History NightmareFuel / DinoCrisis

** The first encounter with it happens in the fifth stage. It shows up abruptly and [[AlwaysABiggerFish effortlessly kills]] one of the ''Carnotaurus'', who up until this point were the biggest and among the deadliest dinosaurs hunting Mike and Paula. As soon as thus

* While [[GaidenGame Dino Stalker]] focuses a lot more on action than terror, there are still some unnerving moments to be found. Most of them come from the massive [[DarkIsEvil pitch-black]] ''T.rex'': not only does it look bigger than the other ''T.rexes'' from the series, it's [[MadeOfIron much tougher as well]], being able to resist multiple rockets shot straight at it's face without even dropping the tiniest ammount of blood. Then there's it's roar; it just sounds [[HellIsThatNoise completely unnatural and demonic]].

* While [[GaidenGame ''Dino Stalker'']] focuses a lot more on action than terror, there are still some unnerving moments to be found. Most of them come from the massive [[DarkIsEvil pitch-black ''T. rex'']]: not only does it look bigger than the other ''T .rexes'' from the series, it's [[MadeOfIron much tougher as well]], being able to resist multiple rockets shot straight at it's face without even dropping the tiniest ammount of blood. Then there's it's roar; it just sounds [[HellIsThatNoise ''completely'' unnatural and demonic]].

* While [[GaidenGame ''Dino Stalker'']] focuses a lot more on action than terror, there are still some unnerving moments to be found. Most of them come from the massive [[DarkIsEvil pitch-black T. rex]]: not only does it look bigger than the other ''.rexes'' from the series, it's [[MadeOfIron much tougher as well]], being able to resist multiple rockets shot straight at it's face without even dropping the tiniest ammount of blood. Then there's it's roar; it just sounds [[HellIsThatNoise ''completely'' unnatural and demonic]].

* While [[Gaiden Game ''Dino Stalker'']] focuses a lot more on action than terror, there are still some unnerving moments to be found. Most of them come from the massive [[DarkIsEvil pitch-black T. rex]]: not only does it look bigger than the other ''.rexes'' from the series, it's [[MadeOfIron much tougher as well]], being able to resist multiple rockets shot straight at it's face without even dropping the tiniest ammount of blood. Then there's it's roar; it just sounds [[HellIsThatNoise ''completely'' unnatural and demonic]].

** Finally, the Dino File states that the existence of the ''Giganotosaurus'' was merely a rumor among the soldiers, and that anybody who had gone out looking for the beast was never seen again; therefore, no one was able to actually confirm that it even existed. It's both amazing and unnerving that, despite its absolutely colossal size, it ''somehow'' managed to stay hidden from the survivors of the future world for so long.

[[caption-width-right:350:[[Film/JurassicPark We have]] [[JumpScare a ''T.rex''...]]

[[caption-width-right:350:[[Film/JurassicPark We have]] a ''T.rex''...]]

* The first encounter with the ''T. rex'' in the first game is done in a spectacularly frightening way. [[spoiler: Just as you turn to leave an office with a large window, likely not knowing that you have triggered anything at all, a head the size of a Volkswagen crashes through that window, snatches the corpse of a scientist and then the game throws you right into your first boss fight after giving you just enough time to realize what is going on.]]

** It's an optional fight, and he appears after you've used the keys to get the DDK, so you could always just ''run''. Even if you head for outside straight afterwards, he won't follow you.

* The ''Therizinosaurus'': the ''Therizinosaurus'' in this game was a result of ScienceMarchesOn, when all we knew of the genus was a pair of large arms tipped with gigantic curved claws. Capcom basically put in the game what they felt a carnivorous ''Therizinosaurus'' would look like. The result is a terrifying, twenty-foot tall bear-like dinosaur that one strategy guide described as "the raptor's inbred cousin from the Ozarks". It's a walking tank that [[MadeOfIron absorbs ridiculous amounts of gunfire]] with massive thresher blade-tipped arms that loves to knock Regina to the floor, then [[OneHitKill stamp on her head]] if she does not [[PressXToNotDie get up fast enough]].
** It's actually only slightly taller than a raptor, not twenty-feet tall. Everything else is spot on, though.

** Second, like the ''T.rex'', none of your weapons can kill it, and it can only be brought down through special means. Regina is able to knock it out with several giant bursts of fire to its face, but this only lasts for ''minutes'' before it gets up again. It's then temporarily incapacitated when its rampage causes a huge missile to fall next to it and explode, but even this fails to kill the ''Gigantosaurus''. It's only when Dylan uses a KillSat at the end of the game to completely obliterate it that it's KilledOffForReal.

** Second, like the ''T.rex'', none of your weapons can kill it, and it can only be brought down through special means. Regina is able to knock it out with several giant bursts of fire to its face, but this only lasts for 'minutes'' before it gets up again. It's then temporarily incapacitated when its rampage causes a huge missile to fall next to it and explode, but even this fails to kill the ''Gigantosaurus''. It's only when Dylan uses a KillSat at the end of the game to completely obliterate it that it's KilledOffForReal.

* The ''Giganotosaurus'' from the second game, for numerous reasons, as stated below.
** First of all, it's ''much'' larger than the ''T.rex'', both in length and height, with its jaws being large enough to swallow a human in one bite. In its first appearance, it completely shrugs off a bite to the leg by the ''T.rex'', which should be noted as having one of the strongest bites in the animal kingdom, and is so massive and so strong that it's even able to ''pick up'' the ''T.rex'' in its jaws and ''throw'' it across the compound before killing it. That's right: the mighty ''T.rex'', which was thought to be unkillable, is utterly curbstomped by this behemoth.
** Second, like the ''T.rex'', none of your weapons can kill it, and it can only be brought down through special means. Regina is able to knock it out with several giant bursts of fire to its face, but this only lasts for 'minutes'' before it gets up again. It's then temporarily incapacitated when its rampage causes a huge missile to fall next to it and explode, but even this fails to kill the ''Gigantosaurus''. It

* The ''Giganotosaurus'' from the second game, for numerous reasons. It's ''much'' larger than the ''T.rex'', both in length and height, with its jaws being large enough to swallow a human in one bite. In its first appearance, it completely shrugs off a bite to the leg by the ''T.rex'', which should be noted as having one of the strongest bites in the animal kingdom, and is so massive and so strong that it's even able to ''pick up'' the ''T.rex'' in its jaws and ''throw'' it across the compound.

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* The scene where the laboratory workers get eaten by the ''T. rex'' in the first game. We don't see what happens to them, but Regina overhears the screams and subsequent chewing sounds over the intercom. Just imagine what those guys' last moments were like: Trapped in an enclosed space with a giant predator, nowhere to run and no way to fight back...

* The third game has the introduction to the Australis (the game's mutated ''T. rex''). Recently rescued McCoy notices something fall on him and looks up...at which point the Australis chomps down on him, messy mutilating him as he screams in agony and the tossing his body aside. Fortunately for Patrick and Sonya, the Australis is slain by a swarm of Rigels...who proceed to burrow in and out of the massive dinosaur's body.

* Perhaps the scariest part is in the second game, which sees you putting on a diver's suit and making your way through a claustrophobic flooded base that's filled to the brim with Mosasaurs, which are basically crocodiles with fins, and the divesuit clad corpses of a couple of unlucky workers. The music really doesn't help.

* The Therizinosaurs: the ''Therizinosaurus'' in this game was a result of ScienceMarchesOn, when all we knew of the genus was a pair of large arms tipped with gigantic curved claws. Capcom basically put in the game what they felt a carnivorous ''Therizinosaurus'' would look like. The result is a terrifying, twenty-foot tall bear-like dinosaur that one strategy guide described as "the raptor's inbred cousin from the Ozarks". It's a walking tank that [[MadeOfIron absorbs ridiculous amounts of gunfire]] with massive thresher blade-tipped arms that loves to knock Regina to the floor, then [[OneHitKill stamp on her head]] if she does not [[PressXToNotDie get up fast enough]].

* The Therizinosaurs: the Therizinosaurus in this game was a result of ScienceMarchesOn, when all we knew of the species was a pair of large arms tipped with gigantic curved claws. Capcom basically put in the game what they felt a theropod carnivore Therizinosaurus would look like. The result is a terrifying, twenty-foot tall bear-like dinosaur that one strategy guide described as "the raptor's inbred cousin from the Ozarks". It's a walking tank that [[MadeOfIron absorbs ridiculous amounts of gunfire]] with massive thresher blade-tipped arms that loves to knock Regina to the floor, then [[OneHitKill stamp on her head]] if she does not [[PressXToNotDie get up fast enough]].
* The first encounter with the T-Rex in the first game is done in a spectacularly frightening way. [[spoiler: Just as you turn to leave an office with a large window, likely not knowing that you have triggered anything at all, a head the size of a Volkswagen crashes through that window, snatches the corpse of a scientist and then the game throws you right into your first boss fight after giving you just enough time to realize what is going on.]]

* The Therizinosaurs. Nuff' said.
** To elaborate: the Therizinosaurs in this game was a result of ScienceMarchesOn, when all we knew of the species was a pair of large arms tipped with gigantic curved claws. Capcom basically put in the game what they felt a theropod carnivore Therizinosaurus would look like. The result is a terrifying, twenty-foot tall bear-like dinosaur that one strategy guide described as "the raptor's inbred cousin from the Ozarks". It's a walking tank that [[MadeOfIron absorbs ridiculous amounts of gunfire]] with massive thresher blade-tipped arms that loves to knock Regina to the floor, then [[OneHitKill stamp on her head]] if she does not [[PressXToNotDie get up fast enough]].

** To elaborate: the Therizinosaurs in this game was a result of ScienceMarchesOn, when all we knew of the species was a pair of large arms tipped with gigantic curved claws. Capcom basically put in the game what they felt a theropod carnivore Therizinosaurus would look like. The result is a terrifying, twenty-foot tall bear-like dinosaur that one strategy guide described as "the raptor's inbred cousin from the Ozarks". Its a walking tank that [[MadeOfIron absorbs ridiculous amounts of gunfire]] with massive thresher blade-tipped arms that loves to knock Regina to the floor, then [[OneHitKill stamp on her head]] if she does not [[PressXToNotDie get up fast enough]].

** To elaborate: the Therizinosaurs in this game was a result of ScienceMarchesOn, when all we knew of the species was a pair of large arms tipped with gigantic curved claws. Capcom basically put in the game what they felt a theropod carnivore Therizinosaurus would look like. The result is a terrifying, twenty-foot tall bear-like dinosaur that one strategy guide described as "the raptor's inbred cousin from the Ozarks". Its a walking tank that [[MadeOfIron absorbs ridiculous amounts of gunfire]] with massive thresher blade-tipped arms that loves to knock Regina to the floor, then [[OneHitKill stamp on her head]] if she does not [[PressXNotToDie get up fast enough]].