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1! All spoilers for ''Film/JurassicPark1993'' will be left unmarked. Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned.
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6->'''John Hammond''': Don't worry, I'm not making the same mistakes again!
7->'''Ian Malcolm''': No, no, you're making all new ones.
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9''The Lost World: Jurassic Park'' is the 1997 sequel to ''Film/JurassicPark1993'' and the second film in the [[Franchise/JurassicPark eponymous]] movie franchise, directed like its predecessor by Creator/StevenSpielberg.
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11After the abandonment of Isla Nublar following the events of the first film, John Hammond (Creator/RichardAttenborough) invites Dr. Ian Malcolm (Creator/JeffGoldblum) for a visit, and reveals that there is a second island with dinosaurs, which served as a breeding ground for the park. When Malcolm learns that Hammond has already mounted an expedition to explore the island and sent over Malcolm's palaeontologist girlfriend Sarah (Creator/JulianneMoore) in advance, he heads out to the island to retrieve her. There they discover that the [=InGen=] executives have launched their own expedition to bring back some of the dinosaurs to recoup their losses from the first venture. Things quickly take a downturn as both parties lose their communications and have to find a way to get off the island alive.
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13And it only gets ''worse'' when one of the dinosaurs is brought back to San Diego...
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15The film is loosely based on ''Literature/{{The Lost World|1995}}'' by Creator/MichaelCrichton, though it takes even less from its source material than the first film did. It also borrows some plot points (in addition to the title) to Creator/ArthurConanDoyle's ''Literature/{{The Lost World|1912}}''.
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17Followed by ''Film/JurassicParkIII''.
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19!!Don't go into the long list of tropes in ''The Lost World: Jurassic Park''!
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24* OneDimensionalThinking: When the hunters are running from the ''Tyrannosauruses'' and later the ''Velociraptors'', they all run together in a group and in a single direction, even though it would be more sensible to try splitting up so that somebody in the group could either escape pursuit or lead the dinosaurs away from the others.
25* AbandonedArea: the [=InGen=] facility in the center of Isla Sorna--complete with [[CallBack familiar front doors]] and a mural depicting Jurassic Park.
26* AbandonedLaboratory: The movie reveals that [=InGen=] has one on Isla Sorna, aka "Site B". It gets revisited in more detail in ''Film/JurassicParkIII''.
27--> '''Amanda Kirby:''' This is how you make dinosaurs?\
28'''Alan Grant:''' No. This is how you play God.
29* ActionGirl: Kelly Malcolm [[TookALevelInBadass becomes this]] during the climactic fight within the island interior, using [[ChekhovsSkill gymnastics]] to become the first and currently only person to kill a full-grown adult ''Velociraptor'' unarmed by knocking it over, managing to get it impaled.
30-->'''Ian''': The school cut you from the team?
31* AdaptationDeviation: The film differs from the novels far more than the original movie did, keeping only Sarah and Malcolm as the same characters, a basic plot of two different teams on Isla Sorna, and pasting in a small number of scenes here and there, while changing nearly everything else about the story.
32** The story in the novel is initially kicked off by a string of dinosaur corpses suddenly washing up on Costa Rica. This led to the reveal near the end that the dinosaurs were suffering from a prion epidemic that was killing them off. The film omits this plot point so the event that kicks off the story is a rich family on vacation accidentally choosing Site B as a rest stop, resulting in the daughter being mauled by a pack of ''Compsognathus'', which was borrowed from an early scene in the ''first'' novel.
33** Because, unlike the novel, Hammond actually survives the events of the first film, Malcolm's motivation for going to Isla Sorna was changed from a rescue mission of a wealthy palaeontologist that went missing on the island to Hammond sending them to the island to prevent [=InGen=] from ransacking the dinosaurs. Malcolm is also more willing to go to Site B in the novel, while only the fact his on-and-off girlfriend is already there persuades him in the film.
34** The antagonists of the novel are agents of [=BioSyn=]. Possibly because their role in the preceding movie was drastically reduced and their name never mentioned, the film changes it to [=InGen=], which in the novel had already gone bankrupt. All the [=BioSyn=] characters are therefore omitted and replaced by original characters.
35** The [=BioSyn=] expedition was much smaller in the novel, made up of only three people, while the [=InGen=] expedition made up of a very large group in the film. This is probably because the novel went for a more practical approach to retrieving dinosaurs, just collecting their eggs, while the film goes for the more dramatic approach of lassoing full-grown dinosaurs.
36** The novel is far more introspective and filled with much discussion about dinosaurs, technology, natural forces, and man's role in nature (the main character is Ian Malcolm, what did you expect?). The film, similar to the first movie, cuts out a lot of the rambling probably it's not as interesting to watch as it is to read.
37** The setup to get the baby ''T. rex'' into the trailer is totally different in the film from the novel. In the novel, Dodgson accidentally steps on the baby's leg while stealing eggs from the nest, and Malcolm and the others later come across it. They tell Eddie to kill it because a broken leg is a mortal wound in the wild, but he doesn't have the stomach to do it and brings it back to the trailer against everyone else's wishes instead. In the film, Roland uses the baby as bait to attract its father, its broken leg is unexplained (a deleted scene would have shown Ludlow tripping and falling on the infant), and it is willingly brought to the trailer by Sarah and Nick.
38** The film cuts out a number of dinosaur sequences from the novel, such as the chameleon-like ''Carnotaurus'', the raptors attacking the High Hide, the ''Maiasaura'' herd, the hamster ball raptor rescue, and the ''Tyrannosaurus'' parents defending their nest. It then invents a number of new sequences, such as a massive dinosaur stampede, a man being mauled to death by a pack of ''Compsognathus'', the ''T. rex'' attack on the camp, most of the [=InGen=] team being slaughtered by raptors in the grasslands, and the entire last act.
39** The entire last act was invented for the movie. Initially, the film ended more similar to the novel, with the characters just barely escaping the island as a pack of raptors and a flock of ''Pteranodon'' overrun the worker village. Spielberg insisted on a climax featuring the ''Tyrannosaurus'', where the adult male escapes and runs loose through the streets of San Diego.
40** A minor difference: in the novel the female ''T. rex'' is described as being larger, while the male is scrawny due to spending his time caring for their nest instead of hunting. In the film, the two are the same size (although their colourations are different--mainly, the female is brown and the male is green).
41** Another minor difference, Malcolm is depicted with a limp and walking with a cane because of his injuries from the first novel. The film initially followed this depiction in an early script, but ultimately chose not to include it.
42** The film implies that the abandoned worker village is where the raptors live, and an ''Apatosaurus'' skeleton is close by to it. This therefore combines two locations from the novel: the raptors had a nest at a river bend where large dinosaurs that died from the prion infection would beach at, providing them with ample food, but it was almost on the other side of the island from the village, which was instead the lair of the ''Carnotaurus''. The raptors ''did'' eventually attack the surviving characters at the village, though, which is probably where placing them in the village came from.
43* AdaptationDistillation: The movie keeps the novel's basic premise and some of its characters, but is otherwise very different. Key characters from the novel like Doc Thorne, Richard Levine, Arby and Lewis Dodgson are omitted from the movie. John Hammond (still [[SparedByTheAdaptation dead in the book's continuity]]), Roland Tembo, Nick van Owen, Peter Ludlow, Dieter Stark, and Ajay do not appear in the novel. Eddie Carr and Doc Thorne are merged, as are Kelly and Arby. Dodgson's BigBad role is effectively taken by Ludlow ([[spoiler:both even die the same way]]).
44* AdaptationExplanationExtrication:
45** Sarah Harding has the same surname as Gerry Harding, a member of the Park's staff in the first movie. In the novel, she's strongly implied to his daughter, but in the movie it's not explained or remarked upon, possibly because Gerry Harding's role [[DemotedToExtra in the movie is so small]] (it's larger in the novel) that reminding the audience of his existence would just be confusing.
46** Just like in the novel, it's established that Isla Sorna is part of an archipelago known as The Five Deaths (which excludes Isla Nublar). However it omits mention that the name has nothing to do with the fact the islands are inhabited by dinosaurs, it originates from a local (fictional) legend, which is somewhat similar to the Labours of Heracles, about a warrior who faced a different execution on each island.
47* AdaptationalHeroism: The [=InGen=] hunter team is considerably less villainous than the Biosyn hunters they were based on from the novel.
48* AdaptationalWimp: The novel's version of Sarah is ''considerably'' smarter and more competent than the screen iteration, plus [[ActionGirl physically powerful]].
49* AdaptedOut:
50** The villainous Biosyn antagonists in the novel, Dodgson, Baselton, and King, are completely taken out and technically replaced by [=InGen=] mercenaries, and while various traits of each are passed on to Ludlow, Burke, and Ajay, respectively, by and large these characters do not correspond to those in the novel and are not nearly as malicious.
51** One of the more notable dinosaur omissions are the ''Carnotaurus'', [[HollywoodChameleons colour-changing]] predators made out to be TheDreaded to even the ''Tyrannosaurus'' and ''Velociraptor''. It's notable because Crichton specifically created them just for the film (because he was curious to see how the film would portray their camouflaging abilities), although their exclusion is probably justified because their role in the novel was very minor. Tie-in games ''did'' include them, though, complete with their camouflaging abilities.
52* AdviceBackfire: Malcolm learns the hard way that telling your angsty adolescent daughter not to listen to you is almost as bad an idea as bringing wild dinosaurs stateside.
53* AesopAmnesia: [=InGen=] completely ignore the lessons of ''Jurassic Park'':
54-->'''Ian''': [''to Ludlow''] Five years of work and a hundred miles of electrified fence couldn't prepare the other island. Did you think a couple of dozen Marlboro men were going to make a difference here?
55* AngerBornOfWorry: Malcolm is ''not'' happy about Sarah's solo trip to Isla Sorna and becomes even less thrilled when he learns that Kelly tagged along under the radar with him, Nick, and Eddie..
56* AnimalStampede: The film shows a variety of dinosaurs stampeding while being chased by [=InGen=] hunters.
57* AnimalWrongsGroup: Nick's stated to be ex-Greenpeace, and it's implied he was on the militant side that boarded ships.
58* AnswerCut: When Sarah and Malcolm retrieve the baby ''T. rex'' and go looking for the adult male that's running loose through the city, Sarah asks Malcolm how they're going to locate the animal. Malcolm, semi-seriously, says they'll simply "follow the screams". Cut to a woman screaming in terror.
59* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking:
60-->'''Sarah''': [''to Ian''] I've worked around predators since I was twenty years old. Lions, jackals, hyenas … you.
61* ArtisticLicenseBiology: It's stated that, to counteract the carfentanil overdose from the tranquilizers, they gave the ''Tyrannosaurus'' naltrexone to counteract the effect and also gave it too much of that, causing it to go into a "narcoleptic state". What's happening is the basically the opposite of narcolepsy. A more accurate description would be to say it's in a psychoactive or eugeroic state.
62* ArtisticLicenseGeography:
63** The runaway ship smashing into the dock makes for a great image, but in real life you wouldn't be able to get into San Diego Bay without someone at the wheel, and definitely not by going from the open ocean to the harbor in a straight line; there's a few little things like the Silver Strand State Beach and the Coronado peninsula in the way. And then during the iconic shot of the T-Rex roaring while looking out over downtown San Diego, it would have had to have teleported completely across the bay.
64** When Nick radios for help, he gives the coordinators of Isla Sorna as being 9 degrees, 58 minutes north, 85 degrees west (the rest is unstated). That would put it anywhere from the Costa Rica mainland and about 16 miles off its coastline. The island has been stated as being 87 miles southwest of Isla Nublar, which is itself 120 miles west of Costa Rica.
65* ArtisticLicensePaleontology:
66** The compies are identified as ''Compsognathus triassicus'', but there's no actual such species. The actual species is ''Compsognathus longipes'', while "triassicus" comes from the animal ''Procompsognathus triassicus'' (named because it was initially believe to be related to the later ''Compsognathus'', but it's now known they were not closely related), which was the identity of the compies in the novels.
67** The adult ''Stegosaurus'' are portrayed at about twice the size of the real animal.
68* AssholeVictim:
69** [[spoiler:Stark]] zaps a compy for no good reason. The others don't take too kindly to that...
70** [[spoiler:Ludlow]] gets eaten by the baby ''rex'' that he abducted.
71* AttackAttackRetreatRetreat: A squad of San Diego cops show up in response to the ''T. rex'' rampage -- and pull an about-face when they actually see the ''rex''. An animal control van is also present and races back the way it came so fast it almost skids out.
72* AwesomeBackpack: Sarah Harding's backpack saves her ass on a few occasions.
73* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: Stark zaps a compy with a cattle prod early on. [[spoiler:It come back to bite him (literally) when the compies kill him.]]
74* BaldOfEvil: Roland is also one of the film's villains, albeit one of the NobleDemon variety.
75* BaseOnWheels: The trailers used by Malcolm's team.
76* BigBad: Peter Ludlow, the EvilNephew of John Hammond, who is desperate to save [=InGen=] following the failure of Jurassic Park and responsible for their operations on Isla Sorna to ferry dinosaurs to an abandoned earlier Jurassic Park in San Diego. His actions there, in addition to him discrediting Ian Malcolm, reducing the chaos theorist to a pariah, are what drive the story in motion.
77* BilingualBonus: After Stark chases off the compies that attacked him, he can be heard muttering angrily in Swedish as he walks away. It's pretty easy to guess the sentiment even if you don't understand the actual words, which boil down to "fucking lizards".
78* BloodIsSquickerInWater: Dieter Stark's death at the hands (claws?)--more likely teeth--of the compys. Also, Robert Burke's death has parts of this, as you see his blood flowing down the waterfall.
79* BloodlessCarnage:
80** When [[spoiler:Eddie]] is yanked in half and [[spoiler: Carter]] gets repeatedly stomped into the ground, there's no gore to be seen. Later avoided when Tembo's dinosaur expert panics from a snake and runs right into the ''T. rex'' -- the waterfall everyone is hiding in becomes blood red.
81** Similarly played straight with the "Unlucky Bastard", we see him get chomped on but again, no blood or gore.
82** Averted when Dieter Stark gets mauled by compies-- he leaps over a fallen tree trunk to try to get away, the compies leap after him, the camera pans down to the stream... and a [[GoryDiscretionShot slowly but surely growing cloud]] of [[BloodIsSquickerInWater blood.]]
83** When the baby ''T. rex'' pounces onto [[spoiler: Ludlow]] and starts tearing into him, one would expect to see blood and other parts to go flying into the air. Ditto for the hunters who get taken down and devoured by the raptors in the long grass. Doesn't happen in either scene.
84* BookEnds: The British girl's encounter with the ''Compsognathus'' in the opening sequence gets an echo in the denouement [[spoiler: as Ludlow approaches the baby ''T. rex'' and speaks to it much as a child would. "Oh, there you are!" But the innocent girl's fate is one-upped: The baby and its father kill the greedy Ludlow]].
85* BringItBackAlive: The goal of the villains is to capture the dinosaurs running loose on Isla Sorna and transport them to San Diego to stock an unfinished facility. They eventually succeed in bringing in a full-grown ''Tyrannosaurus'' and its infant, but it inevitably [[EscapedAnimalRampage escapes containment and goes on a rampage through the city]].
86* BrickJoke: Eddie Carr chastises Ian for [[PercussiveMaintenance banging the satellite phone]] in an attempt to get it to work. A minute later, while Ian is meeting Nick van Owen, Eddie is fiddling with the phone and starts banging it. Also counts as a FunnyBackgroundEvent.
87* BuffySpeak:
88** Roland Tembo has quite a bit of trouble with the pronunciation of the dinosaurs' names.
89--->[''Chasing dinosaurs on the game trail'']\
90'''Tembo''': You're coming up on a…\
91[''Flips through his dinosaur guide'']\
92'''Tembo''': A Pachy … a pachy … oh, hell. Uh, the fathead with the bald spot. Friar Tuck! [[note]] A ''Pachycephalosaurus''.[[/note]]
93** And later it seems like his team is having fun with his explanations:
94--->'''Hunter''': Say again, Roland, a what?\
95'''Tembo''': [''Throws the guidebook away''] The one with the big red horn. Pompadour. Elvis! [[note]]A ''Parasaurolophus''.[[/note]]
96* BullyingADragon: Even if viewers haven't already read either of the novels where the compies are concerned, it's a pretty safe bet that Dieter's on borrowed time from the moment he sadistically shocks the compy he meets considering what happened in the prologue.
97* ByWallThatIsHoley: Sarah, Ian, and Nick somehow survive a dual-trailer RV falling around them as they dangle off a cliff edge. Even with the front windshield smashed open you'd figure ''something'' in the vehicle would hit them on its way down…
98* CallBack:
99** When Ian, Nick, and Eddie are searching for Sarah, they call out her name repeatedly. At one point, Nick shouts out "Sarah Harding!", leading to a sarcastic response from Ian. Later on, when he, Kelly, and Sarah are searching the abandoned center for Nick, Ian calls out for him, at one point shouting "Nick van Owen!"
100** Ludlow spends basically the entire movie comparing himself to Hammond, saying that he will succeed where Hammond failed. When the ''T. rex'' escapes from the ship and begins wreaking havoc in San Diego, Ian says to him, [[NotSoDifferentRemark "Now you're John Hammond."]]
101* CallingTheOldManOut: Hammond's greedy nephew, Ludlow, during the deleted board meeting scene, calls out Hammond as a "born-again naturalist" who is allowing [=InGen=] to go bankrupt in order to keep the dinosaurs from being exploited; he then has the nerve to say he [[{{Hypocrite}} doesn't enjoy speaking unfavorably about his own uncle.]]
102* CaptainObvious:
103** Sarah when the parent ''T. rex''es show up at the trailer.
104--->'''Sarah''': This isn't hunting. They're here for their infant.
105** There's also this exchange not too long after:
106--->'''Roland''': Our communications equipment's been destroyed and if your radio and satellite phone were inside those trailers that went over the cliff--\
107'''Ian''': They were.\
108'''Roland''': Then we're stuck here, ladies and gentlemen. And stuck together, thanks to you people!
109* CassandraTruth: At the beginning of the film, Malcolm's name has been dragged through the mud because he broke his nondisclosure agreement regarding the events of the first film to expose [=InGen's=] wrongdoings. Of course, the idea that they had a secret theme park on a remote tropical island populated by living dinosaurs was considered ridiculous by the public. This never comes up again, but, needless to say, he's vindicated by the movie's end.
110* CasualDangerDialog:
111** Ian does this several times, most notably when the ''T. rex''es are about to attack the trailers:
112--->'''Ian''': Mommy's very angry.
113** And speaking from experience minutes later:
114--->'''Ian''': [[ThisIsGonnaSuck Hang on, this is gonna be bad.]]
115** When Eddie arrives to try and pull his compatriots out of the dangling trailers, he asks them what they want. Ian, Nick, and Sarah all go into full sarcasm mode and order food, like he's a waiter.
116--->'''Eddie''': Rope, OK. Anything else you want?\
117'''Ian''': Yeah, three double cheeseburgers with everything.\
118'''Nick''': No onions on mine.\
119'''Sarah''': And an apple turnover!
120* CatScare: Subverted. Dieter sneaks away from the group to go to the toilet. He hears a few suspicious noises and looks around, rifle in hand. He slowly comes up on some ferns when a dinosaur pops out and snarls in extreme close-up. Dieter gives a yell and dives backwards, bringing his gun to bear...and the camera pulls back, revealing it's actually the chicken-sized Compsognathus. Of course, he soon finds out they're not so harmless, but even so, he laughs it off at the time.
121* TheCavalryArrivesLate: At the end of the bull ''T. rex'''s rampage throughout San Diego, the US Army arrives on the scene after [[PoliceAreUseless a bunch of cops showed up earlier before immediately retreating]] when they discovered what they were really dealing with. However, because the animal has already been contained in the ship with its youngling, they are tasked with guiding it back to Isla Sorna instead of just killing it with a bazooka.
122* CaveBehindTheFalls: The protagonists (and a NoCelebritiesWereHarmed version of real-life Robert Bakker) hide in a cave behind a waterfall to escape the [[MamaBear rampaging female]] ''T. rex''. The Robert Bakker-lookalike gets a snake crawling down his shirt and panics, running right into the rex's jaws.
123* ChaseStopsAtWater: A variation is seen near the very end of the movie when Ludllow spots Malcolm and Sarah carrying the infant ''rex'' and chases them aboard [=InGen's=] cargo ship. When he spots Sarah and Malcolm running out of the ship's cargo hold, he resumes his chase and demands they tell him where the baby ''rex'' is. When they jump overboard and swim away from the ship, Ludllow decides to ignore them, and goes into the cargo hold where he finds the baby ''rex'' and [[spoiler:where papa ''rex'' corners Ludllow and watches his offspring makes its first kill]].
124* ChasingAButterfly: In the opening scene', a little girl follows a ''[[KillerRabbit Compsognathus]]'', only to be attacked by a whole flock of them.
125* ChekhovsGun:
126** Sarah's backpack, or as she calls it, her "lucky pack", saves her life twice in this film. Once when Malcolm uses it to haul her back into the trailer after she falls through one of its windows and again when a raptor pounces onto her and yanks it from her back, thinking it's a part of her.
127** Sarah's bloody vest. Ludlow makes note of it, asking if it's her blood and she's injured, but she assures him it's blood from when she did surgery on the baby ''T. rex''. Later on, [[spoiler:that blood allows the ''Tyrannosaurus'' parents, noted to have an exceptional sense of smell, to track them down.]]
128** Subverted with the insta-kill neurotoxin Eddie brings along. [[spoiler:He tries to raise the gun with the toxin in it to shoot the ''T. rex'' pair while he is pulling the mobile lab trailer up from the cliff's edge and we think he's going to shoot at least one of them with it, but the gun's barrel gets tangled in a net and Eddie gets killed.]]
129** The tranquilizer rifle that Roland darts the male ''T. rex'' with partially causes its rampage in San Diego, since he overdosed it with carfentanil and it was given amphetamines to counteract what would have been a lethal dosage. The same gun is later used by Sarah to tranq the ''rex'' again, ending said rampage.
130* ChekhovsHobby: Ian Malcolm's daughter Kelly mentioned about her being cut from the gymnastics team. She later used those skills on an improvised uneven bars to kick a raptor out a window.
131* ChekhovsLecture: Sarah describes her ongoing debate with Dr. Robert Burke regarding the parental habits of ''T. rex'' as a nurturing parent (she says) and not a "natural rogue who would abandon its young" (he says). She gets proven horribly correct. Later, she points out that moving the baby caused the ''T. rex'' to redefine its territory and that it now views the humans as a threat and will use its superior olfactory senses to track them down until they leave the island (or it eats them all), with which Burke disagrees. Guess who lives and who is killed horribly when the ''T. rex'' does everything Sarah said it would … because ''Sarah'' was dumb enough to continue carrying around a jacket ''covered in the blood of said ''T. rex''[='=]s infant''!
132* CombatParkour: Kelly uses her gymnastic skills to kill one of the ''Velociraptors''.
133* ComplainingAboutRescuesTheyDontLike: Sarah, as she straight up tells Ian that he's never around when she really needs him and right now, she doesn't.
134* CompositeCharacter:
135** The [[WiseBeyondTheirYears precocious]] twelve-year-old Kelly and black ChildProdigy Arby, Levine's pupils, were merged into the single character of Kelly, Malcolm's daughter.
136** The movie version of Sarah Harding is a mix between the book version of Sarah (animal behaviorist who was an ex of Ian's) and Richard Levine (naive, impulsive paleontologist whose preemptive trip to Isla Sorna convinces Ian to organize a rescue expedition and whose dumb decisions constantly put the team in greater danger).
137** The rugged, badass Dr. Jack Thorne and his younger (but very capable) employee, Eddie Carr, were similarly combined into the movie's relatively mousy Eddie, while Book!Eddie's physical appearance was transferred to new character Nick van Owen.
138** Dodgson's antagonistic role is effectively taken by Ludlow ([[spoiler:both even die the same way]]).
139* ContentWarnings: One was added for the movie's release in the UK: “Parental Guidance - Some scenes may be unsuitable for younger children or those under 8.”
140* ContinuityNod: A subtle one after the first T-Rex roar when Malcolm immediately turns off all the lighting in the High Hide. Malcolm is obviously thinking of Lex's big mistake with the flashlight when the Isla Nublar Rex broke out of its paddock.
141* ContrivedCoincidence:
142** Hammond wants to get his team to Site B ASAP to get as much footage and documentation of the dinosaurs living naturally before Ludlow and [=InGen=] come along to plunder it. Malcolm speeding up their arrival by three days to get Sarah off the island somehow ends up with them and the [=InGen=] team arriving on the same day within hours, if not less, of each other.
143** The female ''rex'' chasing the hunters down the one path that leads to the Worker village...through the raptors' nesting area. She ''really'' wanted them gone one way or another.
144** Ludlow's actions ultimately leading to the outcomes he was not necessarily in favor of or even expecting. Namely Malcolm being vindicated and the dinosaurs being declared off-limits for [=InGen=]'s exploitation. Oh and you know, [[spoiler: him dying]].
145* ConvenientCranny: Ian, Sarah, Kelly, and Burke hide from the rampaging ''T. rexes'' in a convenient [[CaveBehindTheFalls cave behind a waterfall]], where the huge dinosaur can't reach far enough inside to eat them. However, Burke panics when a (supposedly) poisonous snake slips into his clothing and gets nabbed.
146* CorruptedContingency:
147** Discussed when Malcolm visits Hammond and learns about Site B. Remembering the Lysine Contingency that Muldoon and Arnold mentioned in the first film, a confused Malcolm doesn't understand how the Sorna Dinosaurs could possibly still be alive 4 years later without [=InGen=] supplying supplmental Lysine. Hammond's just as baffled; [=InGen=] hasn't been able to figure it out from afar either and so solving the mystery is one of his expedition's main objectives. Sarah is able to figure it out just before Malcolm's team arrives: a simple "circle of life" of herbivore dinos eating lysine-rich plants and the carnivores eating the herbivores.
148** An accidental example with Hammond hiring Nick as a member of the team (Nick explicitly calls himself "a contingency" when explaining why he is here). Whatever Hammond expected to happen once Nick sabotaged Ludlow's camp, it surely was not the massacre of Ludlow's team, or the T-Rex rampage courtesy of Ludlow trying to salvage the whole mess.
149* CrazyPrepared: Deconstructed with Hammond recruiting Nick for the expedition. Anticipating that Ludlow's team might beat Ian's to Sorna (or arrive before they're finished), Hammond brings Nick aboard partially due to his Earth First background. Nick is given secret orders from Hammond to sabotage Ludlow's operations if the team should encounter them. Hammond's mistake? Nick's membership with Earth First means he's an environmental extremist (and likewise proves to be an irresponsible activist). So, while Nick ''does'' successfully sabotage the [=InGen=] expedition's operations, his actions ''also'' set off a chain of events that get Eddie Carr and nearly all of Ludlow's expedition KIA (which was ''not'' Hammond's intention) ''and'' leads to the San Diego Incident.
150* CreatorCameo:
151** The character credited as "Unlucky Bastard" that the ''T. rex'' eats is David Koepp, assistant screenwriter to Creator/MichaelCrichton in the first movie and screenwriter of the second.
152** Steven Spielberg's reflection can be seen in the TV screen at the end, when Ian and Kelly are watching the news. He's eating popcorn.
153* CreditsGag: In the credits, the name of a character (played by David Koepp, who wrote the screenplay for the movie) devoured by the ''T. rex'' in front of the video store is given as "Unlucky Bastard".
154* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Features some of the most violent deaths by dinosaur in the series, with special mention going to Eddie Carr being pulled in half by a pair of ''T.rexes'' and Dieter Stark being swarm-munched to death by a pack of compies.
155* CrowdPanic: During the ''T. rex'' rampage in San Diego. Even includes a few [[Franchise/{{Godzilla}} Japanese guys.]]
156* CubCuesProtectiveParent:
157** Sarah gets very close to a baby stegosaurus, but when it is spooked by the noise of her camera, its parents attack her.
158** When Sarah and Nick bring the injured baby ''rex'' to the trailer, its cries bring mommy and daddy ''rex'', just as Kelly figures.
159** Inverted in the prologue, with Cathy as the "cub" and the compies being driven off by ''her'' parents, though not before doing a [[WouldHurtAChild severe number]] on her.
160* DarkerAndEdgier: This one is remembered as the most violent of the franchise, notably for being the film with the highest body count and the most violent death scene (at least until ''Film/JurassicWorld'' came along, anyway). Oddly enough, at the same time it tries to be funny far more frequently than either its predecessor or sequel, mostly since Malcolm takes the reins as the main protagonist, making for some weird MoodWhiplash. On a further note, this was the only film in the entire franchise to have gotten the 14A rating in Canada instead of the PG rating until ''Film/JurassicWorldFallenKingdom'', which was then bumped down to PG for the home release.
161* DeadHandShot:
162** A very literal interpretation is done with the helmsman of the ''Venture'': all that's found is his severed hand gripping the wheel.
163** On the ''Venture'''s deck, a crew member's dead body is signified by his arm sticking out from behind a control panel (which is obscuring the rest of him), holding the remote control for the ship's hold doors in his hand.
164* DeadpanSnarker:
165** Roland Tembo. He finds Ludlow's general ignorance annoying. Here are two examples:
166--->"This is a game trail, Mr. Ludlow. Carnivores hunt on game trails. Do you want to set up a base camp or a buffet?"\
167"Come on, let's get this movable feast underway!"
168** And of course about half of Ian Malcolm's dialogue. Of course, after the events of the last movie, it takes on a much darker tone.
169---> '''Sarah:''' I'll be back in five or six days.\
170'''Malcolm:''' No, you'll be back in five or six ''pieces''.
171* DeadlyRoadTrip: The first victims shown in the movie are tourists lounging on the beach of a dinosaur-filled island. They picked the wrong island.
172* DeathByAdaptation:
173** Oddly enough, ''an object'': the entire BaseOnWheels (in the book the same situation with the ''T. rex''es and the cliff occurs, but only the front part of the RV is destroyed and the characters even use the trailer as a shelter for a while before venturing to find a way off the island).
174** Everybody killed during the ''T. rex''[='=]s rampage in San Diego (no similar scene happens on the novel). This includes [[spoiler:Ludlow]] (in the novel, [[spoiler:Dodgson]] died in a similar scene).
175* DeathByCameo: The Unlucky Bastard is played by screenwriter David Koepp.
176* DeathByAThousandCuts: Anyone who has the misfortune of encountering a hungry ''Compsognathus'' swarm will be subjected to this. Cathy Bowman and Dieter Stark find this fact out the hard way. Of the two [[spoiler: Cathy [[ImprobableInfantSurvival narrowly escapes with her life]].]]
177* DemotedToExtra:
178** Tim and Lex, now four years older, only get cameos in the third scene and are not mentioned again.
179** The ''Velociraptor''s were the most memorable antagonists in the previous film. Here, they're just dangerous obstacles.
180* DevouredByTheHorde:
181** The opening scene was taken from the original ''Literature/JurassicPark'' novel, where a small child is attacked and nearly eaten by a pack of ''Compsognathus''.
182** Dieter, Roland's lieutenant and one of the hunters from [=InGen=], ''is'' killed by a compy pack later on.
183* DidNotThinkThisThrough: More evidence for [[IncompetenceInc InGen]]:
184** The grand plan of Ludlow of creating a Jurassic Park smack in the middle of San Diego is allegedly more cost-effective, less bombastic and easier for customers to reach than Hammond's plan to make the Park on an island (it's even based on a concept Hammond abandoned). However, the climactic T-Rex rampage demonstrates one great weakness of the concept: if the dinos break out, the collateral damage (and human casualty potential) would be astronomical.
185** The Lysine Contingency that was vaunted as a potential all-solving fail-safe in the first film (except for the fact that it would take time the protagonists did not had for it to kick in) is discovered that it did not worked on Isla Sorna because the local plant life is rife with Lysine and all dinosaurs got their needed dose through the circle of life[[note]]the film does not mentions whether or not this is also happening on Isla Nublar, but ''Film/JurassicWorld'' and its follow-ups retroactively make clear that it did[[/note]].
186* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: [[spoiler:Eddie Carr]] (being a CompositeCharacter with an assistant of his that performs a similar HeroicSacrifice in the book) is dismembered and devoured by ''T-rexes'' instead of ''Velociraptors'', making his death somewhat closer to the book's George Baselton's than that of his novel counterpart.
187* DifferentWorldDifferentMovies: There's a poster for a film version of ''Theatre/KingLear'' starring Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger. This might be a ShoutOut to the fact that the original ''Jurassic Park'' film is considered a major reason that ''Film/LastActionHero'', which featured a sequence of Schwarzenegger as ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'', failed at the box-office as it did. There's also a ''Literature/JackAndTheBeanstalk'' movie starring Creator/RobinWilliams and a surfing movie starring ''Creator/TomHanks''.
188* TheDogBitesBack:
189** Dieter zaps a ''Compsognathus'' with a cattle prod, just for the hell of it. Later, when he stumbles off a cliff and gets separated from the others, [[spoiler:he's eaten alive by a huge swarm of them.]]
190** Another example which didn't make it into the final film; a deleted scene would've had Ludlow accidentally break the baby ''T. rex'''s leg when he falls on it while drunk. This would've set up [[spoiler:the KarmicInjury at the end, when the ''Tyrannosaurus'' father breaks Ludlow's leg to soften him up for the baby to kill.]]
191* DontGoInTheWoods: The movie hits this in the third act when the characters have to cross the ''[[TerrifyingTyrannosaur Tyrannosaurus]]'' and ''[[RaptorAttack Velociraptor]]'' territories to reach the old camp in the center of the island. Ironically, the moment the trope is played the most straight is when one of them leaves the group to go to the toilet and gets killed by a ZergRush of ''[[KillerRabbit Compsognathus]]''.
192* DoorFu: Ian Malcolm uses a door as a shield against a ''Velociraptor''.
193* DoWithHimAsYouWill: Played with. The audience is meant to see the father ''T. rex'' injuring [[spoiler:Ludlow]] and leaving him at the mercy of the baby ''T. rex'' as LaserGuidedKarma [[spoiler:for arming the expedition to recreate ''Jurassic Park'' on the continent and capturing the dinosaurs]], but the dinosaurs are just animals who don't know better; from their perspective, the big guy is just teaching its young to hunt.
194* DragonInChief: Roland Tembo, the chief hunter on [=InGen=] exec Peter Ludlow's expedition, instantly makes it clear that while they're on the island, Roland is in charge (or Ajay and then Stark when he's not around), not his employer. Mostly because Ludlow is so stupid that he tries to set up camp on a ''game trail''. In a variation from how this trope is usually played, Ludlow is fine with this once it's pointed out to him.
195* DrowningMySorrows: Ludlow goes from giddy as a kid on Christmas to taking a pull from his flask every other scene after the dinosaurs destroy his team's base camp, leaving them stranded on the island.
196* EndOfAnAge: On a meta level for the franchise. This is the last entry in the series to be based on a Creator/MichaelCrichton novel, to have a screenplay by David Koepp, and to be directed by Creator/StevenSpielberg. After this movie, control over the franchise passes, for better or for worse, into different hands. It's also the last installment that features an original score by Music/JohnWilliams, and Creator/RichardAttenborough as John Hammond.
197* EntitledBastard: Peter Ludlow views all the dinosaurs on Isla Sorna as his company's personal property and disregards the wishes of his uncle John Hammond to go after them. It goes about as well for him as you'd expect.
198* EscapedAnimalRampage: A ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' is taken back to San Diego with the intention of putting it in a zoo, but it escapes before its captors can do so. Earlier in the film, the [=InGen=] team's camp is completely trashed by the dinosaurs released by Hammond's team.
199* EvenEvilHasStandards: Similarly to Nedry in the last film, [[PragmaticVillainy even Ludlow has enough sense *not* to mess with the island's Velociraptors]]. The expedition specifically intended to stay on Isla Sorna's exterior and ''not'' head into the interior and risk entering their territory.
200* EveryCarIsAPinto: One of the Hunter group's Humvees explodes from a ''Triceratops'' colliding with it and comes crashing back down to Earth like a meteorite from space. Later, Eddie's Jeep and the trailers explode with enough force to send debris all the way back up the cliff they fell over, nearly striking Ian, Sarah, and Nick as they dangle precariously from a rope, even though those were ''electric'', solar-powered vehicles.
201* EveryManHasHisPrice: Eddie and Nick didn't even believe that the dinosaurs were real, with Nick saying it was just going to be "maybe big iguanas" and initially didn't want to go to Isla Sorna. However, Hammond threw so much money at them that they were convinced into changing their minds. Subverted with Roland, who's so intrigued at the challenge of huntiing down a ''Tyrannosaurus rex'', one of the greatest hunters in history, that he considers this his fee for helping lead the Ingen expedition in lieu of whatever lucrative amount Ludlow's paying.
202* ExactWords: When Hammond briefs Malcolm on Ludlow's ascent, he remarks that it's only a matter of time before [=InGen=] plunders and pillages Isla Sorna. [[spoiler:By a matter of time, Hammond really means ''days''. He knows Ludlow's expedition is about to launch and is racing against the clock to get his own expedition there first.]]
203* ExitPursuedByABear: The main villain is ultimately devoured by a baby ''T. rex'', but not before first having his leg broken by the baby's father to soften him up for the kill.
204* ExplainExplainOhCrap:
205** When they bring the baby ''rex'' back to the trailer, Sarah explains to Kelly that the fracture in its leg, if left untreated, will keep the infant from being able to walk properly and lead to it becoming some other carnivore's lunch. Kelly suddenly realizes that anything hearing the baby's cries will make a beeline for the trailers in hopes of an easy meal--to say nothing of the little guy's parents, who ''do'' end up putting in an appearance--and starts demanding to be taken someplace else ''immediately''.
206** After returning the baby to its [[HopeSpot seemingly]] calmed down parents, Sarah triumphantly announces that "the debate on the parenting habits of ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' is now academic". Followed by Ian looking out of the window to see both tyrannosaurs [[NothingIsScarier (offscreen)]] winding up to charge straight at the trailers.
207* ExtinctAnimalPark: The human antagonists aim to recreate Jurassic Park in San Diego by capturing dinosaurs roaming free on Isla Sorna. They insist they will be better prepared with more secure facilities this time. The protagonists oppose this idea, both because the original park's creators said the same thing and look how that turned out, and because they believe the animals should be left in peace. [[spoiler:The antagonists do succeed in bringing a ''T. rex'' to San Diego (with heavy casualties) but it ends up breaking free and going on a rampage, after which Ingen finally gives up on the idea of a dinosaur theme park.]]
208* FauxAffablyEvil: While Peter Ludlow's deference to Roland and his relatively light-handed treatment of the hired mercenaries in his employ may seem to qualify him for AffablyEvil status, the first scene he appears in makes it clear he is a stock CorruptCorporateExecutive who has been plotting for years to [[TheUsurper usurp]] control of [=InGen=] from his uncle John Hammond. He also unapologetically admits to [[MaliciousSlander slandering]] Dr. Malcolm's reputation in the public eye to discredit his expose of the original Jurassic Park incident. Ludlow's priorities become clear in the final act, when he insists on capturing Papa ''rex'' and his baby and bringing them back to the mainland which sets in motion the ''T. rex'' rampage through San Diego.
209* FearInducedIdiocy: After the T-rex attacks the camp, several characters take refuge in a small cave behind a waterfall, where they are just out of its reach, though all understandably terrified. However, one of them, Burke, has a snake slither into his clothes, and freaks out, jumping around trying to get rid of it -- which brings him within reach of the hungry dino's jaws. Burke (and, presumably, the unlucky snake) promptly become lunch. To make it worse, the snake was a harmless milk snake, meaning he'd have been fine if he'd managed to control himself.
210* FinalBattle: A chase through the streets of San Diego with the heroes using the T-Rex baby to lure the latter's parent back into captivity.
211* FiveManBand: Ian Malcolm, Sarah Harding, Nick van Owen, Eddie Carr, and Kelly form a team to do research on the dinosaurs and prove how peaceful they are on the island. However, the team comes into conflict with Ludlow's hunters.
212* FlippantForgiveness: Ian Malcolm tells Peter Ludlow, "When you try to sound like Hammond, it comes off as a hustle. I mean, it's not your fault. They say talent skips a generation. So, I'm sure your kids will be sharp as tacks."
213* FollowTheChaos: How Malcolm finds the ''T. rex'' that's rampaging through San Diego: "Follow the screams." Cue woman screaming.
214* ForDoomTheBellTolls: Ominous bells can be heard during the music that plays when the ''T. rexes'' attack the trailer, and later when they attack the survivor's camp. In the former instance, it's at it's most prominent right before they attack and kill [[spoiler: Eddie]].
215* ForeignLanguageTirade: Malcolm gets an earful in Spanish when he tries to contact the boat that brought his team to the island but accidentally gets a woman who thinks he's somebody named Enrique.
216--> '''Kelly:''' Boy, is she mad at you.\
217'''Malcolm:''' I feel sorry for that guy Enrique.
218* ForgottenFallenFriend:
219** The only movie in the franchise to avert this trope. Eddie, Ajay, and Dieter all get posthumously mentioned, with varying degrees of reverence/respect in Eddie and Ajay's cases.
220** During the deleted board meeting scene, Ludlow mentions wrongful death suits/settlements resulting from the deaths of Ray Arnold, Donald Genarro, and Robert Muldoon in [[Film/JurassicPark1993 the previous film]] while early in the film proper, Malcolm briefly mentions "the deaths of 3 people" at one point.
221* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Each side has one.
222** For the Gatherers:
223*** Malcolm - melancholic
224*** Sarah - sanguine
225*** Nick - choleric
226*** Eddie - phlegmatic
227** And for the Hunters:
228*** Roland - melancholic
229*** Ludlow - sanguine
230*** Dieter - choleric
231*** Ajay - phlegmatic
232* FreeWheel: Happens at one point despite being a vertical crash. When the hero team's trailers fall off the cliff after the ''Tyrannosaur'' attack, one wheel flies up towards the camera from the massive explosion at the bottom.
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236* GadgeteerGenius: Eddie Carr and Jack "Doc" Thorne, who didn't make it to the movie.
237* GiantFootOfStomping: The movie has the mother ''T. rex'' stepping on Carter chasing the fleeing humans. The poor bastard actually ends up stuck to the beast's foot for a bit before coming off after a second step.
238* GivingThemTheStrip: A velociraptor pounces on Sarah Harding from behind in the worker village, shortly after a scene in which virtually all of the hunters hired by [=InGen=] were attacked and killed by raptors. Her lucky pack saves her, though: the raptor only latches onto that and she manages to get away.
239* GlorySeeker: Roland. Having hunted everything the modern world has to offer, he now wants to test himself against the greatest predator in history, a ''T. rex''. He's even willing to forego his fee just for the opportunity.
240* GoneHorriblyWrong: The whole movie really, but especially the end. After everything is said and done, [=InGen=] manages to capture one adult ''Tyrannosaurus'' and ship it back to the mainland to put it in their San Diego facility. Unfortunately, it wakes up early, kills the ship's crew, and gets loose once the ship crashes into the port, going on a rampage through the city.
241* GoryDiscretionShot: Most of the deaths in this film--save for [[spoiler:Eddie]] and the "Unlucky Bastard" of course. See BloodlessCarnage.
242* GreatWhiteHunter: Roland Tembo, a rare modern example. The only reason he's agreed to come on [=InGen's=] expedition to Isla Sorna is because they've given him permission to test his mettle against the greatest predator that ever lived, a ''Tyrannosaurus rex''. A deleted scene explains that he's already hunted every other dangerous animal so many times, it got too easy and he started feeling bad for the animals, so he retired.
243* GreenAesop: After the dinosaurs destroyed the park in the first movie, the message changes to "let those animals live out their days in their natural environment and don't try to interfere", despite these animals not even being native to the islands and requiring active government quarantine because of how dangerous they are. While attempts to profit off them are still depicted as wrong, the heroes take a rather callous approach to [[EcoTerrorist causing human death to protect the dinosaurs]].
244* GreyAndGrayMorality: Both sides have reasonable explanations for what they're doing on the island, despite the flaws in their logic, there's a few designated heroes and villains, and ultimately [[spoiler:both the research team and mercenaries join together to [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere just get off the island alive]].]]
245* GuileHero:
246** John Hammond is a XanatosSpeedChess ''master'' in this film, countering his conniving nephew Ludlow's every move despite only being present in two scenes.
247** Nick Van Owen is not afraid to play dirty with Peter Ludlow and his hired mercenaries.
248* GunsAreWorthless: The [=InGen=] mercenaries came heavily armed with all sorts of firepower, but zero dinosaurs are shot with bullets in the whole movie. This is most egregious when they're being chased by the ''Tyrannosaurus'', as they elect to simply fire their guns wildly into the air while running away instead of at the giant dinosaurs pursuing them.
249* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: The gruesome demise of [[spoiler:Eddie Carr]], ripped in two by two ''T. rex''es.
250* HeadButtingPachy: The scene with the ''Pachycephalosaurus'' getting captured shows it ramming into the side of a jeep. This not only caused the jeeps door to torn in half, but also sent the man inside flying out at the other side of the jeep. This shouldn't be possible since (hopefully) like most of the other vehicles used by ''Ludlow's Team'' they were intentionally modified to help them against the dinosaurs. Possibly [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] because the dinosaurs in that universe are bred/created to have audience-pleasing traits.
251* HeDidntMakeIt: Said word-for-word regarding [[spoiler:Ajay]]. Roland does not take it well.
252* HeHadAName: The following exchange:
253-->'''Tembo:''' The Rex just fed, so he won't be hunting for a while.\
254'''Ian Malcolm:''' Just ''fed?'' I assume you're talking about Eddie? You know, you might show a little more respect! The man saved our lives by giving his!
255* HelplessKicking:
256** Burke is hiding from the Tyrannosaurus in a cave behind a waterfall, when a snake falls on his neck. In a panic, he leaves the hiding spot and is caught by the dinosaur. Though his death happens off-screen, he is shown being lifted off the ground, his legs flailing violently, before the waterfall is tinged red with his blood.
257** Inverted with Eddie; his arms do the flailing since he's being held upside down by a ''T. rex'' via one of his legs.
258** During the T. rex's rampage through San Diego, it lifts a man by the torso. The victim screams and flails his legs helplessly before the dinosaur finally closes its jaws, killing him.
259* HeroicBSOD: Roland experiences one after learning of [[spoiler:Ajay]]'s death. He rejects a job offer from Peter Ludlow and says he's going to leave his life of hunting behind, having seen too much death by this point.
260* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Eddie Carr]]; doubles as a DespairEventHorizon since he was the only one who could probably have repaired the hunters' damaged radio equipment.
261* HerbivoresAreFriendly: Inverted. Sarah upsets a ''Stegosaurus'' and barely escapes with her life. In this case it was justified, as she accidentally frightened their baby and [[CubCuesProtectiveParent the adults moved to protect their young from a potential threat]].
262* HeyYouHaymaker: Kelly shouts "Hey you!" at a raptor threatening Malcolm to distract it before sending it flying out of a window a split-second later with a well-timed gynamstics kick.
263* HiddenDepths:
264** Roland Tembo. Although working for [=InGen=], he shows concern for the safety of Kelly, and his own crew, and at the end seems to [[HeelRealization realize he's been on the wrong side]].
265--->'''Peter Ludlow''': I remember the people who help me, Roland. There's a job for you at the park in San Diego, if you want it.\
266'''Roland Tembo''': No thank you. I believe I've spent enough time in the [[StealthPun company of death]].
267** A deleted scene shows Roland picking a fight with an obnoxious diner making unwelcome advances on a waitress.
268--->'''[[GentlemanAdventurer Roland Tembo]]''': You, sir, are no gentleman.
269* {{Homage}}: The encounter with the ''Stegosaurs'' is staged like the ''Stegosaurus'' scene from ''Film/KingKong1933'', only these dinosaurs here are hostile only because the humans approached their baby, and they're not shot at with guns nor felled with gas bombs.
270* {{Hypocrite}}:
271** Played with for Ian: upon learning that Sarah is already at Site B, he is perfectly willing to jeopardize the lives of two people (whom he was about to stop from even going on the expedition) in order to ensure her safety. This is immediately after Ian tells Hammond to stop selfishly risking the lives of others for his own ends. Upon retrieving her, however, he spends the rest of his time trying to get them off the island ASAP, and he ''does'' make at least token efforts to convince Eddie and Nick that staying any longer is not a good idea.
272** Sarah Harding repeatedly fails to heed her own advice. She chastises the others in her group about the importance of observing without interacting shortly after almost getting herself killed attempting to pet an infant ''Stegosaurus''. She chastises Nick for his terrible idea to bring the infant ''Tyrannosaurus'' back to the trailer, then shuts up and helps him do it. After this inevitably ends in disaster, she proceeds to explain the dangers of the bull ''rex'' tracking the group with its powerful olfactory sense, but brings the jacket coated in the infant's blood with her as they flee. Sarah has a bad habit of telling off others for things she then proceeds to do anyway.
273* IdiotBall: Sarah Harding manages to blow off every single one of Ian's warnings, [[{{Hypocrite}} as well as several of her own]], throughout the movie, even after people have actually started dying. Ian gets rightly pissed when she didn't bother masking her trail when she brings the injured ''T. rex'' baby to the trailer. Also, at the beginning when she tells Ian that she would rather stay on the island ''alone'' than leave with him, despite knowing the dangers.
274---> '''Malcolm:''' I'll tell you what you need, you need a good...''antipsychotic''.
275* IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace: Isla Sorna and the nearby islands are collectively known as ''Las Cinco Muertes'' -- or, in English, "The Five Deaths." It's said that fishermen have gotten too close to the islands and never returned.[[note]]In the novel, it's indicated that the name has a mythological basis; the fact these islands really did become home to monstrous beasts is mostly coincidental.[[/note]]
276* IgnoredExpert:
277** Roland Tembo averts the trope by giving Peter Ludlow an earful for suggesting that they set up base camp on a game trail where carnivores hunt.
278---> '''Roland:''' This is a game trail, Mr. Ludlow. Carnivores hunt on game trails. Do you want to set up base camp or a buffet? [...] Peter. If you want me to run your little camping trip, there are two conditions. Firstly, I'm in charge. And when I'm not around, Dieter is. All you need to do is sign our checks, tell us we're doing a good job and open your case of Scotch when we've had a good day. Second condition, my fee. You can keep it. All I want in exchange for my service is the right to hunt one of the ''Tyrannosaurs''. A male, a buck only. How and why are my business. Now if you don't like either of those conditions, you're on your own. So go ahead, set up base camp right here [on a game trail], or in a swamp or in the middle of a ''rex'' nest for all I care. For I have been on too many safaris with rich dentists to listen to any more suicidal ideas. Okay?\
279'''Peter:''' ...Okay!
280** Malcolm has to deal with Sarah ignoring every one of his warnings about how friggin' ''dangerous'' an island filled with dinosaurs is. Especially since he remembers the body count on the last one and was mere feet away when Genarro was devoured.
281* ImprobableInfantSurvival:
282** The little girl somehow survives the compy attack in the beginning of the movie, mentioned in an exposition scene soon after that her family and their crew were able to get to her in time. Nobody else who crosses the little buggers' path is so lucky. The deleted boardroom scene includes a picture of her face post-attack, where she’s shown to be badly bruised and covered in bandages. So she didn’t get away completely unscathed.
283** Kelly survives the island relatively unscathed. At one point, she's smart enough to seek shelter elsewhere, quietly, before the trailers are attacked. Not only that, but she becomes the first human in the series to ''kill'' a ''Velociraptor''.
284** The infant ''T. rex'' also survives no fewer than ''three'' abductions and is ultimately reunited with its parents and returned to the island.
285* InformedAbility:
286** We're told that Dr. Harding is an expert at surviving away from civilization in the midst of animal predators. Yet she plays with a baby ''Stegosaurus'' (even after it starts making noises) right next to its parents, goes along with a plan to bring the baby ''T. rex'' into their trailer, and walks around with baby ''T. rex'' blood on her clothes without thinking of the consequences (and this is after she stated ''Tyrannosaurus'' has one of the most superb senses of smell in the animal kingdom).
287** Justified when the ''T. rex'' tracks the fleeing humans to their camp. In a conversation between Sarah and Dr. Burke, we discover that the tyrannosaur has a sense of smell second only to the turkey buzzard, which will allow them to track the humans across the island to address the perceived threat to their offspring. The ''T. rex''[='=]s established sense of smell allows it to find them shortly after, but once it pokes its head into Kelly and Sarah's tent, it can't find them so long as they lie perfectly still and don't make a noise. The scent it's been following was the infant blood on the jacket hanging over their heads, which is masking their scent; this gives them an opportunity to escape and survive.
288* InNameOnly: There is only a passing similarity between the book and this film. Malcolm does end up leading a new group to a second island and there are a few similar set pieces like the T-Rex attack on the double-length trailer, but the movie is much bigger in scale and the third act does not happen in the book. Notably, Crichton was pressured to write a sequel due to the success of the first film, so it is likely the movie was based on early narrative bullet points than the final novel itself.
289* InstantSedation: Subverted when [=InGen=]'s mooks accidentally give the ''T. rex'' too much sedative, causing it to go into cardiac arrest. In their attempts to save the dinosaur they gave it enough stimulant to kill a rhino, which causes it to wake up and spend the next thirty minutes trashing San Diego. Odds are, had it not been sedated again, it would have kept trashing the place for quite possibly days until it either burned through the stimulants in its blood, suffered a heart attack, or somebody applied a sufficient level of firepower to the problem.
290* ItWorksBetterWithBullets: Nick shows his displeasure with hunting by pulling the bullets from Roland's elephant rifle ammo while he's not around. When Roland attempts to kill the T-Rex that attacks the camp, he finds that his rifle is useless and the dinosaur proceeds to [[NiceJobBreakingItHero kill a number of men.]]
291* JunglesSoundLikeKookaburras: Kookaburras can be heard on Isla Sorna, which is supposed to be west of Costa Rica.
292* KarmaHoudini: Nick Van Owen (who was responsible for the deaths of multiple people on the island) and Roland Tembo (who shot the Buck Rex with the tranquiler that allowed Ingen to take it off island and end up rampaging through San Diego) both disappear from the final act of the movie and neither are seen facing any sort of comeuppance for their actions.
293* KarmicDeath:
294** Stark [[KickTheDog shocks a compy]] [[ForTheEvulz for no reason]] early on. They get their revenge later.
295** Peter Ludlow plans to capture live dinosaurs from Isla Sorna and bring them to the mainland. In the end, he gets done in by his own greed when he tries to recapture the baby tyrannosaur himself but the tables are turned and the young tyrannosaur's father injures him so that he can be used to teach the baby how to hunt.
296* KidnappedFromBehind: In the infamous "Don't go into the long grass!" scene, the protagonists and the [=InGen=] hunters are chased into tall grass by the ''T. rex''. ''Velociraptors'' start quietly picking them off without the rest of them knowing and continue doing so for a while before the survivors realize what's going on and run for it.
297* KillerRabbit: Compies. Small, carnivorous, attack in packs, and don't fear humans.
298* KirkSummation: About midway through the film, Ian Malcolm and [[BigBad Peter Ludlow]] have a discussion about Ludlow's right to take dinosaurs off of Isla Sorna to recoup [=InGen=]'s losses in the wake of the Jurassic Park Incident in the previous and Malcolm comments that Ludlow is no John Hammond. [[EscapedAnimalRampage When the bull Tyrannosaurus escapes into San Diego,]] Malcolm walks up to the shocked Ludlow and says, "''Now'' you're John Hammond."
299* {{Kneecapping}}: [[spoiler: Ludlow gets his leg chomped on and broken at the knee by the male ''rex'' to make him easier for the baby to hunt and kill.]]
300* KnowWhenToFoldEm: Roland, after witnessing the death of almost the entire [=InGen=] crew, including his best friend Ajay, and very nearly losing his own life, wants nothing more to do with the venture despite managing to bring down the Buck ''T. rex'', and turns Ludlow's job offer down flat. Averted with Ludlow himself, however.
301* LampshadeHanging:
302** Ian's line: "Oooh, ahhh. That's how it always starts. But later there's running, and screaming."
303** Only once in the entirety of the film does anyone point out that white Ian Malcolm's daughter is black (Nick, to Eddie: "Do you see any family resemblance here?").
304* LaserGuidedKarma:
305** Hammond's backstory on Isla Sorna reveals that [=InGen=] was forced to abandon Site B due to Hurricane Clarissa. The storm hit Sorna just after the incident on Isla Nublar, so given the timing, Hammond ruefelly speculates you ''could'' call it an act of God. There's additional karmic irony in [=InGen=]'s projects being derailed by ''another'' tropical storm after what happened in the first movie.
306** Stark exists almost entirely for this purpose, shocking a compy with a cattle prod in his first appearance only to get brought down by a pack of them midway through the film.
307** Not only is Peter Ludlow killed by the baby tyrannosaur at the end of the movie, his leg is broken by the adult to do so. It's not made clear in the final film, but a deleted scene (of which some still photos exist) shows that the baby tyrannosaur's leg was accidentally broken by Ludlow himself while he was stumbling around drunk after the successful hunt earlier in the film.
308* LeParkour:
309** Sarah jumps from one rooftop to another while fleeing from a raptor in the Worker Village.
310** During the Buck's San Diego rampage, several people can be seen jumping and running over the tops of parked cars to avoid death by being trampled by the fleeing crowd as well as by being eaten while trying to get away.
311* LittleMissBadass: Kelly, when she uses gymnastics to take out a raptor.
312* LittleStowaway: Kelly (a CompositeCharacter of Kelly and Arby from the novel version) manages to sneak aboard the trip to Isla Sorna without her father and the other adults knowing..
313* TheLoad: Kelly for most of the beginning, though she becomes more helpful later in the film.
314* LookingAMiffedAnimalInTheMouth: Eddie has a side view of the open, roaring jaws of a Tyrannosaurus rex as he desperately tries use his jeep to pull up the mobile base that the rexes had knocked over a cliff. Prior to this, Sarah got a full-on view down one of the rexes throat when the pair came looking to retrieve their baby.
315* LostInTheMaize: "DON'T GO INTO THE LONG GRASS!" Naturally, they do, and HilarityEnsues. The clip from the ReactionShot entry, which comes from this scene, is ''priceless''.
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319* MaliciousSlander: Peter Ludlow in the backstory, as he is revealed to have given the order for [=InGen=] to wage a campaign of this on Ian Malcolm after he breaks his nondisclosure agreement and goes public regarding the original Jurassic Park incident. The end of the movie makes it clear that Malcolm will get the last laugh, however.
320* MamaBear and PapaWolf:
321** The two ''T. rex''es in ''The Lost World'' (novel and movie) will ''not'' let ''anyone'' hurt or kidnap their babies.
322---> '''Malcolm:''' [[OhCrap Mommy's very angry.]]
323** The ''Stegosaurus'' parents try to attack Sarah after seeing her as a threat to their baby.
324** Malcolm and Sarah themselves are this to Kelly. It's particularly shown during the raptor attack where Malcolm grabs a stick to distract the first attacking raptor while Sarah quickly recovers from having just been jumped by that raptor and hustles Kelly into the nearest building just as two more raptors show up.
325** Mr. and Mrs. Bowman deserve a mention. They manage to save Cathy by driving off an entire swarm of compies (well Mr. Bowman does, anyway, with some help from his yacht crew), then proceed to sue the crap out of [=InGen=] for their daughter's pain and suffering.
326* MatchCut: The screaming mother seeing her mauled daughter in the prologue is matched up with a shot of Malcolm yawning in a subway station, with the train "drowning out" the scream. It even features an ad behind him [[PicturePerfectPresentation making it seem as if he's in the same jungle as Isla Sorna's]].
327* TheMillstone: Carter: he listens to music while his companion is getting mauled to death and screams at the top of his lungs when he sees the ''T. rex'', alerting it to where everyone else is. Even if he didn't have to keep watch, nonchalantly listening to some music with headphones and zoning out in a predator-filled jungle? Bad idea.
328* MisplacedWildlife: Kookaburras are heard, even though these birds are native to Australia and the characters are supposed to be in Costa Rica. The film was shot in Australia, however.
329* TheMole: Implied, if downplayed. Once Hammond's ousted from his company, he knows it's only a matter of time before Ludlow exploits Site B. However, Hammond knows enough of his nephew's timetable to rush his own expedition and get Ian and company on site first. The unstated implication (or at least an alternate interpretation) is that Hammond still had allies inside the company who passed on intel.
330* MonsterMunch: When the ''T. rex'' gets loose in San Diego, there's a brief scene of a random civilian getting munched on when he tries to get into a locked store. He's [[CreatorCameo the film's screenwriter]], David Koepp, credited as "Unlucky Bastard".
331* MonsterThreatExpiration: Dinosaurs who are ruthlessly efficient and accurate when taking down most of their victims do mind-bafflingly stupid things when facing the lone woman and little girl in the area such as patiently waiting for the little girl to finish her gymnastics routine which ends with the raptor kicked away somehow, despite how small she is and how little momentum she had accumulated, or fighting amongst each other for the "right"(?) to kill the fleeing woman. The raptors also suffer badly from this in the first ''Film/JurassicPark'' movie as well. By contrast, the Raptors in [[Literature/JurassicPark the novels]] remain dangerous over both books, even when they're not directly threatening the protagonists. The T-Rex actually becomes more dangerous in the second novel, when [[spoiler:our heroes make the mistake of taking a Rex infant. Then they give it back. Then the Rexes try to kill them anyway, because they're in their territory.]]
332* MoreDespicableMinion: Roland Tembo is the leader of the [=InGen=] hunters send to round up the dinosaurs on Isla Sorna and bring them back to the mainland, but he's a reasonable guy who cares about his men, and even the others are largely guys whom are just doing their jobs and aren't really breaking the law in any way. The henchman [[Characters/JurassicParkInGen Dieter Stark]], however, is a sadistic jerk who tortures animals ForTheEvulz.
333* MortonsFork: The situation the survivors of the Hammond and [=InGen=] teams face at the midway point. With the loss of their communications equipment, neither team can contact their respective rides. In theory, they ''should'' be able to do so at the abandoned [=InGen=] compound on the other side of the island -- but while there ''is'' a replenisable power supply, there's no guarantee the communications equipment's still functional after 4 years. Worse, the only way to the compound is right through Velociraptor territory (and even with their combined firepower, the odds ''aren't'' good). However, remaining put in their current base camps is equally too dangerous and suicidal (between basically waiting like sitting ducks for the now-hostile T-Rexes to pick them off and standing out in the open next to a heavily used water source and waiting for a rescue that likely won't come). No matter what option the survivors take, they're basically screwed.
334* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Ludlow goes through this when he witnesses [[spoiler:the ''T. rex'' escape into San Diego]], knowing it is entirely his fault.
335* MythologyGag: [[spoiler:Ludlow's]] death is a direct copy of [[spoiler:Dodgson's]] death in the book: wandering right into a family of ''T. rex''es.
336* NewscasterCameo: CNN reporter Bernard Shaw appears as himself reporting on the return of the papa ''rex'' and his infant to Isla Sorna.
337* NiceJobBreakingItHero:
338** Nick van Owen and the novel's version of Eddie Carr -- their decision to help the injured ''T. rex'' infant by bringing it back to camp with them leaves everybody hopelessly screwed over from that point on.
339** Nick does it again when he sabotages the [=InGen=] camp, resulting in the freed dinosaurs stampeding and destroying a lot of equipment, greatly reducing everyone's chances of getting off the island alive. It also tips off Roland that there are another group of humans on the island.
340** Nick does it yet again when he removes the slugs from the shells Roland's [[{{BFG}} elephant gun]] is loaded with, leaving Roland unable to fire on the ''T. rex'' when it attacks the camp at night. If he hadn't done that, Roland probably would've been able to neutralize the ''rex'' before it could massacre half the team, chase the humans into ''velociraptor'' territory, and wreak all the havoc that was yet to come. Moreover, it was all for nothing anyway as Roland just finds another weapon and hunts the ''rex'' with that instead, but the second time he uses a non-lethal weapon, which results in the animal being taken to San Diego, where it causes even more destruction. The whole rage-against-the-hunter thing (a noble cause but horribly misplaced on an island like Isla Sorna) led to nothing but a lot of [[SenselessSacrifice senseless loss of life]].
341** Malcolm's insistence on rushing to "save" Sarah ensures that the equipment is neither ready nor entirely functioning, which is why Eddie is forced to come along (aside from curiosity about the dinosaurs).
342* NobleDemon: Roland Tembo, the film's secondary antagonist, is your classic GreatWhiteHunter with a harsh but fair moral code. He is willing to nanny Peter Ludlow's ill-advised invasion of Isla Sorna, but he bears the protagonists no ill will and ultimately parts ways with Ludlow.
343* NonActionBigBad: Ludlow, though he tries to get in on the action anyway despite his abject cluelessness.
344* NonMaliciousMonster: The ''Tyrannosaurs''. While they're still very dangerous, the film casts them in a sympathetic light, particularly since they're spending the whole movie in MamaBear and PapaWolf mode.
345* NotEnoughToBury: Happens to Dieter Stark -- after he's attacked by compies, Roland's team finds "only the parts they didn't like."
346* NothingIsScarier: What killed everyone on the ''Venture'', anyway?
347* NothingIsTheSameAnymore: [=InGen=] spent four years keeping the incident on Isla Nublar hush-hush, to the point of offering generous (or what it felt passed for generous) payoffs to the visitors and/or workers who survived and spinning misinformation about the deaths of those not so fortunate, smearing anyone who violated the nondisclosure agreement and spoke the truth (such as Ian Malcolm), and making sure the general public didn't know about any resurrected dinosaurs until it was ready for them to. The bull ''rex'''s rampage through San Diego puts a brutal end to that, revealing to the entire world that dinosaurs live again.
348* NoodleIncident: During his EstablishingCharacterMoment with Ludlow, Roland mentions safaris he's previously led before being hired for the Isla Sorna job. All we learn of these safaris is that his clients were rich dentists with, as Roland puts it, suicidal ideas. (and these experiences are why Roland won't tolerate Ludlow's incompetence).
349* NotHisSled: The last act is probably where the film diverges the most from the novel. In the novel, the sequence with the raptors in the workers' village is the climax and the story ends with the characters leaving the island. However, the film goes on for another half hour, with [[spoiler:the bull ''Tyrannosaurus'' escaping from containment and going on a rampage through San Diego]].
350* {{Notzilla}}: The film combines this trope with EscapedAnimalRampage in the third act, in the form of [[spoiler: the bull ''UsefulNotes/TyrannosaurusRex'' running loose in San Diego in search of his lost infant]] -- which is in fact a ShoutOut to a similar sequence in the climax of ''Film/TheLostWorld'' (which was released in 1925, nearly thirty years ahead of Godzilla's own debut) involving an escaped ''Brontosaurus''. The Japanese film drives this trope home by briefly featuring some panicking Japanese civilians screaming what roughly translates to, "We left Japan to get away from this!"
351* OhCrap: There are enough of these to make a DrinkingGame out of but here are the moments that stand out:
352** Cathy, when she realizes that the cute "little bird" she just tried to befriend with a slice of roast beef already has friends of its own, and they're all hungry and surrounding her...
353--> '''Cathy''': Are you you all looking at this (referring to her roast beef sandwich)? I don't think there's enough to go around... '''(screams)'''
354** Mr. and Mrs. Bowman when they hear their daughter screaming and Mrs. Bowman again once she discovers the ''reason'' for Cathy's screams.
355** Kelly gets one when Sarah and Nick bring the baby ''rex'' into the trailer, realizing that the noise will likely attract something worse. Eddie and Malcolm then get her up in the "high hide", with Malcolm reassuring her that they're safe...until they hear a certain MightyRoar. Malcolm in particular looks ready to piss his pants, having heard ''that'' roar before and knowing exactly what's coming.
356** {{Mama|Bear}} and {{Papa|Wolf}} ''T. rex'' retrieve their infant and gently put it out of harm's way. Then, Sarah points out how this means her theories on ''T.rex's'' parental instincts were right, and Ian suddenly realises that this isn't over yet.
357---> '''Malcolm:''' [[ThisIsGonnaSuck Hang on, this is gonna be bad.]] (Cue the rexes [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge ROARING AND CHARGING FULL-SPEED]] at the trailers.)
358** Eddie when he hears, then sees, the ''T.rexes'' reappear out of the gloom as he's trying to keep Ian, Sarah, and Nick from falling to their deaths.
359** Dieter when he yells for Carter after getting lost and doesn't get a response [[note]]In fact, he outright says [[LampshadeHanging "Oh shit"]] if you listen closely enough.[[/note]], right before he tumbles down a hill, loses his gun, and gets set upon by a pack of vengeful compies.
360** Sarah when she realizes that she has failed to follow proper camping protocol by leaving candy wrappers strewn around the tent and worst of all, her jacket with the baby ''rex''[='=]s wet blood hanging above their sleeping bags.
361** Ludlow gets a whole series of these later on after returning to San Diego, starting the moment the ''Venture'' repeatedly fails to respond to the harbor master's radio calls (this one coupled with a ScrewThisImOuttaHere). It continues once [[spoiler:the ''T. rex'' escapes its confinement and his final such moment is when he realizes that he's about to be the practice dummy for the baby rex's first hunting lesson]].
362* OminousCrack: When the T. rexes push half the mobile lab over the cliff, Sarah Harding falls and lands on the rear windshield, which immediately forms cracks at the slightest movement (even when she shifts her weight onto her fingers). Ian climbs down to grab her (via her lucky pack) while Nick tries and fails to grab a large torch before it slips off and smashes into the glass.
363* OneDoseFitsAll: Averted. Tembo downs the bull ''Tyrannosaurus'' with two carfentanil tranq darts, but we're later told the dosage was way too high and nearly killed the animal. They gave it a receptor antagonist drug to counteract the effect but that dosage was ''also'' too high, and it ends up in a psychoactive state, breaks free, and goes on a rampage.
364* OnlyInItForTheMoney: Nick freely admits this:
365--->'''Nick:''' Noble was last year. This year I'm getting paid. Hammond's check cleared. Or I wouldn't be going on this wild goose chase.
366* PaletteSwap:
367** The ''Mamenchisaurus'' that briefly appear during the stampede scene were made by stretching out the ''Brachiosaurus'' model from the [[Film/JurassicPark1993 first movie]].
368** The male and female ''Tyrannosaurus'' are slightly recoloured versions of the same animatronics and CG models, which is a notable change from the novel, which states how the male is smaller and scrawnier.
369* PercussiveMaintenance: {{Subverted}} when Ian Malcolm repeatedly attempts this with an uncooperative satellite phone, and [[TheSmartGuy Eddie Carr]] repeatedly tells him ''not'' to do this.
370-->'''Eddie:''' Violence and technology... ''not'' good bedfellows!
371* PerfectPoison: Eddie's poison dart gun. It's so effective that it can put down any animal faster than they can feel the dart's prick; there's no antidote in case of accidental poisoning simply because it would kill you so fast it would be useless. It never actually gets any use though.
372* PoliceAreUseless: At one point during the ''T. rex's'' rampage, the police (complete with an animal control unit) arrive on the scene... and promptly turn tail and speed off the way they came. One can assume that either they didn't believe that a dinosaur was tearing up San Diego or they were just poorly briefed on the situation. Later, the Army shows up after the ''T. rex'' has just been contained in the ship by Ian and Sarah, who probably ''would'' have the firepower to deal with a rampaging 5-ton predator.
373* PoorCommunicationKills: When Malcolm and Eddie discover that the baby ''Tyrannosaurus''' parents are searching for their offspring, Malcolm attempts to warn Sarah and Nick at the trailer via their satellite phone. Unfortunately, neither Nick and Sarah bother to pick up[[note]] Nick is about to, but gets called away by Sarah at that moment[[/note]], forcing Malcolm to rush there on foot. He gets only just before mommy and daddy ''T. rex'' show up and attack the trailer. Had either of them just picked up the phone, all of this could have been avoided and [[spoiler:Eddie might have survived]].
374* PreMortemOneLiner: Kelly shouts [[HeyYouHaymaker "Hey, you!"]] before kicking a ''Velociraptor'' to its death.
375* ProductPlacement: Mercedes Benz vehicles were used by Malcolm and company, and Sarah takes a picture with a Nikon camera (even stating the brand name out loud). [[spoiler:Then, after the scene shifts to San Diego, we see a Southern California S & L branch, a Starbucks coffee shop, a Burger King ad on a bus, a Blockbuster video store, a Chevron gas station, a Unocal 76 gas station…]]
376* PsychopathicManchild: In a surprising twist, Peter Ludlow is revealed to be one of these after arriving on the island. He treats the invasion of Isla Sorna like a vacation and the dinosaurs like a kid's Christmas toys. His deference to Roland Tembo is not unlike a child's deference to their parents (so long as the child is getting what they want) and when the base camp is overrun, he reacts with all the confusion and entitlement of a child stunned to find himself not getting his way for the first time.
377* PyrrhicVictory: [[GreatWhiteHunter Roland Tembo]] only agreed to come on [=InGen=]'s dinosaur poaching expedition for the permission to bag the greatest predator that ever lived, an adult bull ''Tyrannosaurus rex''. In the end, he ''actually manages to do it'', and alive at that, but his longtime friend, Ajay, was killed on the expedition, so he didn't get any satisfaction from it.
378* QuicklyDemotedLeader: Ludlow is established in his very first scene as the movie's BigBad but when he next appears his Dragon quickly seizes operational control from him as it is obvious to the both of them that he has no idea what he is doing. Dieter Stark also falls victim to this thanks to the bad luck of being given command just before Nick and Sarah sneak into the base camp and free all the dinosaurs. His boss's reaction to coming back to a base camp literally on fire?
379-->'''Roland Tembo''': That's the last time I leave you in charge.
380* QuizzicalTilt: During its rampage in San Diego, the bull ''T. rex'' tilts its head sideways when Ian and Sara use the infant ''T. rex'' to lure its daddy back to the docks. Just as Ian had predicted earlier, its expression just screams "You two again?"
381-->'''Ian''': [''As he and Sarah are taking back the baby''] You know, when the adult sees that it's us, once again with his baby, he's gonna be like "{{You|Exclamation}}?!", ah, with some angry recognition.\
382'''Sarah''': Who knows, maybe he'll just be glad to see us.
383* RagnarokProofing: When both the protagonists and the antagonists have their radios destroyed, they are forced to trek to the communications centre in the island interior. The fact they're still working after several years of abandonment is justified; the island's electrical systems were built to be self-sufficient, not requiring regular maintenance, and run on geothermal power.
384* RammingAlwaysWorks: The ''T. rex''es decide to ram the BaseOnWheels off a cliff after they get their baby back. The ''Pachycephalosaurus'' and ''Triceratops'' also use their heads/horns to mow down hunters and/or their vehicles.
385* RedHerring: As Malcolm and the team arrive on Isla Sorna, Eddie introduces his ace weapon, a poison dart gun with venom so potent the animal will be felled almost instantly. The gun never ends up getting used, because [[spoiler:the barrel gets caught in some netting at a pivotal moment, and Eddie gets eaten. The gun then goes over a cliff and is destroyed in an explosion.]]
386* RedshirtArmy: The bad guys show up with a fairly large one. Surprisingly, while it's always obvious that they're there as cannon fodder, they make it through quite a bit of the movie unscathed before dying wholesale within the span of a few minutes.
387* RibcageRidge: Huge sauropod ribcages and bones are encountered by the heroes near the ruins of the facilities of Site B.
388* RotatingProtagonist: Ian is the main character, Hammond and the kids get cameos, and there is a new set of supporting characters. Grant and Ellie are absent.
389* RussianReversal: The movie has this exchange:
390--> '''Nick:''' Hammond's cheque cleared or I wouldn't be going on this wild goose chase.\
391'''[[DeadpanSnarker Ian:]]''' Ah, where you're going is the only place in the world where [[RaptorAttack the geese chase you!]]
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396* SaveTheVillain: The Buck ''T. rex'' is hardly a [[NonMaliciousMonster villain]], but Sarah tranquilizing it in the hold of the ''Venture'' and ending its rampage keeps it from being fatally shot by an [=InGen=] sniper.
397* ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: [[spoiler: Eddie, Dieter, Carter, the guy in the tall grass, the Unlucky Bastard, and Ludlow]] all let out shrill, high-pitched screams before/while meeting their ends.
398* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Malcolm in the film's backstory, as it is revealed that he was the only survivor of the original Jurassic Park incident who broke his nondisclosure agreement and went public to expose [=InGen=]. Film villain Peter Ludlow countered with a campaign of MaliciousSlander that has made Malcolm a laughingstock in the public eye, but the film's climax vindicates Malcolm resoundingly.
399* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Virtually every time and everywhere a ''T. rex'' shows up, everyone except for a select few badasses turns tail and runs for their lives despite many of them being heavily armed. Especially noticeable in [[spoiler:San Diego]], though that's of course entirely justified, given the situation.
400* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Played with at one point between Peter Ludlow and Nick Van Owen when the former tries, repeatedly and without success, to rally the mercenaries under his employ to get up and get moving only to be interrupted by the latter who gets everyone up without even really trying. The scene makes it clear that despite his hand in stranding them there, the mercenaries respect the "manly" Van Owen much more than they do the NonActionBigBad Ludlow.
401* SelfDisposingVillain: [[spoiler:Ludlow dies while trying to reclaim the infant ''T. rex'' one last time.]]
402* SequelLogoInRuins: The film was advertised with a more weathered version of the Park's shield logo.
403* SequelTheOriginalTitle: The franchise title and subtitle were reversed for this film. ''Film/JurassicParkIII'' decided for NumberedSequels instead. The fourth film, ''Film/JurassicWorld'', averts both of these altogether with a WordSequel, as do ''Film/JurassicWorldFallenKingdom'' and ''Film/JurassicWorldDominion''.
404* SerialEscalation: The sequel massively ups the amount of dinosaurs, action sequences, and body count from the first film. The first film had one ''Tyrannosaurus''? This film has a whole ''family'' of ''T. rex''! The first film has three raptors picking off a small handful of characters? This film has at least a dozen slaughtering a large expedition group!
405* ShoutOut:
406** The San Diego sequence has several Japanese businessmen among others running for their lives from the ''T. rex'', a clear tribute to ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' films.
407** There's probably no way to prove or disprove that, but ''T. rex'' in San Diego might also be a reference to a short SF story ''Paleontology: An Experimental Science'' published in 1974. Its plot [[http://books.google.com/books?id=N8qXUT06WucC&pg=PA129&lpg=PA129&dq=%22olsen%27s+earlier+entry%22+paleontology+%22an+experimental+science&source=bl&ots=7PQOWrLoyl&sig=4v9VV63lsRPn-_bvHS2iAN-FOJ8&hl=pl&ei=EHMyTKHsB4eWOMnA1KoG&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBQQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22olsen%27s%20earlier%20entry%22%20paleontology%20%22an%20experimental%20science&f=false involved reconstituting dinosaurs from DNA preserved in fossilized bone and skin fragments…]] [[http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/pseudosc/atmoviedna.htm and it ended with the reconstructed ''Tyrannosaurus'' getting loose in San Diego]]. It might also be a reference to another short story involving dinosaurs recreated from DNA that predated ''Jurassic Park'', Creator/RobertSilverberg's ''Our Lady of the Sauropods''. In this story, the resurrected dinosaurs were isolated on the "Dino Island" ([[NonIndicativeName which was actually a space station]]) "after that unfortunate San Diego event with the ''Tyrannosaur''" … which itself was a reference to aforementioned ''Paleontology: An Experimental Science''.
408** Roland Tembo and Nick van Owen. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_the_Headless_Thompson_Gunner Someone is a Warren Zevon fan.]] The lyrics to ''Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner'' are referenced further in the deleted scene that introduces Roland. His friend Ajay finds him "in Mombassa, in a bar room drinking gin."
409** The arrival of the spooky empty ship in San Diego is a homage to the similar sequence in ''{{Dracula}}'', although it's anyone's guess which (if any) of the film versions they had in mind.
410** Before his urban rampage, ''Film/{{King Kong|1933}}'' was brought to the U.S. by a ship named ''Venture''.
411** While helping set the baby's leg, Nick refers to Sarah as "Series/{{Dr Quinn|Medicine Woman}}."
412** While wandering through a neighborhood, the Buck ''T. rex'' scratches its jaw, something that most theropods in stop-motion films like ''Film/{{King Kong|1933}}'' and the original ''Film/TheLostWorld'' were animated to do.
413* SickeningCrunch: A few examples:
414** When Dieter Stark is being devoured offscreen by compies, audible ripping/crunching sounds, not unlike popcorn being munched, can be heard and one can reasonably assume it's not just his clothing that is being torn away. The growing pool of blood and Roland's comment a couple of scenes later confirm that assumption.
415** A sound like a watermelon being smashed open is heard when Burke gets dragged out of a cave and eaten (offscreen) by a ''T. rex'', followed by the waterfall everyone else is hiding behind turning red with his spilled blood.
416** When the male ''T. rex'' chomps down on Peter Ludlow's leg to make him easier for its baby to hunt and kill, a dry crack can be heard.
417* SkeletonCrew: The unusual moment of the ''S.S. Venture'' arriving in San Diego with its crew in different states of crushing and dismemberment (in the script, this was supposed to be the work of raptors sneaking into the ship, but the explanation was cut out).
418* SmugSnake: Ludlow is too much of a [[EvilBrit stiff-upper-lip type]] to smirk very often, but he is clearly one of these, disregarding his uncle's wishes to leave Site B untouched and bullishly seizing control of [=InGen=] from him, effectively setting up a chess match between them that ends with Ludlow as ''rex'' chow and Hammond having obtained the documentary evidence he needs to rally the public's support for declaring Site B off-limits to human interference. Malcolm even calls him on it at one point; unfortunately, Ludlow is too smugly sure of himself to listen.
419* SoundOnlyDeath: Anyone attacked or eaten by Compys tends to receive this treatment.
420* SpannerInTheWorks: Hammond ironically ended up being this to his own company in the interim between films. Ludlow and his supporters understandably wanted to explot Site B and its organic assets to bail [=InGen=] out of its post-Jurassic Park financial woes. Hammond, however, had a change of heart after the Isla Nublar incident and choose to protect Isla Sorna's animals rather than protecting his own company and its financial interests. Then of course, the Bowmans unwittingly end up being the Spanner to Hammond's own Spanner. Their landing on Isla Sorna, the attack on their daughter, and the ensuing fallout finally gives Ludlow's faction the leverage they need to oust Hammond and pursue the long-delayed exploitation of Site B.
421* SparedByTheAdaptation:
422** In the novel, [=InGen=] has declared bankruptcy after the death of its CEO and the violent failure of Jurassic Park and is defunct by the events of the sequel. The film has them in rough financial straits, but still very much functional, and act as the main antagonists of the movie to put themselves back in the green.
423** The dinosaurs in the novel were found to be dying out due to all being infected by prions after the predators fed on tainted sheep meat and spread the sickness around. This plot point is completely absent here, with the ending instead showing the dinosaurs' triumphant survival on Isla Sorna against all odds. It's also more realistic, since dinosaurs would be immune to prions (which only affects mammals, and even then only a small number of them).
424** In the novel, [[BigBad Lewis Dodgson]] is killed by infant T-rexes in a T-rex nest. He does not appear in this book. [[spoiler: 'He is still alive as of 'Film/JurassicWorldDominion, at least until the end.]]
425* SpeakIllOfTheDead: Roland mentions that, since the ''Rex'' just fed, he won't be hunting for a while. 'Just fed' meaning Eddie's horrible death, and Malcolm is accordingly angry; [[DueToTheDead "You might show a little more respect,]] [[HeroicSacrifice the man saved our lives by giving his."]] Roland calmly retorts that [[JerkassHasAPoint his--Eddie's-- problems are over]]. Roland somewhat violates this trope again when asked about Dieter's whereabouts, replying simply that he only located "the parts they[[note]] the compies [[/note]] didn't like" then asking for the map so he can plot the last leg of their journey.
426* SoProudOfYou: When the baby ''rex'' gets its first kill against [[spoiler:Ludlow]], daddy ''rex'' watches with a look that says "That's my boy!"
427* SquashedFlat: This is the fate of [[MauveShirt Carter]] under the crushing foot of the ''T.rex''.
428* SuperPersistentPredator: More like Super Persistent Parent but the Buck and Doe ''T. rexes'' are determined to drive the humans off of the island or kill them all if it will keep them away from their infant and follow them well after they've vacated what Burke and Sarah said was their "perceived extended territory" to this end.
429* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
430** Following the original film, [=InGen=] tried to cover up the Isla Nublar incident. Of all the survivors, Malcolm was the most incensed and tried to expose them, but he was only one man against an international corporation (to say nothing of having no hard evidence to back up his claims). Ludlow was able to use their resources and influence to kneecap Malcolm's career and reputation (and Malcolm [[NotHelpingYourCase didn't help his case]] by having violated the NDA he signed before going to the island).
431** The loss of Isla Nublar understandably financially crippled [=InGen=] and left them on the verge of bankruptcy in the years since and they've been desperate for new revenue streams. A deleted boardroom scene also confirms the families of John Arnold, Robert Muldoon, and Donald Gennarro pursued and received wrongful death settlements.
432** Hammond's ouster from his own company. Yes, his post-Jurassic Park naturalism and desire to protect Isla Sorna from exploitation is noble and admirable. But he's also still the CEO of a major corporation that's been on the verge of financial collapse for 4 years because of his pre and post-Park policies. His actions were endangering the careers and livelihoods of shareholders and employees alike. The corporate and financial pressure was building and the Bowmans' landing on Sorna finally brought things to a boil.
433* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Robert Burke fills a similar niche to that of George Baselton from the novel. Both are the resident scientists for the villainous teams, and both get eaten by a ''T. rex'' as a result of incorrect scientific assumptions: Burke because he panics about a venomous snake(''Micrurus alleni'', the Costa Rican coral snake) being more dangerous than ''T. rex'', (though granted, the snake did slither into his shirt), and Baselton because he thought ''T. rex'' vision was based on movement.
434* TakesTenToHold: Ludlow's mercenaries try to do this to a ''Parasaurolophus''. Being one of the larger hadrosaurs, both on Isla Sorna and in real life, the animal easily lifts at least three mercs off the ground and several feet into the air, before being brought down by having its hind legs tripped out from underneath it.
435* TakeThat:
436** There's a notable shot at paleontologist Robert T. Bakker. Quick history lesson: Dr. Bakker has been a longtime rival of Dr. Jack Horner, the ''Jurassic Park'' series' official paleontological consultant. Horner is well known for having an awesome ego (he proudly states that he was the inspiration for Dr. Grant), and always seemed to be in a perpetual state of bickering with Dr. Bakker, even on the pettiest of speculative topics (such as the ''T. rex''[='=]s eyesight, which there is currently no way of actually studying). And thus in ''The Lost World'', Dr. Bakker gets his very own CaptainErsatz, a bumbling poser named Burke who gets scared out of hiding by a snake, [[DroppedABridgeOnHim right into the jaws]] of a ''T. rex''. But Bakker loved the scene, and even said to Horner (a proponent of the "rex as scavenger" theory), "I told you ''T. rex'' was a hunter!"
437** Ludlow, during his satellite videoconference with the [=InGen=] stakeholders:
438--->'''Ludlow''': The city of San Diego is already famous for its animal attractions: the San Diego Zoo, Ride/SeaWorld, the San Diego Chargers…
439* TakeThisJobAndShoveIt: Roland Tembo finally has enough of Ludlow after losing his best friend Ajay to ''Velociraptors'', and delivers a subdued but firm one of these to him, telling him he's "spent enough time in the company of death".
440* TemptingFate: After Nick and Sarah bring the baby ''rex'' back to the trailer, Kelly visibly panics and pleads with Ian to take her somewhere safe. He and Eddie take her up in the high-hide, understanding that she is scared that the cries of the baby ''rex'' will likely bring other dinosaurs to its location. There, at a safe height, she tearfully reveals she remembers all the scary stories Ian told her about his experiences on Isla Nublar. Feeling responsible, Ian attempts to assuage her fears, saying that none of that is going to happen as they are in a completely different situation. Cue the most awesome and beloved apex-predator roars in cinematic history.
441* ThisIsGonnaSuck: [[DeadpanSnarker Ian Malcolm]] (who survived the events of [[Film/JurassicPark1993 the previous movie]]) sees the ''[[UsefulNotes/TyrannosaurusRex T. rex]]'' duo about to attack the trailer.
442--> '''Malcolm:''' Hang on, this is gonna be bad.
443* TimeForPlanB: After Peter Ludlow's mercenaries arrive, Nick Van Owen reveals he was not sent just as a photographer, but as Hammond's "backup plan".
444* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: At the end of the movie, [[spoiler:the cargo ship holding the ''Tyrannosaurus'' buck and its child is shown making its way back to Isla Sorna in a live news report. Trailing the ship is a literal armada of battleships at least a dozen strong and still growing in number at the time of the report. Do they really think two dinosaurs, one of which is just a baby, on a boat in the middle of the ocean warrants so much precautionary firepower?]]
445* ThisWayToCertainDeath: An attempt at averting this for the [=InGen=] hunting party goes wrong. "DON'T GO IN THE LONG GRASS! NOT IN THE LONG GRASS!" ''No one listens.'' And the guy who yelled it, ''[[TooDumbToLive follows them in anyway.]]''
446* TimeSkip: The story is set four years after [[Film/JurassicPark the first film]].
447* TitleDrop: Hammond refers to Isla Sorna as a "Lost World".
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451* TooDumbToLive: Every death in the movie except for [[spoiler:Eddie Carr's HeroicSacrifice]] and the Unlucky Bastard among the San Diego civilians, none of whom had any way to know beforehand that they were getting a visit from an angry ''T. rex''.
452** The boy with his camera should be a ''LOT'' more terrified that a giant hulking ''T. rex'' is outside his house, one that just got done ''eating his dog''! Even worse, his camera agitates the ''T. rex''. One can only hope his stupidity didn't get him and his family killed.
453** [[spoiler:Peter Ludlow]] tries to capture the baby ''T. rex'' after the carnage of the San Diego rampage, while its father is nearby. It goes about as well as you'd expect.
454** [[spoiler:Dieter Stark]] just walks off into a dinosaur-infested forest, ''alone'' and far further away from his companions than necessary, to relieve himself. He gets mauled to death by a flock of compies.
455** Ajay, the guy yelling the already-mentioned "DON'T GO INTO THE LONG GRASS!" ...then goes into the long grass anyway.
456** Carter, the headphones-wearing Hispanic guy also falls under this category by screaming like an idiot and alerting the ''T. rex'' to the presence of everyone else in the camp. And he's wearing headphones with loud music ''while on an island full of wild dinosaurs''!
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460* ToServeMan: The ''T.rexes'' defend their offspring by tearing apart and devouring any humans [[note]] save Carter, who gets stomped into paste instead [[/note]] unlucky enough to get caught, while the raptors further drive the point home than in the first movie, and the compies are like piranhas on land.
461* ToughArmoredDinosaur: ''Stegosaurus''. They appear rather aggressive toward the humans to protect their young at a first glance, but this is only because they wrongly believe their offspring to be menaced by them, or because they feel themselves disturbed by the humans, while the latter are actually friendly toward the animals, though wary because of their size and number (stegos here are herd animals).
462* TrampledUnderfoot: One {{mook}}, Carter, gets squished by a ''UsefulNotes/TyrannosaurusRex'' during a frantic rush to escape the beast. Then again, it was his fault in the first place.
463* TraumaButton: Upon hearing the MightyRoar of a pissed-off ''T. rex'', Malcolm freezes up with the ThousandYardStare; he's clearly flashing back to the ''rex'' attack from the first movie. Made worse as he realizes that unlike the first ''rex'', this one isn't merely curious or hungry but [[MamaBear looking for its abducted offspring]]. And then he learns that it has a ''[[PapaWolf mate]]''.
464* TravellingAtTheSpeedOfPlot: The rescue helicopters arrive on Isla Sorna less than ten minutes after receiving the distress call, assuming there were no significant time skips and the movie was happening in roughly real time in the sequence. Isla Sorna is established to be over two-hundred miles from mainland Costa Rica, so, unless there was a boat waiting on standby just offshore, there's no way it could've gotten to the island in the timespan as shown; it would require a time skip of at least two hours or so.
465* TwistedEchoCut: In the opening scene, Cathy Bowman's mother reacting to her getting attacked off-screen by a pack of ''Compsognathus'' cuts to Ian Malcolm yawning at a subway station, where the loud screeching of the halting train's wheels replaces the woman's shriek.
466* TwoGirlsToATeam: There are only two females amongst a moderate-sized cast of males, across ''either'' team sent to the island: Sarah and Kelly.
467* {{Understatement}}: When the Tyrannosaurs come back for their baby, one of them knocks over a car.
468-->'''Ian Malcolm''': Mommy's very angry.
469* UnfinishedUntestedUsedAnyway: Eddie's equipment gets sent out into the field early before any of it gets stress-tested, thanks to Malcolm getting them moving three days ahead of schedule and it's anyone's guess whether this would have made a difference against the ''T. rexes'' as it did in the novel. [[note]] In the book, Thorne's insistence on the mobile lab's trailers being able to handle high loads of force and stress led to only half of it falling over the cliff after the ''rexes'' attacked and he was able to rescue Sarah and Ian without needing to noisily winch them back up to solid ground. [[/note]] {{Subverted|Trope}} with the [[GunsAreWorthless neurotoxin gun]], which Eddie desperately tries but fails to use before [[spoiler:the ''rex''es tear him in half]].
470* UngratefulBastard: When their camp and vehicles are destroyed by the ''T. rexes'', the [=InGen=] team help the protagonists with resources and intelligence vital to getting off the island, despite the fact that they sabotaged them and destroyed their camp. Nick immediately picks a fight with one of them and later stole the bullets from Roland's gun, which later resulted in Roland being unable to shoot the ''Tyrannosaurus'' when they attack the camp.
471* TheUnmasquedWorld: Once the bull ''rex'' goes rampaging through San Diego, [=InGen=]'s coverup of the resurrected dinosaurs falls apart.
472* TheUnpronounceable:
473--> '''Roland:''' Pachy … pachy … oh, hell. The fat head with the bald spot. Friar Tuck![[note]]He's trying to say "''Pachycephalosaurus''".[[/note]]
474* TheUsurper: John Hammond reveals that his nephew Peter Ludlow, the film's main villain, is one of these. After years of scheming, the film's opening scene gave Ludlow the leverage he needed to seize control of [=InGen=] from Hammond (there's a deleted scene showing this directly).
475* ViewerFriendlyInterface: The tie-in platformer game's prologues to each chapter has [[RuleOfCool rather cool]] computer screens that display information, location, video feed, and files of each character, such as the migration of a Compy tribe, a Human Hunter hacking into the [=InGen=] database for his briefing, a ''Velociraptor'' tracking a hunter, a ''T. rex'' storming into the [=InGen=] base, and Sarah Harding running for her life.
476* VillainHasAPoint: While Ludlow ''is'' a jerkass to Malcolm during his introductory scene, he also isn't technically wrong when he points out that Malcolm ''did'' violate the NDA he signed before the Isla Nublar Incident. [=InGen=] ''was'' legally within its rights to retaliate for the breach of contract (even if Ludlow took the retaliation into Malicious Slander territory).
477* VillainousRescue: The villains help Ian and the others to escape the island after all their equipment is destroyed.
478* VillainyFreeVillain: The [=InGen=] corporation are intended to be a ruthless MegaCorp who arrive to strip-mine Isla Sorna of its dinosaurs for profit. While it's perfectly legal for them to recapture a group of animals they themselves bred and to attempt to recoup their losses, the creators expect the viewer to gloss over this by simply making them out to be massive {{Jerkass}}es, even going so far as to remove scenes from the movie in post-production to make some of the antagonists even more unlikeable.
479* WeUsedToBeFriends: Played with in that Hammond and Malcolm were never close friends in the first film (as Malcolm was Hammond's biggest critic). But in their sole scene together, relations between the two men are worse--in fact, they're inverted. In the first film, Hammond, while genuinely a CoolOldGuy, regarded Malcolm as an annoyance, even saying, "I really hate that man," at one point, whereas Malcolm was TallDarkAndSnarky but in a good-natured way. Here, while Hammond is still affable and friendly, Malcolm is angrier and still bitter over what happened on Isla Nublar and once he learns that Hammond ok'd Sarah going to Site B alone, he loses whatever tolerance he might have had left for the old man.
480-->'''Malcolm''': If you wanna leave your name on something, that's fine. But ''stop'' putting it on other people's headstones, John!
481* WhamLine:
482** Audiences got extremely quiet when the iconic roar of the ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' is heard for the first time, coming from the incredibly angry parents of a kidnapped baby ''T. rex''.
483** After the ''T Rexes went back into the jungle with their baby, The group thought they're safe, that is, until Malcolm notices something out the window:
484--->'''Malcolm''': [[ThisIsGonnaSuck Hang on. This is gonna be bad.]]
485--->(''Cue the T Rexes ramming the trailers'')
486** Slightly after that, when the protagonists' group and [=InGen=] group unite to find a way off the island by trekking to the radio station, located deeper within the island. However, Ludlow notes there's one major obstacle they have to face if they're to reach communications.
487--->'''Roland:''' What ''is'' the problem?
488--->'''Ludlow:''' ''Velociraptors''.
489* WhamShot:
490** Cathy Bowman meeting a ''Compsognathus''. Followed by another as she calls excitedly to her parents then the scene cuts back to show her facing down an ''entire snarling pack'' of compies.
491** The group in the trailer is cornered by not one, but ''2 T. rexes'', making this movie's Rex problem a lot more serious.
492** A FromBadToWorse example occurs when Eddie is trying to tow the trailers back up the cliff and hears something over his SUV's engine. Cue both ''T. rexes'' that we thought were long gone storming back out of the gloom on either side of him to drive home the fact that, unlike Rexy from the first film, they're not just going to throw up their arms and go away and that there will be no escaping them this time.
493** Of the BaitAndSwitch variety during the "Long Grass" scene. Immediately after Ajay warns the hunters against going into the field, we see a moonlit behind shot of three raptor heads silently poking just above the grass. The overhead shot that comes next shows at least ''ten'' trails homing in on the group. Three raptors would cause some serious casualties to the hunters' numbers but ''might'' be survivable by some; a pack of ten-plus is sheer overkill.
494* WhatTheHellHero: Malcolm gives one right back at Sarah when she repeatedly pokes fun at him for being afraid of returning to Jurassic Park. Considering the absolute hell that Malcolm and the other park-goers went through in the first film, it's completely understandable that [[ShellShockedVeteran he'd be terrified]] of going anywhere near dinosaurs again. And his [[{{Foreshadowing}} various warnings]] come across as kinda funny until you remember that they stem from the violent deaths of Robert Muldoon, Ray Arnold, Dennis Nedry, and Donald Gennaro on Isla Nublar.
495* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: The Robert Bakker {{Expy}} gets killed when his aversion to snakes get him eaten by the ''T. rex''. Worse, the snake was a completely harmless milk snake, which is Hollywood's stock coral snake expy.
496* XanatosSpeedChess: Despite only appearing in two scenes, John Hammond is playing one of these with his nephew, TheUsurper Peter Ludlow, the whole time. He counters Ludlow's seizing control of [=InGen=] from him by speed-rushing a team to the island before him, and counters Ludlow's small army of mercenaries with one ''very cunning'' GuileHero. It gets turned into a XanatosGambit due to the ''T. rex'' male and its infant being captured and taken to the mainland by Ludlow then recaptured and sent back to Isla Sorna by Ian and Sarah, events that Hammond couldn't possibly have foreseen but ultimately lead to his desired outcome--that both Sorna and Isla Nublar be declared nature preserves to allow the dinosaurs to exist free of human interference.
497* YouDoNotWantToKnow: When Eddie asks Malcolm what's going on back at the trailer, Malcolm tells him, "You're a lot happier not knowing."
498* YouExclamation: Malcolm predicts that the rampaging ''rex'' will react this way upon seeing its child with Malcolm and Harding. He's not wrong.
499* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: Toward the end of the film, the main characters have escaped the raptors, they're on the helicopter, and all seems right with the world. Except we have a half hour left. Time for the ''T. rex'' to romp through the city.
500* ZergRush: The compies use this move, turning poor Stark into…
501-->'''Ian Malcolm''': Did you find him?\
502'''Roland Tembo''': Just the parts they didn't like.
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