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Chomper's Parents

You had us worried sick, Chomper! Come to dinner.

— Papa Sharptooth talking to his son

Don't worry. You're safe with us.

— Mama Sharptooth talking to Littlefoot

Chomper's parents, Mama and Papa Sharptooth, are characters in The Land Before Time franchise, serving as secondary antagonists in The Land Before Time II: The Great Valley Adventure and as supporting protagonists in The Land Before Time V: The Mysterious Island. They are a mated pair of Tyrannosaurus rex and the parents of Chomper. Together with their son, they are the only protagonistic sharpteeth in the series.

Character[]

Appearance[]

Papa Sharptooth is dark green in color and very similar in appearance to the Sharptooth from the first film, aside from having two functional eyes, and being a different shade. Mama Sharptooth looks identical to her husband, barring her lighter color scheme.

Personality[]

They have been shown to be very protective of their son, Chomper, breaking into the Great Valley to search for him after his egg was stolen by Littlefoot and his friends. Though they are initially antagonistic towards the main characters, they promise not to eat them at the end of The Mysterious Island, since Littlefoot risked his own life to save Chomper.

Some comedy is gleaned from Papa Sharptooth's concern over his son's bizarre behavior. On seeing Chomper gathering plants for Littlefoot and the others, he assumes that Chomper is collecting plants for himself and says, by subtitles, "Sometimes I worry about that boy." He has another moment when he meets Littlefoot, who after hiding in the stinky flowers, smells like them. He sniffs them and says to his wife, "Anything that smells like that couldn't taste very good anyway."

History[]

The Great Valley Adventure[]

Chomper's parents debut alongside their son in The Land Before Time II: The Great Valley Adventure. During this time, Littlefoot, Cera, Ducky, Petrie, and Spike mistake Chomper's egg for one of Ducky's unhatched siblings, which had been stolen by Egg Stealers Ozzy & Strut. Not knowing whose egg it really was, they take it back to the Great Valley where they lived.

Sometime between then and late the next day, Chomper's parents discover that he was gone and storm into the valley in search of him. They find Littlefoot and his friends just after they had managed to lose Ozzy and Strut. The two Sharpteeth give chase to the children as they fled in fear. As the gang takes shelter in a grove of trees, the two Sharpteeth separate offscreen. Mama Sharptooth encounters Grandpa Longneck at a nearby lake and knocks him over after a short fight, but before she can finish him off, Mama Flyer flies in and she chases after her, allowing Grandpa Longneck to escape.

During the ensuing chase, Mama Sharptooth and Littlefoot cross paths. She chases him, but he and Chomper working together manage to briefly bring her down by tripping her with a vine. She quickly resumes the pursuit as Littlefoot and Chomper meet up with Cera at a small cave, and the three take shelter inside just as Mama Sharptooth arrives. As she attempts to get at them, Ducky and Petrie, located in a nearby tree, distract her by throwing coconuts from the tree at her. Angered, she attacks them, but goes after Cera instead when she comes to the aid of her friends. As she chases Cera, Spike halts her rampage by pushing a large rock onto her head, knocking her down.

As Mama Sharptooth lay stunned, Papa Sharptooth ambushes the children as they attempt to leave the scene, appearing in front of Cera and Spike. He nearly eats Spike, who was frozen with fear, before Ducky jumps onto him and starts pulling on his nostrils and jumping on his head. Soon, his mate recovers and accidentally bites him on the snout, trying to eat Ducky. They both get into a fight before turning to eat Ducky and Petrie who are on the ground. Just then, the adult herbivorous dinosaurs intervene. Chomper's mother then tussles with Littlefoot's grandparents while he battles Cera's father. They are driven out of the area by the herd.

Later, as they are disappointed that they could not find their son's egg, they come across Littlefoot and their son Chomper. Littlefoot gets his leg stuck and the pair prepare to kill him and Chomper. But they soon realize that Chomper is their son. They leave with their son. But later, Ozzy and Strut capture Littlefoot and take him to the Great Wall. Chomper went to save Littlefoot but was captured as well. Papa and his mate were enraged to see that Ozzy and Strut captured their son, and that they were about kill him and Littlefoot. They then end up chasing the egg stealers out of the valley, and Chomper follows.

The Mysterious Island[]

In the fifth film, Chomper attempts to hide the gang from his parents after they are marooned on the Mysterious Island, as he was scared that his parents might eat them. They appears a little over halfway into the film, speaking to Chomper. Papa Sharptooth tells his son that he had them worried sick and that he should come to dinner. He says he will be there in a minute. Both of them were unaware that another Sharptooth was living on the island with them.

After Cera hurts Chomper's feelings, Littlefoot later tries to cheer Chomper up, before Mama Sharptooth roars at Littlefoot out of nowhere. She then tells Chomper not to play with his food before walking away.

Later, the other sharptooth attacks the gang, and later Chomper along with them. Both adult sharpteeth fight to protect their son from the Plated Sharptooth. Him and his mate are both visibly injured during the brawl, with Papa getting slashed on the snout by the Plated Sharptooth's claws before being headbutted away and Mama being slashed in the leg and slapped away with his tail. Papa Sharptooth recovers later and delivers a massive tail swipe to the sharptooth, knocking it into the sea. However, its body took Chomper into the water with him. Littlefoot jumped into the water to save him. The Plated Sharptooth, meanwhile, was washed away. It presumably drowned afterwards.

Chomper's parents thank the gang for saving Chomper and promise not to eat them (with Papa musing that anything that smells as bad as the kids must not taste very good anyway). While the four other children move away from him a bit when he smelled them, nervous about being so close to a Sharptooth, Spike didn't seem to mind at all.

Neither tyrannosaur has been seen since, though they apparently gave Ruby the responsibility of looking after Chomper when the two decided to live in the Great Valley after being separated from their families by Red Claw and his fast biters minions Screech and Thud.

Trivia[]

  • They are the only sharpteeth in the series to bleed onscreen.
  • Mama Sharpteeth is one of the few sharpteeth to fully smile.
  • Their roles in the series as protective parents of a very young child mirror another 1997 Universal dinosaur film, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, which features a male and a female Tyrannosaurus hunting down the focal humans after their infant is taken from them.
  • During their introductory scene in the fifth film, Papa Sharptooth appears first with Mama Sharptooth's coloring, and then the camera changes and his color changes to the correct one. His mate then appears and walks up beside him.
  • Papa Sharptooth may or may not be the Sharptooth that appeared near the start of the second film in the opening narration. Likewise, a sharptooth identical to Mama Sharptooth appears in the opening narration of fifth film, preparing to kill two Corythosaurus that were fighting for food.
  • Papa's appearance is very similar to that of the original Sharptooth from the first movie. By coincidence, on the VHS cover, one of the original concepts for Sharptooth was put in the cover to represent Chomper's father.[1]
  • The original version of Sharptooth Encounter (which plays when the two sharpteeth attack) is only used in The Land Before Time II: The Great Valley Adventure, but a revised version is used when the fast biter pack attacks in The Land Before Time III: The Time of the Great Giving and when the Plated Sharptooth attacks in The Land Before Time V: The Mysterious Island. The original version is not available in the movie's soundtrack, but some fans have made their own versions.[2]
  • It is unknown why, despite Papa Sharptooth being able to smell Littlefoot in the fifth movie, he did not scent out Littlefoot in the second movie when he was in the log nearby. It is possible that he was more concerned with finding his lost child and had smelled Littlefoot, but decided to leave with Chomper before the adults came by. The same would hold true for why he didn't attack Littlefoot when Ozzy was holding him out in front of him at the Great Wall, because he was too angry with Ozzy and Strut to bother attacking Littlefoot.
  • When Mama Sharptooth notices Chomper and Littlefoot playing, she jokingly tells his son not to "play with his food" too much, implying she doesn't seem bothered with her son's taste in friends.

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Main family members in The Land Before Time
Characters
Grandma and Grandpa Longneck | Ali | Bron | Littlefoot's Mother | Shorty | Old One | Ali's Mother | Daddy Topps | Cera's Mother | Dinah and Dana | Tria | Cera's Siblings | Tricia | Mama Swimmer | Papa Swimmer | Ducky and Spike's Siblings | Mama Flyer | Petrie's Siblings | Pterano | Papa Sharptooth | Mama Sharptooth | Ruby's Parents | Ruby's Siblings |
See Also
Main characters


Sharpteeth in The Land Before Time, in order of appearance:
Characters
Sharptooth (character) | Chomper | Papa Sharptooth | Mama Sharptooth | Fast Biters (The Time of the Great Giving) | Ichy and Dil | Swimming Sharptooth (Journey Through the Mists) | Swimming Sharptooth (The Mysterious Island) | Sharptooth Flyer Family (The Mysterious Island) | Plated Sharptooth | Meanest Sharptooth | Fantasy Sharpteeth (Lone Dinosaur Song) | Allosaurus (The Secret of Saurus Rock) | Sharptooth (The Secret of Saurus Rock climax) | Fast Biters (The Stone of Cold Fire) | Bigbiter Sharptooth (The Big Freeze) | Sharptooth Swimmer (Journey to Big Water) | Belly Dragger (The Great Longneck Migration) | Sharptooth Pack (The Great Longneck Migration) | Fast Biters (Invasion of the Tinysauruses) | Sailback Sharptooth (The Great Day of the Flyers) | Hookthumb Sharpteeth (The Wisdom of Friends) | Red Claw | Screech and Thud | Fantasy Sharpteeth (Rhett's Story) | Fast Biters (The Lonely Journey) | Sharptooth Family (The Lonely Journey) | Belly Draggers (The Amazing Threehorn Girl) | Sailback Sharpteeth (The Hermit of Black Rock) | Sharptooth Mom | Fast Biter Babies | Featherhead Sharpteeth (Journey of the Brave) | Horned Sharptooth (Journey of the Brave) | Minor Sharpteeth |
See Also
Main families
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