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Sharptooth is the main antagonist in the 1988 animated film The Land Before Time.

Personality

He is dangerous and nasty to all of the dinosaurs all over the world.

Role in Film

On the night after they begin their journey to the Great Valley Littlefoot the longneck, his mother, and grandparents stop to sleep when Littlefoot notices a hopper (frog) and begins to chase it when he runs into Cera the threehorn to which she chases it with him but as they begin to play with it a dark shadow falls over them and they look up to noitice a Sharptooth to which they run for their lives with the Sharptooth right on their trails. Luckily Littlefoot's Mother hears their cries and comes to the rescue and fights the Sharptooth. During the fight the Sharptooth lands on Littlefoot's Mother's back and bites her but she manages to knock him off her back and with a big hit from her tail pushes him into a dark cave cavern where he is presumed dead. A few days later after getting separated from her family in the Earthshake Cera begins looking for them in the cave caverns and comes across Sharptooth's dead body. She at first begins to run but when he doesn't chase her she begins to believe that he's dead and begins pushing his body with her horn but as she begins to run and push him again his eyes open and she looks at her reflection in his eyes to which she screams in fear and runs out of the caverns before he wakes up. Cera then runs into Littlefoot and his friends Ducky the bigmouth and Petrie the flyer and tells them about Sharptooth but Littlefoot doesn't believe her and thinks Sharptooth is dead so Cera acts out her experience to make them believe her and accidently knocks Ducky away from the group to which she meets a spiketail and names him Spike who also journeys with them on their way to the Great Valley. That night the five of them sleep in a nest and the next morning Cera a roar and looks up and sees Sharptooth and warns her friends to which they all five run through a small cave that Sharptooth can't follow them and afterwards Littlefoot apoligizes to Cera for not believing her. A few days later Littlefoot, Ducky, Spike, and Petrie are continuing their journey to the Great Valley after Cera accidently led them into danger and left the group feeling ashamed when Petrie hears a roar and the 4 look up to see Sharptooth climbing up into a cave nearby and decide to get rid of him once for all by pushing a big rock onto his head and causing him to fall into the water and drown. Ducky goes into the cave and gets Sharptooth to chase her out of the cave and into the water. Littlefoot and Spike try to push the rock on Sharptooth but it's too heavy for the two of them to push and Sharptooth jumps onto the rock trying to get them but luckily Cera arrives and helps them push both the rock and the Sharptooth into the water to which the Sharptooth grabs Petrie as he falls into the water and drowns and the four dinosaurs moan the loss of their friend but luckily Petrie survives and returns to them.

Gallery

Sharptooth battle

Sharptooth and Littlefoot's Mother fighting.

Trivia

  • The Sharptooth is Similar to the Tyrannosaurus Rex from Walt Disney's Fantasia, as both are non-talking animal villains who do not intend to kill for evil (usually indicated by a wicked grin or an evil laugh), They only want to get something to eat, which is not a crime for an animal to eat.
  • He is played by Frank Welker.
  • He is a Tryannosaurus rex.
  • His eyes are red.
  • Littlefoot thinks he's dead but, Cera knew he wasn't dead.
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