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- "A creature of the future, made from pieces of the past! Ladies and gentlemen, please be warned! This is the perfect blend of the two most dangerous creatures, that ever walked the Earth! We call it... the Indoraptor!"
- —Gunnar Eversol introducing the Indoraptor to bidders(src)
The Indoraptor was a hybrid dinosaur created by Henry Wu in the basement lab of Lockwood Manor. He served as the secondary antagonist of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.
Appearance
- "The perfect weapon for the modern age! Built for combat! With tactical responses more acute than any human soldier!"
- —Gunnar Eversol(src)
The Indoraptor is very similar in appearance to the Indominus rex, but his body length is about half of that of his predecessor. He sports talons that are similar to those of a Velociraptor, and his color is primarily black with a golden-yellow streak running from the base of the neck to his tail, which bears strong resemblance to Blue's metallic blue streak. Like the Indominus rex, the Indoraptor possesses hands with four fingers, an opposable thumb and three main digits. The shape of his head bears a resemblance to that of a Tyrannosaurus rex, and he has a sprinkled red mark around his eye orbit. The skin around the Indoraptor's mouth is flaky and peeling away in some areas and is also sickly-looking, with ragged teeth similar to those of the Indominus rex. His head also bears two crests above his eyes, similar to that of an Allosaurus, although a little smaller. He is typically shown walking in a quadrupedal stance, though he can stand, walk, and run bipedally on occasion, which gives him an intimidating look that towers over his prey.
Personality
The Indoraptor, like its predecessor, the Indominus rex, exhibited cunning and sadistic behavioral traits. It derived pleasure not only from hunting for sustenance but also from engaging in playful torment of its prey before delivering the final lethal blow. However, a significant distinction can be drawn between the two creatures in terms of their underlying motivations. While the Indominus rex may have acted out of neglected circumstances and formed limited positive relationships, the Indoraptor endured explicit mistreatment throughout its life, aimed at intensifying its predatory instincts. This suggests that the Indoraptor's inclination to kill may have been a result of deliberate conditioning rather than mere sporting behavior.
History
Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous
In season three episodes, "Whatever it Takes" and "Stay on Mission" Dr. Wu returns to the island to retrieve his laptop filled with the information to create the Indoraptor, along with a sample from the Indominus rex to start the process.
While having a conversation with Brooklynn, she mentions how his creations are monsters because they are dangerous and his lack of empathy for their victims. This could have been the motivation to use Blue's genome to perfect the Indoraptor.
Creation
- "What is that thing?"
"They made it." - —Maisie Lockwood and Claire Dearing(src)
The Indoraptor was created in a hidden laboratory in the Lockwood Manor by Dr. Henry Wu. He was a prototype as Wu was waiting to obtain Blue's blood to finalize the genome of the creature, and breed a more streamlined version of him. He was created as a weapon and was shown to attack on command through visual and audio frequency, which drove him into a frenzied state. This usage would be seen again in Jurassic World: Dominion, with the four Atrociraptors.
However, due to being a prototype, he lacked any of the positive characteristics Wu wanted to create in him: he lacked the ability to follow orders other than his conditioning to visual and audio cues, and lacked any of the positive personality traits seen in Blue, such as her ability to show empathy and bond with a trainer or handler. As such, Blue was a required part of the finalized Indoraptor design, as she was needed to act not only as the DNA source, but also as the mother figure for the next generation of Indoraptors to imprint on and learn positive behavior from.
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
When Maisie Lockwood snuck into the laboratory sub-level where Dr. Wu and Eli Mills were conversing over the Indoraptor's faults, Maisie hid in a darkened hallway near the Indoraptor's cage, unknowingly getting too close with her back to the hybrid's enclosure. She did not see the Indoraptor reach out to try and grab her, and was only alerted when one of his claws brushed her ponytail, causing her to run away screaming in panic, leading to her being caught and confined to her room by Mills.
The Indoraptor was the last dinosaur presented during the Lockwood Manor Auction. He was introduced to a crowd of wealthy people who came from all over the world to buy the dinosaurs who were evacuated from Isla Nublar, and was described by Gunnar Eversoll as being a creature of the future made from pieces of the past, and a perfect blend of the two most dangerous creatures to have ever walked the Earth. Eversoll explained that the Indoraptor was created by Henry Wu and had an intelligence quotient comparable to that of a Velociraptor and that its characteristics included having a heightened sense of smell and was trained to respond to a pulse-coded laser targeting system that would enable it to track and kill prey in complex environments. This targeting system was demonstrated on one of the bidders, causing the Indoraptor to fruitlessly attempt to attack the bidder from his cage. The audience started bidding tremendous amounts of money on the hybrid dinosaur, and despite Eversoll stating that the Indoraptor was only in his prototype stage and was not yet for sale, he eventually changed his mind when one the bidders in the audience bidded 24 million dollars. As a result, Eversoll accepted bids at the behest of Mills, with Russian mobster Anton Orlov winning the bid. Wu rushed over to Eversoll and Milis and protested about them selling the Indoraptor as he was only a prototype, but Mills ensured to Wu that selling the dinosaur was okay as they eventually create more Indoraptors. Owen Grady then showed up with a Stygimoloch and together they caused havoc and managed to chase away the bidders to stop the auction, while Owen and the Indoraptor shared a close glance at each another.
After the failed auction, only Ken Wheatley was left who witnessed the Indoraptor and attempted to sedate the dinosaur by shooting him twice with tranquilizer darts, causing him to fall over, seemingly incapacitated. Wheatley then entered his cage with the plan of taking one of his teeth for his collection. Unbeknownst to him, the Indoraptor was actually pretending to be tranquilized, and remained motionless for a brief time as Wheatley tried to remove one of the Indoraptor's teeth with a pincer. He then proceeded to bite Wheatley's arm and lifted him up the air, and then bit his arm off and ate it. He slowly approached the terrified Wheatley and let out a loud roar before mauling him to death. Gunnar Eversoll, who was still hiding from the Stygimoloch's that attacked him and the bidders from the auction, witnessed the Indoraptor killing Wheatley and quietly ran to a nearby elevator to hide from the super hybrid dinosaur. He saw three attendees from the auction who were also hiding from the Indoraptor and pushed aside one of them to close the elevator's doors. The woman who was pushed aside by Eversoll screamed in horror upon seeing the Indoraptor, which attracted the rogue dinosaur's attention. He escaped his cage and rushed towards Eversoll and the other people in the elevator in hopes of killing them, but the elevators doors closed before he could enter, causing Eversoll to sigh out of relief. However, the Indoraptor unintentionally smacked his tail on the elevator's control panel, causing the elevator's doors to open again. The Indoraptor entered the elevator and roared at Eversoll before killing him and the other attendees off-screen.
Moments later, the Indoraptor suddenly attacked and killed two of Mills' guards, much to the horror of Mills, Claire Dearing, Owen Grady, and Maisie Lockwood. As Mills leaves in one direction, Owen, Claire and Maisie escaped and tried to take refuge on the main floor of the Lockwood Manor and noticed a human corpse near the skeleton of an Agujaceratops. Suddenly, the corpse was dragged away by a creature on the other side of the ceratopsian's skeleton, leading them to realize that the Indoraptor was nearby. The Indoraptor climbed on top of the dinosaur skeleton's skull and didn't notice Owen, Claire, and Maisie hiding underneath him until a nearby walkie-talkie went off. He jumped off the fossilized skeleton and pursued the three humans, and tried to reach them up a spiraling staircase before the three escape into a power supply room, where Owen turned off the entire mansion's power supply. The Indoraptor crashed through a window in the glass enclosed dioramas to attack the trio and injures Claire. He pursued Maisie as she ran towards her bedroom. He then climbed into her room through the window and was about to snatch her from her bed when Owen shows up, armed with a gun he'd taken from a dead mercenary. He fired three rounds at the dinosaur but it doesn't do much, bar stunning him for a brief time. As he approached Owen, ready to attack, Blue arrived and assaulted him, keeping him occupied while Owen and Maisie escaped through the window.
The Indoraptor pushed Blue out the window, with the two being separated from their fight, before cornering Owen and Maisie on the roof. Claire arrived behind it and pointed the laser gun at Owen, prompting him to attack, in an attempt to get him to fall through weakened glass. He nearly fell through the glass roof, but managed to haul himself back up and recovered.
The Indoraptor then moves to lunge towards Owen when Blue arrives once more and resumed her attack, with both tumbling through the glass in a deadlock grapple. Once they landed, the Indoraptor gets impaled by the brow horns of a Agujaceratops skull[7] and perished within seconds. Blue sprints away, triumphant, with the body of the hybrid being left behind on the ceratopsian skull.
It is unknown what happened with the hybrid’s body, but he was most likely disposed of, alongside the technology to create more Indoraptor's in the fallout of his escape.
Gallery
Vocalizations
Behind the Scenes
In an Art of VFX interview with David Vickery, overall VFX supervisor, and Jance Rubinchik, animation supervisor on Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Rubinchik explained the upbringing of Indoraptor and how that was incorporated into the movement of the creature. "The Indoraptor is a dinosaur that was built to be a weapon. He has never been shown kindness or compassion. As a result he lacks remorse and empathy. He was raised in a cage and trained to kill by scientists and mercenaries that do not care for him. This is important, so we can understand what’s going on in his head. Indo hates humans, he takes pleasure in killing them. This is what guides our decisions on how Indo would deal with any given situation. I wanted to convey all that hate and rage, the psychotic nature of an animal born into this life. Indo is a direct product of over genetic engineering, he is a genetic cocktail over mixed. This DNA tampering has presented itself through uncontrolled muscles spasms as well as head and finger twitches." Rubinchik further went on to explain, "Unique to Indo is the fact he can switch between biped and quadruped locomotion. We had to make sure his anatomy would support that action. His arms couldn’t be too long or too short. His shoulders needed to be low and a bit further back. His neck and head needed to realign, depending on whether he was on two legs or four, so his posture wouldn’t feel craned or awkward. Working out the physics during both modes and the transitions between them was definitely tricky."
Trivia
- The Indoraptor was the first confirmed male dinosaur in the Jurassic World trilogy.
- Up until the Scorpios rex was revealed as the dinosaur for the E750 project, many of the Camp Cretaceous fans believed that the E750 creature was a prototype version of the Indoraptor, which was now proven false.
- Although the name of the Indoraptor in the film means 'Untamable Thief' but in real life without a shorter form for indomitable, it means 'Untame Thief'. Also in reality, the Indoraptor would've meant "Indian Thief" as looking at Indian dinosaurs such as Indosuchus and Indosaurus share this in their name meaning.
- The Indoraptor is the second dinosaur hybrid to be featured in the film canon, with the Indominus rex coming first and E750, better known as the Scorpius rex, coming third (with E750 technically coming before the Indoraptor in the film timeline).
- The animatronic for the Indoraptor reveals skin peeling away and a sickly looking mouth. Colin Trevorrow hints that the Indoraptor may be mentally unstable or even sick throughout his appearance in the movie.
- The sounds of the Indoraptor were made from vocalizations from animals and an inanimate one such as a chihuahua, a dental drill, a lion, a pig, and a cougar.[8]
- In concept art images of the Indoraptor, it shows him being tased inside his cage, revealing that the hybrid was originally supposed to be shown as an abused animal with several scars littering its body. The abuse was hinted at in the film, as he is tased multiple times during the auction scene by the guards. This could also explain how whenever the hybrid is about to harm its prey, it smiles due to the men smiling while tasing it inside its cage.
- In a deleted introduction of the Indoraptor, which was implied in the Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom Junior Novelization, the dinosaur would have been shown to be playing with the skeletal remains, mainly the skull, of a repair worker who it killed when it tricked him into coming inside his cage when it purposefully broke the light bulb inside. However, this scene was scrapped for unknown reasons.
- Originally, there was going to be another Indoraptor; a white one, and the one seen in the movie. However, the Indoraptor pictured in the movie was going to fight and kill the white one, which is shown in concept art of the creature. However, this scene, and the The Indoraptor altogether, was scrapped for unknown reasons.
- It was later confirmed by Colin Trevorrow that there will be no hybrids in Jurassic World: Dominion.
- Colin Trevorrow confirmed that the DNA makeup of the Indoraptor does not include any human DNA.[9]
- The Indoraptor is inspired by some of most well-known monsters of the horror genre and share several similarities:
- It is created in a laboratory using “parts” of different entities like Frankenstein's Monster.
- It runs on all fours and howls at a full moon like a werewolf.
- His behavior is akin to a very intelligent attack dog who kills children, and coupled with his mental instability, he can be argued as a more evil homage to Cujo.
- It prowls in the darkness and is killed via impalement like a vampire.
- The vampire Count Orlok from the 1922 film Nosferatu is used as a reference for the teeth and the limbs of the Indoraptor, as well as the obsession with a girl all throughout the night.
- J.A. Bayona himself stated that the scene where The Indoraptor crawls down from the rooftop and into Maisie's bedroom is an homage to John Badham's 1979 Dracula film that starred Frank Langella.
- According to certain concepts, it appears the Indoraptor was supposed to escape Lockwood Manor, attack the lighthouse, and engage in a car chase with Blue.
- By killing Wheatley, Indoraptor became the first villain in the franchise who's confirmed to kill another villian directly with its own force.
- The Indoraptor and the Scorpios rex were the only ones of Dr. Wu's hybrids who never met Rexy.
- He and the Scorpios rexes are the only antagonists who weren't killed by Rexy's actions.
- They are also the only hybrids in the Jurassic franchise that had the ability to climb.
- Despite being derived from the Indominus rex, the Indoraptor did not seem to inherit the former's genetically modified abilities, such as camouflaging and thermoregulation. However, these traits may not have been added yet because he was still a prototype.
- The Indoraptor being Blue’s offspring is confirmed false, as the Indoraptor was still a prototype, and Blue’s blood was required for the final piece of the Indoraptor, and he was killed before any of that happened.
References
- ↑
- ↑ 2.0 2.1
- ↑ ILM size chart https://i.imgur.com/dSgsUp6.jpg
- ↑ David Vickery interview with ArtofVFX https://www.artofvfx.com/jurassic-world-fallen-kingdom-david-vickery-overall-vfx-supervisor-alex-wuttke-visual-effects-supervisor-jance-rubinchik-animation-supervisor-industrial-light-magic/
- ↑ ILM size chart https://i.imgur.com/dSgsUp6.jpg
- ↑
- ↑ https://www.jurassicparkpodcast.com/home/andy-nicholson-part-one
- ↑ https://www.mpaa.org/2018/06/sound-designer-gives-voice-to-the-jurassic-world-fallen-kingdom-dinosaurs/
- ↑ https://twitter.com/colintrevorrow/status/1034693967231807488
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