Explore the iconic T-Rex's journey through the Jurassic Park and World franchise, from its terrifying debut to its triumphant battles and enduring legacy.
The Tyrannosaurus Rex , or T-Rex, has been a mainstay in the Jurassic Park and Jurassic World franchise since its beginning, and frequently at the center of some of its best scenes (not to mention the center of the posters). Beginning with Michael Crichton’s eponymous 1990 novel, the franchise has never been without the T-Rex, and with good reason.
From the moment the T-Rex first arrived on-screen in 1993’s Jurassic Park, the fearsome dino has been the star of the franchise and one of the greatest movie monsters of all time. Because of its nature as a prehistoric animal, the T-Rex has been portrayed in a myriad of different ways in the Jurassic Park and Jurassic World movies, with the T-Rex going from villain to anti-hero and back and forth repeatedly. Characters have found themselves taking on the T-Rex, and Owen Grady (Chris Pratt) and Claire Temple (Bryce Dallas Howard) must do exactly that in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. In order to provide Grady’s Velociraptor friend Blue with a much-needed blood transfusion, Grady and Claire are forced to extract blood from a restrained and sedated T-Rex. Naturally, the T-Rex doesn’t stay sedated for long. In Fallen Kingdom, the blood transfusion is the one without an active chasing component, but also one of the most terribly suspenseful. Within the tight confines of a truck, Grady and Claire have to get up close and personal with one of the most terrifying predators to ever walk the Earth, and no scene like this would be complete without the T-Rex waking up. Even with the T-Rex lying down the whole time, its blood transfusion is still one of the best T-Rex moments in the franchise. Jurassic Park: The Lost World tosses the electrified fences out the window and makes Isla Sorna a dino-populated island where anything goes, which sets up some of the best moments in the franchise. The surviving human scientists and InGen team try to make their way to a communications center on the island to call for help, but the movie’s T-Rex couple tracks them down with the female pursuing them in a truly terrifying chase sequence. The Lost World pushes the franchise near R-rated territory when InGen worker Carter (Thomas Rosales Jr.) meets a terrible end under the massive T-Rex’s heavy foot. The T-Rex also pursues its human prey into a cave behind a waterfall, with Dr. Robert Burke (Thomas F. Duffy) meeting his own unfortunate end. The waterfall sequence is one of several included in Michael Crichton’s original novel that was subsequently reworked for the theatrical sequels, and both it and the chase preceding it are among the moments where the filmmakers hold off on featuring the T-Rex on screen at all until the very end, adding to the anticipation of the dinosaur’s return, and even giving the T-Rex a not-so-subtle mic drop in smashing through a Spinosaurus skeleton when it arrives to fight the Indominus Rex. Jurassic World: Dominion delivers one of the dino’s all-time greatest moments in a fantastic fight scene, capped off with the T-Rex’s triumphant roar that closes out the movie. Jurassic World: Dominion sends their enemy into the aquatic jaws of the Mososaurus, ends on a moment of mutual respect between Blue and the T-Rex. After a 14-year absence, Jurassic World: Dominion delivered one of the dino’s all-time greatest moments in a fantastic fight scene, capped off with the T-Rex’s triumphant roar that closes out the movie. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom has the answer to that in the form of the fearsome Gigantosaurus, and once more the T-Rex is on hand to lead the charge to take down the formidable foe. With a little help from the Therizinosaurus, the franchise’s veteran T-Rex proves that it is still a force to be reckoned with. The T-Rex’s battle with the Gigantosaurus also really highlights just how much fun T-Rex fight scenes are when pushed to their limits. The T-Rex is genuinely the bare-knuckle boxer of the dinosaur world. Jurassic Park: The Lost World features a terrifying scene where two T-Rexes attack the trailers being used by the team of human scientists to treat their infant’s broken leg (they, of course, do not know this). Steven Spielberg really pushes the suspense of the sequence to the max with the second trailer dangling over a cliffside as the humans hang on for dear life. The efforts of field equipment expert Eddie Carr (Richard Schiff) to tow the trailer back up also end in him making the ultimate sacrifice when the two T-Rexes return. As in the original, Spielberg holds off on bringing in the T-Rexes until almost exactly the midway point, adding another rainstorm in for good measure and delivering one of the highlights of the franchise. Jurassic Park makes many significant changes from Michael Crichton’s eponymous novel, with the T-Rex’s rampage through San Diego not taking place in the text at all. However, with InGen’s plot to bring dinosaurs to the mainland United States and rebuild Jurassic Park there, there was no other alternative for Spielberg but to let the T-Rex run free. The T-Rex’s San Diego attack fully delivers like a modern-day dinosaur B-movie with state-of-the-art visual effects. It also never shies away from just how terrifying a carnivorous dinosaur being let loose in the world of modern man would be, and pushes the intensity of the franchise to its limit. Jurassic Park ends, and the movie thoroughly gives its audience their money’s worth in the T-Rex’s trip to San Diego. The scene is still considered one of the best set-piece to date. With the power throughout Isla Nublar out, the island’s electrified fences shut down, and the two tour cars having the misfortune to stop right in front of the T-Rex paddock, Spielberg delivers what is still the definitive T-Rex scene in the animal’s escape from captivity
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