New Jurassic World Show Expands On Dominion’s Raptor Control Plot

Warning: This article contains spoilers for Jurassic World: Chaos Theory.

Netflix’s animated series Jurassic World: Chaos Theory cleverly expands upon the raptor control storyline in Jurassic World Dominion. As a sequel to the series Camp Cretaceous, the new show focuses on the Nublar Six as they get tracked down by an enemy who wants to kill them all, following the death of Brooklynn in Jurassic World: Chaos Theory. They soon discover they aren’t just being hunted by humans. Instead, they’re being hunted by highly-trained killer atrociraptors.

While the strongest connection to the larger franchise is the previous animated series, the show includes references to the movies as well. They discuss the dinosaurs on the Lockwood estate, where Maisie and her grandfather, Benjamin Lockwood, lived. This ties into the ending of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, which occurs earlier in the Jurassic Park timeline. However, the new Netflix animated series also deeply connects to Jurassic World Dominion, expanding on one of its most original plot points.

Raptor Control Appears In Chaos Theory And Jurassic World Dominion

The Presence Of Attack Atrociraptors Connects The Jurassic World Movies And TV Shows

The raptor control is the biggest throughline that connects Jurassic World: Chaos Theory to Jurassic World Dominion. In Jurassic World Dominion, Soyona Santos trained four atrociraptors named Ghost, Tiger, Red, and Panthera to attack and murder when she used a laser pointer. She shipped them to Malta as a midpoint on the way to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. However, the French Intelligence Agency and Owen Grady intervened in the transaction. This raptor control is mirrored in Jurassic World: Chaos Theory with the mysterious woman working with the Department of Prehistoric Wildlife (DPW), who eventually turns on Cabrera after he fires her.

In Jurassic World: Chaos Theory, the mysterious woman has trained atrociraptors that she uses to hunt down and attack the Nublar Six using a whistle. The whistle patterns each give different instructions. These atrociraptors continue to attack as if it’s their prime directive until the woman instructs them otherwise. Like the ones in Jurassic World Dominion, the atrociraptors have every intention of murdering their target rather than just attacking them. Similar to Tiger and Panthera, the atrociraptors in Jurassic World: Chaos Theory have orange coloring with stripes

The Atrociraptor Control Is More Advanced In Jurassic World: Chaos Theory

Atrociraptors Are Controlled By Sound Instead Of Laser Pointers

While both Dominion and Chaos Theory include atrociraptor control, the TV show’s atrociraptors are much more advanced. For starters, they respond to sound rather than a visual cue, making it possible for them to react to the cues from further away and when facing in any direction. They don’t need to face the target to see the laser pointer. There’s also the possibility that the atrociraptors in Jurassic World: Chaos Theory could be controlled remotely if a device provided the whistle sound, which would be more challenging for the lasers.

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Additionally, the atrociraptors in Chaos Theory respond to multiple different commands, shown by the fact that she can make them retreat, attack, and go in a different direction – just as a few examples. The various different behaviors and commands point to the fact that they may be completely domesticated rather than trained wild animals. If they are domesticated, they don’t pose a danger to the person in charge of them. Whereas, theoretically, if someone pointed a laser at Soyona Santos, the atrociraptors would kill her without hesitation.

The uncontrollable ruthlessness doesn’t seem to be the case with the mysterious woman’s dinosaurs. In fact, when they aren’t being instructed at the end of Jurassic World: Chaos Theory season 1, they seem to roll over on their sides like a dog would. This is an interesting change because Chaos Theory is set shortly before the events of Jurassic World Dominion (via AWN). This points to the idea that the mysterious woman’s and Soyona Santos’s organizations are separate.

Jurassic World: Chaos Theory Season 2 Could Connect To Soyona Santos

Chaos Theory Could Mention Soyona Santos In The Future

While the organizations seem to be different based on their method of control, there is a clear connection between the mysterious woman’s actions and Soyona Santos due to one easy-to-miss detail. In Jurassic World: Chaos Theory season 1, the Nublar Six discover that some of the dinosaurs illegally sold by the DPW are being sent to Malta, where Soyona Santos is located.

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Though it’s not guaranteed that she would directly appear, Jurassic World: Chaos Theory season 2 could easily reference the dinosaur smuggler as they have with other Jurassic World characters. Moreover, the existence of two similar illegal dinosaur sales rings could point to a larger global network.

Source: AWN