Written by Mr. Mouseburger 15th Apr 2006
Kindly submitted by Kooshmeister
Carter is one of the hunter-mercenaries hired by Peter Ludlow to round up the dinosaurs of Isla Sorna, and he is apparently the best friend of fellow mercenary, Dieter Stark. Alongside Dieter, Carter dies perhaps the most interesting death in the film.
When the mother and father Tyrannosaurs, drawn by the drying blood of their baby on the jacket of boneheaded animal behaviour expert Dr. Sarah Harding, invade the mercenaries' camp while everyone is asleep, Carter is the first of the mercenaries to notice something is amiss. Sitting up in his sleep, Carter spies one of the Tyrannosaurs and yells in fright, awakening the entire camp.
He then joins the other men as they stampede en masse into the jungle trying to escape, with the mother Tyrannosaurus rex in hot pursuit. During the chase, Carter trips and falls face first onto the ground, and is trampled underfoot by his fleeing cohorts. By the time he manages to get free and rolls over, the Tyrannosaur is bearing down on him. He lets loose a shrill scream of terror and throws up his hands in a useless gesture of self-defence, as the dinosaur's huge foot comes down on top of him, crushing him.
In a darkly amusing moment, Carter's squashed corpse sticks to the bottom of the Tyrannosaur's foot like a bug, and then finally comes loose when it steps into a mud puddle. Oddly, his floating body is surprisingly intact for someone that had just been ground underfoot by the King of the Dinosaurs.
ha ha. he got gooshed under the foot of a Rex
Wouldn't this also count for Crushed by Falling Object for the inital hit by the T-Rex foot? Crushed can stay, because he was also crushed between the foot and the ground when he got stuck to the foot.
I dunno. When I think 'falling object,' I think of something detached from something dropping from a great height, not a foot attached to a leg being brought down in the process of walking.
"I dunno. When I think 'falling object,' I think of something detached from something dropping from a great height, not a foot attached to a leg being brought down in the process of walking."
-- yet that is exactly what the icon image is for 'crushed by falling object'
Well then that needs to be changed. Because being stepped on isn't the same as having something dropped onto you. When you're stepped on, the object (i.e. the foot) is being pushed down onto you, not falling onto you.
I believe the icon is a Monty Python reference. Even if an object is being pushed downwards, it's still falling through the air.
It's just way too broadn in my opinion. I think there should be a separate category for being "Stepped On."
Too many categories!
We have one for "Run Over". If you're worried about too many categories, shouldn't that simply be lumped under "Crushed?"
"Run Over" is also used for those just hit by cars, which is more "Bludgeoning", but is not just covered by that, for obvious reasons. I'd put "Run Over" and "Crushed" as seperate categories, if they both applied.
Finally, being stepped on is not always that common in most mainstream films, unlike being run over.
Neither are a lot of the categories we've got, it seems. Like "Mirrors" (unless that was taken down).
"Mirrors" (along with "Headshot" and "Decapitation") is a kitschy category for deaths in that type of situation, where "stepped on" seems more like an awkward addendum to two existing categories.
It doesn't happen often but I still feel it's too different, because really, when someone thinks of someone being trampled upon, "Crushed By Falling Object" doesn't immediately come to mind as a description.
Just saying is all.