Devil Dinosaur

**Terrifying Fire Beast Who Will Bring About the End of All Things**, 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. Together with Lunella as Moon Girl, he contributes muscle, teeth, claws, cunning, and smell to defend New York as a superhero team.

## 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 Devils muscle to become a superhero duo and protect the Lower East Side.

## Appearance

Devil Dinosaur is a twenty-foot-tall *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. As 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".

## Powers and abilities

### Powers

* His strength is definitely stronger then that of an average Tyrannosaurus rex for physical lifting and combat as his unclear of his strength of jaw strength.
* Devil's roar is loud and powerful enough to be used as an offensive weapon and to perform tasks like blowing out building fires.

### Abilities

* 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 overtop it.
	+ However, he is not able to speak English because his mouth and vocal chords cannot form the proper sound.
* His tail is prehensile, allowing him to wrap it around a person or object or fling them in a direction with a "tail flip".

## References

1. ↑ DTV "Cast announcement". (Tweet) *Twitter*.
2. ↑ Jeffrey M. Howard, Kate Kondell (writers) and Trey Buongiorno, Christine Liu (directors) (February 10, 2023). "Moon Girl Landing". *Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur*. Season 1. Episode 1. Disney Channel.
3. ↑ Holub, Christian (February 7, 2022). "Take a first look at the cast of *Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur* cartoon". *Entertainment Weekly*.
4. ↑ Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur lineup

## External links

* Devil Dinosaur on Marvel Database
* Devil Dinosaur on Wikipedia