Carter Bell

 is a recurring character in the Lara Croft spin-off series of games and comics. A rival archaeologist and friend to Lara Croft. He is playable in the game Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris together with Lara, Isis and Horus, where he is voiced by Dorian Lockett. Carter does not make a physical appearance in Lara Croft: Relic Run and instead serves as the main plot device and player motivation.

Temple of Osiris
While competing with Lara for the prized Staff of Osiris, Carter accidentally sets Set, God of Chaos, free to reap destruction on the mortal realm. Afterwards He joins forces with Lara, Isis and Horus on a journey to imprison Set once more.

Lara Croft and the Frozen Omen
After their adventures in Egypt, Carter Bell now works in Istanbul, Türkiye on some ivory pieces. He has recently taken up falconry, and owns a young sparrow hawk. Once when training her, Carter let her fly too close to the mountains in strong wind, and she got a bit banged up. Carter asked Lara's help in retrieving her.

Few days later while working in the museum, Carter was attacked by a security guard who seemed to be possessed, and after the ivory piece. Carter escaped the museum with the relic, and called Lara again. Together they tried to avoid multiple people who got possessed, but eventually lost the ivory piece to them, and were left alone after that.

Carter and Lara go to meet Stan Grus, an eccentric man living in Arizona, USA. Stan allows them to examine the ivory piece in his collection, but they are interrupted by two possessed people. In the commotion, Carter's hawk is possessed, as is Stan Grus. Carter and Lara are locked in the vault until Grus leaves with the hawk, then they are released by a guard. This doesn't help them much though as they are left without water in the desert. Carter uses his knowledge and offers to drink some cactus juice, but Lara has found the cactus fruit to be better option. They manage to reach an outlet mall, where they ask for a phone.

Twelve hours later Carter and Lara arrive at Croatia, they follow Carter's hawk's GPS signal to Andro Green's house. They are attacked by demonic creatures, who are destroyed by the sun. Reprieve is brief, as a giant creature appears splitting the earth beneath them. With another survivor Chloe, they were lead to safety by Carter's hawk, but she got hit by the giant creature, and her wing was hurt. Carter didn't leave her behind and wrapped her up with his shirt on his chest to keep her safe. They reached a cave where Andro Green was, and Lara in quick thinking snapped his horns, which seemed to be the source of his power. Everyone returned to normal, and Stan Grus ordered the ivory pieces destroyed. Carter personally smashed one of them.

Later Carter was slowly letting his hawk fly a bit, while her wing is still healing at Croft Manor.

Lara Croft: Relic Run
Carter was working in Cambodia when he found the Jade Scepter of Tjak. He sent Lara an image of it. Soon after Carter went missing and the scepter was just left behind lying in the open. Before his disappearance, Carter left a note behind saying he found something troubling. Lara assumes Carter has been kidnapped, leading Lara to track him through Jungle Temple. Carter's discarded Bronze Astrolabe confirms Lara's suspicions of him being taken, but then she comes upon tons of debris of Animated Golems in the Desert Ruins, and she now thinks it is Carter's handiwork. Carer finally managed to make contact with Lara via a sat-phone, but the received message was too fragmented for her to fully understand. Just before leaving Sahara desert, Carter made contact with Lara once more confirming that Rahu is real and certain relics must be collected and used to contain him. Next stop was in Mountain Pass where Carter was leaving notes tied to relics to keep in contact with Lara. Carter was looking for Bell of Enlightenment and using Bronze Mahakala Incense Burners as an attempt in some sort of ancient cleansing ritual. Lara managed to contain Rahu with the help of the relics left behind by Carter, but the Amulet of Seeing showed Lara that carter was still on the move, but to where, unknown.

Appearances

 * Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris
 * Lara Croft: Relic Run (mentioned/plot device)
 * Lara Croft and the Frozen Omen

Trivia

 * Carter's name borrows from two famous English archaeologists; Howard Carter (credited with the re-discovery of Tutankhamen's Tomb) and Gertrude Bell (Remembered for establishing the modern state of Iraq).
 * Carter has a pet Sparrow Hawk.
 * It is unclear whether Relic Run takes place before or after The Frozen Omen, but seeing as he is still missing in the end of the game it can be assumed it is last in the timeline.