The two films, despite having completely disparate hybrid antagonists, have a mutual theme going for them – scientists playing God, which doesn’t end well. This, of course is not exactly new in its general concept. H.G Well’s The Island of Dr. Moreau and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein also depict man creating new lifeform, leading to less than favorable results. What Splice and Jurassic World bring new, then, is the method by which these creatures are created, as well as the distinct mesmerizing lifeforms the genetic engineers have produced – a hybrid of several supposedly extinct giants, and a sentient animal-human hybrid with superhuman abilities. As mentioned earlier, gene splicing was used to create them, fitting modern scientific processes …show more content…
Jurassic World’s Indominus rex was primarily made as a new attraction to satisfy investors. It was for entertainment. On the other hand, Splice’s Dren was made for a scientific breakthrough in the field of medicine. The way we humans may see each of these creatures as “monsters” also varies. The I.rex, for obvious reasons, is a killing machine that humans alone have a small chance of destroying, unless advanced weapons are to be used. In the film, it was only through the abilities of the T.rex, Velociraptor, and Mosasaurus that the hybrid was taken down. These dinosaurs are also considered monstrous in that in the first place, they are animals that have supposedly been long extinct. Their size, especially, does not belong in the natural ecology that we presently have. Dren, conversely, presents a more interesting concept of what a human may consider as a monster. Dren is part human, but with a variety of traits that present-day humans can only dream of having. Dren can fly, breathe under water, run significantly faster than the normal human, kill with a single venomous sting of her tail, seduce other humans seemingly rather easily despite its form, and even switch sexes. What makes her a monster is not merely her ability to kill off humans – frankly, humans already know how to do that – but the fact that she could be a potential transhuman, surpassing us in most aspects, making our brand of Homo sapiens inferior. This point is further strengthened by the fact that Elsa was impregnated by male Dren, opening the possibility of having a superhuman-animal hybrid child which may or may not be able to further reproduce. This aside, a key difference between the two hybrids is that the scientists in Jurassic World knew of the skills of the Indominus rex, while Clive and Elsa had to discover through observation throughout Dren’s development what their creation’s