| “ | In the modern world, it's a much more serious transgression to shoot a tiger than to shoot your parents. Tigers have advocates, but now imagine: a specifically stocked hunting preserve, maybe somewhere in Asia, where individuals of wealth and importance could hunt Tyrannosaurs and Triceratops in a natural setting. It would be an incredibly desirable attraction. How many hunters have a stuffed elk head on their wall? The world's full of them, but how many can claim to have a snarling Tyrannosaurus head, hanging above the wet bar? | „ |
| ~ Dodgson explaining his plans for a dinosaur-hunting preserve to Jeff Rossiter. |
Lewis Dodgson was the main antagonist of the Jurassic Park novel doulogy written by Michael Crichton. He served as overarching antagonist of the 1990 novel Jurassic Park, and returned as the main antagonist of it's 1995 sequel The Lost World.
He was the Head of Research at Biosyn who was known for his law-breaking studies, including a rabies vaccine test conducted on farmers in Chile without their knowledge or consent, which led to at least ten casualties. However, Dodgson was able to escape prosecution.
He was the Head of Research at Biosyn and was infamous for his law-breaking studies, including a rabies vaccine test performed on farmers in Chile without their knowledge or consent, which led to at least ten casualties, though Dodgson was able to evade prosecution. He spends the entirety of the novels trying to get either dinosaur embryos or eggs for a plan to create a dinosaur-hunting preserve to get rich and experiment on dinosaurs without any consequences behind the scenes.
What makes him a Hate Sink?[]
In general[]
- While many characters throughout the novels have dropped some cuss words on some occasions, Dodgson uses very crude and profane language many times. He is also a very impolite person, disrespecting, mocking and intimidating him everyone around him, esspecially when they are his employees, such as the case when Ed James failed to find Richard Levine. He also acts rudely to people who sees inferior, further proving his narcissistic personality.
- He also puts on a charming and affable facade when he tries to manipulate others when he wants do so, making him incredibly two-faced.
- He is overall a psychopathic sadist and unethical scientist who is willing to hurt and even outright kill people when it helps him advance in his goals and even sadistically enjoys experimenting on animals and humans (esspecially children) alike, making him far more repulsive than even his movie counterpart. What makes him even worse is that unlike other scientists who use their knowledge and creativity to create their own inventions, Dodgson steals the inventions of others, reinvents and sells them as if they were his own. He openly admits that he personally views that ethics and rules are for weaker souls too afraid to achieve great things.
- Almost everyone in the Novels are either afried of him or are disgusted by him.
- Despite his position as Head of Research as Biosyn, it is confirmed that it was simply a cover to corporate spying, sabotage and espionage all mainly run by Dodgson himself. Also, his shady actions and operations have even earned him a reputation as discussed by Richard Levine and Marty Guiterrez in The Lost World.
- He is the only human character in the Novel series, and the first human character in the overall franchise to harm and even outright murder other people as well.
- Despite acting friendly and affable towards his assistant, Howard King, it is proven later that he didn't care about him at all as he didn't even try to look for him after they were separated.
- It is also hinted that he hated his parents, as he compared shooting them to shooting a tiger.
- The novels do literally everything to make him as despicable as possible.
In the Past[]
- He was expelled from Hopkins University as a graduate student, because he tried to conduct gene therapy on a fellow student for unkown reasons.
- He experimented with an airborne rabies vaccine without informing the local farmers in Chile, killing at least 10 of them, just to prove the point that it actually works, and what's even worse is that one of the victims in said rabies vaccine experiment was apparently a child. It was also mentioned that he test-marketed a genetically engineered potato that caused several children diarrhea and even hospitalized some of them. Despite it not actually happening during the story, it still has clear onscreen effects, as BioSyn did not approve of Dodgson's rabies vaccine experiment and he was trying to do something to keep himself from getting fired from the company because of it.
- He manipulated and corrupted Howard King into becoming his assistant, even forcing him to leave his wife and child, just so he could have a better career with Dodgson's help. During this, he also openly admitted to King that he was a thief and a fraud.
Jurassic Park[]
- After Bill Steingarten approves his plan, he bribes Dennis Nedry to steal dinosaur embryos from InGen on Isla Nublar. While he gives Nedry half of the money he promised him, this is only to persuade Nedry into stealing the embryos from InGen so he could use them for Biosyn. Not even Nedry seemed to trust him as he recorded his conversation with Dodgson to make sure he gave Nedry the money he owed him, and it's mentioned that the embryos were worth $10,000,000, meaning Dodgson conned Nedry. This makes him indirectly responsible for the events of the first novel seeing as to how Nedry shut the power off to steal the embryos for Dodgson-which resulted in the dinosaurs escaping and thus putting many people being killed by the animals, the Costa Rican government bombing Isla Nublar and some of the dinosaurs escaping to the mainland.
The Lost World[]
- After the events of Jurassic Park he sends his agent, Ed James to spy on the survivors of the first novel.
- When James fails to bring him information about Richard Levine's whereabouts, Dodgson insults him and intimidates him during one of their meetings in a resturant.
- In a chapter named Exploitation, 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 explains to his boss that because Biosyn gets backlash for animal experimentations, the company can use the dinosaurs as test subjects, claiming that since they are extinct beings recreated by man, they have no rights. During his monologue he also mocks animal rights activists.
- He hacked into the systems of a satellite, to get a better look at Isla Sorna's map, in order to locate dinosaur nests on the island.
- He tried to steal the eggs of all dinosaurs of Isla Sorna, so he could create a hunting preserve full of dinosaurs. What makes his intentions to create a specific preserve for hunting dinosaurs outstandingly evil is that while the other villains in the novel wanted to use dinosaurs for money, and hurting them was proxy damage, Dodgson's plan involved hurting dinosaurs as the main point. The realistic implications of his plan are that rich people will have the ability to pay for living their sadistic fantasies. It also hinted that he wished to continue his cruel experiments on some of the dinosaurs.
- When Sarah Harding tries to ask for help from Dodgson and his men, Dodgson rudely insults her saying that he wouldn't even care about what she wants if she was as important as the pope. However, when Harding explains that she is looking for Ian Malcolm and Richard Levine, Dodgson puts on a friendly facade in order to manipulate her to gain information about what she knows before killing her.
- Attempted to kill Sarah by throwing her off the boat, with the hopes that she will drown in the water. Later, when Howard King calls him out on this, Dodgson simply tells him that they will cover it up as an accident.
- During the raidings of dinosaur nests, Dodgson uses a super sonic device to scare off the dinosaurs while King and George Baselton steal some of the eggs.
- Tried to abduct the eggs of the Tyrannosaurus rex couple, which ends up disastorous because Dodgson's device gets broken, leading to Baselton getting eaten alive by one of the dinosaurs and King almost dying in a car crash while escaping from them. During this, he calls Baselton a fat bastard, proving that he didn't care about the man at all despite him directly causing his death.
- In addition to this, Howard accidentally broke one of the infant Tyrannosaur's legs, leading to Eddie Carr taking it to the trailer, thus later the T.rex parents almost killed Ian and Sarah, making Dodgson indirectly responsible for these events.
- After waking up after the crash, he didn't even bother to look after King, who had shown nothing but loyalty to Dodgson all this time. Not even knowing that King got brutally killed by Velociraptors, but is very likely he would not have cared.
- He tried to kill Sarah again, after finding an abandoned car and climbing under it when a T.rex was approaching. Dodgson tried to push her out, so she could be eaten, however when she gets the upper hand, Dodgson tries to beg for mercy after almost killing the woman two times before being dragged away by the dinosaur and being fed to it's offspring.
- Although his fate of being eaten alive by juvenile Tyrannosaurs was brutal, it was completely well-deserved and even characters like Ian Malcolm, who tried to save as many people as possible, was glad that Dodgson died.
Facts and Trivia[]
- In the first book, they said Dodgson was thirty-five years old, but in the second novel, they said that he was forty-five years old. However, it was six years since the Isla Nublar Incident. If Jurassic Park is correct, Dodgson should be thirty-five years old by the time of the first novel and forty-one years old by the time of the second novel, but if The Lost World is correct, Dodgson should be thirty-nine years old by the time of the first novel and forty-five years old by the time of the second novel.