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Dire Beast

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Dire Beast	label	Dire Beast
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Dire Beast	comment	The dire animal: a larger, often more "prehistoric"-looking version of a normal animal. It's popular in fantasy works. After all, watching your hero fight a normal-sized rat is hardly impressive, but make it the size of a small dog, now, that is impressive. A wolf might be threatening, but a sabre-toothed wolf the size of a bear... now, that's even more impressive. Note that dire wolves did actually exist in real life, though they were only slightly larger than "normal" wolves, and disappointingly, recent DNA evidence has suggested that they were not actually in the genus Canis, nor were they closely related to gray wolves.note Their skeletal structure is very similar to a gray wolf's, though, which is what caused the assumption. It's a result of convergent evolution. In addition, during the Cenozoic era there were many relatives of modern mammals such as rhinos, sloths, and hyenas that were far larger than their extant cousins and could easily be seen as further inspiration to this trope. Dire Animals have become a staple of fantasy works, often serving as early game enemies (with Dire Rats ideal for a Rat Stomp). Dire version of more impressive animals can still pose a challenge later in the story (Dire Bears the size of elephants, Dire Tyrannosaurus rex) but most often these form one of the earliest challenge heroes must face. May be the subject of Giant Animal Worship.
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Dire Beast / int_104b5e68	type	Dire Beast
Dire Beast / int_104b5e68	comment	The Pendragon Adventure: "Quigs" take the form of some local wild fauna but are even more dangerous and single-mindedly attack anyone they dance across. On one territory they look like bears, in a marine one they're sharks, on Earth they're dogs, etc. On one territory where man isn't the dominant species, they look like feral, bestial humans.
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Dire Beast / int_1fed7d40	type	Dire Beast
Dire Beast / int_1fed7d40	comment	Ahsoka has the the howlers from Peridea. They are massive wolf-life creatures whose head resembles a hyena and are used like small horses. They behave like domesticated dogs. Their design brings in mind the wargs from The Lord of the Rings.
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Dire Beast / int_20a06e1c	type	Dire Beast
Dire Beast / int_20a06e1c	comment	Dire wolves are a pain in the ass in Age of Empires II, due to their propensity to violently murder your villagers.
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Dire Beast / int_2319cc69	type	Dire Beast
Dire Beast / int_2319cc69	comment	Ori and the Will of the Wisps has a dire wolf named Howl as its first boss, a giant spiky rhinoceros beetle as it's second boss, and the dire owl Shriek as the Big Bad. On the more benevolent side, there's the giant frog guardian Kwolok, and the giant brown bear Baur of Baur's Reach.
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Dire Beast / int_25d10644	type	Dire Beast
Dire Beast / int_25d10644	comment	Guyver: In a Flash Back, the Uranus test the abilities of the first Guyver by having it fight one of their last surviving T-Rexes, which has been biochemically enhanced through the same process which transforms humans into Zoanoids. It's also mentioned that ancient Zoanoid genes still resurface from time to time, with the resultant "dire humans" having inspired mythical creatures like werewolves and Bigfoot.
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Dire Beast / int_25df2505	type	Dire Beast
Dire Beast / int_25df2505	comment	Red Dead Redemption II has Legendary Animals, unique critters that are larger and more powerful than their ordinary cousins. The one that stands out the most in this regard, though, is the Legendary Bull Gator, an alligator that's close to 40 feet long, over three times the size of the game's other, more proportionally accurate gators.
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Dire Beast / int_2913857a	comment	Animals (and plants) in The Sapling have the ability to evolve into one of four different body sizes. Larger body sizes (which were even named "Greater [X]" in earlier versions of the game) have proportionally greater hit points and lifespans at the cost of needing a lot more energy and having much slower reproduction rates. Larger predators also have the chance of swallowing smaller prey whole, as opposed to similar sizes ones that would have to kill their target and eat the carrion dropped.
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Dire Beast / int_299db5c7	type	Dire Beast
Dire Beast / int_299db5c7	comment	Bruce Coville's Book of... Nightmares II: In The Shadow Wood, while traveling through the titular forest, one of the obstacles the hero faces is a giant wolf with an iron muzzle and limbs made of rock. Fortunately, he defeats it.
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Dire Beast / int_3277eea2	comment	Dire Wolves appear in The Battle for Middle-earth. They did not appear in the books however (instead there were Wargs).
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Dire Beast / int_334120fc	comment	An arc of 8-Bit Theater where the Light Warriors are looking for a dire rat's tail prompts a discussion on the meaning of the term "dire".
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Dire Beast / int_38c57aa2	comment	The Eberron setting also adds horrid animals: dire animals that were bred into living weapons for use against the daelkyr. They tend to have even more spikes and plates than ordinary dire animals, to the point where the horrid rat has almost no actual fur visible between the spikes.
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Dire Beast / int_468bebb0	type	Dire Beast
Dire Beast / int_468bebb0	comment	Discworld: According to The Compleat Discworld Atlas, the disc has dire yaks. However, although they are noticeably larger than regular yak, they are so named because they come from the Dire Peninsula (which is separated from the main continent by the Dire Straits).
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Dire Beast / int_46aac2a3	comment	Elden Ring has normal Bears which are a bit more dangerous than the other normal wildlife but not too much trouble. It also has Runebears, which are massive Lightning Bruiser monsters that will relentlessly try to tear you apart if they notice you.
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Dire Beast / int_49a88435	type	Dire Beast
Dire Beast / int_49a88435	comment	Dire creatures appear in Final Fantasy XII. Dire Rats and Dire Flans (a flan is a type of Blob Monster).
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Dire Beast / int_49ad83ee	type	Dire Beast
Dire Beast / int_49ad83ee	comment	World of Warcraft has a ton of dire animals: Dire Wolves, Dire Boars, Dire Bats, Dire Apes, Dire Condors and Dire Lions.
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Dire Beast / int_4c9647dd	type	Dire Beast
Dire Beast / int_4c9647dd	comment	Savage Worlds includes numerous dire beasties in its core rulebook's list of pre-generated foes.
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Dire Beast / int_5307b01d	comment	In the Penny Arcade expansion pack for the game Munchkin, one of the treasures is a "Dire Teddy Bear."◊ While Munchkin: Legends has the "Dire" monster buff.
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Dire Beast / int_5538496c	comment	Paraceratherium (called by its other name Indricotherium on Walking with Beasts or Baluchitherium) was a relative of the modern-day rhinoceros. Like modern rhinos, it was bulky, but unlike modern rhinos, it had a long neck like a giraffe, and it stood two stories tall! It didn't even have a horn, because it was so big, it simply did not need one. To date, it is tied with the Asian straight-tusked elephant as the largest terrestrial mammal known to have ever existed!
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Dire Beast / int_561c6e35	type	Dire Beast
Dire Beast / int_561c6e35	comment	In Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger , Sinbad and his crew are attacked by a giant walrus on the ice floe before Hyperborea. It was animated by Ray Harryhausen.
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Dire Beast / int_56e10d85	comment	Tolkien's Legendarium: Wargs are perfect examples of giant, evil wolves, although a distinction is made in-universe between them and true wolves; the latter are natural animals, while wargs are monsters in Morgoth's and Sauron's service. Oliphaunts are essentially dire elephants (the films take this last one to a far greater extreme than the books, with the Oliphants in the books described as being "house sized", but the film versions being outright Kaiju sized). Giant eagles and giant spiders are also featured; both are ancient spirits in animal form, the former are Always Lawful Good, often acting as The Cavalry in the most dire situations, and the latter are Always Chaotic Evil.
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Dire Beast / int_5755b96a	comment	The Order of the Stick, being based on D&D, has a few dire beasts on occasion. One of the incentive comics has the joke monster Dire Lemming◊, which looks fierce but ignores the characters to dive off a cliff. Hinjo's paladin mount is a horse-sized celestial wolf named Argent.
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Dire Beast / int_5908ee91	type	Dire Beast
Dire Beast / int_5908ee91	comment	The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim: A variation exists with the Ice Wolf, Snowy Sabre Cat and Snow Bear — much tougher and deadlier versions of normal predators, only encountered in the colder regions and distinguished by their pale fur. This is Fridge Brilliance, since these animals would have to be stronger to survive in their cold, unforgiving environment, and the polar bear is indeed the largest species of bear still alive today. Given that two out of three of those were Demonic Spiders to begin with... yeah. Skyrim also has Cave Bears, which are stronger than regular bears (but slightly weaker than Snow Bears). Just like dire wolves, cave bears are a real (though extinct) species.
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Dire Beast / int_59da62aa	type	Dire Beast
Dire Beast / int_59da62aa	comment	Fallout: New Vegas: Honest Hearts has Giant Yao Guai, whose cubs are the size of the normal Yao Guai from Fallout 3. Other staple dire creatures include Giant Mantises(whose Zion Valley variety are even bigger), Deathclaws(dire chameleons), Radscorpions, Cazadores (giant tarantula hawk wasps), Geckos, Mole Rats, and Bighorners(dire sheep).
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Dire Beast / int_5b3356f8	comment	In Turning Red, Mei and her female relatives have the ability to transform into what are effectively dire red pandas.
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Dire Beast / int_5da27e43	type	Dire Beast
Dire Beast / int_5da27e43	comment	In Elsword, there exist giant versions of Phoru creatures that serves as minibosses. There are also giant, mutated rats in the Elder Bonus Dungeon.
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Dire Beast / int_5e150650	comment	Exalted has a bunch of super-sized animals found across the setting. They're usually some kind of Wyld mutant or supernatural creature.
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Dire Beast / int_629cd094	type	Dire Beast
Dire Beast / int_629cd094	comment	Dragon Age: Origins has the "Blighted" versions of some animals, such as spiders, wolves, and bears, which are bigger and tougher than their baseline counterparts. The blighted bear (known as "Bereskarn") in particular is much larger and even grows bony spikes all over its body.
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Dire Beast / int_68237790	type	Dire Beast
Dire Beast / int_68237790	comment	Pathfinder adapts most of D&D's dire animals, but links many of them to various real life prehistoric creatures - dire apes are Gigantopithecus, dire boars are Daeodon, dire tigers are sabertooth cats, etc. This comes with a fair bit of Artistic License – Paleontology, since not all the prehistoric creatures named were actually all that closely related to their mundane counterparts: Daeodon, for instance, wasn't really part of the pig family, and the sabretooth cats weren't tigers.
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Dire Beast / int_6ac55ec7	type	Dire Beast
Dire Beast / int_6ac55ec7	comment	Dungeons & Dragons This game is likely the Trope Codifier: Dire Animals are numerous, and Dire Rats, Badgers, Wolves and Bears are staples of the game and many adaptation, but more creative examples include Dire Crocodiles and Dire Sharks. Basically any animal you can think of often has a dire version. Dire animals are distinguished by their size and being covered in spikes. In 3.5, even Dire Animals had their own "more dire" counterpart in the form of "Legendary" beasts and "Paragon" beasts. The Eberron setting also adds horrid animals: dire animals that were bred into living weapons for use against the daelkyr. They tend to have even more spikes and plates than ordinary dire animals, to the point where the horrid rat has almost no actual fur visible between the spikes.
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Dire Beast / int_6c1234ed	comment	Dwarf Fortress has giant versions of most animals in the game. The largest cross into Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever territory.
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Dire Beast / int_6c1d09b4	comment	Fallout 4: Far Harbor plays this trope straight with its Fog Crawlers (Deathclaw-sized mantis shrimp), Gulpers (dire salamanders), and giant Hermit Crabs, but averts it with the relatively normal Wolves.
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Dire Beast / int_6ceabc	type	Dire Beast
Dire Beast / int_6ceabc	comment	The Iron Teeth: There are many examples of this. They usually have a well defined ecological role, though, and aren't just supersized versions of normal animals.
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Dire Beast / int_7b039953	comment	Avatar has the Direhorse, a six-legged alien beast ridden by the Na'vi as a mount. As the gravity of Pandora is far less that of earth, the creatures there get quite big, with the Direhorse reaching about the size of an African elephant.
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Dire Beast / int_7cda381e	comment	Assassin's Creed: Odyssey has the legendary creatures from The Goddesses' Hunt side quest. Each one is an Optional Boss that must be tracked down and killed to complete the quest. They are: two rhino-sized boars, a massive Hind, a huge bull, an enormous lion, a gargantuan bear, a wolf the size of a horse, and a monstrous hyena.
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Dire Beast / int_7f5bc680	type	Dire Beast
Dire Beast / int_7f5bc680	comment	Fallout series: Fallout: New Vegas: Honest Hearts has Giant Yao Guai, whose cubs are the size of the normal Yao Guai from Fallout 3. Other staple dire creatures include Giant Mantises(whose Zion Valley variety are even bigger), Deathclaws(dire chameleons), Radscorpions, Cazadores (giant tarantula hawk wasps), Geckos, Mole Rats, and Bighorners(dire sheep). Fallout 4: Far Harbor plays this trope straight with its Fog Crawlers (Deathclaw-sized mantis shrimp), Gulpers (dire salamanders), and giant Hermit Crabs, but averts it with the relatively normal Wolves.
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Dire Beast / int_8a5b4e3a	comment	In Gems of War, the Dire Wolf is, as per its card, "like a wolf, only more dire". They're distinct from the wolf-people who live in the same area.
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Dire Beast / int_8e4d18b7	type	Dire Beast
Dire Beast / int_8e4d18b7	comment	In Ys VI: The Ark of Napishtim, Admiral Agares' pet, Lanaluna AKA Elizabeth, is a giant toad from Deep Afroca.
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Dire Beast / int_8f23943f	comment	Mothra and her parody, Insectosaurus — the latter even turns into a butterfly.
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Dire Beast / int_9c6ceb95	type	Dire Beast
Dire Beast / int_9c6ceb95	comment	Seemingly as a parody, the Age of Wonders series has exactly one kind of dire beast: the Dire Penguin.
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Dire Beast / int_9d47a2a2	comment	A Song of Ice and Fire: The dire wolf is the symbol of house Stark. At adulthood, if the TV show is any indication, they grow to the size of a horse. They normally live north of the Wall but in the first book Ned Stark finds a dead female and a litter of pups in his lands on the south side and gives the pups to his six children. There are also aurochs, which are prehistoric cattle and seem to be about as common as regular cows would be in real life, and mammoths.
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Dire Beast / int_a8150af4	comment	The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power features two different species of wargs, and a giant eagle in the intro.
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Dire Beast / int_af83a9f1	comment	In South Park: The Stick of Truth, Canada (in 16-bit top down view) has a whole array of dire woodlands creature like bears, snakes and spiders. Oh, and dire AIDS too, they're like regular AIDS but dire.
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Dire Beast / int_b1b1c658	comment	Rampage has three ordinary animals: an albino gorilla named George, a wolf named Ralph, and an alligator named Lizzie, who are exposed to an experimental CRISPR mutagen that transforms them into rampaging Kaiju. While George looks the same, though bigger, Ralph and Lizzie gain monstrous appearances, complete with Spikes of Villainy.
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Dire Beast / int_b30ae4db	comment	Game of Thrones: In the first episode the Stark children adopt 5 direwolves puppies whose mother was killed by a stag: Ghost, Shaggy Dog, Nymeria, Lady and Grey Wind.
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Dire Beast / int_b8c2ace6	comment	In The Killer Shrews relatively giant shrews are attacking and killing. The "giant shrews" are played by German Shepherd dogs with not very convincing makeup.
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Dire Beast / int_bff01809	comment	Warhammer puts a spin on this with its dire wolves, which are undead creatures under the control of the Vampire Counts faction.
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Dire Beast / int_c0519fd9	comment	Dire wolves appear in RuneScape's forest of Isafdar as larger-sized versions of their cousins, guarding the entrance to the Elven city of Lletya.
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Dire Beast / int_c6a1e15a	comment	Ancient Empires has Dire Wolves as a unit type. They're strong and fast and apparently have poisonous fangs, as their attack poisons the enemy.
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Dire Beast / int_c74f2d3c	type	Dire Beast
Dire Beast / int_c74f2d3c	comment	In the Diablo franchise, there are often large, mean versions of common animals, especially spiders. Justified in the cosmology since all animals were originally based on demons, and are easily corrupted.
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Dire Beast / int_cb45dbdc	type	Dire Beast
Dire Beast / int_cb45dbdc	comment	Pokémon Scarlet and Violet introduced Paradox Pokémon to the franchise, being (supposed) distant ancestors/descendants to modern day species. In the case Scarlet'', the various ancient Pokémon are all significantly larger than their modern counterparts and usually more powerful as well.
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Dire Beast / int_e199d649	type	Dire Beast
Dire Beast / int_e199d649	comment	Inheritance Cycle: The Beor Mountains are home to a number of giant versions of regular wild animals, including feldûnost (giant goats), shrrg (wolves the size of horses), nagra (boars who grow even larger than the shrrg), and urzhad (cave bears the size of houses). Feldûnost are raised as livestock by the dwarves, but the others are dangerous wild animals — nagra are prized as challenging and dangerous prey by particularly brave dwarf hunters, while urzhad are stated to be dangerous foes even for dragons.
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Dire Beast / int_e6758d93	comment	Scion: Introduced in Hero 1e are titanspawn enemies known as nemeans (taken from the Greek legend of the Nemean lion), which are animals, insects or beasts tens of times bigger than their mundane versions with immensely durable hides. They can be any species of animal; the provided example in the source book is a gigantic nemean wild boar called Hogzilla. God takes it to the next level with typhonian animals, beasts that are hundreds of times larger that can even give gods a hard time; one example is the 300-ft-long typhonian dunkleosteus called Leviathan.
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Dire Beast / int_ed3f1e4f	type	Dire Beast
Dire Beast / int_ed3f1e4f	comment	Dice Funk: Jayne can shapeshift into a dire wolf. She always employs this when combat occurs.
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Dire Beast / int_f1da64b5	comment	As with the literary version, the film adaptations of The Lord of the Rings feature wargs and oliphaunts, basically Dire Wolves and Dire Elephants. The wargs in The Two Towers look less like wolves however and more like grotesquely mutated hyenas, while the oliphaunts are 50 feet tall and have six tusks, with the largest pair covered in spikes.
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Dire Beast / int_f3cbb86a	comment	Also parodied in BoxxyQuest: The Gathering Storm, this time with the Dire Turnip.
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