Jurassic World Dominion’s Prologue Is Another T-Rex Disservice
Jurassic World: Dominion’s prologue shows a T-Rex putting up a disappointing performance in a fight – another insult to the franchise’s biggest star.
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The recently released Jurassic World: Dominion prologue once again throws the great Tyrannosaurus Rex under the bus. Despite being a staple of the franchise for nearly 30-years, the iconic super-predator has been sidelined in several recent films. If the Jurassic World: Dominion prologue is any indication, this trend is set to continue.
Jurassic World: Dominion marks the third installment of Jurassic World, which kicked off in 2015, and is itself a reboot of the Jurassic Park franchise of the ’90s. The whole anthology of Jurassic Park features many iconic T-Rex moments. In several of these, the movies’ original T-Rex comes off as something of a hero, from saving the cast from velociraptors in the original film to helping defeat the Indominus Rex at the end of Jurassic World. This King of the Dinosaurs is probably the franchise’s most essential character, though the featured dino is female, making her more of a queen. However, Jurassic Park also has a history of slighting some of its other T-Rexes in key fight scenes, such as the T-Rex vs. Spinosaurus battle in Jurassic Park III, in which the Spinosaurus dispatches the T-Rex easily in well under a minute.
Jurassic World: Dominion’s T-Rex moment in the prologue does the King the greatest disservice yet. Set in the late Cretaceous Period, it shows a roughly ten-second fight between a Giganotosaurus and a Tyrannosaurus. The Giga kills the T-Rex so swiftly that a viewer could almost miss it, an outcome that has realistic components, but which also represents a somewhat extreme insult to Jurassic Park’s central figure that serves only to forward the film’s plot.
As a franchise that centers around dinosaurs, it’s natural for Jurassic Park/Jurassic World to show epic battles between different species. And as one of the most recognizable and lethal dinosaurs, the T-Rex is an ideal candidate to feature in these fights. The King’s unbelievable bite strength and intimidating size seem to make it a shoo-in, so why does it lose so quickly to other dinos? Based on expert hypotheses, a Giganotosaurus or Spinosaurus could beat a T-Rex in specific scenarios, but it’s not at all a given, and impossible to know for sure given that neither of these dinos actually overlapped with the T-Rex in terms of time period or geographical range. Thus, the fact that the prologue to Jurassic World: Dominion undermines the T-Rex’s ability to hold its own in a fight must have less to do with realism than with creating a particular spectacle.
As indicated by the mosquito that sucks blood from the dead T-Rex moments after its humiliating defeat, this particular specimen is the one whose DNA Hammond uses to make his clone in the original Jurassic Park. Thus, the T-Rex’s quick defeat at the jaws of the Giganotosaurus serves mainly to set up a crucial plot point, perfectly connecting Jurassic World: Dominion to Spielberg’s original film. Still, however, it’s a bit disrespectful to Jurassic Park/Jurassic World’s biggest dino star to imply that it would put up that weak of a fight against another huge theropod, especially after the Spinosaurus fight in Jurassic World III upset some audiences. Hopefully, the rest of Jurassic World: Dominion that follows after the prologue will do the T-Rex justice, rather than rendering some even bigger disservice to the King of the Dinosaurs down the line.
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