Dino Crisis (ディノクライシス Dino Kuraishisu) is a survival horror video game based media franchise created by Shinji Mikami and owned by the video game company Capcom. The franchise focuses around a series of survival horror video games, and has since branched out into comic books and associated merchandise. The overarching plot of the series focuses on multiple characters and their roles in recurring outbreaks of deadly dinosaurs and other monsters in a closed environment such as a laboratory on an island.