History Characters / TheLandBeforeTimeFirstFilm

* TemperCeratops: One of the defining examples of a rather unsocial herbivore in fiction. Topps initially firmly holds onto the belief that his kind is incompatible with hanging around and playing with other kinds of dinosaurs, and even after mellowing out somewhat in the later movies, he can stil be bossy and temperamental whenever things don't go his way.

* SuperDrowningSkills: Is killed by drowning. Justified: his little arms aren't exactly built for swimming. Also, it's hard to swim when a massive boulder was just dropped on your chest.

* {{Jerkass}}: His defining trait is his stubborn, unfriendly exterior. Is the one who taught Cera her FantasticRacism in the first film, and he repeatedly causes trouble for all the other grown-ups in the sequels and the series.

* BigBadEnsemble: While the bullies are the main antagonists to the children and the drought is the major threat to the Great Valley in ''Time of the Great Giving'', he begins causing problems all on his own when he takes charge of the dinosaurs' limited water supply.

* CharacterDevelopment: His racism and hatred is definitely toned down after the third film, in which he is saved by Grandpa Longneck and comes across a parent as bad as he is.

* {{Jerkass}}: Is the one who taught Cera her FantasticRacism in the first film, and he repeatedly causes trouble for all the other grown-ups in the sequels and the series.
* JerkassHasAPoint: In ''The Big Freeze'', he's one of the first to doubt Mr. Thicknose's claims of having "been everywhere and seen anything" when it's made clear the snowfall is as new to him as it is to everyone else in the Great Valley. When it later comes to the valley's food shortage brought on by the snow, Topps blames it on Thicknose, on the grounds that if Thicknose was as smart as he claimed to be, he would've been aware of the side-effects of the snow and warned everyone to store away some food until the warm weather came back. Topps's suspicions are proven right when Thicknose confesses to the children that he has never left the Great Valley in his life and most of his knowledge comes from second-hand sources.

* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: He's based on an outdated portrayal of ''Scolosaurus'', having a horn on his nose and two spiky prongs on his small tail club. We now know the real animal was mostly similar to ''Euoplocephalus'', with the exception of longer horns facing downwards.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: When he first runs into the crying Littlefoot, he treats him with gruff indifference. When he realizes the boy has just lost his mother, he immediately softens.

%%* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Grandpa Longneck is the sensitive to Topps' manly.

%%* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: The manly to Grandpa Longneck's sensitive.

* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Grandpa Longneck is the sensitive to Topps' manly.

* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: The manly to Grandpa Longneck's sensitive.

[[caption-width-right:210:"Come Cera, three horns never play with long necks."]]

%%* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: Probably the most famous example after {{Disney/Bambi}}'s mother.

* {{Expy}}: Of the hunter from ''Disney/{{Bambi}}'' to a degree. Both kill the main character's mother in an attempt to kill the main character himself, enter the plot rather abruptly and out of nowhere, have little screen time, and are TheVoiceless.

Two elderly Apatosaurus who helped Mama Longneck raise Littlefoot since he first hatched. When she dies, they take to raising him in the Great Valley. Believed to be the parents of Mama Longneck, making them Littlefoot's maternal grandparents. They live in the Great Valley with their grandson.

* FantasticRacism: It's subtle compared to Cera and Topsy's prejudice. But when Littlefoot asks his mother why he isn't allowed to play with Cera, she merely tells him that different dinosaur species never do anything together and that, ''"It's always been that way."'' She herself does not appear to question it or view it as a bad thing, and she reassures Littlefoot that when they reach the Great Valley, he'll have other longnecks to play with instead.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He genuinely loves his daughter despite all his other flaws. He also points out to Hyp’s father in ’’The Time Of the Great Giving’’ that yelling at one’s children only hurts them more than helps as he realized with his interactions with his daughter. In ''Secret of Saurus Rock'', he actually felt bad about upsetting Littlefoot by blaming Doc for their recent misfortune in the Great Valley.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He genuinely loves his daughter despite all his other flaws. In ''Secret of Saurus Rock'', he actually felt bad about upsetting Littlefoot by blaming Doc for their recent misfortune in the Great Valley.

* VillainByProxyFallacy: While trying to eat dinosaurus kids can be cosidered bad, it's not uncommon for predators doing this. For all we know Sharptooth, despite his fierce nature, couldn't be either evil in nature (not completely at least.) In the novelization on the other end he's portrayed as a sadist, egotist, cruel and possibly crazy monster who kills more for fun than for food and the reason why he hunts the young hereos is simply because a petty grudge.

* {{Badass Grandpa}}rents: Grandpa can keep up with Doc when it comes to fighting Sharpteeth. And in a battle in a later film, he and Grandma team up to [[CurbStompBattle beat a sharptooth into the ground.]]

* BigDamnHeroes: Once in a while.

* CoolOldLady: Grandma Longneck has been shown to do the same.

* TookALevelInKindness: After his CharacterDevelopment in the third film, his prejudice and his general abrasiveness slowly but surely starts to tone down. Even more evident after reuniting with Tria, and especially once Tricia is born.

* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: We never actually see what injuries lead to her death, and considering one of the scenes contains a [[ShadowDiscretionShot horrifying shadow shot]] of Sharptooth biting a chunk of flesh out of her back, it's probably better that we don't. What's more, there actually was film footage made depicting more of the the fight between her and sharptooth. Considering Don Bluth had this footage '''burned''', it's safe to say that her death was decidedly non-G-rated. Going by the footage of the shadow, Sharptooth wasn't just biting chunks of flesh from her back, [[EatenAlive he was eating them]]!

Creator/BarryBostwick (Grandpa, ''XIV'')\\

* BewareTheNiceOnes: The two are the kindlest and gentlest Longnecks in the series... yet both are capable of kicking major Sharptooth ass (and, indeed, ''do just that'' in ''The Great Longneck Migration'') and the look on Grandpa Longneck's face as he slides in to save Littlefoot from a Sharptooh is terrifying! Also, if you insult their grandson they will ''not'' be happy.

* TookALevelInKindness: After his CharacterDevelopment in the third film, he considerably tones down a bit. Even more evident after the birth of Tricia.

* JerkassHasAPoint: In "the Big Freeze", he's one of the first to doubt Mr. Thicknose's claims of having "been everywhere and seen anything" when its made clear the snowfall is as new to him as it is to everyone else in the Great Valley. He later blames the valley's food shortage brought on by the snow on Thicknose on the grounds that if he (Thicknose) was as smart as he claimed to be, he would've been aware of the side-effects of the snow and warned everyone to store away some food until the warm weather came back. His suspicions are proven right when Thicknose confesses to the children that he has never left the Great Valley in his life and most of his knowledge comes from second-hand sources.

* TookALevelInKindness: After his CharacterDevelopment in the third film, he considereably tones down a bit. Even more evident after the birth of Tricia.

* KnightOfCerebus: Oh yes. The movie was very soft until he showed up. He is arguably the only villain who was treated 100% seriously in the series.

* VileVillainSaccharineShow: For an innocent-looking movie about baby dinosaurs trying to find paradise, it can get quite intense whenever he's around.

* VileVillainSaccharineShow: For an innocent-looking movie about baby dinosaurs trying to find paradise, the movie can get quite intense whenever he's around.