Lewis Dodgson (film series)

* 2022
* 2016
* 1993

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.
End the dinosaurs' co-existence with humans (all failed).

### Moral Event Horizon

Triggering the Isla Nublar Incident which resulted in the sabotage of Jurassic Park and the deaths of several people.
Unleashing giant locusts onto the world that would eat all crops except for Biosyn's GMOs, knowingly risking that it could lead to humanity's extinction.
Setting his locusts on fire to destroy the evidence of his crimes, leading to the destruction of his own sanctuary.

### Kill Count

4 (confirmed; indirectly caused)
Several (implied)
Billions (attempted)

### Crimes

Mass murder
Conspiracy
Bribery
Kidnapping
Animal cruelty
Systematic starvation
Arson
Vandalism
Torture
Abuse of power
Brainwashing
Blackmail
Unfair dismissal
Terrorism
Corruption
Public endangerment
Robbery (implied)
Theft
Unlawful imprisonment
Attempted ecocide

### Type of Villain

Greedy Terrorist

**Lewis Dodgson** is the overarching antagonist of the *Jurassic Park* franchise.

## Portrayals

In the film series, he was portrayed by Cameron Thor in *Jurassic Park* and Campbell Scott in *Jurassic World: Dominion*. In *Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous*, he was voiced by Adam Harrington.

## Roles

He is the overarching antagonist of both the 1993 film *Jurassic Park* and Season 5 of its Netflix spin-off *Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous*, and the main antagonist of the 2022 film sequel *Jurassic World: Dominion*. He is also the unseen overarching antagonist of the non-canon 2011 video game midquel *Jurassic Park: The Game*.

## Background

He is a shady individual who comes from Biosyn, a bio-engineering company that is rivals with InGen and Mantah Corp. At first, Dodgson was an employee who appointed Dennis Nedry to steal fifteen dinosaur embryos from InGen as a corporate spy, leading to the downfall of Jurassic Park in the process. He eventually became the CEO of Biosyn years later where he schemes with Daniel Kon three years later to buy the dinosaurs captured by Mantah Corp for his own company.

After the dinosaurs spread across the world, Dodgson seemingly plans to help stop the spread of giant unidentified locusts across the world nine years later, all while using a facility used as a dinosaur preserve in the Dolomite Mountains as part of his cover, but in reality is plotting to use them to wipe out his competitor's food products, eventually deciding to use them to scheme a way to blackmail the world's population to either rely on his company's GMOs to survive or starve to extinction. He is also the former boss of Henry Wu, Ian Malcolm, and Ramsay Cole, and the archenemy of Alan Grant, Ellie Sattler and Ian Malcolm.

## What Makes Him Pure Evil?

### In General

* He shows no evidence that he would have paid Nedry the rest of the money for the embryos as he promised, or at the very least that he would have done it out of honor rather than to make his company look professional. Even Nedry himself was suspicious when Dodgson almost left him alone with the bill at the Costarican restaurant.
* He shows no proof that he loved his wife. What doesn't help his case is he is no longer wearing a wedding ring by *Dominion.*
* He only values Dr. 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 drove a disgusted Dr. Wu to 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 sparing 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 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.

### *Jurassic Park*

* Even before rising through the ranks of Biosyn, Dodgson was already shown to be an impolite and rude jerk to everyone, as he was first seen leaving the door of the taxi that brought him to his meeting with InGen computer programmer Dennis Nedry in Costa Rica open and not even tipping his driver, much to the driver's fury.
* He bribes Nedry with $750,000 so he would sabotage InGen by stealing fifteen of their embryos from InGen CEO John Hammond's upcoming Jurassic Park theme park at 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 the film because his plan of stealing the embryos had triggered the Isla Nublar incident, which resulted in the deaths of attorney Donald Gennaro at the jaws of Rexy, chief engineer Ray Arnold and game warden Robert Muldoon at the claws of a pack of *Velociraptors* and even Nedry himself at the jaws of a juvenile *Dilophosaurus*. 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*

* He takes glee upon becoming the new CEO 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 talent, even going as far as taking his time playing with a mind-controlled *Carnotaurus* for his own personal enjoyment.
* He made 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 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: 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 the *Pyroraptor*, *Moros*, *Dimetrodon*, *Therizinosaurus* and the 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 bring up revenue for his company.
* 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.
* Having connections with dinosaur smuggling in the black market, he hired a poacher named Rainn Delacourt and an animal smuggler named Soyona Santos to kidnap and transport Maisie Lockwood and a baby raptor named Beta to Biosyn Valley, resulting in Santos' arrest by the French Intelligence and Delacourt's brutal 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 arrested 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 balatant 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 sent previous 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 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.
* His death wasn’t played for sympathy and he indeed deserved it for his heinous actions.