u/FruitsaurReborn

Well, not 1:1 but it's interesting seeing the supernatural in this franchise and I needed an eyecatching title.

To quote the Jurassic Park Wiki:

Green Flame is a key element in the main storyline of Return to Jurassic Park and also serves as the opportunity for the main characters to return to Isla Nublar. Unfortunately, its true nature is never revealed until the end of the story. The green flame is heavily guarded by the military and seems to have the ability to drive people insane, and to make dinosaurs enraged. It may also be related to aliens.

Uses VSBattleWiki for Sonic despite how infamously wanked the series is there

"We'll only be using Game Mario" and proceeds to use nothing from the games, instead favoring guidebooks and statements. Insisting that one transphobic Mario manga is canon somehow. (Yes fuck you Mario-Kun)

"Science Fiction exist in Mario" somehow translating into "Mario scales to metaphysics and infinite dimensions"

"Baby Mario is Indomitable", a hyperbolic statement, being used to argue that Mario literally cannot be beaten, rather than "Lol, this baby is ROWDY and won't listen to anyone!", the clear intention.

It's perfect. It can make a grown man shed a tear.

So a lot of people really don't like the concept of trained raptors, and while I get that it lowers the stakes, I feel it works since they're not antagonist at the same time as they're deuteragonists. Unlike Rexy, who flip flops from threat to ally with no reason in the story, the raptors have a genuine tangible reason to be like that, that being Owen and the fact that they only trust him.

Raptors being not solely antagonistic wasn't a new concept anyways, as within the first novel, young velociraptors are consistently depicted in an empathic light, acting like puppies and even being friendly. For example Clarence, who leads everyone to the raptor nest while never being a threat (at least not after Grant initially knocked him out). There's also that scene where Lex puts the collar on him. I think the message was pretty clear on that last one; One of the reasons Jurassic Park failed is because the animals weren't given proper care or stimuli, nor time to grow a positive relationship with their handlers the way zoo animals do in real life.

How does this track with my title, well. Owen cares about the raptors. He doesn't want them to be sent to their deaths, and in FK and Dominion he deeply cares about Blue and her wellbeing. And there's the problem in my opinion. Owen's just. Not vunlerable enough? I don't know if Chris Pratt has a deal in his contract like The Rock that prevents him from being humilliated or vunlerable, but I'd doubt that given his genuinely good performances in the Guardians Of The Galaxy movies. I think Owen should have been more vunlerable. He should have been more mournful towards Charlie, Delta & Echo's deaths. The Raptor Squad got a lot of push during JW 2015, and they still get pushed heavily whenever they show up again (They got their own DLC in Evolution and were in front of a lot of Camp Cretaceous' marketing) to the point it seems Universal might regret having killed them off. Their deaths should have more emotional consequences. This man raised these animals from birth, I think at the very least he should have screamed when Charlie got blown up, or looked teary eyed after the Squad got wiped by the Indominus. I dunno.

Also obligatory "Dominion fumbled the bag by not giving Alan and Owen a conversation about raptors" line.