The Sharptooth = supernatural?

Serris · **on:** August 28, 2008, 12:28:40 AM

This quote from Drake:

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For the adults I think the strongest ever was Sharptooth, I have to wonder if there was some sort of supernatural force behind that T-rex.

got me thinking, "is The Sharptooth supernaturally gifted?".

I don't think it is ever mentioned but I'm thinking that he is not quite normal.

Let's see some of his feats:

Speed is apparently the same as a raptor
Can survive falls of over 500 ft with no injuries (other than unconsciousness)
Can withstand several powerful tail whips from fully grown Apatosaur with no injury
Can demolish rock with no injury
Can be thrown into rock with no injury
Can leap approximately 4x height (see leap at end of 1st movie)

DarkHououmon · **Reply #1 on:** August 28, 2008, 12:59:14 AM

No, I don't consider Sharptooth to be supernatural, just another dinosaur. True, the scariest, fiercest sharptooth of them all, but still just a dinosaur.

Kor · **Reply #2 on:** August 28, 2008, 01:00:22 AM

There was at least 1 other t-rex, and maybe more, that had some of those abilities. Though they may be a variety with more power then the average t-rex. Which does make me wonder why they went so far, and also if Chomper will be a normal t-rex as an adult, or one of those with powers above those or normal t-rex's.

Malte279 · **Reply #3 on:** August 28, 2008, 05:09:45 AM

I agree with Kacie on this one. The sharptooth of the original movie was a very strong one and he did do things that go beyond what we would usually expect from a sharptooth to perform. However, I am booking all of these under "effects for the sake of entertaining the audience" rather than "supernatural abilities of the Sharptooth".

Kor · **Reply #4 on:** August 28, 2008, 10:07:14 AM

They could have done the same without giving it powers beyond those of an ordinary sharptooth. A realistic one could still be scary. I wonder if while offscreen he works as a mild mannered reporter for the sharpteeth planet newspaper. I was expecting it to have an s on it's chest. Since it's abilities were not unlike a certain famous character who first appeared in print in 1938. Or perhaps more like a phantom zone criminal.

Drake · **Reply #5 on:** August 28, 2008, 09:12:43 PM

I definitely think that there was something different about that sharptooth. It may not neccessarily be supernatural, but it is super-something.

kjeldo · **Reply #6 on:** August 29, 2008, 07:41:56 AM

i'm with malte about this,

RFZT · **Reply #7 on:** January 04, 2009, 08:44:11 PM

Actually, I have heard many people call Sharptooth supernatural. I don't consider him so, but I definitely find him the best villain in LBT, claws down.

I loved how they made him not talk. It intensified his malice and overall terrifying-ness. He was so versatile, too, and had incredible power. Chomper calls Red Claw the biggest and meanest sharptooth of all? Sharptooth was waaaaay meaner. Like noted, he had the crazy jumping abilities, and he was very fast, and he fought a fully-grown brontosaurus(?) and fell down cliffs and was STILL trying to get those kids. And once Red Claw got beaten by having fruit thrown at him.

Red Claw the scariest sharptooth, my foot.

Petrie. · **Reply #8 on:** January 04, 2009, 09:30:24 PM

The original sharptooth wasn't a wimp.

He actually fought.

Plus, name me any Hollywood film that didn't have a hero appearing supernatural or can take falls that would otherwise break bones or kill anyone in reality. ^^

aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato) · **Reply #9 on:** January 27, 2009, 12:09:01 AM

Quote from: Petrie,Jan 4 2009 on 08:30 PM

Plus, name me any Hollywood film that didn't have a hero appearing supernatural or can take falls that would otherwise break bones or kill anyone in reality. ^^

Slumdog Millionaire. Wait, that's Bollywood...

Aggh, you got me.

If the Sharptooth was supernatural, it would follow with the themes of the movie. After all, Littlefoot's mom became a ghost.

Dracorider19 · **Reply #10 on:** April 09, 2017, 05:01:20 PM

Quote from: RFZT,Jan 4 2009 on 07:44 PM

Actually, I have heard many people call Sharptooth supernatural. I don't consider him so, but I definitely find him the best villain in LBT, claws down.

I loved how they made him not talk. It intensified his malice and overall terrifying-ness. He was so versatile, too, and had incredible power. Chomper calls Red Claw the biggest and meanest sharptooth of all? Sharptooth was waaaaay meaner. Like noted, he had the crazy jumping abilities, and he was very fast, and he fought a fully-grown brontosaurus(?) and fell down cliffs and was STILL trying to get those kids. And once Red Claw got beaten by having fruit thrown at him.

Red Claw the scariest sharptooth, my foot.

Yeah, I have a very low opinion of Red Claw too; they just put him in the show just for the role of a villain, and since the show took a turn for being more childish, it makes Red Claw a joke compared to the original Sharptooth.

Sneak · **Reply #11 on:** April 09, 2017, 05:32:36 PM

he wasn't villain (the Sharptooth), but PERFECT predator / natural antagonist, who has a chance to become personal antagonist (for Littlefoot & Co).

I don't believe he had superpowers, so there're two options:
- or he WAS the meaniest and strong sharptooth who ever walked ground.
- or Don Bluth & Co "gifted" him his abilities intentionally. Remember: we haven't (almost) seen any other predator in original movie. Maybe these abilities are... normal. And of course, creators of sequels ridiculously reduced predator's danger and strenght, making them complete idiots like Red Claw.

Edit: however... WAIT! HE HAS SUBGODDAMN TELEPORTATION!!!
what the hell, sharptooth? How did you do that?

Dracorider19 · **Reply #12 on:** April 09, 2017, 06:13:20 PM

I forgot this was mainly about the original Sharptooth, so here's my thoughts about him.
I'm aware there's some debate as to whether he was really a villain who just a predatory antagonist, but I do know that he holds a grudge against Littlefoot for blinding him in one eye in the thorn bush, and since observing that he kept trying to bite even after getting stuck when he tried to reach the gang in the desert.
And he wasn't supernatural, no, but just simply had above-average abilities for a sharptooth, like
really above average.

Gentle Sharptooth · **Reply #13 on:** April 17, 2017, 08:38:04 AM

In the Original, Sharptooth is suppose to represent Satan allegorically. Little Foot is Moses, the Tree Star (Star of David), the Great Valley (The Promise Land), and the fact Sharptooth is drowned in water just as Egyptians were at Red Sea during the Exodus all fits. So yes in continuum of the Original Film, he is supernatural, but in the sequels not so much.

Coyote_A · **Reply #14 on:** April 21, 2017, 07:43:00 PM

Honestly, the only reason why the sharptooth in the original movie seems so powerful and invincible is because he's shown from the point of view of a bunch of (almost) helpless dinosaur kids. It's supposed to help the viewer emphasize with the group of protagonists more. If that big carnivore met - say - that herd of hungry longnecks that devoured the little patch of green food Littlefoot and his friends first mistook for the Great Valley, I'm pretty sure they'd fight him off no problem.

Sneak · **Reply #15 on:** April 21, 2017, 07:54:21 PM

Quote from: Coyote_A,Apr 22 2017 on 02:43 AM

If that big carnivore met - say - that herd of hungry longnecks that devoured the little patch of green food Littlefoot and his friends first mistook for the Great Valley, I'm pretty sure they'd fight him off no problem.

Not really. Remember - he fighted Littlefoot's mom. He fighted creature who defended her single child - I believe it's the most dangerous creature in the nature. With that, she overpassed her own maximum of power, fighting and running even with fatal wound. But even THAT didn't help her to defeat Sharptooth, since he only lost conscious for some seconds, and I believe, Littlefoot and Cera were saved only by sudden earthshake.
Also, it's obvious that Sharptooth went in some kind of insane furious state during his battle. It increased his powers almost beyond the natural.

Coyote_A · **Reply #16 on:** April 21, 2017, 08:06:29 PM

Lone predators are outfitted for combat by nature. Gregarious herbivores - not so much, no matter what kind of motivation they have. But there's safety in numbers... Unless everyone on your group is a kid.

Sneak · **Reply #17 on:** April 21, 2017, 08:26:37 PM

or unless they're attacked by sharptoth in demented state caused by fatal level of hunger, who doesn't feel pain and is immune to physical attacks, who jumps on 300 meters on spine of the pray and immediatelly tears him to fatal wounds state.

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Gentle Sharptooth · **Reply #18 on:** June 24, 2017, 05:44:24 AM

Quote from: Snik,Apr 21 2017 on 07:26 PM

or unless they're attacked by sharptoth in demented state caused by fatal level of hunger, who doesn't feel pain and is immune to physical attacks, who jumps on 300 meters on spine of the pray and immediatelly tears him to fatal wounds state. :

Another good point Snik. It is possible Sharptooth is demented from hunger or perhaps some of his scraps have made him an ultra violent predators. Jaws, the shark film by Spielberg was based on a real occurance in New Jersey, where a shark got into the river and began eating people, because it was nuts from salt water and fresh water. Perhaps Sharptooth had some similar experience.

Coyote_A · **Reply #19 on:** June 24, 2017, 11:58:55 PM

That seems very plausible, considering the movie itself starts with the comment on how the environment which dinosaurs inhabited was in turmoil.