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Any more "super" Sharpteeth in the series?

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Are there anymore Sharpteeth like the original LBT Sharptooth?

He was my favorite character and I wish they bought back a sharptooth that was almost like him, right down to the supernatural strength he possessed.

Of course, there's always fan fiction.  :p

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I think the only sequel sharptooth that comes close to what the original was like was the mosasaur from LBT9.


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Quote from: DarkHououmon,Feb 14 2008 on  11:18 PM
I think the only sequel sharptooth that comes close to what the original was like was the mosasaur from LBT9.
That is the only one I can recall.


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Both of these "super" Sharpteeth were made fun of at a moment in the movie. Ducky's cutting faces at the original movie's Sharptooth was cut, but we still have Mo slapping the LBT 9 sharptooth. But even these comic scenes don't take the "bite" out of either sharptooth. There were other Sharpteeth that were not totally unthreatening, but non left as much of an impression that they might actually kill a character (not really, but the impression was there) even though other sharpteeth got further to the point where they had a character in their mouths. Those scenes were so much intended to be comic though that there was no real feeling of threat.


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Some of the more serious sharptooth scenes tended to be short as I recall.  Like the one in the fifth movie.  A nasty fight, perhaps, but it was somewhat short, as I recall.


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And there too was a kind of "slapstick" moment with the LBT 5 sharptooth when Chomper bit its tail and later on it bit its own tail. Come to think of it there is hardly a case of sharpteeth without any slapstick. I already mentioned the cases of the original and the LBT 9 sharptooth.
In LBT 2 we have one of Chomper's parents biting the other while trying to bite Ducky and we have rather clumsy looking Chomper parents when Spike is dropping a rock on ones head respectively when Littlefoot and Chomper are tripping one with a vine.
In LBT 3 we have one of the raptors' roaring cut short by a boulder landing on its head. There were no major role "traditional" sharpteeth in LBT 4. The one that chased away Dill in the end hardly had the time to look stupid.
LBT 5 is mentioned above.
The major Sharptooth in LBT 6 gets stuck between trees, bites the bridge it is standing on, and has Littlefoot crawling around in its mouth. There is no slapstick about the sharptooth in the legend flashback at the beginning and about the second sharptooth to appear on the scene (again a case of a sharptooth with not enough time before it is being executed -_-).
In LBT 7 we have nothing funny about the flashback sharpteeth, but there are no sharpteeth in the main plot.
LBT 8 came up with the first sharptooth which (in my opinion) was almost utterly harmless. Knocked out by a snowball while old Mr. Threehorn could easily dodge it though he had less time to do so  <_<
LBT 9 was mentioned before.
The LBT 10 sharpteeth were an outrage! Tripping over tiny longnecks (rather than squishing them below their feet), or over pebbles hurled by other kids. Incapable to injure anyone (not a scratch on Bron who was bitten by one of them) and officially labeled as "cowards".
LBT 11 had very ticklish sharpteeth and so had LBT 12. It is kind of a pity that sharpeteeth in general seem to degenerate to a mere comic relief rather than an actual thread (Up to LBT 7 all sharpteeth had at least something menacing about them besides their clumsiness. Ever since they have been loosing their menacing traits with the very notable exception of the LBT 9 sharptooth).


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I wonder if they did it was so they would not be to scary to kids, or some of the politically correct stuff.  One of the many side effects of doing this is the quality of the story isn't as good as it otherwise could be.


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Well, it always been looking for me, like sharpteeth were  shown as a completely wild and unskilled beasts, movable by instincts.


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LBT 9's Sharptooth is indeed the closest you can get to the original.  Both were just monsters! :blink:

The 4 LBT 13 Sharpteeth weren't that impressive.  Sure, they got a few close calls with actually getting a meal. (Barely missing Doofah and Ducky.) Yet, there was getting tripped by a nicely placed rock, (At least the guy tried to get Ducky on his way down.) getting scared by the loud squaking sound the Yellowbellies made and being beaten by a makeshift earthshake... twice. (The first got them buried while the second pretty much ended them by making them fall off a cliff.  I'd say the height is the equivalent of what the original Sharptooth fell.) Sure, the leader looked scary with that scar and all, but looks aren't everything.  These guys were just another disappointment. -_-

So yea, 1 and 9 is all we've got of "super" Sharpteeth.


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I agree. "The face of evil" in the movie must not look silly. It is unrealistic.


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I would have to say the one from LBT 9. that was the only one other than the original that put up a good fight. The rest bored me.


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LBT 9's liopleurodon definitely! The scene where he rears up from the water and lightning flashed behind him was plain epic in my opinion.

I'll admit, the LBT 5 Giganotosaurus impressed me when I was a kid. The teeth and claws looked exceptionally large and sharp for a sharptooth; he seemed to be a little smarter than some sharpteeth in revealing the kids under that giant rock; his jump across the chasm was a bit impressive given his size; and he was beating the crap out of Chomper's parents and actually drew blood on camera! I can't think of another sharptooth who drew blood on-screen, though the Original Sharptooth was shown via the shadow of the attack in question.


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^That's one of the two times there has been blood drawn in LBT, both in LBT 5.

Only ones I can name are the liopleurodon from LBT 9. But I'm a bit late to mention that one. :lol:

Maybe the dark brown and tan sharpteeth from LBT 6 too.