Basic Trope: Dromaeosaurids, troodontids and long-tailed birds are portrayed inaccurately.
- Straight: The Velociraptor does not have feathers and is Deinonychus-sized.
- Exaggerated: The Velociraptor does not have feathers, is Utahraptor-sized, extremely intelligent, and lives in North America in the Triassic.
- Downplayed: The raptors only have slight deviations from their real species's appearance.
- Justified:
- The Velociraptor has been specifically bred to be featherless and huge.
- The dinosaurs that the protagonists encounter are explained to be a species of Deinonychosaur that has secondarily lost feathers and has reached a large size.
- The "dinosaurs" are not actually raptors, but unrelated creatures that coincidentally happen to resemble outdated models of what raptors looked like.
- Inverted:
- The raptors are too birdlike.
- Things that should be scaled, like crocodiles, are portrayed as having feathers.
- Subverted:
- It turns out only a few Velociraptors are featherless.
- It turns out that the creatures were only mistaken for raptors and were actually more primitive dinosaurs that did not have feathers, such as Coelophysis and Herrerasaurus.
- Double Subverted:..but they are all still Deinonychus-sized.
- Parodied: It turns out the Velociraptor has shaved.
- Zig Zagged:
- The show keeps on switching between accurately-feathered Velociraptors and featherless ones.
- Velociraptor, Deinonychus, Utahraptor, and Troodon do not have feathers, while Saurornitholestes, Graciliraptor, Buitreraptor, and Xixiasaurus do.
- Averted:
- The Velociraptor is correctly-sized and correctly-feathered.
- They used other small carnivorous dinosaurs (perhaps Herrerasaurus or Dilophosaurus) instead of a raptor.
- No dinosaurs appear in the work.
- Enforced:
- Originally, feathered Velociraptors were introduced, but the public demanded featherless ones.
- The feathers looked ridiculous and had to be fixed.
- There wasn't enough money to animate feathers.
- The work was made before feathers were known to be on raptors or is a continuation of a franchise that started with featherless raptors.
- Lampshaded: "Look, see, he doesn't have feathers!"
- Invoked:
- Bob plucks feathers out of the Velociraptor.
- The Velociraptors are genetically modified to look like their public perceptions.
- Exploited: The Velociraptors let the silly tropers think they're Utahraptor-sized monsters of destruction; it helps them get sweet movie deals.
- Defied: Someone glued feathers onto the scaly Velociraptor.
- Discussed: "Should our raptors have feathers..." "NO!"'
- Conversed: "I told you, make the raptors have feathers, goddammit!"
- Deconstructed: Said genetically-engineered Velociraptors, without insulating feathers, cannot survive in our present-day climate
- Reconstructed: ...But, introduced further south, the featherless Velociraptors do great.
- Implied: There is a fleeting glimpse of scaly monsters that may or may not be raptors.
- Played For Laughs: The raptors start to protest outside the genetics factory they were made from. They are holding signs saying "We want feathers! We want them now!" as they cry out against their creators.
- Played For Drama: The raptors were bred to be scaly, upsetting a paleontologist who wanted to bring make the dinosaurs as they were. He feels exploited because his knowledge was used to create creatures in a way he did not like.
- Played For Horror: The lack of feathers is an external side-effect from the extreme genetic modification the raptors received. The paleontologist Red Shirt has just enough time to whine about the lack of feathers before the raptor jumps 500 feet straight up and cuts him in twain length-wise with its "naturally"-occurring Adamantium claw.
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