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“ | I stand before you now to say you are the old way, Invincible! I represent a new world order! Tremble before the might of Dinosaurus! | „ |
~ Dinosaurus introducing himself to Invincible. |
“ | You have to kill me. | „ |
~ Dinosaurus' last words to Invincible as he realizes his delusions of helping the world. |
Dinosaurus is a major antagonist in the Image Comics series Invincible.
He is a split personality from his human counterpart David Anders. While his past as Anders is unknown, Dinosaurus is a highly intelligent dissociative personality that is primarily focused on trying to help humanity with highly destructive goals. He initially used to be Invincible's friend to help the world but turned on him when he detonated bombs to blow up the North Pole.
Appearance[]
Dinosaurus[]
Dinosaurus appears as a huge anthropomorphic humanoid that looks like a red dinosaur. As a dinosaur, Dinosaurus has a very similar look to a tyrannosaurus. Despite looking like a tyrannosaurus, his body looks somewhat like a humanoid. His arms have three sharp claws that he can use to scratch his enemies. Dinosaurus has two extra claws on both of his feet. Dinosaurus appears muscular with the abs on his chest. As a Dinosaur, Dinosaurus as a long tail on his back.
David Anders[]
David Anders appears as a thin human when he is not at his "Dinosaurus" form. He is scrawny human being that appears to does not have any special features on him. David Anders has brown hair and is a generally healthy human. When naked, David Anders has a few hairs on his chest.
Personality[]
Dinosaurus[]
In Dinosaurus's first appearance, he is first introduced as a delusional extremist who is attacking Invincible simply because Invincible is reconstructing buildings which Dinosaurus believes to be damaging the environment. Dinosaurus is willing to attack heroes who reconstruct buildings and help innocent people if he believes that they are disrupting the natural order of the earth. After attacking, Dinosaurus will call them out on how they are wrong and will fight them. Dinosaurus believes that superheroes are the old way on how they protect the world and that he is the new way on how to protect the earth which implies that Dinosaurus is somewhat arrogant in his ideals. In Las Vegas, Dinosaurus can showcase his intelligence by yelling at the citizens of the city to get away from him as Dinosaurus has planted bombs on the city.
Once Invincible arrives at the scene Dinosaurus tells Invincible that it would be better to help the innocents to run away from the city rather than fight him. This proves that Dinosaurus genuinely wants to do good, but is more focused on saving multiple lives in the future rather than the lives lost from his actions. Once Dinosaurus is broken out of prison by Invincible, Dinosaurus explains to Invincible that he is more focused on sacrificing lives for the greater good and is glad that his actions in Las Vegas were able to benefit humanity. Dinosaurus believes that he and Invincible are the same due to their desire to save lives, so they team up to save the world together. Dinosaurus can become so focused on trying to help the world in his ways that he will dismiss other problems that he believes to be insignificant.
An example of this is when Dinosaurus does not inform Invincible about Omnipotus's attack because he believes that it is more important for him and Invincible to watch irrigation channels rather than deal with the threat. Dinosaurus only alerted of the threat of Omnipotus when the latter became a genuine problem for the heroes to defeat. In the Viltrumite Warship Dinosaurus shows his paranoia and distrust towards Thragg as he is aware that Thragg is only helping Invincible to gain the trust of Earth. When Thragg attempts to kill Invincible, Dinosaurus can use his intelligence to plant bombs in the Viltrumite warship in advance. After escaping the Viltrumite warship, Dinosaurus is attacked by a few superheroes which Dinosaurus mistakes as Thragg's underlings.
Dinosaurus considers the underlings of an enemy to be an insult to him because Dinosaurus wants his enemies to take him seriously. As an extremist Dinosaurus can get recklessly impatient with his actions, as Dinosaurus had planted bombs around Los Angeles and the arctic because he never took the time to see if Invincible would recover from the Scourge Virus. Despite being an extremist, Dinosaurus is sorry for betraying Invincible as he wished that if Invincible had gotten better then Dinosaurus would have never enacted his plan. In the aftermath of the flooding he caused, Dinosaurus was able to understand his delusions with the help of Invincible. Dinosaurus asks Invincible to kill him as Dinosaurus does not want to get his delusions to get the better of him in the future and become a monster.
In the end Dinosaurus is able to feel remorse for the crimes he has done and realizes that he was only an extremist to boost his ego and to declare himself as a god above humanity.
David Anders[]
David Anders is the human form of Dinosaurus. Unlike Dinosaurus, David Anders is extremely relaxed and is not interested in being an extremist as Dinosaurus. David Anders is only looking for a regular life where his Dinosaurus personality is not interfering with him. Whenever Dinosaurus causes damage, David Anders will apologize to the victims Dinosaurus has hurt and he will regret what he has done even though he is not in control of Dinosaurus. In prison David Anders is begging to be let go as he is not in control of his Dinosaurus personality.
David Anders can easily get bored in long conversation and that boredom is what Dinosaurus needs in order to take control of David Anders. To prevent David Anders from ever becoming bored Cecil takes action by locking David Anders in a room full of entertaining equiments. While not responsible for Dinosaurus, David Anders is able to take responsibility by taking himself to the Global Defense Agency and having himself locked up by Cecil Stedman to protect innocent people and himself from Dinosaurus. With Dinosaurus gone for a brief period of time, David Anders celebrates that Dinosaurus is dead before realizing the Dinosaurus is going to take over his body again.
Relationships[]
Invincible[]
In their initial meeting, Dinosaurus initially hated Invincible because he believes that Invincible is disrupting the natural order of the world. He attacks Invincible in an attempt to make him stop, but is easily beaten by him. Dinosaurus eventually transforms into David Anders and is taken into prison. When Dinosaurus is blowing up Las Vegas, Invincible thinks that Dinosaurus is crazy for trying to kill multiple innocent people, but Dinosaurus tells Invincible that it is better to help the innocents rather than start a fight. After Dinosaurus blows up Las Vegas, Invincible is able to understand the benefits of why Dinosaurus blew up Las Vegas.
This gives Invincible the idea to break Dinosaurus out of prison. When Dinosaurus is rescued by Invincible, the two both work together to help the world. Once Dinosaurus is saved by Invincible, Dinosaurus notes that they are similar in wanting to save lives. When Dinosaurus finds out that Invincible is sick by Allen, Dinosaurus does what he can to understand Invincible's sickness to help Invincible survive. Dinosaurus even went as far as to defy Thragg to protect Invincible from him.
However the friendship between Dinosaurus and Invincible is broken, once Invincible found out of Dinosaurus's plans to bomb up the Arctic. Invincible berates Dinosaurus for betraying him for the latter's delusional plan, so Dinosaurus decides to fake Invincible's death in front of the public. In the secret base both Invincible and Dinosaurus talk to each other about helping the world in the future, but Invincible questions Dinosaurus's thinking. Invincible helps Dinosaurus see past his delusions, so Dinosaurus asks Invincible to kill him because Dinosaurus does not want his delusions to get the better of him.
Thragg[]
Upon meeting Thragg in the Viltrumite warship, Dinosaurus immediately becomes suspicious of him as Dinosaurus is aware that Thragg is only helping Invincible to gain the trust of earth. Dinosaurus pleads to Thragg's pragmatism, so that Dinosaurus can have a chance to help Invincible even though Dinosaurus would be indirectly helping Thragg gain the trust of earth. When researching the Scourge Virus, Dinosaurus meets Thragg in another room and Thragg questions Dinosaurus on why the latter has come to disturb him. Dinosaurus tells Thragg that they are both aware of their lack of trust with each other. Their lack of trust towards each other has caused Dinosaurus to plant multiple bombs in the Viltrumite warship as a back up plan against Thragg.
When Dinosaurus witnesses Thragg attempting to kill Invincible, Dinosaurus questions the motives of Thragg. Thragg refuses to answer Dinosaurus and believes that Dinosaurus is foolish to fight him. Thragg rips off Dinosaurus's jaw and leaves the latter, so that Thragg can deal with the exploding bombs. After escaping Thragg, Dinosaurus is assaulted by superheroes who he believes to be Thragg's underlings. Dinosaurus believes that the "underlings" is Thragg not taking Dinosaurus seriously which Dinosaurus takes as an insult.
Powers and Abilities[]
- Superhuman Strength: Dinosaurus is able to punch concrete with ease by his Strength alone.
- Superhuman Agility: Dinosaurus is able to run and jump in high places due to his limbs.
- Healing Acceleration: Dinosaurus can be able to heal himself at an accelerated rate by transforming back into David Anders and back to himself again.
- Claws: Dinosaurus is able to use his sharp claws to scratch his enemies. However if the enemy is too powerful than Dinosaurus' claws will break. An example of this is when he attempts to scratch Thragg, but accidentally broke his own claws.
- Teeth: Dinosaurus is able to bite his enemies by using his teeth. However his teeth can be shattered if the opponent he bites is too strong. An example of this is when Dinosaurus breaks his teeth by biting Thragg.
- Dissociative Transformation: Whenever David Anders is feeling bored or apathetic, he is able to transform into Dinosaurus. However this transformation can be prevented by having David Anders be imprisoned with lots of entertainment.
- Dense Tissues: Dinosaurus can be able to survive city level explosions by his dense tissues.
External Links[]
- Dinosaurus on the Magnificent Baddie Wiki
- Dinosaurus on the Image Comics Wiki
Trivia[]
- He is based on Lizard and Devil Dinosaur from Marvel Comics.
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