The Screaming of the Tyrannosaur story
In the distant future, human society celebrates a royal wedding between nobles from different Jupiter moons in a space arena. The MC introduces the entertainment: a ritual death race between gladiators, including Mei, and a stampede of Triceratops. As the race unfolds, the gladiators eliminate each other until only Mei and another fighter—revealed to be her lover—remain. Mei spares her and wins the duel. The MC, however, announces a final challenge: mounted combat against a Tyrannosaurus that proceeds to kill the lover. Enraged, Mei wounds the beast but eventually empathizes with it, recognizing their shared fate as entertainment for the audience in power. She mounts the Tyrannosaur, and together they kill the bridal couple before succumbing to their injuries. Cast: MrBeast, Bai Ling Directed by: Tim Miller. Story by: Stant Litore.
10 total · 2 choice · 8 major
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| blood sports | choice | The story follows Mei as she competes in a ritual death race between between gladiators and a stampede of Triceratops. |
| social inequality | choice | A point of the story was to compare and contrast the decadent aristocratic spectators with the gladiators they controlled and used for their own entertainment. One gathers that the gladiators had been taken from subjugated peoples. Mei came from the moon Europa and had had nearly all her memories taken from her. Some remnants remained, which caused her to turn on her oppressors in the end. |
| coping with opposing a friend | major | Mei had to fight a deadly fight with her own lover and only narrowly managed to spare the woman's life. |
| girlfriend and girlfriend | major | Mei had to fight a deadly fight with her own lover and only narrowly managed to spare the woman's life. |
| human vs. beast | major | Mei and the other gladiators took part in a ritual death race that featured a stampede of Triceratops. Following the race, Mei was expected to face off against a T-Rex, although she ended up manipulating the ferocious beast into turning on the the two nobles whose marriage the race was put on to commemorate. |
| institutionalized human blood sports society | major | The story is set in a distant future where ritual combat between human gladiators and dinosaurs is an integral part of society's royal weddings. |
| marriage ceremony | major | The setting of the story is a royal wedding between nobles from different Jupiter moons in a space arena. |
| space station | major | The story is set on a rotating wheel space station located in the vicinity of Jupiter and its Galilean moons. A novelty of the station was that the inner part of the wheel functioned as a racetrack. |
| the desire for vengeance | major | Mei somehow controlled the T-Rex and turned it on the royal couple in an act of vengeance that had a twofold origin: Her lover had just been killed before her eyes due to the unfair turn in the competition to suddenly unleash a T-Rex. Also remnants of her memories informed her to some extent of the enslaved condition of herself and the people from which came. |
| what if I had to fight to the death | major | Mei and the other gladiators took part in a ritual death race in which it was presumed they would kill each other down to the last competitor. |