Tyrannosaurus rex

Tyrannosaurus rex
Information
Home planet(s)	Original multiverse Earth (Earth-1) Earth (Earth-38) New multiverse Earth (Earth-Prime)
Characteristic(s)	Reptilian Dinosaur

The Tyrannosaurus rex, simply referred to as the T. rex, is an extinct and well-known dinosaur species that lived during the Cretaceous period.

History

Earth-1

In the area that would eventually become known as South Dakota, 69,997,983 BC (during the Cretaceous period), the time-stranded Ray Palmer was forced to survive in the world dominated by dinosaurs, encountering at least one female T. rex (which he nicknamed Gertrude) and possibly a male as well. Ray was confronted by Gertrude before he was rescued by Nate Heywood and Mick Rory.

When the Waverider crash-landed back in the same geological time period, Ray led Nate and Amaya Jiwe to retrieve a component of the ship, which had ironically ended up in Gertrude's nest. When Gertrude came across them later, Amaya used the Anansi Totem to use the spirit of a T. rex to communicate with the female, resulting in Gertrude leaving them in peace. 

A terror of T. rex appeared en masse in 2017's Los Angeles after the actions of the Legends created a time storm and "broke time", however they were relatively quickly captured by Rip Hunter's Time Bureau and sent back to their time.

Earth-38

It was implied by a museum tour guide that the T. rex species was wiped out by an asteroid.

A small T. rex sculpture is displayed at a museum in National City. Malefic J'onzz attacked the museum by transforming into the prehistoric reptile and escaped with Kal-El's pod.

Earth-Prime

Deon Owens' Still Force abilities brought a Tyrannosaurus to present-day Central City alongside other things from time; it encountered Natalie who ran from it. Once Chester P. Runk persuades Deon not to go ahead with his plans to change his history, the Tyrannosaurus was teleported back to its own time.

Known Tyrannosaurus rex

• "Gertrude"

Appearances

Constantine

• "A Feast of Friends" (life-sized skeleton sculptures)

Arrow

Season 4

• "Legends of Yesterday" (toy)

The Flash

Season 2

• "The Runaway Dinosaur" (mentioned)

Season 4

• "When Harry Met Harry..." (animated fossil)
• "Don't Run" (depicted on t-shirt)
• "Lose Yourself" (animated fossil)

Season 7

• "The One With The Nineties"

DC's Legends of Tomorrow

Season 2 "Out of Time" "Land of the Lost" "Aruba" Season 3 "Aruba-Con" "Amazing Grace" (mentioned) Season 4 "Witch Hunt" (mentioned)

Supergirl

Season 5

• "Event Horizon" (shape-shifted into by Malefic J'onzz)

Batwoman

Season 1

• "How Queer Everything Is Today!" (toy)

Behind the scenes

• In the real world, the species Tyrannosaurus rex (rex meaning "king" in Latin), often called T. rex or colloquially T-Rex, is arguably the most well-represented of the large theropods. Fossils are found in a variety of rock formations dating to the Maastrichtian age of the upper Cretaceous Period, 68 to 66 million years ago. Additionally, weighing well over 7 tons, standing 4 meters tall, and measuring around 13 meters in length, it is also one of the largest theropod dinosaurs of all time as well as being the world's most famous dinosaur.