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Related to this, particularly in [[Xenofiction]], this can overlap with [[Humans Are Bastards]], and maybe even [[Humans Are Cthulhu]].
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== Films -- Animated ==
* In ''[[The Land Before Time]]'', carnivorous dinosaurs, [[Call a Rabbit A Smeerp|called Sharpteeth]], are the main villains. In the first movie, a [[Tyrannosaurus Rex|T. rex]] named Sharptooth is the main villain. He is a nearly invincible killing machine, killing huge Apatosauruses twice his size, surviving a 700-foot drop with just a mild coma, and leaping and running effortlessly. He is ultimately dispatched by being tossed into a lake and being hit on the head with a giant rock.
** One of the many sequels does give us Chomper, a child Sharptooth who does not attack Littlefoot & co because they raised him for some time after he hatched. He and his parents show up in a later sequel, where they do refrain from eating the protagonists again (although it's implied that if the parents had found them without Chomper around, they would have eaten them anyway. The dad implies that the main reason ''he'' isn't interested is because they were hiding in smelly plants and thus were unappealing).
* In ''[[Tarzan (Disney)|Tarzan]]'', a leopard[[Viewer Gender Confusion|ess]] named Sabor is one of the main villains. {{spoiler|She is eventually killed by Tarzan when he kills her by impaling her with a knife after an [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|epic]] battle.}} It helps that the bug-eyed, feral Sabor is [[What Measure Is a Non
* Glut the Shark in Disney's ''[[The Little Mermaid (Disney)|The Little Mermaid]]''.
* ''[[Dinosaur]]'': Mimicking ''[[The Land Before Time]]'', none of the predatory dinosaurs ever utter a word.
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