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Not only one of the most popular dinosaurs of all time, as well as the fact that it’s a franchise icon, Triceratops is the third most frequently appearing dinosaur within the comics, only behind the likes franchise main stays such as the Velociraptor and Tyrannosaurus. The triceratops has made significant appearances in every nearly comic series with the few exceptions the “Raptor” series, and “Devils in the Desert.”
Jurassic Park Comic Adaption (1993)[]
The Triceratops’s first appearance within the comics is in the original film adaption of the first movie. Appearing briefly at the end of the second comic, and at the beginning of the third, a Triceratops is spotted by Grant and the group after slipping through a gap in the fence to see more dinosaurs.
The animal falls over on its side and from behind it is revealed that the park veterinarian has been taking care of the dinosaur. The group then decides to stick around to investigate. Inspecting the animal, physically, and even digging through its poop, eventually Tim Murphy finds a strange pile of smooth stones. The stones and question turn out to be gastroliths, stones swallowed by the dinosaur to help its grind up food before regurgitating them after the rocks had smoothed out; inadvertently, swallowing, toxic berries as well.
As the storm rose in, Ellie Sattler decides to stay behind while everyone else heads back to the cars.
Notes:
- The Triceratops in the comics has a noticeably blacked out eye, making it up here almost bug like.
- It is never explained what happened to the Triceratops after the fact.
Return to Jurassic Park (1994)[]
Issue #2[]
Edgar Prather, spots a large Triceratops coming straight for them. Edgar wants to shoot the dinosaur but Grant and the others warn him otherwise, and staying motionless would be the best course of action. Muldoon even states that he “couldn’t kill it with a dozen shots.” The trike moves to the group and after making a large squeal, chomps down on the bushes that were under Edgar’s feet.
Edgar tries to ease everyone of the danger, but everyone else bursts out laughing, stating that it’s just a herbivore. And that the animal never shown any sign of aggression.
Notes:
- The Triceratops in the Return to Jurassic Park series are consistently portrayed as a blend of green and yellow patterning with some red highlights here and there.
- The trikes only appears for one issue in the “Green Flame” arc.
Issue #5-6[]
Dr.Gustavus, one of the geneticists known for getting his coworkers fired for nosing into his work, had produced a guard dog sized Triceratops among his many creations in his private lab in his plan to create a artificial superior race from that of mankind. Sadly, him and all of his creations would drown once the muddy slope Gus’s lab was on, plummets into the ocean.
Notes:
- None. (See Full Comic Analysis for Full Details.)
Issue #7[]
An angry Triceratops bulldozes a military jeep over, the occupants inside are flung out of the vehicle and desperately try and tranquillize the raging dinosaur; though some are frozen in fear. After narrowly managing to sedate the Triceratops, it is revealed that the driver had accidentally ran over and killed the triceratops’s infants, prompting the mother to go crazy.
This puts the general in a guilty, bad mood.
Notes:
- Despite the fact of actively seeing wild infant dinosaurs in the park, no comment is made on how the dinosaurs are suddenly breeding despite the fact that Ingen had claimed they couldn’t.
Issue #9[]
Potential variant of the Return to Jurassic Park triceratops design
A herd of Triceratops, as well as a herd of Stegosaurus are being transported with an electric mesh created by Dr. Murillo to their new paddocks. However, this plan goes south once the Tyrannosaurus breaks loose from its paddock. The dinosaur attempts to hunt the herds, however, it decidedly narrows in on the Stegosaurus.
Jurassic Park 0 (1994) pt: 2[]
These ones more closely resemble the one from the Movie adaptation.
Hammond drives Nedry to the Triceratops enclosure on his first day to witness live dinosaur so that Nedry can get a full understanding of his job details. Nedry is understandably shocked at seeing the animals alive, assuming them to be animatronic. Hammond and Nedry attempt to feed the dinosaurs sugar cubes with only Hammond being successful.
The Lost World Jurassic Park Comic Adaption (1997)[]
A large Triceratops is caught by Peter Ludlow’s hunting party, and this stored in a small cage within their camp, before Nick Van Owen and Sarah Harding decided to free the animal and unleash upon the campsite where destroys the main tent and tramples much of their equipment. The dinosaur was supposedly disappear to the jungle after everything was set and done.
Notes:
- The Triceratops is a notable reddish brown like in the film where it is a more traditional gray.
Jurassic Park: Redemption (2010)[]
Jurassic Park Dangerous Games (2011)[]
Issue #1[]
Triceratops and various other dinosaurs, drink and feed by a large lake. When a large unspecified theropod, attacks and kills a triceratops, biting down on its neck. this causes the remaining triceratops as well as all the other dinosaurs in the area to panic and stampede out of the area.
Notes:
- The lake all the dinosaurs drink from could be the one from the brachiosaurus enclosure in the first movie. However, this is uncertain.
- The triceratops make no appearance for the next two issues, however, a relative psittacosaurus, are the main dinosaurs of the third issue.
Issue #4 & #5[]
Dr. White, sends her pack of velociraptors to scare the triceratops into a stampede. She leaps onto the assumed matriarch of the herd, and writes it like a horse into a fenced off compound. Meanwhile, the comic series protagonist, Daniel Espinoza heads down into the maintenance shed from the first movie and deactivates the electrical systems to the park to allow the triceratops to bulldoze straight through the fence.
In the final issue, a single triceratops makes a brief cameo chasing armed soldiers, assumably, trampling them as Espinoza makes one final showdown with the antagonists in the visitor center.