WMG / Jurassic Park (1993)

Dodgson died of pneumonia from waiting for Nedry under the rain

• Jossed, he's gonna return in Dominion.

Alan is The Doctor.

Nobody can survive that much.

• Take into account that there is a reason why 'luck', being prepared, fit and healthy to run away and so exist. And to say Alan Parrish (who is somehow also named Alan fictionally) from Jumanji is also The Doctor is going a bit too far, in this troper's opinion.

The dinosaurs in Isla Sorna are killing out of mercy

Note that only the sympathetic[ish] characters in The Lost World and JP3 die, while the Too Dumb to Live protagonists survive. This is because the dinosaurs are sparing the less stupid people from being with the protagonists, freeing them in the only possible way to free someone from a movie: killing them.

The protagonists will not die because the dinosaurs have more sinister plans in mind for being so stupid, likely involving torture.

The men on the boat were killed by the T-Rex!

Notice how the cage the rex was originally in is located on the deck of the ship? That would suggest that they kept it there, instead of putting it into the cargo hold. The T-Rex broke free and killed most of the crewmen. The last of them hid in the hold; when it followed them, one of the crewmen on the deck closed the doors. But the T-Rex had fatally wounded him when it broke free, and the man died, still clutching the control switch.

• The only problem is the captain's severed hand holding onto the steering wheel in the intact cabin; but we never see the other wall, and so there might well be a huge gaping hole where the T-Rex burst through right outside the camera's view. Furthermore, in the book, the T-Rex had a flexible tongue, and so it might have been able to grab the captain by his ankle and drag him close enough to eat him without breaking the cabin.
  • That was a continuity error created when they scrapped a section of the script that involved some smuggled velociraptors onboard the ship. It was based on a part of the first book.
  • Perhaps the T. rex killed everyone on board, including someone who was gripping the hold door's control box. Sated, the animal descended into the hold to sleep off its meal. The box (and hand) were left lying on the edge of a crate or other high surface. Later that night, the seas got choppy, and the rocking of the ship tipped the thing over the edge, causing the switch to get tripped when it hit the deck.

The men on the boat were killed by a prehistoric sea creature, possibly a giant squid.

The same thing happened to the guys on the motorboat in Jurassic Park 3.

• But the prehistoric monsters were cloned off blood found in preserved mosquitoes. Since when would a mosquito have landed on a sea monster or been able to penetrate its thick oily hide?
  • Presumably, most of the large prehistoric sea-reptiles (with some exceptions — see Icthyosaurus) would have had to come onto land to lay their eggs. The mosquitoes could have either bitten one of the adults then or, more likely, bitten one of the young while it was on its way to the water after hatching (the young have thinner skins and all that).
    • Science Marches On; plesiosaurs and other post-Triassic sea reptiles were ovoviparous appearently, just like ichthyosaurs. That doesn't mean injured beached animals wouldn't be targets to mosquitoes however.
  • Jurassic World is confirmed to have a mosasaur in it, so it's not implausible that her or a similar creature could have been there.
    • The answer is obvious. Great Zeus RELEASED THE KRAKEN!!
    • You must mean Davy Jones?

The men on the boat were killed by raptors that got onto the ship on the island.

It's a Twist Ending that never got picked up on, thanks to the T-Rex.

• This was apparently featured in an early draft of the script.
• Having raptors sneaking aboard ships and getting out into the city would have been a better story than the T-Rex shenanigans they went with. Then again, having a giant T-Rex terrorizing San Diego does look cooler... but it doesn't satisfy those of us who are more plot-oriented.
  • Who's to say they didn't? In-universe, maybe a couple raptors (that's all that was needed to kill the crew) did go around San Diego, but they weren't featured so heavily in the press (and also not shown in the film) as they were relatively easier to take care of. Granted, they're faster and more clever than the T-Rex, but they can die from a single gunshot (or a few of them) and, as such, maybe the police did take them down relatively quickly. Alternatively, maybe they hid somewhere and terrorised small sectors of a population (e.g., a neighbourhood) without generating so much noise and destruction. They're the kind of predators who would take their victims one by one, killing them before they can shout.

Samuel L. Jackson's character lived.

Sure, he might've lost an arm, but he also beat the raptors with it and escaped.

• Hinted at by Peter Ludlow in The Lost World, who states that there were three deaths, not four, that occurred on Jurassic Park.
• From the above article: He then ran into the T-rex and (mind you, he only has one arm now) went on to best the Rex in single combat. The Rex was impressed and vowed to avenge Jackson, thus supplying the Deus ex Machina scene at the end of the movie in which the T-rex saves the day and saves Jackson's rep.
• He used a hollowed out palm tree as a raft and his severed, rotting arm as a paddle.
  • Except for that the arm was left in the building where he disappeared.
    • He went back and got it after Ellie turned the electricity back on. Because he's Made of Win.
  • And while he was at sea, he ate his own arm for sustenance. HELL YEAH.
    • He then lay dying sometime later from a mixture of several diseases brought on by eating his own flesh combined with the salt water he had to drink.
  • And in Jurassic Park 4, he'll get a robotic arm to replace his severed one, go back to Isla Sorna and fight dinosaurs for kicks. It'll be called "Jurassic Park 4: Samuel L. Jackson with a Robotic Arm Fighting Dinosaurs".
    • I'll forgive everything about Jurassic Park III if this happens! I WANT TICKETS TO THAT MOVIE!
    • I'm counting on "Jurassic Park 4: The Avengers on Isla Nublar".
  • What makes you guys think that arm was his? Because it belonged to a black man?
    • He survived the Dinos, but sadly was eaten later by a Genetically Engineered Shark.
  • I was of the opinion that they didn't count Nedry because his body wasn't found and nobody knew where he went.
  • As fan of the book which the movie shares a title and little else with I assumed that line was actually about Dr. Malcolm. In original book neither he nor Hammond make it. There is at least one joke about how the rumors of his death had been greatly exaggerated in the book. In the movie I assumed it was a "goof" caused by them trying to get some of the lines from the book in and forgetting their own continuity.

Hammond was a supervillain

The velociraptors were the prototypes for his world-conquering Super Soldiers. They were genetically engineered to be intelligent, to preferentially attack humans, etc.

• Hammond was already supervillain of the worst kind: The arrogant jackass who inadvertently screws everything up in his quest to do big, but non-evil things. Sadly, this is the most realistic kind of supervillain.

Alexis Murphy (the girl, 1st movie) is a zombie in disguise.

Honestly. Watch the movie again and see how she angles her head whenever she screams and how she runs to close the freezer on the V-raptor? Definitely some zombie tendencies. I think she deliberately organized all her brother's 'accidents' to tenderize his flesh before she feasts.

The T. rex in the first movie had a cold

• That's why it didn't smell Alan Grant when it moved its face right up to him.
  • Makes sense, considering that the Brachiosaur did too. Also, there was that sick Triceratops. The T-Rex could have eaten it before going after Alan and the kids. Screw the gate, I have plot!
    • The rain is pretty obvious, causing the Tyrannosaurus Rex to not be able to be as fast or as responsive when it's warm.

Mr. Muldoon is (or rather, was) extremely rich

And this is his last will and testement.

Dr. Grant is the reincarnation of Captain Vasili Borodin.

Having lived a good life, he was granted the gift of reincarnation in America so he could finally see his beloved Montana.

The T-Rex is the hero of this story

When The T-Rex originally attacked it was to test those who would bring her back to life. Gennaro sought to make a profit from her and as such was seen unfit to live. Originally she sought to kill the children for their ignorance but after seeing the lengths to which Alan and Ian went to save them the T-Rex decided to spare them. She would later save them from the Gallimimus. She didn't attack Malcolm on purpose. She only chased him to keep her illusion as a predator. Later when escaping on the jeep she planned on helping them but due to her sudden appearance, she frightened them. She soon decided that the rest of the humans on the island were deemed worthy to live and killed the velociraptors before claiming the island as her own.

• You know what, I am now considering that canon and nothing is going to change my mind now, that is epic.
  • Assuming that the same T-rex is in Jurassic World, she will - having sensed that the end of her life is approaching - decide that the time is right to once again test humanity's moral worth. She will inevitably break out and consume certain humans for their foolish attempt at playing God (via creating the D-rex), but then realize that most of the humans are innocents who have only come to the island to enjoy themselves and strengthen family bonds. Thus, deciding that they deserve to live, the T-rex will save them all by taking out the D-rex in a duel to the death.

The raptors were the true heroes of the first film.

After all, they did try to eat those goddamn annoying kids. The movie is in fact a tragedy, as the two characters that should have gotten eaten survived the entire thing.

• Shouldn't this be in the YMMV section? That's really dark.

The Raptors in the first film aren't evil; they're insane.

Raptors are highly intelligent and social animals but because the ones in Jurassic Park were clones, they had no older dinosaurs to socialize with. The scientists who bred them seemed to have little time for them once hatched so it can be safely assumed that they were left mostly to their own devices. Intelligent creatures need interaction though - Parrots (much less intelligent than the raptors are shown to be) will literally go insane if left in isolation for too long. So on Isla Nublar, you have a bunch of raptors who have had none of the rearing or socialization that intelligent pack animals need, compounded by living in a world that is alien to most of their instinctual knowledge. It's little wonder they turned into homicidal psychos. The population on Isla Sorna, on the other hand, growing mostly in the wild and breeding naturally for at least a generation or two, are much more like "real" Raptors. They attack when their territory is breached (Lost World) and when their offspring are stolen (JPIII) but they don't seek out either of those situations.

• This is canon.

Someone actually cared Dodgson was there

Nuff said.

The Dilophosaurus wasn't hungry.

She was just mad at Nedry for calling her stupid.

• To be precise, Nedry was literally Too Dumb to Live. One should never make any meat eating animals angry in any way.

If Nedry has escaped with the embryos, he would've ended up as big as Jabba the Hutt.

Probably not out of the question considering his Villainous Glutton tendencies. Would've spent most of his new, infinite wealth (and surely more payout from BioSyn in the future) on eating. If he survived long enough on such a poor diet he would become this universe's Jabba the Hutt.

Nedry survived.

The dilophosaurs appear to use venom as their primary means of attack. Dennis survived both that and their physical attacks thanks to his Kevlard and humans being larger than their normal prey. He managed to scare it off with the jeep/run it over. He then found the DNA canister, made it to the boat, and lived the rest of his life as a Karma Houdini (besides some vision impairment).