Quick, give me some classic movie monsters. Well, you got Frankenstein's Monster, Dracula, Creature from the Black Lagoon, King Kong, Godzilla.

Alright, so what do all of them have in common? Well, they're all frightening, but they're also tortured and tragic creatures with a dark past - or they're directly misunderstood.

Now, I don't particularly like this whole hybrid concept that the first two Jurassic World movies focused on, but I think that if you're going to make a movie about a genetic experiment theme park monster whose only purpose in life is to shock a bunch of desensitized parkgoers, then the story about that monster should be tragic.

Now, the indoraptor from Fallen Kingdom could have been a perfect tortured monster with a sad, bitter ending to his short life. The movie already has everything going for it in this regard. You already have a horrifying, broken dinosaur that has spent his entire life in a 2x2 cage being prodded by scientists PLUS a climatic third act in a gothic mansion.

It seems like the writers knew exactly what they wanted to do with the indoraptor character, but because of time constraints, studio meddling or a lack of creativity, they just weren't able to execute on the indoraptor's full potential.

Here are three things they should have done.

Restore that wonderful deleted scene of the indoraptor being tortured in his cage

Did you know we were supposed to get a scene of the indoraptor being mistreated by a group of bored guards with cattle prods? One guard in particular would really get into this act of blatant animal abuse and would have this big smile on him while tasing the indoraptor.

The indoraptor, slowly getting up after being tased, would turn to the man, imitating his smile with a twisted smile of his own. This would horrify the guards.

So when the indoraptor smiles before killing Wheatley, it's not because the writers are total idiots, it's because he's actually IMITATING the one type of human contact he was familiar with, just with him doing the torturing this time.

It would have been perfect! It would have made the indoraptor into a much more multifaceted villain and someone that the audience would perhaps be able to fill some tiny bit of empathy with.

There are a bunch of other deleted scenes that would have helped build the indoraptor's character that definitely should have been included. But I think this is the most important one.

Focus on the indoraptor's relationship with Maisie

Some fans have already speculated that there might be some sort of deeper connection between the indorator and Maisie.

I would have elaborated on that relationship in the movie because I think there's a lot of potential in that sort of innocent child / beast setup. It could be that Maisie shares some DNA with the indoraptor, or that they're tied in some sort of genetic symbiotic co-dependency, like Maisie needs blood transfusions from the raptor to survive. Something weird like that.

Or alternatively, the indoraptor could simply have imprinted on Maisie.

However, the important part is that when the Indoraptor chases the main cast in the third act, he shouldn't want to kill Maisie. He's just trying to get to her, and take her from the other humans who seemed to want to steal her away from him. Besides, this would explain why this hyper-intelligent super predator seems unable to catch up with and kill a small child.

Have the mercenries kill the indoraptor, not Blue

Do we really need Blue to kill another hybrid? Do we really need this poor velociraptor to come in and clean shit up every time the humans mess up?

Now, I would still have Blue and Indoraptor fighting, but I would also have the fight end before either of the dinosaurs are dead. Rather, I would write it so that their fight is interrupted, or that they're in some sort of stalemate, when the mercenaries show up. Having regrouped and brought some bigger guns, they now attack the indoraptor.

The indoraptor makes a desperate attempt to break out - or alternatively, it could attack the humans directly. We could have the indoraptor break through a gate of some sort, only to be eventually mowed down by the surrounding soldiers from some safe distance. Or possibly, he could be trying to get to Maisie. Either way, the indoraptor's sacrifice would have given the main cast an Blue a chance to escape through the gates. As they leave, the camera pans back to linger on the indoraptor's body as he draws his last breath - killed by the same hands that created him.

Now, I'm not a writer and it doesn't have to go down exactly like that. But I think having the indoraptor be killed by the same people who created him would make him would make the ending a little more bittersweet and complex. His death would have instilled a much stronger and more ambivalent response in the moviegoers.

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Anyway, that's it. That's what I would have done differently, at least some of the things. Either way, I feel the indoraptor they introduced had a ton of unrealized potential and that using this character, they could have told a poignant and haunting story about an abused animal turning into a monstrous man-eater.

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I should add that I don't think that this necessarily would have made Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom a better Jurassic movie. My version of Fallen Kingdom would have been darker and weirder and have little in common with Spielberg's family-friendly and optimistic original. In reality, I would have rather them make a completely different movie.

But if you're going to make Fallen Kingdom, I figure that at least with these changes, the second Jurassic World movie could have been an interesting and divisive entry into the Jurassic franchise. (Rather than just a forgettable one).