History Film / Carnosaur

* DownerEnding: The first film ends with [[spoiler:Doc and Thrush getting shot and burned, because the GovernmentConspiracy had decided that wiping out women via Tiptree's virus and replacing them with {{Uterine Replicator}}s was superior to just curing the disease. Had they went with the original ending, even that would have been AllForNothing with a pterosaur surviving the whole ordeal, ready to continue the virus once more]].

* EverybodyDiesEnding: The first film. [[spoiler: None of the characters who matter anything to the plot survive.]]

* StupidEvil: [[spoiler:For no particular reason that can be discerned, in the first film, a GovernmentConspiracy backed by the military industrial complex decides it would be preferable to encourage Tiptree's virus to spread and wipe out women, envisioning a male-dominated future and police state enforced by strict violence and propagated by artificial wombs, creating a new world order under their control.]]

* DownerEnding: The first film ends with [[spoiler:Doc and Thrush getting shot and burned, because the GovernmentConspiracy had decided that wiping out women via Tiptree's virus and replacing them with {{Uterine Replicator}}s was superior to just curing the disease]].

* AgonyOfTheFeet: One of Thrush's hippie friends who's chained herself to some machinery and apparently DoesNotLikeShoes starts kicking away frantically when the ''Deinonychus'' approaches her. Guess which of her body parts get chewed on first.

* VasquezAlwaysDies: Subverted in ''Carnosaur 2'', where Rawlins outlives the more feminine Galloway only to get horribly mauled to death near the end of the movie. Played straight in ''Carnosaur 3'', with soldiers Coolidge and Proudfoot getting killed while scientist Hodges becomes the first woman to survive a ''Carnosaur'' movie.

* LighterAndSofter: Every subsequent sequel after the first film, which was fairly dark. That said, the second movie in particular isn't a cake walk. A female member of the team has her arm torn off and is brutally eviscerated on-screen.

* MenAreTheExpendableGender: Heavily averted in the first three films, two of which have absolutely ''no'' female survivors. In fact, it's flat out inverted in the first film, with the main human antagonist wanting to [[{{Gendercide}} wipe out the human female population.]] Number four gets it as well but this is thanks to StockFootage from those first three films.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: In 3 the music that plays when the ship is being piloted out to sea sounds very much like the main theme music from Predator.

PoorCommunicationKills: Both Carnosaur 2 and 3. In 2, McQuade keeps his knowledge about both the dinosaurs and the true purpose of Yucca Mountain a secret from the repair crew for much longer than would be reasonable given the situation. And in 3, the anti-terrorist squad sent in to retrieve the stolen truck are told it was simply carrying uranium, and are not warned about the real danger posed by the cargo until after they encounter the dinosaurs face to face, and lose several of the unit in the process.

* StockDinosaurs: The first film features a deinonychus (essentially a velociraptor) and a T-rex. All of the later films renamed the deinonychus into "velociraptors" and ''The Eden Formula'' only has a T-rex.

* AnArmAndALeg: At least one character per movie in the first three has either an arm or a leg brutally torn off before dying. It gets taken UpToEleven in the fourth film due to StockFootage.

* KillEmAll: The first film. [[spoiler: None of the characters who matter anything to the plot survive.]]

* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Oh boy is it ever! For the record, "tarnished" in this case means anything from violently giving birth to live dinosaur hatchlings to being dragged into an elevator shaft, disemboweled, and having limbs graphically bitten off.