History Characters / JurassicParkTheGame

* DefeatingTheUndefeatable: His crowning moment of awesome involves this. He achieves, with nothing but a knife, raw strength, and reflexes, what an experienced park warden failed to achieve with a shotgun. [[spoiler:Round 2 sadly goes much differently]].

* PreciousCrush: Is on the receiving end of one from Jess who seems to dig his badassery. Just before his [[SuicideMission suicide mission]], Jess runs to him & begs him not to go because he could die. He gives a smile & tells her not to count him out yet before he leaves, but Jess only shakes her head sadly.

[[folder:Yima Cruz]]

%%* EarlyBirdCameo: See AscendedExtra above.

%%* BareYourMidriff

%%* FaceHeelTurn

%%* HeroicBSOD

%%* WalkingSpoiler

%%* BadassBeard

%%* TheBigGuy

%%* FateWorseThanDeath

%%* DirtyCoward

* BadassNormal: For an animal vet, he sure does some awesome things -- [[MadeOfIron and lives through stuff that would kill a lot of people.]]

* EarlyBirdCameo: See AscendedExtra above.

* WorstAid: Averted while he treats Nima.

* BareYourMidriff

* GirlishPigtails

* {{Tomboy}}: Has shades of this, such as wanting to see dinosaurs fighting in the first episode.
** At one point she mentions that she hates shopping and loves football.

* AloofAlly
* BareYourMidriff

* [[spoiler: VasquezAlwaysDies]]: Played straight or averted, depending on your actions near the end.

* AnimalWrongsGroup: Sees the dinos as animals that should be allowed to live out their "natural" lives. Also sees [[spoiler: nothing wrong with releasing the ''Tylosaurus'' into the ocean despite Gerry noting that it's an alpha predator.]]
** [[spoiler: Told no one about the ''Troodon'' even when she had to have known they were running around, posing a massive danger to people and other dinos alike.]]
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: Murdered by the very predator she defended.]]
* [[spoiler:BigBadEnsemble]]:[[spoiler:In Episode 4, she becomes a WellIntentionedExtremist hellbent on saving the dinosaurs at all costs -- even holding the group hostage and freeing a dangerous predator (the ''Tylosaurus'') -- and effectively becomes the BigBad for the first half of the episode (although her new character status is not revealed until the marine segment). The dinosaurs themselves serves as the other antagonists and after her death, another character completes their FaceHeelTurn to be become BigBad for the rest of the game...]]
* BreakTheHaughty: [[spoiler: After finding out that she knew about the ''Troodon'' from the start, and is in fact responsible for them still existing in the first place, Yoder pulls a knife on her with deadly intent, but the others get him to let her live and settles for forcing her to admit that it's all her fault. She does, though it still seems she has to decide if her pride is worth more than her life. The events in the marine exhibit show that she still hasn't learned her lesson, but this time the consequences are [[KarmicDeath far more tragic]].]]

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler: Being EatenAlive by a ''Tylosaurus'' probably isn't a very good way to go. If she was lucky, she died when it pulled her under and she bashed her head against the rim of the rotunda's dive pool. If she was ''unlucky'', then she was merely winded by being dragged under so fast and had to experience the ''Tylosaurus'' eating her.]]

* [[spoiler: DeathByIrony: Just moments after releasing the ''Tylosaurus'', it knocks her into the water and eats her.]]

* EatenAlive: [[spoiler: Her ultimate fate.]]

* [[spoiler:JustDesserts]]: [[spoiler:After freeing the ''Tylosaurus'', she gets devoured by it.]]
* [[spoiler: KarmicDeath: Yoder certainly thinks so. Gerry, however, is less impressed by his attitude.]]

* {{Pride}}: [[spoiler:Her FatalFlaw. Laura clings stubbornly to her belief in protecting the dinosaurs' lives and, towards the story's end, she is willing to do almost anything to do so, even if it meant endangering human lives. Her belief that HumansAreBastards exacerbates her pride.]]

* [[spoiler:BigBadEnsemble]]: [[spoiler:Billy starts out as a nice guy, but after Oscar's death in Episode 3 he starts to get darker and darker. After Dr. Sorkin betrays the group and holds them hostage to free the ''Mosasaur'' and effectively becomes the human BigBad for the first half of Episode 4 and is subsequently eaten by said ''Mosasaur'', he completes his FaceHeelTurn and betrays everyone and tries to kill them. He remains as the human BigBad for the rest of the game, the other Big Bads being the dinosaurs, of course.]]

* [[spoiler: ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: First he decides to turn against his [=InGen=] employers by making a deal with Nima to sell the embryos, then turns on the other survivors after the rest of his fellow mercs are killed.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: To a far greater degree than the other mercs.
* [[spoiler: DeadPartner: Not Yoder himself, but his comrades' deaths have a strong effect on him.]]
* [[spoiler: DespairEventHorizon: After seeing his two comrades and best friends die horrible deaths, Billy is clearly broken by the situation. Along with a desire for vengeance against Dr. Sorkin, his own greed, and a large amount of stress, this is a contributing factor to his FaceHeelTurn]].
* DreamworksFace: Displays one on his ID.
* [[spoiler: FaceHeelTurn]]

* [[spoiler:FallenHero: Shares elements with FakeUltimateHero above. Aside from entering the deal with Nima (after she revealed that she had a daughter), very little of what he does even falls into the category of anti-heroism... until Oscar's death. Prior to that, he tries to rescue what little remains of Bravo team, never suggests abandoning the other survivors for the sake of the plan, and refuses to accept Nima's offer unless she cuts Oscar in on it, too.]]
* {{Greed}}: Threats and appeals to sympathy don't bother him, but suggest that he might get a decent retirement fund and he's all ears, as Nima discovers in episode three.
** Admittedly, he ''does'' respond to Nima confiding that she's doing this largely [[spoiler:for her daughter]]. He still wants to be cut in on the deal, but it's what keeps him from just deciding to do what [=InGen=] would expect and turn her in (and he still demands that Oscar receive an equal cut as a term of their deal).
* [[spoiler:HeroicBSOD]]

** [[spoiler:JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: He becomes this when he turned against the survivors.]]
* [[spoiler:JustDesserts]]: [[spoiler:After ascending to BigBad status in Episode 4 by betraying the group, he finally gets his comeuppance when he is eaten by the T. rex at the end of the game.]]

* [[spoiler: TooDumbToLive: Making a mad dash for the rolling embryo container with a ''T. rex'' -- whose vision is based on movement -- just a few feet away from you? What could possibly go wrong?]]

* TrueCompanions: With Oscar and D-Caf.
* WalkingSpoiler

* BadassBeard

* TheBigGuy
* [[spoiler: BigGuyFatalitySyndrome: He offers to go back and operate the doors, but that involves trying to sneak past three raptors. This results in his death, though he succeeds in opening the doors.]]

* GutturalGrowler: Has a distinctive, rumbling voice.
* [[spoiler:HeroicSacrifice: He reopens the power plant's blast doors so the other survivors can flee, but gets killed by the Raptors in the process.]]
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He only agrees to Billy and Nima's plan to sell the embryos when they agree to make saving the other survivors part of that plan.
** Depending on the player's dialogue choices, he may also reject the plan for similar reasons (risking the people they were hired to rescue and doublecrossing their employers).

* [[spoiler: AndIMustScream]]
* ButtMonkey: Is often the butt of Yoder's jokes.
* [[spoiler: BodyHorror: He gets turned into a living nest for the Troodon.]]
* DeadpanSnarker
* [[spoiler: FateWorseThanDeath]]
* [[spoiler: StuffedIntoTheFridge: Although technically, he's still alive when he's found.]]

* DirtyCoward

* AnimalWrongsGroup: Sees the dinos as animals that should be allowed to live out their "natural" lives. Also sees [[spoiler: nothing wrong with releasing the Mosasaur into the ocean despite Gerry noting that it's an alpha predator.]]

* [[spoiler:BigBadEnsemble]]:[[spoiler:In Episode 4, she becomes a WellIntentionedExtremist hellbent on saving the dinosaurs at all costs -- even holding the group hostage and freeing a dangerous predator (the ''Mosasaur'') -- and effectively becomes the BigBad for the first half of the episode (although her new character status is not revealed until the marine segment). The dinosaurs themselves serves as the other antagonists and after her death, another character completes their FaceHeelTurn to be become BigBad for the rest of the game...]]

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler: Being EatenAlive by a ''Tylosaur'' probably isn't a very good way to go. If she was lucky, she died when it pulled her under and she bashed her head against the rim of the rotunda's dive pool. If she was ''unlucky'', then she was merely winded by being dragged under so fast and had to experience the ''Tylosaur'' eating her.]]

* [[spoiler: DeathByIrony: Just moments after releasing the ''Mosasaur'', it knocks her into the water and eats her.]]

* EvilutionaryBiologist: She isn't one, [[spoiler: but her plans for the ''Mosasaur'' scream this trope]].

* [[spoiler:JustDesserts]]: [[spoiler:After freeing the ''Mosasaur'', she gets devoured by it.]]

* TooDumbToLive: Nima can comment on how he doesn't seem cut out for field work. Turns out she's right, and his inexperience with the dinosaurs is what leads to his demise.

* DeadpanSnarker

* [[spoiler:Fallen Hero: Shares elements with FakeUltimateHero above. Aside from entering the deal with Nima (after she revealed that she had a daughter), very little of what he does even falls into the category of anti-heroism... until Oscar's death. Prior to that, he tries to rescue what little remains of Bravo team, never suggests abandoning the other survivors for the sake of the plan, and refuses to accept Nima's offer unless she cuts Oscar in on it, too.]]

* DefeatingTheUndefeatable: His crowning moment of awesome involves this. He achieves, with nothing but a knife, raw strength, and reflexes, what an experienced park warden failed to achieve with a shotgun.

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* HumansAreBastards: In the years before the game's story, Laura develops this attitude, particularly towards her superiors within [=InGen=]. In her journal, she blamed human greed and selfishness for the dinosaurs' suffering. [[spoiler:When Hammond ordered her to euthanize the ''Troodon'' for the sake of human safety, she disobeyed the direct order because, by that time, she prioritized the dinosaurs' lives over those of humans.]] This attitude was an important reason why the [=InGen=] management eventually decided to [[ReassignedToAntarctica|reassign Laura to an isolated field lab]].

* [[spoiler:BigBadEnsemble]]:[[spoiler:In Episode 4, she becomes a WellIntentionedExtremist hellbent on saving the dinosaurs at all costs -- even holding the group hostage and freeing a dangerous predator (the ''Mosasaur'') -- and effectively becomes the BigBad for the first half of the episode (although her new character status is not revealed until the marine segment). The dinosaurs themselves serves as the other Big Bigs and after her death, another character completes their FaceHeelTurn to be become BigBad for the rest of the game...]]

* [[Pride]]: [[spoiler:Her FatalFlaw. Laura clings stubbornly to her belief in protecting the dinosaurs' lives and, towards the story's end, she is willing to do almost anything to do so, even if it meant endangering human lives. Her belief that HumansAreBastards exacerbates her pride.]]

* HumansAreBastards: In the years before the game's story, Laura develops this attitude, particularly towards her superiors within InGen. In her journal, she blamed human greed and selfishness for the dinosaurs' suffering. [[spoiler:When Hammond ordered her to euthanize the ''Troodon'' for the sake of human safety, she disobeyed the direct order because, by that time, she prioritized the dinosaurs' lives over those of humans.]] This attitude was an important reason why the InGen management eventually decided to [[ReassignedToAntarctica|reassign Laura to an isolated field lab]].

* ReassignedToAntarctica: She was removed from [=InGen=]'s geneticists team and relocated to an isolated field lab where she would be less trouble. Furthermore, [=InGen=] planned on reassigning her to Site B's research and development team, away from the park entirely.

-> Voiced by: Jon Curry

* BadassNormal: For an animal vet, he sure does some awesome things - [[MadeOfIron and lives through stuff that would kill a lot of people.]]

* NonActionGuy: He starts out as this, since he's only a veterinarian trying to keep his daughter safe. He TookALevelInBadass during episode one.

Nima is a mercenary hired by Biosyn to recover the embryos that Dennis Nedry stole from [=InGen=]. Unfortunately, things don't go quite as planned, and Nima becomes trapped on the island. However, she has a stronger connection with both Isla Nublar and [=InGen=] - as well as a deeper motivation to recover the embryos - than she first appears to.

Dr. Sorkin is one of [=InGen=]'s leading paleogeneticists. Being a former animal rights activist, she feels a deep connection with the park's dinosaurs, and is strongly opposed to their exploitation. As a result of this, she was removed from [=InGen=]'s geneticist team and replaced with Dr. Henry Wu, who cut many corners in the dinosaur cloning process - much to her disgust.

** [[spoiler: Told no one about the Troodon even when she had to have known they were running around, posing a massive danger to people and other dinos alike.]]

* [[spoiler:BigBadEnsemble]]:[[spoiler:In Episode 4, she becomes a WellIntentionedExtremist hellbent on saving the dinosaurs at all costs -- even holding the group hostage and freeing a dangerous predator (the mosasaur) -- and effectively becomes the BigBad for the first half of the episode (although her new character status is not revealed until the marine segment). The dinosaurs themselves serves as the other Big Bigs and after her death, another character completes their FaceHeelTurn to be become BigBad for the rest of the game...]]
* BreakTheHaughty: [[spoiler: After finding out that she knew about the Troodon from the start, and is in fact responsible for them still existing in the first place, Yoder pulls a knife on her with deadly intent, but the others get him to let her live and settles for forcing her to admit that it's all her fault. She does, though it still seems she has to decide if her pride is worth more than her life. The events in the marine exhibit show that she still hasn't learned her lesson, but this time the consequences are [[KarmicDeath far more tragic]].]]

* [[spoiler: DeathByIrony: Just moments after releasing the Mosasaur, it knocks her into the water and eats her.]]
* TheDitherer: She repeatedly insists on not jumping to conclusions, which is potentially commendable in most circumstances, but it becomes her only real defence when [[spoiler: Yoder accuses her of knowing the Troodons were escaping from the quarantine pens]].

* EvilutionaryBiologist: She isn't one, [[spoiler: but her plans for the Mosasaur scream this trope]].

* [[spoiler:JustDesserts]]: [[spoiler:After freeing the mosasaur, she gets devoured by it.]]

* TheMillstone: Had she not held up the team with her little science project in episode two, every playable character would have made it off the island alive. She is also responsible, however indirectly, for the deaths of [[spoiler:D-caf, Oscar, and herself]].
* NeverMyFault: Zig-zags. During episode three, she accepts that Gerry will have to report her to their superiors once they get off the island. When interrogated, however, to admit her mistakes in the last episode, she will make every excuse in the world to avoid responsibility or regret for anyone dying and outright struggles to apologize. By the time they reach the rotunda, she has gone off the deep end: by this point, she certainly prioritizes dinosaur lives over human lives and will keep making excuses [[spoiler: to the grave]] that it was fine.

* TheRival: To Dr Wu. She wanted a slower means of filling the gaps in dinosaur DNA sequences, but Wu came up with the faster alternative that got him the promotion she wanted.
* VerbalTic: Whenever discussing the genetics practiced by her superiors - specifically, those bits of it she disapproves of - she'll add a contemptuous "Henry Wu" for good measure.

* [[spoiler:BigBadEnsemble]]: [[spoiler:Billy starts out as a nice guy, but after Oscar's death in Episode 3 he starts to get darker and darker. After Dr. Sorkin betrays the group and holds them hostage to free the mosasaur and effectively becomes the human BigBad for the first half of Episode 4 and is subsequently eaten by said mosasaur, he completes his FaceHeelTurn and betrays everyone and tries to kill them. He remains as the human BigBad for the rest of the game, the other Big Bads being the dinosaurs, of course.]]

* [[spoiler:Fallen Hero: Shares elements with FakeUltimateHero above. Aside from entering the deal with Nima (after she revealed that she had a daughter), very little of what he does even falls into the category of anti-heroism...until Oscar's death. Prior to that, he tries to rescue what little remains of Bravo team, never suggests abandoning the other survivors for the sake of the plan, and refuses to accept Nima's offer unless she cuts Oscar in on it, too.]]

** Admittedly, he ''does'' respond to Nima confiding that she's doing this largely [[spoiler:for her daughter]]. He still wants to be cut in on the deal, but it's what keeps him from just deciding to do what InGen would expect and turn her in (and he still demands that Oscar receive an equal cut as a term of their deal).

* [[spoiler: TooDumbToLive: Making a mad dash for the rolling embryo container with a T. rex - whose vision is based on movement - just a few feet away from you? What could possibly go wrong?]]
* TattooedCrook: He has a cross tattoo on his arm that isn't quite as awesome as Oscar's, but is still pretty nifty. And like Oscar, he doesn't really fit the "crook" part of the description. [[spoiler: At first, anyway.]]

Oscar is one of the mercenaries hired by [=InGen=] to rescue any survivors stranded on Isla Nublar. A hulking giant of a man, Oscar is strong, serious and extremely capable in a crisis, but is far from humorless, and jokes around with his fellow mercs. However, he has ties to Jurassic Park's inception, as well as bad blood with Nima.

* CombatPragmatist: He'd happily kill a Dilophosaurus while it's down, though Yoder stops him. He also sneaks up on one of the raptors, for obvious reasons.

** Depending on the player's dialogue choices he may also reject the plan for similar reasons (risking the people they were hired to rescue and doublecrossing their employers).

Miles is a cowardly, nebbish Biosyn employee tasked with retrieving the embryos stolen from [=InGen=] by Dennis Nedry. He's teamed up with Nima Cruz, and proves to be a constant thorn in her side--until he has a rather nasty encounter with a pack of Dilophosaurs.
* AssholeVictim: It's hard to feel bad about his death after he threw Nima to the Dilos in order to save his own skin.

* KarmicDeath: He tries to sacrifice Nima to save himself, but the Dilophosaurs decide to attack him first.

* {{Expy}}: He's obviously just a skinny version of Dennis Nedry from the original movie.

* TotallyRadical: She'll often say that something or someone is awesome, cool, or badass.

** [[spoiler: Told no one about the Troodon even when she had to have known they were running around, psoing a massive danger to people and other dinos alike.]]

-->(upon seeing a "You must be this tall to ride" sign at the Bone Shaker): Yeah. 'Cause Jurassic Park is ''all'' about safety.

* [[spoiler: AndIMustScream: He's still technically alive after the Troodon turn him into their nest, but completely paralyzed save for his eyes.]]

* [[spoiler: MercyKill: '''Averted'''. Billy and the rest of the remaining cast leaves him to a fate worse than death without discussion.]]

* TheRival: To Dr Wu. She wanted a slower but safer means of filling the gaps in dinosaur DNA sequences, but Wu came up with the faster alternative that got him the promotion she wanted.