History Film / JurassicWorldDominion

* LosingAShoeInTheStruggle: Repeating a RunningGag from the first two films he was in, Grant's loses his hat when he, Ellie, and Maisie are being pursued by ''Dimetrodons'' and he tries to go back for it, prompting Ellie to yell for him to leave it behind.

* CloningBlues: Maisie starts to feel this way as her status as a clone forces her to be isolated from the world. [[spoiler:As she learns more about Charlotte, her mother and Benjamin Lockwood's daughter, she initially thinks that Charlotte made her as an experiment only for Sattler to correct her that Charlotte only wanted Maisie as a daughter.]]

* HappilyAdopted: CloningBlues and [[AgeAppropriateAngst teenage angst]] aside, Owen and Claire are now acting as Maisie’s adoptive parents and function as a strong, if unconventional, family unit.

** Once again, we get a rooftop chase scene involving a red-haired heroine fleeing from a tiger-striped dromaesaurid.

** Rainn Delacourt's death isn't all that much unlike how Peter Ludlow met his end--[[spoiler: having his face/head nommed on by the juvenile dinosaur he exploited for personal gain]]. It's even shown from similar angles, with another character looking down as it happens just offscreen.

* NoodleIncident: Santos demands that Dodgson pay her in advance because she doesn't "want a repeat of the last time," implying that a previous deal went south in some way.

** Alan, Ian, and Ellie still don’t know that Dodgson was the one who hired Dennis Nedry to steal the embryos, which ultimately led to the disaster at Jurassic Park. Doubly ironic for Ian, since he's literally working for (at first) the guy behind all of the crap he got put through in the first two films.
** Likewise, [[spoiler: when Dodgson is facing death-by Dilophosaurus in the climax, he has no way of knowing he's about to die the exact same way that Nedry did 30 years earlier.j]

** The Biosyn employees in the control room, including Kayla's implied former flame Denise and Dodgson's bodyguard, are present when [[spoiler:the sanctuary is lit on fire]], but vanish from the film shortly afterward aside from Dodgson and Ramsay. Presumably, they left the sanctuary when the evacuation order was given, as they are seen rushing for the exits but them actually leaving before the dinosaurs enter the complex or the power is shut down is never seen on screen. For that matter and assuming they flew out, [[spoiler: how did they make it past the pterosaurs like the giant ''Quetzalcoatlus'' with the Aerial Deterrent System disabled?]]

** Likewise, [[spoiler: when Dodgson is facing death-by Dilophosaurus in the climax, he has no way of knowing he's about to die th same way Nedry did 30 years earlier.j

* DramaticIrony: Alan, Ian, and Ellie still don’t know that Dodgson was the one who hired Dennis Nedry to steal the embryos, which ultimately led to the disaster at Jurassic Park. Doubly ironic for Ian, since he's literally working for (at first) the guy behind all of the crap he got put through in the first two films.

* Aside from the fact that [[ScienceMarchesOn gene editing methods are known ''right now'' that can do essentielly the same thing that Charlotte did to Maisie]], Wu's statement that her "DNA could change the world" is meaningless. There is not reverse engineering whatever Charlotte did from Maisie's DNA. And even if they could, why would it not be the exact same sort of extremely time- and resource-consuming methods that are custom tailored today and are not reproducible at scale?

* CloningBlues: Maisie starts to feel this way as her status as a clone forces her to be isolated from the world. [[spoiler:As she learns more about Charlotte, her mother and Benjamin Lockwood's daughter, she thinks that Charlotte made her as an experiment only for Sattler to correct her that Charlotte only wanted Maisie as a daughter.]]

** The reveal of Maisie's age makes it clear that something isn't right with her backstory. While it's clear that she is a clone of Ben Lockwood's daughter Charlotte and that this did cause the two men to be at odds with one another, the car accident story doesn't add up, because Hammond died in 1997, yet Maisie was born in 2008, and it would make no sense at all why Lockwood would have a granddaughter when his own daughter died more than 11 years before her birth. [[spoiler:In truth, Charlotte Lockwood impregnated herself with her own clone as a way to have a child despite her infertility. Charlotte was in her twenties in the early 90s, and started researching how to clone herself with the support of her father, which is what caused the falling out between Hammond and Lockwood.]]

* AnachronisticAnimal: The prologue, which is supposed to take place 65 million years ago in Hell Creek, features animals and plants such as:

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** Speaking of Clarence, the hunt for Beta is reminiscent of, if not outright based on, the scene where we met him. In the original novel, Grant was moving quietly through a darkened area of the park while the power was off, heard something stalking him, and fired a tranquilizer gun he'd picked up, striking the juvenile raptor mid-leap just as Clarence pounces at him. In this film, Grant, Owen, and Maisie go hunting for Beta in a darkened area of the sanctuary while the power is off, and Owen tranqs Beta as she's charging at Grant, again in mid-leap.

** The Biosyn employees in the control room, including Kayla's implied former flame Denise and Dodgson's bodyguard, are present when [[spoiler:the sanctuary is lit on fire]], but vanish from the film shortly afterward aside from Dodgson and Ramsay. Presumably, they left the sanctuary when the evacuation order was given, as they are seen rushing for the exits but them actually leaving before the dinosaurs enter the complex or the power is shut down is never seen on screen.

** Quite a few to the first and second ''VideoGame/DinoCrisis'' games, to the point where you wouldn't be blamed for thinking the film took most of its inspiration from them:

** Grant has a prominently featured abundance of therizinosaur claws among the collection of fossils in his tent. Guess which species of theropod we meet about halfway through the film.

* DramaticIrony: Alan and Ellie don’t know that Dodgson was the one who hired Dennis Nedry to steal the embryos, which ultimately led to the disaster at Jurassic Park.

** Speaking of Clarence, the hunt for Beta is reminiscent of the scene where we met him. In the original novel, Grant was moving quietly through a darkened area of the park while the power was off, heard something stalking him, and fired a tranquilizer gun he'd picked up and struck the juvenile raptor mid-leap. In this film, Grant, Owen, and Maisie go hunting for Beta in a darkened area of the sanctuary while the power is off, and Owen tranqs Beta as she's charging at Grant.

* PteroSoarer: Averted with the ''Quetzalcoatlus'', which has pycnofibres and is a stork-like, quadrupedal, terrestrial macropredator, which is spot on to the fossil record and possibly one of the most accurate animals in the entire franchise. Played straight with the ''Pteranodons'' in the same scene, though.

* PteroSoarer: Greatly downplayed with a ''Quetzalcoatlus'' appearing in the Dolomites, attacking Kayla's plane — it avoids all of the liberties the franchise took with the portrayal of pterosaurs by possessing pychnofibre-covered skin rather than a leathery and scaly one and not having graping feet, being one of the series' most, if not the most accurate prehistoric animal. However, the cloned individuals are much bigger and stronger than the real pterosaur, and a preview shows the species making a nest on the top of a building, when the real life animal would've most likely made them on the ground.

* DiscontinuityNod: Alan Grant mentions to Maise and Owen [[spoiler:as they're searching for Beta in the waterworks]] that there used to be a scientific theory that raptors kill their prey by disemboweling them with their large sickle-claws, but it got disproven and now the current theory is that the raptors immediately go for the neck with their jaws while using the sickle-claws to pin the prey down or anchor themselves to it. Not only is this TruthInTelevision but it's also ironic yet fitting, since Grant introduced the disemboweling theory to mainstream audiences back in the original ''Film/JurassicPark'' film.

** Alan Grant finally sports a beard his [[Literature/JurassicPark book counterpart was described to have.]]

* SeriesContinuityError:
** The revelation that Maisie [[spoiler:isn't a clone created to replace Lockwood's daughter, Charlotte, but is one created ''by'' Charlotte herself]] causes all sorts of conflict between this film and ''Fallen Kingdom''. Most notably, there's the fact that what Mills explained about Maisie's origins is effectively retconned (unless it was just a convenient cover story to keep Mills from learning about [[spoiler:Maisie's genetic altering]]). It also calls into question the reason behind Hammond and Lockwood's fallout -- it was implied that they parted ways when Hammond learned Lockwood was trying to clone his deceased daughter Charlotte but here, it's established that she was very much alive post-1997 (the year Hammond passed away). What this could mean is that Hammond became aware of [[spoiler:Charlotte Lockwood's wish to have a daughter through cloning, and was understandably ''livid'' with it and her father's support of it.]]

** The reveal of Maisie's age makes it clear that something isn't right with her backstory. While it's clear that she is a clone of Ben Lockwood's daughter Charlotte, the car accident story doesn't add up, because Hammond died in 1997, yet Maisie was born in 2008, and it would make no sense at all why he'd have a granddaughter when his own daughter died more than 11 years before her birth. [[spoiler:In truth, Charlotte Lockwood impregnated herself with her own clone as a way to have a child despite her infertility. Charlotte was in her twenties in the early 90s, and started researching how to clone herself with the support of her father, which is what caused the falling out between Hammond and Lockwood.]]

* {{Fantasy}}: The film's plot is basically a typical fantasy adventure, just with genetic engineering and super science replacing magic and dinosaurs replacing fantastical beasts, to wit: A knight and lady (Owen and Claire) must travel to a lost realm containing within a magical city (the biosyn research complex) and many dangerous, mythical beasts (the dinosaurs) hidden high in the mountains (the biosyn sanctuary) to rescue a princess and her pet (Maisie and Beta) from the clutches of a tyrannical overlord (Dodgson). Meanwhile, a trio of veteran adventurers (Grant, Ellie and Malcolm) discover that said overlord intends to use his black magics (bio-engineering) to spread a terrible plague (the genetically modified locusts) over all the lands in order to rule the world.

* Fantasy: The film's plot is basically a typical fantasy adventure, just with genetic engineering and super science replacing magic and dinosaurs replacing fantastical beasts, to wit: A knight and lady (Owen and Claire) must travel to a lost realm containing within a magical city (the biosyn research complex) and many dangerous, mythical beasts (the dinosaurs) hidden high in the mountains (the biosyn sanctuary) to rescue a princess and her pet (Maisie and Beta) from the clutches of a tyrannical overlord (Dodgson). Meanwhile, a trio of veteran adventurers (Grant, Ellie and Malcolm) discover that said overlord intends to use his black magics (bio-engineering) to spread a terrible plague (the genetically modified locusts) over all the lands in order to rule the world.

* Fantasy: The film's plot is basically a typical fantasy adventure, just with genetic engineering and super science replacing magic and dinosaurs replacing fantastical beasts, to wit: A knight and lady (Owen and Claire) must travel to a lost realm containing within a magical city (the biosyn research complex) and many dangerous, mythical beasts (the dinosaurs) hidden high in the mountains (the biosyn sanctuary) to rescue a princess and her pet (Maisie and Beta) from the clutches of a tyrannical overlord (Dodgson). Meanwhile, a trio of veteran adventurers (Grant, Ellie and Malcolm) discover that said overlord intends to use his black magics (bio-engineering) to spread a terrible plague (the genetically modified locusts) over all the lands

* TheSwarm: [[spoiler:Biosyn created genetically-modified giant locusts that eat every plant except Biosyn's patented crops, and then unleashed them across the globe to hold the world at ransom. This swarm causes more destruction than the dinosaurs could ever hope to achieve simply because they could indirectly kill billions of people through starvation (and that's not considering the biodiversity collapse in the wild).]]
* SwissCheeseSecurity: Biosyn has extensive surveillance and security systems, but no noticeable manned security force to speak of, and other than Dodgson's chief of security no actual security guards are ever seen. Justified in that Biosyn Valley is a sanctuary habitat and not a theme park like Jurassic World, thus Dodgson doesn't have an armed force of animal wranglers like Jurassic World's A.C.T. team, or an army of mercenaries like Mills and Wheatley had. They seem to be entirely reliant on automated security to prevent industrial espionage, and behavior control chips to handle the dinosaurs. Ellie and Alan are able to infiltrate their top-secret labs rather easily with a stolen clearance bracelet (they eventually do get caught, but by an executive, not a guard) and [[spoiler:Dodgson is completely alone when fleeing the valley, and has no one to protect him when he gets attacked by a ''Dilophosaurus'' pack once his escape train ends up stranded.]]