Jurassic World: ReGenesis
is a fanfic by Palaeontologica. A rewrite of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, it has a far darker tone than the original, having more on-screen deaths and overall being more brutal. The story is set in 2019, focusing on an extraction job sent to rescue the last dinosaurs from Isla Nublar funded by the Atherton Estate. Predictably, it goes horribly wrong when a group of mercenaries take over, and a dark truth about the Estate is revealed.
This fanfic provides examples of:
- Accidental Hero:
- The Diablovenator massacres a group of mercenaries, as well as Gunnar Eversoll, when the latter reveals Maisie's nature as a clone.
- The Utahraptors happen to be in the vicinity when the Ocypete re-emerges, saving Levine from almost certain death.
- Adaptational Heroism:
- To an extent, Richard Levine. In the novels, he is pompous and arrogant, displaying no gratitude towards others for help. In ReGenesis, he proved integral in defeating the Diablovenator, distracting it before it could kill Claire and Maisie.
- Adaptational Nice Guy:
- Eli Mills. In the original, he's a scheming man who tries to capitalize on the opportunities presented by genetic engineering and dies because of it. In ReGenesis, he's an honest man who tries his best to keep everyone (particularly Maisie) alive, and he's the first one to figure out that the hybrids have human DNA.
- Adaptational Villainy:
- Gunnar Eversoll is a more malicious figure in the script, taking on the role Eli Mills had in Fallen Kingdom. This includes having the same death scene.
- Ken Wheatley is replaced by a new character, Thomas Saunders. Saunders is a brutal yet pragmatic man, with no qualms over shooting anyone in his way, including Jack Thorne. According to the extended lore, he's the way he is because a T. rex killed his brother in the San Diego Incident, leaving him traumatized and sending him over the brink of complete madness.
- Artistic License – Biology:
- Played with. As in the original, Dr. Wu intends seems to seek Blue's DNA to create controllable hybrids. It turns out that he actually wants to use Blue, due to her socially conditioned behaviour, as a "mother" of sorts to the Diablovenator.
- Again, played with. The wiki pages state that the dose of carfentanil Dr. Wu gets injected with in the original was counteracted by a rapid injection of naloxone, saving his life.
- Behemoth Battle:
- In one scene, a Yangchuanosaurus tries to pull off a full-frontal assault against a herd of Ankylosaurus, almost killing a juvenilenote before being deterred.
- Darker and Edgier:
- The script is this to the original film. Whereas Fallen Kingdom certainly had its darker moments, the film was interspersed with low-quality jokes and humour. Very few of these remain in the script, and the darker scenes are turned up to eleven.
- Double-Meaning Title:
- The name ReGenesis refers to both the creation of the two hybrids - a "regenesis" of sorts - and a previous fan project the author liked.
- It Can Think:
- After the Diablovenator is tranquilized in the cage, Thomas Saunders plants a mercenary to keep guard of it. This goes just as well as you might expect, and the hybrid proceeds to break out after viciously killing the mercenary.
- Laser Sight:
- Inverted. The Diablovenator at first seems to respond to the laser rifle as normal. Towards the end, it's revealed that it was just playing along.
- Mix-and-Match Critters:
- The wiki entry confirms that the two hybrids have DNA from a variety of species, ranging from Velociraptor and Indominus rex to moray eel and even short-tailed bat. It's Eli Mills that figures out they're part-human.
- The wiki entry
- Pragmatic Villainy:
- Gunnar Eversoll and Thomas Saunders both fulfill the criteria. Eversoll is an unscrupulous businessman with no qualms about selling experimental superhybrids, while Saunders is an unstable psychopath with no qualms about shooting people in the head.
- The Hero Dies:
- The death of Thorne. He's in the front of the Arcadia with the captain when Thomas Saunders and his men burst in and gun them both down.
- Near the end of the film, Zia is brutally killed by the Ocypete.
- Similarly, Owen meets his end at the hands of the Ocypete too.
- Wham Line:
- The reveal that the Ocypete can reproduce by parthenogenesis.
Zia: ... but if the Ocypete gets out, and if it breeds out of control ...Levine: There may be no stopping it. An ecological catastrophe, the likes of which man has never seen. We can’t just let this thing loose in the world. You don’t just let a ... a monster like that run wild. One species capable of causing a mass extinction event is bad enough, but two? Give them ten years, half the ecosystem will consist of them. Dinosaurs will inherit the Earth again—but this time, they will be the calamity that drives change. - Wham Shot:
- In the final confrontation with the Diablovenator, Levine tries to use the laser rifle on the hybrid. It's only then when we find out it doesn't work. It's never worked.
- This happens a few times in the ending. First, we see the inside of the Atherton Manor, specifically the Agujaceratops skull where the Diablovenator was impaled. Nothing. The camera cuts to a nearby lighthouse, we see two people working, and that's when the window smashes open, and we find out that the Diablovenator is still alive.
