Triceratops in popular culture
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In popular culture, Triceratops is famously known as "three-horns" due to the three prominent horns on its head and nose, which have become almost synonymous with the dinosaur. The shorthand "Trike" is another common informal name (see for example the archives of the Dinosaur Mailing List. Triceratops is also the official state fossil of South Dakota, and the official state dinosaur of Wyoming. It is a common pop dinosaur.
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[edit] Movies
Many (if not most) dinosaur movies have included Triceratops:
- The Lost World (1925) includes a herd of Triceratops.
- The 1931 film, Creation, included a mother Triceratops with her babies.
- Son of Kong (1933) features a Triceratops-like dinosaur chasing the jungle explorers.
- Triceratops makes a cameo in the The Rite of Spring segment of Fantasia (1940).
- One Million Years B.C. (1966) features Triceratops in a memorable but anachronistic battle with Ceratosaurus.
- In The Land Before Time (1988) and its sequels, Cera is a young Triceratops. Other members of her family are shown in later movies.
- In Jurassic Park (1993), an immobilized Triceratops is depicted as having a mysterious illness, the role given to a Stegosaurus in the novel.
- In the sequel movie, The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997), a Triceratops is captured but later set free, causing chaos.
- In Jurassic Park III (2001), a herd of Triceratops are seen from an airplane as it lands at the island.
- In the 1933 film King Kong, there was going to be a scene where Kong fights off a group of Triceratops, although this was never seen in the completed version. In the 2005 film a fictional Triceratops-like dinosaur called Ferructus makes a quick cameo - it is seen drinking from a lake. However in the extended edition of the film, one attacks the rescue party.
[edit] Television
- In the children's show Barney & Friends, the character Baby Bop is a green 3 year old Triceratops.
- The '70s and '90s versions of Land of the Lost features Triceratops; "Spike" in the '70s version, and "Princess" in the '90s version.
- Triceramon, a Digimon, is based on Triceratops.
- In Japan's Super Sentai series, Kyouryuu Sentai Zyuranger, Dan's, aka TriceraRanger, powers were symbolized by the Triceratops. Later in Bakuryuu Sentai Abaranger, Yukito Sanjyou, aka AbareBlue (whose name is pun off of the Triassic period), also uses the Triceratops mecha.
- Likewise in the Power Rangers series which were based off the cast of Sentai, in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, the Triceratops was Billy Cranston's power source. In Power Rangers: Dino Thunder, the Triceratops was Ethan James's zord.
- In the 1980s cartoon, Dino-Riders, the Rulons used numerous Triceratops.
- The Transformers characters of Slag, Triceradon and Guiledart each turn into a Triceratops.
- The short-lived series Dinozaurs had the character Dino Tricera, one of the core Dino Knights, whose top horns become the Tricera Saber of Jade. He was blue with the holes of the skeleton filled in with lime green.
- In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles there is a race of Triceratops creatures called the Triceratons that existed in the 2003 TV series as well as the original Comic Books, and the TMNT videogames.
[edit] Documentaries
- The last episode of the 1999 documentary series Walking With Dinosaurs briefly featured the dinosaur as the meal of a Tyrannosaurus.
- The 2005 BBC documentary The Truth About Killer Dinosaurs featured a Triceratops. It was put against a Tyrannosaurus in the first episode, with the Triceratops being the victor.
- The first episode of the 2006 drama documentary Prehistoric Park featured Triceratops, besieged by Tyrannosaurus. A young Triceratops named Theo is also captured for the titular park.
[edit] Books
- In one or more of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan novels, cavemen are depicted riding Triceratops, beating on their frills to make them change direction. They are also erroneously shown as being carnivorous.
- Oliver Butterworth's popular children's book The Enormous Egg, features a friendly Triceratops named Uncle Beazley that hatched from an unusually large hen's egg.
- A live Triceratops appears in Boy's Life by Robert R. McCammon.
- A Triceratops egg is the Macguffin of Max Mccoy's second Indiana Jones novel, Indiana Jones and the Dinosaur Eggs.
[edit] Video games
- In Diddy Kong Racing, a non-playable Triceratops character named Tricky was the boss of Dino Domain.
- In Starfox Adventures, another game by Rareware, another Triceratops character named Tricky serves as the sidekick to main character Fox McCloud. He is Prince of the Earthwalker Tribe, a tribe of Triceratops with his father being one of the GateKeepers. Tricky makes a brief cameo in Star Fox: Assault.
- Triceratops is one of the dinosaurs in the Zoo Tycoon 2: Dino Danger Pack and a cheat exhibit animal in Zoo Tycoon (have an exhibit named "Cretaceous Corral").
- Triceratops is one of the more powerful dinosaurs in the 1997 PC game Jurassic Park: Chaos Island.
- Triceratops is the only herbivore enemy in the 2000 PC and Playstation game Dino Crisis 2.
- The Pokemon Aggron is based on Triceratops
- The Nintendo 64 game Turok: Dinosaur Hunter features a Triceratops on the final level, being one of many foes of the main character, and fully armed with dual rocket launchers and a rifleman.
- In several levels of Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped, the player must navigate Crash through a series of hazards while he runs away from a Triceratops
