page_title: List of Jurassic Park characters
section_title: Dr. Henry Wu
hierarchical_section_title: List of Jurassic Park characters / Appearing in Jurassic Park / Dr. Henry Wu
caption_attribution_description: BD Wong in New York City
context_page_description: The following is a list of fictional characters from Michael Crichton's 1990 novel Jurassic Park, its 1995 sequel The Lost World, and their film adaptations, Jurassic Park and The Lost World: Jurassic Park. Also included are characters from the sequel films Jurassic Park III, Jurassic World, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, and Jurassic World: Dominion, and video games, which are not adaptations and have no original source novels but contain some characters and events based on the fictional universe of Crichton's novels.
context_section_description: Appears in: Jurassic Park (novel and film), Jurassic World, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Jurassic World: Dominion
  Portrayed by: BD Wong
  Dr. Henry Wu is a character in the first novel and film, and later returns in the fourth and fifth films, Jurassic World and Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. Dr. Wu is the biotechnologist and chief geneticist in Jurassic Park and head of the team that created the dinosaurs. In the novel, he is a former child prodigy who was personally recruited by Hammond after finishing his doctorate. Although he is the instrumental figure behind the procedures used to bring the dinosaurs to life, he demonstrates little concern for the animals, and is unable to remember exactly what species he has created. He proposes genetically altering the dinosaurs to make them more manageable, noting that many of their early assumptions about the behavior and biology of the animals had been wrong, but did not get Hammond's approval. When he is later presented with the fact that the dinosaurs have been breeding, essentially proving that he had failed to engineer them properly, he mistook it as a "tremendous validation of his work". In the novel, he is killed during the assault on the Visitor Center when a Velociraptor jumps onto him from the center's roof and guts him. He is mentioned indirectly in the second novel when Malcolm discovers old InGen documents addressed to Dr. Henry Wu scattered throughout the abandoned manufacturing plant on Isla Sorna.
  Wu has a greatly reduced role in the first film, merely giving a tour of the research facility. He leaves the island on the last boat to the mainland before the tropical storm and the power failure.
  Wong returned to portray Wu in the 2015 film Jurassic World. In 2014, a viral marketing website for the fictional Masrani Global Corporation was launched to promote Jurassic World. According to the website, Dr. Wu continued his work on DNA and created the Wu flower using the DNA of different plants. Masrani Global's CEO Simon Masrani took over InGen and promoted Wu. In November 2014, the website stated that InGen facility "Martel" opened in Siberia to extract Pleistocene-dated organic materials from glacial ice, and that Wu believed this would expand InGen's genome library.
  In Jurassic World, Dr. Wu is first seen with Claire Dearing trying to attract investors with the genetically modified hybrid Indominus rex, using the genetics of the Tyrannosaurus rex, pit viper, tree frog, cuttlefish, Velociraptor, Carnotaurus, Therizinosaur, Gigantosaurus, and other animals. After the Indominus escapes, Wu declines to specify the animal's genetic make-up, stating that he is not at liberty to reveal such information. When Masrani informs Wu of the Indominus's ability to camouflage and to regulate its body temperature, Wu reveals that the animal includes tree frog and cuttlefish DNA, allowing it to do such things. Outraged, Masrani orders Wu to shut down his operations, but Wu reminds him that the geneticists have always used the DNA of other animals to fill gaps in the dinosaurs' genomes. Wu further states that many of the dinosaurs would look "quite different" if their genetic codes were pure. Wu is later revealed to have been secretly working with InGen Security head Vic Hoskins to create the Indominus rex as a weapon. Hoskins has Wu and his InGen Security team flown from the island to an unknown location along with dinosaur embryos, thus protecting his research.
  Wong reprised the role in the 2018 film Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, in which Wu is working for Eli Mills. In the film, Wu has created the Indoraptor by inserting additional Velociraptor DNA into his earlier Indominus rex hybrid. The Indoraptor is auctioned despite Wu's protests that it is an early prototype. Later in the film, Wu plans to get blood from Blue the Velociraptor to make an improved Indoraptor. However, he is told by paleo-veterinarian Zia Rodriguez that she had transfused blood from a T. rex to save the raptor's life, making Blue's blood impure. Franklin Webb then drugs Wu to subdue him and Wu is dragged aw
caption: BD Wong plays the geneticist Henry Wu.
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