Credit: Universal PicturesNow that Jurassic World Rebirth (2025) is finally out in theaters, it’s time to look at all the major villain deaths throughout the entire Jurassic Park film series to see who gets the best comeuppance. So here are all the major villain deaths, ranked from worst to best.
7. Ken Wheatley — Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
Game hunter and mercenary Ken Wheatley (Ted Levine) isn’t the main human antagonist in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018) — that honor goes to Eli Mills (Rafe Spall) — but he’s still one of the movie’s big bads. As such, we’ve decided to include him on our list.
Wheatley is easily the most idiotic human villain in the entire Jurassic franchise, and that’s really saying something. His bizarre and twisted hobby of collecting teeth from living dinosaurs sees him voluntarily enter the Indoraptor’s cage after he tranquilizes the creature.
But, of course, the Indoraptor is just toying with him (it even smiles, although this can be explained by a big twist you probably missed). While Wheatley gets his just desserts, unfortunately, this otherwise half-decent kill is more watered-down than it needed to be.
6. Lewis Dodgson — Jurassic World Dominion
Many diehard Jurassic fans were excited to see Lewis Dodgson make a long-awaited return in Jurassic World Dominion (2022), having only appeared in Jurassic Park (1993) and the novels “Jurassic Park” (1990) and “The Lost World” (1995) by the late Michael Crichton.
However, this time, Dodgson is played by Campbell Scott and not Cameron Thor. But this is a good thing, as he’s essentially a different character — more of an Elon Musk/Steve Jobs-type rather than the super-evil crook we know from the original film and Crichton’s books.
Dodgson is the corrupt Biosyn CEO, so seeing him get ambushed by Dilophosaurs on a train is poetic justice (Dennis Nedry, whom he hired to steal embryos in Jurassic Park, meets the same fate). The downside is that, like most of the kills in Dominion, it happens off screen.
5. Martin Krebs — Jurassic World Rebirth
Jurassic World Rebirth is now out in theaters, but if you haven’t seen it yet, here’s your spoiler warning, because we’re about to reveal the death of the main human villain in the latest film. So, now that we’ve gotten the disclaimer out of the way, let’s get into it.
From the moment Universal revealed the official synopsis for Rebirth last year, it was hardly a mystery that the big pharma rep Martin Krebs (Rupert Friend) was the film’s main human baddie. And all the trailers and the TV spots only made it more painfully obvious.
So, it was just as predictable that he’d meet a sticky end in the third act. After leaving Zora Bennett (Scarlett Johansson) and her team to fend off the six-limbed Distortus Rex, Krebs winds up driving straight into the gigantic mutant which bites him clean in half. It’s brutal.
4. Vic Hoskins — Jurassic World
It’s easy to think of InGen Security Head Vic Hoskins (Vincent D’Onofrio) as yet another stupid villain in this series– and indeed he is — but we actually admire his long-term goals, which would have seen him utilizing Owen Grady’s trained Velociraptors in the battlefield.
It’s a truly absurd plan, for sure, and one that backfires horribly, but it’s a subtle nod to an unused Jurassic Park 4 script that also involved trained raptors (which would have even featured dinosaur/human hybrids, as subtly referenced in 2018’s Fallen Kingdom).
In Jurassic World (2015), when InGen is gathering embryos from the lab during the evacuation, Hoskins is halfway through a speech about how “dinosaurs are the gift that keep on giving” when he’s interrupted by one of Owen’s raptors, which eats him arm-first. Ouch.
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3. Dennis Nedry — Jurassic Park
You might be wondering why Dennis Nedry (Wayne Knight) isn’t at the top, especially considering he’s the only real fan-favorite character when it comes to Jurassic villains. But these rankings are based on the characters’ comeuppances, not their villainous nature.
Nedry is, of course, an iconic Jurassic Park (1993) character, and unlike many other villains in the series, isn’t as one-dimensional. He’s a disgruntled InGen employee who feels that he’s underpaid and undervalued at Jurassic Park (which is more than likely the case).
This is explored a bit more in the novel, but it doesn’t change the fact that Nedry is greedy, which ultimately lands him on the wrong end of the food chain. After being attacked by a small Dilophosaurus, he ends up trapped in a gas jeep with one of its “big brothers”…
2. Peter Ludlow — The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Peter Ludlow’s tenure as the newly-appointed InGen CEO in The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) is so short-lived, it would have likely discouraged anyone else from taking on the role. Ludlow (Arliss Howard) is John Hammond’s nephew, without any of the whimsy and charm.
He isn’t best described as “cruel” or “greedy”– he simply wants to seize control of InGen and utilize its assets to prevent any further financial loss following the incident at Jurassic Park. But his aspirations get the better of him when he takes dinosaurs from Isla Sorna/Site B.
Following the T-Rex’s rampage in San Diego, in a last-ditch attempt at damage control, Ludlow finds himself in the cargo hold of the S.S. Venture where he tries to re-capture the infant rex. But its father has another idea — to teach its offspring a lesson in hunting.
1. Eli Mills — Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
In Fallen Kingdom, financier Eli Mills is the “brains” behind the operation that involves taking dinosaurs from Isla Nublar and selling them at a black market auction in Lockwood Manor, which he hopes will make him enough money to produce more Indoraptors.
Though very much a two-dimensional villain (but not half as much as the buyers at the auction), Mills is played brilliantly by Rafe Spall. He’s also the most cruel human villain in the series, as he ends up murdering another human: Benjamin Lockwood (James Cromwell).
So, it’s just as well that his demise has earned him the top spot. After thinking he’s had a lucky escape from the stampede of dinosaurs that thunders out of Lockwood Manor and into the Sierra Nevada wilderness, Mills becomes supper for the T-Rex and a Carnotaurus.
Jurassic World Rebirth Is Out Now
Jurassic World Rebirth is out in theaters now.
It stars Scarlett Johansson (Avengers: Endgame), Jonathan Bailey (Bridgerton), Manuel Garcia-Rulfo (The Lincoln Lawyer), Rupert Friend (Obi-Wan Kenobi), Mahershala Ali (The Green Book), Luna Blaise (Manifest), David Iacono (Dead Boy Detectives), Audrina Miranda (Lopez vs Lopez), Philippine Velge (Station Eleven), Bechir Sylvain (BMF), and Ed Skrein (Deadpool).
What’s your favorite villain death in the Jurassic franchise? Have you seen Rebirth yet? Let us know in the comments down below!