History Characters / JurassicParkLiterature

* FatalFlaw: Greed. To the point that he is more worried about the safety of the dinosaurs than people endangered by them because they cost so much money to make.

* FatalFlaw: Pride. He's so proud of what he has already done for dinosaur cloning, even when he's planning to make improved versions of the dinosaurs, that he refuses to see any possible flaws in his methods unless given concrete proof. And even then, he simply spins his mistakes as correct accidents.

* NiceHat: Similar to Indiana Jones.

* JustDesserts: [[spoiler:He doesn't just get killed, [[CruelAndUnusualDeath he's mauled alive by the baby tyrannosaurs who take turns at biting him as part of their first hunt, and Dodgson doesn't immediately die from it, having to go through a lot of pain and screaming before he loses his life.]]

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Getting eaten by dinosaurs is expected, [[spoiler:but Dodgson's demise is drawn out to emphasize the horror he's facing in his last moments of life. He gets his leg chomped by an adult ''Tyrannosaurus''.

The ruthless and humorless head of research at Biosyn known for his law-breaking studies and being in charge of corporate espionage for the company.

* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: Finally expires in ''The Lost World''.

* TheManBehindTheMan: To Nedry.
* ManipulativeBastard: Look at his previous projects (rabies tests, genetically engineered potato)and wonder why he is still in business.

* BadassBookworm: He kills ''three'' raptors, using his wits. [[spoiler:The first he tricks into eating a poisoned egg, the second is wounded by the dying first, and the third is directly injected with poison.]]

* TheChewToy: If something is large and carnivorous, expect her to alert it into attacking her..

** Amusingly, his excuses for why certain people were at fault grow more and more flimsy as he goes on. . . but pretty much every single one is valid, which says something about Hammond himself that he hired these massive screw-ups because he honestly believed (at the time) that they were the best men for the job.

* AccidentalMisnaming: she calls a T-Rex a teeny-soarus. This undermines her credibility a bit.

[[folder:Velociraptor]]

[[folder:Tyrannosaurus rex]]

[[folder:Procompsognathus]]
!!Procompsognathus

[[folder:Dilophosaurus]]
!!Dilophosaurus

[[folder:Stegosaurus]]
!!Stegosaurus

[[folder:Cearadactylus]]
!!Cearadactylus

* ConsistentClothingStyle: His introductory descriptions state that he always wears all-black outfits. He notes that he doesn't have to worry about coordinating shirts, pants, or even matching socks as a result, since they'll all blend together no matter what.

* DentedIron: Survives being bit ''and'' flung away by the ''T. rex''. His injuries, however, made him bed-bound for the rest of the book and complications from them ([[RetCon temporarily]]) [[KilledOffForReal kill him off for real]]. In the second book he's alive but uses a cane.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Is insensetive and a little obtuse, but is a nice guy deep down.
* KilledOffForReal: Dies from ''rex''-inflicted injuries and their complication by lack of treatment (by a ''real'' doctor-Harding, as the ClosestThingWeGot (a vet), does his best, but he couldn't do enough for him) by the end of the book. His status as a BreakoutCharacter and being SparedByTheAdaptation in the film had him upgraded through RetCon to having been OnlyMostlyDead and having recovered by the events of ''The Lost World''. It helps that his death was described so obtusely in the original novel that a reader could feasibly not even notice.

* OnceAnEpisode: In the first novel, he gets his leg injured and spends the rest of his time bedridden and philosophizing. In the second novel this happens ''again'', though in different circumstances.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Variant. Borderline DirtyCoward that continuously whines about the dangerousness of the situation and understandably doesn't wants to risk his life if he doesn't see the need (Grant has to strong-arm him into coming along to find the raptor nests, for example, once the park is back online), but still works on trying to put the park back in function so rescue can be called, and is determined to check the park's functionality with a magnifying glass when he first arrives because he agrees with his firm's beliefs that Hammond is either full of crap or working on very dangerous stuff.

* BrattyHalfPint: And how. Not only she complains all the time (even before things go wrong with the park), she acts as self-righteous or then cries, teases her brother about liking dinosaurs (even going to the point of saying he's not their dad's favorite kid as if it's nothing) and at times disregards Dr. Grant's instructions even after it almost gets her killed.

* FluffyTamer: For some bizare reason, she is the only one who can approach the young raptor (who she names Clarence) they found. She also befriends a young ''Triceratops'' they meet (whom she names Ralph).

* PlayfulHacker: In addition to his love for dinosaurs, he is also computer-savvy. This becomes useful when the park's computer system needs to be rebooted and all of the adults are busy fending off raptors. In the film, this was given to his sister Lex as to prevent her from being TheLoad like her novel counterpart.

* BigBad: He's the main human antagonist of the novel thematically, being the [[CorruptCorporateExecutive CEO]] of [=InGen=] and creator of Jurassic Park. Virtually all of the problems that happen in Jurassic Park can be traced back to Hammond's decisions, from the insistence of displaying "real" (but dangerous) dinosaurs over the safe "domesticated" version to the over reliance of the park's automation system to the inadequate security measures meant to keep visitors safe from the dinosaurs (as well as keeping the dinosaurs from escaping the island, including Muldoon's requests for extra and more powerful weapons). Even Nedry's betrayal that kickstarts the main incident can be linked to Hammond blackmailing him to work overtime on the park's automation program and being underpaid. He is determined to open Jurassic Park one way or another (even after the disaster had made it virtually impossible) in order to make [[WellIntentionedExtremist his dream of bringing joy and wonder of dinosaurs to the children of the world]]... [[SubvertedTrope so he make a profit off of them]]. If you can't afford it, well... there's nothing he can do.

* FatalFlaw: Greed. To the point he is more worried about the safety of the dinosaurs then people endangered by them because they cost so much money to make.

* FriendToAllChildren: Hammond claims that Jurassic Park was primary meant for children and that he couldn't wait to see the look on their faces when they see real live dinosaurs for the first time. It's subverted, once it turns out that Hammond only cares about making a profit off the rich and only brought Tim and Lex as means to convince Gennaro from shutting down the park. By the end of the novel, he curses his own grandchildren for being nothing but trouble after he broke his leg fleeing from recorded ''T. Rex'' call that Tim and Lex were playing at the control room.
* HateSink: If there is anyone who could be blamed for all of the park's failures, it's John Hammond. And Crichton goes out of his way to ensure that he deserves all of it. He's obnoxious, arrogant, greedy businessman who only cares about the profits he could make out of Jurassic Park, and the various chapters that focus on his character reveal a sociopath who boasts about never using genetic technology to help mankind and [[NeverMyFault blames all the problems in the park on his employees while taking all the credit for their hard work]]. [[spoiler:Thus no one would feel bad when the compys attack and devour him alive]].

** His recruitment of Henry Wu leads to the creation of incredibly flawed dinosaurs because Wu doesn't know as much about them as he should and is just as unwilling to admit his mistakes as Hammond is - although, at least Wu knows that making Carnivores was a ''terrible'' idea.
** He blackmails Dennis Nedry into creating a massive automated security system for an unfairly low pay, leading the understandably embittered Nedry to do a sloppy job out of spite and later attempt corporate espionage for a rival company, shutting down the park and letting the animals escape in the process.

* {{Jerkass}}: In stark contrast to the film's version, Hammond comes off as an obnoxious, greedy man who bluntly ignores any criticisms to his park and quick to blame everyone but himself for any of its shortcomings or problems.

* KarmicDeath: Dies at the hands (or, rather teeth) of a pack of compys ([[spoiler:the first dinosaurs to get off the island, the discovery of which kick-started the the plot]]).

* ManipulativeBastard: Managed to convince the Costa Rican government, Grant, Sattler and even his own grandchildren that he was entirely trustworthy. He's not.

* TheSociopath: A charming, manipulative bastard who only sees dinosaurs as a means to make quick, large profits to fill in his pockets. He shows little to no empathy for anyone, even his grandchildren, when they are dying at the jaws of dinosaurs, only concerned about the money and good publicity he would lose out of all this. He's also remarkably short-sighted, cutting corners in the park for short-term profits rather than considering long-term consequences. At the end of the novel, he has shown to learn nothing from this experience, believing that the problems were the result of his employees' incompetence and that he could easily start over on another island nevermind the potential lawsuits and criminal charges he would have faced [[spoiler:if he got out of the island alive]].

* VastBureaucracy: Hammond also says he doesn't want to use genetic technology for the benefit of mankind (such as creating better drugs) because that activity is monitored and regulated and restricted by governments to the point where the end product may never even reach the people who need it and there's no real profit margin in it anyway. Genetic technology used for the entertainment industry however, is not regulated by anyone at all.
* VisionaryVillain: Zig-zagged. Whilst he states that his dream is to see the entire world watch in awe at dinosaurs, it's clear he merely plans to make a profit of the rich. He states to Wu during their bungalow dinner conversation that he has already made plans to build Jurassic Park Europe and Jurassic Park Japan shortly after Jurassic Park is open to the public. However, his sinking into depression after everything hits the fan and his discussions with Malcolm after that indicate that some of his vision may have been genuine.

* FatalFlaw: Pride. He's so proud of what he has already done for dinosaur cloning, even when he's planning to make improved versions of the dinosaurs, that he refuse to see any possible flaws in his methods unless given concrete proof. And even then, he simply spins his mistakes as correct accidents.

* MrExposition: A role he shares with various other characters regarding the park. His bigger focus is explaining the science behind the dinosaur cloning.

* SmugSnake: While not necessarily a full-on villain, he repeatedly insists that his genetic modifications to the dinosaurs are infallible and the way he reacts when Grant points out that the dinosaurs are breeding would have you think that any failure in the system is a completely alien concept to the guy.

* TemptingFate: After a couple of tense hours fixing Nedry's sabotage, he declares they've regained control of the park. Then the auxiliary power fails...

* TheAlcoholic: Yup, he's a notorious one on the park. Which is not helpful when chasing down a ''T. rex'' or putting down ''Velociraptors''.

* TheCynic: Contrary to [[GreatWhiteHunter the usual character archetype]], Muldoon has a very unromantic view towards the wildlife and especially the carnivorous dinosaurs. He doesn't admires them as much as he fears them, and he's always worried that the dinosaurs may somehow escape from their cages like the other wild animals he has dealt with in the past.

* GreatWhiteHunter: Sort of. He used to be a guide for big game hunters in Africa, but went on to work for conservation groups and zoo designers as a wildlife consultant.

* OnlySaneMan: Out of all the prominent park employees, Muldoon is the one who has the most realistic grasp of the situation at hand. Unlike Wu or Hammond, he is under no illusions about what these dinosaurs, especially the raptors, could do and was the one calling for higher security (for which Hammond only provides the bare essentials). And unlike Arnold he's physically been through the park and is acutely aware that the security that does happen to be in place can only do so much (especially as it breaks down). The only time when he's not in this mode is when he [[DrowningMySorrows drinks up till he's drunk during situations like the raptors trying to get in the Safari Lodge]]. But considering how many people stupidly run to their deaths when it comes to the raptors, perhaps getting drunk is the only sane option.

* FatBastard: He's a fat, overworked computer programmer for the entire system of Jurassic Park and he deliberately sabotages the system to give himself cover to smuggle the dinosaur embryos to [=InGen=]'s rival for $1.5 million. The fact that his plan would have put many lives in danger (and open Nedry for lawsuit) has never crossed his short-sighted mind.
* FatIdiot: He's not a complete idiot ''per se'' (as he did program the entire network as well as creating blackmail material in case his employer Dodgson backs out of paying him), but he is really bad with finances and planning ahead. He took Dodgson's offer of stealing the embryos for $1.5 million, not realizing that the embryos are actually worth $2-10 million. He also didn't take into account the tropical storm affecting visibility on the road, or otherwise he would have chosen a different date to pull off his heist.

* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: [=InGen=] demanded he create a gigantic computer system far more ambitious and time consuming than any project before, and refused to give him the full details of what the system was actually ''for'', leaving Nedry to work in the dark. Inevitably, this leads to glitches and bugs but [[NeverMyFault the company blames Nedry for "poor programming" rather than them not giving him all the necessary details needed to create the system]]. And top it all off, they refused to pay Nedry extra for all the time it would take untangling the bugs, because from [=InGen's=] point of view they were Nedry's fault in the first place. Instead, they began to harass and defame Nedry to his other clients, so Nedry had to go without the overtime for him and the rest of his company if he ever wanted to work again. It's no wonder that he is willing to steal dinosaur embryos and give them to a rival company for a million and a half dollars.
* TheMole: For Lewis Dogdson. It didn't take much for Dogdson to recruit the best inside-man he could have in Jurassic Park at the cheapest price.

* SmugSnake: He is a rude fellow and full of himself, believing that he could fix all of the bugs in the Jurassic Park computer system within a weekend only to pale when he saw the full list. He also thinks himself to be a clever planner who thought of every factor in his smuggling operation... except for checking the weather forecast.
* TooCleverByHalf: His plan to steal the embryos and made sure that Dodgson didn't backed off from paying him, even if not high on potential "[[ThePerfectCrime perfect crime]]" material, was still pretty clever and would have put egg on Hammond's ''and'' Dodgson's face. Too bad that he got lost en route to the embryo drop-off point...

* ChildHater: He is annoyed at Hammond's insistence that he babysit Lex and Tim, since he felt that he "wasn't a damn babysitter", and he had more important things to do since he was the publicist of Jurassic Park. However he is professional enough that he never takes it out on the kids, and even plays catch with Lex.

* HeelFaceDoorSlam: After realizing how shameful it was of him to abandon the kids, he tries to go back and see if they are alright... only to then change his mind and subsequently get ripped to shreds by the juvenile ''T. rex''.
* {{Jerkass}}: And how! Condescending to everyone during the tour (even to the experts), acts like a smug prick throughout, and abandons the kids when the ''T. rex'' escapes (though he's later ashamed of this act).
** JerkassHasAPoint: He does at least have a point in that he is the park's publicist and not a tour guide, so however obnoxious he may be, his resentment at having menial tasks forced on him isn't entirely misplaced. He also calls out Grant quite vehemently for manhandling a baby raptor, since at that age they can be quite delicate and essentially die from shock. He's probably thinking more about all the expensive genetic technology that went into making the animal, but he's quite right that Grant has no right perform a full, rough, uncaring physical on it just because he's curious.

* AdaptedOut: Has the dubious distinction of being the only character to appear in both books but none of the films, since the discovery of the compy remains are absent.

* CuttingCorners: Dogdson promises $1.5 million to Nedry if he smuggles the dinosaur embryos to [=BioSyn=]. Unbeknownst to Nedry, the dinosaur embryos he stole are actually worth $2-10 million in total according to Dr. Wu.
* EatenAlive: [[spoiler:After being thrown into the ''Tyrannosaurus'' nest, Dogdson is devoured alive by three ''T. rex'' infants. The first infant clamps down on his leg with its jaws; the second leaps on his midriff and goes for the waist; and the third (the infant with the cast leg) tears a good chunk of his flesh from his face. Mercifully, the next bite is around his neck.]]
* {{Foil}}: To Hammond, both being greedy and ambitious businessmen who have no qualms resorting to underhanded methods in order to gain more profit for themselves. The difference is that while Hammond is a VillainWithGoodPublicity who hides his nastiness beneath a grandfatherly veneer, Dodgson has garnered himself a shady reputation who acts as ruthless as he is made out to be. While Hammond primarily relies on his employees to handle the nuts and bolts of Jurassic Park, Dodgson doesn't hesitate to get his hands dirty, which includes attempted murder.

* MadScientist: We are given [[OffscreenVillainy exposition]] that explains he invented a variation of ''rabies'' that was ''airborne'' (allegedly useable as an airborne vaccine) and [[TestedOnHumans he unleased it on some unsuspecting townspeople in Chile]] for testing purposes (which he was ''not'' authorized to do, by the way) [[TheSociopath just to prove it worked]]. It caused an epidemic instead and his involvement in the plot of both books are him trying to do something to prevent being put on the chopping block.

* NotThatKindOfDoctor: Exaggerated. We eventually are given exposition that says he never even earned a doctorate. A lot of his success relies on him stealing ideas from others and altering them just enough to avoid potential lawsuits.

* ShoutOut: His name is clearly a portmanteau of the real name and pen name of 19th century mathematician/author Charles Dodgson[=/=]Creator/LewisCarroll, but it has no significance beyond that, apart from the possible pun on "dodgy".
* TheSociopath: Dodgson is willing to do anything for a profit, including unleashing airborne rabies on unsuspecting people, plagiarizing other people's works, hiring people to steal work from rivals (and paying them short of the work's actual value), and murdering people when they inconvenient him. He never accepts responsibility for his actions, and only restrains himself if it threatens his career at Biosyn. It says something when Hammond comes across as more benevolent despite being also a sociopath, mainly because his visions don't deliberately put people in harms' way.

* DecoyProtagonist: She's the pov character of the first chapter but afterwards disappears from the story.

* HonestCorporateExecutive: Ross orders Gennaro to pull the plug on the operation and destroy the dinosaurs if there’s any sign that their hurting people.

* HyperAwareness: Tina has a good memory for details of appearance. She is able to give a very good description of the dinosaur that bit her. While her doctor initially thinks it must be a normal lizard she remembered some details wrong about he reconsiders after she notices that he’s wearing a different shirt but the same tie the second time he visits the family.

* PoisonousPerson: They have a venomous bite that can cause the victim to fall into a trance-like state, utterly helpless yet calm. It is due to this bite that makes the compys so deadly despite their small size, as they can go after much larger and live prey like humans.
* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: Double subverted. The little girl who encounters one of them in the prologue is not scared of it at all, in fact she finds it adorable and thinks it would make a great pet. Then it bites her...

* SmallRoleBigImpact: They're not very prominent, but their discovery pretty much kick starts the story's plot.

* AmbiguousSituation: Grant and the kids encounter a pair of ''Dilophosaurus'' performing what seems to be a mating ritual, with one of them having a duller red crest than the other. The problem is that ''Dilophosaurus'' are not among the dinosaur species that have Frog DNA, which is how those dinosaurs were able to change sex and breed. Is it really a mating ritual or did life found another way for this pair?

* FailedASpotCheck: The park staff didn't realise the dinosaurs were venomous until they were observed hunting indigenous rodents on the islands, and no one knew they could spit venom until a keeper was nearly blinded. After that incident, park management tried to have the venom glands removed, but couldn't find them despite two rounds of surgery, and management refused to kill one of the creatures to allow an autopsy to be performed.
* NothingIsScarier: Nedry gets permanently blinded by the venom of ''Dilophosaurus'' and the novel describes his death from his perspective. He could sense the ''Dilophosaurus'' coming to finish him off through sound, smell and touch but his inability to see renders him helpless to ward off any attack.

* OminousOwl: While it's not an owl per say, it has a distinct soft hooting cry like an owl. Considering what a ''Dilophosaurus'' can [[PoisonIsCorrosive do to a person]], this is often a dangerous omen.

* SuperSpit: It spits venom and said-spit can reach its target with a distance of 50 feet.

* AllFlyersAreBirds: Referred to as such (they aren't actually) and have grasping talons that no real life pterosaur has.

* HairTriggerTemper: They're viciously territorial, which is the reason the little hotel that was meant to be built in the aviary had to be cancelled.

* NoNameGiven: An odd variant. The Park's various technical and promotional lists never refer to them by their species name, instead calling them "pterosaurs" and "pterodactyls". Their species is acknowledged by both Grant and Arnold, however. This might be due to the fact that they're a SeldomSeenSpecies and the Park management decided that people would be more familiar with the term "pterodactyl".

* TheSociopath: Dodgson is willing to do anything for a profit, including unleashing airborne rabies on unsuspecting people, plagiarizing other people's works, hiring people to steal work from rivals (and paying them short of the work's actual value), and murdering people when they inconvenient him. It says something when Hammond comes across as more benevolent despite being also a sociopath, mainly because his visions don't deliberately put people in harms' way.

* HotScientist: Ian Malcolm and Donald Gennaro certainly think so. See "Who Wears Short Shorts."

* DentedIron: Survives being bit ''and'' flung away by the ''T. rex''. His injuries, however, made him bed-bound for the rest of the book and complications from them ([[RetCon temporarily]]) [[KilledOffForReal kill him off for real]].

* SouthernFriedGenius: A Texan, he is one of the best mathematicians.

* DeathByGenreSavviness: Although he considers going back for the kids after hearing Lex, he is concerned that Lex's constant yelling will attract the ''Tyrannosaur''. So he heads in the other direction, only to encounter (and be killed by) the juvenile ''T. rex'' that had escaped earlier.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: He's legitimately ashamed of himself for leaving the kids behind to the Rex's fate.

'''[[center: [- ''Jurassic Park (Novel)'' -]]]'''

* WhoWearsShortShorts: Ellie does. Lampshaded when Gennaro offers to stay with Ellie and Harding when they stop to investigate the sick ''Stegosaurus'' on the tour.
-->'''Malcolm''': Why would our dear lawyer stay behind?\\
'''Grant''': Probably because of Dr. Sattler.\\
'''Malcolm''': Hmm. The shorts, you think?\\
'''Grant''': [[HereWeGoAgain It's happened before.]]

* EatenAlive: [[spoiler:He is completely paralyzed by ''Procompsognathus''[='=] venom by the end of the book, but is still blissfully aware of the compys on top of him nibbling his fingers and neck.]]

* AdultFear: The pretend are worried by their daughter wandering off then coming back with several bad bite marks.

* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: Averted for the most part when compared to the film adaptation. The novel's ''Dilophosaurus'' are about 10-feet tall and the tour guide mentions they have weak jaw muscles, which is accurate to what paleontologists believed about the the real-life dinosaur in the 1989.[[note]]Further research on the ''Dilophosaurus'' in 2020, [[ScienceMarchesOn long after the novel came out]], revealed that the dinosaur's jaws were actually very powerful; the notion of having weak jaw muscles came from speculations of its fragmentary and fragile fossil skull.[[/note]] Most conspicuously, they do not have the neck frill that the movie version has. They also likely did not have venom in real-life, which is a deliberate invention on Crichton's part; mainly for RuleOfScary and [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools to illustrate a point of just how little fossils can tell us about a dinosaur]].

A flying dinosaur that lived in the Early Cretaceous Santana Formation of Brazil.

* SeldomSeenSpecies: And seeing as [[AdaptedOut they never made it into the movies]] (being replaced by their more famous cousins, the ''Pteranodons''), they'll probably always stay seldom seen.

!!Velociraptor
Dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous period which inhabited what is now the Mongolia-China border and ([[MisplacedWildlife in this universe]]) North America.

* AlwaysChaoticEvil: The eight raptors in the holding pen are all equally vicious, eager to pounce on any living thing whenever opportunity shows itself. It's subverted when the survivors discover the nest of the wild raptors. The wild raptors seem to tolerate their presence, to point of ignoring them in favor of finding a ship to get off the island.
* AxCrazy: The eight raptors will attack anything on sight, even if they're not hungry. In fact, if they're not pouncing on you on first sight, that means you're already dead.
* ChameleonCamouflage: Some of the wild raptors can change colors, most notably Clarence the male raptor that Grant and the kids discover on their way back to the Visitor Center.
* TheDreaded: The most vicious and dangerous of the creatures on the island. Muldoon believes the raptors to be too dangerous to be kept alive and would have them all destroyed had the park administration not worried about the money lost in these clones.
* EvilEggEater: Grant theorizes that ''Velociraptors'' are nest raiders, citing that other small carnivores as well as modern birds have exhibited such behavior before. He uses this theory to explain why there's a significant increase in ''Velociraptor'' numbers and yet so little increase in herbivore numbers, and later would exploit this behavior against the raptors seeking him in the hatchery, poisoning several eggs and then rolling them towards their hungry mouths.
* ForTheEvulz: What makes the raptors stand out from other carnivorous dinosaurs is that they hunt even when they're not hungry and they kill for the sake of killing.
* TheHeavy: The main dinosaur antagonists of the book, and the ones that cause the most trouble for the protagonists.
* InformedSpecies: A complicated case. They're referred to as ''Velociraptor antirrhopus'', suggesting that they're actually meant to be ''Deinonychus'', and indeed Crichton based them on that species. The true ''Velociraptor'' also appears in the book, but only in infant form; the ones that the main characters face are ''Deinonychus'' in all but name.
* InSeriesNickname: Often universally referred as "Raptors" for short.
* LightningBruiser: Fast, agile, powerful, acrobatic, intelligent, and extremely hard to kill. They are perfect human-killing machines and thanks to their relatively small size (compared to other dinosaurs), there's almost no place that's safe from the raptors.
* MadeOfIron: A ''Velociraptor'' has a distributed nervous system, meaning it doesn't die fast, even with a direct hit to the brain. Its body is solidly built with thick ribs that protects its heart all too well. And it's difficult to cripple the raptor's legs or hindquarters. It's no wonder Muldoon wants '''''[[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill rocket launchers]]''''' on the island.
* MonstrousCannibalism: Tim and Lex try to use the baby ''Velociraptor'' that they previously met back in the lab tour to distract the rampaging adults. They are horrified when the adults tear apart and eat the poor thing without second thought. Later, when one of the raptors is poisoned by Dr. Grant, it didn't take long for the other raptor to view its hapless companion as food.
* RaptorAttack: Like the film, they're the reason this trope exists in the first place.
* TokenGoodTeammate: One of them (named "Clarence" by Lex) befriends the heroes, or at least doesn't attack them.
* {{Sadist}}s: As Muldoon puts it, the raptors often kill for pleasure and never pass up prey. Some of their victims were found torn to shreds but otherwise uneaten. However, this only applies to the raptors held in captivity.
* StockDinosaurs: This book is what ''made'' the ''Velociraptor'' stock.
* SuperPersistentPredator: Raptors always hunt, even when they are not hungry. And humans are their favorite prey because of how easy it is to kill one. And they will not rest till they've hunted all of humans on the island.

[[folder:Tyrannosaurus rex]]
!!Tyrannosaurus rex ("Rexy")
A dinosaur that lived in North America during the Late Cretaceous period around 68-65 million years ago.

* AmbiguousSituation: Via {{retcon}} from the sequel ''Literature/TheLostWorld1995''. In original novel, Rexy's inability to see motionless objects is theorized by Grant to be the result of mutation side-effects caused by [=InGen=]'s amphibian DNA splicing to fill in the gaps. But in the sequel novel, it's mentioned that Grant proposed an alternative theory that torrential downpour can confuse a ''T. rex'' because it's not used to wet climate, which just so happens to be the weather condition during the breakout. Both theories are derided by Dr. Levine, who indirectly suggests that Rexy wasn't hungry when it encountered Grant. Suffice to say, no one knows why Grant wasn't killed that night, although Rexy is shown eating a goat in its first appearance.
* DecoyAntagonist: The novel makes it seem that Rexy is the [[BigBad main dinosaur antagonist of the story]], as her rampage cause devastation across the park and she's hunting down Grant and the kids. But then she succumbs to the tranquilizers shot by Muldoon before she has a chance to reach the Visitor Center and shortly after her sedation, the park's power shuts down and it's revealed that all electric fences have been off for hours. It's then the readers realize that the ''Velociraptors'', [[TheDreaded regarded to be even more dangerous]] than the ''T. rex'', are true dinosaur antagonists of the novel.
* EvilSmellsBad: Rexy's smell and habits are presented in nauseating detail. She is described as smelling like a garbage dump and her tongue stinks of urine. While asleep, she's covered in buzzing flies and lets out a disgusting belch after eating a dead hadrosaur.
* TheHeavy: Aside from the raptors, Rexy is the one who causes the most trouble for the park. She breaks into several enclosures to eat the dinosaurs living there, forcing the park staff to focus all of their attention on her (and ignoring other issues like auxiliary power), and she hunts Grant and the kids as they try to make their way back to the Visitor Center.
* InSeriesNickname: Robert Muldoon is the one who calls the adult ''T. rex'' "Rexy."
* KingOfTheDinosaurs: Rexy is the crowned attraction of the park, so much so that the park staff prioritizes on subduing the animal alive and unharmed rather than check to see if they're running on main power or if the raptors are kept in their holding pen. She spends the most of the novel as a constant threat to Grant and kids as they make their way to the visitor center through the park, stalking them from a distance before making an ambush attempt time and time again.
* LightningBruiser: Rexy is powerful enough to bring down a fully grown ''Apatosaurus'' and she can run incredibly fast, almost catching up to a gas-powered jeep.
* LivingMotionDetector: A side-effect of the amphibian DNA splicing is that Rexy's vision is based on movement. A fortunate mutation for the scared-stiff Grant when he finds himself completely exposed before the beast. However, the ''T. rex'' family on Isla Sorna can see motionless figures just fine as [[EatenAlive poor Baselton finds out]].
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: The juvenile ''rex''; while it appears less of a threat than the adult and not quite steady on its feet yet, [[spoiler:it actually succeeds at killing a human, unlike the adult]].
* OverlyLongTongue: She has one, presumably because of the frog DNA.
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: Her species's primary color here is brick red. And she is follows Grant and the kids to no ends.
* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: Her reptilian qualities are really played up.
* RoarBeforeBeating: Rexy often roars at her potential prey before going for the kill, likely to make up for its motion-based vision impairment.
* ScaryTeeth: To be expected from a dinosaur with teeth like ''steak knives''.
* SheIsTheKing: Even more so than the films. While Rexy's gender in the films has been emphasized to be female, the novel often refers to Rexy as a male, which is {{lampshaded}} by John Arnold during the tour of the control room.
* StockDinosaurs: THE Stock Dinosaur.
* SuperPersistentPredator: Unlike in the movie, Rexy is clearly hunting down Grant's group for the majority of the novel, particularly when they try to reach civilization through the river system. She immediately disregards her freshly killed hadrosaur and goes after Grant and the kids in the lagoon, despite the hadrosaur carcass providing her with enough meat to keep her occupied for hours. She even waits for them at the base of the waterfall with jaws wide open, hoping for the humans to fall into her mouth. Ironically, unlike the film version, this ''rex'' fails to actually eat any humans (although it does [[spoiler:lethally injure Ian Malcolm; however, [[OnlyMostlyDead he got better]]]]); it's the juvenile ''rex'' who [[spoiler:devours Ed Regis]].
* UncertainDoom: Well, more like most definitely doomed but the circumstances are unknown. Did Rexy die from the napalm bombing at the end of the story, or did she already drowned in the pool she's in after being tranquilized by Muldoon?
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Her rampage across the park distracts the entire Jurassic Park staff from noticing that they've been running on auxiliary power the whole time, thus causing a power failure that allows [[TheDreaded the raptors]] to break free. Additionally, her hunting of Grant and the kids forces them to take the river route, which has no motion sensors to signal back to the control room.

[[folder:Procompsognathus]]
!!Procompsognathus
Dinosaurs that lived during the Late Triassic Period, about 222 to 219 million years ago.

* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: Their second on-page appearance involves gruesomely eating a newborn baby's face. By the time the nurse even opens the door, the baby is quite dead.
* InSeriesNickname: Compys.
* KarmicDeath: They deliver this to [[spoiler:Hammond]].
* KillerRabbit: Tiny and cute, but also deadly.
* PoisonousPerson: They have a venomous bite that can cause the victim to fall into a trance-like state, utterly helpless yet calm. It is due to this bite that makes the compys so deadly despite their small size, as they can go after much larger and live prey like humans.
* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: Double subverted. The little girl who encounters one of them in the prologue is not scared of it at all, in fact she finds it adorable and thinks it would make a great pet. Then it bites her...
* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Though the fact that they kill people and [[{{Squick}} like to eat fecal matter]] mitigates this somewhat.
* RoadApples: Their job in the park is to clean these up. How? [[ExtremeOmnivore Well how do you think?]]
* SmallRoleBigImpact: They're not very prominent, but their discovery pretty much kick starts the story's plot.
* ZergRush: Not as much as the film though since they have a venomous bite to make their hunt easier.

[[folder:Dilophosaurus]]
!!Dilophosaurus
One of the largest carnivorous dinosaurs of the Early Jurassic Period.

* AmazingTechnicolorWildlife: Described as having leopard-like spots and brightly colored, parrot-like heads.
* AmbiguousSituation: Grant and the kids encounter a pair of ''Dilophosaurus'' performing what seems to be a mating ritual, with one of them having a duller red crest than the other. The problem is that ''Dilophosaurus'' are not among the dinosaur species that have Frog DNA, which is how those dinosaurs were able to change sex and breed. Is it really a mating ritual or did life found another way for this pair?
* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: Averted for the most part when compared to the film adaptation. The novel's ''Dilophosaurus'' are about 10-feet tall and the tour guide mentions they have weak jaw muscles, which is accurate to what paleontologists believed about the the real-life dinosaur in the 1989.[[note]]Further research on the ''Dilophosaurus'' in 2020, [[ScienceMarchesOn long after the novel came out]], revealed that the dinosaur's jaws were actually very powerful; the notion of having weak jaw muscles came from speculations of its fragmentary and fragile fossil skull.[[/note]] Most conspicuously, they do not have the neck frill that the movie version has. They also likely did not have venom in real-life, which is a deliberate invention on Crichton's part; mainly for RuleOfScary and [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools to illustrate a point of just how little fossils can tell us about a dinosaur]].
* BrightIsNotGood: They are among the most colorful dinosaurs in the park, having yellow skin and black spots along with a striped red crest. They are also among the deadliest dinosaurs due to their unique venomous spit and ability to tear their prey to shreds while they're still alive.
--> '''Richard Kiley''': Along with such living reptiles as Gila monsters and rattlesnakes, Dilophosaurus secretes a hematotoxin from glands in its mouth. Unconsciousness follows within minutes of a bite. The dinosaur will then finish the victim off at its leisure-making Dilophosaurus a beautiful but deadly addition to the animals you see here at Jurassic Park.
* EyeScream: How they disable their prey before the kill.
* FailedASpotCheck: The park staff didn't realise the dinosaurs were venomous until they were observed hunting indigenous rodents on the islands, and no one knew they could spit venom until a keeper was nearly blinded. After that incident, park management tried to have the venom glands removed, but couldn't find them despite two rounds of surgery, and management refused to kill one of the creatures to allow an autopsy to be performed.
* NothingIsScarier: Nedry gets permanently blinded by the venom of ''Dilophosaurus'' and the novel describes his death from his perspective. He could sense the ''Dilophosaurus'' coming to finish him off through sound, smell and touch but his inability to see renders him helpless to ward off any attack.
* KarmicDeath: Delivers one to Nedry when he got lost in the park that he deactivated.
* OminousOwl: While it's not an owl per say, it has a distinct soft hooting cry like an owl. Considering what a ''Dilophosaurus'' can [[PoisonIsCorrosive do to a person]], this is often a dangerous omen.
* PoisonIsCorrosive: Their venomous saliva (which can kill large rodents with a single bite) is also corrosive, able to burn skin and [[EyeScream eyes]].
* PoisonousPerson: Their ability to spit venom, as well as the fact the venom can cause permanent blindness and even death, is why the river cruise attraction was indefinitely delayed. The fact that the park management could not find the poisonous sacks without euthanizing one of the specimens (which horrified [=InGen=] due to the expensive nature of the clone) highlights the inherent dangers of short-sighted decisions with dinosaurs they have very little understanding of.
* SuperSpit: It spits venom and said-spit can reach its target with a distance of 50 feet.
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[[folder:Stegosaurus]]
!!Stegosaurus
Dinosaurs that roamed the open plains of the Late Jurassic Period in what is now North America.
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* BewareMyStingerTail: Her thagomizer, though she doesn't use it that much beyond warding off a juvenile ''T. rex''.
* IllGirl: Remember the sick ''Triceratops''? She was a ''Stegosaurus'' in the book.
* SoleSurvivor: By the end of the novel, only one ''Stegosaurus'' had survived. A few hours later, she perishes along with the other dinosaurs from the Costa Rican Air Force's napalm bombings.
* StockDinosaurs: A particularly notable case.
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[[folder:Cearadactylus]]
!!Cearadactylus
A flying dinosaur that lived in the Early Cretaceous Santana Formation of Brazil.
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* FatIdiot: He's not a complete idiot per say (as he did programmed the entire network as well as creating blackmail material in case his employer Dodgson backs out paying him), but he is really bad with finances and planning ahead. He took Dodgson's offer of stealing the embryos for $1.5 million, not realizing that the embryos are actually worth $2-10 million. He also didn't take in account of the tropical storm affecting visibility on the road, or otherwise he would have chosen a different date to pull off his heist.
** The latter is possibly justified as his plan hitched on both being on the island and Hammond and his team being preoccupied with the visitors.

* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: [=InGen=] demanded he create a gigantic computer system far more ambitious and time consuming than any project before, and refused to give him the full details of what the system was actually ''for'', leaving Nedry to work in the dark. Inevitably, this leads to glitches and bugs but [[NeverMyFault the company blames Nedry for "poor programming" rather than them not giving him all the necessary details needed to create the system]]. And top it all off, they refused to pay Nedry extra for all the time it would take untangling the bugs, because from [=InGen's=] point of view were Nedry's fault in the first place. Instead, they began to harass and defame Nedry to his other clients, so Nedry had to swallow the overtime for him and the rest of his company if he ever wanted to work again. It's no wonder that he is willing to steal dinosaur embryos and give them to a rival company for a million and a half dollars.

* SmugSnake: He is a rude fellow and full of himself, believing that he could fixed all of the bugs in the Jurassic Park computer system within a weekend only to pale when he saw the full list. He also thinks himself to be a clever planner who thought of every factor in his smuggling operation... except for checking the weather forecast.

* KarmicDeath: In ''The Lost World''. [[spoiler:When he and some minions try to steal ''T. rex'' eggs, they break a baby ''T. rex's'' leg. Malcolm's team ends up putting the baby's leg in a cast. At the end of the novel, Dodgson gets his leg broken by the baby's parents who are teaching it to kill its own prey.]]
** [[spoiler:He also attempts to murder Sarah Harding by pushing off her a boat to drown her, and when later both are reunited by hiding under a car from a ''T. rex'', she pushes him out to get grabbed by it leading to his above fate.]]
* MadScientist: We are given exposition that explains he invented a variation of ''rabies'' that was ''airborne'' (allegedly useable as an airborne vaccine) and [[TestedOnHumans he unleased it on some unsuspecting townspeople in Chile]] for testing purposes (which he was ''not'' authorized to do, by the way) [[TheSociopath just to prove it worked]]. It caused an epidemic instead and his involvement in the plot of both books are him trying to do something to prevent being put on the chopping block.

* MonstrousCannibalism: Tim and Lex try to use the baby ''Velociraptor'' that they previously met back in the lab tour to distract the rampaging adults. They are horrified when the adults tore and ate the poor thing without second thought. Later, when one of the raptors is poisoned by Dr. Grant, it didn't take long for the other raptor to view its hapless companion as food.

* BadassBeard: Inspired by the real Dr. Robert T. Bakker.

* BadassMustache: A steel gray mustache to be precise. And unlike the film, he's badass enough to survive the whole ordeal.

* MeaningfulName: Averted. His name is clearly a portmanteau of the real name and pen name of 19th century mathematician/author Charles Dodgson[=/=]Creator/LewisCarroll, but it has no significance beyond that.

* EvilEggEater: Grant theorizes that ''Velociraptors'' are nest raiders, citing that other small carnivores as well as modern birds have exhibited such behavior before. He uses this theory to explain why there's a significant increase in ''Velociraptor'' numbers and yet so little increase in herbivore numbers, and later would exploit this behavior against the raptors seeking him in the hatchery, poisoning several eggs and then rolling them towards the unsuspecting raptors.