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| 2 | [[caption-width-right:320:Life, [[Creator/JeffGoldblum uh]], finds a way.]] |
| 3 | |
| 4 | ->''"Oh, yeah. 'Oooh, ahhh.' That's how it always starts. But then later there's running, and, um... screaming."'' |
| 5 | -->-- '''[[Creator/JeffGoldblum Dr. Ian Malcolm]]''', in ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark'', neatly summarizes each of the movies in the series. |
| 6 | |
| 7 | Scientists discover the ability to bring extinct animals back to life via a complex cloning process. To make a profit off this technology, the [=InGen=] company decides to build a theme park featuring living UsefulNotes/{{dinosaurs}}. |
| 8 | |
| 9 | Unfortunately, when an [[IncitingIncident inciting incident]] leads to the majestic creatures breaking free, humanity begins to learn the hard way that nature cannot be controlled, and their continued attempts to do so may lead them closer to their own extinction… |
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| 11 | The 1990 book ''Literature/JurassicPark'' was written by Creator/MichaelCrichton, while the [[Film/JurassicPark1993 1993 movie]] was directed by Creator/StevenSpielberg, with paleontologist Creator/JackHorner serving as the main dinosaur consultant throughout the series. Both were insanely popular then and are considered modern classics now, and the film spawned five sequels. They also considerably increased public interest in dinosaurs, which had been renewed in the 1970s and 1980s by the [[ScienceMarchesOn "Dinosaur Renaissance"]] in paleontology. The movie's portrayal of dinosaurs as intelligent, fast, and agile cemented the Renaissance view of them in people's minds and put the earlier popular conception of [[DumbDinos slow and stupid overgrown lizards]] to rest. |
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| 13 | While the second film shared the name of the second book ''Literature/{{The Lost World|1995}}: Jurassic Park'', it had a wildly different storyline, mostly due to characters that originally died in the first book coming back. ''Jurassic Park III'' came out several years later. While neither rose to the 'classic' status of the first film, both were fairly well received. The same basic story exists in all of the films, only separated by what characters are involved and certain action scenes. |
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| 15 | A fourth cinematic installment was in DevelopmentHell for more than a decade - it was even considered that it would not come about after [[DiedDuringProduction Michael Crichton's death]] in 2008. But it all worked out, and the fourth film, titled ''Film/JurassicWorld'', was released in 2015. A fifth film, ''Film/JurassicWorldFallenKingdom'', came out in June 2018. The sixth film, ''Film/JurassicWorldDominion'', roared its way into theaters on June 10th, 2022. A seventh film is currently in development and is scheduled to come into theaters on July 2nd, 2025 with Creator/GarethEdwards to direct. |
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| 17 | !!Works in the ''Jurassic Park'' / ''Jurassic World'' franchise include: |
| 18 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 19 | [[folder:Books]] |
| 20 | [[index]] |
| 21 | * ''Literature/{{Jurassic Park|1990}}'' (1990) |
| 22 | * ''Literature/{{The Lost World|1995}}'' (1995) |
| 23 | * ''Literature/JurassicParkAdventures'' |
| 24 | ** ''Survivor'' (2001) |
| 25 | ** ''Prey'' (2001) |
| 26 | ** ''Flyers'' (2002) |
| 27 | * ''Literature/JurassicWorldFallenKingdomDinosaurTracker'' (2018) |
| 28 | * ''Literature/TheEvolutionOfClaire'' (2018) |
| 29 | * ''Literature/JurassicWorldMaisieLockwoodAdventures'' |
| 30 | ** ''#1: Off the Grid'' (2022) |
| 31 | ** ''#2: The Yosemite Six'' (2022) |
| 32 | [[/folder]] |
| 33 | |
| 34 | [[folder:Films]] |
| 35 | * ''Film/{{Jurassic Park|1993}}'' (1993) |
| 36 | * ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark'' (1997) |
| 37 | * ''Film/JurassicParkIII'' (2001) |
| 38 | * ''Film/JurassicWorld'' (2015) |
| 39 | * ''Film/JurassicWorldFallenKingdom'' (2018) |
| 40 | * ''Film/JurassicWorldBattleAtBigRock'' (short, 2019) |
| 41 | * ''Film/JurassicWorldDominion'' (2022) |
| 42 | * ''Untitled Jurassic Film'' (2025) |
| 43 | [[/folder]] |
| 44 | |
| 45 | [[folder:Comic books]] |
| 46 | * ''Jurassic Park'' (1993) |
| 47 | * ''Jurassic Park: Raptor'' (1993) |
| 48 | * ''Jurassic Park: Raptors Attack'' (1994) |
| 49 | * ''Jurassic Park: Raptors Hijack'' (1994) |
| 50 | * ''Return To Jurassic Park'' (1995-1996) |
| 51 | * ''The Lost World: Jurassic Park'' (1997) |
| 52 | * ''Jurassic Park: Redemption'' (2010) |
| 53 | * ''Jurassic Park: The Devils in the Desert'' (2011) |
| 54 | * ''Jurassic Park: Dangerous Games'' (2011-2012) |
| 55 | [[/folder]] |
| 56 | |
| 57 | [[folder:Pinball games]] |
| 58 | * ''Pinball/JurassicParkDataEast'' (1993) |
| 59 | * ''Pinball/TheLostWorldJurassicPark'' (1997) |
| 60 | * ''Pinball/JurassicParkStern'' (2019) |
| 61 | [[/folder]] |
| 62 | |
| 63 | [[folder:Tabletop games]] |
| 64 | * ''Jurassic Park Game'' (1993) |
| 65 | * ''Jurassic Park: Dinosaur Escape Card Game'' (1993) |
| 66 | * ''Jurassic Park Electronic Battling Raptors Game'' (1996) |
| 67 | * ''The Lost World Jurassic Park Game'' (1996) |
| 68 | * ''Jurassic Park III: Island Survival Game'' (2001) |
| 69 | * ''Jurassic Park III: The Spinosaurus Chase Game'' (2001) |
| 70 | * [[/index]]''TabletopGame/{{Monopoly}}: Jurassic World'' (2015)[[index]] |
| 71 | * [[/index]]''TabletopGame/{{UNO}}: Jurassic World'' (2017)[[index]] |
| 72 | ** ''UNO Attack: Jurassic World'' (2018) |
| 73 | * ''[[TabletopGame/JurassicParkDanger Jurassic Park: Danger! Adventure Strategy Game]]'' (2018) |
| 74 | * ''Jurassic World: The Boardgame'' (2018) |
| 75 | * ''Unmatched: Jurassic Park'' (2019) |
| 76 | * ''Jurassic World The Legacy of Isla Nublar'' (2022) |
| 77 | * ''Jurassic World Miniature Game'' (2022) |
| 78 | [[/folder]] |
| 79 | |
| 80 | [[folder:Theme park attractions]] |
| 81 | * ''Ride/JurassicParkRiverAdventure'' |
| 82 | [[/index]] |
| 83 | * ''Jurassic Park Discovery Center'' |
| 84 | * ''Camp Jurassic'' |
| 85 | * ''The Flying Dinosaur'' |
| 86 | * ''Pteranodon Flyers/Canopy Flyers'' |
| 87 | * ''Raptor Encounter'' |
| 88 | * ''Dino-Soarin''' |
| 89 | * ''Triceratops Discovery Trail'' |
| 90 | * ''[[Theatre/HalloweenHorrorNights JP Extinction/Project Evilution]]'' |
| 91 | * ''Jurassic World: The Ride'' |
| 92 | [[index]] |
| 93 | * ''Ride/JurassicWorldAdventure'' |
| 94 | * ''Ride/VelociCoaster'' |
| 95 | [[/index]] |
| 96 | [[/folder]] |
| 97 | |
| 98 | [[folder:Video games]] |
| 99 | * ''Jurassic Park'' (Ocean Software: [[Platform/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem SNES]], DOS, NES, Gameboy, 1993) -- The ones with top-down views, of which the 16-bit versions have FPS sections. |
| 100 | [[index]] |
| 101 | * ''VideoGame/JurassicParkSegaGenesis'' (Creator/BlueSkySoftware & Sega: Platform/SegaGenesis, 1993) -- The one where you can play the raptor. |
| 102 | * ''VideoGame/JurassicPark2TheChaosContinues'' (1994) |
| 103 | * ''VideoGame/JurassicParkRampageEdition'' (1994) |
| 104 | * ''VideoGame/JurassicParkArcade'' (1994, 1997, 2001, 2015) |
| 105 | * ''VideoGame/JurassicParkSegaMasterSystem'' (1993) |
| 106 | * ''VideoGame/JurassicParkSegaCD'' (1994) |
| 107 | * ''VideoGame/TheLostWorldJurassicPark'' (1997) |
| 108 | * ''VideoGame/TheLostWorldJurassicParkSegaGenesis'' (1997) |
| 109 | * ''VideoGame/JurassicParkChaosIsland'' (1997 |
| 110 | * ''VideoGame/JurassicParkTrespasser'' (1998) |
| 111 | * ''VideoGame/WarpathJurassicPark'' (1999) |
| 112 | * ''VideoGame/JurassicParkIIIDinoDefender'' (2001) |
| 113 | * ''VideoGame/JurassicParkDinosaurBattles'' (2002) |
| 114 | * ''VideoGame/JurassicParkOperationGenesis'' (2003) |
| 115 | * ''VideoGame/JurassicParkTheGame'' (2011) |
| 116 | * ''VideoGame/JurassicParkBuilder'' (2012) |
| 117 | * ''VideoGame/JurassicWorldTheGame'' (2015) |
| 118 | * ''VideoGame/LEGOJurassicWorld'' (2015) |
| 119 | * ''VideoGame/JurassicWorldAlive'' (2018) |
| 120 | * ''VideoGame/JurassicWorldEvolution'' (2018) |
| 121 | * ''VideoGame/JurassicWorldAftermath'' (2020) |
| 122 | * ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}} Jurassic World'' (add-on DLC) (2020) |
| 123 | * ''VideoGame/JurassicWorldEvolution2'' (2021) |
| 124 | * ''VideoGame/JurassicWorldPrimalOps'' (2022 MobilePhoneGame) |
| 125 | * "VideoGame/JurassicParkSurvival" (TBA) |
| 126 | [[/folder]] |
| 127 | |
| 128 | [[folder:Western animation]] |
| 129 | * ''LEGO Jurassic World: The Indominus Escape'' (2016) |
| 130 | * ''LEGO Jurassic World: Employee Safety Video'' (2016 |
| 131 | * ''LEGO Jurassic World: Rescue Blue'' (2018) |
| 132 | * ''LEGO Jurassic World: Escape the Indoraptor'' (2018) |
| 133 | * ''WesternAnimation/LEGOJurassicWorldTheSecretExhibit'' (2018) |
| 134 | * ''WesternAnimation/LEGOJurassicWorldLegendOfIslaNublar'' (2019) |
| 135 | * ''WebAnimation/JurassicWorldMotionComics'' (2019) |
| 136 | * ''WesternAnimation/JurassicWorldCampCretaceous'' (2020--2022) |
| 137 | ** ''WesternAnimation/JurassicWorldChaosTheory'' (2024) |
| 138 | [[/index]] |
| 139 | [[/folder]] |
| 140 | |
| 141 | !!This franchise provides examples of: |
| 142 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 143 | [[folder:A-K]] |
| 144 | * AbortedArc: In both novels, the idea that dinosaurs might have made it onto the mainland is brought up early on, before being ignored once people arrive on the islands. [[spoiler: One could argue it happened a second time in the movies, ''Film/JurassicWorldFallenKingdom'' ended with several dinosaurs being released onto the mainland, setting them up as the focus of it's sequel, only for ''Film/JurassicWorldDominion'' to focus on a new story with the released dinosaurs being DemotedToExtra. The film still shows the ramifications on the world with dinosaur cloning becoming more mainstream like entire dinosaur black markets and the genetic manipulation taken to extremes.]] |
| 145 | * AdaptedOut: Most of the early games (i.e. the ones released for Creator/{{Nintendo}} and Creator/{{Sega}} systems) stripped most of the cast leaving only Dr. Grant (and sometimes [[VideoGame/JurassicParkSegaGenesis a]] [[VideoGame/JurassicParkRampageEdition velociraptor]]) to take the spotlight. Some of the games did feature original characters, though. |
| 146 | * AdaptationalBadass: |
| 147 | ** In the Platform/SegaMasterSystem game, instead of trying to escape the island, Grant is called to fight and capture the dinosaurs. At the end of the game, he [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome defeats the]] ''[[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome Tyrannosaurus rex]]'' [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome and the park is allowed to open as planned.]] |
| 148 | ** Both human female characters in the first film are more capable than their counterparts in the book. In the book, Ellie is mostly passive and stays out of the action; in the film, she is involved just as much as the men around her and even calls out Hammond when he tries to imply he should take a dangerous mission [[MenAreTheExpendableGender because of his gender]]. Lex meanwhile was a pre-pubescent in the book and little more than TheLoad. The film ages her up to her teens and gives her computer skills key to getting the survivors out alive. |
| 149 | * AdaptationDistillation: Pretty much all of the sequences from the two novels (mostly the first one) find their way into the movies in some way or another, albeit under slightly different circumstances. |
| 150 | * AdaptationPersonalityChange: |
| 151 | ** In the original book, Gennaro the lawyer ends up turning into TheLancer for Alan Grant, and he even punches out a ''Velociraptor''! The film turns Gennaro into a DirtyCoward that gets eaten by a ''T. rex'' whilst sitting on a toilet, by way of fusing him with Ed Regis, who is ''exactly'' like Gennaro in the film. |
| 152 | ** John Hammond in the original book is TheScrooge (FauxAffablyEvil who maintains an air of niceness until Malcolm peels it away and the disaster sets in) and a tyrant who shortchanges people (giving fat programmer Dennis a reason to betray him, though it's clear they were both assholes), has a NeverMyFault mentality, and then suffers KarmicDeath. The film turns Hammond into a kindly old man who truly thinks that what he's doing is a good idea (which it isn't), and one result of the change is that Dennis comes off as more of a {{Jerkass}} for betraying him! |
| 153 | * AlternateContinuity: The games and comics take place in their own continuity, despite a few being advertised as official continuations of the story. |
| 154 | * AllMenArePerverts: Each of the first four films has at least one male character who flirts openly or outright states that their motivation behind doing certain things is to score with the ladies. In ''Jurassic Park'', it's Ian. He gets better by ''The Lost World'', so the trope goes to Nick. ''Jurassic Park III'' has Billy. Owen takes up the mantle in ''Jurassic World''. |
| 155 | -->'''Ian:''' I'm always on the lookout for a future ex-Mrs. Malcolm. |
| 156 | * AmusementParkOfDoom: |
| 157 | ** Isla Nublar definitely qualifies. Isla Sorna (in the film continuity, at least) is more of a Wildlife Preserve of Doom. |
| 158 | ** Possibly tempting fate, a (traditional) amusement park was built to cash in on the mantra of the film. |
| 159 | * ArcWords: "Life finds a way." |
| 160 | * ArcVillain: Dr. Henry Wu eventually becomes this by the ''World'' films, as it's his genetic experiments that are used by the bad guys for their own gain that cause so much of the trouble in the films. [[spoiler:In ''Dominion'', Wu realizes he's gone too far creating locusts to engineer a famine for Dodgson and undergoes a HeelFaceTurn.]] |
| 161 | * ArtifactTitle: Only the first film takes place at Jurassic Park, on Isla Nublar. Justified in the book because the Costa Rican Air Force[[note]]which doesn't actually exist, since Costa Rica [[ActualPacifist has no military]][[/note]] destroys Isla Nublar after the survivors escape. This does not happen in the films, however[[note]]possibly due to the aforementioned Costa Rican Air Force's continued failure to exist[[/note]]. This allowed the franchise to return to Isla Nublar and rebuild the park in its fourth entry, ''Film/JurassicWorld''. |
| 162 | * ArtisticLicenseBiology: |
| 163 | ** The type of cloning utilized in the series requires the use of a living germ cell to insert the genetic material into; preferably the germ cell comes from a member of the same species, although a closely related species can also work. However, since non-avian dinosaurs have been completely extinct for tens of millions of years, finding a compatible germ cell host, even in the event of viable DNA, is incredibly unlikely, probably impossible. |
| 164 | ** The use of frog DNA itself, to the extent it is explained in the film, is a major instance of artistic license: why use frogs when many other animals have a much greater evolutionary proximity to dinosaurs? ([[JustEatGilligan To facilitate the plot twist]], obviously.) The book averts this by asserting that multiple different animals were used to complete the dinosaurs' gene sequences (mostly reptilian and avian DNA), [[AdaptationInducedPlotHole but the film attempts to simplify it by leaving it at frog]]. |
| 165 | ** Enforced by the animator who, in his own words, decided to "[[ArtisticLicensePhysics throw physics out the window]] and create a ''T. rex'' that moved at sixty miles per hour even though its hollow bones would have busted if it ran that fast". |
| 166 | ** In the first novel (and in later instances of the franchise), it's explained that the dinosaurs have been genetically modified so they can't produce the essential amino acid lysine, so that they would be unable to survive in the wild if they escaped since they have to rely on provided lysine supplements in captivity. The only problem with this? An essential amino acid is specifically an amino acid that ''can't'' be produced by the body; no animal can produce lysine naturally anyway. So how do animals in real life get lysine? From food, which is exactly what the dinosaurs end up doing by the end of the novel (and in the films, by the second movie). |
| 167 | ** The dinosaurs are cloned by moving the developing embryos into surrogate eggs to develop, synthetic plastic-based eggs in the novel, unfertilized emu and ostrich eggs in the film. This is called somatic nuclear cell cloning, and it's actually impossible with animals that lay eggs, hence why no birds or reptiles have ever been cloned. The franchise completely glosses over this seemingly insurmountable hurdle.[[note]]It is theoretically possible to "clone" birds, but the methods for doing so are very different from what we see in the ''Jurassic Park'' stories, and even more complicated. Broadly speaking, it involves altering the genome of a bird at the germ-cell level using the DNA of another species as a guide, causing it to produce the eggs and sperm of that other species. Research is currently ongoing to do this with the passenger pigeon and the heath hen, among other species.[[/note]] |
| 168 | ** The second novel ends with it being discovered all the dinosaurs are infected with prions because the predators have been eating tainted sheep meat and spreading it around. As far as we have been able to tell, only mammals are capable of contracting prion-based diseases. Similarly, ''VideoGame/JurassicParkOperationGenesis'' has the dinosaurs being capable of catching rabies, another mammal-only illness, although it's {{handwave}}d in ''VideoGame/JurassicWorldEvolution'' as being due to a genetic weakness in their immune systems. |
| 169 | ** The third movie has a similar issue in a one-off scene where Eric says he collects ''T. rex'' urine because the smell wards off the smaller predators. Dinosaurs are reptiles, and therefore almost certainly did not have watery urine as depicted in the film like mammals do (more likely they had semi-solid uric secretions). |
| 170 | ** The films frequently give the dinosaurs only single infants (the ''Tyrannosaurus'' pair and ''Stegosaurus'' herd in ''The Lost World'', a ''Triceratops'' in ''Fallen Kingdom'', and Blue the ''Velociraptor'' in ''Dominion''). One offspring per litter is the standard only among large mammals; birds and reptiles almost universally have multiple, if not many, young per clutch, something also commonplace among non-avian dinosaurs, as proven by fossils of dinosaur nests. For giant dinosaurs, this should be ''especially'' true because the chicks would be tiny at hatching and having just one tiny baby be difficult for adults to keep track of. |
| 171 | ** Many of the more menacing dinosaurs, like the ''Velociraptor'', ''Spinosaurus'', ''Pyroraptor'', ''Giganotosaurus'', and even the herbivorous ''Therizinosaurus'' are given reptilian slit eyes [[RuleOfScary to exaggerate their scariness]]. However, in reality, slit eyes tend to be prevalent only among predators (usually small ones at that) which hunt in dim light and low to the ground; among living dinosaurs (birds), only the highly specialized skimmers have slit eyes (they hunt right on the water's surface, and have slit eyes to cut out the blinding glare of the sun reflecting off the waves). |
| 172 | ** The second novel has a throwaway sequence where we're told [=InGen=] fed the dinosaur hatchlings goat milk as baby food, which the characters agree is a good choice. This is yet another instance of the franchise equating dinosaurs with mammals, which have evolved specifically to be able to digest milk (and even then only as infants in all mammals except humans). Dinosaurs are reptiles and would not be able to process milk; feeding them ''milk'' is as silly as feeding a baby lizard or baby bird milk. |
| 173 | * ArtisticLicensePaleontology: |
| 174 | ** ''Dilophosaurus'' was actually taller as a man and around 23 feet long. The individual in the film was made a juvenile so that it doesn't take away from the raptors or the ''T. rex'' (however, [[CanonDiscontinuity most other media afterwards have ignored this explanation]], treating this size as the adult form). The venom the ''Dilophosaurus'' has in the film as well as the frill are completely fictional. |
| 175 | ** In reality, ''Velociraptor mongoliensis'' was only a few feet tall. To be fair, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velociraptor#In_popular_culture the raptors in the film]] were modelled after the larger dromaeosaurid ''Deinonychus'' (Michael Crichton used the name Velociraptor instead simply because he thought it sounded better), which at the time was considered by paleontological consultant Gregory S. Paul to be a member of the genus ''Velociraptor''[[note]]Even at the time, this was not a widely accepted opinion with other paleontologists.[[/note]] This is also why Grant's dig site in Montana is able to find ''Velociraptor'', which have only ever been found in Asia. |
| 176 | ** Though awesomely enough, shortly after the film's release a new genus called ''Utahraptor'' was discovered, which is somewhat close to the film's raptors (twice as big). It was originally going to be named ''Utahraptor spielbergi'', but it ended up being called ''Utahraptor ostrommaysorum'', after lawyers threatened the team (but who wouldn't want a dinosaur named after them though???). |
| 177 | ** Discussed and intentionally invoked. [=InGen=] had to extrapolate from the decayed DNA, on top of some intentional alterations to the genetic code. Dr. Wu wanted to take it even further by altering the dinosaurs into basically what visitors would expect based on existing pop-cultural depictions of dinosaurs. He believed visitors wouldn't be satisfied with dinosaurs that were so different from what they imagined. Hammond insisted they keep the current ones on the basis that it wouldn't be honest to show something different than real dinosaurs. The novels discussed the fact that they weren't ''actual'' dinosaurs -- just abominations of nature with genetic material from obsolete organisms that couldn't survive in the real world. |
| 178 | ** There's also the fact that, even though "Jurassic Park" sounds [[RuleOfCool cool]], the most emblematic dinosaurs of the franchise (the ''Tyrannosaurus rex'', the [[RaptorAttack Velociraptors]] and the Spinosaurus) lived during the ''Cretaceous'', not the Jurassic. |
| 179 | ** The first film made great efforts to avert this trope as much as possible, and much media attention during production was paid to how ''Jurassic Park'' would feature the most scientifically-accurate dinosaurs ever committed to film. While there was some RuleOfCool involved, the depiction of most of the animals was nonetheless based on [[ScienceMarchesOn what was the most current research available]], and in some cases might have been the first exposure the general public ''had'' to the newest theories. However a criticism of the subsequent films [[FranchiseZombie as the series dragged on]] is that of this effort and attention to detail has been ignored, and the dinosaurs began to be portrayed increasingly outlandish generic movie monsters. |
| 180 | ** The prologue in ''Jurassic World: Dominion'' depicts a ''Giganotosaurus'' killing a ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' in the Cretaceous Period. This wouldn't be a problem if ''Giganotosaurus'' and ''T. rex'' weren't separated between two continents and 30 million years (with all current fossil evidence suggesting large carnosaurs and large tyrannosaurs never coexisted). Many other animals in the background also did not coexist in real life due to separations in time and/or place. |
| 181 | ** ''T. rex'' in the films' universe have really poor eyesight, so much that they can't see someone at all if they are holding still. While we can't tell for sure from the fossils if this was true, most predators have ''excellent'' eyesight, and the few that don't rely heavily on some other sense (such as smell or hearing), so holding still likely wouldn't do any good even if they couldn't see you. The ''T. rex'' in the films also have to kill their prey with more than one bite and frequently have their opponents shrug off their jaws, when it's well-known among anyone with knowledge about dinosaurs that ''Tyrannosaurus'' has one of the most powerful bite forces in the animal kingdom. Although given Rexy in ''WesternAnimation/JurassicWorldCampCretaceous'' was able to kill a ''Tarbosaurus'' with a single bite to the neck, it is more likely that the tyrannosaurs in the films just weren't using the full strength of their jaws. |
| 182 | ** The title of [[Ride/UniversalStudios Universal Studios Japan]]'s ''Pteranodon''-themed coaster is ''The Flying Dinosaur'', which is inaccurate, as ''Pteranodons'' were not dinosaurs -- they were a form of flying reptiles. |
| 183 | ** Most of the animals featured in the series are [[SmallTaxonomyPools well-known dinosaurs]], but the odds of finding amber-preserved mosquitos with the blood of every famous Mesozoic animal is probably very unlikely, since the geological formations from which most of these species are known generally are not also geological sites that preserve amber. Considering the scarcity of the fossil record, it's more likely that most of the DNA they could recover would be from completely unknown species. |
| 184 | ** Nearly all of the animals depicted [[RealIsBrown are uniformly or primarily brown or grey shades]], with a few exceptions, because [[https://www.businessinsider.com/jurassic-park-movies-dinosaur-accuracy-2019-11#three-decades-after-that-conversation-scientists-are-even-more-certain-that-dinosaurs-like-oviraptors-relatives-of-velociraptors-and-t-rexes-had-feathers-4 they were intentionally created]] [[https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/la-en-mn-jurassic-fx-20151210-story.html to be scarier, darker looking animals]], despite the fact most evidence points to many, if not the majority of, dinosaurs being vibrantly coloured and/or patterned. |
| 185 | ** Every film has the issue of giving the herbivorous dinosaurs the wrong foot-shape and number of toes, giving all of them a generic elephantine foot-shape when in many cases the anatomy was much more complex (for example, sauropods front feet would have left reverse horseshoe-shaped footprints and usually either had only one or zero claws). Many also borrow the elephant's wrinkly, grey skin, despite the fact we know from direct evidence that most large herbivorous dinosaurs would've been covered in pebbly, scaly skin, and almost certainly would've been much more brightly patterned than large mammals. |
| 186 | ** Several films give different carnivorous animals boxy skulls that resemble that of ''Tyrannosaurus'', such as ''Ceratosaurus'', and even non-dinosaurs like ''Dimorphodon'' and ''Dimetrodon''. The ''Acrocanthosaurus'' of the ''Jurassic World Evolution'' games also suffers the same issue. |
| 187 | ** An extremely common issue is also presenting the animals as being either [[AnimalsNotToScale far too large or far smaller than the normal size range of the species]] as known from the fossil record. The ''Dilophosaurus'' is the most infamous, but there are numerous other examples, such as all three pterosaur species (''Pteranodon'', ''Dimorphodon'', and ''Quetzalcoatlus'') having wingspans far larger than normal, the ''Mosasaurus'' appearing as large as a blue whale, both ''Nasutoceratops'' and ''Sinoceratops'' portrayed as the same size as the much larger ''Triceratops'', and all the dromaeosaur species shown (''Velociraptor'', ''Pyroraptor'', and ''Atrociraptor'') being depicted as larger than humans when all three were much smaller. |
| 188 | ** The ''Parasaurolophus'' are correctly depicted as quadrupedal in the first film, but later installments forget this and make them bipedal, though ''Dominion'' would occasionally show them as quadrupedal again. The ''Corythosaurus'' from the third film also suffer the same problem. |
| 189 | ** The ''Ankylosaurus'' in the films are depicted with spikes and pointed beaks, instead of flattened osteoderms and wide beaks. |
| 190 | ** The ''Jurassic World'' films have a habit of adding crocodilian features (namely rows of scutes down their back, lipless jaws, and slit pupils) to certain predators to make them more fearsome-looking, despite the complete lack of any evidence of such features in life. Specifically, this afflicts the ''Baryonyx'', ''Mosasaurus'', and ''Giganotosaurus'' (as well as the fictional ''Indominus'' and ''Indoraptor''). |
| 191 | * ArtisticLicensePhysics: In several of the films, ''Pteranodon'' is depicted as being able to pick up full-grown humans with their feet. Leaving aside the issue that there's no evidence that any known pterosaur species could grab things with their feet in a manner similar to birds or bats, ''Pteranodon'' was very lightly-built (being a flying animal and all) and it's extremely unlikely that it would be able to takeoff holding a struggling object that weighs considerably more than its entire body. Only the absolute biggest pterosaurs like ''Quetzalcoatlus'' (which weighed up to 250kg and was the size of a giraffe) perhaps could, but they would have used their beaks. The original novel averts this, as a large ''Cearadactylus'' isn't even able to get off the ground with a small child. |
| 192 | * AscendedExtra: Gerry Harding, the chief veterinarian from the first film, plays a major role in the Creator/TelltaleGames game. Ironic, since he also played a major role in the book, but was DemotedToExtra in the movies. |
| 193 | * AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:John Hammond]] in the first book, as well as [[spoiler:Dennis Nedry]] in the first movie and book. [[spoiler:Donald Gennaro]] in the first movie. [[spoiler:Peter Ludlow and Dieter Stark]] in the second movie. [[spoiler:Lewis Dodgson]] in the second novel. [[spoiler:Vic Hoskins]] in ''Jurassic World''. [[spoiler:Ken Wheatley, Gunnar Everslav, and Eli Mills]] in ''Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom''. |
| 194 | * AweInspiringDinosaurShot: The series treats dinosaurs as a wonderful spectacle on several occasions and emphasis is put on the sauropods to achieve this effect. The EstablishingSeriesMoment of the ''Brachiosaurus'' in the first film is the best example, with ''Stegosaurus'' in ''The Lost World'' and ''Apatosaurus'' in ''Jurassic World'' eliciting a similar effect. On a more thrilling perspective, there's also the ''Mosasaurus'' in the fourth film eating a shark and its eating habits shown to a large audience who are wowed by the event. |
| 195 | * BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:Robert Muldoon]] in the Topps comic series. In the new IDW comic series, [[spoiler:Peter Ludlow from ''The Lost World'']]. [[spoiler:Ian Malcolm]] in the second novel, though he was a case of [[NeverFoundTheBody Never Saw the Body]]. |
| 196 | * BadassBookworm: Alan Grant in ''Jurassic Park'', Jack Thorne in ''The Lost World''. |
| 197 | ** Grant might be the most Badass character in the whole first novel, [[spoiler:killing ''three Velociraptors'' only with his wits, among other things.]] |
| 198 | --->The girl saw the dying ''Velociraptors'' and quietly said: "Whoa!" |
| 199 | * BehindTheBlack: The ''T. rex's'' out of nowhere materialization at the end of the first film is perhaps the most prominent example of all time. It's certainly the biggest... |
| 200 | ** ...and she keeps it up in ''Fallen Kingdom'', managing to get the drop on a ''Carnotaurus'', and later, [[spoiler:Eli Mills]] without so much as a hint to her approach. |
| 201 | * BeingWatched: Muldoon and his [[SpiderSense "raptor sense"]]. It's too late when he's killed by a raptor ambush, in the movie. In the book, he survives by backing into a pipe where they couldn't climb in after him. Somehow, he survived in one of the comics. He and the raptors knew each other so well that they were essentially just playing around. |
| 202 | * BigBad: Lewis Dodgson, in the books and in the first and sixth movies. The ''I. rex'' in the fourth movie. [[spoiler:Eli Mills]] in the fifth film. |
| 203 | * BigGood: John Hammond in the first and second movies, Simon Masrani in the fourth movie, Benjamin Lockwood in the fifth movie and in an ensemble together Alan Grant, Ellie Sattler, and Ian Malcolm in the sixth movie which is said to be the franchise's GrandFinale (ultimately, the franchise would continue, but this would still be their bowing out). |
| 204 | * BlackAndNerdy: Arby in ''The Lost World'' novel, Ray Arnold in the first movie, and Franklin in the fifth. |
| 205 | * BloodlessCarnage: Unlike the novels, the films almost universally make use of this trope when not using {{Gory Discretion Shot}}s. Characters will be shown being viciously mauled or ripped apart by dinosaurs on-screen, but blood will always be limited to a few stray droplets at most. ''Fallen Kingdom'' uses possibly the most egregious example in the franchise; a character has their arm torn off on-screen, but somehow their stump isn't gushing rivers of blood or even dripping. |
| 206 | * BreakoutVillain: The ''T. rex'' and ''Velociraptor'' have been featured in every ''Jurassic Park''-related feature to date, and they are by far two of the most popular dinosaurs in the media thanks to ''Jurassic Park''. |
| 207 | * BroadStrokes: The SNES game for the first film uses the character designs and plot points from the movie but also includes several things that were only in the book, like dinosaurs boarding the automated ship to the mainland and Dr. Grant having to infiltrate the raptor nest. |
| 208 | ** The Telltale game ''VideoGame/JurassicParkTheGame'' falls into this category in the main film series according to director Colin Trevorrow. |
| 209 | ** ''WesternAnimation/JurassicWorldCampCretaceous'' is largely considered canon but includes a few plot points and depictions of scenes from the live-action films which are at odds with the big screen productions, which has led some fans to suggest that the kids are UnreliableNarrator's. |
| 210 | * CanonForeigner: The Dino Defender in ''Jurassic Park III: Dino Defender'' and ''Jurassic Park III: Danger Zone!'' has not been mentioned outside of the games. |
| 211 | * BusCrash: The Spinosaurus in the third film was one of the few dinosaurs that were classified as extinct by an image in the Dinosaur Protection Group website. Although this may not be exactly true if the Spino in ''Camp Cretaceous'' is the same one as in the film. |
| 212 | * CarnivoresAreMean: If the species eats meat, chances are very good it'll be a serious menace to humans. Even small species that would have almost certainly have been harmless to anything bigger than a rat in real life like ''Compsognathus'' and ''Dimorphodon'' are vicious [[KillerRabbit Killer Rabbits]]. The one time this is somewhat averted is the ''Ceratosaurus'' in ''Film/JurassicParkIII'', and even then it's only because the characters are [[RoadApples covered in dung]] at the moment and it's warded off by the smell. |
| 213 | * TheCenterpieceSpectacular: All five films have an attack that signifies things have gone down, involving a death of the cast and destruction of vehicles. |
| 214 | ** The first is the ''T. rex'' attack on the two cars that gets Gennaro killed. |
| 215 | ** The second is the combined ''T. rex'' attack that destroys all the equipment, and claims Eddie. |
| 216 | ** The third is the first ''Spinosaurus'' encounter that destroys the plane and gets the mercs killed. |
| 217 | ** The fourth is the breakout of the ''Indominus rex'' from her enclosure, involving the deaths of two park workers, a totaled truck, and a close call for Owen. |
| 218 | ** Kind of late in the fifth film but there's the dinosaur stampede after [[spoiler:Maisie]] releases them that results in several [=SUVs=] being demolished and [[spoiler:Mills]] being torn apart and devoured by Rexy. As Malcolm points out, this is the event that finally brings about what the previous 4 movies were trying to avoid all along--the release of the dinosaurs into the modern world. |
| 219 | ** The sixth film has the Malta chase sequence where Owen, Claire, and Barry battle Soyona Santos and her ''Atrociraptor'' pack as the former two try to find out where to go to find their missing daughter. |
| 220 | * CharacterExaggeration: In the film ''Film/JurassicPark1993'', Ian Malcolm was a [[AdaptationalComicRelief comical]] DeadpanSnarker. In [[Literature/JurassicPark the original novel]], he was a much more serious character, although he did have some humorous moments -- such as dismissing the argument comparing reviving dinosaurs to using cloning to save the California Condor by pointing out the obvious fact that condors don't eat people. Although, perhaps as a nod to this change, while delirious from drugs and severe injury in the sequel novel, ''Literature/{{The Lost World|1995}}'', he temporarily takes on a talkative, wisecracking persona similar to his movie one, although much more over-the-top. |
| 221 | * ChekhovsGun: A couple in the first novel and movie; a considerable number in the second novel; the most egregious being Kelly's gymnastics in the second film. The frog DNA is the most consistent one across the literature and film. |
| 222 | * ChekhovsHobby: One in each of the first three movies. Lex is savvy with computers. Kelly mentions being cut from the gymnastics team. Billy has experience in base jumping. |
| 223 | * ContrastingSequelAntagonist: Every sequel has created contrasts between the preceding Theropod and Velociraptor antagonists. |
| 224 | ** The original ''Tyrannosaurus rex'', Rexy, was a solitary creature who killed for food. The first ''Velociraptors'' only numbered 3 and went out of their way to kill. |
| 225 | ** The Lost World Rexes are a family who continues to attack the heroes when they take the child. The Raptors are a decent sized pack who only attack when their territory is invaded. |
| 226 | ** 3's theropod is a ''Spinosaurus'' who contrasts not only by being a different species but also by being aquatic and having its climatic showdown taking place in the water. The ''Velociraptors'' have a distinct reason to hunt down the heroes beyond food, one of them stole eggs from a nest. |
| 227 | ** Jurassic World's theropod is the hybrid ''Indominus Rex'' who is notably smarter than the others and convinces the raptors to work with it. Interestingly it dies being dragged into water. |
| 228 | * CorruptCorporateExecutive: Hammond is noticeably more corrupt and uncaring in the book, [[spoiler:where he suffers a KarmicDeath]]. The movie version is more Walt Disney-esque (well, Walt Disney's charming public persona at any rate). It helps a lot that he was played by Creator/RichardAttenborough. ''The Lost World'' has Hammond's evil, greedy nephew. Additionally, Lewis Dodgson, head of research of [=InGen=]'s rival company Biosyn, precipitates the plot of the first book/movie by hiring the disgruntled Dennis Nedry to steal embryos for him... then goes to Isla Sorna to do the job himself in the second novel. He finally returns to the film canon in ''Film/JurassicWorldDominion'' where he attempts to control the world's food supply by breeding genetically modified locusts that will eat any crops other than those manufactured by Biosyn. |
| 229 | * DeathByAdaptation: Muldoon survives the novel, but is killed by the raptors in the film. Gennaro was spared by the first novel, but his film character was merged with some aspects of the novel's Ed Regis and so he caught Regis' death in the film. The second novel revealed that Gennaro died of dysentery on the way back to America. |
| 230 | * DeathWorld: The dinosaur-filled islands themselves. Isla Sorna is even part of an island chain known to Costa Rican locals as "Las Cinco Muertes" (the five deaths). |
| 231 | * {{Deconstruction}}: The franchise can be seen as a deconstruction of AttackOfThe50FootWhatever. It shares many thematic similarities with ''Film/KingKong'', while playing it a lot more realistic and dark. |
| 232 | * DespairEventHorizon: Shortly after Arnold realizes that he needs Nedry in order to get the park back online, Nedry is attacked and killed by the ''Dilophosaurus''. Eddie being eaten and the trailers/radio being destroyed by the ''Tyrannosaurs'' in the second film also qualifies. In both cases, the one person who could fix things and provide a relatively quick/easy means of calling for help has been brutally killed off, driving home the point that the survivors are now stranded on a dinosaur-infested island with virtually no means of escape. |
| 233 | * {{Determinator}}: Life itself. ''Life finds a way'' to bypass the safeguards against propagation and self-preservation, namely sexual isolation and lysine dependency. |
| 234 | * DevouredByTheHorde: |
| 235 | ** The second film, ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark'' had a scene taken from the original ''Literature/JurassicPark'' novel, where a small child is attacked and nearly eaten by a pack of Compsognathus. |
| 236 | ** The same film had one of the hunters from [=InGen=] killed by a compy pack later on. |
| 237 | ** Another character, Dunbar, is eaten by a family of T Rexes. The mother breaks his leg, and the babies finish him off. |
| 238 | * DigitalHeadSwap: Possible TropeCodifier for stunt effects, CGI was used to put an actress' head on a double's body. |
| 239 | * DirtyCoward: [[spoiler:Ed Regis]], who abandons the Hammond children in a car with the door open to save his own ass when the ''T. rex'' shows up [[spoiler:and gets eaten for his trouble.]] Donald Gennaro takes on the role in the movie, despite having been very much the opposite in the book. |
| 240 | * DisasterDominoes: This tends to happen a ''lot'', but the most prominent example is the first film. In the middle of a raging storm, Nedry turns off the power, stealing dinosaur embryos. Already bad. This allows the dinosaurs outside of the raptors to escape, and Alan and co. are trapped outside the ''T. rex'' pen, and thus the ''Dilophosaurus'' to kill Nedry, preventing him from fixing the power (which was only supposed to be off for fifteen minutes or so. The solution requires them to reset the power, setting the raptors free... and the raptor pen is between the humans and the circuit breakers needed to reactivate the power. |
| 241 | * TheDogBitesBack: Dennis Nedry's motivation for betraying [=InGen=] to Biosyn was how poorly he was treated by Hammond and [=InGen=] supervisors. He was given incredibly broad objectives (e.g. "Design a feeding system. Period.") in the name of secrecy and then ordered to work uncompensated overtime to fix the errors caused by his inadequate instructions. |
| 242 | * DynamicEntry: Frequent with the large carnivores, like ''Tyrannosaurus'' and ''Spinosaurus'', as well as the ''Velociraptors''. |
| 243 | * EatenAlive: Too many times to count, with [[spoiler:Zara's]] demise possibly being the most memorable instance. |
| 244 | * FantasticNatureReserve: The park. |
| 245 | * FatBastard: In the films, a fat (or chubby) guy seems to be nearly as much a bane to the existence of everyone as the dinosaurs themselves. There's Dennis Nedry in ''Jurassic Park'', and then Vic Hoskins in ''Jurassic World''. |
| 246 | * FatIdiot: Along with the type just described previous, this type also seems to be a curse in the films. Dennis Nedry was shown to both this and the previous type, then there was Carter (Dieter's assistant) in ''Lost World'', and then the ''I. rex'' compound's security guard comes off as being this in ''World''. |
| 247 | * FinaglesLaw: Something will always ''inevitably'' go wrong and set Theropods loose and free to snack on humans, and the heroes will try their hardest to escape a similar fate. |
| 248 | * {{Foreshadowing}}: The ''Dilophosaurus'' is mentioned to be able to spit blinding venom at its prey. [[spoiler:It proves to be effective against Nedry.]] |
| 249 | * ForScience: The motivation of [=InGen=]'s geneticists, and Ian Malcolm's main beef with them. |
| 250 | * FossilRevival: By way of fossilized mosquitoes, well-preserved enough in amber to still have recoverable dinosaur DNA. |
| 251 | * FrankensteinsMonster: The Indominus Rex, Indoraptor, and Scorpius rex (AKA E750) are a trio of genetically created hybrid dinosaurs that (at least arguably for the first two) became bloodthirsty monsters because of the mistreatment and abuse they received from their uncaring creator Dr. Wu. |
| 252 | * FromBadToWorse: |
| 253 | ** In the first movie, The situation is bad enough with most of the dinosaurs including the park's Tyrannosaurus Rex running wild and the main characters have no way to contact the main land. Then the pack of ''Velociraptors'' led by the particularly aggressive "Big One" get loose... |
| 254 | ** In general, the movies love the "frying pan -> fire" approach. Interestingly, in all four movies there's at least one instance where it involved ''Velociraptors'' making things worse -- in the first, as noted, the bad situation gets worse when everyone realizes the raptors, already noted as very intelligent and cunning, are loose. In the second, the camp is attacked by two ''Tyrannosaurs'' at once and the entire RedshirtArmy runs for the hills... directly into a colony of raptors, which makes short work of the survivors. In the third, the troupe is lost on the island and has no way of knowing where they are, and things only get worse when another colony of raptors starts tracking them throughout the island after [[spoiler:one of them steals raptor eggs]]. In the fourth, semi-trained raptors are used to hunt the ''Indominus rex'', only for [[spoiler:the ''I. rex'' to [[FaceHeelTurn recruit them]] when she's found.]] And that's not getting into all the times they run with the "our machinery is messing up/our vehicle has been disabled when suddenly the ''T. rex''/''Spinosaurus'' shows up to make things worse" angle. |
| 255 | ** From ''The Lost World'': |
| 256 | --->'''Dr. Ian Malcolm:''' Mommy's very angry. |
| 257 | *** ...and then ''[[PapaWolf Daddy]]'' ''T. rex'' showed up on the doorstep. |
| 258 | ** The novel talks about the FromBadToWorse phenomena being a consequence of chaos theory. It's even given the status of a scientific theory, named after Ian Malcolm. When modeling chaotic systems, Malcolm tended to include a nonlinear equation that included a point where a small change in input would cause a sudden and dramatic change in output, and often not for the better. In other words, he essentially included a mathematical OhCrap into his models. Hammond's scientists don't believe the Malcolm Effect applies to living systems, but they're, of course, dead wrong. |
| 259 | ** ''Film/JurassicWorld'': So you created an OmnicidalManiac [[MixAndMatchCritters Mix-And-Match Monster]] that can [[ItCanThink think]] and it got loose on you. Can't get any worse than that right? Dead wrong! [[spoiler:Turns out it can release other dangerous animals to wreak havoc in its name. Oh, and it can communicate with your trained ''Velociraptors'', too!]] |
| 260 | * GiantFlyer: The various pterosaurs that feature as background characters. The ''Pteranodons'' get ADayInTheLimelight in ''III''. They also feature very prominently in ''Film/JurassicWorld''. The "giant" in case is exaggerated, as every pterosaur species featured in the films are much bigger than they would've been in real life. |
| 261 | * AGodAmI: The scientists of [=InGen=] and the creators of Jurassic Park operate under this mentality, especially scientists like Henry Wu and mercenaries like Vic Hoskins. They believe that an extinct animal has no rights, and continuously try to exploit the dinosaurs for their own personal gain. This never works out in their favor and often leads to their deaths, as proved by the multiple attempts to create a dinosaur theme park that all fail oh so spectacularly. |
| 262 | * GoryDiscretionShot: This is the films' favorite way to kill off characters, especially when it involves smaller dinos which would generally be messier to show (and even when it's shown, BloodlessCarnage will always be in effect). They generally have the characters be yanked (or trip) offscreen, or pan/cut away from the attack, and then have said doomed character give out a horrifying scream [[SoundOnlyDeath to indicate they've been killed]]. Specifically: |
| 263 | ** ''Film/JurassicPark1993'': |
| 264 | *** The first film opens with a DeadHandShot of Jophrey the worker being dragged away by the ''Velociraptor''. |
| 265 | *** The feeding of the ''Velociraptor'' pack with the bull combines this with TakeOurWordForIt; the foliage in the pen obscures everything, the violence, the blood, the dinosaurs, and the cattle, leaving only the characters' horrified reactions, the raptors' screeching, the sounds of flesh-rending, and the mangled harness that's lifted back up after it's over to let the audience know that these are truly monstrous predators. |
| 266 | *** [[spoiler:Nedry's]] death is conveyed by the Jeep he's in shaking wildly, and a shot of the phony shaving cream can containing the stolen embryos being buried in the mud running down the hillside. This directly contrasts with his death in the novel, which is described in excruciating detail. |
| 267 | *** Although [[spoiler:Muldoon's]] death is mostly obscured through the bushes, there's a FreezeFrameBonus wherein you can see that the raptor has his head in her mouth. |
| 268 | *** [[spoiler:Arnold]] is killed off-screen by the escaped ''Velociraptor'', but the only indication of his death is his severed arm falling on Ellie as double BaitAndSwitch jump-scare. His body is never seen, but consider what happened to just one of his arms... Notably, his death would've been shown, but a hurricane destroyed the set before it could be filmed (although it would've been another "scream and cut-away" death). |
| 269 | *** When Ellie and Muldoon discover [[spoiler:Gennaro's]] remains after he was killed by the ''Tyrannosaurus'', the body parts are kept just out of the camera, although considering how far away Ellie and Muldoon are from one another as they identify the pieces of the body, it was ''extremely'' violent. |
| 270 | *** Downplayed with the ''T. rex'' killing and eating the ''Gallimimus''. The actual kill is shown clearly on-screen, but it cuts to Alan and the two kids [[TakeOurWordForIt reacting in morbid curiosity]] as she starts to messily tear into the carcass. |
| 271 | ---->'''Tim:''' Look at how much blood... |
| 272 | ** ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark'': |
| 273 | *** The movie opens with a little girl who is mobbed and apparently mauled by a swarm of ''Compsognathus'' after wandering away from her family. However, it cuts away right as they get aggressive and pounce on her, showing her parents hearing her screaming in the distance. We're assured later on that she was injured, but managed to survive the attack. |
| 274 | *** [[spoiler:Dieter Stark]] falls behind a log, which obscures the view of the pack of ''Compsognathus'' killing him. We hear him scream as the water in the stream turns red. Later on, Roland Tembo comments that all they found of him were "just the parts they didn't like." |
| 275 | *** [[spoiler:Robert Burke]] panics when a snake slithers down his shirt and runs right into the jaws of the mother ''Tyrannosaur'' that had been chasing him. He screams in terror as it lifts him out of view and bites down, making the waterfall he was hiding behind run red for a moment. |
| 276 | *** Many of the [=InGen=] hunters are picked off by ''Velociraptor'' in the tall grass, but the violence is totally obscured by the grass, so you only see the wiggling of the dinosaurs' tails as they tear into the unfortunate victims. It then cuts to Malcolm and his group, who hear the sound of people screaming and raptors screeching in the distance. |
| 277 | *** We're told that the crew of the ''Venture'' are "all over the place" in the ship's wheelhouse, but all we see is the helmsman's severed hand. |
| 278 | *** Sarah is able to escape from two attacking raptors by [[SetAMookToKillAMook pitting them against one another]]. One eventually gains the upper hand on the other and starting ripping into its neck, but it's kept in shadow and offscreen, with only the losing raptor's tail moving more limply indicating it's being killed. |
| 279 | *** The "Unlucky Bastard" civilian who is caught and killed by the bull ''T. rex'' in San Diego. The tyrannosaur drags him behind a car before it starts to dig in, so we don't actually have to see anything gory. |
| 280 | *** The bull tyrannosaur also eats a pet dog, but it only shows the dog cowering in its doghouse, cuts away to something else, and when it cuts back it shows the dinosaur with the dog's chain in its mouth, and the doghouse dangling from it. |
| 281 | *** [[spoiler:[[CorruptCorporateExecutive Peter Ludlow]] [[TooDumbToLive foolishly tries to recover the baby tyrannosaur himself]]]], following its cries into the hold of the ''Venture'' and trying to corner it for a minute, [[FailedASpotCheck unaware that its father is walking into the hold right behind him]] until the baby runs past him and he sees it. The adult snaps his leg with its teeth as he tries to escape and uses him as live prey to teach its baby how to hunt, [[KarmicDeath and the baby pounces on and kills him just out of frame]] as the adult proudly looks on the scene and Ludlow screams in agony. |
| 282 | ** ''Film/JurassicPark3'': |
| 283 | *** Nash, the mercenary pilot, is pulled out of the plane by the ''Spinosaurus'' and it waves him around a bit before dropping him to the ground. He tries scrambling away but the spinosaur pins him down with one foot and reaches down to bite his head off, with its other foot coming into frame, out of focus, just in time to hide the actual bite. When it rises up again a moment later to roar at the other characters, Nash's blood is on its snout. |
| 284 | *** Cooper is the ''Spinosaurus'''s first victim, but it cuts away right as it chomps on him. |
| 285 | *** [[spoiler:Billy]] is mobbed by the ''Pteranodon'' and violently pecked and clawed at as he floats downriver, but most of the violence is obscured by him be plunged under the water, which [[BloodIsSquickerInWater quickly turns red]] with his blood, and then he drifts behind a rock and out of view. Subverted at the end when it turns out [[DisneyDeath he survived and got rescued]], although he was badly mauled. |
| 286 | *** Zigzagged with [[spoiler:Udesky]]. He's horribly mauled to the point of being crippled and mute by the ''Velociraptor'', but it's almost all off-screen and indicated only by his screaming. However, his death by NeckSnap is shown on-screen, probably because, although it's violent, it's also a bloodless death. |
| 287 | ** ''Film/JurassicWorld'': |
| 288 | *** The first death is of one of the Paddock 11 workers, whose demise is mostly shown by him being grabbed by ''Indominus rex'' and lifted up offscreen, with his screams and crunching noises being heard over the radio. When Nick (the supervisor) looks back after opening the door to escape, we see ''I. rex'' with the worker partially in her mouth, and although the view is brief and mostly blocked by trees, we see her pulling the man's legs off. |
| 289 | *** A live piglet is snatched up and eaten by one of the ''Velociraptor'', but it's quickly pulled offscreen so its fate is left unseen. |
| 290 | *** As a MythologyGag to the first film, the ''T. rex'' is fed a live goat. However, it cuts to a group of tourists crowding around the window, therefore blocking anything violent from being seen by the actual audience. |
| 291 | *** The security guard that was supposed to be watching the ''I. rex'' becomes her second victim when she escapes, but the dinosaur snaps him up and pulls him out of view before she eats him, so that the only blood that's seen is a little red stained on the ''Indominus'''s teeth. |
| 292 | *** One of the ACU troopers killed during the jungle battle gets eaten by the ''I. rex''. Although him being killed is obscured through tree branches and by the glare of sunlight coming down through the canopy, his blood rains down through the leaves. Another trooper is killed by being stomped on, but he's pushed into a river as it happens so nothing gory is seen or heard. |
| 293 | *** Exaggerated with the [=InGen=] Security Division, which are all picked off by the ''Velociraptor'' pack, but in every single case, the person is either dragged off-camera before being killed or we only see it from the perspective of their head-mounted camera, which cuts out right before they're killed. |
| 294 | *** The poor ''Ankylosaurus'' which is killed by the ''Indominus'' is apparently ''decapitated'' by the theropod, but it cuts away just as the ''I. rex'' breaks its neck, cutting to the expressions of horror on Zach & Gray's faces and the sounds of bone-crunching. |
| 295 | *** Although [[spoiler:Zara]] technically dies entirely onscreen, the shot of her in the ''Mosasaurus''' mouth is obscured by the ''Pteranodon'' who gets eaten with her. |
| 296 | *** [[spoiler:Vic Hoskins']] death. When Delta the ''Velociraptor'' suddenly shows up, he tries to get her to back down by holding up a hand. After a moment where it seems like she just might leave him alone, she chomps down on his hand. He screams. The next shot shows him being mauled by Delta, obscured by lab equipment on the corner of a wall, followed by a spatter of blood on a window next to them. |
| 297 | ** ''Film/JurassicWorldFallenKingdom'': |
| 298 | *** The two submersible pilots get eaten by the ''Mosasaurus'' when it turns out to be not as dead as they thought. However, right as the ''Mosasaurus'' sneaks up behind them, it cuts away to above the water, showing the lights of the sub going out. |
| 299 | *** Rexy is given a goat to eat to lure her into walking into an elevator lift, but the lights flicker right as she snaps it up, which, along with the bars of the lift, prevent the audience from being able to clearly see anything bloody. |
| 300 | *** [[spoiler:Wheatley]] is violently killed by the ''Indoraptor'', but the death is obscured by the metal bars of the cage it's in, as well as cutting away to show it only from a distance and out of focus right before it happens. This is combined with BloodlessCarnage, as the ''Indoraptor'' ripped his arm off and ate it on-screen right before this, but with only a tiny amount of red stained on its teeth. |
| 301 | *** [[spoiler:Eversoll and three other bidders to the dinosaur black market]] are horribly killed by the ''Indoraptor'', but it cuts to black right before it happens, with [[SoundOnlyDeath only the sound of Eversoll screaming in terror]]. |
| 302 | *** Two of Mills' mercenary goons are killed by the ''Indoraptor'', but it rams them offscreen so that, again, [[SoundOnlyDeath you only hear them screaming]] to indicate they're being killed. |
| 303 | *** Another of Mills' mercenaries is trampled to death by the massive stampede of escaping dinosaurs at the end, but he falls just off-camera so viewers don't have to actually see him being stomped into meaty paste. |
| 304 | *** The ending briefly shows a surfer about to be eaten by the now-escaped ''Mosasaurus'', but it cuts away before the two actually make contact (although considering how huge the mosasaur is, there probably wouldn't be much blood either way). |
| 305 | ** ''Film/JurassicWorldDominion'': |
| 306 | *** Blue is teaching her baby how to hunt with a rabbit, but the rabbit is snapped up by a wolf before they can get it, so the baby jumps on the ''wolf'' instead. The wolf chomping on the rabbit is obscured by a spray of snow, and it cuts away just as the baby raptor and wolf are tussling, instead showing Owen and Claire reacting in confusion to the sound of a wolf's yelp in the distance. |
| 307 | *** [[spoiler:Delacourt]] gets his head bitten off by a juvenile ''Baryonyx'', but it cuts between him screaming to just offscreen as it happens. |
| 308 | *** Similar to [[spoiler:the Nedry example above, Dodgson]] is killed by a pack of ''Dilophosaurus'', but it cuts away right as the dinosaurs spit on him and screech in his face, with his echoing scream as the screen turns black. |
| 309 | *** An unnamed poacher in the Amber Clave Market is chomped by the one-horned ''Carnotaurus'' while trying to put out his friend who's on fire, but it cuts away instantly after the dinosaur bites him. |
| 310 | *** The three members of the French Secret Service who were with Barry are killed by the trained ''Atrociraptor'', but similar to the other raptor examples above, the raptors push them just offscreen before they kill them so that you only hear screaming and don't actually see nothing. |
| 311 | *** The ''Therizinosaurus'' swats a deer out of its way with its huge, razor-sharp claws, but the camera pans up so that we don't actually see the deer being violently thrown. The deer's carcass is shown later, but without too much blood and always keeping its face obscured. |
| 312 | *** In the extended cut, Blue attacks a pair of hunters that were shooting at her baby, but it cuts away just as she pounces on them in slow-motion. |
| 313 | * GratuitousLaboratoryFlasks: In the SNES game, there's one room in the visitor's center that has shelves and shelves of flasks and test tubes. Neither they nor the room they're in serve any purpose to the story or the gameplay. You can't do anything in the room except look at the pretty bubbling chemicals. |
| 314 | * GreaterScopeVillain: The heads of Biosyn in the books: Steingarten in the first and Jeff Rossiter in the second. |
| 315 | * TheGreatestStoryNeverTold: The Creator/TelltaleGames series takes place during and shortly after the events of the first film, from the perspectives of one minor film character and a whole bunch of new ones. |
| 316 | * {{Greed}}: The whole series where the villains are motivated by Greed. They try to use the dinosaurs to get rich. It is also a recurring theme of the villains. |
| 317 | * GreenAesop: ''Jurassic Park'' combines the Green Aesop with a BrokenAesop (or possibly a FantasticAesop). The initial emphasis of the first ''Film/JurassicPark1993'' seems to be on the hubris of resurrecting prehistoric lifeforms for the sole purpose of exhibiting them in a themepark, even comparing it to playing god. However, the park only collapses as a result of greed-motivated sabotage by TheMole pulling off an InsideJob that was successful largely because the owner cut corners everywhere on the park's security. After the dinosaurs destroy the park, in ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark'' 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, [[DesignatedHero the heroes take a rather callous approach]] to [[EcoTerrorist causing human death to protect the dinosaurs]]. |
| 318 | * GunsAreUseless: Strangely enforced -- the first three films have a good number of guns, but no one ever seems to be able to effectively ''use'' them against dinosaurs (with the exception of a tranq gun in ''The Lost World''. Averted somewhat in ''Film/JurassicWorld'', as several dinosaurs are killed by lethal gunfire. |
| 319 | ** ''Jurassic Park'': Muldoon is killed before having a chance to shoot anything, and Grant gets three shots off with his shotgun, misses and it jams as the ''Velociraptors'' attack. Foreshadowed earlier when the [=InGen=] workers fire uselessly at one of these same raptors while it's mauling one of their co-workers to death. |
| 320 | ** ''The Lost World: Jurassic Park'': Possibly the most egregious use of this trope. A ''T. rex'' attacks a camp full of sleeping hunters. All of whom are well armed. Instead of raking it to death with a concentrated hail of bullets, they panic and run for their lives, some of them shooting their guns wildly in the air while fleeing the rampaging dinosaur. The only one who thinks to actually shoot his gun ''at'' the ''T. rex'' is Roland Tembo, but the cartridges of his elephant gun were secretly stolen by Nick Van Owen. |
| 321 | *** Eddie Carr's venom gun is this on a couple of instances: when the ''Stegosaurus'' charges after Sarah, Ian yells at him to shoot it; he doesn't want to because they're "just protecting their baby." Later, the ''T. rex'' pair attack him in his car (also "just protecting their baby"). He's quite willing to shoot them then, but since his gun picks that moment to get stuck on some netting, well... Nom-Nom! |
| 322 | ** ''Jurassic Park III'': Armed mercenaries bring many weapons to the island, including an ''anti-tank rifle'', but they're somehow defeated by a single dinosaur ''offscreen'' in a matter of seconds. The only thing that is ever used against any dinosaur of any kind (albeit successfully) is a flare gun. |
| 323 | ** Holds up in the book as well -- Muldoon tranqs a ''T. rex'' with a rocket launcher (ItMakesSenseInContext) but it doesn't take effect until a good bit later simply because he didn't have much idea of the right dosage. He points out that shooting the dinos wasn't very effective because of their biology. [[ScienceMarchesOn Most of the information he gives out is now known to be wrong, but at the time it made sense.]] |
| 324 | ** In ''Jurassic World'', this trope is mostly avoided with park guards and soldiers being able to gun down several pterodactyls, but when Owen and his raptors confront the ''Indominus rex'', it is once again in full effect: Owen's 45-70 lever rifle, which is capable of bringing down big game, can't even make the ''I. rex'' flinch with repeated shots, although the ''I. rex'' previously shrugged off a blow to the head from an ''Ankylosaurus'' club. Multiple point-blank shots to the face from a rapid-pump action shotgun have no effect and even a glancing blow from an ''anti-tank rocket launcher'' is only able to briefly knock her down without actually harming her. |
| 325 | ** In ''Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom'', tranq darts loaded with carfentenil are used to immobilize several dinosaurs, including Rexy, but don't immediately neutralize Blue--who ends up getting nearly fatally shot as a result--and don't do squat against the ''Indoraptor''--though it certainly does an awesome job ''acting'' like they do just to screw with someone. Owen also fires multiple times at the ''Indoraptor'' at point blank range with an assault rifle, but the bullets don't even penetrate its hide (realistically, even if the bullets don't pierce the skin, they'd still pass catastrophic kinetic energy into its body). |
| 326 | ** In ''Jurassic World: Dominion'', this trope is again played straight to a silly degree. The French intelligence workers infiltrating the dinosaur black market are nearly all killed by the trained ''Atrociraptor'' pack because they seem to completely forget they're all holding ''guns'' in their hands that they could use to shoot the dinosaurs. This is especially egregious when Barry is trapped in the cabin of an abandoned boat and chooses to try and shoot the locked sunroof open rather than shoot into the open mouth of the dinosaur clawing its way in only about a foot in front of him. This is also used on a story-wide scale; despite all the dinosaurs running loose around the world, the movie never once brings up the idea of people just ''shooting'' the dinosaurs. |
| 327 | * ImprobableInfantSurvival: |
| 328 | ** Pretty much played straight with Tim, Lex, Kelly, Eric, and any baby dinosaurs seen in the film series (baby ''Stegosaurus'', baby ''T. rex'', baby ''Pteranodons'', stolen raptor eggs, etc.). The only real exception was [[spoiler:that poor dog]] in the second movie and possibly the boy of the family that owned said dog who took a flash photo of the ''T. rex''. Chances are, the boy and his parents were killed, though this is never shown explicitly in the movie. [[WordOfGod According to the final script]], the ''T. rex'' smashes its head into the boy's bedroom, sniffs the entire family and [[spoiler:goes on its way, leaving the kid and his understandably terrified parents completely unscathed]]. This part of the scene was either not shot or deleted for reasons unknown, and has not turned up in any releases of the film. |
| 329 | ** This is in the movies only. Sucks to be the baby that gets its ''face ripped off'' by compies in the first book. It extends past humans, too: [[spoiler:when Tim tried to distract two ''Velociraptors'' that followed him and Lex by sending a baby raptor found in the [=InGen=] lab to them. The adult raptors immediately slaughtered the baby.]] This scene was roughly adapted for the screen... by an episode of ''Series/{{Primeval}}''. |
| 330 | *** ''The Lost World'' novel elaborates on this, saying that by basically being cloned and left to their own devices, most of the raptors were cannibalistic, lacked the maternal instinct of their ancestors, and saw their own offspring as just another prey item. |
| 331 | ** The little girl in the intro of the second movie [[GoryDiscretionShot was obviously seriously injured, judging by the mother's screams]]. Peter Ludlow points this out during his business meeting with [=InGen's=] Board of Directors and Hammond later mentions her to Malcolm. In both cases, the listening parties have to be assured that she survived. |
| 332 | ** Questionable at best in ''Jurassic World''; we don't see any kids (besides Gray and Zach) being attacked onscreen, but the ''Pteranodons'' are shown attacking baby dinosaurs in an area where there were numerous children that could have gotten carried off as well. The ''I. rex'' also [[MonstrousCannibalism ate her infant sibling]] sometime prior to the film. |
| 333 | ** Played straight with [[spoiler:Maisie]] in ''Fallen Kingdom'', though psychologically, it's probably a whole other story. |
| 334 | ** Again played straight with Maisie in ''Film/JurassicWorldDominion'' and also with Blue's offspring Beta in the same film. |
| 335 | * InNameOnly: The franchise's ''Velociraptors'' are infamous for not closely resembling their real life namesake. Their shape more resembles ''Deinonychus'' (which at the time of the original novel's writing, was considered by one paleontologist as a species of ''Velociraptor'')[[note]]although it's rendered a moot point because the species present in the park are explicitly said to be ''Velociraptor mongoliensis''[[/note]], while their size is on par with the largest known dromaeosaurs such as ''Utahraptor'' and ''Achillobator'', both of which were unknown at the time of the first novel and film. Crichton himself even admitted he used the name because it was "more dramatic", and the novel's ''Velociraptor'' is ''Deinonychus'' in everything but name. |
| 336 | * IronicEcho: Towards the beginning of the first film, Ian heckles Alan and Ellie over "digging up dinosaurs" and mocks a ''T. rex'' roar to mess with them during the helicopter ride to the park. At the beginning of the second film, a random person on the train does the same thing to Ian over his media appearances following the incident, complete with a fake dinosaur roar. |
| 337 | * IslandOfMystery: Isla Nublar and Isla Sorna, and to a lesser extent, the rest of the island chain that makes up "The Five Deaths" (of which Sorna is a part). |
| 338 | * JustDesserts: Given this is a series involving man-eating dinosaurs, this trope is to be expected. |
| 339 | ** In the books, [[spoiler:Lewis Dodgson gets devoured by infant ''T. rexes'' in the second novel, as do two of his henchmen, although one of them has a change of heart only to get violently killed by raptors anyway.]] |
| 340 | ** In the films, [[spoiler:Nedry totally counts for this, while his book counterpart wasn't explicitly eaten by the dinosaur, just [[CruelAndUnusualDeath blinded and gutted]] by the creature while his remains were later eaten by a compy horde]]. [[spoiler:Ludlow suffers Dodgson's fate, being crippled by a ''T. rex'' father and devoured by the son]] and [[spoiler:Dieter Stark is slowly and painfully eaten alive by the very dinosaurs (compies) he sadistically tazed just for fun]] in ''The Lost World''. In ''Film/JurassicWorld'', Hoskins gets ripped to shreds by one of the raptors he sought to breed as a weapon, and becomes her dinner. [[spoiler:Later, the ''Indominus Rex'' is dragged to her doom by the ''Mosasaurus''.]] In ''Fallen Kingdom'', [[spoiler:Wheatley]], who cruelly yanks teeth out of dinos' mouths while they're tranqued and helpless, [[spoiler:gets horribly mauled to death when he tries to do it to the ''Indoraptor'']], while [[spoiler:[[BigBad Mills]]]], who [[spoiler:murders his BenevolentBoss]] out of greed, is himself [[spoiler:greedily devoured by Rexy and several other carnivores.]] |
| 341 | ** In [[VideoGame/JurassicParkTheGame the video game]], [[spoiler:Yoder and, depending on player actions, Nina get eaten by the ''T. rex'' at the end of the final episode. Could also count for Dr. Sorkin, since she takes a FaceHeelTurn and becomes an environmental extremist by releasing the ''Mosasaurus'', only to have it [[DeathByIrony eat her instead]].]] |
| 342 | * JustifiedTutorial: ''Jurassic Park'' for the Sega CD contains information kiosks which play video footage of [[TheCameo Robert T.]] [[Literature/RaptorRed Bakker]], who explains various dinosaur behaviors, cluing the player in on how to deal with them when encountered. |
| 343 | * KarmicDeath: |
| 344 | ** A fair few people in the films (e.g., Nedry and Gennaro), although there are also undeserving victims (e.g., Muldoon, who was smart enough to realize that even having the raptors exist was a disaster waiting to happen). The trope is very evident in the novel, as not one of the responsible persons has thought of the consequences of [[WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong reviving the largest predators ever to walk the Earth]]. [[spoiler:All of them save two die horribly.]] |
| 345 | ** A notable example would be [[spoiler:Stark]], who callously tasers a compy just for the hell of it. Later, he is ambushed and killed by a horde of compies. |
| 346 | ** Ludlow in the second movie, Hoskins in the fourth movie, and [[spoiler:Mills]] in the fifth movie -- they are all killed by the very animals they hoped to exploit. |
| 347 | * KillAllHumans[=/=]ToServeMan: |
| 348 | ** ''Tyrannosaurs'' and ''Velociraptors'' come running for the great taste of human! |
| 349 | ** In the first novel, the ''Tyrannosaurus'' appears to always be a step ahead of every move Grant and the kids make. So does the ''Spinosaurus'' in ''Film/JurassicParkIII''. |
| 350 | ** Probably justified. In the raptor transport scene, it's being handled rather roughly. Mistreated animals often attack humans when they get loose. The attacks may be more about revenge than food. |
| 351 | ** The raptors in ''The Lost World'' novel were feral killers while the film version's raptors were defending their turf and taking advantage of the "moveable feast" passing through. The raptors in ''Film/JurassicParkIII'' just wanted their eggs back and Owen's squad in ''Film/JurassicWorld'' were about as dangerous to human strangers as your standard big cat or crocodile...at least until ''Indominus'' facilitated their brief FaceHeelTurn. |
| 352 | ** After a diet of pre-killed great white sharks for the better part of her life, ''Mosasurus'' has probably learned that humans, while not exactly filling, are at least tasty after accidentally eating [[spoiler:Zara]]; by ''Fallen Kingdom'' she's actively stalking surfers. |
| 353 | ** Actually discussed in the first novel. After some raptors try to attack the protagonists through their electrified enclosure, Malcolm mentions that lions and tigers typically only become man-eaters if they discover that humans are easy to kill, and wonders if the raptors made the same discovery at some point. Early on in the first novel, a worker is brought to the local doctor after being mortally wounded by the raptors, likely the way they learned human were easy prey. |
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| 356 | [[folder:L-Z]] |
| 357 | * LegoGenetics: |
| 358 | ** The main reason why the park fails -- they used amphibian DNA, the closest thing possible to insert into the damaged DNA code without causing mutations. Except it did. The type of amphibian used can change sexes in unequal-gender conditions. In the first book, Dr. Wu's internal monologue states that, because 90+% of DNA is the same across all animals on Earth, he could freely mix-and-match whenever he needed to. The species on the island that are breeding are ones that included frog DNA to replace sequence gaps. Since just about everyone involved in the Park at the higher levels is grossly incompetent in some manner, this is just par for the course. |
| 359 | ** Taken to an extreme in a ''Jurassic Park''-themed haunted house/scarezone from [[Ride/UniversalStudios Universal's]] Theatre/HalloweenHorrorNights back in 2002, where a rogue [=InGen=] scientist is able to create gruesome half-human/half-dinosaur monstrosities by mixing some DNA together. |
| 360 | ** The trope name becomes a pun in Lego Jurassic World. Tutorials are accessed by finding DNA strands made out of Lego. Literally Lego genetics. |
| 361 | * {{Leitmotif}}: The opening tune from the first film gets repeated ''a lot'' during the sequence involving the ''Velociraptors''. And listen carefully for it in the sequels whenever someone even mentions the ''Velociraptors'', especially if the topic is brought up before the raptors have even appeared. |
| 362 | * LicensedGame: This thing was a merchandise monolith, and it was ripe for game adaptation; so it doesn't come as a surprise that there were so many. Ranging from the ''Zelda''-like puzzler (with ''Wolfenstein 3D''-like indoor sections) for the [[Platform/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem SNES]], to a hard-as-nails shooter/platformer for the [[Platform/SegaGenesis Genesis]] which also lets you play through the entire game as a raptor (the final boss is Dr. Grant!), to the technically innovative ''VideoGame/JurassicParkTrespasser'', along with a few portable titles; the Platform/GameGear version hilariously changes the ending so that Hammond's theme park becomes a success. As recently as 2011, [[VideoGame/JurassicParkTheGame a Telltale game]] was loosely based on the events of the film. |
| 363 | * LicensedPinballTables: Three of them - a [[Pinball/JurassicParkDataEast 1992 machine]] and a [[Pinball/JurassicParkStern 2019 machine]] based on ''Film/JurassicPark1993'', and a [[Pinball/TheLostWorldJurassicPark third machine]] based on ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark''. |
| 364 | * LighterAndSofter: The novels don't hold back showing how horrific it is to be killed and devoured by a dinosaur, describing in disturbing detail of how characters are ripped apart, exsanguinated, disemboweled, EatenAlive, or otherwise turned to ground beef, and not even afraid to have a ''baby'' being DevouredByTheHorde. The films frequently resort to ImprobableInfantSurvival, BloodlessCarnage, and GoryDiscretionShot to maintain PG-13 ratings, and tend to have a much less cynical tone. |
| 365 | * LimitedWardrobe: Malcolm's signature all-black ensemble. In the novel, he jokes about how his clothes are all grey and black, so he can get changed in the dark. He also said something about not wasting any time choosing what color to wear. |
| 366 | * LivingMotionDetector: |
| 367 | ** ''Tyrannosaurs'', though only in the first movie. In the book, a paleontologist named Roxton theorized this was the case, and Grant acts on it to protect him and Lex from one. It's stated that ''all'' the park's dinosaurs have this problem, due to the frog DNA used to patch holes in their genetics. |
| 368 | ** This became a subject of discussion in ''The Lost World.'' It's pointed out that Grant was working off ''really'' bad data out of sheer desperation, as there really wasn't any other way for him to have gotten out of that situation alive. Levine, a more well-read genius, states that, "Roxton is an idiot. [[ArtisticLicenseBiology He doesn't know enough anatomy to have sex with his wife.]]" The reason the ''T. rex'' didn't chow down on Grant and Lex was because the goat it had eaten moments before was enough to fill its appetite for several hours. [[spoiler:Baselton isn't aware of this, and tries the same stunt with a ''hungry'' ''T. rex''. While '''stealing eggs from its nest.''' It eats him whole.]] |
| 369 | * LooseCanon: The three ''Jurassic Park Adventures'' young adult novels by Scott Ciencin are regarded as this. |
| 370 | * MenAreTheExpendableGender: |
| 371 | ** Every human death in the film and novel is male. |
| 372 | ** Lampshaded with a comment from Ellie: |
| 373 | --->'''Ellie:''' Dinosaur eats Man; Woman inherits the Earth. |
| 374 | ** Subverted in ''Jurassic World'', which had the guts to brutally kill off [[Creator/KatieMcGrath Zara]]. Could also count as TakeThat to Ellie's quote in the first film. |
| 375 | ** Also in ''Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom'' a woman is one of the people eaten by the Indoraptor when it breaks into an elevator. |
| 376 | * MisplacedWildlife: ''Velociraptor'' bones in Montana. Acknowledged in ''The Lost World'' and in the novel. |
| 377 | * MoralDisambiguation: The human bad guys get more ambitious and ''heinous'' in the ''Jurassic World'' movies than they were in the earlier ''Park'' movies, and the heroes get a little bit more concerned about the bigger picture besides their own survival. In particular, in ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark''; Ian Malcolm only cares about the good guys getting back to civilization alive, and one of the other good guys is an unrepentant EcoTerrorist, whilst the bad guys are only a couple steps away from being [[VillainyFreeVillain Villainy-Free Villains]] who are acting well within their legal rights. By contrast, ''Film/JurassicWorldDominion'' sees Malcolm, Alan Grant and Ellie Sattler actively sticking their necks out by investigating [=BioSyn=] of their own initiatives, and trying to stop an ''existential'' threat to the planet; a threat which [=BioSyn=] unwittingly unleashed whilst the corporation was trying to ''engineer famine'' just to further their own greed. |
| 378 | * MythArc: The films quietly hint at a deeper scheme in place for [=InGen=], especially in a scene where Grant identifies the ''Spinosaurus'' (a dinosaur not on their list of cloned dinosaurs) and wonders what they're up to. ''Jurassic World'' doesn't clarify the extent of Wu's deal with Hoskins and the Masrani Backdoor also has a lot of cryptic tidbits about the timeline of the films. The ''World'' films ultimately have an arc about dinosaurs re-entering the biosphere and how humanity will have to adapt to it, and how for every greedy human willing to exploit the animals, there is another who is willing to help make the new world work. |
| 379 | * NeverTrustATitle: Many of the animals portrayed in this franchise are from the Cretaceous. Perhaps a better name would have been Mesozoic Park[=/=]World. |
| 380 | * NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Paleontology example: Bob Bakker was name dropped in the first book and film, but got {{Exp|y}}ied into the character of "Robert Burke" in the second film. See TakeThat below. |
| 381 | * NonMaliciousMonster: |
| 382 | ** The dinosaurs aren't evil, just hungry and/or territorial. Except raptors -- at least in the first book, where it's stated that they kill even when they are not hungry, just for pleasure, and sometimes they kill their own. This is later explained as the result of the raptors being bred artificially, thus lacking the social development they'd have gone through if raised in a natural environment, with the benefit of a parent and other peers teaching them proper dino social skills. In short, they were basically creating intelligent, sadistic sociopaths with sharp teeth and big claws. |
| 383 | ** The ''Spinosaurus'' from the third film also averts this as it moves far beyond simple hunting for hunger, seemingly taking a sort of sadistic glee in pursuing the protagonists all over the island, even though it has far more readily available and more nourishing prey all around it. More than once it ignores large food sources just to chase down the tiny humans. [[spoiler:Marketing for the later films has implied that it was a prototype hybrid similar to the ''Indominus rex'', which may explain this savagery]]. |
| 384 | ** The ''[[BigBad Indominus rex]]'' from the fourth film averts this entirely; she's specifically identified as a straight up malicious killer that attacks everything she sees just for fun and not food. Being a genetically engineered hybrid of multiple species of dinosaur and other animals specifically intended to be a new, scarier dinosaur, it's no surprise they created an actually villainous dinosaur. [[spoiler:She even kills Owen's raptors and murders an entire herd of Apatosaurus without taking a bite.]] |
| 385 | ** Downplayed with the ''Indoraptor'' in ''Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom''. It does not reach the level of sadism the Indominus did and is shown to kill for food and not sport. Doesn't mean he will be quick about it and not enjoy it a bit. |
| 386 | * NonIndicativeName: In-universe example: the park is called "Jurassic" despite the fact that several of the dinosaurs didn't live in that period (such as the ''T. rex'' and the raptors that lived in the Cretaceous period). Presumably "Triassic Park" or "Cretaceous Park" just don't have the same ring to them. |
| 387 | * ObliviouslyEvil: Practically every dinosaur in the franchise. What, did you think ''T. rex'' knew she was harming people by eating them? She was just hungry! Did the ''Dilophosaurus'' realize it was wrong to blind and maul [[spoiler:Nedry]]? Of course not, it was hungry and curious! Did the ''Pteranodon'' stop to question how morally sound it was for her to snatch up Eric Kirby? No, because she was too busy thinking about what a tasty take-out meal he'd be for her kids! The only real aversions would probably be the raptors and the ''Spinosaurus'', who take almost sadistic glee in killing and eating people. The ''Indominus rex'' in the fourth film also averts this, and is the closest in the franchise to being a straight up evil dinosaur. It kills everything and everyone around it for sport (for example, it slaughters an entire herd of ''Apatosaurus'' without eating a single one), and appears to take great pleasure in causing chaos and death throughout the park. Downplayed with the Indoraptor who does hunt for food and eats its prey but still is very sadistic about it. |
| 388 | * OddlyNamedSequel2ElectricBoogaloo: ''Jurassic Park'' > ''The Lost World'' ('': Jurassic Park'' in the movie) > ''Jurassic Park III'' > ''Jurassic World'' |
| 389 | * OneSteveLimit: |
| 390 | ** There was Robert Muldoon in the first film/novel and Robert Burke from the second film. |
| 391 | ** In the second film the boy who witnessed the ''T-Rex'' drink out of his swimming pool was named Benjamin. In the third film, Amanda's boyfriend was Benjamin "Ben" Hildebrand. In "Fallen Kingdom", Hammond's old partner and BigGood of the film was Benjamin Lockwood. |
| 392 | ** In the first novel, the park's public relations manager was Ed Regis. In the novel's sequel Eddie Carr was the assistant to Doc Thorne. He was the group's tech expert in the FilmOfTheBook. |
| 393 | ** In the first novel there was John Alfred Hammond and John Arnold. |
| 394 | ** In the third film, Dr. Grant's protege was named Billy Brennan. In the video game, one of the major characters is named Billy Yoder. |
| 395 | * PeekABooCorpse: In both versions, a hand falls on Ellie and they both think the man the limb belongs to is alive ... until they turn around. |
| 396 | * PlayfulHacker: Dennis Nedry. "Uh uh uh, you didn't say the magic word!" Even has signs of this in the book with "wht_rbt.obj". |
| 397 | * PhlebotinumDependence: The dinosaurs are deliberately deprived of lysine. [[spoiler:It doesn't work.]] |
| 398 | * PrehistoricMonster: The franchise as a whole zigzags it. Predators tend to be extraordinarily aggressive and have an insatiable urge to kill humans on sight (even those much smaller than humans, like ''Dimorphodon'' and ''Compsognathus''), ''especially'' the dromaeosaurs, while herbivores tend to be seen as majestic and passive. It's also played completely straight with the prehistoric locusts in ''Dominion'', which nobody objects to complete eradication of because they are consuming the world's food crops. |
| 399 | * RaptorAttack: {{Trope Maker|s}} and TropeCodifier. |
| 400 | * ReactionShot: [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} A wild]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jc88zKVHZ4I&feature=related Raptor]] [[MemeticMutation appeared!]] |
| 401 | * RecycledSoundtrack: Not in the movies themselves, but the trailers for both ''Jurassic Park'' and ''The Lost World: Jurassic Park'' reuse music from ''Film/{{Backdraft}}''. |
| 402 | * {{Revision}}: Why the ''T. rex'' in ''Jurassic Park'' "couldn't see" people standing still. The second novel explains why she probably could, and why she didn't chow down on the immobile buffet. |
| 403 | * RoarBeforeBeating: Each movie has at least one scene that exists pretty much just to show off the dinosaurs (the "Ooh, aah" part of Malcolm's above quote), [[ThemeMusicPowerUp usually set to the main theme]]. |
| 404 | * RuleOfScary: Boy howdy, this is in full effect, particularly with the ''Dilophosaurus'' and the hybrids, the latter of which outright invoke it. |
| 405 | * RunningGag: Oft overlooked, but phones in-universe always tend to be the center of misfortune and chaos; in each film they manage to directly, or at least indirectly, cause mayhem in some form or another. |
| 406 | * ScavengersAreScum: Averted in the books, which go out of their way to point out how important scavengers are to the ecosystem, all the way down to finding creatures who can live off of and further process the not-very-thoroughly-digested mountains of waste the giant herbivores leave behind. Mostly averted in the films (the few that bother to mention them) with the ''Procompsognathids''. They aren't depicted as any more "evil" than the rest of the dinosaurs, though this is in keeping with the general trend of attempting to portray the dinosaurs as animals, instead of monsters. The Compys actually manage to look fairly cute, and give a dose of LaserGuidedKarma to one rather nasty character in ''Film/TheLostWorld''. |
| 407 | * SceneryPorn: It was filmed in Hawaii. |
| 408 | * SchizoTech: The level that genetic engineering technology has reached in the franchise could very well be described as centuries beyond that of the modern world's. Cloning technology has reached the point to where humans can produce dinosaurs, alter their genes even more by splicing them with DNA from other creatures, and produce a perfectly viable animal. Despite that, all other technology that we see is more or less equal to that which was present at the time that the then current books and films were made, and the march of technology has only ensured that they look even more antiquated. Downplayed in ''Film/JurassicWorld'', which aims for a more futuristic look and displays greater levels of technological sophistication in things outside of genetics. |
| 409 | * ScienceIsBad: Stronger in the books than the movies, though not as strong as some of Crichton's later novels. |
| 410 | * SeeNoEvilHearNoEvil: It fails in the first movie, and it's {{lampshaded}} in ''The Lost World'' book. |
| 411 | * SequelLogoInRuins: ''The Lost World: Jurassic Park'' and ''Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom'' feature more weathered logos compared to their immediate predecessors to mirror how much DarkerAndEdgier they are. |
| 412 | * ShoutOut: The male raptors of the second and third films bear similar designs to [[VideoGame/PrimalRage Talon]] with tiger stripes and head feathers, respectively. |
| 413 | * SoundOnlyDeath: Pretty much every casualty. Averted with Gennaro in ''Jurassic Park'', Eddie in ''The Lost World: Jurassic Park'', and the mercenaries in ''Jurassic Park III''. |
| 414 | * SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Film/{{Westworld}}'', another Michael Crichton work about an amusement park built around unusual or unique attractions -- [[RecycledInSpace robots instead of dinosaurs]] -- that outgrow their design, ensuing chaos and murder. |
| 415 | * StarringSpecialEffects: The first film may well be the TropeCodifier, particularly in the case of the larger dinosaurs. Keep in mind that the effects still hold up fairly well despite the film being made in 1993. |
| 416 | * StayInTheKitchen: Hammond to Ellie in the first book/movie. Although in the movie, it was more well-meaning chauvinism (saying he, not her, should be risking his life to get the power back on) instead of being a jerk. Ellie, who is a healthy, athletic young woman (whereas Hammond is an elderly man) notes how dumb this is: "We'll discuss sexism in survival situations when I get back." |
| 417 | * SuperPersistentPredator: Goes between subverting and using quite a lot in both the novel and film. In the second novel, it is mentioned that the raptors, born without a pack mentality and "code" due to no pre-existing raptor to teach them on Site B, are cruelly intelligent and kill for sport -- and often kill each other over food. |
| 418 | ** Overall the films subvert this with the raptors as little of the behavior is "predatory". Grant has concluded by the start of "III" that [=InGen=] created a sentient species, foreshadowing that most of that movie's raptors problems aren't about food at all. [[spoiler:They're about the raptors trying to recover an offspring egg one of the humans is carrying. This is ''human'' cost-benefit behavior.]] |
| 419 | * TakeThat: A bit of a GeniusBonus: The Robert Bakker {{Expy}} gets killed, and the technical advisor was Jack Horner, who feuded with Bakker over dinosaur biology. |
| 420 | ** Real life Bob Bakker, however, is said to have loved the scene. Specifically, Bakker and Horner at the time were not just rivals, but on opposite sides of the ''T. rex'' as predator (Bakker) vs. scavenger (Horner) debate. After seeing his expy nom'ed by the ''T. rex'', [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments Bakker called up Horner]] and triumphantly announced, "I ''told'' you it was a predator." |
| 421 | ** The TakeThat goes further in the book. The main characters discuss the ''T. rex'' not being able to see motionless objects and animals (something that was tried in the first film, to no avail). One of them calls the paleontologist who proposed this "an idiot". |
| 422 | * TheTamingOfTheGrue: Over the course of the franchise the ''Velociraptors'' have gotten this treatment. They were outright villains in the first two movies, but got a slight AntiVillain treatment the third. By the time ''Film/JurassicWorld'' came out, they were treated more as anti-heroes, and one, named Blue, was a straight-up hero. |
| 423 | ** Rexy the ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' has also been hit with this. In the original novel, she was very much an antagonist, relentlessly hunting down Alan Grant and the children to the point of leaving behind a dinosaur she'd just killed when she noticed they were nearby. She got a similar treatment in the first movie, and the fact that she saves them from the raptors is treated more as a lucky coincidence than anything else. Come ''Jurassic World'', she's deliberately used to defeat the Indominus Rex, and in ''Film/JurassicWorldFallenKingdom'' she once again returns to eat the human villain, while leaving the heroes alone. |
| 424 | * TerrorDactyl: Pterosaurs are depicted as monstrous creatures throughout the franchise. |
| 425 | ** ''The Lost World: Jurassic Park'' has a single ''Pteranodon'' appearing in the end credits. It doesn't show any aggressive behaviour, but its design is terribly inaccurate - it has pointed, leathery wings, and it perches on a tree bipedally. |
| 426 | ** ''Jurassic Park III'' has an aviary full of aggressive, predatory ''Pteranodons'' that attack the protagonists. They have [[ToothyBird teeth]] (even though the name ''Pteranodon'' literally means "toothless wing"), smooth skin, are able to grab people with their feet, and seem to nest in a birdlike manner. At least they walk quadrupedally. |
| 427 | ** '''Jurassic World'' has slightly different ''Pteranodons'' that show some of the same inaccuracies (grasping feet, smooth skin), but at the same time they [[ShownTheirWork have small crests, showing they're females]], and are shown plunge-diving in the water. They are accompanied by another species of pterosaur, ''Dimorphodon'', which is [[AnimalsNotToScale oversized]], also hairless, and has a box-shaped head that looks more like a theropod dinosaur than the real animal. Both species are depicted as irrationally aggressive, attacking humans in swarms. |
| 428 | ** ''Jurassic World: Dominion'' introduces ''Quetzalcoatlus'' to the franchise. Design-wise, it's the most accurate of the pterosaurs in the franchise (quadrupedal on ground, covered in fuzzy pycnofibres, no grasping feet, correct body proportion), but it's still oversized and aggressive, attacking a plane that's about the same size it is. |
| 429 | * TooDumbToLive: Anyone who would (a) follow a ''Velociraptor'' into dense forest, regardless of how well-armed they might be; (b) run headlong into a field of tall grass in which God knows what might be lurking -- after having been briefed that this was near a raptor nesting site; (c) knowingly steal raptor eggs for profit before even knowing if they'll make it off the island alive; or (d) thinks that they can automatically give commands to a raptor that it has taken someone else ''years'' of imprinting, bonding, and establishing himself as "alpha" to said raptor (who, by the way, has been dropping hints that she wants to ''kill'' this particular TDTL person) to be able to do (and very tenuously, at that), probably has a subconscious death wish. |
| 430 | ** And all of these are outdone by the latest instance of TDTL in this series: going into a mutated and supposedly tranquilized raptor's cage to ...wait for it...[[spoiler:try to claim one of its teeth for a trophy!]] Hooo boy, does this ''ever'' take the cake! The raptor in question even [[LampshadeHanging flashes]] a [[SlasherSmile smirking]] [[AsideGlance look]] [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall at the camera]] as if to say "What an idiot" before granting its victim a [[CruelAndUnusualDeath mercilessly brutal mauling]]. |
| 431 | * TraumaCongaLine: Blue the Velociraptor becomes a mix between this and {{Determinator}}. |
| 432 | ** Jurassic World: She looses all her pack mates and later survives a fight with the Indominus Rex. |
| 433 | ** Camp Cretaceous: She gets trapped under a truck and ends up saving the teenagers by fighting the Scorpius Rex. |
| 434 | ** Fallen Kingdom: She survives alone for 3 years on the island as the last of her kind before it is destroyed by the volcanic eruption, gets shot, almost dies from blood loss, gets captured and escapes an explosion before then fighting the Indoraptor to defend Owen. |
| 435 | * TropicalIslandAdventure: The series takes place on two fictional tropical Costa Rican islands known as Isla Nublar and Isla Sorna. |
| 436 | * VillainousRescue: Seen in the first film, one of the most iconic moments of the franchise. Grant, Sattler, and the kids are cornered by the ''Velociraptors'', who are just about to attack [[spoiler:when the ''T. rex'' comes out of nowhere and slaughters them.]] |
| 437 | * WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong: |
| 438 | ** Really, what could possibly happen if you were to let giant animals you know nothing about inhabit an entire island and show them as part of a theme park? (And rely entirely on automation to keep it safe?) [[SarcasmMode Surely they wouldn't bite anyone if they had the chance.]] |
| 439 | ** In the book, every one of Hammond's department leads realize that their containment methods are inadequate since they were planning on slow, stupid animals. They even give him a range of possible solutions, from equipment upgrades to modifying the dinosaur genetics to make them slow and stupid but he blows them off. |
| 440 | ** Or at least he does to their face. Later on, they discover that he'd ordered a stash of stronger weapons and hidden them in a secret bunker that some of the highest level folks in the park didn't know about. Perhaps he planned on telling them if he ever thought it was serious enough, but by the time he was at all worried it was too late. |
| 441 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: |
| 442 | ** Vince Vaughn's character Nick from ''The Lost World'' disappears from the film before the ''T. rex'' makes it to the city. His disappearance is never explained. It's possible that he just got the hell out and never looked back. |
| 443 | ** It's never mentioned what happened to the dinosaurs on Isla Nublar after the events of the first movie. In the book, they were [[spoiler:all killed by Costa Rican Air Force]], but in the movie ... they were just left free? In the second film, it is implied that everyone expected the dinosaurs to die by themselves after a short time, them being lysine dependant and all that. |
| 444 | *** The junior novelization also mentions Alan internally lamenting that the dinosaurs "would have to be destroyed", thus, one can assume this does indeed happen. Of course, keyword here being junior, that's probably because it omits the discussion about the lysine contingency. |
| 445 | *** The fourth film confirms that at least the original ''T. rex'' survived, and she currently lives in the new park. The rest, however, are unaccounted for (except for [[BigBad Clever Girl]] and her pack, who we know are dead). |
| 446 | ** In a deleted scene in the second film, we see Ludlow addressing the [=InGen=] board about the lawsuits associated with the deaths of Nedry, Muldoon, Gennaro, and others. He also mentions the costs of dismantling the Isla Nublar facility. |
| 447 | *** Any "dismantling" of Isla Nublar seems to have been either handwaved or retconned by the third movie -- at least in the ''JP III'' novelization, which mentions both islands as being populated by dinosaurs and declared no-fly zones. Udesky briefly mentions it in film, but gets shouted down before receiving any confirmation. |
| 448 | ** ''Film/JurassicWorld'' takes place on the first island, which is now under the management of the Masrani Corporation along with any surviving dinosaurs. |
| 449 | ** In the first film, we never actually learn why the ''Triceratops'' got sick, as Ellie's theory is disproven before the storm hits. She's shown picking up smooth stones off the ground, though, alluding to the correct theory she eventually figures out in the novel. |
| 450 | ** Nedry's can of dinosaur embryos. Spielberg even thought that the sequel would pick up on that, but Michael Crichton chose another path. It eventually was picked upon in ''Jurassic Park: The Game'' or in ''WesternAnimation/JurassicWorldCampCretaceous''. |
| 451 | ** Several species (''Ouranosaurus'', ''Monolophosaurus'', ''Parasaurolophus Lux'' and ''Tarbosaurus'') which did not appear in the movies but made their debuts in ''Camp Cretaceous'', it is unknown if they survived past the events of ''Fallen Kingdom''. |
| 452 | *** ''Mamenchisaurus'' and Junior the ''T. rex'' have yet to return since their first appearances in ''The Lost World'', the same applies to ''Corythosaurus'' which first appeared in ''Jurassic Park III''. It also remains to be seen if ''Pachycephalosaurus'' which was last seen in ''Jurassic World'' survived past ''Fallen Kingdom''. |
| 453 | *** It’s unknown what the final fate of Pearl, Olive, Dot and Agnes the Brachiosaurs which were first identified in ''Evolution of Claire'' novel is as its unknown if they were among the rescued dinosaurs in ''Fallen Kingdom''. |
| 454 | * AWinnerIsYou: Many ''Jurassic Park'' games don't bother with endings and just show players a lame and often lazy cutscene of the hero escaping the dinosaurs' island. |
| 455 | * WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Played straight with the reactions of everyone to the mere mention of ''Velociraptors''--at least in the first three films. |
| 456 | ** ''Jurassic Park'': When Alan and co. find out that Hammond and Wu bred raptors, and then later, when Muldoon and Ellie discover than shutting the park's entire power grid has allowed said raptors to get loose into the park. |
| 457 | ** ''The Lost World: Jurassic Park'': The two stranded teams learn that they'll have to hike through a raptor pack's nesting area in order to reach the abandoned village and call for help. |
| 458 | ** ''Jurassic Park III'': The group discovers that they're in the middle of raptor territory when hiking toward another abandoned facility. Another one pops up later when Alan learns that [[spoiler:Billy stole two of the raptors' eggs]]. |
| 459 | ** ''Jurassic World'' seemingly averts this with Owen managing to tame four raptors...barely. It ultimately gets subverted about halfway through with TheReveal that [[spoiler:''I-rex'' is part raptor]]. |
| 460 | * TheWorfEffect: |
| 461 | ** The raptors. They kill Muldoon the GreatWhiteHunter in the first film and almost all of Ludlow's {{Mooks}} in the second ... which would probably make it all the more embarrassing that they are defeated by ''[[ImprobableInfantSurvival Lex and Timmy]]'' in the first film, and ''[[LittleMissBadass Kelly]]'' in the sequel. |
| 462 | ** The ''T. rex'', after dominating the first two films, is rather implausibly killed by the ''Spinosaurus'' early on in the third film. The ''Spinosaurus'' itself is driven away by a flare gun and not seen again for the remainder of the movie. Some rumors persisted that earlier versions of the film would have had the ''Spinosaurus'' return for the ending and a final battle with the army. |
| 463 | *** The ''T. rex'' in the third film is a sub-adult male. It's obviously much smaller than any of the previous ''T. rex'' examples. [[spoiler:The ''Spinosaurus'' has also been retroactively implied to be a prototype hybrid]]. |
| 464 | *** Something of an AuthorFilibuster, as the paleontological consultant, Jack Horner, not only believed that the ''T. rex'' was a scavenger, not a predator, but held a personal animosity toward the species. Guess which large, meat-eating dinosaur he thought was much more awesome? |
| 465 | ** The infamous example from the third film receives a TakeThat in the fourth, where a ''Spinosaurus'' skeleton is displayed in the visitor's main courtyard, and [[spoiler:as the ''T. rex'' (the same ''T. rex'' from the first film, no less) makes her entrance for the final showdown with the ''Indominus rex'', she barrels straight through the ''Spinosaurus'' skeleton, smashing it to bits]]. |
| 466 | ** The ''Indominus'' proves to be a walking WorfEffect, managing to kill off 6 Apatosaurs, one Ankylosaurus, a good portion of a rather well-armed ACU containment team, two raptors, and nearly killing a mature T-rex. It takes the T-rex and a lone raptor ''working together'' just to tire the thing out. |
| 467 | *** [[spoiler:And then the Mosasaurus delivers a WorfEffect of her own, dragging the ''Indominus'' into her tank without much effort.]] |
| 468 | * TheWormGuy: Alan Grant in the first installment, Dr. Levine in the second novel, Sarah Harding in the second installment, and Owen Grady in the fourth film. |
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