The True Tragic Victims of Dinosaur Movies 

Honestly, it's true since us, humans, are always viewing carnivorous dinosaurs as vicious beast instead of considering them as ordinary animals.

Oddly enough, the T. rex breakout scene from the original Jurassic Park does well to portray the T. rex as an animal. She was given a very light snack in the form of a goat. When she noticed the gates weren't electified, she broke free of her confinement. From then on she seemed more like a curious and hungry animal. The only prey available were the humans. The only times she attacked were when the humans drew her attention to themselves. The T. rex couple getting their baby back in Jurassic Park: The Lost World, and the scene in Jurassic Park III where Alan and the rest give the Velociraptors their eggs back also show how these predators are animals and not bloodthirsty monsters.

Interesting to note: In the DND world, much of the non-intellectual predators, no matter how vicious they are, like tigers, lions, etc. are rated as “Unaligned”, as they don’t understand the concepts of good and evil- only natural instinct and need for food for survival.

I’m so glad someone finally said it. I’ve gotten tired of media portraying animals as evil creatures. There are very few, if any, truly evil animals out there.

That’s why I’ve always loved that quote of “to a mouse a cat is a monster, we’re just use to being the cat.”.

I asked one guy once "A tiger trys to hunt a deer, who is running for their life?" The guy said it was obviously the deer. It was both..

In Jurassic Park 3, when the group come up on a dead carcass and a T-Rex pops up, it isn't chasing them because it is hungry... it has food, it is simply chasing the big group of tiny animals away from its food and territory. The rex inadvertently chases them into the Spinosaurus, and they fight over territory. It was a clever way to get them to fight.

I do recall reading an article that the Indominus Rex's behaviour in JW was based off accounts of escaped tigers that grew up in acaptiviry and didn't know how to behave as normal animals. Apparently they went on a killing spree when they escaped.

In Disney Dinosaur it makes sense that the carnos are represented like that, since the story is told from Aladar's pov, and for a herbivore, a carnivore its a monster.

THIS IS SO TRUE, especially because herbivores can be more dangerous, because if they see you as a threat, you can't negotiate that you're not worth attacking, with carnivores you can negotiate that you're not worth hunting

It’s always funny when people portray carnivorous animals as hyper aggressive and who kill with little to no provocation, while herbivores are usually portrayed as shy creatures who’d much prefer to flee from danger, rather than fight. When in reality, it’s quite the opposite.

This is why I liked Prehistoric Planet so much, it portrayed dinosaurs as ACTUAL animals and not spectacle monsters like in most movies Okok, I know PP is mainly a documentary, but still enjoyable to watch if you love dinos, heck even in scenes where they could have gotten cheap views with predators hunting and killing prey, it shows you sometimes they fail (like real carnivores), and most often than not do more stuff than just hunt, for example the scene of the carnotaur 'dance' is was pretty funny and cute imo

I knew Dominion would break my Jurassic Park-loving heart when I read this about the Giganotosaurus in an interview: "I wanted something that felt like the Joker," Trevorrow said. "It just wants to watch the world burn." Not only is that ridiculous, but he's also just describing the Indominus Rex.

I remember in the first Jerasic Park movie when the girl was frightened by a dinosaur and the boy told her not to worry because it was a vegetarian. A rhino is vegetarian, a hippo is vegetarian, a buffalo is vegetarian. Vegetarian s can be really dangerous.

I think it would actually be more terrifying if the indominus Rex was a herbivore but still attacked people because it would show how insane it actually went and how Abuse and teeny tiny enclosures destroy an animal and could have been a lesson

Thank you for making this. I feel like this trope doesn't get discussed enough in regard to carnivores. Funny enough, the only time a carnivore in a dinosaur movie I saw was portrayed positively was with Chomper in the Land Before Time sequels. As bad as those movies were, Chomper was still treated with respect.

I tend to regard the Indominus Rex's villainous actions as her being psychotic due to not being raised with love and affection, being experimented on AND kept in a temporary prison for far too long. She wasn't evil, simply insane and full of primal rage at the world around her.

Small note: the paddock they had Indominus in wasn’t its permanent enclosure, it was a temporary holding area until they moved it into its official exhibit in the park. However it does seem to be implied it was kept here for much longer than it was supposed to be, which likely contributed to its aggressiveness

This is why I love Dead Sound's dinosaur animations, both the Dinosauria series and Sharp Teeth portray the carnivores correctly, as animals. One of my favorite scenes is from A More Ancient Spring, where the Lambeosaurus protagonist encounters a theropod (forgot the specific species), one that hunted it's mate earlier in the film. Instead of immediately attacking the lambeosaurus it roared and threatened it, trying to get it away from it's eggs and didn't chase it after the lambeosaurus ran away, being more concerned with if it's eggs were ok.

Given the modern example of how aggressive bison and hippos can be, would love to see a dinosaur movie where the therapods are just chilling and the real threat is the triceratops.

Remember in The Lost World where the group felt safe running through the jungle because they knew that T Rex wouldn't eat if they weren't hungry? Those were the days...

I noticed you said that Kron from Disney's Dinosaur was the one that killed the Carnotaurus' mate. That was a mistake. Brutus was the one who killed the Carnotaurus' mate, but Brutus died in the cave in as well, playing the hero trope so that Aladar and the others could escape. He sacrificed himself to cause the cave in. This is humanising a herbivore, even though it was mainly a tragic accident. If you noticed. The Carno who died is the one who grabbed Brutus and threw him into the pillar. Now back to the moment with Kron. The Carno chose to go after him, because it was acting like an animal, picking out the straggler from a herd. Which is what they do in reality. They will often hunt the straggler because it wouldn't be protected by the herd. They will often hunt the one that falls behind. They also will often hunt a weak or dying animal. EDIT: But I agree with you wholheartedly. Carnivores are way too often depicted as villains in movies. The Jurassic World creators only had Rexy killing the carnivores that went after the humans, for fan service. And it got more and more farfetched every time.

Dude: Carnivores Auto subtitles: Best I can do is 'p*rn of wars'

Completely agree. I’d love to see a film that includes dinosaurs, maybe even reboots the Jurassic Park franchise, that portrays predators as just animals. Think how much of a plot twist and surprise it would be if the scary predator that had been following the protagonists all movie was just being curious. Think how good it would be to show a carnivore actually showing fear. You start waving a flaming torch at an animal, it’s likely to be unnerved by that thing and back down. You start firing at a carnivore with a gun, it’s likely to back down, especially if it has no experience of guns. How cool and refreshing would it be where the antagonist is facing the environment, or another person and it just so happens that carnivores are there.

Another thing about the Carnotarus is that it is the only time in a Disney movie where the villain gets the "death fall" treatment and you fully see the body afterwards

This is why I like Primal. Even carnivores are treated as animals. When Red dies (Fang’s boyfriend) we aren’t meant to cheer that the “evil” carnivore is dead, it’s a genuinely tragic moment. You even understood some of the dinosaur villains and they aren’t shown as evil. The truly evil villains are non-dinosaur abominations or humans. Which makes sense. Like the Night Feeder, it’s more like a strange being of witchcraft that violently kills everything, and the plague Sauropod, it’s seen as tragic due to the plague it suffered and it’s not shown as it’s fault, though I’m still glad we got a herbivore as a villain. I’m tired of carnivore villains tbh

Same with herbivores being portrayed as calm harmless creatures. Theri was the first herbivore they showed in Jurassic World that was territorial, perhabs a bit too much aggressive, but herbivores in the wild will most likely not just chill with you. They are more like wild Elephants and not domesticated cows.

I like that camp Cretaceous (the newer Jurassic world show) would often depict the dinosaurs like animals, being social and having peaceful watering zones.

Wasn't the reason as to why the Indominus was a total psycho exactly because it was mistreaded and in a tiny enclosure? It's seemingly a very intelligent and complex animal; it was said in the movie that its only positive relationship was with the crane that fed it, that it doesn't know what it is and what is its place in its environment, and the "killing for sports" thing seems to be more experimenting than anything else. Also considering it socialized with the raptors and (at least to me) seemed more perplexed than anything else about that other giant Theropod that didn't hesitate to attack it, it looks to me like it was actually not as solitary as it seemed... All of this to say that, yes, the Indominus was a victim of circumstances, and considering the whole "you wanted a monster" and "the animals are assets" thing, it was likely done on purpose.

I find it so funny that the v-rex's mainly focusing on that tiny human when they could really just gang up on Kong and attack him which would provide them more food if they were really that hungry but because they're focusing on the tiny human Kong is kicking their ass, and they should really just go for Kong first and then once they take down him they can kill the tiny human too like it's that simple

You know it's kinda ironic, movies treat carnivores and predators as bloodthirsty villains yet when you think about it humans are the ultimate apex predator

Carnivorous animal: *breathes* Humans: And I took that personally.

It'd be avery interesting concept if for once we would be on the carnivore's side of a story, Like Herbivores can be oblivious to passing creatures but sometimes they can be overly aggressive, looking to vent or vengeful towards smaller predators. Imagine like a whole herd of Triceratops acting like Cape Buffalo against a tyrannosaurus family.

You are doing a great job pointing out the importance of ” is my prey worth it" in predator behaviour. Most movies get it wrong for making cheap drama.

The carnivore as an archetype for evil (or at least antagonism) is older than dirt. It can be summed up easily in three words: "big, bad wolf".

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I am here to explain why the carno was to aggressive: In JW, the movie explains that dinosaurs are made to be bigger, more aggressive and with more teeth to earn more money on their park. So, basically, they're not animals, they are hybrid monsters.

As a kid I always felt like carnivores are just trying to eat but it made sense why they would be portrayed as evil from the perspective of prey.

You are the first person I’ve watch on RU-vid who actually liked Disney’s Dinosaurs which is so refreshing! I loved the movie growing up and I to felt so bad for the carnivores, even though I was against them. Everyone on their deaths made me sad.

This actually is an interesting perspective, so good that I could rewatch this movies and feel different. Nice video

Someone mentioned in another video that the reason the V-rexes were so interested in the woman was because they thought she was an infant kong The V-rexes and the kongs had been competitors for thousands of years Their feud only got worse as more of skull Island fell into the ocean forcing them to compete more and more due to lack of space We saw how powerful 1 kong was (capable of 3v1ing the V-rexes while protecting the girl at the same time) Killing competition before it can become a threat does make sense I subscribe to this theory solely because it allows me to properly enjoy the fight without wondering why they're so stupid

The worst part is: both Carno examples you gave had versions that were radically beefed up to be so demonic that the only real semblance of the actual animal was the osteoderms. As a kid, the Carnotaurus from Dinosaur terrified me. Then I learned what the real creature was like, and it's now my absolute favorite dino.

What annoys me even more about dominion was at least with the other movies, the villain was something that was a crime against nature, and something that rebelled against its oppressors that made it for the sole purpose of killing and looking cool. The dinosaur was an antagonist but also the scientists mainly. I thought the newer one could’ve been a lot better.

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I'm glad that the media is slowly starting to portray carnivorous dinosaurs as simply animals instead of bloodthirsty monsters, but I am disappointed that they are still being *seen* as the villains. Take the JW Giganotosaurus, for example. It did not act like a monster at all, but it was still killed off in the climax fight, simply because it attacked the protagonists likely because they entered its territory and disrupted it. I liked Dominion but this is the main part of the movie that really annoyed me.

I think the problem is that people often forget that these are real animals that existed, they're animals not monsters

wanna point something out 2:00, carnotaurus is acting 100% within reason for a natural predator, when somethings happening that stresses out/confuses a creature of that size (IE a volcano literally erupting, or when tranquilized), its 100% normal for the to act erratic like that, their freaking out just like everyone else would

Thank you for talking about this! This has bothered me forever :( Of course i love me some good ''monster dino'' movie, but this trope in dinosaur media is so tiring, my eyes roll right out of my sockets. Not to mention this legit gives some of people very warped view on dinosaurs, to a point where depicting dinosaurs more realistically has those people outraged..

There’s an animated Japanese movie called “You Are Umasou“, which roughly translates to “You are Yummy!” It’s about a small tyrannosaur struggling to come to terms with being a carnivore, as he was raised by herbivores. I feel like it wonderfully explores a new perspective not often seen before in dinosaur movies. Check it out if you have the time, it’s a great watch!

This whole situation is exactly why I desperately want an adaptation of Raptor Red: A story where the main cast of characters is a family of Utahraptors, and goes in great detail about their struggles to hunt for food and maintain their territory, while still having to protect one another from the various dangers of life.

Did anyone else notice the hole in the crocs head at 0:49 seconds?! He opened his mouth and the hole opened as well, I know crocs have their nostrils on the tip of their snout not on top of their head!? WHAT IN THE WORLD IS THAT HOLE??????

Fun fact: The V. Rex in canon to the film are apparently an answer to the question, what would happen if T. Rex became inbred? Yes, those dinos are essentially an inbred family. Apparently the V. Rex that ran for Ann was a juvenile hence the wasting its energy part but yeah, the whole family wasting this much energy on Kong and Ann feels weird especially considering Kong is not just some easy prey item

To be fair, I have noticed that a lot of JP fans didn't like how the Giganotosaurus was handled. Also, I find it interesting that you put the I. rex here, but not the JP3 Spinosaurus when it was argueably a rage filled psychopath as well via chasing Grant and others when they were out of its territory, as well as bow it should have been licking it's wounds from the propeller strike and whatever injuries it sustained from that one fight.

Honestly, even as a kid, I always saw the 'true' villains of Disney's Dinosaur as being Kron and Bruton (although the latter redeems himself). The Carnotaurs are, as you mentioned, just following their instincts; it's Kron who enforces a brutal 'survival of the fittest' ideology over his entire herd and threatens those who disagree with him with violence. The Carnotaurs are a natural threat, who challenge the main characters physically, but Kron is more of a sociological one, challenging them ideologically - and I think that's a rare example of a herbivore villain in an animal movie. If you like seeing carnivores be humanized, you might want to look at Land Before Time 2 and 5, as well as Ice Age 3. I know they're animated kids' film sequels, but they do show carnivorous dinosaurs as parents and nurturers who have enough intelligence and restraint to NOT attack the main characters in the end. That being said, they still go up against 'evil' carnivores who threaten the mcs, but I feel like that sort of thing is kind of inevitable in these kinds of movies. I believe there was also an episode of the Land Before Time series where a raptor spared the protagonists' lives in gratitude for them saving it. Again, it's something for preschoolers, but it's the best I can think of at the moment.

To be fair, though. In the first jw movie the indominus rex being violent kindof made sense. It was raised in isolation and it killed its sibling when it was young. So when it escaped and was killing for sport it was probably doing so because it wanted to test its strength and was having fun because it was free.

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It’s not just carnivores being mistreated as well, but also herbivores. Always being prey to the “angry mad blood thirsty monsters” and when the herbivores get up and personal with the carnivore they can’t fight back or are too weak to actually defend themselves. It’s sad how people just view dinosaurs like that. They are just animals trying to survive after all, if went to the zoo you would see tigers and crocodiles try to attack the visitors.

Im not gonna lie, I think the Land Before Time did a great job with the difference between herbivores and carnivores although selectively sometimes. In the first few movies, we see the carnivores clearly not speaking, only growling and roaring (with the exception of the villains from Journey Through the Mist, which was a Dinosuchus and a scavenger bird) but in the 5th movie, when Chomper returns, it shows that Carnivores and Herbivores actually speak different languages. That kind of thing is what makes me think is the reason the Carnotaurs and raptors dont talk in Disney's Dinosaur. However, when we first get a glimps of the raptors in that movie, im pretty sure the one we saw laughed, cuz when they spot it and it goes over the hill, you can clearly hear a "hehehe"

Ngl if the Carnos in Disneys Dinosaur had dialogue, it would be one of the BEST antagonist in disney because its easy to make them sympathetic antagonist AND for the script to treat them like regular animals and not killing machines They saw their land destroyed, 2 of them are probably whats left, hungry and thirsty asf, and they had tragedy by the murder of the other carno. Imagine the desperation for food, and hate for that iguanadon that killed the carno and imagine the flexibility of the script on that

The problem is the dinos in these movies NEVER STOP EATING. If they were written appropriately, they'd nail a kill then wander off, sated. But the creatures we see in movies are just gluttons who kill and eat without end, which is obviously unrealistic.

This is why this is why anthropomorphizing animals that are meant to be animals- not human-like creatures (ex., Zootopia)- is always a problem. Disney’s Dinosaur is a weird case, since there is a very anthropomorphic story for these non-anthro characters, but the Carnotaurus is not like the main characters. It does not talk. It does not interact in anyway except to hunt. It acts like an animal, yet we are supposed to see them as characters like the main cast.

The thing is, in Fallen Kingdom, we literally see the Allosaurus doing exactly what a normal animal would. The Allo is running for it’s life, it’s equally afraid. Yet the Baryonyx and Carno act like complete monsters and, instead of trying to survive, only try to kill. I also heard that the Stegoceratops was gonna be in JW, and it was apparently going to be fairly docile, but they cut it so the Indominus felt more special

Regarding the v rex chasing the woman after getting it's meal: I recently watched a documentary in which a pack of lions downed an ox, but then a smaller animal walked in on them (don't remember if it was a warthog or sth Antilope like) . Two or three of the lions broke off to chase and kill it because it was right there and it would mean more food for the pack. So I guess for pack animals it makes sense

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I love all these movies but I just feel bad for the so called “evil carnivores”, they were just following their instincts, of living life.

It's important to note that the Carnotaurs were just as tired, hungry and thirsty as the herd

I recently saw a clip of a man grabbing a broken tree branch, and rapidly hitting a snake that was attempting to consume a deer. Which was then cheered on by people who apparently ignored the abuse of the snake. The deer was even already dead, and I even saw a comment on said video saying “Thank God we have such good people. The poor deer just wanted to live, and that snake killed it.” It’s oh so sad that snakes, and carnivores in general, have such a large bias against them. The snake was trying to eat. And that snake was denied of its food. Hell, the snake even looked VERY thin for a boa of its size. I do hope that the snake was able to eat and survive after that.

Even though I love the game, carnivores in ARK literally just roam around killing and eating non-stop, even sacrificing themselves just to kill something and they will never stop eating

Interestingly, I think the therizinosaurus was done rather realistically in Jurassic World 3. It was just grazing around when it noticed there was someone else in his land. So he killed the deer and tried to kill the human not because it was a bloodthirsty psychopath, but because it wanted to protect its foodsource. And then there was the ending, which kinda ruined my boy Theri...

The Gorgosaurus from Walking with Dinosaurs (2013) is another good example of this, they hunt for food and are even shown taking down prey for their young yet they're treated as the antagonists for merely doing what keeps them alive.

I’m honestly surprised you didn’t use the T-Rex family from Disney’s The Good Dinosaur as an example of how large Theropods don’t always have to be portrayed as antagonists. The moment Nash and Ramsey appear on screen, they look as though they’re fully intent on devouring Arlo and Spot. Even after they scare off Thunderclap and his Pterosaur gang, it just builds it up as though they’re another antagonist or obstacle Arlo and Spot have to get past. But then, they help the young dinosaur to his feet and ask him if he’s okay after that harrowing encounter. They and their father Buck (who is without question the second most badass T-Rex in pop culture, behind only JP/JW’s Rexy) end up helping Arlo find his way home and even teach him how to face his fears. I always admired the writers of the film for not portraying T-Rex as the antagonist of the film as one would expect. While still showing that they’re large and powerful predators regardless.

People are so mean to carnivores when they don't do anything wrong they're just animals just like herbivores and they want to survive just like anybody else

"Sharp Teeth" is an animation here on RU-vid that states the carnivores aren't evil. In their other animations, the carnivores are also depicted as animals and not bloodthirsty. There's one where one roars at a hadrosaur that got close to her nest. But as soon as the hadrosaur left, she ignored it and went back to her nest.

Having a psychotic herbivore dinosaur would be much scarier, it would feel more personal

Damn I never thought that way But it makes so much sense Never stopped to reflect about the reality of both sides Thanks for the new perspective

The worst case has got to be Sharptooth from the Land Before Time. There was a major disaster, and only the main gang of baby dinosaurs are around, and Sharptooth is pursuing them relentlessly--because they're the only thing left to eat for miles and he's likely desperately hungry. And then the novelization tries (awkwardly) to portray him as a psychopathic sadist, which is stupid.

3:40 nope. it's really mainly down to it's upbringing, because animals that are mentally unstable DO sometimes kill to test things

I never gave it too much thought but you are absolutely right

the youtuber Shadows kinda explained why the Fallen Kingdom Carno acted in such a way it was abused and locked away for its entire life so it had a broken mental state leading to extreme almost unnatural aggression, that's why it chose to hunt and kill during the volcano eruption rather than fleeing

There’s a movie called Dino King where the main character is a Tarbosaurus and his family get killed by a T-Rex, and yes the villain is a carnivore but so is the main character

1:37 Ok. I will admit that comparing this scene to birds is a little off. But I do know why this scene was added. Looking at the lore, we see that the ecosystem of the island was extremely unstable from the beginning, with carnivores outnumbering herbivores, not to mention volcanic activities in late 2017, which began poisoning plants and fish, as well as making places uninhabitable due to immense heat and ash in some regions. This means that some of the animals were deprived of food for prolonged periods. And such periods without food will not allow a creature to think rationally. What the carnotaurus did was not normal. But at least, it wasn't out of nowhere. Edit: this is the same reason why the baryonyx in the lava chamber attacked Claire and Franklin. The circumstances it faced before did not allow it to think.

the indominus would have turned out like a normal carnivore if it wasn't treated as an asset and something for marketing just to get sponsorships from big companies. it was trapped, and barely had any contact for most if not all of its life

This says how that primal fear of being a meal for an animal ruined so much others. It also says how disassociated that humans became. Really fear ruined so much things.

I've always rooted for carnivores in films, even when they're the main antagonist/villain.

Indominus rex was the most evilest in here, yet the most broken since it's been contained her entire life, so she became insane and sick of it and her space was too small like you said. Indominus needed more space, at least a live animal to eat for entertainment or something I guess to waste it's stamina on at least. I think indominus was more victim than villian. Overall I think she was a villian from being a broken character, she had been destroyed. Not only that, she probably felt very lonely, that's the reason why she communicated to the raptors. This could be proved wrong since she had a sibling and yet she killed her sibling as a baby, I think she was trying to play around and accidently killed and it traumatized her to become like this I think of.

There's a great subversion of this in the animated short "The Last Tyrant" by Dead Sound. Early on there's a scene with a bunch of various herbivores (Triceratops, Edmontosaurus, Pachycephalosaurus, and some kind of ornithomimid) gathered around a watering hole. A T-rex shows up, but doesn't attack the herbivores, instead just drinking water. It wasn't hungry, so it didn't do anything aggressive. Anyone who likes dinosaurs should watch it, and the Dinosauria anthology it's part of.

The final battle with Giga was soooooooooooooo unfair Giga's design is the best out of anyone and he stood no change R.I.P Giga

Thank you! The way carnivores are portrayed has always bothered me. No carnivore is going to walk away from a kill to attack a human, or hunt when its not hungry. I honestly don't think a large predator like a t-rex would even consider something as small as a human as a prey item unless they were starving and desperate.

This isn’t just movies but all media, carnivores are shown as unstoppable killing machines and the herbivores are shown as the cannon fodder for kill scenes enough matter how dangerous or harmless either are

"it is my experience that very few things in this universe is evil. But most things are hungry. Hungry looks very like evil from the wrong end of the cutlery. Or do you think your bacon sandwich loves you back?"

This was my thought about the Rex in The Land Before Time. Poor starving bastard was so desperate towards the end, it fell for a trap with a baby hadrosaur the size of a squirrel as bait.

Thank you, finally someone who has some common sense. The Indominus Rex makes sense it was a monster because it was abused all its life, but all the other dinosaurs you listed, you are completely right. Especially about the giganotosaurus.

Even when I was a kid I felt so bad for the Carnos from Dinosaurs. Man they just needed one of those big herbivores to fall back enough and the plot is over. The bronto alone would have fed them for a week and they'd reach water. Such an underrated dino

A great example of role reversal comes from a show called Primal. It follows a neanderthal named Spear who befriended a T-Rex named Fang. One of the episodes includes a zombie virus that infects a brontosaurus and turns it into a literal unstoppable nightmare that has to get INCINERATED BY LAVA to kill it for good. Not only does it show that herbivores can be just as scary under the right conditions, but the vehement chasing makes sense because it's infected so all it's natural instincts are already gone.

It really annoys me when people say predators are bad or evil. I understand if you get sad watching prey in a video get chased down and eaten, but they have no other choice they need to eat meat. Predators arent malicious to prey even if they're violent, they kill because they need to

I think you'd like the movie "You Are Umasou". It's a kids movie with talking dinos, and the main character is a t-rex that was raised by herbivores. This movie- and its sequel especially(not rlly a sequel, just a story taking place in the same universe)- treated carnivores as what they were: They just had to eat meat to survive. That's it. The antagonists are still antagonists, but not just because they're carnivores. In both movies, the protagonists are carnivores, too. Instead, while the antagonists are still carnivores, they're antagonists because of what they've done, not because of what they are.

That’s why I love Planet Zoo and Prehistoric Kingdom. In PZ, when a dangerous animal escapes it will just be curious and only sometimes chase humans. Case in point: once a dangerous animal escaped and when every NPC was running to the exits, it was just looking around wondering what had happened. In the trailer for PK there is a scene of what happens during an escape (although unlike Jurassic World Evolution, escapes are only a small fraction of PK and PZ) and it literally states this has happened due to the escapee being mistreated by humans.

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The reason why the V-Rex chased Ann makes much more sense when we take the history of Skull Island into account. Kong‘s species and the V-Rex are basically the top dogs and at war with each other after the island began shrinking. The V-rexes saw Ann as an infant Kong, so their instinct was to take her out, since in their eyes she‘s a potential danger if she grew up.

I asked a question about morality to someone. Like "what defines evil?" They said that it was "harming someone else" so I then asked "Is a lion evil for killing a Gazelle?" They then exclaimed "yeah lions are evil" I just was stunned.