Lewis Dodgson (Jurassic Cinematic Saga)

Dr. Lewis Dodgson

**Dr. Lewis Dodgson** was the main antagonist of the *Jurassic Park Cinematic Saga*.

He appeared as the minor yet overarching antagonist of *Jurassic Park,* the unseen overarching antagonist of*The Lost World: Jurassic Park*, *Jurassic World* and *Jurassic World: New Era.* He appeared as the main antagonist of *Jurassic Park: Chaos Effect* and the final two parter film, *Jurassic World: Dominion*.

He was the ruthless and psychopathic veteran spy and Head of Research at BioSyn, known for his law-breaking studies and corporate espionage. Eventually, he rose to the top and became the CEO of BioSyn.

## Personality

At first glance, Dodgson appeared to be a charismatic, sophisticated, polite, and attentive, yet serious man, but in reality, he was a cold-blooded, shady, psychopathic, manipulative, and ruthless man. Unlike other scientists, who use their creativeness to invent new things, Dodgson's creativity was used almost exclusively on espionage and ruthless planning by stealing other people's ideas. He was willing to pay any price, whether in money or human lives, for achieving his goals. Despite this, Dodgson is a quiet and subtle master pragmatist who usually prefers to thoroughly operate in the shadows, knowing that any evidence of BioSyn's involvement could potentially destroy the company and as a result get incarcerated. One of those examples includes hiding his real name in public to avoid drawing attention.

While some of the antagonists in the franchise had some standards or reasonable motivations, Dodgson had none. There was no boundaries he wouldn't have crossed for the sake of his goals. He even compared shooting his own parents to shooting a tiger, which indicates he saw them as no better than the animals whom he cruelly experimented on. He also admitted that he only joined BioSyn because he could conduct as many torturous experiments and unethical actions as he pleased. It is also heavily implied that Dodgson has a history of abusing children, starting from sending at least one child to the hospital due to experimental marketing of genetically engineered food products, to killing at least one child in the rabies vaccine's experiment, all the way to torturing Maisie during an experiment and referring to children as *"whiny"*, implying a general distaste for children. Ironically, Dodgson seems to have an obsessive admiration and fascination with the dinosaurs (the carnivores in particular), viewing them as superior to not only modern animals but also human beings. Despite this, Dodgson is not above hypocritically exploiting them for his company's gain, going even as far as planning to drive the InGen versions into extinction so he could replace them with BioSyn's own versions.

The other two key traits of Dodgson’s personality is his pride and ego. With InGen, Masrani Global and MantahCorp now no longer a threat to his plans, Dodgson was confident that his plans were going to work the way he intended them, as Malcolm even said that when Dodgson sees his machinations, he goes for them while ignoring everything else, and when he sees someone he percieves as a threat, he wouldn't change his mind. Part of his big ego is shown early on when Dodgson only didn't want his name used back when he was a spy, yet when he became CEO, he wanted his company to be superior to all his rival companies so he could make even more money than before. He was also a hypocrite, as he accuses Henry Wu of setting him up even though he did the same with Nedry, Chadwick, and Nima in 1993, something he holds no remorse for.

He is also a complete psychopath. One of the people that he sent to retrieve the embryos from Nedry, Miles Chadwick, even complains about Dodgson possibly killing him due to their past interactions, suggesting that Dodgson is also not above killing people as well if they don't do what they were required for the job. Later, when his boss, Jeff Rositer threatened to fire him and give him to the police, Dodgson brutally murdered him, proving that Chadwick was correct. In 2023, Malcolm confronted Dodgson about how he is bringing about humanity's extinction through his grandiose plan and that he didn't care, and that he knows precisely what his actions will result in yet refuses to stop. In retrospect, Malcolm was showing Dodgson's employees that, while his original plan was just to use the virus to infect and kill all of the InGen dinosaurs so he could promote BioSyn's own medicines and creations, thus gaining money, Dodgson was willing to go through any means necessary to get the most money, even if it meant that the virus would kill off not just dinosaurs but also other organisms, in which humanity would be forced to either die out or rely on Dodgson's medicines, GMOs and designer dinosaurs in order to survive. His lack of care for anyone but himself to the extent that he was willing to let billions to die shows that he is a greater monster than even the deadliest of dinosaurs.

## What makes Lewis Dodgson Pure Evil?

### In the Past

* He attempted to do a gene therapy without FDA permission on one of his classmates while he was studying at Hopkins University.
* In 1984, he experimented with an airborne rabies vaccine without informing the local farmers in Chile, killing at least 18 of them, just to prove that it actually works and what's worse is that 6 of the victims were children. It was also mentioned that some of the survivors tried to sue Dodgson, however they "mysteriously" disappeared.
* He corrupted Howard King into becoming his lackey, as well as manipulated many other scientists to do his dirty work.

### Jurassic Park (1993)

* He is indirectly responsible for the events of the first film seeing as how Nedry shut the power off to steal the embryos for Dodgson-which resulted in the dinosaurs escaping and putting many lives in danger.
* He had a tracking device planted on the Barbasol Can, which would've allowed Miles Chadwick and Nima Cruz to find Nedry and take the can for themselvea, while also ordering Chadwick to bring a gun with him, thus implying that Dodgson wanted to have Nedry killed once he got the embryos. This also lead to Nima getting nearly killed and traumatized and the death of Chadwick.

### The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)

* Although he doesn't physically appear in the film, it is revealed in the sequel that he hired Nick Van Owen to sabotage Peter Ludlow's plans on Isla Sorna and have Richard Levine and his team killed.
	+ This makes him partly responsible for the many horrible deaths in the film and the San Diego Incident as well.

### Jurassic Park: Chaos Effect (2001)

* During a private meeting with his boss, 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 tried to gain almost all forms of dinosaur DNA from Isla Sorna, including eggs,just so he could clone dinosaurs into a biological preserve just so he could continue he torturous experiments on living animals. While other Jurassic Park antagonists tried to do something similar, it was only for the sake of profit, however what makes Dodgson's plan outstandingly evil is that hurting the dinosaurs was the main point.
* He shoots down and kills the female *Spinosaurus,* causing her body to fall upon the nest and destroy the eggs which leads the male going to a murderous rampage across the island, indirectly causing the deaths of several people throughout the film.
	+ What makes this more horrible is the fact that the male *Spinosaurus* is know the last one his kind on the planet, thus when it dies, the speicies will be extinct again.
	+ Dodgson later brags about this in pride.
* After stumbling across the corpse of Nick Van Owen, he frowns at him in disappointment and only claims that he got lucky by not being killed by Dodgson himself.
* He corrupts and threatens Henry Wu into working for him the future.
* He intentionally pushes Howard King to be eaten by the *Velociraptors* so he could escape the island on a boat.
* He kills his boss so he could still rise through the ranks of BioSyn and to avoid his boss giving him over to the police.

### Between Jurassic Park. Chaos Effect and Jurassic World

* He kidnapped some of the surviving dinosaurs of Isla Sorna to Russia for Prehistoric Sanctuary, to rival Masrani Global's Jurassic World.
* He managed to make his plans for the biological preserve into a reality, using it as a legal and family friendly front, while behind-the-scenes conducts experiments upon them.
	+ He has the egges and infants of InGen dinosaurs taken from their habitats so he and his scientists could tamper with their genetic code and make them closer to prehistoric dinosaurs. Many of these experiments end with mass infanticides or just the survivors living in pain for the rest of their short-lived lives.
	+ He had the Spinosaurus stationed within the Sanctuary out of sadism.
	+ He intentionally had BioSyn's dinosaurs outcompete InGen's own dinosaurs so he could prove the public that InGen's creations are cheap imitations of the real dinosaurs, while BioSyn's creations are worthy representations of them.

### Jurassic World (2015)

* While not appearing the film, it is revealed in another sequel that he was using Vic Hoskins and Henry Wu as agents within Masrani to bring down the company. He is also the true mastermind behind the *Indominus Rex.*
* He hired a gang of corporate spies to sabotage the thermo cameras of the I.rex's enclosure which allowed her escape and start her reign of terror over Isla Nublar, thus again. making Dodgson indirectly responsible for numerous deaths.

### Jurassic World: New Era (2019)

* He has hsi political connections blackmail and bribe Costa Rican politicians and representatives to push for not saving the dinosaurs of Isla Nublar.
* He orders Ken Wheatley kill off all the DPG members on Isla Nublar, only leaving Owen, Claire, Barry and Zia alive and traumatising them for the rest of their lives.
* He has Ken Wheatley and Gunnar Eversoll sabotage the plans of Benjamin Atherton and Eli Mills for the dinosaur auction, leading to the chaos in Atherton Estate.
* Once he learns of Maisie being a clone, he has his mercenaries trying to kidnap her for experiments.
* He has Henry Wu kidnapped amidts the chaos.
* He has Maisie, Owen and Claire framed for releasing the dinosaurs into the US, when in reality they escaped by themselves.

### Jurassic World: Dominion

* By having complete control over the media, Dodgson poses as a heroic and humanitarian figure trying to capture all of the InGen dinosaurs and solve the problem, however this is just a facade so that BioSyn can gain more profit and support.
* He sells off BioSyn's failed designer dinosaurs on the black market and has his criminal connections release them into the wild to cause chaos, indirectly causing numerous casualties.
* He initiated a manhunt for Maisie Lockwood so he could experiment on her.
* Although he praises Henry Wu, it is only a facade as in reality it becomes more and more clear that he is only using him and once Wu becomes a liability or just simply outlives his usefulness, Dodgson will kill him.
	+ It also becomes evident that he jealous of Wu's accomplishments as a scientist.
	+ Later when Wu objects against expermenting on Maisie, Dodgson outright threatens to murder him.
	+ These were the last straws which eventually cause Wu to betray Dodgson and redeem himself.
* He infects the InGen dinosaurs with a virus which causes them to temporarily insane, the virus also infects humans however it doesn't drive them insane, instead it makes them very sick, even killing them. All of this jst so he could sell off BioSyn's vaccines and gain more money and power.
* He has his criminal connections kidnap Maisie, once they find her and has her brought to Malta, then to Prehistoric Sanctuary in Russia.
* Earlier in the film, he captures Alan Grant, Ellie Sattler, Sarah Harding, Ian Malcolm and Richard Levine and gloats to them about how he affected their lives through the events of *Jurassic Park, The Lost World: Jurassic Park* and *Jurassic Park: Edge of Chaos*.
	+ He later does a similar thing with Claire and Owen while smiling sadistically.
* He stages numerous life-threatening situations for the main characters, leading some of them to die horrible deaths of Jack Thorne, Ian Malcolm and Barry Sembéne.
* He conducts painful and torturous experiments on Maisie while smiling sadistically and joking about how children are whiny when being experimented upon.
	+ He goes even further by constantly psychologically abusing Maisie throughout the rest of the film, claiming that she isn't an actual person, just a clone.
	+ His comment on children hint at the fact that Maisie wasn't the first child to be experimented upon by Dodgson.
* He was revealed to abuse and torture Genesis, the *Giganotosaurus* antagonist of the film. Causing the dinosaur's destructive behaivor and the deaths caused by the beast. He also had Genesis abuse the I.rex, causing her mentally unstable behaivor in *Jurassic World*.
* When Maise tries to escape with Levine and Harding, Dodgson shoots Maisie almost killing her while laugh about it and tauntin ger about only being a cheap copy of an actual person. He planned to kill all the three, however when two of the *Utahraptors* were nearby, Dodgson quickly escaped.
* While making his escape from the facility, he uses another Barbasol Can to take some of BioSyn's dinosaur embryos and later use them for his criminal endeavors by starting a new life in the criminal underworld.
* He sets the entire BioSyn facility on fire, causing most of the forest within the Sanctuary to burn down and incirectly harming numerous dinosaurs and humans alike.
* When the last of the surviving main characters try to escape by boat on a river with an escort team, Dodgson quickly shoots alll of them down while smiling. He then holds the survivors on gunpoint, gloating and planning to escape on the boat by himself after killing them off.
* He berates Henry Wu for betraying him, despite the fact that Dodgson himself has betrayed numerous people in the past.
* Moments before a male *Tyrannosaurus Rex* takes him to his nest to be eaten by the infants, Dodgson tries to bring Maisie with him out one last act of spite so he could kill her before the dinosaur kills him.
* Although he didn't plan for it, but his actions and plans almost lead the *Giganotosaurus* nearly and accidentally destroying and old abandoned Soviet nuclear power plant which could've lead to worldwide chaos, for which Dodgson would've been ultimately responsible for.