
In Jurassic Park, Alan Grant was stunned when John Hammond told him that he has a T-rex in the park. This essentially makes the venerable T-rex the 'mother' (as all of Jurassic Park's original crop of dinosaurs are female) of all of the dinosaurs in the Jurassic saga. Therefore, the T-rex in Jurassic Park is the clone of the original T-rex from over 65-million years ago. In fact, 2022's Jurassic World: Dominion's opening scene is a prequel that reveals the original dinosaur bitten by the fly trapped in amber was the T-Rex, which John Hammond and his genetics company, InGen, cloned their dinosaurs from. Related: Every Jurassic Park (& World) Movie Ranked Worst To BestĬounting the six movies and Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous, there are nine T-rexes in the Jurassic franchise, although only five have been seen on screen. Colin Trevorrow's Jurassic World films have made it a point to give Spielberg's original T-rex its moment in the sun.

The T-rex has famously battled the Jurassic saga's other massive meat-eaters like the Spinosaurus and the Indominus Rex and, although T-rex didn't always have the best track record against other apex predators, it remains a key part of the Jurassic Park universe. By the end of the film, however, the super predator inadvertently performs a 'heroic' gesture and saves those same humans from a pack of Velociraptors, essentially turning the T-rex into a 'good guy' for much of the rest of the franchise (with the notable exception of The Lost World).

Alan Grant (Sam Neill), Lex Murphy (Ariana Richards), and Tim Murphy (Joseph Mazzello), the grandchildren of Jurassic Park's creator, John Hammond (Richard Attenborough). Jurassic Park (1993) originally set the T-rex up as a villain when it attacked a caravan including Dr. As a result, it remains one of the most iconic dinosaurs to feature in the ongoing series. Spielberg launched the Jurassic saga with his 1993 blockbuster and at least one T-Rex has appeared in all six films as well as Netflix's animated series Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous. The Jurassic Parkfranchise has included multiple T-rexes, with the most famous being one introduced in Steven Spielberg's original film.
