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AH AH AH. YOU DIDN'T SAY THE MAGIC WORD!
Throughout the series, we've got to see quite a few jackasses, making it oh-so-satisfying when they finally get hit by Laser-Guided Karma.
  • Jurassic Park:
    • Donald Gennaro, the lawyer. Specifically because of how different his character is in the book from the movie. In the book he is actually fairly competent and brave, not the useless, spineless character in the movie, illustrating the screenplay writers needed someone the audience to focus some hate on because you can't hate the heroes or the dinosaurs right? He's the only person to not see any problem with cloning dinosaurs, shows his stupidity on the tour by asking if the live people are autoerotic (confusing the word with "animatronic"), and then abandons the children during the scene with the T. rex. His comeuppance of getting eaten on the toilet is masterful. The movie version of Gennaro seems to be a Composite Character of Ed Regis from the book, who also abandoned the children during the T. rex attack and ended up eaten.
    • Dennis Nedry, a snarky, arrogant slob who sabotages the Park's security fences so he can steal a bunch of embryos, knowing full well that he's placing children and many of his co-workers in danger by doing so. He mouths off even to his own co-conspirators, secures his PC with an obnoxious self-portrait (that grating "A-ah-ah!" is what does it), and is such a bad liar that only the fact he's a known social incompetent let him get away with his rambling excuse. Plenty of laughs when he becomes Dilophosaurus munchies, and at the jaws of a critter he'd insulted to its face, no less. The circumstances of his death in the book are similar, but definitely not very comical.
    • Ironically, the book version of John Hammond fills the role very nicely; he's an arrogant rich bastard used to getting his own way and whose refusal to listen to criticism ends up getting numerous people killed. His comeuppance is falling prey to the dinosaurs himself at the very end, after it seems as though they're safe. In the movie he's upgraded to a kindly old man whose only faults are naïveté, overconfidence, and sexism in survival situations.
  • The Lost World: Jurassic Park:
    • Dieter Stark, Roland's second-in-command. Of the antagonists, the InGen employees are just doing their jobs, Roland and Ajay are noble, honorable people, and Ludlow, despite being sometimes insensitive, has several good points and does little that is particularly villainous, even having a Pet the Dog moment with Roland late in the film. Stark, on the other hand, is a sadistic prick who enjoys torturing animals (even if they haven't done anything to him, like the Compy he uses his cattle prod on early in the movie) and is disliked by his employer Roland for this very reason. It's therefore quite satisfying when he meets a violent end by some of the dinosaurs he'd tormented.
    • In a Deleted Scene, Roland hears a drunken man named Mike sexually harassing a waitress. Roland berates Mike by telling him he's not a gentleman, picks a fight with him, ties one of his own hands behind his back, and proceeds to kick Mike's ass, which included breaking his nose with two fingers. The whole purpose of Mike was as an opponent to show how honorable and skilled Roland is and the scene was cut because it made Roland look too cool.
  • Jurassic World: Vic Hoskins is an arrogant, manipulative, war-loving braggart who wants to steal the dinosaur embryos for military use, and dies pathetically begging for his life to a Velociraptor. Like many monster movies before it, this is essentially the creators hedging their bets. The Indominus rex is a terrifying unstoppable killing machine and a complete sadist on top of that, but was designed for exactly that reason. Hoskins on the other hand is genuinely loathsome on a human level.
  • Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom:
  • Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous:
    • Tiffany lacks any of her husband's nicer qualities, being the more vicious of the two. Tiffany and her husband pose as "eco-tourists", while poaching endangered species, planning to hunt dinosaurs on Isla Nublar. When the campers find out the truth, Tiffany is more eager to harm the kids than her husband, even killing Grim the Baryonyx to blow off steam. After Tiffany abandons Mitch to be eaten by Rexy while she steals the boat keys, she smugly declares that the campers will never return home, only to be cornered and killed by Grim's vengeful sisters Limbo and Chaos.
    • Kash D. Langford is a smug and condescending employee of Mantah Corp who is prone to throw tantrums when things don't go his way. He's also the one who blackmailed Sammy to be working for Mantah, relishes Daniel Kon's idea of having dinosaurs engage in bloodsports for profit, and actually sent Velociraptors and the BRADs after Dr. Mae Turner when she learns of his true intentions. Plus, he cheats when he plays video games. Even when Kon dismisses him after making control chips in favor of his son Kenji, Kash tries to take over Mantah Corp when he got a hold of the controller for the raptors in an attempt to kill Kon, only to be killed himself when the kids deactivated the chips.
    • Although he's not as despicable as Kash, Daniel Kon's proved to be one at the end of the day. He doesn't show to be with his son Kenji for years. Even when he's acting like a good parent, he manipulates Kenji to turn on his friends and ruin their relationships, even at one point tries to kill Darius. He's also the one who gives the order for Kash to blackmail Sammy's family, not caring about their livelihood. This proves that he cares for nothing other than his business and reputation, whether they are the dinosaurs' or people's lives.
    • Mantah Corp becomes this by Season 4 when the audience sees what they are capable of. Blackmailing Sammy for dinosaur saliva samples is one thing. But that's just child's play compared to the list of transgressions that spans the entire season. They drug a mother T. rex and her beloved daughter, forcing them to fight to the point of the mother hurting her daughter against her will. They put a Kentrosaurus in the Arctic biome just to see how long it would take to freeze to death. Then they pit the mother T. rex against the Kentrosaurus in a death battle. Oh, and they were planning on inserting mind control chips into baby dinosaur brains, even at the risk of frying their little baby brains. Not to mention Kash actually sent Velociraptors and the BRADs after Mae when she took a stand for what was right. Needless to say, there's not any reason to root for them.
  • Jurassic World Dominion: Lewis Dodgson is the WORST of them all as he's nothing more than a power-hungry Slimeball dedicated to building himself up to the top of the business pyramid through unscrupulous means; such as bribing Nedry that caused the downfall of the original Jurassic Park, seizing the opportunity to capture dinosaurs in the mainland before having them taken to his sanctuary, and even cloning new dinosaurs, all just to build profit for his company. Using his shady connections in dinosaur smuggling at the black market, he paid poachers to kidnap and smuggle a cloned teenage girl and a baby raptor to his sanctuary in order to utilize their genetic codes for his own agenda of using genetically-engineered locusts that would wipe out the world's crops, so that humanity would either be forced to pay for his company's GMOs to survive or face extinction. Even when learning that the heroes have rescued both the girl and baby raptor while nabbing evidence that would expose his crimes to the public, Dodgson initiates any means to have them murdered while having the locusts burned to cover up his crimes, thus causing his sanctuary to be burned down in flames. Blaming others instead of taking responsibility for his mistakes, Dodgson attempts to escape with whatever assets he has left to start afresh, only to end up ironically suffering Nedry's fate by being attacked and killed by three Dilophosaurus.

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