Terrifying Fire Beast Who Will Bring About the End of All Things,[2] better known as Devil Dinosaur, is the deuteragonist of Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur. He is a Tyrannosaurus Rex accidentally brought to modern-day New York City by a girl named Lunella Lafayette or is from another dimension as she created a portal to other dimensions. Together with Lunella as Moon Girl, he contributes the muscle, teeth, claws, cunning, and smell to defend New York as a superhero team.[3]
Biography
While testing an invention that she believed to be a power generator, Lunella Lafayette accidentally opened a portal in the fabric of space-time and Devil came through it. Devil exited Lunella's underground hangout and ran through the city. Lunella eventually caught up to him and earned his undying affection by feeding him some hot dogs.
After saving Casey Calderon from Aftershock, Lunella decided to combine her brain with Devil's muscle to become a superhero duo and protect the Lower East Side.
Appearance
Devil Dinosaur is a twenty-foot-tall[4] Tyrannosaurus, standing on two large hindlegs with small forearms, yellow eyes with square pupils, spiky eyebrows, and a small row of spines on his shoulders. As his name suggests, his scales are red and bears two spines on the back of his head reminiscent of horns. He also has black blotches on his thighs and backside, complemented with a light-colored underbelly.
Personality
He is shown to be playful, energetic, and friendly. He loves Lunella and doesn't want to return to his home and likes to stay with her. He is also shown to have a big appetite for food, especially hot dogs. However, he can be tough and fierce when it comes to fighting villains, and he can sometimes be jealous if Lunella loves another creature, as shown in "Teacher's Pet".
Natural abilities
Abilities
- Emerging from an alternate dimension, Devil Dinosaur exhibits a natural strength far surpassing that of an Earth Tyrannosaurus Rex, despite his superficially similar form. He wields this power in combat through devastating head-butts, powerful tail strikes that can generate one to two tons of force, and a variety of physical attacks, allowing him to contend with creatures of comparable size and shatter massive boulders. While his jaw strength is significant, its precise limits remain unknown.
- Devil's roar is loud and powerful enough to be used as an offensive weapon and to perform tasks like blowing out building fires.
- His exceptionally resilient skin withstood a devastating electric shock that left him teetering on the brink of unconsciousness or even death, an ordeal that forced Moon Girl to surrender in order to preserve his life. The recovery from this traumatic event took over a day, a testament to the severity of his wounds. In a separate, equally harrowing incident, he endured a barrage of laser blasts that sent him crashing to the ground, yet he summoned the strength to lash out with his tail and damage Moon Girl's machine, and with a Herculean effort, he managed to escape the laboratory mere seconds before it exploded.
- English comprehension. Devil is able to understand what Lunella and others are saying without her translating it from English to Dinosaurese.
- This includes literacy - he imagines signing his name "Devil" and also recognizes when Casey is writing CAS as an autograph, and panics and growls a warning, causing Casey to write MoonGirl over it.
- Initially, Devil was not able to speak English because his mouth and vocal chords cannot form the proper sounds. However, in the "Theme Song Takeover" when Lunella asked him to take over for her while she was busy "Lunella-ing", you can hear him singing words that are very close to the English lyrics.
- His tail is prehensile, allowing him to wrap it around a person or object or fling them in a direction with a "tail flip".
- Devil is slightly smarter than any normal Tyrannosaurus. He has a powerful bite, immense strength, and strong legs.
Sightings
- Intro: "Moon Girl Magic"
Season 1
- Every episode of Season 1
Season 2
- Every episode of Season 2
Trivia
- Devil is also resembles to a huge red-furred dog called Clifford from American children’s book "Clifford The Big Red Dog".
- In Belly of the Beast, Devil is revealed to have multiple stomachs.
- Steve Loter hinted that Devil might learn to speak English at some point.
- Devil Dinosaur was given extended mechanical arms in the second season of Moon Girl & Devil Dinosaur. Devil Dinosaur was previously seen with mechanical arms from the second season's 19th episode of Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H. as his alternate version El Diablo in "Days of Future Smash: The Dino Era".
- In "Coney Island, Baby!" and "OMG Issue 2", Devil Dinosaur was seen swimming. In the 2022 BBC dinosaur documentary Prehistoric Planet, it was revealed that T. Rexes could swim with hollow air filled bones and powerful hind limbs.
- In the comics, it is established that Devil Dinosaur is a Mutant, with his mutation turning his olive-green skin, burning red, and making him more intelligent than other dinosaurs. In some issues he is referred to, species-wise, as a "Devil-Beast" and sometimes a Tyrannosaurus rex.
References
- ↑ DTV "Cast announcement". (Tweet) Twitter.
- ↑ Jeffrey M. Howard, Kate Kondell (writers); Trey Buongiorno, Christine Liu (directors) (February 10, 2023). "Moon Girl Landing". Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur. Season 1. Episode 1. Disney Channel.
- ↑ Holub, Christian (February 7, 2022). "Take a first look at the cast of Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur cartoon". Entertainment Weekly.
- ↑ Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur lineup
