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| “ | In the modern world, it's a much more serious transgression to shoot a tiger than to shoot your parents. Tigers have advocates, but now imagine: a specifically stocked hunting preserve, maybe somewhere in Asia, where individuals of wealth and importance could hunt Tyrannosaurs and Triceratops in a natural setting. It would be an incredibly desirable attraction. How many hunters have a stuffed elk head on their wall? The world's full of them, but how many can claim to have a snarling Tyrannosaurus head, hanging above the wet bar? | „ |
| ~ Dodgson explaining his plans for a dinosaur-hunting preserve. |
Dr. Lewis Dodgson is the main antagonist of the Jurassic Park novel series, which is written by the late Michael Crichton, serving as the overarching antagonist of the 1990 book Jurassic Park and the main antagonist of its 1995 sequel The Lost World.
He was the Head of Research at Biosyn and was infamous for his law-breaking studies, including a rabies vaccine test performed on farmers in Chile without their knowledge or consent, which led to at least ten casualties, though Dodgson was able to evade prosecution. He spends the entirety of the novels trying to get either dinosaur embryos or eggs for a plan to create a dinosaur-hunting preserve to get rich.
His Evil Ranking[]
What Makes Him Close to Being Pure Evil?[]
In General[]
- While many characters throughout the novels have dropped some cuss words on some occasions, Dodgson uses very crude and profane language many times. He is also a very impolite person, disrespecting, mocking and intimidating him everyone around him, esspecially when they are his employees, such as the case when Ed James failed to find Richard Levine. He also acts rudely to people who sees inferior, further proving his narcissistic personality.
- He also puts on a charming and affable facade when he tries to manipulate others when he wants do so, making him incredibly two-faced.
- He is overall a psychopathic sadist and unethical scientist who is willing to hurt and even outright kill people when it helps him advance in his goals and even sadistically enjoys experimenting on animals and humans (esspecially children) alike, possibly making him far worse than even his movie counterpart. What makes him even worse is that unlike other scientists who use their knowledge and creativity to create their own inventions, Dodgson steals the inventions of others, reinvents and sells them as if they were his own. He openly admits that he personally views that ethics and rules are for weaker souls too afraid to achieve great things.
- Almost everyone in the Novels are either afraid of him or are disgusted by him.
- Despite his position as Head of Research as Biosyn, it is confirmed that it was simply a cover to corporate spying, sabotage and espionage all mainly run by Dodgson himself. Also, his shady actions and operations have even earned him a reputation as discussed by Richard Levine and Marty Guiterrez in The Lost World.
- In The Lost World, it is revealed that he has scientists all over the world on his payroll.
- He is the only human character in the Novel series, and the first human character in the overall franchise to harm and even outright murder other people as well.
- He shows zero remorse for his crimes. To make it worse, it seems that Dodgson also enjoys them, no matter how dangerous, cruel or destructive they are.
- Despite acting friendly and affable towards his assistant, Howard King, it is proven later that he didn't care about him at all as he didn't even try to look for him after they were separated.
- It is also hinted that he hated his parents, as he compared shooting them to shooting a tiger.
- Despite initially doing everything he can to cover up any evidence that could tie his activities to BioSyn, it is mostly out of pragmatic reasons and not true loyalty.
- Although he seems to be fascinated and even shown to be admiring of dinosaurs, esspecially the carnivores, it is clearly just superficial respect and not genuine care, as he is completely willing to exploit them for profit or even just personal satisfaction and it is likely that he only respects these animals out of caution, knowing how dangerous they could be.
Past[]
- He was expelled from Hopkins University as a graduate student, because he tried to conduct gene therapy on a fellow student for unknown reasons.
- He experimented with an airborne rabies vaccine without informing the local farmers in Chile, killing at least 10 of them, just to prove the point that it actually works, and what's even worse is that one of the victims in said rabies vaccine experiment was apparently a child. It was also mentioned that he test-marketed a genetically engineered potato that caused several children diarrhea and even hospitalized some of them.
- Despite it not actually happening during the story, it still has clear onscreen effects, as BioSyn did not approve of Dodgson's rabies vaccine experiment and he was trying to do something to keep himself from getting fired from the company because of it.
- He manipulated and corrupted Howard King into becoming his assistant, even forcing him to leave his wife and child, just so he could have a better career with Dodgson's help. During this, he also openly admitted to King that he was a thief and a fraud.
Jurassic Park[]
- After Bill Steingarten approves his plan, he bribes Dennis Nedry to steal dinosaur embryos from InGen on Isla Nublar. While he gives Nedry half of the money he promised him, this is only to persuade Nedry into stealing the embryos from InGen so he could use them for Biosyn. Not even Nedry seemed to trust him as he recorded his conversation with Dodgson to make sure he gave Nedry the money he owed him, and it's mentioned that the embryos were worth $10,000,000, meaning Dodgson conned Nedry. This makes him indirectly responsible for the events of the first novel seeing as to how Nedry shut the power off to steal the embryos for Dodgson-which resulted in the dinosaurs escaping and thus putting many people being killed by the animals, the Costa Rican government bombing Isla Nublar and some of the dinosaurs escaping to the mainland.
The Lost World[]
- After the events of Jurassic Park he sends his agent, Ed James to spy on the survivors of the first novel.
- When James fails to bring him information about Richard Levine's whereabouts, Dodgson insults him and intimidates him during one of their meetings in a resturant.
- In a chapter named Exploitation, there were many dogs locked in cages that barked in fear and anger when Dodgson passed by them. This indicates that at the very least he kept them in bad conditions out of sadism alone. When his boss Jeff Rossiter asks him about his loud entrance, he just replies that "I needed to get the dogs barking, after all," meaning he purposely made them bark so their conversation can't be heard.
- He explains to his boss that because Biosyn gets backlash for animal experimentations, the company can use the dinosaurs as test subjects, claiming that since they are extinct beings recreated by man, they have no rights. During his monologue he also mocks animal rights activists.
- He hacked into the systems of a satellite, to get a better look at Isla Sorna's map, in order to locate dinosaur nests on the island.
- He tried to steal the eggs of all dinosaurs of Isla Sorna, so he could create a hunting preserve full of dinosaurs. What makes his intentions to create a specific preserve for hunting dinosaurs outstandingly evil is that while the other villains in the novel wanted to use dinosaurs for money, and hurting them was proxy damage, Dodgson's plan involved hurting dinosaurs as the main point. The realistic implications of his plan are that rich people will have the ability to pay for living their sadistic fantasies. It also hinted that he wished to continue his cruel experiments on some of the dinosaurs.
- When Sarah Harding tries to ask for help from Dodgson and his men, Dodgson rudely insults her saying that he wouldn't even care about what she wants if she was as important as the pope. However, when Harding explains that she is looking for Ian Malcolm and Richard Levine, Dodgson puts on a friendly facade in order to manipulate her to gain information about what she knows before killing her.
- Attempted to kill Sarah by throwing her off the boat, with the hopes that she will drown in the water. Later, when Howard King calls him out on this, Dodgson simply tells him that they will cover it up as an accident.
- During the raidings of dinosaur nests, Dodgson uses a super sonic device to scare off the dinosaurs while King and George Baselton steal some of the eggs.
- Tried to abduct the eggs of the Tyrannosaurus rex couple, which ends up disastorous because Dodgson's device gets broken, leading to Baselton getting eaten alive by one of the dinosaurs and King almost dying in a car crash while escaping from them. During this, he calls Baselton a fat bastard, proving that he didn't care about the man at all despite him directly causing his death.
- In addition to this, Howard accidentally broke one of the infant Tyrannosaur's legs, leading to Eddie Carr taking it to the trailer, thus later the T.rex parents almost killed Ian and Sarah, making Dodgson indirectly responsible for these events.
- After waking up after the crash, he didn't even bother to look after King, who had shown nothing but loyalty to Dodgson all this time. Not even knowing that King got brutally killed by Velociraptors, but is very likely he would not have cared.
- In addition to this, he treid to escape off the island and start a new life, leaving BioSyn behind, proving that Dodgson is only loyal to himself.
- He tried to kill Sarah again, after finding an abandoned car and climbing under it when a T.rex was approaching. Dodgson tried to push her out, so she could be eaten, however when she gets the upper hand, Dodgson tries to beg for mercy after almost killing the woman two times before being dragged away by the dinosaur and being fed to it's offspring.
- Although his fate of being eaten alive by juvenile Tyrannosaurs was brutal, it was completely well-deserved and even characters like Ian Malcolm, who tried to save as many people as possible, was glad that Dodgson died.
What Prevents Him from Being Pure Evil?[]
- His crimes of creating an experimental rabies vaccine that killed at least 10 people including a child, and manufacturing genetically-modified potatoes that gave children diarrhea and got them hospitalized, are both offfscreen villainy, as it never happens during the course of the novels and there is no distinguished pattern or evidence toward it; even if the vaccine did kill people, there's nothing to prove that Dodgson was aware of it.
Trivia[]
- The novel heavily implies that the dead child from the rabies vaccine wasn't the first minor who fell victim to Lewis Dodgson's cruelty, and given Dodgson's history, it's more than likely that he was willing to murder Nedry afterward, whether for covering his own tracks or just for outliving his pawn's usefulness. Had there been confirmed to be true and part of the Canon, it would make Dodgson worse.
- He is by far the only Jurassic Park Near Pure Evil who doesn't have any genuine redeeming qualities, only not being Pure Evil for narrowly not passing the Heinous Standard.
- He is the first ever human character in the entire franchise who was willingly seeking to outright harm and kill other humans, way before villains like Billy Yoder, Ken Wheatley, Eli Mills were convcieved as characters.
External Links[]
- Lewis Dodgson on the Villains Wiki
- Lewis Dodgson on the Jurassic Park Wiki
- Lewis Dodgson on the Hate Sink Wiki
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