To put it simply,
Jurassic Park is
THE franchise that embodies everything awesome about dinosaurs. There's no denying that the science fiction concept of resurrecting dinosaurs in our world through genetics, no matter
how implausible it is, has tremendous cinematic appeal.
Books
- In The Lost World, Sarah Harding is a walking badass. She surives being pushed overboard by Dodgson, swimming through extremely dangerous waters, chases after and snipes a Velociraptor on a motorcycle (which is being driven by a kid with no experience in driving a motorcycle), and overpowers Dodgson and offers him up to the Tyrannosaurus.
- Doc Thorne and Levine riding a motorcycle to safety while being pursued by a T. rex.
- Levine shooting a Velociraptor point-blank in the mouth with a rifle.
- Eddie buying his friends time to climb up to safety, by fighting off a pack of raptors with a steel bar. He gets caught and killed.
Comics
- The IDW series "Devils in the Desert" shows us both the first time of someone deliberately using a predator to take out another dangerous animal when Monica lures the last Pteranodon into the polar bear enclosure, as well as the first time a modern animal wasn't cannon fodder for the prehistoric. In the battle between the Pterosaur and strongest living mammalian predator, the bear wins after it tackles the reptile into the water.
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- This
Gatorade commercial, released in 2000, featuring a Velociraptor from the film taking on Vince Carter of the Toronto Raptors . . . in a basketball game.
