| “ | I'm trying to change one hundred years of entrenched dogma. Dinosaurs were characterized very early on as vicious lizards. There's a great deal of resistance to the idea of them as nurturing parents. Robert Burke said that the T. rex was a rogue, who would abandon its young at the earliest opportunity... I know can prove otherwise. | „ |
| ~ Dr. Sarah Harding, The Lost World: Jurassic Park. |
| “ | Mommy's very angry. | „ |
| ~ Dr. Ian Malcolm, The Lost World: Jurassic Park. |
Tyrannosaur Pair, individually known as Buck for male and Doe for female, are the secondary antagonists of the 1995 science-fiction action novel The Lost World and the primary antagonists of the 1997 movie adaptation The Lost World: Jurassic Park. They also make a small cameo in 2022 movie Jurassic World Dominion.
Appearance[]
Tyrannosauruses resemble Rexy from the first film, being large and robust theropods with powerful maws filled with sharp banana-shaped teeth and small arms with two fingers. Their faces have pronounced crests above their orange-sized yellow eyes with round pupils, sharp cheek bones at the sides of their jaws, as well as exposed upper teeth. They have visible veins on their necks, pronated hands, and skinny bodies wrapped in a conservative amount of fat and muscles.
In the film, Buck has green skin while Doe is brown. Both specimens are distinguished from other T. rexes by stripes on their snouts, with Buck having scars and broken teeth across his face.
In the novels, Buck and Doe look similar to Rexy, both having a reddish coloration and bluish-purple tongues. Male has shorter tail and is skinnier compared to female, as he constantly looks after the nest.
Personality[]
In the novel version, two tyrannosaurs are more tolerant and much less aggressive compared to Rexy and Juvenile Tyrannosaurus, not playing around with their victims and refraining from pursuing them if it does not benefit them. They appear more patient to intruders, as the male charged several times to scare off Dodgson and his team, killing one of their members only after the chick had broke crying. Furthermore, they keep to their territory and avoid trespassing turfs of other theropods like Carnotaurus or Velociraptors. Most importantly, they care for fellow tyrannosaurs like their offspring, whereas Juvenile T. rex from the first novel had to avoid Rexy in their enclosure and was nearly killed when it tried to scavenge Rexy's Apatosaurus carcass.
In the 1997 movie, Buck and Doe are instead more vicious and aggressive compared to Rexy, whose own villainous qualities were toned down. They kill and maim people excessively, often choosing to knock them on the ground and tear apart rather than swallow whole. The duo is much more experienced, dismantling Eddie Carr's vehicle within moments and pulling him out of the car, something that Rexy herself was unable to do with Land Cruisers. They do not tolerate anyone touching their offspring, stalking dr. Sarah Harding across a whole island and attempting to kill every human they ever came across, recognizing them as potential predators.
History[]
Novel Canon[]
The two Tyrannosaurs were created by InGen somewhere in 1980s on Isla Sorna. They were fed goat's milk for six weeks before the company switched their diet to a ground-up sheep, causing the carnivores to develop a hypoallergenic prion-related disease called DX, slowly killing their population. In their efforts to stop it, they would monitor their creations using a Grumbach field tags, which were assisted by a radio network, and release the animals into the wild. As Isla Nublar was lost in 1989, the scientists abandoned Isla Sorna and InGen bankrupted soon afterwards.
By 1995, during the book's events, two T. rexes mated and build a nest, from which two eggs have already hatched. Male Tyrannosaurus was first seen when a team of zoologists lead by dr. Ian Malcolm was exploring the manufacturing plant in InGen village. The creature did not appear to sense men in the car and urinated on the vehicle, marking his territory. As he made his way to the nest, the theropod was followed by dr. Richard Levine. When the two reached their destination, the paleontologist climbed a tree to observe parental behavior of a tyrannosaur. The carnivore left and returned a few moments later, unwittingly bringing dr. Jack Thorne in. Dr. Levine was surprised by his presence and fell from the tree, drawing the attention of the reptilian predator, who chased them both of his nest as the two escaped on a motorcycle.
A BioSyn trio of scientists composed of dr. Lewis Dodgson, dr. Howard King and dr. George Baselton try to steal Tyrannosaurus' eggs. The male arrives at the scene, performing a bluff charge at Dodgson and pausing several times before focusing on Baselton, as the former was trying to reconnect the battery power cord to his sonic device, all the while keeping his eye on a predator. One of the infants, whom dr. King had accidentally stepped on a leg before, lets out a loud cry, prompting giant theropod to maul a screaming Baselton and eat his upper body. The other two scientists escape to their jeep, having stolen one of the eggs. But both parents pressed on, one blocking the jeep's path from one side, with the other following the suit. This causes Dodgson to crash while he tries to maneuver around, driving to a dense underbush, hitting a tree trunk and falling unconscious.
Dr. Ian Malcolm, dr. Sarah Harding, Eddie Carr and dr. Jack Thorne met up at the nest, where Eddie found a dinosaur with a broken leg. He refused to kill it when told to by Malcolm and Harding, injecting it with a morphine and taking it to the trailer. The team believed his actions to be wrong, but Harding nonetheless decided to check the wound, putting a temporary cast over the limb. Two theropods confronted them a moment later, remaining aggressive even once the baby was returned, since the trailer was on their territory. They eventually pushed it over from the cliff, but all three manage to survive thanks to Thorne scaring off the dinosaurs with jeep's horn and giving them a rope to climb onto.
In their final encounter, male Tyrannosaurus finds Dodgson and Harding, who both hide underneath her explorer vehicle. The woman pushed him out, allowing the T. rex to snatch him in his jaws and carry to the nest, where he was brutally torn apart and eaten by infants. Some time later, the tyrannosaurs and all the other dinosaurs went extinct due to DX prion disease.
Film Canon[]
1997[]
Buck and Doe were among seven tyrannosaurs created by InGen on Isla Sorna. They are first encountered by the protagonists when dr. Sarah Harding and Nick Van Owen bring a baby dinosaur into the trailer, which had a broken leg. Both creatures appeared and began roaring, and the second the infant is returned, both theropods push the trailer off the cliff, sending the equipment tumbling down and shattering the glass on the rear of the vehicle, before leaving. They return once they sense Eddie Carr's arrival, tearing apart his car, and once he fails to pull out his neurotoxin-armed riffle, they pull him out and rip in half, each tyrannosaur swallowing it whole. The trailer then falls off entirely, alongside Eddie's vehicle, both exploding. However, the team is saved by InGen Hunters.
Buck later appears at InGen camp, having smelled his chick's blood on Sarah's jacket. Male theropod sneaks his head into the tent. Carter wakes up and screams, thus waking up a whole party and causing the tyrannosaur to thrash around as he tried to get the material off his face. Everyone starts running for their lives, both dinosaurs making their presence known, and Roland Tembo fails to shoot them since Nick Van Owen had stolen his ammunition. Doe pursuits one line of humans with Sarah Harding and Kelly Malcolm, trampling Carter under her foot. Meanwhile, Tembo tranquilizes Buck, who feasted on unfortunate members of the party.
Doe cornered humans behind a waterfall, forcing her large head in, albeit unable to pull anyone out. However, Robert Burke panicked due to a snake getting under his clothes, allowing the tyrannosaur to snatch him in her maws and bloodily devour. Not long afterwards, Buck falls unconscious and is chained up by InGen Hunters, as is his offspring. He was transported on a ship to San Diego in California to serve as an exhibit in Ludlow's new park. However, the beast was overdosed on a tranquilizer, falling to comatose state, and since he already ate the vet, the staff injected him with too much amphetamine, causing him to go berserk. The theropod broke out and made his way into the city, where it began wandering about.
Male Tyrannosaurus stumbled into one of the neighbourhoods, where he walked through a brick wall, drank some water from the pool and ate a dog for barking at him, before going on a rampage across the city, flipping over cars, devouring civilians and smashing the bus. He eventually stopped dr. Ian Malcolm and dr. Sarah Harding, as well as his unconscious offspring, immediately pursuing them until they ended up back at the ship. Peter Ludlow heard calls emitted by Junior T. rex and followed them, oblivious to the incoming Buck. Nowhere left to run, he was crippled by the green adult and then mauled to death by the chick. Both individuals were tranquilized and then shipped back to Isla Sorna, where they reunited with Doe.
2022[]
Sometime after the volcano killed all life on Isla Nublar, Buck and Doe were transferred to a BioSyn sanctuary in a remote valley one hundred miles into the Dolomite Mountain in Italy. The sanctuary was abandoned after the death of dr. Lewis Dodgson, and both tyrannosaurs took the elderly Rexy to their family, where all three presumably lived the rest of their days.
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Trivia[]
- Buck's rampage scene in San Diego was inspired by the ending of 1925 film The Lost World, where Brontosaurus ran amok throughout London.
- Buck's animatronic was later used for Bull in Jurassic Park III for the fight with Spinosaurus, with repainted head meant to cover the snout stripes. The latter's robot was powerful enough to decapitate the green foe with a single strike.
- Doe inherits Rexy's CGI model from the first film.
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