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The book was written by [[Michael Crichton]], while the 1993 movie was directed by [[Steven Spielberg]]. Both were insanely popular then and are considered modern classics now. The film is labeled as having one of the most revolutionary breakthroughs in visual effects that changed movie-making. Despite going to great lengths to create extremely convincing animatronic dinosaurs, this was balanced with groundbreaking realistic CGI ones. The CGI involved essentially killed the use of [[Muppet|Muppets]] and stop motion in modern film. Besides the requisite Hollywood mistakes, many paleontologists and dinosaur fanatics also loved it. [https://web.archive.org/web/20111227233347/http://www.hulu.com/watch/31366/jurassic-park-welcome-to-jurassic-park The moment] in the film where the characters first come across a dinosaur in full view and are just blown away, "...it's a dinosaur!" could be the new generation's equivalent to the Star Destroyer overhead from ''[[Star Wars]]''. The movie was named to the [[National Film Registry]] in 2018.

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** Kelly MalcomMalcolm [[Took a Level Inin Badass|becomes this]] during the climactic fight within the island interior in the second movie, using '''''[[Chekhov's Skill|gymnastics]]''''' to knock a full-grown adult ''Velociraptor'' over, managing to get it impaled.

* [[Back Fromfrom the Dead]]: {{spoiler|Robert Muldoon}} in the Topps comic series. In the new IDW comic series, {{spoiler|Peter Ludlow from ''The Lost World''}}. {{spoiler|Ian Malcolm}} in the second novel.

* [[Creator in In-Joke]]: "You're out of a job", "Don't you mean extinct?" was originally an exchange between Spielberg and Phil Tippett, after seeing an ILM cinematic proving that Tippet's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skSXW8D9ib8 go-motion] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEK9mitagS8 dinos] wouldn't be necessary (Tippett was still kept as an adviser).

* [[For the Funnyz]]: When Grant touches the (inactive) ''T. Rex'' paddock fence in the first film and acts as if he's being electrocuted. Alexis is [[Dude, Not Funny|not amused,]], but Tim thought it was funny as hell.

* [[Foreshadowing]]: In the Thirdthird film, when Mr. Kirby tells Grant that he can pay him any amount of money, the song in the background plays the line, "And I lie, lie, lie..."

* [[Genre Savvy]]: In the first film, when Nedry {{spoiler|shut off the power to the park}}, he intentionally left the Raptorraptor fences powered because he knew how dangerous they were.

* [[Giant Flyer]] : The various pterosaurs that feature as background characters. The ''Pteranodons'' get [[A Day in the Limelight]] in ''Jurassic Park III''.

* [[Great White Hunter]]: Robert Muldoon from the first movie, and Roland Tembo from the second. Muldoon dies; Tembo survives.

* [[Hands Go Down]]: In ''Jurassic Park 3III'', when Dr. Grant is giving a lecture:

* [[Hidden Depths]]: In ''The Lost World'', Roland Tembo. Although working for InGen, he shows concern for the safety of Kelly, and his own crew, and at the end seems to realize he's been on the wrong side.

** This is in the movies only. Sucks to be the baby that gets its ''face ripped off'' by compies in the first book. It extends past humans, too, {{spoiler|1=when Tim tried to distract two ''Velociraptors'' that followed him and Lex by sending a baby raptor found in the InGen lab to them. The adult raptors immediately slaughtered the baby.}}. This scene was roughly adapted for the screen... by an episode of ''[[Primeval]]''.

* [[It Can Think]]: Muldoon demands that the ''Velociraptors'' be killed as they're far too intelligent; testing the electric fence for weaknesses (but never the same spot twice; "They remember," he warns) before they were moved to their high-walled prison. {{spoiler|They seem to realize when the power is cut and claw their way through the electrified wire at the top (it's mentioned they test the fences for weaknesses). Even Muldoon underestimates their intelligence - as he's stalking one ''Velociraptor'', another ambushes him from the side. His [[Famous Last Words]] are a genuinely admiring, "Clever girl!" And of course there's that [[Tempting Fate]] scene: "We'll be all right as long as they can't open doors."}}

** And, of course, the bit with the raptor climbing the mesh door in the 3rdthird movie.

* [[It Got Worse]]: The situation is bad enough with most of the dinosaurs running wild and no way of contact with the main land. Then the ''Velociraptors'' get loose

** In general, the movies love the "frying pan -> fire" approach. Interestingly, in all three movies there's at least one instance where it involved ''Velociraptors'': - inIn the first, as noted, the bad situation gets worse when everyone realizes the raptors are loose and very intelligent. In the second, the camp is attacked by two ''Tyrannosauruses'' at once, and the entire [[Redshirt Army]] runs for the hills... directly into a colony of raptors, which makes short work of the survivors. In the third, the troupe is lost on the island and has no way of knowing where they are, and things only get worse when {{spoiler|one of them steals raptor eggs}}, and another colony of raptors starts tracking them throughout the island. And that's not getting into all the times they run with the "our machinery is messing up when suddenly the ''T-. Rex'' shows up to make things worse" angle.

** This is even more true for the novel, as not one of the responsible persons has thought of the consequences of [[What Could Possibly Go Wrong?|reviving the largest predators ever to walk the earth]]. {{spoiler|And all of them save two die horribly.}}.

* [[Kill All Humans]]: ''Tyrannosaurs'' and ''Velociraptors'' come running for the great taste of human!

** In the first novel, the ''Tyrannosaurus'' appears to always be a step ahead of every move Grant and the kids make.

** And using it is kind of stupid when you think about it, given that amphibians and reptiles share different ''classes'', as compared to say chickens and dinosaurs, which start differing at the ''sub-order'' level, (i.e. about 6 evolutionary steps closer).

* [[Living Motion Detector]]: ''Tyrannosaurs'', though only in the first movie. In the book, a paleontologist named Roxton theorized this was the case, and Grant acts on it to protect him and Lex from one. It's stated that ''all'' the park's dinosaurs have this problem, due to the frog DNA used to patch holes in their genetics.

** This became a subject of discussion in ''The Lost World.''. It's pointed out that Grant was working off ''really'' bad data out of sheer desperation, as there really wasn't any other way for him to have gotten out of that situation alive. Levine, a more well-read genius, states that, "Roxton is an idiot. [[You Fail Biology Forever|He doesn't know enough anatomy to have sex with his wife.]]" The reason the ''T. Rex'' didn't chow down on Grant and Lex was because the goat it had eaten moments before was enough to fill its appetite for several hours. {{spoiler|Baselton isn't aware of this, and tries the same stunt with a ''hungry'' ''T. Rex''. While '''stealing eggs from its nest.''' It eats him whole.}}.

* [[The Load]]: Lex in the book, ''dear God''. She doesn't even ''like'' dinosaurs, so why did she even get invited to the island? It should be noted that she is ''much'' older in the movie; in the book, she is younger than Timmy is in the films, one of the things the movie improves.

** Appropriate, as there was an alternate ending for ''Jurassic Park: Trespasser'' where Hammond reads this poem in voiceover.

** Naturally, [[Too Dumb to Live|they do,]], and [[Hilarity Ensues]]. The clip from the [[Reaction Shot]] entry, which comes from this scene, is ''priceless.''.

* [[Lowered Monster Difficulty]]: The third movie has an particularly bizarre moment where the ''Spinosaurus'', who was so hellbent on eating them that it bust through a massive reinforced fence 10 seconds previously... is suddenly unable to break through an ordinary metal door and decides to give up after a few bangs on it.

* [[Mama Bear]] and [[Papa Wolf]]: The two ''T. Rex''ess in ''The Lost World'' (novel and movie) are ''not'' going to let ''anyone'' hurt or take their babies away.

** Lady Margaret the ''Triceratops'' in the Telltale game.

** To be fair, there is only [[The Smurfette Principle|1 woman in each film]] (and 1 girl in the first and second films) the chance that one of the very few women being killed are statistically lower than that of the 8+ men in each film.

* [[Minion with an F In Evil]]: Howard King in the second novel; he considers it part of his job to rein in Lewis Dodgson's ruthless side, seems truly horrified when Dodgson seemingly murders Sarah Harding, and is the first to acknowledge that maybe this whole egg theft isn't a good idea. {{spoiler|It doesn't save him.}}.

** Kookaburras are heard in the second film, even though these birds are native to Australia and the characters are supposed to be in Costa Rica. Also, in the third film, gibbons (native to South East Asia) can be heard.

* [[Never My Fault]]: Hammond does this near the end of the book, blaming the park's failure on everybody who came to the island except for himself. {{spoiler|Cue [[Karmic Death]].}}.

** The first book has its major [[Oh Crap]] moment following Ian's [[Wham! Line]]: Thethe security system is designed to count each species of dinosaur ''up to'' the expected number of said species, and then stops. It can tell instantly if an animal's gone missing. It doesn't say if the animals increase their numbers. They reconfigure it to do so, and [[Oh Crap]] ensues when they realize the dinosaur population is over 50% bigger than expected.

** In the movie, the two kids have gotten back to the main buildings, and are tucking into food... when the girl looks up, and has a classic [[Oh Crap]] moment when she realizes she's looking at the shadows of raptors in the next room, moving around.

** The book has a whole string of these after the ''T. Rex'' is sedated. Alarms go off in the Control Room announcing that the ''Auxiliary'' power is running out. After the power goes out, they realize that they have been running on auxiliary power ever since they rebooted the system, which means that all the fences ''including the Raptorraptor cage'' have been offline for 8 hours.

* [[The Only One Allowed to Defeat You]]: Roland Tembo evokes this trope as his reason for wanting to hunt the male ''Tyrannosaurus''.

* [[Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping]]: In the first movie, Sam Neill's American accent holds up pretty well, except for one line during the scene where {{spoiler|he throws the stick at the fence.}}.

* [[Phlebotinum Dependence]]: The dinosaurs are deliberately deprived of lysine. {{spoiler|It doesn't work.}}.

* [[Precision F-Strike]]: Ray Arnold's reaction to {{spoiler|[[Hacked by a Pirate|Nedry's hacker picture]].}}.

* [[Ptero-Soarer]]: The ''Pteranodons''.

* [[Riff Trax]]: See [[Alternate DVD Commentary]], above.

* [[SchrodingerSchrödinger's Cast]]: Several characters, most notably John Hammond.

* [[See No Evil Hear No Evil]]: It fails in the first movie, and it's [[Lampshaded]] in the ''The Lost World'' book.

** There's probably no way to prove or disprove that, but ''T. Rex'' in San Diego might also be a reference to a short SF story ''Paleontology: An Experimental Science'' [[Older Than They Think|published in 1974]]. Its plot [http://books.google.com/books?id=N8qXUT06WucC&pg=PA129&lpg=PA129&dq=%22olsen%27s+earlier+entry%22+paleontology+%22an+experimental+science&source=bl&ots=7PQOWrLoyl&sig=4v9VV63lsRPn-_bvHS2iAN-FOJ8&hl=pl&ei=EHMyTKHsB4eWOMnA1KoG&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBQQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22olsen%27s%20earlier%20entry%22%20paleontology%20%22an%20experimental%20science&f=false involved reconstituting dinosaurs from DNA preserved in fossilized bone and skin fragments...] [https://web.archive.org/web/20150906101639/http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/pseudoscPSEUDOSC/atmoviednaATMOVIEDNA.htmHTM and it ended with the reconstructed Tyrannosaurus getting loose in San Diego]. It might also be a reference to another short story involving dinosaurs recreated from DNA that predated ''Jurassic Park'', i.e. [[Robert Silverberg|Robert Silverberg's]] ''Our Lady of the Sauropods''. In this story, the resurrected dinosaurs were isolated on the "Dino Island" ([[Non-Indicative Name|which was actually a space station]]) "after that unfortunate San Diego event with the tyrannosaur"... which itself was a reference to aforementioned ''Paleontology: An Experimental Science''.

** Cooper being {{spoiler|the first one to die, and doing so virtually the second he sets foot on the island}}, could be a shout-out to ''[[Dino Crisis]]'', where a team member named Cooper does the exact same thing.

** The cardboard standee of [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]] as [[King Lear]] may be a combination of [[Take That]] against ''[[Last Action Hero]]'' as well as a [[Shout-Out]] to a [[Steven Spielberg]] produced cartoon, ''[[Animaniacs]]'', where it was a line from the song, "Variety Speak".

* [[Slasher Smile]]: One of the ''raptors'' makes one as he catches sight of the kids escaping the kitchen and gets ready to follow in the first film.

** Mocked by [[Weird Al]] in the [[Riff Trax]].

* [[Somewhere a Palaeontologist Is Crying]]: Justified. IngenInGen had to extrapolate from the decayed DNA. The third movie and the book even acknowledged that what was created weren't true dinosaurs. This is also mentioned in the 2ndsecond novel.

** It could have even been intentional, given the conversations between Hammond and Wu in the novel about intentional alterations to the genetic code to produce "domesticated" dinosaurs: - Basicallybasically, what visitors would expect based on existing pop-cultural depictions of dinosaurs. It would explain the [[Bigger Is Better|big raptors]], [[Rule of Cool|frilled, venom spitting dilophosaur]], and noticeably featherless dinosaurs.

* [[So Last Season]]: How do we truly know the ''Spinosaurus'' means business? He kills the ''T. rexRex'' without much effort!

* [[Spared by the Adaptation]]: {{spoiler|Hammond and Wu}}, die in the first book, but survive in the first movie. Also {{spoiler|Ian Malcolm}}, until the second book [[Retcon|retconned]] his death.

* [[Stock Dinosaurs]]: ''[[Tyrannosaurus Rex]]'', ''Triceratops'', and ''Brachiosaurus'' all make appearances, and ''Velociraptor'' itself became a stock dinosaur because of the movie. In the novels, they were specifically chosen to appeal to people.

** In the first novel, Wu explicitly states that they didn't breed the largest sauropods because, well, they would have been ''too huge'' for the park. So instead of ''Brachiosaurs'', they chose ''Apatosaurs'', which aren't much smaller.

* [[Surprisingly-Sudden Death]]: {{spoiler|The ''Velociraptors'' first kill Muldoon by springing a decoy trap, eating him alive with the obligatory screaming, to show they have managed to escape their pen}}.

* [[Take That]]: In the third film, Grant and the others are being attacked by the ''Spinosaurus'', so Grant uses the satellite phone to call Ellie for help. Her toddler son picks it up, and he would have gotten it to his mother a lot quicker were he not distracted by [[Barney and Friends|another dinosaur]]....

** In ''The Lost World,'', there's notable diss to paleontologist Robert T. Bakker. Quick history lesson: Dr. Bakker has been a longtime rival of Dr. Jack Horner, the ''Jurassic Park'' series' official paleontological consultant. Horner is well known for having a massive ego (he proudly states that he was the inspiration for Dr. Grant's character), and always seemed to be in a perpetual state of bickering with Dr. Bakker, even on the most petty of speculative topics (such as the ''T. Rex'''s eyesight, which there is no way of actually studying). And thus in the''The Lost World'', Dr. Bakker is given his very own [[Captain Ersatz]], a bumbling poser who gets scared out of hiding by a snake, and [[Dropped a Bridge on Him|into the jaws of a ''T. Rex'']]. Bakker seemingly loved the scene, though.

** Dr. Bakker is also dissed in the first film, when Tim is pestering Dr. Grant about books that he read written by Bakker and Grant himself. Tim is shut up when he first mentions Bakker by Grant promptly slamming the car door of the jeep Tim is inside of closed.

** Some of the sting was probably taken out of all this by the fact that book!Grant is an [[Expy]] of Bakker himself.

* [[Theme Music Power-Up]]: The ''Jurassic Park'' theme kicks in for ''T. Rex'' herself, who proceeds to kick raptor ass and save the day.

* [[This Way to Certain Death]]: Yes, Dr. Malcolm, continue to shout for [[Hey, It's That Guy!|Vince Vaughn's character]] in the middle of a run-down and suspiciously quiet complex. No ''Velociraptors'' here, no siree.

* [[Toilet Humour]] -: "Dino...droppings?" -- "That is one big pile of shit." {{spoiler|said by Ian as another scientist goes arm-deep in a gigantic pile of ''Triceratops'' feces, looking for traces of poisonous berries}}:

** Turned [[Up to Eleven]] in the third film, where everyone has to go digging in ''Spinosaurus'' dung to find the satellite phone. Not to mention Eric keeping a flask of ''T. Rex'' urine in his trailer. This, in turn, was turned [[Up to Eleven]] by [[Land of the Lost (TV series)|Will Marshall]].

*** Partially justified, as she is quite young and was in a state of panic, so not thinking clearly. The other characters do tell her to turn off the flashlight, but at first, she's too panicked to listen and then can't find the off button due to the aforementioned panic.

** Sarah Harding in the second film. She is supposed to be a wildlife expert, yet she foolishly allows Nick to bring the injured ''T. Rex'' baby back to their camp, resulting in the total loss of their fortified, radio-equipped campsite and the death of {{spoiler|Eddie Carr}}. She also foolishly wears the jacket covered in the baby ''T. Rex''&#39;'s blood while crossing the island, which once again brings one of the ''T. RexesRex''s to the camp, killing multiple people, and chasing other straight into the raptors. Made even worst by the fact that not only had she stated how bringing the infant to camp had widened the Rexes''T. Rex''s' territory, but she had ''also'' been the one to originally warn about the ''T. Rex''&#39;s' extremely acute sense of smell. Could be explained by the fact that her character was merged with that of Richard Levine from the book, who exhibits [[Too Dumb Toto Live]] behavior at times. Especially considering she spent her first few scenes admonishing everyone that they couldn't interfere, interact, contaminate the environment, get involved and were were merely observers on the island...

*** Not just the baby ''T. Rex''. The audience should have known she was an idiot the moment she approached the baby ''Stegosaurus''. You do not do this to ''any'' wild animal's baby, ''especially'' if its a social animal that spends a lot of time in a herd and raising its young. They call them [[Mama Bear]] and [[Papa Wolf]] for a reason, lady.

*** It's hard to comprehend the fear and panic that one would feel upon waking up and discovering a ''T. Rex'' right by you,; however, it would have been a good idea for the hunters to remain still and not run.

** In the third film, Mrs. Kirby seems to genuinely not understand why Grant is advising her not to shout through a megaphone while wandering aimlessly through a jungle full of giant, feral predators. Mr. Kirby too; at one point, he tells his wife to shut up because "Dr. Grant says this is very dangerous territory"." Obviously, being chased by a ''Spinosaurus'' and a ''T. Rex'' within seconds of each other wasn´'t enough for him to realize that by himself...

* [[Un Paused]] : When Tim is stuck on the fence, he gets ready to jump on "three.". He gets blown off on "two". When he comes to, he finishes the countdown.

* [[Viewer-Friendly Interface]]: In the first movie, Lex is able to lock down the visitor center's doors by a highly-visual [[UNIX]] program<ref>whichWhich is a real file system, but in reality one made for display, not use.</ref>. The book's version is more practical, but still unfriendly to uninitiated users. Of course, anyone who would be using it was presumably expected to have some sort of training.

** The ''The Lost World'' book parodies this when the InGen OS turns it into a useless cube that angers the characters, who are trying to escape feral raptors, more and more. {{spoiler|The character eventually gets the bright idea to just follow the cables the computer is running on, which are, quite logically, in a crawlspace so they can be serviced. By the time the raptors get in, they're gone.}}.

* [[Villainous Rescue]]: In the first film, Grant, Sattler and the kids are cornered {{spoiler|by the ''Velociraptors'', who are just about to attack when the ''T. Rex'' comes out of nowhere and slaughters them.}}.

* [[What Could Possibly Go Wrong?]]: Really, what could possibly happen if you were to let giant animals you know nothing about inhabit an entire island and show them as part of a theme park? (And rely entirely on automation to keep it safe?) [[Sarcasm Mode|Surely, they wouldn't bite anyone if they had the chance.]]

* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]: Vince Vaughn's character Nick from ''The Lost World'' disappears from the film before the ''T-. Rex'' makes it to the city. His disapearance is never explained.

** It's never mentioned what happened to the dinosaurs on Isla Nublar after the events of the first movie. In the book, they were {{spoiler|all killed by Costa Rican Air Force}}, but in the movie... they were just left free? In the second film, it is implied that everyone expected the dinosaurs to die by themselves after a short time, them being lysine dependant and all that.

*** The junior novelization also mentions Alan internally lamenting that the dinosaurs "would have to be destroyed", thus one can assume this does indeed happen. Of course, keyword here being junior, that's probably because it omits the discussion about the lysine contingency.

* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?]]: The Robert Bakker [[Expy]] gets killed when his aversion to snakes get him eaten by the ''T-. Rex''. Every [[Oh Crap]] moment from Alan Grant is based on this, too. The worst part is that the snake was a completely harmless milk snake.

* [[A Winner Is You]]: Many ''[[Jurassic Park]]'' games don't bother with endings and just show players a lame and often lazy cutscene of the hero escaping the dinosaurs' island.

* [[The Worf Effect]]: The ''T. Rex'' suffers an epic one in the 3rdthird film from none other than the goddamn ''Spinosaurus,'', which would have been physically incapable of killing a ''T. Rex'' in [[Real Life]] - at the very least, not without sustaining extremely serious injury. [[Somewhere a Paleontologist Is Crying]] indeed!

* [[The Worm Guy]]: Alan Grant in the first installment, and Dr. Levine in the second novel.

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