Western Animation / Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous

Discover what happened on the other side of the island.

Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous is the first official TV series in the Jurassic Park franchise. Produced by Amblin Television and DreamWorks Animation, it premiered on Netflix in September 2020.

The show follows a group of six teenagers chosen for a once-in-a-lifetime experience at a new adventure camp on the opposite side of Isla Nublar. But when dinosaurs wreak havoc across the island, the campers are stranded. Unable to reach the outside world, they'll need to go from strangers to friends to family if they're going to survive.

Season 2 was released in January 2021, followed by Season 3 in May 2021. A fourth season premiered on December 3, 2021, followed by a fifth and final season on July 21, 2022. After the end of the show, a standalone interactive special, Hidden Adventure, premiered on November 15, 2022. A sequel series, Jurassic World: Chaos Theory, has been announced and is set to premiere in 2024.

Previews: Teaser, Official Trailer, Season 2 Teaser, Season 2 Official Trailer, Season 3 Teaser, Season 3 Trailer, Season 4 Trailer, Season 5 Teaser, Chaos Theory Teaser.

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Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous provides examples of:

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• Absurdly Ineffective Barricade: In Season 3, the kids have built a fortified camp with a fence surrounding it that they both reinforce with debris and also electrify with a car battery. The Scorpios rex is able to climb the tree that makes up part of the barricade, allowing it to easily enter the camp, and also can leap over the fence with no issue. Also, the electrified fence arcing in the rain is what draws the Scorpios' attention in the first place.
• Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene: While the kids never get enough of a rest to qualify for a true Breather Episode, there are moments when they get to breathe and rest in between perils. Notable examples include the kayaking ride where they get a moment to take in the ambiance and talk to each other about Sammy's betrayal and the monorail ride where they talk about what'll happen once they get home.
• Action Survivor: All of the kids, as they're unarmed children up against dinosaurs. Their only tools are stealth, distractions, and running for their lives, and they're only able to fight back once: building a bomb to stop Toro.
• Adults Are Useless:
  • Roxie and Dave leave the kids unsupervised multiple times, which ends in disaster every time. And once the Indominus rex breaks out and starts its rampage, the only adults the kids meet are a couple of Red Shirts and Eddie, who's suffering from a profound case of Sanity Slippage. None of them are helpful, and all of them get eaten, leaving the kids to fend for themselves as they try to escape the park and its marauding predators.
  • In Season 2, it gets Averted a bit. The kids meet Mitch, Tiff, and Hap, who feed them and promise to get them off the island when their boat comes back, but it turns out that Mitch and Tiff are big-game hunters and Hap is their guide. Mitch and Tiff end up being as much a threat to the kids as any of the dinos. Hap on the other hand genuinely wants to save the kids, tells Mitch and Tiffany to piss off when it becomes obvious they have no intention of helping the kids and ends up sacrificing himself so Brooklynn and Kenji can escape a pack of Baryonyx.
  • In Season 3, Doctor Wu shows up with a bunch of soldiers, hoping to secure some of his research. Almost immediately, half of them are wiped out by various dinosaurs, and by the end, the gang is still forced to make their own way back to civilization.
  • Finally subverted in Season 4 with Dr. Turner, who at first appears to be a villainous Mantah Corp agent determined to keep them isolated, but who turns out to be knowledgeable about and respectful toward dinosaurs, capable of defending herself against them if need be, believes the campers' story, takes immediate action to protect them against the dinosaurs and BRADs, and does everything in her power to help them make contact with the mainland and get home. It's just that she has no direct contact with anyone else either and only minimal control over the BRADs. Double Subverted: Then she gets badly injured, forcing the kids to care for her until she recovers, which leads to several tense moments and forces Ben into a dangerous situation to get first aid supplies.
• Advertised Extra: The Tyrannosaurus rex. Despite being featured prominently in the show's intro, she never actually appears in any episode, except in a video game during the pilot. Justified, given that she would be locked in her enclosure for most of the season. She plays a much larger role in Season 2 and is even referred to as Rexy by Sammy for the first time in official media, outside of The Evolution Of Claire novel.
• Ambiguous Situation: The fact that as of season four, there has been no follow up to the campers sending the distress beacon in season two despite over six months passing, also no one (including Roxie and Dave) have contacted their families, implying some force beyond the island may be covering up their survival. In season 5 it is revealed to be Mantah Corp that was responsible.
  • It’s never explained exactly why the Mantah Corp drones were on Isla Nublar during season 3.
• Androcles' Lion: Realistically averted; on multiple occasions, the kids help out dinosaurs in peril and in short order get attacked by the exact same dinosaurs. To their credit, the kids understand that said dinosaurs are wild animals and aren't stupid enough to expect them to not attack. The only exception is Blue, who's both much more intelligent than a normal dinosaur and also established to have an unusual ability to experience empathy.
  • Sort of with Big Eatie. She seems to recognize that Darius removed a spike from her tail and chooses not to attack him when freed from Daniel Kon's controller chip, even though Darius was vulnerable (and thus an easy meal) at the time.
  • Played straight when Big Eatie starts to recognize Darius and the compassion he has shown her, and she returns the favor by rescuing him from the Spinosaurus.
• Apocalyptic Log: Roxie uncovers a shelf full of walkie-talkies — which all immediately begin to burst with the death screams of Hamada and his team as the Indominus kills them.
• Aquatic Hadrosaurs: Played straight by the Parasauroluphus that live in the underground river area. Given that they also have been genetically modified to have bioluminescent markings, it's likely they were genetically modified to be semi-aquatic.
  • In season 3, the kids encounter a herd of aggressive Ouranosaurus that they discover are also capable of swimming.
• Arc Villain:
  • Toro for Season 1.
  • Mitch and Tiff for Season 2.
  • The Scorpios rex for most of Season 3, Dr. Wu and his mercenaries for the final 3 episodes.
  • Kash for Season 4.
  • Daniel Kon for Season 5, with him technically being the overall arc villain for the entire series.
• Armor-Piercing Question: After getting tired of Brooklynn being angry with Sammy, Kenji basically asks her what good it would do to keep being mad. Brooklynn has no response.
• Armor-Piercing Response: Brooklyn gives one to Dr. Wu in "Stay On Mission":
  Wu: I'm a visionary. Pushing the boundaries of science. Hopefully one day you'll understand that.
  Brooklyn: True visionaries make the world better, not worse. Hopefully one day you'll understand that.
• Artistic License: In Season 3 Episode 3, the kids escape the Monolophosaurus pack by climbing the cables going down the elevator shaft. In real life, elevator cables are incredibly sharp to touch with one's bare hands. Sliding down them the way the kids did would be a good way to turn your hands into hamburger meat.
• Artistic License – Biology:
  • The idea that animals of different species, including predators and prey, can peacefully congregate around a watering hole. In reality, large mixed-species gatherings around water holes generally only occur in extremely dry places like the Kalahari desert, when the animals' need for water is enough to outweigh their natural fear or hunting instincts. On a tropical island like Isle Nublar, water is plentiful so there wouldn't be any reason for such a congregation. Such places are not exactly peaceful either as many will fight to get at the water, and predators are always lurking either on land or in the water.
  • The Sinoceratops-Spinosaurus hybrids are portrayed as animals adapted to below freezing temperatures able to survive due to being endothermic. Being endothermic alone does not allow an animal to survive such extreme temperatures (not to mention already being present in all known dinosaurs and the humans freezing beside them), an animal of their size would require extensive coats of fur or feathers to keep warm. A hypothetical adult of the species may be large enough to survive on body heat alone, but the pig sized juveniles would surely freeze to death.
  • Firecracker, the baby Brachiosaurus is shown being more interested in leaves than berries because "she's expended a lot of energy and needs something more substantial. Fruit is significantly more energy-dense than leaves, a hungry herbivore seeking calories would eat fruit first.
• Artistic License – Paleontology: Par for the course, this being a Jurassic Park show, but several lines stands out.
  • Stegosaurus is said to shed and regrow its plates periodically like a deer sheds its antlers. In reality, the plates of Stegosaurus were deeply anchored in the skin and would require a severe injury to break them loose.
  • Craniofacial biting is brought up in season 4 as play behavior between two Tyrannosaurus, when in reality it refers to bite injuries to the skull deep enough to puncture the bone, almost certainly from disputes with other members of their species.
  • The Pteranodon are only shown landing and launching on their hind limbs and even folding their wings, which is quite jarring as Dimorphodon landed on all fours.
  • The Dimorphodon lack pycnofibres and possess a claw at the end of the wing finger, unlike both their real-life and film counterparts.
• Asshole Victim:
  • In Season 1, Eddie selfishly ditches the kids to save his own hide only to be eaten alive by the Indominus rex.
  • In Season 2, Mitch and Tiff try to hunt and kill dinosaurs as trophies, even willing to harm the kids for getting in their way. Mitch gets ensnared by his own trap and devoured by Rexy, though his death is a little pitiful due to the circumstances from it. Tiff gets devoured by Chaos and Limbo when the latter two jump on her boat in revenge for killing their sister Grim.
  • Pretty much everyone who died in Season 5 deserves it in some way. Namely Mantah Corp's investors, Kash, Molina, Hawkes, and the rest of Daniel Kon's mercenaries.
• Awful Wedded Life: Implied with Tiff and Mitch. They initially start out seemingly happy together. But as their story arc moves along, we glean bits and pieces of resentment, old grudges, and previous fights.^note  For example, Tiff can't get over that Mitch had their previous wedding anniversary with her in-laws. In the end Tiff abandons Mitch when he gets stuck in his own trap.
• Bat Deduction:
  • Roxie guesses that the kids are alive after losing their signal at the Mosasaur Lagoon when she finds a broken pair of sunglasses, which she says must be Kenji's because they're expensive and pretentious-looking. She's correct, but it never occurs to her that the glasses could have belonged to any random park-goer who'd been in the Mosasaurus stadium and were just damaged and lost during the pterosaur attack.
  • The kids figure out the Indominus and Rexy had a fight simply by noticing some of the damage to the buildings and fencing, and that the mosasaur finished off the Indominus. It is implied that they can see the corpse of the dinosaur in the lagoon, we just aren't given a view of it.
• Bathroom Search Excuse: Sammy pretends to be looking for the bathroom when Brooklynn finds her near Wu's office.
• Beach Episode: Episode 2 of Season 3 "Safe Harbor”, after finding Mitch and Tiff's boat stuck on rocks, the gang get in swimwear and board it. Finding nothing and being in a relatively safe spot the gang decides to have a Yacht party to unwind.
• Beastly Bloodsports: Mantah Corp plans on doing this with its animals, and tests it midway through season four.
• Being Good Sucks: In Season 3, the kids had to choose between asking Dr. Wu to rescue them or stopping him from getting samples to start creating a new hybrid.
  Yaz: I just wish it wasn't always up to us.
  Brooklyn: We're the only ones who care about everyone's safety.
• Big Beautiful Woman: Sammy is noticeably bigger than Yaz and Brooklynn, but this does nothing to detract from her adorable appearance.
• Big Damn Hero: Big Eatie, following in Rexy's footsteps, saves Darius from the Spinosaurus just in time.
• Big Damn Kiss: Yaz and Sammy have one after they declared their romantic feelings for each other in Season 5.
• Big Damn Reunion: Ben returning to the group is naturally met with joy or big hugs or both. Justified, as they all thought he was dead.
• Big Heroic Run: "The Long Run" is centered around Yaz racing miles to get the antidote after Sammy is poisoned by the Scorpios rex.
• Big Shadow, Little Creature: Happens with a Compsognathus when the children explore the tunnels in the last episode of Season 1.
• Bioluminescence Is Cool: The kayaking ride has bioluminescent algae in its cavern and its waterfall, and the nearby Parasaurolophus herd has been engineered with bioluminescent stripes on their heads and bodies.
• A Birthday, Not a Break: "Happy Birthday, Eddie!" features a park employee's birthday. None of his coworkers even showed up for his party, and then he gets eaten by the Indominus rex on his birthday.
• Bittersweet Ending:
  • Season 1: Darius and the other kids all manage to survive the whole situation, but they don't make it to the boats in time, being left stranded on Isla Nublar, but the kids decide to stick together and wait until someone comes back to the island. They're also separated from Ben and Bumpy, with no idea that Ben is alive.
  • Season 2: The kids are happily reunited with Ben and are able to keep Mitch and Tiff (who were eaten by Rexy and the Baryonyx) from poaching the dinosaurs. However, Hap sacrifices himself to save them before he can lead them to the boat he, Mitch, and Tiff used to get to the island, so they're still stranded. And the escaped creature from Room E750 implies that they'll soon have a new threat to deal with.
  • Season 3: The kids are finally able to get off the island via using Mitch and Tiff's boat they found and destroyed Dr. Wu's laptop, preventing him from making another Scorpios rex. However, they are forced to leave Bumpy behind with her own kind, and Darius and Kenji are on bad terms due to the former's plan that risked their friend's lives. And most of all, something is inside the boat with the campers as they're leaving the island...
• Black Comedy Burst: Eddie. Dave and Roxie are given his birthday card to sign while waiting to meet with Claire, only to learn that the camp has fallen into complete chaos, and later, the kids find Eddie, who's been holding a birthday party to himself and gone crazy, and he's subsequently eaten by the Indominus rex.
• Black Dude Dies First: The very first person killed in the show is a black park worker. He's even wearing a red shirt!
• Bookends:
  • The first dinosaur Darius sees at Cretaceous Camp is a Compsognathus that got lost. In the first two season finales, a pack of Compsognathus is one of the last dinosaurs we see (unless one would count E750).
  • The first episode of Season 1 sees the campers arriving to Isla Nublar, the final episode of Season 3 sees them finally leaving the island.
  • The first episode opens with Darius playing a video game when his brother comes in and encourages him to take a break. He signs off temporarily before getting an epiphany and logging back in, winning the game, and earning a free trip to Jurassic World and his chance to see real dinosaurs. The last episode ends with Darius responding to comments on a video about his time living with dinosaurs, when both his brother and Kenji encourage him to take a break. He signs off temporarily (to chat with the other campers) before logging back in to continue replying, and then sees a wild dinosaur that has just been released.
• Both Sides Have a Point:
  • In "The Art of Chill", Yasmina and Kenji have a conflict over the former working too hard and the latter not working enough. Kenji calls out Yaz on working despite her injured ankle, to the point where she's injuring even further. In turn, Yaz makes a point that she would not feel compelled to work at all if Kenji wasn't so lazy and actually did any work.
  • In that same episode, after freeing the abandoned herbivores from their cages, the other three members see a Baryonyx that's also trapped in a cage with them. Sammy wants to free it because it deserves to go back to its family just like the other dinosaurs, and if they don't they would have to come back every day to feed him with one of the herbivores. However, Darius argues that the group has had enough trouble as it is, and freeing the Baryonyx means one more dinosaur that can potentially eat them. Towards the end of the episode, both are proven correct; the trapped Baryonyx successfully helps her family fend off a pack of Stegosaurus, while at the same time posing a recurring threat throughout Season 2.
  • In Season 5, after Kenji sides with his father, the Camp Family are torn between how to go about the grieving process. At some point, Darius voices he doesn't care about how he feels about Kenji. On one hand, Darius has a point that stewing over their hurt feelings won't fix their problems. On the other hand, the others aren't wrong to sort through their emotions, as Darius and Brooklyn find themselves able to function better once they confide in each other how they feel about losing Kenji.
• A Boy and His X: A timid camper turned Wild-child (Ben) and his Ankylosaurus (Bumpy).
• Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: When Sammy is interrogating Yaz to try to get her out of her shell.
  Sammy: What's your favorite color? Your favorite food? Your favorite color of food?
  Yaz: Orange, orange, and orange.
• Brick Joke: While waiting to meet with Claire, Dave signs a birthday card for some guy named Eddie and is apparently the only person to do so. The kids end up meeting him at Dr. Wu's lab later that episode, still wearing a birthday hat and with a birthday cake.
• The Bus Came Back:
  • Spinosaurus, unseen since Jurassic Park III outside of a mounted skeleton in Jurassic World, returns in Season 4. The Dilophosaurus as well, which haven't been seen since the original Jurassic Park.
  • After being absent for the entire fourth season, Bumpy makes a brief cameo at the end of the tenth episode where she is shown to be alive and well on Nublar but missing the campers.
  • After being absent from season three and only appearing in a nightmare in the fourth season, The teaser for season five confirms the return of Toro.
• Call-Back: Multiple to the past films.
  • A shot from the first season has the Indominus rex's foot stepping into the frame in a near-identical manner to the T. rex breaking out of containment in the first Jurassic Park.
  • Darius manages to beat the VR game InGen set up as a contest by finding and blowing into a Velociraptor resonating chamber from Jurassic Park III. As a bonus, he gets the idea after reading through some scientific papers on the matter, likely written by Billy and Dr. Grant.
  • Brooklynn calling out Dr. Wu that "true visionaries make the world better, not worse", compares to what Dr. Malcolm said to Dr. Hammond in the first film: "What's so great about discovery? It's a violent, penetrative act that scars what it observes. What you call discovery... I call the rape of the natural world."
  • In Season 3, the rest of the campers find a wrecked car that they know Ben and Darius were in up against a tree, but figure out that they're alive by finding their footprints nearby, almost exactly like how Muldoon and Sattler figured out that Grant and the kids survived the T. rex attack in the first film.
  • In season 3, Darius helps a Sinoceratops which had a venomous quill in it from the Scorpios Rex and pulls it out of the dinosaur. In season 4, Darius helps an injured Tyrannosaurus rex by pulling out a broken off spike from a Kentrosaurus which is in it’s tail.
• Call-Forward: In mid-Season 5, Lewis Dodgson not only finds Dennis Nedry’s long-lost Barbasol can, but he is among the group attacked by a pack of Dilophosaurus, alluding to his fate at the hands of another pack of the species in Jurassic World Dominion. Finally, when he exits the series, he claims to Kon that you never know who’s going to stab you in the back, nodding towards Ramsay Cole’s betrayal of him that prevents him from getting away with his crimes.
• Camp Unsafe Isn't Safe Anymore: Literally what happens in Episode 4, when the campers find their once-safe lodge completely destroyed.
• Canon Immigrant: After only appearing in games, Season 3 marks the debut of Ouranosaurus and Monolophosaurus in the movie continuity. In Season 4 Kentrosaurus and Smilodon join in the club.
• Cell Phones Are Useless: Brooklynn was the only camper allowed to bring her cell phone, but it gets broken when chaos ensues. She laments that she could have used it to help out in the situation, but it's pointed out to her that it probably wouldn't be as useful as she thinks it would be given the circumstances. The gang finds an ACU tablet, which while locked out of doing anything but tracking dinosaurs, does prove useful as a map until it is also lost and broken.
• Cerebus Syndrome: The series starts off pretty lighthearted, with only a few tense and dramatic moments, but things quickly go south in Episode 4 when the Indominus rex escapes, and it doesn't get better afterward.
• Cliffhanger: Season 4 ends with the campers and Dr. Mae Turner falling into a trap set up by Kash and his boss, the CEO of Mantah Corp himself, who's revealed to be none other than Kenji's father.
• Commonality Connection: Between Brooklynn, Sammy, and Yaz over a high school detective show. Kenji also joins in at the end of the episode.
• Continuity Nod: The series happens during the events of the first film, so there are references here and there to those events.
  • Masrani's chopper is shown arriving at the park and later pursuing the Indominus, which leads to it crashing into the aviary.
  • Claire considered dumping Zach and Gray at Camp Cretaceous, but evidently decided against it, or Zach and Gray ditched Zara before they could be taken to the camp. The characters also find their damaged Gyrosphere and the corpse of the Ankylosaurus the Indominus killed.
  • Roxie and Dave hear the ACU being torn apart by the Indominus. They also attempt to contact Claire Dearing but are unable to get in contact with her due to all that's going on.
    • During this scene, one of the ACU agents can be heard repeatedly shouting "Shoot her!" like Muldoon in the opening scene of the franchise.
  • The Mosasaurus pen being landlocked is both this and a Continuity Snarl as the sequel relocated it to being connected to the ocean for plot reasons.
  • During Season 3, the events of Fallen Kingdom's opening sequence are witnessed by some of the campers.
  • Darius theorizes that the reason the Scorpios rex is able to reproduce asexually is due to the frog DNA used to create the first one. Alan Grant uses the exact same theory to explain how dinosaurs are able to reproduce in the original Jurassic Park.
• Continuity Snarl: The interior of the Visitor Center lacks the damage that was left behind by the Indominus rex.
• Covered in Mud: After their initial fall into the jungle, the campers are covered in dirt mud splatters for the rest of the series.
• Cower Power: Really the campers' only way of getting past the dinos is to cling together and cower while hopefully the lumber past.
• Crapola Tech: Expenses were definitely spared when it comes to Jurassic World's infrastructure. Once they aren't electrified, the fences are useless, communications are spotty at best, vehicles are prone to stalling or just not working at all, and whoever designed the park's electrical grid probably didn't know an Ohm from an Amp.
• Cut Apart: Season 3 features both variations.
  • Darius and Ben are running to the boat where the other campers are waiting, with both groups trying to avoid Scorpios rex. The group on the boat sees bushes rustling on shore, while the group that's running cuts through bushes to reach the boat. The scene on the boat happened earlier, and the rustling was the Scorpios rex. Darius and Ben run out of the bushes to see an empty dock.
  • Darius and Yaz are hiding in the dark jungle from a team of mercenaries. We cut to a mercenary's POV, and their night-vision goggles are picking up two heat signatures hunched together. When the mercenary makes his move, he ambushes a pair of dinosaurs. The campers are close, but not in imminent danger.
• Cypher Language: All English writing in the series is rendered in a cypher alphabet.
• Darker and Edgier:
  • Season 2 introduces a married couple of poachers who are there to shoot dinosaurs and make them trophies and are all too willing to kill the campers should they interfere or step out of line. This adds a new layer of survival horror to the season on top of the predatory dinos.
  • Season 3 is even darker, with the presence of the two Scorpios causing the dinosaurs — carnivore and herbivore to become unnaturally aggressive leading to much more intense chase sequences, multiple dinosaur deaths — with many of them onscreen, as well Sammy almost painfully dying from venom. And that's just the tip of the iceberg.
  • Season 4 has much more gruesome dinosaur interactions and onscreen fights between dinosaurs, being test subjects for Mantah Corp.'s Beastly Bloodsport plans, not to mention a deranged scientist who basically keeps Darius hostage.
• Death Glare: Darius gives one to Toro after the explosion leaves her covered in burns, convincing Toro to leave the kids be.
• Delaying the Rescue: What Darius does when Brooklynn has been kidnapped by Dr. Wu and his men, much to Kenji's chagrin.
• Deserted Island: After the collapse of Jurassic World, the island has been totally evacuated and abandoned (with the exception of six teenagers) and has been reclaimed by the dinosaurs.
• Did Not Think This Through:
  • Kenji loses his confidence as the self-appointed leader of the team when it's pointed out that his plan to make Darius The Scapegoat in case any of them gets eaten could backfire on him if Kenji himself is the one that gets eaten.
  • Spoken word-for-word by Yaz when she realizes that in the process of heroically jumping out of her kayak to distract the Mosasaurus from the others, she's just stranded herself in the middle of the lagoon with the Mosasaurus coming at her and no way to escape.
• Died on Their Birthday: Eddie, one of the scientists at Jurassic World, gets eaten by the Indominus rex on his birthday.
• Disc-One Final Boss: The Indominus rex is the primary threat to the protagonists at first but then she gets caught up in the events of the film and Toro takes over as the main dino antagonist.
• Dirty Coward: When Kash and Darius are being charged by an angry dinosaur, Kash pulls Darius in front of himself as a human shield.
• Disney Death: Ben appears to fall to his death from the monorail, pursued by Pteranodon, however the final scene of the first season shows that he's Not Quite Dead.
  • Big Eatie is severely injured by the Spinosaurus, and is left for dead in episode 11 of Season 5. In the next episode, she recovers and arrives just in time to save Darius from the Spinosaurus.
• Doom Magnet: Even before the Indominus escapes containment, the kids manage to trap themselves in a raptor pen and a Carnotaurus paddock, get caught in a stampede, and almost drown in mud. Once it does get out, the park never lets them have a break. The counselors even lampshade this trope as the reason for locking down the camp.
• Doomed by Canon: What the kids are going to go through is inevitable, since we already know what happens to Jurassic World thanks to the film.
• Downer Ending: Season 4 ends with the campers and Mae surrounded by BRAD-Xs, Kash, and the person who runs Mantah Corp turns out to be Kenji's dad.
• Dramatic Irony: In "Battle Lines", Kenji angrily accuses his friends of (if accidentally) nearly killing his father, cementing his siding with him over them. The irony is, not only has Daniel Kon's conversation with Mae strongly imply he'd willingly hurt the kids himself, but also Kenji is terribly mistaken of how trustworthy his father is.
• Dramatically Missing the Point: In Season 5, Kenji and his friends try to demonstrate to his father that dinosaurs are living creatures rather than mindless fighting machines, using Dr. Turner's technology to guide them. On the surface, Mr. Kon's adulation makes it look like he's seen the light. But later, it reveals he was only inspired by how Mae's technology makes it easier and more profitable to control the dinosaurs for entertainment.
• Draw Aggro: Since they're unarmed kids, much of their fights against dinosaurs consist of distracting them or getting them to look the other way while they sneak past. Occasionally this requires one of the kids to lure a dinosaur towards them instead of the others, like Darius luring the Indominus at the Labs or Yaz banging a pole to distract the Mosasaurus.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: At the end of the series, the group has finally brought down Kon’s schemes and sent him to prison, and are rescued and returned home to their families at last. The heroic dinosaurs of the series such as Bumpy get to live peaceful lives on the island with Mae, safe from the coming eruption of Mount Sibo. Kenji is adopted by Darius’s family and still maintains his relationship with Brooklyn after earning her forgiveness. Ben retains his newfound strength and is able to go to the island to see Bumpy from time to time. And Yasmina and Sammy remain a couple, taking extended stays at each other’s homes despite their distance between them. Darius also becomes a public speaker on behalf of the dinosaurs, who as well know from Dominion will eventually acclimate into modern society.
• Egomaniac Hunter: Mitch and Tiff have come to the island to shoot dinosaurs for their trophy collection.
• Evil Poacher: Mitch and Tiff in Season 2.
• Family-Unfriendly Violence: While the seasons do a good job cutting away from human deaths without neutering their impact, Season 3 is much more explicit in the onscreen dinosaur on dinosaur violence, with the Scorpios rex going out of its way to kill other dinosaurs including a scene where it murders multiple dinosaurs back-to-back in rapid succession. For comparison, Rexy's killing of a Parasaur was largely relegated to offscreen, only showing her drag off the body.
  • Season 4 as much more gruesome dinosaur interaction and onscreen fights between dinosaurs than even previous seasons had managed.
• Finger-Twitching Revival: At the end of the first season, Bumpy finds Ben's unconscious body, and his fingers start twitching, proving that he is still alive.
• Fire-Forged Friends: Discussed and defied in Episode 7 where Brooklynn claims that they've only known each other for a few days, and will likely never see each other again once the ordeal is over. However, by the last episode, it's clear this has become the case.
• First-Person Perspective: Occasionally switches to a stalking dino's or the kid's point of view.
• Five-Token Band: The six main kids are: Darius (African-American), Kenji (Japanese), Brooklynn (Caucasian), Sammy (Latina), Yasmina (Middle-Eastern), and Ben (Caucasian).
• Foil: Between Hap and the couple Mitch and Tiff. Hap is a gruff man who easily comes off as menacing and untrustworthy. Even he won't argue that he's "no angel". But ultimately, he turns out to be a well-meaning guy who's out to protect the kids from his unscrupulous employers and even earns redemption by sacrificing his life for Brooklynn and Kenji. By comparison, Mitch and Tiff may seem sweet and caring towards the Camp Family, and even lie to Darius's face that they're Eco-tourists. But in reality, they are hiding that they are poachers who want to shoot and mount the dinosaurs, and so easily turn on the Camp Family when they learn their secret.
• Foregone Conclusion:
  • The Indominus will escape, turning the park into a death trap.
  • In the final episode of Season 2, it's clear Mitch and Tiff weren't going to successfully kill any of the dinosaurs at the watering hole if Blue was their first target.
  • Once Chaos and Limbo come across the carcass of their sister and identify the killer, it takes no detective to predict Tiff's fate.
  • Despite the kids' insistence on protecting the dinosaurs in Jurassic World, we know from Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom that it will all have been All for Nothing as most of the dinos on the island will later be killed by the volcano's eruption in four years.
  • In Season 3, despite the campers' attempts to prevent Dr. Wu from creating further hybrids from his research files, he ends up getting a sample out of the Indominus remains, which eventually results in the creation of the Indoraptor.
• Foreshadowing:
  • When Brooklynn is snooping around the Jurassic World lab looking for Wu's office, she runs into Sammy, who claims she got lost looking for the bathroom. This is one of the clues that Sammy is a spy for Jurassic World's competitor.
  • While he and Roxie wait for Claire, Dave is signing a birthday card for a staff member named Eddie, who he off-handedly remarks he doesn't know very well. This becomes an important hint when it's revealed in Season 2 Eddie was a spy who was looking into Jurassic World's latest hybrid, E750.
  • Just as with the films, the early sections of the series are replete with subtle indicators of complacency and incompetence on the part of the people running the camp/park. The very first dinosaur encountered by the group is a Compy that has escaped, forcing the counselors to stop in the middle of the drive to round it up, but not before it jumps in the bed of their truck. It's also quickly revealed that it is way too easy for the campers to get into areas they shouldn't be, like wandering into the unmonitored raptor compound after-hours or wandering into poorly-marked tunnels that lead right into dangerous locales, like the Carnotaurus paddock. On top of that, it's abundantly clear that the camp is woefully understaffed for the small handful of kids already using it, to say nothing of how things will balance out, once it's fully occupied.
  • In Season 4, the kids have access to a tablet that can play dinosaur calls, which Brooklyn also manages to connect to a Killer Robot so they can use it to communicate with each other. Ben even takes the time to explicitly state that the tablet controls the robot. The kids use a dino call to lure Kash into a trap, incidentally locking it in with him. The girls later get a message from the robot and assume it was from Darius, but it was actually Kash luring them into a trap. On a smaller note, the message refers to one of the dinosaurs by species, when the campers have taken to calling the dinos by name.

G - L

• Gender-Equal Ensemble: The camper make-up is three boys, three girls. Later turns to three girls and two boys after Ben's Disney Death, however, the ensemble goes back to normal mid-way through Season 2 after Ben returns.
• Geo Effects: The kids make good use of the fact that dinosaurs can't climb very well and frequently use trees and buildings as escape routes or temporary safe zones. In Season 2, they even rebuild their treetop suites to give them a more permanent home.
• The Ghost: Claire Dearing and Simon Masrani are mentioned several times, but they never actually appear during the show. We get to see the latter's helicopter chasing the Indominus and crashing into the Aviary, though.
• Gory Discretion Shot: Despite being aimed at younger viewers, the series does feature multiple characters (at least five over the course of the series) getting eaten or killed by dinosaurs, with most of it happening offscreen with only the sounds of munching and crunching illustrating the terror. They also do this when they find the remains of the Indominus rex in the Mosasaurus pool.
• Hartman Hips: Yaz, Sammy, and Roxie all have noticeably wide hips.
• Hate Sink: Mantah Corp (and by extension, Kash) becomes this by Season 4 when the audience sees what they are capable of. Blackmailing Sammy for dinosaur saliva samples is one thing. But that's just child's play compared to the list of transgressions that spans the entire season. They drug a mother T. rex and her beloved daughter, forcing them to fight to the point of the mother hurting her daughter against her will. They put a Kentrosaurus in the Arctic biome just to see how long it would take to freeze to death. Then they pit the mother T. rex against the Kentrosaurus in a death battle. Oh, and they were planning on inserting mind control chips into baby dinosaur brains, even at the risk of frying their little baby brains. Not to mention Kash actually sent Velociraptors and the BRADs after Mae when she took a stand for what was right. Needless to say, there's not any reason to root for them.
• Herbivores Are Friendly: For once, averted. During their Gyrosphere venture, Darius and Brooklynn are attacked by a startled Sinoceratops picking a fight with their Gyrosphere, but played straight once it calms down. Not long afterward, the kids find themselves in the middle of a stampede. They are also almost besieged by Parasaurolophus, and in Season 2, territorial Stegosaurus are a notable threat. In Season 3, Ouranosaurus are shown to be highly aggressive.
• Heroic Breakdown: Darius has one in Episode 8 when they are cornered in a room with Toro on their trail, feeling like he's way over his head especially since he failed to save Ben.
• Hidden Depths: Kenji is practically Idle Rich in-training, but he can be pretty insightful when he wants to be, such as advising Brooklynn to stop being angry at Sammy despite the latter's actions having greatly hindered the group.
• Hidden Disdain Reveal: Kenji casually admits to the Camp Fam that he never liked Mitch or Tiff in the first place, even before Brooklynn got suspicious of them.
  • Later, Mitch finds himself stuck in his own snare, and Rexy fast approaching. He tries to coax his wife to help free him (or at least stay by his side) by calling her their usual pet name "Babe". As Tiff leaves her husband to his fate, she admits she never really liked that name.
• High-Speed Train Reroute: When the kids are on the monorail, they're attacked by Pteranodon and see that there's a crashed rail car on the route ahead, and have to get to the cabin to switch tracks.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Mitch is killed when he gets his leg caught in a snare trap that he'd set earlier and forgotten about, leaving him dangling helplessly in the air as Rexy approaches.
• Hope Spot:
  • The kids ride on the monorail that will take them to the ferries. Unfortunately, because they had to change tracks to avoid colliding with another monorail that was trashed by pterosaurs, the one they're riding on is turning around from where the ferries are. Forcing them to walk the rest of the way, only to arrive too late.
  • Darius almost drops Ben when they're dangling from the monorail, but manages to regain his grip to his obvious relief. Then, a few seconds later, he loses his grip anyway leading to Ben's Disney Death.
  • Season 2 has the kids meet what they assumed to be a rescue party, Mitch, Tiff, and Hap. They think they'll finally be able to get leave the island and go home. But nope! They're really poachers who just happened to come to the island to hunt the dinosaurs, and they're far more dangerous than any T. rex or Baryonyx the kids have ever encountered.
  • A villainous one: Tiff makes it to the boat and starts motoring away from Isla Nublar, seemingly home free. Too bad she callously killed Grim and gave Chaos and Limbo a reason to seek her out...
• Idiot Ball: Both the councilors and the kids hold this in the first four episodes; The councilors are always running off and leaving the kids unattended, while the kids always go off on their own to explore. Every time this happens, the kids nearly get eaten, trampled, or gored. Downplayed with Ben, who's always forced into these situations due to either peer pressure or being in the same vehicle when the kids cause mischief.
• In Spite of a Nail: Kenji theorizes that even if Sammy hadn't broken Brooklynn's phone (which could have helped with their problems immensely), the kids would still have gotten stuck in the same situation.
• Incurable Cough of Death: In the flashbacks in "Things Fall Apart," the first indication that Darius's father is sick is a small cough and some fatigue.
• Instantly Proven Wrong: In season five, when Roxie, Dave, and Darius's brother Rand are exploring Isla Nublar looking for potential survivors, Dave declares, "If there were anyone else on this island, we'd have found them by now," only for Dr. Mae Turner to pop up behind him and ask, "Are you sure about that?"
• Internal Reveal: By the end of Episode 5, Brooklynn's phone accidentally falls out of Sammy's pocket, revealing to the team that she really did steal the phone.
• Interquel: Similar to what Jurassic Park: The Game did with the first film in the franchise, the series happens during the events of the first Jurassic World.
• Isle of Giant Horrors: From the end of Season 1 onwards the island is an abandoned theme park with a population of dinosaurs (and six teenagers) living on it.
• Just a Kid: The main campers are this, being around 12- to 15-years-old.
• Karmic Death:
  • Eddie is killed by the Indominus as soon as he tries to abandon the kids to their luck.
  • Tiff is killed by the remaining two Baryonyx after she turns away from the controls of her boat to taunt Darius and Brooklyn, which causes it to drift close enough to shore that they can jump onto it. It's strongly implied that they were tracking her in retaliation for having killed their packmate earlier.
• Laughing Mad: Eddie starts hysterically laughing (and not in a good way) when he has to make it clear to the kids that there is no plan to save them and no one will be coming for them.
• Laser-Guided Karma: In Season 2, the kids have to decide whether to free a caged carnivore (Baryonyx) and reunite it with its siblings, the show averts the Androcles' Lion trope as the Baryonyx continue to pose a threat to the campers for the rest of the season, however, they do unintentionally give the kids a second chance to escape the island when they kill Tiff (who shot their pack mate) before she could escape the island on her boat, allowing the kids to find it in season 3.
• Late-Arrival Spoiler: Dr Wu explicitly mentions that he and the Mercenaries who arrive on Isla Nublar at the end of season 3 are working for Mills. Mills being Evil All Along was a big twist in Fallen Kingdom.
• Leaning on the Fourth Wall: At several times our cast brings up Jurassic World's "questionable" decisions to the point that it almost becomes a running gag.
• Lifesaving Misfortune:
  • In Episode 5, Bumpy gets in front of Yaz and trips her just as she's about to reach the van which Eddie has stolen. It's probably lucky that she didn't reach it or else the kids would have shared Eddie's fate.
  • Zig-zagged in an earlier incident just before all hell breaks loose, the kids decided to venture out of the camp to go to a lookout, mere moments before someone called on a walkie-talkie left behind that there's an asset out of containment. While they had a dangerous run-in with the 'Indominus rex' anyway, they managed to survive the experience, and the fact that they're outside at that moment saved them when they went back to the camp and found it utterly destroyed by the I. rex offscreen, killing everyone else who were present there.
  • In the Season 2 finale, Darius and Brooklynn fail to stop Tiff from reaching the boat, meaning she seemingly gets away scot free while the kids are still stranded. Unknown to anyone, however, a pair of Baryonyx were aboard the boat when it left...
• Lighter and Softer: Only somewhat. While it still features its main characters in peril as well as people being eaten, the series is marginally less intense than the films...until Season 2 rolls around and we meet depraved humans who are most willing to potentially murder the kids on top of the predatory dinosaurs.
• Living Motion Detector: Subverted. When Rexy walks up to the tree where Sammy is, she seems to give no indication of the girl's still presence despite looking directly at her. At first, it seems to be Continuity Nod to the theory that T. rex can't see you if you don't move but later on, Rexy goes directly after a cardboard cutout of Brooklynn which is being used as a decoy along with a recording of her voice, mistaking it as prey. It seems Rexy can see you even if you don't move but won't bother to eat you if she's not hungry and you're not a threat.
• Locked Door: After the Indominus rex breaks out, the park goes into lockdown, which leads to quite a bit of locked doors and security gates down in the maintenance tunnels.
• Logo Gag: A version of the Universal Logo animation with Pangea instead of the modern continents plays out, then the globe keeps spinning to reveal the Dreamworks Logo as a landmass on the planet. The globe spins one more time to reveal an Amblin Entertainment logo landmass
• Lonely Rich Kid: It's implied Kenji is this, as he mentions in a sad tone that his staff always lets him win when playing games.
• Loyal Animal Companion: Bumpy is this to Ben and becomes the campers Team Pet.

M - R

• Made of Iron: The characters leap and fall from great heights, crash through the trees, and land hard with nothing to show for it but a temporary knockout. The only exception is Yaz's ankle being hurt, presumably because she landed feet-first onto concrete.
• Magic Pants: In full effect. While there is some minor Clothing Damage that the kids suffer (most notably to Ben and Darius), by Season 3 which takes place a full six months after the first season living in a jungle with no way to wash or repair their outfits should have reduced them to rags.
• Midquel: The second and third seasons take place between the events of Jurassic World and Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom while the fourth and fifth seasons takes place between the prologue to Fallen Kingdom and the rest of the film which is set a couple years later.
• Milholland Relationship Moment: Kenji is afraid to tell Darius that he and Brooklynn are dating after Darius states that "change is overrated" and wants things to go back to normal. When he finally works up the nerve to do so, he literally holds a shield in front of himself. Darius's response, after a few moments of shock, is to hug Kenji and declare it to be "better than normal."
• Misplaced Wildlife: This becomes a plot point in the fourth season, after the camp family wash up on a new island, they discover that it contains five artificial biomes (tundra, redwood forest, tropical jungle, desert and swamp) and several species that MantahCorp has either cloned or stolen have been deliberately placed into biomes they are not adapted to in order to test how long they survive (e.g. a Smilodon in the desert and a Kentrosaurus in the tundra).
• Missed Him by That Much: A couple of times as the counselors are chasing the kids, but the most notable is when the campers actually take a moment to rest at the Mosasaurus stadium, before racing off to try and catch the monorail back to the docks, afraid that if they don't leave now it'll be too late. Had they waited just a little longer, their counselors would have caught up with them and taken them to the ferries.
• Mood Whiplash: In the teaser, everything starts out fun, with the campers enjoying themselves in treetop suites and watching dinosaurs on zip lines. Then the Indominus stomps into the frame, and everything gets a lot darker.
• Mythology Gag: Several, with a surprising amount being references from the third film.
  • One is particularly amusing, Like The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Camp Cretaceous features a character by the name of Eddie. Like Eddie Carr, he too is ripped out of a vehicle and devoured.
    • The Indominus also turns a vehicle upside down to get to said character, much like it did when it escaped in Jurassic World.
  • The premise of a group of kids being selected to go to a nature preserve and ending up stranded in the middle of dinosaur country with some rather... less than scrupulous... adults was first visited in the Scan Command Jurassic Park and Jurassic Park: Dinosaur Battles computer games. Unfortunately, Camp Cretaceous doesn't have remote-controlled dinosaur allies to protect the campers as the games did. At least, until Season 4.
  • The Velociraptor resonating chamber from Jurassic Park III returns during the first episode.
    • Interestingly, Darius uses the resonating chamber for raptors to attack a T. rex, which is similar to an unused scene from one of the third film's earlier screenplays in which Grant uses it to call raptors to attack the Spinosaurus. The major difference is this being part of a video game in the TV series.
  • Sammy hiding her secret from the group is similar to Billy hiding the raptor eggs from the others in Jurassic Park III.
    • Also similar to Nedry working for Biosyn in the first film. One wonders if Mantah Corp bought them out just as Masrani bought InGen.
  • When taking the River Adventure ride, the campers are sent off course by Parasaurolophus into the park's lagoon, much like the Parasaurolophus accidentally causing the guest boats to drift off track towards the predator enclosures in the actual Jurassic Park River Adventure.
  • A pack of compies attempts to attack Kenji similar to how they attacked Stark in the second film.
  • In Season 3 Kenji, Ben, and Sam have to get out of the helicoper that's dangling from a tree. They use vines to stay aloft, which heralds back to The Lost World: Jurassic Park with Malcolm and Sarah, while the vehicle falling out calls back to the first film with Tim and Dr. Grant.
  • Just like Billy in Jurassic Park III, Ben appears to be killed in a Pteranodon attack, only to show up alive and well by the end.
  • This is the second time in the franchise that a large predatory dinosaur has attempted to climb upstairs to chase after characters and fail. Rexy also did this during Jurassic Park: The Game.
  • Just like Ed Regis in the original novel (and Gennaro in the first film), Eddie abandons the kids to their fate to save his own life, but this ends up getting him killed. Ironically, he does so by getting into a car rather than out of one.
  • One of the Baryonyx trio in Season 2 has the red color pattern of the Baryonyx generation 2 in Jurassic World Alive.
  • Mitch and Tiff are a married couple of big-game hunters who pass themselves off as eco-tourists, similar to Paul and Amanda Kirby doing the same to dupe Grant in Jurassic Park III. Mitch in particular is a downplayed but more villainous Expy of Roland Tembo. Tiff, on the other hand, is a dead ringer for Amanda.
    • Also, while not divorced like the Kirbys were, Mitch and Tiff's marriage is implied to be heavily strained and nearing its end, similar to Zach and Gray's parents.
  • The watering hole scene in Season 2 could almost be placed right against the river scene in Jurassic Park III.
  • Hap closely resembles Robert Muldoon from the first film. He also dies in a similar fashion, being dispatched by a pack of dinosaurs working as a team while safeguarding the lives of others.
  • Darius and Sammy's dangerous hide-and-seek game with Mitch and Tiff on Main Street is very similar to how Lex and Tim hide from the Velociraptors in the iconic kitchen scene from the first movie. It also ends with Rexy arriving to distract the 'predators' later on, only this time it didn't kill the 'predators' and ended up chasing the heroes instead.
  • Season 3 revisits the original Visitor's Center and is packed with callbacks — from the gang being stalked by a predatory dinosaur in the kitchen to a dinosaur brawl breaking out. And at one point we see part of the opening of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom through the character's eyes.
  • Yaz mentions an urban legend John Hammond (the original owner of Jurassic Park) dying by breaking his leg and then being eaten by compies. This is exactly how Hammond dies in the original novel. To top it off, when Darius corrects her that Hammond died of natural causes and asks where she heard this, Yaz says that she read it somewhere.
  • Brooklynn, Sammy, Kenji, and Yaz hide under a large log to avoid stampeding dinosaurs in an identical manner to Grant and the kids in the first film.
  • The start of some of the music Kenji plays on the Yacht in Season 3 is almost exactly the same as the opening notes of the opening cinematic of the Sega Genesis Jurassic Park game.
  • Rexy attacking the helicopter and grabbing it with her jaws to prevent it from getting higher in the air is directly taken from a deleted ending of the original film.
  • Like the Indominus going after the Apatosaurus in Jurassic World, Scorpios goes on a murder spree killing just about any dinosaur it can get its claws on.
  • The death of the two Scorpios rex by crushing in the Visitor Center is similar to how one of the raptors was going to be killed in the original film — albeit here instead of being crushed in the skull jaws of a T. rex, the two hybrids are killed by the roof caving in on them.
  • In an interesting easter egg based on a scene from Michael Crichton's novel and film Congo, the characters find themselves huddling up in their shelter with only a makeshift electric fence keeping them away from the Scorpios.
  • The Scorpios rex bears an uncanny resemblance to one of the human-dinosaur hybrids from the infamous Sayles script for Jurassic Park 4, specifically the apparent tyrannosaur-human, with the addition of raptor claws and a long tail.
  • The video recording of Dr. Wu getting attacked by the Scorpios rex and almost died but ultimately survived the experience might be a nod to the novel Dr. Wu, who did indeed die from a Velociraptor attack (Velociraptor genes are among those used to create the Scorpios rex hybrid), and how the movie version of Wu got Spared by the Adaptation by surviving a similar experience.
  • Just like in four of the five movies, there is a major set-piece in Season 3 where the dangerous large carnivore hunts the characters during a thunderstorm.
  • When the kids discuss their dinosaur-related nightmares, Kenji's involves being on an airplane and realizing he's sitting next to a dinosaur, in an otherwise ordinary situation.
  • The plan by Kash to use microchips to allow Manta Corp to control dinosaurs, implicitly for Beastly Bloodsports, brings to mind the Dinovoc from Jurassic Park: Dinosaur Battles.
  • The recovery of Dennis Nedry's Barbasol can in Season 5 brings to mind its significance in Jurassic Park: The Game.
• The Needs of the Many: In Season 3, the kids steal Dr. Wu's laptop to stop him from creating more dangerous hybrids. When Brooklynn gets caught, she gives the laptop to Darius and Yaz so they can copy the files and erase the laptop, and will trade it for Brooklynn. But Kenji doesn't approve of the decision and takes it to rescue Brooklynn himself without waiting for the deletion to finish. Later, Kenji calls Darius out for gambling Brooklynn's life, even for the greater good.
• Never Found the Body: In Season 3, the female helicopter pilot who picked up Kenji, Ben, and Sammy disappeared when the helicopter crashed and is never found afterward. One of the mercs hired by Doctor Wu also fell into a river and gets swept away by the strong current, but is never explicitly shown as killed.
• Never My Fault:
  • Kenji blames his dad for not telling him he was serious about changing the locks to his penthouse if he didn't pass Algebra. Yeah Kenji, it was your father's fault for not picking up your slack.
  • Later in the Season 2 finale, when Tiff is escaping the island on her boat, she goes into a spiel about how the kids ruined everything, her marriage among them. In their defense, there were hints that there was trouble in paradise long before our heroes came along. ...Plus, she was the one who abandoned her husband to Rexy's mercy instead of bothering to save him.
• Never Say "Die": After Ben's apparent death, Brooklynn can't bring herself to say the word 'die'.
• Never Split the Party: Seem to realize that early on, they have to stick and work together to survive. Unfortunately, this doesn't last after Ben is lost in Episode 7.
• Nintendo Hard: The game that Darius beats to win his place at the camp is implied to be this, given that he's the first person to beat it in a world full of serious gamers pooling hints and tricks on online forms, with it also implied that beating the game requires a substantial amount of scholarly knowledge on actual dinosaur behaviors in order to beat it.
• No Good Deed Goes Unpunished:
  • After arguing about it with Sammy, Darius decided to free the carnivorous Baryonyx. The group then spends a good bit of time running from it and its pack in various episodes. This could also count on the team's decision to stop Tiff and Mitch from poaching leads to them losing another way off the island, though Hap implies the two were never going to help the kids.
  • The trope gets averted when the kids encounter the raptor Blue, she at first attacks the kids after they trespass on her nest, but when she gets pinned under a jeep the kids decide to help her instead of just leaving her to get eaten by Compies. After she is freed Blue isn't suddenly friendly, but she does allow the kids to run away without chasing them. Later again when the kids encounter Blue while running from the Scorpios rex, and after Darius shows her they mean her no harm, Blue sides with the kids and fights the Scorpios and after the fight is over leaves the kids alone.
  • Though later in the same season the kids again give up a chance to be rescued when they encounter Dr. Wu and his mercenaries, realizing that Wu is going to continue to make monsters they decide stopping him is more important than getting off the island.
• No OSHA Compliance: Well, it is Jurassic Park, but it gets an extra mention in how often the characters lampshade the park's bad decisions.
  • Steam pipes are so weak that an un-athletic 12-year-old boy can break one in half by kicking it.
  • The controls on the raptor pen are unlabeled and unsecured, and two pushes of a button can release them.
  • Despite the raptors being notorious escape artists, no one seems to be actively watching their pen at night.
  • Unsecured maintenance tunnels allow Darius and Kenji to access a Carnotaurus paddock, which is not labeled inside the tunnels.
  • The kayaking adventure lets Parasaurolophus close to visitors and also has a large tunnel leading into the mosasaur's lagoon with only a grate to protect it, which naturally has been damaged somehow. And the current leading into that tunnel is stronger than the current going down the correct tunnel, meaning that even if the grate wasn't damaged there was a serious danger of one or more kayaks being pulled against it and getting stuck.
  • When emergency procedures are activated, security grates in the tunnels block every escape route and end up locking the kids in with the dinosaurs more than once.
• No, You: Between Kenji and Brooklynn.
  Brooklynn: It's alright that you're scared. I am, too.
  Kenji: Scared? I'm not scared. You're scared.
  Brooklynn: I mean, yeah, I just freely admitted that...
• Not So Similar:
  • A rather sweet one between Sammy and Brooklyn. Both were snooping around Dr. Wu's office and trying to get his top-secret documents, one way or another. But Brooklynn admits her intentions weren't noble, as she was just trying to impress a bunch of strangers on the internet who didn't even like her. Sammy, on the other hand, went to Jurassic World of her own accord in order to help her loving family from losing their ranch.
  • And then there's a bitter one between Darius and Mitch. While both of them admire dinosaurs, Darius appreciates them as magnificent and fascinating living creatures. Mitch, on the other hand, appreciates dinosaurs as potential hunting trophies and genuinely thinks the best way to "preserve" their legacy is to mount them on a wall.
• Now Allowed to Hug: Yasmine states that she's not really a hugger. But Cuddle Bug Sam insists anyway. As the two grow closer, Yas is shown being more comfortable and welcoming of the hugs, especially after Sam has a brush with death after their encounter with the Scorpius Rex.
• Oh, Crap!: Definitely a lot of these moments, usually when a dinosaur shows up to chase the kids.
  • Mass "Oh, Crap!": Save for a few times, the kids are always together and thus react appropriately together.
  • Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!: When the group first washes out into the Jurassic World Lagoon, Kenji instantly recognizes where they are and that they are in some deep trouble. When he explains to the group where they are, their reaction is exactly this.
• Poisonous Person:
  • Darius reveals that Compsognathus, just like the Procompsognathus in the novel, have venomous bites and you have to scare them away before they nibble your skin. This, in hindsight, explains why a healthy adult Dieter became easy prey for the compys, and it makes Ben's predicament all the more terrifying as they slowly surround him when he's alone.
  • The Scorpios rex in Season 3 has deadly venomous quills thanks to DNA from scorpionfish comprising part of its genome.
  • Season 4 sees the return of the venom-spitting Dilophosaurus for the first time since the original film.
• Pragmatic Villainy: This is how Darius manages to convince Kash to spare the Kentrosaurus without breaking his cover. He points out that being able to kill a dinosaur every time they fight must mean that they have lots of them, since they're so expensive to create, much less maintain. Kash begrudgingly concedes the point.
• Prequel: The first three episodes of the first season takes place in the days leading up to the events of Jurassic World. the last four episodes serve as a Midquel by taking place during the events of the film.
• Properly Paranoid: Villainous example: When things go wrong yet again in Season 4, Kash angrily accuses Darius of sabotaging him. Darius quickly points out that he's been with Kash the entire time. Kash doesn't know that there are other people on the island working with Darius, who was providing a distraction.
• Proscenium Reveal: The series opens with a P.O.V. Shot of someone running from Velociraptors with another. The raptors get him, then a T. rex gets the person. Then it's revealed to be part of Darius's VR game.
• Quicksand Sucks: Darius and Brooklynn's Gyrosphere gets trapped in a quicksand pit at one point and has to be pulled free.
• Race Against the Clock: In the final three episodes of Season 1, they hear the call that the last ferries are leaving Isla Nublar in two hours, and have to race to get there on time. Despite their best efforts, they're too late.
  • In the final three episodes of season 2, The kids have to race to reach the waterhole before Mitch and Tiffany after it is revealed that they are actually trophy hunters in order to stop them from shooting the island’s dinosaurs, thankfully, this time they succeed.
• Ragnarök Proofing: In Season 3 which takes place six months after the Indominus rex escaped, the kids' scrounged radios and several rides like the gondolas are still running despite having been exposed to the elements with no maintenance while in a humid, tropical environment the whole time.
• Rapid Aging: Dr. Wu explains that the dinosaurs go through an accelerated growth cycle to get them ready for the park as quickly as possible. Bumpy goes from as big as Ben's hand to the size of a large dog in just a couple of days. By the time she and Ben reunite with the group, she's grown large enough to ride and is just shy of being as large as an adult Ankylosaurus.
• Raptor Attack:
  • This happens in Season one when Darius and Kenji end up falling into the Velociraptor pen in the first episode.
  • In Season three this happens when the very raptor-like Monolophosaurus chase the campers through a penthouse on the island belonging to Kenji’s father in the third episode.
  • In season three Darius, Kenji and Yaz come across the ruins of the old Jurassic park visitor center and discover Blue the Velociraptor has made a nest and proceeds to chase them out in the fourth episode.
  • In season four the group is attacked by a pair of Velociraptor in the fifth episode.
• Red Herring: After the ending of Episode 2 implies there's a spy on the island, it would be easy for the audience to believe the spy is Yasmina for her withdrawn attitude, her mysterious black book, and her wish for Brooklynn to not film her. Nope. Turns out, her book is really a sketchbook and she's simply afraid to open up to people.
• Red Shirt: The two guys who try to warn the kids about the I. rex's escape. One of them is even literally wearing a red shirt.
• Returning Big Bad: Official images for season 4 show the return of Spinosaurus which has not been seen since Jurassic Park III.
• Robinsonade: In the second and third seasons the kids are forced to scavenge for supplies and food to survive after they are left behind during the evacuation. In the first couple episodes of season four they become stranded on another island when their boat is destroyed by Mosasaurus and are forced to survive in the wilderness.
• Run or Die: Essentially the campers' only real choice in the face of the dinosaurs.

S - Y

• Sadistic Choice: Mitch and Tiff make a deal with Darius once he learns they're poachers: either he leads them to the watering hole (to hunt and poach dinosaurs) and the Camp Fam gets to go home, or Darius can stand his ground and not take them to the watering hole but also get himself and his friends left behind on the island. Darius ultimately makes an "Option C". (See Take a Third Option)
• Safe Behind the Corner: The campers frequently try to hide from dinosaurs by hiding behind corners, with varying degrees of success. It also happens when Dr. Wu and his mercenary team arrive on the island, and the kids are attempting to recover Wu's laptop before he can.
• Saved by Canon: Thanks to one of them appearing in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom and both of them appearing in Jurassic World Dominion (which were released before their appearance in this series), we know that Lewis Dodgson and Dr. Henry Wu are both going to survive this series.
• Shark Fin of Doom: Played with. As the Spinosaurus walks in a canyon, all the characters can see at first is his dorsal sail moving between its walls.
• Shipper on Deck: When Sammy and Yasmina finally kiss in Season 5, it turns out that Ben, Brooklyn, and Darius have been shipping the two of them for some time.
• Ship Tease: Sammy and Yasmina get quite a bit throughout the series. Though things start out awkward between the two, once Sammy tries to get Yaz to come out of her shell, they start catching on fast like a house on fire after the Gyrosphere adventure, to the point that when Brooklynn accuses Sammy of stealing her phone, Yaz furiously sticks up for Sammy and defends her without hesitating. Adding on to that, when Yaz finds out Sammy did steal Brooklynn‘s phone, her behavior towards her afterward is much like that of a jilted, betrayed girlfriend. It takes a while but by the end of the first season, Yaz comes to forgive Sammy and in the second season, the two are very close, almost always together and worrying about each other the most in times of danger. In Season 3, when Sammy asks Brooklynn for help with a personal problem, Brooklynn assumes that she's got a crush on one of the campers, one of the names she's mentioned was Yaz. Later in episode 6 when Sammy is on death's door thanks to being poisoned, Yaz is frantic with worry and races off to the other side of the island to get the antidote in the middle of a storm with a psycho dinosaur on the loose. She keeps flashing when Sammy first tried to befriend her to keep herself going non-stop. The next episode is full of sweet moments of Yaz being very protective of Sammy and getting her to the boat. In season 4 they even sleep on the same bed. Season 5 really ramps up the teasing between to two until eventually becoming an Official Couple.
• Shout-Out: In Season 2, Ben and Bumpy fight off Toro by driving it off a cliff in a manner similar to how Aladar pushed another Carnotaurus off a massive cliff in the climax of Disney's Dinosaur, except that Toro survived the experience, albeit heavily injured.
  • In Season 3, Yaz mentions she loves theme-park horror stories while chasing a Compy that stole a much-needed compass. The one she tells Kenji and Ben is a shout-out to the first novel, where John Hammond was attacked by a pack of Compies and eaten alive. Ben immediately points out that it never happened, as John Hammond died of natural causes. When asked where she heard such a thing, Yaz simply replies, “I read it somewhere.”
  • Some of the Scorpios rex's bloodcurdling screams sound startlingly similar to the creepy wails featured in the Alien trailers.
• Skewed Priorities: When the kids find a van and are found by the Indominus rex soon afterward, they panic over who can drive because it turns out none of them except for Kenji has even a learner's permit. During the chase, the others yell at him for not stepping on the gas and signaling.
• Skyward Scream: In Season 4 episode "At Least...", the kids^note except Ben, though he eventually did when facing a Smilodon scream out their frustration by the campfire.
• Sliding Scale of Villain Threat:
  • In Season 1 the Indominus rex is the bigger danger while Toro the Carnotaurus is the secondary threat.
  • In Season 2 the Tyrannosaurus rex is the bigger dinosaur threat of the season while the Baryonyx siblings take over the role of secondary antagonists.
  • In season 3 the Scorpios rex is the main threat and the secondary threat is fulfilled by Dr. Henry Wu and his mercenaries.
• Spikes of Villainy: The Scorpios rex has large spikes growing from its back and head and is by far one of the most outright vicious and monstrous creatures in the franchise.
• Spinosaurus Versus T. rex:
  • The main characters encounter T. rex several times in the first three seasons. In the fourth season, Tyrannosaurus and Spinosaurus both appear but don’t encounter each other as they are being kept in separate artificial biomes by the seasons Big Bad.
  • Played straight in the final season with Big Eatie fighting the Spinosaurus on three occasions. The first one ends in a draw, the second one has the Spinosaurus winning, and the last one has Big Eatie teaming up with Little Eatie to drive the Spinosaurus away.
• Status Quo Is God: In Season 2, the kids manage to find a backup generator and get the park back online. Once the crisis is over, however, the season ends with compys chewing through the wires and knocking out the power once more.
• Super-Persistent Predator:
  • Downplayed with the Indominus rex. It pursues the characters at multiple points when they happen to cross paths, but it does lose interest and stop following them even when it could pursue.
  • Played straight with Toro, a Carnotaurus who serves as the primary man-eating antagonist for the latter part of the series. It seemingly tracks Darius and Kenji clear across the park. However, even Toro has his limits, backing off from his pursuit of the kids when he gets caught in an explosion and winds up with severe burns all over his body, though even then it took Darius staring him down to convince Toro it simply wasn't worth it to keep trying.
• Surprisingly Realistic Outcome:
  • Darius attempts to lead a panicked Sinoceratops back to the herd while the group is on a Gyrosphere ride, thinking that his extensive knowledge of dinosaurs would be enough to do the job. Not only did he fail, the attempt ended up driving the entire herd panicked and putting the group in danger. It takes Sammy, who actually has experience dealing with panicked animals back at her ranch, to successfully calm the Sinoceratops down.
  • After two deadly run-ins with the kids that almost resulted in death or severe injury, Roxie and Dave lock down the camp until Claire Dearing gets back to them with either enough staff to assure the kids' safety or orders to send them home.
  • The kids are complete strangers who have only known each other a couple of days at most with nothing in common except getting grouped together at random, so despite getting along and working well as a team, most of the group don't consider themselves friends. However, the experience pulls them more closely together not long after.
  • The chaos of the Indominus's escape means the park has too much to worry about to devote resources to saving only six of the park's thousands of guests. Roxie and Dave can't get anyone to help rescue the kids and have to steal a truck to try on their own.
  • At the end of the season, the counselors are forced onto the ferry and have to leave the campers behind. The last ferry really just can't wait for just six kids left behind, and have to go, lest they endanger the other people who are on the ferry. The hard and sad truth about The Needs of the Many.
  • There is no Androcles' Lion in Jurassic World. The kids' decision to free the carnivorous Baryonyx from its cell does not make it feel gratitude in the least, and it and its sisters ended up chasing the kids around several times in Season 2. Eventually subverted in seasons 4 and 5 with Big Eatie, who does seem to realize that Darius helped her and doesn't attack him when he's helpless and later saves him from the Spinosaurus.
  • The dinosaurs now being left to run free of human influence in Season 2 has caused them to begin exhibiting behaviors that have only been theorized to happen in the wild and never observed in the park before.
  • A minor example: Due to their prolonged stay on the island, Kenji is shown growing some facial hair in Season 2, and by Season 3, he's grown a small beard. Similarly, Brooklyn's hair has begun to outgrow her pink dye-job, revealing her natural hair color to be auburn-ish.
  • In Season 3, Darius gets his hands on a tranquilizer rifle. As he never has any experience shooting such a weapon before, he misses the shot completely when he fired at the Scorpios rex despite it standing right in front of him.
  • Towards the Season 3 finale, Darius expects that at the end of the day, Kenji has already forgiven him for going through with the plan since things did turn out okay. But Kenji doesn't forgive him so easily, as from his point of view, Darius essentially gambled with Brooklyn's life. Human nature is a little more complicated than that.
  • In season 4, Kash sends Darius out to put one of the Mind Control chips into the Spinosaurus to prove he is not plotting against him and to test the chips. Brooklyn hacks the BRAD-X sent to make sure Darius carried out the task and Darius weasels his way out of injecting the chip. After returning to Kash, Darius lies and says the chip malfunctioned. This lie is not enough to fool Kash, as it then turns out that he sent his robots to inject chips in other dinosaurs because he wasn't going to risk the entire test by ordering someone he did not trust to carry out a dangerous mission from which he might or might not have returned alive. Luckily for Darius, the other chips did not work either, so Kash buys his lie.
  • In the last few episodes of Season 5, the rest of the campers do not forgive Kenji immediately after he betrayed, disowned, and abandoned them for his cruel father. It takes a lot more for him to earn their forgiveness, especially Darius's.
  • Also in Season 5, it takes more than Kenji being told to his face that his father is the Big Bad (in fact, it realistically puts a wedge between him and his friends. If anything, it takes a gradual journey of self-discovery for Kenji to come to terms that his father is not a good person at all. And it also doesn't hurt that Mae offers indirect remarks on the nature of his relationship with his dad, notedly her pointing out he shouldn't have to help earn money to please his father.
• Take a Third Option: Darius found himself between a rock and a hard place when Tiff and Mitch gave him two unsavory options: (Option A) He leads them to the dinosaurs' watering hole, and he and his friends will not only be spared but taken back to the Mainland. However, this means Mitch and Tiff will shoot every dinosaur they can. (Option B) If Darius refuses to take them to the watering hole, the dinosaurs will be spared. But Mitch and Tiff can and will leave the entire Camp Family stranded on the island. Yaz and Sammy try to press Darius for whether or not he thought up an "Option C", but he doesn't have one at the time. Later, he does think up an option C: lead Mitch and Tiff to Main Street, in hopes that Rexy will either eat them or buy them time.
• Take Our Word for It: Spoiler alert for those who haven't yet seen Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. In Season 2, Darius and Brooklynn find the aftermath of the Indominus rex's run-in with the Mosasaurus at the end of Jurassic World. While we don't get to see it, we can gather from their reaction that the Mosasaurus did a fairly thorough job.
• Tempting Fate:
  • In the fourth episode, Roxie (against Dave's advice) convinces Dave that they have to meet with Claire in person about the serious incidents at the camp immediately, believing that it'll only take about an hour or two. Sure enough, Jurassic World happens.
  • In the seventh episode, the kids get a moment of quiet and start thinking of how their trials are almost over. Kenji immediately lampshades that something bad should happen as it tends to do, but they get a long stretch of time to rest. Then the pteranodon attack, Ben's Disney Death, and them ultimately missing the ferry and being trapped on Isla Nublar.
• Terrifying Tyrannosaur: Rexy is the undisputed ruler of Isla Nublar and a major threat that the campers have to avoid, all other species (including giant sauropods) fear her and for good reason. Even the Ax-Crazy Scorpios rex was never seen going near her territory.
• The End... Or Is It?: Season 3 ends with the kids escaping the island on Mitch and Tiff's yacht, when a door rattles and there's a dinosaur snarl from below deck.
• Thematic Sequel Logo Change: The logo is completely wooden to represent the fact that the story begins in an adventure camp before the events of Jurassic World (Of which this story is an Interquel to) make things go completely off the rails.
• Theme Music Abandonment: Fully averted; in addition to incorporating the main themes of both Jurassic Park and Jurassic World at infrequent intervals in the story (in addition to using the former in the opening and end credits of each episode), Season 3 also brings back the first film's danger/Velociraptor theme, which had gone unused in the sequels.
• There Is Another: Rexy was the last known surviving T. rex on earth by the events of Jurassic World. Season 4 confirms that at least two others, a mother and daughter nicknamed "Big Eatie" and "Little Eatie" that were taken from Isla Sorna by Mantah Corp.
  • Blue was the last confirmed surviving Velociraptor. season four confirms that a pair of wild raptors are alive on an island belonging to Mantah Corp.
• They Knew the Risks: Hawkes says this about one of his fellow mercs who fell into a river and got swept away by the current.
• Throwing the Distraction: On two occasions, Darius throws a rock to attract the attention of a dangerous dinosaur. The first time it's the Indominus rex, the second is the Carnotaurus.
• Time Skip:
  • A small one in Season 2 the beginning of Episode 3 reveals that since Episode 2 and deciding to build a new tree fort, 22 days have passed and the tree fort is fully complete. Though it's unknown if the day count we see takes into account the time it took to build said tree fort.
  • While we don't know the exact amount of time, there is another skip between Seasons 2 and Season 3. When we first see the campers in Season 3 they have built a small raft, but after it fails we see it was one of many attempts to leave the island since the end of Season 2. Episode 9 reveals that from the time the park was first evacuated until now, 6 months have passed.
  • An unknown number of days passes between the end of season 3 and beginning season 4 with the kids still being out at sea.
• Toxic Friend Influence: Kenji starts out like this towards Darius, encouraging him to break the rules and make bad decisions. He gets over it.
• Tragic Keepsake:
  • Darius's raptor tooth necklace is a gift from his deceased father. He loses it when the camp is destroyed. In Season 2, He gets it back when Sammy found it in the camp wreckage.
  • Kenji takes up Ben's fanny pack after he falls from the monorail. He also tries to take care of Bumpy, but loses her when they jump.
• Trash the Set: In Season 3, the Camp Family collapse the Jurassic Park Visitor Center down on the Scorpios rex to neutralize them permanently, destroying the abandoned building for good. Shortly before that, a Scorpios rex also ends up trashing the famous kitchen where Tim and Lex used to hide from the raptors in the original film in its attempt to pursue the kids.
• Truce Zone: In Season 2, Darius and Kenji discover a watering hole where all kinds of dinosaurs, whether predator or prey, are able to relax and drink without fearing for their survival.
• Twisted Ankle: Yaz suffers one after an awkward landing and while she tries to shake it off, it eventually leaves her worried that she's becoming The Load until Kenji helps her realize otherwise. Luckily Yaz gets some time to rest it in season two and by the end of the season it's fully healed.
• Unluckily Lucky: Despite the frequent dangerous situations they get into, they always manage to escape (mostly) uninjured.
• Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: Even though the violence is heavily downplayed from the live-action films due to being an animated show aimed mostly toward children, it does feature many human villains who are just as amoral and cruel as their live-action counterparts, if not even more so. You have dangerous poachers, sadistic mercenaries, cruel mad scientists, and corrupt corporate execs who lie, betray, and murder their way to their selfish goals, and all of them are very willing to hurt teenagers simply for getting in their way.
• Was It All a Lie?: When the group learns that Sammy was sent to spy for a rival company called Mantah Corp, Yaz was the most upset because she had learned to open up with Sammy and defended her, and asked if she was even telling the truth about wanting to be friends.
• Wham Episode:
  • Episode 4, aptly named "Things Fall Apart" is when then Indominus rex breaks out of its enclosure leaving the children alone to deal with all the chaos that ensues.
  • In Season 2, Episode 6 is when Darius discovers that Mitch and Tiff aren't eco-tourists, but rather big-game hunters killing dinosaurs, making Season 2 even more darker than Season 1.
• Wham Line: Wham Word. At the end of Season 4, the big boss of Mantah Corp finally makes his appearance. Kenji clearly recognizes him and utters a shocked "Dad?"
• Wham Shot:
  • While editing her video of their adventure in the Gyrospheres, Brooklynn notices something suspicious in the background: Sammy taking samples of the dinosaur's saliva. From behind, Sammy's panicked expression at being discovered tells us everything we need to know: she's the spy.
  • In season 3, everyone is wary of the Scorpios and prepare the camp's defenses for its eventual incursion. It turns out the Scorpios can climb trees and its already inside the camp's perimeter, hanging high above on a tree and watching over the kids.
  • In the season 4 finale, the campers and Mae have been lured into a trap by Kash and soon the person behind running Mantah Corp is revealed to be none other then Kenji's dad.
• What Happened to the Mouse?:
  • It is currently unconfirmed if Chaos as well as Ouranosaurus, Monolophosaurus and Bioluminescent Parasaurolophus were among the dinosaurs that were rescued from Isla Nublar and released from Lockwood’s Manor.
  • In Season 2, the kids manage to send off a distress beacon; after they leave, the beacon clearly displays "Message Received." Mitch and Tiff claim to have gotten the message, but that turns out to be a lie to keep the kids complacent. When the recon team comes to the island for data and dinosaur samples in Season 3, they're surprised to find humans there, so they clearly didn't get the message either. As of Season 4, there's been no follow up on this, and when Darius manages to briefly make contact with his brother, it's the first indication his brother's gotten that Darius survived, so no one (including Dave and Roxie who know the kids were left behind) have gotten in touch with the families or even leaked the information about a distress beacon to the internet, as well as confirming that Mantah Corp doesn’t know about the signal either based on Kash’s disbelief of Darius’s story. The kids discover in season 5 that it was Mantah Corp who received the signal.
  • The last time the kids saw Little Eatie, she was so injured that her mother had to bring food to her after their drug-induced fight, and after Big Eatie was forced to fight with Pierce and last seen recovering from her own wounds in the Medbay, both Tyrannosaurs disappear halfway into season four and their current status was unknown...until Season 5 shows them both alive and well.
• What You Are in the Dark: When Brooklynn tries to confront Sammy on stealing her phone, the former tells the latter she won't be mad if she did it, giving her a chance to come clean. But feeling she's gone too far, Sammy instead chooses to deny she stole it and pretend Brooklyn's accusing her of something she didn't do.
• Would Hurt a Child: For most of Season 2, the kids get entangled by adult poachers who are willing to murder them if they don't play along with their schemes. Darker and Edgier indeed.
• You Have Out Lived Your Usefulness: Kash attempts this on Dr. Turner once she confronts him on the inhumane tests the dinosaurs are going through.

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