Tyrannosaurus rex

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Tyrannosaurus rex
A Tyrannosaurus rex in The Last Dinosaur
Alternate names T. rex, T-Rex
Species Tyrannosaurid theropod dinosaur
Height 4 meters
Length 13 meters
Weight 9.7 tons
Relations Vastatosaurus rex (descendant)[1]
Enemies Agathaumas, Pteranodon, BrontosaurusTLW, King Kong, Triceratops,
RhedosaurusPoD,
Cretaceous King Ghidorah
Played by Toru KawaiTLD
First appearance Latest appearance
The Ghost of Slumber Mountain Kong: King of the Apes
Roar(s)
The Last Dinosaur:

Tyrannosaurus rex (ティラノサウルス·レックス,   Tiranosaurusu rekkusu) is an extinct species of large carnivorous theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Period. A renowned predator in popular culture, it has been featured in countless films and TV series, including Fantasia, The Land Before Time, the Jurassic Park franchise, and Walking with Dinosaurs. King Kong battled a Tyrannosaurus-like theropod in his debut film, and similar creatures have appeared in other pieces of Kong media since then. One Tyrannosaurus individual was featured as the main antagonist of the 1977 Rankin/Bass-Tsuburaya co-production The Last Dinosaur.

Selected history

The Ghost of Slumber Mountain

To be added.

The Lost World

A Tyrannosaurus rex kills an Agathaumas shortly after the Agathaumas kills an Allosaurus and then kills a Pteranodon flying nearby. Another T. rex can be seen attacking a Brontosaurus when the volcano erupts.

King Kong (1933)

Main article: Meat-Eater.

The King Kong Show

A Tyrannosaurus rex in The King Kong Show

To be added.

The Last Dinosaur

The Tyrannosaurus rex in The Last Dinosaur

During routine drilling in the Arctic, a Polar-Borer found itself boring through the seafloor and suddenly surfacing in a lake. The Polar-Borer's crew exited the craft to search the strange area in which they had found themselves, only to be eaten by a huge Tyrannosaurus rex. The crew's sole survivor, Chuck Wade, managed to escape and tell his story to Masten Thrust, head of Thrust Industries, the company that created the Polar-Borers. Thrust, an accomplished big game hunter, was interested in hunting and killing the Tyrannosaurus, and so organized a research party that he said would travel to the bizarre underground world where the Tyrannosaurus was seen and try to document and study it. When Thrust and his crew arrived in the prehistoric world, they quickly came upon the Tyrannosaurus in the jungle, which proceeded to chase them. Thrust fired several shots from his rifle at the Tyrannosaurus, which only seemed to enrage it. Bunta, an African tracker employed by Thrust, managed to stick a spear into the creature and draw blood, but still could not bring it down. The team escaped from the Tyrannosaurus, which then traveled to their camp and destroyed it. After destroying the camp and killing expedition member Dr. Kawamoto, the Tyrannosaurus came upon the Polar-Borer and brought it to its lair. As the Tyrannosaurus tried to bury the Polar-Borer in a cave, it was suddenly attacked by a Triceratops. The Triceratops gored the Tyrannosaurus with its horns and caused it to bleed profusely, but the Tyrannosaurus gained the upper hand and bit the Triceratops on the neck, causing it to fall on its side. The Tyrannosaurus clawed into its enemy's flesh with its feet, then delivered the killing bite to the creature.

The Tyrannosaurus later came upon a member of the Polar-Borer expedition, Francesca Banks, as well as a Primal Woman called Hazel, while they were near a lake. The Tyrannosaurus chased Francesca into a cave, but its head was too large for it to be able to reach her. Thrust, Bunta, and Chuck witnessed the Tyrannosaurus threatening Francesca, and quickly tied a huge boulder to the Tyrannosaurus' tail and tried to get it to chase after them. As the Tyrannosaurus chased the men, the boulder rolled down a hill, pulling the Tyrannosaurus off its feet and dragging it down the hill, after which it wandered off. Determined to kill the Tyrannosaurus once and for all, Thrust followed it into the jungle and constructed a makeshift catapult, which would launch a huge boulder directly at the Tyrannosaurus' head once it appeared from the jungle. Bunta attempted to search for the Tyrannosaurus in the jungle, only for it to appear behind him and eat him alive. When the Tyrannosaurus emerged from the jungle and became entangled in a vine trap, Thrust launched the boulder at the creature's head, causing it to fall over. However, the Tyrannosaurus simply rose to its feet and destroyed the catapult, then left. After Chuck repaired the Polar-Borer and left with Francesca, Thrust stayed behind with Hazel and wandered off into the jungle to continue to hunt the Tyrannosaurus, which he could hear roaring menacingly in the distance.

The Mighty Kong

The Tyrannosaurus rex in The Mighty Kong

After Kong departed into the jungles of Skull Island with Ann Darrow, the enormous primate paused for a moment to inspect her after she briefly passed out. While tending to her, a Tyrannosaurus rex ambushed the ape and charged it. The two had a brief battle in which the dinosaur headbutted the ape before toppling him with a tail smack. Trying to bite Kong in the face, the theropod was thrown off and the two squared off once more. After the Tyrannosaurus charged its rival again, Kong ended the duel by landing a powerful blow to its head that knocked it out. The ape then gathered up Ann before leaving.

Rebirth of Mothra 3

The Tyrannosaurus rex in Rebirth of Mothra 3

As Rainbow Mothra arrived in the Late Cretaceous Period, a Tyrannosaurus rex pursued a herd of Triceratops nearby. As it bit into a straggler's neck, Cretaceous King Ghidorah seized it in his central head. Before it could be devoured, Rainbow Mothra made his presence known with a volley of Cross Heat Rainbow Lasers, causing the space monster to drop the screaming dinosaur.

After Rainbow Mothra severed part of Cretaceous King Ghidorah's tail with another Cross Heat Rainbow Laser, a Triceratops and a Tyrannosaurus observed the appendage as it burrowed underground and stared at each other in concern.

Kong: The Animated Series

A population of Tyrannosaurus rex lived on Kong Island. They were naturally aggressive and would often attack the Island Guardian Kong if he came too close.

Kong: Return to the Jungle

To be added.

A Tyrannosaurus rex in Kong: Return to the Jungle


Kong: King of the Apes

Main article: Biono-bot.
A Tyrannosaurus rex Biono-bot in Kong: King of the Apes

Dr. Richard Remy created an army of Biono-bots in the form of several dinosaurs, including the Tyrannosaurus. While Remy used the Biono-bots in his attempts to establish a new world order united under his control, real T. rex lived on in the center of the Earth.

Abilities

Physical abilities

Tyrannosaurus rexes are renowned for their strength and powerful jaws. The most recent scientific recreations of the species in real life depict the animal as very muscular and bulky, with its bite force being estimated to about 10,000psi.[citation needed]

Intelligence

Fictional depictions of Tyrannosaurus fall on a spectrum of intelligence. On the other hand, the most recent studies and discoveries regarding Tyrannosaurus in real life infer that the powerful predator had an intelligence quotient comparable of that to a chimpanzee.[citation needed]

Comics

Gallery

Main article: Tyrannosaurus rex/Gallery.

Roar

The roars for the Tyrannosaurus rex in The Last Dinosaur were derived from lower-pitched roars of the Ultra Series kaiju Red King and Zumbolar. In Rebirth of Mothra 3, the T. rex uses Kaishin Muba's roars. In Kong: The Animated Series, T. rex utilize roars of the Tyrannosaurus rex from Jurassic Park, which itself would also be utilized by Komodithrax in Godzilla: The Series.

The Tyrannosaurus rex's roars
in The Last Dinosaur

Trivia

External links

See also

References

This is a list of references for Tyrannosaurus rex. These citations are used to identify the reliable sources on which this article is based. These references appear inside articles in the form of superscript numbers, which look like this: [1]

  1. 1.0 1.1 Falconer & Weta Workshop 2005, p. 62
  2. Morton, Ray, (2005). King Kong: The History of a Movie Icon from Fay Wray to Peter Jackson, p. 37
  3. Shinji Nishikawa Interview
  4. litesaberkunai789 (19 August 2015). "LEGO® Batman™ 3: Beyond Gotham There's a T-Rex in the batcave..." YouTube.

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