Warning: Spoilers for Jurassic World Dominion
Jurassic World Dominion found a way to recreate the Jurassic Park logo, but it was hardly the most cleverly executed Easter egg. The image of a Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton standing in front of a solid red background has long been synonymous with the Jurassic Park franchise. The original 1993 movie is such a massive pop culture icon now that the logo on its own is instantly recognizable.
The first two Jurassic World movies were centered around a new storyline complete with new leads. The final installment, on the other hand, provided a combination of both movie casts by giving Alan Grant, Ian Malcolm, and Ellie Sattler roles of equal importance to those of Owen Grady and Claire Dearing. In a sense, Jurassic World Dominion served as a conclusion to not only the Jurassic World movies, but the franchise as a whole. When this in mind, it wasn’t surprising that the plan to save Maisie Lockwood and stop BioSyn’s experiments culminated in a number of references to events that played out in the original Jurassic Park movie.
One Jurassic Park Easter egg happened when Dominion recreated the iconic logo in live-action. Near Jurassic World Dominion's ending when it was time for the T-Rex to join the fray and fight the all-powerful Gigantosaurus, the movie included a callback to the first movie. At the BioSyn compound, the T-Rex walked past a fountain, causing its silhouette to form the Jurassic Park logo. Trying to pull off a recreation of the logo (within the story of the movie) didn’t really work, due in large part to the all-too-obvious nature of the reference. Though finding a place for the logo may have sounded like a good idea on the surface, its execution was incredibly cringeworthy.
Of course, this wasn’t the first time the Jurassic World movies have made a reference to it. So far, it’s ben easy for the movies to use it since it exists in the franchise’s canon as the logo for the first dinosaur theme park. In the first Jurassic World, Lowery Cruthers wore a T-shirt bearing the logo, which was criticized by Claire for being in “poor taste” since so many people died in the 1993 incident.
With the T-Rex, Jurassic World Dominion tried to take the usage of the classic emblem to the next level. While this particular shot wasn’t one of the movie’s finest moments, the decision to bring back the T-Rex for the final fight was a nice touch and an excellent way to pay tribute to the movies that came before it. Despite its fearsome reputation, the Tyrannosaurus Rex is a beloved dinosaur and an unlikely hero in the Jurassic Park franchise. His arrival at the BioSyn compound allowed him to fill that role once again, this time through a team-up with the Therizinosaurus against the Giganotosaurus.