Reptar

Reptar is a fictional dinosaur from the American animated television series Rugrats. Reptar is green and sometimes red-violet and lilac, with rounded, blue spike-like appendages on his back. He is an obvious parody of Godzilla.

Reptar was conceived by Louis W. Greenstein and Larry Loebell for their episode, "Incident in Aisle 7."

Within the Rugrats cartoon itself, Reptar is a cartoon adored by the main characters, although not all of the parents share this view, in particular Tommy's mother. Occasionally Reptar is seen as a hero that helps save the world, and on other occasions he is seen as a villain, reflecting the different ways Godzilla is portrayed. Reptar first appears in Rugrats on the packaging of a cereal box. From then on he gains popularity as he becomes a more important part of the story line. In the world of the Rugrats, Reptar has excellent marketing presence; he appears within movies, ice skating shows, food packaging, TV shows, action figures, amusement parks and all kinds of merchandising, as a parody of children's merchandising in real life.

The Rugrats would often meet Reptar in their imaginations, or they would meet someone dressed like him. Most often, it would be at some sort of public event featuring a slightly-cranky guy in a Reptar suit (although his face is visible through the mouth) whom would then be regarded as a hero by the kids and sometimes by other adults, like when a Reptar actor stopped Stu's crazy robotic dragon at a medieval faire. At the Reptar on Ice! stage show, the guy playing Reptar (whom would wear a more realistic Reptar costume and mask than the other actors did) had a strong fear of lizards and disliked kids. Coincidentally, he was named Leo, like the actor who played Reptar at the carnival in Reptar's Revenge, except in that one Leo had brown hair and in Reptar on Ice Leo was blonde. He was voiced by John Schuck in his Reptar on Ice appearance.

Reptar also appears in the All Grown Up! episode Curse of Reptar, when the Pickles family builds a pool. While digging, one of the workers finds a Reptar toy hidden in the ground by Spike. At that point, Reptar seems to have lost popularity as Dil Pickles has no memories of Reptar and the rest of the kids only remember him from their early childhoods.

In popular culture
On the Christian Metalcore band The Devil Wears Prada's album "Plagues", there is a track called "Reptar, King of the Ozone". The Christian Metalcore band The Devil Wears Prada also have a t-shirt featuring Reptar on it. On smosh's video The Haunting, Anthony has a Reptar watch.

TV episode appearances

 * Episode #3a: At the Movies (Reptar's first appearance on the series, along with the Dummi Bears)
 * Episode #9a: Candy Bar Creep Show (First appearance of Reptar chocolate bars)
 * Episode #12b: Reptar's Revenge
 * Episode #14a: Toy Palace(A mechanical figure of Reptar appears and helps Tommy and Chuckie fight Thorg, a mechanical gorilla a la King Kong vs. Godzilla. The mechanical Reptar continually chants "Halt, I am Reptar!")
 * Episode #23a: Reptar on Ice
 * Episode #25b: The Inside Story (Chuckie's stomach is a Reptar lunch box)
 * Episode #48a: Reptar 2010
 * Episode #113 + Episode #114: Runaway Reptar, the Rugrats go to a drive-in featuring the new Reptar film "Runaway Reptar". When Reptar attacks Tokyo instead of saving it, the Rugrats use the Reptar Wagon to enter the movie.  It is revealed that the evil Reptar is a robot disguised as Reptar (much like in the film Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla).  The real Reptar is being held prison by Angelica, who also entered the movie, and is set free by Tommy just in time to team up with Dactar in destroying the robot clone.
 * All Grown Up! Episode #29: Curse of Reptar
 * The Rugrats Movie - Reptar-Wagon made first appearance and was voiced by Busta Rhymes.
 * Rugrats in Paris: The Movie - Robot-Reptar and the Euro-Reptarland theme park.