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* AdaptationDisplacement: Many of the darker implications people detected in Spielberg's whimsical first film, like Hammond's childish idealism, the ethics of corporate bioengineering, and altering the dinosaurs' [=DNA=] to be more docile, were already covered (fairly negatively) in the original novel. The 4th film even got praised for recycling one of Dr. Wu's speeches, about dinosaurs as engineered simulacra bred for entertainment, twenty-five years after the novel was published like it was some sort of revelation about the ''Jurassic Park'' concept.
* BigLippedAlligatorMoment:
** The colour-changing raptor. It seems like foreshadowing, but it doesn't lead to anything or get mentioned again.
** Earlier in the novel, a giant dragonfly (presumably ''Meganeura'') appears very briefly. Its appearance raises a lot of questions, such as how it could possibly have been cloned using the method stated in the book (''Meganeura'' lived a very long time before mosquitoes, or even amber, were a thing), why there's a random Paleozoic animal in an otherwise Mesozoic-themed park, and how it survives in the modern atmospheric composition.
** In chapter 12, we're told that to raise investment for building the park, Hammond had [=InGen=] create a full-grown elephant the size of a cat. While it ''does'' foreshadow the cost-cutting and morally questionable methods Hammond uses to get the final product, the idea of the elephant itself is completely inconsequential to the story, never gets mentioned again anywhere in the novel (or the franchise at all), and is just bizarre in a story about genetically reanimating dinosaurs.
* HarsherInHindsight: Hammond asserts that he would never work in a practical field like medicine because he’d be forced to lower the price tag to make them affordable for the average person. This sounds oddly overoptimistic considering many health industries since have made profits forcing up the prices of essential medicines like insulin and vaccines.
* HilariousInHindsight:
** Early in the novel Grant says that ''Procompsognathus'' is an obscure dinosaur species that the average person would probably have never heard of. The book and the later movies would help boost compies to [[SmallTaxonomyPools stock dinosaur]] status.
** It's mentioned shortly after the group encounters their first living dinosaurs that no mummified dinosaur remains had ever been discovered. [[https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/mummified-armored-dinosaur-makes-its-debut-1-180963311/ Fast-forward to 2011]], when Canadian miners unearthed the [[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeAnkylosaurs Nodosaurid]] ''Borealipelta'' that had been fossilized so perfectly that it was essentially mummified.
* ItWasHisSled: Nedry is TheMole. The novel tries to make this a twist by not revealing the name of the person who met with Dodgson until much later in the book, but the film adaptation which popularized the franchise doesn't even bother (probably because it's a lot easier to hide a character's identity in writing than when acted out in a movie), retroactively spoiling the reveal.
* OnceOriginalNowCommon: The books' constant discussion of the robustness of dinosaurs and the purpose and intricacies of DNA may seem excessive nowadays, but it's easy to forget that these only became common knowledge outside of scientific circles as a result of the books.
* TheScrappy: [[AnnoyingYoungerSibling Lex Murphy]] for being TheLoad, complaining constantly, and belittling her brother's enthusiasm for the dinosaurs.
* {{Squick}}: Arguably the biggest change from the novels to the films, apart from Hammond's character, is the level of gore, which, in the books, borders on absurd. Those only familiar with Nedry's haha funny death in the film will get a nasty surprise when they reach that point in the novel, and afterward when his corpse is found. Another character, [[spoiler:Dr. Wu]], is ripped open by a raptor while still alive, feebly trying to fight it.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: The SequelHook about [[spoiler:the dinosaurs who have somehow escaped Isla Nublar and are going on a reign in terror across Costa Rica. Crichton abandoned this when he wrote ''The Lost World'', having Marty briefly mention them being wiped out, and the filmmakers of the sequel movies contented themselves with the characters going back to the islands.]]
** Becomes HilariousInHindsight when [[spoiler: ''Film/JurassicWorldFallenKingdom'' adapts this exact plot point by destroying the island and having masses of dinosaurs escape onto the mainland.]]
* TheUntwist:
** In the book, Dodgson meets with his unidentified mole, who says he's going to meet Dodgson later in San José; later, Hammond picks up Nedry, and ''only'' Nedry, in San José, thus letting the reader deduce that Nedry will simply return to where he came from. The revelation of Nedry as the mole is nevertheless treated as a shock despite there being no other real suspects.
** The first part of the book attempts to keep the reader guessing as to what exactly is causing all these unexplained deaths and injuries in Costa Rica. Because of the movies, it amounts to an ItWasHisSled moment since we all know it is about genetically cloned dinosaurs, though even the title and the original cover of the book give it away. And even if they ''somehow'' didn't see the film or even hear about it, it made ''Velociraptors'' famous enough that most readers would probably understand very easily what's happening when the worker in the prologue mumbles 'lo sa raptor' while it's stated that he was clearly mauled by a large animal.
* VindicatedByHistory: At the time the book came out, it was generally assumed that due to the sheer immensity of the DNA helix that a genome of anything would never be sequenced. However, this assumption seems to have been made by people other than computer scientists, who understood that Moore's Law was dramatically increasing the processing power, memory, and storage capacity of computers and that it really isn't that crazy an idea to let a computer run an algorithm for years on end (especially if the partial results and system state are being periodically saved, you could even turn the computer off and have it pick up where it left off when you turn it back on). Crichton questioned this assumption, and within ten years the human genome itself was one of the first mapped.

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* SugarWiki/NoProblemWithLicensedGames: {{Creator/Sega}} always did ''Jurassic Park'' justice. JP was impressive on the [[UsefulNotes/SegaMasterSystem Master System]], UsefulNotes/GameGear, Genesis/Mega Drive and especially their arcade coin-ops. (We don't talk about the UsefulNotes/SegaCD one...)
** The [[UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis Genesis/Mega Drive]] side-scroller had a better sense of horror, backed by excellent pacing music by Sam Powell.

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* SugarWiki/NoProblemWithLicensedGames: {{Creator/Sega}} always did ''Jurassic Park'' justice. JP was impressive on the [[UsefulNotes/SegaMasterSystem [[Platform/SegaMasterSystem Master System]], UsefulNotes/GameGear, Platform/GameGear, Genesis/Mega Drive and especially their arcade coin-ops. (We don't talk about the UsefulNotes/SegaCD Platform/SegaCD one...)
** The [[UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis [[Platform/SegaGenesis Genesis/Mega Drive]] side-scroller had a better sense of horror, backed by excellent pacing music by Sam Powell.



** The [[UsefulNotes/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem SNES]] FetchQuest looked amazing in the intro, what with that rotating Mode 7 Isla Nublar, the mouse cursor on the main menu (very faithful to the movie), and its Dolby Surround sound support. But when you got to playing it...The Genesis version is tricky, but most gamers never even got close to beating this one without cheats. ([[AWinnerIsYou Not that they missed much from the ending.]]) It's a giant pain in the ass, with a Hyrule-sized island, no extra lives, no save feature and [[WhereWasIGoingAgain no clues as to where to go,]] constantly touching the [[MissionControl information stations]] and having your ears blasted by the uncharacteristically-stern, digitized voice of Malcolm shouting at you, "GRANT!" The respawning dinosaurs look nothing like they do in the movie, you never have enough ammo, and Grant [[FakeDifficulty can never seem to aim correctly]]. It does have [[FirstPersonShooter FPS]] sections that supposedly use the ''Doom'' engine. Those were really neat at the time, but just barely work. Thankfully the ''Jurassic Park Classic Games Collection'', released in 2023 by Limited Run Games [[MileStoneCelebration to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the original film's release]], adds an in-game map of the overworld and (like all the other games included in the compilation) a much-needed save feature, thus fixing much of the flaws inherent to the SNES version.

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** The [[UsefulNotes/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem [[Platform/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem SNES]] FetchQuest looked amazing in the intro, what with that rotating Mode 7 Isla Nublar, the mouse cursor on the main menu (very faithful to the movie), and its Dolby Surround sound support. But when you got to playing it...The Genesis version is tricky, but most gamers never even got close to beating this one without cheats. ([[AWinnerIsYou Not that they missed much from the ending.]]) It's a giant pain in the ass, with a Hyrule-sized island, no extra lives, no save feature and [[WhereWasIGoingAgain no clues as to where to go,]] constantly touching the [[MissionControl information stations]] and having your ears blasted by the uncharacteristically-stern, digitized voice of Malcolm shouting at you, "GRANT!" The respawning dinosaurs look nothing like they do in the movie, you never have enough ammo, and Grant [[FakeDifficulty can never seem to aim correctly]]. It does have [[FirstPersonShooter FPS]] sections that supposedly use the ''Doom'' engine. Those were really neat at the time, but just barely work. Thankfully the ''Jurassic Park Classic Games Collection'', released in 2023 by Limited Run Games [[MileStoneCelebration to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the original film's release]], adds an in-game map of the overworld and (like all the other games included in the compilation) a much-needed save feature, thus fixing much of the flaws inherent to the SNES version.



** The ''UsefulNotes/GameBoy'' and [[UsefulNotes/NintendoEntertainmentSystem NES]] versions of the game released for the first movie, which were severely cut-down versions of the already-unforgiving SNES game.

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** ''Jurassic Park Interactive'' on the [[UsefulNotes/ThreeDOInteractiveMultiplayer 3DO]], a title that has no clear idea of what it wants to be, as well as not using the ''JP'' license for anything worthwhile.

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* OnceOriginalNowCommon: The books' constant discussion of the robustness of dinosaurs and the purpose and intricacies of DNA may seem excessive nowadays, but it's easy to forget that these only became common knowledge outside of scientific circles as a result of the books.



* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: The books' constant discussion of the robustness of dinosaurs and the purpose and intricacies of DNA may seem excessive nowadays, but it's easy to forget that these only became common knowledge outside of scientific circles as a result of the books.

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* FairForItsDay: ''Jurassic Park'''s depiction of dinosaurs is [[ScienceMarchesOn generally considered very outdated compared to the modern view of dinosaurs]], and is largely blamed for the stagnation of their image in public perspective over the last few decades. But for its time, the original novel and film were very progressive and greatly moved forward from the slow, plodding reptiles that also stagnated in the years beforehand.



* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: ''Jurassic Park'''s depiction of dinosaurs is [[ScienceMarchesOn generally considered very outdated compared to the modern view of dinosaurs]], and is largely blamed for the stagnation of their image in public perspective over the last few decades. But for its time, the original novel and film were very progressive and greatly moved forward from the slow, plodding reptiles that also stagnated in the years beforehand.
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** The [[UsefulNotes/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem SNES]] FetchQuest looked amazing in the intro, what with that rotating Mode 7 Isla Nublar, the mouse cursor on the main menu (very faithful to the movie), and its Dolby Surround sound support. But when you got to playing it...The Genesis version is tricky, but most gamers never even got close to beating this one without cheats. ([[AWinnerIsYou Not that they missed much from the ending.]]) It's a giant pain in the ass, with a Hyrule-sized island, no extra lives, no save feature and [[WhereWasIGoingAgain no clues as to where to go,]] constantly touching the [[MissionControl information stations]] and having your ears blasted by the uncharacteristically-stern, digitized voice of Malcolm shouting at you, "GRANT!" The respawning dinosaurs look nothing like they do in the movie, you never have enough ammo, and Grant [[FakeDifficulty can never seem to aim correctly]]. It does have [[FirstPersonShooter FPS]] sections that supposedly use the ''Doom'' engine. Those were really neat at the time, but just barely work.

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** The [[UsefulNotes/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem SNES]] FetchQuest looked amazing in the intro, what with that rotating Mode 7 Isla Nublar, the mouse cursor on the main menu (very faithful to the movie), and its Dolby Surround sound support. But when you got to playing it...The Genesis version is tricky, but most gamers never even got close to beating this one without cheats. ([[AWinnerIsYou Not that they missed much from the ending.]]) It's a giant pain in the ass, with a Hyrule-sized island, no extra lives, no save feature and [[WhereWasIGoingAgain no clues as to where to go,]] constantly touching the [[MissionControl information stations]] and having your ears blasted by the uncharacteristically-stern, digitized voice of Malcolm shouting at you, "GRANT!" The respawning dinosaurs look nothing like they do in the movie, you never have enough ammo, and Grant [[FakeDifficulty can never seem to aim correctly]]. It does have [[FirstPersonShooter FPS]] sections that supposedly use the ''Doom'' engine. Those were really neat at the time, but just barely work. Thankfully the ''Jurassic Park Classic Games Collection'', released in 2023 by Limited Run Games [[MileStoneCelebration to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the original film's release]], adds an in-game map of the overworld and (like all the other games included in the compilation) a much-needed save feature, thus fixing much of the flaws inherent to the SNES version.
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** Alan Grant was described in the Novel as bearded, yet his movie counterpart is clean shaved. Fast forward for [[Film/JurassicWorldDominion more than three decades later]], Movie's Dr. Grant returned with beard like his Novel counterpart.
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It was Borealipelta, not a nodosaurus proper


** It's mentioned shortly after the group encounters their first living dinosaurs that no mummified dinosaur remains had ever been discovered. [[https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/mummified-armored-dinosaur-makes-its-debut-1-180963311/ Fast-forward to 2011]], when Canadian miners unearthed a ''Nodosaurus'' that had been fossilized so perfectly that it was essentially mummified.

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** It's mentioned shortly after the group encounters their first living dinosaurs that no mummified dinosaur remains had ever been discovered. [[https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/mummified-armored-dinosaur-makes-its-debut-1-180963311/ Fast-forward to 2011]], when Canadian miners unearthed a ''Nodosaurus'' the [[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeAnkylosaurs Nodosaurid]] ''Borealipelta'' that had been fossilized so perfectly that it was essentially mummified.
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** Alan Grant was described in the Novel as bearded, yet his movie counterpart is clean shaved. Fast forward for [[Film/JurassicWorldDominion more than three decades later]], Movie's Dr. Grant returned with beard like his Novel counterpart.
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Is the eyesight of the ''Tyrannosaurs'' actually "based on movement"? Technically, Grant only had ''a theory'' that ''T. rex'' had vision like this, but no other character in the first film states this (and Muldoon decides to drive away from Rexy instead of staying still, despite having worked with her most of her life). There are also multiple points where the characters staying still ''doesn't work'', such as Eddie in ''Lost World'', and Alan in ''III''. The rexes are also clearly able to see still objects, as they are able to navigate around them. Rather, it is more likely that movement simply triggers the rexes' instinct to chase, similar to real life wolves and big cats. When Grant and Lex stayed still for example, Rexy may have actually known they were there, but didn't feel like eating them because they weren't giving any chase. She wanted to hunt, after all, and them not running or hiding was no fun. Which is why she goes after Tim instead (who is still hiding in the jeep), and Ian when he runs away.

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* CommonKnowledge: A frequent complaint thrown against the films in memes or critiques is that supposedly all six films depict confined dinosaurs escaping to devour people, yet the humans have AesopAmnesia and keep reopening the theme park. This only comes into play in the first and fourth films, the former where the park isn’t even open yet, and the latter being about the Jurassic World theme park indeed fully breaking down. The second, third, and sixth films deal with the humans surviving wild, non-caged dinosaurs, and the fifth film sees dinosaur refugees from Isla Nublar trafficked and ultimately set free into the wild.

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A frequent complaint thrown against the films in memes or critiques is that supposedly all six films depict confined dinosaurs escaping to devour people, yet the humans have AesopAmnesia and keep reopening the theme park. This only comes into play in the first and fourth films, the former where the park isn’t even open yet, and the latter being about the Jurassic World theme park indeed fully breaking down. The second, third, and sixth films deal with the humans surviving wild, non-caged dinosaurs, and the fifth film sees dinosaur refugees from Isla Nublar trafficked and ultimately set free into the wild.wild.
** The raptors in the franchise are well-known for [[RaptorAttack not actually representing]] what ''Velociraptor'' looked like in real life, but the actual basis is often stated to be ''Utahraptor'' by fans. However, ''Utahraptor'' had only just been named in the same month the first movie was coming out, it would be basically impossible for them to be based on it considering production had started a year prior, as well as the fact ''Utahraptor'' is actually much larger than the films' raptors. In actuality, the ''Velociraptor'' are meant to ''Deinonychus'' (even if they are rather larger than real ''Deinonychus''), the name change was due to the franchise citing Gregory Paul's text, ''Predatory Dinosaurs of the World'', as its primary source, which made the controversial choice to lump ''Deinonychus'' into ''Velociraptor''. This idea had few adherents even then, and none today, so the fact it was ever an idea at all is not very well known.
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* MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales: The franchise is very popular in Costa Rica, despite the fact that it shows several misconceptions about the country itself (like the depiction of the capital or the idea that it has an army) because it is one of the very few instances in which the country is part of a world-famous movie franchise.
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** Robert Muldoon and Roland Tembo are usually quite popular among the fandom. Justified, as both are the OnlySaneMan and GreatWhiteHunter in their respective novel/movies. Not to mention that both are the ones in [[AuthorityEqualsAsskicking charge of the security of a lot of people]]. Bob Peck's and Pete Postlethwaite's intense performances certainly have a lot to do with it as well.

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** Robert Muldoon and Roland Tembo are usually quite popular among the fandom. Justified, as both are the OnlySaneMan and GreatWhiteHunter in their respective novel/movies. Not to mention that both are the ones in [[AuthorityEqualsAsskicking [[RankScalesWithAsskicking charge of the security of a lot of people]]. Bob Peck's and Pete Postlethwaite's intense performances certainly have a lot to do with it as well.
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* HarsherInHindsight: Hammond asserts that he would never work in a practical field like medicine because he’d be forced to lower the price tag to make them affordable for the average person. This sounds oddly overoptimistic considering many health industries since have made profits forcing up the prices of essential medicines like insulin and vaccines.
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* ''YMMV/JurassicWorldBattleAtBigRock''
* ''YMMV/JurassicWorldCampCretaceous''



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** Early in the novel Grant says that Procompsognathus is an obscure dinosaur species that the average person would probably have never heard of. The book and the later movies would help boost compies to [[SmallTaxonomyPools stock dinosaur]] status.

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** Early in the novel Grant says that Procompsognathus ''Procompsognathus'' is an obscure dinosaur species that the average person would probably have never heard of. The book and the later movies would help boost compies to [[SmallTaxonomyPools stock dinosaur]] status.


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* ItWasHisSled: Nedry is TheMole. The novel tries to make this a twist by not revealing the name of the person who met with Dodgson until much later in the book, but the film adaptation which popularized the franchise doesn't even bother (probably because it's a lot easier to hide a character's identity in writing than when acted out in a movie), retroactively spoiling the reveal.
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** [[Film/JurassicPark1993 Original film]]: The ''[[Characters/JurassicParkVelociraptor Velociraptor]]'' alpha is a terrifyingly intelligent predator and one of the most dangerous dinosaurs in the park. Introduced killing one of the park's crew, the alpha [[AsskickingEqualsAuthority killed all but two of her pack to assert her dominance]], using her remaining pack to constantly check their old pen for flaws so they could make their escape. When the power finally goes out, the raptors bust out of their new pen and go on the hunt, with the alpha setting up a trap for Robert Muldoon when he tries to take them out. Learning how to open doors, the alpha and one of her pack bust into the visitor centre and relentlessly chase the heroes, nearly killing them were it not for the surprise interference of the ''[[Characters/JurassicParkTyrannosaurus Tyrannosaurus rex]]''. The alpha and her pack are some of the most iconic dinosaurs in all of fiction, and stand as one of the most shining examples of [[ItCanThink surprisingly clever creatures]] in cinema.

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** [[Film/JurassicPark1993 Original film]]: The ''[[Characters/JurassicParkVelociraptor Velociraptor]]'' alpha is a terrifyingly intelligent predator and one of the most dangerous dinosaurs in the park. Introduced killing one of the park's crew, the alpha [[AsskickingEqualsAuthority [[AsskickingLeadsToLeadership killed all but two of her pack to assert her dominance]], using her remaining pack to constantly check their old pen for flaws so they could make their escape. When the power finally goes out, the raptors bust out of their new pen and go on the hunt, with the alpha setting up a trap for Robert Muldoon when he tries to take them out. Learning how to open doors, the alpha and one of her pack bust into the visitor centre and relentlessly chase the heroes, nearly killing them were it not for the surprise interference of the ''[[Characters/JurassicParkTyrannosaurus Tyrannosaurus rex]]''. The alpha and her pack are some of the most iconic dinosaurs in all of fiction, and stand as one of the most shining examples of [[ItCanThink surprisingly clever creatures]] in cinema.
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*** [[spoiler:Peter Ludlow, surviving [[Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark his encounter]] with a baby ''[[TerrifyingTyrannosaur T. Rex]]'', becomes maniacally obsessed with spiting the entire Hammond family, specifically his nephew-in-law Tim Murphy. Secretly endorsing Tim's efforts to construct a new Jurassic Park in the middle of Texas, Ludlow works with Lewis Dodgson in ensuring carnivores populate the park before having Dodgson [[HeKnowsTooMuch murder Dr. Henry Wu to silence him]]. Eventually revealing himself to Tim, Ludlow gleefully reveals his intent to unleash the entire populace of the new Jurassic Park onto Texas to slaughter as many innocents in their path as possible, uncaring of the immense body count that will result so long as Tim is [[FrameUp framed]] for the crime. So deep is Ludlow's hate for the Hammond lineage that Ludlow hopes for Tim to stay alive for years just so he'll suffer guilt for his hand in the coming massacre, and Ludlow even [[KickTheDog goes so low]] as to inform Tim that his sister Lex will be one of the victims of Ludlow's scheme.]]

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*** [[spoiler:Peter Ludlow, surviving [[Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark his encounter]] with a baby ''[[TerrifyingTyrannosaur T. Rex]]'', rex]]'', becomes maniacally obsessed with spiting the entire Hammond family, specifically his nephew-in-law Tim Murphy. Secretly endorsing Tim's efforts to construct a new Jurassic Park in the middle of Texas, Ludlow works with Lewis Dodgson in ensuring carnivores populate the park before having Dodgson [[HeKnowsTooMuch murder Dr. Henry Wu to silence him]]. Eventually revealing himself to Tim, Ludlow gleefully reveals his intent to unleash the entire populace of the new Jurassic Park onto Texas to slaughter as many innocents in their path as possible, uncaring of the immense body count that will result so long as Tim is [[FrameUp framed]] for the crime. So deep is Ludlow's hate for the Hammond lineage that Ludlow hopes for Tim to stay alive for years just so he'll suffer guilt for his hand in the coming massacre, and Ludlow even [[KickTheDog goes so low]] as to inform Tim that his sister Lex will be one of the victims of Ludlow's scheme.]]

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*** [[spoiler:Peter Ludlow, surviving [[Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark his encounter]] with a baby ''[[KingOfTheDinosaurs T. Rex]]'', becomes maniacally obsessed with spiting the entire Hammond family, specifically his nephew-in-law Tim Murphy. Secretly endorsing Tim's efforts to construct a new Jurassic Park in the middle of Texas, Ludlow works with Lewis Dodgson in ensuring carnivores populate the park before having Dodgson [[HeKnowsTooMuch murder Dr. Henry Wu to silence him]]. Eventually revealing himself to Tim, Ludlow gleefully reveals his intent to unleash the entire populace of the new Jurassic Park onto Texas to slaughter as many innocents in their path as possible, uncaring of the immense body count that will result so long as Tim is [[FrameUp framed]] for the crime. So deep is Ludlow's hate for the Hammond lineage that Ludlow hopes for Tim to stay alive for years just so he'll suffer guilt for his hand in the coming massacre, and Ludlow even [[KickTheDog goes so low]] as to inform Tim that his sister Lex will be one of the victims of Ludlow's scheme.]]

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*** [[spoiler:Peter Ludlow, surviving [[Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark his encounter]] with a baby ''[[KingOfTheDinosaurs ''[[TerrifyingTyrannosaur T. Rex]]'', becomes maniacally obsessed with spiting the entire Hammond family, specifically his nephew-in-law Tim Murphy. Secretly endorsing Tim's efforts to construct a new Jurassic Park in the middle of Texas, Ludlow works with Lewis Dodgson in ensuring carnivores populate the park before having Dodgson [[HeKnowsTooMuch murder Dr. Henry Wu to silence him]]. Eventually revealing himself to Tim, Ludlow gleefully reveals his intent to unleash the entire populace of the new Jurassic Park onto Texas to slaughter as many innocents in their path as possible, uncaring of the immense body count that will result so long as Tim is [[FrameUp framed]] for the crime. So deep is Ludlow's hate for the Hammond lineage that Ludlow hopes for Tim to stay alive for years just so he'll suffer guilt for his hand in the coming massacre, and Ludlow even [[KickTheDog goes so low]] as to inform Tim that his sister Lex will be one of the victims of Ludlow's scheme.]]
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** [[Film/JurassicPark1993 Original film]]: The ''[[Characters/JurassicParkVelociraptor Velociraptor]]'' alpha is a terrifyingly intelligent predator and one of the most dangerous dinosaurs in the park. Introduced killing one of the park's crew, the alpha [[AsskickingEqualsAuthority killed all but two of her pack to assert her dominance]], using her remaining pack to constantly check their old pen for flaws so they could make their escape. When the power finally goes out, the raptors bust out of their new pen and go on the hunt, with the alpha setting up a trap for Robert Muldoon when he tries to take them out. Learning how to open doors, the alpha and one of her pack bust into the visitor centre and relentlessly chase the heroes, nearly killing them were it not for the surprise interference of the ''[[Characters/JurassicParkTyrannosaurus Tyrannosaurus rex]]''. The alpha and her pack are some of the most iconic dinosaurs in all of fiction, and stand as one of the most shining examples of [[ItCanThink surprisingly clever creatures]] in cinema.
** ''[[Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark The Lost World]]'': [[DragonInChief Roland Tembo]] is a badass GreatWhiteHunter who, having hunted the most dangerous animals on Earth, decides to culminate his career by taking down the greatest predator on Earth: a ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' buck. Acting as TheHeavy for Peter Ludlow in the dinosaur hunting expedition and ensuring his incompetent, greedy boss stays well away from the operation, Tembo baits out a ''Tyrannosaurus'' couple by using its baby as bait. Even when a gaggle of strangers free the baby and confiscate his ammo, Tembo saves their lives and still manages to bag the adult ''Tyrannosaurus'' in the end. Arguably the sanest and most rational character in the movie by the end, when Ludlow tries to offer Tembo a job as cheap compensation for the loss of Tembo's friends, Tembo politely tells Ludlow to shove it.
** ''[[Film/JurassicWorldDominion Dominion]]'': [[ArmsDealer Soyona Santos]] is a BlackMarket trader specializing in selling dinosaurs, particularly ''Atrociraptors'' for numerous things, including as weapons or for dogfights. Hired by Biosyn's CEO Dr. Lewis Dodgson, Santos makes the arrangements for both Maisie Lockwood and the young raptor Beta to be captured and then brought to Malta before then being sent from there to Dodgson at Biosyn shortly after. Upon a deal being busted up by a sting, Santos [[ConsummateProfessional shows no signs of panic]] and uses a laser-pointer so that [[NothingPersonal specially-trained raptors will attack the agents surrounding her]] and targets Claire Dearing and Barry Sembène to prevent them from pursuing her too. While giving up info after being interrogated with a taser, Santos, while in the process of being arrested, stealthily sics the raptors on Owen Grady as he's escaping.
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* AluminumChristmasTrees: The 3D file manager that Lex uses near the end is actually real. It was a shell for the IRIX operating system (which is indeed a UNIX derivative) made by Silicon Graphics, who used to be a major Hollywood supplier of CGI technology. They even released a limited ''Jurassic Park'' edition of the computer with the company co-founder's signature.
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* EvilIsCool: The ''Velociraptors'' are intelligent predators who are responsible for one of the film's tensest moments. There's a reason that it becomes a {{Stock Dinosaur|s}} after the film came out.

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* EvilIsCool: The ''Velociraptors'' are intelligent predators who are responsible for one of the film's tensest moments. There's a reason that it becomes a {{Stock Dinosaur|s}} [[SmallTaxonomyPools stock dinosaur]] after the film came out.
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** Early in the novel Grant says that Procompsognathus is an obscure dinosaur species that the average person would probably have never heard of. The book and the later movies would help boost compies to StockDinosaurs status.

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** Early in the novel Grant says that Procompsognathus is an obscure dinosaur species that the average person would probably have never heard of. The book and the later movies would help boost compies to StockDinosaurs [[SmallTaxonomyPools stock dinosaur]] status.
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* EvilIsCool: The ''Velociraptors'' are intelligent predators who are responsible for one of the film's tensest moments. There's a reason that it went from SeldomSeenSpecies to StockDinosaurs after the film came out.

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* EvilIsCool: The ''Velociraptors'' are intelligent predators who are responsible for one of the film's tensest moments. There's a reason that it went from SeldomSeenSpecies to StockDinosaurs becomes a {{Stock Dinosaur|s}} after the film came out.
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*** [[TheHeavy Mr. Dodgson himself]], who previously caused [[Film/JurassicPark the first Jurassic Park incident]] by paying Nedry to steal dinosaur embryos, returns [[spoiler:as a game warden at Tim's new Jurassic Park, [[TheMole but is secretly working for Ludlow]]. [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals Torturing the dinosaurs under his care]], Dodgson gleefully participates in the murder of Dr. Wu by allowing a predator to rip him apart and helps release the dinosaurs to kill countless innocents in Texas]].

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*** [[TheHeavy Mr. Lewis Dodgson himself]], who previously caused [[Film/JurassicPark the first Jurassic Park incident]] by paying Nedry to steal dinosaur embryos, returns [[spoiler:as a game warden at Tim's new Jurassic Park, [[TheMole but is secretly working for Ludlow]]. [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals Torturing the dinosaurs under his care]], Dodgson gleefully participates in the murder of Dr. Wu by allowing a predator to rip him apart and helps release the dinosaurs to kill countless innocents in Texas]].
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*** [[TheHeavy Mr. Dodgson himself]], who previously caused [[Film/JurassicPark the first Jurassic Park incident]] by paying Nedry to steal dinosaur embryos, returns as a game warden at Tim's new Jurassic Park, [[TheMole but is secretly working for Ludlow]]. [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals Torturing the dinosaurs under his care]], Dodgson gleefully participates in the murder of Dr. Wu by allowing a predator to rip him apart and helps release the dinosaurs to kill countless innocents in Texas.

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*** [[TheHeavy Mr. Dodgson himself]], who previously caused [[Film/JurassicPark the first Jurassic Park incident]] by paying Nedry to steal dinosaur embryos, returns as [[spoiler:as a game warden at Tim's new Jurassic Park, [[TheMole but is secretly working for Ludlow]]. [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals Torturing the dinosaurs under his care]], Dodgson gleefully participates in the murder of Dr. Wu by allowing a predator to rip him apart and helps release the dinosaurs to kill countless innocents in Texas.Texas]].

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** ''Franchise/JurassicPark: Redemption'', written by Bob Schreck, gives two characters AdaptationalVillainy:

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** ''Franchise/JurassicPark: Redemption'', ''Redemption'' comic, written by Bob Schreck, gives two characters AdaptationalVillainy:



*** Lewis Dodgson, [[CorruptCorporateExecutive unscrupulous corporate executive]], is now working with [[spoiler:the returned Peter Ludlow]] to absolutely annihilate the legacy of John Hammond and ruin [[Characters/JurassicParkInGen InGen]]. [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals Torturing the dinosaurs under his care]], Dodgson gleefully participates in the murder of Dr. Wu by allowing a predator to rip him apart, plotting to unleash more dinosaurs to wipe out vast swaths of Texas [[{{Greed}} so he can profit through his own corporation]].
** ''Film/JurassicWorldDominion'': [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Dr. Lewis Dodgson]], debuting in the [[Film/JurassicPark very first film]], proves to be [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters much more destructive than any of the dinosaurs]]. Having been a member of [=InGen=]'s competitor Biosyn for decades, Dodgson's attempt to sabotage the rival company involves him having Dennis Nedry mess with the controls of the park so Nedry can make off with embryos while everyone else is put in mortal jeopardy--even Nedry himself. Years after the fact, Dodgson eventually becomes the CEO of Biosyn, and [[spoiler:not only does he have an involvement in the BlackMarket dinosaur trade, he also has Dr. Henry Wu genetically mutate [[BigCreepyCrawlies locusts]] designed to attack and eat the crops of all his competitors to force humanity to either buy his own food sources or suffer extinction by malnourishment. Even when all that goes wrong, Dodgson tries to wipe out those who opposed him and flee with the embryos he has left, intending to continue his immoral desire for scientific superiority over everything and everyone]].

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*** Lewis Dodgson, [[CorruptCorporateExecutive unscrupulous corporate executive]], [[TheHeavy Mr. Dodgson himself]], who previously caused [[Film/JurassicPark the first Jurassic Park incident]] by paying Nedry to steal dinosaur embryos, returns as a game warden at Tim's new Jurassic Park, [[TheMole but is now secretly working with [[spoiler:the returned Peter Ludlow]] to absolutely annihilate the legacy of John Hammond and ruin [[Characters/JurassicParkInGen InGen]].for Ludlow]]. [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals Torturing the dinosaurs under his care]], Dodgson gleefully participates in the murder of Dr. Wu by allowing a predator to rip him apart, plotting to unleash more apart and helps release the dinosaurs to wipe out vast swaths of Texas [[{{Greed}} so he can profit through his own corporation]].
kill countless innocents in Texas.
** ''Film/JurassicWorldDominion'': ''[[Film/JurassicWorldDominion Dominion]]'': [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Dr. Lewis Dodgson]], debuting in the [[Film/JurassicPark very first film]], proves to be [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters much more destructive than any of the dinosaurs]]. Having been a member of [=InGen=]'s competitor Biosyn for decades, Dodgson's attempt to sabotage the rival company involves him having Dennis Nedry mess with the controls of the park so Nedry can make off with embryos while everyone else is put in mortal jeopardy--even Nedry himself. Years after the fact, Dodgson eventually becomes the CEO of Biosyn, and [[spoiler:not only does he have an involvement in the BlackMarket dinosaur trade, he also has Dr. Henry Wu genetically mutate [[BigCreepyCrawlies locusts]] designed to attack and eat the crops of all his competitors to force humanity to either buy his own food sources or suffer extinction by malnourishment. Even when all that goes wrong, Dodgson tries to wipe out those who opposed him and flee with the embryos he has left, intending to continue his immoral desire for scientific superiority over everything and everyone]].
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* {{Sequelitis}}: Critically at least. The first film was acclaimed and is often considered a masterpiece, but every other film following it has gotten mostly mixed or negative reviews. Although ''Film/JurassicWorld'' bucked the trend by getting somewhat positive reviews, the series has otherwise gotten a consistently lower and lower Website/RottenTomatoes score with each new film, from the original film's stellar 92% down to ''[[Film/JurassicWorldDominion Dominion]]'''s abysmal 30%. [[CriticalDissonance Among general audiences however]], the subsequent films fall under ContestedSequel, with much more mixed opinions.

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* {{Sequelitis}}: Critically at least. The first film was acclaimed and is often considered a masterpiece, but every other film following it has gotten mostly mixed or negative reviews. Although ''Film/JurassicWorld'' bucked the trend by getting somewhat positive reviews, the series has otherwise gotten a consistently lower and lower Website/RottenTomatoes score with each new film, from the original film's stellar 92% down to ''[[Film/JurassicWorldDominion Dominion]]'''s abysmal 30%.29%. [[CriticalDissonance Among general audiences however]], the subsequent films fall under ContestedSequel, with much more mixed opinions.
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* {{Sequelitis}}: Critically at least. The first film was acclaimed and is often considered a masterpiece, but every film following it has gotten mostly mixed or negative reviews. Although ''Jurassic World'' bucks the trend by getting somewhat positive reviews, the series has otherwise gotten a consistently lower and lower Website/RottenTomatoes score with each new film, from the original film's 92% down to ''Dominion'''s 30%. [[CriticalDissonance Among general audiences however]], the subsequent films fall under ContestedSequel, with much more mixed opinions.

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* {{Sequelitis}}: Critically at least. The first film was acclaimed and is often considered a masterpiece, but every other film following it has gotten mostly mixed or negative reviews. Although ''Jurassic World'' bucks ''Film/JurassicWorld'' bucked the trend by getting somewhat positive reviews, the series has otherwise gotten a consistently lower and lower Website/RottenTomatoes score with each new film, from the original film's stellar 92% down to ''Dominion'''s ''[[Film/JurassicWorldDominion Dominion]]'''s abysmal 30%. [[CriticalDissonance Among general audiences however]], the subsequent films fall under ContestedSequel, with much more mixed opinions.

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