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When Whitman continues talking about mystical and shamanistic powers Himiko was believed to have, Lara replies, Lara is playful but dismissive about Whitman’s theories, jokingly comparing him to their air-headed documentarian Sam. Whitman start talking about the legendary Queen Himiko. Near the start of the game, Lara and the head archeologist Dr. She’s not angry at him, but there is a bitterness and a feeling of wanting to separate herself from the Croft name and legacy. He then commits suicide, with Lara discovering his body in his office. At this point in her journey she has seen her father waste away, leaving her to essentially grow up on her own. When Lara’s parents are mentioned for the first time in TR 2013, Lara is notably dismissive of her father.
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This is the only time her parents appear in-person in the original Classic series. Lara’s memorial service in Tomb Raider: Chronicles.
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In the first reboot, Lara’s father was killed by one of his enemies, but in the new reboot, her father was suspected of committing suicide, until it was proven it was staged. Instead of disappearing, Lara’s mother died during a plane crash. This continued into the second reboot, with the few differences.
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This carried over into the initial reboot series in 2006, with Lara looking for clues about her mother’s disappearance in Legend and Underworld, and following her father’s clues to an artefact in Anniversary.
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This all changed with the Tomb Raider movie in 2001, where Lara’s dead father was an archeologist, leaving clues for Lara to follow in his footsteps when he died searching for a powerful artefact. The only time her parents are ever seen in-game is at the start of Tomb Raider: Chronicles, where they attend the memorial service of their daughter, who is presumed dead in Egypt. It’s an interesting quirk of the original character rather than running around tombs because of her parents legacy, she is breaking out for herself, being whoever she wants to be and rejecting the life that was laid out for her.
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We learn a little bit from her biography in the game manual for the first TR how they arranged a marriage for her, but when she found a love of exploring and grave robbing, they disowned her, cutting her off from their lives. The original Tomb Raider games rarely acknowledged Lara Croft’s parents. Papa Can You Hear Me? – The Tomb Raider Reboot & Lara’s Dead Parents A Defence Now that we’ve had three years to see the entire trilogy, I believe the dead parents trope was a fantastic stroke of creative work.
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This was seen as a contentious choice by Crystal Dynamics and narrative writer Rhianna Pratchett (alongside Jill Murray and Jason Dozois for Shadow), with the majority of the audience saying that it took away Lara’s agency, removing a strong part of her character.Īnd…I don’t agree. The dead parent trope is nothing new in pop culture, used in everything from Batman to Star Wars, H arry Potter and yes, Tomb Raider. While the new games brought a different gameplay experience and a fresh-faced Lara Croft to the players, it reused a critical element of the previous reboot games story Lara Croft’s parents are dead, and they are her motivation for her tomb raiding journey. It has been well over half a decade since I have played the original game, so there was a cool balance of rediscovering a gem of the past generation, now in crystal-clear HD. I recently began playing Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition, an updated version of the 2013 reboot.