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* [[Alternative Character Interpretation]]: The Spinosaurus in ''Jurassic Park III'' is neither a [[Super-Persistent Predator]] nor a [[For the Evulz|sadistic one]]. The humans it first encounters land right in the middle of its hunting territory and start a ruckus, immediately open fire on it (imagine being stabbed with a needle repeatedly), and then ''ram an airplane into its side''. It's plausible that it simply holds a grudge after all this, and then goes out of its way to kill them in the initial chase. Its later run-ins with them ''are'' actually incidental, but it hasn't forgotten what they did to it the first time.

** In the book, Hammond is ''at best'' a [[Jerkass]] who really just wants people's money; [[Adaptation Distillation|in the movie]] he's a kindly old man who just wants to share the magic of dinosaurs. So says the [[Jurassic Park|main page]], anyway. But is he really? Let's review:

*** Half the problems of the movie arise because most of the staff have left -- perhaps rushed off because they couldn't remain during the storm, perhaps they're just not kept on the island much of the time<ref> perhaps because many of them are just for show, as the second movie reveals</ref>. The first one sounds like not building enough hurricane-rated staff accommodations; the second sounds like just being cheap.

*** And yet Hammond repeatedly says he "spared no expense". Yeah, ''right''.

** Very slight with {{spoiler|Grant}} in the first film. He doesn't get a chance to face down a T. rex with a plastic oar and dart gun or kill several raptors. But at least in the original script, he was supposed to kill the raptors using construction equipment and a T. rex skull.

*** {{spoiler|Muldoon}} gets a bit of this in first film when he is killed by Chekhov's raptor ambush. His buildup made his even more disappointing.

* [[Contested Sequel]]: ''The Lost World'' probably has as many people who like it as people who dislike it. The third movie however... most find it [[So Okay It's Average]] at best.

** The sequel novel ''The Lost World'' was written reluctantly by Crichton under pressure from the filmmakers who wanted to make a sequel film. As a result, it retcons a lot of plot points of the original novel (which was intended to be a standalone work), and Crichton has had no involvement with the franchise since ''The Lost World's'' publishing in 1995; he had no involvement in its 1997 film adaptation, which only uses the book's basic premise.

* [[Crowning Music of Awesome]]: See [[John Williams/Awesome Music]]

* [[Designated Hero]]/[[Designated Villain]]:

** To clarify, first, they intentionally release several multi-ton wild animals into the hunters' camp, destroying their radio equipment. Then, Nick brings the baby T-Rex to the trailer, which brings the parent T-Rexes there, getting Eddie killed, and their radio equipment destroyed, requiring everyone to cross the island to get to a working radio. Then, that was going perfectly fine but went wrong because of Sarah foolishly bringing her jacket with the baby T-Rex's blood on it which again brings one of the T-Rexes to their camp. ''Then'' despite the fact the Roland saved his life, Nick takes the slugs out of Roland's best anti-T. rex weapon, prohibiting the hunters from defending themselves against the rampaging T-Rex, so it chases the hunters straight into the raptors.

** Not just the deaths on the island. Since they're the reason the T-rex was brought to the mainland instead of some herbivores, they're responsible for ''every death in the movie''.

** In the first novel, Lex tells someone to [[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time|"Hey, listen!"]]

* [[Jerkass Sue]]: Nick Van Owen in ''Lost World'' is this in droves. He manages to cause a dinosaur stampede in the hunters' camp (it should be stated the dinosaurs caught are all herbivores that the hunters' employers created and legally owned), helps Sarah move the injured baby Rex into the trailer which causes the loss of Eddie and all their equipment, and then tops it all off by unloading Roland's gun while clearly proud of himself as he flies off in a chopper and leaves the hunters to fight for themselves despite their immense role in helping Nick and his comrades escape. Despite all this, [[Karma Houdini|the movie never takes him to task]] for being an extremist, hypocritical, and moronic asshole.

* [[Memetic Mutation]]:

** "[http://jurassicparkwtf.ytmnd.com/ Holy fucking shit, it's a dinosaur]", "[[Samuel L. Jackson|Hold on to your butts]]", etc.

** "Dodgson! Dodgson! [http://dodgson.ytmnd.com/ We've got Dodgson here!]"

* [[Money Making Shot]]: The iconic ''Tyrannosaur'' escapes the fence and roars scene.

* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: Nick Van Owen is the king of this trope: he takes an injured baby T-Rex back to their vehicles to heal, which results in the parents destroying their equipment and killing Eddie, he releases the dinosaurs the hunters captured and lets them rampage and destroy all methods of communication on the island outside of whatever MIGHT be working at the research facilities, and he unloads Roland's gun to show his displeasure with hunting, preventing him from killing a rampaging T-Rex. He's directly responsible for essentially every single problem faced by the cast.

* [[Nightmare Fuel]]: The roars of the T. Rex, the screeching of the raptors and children being on the menu was downright scary.

* [[Replacement Scrappy]]: The Spinosaurus for the T-Rex.

* [[Reverse Funny Aneurysm]]:

** [[In Soviet Russia|In Mesozoic Era, turkey eats ''you''!]]

** Even better. The so-called "safe" high window in the article below is probably no longer safe with the discovery of flight feathers in raptors. While not using them to fly, per se, they are thought to have maybe used them for something called wing-assisted-incline-running like juvenile flighted birds - which means they could possible run ''straight up sheer walls''...

* [[The Scrappy]]: Amanda Kirby in ''III'' is probably the least popular character in the series for her frequent screaming and general idiocy on an island full of predatory dinosaurs. Kelly from ''The Lost World'' and, though not as commonly, Tim and Lex from the original also have their share of detractors.

** Nick Van Owen from the second film is also widely hated because his self-righteous environmentalist antics cause far more problems than they solve, and often put multiple lives at risk... and yet, he's one of the "good guys" and never receives any sort of comeuppance for his actions. Sara also catches a lot of flack for making a lot of flat-out ''idiotic'' decisions that inevitably piss off the dinosaurs despite being hyped up as an [[Informed Attribute|expert zoologist]].

** There's also a version of this in how some people will smug about the "obvious mistakes" about dinosaur biology and whatnot. Aside from some deliberate breaks with reality for the sake of storytelling, the movie was using pretty up-to-date dinosaur knowledge for the time (or as accurate as something can be in such a hotly-contested field). In fact, one of the reasons the field has progressed so much since this movie and thus proved so much of the dinosaur content wrong is ''because'' this movie caused a massive new interest in paleontology.

* [[Sequelitis]]: ''The Lost World'' was [[Anvilicious]] and lasted a half-hour longer than it should've-a [[Base Breaker]], while the third was just [[So Okay It's Average]] . Ignoring the whole debacle involving the ''T.Rex'' [[Worf Effect]] therein.

* [[Straw Man Has a Point]]:

** ''The Lost World'' falls headfirst into this. The antagonists are supposed to be evil because they claim the dinosaurs are property of the local [[Mega Corp]], when that's ''exactly what they are''; they wouldn't even exist if they hadn't been deliberately created, which also nicely shatters the protagonists' argument that they should be left alone to live naturally, nature having nothing to do with it.

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