You know, we need to talk to about this for a moment.
Because this was mentioned in the movie.
And no, the idea of it wasn't original because I too came up with that damned idea when I was 12.
Mostly revolving around this guy.
Elias Juan Carter, PhD in Genetic Engineering.
I call him John.
And yes, he was the first character I named John.
The second was this guy.
Who's named Jonathan, aka Jon.
But, no, Elias Juan Carter is just John, like the apostle. Or the Pope. The Pope I grew up with, not Pope Awesome.
And yes, his name is John Carter, like that movie. That came out years after I named the character.
John Paul only wishes he was Pope Awesome.
John Carter was a scientist who worked for InGen and was one of the geneticists under Dr. Henry Wu. And much like Dennis Nedry, John was very underpaid, under appreciated, and decided to work for a shady organization that wanted to use the knowledge he had about genetics for their benefit.
While Nedry had Dogson and BioSyn, Wu had Hoskins and InGen's security branch, John Carter had Haase and the ODESSA, aka the Organization of Former Members of the SS. Aka, the friggin leftover exiled Nazis living in Argentina.
Because I love mentioning those guys.
These days, they're not doing much.
Back during the late 80s...yeah, they were more active.
Mostly having to do with the guerrilla wars happening in Central and South America.
Which is where the whole militarizing dinosaurs comes into.
Granted, yeah, militarizing dinosaurs maybe a stupid idea in practice outside of an 80s cartoon, however, imagine using Raptors for guerrilla warfare, and you kinda get the idea of how this could be use in war.
Maybe for something like what we're doing in the Middle East, no, Dinosaurs would not be a good choice.
In a jungle? Send in the raptors!
However Chris Pratt stating that a drone won't eat you if you don't feed it is a good point.
Training raptors to fight in a guerrilla war is a bad idea.
However, this is where John Carter's final experiment comes into play.
Why spend time training the raptor when you can give the soldier all the powers of a raptor, and the raptor all the training of the soldier?
The bad part is that no human would want to stay as a human-dinosaur hybrid monstrosity forever. Just like putting down the gun and taking off the flack jacket, the human would want to become human again and take off his raptor form.
So, John has created a cure for this thing.
Which is basically why the transformation is body horror in the first place.
The soldier turned raptor, when administered the cure, literally rips the raptor body off of him.
John Carter, when he uses the serum to make himself human, his body shrinks on the inside, making it look like the T. rex is collapsing or even deflating. And then the man tears through the empty Rex skin, all covered in blood and Rex fluid.
It's disgusting, but it explains where all the extra weight goes during transformation.
So basically that's the application of John Carter's experiments.
It did start with dinosaurs with some human DNA. Make them smarter, however, he used those templates to create the serum that could turn a human into a dinosaur, while keeping certain human features.
And no, I'm not talking about the ugly unused shit for Jurassic Park 4. The human looks more dinosaur than human, except for certain features, such as for one, having molars, having a jaw that can move and be capable of speech. Having a fucking uvula, aka the skin flap at the back of our mouths, and four fingers and a thumb. And still capable of the full arm movements humans are capable of.
Just imagine, a raptor not only capable of human speech, holding and shooting a gun, reloading it, saluting the American Flag, but also being able to climb a tree and swing on vines like fucing Tarzan.
You are not gonna be messing with that raptor anymore.
The raptor part of the soldier would be using some of the strengths humans have, like having one of the most efficient way of dispelling excess heat. In way of sweating. Yes, these raptors are capable of sweating.
Also, yes, the raptor will be able to ride fucking motorcycle. Because John Carter knows what would make us all happy.
Unfortunately, again, much like what we saw in Jurassic World with Wu's research, John Hammond found out what Carter was doing, seized his research, and then being a nice guy, decided to allow Carter go into hiding.
Mostly because Carter realized just who he was working for and wanted to stop them.
The unfortunate part, he had completed the serum that could turn a human into a human-dino hybrid, but the serum he created was geared for his specific chemical make up, blood type, whatever, and it was to turn him into a T. rex, and not a raptor, because John likes T. rexes.
Actually, the serum has some raptor traits, which gives John the ability to jump high and run a lot faster than an actual Rex. Also, because he's like Sadie, meaning he's got super regenerative abilities, healing, reinforced bone structure, biological enhancements, he's basically a super T-rex, raptor, human hybrid that could probably withstand an Abram's tank and just laugh at the puny SPANKr firing at him.
Basically, nothing short of a tactical nuke could probably stop this guy.
Tactical nukes are the small nukes used on small targets.
Strategic nukes are the larger ones used on much larger targets. Using a tactical nuke could escalate a conflict in which strategic nukes are deployed as a response. Something we don't want.
Which is what the ODESSA want.
They want a nasty escalation, and the'll get it.
So, having trained smart dinosaurs isn't the best option.
Having humans that could take a serum to become a dinosaur is a bit better...at least for guerrilla warfare.
Not so much for what is going on today.
But the idea, the plan itself also relied upon the human taking another serum to return to human form.
Unfortunately John Carter didn't quite make a perfect serum for that. The serum he created and he now uses on himself to keep his human form is basically like a narcotic. It makes being human a high. And he has to keep taking the serum or he undergoes bad withdrawals in his modified T. rex form. It's also like meth, it's slowly killing him. And each time he takes it, he gets used to it and has to take a higher dosage to stay human longer.
So, there is another reason why the research basically failed and was never again even implemented. And why John was discredited as a scientist even after the failure of Jurassic Park.
But only by the miracle of Hammond's lawyers did John manage to get off with his freedom, but it only means he's looked upon by the science community as a fraud and a joke. If not a mad scientist.
Regardless to his reasons for doing this.
He pretty much lost his job, lost his wife, lost the love of most of his kids. And he spends time in obscurity helping a friend of his dig up dinosaur bones while he sits in the pity pot feeling sorry for himself.
So, that's basically where I was going with the idea of military dinosaurs. And when I heard that was why the iRex was created, and the whole wanting to test Owen's Raptor Pack...I just had to roll my eyes and groan.
Because a 12-year old thought of this in 1992, guys.
God damn it.
