Still, there are some obvious ways in which the trilogy has to end. Obviously, Lara gets what she wants most of all, which is to destroy Trinity. Her inner need to make things right with her dead father is also addressed, though not entirely satisfactorily. Through her victory over Trinity and her attainment of the magical artifact, she is given a brief, spiritual encounter with her parents in some netherworld.
She witnesses herself as a girl living the family life she lost. This on-the-nose scene lacks much in the way of emotional impact. This deflation is exacerbated by a scene in which Lara seems to sacrifice her life for the greater good, but, no wait, she survives the experience. This has the effect of lauding her as the selfless hero, without exacting any price.
This offers up her central flaw of monomania as the best opportunity to give her a satisfying denouement. She can face tough questions about the consequences of heroism which bring her to a place of self-revelation. Promisingly, the game begins provocatively, with Croft messing with powers she does not understand, and setting off a tsunami. This catastrophe kills hundreds of innocents, including children. When Jonah pledges to help the survivors, Croft just wants to get gone, and be the hero the world needs.
She has no real regard for the people or the places she plunders. As the story progresses, it becomes dispiritingly clear that this dangerous flaw of hers is actually a good thing. The whole tsunami device is a bait and switch that looks like a cheap attempt to lend her gravity that she does not possess.
Croft saves the world, not by confronting her flaws, but by carrying on as normal. Bush about it. She is a person responsible for atrocities, who retires to her fancy house to be nice and paint and stuff. Her icky lack of responsibility is exacerbated by a haughty imperialism, wherever she goes. Croft wanders into familial civil wars and takes on the role of fixer, without permission or invitation. Everyone seems to accept this as the natural orders of things.
Her assumptions appear to be shared by her creators, who do little to mitigate this outrageous entitlement. So Lara Croft fails to hang together as a convincing human character. Like the game itself, she is a series of situations, each one designed mainly to entertain in the here and now, without much thought to a broader view. Her personality is both flat and fractured. She is never allowed to come together in her entirety. There are those who will argue that Tomb Raider games are just a lot of nonsense and game characters ought not be taken seriously.
But I strongly suspect that the writers do not agree. They recognize that Lara Croft is influential and that she exerts cultural power. Which presents the question as to why she seems so lost in this game. Game development is an intensely hierarchical business, and writers are nowhere near the top of the haha pyramid. Usually, when writing in a big game goes awry, the pressure has come from above.
Lara Croft is an important character. She matters. Thus was formed the Solarii Brotherhood. His first recruit was a man named Nikolai , who thought that Mathias was insane but left him to it to save his own skin, he wrote the Confessions of Solarii. Believing the Sun Queen was guiding him, he directed the cult's efforts toward finding a suitable young woman, that would allow the completion of Himiko's ritual and finally allow his escape, calling such a female " The Key ". Decades later, the MV Endurance , carrying an expedition to find Yamatai , which included the young, nascent archaeologist Lara Croft , was wrecked on the island, due to being ensnared by the storms.
The team also included aspiring documentary film-maker Samantha Nishimura. She also believed herself to be Himiko's direct descendant. She, Lara Croft and the other six members of the expedition team survived the wreck. Mathias encountered Samantha at a campfire, at which he also encountered Lara Croft. Tending to Samantha's injuries and listening to her stories of the Sun Queen and the Stormguard, Mathias realized that she was The Key.
He abducted her while Lara slept, intending to use her to complete Himiko's ritual and took her to the Solarii base. She was later rescued by Lara. However, Mathias had made a deal with the leader of the expedition, the archaeologist James Whitman. An egoistical man who would sacrifice anything and anyone for his moribund career, Whitman agreed to abduct Samantha and bring her back to him in return for career-reviving access to the secrets of the Yamatai civilization.
Mathias used Whitman to distract the Stormguard, at the cost of Whitman's life, allowing him to gain access to the Chamber of the Sun with Samantha. There, he began to perform Himiko's ritual to transfer her soul into Samantha's body.
However, Lara Croft had done her own investigation into the island's secrets and discovered the truth about Himiko and the curse on the island. Realizing Mathias' intent and convincing the others of what she had discovered, she made her way to the ancient monastery where the Chamber of the Sun was located with their help.
As Mathias initiated the ritual, Lara was able to fight her way through the Solarii Brotherhood, the Oni Stormguard and get to the Chamber. Arriving, she found Mathias overseeing the transfer of Himiko's soul from her decayed form into Samantha's body. Lara stabbed Himiko's body through the heart with a flaming torch. This ended the transference and seemingly destroyed Himiko. Without her rage to supernaturally drive them, the storms surrounding the island dissipated and normal weather over the island was restored.
Lara killed Mathias when he tried to kill her for interfering and made her way with Samantha back to the other survivors. With the storms gone, they were able to escape via a repaired boat. However, this was not the end of the evil Sun Queen. Although the soul transference ritual failed once again, Himiko still managed to latch a small part of her soul to Sam and live on within her, causing her to be violent and to even have blackout periods.
As a result, Sam is arrested for assault and committed to a mental institution. After Sam is transferred to the Halberg Institute in Sweden , she apparently reverted to some degree of normalcy, even making friends with a nurse. However, Trinity took over the institute and put Sam in the care of Dr. Taffe , who seemingly caused Sam to take a turn for the worst, allowing Himiko to start exerting greater control over Sam's body.
This came to a head one night when Sam escaped the asylum, killing a nurse in the process. Whilst in Germany , Himiko realized that she was probably drawing attention, which would lead to Lara picking up her trail.
Since Lara had already once succeeded in stopping her gaining full control of Sam, she would likely try again in order to save her friend. What did Lara Croft study? The Art of Trolling. Why did Lara Croft stab herself? Cause she's suicidal. What guns did Lara Croft use?
Twin pistols. In a cross-dresser pub in Las Vegas. She has an imaginary friend that tells her to kill people. How did Lara Croft survive? By eating a well balanced nutritional diet. How did Lara Croft's mother die? When she sees the state of Lara when she returned home all covered in blood and mud on her carpet.
Does Lara Croft have blue eyes? Yes when she wears contacts.
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