The Plated Sharptooth (also known as the Giganotosaurus and named Plates or Plateback) is the main antagonist of The Land Before Time V: The Mysterious Island. He lives in the Mysterious Island of the the Mysterious Beyond, wandering from place to place to find food.
His vocal effects were most likely provided by Frank Welker.
Biography[]
The Plated Sharptooth is emerging from some trees on the island exactly 45 minutes into the film, where he sniffs the air and growls. He then bites and crunches up a bush the main characters were hiding in not long before. Later in the film, he sneaks up behind Littlefoot to roar right behind the young Longneck and chases him into a grove of roses and finds Cera, Ducky, Petrie, and Spike hiding in a grove of roses where Chomper had hidden them. He then eats the grove of roses and spits them out to attack the gang.
He chases the gang across the log which they had travelled across before and the log collapses into the crevice below. The children start to taunt the Plated Sharptooth, which he easily jump over the crevice. He continues to chase the children across the island while Chomper hears the growls of the Plated Sharptooth and the screams of Littlefoot. He quickly turns around and heads toward the noise. When the gang hides under a giant rock, the Plated Sharptooth sticks his head under the rock. But he cannot reach them. He lifts up the rock and bites into the dirt. He once again continue to chase the kids and shakes the dirt out of his mouth.
After the gang runs to the edge of the island, the Plated Sharptooth is about to eat them while Chomper comes save his friends by biting his tail. He attempts to kill Chomper in response and Cera rams the Plated Sharptooth in the back of his foot. The Plated Sharptooth bites his own tail instead, causing tears to well up in his eyes as he cries out in pain. This buys both Cera and Chomper to rejoin with their friends. However, this fight starts all over again. That is, when Plates turns towards both Cera and Chomper too. And he lets out a massive and ferocious roar --from the top of his lungs-- in rage (with an extreme close-up of his mouth).
As the Plated Sharptooth is about to eat Littlefoot and his friends for revenge, Chomper's parents charges at him to defend the gang. (Mama and Papa --Chomper's parents-- rescue Chomper and unknowingly do the same thing for Littlefoot and the other main characters. And they prevent anyone else from getting hurt.) Papa sinks his teeth into the Plated Sharptooth's stomach. He then fights off the pain and slashes Chomper's father's snout with his finger claws, causing Papa to let go. The Plated Sharptooth headbutts him away and presumably knocking him unconscious while Mama Sharptooth immediately engages the Plated Sharptooth. They circle around each other for a while and then the Plated Sharptooth cuts Mama Sharptooth's left leg with his toe claws, causing her to yell out in pain. The Plated Sharptooth then hits her with a massive tail whip, sending her fly through the air before crashing to the ground.
While the Plated Sharptooth is about to kill Mama, Papa distracts Plated Sharptooth and delivers a tail whip of his own to his face, knocking him over towards the cliff edge and sending him plummet into the Big Water below. He is knocked out and tumbles towards the gang. When Chomper tries to swim up, the Plated Sharptooth tries to catch Chomper in his mouth on the way down, but without success. He then lunges at Chomper and they both go underwater while Littlefoot then jumps in the water to rescue him. After Littlefoot saves Chomper, the Plated Sharptooth resurfaces and washes away.
Appearance[]
The Plated Sharptooth is olive green in color and dull green plates on his back with stripes of the same color going across them, and has a bright, dull green underbelly. He bores three fingers with sharp claws, as well as pronated hands, and with long arms. He has very sharp, white teeth, and has two brow ridges on the top of his head. His eyes are drawn in an unusually animalistic manner, with a lack of expression, prominently slitted pupils, and dark marks under his eyes. These physical traits mark him out as an unusually dangerous sharptooth.
Trivia[]
- The Plated Sharptooth is among the most agile sharptooth in the sequels, with other notably athletic Sharpteeth including the Horned Sharptooth and the original one.
- By coincidence, Giganotosaurus, the genus the Plated Sharptooth is speculated by some to represent, are believed to have been quite fast, with some estimates suggesting these theropods ran up to 31 miles per hour.
- It's unknown whether he drowns when he fell into the Big Water, and is eaten by the swimming sharptooth, or makes it to shore after being dragged away by the current. Along with several other antagonists in the franchise, he has an unknown status.
- Due to the fact that, within The Land Before Time universe, larger Sharpteeth are depicted as highly inadequate swimmers, it is most likely that the Plated Sharptooth drowned within the current.
- His red eyes and three fingers somewhat make him resemble the Tyrannosaurus Rex from the 1940 Disney movie, Fantasia.
- After the Plated Sharptooth accidentally bites himself in the tail, the roar he utters is a modified, low-pitched Howie Scream.
- The gang find footprints near the Big Water in the desert near the land bridge to the island. They may belong to the Plated Sharptooth, and that he may have crossed the land bridge to the island to find food.
- Evidence to back this up would include Chomper saying that it's a good thing that him and his parents were the only big sharpteeth around. The sharptooth may have crossed the land bridge the day before, unknowingly to Chomper and his parents.
- Some people have believed that Plated Sharptooth isn't a villain, although he is a villain because he's actually a sentient predator. Most of the sharpteeth are sentient predators which they aren't normal animals at all.