Every good movie needs an opposing force for the antagonist. Yet at the same time, there should be a valid reason for the antagonist to be there other than, well, simply to be there. Ursula from The Little Mermaid stuck around because she wanted to seize King Triton’s throne and power. The queen from Snow White kept up because she wanted to be the fairest in the land. The wicked stepmother of Cinderella didn’t give up because she wanted one of her flesh and blood daughters married to a prince. So… Why exactly did the sharptooth from the first movie pursue the kids the entire time? I think it’s a topic for discussion, and I have prepared a list of possibilities, some serious, some more for entertainment, as to what fueled his continuing presence.
He is lazy. He prefers hunting kids for food because they take little to no work.
He has had bad experiences with fighting adults, so he tries to only hunt dinosaurs that can cause him no harm (or so he thinks).
He likes the taste of young meat best.
He had a dream that the kids would ruin the series by joining up with a herd of yellowbellies, so he did everything in his power to destroy the kids before they destroyed The Land Before Time.
He has a family that he loves very much, so he decided to live a safe life by only hunting things that can’t put up a fight to ensure his kids or wife would not suffer a loss.
He is sadistic so enjoys the sensation of making children scream in terror.
He is obsessive. When he tried hunting a prey, he does not give up.
He was jealous that writers gave the kids names and not him, so he sought revenge.
He thought to himself, “Ah! Those kids are so cute, I could just eat them right up!” However, unlike humans, he was being literal.
Giving up on or losing prey would make him feel badly about himself, because sharpteeth who fail at a hunt appear weak.
He heard the writers planning to make the kids sing in the sequels, so he was trying to do the world a favor.
Those kids were the only prey he could find that weren’t guarded by several adults, so they seemed the only logical food to pursue.
He was simply trying to look scary in front of the camera and had no intention of actually eating them at all.
The super Mario brothers came to this prehistoric world through a warp pipe, following Bowser who had kidnapped the princess again and thought he would be safe from those meddling plumbers in dinosaur land. However, they caught up with him, and there was a fierce battle between the koopa king and the two Italian plumbers, and Bowser accidentally shot a fire ball at the original sharptooth’s tail, singeing it slightly. When the angry dinosaur turned around to see who burned him, Bowser pointed to Littlefoot and Cera and said, “Uh, they did it!”
And that is all I can think of at three o’clock in the morning. Anyone else is more than welcome to throw out what he or she thinks that guy’s vendetta was, or remark at something I’ve said. I hope this wasn’t a waste of thread space. Sorry if it was.
