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Prehistoric Monster

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Prehistoric Monster	comment	A specific variation of What Measure Is a Non-Cute?, in which a prehistoric or otherwise extinct animal which is portrayed as more powerful, dangerous and/or deadly (if not also dumber) than any still-living equivalent to the point where it ceases to be an animal and becomes a marauding monster — larger and faster than any extant apex predator, with no equal in the modern world, filled to the brim with claws and jaws, able to smash apart man-made vehicles to get at the tasty, tasty humans inside, a feat no lion or tiger or bear can do. Often accompanied with exaggerated features, impossibly large size or hyper-aggressive behavior. In all fairness, this trope does have a grain of Truth in Television — to fulfill their status as apex predator, a predator would have to be big or at least strong enough to take down things bigger than itself, often armored or just as aggressive. Most modern-day (land) creatures are nowhere as large as a Brachiosaurus, or as armored as a Triceratops — and without such niches, there's no reason for modern-day animals to be just as enormous or well-armed as a Tyrannosaurus rex. Of course, it bears keeping in mind that most prehistoric critters didn't get any bigger or more formidable than contemporary animals, and even the ones that did were still animals rather than monsters. See also Dinosaurs Are Dragons, Dumb Dinos, Reptiles Are Abhorrent, Everything Is Trying to Kill You, Our Monsters Are Different, Primate Versus Reptile, T. Rexpy, Spinosaurus Versus T. rex, Terror-dactyl, Big Creepy-Crawlies, and Historical Villain Upgrade. Meek Mesozoic Mammal is a related concept, where they're contrasted against the "monstrous" dinosaurs. These creatures are common sights in Hollywood Prehistory. If you want to see some Real Life information about extinct critters, see here and here. For a popular way of averting this, see Domesticated Dinosaurs, Goofy Feathered Dinosaur, and Non-Malicious Monster. This trope had a heavy influence on the more fantastical Kaiju trope as well, since many early examples are based on dinosaurs or otherwise prehistoric in nature, and in Prehistoric Animal Analogue, as the fascination and vision of extinct animals as more powerful and aggressive led them to be used as inspiration for several fictional designs.
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Prehistoric Monster / int_1c1ceec7	comment	Monster Hunter zigzags this trope. Most of the titular monsters are based on prehistoric animals, and the creators wanted them to be part of a realistic ecosystem with herbivores and carnivores. To avert the trope, they put in peaceful herbivorous dinosaurs like the Aptonoth and they show some of the monsters' natural behavior in the ecology videos. But, for Rule of Cool and gameplay reasons, they also play this trope straight, with many more kinds of carnivores than herbivores, and many of the large monsters attack the hunter or other large monsters on sight, for example in the ecology videos of Akantor or Brachydios. The straightest example might be Deviljho, a monster based on T. rex which needs to eat constantly. It's even stated to have brought species close to extinction, and in-game they will even eat other large monsters.
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Prehistoric Monster / int_261c8d3f	comment	Subverted in The Simpsons episode "Days of Future Future" where dinosaurs and pterosaurs are tame and perform in a Jurassic Park-type zoo. T. rex was even shown having a teddy bear to sleep with.
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Prehistoric Monster / int_265fb1ea	comment	Quest for Fire gives us the giant lion which easily defeats two tigers and is said to be more powerful than a rhino, and the Kzamms which are a human version of this, being huge and bestial cannibals. Averted with the cave bears and giant apes which are accurately portrayed as herbivores who will leave humans alone if unprovoked. Said bears are still a nightmare if they are provoked though.
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Prehistoric Monster / int_2bbcacd9	comment	Looney Tunes: Subverted in the short "Prehistoric Porky" with dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals that look fearsome, vicious, and frightening but turn out to just be acting that way as part of a joke, misunderstanding, or an act. Averted by Porky's pet dinosaur Rover, who acts just like a gigantic dog.
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Prehistoric Monster / int_2f8e3d98	comment	Saurian averts this with all its creatures, which are depicted as normal animals that wouldn't be out of place in a nature documentary. Being a game aimed at accuracy and education, they wouldn't have much of an excuse for playing this straight.
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Prehistoric Monster / int_301f27ff	comment	65: Nearly all the dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals are shown as vicious, ugly, dim-witted, predatory animals that are always trying to kill the two protagonists on-sight, routinely giving up easier prey to try and hunt them, even small ones that attack them like packs of rabid dogs and don't care how many of their number are killed by their quarry. The only benign dinosaur they encounter is itself almost immediately killed by a pack of raptor-like dinosaurs, as if just to drive home how nothing cute or friendly could possibly survive here. The film seems to give off the impression that it's a good thing they're all about to be wiped out by the asteroid, so the Earth can be rid of such nasty, slobbering vermin.
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Prehistoric Monster / int_30ddd99e	comment	In the backstory of Bakuryuu Sentai Abaranger the dinosaurs did not go fully extinct. Instead, when the Big Bad crashed into earth 65 million years ago, the resulting explosion was so powerful that it created a parallel universe, in which the dinosaurs did not die off. Instead, they evolved into sentient lifeforms called Bakuryu, fully capable of human speech (Japanese human speech, that is.) The main three Bakuryu appear to be this trope in their first appearance, as the villains manage to brainwash them, but once they break free of it they prove to be very friendly creatures. Just imagine a large T.Rex playing with a five year old girl, because her adoptive father had no time for her. That's how gentle they are.
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Prehistoric Monster / int_31508337	comment	In JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Steel Ball Run, Diego Brando can transform himself and other living creatures into strange-looking, highly aggressive carnivorous dinosaurs and pterodactyls. This ability is called Scary Monsters.
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Prehistoric Monster / int_38ecf7	comment	This idea is expanded on for DC: The New Frontier, as "Dinosaur Island" turns out to be an Eldritch Abomination that spawns the Prehistoric Monsters as a natural defense and ready-made army. It's later revealed that the entity, "The Centre", is known better by comic fans as Starro the Conquerer.
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Prehistoric Monster / int_3a73275a	comment	1978's Most of the large animals in Planet of the Dinosaurs are extremely dangerous. The T. rex in this film acts like Jason Voorhees with a busted calender. To him, every day is Friday the 13th.
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Prehistoric Monster / int_3b8a53c	comment	Prehistoric Kingdom is a thorough aversion, as similar to Saurian above, it's an edutainment game that strives for accuracy over Rule of Cool. Fittingly, all of its animals are presented naturalistically as attractions to be displayed in a fairly ordinary zoo (as opposed to a theme park with outlandish security measures in place). It's also something of a Spiritual Successor to Prehistoric Park, and similarly presents prehistoric animals as something missing from the modern world which are worth our time and effort to bring back from extinction.
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Prehistoric Monster / int_3d0b1fce	comment	In King Kong, Skull Island is full of nothing but Prehistoric Monsters. This holds for the original (1933), its sequel The Son of Kong, and Peter Jackson's version (2005). Kong: Skull Island, the reboot for the MonsterVerse, is the first version to portray the island's non-Kong residents with any sense of grandeur or beauty beyond sheer terror, and, notably, it also very much downplays the prehistoric connections in favour of monitor lizard-like creatures, Big Creepy-Crawlies, and gigantic water buffalo.
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Prehistoric Monster / int_3f231b84	comment	The Indominus rex of Jurassic World was deliberately engineered to be one; visitors were getting tired of "regular" dinosaurs, and the park management decided to create a terrifying psychotic killing machine to boost revenue. She escapes. According to Word of God, they wanted to avert this trope with the dinosaurs not named "Indominus rex". Indeed, even the raptors are depicted as being trainable (but not tame yet), while most of the other animals are only attacking because they're scared (Ankylosaurus), hungry (Mosasaurus), angry (Tyrannosaurus rex), or all three (Pteranodon).
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Prehistoric Monster / int_423ecac5	comment	All Yesterdays sets out to deconstruct the concept and demystify the past. It decries the image of predators depicted in unending death struggles perpetually shrieking, and instead tries to portray them as actual animals with all the unusual anatomy and behavior that that entails. The "future paleontology" segment at the end parodies this trope, with modern animals reconstructed as prehistoric monsters, completed with lurid descriptions.
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Prehistoric Monster / int_470c3bd1	comment	Dino D-Day has Nazi cloned dinosaurs be used to great effect against the allies, certainly far more so than any modern animal could. Many are equipped with additional weapons and armor, but others are a serious threat to heavily armed soldiers without them.
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Prehistoric Monster / int_4c65895d	comment	2000's Disney Dinosaur averts this trope (like the similar The Land Before Time) with the herbivorous dinosaurs, having several humanized characters, many of them gentle and likable such as Aladar and Neera, but also Eema, Baylene, and Url. Even the villain, Kron (an Iguanadon), is a villain for actual, character-based reasons and not simply because he's evil. Played straight, on the other hand, with Carnotaurs and raptors, which never speak and just want to eat everybody else note though even they mostly come across as mere hungry predators rather than truly malicious, and are willing to back down when Aladar and the herd finally stand up to them. There's also a crucial difference in portrayal between the social, humanitarian lemurs and the self-centered "Social Darwinism" that permeates all the dinosaur of Kron's herd (even the young ones, who be victims of this mentality). The lemurs are modern Sifaka lemurs and not prehistoric primates at all.
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Prehistoric Monster / int_4c663d93	comment	Dinotrux: Unlike other shows about prehistoric animals, this trope gets exaggerated due to the said animals in question also being half-vehicles, often the ones with dangerous features which make them more dangerous than their real life counterparts. Scraptors are mechanical dromaeosaurs who will gladly tear other Trux to pieces. To some extent, Scrapadactyls who can be as dangerous as Scraptors, but are actually content to scavenge spare scrap metal that is found lying around or prey on the weak or injured. Sawmetrodons (half-Dimetrodon, half-trencher) are a dangerous species of Trux, who use their saws to cut down forests in order to expose woodland ore. Poundersaurolophus (half-Parasaurolophus, half-piledriver) is interesting case of this trope, since it's one of the very few times when a Parasaurolophus is depicted as prehistoric monster. This Trux are extremely aggressive that they pound everything in sight. Aquadons (half-Mosasaurus, half-submarine) are very territorial species of Dinotrux who use sliding out shark-like saw-fins on invaders in their territory, and are extremely protective of their sea ore. Dreadtrux (half-Dreadnoughtus half-bucket-wheel excavator) are massive species of Dinotrux, dwarfing even the Craneosaurs and T-Truxes and spend months eating and destroying everything in their path. This is one of the few instances where a sauropod plays this trope. Shredadons (half-Suchomimus, half-scrap metal shredder) are very territorial species of Dinotrux who are even feared by scrap collectors due to their shredding mechanism rendering any unlucky Trux into the show equivalent of Ludicrous Gibs. Drillipedes (half-Arthropleura, half-mining drill) are aggressive species of Tools that attack anything that they think might take out their ore.
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Prehistoric Monster / int_505b044e	comment	The 1997 Leigh Clark novel Carnivore features a T. rex that hatches from a preserved egg recovered in (of all places) Mysterious Antarctica, reaches full size in a matter of days due to exposure to radioactive waste, and turns a research outpost into its personal buffet table.
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Prehistoric Monster / int_50ae0013	comment	Carnosaur by Harry Adam Knight is essentially an adventure/horror novel with dinosaurs horrifically ripping people up after escaping from the estate of the evil aristocrat who cloned them.
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Prehistoric Monster / int_525c9c7a	comment	Averted by the Dinotopia series, in which all the dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures are Intellectual Animals that for the most part exist peacefully alongside humans. The exceptions are the large uncivilized theropods of the Rainy Basin and they get portrayed as Noble Savages that can be bargained with. Contrast the miniseries. One aversion occurs in the novel Chomper, where a boy raises a young Giganotosaurus in the city and teaches it the basic customs, all while other Dinotopia citizens repeatedly treat it with prejudice; fortunately, it still remembers these years later while living as an adult in the Rainy Basin.
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Prehistoric Monster / int_52744882	comment	Mostly averted in Dinoverse, though it depends on the book. In the first/first two books (the first was split into two) an Elasmosaurus and one Tyrannosaur are randomly monstrous, but with the T-rex it's actually discussed and justified, with a character believing that he's drawn to keep following and disturbing them. Triceratops pose a threat and are seen as overreacting in the protection of their young, but is otherwise fairly intelligent. In the second set of books, various predators are looked upon as noble, even ones who have attacked and bitten a protagonist earlier. The series is extremely prone to Amplified Animal Aptitude.
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Prehistoric Monster / int_54dc998a	comment	Jurassic Park (1990) takes a similar approach to Spielberg's movies (see above) but with a Darker and Edgier tone (as one may see soon after reading the summary). The characters do note that if the dinosaurs (especially the velociraptors) display hunting behaviour towards humans, they must have learned that humans make good/easy prey — as is the case with real, modern Man-Eaters. There's a sequence justifying this trope in the first book — though not the movie — where geneticist Henry Wu proposes trying to engineer the dinosaurs to be more gentle and manageable, but Hammond shoots the idea down because "then our dinosaurs wouldn't be real." Henry doesn't say what he's thinking, which is that there's so much frog DNA already in them that they're already not real; Hammond's preference for the more violent dinosaurs is mostly due to marketability.
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Prehistoric Monster / int_550f5b20	comment	This trope is quite evident in We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story, at least on a background level. The dinosaurs are repeatedly made out to be mindlessly violent, destructive, and stupid prior to being forcibly evolved by Captain Neweyes. Their primal forms are even explicitly referred to as "monsters".
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Prehistoric Monster / int_57cb507e	comment	1977's The Last Dinosaur has a Great White Hunter battle a Prehistoric Monster type T. rex.
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Prehistoric Monster / int_582d133	comment	The Lost World (1912) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has its various prehistoric animals almost unanimous in their desire to eat the heroes. There's also a war between a society of human hunter-gatherers and a group of dryopithecoid "ape-men", and the Mighty Whitey heroes side with their fellow humans without a moment's hesitation. It's important to mention that, to contemporary Britons like Sir Arthur, prehistoric life wasn't just monstrous; it was inferior, since dinosaurs went extinct and we didn't.
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Prehistoric Monster / int_5b6ac393	comment	Oakwood is a Survival Horror game set in an abandoned, dinosaur-infested campground. And all three of the dinosaur species encountered (specifically, Tyrannosaurus rex, velociraptor, and dilophosaurus) are remorseless bloodthirsty carnivores that are all too eager to hunt player character Madison and her six friends on sight.
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Prehistoric Monster / int_5e7c69b6	comment	1951's Lost Continent has most of its monsters think humans are tasty.
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Prehistoric Monster / int_5ec06c65	comment	The prologue to Jurassic World Dominion vindicates what Dr. Grant said about InGen's dinosaurs by offering a glimpse of actual dinosaurs living out their lives in the Cretaceous period. They're all presented as completely normal animals, presumably to provide contrast with InGen's artificial creations. It is played straight in the actual film with the Atrociraptor being ridiculously Super Persistent Predators (as part of their creation to be a bio-weapons), a Quetzalcoatlus with a grossly-oversized wingspan of 70 feet attacking an airplane just for flying through the same airspace as it, a feathered Pyroraptor with the ability to swim that doesn't let icy conditions and plunging into a freezing lake stop it from trying to kill two humans, the Therizinosaurus which despite being a herbivore is extremely aggressive and actively stalks humans and animals alike seemingly with the intent to kill them for no discernible reason... but ironically subverted with Giganotosaurus who, despite looking like a prehistoric dragon, is the least monstrous carnivorous antagonist since T. rex, as it never kills any human and only went on a rampage after being burned by fire. As if to emphasize this, its establishing shot in the film doesn't show it hunting or shrieking at nothing like you might expect, but simply napping peacefully in a forest clearing. But in the end, dinosaurs and prehistoric animals are shown peacefully integrating with modern animals and humans, with even the Mosasaurus peacefully swimming with humpback whales, firmly cementing them as animals and not monsters.
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Prehistoric Monster / int_5f090258	comment	Flesh: Every single prehistoric animal by default is depicted as a dimwitted, hyper-aggressive, bloodthirsty brute that will horribly kill any human they can get their claws and teeth on (and yes, that includes the herbivores, small mammals, and insects), and prove more than a match for advanced future technology. It gets to the point that even a dinosaur fossil manages to kill someone. Of course, the humans in the stories aren't much better...
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Prehistoric Monster / int_63721cc9	comment	1960's Dinosaurus! has a T. rex which acts like a rampaging monster and later fights a crane. There's also a Gentle Giant Sauropod of some kind and a wacky caveman.
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Prehistoric Monster / int_6ac55ec7	comment	Dungeons & Dragons: The original 3rd Edition rules classified all prehistoric vertebrates as "beasts", not "animals", thus lumping them together with fantastical monsters such as ankhegs, griffons and hippogriffs, bulettes, Roc Birds, hydras, owlbears, and purple worms. This meant that dinosaurs and other creatures extinct on Earth couldn't be affected by magics or class abilities targeting the "animal" creature-type, even if they still constituted a natural part of their native game-worlds' contemporary ecosystems. This distinction lasted until the 3.5 revisions abolished the "beast" creature type, converting the extinct critters to "animals" and the fantasy creatures as "magical beasts". This gave less weight to being extinct on Earth but more to appear on Earth at any time and have no supernatural abilities. 3.5 also has a few wholly fictional dinosaur-type creatures, such as the fleshraker and bloodspitter, but despite some very unusual abilities, they are still considered "animals". The fleshraker in particular was a very popular option as a druidic animal companion. There still do remain in 3.5 and later editions a few creatures of the Magical Beast and Aberration types that bear strong resemblances to prehistoric animals — the digester, destrachan, ethereal marauder, yrthak, and prismasaurus in particular — you could argue that these things further normalize dinosaurs within the setting, given the many, many Magical Beasts based on real animals — manticores, sphinxes, griffins, chimeras, and lamassim, for instance, are all distinctly leonine. Most of these were treated as being barely more intelligent than animals, at best, with destrachans alone being written as "incredibly evil and crafty sadists".
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Prehistoric Monster / int_6d567be3	comment	Invoked and parodied in The King of Fighters XIV: the King of Dinosaurs's gimmick is that he dresses up in a dinosaur costume and acts like a Wrestling Monster - using illegal moves, threatening the audience, et cetera. Unfortunately for him, he rather frequently slips back into his Tizoc persona, and almost everybody doesn't buy his claims of having committed a Faceâ€“Heel Turn for a second.
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Prehistoric Monster / int_6f1afdd7	comment	1925's The Lost World features the earliest Kaiju attack — a Brontosaurus that goes on the rampage in downtown London with little provocation. At least it doesn't try to eat anyone. In this case it's actually justified — it's a panicked animal that suddenly found itself in an unfamiliar and unsuitable environment.
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Prehistoric Monster / int_735a44a9	comment	In order to become a member of the Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger, the characters have to defeat one of the giant dinosaur mecha to prove they are worthy. The red ranger is the last to succeed in this task, as his tyrannosaurus partner does not deem him worthy — not because he isn't powerful enough, but because the T.Rex likes him so much that he doesn't want to put his life in danger when fighting the bad guys.
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Prehistoric Monster / int_755c9804	comment	Averted by many earlier LEGO themes, such as the Duplo line that had cavemen and dinosaurs living together peacefully, or the dinosaur-related subline of Adventurers, which was about saving the animals from falling into the villains' hands. It is, however, played straight in Dino 2010 and especially in its American counterpart, Dino Attack, which centered around the heroes battling evil prehistoric beasts with exaggerated monstrous features.
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Prehistoric Monster / int_77711848	comment	Journey to the Center of the Earth, written by Jules Verne, may be the Trope Maker in literature with its iconic battle between two monstrous (and rather improbable) marine reptiles called "Ichthyosaur" and "Plesiosaur".
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Prehistoric Monster / int_7849f0c1	comment	Getter Robo: The first enemies are shown to be Cyborg Dinosaurs From the Center of the Earth, presented as robeasts.
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Prehistoric Monster / int_789a0271	comment	Alan himself later refers to the dinosaurs as "genetically engineered theme-park monsters" in Jurassic Park III. It appears to be justified however, since he's referring to the dissonance between real dinos and JP creations rather than the nature of prehistoric animals. In the same film, the raptors are given an unusually sympathetic motivation for their dogged pursuit of the human characters: they're only trying to recover their stolen eggs, and when Alan returns the eggs at the film's climax, the raptors leave in peace. Lady Margaret, the alpha-female Triceratops (and according to some fans, the very same sick trike from the original) drives the above point home in Jurassic Park: The Game. All three of them, in fact, if you don't turn off the car horn or get out of the way in time.
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Prehistoric Monster / int_7c038c18	comment	Invoked in Phineas and Ferb when Doofenshmirtz resurrects dodos. He doesn't actually know what a dodo is, but they're extinct like dinosaurs, so he imagines it'll be like giant dinosaurs destroying the city. He is disappointed to find out that dodos are turkey-like creatures. (Which is a bit ironic when you realize that dodos are dinosaurs, like all birds.)
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Prehistoric Monster / int_7c0b24e0	comment	Monsters Resurrected plays this painfully straight — it's even in the title! The most notorious example may be the Spinosaurus, compared to which even Jurassic Park III's depiction of the animal could be considered realistic.
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Prehistoric Monster / int_7c4f1adb	comment	Our Miss Brooks: In "Madison Mascot", a torn note has Walter Denton, Stretch Snodgrass, Miss Brooks and Mr. Boynton mistakenly believe that the new name for the Madison High football team will be the "Madison Mammoths".
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Prehistoric Monster / int_7c50d3d9	comment	Super Mario Bros. (1993) portrays the population of humanoid-evolved dinosaurs in the parallel world as rough, dumb, murderous and just plain rude. Some of them are good guys, but overall, it's a much darker and less-pleasant world.
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Prehistoric Monster / int_7d122312	comment	The Flintstones (started in the 1960s) completely averts the trope, showing funny prehistoric animals that behave either like living tools or pets (Dino).
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Prehistoric Monster / int_807ff105	type	Prehistoric Monster
Prehistoric Monster / int_807ff105	comment	The Rhedosaurs from The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953) and the Paleosaurus of The Giant Behemoth (1959) are the iconic images of what people think of when they think "Prehistoric Monster" (aside from Godzilla, see below).
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Prehistoric Monster / int_81341360	comment	The Ice Age movies (the first of them dating from 2002) avert this as far as mammals and birds from the Cenozoic era are concerned. Dinosaurs and other Mesozoic reptiles, however, get this treatment whenever they appear, be it frozen over and thawed, as in Ice Age: The Meltdown, or located in a Lost World, like in Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (with the exception of sauropods and, ironically, T. rex and raptors).
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Prehistoric Monster / int_85a5a3b9	comment	Predaking of Transformers: Prime is this towards the modern-day Cybertronians, an extremely powerful Super-Persistent Predator who outclasses everyone else in the show subverted in that he and his species were apparently sentient all along.
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Prehistoric Monster / int_8625b651	comment	Despite its name, Walking with Monsters doesn't portray prehistoric animals as being more monstrous than those in its dinosaur-themed predecessor. It mostly focuses on the megafauna (a.k.a. the big, recognizable animals, as opposed to the more obscure ones), which sometimes involves employment of this trope, but not as often as one might think. While the show sometimes gushes about, say, how awesome a predator the Gorgonops was, it ultimately shows it as an animal trying to survive when it succumbs to thirst and starvation. The portrayal of the Permian-Triassic extinction that follows shortly thereafter is also played up as a tragic event. The above, however, arguably applies mainly to the program's treatment of Paleozoic vertebrates (in other words, our direct ancestors and their close relatives). Many of the predatory arthropods and related invertebrates, on the other hand, are indeed given a comparatively more monstrous (occasionally bordering on Always Chaotic Evil) treatment. The narration at times plays their predatory behaviours as though they're intentionally trying to wipe our fish and tetrapod progenitors off the face of the Earth (with descriptors like "arthropod enemies" being used frequently), despite the fact that they're also just animals struggling to survive in the way that happens to work best for them.
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Prehistoric Monster / int_891a219c	comment	1988's The Land Before Time may count as one of the first aversions in Movieland. Here the main characters are thinking dinosaurs trying to reach the Great Valley with the Power of Friendship; however the villain Sharptooth is one of the most ferocious T. rexes ever depicted — although tyrannosaurs become humanized and, in the case of the character Chomper, even friendly in the Lighter and Softer sequels. Fantastic Racism also characterizes some adult herbivorous dinosaurs in the series (like Cera's father and sometimes his daughter herself).
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Prehistoric Monster / int_8a5b7ac3	comment	The 2001 miniseries of The Lost World deconstructs a lot of the imperialistic thinking of its source material, showing the dinosaurs and the much-maligned ape-men to be well-adapted, often beautiful, and sometimes fairly intelligent creatures. Notably, a major subplot (and one completely absent from the book), has Prof. Challenger (Bob Hoskins) preventing the natives of the plateau from exterminating the ape-men, but in doing so, he inadvertently brings disaster to the village when the vengeful ape-men summon a pair of Allosaurs. The series ends with him and the other explorers deciding to keep the plateau a secret in order to protect its inhabitants, while the book seems fairly cheerful about the possibility that they'll all go extinct, because they're monsters and that's what they deserve. This trope also shows up in-universe with Prof. Summerlee who represents the kind of paleontology attitudes typical of the 1911 setting — he refers to an Allosaurus in one scene as a "creature from Hell". While we do see little of the Allosaurs beyond their hunger, there's also a very charming scene where one of the heroes befriends a Hypsilophodon.
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Prehistoric Monster / int_8b4e057	comment	In Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger, mankind lived alongside the dinosaurs millions of years ago, with both races coexisting peacefully. Their guardian gods even take the shape of mechanical prehistoric beings.
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Prehistoric Monster / int_984a6474	comment	Subverted in Cadillacs and Dinosaurs, where dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures are treated as normal animals. Many episodes involved protagonist Jack Tenrec having to help them in some way, with protecting them and humans from each other being a recurrent concept.
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Prehistoric Monster / int_99977e15	comment	The Monsterverse plays this trope straight, depicting the Permian period as a time when giant radiation-eating kaiju ran rampant and Godzilla's species was the apex predator of them all.
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Prehistoric Monster / int_9a9b24fa	comment	Jurassic Park (1993) and its sequels seem to zigzag this trope quite a bit. For example, in the first movie Alan Grant tells a young boy that Velociraptors are scary killers, but much later he responds to Lex that carnivores only behave the way nature intends. Furthermore, dinosaurs in this film are described as both terrible and attractive, with predators that correspond more to the former image and the herbivores to the latter (with the sick Triceratops and the "veggiesaurus" Brachiosaur being the best examples). Interestingly, the only time a character calls dinosaurs "monsters" (Lex with the brachiosaurs), Alan says "They're not monsters, Lex. They're animals". However, in the two sequels the cloned animals appear more frightening and and murderous: see the difference between the Triceratops's attitude in the first Jurassic Park and The Lost World. The scariest example, however, may be the tiny Compsognathuses acting as two-legged piranhas, tearing chunks of flesh from a human and devouring him alive. In Real Life, the "compies" would probably be no more dangerous than house cats or wild foxes. Alan himself later refers to the dinosaurs as "genetically engineered theme-park monsters" in Jurassic Park III. It appears to be justified however, since he's referring to the dissonance between real dinos and JP creations rather than the nature of prehistoric animals. In the same film, the raptors are given an unusually sympathetic motivation for their dogged pursuit of the human characters: they're only trying to recover their stolen eggs, and when Alan returns the eggs at the film's climax, the raptors leave in peace. Lady Margaret, the alpha-female Triceratops (and according to some fans, the very same sick trike from the original) drives the above point home in Jurassic Park: The Game. All three of them, in fact, if you don't turn off the car horn or get out of the way in time. The Indominus rex of Jurassic World was deliberately engineered to be one; visitors were getting tired of "regular" dinosaurs, and the park management decided to create a terrifying psychotic killing machine to boost revenue. She escapes. According to Word of God, they wanted to avert this trope with the dinosaurs not named "Indominus rex". Indeed, even the raptors are depicted as being trainable (but not tame yet), while most of the other animals are only attacking because they're scared (Ankylosaurus), hungry (Mosasaurus), angry (Tyrannosaurus rex), or all three (Pteranodon). And then there's the Indoraptor of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom who may as well be an exaggeration of this trope, as not only is he a powerful, intelligent and utterly vicious predator, he is also a genuine Sadist who takes great pleasure in the terror and agony of his victims, and is arguably the first dinosaur antagonist in the franchise to be genuinely malicious and evil. Like the Indominus, it's a genetically engineered monster, and emphatically not a regular, natural dinosaur. To provide contrast, all the other dinosaurs in the movie are treated like regular animals, albeit potentially very dangerous ones, and Blue the raptor is even portrayed as one of the movie's heroes. The prologue to Jurassic World Dominion vindicates what Dr. Grant said about InGen's dinosaurs by offering a glimpse of actual dinosaurs living out their lives in the Cretaceous period. They're all presented as completely normal animals, presumably to provide contrast with InGen's artificial creations. It is played straight in the actual film with the Atrociraptor being ridiculously Super Persistent Predators (as part of their creation to be a bio-weapons), a Quetzalcoatlus with a grossly-oversized wingspan of 70 feet attacking an airplane just for flying through the same airspace as it, a feathered Pyroraptor with the ability to swim that doesn't let icy conditions and plunging into a freezing lake stop it from trying to kill two humans, the Therizinosaurus which despite being a herbivore is extremely aggressive and actively stalks humans and animals alike seemingly with the intent to kill them for no discernible reason... but ironically subverted with Giganotosaurus who, despite looking like a prehistoric dragon, is the least monstrous carnivorous antagonist since T. rex, as it never kills any human and only went on a rampage after being burned by fire. As if to emphasize this, its establishing shot in the film doesn't show it hunting or shrieking at nothing like you might expect, but simply napping peacefully in a forest clearing. But in the end, dinosaurs and prehistoric animals are shown peacefully integrating with modern animals and humans, with even the Mosasaurus peacefully swimming with humpback whales, firmly cementing them as animals and not monsters. Dominion also has a fairy unique take in that the most evil animals are a type of prehistoric locust (ficticious as they are, since there were no Cretaceous locusts), which are at once the most mundane looking animals and yet still play into this trope by being bigger and more menacing than modern locusts and by potentially posing a globally catastrophic threat to the world's ecosystems and food supplies.
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Prehistoric Monster / int_9aaba398	comment	The Meg plays this dead straight. The backstory given for the eponymous shark says that it has evolved to hunt exclusively in extremely dark deep-sea environments. However, the moment it gets the opportunity to leave its natural habitat, it immediately goes towards shallow, sunny water where a real deep-sea fish would most likely die immediately, or at the very least get blinded and hideously deformed, just because that's where it can eat the most people. This happens twice with two separate sharks. No explanation is offered for this; everyone in the movie just treats it as obvious that a megalodon, despite having never seen a human before and having evolved to live on a diet of sea creatures that bear virtually no resemblance to humans, would instinctively head towards wherever it can kill the most people as soon as it finds out about their existence, even if it means ignoring basic self-preservation instincts. Also, the megalodon is mostly shown swallowing the people it kills whole, yet when it kills a group of poachers offscreen it decides to leave parts of their body intact and floating in the water, for no apparent reason other than to make the scene look more disturbing.
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Prehistoric Monster / int_9ade0de7	comment	Dinosaur Sanctuary very much averts this. The dinosaurs of Enoshima Dinoland are depicted as having needs and problems no different than those of the animals you find in real-life zoos. This is well-established in the first chapter when the zoo hosts a feeding show for its Giganotosaurus, where the dinosaur cautiously and quietly investigates the deer carcass presented to it before taking it; protagonist Suzume later describes the huge theropod as "a big spoiled sweetheart". In fact, one of Suzume's main motivations is to help dispel the popular image of dinosaurs as vicious monsters. That said, while they aren't mindlessly vicious, that certainly doesn't make them safe, with a defining incident of the world being when a stressed-out Allosaurus mauled her own keeper. The overall moral is "they may be animals, but animals still kill people."
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Prehistoric Monster / int_9dd6b935	comment	Many of the "paleoart" on DeviantArt seek to avert this as much as possible by portraying said prehistoric animals beyond carnage and fighting. Behold a subadult ''Alioramus'' catching insects in a warm summer field.
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Prehistoric Monster / int_9e2f90f4	comment	One Piece: The Zoan-type Devil Fruits, which allow Animorphism, have a rarer "Ancient" subtype which allow users to transform into normally extinct animals (such as dinosaurs) and are strongly implied to be more powerful than normal Zoans. The Evil Overlord pirate Kaido, whose crew is Zoan-themed, has many Ancient Zoan users among his more high-ranking underlings. Specifically, his nine highest-ranking officers - the three "Lead Performers", who are the top three in the crew, and the six "Tobi Roppo", strongest of the Headliners (or second-grade officers) - all have Ancient Zoans. King and Queen of the Lead Performers, and X Drake, Page One, Ulti and Sasaki of the Tobi Roppo, have the Pteranodon, Brachiosaurus, Allosaurus, Spinosaurus, Pachycephalosaurus and Triceratops models of the Dragon-Dragon Fruit, respectively. Jack, the third of the Lead Performers, ate an Ancient model of the Elephant-Elephant Fruit (Model: Mammoth), while Black Maria and Who's Who of the Tobi Roppo ate Ancient models of the Spider-Spider Fruit (Model: Rosamygale Grauvogeli, a prehistoric spider that's the ancestor of the modern tarantula, funnelwebs and trapdor spiders) and Cat-Cat Fruit (Model: Saber-Toothed Tiger), respectively.
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Prehistoric Monster / int_9f89a5f0	comment	In PokÃ©mon, while there are PokÃ©mon designed after dinosaurs, a number of them are extinct and can only be attained by reviving them from fossils, making them true Prehistoric Monsters. However, this is zigzagged — while most fossil PokÃ©mon are based on predators, Amaura and Aurorus are based on herbivores, and have calm personalities. In addition, though the PokÃ©dex describes a number of said predators as dangerous, they still remain loyal to the player, and are even capable of showing affection towards them like any other PokÃ©mon via PokÃ©mon-Amie in Gen VI. PokÃ©mon Scarlet and Violet introduce Paradox PokÃ©mon, with those in Scarlet basically being Prehistoric Monster versions of other PokÃ©mon. They are always bigger than their modern equivalents and often have attributes as horns, tusks, feathers and natural armor, but without resembling any real prehistoric animals.
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Prehistoric Monster / int_9ff4a8d9	comment	Godzilla and many other Kaiju are real or fictional Dinosaurs — and not all of them are mutated by radiation to be 150+ft long. Godzilla later subverts this in his later film appearances. He's shown as being rather intelligent (generally about as smart as an ape) and as being a loving and protective father. The Monsterverse plays this trope straight, depicting the Permian period as a time when giant radiation-eating kaiju ran rampant and Godzilla's species was the apex predator of them all.
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Prehistoric Monster / int_a1206fae	comment	Raptor Red averts it completely. Not surprisingly, since it was written by a paleontologist. And not an ordinary one: the guy who started the "Dinosaur Renaissance".
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Prehistoric Monster / int_a4ff8e01	comment	Fate/Grand Order's depiction of Mary Anning uses this trope rather deliberately, with Anning's discoveries being depicted as freakish monstrosities with grey skin, warped proportions, dead eyes, and toothy grins. This is because Anning is drawing from how they would have been depicted in her own life (before the term "dinosaur", or even the concept of an extinct animal, had entered scientific thought), particularly the painting Duria Antiquior.
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Prehistoric Monster / int_a5ef2301	comment	Dinosaur Revolution subverts this trope: The animals act more like cartoon characters rather than savage monsters, and Noisy Nature is averted. That said, this trope is played straight with the Saurosuchus and Torvosaurus. Noisy Nature is also played straight (and arguably parodied) with the Torvosaurus, who just loves to show off his Mighty Roar
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Prehistoric Monster / int_acb663b7	comment	Averted by Dead Sound's Dinosauria series. Dinosaurs are portrayed as being complex, fascinating creatures acting like real animals. The Gorgosaurus kills a female Lambeosaurus to eat, but leaves the rest of the herd alone, the Tylosaurus pursuing the Geosternbergia is acting seemingly out of curiosity than unnecessary aggresion, and in the finale, The Last Tyrant, the extinction of the dinosaurs is painted as a powerful and unfair tragedy on undeserving victims, but paints a ray of hope in the end that the dinosaurs may be gone, but their awe-inspiring legacy lives on today, both in human culture and in their descendants, the birds.
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Prehistoric Monster / int_b2fba3e0	comment	The Ultra Series features lots of prehistoric or dinosaur-based kaiju for the Ultras to fight. However, not all of the Prehistoric Monsters of the Week are depicted as savage, destructive forces of nature. The heroes have dealt with their share of peaceful, friendly, or non-malicious prehistoric kaiju, who are spared and allowed to live in peace.
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Prehistoric Monster / int_b3414986	comment	Lost Tapes features several surviving prehistoric animals that all think humans are VERY tasty...
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Prehistoric Monster / int_b3f325c0	comment	The Jungle Book (2016): King Louie received an Adaptation Species Change from an orangutan to the much larger, India-native Gigantopithicus, as well as being more malicious, menacing and serious than his Disney Animated counterpart. This was a move that baffled a lot of audience members, since The Jungle Book is not normally a story about prehistoric animals.
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Prehistoric Monster / int_b5c385bc	comment	Played straight in the Dino Crisis series, where even the sole herbivore of the franchise obeys the rule of Everything Trying to Kill You.
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Prehistoric Monster / int_b8e7bb8	comment	Super Sentai has three dinosaur-based series, and all of them avert this trope — mostly because the mecha in these series are all sentient and allies of the heroes. In Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger, mankind lived alongside the dinosaurs millions of years ago, with both races coexisting peacefully. Their guardian gods even take the shape of mechanical prehistoric beings. In the backstory of Bakuryuu Sentai Abaranger the dinosaurs did not go fully extinct. Instead, when the Big Bad crashed into earth 65 million years ago, the resulting explosion was so powerful that it created a parallel universe, in which the dinosaurs did not die off. Instead, they evolved into sentient lifeforms called Bakuryu, fully capable of human speech (Japanese human speech, that is.) The main three Bakuryu appear to be this trope in their first appearance, as the villains manage to brainwash them, but once they break free of it they prove to be very friendly creatures. Just imagine a large T.Rex playing with a five year old girl, because her adoptive father had no time for her. That's how gentle they are. In order to become a member of the Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger, the characters have to defeat one of the giant dinosaur mecha to prove they are worthy. The red ranger is the last to succeed in this task, as his tyrannosaurus partner does not deem him worthy — not because he isn't powerful enough, but because the T.Rex likes him so much that he doesn't want to put his life in danger when fighting the bad guys.
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Prehistoric Monster / int_b9a6187c	comment	The documentary series Walking withâ€¦ plays the trope straight in two cases (Walking with Monsters and Sea Monsters), but averts it in most part of the series, such as in Walking with Dinosaurs, Walking with Beasts, The Ballad of Big Al, and Prehistoric Park. In this spinoff prehistoric animals are described as "something which is missing in our world, amazing animals that time has left behind" and worth bringing back to life; moreover, they show up later in the park alongside their living relatives (Martha the mammoth with African elephants, dinosaurs with birds and crocodiles, sabre-toothed cats with cheetahs and so on). Here the discrimination between extinct and non-extinct animals is absent (a very rare example in media). The trope is even inverted in one case — keeper Bob is affectionate with the giant millipede relative Arthropleura and says, "This is not like spiders and other small modern creepy-crawlies. This is a proper animal".
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Prehistoric Monster / int_ba7f543a	comment	The first aversion was the lovable Gertie the Dinosaur (ironically, the very first prehistoric critter to show up in cinema, in 1914).
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Prehistoric Monster / int_c353ea41	comment	The dinosaurs from the 1998-99 Jurassic Park: Chaos Effect toy line by Kenner/Hasbro could certainly qualify as nearly all of them are carnivorous and described as being far more lethal than their natural counterparts due to being engineered as bio-weapons. Becomes Hilarious in Hindsight, considering the direction the films would later go in.
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Prehistoric Monster / int_cb45dbdc	comment	PokÃ©mon Scarlet and Violet introduce Paradox PokÃ©mon, with those in Scarlet basically being Prehistoric Monster versions of other PokÃ©mon. They are always bigger than their modern equivalents and often have attributes as horns, tusks, feathers and natural armor, but without resembling any real prehistoric animals.
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Prehistoric Monster / int_cbe7f8d0	comment	Tremors: Although their origins are left unexplained in the first film, sequels establish that Graboids are actually Precambrian organisms (meaning they are so ancient, they predate the normal fossil record), and they occasionally occur in the present day due to their eggs being able to survive in dormancy for centuries. They are highly aggressive and extraordinarily voracious, the worm-like Graboid stage basically being a caterpillar that feeds to create Shriekers, and the Shriekers use the food they consume to produce endless and immediate waves of offspring, so neither can ever get full. Because of how rapidly they breed and voraciously they feed they have no legal protections and are killed on sight, despite their very low overall population that would otherwise classify them as an endangered species.
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Prehistoric Monster / int_cd44c686	comment	In his The Land That Time Forgot series, Burroughs does the same thing — his Tyrannosaurus is an armor-plated dragon which eats its victims with its three-fingered hands.
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Prehistoric Monster / int_cee5dc9d	comment	Guidraco venator, the name of a pterosaur from China, means "Hunting Ghost Dragon". The name may be a bit misleading, though, as it was most likely a harmless fish-eater. Azhdarcho, which granted the family Azhdarchidae its name, is derived from Azi Dahaka, better known as Zahhak, an evil snake magician in The Shahnameh and broader Zoroastrianism. At the time azhdarchids were thought to be piscivores similar to Pteranodon (it's now thought that they were terrestrial foragers similar to storks or ground hornbills).
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Prehistoric Monster / int_d1706117	comment	Zoo Tycoon zig-zags with this. Carnivores like T.rex and raptors will try to escape and eat guests (though admittedly, so do some regular animals) while herbivores are somewhat more peaceful. But due to lazy programming, once they escape the herbivorous dinosaurs will also rampage and in the first game they are inaccurately also said to eat human guests.
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Prehistoric Monster / int_dc0b6841	comment	Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again: Godzilla is an amphibious theropod with a crocodilian hide that lived between two and 150 million years ago, and was a ravenous carnivore that was up to 50 meters tall. Anguirus is a carnivorous Tough Armored Dinosaur that lived between 150 to 70 million years ago, standing between 45 and 60 meters tall; and had multiple brains scattered throughout its body to maximize its speed and agility.
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Prehistoric Monster / int_e365af07	comment	Dino Attack RPG: Zigzagged. Much of the RPG portrays the mutant dinosaurs as monstrous, savage, and destructive enemies that exist for the heroes to exterminate. However, these dinosaurs aren't actually inherently evil, and there are characters such as Rex who view them sympathetically and have even tamed them, which has led to in-universe debates over whether it's morally justified to wipe out the mutant dinosaurs. Furthermore, most regular non-mutant dinosaurs (including the tyrannosaurus) are treated as sapient and benevolent instead of monstrous, although they are still fearsome enough that it's a bad idea to get on their bad side.
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Prehistoric Monster / int_e393e4a3	comment	Primal (2019) is set in a prehistoric world occupied by cavemen, dinosaurs, and all manner of giant beasts. Most animals appearing in the show are exaggerated in size and are given monstrous features. The first episode alone gives us a giant crocodile, a large and toothy pterosaur and a pack of Tyrannosaurus rex with Ceratosaurus-like horns (pictured above). The show also contains mammoths twice the size of African elephants, human-sized bats, saber-toothed wolves, vicious ape-men, and a Giant Spider as large as a sauropod dinosaur. Still played with in that, even with the ridiculous setting and exaggerated animals, some of said animals are still shown to be intelligent and sympathetic creatures, with one of the two protagonists even being a T. rex.
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Prehistoric Monster / int_e5d19a57	comment	1966's One Million Years B.C. plays this trope as straight as possible. Here dinosaurs and other animals all seem to do nothing else but fight each other and menace cavemen (which are portrayed as classic, prehistoric brutish savages; this trope may be applied to prehistoric and modern humans as well, with the exception of one Handsome Heroic Caveman and his Nubile Savage girlfriend).
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Prehistoric Monster / int_e8970723	comment	And then there's the Indoraptor of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom who may as well be an exaggeration of this trope, as not only is he a powerful, intelligent and utterly vicious predator, he is also a genuine Sadist who takes great pleasure in the terror and agony of his victims, and is arguably the first dinosaur antagonist in the franchise to be genuinely malicious and evil. Like the Indominus, it's a genetically engineered monster, and emphatically not a regular, natural dinosaur. To provide contrast, all the other dinosaurs in the movie are treated like regular animals, albeit potentially very dangerous ones, and Blue the raptor is even portrayed as one of the movie's heroes.
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Prehistoric Monster / int_ede0d311	comment	The short story The Monster of Partridge Creek has it right there in the name. The monster itself - a Ceratosaurus living in the early 20th Century Yukon - is portrayed as a truly terrifying creature, although it never actually seems to notice the human characters and is content with preying on moose and caribou.
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Prehistoric Monster / int_f01bf8a2	comment	Meg and its sequels play this trope completely straight: prehistoric predators like megalodon and Tylosaurus are unstoppable juggernauts of distruction that attack and kill everything in their path, even sinking navy ships without being harmed by them.
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Prehistoric Monster / int_f0841a69	comment	Zig-zagged in Primeval. Every extinct animal has some dangerous aspect to it — even dodo birds house deadly parasites. However, while plenty of the creatures are portrayed as terrifying predators (the anurognathid swarm, Deinonychus, mosasaur and phorusrhacids, for instance), others are only dangerous because they're large/powerful and panicked (the Embolotherium herd, Dracorex and Columbian Mammoth), while still others are outright harmless (Scutosaurus) and some are so harmless they're adopted as Team Pets (Rex the Coelurosauravus, as well as the Diictodons, which are even mentioned in-series as Ugly Cute). Even the Spinosaurus, in spite of being a huge predator, doesn't seem to be trying to eat anyone; it's just dangerous because it's a large, panicked animal in a populated area. This comes up in an episode in series 4. Philip Burton wants the creatures in the ARC's menagerie destroyed because he feels they're a security risk. Lester argues that if the public were to find out Philip had ordered the destruction of (admittedly dangerous) prehistoric creatures, it would look very bad for his image. Philip finally backs down.
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Prehistoric Monster / int_f0fe960e	comment	Despite the name, Monsters We Met mostly averts this, with the exception of its depictions of Megalania, the short-faced bear, and Haast's Eagle. Nonetheless, the series maintains some degree of sympathy for them, coming to the conclusion that Humans Are the Real Monsters for having driven the Pleistocene megafauna to extinction.
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Prehistoric Monster / int_f18b2e2e	comment	Another spinoff, Chased by Dinosaurs, is an aversion of the trope, since their execution is no different from any other wildlife documentary. Host Nigel Marven (an actual wildlife TV presenter) goes shark-cage diving with a megalodon, tracks a Therizinosaurus cross-country, and watches (from a safe distance) a pack of Giganotosaurus hunt (and they seem more interested in hunting their usual prey than snacking on the tiny human). That said, there's a definite sense of wonder to Nigel's reactions, and he does use the word "monster" a couple times.
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Prehistoric Monster / int_f4ab1c25	comment	Dinosaurs Attack!: An incredibly Exaggerated Trope here, as every prehistoric creature is portrayed as a hyper-aggressive, bloodthirsty predator (even species that should be herbivores), with no thoughts beyond causing as much random wanton death and destruction as possible (with the exception of the Trachodon, for some reason, although it accidentally kills a person anyway). It's eventually revealed that dinosaurs and their kin are literal soulless monsters created by a satanic, reptilian, God of Evil.
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Prehistoric Monster / int_f6e776bb	comment	Kong: Skull Island, the reboot for the MonsterVerse, is the first version to portray the island's non-Kong residents with any sense of grandeur or beauty beyond sheer terror, and, notably, it also very much downplays the prehistoric connections in favour of monitor lizard-like creatures, Big Creepy-Crawlies, and gigantic water buffalo.
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Prehistoric Monster / int_f9d963ba	comment	The marvel show Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur (2023), which is aimed at a younger audience, is Exactly What It Says on the Tin. Lunella Lafayette, is otherwise known as the Teen Genius Super Hero moon girl. She befriends a giant red t-rex from another dimension. She calls him "Devil". With his brawn and her brain they fight together to protect the Lower East side.
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Prehistoric Monster / int_fd58bcc8	comment	Defied in The Tree of Life. A flashback to dinosaur times shows a young wounded Parasaurolophus completely at the mercy of some kind of maniraptorid dinosaur, possibly a Troodon. The predatory dinosaur looks like it's about to accept an easy meal, but then decides to show mercy and leaves the wounded creature alone. This ties in with the movie's broader themes about the nature of compassion, which, the movie argues, is not unique to humanity, and an intrinsic, ancient part of higher life.
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Prehistoric Monster	processingCategory2	Scary Animals Index
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Jurassic World / int_53aab01d	type	Prehistoric Monster
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King Kong (2005) / int_53aab01d	type	Prehistoric Monster
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All Yesterdays / int_53aab01d	type	Prehistoric Monster
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Life Before Man / int_53aab01d	type	Prehistoric Monster
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Reverse Jurassic Park (Web Animation) / int_53aab01d	type	Prehistoric Monster
Dinosaur / int_53aab01d	type	Prehistoric Monster
Early Man / int_53aab01d	type	Prehistoric Monster
Forgotten Bloodlines: Agate / int_53aab01d	type	Prehistoric Monster
Legends of Chima / int_53aab01d	type	Prehistoric Monster
Martin Mystery / int_53aab01d	type	Prehistoric Monster
Primal (2019) / int_53aab01d	type	Prehistoric Monster
Simba: Ã¨ nato un re / int_53aab01d	type	Prehistoric Monster
We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story / int_53aab01d	type	Prehistoric Monster
When Dinosaurs Roamed America / int_53aab01d	type	Prehistoric Monster

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