History Franchise / JurassicPark

* AbortedArc: In both novels, the idea that dinosaurs might have made it onto the mainland is brought up early on, before being ignored once people arrive on the islands. [[spoiler: One could argue it happened a second time in the movies, ''Film/JurassicWorldFallenKingdom'' ended with several dinosaurs being released onto the mainland, setting them up as the focus of it's sequel, only for ''Film/JurassicWorldDominion'' to focus on a new story with the released dinosaurs being DemotedToExtra.]]

* BigGood: John Hammond in the first and second movies, Simon Masrani in the fourth movie, Benjamin Lockwood in the fifth movie and in an ensemble together Alan Grant, Ellie Sattler, and Ian Malcolm in the sixth movie which is said to be the franchise's GrandFinale.

* MythArc: The films quietly hint at a deeper scheme in place for [=InGen=], especially in a scene where Grant identifies the ''Spinosaurus'' (a dinosaur not on their list of cloned dinosaurs) and wonders what they're up to. ''Jurassic World'' doesn't clarify the extent of Wu's deal with Hoskins and the Masrani Backdoor also has a lot of cryptic tidbits about the timeline of the films.

* BlackAndNerdy: Arby in the ''The Lost World'' novel, Ray Arnold in the first movie, and Franklin in the fifth.

* ChekhovsHobby: One in each of the first three movies. Lex is savvy with computers. Kelly mentions being cut from the the gymnastics team. Billy has experience in base jumping.

A fourth cinematic installment was in DevelopmentHell for more than a decade - it was even considered that it would not come about after [[DiedDuringProduction Michael Crichton's death]] in 2008. But it all worked out, and the fourth film, titled ''Film/JurassicWorld'', was released in 2015. A fifth film, ''Film/JurassicWorldFallenKingdom'', came out in June 2018. The sixth film, ''Film/JurassicWorldDominion'', roared its way into theaters on June 10th, 2022. A seventh film is currently in development and is scheduled to come into theaters on July 2nd, 2025. Creater/GarethEdwards. has been tapped to direct.

** Nedry's can of dinosaur embryos. Spielberg even thought that the sequel would pick up on that, but Michael Crichton chose another path. It eventually was picked upon in ''Jurassic Park: The Game''.

* ''Jurassic Park'' (Ocean Software: [[UsefulNotes/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem SNES]], DOS, NES, Gameboy, 1993) -- The ones with [[TopDownViews top-down views]], of which the 16-bit versions have FPS sections.
* ''VideoGame/JurassicParkSegaGenesis'' (Creator/BlueSkySoftware & Sega: UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis, 1993) -- The one where you can play the raptor.

** In the UsefulNotes/SegaMasterSystem game, instead of trying to escape the island, Grant is called to fight and capture the dinosaurs. At the end of the game, he [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome defeats the]] ''[[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome Tyrannosaurus rex]]'' [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome and the park is allowed to open as planned.]]

* LicensedGame: This thing was a merchandise monolith, and it was ripe for game adaptation; so it doesn't come as a surprise that there were so many. Ranging from the ''Zelda''-like puzzler (with ''Wolfenstein 3D''-like indoor sections) for the [[UsefulNotes/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem SNES]], to a hard-as-nails shooter/platformer for the [[UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis Genesis]] which also lets you play through the entire game as a raptor (the final boss is Dr. Grant!), to the technically innovative ''VideoGame/JurassicParkTrespasser'', along with a few portable titles; the UsefulNotes/GameGear version hilariously changes the ending so that Hammond's theme park becomes a success. As recently as 2011, [[VideoGame/JurassicParkTheGame a Telltale game]] was loosely based on the events of the film.

** ''Dilophosaurus'' was actually about as tall as a man and around 20 feet long. The individual in the film was made a juvenile so that it doesn't take away from the raptors or the ''T. rex'' (however, [[CanonDiscontinuity some other media afterwards have ignored this explanation]], treating this size as the adult form). The venom the ''Dilophosaurus'' has in the film as well as the frill are completely fictional.

** Every film has the issue of giving the herbivorous dinosaurs the wrong foot-shape and number of toes, giving all of them a generic elephantine foot-shape when in many cases the anatomy was much more complex (for example, sauropods would have left reverse horseshoe-shaped footprints with their front feet). Many also borrow the elephant's wrinkly, grey skin, despite the fact we know from direct evidence that most large herbivorous dinosaurs would've been covered in pebbly, scaly skin, and almost certainly would've been much more brightly patterned than large mammals.

** An extremely common issue is also presenting the animals as being either [[AnimalsNotToScale far too large or far smaller than the normal size range of the species]] as known from the fossil record. The ''Dilophosaurus'' is the most infamous, but there are numerous other examples, such as all three pterosaur species (''Pteranodon'', ''Dimorphodon'', and ''Quetzalcoatlus'') having wingspans far larger than normal, the ''Mosasaurus'' appearing as large as a blue whale, and all the dromaeosaur species shown (''Velociraptor'', ''Pyroraptor'', and ''Atrociraptor'') being depicted as larger than humans when all three were much smaller.

** The raptors in ''The Lost World'' novel were feral killers while the film version's raptors were defending their turf and taking advantage of the "moveable feast" passing through. The raptors in ''Film/JurasicParkIII'' just wanted their eggs back and Owen's squad in ''Film/JurassicWorld'' were about as dangerous to human strangers as your standard big cat or crocodile...at least until ''Indominus'' facilitated their brief FaceHeelTurn.

A fourth cinematic installment was in DevelopmentHell for more than a decade - it was even considered that it would not come about after [[DiedDuringProduction Michael Crichton's death]] in 2008. But it all worked out, and the fourth film, titled ''Film/JurassicWorld'', was released in 2015. A fifth film, ''Film/JurassicWorldFallenKingdom'', came out in June 2018. The sixth film, ''Film/JurassicWorldDominion'', roared its way into theaters on June 10th, 2022. A seventh film is currently in development and is scheduled to come into theaters on July 2nd, 2025.

A fourth cinematic installment was in DevelopmentHell for more than a decade - it was even considered that it would not come about after [[DiedDuringProduction Michael Crichton's death]] in 2008. But it all worked out, and the fourth film, titled ''Film/JurassicWorld'', was released in 2015. A fifth film, ''Film/JurassicWorldFallenKingdom'', came out in June 2018. The sixth (and according to some sources, final) film, ''Film/JurassicWorldDominion'', roared its way into theaters on June 10th, 2022.

* ''Literature/JurassicPark'' (1990)