List of The Land Before Time characters
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[edit] Main Characters
[edit] Littlefoot
Littlefoot is an Apatosaurus but is called a longneck in the films. He is the central character of the film The Land Before Time and most of its sequels, however isn't always necessarily the largest role.
He is close friends to five other young prehistoric animals (Cera, Ducky, Spike, Petrie, and Chomper). Littlefoot's having friends outside his species is a suggested taboo, as many of the dinosaurs practice racial, or species based, segregation. His grandparents accept his friendships but other dinosaurs, such as Topsy (Cera's father), do not always seem to.
Littlefoot's primary caregivers are his grandparents, as his mother was killed in the original film, and his father, Bron, was separated from him and his mother shortly before Littlefoot's birth. Littlefoot later found his father in The Land Before Time X: The Great Longneck Migration and met his foster brother, Shorty. Bron offered to let Littlefoot stay with him, but Littlefoot declined, staying with his friends and grandparents in the Great Valley.
[edit] Cera
Cera is a Triceratops and a friend of Littlefoot.
Cera is a bossy dinosaur who tries to show no fear. She has no problem bragging about her accomplishments, but will run away at the first sign of any real danger. She is very sweet and caring, but that side of her personality is usually masked by her normally gruff exterior.
Cera's father Topsy, is seen in every film in the series, except The Land Before Time IV: Journey Through the Mists, but her mother was only seen in background shots of the original The Land Before Time. In The Land Before Time XI: Invasion of the Tinysauruses, Cera's dad was in love with his new girlfriend, Tria and had his name revealed. Cera has a pair of siblings suggested to be sisters, who were seen briefly in The Land Before Time, and has a nephew and a niece, Dana and Dinah. Strangely, these two dino-toddlers have tiny bony stubs on their foreheads which are clearly small horns. Cera, however, even though she is older then them, has yet to acquire horns on her head. Dinah and Dana made their appearances and were seen in The Land Before Time VI: The Secret of Saurus Rock.
In The Land Before Time II: The Great Valley Adventure, her design was slightly modified to make her look older and more appealing. Her head and face is now less round and more angular, but her body design remains true to the original film.
[edit] Ducky
Ducky is a Saurolophus, which is also called a "big mouth" or a "swimmer". She tends to say "Yep yep yep" quite a lot, which is frequently quoted today in popular culture and everyday life. Ducky's personality compared to the others is very caring and, at times, somewhat childish. Although she is sensitive to others' feelings, she can be easily manipulated to believe that some things may be right when in fact they might lead to trouble. This is shown in the first The Land Before Time movie when Cera convinced her that a certain route to the Great Valley was easier than the way up a mountain of loose rocks. This in fact lead to danger, as she and Spike ended up lost.
[edit] Petrie
Petrie is a pterosaur, and is also called a flyer, (a Pteranodon to be exact).
Petrie has a family, which are a mom (voiced by Tress MacNeille) and a bunch of brothers and sisters. He was originally afraid of flying until a tangle with the Original Sharptooth gave him the courage (and breath) to save his friends. He used to idolize his Uncle Pterano, thinking he can do no wrong. Later he finds out that Pterano is as insecure as Petrie is. It is ironic how alike Pterano and Petrie are, not just in looks, but in personality. He seems to have a strong friendship with Ducky.
[edit] Spike
Spike is, as his name implies, a 'spike-tail' (Stegosaurus).
He is one of the youngest members of the group, Chomper being the only major character younger than him. In fact, Littlefoot, Ducky, and Petrie witnessed his hatching and Ducky's mother adopted him upon reaching the Great Valley, as his family has yet to be seen. A Stegosaurus family did, however, offer to take him with them, although he decided to stay with Ducky and his family.
He is known for his large appetite and can often be seen chasing after some piece of food (a bush, leaves, etc.). He is also portrayed as mute, although later films, like The Land Before Time VII: The Stone of Cold Fire or The Land Before Time XI: Invasion of the Tinysauruses, show that he can speak perfectly well. He simply chooses not too.
[edit] Chomper
Chomper is a Tyrannosaurus, which is known as a sharptooth in the Land Before Time movies. He is bilingual, being able to speak both the herbivore language of Littlefoot and his friends (heard as English to the viewer), and the "Sharptooth" language of Tyrannosaurus, which seems to consist of grunts, roars, and clicks. Littlefoot and his friends originally found Chomper as an egg and took care of him as surrogate parents until he was found by his real parents. He left the Great Valley with them and was not seen again until The Land Before Time V: The Mysterious Island, where he was living on an island with his parents. Now that the landbridge which connected the island to the mainland has been destroyed, he and his parents cannot get off the island. However, in the tv series, which appears to be after Land Before Time XI, he is shown still in the Great Valley, but without his parents.
Chomper is portrayed by Rob Paulsen in The Land Before Time II, Cannon Young in The Land Before Time V, and Max Burkholder in the TV series.
[edit] Ruby
Ruby is a new friend of Littlefoot and his friends and appears in the television series. She is a female Oviraptor.
[edit] Parents, Foster Parents, Relatives and Adoptees
[edit] Bron
Bron is Littlefoot's father. He was separated from Littlefoot, his mother, and Grandpa and Grandma Longneck shortly before Littlefoot's birth. Until The Land Before Time X: The Great Longneck Migration, Bron was unsure of his wife and son's fates. Bron also has an adopted son named Shorty. Bron is voiced by Keifer Sutherland
In Part X, Littlefoot and his grandparents get a sudden urge to migrate to an unknown place, and when they arrive, they find hundreds of other longnecks. One of them was Bron, who recognizes Grandpa Longneck, and Littlefoot meets his father for the first time. Littlefoot didn't take this very well, however. He thought Bron had abandoned him and his mother, and he retreated into seclusion. Bron caught up with him, and explains how they had gotten separated. Littlefoot accepts this and the two bond, much to the displeasure of Shorty, Littlefoot's foster brother. Shorty and Littlefoot made amends, however, when they were forced to work together to save themselves from attacking sharpteeth.
[edit] Cera's Siblings
Topsy and his first wife were seen to have several children on at least two occasions. The first time can only be inferred; the existence of Dinah and Dana--Cera's niece and nephew and Topsy's grandchildren--show that Topsy and his wife had to have had at least one son or daughter before Cera's egg laying. Where this older brother or sister is is unknown.
Cera is seen to have had nestmate siblings at her hatching and they seem to be mostly sisters from her remark in the first film. (She tells Littlefoot, "When I find my sisters I won't be alone!") They, along with their mother, have mostly disappeared from the film series and are likely dead, having died on the way to the Great Valley. Two of them, however, did appear in volume three. Also, since Dinah and Dana are her niece and nephew, she would have to have a sibling old enough to mate and have kids (there was a Triceratops half the size of the others seen in IV).
She now has a half sister, Tricia due to her step-mother Tria marrying Topsy.
[edit] Chomper's Parents
They only appeared in The Land Before Time II: The Great Valley Adventure and The Land Before Time V: The Mysterious Island. They are both green in color, but the mother and father are distinguished by exact shade, with the father being much darker (this may reflect a gender or racial difference). Although they are ferocious predators like the other sharpteeth, they are also devoted parents. It is suggested in the series that they requested Ruby as some sort of babysitter for Chomper. Both Ruby and Chomper were separated from their families by Redclaw and his minions, and so far they have yet to reunite.
[edit] Dinah and Dana
Dinah and Dana are little Triceratops twins. They are Cera's niece and nephew. They first appeared in The Land Before Time VI: The Secret of Saurus Rock and have not been seen since the further sequels.
[edit] Ducky and Spike's Father
He is rarely seen but has appeared now and again, for example in the background The Land Before Time VIII: The Big Freeze. It is sometimes asked if this is due to how Ducky's original voice actress, Judith Barsi was murdered by her own father--according to Internet Movie Database.
[edit] Ducky and Spike's Mother
Ducky and Spike's mother is a Saurolophus and has appeared in most of the 12 movies that have debuted so far. More than Littlefoot's mother was, she is blind to race as seen in her inter-racial/species adoption of Spike, a Stegosaurus. She loves all her children (Ducky and Spike have other nestmates, see below) and is very attentive. She is popular among Littlefoot and his friends for these reasons and is treated with respect both by Littlefoot and his friends, as well as the adults in the Great Valley. She occasionally has doubts on how to raise Spike, whether in keeping with her own values or with spike-tail customs. This was seen in The Land Before Time VIII: The Big Freeze when a Stegosaur herd met and befriended Spike. She even let him go with the herd to learn "his kind's" ways; however when Spike fell through ice it was she who rescued her grateful 'adopted' son.
This is also scientifically accurate as at least some Hadrosaurids such as Maiasaura, or "good mother lizard," are believed to have been attentive parents. Curiously, unlike other young dinosaurs in the film, her daughter, Ducky, is shown as being able to walk and even talk soon after hatching while the evidence for hadrosaur parental care rests in the fact that young were unable to care for themselves.
[edit] Ducky and Spike's Brothers and Sisters
There are at least 14 young swimmers (male and female). Although they look much like Ducky (and hatched on the same day) they lack her sense of adventure, preferring to stay at home with Mother. Ever since Ducky introduced them to "our new brother, Spike" at the close of the first film, all the swimmers have happily accepted him as part of the family even if they don't understand him as well as Ducky does.
[edit] Grandpa and Grandma Longneck
Grandpa and Grandma Longneck are Littlefoot's grandparents and his primary caregivers after his mother died. They act as parents to Littlefoot, giving him advice when needed and take their responsibility of protecting Littlefoot very seriously. (When, in Part VI, Littlefoot called Doc the greatest, his grandfather was visibly hurt.) Their real names have yet to be revealed, as most everyone calls them Grandpa and Grandma, including each other. Topsy calls Littlefoot's grandfather "Longneck" and Bron, Littlefoot's father, calls him "Poppa Longneck."
They also provide a voice of reason in the Great Valley, trying to make peace between the dinosaurs when times become hard. Detailed analysis of the film series shows that Littlefoot's grandfather has assumed a leadership position among the dinosaurs of the Valley, welcoming visitors and newcomers (The Land Before Time IV: Journey Through the Mists and The Land Before Time VI: The Secret of Saurus Rock), passing judgement on criminals (The Land Before Time VII: The Stone of Cold Fire), deciding a course of action for the herds of the Valley (The Land Before Time V: The Mysterious Island) managing natural resources such as water (The Land Before Time V: The Mysterious Island), and providing for the common defense in times of danger (The Land Before Time II: The Great Valley Adventure).
Grandpa Longneck is also shown to be a very loving husband to his wife (a song from part IV indicates that marriage does exist in the Land Before Time universe) and a kindly grandfather-figure not only to Littlefoot but to all the young dinosaurs of the Valley. He in fact, has been known to tell children stories around the campfire--or lavapool. It can also be assumed that he was good father to his suggested late daughter, Littlefoot's mother. He also gets along well with Bron his suggested son-in-law. However, while is mostly free of the bigotry that characterizes some other dinosaurs, he has a prejudiced view of sharptooth dinosaurs. He sees them as "not very bright"; however, with how one killed his daughter, it is a considerably less severe condemnation than that of his son-in-law who despises them as cowards.
As seen in Part V, after being separated from Littlefoot, his grandparents gave up hope of ever seeing either him or their daughter again and went searching for the Valley. On the way, they met other dinosaurs who joined their search for the Valley as well, not unlike how their children also found and joined each other. It is likely at this time that he was formally introduced to Topsy and assumed the leadership of the combined herds. As of the moment, Grandpa and Grandma Longneck live happily in the Great Valley, though they occasionally meet with relatives as in the Part IV or leave and coincidentally meet with other longnecks as in Part X.
Grandpa Longneck has been shown to be rather undecided in his beliefs. (This is quite unlike his daughter who stated that "somethings [...] you see with your heart" and whose ghost in the first films shows that the supernatural does indeed exist.) In The Secret of Saurus Rock he tells the children legends of heroic dinosaurs and of the mystical Saurus Rock that protects the Valley but when asked which of the stories are really true, he doesn't know. However, during The Great Longneck Migration he just knows that he must go and that he must re-enact the longneck creation myth. Littlefoot had the same under markings of grandma longneck unlike his mother who bore her suggested father, grandpa longneck's under markings.
Grandpa and Grandma Longneck have appeared in all The Land Before Time films.
[edit] Littlefoot's Mother
Appearing only in the original The Land Before Time, Littlefoot's mother was shown to be a very loving mother to her only son. (However, as the broken eggs in her nest show, it is more precise to say that Littlefoot was her only surviving son.) She got along well with her parents and loved her husband Bron very much, naming their son after him. ("Littlefoot" was Bron's nickname as a child.) She also led the herd in search of the Great Valley. At the time of her son's birth, the land was suffering geologic and ecologic upheavels that included but were not limited to, drought, flooding, famine, predation, and earthquake. Determined that her son not grow up in such an environment, she led her herd in search of the Great Valley "a wonderful, beautiful place" with green food, "more than you could ever eat, and with more fresh, cool water than you could ever drink." She had no proof that the Great Valley even existed but she was guided by her knowledge that "some things you see with your eyes, others you see with your heart."
The canonical, Bambi-like death of the parent occurred when, late one night near dawn, she died protecting Littlefoot and Cera from the Sharptooth. He was about to eat them alive, literally, when Littlefoot's mother arrived just in time to rescue them. She put up a tremendous fight and cast him into the "big underground," the bottom of a Grand Canyon like gorge that had just been torn open by a tremendous earthquake. However, Sharptooth was not dead, and even this fleeting victory cost Littlefoot's mother her life. With her last breath, she told her son to search for the Great Valley and that she would be with him. Later, her ghost would appear to her son in times of need and aid him in the quest for the Great Valley. Her last appearance was at the end of the first film when Littlefoot despaired of ever finding the Great Valley and she or her ghost took to the form of a longneck cloud to guide him into the Great Valley where on a beam of light came from her heart. The light shone on Littlefoot and spread to illuminate the Great Valley below.
Though long since dead, she is periodically mentioned through the film series and she may have made an appearance in The Land Before Time V: The Mysterious Island. Littlefoot remembers his mother and looks at a star shining brighter than the others. Littlefoot also wished his mother had given him a brother in The Land Before Time IX: Journey to Big Water. She also made an appearance in a flashback in The Land Before Time X: The Great Longneck Migration. In this film, she is seen blue-ish, and looks more like Grandma, and Grandpa, but in the first movie The Land Before Time, she is seen brown like Bron.
From her portrayal and her family's memories of her, she appears to have been a good person, though she was not quite as enlightened as her son. She acquiesced to species segregation, not because she necessarily liked it but because "it's always been that way." Like human parents who, in real life, seek to raise their children in racially homogeneous Sundown towns, part of the reason that Littlefoot's mother sought to raise him in the Valley was because "there will be many, many longnecks for you to play with." However, the fact that she saved both Littlefoot and Cera and from Sharptooth shows that she was willing to abandon racial taboos. Her true name is unknown. She is often referred to as simply Littlefoot's Mother and sometimes Mama Longneck. She is likely Grandpa and Grandma Longneck's daughter, as her husband refers to Grandpa Longneck as Poppa Longneck instead of father. She has the same under markings as her suggested father.
[edit] Petrie's Mother
Petrie's mother has a big heart and is protective of her children. She have been said to "hate Pterano", but that is not the case. She's simply the protective mother that she is and will do anything for her family. Even if it means risking her own life.
[edit] Petrie's Brothers and Sisters
They had brief appearances in The Land Before Time, The Land Before Time V: The Mysterious Island, and The Land Before Time VII: The Stone of Cold Fire. They have a bigger part in The Land Before Time XII: The Great Day of the Flyers.
They are voiced by Jeff Bennett (who voices Petrie), Nika Futterman, and Susan Blu.
[edit] Pterano
He is Petrie's maternal uncle. Pterano is voiced by Micheal York. While idolized by his nephew he is not trusted by his sister (Petrie's mother), nor by Grandpa Longneck and Topsy. That is seen in how after the combined herds joined under Grandpa Longneck in search of the Great Valley, Pterano promised them an easy way to the Valley and, due to his incompetent leadership, blundered them into a sharptooth ambush (they were never heard from again). After reuniting with his sister in the Great Valley, he, along with his henchmen Rinkus (a Rhamphorhynchus) and Sierra (a Cearadactylus), began searching for the Stone of Cold Fire, a comet which he thinks will grant him magic power. He fails and winds up putting Petrie and the other children in danger, but saves them at the end. For that, Grandpa Longneck exiles Pterano for a [reduced] period of 5 cold times (winters/years).
Pterano is at first shown to be proud and cold. However, in the end, he shows his softer side as he says goodbye to Petrie and tells him he will miss him.
Pterano appears in The Land Before Time VII: The Stone of Cold Fire and has not been seen since. Although he was mentioned in the TV series.
[edit] Ruby's Parents
[edit] Ruby's Siblings
[edit] Shorty
A dark green Brachiosaurus, he appeared in The Land Before Time X: The Great Longneck Migration. In Bron's backstory, he was found wandering in the wilderness with eight or so orange Brachiosaurus hatchlings. Since he was the eldest of the small herd, he is shown in the flashback to be very protective of the hatchlings. Shorty, along with the hatchlings, followed Bron.
In the crater, Shorty and Littlefoot didn't get along well until near the end of the movie, when Littlefoot stopped him from leaving the crater by himself. Littlefoot proposed the two could be brothers, which made Shorty happier and less jealous of Littlefoot. In the end, he gets on well with Littlefoot's friends and Bron finally adopts him after Littlefoot tells Bron to take care of Shorty.
Shorty is the young bully of the film, since he had a nasty past and was the only one from that small herd that wasn't adopted (until the end of the film). He was antisocial, mostly wandering by himself and picking on other young dinosaurs, including Littlefoot. His name is ironic in that "Shorty" is a playground insult, but he is also shorter than Littlefoot even though he is clearly older than him.
[edit] Topsy
Topsy is a Triceratops, the father of Cera. For many films, his true name was unknown and was credited as "Daddy Topps" in the first film and "Cera's Dad" in the first ten sequels to the film. There has been some argument over whether or not Topsy is his real name and not a petname given him by Tria. This is seen in how Cera was visibly angered when Ducky called him that. Even so, it is assumed that Topsy is indeed his real name.
His personality was unknown in the first film but he was shown to be guilty of racism, or speciesism, growling at Littlefoot (whom he sees as a bad influence on Cera) and telling him that "Threehorns never play with longnecks." He was often portrayed as pompous, self-rightous, and bigoted; the degree of his pride and stubbornness was seen in The Land Before Time III: The Time of the Great Giving when he took Cera straight into a wildfire rather than go with the other dinosaurs. He is aware of his bad attitude but, in the beginning at least, he thought nothing of it saying that even if was thought mean, he had a family to protect and he would do that by any means necessary. In a song from The Time of the Great Giving he says that was inculcated with this attitude by his own father, who told him to "stand and fight, don't run away." In recent films, he has still been shown as stern and less understanding than Grandpa Longneck, but his prejudice and bad attitude have drastically (but gradually) lessened through the many sequels.
There is also the question of where Topsy's wife/mate is - indeed, the last film The Land Before Time XI: Invasion of the Tinysauruses, shows him happily seeing Tria; Littlefoot was shown asking if she would be Cera's new mother. Topsy's mate was shown near the start of The Land Before Time as were their other children. However, when he and Cera were reunited at the end of the film, some of the other children were gone, his wife as well as the other featured children disappearing afterwards as the result of an accidental retcon. Given the fatalistic attitude of the first film (the narrator stated that "Sharpteeth stalked the herds waiting to seize any who strayed") it is likely they died on the way to the Great Valley. However, as seen by the presence of Topsy's grandchildren, Dinah and Dana, in The Land Before Time VI: The Secret of Saurus Rock, at least one of his children, unnamed and likely from before Cera's egg-laying, is alive. After Invasion of the Tinysauruses, Topsy and Tria have another daughter, Tricia.
In recent films, he has been shown to be part of the Great Valley's leadership, sharing power with Littlefoot's grandfather. Though Topsy and Littlefoot's family met early in the first film, it is assumed that he and Grandpa Longneck were formally introduced to each other and decided to assume shared leadership of the combined herds after they were separated from their children in the great earthquake. This was shown in a flashback in The Stone of Cold Fire.
Topsy is portrayed by Burke Byrnes in The Land Before Time and John Ingle in all of the sequels, except The Land Before Time IV: Journey Through the Mists, where he never made an appearance.
[edit] Tria
Tria is a pink "Three Horn" (Triceratops). She is kind, loving and brave, though her character may seem rather false and unconvincing at first. It is revealed in The Land Before Time XI: Invasion of the Tinysauruses that she and Topsy (Cera's dad) met when they were younger, and are reunited in the film, much to the dismay of Cera, who is very use to being the center of her father's attention. Despite some false starts, however, Cera and her new stepmother do manage to get along in the end. Unlike Topsy, Tria immediately finds the Tinysauruses cute when she comes across a wandering pair, which is why she separates from him for a short time. Tria and Topsy have a child in The Land Before Time XII: The Great Day of the Flyers.
She is portrayed by Camryn Manheim in the sequels and Jessica Gee in the TV series.
[edit] Tricia
Tricia is a young dark pink Triceratops. She is the daughter of Tria and Topsy and the half-sister of Cera. Her first appearance is in The Land Before Time XII: The Great Day of the Flyers.
She is voiced by Nika Futterman in The Land Before Time XII: The Great Day of the Flyers and Meghan Strange (who voices Ruby) in The Land Before Time TV series.
[edit] Minor Characters
[edit] Ali
Ali is an apatosaurus who bears a striking resemblance to Littlefoot apart from her dark pink skin colour and light blue eyes. She and her mother belong to a herd that was forced to leave their homeland due to flooding and excess rain. (This was likely the same changing of the Land that was referred to in the first film.) With their old home turned from the Valley of Mists into the Land of Mists, Ali's herd, led by the matriarch called the Old One, was forced to leave.
During Migration, Ali's herd found the Great Valley and were welcomed by their "cousins," Grandpa Longneck's herd. However, Grandpa Longneck fell ill and Ali and Littlefoot left the Great Valley to search Ali's old home for the fabled Night Flower that would heal Littlefoot's ailing grandfather. Cera, Ducky, Petrie, and Spike soon followed them, and met up with Littlefoot and Ali. Together, the group found the Night Flowers and brought them to the Great Valley to heal Grandpa Longneck. Afterwards, Ali and her herd left the Valley to continue their migration even though she and Littlefoot would one day meet again. However, the narrator assures us, that is another story.
Though fans began to despair of that promise ever being fulfilled, the other story is seen to be The Land Before Time TV series, where Ali returns with the herd. She meets a new friend, Rhett when her herd had merged with another.
Like most dinosaurs outside of the Great Valley herd, Ali was wary of trusting dinosaurs outside of her species and, on her part, Cera initially didn't trust Ali, but later learned to accept her and the two became friends. Fanfiction often has Littlefoot and Ali fall in love and marry as adults. [1] [2] [3] [4]
[edit] Archie
Archie was an old Archelon and appeared in The Land Before Time IV: Journey Through the Mists. He may have been inspired by Crusty the Turtle, a character who appeared on a 1989 animated series very similar to The Land Before Time called Dink, the Little Dinosaur. Both characters were shown to live in caves and give advice to the main character, an Apatosaurus (Littlefoot/Dink), and his multi-species group of friends, including a Pteranodon (Petrie/Flapper) and a hadrosaur or duck-billed dinosaur (Ducky/Amber and Scat).
[edit] Big Daddy
The leader of the Tinysauruses, he is not only the voice of authority, but he is over-protective and thinks he is the biggest out of the Tinysaurus herd. He has been met with much derision from his daughters. His name is doubly ironic, considering he is short even for a Tinysaurus, being dwarfed by his own daughter.
[edit] Chatter
One of the Tinysauruses.
[edit] Doc
Doc is a wandering Diplodocus (longneck) who goes "where the road takes him." He is shown to be very taciturn and not forthcoming in his past. Also, The Dinosaur Filmography describes his voice as being as gravelly as a bone bed.
Shortly after appearing in the Great Valley, he saved Littlefoot who quickly went on to idolize the wanderer. Littlefoot believed Doc to be legendary "Lone Dinosaur" who saved the Great Valley long ago from the most terrible sharptooth. He bases these assumptions on the fact that Doc can do fancy tricks with his tail, he's been to the Great Valley before, he has a scar on his eye and he has a resemblance to Saurus Rock. To a degree, Littlefoot places him above his own grandfather and defends him, Doc, when he is accused of bringing bad luck to the Valley. Towards the end, Doc and Grandpa Longneck work together to save Littlefoot from an Allosaurus and a Tyrannosaurus; Littlefoot asks Doc to stay in case the Valley should ever need a hero but Doc replies that the Valley already has a hero and looks towards Grandpa Longneck.
Doc appears in The Land Before Time VI: The Secret of Saurus Rock. Prior to The Land Before Time X: The Great Longneck Migration, some fans asked if Doc was in fact, Littlefoot's father.
[edit] Elsie
Elsie is a kind plesiosaurus that Littlefoot and friends met in The Land Before Time V: The Mysterious Island.
After trying to find food for the dislocated members of the Great Valley to keep the group together, Littlefoot and the others get marooned on an island, where the vast ocean surronding it prevents the homesick Littlefoot and gang from leaving, for they had a fear of 'swimming sharpteeth'. Their problem is eventually solved when Elsie appears, offering the kids a ride to the mainland. They accept, and they travel safely back to the other members of the Great Valley, who have found enough food to last them until they could finally return to the Great Valley.
[edit] Guido
Guido is a Microraptor who appears in The Land Before Time XII: The Great Day of the Flyers. Although rumoured to be multicoloured, his feathers are, in actuality, presented in warm shades of green and yellow, mostly Jade, and he has never seen another creature like himself. He is more of a comic relief character than previous guest characters, and he is voiced by Rob Paulsen.
[edit] Hyp
The leader of the trio of bullying dinosaurs in The Land Before Time III: The Time of the Great Giving, who tried to cause trouble for Littlefoot and his friends. Hyp, along with his other friends Mutt and Nod, has a bad attitude on the outside but he often hides his cowardliness to make him look braver, or "bigger". Eventually, Hyp and his friends lighten up and help Littlefoot and his friends with helping their parents deal with a pack of Sharpteeth, and later some food to share with others. His name may derive from the ornithopod Hypsilophodon. The trio has not appeared since in the further sequels.
[edit] Hyp's Father
An often grumpy dinosaur, he yells at his son when he's concerned for his safety. Like his son, his attitude may have an effect on others, including Topsy, who realises the errors of his ways on raising his daughter, Cera, after witnessing Hyp's father telling off his son with the exact same words Topsy used with Cera ("I'm your father, and I know what's best for you!"). Hyp's father is not cowardly but he is not always angry; he can also be kind to others, as shown at the end of the film. In V he can be seen when the dinosaurs are leaving the valley but he is blue.
[edit] Kosh
Kosh is the gluttonous sweet-bubble-loving dinosaur the kids have ever met before in some of The Land Before Time films and "The Star Day Celebration" episode of the TV series. His name is revealed in the end credits for "The Star Day Celebration" episode of the TV series, while he was once referred as "Mr. Clubtail" in some films.
He shows up commonly in the series, usually for one-liners, and most often for comic relief. He is almost always seen eating. While he initially refuses to share sweet bubbles with the kids, he changes his mind when Ducky tells him it is for Ruby's star day.
He was voiced by Jeff Bennett in The Land Before Time V: The Mysterious Island, Rob Paulsen in The Land Before Time XI: Invasion of the Tinysauruses and The Land Before Time XII: The Great Day of the Flyers, and Pete Sepenuk, who also voices Red Claw and Screech, in the TV series, but sometimes sounded like Thomas F. Wilson, who was Biff Tannen from the Back to the Future films and is currently heard on SpongeBob SquarePants just voicing some guest characters, such as the Tattle-Tale Strangler from SpongeBob Meets the Strangler.
[edit] Lizzie
Lizzie was one of the Tinysauruses Littlefoot and friends met in Invasion of the Tinysauruses. A daughter of Big Daddy, she was fed up with her father's over-protectiveness and distrust of Littlefoot and his friends, similar to Cera's situation with her father, Topsy. Lizzie and Cera quickly became friends and made amends with their fathers. Voiced by Cree Summer.
[edit] Mo
Mo is a colourful Ophthalmosaurus who first made his debut appearance in The Land Before Time IX: Journey to Big Water. He is incredibly playful, especially with his "mud brother", Littlefoot, but his boisterous antics could try the patience of some, including Cera. He is bilingual in that he can speak both Littlefoot's herbivore and his native dolphin-like languages, which the dinosaurs don't understand (Mo tried to warn them about an approaching Liopleurodon, which the dinosaurs found funny rather than cautious).
Mo now appears as a notable cameo in the latest sequels. In The Land Before Time X: The Great Longneck Migration, he is seen jumping out of the water during the Adventuring musical number. He can also be seen jumping out of the water and saying "And fly!" during the song Flip, Flap and Fly in The Land Before Time XII: The Great Day of the Flyers.
[edit] Mutt
One of the bullying trio, he is dim-witted and more dependent on his friends. Because he is not so bright, he is more of a coward than Hyp or Nod. He is a Muttaburrasaurus and his name is inspired by his Latin species name.
[edit] Mutt's Father
He can be seen briefly in the fight against the raptors.
[edit] Nod
Another of Hyp's friends, a Nodosaurus. He is the only quadruped of the trio, and is also the quietest. However, when Hyp would ever say something to Little and his friends, Nod would always stress those words. For example when Hyp said "Your rock?!" Nod would say, "Your rock? Who said it was your rock. Who said? Who said?"
[edit] Old One
She is the matriarch of the migrating Apatosaurus herd in The Land Before Time IV: Journey Through the Mists. She is regarded by her herd as the wisest, although some find her claims hard to believe (Littlefoot questions her views on whether retrieving the Night Flower from the Land of Mists is too dangerous, for example). She may be related to Grandma Longneck.
In the Spanish language version she was given a male voice.
[edit] Pat
An old but not always wise Apatosaurus, he offered to look after Littlefoot's friends on their way to the crater in The Land Before Time X: The Great Longneck Migration. When they realise they cannot make the journey by themselves, Pat finally looks after them. His leg was severely burned from erupting lava after telling the longneck creation myth to the gang, but they help Pat escape from possibly dying by helping him get up. When they arrive at the crater, he helps defend the other children against three sharpteeth. At the end of the movie, the children ask him to come with them to the Great Valley, which he slowly accepts.
Pat is shown to be a lonely traveller, as he offers twice to look after Littlefoot's friends, takes a different route to the crater and does not travel with a sauropod herd. He is gentle but because of his age he is physically weak. He was voiced by James Garner and has not appeared since in the further sequels.
[edit] The "Rainbow Faces"
In The Land Before Time VII: The Stone of Cold Fire, two somewhat ostrich dinosaurs appeared. These two were called the "Rainbow Faces," due to how their bills were colored the seven colors of the rainbow. They kept telling Littlefoot about how there is a world beyond imagination "beyond the Mysterious Beyond." At the end of the movie, when Littlefoot's back is turned, the two Rainbow Faces disappear in a column of shimmering blue light that reaches up to the starry night sky. When the light fades; Littlefoot looks up to the heavens to see a bright star move quickly across the sky and disappear. This has led to the speculation among viewers, and fans, that the Rainbow Faces were possibly extraterrestrials (space aliens). There seems to be no word on the true identity of those two dinosaurs.
[edit] Rhett
Rhett is an Apatosaurus who resembles Littlefoot, and has large eyes. He was introduced in The Land Before Time TV series, when Ali shows up in The Great Valley. At first, Rhett boasts about himself and told Ali stories about him protecting his herd, and convinced her that they were real. Littlefoot, Cera, Ducky, Spike, Petrie, Chomper, and Ruby plan a scheme to convince Ali that Rhett has been making up all of the stories when Chomper acts as a mean Sharptooth, and scares him away. After, Rhett admits to making up the stories when Old One finds out. He then becomes friends with the gang. He is voiced by Elizabeth Daily, who was also the voice of Tommy Pickles on Rugrats and All Grown Up! and Buttercup on The Powerpuff Girls.
[edit] Rooter
Rooter was an old armored dinosaur. He made only one appearance in the original The Land Before Time but was one of the more powerful characters from that film and his actions are still felt today. After Littlefoot was orphaned, he was wandering and came across the taciturn and almost disagreeable Rooter. He angrily told Littlefoot to stop crying but stopped when he learned that Littlefoot's mother was dead. He said, "Now you pay attention to old Rooter." and told the young dinosaur that the Great Circle of Life had begun but not everyone made it back together at the end. Counseling Littlefoot through his grief, he said that he'd always miss his mother but that she would always be with him as long as he remembered the things she'd taught him. "In a way, you'll never be apart for you are still a part of each other." When Littlefoot said that his stomach hurt, Rooter said "That too will go in time little fella... only in time."
Rooter was added to the film to help soften the emotional blow from the intense Sharptooth attack and the scene depicting the death of Littlefoot's mother. Though it was Rooter's only appearance, Bron would later remember somebody telling him of what happened to his mother. Some mistake the dinosaur he mentioned to be Rooter, but Bron also mentioned he heard no word about Littlefoot from this dinosaur. Rooter's voice actor was also the narrator of the first film, Pat Hingle.
[edit] Rocky and Dusty
Twin Tinysauruses. Rocky is male and Dusty is female. They usually speak in fragments, with one starting a sentence, and the other finishing it.
[edit] Saro
An old friend of Grandpa Longneck, who appears in one episode of the TV series.
[edit] Skitter
A Tinysaurus, one of the first to befriend Littlefoot.
[edit] Sue
A bright pink Supersaurus, she saved Littlefoot from a crocodile by simply crushing its face in The Land Before Time X: The Great Longneck Migration. She wishes for a mate and once in the crater, she finally finds an Ultrasaurus, a sauropod taller than herself. Sue is kind and gentle, but her real personality remains a mystery because of her short amount of screen time. She was voiced by Bernadette Peters.
[edit] Mr. Thicknose
Mr. Thicknose, a Pachyrhinosaurus, is, or was, a very respected individual in the Great Valley community and served as a teacher to the children of the Valley. However, his pedagogy was that of being a "know-it-all." The adults of the Valley would send him their children to receive a primary education; they assumed that Mr. Thicknose was indeed a polymath and could effectivily instruct their children.
However, this changed during the Big Freeze. When Littlefoot proved that he saw snow; when this happened, Mr. Thicknose was verbally attacked by the grownups for not warning them so they could store away their food before the snow got heavier. Broken hearted, he walks away to near the pass to sit down and sulk; he apparently sits for some time, judging by the snow on him. He then accompanies Littlefoot and the others to the Mysterious Beyond where they have an accounter with a "sharp-tooth" and find a hot spring, with much food. There, they discover the truth that Mr. Thicknose has never been to the Mysterious Beyond before, and his knowldege comes not from primary sources (that is, his own research) but rather from secondary sources (stories from far walkers or migrating herds. This should not diminish his position as a teacher, however. Some of the best professors use secondary sources).
It is not known whether or not he resumed his teaching position after the Big Freeze, however he appeared in the Mysterious Tooth Crisis episiode of the TV series. When Chomper's tooth fell out, the children went to Mr. Thicknose for help, so it can be assumed that the dinosaurs of the Great Valley still find his information useful and go to him when something happens that they have no personal experience with.
His name reflects his species name which means "thick nose lizard" or "thick nose reptile." Other dinosaurs have been known to have species names as surnames or family names such as Mr. Clubtail. Curiously, with how Topsy and Grandpa Longneck call each other longneck and three-horn, this could mean that the two leaders of the Great Valley combined herds also have their species names as surnames as well. (Hence, Mr. Topsy Three-horn.)
He appeared in the film The Land Before Time VIII: The Big Freeze and has been seen in The Land Before Time TV series.
[edit] Tickles
The mouselike Tickles is the first mammal seen in The Land Before Time film series. Sentient but mute, he is of unknown species (presumably a Megazostrodon, but may be unlikely) and was named because he, in Ducky's words, had "tickly fuzzies all over him." He appears in The Land Before Time IV: Journey Through the Mists.
[edit] Tinysauruses
The Tinysauruses are a small herd of kitten-sized, multicolored sauropods that made their debut in The Land Before Time XI: Invasion of the Tinysauruses. Their name is a portmanteau of "tiny" and "-sauruses". Unlike their slower relatives, they are quite fast and are very lightweight, and their small size is useful for crawling into small spaces. In the film, Littlefoot accuses the Tinysauruses for knocking down and stealing tree-sweets from the tree-sweet tree. Because of this, the other dinosaurs are eventually fearful of these rather alien creatures, and have a desire to kill them if they could. When Littlefoot befriends these creatures, however, they turn out to be more sentient than he imagined.
The Tinysauruses can be spotted in The Land Before Time XII: The Great Day of the Flyers during the song, Flip, Flap and Fly.
[edit] Tippy
A pink Stegosaurus, he is Spike's playful companion during the stegosaur migration in The Land Before Time VIII: The Big Freeze. When a stegosaur herd moved into the Great Valley, Spike immediately became close friends with Tippy. Unlike Spike, Tippy is very vocal; his catchphrase is "Fun, fun, fun!". He was voiced by Jeremy Suarez, who later did the voice of Koda in Brother Bear. Tippy has not appeared since.
[edit] Tippy's Mother
A kindly mother who invites Spike to travel with her herd when they migrate out of the Great Valley to find food during the freeze. She is very friendly towards Spike and loves her son, although after learning that Spike had been fostered by a dinosaur outside of his species, allows him to spend more time with Tippy and his herd. Tippy's mother finally realizes he really belongs with his foster mother after she saves him from drowning in the deep water of the hot springs.
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[edit] Fast Biters
The Fast Biters are Velociraptors who are companions of Red Claw. Their names are Screech and Thud. (Howler was the original name for Screech in the TV pilot, but for legal reasons the character was renamed as the series moved forward.) Pete Sepenuk plays Screech, while Rob Paulsen plays Thud.
[edit] Ichy and Dil
Ichy and Dil were an Ichthyornis and a crocodile, perhaps a Deinosuchus respectively. Though they thouroughly disliked each other ("I need you like I need a disease!" "Oh yeah, well I need you like the sun needs to freeze!"), they made a working partnership in which small but "eagle-eyed" Ichy would spot prey and near sighted but very big Dil would move in for the kill. They were first stalking prey in a large cave until they came across Littlefoot and his friends. They then followed them to Ali's old home, now the Valley of Mists and there in the rivers and waterways almost ate them before Dil was chased off by an angry plesiosaur. Ichy was sent flying by a tree branch.
They appeared in The Land Before Time IV: Journey Through the Mists.
[edit] Ozzy and Strut
Ozzy and Strut are two Struthiomimus brothers who entered the Great Valley in hopes of stealing eggs, though the more relaxed Strut had hoped to eat plants. They were bumbling villains who wound up being chased out of the Great Valley by Chomper's vengeful parents. Whether or not they were eaten by Chomper and his parents has been left ambiguous.
Their first appearance was in The Land Before Time II: The Great Valley Adventure. However, that was not the first appearance of a Struthiomimus, or egg stealers as they are called. The first was in the original The Land Before Time where one tried to steal Littlefoot as an egg. Also, during that film's end credits, a Struthiomimus, or egg stealer is shown creeping into the Valley. This may or may not be Ozzy or Strut
[edit] Red Claw
Red Claw is a male Tyrannosaurus who has a distinctive scar that goes through his left eye like Scar in The Lion King, down to his left hand and claw. He is the prominent antagonist in the TV series.
[edit] Rinkus and Sierra
Appearing only in The Land Before Time VII: The Stone of Cold Fire, they are originally friends of Pterano, but appear more sinister then their associate, particularly Sierra. They assist in the kidnapping of Ducky and attempt a treason on Pterano. It was believed that they were burned at the end of The Land Before Time VII: The Stone of Cold Fire. The Internet Movie Database mistakes Sierra to be in The Land Before Time IX: Journey to Big Water. Rinkus and Sierra were once announced to appear in The Land Before Time XII: The Great Day of the Flyers, but this decision was apparently dropped.
Rinkus was voiced by Rob Paulsen (who also voiced Spike, Chomper, Mo, and Guido) and Sierra was voiced by Jim Cummings.
[edit] Sharptooth
Sharpteeth are carnivorous dinosaurs, that are the film series' main antagonists. Each film typically brings in a new sharptooth or two, usually involving a conflict between either the two sharpteeth or the sharpteeth and the dinosaurs living in the Great Valley at the climax of the film.
Sharpteeth live in the area known as the 'Mysterious Beyond', the land outside of the Great Valley. The Great Valley is surrounded by great mountains, preventing sharpteeth from entering. However, in the event of a landslide, as in The Land Before Time II: The Great Valley Adventure, sharpteeth find a way in.
The characters have a one-sided view of sharpteeth (save for Chomper, who is a sharptooth himself), some going as far as calling them unintelligent and dangerous. Throughout the series, however, some sharpteeth have proven to be kind. Chomper and his parents showed kindness to Littlefoot and his friends in The Land Before Time V: The Mysterious Island (although Chomper's parents needed some persuasion).
[edit] Swimming Sharptooth
In some of the films in which water was prominently featured, most notably The Land Before Time V: The Mysterious Island, The Land Before Time IX: Journey to Big Water and The Land Before Time XII: The Great Day of the Flyers, swimming carnivores such as Ichthyosaurs and sharks are called swimming sharpteeth.
Mo and Elsie are examples of creatures deemed "swimming sharpteeth", although the two of them are harmless, even helping Littlefoot and his friends.
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The Land Before Time (1988) • The Great Valley Adventure (1994) • The Time of the Great Giving (1995) • Journey Through the Mists (1996) • The Mysterious Island (1997) • The Secret of Saurus Rock (1998) • The Stone of Cold Fire (2000) • The Big Freeze (2001) • Journey to Big Water (2002) • The Great Longneck Migration (2003) • Invasion of the Tinysauruses (2004) • The Great Day of the Flyers (2007) |
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Littlefoot • Cera • Ducky • Petrie • Spike • Chomper • Ruby • Sharptooth • Characters |
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The Land Before Time (2007-) |
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