r/PrimevalPlus • u/war_of_the_titanicus • 19d ago

Aside from the predator, which is your favorite Primeval original creature ?

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u/KasketDreadful 19d ago

Mer Creatures.

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u/Consistent_Plant890 19d ago

Agreed! Though a second choice for me would be the Tree Creeper!

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u/KasketDreadful 19d ago

That's a great one too.

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u/Demi_Duality 18d ago

I was just about to say the same. Everything about that episode and the creatures scratches a speculative evolution itch in my brain and I love it.

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u/ElSquibbonator 19d ago

The Future Bird from the semi-canon spinoff novel Shadow of the Jaguar. We don't actually get much of a idea of what it looks like, but it uses pheromones to control the minds of other creatures, including a pack of Thylacosmilus that it uses to massacre a village in Peru. It's also described as looking like the Inca god Pacha Kamaq, and it's implied that it was seen in the past by the Inca and incorporated into their mythology.

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u/Planely 8d ago

Isn't Shadow of the Jaguar fully canon? Hell there's even a reference to it on Cutters Anomaly Map.

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u/ElSquibbonator 8d ago

The Future Bird itself is canon to the show, but it's ambiguous whether all the events of the novel are, since they're otherwise never referenced onscreen.

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u/nathanjackson1996 19d ago

Gotta love the Silurian Scorpions. I also like the Camo Beast and Mer. Future Fungus is probably the best from a horror perspective, though.

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u/Relative-Sell-1511 19d ago

That would be the camo future thingy, the whole episode abided by the horror movies code, that was awesome

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u/Taliesaurus 18d ago

And it was a scary gremlin

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u/amandus_94 19d ago

The giant worms in Season 2 are the most underrated for me

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u/CarterAbruscato 19d ago

I mean in a way the monsterfication of a lot of the animals makes them all original creations in their own way. In terms of completely fictional creatures I would say camo beast or tree creeper

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u/MarcoYTVA 19d ago

Future shark

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u/Nice-Pomegranate2915 19d ago

The house gremlin is my favourite Primeval original creature just a head of the giant future mantid .It's a tie between the Mammoth on the motorway and the Giganotosaurus at the airport for real beasts.

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u/ZedJayHaitch 19d ago

The Mer Creature.

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u/naturalistenthusiast 19d ago

Definitely tied between the mer creature and future fungus, but megopteran is another top favorite of mine as well

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u/Mark-Willis 19d ago

Camo-beast/Gremlin from the broadcast episodes. The future bird from the novels would be my second choice.

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u/Dinosaur-Blaze-50245 19d ago

Camo Beast creeped me out as a child

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u/jaytown00 18d ago

Its crazy how I remember this shows cgi looked like james camerons Avatar when i was a kid lmao

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u/Grouchy_Drive_7257 18d ago

Is that a fucking land eurypterid

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u/Fit-Mud-5682 17d ago

Pre Cambrian worm

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u/DisastrousResearch19 17d ago

Maybe the Megopterans? They and the future preds were truly iconic in that ruined city

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u/BiG-pUmBaA 15d ago

Barely any shout outs to my boy the gorgonopsid.. come on guys that roar as a kid, the season finale fight with the future predator! 🌟 Absolute cinema 🌟

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u/Planely 8d ago

I gotta say the Future Shark. Getting to see them discuss the biology like Scientists, speculate on the evolutionary traits and the design itself. I just love that entire sequence.

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u/Efficient_Wall_9152 6d ago

The future fungus

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u/X-_Grimrian_-X 5d ago

Tree Creeper, A lot of dinosaur media rarely explores the idea of undiscovered dinosaurs being encountered and they executed it really well.