Redclaw' scar

rosie · **on:** September 07, 2008, 12:36:40 AM

That is one big scar. Does anyone know about how he got it or imagine how he got it? Why is it still red and bleeding?

landbeforetimelover · **Reply #1 on:** September 07, 2008, 12:38:34 AM

It's not bleeding. It is colored red so that it's a predominant feature on his face. Don't you notice how it really shows up against the color of his skin?

DarkHououmon · **Reply #2 on:** September 07, 2008, 12:40:02 AM

It's never revealed how he got it.

Kor · **Reply #3 on:** September 07, 2008, 02:05:07 AM

I'd guess it's red so it can be easily seen and give him his name. As for how he got it that is as much of a mystery as how Chomper got off the island and came to be totally accepted by the folks in the Great Valley (everyone but at least 1 Maiasaur mother that is)

Malte279 · **Reply #4 on:** September 07, 2008, 03:45:57 AM

As for the scar being red, it is just to make it more visible I suppose, same as was the case with Doc's scar. It wasn't mentioned how he obtained the scar though. I suppose it is mainly a device to make it easy to differentiate Redclaw from other sharpteeth.

kjeldo · **Reply #5 on:** September 07, 2008, 08:38:35 AM

note also that redclaw's scar is resiment to that one of scar from the lion king

Drake · **Reply #6 on:** September 07, 2008, 10:26:17 AM

Except Redclaw's scar is a lot bigger. I suspect he could have just gotten it in a fight with another sharptooth, or perhaps from a planteater like a stegosaurus, or iguanadon.

Kor · **Reply #7 on:** September 07, 2008, 02:07:06 PM

It's likely large, like Doc's for the same reason for it's color, so it is easily seen by the viewers. & perhaps to set them apart from others of their kind like Malte said. Much the same reasons in Anime some characters have orange hair, green hair & in some sentai series like Gatchaman, or Power Ranger certain folks tend to wear clothes of only 1 color, or even numbers on their shirts.

Vaan360 · **Reply #8 on:** September 07, 2008, 06:49:45 PM

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Much the same reasons in Anime some characters have orange hair, green hair & in some sentai series like Gatchaman, or Power Ranger certain folks tend to wear clothes of only 1 color, or even numbers on their shirts.

Exatly, so that they can be well diferenced from other caracthers

pokeplayer984 · **Reply #9 on:** June 24, 2009, 05:25:27 PM

Okay, this theory comes from being inspired by The Dark Knight.

Let's just say that it happened when he was young and his father was... rather abusive to him.

Hey, makes sense to me.

DarkHououmon · **Reply #10 on:** June 24, 2009, 06:44:23 PM

I have my own idea of how he got the scar. I had meant to illustrate it, but never got around to it.

Chiletrek · **Reply #11 on:** June 24, 2009, 08:10:30 PM

Hello:
I'd like to see your idea for Redclaw's scar DH. I hope you'll be able to do a pic of it if you have the chance.
As for theories, I think it may have been done during a fight, but since it was never stated, I guess the possibilities are endless... until a canon fact can be given.

Pangaea · **Reply #12 on:** June 25, 2009, 12:26:30 AM

You know, pokeplayer, that’s actually a really good theory! :! I had always assumed that Red Claw had gotten his scar from another sharptooth, but somehow it had never occurred to me that he might have received it while young. It actually makes a lot of sense, though; how exactly does a full-grown T. rex receive a scar composed of a single long, uninterrupted slash from eyebrow to claw tip? One would expect such an injury to be more easily inflicted by a much larger assailant, which would require Red Claw to have been much younger at the time he received it.
Your hypothesis also opens a new perspective on Red Claw’s character. Maybe the reason he’s such an obstreperous bully who constantly terrorizes smaller dinosaurs (even if one argues his motive to be hunger, it seems to me that Red Claw goes out of his way to attack creatures that would provide relatively inconsequential meals) is because he himself suffered a traumatic childhood. (Holy coprolites, I think we may be on the verge of finding sympathy for Red Claw! :blink:)

Malte279 · **Reply #13 on:** June 25, 2009, 03:58:49 AM

Interesting theory indeed pokeplayer

I'm having one theory in mind (which I might put into a story one day) that this gash is actually two gashes with one opponent striking into an already existing gash that would run from the eye to the shoulder and tearing it open up to the claw. In that theory redclaw might be subject to one (or several) changes of name depending on the state of that mark.
One thought which just occurred me is that perhaps it might not be a mark from a fight or physical attack from anyone else at all. I have a small scar over one eye resulting from me forcefully opening a metal door and not getting my head out of the door's edge's path. Could not dinosaurs inflict scars upon themselves through such embarrassing accidents? It would be kind of a funny element if Red Claw has an embarrassing secret while exploiting the uncertainty of anyone about his scar for it's intimidating look

pokeplayer984 · **Reply #14 on:** June 25, 2009, 01:37:29 PM

How about I REALLY make the theory convincing. How about in my fanfic, I have Redclaw tell his cornered prey the sadistic story behind it all before savagely ending their life? Much like the Joker from The Dark Knight does.

Gee, then I'd make him look like a REAL villain.

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Pangaea · **Reply #15 on:** June 25, 2009, 07:24:10 PM

What I'd really like to know is how Red Claw obtained his titular characteristic. :huh: I've wondered if it's possible that when he acquired his scar, some of the blood seeped into the living tissue of his claw, permanently staining it red. (It's slightly disgusting to contemplate, I know.) Or could it have nothing to do with the scar, and his claw is naturally pigmented red? (I'm not sure if that's possible, though, and it seems like too much of a coincidence that his only red claw just happens to be connected to his scar.)