King of Dinosaurs


 * For information pertaining to his original (and old) identity, see here.
 * "...Watch out, humans! Dinosaurs aren't extinct yet! THE KING OF DINOSAURS." - The King of Fighters XV

King of Dinosaurs, shorten as Dinosaur , is a character in The King of Fighters series. He was introduced in The King of Fighters XIV as the heel persona of a familiar character. His official nickname is "Dino King Burning for Revenge".

He is voiced by Hikaru Hanada.

Development
When the game's director, Yasuyuki Oda, came by with a drawing of a Dino-wrestler, Eisuke Ogura (SNK's creative director) and the other developers immediately wanted to use it for the new game. Despite King of Dinosaurs (and Ogura) insiting that he is not Tizoc in some intros and win quotes, there is evidences showing the contrary.

Story
King of Dinosaurs is the heel persona of Tizoc. After he lost against Nelson, he couldn't face the disgrace. To avoid tarnishing the honorable image of his face persona, he adopted this identity to settle the score.

Personality
Dinosaur is a fiercely competitive man with a primal attitude. As a heel, he is hilariously over the top and is also shown to keep up overdramatics even though in the end they’re more of a monologue, like he’s talking to himself. Despite his confidence, he seems to having trouble pinning down his new persona. As shown in his ending when he repeatedly pondered a new diet for himself.

Powers

 * Great Strength: The King of Dinosaurs says he can lift anyone heavier than him though in reality he can lift five average people at most.

Fighting Style
Dinosaur's fighting style is a twist of Pro Wrestling that's grapple-focused, with many dynamic and crushing hold attacks including a highly exaggerated Hurricanranna, piledriver, and a charging attack among others. Unlike his old persona Tizoc however, majority of his moves are more feral and ruthless including that he uses his teeth, and uses his claws to scratch the opponent in certain moves.

Music

 * Sky Blue - The King of Fighters XIV
 * Enter the Venue - The King of Fighters XV

Games

 * The King of Fighters XIV
 * The King of Fighters XV

Mobile

 * The King of Fighters: World - As one of Verse Event's mini bosses

Comics

 * The King of Fighters: A New Beginning

Cameos

 * SNK Heroines Tag Team Frenzy - in Kula's ending, as a doll; mentioned by Terry in a win quote vs. Shermie

Similar characters

 * Tizoc

Trivia

 * Dinosaur and his babyface persona share the same voice actor.
 * Both personas also shares the nationally, the birthday date, the height, the weight, the blood type and his fort in sports.


 * King of Dinosaurs and Antonov are the only characters in the series to break physically the fourth wall.
 * The other character to use the feature in the series is Yuri Sakazaki: in her win pose against Gai Tendo in KOF XI, she suggests he try saying "Hurricane Upper!", referencing the fact that Gai and Joe Higashi have the same voice actor (that voices Joe until KOF XIII and Gai until KOF XI).
 * The Samurai Shodown series also uses the break of the fourth wall with the characters Yoshitora Tokugawa (during his fatefull battle with Jubei Yagyu [another fourth wall breaker] in Samurai Shodown (2019), he looks to the player), Wan-Fu and Iroha.