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Jurassic Park Staff

Hammond

John Alfred Hammond

"We spared no expense."

Played By: Richard Attenborough

Dubbed in French By: Jean-Pierre Delage (Jurassic Park), Léon Dony (The Lost World)

Dubbed in Portuguese By: Jorge Pires (Jurassic Park), Orlando Drummond (JP redub, The Lost World), Jomeri Pozzoli (JP's third dub)

Appearances: Jurassic Park (1993) | The Lost World: Jurassic Park

"Dr. Grant, my dear Dr. Sattler... Welcome to Jurassic Park."

The owner of Jurassic Park and founder of InGen. He's also the grandfather of Lex and Tim Murphy.

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• Adaptational Heroism: In the book, he's an obnoxious, selfish greedy bastard who knowingly cuts corners and is only out for himself, and his attitude towards his grandkids borders on sociopathic. Here, he's much nobler and doesn't care about money; he wants to create a sense of wonder for the world. He's also a doting grandfather who adores Tim and Lex.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: In the book, he was a greedy, amoral, condescending asshole whose kindness was nothing more than manipulation. In the film, while he certainly has his flaws, he's an idealistic, cuddly grandfather figure whose kind nature is entirely genuine.
• Adaptational Villainy: In Telltale's Jurassic Park: The Game, it's revealed he made his company InGen drive an indigenous tribe off their ancestral home to build his theme park. This makes him closer to his book counterpart than the original film version.
• Ambition Is Evil: A variant in that John isn't evil and his goal is genuinely noble but he is so focused on achieving it that he is blind to everything else and believes his sheer determination can overcome everything standing in his way.
• Anti-Villain: Unlike his money-focused book counterpart, he is generally a decent person. However, his curiosity and desire to prove to the world his worth, is what started the whole mess, and the other characters zig-zag between loving him and despising him.
• The Atoner: In The Lost World, where he wants to preserve the island without human interference.
• Author Avatar: Spielberg saw a lot of himself in the character, which led to his sympathetic re-characterization and being Spared by the Adaptation.
• Benevolent Boss: Other than Nedry, he seems to get on well with all his employees and they all seem to like him in turn.
• Big Good: Actively of the first and second films. Simon Masrani later took this role over from Hammond following his death in the fourth film.
• Broken Pedestal: Grant and Sattler clearly had a lot of respect for him at the beginning of Jurassic Park, helped in large part to Hammond funding their digs. That respect is long gone at the end of the film and it never recovers by the time the third film begins, even though Grant briefly sympathizes over Hammond's tragic loss of the original park.
• Bus Crash: He is mentioned to have passed away some years before the opening of Jurassic World.
• Character Catchphrase: "We spared no expense."
• Character Development: By the end of The Lost World: Jurassic Park he agrees with Malcolm's assessment:
  Hammond [on television]: It is absolutely imperative that we work with the Costa Rican Department of Biological Preserves to establish a set of rules for the preservation and isolation of that island. These creatures require our absence to survive, not our help — and if we could only step aside and trust in nature, life will find a way.
• Complexity Addiction: The vision he had for his park is excessively complicated what with how determined he is to use the most advanced technology available for everything when more mundane solutions would likely suffice. It is designed with so much automation in mind (with even the tour conducted with fully automated cars) that the entire island could theoretically be run by a skeleton crew for three days. Unfortunately, this means all the electric, security, and network systems are full of bugs, there are a great many things that can go wrong at anytime, and when everything gets shut down, just figuring out how to get them up and running again proves difficult. And that's without taking the poorly understood and very dangerous animals into account.
• Cool Old Guy: Unlike his book counterpart, Hammond creates the park to be enjoyed by many people in the world and his kindly demeanor is completely sincere rather than a manipulation tactic. He also dearly loves his grandchildren. Of course, being played by Richard Attenborough means it'd be all but impossible for him not to be this.
• Corrupt Corporate Executive: A rare sympathetic example. Hammond might be a grandfatherly eccentric with genuine intentions, but as a businessman he's ethically dubious. Hammond cuts corners everywhere despite his catchphrase, and it's certainly debatable how impartial he expected Grant and Ellie's testimony to be considering he essentially bribed them with funding for their dig.
• The Cutie: A very rare example where an old man is The Cutie. He's an incredibly sweet and lovable old man whose entire reason for creating the eponymous park in the first place is to achieve his childhood dream and sharing it with others.
• Cynic–Idealist Duo: The Idealist to Muldoon's Cynic.
• The Determinator: A negative variation as John's determination to see his vision brought to life causes him to make serious mistakes and ignore people who tell him it's a bad idea. Even after the initial accidents, he still believes his park can work if he simply addresses the errors rather than seeing the idea as bad in itself. He grows out of it eventually.
• Dies Differently in Adaptation: Dies of natural causes between The Lost World and Jurassic World. Amusingly, it's revealed in Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous that the novel version of his demise (breaking his leg and being Eaten Alive by compies) has become an Urban Legend.
• Establishing Character Moment: His first appearance in the film is when he touches down next to Grant and Sattler's dig in his helicopter, spreading dust all over the dig site, breaks into their trailer and opens a bottle of champagne they were saving for a special occasion without asking, then offers them a huge sum of money if they come visit his island. In short, he's well-meaning and generous with his pocketbook, but has a tendency to interfere with things he knows nothing about because he arrogantly assumes that because he's invested money in it he's an expert on the subject, inevitably leading to harm.
• Everyone Has Standards:
  • Already breaking the laws of nature with their experiments, Hammond ends the partnership with his friend Benjamin Lockwood after learning that Lockwood's daughter Charlotte (an InGen scientist) wanted to use the technology to asexually give birth to a clone child of herself, and that Lockwood stood by to defend his daughter's decision.
  • He refuses to overcharge for admission as he wants everybody (whether they be poor or rich) to be able to enjoy the park and socialize with the dinosaurs.
• Fatal Flaw: John is so determined to see his dream achieved that he ignores anything which might undermine it and he is so focused on the big picture that he ignores the smaller but crucial details, which causes him to trust some people he really shouldn't as well as the people telling him that the idea is just really bad on it's own.
• Friend to All Children: He has a close relationship with his grandkids and intended for children from all over the world to be able to see and enjoy the dinosaurs.
• Greater-Scope Paragon: After his death in 1997 and his actor's real-life death, he become this in the third, fourth and fifth films as he was referenced in those installments despite the character being long dead, and the dinos still exist in the first place because of him. He also narrates the opening of the trailer for the sixth film, using Arc Words of his.
  Hammond: I wanted to show them something that wasn't an illusion. Something that was real. Something that we could...see, and touch. Creation is an act of sheer will. Life, will find a way.
• Guile Hero: Manages to convince Ellie and Grant to come to the park with only a couple of minutes of discussion (and saying that he will give them a hefty amount of grant money for their time).
• Heartbreak and Ice Cream: He is seen quietly eating ice cream by himself after he finds out that Jurassic Park has failed and his grandchildren are lost and in danger. Ellie snaps him out of it.
  "It was melting."
• Heel Realization: Hammond eventually disowns the park, admitting to his own errors after the traumatic ordeal his grandchildren went through.
  Grant: Hammond, after careful consideration I have decided not to endorse your park.
  Hammond: So have I.
• Honest Corporate Executive: What he appears to be and strives to become, following the events of the first movie.
• Horrible Judge of Character: By default, he thinks the best of everyone initially. He's right in his pronouncements about Grant and Sattler being good people, but he badly miscalculates with Dennis Nedry: he trusted the Playful Hacker enough to give him sole authority over the park's security and computer systems, then underpaid him and thought he would still do his job as prescribed. Instead, Nedry took a bribe to perform industrial espionage for Hammond's competitor, causing the disaster. One could even call into question his assessment of Grant and Sattler, since he invited them to his island because he wanted them to give a positive review of the park to justify his management decisions to the board of directors at InGen. Instead, they make it clear they have a lot of moral issues with Jurassic Park and the revival of the dinosaurs. Only the lawyer ends up siding with Hammond for purely profit-driven reasons.
• Hypocrite:
  • The man's catchphrase is "Spared no expense" and yet the park is full of cut corners. He only hires minimal staff to oversee and maintain the park and blithely dismisses all points raised about potential danger, but still gets annoyed at the gall for his investors and lawyers to be concerned about the cost of the park and the lack of employee safety. Part of the reason the events of the first film are set into motion is that Hammond trusted the park's software programming to not only a single overworked employee, but to the lowest bidder. Speaking of which, a throwaway line by Dennis during his meeting with Dodgson at the beginning of the film implies that, even in general, he underpays his staff... but then again, this could just be Nedry's greed talking.
  • He severed ties with Benjamin Lockwood, due to Lockwood's daughter Charlotte wanting to use the cloning technology to effectively give birth to a clone child of herself, even having the audacity to call it "unholy", despite wanting to use the very same technology and methods to recreate dinosaurs. Not to mention "cloning" himself to open up his Mr. DNA presentation.
  • Anytime anything goes wrong, Hammond is constantly advising his guests to keep an open mind and give things a chance, since they'll be worked out in time. Meanwhile, Hammond himself has a giant problem listening to things he doesn't want to hear. He blows off warnings about the potential drawbacks of his inventions, lack of basic safety in the park, and difficulty maintaining the business. It doesn't matter if these complaints come from his attorneys, his investors, the people he hired to do the job of maintaining the site or even the outside experts he himself hired to evaluate his theme park.
• Iconic Item: It's impossible to think of Hammond and not think of his Classy Cane topped with a hardened chunk of amber containing a prehistoric mosquito.
• I Reject Your Reality: Downplayed compared to his book counterpart, but he does have a serious issue in ignoring anything he doesn't want to hear or which could hurt his overall goals and it can be very hard to get through to him. He grows out of it by the end of the film.
• Just Think of the Potential!: He constantly insists that the park will change the world and blow people (as well as science) away. He's right on that account... for both better and worse.
  "How can we stand on the brink of discovery, and not act?"
• Laser-Guided Karma: In the books he's a selfish bastard who only made Jurassic Park as a way to get rich, and ends up getting horrifically killed by a pack of Procompsognathus, the very dinosaurs he created to make a buck off of. Played both negatively and positively in the films, where his cost-cutting and refusal to accept that the park is destined for disaster leads to his dream being crushed, endangering his grandchildren, and losing control of InGen by The Lost World, yet at the same time by being able to learn from his mistakes and later pouring all his resources into protecting the dinosaurs he is able to survive the island and live out the rest of his days in peace before passing away from old age.
• A Lesson Learned Too Well: Malcolm certainly thinks that Hammond at best went through this trope after the events of the first movie. In the first movie, Hammond was a kindly but hubristic entrepeneur, and part of the main reasons why his titular park failed and everything went to hell with the dinosaurs breaking loose was because Hammond didn't understand that creating genetically-engineered dinosaurs for the first time in history didn't automatically give him complete control and understanding of them, nor of the consequences of getting so far ahead of modern science. Come The Lost World: Jurassic Park, and a humbled Hammond has admitted he was wrong and has become an environmentalist, actively committed to ensuring that the surviving dinosaurs on the abandoned Site B island are left alone by humans to thrive in the new ecosystem they've formed without human intervention. But when his former company sends a team to plunder the island for dinosaur specimens for a new Jurassic Park on the mainland, Hammond is willing to send a team of hardcore environmentalists of his own to counter them, which Malcolm thinks only puts more people in danger — indeed, the environmentalist team's actions place everyone on both sides in danger and get a lot of people killed by the dinosaurs, especially since one of them is actually an undercover Eco-Terrorist. As Malcolm puts it, Hammond didn't repeat the same mistakes but he did make whole new ones.
• Life Will Kill You: His health was in very steep decline by the beginning of the second film, and he passes away sometime between the events of The Lost World and Jurassic World.
• Look on My Works, Ye Mighty, and Despair: Hammond could very well be a textbook example. Guy wants to make something of lasting beauty and appeal, accessible to all, and in the process enrich the world. What does he get? Out of control dinosaurs and several instances of "I told you so"'.
• Mr. Alt Disney: Likes showmanship ever since he had a flea circus. Then he tried his own Disney Theme Park that, to his dismay, turns into an Amusement Park of Doom.
• Nice Guy: For all his flaws, John is a very charming, kind-natured man who loves his grandkids and simply wants to bring joy and wonder to all the people of the world. In the sequel, he's also perfectly willing to admit to being wrong to Ian and really tries to clean up the mess he created.
• Our Founder: A nifty statue of him was erected at the entrance of the Hammond Creation Lab at Jurassic World.
• Papa Wolf: A less direct example. When it's clear that everything is going to hell, Hammond's first response is to send his game warden out to fetch his grandchildren. He also misses a meeting to be with his daughter when she is going through a divorce. He is (understandably) terrified for Tim and Lex's safety when things go wrong. When he asks Muldoon to find his grandchildren, his voice is barely above a whisper, indicating that he's barely keeping it together.
• Posthumous Character: He passed away a few years before the opening of Jurassic World, and is mentioned by Masrani and Claire Dearing in the eponymous film as his dream of a functioning park has come true. Then in Fallen Kingdom we learn that he had a colleague when founding InGen, Benjamin Lockwood, whom he parted ways with.
• Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: "People! Are! Dying!"
• Real Life Writes the Plot: Lord Attenborough's health was in decline during the production of Jurassic World, negating any chance of reprising his role even if he wanted to. He was written out as having passed away shortly after The Lost World, which ultimately turned out for the best when Lord Attenborough passed away in August 2014.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: In contrast to his book counterpart, when everything goes wrong, he does eventually takes responsibility for this major blunder that even puts his grandchildren in danger and is willing to listen to others' advise on how to to get everyone out of Jurassic Park alive.
• Retcon: A deleted scene depicting his death in The Lost World was made canon by Jurassic World, listing him as having died in 1997.
• Self-Made Man: He seems to have come from fairly humble beginnings, mentioning a flea circus as the first thing he ever worked on.
• Spared by the Adaptation: Is killed by a pack of Procompsognathuses^note Try saying that ten times fast! in the book, but comes out unscathed in the movie and dies of old age sometime before Jurassic World.
• Tragic Hero: John's ambition and determination were what allowed him to achieve the incredible success he has and to fund groundbreaking scientific breakthroughs but also cause him to believe he can overcame any obstacle through sheer persistence and dismiss anything which goes against his goals.
• Uncle Pennybags: Well, his catchphrase is "We spared no expense." It's how he gets Alan and Ellie on board, offering to fund their work for a further three years.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: A major departure from the original book, this version of Hammond actually just wanted to create an attraction park with something real to see for people.
• Wide-Eyed Idealist: Hammond's greatest flaw is his persistent naiveté. He wanted to create something special and unique to capture the imagination of the planet, but didn't account for human error and the unpredictability of wild animals.

Muldoon

Robert Muldoon

"Clever girl."

Played By: Bob Peck

Dubbed in French By: Gérard Rinaldi

Dubbed in Portuguese By: Walter Breda (first dub), Carlos Seidl (TV redub), Jorge Vasconcellos (3D redub)

Appearances: Jurassic Park (1993)

"I've hunted most things that can hunt you, but the way these things move..."

Jurassic Park's game warden. He's much more sensible and realistic about the dinosaurs' capabilities than any of his bosses or co-workers.

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• Adaptational Dumbass: In the book, he was the one who spotted the raptor ambush, i.e. the classic hunting strategy of an animal he's an expert on. In the film he was the one ambushed by the raptors.
• Adaptational Nationality: Downplayed. He's White Kenyan in the book and English in the film, though most White Kenyans are of British descent and had British citizenship before independence, and most kept it and left Kenya after independence.
• Admiring the Abomination: For all his hatred and fear of the raptors, he does have some admiration for their power, intelligence, and speed.
• Age Lift: In the book he's old enough to have grey hair, but Bob Peck was around fifty when he played him, and had brown hair.
• Arch-Enemy: To the Big One, with whom he shares a special enmity.
• Cynic–Idealist Duo: The Cynic to Hammond's Idealist.
• Death by Adaptation: He's killed in the film but is alive in the novel. However, the Expanded Universe that follows after the films merely states that Muldoon was still alive after the raptor attack. Only because the raptor was playing with him, rather than outright killing him.
• Great White Hunter: He's about as close as you'll get to this trope being played straight in the modern day. He was technically a game warden, though, but the look and the 'tude were there; close enough. Muldoon was really something of a subversion in that he leaned more toward the anti-heroic end of the scale. He is not portrayed in a particularly romantic manner, and is in fact an embittered, highly cynical man who hates the raptors and wishes he could kill them all – and considering what happens throughout the course of the film, it's hard to blame him.
• Ignored Expert: Hammond really should have listened to his fervent insistence that the Velociraptors be destroyed.
• Informed Ability: When we are introduced to the character, Muldoon is described as knowing more about Velociraptors than anyone else on the planet. Later, he is ambushed and killed by the raptors' hunting strategy that Grant outlined to the spectators at his dig earlier in the movie. Grant has only ever studied raptors from an paleontological perspective and he knows how they hunt. Wouldn't you think a man who has seen them hunt in their paddock would have this information, too?
  • The expanded universe states that he actually did realize his mistake, but the Big One managed to ambush and kill him before he could swing his gun around.
• Mr. Fanservice: Those are some nice legs, Muldoon.
• Nerves of Steel: Perhaps best demonstrated when he, Ellie, and Ian are fleeing in a Jeep from the T. rex. While Ellie and Ian are in the back screaming, Muldoon is driving with far more focus and calm.
• Nice Guy: Gruffness aside, he treats all the visitors with respect. He's able to deduce that Alan is an expert in his field and understands he is a peer. When Ellie joins him to search for the missing cars and states she will turn the power back on, he never protests (unlike Hammond) and takes her help with a grin.
• Only Sane Employee: Muldoon isn't arrogant like Wu or idealistic like Hammond; he's all too aware of the dangers of Jurassic Park and the raptors in particular. He knows they could likely never be displayed as park animals and should all be destroyed. Hammond dismisses him as an alarmist, but a lot of deaths could have been avoided if his warnings had been heeded.
• Out of Character Is Serious Business: Muldoon stays relatively calm throughout the whole crisis – even when driving a jeep being chased by a T. rex! – but when he realises the raptors have broken out of their enclosure, he's horrified and visibly has to pull himself together.
• Sacrificial Lion: Is killed during the expedition to restart the generator (and which Arnold failed at) to showcase that Raptor Vs. Human in straight-on combat is going to go very badly for the human.
• The Worf Effect: The fact that the raptors are able to kill him establishes the kind of threat they pose.
• The World's Expert (on Getting Killed): He "knows more about raptors than anyone" ...but is pretty quickly and easily dispatched by the raptors once they're loose when they use their standard attack pattern. In the book, it's Hammond instead (who gets killed by a pack of Procompsognathus rather than raptors), and Muldoon survives the experience after shooting the T. rex with a rocket launcher, blowing at least one raptor in half with a shotgun, and still continuing to be an untouchable badass even after he finally gets so drunk he can barely stand.
• Worthy Opponent: To the raptor that ambushes him: "Clever girl." Arguably a Deconstruction — his pausing to utter his Last Words in acknowledgement of his opponent's skill instead of just shooting the damned thing gets him killed.

Arnold

Ray Arnold

"Hold on to your butts."

Played By: Samuel L. Jackson

Dubbed in French By: Mario Santini

Dubbed in Portuguese By: Jonas Mello (first dub), Márcio Simões (redubs)

Appearances: Jurassic Park (1993)

"Item one fifty-one on today's glitch list. We've got all the problems of a major theme park and a major zoo, and the computer's not even on its feet yet."

Jurassic Park's chief engineer. He runs the main control systems from the visitor center.

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• Adaptation Name Change: From "John Arnold" in the books to "Ray Arnold" due to the One-Steve Limit. According to supplementary materials his full name is John Raymond Arnold, or Ray for short.
• An Arm and a Leg: Poor guy, after Ellie comes looking for him... an arm is the only thing of his that she finds.
• Black and Nerdy: African American, and the most tech-savvy person in the control room after Nedry.
• Black Dude Dies First: Averted. He is the second-to-last character to bite it (albeit off-screen).
• Deadpan Snarker: Largely due to his tone as opposed to what he actually says, and he doesn't reach Ian Malcolm levels but he has his fair share of sarcastic moments, and withering looks.
• Good Smoking: Played with. He's a very rare example of a good-aligned chain-smoker who isn't an Anti-Hero.
• Genius Slob: He's a chain-smoking control room chief. Apart from that, he's not particularly slobbish, and he is appalled by the mountain of candy wrappers and other trash all over Nedry's workstation.
• Killed Offscreen: The last time he is seen alive onscreen in the film is in the blackened control room, where he tells the others he'll have the park back online in 3 minutes and walks off to the energy bunker. Eventually Ellie realizes he didn't make it and goes to the bunker herself; Arnold is devoured by the Raptors at some point between him leaving the control room and Ellie reaching the bunker, at which point she finds his arm.
  • A death scene was intended to be filmed for him, but a hurricane prevented Jackson from getting to Hawaii to shoot it and also the sets got trashed. In the book, he made it to the shed but a raptor found him, he tried to squeeze into a gap behind a pipe to get away from it, and the raptor pulled him down with such force and weight that it ripped his arm out at the joint. Ouch. Dr. Sattler also tripped up on his severed leg on the way out and did in her ankle, which explains the mysterious limp she gets out of nowhere.
• Mr. Exposition: A role he shares with various characters, depending on the moment. Being the only one who knows Jurassic Park's computer systems, he's the one who gives exposition on what they need, what's going wrong, and how they can possibly fix it. He also gives the details of the lysine contingency.
• Mr. Fixit: His role on the park alongside Nedry. When Nedry's bug makes the systems go haywire, it is his role to try to fix things.
• Not Enough to Bury: All Sattler finds of him is his arm.
• One-Steve Limit: His name was changed from John in the book, to avoid confusion with John Hammond.
• Oral Fixation: He always has a cigarette between his lips, or between his fingers, every time he is seen in the film.
• Precision F-Strike: Considering the film's rating, his swearing comes off as rather strong considering the lack of swearing elsewhere and aided by Samuel L Jackson's emphasis on the right words. A lot of his reactions almost seem to be a reflection of what the audience is thinking; he knows that something is seriously going wrong in the park and doesn't even attempt to cover it up with polite language.
  "Please! Goddamn it! I hate this hacker crap!"
• Sacrificial Lamb: He's killed by raptors when he goes to restart the generator, forcing Ellie and Muldoon to experience Another Man's Terror.
• Token Black: The only black main character.

Nedry

Dennis Theodore Nedry

"Don't get cheap on me, Dodgson. That was Hammond's mistake."

Played By: Wayne Knight

Dubbed in French By: Patrick Préjean

Dubbed in Portuguese By: Paulo Porto (first dub), Mauro Ramos (redubs)

Appearances: Jurassic Park (1993)

"I am totally unappreciated in my time. You can run this whole park from this room with minimal staff for up to 3 days. You think that kind of automation is easy? Or cheap? You know anybody who can network 8 connection machines and debug 2 million lines of code for what I bid for this job? Because if he can I'd like to see him try."

A greedy and obnoxious computer scientist who is in charge of the system's programming and networking of Jurassic Park's computers.

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• Adaptational Villainy: Slightly. In the book, Nedry had a reason for sabotaging the park and stealing the dinosaur DNA beyond sheer greed: InGen had essentially blackmailed him into adding extensive modifications to their already-extensive computer systems for no pay. In the movie, he's given no such justification and is just in it for the money. Also in the book, he was willing to head back after he delivered the embryos before anyone noticed he was gone. In the movie, the program he left in the park's system recites "Ah, ah, ah, you didn't say the magic word!" on an endless loop and directly connects him to the shutdown, implying that he was perfectly willing to leave everyone for dead. He's also more petty on a smaller scale: after testing the shaving cream can, he wipes the cream on the edge of his plate in the book, whereas he wipes it on a slice of pie in the film, thus condemning whoever ordered it to a horrible dessert.
• Age Lift: In the book, although his age is never specified, Nedry is at one point described (from Tim's perspective) as a "fat college kid". This indicates that Dennis Nedry is in his late teens or early twenties. In the film, Nedry is a man in his thirties.
• Alas, Poor Villain: The only sympathy that can be felt regarding his demise is how slow and drawn out it is. He spends several minutes in slowly rising terror, and gets a faceful of venom which is going to blind him even if he survives. And then he's trapped in a car with the hungry Dilophosaurus, and his agonized screams until he finally dies are painful to listen to.
• All for Nothing: After being sprayed with venom, he unknowingly loses the can of embryos. Even if he hadn't gotten eaten by a dinosaur, he still wouldn't have been able to profit from his crimes.
• Ambiguous Situation: It's unclear if Nedry foolishly bid too low for the job or if Hammond deliberately omitted several details to get a highly skilled programmer for a cheap price since both refuse to take responsibility for the glitches in the automated system.
• Bad Liar: It's incredible that nobody knew something was up when he made the lame excuse of leaving to get a soda and mumbled that the phones would go down. He appears nervous and submissive, and it's unlikely that Nedry would actually think of someone other than himself; most likely, they were too distracted by the bad weather conditions and their first tour going poorly to pay him enough mind.
• Bad People Abuse Animals: Downplayed, but when he meets a Dilophosaurus he says he's going to run it over when he gets back to his car, seemingly just because the dinosaur is annoying him. Said Dilophosaurus eats him a few minutes later.
• Blind Without 'Em: Subverted. He loses his glasses but dismisses them a second later and utters "I can afford more glasses", not having too much trouble seeing without them, although it removes the one thing that might have protected his eyes from the Dilophosaurus' venom. In fact, earlier his glasses kept steaming up in the Jeep, which causes him to crash into a signpost, so he was more blind with them!
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: A rare villainous example. Nedry is an absolutely brilliant computer programmer but has No Social Skills, can't understand finances and thus gave a low bid for a massive job, earns the vitriol of everyone else on the staff before he's revealed to be a crook, and shows a remarkable lack of common sense when pulling off that theft. Presumably, the only reason Hammond keeps him around is that he's just that good.
• Butt-Monkey: The events leading up to his death are almost comical due to the sheer run of bad luck he encounters. During his escape, he's caught in a tropical storm, crashes his car, gets lost, gets the car stuck, slips and falls down a hill, loses his glasses, loses the embryo can, and finally gets blinded and ripped apart by a dinosaur.
• Crazy-Prepared: Apparently, Nedry was smart enough with his computer hacking skills to anticipate the possibility that his bosses would attempt to hack into his computer and created his own defenses. Intentionally annoying defenses. Also, when he shuts off power to the park, Nedry intentionally leaves the raptor fences powered because even he knows how dangerous they were.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: Nedry's death is presaged by venom spit hitting his eyes, blinding him. Then the Dilophosaurus gets in the car with him, and things get really bad. At least here there's a Gory Discretion Shot, unlike in the book.
• Death by Irony: Like in the book, he gets eaten by a Dilophosaurus sometime after he shut down the park's security systems.
• Didn't Think This Through: When the tropical storm hits Isla Nublar and is forcing the ship on the East Dock to leave much earlier, Nedry decides to enact his plan as soon as possible. It never occurs to him to simply reschedule the smuggling operation at a later date since there's no guarantee that A) he would get there before the ship leaves and B) his presence wouldn't go unnoticed by the skeleton crew trying to ensure the safe return of the tourists. His haste ends up leading him into a Dilophosaurus enclosure, where the venomous dinosaur eats him, and it didn't take long for the Jurassic Park staff to deduce that Nedry was behind the sabotage.
• Dropped Glasses: Among other bad things that happen to him during his death scene, this is one of them. Partially justifies his failing the spot check of not noticing the Dilophosaurus entering his jeep and also adds to the Karma (if he had been wearing his glasses, they would have saved him from being blinded by the venom spit).
• Epic Fail: He ends up getting an off-road vehicle stuck on a hill.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Muldoon notes that Nedry, reckless as he was to shut down the park's security systems, wasn't foolish enough to risk letting the vicious Velociraptors out; even Arnold previously saw through Nedry's computer that Nedry managed to prevent the raptor pen's fences from being affected by the shutdown. Granted, given the raptor fences are separated from the rest of the park and not in Nedry's path to the East Dock, there's no particular need to shut them down.
• Eye Scream: Venom spit, again. P.S. Wiping your eyes when something poisonous or corrosive has gotten in them is a BAD PLAN, it will drive the poison/corrosive deeper into the eye sockets and accelerate the process. Not that it really mattered in Nedry's case, since he was dead before it proceeded much further.
• Fat Bastard: A typecast Wayne Knight once again plays an overweight asshole. Dennis Nedry is a Big Eater whose workstation is covered in discarded food containers, leaving no question as to the nature of his weight situation. He's also unsympathetic and greedy, disabling the park systems and inadvertently kickstarting the disaster in an effort to sell out his employers to a competitor. In his Establishing Character Moment, Nedry tries out a shaving cream can he's been given for smuggling dinosaur embryos to demonstrate that it functions, then wipes the shaving cream on a nearby slice of pie sitting on a food server's cart, condemning some poor soul to a terrible dessert. He manages to combine gluttony and greed in that scene, as he insists that the man bribing him also cover his (unhealthily large) meal.
• Fat Idiot: Downplayed. His bitterness toward InGen comes from their refusal to raise his contract price from the amount Nedry himself had bid for the job in the first place. While he's good with computers, he is also quite reckless and clumsy — bumbling his way through the park in the middle of a tropical storm and ultimately gets himself killed by treating one of the park's dangerous predatory dinosaurs like a dog.
• Fat Slob: The incredible mess on his workstation at the Jurassic Park control room is evidence enough of this (and makes Arnold pretty damn angry when he has to start un-hacking Nedry's hack).
  Arnold: Look at this workstation! What a complete slob!
• Forgotten Fallen Friend: While he's not what anyone would refer to as a "friend", he is noticeably the only deceased character/Jurassic Park employee not mentioned by Peter Ludlow in the second film's (deleted scene) tallying of lawsuits and apparently isn't being thought of when Malcolm mentions "the deaths of 3 people" as opposed to 4. Though perhaps they remained unaware of his death and assume he got off scot-free with whatever he was planning; it's not like Dodgson and Biosyn were going to volunteer any information on the matter.
• Four Eyes, Zero Soul: Like the stereotypical image of a nerd, he wears a pair of thick glasses. He's also a greedy jerk willing to risk putting his colleagues in danger, just so he can commit corporate espionage.
• Geek Physiques: Very nerdy and very fat.
• Genius Slob: He's a food-addicted networking director.
• Greater-Scope Villain: As comical as he is, he's still as much this as his employer, as his actions cause the conflict of the rest of the movie but he is never actually encountered by the three main characters.
• Greed: The reason he agrees to be Dodgson's inside man in Jurassic Park and steal the embryos. The final paycheque if he accomplishes his mission (a million dollars) surely is an incentive he keeps giggling about in his scene with Dodgson.
• Hate Sink: Probably less so than in the book due to being funny, but he's still a greedy, selfish, and all-around unpleasant guy who betrays the park and carelessly puts lives at risk for money, giving us a human antagonist to root against.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: He disables the park's power and security systems so that he can get through the electric gates on the maintenance roads, and also disables the park fences in order for it all to look like a system error. As a result of disabling the electric fences, one of the park's dinosaurs escapes from its paddock and kills him.
• Humans Are the Real Monsters: He's a greedy, selfish asshole who only cares about his own self-advancement. Meanwhile, the dinosaurs (even the vicious ones) are really just animals.
• Insufferable Genius: Nedry knows just how smart he is, and lets everyone know it.
• Irony: "What do you want, you want food? I have no food on me! I have nothing on me!" Turns out, the Dilophosaurus in front of him was ultimately the judge of that... and it decided there was plenty of food on him.
• Jerkass: He mocks Dodgson for his attempts to keep a low profile and has a bad working relationship with his colleagues.
• Jerkass Has a Point: Apparently, even in the movie universe, Hammond has an unfortunate habit of getting cheap on certain things he really should be sparing no expense on.
• Just Desserts: A juvenile Dilophosaurus eats him when he gets lost in the park.
• Karmic Death: Read above on Just Desserts. Wouldn't have happened if he hadn't Blue-screened the park (or at least kept all of the fences active instead of just the raptors'). Part of the "perfect storm" is also his Dropped Glasses-he smugly says that he will be able to afford new ones with what Biosyn is paying him right before something happens that the glasses could have saved him partially from.
• Laughably Evil: The thing that still gives him an enjoyable screen presence despite being a jerk — and which sets him apart from his rather humorless and antisocial book counterpart — is his memorable comic relief, from "we've got Dodgson here" to trying to deter a hungry dinosaur with a stick. Aided in no small part by Wayne Knight's brilliantly hammy acting.
• Meaningful Name: His last name is an anagram of "Nerdy".
• More Hateable Minor Villain: While the dinosaurs do pose a threat to the lives of the main characters, they are also animals who rely on instinct to guide their behavior, and as such, can't truly be hated. The human Nedry is loathsome, as his tampering with the park's security system is what allows the dinosaurs to break free from their different paddocks and escape into the park.
• The Mole: He is hired by Biosyn, a competing biogen firm, to steal embryos which the rival will then reverse-engineer.
• Never My Fault: In the film version, he is motivated by Hammond underpaying him...but it's also revealed that Nedry himself submitted his bid for the job, meaning that his salary (or lack thereof) was his own responsibility. As noted under Ambiguous Situation, it's possible that Hammond didn't specify just how much work would be involved, but given that Movie!Hammond is a genial guy who doesn't like to trick people, it seems far more likely that Nedry messed up and simply refuses to admit it.
• "Oh, Crap!" Smile: Sports one a few times, in the scene where he encounters a Dilophosaurus.
• Only in It for the Money: His sole motive. In the novel, Hammond short-changed him on the project and demanded too much. In the film, Nedry, being bad with finances, bid way too low on the contract (and this came to bite him once he discovered what the project was about) and he put the blame on Hammond, despite Film-Hammond's own proclaimed philosophy of "spare no expense".
• Perverted Pig: He's referred to as a slob by Ray Arnold and the image Nedry has on his main screen is of a woman wearing nothing but a bra and a bikini and posing in a suggestive manner. It's also implied that Ray was disgusted upon seeing it on Nedry's screen as he briefly mentions how poorly Nedry manages his workspace when it's in his view.
• A Simple Plan: Shut off the security, steal the embryos, smuggle them to the boat leaving the island, return, and restore the power, all in 20 minutes. Easy enough. But then he gets lost, and no one else knows how to turn the power back on...
• Small Role, Big Impact: He dies halfway through the movie, yet his actions not only set the stage for the story, he is indirectly responsible for the events of every movie since if it weren't for him the park likely would have functioned much more normally even if things eventually went awry anyway, and the events of later movies would never have happened.
• Smug Snake: Every scene he shares with someone showcases him as an utterly loathsome and arrogant human being, and that is without him planning to wreck the park.
• The Sociopath: A pretty realistic, low-functioning example. He's a short-sighted, anti-social man who is willing to risk everything to satisfy his greed. He shuts down the power at the park and doesn't seem to care in the slightest that a bunch of innocent people will be in danger as a result. He also has an inflated ego, is financially irresponsible (and implied to be a gambling addict), and blames everyone but himself for his failures. And assuming he wasn't joking about running over the Dilophosaurus, he's also cruel towards "seemingly" harmless animals.
• Take a Moment to Catch Your Death: For literally one second, it looks like Dennis managed to escape from the Dilophosaurus. Unfortunately for him, his Jeep isn't that safe of a refuge...
• Too Dumb to Live: His brilliant plan to get the money he thinks he deserves and screw the man that he feels screwed him at the same time? Shut down all the electrified fences in a wildlife park that he knows is filled with potentially dangerous predatory creatures. Even if he thinks he won't be there to be endangered, he knows that he's potentially putting people's lives at risk. On top of that, he is handed a device intended to allow him to steal property worth several billion dollars that only has a 36-hour window for use. He never even bothers to look at a weather forecast to see if there might be a problem with his exit window? Lastly, he is confronted by a dinosaur loose in the park while he is trying to get his gas Jeep out of the mud and tries to distract her... by throwing a stick like she's a dog. If he paid enough attention to know that the raptors were too dangerous to interfere with their fences, he knows what's out in that park and should therefore know better than to think "fetch" is going to work.
• Treacherous Advisor: In the SNES game, Nedry will occasionally call the player to give false information, such as raptors attacking you only if you move, the T. rex giving you a 1-Up if you approach him, spitters giving you more health, or saying it's okay to touch the electric fence. He'll even say "SUCKER!" at one point.
• Troll: He programmed his workstation to recite this annoying phrase on an infinite loop if they tried to undo his hack.
  Ah ah ahhh, You didn't say the magic word!
• Villainous Glutton: His meal in his introduction takes up an entire table's worth of space, and later, the incredible mess he has at his workstation is proof enough of that. He manages to use it to his advantage by saying he is going to the food vending machines as an excuse to sneak out of the control room and into the embryo lab.

Harding

Dr. Gerry Harding

Played By: Gerald R Molen

Dubbed in French By: Jean-Claude Sachot

Appearances: Jurassic Park (1993)

Jurassic Park's chief veterinarian.

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• Demoted to Extra: While he didn't have an enormous role in the book, his role in the film is limited to one scene where he barely appears on-screen.
• Hero of Another Story: He's one of the main playable characters in Telltale Games Jurassic Park: The Game.

Dr. Wu

Dr. Henry Wu

"You're implying that a group entirely composed of female animals will... breed?"

^{Click here to see him in Jurassic World and Fallen Kingdom}
"All of this exists because of me. If I don't innovate, somebody else will."

^{Click here to see him in Jurassic World Dominion}
"We made a terrible mistake!"

Played By: B.D. Wong

Dubbed in French By: Daniel Lafourcade

Dubbed in Portuguese By: Celso Alves (first dub), Duda Ribeiro (TV redub), Duda Espinoza (3D redub and the Jurassic World trilogy)

Voiced By: Greg Chun

Appearances: Jurassic Park (1993) | Jurassic World | The Evolution Of Claire | Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom | Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous | VelociCoaster | Jurassic World Dominion

"There's no unauthorized breeding in Jurassic Park."

The chief geneticist at Jurassic World, and a major figure at InGen since the days of Jurassic Park.

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• Abusive Parent: To the Indominus rex, at least for a given definition of "parent". In stark contrast to Owen Grady, who allowed four raptors to imprint on him and then raised them as a family unit, Wu and the other scientists working on the I. rex project chose to raise her in complete isolation. This involved forcing her to live in an enclosure that was too small for her, feeding her a scrap of meat per day, and never allowing her to have any contact with the outside world or roam around to exercise. This ultimately leads to the I. rex becoming a monstrous killing machine, which is exactly what Hoskins and Wu wanted. Similarly he created the Indoraptor and then forced it to spend its entire existence in a tiny cage and allowed it to be tortured and abused in order to make it a Military Attack Animal, which resulted in it being turned into a sadistic killer.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: In the novel, Wu is prideful of his genetic creations, seeing them as a testament to his genius even as they're killing everyone in the park including him. While he has that mindset in the Jurassic World, he slowly becomes more concerned about the consequences unleashed by his works, culminating in Dominion where he actively searches for a way to destroy his latest creations, the super-locusts, and exposing Biosyn, not caring if it would deprive him the chance of future research in genetics.
• Adaptational Villainy: While Wu is a major character in the original novel and responsible for bringing the dinosaurs back from extinction, his worst sin there is merely his overconfidence in his ability to control the biological aspects of dinosaurs (such as their breeding ability). In addition, he admits he wanted to make safer, domesticated dinosaurs for public interest instead of the real thing and was the one who ultimately uncovers Nedry's failed plot to steal the embryos. (Though he does admit in an internal monologue that he considers his job done once the dinosaurs hatch. . . he just makes them, controlling them and keeping the park and its guests safe is other people's problems, not his.) Whereas in Jurassic World, he conspires with Vic Hoskins to deliberately make the Indominus rex an unstoppable killing machine to cause an incident in the park in order for Hoskins to demonstrate the effectiveness of military-specialized dinosaurs, and smuggles the embryos off the island to continue this project.
• Affably Evil: For a conspiring traitor, he's still pretty friendly, though a bit of his dialogue suggests that this may actually be Faux Affably Evil. Even though he is essentially now creating biological weapons, Wu understands the importance of his creations having real emotional nurturing and empathetic bonding, at least from a purely scientific viewpoint.
• Anti-Villain: Baring Jurassic World, where he is at the height of his arrogance, he is usually depicted as a fairly complex antagonist in contrast to the Card-Carrying Villain of the week.
• Ascended Extra: He only had one minor scene in Jurassic Park, but has been given a much larger role in the Jurassic World films. It also counts as a reversal of his Demoted to Extra role in Jurassic Park, since he was an important character in the original novel by Michael Crichton.
• Asian and Nerdy: Wu is only really a nerd insofar as that he's an accomplished scientist, however.
• The Atoner: In Dominion, having his hand in creating something with global consequences in the cretaceous-sized locusts turns him into this, as he's now hellbent in making this plague of his own creation die.
• Big "WHAT?!": Lets one out in Fallen Kingdom when Zia reveals she gave Blue a Tyrannosaurus blood transfusion to save her life, pretty much dooming his plans for a new Indoraptor batch.
• The Bus Came Back: Henry Wu makes his return in Jurassic World, which is 22 years and two films since the first film.
• Demoted to Extra: He only appears in one scene in the first third of the first film. In the first novel, he is given a much bigger backstory, and lasts until nearly the end. Since the film had all non-essential staff moved out before the storm and had very little exposition in comparison, Wu's backstory was lost and he ended up Spared by the Adaptation. He eventually becomes an Ascended Extra in later films.
• Didn't See That Coming: In Fallen Kingdom, Wu knew that Blue was shot with a bullet and that she recovered. What he didn't expect was that in order for Blue to survive, she needed a blood transfusion and the blood used for survival was Rexy's blood so her genetic signature isn't pure anymore.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: After spending decades as either a beleaguered, overworked lab rat or pet mad scientist craving attention and recognition for his work, the end of Dominion sees him finally use his powers for something unambiguously good, saving the world from the biosphere collapse threatened by the locusts he created; and furthermore, he’s recognized by the press for his efforts, finally earning him the recognition he always wanted.
• Establishing Character Moment: He is first seen erasing something from a clipboard, rather than crossing it out like a professional scientist would^note to show others that certain ideas had already been tested and failed, thus saving them the time of making the same mistake. This hints that Wu is hiding something and possesses a lack of competence and scientific ethics, even before World and its sequels expanded on them.
• Even Evil Has Standards:
  • As amoral as a Mad Scientist like him is, he is fully aware that he is creating living weapons that could cause untold damage if he cuts corners in their creation and as such takes his work very seriously. Shown in Fallen Kingdom where his first scene is him arguing with Mills when the latter tries to force Wu to finish the newest hybrid project ahead of schedule without the necessary genes. He is also horrified and tries to protest when Mills goes ahead with the idea of selling the Indoraptor to the highest bidder despite it being a Psycho Prototype that attempts to kill everything it sees, be it friend or foe. Mills ignores him because of how much money he's going to make with selling the monstrosity. Wu, like us, knows exactly what is going to happen next and, lo and behold...
  • Also implied to be the case with The Spinosaurus in Jurassic Park III. A hybrid described as an "accident" in the Masrani Backdoor website was left on Isla Sorna sometime prior to 2003, which is implied to be the Spinosaurus itself. This implies that Wu was trying to make something, but the Spinosaurus, manic and bloodthirsty as it was, was not the intended outcome and even he decided it was too dangerous and left it on the island where it would eventually run out of food (having eaten/killed everything) and die of starvation.
  • Wu also regards the Scorpios rex as a failure due to its intense aggression, with the only reason he chose to be spare it being the need to figure out what exactly made it so aggressive. Additionally, he makes sure to keep it indefinitely cryogenically frozen in a secure location, just in case it wakes up.
  • Wu isn't one for revenge — while he's unhappy that the kids destroyed his laptop, once he learns that the Indominus specimen was safely retrieved, he's fine with leaving and manages to convince Hawks from pursuing the campers to avenge his teammates.
  • Wu is perfectly fine with creating dinosaurs to be used as Bioweapon Beasts, accepting the deaths they may cause as necessary. But Biosyn using genetically-engineered locusts to wipe out all plants that aren't theirs, which would not only endanger the world's food supply but potentially cause a complete biosphere collapse is far too much for him. He also refuses to oblige to Dodgson's orders to subject the teenager Maisie Lockwood and a baby raptor named Beta to experimentation as a means of increasing the locusts' reproductivity rate, considering the fact that Wu himself happens to be a close friend of Maisie's beloved mother Charlotte (who was an InGen scientist). These revelations are what led him to take responsibility for his actions and have a Heel–Face Turn.
• Evil All Along: One of the notes in the Masrani Backdoor website has a note from Wu mentioning that a hybrid was left on Isla Sorna sometime prior to 2003. This, as it has no pupils, is implied to be the Spinosaurus, meaning that Wu has been perfecting the I. rex for over a span of at least fourteen years.
• The Evil Genius: For Vic Hoskins in Jurassic World and Eli Mills in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. Could be this for Dodgson in Jurassic World: Dominion, but now he's full of regret.
• Evilutionary Biologist: According to his actor B.D. Wong, Wu apparently has this kind of modus operandi, and does such nefarious experiments because he seemingly believes he's "looking at some sort of bigger picture".
• Expository Hairstyle Change: In the very first film, his short, spiked cut make him out as just a young and enthusiastic For Science! type. During the first two Jurassic World, he's changed to a more conservative style reflecting him as chief-scientist in charge while secretly a Punch-Clock Villain. In Dominion, he's now long-haired, in something of a non-facial Beard of Sorrow given it reflects how now Wu has plenty of regrets.
• For Science!: In a viral video promoting InGen, he raves excitedly about what the next stage of scientific advancement will be and the new questions the genetic frontier will open up. It's clear he doesn't care how his creations are used, he just wants to keep creating new life. Although he ultimately comes to regret the one creation that is endangering the entire biosphere.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: He's portrayed in the first film as just being one of many scientists who were responsible for Jurassic Park's dinosaurs. However, in the fourth film, it's revealed Wu was actually behind the creation of almost everything at the park, including the psychopathic Indominus rex and other weaponized prototypes.
• Greater-Scope Villain:
  • He left a hybrid on Isla Sorna according to promotional material for Jurassic World which is implied to be the Spinosaurus who kept chasing Alan Grant and his group and killed Kirby's Mercenaries in Jurassic Park III.
  • He's also explicitly responsible for the creation of the Indominus rex, Indoraptor, Scorpios rex, and Biosyn's super-locusts. At the end of Dominion an exasperated Malcolm even objects to letting him join the main cast as they escape Biosyn Valley, noting Wu is the one responsible for every disaster the heroes have ever faced.
• The Heavy: Of the Jurassic World films. While Vic Hoskins, Eli Mills, and Lewis Dodgson are the main human antagonists, their plans would never have gotten off the ground without Wu's work behind the scenes in each film. The main dinosaur antagonists are also his creations as part of his ongoing agenda.
• Heel–Face Revolving Door: In Jurassic World, when goes from a minor neutral character in the first film to The Evil Genius. But he becomes good again in Dominion by taking responsibility for his actions.
• Heel Realization: In Dominion, he comes to accept the fact it's his fault that the world is in chaos and thus it's his responsibility to put a stop to it.
• Idiot Ball: For the same reason as Claire; surprise surprise, making a dinosaur that's meaner, smarter, and eviler than the Velociraptors and friggin' Rexy wasn't such a good idea after all! Who would've thought? Ultimately subverted; Wu intentionally created the I. rex to be the dinosaur equivalent of Hannibal Lecter in conjunction with Vic Hoskins, planning its escape as a way to advertise its military applications.
• Ignored Expert: Wu warns Dodgson in Dominion that the super-locusts are much larger and stronger than expected, and that security should be beefed up to contain them. Dodgson blows him off, but Wu is proven right later on, as when Dodgson orders the locusts incinerated, they break out of containment and end up setting his dinosaur sanctuary on fire.
• "It" Is Dehumanizing: Averted, surprisingly. Much like Owen Grady, Wu regularly refers to his creations with gender-specific pronouns. This even extends to Maisie; despite knowing she was a clone, Wu treated her no less like a human being and reassured her when she was brought to Biosyn.
• Jerkass Has a Point: When Simon Masrani confronts him about the Indominus rex's creation process he does make a few good points when trying to deflect blame from himself.
  • None of the dinosaurs are natural and all are hybrids of other creatures mixed with dinosaur DNA, just not to the extent of the Indominus. He also mentions they are in a position to create more pure versions of dinosaurs from better samples but that's not what the higher-ups like Masrani are interested in.
  • He also calls out Masrani on requesting a new carnivore hybrid be engineered with a host of intimidating features but not really considering what kind of dinosaur this would create. This later becomes a case of Villain Has a Point when we learn Henry Wu went out of his way to make it more dangerous. However whilst Wu had ulterior motives, Masrani still shouldn't have allowed the opportunity by requesting such a hybrid in the first place.
  • He was also totally opposed to Mills selling the Indoraptor at the auction. However it wasn't due to moral or safety concerns, he knew he'd be loosing the monopoly on weaponized hybrids.
• Just Following Orders: Wu defends himself in his (major) involvement on the Indominus rex with this when Masrani accuses him of making an unstable and vicious monster instead of a cool and safe attraction for park interest. He states he was following Masrani's instructions of his new dinosaur: Bigger, louder, and more teeth. Wu does not take in responsibility of the fact that he was in charge of overseeing the development of the I. rex's DNA, a "classified" top-secret for many people including Masrani, which foreshadows the fact that he's lying about just following orders. While he does follow Masrani's order to the letter, he along with a few others like Hoskins have been taking their own initiative with the I. rex project, namely making it a Living Weapon prototype to test out the efficiency of both military-specialized raptors and future hybrids to come.
• Karma Houdini Warranty:
  • He survives Fallen Kingdom's events, but not without getting hit with a full (and potentially lethal) dose of animal tranquilizer and having his most precious specimen destroyed.
  • And even before that, he was found guilty of bio-ethical misconduct and lost all his credentials after Jurassic World.
• Mad Scientist: In Jurassic World, he angrily denies the trope to his employer, saying he was Just Following Orders to make the I. rex as cool as possible. However we later discover the dangerous aspects of the I. rex were designed in deliberately.
• Maker of Monsters: Over his career, Wu has made at least three known (possibly four with the Spinosaurus) genetically engineered hybrids that turned into bloodthirsty monsters that have collectively killed dozens of humans and dinosaurs, the Scorpios rex, the Indominus rex, and the Indoraptor. His most terrible creation, the super-locusts that are endangering the world's food supply, ends up being a major cause of regret, which leads him to a path of redemption.
• Morality Chain: It seems John Hammond, his former employer, was this for Wu in the original 1993 film. However, after Hammond's death in 1997, Wu became more villainous, cold-hearted, and amoral in Jurassic World when he created the I. rex. At least until Dominion. By his own account in Dominion, Charlotte Lockwood, as someone that he considered a peer and close friend, seems to have been this too, perhaps even moreso than Hammond.
• Morally Ambiguous Doctorate: By the time of Jurassic World, he's a doctorate in genetics and has created a Bioweapon Beast For Science!. Averted come Fallen Kingdom, though, as he was found guilty of ethical misconduct and stripped of all honors.
• Mr. Exposition: In Jurassic Park (1993), Wu is mostly there to explain the genetics of creating the dinosaurs and why they can't breed.
• Never My Fault: Much like his book counterpart, Wu shirks his responsibility and angrily shifts blame to Masrani. By Dominion he has finally grown out of this, realizing the devastation his work has unleashed on the world.
• Not So Above It All: In an earlier episode of Camp Cretaceous that he appeared in, he's frustrated when the kids arrived at his lab and tried to shoo them away, that is until the resident popular girl Brooklynn convinces him to let her tour the lab and film his works so people on social media will know about his accomplishment. Wu eats it right up and opts to let the kids tour the lab.
• The Perfectionist: In Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous, during a tour of his lab an egg hatches early and has asymmetrical features. He gets frustrated that an imperfect specimen got through his screening process.
  Wu: Asymmetry, in my lab?
• Pragmatic Villainy: While he's unhappy with losing his laptop because of the kids in Camp Cretaceous, he's willing to back off once it's confirmed that the Indominus sample was retrieved. While the laptop contained plenty of valuable research, the sample ensures he doesn't have to start from scratch.
• Punch-Clock Villain: In the Jurassic World trilogy, with Ian Malcolm downright noting "He's always behind these things!" in Dominion. Ultimately, he's Just Following Orders in developing what he was ordered to, no matter if it will be dangerous.
• Redemption Earns Life: He's so far one of the only antagonists of the franchise to survive to the end, in part because he has a Heel Realization and decides to destroy his most dangerous creation.
• Smug Snake: In the first film, he scoffs at the mere idea that his genetic modifications could fail. In the fourth film, he insists that the park and everything in it exist because of him and that without him the park would instantly fail, ignoring the fact that the monster he was responsible for creating was the one that threatened to ruin the park forever.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here:
  • He leaves with the InGen contractor on a helicopter in the fourth film after Jurassic World is compromised, and takes all of his research with him.
  • Does this again in Fallen Kingdom, although he gets tranquilized by Franklin Webb doing so and is dragged away by a mercenary.
  • Done with a Heel–Face Turn in Dominion, asking for the heroes to bring him along in their escape so he can study Maisie's DNA to develop a genetic plague that would wipe out the genetically-enhanced locusts.
• Shut Up, Kirk!: When Masrani confronts him over the Indominus and threatens to shut down the lab and have his research seized, Wu snaps that the geneticists have always spliced in non-dinosaur DNA, and that he was just following the instructions Masrani gave in his memo.
• The Social Darwinist: He is revealed to have this mindset by the time Jurassic World takes place. He absolutely believes that the I. rex's creation is completely justified and that it's all part of the dinosaur's nature for it to break out of captivity and start killing people just because it can.
  Wu: Monster is a relative term. To a canary, a cat is a monster. We're just used to being the cat.
• Spared by the Adaptation: He's killed by raptors in the book, but in the film, he isn't seen after the hatching scene and left the park on the boat before everything went to pot. He continues this lucky streak into Jurassic World, escaping on a helicopter while his conspirator Vic Hoskins winds up as raptor food. And while Zia manages to ruin his experiments by saving Blue's life with a T. rex blood sample and Franklin catches him off-guard and knocks him out with a dose of tranquilizer, one mercenary promptly takes the unconscious Wu away before hell completely breaks loose on Lockwood manor. He then survives the events of Jurassic World Dominion, the conclusion of the Jurassic Park saga that began with the first film.
• Sudden Sequel Heel Syndrome: Without any explanation, Wu is notably more villainous and amoral in Jurassic World than in his prior appearance in the original film.
• Surrounded by Idiots: In Fallen Kingdom, with the likes of Mills, Eversoll, and Wheatley; all of whom have nothing but Dollar sign on their heads. Played for Laughs when he thought Franklin was part of his scientist crew and he's irritated with the latter's apparent incompetence.
• Token Minority: He is the only significant Asian character in the original Jurassic Park.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: When he is first introduced, Wu is a decent if incautious person. The "decent" part is more present in the first novel than the first film, the former of which sees him actively helping to repair the damage to which he unwittingly contributed, but he's a nice guy in both nonetheless. Come Jurassic World more than 20 years later, and Wu has become a much more bitter and cynical person, indifferent to the latest casualties of his new Indominus rex and countering the resulting What the Hell, Hero? reprimand from Simon Masrani by contending that everything unique and successful about the park is ultimately thanks to him, all while ignoring the suffering he has caused to his creations and the loss of both dinosaur and human life he is responsible for.
• Walking Spoiler: Not in the original, but in Jurassic World.
• Villain Has a Point:
  • As noted, he was given explicit orders to make the Indominus as cool as possible, giving him cover for his own agenda.
  • He protests the sale of the Indoraptor since as much money as the prototype specimen is going to make at the auction, they're going to lose the monopoly on hybrid creation by letting it go.
• Villain of Another Story: In the first movie where he is a minor character. He becomes The Evil Genius in Jurassic World and Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.
• Villain with Good Publicity: Much like Vic Hoskins, Wu is depicted as a noted and respected scientist by the Viral Marketing for Jurassic World.
• What the Hell, Hero?: He gives one of these to Simon Masrani, telling him that his request that the I. rex should be "cooler" is what led to its ultimate escape and the ensuing deaths. He belittles him for making demands of genetics while not understanding the possible repercussions. Ultimately subverted: Wu and Hoskins purposely designed the I. rex to be an unstoppable killing machine to test out her and the raptors' military applications so that they could make a fortune off of selling their embryos to the military as weapons.
  You are acting like we are engaged in some kind of mad science. But we are doing what we have done from the beginning. Nothing in Jurassic World is natural! We have always filled gaps in the genome with the DNA of other animals. And, if their genetic code was pure, many of them would look quite different. But you didn't ask for reality. You asked for more teeth.

Ludlow and his Mercenaries

Ludlow

Peter Ludlow

"Hammond's reach exceeded his grasp. Mine does not."

Played By: Arliss Howard

Dubbed in French By: Gilles Guillot

Dubbed in Portuguese By: Márcio Simões

Appearances: The Lost World: Jurassic Park

"Careful. This suit cost more than your education."

The newly elected CEO of InGen. He is John Hammond's nephew, and the main antagonist of the second film. He attains the position during an impromptu meeting with InGen's board of directors after an accident involving a pack of Compsognathus prompts them to unanimously oust Hammond, with Ludlow as his replacement. His character, based on Lewis Dodgson, is described as ruthless, selfish, greedy, and condescending toward those who worked for him or those he disliked.

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• 0% Approval Rating: Given to his greedy and condescending nature towards others during the Isla Sorna expedition, Ludlow is not well-liked by others in general, especially Tembo, who rightfully considered him to be an ineffectual leader at the times of capturing dinosaurs. Even the rest of the InGen hunting team doesn't consider following his orders as they would rather follow the more experienced Tembo; they are even willing to follow Nick Van Owen whenever Tembo is not around. Considering Nick is the reason they're having to traipse through the jungle in the first place, that's saying something.
• Actually Pretty Funny: When Roland more or less calls him incompetent to his face and demands to be in charge of the expedition, Ludlow smiles and responds with a good-natured "Okay!".
• The Alcoholic: A pretty restrained version, in the final film at least. We see him drinking from a flask a couple times, and he's even shown having fallen asleep with the flask still in his hand. This is after everything's hit the fan, so it's hard to blame him. Furthermore, a famous deleted scene reveals that the baby T. rex's leg was broken due to Ludlow getting really drunk (presumably to celebrate a successful hunt) and being startled by a noise coming from the jungle, stumbling back and accidentally breaking the captive baby's leg, something which even Roland Tembo (a hunter himself) is disgusted to witness.
• All There in the Manual: According to the IDW's sequel tie-in comic, he is not blood-related to Hammond and married into the family, though it's anyone's guess how canonical this is.
• Ambition Is Evil: His villainy is mostly the result of his ambition, or alternatively, desperation.
• Big Bad: of The Lost World: Jurassic Park.
• Big Bad Ensemble: With the T. rex family in the second film; the Buck becomes the bigger threat in the film's climax and is partially responsible for taking him out.
• Composite Character: Of the book versions of Lewis Dodgson and John Hammond.
• Death by Irony: He survives the T. rex pair's attack on the island by being one of the few, if not the only, people to follow Malcolm's advice to stay still while everyone else panics and runs only to end up dying to the baby rex (with some help from the Buck) on the mainland when he makes an ill-advised attempt to recapture it.
• Didn't Think This Through: He's solely focused on stocking the San Diego park with live dinosaurs and apparently has no contingency plan to follow should they escape, as evidenced during Buck's rampage. Plus, even if he had been successful, the very fact that he was proving Malcolm right after subjecting him to Malicious Slander for the past four years would probably have opened him and InGen up to a libel suit.
• Expy: Of Lewis Dodgson, but only insofar as that he's a company man who comes to the island to pillage. Ludlow is nowhere near as villainous as Dodgson, who is willing to commit cold-blooded murder. Granted, he shares Dodgson's arrogance and vastly overestimates his ability, resulting in even more deaths than Dodgson.
• Face Death with Despair: Once he is cornered by two Rexes, young and old, all he can think of doing is repeating "wait" like the beasts would understand and pitifully try to crawl away.
• Faux Affably Evil: He might sound polite enough in conversations, but he actually couldn't care less about the people around him. His Jerkass behavior ranged from continuously insulting Malcolm to indifference to his men's life. He even threw his own uncle under the bus, just to take over InGen and become richer. He's condescending and cowardly, refusing to take responsibility for his mistakes. When Ajay is killed, he offered Roland a job in the new San Diego park, without much regarding to the fact Roland won't work for the people who got his best friend killed. When he offered similar condolences after Eddie's death, even in the immediate aftermath of Eddie's companions having just set all the dinosaurs loose and destroyed their camp, he did it only to as an attempt to make himself look better in his men's eyes.
• Honest Corporate Executive: Shocking as it might be, Ludlow never actually does anything illegal. He's completely within his rights to plunder the island, even if he is ethically dubious at best.
• Inelegant Blubbering: Reduced to this when the the Buck and the infant he stupidly tried to catch one last time corner him in the Venture's hold, repeatedly muttering "Wait" like a single word Madness Mantra as they close in on him.
• Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: He's kind of an asshole, and he's not too concerned with the fates of his men, but he never really does anything legally wrong per se. After Eddie got killed by the two adult tyrannosaurs, Ludlow showed empathy toward Malcolm and the others. However, when the male tyrannosaurus ran amok in San Diego, all Ludlow cared about was making more money and avoiding being sued. It backfires on him when he tries recapturing the baby just as the male arrives to their location and he ends up being used as hunting practice for the baby.
• Jerkass Has a Point: Ludlow makes several legitimate points and his position actually comes across as somewhat understandable, even if he does lack personal likability. The dinosaurs are in fact InGen property and made by genetic manipulation, not animals born naturally in the wild. The deleted scene where he convinces InGen's board of directors to oust Hammond takes this even further. Presumably it's meant to show Ludlow as a manipulative, ambitious bastard, but viewers can't really argue with his points: Hammond's efforts have cost InGen both lives and billions of dollars, and creating an island of wild dinosaurs is even riskier than a theme park.
  • During his introductory argument with Malcolm, Ludlow also isn't technically wrong when he points out that Malcolm did choose to violate the NDA he signed before the Isla Nublar Incident. InGen was legally within its rights to retalaite for the breach of contract (even if Ludlow took the retaliation into Malicious Slander territory).
• Karmic Death: He ends up eaten by the animal he brought back from Isla Sorna against all advice.
• Knee-capping: The male adult rex breaks Ludlow's spine with its muzzle as he tried to flee, rendering him paraplegic and thus easier for the baby rex to kill.
• Morality Pet: Roland. He's the only person Ludlow treats with any sort of respect and he willingly heeds Roland's advice. After Roland leaves is when Ludlow really starts making mistakes.
• "Not Illegal" Justification: Ludlow uses this to justify him and his team of poachers travelling to Isla Sorna to steal some of the dinosaurs living there and bring them back to the mainland to put them in a theme park of his own, despite knowing how well that worked for his uncle with the last park: these creatures are extinct animals brought back to life by his company, and therefore are his personal property to do with as he pleases.
• "Not So Different" Remark: From his uncle, John Hammond, as Malcolm points out several times. Both are CEOs with great ambitions who overreach, and due to a combination of personal oversight and human sabotage, fail tragically in a way that causes many deaths. Hammond is treated more sympathetically due to being a cuddly grandfatherly type while Ludlow is a Smug Snake and comes off as a rich Spoiled Brat who's used to getting his way and being told he's right by Yes-Men.
• Only in It for the Money: Doesn't seem to care about the dinosaurs or his men, except how much money they bring him.
• Pet the Dog: He does, with evident sincerity, apologize to Roland for Ajay's death and offers him a lucrative gig at the new park in gratitude but by that point Roland is beyond caring what Ludlow says or thinks about anything. He also offers a brief if somewhat hollow condolence to Malcolm for Eddie's demise.
• Quickly-Demoted Leader: Roland takes command of the expedition away from him almost as soon as they reach the island. Ludlow doesn't mind in the slighest so long as he gets his dinosaurs.
• Rich Jerk: Ludlow is obscenely rich and can be very condescending toward others.
• Self-Disposing Villain: Dies after trying to recapture the infant T. rex one last time.
• Smug Snake: He's convinced the only reason why the Isla Nublar Jurassic Park failed is because of Hammond's incompetence, and that he'll be able to create a successful one, ignoring all of Malcolm's warnings that the whole concept is doomed to fail due to its very nature.
• Too Dumb to Live: Attempts to recapture the infant T. rex without making sure the adult has been successfully contained first. The adult shows up, kneecaps him, and drives home the "Dumb" component by presenting him to the infant as a living practice dummy to help it learn how to kill its own prey.
• Villain Ball: Instead of listening to all the warnings of danger every character throws him, he tries one last time to capture the T. rex by taking its baby. This gets him killed.
• Villainy-Free Villain: He's the film's main antagonist for wanting to capture the dinosaurs for another attempt at a park, but legally, he's entirely in the right and at the end of the day, he's only guilty of doing the job required of him as InGen's CEO. The dinosaurs were created, nurtured, and patented by InGen and the islands are their purchased property, both at enormous expense; they can do whatever they want with the islands and the dinosaurs, which are unnatural invasive species anyway. Hammond deciding to abandon both the islands and dinosaurs to nature cost the company billions, and Ludlow's simply trying to pull InGen out of the red. He also treats Malcolm with common courtesy even though his team actively sabotaged them and left them stranded on the island and only retaliated with Malicious Slander after Malcolm broke the nondisclosure agreement he knowingly and willingly signed into. The primary fact that he's a Smug Snake concerned only with profits, and in over his head is what makes him unlikeable to the audience.

Roland

Roland Tembo

"Somewhere on this island is the greatest predator there ever lived. The second greatest predator must take him down."

Played By: Pete Postlethwaite

Dubbed in French By: Mario Santini

Dubbed in Portuguese By: Roberto Macedo

Appearances: The Lost World: Jurassic Park

"I've spent enough time in the company of death."

A famous animal hunter hired by InGen for the expedition. Though he was hired by InGen, his primary motivation for going to Isla Sorna with his hunting partner, Ajay Sidhu, was the possibility of hunting the ultimate trophy, a male Tyrannosaurus. Despite being a hunter, Tembo is not cruel or bloodthirsty and he holds a personal moral code towards others, such as preventing a possibility that his men would fall victim to predators if they camp on game trails, helping Malcolm and his team up the cliff after their trailers are knocked off by the Tyrannosaurs, asking his men never to tell Kelly about the gruesome death of Dieter, and allowing the group to take a break after seeing Sarah and several of his men feeling tired during the journey.

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• The Ace: Roland is very good at what he does and is easily the most competent character in the whole film.
• Badass Boast: See the quote under his picture.
• Bad People Abuse Animals: He may be willing to help other people in peril and is a lot more Genre Savvy than the rest of hunting party hired by Ludlow and Ingen and realizes just how shortsighted their agenda really is, but he still doesn’t really care about the lives of animals that he hunts for sport. When Nick tries calling him out on this he just dismisses him. He is even willing to stoop to abducting the infant T. rex from its nest to use it as bait for the parents and is seemingly the one responsible for breaking its leg.^note In a deleted scene this is shown to have happened when a drunken Ludlow tripped and fell onto the infant T. rex. It as this not in the final film it’s uncertain if it was Roland or Ludlow who was responsible.
• Bald Head of Toughness: He's an extremely experienced and tough hunter without a hair on his head.
• Berserk Button: If his deleted introduction is anything to go by, anything he constitutes as "ungentlemanly" is this for him. Some random thugs earn his ire and a subsequent beatdown when Tembo spots them harassing a waitress.
• Best Friend: Ajay has been his closest friend for years and the two are genuinely close, with Roland caring deeply about him and being devastated by his death, abandoning InGen altogether after.
• Born in the Wrong Century: He would be have been a hero back in the 1800s with the likes of Allan Quartermain and John Henry Patterson. Roland even forlornly lampshades this in a deleted scene where Ajay comes to recruit him for the Isla Sorna expedition.
  Roland: These days it's a worse crime to shoot a tiger than to shoot your own parents.
• Buffy Speak: During the hunting scene.
  Roland: Pachy ... Pachyl ... oh, hell. The fat head with the bald spot. Friar Tuck.
• Challenge Seeker: Roland fancies himself a true hunter, not minding if the animal wins. Except, they never do. Calling in Roland is pratically an execution for any animal; Roland even likens himself and Ajay to a firing squad than real hunters. He was even on the cusp of permanently retiring because he felt that no animal in the world now will give him a challenge. When present with the opportunity to hunt a T. rex, he makes it clear to his employer that he doesn't give a damn about pay — the thrill of hunting the world's greatest apex predator is the reward in itself.
• Composite Character: Not of anyone from Crichton's novel but rather of Professor George Challenger and Lord John Roxton from the original Doyle classic which the former and the film both take their titles and inspiration from. Like Challenger, Roland is bull-headed and takes charge easily, and refuses to tolerate foolhardiness and like Roxton, he's a renowned big-game hunter who's in search of new quarry.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: A deleted scene has him standing up to a jerk in a bar who was rudely harassing a waitress and starting a fight which ends with the jerk getting utterly demolished. And Roland did this with one hand tied behind his back.
• Deadpan Snarker: He's visibly annoyed by the ignorance of Ludlow and some of the others throughout the film.
  Roland: This is a game trail, Mr. Ludlow; carnivores hunt on game trails. Do you want to set up base camp or a buffet?
• Defeat Means Friendship: After Nick and Sarah cause his and Ludlow's operation to go sideways, he ends up helping them along with Malcolm and Kelly with little complaint upon realizing they're just as stranded and in danger as he and his crew are.
• Dragon-in-Chief: The first thing Roland makes clear to his contractor Peter Ludlow when their raiding expedition arrives on the island is that he is in charge, not the incompetent boss who hired him. Ludlow is fine with this.
• Establishing Character Moment: His first scene proper, where he quickly takes charge of the expedition from Ludlow, establishes that he's probably everyone's best bet for survival if things go south. A deleted scene that happens chronologically earlier demonstrates both his desire for a challenge and his willingness to help those in need even if a situation doesn't involve him.
• Evil Poacher: Downplayed, while his desire to hunt and bring down a buck T. rex for sport is by no means admirable and even ends allowing the San Diego incident to happen, he has several Pet the Dog moments and is even willing to save and aid the main characters.
• Expy: Of Muldoon from the first movie.
• A Father to His Men: Unlike Ludlow, he has genuine concern, bordering on affection for his fellow hunters, which he even extends to Malcolm and his team.
• Genius Bruiser: Due to his years as a professional hunter, he's both highly intelligent, able to track animals, remember key information and is a very skilled tactician and survivalist, and is very physically capable and athletic, able to engage in extended amounts of strenuous physical activity and a deleted scene shows him able to effortlessly beat up a jerk he picked a fight with, showing him as a very capable fighter.
• Great White Hunter: He embodies the concept of a grand, old-fashioned hunter. His motivation for joining the expedition is to test himself against the Tyrannosaurus rex.
• Heel–Face Turn: He goes out of his way to rescue Malcolm's team, and by the end he sheds his ties with "the company of death."
• Heroic BSoD: He takes Ajay's death very badly and gives up hunting after bagging the male T. rex.
• Hidden Depths: Despite working for InGen, he shows concern for the safety of Kelly, and his own crew, and at the end seems to realize just how shortsighted InGen's agenda really is.
  Peter Ludlow: I remember the people who help me, Roland. There's a job for you at the park in San Diego, if you want it.
  Roland Tembo: No, thank you. I believe I've spent enough time in the company of death.
• Hero Antagonist: He's on Ludlow's team, but is actually more heroic than some of the protagonists, namely Nick.
• Honest Advisor: To Ludlow. Roland doesn't mince words about Ludlow's poor decisions and, to his credit, Ludlow listens. It's once Roland leaves his employ that Ludlow starts making really bad choices.
• Jerkass Has a Point: He's fairly blunt about the T. rexes not following the humans immediately after destroying the trailers since they've 'just fed'. Ian's incensed that Roland's being so cavalier about Eddie's death, but Roland calmly retorts that Eddie's troubles are over, and predators don't hunt when they're not hungry.
  • He also rightly points out that half the reason for the mess they're in is because of Nick's actions, although him kidnapping the infant ''T. rex'' in the first place is what got it injured and partially the reason its parents are so determined to see them all gone from the island or dead.
  • Let's not forget his Establishing Character Moment:
  Roland: This is a game trail, Mr. Ludlow. Carnivores hunt on game trails. Do you want to set up base camp or a buffet?
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Roland is most definitely not a people person and tends to be rather blunt, if not outright rude, with anyone who isn't his best friend, Ajay. That said, he does a lot of things that would be considered heroic, such as refusing to abandon or harm Ian's group after the first T. rex attack, searching for Stark when he goes missing, and stepping up to defend the camp from the rexes. A deleted scene even has him handing a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown to a misogynistic tourist who was harassing a waitress, although Ajay points out this is as much out of boredom as out of chivalry.
• Karma Houdini: As the one who brought down the male T. rex, Roland is ultimately responsible for what happens in San Diego. Unfortunately, the bastard never gets any punishment for what happened, as he exits the film shortly after. That said, Tembo had initially attempted to shoot the Rex with his rifle... only to discover Nick had stolen his ammo. The only reason the animal was tranquilized rather than shot dead was because Tembo had no other weapon on hand but the tranq rifle, and no means of stopping it from killing the remainder of his team. Ludlow even explicitly calls out that this is better than Tembo had initially hoped for, since this way everyone can appreciate the live animal he's helped capture, something Tembo explicitly didn't care about.
• Kick the Dog: Pretty much the only evil thing Tembo does is use the baby rex as bait for its parents. Mitigating this, however, it's shown in a Deleted Scene that Ludlow was the one responsible for injuring it, with Roland chewing him out for this.
• Laser-Guided Karma: While Roland may have not died or face any legal troubles, for spending a career hunting animals for sport and then working for the scumbag Ludlow, he left the film with the death of his partner Ajay on his conscience and a hollow victory at best.
• Let Us Never Speak of This Again: Regarding Kelly, when Dieter goes missing, Roland informs Sarah in no uncertain terms that "no one tells the little girl" before going off to search for him. Justified when he returns claiming that he only found "the parts they didn't like."
• Meaningful Name: Probably unintentional, but "Tembo" is Swahili for "Elephant," fitting both in that he is dignified and intelligent, but also in that he is a Great White Hunter named after a big game animal, the animal itself being one of the few living land animals that could potentially rival a fully grown Tyrannosaurus in terms size and strength, much like how Roland views himself as a rival to the T.Rex.
  • His first name is a reference to the Warren Zevon song "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner". Fittingly, the Roland in the song was betrayed by a man named Van Owen.
• Nerves of Steel: Most people, when faced down by a very angry bull Tyrannosaur who they just shot a dart at, would bolt without a second thought. Tembo just calmly starts loading in another dart.
• Never My Fault: He rightly blames Nick's sabotage for the predicament^note  Stranded on a dinosaur-inhabited island with no way to call for help save hiking through hostile territory. they're in but never owns up to the fact that he kidnapped the infant rex from its nest, which ultimately leads to both camps becoming targets of its parents' ire.
• The Nicknamer: As in Buffy Speak above, he quickly gives up trying to say the proper scientific names for dinosaurs and gives them names based on their most prominent features.
• No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction: In one of the deleted scenes, he discusses this with Ajay, citing it as why he's largely retired from hunting.
  Ajay: What, go alone? But we always had such great success together, you and I.
  Roland: Just a little bit too much, I think.
  Ajay: How do you mean?
  Roland: A true hunter doesn't mind if the animal wins. But there were not enough escapes from you and me, Ajay. We were a firing squad, don't you think so?
• Only in It for the Money: Subverted- he tells Ludlow to keep his check, wanting instead permission to hunt and bring down a fully-grown male tyrannosaur, or "Buck only" as he puts it.
• The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: His goal is to take down the greatest predator of them all, an adult bull male T. rex. He does succeed, but in a hollow way that robs him of any feelings of triumph.
• Only Sane Man: Aside from Malcolm and possibly Eddie, Roland and Ajay seem to be the only people who truly realize and understand the implications of humans being on an island that's full of hungry, territorial dinosaurs who'll eat/kill them without a second thought.
• Precision F-Strike: Roland has a very apt word for Nick, the man who unloaded his gun.
  Roland: Bastard.
• Punch-Clock Villain: Roland only joins InGen's team in exchange for being able to hunt one of the male tyrannosaurs. Once everything goes to hell, he foregoes this goal in light of trying to get everyone to safety. Similarly, he also puts aside the rivalry with Malcolm's team despite some of them being partially responsible for things going bad. Even when Roland's not around, the rest of the InGen team are this as well as they would prefer to listen to Nick rather than Ludlow.
• Pyrrhic Victory: In the end, he actually manages to bring down the bull Tyrannosaurus, which is why he agreed to come to the island at all, but his longtime best friend Ajay was killed on the expedition. He's seen sitting very sombrely next to his prize, rather than celebrating the fact he's proven himself as the greatest hunter on Earth, and outright rejects a lucrative job offer at the park because he decides the rest isn't worth it. Ironically, it was Roland's viewpoint that his and Ajay's overly successful hunting of regular quarry had become this trope that ultimately led to the above.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: After bagging the T. rex at the cost of the deaths of most of his men, including his long-time hunting companion, Roland decides he's had enough of dinosaurs and hunting in general, and gracefully declines to work with InGen any longer.
• Skewed Priorities: He decides to go after and bring down the Male Tyrannosaur with a tranquilizer despite it being unaware of his presence and not posing a threat while the female is chasing after and picking off his men. The fact that he'd initially attempted to shoot the female with his lethal elephant gun^note  Not knowing Nick had unloaded it several scenes prior makes this all the more confusing.
• Stopped Caring: One way to interpret Tembo’s decision to prioritise bringing down his trophy (the male Tyrannosaurus) which was posing the lesser of two threats while ignoring that the female was at that same moment pursuing and picking off the rest of Ludlow’s hunting party, perhaps finally having had enough of the other characters incompetence/interference and discovering that Nick stole his bullets which stopped him from bringing down the attacking female was the final straw and he decided to leave the other characters to their fate while he would finally get the trophy he came for.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: While he along with Nick Van Owen and Ludlow are all responsible for unintentionally causing the San Diego Incident, ultimately his insistence to bring down the male Tyrannosaur is what allowed Ludlow to capture the dinosaur and bring it to the mainland where it proceeded to rampage through San Diego. More specifically to the latter point, he panics and pumps two 10cc carfentanyl darts into the Buck as it's about to charge at him, sending it into cardiac distress and necessitating an unknown amount of amphetamines to be given as an antidote which pretty much sends the dinosaur into Unstoppable Rage mode when it wakes up.
• Villainous Cheekbones: He isn't evil, but we can't have Pete Postlethwaite without them.

Ajay

Ajay Sidhu

"Don't go into the long grass!"

Played By: Harvey Jason

Dubbed in French By: Gilbert Lévy

Dubbed in Portuguese By: Jorge Lucas

Appearances: The Lost World: Jurassic Park

" I have reason to believe you would find this expedition's quarry most challenging."

Roland Tembo's hunting partner from India.

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• Beware the Quiet Ones: Ajay is very soft-spoken and meek-natured but he's an expert hunter-tracker for a reason.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: He's ripped apart by raptors in the tall grass, similar to Howard King's fate in the novel though not nearly as graphic since it happened offscreen.
• Dropped a Bridge on Him: He gets killed by the raptors in the long grass in an offscreen moment of Face Death with Dignity (see below). His best friend, Roland, does not take his death very well and ends up leaving because of it.
• Face Death with Dignity: In the script and a scene that was apparently edited out, Ajay visibly realised that outrunning the raptors was futile, and simply opted for a death of quiet dignity, kneeling down as they jumped him.
• Flat Character: Wasn't much depth to Ajay other than being Roland's partner.
• Forgotten Fallen Friend: Averted. Not only does Roland inform Ludlow that He Didn't Make It, but the loss is crushing enough to convince Roland that he's "spent enough time in the company of death" and he altogether retires from hunting on the spot.
• Great White Hunter: Although technically he's Indian, the rest of the trope applies. While not to the same extent as Roland in the film, he's nonetheless a highly-skilled dangerous-game hunter who has traveled the world, and it's implied in a deleted scene that both Roland and himself are out of work because of their hunting jobs losing relevance in the modern world.
• Hero Antagonist: Like his boss (and friend) Roland.
• Killed Offscreen: Word of God says Ajay is ripped apart in the long grass by the raptors after choosing to Face Death with Dignity albeit we do not see him get attacked.^note  We do hear his screams at the moment Ian, Sarah, Kelly, and Nick enter the field and find his discarded backpack. His death is only confirmed verbally by Tembo, although cause of death is never specified.
• The Lancer: To Roland Tembo.
• Only Sane Man: During the scene where he and the rest of the InGen hunting party are running from one of the T. rex and they come to a plain of long grass, and everyone runs into the long grass despite his protests to not do so. Subverted, when he ends up going in after them, though in fairness he didn't have many options between the raptors and the rex.
• Punch-Clock Villain: Ajay only joins InGen's team in exchange for being able to help Roland hunt one of the male tyrannosaurs. Once everything goes to hell, he foregoes this goal in light of helping Roland get everyone (including Malcolm's team) to safety.
• The Quiet One: Has very little dialogue.
• Sound-Only Death: Doubles as Rewatch Bonus. If the volume's turned up enough, he can be heard screaming out as the raptors attack him offscreen moments after Malcolm's group come across his discarded backpack in the grass field.
• Undying Loyalty: To Roland and presumably to the InGen team. When the T. rexes attack their camp, Ajay attempts to rush to Roland's side but gets caught up and dragged off by the other hunters fleeing in the opposite direction. Later, when no one heeds his warning to stay out of the tall grass, he plunges in after them rather than trying to save himself.
• The World's Expert (on Getting Killed): He warns his fellow survivors against going into the long grass at the top of his lungs, then follows them into it himself when nobody heeds his words.
• Villainous Friendship: With Tembo. Though neither of them can really be called "villains", as they're just on the wrong team.

Stark

Dieter Stark

"It's not polite to sneak up on people."

Played By: Peter Stormare

Dubbed in French By: Patrick Laplace

Dubbed in Portuguese By: Luiz Feier Motta

Appearances: The Lost World: Jurassic Park

Tembo's second-in-command. Despite being his appointed second-in-command, Tembo does not respect him as much as he does Ajay Sidhu. This might be due to being bloodthirsty and cruel as a hunter, something which neither Tembo nor Sidhu is.

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• All There in the Manual: The script describes him as being a South African, which would make him an Amoral Afrikaner by definition.
• Bad People Abuse Animals: Since his Establishing Character Moment involves him torturing compys with a cattle prod, it kind of goes without saying.
• The Brute: Dieter is a generally aggressive and irritable jerk, who enjoys using his weapons and hurting others. He's also viewed as such by Roland Tembo, who considers him something of a blunt nuisance.
• The Bully: Picks on weaker dinosaurs and almost fights Nick after insulting him.
• Death by a Thousand Cuts: Dieter being swarmed by a shitload of little biting compies ends up amounting to this before he gets too far.
• Foreign Cuss Word: He mutters "Helvetes Jävlar" in one scene which means "Hell, motherfuckers!"^note a closer literal translation would be "Hell's Devils", but the correct translation to the swear is "damned bastards"
• Forgotten Fallen Friend: Malcolm asks if Roland was successful in finding him. Roland matter-of-factly replies, "Just the parts they didn't like." And that's the end of any mourning done for Dieter Stark.
• Gory Discretion Shot : He is attacked by a group of compys onscreen the first time then the second time he is killed by them via the use of this trope. Even though, we hear him scream in agony as the compys devour him alive, the actual death is hidden behind a fallen tree and a river of his blood flows underneath the tree.
• Hate Sink: Most of the InGen personnel are just doing their jobs, Roland and Ajay are portrayed as honorable men and treated with a good deal of sympathy, and Ludlow, while not the most likeable man, isn't really all that evil when you get right down to it. Obviously, you can't hate the dinosaurs, seeing as they're just animals. Dieter, however, is a sadistic jerk who gets his jollies from animal cruelty.
• Hope Spot: At first, Dieter was shown to be capable of defending himself pretty well when he is first attacked by the Compsognathus pack. In fact, after being bitten all over his body, he appears to be more pissed off than in pain. However, in the next scene featuring him, he's luck ran out and is reduced to fleeing until he meets his end when cornered.
• The Hunter Becomes the Hunted: In his final moments once he loses his gun and his cattle prod he gets stalked and killed by a pack of compys. Ironically he used to torture some of 'em before just for fun.
• Jerkass: The only unambiguously and unquestionably evil person in the film.
• Just Desserts: Dieter is eaten by a mass of compys who rip him apart. Spielberg even said Stormare deserved the Cruel and Unusual Death after all he did in Fargo.
• Karmic Death: Like Ludlow, he gets eaten by the very creatures he's been mistreating. He also arguably gets a much slower and more gruesomely drawn-out death than Ludlow, fitting how he was much more wantonly cruel and malicious than the latter.
• Kick the Dog: He loves torturing the animals. His first major scene has him and Burke encountering a Compsognathus, which Burke explains is unafraid of them because they're not familiar with humans and thus have no reason to fear them. Stark proceeds to shock the Compy with his cattle prod and sardonically quips, "They do now." This comes back to bite him in the ass.
• Ludicrous Gibs: Not shown onscreen, but he presumably ends up as this if Roland's account of finding him is anything to go by.
  Malcolm: Did you find him?
  Roland: Just the parts they didn't like.
• More Despicable Minion: In contrast to the honorable Roland, the affable Ajay, and even the reasonable and straight-laced if slimy Ludlow, both of whom he answers to; Dieter is a cruel asshole who pokes the dinosaurs unprovoked with cattle prods just for his jollies.
• Nothing Is Scarier: His death is depicted offscreen, via a combination of Gory Discretion Shot and Sound-Only Death, but considering we twice saw the compys swarm him like ants on a grasshopper leading up to this, it's not hard to imagine what's happening to him now.
• Psychopathic Manchild: Downplayed. Although not outright insane, he takes sadistic pleasure in hurting the dinosaurs and tries to bully Nick, the latter being somewhat mitigated as Nick was quite recently responsible for destroying their camp on Dieter's watch.
• Pet the Dog: The only good thing we see him doing by far is helping Roland rescuing Malcolm and his team after the rexes attack.
• The Rival: To Nick, although it isn't explored any further after their initial confrontation.
• Sadist: Stark has shades of this, randomly shocking a curious Compsognathus for no reason other than it "gives me the creeps".
• Shock and Awe: He uses a cattle prod to torture a Compsognathus.
• Token Evil Teammate; Roland, Ajay and the rest of the hunters are honorable and brave Punch Clock Villains. Dieter on the other hand is cruel and sadistic, with meager sympathetic qualities.
• Too Dumb to Live: On an island full of dangerous dinosaurs that he's seen first-hand, Dieter still thinks it's a good idea to split away from the group to relieve himself, which wouldn't be so bad if he didn't seemingly wander a mile into the damn jungle. Maybe he suffers from an extremely shy bladder.

Burke

Dr. Robert Burke

Played By: Thomas F. Duffy

Dubbed in French By: Patrick Messe

Appearances: The Lost World: Jurassic Park

InGen's resident paleontologist. Although he was considered by InGen to be one of their top paleontologists, he provides several pieces of incorrect information.

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• Alas, Poor Villain: Despite being a member of InGen team, it's hard not to feel sorry to Robert as he ends up being devoured by the T. rex mother; even Sarah herself is horrified to witness his gory death after trying to warn him to keep away from the the jaws of the T. rex after he panicked due to having a snake slither inside his shirt.
• Eaten Alive: By the doe ''T. rex'.
• Everyone Has Standards: Looks absolutely aghast when Stark callously tasers a Compsognathus just to teach it to fear humans.
• Evil Counterpart: To Sarah, although he isn't really evil other than being on the opposing team. In spite of this, he held no grudge against Sarah when she proved his theory wrong of T. rex parents abandoning their young; Sarah even agreed with Robert's correct statement (for once) that the T. rex parents only destroyed the trailers due to the groups changing their perceived territory by moving their infant.
• Expy: An obvious caricature of Robert T. Bakker, a rival of film consultant Jack Horner, one of their primary feuds being over whether Tyrannosaurus rex was a hunter or scavenger (Bakker believes it was a hunter while Horner believes it was a scavenger). Burke's death is clearly meant as a Take That! to Bakker, who caught onto the dig at him, but took no offense, jokingly telling Horner after seeing the film that he was right all along!
  Bakker: I TOLD you T. rex was a hunter!
• Heel–Face Door-Slam: Just when he begins to bond with the heroes and saves them, he's eaten by the T. rex.
• Mr. Exposition: He largely spouts exposition about the dinosaurs.
• Oh, Crap!: After doing his Mr. Exposition speech about a nearby Pachycephalosaurus to one of Ludlow's other men, said Pachy slams into a nearby truck and then starts advancing toward Burke. He promptly runs for it.
• Pet the Dog: Helps Roland rescue Malcolm and his team after their trailers were destroyed by the T. rex parents.
• Punch-Clock Villain: Robert only joins InGen's team to ensure that his knowledge of dinosaurs be passed in the new park that Ludlow is overseeing. Once everything goes to hell, he foregoes this goal in light of helping Roland get everyone (especially his professional rival Sarah Harding) to safety.
• The Rival: To Sarah, in a professional sense. They don't have any real interaction otherwise.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: To George Baselton from Crichton's book. Both are the resident scientists for the "villainous" team and both die to one of the rex parents due to inaccurate scientific assumptions. His being dragged out to his death by the arm could be a Homage to Baselton having his arm torn from his body.
• Too Dumb to Live: Between a T. rex and a snake, he chooses the T. rex. A harmless snake slips into his shirt while he's hiding in a waterfall, causing him to panic and stumble outside into the jaws of the T. rex.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Implied since he starts to panic when a milk snake slithers into his jacket and he freaks out so bad he forgets about the Tyrannosaurus outside, which promptly eats him.

Carter

Carter

Played By: Thomas Rosales Jr.

Appearances: The Lost World: Jurassic Park

Dieter's only friend.

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• Headphones Equal Isolation: He can't hear Stark's screams as he's attacked by a flock of Compsognathus because he has his headphones on.
• Mauve Shirt: He receives little to no characterization beyond being Dieter's friend, but he still has a name and screentime.
• The Millstone: Carter is more than useless; he's actually detrimental to his friends. He listens to music and zones out in a dinosaur-infested island, ultimately leading to Dieter's death. Later, he alerts the T. rex to everyone by screaming at the top of his lungs even though it wasn't near him.^note  Though to be somewhat fair here most people would squeal and scream their heads off if a 12 ft tall super predator came wandering into their campsite especially at night.
• Oh, Crap!: When he sees the T. rex in the campsite and starts screaming at the top of his lungs.
• Only Friend: Seemingly to Dieter, who treats Carter with more affability than anyone else.
• Screams Like a Little Girl: When he sees the T. rex and just before he gets squashed under the mama T. rex's foot.
• Too Dumb to Live: He's one of the many characters that doesn't take their situation seriously. Worst of all, he frequently zones out while on a dangerous island full of predators.
  • When he wakes up and sees the Rex couple prowling through their camp, rather than stay calm and quiet, he instead panics and very loudly screams, alerting the dinosaurs and causing a mass panic amongst the mercenaries.
• Villainous Friendship: With Dieter Stark; their friendship seems genuine.

InGen Security Division

Hoskins

Vic Hoskins

"War is part of nature."

Played By: Vincent D'Onofrio

Dubbed in French By: Stefan Godin

Appearances: Jurassic World

"Every living thing in this jungle ... is trying to murder the other. Mother Nature's way of testing her creations. Refining the pecking order. War is a struggle. Struggle breeds greatness. Without that ... we end up with places like this, charge seven bucks a soda."

The head of security operations for InGen. He has prior experience dealing with dinosaurs, having overseen the "cleanup" operation of Pteranodon flying over Canada in 2001. On top of making sure the tourists are safe on Isla Nublar, his subordinates are also tasked with keeping poachers off of Isla Sorna.

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• Admiring the Abomination: Although he sees the raptors as tools more than anything else, he seems rather awe-inspired by them all the same. He tentatively asks Barry if he can touch a restrained Delta, which he does with all the jittery excitement of a little boy. One could even say he uses the raptors like a kid that's found his dad's gun.
• Affably Evil: He is always polite and and treats everyone like an old friend even when explaining his plans. When talking to Owen despite clearly having bad intentions he manages to keep a smile and humor on. When Masrani dies he at least seems sorrowful and calls it a tragedy. He also does not punch Owen back after Owen hits him. He clearly was not about to attack or harm Owen, Claire and the boys before Delta came.
• Animals Hate Him: The raptors, in this case. Blue and Delta start snarling and shaking their cages whenever Hoskins shows up, despite being calm and docile when Owen, Barry, or even the other staff are with them. Delta especially seems to dislike Hoskins, and she later pursues and disembowels him in the Creation Lab. Oddly enough, averted in his backstory. He mentions at one point having rescued a wolf puppy and raised it, even allowing it to sleep on his bed ... and said wolf ripping off his wife's arm when she tried to attack him with a knife for an unmentioned reason. He adds that he did not put the wolf down after it did that.
• Asshole Victim: Downplayed. While he may not have done anything truly evil, it's hard to feel sorry for him after his foolish and nefarious schemes to engineer weaponized dinosaurs fails, and he gets torn apart by the raptor Delta after spending the whole film planning to exploit her and all her sisters for unethical profit.
• Bad People Abuse Animals: Zigzagged, on the one hand he tells a story about how he saved and raised a wolf pup, on the other he explicitly wants to use Owen’s research with his raptors in order to specifically breed and train raptors whose sole purpose would be for their military applications and they would exist just so the military can put them in harms way and mortal peril in military conflicts, dismissing Owen’s arguments on the grounds that extinct animals don’t have rights.
• Beard of Evil: Not exactly evil but as the most prominent human villain, he sports a nice example of the stereotypical "villainous goatee", just in case it wasn't already obvious enough that we're not supposed to like him.
• Big Bad Ensemble: With the I. rex. He's trying to exploit the dinosaurs for profit as biological weapons of war. He ends up killed by a raptor she's manipulated to go crazy and she ends up taking up the role as the Big Bad in the climax.
• Blood Knight: He considers war to be the natural state of the world.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: His arm is chomped on by a Raptor and possibly torn off, before he's ripped apart and devoured by the animal. As greedy as he was, let's face it, he really didn't deserve such a horrific end.
• Establishing Character Moment: Hoskins starts talking about how war is the natural state of the world and that Velociraptors could be the perfect field weapon in modern warfare, in contrast to Owen and Barry, who both genuinely care for the raptors' well-being and think attempting to control wild animals is insane. Hoskins, on the other hand, comes across as uncaring and obsessed with the animals' applications, not the animals themselves.
• Even Evil Has Standards: He's clearly upset when Masrani dies. While it's partially horror with how bad his plans have failed he's also horrified watching his men get torn apart.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: If his backstory is anything he rescued a wolf pup and truly did care for it even going as far as to not put it down after it mauled his wife to protect him.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Hoskins is pretty sure that Masrani has skeletons in his closet, while Owen (who's just as cynical but much more moral) understands that Masrani just wants to teach people some humility. Hoskins can't conceive of Masrani being an Honest Corporate Executive; Masrani has some shady people working for him (Hoskins himself is a perfect example) but that can be attributed to naivete more than anything.
• Exit, Pursued by a Bear: More like "Exit, Pursued by a Velociraptor."
• Expy: Of Dennis Nedry from the first film and Peter Ludlow from The Lost World. All three are greedy InGen employees who see dinosaurs as nothing more than their property. Both Ludlow and Hoskins lead a mercenary force onto a dinosaur-infested island to further their goals, and all three meet their ends at the claws and teeth of the very animals they want to exploit.
• Failed a Spot Check: He failed to notice a raptor breach in the lab until it was too late.
• Fatal Flaw: His manipulative nature and exploiting the Velociraptors for his evil deeds causes him to be eaten by one.
• Fat Bastard: Given he's a slimy character played by the chubby Vincent D'Onofrio, a natural.
• Foil: To Owen. While Owen respects the Velociraptors, Hoskins treats them like tools, viewing them as foot soldiers he could sell for cash.
• Genre Blindness: He wholly believes that genetically-recreated dinosaurs are little more than business assets and property to be exploited for all they're worth. Up to this point in the series, there were no fewer than 3 prior incidents that he would have known about that clearly outline why this is a horrible mindset to possess.
• Greed: Hoskins has dollar signs in his eyes when he sees Owen's work with the raptors. He believes they have highly promising military applications, while Owen knows that taming a dinosaur isn't as simple as Hoskins thinks it is. Unsurprisingly, the Velociraptors choose to eat him, not Owen.
• Hate Sink: He's a despicable human being who exists to give the audience a human character to root against, because the deadly dinosaurs can only be terrifying as a natural threat. However, this is downplayed because he does have some Pet the Dog moments.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: He is absolutely adamant about letting the raptors out to be used as weapons against the Indominus despite everyone else telling him that's an absolutely horrendous idea. When Masrani dies, he forcibly takes command of the operation and uses his authority to let the raptors out, regardless of what anyone says. Sure enough, it goes horrible wrong as the I. rex establishes itself as leader of the raptors and turns them on Hoskins' men, resulting in most of them being slaughtered, including Hoskins himself.
• Jerkass Has a Point:
  • While Hoskins' approach is utterly contemptible, the raptors are, indeed, quite capable predators. They would absolutely be ideal for several military applications, and could likely save (and take) lots of lives if they could be properly trained. His problem is he thinks that the raptors take orders from anyone, when in reality Barry and Owen had to train and raise them from birth, and while the raptors respect Owen and Barry they do not hesitate to kill other humans should the opportunity arise.
  • Also, when Hoskins takes control of the situation by sending in what amounts to a PMC after the dinosaurs, Hoskins notes to Owen that innocent people are going to die if nothing else is done, since rescue won't be coming for several more hours. Not only that, but the operation is going to happen with or without Owen. This actually convinces Owen to work with Hoskins to defeat the I. rex.
• Karmic Death: Hoskins is ripped apart by one of the animals he sought to exploit.
• Know When to Fold 'Em: He indirectly admits that making the Indominus a super predator the size of a large theropod was a bad idea as he notes that the next hybrid will be a fraction of the size.
• Large and in Charge: He has a very high rank within InGen as head of security operations, which is not an inconsiderable leadership position given the sheer size of the company. As for being large, he's played by the 6 ft. 3.5 in. Vincent D'Onofrio.
• Manipulative Bastard: His plan is based entirely on his manipulations of others; he pushes Dr. Wu to create a hybrid so intelligent and vicious that she will inevitably escape, thus giving him two opportunities: field test the raptors to publicize them to the world as the next step in warfare, or use the I. rex for the same purpose. It didn't matter which won, either way Hoskins would have succeeded. His overconfidence means he falls just short of being a magnificent-type villain, meaning he winds up as a high-functioning Smug Snake.
• Noodle Incident: His wife came at him with a steak knife once, but he only alludes to it in a vague way to prove a separate point. It's unclear why she did so.
• "Not So Different" Remark: He tries to push this with former Navy man Owen, saying they're both "dogs of war," but it's a shallow manipulation like everything else.
• Pass the Popcorn: Swipes a sip of Lowery's drink when the Raptor Squad searches for the I. rex.
• Pet the Dog: Despite his villainy, multiple Pet the Dog moments are seen. After Masrani dies, he has the decency to look sorrowful, though it doesn't stop him from exploiting the situation. Later, despite getting punched by Owen, he doesn't retaliate, or sic his men on him. In addition, after the raptors chose I. rex as their alpha, when Hoskins realizes they have turned their sight on Owen (after being told by Barry "they look at what they want to eat"), he immediately calls his men to open fire on the dinosaurs. And while his reaction is undoubtedly partly due to realizing that his plan has gone south, he's clearly horrified as he watches the raptors tear his men apart. His backstory has a more literal Pet the Dog moment with a wolf cub he raised.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: There's a subtle but very telling moment where he calls one of the raptors a "he" before Barry corrects him. It hints at the hypermasculine tendencies that complements his aggressive, war-loving attitude.
• Psychotic Smirk: Has one on his face when the Pteranodons are wreaking havoc on the park's visitors.
• The Rival: To Owen, at least in his own mind. Hoskins wants to weaponize Owen's raptors; Owen doesn't want Hoskins anywhere near his raptors. It ultimately leads to Hoskins using every under-handed trick he can to undermine Owen's authority and force the raptors into field combat against the rampaging I. rex.
• Smug Snake: He's not quite the brilliant chessmaster he thinks he is. He does have some good manipulative skills, but his arrogance blinds him to the flaws in his plan. Like many Jurassic Park characters before him, he fails to understand that it isn't possible to exert complete control over nature. It's this arrogance that ultimately dooms him.
• Smug Smiler: More often than not, he's wearing a big false grin.
• The Social Darwinist: Hoskins tells Owen early on that nature is filled with war for survival, and he laments that human society has often been free of it, speaking contemptuously of the tourists (clearly implying they wouldn't survive in the wild). After the pterosaurs attack them, Hoskins grins in delight. He shows open admiration of the Indominous rex and velociraptors as efficient killing machines, calling them "nature's gifts" (just before he gets killed by a raptor).
• Too Dumb to Live: As a result of his arrogance in "Fatal Flaw" above. Seriously, what kind of idiot thinks he can control a large, extremely dangerous predator just because he watched someone do it once?
• Tyrant Takes the Helm: After Masrani's death, he places himself in control and immediately replaces everyone with his own trigger-happy team.
• Villainy-Free Villain: Yeah he wants to use the dinosaurs for military purposes and is rather giddy watching the chaos unfold but despite being in a high position of power, Hoskins never does anything villainous or illegal and shows a surprising amount of restraint even after being punched by Owen. When he finally gets the raptors he tries to use them to kill the I. rex.
• Villains Want Mercy: Complete with attempting to persuade the raptor, "I'm on your side!"
• Villain with Good Publicity: Based on the way Viral Marketing for the film depicted him as the protector of Jurassic World. He caught Masrani's eye through his and his team's "cleanup" operation of Pteranodon flying over Canada in 2001, earning him a promotion to head of security.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Hoskins wants to use the raptors to hunt the I. rex, but the I. rex is a very legitimate concern and his priority seems to be preventing further deaths. He also believes that using Raptors for war instead of humans would save many lives. Of course, it becomes a lot more debatable when you find out he wanted the I. rex to escape.
• What Measure Is a Non-Human?: He sees the dinosaurs less as living things and more as profit makers. That same attitude leads to massive overconfidence in the ability of him or his staff to control them, hence why he thought creating the I. rex was at all a good plan.
• Wrong Genre Savvy: He thinks of raptors as genetically perfect killing machines, but while the genes of dinosaurs are being engineered to fit some purpose they are still animals that can't be tamed and can't be used like an attack dog.

InGen Contractor

InGen Contractor

Played By: Michael Papajohn

Appearances: Jurassic World

One of the mercenaries brought in by Hoskins after the ACU doesn't perform as well as he'd like.

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• Bald of Evil: Well, balding, anyway; he has male-pattern baldness.
• Beard of Evil: The better to match Hoskins.
• Karma Houdini: He gets off scot-free at the end of the film, escaping in a helicopter with Wu.
• Mauve Shirt: It seems as though he's a dead man when he first shows up, especially given the fates of almost all of his men. However, against all the odds he manages to survive the movie.
• Mook Lieutenant: To Hoskins. He seems to be the leader of the mercenaries
• No Name Given: He's just called "InGen Contractor" in the credits.
• Private Military Contractors: It's right there in what passes for his character name, and all of the men he brings with him as pretty clearly mercenaries.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: He flees on the helicopter with Wu at the end.
• Small Role, Big Impact: He doesn't do much except stand around with Hoskins looking mean, bordering on being a Satellite Character, but it is through his actions that Wu escapes with all of his work, setting up the sequel.
• Villainy-Free Villain: He doesn't actually do anything that can actually be called evil, and seems pretty dedicated to stopping Indominus rex. However he does side with Hoskins and when things go south he chooses to save himself and ferries Wu and his work off of Isla Nublar, leaving hundreds of people to die.