History Characters / JurassicParkNonDinosaurs

** Despite their portrayals in the films in reality they were incapable of carrying much less flying with the weight of a human.

* TerrorDactyl: Apart from the ''Pteranodon'' in ''The Lost World'' [[note]] And that's only because the sequence featuring it was cut from the film [[/note]], all of them are shown to be vicious, hostile animals that attack humans with little to no provocation. They are all extremely inaccurate (with the exception of the ''Quetzalcoatlus'') both in their appearance, lacking most of their pycnofibers, having leathery wings and grasping feet and their behavior, which is [[AllFlyersAreBirds way too bird-like]].

* TheBusCameBack: After being physically absent in ''Fallen Kingdom'', ''Dimorphodon'' makes a return in both ''Camp Cretaceous'' and ''Dominion''.
* CanonImmigrant: ''Dimorphodon'' has appeared in several ''Jurassic Park'' games before debuting in ''Jurassic World''.

* HistoricalBadassUpgrade: The real-life ''Dimorphodon'' was a poor flyer that spent much of its time on the ground and only took to the air in emergencies. Here, they are DeathFromAbove.

* KillerRabbit: Smaller than ''Pteranodon'', but still deadly.

* MamaBear: If you walk into their nesting ground, the '' entire flock'' will come straight for you.

* NonMaliciousMonster: Along with the ''Pteranodon'', they descend upon Main Street after being frightened by the ''I. rex'' from the Aviary.
* PapaWolf: If you walk into their nesting ground, the '' entire flock'' will come straight for you.

* ShownTheirWork: In contrast to ''Pteranodon'', they are correctly portrayed with pycnofibres.

* AnimalsNotToScale: While the ones in the prologue are to scale, the cloned individual is absolutely humongous, with its head alone being as long as (if not longer) than the entire cockpit of a sizable plane. That said, an official scale chart for the film shows it closer in size to the real animal, so it's possible the plane attack shot is a particularly egregious case of YourSizeMayVary. [[https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/743081138402361424/970557815645155348/unknown.png Promotional material]] states ''Quetzalcoatlus'' had a wingspan of up to 20 metres, but most modern size estimates consider 11 metres to be the maximum from known fossils.[[note]]There was one early size estimate in the 1970s which suggested a wingspan of up to 21 metres, but this was never considered likely (especially since the estimate was made back when proportions of the animal were more poorly known).[[/note]]

* CanonImmigrant: ''Quetzalcoatlus'' has appeared in several ''Jurassic Park'' games and toylines before debuting in ''Dominion''.
* GiantFlyer: Naturally given their sheer size. In the prologue they make the ''Pteranodon'' (which had been the largest pterosaur in the films until now) look comparatively puny. TruthInTelevision, as they really ''were'' that big. The cloned individual is as large as the plane it's attacking.

* AdaptationalBadass: In the aviary scene in the original book, the pterosaurs of Jurassic Park still had grasping talons but were too weak to lift Lex (a small child). Here, they're capable of carrying ''full-grown adults'' to their doom.

* ContinuitySnarl: ''The Lost World'' depicted ''Pteranodon'' living freely on Isla Sorna, but it's never mentioned what differentiates them from the caged population in the sequel. [[note]] The ones seen in the second film were meant to be ''Geosternbergia'' while the ones made for ''III'' were revealed by tie-in material to have been created in secret after the first Isla Sorna incident. [[/note]]

* AnachronisticAnimal: The prologue of ''Dominion'' shows ''Pteranodon'' living 65 million years ago, even though the genus became extinct 85 million years ago.
* AnimalGenderBender: An aversion; it has been confirmed that all the Jurassic World ''Pteranodon'' that had been seen on-screen prior to ''Dominion'' are female and they do have the short crests that only the females possess. They are still too big for female ''Pteranodon'' though (they are as big as the males when they should be smaller).

* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: Possess significantly smaller heads in proportion to their bodies than the ''Pteranodons'' in ''[[Film/JurassicParkIII Jurassic Park III]]'', when ''Pteranodon'' is known for having heads larger than their bodies.
* BeakAttack: They can use their beaks to stab their victims.

* GiantFlyer: ''Pteranodon'' have a big wingspan and they are slightly larger than a full-grown human.
* GlassCannon: They're powerful flyers and strong enough to hoist a human into the air, but they can be taken down by a single tranquilizer dart.

* ZergRush: After the ''I. rex'' scares them and their ''Dimorphodon'' neighbors out of the Aviary, they vent their frustrations out on terrified tourists on Main Street en-masse. Somewhat TruthInTelevision, as there is good evidence to suggest that ''Pteranodons'' were fairly gregarious creatures (though they'd probably not attack people in such large numbers).

* AllPowerfulBystander: It is the biggest and strongest creature in the park, even more so than the ''Indominus''. However, given her CripplingOverspecialization and NonMaliciousMonster statuses, she mostly just keeps to herself [[spoiler:until the ''Indominus'' eventually gets too close to her lagoon during the FinalBattle]].

* AnimalJingoism: Surprise surprise, she likes the taste of pterosaur meat.

** In ''Jurassic World'', it's portrayed as being over 60 feet long, but most modern scientific estimates suggest the largest ''Mosasaurus'' were no more than 50 feet long (there are a few estimates suggesting lengths closer to 60 feet, but they're considered highly contentious due to the lack of clear methodology). She's introduced engulfing a whole great white shark (which averages around 12 to 20 feet long) in her jaws, but no known ''Mosasaurus'' fossil has jaws even six feet long. [[https://eandt.theiet.org/content/articles/2018/06/interview-glen-mcintosh-animation-director-for-jurassic-world-fallen-kingdom/ According to an interview with the SFX director]], they intentionally ballooned the ''Mosasaurus'' more than the twice the length of the real animal (therefore larger even than a blue whale) to make her look more intimidating.
** Played straight at the beginning of the sequel, where she seems to have ballooned up to around eight times her original size. For reference, a roughly 40 to 60-foot long helicopter is the same size as her head, meaning her whole body must be ''over 120 to 200 feet long!'' Then she seemingly shrinks to her original size in the end.[[note]]This is based on how big the great white she was fed is. It looked like a female, and the average size of a great white female is 15 to 21 feet.[[/note]]

** Promotional and supplementary materials for ''Fallen Kingdom'' state that ''Mosasaurus'' is between 70 and 90 feet long, but there has never been any size estimate for any mosasaur species that is over 60 feet.
* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: She's depicted with rows of spiky, crocodile-like scutes running down her back and lipless crocodilian-like jaws that there is no evidence for, lacks the forked tongue real mosasaurs are thought to have had, has a much less pronounced tail fluke, and is much, much larger than any actual known species.
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:Lands the finishing blow on the ''Indominus rex'' at the end of the final battle]].

* CripplingOverspecialization: She's a powerful creature, the largest carnivore in the park, but she's also confined to her lagoon, [[spoiler:and as far as she can jump out of the water]].

* {{Kaiju}}: Had a growth spurt between ''World'' and ''Fallen Kingdom'', placing her squarely in this category.

* NonMaliciousMonster: She more or less acted the way any large aquatic predator in a tank would if something foreign fell in or was hanging over her tank. Though her aggression is labeled as being "high", she is not considered to be a threat to the tourists. [[spoiler:While she is seen attacking humans and boats in the sequels, she is gentle towards whales.]]

** Played straight in [[spoiler:''[[Film/JurassicWorldFallenKingdom Fallen Kingdom]]'', with the now escaped ''Mosasaurus'' actively hunting surfers off the coastline]].

* StealthyColossus: In the opening scene of ''Fallen Kingdom'', she manages to creep up on the small submarine and close her jaws on it without the men inside noticing her.

** Are depicted with hands separate from the wing and grasping feet[[note]]minus the azhdarchid[[/note]].

* TerrorDactyl: Apart from the ''Pteranodon'' in ''The Lost World'' [[note]] And that's only because the sequence featuring it was cut from the film [[/note]], all of them are shown to be vicious, hostile animals that attack humans with little to no provocation. They are all extremely inaccurate (with the exception of the ''Quetzalcoatlus'') both in their appearance, lacking most of their pycnofibers, having leathery wings and grasping feet, and their behavior, which is [[AllFlyersAreBirds way too bird-like]].

** ''Film/JurassicWorldDominion'' changes them to be closer to the size of the real animal, to the point one can easily sit on one's hand [[ArtisticLicensePaleontology on its hind legs]].

* FlyingFlightlessBird: Downplayed, as real-life ''Dimorphodons'' still ''could'' fly, but they were likely not very good at it, due to their short wings and heavy bodies, and thus they probably couldn't cover as much ground as the ''Dimorphodons'' in the film do.
* FragileSpeedster: Like their ''Pteranodon'' compatriots, the ''Dimorphodons'' are built for flying and quite agile, but they lack proper defenses beyond that, making it easy to simply tranq them out of the sky.

* ZergRush: After the ''I. rex'' scares them and their ''Pteranodon'' neighbors out of the Aviary, they vent their frustrations out on terrified tourists on Main Street en masse. Unlike the ''Pteranodons'', there isn't real-life evidence to suggest that ''Dimorphodons'' hunted in groups.

* AnimalsNotToScale: While the ones in the prologue are to scale, the cloned individual is absolutely humongous, with its head alone being as long if not longer than the entire cockpit of a sizable plane. That said, an official scale chart for the film shows it closer in size to the real animal, so it's possible the plane attack shot is a particularly egregious case of YourSizeMayVary. [[https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/743081138402361424/970557815645155348/unknown.png Promotional material]] states ''Quetzalcoatlus'' had a wingspan of up to 20 metres, but most modern size estimates consider 11 metres to be the maximum from known fossils.[[note]]There was one early size estimate in the 1970s which suggested a wingspan of up to 21 metres, but this was never considered likely (especially since the estimate was made back when proportions of the animal were more poorly known).[[/note]]
* BeakAttack: The prologue has one of them nipping at a ''Pteranodon'' to claim a carcass for itself. The film shows another one using its beak to wreck the plane that Owen, Claire, and Kayla are in.

* HistoricalBadassUpgrade: While mostly accurate, it is still unreasonably stronger and far more aggressive than its real-life counterpart, which was essentially a giraffe-sized stork hunting proportionally small prey. It arguably behaves more like its more massively built relative ''Hatzegopteryx'', and even the latter probably wouldn't be able to destroy a fair-sized airplane in mid-flight.
* LightIsNotGood: The cloned one has white fur, a bright yellow beak, and a blue head crest. It is also first seen attacking a plane that Owen, Claire, and Kayla are in.

* ShownTheirWork: It is depicted as a terrestrial, quadrupedal hunter with pycnofibres, the correct head design, proportionally small and non-grasping plantigrade feet, and small fingers pointing the right way. It may be the most accurate animal of the franchise so far, aside from the size of the cloned specimens.

* YourSizeMayVary: One scene depicts a pair of them nesting atop the World Trade Center, and together they seem to be as large as the entire top of the building. Given the 200-foot diameter of the skyscraper, this would put their wingspan at over ''100 feet'', 35 feet longer than the official size estimate.

* AllFlyersAreBirds: They're depicted nesting and caring for flightless chicks like birds (most pterosaurs are believed to have given minimal parental care and were likely capable of flying soon after hatching), grasping objects with their feet (pterosaurs had flat feet like humans and were poorly suited to grasping), and even live in a gigantic aviary.

* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: While [[https://www.researchgate.net/figure/The-giant-pterosaur-Pteranodon-a-Marshs-1884-reconstruction-of-the-Pteranodon_fig1_258391482 reasonably accurate]] for the time they lacked the [[https://twitter.com/GrecoWestermann/status/1376545617539907585 upturned beak]] the species are known for and possessed teeth in their beaks despite their name "toothless wing" referencing their lack of teeth. They are also [[https://www.deviantart.com/taliesaurus/art/ASSETS-MEET-ANCESTORS-PTERANODON-886720357 far larger]] than any known specimen.

* BreakoutVillain: Moreso than the ''Spinosaurus'' even, but much less polarizing to the audience. One appears as a shadow on the main poster, and they also appear over the palm trees at the bottom of ''III's'' logo, marking a lot of ''JP'' logos first.[[note]]To wit: the first non-theropod animal, the only one not depicted as a skeleton, and the first to have more than one instance on the logo itself.[[/note]]

* DeathGlare: One of them gives this to Grant.

* AnimalGenderBender: An aversion; it has been confirmed that all the Jurassic World ''Pteranodon'' that had been seen on-screen prior to ''Dominion'' are female, and they do have the short crests that only the females possess. They are still too big for female ''Pteranodon'' though (they are as big as the males when they should be smaller).

* AnimalsNotToScale: It's the right size for a ''Pteranodon''... if they were ''males''. In reality, female ''Pteranodon'' were only about half the size of the males. [[AvertedTrope Averted]] with the prehistoric specimens in the ''Dominion'' prologue, which are accurately sized for female ''Pteranodons'' judging by their scale compared to ''Quetzalcoatlus''.

* FragileSpeedster: Despite their large size, a single tranquilizer dart can knock them out of the sky. The reason they're difficult to take out is partly that they're capable of flight and thus very mobile and maneuverable, and partly because they attack in massive numbers.

* MisplacedWildlife: They're shown inhabiting a jungle-themed aviary with dense tree cover despite fossil evidence indicating ''Pteranodon'' (adults at least) were seagoing animals similar to albatrosses. The Cretaceous prologue to ''Dominion'' similarly shows them inhabiting a floodplain alongside ''Dreadnoughtus'' and ''Quetzalcoatlus'', despite pteranodontids in RealLife having preferred vastly different habitats to both azhdarchids and titanosaurian sauropods.

* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: They have a red, grey, and tan color scheme and act as minor antagonists.

* ShownTheirWork: They are correctly depicted as quadrupedal and possess [[https://www.artstation.com/artwork/9LanN upturned beaks]], unlike the ones in the ''Jurassic Park'' films. They are also significantly smaller than the ones in ''Jurassic Park III'', making them [[https://www.deviantart.com/taliesaurus/art/ASSETS-MEET-ANCESTORS-PTERANODON-886720357 more size accurate]]. They are also capable of diving and swimming, and the females lack large crests.

* ZergRush: After the ''I. rex'' scares them and their ''Dimorphodon'' neighbors out of the Aviary, they vent their frustrations out on terrified tourists on Main Street en masse. Somewhat TruthInTelevision, as there is good evidence to suggest that ''Pteranodons'' were fairly gregarious creatures (though they'd probably not attack people in such large numbers).

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* KickTheSonOfABitch: [[spoiler:They kill one of Daniel Kon's goons offscreen.]]

* ShownTheirWork: She has the beginnings of a fluke on her tail and an extra set of teeth on her palate.

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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: She doesn't get much screentime, despite being such an awesome and huge predator, because she's a fully-aquatic creature and the majority of the action in the three ''Jurassic World'' movies takes place on dry land.

* SingleSpecimenSpecies: It was the first and only known cloned member of it’s kind in the franchise. After being killed by the ''Spinosaurus'' it has presumably fallen back into extinction.

* SingleSpecimenSpecies: The entire species is made up of a single individual who was cloned by [=InGen=], housed in the Jurassic World's lagoon for several years, and subsequently managed to survive for six months after the island was abandoned and escape into the open ocean.

* ContinuitySnarl: ''The Lost World'' depicted ''Pteranodon'' living freely on Isla Sorna, but it's never mentioned what differentiates them from the caged population in the sequel. [[Note]] The ones seen in the second film were meant to be ''Geosternbergia'' while the ones made for ''III'' were revealed by tie-in material to have been created in secret after the first Isla Sorna incident. [[/Note]]

* HairTriggerTemper: All the pterosaurs in the series are highly aggressive and territorial.

* TerrorDactyl: Apart from the ''Pteranodon'' in ''The Lost World'', all of them are shown to be vicious, hostile animals that attack humans with little to no provocation. They are all extremely inaccurate (with the exception of the ''Quetzalcoatlus'') both in their appearance, lacking most of their pycnofibers, having leathery wings and grasping feet, and their behavior, which is [[AllFlyersAreBirds way too bird-like]].

* ContinuitySnarl: ''The Lost World'' depicted ''Pteranodon'' living freely on Isla Sorna, but it's never mentioned what differentiates them from the caged population in the sequel.

-->'''Owen:''' That's another plane, right?\\

-->'''Grant:''' [[OhCrap It's a bird cage.]]\\

* MightyGlacier: They don't move all that quickly, and their short legs probably prevent them from doing so. They still give the humans trouble due to ambushing them in narrow mine shafts and being strong enough to shove aside minecarts.

* PteroSoarer: ZigZagged. On the one wing, they're naked, their beaks are straight rather than curved, they have grasping talons, they're oversized, launch by jumping instead of vaulting with their wings, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking are ugly]]. On the other wing, they're toothless, quadrupedal, the females have short crests, and they are probably the only ''Pteranodons'' in the films shown to [[ShownTheirWork dive into the water for food]] (something even documentary media is known to forget). Additionally, the website states that they're fish-eaters. Or at least, ''primarily'' fish-eaters. This combination makes them likely the ''most'' accurate ''Pteranodons'' in the whole franchise.

* ToothyBird: Averted this time, as they're correctly portrayed without any teeth[[note]]although upon closer inspection they seem to possess small teeth-like bumps lining their bill (reminiscent of certain diving birds and waterfowl)[[/note]]. Oddly enough, the toys play this straight.

* PteroSoarer: Doubly so in that not only is it ever an ugly dragon-like monstrosity (as opposed to the more elegant real pterosaurs) with a tyrannosaur-like skull, but also in that the real animal was a poor flyer. It's like trying to depict a ''chicken'' as a winged menace.

* PteroSoarer: Averted actually! All the tropes such as grasping feet, bipedal stances, or teeth are absent. The stance, pycnofibre-covered body, long toothless beak with a head crest, and habit of hunting on the ground are all extremely accurate. The cloned ones in the film itself, however, are too big, since in comparison to Kayla's plane its wingspan seems to be over 70 feet. Real ''Quetzalcoatlus'' were about half that size.
** In a behavioural rather than anatomical example, one shot [[AllFlyersAreBirds shows them roosting in a massive bird-like nest atop a skyscraper]]. Real azhdarchid pterosaurs probably would have nested on the ground given their overall terrestrial habits, and the manner in which they did so was likely very different from that of birds.

* PteroSoarer: Probably justified because of the cloning process messing with their DNA. At least they're quadrupedal (unlike the ''Pteranodon'' from the previous film). Curiously, [[https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/930/18669/6321822_1_l.jpg?version=0 the babies possess very sparse pycnofibres]].

* TerrorDactyl: Apart from the ''Pteranodon'' in ''The Lost World'', all of them are shown to be vicious, hostile animals that attack humans with little to no provocation. They are all extremely inaccurate (with the exception of the ''Quetzalcoatlus'') both in their appearance, lacking most of their pycnofibers, having leathery wings and grasping feet, and their behavior, which is [[AllFliersAreBirds way too bird-like]].