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The Land Before Time => General Land Before Time => Character Discussion => Topic started by: JBJB1029 on January 06, 2011, 02:19:12 PM

Title: Tippy
Post by: JBJB1029 on January 06, 2011, 02:19:12 PM
(I might be asking a dumb question, but I'll ask anyway)
Is Tippy a Male or Female?
(http://images.wikia.com/landbeforetime/images/1/1e/Tippy_the_Stegosaurus.jpg)
Title: Tippy
Post by: 2007excalibur2007 on January 06, 2011, 02:28:22 PM
He's a boy. Yeah I know his color seems a little female-ish, but he's really a boy. ;)
Title: Tippy
Post by: landbeforetimelover on January 06, 2011, 02:36:02 PM
At first I though he was female as well, but I clearly remember someone calling him "he" in the TV series.
Title: Tippy
Post by: Malte279 on January 06, 2011, 02:56:55 PM
In fact I think that the movie and the episode disagree on Tippy's gender or perhaps I am mixing up fact and it was the German language edition differing from the English original. In any case I have definitely heard him being referred to as both he or she respectively "er" and "sie". Maybe heshe was not considered important enough to determine that one :p
Title: Tippy
Post by: JBJB1029 on January 06, 2011, 04:07:07 PM
Quote from: Malte279,Jan 6 2011 on  01:56 PM
In fact I think that the movie and the episode disagree on Tippy's gender or perhaps I am mixing up fact and it was the German language edition differing from the English original. In any case I have definitely heard him being referred to as both he or she respectively "er" and "sie". Maybe heshe was not considered important enough to determine that one :p
The reason is if Tippy's female, then it would be a perfect love relationship between Tippy and Spike.
Title: Tippy
Post by: pokeplayer984 on January 06, 2011, 05:50:41 PM
In the eighth movie, Tippy's Mother says that Tippy is a he.

Now, I have seen this discussion all over YouTube, so I'm not too surprised this question would pop up soon enough on this forum.  Now, I can understand the mix up here.  This point of the sequels is known for putting certain female traits onto males. (ie color scheme, longer eyelashes, etc.) However, the bottom line is that Tippy's Mother said he's male.

Face it!  The biological mother would know. :D
Title: Tippy
Post by: JBJB1029 on January 06, 2011, 06:16:20 PM
Quote from: pokeplayer984,Jan 6 2011 on  04:50 PM
In the eighth movie, Tippy's Mother says that Tippy is a he.

Now, I have seen this discussion all over YouTube, so I'm not too surprised this question would pop up soon enough on this forum. Now, I can understand the mix up here. This point of the sequels is known for putting certain female traits onto males. (ie color scheme, longer eyelashes, etc.) However, the bottom line is that Tippy's Mother said he's male.

Face it! The biological mother would know. :D
:( Too Bad.
Title: Tippy
Post by: LBTDiclonius on January 06, 2011, 06:39:34 PM
I've been wondering that for years. I remember when I first saw it I was saying, "Okay, Tippy's a boy, No wait! He's a girl! Oh I don't know!" Correct me if I'm wrong but, I do recall Tippy's mother saying to both Tippy and Spike, "Come on boy's, lets go home." Notice the word BOY in there. So, I've come to the conclusion that Tippy, is in fact, a boy.
Title: Tippy
Post by: Malte279 on January 06, 2011, 07:09:26 PM
I checked out the English and German versions of the episode "Forbidden Friendship". I didn't watch them whole but only checked out a few scenes so I cannot say if there are any discrepancies within either version but indeed what I did hear made her a he in the English and him a she in the German version. Does anyone recall if there was any direct statement about this in LBT 8 and if so what was said there?
Title: Tippy
Post by: aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato) on January 06, 2011, 08:14:12 PM
Quote from: JBJB1029,Jan 6 2011 on  03:07 PM
The reason is if Tippy's female, then it would be a perfect love relationship between Tippy and Spike.
In this day and age, opposite genders are hardly needed to qualify a relationship as 'perfect'. ;) Just saying.

According to Land Before Time Wiki, Tippy was voiced by a guy in the movie and a girl in the TV series, so no help there. I don't recall enough to remember what pronoun a forgettable guest star was referred to with, but I always thought it was a girl.
Title: Tippy
Post by: Kor on January 06, 2011, 10:53:51 PM
In the movie, the bits I've seen, Tippy's mother refers to them both as boys, and in the tv episode Littlefoot calls Tippy a he.

As for his being portrayed by a woman voice actor it's not uncommon for a woman to voice cartoon boys as well as girls.
Title: Tippy
Post by: LBTFan13 on January 07, 2011, 12:39:33 AM
I always knew Tippy was a boy, but in my honest opinion I think Tippy's character will always be better served as a boy rather than a girl. I don't think Spike was really looking for a love interest, but rather another Spiketail to play with. Tippy just happened to be there, so it worked out. Tippy was the brother he never had because let's face it, Ducky wasn't really going to get anywhere in that department.

Title: Tippy
Post by: Kor on January 07, 2011, 02:31:10 AM
A thing many forget is how young the gang are supposed to be.  They would have no interest in romance for a while.  They may well find such an idea icky like most kids, at least when I was a kid, found such things icky, boring, ect.
Title: Tippy
Post by: JBJB1029 on January 07, 2011, 06:23:20 PM
Quote from: Kor,Jan 7 2011 on  01:31 AM
A thing many forget is how young the gang are supposed to be.  They would have no interest in romance for a while.  They may well find such an idea icky like most kids, at least when I was a kid, found such things icky, boring, ect.
Well not as Kids, but Adults.
Title: Tippy
Post by: Saft on January 19, 2011, 02:46:29 PM
As people have pointed already Tippy is indeed a male.  His mother does say 'come along boys' in the 8th film, if Tippy was a girl, she wouldn't have said that (or I hope not).  However why would they have to be paired up anyway?  Aside from the possible Littlefoot and Ali scenario which isn't entirely existant, the dinosaurs are young-kids/children whatever you desire to call them.  Being friends with the opposite or similar gender doesn't necessarily have to make them be paired up straight away....
Title: Tippy
Post by: DarkHououmon on January 19, 2011, 04:40:06 PM
I'm confused about something. Didn't I have a post in here earlier? I could have sworn I made a post.
Title: Tippy
Post by: Cancerian Tiger on January 26, 2011, 03:09:17 AM
Quote from: LettuceBacon&Tomato,Jan 6 2011 on  07:14 PM
According to Land Before Time Wiki, Tippy was voiced by a guy in the movie and a girl in the TV series, so no help there. I don't recall enough to remember what pronoun a forgettable guest star was referred to with, but I always thought it was a girl.
Tippy was voiced by Elizabeth Daly in the TV series, who is also the voice of Tommy Pickles from Rugrats ;).  Tippy was originally established as a male, so he's male :p.
Title: Tippy
Post by: F-14 Ace on January 26, 2011, 04:43:42 AM
When the character is so badly done that you can't even tell whether it is male or female, you know something is terribly wrong with this picture.  I think the character was totally pointless.  He/she/it only had a couple minutes of screen time and contributed nothing to the overall story.  Tippy was a very forgettable character.
Title: Tippy
Post by: Allicloud on March 11, 2011, 02:23:51 PM
Quote from: F-14 Ace,Jan 26 2011 on  03:43 AM
When the character is so badly done that you can't even tell whether it is male or female, you know something is terribly wrong with this picture.  I think the character was totally pointless.  He/she/it only had a couple minutes of screen time and contributed nothing to the overall story.  Tippy was a very forgettable character.
Hate to admit it, but you're right. Tippy's another case of a character having potential, but being refused development or characterisation, like Ali. Honestly, I think the only sequel-exclusive characters that were well fleshed out were Pterano and possibly Guido. All the others seemed a bit rushed.
Title: Tippy
Post by: aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato) on March 13, 2011, 05:13:59 AM
Quote from: DarkHououmon,Jan 19 2011 on  03:40 PM
I'm confused about something. Didn't I have a post in here earlier? I could have sworn I made a post.
Possible you forgot to hit 'send'. happens to me occasionally, got me tripped up during Darwin's Soldiers once, annoyingly enough.  :anger
Title: Tippy
Post by: Bruton the Iguanodon on January 23, 2012, 01:16:23 AM
I used to think it was a girl. I used to the pink flyer in Pteranos' group was some creepy old lady flyer. Now I know they're both male?!!  :wow
Title: Tippy
Post by: DaveTheAnalyzer on April 02, 2017, 05:00:41 PM
Since Tippy is addressed with male pronouns and words, I presume that the spiketail identifies as a male. He was voiced by Jeremy Suarez in movie VIII (aka Brother Bear’s Koda) and Cree Summer in his TV appearance (Lizzie, the Tinysaurus Cera befriended, as well as a zillion other roles) in a case of crossdressing voices. I would hope Tippy’s mother would be considerate enough to use the correct pronouns with the gender identity her child identifies as.

There isn’t that much to his character admittedly but his enthusiasm and friendliness are endearing. His mother must take good care of him to be so cheery and joyful. He and Spike getting into rough-and-tumble action is just adorable. There seems to be rarely anything more than simple good-nature behind his roughhousing tendencies. He can be oblivious and innocently insensitive sometimes, not noticing Ducky’s reactions to the pair of them becoming close. The TV episode did show he had some gumption and cleverness, sneaking away from her herd when they had a falling out with the valley and playing with Spike in some less populated places. When they found the green area, his first instinct is go tell the others about it but he had some misgivings about being the pair being found out. I don’t know if Spike helped them decide to go public or if Tippy did so on his own, but they were brave to come out in the open like that.

When Mr. Threehorn and the spiketail herd leader started arguing over who had dips on the green space, his tired expression of frustration and flouncing off with the gang was amusing. He tried to be cautious over the land bridge leading to the green space, but the ice was too slippery and they fell. But in the process of being saved, he seemed to get closer to Ducky, which is sweet. I think he’d appreciate Ducky’s cheerful and affectionate demeanor. I wonder if he’d become closer to other members of the gang in future visits or if he’d stick mostly with Spike and Ducky. He appears like someone who’d get along with most people no matter what.
Title: Tippy
Post by: Sneak on April 02, 2017, 06:35:27 PM
Here Tippy is male after translation. both in movie and TV episode.

That's good, but... at the same time, Ducky and Old One are turned into males in some movies and TV episode... -__-

(btw, English, why you're so hard and can't point on object's gender in verbs?
Title: Re: Tippy
Post by: RainbowFaceProtege on April 14, 2020, 02:44:16 PM
I'm glad to know I'm not the only one who spent most of childhood thinking Tippy was a girl! :p

Aside from that bit of confusion, I didn't think Tippy was a bad character. He was a cute friend for Spike, which was all the plot really needed him to be. Sure, a little more development would've been nice, but he's still a little kid, probably considerably younger than the main gang, and another spiketail of few words at that.

(btw, English, why you're so hard and can't point on object's gender in verbs?

Heh, I remember how surprised I was when I first found out that other languages could do that. I bet it comes in handy to avoid confusions like this! :lol