Jurassic World: Dominion Trailer Raises Mystery About Blue the Raptor

Obviously Blue and her child being the last image we see before the Universal Pictures logo is meant to tease and mystify. In fact, it’s very much the type of game changer a “finale” like Jurassic World: Dominion pivots on: How are the dinosaurs breeding? The idea’s implications are potentially terrifying for humanity… and very lucrative for Universal Pictures.

For those who do not recall, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom ends on a cliffhanger where the human characters (perhaps unwisely) elect to release all the dinosaurs about to suffocate in the bowels of an evil mansion into the wild. Yes, this includes Blue. However, so many of the liberated dinosaurs are solo creatures, including Blue, the last of her kind. I believe there were some young Triceratops accompanying their parents, as well as a disturbing amount of compies, but by and large, how much of an existential threat to humanity is just one raptor pr just one T. Rex?

To be sure, you wouldn’t want to run into Blue on a nature walk—or see the Tyrannosaur stumble into your movie night. However, eventually these creatures will die off (if they’re not hunted to extinction) first, so the damage they can do is short-lived in the grand scheme of things. But if they can figure out away to breed potentially asexually, reproducing their species? Well, it’s game over man.

So it’s fun to imagine that this could be a major component of the threequel, although a scientific explanation other than “evil scientists from the last movie impregnated them in the lab” will need to land. Either way, it seems to be setting up a future where the dinosaurs proliferate and flourish. In this movie, we will see the human world on the teetering edge for dominance alongside their revived ancient companions. But if Blue’s child is any indication that they can breed even within their limited means…. Well the “Jurassic era” might be over, but a whole new future for the franchise where human civilization crumbles and a post-apocalyptic dinosaur hellscape rises could be possible.

Who knows, maybe Jurassic World might be on its very own Fury Road, only this series is going to have raptors riding shotgun?