Turok is the hero of the long-running Turok first-person shooter series, best known from Turok: Dinosaur Hunter in 1997, where the time-travelling warrior fights dinosaurs and other enemies. The character first appeared in comics long before the games. Online, short voice clips using his name have become a compact meme for mock-heroic introductions, shared in gaming edits and soundboard collections because the name alone signals dinosaurs, jungle action and old-school shooter nostalgia, even for viewers who never played the original games.