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Immobilised Raptors

• So, exactly what part of the "tame raptors to make them safer around humans" plan involves locking them up in immobilising restraints? Those raptors look pissed, like "I'm gonna eat the first motherfucker I see when I get out of this," and rightly so.
  • It's clearly shown in the movie that the raptors are still dangerous and willing to kill anyone that isn't Owen. In their first scene, they almost make a meal out of an unfortunate employee who fell into their enclosure. I'm guessing that the restraints are for when they need to check on the raptors, and when people want a closer look that doesn't require being thrown into a cage with a pack full of raptors.
  • I agree, it would make sense if they were immobilised because they were being medically treated, or even monitored (I certainly wouldn't want to stick a rectal thermometer in a JP Velociraptor unless I was absolutely certain it couldn't object), but they don't seem to be doing anything with them either time they're shown in the restraints. The first time, Hoskins and Barry are just having some expository dialogue, the second time Hoskins has them locked in for no apparent reason when Owen punches him out. The impression being that, when Owen isn't working with the raptors, they're locked in those restraints, which is inhumane (and very stupid, given what Owen is trying to do with them). I don't think that's what's actually happening, but I imagine some people came away with that impression.
  • There's a birdseye view of the 'Raptor paddock' earlier in the movie, and it's shown that there's an opening into the jungle behind it (probably the same jungle that Owen leads the raptors on the hunt for I. rex later in the film), showing that they let the raptors live freely in the jungle, only using a pig to lure them into the paddock for Owen to check and train them. So we can presume that, yeah, the vets there only use those restraints for closer inspections without getting themselves killed in the process (Owen, and to an extent, Barry, could help bringing them into those restraints in the first place, since they're probably the only people the raptors trusted), and when all is done, they let the raptors back into the jungle to live like they normally do.
  • It's a common practice to have some form of restraints for dangerous animals so they can be checked for health or behavioural abnormalities. The restraints are most likely used on a daily basis for health checks and getting the raptors used to humans by having physical contact. Notice how relatively unstressed they were around Barry. They've been trained to submit to this kind of treatment and most likely not for long. For one, it would be impossible to get the raptors to stick their heads back in those restraints if they were contained all the time. They're too intelligent and too dangerous. You'd have to use pain incentives and Owen is clearly against those. Again, common practices. You get the animal to consider check-ups as part of the daily routine, then release them as normal after.
  • The raptors only react violently to Hoskins and his men when they're in the ready-cages, which is the term used by most zoos and rehab facilities. When Barry and Owen are with them, the raptors are calm and pretty docile, holding themselves still and quiet, as if this is a normal routine. And that's because it likely is, as noted above for health check-ups and behavioural training. It's been shown that Owen is very protective and doesn't use any sort of violence against the girls, to the point of risking his own life to prevent them from being tasered. He's also disgusted by the I. rex's paddock, which is isolated and far too small for an animal of her size. So what are the chances of Owen keeping his raptors unnecessarily confined? Slim to none. The only abnormality here is Hoskins and his team of mercs, whom the sisters don't trust and in Delta's case, openly despise.
  • Animals don't always get pissed about the same things humans do. If the raptors' natural social instincts include the dominant raptor knocking over and holding down its subordinates every so often, they may accept the restraints as a routine display of power on Owen the "Alpha"'s part. Not something they'd be happy about, but something that re-affirms the stability of the pecking order and confirms he is their trustworthy leader: somebody who will protect them if they're helpless rather than hurt them.

Bait

• In the trailer, a Great White Shark was used as bait for the Sea Dinosaur (Mosasaurus?). Is the park even legally allowed to use Great Whites? I thought they were listed as vulnerable in IUCN.
  • I suspect that Masrani is sufficiently rich that gets away with a significant amount of Screw the Rules, I Have Money! However, in the case of Jurassic Park, it wouldn't shock me to find out that he grows Great Whites or at least something that superficially resembles a Great White.
  • The shark was probably accidentally caught by a fishing boat or something. It isn't that big a leap for the park to ask nearby commercial fisheries to have large fish and other animals (dolphins, turtles) caught as bycatch sent to the park to keep the Mosasaurus fed. I mean, you can't keep a 60-foot long animal subsisted on small fish or shrimp.
  • Yeah, like reminding your audience that your facility is benefiting from the decimation of sea life through bycatch is a great marketing strategy...
  • Maybe their mindset was "One less shark eating surfers in the ocean" or they just didn't care because dinosaur. Not everyone is animal rights obsessed.
  • Maybe it was raised as livestock or they improved their cloning technology so that Great Whites are no longer endangered.
  • That would be a great bit of PR for the Masrani Corporation, saving endangered species through cloning.
  • Well, that is what they're talking about doing for some critically endangered species, although I don't think Great Whites would be one of the first priority species.
  • If cloning technology has advanced to the point where they could regularly clone dinosaurs, cloning animals of any conservation status wouldn't be a problem.
  • Except great whites give live birth, so even if they can crank out shark embryos in the lab, they'd need a completely different technology from what produced the dinosaurs to incubate the resulting clones.
  • Or the great whites are grown in a lab, not in utero, with accompanying significant birth defects, that don't matter because the sharks are never going to live in the wild, as long as they provide nutrition for the Mosasaurus.
  • Since Dr. Wu wants to start cloning Ice Age animals they might be working or even already have such a technology, assuming that Dr. Wu isn't planning to use surrogates that are as closely related as possible to the extinct clones.
  • Maybe it's just a big hunk of meat in a digestible casing, made to look like a shark to impress the tourists and/or stimulate the mosasaur's prey-drives.
  • The director or someone seems to have confirmed that the park is cloning Great Whites specifically to use as food.
  • Word of God did confirm that the park clones Great Whites and raise them in captivity to serve as food for the Mosasaurus. Since they can bring back and genetically engineer extinct animals to the point of being able to hybridise them, cloning endangered animals should be comparatively easy. No negative impact on the natural population and added spectacle for spectators to the Mosasaurus feeding; everybody wins.
  • The bigger question is why they would bother with sharks at all. We see that they feed goats to the T. rex, just like they did in the original movie. Why couldn't they do that for the Mosasaurus?
    • A goat isn't anything close to large enough to sate a Mosasaurus. And just throwing lots of goats in the water wouldn't present the same spectacle anyway.
    • So throw it lots of cows instead? If it can notice surfers in the trailer for Fallen Kingdom, it can notice an animal as big as a cow.
    • It makes more sense to use a prey animal it's familiar with (also, an aquatic one in case the park creators want to let it hunt not only for sustenance but for sport; a shark can swim so much better than a goat or a cow). Sharks have been around for 450 million years, making it very much co-existent with the Mosasaurs in their heyday. Meanwhile, I'm no evolutionary biologist but cursory research suggests both goats and cows would have started to evolve around the same time as we humans, so the Mosasaur may not be triggered by it as prey in quite the same fashion. Also, both of these mammals have horns which (especially if they were to be eaten as a helping by the dozen) may just be sharp (even though comparatively tiny) enough to present the beast with digestion problems at best, possible internal organ damage at worst.
  • Aside from being vulnerable species, it would make zero sense to breed sharks as fodder. Sharks, especially the Great White, are top predators. They don't come in millions for a reason. And that's because they need lots of food themselves. A Great White of the size we see in the movie must have eaten hundreds of seals. Which, in turn, eat hundreds of fish. It's not a coincidence that most of the animals us humans breed for consumption are herbivores or, in rare cases, omnivores. And as you might have noticed, even feeding our cattle, sheep and pigs takes lots and lots of resources.
  • This is Jurassic Park(/World) we're talking about. Spectacle overruling practicality has been the standard since day one. At least bringing a vulnerable species back from the brink has an ecological benefit beyond "OMG, real life T. rex!!!" (And it probably helped the company gain back their reputation after the San Diego incident, enough to regain the public/government's faith in cloning.)
  • On a side note, the Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous series reveals that Sammy's family's ranch provides cattle for the carnivores' diets, so no, cloning is not a practical form of regular food for the park.
  • Is that show in strict canon with the films? And regardless, cattle are a lot more readily available than sharks, so cloning becomes viable as a means of constant feeding replenishment for the sharks rather than more common animals.

Carnivores

• I see that whoever bought out what remained of InGen has repeated the mistakes they made of including carnivorous dinosaurs. Look, I know they're cool and all, and kids would want to see them, and so do we, the audience, but, realistically, things like T. rexes and raptors are just way, way, way more trouble than they're worth, it seems to me, being extremely aggressive and dangerous. If those dinosaurs were left out entirely, there'd be less trouble when a power failure happens and all the animals get out. But apparently, whoever is running Jurassic Park 2.0 didn't pick up on this obvious fact when looking back at what went wrong back in '93, and decided, screw it, we're packing the island with dinosaurs that want to eat us!
  • The raptors were excluded from the park's main attraction this time 'round (and if the trailer is any indication, InGen may actually be training them to be non-aggressive towards humans - they are intelligent animals, after all, and "modern raptors" like falcons and hawks can be trained). And there's the fact that whatever happened in '93, the park has been running for 10 years since it opened in 2005 without any incidents — that's a far better safety record than most "normal" theme parks (of course, not having any incidents for 10 years will also lead them to become cocky...)!
  • In the same vein, it seems they decided their first genetically engineered hybrid had to be an extremely dangerous super predator. Why would they make that? Even assuming they need something scary for some reason, can't they play around with some herbivore hybrids and then maybe when they know what they're doing make something that looks like an extremely dangerous super predator but without actually being that dangerous?
  • They created the hybrid to draw the tourists back. If it was for scientific reasons, they would probably play around with herbivore hybrids. But it's not. They create a super-predator because Rule of Cool to bring the masses in.
  • A lot of the problems in the first movie were caused by characters holding an Idiot Ball. Carnivorous dinosaurs wouldn't be a problem if properly contained. Plus, they probably draw in a lot of tourists. People going to see dinosaurs would expect to see the cool predators like raptors.
  • Depending on what you're worried about the larger herbivores are a much bigger risk than the predators, especially the larger ones. For starters in nature large herbivores are often more dangerous than large predators. A well fed predator will generally ignore you. Jurassic World assumes we've forgotten Lost World and don't realise how poorly kayaking past stegosaurs could go. Or that we have no sense of scale and don't get that the apatosaur could probably play pinball with, if not outright smash those sphere cars they're casually driving around them. So if you're trying to not get killed in the short term I'd honestly prefer a park filled with well fed predators.
  • Predatory dinosaurs are also bound to be easier to keep healthy than herbivores, given that most of the plants that made up herbivorous dinosaurs' staple diet are long extinct, and only trial-and-error can tell the keepers which modern plants are palatable and safe for them. There's no such problem finding suitable food for the predators, because meat from any geological epoch is still meat.
  • Not even close. Meat is never just meat. It's made up of the nutrients the prey animals eat. The herbivores provide the carnivores with their nutrients, so if the herbivores aren't getting the stuff the carnivores need, the carnivores aren't going to be any better off.
  • Could be that the gyrosphere is moving above a zoo-style dry moat that keeps the big sauropods from wandering or coming too close to the track, and we don't see it thanks to the camera angle.
  • Jurassic World's website assures visitors that they have taken security precautions regarding the potential hazards with the Gyrosphere with a highly advanced invisible fence technology, that keeps the animals in the designated areas without bars or cages, as well as an automated system that takes you back a safe distance in the event you get too close to these herbivores.
  • They're still throwing a massive Idiot Ball when they made the new dinosaur. With the other "Natural" predators (as natural as clones of an extinct species can be, anyway), they've had the better part of two decades of research into the animals natural behaviours to work with that makes them (slightly) more predictable, something that the first park didn't have, as all the animals in the park then were completely new and unobserved alive before. This new Hybrid is a mistake just as bad as the original parks, if not worse, as there is no way to really predict her behaviours, and if we compare it to real world hybrids like wolf-dogs, can show completely different behaviours than either of the parent species. A good example of just how bad they screwed up is in the trailer itself. They put the hybrid in a standard T. Rex enclosure expecting that to work... and it's implied she climbed right out.
  • Well, given the first park never actually opened, they had all the time from when each species was individually bred up to 1993 when the film was set to research them in their habitats and learn from each with the help of paleontological experts and biologists on their team. But yes, 22 years would help even more for the second park. And of course, the trailer does not depict how I. Rex actually escapes, nor does it suggest that the enclosure she's in doesn't have at least some upgrades to contain her increased capabilities (not that they were enough to do so, in the end).
  • Apparently, they did make at least one herbivorous hybrid, a Triceratops/Stegosaurus mix. Perhaps it didn't work out, being unpopular and/or difficult to keep healthy due to dietary issues.
  • Ultimately, it all comes down to simple Rule of Cool. Herbivores are nice and all, but the predators are a huge draw, even in real-world zoos. InGen's mistakes don't necessarily extend from their choice of dinosaurs (certain artificial hybrids excepting), but rather their willingness to cut corners, put profit ahead of safety concerns, and generally behave like a bunch of corporate idiots who spend more time looking at spreadsheets about profit margins than they do developing a working understanding of what they're actually dealing with. The company has a long-standing record of ignoring the advice of established experts in the fields they specifically brought said experts in to consult on if said advice doesn't jive with what they want to hear.
  • That, and as it turns out, safety really wasn't that high on Hoskins' priorities; you don't make a sales pitch for a warbeast by showing off how easily tamed it is (and yes, making a monster that can't be trained to not eat your own guys is stupid, but it's called out as dumb in the film- Hoskins really doesn't get the concept of "animal training").
  • The movie seems to suggest that they are taking precautions but keep underestimating the dinosaurs. They added more height to the enclosure and reinforced the walls when it grew larger than predicted. Hoskins had been waiting for a moment to prove his ideas of using dinosaurs as living weapons could work. The control center believed they could recapture the Indominus rex, which is something they did have protocols and trained teams for. In some cases, it was more lack of knowledge than overconfidence that resulted in failure.
  • Also, at least for the original park, they didn't really have much choice in what dinosaurs to grow. You can't really tell what an amber-preserved mosquito's last meal was. In the book, Wu comments that they have two ways of figuring out what DNA they've gotten. One is a complicated and time-consuming procedure of comparing the DNA fragments to DNA extracted from unusable fossils. The other is to (relatively) simply fix the sequence gaps, grow the animal, and find out what it is when it hatches. Once they've grown an animal, there's a significant investment in time, resources, and money, and they wouldn't discard it just because it's a little more dangerous than they thought (to say nothing of the ethical dilemma of creating an animal then killing it out of hand because you don't like how it's acting, not that InGen was ever all that ethically-run of a company).
  • Sequencing and comparing newly-found DNA shouldn't be that much of a problem by the time of Jurassic World, though. Not only is it bound to be a lot easier to sequence the DNA from fossil amber than to actually reconstruct and clone it (and why wouldn't that entail reconstructing the sequence anyway?) but they now have several dozen already-cloned Mesozoic species to compare it to. Between the various films, we've seen multiple clades of predatory dinosaur, herbivorous dinosaur, and pterosaur represented in the various parks' (and Isla Sorna's) collections, plus one Mosasaurus and whatever the hybrids in Wu's vivaria were derived from. That ought to be a broad enough spectrum of diversity for them to pinpoint the general type for a lot of new amber-derived DNA, which they'd want to do because they wouldn't want to waste resources re-cloning species they've already got, or unspectacular things like extinct turtles that would make audiences yawn.
  • Except, that is, for when they would want genetic diversity within an individual species for when they permit them to breed, for example on Isla Sorna.
  • Why do regular zoos have carnivores? If the lions, tigers, or bears escape, visitors could wind up as lunch. But zoos take what they believe to be adequate safety precautions in housing and caring for dangerous animals because the public wants to see them. Jurassic World operates under the same logic. Yes, they routinely underestimate what qualifies as "adequate safety precautions," but the principle is the same, and the issue could be addressed just as well by being more meticulous in their enclosure security as it could by not breeding carnivores in the first place.

Mosasaur

• Why is the Mosasaurus so large? The largest Mosasaurus on record is just shy of sixty feet. Assuming that the Great White was fully grown and was chosen specifically to give us an idea of how large the Mosasaurus was, that means we're talking a fifteen to twenty foot fish that is taken whole and the Mosasaurus looks like she's easily more than three times the length of that shark.
  • Same reason the Velociraptors are so large.
  • Could be explained as the park scientist engineering them to be larger to make them look cooler.
  • Or the writers opted to Hand Wave the discrepancy by assuming paleontologists haven't unearthed a full-grown fossil specimen yet.
  • Living lizards do grow throughout their lifetime, so if the park managed to keep its Mosasaurus alive longer than such animals ever survived in the wild, theirs might well get to be bigger than any fossil specimen on record. It's still unrealistic because the park itself hasn't been operating long enough for that to happen, but give it several more decades and the size might be reasonable.
  • Realistic if the animal has been genetically engineered to grow faster than the animal it was cloned from.
  • Could also be explained as an optical illusion or forced perspective. For example, the shark may not be a fully grown 15-20ft Great White, but a smaller one. The previous movies also used forced perspective to make the 40ft T. rex and the 50ft Spinosaurus appear much larger than they really are.
  • There's a human trainer visible in the same shot, if you look closely. The shark is full-sized.
  • Your average Great White averages around 12-14 ft. Since the great white is as big as the head of the Mosasaurus, it's probably around 80-90 ft if that's an average white shark and not a massive one. Even so, the Mosasaurus is still huge, but it can be chalked up to genetic modification.
  • This analysis reveals that the Mosasaur is much closer to the camera than the animal trainer. When recessing the Mosasaur to the same location as the trainer, she's actually not big in comparison, fitting the description of being 60 ft long. This is the same camera method they used in Jurassic Park to make the T. rex appear to tower over the two tour jeeps in its iconic breakout scene, when the jeeps are actually far apart as indicated from Grant's perspective.
  • Because the Mosasaurus was that big in the recent game. As for why she was so big THERE... hard to say. But she was treated as something that could never be allowed to escape, under any circumstances, so they may have needed to boost the threat she posed.
  • The real question should be, how can the park even have a Mosasaurus? Those things weren't built to come out of the water, so the odds of a mosquito getting the chance to bite one and then fly far enough inland to get herself (only females bite animals and suck their blood) stuck in amber within the ~30 hours before she's digested the blood should be astronomical.
  • It's not entirely implausible; whales get bitten by mosquitoes sometimes, and it's entirely possible that the Mosasaurus died when it was beached and attracted bloodsucking insects at that point.
  • More likely they were able to acquire the DNA through an existing fossil. In recent years, it has been discovered that some parts of the bone (namely the center of the bone, around where the marrow would be) survive the fossilisation process. It's not much (less then what you might get from a mosquito), but, if you have a team of dedicated geneticists, millions of dollars to spend, and plenty of tim... oh wait...
  • In fact, Claire explicitly mentions getting DNA from fossils in her 'new frontiers of genetics' speech, though admittedly it's phrased as a relatively recent breakthrough.
  • The Mosasaurus size according to the Jurassic World viral website is 60 ft long.
  • She's definitely bigger in the trailer; based on the great white's usual size (6.5 meters), the Mosasaurus is about 58,5 meters long, which is 191 ft.
  • As someone else previously stated she might just look bigger due to a camera trick.
  • It's explicitly mentioned in the film that they made the Dinosaurs "bigger and meaner" to make a better show. That's part of the point, the park isn't actually selling real dinosaurs, but the public's idea of what dinosaurs (especially carnivores) were (big cool monsters with mouths full of pointy teeth).
  • The bigger question is how did it not crush itself to death with its own mass and weight when it landed on the concrete after its massive leap to grab Indominus rex.
  • Modern whales, even those larger than Mosasaurus, can survive being stranded for several hours. If they're beached too long it can cause problems, but hitting concrete and being beached for a few seconds wouldn't be enough to harm Mosasaurus too badly.
  • Also, the millions of years of instinct and genetic memory which the species had accumulated would have inhibited it from attempting this manouever if it didn't feel confident that it would be fine, no matter how tasty the potential meal.
  • And for that matter, why were there only those flimsy barriers around the side of the pool? Shouldn't there have been something more sturdy? As seen in the film, the Mosa knows to grab things at the side of the pool if given the opportunity. One dumb teen and a poorly thought out dare and that's one expensive lawsuit.
  • The fences are electrified and like the Indomius rex, it is likely that the Mosasaurus associates the crane with food and sticks around that place given that feeding time happens every few hours. In the climatic battle, Rexy throws the Indominus into the electric fence, causing to break and short out with heavy pieces here and there flying into the water, alerting the Mosasaurus. The evacuation might have interrupted the Mosasaur's feeding schedule, enough for the Mosasaur to search other areas for food. And unlike humans, the Indominus rex is over 40ft in length, a big target easily visible from the water surface and certainly big enough to be considered a potential meal.
  • Word of God states that the dinos themselves aren't an accurate representation of what the dinosaurs actually probably looked like, they handwaved things like the raptors not having feathers and being bigger by saying that InGen scientists tinkered with the DNA to make them more "crowd pleasing" like those things with the frills. Basically all the dinosaurs aren't true dinos but all hybrids to some degree like the I. rex (except this one was a hybrid of hybrids!).

Mosasaurus birth

• My question is how was the Mosasaurus born? Her kind is ovoviviparous, they can't just insert her embryo into a giant egg.
  • If they have the technology to clone and modify animals that have been extinct for millions of years, they probably have some kind of artificial womb to grow animals in.
  • All animals were grown in artificial wombs in the original novel, actually. InGen could not make real eggs in the first place because the egg shell is produced by the mother's body, not the embryo's. InGen did, however, make their artificial wombs look like eggs from the outside, but the shell was made of porous plastic. It is not explained why they did this, but it is possible that it was to give a fake sense of "naturality" to the process and that this made the "pregnancy" period less unsettling to the researchers (or potential tourists in a guided tour) than developing embryos in a tube. Long story short, it doesn't matter if Mosasaurus did not lay eggs in real life, InGen's will be born out of one if InGen wants theirs to be.
  • Mosasaurs were marine-adapted varanoid lizards, so they could have cloned a Komodo dragon to use as a surrogate mother, while swapping in genes for ovoviviparous gestation from a live-bearing snake.

Losing tourists

• If one of the plot points is supposed to be that the island is starting to lose tourists to the point they feel the need to create a new dinosaur to bring people back, then why does it still look so crowded in the trailer?
  • Who says the trailer's footage is from now? There's probably going to be a montage explaining the last ten years, including how popular the park was when it first opened.
  • Could also be only a slight decrease. Ever see the movie Bolt, where executives were getting into the director's business for a 3% decrease in viewership of males from Kansas City, or something like that (correct me if I am wrong on the exacts). The issue might merely be something that they perceive as a future issue if that small decrease gets bigger. At the same time, perhaps Jurassic World can't really afford drops (I can only imagine that the feed bill is large) and they are merely being proactive.
  • I guess, but I'd assume they were getting scientific grants and stuff too from all their research.
  • If the books are anything to go by, Jurassic Park was made as a tourist attraction to bypass the need for grants.
  • Maybe it's only so crowded because they've been spending a fortune on marketing in a frantic attempt to keep their attendance numbers up, and the park's backers aren't willing to keep that going indefinitely.
  • Or maybe it's a holiday weekend or the start of summer vacations in the United States, from which a large fraction of their audience comes. Attendance can have its peaks even during an otherwise-lousy year for theme park attractions.
  • The movie is set over Christmas Break. As anyone who has been to Real-Life Disneyland or Disney World between Christmas and New Years can tell you, the crowds there are insane.
  • Given that the main character kids are seen in the crowd shots, the shots are definitely from the "now" of the film. The present. However, the reason for that could be that the announcement for the I. rex has gone out and the crowds are all there for her official debut, showing that InGen's strategy has worked... right before it backfires horribly (as anything planned out by InGen is wont to do).
  • Possibly confirmed by a new clip, where Claire specifically tells Owen that the I. rex is set to debut in three weeks time.
  • The problem as explained in the film isn't that they're experiencing an active decline in tourism as it is the growth rate isn't enough to keep up with the cost of actually keeping the park up and running. The margins are too narrow. With the public becoming more used to dinosaurs, they're predicting a decline if they stick to unveiling boring dinosaurs that kids can look up on Wikipedia; they're being proactive about it.
  • Yes, but how? If Jurassic World is the only place in the planet that had dinosaurs (which the movie alludes to constantly), how could they not get enough visitors? They are freaking dinosaurs you can interact with. Japan alone has several extremely successful ''animatronics" parks for the last two decades. They have not only an unrepeatable miracle in human history, but they are the only providers in the entire world. How could their society get "over" dinosaurs? Many incredible successful tourist attractions haven't changed in decades (Paris, Jerusalem, Monaco) and keep pumping revenue through. It's like saying people get tired of Disneyland because it offers the same boring spectacles which any other park in the world can have, only worse because they have LIVING GIANT REPTILES whom you can't access in any other place in the planet in any point of human history until then.
  • They have enough visitors though, the problem is — again — that maintenance costs are mounting up to the same degree as their profits. And the costs may eventually accelerate over the profits. Claire even mentions that attendance and income is up over the previous year.
  • "Disneyland" is a really bad example. Disneyland is constantly innovating. They are always adding new attractions, updating and replacing old ones, etc. Is there any viable theme park that isn't? As the movie says, a giant living reptile is as mundane as an elephant to these people, especially since anyone under 20 was born into a world with giant reptiles. Is it really that different from LIVING GIANT MAMMALS you can see in a zoo? What do you think it was like when the western world discovered elephants? The people of the time were awed by the enormous creatures that some people said were too big to live. Are you awed, today? .
  • YES. I am awed by elephants and other large mammals, as is everyone else. San Diego Zoo's been open a hundred years, and still manages 3,000,000 visitors P.A. despite the handicap of only hosting mundane, non-extinct species.
  • But San Diego Zoo is easily accessible compared to Jurassic World. Unlike San Diego, Jurassic World is on a remote island off the coast of Costa Rica. To get there, you have to pay for the ferry (and that's not taking into account international air costs) to take you to Isla Nublar and pay for the hotel room you're going to stay at for at least two days. And since Jurassic World has to pay these expenses since it's virtually the only main civilised area on the island, it's going to be pretty expensive, especially for a zoo of dinosaurs. And while some might be awed with large mammals, other people may not be, particularly after their first encounter. Given the cost and the implication that this is Zach and Grey's first visit to Jurassic World despite being open for ten years (and their connection to Claire), it's very possible that many would have no reason to go back to the park after one visit unless there's a new attraction near the horizon. And that is something that Jurassic World cannot afford to happen.
  • Isn't there a throwaway line from Claire where she states that profits are rising currently just not as high as projections showed?
  • Ummm come on, the human race has gotten tired of MANY amazing things. When flight was invented it was godlike... Now it's a hassle filled with TSA agents. You don't think gunpowder? Or the New World (AKA North and South America and Oceania), or even film weren't regarded the way the people in Jurassic World once regarded dinosaurs? So no, I reject your idea that dinosaurs would always be "amazing" because it just simply isn't true. There are way to many examples of humans losing interest once something becomes too available... too normal.
  • Perhaps a better set of examples than elephants would be cell phones, internet, and computers. All were radical technological shifts in paradigm and thought with no real parallel in the past. They opened up new areas of science and civil development. And yet just 20-30 years after mainstream adoption, we get pissed because the new version of our phone doesn't have the same set of ports as our old one.
  • The overhead costs for Jurassic World have to be staggering. They could probably have as many tourists paying as much money as Disney World gets each year and still lose money. To maintain their profit margin, they need to keep the public in a perpetual state of search-for-the-Golden-Ticket level enthusiasm.

Indominus rex DNA

• I keep hearing that the Indominus rex will be created using some human DNA, but I can't find anything, not even a rumor, that suggest this will happen. Does anyone have the source for this tidbit of information?
  • There is none. Some people saw that Indominus rex has five digit hands and had jumped to the conclusion that there was human DNA in its creation.
• The I. rex has raptor DNA which allows it to become the raptor's alpha for a period of the movie. However, the I. rex's base DNA is T. rex. Shouldn't the T. rex and I. rex have been able to communicate even better than the communication with the raptors, especially given that the second film of the franchise established that T. rexes care for and nurture their own kind?
  • T. rex may care for their young, but for the most part they are solitary animals. They come together for breeding and child-rearing, but once that's done they go their separate ways. When Rexy and the I. rex met, it was a territory dispute on Rexy's end (while the I. rex probably just fought for the sake of fighting). By contrast, raptors are pack animals, and therefore naturally tend to be accepting of their own kind, so long as the pecking order is respected. So it's not surprising that the raptors would be more open to cooperation than a T. rex.
  • Plus, the I. rex didn't have time to communicate, as the T. rex surprised her and started attacking right off the bat. Also, if you think of them as characters in a story, the Raptors were just a bunch of easily influenced teens, and the I. rex was the cool, badass authority figure they were looking for. The T. rex, being a grumpy old grandma, wasn't having any of it, just wanted for the punks to get off her lawn.
  • Incidentally, an official image graphic has been released detailing exactly what went into Indominus and why: Tyrannosaurus for crushing jaws, pit adder for night vision, Velociraptor for intelligence, Carnotaurus for protection via osteoderms forming natural body armour, Therizinosaurus for its long arms, cuttlefish for its camouflage abilities, Giganotosaurus for its size, tree frog for its thermal invisibility abilities, and unknown for its opposable thumbs. The obvious implication is that the thumbs come from human DNA, but in point of fact there are several other modern and fossil animals which have opposable thumbs besides humans, so let's not assume anything just yet.

Killing for sport

• When Owen sees the field of uneaten corpses, his immediate conclusion is "she's killing for sport". Maybe she is, but in truth many predators will go on a massive killing spree when they see a food source, more than they could possibly eat in one go, because it's their instinct to get as much as they can while the getting's good. If Owen works with large predators, he should know this.
  • I don't research this stuff regularly so I might have missed it, but I have never once heard of a predator going on a killing spree and not eating its targets, competitors aside. There are a few predators that kill more than they need at the time of killing but they store that food for later somewhere. What the I. rex did was kill a bunch of animals and leave them sitting in the open. Sounds like a win for any other predators or scavengers in the area in a 'normal' situation, like on Isla Sorna in-universe, and a waste of energy on the part of the I. rex. Most predators I've read about try to be economical about hunting, only hunting when necessary to reduce the risk of injury as well as not burn up energy they do not have to.
  • Not speaking about predators in general, but for this I. rex in particular, it could be that this specimen was insane. It lived in an enclosure that was much too small, and in isolation. The effect of solitary confinement on humans has been well documented, perhaps the same could be said about this creature. It's only contact with another creature was with its sister, and we know how that turned out. Owen pointed out that the only relationship that it had was with the crane that brought in its food. What's more, it was a frankensteinian mish-mash of DNA and it wasn't made clear whether the genetic engineers knew or cared what effect this would have on its psyche. Finally, this creature was raised with a parent that could have modeled super predator behaviour for it.
  • It happens all the time when the predator finds itself alone with a lot of easy prey that can't outrun it. A fox in a henhouse will kill all the hens, a wolf in a sheep pen will kill all the sheep. Two famous recorded cases in the wild involve an abandoned German shepherd slaughtering dozens of kiwis in a forest of New Zealand, and a pack of hyenas killing more gazelles than they could eat in their lifetime in the aftermath of a storm that left the ground muddy and the gazelles unable to run and jump away. Apparently, when the animal is in "kill mode" it will kill until it stops receiving distress signals from prey in its immediate vicinity, rather than stopping and thinking "alright, I got enough to eat with this one".
  • This is called surplus killing and is indeed common among predatory species.
  • Also take into account that a fully grown Apatosaurus is easily 30 ft. longer than I. ex, most likely outweighs her by several tons, and is hardly defenceless (going by hypothesised methods a sauropod would defend herself from a large carnivore; with proper timing, an Apatosaurus could rear up and crush the I. rex underneath her legs, or a good hit with her tail could break bones and injure internal organs). She's less a wolf savaging a flock of sheep and more a single lion attacking a herd of buffalo over and over again and not eating anything between attacks.
  • A wild Apatosaurus would tail-smack I. rex silly, then stomp her into the ground. But the park's sauropods are probably kept extra-placid by genetic tampering and/or sedatives so they won't kick the Gyrospheres out of their path or blunder right through the fences because their sheer mass is more than any amount of cable or concrete can take.
  • One has to keep in mind that this massacre of Apatosaurus took place after the Indominus rex breakout and Owen and Claire are tracking it down. By this point, the Indominus rex has shown remarkable intelligence to break out of her cage and tear off the tracking implant shortly afterwards. Such high intelligence has only been seen in the Velociraptors before, a species that is known to hunt for sport in the JP franchise. Due to Owen's knowledge about raptors and what he observed, it is likely that he looked at the Indominus's high intelligence plus her surplus killing (and no indication that she even attempted to eat them) and came to the conclusion of a horrific possibility: the Indominus rex may be doing this not simply because she wants more food, but also because she's doing it for fun.
  • She wants to hunt as it is in her gut instinct and was fed dead meat unlike the T. rex which is fed live goats and the raptors who could chase pigs so she could be going on a killing spree as a way of letting out those bottled-up hunting instincts. In addition, she has been raised in isolation and is probably psychologically disturbed or at least if she still is normal simply very angry and wants to kill everything she comes across as revenge on a world that kept her locked up and all alone. Also, doesn't Owen say that she does not know where in the food chain she fits in? She may be killing everything she comes across to figure that out. Besides if she wanted food why didn't she eat the Ankylosaurus instead of chasing after Zach and Gray who are hardly worth the effort?
  • Even though she turned the Ankylo over to attack it's neck (exposing the soft underbelly which she could chew on), she may have been confused and dissuaded from eating by the tank armour on top of it. Thinking this is some kind of super-herbivore which can't be eaten, only killed. Or, the fight was brutal enough that she viewed it as a competitor to be killed off rather than prey to be eaten. Whereas the boys are defenceless besides their ability to run or drive away and on top of that, she may be somehow genetically programmed to prioritise hunting humans if given the chance, as a candidate to become a military weapon.
  • I think its also telling that I. rex left at least one of the Apatosaurs obviously still alive. She didn't come back to finish it off. She'd downed that one, then on to the others. While surplus killing might be an adequate excuse if at least one of them had been munched on a bit, the fact that I. rex didn't so much as take a bite out of any of them, and left at least one to die slowly, indicates some level of animalistic sociopathy.
  • Interesting thing about that "raised in isolation" thing, even if the I. rex had been properly socialised and whatnot, she still probably would have gone on a killing spree. She was created for the purpose of being a Living Weapon after all.
  • Owen might have mildly overreacted with his choice of words, he did previously mention that it was finding its place in the food chain having been isolated from it and not much in the way of instinct. Its DNA after all is scrambled enough to give it both cannibalistic tendencies and a pack mentality, which can not be doing it any good, so likely it has no idea where it fits in naturally having some bits that say it should fear greater sauropods but at the same time an all consuming urge to hunt and kill. Most likely it was instinctively killing its way up the food chain and enjoying the kill as well until something bested it.
  • Another explanation for that killing spree might as well be self-preservation. If "I.rex" has a possible dangerous opponent/prey that is right now easy to kill, it's probably not taking any chances. Killing one of them to still hunger and then realizing that they are, under right circumstances, easily disposable - better kill them all before they develop countermeasures.

Camouflage

• Why would you give your big new main attraction that's supposed to draw all the tourists back the ability to camouflage herself? What's going to stop her from just staying hidden the whole time so no one can even see her?
  • Seeing as the camouflage comes from cuttlefish DNA, it's possible that they weren't going so much for camouflage as they were for spectacular color changes. Either that, or the camouflage was meant to be done for surprises.
  • It was later stated that the cuttlefish DNA was used to advance growth and the camouflage aspect was unintentional.
  • The true reason is far more horrifying the reason for the camouflage ability is simple... Hoskins wanted her to escape containment so the raptors could kill her, or she could kill them. If the raptors won he sells them to the military, if I. rex won he'd sell her template.
  • That's reaching a bit, nothing in the movie suggests it was a planned thing, Hoskins just saw the opportunity and quickly concocted that plan. What is made clear is that Dr. Wu was lying about the camouflage (plus the rest of the I. rex's abilities, like its thermal vision, body temperature control, and extreme intelligence) being unintended side effects, but actually VERY on purpose. InGen secretly paid him to develop dinos for military purposes, and the I. rex was a test run for stuff that would enhance a dinosaur's combat capabilities.
  • Actually lampshaded by Masrani in the film. He asks Wu "what use do we have for an animal that can conceal itself?" or something along those lines. At which point Wu feeds him the "unintended consequences" BS to hid the fact that I. rex is a military project.

Intelligence

• What was the purpose of making Indominus rex super intelligent? If the dinosaur is just supposed to attract guests to the park, simply looking cool would be enough. Unless they were planning on training her to do tricks or something, there's no purpose to making her super smart. That's just extra work and more danger.
  • I heard this theory elsewhere, but basically InGen might be experimenting with human DNA for purposes other than a theme park attraction - basically treating the I. rex as a big flashy proof-of-concept to thrill and impress investors into supporting other human hybrid creature projects. Of course, this theory can only be confirmed or jossed once the movie comes out.
  • Proof of concept for doing what with that, though? Making live catgirls?
  • Where did you hear about human DNA being used in the I. rex? I've been looking for a while and still can't find anything credible.
  • As mentioned in a previous question, it was just a fan theory that part of the chimera source was human DNA due to it having five digits (and opposable thumbs), neither confirmed nor denied by the movie.
  • Maybe they didn't want to make it super intelligent. They played with some genes which accidentally also gave her enhanced intelligence and they didn't realise until it was too late.
  • The purpose of the I. rex is to be a bioweapon. They want thinking, living weapons that can be deployed on the battlefield. I. rex is a prototype for that; one that exceeded expectations. Hoskins insists the only thing they got wrong was making it too big to control, thinking a raptor-sized I. rex would be the perfect war weapon.

Bored with dinosaurs

• If visitors starts becoming bored with dinosaurs, can't they you know, try and feature other prehistoric animals such as mammoths, giant hornless rhinoceros, armoured placoderms, moas, or anything but a dangerous hybrid dinosaur such as Indomimus? I mean surely visitors would be more interested in viewing other prehistoric creatures from different epochs than just seeing dinosaurs over and over again.
  • There's a reason why Walking With Dinosaurs was made first despite the production crew wanting to make Walking With Beasts. Dinosaurs embody Rule of Cool and Jurassic World is primarily theme park entertainment. Dinosaurs are so well known that it's the first thing that comes into people's mind hear the word prehistoric life. They have more market value than prehistoric mammals which in the public's mind can be just summarised as a hairy elephant or a big cat with fangs. The hybrid Indominus rex is representation of corporate mentality: make a marketable carnivore that is bigger, faster and badder than the T. rex to reinvent the "boring" dinosaurs in the same way as Jurassic Park did for the public consensus.
  • Prehistoric mammals are still intensely popular, second only to, as you stated, dinosaurs. Walking With Beasts did extremely well and, in many countries, it actually did better than Dinosaurs. In fact, I would argue that prehistoric mammals would have more market value than hybrid dinosaurs, as Indominus is on the face of things basically a T. rex with some special features. And certain prehistoric mammals, (e.g. indricotheres) look nothing like any mammals alive today. So the argument that all prehistoric mammals would just be seen as "elephants with hair" is kind of invalid.
  • While there are prehistoric mammals that look unlike anything that the world has today, that same argument can very easily apply to the dinosaurs. There are a scad of interesting and unique dinosaurs that Jurassic World doesn't have that they could have showcase instead of the I. rex, ranging from the cannibalistic Majungasaurus to the bizarre-looking Therizinosaurus to the colorful variety of feathered dinosaurs such as the Microraptor. In theory, Jurassic World could easily run on mere (and more real) dinosaurs for many years without resorting to prehistoric mammals or hybrids. Masrani Global's decision to make hybrid dinosaurs in order to boost ticket sales actually tells us more of what corporations think would attract more visitors as oppose to what the people actually want. They did not think people want real dinosaurs (or prehistoric mammals) with all of their majestic wonders, they more think people want cool dinosaurs that are bigger, scalier, and have more teeth.
  • Those dinosaurs you mention probably without doubt would be good, popular attractions... if they could find a way to clone them. You must consider that the Park's science staff can only clone dinosaurs they find DNA for. While they are always expanding the available genetic material, and even found alternate ways to the whole "mosquito trapped in amber" thing (like they did with the Mosa), it is still a small amount and they can only do so much with it.
  • On the Masrani website, it is actually stated that there is a plan to clone Ice Age mammals, particularly mammoths (fodder for future sequels, perhaps?). As for placoderms, I'd put that down to the difficulty in obtaining Paleozoic DNA.
  • As of the third entry in the Jurassic World trilogy, more exotic dinos such as Therizinosaurus have been cloned to be preserved in a private nature reserve. But this is only due to Biosyn managing to achieve even more bleeding-edge DNA extraction and reconstruction techniques than even InGen.
  • Limited market. Jurassic World is a destination resort that, even if not money-grubbing, still costs a small fortune to visit. After a certain point everyone who can afford this once-in-a-lifetime experience are going to have already experienced it.

I. rex Capture Team

• Why is the team sent to capture the I. rex after she breaks out wearing ballistic plate carrier vests? What kind of protection is that supposed to provide against being crushed or ripped apart by a dinosaur?
  • It's in case the dinosaurs learned to use guns.
  • Those vests usually can have the plates removed since even Kevlar decays over time and has to be replaced. With the plates taken out the vests still have their pockets and points where other equipment is attachable. Those vests do a lot more than just stop bullets.
  • Again, what kind of protection are steel, ceramic, or kevlar SAPI plates supposed to provide against being crushed or ripped apart by a dinosaur? I'm pretty sure whatever meager protection they'd offer isn't worth the weight. The vests also have no pouches attached to them, so they're not being used as mere load bearing vests.
  • Against the I. rex, the vests wouldn't offer any protection. But against smaller predators they'd probably stop claws from tearing into the chest cavity. The I. rex may be their primary target, but we don't know what all may be on the loose in the restricted zone, and they may have been taking precautions against attacks from smaller predators while they tracked her.
  • They probably aren't using conventional armour either. They created some kind of glass that is meant to withstand attack from almost every creature on the island and maybe they are using plates of that. The fact that the I. rex is capable of cracking it is meant to show just how strong it is. The capture team has trained on protocols probably designed for the T. rex or some other large dinosaur. Their biggest mistake was underestimating the I. rex since almost no one knew how intelligent it was, and even those people didn't think it could be as smart as it was.
    • The aluminium oxynitride glass already exists, they didn't create it or pull some words out of the ether. And yes, it already has been used as ballistic glass, which is what it was intended for; to stop accidental penetration of the gyrosphere by errant ceratopsian horns, from the paddock the gyrospheres have access to - the mixed herbivore paddock. There appears to have been some expected impulse force value that they designed to, note Fallon's reference to it stopping .50 caliber handgun rounds. But stopping one accidental poke is very different from absorbing repeated blows to one fractured area (in much the same way ceramic armour fails with multiple round strikes), or preventing an intentional high aspect claw being forced through a fractured, laminated area. The Indominus didn't fracture the glass at all, it took blunt force trauma from an anklyosaur's tail, and the Indominus went looking for the damaged area, and the whole sphere only collapsed one it was smashed open and struck against the ground.
  • The team also know that it's possible they might have to forget about capturing the I. rex on short notice, and just have to shoot her outright. In which case, body armour would be useful against friendly fire or ricochets, and they won't have time to suit up when switching to live ammo.
  • Even if they don't have to go to live-fire, ballistic vests to protect them from friendly fire would be important. The tranq dose that would put down a Trike or Pachy, to say nothing of I. rex, would be lethal to a human.
  • Those vests with plate inserts would not be of much help against one of the gigantic dinosaurs, but most likely would offer some protection when engaging some of the smaller specimens. Remember, those guys weren't there for the I. rex, but to retrieve any escapee.
  • The ACU team likely has a secondary duty to protect the extremely expensive, cutting edge technology that goes into the island and its creatures. They've almost certainly got equipment for the eventuality that a human threat might materialise to either steal the research or animals. Not to mention the possibility of a terrorist or other hostage situation.
  • On a more mundane note, body armour would also protect against the debris sent flying when one of the park's larger "assets" is crashing through the jungle, knocking trees into splinters. Getting killed by a ballistic splinter to the lung may not be as violent as getting ripped apart and eaten, but you'd be just as dead.

I. rex Tracking Implant

• Given how it's established that the I. rex had no knowledge of the world outside of it's cell, how did it even comprehend that the thing inside of it was a tracking device worthy of being removed? It wasn't like it was tracked down a few times via people following the implant and so was given time and data to put the dots together. The first thing it does is claw the thing out then use it as bait to attack the strike team. I'm not doubting that it COULD figure that out with the right information. Just that it didn't have anything to come to this conclusion with.
  • She may have simply been annoyed by it, like a splinter.
  • From watching it, the Indominus doesn't go after the people in her enclosure until they start running for the door, having heard that she's still in the enclosure. It's possible that she figured out from there that the humans can communicate across long distance via the radios and the visible panic they're exhibiting is because they've been told she's in there. From there, given how intelligent she is, she probably theorised that they have some way of tracking her and that it may have something to do with what they put in her arm, which is later confirmed when she either heard or felt the ACU coming using her thermal radiation detection, as she's seen moving on the map, but she has stopped moving when the ACU arrive — she figured it out and clawed out the implant, knowing they were using it to follow her, and used it against them to lay a trap.
  • Besides didn't Claire say that if the I. rex goes near a fence then the implant will shock it. Maybe she got a shock, worked out that it was coming from what the humans put in and clawed it out so it would not interrupt her rampage.
  • It could also be that it's been shocking her when she tries to get out of the enclosure, or she can tell from the way they do things that they can tell where she is. Could also simply be that she knew they put something into her and just hadn't had a chance to get away when the capture team was approaching.
  • There were other "assets" in the Restricted Zone, which presumably would've had tracking implants of their own. Possibly she killed one or more of those, found the implant embedded in her prey, and realised that the sore, itchy lump under her skin that's been bugging her for months is something she could dig out and get rid of.
• Or maybe she just felt a lot of pain at a specific location under her skin, and dug and scratched at it until the pain stopped, much like modern animals sometimes dig at themselves because parasites on or in their skin are causing them localised pain. No need for an "I. rex is a supergenius that understands technology" explanation when an "ouch gotta dig out that screwfly" one will suffice.

Security Guard's question

• When they think the I. rex broke out of her cell, Owen, a security guard, and another guy walk into the cell to look at the wall. The security guard asks Owen if he really thinks it could have climbed out, implying he doubts it did. Why would he go in if he doubted it could do that? If it didn't climb out, that means it's still there. Which it is.
  • For all he knew, the cell was supposed to be empty, as there was no thermal signature showing, and the I. rex did a pretty good job at camouflaging itself in the trees, waiting for whoever that come in to let their guard down. He didn't know at that time what the I. rex is capable of.
  • To the guard, it had gotten out. That was a fact. His question was, "Do you really think it climbed out, or do you think it got out some other way? Maybe we should be looking for another hole in the wall, or a broken door?" But brevity is better, so he went with just the one question.

Park safety measures.

• When everything goes wrong, mention is made of the people staying away from certain attractions, going to their hotels, getting indoors, and leaving on ships. No one ever mentions any genuine safety measures, like shelters built specifically to withstand dinosaur attacks or anything like that. They made a park that has several extremely dangerous predators, and it never occurred to them to make safe places for people to go if something went wrong? Even the original park and the ones you create in Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis had those. It's not like they had no chance to use them, either, there was at least some time where a ton of people were just sitting around out in the open.
  • This was partly because Masrani did not want to start a full evacuation that would panic the guests and guarantee the shutdown of the park, and therefore vetoed any attempts to evacuate the guests. Claire only managed a compromise by closing the northern attractions. In addition, after Masrani is killed, Hoskins takes over and does not seem to show any interest in the safety of the guests beyond lip service to justify his plan to weaponise the raptors.
  • Shelters are never even brought up, though, even just as a suggestion to get shot down. Even when the flying dinosaurs show up and people are specifically told to get inside everyone's left with normal buildings with no mention being made of anything sturdier available. They spend the entire movie acting like "Get off the island using boats that aren't even consistently available" is their only plan should anything bad happen, which is very shortsighted and poorly thought out. Not wanting to use something in this one specific moment is not an excuse to just flat out not have a very basic and obvious safety measure. And taking shelter is not evacuating.
  • Again, the guests were not properly warned of the severity of the threat that was against them. As far as they knew, the park was suffering technical difficulties. Once the Pteranodons attack, you can can see that the open spaces of the park have been completely cleared of people. Presumably the ferry docks also act as shelters, since it would make sense to fortify the only route to escape the island.
  • The people not knowing has nothing to do with the problem. The fact that, when they are told to run, the intercom doesn't mention anywhere sturdier than random buildings that clearly aren't meant to withstand anything is inherent to the problem, as it's one of the things that implies safer places just don't exist. If the ferry boarding area is actually meant to be a safe area, despite the movie not really implying this, it's still shortsighted to just have the one safe spot, just a bit less so.
  • Presumably, the buildings ARE the shelters. With so many people, it would be difficult to try and herd them to specially designated locations; so the buildings are reinforced and using the special glass the gyroscopic vehicles are made with. They may also have emitters like the invisible fence to discourage the dinosaurs from approaching.
  • Considering how the first film demonstrated that Isla Nublar is an occasional target for hurricanes, it'd make sense for the interior of the buildings to be hardened against storm debris, so having the guests shelter inside them from the pterosaurs isn't that unreasonable. Yes, the creatures did a lot of damage to the exteriors of the shops and so forth, but those are probably just facades that can easily be assembled and swapped out for theming purposes, not the buildings' load-bearing structures.
  • This is really just a chronic issue in the Jurassic Park universe — no one who builds the dinosaurs or works with them ever has an accurate estimation of their capabilities, and thus they never have sufficient safety precautions in place when things go wrong. It makes for lots of Fridge Logic and Headscratchers, but it's also why we have the movies.
  • There's no reason not to assume that the park engineers couldn't rig up sensors and destructable impact plates and such so as to measure the charging force, bite force etc of each dinosaur. Also, they said in the first movie that they had clocked the T-Rex's top speed, no reason they can't do that for most other species too. So your assertion is only partly correct. These capabilities probably factor into the structural engineering design of the buildings.
• Why is the very first thing on Claire's mind when Owen tells her to evacuate the island simply "We'd never reopen." What, you think after a full capture team went after the I. rex and got butchered that you're going to be able to stop it?!
  • They haven't gone with the more lethal options at that point of the film, so there was still a chance to subdue the Indominus rex before it causes real harm and terror to visitors. If an evacuation happens too early, confusion will arise amongst the visitors followed by panic. Word would soon leak out that Jurassic World's hybrid attraction has gone rogue, leading to media scrutiny that will permanently damage the reputation of Jurassic World if not outright shut it down even if the Indominus rex didn't kill any of the visitors. And that would put several employees (especially those who dedicated their lives to it) of Jurassic World out of a job, worst-case scenario being that their association with the park would make it almost impossible to find a new one.

Old Instincts

• This is going to be stretching it a bit; but notice during the final fight - both Rexy and Blue stop fighting the I. rex as soon as they break through the Mosasaurus divider. They could've gone to finish it off right then and there, it was wide open to attack while getting up — but they stopped cold. Is there something remaining perhaps in their instincts to avoid deep waters? Just curious, since it just stood out that they opted to seemingly stand there and watch almost knowing that they've brought the I. rex into kill range for the Mosasaurus.
  • They were possibly still recovering. The T. rex and Blue were both heavily wounded in the battle as well and probably didn't have the strength to immediately follow up.
  • Probably a case of Fridge Brilliance at its finest. You see, Blue was genetically recreated, at least partially, with Nile monitor lizard DNA (it's how she got her trademark colour). What is the Mosasaurus? Basically, a giant sea-going monitor lizard. Now, the I. rex was genetically part raptor and used this trait to establish herself as "Alpha" to the raptors, which ultimately led to three of them getting killed. Blue probably decided to go tit-for-tat and communicated to the Mosasaurus that dinner was about to be served while they were driving the I. rex to her final stand.
    • Technically, Blue's lizard DNA is from the black-throated rock monitor, not a Nile monitor.
  • Immediately after Blue decided to follow Owen against Indominus, she was smacked against a pillar and remained stunned until Rexy showed up. When Blue makes her triumphant return, she is clearly coming from the same place she fell, and she jumps right into the fray with Rexy. She had no time to attempt to communicate with the Mosasaurus to enlist its help, which would have been exceptionally difficult anyway since it lives beneath a large lagoon. The former theory, that Blue and Rexy were taking a second to recover while Indominus was on the ropes, is more plausible.
  • Or they have some sort of instinct alerting them of a predator in the water, like the OP theorises.
    • More like inborn instincts to fear open water in general, as both their species would have been contemporaneous with marine reptiles just like that. The I. rex had some genetic ancestry from the same period, but also some from modern species which wouldn't have had any instinctive fear of exposing themselves to lunging sea predators. Heck, given the LEGO Genetics premise behind her very existence, maybe she inherited a tree frog's instincts about water instead of a Late Cretaceous therapod's.
  • Might be a more simple case of, big thing that was kicking my ass just got wrecked. Back away slowly and don't make whatever wrecked its day angry. As for Blue and Rexy not fighting, Blue is smart enough to know that a Velociraptor attacking a T. rex solo is suicide even if she doesn't exactly know what Rexy is while Rexy doesn't see a rival for territory in Blue and is already tired from the most exercise she's gotten in at least a decade. Remember Rexy is pretty old by this point so she might just not want to bother attacking the thing that isn't pissing her off.
  • On top of that, Blue may be empathetic and intelligent enough that when she's sprinting at the I. Rex for round two, she literally believes she's saving the day for Rexy. She sees the chimera about to break poor Rexy's neck, so she perceives this horrible monster which killed her sisters as the threat, not Rexy (who is on the deck and, right at that moment, at death's door). She even uses Rexy as a platform to leap off of and latch on over to the I. Rex, suggesting she views Rexy as, if not an alpha, definitely an ally in the fight. If Rexy also perceived this (she had a raptor leap on her herself to try and maul her in the first movie), that this new raptor leapt onto her not to attack her but to jump over to help take down the abomination, that (along with the other reasons people have mentioned) probably played into their non-aggression towards each other.

I. rex Roar

• I. rex is capable of roaring at up to 160dB, which is more than loud enough to cause pain in the ears. Why then does no one ever cover their ears when this thing roars?
  • The site does say that her roar was estimated to reach 140-160dB probably based on the loudest they measured her roaring in her youth, when she was still in the enclosure isolated and without anything to communicate with. Roaring as loudly as she could may have been her attempts to communicate with anything, while her roaring after her escape wasn't as loud because she doesn't need it to be.
  • They never stated how recently she'd eaten her sibling, so maybe she only roared that loud when she and her sister had each other to yell at.

The Pteranodons

• In the movie once freed from the Aviary, they intermediately head for Main Street and attack every single human with an fervor bordering on pure suicidal, even going out of their way to try and kill Zara. This stands out that while the I. rex is constantly described as acting unnatural in her aggression towards other beings and has specific traits that allow her to locate the humans, the Pteranodons immediately as one unit move towards the humans yet nobody talks about it.
  • The Pteranodons were most likely in a panic due to the I. rex's attack. Since the I. rex came from the north, it was only natural for the Pteranadons to flee south, towards the main park. It's also mentioned that Pteranodons are extremely territorial, so they may have been trying to "claim" the park by attacking the guests.
  • The Pteranodons could just as easily flee in all directions, and they don't need to go so far in order to find safety (IIRC, the Pteranodon enclosure was something like four miles from the resort). This is like a hawk attacking a flock of seagulls, and then in response the seagulls fly directly to the nearest town and start killing everyone they can find.
  • If the pterosaurs were hand-fed by their keepers, they may have come to associate humans with food and comfort, so they flocked to the largest bunch of humans around. When the guests failed to toss them their fish or whatever, their food-drive was stymied and their predatory reflexes kicked in.
  • Even if that's how they think when hungry, why would all the Pteranodons be hungry at the same time? There's no indication that they'd been abandoned in the enclosure.
    • Sure there is. All the park staff are busy locking down the facilities and herding guests to safety due to a major emergency - to wit, a rampaging I. rex on the loose - so lower-priority things like the birdcage's regular feeding schedule are bound to have gone by the wayside for the time being.
  • It was redirected aggression. A good many animals exhibit this when they've been forcefully displaced from their habitat by forces beyond their control. In essence, the pterosaurs were reacting the same way a displaced swarm of hornets or yellow jackets will react when they're driven from their hive and life tends to suck for any humans who just happen to be in their way.
  • It's not as if people were just standing there right outside the enclosure. Apart from the helicopter, everyone was miles away. What are the odds that the whole flock decided to fly in that one particular direction, just by coincidence?
  • Pteranodons, like many pterosaurs, were gregarious animals, so acting as one collective social unit makes sense for them.
  • They wouldn't need to decide 'as a flock'. Rather, it's a byproduct of not wanting to be isolated from the group (protection in numbers). It was just unlucky that this behaviour combined with others resulted in them heading in a particular direction.
  • The helicopter approached the Birdcage from the main park area, where the guests and operations are concentrated. When it crashed, it knocked a hole on that side of the dome, and the pterosaurs used that hole to escape. That, alone, could've been enough to set them on a beeline for the main park area, as they were fleeing directly away from where the I. rex had been attacking them in the middle of their exhibit.
  • The Pteranodons might also have been headed for the nearest visible body of water, which due to the mountains obstructing their view of the shoreline, happened to be the Mosasaurus lagoon. The Dimorphodons either heeded the same Head-For-Water instinct or just tagged along with the big guys for safety in numbers.

Persistence of Pteranodons

• Why is the Pteranodon that went after Zara so persistent at going after Zara? Aside from the fact that she's successfully struggled herself free from the Ptera, she gets dumped in the Mosasaurus pool, and the Ptera continuously tries to swoop in and attempt to get her out of the pool, to the point of endangering itself by being eaten by the Mosasaurus. Wouldn't it be a better idea to find easier prey?
  • The Ptera that dropped Zara was not necessarily the same one that dived in to get her afterward. Remember, there were dozens of them and almost all of them look identical. Additionally, it's possible that the Pteras didn't see the Mosasaurus, either because she wasn't showing herself or because of their own panicked/angry state (and it's important to remember that they have likely never been out of the Aviary before — there were no predators in there and they've lived there for their whole lives — so it's possible that they didn't even know she was there).
  • The question is: Why does it have to dive into unknown territory for a prey, while there are literally a hundred others just running around nearby? It's an animal, so it has to instinctively look for an easier and safer source of food, right? And also, how does it know that it can swim? Are there ponds in the Aviary area?
  • You got me on most of those questions, but I can answer the last one; the Aviary was built over a very large and presumably very deep river (it's connected to the "Cretaceous Cruise" attraction) so it's safe to assume that the Pteras learned to dive from there.
  • Pteras are also generally believed to be fish-eaters, swooping down and scooping prey near the surface of the water. Zara falling into water kicked the Ptera's prey-drive instincts into overdrive.
  • Here is how I interpreted it: The Ptera wasn't trying to pull her out of the water after dropping her. It was doing that on purpose. Ever see old mafia movies and stuff where they keep pulling up their victim out of the water and dunking them back in when they are in the middle of gasping so they swallow water and/or let out the breath they were holding? Yeah. It was trying to drown her faster, like they probably did with rodents and small mammals that got into their enclosure. It would have had no way of knowing there was a Mosasaur in the water, given that they were the apex predators in their aviary, which is probably where they grew up and 'learned where they fit in the food chain".
  • Note that, so far as fossils tell us, Pteranodon was already extinct before the Mosasaurus evolved. So while the pterosaurs might've had some hereditary instinct to avoid marine predators, those would've been keyed more into spotting plesiosaurs and pliosaurs than Mossie.

What Divorce?

• So when the kids are in an exhibit, Grey starts to cry because he thinks his parents are getting divorced. Uh, what? I must have missed something, because from what I remember, there was no indication that these parents were going to separate, let alone that there was any hostility between them.
  • Right as the kids are leaving at the airport, the dad mentions something about "one last family breakfast". It seems to indicate that the one of the two was planning on moving out sometime in the near future.
  • Divorces can be handled in a civil manner; they don't necessarily have to involve obvious shouting matches. Karen and Scott were apparently mature enough to handle it in a way that kept it out of sight of the kids, with Grey only finding out via googling the lawyers they've been receiving mail from.
  • Well okay but the audience is not the children. We can't see what they do. It would be helpful to have more of an indicator other than an easily miss-able line.
  • As a bit of foreshadowing that's not explained until later, when the mother calls Claire and starts crying unexpectedly, she's at some sort of law office. You then get Grey's line later about finding his parents' mail from their divorce lawyers.
  • While the film left the occasional hint before dropping the hammer, what made it obvious was the mother's overreaction to Claire brushing off her children. In most circumstances, the expected response would be anger or annoyance at Claire's callousness, not the verge of tears. She'd been hoping she could count on her sister for emotional and familial support (a common reaction in divorces) and she'd been testing Claire with her kids.
  • Exactly. I knew in the theater they were getting a divorce because of that scene. The way it's shot and played makes it pretty obvious. Though the fact that the JP series is now 4-4 with divorced/divorcing parents is another matter entirely.
  • This is a minor question but 4-4? Yes for this movie, same with JPIII (albeit they were getting back together due to their experiences in the film), what about the others? Ian Malcolm was a multiply-divorced father, surely he only counts for one between the original movie and The Lost World?

Why not put the raptors on display instead of the I. rex?

• I don't get why they didn't just put the raptors on display instead at least for now. Didn't they say that every time there is a new attraction attendance spikes? I am sure the raptors would be a big draw as they kill more than they need to eat as well and pack hunting could also be interesting to watch. I know they were putting in the I. rex but she is even more dangerous than the raptors. They must have known that as she was engineered and raised to be a vicious sociopathic killer with greater intelligence than the raptors and so is a greater escape risk whereas the raptors had something closer to a normal upbringing and were not modified as much. At least put the raptors in first and once you are certain visitors can watch them safely then present the I. rex.
  • It is a known fact that raptors are very dangerous, as previous incidents in the past indicated, so they didn't want to risk it. The I. rex, however, has unpredictable behaviours. Most of the employees in Jurassic World don't even know what it is capable of. Even Dr. Wu is surprised to learn about one of its many abilities (or so he claims). It is possible that they're just expecting the I. rex to be an even badder version of T. rex but can be controllable in her cage and safe to display. They didn't know that it will be as smart as, if not more than, the raptors.
  • In relation to the post above, it could also be due to bad publicity. It's never made clear after The Lost World how much information was revealed to the public about the various incidents on Isla Nublar or Isla Sorna, but we do know that the raptors had by far the highest body count, killing at least three people in the first film (including raptor expert Muldoon) and dozens of InGen employees in the second film. Even if none of this became public knowledge, InGen and Masrani lawyers would probably know about it and fear all of the possible liabilities that could come with placing hyper-intelligent Velociraptors in front of visitors. Not much is known about the I. rex due to its newness and isolation, but the raptors? They have lots of past experience with them and neither Owen nor Barry seem the least bit inclined to allow the sisters to become an attraction yet, if ever.
  • Hubris. The executives just thought they had a bigger, cooler T. rex on their hands, not a sociopathic murder machine. The guys who were aware of just what I. rex was capable of weren't sharing, and may have actually wanted to see how it would react to being on display. Claire and Masrani probably thought the raptors were still more dangerous for public display than I. rex.
  • They could have (re-)engineered the raptor paddock (which as previously noted seems to lead into the wild to allow them to roam and hunt freely) to have a ceiling of electrified fence, with only an opening with which to dump lure-feed and other supplies into (if the ceiling-fence extended way higher than their maximum jump height, to even exceed what the staff think the raptors may be capable of if they aren't being deceitful and underselling it to fool the humans. And hey, even if they could jump above the opening, they would land onto the ceiling and get the shock treatment. But maybe Owen would forbid such a risk for his girls). This is one of the only imaginable configurations which would allow the raptors to be observed by visitors. Indeed they may have been trying to upgrade the paddock to such specifications, but just didn't finish it off before they were forced to evacuate the park.

Why the I. rex ? Why not simply bring back the Spinosaurus ?

• Why did Masrani pay for the research necessary to create the Indominus Rex when a species had already been brought back that would fit all the criteria for the new attraction? Not only is the Spinosaurus bigger than a T-rex but it has a slightly different posture, a very different head shape and the sail on its back is certainly impressive enough to add to the "wow factor".
  • We don't actually know for sure what happened to the Spinosaurus between the 2001 incident and the opening of Jurassic World. However, some supplementary material for Fallen Kingdom hints that Isla Sorna's delicate ecosystem was run into the ground by the introduction of some of Wu's newest creations, the Spinosaurus being the most ferocious and dangerous among them. If this is true, it might rub a lot of people the wrong way to see something that wiped the whole island's ecosystem out being exhibited in the park. Of course, if the events of Camp Cretaceous are anything to go by, Ingen might not have access to the Spinosaurus at all anymore, so that's another possibility.
  • Also, they may have made an exception to the standing policy of "do not disrupt the delicate ecosystem of Isla Sorna's deicate ecosystem" purely to hunt down and eradicate the risk of the Spinosaur.

Indominusaurus Rex?

• Shouldn't they have stuck the "saurus/aurus" on her name, like many dinosaurs (including her obvious inspiration, the T. rex)?
  • Claire said the name was chosen because it would be easy to remember and pronounce. Indominus is certainly easier to remember and pronounce than Indominusaurus, and while giving the saurus/aurus suffix to dinosaur names is common practice, there's no shortage of dinosaur name that don't have it.
  • Indominus rex means "Untamable/Unbeatable King". For example Tyrannosaurus rex means "king of the tyrant lizards". So Indominosaurus rex would be "king of the untamable/unbeatable lizards". A good reason why is this: There are no other "Untamable/Unbeatable" lizards, so it being the king of them would be a moot point.
  • Actually that is incorrect. Tyrannosaurus rex means "tyrant lizard king," so Indominosaurus rex would be "untamable/unbeatable lizard king".
  • And unlike when Tyranosaurus (and many other dinosaurs) were named, we now know dinosaurs are about as far from lizards as you can get. In fact, using "saurus" in dinosaur names at this point is pretty much Artifact Title, only retained because of tradition.

T. rex and Blue

• The part at the end where T. rex and Blue just look at each other after killing the I. rex. Why didn't the T. rex try to kill the raptor or the humans? That whole scene looked like something out of The Land Before Time rather than Jurassic Park.
  • Probably the simplest explanation is that Rexy is old, exhausted, injured, and not hungry. She's just fought the fiercest battle of her life and has numerous wounds, so why pursue a small, agile speedster who had just assisted her in defeating the I. rex? She may not be the most intelligent dinosaur, but she's also not stupid and knows when to pick her battles, especially when badly injured. And although some predators are surplus hunters (cats, raptors, the I. rex), most only hunt when they're hungry and Rexy is used to having food provided to her. It's clear that a defiant yet non-hostile Blue will fight to the death to protect Owen and as far as Rexy knows, a bunch of slow and tasty goats are probably waiting back in her paddock like they have been for the last 15+ years. Not to mention that being anywhere near the Mosasaurus lagoon would be unnerving to any animal at this point, even the Queen of Tyrants.
  • Actually, it's been theorised that a Tyrannosaurus would be pretty smart. At least as intelligent as a dog or lion, maybe even primates. So it's likely that she knew better. Remember, she was able to kill The Big One and the other raptor because she got the drop on them. Blue knows she's there, so the element of surprise is lost.
  • Also, unless Delta survived, Blue is the only raptor left and no real threat to Rexy, so killing her is more trouble than it's worth.
  • Anyone else watching that scene, and the looks that pass between Rexy and Blue, feel like they're communicating?
    Blue: Yo, we cool sis?
    Rexy: Yeah, we're cool.
    • If you wanted to go with a less sentimental explanation (though I prefer the sentimental explanation), it's also possibly a case of aggressive behaviour. When Rexy sees the Indominus, the Indominus is in the middle of a rampage, which sparks Rexy's already kick-started predatory instincts, and they go at it. By the time the Indominus dies, Rexy and Blue are both tired and taking a breather, so they fall back to sizing each other up. Neither is displaying aggression, so when they move off and neither makes a move to follow or attack the other, it avoids triggering combat instincts.
  • Apparently, CinemaSins agrees.
  • The fact that they've both just watched the monstrosity that almost killed the pair of them getting chomped and dragged down to its death by something much much bigger than either one of them may also have been a factor. Sticking around where a Mosasaurus just reminded them that being the biggest or fiercest predator on land isn't necessarily all that impressive when you're on the freakin' beach probably seemed like a bad idea to both of them.

Hoskin's death

• Yes, Hoskins was an asshole. Yes, Delta is Owen's dino bro. But I found it odd that Owen did absolutely nothing to save Hoskins.
  • Owen was kind of preoccupied with making sure Claire, Zach, and Gray stayed alive. Getting Delta's attention on him, while he's got even more potential food behind his back, would probably be a terrible plan. One can argue that after trying to turn Charlie, the attempt to turn Delta back would've been reasonable too, but All There in the Manual suggests that Charlie was the most subservient anyway, and turning Delta (who's had a grudge against Hoskins for a while now) might not be the best move (and maybe Owen wouldn't have minded Hoskins' death, anyways).
    • That has to be it. He didn't try anything. Inside he clearly actively wanted Hoskins to die, he just wasn't going to do it himself.
  • One does not get in between a raptor and her prey, as demonstrated earlier in the film when the young raptor feeder is about to be attacked by the pack and Owen rushed in to save him. The bond he has with the raptors still won't stop them from attacking him given the chance. Sure, there's a slight chance that his commands will work and stop Delta from mauling Hoskins, but he has bigger problems than Hoskins to worry about (Claire and the kids, stopping the I. rex, etc).
  • Adding to the above statements, Owen probably just doesn't give two hoots about Hoskins by this point. We've spent the whole film watching Hoskins attempt to steal Owen's raptors for nefarious reasons, which included putting them right in front of the I. rex. While Owen genuinely cares for his raptors' safety and well-being, Hoskins couldn't care less whether they're injured or killed; all he wants to see is if they're effective field weapons. And by sending them out into the field, Hoskins was directly responsible for Charlie's brutal and unnecessary death. If it wasn't for Hoskins overruling Owen and Barry, the raptors wouldn't have been out of their paddock in the first place. So, with so much human and dino blood on his hands, I doubt Owen has much sympathy for the man anymore.
  • Not to mention he's the reason the Jurassic World incident happened anyway, what with him (and Dr. Wu) turning I. rex into a living, thinking, bioweapon and then calling everything that had occurred up to that a field test. He pretty much had it coming.
  • Besides, Owen could barely stop the raptors from attacking him when he was the alpha and to save the worker who fell in he had to act as a human shield. He cannot get in between Hoskins and Delta now. Also Delta is focusing on Hoskins and if he draws attention to himself it could get him, Claire, Zach, and Gray attacked. Finally even if he does save Hoskins somehow the man will surely go back to his plan of weaponising dinosaurs that will get more people killed.
  • Also, the dudes that loaded the lab equipment and sample into the chests just walked out less than a minute before the raptor jumps in. Why don't they do anything to save their Head of Security?
  • Raptors are sneaky; it's possible that Delta slipped past the mercs, killed Hoskins, then chased after Owen, Claire, and the boys before the others came back to see if their boss had finished up.
  • The mercs were carrying the dinosaur embryos so maybe they were unable to defend themselves properly. They could have been taken by surprise and killed by Delta on her way to the lab.

So how exactly do these Gyrospheres work?

• Do they follow a pre-set route that runs in circuit? If so, what happens if the route is blocked by a dinosaur or some other obstacle? In the movie, it's shown that Zach can also manually control it and drive to anywhere and set its speed, so what about it then? Is there a timer that will indicate the time left available for the visitors? And there's also the danger about going off course that's shown in the movie. There doesn't seem to be a warning message that tells the passengers if they have gone off-course or indicate the areas that they are allowed to ride in. Gyrospheres are cool, but they have questionable mechanics...
  • The spheres seemed to be non-automated, fully manual, leaving the visitors to wander around freely with the herbivores. That section of the park was mostly a huge open savannah, and it is noticeable that was one of the few areas that actually was physically walled (instead of using the "invisible walls" tech), most likely not for the animals themselves BUT to keep the visitors from straying away too far. In the case of a visitor managing to do that either on purpose or by accident, the spheres are tracked via GPS and probably a security team would be promptly dispatched. Claire does try to call one team to retrieve the kids, but they had their hands full with the events unfolding in the park, which obviously would not be the case under normal operations. Yes, it is not the most efficient way to handle it, but the visitor's experience of not being confined to a predetermined path and instead be able to go anywhere would be very positive. Remember, Masrani wanted for the visitor to be as happy with his time in the park, no expenses spared and all of that.

Return system

• This does, of course, beg the question of why the spheres had no "return to base" automated function or way for park staff to talk to the guests.
  • A lot of questions of this nature can usually be answered with "Because it's InGen." This is a company that has a long record of overlooking numerous important issues, sometimes even glaring ones simply because they would rather cut corners to save money rather than take a real interest in ensuring the safety of their consumer base. An oversight like this is practically par for the course for them.
  • InGen only deals with the biological aspect of the operation, they don't run the park itself. Also, the park has been running perfectly safe and without any major incidents for over two decades.
  • More like one decade because it opened (as the Jurassic World operation) in 2005.
  • There certainly was a method for communicating with the sphere, at least one that sent messages to it. Zach simply chose to ignore it, and then went out of range. The real headscratcher is why the cell phone coverage is so spotty.
  • You can't really put up cell towers at all points on the island to ensure coverage, some may be at risk of attack (even unintentionally e.g. by herbivores) or serve as a lightning rod during the storm season.

Delta

• Was Delta's death ever confirmed? Her death was very similar to Blue's Disney Death, and no body was shown. It seems unlikely to me that she would have been killed.
  • Blue was grabbed and thrown while Delta was chomped on. There's a possibility that she survived, but it seems very slim.
  • Echo was the one thrown off-screen and all the raptors besides Blue died.
  • Yup, she appears to be the Last of Her Kind.

T. rex and I. rex Nudging Things

• Bit of a specific question but I don't know much about animals! Why across the franchise do the bigger dinosaurs nudge stuff, cars etc, with their snouts before attacking? The rex does it before she attacks the kids, the I. rex does it before she attacks in the old visitor centre and so on. Is it just a curiosity thing?
  • My guess is that they do not know what cars are as in the first movie the rex lived in a paddock and never saw a car before and the Indominus rex lived in isolation. They don't know if the cars are living beings (as they do move) and if they bite the cars there may be a defensive reaction. So nudging is probably a way of determining whether the car will react. Animals will try to determine what a strange new object is by nudging it or nibbling at it.
  • Oh that makes a lot of sense. Thank you!
  • Dinosaurs, especially big ones like the T. rex, seem to think cars are animals of some kind. Look at the rex in the first movie; it thought the Explorer with Tim and Lex in it was an animal of some kind, so it pushed the vehicle onto its roof and bit one of its wheels (which the rex thought was its feet), and bit it into its undercarriage, assuming that was the equivalent of a herbivore's belly.
  • Before the kids put her in predator mode, Rexy appeared curious. She's never interacted with something like this, it's in what she must perceive as part of her territory etc. The I. rex on the other hand I think was something different. It clearly knew that Owen and Claire were there and has interacted with cars already. But when it was nudging it was leaning in as far as it could. I suspect it was trying to get at them but with the car in the way it couldn't reach, and the angle was wrong for shoving the car away. So it pulled back and attacked the problem from a different angle. Literally.
  • Another alternative explanation is this: it was a pretty clearly stated fact since the first movie that Rexy's vision is based on movement. Considering that the I. rex is most likely either a partial sibling or child of Rexy (coming from the same DNA sample or using Rexy's DNA directly), and judging by a few subtle indicators (sniffing out Owen and the guard instead of walking around and looking, only spotting the kids in the gyrosphere when the sound of the phone and Zach's movements tip her off) we can assume the I. rex's vision has similar restrictions. Point being, it could be part of their instincts to try and nudge objects their prey might be hiding behind to scare them out of cover, and thus into their visual range.

I. rex's Isolation and Sibling

• In the film, it is stated that the I. rex's problem is that she never socialised with other animals or humans. But she did. Her sibling. She ate it. So what's her problem?
  • Well, she ate it. That's the problem right there. Normally, animals don't eat their own kind except when they really have no choice but to resort to cannibalism. The I. rex, as implied from Claire's line, suggesting that she ate her sibling just because she can. From what we've known, the I. rex we've seen in the movie was bred first, and her sibling was created later as an assurance if the first one accidentally died prematurely. But the first I. rex, instead of being happy to see another dinosaur just like her, decided to eat it. She had been living alone all her life, and the only 'social' she has is with the food that was given to her, that's why she sees everything (including her 'sibling') as food, and that's the problem.
  • You know, it is not that unusual for animals to eat their siblings. Sharks pups eat their siblings, in the womb even. A lot of bird breeds do too, like Golden Eagles, Cuckoos, Egrets, and so forth. Other animals like some insects and lizards do too, and so do spotted Hyenas. So it's not like, some great, terrible, unnatural occurrence. Even while watching the movie, before getting home to do research I was like "So? That happens."
  • I'll admit I don't know about that. But truth be told, it's not exactly seen as a normal thing (because if it is, then how come it never happens with other carnivore dinosaurs?). I mean, for all we know, the I. rex has been living alone all its life, and the first thing it does when it sees another animal like it is to eat it. That's definitely a sign of something wrong, at least with the "socialisation" part. Remember the raptors from the first movie? Muldoon said that the alpha of that movie killed like half of its sibling to control the pack, but in that movie the raptors were treated in a similar way that the I. rex was in this movie (behind the fences, a big animal given as food). On the other hand, the four raptors trained by Owen in this movie seems to get along well, aside from occasional bouts for the "Beta" position. So maybe it's natural for animals to kill its own kind, but if trained to socialise correctly, then maybe it could be prevented. It would be normal if it was to happen in the wild, but animals in confinement should be better than them, especially animals created from genetic modification.
  • The timelines are a bit fuzzy, but if the sibling was introduced after I. rex had been in its enclosure for awhile, there could be a very simple reason why she ate the sibling: everything else that's been put in there with her has been food, so clearly this must be, too. I forget where, but another troper pointed out that it's quite possible the only interaction she ever had was with things she was about to eat, which is why she tries to kill everything she interacts with. In this specific case, the staff inadvertently trained her that anything being brought into her enclosure is food. May also be Fridge Logic for why she kills, but doesn't eat after escaping... outside the enclosure=not food.
  • Going by the opening the hint is she was born so aggressive that she attacked the other hatchling before it was fully out of the egg. The theme for that scene is named "burying the hatchling" after all. It's probable that this made people extremely cautious about handling her and she was placed in effective solitary confinement for the rest of her life.
  • Given we see two eggs hatching in the opening it seems likely the two were put into the pen at about the same time and were about the same age. However the Indominous is a genetic hybrid with bits and pieces from all over the Prehistoric fossil record. It would easily be possible that she's part Majungatholus, which we do have evidence of cannibalism for in the fossil records. But even then if she's both part Majungatholus and part Velociraptor that's going to create some seriously contradictory instincts. On the one side cannibalistic but on the other pack instincts. Combined with the possibility of human DNA in the mix and you've created a potent combo of instincts and social needs that contradict each other. Given how normal animals with slight genetic defects affecting the mind can go completely ballistic with little provocation it's quite likely the Indominus is mad and the psychotic violence is symtomatic of this deeply unstable but highly intelligent mind.
  • It's even possible that when I. rex attacked her sibling, she was acting upon a perfectly natural defensive instinct, applied against the wrong target. Nestling dinosaurs would've been very vulnerable to small predators, in their day. If their teeth and claws were functional from hatching, they may - like fresh-from-the-egg snakes or crocodilians today - have used their natural weapons to lash out at anything that didn't look or smell like their own kind. If I. rex inherited such instincts, including a hardwired image of what her "own kind" looked like, that image might have been that of a normal Velociraptor chick or adult, not the bastardised version of one which her sibling looked and smelt like. She'd never seen herself in a mirror, and had no way of knowing that the "thing" she was facing was similar to herself. So, she attacked it, never grasping that she was actually lashing out at a relative rather than a baby-eating intruder. Indeed, it could even be that both I. rex hatchlings mistook each other for a nest-raiding predator, and the one that prevailed in the resulting fight is the one that got to grow to adulthood and appear in its own Jurassic World movie.

Containing the Asset

• Assuming the ACU team was successful in incapacitating the I. rex, what then? Would they bring it back to its paddock, and if so how? They don't have a helicopter large enough to lift a 9 ton dinosaur (assuming they could make an opening in the forest canopy to lift it out of), and I doubt any truck large enough to move it and a crane large enough to lift it could reach it, given the lack of developed roads (or no roads at all) between the I. rex and the paddock.
  • They would likely bring in additional Jeeps and drag it out to a main service road, where they'd then load it onto a heavy lift truck or helicopter for transport.
  • Let's not forget that she broke the door to her paddock. How would they keep her alive yet sedated/restrained for long enough to repair it?
  • They'd probably put her into one of those restraints that they used on the buck T. rex in The Lost World.
  • Also the sequel to this movie shows Rexy being airlifted in those restraints, to be placed into a truck which is then loaded into a ship, no less. They have the means. Also, they may have backup paddocks for temporarily holding recaptured animals while they repair the main enclosures.

Mosasaurus DNA

• This was asked in-universe in the Jurassic Park video game, but how did they get the Mosasaurus DNA to clone one if mosquitoes were the only way to get said DNA?
  • A beached Mosasaurus, most likely.
  • This was actually asked to Colin Trevorrow on Twitter. His response was a link to an article about traces of soft tissue being found inside a T. rex's femur, implying that they got the Mosa's DNA through different means than usual.
  • In the original novel, they do mention that they actually get some of their DNA from extraction techniques using fossils. Not enough for their purposes, but then the novel was written in the late 80s, and genetic science has come a long way since then.

Classified DNA

• How exactly was Wu able to keep the contents of the I. rex's genetic make-up a secret from his own boss? I get the I. rex being designed as a military asset would raise questions but wouldn't Wu simply lying about what DNA he used make more sense than saying it's secret?
  • Wu answers to InGen. Masrani owns the park, but he does not control InGen. Near the end, InGen's private security force jumps in and takes over control.
  • There are also the implications that Masrani is not 100% in control of Wu's work, given that Wu and Hoskins are able to sneak the whole "create a dinosaur bio-weapon" thing past Masrani. It seems that InGen, despite being bought out by Masrani, is still working on their own angle, regardless of who actually owns them.
  • The film is a bit weird with this one alright. At Owen's nudging, when Masrani confronts Wu about the abilities the I. rex has shown so far, the only thing Wu says is something like "You know I'm not at liberty to reveal that", only mentioning specifics when Masrani spells out abilities (specifically for camouflage - he mentions cuttlefish, to help with the accelerated growth, and thermal regulation — frogs, to adapt her for the tropical climate). That Wu is openly withholding things from Masrani seems fairly suspicious. Granted, up to now Masrani seems to have been fairly hands off with the behind the scenes stuff, but it should raise the question of who Wu actually answers to.
  • Given that the first park fell apart and the attempt to salvage the situation failed in the second movie I think it is more likely that Masrani Corp bought out InGen. As Hoskins said Masrani owns so much that even he does not know what he owns, so it is likely that he is so busy that he can't keep an eye on Wu. Wu was the first and maybe only person who succeeded in cloning dinosaurs so there might be no one else in the company who fully understands what he is doing and therefore supervise him. Also, didn't Masrani tell Wu the only reason he was not held responsible for the failure of the first park was because Hammond defended him and Hammond passed on his vision to Masrani? Hammond's trust in Wu could have been enough for Masrani to give Wu a free hand, after all, his dinosaurs entertained the public for years with no problems. Management tell Wu what type of dinosaur they want and how it should behave, and he makes it for them however he sees fit. As long as the animal does not cause problems then no one bothers to ask Wu what the genetic make up is. Besides, Wu could probably keep Claire and the others from knowing about the genetic makeupy by saying it is a trade secret, and that as few people as possible should know to prevent a rival company from getting a hold of the information and reverse engineering it to make their own dinosaurs, possibly even using Nedry as an example. When he is speaking to Masrani he says that he is not at liberty to tell Masrani the makeup, perhaps he means that as few people as possible should know the genetic makeup to prevent leaks. Or that Wu has been so used to being in charge he wants to discourage Masrani from investigating further and stopping him from continuing his work or having someone supervise him. He definitely does not want Masrani to find out the genetic makeup of the I. rex as Masrani might remember Hoskins talking about weaponising raptors and the I. rex's abilities and put two and two together, finding out about the agreement between Hoskins and Wu, and causing him to shut everything down. Another thing for sure, Wu pretends that the I. rex's abilities are by accident and is obviously lying to Masrani who he figures will believe it was all an accident, and eventually let him continue (as Masrani probably knows next to nothing about genetic engineering).
  • The bit that got me about the "Classified" DNA is how the I.Rex looks, they try and make a big reveal that it has Raptor DNA, but lets be honest about the I.Rex, it looks like a T.Rex sized Raptor, if anything it's like that part of its genetic makeup seems to be the most dominant attributes of its DNA.
    • Actually, my first thought at seeing it was not that it looks like an oversized Velociraptor, but that it looks like an oversized Allosaurus. These two are kinda similar◊ anyway, so simply due to sheer size it might be Allosaurus that would be the first thing anyone would think of, not Deinonychus (which is what JP movie raptors are).

Who Wears High Heels to a Theme Park?

• What in the world possesses Claire to wear pumps at a job where she's constantly on her feet and one that will inevitably require her to walk through soft, muddy terrain? I work in a supermarket and the female higher-ups always wear sensible shoes or even sneakers with their suits because they're constantly walking around. Not the most fashionable but it beats the sheer Body Horror that Claire's feet must be.
  • Admittedly, Claire's first scene involves her meeting with potential investors to show off the park and the Indominus rex. It's possible she wore pumps specifically for that meeting for appearance's sake, and simply didn't have the time to change shoes afterwards due to her busy schedule. Mind you, there are plenty of points later on when it would have been smarter to take them off and just go barefoot...
  • Claire seems to be solely focused on the business side of running the park and likely does not leave Main Street most of the time, so she probably does wear heels a lot of the time for appearance's sake (and so would be fairly comfortable moving about in them). And then, when everything goes to hell and she goes out to look for Zach and Gray, well, looking for them is her top priority, not changing her shoes, and removing them would involve running about barefoot through a jungle, where she's more likely to tear up her feet and not be able to run at all. And of course, there's the metaphorical aspect pointed out by Bryce Dallas Howard in regards to them, they're symbolic of her retaining her femininity while still becoming a badass, not changing part way through to be more masculine in order to survive. It is also a movie about dinosaurs, this can't be the most ridiculous thing in the film.
  • Willing Suspension of Disbelief. The dinos are forgivable because they're science fiction. Trudging through a jungle in heels is demonstrably impossible (notice we never see her feet when they're looking for the boys). However, the symbolic explanation makes a lot of sense and might be what they were going for.
  • Also a case of Reality Is Unrealistic. Bryce Dallas Howard said in a different interview that the heels were still a better option than running barefoot ("I really needed to protect my ankles. But listen, it’s way better than running barefoot in a jungle, I’ll tell you that."). On a similar vein, in another interview for Variety she says she initially didn't like the idea of heels, but when she actually saw the terrain she'd have to run through, she decided keeping them on was better than removing them.
  • Wearing high heels on the job is understandable — not practical, given her workplace and the nature of her work (that is, a lot of walking) — but a common-enough practice among businesswomen (impression is more important than walking comfortably). What makes less sense than how the genetically-modified monsters with dinosaur DNA don't resemble dinosaurs very closely is how she wears them on that trek through the jungle and swamp and mud (without getting them dirty) instead of kicking them off. The worst part, however, is the fact that she is clearly seen wearing them when running from the T. rex with that flare. That makes less sense than any depiction of this sci-fi flick's creatures, not to mention it's completely unnecessary to the plot. All it would have taken was a split-second to kick her shoes off like any woman would have in that situation, assuming she hadn't lost them. Yeah, at a certain point, keeping those shoes on intentionally, given all the frantic running she does, shouldn't have been possible.
  • Not going to contend that those shoes weren't practical once the proverbial solid excretory waste collided with the ventilation apparatus, but saying that it would be impossible to run on high heels is too an exaggeration. There is an annual "running in heels" competition in the Uinted States (pretty sure YouTube must have a video or two on that), and I even recall reading about a woman who ran a freaking MARATHON in high heels. Hell, people can run while wearing stilts. Like the other troper already mentioned, the original plan allegedly was for her to throw away those high heels, but according to the director, the actress asked to keep the shoes.
  • Interesting competition (I wonder what the Spear Counterpart would be?), but those women would be actively trying not to lose their shoes. That shouldn't be a priority when you're running for your life from a T. rex; in that situation, who would try to test how fast they can run in heels instead of kicking them off and giving herself the best chance of escape/survival? Even if it was the actress' idea, it wouldn't have occurred to Claire in the situation in reality.
  • It's essentially part of her work outfit. She clearly has very little interaction with the park at large. As for the trek, apart from the fact BDW argued it was in character, Claire does not strike one as someone who has much experience barefoot in the wilderness. She went out expecting to sit in a car and pick up her nephews from a grassy plain, not go on a hunt through the jungle. From personal experience, walking in woods, fields, or mud barefoot when you're not used to it is not only painful, it's exceptionally slow. Added with the fact that a tropical forest is exceptionally dangerous to walk in barefoot, then the heels being retained work fictionally. Even her not removing them with the Rex, as it was very much an "in the moment" scene. Given the day she's had, it most likely didn't occur to her to bother changing them.
  • Also, Rexy wasn't trying to eat Claire. Rexy was a well-fed "kept" animal, she had no need to eat a random person. And as the earlier scene of the T. rex feeding shows, she'd been conditioned to respond to humans throwing flares at something interesting, not to find humans holding flares interesting. Rexy is following Claire and the flare (awesome band name) because she assumes Claire's leading her to something good to eat. Claire doesn't need to outrun Rexy in heels, she just needs to get Rexy to I. rex before the latter can turn her nephews and new boyfriend into chunky salsa.
    • As the above troper argues, heels are part of her standard work uniform. We don't actually know how much walking she usually does over the course of a day — the day we see is described by Claire as a "bad time", meaning she's probably doing more running around than usual, meeting with sponsors, and giving the tour. Even if this is normal for her, plenty of businesswomen wear heels anyway, being highly pain-tolerant and willing to put up with the discomfort for the sake of looking well put together and professional, or genuinely not being bothered by heels (I have a friend who wears insanely high heels to work on a daily basis and says they don't bother her at all, so this is apparently possible). And as is reflected in the big end fight when the camera is directly focusing on her feet, Claire is pretty damn good at running in heels — her stride was long and natural and she was fast. With this in mind, keeping the shoes she's used to and can move well in is much more sensible than kicking them off and having no protection from the rough terrain, slowing her down as she is forced to be much more careful with her feet.
• Why is everybody still pestering the question that she was running in heels, and nobody realised that she did manage to outrun a ''T. rex''?
  • Well, there is the fact that Rexy is an old T-Rex, during the events in JW she is about 27 years old, which puts her towards the end of what experts estimate was the life expectancy of her species. For all we know she had arthritis, and couldn't run as fast as her younger self from the first movie!

Hoskin's and Wu's plan?

• There is one thing I don't get about the idea to weaponise the I. rex so that it escapes and then pit the raptors against it and sell the winner to the military. The plan depends on the I. rex being able to escape and defeat the ACU team and cause enough damage so that Masrani becomes desperate enough to allow Hoskins to use the raptors. However, for this to happen, there would have to be a lot of staff and visitor deaths. However by selling the winner's template to the military they are pretty much admitting that they weaponised the dinosaurs and any lawyer would point out that a weaponised dinosaur has no place in a theme park and that they created an unsafe environment. Most people would be surprised to know the dinosaur that caused the incident was being sold as a weapon and the Masrani executives would jump at a chance to assign the blame onto someone else. The lawsuits Hoskins and Wu would receive would probably dwarf any payment they would get from the military. So in the end the plan is simply not worth it.
  • That aside, the DoD would never purchase such an unreliable weapon which was also established to be nigh-uncontrollable. Imagine releasing raptors to hunt terrorists... and then they realise that everyone in the target area smells like the person they were sent to hunt.
  • Well, they could pretend that everything the Indominus rex does (such as camouflage and high durability) were unintended accidents made by filling the genomes. And the incident shows how inefficient human armed forces are against a dinosaur, so the solution is to send raptors or other dinosaurs capable of bringing that monstrosity down. If they succeed, Hoskin and Wu would note the efficiency of raptors against an "accident" like the Indominus rex and state they could be used as attack dogs for various purposes if trained properly. If the I. rex wins, they would say that the only way to defeat the I. rex is to make another, more tamable I. rex. The fatal flaw of this plan is that it assumes it can control and domesticate the dinosaurs without issue despite past events showing that never really works.
  • The plan to pit the raptors and the I. rex against each other was entirely concocted by Hoskins, and he most likely made it up on the fly. I mean, there are a couple of scenes in the movie where you see Hoskins watching the events unfolding in the park in a very pensive manner. The plan to use the dinosaurs for military purposes was something for the long run, but Hoskins saw an opportunity to hasten it, which went south because he did not understand the creatures. Doc Wu simply did what InGen paid him to do, which was to test the viability of a dinosaur with certain characteristics that would make it a better weapon (natural camo, thermal vision, body temp regulation, increased intelligence, and all of that), and when Hoskins takes over, Wu even questioned him if his deal was still going on, so he really wasn't up on that part of the plan.
  • Why sell just the winner? Pitting the raptors against the Indominus was a field test of both of their capabilities. Plus, remember, the idea was to scale the Indominus down to Velociraptor size... the raptor field test would have been to show off the training that they'd eventually put Indominus Minor through.
  • The plan doesn't really make sense when you think about it. Yes, Indominus or the raptors could cause a lot of chaos and death, but they'd be difficult to recapture each time, and any opposing force with long-range heavy weaponry could take out Indominus when she's not camouflaged. The raptors are faster, but you could take them down with sufficient firepower as well, and both would be vulnerable to attacks from planes or high ground.

Releasing the T. rex

• In any context, how is releasing a Tyrannosaurus rex going to solve the problem? Even if it gets rid of the I. rex, now they have a T. rex on the loose — where's the improvement? What does that accomplish? Best case scenario, you've just traded one perhaps-slightly-less-dangerous-but-still-incredibly-dangerous monster for another. In the film's context, how is that any less dangerous, insane, or unethical than Hoskins' (rightly) vilified plan to sic the raptors on the I. rex?
  • The Rex has been subdued and controlled in the past. Any injuries she sustained in that fight would've made her easier to tranquilise/finish off and if she lost the fight then the reverse would have been true with the I. rex. It was a gamble but one that made a reasonable amount of sense — a predator whose limits they knew versus one they didn't.
  • In addition to the above, the T. rex probably isn't at her strongest moment in her life. She's a badass alright, but there's no denying that her age is catching up to her, as demonstrated in the first half of her fight with the I. rex with her mostly losing badly. We've seen some ACU going toe-to-toe with the I. rex for a while earlier in the film (one of them even managed to shoot a net to cover its mouth, stunning it for a while), it is possible that the ACU could recapture the T. rex with ease given their performance with the flying dinos breakout. Plus, it was either the T. rex or letting a highly intelligent sadistic hybrid carnivore dinosaur continue to roam the park, for which all methods, including using Owen's raptor pack, aren't enough to stop it. Short of finding a way to dump it into the Mosasaurus lagoon, there's no better plan to stop the I. rex.
  • As established, Rexy is aggressive but not malicious. The I. rex is essentially an insane chimpanzee in a dinosaur's body. It's killing because it's hyper-aggressive and mentally unstable. The T. rex hunts when she's hungry or territorial, rather than just when something is presented to her. In that regard, the rexes are the "safest" of the major predators. Don't give them a reason to go for you and they probably won't. As evidenced by Blue. She makes no threatening gestures, in fact she acts submissively, and Rexy avoids conflict and goes to recuperate.
  • Rexy is far less dangerous than the Indominus rex for loads of reasons in addition to the ones above. The I. rex is far more intelligent (setting up ambushes and pretending she escaped) and much harder to find given that she tore out her implant, can camoflague herself visually and also hide her heat signature. Rexy presumably still has her tracking implant in her and so can't take anyone by surprise and you can tell where she is heading, to get out of there. In the first movie, she behaved like a normal large predator. Likewise, if Claire did not release Rexy, then the I. rex would have killed Owen, Zach, and Gray, and probably even her. Releasing Rexy and letting them fight gives the group a chance to escape at least.
  • But if she's so much safer and "less dangerous," how did Claire and Gray think she stood a chance/could defeat the other fish if she's supposedly not the bigger fish? Are we supposed to believe Claire knew Rexy might die but just released her as a distraction so she and the guys could buy a few minutes to run (which they spend sticking around watching the battle anyway)?
  • Rexy is "less dangerous" in the sense that it's not actively trying to hunt and eat you to no ends. That doesn't necessarily mean she's significantly less powerful than the I. rex. The reason why Claire and Gray think Rexy has a chance is because of two things: 1) The Tyrannosaurus rex is pretty much the only other large land carnivore in Jurassic World that could easily size up and challenge the I. rex to a battle and 2) she's highly territorial and aggressive to anything that she deems as a challenge to her domain, such as another large carnivore. Our protagonists were running out of options when I. rex easily makes short work of Owen's raptor pack thanks to their relatively small size and numbers. They needed something big and powerful to put Indominus on the defensive and even if Rexy doesn't kill the I. rex outright, there is a significantly good chance she would at least seriously injure it to the point where it could no longer pursue the humans or be left vulnerable to military fire.
  • It's also important to note that, in addition to all these other factors, Rexy now associates the flares with food as demonstrated by a worker (or maybe a machine?) throwing a lit flare at the tethered goat, just like Pavlov's dog associating the ringing of a bell with food and automatically drooling in response. Claire showing up to the tyrannosaur with the flare is like saying "Dinnertime!" and then throwing it directly at Indominus indicates to her that this new, unfamiliar creature is food. Sure, it may be bigger than what she's used to, but it's still food in her mindset. After Indominus starts fighting back, that triggers Rexy's fight-or-flight instinct and she chose fight. As to Claire's motivation, it was almost certainly more to the effect of "distract the immediate threat so that we can escape" rather than "Summon Bigger Fish to kill immediate threat."
  • Besides, the Park was finished anyway. If Rexy survives, it doesn't matter if they can recapture her or not. Isla Nublar really is Jurassic World now. But getting rid of the I. rex is far more important, both so that Claire doesn't have to explain to her sister why the boys entrusted to her care will be having closed-casket funerals, and to make sure that this insanely Super-Persistent Predator isn't a threat to anyone else anymore. Not only are there still a LOT of people on the island waiting to escape that I. rex could wade through, but if anything could find its own way off that island and start wreaking havoc, it'd be the I. rex.
  • We know that the means exists to recapture Rexy, because she's the same T. rex from the original film. Jurassic Park ended with her on the loose on the island, but in Jurassic World she's living in an exhibit. Ergo, she's catchable.
  • Which was demonstrated again in both of the sequel films to this movie, showing that the Rex was transported first from Isla Nublar to the USA, and then all the way to Europe.
  • Shorter answer: Godzilla Threshold.

The Escape

• So, the I. rex is nowhere to be seen on her paddock, thermal scans are made, nothing appears to be there, and the scratch marks show that she escaped and is on the loose on the park. Why didn't they immediately ask the control room to check on the GPS tracker? You'd think THAT would be the logical priority, instead of taking the time to go down the paddock, which in itself didn't make much sense (for all they know, it is an empty paddock, so they were checking emptiness?). I know these movies depend on humans making massively illogical choices, but this one was almost a bit too much for me.
  • Checking the tracker was literally the first thing Claire said once the possibility of the I. rex escaping became clear. She jumped in her car and called them as she drove (if they needed to capture it again the control room would be the best place to direct that from). Owen and the two security guards going into the paddock was something they did at their own initiative (presumably Owen wanted a better look at the claw marks). Even Claire was stunned they were stupid enough to do that. Considering Owen works with raptors, who are smart enough to try hide and ambush tactics and he only recently had a bad reminder what it's like to be lock in a cage with them, I think we can classify this as an Idiot Ball moment.
  • Nope, Claire makes the call AFTER she physically saw the I. rex escaping, but before that the possibility was pretty clear (thermal scans came empty, those claw marks on the wall), and yet she does not call the control room for some reason. Also, she does not really object Owen going down to the paddock, she just showed surprise. Everybody was holding the idiot ball during that scene.
  • Have to check the movie again to confirm, but I for one am relatively certain the Claire brought up the tracking implant once the thermal imaging was checked and Owen pointed out the claw marks, rather then after seeing the I. rex escape. In fact, I don't think Claire was even present when the I. rex physically broke out, being instead on the road to the control room. But of course, it is a Jurassic Park movie so the characters holding the Idiot Ball so the I. rex can get out is kind of a given yeah.
  • Yep, Claire dashed away and made the call after checking the thermals and seeing the claw marks, but she wasn't present for the real escape. I felt it was kind of odd that she dashed off in the car to call HQ, rather than calling from the site and saying, "Okay, nobody go in there until we've confirmed 100% that she escaped." The former detail could be excused by poor reception (though you'd think a park of this nature would have landlines), but the latter should have still been the case.
  • Claire dashing away to the control room makes perfect sense, because, as park manager, that's where she should be in a crisis. It's shown as difficult and inefficient for her to coordinate everything when she needs Lowery to tell her what's going on over the phone instead of just being there herself.

Scratch Marks

• Speaking of which, how did I. rex leave those scratch marks? Okay, maybe her handler isn't the most attentive dude, but certainly that much clawing and scraping would have attracted some attention? And the scratches go all the way to the top of the wall, so she must have gotten close... why not just actually go over the wall? Unless she tried going up and over, failed, and made the best of it?
  • Escape may not have even been her intention. She's incredibly sadistic, bored, and confined in a tightly-enclosed space too small for her size. Rather than trying to get away, she may have actively been trying to lure people into her paddock so that she could kill them, which, as the cracks left by her attack on the viewing window indicate, was something she probably wanted to do. It wasn't so much that she wanted to escape as that she wanted new, very bloody and breakable toys to play with and, when she ended up ramming through a partially open door in pursuit of a couple of them, she ended up outside of her paddock as an unexpected bonus. Escaping may not have even occurred to her when she was leaving those claw marks up the wall.
  • The claw marks were really high on the wall, the I. rex arguably could have escaped on her own, but doing that would not have allowed her to kill the little people she hates so much. She probably wanted to do both, escape AND kill the staff on her paddock.
  • Being able to reach the top part of the wall to scratch it and pulling at least 6 tons over it with a pair of basically twig arms are two very different things.

I. rex and Raptors

• How did the I. rex come to the conclusion that it could communicate with the Raptors? It has never once before met a living creature it hadn't attempted to kill, including its twin. This is the first time talking with another creature has ever occurred to it. Also, given that it's never tried communicating with anything else before, how was it able to communicate with the raptors at all?
  • Hmm, good question. Perhaps she'd been conditioned by feeding in her pen to think that everything that entered was food, she only ever saw her sister as food. Meeting the raptors outside the pen, she was free to recognise them as something similar and try communicating. Or maybe the raptors were vocalising (don't remember exactly from the scene) and hearing those sounds triggered some kind of latent raptor socialisation instinct? Or maybe she's just that fucking smart.
  • She likely overheard the raptors communicating with each other, realised she understood what they were saying and responded by asserting her authority over them. She may have tried speaking with other dinosaurs as well, only to become enraged when they never answered her. Her sibling was likely too young to communicate when she ate it so this may have been her first social interaction ever.

Can Raptors really beat the I. rex or Hoskins just wants an excuse to show off?

• This is my friend's question, actually. She said in the first movie, two raptors have trouble dealing with the T. rex (technically one since the other was dead as soon as Rexy pulled her Dynamic Entry, then the other gets tossed through a dinosaur skeleton and also dies), then what made Hoskins think that four raptors can stand a chance against the I. rex which is basically a T. rex on steroids with raptor intelligence (I assume Hoskins must know that it's part raptor, considering he financed Wu to create it)? The thing can even withstand several shocks, shotgun rounds and a freakin' machine gun throughout the movie. Now, I don't have any doubt about the raptors' capabilities, but I gotta admit she had a point. If even armour-piercing rounds don't work on it, why would raptors be any better?
  • Well, it wasn't just the four raptors. It was four raptors backed up by a fully-loaded assault team with rocket launchers. Arguably, the raptors were just there to find I. rex through smell, and the humans with their BF Gs were there to actually take it down. Then again, Owen was the one who confirmed that plan; Hoskins may indeed have just intended to let the raptors and ''I. rex'' fight and see which one won.
  • From what can be gathered from the film, InGen made Wu test out using the I. rex certain improvements that would make the dinos into better weapons on the battlefield, and it could be that a thicker, denser skin was one of them. Even so, the I. rex wasn't bulletproof, during the final battle Owen manages to get several good shots on the creature, and it's clear that the bullets manage to penetrate and draw blood. I think the minigun on the chopper would have worked, but between Masrani's flying, the I. rex being highly mobile and running through a dense jungle, and the short time before the chopper crashed, it most likely didn't manage to get many hits on her, if any.
  • As you said the Big One alone was able to inflict some damage to Rexy given that she carried the scars two decades later. If they worked together the four raptors might be able to take the I. rex down especially if they went for the eyes or other vulnerable parts. Even two raptors with Owen wielding a rifle were able to hold it off for a while. I think the InGen mercenaries were there to kill the I. rex as Hoskins asks why are they taking so long, implying that they were to open fire earlier. Maybe he wants to market the I. rex as a bioweapon that is impossible to locate and then wants to market the raptors as the only things that can be used to find her. Taking out the I. rex with a missile strike or heavy artillery would be a piece of cake once you know where she is.
  • We're also looking at two different proofs-of-concept here: firstly that the Raptors can work together and take orders from humans thanks to the extensive work Owen and the other handlers have done in training them; and secondly that the I. rex is the biggest, baddest dinosaur around, and that genetically engineering dinosaurs into super-predatory killing machines to use in warfare is well within InGen's ability to do. It's possible that Hoskins doesn't particularly care whether or not the Raptors can actually win - all he wants to show is that they will take orders and that they can fight together as a team. Since he makes mention of miniaturising the I. rex before selling it to the military, it's clear that he never really intends to sell Raptors as military assets, they're merely the proof-of-concept that dinosaurs can be trained to follow orders. That the I. rex could probably take them all down in a fight is proof that InGen's genetic engineering program can deliver the next breed of superweapon for the military.

The Pterosaurs' Apparent Obsession With Zara

• Just before she gets grabbed you can 'see a Dimorphodon standing next to her and attempting to bite her. Most people seem to think she was after Zach and Gray, but based on her position and the direction she was facing, the Dimorph was almost certainly aiming for Zara. Which brings me to the question, what makes Zara so special? Was she hiding pterosaur treats in her pockets or something?
  • I think that it was arbitrary.
  • If one goes by the LEGO game, she had coffee.
  • She was standing still, unlike the guests who were running away, and so is a much easier target. Zach and Gray were also standing still but ducked when the pterosaur made a first pass it or another one came back for a second and decided to try for Zara instead who is not only stationary but also distracted by getting the boys to safety and so more likely to get caught.

What about the dinosaurs that were already on Isla Nublar?

• The park opened a decade from when the movie is set and 10-15 years after the first film. I'm gonna guess lifespans of genetically engineered cloned dinosaurs isn't something precisely known but wouldn't it be somewhat probable at least that when they went back to the island there were still living dinosaurs there? I don't remember if the frog DNA sex swapping thing from the books was part of the films but obviously that would make the question even more valid.
  • It's not explicitly stated in the movie, but Word of God confirmed that the T. rex is the original Rexy from the first movie, so there are dinosaurs still living there when someone went back to Isla Nublar. Thing is, as the events in the first movie unfolded, the T. rex remained the only dominant predator on the island, with the three raptors gone (two killed by Rexy, another one got locked in the freezer and presumably freeze or starve to death). There are also other smaller carnivores presented in the video game (such as Troodon and Herrerasaurus), so we can safely presume that during the 10-15 years of human absence, the carnivores got rid of most herbivores, and the smaller carnivores fell prey to the bigger ones. It's the food chain at work, and with about a decade gap there's plenty of time for the weaker dinosaurs to have died out and only the strongest remained. To be fair, we know that the T. rex is the good ol' Rexy from the first movie, but we don't know if any other dinosaur in Jurassic World are the old ones from Jurassic Park. Maybe some of them are old residents like Rexy.
  • The majority of the dinosaurs from the first iteration would have eventually died off just like the majority of the dinosaurs will when the current park shuts down. The island is a zoo, not a natural ecosystem. Without constant supplies of food from outside the island the environment can't sustain the number of animals that were kept there.
  • I always assumed the InGen people rounded up the Isla Nublar dinosaurs (at least, the ones that were still alive) and used those for the new park, along with the newly cloned ones.
  • Word of God establishes that the majestic Brachiosaur shown in the original movie (the first dinosaur fully seen in the franchise) also survived, at least until she died with the volcanic eruption in Fallen Kingdom.

Tyrannosaurus indominus

• Tyrannosaurus is the name of the genus that T. rex belongs to, not rex. So the Indominus should be Tyrannosaurus indominus instead of Indominus rex. I know that they wanted a cool-sounding name, but still!
  • Tyrannosaurus indominus actually sounds cooler, but makes no sense grammatically. "Tyrannosaurus rex" is "tyrant king of the lizards" and Indominus rex means "Untamable/Unbeatable King". "Tyrannosaurus indominus" would be "Untamable/Unbeatable Tyrant Lizard"^note Going off of how the naming convention works, technically it's be "Untamable/Unbeatable lizard tyrant". Plus, it's a hybrid, so while it's related to the Tyrannosaurus genus, it's technically not a member.
  • Hippopotamus amphibius is the common hippopotamus and Arvicola amphibius is the European water vole. These animals are not related. The same applies here. Indominus rex is a species found within the genus Indominus, and Tyrannosaurus rex is a different species found within a different genus, Tyrannosaurus.
  • It's mentioned right in the first act that the name was picked because it sounded cool and was easy to pronounce. I. Rex doesn't have a genus, it is a genetic mishmash of creatures, it would be more appropriate to call it something like Chimaeram Rex or if you want to be PC about it's gender in the naming Regina Chimaeram. It is essentialy a chimera or at least the standard definition of a chimera which is generally where we get the idea of a hybrid creature. But they wanted something that sounded cool, easy to pronounce and generaly make it seem bigger and badder than Tyrannosaurus.
  • There actually are standard nomenclatures for crossbreds and lab-hybridised organisms. Trouble is, such terms typically name each contributing species in sequence, which for a Mix-and-Match Critter abomination like the I. rex means you'd have a name that's twenty-odd words long. Indominus is a whole lot easier to say.

I. rex Paddock

• In the scene where the Indominus escapes why do the handlers open that giant gate rather than go back through the human-sized doors they came in? Why do they even have that giant gate if the Indominus never leaves the paddock?
  • Only the one guard opens the main gate, and that's because he's in a blind panic about his co-workers running towards the I. rex — something that's not too unreasonable! As for the gate's existence, well the dinosaur will have to be removed at some point (even if only for medical reasons perhaps? Or to dispose of it when it dies of natural causes.) so the park would need a way to remove it, or get large equipment inside the cage.
  • The gate was probably there to easily transport the I. rex out when it is deemed safe to display in the park (remember, Masrani only wanted her to just be the star attraction). As for the one guard and Owen running back to the door, it's kinda justified. Owen was there for the first time so he might not know that there was a gate so he ordered them to run back to the door, the one guard who followed him probably did so in blind panic. The other guard, the one on security duty at the paddock, realised that he couldn't run back to the door fast enough so he took the quick way out through the gate that he already knew was there.
  • He actually runs for the larger (back) door because he sees what Owen and the other guy don't: Indominus is blocking the way. So he ran in the direction she wasn't. His being slow and chubby probably did contribute to his decision to go for the closer exit, but they do make it clear he sees Indominus between them and the farther door.
  • I took it as a sign of the I. rex's intellect that it positioned itself between the only two exits in the pen. The humans couldn't reach the small exit behind her, leaving the gate the only possible escape. She probably was planning for them to open it.
  • Problem is she hasn't ever seen it open so there is no way she knew it was a door or even what the concept of a door was since it was stuck in there from birth and never left.
  • Another problem is the movie clearly shows the T. rex paddock 9 with a smarter double gate design but the known to be more dangerous I. rex has just a single door facilitating an easy escape. Why build a taller wall when you don't have the right door?
  • The I. rex paddock is likely a temporary enclosure isolated from far from the park while the rex paddock is a permanent one that is constantly surrounded by visitors every day. Budget cuts might be involved and let's not discount the possibility that someone within InGen, like Hoskins, was setting up an inevitable breakout condition.

Trained killer dinosaurs

• Did anyone else think Wu and Hoskin's attempts to make and sell weaponised dinosaurs to be the dumbest thing out there? Ironically, animals that are used to fight and kill such as bulls, pit bulls, and fighting cocks, are very docile around their handlers. This is for the simple fact that keeping around something that will turn against you at the slightest opportunity and/or continues to kill without obeying orders defeats the purpose of keeping them in the first place. Even being raised from eggs and given the opportunity to imprint from a young age still didn't prevent the raptor pack from turning their aggression on Owen or even disobeying his orders completely when they sided with the I. rex later. And as for the I. rex, that thing was just a disaster waiting to happen. At least it makes sense for Wu to genetically engineer it to be more intelligent since it would make it easier to follow orders, but to then take it and stuff it into a tiny enclosure, let it eat its sister without trying to intervene, and then leave it there by itself for years without any opportunity for enrichment or to imprint on a human handler just beggars belief. Additionally, did Hoskins and Wu not consider the costs of trying to maintain the dinosaurs' health like keeping them fed and making sure they don't develop PTSD or anxiety from the stress (symptoms commonly associated with war dogs), might outweigh the benefits of putting them out into the midst of battle? Just how much meat would the military have to keep on hand to make sure the I. rex is suitably well fed? If we couldn't train lions and bears to fight for us, who in their right mind would think a bunch of vicious raptors would make a better option?
  • The main reason is the overall theme of the series: human arrogance. We assume that because we created a thing, it is within our control. But a genetically-engineered animal, even one that we have created whole-cloth for our own purposes, is still an animal, with its own drives, desires, and instincts. Hoskins and Wu likely assumed (incorrectly) that just because humans created I. rex, she would somehow be aware of this and respond to her creators. Also, as mentioned, Hoskins was putting far too much faith in Owen's limited success with the raptors. This shown clearly in the scene in which Owen saves the handler who fell in to the raptor paddock. Everyone else recognises it as a narrowly-averted disaster, Hoskins is smirking like everything's coming up roses. All that having been said, raptors and I. rex would indeed make formidable military weapons, if they could be trained to be as obedient as modern military dogs (not likely.) Even without that kind of training, dropping a pack of raptors at one end of a hostile nation and an I. rex or two on the other and seeing which got to the middle first would be pretty damn effective.
  • Actually training dinosaurs for combat is a pretty stupid idea. They're only useful in close range situations. How many fights these days are at arms length? Not to mention the fact that someone armed with a rifle could take out a raptor at longer ranges. Strangely in the movies firearms are almost always useless to the point that you wonder how did humans ever become the dominant species. The I. rex could probably take rifle fire but a well placed shot from an anti-tank weapon would bring it down fast. One other practical problem releasing man eating creatures in a country is a public relations disaster waiting to happen. They're incredibly hard to control and might turn against you at a moment's notice, in real life armies avoid using lions or tigers for these very same reasons. It would make the controversy over drones seem trivial by comparison. Feeding them would be an issue since they would probably require more than a human on an average day. Lastly most soldiers would not like working alongside something that would turn against them just because it's hungry so you would have morale issues with the troops who would have an extra problem on their hands.
  • Movie firearms are only useless against dinosaurs in the Jurassic Park universe. Creatures that we know so little about compared to other animals living today (and that's not counting the fact they're hybrids technically). As seen in the movies and novels, dinosaurs like raptors are notoriously hard to kill due the fact they move so fast and are Made of Iron (at one point, it takes a well-aimed rocket projectile to kill one raptor). These are not real animals. They are, as Grant puts it, genetically modified theme park "monsters" and if they had been more accurate to the original source, they would be completely different creatures. And Vic Hoskins is a short-sighted man. He only stood on the shoulders of people who actually know how to train raptors (they find his idea to be a stupid one), and then he took the next step without any sense of responsibility. He tries to accomplish that potential as fast as he could and before he even knew what he had, he patented it, packaged it, slapped it on a plastic lunchbox, and now is selling it.
  • Doc Wu is more of a punch-clock villain now. As long as he gets paid, he doesn't care if the creatures he churns out of his lab eat one guy or 100. As for Hoskins, he is a corrupt corporate exce type holding a massive idiot ball. InGen's plans for the dinosaurs most likely was for the long run, but Hoskins wanted quicker profits and to use the dinos as soon as possible, not listening to experts claiming that the animals were NOT anywhere near ready to be used like that.
  • Hoskins says that the whole basis of using dinosaurs in the military is because drones and AI would be shut down and rendered useless the moment a "real war" starts. A "real war" would be thermonuclear world war. At that point, there would be no turning back, and the only humans who would survive would be ragged, isolated communities more concerned with just defending their homes than waging war with animals, whom they'd need to feed, house and train every day. Your basic guard dog would become infinitely more valuable. Hoskins is planning for a day long after a "real war", after which he, Ingen, and capitalism itself would be long since a thing of the destroyed past. Yes, humans have always used animals in war. But that is predominantly herbivorous animals, or dogs we've spent literal thousands of years breeding for the purpose of domestication. Not to mention, this "real war" would destroy all the infrastructure and research needed to continue making newer, more controllable hybrids like the Indoraptor. There is still a ton of advantages of replacing human boots on the ground with robots and AI that does not then necessitate, "Oh we should use raptors instead."
• Actually, if a dinosaur of raptor /I-Rex intelligence could be engineered to be more docile, they could be highly effective, for very much the same reason dogs are still used today: dog noses are still invaluable assets against anything hidden. So not so much open combat as SPECOPS/COIN/counter-terrorism. And compared to dogs, they would have two important advantages: resillience and intimidation factor. This, of course, assumes that they could be engineered to be as docile as dogs, which is far from a given.

Feeding the Raptors

• In the first scene with the raptor pack, if Blue is the beta, why was she fed last? With most pack hunters, the leaders of the pack eat their fill, and then the lesser members get whatever is left. She should have been fed first to acknowledge her rank within the pack.
  • Because Owen is technically the leader, and he feeds them in reverse order, youngest to oldest, probably to reinforce that he's the one in charge and controls the meals.
  • You may also notice, he gives her the largest rat. Saving the best for last, as they say.
  • It may have been an attempt to encourage more social and altruistic behavioural changes and less aggressive-dominance behaviour.
  • And he may have been using that sequence to test for, and discourage, infighting: if one of the more dominant raptors tries to snatch up food tossed to a subordinate, he can chastise her and not give her a reward herself. If she's a good girl and waits patiently, she gets her own treat on schedule. If he fed the dominant ones first, there'd be no motivation for them not to steal an underling's food in addition to their own.
  • But, if the dominant one went for the subordinate's food, how would he be able to stop her from doing that right then and there? Or do you mean, regular food vs special treats.
  • Take a closer look at the rats he's tossing them. The one he saves for Blue is clearly the largest of the "treats".

Capture Team Equipment

• Was the capture team ever trained and drilled in capturing the larger predators? The seemed to be using the same equipment for the I. rex as they did for smaller dinosaurs. Back in the original book Muldoon said that the effects of an animal tranquiliser depend on the animal's size and temperament. He then shot Rexy with enough tranqs to kill an elephant and the rex didn't feel it until two hours later. When going up against an enormous and hyper-aggressive carnivore, they should have known that they'd need bigger and more powerful equipment.
  • In one scene, one member shot a net-gun that covered the I. rex's mouth with net, and it took a few seconds for it to get it off, and that's because it has longer arms than the T. rex and is... well... smarter than most dinosaurs. Other equipment are questionable, though, but given that the park stayed safe for at least a decade without any major dinosaur breakout, maybe they know how to do their job professionally. So they probably thought that capturing the I. rex would just be another assignment (remember, few key people in Jurassic World truly know what it's really capable of) so they brought in only the standard equipment that worked fine for them so far.
  • But the darts that were used on the T. rex in the book were 1000 cc capacity. That's a full liter per dart, and Muldoon shot it twice (and again, Rexy didn't fall asleep for another two hours). They should have been firing darts the size of soda bottles at the I. rex, which would not have fit in the tranq guns that they were using. The guns they had fired darts that work just fine on a pterosaur after one shot or on a loose pachy or stego after half a dozen or so, but the I. rex is ten tons of pure mean. With darts that small they'd need to hit it a hundred times, and it would be able to rampage for several hours before slowing down. Why weren't there bigger dart guns available for the larger and more aggressive animals?
  • That's from the novel, which the film franchise is notably different in many regards ^note Such as the fact the novel bothers to include the little detail about Nedry putting on heavy gloves before taking the embryos from the cooling chamber which the film curiously omits . If we look at The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Roland Tembo manages to tranquilise a full-grown male Tyrannosaurs, which goes down in minutes based on the timeframe, with nothing more than an average rifle and tranquilising dart that is no wider than a cylinder test tube. It stands to reason that the ACU used those kind of tranquilising tools against the I. rex, as it would be easier to carry than a rocker launcher.
  • I don't think those darts even penetrated it's hide. Given the amount of times they unleash small arms on it and do nothing, the I. rex is almost certainly tougher than your average big dino. Being bulletproof is likely yet another one of those unexpected side effects.
• They had to have a contingency plan for any species in the park, with the exception of the new freak monster thing. But when the ACU team switches to live firearms for the raptor-team hunt, why are they carrying mostly assault rifles? Weapons chambered in 5.56mm NATO are usually considered to be 'not enough rifle' for anything bigger than deer. I. rex is bad enough, but what about dealing with one of the big herbivores? Granted, repeated hits will bring anything down (except for bulletproof skin), but any 'weapons-free' situation would mean an incredibly dangerous animal, and you would want to end the threat as close to instantly as possible. They should be literally loaded for bear. Where are the big game rifles?
  • It is possible that the rifles use a larger round, we just never see it because the art director never thought of it. I can imagine in a novelisation that they would use a larger weapon or one specially designed to kill large animals quickly.

Gyrosphere Employee

• This was brought up by "When Dinosaurs Ruled The Mind" (plug), but how exactly did a teenage boy get a Burger Fool-style job at Jurassic World? I know he's supposed to be a spoof on the stereotypical teen working menial labour at an amusement park to scrounge up some cash... but therein lies the problem; those kinds of characters normally work in amusement parks that are at most downtown from their homes. Jurassic World is on an island off the coast of Costa Rica, and it requires an airplane and a ferry to get to! It's not just some day job you can just walk/drive to and from!
  • Relative of a permanent park employee?
  • Who's to say they don't have permanent residence buildings on the island? And if not the Jurassic World island, one of the other nearby ones? Any and all supplies or changes of personnel could be set up between them, as well as to/from the mainland.
  • Walt Disney World has the Disney College Program, where students from all over the world come to work at the Parks. And there is housing for them as well. It's not entirely implausible for Jurassic World to have a similar setup.
  • To be fair, the actor, Matty Cardarople, was over 30 at the time of this film, so it's possible that the character wasn't actually meant to be a teenager.

Thermal Sensing

• After breaking out and destroying the capture team, I. rex heads for the resort. Why? Well, because it can sense thermal radiation, so all the people in the resort attract its attention. But wait, isn't the resort several miles away from the I. rex's pen? I know it's a super-powered hybrid, but how does it detect human body heat at such an incredible distance? Even the heat of 20,000 people shouldn't make a difference at that range.
  • Even with infrared (thermal), concentrated readings - ie the humans at the resort - tend to be brighter and picked up over larger distances than a single reading at the same distance. From a distance of several miles, it might still have looked small, but it's a definite improvement from not seeing that far at all.
  • Also the I. rex is supposed to be a bioweapon so maybe Dr Wu gave her the ability to sense heat signatures from really far away. It would be really useful in a military context such as scouting and given Dr Wu's expertise in genetic manipulation he might know how to enhance her senses.
  • I figure the I. rex follows the scent trail of the humans back to their headquarters, and from there more scents lead her to the rest of the park. Thermal sensing is not her only way of tracking prey.
  • There's another aspect to this. Claire's commentary to Masrani would seem to indicate that the I. rex can sense the body heat of the people in the viewing room. This despite the fact that glass is more or less opaque to infrared radiation.
  • This probably falls under some combination of the writers didn't know glass is more or less opaque to infrared or assumed the average movie goer wouldn't. Movies are constantly showing infrared being able to see through anything shy of concrete.
    • That bit of dialogue is confusing for a different reason — Masrani asks if she can see them and Claire brings up thermal radiation, but the shot from inside the pen shows that both characters can be seen clearly through the glass. Like, the I. rex has EYES, people. Of course it can see you, it's normal clear two-way glass. That's how windows work.
    • That's presuming the eyes work on the light spectrum and not, for instance, based on heat or movement, like a snake's or like the T. rex's vision was in the first movie.
    • Glass is opaque to midwave and longwave IR radiation. Shortwave IR goes through just fine.

There are no walls

• Once I. rex gets out, it can apparently go anywhere without trouble. There are no walls in this place, aside from the wall on I. rex's cage. There are no electric fences like we saw in the first movie. This whole thing is a disaster waiting to happen! Halfway through the movie, I. rex heads for the resort, and everyone panics because it's gonna eat all the people. But wait a minute. Isn't there some kind of wall around the resort? Something to keep out the dinosaurs? Remember: I. rex didn't actually scale the wall of her pen; she only escaped via trickery. So theoretically we could all just stay in the resort, calmly waiting around until evacuation is complete, safe in the knowledge that I. rex can't hurt us in the meantime. (Though the pteradons would still be a problem.) But apparently the resort has no barrier wall (or else it has a wall but it's utterly useless against the I. rex).
  • In all fairness, with the I. rex's height, she could have climbed most of the park's walls with only some difficulty - plus, we barely say any of the perimeters of said areas; it's likely they were there, and the camera simply didn't allow us to see them.
  • They apparently aren't completely wall free, but it's easy to miss the mentions. Invisible walls are discussed twice, once in the control room and once between the kids in the gyrosphere. The kids enter the restricted area through a broken fence when they are tooling around in the gyrosphere as well, which has presumably been broken by I. rex.
  • Plus the invisible walls aren't much good when the implant that makes them effective has been torn out.

Get the kids to safety

• Once Owen and Claire are finally reunited with the kids, Owen agrees to help kill the I. rex using raptors. Claire protects the kids by... putting them in a van. And yes, it's an armoured van, but is that really the best she can do? Shouldn't she put them indoors somewhere? Like the control room, perhaps? She could go with them, even. Or hey, maybe take the boys to the ferry so they can actually leave the island instead of staying in danger all the time.
  • The idea is that the raptors would find the I. rex (who's a good distance away at the time they're in the van, mind you), and then they + the other guys would take her down; if things went wrong, they'd drive away, which would be just fast enough to outrun them all. Yes, it'd be the smart thing to get further away or even off the island beforehand, but this isn't the franchise for that.
  • With who-know-how-many rampaging pterosaurs still on the loose, who's to say that the ferry is any safer than a ground vehicle?

Air support

• You know a great way to kill an I. rex? Attack it from the air. It can't fly, so it can't fight back. They try this once in the movie, which fails because of Pteranodons. But why not try again? We know for a fact that's not their only helicopter, because there's a scene later on when emergency security guys are brought in via chopper. One of them casually kills a pteranodon mid-air, even. So hey, why not use that helicopter when you're hunting the I. rex later on? The pteranodons are apparently all dead or unconscious by that point, so they shouldn't be a problem.
  • The I. rex can camouflage itself; the moment she heard chopper blades approaching, she'd hide, due to her experience with the machine gun, and her ability to learn. They needed the raptor's sense of smell just to find her properly.
  • But once the raptors find her, you can just shoot her with the guys on the helicopter (and notice that when they actually do find her, she doesn't even bother with the camouflage.)
  • It's already dark by the time the mercenaries set up shop properly, and the I. rex hid itself deep in the jungle where lots of tree block the line of sight. Sure, the raptors can find it with little problem, but spreading fire from the chopper's minigun when the visibility is low could make a "friendly fire" on the raptors as well, something Owen definitely doesn't want. Also, we don't know if all ptersoaurs were recaptured or neutralised. For all we know, there might be a few more of them left out there, and hunting in the dark while being defenceless in the air is not exactly a good idea. Unless they use heat-seeking missiles (if they even have them), of course.
  • Some of the pterosaurs fell into the lagoon when being tranquilised. If not retrieved later, they probably became a nice little feast for the Mosasaurus or otherwise drowned.
  • Those "emergency security guys" were brought in by InGen by Hoskins' orders, they were not part of the Park's staff and that chopper most likely was InGen's too. Hoskins was too enamoured with his harebrained plan to hunt the I. rex using the Raptors, and thus did not want to kill the creature using other means.
  • Another point is that they only had one minigun which was destroyed when the first helicopter went down so they probably don't have another gun that can bring down the Indominus rex. Also maybe the Indominus rex has even more special abilities to counter a helicopter that only Hoskins is aware of so sending another helicopter won't do anything. For example, the dinosaur could always just pick up a rock or log and throw it at the helicopter.

Hiding Behind a Truck vs. Returning to the Control Room

• Where Nick goes after making it through the gate doesn't make much sense. He could've simply run to the right, around the corner and up the stairs and been safe in the reinforced control room once more. Instead, for some reason he chooses to run straight ahead, out into the open, and take shelter behind a pickup truck. Owen choosing to get under a crane instead of returning to the control room makes sense; Indominus rex was right on his ass and so he had no time. But Nick has no such excuse. Unlike Owen he had plenty of time after making it through the doors to run around the corner to the stairs. So why didn't he?
  • He panicked and went for the nearest object he could hide behind. He also clearly wasn't in good shape and likely didn't think or couldn't have gotten up the stairs fast enough to the control room.

Other Paddock 11 Workers

• When Claire brings Owen to Paddock 11, we see several construction workers in orange vests milling around. They're glimpsed again later when Nick opens the gate to escape, and again when Owen runs out and slides underneath the crane. But once Indominus is out and sniffing around for victims, the workers are all gone. Where'd they all go? Clearly, they ran off because that's exactly what they're shown doing when Owen is doing his dramatic jump through the closing door, but they can't have made it far before Indominus got out, meaning she should've ignored the hiding Owen and Nick and pursued them instead. But for whatever reason it seems like Owen and Nick are suddenly the only people in the vicinity.
  • They had a decent headstart unlike Owen, and unlike Nick, most of them would probably have been in shape to run away or at least out of the Indominus direct line of sight.
  • If the workers ran off to the sides, which they presumably did, they'd be safe enough from I. rex, since she seems to just head more or less straight out from the gate... which unfortunately happens to be where Nick has bunkered down in front of that jeep. Oddly enough, Owen would have been in pretty plain view of her when he slides in under the crane (though it stands to reason she was distracted by forcing open the gate at the time), but considering she does make a point of sniffing under it, perhaps he just got lucky with the scent masking trick. After that, she just wanders out into the surrounding jungle.

Other Paddock 11 Workers: Part II

• Another concern with regard to these men is, well, they were working outside the very wall Indominus is supposed to have climbed over. And yet it never occurs to anyone — not Claire, Owen, or Nick — to ask them, "Hey, did you guys happen to see the giant genetically engineered nightmare beast climb over the wall?" The question shouldn't have been "How did she get out?" but "How did she get out with no one seeing her do it?" and, even if she does feel the need to drive all the way back to central control, Claire should've at least quizzed the Joe Sixpacks milling around the place. But nobody is questioned. She just hops in her car and speeds off. And Owen and especially Nick, the guy supposedly in command, should've thought to question these men as well.
  • Presumably, I. rex put her "plan" into action overnight when nobody was around. The wall scratches were in plain view from the viewing room (part of it, at least) so she'd have been seen making them if there was a guard on duty at the time. Claire acts pretty unintelligently around this though, speeding off as she does rather than contacting anyone straight away, which would have been a more logical step than running out into potentially hazardous conditions (if not in the paddock, I. rex is out there somewhere!). And actually, there are cameras in the paddock too, nobody thought to check those (presumably they record).
  • There was no overnight. Claire took Masrani to the paddock, they both saw the I. rex, then Claire went to see Owen and they both went to the paddock. All that would've been at most a few hours.
  • Union-mandated lunch break.
  • Amusing, but surprisingly plausible: remember, Indominus is incredibly intelligent. She may well have come to recognise when certain noises were being made outside her pen and when they weren't and correctly assume that no one was there. Each new revelation and bit of Fridge Logic just makes Indominus even scarier.
  • In all seriousness though, whenever there's a lunch break, there should always be relief cover for it too.

I. rex Tracking Implant: Part II

• Okay, so it's been established that Indominus rex has a tracking implant. Why on God's green Earth can't the control room at the paddock track it, and only the main control room at park headquarters? Essentially the question is: why are the dinosaurs tracked only from a central hub and not at the places they're kept as well?
  • Presumably to cut corners in order to maintain profits and a stable cost margin. Despite the improvements, there might some places where they could not "Spare No Expense".
  • Bigger problem is that none of the workers including Owen called the control room before entering the paddock. Why she drives off to call the control room when there is a landline, radio on their shoulders, tablets everywhere, ... in the paddock observation room is headscratching.
  • Well, cell and radio reception has been shown to be really bad, especially when I. rex is around. Also, Claire may be panicking slightly, knowing how dangerous I. rex has been in her enclosure, and acting on a near-unconscious instinct to get to the place she feels safest and most in control: the control room. She does call them on the way, instead of waiting to tell them in person to start tracking the I. rex, so give her some credit.
  • Furthermore, Claire is the park manager, meaning she's part of the crisis management team and is getting where she's needed as soon as she can.

New Alpha

• The raptors instantly accepting I. rex as a new alpha seems a pretty implausible scenario. Even within the same species, one group of animals instantly accepting another as a leader without at least some conflict is very rare. To recognise and follow the authority of another species (outside of some domesticated animals responding to humans — and trained or not, the raptors were not domesticated), is nigh-unheard of, and it almost certainly wouldn't happen in the way it's shown in the film. At the very least, there'd be a lot more roaring and posturing, and probably a fight. It has been established in previous films that the raptors have a fairly complex vocal communication system, but it's still unlikely that this would be enough to make them suddenly turn on familiar creatures over the huge, new stranger. The obvious reason for this was to create tension and have the raptors become a threat, but this could be done easily enough with something as simple as one of the humans getting an itchy trigger finger and shooting a raptor accidentally. About the only thing working in the event's favour was just how tentative the raptors' relationship with the humans was to begin with.
  • "Itchy trigger finger" is exactly what happened; the raptors did not turn immediately, they were looking to Owen for orders on what to do with this new creature that is more or less just like them, but bigger. Hoskins, not realising this, ordered his men to open fire, spooking the raptors into siding with the I. rex and retaliating against the people trying to kill them.
  • (OP here) Hmm. I must have missed that. I remember that happening, but I remember Owen whispering about the "new alpha" before that happened. I do still think that it's a bit far-fetched for the raptors to follow the I. rex, even if they did turn on the humans, but if that's the way it played out then it's at least a teensy bit more plausible.
  • I imagine when Owen said 'new alpha', he didn't mean 'the raptors are following a new alpha', he meant more 'the raptors have a new alpha to contend with'. In packs, when that happens, the first thing that's supposed to happen is a fight between the two alphas (challenge and all that) — Hoskin's men just forced them to react defensively. And because Owen was part of that (forced to after they started shooting, yet still), he essentially forfeited his position, officially. However, the bond remained even after that, which is why they changed sides again later; Owen was still trustworthy as Alpha, but the I. rex was not.
  • Also, many animals in the wild don't actually fight for dominance; instead, they posture and threaten, and the one that's more threatening wins. The raptors are smart enough to realise that the I. rex is tougher than they are.
  • Not only that, Owen knows the I. rex is tougher than he is. If a challenge on the part of the old alpha is required (and given his experience Owen may or may not know that) there is nothing he can do in that crucial moment to cause the I. rex to back down, or otherwise assure his pack that he is still the superior animal. The raptors look up to him because he raised them. He is not their equal or superior in any meaningful way. He can't pull rank on the I. rex because they don't have that connection. He's not bigger than it is. He's not louder than it is. He might not even be SMARTER than it is. The instant that I. rex decides to put in for the alpha position, Owen has no option but to tender his resignation. The raptors, thinking that he is the biggest, baddest Mommy of them all, may submit as a reaction or just out of confusion. And when the shooting starts, there's no more time for negotiation anyway.
  • Owen is the one who brings up the idea of the I. rex being the raptors' new alpha but there isn't anything to indicate that the raptors themselves see the I. rex as an alpha. They are clearly uncertain and hesitant to attack it, after all they were led out on a hunt and instead found the I. rex which is not a prey creature but a larger predator that looks and sounds similar to themselves and confuses their normal instincts. They don't know if this creature is a new pack member or foe so they look back to Owen, their alpha, for guidance on what to do. Then a bunch of strange humans with itchy trigger fingers open fire and the raptors react defensively by going on the offence whilst the I. rex reacts by running away. Their very different reactions would indicate that the raptor pack and the I. rex are not working together on this. When they encounter the I. rex a second time they again are uncertain and hesitant to attack and look to their alpha for guidance on what to do and follow his lead when it's clear both by, the behaviour of Owen and the I. rex that the I. rex is hostile. There isn't any indication that the raptors see the I. rex as their alpha, but rather just that they don't know what to make of it.
  • Even if the I. rex actually hadn't taken over the pack, Owen's control over them had clearly been disrupted to the point where they'd no longer pay attention to him. Which means that either the I. rex was their "new alpha", or Blue was.

"No, we mean him"

• This has bothered me since I first saw the film, but why on earth do Zach and Gray want to stay with Owen over Claire, when all they've seen of Owen is that he got attacked by a pterosaur, which Claire then dealt with with some brutal efficiency, and then he drove a car backwards? There's no reason for them to assume that they'd be safer with Owen.
  • They may have seen him take down the other pterosaurs earlier with the rest of ACU as they were running towards him and Claire, the only reason Owen was knocked down was because he was too busy trying to save them to notice the pterosaur behind him. It isn't that hard to stop a pterosaur when there is a gun next to you and it is attacking someone else (who is holding it there). Given that Owen is the one holding the gun he probably knows how to use it better than Claire and an armed person would have a better chance of getting you out of Jurassic World alive. In addition they know Claire is the park manager but given that Owen has a gun they might assume he works in the security department. With the driving backwards part, Owen does tell Claire to get the kids somewhere safe, but she just stands there and doesn't move until Owen starts running towards the car and he drives them to safety. Which suggests that she is not used to dealing with situations like this unlike Owen (who as we know deals with dangerous dinosaurs on a daily basis and is more likely to keep his wits around them).
  • Mostly because the movie is intent on mocking and belittling Claire at every turn, even when it doesn't make sense. The film up to that point villainises and mocks her for not being emotionally involved with her nephews, and then, when she does express emotional concern for them, the movie mocks her for that, too.
  • Disagree, she is portrayed as a woman who has (extremely successfully) chosen career over family. I don't see that as mocking, merely realistically representing a choice she made rather than portraying a magical ability to do both. I actually like the fact that her Action Girl-ness was shown by her being a super businesswoman and using her head in bringing out the T. rex rather than every other goofball movie out there that insists on showing women throwing one-punch knockouts left and right.
  • ^YMMV (and sorta irrelevant anyway). It's more likely that Claire's nephews, even after they saw her newer side (namely 'actual' concern for them), would expect her to continue to behave like she has before. A sorta impulse reaction, if nothing else, knowing what to expect — they have no reason to expect that she'll continue this new side (if she does, great, but just in case and all that).
  • The kids, despite seeing Claire's recent badass credentials, still have a certain view of her that they've held all their lives... that of fussy Aunt Claire who doesn't know how old they are and spends all her time in meetings. That doesn't just vanish in one hail of gunfire, no matter what anyone says. However, they only know Owen via his badass credentials, so they cling to him.
  • And on a more practical level, at the time the boys say that, Owen happens to be the one who's carrying all the guns. Claire gave the rifle back to him immediately after using it to fend off the pterosaur, which rather implies she doesn't have the skill or experience to reliably, consistently fire the darned thing even if Owen gave it back to her. After having been attacked and chased over and over, the kids are only being sensible to want to stick with the firepower.

Why no implants?

• Why is I. rex and the Pachycephalosaurus (the two species which are explicitly shown to be able to bypass the things) the only two dinosaurs who are equipped with shock implants? Why don't the raptors have any? They could've had the control center neutralise the raptors the moment they turned on the team. Why don't the pteranodons and other flyers have any? The flock could've been neutralised before reaching the park. And don't say "Well the flyers were contained in a dome, so no need for that!" because someone had to enter that dome clean the dino poop in there once a week.
  • All dinosaur species have implants whose purposes are to track them and shock them if they get too close to a perimeter fence. If a dinosaur does not get too close to a fence then the implant won't kick in. The raptors are extremely dangerous so they definitely have implants but if you can immobilise them with the implants why do you need ACU? How can you tell how much electricity you need to incapacitate the animal in question? Too little and it will simply keep moving, too much and you've just killed a multi million dollar animal. Management won't allow a valuable animal to be experimented on to find out as they risk the animal dying and there would be screams of animal cruelty. ACU used a mixture of tranquilisers, stun spears and nets to try to capture the Indominus rex and used too low a dosage/voltage as it didn't stop her. Against the pterosaurs they appeared to use tranquilisers and they might not have cared about the dosage given the guests lives were in jeopardy or else maybe they knew how much to use from previous experiences. As for the bit about the pterosaurs being in a dome maybe their poop degrades, or it is eaten by insects or they poop in a river which washes it away. Live fish could be dispensed once a week into the dome by making a small opening in the enclosure so they cannot escape but get fed. Also if people do go in to clean the poop maybe the pterosaurs know them, have bonded with them and won't attack them.
  • I don't know about the pterosaurs, but the raptors probably lack implants because Owen wouldn't approve of people shocking his raptors.
  • I personally believe that the pterosaurs implants were shocking them, but they ignored the shocks because of the state of panic they were in. Additionally, they never clarify exactly how intense the shocks are supposed to be. It's unlikely that the shocks would be strong enough to actually injure or incapacitate the animals, as this would not only face moral objections but would be terrible publicity for the park due to implications of animal cruelty ("Come to Jurassic World! Don't worry about the animals escaping because if they do, we'll shock 'em until they become fried chicken!").
  • Shocking an animal doesn't just cause pain, it causes temporary muscle spasms. That's not harmful in the long term for an animal on the ground, but for an animal that's flying at the time, it's likely to cause a bone-breaking crash. If any park assets would be equipped with non-shock implants only, it'd be the pterosaurs.

Why did Masrani hire Claire as operations manager for his park?

• The thing I don't get is why would someone like Masrani who shares John Hammond's vision for a dinosaur park hire someone like Claire who doesn't (at least at first) want to run it? Claire does do well on the financial side e.g. she successfully pitched for corporate sponsorship for the park. However, initially, she does not seem to consider the dinosaurs as living creatures, referring to them as "assets". Lowery and Owen both have to remind her that they are living organisms with their own free will and emotions, and when speaking to them she comes across as indifferent to the fact that the Pachycephalosaurus has just been heavily drugged and may be distressed, or that the Indominus rex has not had a healthy upbringing and may be disturbed. Masrani shows more consideration as to the animals' well-being (it is the first thing he asks her) and he has to remind her that he is not too concerned about the finances when Claire brings it up as the park is still making a profit and they are working on renewing public interest. She doesn't seem to have kept Masrani in the loop about the warnings that the Indominus rex is extremely dangerous either (she attacks the handlers and must be fed with a crane, her enclosure needs to be bigger to contain her and she ate her sibling). Neither does she consider consulting Owen or anyone else in the park who works regularly with the dinosaurs as to how the I. rex should be raised and whether she is safely contained (Masrani has to tell her to do that) as she is content by the fact that she has the best engineers in the world, even though some of the other dinosaurs have been known to escape from their enclosures. One gets the feeling that the I. rex's sociopathy and rampage could have been prevented if Claire had given some thought as to how the future mascot of the park should be raised. Claire would have been better suited to managing the park's finances and giving the role of managing the dinosaurs to someone else perhaps splitting the role up or having someone else run the park and have those two report to them.
  • Yin-Yang. As much as Masrani says he doesn't care about profits, he's smart enough to know he can't run Jurassic World at a loss, and that he needs someone with her eye on the ball. Claire is that someone. She's concerned with profits and losses, things Masrani doesn't claim to care about. Given his personality in the film, it's likely that Masrani's success as a businessman is due to his ability to dream big, then find people who can handle the mundane details for him.
  • For the record, this is pretty much Richard Branson's strategy, and it seems to work for him. There's also the possibility that Masrani's persona is in part an act, as demonstrated the 'gregarious, bunny eared billionaire' thing has won him massive loyalty from his employees and likely looks pretty convincing on a sales pitch, too.
  • Pretty sure he ain't faking, since he keeps this up when only around people who don't really care, like Claire.

Claire not knowing Owen is at the park?

• When Masrani mentions that he wants Owen to observe the I. rex, she says she didn't know he was at Jurassic World. But she's shown to know the park in almost micromanaging levels. And the raptor set up wasn't new. Owen's clearly been there for a bit. How did she not know he was there?
  • The Velociraptor project has nothing to do with the park itself and has zero commercial applications. There's no reason for Claire, committed to running the business side of Jurassic World, to know the details of the operation other than that they're based on the same island.
  • Actually, she says, "I know who he is," which is ambiguous. She neither confirms nor denies that she knew he was there, only that she knew him.
  • Claire is the Assets Manager, in charge of the actual business side of things, the PR, the income, all the stuff that makes or loses money. The raptors aren't accessible to the public at all, so are outside of her main remit and interest. Given their 'date' before she probably knows who he is, just not what he actually does.

Criminal Proceedings

• Given the large number of deaths and injuries incurred in the movie, would Claire and other senior members of Park management like Wu be facing any jail time once an investigation has been held?
  • Someone would simply for the public interest (no one would buy 'it was an accident') but the three clear culprits are Masrani, Claire and Wu. As Wu fled the island, built the thing, and failed to reveal it's full potential he's an easy scapegoat. The company would shoulder the financial cost of lawsuits. Claire would likely escape prosecution but would have a lot of trouble finding a new job, given that she's the most senior member of the park administration left to blame internally.
  • Wu appears to have gone on the lam, but he also left behind direct evidence of his involvement in the I. rex's rampage, which Claire could easily use against him. Either way, though, she'll likely face some hot water if Zara's family and/or fiancee decides to press charges against her.
  • I'm not entirely sure that Claire is as high up as some of us seem to be assuming. She seems very much more a PR and marketing person than, you know, actually in charge of containment. When the I. rex breaks out, Masrani turns up and is in the control room, presumably taking charge, when Owen barges in and says the team is going to die. Whenever Claire talks about the park, it's always guest stats, attendance, and new attractions. She is shown to know/care very little about the animals themselves. And the biggest indicators are when Hoskins mentions what he's doing with the samples being "above [Claire's] pay grade", and when Owen asks her what's in the I. rex and she doesn't know. Which kind of says to me that she's very much second-tier in the chain of command. If anyone is accountable, it's Wu or Masrani — possibly moreso Wu considering his involvement and obvious motive for a crisis at the park, considering his deal with Hoskins.
  • We do know Claire's position in the park. She was hired as Assets Manager, and by the time of the movie she had become Operations Director. She was more or less in charge of making the park work as intended, so she certainly was one or two steps above being a PR and marketing person. Masrani takes over because, well, he owns the park. And Dr. Wu quite obviusly was allowed a lot of freedom in his work, considering that Masrani himself (again, the guy who owns the park) also wasn't entirely aware of his doings.
  • Whomever it was among the military's upper echelons who'd authorised Hoskins' little bioweapon-development scheme will probably have his ass handed to him by congressional investigators, too. There's bound to have been a lot of American tourists killed or injured in that debacle, and nobody's going to be able to hush up twenty thousand vacationers' voices and cell phone videos of attacking pterosaurs. Especially not when the park's Operations Director and chief animal handler are eager to testify against everyone involved.
  • The sequels make it look as though Claire and Wu got to keep on doing their respective things without getting into hot water.

I. rex and Isla Sorna

• Why wasn't the Indominus rex bred on Isla Sorna if it was supposed to be the factory floor? Wouldn't it have been much safer for the visitors and the animals in the park area and the rest of Isla Nublar?
  • I think you're getting your movies confused. Isla Sorna was the main production site (for lack of a better phrase) for the dinosaurs for the original Jurassic Park, but was later abandoned. After the events of The Lost World, the island was declared a restricted area and nature preserve. Isla Nublar in Jurassic World is used to both produce dinosaurs and to show them to the public.

Where are the male dinosaurs?

• What happened to the male dinosaurs? Didn't they reproduce too much with the frog genes in previous movies to have exclusively-female dinosaur population again?
  • I remember hearing that the dinos had a sped-up lifespan, so the male dinos probably all died, and before they reopened the park they probably relocated the dinos to one of the other islands.
  • They refer to one of the Pachycephalosauruses by male pronouns, so apparently some are male.
  • Same troper as above. I take that back. Yes, they do identify a Pachycephalosaurus by a male pronoun, but I just remembered that in the original novel, Wu says they call the T. rex a "he" even though it's female. I know that Jurassic World is not (directly) based on Crichton's book, but still, there's precedent for staff referring to the female dinosaurs by male pronouns (for whatever boneheaded reason), so calling this one Pachy a "he" might not necessarily mean anything.
  • It's not really boneheaded, it's just a reflection of the fact that certain dinosaurs (aggressive ones such as large carnivores and the Pachy's) are more likely to be perceived by the public as male (the visiting public certainly aren't likely to accurately sex them, anyway), while more docile and placid species (many herbivores and perhaps some carnivores if they distinctly get to exhibit a mothering sensibility) would be seen as female. The staff roll with that hazy distinction, especially if their jobs don't directly and frequently involve having to know the actual gender status of the specimens.
  • Alternatively, the female Pachycephalosaurus may not have had the same urge to headbutt rivals (a "Pachy Arena" is mentioned on the dino's page on the park website), so they made the Pachys all male, reasoning they still wouldn't be able to reproduce with each other (or the non-Pachy female animals) and would put on the desired headbutting show.
  • Or, true to form, they corrected their old mistakes despite making a bunch of new ones, and simply opted to neuter their animals the old-fashioned way this time around.

Social Sociopath

• The I. rex is so dangerous in part because it's been in isolation its entire life, has never been socialised, and knows no other way to relate to the outside world other than through violence. Then it seems perfectly social toward the raptor pack, appears to communicate with them just like they do with each other, and gains their loyalty almost instantly. What gives?
  • Being raised in isolation doesn't mean the I. rex didn't learn how to communicate (it had itself and its sibling, the latter for a time, anyways). When it talks to the raptor pack though, it's basically flailing it's way through, as befitting someone's first interaction — as for the raptors, they were confused, and even when they (defensively) turned on the humans, it wasn't out of actual loyalty; just pack behaviour. This is shown later when Owen refuses to hurt them even at the cost of his life, while the I. rex has just shown itself to be unreliable...

Untarnished gyrospheres

• The gyrospheres move by rolling their transparent spherical bodies all over the ground. The grassy, muddy, sometimes wet, always-dirty ground. But they're always perfectly spotless.
  • Considering the fact that this is a park, you can imagine that despite dinosaur interference, the environments are constantly swept/cleaned/what-have-you before the start of the day — if it starts to get bad when the gyrosphere returns during the day, no doubt they have also have temporary cleaning services. Or maybe the gyrospheres are coated with non-stick spray chemicals.
  • There may be cleaning stations where you can drive your gyrosphere around in a pool of cleanser at strategic spots within the paddock, as well as a gyrosphere car-wash at the entry area where you rent them out and return them.

Meyers

• At the conclusion of the ACU's failed attempt to wrangle the I. rex, we see the one female ACU worker, Meyers, being dragged to safety by two other workers. When the scene cuts back to the Innovation Center, Meyers is the only ACU worker who hasn't flatlined. What does this possibly mean? That the two healthy workers probably just left her somewhere they thought was safe and then went back to deal with I. rex and died trying to stop it. Meyers is now injured, alone and potentially defenceless in the middle of the park with an increasing number of dinosaurs running amok.
  • Either that, or the I. rex indeed finished her off and we didn't see or know it because they switched screens in the control room before it happened.
  • Or maybe, more optimistically, she and the other two surviving ACU got out of their gears to patch up their wounds so their lifesigns don't show up on the control room monitor, or their equipment is just broken.
  • We don't see the vitals of the whole team only Meyers and a couple of others. So it is likely that the vitals of the two members dragging her to safety were not visible. Besides, if she was on her own the I. rex would have killed her, more likely the three of them got to a truck and drove off and we didn't see the vitals of the other two.
  • More specifically, there are eight life-sign monitors visible in the control room and the team had more than eight members. The guys who rescued Meyers were either the top-right HUD (we never get a shot of it after the flatlines start) or not visible on the screen.
  • Exactly and as we see that Meyers is still alive the I. rex obviously did not attack her so the two who saved her must be alive as well.
  • Actually, to clarify, Meyers isn't the injured one, unless she's a thin balding man. She's one of the two troopers helping the injured guy.
  • As it turns out, Meyers is neither the injured trooper (a balding man), one of the individuals dragging him away (two men), nor the trooper seen running away in the background (an African-American). So her fate remains up in the air. As does theirs. The shot shows five surviving ACU troopers and none of them are Meyers. This means that after Miller (shotgun guy) gets eaten, there are five ACU troopers unaccounted for, including Meyers.
  • Meyers is later seen at Main Street, along with Austin. She obviously survived being struck by the Indominus' tail just before Spears is eaten.

Bulletproof

• So while reading, I keep running into comments about the I. rex shrugging off bullets, but the only time I remember her getting directly hit by bullet fire was during the fight with the ACU team when they were referred to as using "non-lethal" weapons. Did she shrug off any bullets during the confrontation with Hoskin's men?
  • She did take a few bullets in the confrontation with the ACU, since the last guy she eats, Miller, was the only ACU trooper with an actual gun, a UTAS UTS-15 shotgun; everyone else had net launchers and tasers (the "non-lethals" Owen mentioned). Miller unloads his weapon directly into her mouth as she rushes at him. Later, she's clearly hit with the minigun from the copter as we see a spray of blood briefly but I can't tell if it was anywhere vital. As for later, I'm unsure about the scene with the InGen soldiers (can someone else confirm any hits during the night scene?), but Owen shoots her quite a few times with his Marlin 1895SBL at the end. So throughout the film, I. rex does actually absorb quite a bit of gunfire without any noticeable effect.
  • It is my opinion that there is no such thing as a glancing hit from a minigun. You are either missed, or chowder.
  • If her skin is engineered to be tough enough, she can take at least a few sweeps of a minigun, especially as she was also running through a dense forest at the time and the helicopter was unable to maintain an advantageous position to enable accurate fire.
  • The UTS-15 was most likely loaded with tranquiliser darts similar to what some of the other troops were using, seeing as they were told to go non-lethal only at that point. As for the tranq darts themselves, they are shown sticking to the I. rex with no effect.

Owen Shoving Someone Out of the Way?

• Maybe this is just taking a couple of frames out of context, but when the three men are trying to escape Paddock 11, does Owen shove Nick as they're turning to run? I don't see Owen as the kind of guy to shove someone aside so he can run in front of them. And if he didn't care about anyone but himself, he wouldn't have urged the other workers to run when he did. So I'm certain it's just being taken out of context. But nonetheless it sure looks like he pushes Nick and it's been bugging me and I'm interested in hearing others' thoughts on this, since it seems pretty unheroic.
  • Replying to myself, here, but this thought crossed my mind. What if what Owen is doing is giving him a "Come on, follow me, hustle!" style pat on the chest? Urging him to move it, because he looks like a slow-moving guy (and proves to be)?
  • Same troper again. Having rewatched the scene on DVD, I am now relatively certain I was wrong and Owen most certainly doesn't shove Nick. In the closeup shot of Chris Pratt and Eric Edelstein, as Owen yells "Go!" and they're turning, Owen places both hands on Nick - right hand on his chest and left hand (I think) one on his stomach. We see the exact same gesture from a different, wider shot when it suddenly cuts to the three men beginning to run, except Owen only has his right hand on Nick's chest. And, far from shoving him, he's in the process of taking his hand off of Nick as the shot begins. From what I can tell, it's some kind mistimed gesture that looks really weird due to a sudden angle change and the absence of a few frames (we never see Owen take his left hand off of Nick's stomach, for instance). So, no, the movie's hero doesn't shove someone out of the way. It just appears that way in a (humorously out of context) frame grab.

Did Hammond Change His Mind?

• Hammond, in The Lost World: Jurassic Park, seemed contrite about his actions and wanted the dinosaurs of Site B to live freely without human intervention, implying he was over the whole "dinosaur theme park" thing. Why then does he tell Masrani to build Jurassic World on his deathbed? Did Hammond really recant at death's door? Or is Masrani lying about what Hammond said to him?
  • Masrani is depicted as a pretty legit guy in the film, so it's doubtful that he would do something as shady as that. The most likely explanation is that Masrani convinced Hammond that he could make the park work, but it was only on his deathbed that Hammond gave his blessing.
  • Hammond was referring specifically to the dinosaurs on Isla Sorna, who had been living on their own in as close to a natural ecosystem as possible for quite some time. Assuming that these animals were theirs to do with as they please was wrong. Creating new dinosaurs, from the approach of studying and understanding them instead of (just) exploiting them, was probably Hammond's "new" vision for what Jurassic Park could have been, and it was that vision Masrani latched on to. Not "make a dinosaur theme park and make obscene amounts of money," but "make a dinosaur theme park to remind humanity how small and new we are, to learn more about what's come before us... and make obscene amounts of money."
  • Also, ever since Nedry's embryo-thefts in the first movie, it's clear that Hammond has competitors looking to cash in on his "cloning dinosaurs" idea. Even after the original park debacle, by the time Hammond passes away there were probably several companies floating the concept of picking up where he'd left off. Better to entrust his dream to someone like Masrani who will share his aim of making dinosaurs seem wondrous and amazing than to let a bunch of pirate-tycoons who'd permit the animals to be abused and exploited - maybe even sold at auction or bred for canned hunts - be the ones to debut the "live dinosaur park" concept.
  • Such exploiters are depicted in the next two movies. Albeit, it's unknown if Hammond and the rest of the company ever figured out what happened to Nedry, or what his motivation was.

Old vs. new logo

• If Jurassic Park logo is not appreciated because of it's relation to JP's massacre then why did they make another one which is too similar for Jurassic World by just changing the colors? Isn't it still easily related to JP and 1993's park tragedy?
  • They have a statue of John Hammond; they're basically saying they're the heirs of his vision. The logo is in part a tribute to Hammond's original vision, Jurassic Park, while not entirely using the same name. They're not trying to deny the original disaster. They'd have to face that up front to convince people to visit Jurassic World in the first place, so why not use the original logo; they're already using the original doors from the tour and almost everything else. Since they can't escape being associated with Jurassic Park (they're cloning dinosaurs!) they might as well embrace it.

Inaccurate dinosaurs

• So, Dr. Wu states that they engineer the dinosaurs based on the public's perception of them as opposed to how they looked in real life, which is used as a justification for the paleontological inaccuracies such as the lack of the feathers on the raptors. But wait a minute. The main priority of zoos and aquariums is education over entertainment. And zoos that focus more on entertainment instead of education like Jurassic World do tend to end quite badly, with animals being mistreated and whatnot. Also, they're basically just creating a bunch of fictional fantasy creatures? They might as well be making a zoo full of dragons, unicorns, and griffons. What's wrong with engineering accurate dinosaurs to educate people on how they looked and behaved in real life? Especially since the original Jurassic Park was accurate for the time it was released, and if I remember correctly, Hammond wanted to educate people as well as entertain them. Not doing a good job at staying faithful to his vision, guys.
  • The first Jurassic Park wasn't completely accurate even by the scientific knowledge of the year it was made. For example, by 1990 the Velociraptors were very well known and studied, and the real animal had very little to do with its counterpart in the movie. As for the "why", you have to remember that Dr. Wu has been retconned into being a punch-clock villain and borderline mad scientist, so he already had his own secret agenda all the way back when he worked with Hammond in the first park.
  • Retconned how? He could have evolved this secret agenda as part of his character development (but off-screen), in the roughly two decades between the first and fourth movie.
  • The real, out-of-universe reason that the dinosaurs are inaccurate is because of the precedent set by the previous films: it wouldn't make sense for the raptors to suddenly be fully-feathered since they're still fundamentally the same animals (and especially so with the Tyrannosaurus, which is confirmed to be the exact same individual rex from the first film). If new dinosaur species showed up which would logically be feathered, (say, Oviraptor) then it would be more egregious if they lacked them since there isn't the legacy and precedent of the previous films to justify them not having feathers. In-universe, the reason seems to be that it's a result of gene-splicing to create the dinosaurs in the first place which they haven't been able to iron out yet. Maybe if [InGen]/Masrani had another twenty-two years to work on it, coupled with the current crop of dinosaurs inevitably passing away, they'd probably be able to replace them with "more accurate" fully-feathered dinosaurs. Keep in mind that not every single dinosaur was feathered, mainly just the coelurosaurs (which includes raptors and tyrannosaurs).
  • It is also quite possible that in some ways the Jurassic Park world knows less about dinosaurs than we do. Jurassic Park III implies that palaeontology has taken a big hit from there being supposedly-real dinosaurs, yet as this entire Headscratcher indicates, the Jurassic Park/World dinosaurs are not reliable proof of anything (there would, if nothing else, be a bias towards late 80s/early 90s dinosaur ideas, because that's what InGen would have used as a guide for what was accurate and what was too anomalous to be kept for the original Jurassic Park project).
  • Also despite what accuracy fanatics say, a big toothy parrot is just not as scary looking as a big toothy dragon.
  • Dr. Wu doesn't say they specifically tried to make the dinosaurs look the way pop-culture imagines them. But it's been established since the first movie that they don't actually have complete DNA samples for any of the dinosaurs, so the ones grown for the park need to have DNA from modern animals like frogs spliced in to fill in the gaps, which is going to result in some differences in appearance.
    • "You didn't ask for reality, you asked for more teeth." - Henry Wu, Jurassic World Evolution video game. And while the game isn't canon to the movies I'd say this statement from Wu is probably accurate to the movies.

Dinosaur behaviour

• Assuming that they can modify the animals' behaviour as well as their appearance, why make the pterosaurs more aggressive than their real life counterparts? Yes, that's how people picture them thanks to the Terror-dactyl trope, but making them as docile as the real thing would saved a lot of trouble for when they escaped.
  • Well truthfully the reason the pterosaurs were acting the way they were is at least partly justified by the actions of Indominus: they were utterly terrified and acting out of base instinct. Notice that one of the first things witnessed in that scene is a Dimorphodon not attacking a person, but landing on a hot skillet to eat the meat cooking on it. Other points about this, such as the Pteranodons actions towards poor Zara, are addressed both in other headscratcher sections here and on the Fridge page.
  • The original novel states that behaviour is beyond the control of genes mostly... Wu only tries to correct gross behavioural issues, subtle behaviour just isn't something you can code for in DNA (at least, not with current understanding of DNA and how it works). It also establishes that the pterosaurs are violently territorial, attacking anyone and anything that enters their turf, so their violent behaviour is justified. Granted, Michael Chrichton was using the unknown behaviours of an extinct animal as a metaphor for the dangers of messing around with science you don't fully understand yet, but it works just as well to make animals more dangerous then they'd probably be in reality.

Park Vendors

• Why would Ben & Jerry's — a brand that is vocal about making GMO-free products — set up shop in an adventure park entirely centered around genetically-modified organisms?
  • Without knowing what Ben & Jerry's specific problem is with GMOs it could be very simple. GMOs are relatively new and nobody knows 100% if they are safe to consume or not. At the very least there is a real public fear they may be unsafe for consumption. You're not eating the dinosaurs so the important part of their complaint may be completely irrelevant here.
  • Also, some of the controversy about GMOs stems from the risk that artificially-inserted genes will spread into the wider population of wild plant species. There aren't any wild dinosaurs - well, aside from birds, but they're more likely to get eaten or squashed by an escaped dinosaur than to mate with one - so there's no risk of the park's animals interbreeding with, and contaminating the gene pools of, natural wildlife.
  • Or they decided that it wasn't that important compared to the opportunity to sell ice cream at ten bucks a pop in Central America.

Movie Timeline

• So according to this movie, Zach and Gray left their house with their parents sometime after sunrise somewhere in the United States north enough for there to be snow on the ground, were taken to the airport, flew to Costa Rica, went from the airport to the ferry terminal, took a ferryboat ride 120 miles to Isla Nublar, and arrived with enough time left in the day for the events of this movie to happen?
  • No one said the events of the film all took place in one day. They could have been in transit for most of a day, flown through the night, and arrived pretty early in the morning on the day the main part of the plot takes place.
  • Although, speaking of time, Gray's mom tells him to get moving as their flight leaves in two hours. Shouldn't they already be at the airport? Especially if it's an international flight.
  • It could very well be that wherever they live is close to an airport to begin with, and they may have gotten lucky enough to be pre-checked, meaning they don't have to wait as long to go through security as other passengers. It's not out of the realm of possibility.
  • Or she just said they only had two hours to get her slowpoke kid moving, already. Parents exaggerate.
  • If they're initially departing from a small airport that will fly them to a major one, then checking in and walking to their gate might only take them half an hour or less. Even with modern security, it's mostly the major hub airports where you need hours just to check in.

Owen forgets that he holds all the cards.

• When Hoskins decides to send the raptors after the Indominus rex, Owen protests. Hoskins convinces Owens to help by saying "This will happen either way, with or without you". Owen relents, apparently thinking that if it's going to happen anyway, he might as well be a part of it to make sure it goes as well as possible. Except he of all people should know that it can't possibly happen at all without him. He has the ultimate trump here. If he refuses to help, the raptors are just going to get released and then attack Hoskins and the ACU crew. Owen had no reason not to put his foot down and Hoskins would have had nothing to do to persuade him, unless Hoskins was going to actively threaten someone else and say "Help me or I'll shoot this innocent person" or something like that, and it's pretty doubtful even Hoskins would go that far.
  • Hoskins was consistently portrayed as under the delusion anyone could control the raptors. He's kind of an idiot that way. He was perfectly willing to get someone else to lead the raptors and Owen knew such a bluff would be meaningless. That would likely end with the raptors turning on everyone else and the certainty that all of the pack would be killed. Between the likelihood of more people and his raptors dying, and the cold fact that this really was the only plan anyone had to kill the Indomius, Owen swallowed his pride and tried to do the best he could in a bad situation.
  • Owen didn't think that Hoskins and the other mercs deserved to die, regardless of how opportunistic and vicious they were. Also, apart from the risk to human life, he thought they'd just kill his raptors if they couldn't control them, another thing Owen wanted to avoid.
    • This. Owen specifically tells the mercs, "Don't shoot my raptors... please."

Tracking Implant Wound and location of Implant?

• Maybe I missed something, but it has been stated that the Indominus rex clawed out the implant put into her, because when the people assigned to capture her find the implant, it is stuck to a piece of her flesh. There is only one problem: I don't see any wound on the dinosaur that indicates that she tore out anything, let alone a tracking device. Unless she has Wolverine's healing factor, I highly doubt that she could claw out a tracking device and not have any visible wound. Another thing that bothers me is where that implant is located. Can anyone shed light on both of these things?
  • There's a couple of moments where you can see a small gash in her shoulder, where she's torn out some skin and subcutaneous fat, although there's a little less blood in the tissue than I was expecting given her obvious warmbloodedness and it not having been in the stream it was found on a rock alongside.

Claire's Wardrobe

• A very minor quibble, but one that has always bugged me as a detail-oriented cosplayer. When Claire tries to show Owen she "means business", she unbuttons the bottom of her blouse, ties it into a midriff, and rolls up her sleeves. So, what happens to her belt? It vanishes between shots, and we don't hear her unfasten the clasp or see her remove it; she doesn't exactly have a pocket or a purse to stash it in, and it isn't lying on the ground when she and Owen walk off. It isn't attached to her blouse, either: when her blouse comes untied later in the film, the belt is still missing. Given that a lot of thought was put into Claire's wardrobe (the infamous heels, the slight resemblance to Ellie Sattler' outfit) this seems a strange oversight.
  • Maybe, off-screen, at some point they had to use the belt for something (fastening a loose piece of machinery? Tourniquet for a park worker? Who knows?) but they just didn't show it being used as such, but they should have. As, as you say, it caused heads to be scratched.

Hoskins' plan

• Is Hoskins the most moronic villain in movie history? So he wants to sell Velociraptors to the military. Why? What use would any modern army, with machine guns, tanks, fighter jets, missiles, attack helicopters etc, have for Velociraptors? They're animals. They aren't invincible and aren't particularly reliable. A few well placed hand grenades would take out an entire horde of them.
  • He explains why in the movie. A modern army is built on electronics, and he's anticipating things like EMP weapons will disable them. A velociraptor isn't going to fear small arms fire like a human will, and can't be bought or bribed. And he's clearly in denial about their reliability, and sees Owen's partnership with them as proof they can be trained and controlled.
    • They could still be killed or injured easily enough with conventional weapons, and would also be liable to panic in the heat of battle. And this guy wants to send raptors into the mountains of Afghanistan to fight Al-Qaeda? Whatever advantages there are to having velociraptors in your army, you lose a lot more in having to rely on dangerous and unpredictable wild animals. Imagine suggesting to a current general that he should use lions or tigers in battle. It's so absurd no one would even entertain the idea.
    • The raptors don't seem to panic when they're in the middle of a bunch of gunfire in the movie. Or any of the previous movies. And, once again, he does not think they are unpredictable wild animals. That is not the product he is trying to sell. He thinks that, because of Owen's rapport with the creatures, they can be trained to work with people like dogs.
    • Throughout the movie Hoskins sees ample evidence that the raptors are unpredictable wild animals. Owen — the guy who knows the raptors better than anyone — tells him using them in battle is a stupid idea. Heck, Owen himself is almost killed by them in his first scene. Yet dumass still comes away thinking they're some super weapon that the US military can use. Even Gomer Pyle could see his plan is dumb beyond belief.
    • He does not see "ample evidence" throughout the movie. He sees the evidence long after he makes his speech about their usefulness. But yes — he's a shortsighted bad guy. So yes, his idea is a bad one. It seems plausible to him, otherwise we don't have his plotline. You've had your answer to your question, so I don't see any reason to keep on griping.
    • Well that's really the point isn't it? The movie has to contrive a dumb beyond belief villain or otherwise a big part of the movie disappears.
  • It's your personal belief that he's dumb "beyond belief." A lot of other people seem to think he's just short-sighted and well within the realm of belief that every other villain in the franchise occupies. So are you here to get an explanation for his behaviour, or are you just here so you can say, "See? It's dumb!" One is the purpose of this page, the other is just complaining.
    • He is dumb beyond belief. It's a dumb plan that no one with an iota of common sense could take seriously. And it lets the movie down. Judging by comments from other users ("Did anyone else think Wu and Hoskin's attempts to make and sell weaponised dinosaurs to be the dumbest thing out there?"), I'm not the only one who thinks so. I questioned his plan and the response is basically "well he thinks it's a good idea". Just because he thinks so doesn't make it any less stupid.
    • Two points: 1. Wolves are "dangerous and unpredictable" animals. But I've got one of their descendants snoozing on my couch right now and she'll sit and roll over if I so much as offer her a cracker. 2. You might be forgetting the part of the movie where the raptors work alongside humans just like Hoskins describes. They're listening to commands and not killing anyone on their side until the I. Rex "talks" to them — and even when they go "rogue," it's the humans that panicked and fired first; and then later, the raptors show clear loyalty to Owen and fight alongside him. You asked why Hoskins would think it was a good idea — his motivations and reasoning is presented in the movie. He's shortsighted and misunderstands the exact nature of Owen and the raptors' bond, but no, that doesn't make him "the most moronic villain in movie history." The rest of this is just complaining about a plot point you, personally, don't like.
    • Would you want one of Owen's raptors sitting on your couch and eating crackers out of your hand? I get that Hoskins thinks it's a good idea. I just don't buy that anyone with a modicum of sense could think this. It's just plain stupid. Right off the bat the plan sounds dumb. Then Owen — the raptor expert — tells him he can't control the raptors and that using them in battle is a terrible idea. Then Owen's pal tells Hoskins it's a terrible idea. Then the raptors almost eat a park keeper and Owen himself, the guy Hoskins is convinced can control them. But even after all this Hoskins still thinks it's a great idea. Even when it all goes horribly wrong with I-Rex attack, he STILL thinks it's a great idea. Yes he's dumb beyond belief. Sure for a few minutes the raptors do what they're told, but then the whole "dangerous and unpredictable" bit comes into play and they attack their own side. Just like how a lion tamer can get him to do a few tricks, but it doesn't stop the lion being dangerous and unpredictable.
    • Again: Listen to what Hoskins says. He's talking about "promoting loyal bloodlines," i.e., exactly how humanity domesticated dogs. He's not saying, "These raptors, instantly, are the be-all, end-all, product, and we don't have to do anything else because they're perfect." He's saying, "Owen has proved that these things can work with humans, as a proof of concept. Therefore, we can move forward with the project to have raptors work with humans." Seriously, though, you asked a question (which was more of a complaint to start with). You got your answer. There's no reason to sit here and keep repeating, "BUT IT'S DUMB!" If you have a complaint, put it on the DMOS page.
    • Except nowhere does Hoskins suggest spending centuries domesticating raptors for future use, he's just desperate to get them in the field ASAP, as they are ("imagine if we had these puppies in Tora Bora"). I asked about the potential military advantages of raptors, something that has Hoskins salivating, and the answer I got was they can't be bribed and might not be afraid of gunfire, leaving aside the innumerable downsides of having them. And that's it? Do you think it's a good idea? Would anyone?
    • When Owen asks Hoskins what he'll do when Raptors don't listen, he says they'll promote loyal bloodlines. That is literally how domestication works. It doesn't have to take "centuries", especially when you have, you know, the kind of genetic manipulation equipment that lets you make dinosaurs. You asked what advantages they could have — Hoskins says exactly why he wants them, in the movie. So your question was pointless because the movie already answered it. So you don't think they're good enough reasons? So what? He did, and it's plausible enough to work for the movie. Get over it.
    • It's how you domesticate animals like dogs and horses. But large intelligent vicious animals with sharp teeth and claws? Moreover once they were domesticated enough to be safe around humans they'd be useless for his purposes anyway. I asked the question because the movie didn't answer it. All we get is Hoskins thinks they'll be a military asset and would have been great in Tora Bora, even though it sounds like a terrible idea, everyone else says it's a terrible idea and it turns out to be a terrible idea. You find his idea "plausible"? Do you think a real military would have any use for raptors?
    • large intelligent vicious animals with sharp teeth and claws. You realise that's a description of wolves, right? And no, once dogs were domesticated, they were absolutely not "useless for his purposes." The use of dogs and horses in war is well documented. "Everyone else" doesn't say it's a terrible idea. Owen says it's a terrible idea... and then, in the climax, succeeds in using the raptors in battle. Again, you keep saying how utterly ridiculous it is to even think the raptors could ever be capable of fighting alongside humans and that is the basis of the entire climax of the film. So, yes. The idea is plausible.
    • The last time I checked dogs aren't lethal six foot tall creatures that will kill a full grown man in seconds. Moreover, horses and dogs were/are used to assist with specific tasks like carrying loads or searching for mines. They didn't just set them loose on the enemy like Hoskins wants to. There's also a good reason why dogs and horses were used for these purposes and not lions and tigers. Or wolves. Even war elephants tended to be unreliable and could be just as dangerous to their own side. That article you linked to says someone proposed using dogs to attack Japanese soldiers in WWII, but it didn't work because the dogs were "too docile, did not properly respond to their beach crossing training, or were terrified by shellfire". In other words the people who came up with this idea soon realised the animals were not suitable for the job being asked of them. Just like the raptors. That plan at the end of the movie resulted in the raptors killing most of the soldiers who were supposed to be on their side. You call that a success? So you find the idea of humans going into battle with large, aggressive and extremely dangerous predators alongside them "plausible". Fair enough, but I don't.
    • The last time I checked dogs aren't lethal six foot tall creatures that will kill a full grown man in seconds. Wolves were, and are, huge and able to kill a full-grown man with one bite to his throat. There are dogs today that are used to hunt bears. Look up the Caucasian Shepherd. That dog grows to more than 200 pounds.
      
      Moreover, dogs and horses were/are used to assist with specific tasks like carrying loads or searching for mines. They didn't just set them loose on the enemy like Hoskins wants to. Dogs are, have been, and continue to be used to attack armed men. You can find videos of them disarming criminals in the modern day. And yes, horses are not used for attack. Funny how you could use two different types of animals for two different types of function.
      
      In other words the people who came up with this idea soon realised the animals were not suitable for the job being asked of them. Good job, you can cherry pick! Let me try: "While not as common as in previous centuries, modern militaries continue to employ dogs in an attack role." "SOCOM forces of the US military still use dogs in raids for apprehending fleeing enemies or prisoners."
      
      *** For an example, the stepmother of a friend of mine had an Akita (a dog that was originally bred to hunt bears), who probably weighed as much as she did (she was only 5'2 and rather skinny). He was a big teddy bear with us and was a bit of a scaredy-cat at times (he was rescued and hadn't been treated well). But if you even ''thought'' about hurting any of us... A raptor that retains the size, aggression and prey drive of the "wild" raptors, but is more even-tempered, would be useful for a lot of purposes (hunting large animals, guarding private properties, and/or apprehending fleeing enemies or prisoners).

That plan at the end of the movie resulted in the raptors killing most of the soldiers who were supposed to be on their side. When the humans panicked and started shooting the raptors, yes. Notice how the raptors don't attack Owen, and fight alongside him in the climax.

So you find the idea of humans going into battle with large, aggressive and extremely dangerous predators alongside them "plausible". Considering that's a literal description of the climax where Owen and the raptors (and the T. Rex!) fight alongside each other against the I. Rex? Yes. Yes it's plausible, because it plainly happens on screen.

• Attack dogs are very much a thing. In fact they are so much a thing that it makes the whole "military raptors" idea entirely pointless. Dogs make very good attack animals, they are much easier to train than raptors (only Owen has ever managed it, and even then he still doesn't consider them "tame") and far lower maintenance. Dogs are also much more tractable and predictable than dinosaurs. The one advantage a velociraptor would have is intelligence but if you are just going to use them as attack animals, you don't need them to be THAT smart.
  • Not the only advantage. A velociraptor is also stronger, more durable and more deadly than a dog. And more terrifying to be on the business-end of.
  • Can open doors, and quite possibly operate other simple machinery too.
  • Why are German Shepherds, Rottweilers and Dobermans used in police work, rather than English Mastiffs and Great Danes? Because those breeds are not just big and powerful, but intelligent. An attack dog that's thick as two short planks is a liability. A Velociraptor (which is more intelligent than a dog) could be taught a greater range of commands (say different commands for subduing an unarmed hostile versus an armed hostile).
• In short Hoskins has some understanding of the subject having adopted a "wild" animal cub and successfully domesticated it, well in the sense that it had a personal loyalty to him. The problem is that's his entire understanding of the situation. He doesn't grasp that most modern wolves in proximity to humans have some level of interbreeding with dogs and are already predisposed to domestication. He does not comprehend that raptors are of an entirely different order of life and can't just be trained like dogs. In fact he actively refuses to learn or adjust his perspective in any way because he has already decided what he percieves the facts to be, and like most idiots he places his opinion of the situation above that of experts whom he disregards specifically because of their expertise.
  • Whilst tamed raptors would certainly be useful, they'd be more suited to police work and/or private security. Firstly, the intelligence of a raptor means it could be taught a greater range of commands, which would be useful in police work (say use a different command for subduing an armed suspect versus an armed suspect).

I. rex Tracking Implant: Part III

• So in between all its technobabble the movie wants us to believe tracking implants are apple sized lightbulbs emitting flashes of visible light. Did the writers ever look at their own private tracking devices - commonly known as cellphones? In real life, even GPS trackers that are attached to bigger animals like sharks crocodiles are merely a few centimeters long, and that's mostly batteries. If they're equipped with a lamp at all it's because they need to be found in open water or vegetation in case they fall off. Not to mention tracking devices that are actually implanted. Those tend to be as small as possible because they're, well, inserted into a living being. Which would be very useful for a bird sized dinosaur baby too. Because you wouldn't wait with that operation until the I.rex is big enough to maim you, right? Right?
  • Out of universe, they want the tracking implants to be visually distinct and clearly indicitive for even the cheap seats in the audience to grasp what they're meant to do. So they're oversized. In univers? Like you mention, they have the lights so that they can be found if they fall out. Also, maybe the I Rex broke her first implant (which may have been smaller), so they decided to outfit her with a larger one (being a bit larger isn't much of a problem for an animal as vast as she is). Either they had a way to reliably tranquilise her in captivity (which the ACU team weren't aware of because they had to be scrambled ASAP to take her down) or they may have improvised a capture rig to hold her inside while they impanted it. Probably the former, because you figure they had to at least provide vetinary care for her while she was asleep if that's the only way to do it safely (the original novel mentioned, as one among many elements of care with the T Rex required, constant dental upkeep). And that would still generally uphold the thing about her not having contact with anyone and the attendant lack of socialisation, that is, while she's awake.
  • In-universe, these aren't just tracking implants. They also provide the electric shock to train the animals to avoid certain areas (specifically, invisible fences). To do that, they would need a fairly sizeable and powerful electricity source, as well as additional hardware to provide shocks. That would be more than enough to explain the size IMO.

Rexy's Survival

• In the first book, and The Lost World, I think, it's stated that the dinosaurs (specifically, the herbivores) on Isla Sorna survived by eating plants rich in lysine (and then the carnivores ate them, transferring the lysine into them), which stopped them from slipping into a coma and dying; a trait that was imbedded in all of the dinosaurs in the event that they ever got to the mainland. Does the same thing apply on Isla Nublar? It's been proven that Rexy is the same one from the very first movie, which means after Jurassic Park fell, and no one was giving her lysine anymore, she should have died within a couple of days. Eating the herbivores probably would have staved this off for a little while, assuming Nublar had the same lysine-rich plants, but not nearly as long as it did. After the first two movies, the lysine deficiency seemed to be forgotten about, and was never mentioned again.
  • If Hammond (for as long as he was alive after the fall of the first Jurassic Park) and Masrani were absolutely deadset in getting those animal assets back into captivity for another go at the park, they could have (and indeed must have in order for this to work) chucked everything they had into ensuring their survival up to (and beyond) the point where they could actually throw their capture teams into the operation. Anything from commando teams rappelling down to slip the lysine supplement pills into the raw food mix which the automated feeding mechanisms would provide to herbivores and/or carnivores, to airdropping seeds of exotic Jurassic-era plant clones rich in lysine to grow and sustain the dinosaurs. Even simply introducing tons of chickens for the carnivores to feast upon would help there.

Out of Order Names

• Why are the raptors named out of order? If they're going by age, it's Blue, Delta, Echo, then Charlie. Wouldn't it make more sense to have them named alphabetically, from oldest to youngest? (Blue would remain Blue, Delta would be renamed Charlie, Echo would be renamed Delta, and Charlie would be renamed Echo.) It just seems a little strange that their names would be randomised like that.
  • Maybe there was another specimen intended to be Charlie who didn't survive infancy, and Delta and Echo had already been named. As to the follow up question for that explanation (why was the fifth raptor named Charlie instead of Foxtrot?) I'm going with: she's actually Charlie, Jr., a direct clone of the original Charlie, as opposed to being directly patched together from ancient DNA and whatever filler Wu had handy at the time, and they just dropped the "Jr." because they wanted to keep things short and simple to avoid confusing the dinosaurs.
  • If they are going by the NATO phonetic alphabet it should be "Bravo" not "Blue". Clearly they are not. So the names were not chosen to be alphabetical.
  • Probably they were named as babies, with alphabetical initials in order of size and/or hatching time. Charlie, being second largest/oldest, was considered the presumptive third-ranked raptor, after Owen the trainer and Blue, the largest chick. However, as the nascent pack matured and each one's personality emerged, Charlie turned out to be a real wimp despite her size/age, behaving subordinately even to Echo.

Why Is Rexy So Small

• T-Rexes grew basically the entire life, though it seems growth was in bulk rather than extreme dimensions. Yet Jurassic World Rexy doesn't appear to be any more bulky than she was during the Jurassic Park.