History Literature / TheLostWorld1995

--> ''Eddie'': Violence and technology... not good bedfellows!

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Several. [[spoiler:Baselton]] gets his arm bitten off by a T. rex, which then proceeds to rip him apart until he's nothing but ''a mass of red flesh'', [[spoiler:King]] gets his head ripped off by raptors at the base of the neck, and [[spoiler:Eddie]] gets torn apart by raptors, who continue to fight over his remains all the way back to their nest. But [[spoiler:Dodgson]] takes the crown for most gruesome death in the book, as he is eaten by a bunch of baby T. rexes. When he tries to escape, an adult T. rex ''bites through his leg'' so that he can't escape as one of the little monsters ''rips of his check and swallows it whole''. He finally gets put out of his misery when one of the infants tears out his throat.

* CruelAndUnsualDeath: Several. [[spoiler:Baselton]] gets his arm bitten off by a T. rex, which then proceeds to rip him apart until he's nothing but ''a mass of red flesh'', [[spoiler:King]] gets his head ripped off by raptors at the base of the neck, and [[spoiler:Eddie]] gets torn apart by raptors, who continue to fight over his remains all the way back to their nest. But [[spoiler:Dodgson]] takes the crown for most gruesome death in the book, as he is eaten by a bunch of baby T. rexes. When he tries to escape, an adult T. rex ''bites through his leg'' so that he can't escape as one of the little monsters ''rips of his check and swallows it whole''. He finally gets put out of his misery when one of the infants tears out his throat.

* [[AlasPoorVillain Alas, Poor Mook]]: Howard King. Compared to Dodgson, he's not a bad guy, and ends up just trying to survive. He ends up fleeing from a pack of velociraptors, and even gets a HopeSpot when he ''almost'' makes it to safety before they bring him down.

* MamaBear and PapaWolf: The two ''T. rex''es in ''The Lost World'' (novel and movie) are ''not'' going to let ''anyone'' hurt or take their babies away.

Six years after the disaster at Jurassic Park, Ian Malcolm - who is revealed to have actually survived the events of the previous novel via a retcon -- teams up with paleontologist Richard Levine after learning about Site B, the "production facility" where the park's dinosaurs were hatched and grown, on Isla Sorna near Isla Nublar (the Jurassic Park site). When Levine leaves without Malcolm, he plans a rescue, with a team consisting of Doc Thorne, Eddie Carr, and two stowaway children, R.B. "Arby" Benton and Kelly Curtis. However, not only do they have to contend with dinosaurs, but they have to contend with a rival group consisting of geneticist Lewis Dodgson, Howard King and George Baselton. This group intends to to steal dinosaur eggs for Biosyn, the rival company of [=InGen=], the Jurassic Park company.

Six years after the disaster at Jurassic Park, Ian Malcolm - who is revealed to have actually survived the events of the previous novel via a retcon - teams up with paleontologist Richard Levine after learning about Site B, the "production facility" where the park's dinosaurs were hatched and grown, on Isla Sorna near Isla Nublar (the Jurassic Park site). When Levine leaves without Malcolm, he plans a rescue, with a team consisting of Doc Thorne, Eddie Carr, and two stowaway children, R.B. "Arby" Benton and Kelly Curtis. However, not only do they have to contend with dinosaurs, but they have to contend with a rival group consisting of geneticist Lewis Dodgson, Howard King and George Baselton. This group intends to to steal dinosaur eggs for Biosyn, the rival company of [=InGen=], the Jurassic Park company.

* ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated: Ian Malcom.

* SuperCellReception: ''The Lost World'' novel has sat phones that are explicitly extra-durable and specifically made for the island, but it's eventually averted: the phones fail and garble a message, which helps kick off the plot.

* DrivesLikeCrazy: Richard Levine. He gets his license yanked and ordered to teach as community service for driving 120 miles/hr in a 15 mile/hr school zone.

* InfantImmortality: [[spoiler:Kelly and Arby both survive.]]

* ContinuityNod: Dr. Sarah Harding, who helped nurse Malcolm back to health and dated him for a while, is implied to be the daughter of ''Jurassic Park'''s resident veterinarian, Dr. Gerry Harding. Along with sharing a surname, she mentions that her father had been a vet and a bird specialist at San Diego zoo, which was what Gerry Harding was before signing with InGen. The movies make no such connection. This is probably because the elder Harding's role was ''so'' reduced in the film that audiences could be forgiven for not remembering that was his name.

* ContinuityNod: Dr. Sarah Harding, who helped nurse Malcolm back to health and dated him for a while, is the daughter of ''Jurassic Park'''s resident veterinarian, Dr. Gerry Harding. The second novel makes a deliberate CallBack; the movies make no such connection. This is probably because the elder Harding's role was ''so'' reduced in the film that audiences could be forgiven for not remembering that was his name.

* SuperCellReception: ''The Lost World'' novel has sat phones that are explicitly extra-durable and specifically made for the island.

* ViewerFriendlyInterface: The ''Lost World'' book parodies this when the [=InGen=] OS turns it into a useless display of cutting edge graphical power that... turns the display into a [=3D=] cube. This angers the characters, who are trying to escape feral raptors. [[spoiler:The character eventually gets the bright idea to just follow the cables the computer is running on, which are, quite logically, in a crawlspace so they can be serviced. By the time the raptors get in, they're gone.]]

* SwissCheeseSecurity: In the second book, the island's security depends entirely on its remoteness. The characters find this out when their attempt to guess the computer network's password fails and it just asks them to create a new account.

* DrivesLikeCrazy: Richard Levine. He gets his license yanked and ordered to teach as community service for driving 120 miles/hr in a 15 mile/hr school zone.

* [[AlasPoorVillain Alas, Poor Mook]]: Howard King in the second novel. Compared to Dodgson, he's not a bad guy, and ends up just trying to survive. He ends up fleeing from a pack of velociraptors, and even gets a HopeSpot when he ''almost'' makes it to safety before they bring him down.

* ActionGirl:
** Sarah Harding. Probably she's the physically strongest character in the book. However, in the movie, she [[FauxActionGirl doesn't quite fit this trope]], though she does give it a good effort.
* [[AlasPoorVillain Alas, Poor Mook]]:
** Howard King in the second novel. Compared to Dodgson, he's not a bad guy, and ends up just trying to survive. He ends up fleeing from a pack of velociraptors, and even gets a HopeSpot when he ''almost'' makes it to safety before they bring him down.