8. John Arnold
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fAGxs7QYF8 The Movie: Jurassic Park Method of Death: Despite delivering one of the series' most iconic lines - "Hold on to your butts" - John "Ray" Arnold's actual death is anything but, considering it happened entirely off-screen. After shutting down Jurassic Park's system and bringing the computers back up in the control room, Arnold separated from the group to reboot the system in full via a maintenance building located outside the Visitor's Center. With no word back from him after a period of time, Ellie headed to the shed to reboot the power instead, after which she was surprised by a raptor attempting to burst through some nearby poles. As she backed up against a wall, Arnold's severed arm fell from a nice little hiding spot and landed on her shoulder. Though viewers didn't get to see Arnold's confrontation with the raptor, the arm gag offered a fun little shock that aided in ramping up the immediate tension around the idea of Ellie being in close quarters with the very creature that had slaughtered the chain smoking engineer.
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