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Spoilers for all preceding Jurassic Park works will remain unmarked. You Have Been Warned.

Five years after the events of Jurassic World Dominion, modern ecology has been proven largely inhospitable to dinosaur-kind and now the majority of them reside in isolated equatorial regions. Covert agent Zora Bennett (Johansson) is sent to collect DNA from the three largest prehistoric reptiles of the land, sea, and air, only for her mission to go off the rails when her team crosses paths with a shipwrecked family.

The film was released on July 2, 2025.

Previews: Title announcement, Trailer Tease, Trailer, Trailer 2 Tease, Trailer 2

Tropes find a way:

• 20 Minutes in the Future: Came out in 2025, but takes place in 2027.
• Actionized Sequel: Massively inverted. Rebirth has fewer action sequences than its predecessor, the first one is an hour in, and the D. Rex is only shown briefly at the beginning and fully in the last quarter of the runtime.
• Adaptation Deviation: In the original novel's first river sequence, the Tyrannosaurus almost caught the raft, but was distracted at the last minute by the juvenile rex trying to steal its kill and swam back to shore to defend the carcass. Here, the juvenile is not present, allowing the adult to catch and capsize the raft, with it instead ceasing its pursuit once the humans reach a rock formation it can't maneuver around or break through.
• Adaptation Species Change: In the original novel, the characters come across a sleeping T. rex after it had killed and eaten a Hadrosaurus, before it wakes up and chases the characters down the river. This film finally adapts that scene, except the Hadrosaurus has been replaced by a Parasaurolophus.
• Advertised Extra:
  • Despite making up the bulk of the film's marketing in regards to the dinosaurs present in the trailers, posters, and other marketing, the Distortus rex isn't important to the story and only has two scenes in the movie. The first one is the opening prologue, where it only appears for about thirty seconds, shrouded in mist, and then it doesn't appear again until the last fifteen minutes of the film, with its screen time totalling maybe six minutes at most.
  • Despite appearing in promotional merchandise, Velociraptor, Dilophosaurus, and Ankylosaurus each get only one scene which together only last about a minute or so in total.
• Always a Bigger Fish:
  • While Xavier wanders into the jungle to relieve himself, a pair of Velociraptor sneak up behind him. Right as they're about to pounce, one of the raptors is attacked and killed by a Mutadon, while the other flees.
  • While Teresa is retrieving a boat from an abandoned shed, a Dilophosaurus hops out from behind a Parasaurolophus carcass and prepares to attack her. However, it changes its mind and retreats once it smells/hears the Tyrannosaurus sleeping behind her.
• Ambiguous Situation: Like in The Lost World (1995), it's speculated that at night, the worker's village is occupied by a set of carnivores that isn't normally active during the day, with the nocturnal predators being Carnotaurus in the novel and the Mutadon/Distortus rex in this film. But while the novel indicated that this area was Velociraptor territory, what if any predator occupies Ile Saint Hubert's village is never stated or implied.^note A deleted scene where a pack of Velociraptor would have chased the humans only to be scared off by the Mutadon implies it was still the raptors, just like in the novel.
• Animals Not to Scale:
  • The Titanosaurus is depicted as the largest animal on land, bigger than even the Dreadnoughtus from Dominion. The real animal (maybe not considering its dubious state), in spite of its name, was ironically pretty small as far as titanosaurs go. Strangely, the supplementary material lists it as 15.7 meters tall and 20.7 meters long (still somewhat larger than the real animal, but the specimens in the film are clearly at least double that size if not bigger).
  • Although more realistically designed overall, the Mosasaurus is still gigantic compared to the real animal (as in previous Jurassic World movies), dwarfing the Spinosaurus it's swimming alongside at least twice over (in reality, the two were about the same length, although Mosasaurus may have been heavier).
  • Zigzagged with the Tyrannosaurus rex. It appears to be bigger than the adult Tyrannosauruses that previously appeared in the film canon, but its official height and length are actually smaller than Rexy and still in-line with the size of a real-life Tyrannosaurus.
• All There in the Manual: The name Distortus rex is partially said one time on-screen; the words D. rex are seen on the door to its cell, and only the first part of the name is mentioned during the beginning when the facility is in chaos.
• Artistic License – Economics: A couple of scenes are spent debating the merits of simply releasing the collected data to the world online, thus "open-sourcing" any potential medication, with the idea that Parker-Genix won't be able to charge premium prices for it. However: Without the profit motivation of a new drug exclusive to Parker-Genix (or any other pharmaceutical manufacturer), the proposed new heart disease medication will not be given the financial resources an exclusive medication would, will take longer to get to market, and in the meantime, people will die of something that could otherwise have been prevented. The proposed open-sourcing will likely have the exact opposite effect of the one intended.
• Artistic License – Paleontology: Although some of the animals have more accurate appearances compared to previous films, they still have several problems. Some of it is handwaved by stating that InGen's R&D facility was trying to make freakier hybrids, and the rest is embellishment or mistaken classification:
  • Both Quetzalcoatlus and Mosasaurus are incorrectly referred to as dinosaurs (by Loomis, a professional paleontologist, no less; although he could have been just making it simple for Zora and Martin to understand); pterosaurs are a sister clade to dinosaurs within the archosaur group Ornithodira, while mosasaurs are lizards, being closely related to either modern monitor lizards or snakes.
  • The Spinosaurus in the film have a thicker neck and, like the other spinosaurs in the series, a broader skull than the real thing. One is also shown walking on all fours when the idea of Spinosaurus being a quadruped had been discredited many years earlier, though given it's right near the ocean it could be just crawling as it enters the water (promotional merchandise and renders depict it as bipedal).
  • The Titanosaurus has multiple features the real animal likely didn't have such as retractable Amargasaurus-like sails and an exceptionally long diplodocid-like tail that is flexible almost to the point of being prehensile. Not to mention it is a dubious genus and might not be a real animal. Plus, it's absolutely gigantic (Titanosaurus was ironically small for its kind), not only much larger than Titanosaurus is estimated to be, but any sauropod period by a significant margin. It also has elephant-like nails on its forefoot, like most of the other sauropods in the films, despite having reduced toes. Even more egregious to those paying attention, it seems to have hair-filaments (though they could be proto-feathers, which may have been basal to dinosaurs).
  • While still better than most pterosaurs in the series, the Quetzalcoatlus in the film incorporates a lot of elements from hornbills and bats that reduce the overall accuracy. It has a shorter neck and a stockier build more like its relative Hatzegopteryx, as well as a hornbill-like crest that extends to the tip of the beak. Its wings also still fold incorrectly, an issue that's characterized pterosaurs in the series since the very beginning and which the previous Quetzalcoatlus design avoided (although it at least splays its wing claws out to the sides in a non-pronated posture when grounded, like the previous Dominion variant). Its stance is also incorrect, being much squatter and more bat-like than the real animal (which had an erect stance and at its full height was taller than a T. rex). The skull seen on the skeleton at the beginning also bears no resemblance to the real thing, though it could be a cast of the ones cloned by InGen.
  • The Mosasaurus has a forkless tongue and crocodilian teeth and is oversized like the Isla Nublar specimen. It also has grooves on its underside similar to a baleen whale, when those are only present for the whale to expand its jaws as it consumes plankton and krill, so a marine reptile with teeth for ripping prey apart would not have them. Similarly, closeups of its skin show it having smooth skin, like a whale, but skin impressions indicate mosasaurs, like modern lizards, had scaly skin.
  • As in previous films, the Tyrannosaurus still appears to have a minimal lip covering that gives it a prominent overbite when its mouth is closed. The real animal (like most theropods) probably had extensive lips that would've kept its teeth concealed when not in use, similar to monitor lizards today^note This likely would've been a necessary adaptation, as otherwise the teeth would dry out and crack from exposure. It's also depicted swimming side to side in the water like a crocodile, although it seems to be using its hindlegs.
  • The Parasaurolophus carcass for some reason has claws on its front feet, despite being based on the Dominion design which was accurately depicted with hooves.
  • The Aquilops has a frill too large, being more akin to a much more advanced and geologically younger ceratopsian species like Protoceratops. Especially regarding Dolores, who is supposed to be a hatchling. The fingers are also incorrect (it has a thumb on both sides of its hands, even though it shouldn't have thumbs at all), and it has two nose horns instead of just one. Its depiction as a facultative biped that mostly walks on all fours is also questionable; while the actual body proportions of Aquilops are unknown, fossils of its closest relatives suggest it was entirely bipedal. That said, studies on basal ceratopsian morphology suggest that juveniles (like Dolores) were quadrupedal, though said studies mainly apply to Psittacosaurus.
  • The Quetzalcoatlus is shown having large, hard-shelled eggs like a bird, while fossils indicate they had comparatively small, soft-shelled eggs like turtles. As a result, it's unlikely they made stick nests like most birds do (since soft-shelled eggs are vulnerable to desiccation), and more likely buried their eggs under damp soil or inside rotting vegetation, like turtles and crocodiles do. It was also almost certainly a ground-nesting animal that would not have been able to latch onto or climb sheer cliffs, so would have been very unlikely to make a nest inside a mountain-side temple.
  • It's been stated that most of the dinosaurs ended up leaving for the equatorial regions because those match the environments they once thrived in and they couldn't survive elsewhere, as if they're perpetuating the misconception that dinosaurs only lived in tropical climates and that the entirety of the Mesozoic was oxygen-enriched (while the overall temperature was warmer in the Mesozoic, many dinosaurs lived in temperate and snowy regions, and oxygen levels fluctuated significantly during the Mesozoic, with large swaths having lower levels than the modern day). This is especially true for the Mosasaurus, fossils of which are known as far south as Antarctica. Granted, the dinosaurs shown throughout the movies have been thriving in tropical climates and some of them don't have feathers for insulation, but it still would be a bit of a stretch for all of them to die off in below climates. Then again, it's been established that the dinosaurs are not pure, having been given DNA of other reptiles and amphibians to help them survive in a tropical climate. So, while the film's claims may be false for real dinos, they're absolutely true for these dinos. Also downplayed in that at least some dinosaurs are said to be still surviving outside the tropics, presumably the ones that have been seen thriving in the cold in Dominion, and that most of the dinosaurs seen on Ile Saint-Hubert do in fact pertain to species known primarily from tropical/subtropical prehistoric ecosystems.
  • An Anurognathus appears briefly; not only is it scaly and coloured bright green (these sorts of colourations are unlikely for pterosaurs), it has a long, flexible, lizard-like tail that drags on the ground. Anurognathids didn't have very long tails, and even pterosaurs that did have long tails have very stiff, rod-like tails that were held off the ground.
  • The swimming ability of a Spinosaurus is a highly contested topic with strongly divided opinions but regardless of where you fall on the debate, it was mostly a freshwater animal, perhaps venturing into shallow coastal waters from time to time. The movie, on the other hand, depicts it swimming dozens of miles out at sea, and doing so with the same ease as a fully marine animal.
  • The Quetzalcoatlus is shown being able to grab and swallow a full-grown human. While it might have been strong enough to pick up human-sized animals, it would be impossible for even the largest pterosaurs to swallow one whole, as their skulls lack the flexibility necessary to swallow such large objects (unlike birds) and their entire torsos were only about four feet long, much too small for a full-grown person to fit inside. While it's not out of the question that a real Quetzalcoatlus would perceive a human as food (given that it did prey on animals within our approximate size range), it would be more likely to just rip them apart with its beak instead of eating them whole.
  • A baby male Pteranodon appears in a birdcage, with a fully-developed crest when it should have grown in at a later stage in life. This gets more jarring in that Jurassic Park III got this detail right.
  • We see a captive Apatosaurus near the beginning of the movie which is apparently elderly now. However, the introduction states that it's only been 32 years since the first dinosaurs were cloned, and studies of diplodocid fossils suggest it takes about that long for them to merely reach adult size, never mind reach old age, which would have been around 60-70 years based on the aforementioned studies (though how fast the animals age has been rather inconsistent across the Jurassic Park franchise). Like the Titanosaurus, it's also much more massive than it should be, easily three times the size of any sauropod known.
  • The main goal of the expedition is to acquire living genetic material from the three biggest prehistoric animals of land, sea, and sky to form the basis of a miracle heart treatment, due to them having massive, powerful hearts and exceptionally long lifespans of over a century. However, while we do have some idea of sauropod lifespans, and over a century is reasonable for some species, we don't actually have an idea how long mosasaurs and pterosaurs could live (of course, it's potentially justified in that the characters have had living/recently dead specimens to study for years whereas we in Real Life haven't).
  • Ankylosaurus is once again portrayed with spike-studded shell-like armor and a hooked beak, even though its proportions are now more accurate.
• Asshole Victim:
  • Atwater scoffs at Henry's reservations about the prospect of killing dinosaurs, and argues against making a detour to respond to a mayday call. He's the first to die.
  • Krebs gets eaten by the D. rex at the end and it's very well deserved for having a poor regard for human life and continues the series tradition of human villains getting their ultimate comeuppance at the hands (and teeth) of a carnivorous dinosaur.
• Awe-Inspiring Dinosaur Shot: It wouldn't be a Jurassic film without one. The covert operation (and the audience) stops in awe of a herd of Titanosaurus in the middle of the movie, including a mated pair snuggling each other and a huge overhead shot of the herd migrating.
• Bat Scare: Teresa disturbs a colony of bats while getting an inflatable raft out of the emergency shed.
• Blood Is Squicker in Water: All that's left of Nina after she gets devoured by the last spinosaur is conspicuously red water and a scarf.
• Bloodless Carnage: As with previous installments, none of the deaths, despite being shown on-screen, are overtly gory due to being partially obstructed from view, shown in the dark, or happening too fast and shown from a far enough angle to show any blood. Although in Nina's case, there is a rather large splatter of blood left behind after the Spinosaurus drags her into the ocean.
• Breaking Old Trends:
  • This is the only Jurassic film to not feature any human characters from the original Jurassic Park (1993), though Dr. Alan Grant is mentioned by name; all other films in the franchise have featured at least one character returning in some capacity, ranging from protagonists (Alan Grant being the main character in Jurassic Park III), major characters (Dr. Henry Wu featured in every Jurassic World film prior to this) to a cameo (such as John Hammond and his grandchildren appearing briefly in The Lost World: Jurassic Park).
  • This is also the first Jurassic movie to feature prominent "Needle Drops" as part of the film, rather than just mere background music like with "Big Hat No Cattle" in Jurassic Park III. With songs like Ben E King's "Stand By Me" playing when the gas station lights trun on in the night, attracting the Mutadons.
  • Outside of a two-headed individual in a tank in the lab and a skull at a museum, this is the first movie in the franchise to not feature Triceratops. Likewise, Parasaurolophus doesn't appear beyond a corpse, another first for the movie series. This leaves both the Tyrannosaurus and Velociraptor as the only living dinosaurs to appear in every film in the franchise.
  • This is also the first film in the franchise in where the Tyrannosaurus doesn't face down against either the film's dinosaur or human Big Bad and the first Jurassic movie since Jurassic Park III which does not end with a climatic dinosaur battle.
  • Speaking of the Big Bad, this is the first film where the main dinosaur antagonist kills the main human antagonist - in every other film, a lesser-featured dinosaur killed them, with the closest previously being Ludlow's death to the juvenile T. rex in The Lost World: Jurassic Park (whose parents were the main dinosaur antagonists of that film).
  • This is the first film in where the Velociraptor has little to no importance to the film (Even The Lost World: Jurassic Park gave them a big major sequence despite it at the time being the only film where they were not big players in the film's narrative), with their appearance in this film being reduced to a simple background cameo to establish the Mutadon as a big threat. This is also the first film in the series (not counting the theatrical cut of Jurassic World Dominion) where Velociraptor doesn't kill a person.
  • Unlike World and Fallen Kingdom, all the genetically engineered hybrid dinosaurs don't end up being killed off at the end. The D. rex simply loses interest and goes back to the jungle after the protagonists finally escape the island, while at least one Mutadon is still alive at the end.
  • While a dead specimen, this is the first film to feature marine life from the Paleozoic era with the brief appearance of Dunkleosteus.
  • Subverted with the Apatosaurus, which reestablishes the Jurassic World series's trend of sauropods dying onscreen that got broken in Dominion. This time, however, it's treated more as an inconvenience rather than as a mournful scene unlike the first two times, and the death is implied rather than shown.
  • This is the first Jurassic film since Jurassic Park (1993) to not feature Stegosaurus (aside from an animation in the museum), breaking its streak of on-screen appearances in the series since its debut in The Lost World: Jurassic Park. Likewise, Gallimimus is also absent for the first time since Jurassic Park III.
  • With Aquilops being the sole ceratopsian in the film, this marks the first time in the series where no living ceratopsids appear, although a fossilized Triceratops skull is in the museum and a preserved dead specimen is in the abandoned laboratory.
• Bring My Brown Pants: When Xavier is relieving himself two Velociraptors are shown stalking him from behind before he is unknowingly saved by a Mutadon which kills one raptor and causes the other to flee; he's so scared to even look that he holds in his urine till afterwards when the Mutadon leaves, he suddenly loses control of his bodily functions and loudly finishes urinating after a close brush with death.
• The Bus Came Back:
  • Spinosaurus makes a return to the big screen for the first time since Jurassic Park III, roughly 24 years later, although the ones in this film aren't the same variant from that movie (which itself was last seen in the final two seasons of of Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous).
  • The quilled Velociraptor also returns for the first time since JPIII, albeit a different variant from that movie.
  • The Mosasaur itself may or may not itself be the only returning character from the world trilogy, if it is in fact the same individual that escaped Nublar as comments by Krebs imply.
• Canon Marches On: Downplayed in that the animated shows have not officially been de-canonized, but it had previously heavily been implied that the first hybrid dinosaur, Scorpios rex, was created in 2009.^note The Masrani Global website listed a hybrid as being born in 2009, and the Scorpios rex was explicitly the first hybrid dinosaur and was followed by the Indominus rex in 2012 Rebirth indicates dinosaur experimentation did not begin on Isla Nublar until 2010, but other than this it does not directly contradict the shows.
• Catch of the Doomsday: Played with. Before the characters get to the main island, we see a group of fishermen dredged up their haul, which includes a Dunkleosteus amongst the regular fish. They're shown celebrating this, showing how desensitized everyone's become to prehistoric animals in the modern day.
• Chekhov's Gun: Loomis grabs some extra flares when signaling the extraction helicopter, at the end Duncan uses a flare to distract the Distortus Rex from the rest of the group. Subtly, the fact that there was more than one flare is a clue that he survived, as he uses the second flare to signal the group's boat again.
• Close on Title: Like the previous film, the title appears at the end rather than the beginning. While the usual T. rex logo is shown after the Distant Prologue, the title itself doesn't appear.
• Cold-Blooded Whatever: A background animal is seen repeatedly on the island resembling a large, sail-backed salamander, that isn't closely identifiable as any actual animal that's ever existed (although there were sail-backed amphibians in prehistory, such as Platyhystrix, it doesn't really resemble them. It may also be an early tetrapod like Ichthyostega, though it lacks their fishlike scales).
• Cold Hurts Reptiles: Zig-zagged. It's been stated that most of the dinosaurs have migrated to equatorial regions which are hospitable for them, but there are a few that are still living in the outside regions. This seems to be less about most dinosaurs being cold-blooded and more about tropical species struggling in colder regions.
• Continuity Nod:
  • InGen is said to have gone bankrupt after the events of Jurassic World Dominion.
  • Martin remarks how, although InGen was smart enough not to do dangerous research in their theme parks, they learned the hard way that they never should have made hybrids in the first place.
  • When trekking through the jungle, Loomis reveals he's familiar with expeditions, as he did post-doctorate research under the tutelage of Alan Grant.
  • The Spinosaurus maintains its Signature Roar from Jurassic Park III, despite otherwise being very different in both appearance and behaviour.
  • Duncan backs slowly away from the Mutadon in the drainage tunnel and tells Zora to close the gate before he's through it. He dives under it just in time for the Mutadon to slam into the bars, much like Owen did in the first Jurassic World.
  • The utility vehicle that Krebs takes to get to the dock is painted in the same red-striped sand beige as the Jeep Wranglers from the first movie. The Jurassic Park novel stated that the red stripe deterred dinosaurs.
• Connected All Along: Loomis states he did his post-doctorate research under Alan Grant.
• Creator Thumbprint: Gareth Edwards' history of a person tearfully seeing somebody behind glass in his movies is intact in this one. Also, the mutant dinosaurs in this movie happen to bear resemblance to a pair of monsters from another film he directed.
• Cub Cues Protective Parent: Loomis and Zora decide to extract the Quetzalcoatlus DNA from the source itself: the egg, as it's too difficult to attempt with the adult. This backfires when a VERY ANGRY parent Quetza flies into the cave and attacks them when it sees them injecting the egg with the syringe.
• Cuteness Overload: Behind-the-scenes example with the Aquilops Dolores. According to Gareth Edwards on the Dolores Featurette, the animatronic unwittingly ended up causing shooting delays. It wasn't because it broke down, but instead because cast and crew kept getting distracted by the adorable infant dinosaur.
• Dead-Hand Shot: After Krebs gets eaten by the D. rex all that remains of him is his arm.
• Deadly Road Trip: The initial covert expedition has to rescue the passengers of a boat that got too close to the island and got capsized by the Mosasaurus.
• Demoted to Extra: After being prominently (by comparison) featured in the previous three films, both T. rex and Velociraptor get this treatment. At the least the rex doesn't get killed by the new predator on the block this time around. The same can't be said for the raptors, though, who are shown mostly out of focus for all of, at most, a minute before a Mutadon kills one and sends the other running scared for its life. The raptor that gets killed doesn't even get a proper onscreen death like its predecessors, either, with its killing effectively being reduced to a Sound-Only Death due to it mostly being obstructed by Xavier.'
• Dinosaurs Are Dragons: Parodied. The Distortus rex roars in front of a flare, making it look like it's breathing fire. Also, the Mutadon is a wyvern-like pterosaur-dromeosaurid hybrid animal.
• Distant Prologue: The prologue is set 17 years before the events of the Present Day (placing it in the interim between Jurassic Park III and the first Jurassic World). It's also distant in the sense that it has almost nothing to do with the actual plot other than establishing yet another InGen island facility as the film's setting and the existence of a mutated dino-hybrid that doesn't show up again until late in the film.
• Draw Aggro:
  • LeClerc throws his pick axe at the Quetzalcoatlus drawing its attention away from Zora and Henry and onto him this unfortunately results in his death.
  • In the climax, Zora draws the attention of the Mutadon by running across a parking lot so the mutant doesn't break into the gas station the others are hidng in.
  • When the Distortus rex has the survivors cornered at the dock, Duncan uses a flare to distract the beast and seemingly performs a Heroic Sacrifice to lead it away so the rest of the group can escape.
• Dropped a Bridge on Him: The ending of Dominion seemed to imply that dinosaurs were spreading all over the world and would become a fact of life for humanity in the future. This movie takes place a few years afterwards, and most dinosaurs have died out again, with the only survivors living in tropical areas.
• Dumb Dinos: Deconstructed. After Krebs invokes this trope by saying the dinosaurs are too stupid to overcome humanity, Loomis reminds him that they have been around for millions of years, far longer than humans who are already bringing themselves closer to their own extinction in spite of their sapience. Loomis also downplays it in that, while he does call dinosaurs "dumb", it's implied he means that they simply seem unintelligent by comparison to humans (which most would consider a high bar to clear for any animal living or extinct).
• Eaten Alive: LeClerc suffers this fate when he's swallowed whole by the Quetzalcoatlus.
• Everyone Has Standards:
  • Nobody on the team, including the local Corrupt Corporate Executive, is happy that InGen had a second Site B that was filled with far more abortive freaks.
  • They may be amoral mercs performing what amounts to corporate sabotage, but Zora and her team, especially Duncan, are willing to endanger a multi-billion dollar operation to save civilians.
• Evil-Detecting Dog: Dolores the Aquilops freaks out twice — once during the river encounter with the T. rex and once when the D. rex shows up in the finale.
• Evil Overlooker: The D. rex can be seen looming above the logo over Zora, Duncan, and Loomis in the poster above.
• Failsafe Failure: The candy wrapper causing a cascade failure that should never have happened.
  • The door probably should have had a screen to prevent items getting sucked in, shouldn't have a vacuum port, won't have anything in the port to get jammed, shouldn't get jammed by a thin wrapper, and should try to reopen instead of sticking.
  • The electronic warning system shouldn't short out the security console at all much less within a few seconds. Obviously, the entire point is someone monitoring would be notified and fix the problem.
  • The security system shorting shouldn't affect anything else and should fail by locking the cages down. The primary containment door closing is about the only thing it did right.
• Fauxshadow: Of the Five Second variety; as Teresa is pulling the emergency raft down the pier, the camera lingers ominously on the warning to inflate the raft before putting it in the water, making the audience think that she would accidentally disobey that instruction, sending the raft to the bottom of the river. Instead she does indeed follow the instructions and inflate the raft on land, with the continuing drama of the scene being that the inflating raft woke up the nearby T-Rex.
• Final Boss: Unlike previous movies, the main Big Bad dinosaur doesn't have real relevance to the plot and the characters don't even know it exists until the climax. It just functions as the last and biggest obstacle they need to overcome to escape the island.
• Five-Second Foreshadowing: As Nina tries to push the ship's supplies into the shore, a Spinosaurus is seen relaxing on the beach and heading back to the ocean... guess what happens to Nina later.
• Flawed Prototype: Krebs states that the island is where all of the dinosaurs that were too ugly or dangerous were dumped. This includes a horrifically deformed monster called the Distortus rex and the winged Mutadon. David Koepp noted this came about when he and Spielberg realized all the experiments to make bigger, scarier dinosaurs couldn't have all gone well. When asked why the flawed versions weren't just euthanized, Krebs rationalizes that spending 70 million+ on a theme park attraction only to metaphorically throw it in the garbage isn't exactly something InGen could justify to their investors, so they kept the animals around to at least be able to justify them as a business expense.
• Forbidden Zone: Similarly to Isla Sorna after the events of The Lost World, access to Ile Saint-Hubert has been restricted by the Caribbean Government and the rest of the international community ever since InGen abandoned their facility.
• Foreshadowing:
  • While trekking through the jungle, Duncan says that he's just about done with missions such as the one they're on now and, particularly, that he's come to hate working in the jungle and around water, except for the fact that you can hide yourself from most dangers in the water. He survives because of this—after luring the Distortus away with a flare, he ducks underwater and (off-screen) drops the flare so that the Distortus, which is attracted to light sources, will leave him alone, allowing him to get to shore and fire another flare to let the rest of the characters know he's still alive and to come back for him.
  • A possible example that ended up subverted. When receiving the "mayday" call from the Delgado family, Atwater is the only one who agrees with Krebs that they should ignore it in favor of completing the mission, establishing he's less moral. The original plan for him would have been to survive and join with Krebs in betraying the team. According to Koepp, "I was just typing one day and the thing leaped out of the water and ate him and I'm like, well, he's gone." If the original plan to keep him alive had been followed, his agreeing with Krebs and being unwilling to help the family would have hinted his betrayal.
• Freeze-Frame Bonus: The museum display for the Mosasaurus has text describing it as a small bipedal theropod dinosaur with two sickle-shaped claws on its hind feet—evidently the result of a description of Velociraptor being used as filler text with the scientific names swapped.
• Fuzz Therapy: Apart from obviously not being fuzzy, Delores the Aquilops serves as this for Isabella, helping her get over her fear of dinosaurs in enough to make the journey to safety with the rest of her family.
• Gasoline Lasts Forever: While the abandoned village complex on Ile Saint-Hubert still running can be accounted for by being totally automated and running on geothermal power, somehow the abandoned vehicles that have been sitting out in the tropical heat for seventeen years without maintenance can also be turned on and driven without any problem and even look brand new. Realistically, any sort of vehicle would've rusted into scrap heaps and any fuel inside the tanks would be totally useless in that amount of time.
• Genetic Abomination: InGen prototyped several hybrids in a bid to attract more visitors with scarier hybrids — the prototypes are nothing like the sleek designed look of the Indominus — Distortus rex, a grotesque, knuckle-walking behemoth with a bulbous skull and too many limbs, and the Mutadon, a sickly-looking Velociraptor-pterosaur hybrid.
• Gory Discretion Shot:
  • In the opening prologue, one of the InGen workers is grabbed by the Distortus rex. However, the mutant moves away from the glass and walks back into the red fog when it puts the man into its mouth, leaving the aftermath to the viewer's imagination.
  • Nina is killed by one of the Spinosaurus, which drags her off the beach and into the sea, similar to how an orca does when it beaches itself and catches a sea lion. Most of the violence is obscured by the large pack of supplies Nina was pushing, although there's a very large patch of blood on the beach indicating that it was an extremely violent attack.
  • A Mutadon kills a Velociraptor by very violently mauling it to the death, but the scene is set at night, out of focus, and obscured by largely being out of frame and happening behind Xavier. You can hear the sounds of flesh rending and the raptor yelping, but you can't actually see anything gory.
• Guns Are Worthless: Downplayed. The neurotoxin dart gun the expedition brought for security proves useless when used against the Spinosaurus (the shots either miss or merely bounce off its sail without penetrating), and the InGen security guards are shown in the prologue opening fire on the D. rex with automatic rifle fire to apparently no effect, but Zora is able to kill a Mutadon by shooting it to death.
• Half the Man He Used to Be: Krebs gets bitten in half by the D. rex head first.
• Happy Ending Override: Though Dominion ended on the optimistic note that the resurrected prehistoric animals were slowly but surely adapting to coexist within the modern landscape, this film opens with dinosaurs now having largely been reduced to populations in equatorial regions, and the rest either in the process of dying or having already died out, along with a reduction of interest in dinosaurs in general.
• Herbivores Are Friendly: Of the three animals the team has to gather genetic material from, two (Quetzalcoatlus and Mosasaurus) are carnivores and one (Titanosaurus) is an herbivore. Gathering the genetic material from the carnivores proves to be life-or-death ordeals that result in multiple fatalities, while the Titanosaurus doesn't care or even seem to notice the humans standing nearby or shooting it with a blood-draining dart. Isabella also befriends a baby Aquilops, a species of small ceratopsian.
• Hellish Copter: The rescue chopper that was meant as a backup escape route ends up destroyed by the Distortus rex when it attempts to land on the island to pick up the survivors. Ironically, they were instructed to wait for survivors for just two minutes precisely to avoid such an outcome; circling back after that time window passed is what gets them killed.
• Helpless Window Death: The intro shows an InGen scientist pleading with his partner to be let out of the D. rex containment cell after the containment gate fails. As he can't be let out or the D. rex gets into the lab, his partner screams for his forgiveness as he's grabbed and eaten.
• Heroic Sacrifice:
  • LeClerc who briefly distracts the Quetzalcoatlus saving Bennett and Loomis but gets eaten himself.
  • Duncan uses a flare to distract the Distortus rex and lead it away from the dock so the rest of the survivors can escape. But, he ultimately survives after evading the Distortus rex offscreen and rejoins the group just as they make their escape from the island.
• Hope Spot:
  • The mercenaries manage to get the sample from the Mosasaurus despite a few closes shaves with no harm to them, their new passengers or the ship. But then it turns out the Mosasaurus was leading them to a pack of Spinosaurus that surrounds the ship. One of the mercenaries gets picked off and eaten, everyone save the captain is forced to jump off in the escape, and the ship is run aground to keep the Mosasaurus from following them, trapping the group on the island. Then Nina gets eaten before she could push a pack of supplies onto the beach.
  • During the climb up a rock face, the mercenaries group encounter a Quetzalcoatlus who comes after Bennett and Loomis. LeClerc gets it's attention causing it to go after him. Kincaid and Krebs hears his yells and pull on his rope and, for a moment, it seems they're able to barely keep him ahead of the pterosaur as it snaps at his heels. However once they finally pull him up to the cliff's edge, they see the Quetzalcoatlus managed to nab him with LeClerc's arm hanging out of it's mouth, which the pterosaur promptly swallows before going after them.
  • Henry is just barely able to signal the rescue helicopter with a flare as its leaving the island, and it seems like they're going to be rescued. But then the Distortus rex appears, snatches the helicopter out of the air, and destroys it.
• Hybrid Monster: The Distortus rex and the Mutadon. The Distortus rex is a creature that's more of an abomination than any of the hybrids in the previous films (and one TV series); it has the traits of a dinosaur, but its posture and the fact that it walks on its knuckles make it seem rather ape-like. The Mutadon is a hybrid between pterosaur and dromaeosaur.
• I Am Not Weasel: The Apatosaurus in New York has been referred to as a Brontosaurus and a Brachiosaurus.
• Informed Attribute: Downplayed. We're told Ile Saint-Hubert is where InGen dumped all the dinosaurs they experimented on that were too dangerous or ugly for display at the park, but, with the exception of the clearly artificial Mutadon and D. rex, the other animals present don't act any more vicious or look significantly different than what we've already seen on Isla Sorna and Isla Nublar — if anything, they are arguably less vicious than the animals exhibited in the park, as they lack the monstrous persistence of past carnivores of the franchise and behave more realistically.
• Informed Species:
  • The Titanosaurus doesn't really resemble what's known of the actual genus (which is almost nothing), being far larger than what the fossils suggest and with a number of speculative traits that aren't supported by any evidence (such as retractable sails on the neck and above its hips, which no titanosaur is known to have).
  • The Quetzalcoatlus variants in this film have shorter necks and stockier builds than the real animal and the ones in Dominion, looking more like Hatzegopteryx. It also has a speculative crest that looks more like that of a tapejarid.
  • The Aquilops more closely resembles Protoceratops on account of having a larger neck frill and being quadrupedal (while the posture of the real animal isn't known for certain, what's known of similar basal ceratopsians indicates it was most likely bipedal; although juveniles would have been quadrupedal).
• Jar of the Bizarre: One scene has Henry and Duncan wandering through an Abandoned Laboratory lined with glass vats preserving Flawed Prototype dinosaurs, such as a Triceratops and a Mutadon that both have two heads.
• Karmic Death: We first meet Krebs being annoyed that an Apatosaurus is dying on the middle of the road blocking the path. We last see Krebs crashing into the Distortus rex who is blocking the path to the escape boat and he ends up killed.
• Karmic Jackpot: Just as the expedition is about to reach Ile Saint-Hubert, they receive a distress call from another boat 28 miles in the opposite direction. Krebs and Bobby want to ignore it and let the authorities handle it, but Duncan and Zora overrule them and decide to take a detour to rescue them. When they get there and rescue the passengers, it turns out the boat got overturned by the Mosasaurus, which they were searching for to begin with, so they don't end up losing any time in their mission.
• Killer Gorilla: The Distortus rex has something of an ape motif due to knuckle walking, in addition to a violent demeanor.
• King Kong Copy: The Distortus rex once again, given it's ape like walking, massive size, and the fact it's The Dreaded predator on a isle of a Lost World with dinosaurs. Not to mentioning the climax ending with it snatching an air craft...
• Laser-Guided Karma:
  • Krebs wishes for an Apatosaurus to die already, out of annoyance for blocking the road he is driving on. During the events of Ile Saint-Hubert, two dinosaurs would block his path to escape, starting with an Ankylosaurus that causes Krebs to stupidly drive off the road, then the Distortus Rex smashing Krebs's crab, before grabbing him and eats him alive.
  • Bobby laughs off Loomis's warning that killing a dinosaur is a grave sin. Later, Bobby finds himself in the jaws of a Spinosaurus after he attacks its packmate.
• Last of His Kind: The Apatosaurus shown dying in New York is stated by the news media to be the last sauropod in North America.
• Logo Gag: The Universal logo in the trailer is rendered in blue and green, with the font from the franchise logo.
• Lower-Deck Episode: Unlike the original or sequel trilogy, Rebirth's stakes are lower and revolve around infiltrating the R&D island for Jurassic World as opposed to dealing with preventing dinosaurs from being weaponised or captured, with only Alan Grant mentioned in passing and nothing else otherwise. It's essentially the equivalent of "Jurassic Park III" to the ''World" series.
• Made of Indestructium: The T. rex tries to bite the underside of the inflatable raft, depressing the rubber enough that the points of its teeth are visible from the other side, yet the raft isn't punctured.
• Men Are the Expendable Gender: Averted. Unlike the Jurassic Park movies, which played it straight with no women dying, and Jurassic World and Fallen Kingdom, which subverted it by emphasizing only one woman's death in the film, Rebirth is the first Jurassic film where multiple women die and are treated no differently from the men. Nina is ambushed and devoured by the Spinosaurus on the beach, while the female pilot gets killed when the Distortus rex crushes the rescue helicopter with its jaws and throws it to the ground, killing all onboard.
• Meta Twist: The plot is started by a wealthy benefactor who apparently wants Zora to head a secret expedition to a dinosaur-infested island to collect a vital ingredient for a miracle heart disease treatment. Given the franchise's history^note Such as the Kirbys tricking Alan into helping rescue their son in Jurassic Park III and Mills tricking Claire and Owen into helping him poach the dinosaurs in Fallen Kingdom, you'd easily be led to assume the benefactor has some secret ulterior motive, such as something involving the Distortus rex introduced in the prologue. However, in this case, he's being completely truthful about his intentions and the hybrid dinosaurs are completely irrelevant to his goals, beyond being obstacles.
• Mix-and-Match Critters:
  • The Titanosaurus has the features of a number of different sauropods; its neck and body resemble a large titanosaur, its head is like that of Camarasaurus or Malawisaurus (although in this case it's a speculative nasal sac), it has the whip tail of a Diplodocus and a neck sail like an Amargasaurus (albeit a retractable one).
  • The Distortus rex resembles a Tyrannosaurus but with extra ape-like arms for knuckle-walking and an enlarged forehead similar to a beluga.
  • The Mutadon is a combination between dromaeosaur and pterosaur.
• Multiple Head Case: In the intro, a two-headed Triceratops makes an appearance in a tank in the Ile Saint-Hubert laboratory. Later, in the finale, the group comes across a two-headed Mutadon skeleton in a tank.
• Murder by Inaction: While Teresa falling off the boat while Krebs was trying to keep her from alerting the authorities to their mission by calling for a rescue was probably an accident (her shove caused her to stumble back off the edge), his decision to simply stand there and not help her back up, and then lying about trying to help her afterwards, pretty much cements how low he's willing to stoop for money (even if Teresa ultimately survived).
• My Car Hates Me: Happens with a motorboat at the end when all the characters are attempting to escape from the island. They can't get the engine to start going until just as the Distortus rex is about to get them for maximum drama.
• Mythology Gag:
  • The movie begins with a very similar Bait-and-Switch as the first movie does, with something loud rumbling through the jungle and disturbing the brush as it approaches, and a number of entities waiting anxiously in its direction (a group of workers in the first movie, a group of capuchin monkeys here). In both cases, the audience is clearly misled into thinking a dinosaur is approaching, but it turns out to be a vehicle (a forklift in the first movie, a helicopter here).
  • Though the exact circumstances are different, the escape of the Distortus (and subsequently the Ile Saint-Hubert laboratories being abandoned) in the prologue sequence hearkens to part of the Lost World novel, where a huge pack of raptors are clued in to the protagonists above them in the high-hide by a carelessly-discarded energy bar wrapper, while here a carelessly-discarded candy bar wrapper gets into a ventilation system and causes the security systems to reboot at the worst moment, leading to mayhem, deaths, and a total shift of events in both cases. (It also references The Andromeda Strain, Crichton's first novel, where a stray piece of paper jamming vital equipment nearly results in the virus escaping.)
  • When Krebs is introduced sitting in a traffic jam, the camera briefly focuses on the Closer than They Appear message in the driver-side mirror, clearly harkening back to the iconic T. rex chase scene in the first movie (even with the message again being on the wrong side of the car).
  • A tyrannosaur skeleton is shown off with the banner "When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth". We also get to see the banner fall but for hilariously more subdued reasons than before as a work crew is taking it down.
  • The Dilophosaurus in this film has yellow-colored frills with black spots. In the original novel, the Dilophosaurus is described to have a body covered in yellow and black sports that make it look a leopard.
  • Krebs leaving Teresa for dead by allowing her fall from the boat into the water, brings to mind the sequence in The Lost World (1995) where Dodgson tries to have Sarah killed by throwing her off the boat on their way to Sorna. The difference is that Krebs chooses Murder by Inaction while what Dodgson did was very deliberate.
    • Similarly, Krebs tries to get Zora killed when they're both hiding under a car from a giant tyrannosaurid, but Krebs manages to escape before Zora can kick him out, unlike Dodgson.
  • An equivalent to Malcolm's line in the original novel where he brings up how some dinosaurs may not adapt to present day environment is given to Loomis.
    • Loomis also briefly talks about how insignificant humans as a species are in the grand, geological-scale scheme of things, similarly to a discussion Malcolm had with Hammond in the first novel where he talks about how what most people mean when they say "the end of the world" is really "the end of human civilization" and that Earth as a planet and its ecosystem will be just fine long after humanity has died out.
  • The sequence from the original novel where our protagonists raft down the river, only to accidentally awaken a sleeping T. rex who pursues them finally gets adapted in the film. In fact, the sequence is almost a move-for-move adaptation of that part of the book: Teresa goes over to the shed where they can see a boat alone, like Alan did in the book after telling Tim and Lex to stay behind while he did so; the tyrannosaur is sleeping when they first arrive after gorging itself on a recently-killed hadrosaur dinosaur, only to wake up and pursue them once they really get going; their chosen mode of transportation is specifically an inflatable raft that's activated by pulling a tab and then it sets up instantly and automatically; and, lastly, the tyrannosaur follows initially by wading after them and quickly reaching water deep enough that it completely submerges and starts swimming instead, bursting out of the water dangerously close to the protagonists, though in the novel the raft stays upright instead of the characters being thrown into the water. Just about the only things missing from that part of the novel is how the tyrannosaur's attention is drawn (to Lex coughing at the worst moment in the book, to the sound of the raft inflating here) and how it gives up the pursuit (another tyrannosaur arrives and claims the hadrosaur carcass so it goes back to reassert ownership in the book, and coming up on a rock formation that it can't go around or through here).
  • The Mutadons are Velociraptor mutants fused with prehistoric flyer DNA, which is not far off from the Chaos Effect's Velocirapteryx — albeit the Mutadons use pterosaur DNA while the Velocirapteryx used Archaeopteryx; their basic body plan gives them more of a resemblance to the "Ankyloranodon" from the same toyline, though.
  • Like the Indominus rex and Indoraptor before it, the ultimate dinosaur is a mutated freak, like both the Ultimasaurus from the Chaos Effect toyline and the "Doomsday Rex" from an unmade Jurassic Park animated series. The Mutadons also prominently feature the beginnings of the beak on the tip of their snout, just like the Ultimasaurus.
  • Krebs is bitten in half by a tyrannosaurid after being yanked out of a jeep, just like Eddie in The Lost World: Jurassic Park. Afterwards, his severed hand is left gripping the handle of the case containing the blood samples, similarly to the severed hand of the man at the ship's wheel after the Venture crashes into the docks in the same movie.
  • Jonathan Bailey was revealed in a behind-the-scenes featurette to have joined the orchestra conducted by Alexandre Desplat for his first sequence with the Titanosaurus; his clarinet solo references "Inpark", a theme from Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis.
  • Bobby is equipped with a gun that fires neurotoxins; the various video game adaptations, especially The Lost World: Jurassic Park (Console), all featured neurotoxins as a weapon for anti-dinosaur hunters like Bobby. Like with Eddie Carr in the Lost World movie, the neurotoxin gun ultimately doesn't do him much good and he gets eaten by a giant theropod.
  • The Titanosaurus sequence itself is a clear nod to the Brachiosaurus reveal in the first movie, complete with the characters not immediately noticing the giant sauropod right next to them, the exact same John William's score playing, and the shot panning out to show an entire herd of dinosaurs that was just out of frame until that point.
  • There was a indigenous population on Ils Saint-Hubert prior to InGen taking it over — Jurassic Park: The Game had a subplot concerning the indigenous population, and ruins being present on the Jurassic Park island settings has occurred elsewhere in the franchise as well, particularly in Jurassic Park: Trespasser.
  • Much like the third film's T. rex, the first time we see the animal in this film is next to the corpse of a dead Parasaurolophus it presumably killed.
  • Much of the film is a Whole-Plot Reference to Jurassic Park III: mercenaries and an semi-unwilling dinosaur expert (Alan in III and one of his proteges in Rebirth) are hired to infiltrate the R&D development facility on both a rescue operation (albeit only coincidentally in Rebirth) and to extract dinosaur DNA (only incidentally in III), the armed mercenaries die first due to a Spinosaurus indirectly and directly and leaving the remaining survivors defenseless, both involve a river chase sequence and pterosaur attack sequence taken from the original novel, and raptors (raptor mutants here) and a super-predator more powerful than the T. rex menace the group in the climax.
  • Like in III, the US Military factors into the plot indirectly — while they showed up to extract the survivors of III, here, a crashed US military helicopter winds up providing Krebs and then Zora a gun. The dead pilot, still strapped into the helicopter's cockpit, also hearkens to Ben Hildebrand from the third movie, Amanda Kirby's then-boyfriend who was also stranded on Isla Sorna after the parasailing accident and his mostly-decayed remains were found by the protagonists still strapped into the harness.
  • The movie's overarching plot of 'greedy corporations trying to harness an uncontrollable nature and science for profit, to disastrous results' is the Central Theme for the Jurassic Park novel, as well as a reoccurring Michael Crichton thumbprint with works like Prey and Timeline (1999).
  • When the characters are attacked by the Mutadon, the Delgados are forced to hide inside an abandoned convenience store in a sequence that is clearly heavily inspired by the "raptors in the kitchen" scene from the original movie, including a shot of the dinosaur's claws scraping the ground seen from underneath the furniture, the younger child running into the freezer, (which itself is also evocative of Lex trying to hide in a cabinet and unintentionally faking-out the raptor when it mistakes her reflection for the real thing) the younger child also accidentally catching the dinosaur's attention with a sudden noise, and another party having to make a loud noise a distance away to draw it away.
  • The central plot is closely recycled from the BioSyn espionage plot of the first film, where a slimy corporate CEO wants someone to help him secretly obtain genetic material from various InGen dinosaur species so he can then profit off of this, the genetic material is stored in vials within some small cryogenic storage unit, and there's also a limited time window for this to occur within.
  • The climax features several elements lifted from that of The Lost World (1995): The human antagonist tries to steal the car to get to the extraction point but gets eaten by the main dinosaur (though unlike in the book, he gets the car some distance before being eaten). Meanwhile, a helicopter is supposed to collect the protagonists, but the window is tight and the chopper leaves before the leads can reach it (though, unlike in the book, Loomis is able to get it to return with a flare before the Distortus rex wrecks it), forcing the party to escape on an old InGen boat they reach through a tunnel system. They even access the tunnel system through a convenience store.
  • One for die-hard Jurassic Park toy collectors. Krebs narrowly avoiding colliding with an Ankylosaurus resembles the artwork on the Kenner trading card titled "Car Trouble".
  • Possibly an unintentional example, but the Mutadon squeezing through the overhead bars of the drainage tunnel feels reminiscent of the velociraptors attacking the Safari Lodge from the Jurassic Park novel, as they smashed open the skylight of one of the rooms and attempted to chew through/squeeze through the bars.
• Next Sunday A.D.: The events of the movie take place five years after Jurassic World Dominion, placing it at least a few years after the former's real life release date of 2025, although there's nothing noticeably different from the present day, other than the obvious fact there's dinosaurs everywhere and some clearly-fictional technology, which is par for the course in the series and science-fiction of the Like Reality, Unless Noted variety, anyway.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!: If Henry hadn't signalled the rescue helicopter with a flare as it was flying away, the helicopter crew probably would've survived.
• Non-Malicious Monster: Unlike previous movies, where the hybrid dinosaurs were intelligent enough to be explicitly sadistic and killing for sport, the ones here only end up attacking humans by happenstance and go out of their way to ignore or give up a chance if they prove too much effort. The Mutadon is introduced killing a raptor, but ignoring a human right in front of it, while the D. rex acts more curious than actively malicious, and simply gives up once the humans speed away on a boat.
• No OSHA Compliance: Par for the course for InGen, the Ile Saint-Hubert laboratories ended up being abandoned due to an employee carelessly littering a snack food wrapper in a dangerous, high-security environment. The wrapper ends up sucked into an air vent, which somehow completely shorts out the entire island security system instantly.
• Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: Krebs in part convinces Zora to head the illegal expedition to Ile Saint-Hubert by playing to her emotions, saying the medicine they could produce with the dinosaur genetic material could save millions of lives, and keep people like Zora's mother from succumbing to heart disease. However, it becomes gradually clear that saving people's lives is an afterthought; all Krebs really cares about is patenting the medicine to amass a fortune.
• Offscreen Teleportation: In the few seconds an inflatable raft obscures the Tyrannosaurus, it vanishes from sight. It's revealed to have just moved a bit further downriver to take a drink in the next shot.
• Off with His Head!:
  • A severed head of a Dunkleosteus somehow ended up in a fisherman's haul.
  • The Distortus rex grabs Krebs and chomps down on his head, pulling the rest of his body away without it.
• Oh, Crap!: Just about everyone on the Essex has this reaction when they realise the Mosasaurus has found them. They have another not long after when the boat is being attacked by both the Spinosaurus pack and the Mosasaurus, forcing everyone to abandon ship while Kincaid steers the boat into shallow waters where the animals can't follow them.
• Oh, No... Not Again!:
  • The Delgados and Xavier are introduced just barely avoiding a Mosasaurus attack that capsizes their boat and are rescued by the mercenaries, hoping to just get dropped off at a port. Only to find out that group is trying to (non-fatally) hunt the Mosasaurus for their purposes when it appears again and attacks the ship.
  • Xavier mutters this in the climax when the Mutadon that initially saved him reappears again, only this time now posed to attack the group in the abandoned village alongside another.
    Xavier: Oh no, not this thing!
• Outliving One's Offspring: Duncan's backstory involved his son dying of unspecified causes at a young age, resulting in his divorce because he and his wife couldn't look at each other anymore without constantly being reminded of what was lost. As a result, he's immediately the most protective towards the younger members of the Delgado family, and is even willing to pull an attempted Heroic Sacrifice to ensure they all get out alive.
• Plot-Irrelevant Villain: Unlike previous movies, where hybrid dinosaurs were a major focus, here they only function as dangerous obstacles.
• Poor Communication Kills: Despite his knowledge of the island, Krebs withholds important intel about what InGen was actually up to from Zora and the team. This blows up in their faces when they get run aground by the Spinosaurus pack and Bobby and Nina are both KIA. A furious Zora calls out Krebs for this once they're ashore and he's forced to come clean.
• Product Placement:
  • Lots of snack foods from Mars and Frito-Lay. A Snickers bar gets prominent attention in the prologue, and the wrapper causes a calamity. Loomis chews on Altoids as a nervous habit in several scenes. Characters are shown eating M&Ms, and a Doritos bag is visible on Kincaid's boat. At the village gas station, characters pause beside Mars candies, bags of various Frito-Lay chips, and a Dr. Pepper display. Poor Isabella in particular is shown consistently eating candies and snacks throughout the movie.
  • Bennett's watch is a GS Sapphire from Cabot Watch Company.
• Psycho Prototype: Ile Saint Hubert was where all the initially created dinosaurs that proved too dangerous for display at Jurassic World were dumped.
• Race Against the Clock: After the ship is scuttled getting to Ile Saint-Hubert, the expedition end up having to collect the remaining two blood samples and make their way to the village complex at the centre of the island by tomorrow's sundown, as Zora had a helicopter crew ready on standby to come pick them up there if they haven't been able to respond in twenty-four hours. This is made more urgent by the fact they only have a two minute window to signal the helicopter once they get there, as the aircraft will not land (for obvious reasons) unless the crew can confirm they're at the village. They make it just in time, but it ends up being a moot point when the helicopter is destroyed by the Distortus rex, and they need to find another way off the island.
• Ragnarök-Proofing: Similar to their facilities on Isla Sorna, the InGen facilities on Ile Saint-Hubert were designed to run automatically on geothermal energy, allowing them to function long after they've been abandoned and nature has retaken most of the buildings.
• Raptor Attack:
  • Xavier gets stalked by a pair of Velociraptor before one of them gets killed by the Mutadon while the other flees. The raptors have head quills like the male raptors in Jurassic Park III and also a colorful face, but otherwise look the same as the other raptors in the films.
  • Mutadon is an exaggeration. It is an artificial species of raptor that possesses membranous wings like those of a pterosaur, resulting in this trope to be combined with Terror-dactyl. A two-headed one (originally a two-headed Velociraptor resembling the male raptors from The Lost World: Jurassic Park in the first trailer) also appears, as a failed prototype kept in a tube.
• Reality Is Unrealistic: The idea of a pack of Spinosaurus working together with a Mosasaurus to hunt was ridiculed by a lot of fans as too unrealistic even for a Jurassic Park movie, but it's actually not too far off from the mutualistic relationship that bottlenose dolphins have with false killer whales. Granted, dolphins are almost certainly a lot more intelligent and socially dynamic than Spinosaurus and Mosasaurus were, and Spinosaurus and Mosasaurus did not coexist with each other in real life to set a precedence for any sort of symbiosis.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: After Krebs remarks that humanity can overcome the stupid dinosaurs, Henry ribs into him that for being stupid, the dinosaurs have lasted for millions of years, while the far-more intelligent humanity is unwittingly bringing extinction onto itself way earlier, and the Earth would not feel anything when they are gone. This speech is reinforced with Krebs is still standing in the river that is filled with wild creatures, leading to one of the animals to scare the piss out of him to finally get out.
• Red Shirt: Eleven people are on the expedition. Eight of them talk a lot in their introductory scenes. You can guess what happens to the other three.
• Refuge in Audacity: Duncan says there aren't as many government patrols for the group to worry about near their destination because they believe nobody would be stupid enough to go there - which is what the group will rely on to get there undetected.
• Remember the New Guy?: A lot of this happens in the early scenes, with characters we've never met reminiscing over other characters, living and dead, we never see in the film.
• Retcon: The film heavily implies that the Mosasaurus is the same one from the previous three films, but the animal doesn't resemble its depiction in the earlier films and is redesigned to match more recent discoveries.
• Revision: The trailer seemingly shows that (once again) there was yet another secret facility of dinosaurs established prior to Isla Nublar that wasn't mentioned before. However, the film clarifies that this particular facility was actually set up following the events of Jurassic Park III.
• Ridiculously Cute Critter: Dolores, the baby Aquilops. She is so cute that, according to featurettes, shooting kept getting delayed because the crew couldn't stop fawning at her.
• Savage Spinosaurs: The Spinosaurus makes its return in live action, this time as an aquatic species that hunts in groups. There's about five of them on the island, and they have the most kills of any prehistoric animal in this film with the exception of the D. rex, killing two of the mercenaries by the time the humans lands on the beach.
• Scared of What's Behind You: When Teresa crosses the river to acquire a boat, she comes across a Parasaurolophus carcass that was being scavenged on by a Dilophosaurus. When it sees her, it moves to attack, before it quickly changes its mind and flees, having noticed the sleeping T. Rex behind her.
• Scientific and Technological Theme Naming: Possibly. Some of the characters share names with notable scientists or scientific concepts.
  • Zora Bennett shares a surname with Dorothea Bennett, a geneticist from Hawaii who did research on mammalian genetics.
  • Duncan Kincaid shares a surname name with biologist Trevor Kincaid, notable for discovering several species of insects and worms.
  • Martin Krebs has a surname which references the Krebs Cycle, a metabolic process by which the chemical ATP is generated.
• Screw the Money, I Have Rules!: Zora is initially convinced by Krebs to head the expedition to Ile Saint-Hubert for a very hefty pay check. However, Henry is gradually able to convince her it would benefit humanity much more greatly if they made the new heart medication open source, to ensure no one company can get a monopoly on it, even if it means they won't see a cent. It ends up being somewhat of a moot point, as Krebs eventually shows he's greedy enough to take the samples they've collected and leave the rest of the expedition to die, and he's killed anyway, so it's not clear if he would have actually paid them in the end.
• Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale: The Titanosaurus are stated to weigh 11 tons. While this might be reasonable if they followed the measurements estimated for the actual animal, the ones in the movie are gigantic, significantly larger than the biggest known sauropods in real life (usually estimated around the range of 80-90 tons). It would be much more reasonable to say they weigh something like 111 tons.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here:
  • A pair of Velociraptor tries to silently ambush Xavier while he's urinating, but a Mutadon soon attacks the two raptors. One is grossly mauled, and the other decides to escape and leave its partner to die.
  • A Dilophosaurus tries to attack Teresa, but as soon it notices the sleeping T. rex, it decides to get the hell out of there.
  • Krebs tries to escape with the samples when he finds the keys to the jeep he and Zora are hiding from the Mutadon around and under respectively. He jumps into the car, starts it up (with Zora still under it) and takes off into the jungle. Ironically he gets to the docks just as the group managed to do so, only to literally run right into the D. rex, who promptly grabs and eats him.
• Series Continuity Error: The film opens with text establishing that it has been 32 years since dinosaurs "returned". This makes absolutely zero sense besides the fact that the film was released 32 years after the original Jurassic Park (1993). Rebirth is set five years post-Dominion, so 2027-2028. Dinosaurs were cloned in the mid-late 1980s, meaning it's been closer to 40 years In-Universe.
• Sequel Escalation:
  • Four Spinosaurus work together as a pack alongside a Mosasaurus, one-upping prior films which had only one Mosasaurus alone or one Spinosaurus alone, with neither appearing together before, never mind working together as a pack.
  • The Distortus rex is also far more grotesque and monstrous than anything that's appeared in the franchise before. Even the fictional Indominus, Indoraptor and Scorpios were still recognizably dinosaur-like in profile, but this creature looks more like a gargantuan, six-legged reptilian ape. There's also a second failed experiment, the Mutadon, which is shown to be a winged terror unlike the previous mutants. Notably, this is also the first film to feature multiple hybrids at once. In a first for hybrids in the film canon, the D. rex and at least one Mutadon get to live in the end, mainly since they act more like aggressive animals than the monsters the previous hybrids were.
• Sea Monster: Mosasaurus returns. This time, it is different looking to the specimen from Isla Nublar (however comments by Krebs heavily imply it is the same individual that escaped Nublar - just with a redesign). The Spinosaurus probably count too, since they spend the majority of their screen time swimming in the ocean.
• Shout-Out:
  • In the opening with Krebs and Zora, they drive by a school bus for Crichton Middle School.
  • One of the characters is a Doctor Loomis who's an Ignored Expert about how dangerous the predators of the film really are.
  • The boat chase against the Mosasaur plays similarly to the boat chase in Jaws 1 as both feature a group of characters trying to evade/keep up with a colossal sea predator as they try to tag it with a specialized device (barrels in Jaws, blood extraction here). Earlier in the film, when "Bronto Bill" causes a traffic jam, someone remarks that "we need a bigger crane". Ironically this isn’t the first time ''Jaws'' has been homaged in Jurassic.
  • At one point, Zora sarcastically refers to Krebs as Mr. Roarke.
  • Speaking of Gareth Edwards and Godzilla (2014), the Mutadons look an awful lot like MUTOs and their name can't be just a coincidence, can it?
  • The homage goes even further: the opening scene of the movie shares the same premise as Godzilla 2014’s, featuring two scientists, one of whom doesn't make it out in time and gets trapped and killed.
  • The overhead shot of the T-Rex (Ember), and the Mosasaurs swimming underwater is remarkably similar to how they show Godzilla swimming underwater in a similar overhead shot in the 2014 film.
  • The fate of Krebs at the hands of the Distortus rex takes obvious cues from Star Wars: Episode VI — Return of the Jedi and Cloverfield.
  • The Distortus rex has been stated to be inspired by the Rancor from Star Wars and the Xenomorphs from Alien.
  • The Quetzalcoatlus is quite similar in bill shape and color scheme to the pterosaur mount in Turok: Evolution which has been identified as a Quetzalcoatlus in some sources.
  • A clip of the film One Million Years B.C. is shown playing on a small TV at the Suriname bar.
  • Nina's death to the Spinosaurus where she gets snatched up and dragged back into the water just as she's walking ashore while everyone else can only stare in horror because it happened so fast is similar to how one of the sailors meets his end at the jaws of the Piranhadon in the extended cut of King Kong (2005).
  • The animated movie in the museum shows a theropod collapsing the same way as the Tyrannosaurus during the dinosaur extinction in "The Rite of Spring" sequence of Fantasia.
• Shown Their Work: The producers for Rebirth intend for the prehistoric creatures to be based on real research, while still putting some artistic liberties. The film shows the updates that match with modern paleontology.
  • Continuing from Jurassic World Dominion, the theropods have non-pronated hands.
  • Tyrannosaurus now has a bulkier body, large facial scutes, more pronounced brow hornlets, and smaller forelimbs, in contrast to the more lean "shrink-wrapped" body, small facial scales, smaller brow ridges, and slightly oversized forelimbs possessed by the other Tyrannosaurus seen in the previous films. It also willingly pursues its prey into the water and is a fairly good swimmer, which fits with how the animal lived in a wetlands environment. While the Tyrannosaurus in previous films have shown signs of intelligence, as recent studies have proposed, it is more clear with the individual here as it shows strategic thinking when hunting, such as carefully studying its prey and positioning itself to make the right moment to strike.
  • Spinosaurus now has shorter hindlegs, a squared sail, and a tail fin based on new fossil discoveries. It also has a shallower skull with a single crest between its eyes, as opposed to the more Baryonyx-like skull with Allosaurus-like double crests seen on the Spinosaurus from Jurassic Park III, webbed fingers and toes, an enlarged thumb-claw, and no longer has the crocodilian-like scutes its earlier variant, as well as the closely related Baryonyx, are depicted with (which are purely inspired by their crocodile-like appearance and not based on any evidence), instead having more plausible pebbly body scales. And while the ones in the film seem rather small compared to most expectations and the previous specimen, they are actually around the same scale as the holotype Spinosaurus (the upper size estimates were based on fragmentary specimens).
  • Titanosaurus has a very muscular neck and body, in contrast to the more slender sauropods seen in previous films. It also has a fleshy nasal chamber, its neck is held at an angle rather than curved, its forefeet have reduced toes and lack thumb-claws, and its hindfeet each have three claws pointing backwards. There are also very sparse filaments growing between its scales, likely based on the hypothesis that filaments were ancestral to dinosaurs.
  • Although it's a different variant from Jurassic World Dominion, the Quetzalcoatlus in this film not only still has plantigrade feet and a coat of pycnofibres, but also displays ground-hunting behavior and is more reasonably sized this time around.
  • Mosasaurus now has a proper tail fluke and smoother, more monitor lizard-like skin with feature scales on the back, rather than the outdated paddle-like tail and rough, crocodile-like scutes seen on the previous mosasaur.
  • Parasaurolophus is now more accurately the size of an elephant, in contrast to the horse-sized individuals seen in previous installments (though the ones in Dominion were actually juveniles).
  • Velociraptor, like in Jurassic Park III, has been given bird-like round pupils as opposed to the reptilian slit-pupils of the previous JW raptors. Its teeth also do not extend past the eye socket like in the aforementioned specimens. It also has display quills like the male raptors in JPIII, meaning it's at least partially feathered (even if still lacking the birdlike coat of pennaceous feathers that real dromaeosaurids had, which was seen on the previous film's Pyroraptor).
  • Dilophosaurus has regained its real-life counterpart's notch in the upper jaw as in the first film, after losing it in Dominion.
  • Anurognathus has a frog-faced skull rather than a Dimorphodon-like one as in Walking with Dinosaurs. It is also seen residing in dark places and flying at nighttime, based on theories that it was nocturnal, and it vaults with its wings as it hops.
  • Ankylosaurus has its front legs slightly sprawled out, giving it a more squat, short-legged appearance, as opposed to the more tall-looking and long-legged ones seen in previous Jurassic World films.
  • Although the film seemingly perpetrates the myth that dinosaurs only thrived in tropical environments, it still states there are some surviving outside the equatorial regions, and the ones seen on Ile Saint-Hubert are mostly species that did live in tropical or subtropical climates (as are most of the dinosaurs throughout the films).
  • Dolores the baby Aquilops is shown mainly walking on all fours, despite Aquilops being most likely bipedal since its close relatives were. This likely reflects the studies that basal ceratopsians like Psittacosaurus were quadrupedal at a young age, shifting to a bipedal stance as they mature.
• Shoo the Dog: Isabella gets Dolores, the baby Aquilops she befriended, to go back to the jungle during a sequence where they're trying to retrieve a boat from under the nose of a sleeping Tyrannosaurus, reasoning that this situation is way too dangerous for it. Dolores comes back later on however.
• Slurpasaur: Invoked. A couple of generic Eryops-like amphibians appear in the film but are given a sail and fins on their backs, where they end up looking like the so-called "dinosaurs" of low-budget B-movies from the mid-20th century. Thankfully, the creatures are entirely CGI.
• Soft Reboot: While Rebirth takes place in the same universe as all the previous films and has a few continuity nods, there are no returning human or dinosaur characters (with the possible exception of the Mosasaur), almost all of the dinosaurs in the wild died off between movies, and the story is largely standalone that requires minimal knowledge of what came before.
• Super-Persistent Predator: Zig-zagged with the Mutadons, who are a combination of raptors and pterosaurs. Once they see humans in their line of sight, they keep hunting them until they're physically stopped. However, they will ignore other creatures in their presence as soon as they make a kill, as displayed by the one that brings down a Velociraptor. Averted with the rest of island's carnivores, as they will give up on hunting humans once they prove to be more trouble they're worth (whether it be unable to reach them or being spooked by a bigger predator). This includes the Distortus rex, who isn't so much as hunting the humans as it is just chancing upon them, being attracted to the lights the human protagonists make. In fact, it loses interest in Duncan once his flare goes out and leaves without much of a fuss.
• Surprisingly Sudden Death:
  • Nina arrives on the beach of Ile Saint-Hubert with one of the supply caches from the wrecked boat and a Spinosaurus in the background is seen sliding into the ocean. Seconds, later, Nina moves behind the cache to push it further ashore and both her and the cache are dragged away by the Spinosaurus before anyone can react.
  • Also applies to the Velociraptor, after the animal had been front and center in the franchise since the third film, you'd expect them to have a strong focus on this film too, but as soon we catch our first glimpse to the raptors, one of them is quickly killed by a Mutadon out of nowhere and we don't see the raptors anymore from this point onward.
• Suspiciously Apropos Music: When the team reach the village and start speculating that it's abandoned during the daytime but not after dark, the generator immediately kicks in and Ben E. King's "Stand By Me" starts playing. The opening lyrics?
  When the night has come
  And the land is dark
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: With both Peter Ludlow and Lewis Dodgson being Killed Off for Real in The Lost World: Jurassic Park for the former and Jurassic World Dominion for the latter, the role as the greedy, unethical and cowardly representative of a genetic company is given to Martin Krebs, who has a lot more in common with novel's version of Dodgson, such as pushing a woman overboard to ensure the secrecy of his illegal genetic extraction mission and being temporarily stuck underneath a jeep with a lead female protagonist next to him. And like novel's Dodgson, he meets his end in the jaws of a carnivorous dinosaur that he mocks for being intellectually inferior to humans.
• Take That!: Henry openly wonders why anyone would think that creating a hybrid dinosaur in the middle of a theme park was a good idea.
• Team Pet: A juvenile Aquilops named "Dolores" accompanies the Delgados, with Isabella being particularly close to her.
• Tears of Joy: Loomis tears up in pure joy when he manages to see a Titanosaurus up close and be able to touch a living dinosaur for the first time.
• Terrifying Tyrannosaur: Being a Jurassic World film, it's inevitable a Tyrannosaurus will be involved, albeit with a smaller role than in the past. In this case, it serves the primary obstacle for the Delgado family as they try to get a raft to traverse the river. Unlike the past films, which features the T. rex as somewhat of an Anti-Hero, this particular specimen is depicted as a dangerous, territorial predator that sees humans as snacks, and can also swim in deep water.
• Terror-dactyl:
  • Zora and Henry attempt to extract DNA from a Quetzalcoatlus egg and promptly get attacked by the parent, resulting in LeClerc's death. As is typical for the trope, the pterosaur is extremely birdlike, with a broad bill and a nest made of sticks, though it's still quadrupedal, mostly covered in pycnofibres, and lacking birdlike feet.
  • Mutadon is what happens when this trope is combined with Raptor Attack.
• That's No Moon: When Nina is dragging the supplies up to the beach, the rocks in the background begin to move. It turns out to be another Spinosaurus, who proceeds to sneak behind and devour Nina.
• Time Skip: The movie is set five years after the events of Dominion.
• Two-Keyed Lock: The Distortus rex containment cell in the Distant Prologue is sealed by a dual-key lock that has to be manually turned on both sides of the door, to ensure that one person on either side cannot release the monster within. This leads to a dramatic scene where a fleeing scientist tries to get his colleague to let him out, only for her to pull her key at the last second because the Distortus rex is right behind him.
• Two Lines, No Waiting: The plot follows two unrelated groups that end up on the island; the main expedition going there intentionally, and a family on a sailing trip that accidentally ended up getting too close and become stranded. The two paths cross twice in the movie, when the expedition makes a detour at sea to rescue the family from their capsized boat, and reuniting during the climax after they became separated getting to the island.
• Undignified Death: The poor scientist in the opening gets killed by Distortus rex escaping, which he precipitates by dropping a Snickers candy bar wrapper that causes an equipment malfunction.
• Unusual Animal Alliance: Four Spinosaurus help a Mosasaurus attack the ship the protagonists are sailing aboard; it's identified as mutualism — the Spinosaurus and Mosasaurus help each other find and hunt prey, working together to swarm the boat the protags are on.
• Vasquez Always Dies: Nina, the only other female on Zora's extraction team and who is shown to be extremely capable, gets killed off by a Spinosaurus not long after the team arrives at Ile Saint Hubert while Teresa and Isabella survive to the end. Averted with Zora herself.
• Vertebrate with Extra Limbs: The Distortus rex is a knuckle-walking quadruped with another smaller pair of arms jutting from its chest, making it six-limbed in total. In something of a twist on the usual application of the trope, it's the larger arms that appear to be the extra ones.
• Villainous Rescue: A Mutadon inadvertently saves Xavier when it swoops in to take out a Velociraptor that is attempting to ambush him. In the climax, Krebs unintentionally saves Isabella from the Distortus rex when his alarms draw its attention.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: Because this movie has established that most of the feral dinosaurs and prehistoric animals that got loose post-Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom have largely died off outside of tropical regions within the equator. This raises concerns about the fates of Blue/Beta, plus Bumpy and any other named dinosaurs from Camp Cretaceous/Chaos Theory.
• Who Would Be Stupid Enough?: The team doesn't worry about being pursued by military patrols when they breach the no-go zone — no one is stupid enough to enter areas where dinosaurs that have repeatedly eaten people are freely roaming. This is lampshaded later when Duncan chews out the civilian family he rescues — they thought they were safely taking a shortcut.
• The Worf Effect: The only sighting we get of a Velociraptor in the film proper has a pair of them get decimated by a Mutadon, to establish just how large of a threat the latter is—raptors are supposed to be an apex predator in the Jurassic World, so if one can be killed this easily by this new creature and the other is so terrified it just runs away...
• Xenomorph Xerox: The Distortus rex's design, especially its bulging head, is based on the Xenomorph. This is especially noticeable in the prologue when it snatches the scientist, as how it slowly approaches from behind before carrying him off into the smokey room is a scene straight out of an alien movie.
• Your Size May Vary:
  • How big the T. rex is varies from shot to shot, sometimes looking enormous (especially when it's first introduced sleeping), whereas other times seeming about the same size as most other T. rex in the franchise. Officially, stats put it at a comparable size to the Buck and Doe, and noticeably smaller than Rexy.
  • The Titanosaurus have this issue in their one scene; although officially put at about 44 metres in length (more than half of which is made up of its extraordinarily long, whip-like tail), they appear far, far larger than that when compared to the humans in close shots, who barely even come up to their ankles, making them closer to 44 metres tall, not long (the average human would've reached about shin height to even the biggest known titanosaurs in real life).
  • The Distortus rex suffers a major case of this in the climax when it grabs a helicopter out of the air and is able to fit the entire cockpit in its mouth, where it suddenly appears absolutely gargantuan, becoming at least ten times larger.^note The helicopter appears to be a Eurocopter AS365 Dauphin, which are about 14 metres long. The Distortus rex is officially stated in supplementary media to be 14.5 metres long, making the helicopter almost as long as it, yet the D. rex can somehow grab it out of the air and hold it with one hand in this scene. Later, it's shown to be unable to fit even one whole person in its mouth.