u/Tainted_Scholar

Batman is an inherently ridiculous concept. He is a billionaire who is also a genius detective and an expert martial artist who dresses up as a bat and runs around at night beating up criminals.

But he fits in with the rest of the setting. Batman comics aren't grounded and down to earth, they have giant werebats, a dude in a robot suit with a freeze ray, and a woman who can psychically control plants. If anything, Batman is one of the more grounded characters in his world. And this is without touching on the rest of the DC universe.

But ever since the Nolan trilogy, Batman films have been obsessed with being "gritty" and "realistic". Part of this comes from being dark and serious (no Batusi here), but a major part comes from removing any fantastical or sci-fi elements from the setting and characters.

Ra's is no longer a 900-year-old immortal, Joker doesn't have his Joker gas or have bleached skin, Bane isn't even allowed to use performance enhancing drugs anymore.

And The Batman (2022) goes even further than this. Even relatively mundane things like the Batcave are deemed "too comic book" and exorcised. But more notably, just about every character has lost their iconic looks in the name of realism. Penguin doesn't have a top hat and umbrella, Riddler no longer has his green question mark suit and bowler hat, instead wearing a muted green trench coat and mask, and Catwoman can't have an actual cat mask and instead wears a normal ski mask.

All of them have lost their iconic costumes... Except for Batman. His look is too iconic to change too much, but it makes him stand out.

In this world of gritty crime lords and terrorists, where everything is as realistic as possible and everyone wears normal clothes, the dude with pointy ears on his mask and a cape feels ridiculous by comparison.

For comparison, take a dark, gritty, and realistic crime film, something like No Country For Old Men. Now imagine inserting a guy in a Power Rangers outfit who beats people up with kung fu. He would be completely out of place and clash horribly with the rest of the film. It doesn't matter if he doesn't have any fantastical powers or technology, from just visuals alone he wouldn't fit.

That is what Batman films are heading towards if this trend continues. Soon, Batman himself is going to be out of place in his own movies.

In the Jurassic Park universe, InGen fucked up royally and accidentally unleashed a T-Rex on San Diego. Papa Rex went on to eat some people, eat some dogs, and cause a fuck ton of property damage. Honestly, the fact that InGen was able to still exist as a company and open a new dinosaur park after that kind of stretches disbelief. But if they did survive that, they would absolutely want to do everything in their power to make people forget about it.

And that means axing the Tyrannosaurus.

Now, I know that T-Rex is one of, if not the most well known and popular dinosaurs ever. But all that InGen would see it as is a living reminder of their greatest and most public fuck up. They would absolutely try to push a different dinosaur to be the new "face" of dinos, perhaps Spinosaurus or Giganotosaurus . After all, there's no need to think about boring old T-Rex when we have even larger and scarier dinos to display. Hell, that was part of their reasoning behind the Indominus Rex.

Also, there's also a discussion to be had about how much the Jurassic Park films contributed to T-Rex's popularity, and those movies obviously don't exist in this universe.

Lastly, I also want to bring up this rant from a few days ago and add onto it.

https://old.reddit.com/r/CharacterRant/comments/1t0yi3z/jurassic_world_is_designed_for_you_not_its_guests/

If the public's only real life exposure to dinosaurs was one fucking up a major American city and eating people, they would want to distance the dinos in the park from this as much as possible. So say goodbye to scaly dinosaurs and say hello to feathers.