Special:Badtitle/NS90:User talk:DocColress/The great big examples suggestions topic 2: The Twin Snakes

So since the original topic was getting to the point to where posts are narrowing out to the point of page-stretching, I decided to start the topic anew!

But anyway, I have a suggestion for a Monster that may come off as weird at first. If you're familiar with Don Bluth's The Land Before Time (Fantastic movie by the way, though it's plagued with a ton of sequels of... questionable quality), you may shoot me down at first, but give me a second! I want to propose: The Tyrannosaurus Rex villain known simply as Sharptooth. I'm not going to go into a detailed description as his deeds are fairly simple (Kills the protagonist Littlefoot's mother, then tries to kill Littlefoot and his band of young dinosaur friends multiple times until his death). I want to make it clear that the movie version of him does NOT count in any way shape or form. Given the events of when the movie takes place (An earthquake near what may be the end of the Cretaceous Period which would cause a lack of prey animals), he comes off as a desperate predator who is stalking Littlefoot and friends so he can have a bite to eat, which is actual behavior observed in starving predators in real life. Plus, he suffers from a lack of characterization which doesn't help at all.

However, there was a novelization of The Land Before Time simply called The Land Before Time: The Illustrated Story that is a straight novelization of the movie along with some added scenes. It's here where I think Sharptooth may count, at least for that novelization. For one thing, while he remains silent, the book actually shows his thought and characterizes him. Unlike in the movie where he chases Littlefoot and his posse for what's implied to be out of hunger, the book shows that Sharptooth is trying to kill Littlefoot because he (accidentally) damaged the Sharptooth's eye during their first encounter. The book goes into detail about how the Sharptooth does NOT forgive or forget grudges and any time he sees Littlefoot (and his growing band of dinosaur children) that he flies into a rage and goes after them. Like in the movie, he never stops trying to kill them, which is heinous in this book because Littlefoot and his friends pose no threat to him whatsoever, and in his friend's case, they weren't even present when the Sharptooth was injured! Hell, in his first scene in the book, a direct quote even states " ...with a terrible fury, he plunged back into the thicket, searching for the puny creatures that dared to injure him" showing that he also has a bit of an ego. Hell, at the climax where Littlefoot and friends are near the Great Valley (Where all the other dinosaurs are gathering), he's described as sniffing the air "with an evil joy", which implies that he isn't going to kill the dinosaurs for food, he just might head in and slaughter them just because he likes killing.

So yeah, I seriously apologize for the wall of text that came from me describing a silent dinosaur! I just find it interesting because I learned about this novelization courtesy of the Villain's Wiki (It's not perfect, I mean I had to remove a Complete Monster tag from ZAHEER of all people, but in some ways I think it handles Complete Monster better than TV Tropes) because I found Sharptooth's page and learned about this novelization. This reminds me of that one Star Wars villain named Jer-Jerrod (I think?) that Ambar pushed for back at TV Tropes in that the villain in question doesn't count in his home film, but is given enough characterization to count in a spinoff novel. And after doing my homework on the novel, I'd like to know your thoughts on this and if you'd consider him sufficiently monstrous enough book-wise.