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* {{Doorstopper}}: The story is reached over 500k and isn't quite finished yet.526,000 words long, excluding author's notes.
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* ChildrenForcedToKill: After Littlefoot and his friends become sharpteeth, they make the quick, horrifying conclusion that they now must kill to survive. While they grow accustomed to this overtime, in their earlier moments, killing another dinosaur often resulted in the killer breaking down in tears. In a flashback, it's shown that Chomper suffered this for a time as well.
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* NoSell: Littlefoot pulls this of in the final battle. Thank goodness for the vines...
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* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler: Calin ends up suffering the same fate he had bestowed upon Kerwat]].
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* HoistByHisOwnPertard: Although Red Claw was aware of how unstable Calin was becoming, he chose to feed this instead of stopping it altogether in hopes of helping him to win the fight in the Great Valley. [[spoiler:However, his manipulation of Calin comes to bite him back in the tail. The sociopathic fastbiter whinds up killing him in the most painful way possible: the orange death]].
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* HoistByHisOwnPertard: HoistByHisOwnPetard: Although Red Claw was aware of how unstable Calin was becoming, he chose to feed this instead of stopping it altogether in hopes of helping him to win the fight in the Great Valley. [[spoiler:However, his manipulation of Calin comes to bite him back in the tail. The sociopathic fastbiter whinds up killing him in the most painful way possible: the orange death]].
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** [[spoiler:Grandma and Grandpa Longneck]]
** [[spoiler:Whitehorn]]
** [[spoiler:Whitehorn]]
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* HoistByHisOwnPertard: Although Red Claw was aware of how unstable Calin was becoming, he chose to feed this instead of stopping it altogether in hopes of helping him to win the fight in the Great Valley. [[spoiler:However, his manipulation of Calin comes to bite him back in the tail. The sociopathic fastbiter whinds up killing him in the most painful way possible: the orange death]].
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** [[spoiler:Calin]] uses the orange death against [[spoiler:Red Claw]].
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** Virtually everyone, without exception, has a crowning moment of badass in the final battle for the valley.
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** Chapters 69, 70, and 71 all end with massive cliffhangers concerning the fate of the valley and of the main characters.
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** [[spoiler:Valaria]]
** [[spoiler:Mr. Thicknose]]
** [[spoiler:Mr. Thicknose]]
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* AuthorTract: The author's beliefs about positive utilitarianism have a stronghold in the story.
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** Positive utilitarianism is featured quite often in the story in response to the overwhelming negative depictions of that ethical stance in Hollywood.
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* FridgeHorror: Although we only know pieces of the story, it is confirmed that, after Littlefoot's raid on Ali's herd, [[spoiler: it eventually dismantled and fell apart]]. It's horrifying enough to know that Littlefoot [[spoiler: inadvertantly destroyed his old cousin's herd]], but just imagine what happened to bring it to that conclusion...
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* AlasPoorVillain: Unlike Calin, Zarc did truly care about his packmates. When he witnesses them being killed, he attempts to avenge them. What's his award for such a move? [[spoiler: Being abandoned and left to die at the claws of Littlefoot]], a dinosaur who could have been his friend had they met under better circumstances.
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* ApeShallNeverKillApe: Averted. Screech and Thud are perfectly willing to hunt other Utahraptors.
* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: The author has tried to avert this as much as possible. However some inaccuracies that were already established as Land Before Time canon were retained in the story for the sake of continuity. Namely, having dinosaurs shed tears, allowing Chomper's parents to pick him up using their stubby forelimbs, and portraying Petrie's original species as being herbivores when they actually consumed fish.
* AssholeVictim:
** Averted in the case of [[spoiler:Rhett, who has matured quite a lot since we last saw him. ]]
* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: The author has tried to avert this as much as possible. However some inaccuracies that were already established as Land Before Time canon were retained in the story for the sake of continuity. Namely, having dinosaurs shed tears, allowing Chomper's parents to pick him up using their stubby forelimbs, and portraying Petrie's original species as being herbivores when they actually consumed fish.
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** Averted in the case of [[spoiler:Rhett, who has matured quite a lot since we last saw him. ]]
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* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: The author has tried to avert this as much as possible. However some inaccuracies that were already established as Land Before Time canon were retained in the story for the sake of continuity. Namely, having dinosaurs shed tears, allowing Chomper's parents to pick him up using their stubby forelimbs, and portraying Petrie's original species as being herbivores when they actually consumed fish.
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** Averted in the case of [[spoiler:Rhett, who has matured quite a lot since we last saw him. ]]
* TheAtoner: [[spoiler: Thud.]]
* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: The author has tried to avert this as much as possible. However some inaccuracies that were already established as Land Before Time canon were retained in the story for the sake of continuity. Namely, having dinosaurs shed tears, allowing Chomper's parents to pick him up using their stubby forelimbs, and portraying Petrie's original species as being herbivores when they actually consumed fish.
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** Averted in the case of [[spoiler:Rhett, who has matured quite a lot since we last saw him. ]]
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: As dangerous as they are, everyone in Calin's pack is afraid of Calin himself. His violent tendancies even have ''Red Claw'' worried.
** Zarc is disgusted by Red Claw's plans in the raid at Haven Valley.
* EyeScream: In Chapter 71, [[spoiler: Pterano blinds Rinkus]].
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* EyeScream: In Chapter 71, [[spoiler: Pterano blinds Rinkus]].
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** Red Claw turns it up a knotch. He [[spoiler: publically announces to everyone about Calin's injury and then offers him protection. This leaves the fast biter with nowhere to go or run, and knowing that death is just around the corner]]. Needless to say, this does ''wonders'' for Calin's already destructive personality.
** Red Claw turns it up a knotch. He [[spoiler: publically announces to everyone about Calin's injury and then offers him protection. This leaves the fast biter with nowhere to go or run, and knowing that death is just around the corner]]. Needless to say, this does ''wonders'' for Calin's already destructive personality.
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* TitleDrop: ''"Final words? Yes, I have a few... We are the Seven Hunters and today we fulfill our destiny!"''
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** [[spoiler:In chapter 56, Calin not only kills an entire family of hidden runners (Troodons) but he also forces a dying youngling to eat one of his hatching brothers.]]
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* JavelinThrower: On several occasions the pack uses sharpened sticks as weapons after inadvertently seeing the rainbowfaces use them as defensive weapons.
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** Breeze's reaction to seeing [[spoiler:Calin in the final battle of Act 3]].
* SeveredHeadSports: The pack plays a game called 'Capture the Head' in Chapter 56.
* SeveredHeadSports: The pack plays a game called 'Capture the Head' in Chapter 56.
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* ScienceMarchesOn: The pack's Utahraptors are depicted as having feathers. Other Utahraptors in the story are said to not have feathers, although the probable reasons for this are explained by the rainbowfaces.
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* CompleteMonster: With no empathy, no true friends, and no deeper motivations, Calin is definitely this.
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** [[spoiler:Both Skytail and Scarflank]] have heroic sacrifices in their final battles.
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** Varen is an example of a low-functioning sociopath.
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** [[spoiler:Scarflank in his attempt to buy Vigilant time to escape]].
** [[spoiler:Skytail in his last stand against Calin]].
** [[spoiler:Scarflank in his attempt to buy Vigilant time to escape]].
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** Chapter 37 ends with [[spoiler: the reveal of who saved Taunt (his father) and who joined Bron's current herd (Doc) implying further drama ahead]].
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** [[spoiler:The violence in chapter 37 is the worst offender thus far, with three members of the gang brutally slaughtering threehorn children in order to use their screams as a distraction to save Dein]].
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** [[spoiler:And by the 26th chapter they have blackmailed the egg-stealers into either helping them or being killed]].
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** [[spoiler:And by the 37th chapter they have killed an entire threehorn family in order to pass Dein's test. As if that wasn't enough, Cera, Spike, and Ruby slowly disembowel the threehorn children in order to make a distraction that saves Dein's life]].
** [[spoiler:And by the 37th chapter they have killed an entire threehorn family in order to pass Dein's test. As if that wasn't enough, Cera, Spike, and Ruby slowly disembowel the threehorn children in order to make a distraction that saves Dein's life]].
