History Characters / JurassicParkLiterature

** Greed. Hammond was only interested in one thing: making a profit. As such, he didn't care about the technicalities of genetic work, constantly ignored the park's numerous problems, cut far too many corners to avoid spending money and had no qualms about turning to illegal means to get what he wanted such as blackmailing Nedry. He also prioritized his dinosaurs over the well-being and safety of his employees because of how expensive they were.

* PteroSoarer: Of the "airborne terror" variety. They're also erroneously referred to as "dinosaurs" and "birds".

The lawyer sent by the San Francisco Law Offices of Cowain, Swain & Ross to inspect Jurassic Park and act as general counsel for [=InGen=].

Donald Gennaro's boss at the San Fransico Law Offices of Cowain, Swain & Ross who is seriously reconsidering their investment in John Hammond's latest project.

* FailedASpotCheck: He fails to notice two crucial details following the reboot. One, only the auxiliary power kicked in, not the main generator. Two, with that generator offline, none of the electric fences were energized because there wasn't enough power for them. By the time he does notice, the park is literally seconds away from losing power again and the dinosaurs have potentially had over four hours to break out of their paddocks and roam the island freely.

* FailedASpotCheck: He failed to notice that, when they initiated the reboot, only the auxiliary power kicked in, not the main generator. By the time he does notice, the park is literally seconds away from losing power again.

* TooDumbToLive: He might have survived and even saved the day early on had he not used his shoe as a doorstopper to let a little light in the maintenance shed (because an underground building during a power outage won't have any lights inside). [[spoiler:One of the raptors notices the shoe and immediately picks up Arnold's scent inside the building.]]

* ChildHater: He is annoyed at Hammond's insistence that he babysits 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.

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:A ''Dilophosaurus'' spits poison in his eyes to blind him, spills his intestines out with a slash to his belly, and finally crushes his head in its jaws.]]

* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: [=InGen=] demanded he creates 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 chance at a $1.5 million payday, which he estimates to be 10 years' worth of earnings.

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: He [[spoiler:gets his gut slashed open, and is left holding his entrails before getting his head bitten off]].

* VillainousGlutton: When he meets Hammond and company for the helicopter trip to Isla Nublar, his fingers are smeared with chocolate and there are bits of candy bar wrappers all over his shirt.

* CuttingCorners: Dodgson 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.

* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: [=InGen=] demanded he creates 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.

* VillainousGlutton: Is very fat, and very villainous.

* BareYourMidriff: She wears a midriff-bearing outfit for most of the book.

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* AudienceSurrogate:Since he's just a lawyer who knows nothing about dinosaurs, a big part of his role in the book is asking questions for one of the experts like Grant or Muldoon to explain to him (and the audience) what's going on.

* NamesTheSame: With former New Zealand Prime Minister Sir Robert "Piggy" Muldoon.

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

* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: His one redeeming quality appears to be his love for his grandchildren, only for it to be revealed the reason he brought them to the island was to use them as emotional blackmail if Gennaro tried to shut down the park. He knowingly put his grandchildren at risk just to keep the money flowing.

* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: She can recognize a picture of one because her kids like dinosaur toys.

* HotScientist: She's a scientist yet wears short shorts and clothing that exposes her midriff. Many people like Malcom and Gennaro comment on her looks.

* ShesGotLegs: Ian Malcolm and Tim Murphy both take note of them.

* RareGun: Carries round a rather large one known as M72 LAW. Said weapon which was designed to take out [[{{BFG}} tanks]], is the only thing in Jurassic Park's arsenal that can reliably kill a velociraptor in one shot.

* StockDinosaurs: Thanks to the novel.

* StockDinosaurs: A particularly notable case.

* SeldomSeenSpecies: They are not as popular as ''Compsognathus''.

* NoNameGiven: An odd variant. The Park's various technical and promotional lists never refer to them by their species name, and instead, call 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".

* 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. They ''did'' get to be in ''VideoGame/JurassicWorldEvolution2'' though.

* IllGirl: Remember the sick ''Triceratops''? She was a ''Stegosaurus'' in the book.

-->'''Ian''': You're extremely pretty, Dr. Sattler. I could look at your legs all day.

* BigBad: He's the main 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 can make a profit off of them]]. If you can't afford it, well… there's nothing he can do.

** 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.

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Not quite as bad as Nedry's, but he's still [[spoiler: EatenAlive]].

** SkewedPriorities. After discovering the dinosaurs were breeding, instead of realizing the error he had made in their creation, Wu took it as a positive to demonstrate his genetic work. He remains focused on the 'genius' of his genetic work throughout the book rather than admitting that he didn't have control over the dinosaurs [[spoiler: until he is killed by Velociraptors.]]

* TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler: Wu gets munched by a raptor while standing just outside the wide-open door of the Visitor's Center, yelling for Sattler to get inside. He does this ''knowing that the building is under siege by raptors at the time.'' Muldoon's narration privately comments on how stupid he's being, but the raptor beats him to the punch before he can say anything to Wu.]]

* 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…

* 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 back off from paying him, even if not high on potential "[[ThePerfectCrime perfect crime]]" material, was still pretty clever and would have put an egg on Hammond's ''and'' Dodgson's face. Too bad that he got lost en route to the embryo drop-off point…

* AdaptedOut: He was in a few early drafts of the movie's script, but ultimately nixed entirely to reduce the number of actors, with his more unpleasant traits given to the film's version of Gennaro. Although, when Jurassic Park is first shown, an unnamed character who matches Regis’s physical description is seen driving a Jeep, something this character would do in the book.

* 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''.

!!Dr. Roberta “Bobby” Carter

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

!! Mike, Ellen and Christina “Tina” Bowman

* 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.

* NiceGuy: He’s upfront about his suspicions and respectful throughout his visit.
* RightForTheWrongReasons: He’s correct you think there’s something odd and shady behind all the amber Hammond is buying for the park but he’s wrong about why.

* 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…

--> '''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.

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