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Lara Croft
Real Name: Lara Croft
Alias: Tomb Raider
Nationality: English
Birth: February 14th 1968
Current Residence: Croft Manor, Surrey
Marital Status: Single
Blood Type: AB-
Height: 5' 9" (175 cm)
Weight: 8 st 3 lb (115 lb, 52 kg)
Hair Colour: Auburn-Brown
Eye Colour: Brown
First Appearance: Tomb Raider (Computer Game by Eidos Interactive)
Powers/Abilities: Incredibly agile and athletic, superhumanly accurate shot with almost all weapons.
Lara Croft is the Amazonian heroine of the Tomb Raider series of movies, video games and comic books. Originally, it was handled by British based Core Design as a video game character. Lara is very skilled at hand-to-hand combat plus she has hi-tech devices and weapons to aid her from all her adventures.
Lara Croft was also starred by Angelina Jolie, a tough, sexy, heavily armed adventurer, in an action film based on the wildly popular video game series of the same name.
Lara Croft History
There are two versions of Lara Croft's history.
The first one was originated in the first six Tomb Raider games, while on the second; a recreated history for the
seventh game in the series, Tomb Raider:
Legend. Some information on the other story is opposed by the other one,
such as her father’s name. In the original story, his father’s name was
Henshingly Croft and became Richard Croft on the Legend. This was most likely a
try to tie-in with the piece of the Tomb Raider movies.
Original History
Lara Croft, the daughter of Lord Henshingly Croft, was born in England on February 14th 1968. She was brought up in the secure world of aristocracy and luxury of nobility. She was privately tutored from age three to eleven, and then began her formal schooling at Wimbledon High School for Girls until she was sixteen.
It all started to change when her parents sent her to Gordonstoun, one of Britain's most prominent boarding schools. She studied and stayed there for two years and found the mountains of Scotland. She developed her interests on exploration, rock climbing and shooting.
When she turned 18, she went to a Swiss Finishing School. It was in the year 1988, on Lara’s way home from her holiday skiing trip, her chartered plane crashed deep within the mountains of the Himalayas, leaving Lara as the sole survivor. She was determined to survive and used her wits in hostile conditions, a world away from her sheltered upbringing. She spent two weeks wandering alone through the Himalayas before walking into a remote mountain village in Tokakeriby, Nepal. Her harrowing experience made an intellectual penetration and emotional depth on her being.
Over the following eight years she acquired an intimate knowledge of ancient civilizations across the world, while continuing her education at Oxford, then at the University of Chicago in the United States. After graduating from finishing school at the age of twenty-one, Lara's parents wanted to wed her to the Earl of Farringdon, but were less than convinced about her chosen lifestyle. They ceased to associate with their daughter, cutting her monthly allowance. Still the Earl waited patiently.
Lara turned to writing to fund her radical lifestyle and becomes more independent. She is currently employed as an associate researcher for the BritishMuseum in London, and continues to write articles and abstracts for their various publications. Lara became widely known for discovering several ancient sites of profound archaeological interest. In the last few years she discovered and recovered the Ark of the Covenant and the Hoard of Gabriel Croft, amongst other antiquities. She hit the headlines again when she hunted out and killed Bigfoot in North America. She published travel books and detailed journals of her exploits like “A Tyrannosaurus is gnawing at my head” and “Slaying Bigfoot”, and continue to write and publish series of adventure novels.
New Made History (from Tomb Raider Legend and Movies)
Lara Croft is the 11th
Countess of Abbingdon. She is the daughter of the late archaeologist Richard
Croft (10th Earl of Abbingdon) and Amelia Croft, Countess of Abbingdon. Even as
a child, she showed exceptional intelligence making her a gifted child. She
went to the Abbingdon
Girls School
between the ages of three and six.
At an early age of nine, Lara survived a plane crash in the Himalayas, shortly after her mother mysteriously vanished. She somehow miraculously survived a solo ten-day trek across the Himalayan Mountains, one of the most hostile environments on the world. When she arrived in Katmandu, she immediately contacted her father to save her from the accident.
Lara spends the rest of her childhood under the close supervision of her Archeologist father, Richard Croft. They traveled around the world to several different archaeological dig sites and became her father's full time apprentice.
When Lara was fifteen, her father went missing in Cambodia. At the age of eighteen, she now inherited the Croft estates and became Countess of Abbingdon. Now, Lady Lara Croft has already eclipsed her father's career and has been accredited with the discovery of some sixteen archeological sites of international significance.
As an achiever, many questioned her ability and even hailed her as treasure hunter. Lady Croft herself guards her privacy with complete determination, which further adds to the veil of the mystery that surrounds her life and work. Therefore, she continues to be the focus of wild speculations and intense debate. Idealized and criticized in equal measure, she is perhaps one of the most fascinating and enigmatic figures of our times.
Lara Croft Costumes
Cold Weather Outfit
Clothing is as important to Lara as any gear she
might carry, and in colder climes of the world, nothing beats a heavy but
stylish heavy jacket and hood. Temperature can be a fickle thing, so she
usually tries to dress in layers to adapt to her ever-changing circumstances.
Classic Outfit
Lara learned that nothing beats a good pair of
boots, sturdy cargo shorts, and a close-fitting top that breaths well and dries
quickly. While her choice of style and color has changed over time, her
sensibilities are as practical as ever.
Evening Dress
Every situation demands special attire, and her
sleek black cocktail dress is the perfect choice for a corporate formal party.
It restricts her behavior to what’s appropriate for proper social gatherings
like no place to hide gear or weapons. But she has hidden assets that are more
than up to the challenge.
Motorcycle Outfit
Lara’s motorcycle outfit is in the comfort of a
sexy properly fitted dark leather gear.
Devices and Weapons Used
Knives
She uses different knives including a curved dagger and a small knife tucked into her boots.
Magnetic Grapple
Lara can use the grapple by throwing it around an enemy’s waist and dragging them into danger, such as a pit, or she can drag them into range for close range attacks.
Twin Pistols
The twin pistols are Lara’s signature companions. These are counterbalanced to reduce recoil, and include custom capacity magazines. It is ever reliable and ever lethal.
Personal Light Source
Affixed to the forward strap of her backpack, this light can provide temporary illumination in the darkest corners of all her expeditions.
Shotgun
For times when a few well-aimed bullets aren’t sufficient, Lara appreciates the solid familiarity of a simple pump-action shotgun. It can always be counted on to fire a wide spray of buckshot capable of delivering a great deal of damage at close range.
Headset
It is Lara’s hi-tech, advanced eyes and ears gadget. Her headset keeps her in touch back at the mansion and allows them to see what she sees and communicate with her.
Red Flares
Back before light sources became more portable, reliable, and reusable, flares were the standard on lighting up the interior of a dark tomb. Lara’s favorites were always single use strontium nitrate flares with a plastic wind resistant cap for easy lighting.
Grenades
Fragmentation grenades are frequently available when dealing with mercenaries. With pins firmly in place, a few grenades can look nicely onto her belt, and they offer the kind of concussive force an archeologist might need when in a hurry or surrounded by unpleasant company.
Jeep Commander
The rugged determination and go-anywhere-handle-anything qualities shared by both jeep vehicles and Lara Croft make an unforgettable partnership between the two.
PDA
Her PDA is her field workspace. It stores and organizes notes on short term goals as well as useful data on gear, weapons, and progress.
RAD (Remote Analysis Device)
Lara’s state of the art binoculars have been augmented with a RAD with simple pattern recognition software that can provide some tactical data on various objects it is focused on.
Assault Rifle
With Lara’s tendency to use her enemies’ tools against them, they should think twice about bringing in high-powered assault rifles.
Ducati
The latest adventure is always riding on her Ducati and features riding scenes in which Lara relies on the performance of the original naked street fighter to get her out of some tricky situations.
Tomb Raider Cast
· Lara Croft: Countess of Abbingdon
and archaeological wunderkind.
· Lady Croft: Lara's mother.
· Richard Croft: Lara's father and Earl of Abbingdon.
· Anaya Imanu: A South American civil engineer and friend of Lara's.
· Amanda Evert: An old friend of Lara's.
· Kent: One of Lara's university peers.
· James W. Rutland Jr.: A Westpoint graduate and rival of Lara's. His motives however, are a little more self-centered.
· Winston Smith: Lara's butler.
· Alister Fletcher: An archaeologist who provides advice and allows for Lara to bounce ideas with via her headset.
· Zip: A reformed computer hacker who aids Lara on her journey alongside Alister.
· Shogo Takamoto: A Yakuza Kamicho. His past encounters with Lara have been disagreeable.
· Toru Nishimura: One of Lara's friends. Once a daring investigative reporter, now a wealthy media mogul.
Other Appearances of Lara Croft
· Lara Croft was brought
to life by actress Angelina Jolie for the movies Tomb Raider (2001) and Tomb
Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003).
· The novelization of the Tomb Raider movie was released in 2001 and was written by Mel Odom.
· The heroine of the video game series created by Toby Gard, has spawned seven incarnations of the game, where Lara Croft must defeat ancient deities, spirits, evil gangsters, and even dinosaurs. Since its debut in 1996, Tomb Raider games have been made for the PC, Mac, PlayStation, PlayStation 2, Saturn, Dreamcast, N-Gage, Pocket PC, Game Boy Advance, and Game Boy Color. April 11, 2006, the seventh game in the series, Tomb Raider: Legend, was released for the PlayStation 2, PSP, Xbox, Xbox 360, and PC.
· Diverse non-pc game advertisements like SEAT, Visa, etc.
· In a music video of the German band Die Ärzte (#1 Hit Männer sind Schweine "Men are Pigs"),
· On tour with the Irish band U2
· Lara Croft has also been portrayed by models for public appearances, most notably model/actress Rhona Mitra, glam
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