Ranks 30-21
We begin the top 25 with another one of the nastier characters. Ozzy, the worse of the two Egg Stealers from Great Valley Adventure, had 10 minutes and 38 seconds of screen time. This villain, like Sierra, had no remorse, and he took pleasure in eating eggs containing unborn fetuses of baby dinosaurs, much like an unhealthy drug addiction. We can all be very happy that we never saw any of that on screen, otherwise Great Valley Adventure would surely have ended up with a PG rating, even if kids were interested in dinosaurs, including ones who may have eaten other dinosaurs' eggs. Also, like Sierra, he, too, wanted to kill Littlefoot in cold blood. However, when Chomper tried to stop Strut from throwing Littlefoot off the Great Wall to his death, Ozzy made his fatal mistake by grabbing the baby Sharptooth and attempting to choke him. This was witnessed by his parents, who proceeded to snap at him and Strut, and pursue them out of the Great Valley, unwittingly saving Littlefoot in the process. Ozzy was definitely a psychopath, but not on the same level as Sierra was. I still think the Flyer was a lot worse than this Egg Stealer.
I’m thinking that you and I have slightly different opinions on Ozzy. While I’m not going to deny that he’s a villain (trying to kill the kids as petty revenge puts him on the same level as the original sharptooth, depending on how you view him), but I don’t agree with your quote “he took pleasure in eating eggs containing unborn fetuses of baby dinosaurs, much like an unhealthy drug addiction”. His kind simply eat eggs to survive, I don’t see that as something resembling a drug addiction anymore. I mean, Chomper’s parents surely eat other dinosaurs, but they’re not evil. Also, the fact that Ozzy is constantly cheated out of his meal made him relatively sympathetic to me, sort of in the same way as Sylvester from Looney Tunes. I felt he only really shows signs of being a psychopath towards the end, when he tries to kill Littlefoot and Chomper in cold blood, and while that’s still is inexcusable, it only after he’s spent the rest of the movie being extremely unlucky.
For much of the movie, I felt what made Ozzie really qualify as a “villain” was how he treated Strutt, something you didn’t even mention. Strutt is worth mentioning, too. For most of the movie, he hardly qualifies as a villain at all. The only time he does comes at the end (being part of the murdering plan), and that felt too uncharacteristic to really be believable. I’m guessing that being constantly bullied by Ozzy (who’s presumably all he has) made him a little too desperate to gain Ozzie’s respect. Coupled with the fact that Ozzie had apparently stopped thinking rationally by the end of the movie and had become truly evil, and Strutt himself suddenly turning evil is a little more believable. Again, I’m not going to say it justifies him being evil, but it at least makes it a little more sense to me, since unlike Ozzie, I don’t feel that there was really anything before the bit where Littlefoot is kidnapped to suggest Strutt was a bully, much less a full-on villain.
Anyways, Ozzie is one of my favorite villains in the series, so I’m probably a tad biased towards him. But at least we can agree that he wasn’t as bad as Sierra.
