History WesternAnimation / JurassicWorldCampCretaceous

** [[spoiler:Big Eatie is severely injured by the ''Spinosaurus'', and is left for dead in episode 11 of season 5. In the next episode, she arrives just in time to save Darius from the ''Spinosaurus''

* Ap.ocalypticLog: Roxie uncovers a shelf full of walkie-talkies -- which all immediately begin to burst with the [[Film/JurassicWorld death screams of Hamada and his team as the]] ''[[Film/JurassicWorld Indominus]]'' [[Film/JurassicWorld kills them]].

* BigDamnHero: [[spoiler: Big Eatie, following in Rexie's footsteps, saves Darius from the Spinosaurus just in time]].

** In season 1 the ''Indominus rex'' is the bigger danger while ''Toro the Carnotaurus'' is the secondary threat.
** In season 2 the ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' is the bigger dinosaur threat of the season while the ''Barynonyx'' siblings take over the role of secondary antagonists.

* SpinosaurusVersusTRex: Averted so far, [[spoiler: the main characters encounter ''T. rex'' several times in the first three seasons, in the fourth season ''Tyrannosaurus'' and ''Spinosaurus'' both appear but don’t encounter each other as they are being kept in separate artificial biomes by the seasons BigBad.]]

* ApocalypticLog: Roxie uncovers a shelf full of walkie-talkies -- which all immediately begin to burst with the [[Film/JurassicWorld death screams of Hamada and his team as the]] ''[[Film/JurassicWorld Indominus]]'' [[Film/JurassicWorld kills them]].

%%** After being absent from season three and only appearing in a nightmare in the fourth season, The teaser for season five confirms the return of Toro.

* SeldomSeenSpecies: ''Monolophosaurus'' and ''Ouranosaurus'' make their debut in Season 3. ''Kentrosaurus'' debuts in Season 4.

* StockDinosaurs: ''[[{{KingOfTheDinosaurs}} Tyrannosaurus Rex]]'', ''Velociraptor'', ''Carnotaurus'', ''Compsognathus'', ''Ankylosaurus'', ''Stegosaurus'', ''Brachiosaurus'', ''Parasaurolophus'', ''Pteranodon'', and ''Mosasaurus''. [[spoiler:Season 4 adds in ''Spinosaurus'', ''Dilophosaurus'', and ''Smilodon''.]]
** The show has also subverted this by featuring some SeldomSeenSpecies such as ''Baryonyx'', ''Ceratosaurus'', ''Sinoceratops'', ''Ouranosaurus'', ''Monolophosaurus'', ''Kentrosaurus'', and ''Dimorphodon''.

** [[Spoiler: Season 4 sees the return of the venom-spitting ''Dilophosaurus'' for the first time since [[Film/JurassicPark the original film]].]]

* PoisonousPerson: Darius reveals that ''Compsognathus'', just like the ''Procompsognathus'' in [[Literature/JurassicPark the novel]], have venomous bites and you have to scare them away before they nibble your skin. This, in hindsight, explains why [[Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark a healthy adult Dieter became easy prey for the compys]], and [[spoiler:it makes Ben's predicament all the more terrifying as they slowly surround him when he's alone]].

* DoomedByCanon: What the kids are going to go through is inevitable, since we already know what happens to Jurassic World thanks to the original film.

* MythologyGag: Several, with a surprising amount being references from the third film.

** The premise of a group of kids being selected to go to a nature preserve and ending up stranded in the middle of dinosaur country with some rather... [[WouldHurtAChild less than scrupulous]]... adults was first visited in the ''VideoGame/JurassicParkScanCommand'' and ''VideoGame/JurassicParkDinosaurBattles'' computer games. Unfortunately, ''Camp Cretaceous'' doesn't have remote-controlled dinosaur allies to protect the campers as the games did. [[spoiler:At least, until Season 4.]]

** Just like Ed Regis in [[Literature/JurassicPark the original novel]] (and Gennaro in the [[Film/JurassicPark first film]]), [[spoiler:[[MeaningfulName Eddie]] abandons the kids to their fate to save his own life, but this ends up [[KarmicDeath getting him killed]].]] Ironically, [[spoiler:he does so by getting ''into'' a car rather than out of one.]]

** Mitch and Tiff are a married couple of big-game hunters who pass themselves off as eco-tourists, similar to Paul and Amanda Kirby doing the same to dupe Grant in ''Film/JurassicParkIII''. Mitch in particular is a downplayed but more villainous {{Expy}} of [[Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark Roland Tembo]]. Tiff, on the other hand, is a dead ringer for [[Film/JurassicParkIII Amanda]].

* PoisonousPerson: Darius reveals that ''Compsognathus'', just like the ''Procompsognathus'' in the novel, have venomous bites and you have to scare them away before they nibble your skin. This, in hindsight, explains why [[Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark a healthy adult Dieter became easy prey for the compys]], and [[spoiler:it makes Ben's predicament all the more terrifying as they slowly surround him when he's alone]].

** In Season 3, Yaz mentions she loves theme-park horror stories while chasing a Compy that stole a much-needed compass. The one she tells Kenji and Ben is a shout-out to the first novel, [[spoiler:where John Hammond was attacked and poisoned by a pack of the Compies, and eaten alive. Ben immediately points out that it never happened, as John Hammond died of natural causes.]] When asked where she heard such a thing, Yaz simply replies, “I [[Literature/JurassicPark read it somewhere]].”

* {{BookEnds}}: The first dinosaur Darius sees at Cretaceous Camp is a ''Compsognathus'' that got lost. In both of the season finales, a pack of ''Compsognathus'' is one of the last dinosaurs we see (unless one would count E750).
** The first episode of season sees the campers arriving on Isla Nublar, the final episode of season three sees them finally leaving the island.

* AquaticHadrosaurs: Played straight by the ''Parasauroluphus'' that live in the underground river area. Given that they also have [[BioluminescenceIsCool bioluminescent patches that are wildly implausible]], it's likely they were genetically modified to be semi-aquatic.

* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: Par for the course, this being a ''Jurassic Park'' show, but several lines stands out.

** ''Cranial facial biting'' is brought up in season 4 as play behavior between two ''Tyrannosaurus'', when in reality it refers to bite injuries to the skull deep enough to puncture the bone, almost certainly from disputes with other members of their species.

* HateSink: [[spoiler:Mantah-Corp (and by extension, Kash) becomes this by Season 4 when the audience sees what they are capable of. Blackmailing Sammy for dinosaur saliva samples is one thing. But that's just child's play compared to the list of transgressions that spans the entire season. They drug a mother ''T. rex'' and her beloved daughter, forcing them to fight to the point of the mother hurting her daughter against her will. They put a ''Kentrosaurus'' in the Arctic biome just to see how long it would take to freeze to death. Then they pit the mother ''T. rex'' against the ''Kentrosaurus'' in a death battle. Oh, and they were planning on inserting mind control chips into baby dinosaur brains, even at the risk of frying their little baby brains. Not to mention Kash actually sent ''Velociraptors'' and the [=BRADs=] after Mae when she took a stand for what was right. Needless to say, there's not any reason to root for them.]]

* KingOfTheDinosaurs: Rexy is the undisputed ruler of Isla Nublar and a major threat that the campers have to avoid, all other species (including giant sauropods) fear her and for good reason. Even the AxCrazy ''Scorpius rex'' was never seen going near her territory.

*** [[spoiler:The ''Indominus'' also turns a vehicle upside down to get to said character, much like it did when it escaped in [[Film/JurassicWorld the first movie]].]]

* NoOSHACompliance: Well, it is ''Jurassic Park'', but it gets an extra mention in how often the characters lampshade the park's bad decisions.

** One of the ''Baryonyx'' trio in Season 2 has the red color pattern of the ''Baryonyx'' generation 2 in 'VideoGame/JurassicWorldAlive''.

** The watering hole scene in Season 2 could almost be placed right against the river scene in ''Film/JurassicParkIII'''.

** In Season 2, [[spoiler:it gets {{Averted}} a bit. The kids meet Mitch, Tiffany, and Hap, who feed them and promise to get them off the island when their boat comes back, but it turns out that Mitch and Tiff are big-game hunters and Hap is their guide. Mitch and Tiffany end up being as much a threat to the kids as any of the dinos. Hap on the other hand genuinely wants to save the kids, tells Mitch and Tiffany to piss off when it becomes obvious they have no intention of helping the kids and ends up sacrificing himself so Brooklynn and Kenji can escape a pack of ''Baryonyx''.]]

** Finally {{subverted}} in Season 4 with Dr. Turner, who at first appears to be a villainous Mantah agent determined to keep them isolated, but who turns out to be knowledgeable about and respectful toward dinosaurs, capable of defending herself against them if need be, believes the campers' story, takes immediate action to protect them against the dinosaurs and [=BRADs=], and does everything in her power to help them make contact with the mainland and get home. It's just that she has no direct contact with anyone else either and only minimal control over the [=BRADs=]. DoubleSubverted: Then she gets badly injured, forcing the kids to care for her until she recovers, which leads to several tense moments and forces Ben into a dangerous situation to get first aid supplies.

* AquaticHadrosaurs: Played straight by the ''Parasauroluphuses'' that live in the underground river area. Given that they also have [[BioluminescenceIsCool bioluminescent patches that are wildly implausible]], it's likely they were genetically modified to be semi-aquatic.

** E750 for most of Season 3, [[spoiler:Dr. Wu and his mercenaries for the final 3 episodes]].

** The ''Pteranodons'' are only shown landing and launching on their hind limbs and even folding their wings, which is quite jarring as ''Dimorphodons'' landed on all fours.
** The ''Dimorphodons'' lack pycnofibres and possess a claw at the end of the wing finger, unlike both their real-life and film counterparts.

* BigShadowLittleCreature: Happens with a ''Compsognathus'' when the children explore the tunnels in the last episode.

** Season 2: [[spoiler:The kids are happily reunited with Ben and are able to keep Mitch and Tiff (who were eaten by Rexy and the ''Baryonyxes'') from poaching the dinosaurs. However, Hap sacrifices himself to save them before he can lead them to the boat he, Mitch, and Tiff used to get to the island]], so they're still stranded. And the escaped creature from Room E750 implies that they'll soon have a new threat to deal with.
** Season 3: [[spoiler:The kids are finally able to get off the island via using Mitch and Tiff's boat they found and destroyed Dr. Wu's laptop, preventing anymore ''Scorpios rexes''. However, they are forced to leave Bumpy behind with her own kind, and Darius and Kenji are on bad terms due to the former's plan that [[WhatTheHellHero risked their friend's lives]]. And most of all, something is inside the boat with the campers as they're leaving the island...]]

** In "The Art of Chill", Yazmina and Kenji have a conflict over the former working too hard and the latter not working enough. Kenji [[WhatTheHellHero calls out Yaz]] on working despite her injured ankle, to the point where she's injuring ''even further''. In turn, Yaz makes a point that she would not feel compelled to work at all if Kenji wasn't so lazy and actually ''did any work''.

** In Season 3, the rest of the campers find a wrecked car that they know Ben and Darius were in up against a tree, but figure out that they're alive by finding their footprints nearby, almost exactly like how Muldoon and Sattler figured out that Grant and the kids survived the ''rex'' attack in the first film.
** In season 3, Darius helps a ''Sinocerstops'' which had a [[spoiler: poisonous quill in it from the ''Scorpius Rex'' and pulls it out of the dinosaur.]] In season 4, [[spoiler: Darius helps an injured ''Tyrannosaurus Rex'' by pulling out a broken off spike from a ''Kentrosaurus'' which is in it’s tail.]]

** Claire considered dumping Zach and Gray at Camp Cretaceous, but evidently decided against it, or Zach and Gray ditched Zara before they could be taken to the camp. The characters also find their damaged Gyrosphere and the corpse of the ''Ankylosaurs'' the ''Indo'' killed.

* CowerPower: Really their only way of getting past the dinos is to cling together and cower while hopefully the lumber past.

* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler:Ben appears to fall to his death from the monorail, pursued by ''Pteranodons'', however the final scene of the first season shows that he's NotQuiteDead.]]

* EvilPoacher: [[spoiler: Mitch and Tiffany in season 2.]]
* FamilyUnfriendlyViolence: While the seasons do a good job cutting away from human deaths without neutering their impact, Season 3 is much more explicit in the onscreen dinosaur on dinosaur violence, [[spoiler:with the ''Scorpius rex'' going out of its way to kill other dinosaurs including a scene where it murders multiple dinosaurs back-to-back in rapid succession.]] For comparison, Rexy's killing of a Parasaur was largely relegated to offscreen, only showing her drag off the body.

** Once Chaos and Limbo come across the carcass of their sister and identify the killer, it takes no detective to predict Tiffany's fate.
** Despite the kids' insistence on protecting the dinosaurs in Jurassic World, we know from ''Film/JurassicWorldFallenKingdom'' that it will all have been [[AllForNothing for nothing]] as most of the dinos on the island will later be killed by the volcano's eruption in four years.

* HateSink: [[spoiler:Mantah-Corp (and by extension, Kash) becomes this by Season 4 when the audience sees what they are capable of. Blackmailing Sammy for dinosaur saliva samples is one thing. But that's just child's play compared to the list of transgressions that spans the entire season. They drug a mother t.rex and her beloved daughter, forcing them to fight to the point of the mother hurting her daughter against her will. They put a kentrosaurus in the Arctic biome just to see how long it would take to freeze to death. Then they pit the mother t.rex against the kentrosaurus in a death battle. Oh, and they were planning on inserting mind control chips into baby dinosaur brains, even at the risk of frying their little baby brains. Not to mention Kash actually sent velociraptors and the [=BRADs=] after Mae when she took a stand for what was right. Needless to say, there's not any reason to root for them.]]

* HiddenDisdainReveal: Kenji casually admits to the Camp Family that [[spoiler:he never liked Mitch or Tiff in the first place, even before Brooklynn got suspicious of them.]]

* HighSpeedTrainReroute: When the kids are on the monorail, they're attacked by pteranodons and see that there's a crashed rail car on the route ahead, and have to get to the cabin to switch tracks.

* IsleOfGiantHorrors: From the end of season 1 onwards the island is an abandoned theme park with a population of dinosaurs (and six teenagers) living on it.

** [[spoiler:Tiff is killed by the remaining two ''Baryonyx'' after she turns away from the controls of her boat to taunt Darius and Brooklyn, which causes it to drift close enough to shore that they can jump onto it. It's strongly implied that they were tracking her in retaliation for having killed the third ''Baryonyx'' earlier.]]
* KingOfTheDinosaurs: Rexy is the undisputed ruler of Isla Nublar and a major threat that the campers have to avoid, all other species (including giant sauropods) fear her and for good reason. Even the ''AxCrazy Scorpius rex'' was never seen going near her Territory.

* LaserGuidedKarma: In season 2, the kids have to decide wether to free a caged carnivore (Baryonyx) and reunite it with its siblings, the show averts the AndroclesLion trope as the baryonyxs continue to pose a threat to the campers for the rest of the season, however, they do unintentionally give the kids a second chance to escape the island when they [[spoiler: kill Tiffany (who shot their pack mate) before she could escape the island on her boat, allowing the kids to find it in season 3.]]

* LogoGag: The standard Universal Logo animation plays out, but then the globe keeps spinning to reveal the Dreamworks Logo as a landmass on the planet. The globe spins one more time to reveal an Amblin Entertainment logo landmass

* MisplacedWildlife: [[spoiler: This becomes a plot point in the fourth season, after the camp family wash up on a new island, they discover that it contains five artificial biomes (tundra, redwood forest, tropical jungle, desert and swamp) and several species that [=MantahCorp=] has either cloned or stolen have been deliberately placed into biomes they are not adapted to in order to test how long they survive (e.g. a Smilodon in the desert and a Kentrosaurus in the tundra).]]

** One is particularly amusing, Like ''The Lost World'', ''Camp'' features a character by the name of Eddie. [[spoiler:Like Eddie Carr, he too is ripped out of a vehicle and devoured.]]
*** The ''Indominus'' also turns a vehicle upside down to get to said character, much like it did when it escaped in the first movie.
** The premise of a group of kids being selected to go to a nature preserve and ending up stranded in the middle of dinosaur country with some rather... [[WouldHurtAChild less than scrupulous]]... adults was first visited in the ''Jurassic Park Scan Command'' and ''Jurassic Park Dinosaur Battles'' computer games. Unfortunately, ''Camp Cretaceous'' doesn't have remote-controlled dinosaur allies to protect the campers as the games did. [[spoiler:At least, until Season 4.]]
** The ''Velociraptor'' resonating chamber from 3 returns during the first episode.
*** Interestingly, Darius uses the resonating chamber for raptors to attack a ''T. rex'', which is similar to an unused scene from one of 3's earlier screenplays in which Grant uses it to call raptors to attack the ''Spinosaurus''. [[spoiler:The major difference is this being part of a video game in the TV series.]]
** [[spoiler:Sammy hiding her secret from the group is similar to Billy hiding the raptor eggs from the others in ''III''.]]
*** [[spoiler:Also similar to Nedry working for Biosyn in the first film. One wonders if Mantah Corp bought them out just as Masrani bought [=InGen=].]]
** When taking the River Adventure ride, the campers are sent off course by ''Parasaurolophuses'' into the park's lagoon, much like the ''Parasaurolophus'' accidentally causing the guest boats to drift off track towards the predator enclosures in the actual ''Ride/JurassicParkRiverAdventure''.
** A pack of compies attempts to attack Kenji similar to how they attacked Stark in the second film.
** This is not the only time an entry in the ''Jurassic'' series features a child character by the name of Ben.
** In Season 3 Kenji, Ben, and Sam have to get out of the helicoper that's dangling from a tree. They use vines to stay aloft, which heralds back to ''Lost World'' with Malcolm and Sarah, while the vehicle falling out calls back to the the first film with Tim and Dr. Grant.

** This is the second time in the franchise that a large predatory dinosaur has attempted to climb upstairs to chase after characters and fail. Rexy also did this during ''Jurassic Park: The Game.''
** Just like Ed Regis in [[Literature/JurassicPark the original novel]] (and Gennaro in the first film), [[spoiler:[[MeaningfulName Eddie]] abandons the kids to their fate to save his own life, but this ends up [[KarmicDeath getting him killed]].]] Ironically, [[spoiler:he does so by getting ''into'' a car rather than out of one.]]

** Mitch and Tiff are a married couple of big-game hunters who pass themselves off as eco-tourists, similar to Paul and Amanda Kirby doing the same to dupe Grant in ''Film/JurassicPark3''. Mitch in particular is a downplayed but more villainous {{Expy}} of [[Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark Roland Tembo]]. Tiff, on the other hand, is a dead ringer for Amanda.
*** Also, while not divorced like the Kirbys were, Mitch and Tiff's marriage is implied to be heavily strained and nearing its end, similar to Zach and Gray's parents.

** Hap closely resembles Robert Muldoon from the first film. [[spoiler:He also dies in a similar fashion, being dispatched by a pack of dinosaurs working as a team while safeguarding the lives of others.]]
** Darius and Sammy's dangerous hide-and-seek game with [[spoiler:Mitch and Tiff]] on Main Street is very similar to how Lex and Tim hide from the ''Velociraptors'' in the iconic kitchen scene from the first movie. [[spoiler:It also ends with Rexy arriving to distract the 'predators' later on, only this time it didn't kill the 'predators' and [[FromBadToWorse ended up chasing the heroes instead]].]]
** Season 3 revisits [[spoiler:the original Visitor's Center and is packed with callbacks -- from the gang being stalked by a predatory dinosaur in the kitchen to a dinosaur brawl breaking out. And at one point we see part of the opening of ''Fallen Kingdom'' through the character's eyes.]]
** Yaz mentions an urban legend John Hammond (the original owner of Jurassic Park) dying by breaking his leg and then being eaten by compies. This is exactly how Hammond dies in the original novel. To top it off, when Darius corrects her that Hammond died of natural causes and asks where she heard this, Yaz says that she ''read'' it somewhere.
** Brooklynn, Sammy, Kenji, and Yaz hide under a large log to avoid stampeding dinosaurs in an identical manner to Grant and the kids in the first film.

** Rexy attacking the helicopter and grabbing it with her jaws to prevent it from getting higher in the air is directly taken from a deleted ending of the original film.
** Like the ''Indominus'' going after the ''Apatosaurus'', [[spoiler:''Scorpios'' goes on a murder spree killing just about any dinosaur it can get its claws on.]]
** The [[spoiler:two ''Scorpios rex's'' deaths by crushing in the Visitor Center is similar to how one of the raptors was going to be killed in the original film -- albeit here instead of being crushed in the skull jaws of a ''T. rex'', the two hybrids are killed by the roof caving in on them.]]
** In an interesting easter egg based on a scene from [[Literature/{{Congo}} Michael Crichton's novel]] and film ''Film/{{Congo}},'' the characters find themselves huddling up in their shelter with only a makeshift electric fence keeping them away [[spoiler:from ''Scorpios''.]]
** The ''[[spoiler:Scorpios rex]]'' bears an uncanny resemblance to [[spoiler:one of the human-dinosaur hybrids from the infamous Sayles script for ''Jurassic Park 4'', specifically the apparent tyrannosaur-human, with the addition of raptor claws and a long tail]].
** The video recording of Dr. Wu [[spoiler:getting attacked by the ''Scorpios rex'' and almost died but ultimately survived the experience might be a nod to the novel Dr. Wu, who did indeed die from a ''Velociraptor'' attack (''Velociraptor'' genes are among those used to create the ''Scorpios rex'' hybrid), and how the movie version of Wu got SparedByTheAdaptation by surviving a similar experience.]]

** The plan by Kash to [[spoiler:use microchips to allow Manta Corp to control dinosaurs, implicitly for BeastlyBloodsports]], brings to mind the Dinovoc from ''Jurassic Park: Dinosaur Battles''.
** [[spoiler:The recovery of Dennis Nedry's Barbasol can in Season 5 brings to mind its significance in ''Jurassic Park: The Game''.]]

** Kenji blames his dad for not telling him he was serious about changing the locks to his penthouse if he didn't pass Algebra. Yeah Kenji, it was your father's fault for not picking up your slack.

** [[spoiler:The trope gets averted when the kids encounter the raptor Blue, she at first attacks the kids after they trespass on her nest, but when she gets pinned under a jeep the kids decide to help her instead of just leaving her to get eaten by Compies. After she is freed Blue isn't suddenly friendly, but she does allow the kids to run away without chasing them. Later again when the kids encounter Blue while running from the ''Scorpius rex'', and after Darius shows her they mean her no harm, Blue sides with the kids and fights the ''Scorpius'' and after the fight is over leaves the kids alone.]]

** And then there's a bitter one between Darius and [[spoiler:Mitch. While both of them admire dinosaurs, Darius appreciates them as magnificent and fascinating living creatures. Mitch, on the other hand, appreciates dinosaurs and potential hunting trophies and genuinely thinks the best way to "preserve" their legacy is to mount them on a wall.]]

* UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeMammals [[spoiler:In Season 4 the Camp Family encounter a ''Sabertooth Tiger''.]]

** This happens in Season one when Darius and Kenji end up falling into the Raptor pen in the first episode.
** In Season three this happens when the very raptor-like Monolophosaurus chase the campers through a penthouse on the island belonging to Kenji’s father in the third episode.
** In season three Darius, Kenji and Yaz come across the ruins of the old Jurassic park visitor center and discover Blue the velociraptor has made a nest and proceeds to chase them out in the fourth episode.
** In season four the group is attacked by a pair of velociraptors in the fifth episode.

* ReturningBigBad: Official images for season 4 show the return of [[spoiler:Spinosaurus]] which has not been seen since [[spoiler:Film/JurassicParkIII]].

* SadisticChoice: [[spoiler:Mitch and Tiff make a deal with Darius once he learns they're poachers: either he leads them to the watering hole (to hunt and poach dinosaurs) and the Camp Family gets to go home, ''or'' Darius can stand his ground and not take them to the watering hole but also get himself and his friends left behind on the island. Darius ultimately makes an "Option C". (See TakeAThirdOption)]]

* SharkFinOfDoom: Played with. [[spoiler:As the Spinosaurus walks in a canyon, all the characters can see at first is his dorsal sail moving between its walls]].

** In Season 3, Yaz mentions she loves theme-park horror stories while chasing a Compy that stole a much-needed compass. The one she tells Kenji and Ben is a shout-out to the first novel, [[spoiler:where John Hammond was attacked and poisoned by a pack of the Compies, and eaten alive. Ben immediately points out that it never happened, as John Hammond died of natural causes.]] When asked where she heard such a thing, Yaz simply replies, “I read it somewhere.”

* SkywardScream: In Season 4 episode "At Least...", the kids[[note]][[HeroicBSOD except Ben]], though he eventually did when facing a sabertooth tiger[[/note]] scream out their frustration by the campfire.

** In season 1 the ''Indominus Rex'' is the bigger danger while ''Toro the Carnotaurus'' is the secondary threat.
** In season 2 the ''Tyrannosaurus Rex'' is the bigger dinosaur threat of the season while the ''Barynonyx'' siblings take over the role of secondary antagonists.
** In season 3 the ''Scorpius Rex'' is the main threat and the secondary threat is fulfilled by Dr. Henry Wu and his mercenaries.

* SpinosaurusVersusTRex: Averted so far, [[spoiler: the main characters encounter ''T-Rex'' several times in the first three seasons, in the fourth season ''Tyrannosaurus'' and ''Spinosaurus'' both appear but don’t encounter each other as they are being kept in separate artificial biomes by the seasons BigBad.]]

** The show has also subverted this by featuring some lesser-known species such as ''Baryonyx'', ''Ceratosaurus'', ''Sinoceratops'', ''Ouranosaurus'', ''Monolophosaurus'', ''Kentrosaurus'', and ''Dimorphodon''.

** In Season 3, Darius gets his hands on a tranquilizer rifle. As he never has any experience shooting such a weapon before, he misses the shot completely when he fired at [[spoiler:the ''Scorpius rex'' despite it standing right in front of him.]]

* ThereIsAnother: Rexy was the last known surviving T. Rex on earth by the events of Jurassic World. [[spoiler: Season 4 confirms that at least two others, a mother and daughter nicknamed ''Big Eatie'' and ''Little Eatie'' that were taken from Isla Sorna by Mantah Corp.]]
** Blue was the last confirmed surviving velociraptor. [[spoiler: season four confirms that a pair of wild raptors are alive on an island belonging to Mantahcorp.]]

** Darius's raptor teeth necklace is a gift from his deceased father. He loses it when the camp is destroyed. [[spoiler:In Season 2, He gets it back when Sammy found it in the camp wreckage.]]

* TrashTheSet: In Season 3, [[spoiler:the Camp Family collapse the Jurassic Park Visitor Center down on the ''Scorpios rexes'' to neutralize them permanently, destroying the abandoned building for good. Shortly before that, a ''Scorpios rex'' also ends up trashing the famous kitchen where Tim and Lex used to hide from the raptors in the original film in its attempt to pursue the kids.]]
* TruceZone: In Season 2, Darius and Kenji discover a watering hole where all kinds of dinosaurs, whether predator or prey, are able to relax and drink without fear of survival.

* AdultFear:
** Your children are trapped on an island filled with dozens of lethal predators. Have a nice sleep.
** Additionally, Sammy's parents learn that their daughter agreed to Mantah Corp's deal to spy for them, even though her parents don't want to put her in that kind of danger just to help them save their ranch.
** Plus, Ben's mother sent him to Camp Cretaceous, believing it would do him some good. One can only imagine the guilt that will eat her up inside.
** And for most of Season 2, [[spoiler:the kids get entangled by adult poachers who are willing to ''murder'' them if they don't play along with their schemes]]. DarkerAndEdgier indeed.

** [[spoiler:The recovery of Dennis Nedry's Barbasol can in Season 5 brings to mind its significance in ''Jurassic Park: The Game.]]

** [[spoiler: After being absent for the entire fourth season, Bumpy makes a brief cameo at the end of the 10th episode where she is shown to be alive and well on Nublar but missing the campers.]]

Previews: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKJwbsx1BSc Teaser]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRTIrK3Kku8 Official Trailer]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVAFtzv-Gjc Season 2 Teaser]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAfQhqzZU98 Season 2 Official Trailer]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHv1vD-eQEw Season 3 Teaser]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_0vTlkLGOc Season 3 Trailer]], [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bDLKclq8gkQ Season 4 Trailer]].

Season 2 was released in January 2021, followed by Season 3 in May 2021. A fourth season premiered on December 3, 2021.

* {{Robinsonade}}: [[spoiler: Downplayed, In the second and third seasons the kids are forced to scavenge for supplies and food to survive after they are left behind during the evacuation. In the first couple episodes of season four they become stranded on another island when their boat is destroyed by ''Mosasaurus'' and are forced to survive in the wilderness.]]

** It is currently unconfirmed if Bumpy, Toro, Chaos and Limbo as well as the ''Ouranosaurus'', ''Monolophosaurus'' and Bioluminescent ''Parasaurolophus'' were among the dinosaurs that were rescued from Isla Nublar and released from Lockwood’s Manor.

** It is currently unconfirmed if Bumpy, Toro, Chaos and Limbo as well as the ''Ouranosaurus'', ''Monolophosaurus'' and Bioluminescent ''Parasaurolophus'' are among the dinosaurs that were rescued from Isla Nublar and released from Lockwood’s Manor.

** It is currently unconfirmed if Bumpy, Toro, Chaos and Limbo are among the dinosaurs that will be rescued from Isla Nublar and released from Lockwood’s Manor.

* AdvertisedExtra: The ''Tyrannosaurus rex''. Despite being featured prominently in the show's intro, she never actually appears in any episode, except in a video game during the pilot. Justified, given that she would be locked in her enclosure for most of the season. She plays a ''much'' larger role in Season 2 and is even referred to as Rexy by Sammy for the first time in official media, outside of the ''Literature/EvolutionOfClaire'' novel.

* AdvertisedExtra: The ''Tyrannosaurus rex''. Despite being featured prominently in the show's intro, she never actually appears in any episode, except in a video game during the pilot. Justified, given that she would be locked in her enclosure for most of the season. She plays a ''much'' larger role in Season 2 and is even referred to as Rexy by Sammy for the first time in official media, outside of the ''Evolution of Claire'' novel.

* AmbiguousSituation: [[spoiler: The fact that as of season four, there has been no follow up to the campers sending the distress beacon in season two despite over six months passing, implying some force beyond the island may be covering up their survival.]]

* {{Prequel}}: The first three and a half episodes of the first season takes place in the days leading up to the events of ''Film/JurassicWorld''. the last four episodes of the season serve as a {{Midquel}} by taking place during the events of the film.