An example I love of a herbivore being an absolute menace is in Made in Abyss. MINOR SPOILERS (Beastiary and lore, no plot spoilers) . . . The orb piercer is lion-sized and covered in defensive, venomous quils. It only eats algae, but is highly territorial and aggressive. They have taken the limbs or lives of hundreds of adventurers. Be careful conducting further research, as you might find other spoilers.
Thank you so much for making this! I deeply wish movie makers understood the real-world consequences of vilifying carnivores as well as the gross hypocrisy. Even if the carnivores in question are imaginary or extinct, it creates this mindset that animals that eat humans don't deserve to be treated humanely or with respect. Like how demonizing wolves in folktales and legends contributed to humans hunting them to extinction in some parts of Europe. Also, the Evil Carnivore trope is rich coming from humans. We kill animals for sport, harvest certain body parts as delicacies while leaving the rest, exterminate them as pests, wear their skin, farm them in industrial machines, force them to do our labor, and destroy their homes and livelihoods en masse. Humans--though omnivores--are scarier than any Hollywood carnivore, so why do we get to call them the villains?
Also, with the Peter Jackson’s King Kong movie, you’re missing the context there was a V Rex versus Kong war so they had to kill off the last of its kind and I I assume you’re not a expert on Godzilla or King Kong so it’s fine
If a carnivor eats an animal to survive, is anture. If a carnivor eats a human to survive, he is a monster. If the humans kill the carnivor, they are heroes...
Yo someone else finally said it!!!!! Im a student biologist woth a massive love of dinosaurs, reptiles and birds. I actually really don't like the jurassic park and world movies due to this very thing. The first one does a bit better, but dinosaurs are still portrayed as villains. The jaws movie has contributed to the endangerment of shark species, so much so that the creator actually said he regretted making the villain a shark. Animals are treated as evil because they eat meat, especially dinosaurs because they're "big scary lizards" with lots of teeth. We also don't know as much about them so it's easier to project that fear of the unknown onto them. I wish more movies would portray carnivores as just animals living their lives. Edit: As much as I love ARK, it is a horrible example of this. Carnivores do nothing but eat everything in sight. A t Rex will kill a brontosaurus, eat the whole thing, and then go chase a parasaur two seconds later.
the ONLY one i was ok with being actually evil in the series was Indominus, soly due to it killing for pleasure, which was a neat take, the issue is that they then showed every single animal afterwords seemingly doing that, like that volcano scene were a Carnotaurus is just sort of like "know what, i COULD run from the explosion, OR i could try and kill a Sinoceratops for no reason" it was just brainless then there is Baryonyx and it actually recreating the "ow, fire hot" scene from futurama because it wanted to kill the most annoying character int he film (semi justified) the Giganotosaurus i have no idea what the marketing was, what does "like the Joker" mean? is it laughing all the time? is it doing a silly dance down the stairs? is it played by Jared Leto? WHAT DOES THAT MEAN!? with the V. rex though, you COULD argue, it was curious, like when a dog has a toy in its mouth and sees another toy fly past it, chasing the new 1 while carrying the 1st
I think a dino WOULD be more vicious than most current day predators. Why? Because they havent evolved alongside humans, and havent learned how bad of an idea attacking humans can be. They would likely see us just as a potential meal if they dont just ignore our presence or investigate out of curiosity
What's funny is, carnivores only attack when they're hungry or protecting themselves and their young, and will leave you alone if they think you're not dangerous or worth hunting, herbivores however WILL attack on sight, and they're generally more dangerous, because they are usually prey animals so they must get violent against their predators
I get that these movies are just for entertainment, but I see this trope all the time throughout all sorts of movies and it starts to really boil my blood after a while
4:08 the dimetrodon probably walked in there and got locked in because they were dangerous the irex is a psyco and is practically built for death it killed its sibling, broke out, killed people, and proceeded to shut down an entire island it is kinda bloodthirsty, because it is a hybrid mainly built for death
I still like how they do dinosaurs because I get to root for them tear those people apart any time a human gets killed by a dinosaur I cheer but when a dinosaur dies I get sad I aways root against the nonhuman thing or the villain like in planet of the apes
It's not as if animals don't surplus kill from time to time but that's usually in cases where there's more intention behind it. Like tigers and wolverines in the far northern latitudes being able to leave the food for later because it won't rot right away in the cold air, or wolves and lions taking the opportunity to get an extra kill because they have entire groups to keep fed. That's not at all what's happening in these movies.
in JWE2 you can put 2 carnivores or a predator and its prey together and they coexist peacfully, until one of them either appears as a danger to the other or it needs to eat, they just act like animals (except when they break out)
I've been saying that "Dark Matter and Dark Energy don't exist" since 2022. We've spent almost a century to find Dark Matter and Dark Energy but still there's no sign of them. No matter what we try, a thing which doesn't exist can't be found. May be it is time to find an Alternative Way to Explain Dark Matter and Dark Energy. 4-D Hypershere model of Universe can easily explain Dark Matter, Dark Energy, Void and even the reason why the measurement values of Expansion Rate are around 70 km/sec-Mpc. Dark Matter, Dark Energy, Gravity, Void and Antigravity, ... all these are same phenomena. They just look different. I agree to the idea that the interaction between mass and space must be explained with quantum mechanics. But that doesn't mean gravity is the QM phenomena. That's because gravity is not a force. Dark Matter, Dark Energy, Gravity, Antigravity, Void... all these are just joint effects of the expansion of the Universe and the curvature of spacetime. Details are given below. Einstein’s theory of General Relativity states that spacetime is curved by the presence of mass. This curvature influences the motion other objects with mass and gives rise to gravitation. Thus, gravity is a result of geometric features in spacetime. However, we also observe gravitational effects - curvature of spacetime - in areas without any detectable mass. This has given rise to the concept of dark matter, which is matter that does not interact in any detectable way with normal matter, except through gravity. So, there is some large quantity of dark matter scattered throughout the universe, which curves spacetime and causes gravitational effects just like normal matter, but we cannot see or detect it with any known method. An alternative theory to the identity of dark matter is proposed - it is not matter at all, but rather an intrinsic curvature of spacetime. In other words, spacetime is not naturally flat. Even in the absence of matter, we observe some inherent curvature of spacetime. So, the question is now - why is spacetime naturally curved? Why is it not flat in the absence of mass? The universe is 4-dimensional, with 3 spatial dimensions and one dimension in time. Rather than consider time as a linear dimension, we can consider it as a radial one. Therefore, rather than describing the universe with a Cartesian coordinate system, we describe it with a 4-dimensional spherical coordinate system - 3 angular coordinates, φ1, φ2, φ3, and one radial coordinate in time, t. We live on the 3-dimensional surface of a 4-dimensional bubble which is expanding radially in time. Thus, the Big Bang represents t=0, the beginning of time. The crucial point is that the expansion of the universe is not homogeneous in all directions. The expansion rate at one point on the bubble’s surface may differ slightly from another point near it. The universe is only roughly spherical in 4 dimensions, the same way that the Earth is only roughly spherical in 3 dimensions. The same way we observe local mountains and valleys on the surface of Earth, we observe local “mountains” and “valleys” on the surface of the universe bubble. The inhomogeneity of the expansion of the universe has given rise to natural curvature of spacetime. This natural curvature causes the phenomenon of “dark matter”. “Valleys” in spacetime pull matter in, similarly to the warping of spacetime of massive objects. So “dark matter” is really “valleys” in spacetime that are expanding slower than the regions surrounding it. These valleys tend to pull matter in and create planets, stars, and galaxies - regions of space with higher-than-average densities of mass. Conversely, “mountains” in spacetime will repel matter away, an “anti-gravitational” effect, which gives rise to cosmic voids in space where we observe no matter. Each point on the surface of the universe bubble traces out a time arrow in 4-dimensional space, perpendicular to the surface. These time arrows are not parallel to each other since the universe is not flat. This causes points to have nonzero relative velocity away from each other. It is generally accepted that the universe is expanding faster than observable energy can explain, and this is expansion is believe to be still accelerating. The “missing” energy required to explain these observations has given rise to the theory of dark energy. The time dilation caused by non-parallel time arrows can be proposed as an explanation for dark energy. Alternatively, dark energy is real energy coming from potential energy gradients caused by non-parallel time arrows. As a sanity check, we can calculate the expansion rate of the universe based on the universe bubble model. Since the radius of the universe bubble is expanding at the speed of light in the time direction, it increases at 1 light second per second. Therefore, the “circumference” of the 3-dimensional surface increases by 2π light seconds per second, or about 1.88*10^6 km/s. This expansion is distributed equally across the 3-dimensional surface, so the actual observed expansion rate is proportional to the distance from the observer. At present, the age of the universe is estimated to be 13.8 billion years, so the radius of the universe bubble is 13.8 billion light years, or about 4233 megaparsecs (3.26 million light years to 1 Mpc). Thus, we can calculate the expansion rate of the universe, per megaparsec from the observer, as: Expansion rate = ((d(circumference))/dt)/radiusofuniverse=(1.88*〖10〗^6 km⁄s)/(2π*4233Mpc)=(1.88*〖10〗^6 km⁄s)/26598Mpc=70.82(km⁄s)/Mpc The popularly accepted empirical expansion rate is 73.5 +/- 2.5 km/s/Mpc, so our calculated value is close. There may be some additional source of expansion (or observed red shift) to make up for the discrepancy. For example, if two adjacent points have some gravitational gradient due to non-parallel time arrows, then light passing through these points will be red-shifted. - Cited from www.academia.edu/82481487/Title_Alternative_Explanation_of_Dark_Matter_and_Dark_Energy
I've always thought about that during the dino fight in King Kong, when Naomi Watts and one of the carnivores gets caught in the ropes by the cliff, it tries to bite her even though it should be fighting for its life. A normal animal would be completely terrified and not think about food.
To the canary, the cat is a monster. We are just used to being the cat. When we kill a deer or pull a fish out of the water with the intent to eat it, we are just getting food. When a creature is shown to be carnivorous, especially if it is shown to be attacking one of our own kind we often associate that with evil since it targets us. What one considers evil, something else would consider it survival.
