Characters / Jurassic Fight Club

Character page for the creatures of Jurassic Fight Club, arranged by the order in which each one makes its appearance.

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Majungasaurus

Majungasaurus/"Majungatholus"

First appearance: Episode 1: Cannibal Dinosaur

The first creature to appear on the show, Majungasaurus is one of the few dinosaur species confirmed to practice cannibalism to some extent. It is believed they also may have exhibited some form of sexual dimorphism, which is illustrated in its debut episode; a male seeks to impress a female to mate, but their initial meeting quickly turns aggressive.

• Ape Shall Never Kill Ape: Averted; both male and female have absolutely no qualms with attacking and killing their own kind. The male specifically seeks to kill the female's offspring to mate with her.
• Artistic Licence – Biology: It's speculated that Majungasaurus may have had its odd appearance due to generations of inbreeding on the isolated island of Madagascar. Nevermind the fact that it didn't look that odd at all compared to other abelisaurs, Madagascar is and was a fairly large island, so the chances of inbreeding would likely be rather low.
• Artistic License – Paleontology: Despite the narration correctly stating otherwise, both male and female possess fairly long, slender legs, as opposed to the short and stocky legs Majungasaurus possessed in real life. Furthermore, while the talking heads accurately state that their forearms are shrunken to essentially a single wrist, the models' arms look a lot more like simple shrunken T. rex arms.
• Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: The male Majungasaurus has blue limbs and tail combined with a head that's a combination of gold and red. It helps him stand out and be flashy compared to the drab white and gray female.
• Death of a Child: Despite the female's efforts, after she falls and is temporarily incapacitated, the male bashes her child's face into a tree and kills it.
• Eats Babies: The logical extension of the above. The female comes back and throws the male to the ground before he can do it, though; after unsuccessfully attempting to wake up her dead child, she promptly eats it whole.
• Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Despite the genus being renamed Majungasaurus for quite some time before this documentary was made, it still refers to it by its old name, "Majungatholus".
• Mama Bear: The female Majungasaurus fights viciously to fend off the male and keep him away from her offspring...until during her fall the male kills it.
• Tail Slap: Specifically singled out as a potential weapon is the tail; the female puts it to good use when the male tries to outflank her, swinging around and slapping him in the face with her tail.
• Use Your Head: Its main form of attack. In reality, though, its neck and back were not strong enough to support such a collision.

Tyrannosaurus rex

Tyrannosaurus rex

First appearance: Episode 2: T-Rex Hunter

”King of the tyrant lizards”

One of the most famous and ferocious dinosaurs of all time, Tyrannosaurus rex makes its appearance early in the series, in Episode 2. However, despite its supposed reputation, the find of an oddly-injured juvenile prompted a curious case and investigation for its potential killer.

• Artistic Licence – Biology: The mother T. rex supposedly spilling the Nanotyrannus's remains all over her territory as a warning to other creatures, especially other Nanotyrannus, is extremely questionable; if anything, such meat lying around would've drawn in more predators.
• Artistic License – Paleontology:
  • In one episode it's claimed that T. rex first appeared 90 million years ago, when in reality it only appeared surprisingly late: 68 million years ago, aka only about 2-3 million years before the meteor.
  • The juveniles are portrayed as simply adult models downscaled accordingly, when the narration correctly states that they would have resembled Nanotyrannus (for obvious reasons).
  • T. rex didn't actually have a septic bite. Any comparisons or similarities to komodo dragons are wrong because they have been legitimately proven to be venomous.
  • When a T. rex shows up to steal the Edmontosaurus carcass from the Dromaeosaurus, it picks up the dead hadrosaur's entire body (except its tail) with its jaws alone and leaves with it. No amount of strength from a T. rex, not even a very large one, would enable it to easily pick up a hadrosaur carcass like it did.
• Death of a Child: Nanotyrannus kills one of the juveniles and is about to attack the second when their mother shows up.
• The Hunter Becomes the Hunted: The whole premise of the second episode, where two juveniles are hunted and killed by the Nanotyrannus. Then the mother T. rex pulls this on the Nanotyrannus and kills it as well.
• Mama Bear: The mother T. rex is absolutely livid to see the Nanotyrannus attacking her offspring, and disposes of it accordingly.
• Use Your Head: When the Nanotyrannus attempts to outflank the mother T. rex and attack the juvenile behind her, she merely responds with a swing of her head that sends it flying.

Nanotyrannus

Nanotyrannus

First appearance: Episode 2: T-Rex Hunter

”Dwarf tyrant”

The titular hunter of T. rex...at least, young ones. It is depicted as a small predator who attacks when the parents are away, eradicating juvenile tyrannosaurs to lessen the competition in the future.

• Artistic License – Paleontology: Well, for starters, it likely never even existed. Nanotyrannus is almost certainly simply a misnamed juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex, which makes its role as a juvenile hunter rather amusing.
• Eats Babies: Specifically kills younger Tyrannosaurus rex so in the future it won't have as many giant predators to contend with. However, their mother interrupts its killing spree before it can get to eating.
• The Hunter Becomes the Hunted: Pulls this on the juveniles, killing them despite their species' reputation as fearsome, indomitable predators. But then an adult of the species shows up and violently puts it in its place.
• Too Dumb to Live: Despite being faced with a raging mother T .rex, the Nanotyrannus forgoes retreat and opts to finish what it started, attempting to kill the second remaining juvenile. Predictably, it gets ravaged and slaughtered for its efforts.
• Would Hurt a Child: Kills one young T.rex and tries to kill another before the mother puts a stop to its killing spree.

Deinonychus

Deinonychus

First appearance: Episode 3: Gang Killers

”Terrible claw”

Famous fleet-footed theropods with large claws and a supposed knack for hunting in packs to bring down big game, Deinonychus is the focus of the third episode, in which a group of them are found surrounding a Tenontosaurus.

• Anachronism Stew: Due to the show's model recycling, a group of them are briefly seen in T. Rex Hunter, and a Ceratosaurus stalks one in Hunter Becomes Hunted. Presumably in the latter case it was meant to be a generic ornithopod, as only its back half is seen.
• Artistic License – Paleontology:
  • Unlike the other two dromaeosaurids, which at least have some feathers, Deinonychus has none whatsoever.
  • Its famously large toe claw is constantly described as being able to slash and disembowel, even though due to the claw's unsharpened underside it was most likely simply used as a stabbing weapon than a slicing one.
• David vs. Goliath: In the third episode, the whole pack is the David to the Tenontosaurus's Goliath.
• Feathered Fiend: Averted in that, despite being quite fiendish, it has no feathers.
• Fragile Speedster: An individual Deinonychus is not strong at all. It's too small to do much harm to a large herbivore and its bones are hollow and easily broken. However, they are very agile and fast, able to run circles and jump over their enemies, and sheer numbers make up for each one's individual weakness.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Certainly small for dinosaurs, and in a group they're deadly opponents, although alone they pose no threat to a decently-sized healthy dinosaur.
• Raptor Attack: Classic scaly, super-intelligent, murderous raptors with disembowelling claws hunting in giant hordes.
• Zerg Rush: Hunts in a large pack to take down big game. Even when their prey takes out several of the pack members, they just keep coming.

Tenontosaurus

Tenontosaurus

First appearance: Episode 3: Gang Killers

A rhino-sized ornithopod famous for its oversized tail and for being the subject of a particularly famous find depicting its carcass surrounding multiple Deinonychus.

• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: It's not intelligent, it's not especially huge, and it's not that well-defended. And yet it actually manages to rack up one of if not the biggest body count in the entire series, killing multiple Deinonychus throughout the day until it finally kicks the bucket.
• David vs. Goliath: The Goliath to the Deinonychus' Davids.
• Grievous Harm with a Body: The body in question is itself; when a stray Deinonychus pounces on the wrong side of its body, the Tenontosaurus drops to the ground and crushes the raptor under its weight.
• Tail Slap: With a tail over half its entire length, Tenontosaurus could have used it to defend itself. Indeed, it manages to swat a Deinonychus right into a rock face with it, killing it instantly.

Stegosaurus

Stegosaurus

First appearance: Episode 4: Bloodiest Battle

Stegosaurus may be one of the most famous dinosaurs of all time, with its distinctive plates, tail, and overall shape. It is just one of many species who appears in the fourth episode; when an adult and a juvenile try to get a drink from a lake in a severe drought, they find themselves mired in mud, and things go south quickly.

• Beware My Stinger Tail: Those spikes on its tremendous tail can do quite some damage. Just ask the Allosaurus who happened to take it right to the face.
• Boom, Headshot!: Kills an Allosaurus by swinging its tail spikes right into its head, offing it instantly.
• Death of a Child: The juvenile Stegosaurus in the mud is quickly killed by the Ceratosaurus who shows up early to the scene.
• Handicapped Badass: Being trapped in mud up to its shoulders does nothing to keep it from stabbing and offing an Allosaurus.
• Mighty Glacier: A Stegosaurus is not fast at all. It moves slow, it thinks slower. And yet the sheer mass and power of this creature makes it more than a match for most foes.

Camarasaurus

Camarasaurus

First appearance: Episode 4: Bloodiest Battle

A medium-sized sauropod that may possibly be one of the most common in the late Jurassic, and the sole sauropod dinosaur in the series. A bull Camarasaurus finds his front legs stuck in lakeside mud and must fend off two Allosaurus without them.

• Artistic License – Paleontology: Camarasaurus is a very front-heavy sauropod, with long front limbs. It would not have been able to rear up on its hind legs like it does in the finale of the episode.
• Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: A bright yellow head on top of a tan body.
• Tail Slap: Uses it on one of the Allosaurus, launching it away to its death and using the resulting momentum to pull its legs free.

Ceratosaurus

Ceratosaurus

First appearance: Episode 4: Bloodiest Battle

This moderately-sized theropod is easily distinguishable by the three horn-like structures on top of its head. One shows up in the fourth episode to feast on two trapped Stegosaurus before being confronted by a pack of Allosaurus, while a mated pair appears in the sixth, hunting in Allosaurus territory. None of them meet a particularly happy fate.

• Artistic License – Paleontology:
  • It's claimed that for 20 million years, Ceratosaurus was the dominant predator of the Jurassic, until Allosaurus appeared; it then outmatched and drove it to extinction before taking the throne of apex predator for the next 20. This is wholly inaccurate, as both were competitors and opposing apex predators in their Jurassic environment, not to mention they both appeared, coexisted, and died out at roughly the same time.
  • The show oddly pits its height at 13 feet when in reality it would be only half of this. For context, this is around the height of a Tyrannosaurus rex, and the only way this height could be accurate compared to its 20-foot length would be if it had an exceedingly short tail.
• Butt-Monkey: Poor, poor Ceratosaurus. In both of its episodes it gets thoroughly and utterly trounced by Allosaurus, with not much of a fair fight. Even the narration and talking head segments don't speak too kindly of it, describing, among other things, its supposed dimwittedness, its primitive design, and its overall lack of notoriety compared to the larger and more imposing Allosaurus.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: It gets blindsided twice by an Allosaurus from the side, in both cases being quickly neck-snapped and killed before it can even react.
• Eats Babies: It kills a juvenile Stegosaurus trapped in the mud and feasts on it before being interrupted by the Allosaurus pack.
• Horn Attack: Averted. Despite first impressions, the structures on top of its head are not for offense, but to display to other members of its species.
• The Hunter Becomes the Hunted: This predator is unfortunately relegated to being the punching bag of Allosaurus, in both cases being built up as a moderately imposing threat before quickly being dispatched and upstaged by the larger foe. It's even the title of the sixth episode, "Hunter Becomes Hunted", where two Ceratosaurus go hunting and find themselves being preyed on by the Allosaurus who lives in this part of the woods.
• Too Dumb to Live: The first instance of Ceratosaurus being ambushed and killed by an Allosaurus is excusable, given it was concentrating on the other two in front of it. What isn't is the second instance, in which an Allosaurus lunges in plain sight, just to its left, and yet its supposed primitive brain fails to register the threat fast enough to avoid a fairly obvious attack.
• The Worf Effect: Despite its status as a powerful predator, it gets trounced by the other Jurassic predator in this show, Allosaurus.

Allosaurus fragilis

Allosaurus

First appearance: Episode 4: Bloodiest Battle

Allegedly the "lion of the Jurassic", Allosaurus is one of the larger Jurassic predators. It makes such a presence known in two episodes, terrorizing all the other creatures who appear at the muddy lakeside in addition to fighting and killing intruding Ceratosaurus on its turf.

• Animals Not to Scale: The measurements given in the show (35-40 feet long) are much more in line with the related Saurophaganax. However, even if Saurophaganax really is just a large species of Allosaurus, this is still much larger than the norm of 28-33 feet long.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: To say that it absolutely thrashes the first two Ceratosaurus in the show would be an understatement; it comes in roaring from the side and absolutely throws the smaller theropod to the ground before it can react. The one-on-one battle between the two in the second half of the sixth episode is more drawn out but is still evidently and obviously in favor of the larger predator.
• The Hunter Becomes the Hunted: Inflicts this on the Ceratosaurus, quickly dispatching it in every appearance without too much hassle.
• In a Single Bound: Two of them are shown jumping and clawing on the side of a Camarasaurus not unlike how dromaeosaurids do, in spite of being large several-ton predators.
• Informed Ability: While they're said to be smart, the ones who appear in "Bloodiest Battle" pass up the smorgasbord of meat available to them in favor of attacking a healthy adult Camarasaurus for no other reason than it drawing their attention, a decision no real animal in its right mind would ever make. Not helping is the fact that one of them decides to run under the beast while it rears up on its hind legs.
• Lightning Bruiser: Big, strong, and fast, at least compared to the other beasts of its time. And intelligent too, being able to constantly outwit and outmatch the Ceratosaurus no matter what it tries.
• Too Dumb to Live: The final remaining Allosaurus in the fourth episode makes the very stupid decision to run under a Camarasaurus rearing up with the intent to flatten it in an attempt to finish it off. Its face gets bashed into the mud by the sauropod's foot for its trouble.

Megalodon

Megalodon

First appearance: Episode 5: Deep Sea Killers

Brygmophyseter

Brygmophyseter

First appearance: Episode 5: Deep Sea Killers

Gastonia

Gastonia

First appearance: Episode 8: Raptor's Last Stand

A small nodosaur with many spikes on its armored body. It's the subject of the eighth episode, in which its fossils are found alongside a Utahraptor.

• Beware My Stinger Tail: As if Stegosaurus didn't have enough spikes; this creature has them along the entire length of its tail.
• Mighty Glacier: Slow and ponderous, not helped by its very limited vision, but its tail packs a tremendous punch and its body is covered in spikes and osteoderms.
• Tough Armoured Dinosaur

Utahraptor

Utahraptor

First appearance: Episode 8: Raptor's Last Stand

The largest dromaeosaur, Utahraptor is described as the "nastiest" and "deadliest" of all the predators, combining the power of the large theropods and the cunning of the raptors in one frame. Such supposed ferocity is put to the test when a drought forces it to hunt a Gastonia.

• Artistic License – Paleontology:
  • It at least has more feathers than Deinonychus...but they're only limited to the arms and neck when raptors were most definitely covered almost completely with them.
  • Once again the common misconception of the dromaeosaurs' sickle-claws being used to disembowel is mentioned.
  • Utahraptor isn't just an upscaled Deinonychus. It has a much more robust frame that would have made it less agile but allowed it to utilize a more up-close bruiser-style fighting style when hunting.
• Feathered Fiend: Very small, infrequent feathers, but they're there.
• Glass Cannon: Compared to its opponent anyways; it's certainly much faster, and being bigger than other raptors means it won't just get floored by any sort of hit, but it still can't afford to take too many hits while hunting, especially not when its opponent is completely armored.
• Raptor Attack: Once again, a classic scaly murderous disembowelling beast, although at least it's depicted as a solo hunter.

American Lion

Panthera atrox, the “American Lion”

First appearance: Episode 9: Ice Age Monsters

Short-Faced Bear

Arctodus, the “Short-Faced Bear”

First appearance: Episode 9: Ice Age Monsters

Pachyrhinosaurus

Pachyrhinosaurus

First appearance: Episode 10: River of Death

A ceratopsian famous because it lacks a horn where other ceratopsians have one, instead merely possessing a lump of bone on its nose called a boss. When hundreds of Pachyrhinosaurus skeletons are found in what was once a river millions of years ago, the plot of the tenth episode begins.

• Animal Stampede: A giant herd of them is stampeded and ushered into a raging river by two Albertosaurus, where they all drown.
• Artistic License – Paleontology: Read that description above again. A ceratopsian famous for not having a horn is depicted with a horn. The talking heads do stand against the show's proposed theory that the boss was merely a broken horn, but their words are ignored.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: For all its supposed power, one is easily killed by an Albertosaurus.
• Dumb Muscle: For all their brawn, they have no brains. They're said to operate like a light switch and only operate and answer to one instinct at a time.
• Horn Attack: Uses it to fight against predators.

Albertosaurus

Albertosaurus

First appearance: Episode 10: River of Death

The culprit supposedly behind the mass-drowning of the Pachyrhinosaurus, think of Albertosaurus as a downscaled Tyrannosaurus rex. Existing long before the king himself hit the scene, Albertosaurus may not be as powerful but it definitely is as fierce.

• Curb-Stomp Battle: Dispatches a fleeing Pachyrhinosaurus without anything more than white scars.
• Lightning Bruiser: It doesn't have the sheer strength and bulk of Tyrannosaurus rex, but it still delivers in reasonable amounts where it counts. In addition, this reduction of mass also means it's more gracile, and moves with ease and agility through the forests.

Edmontosaurus

Edmontosaurus

First appearance: Episode 11: Raptors vs. T-Rex

A gigantic hadrosaur(duckbill), one specimen leaves behind an unusual mummified tail, which launches the plot of the eleventh episode.

• Curb-Stomp Battle: Aside from one Dromaeosaurus that makes a more than stupid decision, the Edmontosaurus for all its size and strength is easily taken down by a pack of raptors, unable to land more than one hit.
• Lightning Bruiser: In theory, anyways; considering how massive Edmontosaurus is, it would naturally stand that it be immensely powerful and resilient to attacks, and it actually is a lot faster than its size would suggest. In practice, however, the raptors are faster, and it completely fails to do any damage of note against its smaller opponents, leaving only its thick hide to defend it, and even that is no match for attacks from every direction.
• Tail Slap: Repeatedly cited as probably its best defense. Unlike Tenontosaurus and Camarasaurus above, though, it's basically useless in this fight.

Dromaeosaurus

Dromaeosaurus

First appearance: Episode 11: Raptors vs. T-Rex

”Running lizard”

The third species of dromaeosaurs in the show, Dromaeosaurus lends its name to the group. Scattered teeth of several specimens are found around the severed mummified tail of an Edmontosaurus, which leads to the belief that they hunted and killed the beast.

• Anachronism Stew: While Dromaeosaurus lived alongside Edmontosaurus, who lived alongside Tyrannosaurus rex, Dromaeosaurus did not live at the same time as the king.
• Artistic License – Paleontology:
  • It should come as no surprise at this point that they are severely underfeathered and their claws are used to disembowel rather than stab.
  • The episode vastly overestimates their intelligence. Sure, raptors were quite clever creatures, but the narration suggests they could use hand signals and bewilder their prey by mimicking their own sounds. Needless to say, there's absolutely no evidence for them doing either of these things.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: A pack overwhelms an Edmontosaurus with only one very stupid casualty.
• Death of a Thousand Cuts: The Edmontosaurus' thick hide means they have to resort to this method to kill it, but with so many of them it goes down easily all the same.
• Feathered Fiend: Probably the most feathered dinosaur in the show, but that's not saying much.
• Raptor Attack: Much like Deinonychus, a scaly, murderous, disembowelling reptile that hunts in packs and is hyper-intelligent, hyped up as the deadliest of all creatures.
• Too Dumb to Live: Taking a few cues from the Allosaurus above, one runs under the Edmontosaurus and is pounded into the ground for its trouble.
• Zerg Rush: They hunt in huge packs led by an alpha female.