What REALLY INJURED Cooper in Jurassic Park BEFORE The SPINOSAURUS? 

In the deleted scene, there was supposed to be a family. The reason the spino continued to chase the humans is bc Cooper killed the baby. We all know how much of a troubled production jp3 had.

Cooper's death was the Jurassic death that haunted me the most as a kid. It's more how he was left behind than the death itself.

As a kid, this scene stuck with me because the pilot's acting seemed genuine. Also seeing the Spino just pop out of the trees gave me a heart attack.

If you listen carefully to the scene, you can hear six gunshots. The gunshots sound like three pairs fired from three different rifles, I believe Nash and Udesky fired two rounds each as the first two pairs are in quick succession of each other with a slight pause between both pairs, and then Cooper fires two rounds for the third pair. I think the scene played out like this: "Cooper being the point man with his large calibre 'Iron Horn 20mm' rifle is walking several meters out in front of Nash and Udesky to recon the surrounding area. Cooper then stumbles across the Spinosaurus' nesting site. A juvenile catches Cooper by surprise as it charges towards him, he knows he won't be able to get his rifle up in time to fire a round, so he uses his rifle to shield himself as the juvenile crashes into him and pins him to the ground. Cooper is struggling to hold the juvenile away, but the juvenile manages to injure Cooper's left shoulder in the struggle. The adult roars after hearing the commotion and distress coming from her nesting site and starts making her way to her nest, just a few seconds before Nash and Udesky see Cooper struggling to fend of the juvenile Spinosaurus from a few meters away. With no time to run to their partner's aid both Nash and Udesky raise their rifles, (Nash using a Heckler & Koch SL8-1 and Udesky using a Steyr AUG A1) and fire two rounds each, hitting and injuring the juvenile as it staggers away. They spot the adult Spinosaurus making her way to her nest through their scopes. Both Nash and Udesky start sprinting back to the aircraft in fear and in realisation that they have to get the rest of the group on the aircraft, get it started and get it in the air. The adult Spinosaurus continues to close down the distance to her nest whilst letting loose another thunderous roar. Cooper quickly stands up and with effort raises his rifle as the juvenile staggers towards him, he fires two rounds at the injured juvenile and it collapses to the floor lifeless. Knowing the weight of his rifle will slow him down, he ditches his rifle, holds his injured arm and takes of running in the aircraft's direction."

Never felt that bad for a grown as man in a movie I thinks Its how he breaks down crying that gets me Great acting

This also perfectly answers the question why the Spino was after the group so badly, he must have thought the only reason the group came there was to kill his baby who did nothing. One really angry parent right there

Unrelated, but in JP2 Malcom's line "mommys very angry" after literally THROWING A CAR OFF A CLIFF is just perfect

I always liked the idea there were two adult spinos, and the plane killed the one that ate cooper, and Its Mate is the one chasing them, because it has no wound from getting chopped up by a propeller. The Cooper killed a baby spino fits that theory too

"cooper is a professional, he can handle himself"- r u sure ?

There's no way in hell cooper was injured by the spinosaurus with out body parts missing.

That first nightmarish roar from the spinosaurus in the distance continues to give me goosebumps(and an adrenaline rush) to this day

I like the theory. But my head canon is that the mercs were in the jungle. Cooper may have climbed a tree to get a better vantage point. Then the spino attacks them, knocking him out of the tree where he compound fractures his arm. The rifle he has is a Barrett M82A2, which can not be fired with one hand accurately. Either Cooper fired the rifle wildly, hoping the sound would scare the dinosaur off or he dropped it and fired his side arm (which we see the other mercs had as well). Upon seeing the 9mm can not puncture the hide of the Spino he bolts for the air strip. (The other mercs likely ran because they assumed he was going to die anyways since he was so close to the Spino). He was able to outrun the Spino due to the thick jungle which we see later the spino has trouble navigating).

A Spinosaurus family!? No way! It does make sense that a baby Spinosaurus had attacked Cooper. Shadows, thank you so much for covering this! Loved it! You're the best! Keep up the great work! Edit: Can you please do a video about where the Dimetrodon has been all these years before it made its appearance in Dominion?

I have no idea why Cooper's death was lingering in my mind for the past week, but this could not have been more perfect timing to answer my lingering question, as to, How in the heck did he get injured/bleeding without being completely dismembered ... but it does make sense that they found a group of smaller Dino's near the big Spino, even more sense if it was a young one... hence the Adult's grudge/pursuit towards the group

Actually he was going to offer a bottle of vodka to mama spino in sign of peace, but stumbles, breaking the glass, cuting himself... Mama spino found it very rude...

Honestly is makes alot more sense that they were running away from raptors. They all seemed suprised to see the spino. They were probably expecting a trex or something similar which is for all the firepower. The whole spino theory is really good. But thinking the raptors were scared off by the arrival of the spino from all the noises is much more believable.

Also watching Cooper cry knowing he's being left to his fate is on par with Robert screaming when the big one jumps at him

Jurassic Park III was such an underrated film!! The story wasn’t the best but it had some of the best action scenes out of all of them! It’s unfortunate it was only around an hour and a half. Should’ve been 2 and half!

I like this theory because even the way the Spinosaurus roared is in line with the theory. The first roar was loud and menacing, the second one was short and the third one (following the second roar directly) sounded distorted like it was emotional, like angry and sad at the same time because its babies have just been killed.

Without leaving a super long message explaining it, on this video too, I just want to point out that if u take a moment to consider, ull realize it was THEM following(or happening upon)the spinosaurus the whole movie, the spino was ahead of them both subsequent encounters, after the first one, where of course, like the other 2 encounters, THEY came across IT!

"Come on, Coop, you killed its baby, you know I can't stop this plane."

I wonder if Cooper would have survived if he just kept running? That would have put the plane between him and the Spino. He could have possibly gotten away while it was distracted.

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Wow, I actually never thought about how he got injured all these years. I'm glad I saw this video on my feed. Thank you :)

so essentially the baby spino attacked cooper, cooper managed to kill it, and the mother was then high on their heals. That actually makes great sense!

Not to mention he lost an expensive, Anti-Material Rifle.

I think that would have made 3 so much better if we had this backstory, but it would have felt like the 2nd film all over again, with the T_rex's going after the group because they took and hurt their baby but still a really crap team, if they were just willing to leave a man behind to save their own skin,

That actually a good point you raised Shadows I remember watching this movie when I was younger and it baffled me how the Spinosaurus didn't kill Cooper right off the bat and the injury you mentioned in addition gives off what you meant as well. Wow who would have thought a rampaging parent that one theory I would have never thought of. Still wondering if Cooper using an Anti-Sniper rifle how come the gunshots weren't that loud if he using explosive rounds.

This also works with the theory there's at least two adult Spinos. It makes sense that the spino that got hit by the plane was different to the one who persues them for the rest of the movie because A. The spino is obviously injured by the plane but the one later on has no sign of injury and B. being hit in the sail like that would break bone and possibly paralize if not kill the one hit. I don't think the Spinos could reproduce asexually as there's nothing in their genome to allow it, Blue can reproduce Asexually due to her Black Throated Monitor DNA in her genome. The Spinos would have likely had the same Tree Frog DNA used for the rest of the Dinos that allowed them to gender switch. So you'd need a pair to breed, making it likely you have two parents and their clutch.

In reality the scene was directed the way it was to build suspense and detail how menacing the spino was by giving him a horror movie villain introduction. A lot of scenes don't make sense and are just plot devices but they still work. It's fine the actor in the behind the scenes wanted to flesh out his role, but it wasn't required. An interesting idea though. He could have injured his arm from falling or tripping trees too. Which is why he was so far behind the other two. The shots missing or being completely ineffective make a lot more sense when you are building up this indestructable blood thirsty movie villain. These are basicslly monster movies afterall

This changes the whole dynamic of the movie. Too bad we are missing this detail in the final cut.

Another theory to add is did the plane hit the Spinosaurus's mate and killed it? Since the Spino you see through out the rest of the movie has no injuries related to getting hit by the plane. Sadly this movie had so many plot holes in it though.

So was supposed to be a baby but it was in a deleted scene but cooper was supposed to shoot him and that is what angered the spinosaurus

this definitely seems canon since the spino was the first genome hybrid before the scorpios and indo so maybe the frog dna was more prevalent, and it relates to dr. malcom`s "life finds a way'"

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RIP Cooper, he deserved better.

The Spinosaurus pursuing them would make sense, especially when you consider the walking snacks landing in its territory. The two T-rexes in The Lost World would have expanded their territory after Ian and co brought the infant with the broken leg to their trailer to conduct emergency surgery, not to mention potentially pursue them and the hunters.

As an experienced shooter, I believe he did miss every shot. Stress really fucks up your ability to hit your target. I think he was injured by some sort of fall or something being thrown at him/knocked down onto him.

Is actually funny how long the plane is inside. And how short it is outside.

What I love about 3 is the scene your on about but also when the two are behind the fence and there the dinosaur is. Staring and waiting. It felt intense.

This was never a question I had until I watched this video.

I have a theory of what might've happened: Rather than come across a juvenile Spinosaurus, what if they had stumbled onto the nest in which there were still unhatched eggs that were close to hatching, but they are attacked by a group of dinosaurs or a single dinosaur looking to steal eggs from the nest or already having eaten a few of the eggs. Unfortunately, before they kill it off, the mother comes along, sees what's going on and she tries to kill the mercenaries and egg thief dinosaur(s), in which the egg thief is either shot in the crossfire or killed by the spino, but not before injuring Cooper. Nash and Udesky retreat and leave Cooper to fend for himself, shooting at the spino just enough to help him get away to where he ditches his gun and makes a run for the plane, only for the spino to follow him. Just a possible fun theory I thought about when watching this video (:

This is another prime example of a JP question I didn't know I needed an answer to until I saw it. Thank you again, Shadows!

Interesting how they came to the island wanting to protect their child, and in turn were chased by a Spino wanting to protect its child

I agree. It makes perfect sense that a juvenile Spino was murdered and the parent took its revenge...as it should.... We know that rhe Tyrano parents in Lost World were hell to deal with after their baby and after they got their baby they came back to **** up Ian's life. So it is definitely possible a an infant was involved but due to prehistoric production hell....a lot of things were blurred with this film... Although, it wasnt the best of the franchise, it had some of the best raptor designs to me. I loved them a lot.

Oh, yes, this theory DEFINITELY makes sense! ^_^ Nicely put together! ❤

man the troubled jp 3 production is really something, it would have been a better movie if that scene would have been kept in there

This was the best explanation and matches the scene in the film perfectly 👍🏻. It was never really clear what actually attached him ? But this little run down made perfect sense 👍🏻👍🏻

There is also theory that the one that ate Cooper was a different spinosaurus than the one that attacked the plane.

He was attacked by a Ceratosaurus in the jungle, which left him with a bloody wound on his arm. He managed to escape and ran back to the plane, but was then killed by the Spinosaurus as it chased the plane on the runway. The Ceratosaurus was not shown in the movie, but it was revealed in a deleted scene

Definitely would have added to the story about 2 parents trying to protect their children

To this day, I had wondered how Cooper's arm got bloodied, yet he'd survived enough to make it to the runway. Having been a kid when it was released, I'd never really thought about it.... But nowadays, having fallen in love with how the movies of my youth were made, Cooper's predicament mystified me. Looking back, Cooper was armed with a .50 Caliber Barrett Anti- Material Rifle; he'd have left visual wounds on the Spinosaurus, but yet its mouth and claws werent bloody until it grabbed Coop off the runway. It makes sense he had either cut himself in a fall, or compund fractured his upper arm, as he wouldve kept the AMR, and laid down suppreive fire ( which requires two hands for recoil control, especially when the rifle isnt mounted to anything with the bipod) I was also curious as to why Udesky and/or Nash never spoke about what they had seen- it would have made slightly more sense, as we (and the group) see the Velociraptor nests and what happened once they were disturbed; if they'd disturbed and killed a baby in a Spinosaurus nest, Udesky couldve revealed it when they came across the raptor nests.

One thing that I never understood about that scene, earlier in the movie when the mercs are at the air field testing out their weapons, Cooper is shooting explosive rounds through his rifle that blow up a plane. Then when they get to the island and hear him shooting, no explosions. So what did he shoot the babies with and how could he not take down the adult when he’s packing what looks like a .50 cal with explosive rounds?

Still an enjoyable movie, but it's a shame how much was left out! Imagine if this film was filmed without studio interference or other issues! What we missed is sad to think about, but I will gladly accept this channel for the films context!

The acting on his death was actually horrific, his scream was so genuine 😮

I always thought that the Spino had a particular vendetta against the humans, but I wasn't sure why. This makes so much more sense!

Keep up the good work on these videos shadows, Jurassic park is by far my favourite franchise and I really enjoy your videos!

As for the mercs instantly running the moment they had trouble… it’s one thing to “know” there’s dinosaurs.” It’s another to see one charging right at you

This addition that they "cut-out" would have flushed out that section of the movie. Would have made it more "ooooh I can see why now." where the Spinosaurus is just a mindless beast, it has enough feelings to take revenge.

this theory is so good! makes so much i sence, i wonder if it got cut because there is also the raptor nest scene. it would be to kinda same/same for both sets of dinos chasing them about the island

Always amazed me how ppl going on a Dino island can’t aim or tactically use their firearms properly and the amount of firearm sabotaging that goes on. It’s like cloned dinos in Jurassic universe have this karma armor that makes them bullet proof. Can’t seem to think of a single dino that died of actually getting shot by a single bullet.

I Love your videos Shadows. You tackle all the questions I’ve ever had about this franchise. 😁

I just wish we would get a R-rated movie where they just go all out without pulling punches, maybe even in the horror direction. Same for Star Wars, can you imagine how dope that would be

Wow this is so cool and this was one of my theories as well before I ever had heard what they had in store for that scene I wish they would have kept ot

What amazes me most is how far Cooper managed to run in such a short time. Considering the speed the plane was going in 20 sec and Cooper still coming out way in front of it.. Dude can not just outrun a Spino, but also a plane lol

Good to have a proper answer now. 22 years later

By the start of the video and how the scene progresses, I actually thought it was his weapon that malfunctioned, post the 2 shots fired; injuring him. However given the greater context of the film and the further explanation of this scene, it makes more sense that there were baby spinos also explaining the mothers vengeance.

I noticed that you have playing in the back of your video Resident Evil 1.

Press f to pay respects for cooper

It's a decent theory but my theory I think is at least on par with this one. If you pay close attention Cooper is running off into the jungle in one direction and Nash and Mr. Udesky soon follow in a nother direction. This happens while Amanda is yelling on the microphone drawing attention to herself and everyone. I think the curious Spinosaurus was simply going to check out this strange new roar and Nash, Udesky, and Cooper didn't even have time to set up a perimeter like they wanted. It's hard to make out but if you listen it seems like Nash fires first, and the creature goes after them. Only then does Cooper fire his higher caliber weapon, either directly at the Spinosaurus or indirectly in an attempt to distract him so that Nash and Udesky can get away. Remember he is probably concealed so that the creature probably didn't spot him at first. As you watch them running back towards the plane, if you take notice, Nash seems a little more panicked than Udesky. I think this is because he realized that his firepower had no effect as he fired first against the creature. Meanwhile you hear Cooper firing off a couple more shots for one reason or another. Yes there could be a juvenile but I don't think so exactly, because we only hear the roar of the one adult Spinosaurus which only makes its presence known after Amanda is yelling. I think what happened next was, the Spinosaurus, still confused and sizing up his enemy Cooper, finally spots him and took a swipe at Cooper, well his weapon anyway, once he found him, perhaps being concealed in such a way that the animal could only just swipe him, perhaps between rocks or nestled amongst a tree or something. If you pay attention it's not only his arm that is injured but his other side too. Then I think at this point the creature hears the plane, probably thinking it's a bigger threat, and goes after it while Cooper realizes this and pursues after. We think he's running to catch the plane, maybe he was, but I never thought that. I always interpreted his actions as: Don't go this way the spinosaurus is coming. Yes he says: stop but that could just mean: stop going this way. It makes sense too that he would get through the jungle before the Spinosaurus because the huge spino has to weave around thick vegetation. Also it's important to know that the Spinosaurus did not come on the airstrip while the plane was landing so it may have been asleep or even out of the area. This is the other reason I'm not sure there was a juvenile. In my opinion, unless it was really young, it would have been curious and would have wanted to inspect the plane too. Now, it could be that Coper really was just trying to get on the plane, but regardless I still believe Cooper was trying to distract the Spinosaurus from Nash and Udesky, not just kill it. I also think the Spinosaurus was so adamant about pursuing them afterwards because the plane clipped his fin and he was very angry at this new threat which poses a danger to his possible territory. Though I don't like to appeal to the facts of later installments, this could be further backed up by Eric Kirby who says to Grant that the T-Rex urine attracts one really big one with a fin. This to me indicates that the Spinosaurus is more than just a really aggressive creature looking for a fight. If it is the first mixed dino hybrid as theorized, that could be the nature of genetically modified dinosaur hybrids: highly aggressive just like the Indominus.

Props to the actor who gave up his life to be eaten by this dinosaur, so the footage would appear realistic!!

I always figured there was more than one spino. Cooper, Nash and Udesky probably inadvertently snuck up on one, shot and killed it when it attacked and then another spino shows up, understandably enraged which would explain why it went out of its way to hunt down the remaining humans

Killing this character off so quick was a crime. He had so much potential

Now we need a video explaining how Cooper was able to run far and fast enough to come out of the trees ahead of a plane in mid takeoff.

Another great video shadows 👍👍👍

I always see Cooper, Udesky and Nash as wannabe mercenaries (Udesky pretty much admits to not being a mercenary to Paul Kirby). Had their deaths not been so brutal, they would have been comic relief for the movie. Cooper and Nash were like kids with a toy when using the high powered weapon they fired at the airplane at the start of the movie. The trio were the only people the Kirby's could persuade to go to an island populated with killer dinosaurs.

I'm really surprised they didn't have the final mercenary get asked what happened in a casual conversation once everything was calm. Wouldn't have taken long to do.

The rifle question use to be a hot topic waaaay back in the day on JP forums. My guess was always that the gunshots heard were from Cooper's pistol, not his massive 20mm rifle. It's a movie, sure, so realism probably doesn't factor in much but you don't fire a 20mm rifle on your feet or on the run. The fact you hear the shots but no exploding rounds and the fact they are fired in quick succession also makes it seem like the shots were not from the 20mm. I just always assumed he had dumped the rifle so he could haul ass and fired his pistol while on the run. But alas, it's a movie and a very messy one at that so any theory is as good as the next. Maybe he pulled a Dieter Stark and lost his rifle and hurt his arm after falling down a hill trying to take a piss.

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im not gonna lie that scence was the most horiffic/scariest scence ive seen yet the fact that cooper saw the spinosaurus was scary but not to mention he also saw the family to which is scarier and also when the spinosaurus popped out in the trees strucked me im now a grown man but it still haunts me to this day and it was scarier when i was little

I noticed that Udesky has a 5.56mm weapon. As we know he's quite jumpy through the rest of the film, maybe he jumped the gun and fired those shots out of surprise at the spino or the babies, accidentally hitting Cooper in the shoulder? I think that Cooper's anti material rifle would be difficult to fire 3 times in quick succession like that, but an assault rifle like Udesky has would have no problem doing the same. Brilliant video 🤙🏼

with all the trouble that JP3 went through, Richard just saying that stuff sounds like he is trying to just get out of the question completely. its all well and good to say that stuff now. but it would have been quite easy to have a scene where Grant asked one of the mercenaries what happened and have them tell Grant "cooper killed its baby". that literally all we would have needed, 2 maybe 3 minute scene tops

I always knew there was a dark secret of this movie

I like this theory over all. It also explains how the mercs escaped, the spino stopped to check on its offspring, giving them a window. But honestly, they could have put a single line in to make it cannon. Just udesky muttering that they got the little one and voila, baby spino is cannon. It would have taken up a total of 2 seconds but given context to the entire story by making the spino a vengeful big bad instead of a poinlessly evil one. Which fits the whole nature, "theyre just animals" theme a lot better.

Yeah that's crazy I did not know it was a baby that's why they're done so was killing everybody 😊

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All they had to do was add 2 lines of dialogue to the movie to explain it. Grant: Why is that thing chasing us all over the island? Mercs: Cooper killed its baby. Done lol smh

Really makes you feel sorry for the Spino. That would be the driving fuel to pursue all the remaining humans on the island. Also portrays Cooper as a cold hunter who was more interested in killing small juvenile dinos rather than focusing on helping to locate Ben & Eric.

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I realize a lot of mystery from JP3 could be chalked up to just being "bad writing and editing" but I kind of did like that added sense of mystique. And now years later we're still learning new things and filling in the pieces.

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8:15 that relies heavily on how family driven they are. How soon do they split from the parents? Has the lack of parents affected the adults behavior? Do they have enough food that chasing down the people is worth it? Are they chasing them down because they realize the people are a threat to their territory? Are they very territorial? Do they have encounters with the raptors?

You hit the dinosaur man you get the dinosaur retaliation

I like how you have Dino-Crisis music playing in the background l. Think no one would notice, but I did.

There's a reason i like Novelizations of movies, because a book can add so much more detail, including stuff that had to be cut form the film.

It explains everything actually, why the spino had no gun wound, why the spino was blood lusted on this group specifically, and if the spino got a grip on coopers arm he would obviously be missing it 🤔

Hi shadow first video I’m watching from u this makes tons of sense loved the way u broke it down 😁

Good video. I had always kind of wondered about that.

hello i have a question where do you get your jurassic park/world information from? i've only seen the movies (very long ago) and i have no idea what paddock 10 is or what the black indominus rex is, i keep seeing this type of video where someone explains canon information that wasn't in the movies and i want to know where this stuff comes from