Quick Answer
Stella Banks is Dalton's lifelong friend and employee, guiding Jordan by phone through Dalton's Dinos. She helps you search for Dalton, then asks you to find DJ after he and the staff disappear. Her knowledge of the Bronto and her car at the ending raise questions without proving her responsibility.
Who is Stella Banks in Terrible Lizards?
Stella Banks works at Dalton's Dinos and has known Dalton since long before Jordan's visit. Dalton hired his lifelong friend when he built the attraction around the dig site.
You first hear her when Jordan answers a ringing phone. She tells him to find Dalton. Later, she continues guiding him through his headset while traveling back from a conference.
DJ calls her Auntie Stella. That shows he knows her well, but not whether she is a blood relative. Amanda Hufford voices Stella Banks.
For the people and creatures around her, see the Terrible Lizards characters overview.
How is Stella connected to the disappearances?
Stella helps Jordan search, but her exact responsibility for the disappearances remains unresolved. DJ goes missing alongside the staff present at Dalton's Dinos. Stella initially directs Jordan toward Dalton, then later asks him to stay and help find DJ.
At that point, Jordan wants to leave and bring back the National Guard. What happened to every missing employee is still unknown.
Stella also knows more about the Bronto than she initially reveals. She had seen and studied it while it was dormant. It woke while she was away, causing chaos.
The Bronto may account for some staff disappearances. That possibility does not prove Stella caused them, ordered them, or knew exactly what would happen. The Terrible Lizards game story covers the wider events.
Why does Stella tell you to use the floodlights?
Stella believes the creatures' adaptation to low light makes floodlights useful against them. In an audio log, she proposes installing flood lights that run all day.
However, the first Bronto encounter complicates that advice. Stella tells Jordan to power the floodlights, but switching them on angers the Bronto instead of scaring it away. Jordan is chased into the basement and farther into the dig site.
Her research explains the advice, and the encounter shows its limits: not every dinosaur retreats from light.
Did Stella send DJ to Old Rock Cave?
Stella sending DJ to Old Rock Cave is a theory drawn from a comic, rather than confirmed dialogue about DJ. The comic shows Benji looking for Dennis. Stephanie directs Benji to Pterry, who says Dennis wanted more fossils and went to Old Rock Cave on her advice.
The theory reads Pterry as Stella because both are described as friends. It then interprets the cave trip as Stella directing DJ toward the fossils and danger.
That reading depends on the comic characters standing in for real people, so it settles nothing about her intentions.
What does Stella's car mean at the end of Terrible Lizards?
Stella's car creates an unresolved final question about her role. DJ recognizes Auntie Stella's car, and Jordan tells him to leave. The scene provides no explanation for Jordan's reaction.
That moment does not tell you whether Stella is good, evil, or responsible for the disappearances, or whether the reunion is safe. See the Terrible Lizards game ending for the final scene.
FAQ
Her full name is Stella Banks. Amanda Hufford provides her voice.
DJ calls her Auntie Stella. That name alone does not confirm a blood relationship.
She has been away at a conference and is traveling back to Dalton's Dinos during their headset conversations.
No. DJ recognizes her car, and Jordan tells him to leave, but the ending gives no explanation.