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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.

Dr. Lewis Dodgson is the main antagonist of Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park novel series.

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.

Originally, he had hired Dennis Nedry to steal embryos from Jurassic Park while on Isla Nublar, so that Biosyn could clone its own dinosaurs. He met with Nedry in Costa Rica to discuss the arrangement and give him equipment to complete his task: a can of shaving cream with a secret compartment to hold fifteen species of dinosaurs. However, Nedry was killed by a Dilophosaurus and dropped the embryos while attempting to leave the park.

Personality[]

At first glance, Dodgson appeared to be a charismatic, sophisticated, polite, and attentive, yet humorless and often serious man, but in reality, he was a cold-blooded, shady, 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 his own reputation in the process. One of those examples includes hiding his real name in public to avoid drawing attention.

While some of the Jurassic Park villains cared for their family members, Dodgson didn't even care about his own parents. He 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. The novel heavily implies 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, implying a general distaste for humanity's status on the food chain. Ironically, Dodgson seems to have an 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 exploiting them for his company's gain as he intended to create a hunting preserve where the Dinosaurs could be hunted for sport as well as trying to steal eggs from the various species of dinosaurs on Isla Sorna.

Biography[]

Background[]

Lewis Dodgson began his controversial career as a graduate student at Hopkins. He had been dismissed for planning human gene therapy without FDA permission. Later, Dodgson secretly went from one criminal activity to another and kept on doing experiments on genes and animals, until joining Biosyn. His thorough sense of discretion eventually helped him work his way up, covertly manipulating many scientists from other companies and establishing a network of people who work for him until eventually becoming the head of research. Arguably his most notable crime was a rabies vaccine test conducted on farmers in Chile without their knowledge or consent, which led to at least ten casualties.

Jurassic Park[]

Dodgson met with Biosyn's board of directors and CEO Bill Steingarten to discuss the opportunity of stealing InGen's dinosaur embryos and bringing them back to Biosyn, so they can create dinosaurs just like InGen did. Dodgson meets Dennis Nedry in a San Francisco airport coffee shop and reveals a briefcase of $750,000 and Dodgson tells Nedry that that's only half of the money Nedry will get for stealing the embryos. Nedry says he wants all the money on Sunday and tells Dodgson to have a boat by the east dock. Dodgson says he will and gives Nedry a shaving cream can, revealing a secret compartment to collect all the embryos and get past security.

The Lost World[]

When Nedry failed and Steingarten was replaced with Jeff Rossiter, Dodgson prepared to locate InGen’s Site B to collect the dinosaur eggs. He commissioned a team that included Howard King and George Baselton. When Sarah Harding was trying to get to Isla Sorna, Dodgson gave her a ride on the fishing boat with him and his gang, but he was really plotting to throw her overboard and drown her.

Upon arriving on Isla Sorna, Dodgson and his team started collecting dinosaur eggs using a sonic device Dodgson used to deter the dinosaurs. However, during the attempt to steal Tyrannosaurus eggs, Dodgson's machine shut down. With no protection, Baselton was eaten by the dinosaurs, and Dodgson fell off a small cliff, knocking himself out in the attempt to escape being devoured.

His vile plot and evil scheme were practically undone by the angry T. rex parents. It was believed that Dodgson had died when he fell off the cliff, but he awoke later to find a Compsognathus dinosaur attacking him, and was able to seek refuge from them in a shed. Upon waking later, he discovered the electric car that Sarah Harding was hiding under. When he tried to steal it and escape the island, Dodgson was attacked by Harding and then captured by the T. rex father and carried to the nest where the mother and her babies were. There, Dodgson was presented to the babies as their first hunted meal.

In Other Media[]

Main article: Lewis Dodgson (Universal Pictures)
Main article: Lewis Dodgson (IDW)

Trivia[]

  • This version of Lewis Dodgson was the first human villain in the franchise (before Billy Yoder, Eli Mills, Danny Nedermeyer, Soyona Santos, and Rainn Delacourt) who tried to kill another human with his bare hands. However, unlike Yoder, Danny, Soyona, and Delacourt, Dodgson was successful. That makes him the first human in the franchise to succeed at killing another human being, the second being Mills (However Dr. Harding survived, albeit wounded).
    • While the cinematic version of Dodgson didn't try to kill anyone with his bare hands, it's because he had less fighting skills than the novel Dodgson rather than humanity, as the orchestration of the abduction of Maisie Lockwood and unleashing hordes of locusts as a mean to extort the world into buying all their crops from him show he's more than willing to kill someone.
  • 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.

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