Line #0 WMG/IceAge


1	[[WMG: Cretaceous and Maelstrom aren't dead.]]
2	* Oh, come now. Escaping the fate dealt to them was as simple as swimming forward. Manny distracted them enough to get away, but no way did that rock kill them. One movie novel says they were eaten by mini sloths, but that kind of material is scarcely canon, and to be honest that makes no sense anyway.
3	** Another one suggests (through illustration) that they were left stranded on land after the water drained out and were eaten by vultures shortly after.
4	** That rock fell FLAT on their backs, most likely breaking their spines, which would have rendered them unable to swim.
5
6	[[WMG: If Sid had let Scrat touch the giant acorn in his FluffyCloudHeaven at the end of the second film, he would have been KilledOffForReal.]]
7	* Am I the only one who thought that?
8	* No.
9
10	[[WMG: Manny was attempting to commit suicide at the beginning of the first film]]
11	Really suprised I just put this together but it can be assumed that the death of Manny's family took place not too long before the beginning of the film. And what's the first thing we see Manny doing? Heading in the opposite direction of everyone else, towards the freezing wasteland of inevitable death.
12	* That makes a lot of sense, and you can tell it from his despondency in the film. He probably would have died out there had he not run into Sid, Roshan, and Diego.
13	* Yes and when Sid first runs into him he's where? Right at the edge of a cliff about to jump.
14
15	[[WMG: Sid is a closeted homosexual]]
16	Rewatch the series. He's got a gay lisp, always hangs out close to manny,...
17	* A gay lisp? Since when does having a lisp make someone gay? Also by your logic Diego must be gay as well, his entire tiger pack is made of males.
18	* If his mannerisms in the new trailer for the fourth movie are anything to go by, then this may be true.
19	* This doesn’t explain this attraction to Brooke in the fifth film, however.
20
21	* Maybe he is a closeted bisexual.
22
23	[[WMG: The events depicted in the film are not the Ice Age of Earth.]]
24	The Ice Age doesn't seem to last very long, as the three protagonists are still around by the time of the second movie when everything starts melting. And after that dinosaurs appear. This is not how things panned out on Earth, which means that this is not Earth, it is another planet altogether where the arrival of the species takes place differently and where the climate change is much shorter.
25	** The Dinosaurs are explained as existing in a LostWorld exposed by the melting ice.
26	** An ice age does not necessarily freeze over that fast. It just takes more snow to fall in winter than can melt in summer.
27
28	[[WMG: Momma T-Rex had a mate who was killed by Rudy]]
29	When she went out hunting, leaving her mate to guard the nest, Rudy attacked, destroying most of the eggs and killing the male T-Rex when he tried to intervene. It explains why she hid her remaining three eggs, why she is clearly afraid of Rudy until the end and her protectiveness towards her surrogate child, Sid. It also makes her fighting Rudy more awesome as she is not only saving her offspring (and surrogate child), she is also avenging her dead mate and unhatched children.
30
31	[[WMG: Three main characters lived through the Ice Age as immortal animals succumbing to {{The Fog Of Ages}}.]]
32	They think it's been frozen forever even though they were there since the Ice Age started. The Ice age was clearly more than just one winter, and all mammoths in the area died out except for Manny and one that had been lost since childhood.
33	** And that really small group of mammoths. Only these wouldn't be enough to free the things from extinction.
34
35	[[WMG: It's just coincidence that the mammoth, ground sloth, and sabertooth in the sequels had the same names and personalities as the ones in the first movie.]]
36	Because they aren't the same characters. Probably descended from the ones in the first film, but possibly not even that. The characters are probably the same between 2 and 3, though. Did they ever mention the human in the second movie, or any major events of the first movie in enough detail to show that it was actually the first movie they were talking about?
37	* They mentioned Manny's family being killed, which was hinted at in the first one.
38	* The first movie did more than hint at his first family's death by the humans - we actually see it happen in an ArtShift {{Flashback}} with the cave paintings. There is no excuse for practically no ContinuityNod [=/=]{{Callback}} in the sequel though, something which really disappointed me.
39
40	[[WMG: The mama dinosaur in ''Ice Age 3'' is not a T-Rex.]]
41	[[http://www.dezinerfolio.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/iceage3poster.JPG This image]] shows that the dinosaur's head is slightly shorter then a mammoth's height. The Internet tells us that mammoths measured between 2.7 m and 5 m tall at the shoulder, far too large for a 4 m tall T-rex to swallow whole. Thus, it falls to reason that the dinosaur in the movie is in fact a juvenile [[ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes Calvinosaurus]], having not yet reached its adult size but old enough to reproduce. Proof:
42	** Calvinosaurs [[http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/candh/images/6/6d/Calvinosaurus.jpg can swallow an ultrasaur whole]]. Their appearance clearly suggests that they belong to the [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a3/Tyrannosaurusscale.png Tyrannosaur genus]], with a head approximately 1/5 of total body length. The "ultrasaurs" represented here appear more like brachiosaurids, size at shoulder 7.3 m, giving us an adult Calvinosaur size of approximately 36.5 m. A young Calvinosaur would have no problem swallowing a mammoth whole.
43	*** Calvinosaurs are more likely upsized carcharodontosaurids. Count the fingers, it has three.
44	*** you do know there is no such thing as a "calvinosaurus"?
45	*** It's probably evolution. Serious, SERIOUS evolution.
46
47	[[WMG: Scrat is a Time Lord]]
48	He regenerates offscreen.
49	* This would explain so much! It's why he's always chasing the Acorn but never tries to eat it. It's his TARDIS!
50	** Scrat never singles out one particular acorn. He goes after every single acorn he lays eyes on.
51
52	[[WMG: The two frozen sea reptiles from ''Ice Age 2'' are [[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989 Flotsam and Jetsam]] and are immortal.]]
53	Before serving Ursula, the two reptiles lived undersea in the late Cretacious period. When the Ice Age came, they were frozen in ice until Ice Age 2. After being defeated by Manfred and co, they waited a few thousand centuries for the right opportunity to cause Chaos. [[SuddenlySpeaking They also learned how to speak!]] Then they found the Sea Witch.
54	* Flotsam and Jetsam are eels, which are fish. Last time I checked, reptiles are unable to evolve into fish.
55
56	[[WMG: The Baby Human is actually Harry Potter]]
57	Or, at least, an relative under similar circumstances. He had jet-black hair, green eyes, and his mother died trying to save him. Coincidence?
58	* He also has a damn good tan. Harry, what the heck happened when you turned eleven?
59	** He wasn't really tan. Anyone can look dark compared to all the snow.
60	* [[EpilepticTrees And the trees are a herd of Sudowoodo]]
61	* The baby's name is Roshan, by the way
62	* Which means "Light at Dawn" in Hindu, just in case anyone wants to continue this MessianicArchetype WMG... LOL.
63	** It also means "Tadpole" in Hebrew (and "Rosh" means "head" in the context of "A leader" or "Frontier")
64
65	[[WMG: When Scrat was unfrozen at the end, he ended up in the universe of the later two films.]]
66
67	[[WMG: In the fourth movie, Diego will have a love interest.]]
68	And I'll bet she'll either be a sweet CloudCuckooLander or a Kuudere DeadpanSnarker just like him.
69	* [[http://iceage.wikia.com/wiki/Shira Yup, there is indeed a love interest for Diego]]. Lets hope for [[CuteKitten saber cubs in the fifth movie]]!
70	** Nope, no cubs. But if there's a sixth movie, maybe there'll be cubs. Especially since they were discussing it at the end of the fifth movie.
71	* Trailers show her being a deadpan snarker.
72	->Shira: "Two sloths a mammoth and a saber, you guys are like the start of a bad joke"
73
74	[[WMG: ''Ice Age 2'' was a reboot, not a sequel]]
75	That explains how much more different it was from ''Ice Age 1'', like the light tone and absence of humankind.
76	* No, the sequel subtly alludes to Manny's first family's death, a major element of the original film, because he thinks he's being disloyal to their memory by loving Ellie, and a good reason for the humans not to be there is that they are so far south whilst the humans are still in the north, living in caves.
77	** [[MythologyGag There's a trope for that]].
78	*** But the film outright references Manny's family in a way that doesn't works if it's a reboot of continuity since Manny never explicitly says they're dead but anyone who's watched the first film knows the truth.
79
80	[[WMG: Shira will see Diego as a CloudCuckooLander]]
81	She will be a GenreSavvy [[DarkActionGirl pirate]] so seeing this [[CarnivoreConfusion tiger traveling with a bunch of herbivores]] will lead her to two conclusions: 1) Diego is TooDumbToLive or 2) He is ''that'' weird
82	* {{Jossed}}: She never explicitly thinks of him as crazy and mostly takes time to warm up to him due to being his enemy for most of the film.
83
84	[[WMG: Diego and Shira’s relationship will be of the {{Slap Slap Kiss}} variety]]
85	Confirmed, to quote
86	->Diego: "I don’t fight kitties"
87	->Shira: "Don’t call me Kitty' (Tackle)
88	->Diego:(Tackles back)"All right. Kitty"
89
90	[[WMG: The Pirate crew in the Fourth film will be a genuine threat]]
91	Providing the {{Darker and Edgier}} tone the fandom has been craving
92	* Well the trailers show [[BigBad Captain Gutt]] actually trying to ''kill'' Manny with a pair of swords, so this may be right.
93	** Somewhat confirmed. He's easily defeated but keeps coming back even stronger.
94
95	[[WMG: The dinosaurs are doomed.]]
96	The dinosaurs live underneath multiple layers of ice. Once the ice age ends, all that ice is going to melt, drowning all of them. Those who don't drown will be crushed by the large chunks of ice and rock that will fall on top of them. Any survivors won't have large enough populations to repopulate and soon the dinosaurs will go extinct... again.
97	* Given what happens in the fourth movie, I wouldn't imagine the underground dinosaur world survived those events. FridgeHorror, much?
98	** This also makes sense with the fifth movie, as it shows Buck joining the herd, which possibly explains that the dinosaur world ''has'' been destroyed by the drift.
99	*** The start of Buck's scenes in the fifth movie clearly shows that the dinosaur world survived the drift.
100
101	[[WMG: The first movie takes place in Alaska.]]
102	This explains why Humans only appear in the first movie. The Ice Age movies presumably take place in North America, and humans only entered North America by crossing the Bering Strait landbridge from Russia to Alaska. By the events of the first movie, humans have crossed into North America, but very recently, so have not had a chance to expand out into the rest of North America yet. This theory is also backed up by the animals heading south during the first movie. The sequels take place in the main part of the USA, where humans have not yet settled.
103	** [[{{Jossed}} There's a flaw in this theory]] though since we see them pass by Stonehenge ''and'' Old Faithful. I don't think the original film's set in Alaska. References such as Stonehenge and Old Faithful are too broad and too far away from Alaska for it to be set there.
104
105	[[WMG: There will be more singing in the fourth film.]]
106	There's apparently Sirens for one thing, and they hired Jennifer Lopez and Keke Palmer, two actresses known for their musical backgrounds for anouther.
107	* Confirmed. The pirates sing about themselves when they capture the heroes. The sirens do no singing themselves; [[spoiler: they're apparently all male to start, and rather than sing to lure in prey, they create illusions that appeal to their prey to lure them in.]]
108	** [[spoiler: What makes you think they are male?]]
109	*** [[spoiler: MenAreGenericWomenAreSpecial. The sirens are giant amphibians with no TertiarySexualCharacteristics that would identify them as female.]]
110
111	[[WMG: Scrat is the personification of evolution and/or natural selection itself.]]
112	And the reason he gets into all kinds of trouble to get the acorn is because it symbolises the never-ending battle life must take to survive.
113
114	[[WMG: An adult Roshan will possibly appear in the fifth movie.]]
115	There will be more humans, including a human villain, and it will finally shift to a new iceless era, thus ending the series. And then we will see how Scrat became frozen at the end of the first movie.
116	* Jossed. Roshan never appeared, or even mentioned, in any movie came after the first one.
117
118	[[WMG: To add to the above WMG, Roshan will be one of the fifth movie's villains.]]
119	He and some of his fellow hunters will spend the movie trying to kill the herd; not because he's evil, but because he doesn't recognize the herd that saved him after all those years. He thinks they're just another random bunch of animals. Near the movie's end, he realizes who they are and tries to save them, but the other hunters are determined to kill them, forcing Roshan to choose between the herd and his tribe.
120	* Jossed, from the same reason the theory above is jossed.
121
122	[[WMG: The movies are actually moving backwards in time.]]
123	They start out in the Ice Age, go back to when it was just starting to get cold (the Meltdown is actually the Freeze in reverse), then go to the Dawn of the Dinosaurs, and now they're experiencing Continental Drift - not the separate continents forming, but going back before Pangaea.
124
125	[[WMG: Captain Gutt dis not die, but rather was turned into a siren]]
126
127	We see a siren appearing after Gutt is attacked.
128
129	[[WMG: Shira’s coloring and markings are actually normal for a saber]]
130	And not in the “different subspecies” way. More like the “sexual dimorphism” way. The only other sabers we’ve seen in the series are male, so we know for sure what a male saber normally looks like, but not whats normal for a female, seeing as Shira’s the only one in the franchise so far.
131
132	[[WMG: If Roshan returns, his species will be retconned.]]
133	In order to fit with the post ''Ice Age 1'' world.
134	* Retconned into what? A platypus? Please elaborate.
135
136	[[WMG: All the characters are currently dead and are in purgatory.]]
137	In The Meltdown, there was a boat that helped save all the animals from the flood, and our herd also survive. Or did they? In reality, the animals were all killed in the Flood, and the Herd drowned. This would explain why there were dinosaurs in the third movie, or the continental drift in the fourth movie. Scrat is doomed to an enternity in purgatory trying to catch his beloved acorn but never succeeding, Sid keeps getting stupider and putting the Herd in peril, and sequels can be made from this simple formula. The purgatory will last forever and this would explain why the prehistoric animals didn't go extinct (but actually are), and why the Ice Age hadn't ended (even though in actuality it actually did).
138
139	[[WMG: The humans died out after the first or second movie (or the animals at least ''believe'' so)]]
140	This could explain why Roshan hasn't come back, and why humans have never been seen or mentioned after ''Ice Age''. It may also be a reason why most of the animals were convinced that mammoths were going extinct during ''The Meltdown'' - they had already seen humans, and other species like the Dodos, disappear, and therefore knew from experience what extinction really looked like. That would have added to Manny's depression during the earlier scenes of the movie - coming to terms with the fact that Roshan was, most likely, dead. Then, when Manny first met Ellie, he was not only overjoyed to learn that he wasn't the last mammoth, but he figured that if his species was not completely extinct, there could also be a chance that Roshan was still alive. However, after ''The Meltdown'', it was still common belief or knowledge amongst the animals that humans were extinct. Now, Diego, Sid and Manny still hope that somehow Roshan is alive, but have tried to forget about him as they know that he has probably died.
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142	In ''Dawn of the Dinosaurs'' and ''Continental Drift'', Manny acts as a {{Helicopter Parent\|s}} who won't let Peaches go out places alone or grow up, because he let Roshan do just that, and then Roshan's whole species died out before Manny could ever see him again. It wasn't ''just'' because Manny lost his first son. Also in the third movie, Sid reveals himself to be very lonely, and adopts the three dinosaur eggs. Both of these elements of the plot resulted from Sid's grief and guilt over losing and not being able to protect Roshan, and thinking that he would never see the human baby he rescued again. When Sid can no longer be with his "kids", he realises that you cannot protect children forever, and believes that Roshan may be somewhere out there still, and if he is, he can fend for himself. This could be an explanation for why Sid is more optimistic than Diego and Manny- he has more faith than them that Roshan is alive. He also believes that his being an HonouraryUncle to Peaches is his third chance to try and successfully be involved in the raising of a child to adulthood. Sid begins to recover from the loss of the human baby.
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144	Diego didn't seem to have any interest in females of his own species until ''Continental Drift'', because he was too busy wondering what really happened to "Pinky". His fear of water in The Meltdown might of stemmed from a seeing a human drown (as Roshan's mother Nadia did- this solves the FridgeLogic of Diego having a fear of water in the second movie, but not the first one), or hearing a rumour that that's how humans were wiped out. Alternatively, the cause of the humans' extinction could have been the flood at the end of The Meltdown- there were no humans on the boat. In the third movie, another, unmentioned motivation of Diego's leaving the herd might have been to try and find Roshan and prove that he wasn't dead. When he inevitably decides to stay with the herd, he realises that his best friends have just had a daughter, and that they need his support, so he accepts the presumed fact that humans no longer exist, and that emotionally opens him up to meeting and becoming close to a love interest- Shira.
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146	Towards the end of ''Continental Drift'', the Herd have finally, well and truly, gotten over Roshan's assumed death. Sid now has Granny, a family member he needs to take care of, Diego is with Shira, and Peaches is growing up, whether Manny likes it or not. One last point to note: the series' AnthropomorphicShift may be due to the Ice Age Universe turning out opposite to RealLife after the ice age of roughly ten thousand years ago- humans die out and animals rise, develop a global society and technology, and conquer the world. Or, it could be the same as real life in that respect- Roshan could be a ''Neanderthal'' (a real extinct species of human), and somehow the Ice Age animals simply never come into contact with ''Homo sapiens'' (our species).
147	** There is actually one thing that might support at least the Neanderthal aspect of this WMG. All of the humans shown had prominent brow ridges and small chins, characteristics of Neanderthal.
148	** Does that mean Scrat wiped out humanity?
149	** Jossed in that ''A Mammoth Christmas'' featured Santa Claus who is a human. Although he's specifically a ''Homo sapiens'', which would still support the Neanderthal aspect of this WMG.
150
151	[[WMG: The fifth film will feature the vocal talents of Creator/AndySerkis...]]
152	...as an ''Andrewsarchus''. They've already had Creator/SimonPegg and Creator/NickFrost in the films, and if they don't at least ''try'' to get Serkis, someone is doing their job wrong.
153	* Jossed.
154
155	[[WMG: The man thought Manny was his dead wife's spirit]]
156	That's why he gave Manny the necklace. He was in his mind returning it to her.
157
158	[[WMG: The only way for a Scrat to attain happiness is to die in pursuit of his acorn.]]
159	Pretty self-explanatory. When Scrat nearly dies in the second movie, he goes to Acorn Heaven, where he's surrounded by acorns and there is no ground for him to bury them in. The reason for all his suffering on earth is because every time he buries them, cracks open and drop him into the ocean, off the face of the earth, etc. Scrat's only purpose in life is to eventually die in pursuit of his acorn so that he can, once again, attain Acorn Heaven.
160
161	[[WMG: Buck was part of the pirate crew at one point.]]
162	One of the pirates clearly has his "Rudy Tooth Knife"; it's the one they toss to Louis when he challenges the pirates at the end of the movie.
163	* Or, alternatively (and much more likely) he got on Gutt's bad side and Gutt killed him, thus leaving the pirates in possession of the knife.
164	** As of the end of the fifth movie, Buck is still alive.
165
166	[[WMG: Scrat is on a {{Mission from God}}.]]
167	Years before, when the earth was young and Man was still searching for his meaning, Scrat had dreamed of a Acorn-Heaven, where all of life's questions are revealed and stored in the essence of life within the acorns. He abruptly woke in the middle of the night, he glanced up at the stars above him when an acorn from a withered-dead tree has fallen on his head. he had an epiphany, that the acorn was sent from acorn heaven, and he needed to go plant such acorn in a {{Place of Power}} that would blossom to a tree and flourish the land after the great flood and the storms of ice that would consume the planet.
168	from then on, he's {{Walking the Earth}}, tracking and sniffing for places of power in the [[LeyLine Energy Pathways of the planet]], so that he'll find the places meant to hold the [[WorldTree Fabled tree of knowledge]].
169
170	[[WMG: The franchise took place in the same universe as the WesternAnimation/{{Rio}} franchise.]]
171	Scrat ended up being frozen and thawed in some sort of tropical setting (maybe on the coast of Brazil). If this is true, Scrat is currently living somewhere amongst the characters of Rio.
172
173	[[WMG: ''Collision Course'' will be the VERY LAST ''Ice Age'' movie.]]
174	Come on, guys! Do you ''honestly'' expect two woolly mammoths, a saber-toothed tiger, a sloth, two possums, and some kind of ferret to save the Earth a la ''Armageddon''?
175
176	[[WMG: The aliens that the frozen spacecraft belonged to are responsible for the third movie's LostWorld.]]
177	They landed on Earth during the end-Cretaceous extinction, rescued a small population of contemporary animals, and isolated them underground for an experimental contained ecosystem. Apparently the experiment was successful enough for Mesozoic flora and fauna to still be thriving down there millions of years after its extraterrestrial founders have vanished.
178	* Except that Brachiosaurus, Guanlong and Kentrosaurus were Jurassic dinosaurs, and Guanlong lived in China.
179	** Yes, of course, that's the case in RealLife. But you're presumably forgetting the fact that the "ice age" setting of the franchise contains animals from all over the Cenozoic, so there's no reason to assume the Mesozoic era of this world wasn't the same.
180	[[WMG: ''Collision Course'' will be surprisingly DarkerAndEdgier than the other films]]
181
182	[[WMG: Cretaceous and Maelstrom came from the Dinosaur World in the third movie]]
183	We're told [[AllThereInTheManual in the spin-off book]] that they were frozen "a million years ago". Taking that at face value, and assuming that the Cretaceous mass extinction happened at the same time in the movies' world as it did in ours creates a conundrum. But at the same time we know that there's a LostWorld of dinosaurs and other mesozoic animals still living at the time the movies take place, so it's entirely possible that, instead of being frozen during the dinosaur age (when there weren't even any ice caps to begin with), Maelstrom and Cretaceous somehow escaped from the Dinosaur World and became frozen before thawing out again.
184
185	[[WMG: The next Ice Age film will have Serena Ryder's "Ice Age" playing in the trailer]]
186	Because of course.
187
188	[[WMG: Now that Disney has purchased 20th Century Fox, they will make a 6th Ice Age film that will WinBackTheCrowd, by going back to the roots of the first one and having Roshan return.]]
189	It will loose the DenserAndWackier aspects that the sequels had, and give a similar tone to the first one including the return of Roshan, albeit older. This will close off the Ice Age franchise and hopefully rescue it in the eyes of the fans, especially since Disney is currently in its Revival.
190	* Disney are keeping Blue Sky’s operations largely separate from Disney Animations Studios.
191	* There have been news that Blue Sky is making a spin-off series for ''Creator/DisneyPlus'' which will focus on Buck, something that fans believe was LONG overdue.
192
193	[[WMG: None of the sequels have actually happened.]]
194	They're stories that Roshan has made up, that he tells to his friends and other tribe members. This is why there are no humans even mentioned in the sequels--as far as Roshan knows, the humans all migrated away. (Also, it's just less interesting.) This also explains why the stories get more fantastic as they go along, Roshan is just having fun with it.
195	* Interesting, but there are a few issues with this. Namely, it's unlikely that a Pleistocene human would know about or understand scientific developments such as dinosaurs, outer space, or continental drift (among other examples).
196
197	[[WMG: Scrat is an incarnation of [[Myth/NorseMythology Ratatoskr]].]]
198	Scrat [[TimeAbyss has existed for millions of years]], his IronButtMonkey status has allowed him to survive things no other character has an is generally an agent of chaos. [[CartoonCreature There isn't a real saber-tooth squirrel]]; perhaps because Scrat is no mere squirrel? "Ratatoskr" is generally thought to mean "dril-tooth" or "bore-tooth", which is the real reason for his saber-toothed status. There being other species? Well it's never actually said in the myths Ratatoskr is a SingleSpecimenSpecies, though Scrat's outrageous feats would be unique to the Norse squirrel deity.
199
200	[[WMG: Rudy [[KilledOffForReal died for real]] at some point following his cameo in the fourth movie.]]
201	Easily explaining his absence from ''Adventures of Buck Wild''. His death is also what made the Lost World safe enough for mammals to start migrating there en masse.
202	* ''Adventures of Buck Wild'' isn't canon to the rest of the movies.
203
204	[[WMG: The cave paintings in the first film were made as propaganda]]
205	They were created by a tribe that held mammoths in high regard, if not venerated them, all enough for them to have a tabboo on hunting them. The humans depicted in the scene are intentionally made simplistic and unhuman compared to the mammoths in it to show how barbaric they are to hunt them, according to the tribe.
206
207	[[WMG: The dodos didn’t actually go extinct in the first film.]]
208
209	Maybe that individual flock, sure, but the species as a whole survived. Don’t forget we briefly see a single dodo in the second film before a geyser cooks it alive, and more in “Adventures of Buck Wild” coexisting with mammals and non-avian dinosaurs in the Lost World.
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211	[[WMG: Mesozoic reptiles speak different language than Cenozoic animals.]]
212	Carnivorous dinos like Momma Dino, Rudy and ''Guanlong'''s are clearly sapient (the former two show their sapience clearly, while the latter ones show theirs subtly, by utilizing the bizarre geography of the Plates of Woe to trap and kill their prey), Cretaceous takes sadistic glee in going after Manny, body language and facial expressions of other dinosaurs living in Lost World shows that they are somewhat sapient, while Gavin and his children in fifth movie are clearly ''speaking'' and are able to communicate with Buck verbally. This means that dinosaurs and other reptiles from Mesozoic era have their own separate language, older and different than language spoken by Cenozoic animals, similar to how Sumerian language (the oldest language in the world) is older than Latin language (another ancient language that is younger than Sumerian language, ''but'' still ancient than, let's say, modern English).
213
214	[[WMG: First movie takes place in Europe, second and fifth movie take place in North America, while the third and fourth movie take place in Asia.]]
215	Given the fact that main characters are constantly migrating, it could be possible that they could had lived in all of the above mentioned continents, with the fact that the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammoth_steppe Mammoth steppe]] was located on all three of them (not mentioning that before the events of fourth movie, the Herd could had been crossing the Pangea back and forth).
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217	The evidence of first film taking place in Europe is more easier to find than in the sequels, with first clue being the landscapes that resemble the Mammoth steppe, while the sequels present more generic ice age setting. The second clue is presence of Stonehenge, which could indicate that main characters were in the ice age Britain during the events of first movie. The last clue is fact that Roshan's tribe are neanderthals who only lived in Europe, with the only humans living in America being ''Homo sapiens sapiens''.
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219	While ''The Meltdown'' features more generic ice age setting than first movie, the existence of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missoula_floods Missoula floods]] - cataclysmic glacial lake outburst floods that swept periodically north-west of the United States - could put events of second movie as taking place in the North America, with a possibility that animals living in the Ice Valley managed to survive one of these floods.
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221	Given that both third and fourth movie are taking place in the same valley, the land bridge appearing in the ''Continental Drift'' could be an unintentional reference to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beringia Beringia]], a land mass that connected both North America and Asia during the ice ages, thus placing the location of Snow Valley in Asia.
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223	Fifth movie taking place in North America ([[RuleOfTwo again]]) [[Art/StatueOfLiberty is obvious]], with addition of Geotopia being ''Ice Age'' universe equivalent of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicxulub_crater Chicxulub crater]], being an remnants of asteroid that wiped out dinosaurs.
224
225	[[WMG: Aardvarks are actually giant anteaters.]]
226	And the reason why other characters call them "aardvarks" is for similar reasons as to why they refer to [[CallASmeerpARabbit brontotheres as rhinos]].

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