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* The various gorillas in DC's stable ([[Franchise/TheFlash Gorilla Grodd]], [[ComicBook/DoomPatrol Monsieur Mallah]], [[ComicBook/AllStarSquadron Ultra-Humanite]], etc.) are almost all drawn as being quite large, typically well above six feet tall and easily towering over their human opponents. Real-life gorillas usually top out at five foot seven, and most are shorter than that. In this case, it's likely because a villain too short to look his enemies in the eye wouldn't make for a very intimidating physical threat.
* ''ComicBook/Robin1993'': Tim Drake quickly figures out that there is something off about [[ExtraDimensionalShortcut Stephen's forest]] due to the odd behavior, sizes and location of the flora and fauna within, some of which does not belong in the Western Hemisphere let alone Appalachia.
* Overlapping with CallASmeerpARabbit, a lot of the animals in ''ComicBook/{{Hillbilly}}'''s world are much larger and more generally monstrous than their real-life counterparts. The "Red-Eyed Witchery From Beyond" arc opens with Rondel fighting a gigantic TentacledTerror that he refers to as a "crawdad", for example. Not a giant crawdad. Just a crawdad. Many animals are also shown as having sabre teeth, and quite a few of them can [[TalkingAnimal talk]]. Rondel's best friend, for example, Lucille, is a talking, sabre-toothed [[BearyFriendly bear]] the size of an elephant.
* Big Hungry the ''Nothosaurus'', from the Triassic arc of ''ComicBook/{{Flesh}}'', is downright colossal compared to a real nothosaur. He's big enough to bite a two-person submarine in half (said submarine seems to be no bigger than his head), and is stated to weigh fifty tons. Real ''Nothosaurus'' were about 15 feet long, 20 feet at most, and weight about half a ton.

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* ''Franchise/TheDCU'': The various gorillas in DC's stable ([[Franchise/TheFlash ([[ComicBook/TheFlash Gorilla Grodd]], [[ComicBook/DoomPatrol Monsieur Mallah]], [[ComicBook/AllStarSquadron [[ComicBook/{{Superman}} Ultra-Humanite]], etc.) are almost all drawn as being quite large, typically well above six feet tall and easily towering over their human opponents. Real-life gorillas usually top out at five foot seven, and most are shorter than that. In this case, it's likely because a villain too short to look his enemies in the eye wouldn't make for a very intimidating physical threat.
* ''ComicBook/Robin1993'': Tim Drake quickly figures out that there ''ComicBook/{{Flesh}}'': Big Hungry the ''Nothosaurus'', from the Triassic arc, is something off downright colossal compared to a real nothosaur. He's big enough to bite a two-person submarine in half (said submarine seems to be no bigger than his head), and is stated to weigh fifty tons. Real ''Nothosaurus'' were about [[ExtraDimensionalShortcut Stephen's forest]] due to the odd behavior, sizes 15 feet long, 20 feet at most, and location of the flora and fauna within, some of which does not belong in the Western Hemisphere let alone Appalachia.weight about half a ton.
* ''ComicBook/{{Hillbilly}}'': Overlapping with CallASmeerpARabbit, a lot of the animals in ''ComicBook/{{Hillbilly}}'''s world are much larger and more generally monstrous than their real-life counterparts. The "Red-Eyed Witchery From Beyond" arc opens with Rondel fighting a gigantic TentacledTerror that he refers to as a "crawdad", for example. Not a giant crawdad. Just a crawdad. Many animals are also shown as having sabre teeth, and quite a few of them can [[TalkingAnimal talk]]. Rondel's best friend, for example, Lucille, is a talking, sabre-toothed [[BearyFriendly bear]] the size of an elephant.
* Big Hungry the ''Nothosaurus'', from the Triassic arc of ''ComicBook/{{Flesh}}'', ''ComicBook/Robin1993'': Tim Drake quickly figures out that there is downright colossal compared to a real nothosaur. He's big enough to bite a two-person submarine in half (said submarine seems to be no bigger than his head), and is stated to weigh fifty tons. Real ''Nothosaurus'' were something off about 15 feet long, 20 feet at most, [[ExtraDimensionalShortcut Stephen's forest]] due to the odd behavior, sizes and weight about half a ton. location of the flora and fauna within, some of which does not belong in the Western Hemisphere let alone Appalachia.



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* Oddly, the Series/{{Teletubbies}} managed a live-action example (sort of), populating the set with an unusually large variety of rabbit to make the costumed characters (adult actors) look child-sized.

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* ''Series/{{Primeval}}'':
** Both the ''Scutosaurus'' and the gorgonopsid (presumably ''Inostrancevia'' given it being contemporary with ''Scutosaurus'') are gigantic compared to the size of known fossils. The former is shown as elephant-sized when it was actually cow-sized, and the latter is depicted as tall as a man at the shoulder and strong enough to throw a car, but the largest known gorgonopsid in reality was only about brown bear-sized. Notably, the special effects were done by Impossible Pictures, who made the same mistake with the gorgonopsid in ''Walking with Monsters'' (see below).
** The ''Arthropleura'' is shown as being gigantic; the real animal was anywhere from six to nine feet long, but is depicted in the show as more than twice this length. It's also depicted as a predatory centipede instead of a herbivorous millipede. Another episode featured gargantuan scorpions from the Silurian; while enormous scorpions and scorpion-like arthropods did exist in prehistoric times, these maxed out at nine feet long, while the ones in the episode are larger than busses.
** The terrestrial crocodilian ''Pristichampsus'' (now known as ''Boverisuchus'') was only about the size of an American alligator, but is portrayed in the episode at more than twice that size. The other crocodilian-like predator ''Kaprosuchus'' is also much larger (and especially much taller) than the real animal probably was (also about American alligator-sized), and is also given warthog-like tusks [[ArtisticLicensePaleontology it didn't have]].
** Another episode once again features some gargantuan ''Liopleurodon'', as in ''Walking with Dinosaurs''; as aforementioned, Impossible Pictures was responsible for the creature effects of both series.
** The pachycephalosaur ''Dracorex'' is depicted as being taller than a man, the real animal was only about waist height (in real life it's very likely ''Dracorex'' was just the juvenile form of ''Pachycephalosaurus'' (which actually was taller than a man). The depiction here also gives ''Dracorex'' wing-like sails and sharp teeth (despite being primarily herbivorous) to make it look [[DinosaursAreDragons more dragon-like]].



** The most famous is the ''Liopleurodon'' from "Cruel Sea", who is depicted as a 25-meter, 150-ton leviathan, when the largest pliosaurs didn't grow more than 10-12 meters and around 10 tons, while ''Liopleurodon'' specifically only reached 6.5 meters and 3 tons.

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** The most famous is the ''Liopleurodon'' from "Cruel Sea", who is depicted as a 25-meter, 150-ton leviathan, when the largest pliosaurs didn't grow more than 10-12 meters and around 10 15 tons, while ''Liopleurodon'' specifically only reached 6.5 meters and 3 tons.



** ''Series/SeaMonsters'' shows the mosasaur ''Tylosaurus'' as being 60 feet long when it didn't grow bigger than 45 feet, and the Jurassic fish as ''Leedsichthys'' as reaching 90 feet, but revised estimates put it at 50-55 feet.

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** ''Series/SeaMonsters'' shows the mosasaur ''Tylosaurus'' as being 60 feet long when it didn't grow bigger than 45 feet, and the Jurassic fish as ''Leedsichthys'' as reaching 90 feet, but revised estimates put it at 50-55 feet. The massively oversized ''Liopleurodon'' also returns.



* In ''WesternAnimation/WeBareBears'', all three bears are tall as humans when standing upright. With each other, however, their height is appropriate by terms of bear size (Ice Bear is the tallest while Panda is the shortest).

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* In ''WesternAnimation/WeBareBears'', all three bears are tall as humans when standing upright. With each other, however, their height is appropriate by terms of bear size (Ice Bear is the tallest while Panda is the shortest).shortest), although in reality the size difference is much bigger (an adult male polar bear can be anywhere from three to six times heavier than an adult male panda).
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* ''Series/TheBalladOfBigAl'' is a particularly strange example, as it does this to a specific ''Allosaurus'' individual named "Big Al" (MOR 693), showing him as being 10 meters long at the time of his death, even though the actual specimen is around 7.5 meters long.

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* ** ''Series/TheBalladOfBigAl'' is a particularly strange example, as it does this to a specific ''Allosaurus'' individual named "Big Al" (MOR 693), showing him as being 10 meters long at the time of his death, even though the actual specimen is around 7.5 meters long.



** ''Series/WalkingWithMonsters'' has several examples, such a giant Siberian gorgonopsid (''Inostrancevia'') being shown at 5 meters long, but ''Inostrancevia'' only reached 3.5 meters in length, the Devonian fish ''Hyneria'' being depicted as 5 meters long when it likely didn't grow much bigger than 3 meters, and ''Anomalocaris'' is shown as man-sized, when it was actually only 50 cm long.

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** ''Series/WalkingWithMonsters'' has several examples, such as a giant Siberian gorgonopsid (''Inostrancevia'') being shown at as 5 meters long, but ''Inostrancevia'' (the largest known gorgonopsid) only reached 3.5 meters in length, the Devonian fish ''Hyneria'' being depicted as 5 meters long when it likely didn't grow much bigger than 3 meters, and ''Anomalocaris'' is shown as man-sized, when it was actually only 50 cm long.

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** ''Ornithocheirus'' is depicted as one of the largest pterosaurs, with a 12-meter wingspan, even though in real life, its wingspan was no larger than 5 meters. This is partially because the show's ''Ornithocheirus'' was based on the related ''Tropeognathus'', but even the latter only had a wingspan of circa 8.5 meters.

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** ''Ornithocheirus'' in "Giant of the Skies" is depicted as one of the largest pterosaurs, with a 12-meter wingspan, even though in real life, its wingspan was no larger than 5 meters. This is partially because the show's ''Ornithocheirus'' was based on the related ''Tropeognathus'', but even the latter only had a wingspan of circa 8.5 meters.meters.
* ''Series/TheBalladOfBigAl'' is a particularly strange example, as it does this to a specific ''Allosaurus'' individual named "Big Al" (MOR 693), showing him as being 10 meters long at the time of his death, even though the actual specimen is around 7.5 meters long.



** ''Series/WalkingWithMonsters'' has several examples, such a giant Siberian gorgonopsid (''Inostrancevia'') as 5 meters long, but ''Inostrancevia'' only reached 3.5 meters in length, the Devonian fish ''Hyneria'' being depicted as 5 meters long when it likely didn't grow much bigger than 3 meters, and ''Anomalocaris'' is shown as man-sized, when it was actually only 50 cm long.

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** ''Series/WalkingWithMonsters'' has several examples, such a giant Siberian gorgonopsid (''Inostrancevia'') as being shown at 5 meters long, but ''Inostrancevia'' only reached 3.5 meters in length, the Devonian fish ''Hyneria'' being depicted as 5 meters long when it likely didn't grow much bigger than 3 meters, and ''Anomalocaris'' is shown as man-sized, when it was actually only 50 cm long.
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** Series/''SeaMonsters'' shows the mosasaur ''Tylosaurus'' as being 60 feet long when it didn't grow bigger than 45 feet, and the Jurassic fish as ''Leedsichthys'' as reaching 90 feet, but revised estimates put it at 50-55 feet.

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** Series/''SeaMonsters'' ''Series/SeaMonsters'' shows the mosasaur ''Tylosaurus'' as being 60 feet long when it didn't grow bigger than 45 feet, and the Jurassic fish as ''Leedsichthys'' as reaching 90 feet, but revised estimates put it at 50-55 feet.
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** Series/ChasedBySeaMonsters shows the mosasaur ''Tylosaurus'' as being 60 feet long when it didn't grow larger than 45 feet, and the Jurassic fish as ''Leedsichthys'' as reaching 90 feet, but revised estimates put it at 50-55 feet.

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** Series/ChasedBySeaMonsters Series/''SeaMonsters'' shows the mosasaur ''Tylosaurus'' as being 60 feet long when it didn't grow larger bigger than 45 feet, and the Jurassic fish as ''Leedsichthys'' as reaching 90 feet, but revised estimates put it at 50-55 feet.
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** Series/ChasedBySeaMonsters shows the mosasaur ''Tylosaurus'' as being 60 feet long when it didn't grow larger than 45 feet, and the Jurassic fish as ''Leedsichthys'' as reaching 90 feet, but revised estimates put it at 50-55 feet.

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\n* The ''Franchise/WalkingWith'' series has many notable examples:
** The most famous is the ''Liopleurodon'' from "Cruel Sea", who is depicted as a 25-meter, 150-ton leviathan, when the largest pliosaurs didn't grow more than 10-12 meters and around 10 tons, while ''Liopleurodon'' specifically only reached 6.5 meters and 3 tons.
** ''Ornithocheirus'' is depicted as one of the largest pterosaurs, with a 12-meter wingspan, even though in real life, its wingspan was no larger than 5 meters. This is partially because the show's ''Ornithocheirus'' was based on the related ''Tropeognathus'', but even the latter only had a wingspan of circa 8.5 meters.
** ''Series/WalkingWithBeasts'' depicts ''Hyaenodon gigas'' as being the size of a rhino, even though the real animal was only the size of a tiger.
** ''Series/ChasedByDinosaurs'' shows the alvarezsaur ''Mononykus'' as being man-sized even though the actual animal was no larger than a fox.
** ''Series/WalkingWithMonsters'' has several examples, such a giant Siberian gorgonopsid (''Inostrancevia'') as 5 meters long, but ''Inostrancevia'' only reached 3.5 meters in length, the Devonian fish ''Hyneria'' being depicted as 5 meters long when it likely didn't grow much bigger than 3 meters, and ''Anomalocaris'' is shown as man-sized, when it was actually only 50 cm long.
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* In ''Literature/{{Franklin}}'', the woodland animals are more or less their respective sizes and we have the accurately tiny Snail, but there are huge upright turtles with Franklin being as tall as Beaver and more than half the size of Bear. Bear is practically the same height as Fox and the other animals, which is justified since he's a cub, but his parents are smaller than actual brown bears are.

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* In ''Literature/{{Franklin}}'', the woodland animals are more or less their respective sizes and we have the accurately tiny Snail, but there are huge upright turtles with Franklin being as tall as Beaver and more than half the size of Bear. Bear is practically the same height as Fox and the other animals, which is justified since he's a cub, but his parents are smaller than actual brown bears are. The film ''Franklin and the Green Knight'' also presents Eagle, who is absolutely massive, and big enough for Franklin to ride on her back, with Snail tagging along.
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* In-universe variant: The Pokedex lists Charizard's average height as 5'7", a typical height for a human. In the ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'', some are portrayed as being at least twice that size. Even the smallest are at least that tall. Though in ''WebAnimation/PokemonGenerations'', Charizard is shown at the correct height.

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* In-universe variant: The Pokedex lists Charizard's average height as 5'7", a typical height for a human. In the ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'', some are portrayed as being at least twice that size. Even the smallest are at least that tall. Though in ''WebAnimation/PokemonGenerations'', Charizard is shown at the correct height.



* VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog and Tails, a fox, are about the same size, which is unrealistic by itself. Both can be estimated to be about three feet tall at most. It's not just Sonic and Tails though, Wave the Swallow is roughly the same size as her acquaintances Jet the Hawk and Storm the Albatross, Charmy the Bee is pretty big for a bee, Rouge the Bat is roughly the same size as the other characters, etc.

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* VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog and Tails, a fox, are about the same size, which is unrealistic by itself. Both can be estimated to be about three feet tall at most. It's not just Sonic and Tails though, Wave the Swallow is roughly the same size as her acquaintances Jet the Hawk and Storm the Albatross, Charmy the Bee is pretty big for a bee, Rouge the Bat is roughly the same size as the other characters, etc.



* Most Franchise/{{Pokemon}} based on small animals are unusually large; most Franchise/{{Pokemon}} based on large animals are unusually small. For example, Ariados and Donphan are both 3'07'' tall. Ariados is a spider and Donphan is an elephant.

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* Most Franchise/{{Pokemon}} based on small animals are unusually large; most Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Pokémon based on large animals are unusually small. For example, Ariados and Donphan are both 3'07'' tall. Ariados is a spider and Donphan is an elephant.



* Islands can do strange things to the general sizes of its inhabitants. Animals that are generally large on the mainland end up being dwarfed due to such factors as limited food and limited space. Examples include dwarf elephants, dinosaurs and even ''Homo Floresiensis'' or "Flores Man". Other animals that are generally small on the mainland become gigantic due to lack of predators or taking up unoccupied niches that are usually filled by larger animals. Examples of these include the komodo dragon, galapagos tortoises and the weta (a cricket the size of a rat).

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* Islands can do strange things to the general sizes of its inhabitants. Animals that are generally large on the mainland end up being dwarfed due to such factors as limited food and limited space. Examples include dwarf elephants, dinosaurs and even ''Homo Floresiensis'' floresiensis'' or "Flores Man". Other animals that are generally small on the mainland become gigantic due to lack of predators or taking up unoccupied niches that are usually filled by larger animals. Examples of these include the komodo dragon, galapagos tortoises and the weta (a cricket the size of a rat).
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* In-universe variant: The Pokedex lists Charizard's average height as 5'7", a typical height for a human. In the ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'', some are portrayed as being at least twice that size. Even the smallest are at least that tall. Though in ''Anime/PokemonGenerations'', Charizard is shown at the correct height.

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* In-universe variant: The Pokedex lists Charizard's average height as 5'7", a typical height for a human. In the ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'', some are portrayed as being at least twice that size. Even the smallest are at least that tall. Though in ''Anime/PokemonGenerations'', ''WebAnimation/PokemonGenerations'', Charizard is shown at the correct height.
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** In Recap/TheFlamePokemonAthon Ponyta and Rapidash are shown to be at least twice as tall as their Pokédex entires.

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** In Recap/TheFlamePokemonAthon ''[[Recap/PokemonS1E33TheFlamePokemonathon The Flame Pokémon-athon!]]'' Ponyta and Rapidash are shown to be at least twice as tall as their Pokédex entires.

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* In-universe variant: The Pokedex lists Charizard's average height as 5'7", a typical height for a human. In the ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'', some are portrayed as being at least twice that size. Even the smallest are at least that tall.

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* In-universe variant: The Pokedex lists Charizard's average height as 5'7", a typical height for a human. In the ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'', some are portrayed as being at least twice that size. Even the smallest are at least that tall. Though in ''Anime/PokemonGenerations'', Charizard is shown at the correct height.


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** In Recap/TheFlamePokemonAthon Ponyta and Rapidash are shown to be at least twice as tall as their Pokédex entires.
** Of special note is how Roselia is far larger than its game size of 1'00. Drew's is shown to be around 3'00 at least.
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* Diablo from ''WesternAnimation/HouseBroken'' is an Airedale Terrier, but is ridiculously small for that breed, being the same size as Elsa the Corgi and a bunch of toy breeds in "Who's Getting Up There?" He should realistically be the same size as Honey.

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* In the Series/{{Power Rangers}} TV series, the Zords that are based on animals are seldom if ever to scale with each other. This is so that they can combine to form the Megazords, each Zord is large enough to accommodate the Ranger who pilots it. In the first season of ''Mighty Morphin' '', for instance, the ''Triceratops'' and Saber-Toothed Tiger Dinozords are the same size, so that they can form the legs of the Megazord. If they were to scale, and large enough to accommodate the Rangers, each creature would have to be 30 times the length, width, and height, and thus 27,000 times the mass, of its real-life counterpart. In other words, they'd have to be approximately these sizes:

•''Mastodon'': 300 feet high at the shoulders

•''Pterodactyl''**: wingspan 690 feet

•''Saber-Toothed Tiger''*: 120 feet high at the shoulders

•''Triceratops'': 200 feet high at the hips

•''Tyrannosaurus'': 400 feet high at the hips

Here are some other dinosaurs and prehistoric animals featured as Zords in the franchise, along with the sizes that they would have had to be in order to be to scale with each other:

•''Ankylosaurus'': 125 feet high at the hips

•''Brachiosaurus'': 555 feet high at the shoulders and 1,300 feet in overall height

•''Mosasaurus'' (not a dinosaur): 850 feet long overall

•''Pachycephalosaurus'': 215 feet in overall height

•''Parasaurolophus'':

•''Plesiosaurus'' (not a dinosaur): 315 feet long

•''Stegosaurus'':

•''Titanosaurus'':

•''Velociraptor'':


* ''Smilodon'', the famous saber-toothed "tiger", was not closely related to present-day tigers. Its correct name is the saber-toothed ''cat''.

** This Zord is based on the pterosaur ''Pteranodon''.



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* In the Series/{{Power Rangers}} TV series, the Zords that are based on animals are seldom if ever to scale with each other. This is so that they can combine to form the Megazords, each Zord is large enough to accommodate the Ranger who pilots it. In the first season of ''Mighty Morphin' '', for instance, the ''Triceratops'' and Saber-Toothed Tiger Dinozords are the same size, so that they can form the legs of the Megazord. If they were to scale, and large enough to accommodate the Rangers, each creature would have to be 30 times the length, width, and height, and thus 27,000 times the mass, of its real-life counterpart. In other words, they'd have to be approximately these sizes:

•''Mastodon'': 300 feet high at the shoulders

•''Pterodactyl''**: wingspan 690 feet

•''Saber-Toothed Tiger''*: 120 feet high at the shoulders

•''Triceratops'': 200 feet high at the hips

•''Tyrannosaurus'': 400 feet high at the hips

Here are some other dinosaurs and prehistoric animals featured as Zords in the franchise, along with the sizes that they would have had to be in order to be to scale with each other:

•''Ankylosaurus'': 125 feet high at the hips

•''Brachiosaurus'': 555 feet high at the shoulders and 1,300 feet in overall height

•''Mosasaurus'' (not a dinosaur): 850 feet long overall

•''Pachycephalosaurus'': 215 feet in overall height

•''Parasaurolophus'':

•''Plesiosaurus'' (not a dinosaur): 315 feet long

•''Stegosaurus'':

•''Titanosaurus'':

•''Velociraptor'':


* ''Smilodon'', the famous saber-toothed "tiger", was not closely related to present-day tigers. Its correct name is the saber-toothed ''cat''.

** This Zord is based on the pterosaur ''Pteranodon''.


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* In the Series/{{Power Rangers}} TV series, the Zords that are based on animals are seldom if ever to scale with each other. This is so that they can combine to form the Megazords, each Zord is large enough to accommodate the Ranger who pilots it. In the first season of ''Mighty Morphin' '', for instance, the ''Triceratops'' and Saber-Toothed Tiger Dinozords are the same size, so that they can form the legs of the Megazord. If they were to scale, and large enough to accommodate the Rangers, each creature would have to be 30 times the length, width, and height, and thus 27,000 times the mass, of its real-life counterpart. In other words, they'd have to be approximately these sizes:

•''Mastodon'': 300 feet high at the shoulders

•''Pterodactyl''**: wingspan 690 feet

•''Saber-Toothed Tiger''*: 120 feet high at the shoulders

•''Triceratops'': 200 feet high at the hips

•''Tyrannosaurus'': 400 feet high at the hips

Here are some other dinosaurs and prehistoric animals featured as Zords in the franchise, along with the sizes that they would have had to be in order to be to scale with each other:

•''Ankylosaurus'':

•''Brachiosaurus'': 555 feet high at the shoulders and 1,300 feet in overall height

•''Mosasaurus'' (not a dinosaur):

•''Pachycephalosaurus'': 215 feet in overall height

•''Parasaurolophus'':

•''Plesiosaurus'' (not a dinosaur): 315 feet long

•''Stegosaurus'':

•''Titanosaurus'':

•''Velociraptor'':


*''Smilodon'', the famous saber-toothed "tiger", was not closely related to present-day tigers. Its correct name is the saber-toothed ''cat''.

**This Zord is based on the pterosaur ''Pteranodon''.





** The ''Pteranodon'' in ''Film/JurassicParkIII'' are portrayed with wingspans around thirty-two feet across; real ''Pteranodon'' weren't exactly small animals, but their wingspans maxed out at around twenty-feet wide. Their size is made more accurate in ''Film/JurassicWorld'', but it ''still'' falls under this trope because they're depicted as female here, which had wingspans only half as wide as the males.

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** The ''Pteranodon'' in ''Film/JurassicParkIII'' are portrayed with wingspans around thirty-two feet across; real ''Pteranodon'' weren't exactly small animals, but their wingspans maxed out at around twenty-feet twenty-three feet wide. Their size is made more accurate in ''Film/JurassicWorld'', but it ''still'' falls under this trope because they're depicted as female here, which had wingspans only half as wide as the males.



** The ''Quetzalcoatlus'' in ''Dominion'' are enormous in comparison to the real animal, with wingspans easily twice, possibly even three times, the width of the real animals (around thirty to thirty-three feet across) in some shots, which already had one of the largest wingspans of any flying animal.

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** The ''Quetzalcoatlus'' in ''Dominion'' are enormous in comparison to the real animal, with wingspans easily twice, possibly even three times, the width of the real animals (around thirty to thirty-three feet across) from tip to tip) in some shots, which already had one of the largest wingspans of any flying animal.

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* Throughout the Series/{{Power Rangers}} series, the Zords that were based on animals were seldom if ever to scale with each other (this was so that they could form Megazords). The Zords were large enough to hold the cockpits for the Rangers to operate them. Given that the Zords weren't normally more than about 30 stories or 400 feet tall, in order to be to scale with each other, Zords from "Wild Force" should have been approximately these sizes:

''Lion:'' 213 feet long including its tail and 75 feet high at its shoulders

''Tiger:'' 250 feet long including its tail and 90 feet high at its shoulders

''Black/Polar Bears:'' 65 feet high at the shoulders

''Wolf:'' 130 feet long including its tail and 55 feet high at its shoulders

''Bison:'' 150 feet high at its shoulders

''Giraffe:'' 400 feet tall

''Deer:'' 115 feet high at its shoulders

''Elephant:'' 250 feet tall

''Rhino:'' 130 feet high at the shoulders

''Armadillo'': 60 feet long including its tail

''Gorilla:'' 125 feet tall when standing upright

''Eagle:'' 70 feet long overall and 175-foot wingspan

''Falcon:'' 37½ feet long overall and 87½-foot wingspan

''Shark:'' 300 feet long overall

''Alligator:'' 250 feet long overall


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* Throughout the Series/{{Power Rangers}} series, the Zords that were based on animals were seldom if ever to scale with each other (this was so that they could form Megazords). The Zords were large enough to hold the cockpits for the Rangers to operate them. Given that the Zords weren't normally more than about 30 stories or 400 feet tall, in order to be to scale with each other, Zords from "Wild Force" should have been approximately these sizes:

''Lion:'' 213 feet long including its tail and 75 feet high at its shoulders

''Tiger:'' 250 feet long including its tail and 90 feet high at its shoulders

''Black/Polar Bears:'' 65 feet high at the shoulders

''Wolf:'' 130 feet long including its tail and 55 feet high at its shoulders

''Bison:'' 150 feet high at its shoulders

''Giraffe:'' 400 feet tall

''Deer:'' 115 feet high at its shoulders

''Elephant:'' 250 feet tall

''Rhino:'' 130 feet high at the shoulders

''Armadillo'': 60 feet long including its tail

''Gorilla:'' 125 feet tall when standing upright

''Eagle:'' 70 feet long overall and 175-foot wingspan

''Falcon:'' 37½ feet long overall and 87½-foot wingspan

''Shark:'' 300 feet long overall

''Alligator:'' 250 feet long overall

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* Throughout the Series/{{Power Rangers}} series, the Zords that were based on animals were seldom if ever to scale with each other (this was so that they could form Megazords). The Zords were large enough to hold the cockpits for the Rangers to operate them. Given that the Zords weren't normally more than about 30 stories or 400 feet tall, in order to be to scale with each other, Zords from Series/Wild Force should have been approximately these sizes:

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* Throughout the Series/{{Power Rangers}} series, the Zords that were based on animals were seldom if ever to scale with each other (this was so that they could form Megazords). The Zords were large enough to hold the cockpits for the Rangers to operate them. Given that the Zords weren't normally more than about 30 stories or 400 feet tall, in order to be to scale with each other, Zords from Series/Wild Force "Wild Force" should have been approximately these sizes:

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* Throughout the Series/{{Power Rangers}} series, the Zords that were based on animals were seldom if ever to scale with each other (this was so that they could form Megazords). The Zords were large enough to hold the cockpits for the Rangers to operate them. Given that the Zords weren't normally more than about 30 stories or 400 feet tall, in order to be to scale with each other, they should have been roughly these sizes in the original "Mighty Morphin'" series:





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* Throughout the Series/{{Power Rangers}} series, the Zords that were based on animals were seldom if ever to scale with each other (this was so that they could form Megazords). The Zords were large enough to hold the cockpits for the Rangers to operate them. Given that the Zords weren't normally more than about 30 stories or 400 feet tall, in order to be to scale with each other, they Zords from Series/Wild Force should have been roughly approximately these sizes in sizes:

''Lion:'' 213 feet long including its tail and 75 feet high at its shoulders

''Tiger:'' 250 feet long including its tail and 90 feet high at its shoulders

''Black/Polar Bears:'' 65 feet high at
the original "Mighty Morphin'" series:




shoulders

''Wolf:'' 130 feet long including its tail and 55 feet high at its shoulders

''Bison:'' 150 feet high at its shoulders

''Giraffe:'' 400 feet tall

''Deer:'' 115 feet high at its shoulders

''Elephant:'' 250 feet tall

''Rhino:'' 130 feet high at the shoulders

''Armadillo'': 60 feet long including its tail

''Gorilla:'' 125 feet tall when standing upright

''Eagle:'' 70 feet long overall and 175-foot wingspan

''Falcon:'' 37½ feet long overall and 87½-foot wingspan

''Shark:'' 300 feet long overall

''Alligator:'' 250 feet long overall

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* Throughout the ''Power Rangers'' series, the Zords based on animals were seldom if ever to scale with each other (this was so that they could form Megazords). The Zords were large enough for their heads to hold the cockpits for the Rangers to operate them.

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* Throughout the ''Power Rangers'' Series/{{Power Rangers}} series, the Zords that were based on animals were seldom if ever to scale with each other (this was so that they could form Megazords). The Zords were large enough for their heads to hold the cockpits for the Rangers to operate them. Given that the Zords weren't normally more than about 30 stories or 400 feet tall, in order to be to scale with each other, they should have been roughly these sizes in the original "Mighty Morphin'" series:




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* In-universe variant: The Pokedex lists Charizard's average height as 5'7", a typical height for a human. In the ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' anime, some are portrayed as being at least twice that size. Even the smallest are at least that tall.

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* In-universe variant: The Pokedex lists Charizard's average height as 5'7", a typical height for a human. In the ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' anime, ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'', some are portrayed as being at least twice that size. Even the smallest are at least that tall.
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* A common mistake in ''Creator/DingoPictures''' [[UncannyValley terrible]] movies.
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* ''WesternAnimation/ThePiratesInAnAdventureWithScientists'': The Pirate Captain has a NotSoExtinct dodo bird named Polly that sits on his shoulder. However, dodos in reality were about a metre tall and weighed up to forty pounds, way too big and heavy to sit on a man's shoulder like a PirateParrot.
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* The villain of Disney's ''WesternAnimation/{{Dinosaur}}'' is a ''Carnotaurus'' that's considerably larger than the film's hero, Aladar (an ''Iguanodon''). In real life, [[ArtisticLicensePaleontology both dinosaurs were about the same size]]. This seems to be at least partly because [[WhatCouldHaveBeen the villain role was originally]] going to [[KingOfTheDinosaurs a much more familiar giant theropod]], which ''was'' considerably larger than the average ''Iguanodon''.

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* The villain of Disney's ''WesternAnimation/{{Dinosaur}}'' is a ''Carnotaurus'' that's considerably larger than the film's hero, Aladar (an ''Iguanodon''). In real life, [[ArtisticLicensePaleontology both dinosaurs were about the same size]]. This seems to be at least partly because [[WhatCouldHaveBeen the villain role was originally]] going to [[KingOfTheDinosaurs be a much more familiar giant theropod]], T. Rex, which ''was'' considerably larger than the average ''Iguanodon''.
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* ''VideoGame/DustyRevenge'', a BeatEmUp game set in a world of andromorphic animals, plays this trope straight. The titular hero, Dusty, is a bunny rabbit who's the ''same size'' as recurring animal enemies like rhinos, bulls, frogs, weasels and rodents. Meanwhile, hippos and cows are GiantMook enemies that towers over the rest, somehow.

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* ''VideoGame/DustyRevenge'', a BeatEmUp game set in a world of andromorphic animals, ''VideoGame/DustyRevenge'' and it's prequel, ''VideoGame/DustyRagingFist'', plays this trope straight. The titular hero, Dusty, is a bunny rabbit who's the ''same size'' as recurring animal enemies like rhinos, bulls, frogs, weasels and rodents. Meanwhile, hippos and cows are GiantMook enemies that towers over the rest, somehow. It gets really ridiculous in the prequel where there are ''[[NeverSmileAtACrocodile crocodile]]'' mooks the same size as Dusty.

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