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Velociraptor in general
- The Ace: While they're generally feared for their ferocity and their effectiveness in hunting, the Jurassic Park Velociraptors are also seen with a sense of awe and inspiration, albeit in a darker sense. Indeed, this is because of just how versatile and adaptive the raptors are, in addition to being able to stand out despite the presence of more visually striking dinosaurs. They are successful and well-equipped hunters, their intelligence allows them to coordinate and plan like no other dinosaur can, and they can be socially hospitable. On another note, while the Brachiosaurus is admired for its beauty and grace and the Tyrannosaurus is well-respected for its status as an apex predator and inspiring fear, the Velociraptor earns its reputation for the same reasons as the T. rex, in addition to its adaptability and intelligence making it more unique compared to other dinosaurs.
- Adaptational Badass: In reality, the Velociraptor was only around 5 feet long and slightly above 1.5 feet (barely clearing an average human's knees), and while they were fierce predators, their main diet was mainly restricted to small herbivores. In the Jurassic Park franchise, they've bulked up to 9-12 feet long and over 6 feet high, are far more intelligent, more vicious, and have a tendency to be known as the most feared dinosaur by several characters.
- Ax-Crazy: Several raptors tend to be depicted as savage and ravenous beasts who will not waste an opportunity to brutalize their prey before killing them. They're also prone to acting on berserker tendencies whenever they spot something they can kill.
- Composite Character: Despite being named after the real-life Velociraptor, most of their distinguishing traits are actually taken from other raptor species. Their size and appearance are closer to that of the Utahraptor, while their portrayal as highly intelligent is actually based on theories about the Deinonychus.
- The Dreaded: No other dinosaur inspires the same amount of fear and dread as the Velociraptors; not even the Tyrannosaurus and Spinosaurus can match up to it. Velociraptors inspire this reputation thanks to their surprising intelligence, vicious tendencies, and great speed and strength, on top of being just sizable enough to wander into buildings and interiors without an issue. It's not for nothing that they've managed to rack up the biggest human body count out of any dinosaur, giving any survivor all the more reasons to see this dinosaur in great fear.
- Historical Villain Upgrade: Real maniraptoran dinosaurs were certainly scary, but they were still animals that were simply doing what they needed to do so they could survive. The Velociraptors in the Jurassic Park franchise, however, come off as serial killers. Justified in the novels, which state that the raptors grew up in isolated captivity and never developed social skills that they would've usually learned from their parents, leaving them all effectively sociopaths who just kill everything around them. This is later contrasted in Jurassic World with Owen Grady's imprinted raptors, who are far more well-adjusted and behave similarly to their prehistoric counterparts. The Lost World and Jurassic Park III did play with this trope as well before, the ones in Lost World attack humans who intrude on their territory and aren't as persistent as their Nublar counterparts, while in III they only attack the humans because one of them stole their eggs after wandering into their turf.
- Informed Ability: It is stated by Dr. Grant in the first film that Velociraptor uses its large sickle-like claws on its toes to disembowel its prey's belly before it starts eating the spilled intestines while the prey is still alive. But on-screen, the raptors are never shown to use their sickle claws to disembowel. Instead, they use their jaws to clamp on the prey's neck, with their sickle claws pinning them down. Only in the novels do the raptors disembowel their prey. Ironically, this is more accurate to the real-life Velociraptor and Deinoychus, as modern studies reveal that their sickle claws are incapable of disemboweling their prey. Dr. Grant himself alludes to the theory being disproven in Dominion.
- Informed Species: One of the most infamous examples of this trope which as science has marched on has only become more stark; even in the early 90s, the Jurassic Park raptors were far closer to a generic dromaeosaur than they look like the quite distinctive Velociraptor or even Deinonychus antirrhopus (which they were originally intended to be. Crichton based their name on Greg Paul's then recent attempt to lump existing genera together with Deinonychus becoming Velociraptor antirrhopus. After consulting with taxonomists who argued against this, he kept the renaming because he just thought the name Velociraptor was cooler, but changed the species to mongoliensis). Like all Jurassic Park dinosaurs prior to Dominion, they have pronated wrists, they completely lack feathers, have a much more robust skull and are at least twice the size. Behaviourally the concept of pack hunting dromaeosaurs has been refuted more and more as time has gone on and their intelligence is strongly exaggerated (based on more recent research, these should be generic low unremarkable intellect predators while the T. rex should be the one displaying obvious intelligence).
- It Can Think: The raptors have always been noted to have been smart by dinosaur standards, but what makes them even more alarming is just how acutely they can think. For example, they can figure out how to use doorknobs and devise a trapping strategy to lure in potential prey by using a crippled human as bait.
- Lightning Bruiser: What makes the Velociraptor such a deadly beast is that, in addition to being quick runners, they're also stronger and more durable than they appear. They can take a large amount of punishment and pain before they are killed.
- Mix-and-Match Critters: While they are supposed to be Velociraptors (or Deinonychus), they look more like a mix between Dakotaraptor and Utahraptor, with the raptors in the first trilogy leaning more towards the former and the ones in the reboot having the bulkier look of the latter.
- Prehistoric Monster: Out of all the dinosaur species cloned, the Velociraptors have been consistently depicted as murderous monsters rather than animals, especially early in the franchise. They are more commonly seen in buildings than in the wild, and their hyperintelligence makes them feel like psychopaths in dinosaur skin. It wasn't until Jurassic Park III that this trope got subverted for the raptors, eventually fully defied with the debut of Blue.
- Raptor Attack: The Jurassic Park Velociraptors are the defining example of the usual stereotypical depictions of raptors; scaly, disproportionately larger than real-life Velociraptors, and smarter and more vicious than they likely would have been. That said, its inaccuracy may be a result of cloning, which involved the DNA splicing of other animals in addition to dinosaurs.
- The Sociopath: By animalistic standards that is, and a byproduct of them being poorly raised in captivity. The Velociraptors of the first novel and film were never given much freedom and scarce food, causing them to become unnaturally hostile, angry, and brutal. Their intelligence made things worse as the raptors ended up developing sadistic tendencies that clash against natural instincts and decide to hunt humans for sport once they find a way to escape. As a result, the Velociraptor was the only dinosaur that acted very homicidally and chose to pick apart its prey in a sadistic manner, not to mention they even developed traits of defiance and suicidal tenacity that are recurring antisocial symptoms. Thankfully, this is averted in the later films where the raptors shown are much more mentally and socially well-adjusted and lack the sadistic habits of the ones in the first book and film.
- Super-Persistent Predator: Raptors always hunt, even when they are not hungry. And humans are their favorite prey because of how easy it is to kill one. And they will not rest till they've hunted all of the humans on the island. In the novel they spend hours trying to gnaw through the metal bars around the Visitor Center to get to the surviving humans, while the film begins with a Velociraptor killing a park worker and refusing to let go despite twenty guards zapping her with stun batons simultaneously.
- Too Dumb to Live: Some raptors, especially the Big One in the first film, make suicidal charges against a bigger threat that end up with them getting predictably killed. Subverted with Delta and Echo who opted to protect Owen despite them being no match for the Indominus and managing to succeed posthumously.
Novel Canon
Velociraptor (Novels)
Velociraptors
Theropods from the Late Cretaceous period that inhabited what is now the Mongolia-China border and (in this universe) North America.- Always Chaotic Evil: The eight raptors in the holding pen are all equally vicious, eager to pounce on any living thing whenever opportunity shows itself. It's subverted when Grant and Gennaro discover the nest of wild raptors. The wild raptors seem to tolerate their presence, to the point of ignoring them in favor of finding a ship to get off the island. The ones on Sorna really play this trope straight, being willing to cannibalize each other and acting more like rabid dogs than the pack hunters their predecessors codified in fiction. At least part of this is because they're essentially feral children.
- Ax-Crazy: The eight raptors will attack anything on sight, even if they're not hungry. In fact, if they're not pouncing on you on first sight, that means you're already dead.Hammond: "I'm sick of hearing about the velociraptors. How they're the most vicious creatures anyone has ever seen."Muldoon: "They are. They should all be destroyed."
- Chameleon Camouflage: Some of the wild raptors can change colors, most notably Clarence the male raptor that Grant and the kids discover on their way back to the Visitor Center.
- The Dreaded: The most vicious and dangerous of the creatures on the island. Muldoon believes the raptors to be too dangerous to be kept alive and would have them all destroyed had the park administration not worried about the money lost in these clones.
- Evil Egg Eater: Grant theorizes that Velociraptors are nest raiders, citing that other small carnivores, as well as modern birds, have exhibited such behavior before. He uses this theory to explain why there's a significant increase in Velociraptor numbers and yet so little increase in herbivore numbers, and later would exploit this behavior against the raptors seeking him in the hatchery, poisoning several eggs and then rolling them towards their hungry mouths.
- Fantastic Fauna Counterpart: To tigers. They are described to be yellow-brown with red stripes, and Malcolm mentions that big cats like tigers don't become man-eaters unless they realize that humans are easy prey.
- For the Evulz: What makes the raptors stand out from other carnivorous dinosaurs is that they hunt even when they're not hungry and they kill for the sake of killing.
- The Heavy: The main dinosaur antagonists of the book, and the ones that cause the most trouble for the protagonists.
- In-Series Nickname: Often universally referred to as "Raptors" for short.
- Lightning Bruiser: Fast, agile, powerful, acrobatic, intelligent, and extremely hard to kill. They are perfect human-killing machines and thanks to their relatively small size (compared to other dinosaurs), there's almost no place that's safe from the raptors.
- Made of Iron: A Velociraptor has a distributed nervous system, meaning it doesn't die fast, even with a direct hit to the brain. Its body is solidly built with thick ribs that protect its heart all too well. And it's difficult to cripple the raptor's legs or hindquarters. It's no wonder Muldoon wants rocket launchers on the island.
- Monstrous Cannibalism: Tim and Lex try to use the baby Velociraptor that they previously met back in the lab tour to distract the rampaging adults. They are horrified when the adults tear apart and eat the poor thing without a second thought. Later, when one of the raptors is poisoned by Dr. Grant, it didn't take long for the other raptor to view its hapless companion as food.
- Raptor Attack: Like the film, they're the reason this trope exists in the first place.
- Token Good Teammate: One of them (named "Clarence" by Lex) befriends the heroes, or at least doesn't attack them.
- Sadists: As Muldoon puts it, the raptors often kill for pleasure and never pass up prey. Some of their victims were found torn to shreds but otherwise uneaten. However, this only applies to the raptors held in captivity.
Film Canon
Isla Nublar Raptors
Isla Nublar Velociraptors
Appearances: Jurassic Park
- Adaptational Badass: Considerably bigger, stronger, and meaner than real Velociraptors, or even Deinonychus, on which the novel raptors were originally based. And whilst the debate on their intelligence goes on, barely anyone thinks they were remotely as intelligent as they are portrayed as in JP—probably closer to dogs/wolves than chimpanzees or dolphins.
- Always Chaotic Evil: A trend started here and continued until Jurassic Park III, even moreso than the book, where it was played with.
- Ambiguous Gender: While it was stated that at least one of the raptors changed sex for the purpose of breeding, we never find out which of the three it was.
- The Dreaded: Everybody is afraid of the raptors, and for good reason.
- Historical Badass Upgrade: Velociraptors in real life were smaller and less intelligent than the ones in the films, which physically look more like featherless Deinonychus or Dakotaraptor.
- It Can Think: Muldoon demands that the Velociraptors be killed as they're far too intelligent; testing the electric fence for weaknesses (but never the same spot twice; "They remember," he warns) before they were moved to their high-walled prison. They seem to realize when the power is cut and claw their way through the electrified wire at the top. Even Muldoon underestimates their intelligence—as he's stalking one Velociraptor, another ambushes him from the side. His Last Words are genuinely admiring, "Clever girl!" And there's that Tempting Fate scene: "Unless they figure out how to open doors."
- Knight of Cerebus: Their very presence in the film is a dark contrast to the initial wonders of Jurassic Park. When Grant realizes that the baby dinosaur he is holding is a Velociraptor, his face turns from joy to horror as the music and raptor squeaks begin to take a sinister turn. Unlike the T. rex or the Dilophosaurus, who are only a danger to anyone stranded in the park when they're hungry, the raptors will hunt their prey to no ends and they are capable of entering buildings without a problem. Once they break out of their cage, no place is safe for the protagonists.
- Locked in a Freezer: Tim and Lex managed to trap one of the raptors in a freezer.
- Mythology Gag: The park originally had eight Velociraptors, the same number of raptors as in the novel. Unlike the novel, the official population actually decreased due to the Big One killing all but two.
- Raptor Attack: The very reason behind that trope. The film popularized the depiction of dromaeosaurids as man-sized, scaly, highly intelligent, hyper-aggressive pack-hunters in pop culture, but since then, most of these points
have been discredited.note Other minor errors involve their floppy, lizard-like tails and emotive snarling (stiffening tendons in their tail vertebrae would have prevented wiggly movements, while flexible, fleshy lips are an exclusively mammalian trait). - Signature Roar: The raptors have a number of signature vocalizations, most prominently a high-pitched shriek and a barking caw. The sounds were based on dolphins and walruses.
- Terrible Trio: Due to the Big One killing all but two of them. Subverted by the fact that only two raptors (Big One included) have teamed up on-screen during the climax thanks to protagonists trapping one of them in a room, be it Ellie shutting the door to power shed (that raptor manages to get out in time to join up with the Big One in the Visitor Center lobby) or the kids locking the freezer door in the kitchen.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: The raptor who got trapped in the freezer by Tim and Lex. She was the only raptor who did not partake in the final confrontation with the humans and thus the only raptor that did not became Rexy's snack, meaning she's still alive and left unaccounted for. Considering she was trapped in the freezer with no way out save through the now locked door, the raptor probably soon died of starvation, hypothermia, or suffocation.
The Big One
The Big One (Velociraptor)
Appearances: Jurassic Park
"They show extreme intelligence, even problem-solving intelligence. Especially the big one. We bred eight originally, but when she came in she took over the pride and killed all but two of the others."
— Robert Muldoon
A highly intelligent female Velociraptor who leads two more fellow raptors after she arrived and killed the rest of the pack to take leadership. She serves as the main dinosaur antagonist of the film.
- Arch-Enemy: To Robert Muldoon. He knows how dangerous she is, and she most certainly knows who he is, as she devises a trap to kill him as soon as she breaks out of her confinement.
- Asskicking Leads to Leadership: She became the leader by being the most vicious and dominating raptor, going as far as killing five members of her own pack just to prove it.
- Ax-Crazy: The Big One is described as being especially sadistic and psychotic, even for a raptor. Her violent personality is best exemplified by her killing other members of her pack just to assert her dominance.
- Bad Boss: In addition to killing the majority of the pack to assert her dominance, the Big One is shown to have a rather tense relationship with the remaining members, exemplified when she snaps at her subordinate for getting too close to her. When that same subordinate got trapped in the freezer, rather than trying to free her, the Big One instead pursues the fleeing children and leaves her behind.
- Big Bad: She is the cause of the first film's premise. By killing the worker at the beginning of the film, the Big One made the investors nervous about the park's safety, which causes Hammond to invite experts like Grant and Malcolm to the island in order to quell their fears. Although locked in a cage, her presence is felt throughout the film, with Muldoon fearing a potential breach at any moment. And when her pack finally breaks out, the rest of the film revolves around the protagonists trying to get the power back on and escape the island before she makes a meal out of them.
- Curb-Stomp Battle:
- She ambushes and swiftly kills Muldoon, who is completely helpless as she leaps on him.
- The Big One receives one from Rexy. According to Jurassic Park: The Game, the Tyrannosaurus devoured the raptor, leaving only a toe and claw behind.
- Curb Stomp Cushion: Her battle with Rexy. Taking the Tyrannosaurus by surprise, she was able to jump onto Rexy's flank and inflict some damage until Rexy was able to shake her off. Jurassic World shows that Rexy was left with raptor-inflicted scars.
- The Dreaded: She is regarded to be dangerous even by raptor standards. When Muldoon talks about the deadly nature of the Velociraptors, he specifically talks about the Big One and how she established her dominance (by killing most of her pack) and how she often tries to break out when the feeders came.
- Eviler than Thou: Muldoon regards all raptors too dangerous to live, but he admits that the Big One is a particularly nasty individual due to the fact she killed five other raptors just to make herself the alpha of the pack.
- Final Boss: She is the last threat that the protagonists have to face and by far the most dangerous of them all.
- Hero Killer: She's responsible for the death of Robert Muldoon, one of the few people in the park who is fully aware of how dangerous and unpredictable the dinosaurs can be.
- Informed Attribute: Described in dialogue as "the big one", but physically she is more or less indistinguishable from the other two raptors. May be due to her being The Dreaded, since she's nasty even to the OTHER raptors, and she will track down anything she wants regardless of how sensible it might be.
- It Can Think: Muldoon mentions that the Big One is always planning her next move and adapting to the situation. And it shows:
- She makes her pack constantly check the fences for weaknesses systematically, never attacking at the same place twice, which pays off when the power shuts down within the three-minute window.
- She lures Muldoon into a trap, using her own subordinate as a decoy while ambushing him from the sides.
- She and her pack have figured out how to open doors, which allows them to get into the maintenance shed to kill Ray Arnold, as well as the rooms that the survivors are hiding in.
- Klingon Promotion: Muldoon reveals that the Big One killed most of the other raptors to gain leadership.
- Revenge Before Reason: Though she never had good relations with her pack, the Big One doesn't take it well when Rexy kills her remaining packmate and decides to attack the giant carnivore rather than flee or at least continue her human hunt. Whether it's because she actually cares about her pack or sees it as a wound to her pride, the Big One's reckless attack on Rexy proves to be her downfall.
- Sadist: The Big One has a tendency to always pause and snarl before moving in for the kill, as if she wants her prey to die knowing who killed them as well as seeing the fear in their eyes.
- Slasher Smile: Whenever she's about to attack or chase her prey, she bares her teeth and bends her mouth in a way that resembles a sadistic grin.
- Super-Persistent Predator: Unlike Rexy, who knows when to give up chasing her prey, the Big One just never stops hunting hers. At the climax of the film, she chases the heroes throughout the entire Visitor Center, going through the kitchen, the computer room, the air vents, and finally the main hall.
- Too Dumb to Live: The Big One decides not to run away from the very large and very dangerous Tyrannosaurus rex that is stalking the island and can easily munch her if she so chooses. In return, she dies a very cruel and painful death at her teeth.
- The Worf Effect: The film establishes Muldoon to be a badass hunter and one of the more competent members of the park's staff. The Big One's threat is highlighted when she quickly outsmarts and kills him.
Isla Sorna Raptors (The Lost World: Jurassic Park)
The Lost World Velociraptors
Appearances: The Lost World: Jurassic Park
The supersmart antagonists that have appeared in all of the films.
- Adaptational Dumbass: They're not idiots per se, but compared to the raptors on Nublar in the first film and their fellow counterparts in the third, these ones don't try attacking from the sides, using injured victims to lure other prey closer, nor surrounding their prey outside the long grass (which is usually quite effective in other films) and instead prefer to just leap out of nowhere and charge head-on. One raptor also forces its way into a car by forcing its head through a small hole in the glass to widen it in a slow process, instead of working out how to use the door handle. The smartest thing that they do is teaming up to dig their way into a building where Sarah and Kelly are sheltered. It's also worth noting, that these raptors have a tendency to split up to go after multiple targets — had the already small pack all stuck together when they went after the main heroes in the village, they might've caught at least one of them for dessert.
- Adaptational Heroism: The raptors that lived on Isla Sorna in the novels were all violent psychopaths that barely worked together long enough to kill their prey before descending into infighting as a result of having No Social Skills. In the film, they seem relatively normal for the franchise, though they aren't above infighting.
- Adaptation Dye-Job: The female raptors are still brown like in the first film, but the males are bright orange with tiger-like stripes.
- Deadlier Than The Male: Out of the two that Sarah tricks into fighting one another, it's clearly the drab-colored female who has the upper hand over her tiger-striped opponent and the last shot of them implies that she may be killing him.
- Demoted to Extra: They were the main villains of the previous film. Here, they're mostly just really dangerous obstacles. Moreover, The Lost World is the Jurassic Park film where raptors have the least importance and screentime.
- The Dreaded: The InGen team specifically avoided the interior of Isla Sorna specifically because that's where the Velociraptor nest, meaning they consider them more dangerous than even the Tyrannosaurus. Sure enough, they're picked off like fish in a barrel when they're forced to enter their territory. It's also implied the Tyrannosaurus family avoids the interior for the same reason.
- Genre Savvy: The Velociraptors are absent whenever a T. rex turns up - notice how the first time they show up is once the main characters are out of the T. rex domain - implying that they have decided to keep the hell out of the Tyrannosaur domain, mainly because one T. rex is bad enough, but two is definitely a death wish.
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: One raptor is impaled to death on broken beams when Kelly does a gymnastics routine to kick it out of a window.
- Nothing Is Scarier: The classic version. We actually don't see the raptors at first, though the mercenaries are crossing the tall grass despite being told not to. And then suddenly, from a view from above, several trails start becoming visible in the grass following them...
- Raptor Attack: Again, Jurassic Park films are the reason this trope exists.
Isla Sorna Raptors (Jurassic Park III)
Jurassic Park III Velociraptors
"They set a trap. They actually set a trap."
Appearances: Jurassic Park III
Paul: What are you doing? Those things are after us because of those!
Grant: Those things know we have the eggs. If I drop them in the river, they'll still be after us.
Paul: What if they catch us with them?
Grant: What if they catch us without them?
A pack of Velociraptors that inhabit Isla Sorna and have claimed part of the interior as their territory.
- Action Dad: The alpha male is very determined to recover the two stolen eggs of his mate. He's the one who calls for help and tells his pack that the humans have the eggs. When the alpha female wounds Udesky in the back to lay a trap for the humans and the pack sees their trap fail, the alpha male kills Udesky by breaking his neck.
- Ambiguous Situation: In Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, it's stated that Blue is the last Velociraptor. It's unknown if the Isla Sorna Velociraptors died off or they are unaccounted for, making Blue the last one known to be alive. However, the Dino Tracker site confirms they are not only still alive, but somehow ended up on the mainland.
- Battle Couple: The alpha female and the alpha male are a very good couple together when they go after Grant's group. When Alan eavesdrops on the conversation between them it's shown that the two raptors respect each other.
- Big Bad: Averted this time. This time, they have a good reason for their attacks and don't do any more than is necessary to retrieve their stolen eggs. Everything they do is out of parental retribution and it's likely that they would've left Grant's group alone once they were out of their territory.
- The Determinator: As mentioned above, the other Sorna raptors stayed well within their territory to avoid encountering the T. rexes. These raptors are willing to venture well beyond their home field, on an island that is home to a superpredator that will kill a T. rex with nigh little effort, if it means getting their stolen eggs back.
- The Dreaded: Grant knows from his harrowing experiences in the first film that these raptors are not to be trifled with. His anger when he learns that Billy stole two of their eggs is entirely justified.
- Feathered Fiend: Partially feathered anyways, though the males have more feathers than the females.
- Foil: To the original park's raptors. Unlike the Big One, this pack's alpha female is shown to be level-headed and pragmatic, only pursuing Grant and co. to retrieve her stolen eggs. No aggressive behavior is displayed between pack members and they don't appear to be any more malicious than you would expect of their particular species. Overall, they're a well-adjusted and functioning family group, in stark contrast to the first film's psychopathic and Ax-Crazy trio.
- It Can Think: The smartest iteration of the raptors so far. It's implied that these ones have slowly adapted to surviving in the wild, live in complex family groups, and don't kill packmates for the hell of it, functioning much more like their ancestors than the original park's isolated and sociopathic pack. Their actual motivation, which they pursue for hours regardless of distance or difficulty, is to save two as-of-yet unhatched babies which shows a stunning level of maternal thinking. Just to put things into perspective, the T. rexes in the second film have a single baby they've bonded with at least; these raptors are going to extreme lengths and putting themselves at risk over two conceptual babies when they have an entire nesting colony of unhatched young back in their territory.
- The male raptor that Amanda encounters in the lab has the forethought to masquerade as a disembodied head in a specimen jar before lunging at her when she goes for a closer look. If that's not thinking, we don't know what is.
- Mama Bear and Papa Wolf: Their motivation. Like the T. rexes in the second film, the raptors would've just stayed in their own territory and far away from humans if nobody had bothered their babies.
- Noble Savage: Of all of the raptor portrayals in the first three films, these raptors come the closest to this trope, performing a Mercy Kill, complexly communicating with each other and attempting to do so with Grant's group at several points, and not hunting humans for food or sadistic pleasure but because someone in this particular group of people pilfered two of their eggs. Once they get the eggs back, the alpha female orders her mate and her pack to return to the nesting colony and spare the surviving humans instead of killing them for revenge.
- Non-Malicious Monster: Unlike their bloodthirsty counterparts in the first two films, all they want is their eggs.
- Number Two: The alpha male, to his mate.
- Secondary Sexual Characteristics: The alpha male is a dark indigo with red eyes and feathers down its neck, while the female is black and white with yellow eyes.
- Shown Their Work: The most bird-like out of the film versions. Their sexual dimorphism is even similar to most birds, with the males having a more vibrant appearance.
- The Smurfette Principle: Only one female is shown, whereas there are several males. Considering that female's motivation, any others may have stayed behind to protect their nests.
- Troll: The male raptor in the lab pretends to be a head in a specimen jar. When Amanda comes in for a closer look, he briefly darts his eye in her direction and seems to grin a little before lunging at her.
Lone Raptor (The Evolution of Claire)
Lone Female Velociraptor
Appearances: The Evolution Of Claire
A lone female Velociraptor that was transported by Masrani from Isla Sorna to Isla Nublar in 2004.
- Attack the Tail: She accidentally looses the tip of her tail when it gets caught in a closing door.
- Killed Offscreen: After she kills Justin and is knocked out by Claire and recaptured, Masrani has her put down.
- Raptor Attack: After she is accidentally set loose by Tanya and Eric she attacks Justin and Claire and ends up maiming and mortally wounding Justin.
Mantah Corp's Raptors (Camp Cretaceous)
Mantah Corp Velociraptors
Appearances: Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous
A pair of Velociraptors kept as guards on Mantah Corp Island around Kash's main complex.
- Continuity Snarl: Mantah Corp at that point in time only had animals from Isla Sorna or ones originally cloned by them, with shipments from Isla Nublar shown appearing only in the latter half of the season. This would suggest the Velociraptors would look like those from the first three films, but instead, they're simply a yellow recolor of the show's Raptor Squad model.
- The Dog Bites Back: They are the ones who rip Kash and one of Daniel Kon's goons to shreds once they break free from their mind control.
- Made of Iron: The pair tank multiple shots from a B.R.A.D. with seemingly no serious injury, in spite of the fact these were lethal to a Compsognathus and supposedly the humans it was targeting.
- Mysterious Past: Season 4 and 5 doesn't provide many details about the Mantahcorp raptor pack and where they come from (e.g. If they have nicknames and wether Mantah Corp cloned or stole them from Sorna like the Eaties).
- Super-Persistent Predator: Are very persistent at attacking humans, even after a presumed lifetime of experience with the invisible fences, at one point one jumps through it while still getting shocked in order to attack Darius. The only time they stop their attack is when they're up against B.R.A.D. bolts or surrounded by the fence completely.
- There Is Another: After the deaths of Echo, Delta, and Charlie in Jurassic World, Blue was claimed in Fallen Kingdom to be the last surviving Velociraptor on Earth. However, the introduction of these two raptors confirms that she isn't yet the last of her kind.
The Raptor Squad
In General
The Velociraptor Pack
Aggression Index: Very High
Park Attraction: Restricted
Diet: Carnivore
"I don't 'control' the raptors, it's a relationship. It's based on mutual respect."
—Owen Grady
The species of intelligent pack hunters which brought so much bloodshed upon people in years past. This time around, they've been cordoned off from the tourist-accessible park itself while Owen analyzes their behavior. Owen has given them names: Blue, Charlie, Delta, and Echo. Blue is the pack leader and the oldest, Charlie is the youngest and most unpredictable, Delta has more avian DNA than the rest of her pack, and Echo has scars from challenging Blue for dominance when they were younger.
- Aerith and Bob: After a fashion. Charlie, Delta, and Echo are NATO alphabet codes, Blue isn't. Though Owen clarifies that she's the Beta.
- Alphabetical Theme Naming: Their names' initials follow alphabetical order: Blue, Charlie, Delta, Echo. Where's Alpha, you ask? Owen IS the Alpha.
- Amazon Brigade: Given that they're a pack of female raptors, saying that they're capable of kicking ass is a bit of an understatement. They can and WILL engage any opponents, regardless of their weapons or size.
- Back-to-Back Badasses: Delta and Echo battle the Indominus alongside Owen. When they're killed, Blue fights the hybrid alongside Rexy!
- Berserk Button: Hurting any of their pack members, raptors and humans alike, will result in them trying to rip you apart. Right, InGen mercs and Indominus?
- Color-Coded Characters: The individual raptors have different color patterns as a result of their hybridizations. Blue is blue with patterns from a Black-throated African Monitor Lizard, Charlie is brown (like the raptors in the original film) with striped patterns from an Iguana, Delta is green, and Echo is sandy yellow.
- Domesticated Dinosaurs: Downplayed. While they're still not exactly safe for the average untrained person to be around, Owen's work with them means that they no longer go into Super-Persistent Predator mode around all humans. Hoskins thinks this means they will obey orders and can be controlled. Owen desperately tries to stress to him that even he can't "control" the raptors and it took years raising them from birth just to be able to get them to pause and stand back instead of attacking him — most of the time. Like an angry zoo lion, they still try to take swipes at him if they're frustrated. They "respect" him as their Alpha, but he continues to respect that they could easily rip out his throat if he's not careful around them; even actual Alphas in nature have to watch their backs lest some challenger for dominance gets the best of them. When Hoskins starts ranting about raptors being trained to replace targeted drone strikes, Owen shoots him a look as if he is insane. Further played with halfway through the film when they start attacking Hoskins and his team, but Owen is nowhere in sight for much of this scene. And immediately afterward, Delta and Echo attack the van containing Claire and her nephews. Blue also traps and attacks Barry, who is the only human besides Owen that she and the others halfway trust and has to be distracted by Owen calling to her and revving his motorcycle. To her credit, though, she actually pauses her attack when Barry himself calls her name.
- The Dreaded: They are still feared enough to be left off the list of tourist attractions in Jurassic World. In Fallen Kingdom, Claire outright tells Lockwood that they'll never be able to capture Blue.
- Owen, however, seems to be the exception as they like him.
- Dwindling Party: Over the course of Jurassic World Charlie gets shot by a missile launcher and Echo and Delta are killed while battling the Indominus Rex, leaving Blue as the Sole Survivor of her pack.
- Evil-Detecting Dog: None of them can stand Hoskins, especially Delta. Part of this could be due to Owen's obvious dislike of the man himself, but considering Hoskins' blatant disregard of their autonomy and well-being, it's likely that the sisters just plain despise him for his past and present behavior towards them.
- Extremely Protective Child: All four raptors will attack anything that threatens their adoptive father Owen.
- Fluffy the Terrible: Blue? Charlie? Such cute names... for creatures that can tear anybody into pieces.
- Foil: To both the Indominus rex and the original raptors. While the former dinosaurs are Ax-Crazy psychopaths who kill for sport and have no social skills, Blue and her sisters are well socialized, incredibly loyal, and don't appear to relish killing any more than would be expected of their particular species. They were also raised by Owen, who is caring and completely devoted to their well-being, while the Indominus and Jurassic Park raptors were raised in complete isolation and poorly treated by their supposed caretakers.
- Gender Bender: Averted according to the LEGO Jurassic World site, which indicates that there isn't amphibian DNA in the mix. Each raptor has DNA from different reptiles and birds, effectively removing any genes that allowed the original pack to change their sexes in a single-sex environment. Aftermath reveals that this gave them the ability to reproduce through parthenogenesis, though, making the Gender Bender issue moot.
- Heel–Face Revolving Door: When introduced, they appear to be tamed, but Owen's hold on them is tenuous at best. When the pack confronts the I. rex for the first time, they decide that she's a better alpha than Owen, making them go on a rampage against the personnel. Finally, when they corner Owen, Claire, and the kids, Owen manages to play on the bond he has formed with them, and the Velociraptors ultimately fight against the Indominus rex.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: Their Aggression Index is "Very High". Multiple instances show Owen's the only thing they listen to, and without his input, they will attack people at once.
- Imprinting: Presumably the reason they trust Owen. He's the only person they won't attack or kill, and they even turn against the I. rex to protect him.
- It Can Think: Owen makes it abundantly clear that the sisters are hyper-intelligent and will find ways to manipulate a situation to their own advantage. They work incredibly well as a Sibling Team, follow numerous commands when prompted, coordinate surprise attacks on their enemies, and appear to understand that Owen is a devoted caretaker and alpha who won't hurt them. All the while, Hoskins continues to believe that they're little more than dumb animals who can be trained by anyone, even though Owen is clearly the only person they give two craps about.
- Prehistoric Monster: Defied. Although there have been subversions in the past, these are the first Velociraptors to be portrayed as anything but vicious monsters. While they're not completely tamed, they don't attack their trainers on sight and actually respect Owen as their Alpha. They even have distinct personalities that are far more complex than the Big One's.
- Raptor Attack: Accept no substitutes.
- Redemption Equals Death: After Owen manages to reestablish his bond with the raptors, Echo and Delta die while fighting Indominus rex and not much earlier, Charlie dies due to her hesitance to attack Owen.
- Reformed, but Not Tamed: Owen makes it clear that despite success in training them, they're still hostile, aggressive, and liable to turn on their handlers. This is shown early in the film when Owen is able to distract them from attacking Leon, but they try circling around him and as soon as he turns his back to run for the gate they try to eat him. Sure enough, this is exactly what happens, due to the I. rex being part-raptor, but Owen is able to bring the raptors back on to his side eventually.
- Sibling Team: It's noted in the earlier films that Velociraptors are pack animals, so Owen raises the four sisters together and trains them to healthily function as an effective and loyal pack. This is in stark contrast to the I. rex, who was raised in complete isolation and ate her own sibling.
- Signature Roar: Just like their earlier counterparts, the raptors still have their signature vocalizations of high-pitched shrieks and barking caws. And since they're far more expressive in this film, certain sounds can even be used to gauge the sisters' emotions, such as their extremely loud shrieks around Hoskins' team, Blue's and Charlie's quiet chitters to Owen when they acknowledge him as their alpha, and the infuriated barks of Blue during her Big Damn Heroes charge against the I. rex.
- Sixth Ranger: In the expanded material, there was a fifth member of the pack: Subject V-2
, who was created from Park's original raptor genetic material while the other four were made with a new mix of genes. Physically and mentally she was basically a reincarnation of The Big One and was so vicious and unpredictable that she was euthanized. - Theme Naming: The raptors have military-esque names (which makes sense considering Owen's military background), though "Blue" is the Odd Name Out.
- Undying Loyalty: Despite the I. rex standing right behind them, all it takes is some close contact with Owen for Delta, Echo, and Blue to turn against the Indominus and fight to the death to protect him. Charlie also hesitates and appears to reconsider their betrayal as soon as she sees Owen in the firefight. It gets her killed.
Blue
Blue
"This one's called Blue. She's the beta."
Appearances: Jurassic World | Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom | Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous | VelociCoaster | Jurassic World Dominion
The oldest of Owen's raptors and the pack beta. She is blue-grey in color and has a distinctive blue stripe running down her sides.
- Action Mom: By the time of Dominion, Blue is revealed to have a daughter named Beta, who bears a striking resemblance to her, complete with the blue stripe.
- Advertised Extra: In the first two seasons in Camp Cretaceous. Blue features in a lot of promotional material despite only appearing in one significant scene in Season 1 with a cameo in the last episode, and two very brief appearances in Season 2. Season 3 gives her a more important role (if only for a few episodes), while in Season 4 she's Put on a Bus both in-series and in the advertising.
- All Animals Are Domesticated:
- Played with, particularly in Fallen Kingdom. Blue is a trained animal that is still extremely dangerous, requiring caution when Owen interacts with her. However, she also demonstrates the traits theorized to be vital to early domestication of a species. Unlike the other Raptors, Blue demonstrated the ability to empathize with Owen and expressed curiosity towards humans as opposed to fear/hostility. As such, Wu believes she is necessary to begin teaching and breeding these characteristics into future animals.
- In Camp Cretaceous, she does attack the kids, but only after they had trespassed on her nest, and unlike pretty much every other predator on the island, Blue does not hunt the kids in any way, only chases them off, showing that at the very least Blue does not consider humans to be food.
- In general, Blue seems to show a lot of restraint for a member of her species, with her being able to recognize those who are threats to her and those who aren't. She recognizes Barry's voice when he shouts at her and stops attacking in Jurassic World and doesn't attack Zia and Franklin after recognizing them as the people who saved her and released her from her cell in Fallen Kingdom. And in Camp Cretaceous, she hesitates from attacking the kids once they saved her from the Compsognathus pack and later assists them in fighting the Scorpios rexes once Darius proves to her that he and his friends aren't a threat. Even after the battle where the kids are distracted and have their backs turned, Blue chose not to attack them and runs off into the jungle instead.
- In Dominion, even after Owen decided to release her into the wild, Blue still chose to make her new nest in an abandoned bus somewhere not far away from Owen, Claire, and Maisie's new home in the woods and occasionally comes by to check on them, albeit from a distance. This suggests that in the end, Blue didn't really cut her ties with her adoptive father entirely.
- Played with, particularly in Fallen Kingdom. Blue is a trained animal that is still extremely dangerous, requiring caution when Owen interacts with her. However, she also demonstrates the traits theorized to be vital to early domestication
- Androcles' Lion: After she becomes trapped underneath an overturned ACU truck, Darius, Yaz, and Kenji save her by driving off an encroaching pack of Compsognathus that would have devoured her alive, and then lifted the truck just enough that she could crawl out. She later returns the favor by attacking and distracting both of the Scorpios rexes when one of them corners the kids in the old Visitor Center, giving the campers ample time to knock the scaffolding down and causing the roof to collapse, killing both Scorpios in the process, and just managing to escape with the campers.
- Anti-Hero: Well, she is a Velociraptor. However, unlike the psychotic ones from the first film, Blue's loyalty to Owen ultimately results in her and her sisters going up against the I. rex in what can only be considered a suicide charge. Blue easily could have sided with the much larger and deadlier alpha, but instead chose to fight for and protect her Parental Substitute and therefore, the rest of the island. In Fallen Kingdom, she's an unambiguous hero, generally only showing aggression towards active threats and at no point attempting to harm any of the main cast.
- Asskicking Leads to Leadership: Blue earned her position as beta by being the toughest and smartest of her sisters. When Echo challenged her for the title, Blue defeated the younger raptor in a physical fight and left a jagged scar across her snout.
- Back-to-Back Badasses: With Rexy.
- Big Damn Heroes: Blue, when Rexy nearly has her neck snapped by the I. rex.
- In Fallen Kingdom, Blue saves Zia and Franklin from Wu's bodyguards and protects Owen and Maisie when they are cornered by the Indoraptor.
- She saves the campers from the Scorpios rex in Season 3 of Camp Cretaceous.
- Big Sister Instinct: Blue is the oldest and the leader of the Jurassic World raptor pack who deeply cares about her sisters, especially Charlie, who is the youngest of the bunch.
- Blue Is Heroic: Zig-Zagged. Blue has a blue color scheme but isn't exactly heroic. However, that's because of her and her sisters' natural predatory instincts, not out of pure evilness. Blue and her sisters turn on the humans, but don't try to hurt Owen. And when confronted with the I. rex, she and her sisters fight it off to protect Owen. Played pretty straight in Fallen Kingdom, if only to contrast the dark-colored and very obviously villainous Indoraptor.
- But Now I Must Go: Blue at the end, sent off with little more than a nod from Owen.
- Combat and Support: In her team-up with Rexy to bring down I. rex, Blue acts as the Support by distracting I. rex, allowing Rexy to avoid its attacks and land good hits on it.
- Combat Pragmatist: She's smart enough to work with other dinosaurs to defeat foes she couldn't beat on her own. In Jurassic World, she teams up with Rexy to fight the I.rex on even grounds, and even Camp Cretaceous, she leads Hawkes' mercenaries into a Dilophosaurus nest so that they can ambush them for her.
- David Versus Goliath: She fought the larger I. rex and Indoraptor and two Scorpios rexes and survives all three battles. While she couldn't do much against the former other than distract it, she is capable of overpowering the latter two.
- Demoted to Extra: In Dominion, given the humans needed to travel far away from Blue's new home to rescue her baby, Beta.
- Determinator: You may be able to knock Blue down but if you're threatening her sisters or Owen, she will come back every time.
- Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: When the I. rex directs her to attack Owen and the other humans, she turns and roars back at it in defiance. This gets her propelled into a wall in response, but at least we know whose side she's on.
- Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: She not only fights the Indoraptor, which is 2-3 times her size, dino-a-dino, but she somehow manages to send it flying through a window. Not much later, she delivers the final blow that sends the Indoraptor plunging to its death.
- Disney Death: When she turns on the I. rex, the monstrosity responds by clawing her and sending her flying into a concrete pillar. As she slumps to the floor, she isn't moving, leading a lot of audiences to think she'd been killed. This is not the case, thankfully.
- Enemy Mine: Blue teams up with Rexy to stop the I. rex.
- Hollywood Healing: In Fallen Kingdom, Blue is shot and the wound is severe enough to almost cause her death by exsanguination. One blood transfusion and a few hours later and she is in perfect shape to jump at mercenaries armed with stun prods, outrun an explosion, fight a super hybrid evenly and throw said genetic abomination out of a window.
- Loyal Animal Companion: Bar her lunging at him when he stops her and her sisters from attacking Leon and her little wobble with the Indominus, Blue is very loyal to Owen. As a hatchling, she showed degrees of empathy beyond the rest of the Raptor Squad and as an adult, she's more than willing to hurl herself face-first into danger for him. Wu suggests that this was an unexpected result of her particular genetic makeup and not something he can easily replicate. This explains Wu's desire to have her captured and act as a surrogate mother to the next phase of Indoraptor development whilst using her DNA to develop more amenable traits in the hybrids.
- The Leader: Her position as pack beta designates her like this whenever Owen isn't around. Blue fits all four flavors of the trope, being headstrong, level-headed, charismatic, and quite the mastermind.
- Last of Her Kind: By the time of Fallen Kingdom, Blue is both the last surviving member of the raptor squad and is apparently the last living Velociraptor on earth. No longer the case by the time of Dominion after she's revealed to have a baby, and more raptors are created during the Time Skip (albeit mostly hybrids). Additionally, Camp Cretaceous revealed two raptors were living on Mantah Corp island and the Dino Tracker reveals that the Sorna raptors have somehow made it to the mainland, further subverting this trope.
- Made of Iron: Knocking Blue down isn't too difficult. Getting her to stay down is the problem. In the span of an hour, Blue nearly gets run over by an SUV, violently thrown into a concrete wall, and then again into several storefronts during the final showdown between the I. rex and Rexy. This does not stop her from charging right back into the fray and clawing at the I. rex's eyes, though. During her fight with the Indoraptor, she is clawed, bitten, and repeatedly flung across Maisie's room by an animal three times her size. She not only comes back for more, but she also manages to throw it out a window! When Delacourt traps Beta, he rams Blue with a 4x4, knocking her off a cliff, only for her to get back on her feet in seconds and scramble back up in an attempt to rescue her baby.
- Mama Bear: She has become a loving and protective mother to her offspring Beta, being very threatening to Maisie once she feeds Beta. An extended scene shows Blue killing a pair of poachers who tried to shoot Beta. She is also clearly distressed when Beta is captured.
- Meaningful Name: She has a blue pattern on her skin, appropriately.
- Odd Name Out: She's the only one not to be named from the NATO phonetic alphabet (her sisters are Charlie, Delta, and Echo). And while the name bestowed upon her daughter Beta isn't the NATO 'B' letter either (Bravo), it does refer to Blue's second-in-command position in the Raptor Squad after the Alpha. Instead she's named for the blue stripe down her body, but it still fits with the Alphabetical Theme Naming. Fallen Kingdom hints that this might be due to Owen forming a closer bond with her as a chick than the others.
- Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Only in comparison to other dinosaurs, though. She is dwarfed by both Rexy and the Indominus, yet plays a vital role in assisting the former against the hybrid during the climax. Then, in the sequel, it turns out she has managed to survive in Isla Nublar for years despite losing her pack, and later on goes toe to toe against a dinosaur twice her size and sends it out of a window!
- Put on a Bus: In Season 4 of Camp Cretaceous, along with the rest of Isla Nublar.
- Revenge Before Reason: Just like The Big One, Blue becomes enraged when her pack members are harmed or killed. Whereas anything with common sense, be it animal or human, would flee in terror from the I. rex, Blue instead charges straight at her. Unlike The Big One, this pays off pretty well for her.
- Ridiculously Cute Critter: As a baby, Blue chirping and nuzzling Owen's hand while purring is adorable.
- Saved by Canon: In Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous, Mitchell aims at Blue intending to kill her while she's drinking water, though considering she's alive and well by the time Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom takes place she survives thanks to Darius distracting Mitchell. Again in Season 3, where it's obvious that she's going to survive being trapped underneath an ACU truck and being chomped by a pack of Compsognathus (though it takes the kids helping her out for it to happen) and again when she fights with both Scorpios rexes in the old Visitor Center.
- Sole Survivor: Of the Raptor Pack. Charlie dies to a security member and Delta and Echo are killed by the I. rex.
- Stalker without a Crush: Set's up her nest in an abandoned bus within a short run of Owen's cabin, and is clearly observing him when not with Beta.
- Strong Family Resemblance: Her offspring in Dominion essentially looks like her miniature double, complete with the signature horizontal blue stripe.
- Truly Single Parent: In the four years between the events of Fallen Kingdom and Dominion Blue has managed to asexually reproduce and given birth to Beta, due to having genes from lizards that can do the same.
- Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Baby Blue was friendly, empathetic, and curious. As an adult, she's not only the largest but the most aggressive of the raptor squad, although still well socialized and responsive to Owen as well as very loyal to those who earn her trust.
Beta
Beta
Appearances: Jurassic World Dominion
Blue's daughter born to her after being brought to the mainland.
- Artistic License – Biology: Beta was born through parthenogenesis due to Blue having monitor lizard DNA, but is a female. In reality, Beta would have been male just like monitor lizards that were born through parthenogenesis.
- Generation Xerox: Just like her mother, Beta forms a bond with a human before she is captured by morally dubious people so that Henry Wu can study her DNA in order to find a solution for a scientific issue. Also, Beta is eventually released from captivity before she is allowed to freely roam the wild once again.
- Loyal Animal Companion: Like her mother's bond with Owen, Beta grows a bond with Maisie over the course of Dominion. Early on, she curiously approaches Maisie with no hostility and Maisie responds by giving her some food. After they are both captured and taken to the BioSyn facility, Maisie is the one who released her from her cage. When Owen, Alan, and Maisie try to recapture her later on, Maisie performs the same hand signature that Owen used to do with Blue to halt Beta from immediately attacking, allowing Owen to tranquilize her and take her back home to Blue.
- Offscreen Moment of Awesome: When she and Blue are tracking a rabbit, a wolf gets to it first. Beta's response to this is to attack the wolf. Given she shows up again without so much as a scratch on her, she either killed it instantly or drove it off without it putting up much of a fight.
- Pint-Sized Powerhouse: She is still a Velociraptor, after all (and for bonus points, she is the size of a real Velociraptor). When Blue takes her hunting early on, a wolf manages to get a drop on a rabbit before she does. Her response is to pounce on the wolf instead. Later in the film when she got loose inside the BioSyn facility, it takes Owen, Alan, and Maisie to work together to capture her, and she almost kills Alan when Owen manages to tranquilize her just in time.
- Strong Family Resemblance: She has a striking resemblance to her mother. Given that Blue reproduced through parthenogenesis, Dr. Wu concluded that Beta is genetically identical to Blue.
- There Is Another: The existence of Beta means that Blue is no longer the last of her kind as a result of apparently asexually reproducing between films.
- Uniformity Exception: Beta is missing the sickle claw on her right foot. Upon a closer look, it isn't so much missing as it is broken.
Delta
Delta
"Delta! I see you. Back up!"
Appearances: Jurassic World | Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom | Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous | VelociCoaster
One of the middle raptors in Owen's pack. She is solid green in color and has small patches of blue around her eyes.
- Animal Nemesis: To Hoskins. He seems to have no clue how much Delta hates him and continually antagonizes her throughout the film.
- Back-to-Back Badasses: With Echo and Owen, who she fights alongside in their battle against the Indominus.
- The Brute: Delta is arguably the most "traditionally" Velociraptor-like of the pack, being especially snarling around Hoskins and actually attacking her "father" when still quite young.
- Enfant Terrible: When Delta was a baby, she would respond to Owen's Crocodile Tears by immediately attacking him. This contrasts with Blue, who attempted to comfort her adoptive father.
- Funny Background Event: When Owen and Hoskins are talking on the catwalks, Delta can be seen watching them with a disturbing level of attention from inside the enclosure. No one seems to notice her over-eager behavior, or they just don't care because of their mutual dislike for Hoskins. Either way, it's an early moment of Foreshadowing that also showcases Delta's hatred of her alpha's rival.
- Green and Mean: Delta has green scales and can be incredibly hostile towards anything that disrespects her.
- It's Personal: Delta really has it in for Hoskins. She violently rattles her cage and snarls whenever he's nearby and then personally tracks down and slaughters him in the Creation Lab. It makes one wonder if they had other unpleasant encounters in the past.
- The Lancer: Maybe. She's the assumed second-in-command to Blue going off age and Blue seems to interact with her most.
- Kids Are Cruel: In comparison to Blue at least. Whereas her sister reacted to signs of weakness in Owen by making comforting gestures, Delta took it as an opportunity and attacked.
- Kill It with Fire: Delta gets flung into a gas grill by I. rex and is roasted alive.
- Sacrificial Lion: Delta is killed fighting the I. rex. She has the misfortune of being thrown through a window and onto a gas grill, which combusts around her.
Echo
Echo
"Don't ever turn your back on the cage."
Appearances: Jurassic World | Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom | Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous | VelociCoaster
One of the middle raptors in Owen's pack. She is sandy-yellow in color and has a jagged scar across her snout.
- Back-to-Back Badasses: Delta and Echo fight the Indominus alongside Owen for a brief while before they're killed.
- In-Series Nickname: Due to Echo's permanent sneer from the scar on her snout, some of the handlers have nicknamed her "Elvis".
- Redemption Equals Death: Echo dies fighting the I. rex alongside Delta, getting caught in its monstrous jaws.
- The Rival: She was this to Blue when they were younger and jostling for control of the beta position. It appears to have simmered down as they've aged and established a healthy, functional pack.
- Scars Are Forever: In her juvenile years, Echo fought with Blue for control of the pack and now has a prominent scar along her muzzle to show for it.
Charlie
Charlie
"Charlie! Hey! Don't gimme that shit!"
Appearances: Jurassic World | Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom | Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous | VelociCoaster
The youngest of Owen's raptors. She is dark green in color and has dark brown stripes running down her whole body.
- Annoying Younger Sibling: Charlie is constantly whacking her sisters with her tail.
- Beware the Silly Ones: Her quirks (and Owen's first words to her) can downplay the fact that she's still a very deadly Velociraptor.
- Big Sister Worship: The LEGO game reveals that Charlie, the youngest of the pack, will often follow whatever Blue does because she admires her eldest sister. Charlie even apparently offers up some of her meals to feed Blue. Awww.
- Green and Mean: Charlie has green scales and she can be vicious if mistreated.
- Heel Face Doorslam: Just when she looks like she's rejoining Owen, she gets blown up by a rocket launcher.
- Ludicrous Gibs: Charlie has the misfortune of being blown up after seeing Owen and recognizing him. Poor girl doesn't even have a chance to get away from the rocket launcher that's directed at her.
- Quizzical Tilt: Upon seeing Owen after the raptor pack pulls a Face–Heel Turn and she hesitates to attack him. Then she gets blown up.
- Redemption Equals Death: Charlie encounters Owen during the slaughter of the InGen mercenaries and hesitates to attack him. Unfortunately, her hesitation allows someone off-screen to target her with a rocket and kill her.
- Sacrificial Lion: Charlie is blown up by an InGen security member's rocket attack.
- Trailers Always Lie: There's some promotional material showing Charlie having avian eyes with rounded pupils, much like the raptors from Jurassic Park III. In the actual film, however, she has conventional slit pupils.
