Twenty - five   years and four picture since Steven Spielberg’sJurassic Park , and   the T - Rex featured inJurassic World : Fallen Kingdomisstillthe master . And she has the scars to demonstrate it .

Three years after the events ofJurassic World , Owen Grady ( play by Chris Pratt ) and Claire Dearing ( play by Bryce Dallas Howard ) return to Isla Nublar to savethe dinosaursfrom an dynamic volcano threatening all life on the island . However , what begins as a deliverance op soon reveals itself to be the foundation of a sorry conspiracy that threatens humans with the   jeopardy of extinction . And while the chief focusing inFallen Kingdomfalls onto the Velociraptor diagnose Blue and the most recent abomination from InGen nickname the Indoraptor , theJurassicfranchise would n’t be the same without its trademark T - Rex . And it really is the OG .

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Nearly three decades in , and the queen bee from the original movie is still running rearing .   InJurassic Park , the T - Rex battled Velociraptors , car tires , and Jeff Goldblum ; then , during the event ofThe Lost earth : Jurassic ParkandJurassic Park III , she sit on the spare-time activity ( the T - Rex inThe Lost World , on the side referred to as " Tyrannosaurus Doe,“was located on thesecondisland , Isla Sorna , and the T - Rex defeated by the Spinosaurus inJurassic Park IIIwas a unlike dinosaur altogether ) .

However , when theJurassicfranchise realise asoft rebootwith Colin Trevorrow’sJurassic Worldin 2015 , the original T - Rex made her jubilant regaining . This was confirmed by Trevorrow prior to the release ofJurassic World , when he distinguish theLos Angeles Timesthat"she ’s a petty older , and she ’s furious . “But even without Trevorrow ’s confirmation , the original T - Rex ’s identity is apparent to any fan of the master who have a nifty eye for detail . The T - Rex featured inJurassic WorldandJurassic World : Fallen Kingdomnot only resides on the original island , but bears a unique set of scars across her neck give to her by a pair of pesky Velociraptors in the final act of the original movie .

That the same wight has appeared in three movies ( match Jeff Goldblum ’s Ian Malcolm and   B.D. Wong ’s Henry Wu for most films in the franchise ) is rather telling . With the introduction of raw technology and new dinosaur breeds , it would have been easy for the newJurassictrilogy to go all - in on the genetically - engineered future :   as the ads forJurassic Worldsaid ,   " Bigger . Louder . More teeth . "   Why   even bother labor up the past when something newfangled has already been introduced ? Because that ’s the entire M.O. of the entireJurassicfranchise : not letting the retiring die .

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There is , of course , the nostalgia factor , but the T - Rex in theJurassic Worldtrilogy additionally reflects a major theme in these film that humans are constantly attempt to dig up and restore the past . In fact , once you strip aside the nostalgia elements , it ’s in reality   a monitor of the tenacious - term ramifications of bringing an extinct coinage back to life ; it can have an impact a quarter of a 100 later , and beyond . The pastwilleventually come back to   bite you - sometimes literally .

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