Film / Jurassic World Dominion

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"If our world's gonna survive, what matters is what we do now."

"We're racing toward the extinction of our species. We not only lack dominion over nature, we're subordinate to it."

— Ian Malcolm

Jurassic World Dominion is an Action-Adventure Dinosaur film directed by Colin Trevorrow. It is the sixth installment in the Jurassic Park franchise.

In the aftermath of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, dinosaurs now roam the Earth, reclaiming the world once more. However, their existence threatens humanity's place as they upset the ecological balance. Now, two generations of adventurers must unite to find a way to protect both dinosaurs and humanity's place in the world.

Filming started in February 2020, but was delayed by the onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic, though it resumed in July of the same year. The film was released on June 10, 2022.

On February 3, 2024, Universal announced that a sequel to Jurassic World Dominion was in development with a scheduled release date on July 2, 2025.

Previews: Prologue,^note The originally-planned first five minutes of the film. Trailer 1, Trailer 2.

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The prologue provides examples of:

The prologue

• Anachronistic Animal: The prologue is supposed to take place 65 million years ago in Hell Creek, and yet it features animals and plants such as:
  • Dreadnoughtus lived from 76-70 million years ago in Argentina.
  • Pteranodon died out 83 million years ago before the western interior seaway dried up.
  • Oviraptor comes from 75 million years ago in Mongolia.
  • Nasutoceratops lived roughly 75 million years ago in Utah.
  • Moros comes from 97 million years ago in Utah.
  • Giganotosaurus lived 97 million years ago in Argentina.
  • Iguanodon comes from around 122 million years ago in Europe.
  • Socotra dragon trees, which first appeared during the Neogene.
  • Grasses started evolving in the Cretaceous period but aren't known to have spread to North America until after the K-Pg extinction, as such the ground should instead be covered by ferns and horsetails.
  • The plot of the movie also hinges upon gene-engineered locusts said to be cloned from Cretaceous forms even though crown-group acridids were absent from the Cretaceous.
• Animals Not to Scale: Downplayed with the Iguanodon in the same scene. It looks slightly too small judging from its brief shared shot with the Tyrannosaurus, but this could adequately be explained either by forced perspective or the individual in question not being fully grown.
• Bait-and-Switch:
  • After the Giganotosaurus first gets up in the prologue, the camera switches to the nearby Iguanodon like it's about to attack the herbivore... only for the Iguanodon to turn aside and reveal the encroaching Tyrannosaurus that the Giga was actually rising up to ward off.
  • Echoing the Spinosaurus suddenly killing the Tyrannosaurus in Jurassic Park III, what appears to be the start of a dramatic showdown between two titans — with Tyrannosaurus emerging victorious, as usual for the series — comes to an abrupt end when the Giganotosaurus wrestles the T. rex off and slices the creature's neck with its teeth then stalks away. However, a mosquito alights on the dead dino's face, drinks its blood, and flies off, ensuring that the T. rex will have the last laugh.
• Behemoth Battle: The Giganotosaurus and Tyrannosaurus square up against each other after the latter approaches and threatens the former.
• Call-Forward: In the Distant Prologue, the Giganotosaurus grabs the T. rex by the neck and drags it around in a move very similar to what the T. rex pulls on the Spinosaurus in Jurassic Park III. In this case, however, the Giganotosaurus succeeds at killing the rex this way.
• Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: The Giganotosaurus in the prologue is one to the Spinosaurus from Jurassic Park III and the Indominus rex from Jurassic World — while those two were genetically engineered hybrids prone to extreme aggression, the Giga is a natural animal that merely attacks out of normal territorial instincts. Furthermore, the fight between the prehistoric rex and prehistoric Giga isn't some amazing spectacle, but instead runs like an actual fight between two animals, with both predators initially using threat displays before going on the offensive, and the Giga not lording over its victory over the rex, choosing to leave instead. Finally, while the hybrids are prone to attacking anything in sight, the Giganotosaurus allows a Moros to clean its jaws without any fuss, ignores a nearby Iguanodon, and the Tyrannosaurus was actually the aggressor.
• Distant Prologue: The prologue scene is set 65 million years before the present day, right during the Cretaceous.
• Drive-In Theater: The final sequence from the prologue features Rexy ending up at one and terrorizing moviegoers with her presence.
• Early-Bird Cameo: All the animals shown in the prehistoric past are featured in the main film as cloned animals (with the exception of Oviraptor, whose scene was cut from the finished product). This includes the giant locusts that fly around the giant Dreadnoughtus.
• Feathered Fiend: A feathered Oviraptor shows up in the prologue during the Cretaceous period doing what it does best, stealing the eggs of another dinosaur. Additionally, the basal tyrannosaur Moros is also depicted as being entirely feathered, with the more derived Tyrannosaurus rex sporting a short mane of filaments across its neck, and chest, and back.
• How the Mighty Have Fallen: Played with. The Tyrannosaurus rex still causes people to flee in terror; however, she has also lost her island kingdom which she ruled for over twenty years and is now no longer in her prime or in her element. She has trouble evading a Fish and Wildlife Service helicopter that is pursuing her and barely avoids being shot by what appears to be a tranquilizer.
• Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: Downplayed. In the prologue, a sniper in a helicopter fails to shoot Rexy with a tranquilizer from about a hundred feet away, but only because she turns her head at the last minute, resulting in the dart hitting the car driving beneath her instead.
• Instant Sedation:
  • When Owen tranquilizes Blue's daughter, she goes down instantly.
  • Inverted when Owen shoots several tranquillizer darts into the Giganotosaurus at close range but they have no effect whatsoever, possibly due to the dinosaur's armor-like scales.
• Misplaced Wildlife: The prologue combines this with Anachronism Stew, showing Giganotosaurus, Iguanodon, Tyrannosaurus, Oviraptor, Moros, Pteranodon, Quetzalcoatlus, Dreadnoughtus, Nasutoceratops, and Ankylosaurus living side-by-side. For reference, that's six animals from North America, two from South America, and one each from Asia and Europe, and most of them didn't even live in the same part of the Cretaceous period. The only three animals in this segment that lived anywhere near the same time and place are Tyrannosaurus, Quetzalcoatlus, and Ankylosaurus (all from Maastrichtian North America).
• Non-Malicious Monster: In the present-day section of the prologue, Rexy does not intentionally terrorize the people at the drive-in, she just happens to be passing through while being pursued by a helicopter. She doesn’t go out of her way to attack anyone, behaving more like a scared animal than a vicious monster.
• Rule of Cool: The Giganotosaurus and Tyrannosaurus fight. Impossible to have happened naturally due to the two species living on different continents in different time periods. Still doesn't detract from how awesome it is seeing the king of the dinosaurs and one of the all-time largest theropods duke it out like real animals.
• Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: The battle between the Giganotosaurus and Tyrannosaurus in the prologue is much more like a realistic animal confrontation than the knockdown, wrestling-filled, brawls in the prior films. Instead, like most predator against predator confrontations in nature, the winner is determined by who gets the first solid hit and capitalizes off it. In an interview with IGN, Colin Trevorrow confirmed this was intentional.
• Shout-Out: The movies displayed at the Drive-In Theater are American Graffiti and Flash Gordon.
• Stock Animal Diet: In the prologue, the Oviraptor not surprisingly makes its appearance eating eggs.
• Terror at Make-Out Point: One couple in their vehicle at a Drive-In Theater are having a passionate make-out session as Rexy arrives and starts flipping cars over.
• Unusually Uninteresting Sight:
  • A good number of patrons at the Drive-In Theater don't notice the carnage Rexy is causing around them until it's impossible to ignore.
  • The helicopter pilot seems totally unimpressed at the sight of a Tyrannosaurus rex running loose and is unfazed when she manages to avoid being shot with a tranquilizer and disappears into the forest.
• Use Your Head: In the climax of the prologue, the Giganotosaurus counters the lunge by the Tyrannosaurus by smashing the top of its head into the rival predator's jaw and neck, deflecting the attempted bite and stunning the T. rex momentarily.

Jurassic World Dominion provides examples of the following tropes that have learned to coexist:

Tropes A to E

• Aborted Arc: The whole "dinosaurs as military weapons" subplot from the first two movies. Here it's not touched on, we never see what happened with the dinosaurs sold in the auction at the end of Fallen Kingdom and, while there is a usual corporate greed plotline, it's more an economical thing this time out. At most we see the Atrociraptor being a case of "trained killer" dinosaur, but bred by criminals.
• Absurdly Sharp Claws:
  • The Therizinosaurus's huge claws, which are so sharp that it can perfectly impale the armoured Giganotosaurus on all six of its fingers just from the T. rex pushing the Giganotosaurus into its outstretched claws. There's also Audible Sharpness as this happens.
  • The Quetzalcoatlus's talons are also sharp enough to effortlessly rip through Kayla's plane.
• Actor Allusion: Wu's initial interaction with Maisie where he attempts to form a rapport with her has vibes of B.D. Wong's portrayal as Dr. George Huang.
• Advertised Extra: Despite making up the bulk of the advertising and promotional material, the dinosaurs in the film are ultimately relatively unimportant to the overall story this time around. Individual species have at best one or two short scenes dedicated to them, with most only occurring as very brief background cameos. In particular, Blue, the Atrociraptor, and the Giganotosaurus, with the first only appearing in the beginning of the film and for a few seconds at the very end, the second only having an extended sequence, and the third only having two real scenes in the last quarter of the film. The main threat in this film are actually genetically modified locusts, which very little marketing gave any indication of.
• An Aesop: While it's not the focus of the main plot, the film itself demonstrates that once a game-changing breakthrough happens to disrupt the status quo of the world, you can't simply put it back into the bottle. This message is grounded in reality, but it serves as a Space Whale Aesop because dinosaurs (or any prehistoric animal) being cloned aren't exactly an issue that we have to be concerned about, at least for now.
• Analogy Backfire: A rather epic variation. When Malcolm dresses down Dodgson for his greed, the latter shrugs it off by low-key comparing himself to Prometheus. To this, Malcolm makes a point that Prometheus is the least enviable person to make comparisons to, as he "got gored" by eagles for his troubles. The awesome part is, this analogy turns out to be prophetic of Dodgson's doom.
• Animals Not to Scale:
  • The Moros in the film are roughly the size of a chicken, when the real animal, while small by tyrannosaur standards, is about the size of a human.
  • Both Atrociraptor and Pyroraptor are as big as the franchise's Velociraptor. In real life, they were even smaller than the turkey-sized Velociraptor.
  • The Quetzalcoatlus are downright gigantic. In scale with the plane they're attacking, they seem to have wingspans of close to 70 feet; the real animal was about half that size.
  • The Parasaurolophus that are only a bit bigger than horses, small enough that Owen can pet one of them on the crest while it's reared up. Tie-in media would Hand Wave these specimens as juveniles. Real Parasaurolophus were larger than elephants, and way too big◊ to pet on the head, even on all fours (The Lost World: Jurassic Park had one to scale by comparison).
• Apocalypse How: The threat of dinosaurs populating across the world (at least Class 1) arguably pales in comparison to Biosyn's short-sighted plan to control the world's food supply by introducing giant locusts to eliminate the competition (Class 2, possibly Class 4). The people will rely on the company's seeds to plant food BECAUSE there won't be ANY plants left.
• Armor-Piercing Question: In the aftermath of freeing a baby dinosaur from an illegal breeding facility, a disenchanted Franklin asks Claire if their work in the Dinosaur Protection Group is really about the creatures needing their help or if she's just trying to salve her conscience over her role in the creation of Jurassic World.
• Artistic License – Biology:
  • Despite being being portrayed as semi-aquatic with webbed feet, Pyroraptor portrayed lacks several features that semi-aquatic birds have such as the streamlined and waterproof feathers seen in cormorants and penguins. Likewise, with its large exposed face, hands, feet, and stomach it would lose heat quickly in a freezing environment, especially when in freezing waters. The real animal potentially did have some features to make it a competent swimmer, as it lived in what was at the time an archipelago of islands, but these wouldn't directly translate to cold water-dwelling.
  • Blue reproduces asexually to produce a baby dubbed Beta, but strangely follows the litter size more typical of large mammals of having just one baby. Nearly all birds and reptiles have multiple offspring in one clutch (including monitor lizards, which Blue explicitly has the DNA of and often have dozens of eggs at once, and nearly all dinosaurs in which nests are known). Beta should also be male if it's based on monitor lizard parthenogenesis.^note Birds and many reptiles use a ZW chromosomal sex determination, which is the opposite of the mammalian XY system. When reproducing asexually, the female doubles each sex chromosome so she only produces young with ZZ or WW chromosomes; WW is similar to YY in that it cannot produce offspring, so only ZZ (male) offspring are produced.
  • The Atrociraptor keep pace with both a speeding car and a motorcycle at full tilt for miles, not even stopping when taking serious hits along the way (including one getting struck by another car and getting repeatedly whacked on the head with a metal pipe). Whether Atrociraptor were fast or not doesn't even matter here; the idea of any animal running that fast for so long is patently ridiculous.
  • As a large herbivore, the Therizinosaurus really shouldn't have cat-like slit eyes (which are normally only found in carnivorous animals that hunt low to the ground and in dim light like small cats, foxes, vipers, or crocodiles), other than to make it look more frightening and intimidating, despite being a plant-eater.
  • Blue and Beta are shown now living in the snowy Sierra Nevada mountains. Even if they're warm-blooded, they both lack any insulating integument (namely, feathers or fur) that would keep them from freezing, especially since they're tropical climate animals (whether you choose to interpret them as either renamed Deinonychus or true Velociraptor). This is especially true for Beta, which, as a small, scaly animal, would struggle to survive the clearly freezing winter weather.
  • When Blue is teaching Beta to hunt, the rabbit they're hunting is clearly a domestic, albino rabbit rather than a wild cottontail.
  • Putting all the dinosaurs together into one sanctuary a couple miles wide is considered a viable longterm solution, despite the fact an area that small could never support that many huge animals together without constantly shipping in huge quantities of food, most of the species are tropical climate animals dumped into a temperate alpine climate (nevermind creating a tropical microclimate in an enclosed valley), and nearly all the animals present never actually lived together, so they'd be just as invasive to one another as they are to modern day animals.
  • Owen and Kayla really should be experiencing symptoms of hypothermia being underdressed as they are in a high-altitude, low-temperature environment cold enough to freeze over a lake. Owen especially should be unable to move after falling through the ice. Just to jar us even more, when the Pyroraptor busts back up onto the ice after swimming underneath it, its feathers start frosting over.
• Aside from the fact that gene editing methods are known ''right now'' that can do essentially the same thing that Charlotte did to Maisie, Wu's statement that her "DNA could change the world" is meaningless. There is no reverse engineering whatever Charlotte did to Maisie's DNA. And even if they could, why would it not be the exact same sort of extremely time- and resource-consuming methods that are custom tailored today and are not reproducible at scale?
  • Giant locusts could not survive in a modern day environment, due to its weight making them too heavy to move, and the oxygen content being too low. Large arthropods could only survive during times where the oxygen levels on Earth were very high.
• Artistic License – Paleontology: Has its own page.
• Artistic License – Physics: Unless it's somehow lighter than air or jet-propelled, the oversized Quetzalcoatlus that attacks Kayla's plane while it's flying above a mountain range shouldn't have been able to get anywhere near it due to its own sheer mass and bone density.
• Ascended Extra:
  • Maisie has much more screen time and development this time around.
  • Biosyn plays a much more direct role in this film.
  • Dodgson disappeared from the story after his brief appearance in the first film. After being absent for four films, he returns as the Big Bad.
• Asshole Victim: Rainn Delacourt gets decapitated by a juvenile Baryonyx and Lewis Dodgson gets torn to pieces by a pack of Dilophosaurus.
• The Atoner: Dr. Wu realizes his work has gone too far and begs for the opportunity to at least reverse the worst of the damage he caused.
• Back for the Finale: The original trio of Alan Grant, Ellie Sattler, and Ian Malcolm return to close out the film series. Also, Lewis Dodgson, who only appeared once in the original film, returns, portrayed by Campbell Scott.
• Beastly Bloodsports: The dinosaur black market in Malta includes a fighting ring where immature animals are chained up before being forced to battle it out. The "competitors" we see include very young Carnotaurus, Allosaurus and Baryonyx. The Baryonyx shows how poorly the animals are treated, as it is still being forced to fight despite being blind in one eye and having one arm replaced with a simple prosthetic. Considering an adult Carnotaurus and Allosaurus were also being stored near the rings (the individuals seen in Fallen Kingdom and Battle of Big Rock) it's likely fights were also held with fully grown animals.
• Behemoth Battle: Rexy and the Giganotosaurus square off briefly over a deer carcass, with Rexy backing down after the scuffle. She returns for revenge in the finale, with the two apex predators battling it out in the courtyard of Biosyn's compound. After the Giganotosaurus briefly knocks out Rexy, Kayla provokes the equally huge Therizinosaurus into battling the Giganotosaurus. Rexy recovers as the two battle it out and rejoins the fray.
• Beauty Is Never Tarnished:Played straightin the brief fight between Claire and Santos. Claire gets shoved into a window, breaking it and doesn't get a single scratch from that, while Santos does have a small cut on her forehead from falling into a table but it doesn't hinder her features at all.
• Big Bad: Lewis Dodgson, after being a Greater-Scope Villain in the first film, is this here due to his greedy plan involving super locusts.
• Big Creepy-Crawlies: Oversized locusts, which Ellie Sattler discovers to have genes dating back to the Cretaceous.
• The Big Damn Kiss: Between Alan and Ellie in the ending.
• Big Damn Heroes: After being ejected into the reserve, Claire finds herself surrounded by a pack of Dilophosarus, one of them right in front of her and about to shoot its venom, when Owen appears, grabbing it by the throat while Kayla hits it with the electro-gun. This sets the pack to running.
• Big Good: An ensemble take on this with Ellie Sattler as the driving force of the heroes' plot, with Alan Grant and Ian Malcolm alongside her. The three collectively taking over from the first and second films' John Hammond, the fourth's Simon Masrani, and the fifth's Benjamin Lockwood following the latter three's deaths, due to their past experiences dealing with dinosaurs and genetics companies that are helpful in aiding the film series' latest heroes Owen and Claire.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Dodgson acts like a benevolent, well-meaning CEO who cares about the dinosaurs and the people under his command. He praises Alan and Ellie upon meeting them even though he indirectly was the one who caused them to get into such terrible danger back on Isla Nublar. But eventually it's shown he's perhaps the most vile antagonist of the franchise who cares nothing for anybody but himself.
• Bittersweet Ending: Leaning more on sweet. Owen, Claire, and Maisie finally come together as a family, Alan and Ellie finally become a couple, Blue is reunited with her baby, Rexy finally finds others of her species, and Wu successfully stops the locust swarm. While dinosaurs are still posing a problem around the world, it's a problem that is manageable with humans and animals starting to coexist with their new neighbors.
• Breaking Old Trends: While Lex and Tim got quick cameos in The Lost World, Maisie's return as a full-cast member means this is the first sequel to have the previous Kid-Appeal Character remain as the one here.
• Brick Joke: Kayla mentions to Owen that she has a thing for redheads, she’s seen later in the movie trying to impress a red-haired EMT with the story of her adventures.
• Broken Aesop: Although the movie's closing message is that humans, animals, and dinosaurs will have to live together after dinosaurs been unleashed back into the world by super-science, the key focus of the plot preceding this goes against this idea. Specifically, the movie pushes that the only way to save everyone from starving to death is to drive a resurrected species of giant locusts that Biosyn has unleashed to extinction, which is about as far removed from a message of peaceful coexistence as you could get — even if said locusts were genetically geared to be a threat to all others.
• The Bus Came Back:
  • Alan Grant (Sam Neill) and Ellie Sattler (Laura Dern) are back, having last been seen in Jurassic Park III, reuniting with Ian Malcolm.
  • After being absent for four films after his only scene in the first film (despite the fact that he was the main antagonist of the book that the second film was loosely based off of), Dodgson returns as well.
  • Barry (Omar Sy), after being completely absent after the raptor hunt in the first film (save for a silent 5-second appearance at the end) returns to work with Owen once more.
  • After 29 years since its debut in the original film, the Dilophosaurus returns in the flesh in a live action movie outside of a cameo as a hologram in Jurassic World or in animation in Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous and it's keeping up its trend of killing off antagonists.
  • After 25 years since their debut in The Lost World: Jurassic Park, the Buck and Doe T. rexes return to welcome Rexy to their family.
• Captain Obvious: Macie is the sarcastic Deadpan Snarker version of this.
• Clone Angst: Maisie starts to feel this way as her status as a clone forces her to be isolated from the world. As she learns more about Charlotte, her mother and Benjamin Lockwood's daughter, she initially thinks that Charlotte made her as an experiment only for Sattler to correct her that Charlotte only wanted Maisie as a daughter.
• Continuity Nod:
  • The Pennsylvania airport that Alan and Ellie depart from on their way to Biosyn made an Early-Bird Cameo as part of the backdrop of a campaign map in Jurassic World Evolution 2 months before the film was released.
  • Franklin notes that many of Owen and Claire's colleagues have since been hired by intelligence organizations, including Lowery Cruthers and Vivian Krill, alumni of Jurassic World.^note Lowery was intended to return for the film in-person, but his actor was ultimately unable to attend production
  • Owen's re-introduction sees him riding to rustle a herd of Parasaurolophus with the same score as his iconic scene from Jurassic World where he rode alongside the Raptor Squad.
  • Maisie's first encounter with Beta has her share her sandwich with the small theropod, which the little girl Cathy also did with the Compsognathus in the beginning of The Lost World, an encounter that went badly.
    • Also, one news footage shows a little girl being chased by some Compsognathus.
  • When discussing BioSyn's "neural shocks", Ramsay tries to deflect by claiming it's more humane than electric fences, asking Alan if he knows how much voltage than the original park's fences had going through them, taken by surprise when Alan affirms that he does.
  • Ellie Sattler stammers nervously again at the first mention of a T. rex.
  • Dr. Alan Grant is still telling people not to move in the face of a large carnivore dinosaur.
  • Malcolm distracts the Giganotosaurus with a burning torch, much like he did in the original Jurassic Park with Rexy and a flare.
  • The Compsognathus in the viral short is on a truck labeled "Kirby Enterprises". Either the Kirbys made it big after Jurassic Park III or Paul decided to change the name of his plumbing business.
  • Viral marketing also shows the alpha and beta pair of raptors from Jurassic Park III living on the mainland.
  • Once again, Owen and Barry have to contain a group of raptors, with one of them acting as a bait. This time, Barry is the bait and Owen closes the door.
  • Lewis Dodgson still has the Barbasol can he exchanged with Nedry in the first film. He ends up getting his comeuppance when he finds himself trapped in an enclosed space with a hungry Dilophosaurus just like his associate Nedry did in the first film, and also tried talking to it as if that would help before getting attacked.
  • Just like in the third and fourth films in the franchise there is a showdown between the T. rex and the new dominant predator. Just like the fourth film, the T. rex is overpowered and taken down, but not killed before another animal intervenes (Blue and the Mosasaurus there, the Therizinosaurus here), with the battle then ending with the T. rex victorious.
  • Both Alan and Ian recognize Henry Wu from meeting him in the original film.
  • Like Nedry did, Ian drives a jeep through a forest at night and also slips off the road. And like the first film's park ride, the jeep gets flipped over, and then spun about by the predator dino with someone trapped in it.
  • Owen still has his lever-action rifle used in Jurassic World.
  • The chirping of the Dilophosaurus are first heard before any of the creatures are shown.
  • Ellie, now accompanied by Claire, again has the job of rebooting the systems and needs to be guided by earpiece, with Ian again on the other end of the line, but now being less helpful than he and Hammond were back then.
  • Like in Fallen Kingdom, when the other tyrannosaurs appear, Rexy turns and roars in a mirror image of her famous post-raptor fight pose from the original film.
  • A minor aversion from continuity in that the previous film showed Owen building his own mountain cabin in the middle of a wide-open field. Now Owen, Claire, and Maisie are living in a different cabin located in a heavy forest.
• Chekhov's Gunman: The Therizinosaurus which stalks Claire earlier in the movie returns for the final battle and ends up deliver the killing blow to the Giganotosaurus.
• Contrived Coincidence: The very first person that Claire meets at the dinosaur black market in Malta who can speak English just happens to be one of the only people who saw Maisie being trafficked and has the ability and a plane to take them to her by herself.
• Cool Versus Awesome: In the climax, Rexy faces off against a Giganotosaurus that bullied her earlier in the film. A Therizinosaurus joins as well.
• Cover Drop: Right before the final battle with the Giganotosaurus, Rexy ends up doing one not just for the movie, but for the entire franchise itself, when she puts her head through a circle.
• Cruel and Unusual Death:
  • The Giganotosaurus death by getting impaled by the Therizinosaurus sharp claws.
  • Rainn Delacourt getting his head/face chomped on by a Baryonyx.
  • Dodgson's fate, being blinded and paralyzed by the Dilophosaurs before they move in to feed on him.
• David Versus Goliath: One of rare few scenarios where Rexy can ever be considered the "David", but she is clearly the underdog in the climactic fight that takes place in the Biosyn courtyard, considering she is going up against the notably larger and younger Giganotosaurus that previously bullied her away from a deer carcass.
• Decomposite Character: Lewis Dodgson and Henry Wu can be seen to make up two sides of the titular Doctor in Frankenstein which itself has many thematic links with the Jurassic Park Franchise, with Dodgeson exhibiting Frankenstein’s worst side with traits such as arrogance, pride and using science without caution or conscience (especially with the comparison to Prometheus that Ian Malcolm makes) while Wu (who has very much been a Frankenstein stand-in for previous movies in the series and was even compared to Frankenstein by Brooklyn in Camp Cretaceous) exhibits more of the positive side with traits such as a guilty conscience over his actions, a desire to make up for his past mistakes and a more empathetic nature with the former meeting his demise while the latter gets his redemption.
• Demoted to Extra:
  • After playing a major role in the previous two films, Blue doesn't take an active role in the plot.
  • Rexy once again gets very little screentime. Even with the prologue factored in, it's comparable to Fallen Kingdom at best.
  • The dinosaurs as a whole seem to get this treatment. After being hyped up as the main issue, it turns out they aren't and are just as along for the ride as the humans are.
  • Franklin Webb and Zia Rodriguez only make brief appearances after being important supporting characters in Fallen Kingdom. Zia gets it a bit worse because Franklin at least appears to provide background information on Delacourt and tells Claire and Owen to go to Malta to find Maisie.^note Zia was to reappear at the Pennsylvania airport with Alan and Ellie, but her actress was unable to attend filming due to the pandemic.
• Didn't Think This Through:
  • Delacourt runs afoul of this back-to back. First, while being chased by Owen through the Amberclave market, he shoots open the cages containing an Allosaurus and a Carnotaurus thinking to create an obstacle for Owen, only for latter dinosaur to take a lunge at him first and send him tumbling into the fighting pit area where a barely-chained Baryonyx takes a few snaps at him. Then, instead of continuing to flee as soon as the opportunity presents itself, he opts to fight Owen man-to-man in one of the pits and gets himself pinned down by a juvenile Carnotaurus and a Lystrosaurus while the Baryonyx finally breaks free and moves in to chomp on his face, killing him.
  • Dodgson thinks that simply setting the locusts ablaze would be enough to kill them as opposed to simply gassing them with aerosol insectide. Not only does he not account for their tough exoskeletons, he also does not ensure that their enclosure is properly sealed off. The result? A swarm of burning flying bugs escaping through the air ducts to set the entire reserve aflame.
• Disc-One Final Boss: Santos and Delacourt serve as major antagonists early in the movie but are apprehended and killed respectively at about midway through the plot.
• Discontinuity Nod: Alan Grant mentions to Maise and Owen as they're searching for Beta in the waterworks that there used to be a scientific theory that raptors kill their prey by disemboweling them with their large sickle-claws, but it got disproven and now the current theory is that the raptors immediately go for the neck with their jaws while using the sickle-claws to pin the prey down or anchor themselves to it. Not only is this Truth in Television but it's also ironic yet fitting, since Grant introduced the disemboweling theory to mainstream audiences back in Jurassic Park (1993).
• Double-Meaning Title: While the "Jurassic World" part of the title keeps the same double meaning as before, the subtitle refers to both the control (i.e. "Dominion") that dinosaurs begin to exhibit over the world and humans through their presence and also to the world itself being the dominion itself for the dinosaurs as well. Biosyn is also the dominion where humans such as Dodgson assert dominion over the dinosaurs only for the tables to eventually be turned as well.
• Dramatic Irony:
  • Alan, Ian, and Ellie still don't know that Dodgson was the one who hired Dennis Nedry to steal the embryos, which ultimately led to the disaster at Jurassic Park. Doubly ironic for Ian, since he's literally working for (at first) the guy behind all of the crap he got put through in the first two films.
  • Likewise, when Dodgson is facing death-by Dilophosaurus in the climax, he has no way of knowing he's about to die the exact same way that Nedry did 30 years earlier.
• Enemy Rising Behind: Rexy gets a great one of these after recovering from the Giganotosaurus's assault, slowly rising into view behind the larger theropod as it's distracted by the Therizinosaurus.
• Everybody Has Standards: Kayla was alright with illegally transporting dangerous dinosaurs for some very shady people but being a witness to what she later realizes was child trafficking makes her seriously question her line of work.
• Excessive Steam Syndrome: The hyperloop tunnel vents steam blasts repeatedly at Dodgson as he tries to retreat to the stalled tram car, finally prompting him to lampshade it by shouting, "Oh, come on!!"

Tropes F to K

• Fantasy: The film's plot is basically a typical fantasy adventure, just with genetic engineering and super science replacing magic and dinosaurs replacing fantastical beasts, to wit: A knight and lady (Owen and Claire) must travel to a lost realm that within contains a magical city (the Biosyn research complex) and many dangerous, mythical beasts (the dinosaurs) hidden high in the mountains (the Biosyn sanctuary) to rescue a princess and her pet (Maisie and Beta) from the clutches of a tyrannical overlord (Dodgson). Meanwhile, a trio of veteran adventurers (Grant, Ellie, and Malcolm) discover that said overlord intends to use his black magic (bio-engineering) to spread a terrible plague (the genetically modified locusts) over all the lands in order to rule the world. Both sets of characters end up meeting roughly around the third act and work together to achieve their otherwise separate goals. To further the fantasy connection, the biggest dinosaur threat in the film (the Giganotosaurus) even resembles a dragon.
• Feathered Fiend: Finally there are fully feathered dinosaurs, namely the Pyroraptor and Therizinosaurus. Both are large threats to fit the trope.
• Fed to the Beast: Dodgson traps Alan, Maisie and Ellie in a cave inhabited by Dimetrodon in an attempt to kill them. Judging by a human skull seen in their dwelling, it's likely they weren't the first people to be attacked by them.
• Fiery Cover-Up: Once it's clear his scheme with the locusts will be revealed, Dodgson orders the incineration of the ones in the lab to destroy the evidence. The still-burning bugs break out and end up lighting the forest outside on fire, forcing the dinosaurs to be brought inside the Biosyn facility.
• Final Battle: As the heroes are escaping, Rexy and the Giganotosaurus show up from opposite sides to settle their rivalry, battling it out with the humans caught in the middle.
• Five-Second Foreshadowing: A chained-up juvenile Baryonyx lunges at Rainn Delacourt, snapping inches away at his face. Approximately no less than a minute later, it breaks free off its restraint and bites down on Delacourt's face off-screen.
• Flipping the Bird: Given she's just been kidnapped, Maisie clearly is not having anyone's BS. As such, she makes this the first and only Jurassic film to feature an obscene gesture.
• Foreshadowing:
  • The reveal of Maisie's age makes it clear that something isn't right with her backstory. While it's clear that she is a clone of Ben Lockwood's daughter Charlotte and that this did cause him and John Hammond to be at odds with one another, the car accident story doesn't add up, because Hammond died in 1997, yet Maisie was born in 2008, and it would make no sense at all why Lockwood would have a granddaughter when his own daughter died more than 11 years before her birth. In truth, Charlotte Lockwood impregnated herself with her own clone as a way to have a child despite her infertility. Charlotte was in her twenties in the early 90s, and started researching how to clone herself with the support of her father, which is what caused the falling out between Hammond and Lockwood.
  • In one scene, during Franklin's new job, his CIA coworker rather offhandedly points out how the super locusts are threatening global life on a biblical scale. To this, he points out it's only a matter of time before the "other plagues" follow suit, "darkness, rain of fire" the works. Towards the climax, both "plagues" come to pass, from the blackout (darkness) to the enflamed super locusts falling from the sky (rain of fire).
  • Grant has a prominently featured therizinosaur ^note  Not Therizinosaurus itself, but more likely from Nothronychus or Falcarius, given its size claw among the collection of fossils in his tent. Guess which species of theropod we meet about halfway through the film.
  • A locust is seen being roasted over a flame grill in the Malta market. This alludes to Dodgson's attempt to wipe out his swarm of locusts with fire.
  • Ramsay Cole mentions that Biosyn manages to transport surviving dinosaurs from Isla Sorna to their facility. And that includes not just Rexy, but also the Buck and Doe T. rexes who later form a family unit with her.
  • During his lecture, Malcolm concludes his rather pessimistic speech on a hopeful note: in order for humanity to truly save itself, they must learn to change for the better. Later, Henry Wu comes forward with a solution for the plague of Cretaceous Locusts he created, marking that humanity's redemption may lie in him finding his redemption.
  • Ramsay identifies the Giganotosaurus as the apex predator with the addendum of "For now". Kayla explicitly says that sticking two apex predators together will eventually lead to one being eliminated. This culminates in the final battle between Rexy and the Giga for the apex position.
  • Wu warns that the locusts are much larger and stronger than they were meant to be, and that security is not up to snuff, which Dodgson brushes off. Later one when Dodgson orders the swarm burned to death, they prove Wu right in being too powerful by breaking out of containment and leading to a severe fire hazard that cripples Biosyn valley.
  • Malcolm brings up the story of Prometheus being eviscerated by eagles to Dodgson as a cautionary tale, with one of the Biosyn technicians bringing up birds are also dinosaurs. Dodgson is later eviscerated in a similar manner by a pack of very bird-sounding Dilophosaurus.
• Frigid Water Is Harmless: When Owen and Kayla are being chased by the Pyroraptor on the frozen dam, Owen briefly falls into the freezing cold water. Despite being submerged for a good few seconds, he has no ill effects to speak off once he retreats out of it. Even the Pyroraptor seems to be immune to freezing cold despite not having a coat of feathers that would keep its body warm while in cold water.
• Funny Background Event: When Owen and Delacourt fall into the pit and start fighting each other, you can see several of the gamblers pulling out money, clearly betting on the victor just like they do with dinosaur cock-fights. This, despite the fact there are already a few freed large carnivores roaming around.
• Genre Refugee: Most of the black market characters in the Malta sequence would fit in a James Bond movie (just with the addition of dinosaurs), especially their leader, Soyona Santos, who's a perfect match for your average James Bond villain and/or Femme Fatale from The Fast and the Furious film series.
• Giant Flyer: A Quetzalcoatlus big enough to destroy an airplane, specifically a C-119 Boxcar, makes an appearance.
• Godzilla Threshold: The super locusts are so destructive to the crops and breed uncontrollably that nobody entertains the idea of coexisting with them, unlike with the dinosaurs. Dr. Wu, the creator of these locusts, is so horrified by their potential that he wants to study Maise's genetic makeup just so he can develop a fool-proof means to destroy every single super locust in the wild.
• Go for the Eye: During the Giganotosaurus rampage, its massive head destroying the tower the protagonists are hiding in, Claire is only armed with an anti-dino taser that seems pretty pointless against its tough hide. Until she manages to get close enough and targets the eye, sending a shock through it. That does the trick and the Giganotosaurus briefly retreats.
• Gone Horribly Right: The super-locusts are indicated to be far more resilient and destructive than Wu or Dodgson planned for, potentially destroying the entire planet's food supply instead of merely crippling the competition like Dodgson intended. The locusts aren't even Dodgson's master plan, either; they're just a side project he cooked up for some extra revenue while trying to find Maisie so he can corner the healthcare market by extracting the means to cure genetic diseases from her DNA.
• The Good, the Bad, and the Evil: The way the final battle frames them, the T.Rex is the good, the Therizinosaurus is the bad/ugly and the Giganotosaurus is the evil.
• Gory Discretion Shot:
  • Rainn Delacourt gets his head bitten off (off-screen) by a juvenile Baryonyx.
  • The camera cuts away from Dodgson just before the Dilophosaurus presumably tear him to shreds.
  • The shot of the Therizinosaurus swiping the deer pans up so that the deer being slashed isn't seen directly.
• Grey-and-Gray Morality: There is no real hero or villain in the three-way dinosaur battle between the T.Rex, Giganotosaurus and Therizinosaurus even though the movie frames it as the anti-heroic dinosaurs against the dinosaur Big Bad, as they are all simply animals acting on instinct and with no actual cruelty or malice even though all three have menaced humans in the past with the T.Rex having actually killed and eaten people, luckily people who had it coming.
• Guilt-Free Extermination War: Although the franchise has by large been highly sympathetic to the dinosaurs, and the ending of this film shows that the closest thing to a solution to all the dinosaurs running loose basically boils down to "live and let live", wiping out all the prehistoric locusts is seen as a heroic act because they were consuming the world's food crops (and also probably because bugs are seen as far more expendable to the audience than dinosaurs).
• Guns Are Worthless: The French intelligence workers infiltrating the dinosaur black market are nearly all killed by the trained Atrociraptor pack because they seem to completely forget they all have guns they can use to shoot the dinosaurs in self-defence. This is especially egregious when Barry is trapped in the cabin of an abandoned boat and chooses to try and shoot the locked sunroof open rather than shoot into the open mouth of the dinosaur clawing its way in right in front of him.^note Pistols aren't ideal against large predators but they still have some effect. A full mag dump from a modern handgun should kill any existing terrestrial large predator, the only question is whether or not it lives long enough to maul you before bleeding out, as Blue illustrated in the previous film.
• Happily Adopted: Clone Angst and teenage angst aside, Owen and Claire are now acting as Maisie’s adoptive parents and function as a strong, if unconventional, family unit.
• Has a Type: Kayla banters with Owen about their preference for red-haired women.
• Heroic Second Wind: During the Final Battle against the Giganotosaurus, Rexy gets one of these when Kayla's helicopter shines the searchlight onto her and when the Therizinosaurus shows up.
• History Repeats: Again the Dilophosaurus kills someone involved with Biosyn carrying a Barbasol can.
• Homage: The Malta sequence, if you exclude the dinosaurs, looks straight out of a James Bond installment, with exotic locals, an infiltration in the seedy underbelly of the island, an action-packed chase sequence, etc. Soyona Santos (Dichen Lachman), especially, would fit perfectly as a devious villain facing off Agent 007. The final act, in the technologically advanced lair of a Big Bad with a nasty world domination plot, wouldn't feel out of place either.
• How the Mighty Have Fallen: Played with. Rexy was the dominant carnivore on Isla Nublar for almost 3 decades. At the Biosyn facility in the Dolomites, she's suddenly in direct competition not with a psychotic killer but another apex predator; one that's bigger, younger and fitter than she is. When she attempts to defend a deer carcass from the Giganotosaurus, she's quickly driven off. But as she demonstrates in the finale, she's not willing to fully give up the crown without a fight, and demonstrates she's capable of taking it back using her experience as much as anything else.
• Humans Are the Real Monsters: The dinosaur traffickers lurking in the Wretched Hive beneath Malta shows just how low humanity can sink when they refuse to show nature respect; exploiting once regal dinosaurs as status-symbol pets, grotesque delicacies roasted on spits like pork and chicken, and most humiliating of all, glorified fighting cocks forced to kill one-another to sate the bloodlust of drunken brutes betting on their lives, to say nothing of the Mafiosi who have now successfully turned trained Atrociraptors into a weaponized industry. John Hammond would weep at how his beloved children have been laid so low.
• Hungry Menace: A threat to the world's food supply appears in giant locusts devouring crops all over the US. Except for ones grown with Biosyn transgenic seeds, indicating their source.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: How the Giganotosaurus dies by getting impaled by the Therizinosaurus's sharp claws.
• Improbable Aiming Skills: Santos is able to cleanly paint Owen with a laser dot, while holding the laser pointer behind her head, aiming out of the corner of her eye, and while the latter is on a moving motorcycle.
• Indy Hat Roll: Not Played for Laughs here; in the midst of trying to escape the Dimetrodons, Alan reaches back to recover his hat, despite Ellie screaming at him not to bother, which nearly gets him caught. He still manages to safely get back the hat.
• Interspecies Friendship:
  • Much like their parents, both Maisie and Beta formed a close bond with each other.
  • The end of the film shows dinosaurs and prehistoric reptiles slowly but surely assimilating into environments alongside modern-day species.
    • Before Alan and Ellie's hearing, a little girl is playing at a pond with a Moros.
    • A herd of Parasaurolophus and feral horses are shown running together through a grassland.
    • The Mosasaurus is shown swimming peacefully with whales and doesn't seem to be trying to hunt them.
    • A flock of Quetzalcoatlus, Pteranodon, and Dimorphodon is shown migrating alongside modern birds.
    • At the end of the film, a group of elephants and Sinoceratops are shown to have formed a herd.
• Irony: When Barry meets Claire and Owen in Malta, while he is sympathetic to their plight, he warns them not to interfere with his sting operation to capture Rainn Delacourt. Not only do they not cause any problems for him, he actually ends up needing their help after things go awry when Santos releases a pack of Atrociraptors on his men.
• Just Plane Wrong: Kayla's plane is a C-119 Flying boxcar, a model no longer in service anywhere. While it's possible she's simply had it for a very long time, that doesn't explain how she got a brand-new one at the end of the movie. Nor does it explain how it has an ejection seat, something the real C-119 never had.
• Karma Houdini Warranty: It took 29 years but Dodgson's finally expires, resulting in long-overdue Laser-Guided Karma.
• Karmic Death: It took a few decades, but Dodgson dies in a Dilophosaurus attack, similar to the one his machinations caused Nedry to face in the first film.

Tropes L to P

• Like Parent, Like Child: While talking down Beta near the climax, Maisie strikes the same pose as Owen and even says, "Hey! Eyes on me!". He even has a look of pride when she does it.
• Logo Joke: Towards the end of the film, Rexy moves her head behind a circular archway and pauses in a pose straight from the official Jurassic Park logo.
• Losing a Shoe in the Struggle: Repeating a Running Gag from the first two films he was in, Grant loses his hat when he, Ellie, and Maisie are being pursued by Dimetrodons and he tries to go back for it, prompting Ellie to yell for him to leave it behind.
• Mama Bear:
  • Both Claire and Charlotte deeply love Maisie. The former travels around the world and faces off against criminals and dinosaurs to rescue her while the latter genetically engineers Maisie to have a healthier body.
  • Blue is so pissed that Beta got taken by poachers that even Owen isn't able to calm her down.
• Misplaced Wildlife: This is the starting point of the film, as Nublar's dinosaurs have now spread across the world and are causing impact on both the ecosystem and human society. Not helping are humans who start dinosaur trafficking operations.
• Monster of the Week: Giganotosaurus is the new carnivore threat after the T.rexes, Spinosaurus, Indominus Rex and Indoraptor before it (albeit without the others' human body count).
• My God, What Have I Done?:
  • Henry Wu is flat-out ashamed for creating the giant locusts that he sides with the heroes in finding a solution to stop the swarm.
  • Subverted Trope for Dodgson. He had the locust swarm destroyed to hide all evidence of his connection to them and still thinks he can improve on his Evil Plan.
• Mythology Gag:
  • Giganotosaurus debuted in Warpath: Jurassic Park, and here, it has the same oddly angular head and builds as its game counterpart. It also has the same odd spinal spikes/sail as the Acrocanthosaurus of the same game.
  • One of Franklin's co-workers at the CIA looks a lot like Dennis Nedry. A Freeze-Frame Bonus of the same scene shows a guy in the background who closely resembles Ray Arnold.
  • At the end of the film, the Mosasaurus is shown having joined a pod of whales and affectionately nuzzles one. In Jurassic Park: The Game, the characters worried that a Tylosaurus being unleashed into the oceans would endanger the world's whale populations; thankfully it's quite the opposite here.
  • Dodgson's death at the jaws of the three Dilophosaurus is similar to how he died in the novel The Lost World, where Dodgson meets his end at the jaws of three T. rex chicks. It's also very similar to Nedry's death in the manga adaptation of Jurassic Park, where he's killed by a pack of Dilophosaurus as opposed to just one like in the film.
  • Rainn Delacourt's death isn't all that much unlike how Peter Ludlow met his end— having his face/head nommed on by a juvenile dinosaur he exploited for personal gain. It's even shown from similar angles, with another character looking down as it happens just offscreen.
  • Grant has a miniature replica skeleton of a Spinosaurus and the rapid-prototype printed Velociraptor voice box in his tent.
  • Five out of the six base dinosaurs (T.rex, Velociraptor, Giganotosaurus, Carnotaurus, and Therizinosaurus) used to create the Indominus rex appear in the same film for the first time in the Jurassic World trilogy.
  • Maisie's rapport with Beta alludes to Lex gaining the trust of a juvenile raptor that she names Clarence in the original novel.
  • Speaking of Clarence, the hunt for Beta is reminiscent of, if not outright based on, the scene where Grant runs into him. In the original novel, Grant was moving quietly through a darkened area of the park while the power was off, heard something stalking him, and fired a tranquilizer gun he'd picked up, striking the juvenile raptor mid-leap just as Clarence pounces at him. In this film, Grant, Owen, and Maisie go hunting for Beta in a darkened area of the sanctuary while the power is off, and Owen tranqs Beta as she's charging at Grant.
  • One of the Atrociraptors has the exact same gray-brown coloring of the pre-JPIII raptor toylines.
  • The Atrociraptor containment cages are similar to the various raptor cage toys - sleek, sci-fi, and threatening in design.
  • Beta singlehandedly takes on a wolf and comes away the victor and later comes very close to attacking and killing, or at least seriously injuring Grant, alluding back to a line from Muldoon regarding juvenile raptors in the first film:
    Muldoon: They're lethal at eight months, and I do mean lethal.^note To be fair, it's anyone's guess how old Beta is, but she's definitely older than Blue and her pack were in Fallen Kingdom's flashback videos of them as infants and they, Delta, in particular, were agile enough to be dangerous had Owen's reflexes been slower.
  • Alan Grant finally sports a beard that his book counterpart was described to have.
  • Here's an obscure one: In the Sega CD Jurassic Park game, where your character is trying to reclaim dinosaur eggs from the fallen Jurassic Park, one tidbit of information you can come across is paleontologist Robert Bakker theorizing about a "pecking spot" in the T. rex's face. Forward and below the eyes, a nerve bundle that T. rexes would strike for in dominance fights, and that if you hit a T. rex hard enough in that pecking spot, you might temporarily subdue it. When Giganotosaurus attacks the group in the research platform, Owen starts stabbing his knife at that spot. Though it's not super effective.
  • Once again, we get a rooftop chase scene involving a red-haired heroine fleeing from a tiger-striped dromaeosaurid.
  • Soyana Santos commanding a pack of Atrociraptors will remind OG Jurassic Park fans who read the Topps comics of another character surnamed Santos—first name Rafael— attempting to do the same with a trio of Velociraptors.
• Neural Implanting: All of the animals in Biosyn's dinosaur sanctuary are stated to have microchips in their head that can send electrical shocks... err, signals, to their brains to herd them to different areas if necessary.
• Never Give the Captain a Straight Answer: Grant is informed that there's something that requires his attention in his tent, not "Your old friend Elle is here to visit."
• Never Trust a Trailer: The first trailer features footage from the "prologue" of Rexy attacking a drive-in movie theatre, a scene that is ultimately not in the final film (nor the scene with the dinosaurs during the Cretaceous). The marketing and trailers also give the impression that dinosaurs being released all over the world had grave social and ecological ramifications that the story would focus on, but in the movie itself these are merely background elements, with the main threat coming from genetically modified locusts, and the story primarily focusing on stopping the locusts and rescuing Maisie, who's been kidnapped by Biosyn. In fact, the ending implies that the world will eventually adapt just fine to dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals roaming the Earth again.
• Next Sunday A.D.: invoked Averted, though it was intended to be this. One of Maisie's lines mentions that she's been with Claire and Owen for four years, placing this film in 2022. The film was originally scheduled to be released in 2021, repeating the previous film being released three years after Jurassic World. However, a Schedule Slip caused by the COVID-19 Pandemic resulted in this film being delayed a full year to 2022.
• "No. Just… No" Reaction: Kayla's reaction to the Pyroraptor diving into the icy water below is a simple "No, nope" followed by running.
• Noodle Incident:
  • Santos demands that Dodgson pay her in advance because she doesn't "want a repeat of the last time," implying that a previous deal went south in some way.
  • Whatever happened between Kayla and Denise in Dubrovnik is worrying enough to the latter that she quickly tries to convince Dodgson that it involved a "different Denise" as soon as it's brought up.
• No OSHA Compliance: The Biosyn compound's hyperloop train track is apparently open to the outside wilderness (such as the sequence where Grant, Ellie, and Maisie enter a cave next to the track inhabited by a pack of Dimetrodon), which seems incredibly unsafe to the animals, which could easily walk into the way of the train. This happens near the end with a pack of Dilophosaurus, but fortunately for them, the power to the compound had been shut-off, so the train isn't moving at the time.
• Offscreen Breakup: Ellie has divorced her husband from III by the time the film starts. Grant tries to keep his elation to himself.
• Off with His Head!: How Rainn Delacourt dies when a juvenile Baryonyx escapes from its holding cell and bites down on his head.
• Oh, Crap!:
  • Dodgson's reaction when the power to the hyperloop is shut off during his escape attempt, trapping him alone in the tunnel which contains carnivorous dinosaurs.
  • Owen's reaction when Beta and Masie are kidnapped by poachers.
  • Owen, Barry, and the police force all have this reaction when Santos sics her Atrociraptors on them.
  • Rainn has one twice: first when he realizes he's been discovered by Barry's undercover police force, and the second time is right before he gets killed by the juvenile baryonyx.
  • Owen, Claire, and Kayla all have this reaction when the quetzalcoatlus appears above them while they're in the plane, and have another a few seconds after when said quetzalcoatlus starts attacking the plane.
• Le Parkour: Claire has to escape from an Atrociraptor chasing her by running and jumping over the rooftops of Malta. Problem is, despite the man-made environment, the raptor proves very good at this game.
• Plot-Powered Stamina: A bit of Artistic License – Biology that two dinosaurs — even genetically engineered ones — could keep up with a motorbike and then a plane for several miles without a rest.
• Putting the Band Back Together: Alan Grant, Ian Malcolm, and Ellie Sattler get together to take down the big bad.

Tropes Q to S

• Raptor Attack: Besides Blue the Velociraptor and her chick, we are also introduced to featherless, oversized Atrociraptor that act as berserkers (along with actually being trained killers akin to what the Indoraptor was planned to be) and the feathered but also oversized Pyroraptor (which also sports a bizarrely monstrous face).
• "Ray of Hope" Ending: The dinosaurs being free to breed, roam, and hunt in the wild around the globe and greedy humans exploiting them through poaching, illegal trading, and other means are still very much a problem, but the ending shows several instances that, in at least some cases, modern animals and humans are finding it possible to cope with their presence with the optimistic implication that this will continue to be the case.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Ian verbally tears Dodgson a new one after the latter fires him from Biosyn for his involvement in Alan and Ellie's lab infiltration. Thankfully, Dodgson is killed by Dilophosaurs soon after or Malcolm would probably be looking at another Ludlow-esque smear campaign against him.
• Retcon:
  • Maisie's origins are retconned. Fallen Kingdom established that she is a Replacement Goldfish clone created by Benjamin Lockwood out of grief at his daughter's death. In this film, Dr. Wu reveals that Maisie's mother Charlotte wanted a child, but was unable to because of being sterile. Working as an InGen scientist during the 2000s, Charlotte spends most of her time undergoing trials until she creates a clone child of herself to give birth to in 2009. Charlotte's death was also blamed on a car accident in Fallen Kingdom, while here it's stated to have resulted from a rare genetic disease, which was cleaned out of Maisie by Charlotte before her death. The explanation is that Lockwood was trying to hide Maisie's true origins through the "car accident and clone" story so that no one would criminalize Charlotte for her actions, so the cover-up established in Fallen Kingdom may have been what the relatively young and very unreliable Mills had been told (though he did seem to be aware of Maisie's genetic alteration process, hence his obsession with keeping her in his custody).
  • This also calls into question the reason Hammond and Lockwood fell out, as Hammond passed away in 1997, but since Masie is stated to be 14 years old in this movie, she would not have been born yet. Charlotte's age is never specified, but she was around Maisie's age in 1986, which would put her in her twenties in the 90s. It could be that she started researching how she could impregnate herself with her own clone as early as then, which would explain their falling out.
  • Fallen Kingdom established that dinosaurs on Isla Nublar are the last of the species, with the implication that those that lived on Isla Sorna have all perished. This movie retcons that by explaining that there are actually some dinosaurs that were evacuated from Isla Sorna to the mainland at some point between Fallen Kingdom and Dominion. Among the survivors are at least a couple of Velociraptors from the pack in Jurassic Park III (as shown in the Dino Tracker viral marketing website), and the Buck and Doe T. rexes from The Lost World: Jurassic Park.
• "Save the World" Climax: The main threat in this movie is far larger than any prior film, as genetically engineered super-locusts are threatening to consume all of the food crops in the world, potentially leading to the deaths of countless billions if they aren't stopped.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: After narrowly escaping being shot on the illegal ceratopsian breeding ranch, Franklin and Zia decide they've had enough of Claire's covert approach to stemming the exploitation of the dinosaurs and state their intentions to seek out more legal, less risky ways of doing so, with Franklin joining the CIA's Exotic Wildlife Monitoring Division.
• Self-Deprecation: Santos makes a point that "thoroughbred" dinosaurs are preferable to customers rather than hybrids, a dig at the previous two films making use of fictitious dinosaurs for drama and how audiences were lukewarm to them.
• Sequel Goes Foreign: Sort of, as it's the first in the franchise that leaves the Americas, with the characters eventually going to Malta and the dinosaur sanctuary in Italy.
• Series Continuity Error: The revelation that Maisie isn't a clone created to replace Lockwood's daughter, Charlotte, but is one created by Charlotte herself causes all sorts of conflict between this film and Fallen Kingdom. Most notably, there's the fact that what Mills explained about Maisie's origins is effectively retconned (unless it was just a convenient cover story to keep Mills from learning about Maisie's genetic altering). It also calls into question the reason behind Hammond and Lockwood's fallout — it was implied that they parted ways when Hammond learned Lockwood was trying to clone his deceased daughter Charlotte but here, it's established that she was very much alive post-1997 (the year Hammond passed away). What this could mean is that Hammond became aware of Charlotte Lockwood's wish to have a daughter through cloning, and was understandably livid with it and her father's support of it.
• The Shangri-La: The Bio-Syn sanctuary serves as this in spirit, being a hidden valley located deep within snowy mountains that contains a secret city full of bizarre magics (the bio-syn research facility and their genetic engineering) and a menagarie of bizarre and dangerous monsters (the dinosaurs and locusts).
• Shout-Out:
  • Two involving Quetzalcoatlus:
    • Its attack on Kayla's plane may remind very seasoned viewers or '50s sci-fi film buffs of The Giant Claw.
    • A pair is shown to have constructed a nest stop atop One World Trade Center, not unlike what Q: The Winged Serpent did in the Chrysler Building.
  • Quite a few to the first and second Dino Crisis games, to the point where you wouldn't be blamed for thinking the film took most of its inspiration from them. In fact, fans of the games have noted that this is the closest we have gotten so far to seeing either of them made into a movie:
    • The Giganotosaurus design is very similar to the Giga from the second game. Additionally, there's a sequence where the player has to use fire to repel it, not unlike what Ian Malcolm does at one point.
    • The scene where the Giganotosaurus smashes its way into the observation center is almost a complete scene-by-scene cop-up of Regina's very first face-to-face encounter with a T. rex.
    • There's also the whole T. rex vs. Giga issue where Rexy finds herself utterly outclassed and gets taken down at one point. Unlike One-Eye, the T. rex from the game, she survives.
    • The Therizinosaurus terrorizing Claire brings to mind the first game where Regina is menaced by this species. Apparently, it must have a thing for redheads.
    • For that matter, the film's Therizinosaurus is probably what a more accurate or up-to-date version of it on Crisis might look like if the game were remade today, sporting a similar attitude and color scheme.
    • The sequence where Claire, Zia, and Franklin are chased in a truck by enraged ceratopsians alludes to the second game where the player must outrun a herd of pissed-off Triceratops via jeep, which itself seems to have been inspired by the first Jurassic Park rail-shooting game.
    • Both the film and the second game feature a mine infested by large, carnivorous synapsids that several of the main characters have to navigate their way pass. In the game it's Inostrancevia whereas in the film, it's the Dimetrodon.
    • Shock sticks appear to be the primary deterrent against attacking dinosaurs, not unlike Regina's melee weapon in the second DC game.
  • A peacefully grazing deer gets fatally flattened (or rather swatted) from out of nowhere by a giant bipedal dinosaur just for being there. Bambi Meets Godzilla, anyone?
  • The Jump Scare that Alan has with a Dimetrodon in his torch's light within dark and narrow tunnels is staged much like Captain Dallas' fatal tunnel encounter with the Xenomorph in Alien.
  • Parts of the Atrociraptors pursuit and attacks through the streets and alleyways are similar to the Venatosaurus scenes in King Kong (2005).
• Shown Their Work: Has its own page.
• Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer: Dodgson was kept almost entirely out of the trailers despite being the Big Bad.
• Stock Footage: The final clips from Battle at Big Rock are reused at the beginning of the film.
• Summon Bigger Fish: More like Summon Same-Sized Fish, but the principle is the same. When the protagonists are cornered by the Giganotosaurus at the end, Kayla shoots a flare that catches the attention of a nearby Therizinosaurus, and the Giganotosaurus loses interest in the humans in favour of the much bigger animal.
• Super-Persistent Predator:
  • Atrociraptor are conditioned to hunt a target, and will give chase through rooftops and cramped rooms, as well as run after motorcycles and cars.
  • The Giganotosaurus seems like it will be this when he attacks the humans, but it's ultimately subverted as he gives up after the potential prey fights back too much.
• The Swarm: Biosyn created genetically-modified giant locusts that eat every plant except Biosyn's patented crops, and then unleashed them across the globe to hold the world at ransom. This swarm causes more destruction than the dinosaurs could ever hope to achieve simply because they could indirectly kill billions of people through starvation (and that's not considering the biodiversity collapse in the wild).
• Swiss-Cheese Security: Biosyn has extensive surveillance and security systems, but no noticeable manned security force to speak of, and other than Dodgson's chief of security no actual security guards are ever seen. Justified in that Biosyn Valley is a sanctuary habitat and not a theme park like Jurassic World, thus Dodgson doesn't have an armed force of animal wranglers like Jurassic World's A.C.T. team, or an army of mercenaries like Mills and Wheatley had. They seem to be entirely reliant on automated security to prevent industrial espionage, and behavior control chips to handle the dinosaurs. Ellie and Alan are able to infiltrate their top-secret labs rather easily with a stolen clearance bracelet (they eventually do get caught, but by an executive, not a guard) and Dodgson is completely alone when fleeing the valley, and has no one to protect him when he gets attacked by a Dilophosaurus pack once his escape train ends up stranded.

Tropes T to Z

• Take That!: One scene that was deleted from the theatrical cut featured Grant trying to lecture a pair of girls about paleontology, only to be brushed off by the two stating "facts" they got from looking at their phones in spite of his corrections. This is clearly a jab at the disturbing amount of anti-science/pseudoscience and the Dunning-Kruger effect in recent years (particularly people who don't believe in the paleontological consensus, such as feathered dinosaurs and the dinosaur-bird connection theory).
• Tempting Fate:
  • Barry explicitly warns Owen and Claire to not interfere with his sting operation to capture Santos and Delacourt. Amazingly enough, they don't. However, the sting goes awry anyway and Barry ends up depending on Owen and Claire's help.
  • Kayla, after the quetzalcoatlus flies over them, tells Owen and Claire that everything's safe... before the quetzalcoatlus starts destroying their plane.
• Title Drop: Ian, during his speech.
  Ian: We not only lack dominion over nature, we're subordinate to it.
• Too Dumb to Live: In Malta, we see a random guy^note played by the winner of the contest to be a dinosaur meal riding a scooter... while there are carnivorous dinosaurs rampaging out in the open and everyone else is running and screaming. He doesn't even notice them until a second before one gobbles him up! Even by this franchise's standards, that would make Darwin roll around in his tomb so hard he breaks it.
• Touché: Ramsay explains how BioSyn can directly muster the animals of the valley by sending signals to their brains via chips they had implanted in them upon arrival. Alan and Ellie comment that it seems cruel, but Ramsey reminds them how much voltage was used in Jurassic Park's fences, and Alan concedes the point.
• Truly Single Parent:
  • Blue, whose lizard genes allow for parthenogenesis.
  • As well as Charlotte Lockwood, who got pregnant with a clone of herself, Maisie.
• Two Lines, No Waiting: The film is divided between Owen and Claire looking for the kidnapped Maisie and Beta, Blue's daughter, and Sattler, Grant, and Malcolm trying to uncover the plot of Biosyn. The stories eventually cross.
• Villain with Good Publicity: Lewis Dodgson has rebranded Biosyn as an environmentally conscious, socially progressive, employee-focused altruistic company, even showing a preference for "authentic" dinosaurs (feathers included) rather than the genetically manipulated "theme park attractions" favored by InGen, and himself as a humble, soft-spoken, and approachable Reasonable Authority Figure, but underneath the façade he's still the same amoral corporate schemer he was 29 years ago. This actually works against him in the latter half of the movie; most of his rank-and-file employees are young idealists not involved with his schemes, and he has no one to rely on for dirty deeds after his underworld contacts all end up either arrested or dead relatively early in the film.
• Villainous Breakdown: Dodgson loses his cool only once before the Dilophosaurs get him, anyway, but it's a little doozy; when his crew makes it clear that the entire valley is lost, he punches a chair repeatedly and is on the verge of completely losing his shit before quickly clamping down on his emotions.
• Uncertain Doom: Of the four Atrociraptor unleashed in Malta, only one is explicitly captured; of the remaining three, one is last seen knocked out by a pipe mid-chase, one simply trips and is never seen again, while the last one is knocked out a plane and into the ocean, leaving their fates totally ambiguous.
• What Happened to the Mouse?:
  • The Therizinosaurus is last seen exchanging roars with the T. rex over the corpse of the Giganotosaurus. Rexy is seen in the final scenes but the ultimate fate of the Therizinosaurus is not revealed.
  • The fate of the dinosaurs in the Malta Bazaar is never resolved. The last we see of them, the Allosaurus and Carnotaurus are running loose and wreaking havoc and it's not revealed what happens to them or to the juveniles and other captive animals. More likely than not, with Barry having shut down the market or at least put a dent into it with Santos's capture, the authorities stepped in to round them up and transport them to the sanctuary.
  • The Biosyn employees in the control room, including Kayla's implied former flame Denise and Dodgson's bodyguard, are present when the sanctuary is lit on fire, but vanish from the film shortly afterward aside from Dodgson and Ramsay. Presumably, they left the sanctuary when the evacuation order was given, as they are seen rushing for the exits but them actually leaving before the dinosaurs enter the complex or the power is shut down is never seen on screen. For that matter and assuming they flew out, how did they make it past the pterosaurs like the giant Quetzalcoatlus with the Aerial Deterrent System disabled?
• What Measure Is a Non-Cute?: The enhanced prehistoric locusts are exterminated wholesale at the end to prevent them from consuming all of the world's food crops, while the consensus is ultimately to let the invasive dinosaurs roam free and get used to them, despite previously being shown also being highly destructive and dangerous to humans. It helps that more people would consider various dinosaurs to be "cute" or "cool", versus the giant, spiky, and ugly grasshoppers, which are neither.
• Wretched Hive: The underbellies of Malta show a purgatory where poached dinosaurs and other prehistoric beasts (including some Lystrosaurus and even some of Biosyn's Cretaceous locusts) are enslaved into a heartbreaking existence as status-symbol pets, grotesque "delicacies" roasted on spits, and most humiliating of all, glorified fighting cocks forced to battle each other to the death to sate the bloodlust and greed of a drunken howling crowd.

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