Buck Tyrannosaur Rex is the secondary antagonist of Universal's 1997 movie The Lost World: Jurassic Park. He is the individual that hunter Roland Tembo seeks to hunt during his trip to Isla Sorna while accompanying the InGen Harvest team. He was later tranquilized by Roland and taken to San Diego where the animal escapes and rampages before he is able to be rounded back and brought back to Isla Sorna with his son. The Buck is the mate of the Tyrannosaur Doe and the father of Junior.
His vocal sound effects were provided by Frank Welker.
History[]
Early life[]
Buck was one of seven T. rex cloned by InGen on Isla Sorna. He and a female of his species had a son together in 1997.
The Lost World: Jurassic Park[]
Isla Sorna Incident and San Diego Incident[]
A few weeks after his son's birth, the InGen Hunters Roland Tembo and Ajay Sidhu kidnapped his son wanting to use him as a bait for the Buck. In response, he and the Doe T. rex traveled to the Hunters' encampment to rescue their son. They sensed the juvenile T. rex inside the Fleetwood RV Mobile Lab and cornered the humans inside it. The Buck nudged the trailer to see if the object he was observing was alive.
Unknown to the Tyrannosaurus rex couple, the humans inside the trailer were not InGen Hunters, rather they were another group called the Gatherers who were fixing their son's leg after it had been broken by a drunk InGen CEO Peter Ludlow and wanted to return the juvenile to his family. Dr. Sarah Harding, one of the Gatherers, realized that the Tyrannosaurs were not exhibiting hunting behavior but was wanting to retrieve their infant. She and the other Gatherers handed the T. rex infant over to his parents after her realization. Afterward, the Buck and his mate hid their son in a safe place before returning to the Fleetwood RV Mobile Lab to destroy it.
They flipped over the rear half the vehicle, then smashed the front windshield and pushed the back half over the cliff, as the trailers were parked near the edge. Satisfied, the tyrannosaurs retreated, only to later return once again when Gatherer Eddie Carr came to rescue his teammates and friend, being notified by the sound of Eddie's Mercedes SUV. Upon finding the vehicle, the Buck tore the SUV apart before going after Eddie himself. The man attempted to use his air rifle, but it was too late; the Buck grabbed him by one end, and the Doe by the other, ripping Eddie in half. Satisfied, the Tyrannosaurus couple finally departed from the encampment.
Despite having rescued their son, the two tyrannosaurs once again tracked the remaining InGen Hunters and Gatherers via the scent of their juvenile's blood that was stained on Sarah Harding's shirt. Upon reaching the campsite, the Buck poked his head inside her tent, sniffing the shirt hanging from a line stretched across the tent interior while Dr. Sarah Harding and Kelly Malcolm did their best to stay still. The noise woke up Carter, one of the Hunters, who alerted his fellow colleagues by screaming its presence. Lifting the tent from the ground and momentarily blinded, the Buck violently shook the tent from his face. The Doe then arrived on the scene and chased the hunters into a tight ravine while the Buck stayed behind to scavenge. While doing so, Roland took the chance to shoot the female Tyrannosaurus rex, who he mistook for the male, with his double-barreled rifle, only to find that Nick Van Owen had sabotaged his weapon. He then proceeded to shoot the Buck with an overdose of concentrated carfentanil in the hopes of killing him.
But the male tyrannosaur survived and was captured by the remaining InGen Hunters under the orders of Peter Ludlow to be transported to San Diego, California in North America where he hoped to display him, along with his infant, in his new Jurassic Park being built there to replace the failed one on Isla Nublar.
Unfortunately, sometime during the trip, the tyrannosaur stopped breathing and entered a comatose state. In an effort to save the animal, InGen administered an amphetamine to counter the large dosage of tranquilizer given to him when Roland shot him. The T. rex, now in a berserk state, broke out of his containment unit and attacked those serving on the ship. Somehow the Tyrannosaurus rex was lured into the cargo hold, where he stayed until Ludlow foolishly ordered the area checked once the ship docked at the InGen Docks at San Diego. Enraged, dehydrated and hungry, the tyrannosaur stormed out of the cargo hold and smashed through the dock checkpoint before wandering into San Diego, causing chaos throughout the city. One of the first locations he first went through was a neighborhood. Finding a house with a backyard pool, the Buck effortlessly broke through the brick wall surrounding the yard and proceeded to slake his thirst by drinking the pool water. The family dog, unfazed by the intrusion, began to bark at the much larger predator only to be quickly silenced when the T. rex growled at him and devoured him seconds later. The noise awoke Ben, a child, who then dragged his (at first) disbelieving parents into his bedroom to show them the dinosaur; to their shock and horror. The boy took a picture, alerting the Tyrannosaurus, who simply growled angrily before returning to the city.
Rampaging through downtown, the Tyrannosaurus rex scared everyone he encountered. The tyrannosaur tested his surroundings in various ways including biting and twisting traffic lights as well as smashing a bus with his head. Most of the citizens survived the havoc except for [one unlucky individual. During his romp in the city, Doctors Sarah Harding and Ian Malcolm devised a plan to lure the raging animal back to the ship by using the infant to lure him (recalling how it followed it to the trailers before). After traveling to Jurassic Park: San Diego, they moved the infant to the InGen Docks in order to lead him to them. Peter Ludlow, however, had a different response; he ordered the police to kill the Buck so the chaos would end.
Upon hearing his son's cries, the Buck stopped his rampage and chased after Malcolm and Harding, following them all the way to the ship. Ludlow then entered the cargo hold, attracted by the growling of the infant, and attempted to capture him bare-handed. Unbeknownst to him, the Buck had followed him into the hold. Ludlow realized too late that he was trapped.
As the human attempted to scurry up the stairs and out of the hold, the Buck clamped down around his legs and dropped him back onto the floor. As Ludlow tried to stand up, the male Tyrannosaurus rex shoved him to the floor and encourages his son with gentle nudges to finish him off so he'll be able to hunt on his own when he's older, and proudly watches as his son pounces on the hapless executive and devours him alive. However, this victory was short lived as police helicopters surrounded the gaping cargo hold doors, their guns aimed to fire. It was only in the nick of time that Dr. Ian Malcolm was able to close the door to the hold, and Dr. Sarah Harding managed to tranquilize the Buck. He and his infant were then shipped back to Isla Sorna where they were reunited with the Doe, the three apex predators reunited as a family.
Legacy[]
The Buck's rampage in San Diego made InGen's cloned dinosaurs known to the general public. Dr. Ian Malcolm got his credibility back with the public now believing his account of the Isla Nublar Incident after the Buck's involvement in the San Diego Incident. As a result of the San Diego Incident, the United States and the Costa Rican governments restricted Isla Sorna to humans. Despite these warnings, humans have step foot on the island after it was declared restricted. Most notable outside of poachers was the Dino-Soar, an illegal business that allowed people to paraglide around Isla Sorna's borders whose final operation lead to the Isla Sorna Rescue Mission.
Capture[]
The Buck and Doe were captured from Isla Sorna by Biosyn and brought into their sanctuary sometime prior to 2022.
Jurassic World: Chaos Theory[]
Season 4[]
After the Biosyn incident, Buck and Doe came to the rescue of Rexy, helping the other T. rex fight off an Atrociraptor pack, buying time for the Nublar Six to escape. After defeating the Raptors, the three T. Rexes roars in victory.
Jurassic World: Dominion[]
Buck and his mate are seen socializing with Rexy at the end of the movie in the Sanctuary, which has since been took over by UN and converted into a global sanctuary for dinosaurs.
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- The face of the Buck is adorned with many facial scars and many of the teeth in his mouth are broken or missing. This is indicative towards the animal participating in fights for mating rights or dominance.
- It is unknown whether or not "Tyrannosaur Buck" is his official name. Fans refer to this male Tyrannosaur as this because Roland Tembo wanted to hunt a male T. rex that he referred to as a "Buck" and ended up capturing a male in the end.
- This same T.Rex was responsible for killing a random citizen, who played as David Koepp, the screenwriter for the 1993 Jurassic Park, who requested to be eaten by the t.rex in the movie.
- The male Tyrannosaurus along with the infant were the first dinosaurs to ever come to the mainland before the 2018 Dinosaur Outbreak.
- In-universe, the Buck was intended to weigh up to 8 tons (16,000 pounds) and reach a top running speed of 25 miles per hour.
- Currently, there are no film canon estimates for the size of this individual, besides the aforementioned weight. The closest would be the general DPG graphic for the T. rex estimating it to be 12 meters long and weighing 7 tons.
- Before the script for Jurassic World Dominion had been written, per Jack Ewins, Colin Trevorrow had told him that he intended to bring back Buck and Doe in the film. After the film released, Trevorrow confirmed on Twitter and in a CinemaBlend interview that the two Tyrannosaurus joining Rexy at the end were indeed those two. This was confirmed again by Scott Kreamer on his Instagram account and an interview with That Hashtag Show after the release of Jurassic World: Chaos Theory season 4.
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