History TearJerker / YouAreUmasou

This may look like just a [[TastesLikeDiabetes cutesy]] movie about dinosaurs on the surface but in reality, [[TearJerker it’s a heartfelt prehistoric drama about identity, loneliness, the importance of family and even subtle commentary on mental health]] from a Tyrannosaurus Rex as our protagonist!

** Heart explains to Umasou that their training is something everybody has learned, that he’s strong enough to defend himself and that it’s time for them to go their separate ways in the gentlest way possible. Umasou who truly loves his dad is heartbroken by this and is on the verge of tears begging to stay with Heart and wants to be like his father (viewing him as his hero). Heart feels he has to be blunt and tells him to stop trying to be like him and that he simply can’t be like him (heavily implying Heart hates himself). Umasou questions this, pleading to stay with Heart and leading into the aforementioned “race”.
** [[spoiler:While Umasou is running with all his might, Heart’s simply effortlessly plodding along and when they both reach a certain distance, Heart quietly turns around to give them both distance as he wishes he be safe.]] Doesn’t help the music is so heartbreaking and emphasises the whole sad affair so [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic beautifully]]. Thankfully, he sprints over to go save Umasou who was attacked [[spoiler:and nearly killed]] by Baku’s family, defeating the group of T-Rexes in the process.
** Umasou trying to use what Heart taught him [[spoiler:when he’s attacked by Baku’s family]] and ''it’s still not enough''. He’s kicked around and ''nearly crushed'' by the [[spoiler:malicious T-Rexes]] when they then [[spoiler:try to eat him]]. This implies that Heart was holding back his full strength on Umasou ''because he genuinely didn’t want to actually hurt the little guy''.
** After [[spoiler:Heart is exiled from Baku’s territory in an effort to protect Baku’s own family]], Heart takes Umasou to a safe location where he gently wakes the [[spoiler:injured]] child. Umasou is alive to Heart‘s relief but Umasou weakly says to Heart he didn’t catch up to him in time and asks if that means they’re a family. [[spoiler:Heart [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone realising he had just put his own son through serious danger by accident and cries in remorse]], says yes and that they’ll be together, as father and son.]] Also qualifies as Heartwarming and provides the image above.

* [[spoiler:Heart finally reuniting with his mother after many years. This is especially significant as for most of the runtime, Heart was so worried and scared that he could have accidentally eaten his brother, Light and his mother. Not to mention he had massive anxiety and self-esteem issues in himself, thinking himself as a monster and worried his mother would be scared of him in his more intimidating older appearance. The moment she recognises her son as that sweet little dinosaur boy she raised and loves, those worries wash away as he brakes down in tears rushing to her for a hug and apologising for running away all those years ago.]] Qualifies as Heartwarming too.
* Early into the movie, the mother Maiasaura is forced by the leader Maiasaura to abandon baby Heart (who’s a baby T-Rex). She feels a lot of guilt for doing this despite going to a place where he’ll have a lot of berries to eat. She apologises and was about to run off in shame, when little Heart cries out for his Mom and she stops. She’s contemplating and conflicted over this choice and it’s eating away at her until she runs back to accept and love her son. [[spoiler:It’s heavily implied she was ostracised and exiled for her decision]].
* [[spoiler:Heart and Gonza’s dual to the death]] is rather depressing after a rewatch. Heart and Gonza never got along the day Heart went outside his forest home to discover what his real food is based on his instincts. Heart was traumatised and downright terrified of Baku and his family (this was when young Heart thought he was a plant eater), thinking he was gonna be killed. Gonza followed Heart and tried to kill Light (after Heart clarified about his family to Baku in fear and ran off back to his home). It all went downhill when Heart bit hard into Gonza’s tail in retaliation and rage at Gonza suggesting he kill Light and ate it. After Heart ran away, he was essentially all alone with nobody to trust. Not to mention Umasou (Heart’s adoptive son) being directly in Gonza’s mouth (in which Baku’s family tried to kill him in a cruel manner), resulting in Heart fighting [[spoiler:his biological family]] and being exiled by Baku for it, further killing any hope of Heart being with [[spoiler:his biological family]]. Gonza effectively destroyed any chances of Baku and Heart reconciling [[spoiler:as a family]] by forcing [[spoiler:his biological brother]] into this [[spoiler:one-sided]] fight.
* The reasons Heart and Baku fight in the finale. From Heart’s perspective, he’s saving his adoptive family and son from what he thinks is just a vicious killer. From Baku’s perspective, [[spoiler:he’s avenging his murdered late son]]. The fact [[spoiler:Heart never truly finds out Baku’s his biological father]] makes this fight so much sadder to watch. He fought [[spoiler:his dad]] without even knowing it.
** Baku [[spoiler:disowns his son, Heart while he’s unconscious]] after their battle in an effort to keep him safe from the wrath of his [[spoiler:biological]] family.
** Early on, a young Heart panics upon seeing seeing the group of Tyrannosauruses kill a herbivore right in front of him and he runs back to the forest scared out of his mind. It’s when he accidentally nearly attacks Light (his brother) after eating the tail of the young T-Rex, Gonza that the horrifying realisation sets in that he might accidentally hurt his family that he runs away, much to Light’s horror, screaming for Heart to come back. We then cut to Heart’s Mom who has a bunch of fruit for Heart, waiting for Heart to come back [[spoiler:which won’t happen until ''years'' later, when Heart’s grown up and Egg Mountain erupts]].