History Main / RaptorAttack

* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'' episode, "Fight at the Museum", zig-zags this with a museum display of a ''Deinonychus''-like dromaeosaurid. On one hand, it has feathers. However, the feathering is still not enough, and the model also possesses the usual pronated hands and slit-pupils.

* The ''Velociraptor'' that gets locked into Jimmy's closet in a ''WesternAnimation/JimmyNeutron'' episode is the standard ''JP''-styled fare.

--> -- '''Dr. Alan Grant''', ''Film/JurassicPark''

Usually an example of ArtisticLicensePaleontology, what with ''Film/JurassicPark'' being the TropeCodifier, and sometimes of RuleOfCool, if raptors are added just for coolness. See also TerrorDactyl and TRexpy.

* Probably thanks to ''Film/JurassicPark'', it was a bit of a trend for a while to depict raptors as being AlwaysChaoticEvil. [[PrehistoricMonster It should probably be obvious why this is inaccurate]]. Fortunately, this is less common nowadays, to the point that [[Film/JurassicParkIII the Jurassic Park]] [[Film/JurassicWorld franchise]] is both averting it and giving a kind of justification for past depictions: They were violently sociopathic due to being "raised" without proper role models (read: isolated in artificial pens since a very early age, being fed remotely, and pretty much zero socialization).

* ''ComicBook/DinosaursVsAliens'' did not shy away from giving their raptors and troodonts feathers. WordOfGod stated that this was not only for accuracy but also to differentiate them from ''Film/JurassicPark'' raptors.

* ''ComicBook/JurassicLeague'': ComicBook/TheFlash is a ''Film/JurassicPark''-style ''Velociraptor''.

* ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' has Calvin giving a report about overpopulation, which involves a pack of ''Deinonychus'' devouring Susie. Though the detailed dinosaurs look like something out of the movie version of ''Film/JurassicPark'', the strip actually predates it -- and Watterson gives the dinosaur its correct name, though he couldn't know about the feathers back then.

** The game app ''Ice Age Village'' has a scaly, Franchise/JurassicPark-styled ''Velociraptor''. ''Pyroraptor'' has feathers, however.

* ''Film/{{Godzilla 1998}}'': Godzilla's offspring turns the last half of the film into a fusion between ''Film/JurassicPark'' and ''Film/{{Aliens}}'', with Nick and Philippe's team fighting the baby Godzillas, which act ''very'' closely to ''Film/JurassicPark'''s velociraptors. Possibly justified, since they're not actual raptors, but the offspring of a mutated marine iguana.

* ''Franchise/JurassicPark'', naturally, is the TropeMaker and TropeCodifier. They seem to grow in intelligence with each movie; the original could at least be fooled by [[HallOfMirrors reflective sheet metal]].
** The third film gave them some color -- to the male raptors. Somewhat justified, in that the first and second film's raptors were female, or, thanks to faulty DNA hybridization to fill in the damaged strands, changed to males.

* Raptors appear as the antagonists in the found footage film ''Film/{{Tape 407}}''.
* ''Film/Tremors2Aftershocks'': The shriekers, a velociraptor-like "nymph" stage (this movie premiered 2 years after the first ''Film/JurassicPark''). They're not even close to dinosaurs, however.

* ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'': The Ssi-Ruuk are a race of aliens who are essentially anthropomorphic ''Film/JurassicPark''-style velociraptors, though they also throw in some Tyrannosaurid features and [[DinosaursAreDragons dragonic features from both Eastern and Western dragons.]] Naturally, they're bloodthirsty conquerors and tacticians.

* The first two ''VideoGame/{{Carnivores}}'' hunting simulator games feature ''Velociraptor'', and the iOS and Android versions added ''Utahraptor'' and ''Troodon''. Unfortunately, none are especially accurate. The Velociraptor might as well have leapt out of Franchise/JurassicPark: an oversized, naked, bendy-tailed excuse for a dromaeosaurid. The Utahraptor is slightly better, with non-pronated hands and a small crest of feathers on its head, but that's about the only place it has feathers (no one seems to understand that raptors were ''completely'' cloaked in feathers from head to toe, they weren't just lizards with a mohawk). The Troodon is probably the worst: scaly, much bigger than the real animal, and as if this weren't bad enough it is flat-footed (everyone seems to know that raptors had an enlarged foot claw, but the fact that troodontids also had it is a somewhat lesser-known fact). These inaccuracies may be [[JustifiedTrope justified]] if, as the game's manual states, the game is set on a distant planet instead of on prehistoric Earth, in which case any resemblances of the inhabitants to Earth's dinosaurs would be purely superficial.

* ''VideoGame/DinoCrisis'' had ''Franchise/JurassicPark'' style "raptors", which disappointingly served as low-level [[TheGoomba goomba]]s.

* Talon, the skyscraper-sized, LightningBruiser ''Deinonychus'' God of Survival from ''VideoGame/PrimalRage'', who interestingly has feathers on his head - not bad, for a game that came from the 90s and in the wake of Film/JurassicPark. He lords over human-sized raptors, as well.

* ''WesternAnimation/DinoRiders'' featured ''Deinonychus'' that were large enough to ride on and tote saddles armed with laser cannons. This is several years before either ''Utahraptor'' or ''Film/JurassicPark'' came to light.

* The ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' episode "Land Before Swine" had a typical ''Film/JurassicPark''-styled raptor with two-fingered hands (which doesn't correspond with any known deinonychosaur).

* The two villains of ''WesternAnimation/KungFuDinoPosse'', Skor and Skrap, are called "raptors", but they don't look like real dinosaurs in any way. They don't have feathers and they have frills like the ''Dilophosaurus'' in ''Film/JurassicPark'' and head quills similar to the ''Velociraptor'' from the third ''Jurassic Park'' film.

->''"[[Film/JurassicPark Clever girl...]]"''

Usually an example of ArtisticLicensePaleontology, what with ''Film/JurassicPark'' being the TropeCodifier, and sometimes of RuleOfCool, if raptors are added just for coolness. See also PteroSoarer and TRexpy.

* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama Island (2023)'': In the episode "Jurassic Fart", the contestants have to avoid vicious ''Velociraptor'' that are a direct parody of the ones seen in ''Jurassic Park''. Besides being scaly and oversized with a broad skull, they can even open doors.

* ''WesternAnimation/WeBabyBears'': "Modern-ish Stone Age Family" features a pair of ''Archaeopteryx''-looking paravians that can mimic speech like parrots, to the point they act as a stereo system for a caveman family as the Bears teach them about television. Both of the paravians [[ShownTheirWork have dromaeosaurid-like killing claws on their feet and are covered black plumage]].

* ''WesternAnimation/WeBabyBears'': "Modern-ish Stone Age Family" features a pair of dromaeosaurid or ''Archaeopteryx''-looking paravians that can mimic speech like parrots, to the point they act as a stereo system for a caveman family as the Bears teach them about television. Both of the paravians [[ShownTheirWork have killing claws on their feet and are covered black plumage]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama Island (2003)'': In the episode "Jurassic Fart", the contestants have to avoid vicious ''Velociraptor'' that are a direct parody of the ones seen in ''Jurassic Park''. Besides being scaly and oversized with a broad skull, they can even open doors.

* ''ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse'': In "Escape From Forbidden Valley", Scrooge and the triplets encounter a pack of ''Velociraptor'' [[EvilEggEater feeding on dinosaur eggs]]. Scrooge muscles his way through the pack to get a couple eggs to bring back, only for the raptors to turn on him. Don Rosa actually gets the size of the ''Velociraptor'' right as they are around Scrooge or Donald's height (3'), but they are still scaly, as the comic is written in 1999.

* ''ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse'': In "Escape From Forbidden Valley", Scrooge and the triplets encounter a pack of ''Velociraptor'' [[EvilEggEater feeding on dinosaur eggs]]. Scrooge muscles his way through the pack to get a couple eggs to bring back, only for the raptors to turn on him. The ''Velociraptor'' are still scaly, due to the comic being written in 1999, but Don Rosa gets their size right as they are around Scrooge or Donald's height (3').

* ''ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse'': In "Escape From Forbidden Valley", Scrooge and the triplets encounter a pack of scaly ''Velociraptor'' [[EvilEggEater feeding on dinosaur eggs]]. Scrooge muscles his way through the pack to get a couple eggs to bring back, only for the raptors to turn on him.

* ''ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse'': In "Escape From Forbidden Valley", Scrooge and the triplets encounter a pack of (scaly and oversized) ''Velociraptor'' [[EvilEggEater feeding on dinosaur eggs]]. Scrooge muscles his way through the pack to get a couple eggs to bring back, only for the raptors to turn on him.

* ''Prehistoria: The Raptor's Tail'': Averts almost every facet of the trope. The ''Adasaurus'' featured as the focus character is entirely feathered with accurate wings, is solitary with her only interaction with another female is to immediately get into a territorial dispute, and uses their claws more for climbing, pinning prey, and stabbing in an emergency rather than slashing. The science section in the second half of the book focuses on discussing this trope and how even if some dromaeosaurids potentially hunted in packs, that doesn't mean every species did [[note]](A comparison is made on how lions and wolves hunt in groups, but other felines and canines don't)[[/note]].

* ''Prehistoria: The Raptor's Tail'': Averts almost every facet of the trope. The ''[[SeldomSeenSpecies Adasaurus]]'' featured as the focus character is entirely feathered with accurate wings, is solitary with her only interaction with another female is to immediately get into a territorial dispute, and uses their claws more for climbing, pinning prey, and stabbing in an emergency rather than slashing. The science section in the second half of the book focuses on discussing this trope and how even if some dromaeosaurids potentially hunted in packs, that doesn't mean every species did [[note]](A comparison is made on how lions and wolves hunt in groups, but other felines and canines don't)[[/note]].

* ''Prehistoria: The Raptor's Tail'': Averts almost every facet of the trope. The [[SeldomSeenSpecies ''Adasaurus'']] featured as the focus character is entirely feathered with accurate wings, is solitary with her only interaction with another female is to immediately get into a territorial dispute, and uses their claws more for climbing, pinning prey, and stabbing in an emergency rather than slashing. The science section in the second half of the book focuses on discussing this trope and how even if some dromaeosaurids potentially hunted in packs, that doesn't mean every species did [[note]](A comparison is made on how lions and wolves hunt in groups, but other felines and canines don't)[[/note]].

* ''Prehistoria: The Raptor's Tail'': Averts almost every facet of the trope. The ''Adasaurus'' featured as the focus character is entirely feathered with accurate wings, is solitary and her only interaction with another female is to immediately get into a territorial dispute, and uses their claws more for climbing, pinning prey, and stabbing in an emergency. The science section in the second half of the book focuses on discussing this trope and how even if some dromaeosaurids potentially hunted in packs, that doesn't mean every species did [[note]](A comparison is made on how lions and wolves hunt in groups, but other felines and canines don't)[[/note]].

* ''Prehistoria: The Raptor's Tail'': Averts almost every facet of the trope. The ''Adasaurus'' featured as the focus character is entirely feathered with accurate wings, is solitary and her only interaction with another female is to immediately get into a territorial dispute, and uses their claws more for climbing, pinning prey, and stabbing in an emergency. The science section in the second half of the book focuses on discussing this trope and how even if some dromaeosaurids potentially hunted in packs, that doesn't mean every species did [[note]](A comparison is made on how lions and wolves hunt in groups, but other felines and canines don't)[[/note]].

* Giving raptors two fingers, likely a result of MixAndMatchCritters, combining them with ''UsefulNotes/TyrannosaurusRex'' for maximum RuleOfCool. This mistake is particularly egregious because every known dromaeosaur had three-fingered hands (while the two-fingered theropod ''Balaur'' was once considered a dromaeosaur, it's now thought to be have been a flightless bird).

* Three episodes of the Creator/DiscoveryChannel miniseries ''Series/DinosaurPlanet'' featured "raptors". The first one was about a female ''Velociraptor'' named "White Tip" (due to her white feathers) trying to find a new pack. The second was about a male ''Pyroraptor'' named "Pod" who ends up on an island inhabited by dinosaurs much smaller than he is including a pack of mini troodonts. In a third episode, ''Troodon'' proper shows up. They were commendably portrayed with feathers, but not quite extensively enough (for example, they lacked pennaceous feathers).

* ''Series/PlanetDinosaur'' went both ways by producing some of the most well-feathered dromaeosaurid television reconstructions to date, but the modelers still attached the wing feathers to the wrong finger, and their troodontids are no more than old-fashioned, lizard-like critters outfitted with a ''very'' thin feather coating, and have no wings, nor a tail fan.
** They also made ''Sinornithosaurus'' venomous, which was a theory that was panned some months before it was released (even though they included research that was ''more'' recent than the rebuttal to the venomous ''Sinornithosaurus'' hypothesis).

* ''Series/TheTruthAboutKillerDinosaurs'' focused on ''Velociraptor'' in one of the two episodes, discussing how ''Velociraptor'' may have used its killing claw in predation. The fact that dromaeosaurids had feathers is given some attention, though ([[OverlyLongGag as usual]]) the feathering given to the animated ''Velociraptor'' isn't entirely accurate.
* ''Series/WalkingWithDinosaurs'' had scaly raptors and in one episode, ''Utahraptor'' [[MisplacedWildlife was shown living in Europe]]. ''Velociraptor'', also in need of plumage, turn up in the ''Series/ChasedByDinosaurs'' spinoff, where they're correctly shown as fairly small, though still fairly dangerous.
* ''WesternAnimation/WhenDinosaursRoamedAmerica'' was one of the first documentaries to feature feathered dromaeosaurids. The scientific consultants [[http://dml.cmnh.org/2001Jul/msg00239.html pointed out]] that the feathers should've been more pennaceous, but they reportedly didn't have enough of a budget to do realistic-looking pennaceous feathers (though one may wonder why they couldn't just keep the feathers as textures like with CGI birds).

** The [[WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTimeXIITheGreatDayOfTheFlyers twelfth movie]] introduces a heroic feathered maniraptor, a ''Microraptor'' named Guido. He looks nothing like a ''Microraptor'', looking more like a cross between an ''Oviraptor'' and a muppet.

* Wedge-shaped heads with a very wide base narrowing to a narrow snout, more like that of a lizard, are very common in media. In truth, like most theropods, dromaeosaurids had very thin, birdlike skulls. The former look was inspired by vintage reconstructions of ''Deinonychus'', which showed it with a shorter, more allosaur-like head (though even allosaurs had narrow heads when seen in dorsal view), but the discovery of more complete ''Deinonychus'' skulls has rendered the old restorations obsolete.

* Wedge-shaped heads with a very wide base narrowing to a narrow snout, more like that of a lizard, are very common in media. In truth, like most theropods, dromaeosaurids had very thin, birdlike skulls. The former look was inspired by vintage reconstructions of ''Deinonychus'', which showed it with a more compact, allosaur-like head, but the discovery of more complete skulls has rendered the old restorations obsolete.

* Wedge-shaped heads with a very wide base narrowing to a narrow snout, more like that of a lizard, are very common in media. In truth, like most theropods, dromaeosaurids had very thin, birdlike skulls.

* ''WesternAnimation/WhenDinosaursRoamedAmerica'' was one of the first documentaries to feature feathered dromaeosaurids. The scientific consultants [[http://dml.cmnh.org/2001Jul/msg00239.html pointed out]] that the feathers should've been more pennaceous, but they reportedly didn't have enough of a budget to do realistic-looking pennaceous feathers (though one may wonder why they didn't just keep the feathers as textures like with CGI birds).