| “ | 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. |
Lewis Dodgson is the overarching antagonist of Universal Pictures' Jurassic Park film series.
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.
In the film series, he was portrayed by Cameron Thor in the first film and by Campbell Scott in the sixth film. In Camp Cretaceous, he was voiced by Adam Harrington.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
In General[]
- 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 Costarican 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.
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.
Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous[]
Season 5[]
- He takes glee upon becoming the new head of research of Biosyn in the fact that his former rival 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 (even though Kenji deserved it).
- 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: 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 deers 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 bring up revenue for his company.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- However, 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.
- However, 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.
- Having connections with dinosaur smuggling in the black market, he hired a sadistic poacher named Rainn Delacourt and an animal smuggler named Soyona Santos to kidnap and transport Maisie Lockwood and a baby Velociraptor named Beta to Biosyn Valley, resulting in Santos' arrest by the French Intelligence and Delacourt's brutal, well-deserved death at the jaws of a juvenile Baryonyx.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Trivia[]
- Only Dodgson’s film and IDW counterpart can count as Pure Evil, while his novel counterpart cannot due to suffering from offscreen villainy.
- 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.
- It is theorized that Dodgson is the one dubbed as "The Broker" who sent the Atrociraptor Handler to assassinate the Nublar Six in the Jurassic World: Chaos Theory. If this is confirmed, Dodgson could be even worse.
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
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