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* OhCrap: Grant has a big one when he realizes that the area he, Amanda, Paul, Eric, and Billy have sought refuge from the Spinosaurus in is a giant aviary...which could only mean [[GiantFlyer giant flyers]]. Given that nearly every animal on the island is from the late Cretaceous, it takes him all of half a second to figure out what kinds of creatures those might be...right before one of the said flyers swoops down and snatches Eric away.
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* OhCrap: Grant has a big one when he realizes that the area he, Amanda, Paul, Eric, and Billy have sought refuge from the Spinosaurus in is a giant aviary...which could only mean [[GiantFlyer giant flyers]]. Given that nearly every animal on the island is from the late Cretaceous, Mesozoic, it takes him all of half a second to figure out what kinds of creatures those might be...right before one of the said flyers swoops down and snatches Eric away.
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** The raptors [[spoiler:subvert this; they do]] go to great lengths to kill the main characters[[spoiler:, but it is revealed later on that they were motivated by Billy stealing their eggs, and, once they're returned, the raptors take their eggs and leave]].
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* AbsurdlyIneffectiveBarricade: Inverted. The spinosaur, moments after '''breaking through a wall''' to get to the protagonists, is foiled in its pursuit when the protagonists shut and lock a door on it. Let me repeat: '''The giant dinosaur is stopped by a locked door.''' People have lost their minds trying to explain this.
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Thanks to Grant's expertise in dinosaurs, he and his protégé Billy are asked to be tour guides to rich couple, the Kirbys, and their company, who desire to see Isla Sorna. They need funds for their research, so they agree. But not until they arrive there is the truth is revealed; revealed: the party is not there as tourists tourists, but as rescuers to the couple’s son, Eric, who disappeared near the island a while ago.
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* ItCanThink: The bit with the raptor climbing the mesh door.
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* DespairEventHorizon: Played with in the third film: All seems lost when the group realizes Nash had the phone on him when he became dino-chow. [[spoiler:Said phone not only survives being eaten, but it is later dug up from a pile of dung and used to call for help.]]
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* DespairEventHorizon: Played with in the third film: All seems lost when the group realizes Nash had the phone on him when he became dino-chow. [[spoiler:Said phone not only survives being eaten, but it is later dug up from a pile of dung and successfully used to call for help.]]
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* CuttingTheKnot: The characters find a row of vending machines, Mr. Kirby starts pulling out change and counting how much he needs. Dr. Grant, remembering that they're on an abandoned island, simply walks up and kicks through the display window of the next vending machine and takes what he wants. Then Mr. Kirby tries to do it and can't break the window.
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* CuttingTheKnot: The characters find a row of vending machines, Mr. Kirby starts pulling out change and counting how much he needs. Dr. Grant, remembering that they're on an abandoned island, simply walks up and kicks through the display window of the next vending machine and takes what he wants. Then Mr. Kirby tries to do it and can't break the window.
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* BehindTheBlack: The group arrives at the deserted beach to find a lone man in a suit calling out for them with a megaphone. There's no boats, no parachute, nothing to indicate where he came from. The beach, the sea, and the sky are all perfectly vacant. They run at him to make him stop, and all of a sudden an entire landing force, complete with several amphibious vehicles and helicopters, appears spontaneously on the beach.
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* BehindTheBlack: The group arrives at the deserted beach to find a lone man in a suit calling out for them with a megaphone. There's no boats, no parachute, nothing to indicate where he came from. The beach, the sea, and the sky are all perfectly vacant. They run at him to make him stop, and all of a sudden an entire landing force, complete with several amphibious vehicles and helicopters, appears appear spontaneously on the beach.
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* DisneyDeath: Billy is seemingly killed by Pteranodons, but survives and is picked up by TheCavalry to provide a HospitalSurprise.
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* ShoutOut: Cooper being [[spoiler: the first one to die, and doing so virtually the second he sets foot on the island]], could be a shoutout to ''VideoGame/DinoCrisis'', where a team member named Cooper does the exact same thing.
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* OlderThanTheyThink: The spinosaurus has been in Jurassic Park merchandise before - as a raptor-like predator in a spin-off fighting game, and a toy - but both had completely different designs from this film's spinosaur.
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-->-- '''Alan Grant'''
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* DespairEventHorizon: Played with in the third film: All seems lost when the group realizes Nash had the phone on him when he became dino-chow. [[spoiler:Said phone not only survives being eaten, but it is later dug up from a pile of dung and used to call for help.]]
* FiveManBand:
** TheHero: Alan Grant
** TheLancer: Paul Kirby
** TheSmartGuy: Udesky
** [[TheBigGuy The Big Guys]]: Billy Brennan, Nash, and Cooper
** TheChick: Amanda Kirby
** TagalongKid: Eric Kirby
** TheHero: Alan Grant
** TheLancer: Paul Kirby
** TheSmartGuy: Udesky
** [[TheBigGuy The Big Guys]]: Billy Brennan, Nash, and Cooper
** TheChick: Amanda Kirby
** TagalongKid: Eric Kirby
* HeroicBSOD: Grant, after witnessing [[spoiler:Billy's]] apparent demise.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Billy Brennan]] and [[spoiler:Paul Kirby]] narrowly subvert this to DisneyDeath status.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Billy Brennan]] and [[spoiler:Paul Kirby]] narrowly subvert this to DisneyDeath status.
* LighterAndSofter: The third film was filmed with the goal of being more family-friendly in mind. It has actually shown up on ABC Family several times.
* MamaBear and PapaWolf: Considering how determined the raptors in the third film are to get back their stolen eggs, one can only imagine how fiercely protective they must be of their young...
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Billy is on the receiving end of a rather scathing one when Grant learns that he stole a pair of Velociraptor eggs.
---> '''Grant:''' [[NotSoDifferent As far as I'm concerned, you're no better than the people who built this place.]]
---> '''Grant:''' [[NotSoDifferent As far as I'm concerned, you're no better than the people who built this place.]]
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* ToiletHumour: Everyone has to go digging in [[RoadApples Spinosaurus dung]] to find the satellite phone.
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* BigBad: The ''Spinosaurous.''
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* CurbStompBattle: The Tyrannosaurus Rex was the big heavy of the first two films, but goes down pretty fast against the new big bad: the Spinosaurus.
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* StandInProtrait: A raptor stands behind a glass tube to pretend it's one of the dead test subjects.
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* DisneyDeath: Billy is seemingly killed by Pteranodons, but survives and is picked up by TheCavalry.
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* FlareGun: Used to drive off the Spinosaurus the final time the characters bump into it. The Spinosaurus had ruptured the fuel tank when it attacked their boat, so the flare gun sets it on fire, at which point it retreats in pain.
* StandInProtrait: A raptor stands behind a glass tube to pretend it's one of the dead test subjects.
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Like its predecessors, ''JP III'' spawned half a dozen {{Licensed Game}}s.
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* ArtifactTitle: Like the second film, ''JPIII'' ''JP III'' is set on Isla Sorna -- Site B, where the dinosaurs were bred by [=InGen=]. The fact gets brought up later in the film:
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* [[AlasPoorVillain Alas, Poor Mook]]: One can't help but pity mercenary Cooper, who's tearfully pleading for the plane to stop for him as the Spinosaurus approaches.
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Dr. Grant (SamNeill) steps back into the spotlight in this third ''Franchise/JurassicPark'' movie from 2001. movie, directed by Creator/JoeJohnston and released in 2001.
Thanks tohis Grant's expertise in dinosaurs, he and his protégé Billy are hired asked to be tour guides to rich couple couple, the Kirbys, and their company, who desire to see Isla Sorna. Not They need funds for their research, so they agree. But not until arriving they arrive there the truth is revealed; the party is not there as tourists, tourists but as a rescuers to couple’s son.
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->''"Here we are on the most dangerous island on the planet, and we're not even getting paid."''
Dr. Grant steps back into the spotlight in this third ''Franchise/JurassicPark'' movie from 2001. Thanks to his expertise in dinosaurs, he and his protégé Billy are hired to be tour guides to rich couple and their company, who desire to see Isla Sorna. Not until arriving there the truth is revealed; the party is not there as tourists, but as a rescuers to couple’s son.
!!This film has the examples of:
* [[AlasPoorVillain Alas, Poor Mook]]: One can't help but pity mercenary Cooper, who's tearfully pleading for the plane to stop for him as the Spinosaurus approaches.
* AlwaysABiggerFish: The producers wanted a dinosaur that could kick the ''T. rex's'' ass, so they selected the ''Spinosaurus'', which had new material discovered which indicated that it would have been a '''larger''' than ''T. rex'', if only slightly larger. Scientists now know from the dinosaur's anatomy that it would have been a mismatch in the ''T. rex's'' favor. "Larger" doesn't necessarily mean "more dangerous" or "has a bigger bite".
* ArtifactTitle: Like the second film, ''JPIII'' is set on Isla Sorna -- Site B, where the dinosaurs were bred by [=InGen=]. The fact gets brought up later in the film:
-->'''Dr. Grant''': Why me?
-->'''Paul Kirby''': (indicating Udesky) He said we needed someone who'd been on the island before.
-->'''Udesky''': Yes. But I ''did not'' tell you to ''kidnap'' somebody!
-->'''Dr. Grant''': I have ''never been'' on this island.
-->'''Paul Kirby''': Sure ya have. You wrote that book.
-->'''Billy''': That was ''Isla Nublar'', this is ''Isla Sorna'': Site B.
-->'''Udesky''': You mean there's two islands with dinosaurs on them?
* BrickJoke: When the party lands on Isla Sorna, Amanda calls for Eric through a megaphone and Grant yells at her to stop because it's "a very bad idea." Later, when they're about to be rescued, the government agent is doing the same thing and they all run out onto the beach yelling "It's a very bad idea!"
* CallBack: When Grant and co. are confronted by T. rex, he still remembers that [[LivingMotionDetector it can’t detect movement]]. Too bad that nobody listens to him.
** The scene where everyone is digging through Spinosaurus dung to find the ringing satellite phone is a CallBack to the first movie where Ellie is digging through Triceratops droppings to discover why the animal has fallen ill.
* TheCavalry: In the end, the Navy and the Marines.
* ChekhovsGun: The model of the raptor voice box is one of the most straight-forward examples of this trope in any of the films.
** When the characters escape the Bird-Cage, we see Amanda left the door unlocked and half-open. At the end, we see the Pteranodons found their way out of the cage and are flying into the sunset.
* ChekhovsHobby: Billy has experience in base jumping, which comes handy during the Bird-Cage chase when he deploys the parachute.
* TheCrocIsTicking: The ''Spinosaurus'' eats Paul’s satellite phone, and its ringing continues in its stomach.
* DisneyDeath: Billy is seemingly killed by Pteranodons, but survives and is picked up by TheCavalry.
* {{Flanderization}}: The raptors were always very intelligent, but only by dinosaur standards in the first two films. They are now veritable evil geniuses that have their own language and are capable of setting traps that are at human levels of sophistication. Indeed, at times they seem even smarter than the human protagonists.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: When Mr. Kirby tells Grant that he can pay him any amount of money, the song in the background plays the line, "And I lie, lie, lie..."
* GenreSavvy: Grant knows all about being in a movie with big lizards: "Either way... you probably won't get off this island alive."
* GiantFlyer : The Pteranodons.
* GunsDoNotWorkThatWay: One of the amazingly short-lived mercs has a Barrett [=M82A2=] anti-material rifle, which he fires during one scene. Apparently due to noise ordinances where the scene was filmed, they couldn't actually fire the weapon; the CGI muzzle flash isn't hugely convincing, and the weapon's action rather conspicuously doesn't cycle.
* HandsGoDown: During Dr. Grant’s lecture:
-->'''Grant:''' Does anyone have a question?\\
''(all hands in the room go up)''\\
'''Grant:''' Does anyone have a question that does not relate to Jurassic Park?\\
''(most of the hands go down)''\\
'''Grant:''' Or the incident in San Diego, which I did not witness?\\
''(several more hands go down)''
* ItCanThink: The bit with the raptor climbing the mesh door.
** And setting a trap for the Kirbys and Grant's protegé, using Udesky as bait.
* TheLoad: The Kirbys.
* LoweredMonsterDifficulty: There’s a moment where the Spinosaurus, who was so hellbent on eating the protagonists that it bust through a massive reinforced fence 10 seconds previously... is suddenly unable to break through an ordinary metal door and decides to give up after a few bangs on it.
* MauveShirt: The mercenaries.
* NeckSnap: Spinosaurus kills the T. rex by clamping its jaws on its neck, and twisting it.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Billy Brennan's attempt to bail his and Grant's research out by ''stealing Velociraptor eggs''.
* MisplacedWildlife: Gibbons (native to South East Asia) can be heard.
* NumberedSequels
* OhCrap: Grant has a big one when he realizes that the area he, Amanda, Paul, Eric, and Billy have sought refuge from the Spinosaurus in is a giant aviary...which could only mean [[GiantFlyer giant flyers]]. Given that nearly every animal on the island is from the late Cretaceous, it takes him all of half a second to figure out what kinds of creatures those might be...right before one of the said flyers swoops down and snatches Eric away.
* ParachuteInATree: Ben Hildebrand falls victim to this and is later found half-eaten and still dangling from the canopy.
* PeekABooCorpse: Upon finding Hildebrand’s parachute, his corpse falls on Amanda.
* PunctuatedForEmphasis: Upon running into a T. rex:
-->'''Dr. Grant:''' Nobody – move – a muscle.
* ScienceMarchesOn: The incorrectness of the Jurassic Park Dinosaurs is {{Handwaved}} and [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] by Grant in that these dinosaurs are mutants, not real dinosaurs (thanks to having their DNA spliced by frog DNA.)
* SequelEscalation: Pteranodons and Spinosaurus, a threat bigger than T. rex, are introduced.
* SoLastSeason: How do we truly know the Spinosaurus means business? He kills the T. rex without much effort!
* SuperCellReception: Kirby’s satellite phone works perfectly quite some time after being eaten by a dino.
* TemptingFate:
-->'''Eric:''' "Mom, I've been in the jungle by myself for 8 weeks. I think I can survive the next few minutes without you."
-->''(cue a '''Pteranodon''' snatching him up)''
* ThereAreTwoKindsOfPeopleInTheWorld:
-->'''Dr. Grant:''' There are two kinds of boys: Astronauts and Astronomers.
* ThisWayToCertainDeath: Amanda Kirby's "very bad idea" is to use a megaphone in a predator-filled island.
* ToiletHumour: Everyone has to go digging in Spinosaurus dung to find the satellite phone.
* TooDumbToLive: Mrs. Kirby seems to genuinely not understand why Grant is advising her not to shout through a megaphone while wandering aimlessly through a jungle full of giant, feral predators. Mr. Kirby too; at one point he tells his wife to shut up because "Dr. Grant says this is very dangerous territory". Obviously, being chased by a Spinosaurus and a T-Rex within seconds of each other wasn't enough for him to realize that by himself...
* TheWorfEffect: The T-Rex suffers from this. Its species were portrayed as the biggest and baddest creatures, and now one is easily defeated by the ''Spinosaurus,'' .
* YouDoNotWantToKnow: Eric says this in response to Grant's question about how he got a jar full of ''T. rex'' pee.
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->''"Here we are on the most dangerous island on the planet, and we're not even getting paid."''
Dr. Grant steps back into the spotlight in this third ''Franchise/JurassicPark'' movie from 2001. Thanks to his expertise in dinosaurs, he and his protégé Billy are hired to be tour guides to rich couple and their company, who desire to see Isla Sorna. Not until arriving there the truth is revealed; the party is not there as tourists, but as a rescuers to couple’s son.
!!This film has the examples of:
* [[AlasPoorVillain Alas, Poor Mook]]: One can't help but pity mercenary Cooper, who's tearfully pleading for the plane to stop for him as the Spinosaurus approaches.
* AlwaysABiggerFish: The producers wanted a dinosaur that could kick the ''T. rex's'' ass, so they selected the ''Spinosaurus'', which had new material discovered which indicated that it would have been a '''larger''' than ''T. rex'', if only slightly larger. Scientists now know from the dinosaur's anatomy that it would have been a mismatch in the ''T. rex's'' favor. "Larger" doesn't necessarily mean "more dangerous" or "has a bigger bite".
* ArtifactTitle: Like the second film, ''JPIII'' is set on Isla Sorna -- Site B, where the dinosaurs were bred by [=InGen=]. The fact gets brought up later in the film:
-->'''Dr. Grant''': Why me?
-->'''Paul Kirby''': (indicating Udesky) He said we needed someone who'd been on the island before.
-->'''Udesky''': Yes. But I ''did not'' tell you to ''kidnap'' somebody!
-->'''Dr. Grant''': I have ''never been'' on this island.
-->'''Paul Kirby''': Sure ya have. You wrote that book.
-->'''Billy''': That was ''Isla Nublar'', this is ''Isla Sorna'': Site B.
-->'''Udesky''': You mean there's two islands with dinosaurs on them?
* BrickJoke: When the party lands on Isla Sorna, Amanda calls for Eric through a megaphone and Grant yells at her to stop because it's "a very bad idea." Later, when they're about to be rescued, the government agent is doing the same thing and they all run out onto the beach yelling "It's a very bad idea!"
* CallBack: When Grant and co. are confronted by T. rex, he still remembers that [[LivingMotionDetector it can’t detect movement]]. Too bad that nobody listens to him.
** The scene where everyone is digging through Spinosaurus dung to find the ringing satellite phone is a CallBack to the first movie where Ellie is digging through Triceratops droppings to discover why the animal has fallen ill.
* TheCavalry: In the end, the Navy and the Marines.
* ChekhovsGun: The model of the raptor voice box is one of the most straight-forward examples of this trope in any of the films.
** When the characters escape the Bird-Cage, we see Amanda left the door unlocked and half-open. At the end, we see the Pteranodons found their way out of the cage and are flying into the sunset.
* ChekhovsHobby: Billy has experience in base jumping, which comes handy during the Bird-Cage chase when he deploys the parachute.
* TheCrocIsTicking: The ''Spinosaurus'' eats Paul’s satellite phone, and its ringing continues in its stomach.
* DisneyDeath: Billy is seemingly killed by Pteranodons, but survives and is picked up by TheCavalry.
* {{Flanderization}}: The raptors were always very intelligent, but only by dinosaur standards in the first two films. They are now veritable evil geniuses that have their own language and are capable of setting traps that are at human levels of sophistication. Indeed, at times they seem even smarter than the human protagonists.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: When Mr. Kirby tells Grant that he can pay him any amount of money, the song in the background plays the line, "And I lie, lie, lie..."
* GenreSavvy: Grant knows all about being in a movie with big lizards: "Either way... you probably won't get off this island alive."
* GiantFlyer : The Pteranodons.
* GunsDoNotWorkThatWay: One of the amazingly short-lived mercs has a Barrett [=M82A2=] anti-material rifle, which he fires during one scene. Apparently due to noise ordinances where the scene was filmed, they couldn't actually fire the weapon; the CGI muzzle flash isn't hugely convincing, and the weapon's action rather conspicuously doesn't cycle.
* HandsGoDown: During Dr. Grant’s lecture:
-->'''Grant:''' Does anyone have a question?\\
''(all hands in the room go up)''\\
'''Grant:''' Does anyone have a question that does not relate to Jurassic Park?\\
''(most of the hands go down)''\\
'''Grant:''' Or the incident in San Diego, which I did not witness?\\
''(several more hands go down)''
* ItCanThink: The bit with the raptor climbing the mesh door.
** And setting a trap for the Kirbys and Grant's protegé, using Udesky as bait.
* TheLoad: The Kirbys.
* LoweredMonsterDifficulty: There’s a moment where the Spinosaurus, who was so hellbent on eating the protagonists that it bust through a massive reinforced fence 10 seconds previously... is suddenly unable to break through an ordinary metal door and decides to give up after a few bangs on it.
* MauveShirt: The mercenaries.
* NeckSnap: Spinosaurus kills the T. rex by clamping its jaws on its neck, and twisting it.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Billy Brennan's attempt to bail his and Grant's research out by ''stealing Velociraptor eggs''.
* MisplacedWildlife: Gibbons (native to South East Asia) can be heard.
* NumberedSequels
* OhCrap: Grant has a big one when he realizes that the area he, Amanda, Paul, Eric, and Billy have sought refuge from the Spinosaurus in is a giant aviary...which could only mean [[GiantFlyer giant flyers]]. Given that nearly every animal on the island is from the late Cretaceous, it takes him all of half a second to figure out what kinds of creatures those might be...right before one of the said flyers swoops down and snatches Eric away.
* ParachuteInATree: Ben Hildebrand falls victim to this and is later found half-eaten and still dangling from the canopy.
* PeekABooCorpse: Upon finding Hildebrand’s parachute, his corpse falls on Amanda.
* PunctuatedForEmphasis: Upon running into a T. rex:
-->'''Dr. Grant:''' Nobody – move – a muscle.
* ScienceMarchesOn: The incorrectness of the Jurassic Park Dinosaurs is {{Handwaved}} and [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] by Grant in that these dinosaurs are mutants, not real dinosaurs (thanks to having their DNA spliced by frog DNA.)
* SequelEscalation: Pteranodons and Spinosaurus, a threat bigger than T. rex, are introduced.
* SoLastSeason: How do we truly know the Spinosaurus means business? He kills the T. rex without much effort!
* SuperCellReception: Kirby’s satellite phone works perfectly quite some time after being eaten by a dino.
* TemptingFate:
-->'''Eric:''' "Mom, I've been in the jungle by myself for 8 weeks. I think I can survive the next few minutes without you."
-->''(cue a '''Pteranodon''' snatching him up)''
* ThereAreTwoKindsOfPeopleInTheWorld:
-->'''Dr. Grant:''' There are two kinds of boys: Astronauts and Astronomers.
* ThisWayToCertainDeath: Amanda Kirby's "very bad idea" is to use a megaphone in a predator-filled island.
* ToiletHumour: Everyone has to go digging in Spinosaurus dung to find the satellite phone.
* TooDumbToLive: Mrs. Kirby seems to genuinely not understand why Grant is advising her not to shout through a megaphone while wandering aimlessly through a jungle full of giant, feral predators. Mr. Kirby too; at one point he tells his wife to shut up because "Dr. Grant says this is very dangerous territory". Obviously, being chased by a Spinosaurus and a T-Rex within seconds of each other wasn't enough for him to realize that by himself...
* TheWorfEffect: The T-Rex suffers from this. Its species were portrayed as the biggest and baddest creatures, and now one is easily defeated by the ''Spinosaurus,'' .
* YouDoNotWantToKnow: Eric says this in response to Grant's question about how he got a jar full of ''T. rex'' pee.
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