The BIG one

This big bad Velociraptor was called The Big one, the alpha-female of the Velociraptors in Jurassic Park, as well as the main antagonist of the movie along with her pack.

Though her name may suggest that she is the largest raptor in her pack, there is no evidence that Stan Winston Studio nor Industrial Light and Magic made one of the raptors in Jurassic Park larger or with unique physical traits than the others and evidence points toward her being physically identical to the other raptors in her pack. Her name may just be a reference to the fact that she is the leader of her pack or in other words "the big one in charge".


All Velociraptors, including the Big One, were initially bred on Site B, particularly a compound owned and operated by InGen. Eight raptors were transported to Isla Nublar, the site of InGen's upcoming Jurassic Park theme resort.


When the Big One came in she took over the pride and killed all but two of the other raptors. She commanded her two remaining subordinates to attack the security fencing. Muldoon claimed that in comparison to the other raptors, the Big One had an extremely high problem-solving intelligence, remembering the location of certain weak spots in the fencing and where feeders would come to feed the animals as stated.

As a result, the raptors had to be transported into a special holding pen to be fed by an automated feeding system to make sure they stayed in.


When the power was cut by Dennis Nedry during the Isla Nublar Incident, Nedry's computer confirmed that the Raptor pen was still active, as Nedry knew full well how dangerous the Raptors were.

Later, when the staff decided to reboot the power to purge the computer system of Nedry's virus, it inadvertently shut down the fences in the Raptor's holding pen as well. Unknown to the survivors, the three Raptors broke out of confinement.


Ray tries to hack Dennis' computer to turn the power back on but fails, so he does a full system restart, which requires the circuit breakers to be manually reset from the utility shed. When he does not return, Ellie and Robert follow and discover the raptors have escaped; the shutdown cut off the power to the electric fences around their pit. Robert realizes that they are near and tells Ellie to go to the utility shed herself and turn the power back on while he tries to hunt the raptor. Ellie manages to turn back on the power. After narrowly escaping the raptor that followed her, she meets Alan, and they both go back to Ian and John in the emergency bunkers. Lex and Tim narrowly escape the Big One and her fellow raptors in the kitchen.


Ellie and Robert follow and discover the raptors have escaped; the shutdown cut off the power to the electric fences around their pit. Robert realizes that they are near and tells Ellie to go to the utility shed herself and turn the power back on while he tries to hunt the raptor. Ellie manages to turn back on the power. After narrowly escaping the raptor that followed her, she meets Alan, and they both go back to Ian and John in the emergency bunkers. Lex and Tim narrowly escape the Big One and her fellow raptors in the kitchen.



The raptors set a trap for Robert and he is tackled and eaten by the Big One, After he said his most memorable line.


Ellie escapes from another after discovering Ray's severed arm in the maintenance shed. After outsmarting the Raptors (locking one in the freezer and knocking the Big One out for several minutes), and Lex is finally able to restore the Park's computer systems in order to call John to request a helicopter rescue of the survivors.

Alan and Ellie hold off the Big One trying to open the door to the computer room, until the power is restored, and the electromagnetic locks begin working. With the door secured, the raptor breaks into the room through the window after Grant shoots at it through the glass, and the group climbs up into the ceiling crawlspace and arrive at the Visitor Center skeleton display, only after Lex is almost killed by the Big One leaping up at her.

The raptors pursue, and after a scuffle with the Big One on top of the fossil exhibits and the raptors block their escape route, help comes from an unlikely source when Rexy suddenly appears and kills The Subordinate, The Big one avenged her Subordinate by leaping onto Rexy scratching her neck severely, The Survivors escape, Rexy was able to take the Big one down, and tossed her into a dinosaur skeleton, Killing her.


None of the raptors, including The Big One, survived the incident. It is unknown how The Big One died or what actions she did in the incident. There is evidence that The Big One may have been the first raptor that entered the kitchen of the Visitor Center known as "Randy" (as this raptor snaps at the second raptor that enters, a behavior that was also exhibited in Blue, the beta of the Jurassic World Velociraptor Pack, who once snapped at the youngest of the pack Charlie during a training session with Owen Grady). But ultimately, since all of the park's raptors are physically the same, it is truly unknown which raptor in the incident was The Big One.

The Big one (C) Michael Crichton/Universal