Lewis Dodgson (Universal Pictures)

NOTE: This page is only about his film counterpart as his novel counterpart was not approved as Pure Evil. As such, only info & crimes about his film counterpart should be added.

Pure Evil
Full Name	Lewis Dodgson
Alias	Dr. Lewis Dodgson
Origin	Jurassic Park (1993)
Allies	Ian Malcolm Ramsay Cole Lana Molina Kenji Kon Henry Wu (all formerly) Dennis Nedry Daniel Kon Hawkes Jeff Rossiter Rainn Delacourt Soyona Santos Brooklynn The Atrociraptor Handler
Powers / Skills	Genius-level intelligence Tactics Mastery of manipulation Complete control over Biosyn Vast resources Leadership Wealth Charisma
Goals	Receive the embryos from Dennis Nedry (failed). Kidnap Maisie Lockwood and Beta to experiment on them and increase the reproductivity of the locusts (temporarily succeeded). Create a prehistoric form of locusts to have it attack crops that aren't from Biosyn to control the world's food supply. Burn the evidence and get away with his crimes. Avoid the dinosaurs' wrath and stay alive. Kill Alan Grant and his friends. End the dinosaurs' co-existence, even if it means killing several innocent lives (all failed).
Moral Event Horizon	Unleashing swarms of locusts that would eat all crops except Biosyn's GMOs, knowingly risking humanity's extinction for profit and power. Setting his locusts on fire to destroy the evidence of his crimes, leading to the destruction of his own sanctuary.
Kill Count	Thousands (directly and indirectly) Billions (endangered)
Worst Crimes	Mass murder Conspiracy Kidnapping Animal cruelty Systematic starvation Sabotage Bio-terrorism Child abuse Global endangerment Wildlife trafficking Attempted world domination Abuse of power Brainwashing Arson Corruption Poaching Organized crime Attempted ecocide
Type of Villain	Power-Hungry Businessman

“	When we're afraid, what do we do? What have we done before? We follow through. That's what we do, right?	„
	~ Lewis Dodgson admitting to Dr. Henry Wu that he's going to continue with his plans of using Hexagon Allies to have his locusts monopolize and starve the world's population.

“	The work I'm doing here will save countless lives, increase life expectancy, improve quality of life. We're talking the scientific Fountain of Youth. And it's not just the big stuff. Slow Wi-Fi? I upgrade it. Need more organic options in the commissary? I make a deal with Guitierrez Ranch. But no matter how big or small, it's never enough. Myopic punks like you rip me apart for the few mistakes I've made on the road to greatness, simply because I have the audacity to have vision.	„
	~ Dodgson justifying his corrupt actions to a disgusted Kenji.

Lewis Dodgson is the overarching antagonist of Universal Pictures' Jurassic Park franchise, which is based on the 1990 science fiction novel of the same name by Michael Crichton.

Originally starting out as a spy working for Biosyn, he bribed InGen computer programmer Dennis Nedry with $750,000 dollars, claiming that he'll give him $1,500,000 if he gets all fifteen embryos required sent to the mainland. Eventually becoming Biosyn's CEO, Dodgson schemes to control the world's food supply through the use of genetically-modified locusts that devour any crops except for Biosyn's, which would drive all animals (including dinosaurs) to extinction and force humanity to either rely on him for survival or face extinction.

He was portrayed by Cameron Thor in the first film and by Campbell Scott in the sixth film. In Camp Cretaceous and Chaos Theory, he was voiced by Adam Harrington, who also voiced Mordekaiser in League of Legends.

What Makes Him Pure Evil?

In General

• He is shown to be a misanthrope, as it's shown he hates being around people, only doing so when he has to, and holds humanity in low regard while being far more interested in dinosaurs.
• He shows no evidence that he would have paid Dennis Nedry the rest of the money for the embryos as he promised, or at the very least, if he did pay him, he would have done it just to make his company look professional rather than out of honor. Even Nedry himself was suspicious when Dodgson almost left him alone with the bill at the Costa Rican restaurant.
• Shows no proof that he loved his wife. What doesn't help his case is he is no longer wearing a wedding ring in Dominion.
• He only values Dr. Henry Wu's intelligence as a means of generating profit for his company. This was shown when Dr. Wu confesses to Maisie Lockwood the truth about her origins, and Dodgson chews out Dr. Wu for doing so because it would compromise Maisie's "standing" as an asset to Biosyn. This, along with other pointers, shows that he only sees Dr. Wu as a mere tool for his own agenda and clearly doesn't care for him in general.
  • He also refuses to oblige Wu's wise solution to combat the locust crisis, as he still wants to use the locusts to force humanity to turn to his company's products for survival. Dodgson even demanded an unwilling Dr. Wu to perform cruel experimentation on Maisie as a means of increasing the locusts' reproductivity rate, not caring that Dr. Wu was a dear friend and colleague to Maisie's mother Charlotte Lockwood at InGen.
  • Because of his irresponsible and heinous actions, this caused a disgusted Dr. Wu to redeem himself, sever all ties with Biosyn and escape with Maisie and the heroes. Dr. Wu even gets to atone for his crimes by successfully creating a proper pathogen (with Maisie's help) that genetically alters the killer locusts into cannibalizing each other to death, thus saving the world's remaining crops and saving all of humanity and animals (including the dinosaurs) from extinction, leaving Dodgson's plans in vain.
• He shows no care for his assistant Ramsay Cole in general.
  • Upon seeing Biosyn Valley being burned down while letting his employees evacuate, he decides to use Ramsay Cole as a scapegoat by appointing him as his new successor for Biosyn so that Cole would face criminal charges while Dodgson himself lays low from the authorities so that he can start afresh. This leads a disgusted Cole to refuse Dodgson's offer and leave with the heroes, but not before admitting to Dodgson that he was the one who spied on him and enlisted Ian Malcolm, Dr. Alan Grant, and Dr. Ellie Sattler to nab the evidence of his crimes in the first place, which left Dodgson very upset.
  • He also only chooses not to kill Cole for betraying him to buy himself more time to escape.
• While he decided to not create the dinosaur hybrids given that they're dangerous, it was only out of pragmatism, as he knew that they're the reason that led the destruction of Jurassic World.
• Despite having somewhat humorous moments, such as him having a brief tantrum hitting a chair out of frustration when his plan has gone wrong, none of them detract from his heinousness as he is still treated seriously in-universe as a legitimate threat, specially when the full scope of his evilness is shown and revealed to the other characters.

Jurassic Park

• He bribes Dennis Nedry with $750,000 so he would sabotage InGen by stealing fifteen of their embryos from InGen CEO John Hammond's upcoming dinosaur theme park Jurassic Park on Isla Nublar for Biosyn, saying that he would get a total of $1,500,000 if he finishes his job.
• He is indirectly responsible for all of the events of Jurassic Park as his plan to have Nedry steal the embryos from Hammond had triggered the 1993 Isla Nublar incident, resulting in the deaths of attorney Donald Gennaro, chief engineer Ray Arnold, game warden Robert Muldoon and even Nedry himself at the jaws of Rexy, Velociraptors and a Dilophosaurus. Not only that, but Dodgson is also indirectly responsible for the mass breakout of all the dinosaurs at Jurassic Park, forcing a distraught Hammond to give up on his dream project and causing InGen to suffer multi-million dollar lawsuits filed by the families of said victims. This caused the events of The Lost World: Jurassic Park which ended with InGen's dinosaurs being revealed to the whole world leading to the events of the rest of the series.

Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous

Season 5

• He takes glee in the fact that Mantah Corp managed to create computer chips that can brainwash dinosaurs thanks to Kash D. Langford's talents, even going as far as taking his time playing with a mind-controlled Carnotaurus named Toro for his own personal enjoyment.
• He makes a deal with Daniel Kon, the president of Mantah Corp, upon being impressed by the latter's mind-control chips, wanting both the chips and a few dinosaurs in exchange for profit.
• He is again shown to be a jerk, calling Daniel's son Kenji a child and questioning his competency right in front of him to his father.
• He orders Kon and the mercenaries to find more dinosaurs to brainwash, and even gave them a list of specific dinosaurs that includes dangerous predators, not realizing or not caring about the danger the expedition puts everyone in. He even successfully obtains the old Barbasol can that was once lost in Isla Nublar for more than two decades, intending to use the embryos stored inside the can so he could clone new dinosaurs for his own company.

Jurassic World: Chaos Theory

Season 3

• He entered into a partnership with Soyona Santos.
• He is revealed to be the owner of the Amber Clave Underground Market and a major figure in dinosaur trafficking.
• He used the catacombs of Malta for his illegal operations.
• He offered to hand over his black market to Santos, but its implied that he intends to betray her, as he whispers to the Handler, "Patience, just patience. They'll be yours", after Santos berates her for threatening Brooklyn, implying that he intended for her to kill them both.
  • However, as Dodgson was speaking about the Atrociraptors that Santos took away from her, it's also possible that Dodgson was simply ingratiating himself to the Handler, something that pays off later for him.
• He received a case full of dinosaur eggs from Santos and took it to his black market, where most of them were apparently sold.
• He and Santos had Chuck Desai intimidated by the Atrociraptor Handler and forced him to support Biosyn's dominion over all dinosaurs.
• He had regional counsellor Corso killed by the Atrociraptor Handler for refusing to give him a special land permit, even though Santos wanted to use intimidation tactics instead. He did this behind Soyona's back, which not only angered the Broker, but also raised tensions between her and the Handler.
  • Notably, even the ruthless Santos, who has no problems with murder, found this act to be completely unnecessary and senseless.
• He asked Santos to kidnap Maisie Lockwood and Beta for him.
• He didn't compensate Soyona for her services, which was one of the reasons she decided to sell her Atrociraptors to Riyadh.
• He was implied to be negligent with the security of his dinosaur valley, inadvertently allowing a Pyroraptor (created by his company) to escape and wreck havoc, forcing the Camp Fam and Gia to intervene to save lives.
• His dinosaur trafficking operations in Malta and kidnapping of Maisie and Beta made him indirectly responsible for the chaos that took place when the dinosaurs got loose from the Amber Clave Underground Market and rampaged through the streets of Valleta, killing and injuring many people.
• Bumpy was brought to his valley, forcing Kenji and Sammy to cancel their plan to return home and go there to find Smoothie's mother.
• He sent a helicopter to help Santos escape.
• Its revealed that Dodgson's company Biosyn has been secretly training assassin dinosaurs, including a Carnotaurus, which Soyona uses to kill Ghost and the Handler after she turns on her to save her Atrociraptors, which are also revealed to have been trained by Biosyn. After Soyona's arrest, Darius, Yaz, Brooklynn and Ben head to Biosyn HQ to stop Dodgson.

Season 4

• He had many dinosaurs trained brutally from birth to turn them into brainwashed living weapons. These include the Atrociraoptors used by Soyona Santos and the Handler to hunt down the Nublar Six.
  • This makes Dodgson indirectly responsible for everyone who were killed by the assassin dinosaurs (including Daniel, who sacrificed his life to save Kenji and Darius from the Atrociraoptors). When this became clear as Kenji coldly confronts Dodgson for causing Daniel's death, Dodgson showed no concern over this, implying a lack of remorse for the numerous deaths that he caused.
  • As seen in videos documenting the weaponization of the dinosaurs, they were all subjected to extreme animal cruelty on Dodgson's orders in order to accomplish this.
  • Dr. Wu's intent had been to train dinosaurs for search and rescue, but Dodgson chose to weaponize them, giving him more motive to turn against him. Wu compares Dodgson's actions to Vic Hoskins and Eli Mills with how they used his research to create hybrid weapons.
• He released Rexy into his valley and enjoyed a fight between her and his Giganotosaurus.
• He refused to hand over Bumpy to Kenji and Sammy. When Kenji tries to blackmail him into compliance, he deceptively sends them and Smoothie into a trap to have them all killed by a pack of Dilophosaurus.
• It's revealed that he made a deal with Sammy's family to gain more organic options for the commissary at Biosyn Headquarters, which is what caused Sammy to have a falling out with her family due to her distrust towards Dodgson.
• While being confronted by Kenji for his actions, Dodgson justifies his actions as being for the betterment of humanity and sneers at the people who tear him apart for the "few mistakes" that Dodgson has made along the way. This implies that Dodgson shows no remorse for his actions and believes that people look down on him because Dodgson has the audacity to have vision.
• It's revealed that he implanted neural implants into his dinosaurs to control them, to an extent. The chips are implied to be a version of the mind control chips that he bought from Daniel Kon, although the effects are less extreme than the original Mantah Corp model.
• He accidentally set fire to his own valley, endangering the Nublar Six and every dinosaur in it.

Jurassic World: Dominion

• Upon learning about more dinosaurs being unleashed into the mainland following the eruption of Isla Nublar, the destruction of Jurassic Park and Jurassic World, the shutdown of InGen and the death of Eli Mills, Dodgson concocts a plot for profit and power by making a deal with the world governments: he will house the displaced dinosaurs in a new sanctuary to prevent further mishaps that the dinosaurs are causing against the humans and the modern-day animals.
  • To that end, he used a valley located in Italy that his company purchased for its rich amber deposits as the new sanctuary called Biosyn Valley, and he paid the Department of Prehistoric Wildlife to capture and transport numerous dinosaurs (including those in Isla Sorna) to Biosyn Valley.
    • However, these actions are used to mask his true ambitions of using the dinosaurs for profit; he even secretly hired Dr. Wu to clone more prehistoric animals (such as a Pyroraptor, a Moros, a Dimetrodon, a Therizinosaurus and a deadly Giganotosaurus) to live in Biosyn Valley. He even had numerous deer to be transported to the sanctuary as prey for the theropods, implying that he sees the dinosaurs (and the deer) as nothing but tools to generate revenue for his company.
    • As revealed in Chaos Theory, Dodgson used unscrupulous methods to accomplish this, including blackmail, intimidation and even murder.
    • He also shows in the reserve how much he doesn't care about the ecology, pairing 2 aggressive super-predators, the Giganotosaurus and Rexy, which almost killed each other when they meet.
• Other than cloning new dinosaurs, he ordered Wu to create killer locusts and have them unleashed into the United States to devour all crops that were supplied by Biosyn's competitors.
  • In the Extended Version, it's stated that the locusts were meant to spread genetic modifications to crops so that they would be resistant to droughts, frosts, and disease. However, it failed due to the rapid breeding and extended life of the locusts, combined with their diet of non-Biosyn seeds.
  • Dr. Wu soon learned in horror that leaving the killer locusts unchecked would bring a global famine that would put humanity and all animals (including the dinosaurs) at the risk of extinction. Dr. Wu even showed actual remorse for this by rightfully warning Dodgson about the consequences and wisely suggesting a solution to eradicate the locusts before it's too late.
    • However, Dodgson refused to listen to Dr. Wu's advice, knowing fully well that humanity would be either forced to buy Biosyn's GMOs or die out due to starvation, all part of his plot for more profit and power.
• He asked Soyona Santos and, by extension, Rainn Delacourt to kidnap and transport Maisie Lockwood and a baby Velociraptor named Beta to Biosyn Valley, indirectly resulting in Santos' arrest by the French Intelligence, the fall of the Amber Clave Underground Market and Delacourt's brutal, well-deserved death at the jaws of a juvenile Baryonyx.
  • In Chaos Theory, Dodgson is shown to be the creator of the market who operated from the shadows.
  • It later turns out that Dodgson wants Dr. Wu to perform cruel experiments on both Maisie and Beta so that he could improve the killer locusts' reproductivity rate as Maisie and Beta were born asexually by their mothers (Charlotte Lockwood and a raptor named Blue), showing that he has no qualms in hurting infant animals and children for his own ambitions.
• When Dr. Wu refuses to subject Maisie and Beta to cruel experimentation as he intends to study them as a means of finding a proper solution for the locust outbreak, Dodgson berates Dr. Wu for confessing to Maisie about her origins as he feels that doing so will strip Maisie of her status as "the most important intellectual property of Biosyn", implying that Dodgson only thinks of Maisie as property instead of a real person.
• He deliberately ordered his technicians to turn off Biosyn Valley's aerial deterrent system to unleash pterosaurs in an attempt to have Owen Grady, Claire Dearing, and Kayla Watts murdered in their plane to prevent them from reaching Biosyn Valley to rescue Maisie and Beta.
• After believing that the famed mathematician Ian Malcolm (whom Dodgson hired as a consultant) was spying on him as Malcolm gave information about the locusts to Dr. Alan Grant and Dr. Ellie Sattler, Dodgson unjustly fires Malcolm, who furiously chews him out by pointing out to several employees of how his plot would put billions of peoples' lives at risk.
  • However, rather than having Malcolm imprisoned or killed, Dodgson instead orders him to leave the sanctuary, but only as a means of maintaining his gentlemanly facade to his employees, and likely because he had no staff on site he could trust to carry out such a blatant crime, so this apparent restraint was pragmatic.
• After Dr. Grant and Dr. Sattler go off with the DNA from one of the killer locusts while rescuing Maisie, Dodgson traps Dr. Grant, Dr. Sattler, and Maisie at the Dimetrodon habitat by shutting down their hyperloop train to prevent them from escaping. It was also revealed that Dodgson used abandoned mines as the Dimetrodon habitat and several human skulls were found there, implying that Dodgson may have previously sent some people to be devoured by the Dimetrodons.
• Upon hearing the news about the killer locusts being spread out to other countries (as Dr. Wu correctly predicted) and knowing that they would be traced back to Biosyn, Dodgson decides to destroy the evidence by ordering his scientists to burn the locusts alive in his laboratory. Unfortunately, this causes the burning locusts to break free from the lab and create a wildfire throughout Biosyn Valley, putting both humans and the animals in danger.
  • The way Dodgson killed the giant locusts is also very disturbing, and would fall under animal cruelty because he could’ve euthanized the locusts in a more humane way with all his resources, but chose to burn them alive instead, even though there is a possibility that insects can feel pain
• Upon watching Biosyn Valley burn in the wildfire, he flew himself into a berserk rage before reluctantly ordering his staff evacuated from Biosyn Valley. However, this move is only to continue masking his true nature from others while he takes the opportunity to escape himself, thus it's still pragmatic on his end.
  • By this point, Dodgson's own employees were turning on him, openly questioning his orders, with even Dodgson's loyal guard Jeffrey silently refusing a request from his boss after seeing Dodgson's true colors.
• In his final moments, he attempts to escape through the hyperloop train with the Barbasol can containing dinosaur embryos while leaving the others to die so that he can start over and formulate a new plot for profit.
• While his death at the jaws of three Dilophosaurus was violently horrible while attempting to escape, it's not played for sympathy, but rather for karma and satisfaction as he outright deserved it for his heinous actions considering that he tried to trap Grant, Sattler and Maisie in the hyperloop when they tried to escape with evidence of the killer locusts in addition to being karmically similar to the way Nedry got killed in 1993, all while sharing the same fate with his paid spy 29 years ago.
  • Ironically, as seen in Chaos Theory, the dinosaurs had found Dodgson while chasing Kenji Kon and Ben Pincus through the tunnels. Dodgson had earlier sent Kenji into a Dilophosaurus trap.

Trivia

• Only Dodgson’s film and IDW comic counterpart can count as Pure Evil, while his novel counterpart cannot be PE due to suffering from Fridge Horror.
• Lewis Dodgson is, alongside Eli Mills and Kash D. Langford, the three Pure Evil characters in the Jurassic Park film franchise.
• Dodgson is mentioned in Telltale's Jurassic Park: The Game where he sends Miles Chadwick and Nima Cruz to retrieve the embryos from Nedry after he shuts down all the systems in Jurassic Park, which eventually leads to the deaths of Chadwick, Billy Yoder, Laura Sorkin, Oscar Morales, and several InGen mercenaries. It also resulted in the death of Cruz if she chose to try claiming the embryos instead of saving Jess Harding, the daughter of InGen veterinarian Gerald Harding. However, due to the game's non-canonicity confirmed by Season 5 of Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous, as well as this version of Dodgson not getting any screen-time and being a generic conspirator and corrupt official, he is not considered Pure Evil.
• In the film's and Camp Cretaceous series of young adult novelizations, since the fifth season of the animated series was not adapted into a novel, its events apparently never happened within that continuity, and therefore Dodgson does not appear in no book of Camp Cretaceous. However, he is present in the novelization of Jurassic Park and Jurassic World: Dominion, and his actions in those novels are the same as in the films, consequently Dodgson's version within the continuity of the young adult novelizations also qualifies as Pure Evil.

External Links

• Lewis Dodgson on the Villains Wiki
• Lewis Dodgson on the Antagonists Wiki
• Lewis Dodgson on the Ultimate Evil Wiki
• Lewis Dodgson on the Jurassic Park Wiki
• Lewis Dodgson on the Scrappy Wiki
• Lewis Dodgson on the Universal Studios Wiki