Rex

Technology kept moving forward, rival companies started putting out their own consoles, and Nintendo naturally had to keep up. In the Christmas season of 1990, they released their new, more powerful console, the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. With it came a launch title in the form of Super Mario World, Mario’s next big adventure in the Mushroom Kingdom. This time, he was exploring a world of dinosaurs accompanied by his own personal dinosaur companion named Yoshi. As they head in, one of the first and most prominent of all these dinosaurs were basic purple T-Rexes that would crumple and flatten when jumped upon.

This is a Rex, the most common unfriendly dinosaur inhabiting Dinosaur Land. Outside of Super Mario World, they won’t see too much life, but will crop up here and there in random games. They did see a larger role, however, in the animated series based on Super Mario World, where they frequently acted as minions of King Koopa and carried out his bidding.

As playable fighters, Rexes will likely be about medium in terms of speed, weight, power, defense. Generally speaking, they will be middle-of-the-road characters. Their movesets will pull from many of the other dinosaur enemies who couldn’t be here, such as Dino Rhinos and Reznors, as well as their appearances in the Super Mario World television series.

Likelihood rating: Probably not