8 Burning Questions We Have After Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
5. Can The Indominus Rex Return?
The Indominus Rex is the nemesis of the Jurassic Park universe, the ultimate folly of InGen. It’s almost ridiculously powerful - able to turn invisible, plan strategically, take down highly-trained security officers, and understands what tracking devices are. Only the prehistoric version of the Suicide Squad, featuring Raptors, the T-Rex and the Mesosaurus, are able to bring it down.
All the audience sees of the I-Rex in Fallen Kingdom is a skeleton at the bottom of a lake. At great risk Dr Wu’s team managed to extract a section of bone from it, which Wu then took DNA from to create the Indoraptor. By the end of the movie, the I-Rex’s skeleton is presumably covered in lava and the remaining chunk is flattened by the T-Rex after it dines on Eli Mills. Presumably this means the end of the Indominus Rex.
Or does it? Did Dr Wu or InGen seriously not keep any back-ups of the I-Rex DNA, or even how they made it in the first place? Furthermore, the Indoraptor might not have been their only experiment - they could have spliced together another Indominus while the events of Fallen Kingdom were going on. Or do they not want to, and think the Indoraptor is an improvement?