosaurus/Brachiosaurus, Archaeopteryx/Pterodactyl, etc.)
* Beast Boy in ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' favours a ''T. Rex'' for sheer AwesomeButImpractical, because while it may look devastating, it doesn't fit under bridges, and it weighs too much for many floors to handle.
* They managed to work a dinosaur even into ''ChipAndDaleRescueRangers'' (Steggy in "[[AWorldwidePunomenon Prehysterical]] Pet").
* In ''{{Futurama}}: Bender's Game'', Leela and Hermes are watching ''[[TheTwilightZone The Scary Door]]'', this episode about a typical alien invasion being defeated by 'God's humblest of creatures'...The Tyrannosaurus Rex!
---> '''Leela''': I can't believe Tivo suggested that piece of crap!
** In one episode Fry sets out to enjoy the wonders of the year 3000, one being a T'Rex petting zoo. Pretty obvious what happens when he tries to feed it.
* The show up from time-to-time on ''TheFairlyOddparents''.
* In an early episode of ''TheVentureBrothers'', Brock Samson, while in a LotusEaterMachine, and dreams that he is fighting flamethrower-wielding cowboys. Only, they're riding T. Rexes. Yet Brock, in his sheer awesomeness (and mainly because it's ''his'' dream) easily dispatches them.
* An episode of ''{{Jimmy Two-Shoes}}'' has [[MadScientist Heloise]] building a large T-Rex skeleton as an instrument of misery [[MyLittlePanzer aimed at kids]].
* Both ''BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' and ''SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' feature the titular heroes fighting an animatronic Tyrannosaurus at one point, with ''Superman'' very early on in the first season.
* Because sometimes just a guy in a mask isn't enough for Mystery Inc., the gang has faced dinosaurs (besides dragons, sea serpents, and the Loch Ness Monster) in ''What's New Scooby Doo'' and more recently ''Scooby Doo! Legend of the Phantosaur.''
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