Indominus Rex

The ***Indominus Rex*** is a new attraction and the main antagonist in Jurassic World. The hybrid was created by combining the genetic traits of multiple species. Some of the known species that were used in the creation of the hybrid are *Tyrannosaurus rex*, *Velociraptor*, *Carnotaurus*, *Giganotosaurus*, *Majungasaurus*, *Rugops*, *Pycnonemosaurus*, *Quilmesaurus*, *Viavenator*, *Deinosuchus*, and *Therizinosaurus* as well as modern animals like cuttlefish, tree frogs, and a pit viper snake.

## Story

### Creation

InGen's chief scientist, Dr. Henry Wu, was fascinated with the possibility to create entirely new species by gene mixing, ever since he learned that the inclusion of frog DNA had given the dinosaurs the ability to switch gender. In 1997, he created a hybrid plant.

Years after its opening, the success of the park *Jurassic World* started to wane and the investors got worried. Masrani's Chief Operations Officer described the 2013 success as merely acceptable. "The world has seen what we have to offer, but they aren't in awe as they once used to be. We need to change that. You can't expect the world's greatest theme park to merely rely on the same attractions. We need to be proactive, thinking of bigger and better things."

Masrani decided to expand Henry Wu's work on hybrids and create a new dinosaur that was bigger, more intelligent and more dangerous than any other dinosaur in the park. Development of the hybrid began in 2012 in the Hammond Creation Lab. Upon Simon Masrani's announcement of the creation of the genetic hybrid, *Indominus rex*, online ticket sales for Jurassic World skyrocketed.

The hybrid could run up to speeds of 30 mph with its roar alone reaching 140db-160db, as loud as the liftoff and landing of a Boeing 747 airplane. *Indominus rex* had osteoderms across its body and horn-like decorations above its eye orbits, traits that originated from the abelisaurs used in its creation. It also had well-developed forelimbs complete with opposable thumbs that *I. rex* used to grab prey and get in quadrupedal stances. It was able to change color from the cuttlefish used in its creation, which was used as camouflage in hunting. The tree frog DNA had allowed it to detect thermal signatures and even remove her own thermal scent. Finally, the *Velociraptor* DNA used in *Indominus'* creation gave it a high level of intelligence as well as the ability to communicate with *Velociraptor* individuals.

Though they do hunt for survival purposes, Owen Grady, a *Velociraptor* trainer, says he has exhibited the hybrid hunting for sport. However, since the *I. rex* who had exhibited these traits had a rough upbringing this behavior may not be natural.

### Isla Nublar Incident (2015)

*I. rex* was kept in their own paddock that had 12 meter (40 feet) high walls. The *Indominus* that was placed there became deranged from having no social interaction with other members of her species and not enough space in her paddock. Her creators decided to make a sibling for her just in case she died, however, this sibling was later killed by the first inhabitant of the paddock. This *Indominus* would also attack her paddock workers as well. Three weeks before their paddock was open to the public, Simon Masrani told Claire Dearing to consult Owen Grady to see if he was interested in taking a job requiring him to inspect the Indominus rex Paddock for any vulnerabilities.

That same day, the *Indominus* later managed to avoid her temperature being picked up by the thermal cameras and leaving scratch marks on the walls to make them think she was able to climb over the enclosure's wall. Once they realize, they run and she manages to break through the door as it has not fully shut. After her escape, she went on a rampage throughout the Jurassic World park. When Owen Grady and a Timack Construction worker were investigating the damaged paddock the hybrid took the opportunity to attack them. The *I. rex* managed to kill the construction worker, but Owen evaded her by hiding under a nearby car outside of her paddock by cutting its fuel tank, masking his scent. Though, she was unable to find Owen, she did kill the paddock supervisor.

Her escape was not reported to Jurassic World visitors because Simon Masrani thought the Asset Containment Unit would capture her by following her tracker implant. The *I. rex* traveled south of her paddock having detected the thermal signatures of the visitors in Main Street. She removed her tracker and ambushed the team. killing most of the troopers, including Katashi Hamada, Craig, and possibly other members of the team. She then went into the Gyrosphere attarction and attacked brothers Zach and Gray Mitchell who were observing 4 *Ankylosaurus*. In her attack, she agitated one of the *Ankylosaurus* who proceeded to fight back against her though her counterattack ended with her being killed by the *Indominus*. She resumed attacking the two brothers, but the two brothers escaped her by getting out of their damaged Gyrosphere and jumping off a waterfall.

Afterward, the *Indominus* attacked a herd *Apatosaurus*, killing five and fatally injuring one before moving on into the restricted area of Isla Nublar. While in the restricted area, the *I. rex* discovered Owen and Claire Dearing inside the Visitor Center to which she took the opportunity to attack and chase them. However, her pursuit of the humans ended when she saw the JW001 piloted by Masrani outfitted with a heavy machine gun in pursuit of her. She led her pursuer to the Jurassic World Aviary where she smashed through the enclosure's walls and scarred the pterosaurs inside out of the aviary to the open hole she created. As the freed pterosaurs lead to the destruction of JW001 and attacked the guests in Main Street, the *Indominus* traveled further into the restricted area of the island.

That night in the restricted area the members of Jurassic World's *Velociraptor* pack found her. However, she communicated with the raptors and became the alpha of their pack. As the leader of the pack, she commanded the raptors that were under her control to attack the humans that came with them and were in the area, to which they followed this order. Upon the initiation of this order, the InGen Security troopers, Owen, and Barry, who were following the *Velociraptors* opened fire on the hybrid. She managed to escape the brawl the firefight that ensued as the small arms fire had little to no effect on her, but she did nearly collapse on the ground when she was hit by rocket from one of the troopers while escaping.

The *I. rex* finally arrived in Main Street where she met Owen, Claire, the Mitchell brothers and the three remaining raptors once again. The raptors, now aligned with Owen's group again, proceeded to attack the *Indominus* with Owen Grady providing suppressive fire with his rifle. But the fight ends fairly quickly as she easily kills raptors Delta, Echo, and seemingly Blue. With the raptors defeated, the *Indominus rex* then proceeds to resume hunting Owen and the Mitchell brothers who are huddled inside one of Main Street's shops. She nearly drags Gray to her but is stopped by another dinosaur who challenges her: Rexy, Jurassic World's *Tyrannosaurus rex*.

Rexy carries out a heavy assault on *Indominus*, but Rexy is eventually brought to the ground by the hybrid's strength. The *Indominus* almost delivers the killing blow before she is then attacked by Blue who is still alive from the onslaught. This allows Rexy to return to her feet and grab the *I. rex* by the neck, pushing her into many of Main Street's building all while Blue continues biting and scratching her. Finally, she is flung to the edge of the Jurassic World Lagoon where the *Mosasaurus* there detects the hybrid and proceeds to pull her under the water.

### Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom

Even long after its death, the skeleton of the *Indominus* remained at the bottom of the abandoned park's lagoon. Eventually, a group of mercenaries in a submarine sneak into the lagoon to extract a sample from the *Indominus*remains. After carving out a rib bone, it is sent to the surface and extracted by a helicopter before the submarine encountered the thought to be dead *Mosasaurus*.

The DNA of *Indominus*, stored in a glass container, was then claimed by Eli Mills. He then assisted Henry Wu in using the *Indominus rex* DNA to create a new hybrid: the Indoraptor. In the end, the *Indoraptor* gets impaled on an *Agujaceratops* skull in the Lockwood manor and Mills tries to run away with the DNA sample of the *Indominus* to make new hybrids. However, the *T. rex* of Isla Nublar kills Eli and stomps on her deceased rival's rib, which ultimately prevents any further creation of new hybrids.

## Personality

The *Indominus rex* is a lethal fusion of agility, brawn, and an eerily high degree of intelligence, capable of formulating elaborate plans and even perhaps having a grasp of the theory of mind, as she was shown faking her escape by clawing her paddock, using her tracking chip as a decoy, and playing her opponents to her advantage, as she manipulated people into freeing her. Though she was initially believed to be only driven by instinct.

The *Indominus rex*'s actions proved that unlike regular carnivorous dinosaurs, she was driven by sheer hatred and pure sadistic pleasure, giving the fact that she went too far by laying waste to the cage that confined the pterosaurs simply to kill Masrani who piloted a helicopter that was armed with a minigun, killing or severely maiming several *Apatosauruses*, using the *Ankylosauruses* to damage the gyrosphere to make it easy for her to destroy it and relentlessly pursued the two kids in it: Zach and Gray Mitchell.

Her sinister and diabolical nature was the result of both her unstable genetic makeup (which affect her mental state that led her having cannibalistic traits) and negative treatments that she had where she was isolated within her paddock from the rest of the dinosaurs instead of giving her actual life companion where her sole positive interaction was with the crane that brought her food in her paddock. In turn, this left her into a complete sociopathic killer. Even compared with other carnivores like the Big One who was merely attacking the protagonists due to seeing them as a threat for her kind, the *I. rex* was primarily motivated by a taste for revenge and an intense but somewhat justified sense of misanthropy, as she indeed attacked other dinosaurs for fun.

She also appeared to hold a higher degree of hatred towards the human race and would pick hurting humans over hurting dinosaurs whenever she could. Despite this, she was still intelligent and manipulative enough to convince Owen's raptors to turn against him (which was temporarily as she did so by blackmailing them due to the fact that the Raptors followed her out of fear), which is the only instance where she "stayed her hand". However, when Blue confronted her and asserted that they would not kill Grady, she showed no compunction in injuring and killing her new pack.

While the isolation has molded the hybrid into the malevolent abomination that she has become, the *Indominus*'s own present sinister nature may have foreshadowed in time of her birth: the *Indominus* has cannibalized her own sister soon after being hatched. How she could commit such a heinous and objectionable act was presumed to be inherited from either *Majungasaurus* DNA or *Tyrannosaurus rex* DNA or both since both theropods have fossil evidence of cannibalism. While inherited cannibalistic traits was bad, her negative treatments that she had later on eventually led to her became the monstrous, aggressive, and sociopathic killer that she, unfortunately, became: had she was treated in the more positive and better way, there is no way that she would nearly cause much destruction and deaths in *Jurassic World*.

According to the film director, Colin Trevorrow, the *Indominus* was designed to serve as an embodiment for 'humanity's worst tendencies' through corporate and consumer excess, created to meet the corporate world's demand for new and unique products in order to provide more entertainment to the park's audiences. Her sinister actions are what led her to be killed by the *Mosasaurus*.

## Trivia

* Indominus Rex become Thomas and Twilight Sparkle's new enemy in *Thomas and Twilight Sparkle visit Jurassic World*.
* Indominus Rex will return to get revenge on Thomas, Twilight Sparkle and their friends if she get resurrected in Thomas and Twilight Sparkle's Adventures Series.
* Despite that she kills other dinosaurs for sport due to her sociopathic nature, Indominus Rex is Rudy's partner since they join forces in Thomas and Twilight Sparkle visit Jurassic World and that they're both evil dinosaurs with white scales, red eyes and temper.

## Gallery

An Indominus rex revealing herself after just being camouflagedIndominus Rex's DeathIndominus Rex's Skeleton