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===Lara Croft===
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[[File:ClassicLaraCroft.jpg|alt=A computer generated image of a brown haired woman whose body faces to the right while her head is turned down towards the ground, and left hand is placed on her wounded shoulder. She wears a dirty white shirt, ripped green pants and black boots. She has several abrasions covered by cloth. The woman holds a bow in her right hand.|thumb|Various incarnations of Lara Croft in the video game series. Despite multiple revisions to her clothing and general physique, her face and hair have remained generally consistent.<ref name="GI-213"/><ref name="IGN-ManyLooks"/>]]

Lara Croft is the main protagonist and playable character of the video game series. She travels around the world in search of many forgotten artefacts and locations, frequently connected to supernatural powers.<ref name="TRLguide2"/><ref name="VirtSed-Games"/><ref name="GIstory"/> While her biography has changed throughout the series, her shared traits are her origins as the only daughter and heir of the aristocratic Croft family.<ref name="TRLguide2"/><ref name="TRIIIguide"/><ref name="TRrebootGuide"/> She is portrayed as intelligent, athletic, elegant, fluent in multiple languages, and determined to fulfil her own goals at any cost. She has brown eyes and brown hair worn in a [[braid]] or [[ponytail]]. The character's classic outfit consists of a turquoise singlet, light brown shorts, calf-high boots, and tall white socks. Recurring accessories include fingerless gloves, a backpack, a utility belt with holsters on either side, and twin pistols. Later games have multiple new outfits for her.<ref name="IGN-ManyLooks"/><ref name="PCGamer-166"/><ref name="CVG-2008"/><ref name="AnniversaryDev3"/>

Lara Croft has been voiced by five actresses in the video game series: [[Shelley Blond]], Judith Gibbins, Jonell Elliott, [[Keeley Hawes]], and [[Camilla Luddington]]. In other media, Croft was also voiced by [[Minnie Driver]] in the animated series and portrayed by [[Angelina Jolie]] and [[Alicia Vikander]] in feature films. Multiple models and body doubles have portrayed Croft in promotional material until the [[Tomb Raider (2013 video game)|reboot]] in 2013. Eight different real-life models have portrayed her at promotional events.<ref name="dvd-doc"/><ref name="IndeHawes"/>

In January 2023, ''[[The Hollywood Reporter]]'' reported that [[Phoebe Waller-Bridge]] was set to write a TV show adaptation<ref>{{Cite web |last=Goldberg |first=Lesley |date=27 January 2023 |title=Phoebe Waller-Bridge Prepping 'Tomb Raider' TV Series for Amazon (Exclusive) |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/tomb-raider-tv-show-amazon-phoebe-waller-bridge-1235311582/ |access-date=29 January 2023 |website=The Hollywood Reporter |language=en-US}}</ref> of the video game franchise for [[Amazon Studios|Amazon]]. It was also reported that this would involve a tie-in video game and film in an interconnected universe, likened to the [[Marvel Cinematic Universe]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Goldberg |first=Lesley |date=27 January 2023 |title='Tomb Raider' Film in the Works as Amazon Makes Rich Rights Deal for Marvel-Like Franchise (Exclusive) |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/tomb-raider-film-series-deal-amazon-1235311847/ |access-date=29 January 2023 |website=The Hollywood Reporter |language=en-US}}</ref>

====Continuity====
The circumstances of her first adventures, along with the drive behind her adventures, differ depending on the continuity. In the original continuities, she is on a plane that crashes in the Himalayas: her journey back to civilization against the odds help to begin her journey towards her adult life as an adventuress and treasure hunter.<ref name="TRLguide2"/><ref name="TRIIIguide"/> In the original continuity, after her ordeal in the Himalayas, she left behind her privileged life and made a living writing about her exploits as an adventurer, mercenary, and cat burglar. Shortly after these books she was disowned by her family.<ref name="Arcade-1"/><ref name="GS-History"/> In ''The Last Revelation'', Lara was caught in a collapsing pyramid at the game's end, leaving her fate unknown: this was because the staff, exhausted from four years of non-stop development, wanted to move on from the character.<ref name="dvd-doc"/> ''Chronicles'' was told through a series of flashbacks at a wake for Lara, while ''The Angel of Darkness'' was set an unspecified time after ''The Last Revelation'', with Lara revealed to have survived. The circumstances of her survival were originally part of the game but were cut due to time constraints and the pushing of the publisher Eidos.<ref name="dvd-doc"/><ref name="OPM-93"/>

In the ''Legend'' continuity, her mother Amelia was involved in the crash, and she is partially driven by the need to discover the truth behind her mother's disappearance and vindicate her father's theories about Amelia's disappearance.<ref name="OPM-106"/> This obsession with the truth is present in ''Anniversary'', and ends up bringing the world to the brink of destruction during the events of ''Underworld''.<ref name="TRAguide"/><ref name="TRUguide"/> Her father is referred to as Lord Henshingly Croft in the original games and Lord Richard Croft in the ''Legend'' continuity.<ref name="TRLguide2"/><ref name="TRIIIguide"/> The ''Lara Croft'' subseries take place within their own separate continuity, devoting itself to adventures similar to earlier games while the main series goes in a different stylistic direction.<ref name="SQEXcroft"/>

In the 2013 reboot continuity, Lara's mother vanished at an early age, and her father became obsessed with finding the secrets of immortality, eventually resulting in an apparent suicide. Lara distanced herself from her father's memory, believing like many others that his obsession had caused him to go mad. After studying at university, Lara gets an opportunity to work on an archaeology program, in the search for the mythic kingdom of [[Yamatai]]. The voyage to find the kingdom results in a shipwreck on an island, which is later discovered to be Yamatai, but the island is also home to savage bandits, who were victims of previous wrecks. Lara's attempts to find a way off the island lead her to discover that the island itself is stopping them from leaving, which she discovered is linked to the still-living soul of the Sun Queen [[Himiko]]. Lara tries to find a way to banish the spirit of the sun queen in order to get home. The aftermath of the events of the game causes Lara to see that her father was right, and that she had needlessly distanced herself from him. She decides to finish his work, and uncover the mysteries of the world. The game's sequels portray Lara Croft in conflict with an ancient organization Trinity, in their quest to obtain supernatural items for their world domination.