Owen is a U.S. Navy veteran and animal behavioral scientist researching Velociraptor at the dinosaur theme park Jurassic World, located on Isla Nublar.

In Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018), he and Claire have broken off their relationship, and she is leading an effort to save the Isla Nublar dinosaurs from a volcanic eruption.

Owen agrees to join her rescue mission so he can save Blue, the last survivor of his old raptor group, with whom he has a close connection.

In Jurassic World Dominion (2022), Owen and Claire remain in a relationship and are raising Maisie, who is kidnapped by Biosyn for research purposes along with Blue's asexually reproduced baby, Beta.

He was once romantically attracted to Claire Dearing, the park's operations manager, though their conflicting personalities ended a potential relationship after one date.

To increase park attendance, Jurassic World has created a genetically modified hybrid dinosaur, the Indominus rex.

Owen disrupts the auction and engages in a fist fight with several guards to prevent a new genetically modified hybrid, the Indoraptor, from being shipped out.

Mills and Henry Wu also try to engineer another Indoraptor with improved behavioral modifications based on Owen's past research on Blue and her siblings.

Owen and Claire reconcile their relationship, and become adoptive parents to Maisie, who is revealed to be a genetic clone of Lockwood's deceased daughter.

[3] In the four years after Fallen Kingdom, Owen and Claire have lived with Maisie in their cabin, located in the Sierra Nevada mountains.

Owen is chased on motorcycle by an Atrociraptor pack, while Claire learns that Maisie and Beta have been taken to Biosyn's headquarters in Italy.

In addition, the family joins with Alan Grant, Ellie Sattler, Ian Malcolm, and Ramsay Cole on escaping Biosyn.

By 2004, writers William Monahan and John Sayles had written drafts that featured Nick Harris, a former mercenary who takes a job training a team of five Deinonychus to go on missions.

[21] A fan theory in 2015 speculated that Owen is the adult version of a boy from the original film, who is educated by Grant about velociraptors.

[29] Aside from the films, Pratt also reprised the role for the theme park attractions Jurassic World: The Ride and VelociCoaster, opened in 2019 and 2021 respectively.

[33] In April 2023, it was announced that the Jurassic Park and characters from it would be featured in the upcoming video game, Funko Fusion, set to be released in 2024.

[36] Reviewing the first Jurassic World film, Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian wrote that Pratt "gives a tremendously likeable performance as Owen: easy-going, relaxed, somewhere on a continuum between Harrison Ford and Tom Hanks".

[37] Tom Chapman of Screen Rant wrote, "On paper, the idea of trained Raptors sounded ridiculous, but thankfully, Trevorrow's script and Pratt's performance pulled it off".

Peter Travers of Rolling Stone wrote that Pratt "aces it as an action hero and invests his sexual banter with a comic flair the movie could have used more of".

[40] Jake Coyle of the Associated Press found that Pratt "focuses more on smoldering and looking earnest than calling on the witty persona from 'Guardians of the Galaxy,' a big waste of his natural gifts".

[41] Writing for USA Today, Brian Truitt stated that Pratt "is again another roguish action hero, though this one's much more lacking in that mold than his Guardians of the Galaxy character".

[42] John Anderson of Time wrote that Pratt portrayed Owen with "predictable charm and unexpected authority", and further stated that viewers familiar with his roles in Parks and Recreation and Guardians of the Galaxy "will be surprised by the way he inhabits the action-hero persona".

[44] Travers called Pratt a "rare movie star with a comic's sense of mischief", and questioned why he was cast in the role only to be reduced to "a pawn who runs around hitting his marks like a robot devoid of personality".

[46] Owen Gleiberman, writing for Variety, stated that Pratt "tones down the dude factor and exudes a lean-and-mean sincerity" in Fallen Kingdom.

[47] Brian Bishop of The Verge considered Pratt's "familiar dumb-guy schtick" to be as equally entertaining as in Parks and Recreation and Guardians of the Galaxy.

[48] Regarding Dominion, Nick Bartlett of /Film wrote: "After two films insisting that this is the coolest character ever to walk the planet, Owen is uncharacteristically dour and somber, with a pretty flat performance from Pratt.