Owen Grady is the main protagonist of the Jurassic World trilogy. He is a dinosaur tamer and Claire Dearing's love interest.
He is portrayed by Chris Pratt.
What Makes Him A Guile Hero?[]
- He is a hero who cares for humans as well as the welfare of animals including extinct dinosaurs and he proves it in his many conversations.
- Despite being initially nihilistic, he's still shown to have been extremely affable and respectful to his co-workers, especially Barry Samban.
- He cares for his raptors as if they are his family, warns that they should be given mutual respect and was utterly disgusted by Hoskins' plan to utilize them as weapons.
- He is one of the smartest and dumbest "Jurassic World" employees, enough for the owners of the Maserani park to appreciate his skills.
- He used to work in the Nabi service before being an employee.
- He made sure, along with Barry, to train four young raptors to obey his instructions.
- Manages to nimbly hunt down a mosquito while Claire confronts him.
- He saves a new employee at his own risk so that they don't harm the raptors he trained.
- Upon hearing about the development of Indonymus Rex, he casts immediate suspicion on the laboratory's goals, which later turn out to be true.
- finds the traces of Indonymus that the latter made on the walls and estimates that he could have escaped.
- When the indonymous escapes, he manages to escape quickly under a heavy vehicle while obscuring his scent, when the two workers next to him are killed.
- He warns Claire and Masrani that the operatives he sent to disable the Indonymus are about to be killed and then suggests that they eliminate the latter with a live weapon to avoid loss of life (but unfortunately they don't listen to him).
- Collects Claire to help her find her nephews, despite their fight. He also silences her and carries a weapon on him to help her escape.
- He finds the Gyrosphere that Claire's nieces escaped from and shows her their tracks.
- When Indonymus finds them he slips away with Claire quietly trying to get to his rifle.
- shoots several pterosaurs that escaped from their cage and started attacking people.
- When Hoskins releases the raptors into the park against his will, he nevertheless leads the expedition to save the lives of the people and the raptors.
- He rides a motorcycle alongside the raptors for the mission.
- When Indonymus communicates with the raptors he immediately realizes that he was created from raptor DNA.
- When the raptors betray his group and start hunting people he tries to acquire the trust of Charlie (who was killed) and later the attitude of Blue, Delta and Acho.
- He saves Barry from Blue by pulling her after him and then escapes on the motorcycle from the park.
- He guards Claire and her nephews when a raptor attacks them and Hoskins in the lab.
- Tries to shoot Indonymus to keep the raptors from him and Claire's nephews.
- Although he did not want to return to the island that is about to erupt, he finally does so and even arrives first on the plane to the island. He also calms Franklin who is afraid of the trip to the island.
- He is the only one in the group who manages to locate Blue and reach her easily, although Vitali ruins his attempt to save her.
- Even though he is partially silenced by Vitali, he manages to escape from the lava sliding towards him.
- Helps Claire and Franklin escape the island and a stuck Gyrosphere.
- Saves Franklin from a lava barrage that almost hits him, while ordering Claire to start a truck so they can escape.
- Joins Claire retrieve blood from Rexy to save Blue.
- He tries to get help for the dinosaurs from the Mills people until he gets caught.
- Makes sure to free both him and Claire and the stuck Stygomoloch as well as destroys the dinosaur sale with her.
- Prevents Mills' men from shooting him/Stigomoloch and disables them.
- It prevents the indoraptor from escaping the cage or escaping.
- When the Indoraptor attacks them, Owen prevents him from jumping up the stairs and thanks to him, Blue arrives to save the rest of his men.
- Even though Claire aims a laser rifle at him which causes the Indoraptor to lunge at him, he escapes and causes the latter to nearly fall, leaving Blue to finish him off.
- He warns Claire about releasing the dinosaurs into the streets of California, which might have caused a lot of damage.
- Suggests to Blue that she seek refuge with them but accepts her refusal with understanding.
- He and Claire adopt Maisie and, despite her resistance, keep her away from other people who might kidnap her.
- Helping other cowboys collect and tranquilize parasaurolophus that escaped from an illegal pen.
- After Maisie is kidnapped, he manages to follow her to Malta, where he successfully follows the hunter Rainn Delacourt and extorts from him that Soyona is responsible for the smuggling.
- He promises Blue that he will get her daughter back, which also saves him and Claire from an attack.
- He also helps release dozens of dinosaurs that were almost sold (though not on purpose).
- He and Barry help stop Soyona and escape from her trained Atrociraptors against him.
- He even manages to get on a plane that takes off to Biosin's shelter, while one of the raptors is after him.
- When a large pterosaur (Quetzalcoatlus) attacks their plane he tells Claire to use the ejection seat.
- He and Kayla successfully escape a swimming pyroraptor and then rescue Claire from a Dilophosaurus that attacks her.
- Helps Alan Grant, Ellie Sattler and Ian Malcolm alongside Maisie to get out of a stuck car.
- Helps the group escape from Giganotosaurus and manages to escape its jaws at the last moment.
- Makes sure to capture the young raptor Beta and then watches over her close to his shoulder.
- When Henry Wu arrives he is ready to shoot him but agrees with his gang to let him escape.
- tells Kayla to start the plane while Tyrannosaurus is about to fight with Giganotosaurus and when the fight between them starts he helps his men escape to the plane.
- Brings Beta back to Blue safely and reconciles with her.
External Links[]
- Owen Grady on the Heroes Wiki.
- Owen Grady on the Near Pure Good Wiki
- Owen Grady on the Jurassic Park Wiki