History Characters / JurassicParkVelociraptor

* ActionMom: By the time of ''Dominion'', Blue is revealed to have a baby raptor who bears a striking resemblance to her, complete with the blue stripe.
* AdvertisedExtra: In the first two seasons in ''Camp Cretaceous''. Blue features in a lot of promotional material despite only appearing in one significant scene in Season 1 with a cameo in the last episode, and two very brief appearances in Season 2. Season 3 gives her a more important role (if only for a few episodes), while in Season 4 she's PutOnABus both in-series and in the advertising.

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* AdaptationalBadass: In reality, the ''Velociraptor'' was only around 5 feet long and slightly above 1.5 feet (barely clearing an average human's knees), and while they were fierce predators, their main diet was mainly restricted to small herbivores. In the ''Jurassic Park'' franchise, they've bulked up to 9-12 feet long and over 6 feet high, are far more intelligent and vicious, and have a tendency to be known as the ''[[TheDreaded most feared dinosaur]]'' by several characters.

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* ThereIsAnother: After the deaths of Echo, Delta, and Charlie in ''Film/JurassicWorld'', Blue was assumed and claimed in ''Fallen Kingdom'' to be the last surviving ''Velociraptor'' on Earth. However, the introduction of these two raptors confirms that she isn't yet the last of her kind (unless the pair meet their demise by the end of Season 5).

* InformedSpecies: Due to a combination of Michael Crichton using the related and much larger ''Deinonychus'' as a basis for the animal [[note]]Crichton's source argued that ''Deinonychus'' could be considered a species of the ''Velociraptor'' genus alongside ''Velociraptor mongoliensis'' rather than be its own genus[[/note]], as well as the family both belonging to being arguably the dinosaurs most changed by discoveries in the [=1980s=] onwards, all of the ''Velociraptors'' across the franchise look little like the [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Dromaeosaurs.png/2560px-Dromaeosaurs.png real animal.]]

* InformedSpecies: One of the most infamous examples of this trope which as science has marched on has only become more stark; even in the early 90s, the ''Jurassic Park'' raptors were far closer to a generic dromaeosaur than they look like the quite distinctive ''Velociraptor'' or even ''Deinonychus antirrhopus'' (which they were originally intended to be. Crichton based their name on Greg Paul's then recent attempt to lump existing genera together with ''Deinonychus'' becoming ''Velociraptor antirrhopus''. After consulting with taxonomists who argued against this, he kept the renaming because he just thought the name ''Velociraptor'' was cooler, but changed the species to ''mongoliensis''). Like all ''Jurassic Park'' dinosaurs prior to ''Dominion, they have pronated wrists, they completely lack feathers, have a much more robust skull and are at least twice the size. Behaviourally the concept of pack hunting dromaeosaurs has been refuted more and more as time has gone on and their intelligence is strongly exaggerated (based on more recent research, these should be generic low unremarkable intellect predators while the ''T. rex'' should be the one displaying obvious intelligence).

* InformedSpecies: One of the most infamous examples of this trope which as science has marched on has only become more stark; even in the early 90s, the ''Jurassic Park'' raptors were far closer to a generic dromaeosaur than they look like the quite distinctive ''Velociraptor'' or even ''Deinonychus antirrhopus'' (which they were originally intended to be. Crichton based their name on Greg Paul's then recent attempt to lump existing genera together with ''Deinionychus'' becoming ''Velociraptor antirrhopus''. After consulting with taxonomists who argued against this, he kept the renaming because he just thought the name ''Velociraptor'' was cooler, but changed the species to ''mongoliensis''). Like all ''Jurassic Park'' dinosaurs prior to ''Dominion, they have pronated wrists, they completely lack feathers, have a much more robust skull and are at least twice the size. Behaviourally the concept of pack hunting dromaeosaurs has been refuted more and more as time has gone on and their intelligence is strongly exaggerated (based on more recent research, these should be generic low unremarkable intellect predators while the T. rex should be the one displaying obvious intelligence).

* InformedSpecies: A complicated case. They're referred to as ''Velociraptor antirrhopus'', suggesting that they're actually meant to be ''Deinonychus'', and indeed Crichton based them on that species. The true ''Velociraptor'' also appears in the book, but only in infant form; the ones that the main characters face are ''Deinonychus'' in all but name.

* InformedSpecies: An infamous example of this trope; they look about as much like real ''Velociraptors'' as an eagle resembles a crocodile. Their wrists are bent the wrong way [[note]](Until ''Jurassic World: Dominion'')[[/note]], are pack-hunting animals instead of the almost certainly solitary hunters most dromaeosaurids were, have exaggerated intelligence, and not a single feather on an animal that resembled a flightless hawk more than any other modern animal. In terms of size and head shape, they also do not have the skinny and narrow snout of the real thing. In these respects, they somewhat resemble the much larger ''Deinonychus'' and ''Dakotaraptor'', albeit featherless.

* NobleSavage: Of all of the raptor portrayals in the first three films, these raptors come the closest to this trope, performing a MercyKill, complexly communicating with each other and attempting to do so with Grant's group at several points, and not hunting humans for food or sadistic pleasure but because someone in this particular group of people pilfered two of their eggs. Once they get the eggs back, the alpha female orders her mate and her pack to return to the nesting colony and leave the surviving humans be instead of killing them for revenge.

* ItCanThink: The smartest iteration of the raptors so far. It's implied that these ones have slowly adapted to surviving in the wild, live in complex family groups, and don't kill packmates for the hell of it, functioning much more like their ancestors than the original park's isolated and sociopathic pack. Their actual motivation, which they pursue for hours regardless of distance or difficulty, is to save two as-of-yet unhatched babies which shows a ''stunning'' level of maternal thinking. The ''T. rexes'' in the second film have a single baby they've bonded with at least; the raptors are going to extreme lengths and putting themselves at risk over two ''conceptual'' babies when they have an entire nesting colony of unhatched young back in their territory.

* FluffyTheTerrible: Blue? Charlie? Such cute names... for creatures that can tear anybody in half.

* InformedSpecies: Due to a combination of Michael Crichton using the related and much larger ''Deinonychus'' as a basis for the animal [[note]]Crichton's source argued that ''Deinonychus'' should be considered a species of the ''Velociraptor'' genus alongside ''Velociraptor mongoliensis'' rather than be its own genus[[/note]], as well as the family both belonging to being arguably the dinosaurs most changed by discoveries in the [=1980s=] onwards, all of the ''Velociraptors'' across the franchise look little like the [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Dromaeosaurs.png/2560px-Dromaeosaurs.png real animal.]]

* StrongFamilyResemblance: She has a striking resemblance to her mother. Given that Blue [[TrulySingleParent reproduced through parthenogenesis]], it's entirely likely that Beta is genetically identical to her.

* InformedSpecies: An infamous example of this trope; they look about as much like real ''Velociraptors'' as an eagle resembles a crocodile. Their wrists are bent the wrong way [[note]](Until ''Jurassic World: Dominion'')[[/note]], are pack-hunting animals instead of the almost certainly solitary hunters most dromaeosaurids were, have exaggerated intelligence, and not a single feather on an animal that resembled a flightless hawk more than any other modern animal. In terms of size and head shape, they also do not have the skinny and narrow snout of the real thing. In these respects, they somewhat resemble the much larger ''Deinonychus''and ''Dakotaraptor'', albeit featherless.

* AdaptationalDumbass: They're not idiots per se, but compared to the raptors on Nublar in the first film and their fellow counterparts in the third, these ones don't try attacking from the sides, using injured victims to lure other prey closer, nor surrounding their prey outside the long grass (which is usually quite effective in other films) and instead prefer to just leap out of nowhere and charge head-on. One raptor also forces its way into a car by forcing its head through a small hole in the glass to widen it in a slow process, instead of working out how to use the door handle. The smartest thing that they do is teaming up to dig their way into a building where Sarah and Kelly are sheltered. It's also worth noting, that these raptors have a tendency to split up to go after multiple targets -- had already small pack all stuck together when they went after the main heroes in the village, they might've caught at least ''one'' of them for dessert.

* AdaptationalBadass: In reality, the ''Velociraptor'' was only around 5 feet in length and while they were fierce predators, their main diet was mainly restricted to small herbivores. In the ''Jurassic Park'' franchise, they've bulked up to around 8 feet in length, are far more intelligent and vicious, and have a tendency to be known as the ''[[TheDreaded most feared dinosaur]]'' by several characters.

* TheDreaded: No other dinosaur inspires the same amount of fear and dread as the ''Velociraptors''; not even the ''Tyrannosaurus'' and ''Spinosaurus'' can match up to it. Raptors inspire this reputation thanks to their surprising intelligence, vicious tendencies, and great speed and strength, on top of being just sizable enough to wander into buildings and interiors without an issue. It's not for nothing that they've managed to rack up the biggest human body count out of any dinosaur, giving any survivor all the more reasons to see this dinosaur in great fear.

* SuperPersistentPredator: Raptors always hunt, even when they are not hungry. And humans are their favorite prey because of how easy it is to kill one. And they will not rest till they've hunted all of the humans on the island.

* StrongFamilyResemblance: She has a striking resemblance to her mother. Given that Blue [[TrulySingleParent reproduced through parthenogenesis]], it’s entirely likely that Beta is genetically identical to her.

* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: Real maniraptoran dinosaurs were certainly scary, but they were still [[NonMaliciousMonster animals that were simply doing what they needed to do so they could survive]]. The ''Velociraptors'' in the ''Jurassic Park'' franchise, however, come off as serial killers. Justified in the novels, which state that the raptors grew up in isolated captivity and never developed social skills that they would've usually learned from their parents, leaving them all effectively [[TheSociopath sociopaths]] who just kill everything around them. This is later contrasted in ''Film/JurassicWorld'' with Owen Grady's imprinted raptors, who are ''far'' more well-adjusted and behave similarly to their prehistoric counterparts.

* InformedSpecies: Due to a combination of Michael Crichton using the related and much larger ''Deinonychus'' as a basis for the animal, as well as the family both belonging to being arguably the dinosaurs most changed by discoveries in the [=1980s=] onwards, all of the ''Velociraptors'' across the franchise look little like the [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Dromaeosaurs.png/2560px-Dromaeosaurs.png real animal.]]

* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: Real maniraptoran dinosaurs were certainly scary, but they were still [[NonMaliciousMonster animals that were simply doing what they needed to do so they could survive]]. The ''Velociraptors'' in the ''Jurassic Park'' franchise, however, come off as serial killers. Justified in the novels, which state that the raptors grew up in isolated captivity and never developed social skills that they would've usually learned from their parents, leaving them all effectively [[TheSociopath sociopaths]] who just kill everything around them. This is later contrasted in ''Film/JurassicWorld'' with Owen Grady's imprinted raptors, who are ''far'' more well-adjusted and behave similarly to their prehistoric counterparts.

* UniformityException: Beta is missing the sickle claw on her right foot. Going off of the images in the trailer, it isn't so much missing as it is ''broken''.

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Beta was born through parthenogenesis due to Blue having monitor lizard DNA, but is a female. In reality, Beta would have been male just like birds and other reptiles that were born through parthenogenesis.

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Beta was born through parthenogenesis due to Blue having monitor lizard DNA. In reality, Beta would have been male just like birds and other reptiles that were born through parthenogenesis.

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Theropods from the Late Cretaceous period that inhabited what is now the Mongolia-China border and, ([[MisplacedWildlife in this universe]]), North America.

* AlwaysChaoticEvil: The eight raptors in the holding pen are all equally vicious, eager to pounce on any living thing whenever opportunity shows itself. It's subverted when the Grant and Gennaro discover the nest of wild raptors. The wild raptors seem to tolerate their presence, to the point of ignoring them in favor of finding a ship to get off the island. The ones on Sorna really play this trope straight, being willing to cannibalize each other and acting more like rabid dogs than the pack hunters their predecessors codified in fiction. At least part of this is because they're essentially feral children.

* TheAce: While they're generally feared for their ferocity and their effectiveness in hunting, the ''Jurassic Park Velociraptors'' are also seen with a sense of awe and inspiration, albeit in a darker sense. Indeed, this is because of just how versatile and adaptive the raptors are, in addition to being able to stand out despite the presence of more visually striking dinosaurs. They are successful and well-equipped hunters, their intelligence allows them to coordinate and plan like no other dinosaur can, and they can be socially hospitable. On another note, while the ''Brachiosaurus'' is admired for its beauty and grace and the ''Tyrannosaurus'' is well-respected for its status as an apex predator and inspiring fear, the ''Velociraptor earns its reputation for the same reasons as the T. rex does, in addition to its adaptiveness and intelligence making it more unique compared to other dinosaurs.
* AdaptationalBadass: In reality, the ''Velociraptor'' was only around 5 feet in length and while they were fierce predators, their main diet was mainly restricted to small herbivores. In the ''Jurassic Park'' franchise, they've bulked up to around 8 feet in length, are far more intelligent and vicious, and have a tendency to be known as the ''[[TheDreaded most feared dinosaur]]'' by several characters.

* TheDreaded: No other dinosaur inspires the same amount of fear and dread as the ''Velociraptors'' do, not even the ''Tyrannosaurus'' and ''Spinosaurus'' are capable of matching up to it. Raptors inspire this reputation thanks to their surprising intelligence, vicious tendencies, and great speed and strength, on top of being just sizable enough to wander into buildings and interiors without an issue. It's not for nothing that they've managed to rack up the biggest human body count out of any dinosaur, giving any survivor all the more reasons to see this dinosaur in great fear.

* InformedSpecies: Due to a combination of Michael Crichton using the related and much larger ''Deinonychus'' as a basis for the animal, as well as the family both belonging to being arguably the dinosaurs most changed by discoveries in the [=1980s=] onwards, all of the ''Velociraptor'' across the franchise look extremely little like the [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Dromaeosaurs.png/2560px-Dromaeosaurs.png real animal.]]
* ItCanThink: The raptors have always been noted to have been smart by dinosaur standards, but what makes them even more alarming is just how acute and share their thoughts and thinking can get. For example, they can figure out how to open doorknobs and devise a trapping strategy to lure in potential prey, namely by using a crippled human as bait.
* LightningBruiser: What makes the ''Velociraptor'' such a deadly beast is just, in addition to being quick runners, they're also stronger and more durable than their appearance suggests. They can take a large up amount of punishment and pain before they are killed.
* PrehistoricMonster: Out of all the dinosaur species cloned, the ''Velociraptors'' have been consistently depicted as murderous monsters rather than animals, especially in the early years of the franchise. They are more commonly seen in man-made structures than in natural wildlife, and their hyperintelligence makes them feel like psychopathic humans in dinosaur skin. It wasn't until ''Jurassic Park III'' that this trope got subverted for the raptors, eventually fully defied with the debut of Blue.
* RaptorAttack: The ''Jurassic Park Velociraptors'' are ''the'' [[TropeCodifier defining example]] of the usual stereotypical depictions of raptors; scaly, disproportionately larger than the actual ''Velociraptor'' and being smarter and more vicious than how they likely would have been in real life. That said, parts of its inaccuracy may have something to do with its recreation and cloning, which involved the DNA splicing of several reptiles, in addition to dinosaurs.

Dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous period which inhabited what is now the Mongolia-China border and ([[MisplacedWildlife in this universe]]) North America.

* AlwaysChaoticEvil: The eight raptors in the holding pen are all equally vicious, eager to pounce on any living thing whenever opportunity shows itself. It's subverted when the survivors discover the nest of the wild raptors. The wild raptors seem to tolerate their presence, to point of ignoring them in favor of finding a ship to get off the island. The ones on Sorna really play this trope straight, being willing to cannibalize each other and acting more like rabid dogs than the pack hunters their predecessors codified in fiction. At least part of this is because they're essentially feral children.

* AdaptationalBadass: ''Considerably'' bigger, stronger, and meaner than real ''Velociraptors'', or even ''Deinonychus'', on which the novel raptors were originally based on. And whilst the debate on their intelligence goes on, barely anyone thinks they were remotely as intelligent as they are portrayed as in ''JP'' -- probably closer to dogs/wolves than chimpanzees or dolphins.

* InformedSpecies: An infamous example of this trope; they look about as much like real ''Velociraptors'' as an eagle resembles a crocodile. Their wrists are bent the wrong way [[note]](Until ''Jurassic World: Dominion'')[[/note]], are pack-hunting animals instead of the almost certainly solitary hunters most Dromaeosaurids were, have exaggerated intelligence, and not a single feather on an animal that resembled a flightless hawk more than any other modern animal. In terms of size and head shape, they also do not have the skinny and narrow snout of the real thing. Instead in these respects, they somewhat resemble the much larger ''Deinonychus''and ''Dakotaraptor'', albeit featherless.
* ItCanThink: Muldoon demands that the ''Velociraptors'' be killed as they're far too intelligent; testing the electric fence for weaknesses (but never the same spot twice; "They remember," he warns) before they were moved to their high-walled prison. [[spoiler:They seem to realize when the power is cut and claw their way through the electrified wire at the top. Even Muldoon underestimates their intelligence -- as he's stalking one ''Velociraptor'', another ambushes him from the side. His LastWords are genuinely admiring, "Clever girl!" And there's that TemptingFate scene: "Unless they figure out how to open doors."]]
* KnightOfCerebus: Their very presence in the film is a dark contrast to the initial wonders of Jurassic Park. When Grant realizes that the baby dinosaur he is holding is a ''Velociraptor'', [[OhCrap his face turns from joy to horror]] as the music and raptor squeaks begin to take a sinister turn. Unlike the ''T. rex'' or the ''Dilophosaurus'', who are only a danger to anyone stranded within the wildlife when they're hungry, the raptors will hunt their prey to no ends and they are capable of entering man-made buildings without a problem. Once they break out of their cage, no place is safe for the protagonists.

* MythologyGag: The park originally had eight ''Velociraptors'', which was the same number of raptors in the novel. Unlike the novel though, the official population actually decreased due to the Big One killing all but two.
* RaptorAttack: The very reason behind that trope. The film popularized the depiction of dromaeosaurids as man-sized, scaly, highly intelligent, hyper-aggressive pack-hunters in pop culture, but since then, most of these points [[ScienceMarchesOn have been discredited]].[[note]]While there were some large species, most dromaeosaurids, including ''Velociraptor'', were quite small. Many well-preserved fossils indicate most, if not all dromaeosaurids were thickly covered in feathers. The intelligence of dromaeosaurids continues to be debated, but it's highly unlikely they had the great ape or corvid-level intellect depicted in the films. There's no reason to think dromaeosaurids were any more aggressive and bloodthirsty than any other animal. Currently, there's no concrete, unambiguous evidence of sophisticated pack-hunting in dinosaurs.[[/note]] Other minor errors involve their floppy, lizard-like tails and emotive snarling (stiffening tendons in their tail vertebrae would have prevented wiggly movements, while flexible, fleshy lips are an exclusively mammalian trait).
* SignatureRoar: The raptors have a number of signature vocalizations, most prominently a high-pitched shriek and a barking caw. The sounds were based on dolphins and walruses.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The raptor who got trapped in the freezer by Tim and Lex. She was the only raptor that did not partake in the final confrontation with the humans and thus [[spoiler:the only raptor that did not became Rexy's snack]], meaning she's still alive and left unaccounted for. Considering she was trapped in the freezer with no way out save through the now locked door, [[UncertainDoom the raptor probably soon died of starvation, hypothermia, or suffocation]].

* ThereIsAnother: After the deaths of Echo, Delta, and Charlie in ''Film/JurassicWorld'', Blue was assumed and claimed in ''Fallen Kingdom'' to be the last surviving ''Velociraptor'' on Earth, however the introduction of these two raptors confirms that she isn't yet the last of her kind (unless the pair meet their demise by the end of Season 5).