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Thursday, June 16, 2011

2161. Robert Muldoon


Robert Muldoon is Jurassic Park's game warden. Muldoon comes from Kenya, and had been a long-time employee of John Hammond, working at Hammond's animal park in his homeland. Muldoon was aware of the potential danger of the dinosaurs, particularly the velociraptors who he feels should be destroyed. While hunting down the escaped raptors he takes aim at one hiding in the bushes as a second one, which has been waiting in ambush, emerges. Muldoon comments on this with the infamous line "Clever girl", then tries to get his gun round to shoot: however, the raptor is too quick and the scene cuts away. In a deleted scene from The Lost World: Jurassic Park, it is stated that Robert Muldoon's family received $12.6 million in a law suit regarding his death settlement. However with this scene cut, rumours that the character would return in future films, albeit scarred, persisted until Bob Peck's death in 1999. In the novel, Muldoon has a larger arsenal of weapons including two Rocket Propelled Grenades, while the film counter-part only has a Franchi SPAS-12, though this probably was not his full arsenal as he retrieved his gun from the emergency bunker locker (several other firearms, including M16 rifles can be seen inside it). His character in the film is much more serious and his character in the novel is an alcoholic. In the film, Muldoon appears to be killed by raptors, but in the novel, he survives the initial attack by wedging himself in a pipe, during which he severely injures one raptor with a grenade launcher. He manages to kill a few of them instead and escapes the island. He is not mentioned in the novel's sequel.
The non-canon Jurassic Park comic sequels, published by Topps comics, also depict Muldoon surviving the Raptor attack. The pretense for this was that Muldoon had become so acquainted with the raptors that they were prone to play around, and the attack seen on film was ostensibly just the raptors playing with him. This heavily contradicts Muldoon's very negative opinion of the creatures in both the novel and film.
Muldoon was portrayed by Bob Peck in the film adaptation but the action figure released by Kenner in 1993 looked entirely different with a muscular frame and crew hair cut [1]. Most of the figures created by Kenner were very different from the characters as portrayed on screen. The series two figure looks much closer to the movie counterpart then the series one figure.

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