Amanda Evert

Amanda Evert (born October 25) was once Lara Croft's best friend until an accident in Peru. She is a metaphysicist and is fascinated by mysticism always dreamed of rediscovering forgotten truths about mystical knowledge driven out of the world by modern science. During a past expedition with university colleagues, her foot became stuck beneath rocks while both she and Lara tried to flee a flooding tomb, before she was seemingly crushed by more rocks. Lara managed to escape and believed Amanda to be dead and left her behind. Amanda survived through harnessing the shadow powers of the Unknown Entity and developed a huge grudge against her former friend. After finding Jacqueline Natla, Amanda had her own particular library of knowledge she had longed for, and has been determined to get to Avalon, the Celtic paradise.

Amanda re-appears in the Kazakhstan and the Bolivia Redux missions in Tomb Raider: Legend as an enemy. She appears again in Tomb Raider: Underworld along with Jacqueline Natla. Natla tries to kill Amanda using a Doppelganger at which point, Lara and Amanda both team up to defeat Natla.

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 * Amanda and Amanda in her winter outfit appear as costumes for Lara in Tomb Raider: Legend.
 * In Tomb Raider: Legend when Lara first meets James Rutland, Amanda can be seen sitting on the edge of the helicopter.
 * In Tomb Raider: Underworld, a cut ending is still present on the PlayStation 2 version because the developers of the PlayStation 2 port forgot to remove it. The ending shows that Lara and Amanda were to escape together, however, Amanda tries to hit Lara with a rock but Lara shoots Amanda and leaves her in the snow, and she freezes to death. The ending was cut because the Developers decided the real ending ties up loose ends and shows Amanda and Lara make amends.
 * Amanda is also a playable character in Legend, where she is unlocked as a costume. However, she still talks and moves like Lara.
 * It is said that Amanda has a sister named Lisa, and two brothers named William and Stephen, but they are never mentioned throughout the series.
 * Amanda has tattoos in Legend, but they don't appear in Underworld.