Blue

CHARACTERISTICS

APPEARANCES Jurassic World Jurassic World: Blue Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous Jurassic World Aftermath (mentioned) Jurassic World: Dominion Off the Grid The Yosemite Six Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous: Hidden Adventure SPECIES Velociraptor GENDER Female ROLE Research specimen (formerly) Mother STATUS Alive FAMILY Delta, Echo, Charlie (sisters, deceased) Bravo, Sierra, Tango (cousins) Beta (daughter) BORN 2012 May 23, 2012 (The Secret Exhibit)

Biography

Blue is a female Velociraptor who appears in Jurassic World, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous, and Jurassic World: Dominion. She is the oldest of the four raptors in her pack consisting of her sisters, Delta, Echo, and Charlie. The oldest of the four Velociraptors trained by Owen Grady for the IBRIS Project, Blue and her pack aided in the search for the Indominus rex, only to turn against their trainer when accepting the I. rex as their Alpha. However, Blue was the first to change her loyalty back to Owen and fight against the I. rex. While the rest of her pack was killed, Blue received aid from Rexy as well as the Mosasaurus and defeated the I. rex. She was subsequently encountered by the Camp Cretaceous campers, helping them to kill the two Scorpios rexes and avoid capture by Mantah Corp. Three years later, when Isla Nublar was in danger of being destroyed by Mount Sibo, Blue reunited with Owen only to be captured and shipped to Lockwood Manor to create the next generation of the Indoraptor. After Blue was healed from her injury, she once again saved Owen, Claire, and Maisie from the Indoraptor, defeating it. Following that, Blue ran off into the woods, now free.

Four years later, Blue lived in the Sierra Nevada mountains with a hatchling by parthenogenesis, Beta, while observing Owen, Claire, and Maisie living together from a distance. When Blue made herself and her offspring known, Beta and Maisie were both taken by Biosyn. Owen promised Blue he'd bring them back. Owen kept true to his promise, reuniting Blue and Beta. After saying goodbye and parting ways with her Alpha/trainer, Blue ran off into the wilderness with Beta, with Owen knowing that, when she's ready to, she'll one day come back to him with Beta and live with him again.

Personality

Blue is more intelligent and cunning than her sisters. These traits most likely helped her become the leader of the pack.[1] These traits were also reminiscent of a previous alpha raptor, the Big One. Unlike the Big One, however, Blue was capable of showing affection, kindness, generosity and loyalty. An example of this is when Owen removed her headset, she made affectionate noises towards him and defended him from the Indominus rex as well as the Indoraptor, even though both fights nearly killed her.[2] In Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Blue has a strong dislike for mercenaries, as she attacks three of them when they try to contain her. She is also able to express emotion, such as pain and empathy, which most of the other dinosaurs, except for Rexy, are unable to do in the Jurassic franchise. Eli Mills once commented that Blue is the second most intelligent creature on the planet. Blue seems to have learned an important lesson in the Jurassic World Incident about trusting any non-Velociraptor creature that speaks the raptor language, such as the Indominus rex, so she was immune to the manipulations of the Indoraptor while fighting him.[3] In Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous, Blue is defensive of her hunting grounds around the old Jurassic Park Visitor Center and attacks the Camp Cretaceous campers for invading it. However, after they save her life, she appears to calm down before Kenji Kon accidentally infuriates her again. During the battle against the Scorpios rexes, Blue attacks the campers until Darius Bowman makes a submissive, yet desperate, gesture towards her, causing Blue to recognize the campers as allies instead of enemies. Blue goes so far as to leap to their defense against the hybrids, helping to finally defeat the creatures. Blue once again shows her intelligence by following Darius' gaze to a falling piece of celling that threatens to crush her and then later by leading the Mantah Corp forces into a Dilophosaurus nest when they attack her,

recognizing how outnumbered she is and outwitting her enemies rather than fighting them directly. In Jurassic World: Dominion, Blue had been watching Owen, Claire, and Maisie from a distance in the woodlands of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, most likely just watching over her Alpha, making sure that nothing bad ever happens to him since he's all she has left of her former pack, but also possibly learning from them in how to raise her sole offspring, Beta. While still loyal towards the three, including Owen, Blue still had her ferocious and predatory nature coupled with her protectiveness over Beta. When Beta was kidnapped by Biosyn, Blue became distressed and enraged, as she reappeared at their cabin roaring at them, informing them about what had happened. However, Owen managed to calm her down, vowing to bring Beta and Maisie back, whatever it took. Though still stressed, Blue understood and took Owen's words seriously. When Owen did as he promised and reunited Beta with Blue, she exchanged looks with Owen one last time to thank him and say goodbye before the two Velociraptors ran off into the wilderness.[4]

Physical appearance

In the film canon, measuring approximately 3.9 meters long (13 feet) and 1.7 meters tall (5.6 feet)[5], Blue has bluish-gray skin with a white stripe with metallic blue in the middle going horizontally from her eye orbit, with one side has blue around the eye, while the other side’s stripe stop so at the head, down to the tip of her tail which the LEGO website states comes from the DNA of the black-throated African monitor lizard (Varanus albigularis microstictus) used in her creation. These dorsal patterns bear an uncanny similarity to the ones seen on the male raptors featured in Jurassic Park III.[2] As an infant, Blue has a lighter color of metallic blue in the center of her stripe, with a few dark gray spots on her bottom lip, and is more of a warm gray color. She also wore a blue bracelet.[6]

Relationships

Owen Grady Owen is one of her trainers. Blue has a lot of respect for Owen so much she would not attack him, even after the I. rex briefly turned her against her human companions.[2] In Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Blue, even as an infant, recognizes Owen's position as leader,[6] and greatly looks up to him, and protects him from the Indoraptor, as she is present when he attempts to attack and kill him.[3] In Jurassic World: Dominion, Blue chooses to make her nest close to Owen's home and is seen observing him from a distance, apparently keeping an eye on her old friend while also possibly learning from them in raising her asexually produced offspring Beta. However, Owen appears to be unaware that Blue is living so close to him until Beta wanders onto his property. Despite her friendship with Owen, Blue does not take kindly to his or Maisie Lockwood's interactions with her daughter, possibly out of protectiveness. However, she still responds to Owen's attempts to calm her down with his old commands for her. After Beta's abduction, Blue is left so distressed and furious, that, while Owen promises to get Beta back for her, she doesn't respond too well, at first, to Owen's attempts to calm her down, and, without realizing, unintentionally slaps his outstretched hand down, but after finally realizing this, shocked and horrified by her own actions of unintentionally hurting her own alpha, something she vowed never to do, she retreats in shame.

Owen later states several times that he is trying to save Beta because he promised his only surviving raptor that he would, even though several people are incredulous at the idea. When Owen returns Beta, Blue at first runs off with her daughter without acknowledging Owen at all. However, she returns a moment later and immediately does so by exchanging a look with Owen to thank him for saving Beta and say goodbye for now, until they see each other once more and forever one day.[4] Barry Sembène Barry is one of her trainers. Like with Owen, she has respect for Barry, as he is seen comforting Blue. However, after I. rex briefly turned her and her sisters against their human companions, Blue attacked Barry. However, after Barry shouted her name from inside the hollow log he was hiding in, she ceased her attack and peeked inside the log after recognizing his voice.[2] Echo Although they are not seen interacting much in the film, it is assumed that Blue and Echo cooperated with each other. In their youth, however, Blue and Echo fought for dominance over the pack. Blue was victorious, and Echo earned a scar across her face and an offset jaw. Nonetheless, Echo respected Blue and tried to avenge her after the Indominus rex seemingly killed her. Unfortunately, she was killed in the fight. Blue then avenged Echo's death by joining in the battle with Rexy and forced the I. rex towards the Jurassic World Lagoon, where the Mosasaurus lives.[2] Delta It can be assumed that Delta was Blue's second-in-command, as she and Delta can be seen communicating and working together many times throughout the film, such as when Leon fell into the Raptor paddock and Blue and Delta were the first to corner him. When the I. rex seemingly killed Blue, Delta tried to avenge her sister but was killed in the quarrel. Blue then avenged Delta's death by joining in the battle with Rexy, forcing the I. rex toward the Jurassic World Lagoon, where the Mosasaurus dragged the monster to its death.[2]

Charlie Because Blue is the oldest, while Charlie was the youngest in the pack, the latter looked to Blue for guidance and commands during hunts. Charlie had high respect for her sister that she gave up her meals to feed Blue. When Charlie was killed by an InGen soldier, Blue viciously attacked all humans she could find in retaliation.[2] Rexy It can be assumed that Rexy the Tyrannosaurus and Blue had never met prior to the film, however, the two united against their common foe, the Indominus rex during the final battle on Isla Nublar. Blue saved the Rexy's life and fought by her side during the battle. During that moment, she briefly allowed Blue to ride on her back. After they killed the I. rex with help from the park's Mosasaurus, Rexy spares Blue's life (despite having a previously unpleasant encounter with Velociraptors during the first movie), presumably due to Blue's assistance in fighting the hybrid.[2]

When Darius, Kenji and Yasmina first encounter Blue in the old Visitor Center, Blue chases them. However, after being crushed under the car, Darius feels bad and convinces Yasmina and Kenji to save her. After freeing her, Blue immediately readies herself to attack, but Darius takes a stance similar to Owen Grady, which causes Blue to recognize his actions to be the same as her former trainer's. She briefly views Darius in a similar light and calms down, until Kenji alerts her with his quarters' presence. Blue snaps back to her aggressive state, causing the group to run, though Blue does not chase after them this time.[7] Later on, the six campers encounter Blue while running away from the Scorpios rex. Blue chases them into the old Visitor Center. When Darius sneaks away to steal back his dart gun in order to shoot the Scorpios Rex, Blue stops him from taking it back, clearly wary. Darius then stands back, showing that Blue can trust him. Now, realizing she can trust Darius, Blue protects the campers by attacking the two Scorpios rexes. She shares one last look with Darius, before escaping the crumbling Visitor Center and, after observing the destruction, running off into the wild.[8] Beta After Blue was released into the wild, she asexually-reproduced and raised her only offspring, Beta, living in the abandoned bus and training her to become a dominate predator; i.e. hunting, killing, etc. Although Blue loves her daughter, she is also a tad-bit over-protective of Beta. When Beta met Maisie Lockwood, Blue became a bit hostile towards her and even Owen, despite her history with him.

History

Blue was created by InGen for the IBRIS Project sometime before 2015,[2] and was the first Velociraptor to be created for the latest pack. She was created with the DNA of the black-throated monitor lizard, which allowed her scales to reflect an iridescent blue color, giving her the distinctive pattern that she was named after.[1] Out of all the raptors that were to be created following her birth, she was the largest.[9][1] When she was born, Owen Grady imprinted on her, which allowed him to train her.[2] During her youth, she and Echo engaged in a fight for dominance over their pack, of which Blue was the victor.[1][9][6] Just before the incident occurred, Blue, Echo, Delta, and Charlie attempted to strike Leon, a newly hired Jurassic World employee who had fallen into her pack's paddock, while trying to capture a pig that had escaped its holding pen. However, they were thwarted by their trainer in time to save Leon's life.[2] Blue and her pack later assisted their trainer during the rampage of the genetic hybrid Indominus rex when Vic Hoskins, Jurassic World's head of security, forced Owen to use them to hunt it. Unfortunately, during the hunt, she and her pack mates began to communicate with the hybrid due to its raptor DNA. After the Indominus took Owen's place as the alpha, Blue and her pack mates turned against the humans. Her pack attacked many of the humans that had followed them, including Barry, who took refuge in a hollow log just before Blue lunged at him and began to viciously attack him through it. Conflicted about whether he should shoot her or not, Barry yelled her name, causing her to stop and look inside. At this point, Owen intervened and whistled to get Blue's attention, stopping her from possibly resuming her attack on Barry. She ended up chasing after Owen, who drove off on his motorcycle, to try and attack him.[2]

Blue and the rest of her pack later caught up with Owen, Claire Dearing, and the Mitchell brothers, Zach and Gray, on Main Street. Shortly after being cornered, Owen regained Blue's, and the other raptors', respect and his role as pack leader. The Indominus rex arrived, and ordered the raptors to attack the humans. Blue, however, retaliated and rebelled against the Indominus, and the hybrid responded by swatting Blue into a wall of the Starbucks coffee shop, seemingly killing her. Delta and Echo then attacked the Indominus out of vengeance. Unfortunately, they were soon overpowered by the hybrid and killed. Shortly after their deaths, Rexy; Jurassic World's resident Tyrannosaur joined the fight.[2] Later, Blue regained consciousness and rejoined the fight, lunging at the hybrid and allowing Rexy to get back on her feet after she was pushed to the ground by the Indominus rex when it was preparing the killing blow for her. Blue continued to assist Rexy in her fight against the hybrid. At one point, Blue rode on Rexy's back while she smashed the I. rex into one of Main Street's buildings. Eventually, the Mosasaurus dragged the Indominus into the bottom of the lagoon when the hybrid was tossed to the edge of it. After the fight, Rexy decides to spare Blue, as gratitude for saving her life, despite her unpleasant encounter with raptors in the past. Blue then turned towards Owen, chirping at him momentarily before disappearing into the night, calling out for her pack mates.[2]

Communication

Some sounds that are commonly associated with velociraptors include high-pitched screeches, low growls, and guttural hisses. These noises are often used to convey the menacing and predatory nature of these creatures. They do understand English but they don’t speak human languages.