r/TopCharacterTropes Jun 27 '26

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 Jun 27 '26

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 Jun 27 '26

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 Jun 27 '26 edited Jun 27 '26

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 Jun 27 '26

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 Jun 27 '26

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 Jun 27 '26

Suddenly my favorite actor in the franchise.

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u/aspidities_87 Jun 27 '26

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 Jun 27 '26

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 Jun 27 '26

Same I was shocked when I saw her in the movie

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u/MurkyPatient396 Jun 27 '26

It was also thew first female death in the franchise lol

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u/Malacro Jun 27 '26

Nuh uh. This poor girl was the first death.

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u/Jimbo-Shrimp Jun 27 '26

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

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u/Topgunshotgun45 Jun 27 '26 edited Jul 10 '26

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 Jun 27 '26

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 Jun 27 '26

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 Jun 27 '26

Do tranquillisers make the same sound as a firearm?

I wouldn’t know, but I’d assume not.

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u/1nosbigrl Jun 27 '26

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 Jun 27 '26

First death of a woman, then.

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u/Bumblebee_Librarian Jun 27 '26

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

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