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*FacialHorror:
**CJ has a relatively minor example of this as her face was mauled by an alligator while saving a child a couple of years ago. Her fiancé left her after seeing the damage, but by the time she visits the zoo her face has been reconstructed and she only has small scars alongside her eye.
**CJ’s primary dragon adversary becomes known as ‘Melted Face’ as she hit him in the face with an improvised flamethrower in their first clash.
**CJ has a relatively minor example of this as her face was mauled by an alligator while saving a child a couple of years ago. Her fiancé left her after seeing the damage, but by the time she visits the zoo her face has been reconstructed and she only has small scars alongside her eye.
**CJ’s primary dragon adversary becomes known as ‘Melted Face’ as she hit him in the face with an improvised flamethrower in their first clash.
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**CJ’s old friend Go-Go is an employee of the Great Dragon Zoo. When the zoo staff plan to kill the visitors to stop them talking about what happened, Go-Go is sentenced along with them because the staff knew of his history with CJ and are concerned he would talk, with Go-Go making it clear that he would have told others what had happened rather than trying to deny it to save his life.
** Of the six types of dragons, the yellow dragons are the ones most clearly on the humans’ side; red dragons are more actively hostile towards humans, while the others don’t particularly show concern one way or the other, [[spoiler:although the red dragons kill the primary emperors of the other five breeds]].
**CJ’s old friend Go-Go is an employee of the Great Dragon Zoo. When the zoo staff plan to kill the visitors to stop them talking about what happened, Go-Go is sentenced along with them because the staff knew of his history with CJ and are concerned he would talk, with Go-Go making it clear that he would have told others what had happened rather than trying to deny it to save his life.
** Of the six types of dragons, the yellow dragons are the ones most clearly on the humans’ side; red dragons are more actively hostile towards humans, while the others don’t particularly show concern one way or the other, [[spoiler:although the red dragons kill the primary emperors of the other five breeds]].
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*YouNoTakeCandle: Although [[spoiler:the dragons are shown to be capable of communication, the translation program that allows them to talk with humans has its limitations. As a result, the dragons come across as this when talking with humans through specially programmed earpieces, and have trouble understanding some of the humans’ more complex sentences in turn, although this may be due to limitations in the translation rather than the dragons being “stupid”]].
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** Interestingly, it also has shades of that latter film as well (despite being released months beforehand) as both have the park higher-ups losing control after certain animals - the Indominus Rex there, the dragons here - turn out to be far, far smarter and determined to escape than anyone realises.
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* ChekhovMIA: CJ leaves Johnson wounded in a dumbwaiter, telling him to wait there until she returns. When she does come back, there’s no sign of him, but none of a struggle either. [[spoiler:He shows up in the climax to hijack one of the bombs in the zoo.]]
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* ChekhovMIA: CJ leaves Johnson wounded in a dumbwaiter, telling him to wait there until she returns. When she does come back, there’s there's no sign of him, but none of a struggle either. [[spoiler:He shows up in the climax to hijack one of the bombs in the zoo.]]
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* LeaveNoWitnesses: When disaster inevitably strikes, management takes anyone who witnesses it out to the “emergency evacuation area”, where they are FedToTheBeast.
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* LeaveNoWitnesses: When disaster inevitably strikes, management takes anyone who witnesses it out to the “emergency "emergency evacuation area”, area", where they are FedToTheBeast.
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** Part of CJ’s backstory is how she was mauled by a bull alligator after saving a child from it.
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** Melted Face’s pack leader, Red Face, proves to be even more persistent, appearing almost every time the red-bellies show up and identified by CJ as recognising her, and also being [[spoiler:the final dragon she faces off with.]]
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** Melted Face’s Face's pack leader, Red Face, proves to be even more persistent, appearing almost every time the red-bellies show up and identified by CJ as recognising her, and also being [[spoiler:the final dragon she faces off with.]]
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* ChekhovsMIA: CJ leaves Johnson wounded in a dumbwaiter, telling him to wait there until she returns. When she does come back, there’s no sign of him, but none of a struggle either. [[spoiler:He shows up in the climax to hijack one of the bombs in the zoo.]]
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* ChekhovsMIA: ChekhovMIA: CJ leaves Johnson wounded in a dumbwaiter, telling him to wait there until she returns. When she does come back, there’s no sign of him, but none of a struggle either. [[spoiler:He shows up in the climax to hijack one of the bombs in the zoo.]]
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* ChekhovsMIA: CJ leaves Johnson wounded in a dumbwaiter, telling him to wait there until she returns. When she does come back, there’s no sign of him, but none of a struggle either. [[spoiler:He shows up in the climax to hijack one of the bombs in the zoo.]]
* FeedItABomb: How CJ ultimately deals with [[spoiler:Red Face,]] lobbing a grenade down its throat. The results are described [[YourHeadAsplode graphically.]]
* LeaveNoWitnesses: When disaster inevitably strikes, management takes anyone who witnesses it out to the “emergency evacuation area”, where they are FedToTheBeast.
* NeverSmileAtACrocodile:
** Part of CJ’s backstory is how she was mauled by a bull alligator after saving a child from it.
** The zoo keeps huge saltwater crocodiles around, ostensibly so the dragons have some familiar wildlife around them. Naturally the protagonists run afoul of them.
* NeverSmileAtACrocodile:
** Part of CJ’s backstory is how she was mauled by a bull alligator after saving a child from it.
** The zoo keeps huge saltwater crocodiles around, ostensibly so the dragons have some familiar wildlife around them. Naturally the protagonists run afoul of them.
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: The most dangerous dragons are the red-bellied blacks, named after a venomous Australian snake.
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* SuperPersistentPredator: The dragon known as Melted Face spends almost the whole novel tracking down and trying to kill CJ in retaliation for her burning its face. More justified than most in that dragons are shown to be [[ItCanThink frighteningly intelligent]], and this one was [[{{Revenge}} really pissed off]] about what happened to its face.
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* SuperPersistentPredator: The SuperPersistentPredator:
**The dragon known as Melted Face spends almost the whole novel tracking down and trying to kill CJ in retaliation for her burning its face. More justified than most in that dragons are shown to be [[ItCanThink frighteningly intelligent]], and this one was [[{{Revenge}} really pissed off]] about what happened to itsface.face.
** Melted Face’s pack leader, Red Face, proves to be even more persistent, appearing almost every time the red-bellies show up and identified by CJ as recognising her, and also being [[spoiler:the final dragon she faces off with.]]
* TearOffYourFace: Happens to [[spoiler:Hu,]] who is interrupted during a monologue by the dragon Red Face popping up and biting his face off. Horrifically, he survives long enough to get a MercyKill from his allies.
**The dragon known as Melted Face spends almost the whole novel tracking down and trying to kill CJ in retaliation for her burning its face. More justified than most in that dragons are shown to be [[ItCanThink frighteningly intelligent]], and this one was [[{{Revenge}} really pissed off]] about what happened to its
** Melted Face’s pack leader, Red Face, proves to be even more persistent, appearing almost every time the red-bellies show up and identified by CJ as recognising her, and also being [[spoiler:the final dragon she faces off with.]]
* TearOffYourFace: Happens to [[spoiler:Hu,]] who is interrupted during a monologue by the dragon Red Face popping up and biting his face off. Horrifically, he survives long enough to get a MercyKill from his allies.
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* RunningGag: Every time the Chinese unveil something spectacular about the park--the architecture, bullet trains bringing people in, the menu - they then spoil the effect by revealing it to be have been designed/created by a foreigner originally. [[spoiler:Even the bombs that annihilate the park at the end turn out to have been bought from the Russians]].
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* RunningGag: Every time the Chinese unveil something spectacular about the park--the architecture, bullet trains bringing people in, the menu - they menu--they then spoil the effect by revealing it to be have been designed/created by a foreigner originally. [[spoiler:Even the bombs that annihilate the park at the end turn out to have been bought from the Russians]].
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* BreathWeapon: The dragons of ''The Great Zoo of China'' are confirmed by their Chinese captors to be unable to do this, dismissing it as a myth--until fairly late in the book where it turns out each dragon subspecies has a dominant superking and superemperor that ''can'' breath fire.
* DarkIsEvil: In ''The Great Zoo of China'' the black dragons are the ringleaders of the dragon revolt, and as the final confrontation with the superking and superemperor shows, they're the only dragon subspecies to be actively malicious towards humans instead of just predators following their instincts.
* DarkIsEvil: In ''The Great Zoo of China'' the black dragons are the ringleaders of the dragon revolt, and as the final confrontation with the superking and superemperor shows, they're the only dragon subspecies to be actively malicious towards humans instead of just predators following their instincts.
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* BreathWeapon: The dragons of ''The Great Zoo of China'' are confirmed by their Chinese captors to be unable to do this, dismissing it as a myth--until fairly late in the book where it turns out each dragon subspecies has a dominant superking and superemperor that ''can'' breath fire.
* DarkIsEvil:In ''The Great Zoo of China'' the The black dragons are the ringleaders of the dragon revolt, and as the final confrontation with the superking and superemperor shows, they're the only dragon subspecies to be actively malicious towards humans instead of just predators following their instincts.
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* ItCanThink: The dragons in ''The Great Zoo of China'' are FAR smarter than their Chinese zookeepers realise, even having a complex language to communicate with.
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* NiceToTheWaiter: Early on in ''The Great Zoo of China'' CJ intervenes when she sees a worker who made a mistake in front of the Western guests being physically chastised by his boss. She helps him clean up his stuff then threatens to have the foreman fired if he tries anything.
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* NiceToTheWaiter: Early on in ''The Great Zoo of China'' on, CJ intervenes when she sees a worker who made a mistake in front of the Western guests being physically chastised by his boss. She helps him clean up his stuff then threatens to have the foreman fired if he tries anything.
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* SuperPersistentPredator: The dragon known as Melted Face in ''The Great Zoo of China'' spends almost the whole novel tracking down and trying to kill CJ in retaliation for her burning its face. More justified than most in that dragons are shown to be [[ItCanThink frighteningly intelligent]], and this one was [[{{Revenge}} really pissed off]] about what happened to its face.
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* SuperPersistentPredator: The dragon known as Melted Face in ''The Great Zoo of China'' spends almost the whole novel tracking down and trying to kill CJ in retaliation for her burning its face. More justified than most in that dragons are shown to be [[ItCanThink frighteningly intelligent]], and this one was [[{{Revenge}} really pissed off]] about what happened to its face.
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''The Great Zoo of China'' is a 2014 novel by Creator/MatthewReilly. Dr. Cassandra Jane "CJ" Cameron, a herpetologist and veterinarian, is invited to a brand new zoo in China as part of a group of foreign journalists, only for events at the zoo to rapidly spiral out of control when the animals contained within--[[OurDragonsAreDifferent dragons, revived after millions of years of hibernation]]--start to fight back.
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!!''The Great Zoo Of China'' contains examplesof:of:
* AmbitionIsEvil: Hu Tang is determined to vault over the bodies of the witnesses to the Presidency of China using the dragon zoo.
* BadassBookworm: CJ is a reptile expert, not a trained soldier. By novel's end she's pretty much single-handedly saved the day and gone toe-to-toe with actual fire-breathing dragons and won.
* BreathWeapon: The dragons of ''The Great Zoo of China'' are confirmed by their Chinese captors to be unable to do this, dismissing it as a myth--until fairly late in the book where it turns out each dragon subspecies has a dominant superking and superemperor that ''can'' breath fire.
* DarkIsEvil: In ''The Great Zoo of China'' the black dragons are the ringleaders of the dragon revolt, and as the final confrontation with the superking and superemperor shows, they're the only dragon subspecies to be actively malicious towards humans instead of just predators following their instincts.
* DragonsAreDinosaurs: Quite literally. They're a dinosaur species that were hibernating deep underground during the extinction, which have been checking now and again to see if the world has become hot enough for them all to come out, which is the reason that so many ancient cultures had dragon myths despite being isolated from each other.
* EyeScream: An eye surgery scene is described in quite nauseating detail.
* GenreSavvy:
**Hamish notes that the Great Zoo and its dragons are great...as long as you haven't seen ''Film/JurassicPark'', wondering (accurately) what'll happen when the dragons get out and turn on the humans. [[ForegoneConclusion Sure enough...]]
** Amusingly, the Chinese think they're this, even telling Hamish they've seen the film too--but as there and the later ''Film/JurassicWorld'', they don't do much better when the animals escape and start killing everybody.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:The red-and-black superking's own fire breath sets it on fire, with a little assist from the fuel from CJ's flamethrower]].
%%* InterspeciesFriendship: Human [=CJ=] Cameron and Lucky the dragon in ''The Great Zoo of China''.
* ItCanThink: The dragons in ''The Great Zoo of China'' are FAR smarter than their Chinese zookeepers realise, even having a complex language to communicate with.
* KillItWithFire: CJ kind of falls into using this as her primary weapon once she gets hold of a flamethrower. [[spoiler:Which is handy given she has to face actual fire-breathing dragons, one the size of a bus, the other bigger than a jumbo jet]].
* LaserGuidedKarma: A positive example. Early on, CJ first protects a hapless worker from the wrath of his supervisor, then saves Lucky the dragon when she's surrounded by black dragons. Both come back to help her later in the book.
* NiceToTheWaiter: Early on in ''The Great Zoo of China'' CJ intervenes when she sees a worker who made a mistake in front of the Western guests being physically chastised by his boss. She helps him clean up his stuff then threatens to have the foreman fired if he tries anything.
* RunningGag: Every time the Chinese unveil something spectacular about the park--the architecture, bullet trains bringing people in, the menu - they then spoil the effect by revealing it to be have been designed/created by a foreigner originally. [[spoiler:Even the bombs that annihilate the park at the end turn out to have been bought from the Russians]].
* SuperPersistentPredator: The dragon known as Melted Face in ''The Great Zoo of China'' spends almost the whole novel tracking down and trying to kill CJ in retaliation for her burning its face. More justified than most in that dragons are shown to be [[ItCanThink frighteningly intelligent]], and this one was [[{{Revenge}} really pissed off]] about what happened to its face.
%%* ThreateningShark: A whole book based around escaping dragons causing havoc.
* WholePlotReference: While it incorporates plenty of Reilly's signature fast-paced action, in addition to having some very critical commentary on the Chinese Communist Party, ''The Great Zoo of China'' is essentially ''Film/JurassicPark'' at its core--not helped by being released just as the hype train for ''Film/JurassicWorld'' was getting into full swing.
* TheWorfEffect: Enormous predatory saltwater crocodiles are taken down by even larger, nastier apex predators--dragons--to show how serious things are getting.
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!!''The Great Zoo Of China'' contains examples
* AmbitionIsEvil: Hu Tang is determined to vault over the bodies of the witnesses to the Presidency of China using the dragon zoo.
* BadassBookworm: CJ is a reptile expert, not a trained soldier. By novel's end she's pretty much single-handedly saved the day and gone toe-to-toe with actual fire-breathing dragons and won.
* BreathWeapon: The dragons of ''The Great Zoo of China'' are confirmed by their Chinese captors to be unable to do this, dismissing it as a myth--until fairly late in the book where it turns out each dragon subspecies has a dominant superking and superemperor that ''can'' breath fire.
* DarkIsEvil: In ''The Great Zoo of China'' the black dragons are the ringleaders of the dragon revolt, and as the final confrontation with the superking and superemperor shows, they're the only dragon subspecies to be actively malicious towards humans instead of just predators following their instincts.
* DragonsAreDinosaurs: Quite literally. They're a dinosaur species that were hibernating deep underground during the extinction, which have been checking now and again to see if the world has become hot enough for them all to come out, which is the reason that so many ancient cultures had dragon myths despite being isolated from each other.
* EyeScream: An eye surgery scene is described in quite nauseating detail.
* GenreSavvy:
**Hamish notes that the Great Zoo and its dragons are great...as long as you haven't seen ''Film/JurassicPark'', wondering (accurately) what'll happen when the dragons get out and turn on the humans. [[ForegoneConclusion Sure enough...]]
** Amusingly, the Chinese think they're this, even telling Hamish they've seen the film too--but as there and the later ''Film/JurassicWorld'', they don't do much better when the animals escape and start killing everybody.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:The red-and-black superking's own fire breath sets it on fire, with a little assist from the fuel from CJ's flamethrower]].
%%* InterspeciesFriendship: Human [=CJ=] Cameron and Lucky the dragon in ''The Great Zoo of China''.
* ItCanThink: The dragons in ''The Great Zoo of China'' are FAR smarter than their Chinese zookeepers realise, even having a complex language to communicate with.
* KillItWithFire: CJ kind of falls into using this as her primary weapon once she gets hold of a flamethrower. [[spoiler:Which is handy given she has to face actual fire-breathing dragons, one the size of a bus, the other bigger than a jumbo jet]].
* LaserGuidedKarma: A positive example. Early on, CJ first protects a hapless worker from the wrath of his supervisor, then saves Lucky the dragon when she's surrounded by black dragons. Both come back to help her later in the book.
* NiceToTheWaiter: Early on in ''The Great Zoo of China'' CJ intervenes when she sees a worker who made a mistake in front of the Western guests being physically chastised by his boss. She helps him clean up his stuff then threatens to have the foreman fired if he tries anything.
* RunningGag: Every time the Chinese unveil something spectacular about the park--the architecture, bullet trains bringing people in, the menu - they then spoil the effect by revealing it to be have been designed/created by a foreigner originally. [[spoiler:Even the bombs that annihilate the park at the end turn out to have been bought from the Russians]].
* SuperPersistentPredator: The dragon known as Melted Face in ''The Great Zoo of China'' spends almost the whole novel tracking down and trying to kill CJ in retaliation for her burning its face. More justified than most in that dragons are shown to be [[ItCanThink frighteningly intelligent]], and this one was [[{{Revenge}} really pissed off]] about what happened to its face.
%%* ThreateningShark: A whole book based around escaping dragons causing havoc.
* WholePlotReference: While it incorporates plenty of Reilly's signature fast-paced action, in addition to having some very critical commentary on the Chinese Communist Party, ''The Great Zoo of China'' is essentially ''Film/JurassicPark'' at its core--not helped by being released just as the hype train for ''Film/JurassicWorld'' was getting into full swing.
* TheWorfEffect: Enormous predatory saltwater crocodiles are taken down by even larger, nastier apex predators--dragons--to show how serious things are getting.
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