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Frances White is an animal behaviorist who was a former employee at Jurassic Park before the theme park incident. For almost twenty years, Frances survived in the jungles with a pack of feathered Velociraptors whom she raised from birth. Around the year 2011, Frances aided CIA agent Daniel Espinoza in taking down Gabriel Cazares and his drug Cartel that had taken over Isla Nublar.
Frances White is the secondary protagonist of the non-canon IDW comic series Jurassic Park: Dangerous Games.
Background[]
Before Dangerous Games[]
Dr. Frances White was one of the foremost animal behavior researchers in the world. Her skills and experience led to her hiring by InGen in order to study the newly cloned dinosaurs living at Jurassic Park. She would go on to focus specifically on the velociraptor species which proved to be quite dangerous and caused several accidents. White, however, discovered that raptors form a special motherly bond with the first creature they see and would go on to be present for several velociraptor births. These animals would go on to see White as their "mother".
As time went on, White grew tired of and disagreed with the brute force methods that the male employees of the park would use on the dinosaurs. They believed such brute force was necessary in managing the animals while White believed her nurturing and understanding of the dinosaurs as thinking, feeling animals was the right way. Amongst her detracters was Peter Ludlow, an InGen Executive and John Hammond's nephew (who would later take over the company and try to steal dinosaurs from Isla Sorna).
Ludlow thought White's ideas about the dinosaurs were crazy and sought to fire and replace White with "some big-game hunter" (most likely Robert Muldoon). Eventually Ludlow and White confronted each other in an argument at her lab about this. Ludlow then attacked White and in self defense / fear, White released the raptors.Ludlow shot one of the raptors and one of the bullets grazing White's cheek. White fled with her pack of raptors into the jungle; vowing never to live among humans again.
After the collapse of Jurassic Park due to corporate sabotage and a hurricane, InGen abandoned the island. White remained behind with her pack in the jungles of Isla Nublar and continued to live on the island to at least the year 2011. At some point, White also began to revere the Tyrannosaurus rex of Jurassic Park as a "god" and an ally.
Dangerous Games[]
In 2011, CIA Agent Daniel Espinoza was sent to Isla Nublar to infiltrate the drug cartel of Gabriel Cazares, a drug runner who used his power and influence to take over the island. After Espinoza was found out to be a double agent and dropped off in the jungle, White's raptors found Espinoza and brought him to White. He woke up after some time unconcious and White introduced herself and her animals. She explained her backstory to the CIA Agent and her disdain for Cazares' men on the island and that her raptors had run ins with them before.
Espinoza asks White if there is any other ways to get off the island since he is being hunted by Cazares' right hand man. White reveals that in addition to taking over the island that the drug runners also took everything InGen owned on the island including the boats and helicopters. Although White says that Nublar is "paradise", Espinoza rebukes her perspective and refuses to remain with her since he still has a mission to complete. White then offers Espinoza her help but needs to bring him to make an ally of someone.
The two trek across the island through the day and into midnight.
Personality[]
Frances White had an anti-humanity stance after her negative experiences with them such as witnessing the brutal methods of handling the dinosaurs of Jurassic Park by InGen. In contrast, White had a more empathetic view of the dinosaurs and wildlife in general. She viewed nature untouched by man as "paradise" that wasn't goverened by good or evil but by pure survival. However, this did not stop her from having a mutual respect for and aiding Daniel Espinoza in his mission.
White displayed a great empathy and bond with the velociraptors, a predator species famed for being quite vicious and dangerous. This was to the point that the animals viewed White as their "mother" due to her gentle nature. White indeed was quite a motherly figure for these animals as they obeyed her every command.
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Trivia[]
- Frances White bares similarities to the canonical Owen Grady of the later Jurassic World films. Both are animal behavior researchers that specialized in the research of velociraptors in addition to becoming the human leaders of packs of raptors.
- Frances also bares some visual and character similarities to Sarah Harding, especially her novel version. Both are animal behavior researchers and redheaded women that worked up close with dinosaurs.
- Frances also greatly resembles Jurassic World protagonist Claire Dearing, both being curvaceous green eyed redheaded women who worked with dinosaurs on Isla Nublar.
- Despite having worked for InGen at the least by the early 1990s, White doesn't seem to have aged at all in the near 20 years she spent on Isla Nublar.
- At her youngest, White has to be in her mid-40s by the year 2011.
- Frances White is the first character (albeit non-canonical) to sucessfully train dinosaurs. She is followed by Owen Grady and Kate Walker.