History Awesome / TheLandBeforeTime

* Both an in-universe AND meta example in "The Great Longneck Migration": Littlefoot ''[[RealityEnsues not]]'' [[RealityEnsues easily forgiving]] [[DisappearedDad his long-lost father for being...]] [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment well, long-lost]] and after sulking about the "reunion", [[CallingTheOldManOut demanding an explanation from him.]] Considering how most kids' films would have handled this (not to mention how [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids shockingly mature]] the topic of abandonment is), this was a pretty gutsy move on the creators' parts, as well as Littlefoot's. On a positive note, after Bron explains himself, Littlefoot is amazed.

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--> '''Petrie''': I'm flying! ''I'm flying''! [[AC: I'm flying!]]

* In ’’The Big Freeze’’, Spike has fallen into freezing water and is on the verge of drowning. When he calls out to his mama, her immediate response is to dive into the water breaking through a thick layer of ice and pull her son out. Maternal instincts at its finest.

* In ’’The Big Freeze’’, Spike has fallen into freezing water and is on the verge of drowning. When he calls out to his mama, her immediate response is to dive into the water and pull her son out. Maternal instincts at its finest.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: To some. EarWorm to others.
* In film five Chomper fearlessly biting the Plated Sharptooth's tail to save the gang. His parents soon join the fight. When the enemy sharp tooth slashes Chomper's mom, his father then whacks the enemy sharp tooth, causing him to fall into the ocean.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: To some. EarWorm to others.

** In a scene that's a {{Crowning Moment of Awesome}}, {{Crowning Moment of Heartwarming}}, and a Crowning {{Idiot Hero}} Moment all at the same time, from 5 where Littlefoot ends up ''jumping off of a cliff into a shark infested ocean'' to save Chomper from drowning.

* In film five Chomper fearlessly biting the Plated Sharptooth's tail to save the gang. His parents soon join the fight. When the enemy sharp tooth slashes Chomper's mom, his father then whacks the enemy sharp tooth, causing him to fall into the ocean.

** The Lone Dinosaur from #6: a celebration of badass longnecks. His John Wayne-esque voice doesn't hurt things either.

* In a scene that's a {{Crowning Moment of Awesome}}, {{Crowning Moment of Heartwarming}}, and a Crowning {{Idiot Hero}} Moment all at the same time, from 5 where Littlefoot ends up ''jumping off of a cliff into a shark infested ocean'' to save Chomper from drowning.

** Not to mention the fight between Chomper's parents and the enemy sharptooth.

* Both an in-universe AND meta example in "The Great Longneck Migration": Littlefoot ''[[RealityEnsues not]]'' [[RealityEnsues easily forgiving]] [[DisappearedDad his long-lost father for being...]] [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment well, long-lost]] and after sulking about the "reunion", [[CallingTheOldManOut demanding an explanation from him.]] Considering how most kids' films would have handled this (not to mention how [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids shockingly mature]] the topic of abandonment is), this was a pretty gutsy move on the creators' parts, as well as Littlefoot's.

* Both an in-universe AND meta example in "The Great Longneck Migration": Littlefoot ''not'' easily forgiving his long-lost father for being...well, long-lost and after sulking about the "reunion", demanding an explanation from him. Considering how most kids' films would have handled this (not to mention how [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids shockingly mature]] the topic of abandonment is), this was a pretty gutsy move on the creators' parts, as well as Littlefoot's.

* Tria protecting Cera from a sharptooth in XI.
-->'''Tria:''' Get away from her, ya big bully!

* An often overlooked one in 7. When the kids try to stop Pterano's terrible trio from getting the titular stone of cold fire, the resulting fight sends Duckie tumbling towards a cliff. All of the kids are either too busy or too far away to help her and her dangling gives Pterano a flashback to the death of one of the followers he lost. But what does Pterano do? He snaps himself out of his freeze-up and performs a DivingSave, preventing any harm from coming to Duckie. Then not only does he accept his banishment to the Mysterious Beyond with minimal protest, he quickly reassures a distraught Petrie that he'll be just fine.

* Just as it looks like Littlefoot and Cera are about to be devoured by the Sharptooth's toothy maw, cue Mama Longneck's massive tail, which smashes the predator off its feet and into a mound of rock -- she then proceeds to take on the Sharptooth single-handedly.

* In number 10, the final fight between the longnecks and the sharptooths. Doubley so because we finally see Grandma and Grandpa Longneck in a fight!

'''Cera's Father:''' Cera, please! I'm just trying to... As a parent, I... Ohhh!

* An often overlooked one in 7. When the kids try to stop Pterano's terrible trio from getting the titular stone of cold fire, the resulting fight sends Duckie tumbling towards a cliff. All of the kids are either too busy or too far away to help her and her dangling gives Pterano to the death of one of the followers he lost. But what does Pterano do? He snaps himself out of his freeze-up and performs a DivingSave, preventing any harm from coming to Duckie. Then not only does he accept his banishment to the Mysterious Beyond with minimal protest, he quickly reassures a distraught Petrie that he'll be just fine.
** Earlier in the same movie, when Cera's dad haughtily rejects the Stone of Cold Fire's existence and responds to the female Rainbow Nose's question of "Have you seen all there is to see?" with a "yes", the male Rainbow Nose zings him with this ArmorPiercingQuestion: "Then why do you call the Mysterious Beyond 'Mysterious'? Why not the Boring Beyond? Or the Nothing-of-Any-Interest-To-Use Beyond?" Cera's dad has absolutely no comeback.

* In "The Days of Rising Waters" when Chomper sniffs out Petrie's mom after she got swept away and buried in a mudslide, jumping ''right into the running mud'' itself in the process, then single-handedly digs her out of the mud ''with his teeth.'' Also heartwarming because this act of bravery caused Petrie's siblings to not be afraid of Chomper anymore.

* Sharptooth in general is possibly one of the most badass tyrannosaurs in film. This is a creature that, when he gets angry, ''smashes boulders with his head.''

* In a scene that's a Crowning Moment of Awesome, Crowning Moment of Heartwarming, and a Crowning Idiot Hero Moment all at the same time, from 5 where Littlefoot ends up ''jumping off of a cliff into a shark infested ocean'' to save Chomper from drowning.

* Topps and the spiketail leader clashing in "The Forbidden Friendship."