*SOLVED* What REALLY Killed Ben Hildebrand in Jurassic Park? 

Wow I actually agree

May just be a hole In the plot with the part where he went up higher. Otherwise makes perfect sense.. and it coulda not been the raptors somehow he coulda climbed up to try and un tangle before it happend.. -to add to that I think the raptors woulda left some bone leading me to believe a T rex or something reached up and chomped his lower half off

From Jurassic park 3 the musical you can see the raptors biting off his legs and I guess he died from dehydration, lack of food and the occasional compys had snacked on him

🤔..Now that sounds plausible

That makes sense

That's what I'm saying I think Ben got stuck in the trees and then couldn't get out the trauma from the crash the constriction from the chords he could have very well been so injured he could not get himself out

Did I catch that right? You had the interview? *breathing intensifies*

I mean whether they rot it off or they were detached by a predator or whatever if they fell to the ground they wouldn't stay there for very long especially if they had some degree of meat still left on them they could have very well been adjacent to the corpse but again unless it had some relevant meaning to the plot of the movie wouldn't have really elaborated on

There is the ceratosaurus....

Source: trust me bro

@@jaimevalencia6271 made it work for Han Solo

I think ceratosaurs could swallow him

Or a carno

@@darklordvader66 wait I thought it was created during Jurassic world's Paddock (If count the novel that is)

My thoughts as well, extra weight of predator pulling him down, and when his legs ripped of it caused his now even lighter body to catapult into the air with the ropes getting tangled on higher branches.

@@rabienjaimbumagat2718 actually Carno was created before Carnos were in the Lost World novel

Petition for me to Direct the Next Jurassic Movie ;)

I feel like the ambiguity was stronger.

After playing Ark and seeing the size of the virtual mosquitos and ants... you could probably half that time if it's their prehistoric cousins lol

@@CrackDCat you are right on the bugs, it as canon bc we seen them in the Jurassic world extinction. Good eye

There were Pteranodons flying around at the end of The Lost World. Not all of them were stuck in the aviary. Though I also don't think it was them.

Pretty sure the Pteranodon enclosure had a large hole in its cage that the Pteranodons could escape through.

Dehydration makes your legs fall off? His legs got ripped off

​@@Fallout3131 decomposition makes your legs fall off.

@@Fallout3131 Right, because skeletons totally stay together after the muscles and sinews decay away.

Why wouldn’t Eric help him….

@@joewiniecki3282 Raptors and other dinos would be attracted to the sounds

Inconsistency and Jurassic Park go hand in hand, unfortunately. Let's not forget the infamous cliff edge on the side of the fence that Rexy comes from in the first film, or the insane distance that Stark travelled from the mercenary party in Lost World... just to take a piss.

Yeh I was thinking the same. A large carnivore grabbed the legs and pulled hard, severing the legs. As soon as the legs went he was rubber banded up the tree and out of reach.

Same, I LOVE Dino Crisis, Hence why I use Dino Crisis OST :)

Classic

Love Dino crisis, good to see I’m not the only one who appreciates it

Except that any internal injuries would have also been afflicting Eric since he took the brunt of the impact into the jungle canopy.

Remember kiddies. Like with power tools, but nature: WOOD CAN CUT THROUGH FLESH TOO.

@@jessecrump1424Nope, and here is why. First, Eric is smaller, so the chances of him taking damage is, too. If I drop a mouse down an elevator shaft through, it lands and is fine. If I drop a horse, it is dead on impact. Throw in other obstructions, mouse is still good but a little dinged and horse is dying already as it hits. Second, the harness and life vest he was still wearing would have protected Eric's front, along with his instinctive reflex to use his arms and tuck his legs for protection (it is possible Ben also told him to do so). Ben's legs would have tucked up, but been obstructed by Eric (potentially, even further protecting him) and his arms were still holding onto the parasail and the camera, thus keeping his body in an untucked position. Ben's body being bigger than Eric's also provided protection (similar to the man who died protecting a smaller, terrified woman by holding her and wrapping around her at the Aurora, CO Movie Theater attack). Third, the internal damage was likely inflicted from impacts to his back. Again, Eric's back is protected by Ben. However, Ben's back is completely exposed to hitting branches and other dense foliage. There is a potential for bludgeoning, punctures, gashes, and broken bones (vertebrae and ribs) as a result. A barracuda launched itself out of the water at a woman on a kayak in Florida and the impact collapsed one of her ribs. If a fish can do that, imagine what a tree (and some of those tropical trees are absolutely massive) can do. It is also possible for him to have broken a rib in one of the hits and it punctured a lung. All this to say, Eric would have been fine for a variety of reasons, and Ben would have died shortly after getting Eric loose. It was his final act to give the boy a chance. Oh, one final reason Eric would have been fine and Ben wouldn't have: plot armor. As for his legs, who knows.

@CSKaras you're ignoring the fact that in the video that Paul, Udesky, Amanda, Billy, and Alan watched, Eric didn't have a scratch on him. There is no way he wouldn't have been injured at all in that situation, so he had to have had internal injuries. And Eric wasn't that much smaller than Ben. Maybe came up to mid chest give or take. Eric's body in the harness covered the majority of Ben's torso so yes, he would have been more seriously injured than Ben if the latter had died from internal bleeding.

​@@jessecrump1424 Go back and rewatch the scene carefully. Eric has a big abrasion on the bridge of his nose, a huge abrasion or cut on his left forearm several on his hands and a quick glimpse of some on his legs (as well as Ben's legs). He is also wearing a 3/4 sleeve shirt, which may have helped him. Also, once they hit the canopy, the fall would go from a glide at a forward-downward angle and turned into free-fall straight down as the glider failed and crumpled. What's more, the glider and rigging would have got caught up in the trees and slowed the overall fall, but Ben would have even more opportunity for traumatic injury due to the fact that he was hooked directly into the rigging. Eric, being attached to Ben's harness, would have been less impacted by the glider and rigging getting wrenched this way and that as they fell through the branches.

Good point. I hadn't thought of that one. If Ben had massive internal injuries from the tree limbs, Eric would have had far worse injuries and likely would have died while still attached to Ben.

Chances are that The raptors maye have done it and as he tried to climb higher he died....also i dont think the pteranodons killed him bc they were still in thier giant bird cage at that time.

@@yasirstaine6108 Unlikely that the raptors killed him otherwise the sail would have been torn and unusable when Billy used it to save Eric in the bird cage.

That's actually an easy answer. What father wouldn't sacrifice themselves to protect their kid? Ben used himself as a shield for Eric so the boy wouldn't be as badly hurt. All Ben would need to do is twist so he took the brunt, not Eric.

@shirdarkbane789 you're forgetting Eric was attached to Ben via a harness, so Ben couldn't twist himself to take the brunt of the impact even if he wanted to. It's kind of like trying to lick your own elbow. Physically impossible.

That's what I have always wanted to know

It was most likely the spino, as it can swim!

I thought the pterodactyls killed the boat crew

@@Alex_Bones maybe, but keep up with a speed boat?

There are other water dinosaurs that Hammond had created other than the mosasaurus. It was most likely that. People like to speculate the flying dino or the spinosaurus. But the spino would be too small to swim that far out in the ocean and the flying dinos would be to easy to spot in that short amount of time

Which would likely be the compys since I believe they were the only scavengers InGen created.

@@jessecrump1424 Pretty much any meat-eating animal will chow down on dead meat if it's just lying there. Easier than hunting.

@@sharondornhoff7563 depending on how long the dead animal has been laying there. Most predators won't touch a rotting carcass

Typically, only scavengers such as hyenas, vultures, procompsognathus, etc. will eat off a carcass even if it is rancid as hell. Their stomachs can take the toxic bacteria that exists in a rotting corpse.

how can compys clim trees and they can't jump high enough to go on to ben's body to eat him

@@benroraff8400 Compies can EASILY climb trees. We see them hopping, which would take an increased amount of strength in their legs to do so rather than just walking. With their downwards facing front claws and their extreme light weight, they could scale up the bark of a tree and probably fall onto Ben from the branch that the parachute got snagged on. As we have seen in JP2; they remember who had hurt them. In the late first/early second act of The Lost World, Dieter Stark zaps a compy with an electric prod. Later on in that movie when he goes for a wee, he tries to do that again. Now remembering this specific thing as a threat, they kill him.

Thats's why I am here :)

Except the compys can't climb trees and Ben was too high up for them to reach even by jumping. However, I also never noticed Ben's legs were missing until now.

Why would it be controversial if we all liked the same dhit movie discussion would be boring as hell

Why assume the scavengers in question had to be InGen creations? Plain old-fashioned birds and insects could've picked him bare.

Assuming not from fall damage and that they went straight forward and not possibly down.

@@michaellilly965 The repeated jerks on his harness during the crash could have ruptured his spleen.

Fun fact, the raptors in the Jurassic series were actually designed from Utahraptor which had only just been discovered when Jurassic Park 1 was being filmed.

@jessecrump1424 wrong, the velocorapters in jp are velicoraptor mongolius, aka dyonicus, you would know if you read the novel

@Arthur_Morgan59 and yet, they are not. Velociraptor Mongoliansis was about the size of a chicken and had a relatively flat skull. Deinonychus was about the same size and had a completely different body shape. The Velociraptors in Jurassic Park are Utahraptors. You would know that if you'd read the prologue to Raptor Red by Robert T. Bakker, who consulted on Jurassic Park. They literally talk about the JP raptors being Utahraptors.

And I have read Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton. And nowhere in the book does it mention that the raptors are V. Mongoliensis and Deinonychus. I actually own the book in hardback minus the dust jacket.

@jessecrump1424 I might be wrong but they explain it when they meet wu

Compys were the only scavengers. And if Ben died from injuries sustained in the impact with the trees, Eric would have gotten far worse since he was in front of Ben and would have taken the brunt of the damage instead of getting scrapes and cuts.

It was the raptors that killed Ben in that movie

Bats absolutely can fly.

​@@Teufeltuskenthey can take of can't they and flap , isn't that flying ?

Are pterodactyls and pteranodons the same though?

@@therealnickynurotic8930 Bats *can* fly, but their wings aren't strong enough to take off. That's why they hang upside down on ceilings in caves.

Broken spine is highly probable. From a branch that whipped back at him as they came to a stop but I would think a similar injury would have happened to Eric since he was attached to the harness Ben was wearing instead of suffering minor abrasions and lacerations.

How did he get higher then because the raptors are like 10 feat tall

@@Billythabob raptors can jump high

I noticed that 3 seconds after posting that reply lol

The Raptors are called the achillibaters

And left the paraglider unscathed? Not possible. And we know it's intact because Billy used it to rescue Eric in the bird cage when he was taken to the pteranodon nest.

The spino was the main dino in jp3 (I guess you mean jp2😅)

I do

Thanks 😁

Let's not forget Pteranodons were in the Franchise BEFORE Jp3, as we see them in the end of The Lost World Jurassic Park, with Buck and Doe :)

Accidentally, I believe. I think Amanda thought she had completely closed the gate in the rush to get to the boat.

@@ShadowsLew And Junior.

There are no flying dinosaurs. Pterosaurs are flying reptiles

Well the rocks did, but I don’t know what caused the people to jump off the boats

What was in the missed that caused the boat to be all bloody when the mist left? Obviously there was something in there but we don't know what... ~ JonseyG 👲

I have, go check it out on the channel!

Love that!

No, there are indeed other Pteranodons on Isla sorna, Think back to the end of the Lost World. We see them then.

@@ShadowsLew ahhh yeah!

Forgot about that one. But that’s a bit of a plot hole in and of itself; the Pteranodon at the end of Lost World didn’t leave the island, but the others who were caged did? Unfortunately the third movie is a bit of a mess and is notorious for not explaining the things it sets up.