Tyrannosaurus rex

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Tyrannosaurus rex
Overview
Homeworld	Earth The Lost Land Terraformed planet
Era	Cretaceous
Diet	Carnivorous
Physical description
Distinctions	Large head and small, two-fingered arms
Eye color	Red (Dinosaur Hunter) White/Yellow (Evolution) Gold (Turok) Orange (Origins)
Other information
Affiliation	Tobias Bruckner (Evolution)
Notable groups	Theropoda
Other nomenclature	T. rex Tyrant lizard king

Tyrannosaurus rex, also known as T. rex, is a large theropod dinosaur that appears throughout the Turok franchise.

Appearance

Turok: Dinosaur Hunter

This T. rex is very large, being just over the average size of a real-life Tyrannosaurus rex. It features some spikes on its back, as well as multiple pieces of armor on its body. Unlike the T. rex of reality, this animal featured large, muscular forelimbs.

Thunder, seen in Dinosaur Hunter.

Turok: Evolution

Turok: Evolution's Tyrannosauruses vary in appearance. The first T. rex that is encountered is a deeper brown coloration. Unlike Dinosaur Hunter's Thunder, it does not wear any sort of weaponry, nor does it have any mechanical armor attached to it.

The second T. rex that is encountered features an orange-ish brown color. Unlike the highlands T. rex, this one is armed with weapons and is adorned with battle armor, including two large head-mounted horns.

The feral T. rex in Evolution.

Bruckner's Tyrannosaurus in Evolution.

Turok

Turok featured a solitary T. rex that went by the name of "Mama Scarface", with her offspring also being present.

This lone T. rex featured a more stylized design earlier in development, with a gray hide, bright, yellow-irised eyes, and uniquely bloodstained jaws. At this point in the game's development, this dinosaur's titular scarring didn't exist, although she retained the name.

This dinosaur underwent a dramatic redesign following 2006. Featuring a natural, brown hide, a more grounded skull design, and added musculature to her neck, the finalized T. rex of Turok was more rooted in reality. At this point, the creature possessed a distinct, large series of scars on the right side of her face, which obstructed most of her eye and went into the fenestrae, while her eye itself was intact, it was sickly pale, and presumably non-functional.

The original design for Scarface, used as the backdrop for the E3 2006 demo.

This same design in an early build of Turok.

Mama Scarface's finalized design in Turok.

A juvenile T. rex.

Turok: Origins

Turok: Origins' version of a T. rex dramatically differs from prior incarnations, featuring a messy maw of uneven, jagged teeth, a segmented, crocodilian-like series of scales running down its back, and a general black coloration past the beige-orange of its skull and the spike-like structures running down its spine.

The T. rex of Origins.

Gameplay

Across all Turok titles, the Tyrannosaurus is usually presented as a climactic boss battle, generally being faster and stronger than the player in every way. Dinosaur Hunter and Evolution arm the T. rex with additional weapons including flamethrowers, and miniguns, adding to an already colossal threat. In Dinosaur Hunter and Evolution, most ranged attacks are telegraphed by the T. rex stopping and aiming at the player, with Evolution's more quickly unleashing a torrent of ammunition and fire.

Like most bosses, the T. rex can consistently be encountered in large arenas, befitting of its nature. Dinosaur Hunter and Evolution play into this, making the boss battle a war of attrition and movement, with the latter specifically making the fight about weaving around obstacles that can slow the T. rex down, allowing them to deal damage. Turok would opt for a slower fight, providing natural refuge for the player, giving them some breathing room against the titanic carnivore, where they can fight.

Evolution features two T. rexes, one of which is a minor boss encounter during Summit Battle. This T. rex, unlike the others, is slower, features no distinct armaments, and can be killed relatively quickly with the weapons the player has on hand.

Turok also provides a more cinematic angle for the T. rex in gameplay, with the dinosaur sometimes becoming an idle, roaming threat during gameplay. This happens specifically during End of the Road, where the titanic dinosaur will wander around the front of a Mendel-Gruman complex, eating and distracting enemy soldiers. Multiple real-time cinematic moments will also happen in gameplay, with the T. rex doing predetermined things, depending on the level.

History

Turok: Dinosaur Hunter

Tal'Set would encounter the Campaigner's personal Tyrannosaurus upon venturing deep into his fortress. Armed with an enormous arsenal from his travels, a prolonged battle wound ensue, with Tal'Set managing to bring Thunder down.

Turok: Evolution

While on their way to a large, ancient temple, Tal'Set and Genn would fly over a pair of Tyrannosauruses which were following, and presumably hunting a pack of Uintatherium.

Following this, and after convening with Tarkeen, Tal'Set would venture into a mountain range in Valiskus Maxima in an attempt to locate a Sleg fortress hidden nearby. The warrior would inadvertently trail behind a Tyrannosaurus, hearing the sounds of its distant roars, before subsequently finding a smaller Brachiosaurus that had fallen prey to it. Pushing further, he would finally encounter the dinosaur eating another Brachiosaurus at the summits and would engage and kill it after a brief skirmish.

After defending the city of Galyanna from an immense Sleg fleet, Tal'Set would attempt to hunt down Tobias Bruckner in a nearby, boxed-in canyon. Eventually, Bruckner would come to him, riding an enormous, armed, and armored Tyrannosaurus. With the rest of Tal'Set's allies falling victim to the creature, Bruckner and Tal'Set would engage in an intense and isolated fight, with the T. rex eventually falling as its own armor and armaments detonated, grievously wounding and crippling both itself and Bruckner.

Turok: Evolution (GBA version)

Following the defeat of Lord Tyrannus' hologram, Tobias Bruckner would utilize a tan, tiger-striped T. rex and its armaments during his quest to stop Tal'Set and Djunn from progressing. It would ultimately be killed after a prolonged fight, with Bruckner dying shortly afterwards.

Turok

Upon landing on the terraformed planet, Joseph Turok and Slade would encounter the region's dominant Tyrannosaurus, which arrived and rapidly killed off a squad of Mendel-Gruman Corporation soldiers they were fighting.

This T. rex would later arrive during the search for a communications unit, ambushing and grabbing Gonzales before subsequently taking him to her nest. While unable to find him, Turok did encounter the dinosaur and her kin, and while he would succeed in slaying her offspring in droves, he would be unable to succeed in killing the T. rex, with the dinosaur knocking him out of her nest.

Later, the Tyrannosaurus would be encountered outside a titanic Mendel-Gruman complex during a volcanic eruption. Throwing the attacking MG soldiers into disarray, Whiskey Company was able to use her as a distraction to enter the base, with the T. rex simply leaving afterwards, though she would remain in the region.

After Turok managed to slay his former mentor, Roland Kane, in an intense knife duel, the Tyrannosaurus would return, having heard the commotion. Turok would manage to engage and evade her, with the dinosaur collapsing onto her side after taking an enormous amount of damage. Using a grenade, Turok climbed onto her head and embedded the explosive into her wounded eye, with the device detonating moments later, instantly blowing the giant dinosaur's skull to pieces, killing her instantly.

Turok: Dinosaur Hunter (2014 comic)

The Crusaders referred to the Tyrannosaurus as a "Dragon," and, later, would reveal the Tyrannosaurus, which was bound in chains aboard their ship. The Crusaders would release the Tyrannosaurus with the intention of having it kill Turok, Andar, and the tribe. The dinosaur very nearly devoured Turok and Marion but they would be saved by Turok's tamed Red Drake. Turok, riding the smaller theropod, would the T. rex back to the Crusader's camp.

The Tyrannosaurus would then destroy the Crusader's camp, chasing the survivors through the forest, and to the caves in which Andar, Marion, and the tribe are hiding. Waiting for them outside, and trapping the two groups together, Marion's father would attempt to feed the T. rex a dog, which would be saved by Turok as he arrived.

Engaging in a brutal sword duel, Turok would kill Marion's father, and feed him to the Tyrannosaurus. It would not be enough to satiate the animal, with Turok goading it into chasing him. Leading it to the shoreline and commandeering a boat to escape to sea, the T. rex would swim after him, ultimately being devoured by Thalattoarchon.

Achievements and Trophies

Turok: Dinosaur Hunter

Icon	Name	Description	Reward
	T-Rekt	Defeat the T-Rex	100

Turok

Icon	Name	Description	Reward
	Big Game Ribbon	Whoa momma! (Locked) You managed to survive Mama Scarface (Unlocked)	20

Production notes

Turok 2

While most T. rexes in the franchise have featured the same overall aesthetic, Turok 2 offered a much more diverse take on the famous animal. With Turok 2 slated to feature a desert environment as the forefront location, the T. rex followed suit aesthetically, being redesigned to feature a much more rugged series of scales and osteoderms. Its skin color would shift from Scarface's deep brown to a light tan. Over the game's development, this specific T. rex's snout would be redesigned to be more snubbish, although it would maintain the lean, muscular, thick frame of 2008's Turok.

The desert variant of the T. rex was the first seen, but not the only one conceptualized. Concept art of multiple T. rexes in a jungle environment would be revealed through a leak in 2013, with some showing the dinosaur possessing a sail very much akin to the notorious Spinosaurus, while others would be much more traditional in aesthetic. Mood pieces for Turok 2 showed the Tyrannosaurus in jungles, deserts, and swampy marshes.

Unlike the Utahraptor, which possessed distinct jungle, desert, and conceptual "swamp" variants, the T. rex only had a desert variant that was fully realized. A potential jungle variant's existence meshes with the aforementioned concept art.

A T. rex with a Spinosaurus-like sail.

A more finalized desert variant T. rex.

The desert variant's final model.

An enormous T. rex, featuring a more traditional look.

List of appearances

Video games

• Turok: Dinosaur Hunter
• Turok 3: Shadow of Oblivion (GBC)
• Turok: Evolution
• Turok: Evolution (GBA)
• Turok
• Turok (mobile)
• Turok 2

Comics

• Four Color Comics 596 (First appearance)
• Four Color Comics 656
• Turok, Son of Stone 3
• Turok, Son of Stone 4
• Turok: Dinosaur Hunter (2014)

Notes and references

Content of Turok 2
Saurian Creatures Giant eel • Tyrannosaurus rex • Utahraptor Humanoid Enemies Berserker • MG Enforcer • MG Hunter • MG Radification Unit • Ork • Savage People Weapons Jak • Unidentified assault rifle • Unidentified laser cannon