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[[File:Jurassic-Park-logo.jpg|frame|Something. Will. Survive.]]
{{quote|''Oh yeah, '[[Visual Effects of Awesome|oooh, ahhh]].' [[Genre Savvy|That's how it always starts]]. [[It Got Worse|Then later there's running, and screaming]].''
|[[Jeff Goldblum|Dr. Ian Malcolm]], in ''The Lost World: Jurassic Park'', neatly summarizes the three first movies in the series.}}
Scientists discover the ability to bring extinct animals back to life via a complex cloning process. To make a profit off this technology, the company decides to build a theme park featuring living dinosaurs: '''''Jurassic Park'''''.▼
▲{{quote|''Oh yeah, '[[Visual Effects of Awesome|oooh, ahhh]].' [[Genre Savvy|That's how it always starts]]. [[It Got Worse|Then later there's running, and screaming]].''|[[Jeff Goldblum|Dr. Ian Malcolm]], in ''The Lost World: Jurassic Park'', neatly summarizes each of the movies in the series.}}
This in itself would not be such a bad idea, except the organizers rush to get it open, build it on a remote island, and have almost no security personnel, deciding to automate the whole thing with [[
▲Scientists discover the ability to bring extinct animals back to life via a complex cloning process. To make a profit off this technology, the company decides to build a theme park featuring living dinosaurs.
▲This in itself would not be such a bad idea, except the organizers rush to get it open, build it on a remote island, and have almost no security personnel, deciding to automate the whole thing with [[AI Is a Crapshoot|unreliable computers]] - even refusing to tell the software designer what the system is for.
[[Rule of Drama|Naturally]], [[Gone Horribly Wrong|everything goes wrong]].
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
Two sequels were made to the original film. While the second film shared the name of the second book ''The Lost World: Jurassic Park,'' (1997) it had a wildly different storyline, mostly due to characters that originally died in the first book coming back. ''Jurassic Park III'' (2001) came out several years later. While neither rose to the 'classic' status of the first film, both were fairly well
A fourth cinematic installment,
{{franchisetropes}}
* [[Action Film Quiet Drama Scene]]: In the middle of the first film, [[Laura Dern]] and Richard Attenborough eat melting ice cream and talk about flea circuses. It's really quite touching.▼
* [[Achilles' Heel]]: For all their intellect, the Velociraptors don’t know what to do when a Tyrannosaurus Rex shows up. (Remain as still as you can.) They decide to try fighting the far larger T-Rex, and it just doesn’t end well.
▲* [[Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene]]: In the middle of the first film, [[Laura Dern]] and Richard Attenborough eat melting ice cream and talk about flea circuses. It's really quite touching.
* [[Action Girl]]: Sarah Harding in the second book. Probably she's the physically strongest character in the book. However, in the second movie, she [[Faux Action Girl|doesn't quite fit this trope]].
** Kelly
* [[Adaptational Badass]]: Inverted with Gennaro. In the novel, he manages to fend off a ''Velociraptor'' attack and survives to the end. In the film, he becomes a [[Dirty Coward]] who dies a particularly embarrassing death.
** In the [[Master System]] game, instead of trying to escape the island, Grant is called to fight and capture the dinosaurs. [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|At the end of the game, he defeats the ''Tyrannosaurus
* [[Adaptational Villainy]]: In the book, Gennaro the lawyer is braver than his counterpart in the movie, whose worst characteristics [[Composite Character|are from the character Ed Regis]], who is absent from the movie. Also, in the book Dennis Nedry had a more understandable reason to betray Hammond, who had shortchanged him. On the subject of Hammond, see [[Adaptation Distillation]] below.
* [[Adaptation Distillation]]: Many side plots from the book are written out in the movie and several characters are combined and their fates change.
** Most notably, in the film, Hammond's character was a kindly old man who just wanted to share the magic of dinosaurs with people. In the novel, he's a manipulative [[Jerkass]] who really just wants people's money, and won't listen to anyone's advice about how dangerous the situation is. Apparently, this was because Spielberg saw a lot of himself in Hammond.
**
* [[Adaptation Explanation Extrication]]: The film is still a very good adaptation, but compressing the book meant removing most of the exposition of the book, which contained some explanations that filled multiple small logic gaps present in the movie, such as why the ''Triceratops'' was sick.
* [[Aesop Amnesia]]: In the second film.
{{quote|'''Hammond:''' Don't worry. I'm not making the same mistakes again.
'''Ian:''' No, you're making all new ones.
* [[Air Vent Passageway]]: A variant
* [[All Animals Are Dogs]]: Nedry assumes this about the dilophosaurus, and tries to distract it by throwing a stick. It doesn't work, so he figures it's just stupid. {{spoiler|Then it eats him.}} Even dogs will prefer a meaty steak to a bone.▼
* [[All-Natural Gem Polish]]: The bugs trapped in amber come out in nice chunks.
▲* [[All Animals Are Dogs]]: Nedry assumes this about the ''dilophosaurus'', and tries to distract it by throwing a stick. It doesn't work, so he figures it's just stupid.
* [[Alternate DVD Commentary]]: There's a [[Riff Trax]] for the first movie featuring [["Weird Al" Yankovic|Weird Al Yankovic]].
** This also doubles as a [[Shout-Out]] to Weird Al's "MacArthur Park" [[Filk Song]] parody, "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gh4zvQfDhi0 Jurassic Park]".
* [[Always a Bigger Fish]]: Grant and co. are finally surrounded by the raptors. The leader of the pack looks right about to pounce... {{spoiler|and then the ''T.
** For the third film, the producers wanted a dinosaur that could kick the ''T.
* [[Always Female]]: Initially to prevent breeding all the dinosaurs are made female...[[Subverted Trope|but due to their partial frog DNA some of them become male]].
* [[Amusement Park of Doom]]: Isla Nublar definitely qualifies. Isla Sorna (in the film continuity, at least) is more of a Wildlife Preserve of Doom.
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'''Malcolm:''' Hold on. This isn't some species that was obliterated by deforestation, or the building of a damn. Dinosaurs ''had'' their shot, and nature selected them for extinction.
'''Hammond:''' I simply don't understand this Luddite attitude, especially from a scientist! I mean, how can we stand in the light of discovery and not act?
'''Malcolm:''' What's so great about discovery? It's a violent, penetrative act that scars what it observes. What you call discovery... I call the rape of the natural world.
* [[Artifact Title]]: Only the first film takes place at Jurassic Park, on Isla Nublar. The second and third films are set on Isla Sorna -- Site B, where the dinosaurs were bred by InGen. This is largely glossed over, even though it's a pretty important plot point in the books.
** Well, in the book, the [[Did Not Do the Research|Costa Rican Air Force]] destroys Isla Nublar after the survivors escape. So it's not like you could have a sequel set on the island that included dinosaurs.
** Discussed in ''Jurassic Park III'':
{{quote|'''Dr. Grant''': Why me?
'''Paul Kirby''': (indicating Udesky) He said we needed someone who'd been on the island before.
'''Dr. Grant''': I have ''never been'' on this island.
'''Udesky''': You mean there's two islands with dinosaurs on them?
* [[Artistic License: Biology]]: ''Dilophosaurus'' was actually about as tall as a man and around 20 feet long. The individual in the film was made a juvenile, so it didn't take away from the raptors or the ''T.
** Though awesomely enough, shortly after the film's release, a new genus called ''Utahraptor'' was discovered, which is somewhat close to the film's Raptors (twice as big). It was originally going to be named ''Utahraptor Spielbergi'', but it ended up being called
** The [[Expanded Universe]], specifically the [[Telltale Games]], implies that these inconsistencies are likely caused by Dr. Wu's "quick and cheap" use of frog DNA, although given that the comments come from a rival scientist who wanted to sequence all the samples and fill in the gaps with DNA from other the dinosaur genomes where they could, but was shot down because it would be much more time consuming and expensive, it can't be proven either way. The book itself also heavily implies this.
** In the third movie, this is given a partial handwave - Dr. Grant tells his class that the dinosaurs on Isla Nublar were not real dinosaurs, and that Ingen genetically modified them - while he doesn't go into details it is generally accepted that all the mutations to the dinosaurs were partly because of merging frog DNA with dinosaur DNA.
* [[Artistic License Geography]]: The scene where Nedry makes the deal to sell the embryos is set in San Jose, Costa Rica at a restaurant next to a beach. In reality, San Jose is completely landlocked, surrounded by mountains and isn't near any large bodies of water.
* [[Ascended Extra]]: Gerry Harding, the chief veterinarian from the first film, plays a major role in the [[Telltale Games]] game. Ironic, since he also played a major role in the book, but was [[Demoted to Extra]] in the movies.
* [[Asshole Victim]]:
* [[Author Filibuster]]: Ye gods, Malcolm did this a lot in the first book. He does it again in the second, but less frequently and less annoyingly (and high off his ass on morphine). The third movie lampshaded his tendency to ramble when Eric says he preferred Grant's book to Malcolm's for precisely this reason.
** It seems Spielberg
* [[Back
* [[Badass]]:
** In the novel, even before the events on the island occur, {{spoiler|Grant}} breaks his leg when his truck falls a hundred feet into a canyon, yet he walks back to his dig in four days without food or water. Once on the island, he faces down a ''T.
** In the novel, {{spoiler|Muldoon}} blows apart a couple raptors with a rocket launcher and faces down a charging ''T.
** Subverted in the first movie: Muldoon and Grant [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|try to kill Velociraptors]]... with a ''shotgun''! It doesn't work either time,
* [[Badass Beard]]: Grant had one in the book.
* [[Badass Bookworm]]: Alan Grant in ''Jurassic Park'', Jack Thorne in ''The Lost World''.
** Grant might be the most Badass character in the whole first novel, {{spoiler|killing ''three Velociraptors'' only with his wits, among other things
{{quote|' ''The girl saw the dying Velociraptors and quietly said:'' "Whoa!" '}}
* [[Bad Vibrations]]: The famous "shaking glass" scene when the ''T.
* [[Bald of Awesome]]: Roland Tembo, the bald big-game hunter hired by the baddies to lead the hunt in the second film. He's bald, and middle aged, but he's on the island to hunt the last big-game creature left - a freaking bull ''Tyrannosaurus
* [[Being Watched]]: Muldoon and his [[Spider Sense|"raptor sense"]].
** It's too late when he's killed by a raptor ambush
* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: In the third, by [[The Cavalry|the Navy and the Marines.]] Also...
* [[Big Damn Villains]]: ...[[Villainous Rescue|the goddamn ''Tyrannosaurus
* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: When we first see the map of Isla Sorna and the surrounding islands in the second film, we can see them explicitly referred to collectively as ''Los Cinco Muertes
** After they land, one of the locals tells them the name.
** One of the other Islands is ''Isla Muerta''--Dead Island. No, not [[Dead Island|the one with the zombies]].
** And in the first film, at the beginning, when Gennaro is being pulled on the raft-thing, the miner says, in Spanish, "Betcha a million bucks he falls!"
** Then he does fall.
** A group of Japanese business men are running from a ''T. Rex'', and one of them shouts: "We left Japan to get ''away'' from [[Godzilla|this]]!"
* [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing]]: The
* [[Black and Nerdy]]: Arby in the ''The Lost World'' novel. Ray Arnold in the first movie
* [[Black Dude Dies First]]: Played straight in the first movie right off the bat with the nameless black
** Averted again in the second film, where a
* [[Both Sides Have a Point]]: No side is being portrayed as being in the wrong while at the dinner table (though Gennaro is indeed kind of silly). Hammond should indeed be careful when he creates life though.
* [[Brick Joke]]:
{{quote|"One, two...
''The fence activates and Tim is blown off. After a scene cut and a few tense moments of reviving him by CPR...''
* coughs* ...Three..."
** Alan at the end of the first movie:
{{quote|Mr. Hammond, after careful consideration I have decided ''not'' to endorse your park.}}
* [[Bring It Back Alive]]: The goal of the InGen hunters in the second film.
* [[By Wall That Is Holey]]: With a hole in a falling car.
{{quote|'''Tim:''' And we're back
** In the second film, Sarah, Ian
* [[Call Back]]: In the second film, when Ian, Nick and Eddie are searching for Sarah, they call out her name repeatedly. At one point, Nick shouts out "Sarah Harding!", which warrants a sarcastic
** There's a blink-and-you'll-miss-it [[Call Back]] in the first ''Jurassic Park'' film. When the Jeeps carrying Gennaro, Lex, Tim, Grant, Ellie
** One that took a few viewings to catch in ''The Lost World'': When Ian ducks into the car to hide from a pursuing raptor, he locks the car door with his foot.
* [[Captain Obvious]]: Sarah in ''The Lost World'' when the parent ''T. Rexes'' show up at the trailer.
{{quote|'''Sarah''': This isn't hunting. They're here for their infant.}}
** [[Sarcasm Mode|No, really?]]
* [[Casual Danger Dialog]]: When Muldoon is about to shoot a raptor and another one ambushes him from the side, he says his "[[Worthy Opponent|Clever girl]]" line calmly and even with a bit of admiration. Hardly the reaction one would normally expect if a large bloodthirsty dinosaur suddenly popped out of the brush, snarling
** This is lampshaded earlier by Ellie, when Muldoon tells her they're being hunted.
{{quote|'''Muldoon''' ''[very calmly]:'' It's all right.
'''Ellie''' ''[near panic]:'' The ''hell'' it is!
** Ian gets one as well before the ''T
{{quote|'''Ian''': Does anyone feel that? That's an impact tremor, that's what is. [[Oh Crap|I'm feeling pretty alarmed]] right here.}}
*** He does this several times in ''The Lost World'' movie most notably when the ''T
{{quote|'''Ian''': Mommy's very angry.}}
***
{{quote|'''Ian''': Hang on, this is gonna be bad.}}
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: A couple in the first novel and movie; a considerable number in the second novel; the most egregious being Kelly's gymnastics in the second film. The frog DNA is the most consistent one across the literature and film.
** The model of the raptor voice box in the third film is one of the most straight-forward examples of this trope in any of the films.
** In the third film, when they escape the Bird-Cage, we see Amanda left the door unlocked and half-open. At the end, we see the ''Pterodactyls'' found their way out of the cage and are flying into the sunset.
* [[Chekhov's Hobby]]: One in each movie. Lex was savvy with computers. Kelly mentions being cut from the the gymnastics team. Billy has experience in base jumping.
* [[Chekhov's Skill]]: The raptors' "Distract with one, flank with another" plan that Grant describes, and that {{spoiler|Muldoon}} falls victim to. Grant probably should've told him about that...
** The speech that Grant uses to describe this plan also qualifies as a [[Chekhov's Gun]].
{{quote|'''Grant:''' ''And that's when the attack comes. Not from the front, but from the side -- from the other two raptors you didn't even know were there.''}}
** In the first novel, the raptors are often referred to as pack hunters, to the point where four of them distract Ellie just so that a fifth could start a sneak attack from the roof.
* [[Child-Hater]]: "Babies smell
** [[Author Appeal|This is generally a shtick in all Spielberg directed films]] in that all fathers or father-figures are either absent or aloof, probably as a result of his parents' divorce when he was a child.
* [[Chewing the Scenery]]: How Robert Muldoon is introduced in the first film. '''''"SSSSHOOOOOOOOOOOOT HHHHHHEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!"'''''
* [[Closer Than They Appear]]: The [[Trope Codifier]] is the view of the charging ''T.
* [[The Comically Serious]]: Samuel L. Jackson made Ray Arnold nothing short of comedic.
* [[Complaining About Rescues They Don't Like]]: Levine does this in the second book, saying that (specifically) Thorne was driving too recklessly from the ''charging Tyrannosaur'', and (generally) that he was doing all right on the island and didn't need help anyway. Bear in mind this is ''after'' his panicked, static-filled phone call begging for help. His rescuers are not pleased.
* [[Composite Character]]: Two examples from ''The Lost World'' novel that were mixed into one for the movie: the [[Wise Beyond Their Years|precocious]] twelve year-old Kelly and black [[Child Prodigy]] Arby, Levine's pupils, were merged into the single character of Kelly, Malcolm's daughter. The rugged, badass Doc Thorne and his younger (but very capable) employee, Eddie Carr, were similarly combined into the movie's relatively mousy Eddie, while book!Eddie's physical appearance was transferred to new character Nick Van Owen. In the first, Gennaro was basically Ed Regis (a [[Jerkass]] publicist from the book), with book!Gennaro's name and law degree.
* [[Continuity Nod]]: Dr. Sarah Harding in ''The Lost World'', who helped nurse Malcolm back to health and dated him for a while, is the daughter of ''Jurassic Park'''s resident veterinarian
* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]: Hammond was noticeably more corrupt and uncaring in the book,
* [[CPR: Clean, Pretty, Reliable]]: Tim is revived easily after being shocked by the electric fence. Also, it somehow puts his hair back in perfect order between scenes.
* [[
** Steven Spielberg's reflection can be seen in the TV screen at the end of ''The Lost World'', when Kelly is watching the news. He's eating popcorn.
* [[Creator 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).
* [[Credits Gag]]: In the credits of ''The Lost World'', the name of the character who is devoured by the ''T. Rex'' in front of the video store is given as "Unlucky Bastard".
* [[Crap Saccharine World]]: In the first film, in the second the pretense is dropped.
* [[The Croc Is Ticking]]: The ''Spinosaurus'' eats a satellite phone
* [[Curiosity Killed the Cast]]: The death toll would have been significantly lower if some of the characters just stayed put.
* [[Danger Takes a Backseat]]: Well, technically, a passenger seat.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Ian Malcolm.
{{quote|'''Ian:''' Now eventually you might have ''dinosaurs'' on your, on your ''dinosaur'' tour, right? Hello? Yes?
'''Hammond:''' ''(watching on camera feed)'' I really hate that man.
** Later:
{{quote|'''Ian:''' ''(After surviving being knocked down by a ''T
'''Ian:''' ''(During the famous Rex chase)'' Must go faster.
'''Ian:''' ''(after being chased by a ''T.
** And let's not forget this classic:
{{quote|'''Hammond:''' This is just a delay. That's all this is; every major theme park has delays. When they opened Disneyland in 1956, nothing worked!
'''Ian:''' Yeah, but John, when the ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]'' breaks down, the pirates don't ''eat'' the tourists!
** Or:
{{quote|'''Grant:''' You married?
'''Ian:''' Occasionally. Yeah, I'm always on the lookout for the future ex-Mrs. Malcom.
** Dennis Nedry also uses this trope, but whenever people, especially Hammond, touch upon financial issues or if he completed a task.
{{quote|'''Hammond:''' I don't blame people for their mistakes, but I do ask that they pay for them.
'''Nedry:''' Yeah thanks, dad.
* [[Demoted to Extra]]: Tim and Lex, now much older, only get a few lines in ''The Lost World'' and are [[What Happened to the Mouse?|never seen or heard from again
* [[Death by Adaptation]]: {{spoiler|Gennaro and Muldoon}} survive in the first novel but are killed in the first film. Whereas,
* [[Death by Genre Savviness]]: {{spoiler|Subverted in the first film, where Ian Malcolm, who has been predicting disaster from the start, is attacked by the ''T
* [[Death World]]: The dinosaur-filled islands themselves, which are even known to Costa Rican locals as "Las Cinco Muertes" (the five deaths). We only get to see Isla Nublar and Isla Sorna though. From ''Jurassic Park III'':
{{quote|'''Alan Grant:''' That's just great. Here we are on the most dangerous island on the planet and we're not even getting paid.}}
* [[Description Cut]]: "[[Tempting Fate|We'll be all right as long as they can't open doors]]."
* [[Deus Ex Machina|Deus]] [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Rex]] [[Deus Ex Machina|Machina]]: In the first film, it appears the protagonists
** It's easy to miss when watching the film, but
* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: In-universe examples: InGen's scientists used frog DNA to complete the strands of several of the island's most significant species without researching the properties of said amphibians or verifying the long-term effects of the modification. The original genetic engineers at the Isla Sorna facility fed the carnivores ground-up protein mixtures, not knowing that this is a prime source for prion infection; all the animals ended up infected across the island, and seem to die relatively young. The heroes make a point of stating how stupid that was.
** Not to mention they thought they were being clever when they made the dinosaurs lysine dependent. It fails, constantly. Mainly because so are most modern vertebrates (like humans). If we manage to take it up just by eating, why wouldn't the dinosaurs?
* [[Different World, Different Movies]]: ''The Lost World'' has a poster for a film version of ''[[King Lear]]'' starring [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]].
* [[Digital Head Swap]]: Possible [[Trope Codifier]] for stunt effects, CGI was used to put an actress's head on a double's body.
* [[Dirty Coward]]:
* [[Disney Death]]: ''Twice'' in the third film.
* [[Do Not Do This Cool Thing]]: The novel was intended as a warning about the dangers of playing God and tampering with nature. Yet, let's be honest. When it was adapted to film, how many people walked out of the theater after seeing it thinking, "Awesome! I wish we could bring dinosaurs back to life! Get cracking, scientists. [[FoxTrot|Increase dinosaur DNA research!]]". This is, of course, because Ian Malcolm's message on why it was bad in the first place was not the focus of the movie.
** It also doesn't help that with all of InGen's lack of planning, one could easily interpret the real message as, "If you're going to play God and tamper with nature, ''do it right.''" Two of the games, ''Park Builder'' and ''Operation Genesis'', actually use this pitch in their advertising.
*** Not when you consider a lot of the so called planning failures in the book, like the way the dinosaur counter works were set up that way for a purpose; it would have been easy for
{{quote|'''Hammond:''' Don't worry. I'm not making the same mistakes again.
'''Ian:''' No, you're making all new ones.
* [[Dramatic Landfall Shot]]
* [[Dropped a Bridge on Him]]:
* [[Dropped Glasses]]:
* [[Dynamic Entry]]: Any large carnivore, like ''Tyrannosaurus'' and ''Spinosarus'', as well as the ''Velociraptors'', practically codify this trope.
* [[Eaten Alive]]: Too many times to count.
* [[Extreme Graphical Representation]]
* [[Expy]]: Roland is basically a [[Jerkass]]-ier version of Robert Muldoon. Think of it
** If referring to the broken leg of the baby ''T
* [[Famous Last Words]]: [[It Can Think|"Clever girl..."]]
** "Stick, stupid - stick! Ah, no wonder you're extinct... I'm gonna run you over when I come back down". Cue [[Poetic Justice]].
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{{quote|"PLEASE! Goddammit! I hate this hacker crap!"}}
* [[Flippant Forgiveness]]: In the second movie, Dr. Malcolm tells Peter Ludlow "When you try to sound like Hammond, it comes off as a hustle. I mean, it's not your fault. They say talent skips a generation. So, I'm sure your kids will be sharp as tacks."
* [[For the Funnyz]]: When Grant touches the (inactive) ''T
* [[For Science!]]: The motivation of InGen's geneticists, and Ian Malcolm's main beef with them.
* [[Foreshadowing]]: In the
** Robert Muldoon expresses concern that the velociraptors would escape, which they did eventually. Though Nedry decided not to tamper with their pen.
** Grant foreshadows how Muldoon will die…and that a kid should show them respect, which Muldoon does. And no, holding still doesn’t work as with the case of the T-Rex, as Grant explains. And yes, Muldoon was alive when the raptor ate him.
**Hammond doesn’t blame people for their mistakes, but he asks people pay for them. So Hammond agrees to pay for his own mistakes. Admittedly, he wasn’t entirely responsible for what happened, but he shouldn’t have bred velociraptors. At least, not without trying to tame them, or doing something about The Big One.
* [[Fossil Revival]]
* [[Freudian Trio]]: With Hammond as the Id, Malcolm as the Superego, and Grant as the Ego.
* [[Genre Savvy]]: In the first film, when Nedry {{spoiler|shut off the power to the park}}, he intentionally left the
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: "Is this... auto... erotica?"
* [[Giant Flyer]] : The various pterosaurs that feature as background characters. The ''Pteranodons'' get [[A Day in the Limelight]] in ''Jurassic Park III''.
* [[Good Is Not Dumb]]: None of the heroes are dumb, John Hammond included. Hammond simply makes mistakes, that’s all. A good example of this is during the dinner table scene, where they all respectfully disagree with Hammond, with the partial exception of Donald Gennaro.
* [[Gone Horribly Right]]: Well into the park's collapse, Wu reflects that the dinosaurs' breeding means he's succeeded at recreating these creatures of the past, enough that they can even reproduce themselves.
* [[Gory Discretion Shot]]: The series loves the "character gets attacked by a dinosaur and dragged offscreen, where a bloodcurdling scream (and maybe a trickle of blood) is used to show that they've been horribly killed" method. Nearly every death that isn't caused by a big dino happens this way.
* [[Great White Hunter]]: Robert Muldoon from the first movie, and Roland Tembo from the second. Muldoon dies; Tembo survives.
* [[The Greatest Story Never Told]]: The [[Telltale Games]] series takes place during and shortly after the events of the first film, from the perspectives of one minor film character and a whole bunch of new ones.
* [[Guns Do Not Work That Way]]: In the third movie, one of the amazingly short-lived mercs has a Barrett M82A2 anti-material rifle, which he fires during one scene. Apparently due to noise ordinances where the scene was filmed, they couldn't actually fire the weapon; the CGI muzzle flash isn't hugely convincing, and the weapon's action rather conspicuously doesn't cycle.
* [[Hacked by a Pirate]]: Probable inversion, as the hacker screen came up only after Samuel Jackson's attempt at hacking Nedry's computer to restore security.
* [[Hands Go Down]]: In ''Jurassic Park
{{quote|'''Grant:''' Does anyone have a question?
''(all hands in the room go up)''
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''(most of the hands go down)''
'''Grant:''' Or the incident in San Diego, which I did not witness?
''(several more hands go down)''
* [[Have You Tried Rebooting]]: When the operators are locked out of the computer system, they restart it entirely and manage to gain access again.
* [[Heroic BSOD]]: Roland from ''The Lost World'' experiences one after learning of Ajay's death.
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: Eddie Carr; Robert Muldoon, arguably
** Billy Brennan and Paul Kirby narrowly avert this to [[Disney Death]] status.
* [[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
{{quote|'''Peter Ludlow:''' I remember the people who help me, Roland. There's a job for you at the park in San Diego, if you want it.
'''Roland Tembo:''' No thank you. I believe I've spent enough time in the company of death.
* [[Idiot Ball]]: Sarah Harding manages to blow off every single one of Ian's warnings throughout the second movie until people actually start dying.
* [[Iconic Logo]]: Illustrated on top of this page. The third movie replaces the ''T.
* [[Infant Immortality]]: Except for {{spoiler|that poor dog}} in the second movie and possibly the boy of the family that owned said dog who took a flash photo of the ''T
** 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
** The little girl in the intro of the second movie [[Gory Discretion Shot|was obviously seriously injured, judging by the mother's screams]]. Hammond later mentions her to Malcolm and has to assure him that she survived.
* [[Instant Sedation]]: Subverted: Two characters in the book use a [[Tranquillizer Dart]] on a ''T.
** Muldoon, the character who does the tranquilizing, actually does mention that the effects of tranquilizing agents depends partly on weight and partly on the species; a badly tranq'd rhino is just mad, a rhino simply chased in a car might pass out. Steve Irwin made a career under the logic that it is safer for an angry crocodile to be jumped on by sweaty Australian guys during capture than depend on its finicky metabolism to process drugs correct. Muldoon could only guess at the ''T
** Subverted again in the second movie, when InGen's mooks accidentally give the ''T.
* [[Ironic Echo]]: In the first movie, Hammond repeatedly tells everybody very proudly that "We've spared no expense." After the park goes completely to hell and his grandchildren and Dr. Grant go missing, he talks with Dr. Harding. She compliments him on the ice-cream and he once again says, rather sadly, "We spared no expense..."
* [[It Can Think]]: Muldoon demands that the
** And, of course, the bit with the raptor climbing the mesh door in the
** And setting a trap for the
* [[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
** In general, the movies love the "frying pan -> fire" approach. Interestingly, in all three movies there's at least one instance where it involved
* [[Justified Tutorial]]: ''Jurassic Park'' for the Sega CD contains information kiosks which play video footage of [[The Cameo|Robert T.]] [[Raptor Red|Bakker]], who explains various dinosaur behaviors, cluing the player in on how to deal with them when encountered.
* [[Karmic Death]]: In the films, almost everyone who gets killed is guilty of ''some'' unscrupulous or evil act that put them in such a predicament (Nedry's death is a particularly obvious example). Only two or three victims are wholly innocent. In the book, a lot of nameless staff die when the raptors invade the compound.
** 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
** In the first novel, the ''Tyrannosaurus'' appears to always be a step ahead of every move Grant and the kids make.
* [[Killer Rabbit]]: "Squeeeeeeeee-hoo-hoo?" Come on, it's only a stupid spitting dilophosaur-- ARGH I'M BLIND!
** This could also be said of the virus Nedry implanted into the computer that killed all the systems, called: whte_rbt.obj
* [[Lampshade Hanging]]: The second book takes an entire chapter to point out how stupid it is to assume a ''T.
** Ian's [[Genre Savvy]] line in the second movie: "Oooh, ahhh. That's how it always starts. But later there's running, and screaming."
* [[Lego Genetics]]: The main reason why the park fails - they used amphibian DNA, the closest thing possible to insert into the damaged DNA code without causing mutations. Except it did. The type of amphibian used can change sexes in unequal-gender conditions.
** 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
*** It sort of [[Fridge Brilliance|makes sense in retrospect]]. If they tried to use something that was genetically closer (which may or may not have been known as such at the time, considering how much research the movie itself spawned) like a chicken, it might have resulted in feathered dinosaurs... an idea that was probably largely considered ridiculous when the movie was made, despite now being an idea that's taken for granted. Since we know InGen was already considering the idea of further modifying the dinosaurs to meet the common cultural perception of the time (slow, plodding, stupid), it may be that after one of the early batches of bird-DNA altered dinosaurs came out "wrong", they decided to switch to something that definitely wouldn't invoke feathers: frogs.
* [[Limited Wardrobe]]: Malcolm's signature all-black ensemble. In the novel, he jokes about how his clothes are all grey and black, so he can get changed in the dark.
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* [[Literary Agent Hypothesis]]: Both novels.
* [[Little Stowaway]]: Kelly in the second movie (Kelly and Arby in the novel version).
* [[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
* [[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.
** Kelly in the second film.
** The parents in the third film.
* [[Look on My Works Ye Mighty and Despair]]: Hammond at the end of the first film is particularly sad, for every reason you can think of.
** Appropriate, as there was an alternate ending for ''Jurassic Park: Trespasser'' where Hammond reads this poem in voiceover.
* [[Lost in the Maize]]: [[Memetic Mutation|"DON'T GO INTO]] [[Shmuck Bait|THE LONG GRASS!"]]
** Naturally, [[Too Dumb to Live|they do
* [[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.
* [[Made of Iron]]: Tim in the first film. That kid goes through ''a lot'' , and while he's a limping, frazzled mess by the end of the movie, many of the things he endured [[Infant Immortality|would have killed a grown man]].
* [[Mama Bear]] and [[Papa Wolf]]: The two ''T.
** Considering how determined the raptors in the third film are to get back their stolen eggs, one can only imagine how fiercely protective they must be of their young...
** Lady Margaret the ''Triceratops'' in the Telltale game.
* [[May-December Romance]]: Applies to the movie, which made Alan and Ellie a couple. Sam Neill and Laura Dern are twenty years apart, so it'd be easy to assume their characters would fall here.
* [[Men Are the Expendable Gender]]: Every human death is male - at least, in the film. It's only implied in the novel.
{{quote|"Dinosaur eats Man; Woman inherits the Earth."}}
** 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
* [[Misplaced Wildlife]]: ''Velociraptor'' bones in Montana. Acknowledged in ''The Lost World'' and in the novel.
** Kookaburras are heard in the second film, even though these birds are native to Australia and the characters are
*** This may have been another case of Hammond importing wildlife for aesthetic reasons (as in the conversation in the first about the poisonous plant life that's there because it looks nice).
* [[The Mole]]: Dennis Nedry, designer and administrator of the park's IT systems, is hired by a competing biogen firm to steal embryos which the rival will then reverse-engineer.
* [[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]]
* [[Night Vision Goggles]]: Relatively realistic ones, too.
* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: Paleontology example: Bob Bakker was namedropped in the first book and film, but got [[Expy|Expied]] into the character of "Robert Burke" in the second film.
* [[Non-Indicative Name]]: In-universe example: the park is called "Jurassic" despite the fact that several of the dinosaurs didn't live in that period (such as the ''T
* [[Non-Malicious Monster]]: The dinosaurs aren't evil, just hungry and/or territorial.
** Except raptors - at least in the first book, where it's stated that they kill even when they are not hungry, just for pleasure. This was later explained as the result of the raptors being bred artificially, thus lacking the social development they'd have gone through if raised in a natural environment, with the benefit of a parent and other peers teaching them proper dino social skills. In short, they were basically creating intelligent
▲* [[Non-Indicative Name]]: In-universe example: the park is called "Jurassic" despite the fact that several of the dinosaurs didn't live in that period (such as the T-Rex and the raptors that lived in the Cretaceous period).
* [[Nose Nuggets]]: The scene where they're in the tree petting the brachiosaurus and it sneezes on Lex, covering her in snot.
* [[Offscreen Teleportation]]: Throughout the first movie, the ''T.
** In fact, creatures being invisible offscreen is pretty common; ''Jurassic Park'''s [[The Reveal|big reveal]] of the Brachiosaurus has a massive dinosaur hiding just off-screen until Grant and the others notice it, whereupon it starts making loud calls and huge, thumping footsteps they couldn't possibly have missed; even if they could, there turns out to be an entire ''herd'' of dinosaurs just off to one side they would ''have'' to have seen on the drive in.
* [[Oh Crap]]: [[Mama Bear|Mama]] and [[Papa Wolf|Papa]] ''T.
** ''"You've bred raptors?"''
** The look on Grant's face when the jeep starts to slide out of that tree. Not to mention the looks on everyone's faces when they realize what happened to the goat...
** The first book has its major [[Oh Crap]] moment following Ian's [[Wham! Line]]:
** 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
** Tim realizing that the herd of Gallimimus was suddenly "flocking" into their direction in the first film. "They're, uh... they're flocking this way", indeed.
* [[The Only One Allowed to Defeat You]]: Roland Tembo evokes this trope as his reason for wanting to hunt the male ''Tyrannosaurus''.
{{quote|'''Roland''': "Somewhere on this island is the greatest predator who ever lived. Second greatest predator must take him down."}}
* [[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
* [[Parachute in a Tree]]: In the third movie, a character falls victim to this and is later found half-eaten and still dangling from the canopy.
* [[Peek-a-Boo Corpse]]: In both versions, a hand falls on Ellie and they both think the man the limb belongs to is alive... until they turn around.
** Would Amanda Kirby's last encounter with Ben Hildrebrand count too?
* [[Phlebotinum Dependence]]: The dinosaurs are deliberately deprived of lysine. {{spoiler|It doesn't work
* [[Precocious Crush]]: In the film version, Lex has one for Grant.
* [[Precision F-Strike]]: Ray Arnold's reaction to {{spoiler|[[Hacked by a Pirate|Nedry's hacker picture]]
{{quote|''(Hacker picture comes up on another monitor)''
'''Nedry portrait:''' ''(Wagging finger)'' Ah ah ah, You didn't say the magic word. ''(repeats "ah ah ah")''
'''Arnold:''' Please! Goddamn it! I hate this hacker crap!
* [[Ptero-Soarer]]: The ''Pteranodons''.
* [[Raptor Attack]]: [[Trope Maker]] and [[Trope Codifier]].
* [[Reaction Shot]]: [[Pokémon|A wild]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jc88zKVHZ4I&feature=related Raptor] [[Memetic Mutation|appeared!]]
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* [[Redshirt Army]]: The bad guys in the second movie show up with a fairly large one. Surprisingly, while it's always obvious that they're there for cannon fodder, they make it through quite a bit of the movie unscathed before dying wholesale within the span of a few minutes.
* [[Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated]]: Malcolm in the book series.
* [[Revision]]: Why the ''T.
* [[Riff Trax]]: See [[Alternate DVD Commentary]] above.
* [[Roar Before Beating]]: Each movie has at least one scene that exists pretty much just to show off the dinosaurs (the "Ooh, aah" part of Malcolm's above quote), [[Theme Music Power-Up|usually set to the main theme]].
* [[Rule of Scary]]
* [[Scenery Porn]]: It was filmed in Hawaii.
* [[
* [[Science Is Bad]]: Stronger in the book than the movie, though not as strong as some of Crichton's later novels.
* [[See No Evil Hear No Evil]]: It fails in the first movie, and it's [[Lampshaded]] in
* [[Shout-Out]]: The ''T. Rex'' rampage in San Diego is so much ''[[Godzilla]]'' that it even has [[Japanese Tourist|Japanese Tourists]].
** 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/PSEUDOSC/ATMOVIEDNA.HTM 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''.
▲* [[See No Evil Hear No Evil]]: It fails in the first movie, and it's [[Lampshaded]] in the ''Lost World'' book.
** Roland Tembo and Nick Van Owen in the second film. [[wikipedia:Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner|Someone is a Warren Zevon fan...]]
* [[Shout-Out]]: In the first film, the shot of the T-Rex wolfing down the goat before looking at the jeeps is modeled after the shot of the Rancor wolfing down the Gamorrean guard before looking at Luke in ''[[Return of the Jedi]]''.▼
** 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".
▲*
* [[Shown Their Work]]: The book takes an excruciatingly long time explaining the genetic science in-depth, before any of the main characters show up or the first hints of the park are mentioned. It is legitimately fascinating, though. Crichton also spends a fair amount of time on computer science and chaos theory. This is a storytelling device of Crichton's in every one of his books, however, with whatever the book is centered on.
** Also, while [[Science Marches On|most of the information pertaining to the dinosaurs is very out of date]], a lot of it was considered to be very accurate when the book was written, with a couple of deviations for [[Rule of Cool]], such as dilophosaurus being able to spit venom; this was also likely [[Rule Of Plot]] to help illustrate that they simply couldn't know everything about the creatures they were recreating, since there might be no way to tell the creature had a venom sack from its bones.
* [[Slasher Smile]]: One of the
* [[Slow Electricity]]: In the first film, when the main switch is turned back on, the hall lights come on one at a time.
** Mocked by [[Weird Al]] in the [[Riff Trax]].
* [[Smug Snake]]: Dennis Nedry in the first film.
* [[Somewhere a Palaeontologist Is Crying]]: Justified.
** 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:
* [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]: The main theme song is a grandiose and adventurous piece fitting for Hammond's vision for the theme park as a whole. Completely ignoring the real horrors that happen such as feeding live animals to the dinosaurs and of course what happens when the power gets switched off.
* [[So Last Season]]: How do we truly know the ''Spinosaurus'' means business? He kills the ''T.
* [[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.
* [[Stan Winston]]: The genius responsible for the live-action dinosaurs when the computer guys are taking a break.
* [[Starring Special Effects]]
* [[Stay in the Kitchen]]: Hammond to Sattler in the first book/movie. Although in the movie, it was more [[Values Dissonance|his old fashioned values]] instead of being a jerk.
* [[Stock Dinosaurs]]: ''[[Tyrannosaurus Rex]]'', ''Triceratops''
** In the first novel, Wu
* [[Stupid Scientist]]
* [[Super-Persistent Predator]]: Goes between subverting and using quite a lot in both the novel and film. In the second novel, it is mentioned that the raptors, born without a pack mentality and "code" due to no
* [[Surprisingly-Sudden Death]]: {{spoiler|The
* [[Suspiciously Stealthy Predator]]: So who, exactly, told that ''T.
* [[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 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.
* [[Techno Babble]]: Doctor Wu's tour. Justified -- they're explaining how they did it.
* [[Theme Music Power-Up]]: The ''Jurassic Park'' theme kicks in for ''T.
* [[There Are Two Kinds of People in the World]]: In ''Jurassic Park III'':
{{quote|'''Dr. Grant:''' There are two kinds of boys: Astronauts and Astronomers.}}
* [[This Is Sparta]]: "People - are - ''dying!"''
* [[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,
* [[Toilet Humour]]
{{quote|'''Ian Malcolm''': I hope you remember to wash your hands before you eat anything.}}
** 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
* [[Too Clever by Half]]: Ian Malcolm accuses Hammond and his team of genetic scientists of this.
{{quote|'''Ian Malcolm''': I'll tell you the problem with the scientific power you're using here: it didn't require any discipline to attain it. You read what others had done, and you took the next step. You didn't earn the knowledge for yourselves, so you don't take any responsibility for it. You stood on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as you could, and before you even knew what you had, you, you've patented it, and packaged it, you've slapped it on a plastic lunchbox, and now you're selling it! You want to sell it!
'''John Hammond''': I don't think you're giving us our due credit. Our scientists have done things which nobody's ever done before...
'''Ian Malcolm''': Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could that they didn't stop to ''think if they should''!
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: Quite a few.
** Lex in the first film, turning on the flashlight while the ''T. Rex'' is approaching the jeep.
*** 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.
** Arnold, the engineer who goes alone to [[Big Red Button|push the button]] while everyone else, including a wildlife hunter, hide into the bunker, waiting for [[Lightning Can Do Anything|the power to come back]].
** Sarah Harding in the second film. She is
*** Not just the baby ''T
*** Nick Van Owen, as mentioned above. Bringing the injured infant to camp right after loosing all captured dinosaurs on the InGen base led directly to the loss of both campsites.
*** It's hard to comprehend the fear and panic that one would feel upon waking up and discovering a ''T. Rex'' right by you
** 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
* [[Understatement]]:
** "Mr. Hammond, after careful consideration, I've decided ''not'' to endorse your park." Neither does Hammond.
* [[Un Paused]] : When Tim is stuck on the fence, he gets ready to jump on "three
* [[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>
**
** Averted in the first movie with Arnold's terminal and his attempted bypass of Nedry's sabotage. That was all command-line.
* [[Viewers are Morons]]: Justified. Back when the first movie came out, DNA wasn't a household term, so the lengthy explanation was necessary at the time. Modern audiences, however, probably feel like the movie is insulting their intelligence.
** This is also justified in universe as well. It's supposed to be for the kids, as Hammond explicitly points out. Very simplistic, lots of dramatic music and cool animals. Y'know, just like the movie.
* [[Villainous Rescue]]: In the first film, Grant, Sattler and the kids are cornered
** The villains from the second film save Ian and the others from dangling over a cliff and help them to escape the island. Ian and the others are extremely ungrateful for this... some of his group ''murderously'' so.
* [[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
** It's possible that he just got the hell out and never looked back.
** It's never mentioned what happened to the dinosaurs on Isla Nublar after the events of the first movie. In the book, they were
*** 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.
** In a deleted scene in the second film, we see Ludlow addressing the InGen board about the lawsuits associated with the deaths of Nedry, Muldoon, Gennaro and others. He also mentions the costs of dismantling the Isla Nublar facility.
* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?]]: The Robert Bakker [[Expy]] gets killed when his aversion to snakes get him eaten by the ''T
* [[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.
* [[Wise Beyond Their Years]]: Arby and Kelly in the second book. Justified in that Arb is a child prodigy, albeit naive, and Kel is very smart and enjoys being with smart people. Eric from the third film is smarter than most of the other characters put together.
* [[The Worf Effect]]: The ''T
** The raptors also qualify. They kill Muldoon the [[Great White Hunter]] in the first film and almost all of Ludlow's [[Mooks]] in the second... which would probably make it all the more embarrassing that they are defeated by ''[[Infant Immortality|Lex and Timmy]]'' in the first film, and ''[[Little Miss Badass|Kelly]]'' in the sequel.
* [[The Worm Guy]]: Alan Grant in the first installment, and Dr. Levine in the second novel.
* [[You Do NOT Want to Know]]: Eric says this in response to Grant's question about how he got a jar full of ''T.
* [[Zerg Rush]]: The [[Killer Rabbit|compies]] use this move in the second movie, turning poor Stark into...
{{quote|'''Malcom:''' Did you find him?
'''Roland:''' [[Fridge Horror|Just the parts they didn't like.]]
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