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- Blue takes her child Beta on a hunt. While prowling on a rabbit, a full-grown wolf comes out of nowhere and devours the rabbit before Beta does. Beta simply responds by pouncing on the wolf, taking it down in one swift attack. Like Mother, Like Daughter, indeed.
- A bit of Fridge Brilliance in that Beta is about the size of a real-life Velociraptor, so the movie is basically showing us that a turkey-sized Velociraptor is nothing to scoff at.
- A couple of poachers arrive and try to shoot the raptors. Only they tried to hit Beta first, and missed. Big mistake.
- Owen and Claire evading the trained Atrociraptors just long enough to be literally flying distance out of their reach.
- Soyona Santos succeeds where Wu, Hoskins, and Mills failed; her raptors are perfected Attack Animals that don't attack anyone except their targets.
- Claire deserves credit for keeping light on her feet and keeping up with Santos and escaping the conflict safely. Owen is a trained former member of the Navy acclimated to dealing with dangerous wild animals. Claire is a woman who understandably isn’t as fit as Owen due to being a white collar worker most of her life. But she still fights tooth and nail and is able to escape to safety, and is willing to fight a hardened criminal if it means finding her daughter.
- Owen fighting Delacourt in the Malta ring even as all hell breaks loose. He even manages to win despite Delacourt taking out his knife in an attempt to kill him, and knocks Delacourt down to get both arms bitten on by a Lystrosaurus and juvenile Carnotaurus. Owen manages to get the information on where Maisie is out of him before a juvenile Baryonyx breaks free and kills him. Owen is the first human protagonist of the series to outright kill a bad guy on his own accord!
- An extended scene elaborates the jaw strength of the Lystrosaurus when it is pitted against an Oviraptor and wins by decapitating the larger dinosaur with a single bite!
- Owen's motorbike chase through Malta. Rather than riding with the Atrociraptors, he's riding from them, and he does so using the city environment to his advantage. This includes navigating through alleyways and using other vehicles to knock them down. He even manages to evade the Carnotaurus and Allosaurus. It culminates in him jumping onto Kayla's plane as it lifts off, with the last Atrociraptor getting hit by his bike and falling into the ocean.
- As a Call-Back to the first film, the first dinosaur Alan and Ellie see in Biosyn Valley is a sauropod. Only this one is even bigger than the Brachiosaurus they saw on Isla Nublar...Alan: Is that... Dreadnoughtus?
Ramsay: Beautiful, right? The name means "fear nothing". - The fact that, after being left out in the previous two films in spite of current scientific consensus, this film finally introduces proper feathered dinosaurs to the public, including a Pyroraptor with fairly realistic plumage.
- Ian ever so calmly tears Dodgson a new one for not only creating a biblical-scale plague, but knowingly doing so for the sake of sheer greed. Although he gets fired, he doesn't go down without a fight and simply lets Dodgson know he'll get his in the end. Dodgson tries to take the wind out of his sails by low-key insinuating Ian is comparing him to Prometheus. Ian's response is an un-amused "Prometheus got gored". In any other situation, Prometheus is envied as being the allegorical fire-bringer who brings change. Not many people can tear apart such a god complex with three little words, not like Ian anyway.Dodgson: Doctor Malcolm, you are fired. [...] Thank you, Doctor.
Ian: That's it, huh? Nothing else to see here.
Dodgson: Uh, I'm not sure I admire your tone right now. You need to leave.
Ian: Yeah, I do. But first, I owe all these folks an apology. I think that by lending my cachet to this joint, I made it seem as if Biosyn wasn't rotten to the core.
Dodgson: That's enough, Ian.
Ian: See, here's how they get you. They give you so many promotions in a short period of time that it bludgeons your capacity for critical thinking.
Dodgson: Oh my God.
Ian: So then there are doors that you don't open, things that you ignore, but mainly, [points at Dodgson] he's exploiting your enchantment with these. [holds up an origami dinosaur]
Dodgson: Is there an actual concern here, or you just—
Ian: You're racing toward the extinction of our species, and you don't care. You know exactly what you're doing, but you won't stop. You can't.
Dodgson: You know, I thought you might be different, but you're just like everyone else. You see what you want to see. You imagine unchecked avarice. So, that's what you find. You envision, what? An evil, unbound Prometheus? So that's what I am to you.
Ian: Prometheus got gored. So will you, you rapacious rat bastard.
Dodgson: Ramsay, will you help Doctor Malcolm gather his things? His room and then to the airfield. That's it.
Ian: [starts to walk away before turning to Dodgson one last time, then points at him and says in a "fuck you" tone] Dodgson. [he and Ramsay then proceed to walk off] - Owen and Kayla saving Claire from the Dilophosaurus pack. Owen grabs the lead one and chokes it so that it gags on its own venom spit, and Kayla shocks it away. Owen then demands the other members of the pack get out, and they listen.
- After three decades, the Dimetrodon, a species that fans have been waiting to see making its physical debut in the films, appears in the flesh.
- And not only that, the Quetzalcoatlus, another creature that fans have been waiting to see for a long time, finally makes its appearance in the films. Bonus points for being a very accurate design, having virtually none of the common stereotypical errors other than being much larger than in reality.
- Maisie proves she is Owen's daughter by performing his raptor halting hand move on Beta, commanding her to submit. Double points for Alan joining in, despite still struggling with his raptor-phobia.
- Ian Malcolm sets fire to the inside of the Giganotosaurus's mouth with nothing but a flaming locust on a stick! Not moments ago, this was the same Ian Malcolm who made it a point to sputter almost nothing but nihilism about how humanity is doomed by itself. Yet here he is, still fighting for those closest to him and deep down, believing there's more to humanity than waiting to squander precious resources.
- Made more awesome when comparing this to his 1993 self against Rexy. In the first film, he flubs up by moving too much & making too much noise. At Grant's behest, he tosses his flare away but can only continue to run from Rexy, who can clearly see him now, and it ends with him injured and out of action for the duration of the film. This time, Ian remains calm, moves just enough to get the Giga's attention, and rather than just tossing the fire away, he injures the creature by hurling it directly into its mouth.
- Owen, Maisie, and Grant subduing Beta. Three humans against a Velociraptor, in the dark, even she was a juvenile, could easily have ended messily. Instead, Maisie has picked up Owen's flair for raptor taming, Grant quickly follows suit, and then the three humans use pack tactics against a Velociraptor, with Grant and Maisie spreading out to give Owen the shot to tranq her.
- In the server room, Claire and Ellie trying to shut down the systems that are taking power from the ADS. They have to creep through wounded, sleeping super-locusts, then get the unit turned off. But it reboots, waking the locusts, and they need to find a way to stop the reboot before it finishes, while fighting off locusts. Ellie dual wields taser batons at the locusts like a Jedi, while Claire spots the relevant junction box and takes a fire axe to it.
- A full Dilophosaurus pack giving Dodgson the Sonny Corleone treatment. Even better, the way Dodgson died is exactly how his mole Nedry died in the very first Jurassic Park film decades ago, albeit dialed up.
- Rexy is 34 by the time Dominion rolls about, ancient in tyrannosaur terms. The Giganotosaurus is not only larger than her but a fraction of her age. Despite this, she impressively manages to fight it for longer than she fought the Indominus before being overwhelmed, and once the fight drags in the Therizinosaurus, she wins not by overpowering her opponent but by taking advantage of its distraction and immediately shoving it into the newcomer's razor-sharp claws. Even more so, because it's Rexy getting revenge for the Giganotosaurus constantly bullying her over food and territory.
- Ramsay walking out on Dodgson. Dodgson is going on a tirade about how they can rebuild, start over, make a new company once they got hold of some money, and expects Ramsay to do as he says. Ramsay doesn't, and when Dodgson works it out, he tries a "The Reason You Suck" Speech to Ramsay about how life really is. Ramsay shuts him down completely with this:Ramsay: I'm not you.
- The Giganotosaurus on paper would seem like a downgrade from the antagonists of the past, not a secret project like the Indoraptor, nor sporting a bunch of trick abilities like the Indominus rex, and not constantly hounding the protagonists like the Spinosaurus. In practice, it easily establishes itself as a fitting Final Boss on even ground with the giant theropod antagonists of the past while still behaving like a normal animal.
- Its genetic ancestor handily dispatches a healthy, fully grown Tyrannosaurus that challenged it.
- The modern version quickly establishes itself as the top predator of the valley by overpowering and causing the notoriously aggressive Rexy to retreat for the first time in her life.
- Most of the dinosaurs in the franchise show a marked aversion to fire. The Giganotosaurus has a flaming projectile burst afire inside of its mouth and it barely slows it down.
- After wrecking half of the research outpost, including ramming its face through reinforced glass, it takes multiple shock-prod jolts note directly to its eye to convince it the humans aren't worth it.
- In the final confrontation, it flat-out becomes The Juggernaut. A fit, much burlier Rexy than what faced the Indominus rex throws everything she has at them and the giant carnosaur takes it all without breaking stride. Even a direct bite to the face by the same jaws which instantly killed a Carnotaurus is thrown off. The Giganotosaurus retaliates by hurling the over 7-ton Rexy into a structure hard enough to knock the rival carnivore unconscious.
- It then immediately squares up with the Therizinosaurus, weathering multiple slashes and bites without sign of slowing down. Having already bitten through and snapping off one of the giant herbivore's claws, the tide was rapidly turning in its favor by the time Rexy rejoined the fray.
- It finally takes getting caught directly between both of the giant adversaries attacking it from both sides to go down, and even then only from a lucky break of Rexy throwing it into the Therizinosaurus, claw first. Given how winded both were and the Giganotosaurus was still standing strong, it probably would have taken them both on had the chance hit not happened.
- Every Jurassic film in the past has a climax that centers around carnivorous theropods. Dominion decides to change things by including Therizinosaurus, a theropod, but nonetheless, an herbivore, as one of the major players.
- After defeating the Giganotosaurus in the Final Battle, Rexy and the Therizinosaurus let out majestic victory roars amongst the rain and thunder.
- The entire ending sequence where the dinosaurs and prehistoric animals gradually adapt to the new world, coexisting with their modern-day counterparts. As always, life has found a way.
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- An Apatosaurus sighting has one of the aforementioned sauropods be attacked by Rexy, and it fights back effectively driving the predator away with a single tail whip that tells Rexy that she's biting more than she can chew. A good showcase of how strong sauropods really were.
