We’ve gone over who the most good and evil characters are in the Jurassic Park
and Jurassic World universe. But watching a series filled with carnage and death,
we had to ask ourselves, “who met the most gruesome end?” After all,
being devoured by dinosaurs is a really grizzly way to go.
I’m ________ with WickedBinge,
and this is Jurassic Park and Jurassic World Deaths: Gruesome to Most Gruesome.
As usual, we’ll be starting with the least gruesome and
working our way up to the most gruesome…
Our first category is simple: Deaths Not Caused by Dinosaurs. At the very least,
these people weren’t taken out by prehistoric monsters.
The least gruesome death actually goes to the man behind the park himself: John Hammond.
We see a gradual decline from the first movie to his appearances in the second film. Despite
being responsible for countless people dying due to his dream of reviving the dinosaurs,
Hammond was lucky and spent his final years in a lavish home. Ultimately, he died of old age.
Next, we have Sir Benjamin Lockwood. Lockwood met his end at the hands of Eli
Mills. After Lockwood discovered Mills and his intentions to support the indoraptor project,
Mills suffocated Lockwood with a pillow to keep him from interfering.
We’re not calling it a painless way to go, but at least it wasn’t as brutal as being eaten alive.
Rounding out this category, we have Simon Masroni. While his co-pilot and passengers were
ripped apart by pteranodons, Masroni was able to avoid being eaten or plucked from the helicopter.
Instead, we see him die in a fiery crash when the helicopter is unable to stay in the air.
While he was exposed to the terror of flying dinos, he was fortunate -- or
unfortunate enough -- to die on impact during the crash.
Our next section is for the Off-Screen Deaths.
Our first off-screen death is that of Ajay Sidhu. One of the most famous scenes in Jurassic Park:
The Lost World is when the men are picked off one by one in the long grass.
Ajay had been the one to warn against the men fleeing into the tall grass,
well aware that it was where a lot of predators hid. When he saw them ignoring him,
Ajay ran after them to try and keep the men safe. While we don’t see Ajay himself getting
mauled by the velociraptors, it is confirmed that he perished along with many of the others.
Up next, we have the death of John Raymond “Ray” Arnold, played by the legendary Samuel L Jackson.
Jackson confirmed in an interview that a death scene was meant to be played out in the film.
However, due to the hurricane that kept him from filming,
we were left with the image of a severed arm. It implied the brutal death Arnold
faced trying to bring power back to Jurassic Park. Seeing as we’ve already
witnessed some attacks in this movie, we can only guess how terrifying this encounter was.
Finally, we have Ben Hildebrand. This listing has a level of mystery around it, but we can
confirm how Ben died thanks to an early draft of the movie. Much like Arnold’s death, this scene
was cut. But we do see some evidence of Ben’s death when his body was found. It was confirmed
that the legs on the body were missing because Ben was attacked by raptors shortly after he and
Eric crashed onto the island. The cut scene would have shown the raptors jumping and ripping at Ben
as Eric fled the scene. Even though we don’t see it played out as initially scripted, we’re
still placing him as one of the more gruesome off-screen deaths due to the evidence left behind.
Now, we have the characters that Thought They Escaped Death.
Taking the first ranking in this section of our list is
Dennis Nedry. In his attempts to flee Jurassic Park with all of the secrets he could sell off,
Dennis wound up encountering a dilophosaurus. At first glance,
the creature didn’t look like much, so Dennis made the mistake of underestimating it.
It wasn’t until the dilophosauraus spit poison at Dennis’ face did he realize his mistake.
Luckily, we’ve learned since this movie that dilophosaurus didn’t actually shoot poison.
For the following spot, we have Eli Mills. Like Dennis, Mills had been more preoccupied
with making a profit off of company secrets than paying attention to the danger around him. After
surviving a car wreck, Mills thought he escaped the worst of the damage. However, he failed to
see the t-rex that would swoop him up for a quick meal. Mills is heard screaming in pain for the
first few seconds. Thankfully, he’s already dead before a carnotaurus rips his legs off.
Taking the next spot is the auctioneer Gunnar Eversol. After witnessing Wheatley’s death,
Gunnar had attempted to evade the indoraptor. However, he failed to
consider that the cage was still unlocked, and the raptor could easily track him down.
Just as Gunnar was feeling safe, he found himself cornered just as Wheatley had been.
One of the mercenaries hired in Jurassic Park III, we have MB Nash. Nash had a couple of close calls
that he was lucky to get out of. He was able to help get the plane back in the air after they
saw the spinosaurus...only for it to immediately crash. When the spinosaurus began tearing into
the front of the aircraft, Nash was able to escape his seat...only to be grabbed by his leg before he
could get to safety. And when the dino dropped him, Nash had almost been able to crawl away.
But that’s the keyword: “almost.” Not only did Nash have his last moments filled with
terror as he screamed for help, but the last thing he would have felt was his own head being crushed.
Following is one of the first deaths of the series with Donald Gennaro. In what became one of the
most iconic scenes in the franchise, Donald was found by the t-rex while sitting on the toilet.
To Donald’s credit, it wasn’t his fault that Ian was running that way
to lure the t-rex from the kids. Or that the restrooms were made out of flimsy material.
Donald felt every thrash from the t-rex as his upper body was trapped in its jaws.
Next on our list is Dr. Robert Burke. As everyone fled their camp to escape the t-rex,
Burke hid in a small opening behind a waterfall with several others.
They were barely given enough space to escape the rex’s reach. So when Burke became distracted
by a snake slithering into his shirt, he was napped by the rex and dragged to his doom.
Taking our next ranking is Carter. Part of the team sent to the island in the second film,
Carter was among the first to notice the t-rex that had come across their camp. When everyone ran
into the ravine in an attempt to lose the large predator, Carter lost his footing in the mud.
He was crushed to death as the t-rex continued to pursue the group.
Finally, we have the death of Ken Wheatley. On his way to demand his money,
Wheatley came across a caged indoraptor. After using his tranquilizer gun, he deemed it safe
enough to enter the cage with the beast to extract one of the raptor’s teeth. But
Wheatley had miscalculated how much tranquillizer to give the indoraptor. As his guard was lowered,
the raptor tore off Wheatley’s arm before going after the rest of him. You can see the
fear and regret on Wheatley’s face as the indoraptor drew closer before he was mauled.
Now we have the characters who “Knew Death Was Coming.”
First, in this section, we have Robert Muldoon. Muldoon showed a
lot more concern about the raptors than the t-rex, and we absolutely get why that is.
Something is terrifying about a predator that’s so fast. Muldoon should have thought
to have someone cover him as he hunted the raptors, though. Hearing the rumble of a
raptor right next to him before it leaped into action had to have been downright horrifying.
Next on our list is the main pain in the neck in the first Jurassic World film, Vic Hoskins.
After all of his demands to make the raptors part of the military and going against Owens advice, it
was a fitting end to see Hoskins mauled to death by Delta. Maybe if he hadn’t been so busy gloating
about his plans, he would have noticed the raptor before it corners him and snaps his hand off.
Up next, we have another mercenary from the third film: Cooper. Cooper was sent out to scout after
the plane had landed, which he had quickly come to regret. As the rest of our cast attempted to
fly back off of the island, Cooper was seen on the runway trying to flag them to stop.
We get a nice closeup shot of Cooper pleading for them to not leave him behind, but it’s easy to
see he knows he’s going to die. Seconds later, he’s scooped up in the jaws of a spinosaurus.
Another of the men brought to help find Eric, we have Udesky. After encountering raptors in some
of the broken-down remains of the park, Udesky flees alongside the rest of our cast. Udesky is
seen throwing his bags away to not be weighed down as he runs to follow the others up into the trees.
When the raptors got too close, Udesky crawled along the forest floor to avoid being seen and
even managed to be under one of the raptor’s feet without getting killed. However, when the
predators return, Udesky’s luck is shown to have run out. His neck is snapped by one of the beasts.
Our next section is for those seen taken out by Multiple Dinosaur Attacks.
Though he was so close to getting away, we had to place Eddie Carr under our multiple attacks
section of this list. Eddie’s vehicle had been stuck in the mud when he was discovered by two
t-rexes. Though he tried not to draw attention to himself, the rexes were determined to get to him.
We see the roof torn clean off the vehicle as Eddie still tries desperately to drive away.
Eventually, he’s grabbed and torn in half by the two predators.
Our next spot goes to Peter Ludlow. While hanging around with the baby t-rex,
Peter failed to take into account the danger around him. Not only because the
baby in front of him was a predator still but because a parent was very close by.
When the grown t-rex busted in, Peter attempted to escape only to be caught. He was injured
enough that he was unable to make a getaway and became a practice kill for the baby t-rex.
We’re giving the bronze medal of most gruesome to Dieter Stark. When he initially came across a
compsognathus, Stark simply tased the creature and kept moving. After he took a tumble down a hill,
he was quickly ambushed by a whole pack of compys. Stark was able to rip them all off
and keep moving, trying to find the rest of his team, but the compys refused to give up.
For the next few minutes of the film, we see Stark screaming for his team
while fighting off the dinosaurs pursuing him. Eventually, the pack of compys gets their meal.
The silver medal of most gruesome goes to Cathy Bowman, the little girl seen at the beginning of
Jurassic Park II. Being a small child, she wasn’t given the benefit of these other characters and so
was unaware of the danger lurking. When she came across the compsognathus (or compys),
Cathy didn’t realize she was sealing her fate by getting too close. These predators
quickly took advantage of Cathy being alone and defenseless to nip at her. Ultimately,
they overpowered and consumed her, with her mother screaming at the scene of her daughter dying.
Finally, taking the gold medal for most gruesome, we have Zara Young. During the panic, Zara was
picked up by pteranodon and tossed about, all while screaming in terror. Rather than giving her
a slightly less traumatic death, the pteranodons dropped Zara in the mosasaur tank. The pteranodons
then attack her in the water before the mosasaur rises from the depths and devours both of them.
Before we go, we wanted to hand out some extra medals to the characters that fit them the best.
Taking the Darwin Medal, we have Ben. Hang-gliding onto an island
where you know there’s not going to be any people around should you need
help was not a smart move to make. And we see that cellphones are available,
so it’s hard to say why Ben didn’t try using his and instead fussed over his video camera.
Next, we’re giving the Wrath Medal to the man that killed Lockwood:
Eli Mills. Mills was determined to make a name for himself, regardless of the
amount of risk involved. He didn’t care who had to die for him to achieve his goals.
The Greed Medal goes to the man who managed the Jurassic World attraction: Simon Masroni. This
guy refused to close down the park in order to make it so they were still making money.
His first concern was to not let the people know there was a problem so tourism would continue.
The Sloth Medal goes to the embodiment of a lazy employee:
Dennis. His only concern was selling off what he could to the highest bidder.
And the only reason he wanted to do that was that he didn’t want to work for anyone else.
We’re handing over the Pride Medal to John Hammond. While he claimed
to have made every precaution, Hammond overlooked many concerns to fulfill his
dream of reviving the dinosaurs. Even after the events of the first movie,
Hammond sent people to the island knowing full well that they weren’t likely to return home.
Finally, we’re awarding the Gluttony Medal to someone we’ve already listed:
Dennis. Just looking at his workstation is enough proof as to why we’re giving him this medal.
Not only was Dennis lazy and self-entitled, but he had no issue stuffing his face almost
every time he was on screen. Except for when he was the meal.
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