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• One that's more for the special effects crew than the characters: Grant gazes out of the jeep idly, until disbelief creeps over his face. Astounded, he whips off his sunglasses, stands up to get a better look, then grabs Dr. Sattler to get her to look and she does the same. Right there, in broad daylight, is a completely convincing brachiosaur.

Dr. Grant: Um... it's... it's a dinosaur. Hammond: Dr. Grant, my dear Dr. Sattler... welcome to Jurassic Park.

• • For the full awesome effect, try this link.
• Oddly enough, the real Crowning Moment of Awesome in Jurassic Park is had by the T. rex, when it kills the two velociraptors that had Grant and the others cornered, then gives a final triumphant roar as a banner saying "When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth" floats down in front of it. Awesome. May also qualify as a Big Damn Heroes moment, though the T. rex more or less serves as the main antagonist throughout the movie before this.
  • A deleted scene from the first movie plays this out differently, but no less awesome: The velociraptors have cornered Grant and the kids, the one in front of them's about to spring...suddenly, a gunshot rings out and the raptor falls to the ground. Grant and Co turn to see who the mystery shooter is. It's Hammond. Yes, you read that right. Hammond took down a velociraptor.
• "Clever girl."
  • Muldoon is walking awesome. "Shoot her! SHOOT HER!"
  • Note that Muldoon was far more awesome in the book. He takes down multiple raptors wielding a rocket launcher and drops the adult T-Rex with a direct hit to the head with a rocket-launched tranquilizer.
• In the second movie, the T. rex's rampage in San Diego.
  • In a deleted scene, Tembo gets into a bar fight with several drunken idiots who provoke him by harassing a waitress. He wins. Easily. With one hand tied behind his back. The entire scene actually makes him more likeable than the "main" heroes of the story, which is probably why it was deleted in the first place.
  • Even without that scene the guys was still pretty cool.
• Kelly grabbing a bar and using it like gymnastic equipment to kick a velociraptor in the face.

The coach cut you from the team?

• In the third film, Billy's scene where he leaps off the cliff, and the "Dino-Soar" parachute opens above him. Also, most of the bits with the pteranodons.
• Mr. Kirby was also very Badass when he challanged the Spinosaurus in order to lure it away from the others and into a trap.
• Dr. Sattler called in the Marines!

Books

• Near the climax of the first book, Dr. Grant is being chased through the incubation room by velociraptors. In a sudden burst of inspiration, he remembers that the creatures were theorized to feed on eggs from other dinosaurs' nests in addition to live prey. Using this knowledge to his advantage, he injects several eggs with the lethal contents of a nearby syringe and rolls them toward the velociraptors, which take the bait and die almost instantaneously.
  • One of them doesn't fall for it and goes for Grant. He wrestles briefly with it before injecting it directly.
• Muldoon shows how the movie Muldoon should have handled the raptors: with a freaking rocket-propelled grenade launcher.

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• This Gatorade commercial, released in 2000, featuring the velociraptors from taking on Vince Carter of the Toronto Raptors . . . in a basketball game.