History WhatAnIdiot / JurassicPark

* Claire Dearing is an executive at the park. Her job requires her to work the regular 24 hours, to deal with investors and potential problems because Masrani trusts her with his life. She finds out that her sister Karen is arranging a divorce and wants Claire to entertain Karen's sons -- Zach and Grey -- while she and Scott go through the proceedings.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Claire to either explain that she can't drop everything at a moment's notice, or have arranged the time off months ahead of the vacation. As a woman, she faces a higher stigma of maintaining her high-level position, and especially in a park that has a bad reputation.\\

'''The Result''': Karen calls Claire to guilt-trip her about spending time with the boys, after she finds out from Zach, and for not having children. Claire cuts off the phone call abruptly, because she has to see Owen Grady about reviewing ''Indominus''. Meanwhile Zach and Grey discover the escaped ''Indominus'', and barely escape with their lives.

'''Instead:''' They create the ''[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Indominus rex]]'', a highly-aggressive hybrid of cuttlefish, ''Carnotaurus'', ''Majungasaurus'', ''Rugops'', and ''Giganotosaurus'' DNA. [[GoneHorriblyRight The end result is an unstoppable killing machine which goes on a rampage]]. \\
'''Or Better Yet You'd Expect:''' Instead of focusing on creating more dinosaurs, the company simply resurrect and feature other prehistoric animals such as ''Indricotherium'', Wooly Mammoth, or even a ''Dunkleosteus''. After all, if visitors start to become bored with dinosaurs, [[BoringButPractical why not educate them on other geological eras and prehistoric animal to the common mass of people so that they will still be enticed to come to their parks]].\\

'''Instead:''' She gets in her car and calls MissionControl while driving, ''after'' sending three people in to investigate no less. This is even lampshaded in the WebAnimation/HowItShouldHaveEnded parody, where one of the segments has Claire call Lowery from the paddock, finds out the I-Rex is still in there, but can't see it for some reason (because of camouflage [[note]]"Aw nuts!"[[/note]]).

'''You'd Also Expect''': That Karen and Scott would have been honest with their kids about the divorce. It's not a great thing, but dishonesty is never a good policy. Also you'd expect that the boys would be careful since Jurassic World's legacy is one of dinosaurs rampaging and killing people.

&& That said, please check the discussion page for a point of contention regarding Nedry's actions after crashing his jeep; it may have to be rewritten

'''Instead:''' They apparently thought it was a [[SarcasmMode ''good idea'']] simply create a hybrid, dangerous, carnivorous dinosaurs that will only satisfy the park in the short run before the people start to become bored again. This entire movie hinges on IdiotPlot for it to happen in the first place.

'''Instead''': Nedry tries to pull the jeep down the falls. He slips, loses his glasses, gets confronted by a ''Dilophosaurus'', is blinded by it's acidic spit, and is eaten. He loses the DNA, which is buried under mud.

'''Instead''': She doesn't. She finally realizes her mistake when there's a ''T. rex'' nose in her tent. Luckily, she wasn't ''wearing'' the vest and the ''rex'' missed her.\\

'''Instead''': He starts screaming at the top of his lungs, both getting the ''rex's'' attention and triggering a panicked stampede. This ends with his death when he trips, his mates trample him and he is finally stomped under the ''rex's'' foot and carried several yards.\\

* As for issues concerning the island's security.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Them to at least have a decent security system, with several Fighter Jets, Tanks, and actual weaponry.\\
'''Instead:''' They just have several crews with tranquilizers and electric batons [[spoiler: who die easily]], and a helicopter with a minigun on it, which [[spoiler: Doesn't end well as it crashes into the aviary, causing further distress for the park visitors]], and only requesting their own Private Army in at the last minute.

'''Instead''': She doesn't. She finally realizes her mistake when there's a ''T. rex'' nose in her tent.

'''Instead''': He starts screaming at the top of his lungs, both getting the ''rex's'' attention and triggering a panicked stampede.

* Malcolm's team and the team from [=InGen=] have to roam the island after their equipment is destroyed by the dinosaurs. One character, Sarah Harding, warns everyone about the olfactory powers of ''TyrannosaurusRex'', which can sniff out just about anything. Including the baby ''rex'' blood on her vest.\\

'''Instead''': She gets close enough to ''touch'' it, and goes to the Stegosaurus nest to take photos and is somehow surprised when the adults react badly.

* Claire and Owen suspect that the dinosaur BigBad has escaped her paddock, but they can track it from the control room, which is fairly far away.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Claire, knowing there isn't enough time to get there, to call Lowery from the paddock and ask him if the asset is still in her cage.\\
'''Instead:''' She gets in her car and calls MissionControl while driving, ''after'' sending three people in to investigate no less.

* When everybody leaves the island (except for Hammond, Muldoon, Arnold, Nedry and Grant's group) for the end of the day and because of a tropical storm, Nedry plans to hack Jurassic Park by turning off the security system (except for the raptor fences) so that he could steal the embryos and escape.\\

* The velociraptors have proven themselves to be not only extremely dangerous, but very aggressive and extremely intelligent, easily making them the most dangerous dinosaurs in the park. Muldoon notes that they have been testing the electric fences for weaknesses, and in the intro we see one kill a man named Jophrey Brown. These are animals vicious enough to skeletonize a live cow in less than three minutes, and they have made it clear they want to escape.\\

'''Instead''': Nedry tries to pull the jeep down the falls. He slips, loses his glasses, gets confronted by a Dilophosaurus, is blinded by it's acidic spit, and is eaten. He loses the DNA, which is buried under mud.

* Malcolm's team and the team from [=InGen=] have to roam the island after their equipment is destroyed by the dinosaurs. One character, Sarah Harding, warns everyone about the olfactory powers of TyrannosaurusRex, which can sniff out just about anything. Including the baby rex blood on her vest.\\

* This leads to another stupid moment. While the rex is sniffing inside her tent and Malcolm is nearby, silently wishing it would go away, an [=InGen=] mook wakes up and sees the rex.\\

'''Instead''': He starts screaming at the top of his lungs, both getting the rex's attention and triggering a panicked stampede.

'''Instead:''' They create the [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Indominus Rex]], a highly-aggressive hybrid of cuttlefish, Carnotaurus, Majungasaurus, Rugops, Giganotosaurus DNA. [[GoneHorriblyRight The end result is an unstoppable killing machine which goes on a rampage]]. \\
'''Or Better Yet You'd Expect:''' Instead of focusing on creating more dinosaurs, the company simply resurrect and feature other prehistoric animals such as Indricotherium, Wooly Mammoth, or even a Dunkleosteus. After all, if visitors starts to become bored with dinosaurs, [[BoringButPractical why not educate them on other geological eras and prehistoric animal to the common mass of people so that they will still be enticed to come to their parks]].\\
'''Instead:''' They apparently thought it was a [[SarcasmMode ''good idea'']] simply create a hybrid, dangerous, carnivorous dinosaurs that will only satisfy the park in the short run before the people starts to become bored again. This entire movie hinges on IdiotPlot for it to happen in the first place.

* as for issues concerning the island's security.\\

'''Instead:''' They create the [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Indominus Rex]], a highly-aggressive hybrid of cuttlefish, Carnotaurus, Majungasaurus, Rugops, Giganotosaurus [[spoiler: and even human]] DNA. [[GoneHorriblyRight The end result is an unstoppable killing machine which goes on a rampage]]. \\

* The velociraptors have proven themselves to be not only extremely dangerous, but very aggressive and extremely intelligent, easily making them the most dangerous dinosaurs in the park. Muldoon notes that they have been testing the electric fences for weaknesses, and in the intro we see one kill a man. These are animals vicious enough to skeletonize a live cow in less than three minutes, and they have made it clear they want to escape.\\

'''You'd Expect''': Nedry would see the sign and head for the dock on foot. He still has the DNA, so the jeep is no loss.\\
'''Instead''': Nedry tries to pull the jeep down the falls. He slips, loses his glasses, gets confronted by a Dilophosaurus, is blinded by it's acidic spit, and is eaten.

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** In [[Film/JurassicPark the first film]], when everybody leaves the island (except for Hammond, Muldoon, Arnold, Nedry and Grant's group) for the end of the day and because of a tropical storm, Nedry plans to hack Jurassic Park by turning off the security system (except for the raptor fences) so that he could steal the embryos and escape.\\

** The girl is told that dinosaurs are attracted to sound and movement. The car she's in breaks down, and dinosaurs start moving around it, eventually attacking the car.\\

** They are building a cross between a nature reserve and a zoo, using cloned animals with unknown properties on a location about as far from help as you can get. So naturally, they spare no expense.\\

** The velociraptors have proven themselves to be not only extremely dangerous, but very aggressive and extremely intelligent, easily making them the most dangerous dinosaurs in the park. Muldoon notes that they have been testing the electric fences for weaknesses, and in the intro we see one kill a man. These are animals vicious enough to skeletonize a live cow in less than three minutes, and they have made it clear they want to escape.\\
'''You Would Expect''': That they take Muldoon's advice and destroy the raptors. At the very least, the fact that the raptors have killed a man before would have lead to the animal in question being euthanized in any animal preserve or zoo on the planet. Or, at the very, ''very'' least, keep the animals quarantined in a place where they have no avenues of escape should they break out, and as far from any human beings as possible until they can figure out what to do with them. These aren't animals you want anywhere near a crowd of visiting tourists, barriers or no.\\

** Dennis Nedry has crashed his jeep while trying to give some stolen DNA to Biosyn, a rival company. There's a sign nearby that points to a dock where Nedry is supposed to hand the DNA over.
'''You'd Expect''': Nedry would see the sign and head for the dock on foot. He still has the DNA, so the jeep is no loss.

** At the end of the movie, the survivors make their escape by helicopter. \\
'''You'd Expect''': The island to be firebombed, since it's been proven that the dinosaurs are too dangerous to be left alive and there are those who would steal them from the island, not to mention that the dinosaurs are in fact capable of breeding. '''Note:''' This is exactly what happened in the book. \\

*** Jurassic Park: The Game does suggest that the island gets bombed flat like it did in the book, replacing the nonexistent Costa Rican Air Force from the book with B-52's from the United States Air Force.
** In [[Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark the sequel]], Malcolm's team and the team from [=InGen=] have to roam the island after their equipment is destroyed by the dinosaurs. One character, Sarah Harding, warns everyone about the olfactory powers of TyrannosaurusRex, which can sniff out just about anything. Including the baby rex blood on her vest.\\

** This leads to another stupid moment. While the rex is sniffing inside her tent and Malcolm is nearby, silently wishing it would go away, an [=InGen=] mook wakes up and sees the rex.\\

** In [[Film/JurassicParkIII the third movie]], the characters are stranded on Isla Sorna after their plane crashed. (The fact that they went there in the first place could qualify as a "What an Idiot" moment in itself.) Fortunately, one of those characters is Alan Grant, a renowned paleontologist who has first-hand experience with resurrected dinosaurs.\\

** This leads to another stupid moment when Billy catches up to the Kirbys at the nest.\\

** In ''Film/JurassicWorld'', the scientists in charge of the eponymous park decide to make a hybrid dinosaur to draw more crowds.\\

** as for issues concerning the island's security.\\

'''Instead:''' They just have several crews with tranquilizers and electric batons [[spoiler: who die easily]], and a helicopter with a minigun on it, which [[spoiler: Doesn't end well as it crashes into the aviary, causing further distress for the park visitors]], and only requesting their own Private Army in at the last minute.\\

** From the original novel: The park wants to showcase a flock of [[PteroSoarer pterosaurs]] via a cool little treehouse lodge in their aviary that guests can safely watch them from, but they need to make sure the pterosaurs are acclimated to the lodge first.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Them to build the aviary lodge first, then release the pterosaurs into the aviary (or better yet, hold off on cloning pterosaurs entirely until their enclosure is finished). Since the lodge will have been there from the start, the pterosaurs will come to see it as part of their habitat, acclimating to it instantly.\\
'''Instead:''' They release the pterosaurs into the aviary and ''then'' start building the lodge. Barring the fact that the pterosaurs are [[HairTriggerTemper violently territorial]], the noise and debris that would be generated by the construction of the lodge would inevitably make ''any'' animal living there (humans included) extremely irritable.

'''Instead:''' They release the pterosaurs and ''then'' start building the lodge. Barring the fact that the pterosaurs are [[HairTriggerTemper violently territorial]], the noise and debris that would be generated by the construction of the lodge would inevitably make ''any'' animal living there (humans included) extremely irritable.

** as for issues concerning the island's security.\