The Land Before Time/Fridge

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Fridge Horror

  • The Pachycephalosaurs. The alleged portrayal of these dinosaurs as "carnivores" in the film is often regarded as a case of Did Not Do the Research by armchair paleontologists with sticks up their asses, but it's actually a case of Fridge Brilliance and Fridge Horror. There is a deleted scene from the film (which was included in the Novelization) where Littlefoot and his friends meet a herd of Pachecyphalosaurs (identified as "Crown Heads") who refuse to share their food with them because they're not of their kind. This establishes the Crown Heads as herbivores and as racists. This is where the Fridge Horror comes in; the Crown Heads that attack Cera were most likely not motivated by hunger, but by racial hatred. They were terrorizing her For the Evulz, as seen when they loom over her menacingly when they have her surrounded just to savour her fear, instead of immediately tearing her to peices as a pack of starving predators would do in this situation.
    • They may have even been the same Crown Heads, since Cera insulted them in the aforementioned deleted scene, and may have gone after her for payback.
  • It's highly likely that Cera's mother and sisters died in the great earthquake in the first movie. That's the reason we never see any of them at the end of the movie or in the sequels.

Fridge Logic

  • Why is ducky named "ducky"? The movie never shows birds existing at the same time as the dinosaurs. Although in retrospect it becomes accidental Fridge Brilliance as the earliest waterfowl already existed when Ducky's species was alive.
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