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*Is Chomper gonna lose is ability to speak with the gang when he grows up, given that NO adult Sharptooth in the entire franchise, can speak English, and just growl?
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** Actually, at the end of the first movie, the narrator stated that their descendants would talk about their journey. So Littlefoot and his friends won't die of whatever caused the dinosaurs to go extinct.
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* The series became LighterAndSofter after the first film...which makes perfect sense when you consider the characters now live in a virtual paradise with lots of food and no predators!
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* In the original film, a big part of Cera's character is that she wants to get back to her family, noting her sisters in particular. At the end, we only see her with her father while her mother and sisters are nowhere to be seen and never appear in the sequels. Topsy's grouchiness and overprotectiveness makes a lot more sense now.
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** I don't remember anyone other than Hip drinking from the tar pit. Little Foot recognized it for what it was immediately. Little Foot and pals should be fine. Hip, not so much.
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* Take a look at EverybodyIsJesusInPurgatory in the YMMV section or the MWG section for even more FridgeHorror.

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* Take a look at EverybodyIsJesusInPurgatory in the YMMV section or the MWG WMG section for even more FridgeHorror.
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* Remember the "water" in II? Everybody drank some of that. Some of them drank a lot of that. That wasn't water. [[OhCrap It was tar.]] ''Tar is extremely toxic if ingested.''

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* Remember the "water" in II? ''III''? Everybody drank some of that. Some of them drank a lot of that. That wasn't water. [[OhCrap It was tar.]] ''Tar is extremely toxic if ingested.''
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* The Pachycephalosaurs. The alleged portrayal of these dinosaurs as "carnivores" in the film is often regarded as a research flub by [[FanDumb armchair paleontologists with sticks up their asses]], but it's actually a case of FridgeBrilliance and FridgeHorror. There is a deleted scene from the film (which was included in the {{novelization}}) where Littlefoot and his friends meet a herd of Pachecyphalosaurs (identified as "[[CallARabbitASmeerp Crown Heads]]") who refuse to share their food with them because [[FantasticRacism they're not of their kind]]. This establishes the Crown Heads as herbivores and as racists. This is where the FridgeHorror comes in; the Crown Heads that attack Cera were most likely not motivated by hunger, but by racial hatred. They were terrorizing her ForTheEvulz, as seen when they loom over her menacingly when they have her surrounded just to savour her fear, instead of immediately tearing her to peices as a pack of starving predators would do in this situation.

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* The Pachycephalosaurs. The alleged portrayal of these dinosaurs as "carnivores" in the film is often regarded as a research flub by [[FanDumb armchair paleontologists with sticks up their asses]], flub, but it's actually a case of FridgeBrilliance and FridgeHorror. There is a deleted scene from the film (which was included in the {{novelization}}) where Littlefoot and his friends meet a herd of Pachecyphalosaurs (identified as "[[CallARabbitASmeerp Crown Heads]]") who refuse to share their food with them because [[FantasticRacism they're not of their kind]]. This establishes the Crown Heads as herbivores and as racists. This is where the FridgeHorror comes in; the Crown Heads that attack Cera were most likely not motivated by hunger, but by racial hatred. They were terrorizing her ForTheEvulz, as seen when they loom over her menacingly when they have her surrounded just to savour her fear, instead of immediately tearing her to peices as a pack of starving predators would do in this situation.
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***Actually, I thought they were intended to be the youngest ones, explaining why they sound borderline like babies.
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** It's a kid's movie, not a palaeontology lecture. It's just playing on the fact that the kind of dinosaur that Ducky is had a mouth like a duck's bill.
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* Remember the "water" in II? Everybody drank some of that. Some of them drank a lot of that. That wasn't water. [[OhCrap It was tar.]] ''Tar is extremely toxic if ingested.''
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** If you want to get technical, Littlefoot's species is actually more closely related to Chomper's than to any of the other main cast. He's a lizard hipped dinosaur like Chomper and the rest are bird hipped dinosaurs (except Petrie obviously, who isn't a dinosaur)

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* Cera was right about Doc in VI

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* %%* Cera was right about Doc in VI
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* May not be fridge, since i have realized this as a child, but consider the fact that their dinosaurs. Dinosaurs are extinct. That means that no matter [[Main/LongRunner how long]] the series goes, how many sequels are made, and how many times they defeat the sharpteeth, these characters are [[Main/DoomedProtagonist Doomed Protagonists]]

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* May not be fridge, since i have realized this as a child, but consider the fact that their dinosaurs. Dinosaurs are extinct. That means that no matter [[Main/LongRunner how long]] the series goes, how many sequels are made, and how many times they defeat the sharpteeth, these characters are [[Main/DoomedProtagonist Doomed Protagonists]]
Protagonists.]]
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*May not be fridge, since i have realized this as a child, but consider the fact that their dinosaurs. Dinosaurs are extinct. That means that no matter [[Main/LongRunner how long]] the series goes, how many sequels are made, and how many times they defeat the sharpteeth, these characters are [[Main/DoomedProtagonist Doomed Protagonists]]

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** I'd hate to edit someone else's addition, but as a nerd it annoys me to death; flying dinosaurs?
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* Also from the 7th movie the Stone of Cold Fire itself. How did the Rainbow Faces know that the flying rock wasn't a Stone of Cold Fire? Because the flame was ''blue!'' Blue fire is hot while cold fire is red. If the stone was really a Stone of Cold Fire it would be ''blood red'' in a sorcerous manner. Aliens like the Rainbow Faces would ''know'' that!
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* Pterano from the 7th movie. His mood flip-flops all over the place from scene to scene, he's prone to little outbursts of anger (namely towards his lackeys when they mess up/push his buttons), is mostly incredibly averse to violence (save for little dope slaps on Rinkus and Sierra, again), never mentions or acknowledges the massacre he led his followers into, and appears to have a full-fledged flashback when Ducky is in danger of falling off the mountain. Any of these symptoms sound familiar? They should. Pterano potentially has ''PTSD''.
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* Why do Ducky and Petrie's speech patterns sound like borderline baby-talk while Littlefoot, Cera and Spike (presumably) talk normally? Because they are of different types of dinosaur. Ducky, unlike the other three is a bipedal dinosaur, so her dialogue is more childish but still pretty understandable. Petrie is further removed being a 'flyer', primarily a flying dinosaur in a group of land-dwellers, so his dialogue would be more strange and out-there. For those of you who say this makes no sense in terms of realistic language barriers, keep in mind that the movie is already farfetched for having all of these species alive at once anyway, and that this addresses the issue of different dino-languages while still being able to be enjoyed by younger viewers. As for there parents and other dinosaurs, all of those cases are in the sequels and may not be what Bluth intended. The only adults to speak in the first movie were Littlefoot's mother, Cera's father and Rooter, all fellow quadrupeds.
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* Why is ducky named "ducky"? The movie never shows birds existing at the same time as the dinosaurs. Although in retrospect it becomes accidental FridgeBrilliance as the earliest waterfowl already existed when Ducky's species was alive.

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* Why is ducky named "ducky"? The movie never shows birds existing at the same time as the dinosaurs. Although in retrospect it becomes accidental FridgeBrilliance as the earliest waterfowl already existed when Ducky's species was alive.alive.

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* It's highly likely that Cera's mother and sisters died in the great earthquake in the first movie. That's the reason we never see any of them at the end of the movie or in the sequels.
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* Cera was right about Doc in VI



* Why is ducky named "ducky"? The movie never shows birds existing at the same time as the dinosaurs. Although in retrospect it becomes accidental FridgeBrilliance as the earliest waterfowl already existed when Ducky's species was alive.

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* Why is ducky named "ducky"? The movie never shows birds existing at the same time as the dinosaurs. Although in retrospect it becomes accidental FridgeBrilliance as the earliest waterfowl already existed when Ducky's species was alive.
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* The Pachycephalosaurs. The alleged portrayal of these dinosaurs as "carnivores" in the film is often regarded as a case of DidNotDoTheResearch by [[FanDumb armchair paleontologists with sticks up their asses]], but it's actually a case of FridgeBrilliance and FridgeHorror. There is a deleted scene from the film (which was included in the {{novelization}}) where Littlefoot and his friends meet a herd of Pachecyphalosaurs (identified as "[[CallARabbitASmeerp Crown Heads]]") who refuse to share their food with them because [[FantasticRacism they're not of their kind]]. This establishes the Crown Heads as herbivores and as racists. This is where the FridgeHorror comes in; the Crown Heads that attack Cera were most likely not motivated by hunger, but by racial hatred. They were terrorizing her ForTheEvulz, as seen when they loom over her menacingly when they have her surrounded just to savour her fear, instead of immediately tearing her to peices as a pack of starving predators would do in this situation.

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* The Pachycephalosaurs. The alleged portrayal of these dinosaurs as "carnivores" in the film is often regarded as a case of DidNotDoTheResearch research flub by [[FanDumb armchair paleontologists with sticks up their asses]], but it's actually a case of FridgeBrilliance and FridgeHorror. There is a deleted scene from the film (which was included in the {{novelization}}) where Littlefoot and his friends meet a herd of Pachecyphalosaurs (identified as "[[CallARabbitASmeerp Crown Heads]]") who refuse to share their food with them because [[FantasticRacism they're not of their kind]]. This establishes the Crown Heads as herbivores and as racists. This is where the FridgeHorror comes in; the Crown Heads that attack Cera were most likely not motivated by hunger, but by racial hatred. They were terrorizing her ForTheEvulz, as seen when they loom over her menacingly when they have her surrounded just to savour her fear, instead of immediately tearing her to peices as a pack of starving predators would do in this situation.

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* It's highly likely that Cera's mother and sisters died in the great earthquake in the first movie. That's the reason we never see any of them at the end of the movie or in the sequels.



* It's highly likely that Cera's mother and sisters died in the great earthquake in the first movie. That's the reason we never see any of them at the end of the movie or in the sequels.
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* Take a look at EverybodyIsJesusInPurgatory in the YMMV section or the MWG section for even more FridgeHorror.
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* The Pachycephalosaurs. The alleged portrayal of these dinosaurs as "carnivores" in the film is often regarded as a case of DidNotDoTheResearch by [[FanDumb armchair paleontologists with sticks up their asses]], but it's actually a case of FridgeBrilliance and FridgeHorror. There is a deleted scene from the film (which was included in the {{novelization}}) where Littlefoot and his friends meet a herd of Pachecyphalosaurs (identified as "[[CallARabbitASmeerp Crown Heads]]") who refuse to share their food with them because [[FantasticRacism they're not of their kind]]. This establishes the Crown Heads as herbivores and as racists. This is where the FridgeHorror comes in; the Crown Heads that attack Cera were most likely not motivated by hunger, but by racial hatred. They were terrorizing her ForTheEvulz, as seen when they loom over her menacingly when they have her surrounded [[CompleteMonster just to savour her fear]], instead of immediately tearing her to peices as a pack of starving predators would do in this situation.

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* The Pachycephalosaurs. The alleged portrayal of these dinosaurs as "carnivores" in the film is often regarded as a case of DidNotDoTheResearch by [[FanDumb armchair paleontologists with sticks up their asses]], but it's actually a case of FridgeBrilliance and FridgeHorror. There is a deleted scene from the film (which was included in the {{novelization}}) where Littlefoot and his friends meet a herd of Pachecyphalosaurs (identified as "[[CallARabbitASmeerp Crown Heads]]") who refuse to share their food with them because [[FantasticRacism they're not of their kind]]. This establishes the Crown Heads as herbivores and as racists. This is where the FridgeHorror comes in; the Crown Heads that attack Cera were most likely not motivated by hunger, but by racial hatred. They were terrorizing her ForTheEvulz, as seen when they loom over her menacingly when they have her surrounded [[CompleteMonster just to savour her fear]], fear, instead of immediately tearing her to peices as a pack of starving predators would do in this situation.
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* It's highly likely that Cera's mother and sisters died in the great earthquake in the first movie. That's the reason we never see any of them at the end of the movie or in the sequels.

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* It's highly likely that Cera's mother and sisters died in the great earthquake in the first movie. That's the reason we never see any of them at the end of the movie or in the sequels.sequels.

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* Why is ducky named "ducky"? The movie never shows birds existing at the same time as the dinosaurs. Although in retrospect it becomes accidental FridgeBrilliance as the earliest waterfowl already existed when Ducky's species was alive.
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** They may have even been the same Crown Heads, since Cera insulted them in the aforementioned deleted scene, and may have gone after her for payback.

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** They may have even been the same Crown Heads, since Cera insulted them in the aforementioned deleted scene, and may have gone after her for payback.payback.

* It's highly likely that Cera's mother and sisters died in the great earthquake in the first movie. That's the reason we never see any of them at the end of the movie or in the sequels.
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* The Pachycephalosaurs. The alleged portrayal of these dinosaurs as "carnivores" in the film is often regarded as a case of DidNotDoTheResearch by armchair paleontologists with sticks up their asses, but it's actually a case of FridgeBrilliance and FridgeHorror. There is a deleted scene from the film (which was included in the {{novelization}}) where Littlefoot and his friends meet a herd of Pachecyphalosaurs (identified as "[[CallARabbitASmeerp Crown Heads]]") who refuse to share their food with them because [[FantasticRacism they're not of their kind]]. This establishes the Crown Heads as herbivores and as racists. This is where the FridgeHorror comes in; the Crown Heads that attack Cera were most likely not motivated by hunger, but by racial hatred. They were terrorizing her ForTheEvulz, as seen when they loom over her menacingly when they have her surrounded [[CompleteMonster just to savour her fear]], instead of immediately tearing her to peices as a pack of starving predators would do in this situation.

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* The Pachycephalosaurs. The alleged portrayal of these dinosaurs as "carnivores" in the film is often regarded as a case of DidNotDoTheResearch by [[FanDumb armchair paleontologists with sticks up their asses, asses]], but it's actually a case of FridgeBrilliance and FridgeHorror. There is a deleted scene from the film (which was included in the {{novelization}}) where Littlefoot and his friends meet a herd of Pachecyphalosaurs (identified as "[[CallARabbitASmeerp Crown Heads]]") who refuse to share their food with them because [[FantasticRacism they're not of their kind]]. This establishes the Crown Heads as herbivores and as racists. This is where the FridgeHorror comes in; the Crown Heads that attack Cera were most likely not motivated by hunger, but by racial hatred. They were terrorizing her ForTheEvulz, as seen when they loom over her menacingly when they have her surrounded [[CompleteMonster just to savour her fear]], instead of immediately tearing her to peices as a pack of starving predators would do in this situation.
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* The Pachycephalosaurs. The alleged portrayal of these dinosaurs as "carnivores" in the film is often regarded as a case of DidNotDoTheResearch by armchair paleontologists with sticks up their asses, but it's actually a case of FridgeBrilliance and FridgeHorror. There is a deleted scene from the film (which was included in the {{novelization}}) where Littlefoot and his friends meet a herd of Pachecyphalosaurs (identified as "[[CallARabbitASmeerp Crown Heads]]") who refuse to share their food with them because [[FantasticRacism they're not of their kind]]. This establishes the Crown Heads as herbivores and as racists. This is where the FridgeHorror comes in; the Crown Heads that attack Cera were most likely not motivated by hunger, but by racial hatred. They were terrorizing her ForTheEvulz, as seen when they loom over her menacingly when they have her surrounded [[CompleteMonster just to savour her fear]], instead of immediately tearing her to peices as a pack of starving predators would do in this situation.
** They may have even been the same Crown Heads, since Cera insulted them in the aforementioned deleted scene, and may have gone after her for payback.

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