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Blue is a fictional Velociraptor who appears throughout the Jurassic Park franchise. She first appeared in the 2015 film Jurassic World, and has returned in the sequels, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018), and Jurassic World Dominion (2022); the latter also introduces Beta, her asexually reproduced hatchling. She has also appeared in the 2020 Netflix animated series produced by DreamWorks Animation Television, Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous.

Blue is among the most popular Jurassic Park dinosaurs, alongside Rexy the Tyrannosaurus, and has become a fan favorite in the franchise.

Fictional character biography

In Jurassic World, Blue is the oldest of the four Velociraptors trained by Owen Grady for the IBRIS Project, She and her pack has been 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.

In the sequel, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, which takes place three years after the first film, Isla Nublar was in danger of being destroyed by Mount Sibo, Blue reunited with Owen only to be captured and shipped to Lockwood Mansion for a blood transfusion for the Indoraptor. After Blue was healed from her injury, she once again saved Owen, Claire Dearing, and Maisie Lockwood from the Indoraptor, defeating it. Following that, Blue ran off into the woods, now free.

Blue returns in the third and last instalment of the Jurassic World trilogy, Jurassic World Dominion. In the film, taking place four year after Fallen Kingdom, Blue lived in the Sierra Nevada mountains with an asexually reproduced hatchling, who Maisie named 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 mercenaries. Owen promised an enraged Blue he'd bring Beta back. Owen kept true to his promise, reuniting Blue and Beta. After saying goodbye and parting ways with her friend and former trainer, Blue ran off into the wilderness with Beta.

Aside from her appearance in the Jurassic World films, Blue also appears as a major character in the Netflix show Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous, and also makes appearances in video games such as Jurassic World: The Game and Jurassic World Alive.

Blue is the focus of a two-part virtual reality miniseries, titled Jurassic World: Blue. It was released for Oculus VR headsets as a Fallen Kingdom tie-in. It depicts Blue on Isla Nublar at the time of the volcanic eruption.

Production

Jurassic World underwent a lengthy development period. By 2004, writers William Monahan and John Sayles had written drafts that featured Nick Harris, a former mercenary who takes a job training a team of five Deinonychus to go on missions. This idea was suggested by executive producer Steven Spielberg, who believed that it still had potential despite rejecting the early drafts. Jurassic World inherited concepts from the rejected drafts, including the concept of trained raptors like Blue.

In 2015, Colin Treverrow stated that on set, the raptors in Jurassic World were represented by actors in raptor heads before being replaced digitally with motion-capture models.

For Fallen Kingdom, Neal Scanlan's team created a Blue animatronic that was laid on an operating table, for a scene depicting the animal after an injury. The animatronic was operated by a dozen puppeteers hidden under the table. The scene was shot with and without the animatronic, and the two versions were combined during post-production. The animatronic was made of foam latex skin built around a skeleton-like frame controlled by a combination of cable systems, rods and, in the case of some of the smaller areas of movement, radio signals. Modified penguin noises were used during this scene to provide a purring sound for Blue.

To create Blue's CGI appearances, the ILM animators referred to the previous film. David Vickery of ILM said that Blue's movements were designed to resemble a dog: "You look at the way Blue cocks her head and looks up at you. It's exactly like a dog. You're trying to sort of connect the dinosaur with things that you understand as a human". Small puppets were also used to depict Owen's raptors as babies.

Chris Pratt described the relationship between Owen Grady and Blue like that of a parent and child.

Reception

Blue has been described as "the Jurassic Park franchise's most important character", and "more important than Owen, Dr. Alan Grant... or even the Tyrannosaurus rex". She has also been called "the main dinosaur star of the franchise".

Audiences reacted positively to Blue when Jurassic World released, and she quickly became the face of the series, receiving extensive merchandising. She represents the Jurassic World trilogy's departure from the original three Jurassic Park films, being the first raptor in the franchise to be given extensive characterization.

References

One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates material derived from the "Blue" article on the jurassicpark wiki at Fandom (formerly Wikia) and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License (24 January 2023).

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