Fossil Revival: Difference between revisions

{{trope}}

 

{{examples}}

* ''[[Spider-Man]]'' foe Stegron invented a ray that allowed him to transform fossil dinosaurs in museums into living dinosaurs that he used to rampage through New York.

 

* The premise of ''[[Jurassic Park]]''.

* In the movie ''Mammoth'', an alien crash lands in a small town that has a mammoth in their museum. The alien gets inside of the mammoth, and brings it to life and goes on a soul-sucking rampage.

* The ''[[Modesty Blaise (comic strip)|Modesty Blaise]]'' arc "The Return of the Mammoth" involves a plan by Soviet scientists to fertilise eggs taken from a frozen mammoth and and carry them to term inside an African elephant.

** This is actually [[Ripped from the Headlines]], although it's being done by American scientists and it's being held back by their inability to find a suitable frozen mammoth.

 

== [[Tabletop Games]] ==

** The only exception is Genesect, which was revived by Team Plasma, and is part Steel, instead of part Rock, due to being given a better, stronger body.

* The Las Plagas of ''[[Resident Evil 4]]'' are revealed to be prehistoric, and were recovered from fossils in an excavation underneath the castle. God knows how old they really were.

* ''[[Spectrobes]]'' has the titular creatures being revived in this fashion. However, their "fossils" are less traditional fossils and more stone statues in their shapes, making them more of a kind of [[Sealed Good in a Can]].

* ''[[Fossil Fighters]]'' does this more directly, with dinosaurs being revived from fossils. However, the technology that does so is a little... [[Sufficiently Advanced Technology|funky]], and gives the critters it revives [[Dinosaurs Are Dragons|elemental powers]].

* In ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess]]'', there is a boss fight against a giant [[Dem Bones|skeleton]] [[Our Dragons Are Different|dragon]], which is reanimated by Zant and his dark sword.

* ''[[World of Warcraft]]'', thanks to the archaeology profession released in the ''Cataclysm'' expansion, allows players to find raptor fossils and rebuild them into a moving mount and pet.

* In the ''[[Futurama]]'' episode "Jurassic Bark", Professor Farnsworth attempts to revive the fossilized remains of Fry's dog. In a related matter, one of the [[What If|Anthology of Interest]] episodes had Farnsworth turning Bender human by means of "reverse fossilization".

* On ''[[The Penguins of Madagascar]]'', Kowalski creates a cloning machine he plans to use to revive an extinct penguin with a feather sample from a specimen in the Museum of Natural History. Unfortunately, the mission goes wrong and they clone a dodo instead, who turns out to be [[Too Dumb to Live|recklessly suicidal]], so they have to clone him again... and again, and again, and again.

 

{{reflist}}

[[Category:Resurrection Tropes]]