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Ever since ''[[Jurassic Park]]'' made ''Velociraptor'' a household name, its iconic image - a man-sized, intelligent, vicious, scaly killer - has appeared countless times in popular culture, usually as a [[Shout-Out]] to, well, ''Jurassic Park''. In [[Real Life]], ''Velociraptor'' were about the size of turkeys, though there was another "raptor", ''Utahraptor'', that more closely matches ''Jurassic Park'''s depiction in terms of size. [[Somewhere a Palaeontologist Is Crying|As you can imagine, it causes paleontologists an unending amount of sweet, tasty tears.]]
Besides ''Velociraptor'' itself, this trope potentially encompasses all portrayals of other deinonychosaurian dinosaurs in media as well: the [[wikipedia:Dromaeosauridae|dromaeosaurids]] and [[wikipedia:Troodontidae|troodonts]]. Interestingly, some recent{{when}} analyses suggest that the so-called "first bird" ''Archaeopteryx'' may either be a deinonychosaur as well (in other words, closer to ''Velociraptor'' than to modern birds), or less close to modern birds than deinonychosaurs are. In any case, it's worthy to note that in spite of its iconic status, there is very little anatomical difference between ''Archaeopteryx'' and small deinonychosaurs, and, potential color patterns aside, you'd probably have no luck telling them apart in life. This has even led to speculation that traditional deinonychosaurs may have had ancestors who ''became'' flightless.
For a more thorough listing of the inaccuracies that tend to show up in various works, see the folder below. For good examples of ''accurate'' deinonychosaur portrayals, see [http://www.henteeth.com/nh/paleoart.htm this website]{{broken link}}.
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* ''[[Dinosaucers]]'' may or may not have one deinonychosaur with [[A Dog Named "Dog"|Teryx]] the ''Archaeopteryx'', depending on the issue if her genus belongs into this clade or not. (See the paragraph in the introduction.)
* The small carnivorous dinosaurs that attack our heroes in ''[[Ice Age|Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs]]'' are vaguely reminiscent of raptors, including the killing claws, but they are ''Guanlong,'' a genus of ''[[Somewhere a Palaeontologist Is Crying|primitive tyrannosaur.]]'' In fairness to the movie, there ''ARE'' deinonychosaurs, but the ''Troodons'' ([[All There in the Manual|identified as such in the game]]) are depicted as [[They Just Didn't Care|naked vegetarians,]] [[Science Marches On|while in reality they would have technically been omnivorous.]]
* Averted in "The Rite of Spring" segment of ''[[Fantasia]]'' where no raptors are to be seen anywhere, as they all weren't even discovered at the time of that film's release (''Fantasia'' was released in 1940, the first raptor skeleton wasn't discovered until the 1950s). However, there was an Archaeopteryx that flapped its wings like a bird, real Archaeopteryx
* ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYpErJ4yqiY I'm A Dinosaur]'' had a very sparsely feathered ''Velociraptor'' with too broad a skull, a ''Troodon'' that might as well be a ''Coelophysis'' (yeah, have fun in the Arctic without feathers), a ''Sinornithoides'' that [[No Pronunciation Guide|can't pronounce its own name]]<ref>Actually sine-OR-nih-THOY-deez, suh-NOR-nith-oyds in the show</ref> and a deinonychosaurian ''Megaraptor'' (which wasn't even considered a coelurosaur, let alone a deinonychosaur, at the time).
* ''[[The Magic School Bus]]'' episode "The Busasaurus" featured a ''Troodon'' pack. Amusingly, they're sized accurately if you pay close attention, but they sort of tried to hide this using [[Forced Perspective]]. Being outright inaccurate wouldn't do on a science show, after all. They're also scaled, but [[Science Marches On|the episode is from 1995]].
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