15 Fan Theories About The 'Jurassic Park' Franchise That Make Our Imaginations (Dino)Soar

From a former Redditor u/[deleted]:

The fence was only 10,000 volts and Tim was able to recover after a couple of minutes. Most tazer guns are 50,000 volts and sometimes this isn't even enough to incapacitate an individual (most of the time the individuals in question are on PCP or some other pain-numbing drug).

Now consider a T-Rex that would have weighed 7-8 tons and there was even one found in Canada that would have weighed 9.75 tons (World's Biggest T-Rex discovered in Canada). It would have probably taken hundreds of thousands of volts or even a million volts for the fully grown T-Rex to feel any pain upon making contact with the fence.

Now granted the Rex in the movie was probably conditioned to avoid the fences from a very young age and that's probably what Hammond & Co were counting on.

However, if it were sufficiently motivated it would have laughed in the face of how weak the fence would have been.

From Redditor u/magecatwitharrows:

When Nedry first encounters the Dilophosaurus, it seems curious and almost playful. Then, seemingly out of the blue, it shifts gears and things rapidly spiral downward for our beloved corporate espionage character. I always thought it was just sizing him up before eating him, as in it always saw him as prey. But upon watching it for the millionth time this morning, I noticed an important detail: The hood.

When they first come face-to-face, Nedry has his hood up, and it's spread wide around his face. His poncho is bright yellow, just like the Dilo's hood flaps. As Dr. Grant said, dinosaurs and man just got thrown into the mix together, and we have no idea what will happen. A dinosaur has no idea what a rain poncho is, so when it first saw Nedry, all it saw was a giant figure with a huge hood around its face. Now bear in mind all of the park's dinosaurs are female. I believe the Dilophosaurus thought Nedry was a male, and more specifically, a potential mate. That's why it followed him like a puppy and made those little cooing noises at him. That is until he tripped, causing his hood to fall down. Once the female Dilophosaurus realized Nedry's ruse, it became aggressive, putting up its own hood in a threat display, hissing, and spitting venom in his face. And the rest is history.

From Redditor u/ReoDubh:

I was watching the first Jurassic Park and as they enter the park Dr. Alan Grant looked at the T-Rex cage and he notices that the T-Rex won't eat the goat that it was given, because it was too easy of prey and she wants to hunt her own food. As the movie goes on when she's finally free and closes in on the people in the car, the Grant screams that she can only see them if they are moving so the kids won't move. The thing is, Grant knew that wasn't actually truth but the T-Rex wouldn't follow them if they stayed there because she wants to hunt. That would be hard to explain to the kids in the moment and they might not believe him, so he told them that she couldn't see them if they didn't do anything instead. He did this so they would be quiet and wouldn't trigger the T-Rex's hunter instincts, and that's how the most famous quote about T-Rexes is a lie even in the movie.

From Redditor u/ghostmadlittlemiss:

In the famous T-Rex break-out scene from Jurassic Park, the footsteps of the approaching T-Rex are heavy enough to ripple the glasses of water on the car dashboard. And when she returns for the Jeep chase scene, ripples appear in a puddle caused by her footprint.

However, at the end of the film, she appears out of nowhere to eat the velociraptors about to kill our heroes and save the day. A lot of fans regard this as a plot hole, since she’s shown to make noise when approaching earlier in the film. But I take the opposite view.

I think that the quiet walk from the end and from when she catches another dinosaur during the daytime (she appears from nowhere again then) is her normal walk. Many paleontologists believe T-Rexes to be ambush predators, after all.

I think that the reason she’s so loud earlier on in the film is because humans came back into her territory with torches and shouting and woke her up. That’s why she chases the Jeep but doesn’t [really] try to eat the occupants, despite getting more than close enough, and stops when they’re out of her territory. 

And before anyone brings up the camp attack from the Lost World as evidence against this theory, I think the same thing applies there. The Rexes had to leave their very young child alone in the nest and track the humans for quite a long way to find out why they could smell their child’s blood on them. So I imagine those two T-Rexes were angry too.

From Redditor u/moderatenerd:

With the positive and then negative popularity that Hammond and Ingen, as well as Dr. Malcolm, later gave dinosaurs, Dr. Grant and his fellow paleontologists were able to secure funds much quicker before the parks and headlines.

After studying the creatures Hammond created and their existence became wider accepted, the scientific community in the JP world still relied on fossils because Hammond's were imperfect and some downright inaccurate. There are a growing number of purists out there who never believed the headlines or who did and just don't categorize the creatures in the parks as natural dinosaurs. Humans had fiddled with the creatures' DNA much too much for their liking.

From Redditor u/DefinitelySteveIrwin:

How do we explain away the two wildly-different looking pteranodons in JP3 and Jurassic World? Why has the majestic aerial predator from the third movie been replaced with this disgusting chicken-looking imposter in the 4th? Well, the answer's simple - they're totally different animals.

The easiest answer is that the Jurassic World versions are proper pteranodon, or at least the closest that Ingen geneticists could get to them. It's been theorized that females had smaller crests, and if Jurassic World only bred female animals much like Jurassic Park did (which I don't think has been confirmed but is implied) it may explain the small crested abominations we see on screen.

Anyway, I want to propose that the JP3 dactyls are NOT actually pteranodon, but a creature called Ludodactylus. Similar to how I mentioned JP's velociraptors were misidentified Achillobator, Ludodactylus wasn't announced to the public until 2003, two years after JP3 was released and (in-universe) several years after this so-called 'pteranodon' had been cloned. So InGen scientists probably grew some pterodactyl-looking thing and they're like 'sure, it's pteranodon, whatever.'

We get a couple of clues that Ludodactylus makes sense. First is the size - JP3's dactyls are bulky boys that can easily lift a person and look like total chads when compared to the sorry JW versions. Ludodactylus is a fairly large animal, larger than real-world pteranodon anyway, and at least looks more sensical flying away with people when compared to the goofy stick-figure-World versions grabbing guests. Furthermore, JP3's dactyls have TEETH. This is kinda goofy, because the name 'pteranodon' literally means 'winged without teeth' or basically 'toothless flyer.' (This is one area where the World version was actually better.) But you know what did have teeth? Our buddy Ludo.

In fact, Ludo's name directly references how pteranodon toys, made for children, would often have teeth despite this being completely inaccurate. Ludodactylus superficially resembles a pteranodon, but with toothy jaws, so was named as a winking reference to this. 'Ludodactylus' literally means 'Toy-dactyl.' The scientists who named were basically like "See? Here you go! Now, all your inaccurate toys actually make sense!' It's a funny version of real-world science retconning media depictions to be more accurate.