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Littlefoot is a character in the Land Before Time film series. He is an Apatosaurus (which is also informally known as a Brontosaurus) but is called a longneck in the films.

Littlefoot is the central character of the film, The Land Before Time and its sequels.

The earnest, honest, and enthusiastic Littlefoot is always leading his friends into new adventures, overcoming obstacles, and learning important lessons about friendship and teamwork.

He is close friends to six other young prehistoric animals (Cera the Triceratops, Ducky the Parasaurolophus, Petrie the Pteranodon, Spike the Stegosaurus, Chomper, the friendly Tyrannosaurus, and Ruby the Oviraptor) all of which are a different species of prehistoric creature. He also makes other friends throughout his adventures. Littlefoot's having friends outside his species is a taboo, as many of the dinosaurs practice racial, or species based, segregation, which was based upon the days of racism in America, with the concept of threehorns never play with longnecks (which is based on a now defunct proverb in the US and is now considered racist and offensive in todays decade: Coloreds never played with white folk). His grandparents accept his friendships but other dinosaurs, such as Topsy (Cera's father), do not. His father is a longneck named Bron and has a rowdy stepbrother named Shorty. He is the largest of all of his friends.

Personality

Littlefoot is a modest, intelligent, playful longneck who, despite his traumatic upbringing, believes that friendship goes beyond species boundaries. He is good at making friends, but his clique is with his six best friends, Cera, Ducky, Petrie, Spike, Chomper, and Ruby, who are collectively call the Prehistoric Pals by fans. Although these are his closest friends, all living in the great valley together, he has friends in many other places, including Ali, Mo, Doc, and many others. He, along with his friends, go on many adventures together. Littlefoot tends to be ethical, mature, caring, and protective of all of his friends, believing that there is good in everyone. He is very caring of his friends, and acts as both their leader and the voice of guidance among them. He has a particularly strong relationship with Chomper, supporting him in everything he does, forming an almost brother-like relationship between the two. In the TV series, Littlefoot is most often seen singing Adventuring, showing his love of going on adventures with his friends.

Notes

• Littlefoot was named after the nickname his father had when he was little by his mother, showing that his father and mother deeply loved each other.
• As seen in the ninth movie, Littlefoot openly admits that he wishes he had a brother, (He likely would have had one had it not been for the two dinosaurs that stole all of the other eggs in his nest when he hatched).
• Although Littlefoot and Cera are best friends, they are opposites in many ways, and the two fight constantly. This, on rare occasions, sometimes even leads to physical confrontations, the most famous being when Littlefoot fought Cera in the first movie for insulting his mother.
• His favorite food are tree-stars, and finds them symbolic with his mother, for a tree-star was the last gift she gave him before she died.
• He looks up to Doc, a lone Longneck with infamous Sharptooth-fighting abilities. When Littlefoot hears Doc's opinon on him being friends with Chomper in the episode The Lone Dinosaur Returns, his admiration in him is considerably shaken. However, his respect in Doc is restored at the end of the episode when Doc apologises to Chomper.
• Despite the fact that Chomper is the same species of sharptooth that killed his mother, he has no problems being his friend.
• During the tenth movie, when Littlefoot met his father Bron for the first time, it is shown that a young longneck named Shorty. Since Littlefoot's father has adopted Shorty, that makes him Littlefoots legal brother, fufilling his original wish for a brother,(although, before he met Shorty, he considered Mo as his 'mud-brother').
• His nickname out of the series is "Lovable Littlefoot".

Quotes

• "Hey, hopper, come back!"
• (yelling) "Take it back!"
• (to Petrie) "Well, you can't! You're tearing my tree-star!"
• "This is Chomper, remember? We saved him from egg-eaters, we hatched him, we're like his family, he'd never hurt us."
• (tearfully to Bron) "Where were you, all this time?"
• "I wish my mom had given me a brother, then I'd always have someone to have fun with."
• "Where will I ever find friends like you?"

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