Eli Mills

"The man who proved Raptors can follow orders. You never thought how many millions a trained predator might be worth?"

- Eli asking Claire to bring Owen so he can tame the dinosaurs, foreshadowing his true nature.

Eli Mills is the main antagonist of the 2018 science-fiction adventure summer blockbuster film, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.

He was the assistant of Benjamin Lockwood, one of the co-founders of the original Jurassic Park, and his finance manager. He seeks to make a profit off of selling the dinosaurs trapped on the island of Isla Nublar by any means necessary, which includes killing those who either outlived their usefulness or standing on his way.

He was portrayed by Rafe Spall in his first villain role.

History
Mills was the one who hired Owen, Claire and the Dinosaur Protection Group to go onto Isla Nublar and rescue the dinosaurs trapped on it, allegedly so they could be transported to a safer island before Isla Nublar's volcano erupted.

Accompanying Owen and Claire were Ken Wheatley and his team of mercenaries, whom Mills had hired to capture the dinosaurs for him to make money. After capturing Blue, a Velociraptor whom Owen had raised, Wheatley's mercenaries abandoned Owen and Claire and their friends on the island. However, they manage to flee the island before the volcano erupts and regroup on a ship filled with captured dinosaurs.

It is then revealed that Mills is working with auctioneer Gunnar Eversol to auction off the captured dinosaurs to arms dealers and warlords who want to make the dinosaurs into sentient killing weapons, including the Indoraptor. Lockwood finds out, but Mills murders him using a pillow to keep him quiet. However, the auction is disrupted when Owen releases a Stygimoloch to thwart it.

Mills later attempts to escape with a genetic sample taken from the Indoraptor, but is killed by a Tyrannosaurus rex and a Carnotaurus sastrei, who easily tear his body apart with the Tyrannosaurus rex crushing the genetic sample, destroying it.

Trivia

 * Eli Mills was the third human in the franchise (after Lewis Dodgson and Billy Yoder) who tried to kill another human with his bare hands. However, unlike Dodgson and Yoder, Mills was successful. That makes him the first human in the franchise to succeed at killing another human being.
 * Mills is arguably the most destructive villain in the franchise up to this point (if not counting Henry Wu who cloned the dinosaurs), more so than the Indominus rex herself. This is because his attempt to sell off dinosaurs (including the unstable Indoraptor) indirectly led to them being released onto the main land, and potentially causing greater problems than the Indominus ever did.

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