Eli Mills

Pure Evil

Full Name

Elijah Mills

Alias

Eli

Mr. Mills

Origin

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom

Allies

Sir Benjamin Lockwood

Dr. Henry Wu
Hawkes
Claire Dearing
Iris Carroll
Maisie Lockwood (all formerly)
Ken Wheatley
Gunnar Eversol

Powers / Skills

Leadership

Manipulation
Intimidation
Charisma

Goals

Sell dinosaurs as weapons of war to profit from them and get rich.

Kill Owen Grady and Claire Dearing to stop them from ruining his plans.
Use the Indominus Rex DNA sample to create more hybrid dinosaurs for his own uses (all failed).

Moral Event Horizon

Raising the Indoraptor through abusive and cruel methods, thus causing the latter to go on a massive killing spree, which ended up costing several lives in the process.

Planning on selling dinosaurs on the black market for "hunting and killing".
Smothering Benjamin Lockwood to death with a pillow.

Kill Count

1 (directly)

Several (indirectly)

Worst Crimes

Murder

Animal cruelty
Abuse of power
Wildlife trafficking
Unlawful imprisonment
Corruption
Conspiracy
Child abuse
Poaching

Type of Villain

Corrupt Businessman

“	As you say, sir. You know, I've been thinking, John Hammond was right. It was an unholy thing that you did. I'm not the only one guilty here, am I, sir?	„
	~ Eli Mills to Benjamin Lockwood, seconds before smothering him to death.

“	This prototype is worth twenty-eight million dollars right now! Relax; we'll make some more.	„
	~ Eli Mills to Dr. Henry Wu, explaining his reasonings to sell the Indoraptor.

Eli Mills is the main antagonist of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, the fifth installment of Universal Pictures' Jurassic Park franchise and the overarching antagonist of Season 3 of its 2020 spin-off TV Series Jurassic World: Camp Cretacious.

He was the assistant and finance manager of Benjamin Lockwood, one of the co-founders of the original Jurassic Park (alongside John Hammond), and the arch-nemesis of Maisie Lockwood. Mills seeks to make a profit alongside Gunnar Eversol off of selling the dinosaurs trapped on the island of Isla Nublar by any means necessary, which includes killing those who either outlived their usefulness or stand in his way.

He was portrayed by Rafe Spall.

What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]

With the assistance of Dr. Henry Wu, he planned to create dangerous hybrid dinosaurs, intending to sell them to black market bidders to buy for their own immoral schemes such as weapons in warfare, which could have disastrous consequences, which Mills was completely aware of as he said at least one hybrid was made specifically to kill.
He sent Dr. Wu and a team of mercenaries, led by Hawkes, to get a bone of the Indominus Rex and a laptop containing Wu's research from Isla Nublar, so he can use them to create hybrid dinosaurs.
He created the Indoraptor, a hybrid designed with “every bone and muscle designed for hunting and killing” under command as a weapon of war, yet allowed his mercenaries to torture, abuse and mistreat him throughout his lifespan locked up in a cell, to the point the Indoraptor got a nervous twitch on his claw and turned into a homicidal, murderous, violent and unhinged killing machine.
He hired mercenaries, led by Ken Wheatley, to go to Isla Nublar to collect dinosaurs so he can sell all of them on the black market auction.
- If Wu telling the mercenaries that "unless you want Mills to have your head, help me look" is of any indication, he is willing to kill his own mercenaries, revealing that Mills doesn't show any care for his men since he was just using them as tools for doing the dirty work.
He told Wheatley to leave Owen Grady, Claire Dearing, Zia Rodriguez and Franklin Webb on Isla Nublar to their deaths, though Wheatley spared Rodriguez because he needed her to prevent Blue from dying.
Upon discovering Maisie Lockwood after she came across the Indoraptor while exploring Lockwood Manor's basement, he locked her up in her room to prevent her from intervening with his plans.
He smothered Sir Benjamin Lockwood, his own elderly employer, with a pillow to death just for discovering his plans.
- While he committed the act with a saddened expression, implying that he had some remorse over it, he subverted it later in the film.
He had several dinosaurs, including Rexy, abused by his men.
He imprisoned Owen and Claire inside Lockwood Manor to prevent them from interfering, with the novelization implying he intended to let them starve to death.
He sold at least 5 different dinosaurs through Gunnar Eversol to arms dealers and terrorists so they can use them for whatever sinister purposes they wanted, even trying to sell the Indoraptor to a sinister Russian arms dealer, even though Wu warned him that the Indoraptor was an unstable prototype, dismissing his concerns by saying that they could make more.
- Said Russian arms dealer was also planning to buy carnivores so he could pit them against each other in a $5,000 pay-per-view cage match.
- He also authorized the testing of the Indoraptor’s tracking capabilities on a random auctioneer in the crowd, not caring about what it might do to them if it ended up escaping.
When Wu pointed out that the people will create more Indoraptors and use them as weapons, Mills chose to ignore him, and even admits in the novelization that Wu is right but decides he cares more about the money.
He sacrificed one of the auctioneers by using him as a human shield to distract a Stygimoloch.
He threatened to kill Owen and Claire with two of his mercenaries so he can get Maisie back, presumably with the intention of experimenting on her due to Maisie apparently being a clone Lockwood biogenetically engineered in the image of his late daughter Charlotte.
He is indirectly responsible for the Indoraptor’s rampage throughout Lockwood Manor as his abuse towards the creature drove him insane and his attempt to sell him caused the beast to escape, leading to the hybrid killing Wheatley, Eversol, three wealthy auctioneers and Mills' two mercenaries while even coming the closest to killing Owen, Claire and Maisie if not for Blue's intervention, resulting in the Indoraptor’s death in the process.
- While this wasn't his intention, Mills has no remorse for it. Not only that, but the Indoraptor’s rampage also resulted in mass damage and destruction to the mansion, which Mills has no remorse for.
He tried to escape with the bone sample of the Indominus Rex so that he can make more hybrid dinosaurs to sell, uncaring that the dinosaurs were escaping into the wild and killing his mercenaries.
His actions caused the 2018 Dinosaur Outbreak.
While his death at the jaws of Rexy and the Carnotaurus was brutally horrible, it's not played for sympathy, but rather for karma and satisfaction as he truly deserved it for his sadistic actions considering not only what he did to the Indoraptor and all the dinosaurs that he was intending to sell, but also for what he did to Lockwood, Owen, Claire and Maisie as well.
Despite not being as heinous as Lewis Dodgson who attempted to wipe out humanity with the locusts, Mills has way lower resources as he is just an assistant of Dr. Wu with money and henchmen whereas Dodgson is the CEO of a massive company that provides him with employees and technology. Thus, they cannot be compared to each other, and even then, Mills’ crime of selling dinosaurs to the black market so they could kill people is unique enough for him to stand out.