The Velociraptors are the main antagonists in The Land Before Time III: The Time of the Great Giving.
Biography[]
A pack of four Velociraptor come down from the hills to prey upon the group of dinosaurs. One of the raptors tries to attack Grandpa Longneck, but the Longneck moves aside and hits the raptor into the air with his tail. It lands on Daddy Topps' head, who throws it into the air, sending it sliding down a rock wall and then possibly killed by a falling stone. The raptor stays incapacitated for the remainder of the fight and eventually dies.
While the other adults attempt to fend off the three Sharpteeth, the leaf eater children are guided away from the battle by Hyp's father and Littlefoot fears for his grandfather's safety, but Hyp's father tells him to keep running. The raptors soon get past Mutt's father and leave the area to chase after the children who comes across a large rock wall in a small valley. When the raptors are about to attack the children, they got stopped by Daddy Topps and a standoff between the Sharpteeth and the adults begins, but the cliff collapses every leaf eater and fast biter down to the valley below.
The raptors quickly wake up and close in on the herbivores. Hyp's father attempts to stop the Sharpteeth from killing the other grownups for food while Hyp distracts them away, even managing to get the three raptors to knock heads. They got hit away by the other adults who regain consciousness. One of the raptors (possibly the leader) get hit on the head by a rock which Hyp steps on, and Topps rams the raptor, sending it into a wall.
The other two raptors attempt to climb up the dam of rocks to kill the children. The adults continue to fight the Sharpteeth as the three of them prepares to attack them. With the collapse of the dam and water begins to flood the narrow valley in which the characters are located. When the herbivorous dinosaurs escape the rush of water, the raptors gets washed away by the water and become relocated to a different area of the Mysterious Beyond.
Trivia[]
- Though there are initially four raptors involved in the fight, the first attacker was knocked out and possibly killed by a falling rock early on. Even if it had survived, it likely would have drowned in the surge of water in the climax of the fight.
- They are the first major Fast Biters to appear in the franchise, although the term was only concepted in the television series, well after the release of The Time of the Great Giving.
- Unrealistically, they suffered no injuries and kept coming back during the fight; a common trait associated in most of the Sharpteeth in the Land Before Time franchise, but no battle in the series was this unrealistic, as they came back on a very high number of occasions.
- There is an error with the sharpteeth's positions when the adults recover. Grandpa Longneck knocks three of the fast biters away from where they were standing, and then they appear in the same place they were before they were knocked away by Grandpa's tail.
- The updated version of the original "Sharptooth Encounter" theme from 2 is used for the first time when these sharpteeth attack. It is used a couple of later sequels, primarily when the Plated Sharptooth attacks in 5 and when the Sail-Backed Sharptooth attacks in 12, though only briefly in the latter film.
- Some people have believed that the Velociraptors aren't villains, although they were villains because they're actually sentient predators. Most of the sharpteeth are sentient predators which they are not normal animals at all.