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Aladar
"Stand together!"
"If we look out for each other, we all stand a chance of getting to your Nesting Grounds."
Voiced by: D.B. Sweeney (English), Bruno Choël (European French)
The main protagonist, an Iguanodon whose compassionate ways may save his friends, family, and the herd.
- All-Loving Hero: He will move mountains to help people he's only just met.
- Armor-Piercing Question: Gives one to Neera when she recites Kron's ideology.Aladar: Is that you talking, or your brother?
- Babies Ever After: With Neera, by the time of the film's epilogue which takes place a year after the herd's arrival at the Nesting Grounds.
- Big Good: Becomes this when the herd accepts him as leader over Kron.
- Blue Is Heroic: Aladar has a bluish tint.
- Break the Cutie: After the meteor destroys the island and he's faced with the threats of predators, starvation and dehydration, it begins to take a toll on him. Though he's able to keep his and others' spirits up, he breaks down briefly at the dead end.
- The Chains of Commanding: He nobly takes it upon himself to defend the weak, elderly of the herd and his lemur kin who are too small to defend themselves, but it starts to wear him down when it seems that he's the only one capable of doing anything at the dead end. The look of disgust on his face when he sees his group looking on apparently helplessly says it all.
- Character Development: He starts out as a wide-eyed idealist even in the face of a post-apocalyptic world. Though he admirably puts his family and friends before himself (partially because he's the only one young, fit and strong enough to defend and look after them), Aladar becomes over-burdened when he puts too much weight on his own shoulders. He ultimately adopts some of Kron's mentality after Kron throws it in his face several times. Aladar accepts that the strong will survive... but the strongest are those who stand together. It's Aladar's marriage of his own idealism and Kron's hard realism and Darwinism that ultimately allows him to mature into the better leader than Kron.
- The Charmer: An example where the person in question has no malicious intent whatsoever.Neera: Don't worry, my brother's like that to all newcomers... no matter how charming they are.
- Deadpan Snarker: He has his moments."That's it! Keep pushing and shoving! That's very helpful!"
- The Determinator: Nothing will stop him from achieving his goal of getting his friends and family to safety.
- Fish out of Water: It takes a few long days of adjusting to his new life for Aladar to learn how to socialize properly with his fellow dinosaurs, let alone outside of his peaceful life on the island.
- Friend to All Children: Aladar likes kids.
- Happily Adopted: Aladar has no angst over being adopted by a family of lemurs; in return, they always think of him as family, despite the difference in species. The only thing he is secretly saddened by is that there is no one to be his own romantic partner on the island. Until he meets Neera.
- Heroic BSoD: After Bruton's death and the group coming upon a dead end with no way to proceed, the trauma he's endured since leaving the island overwhelms him.
- Hero of Another Story: No one, not even himself, knows how he went from an Iguanodon nest to Lemur Island.
- Humble Hero: He thinks of others' well-being and safety before himself.
- Ink-Suit Actor: His smile and facial expressions are remarkably similar to his voice actor.
- Intergenerational Friendship: With Baylene and Eema, and possibly Bruton if he's that old.
- Interspecies Adoption: Aladar (an Iguanodon) was raised and loved by his lemur family.
- The Leader: Of the misfits, and eventually the herd.
- Nice Guy: He has a genuinely pure soul, which is why Neera falls for him.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Kron already thought little of the elders at the back of the herd, but when Aladar goes to ask him to slow down after they complained about the pace, they get a place on his shitlist.
- Not So Above It All: As the film goes on, he shows that he's not perfect and does lose his temper. This is best seen when he angrily throws himself at the wall of rocks that's blocking the group from exiting the cave, and then when he's forced to challenge the not quite as literal wall of rocks that Kron is when he demands everyone follow him. He swishes his tail at Kron in a rude gesture, finally fed up with the older Iguanodon.
- Official Couple: With Neera after he becomes leader of the herd.
- The Rival: To Kron. It boils over in the end when he's right where Kron's wrong.
- Small Parent, Huge Child: Justified; due to being an Iguanodon, Aladar is enormous compared to his lemur adopted parents Plio and Yar.
- The Social Darwinist: See Character Development. He becomes a much more reasonable believer in this trope than Kron in that he knows the strong will survive, but they're strongest when they're together.
- Social Ornithopod: An amiable, pleasant and compassionate Iguanodon.
- Stepford Smiler: After the courtship, he hides the fact that he's lonely being the only Iguanodon on the island, though his mother sees through it.
- Team Dad: He's this to the misfits and the herd by the end of the film.
- Took a Level in Badass: There's no evidence he has any combat proficiency for the majority of the film. At the end, though, he musters up the strength and courage to go toe-to-toe with Kron and take on the Carnotaurus alone.
- Unskilled, but Strong: Aladar holds himself pretty well against Kron despite this being his first ever real scrap and Kron having presumably way more experience in combat.
- Wide-Eyed Idealist: Starts out as this, but after his Character Development learns to not be so naive.
Neera
"It's okay, little ones. We're going to make it."
"Everything's so different... I don't know what to think anymore."
Voiced by: Julianna Margulies
Kron's sister, who catches Aladar's eye almost immediately, and vice versa.
- Babies Ever After: With Aladar, by the time of the film's epilogue which takes place a year after the herd's arrival at the Nesting Grounds.
- Character Development: Comes to hope again after meeting Aladar.
- Damsel in Distress: In the tie-in video game, a mission revolves around Aladar racing to save her from a hungry Spinosaurus. In the final mission, she's at the Carnotaurus' mercy as well.
- Deadpan Snarker: When Aladar apparently catcalls her, she very snarkily teaches the children what not to say to a woman and also disses Aladar's apparent flirting in the same breath:Neera: That children, is what's known as a "jerk-o-saurus."
- Death Glare: To Kron after stopping him from killing Aladar.
- Defrosting Ice Queen: She starts out looking cold and aloof, looking down on the herd with a grumpy expression not unlike her brother's, and doesn't take kindly to Aladar's apparent cat-calling. However, when she sees how selfless and good he is, she warms up to him and others.
- First Girl Wins: Neera is the first woman of Aladar's species that he meets and they eventually have a family together.
- Friend to All Children: Is very close to the young orphans of the herd, and welcomes them into her family by the end of the film.
- Jerkass Realization: She apologizes to Aladar for calling him a "jerk-o-saurus" after seeing his good heart, though he had to remind her.
- Morality Pet: To Kron, of sorts. In a deleted scene, he makes an exception to his "you're on your own" rule regarding predators to save her life.
- Nice Girl: Neera is sweet, kind, and helping.
- Number Two: Of the herd when Aladar becomes leader.
- Official Couple: With Aladar once he takes leadership of the herd, and by the end of the film they have a clutch of eggs.
- Satellite Character: Her role in the movie revolves around her being caught between Kron and Aladar's conflicting ideologies.
- Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Why she falls for Aladar after seeing his compassionate ways.
- The Social Darwinist: It's implied she's gone along with Kron's survival of the fittest mantra all her life, but her conversation with Aladar shows that she didn't really believe it.
- Social Ornithopod: An amiable, pleasant and compassionate Iguanodon.
- Thicker Than Water: Why she races back to save her brother immediately after abandoning him.
- Violently Protective Girlfriend: She rams into Kron just as he is about to kill Aladar for questioning his leadership one last time.
Yar, Plio, Zini, and Suri
L-R: Zini, Yar, Suri, Plio
Aladar: This is my family. We're... all that's left.
Voiced by: Ossie Davis (Yar), Max Casella and Evan Sabara (Zini, as an adult and child respectively), Hayden Panettiere (Suri), Alfre Woodard (Plio)
Dubbed by: Jamel Debbouze (Zini, European French)
The lemurs who adopted Aladar when he showed up on their island. Yar is the elderly patriarch, Plio is his daughter and the Team Mom, and Zini and Suri are Plio's brother and daughter.
- Adapted Out: Plio and Suri do not appear in the video game outside of the ripped movie cutscenes.
- Anachronistic Animal: Modern-looking Sifaka lemurs in a Mesozoic setting. Primates of any sort, let alone lemurs, did not in fact appear until at least a couple million years after the Cretaceous period had already ended.
Word of God stated that this fact was known. - Badass Boast: When told he's less than a fly to Kron, Yar has this to say.Yar: I could hold that monster's brain in the palm of my—
- Break the Cutie: The lemurs are implied to have lived a pretty idyllic life on their island, free from the threat of predators. Then the meteor strikes, destroying their home and wiping out every lemur on the island. Poor Suri has to deal with her first loss - and it had to be the loss of everyone she knew.
- Butt-Monkey: Pun aside, poor Zini is constantly harassed by obstacles while trying to take part in the courtship ritual.
- Casanova Wannabe: Zini fails to find a mate in the courtship. His catcalling of Neera also leaves her notably unimpressed when she is led to believe it was Aladar. He has much more luck in the Nesting Grounds, though it's somewhat implied he may be the only bachelor and the first one they've had in a while.
- Cool Old Guy: Yar, who is a loving grandfather and tries to be as helpful as possible during the ensuing journey.
- Deadpan Snarker: All of them except for Suri.Plio: You better hurry up, dad. It looks hungry.
Yar: (to Eema) I'd say it's been a few years since you hatched an egg!
Zini: And with that, the ice is broken. note - Defrosting Ice King: When Aladar was a baby Yar wanted to get rid of him. After a few seconds of looking at the baby, he decides to keep him.
- Disappeared Dad: Whoever fathered Suri never appears in the film.
- Easily Forgiven: Plio gives Bruton some medical attention and words of kindness, even after he loudly called her family parasites.
- Fantastic Racism: The lemurs are the subject of this from Kron, Bruton, and initially Baylene and Eema, though in the case of the latter two, they warm to them pretty quickly. It's implied none of the dinosaurs in the film have encountered their kind before judging by how they react to the lemurs.
- Forced to Watch: Plio and Yar have to watch two titanic Carnotaurus first ominously loom over, then chase down and try to kill their son/grandson, and they're too small to do a thing about it but watch.
- Fragile Speedster: All of them, but especially Zini in the game as he's the only playable lemur and naturally a much easier target for predators.
- Friend to All Children: The moment a baby Aladar properly wakes up, takes a look at Yar, and starts cooing, Yar's heart completely melts.
- Gameplay and Story Segregation: In the video game, Yar is often positioned in areas where predators can reach him, but they never try to harm him.
- Interspecies Adoption: The lemurs equally love Aladar, an Iguanodon, and treat him as part of the family. They also accept Eema, Baylene, Url, and Neera as their own as well.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Yar is the most cantankerous of the lemur family and thought killing a baby Aladar was the best decision. However, he proves to ultimately have a soft heart, best evident by not going through with killing Aladar.
- The Lancer: The four of them share this role to Aladar throughout the movie.
- Last of Their Kind: They're the only survivors of the island's lemur population. Luckily, they find more lemurs native to the Nesting Grounds.
- The Load:
- Outside of their lemur-sized island, they're defenseless against predators and must ride out the adventure out on the dinosaurs' backs. All but Yar help in some manner, however; Zini helps Aladar discover the lake water, Suri saves the infant Iguanodons from dehydration, and Plio remains the group's stalwart Team Mom and helps heal Bruton, even if only a little bit.
- In the game, this is averted with Zini as he is one of the three main characters and has the specific skill set of retrieving healing fruit from trees, and aside from generally needing fruit to recover from damage taken throughout the game, the key objective of the second level is to give five special fruit to Flia to heal her injuries.
- The game also has a downplayed example with Yar, who dispenses advice to the player when approached in each level. In the first level, he explains the lightning special attack system, but in every other level, his advice may or may not be useful. In the second level he reiterates Zini's ability to gather fruit, and other times his advice is obvious like advising the group to team up to find the babies in the sixth level. And sometimes, he just makes a wisecrack about the situation.
- The Medic: Plio recognizes a plant that grew on the island that can heal wounds, and treats Bruton with it. Given her size she can't begin to cover the entirety of his wounds, but the action spoke louder than the words here. In the game, Zini serves as this since he's the only character who can gather fruit that will heal damage taken by the player or the supporting characters.
- The Mentor: Yar to Aladar on the island, and also to the cast in the video game.
- Missing Mom: Yar's mate, and Plio and Zini's mother is never brought up or seen (though given Yar's age she may already be dead).
- Nice Guy: They're the loving, kind people who made Aladar who he is today.
- Plio is kind, motherly, and loving.
- Suri is sweet and kind.
- Yar is wise and usually calm and collected.
- Zini is Aladar's best friend and tries to help him woo Neera.
- The Patriarch: Yar is this for Lemur Island, holding a position of authority in the lemur clan and overseeing the yearly courtship ritual. When the group leaves the island, his role as this is pretty diminished since he's in an unfamiliar land.
- Plucky Comic Relief: Zini provides quite a bit of the comic relief in the movie once he's grown, though he still has several moments when he knows when to be quiet.
- Raised by Grandparents: At least in regards to Yar, who was clearly Aladar's paternal figure when he was growing up.
- Satellite Characters: While they each have a bit of a quirk, their characters aren't that developed and they only serve to be a source of comic-relief, a bit of drama, or Aladar's adoptive family.
- Shipper on Deck: All of them highly approve of Aladar and Neera's attraction to each other, happy that after spending his life as the only dinosaur on Lemur Island, he's finally found someone of his own kind to fall in love with.
- Sole Survivor: The last surviving members of Lemur Island. They believed they were the last lemurs like Baylene was the last Brachiosaur, but they find more of their kind in the Nesting Grounds (which Eema also assured them there was every chance of).
- Tagalong Kid: Suri is the youngest member of the misfits and is the only child.
- Team Mom: Plio, who nurtures everyone she meets, even Bruton.
- True Companions: Along with Aladar, they are accepted as family by Baylene, Eema, Url, and Neera, and eventually are accepted by the rest of the herd too.
- Urine Trouble: Yar finds himself peed on by the baby Aladar, and years later, by Aladar's firstborn.Yar: Yep. You're your father's son, alright.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: Yar with Eema. It's played up in a deleted scene where they are picking at each other, and at the end they're bickering Like an Old Married Couple.
- Wouldn't Hurt a Child: Yar initially prepares to kill baby Aladar, but ultimately can't go through with it.
- Wrong Genre Savvy: Yar wants to kill a baby Aladar, believing he'll grow up to be a menace to them who will eat them. Thankfully, Aladar's a herbivore.
Eema
"Who knows what we'll find. The hard part now is just getting there."
"Who booked this trip anyway?"
Voiced by: Della Reese (film and PlayStation 2 game); Billy West (PlayStation 1 and PC games), Perrette Pradier (European French)
An elderly, wizened Styracosaurus who befriends the group.
- Actually Pretty Funny: She has a laugh when Yar snarks that it must've been a while since she last welcomed babies into the world.
- Big Fun: Her model was designed to look like an extremely bloated Styracosaurus, but she's still pretty sprightly.
- Contralto of Strength: She has a low, husky voice and is quite the fighter when she wants to be.
- Cool Old Lady: She even allows the lemurs to ride in the back of her frill to protect them from the intense desert heat despite just barely having met them.
- Deadpan Snarker: She starts from her first line and never goes back.Eema: Walking backwards, huh? Well let me know if that gets you there any faster!
- Despair Event Horizon: When the lake appears dried up, she goes down into the lakebed to weep and looks fully prepared to die there.
- Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Baylene, as she takes her under her wing to help her adapt to their life in the herd.
- Honorary Uncle: Tie-in books to the film describe her as becoming an honorary grandmother to Aladar and Neera's children.
- Ink-Suit Actor: She strongly resembles Della Reese, who provided her voice.
- Intergenerational Friendship: With Aladar, Plio, Zini, Suri, and Neera.
- The Lancer: To Aladar in the misfits; she's got the most disagreeable temperament compared to Aladar and knows the most about the journey to the Nesting Grounds.
- Little "No": Once she notices the landslide that has blocked the entrance to the Nesting Grounds, she gives a quiet "oh, no" as she realizes the herd is going to a dead end.
- The Load: Justified due to her advanced age, she's not much help against predators, and actually collapses once during the trek from exhaustion. She's not able to contribute as much as Baylene, but once she has a chance, she helps bring down the wall to the Nesting Grounds and her knowledge is also useful, setting the third act into motion by recognizing the old entrance to the valley.
- Mighty Glacier: She's slow and bloated from age, but she's still a large Styracosaurus and does her best to ram the cave wall.
- Really 700 Years Old: The Essential Guide, an ambiguously canon companion book, contests that she is 100 years old, which is certainly this trope by dinosaur standards (Real Life evidence suggests that dinosaurs of most species seldom lived past their thirties).
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The red to Baylene's blue. She's snarky and world-weary whereas Baylene is polite and meek.
- Sassy Black Woman: Having Della Reese provide your voice is bound to invoke this trope.
- Temper-Ceratops: Downplayed. She's a Styracosaurus and a Deadpan Snarker at the best of times, but hardly belligerent or violent.
- This Is Gonna Suck: Not only is the entrance to the Nesting Grounds blocked, but Eema knows Kron will not be pleased to see Aladar again.
- Those Two Guys: With Baylene.
- Uniformity Exception: Other Styracosaurus are seen making up the herd, but Eema is the only one with a unique character model and an elderly appearance. The other Styracosaurus also have red-orange coloration and yellow horns, while Eema is mostly a white and gray to reflect her age.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: With Yar; while they do throw sassy jabs at one another, they are very much good friends.
Baylene
"All this pushing and shoving about, just for a place to sleep! I'm not used to this kind of behavior."
"I, for one, am not willing to die here!"
Voiced by: Joan Plowright (film and PlayStation 2 game); Tress MacNeille (PlayStation 1 and PC games)
A massive, elderly Brachiosaurus, who is quite the Gentle Giant.
- Anachronism Stew: She's a Brachiosaurus, a Jurassic dinosaur, living contemporaneously with numerous Cretaceous era dinosaurs. Word of God admits as much, but handwaves it with the fact that Baylene is explicitly referred to as the last of her kind — which still stretches imagination more than a bit, as the movie is much closer in time to the modern day that to when brachiosaurs last livednote .
- Aquatic Sauropods: Downplayed. Baylene, and all the other brachiosaurs featured in the movie, are shown to be perfectly capable of living life and moving around on land. However, after Aladar and his group arrive at the nesting grounds, Baylene proves more than happy to jump into the waters of the massive lake within the center of the nesting grounds and take a swim.
- Artistic License – Paleontology: Brachiosaurus could not bend its neck as much as Baylene does (this was purely an artistic choice), and they couldn't stand on two legs either. She's also identified as a Brachiosaurus, but given her height, her size, and the movie's Cretaceous setting, she could potentially qualify as a Sauroposeidon.
- The Big Guy: As befitting a Brachiosaurus. She's the strongest and most powerful member of the group thanks to her immense size.
- Blue Blood: Various tie-in material states that Baylene is characterized as an upper class lady forced to migrate with the rest of the herd, who are lower class than her. It's a Visual Pun since the Brachiosaurs are the tallest animals seen in the film, thus they apparently consider themselves an upper class. Baylene is essentially an upper class old lady forced to survive with the lower class in a time of crisis.
- Both Sides Have a Point: In her introductory scene, Eema says she needs to grow some backbone if she wants to make it to the Nesting Grounds alive, in response to Baylene's fussing about the herd's savage behavior and worrying about the little dinosaurs underfoot. While Eema is correct and Baylene's arc is developing confidence in herself, Baylene can be understood considering the herd, even members as small as the Microceratus, don't regard her at all and aren't being careful to avoid her, so she has reason to worry she'll step on them.
- Character Development: Goes from a timid old lady to a confident, self-assured and strong survivor thanks to Aladar's compassion.
- Cool Old Lady: Baylene's one of the sweetest characters in the movie.
- Gentle Giant Sauropod: She is a Brachiosaurus, and one so gentle she's terrified of accidentally stepping on smaller dinosaurs.
- Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Eema, who helps her adjust to life in the herd and the migration to the Nesting Grounds.
- Honorary Uncle: Tie-in books to the film describe her as becoming an honorary grandmother to Aladar and Neera's children.
- Intergenerational Friendship: With Aladar, Zini, Suri, Plio, and Neera.
- Last of Her Kind: She's the last known living Brachiosaurus after the meteor strike.
- The Load: Kron sees her as this given she's old and slow, but Aladar realizes her massive size and strength by virtue of being a Brachiosaurus is more than enough to disqualify her from this. She even lampshades how Aladar made her realize she truly isn't The Load.
- Never Mess with Granny: Especially when granny is an 85-foot-long, 30-foot-tall, 62-ton dinosaur.
- Nice Girl: Baylene is kind and polite.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: When the group is retreating into the cave, Baylene accidentally pushes the ceiling up, loosening a small boulder that falls and rolls all the way to the mouth of the cave, which proves to be a major tipping point that lures the Carnotaurus in after them.
- "Not So Different" Remark: She initially is apprehensive about the lemurs until she learns they're the last of their people, and quickly apologizes due to her own predicament being the last Brachiosaurus.
- Older and Wiser: She saved the herd twice, once by using her weight to find water, and second by clearing a path to the Nesting Grounds.
- Pre Ass Kicking One Liner: See her above quote right before she unleashes hell on the dead end.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The blue to Eema's red. She's more docile and polite whereas Eema is more cantankerous and snarky.
- Rousing Speech: Gives one hell of a speech to rouse Aladar from his Heroic BSoD and prove how much he's meant to her and the others.Baylene: Oh, yes we were! We're here, aren't we?! And how dare you waste that good fortune by simply giving up! Shame on you! Shame on you, shame on you!! The worst of it is, you allowed an old fool like me to believe I was needed, that I still had a purpose. And do you know what? You were right. And I'm going to go on believing it! I, for one, am not willing to die here!
- Shout-Out: Standing on two legs, something that is paleontologically impossible, is a clear nod to Jurassic Park.
- Silk Hiding Steel: She is a gentle and posh old dinosaur who does not have too much confidence in herself. This changes in the third act where upon realizing that the Nesting Ground is on the other side of the cave walls, she rears up on two legs and uses her great strength to destroy the walls to reach the other side.
- Uniformity Exception: Other Brachiosaurus are seen in the prologue with darker coloration and sturdier builds. Baylene is the only Brachiosaurus with a unique design, having a much more weathered and slightly fatter design to represent her age compared to the others of her kind seen.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Her big speech has her chide Aladar for giving up after all he had done to restore the group's faith in themselves.
- You Are Better Than You Think You Are: She took Aladar's constant sticking up for her and the misfits as this, and responds in kind with her big speech.Baylene: The worst of it is, you allowed an old fool like me to believe I was needed. That I still had a purpose. And you know what? You were right. And I'm going to go on believing it!
Url
"Keep those little legs moving Url! Or you'll get left behind!"
Voiced by: Frank Welker
Eema's "pet" Euoplocephalus.
- All Animals Are Dogs: He's basically a puppy in Euoplocephalus form.
- Chekhov's Skill: He really likes rocks and sticks like a dog, but when the group needs a place to stay, he presents Aladar with a stalagmite, recognizing it came from the nearby cave.
- Hidden Depths: Judging by the scene where he beckons Aladar to lead the group to the cave for shelter, and growing annoyed when Aladar initially doesn't understand him, he may be smarter than he looks. He does seem to understand every word the others say, as evidenced when he goes to help bring down the dead end.
- Last of His Kind: Not touched upon, but he's the only Euoplocephalus seen with the herd migrating to the Nesting Grounds.
- The Load: Despite not apparently being elderly like Baylene and Eema, he's slow and too small to defend himself despite being a Euoplocephalus. He only briefly contributes anything to the group when he discovers the cave for them to spend the night in.
- Nice Guy: He's a pleasant little Euoplocephalus-dog-thing, always smiling and even goes to help bring down the barrier in the cave.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Narrowly averted. When Aladar and Bruton order a retreat deeper into the cave, they wake up the others as quietly as they can. When Url is woken, the first thing he sees is the two Carnotaurus on their doorstep and he lets out a loud yelp of fear. The predators look up... but eventually resume their sniffing, believing they were hearing things.
- Perpetual Smiler: He's almost always smiling.
- Precious Puppy: He was made a puppy in Euoplocehalus form in a movie about dinosaurs because… reasons?
- Satellite Character: Url doesn't have a background or much of a personality.
- Team Pet: To the misfits, thanks to his characterization as a dog.
- The Unintelligible: One can only tell what he's saying through his body language and facial expressions because he's...
- The Voiceless: He never speaks.
The Herd
Kron
"Our survival - our future - is over these rocks! NOW LET'S GO HOME!!!"
Neera: If we keep going like this, we'll lose half the herd!
Kron: Then we save the half that deserves to live.
Kron: Then we save the half that deserves to live.
Voiced by: Samuel E. Wright
The aggressive, domineering leader of the herd, whose Darwinist philosophy quickly begins to clash with Aladar's benevolent ways.
- 1-Dimensional Thinking: He insists on doing things his way and whenever a more practical alternative is given, he unhesitantly shoots it down. This ends up costing his life when after his former herd drive back a Carnataur, he ends up making himself the predator’s next target.
- Anti-Villain: He's a Jerkass through and through, but he's genuinely trying to save the herd from death. Too bad he's killing them all the way.
- Bad Boss: He's very cruel to his subordinates if they step out of line or if he deems them weak.
- Berserk Button: Having his authority or viewpoint challenged.Kron: (chuckles heartily, then swings into an aggressive growl) Watch yourself, boy.
- Big Bad Ensemble: With the Carnotaurs. His dictatorship is as much a source of conflict as the predators nipping at the herd's heels.
- The Bully: Unnecessarily cruel to some of his subjects.
- Can't Take Criticism: He's so convinced that his way is the right way that he won't tolerate anyone suggesting otherwise. Even Bruton is curtly cut off when he suggests having the herd rest at a more sheltered spot than the one Kron had chosen. He's especially caustic towards Aladar's objections to his treatment of the weaker members of the herd. This stubborn attitude is ultimately his undoing, when his refusal to listen to Aladar's warnings costs him his leadership and eventually his life.
- Dating What Daddy Hates: A brother variant. Is very displeased to see Neera falling for Aladar and outright roars at Neera to stay away from him when the herd leaves the lake.
- Deadpan Snarker:Kron: Hmm. Let the weak set the pace. Now there's an idea.
- Detrimental Determination: Kron is so determined to get the herd to their homeland, he's willing to let a lot of them, including children, die if they can't keep up. And he's so insisted on doing it his way that he's unwilling to listen Aladar's news of a safer path to the Nesting Grounds as well as the warnings that the path he's taking is impassable.
- Dirty Coward: When the Carnotaurus arrives after he's lost control of the herd, he makes a last ditch effort to regain power by inviting the herd to escape up the rockslide with him.
- Disc-One Final Boss: Despite getting the lion's share of screentime, Kron is dethroned shortly before the confrontation with the surviving Carnotaurus, who overtakes him as the Final Boss.
- The Dreaded: The herd knows better than to cross him, and eventually Aladar's family comes to be unnerved by him as well.(referring to Yar) Eema: Kron has swatted flies bigger than you, pops.
- Et Tu, Brute?: He's completely devastated when Neera abandons him to join Aladar. Before his death, however, he gets to see Neera fighting a Carnotaurus to the death to try to save him, and you can tell that he appreciates it before passing.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He loves his sister dearly. Her leaving him for Aladar hurts him deeply.
- Evil Counterpart: He's not exactly "evil", but more of an anti-villain. Unlike Aladar who is compassionate to the weak and believes in unity, Kron believes in the "weak die, while the strong live" philosophy and it's "every dinosaur for themselves". Also, they both have Determinator tendencies, but while Aladar is determined to help everyone, Kron is only concerned with saving those he views to be strong.
- Evil Sounds Deep: Who would've thought Sebastian would sound so frightening?
- Fantastic Racism: Gives a nasty snort at the sight of the lemurs.
- Fatal Flaw: Stubbornness, his insistence that his way is the only way ultimately causes the herd, including his own sister, to abandon him. His stubbornness also leaves him vulnerable to the surviving Carnotaur, and is fatally wounded by the predator, making this trope literal.
- Hate Sink: Since the Carnotaurus are not exactly fleshed out characters, Kron acts as a sentient being for the viewers to hate on, being a tyrannical, uncaring dictator who views the weaker members of the herd as being expendable and gladly leaves his second-in-command to die when the latter messes up.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: His attempt to escape the Carnotaurus backfires spectacularly. Being the only one to flee rather than stand and fight, Kron makes himself easy prey for the discouraged Carnotaurus to turn its attention towards. And his refusal to listen Aladar's warning about rockslide causes him to be cornered by the predator, with no hope of escape.
- Honor Before Reason: He never listens to any common sense if it clashes with his pride. This results in his death by the Carnotaurus at the end of the film where he was too full of pride to join the herd and went his own way.
- Hypocrite: For all his talks of how the strong deserves to live, his first instinct at the Carnotaurus is to run away rather than stand and fight. This proves to be his downfall, as the Carnotaurus singles him out as weak prey after finding the herd to be too difficult to attack.
- Icy Blue Eyes: He has pale blue eyes to to reflect his cold, stubborn and easily-provokable personality.
- I'll Kill You!: He threatens to kill Aladar if he ever tries to challenge him.Kron: If you ever interfere again... I'll kill you.
- Informed Species: Although he is confirmed to be an Iguanodon, he looks more like a Muttaburrasaurus or an Altirhinus due to the large horn-like structure on his nose.
- It's All About Me: You can tell that he’s mostly bringing the herd to the Nesting Grounds for the sake of leadership itself rather than the responsibility of it.
- Jerkass: At his nicest, he's a stubborn hardass who refuses the advice of others. At worst, he's an abusive tyrant who callously disregards the lives of the herd, so long as he saves those who "deserve to live".
- Jerkass Has a Point: While he’s mostly just being impatient, he isn’t wrong to state that going back to save any stragglers would only slow down the herd.
- Karmic Death: As a result of his social Darwinist outlook, Kron abandons the herd when the Carnotaurus attacks. As the herd manages to break the predator's charge by standing as one, the Carnotaurus notices the lone Kron, charges after him, and mortally wounds him. Kron ultimately dies being picked off by a predator just like he is implied to have condemned other unfortunate dinosaurs to during his reign as leader.
- Little "No": He lets out two of these when he realizes he's been trapped at the rockslide.
- My Sister Is Off-Limits: He does not like Aladar being with Neera since the former has views that Kron hates.
- My Way or the Highway: Has this mindset for absolutely everything, right down to the spot the herd rests for the night. He's completely convinced that his way is the only way and if anyone has a problem with it, they can feed the Carnotaurs for all he cares.
- Never My Fault: When Aladar says he's found a safer way to the valley and that there's a sheer drop on the other side of the landslide, Kron takes him seriously... but still begins violently lashing out at the orphans and is livid when Aladar asks the herd to join him.
- No Indoor Voice: The majority of his dialogue is his angry bellowing.
- Not So Stoic: He's completely blindsided to find that the lake has seemingly dried up. He's also visibly fearful when faced down by the Carnotaurus at the end and is barely able to put on a brave face.
- Oh, Crap!: Has this when he sees that Aladar was right about the sheer drop.
- Perpetual Frowner: The only time he ever smiles is when he manages to convince the herd to climb the rockslide, after which he briefly gives a smirk.
- Pet the Dog: When he first met Aladar, while Bruton told Aladar to get lost, Kron actually told Bruton to relax and spoke to Aladar in a civil manner.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: When the herd refuses to rejoin him when they're attacked by the Carnotaurus, he scoffs and continues his trek up the mountainside.
- The Social Darwinist: "The strong will survive" is his mantra. When faced with the potential to lose half of the herd to dehydration, he scoffs that he'll save the half of the herd that deserves to live.
- Social Ornithopod: Inverted; he's stubborn, cruel and unkind, despite being an Iguanodon.
- Too Dumb to Live: Kron’a stubbornness has caused him to fake so many foolhardy decisions that it’s a miracle he made it as far to the blocked Nesting Grounds entrance.
- Ungrateful Bastard: Upon making to the lake, which appeared to be empty, Kron tried to get the herd to move on, despite Neera's objections that half of the herd will die without water. Fortunately, Aladar learns that water is buried beneath the dirtbed surrounding the lake and digs up a big hole for everyone (including the old dinosaurs) to drink, saving the herd enough energy. However, Kron is far from being grateful as he furiously tells Aladar and the other dinosaurs to move out of the way as he hogs most of the water to himself, much to Aladar's outrage.Aladar: Kron, look. All we had to do is dig and-Kron: (angrily) Good! Now get out of the way!
- We Have Reserves: Was happy to leave behind the elderly dinosaurs to slow down the Carnotaurus.
- Would Hurt a Child: Begins aggressively shoving the orphans around when he begins to lose his temper.
- You Are What You Hate: Sees Aladar and the elders as unnecessary mouths to feed. Even though he himself hogs up a lot of the herd's resources and doesn't care for their well-being. Which is far worse than being deadweight.
Bruton
"Unless you got a death wish, you and that little parasite better get MOVING!!"
"But why doesn't he let them accept their fate? I've accepted mine... to die here. It's the way things are."
Voiced by: Peter Siraguisa
Kron's lieutenant, who's more than he appears.
- The Aloner: He refuses to sleep next to the others in the cave.
- Because You Were Nice to Me: Aladar and Plio accept him into their fold after Kron callously leaves him behind, which contributes to his Heroic Sacrifice when the Carnotaurus attack them in the cave.
- Clint Squint: He often displays this.
- A Death in the Limelight: His most important scenes are his last ones before dying.
- Despair Event Horizon: After being savagely mauled by the Carnotaurs, and cruelly kicked out of the herd, Bruton resigns himself to his fate, that being to die in the cave. However, Plio coaxes him out of this mindset and he chooses to go out saving those who cared for him.
- Don't You Dare Pity Me!: Refuses aid from Aladar as he's accepted into the group, but relents to Plio's medicinal plant.
- The Dragon: To Kron, until he's left for dead after being wounded by the Carnotaurs.
- The Dreaded: The gang knows to keep their distance from him, even after he unofficially joins them in the cave.
- Face Death with Dignity: Believes he will die in the cave. He ends up being right, but he goes out saving Aladar's group from the Carnotaurs.
- Family-Unfriendly Death: He's crushed to death by a cave-in.
- Fantastic Racism: Calls the lemurs "parasites", but mellows out enough to allow Plio to treat him.
- Fat Bastard: Bruton is very crass and abrasive, much stockier than Kron or any other Iguanodon seen, and is pretty unpleasant early on. The Evolution of An Animated Feature says he was designed to move like he had trouble maintaining his balance over his own bulk. He sheds the bastard part after his change of heart.
- Foil: To Aladar. While Aladar is an optimist, Bruton is The Cynic who lost hope a long time ago. At the same time, they are both competent leaders who, unlike Kron, actually care about the herd. This can also be seen in their appearance, as while Aladar is gracile, Bruton dwarfs him in size. In a way, Bruton is what Aladar would become if he fell into despair, which nearly happens shortly after Bruton’s death.
- Grumpy Growler: Bruton is quite a morose fellow, and he speaks with a fittingly coarse, raspy voice.
- Handicapped Badass: Got a badly injured leg from the Carnotaur attack, forcing him to hobble around for the rest of the film. Despite that, he's able to put up a fight.
- Heel–Face Turn: After Kron leaves him for dead, and Aladar and Plio help him, he joins their group and even sacrifices himself to stop the Carnotaurs, even succeeding in killing one of them.
- Heroic Sacrifice: He kills himself and a Carnotaur by causing a cave-in to save the group.
- Hidden Depths: He initially appears to be a clone of Kron, but he turns out to be a wise, noble warrior who is willing to give his life for his mistakes.
- Hope Is Scary: As Plio treats his wounds, Bruton asks why Aladar gives the elders "false hope" and that they should just accept their imminent deaths, as he has. Plio responds that hope is what got them that far to begin with.
- Informed Species: Although he is confirmed to be an Iguanodon, he looks more like a Muttaburrasaurus or an Altirhinus due to the large horn-like structure on his nose.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: What he ultimately turns out to be — in spite of his crass demeanor, his heart is very much in the right place.
- Mighty Glacier: Thanks to his size and later his injuries, he's only able to move so fast, but he's still able to pack a big punch.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: His design and personality were partly based on Clint Eastwood.
- Not So Stoic: Has a terrified look on his face during the Carnotaur ambush. He's also visibly devastated when Kron abandons him to his fate.
- Odd Friendship: With Plio, even after he called her family "parasites".
- Oh, Crap!: Has this upon being face to face with a Carnotaur during the ambush.
- Perpetual Frowner: He never smiles at all in the entire film.
- Redemption Equals Death: Sacrifices himself to save the group who had taken him in.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Upon seeing the silhouette of a Carnotaur, he tried to flee with the scout. Sadly, the scout was killed by Carnotaurs whereas Bruton managed to escape, but with severe injuries in the process.
- Sixth Ranger: To Aladar's group. Unfortunately, it doesn't last long.
- Social Ornithopod: Inverted; he's grouchy, unsociable and even after he has a change of heart, he prefers to be left alone.
- Taking You with Me: While Bruton dies in the cave in, he successfully takes one of the Carnotaurs with him.
The Orphans
Voiced by: Frank Welker
A pair of orphaned Iguanodon who befriend Neera during the journey.
- Adaptation Expansion: In the game, they're the focus of a mission (along with two others).
- Break the Cutie: Despite being very young, they're forced to migrate across a lifeless desert and can barely keep up with the herd.
- Happily Adopted: By the end of the film, they've been adopted by Neera and by extension the rest of the misfit family.
- Living Macguffin: In the Babysitting level of the PS1 game, you have to find them and lead them back to the herd safely, protecting them from predators and the lava pits.
- No Man Left Behind: When one of them collapses during the final stretch to the Nesting Grounds, the other drops everything and tries to get him back up even as the herd begins to leave him behind.
- Those Two Guys: They're a pair of siblings never seen apart.
- The Voiceless: Neither of them speak. Justified since they are babies.
The Herd
The herd of dinosaurs led by Kron during the movie.
- Apathetic Citizens: They've been conditioned and ordered not to help members who collapse from exhaustion/dehydration/hunger, or who are caught by predators, not even the younger members of the herd.
- Babies Ever After: The film ends with a new generation of dinosaurs being hatched in the Nesting Grounds.
- Badass Crew: When Aladar rallies them together, they easily fend off the Carnotaurus.
- Divided We Fall: The crux of the movie's development is when the herd learns the meaning of this.
- Dwindling Party: They lose quite a few members to exhaustion and dehydration along the way.
- Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: What ultimately convinces The Herd to leave Kron in favor of following Aladar (something the latter may have been counting on); Kron continually treated them as expendable even when they near their end goal of reaching the Nesting Grounds while Aladar is the only dinosaur to not only show them compassion but offer an easier way to get into the Nesting Grounds. In other words, the idea that Kron would sooner kill them so close to their destination than allow himself be proven wrong was the final straw for them.
- Mundane Made Awesome: They fend off the Carnotaurus by standing their ground, staying close together, and roaring at the predator to intimidate it. In other words, just walking and roaring.
- Red Shirt: An Iguanodon scout, who is only around for a minute before getting killed.
- Sacrificial Lamb: A scene featuring a dead Struthiomimus Aladar finds midway through the desert crossing, as well as the sounds of approaching raptors, and the panting, slow elders in the background, is a grim omen to Aladar of what happens to dinosaurs who don't survive the journey.
- Tertiary Sexual Characteristics: The female Iguanodon were designed to be more slender and graceful than the males (they all look like Palette Swaps of Neera).
- Took a Level in Badass: For much of the film, they're prone to turning tail at the very mention of the carnotaurs, but when Aladar rallies them in the end, they manage to successfully intimidate the last one.
- Unusual Animal Alliance: The herd is made of several different species, primarily Parasaurolophus, Iguanodon, Styracosaurus, Pachyrhinosaurus, Microceratus, Stygimoloch and Struthiomimus, banding together for common survival.
- The Voiceless: The only member of the herd outside of the main cast who speaks is a scout who's quickly killed and eaten.
- We Have Reserves: Kron's attitude is that only the strong survive, so when Neera tells him that going on for too long without water will cost them half the herd, he replies, "Then we save the half that deserves to live."
- White-and-Grey Morality: They go along with Kron's brutal ways pretty nonchalantly, but they're desperate to get to the Nesting Grounds and later redeem themselves.
Carnivores
The Carnotaurs
"A mouthful of teeth with a bad attitude!"
Two traveling Carnotaurus on the herd's trail, and the primary threat on their journey.
- Ambiguous Gender: They don't have any characteristics to distinguish male from female. However, one is noticeably smaller than the other.
- Anti-Villain: They're just predators who need food and water to survive, and are antagonists by virtue of the heroes being herbivores they're hunting.
- Artistic License – Paleontology: The Carnotaurus was nowhere near as big, bulky and ferocious looking as they are here. To name a few differences, they were quite smaller than the Iguanodon and their arms were much smaller and stuck out from the sides. They were also built lighter for high-speed running, contrasting their more weighty depiction in the film.
- Back-to-Back Badasses: Against Bruton.
- Batman Gambit: The surviving Carnotaurus takes a risky one going after the herd on its own. It gambled on the herd sticking to its usual behavior and scattering in the face of a threat. It nearly worked until Aladar got the herd to stay together.
- Big Bad Ensemble: With Kron. They're a Big Bad Duumvirate tailing the herd, picking off stragglers and scavenging the corpses of those who perish on the journey, no thanks to Kron's harsh leadership.
- Disney Villain Death: The bigger one of the two plummets to its death when Aladar shoves it onto a ledge.
- The Dreaded: They are feared far and wide, their reputation apparently transcending continents.
- Driven to Madness: The Carnotaurs appear to be either mates or, if the size disparity is any indication, a parent and child. When the smaller one is killed by Bruton in a cave-in, the surviving Carnotaurus charges the herd head on in a murderous frenzy when it was previously content to pick off stragglers or scavenge corpses. It's also willing to scale a treacherous cliff to get the isolated Kron, which ultimately results in its death.
- Evil Is Bigger: Calling either of them evil is a stretch, but they are antagonists, and apart from Baylene, the bigger one of the duo is the largest dinosaur in the movie.
- Family-Unfriendly Death: One is crushed to death by a cave-in, and the other falls off a cliff and its body is broken by the rocks below.
- Final Boss: The larger Carnotaurus overtakes Kron as the final threat in the climax.
- Historical Badass Upgrade: While the real Carnotaurus was certainly no pushover, it was a rather lean predator lacking in bulk so it probably wasn't as dangerous as the treatment it gets in the movie.
- Horns of Villainy: As is par the course for this genus of dinosaur — to boot, they're twisted so as to give the dinosaur a more demonic appeal.
- Insistent Terminology: They're the only animals in the film referred to by their species name, albeit as "carnotaur" rather than Carnotaurus.
- The Juggernaut: These things are borderline invincible and kill with ease. It takes an entire herd banding together to ward it off, and they're the most powerful carnivores we meet in the movie.
- Knight of Cerebus: Whenever one of these giants appears, the mood immediately darkens, and the predators are always treated as a very real and genuine danger to Aladar and his friends.
- Know When to Fold 'Em: The Carnotaurus can easily kill any individual member of the herd, but when one of them had the entire herd standing up to it, it wisely backed off and went after the lone Kron instead.
- Mighty Roar: One comprised of pig squeals, big cat snarls, elephant growls and believe it, or not - a macaw.
- Misplaced Wildlife: The movie's already an Anachronism Stew, but Carnotaurus lived in South America (if we assume the movie takes place in prehistoric North America). Kron mentions that "they'd never come this far north" to possibly justify this trope, but it doesn't explain how they crossed the ocean dividing the Americas.
- Non-Malicious Monster: They only present a danger to the herd because they're their natural predators.
- Predators Are Mean: Subverted in that they only kill for food.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: Was given blood-red eyes to make it look scarier.
- Red Is Violent: Their upper bodies are colored in a reddish hue and they have the aggressive temperament to match this trope.
- The Speechless: They're incapable of speech, communicating only in animalistic sounds.
- Super-Persistent Predator: Averted. The pair only feed on dinosaurs who have died in their journey or have wandered away from the herd. Even after the final Carnotaurus charges the herd with every intent to have a bloodbath, it eventually decides to settle for the lone Kron when the entire herd stand its ground against it.
- Taking You with Me: The final Carnotaurus tries to pull Aladar down with it when it goes tumbling off of a cliff.
- T. Rexpy: Carnotaurus was much smaller than T. rex in reality, but these are beefed up to tyrannosaur size and serve the classic role of monstrous, fearsome predators harrying the peaceful herbivores. The film is also set in North America, where the T. rex lived but Carnotaurus did not, and in the wake of end-Cretaceous mass extinction, at the end of the tyrannosaurs' life span but long after Carnotaurus died out. The animatics for the film do in fact depict a T. rex in place of the Carnotaurus, suggesting that the filmmakers only secondarily substituted the Carnotaurus into a role originally written for T. rex.
The Velociraptors
A pack of tiny but menacing predators.
- Always a Bigger Fish: They swiftly disappear once the Carnotaurus debut at the end of the "Across the Desert" sequence, having fled at the sight of the much more dangerous predators.
- Carnivore Confusion: Subverted. They're depicted mostly as scavengers, picking off the herd members who can't make it through the journey. However, they're only doing so because the drought has made it harder for them to find fresh food, so it's more of a case of them taking what they can get.
- Dwindling Party: Just like the herd, the raptors seem to be dying off from a lack of food and water. When Aladar first comes across the pack, there are around ten individuals. When we see the raptors again during the march across the desert, only three individuals are seen together, implying other members of the pack have fallen behind or died off.
- Hellish Pupils: They have slit pupils that look like cat eyes.
- Killer Rabbit: They very small when compared to the other dinosaurs, but deadly.
- Raptor Attack: Nearly averted. The only things inaccurate about them are their pronated hands and their lack of feathers (which are errors that dromaeosaur reconstructions could still just barely get away with at the time the film was written).
- Starter Villain: They serve as the initial threat to the herd, but are soon eclipsed when the much more dangerous Carnotaurus take over as the later scenes' main foes.
- Terrible Trio: Three of them are often seen at a given time.
- The Voiceless: They never talk, though that doesn't stop them from making noise.
- Zerg Rush: They kill their much larger prey by overwhelming them with sheer numbers.
The Original Carnotaur
The first Carnotaur who menaces the herd that Aladar's mother was a part of.
- Ambiguously Related: It is unclear if this Carnotaur is the same individual as one of the two Carnotaurus that stalk the heard, has any ties with them, or if this Carnotaur is completely separate from them and is a completely different individual altogether.
- The Dreaded: When the baby Parasaurolophus flees the tree line screaming bloody murder, the herd understandably panics.
- *Drool* Hello: The baby Parasaurolophus first notices its' presence when it sees its' drool dripping onto the branches near it.
- Lightning Bruiser: Fast enough to chase down its' prey, and violently rips a Pachyrhinosaurus to the ground to eat.
- Small Role, Big Impact: Its' attack on the herd is what sets Aladar on the path to go on his fantastic journey to Lemur Island. There, he would be raised with the lemurs' compassionate ways which he would use to help the herd finally reach the Nesting Grounds. If things played out as they did but without him, the whole herd could've simply died out without Aladar there to help lead them away.
- Starter Villain: The first antagonist of the film who sets the plot into motion.
- Would Hurt a Child: Obviously given it's a predator that needs to feed. He also crushes all but one of Aladar's clutch of eggs.
Other
Flia
"I'll have a look."
Voiced by: Rebecca Wink
A Pteranodon who is exclusive to the Playstation One and PC games. She is one of the three playable characters (aside from Aladar and Zini).
- Animal Gender-Bender: Despite being female, she has the large crest of a male Pteranodon.
- Composite Character: She's based off of the Pteranodon that took Aladar's egg to Lemur Island, but she basically takes over the role of Plio.
- Fantastic Racism: On the receiving end of this in the game, as she claims that the herd will only listen to Aladar as he's "one of them". This makes sense when one is reminded that pterosaurs are not dinosaurs.
- Flight: Being a Pteranodon, she is the fastest character in the game who can traverse the map the easiest.
- The Heart: The kindest and most compassionate member of the team until they meet the misfits.
- Living MacGuffin: She is injured by the meteor shower and your objective in "A Strange New World" is gathering fruit to restore her health.
- Nice Girl: Rescued and raised an Iguanodon just from passing by and seeing it in danger.
- The Smurfette Principle: The only playable female character and the only female we see until "Footprints in the Sand".
- Team Mom: The tie-in material mentions she is the "den mother" to the group.
