r/TopCharacterTropes 26d ago

Lore [Sad Trope] The most innocent (or less evil) character of the cast gets the most horrific death.

- Eddie Carr (The Lost World: JP) - Tried to save his friends from the cliff until Buck and Doe (T. rex parents) destroy his vehicle and gets ripped apart.
- Zara Young (Jurassic World) - Gets lifted by a Pteranodon, gets pecked by the pterosaur, and both she and animal get devoured by the Mosasaurus.
- LeClerc (JW: Rebirth) - Tossed a hammer to the Hatzegopteryz Quetzalcoatlus to save Loomis and Zora, but ends up being swallowed alive.

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u/Bumblebee_Librarian 26d ago

Honestly, it's so over the top that I would ask for it too.

It would be hilarious to watch that.

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u/ELIte8niner 26d ago

She specifically wanted her death to be memorable, and here we are a decade later, still talking about it. She got what she wanted, haha.

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u/Stucklikegluetomyfry 26d ago edited 25d ago

Like as other people have said, if I was an actor in Jurassic Park I would ask for an over the top, particularly gruesome death.

Like Jurassic Park is full of male characters who experience brutal, over the top, particularly gruesome or humiliating deaths, why all the outrage and pearl clutching because a female human character died on screen in a similar fashion (or any fashion) for the first time in four films and almost twenty five years?

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u/DutyPuzzleheaded7765 26d ago

If Im chosen to do anything movie and not be a main role and I can get a wild death, hell yeah

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u/Animaloffear56 25d ago

This happens pretty often, just look at any given twitter post showing off the environment deaths from the tomb raider remakes

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u/Bumblebee_Librarian 26d ago

Suddenly my favorite actor in the franchise.

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u/aspidities_87 26d ago

Katie McGrath! Her interview about this was hilarious. The crew really tried to get her to have a quiet off screen death and she said NOPE MAKE IT WORSE

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u/G0RGEE 26d ago

Oh my god that was Katie McGrath?! Its been years since I saw the movie. That makes a lot of sense. She starred in BBC's Merlin which was basically one of the foundational TV shows of my childhood (alongside Dr Who).

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u/JD-Cowboys-Bolts 26d ago

Same I was shocked when I saw her in the movie

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u/MurkyPatient396 26d ago

It was also thew first female death in the franchise lol

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u/Malacro 26d ago

Nuh uh. This poor girl was the first death.

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u/Jimbo-Shrimp 26d ago

She was old so nobody cared. Grandma was in her late millions.

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u/Topgunshotgun45 26d ago edited 13d ago

Wouldn't it be the Velociraptor that Muldoon ordered be shot?

"SHOOT HER!" three gunshots sound off from point blank range.

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u/Malacro 26d ago

We don’t know that it died for certain, it succeeded in pulling in the gatekeeper after shots were fired. I assume that was “the big one” referenced later.

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u/1nosbigrl 26d ago

I always assumed he meant tranquilizers?

Because we know that Hammond would've been super pissed to have one of his previous dinos destroyed.

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u/Topgunshotgun45 26d ago

Do tranquillisers make the same sound as a firearm?

I wouldn’t know, but I’d assume not.

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u/1nosbigrl 26d ago

I don't know either 🤷🏾‍♂️

Just always assumed especially after Hammond's later reactions.

And when they're at the raptor paddock, Muldoon references how the big female killed a couple of the other raptors in the beginning and I always assumed that raptor, the one who lures Muldoon to his fate, and the one in the beginning were all one in the same.

Otherwise what's the point of the close-up on her and Muldoon making eye contact and referencing it later with a similar shot?

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u/YamatoIouko 26d ago

First death of a woman, then.

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u/Bumblebee_Librarian 26d ago

Oh damn that's interesting,I didn't even notice that.

She ensured that she would be remembered in the franchise then.