The Giant Locusts are the secondary antagonists of the 2022 film Jurassic World: Dominion.
They are an species of giant unidentified prehistorical locusts controlled by Lewis Dodgson in a plan to use them to wipe out his competitor's food products, eventually deciding to use them to scheme a way to blackmail the world's population to either rely on his company's GMOs to survive or starve to extinction.
What Makes Them Scrappies?[]
- They are the main threat against the Big Goods in the grand finale of a franchise which, up to that point, focused on dinosaurs and the threat they posed.
- After the previous movie teased the cliffhanger of dinosaurs taking back the world and having them being set loose upon the mainland, fans were understandably disappointed when the following movie was about the more mundane conspiracy of prehistoric bugs getting rid of crops of food.
- While the franchise has already taken some liberties with some species of dinosaurs (out of either not enough information being known at the moment or rule of cool) or straight up created deliberate hybrids (such as the Indominus rex) in the Jurassic World series, The Locusts stand out as the one species that was completely made up. As giant locusts never existed in any era and regular locusts didn't even existed in the Cretaceous era.
- Their existence doesn't even make any sense as bugs can only grow to a certain size based on the amount of oxygen in the atmosphere, making it questionable how they're able to survive in the present day (or the dinosaur age where oxygen amounts were similar).
- At the first sight of the conspiracy being discovered, Lewis cancels the whole thing making them rather anti-climatic.
- After their disappearance for 3 movies, Alan and Ellie return only to deal for most of the movie with the locusts while Claire and Owen deal with the dinosaurs. Those excited to see them come back were quite disappointed.
- They are also stated to be completely unintelligent, work only in instinct and are always in swarms making them lack personality in comparison to the more intelligent and more diverse dinosaurs.
- The fact that the Locusts are so destructive they are unable to adapt to humanity and had to be destroyed by the end so they don't cause irreparable problems in the biosphere contradicts the whole movie message of coexistence between all species of humans, animals and dinosaurs.
Trivia[]
- The Giant Locusts are the first Scrappies on this wiki to have the status on a species-wide scale, followed by Spongmonkeys, Bleeders, Crashfishs and Glow Squids . Most of this status has to do with the fact that they're given way too much relevance as a threat in a film franchise about dinosaurs and their extinction clashes heavily with the movie's moral.
- If the movie removed the locusts and the threat of a mass-breeding-induced famine subplot entirely, or at least replaced the the locust threat with a more dinosaurian one like with the Indominus rex and Indoraptor before (maybe Indo-compies?), or hell, have the humans fight off an army of brainwashed Biosyn dinosaurs at the film's climax like in Camp Cretaceous, the final movie of the franchise would've been far better received.
External Links[]
- Giant Locusts on the Jurassic Park Wiki
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