Cracked VS: The Shark In ‘Jaws’ Vs. The T-Rex In ‘Jurassic Park’
![Cracked VS: The Shark In ‘Jaws’ Vs. The T-Rex In ‘Jurassic Park’](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/6/5/789765_320x180.jpg)
Welcome to Cracked VS, a new feature where we pit two topics against each other and let ‘em duke it out. Today’s topic: Jaws' Shark vs. Jurassic Park's T-Rex
It’s another round of Cracked Vs. where we pit anything we want against anything else we want to find out who reigns supreme (or not). What better matchup than a fight between the ancient dinosaur of the ocean and, well, an actual dinosaur. Okay not “actual,” they're animatronics, but you get it LET’S GOOO!
![CRACKED VS. Fighter Profiles CRACKED.COM GREAT WHITE / JAWS T-REX / JURASSIC PARK Nickname: Bruce Nickname: Rexie Size of f pneumatically- Size of animatronic: around powered model: 18 feet high, 36 feet long, around 25 feet long weighing almost 6 tons. weighing 4.9 tons. Longevity: Still going. The Longevity: Gets blown original Queen Bee has up by humans, lasts been in every single movie, one movie. even surviving a volcano.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/7/9/789779.jpg)
Sources: EW, The Atlantic, Jaws Wiki, Screen Rant
![CRACKED VS. Fatalites (first movies only) CRACKED.COM BRUCE / JAWS REXIE / JURASSIC PARK 5 humans 1 human (she only kills the (that we know of) lawyer, but she does chomp a goat, (also Pippet the dog) other dinosaurs, and some car tires)](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/7/7/789777.jpg)
Sources: CNN, The Conversation, Movieclips
![CRACKED VS. Fighter Theme Songs CRACKED.COM BRUCE / JAWS REXIE JURASSIC PARK The iconic two-note melody The famous five-note sounds incomplete but builds motif doesn't belong tension and expectation. exclusively to the Spielberg thought the legendary T-Rex ,but has composer was making a joke, come to be associated but admitted later that half with her, the anti-hero, the movie's success was saving the day. Those five probably due to those notes. notes are pure nostalgia.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/6/7/789767.jpg)
Sources: Killcounts Wiki, List of Deaths Wiki
![CRACKED VS. Diva Level: Maintenance BRUCE / JAWS REXIE JURASSIC PARK No saltwater! The Had to be dried with towels animatronic's hydraulic and hairdryers every day. A valves were powered by lot of Rexie's screentime electric solenoids, and every happened in the rain, and time the thing had to go into the puppet wasn't the ocean water it would waterproof. An entire team mess with the electrolysis had to make sure she was and cause the model to dried out after a day of deteriorate, fast. filming. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/7/2/789772.jpg)
![CRACKED VS. On-set dangers Part I) GRACKED BRUCE / JAWS REXIE JURASSIC PARK While trying to get some real Almost killed a crew member. footage of Bruce by filming The hydraulics were tested actual sharks, stuntman Carl before gluing the skin on from Rizzo (who is the a little person) inside. One crew member almost suffocated because almost got seriously hurt when they gave him miniature air the power to the studio was tanks for the shark cage, even cut and the dangerous though little people need the hydraulics started moving same amount of air as inside Rexie. They had to pry](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/7/6/789776.jpg)
Sources: Uproxx, Stan Winston School of Character Arts
![CRACKED VS. Drawbacks: Size the THE RULED NOSAURS BRUCE / JAWS REXIE JURASSIC PARK Literally sank. When it came She was so big that the time for the producers to see building in which they the shark... said, had to build her had to 'Ok! Cue the shark!' Splosh! be altered. They had to Flop, flop, flop, flop, flop. We raise the roof and make saw our shark dive to the exits big enough to get bottom of the sea from a her out of barge, there and there went our careers, we felt. eventually. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/7/4/789774.jpg)
![CRACKED VS. On-set dangers (Part II) CRACKED.co BRUCE / JAWS REXIE / JURASSIC PARK A day's footage was nearly When she attacks the kids destroyed. Quint's boat, the through the van's sunroof, Orca II, sank with cameras Rexie wasn't supposed to and the film footage still on break the glass. That was board. The film had to be an accident as the puppet flown to a New York lab came down too far, broke where technicians were the Plexiglass, and broke a able to save it. tooth in the process.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/7/3/789773.jpg)
![CRACKED VS. skills: Speed CRACKED.co BRUCE/ AN ACTUAL GREAT WHITE: REXIE/ AN ACTUAL T-REX: Maximum Capable of running speed swimming estimated 35 mph. between 10 to 25 mph.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/7/0/789770.jpg)
Sources: Live Science, Smithsonian Ocean
![CRACKED VS. Skills: Biting Power BRUCE / JAWS REXIE JURASSIC PARK (both only modeled projections as we don't really know) Somewhere around A full-grown T-Rex has a 2250 pound-force bite. maximum of 12, 800 For reference, a pound-force bite to it, saltwater crocodile's making it the hardest bite force is around biting terrestrial animal 3800. ever known. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/7/1/789771.jpg)
Sources: News Week, Smithsonian Magazine
![CRACKED VS. Legacies THE RULED NOSAURS Federal CRACKED COM BRUCE/JAWS REXIE/JURASSIC PARK Broke the opening Ushered in the era of the weekend Box Office summer blockbuster record earning $50 movie. First film to make million. Played in $100 million at the Box theaters for a full year. Office. People are still Made dinosaur nerds afraid to go in the water. of many more people.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/6/8/789768.jpg)
Sources: The Independent, Forbes
![CRACKED VS. Round 1: Fight! CRACKED COM BRUCE / JAWS REXIE JURASSIC PARK A armed behemoth wades into shallow waters where a hulking meat submarine lies in wait. Bruce's best bet is if he can somehow drag Rexie into the deep ocean and drown her. Then again, archaeologists think the T-Rex was actually an okay swimmer! But at 35 mph max, Bruce is the swimming champion here for sure. Also, he ate Pippet the dog. He has a taste for land animals now.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/7/0/790170.jpg)
Source: Syfy
![CRACKED VS. Round 2: Fight! CRACKED COM BRUCE / JAWS REXIE JURASSIC PARK If Rexie makes the first move, she'll likely snap poor Bruce up like a piece of sushi off a conveyor belt. Rexie's mandibles are simply next level, and she's chowed way more animals than humans throughout her films. Not only that, but humans seem to want to save her instead of kill her. Unfortunately we can't say the same for Bruce. No one's going to stop Rexie from having some fish for luch.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/7/1/790171.jpg)
![CRACKED VS. And the winner is... CRACKED COM BRUCE / JAWS REXIE JURASSIC PARK Rexie! Bruce might be a formidable foe and get some nibbles in if he attacks first, but Rexie will ultimately take this fight. Now, pitting Rexie against a Mosasaurus would probably be a different story.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/6/6/790166.jpg)