Line #24 WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTimeVIITheStoneOfColdFire


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3	The seventh film of the ''[[WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime Land Before Time]]'' franchise. It was released on December 5, 2000.
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5	One night Littlefoot sees a mysterious blue meteor pass over the Great Valley. Nobody believes him... except for Petrie's uncle Pterano, who believes this "Stone of Cold Fire" has magical powers. When Pterano and his two henchmen kidnap Ducky on their way to the Stone, it's up to Littlefoot and his friends to rescue her and get to the Stone first.
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10	* ADayInTheLimelight: As Petrie's uncle is the main villain of the story, naturally Petrie's given a bigger role in the plot this time around. His mother gets some more screentime and plot importance, too.
11	* AdultsAreUseless: Lampshaded when Grandma Longneck states that the children have gone off on their own, and Ducky's mother comments, "Of course they did! They saw us all just standing around arguing with Mr. Threehorn here!"
12	* AffablyEvil: Pterano is arrogant, unscrupulous, and motivated by wanting to rule all dinosaurs. That being said, he's generally a pleasant guy even to his enemies and people he doesn't like, wants power because [[WellIntentionedExtremist he genuinely thinks him being in charge would be best for everybody]], and [[EvenEvilHasStandards refuses to hurt children]]. [[spoiler:He even makes a HeelFaceTurn at the end of the movie]].
13	* AlienAmongUs: It's subtly hinted throughout the movie, and then ''very'' strongly implied at the end, that [[spoiler:the Rainbow Faces are aliens]].
14	* AliensSpeakingEnglish: [[spoiler:The Rainbow Faces, who are all but confirmed as aliens, speak the same language as the other dinosaurs.]]
15	* ArtEvolution: Starting here, the animation production for the movies is switched over to Creator/WangFilmProductions. While their work still doesn't reach the same level as the original film, it's visually more consistent and fluid than Creator/{{AKOM}}'s in the previous films, is now colored digitally, and utilizes [[TwoDVisualsThreeDEffects some CG elements]] in many scenes.
16	* TheAtoner: Pterano becomes this at the climax when [[spoiler:Ducky (who he and his minions had kidnapped earlier in the film) finds herself in grave danger--coincidentally, the same danger that got one of his believers killed during the expedition for the Great Valley]].
17	* BrokenPedestal: Petrie initially idolizes his uncle Pterano and refuses to listen to the others when they try to tell him that Pterano's not trustworthy. This comes to an end after Pterano kidnaps Ducky.
18	* ChekhovsVolcano: Though in this case it's saved for the climax of the movie.
19	* ColdFlames: The subtitle refers to a comet seen crashing by Littlefoot. A few characters believe it to be a legendary "Stone of Cold Fire" that would [[UpgradeArtifact grant their finders special powers]]. When found, [[spoiler:it just turns out to be a mere rock, though, as much as meteorites can be called mere]].
20	* ContinuityNod: This film explains what the adult dinosaurs did during [[WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime the first film]] after getting separated from their children by the earthquake.
21	* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: Pterano is the first villain in the series to not be some kind of Sharptooth or other predator, and the first with an actual plan instead of just trying to eat something. He has [[WouldntHurtAChild lines he won't cross]], as well as a DarkAndTroubledPast that [[FreudianExcuse explains]] his behavior.
22	* ConvectionSchmonvection: Littlefoot and his friends escape the storm by ''entering the base of a volcano''. What's worse is that they actually SLEEP in said volcano, and then get on a makeshift elevator that gets them to the top when the volcano erupts!
23	* DarkerAndEdgier: Compared to the [[WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTimeVITheSecretOfSaurusRock previous film]], and one of the darker entries of the series as a whole. Unlike earlier villains, the main bad guy has [[AntiVillain positive qualities]] and his DarkAndTroubledPast involves a whole herd of innocent dinosaurs getting killed by Sharpteeth, which the story absolutely does not try to gloss over. As such, Pterano is a much more personal foe to the adults than any villain faced before. The film also deals with the question of existence, the universe, and the unknown in a rather adult way.
24	* DirtyCoward: Subverted. It seems that Rinkus is this but it's revealed he just played along with Pterano's plans for his own ambitions.
25	* DragonWithAnAgenda: It's immediately obvious Rinkus and Sierra aren't as loyal to Pterano as he might want. They only plan to go along with him until they can steal the Stone's magical power for themselves.
26	* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: After hearing Pterano say the loss of his herd wasn't his fault (out of guilt more than denial), Petrie insists that it wasn't since the other dinosaurs couldn't fly away. Grandma Longneck has to explain that as their leader, Pterano was still responsible for leading them off the main path and to their deaths.
27	* DudeLooksLikeALady: Rinkus's gender is never explicitly stated except for one very easy to miss use of 'mister' by Pterano when he's introduced and his name is pretty gender neutral, but for what it's worth, he's voiced by Creator/RobPaulsen.
28	* EarlyBirdCameo: Pterano, Rinkus, and Sierra can be seen flying near the herd of dinosaurs in the background as all the kids are called home.
29	* EasilyForgiven: Subverted. [[spoiler:Pterano's exile is lessened to five years because he saved Ducky, but he still has to face the consequences of his actions]].
30	* EvilUncle: Petrie's Uncle Pterano in ''The Stone of Cold Fire'' complete with eyebags, long fingers, and an English Accent. Except for the killing bit, but he does kidnap Ducky... and then [[spoiler:saves her in the end]], so he's not evil. He's got his regrets.
31	* FriendlyTickleTorture: During the "Good Inside" song, Ducky briefly tickles Petrie.
32	* GenderBlenderName: Sierra. He’s a real tough guy, even if his name doesn’t sound like it.
33	* GiantFlyer: The ''Quetzalcoatlus'' that Petrie's mother brings to take the children home.
34	--> '''Cera''': Whoa. That is ''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis one. Big. Flyer!]]''
35	* GodWasMyCopilot: Two mysterious dinosaurs periodically help the protagonists throughout the movie. The final scene implies rather strongly that they were [[spoiler:aliens who took on the form of dinosaurs]].
36	* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Pterano ends up saving Ducky's life]].
37	* IAmGreatSong: "Very Important Creature", a song where [[WellIntentionedExtremist Pterano]] outright states that him being in charge would be best for everybody.
38	* ImagineSpot: When Ducky is slipping off the edge of a cliff, Pterano sees her intercut (by lightning) with the ''Parasaurolophus'' who died that way in his past. [[spoiler:This causes him to rescue her]].
39	* JustInTime: Petrie's mother and the large flyer she got to help her arrive Threehorn's Peak, just as the volcano was beginning erupt to rescue the kids.
40	* LackOfEmpathy: Sierra shows some traits of this. Namely, how he casually discusses feeding the children to the sharp teeth once they take over.
41	%%* LameRhymeDodge:
42	%%-->'''Littlefoot:''' ''[referring to the travelling dinosaurs entering the valley]'' They know they can find food here, and then be on their way.
43	%%-->'''Cera:''' Yeah, with a belly full of ''our'' treestars!
44	%%-->'''Petrie:''' Only if you not ''eat'' them all first..
45	%%-->'''Cera:''' What did you say?!
46	%%-->'''Petrie:''' Er...me say..."oh gee, that sure be the worst!"
47	* LargeHam: Pterano, all the way! You can really tell Michael York had a great time voicing him.
48	* LiteralCliffhanger: A ''Parasaurolophus'' died this way as the other dinosaurs who followed Pterano were killed by ''[[RaptorAttack Deinonychus]]''. [[spoiler:Ducky has a similar fate, though [[TheAtoner Pterano]] [[BigDamnHeroes saves her this time!]]]]
49	* LockedOutOfTheLoop: The main reason Pterano can fool Littlefoot and friends is because they were not present when Pterano got a group of dinosaurs killed, and none of the adults bothered to tell the kids about this incident. Lampshaded by Littlefoot:
50	-->'''Littlefoot''': When what all happened? Nobody tells us anything.
51	* MadeOfExplodium: Rinkus and Sierra learn the hard way that hitting [[spoiler:the Stone of Cold Fire]] over and over with rocks will make it explode.
52	* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Even if the Stone of Cold Fire [[spoiler:can't grant a wish]], most meteorites [[spoiler:don't blow up in a yellow energy explosion when hit by rocks]].
53	* MoreDespicableMinion: Pterano is the BigBad for most of the film, but he is a WellIntentionedExtremist with a tragic past who WouldntHurtAChild. His two minions Sierra and Rinkus are much more selfish and cruel than he is, and they're planning to betray him as soon as they no longer need him.
54	* NeverMyFault: Discussed when the adults reveal Pterano's backstory. When his followers are massacred by raptors, Pterano, being a pterosaur, is the only one who escapes the slaughter, and when he returns to the main herd, he repeatedly states that it wasn't his fault. This is less to do with his ego and more with his SurvivorsGuilt and being traumatized, though. When Petrie claims it wasn't Pterano's fault his followers didn't "know how to fly away", Grandpa Longneck points out how it ''was'' Pterano's fault that they died, and Grandma Longneck explains how a good leader has to accept the blame during bad times just as much as he deserves credit during good times.
55	* NobleDemon: Pterano's not above kidnapping, but he does make a point to strike his own henchmen to punish them for [[EvenEvilHasStandards two things he considers intolerable]]: violence (particularly, though unspoken, against children, [[PapaWolf including and especially his nephew]]) and asking redundant questions.
56	-->'''Pterano''': If there's one thing I will not tolerate, it's violence!\
57	'''Rinkus''': Then why are you hitting me?\
58	'''Pterano''': Right... make that ''two'' things: violence ''and'' stupid questions!
59	** He then becomes TheAtoner toward the end when he has a flashback to when he tried to find the Great Valley due to Ducky coming close to meeting the same fate as did one of the dinosaurs on the earlier expedition.
60	* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Rinkus. While he initially appears cowardly, bumbling and ineffectual compared to the charismatic Pterano and the aggressive Sierra, it's revealed to be [[ObfuscatingStupidity an act]]. As it turns out, he's much smarter and [[VileVillainSaccharineShow more dangerous]] than he seems, and he plots with Sierra to [[TheStarscream betray Pterano]] so that they can take the stone's power for themselves.
61	* ObliviouslyEvil: Petrie's [[EvilUncle Uncle Pterano]]. Believing himself to essentially be TheChosenOne who is meant to "take his rightful place" as the herd's leader, Pterano spends nearly all of his screentime speaking of how noble and great he is, even when he's resorting to kidnapping and extortion to get what he wants. The way he intends to go about this is essentially by trying to become a ''[[GodhoodSeeker god.]]'' Through it all, he refuses to see reason until he's humbled when the artifact that would allegedly [[TouchedByVorlons grant him power]] [[spoiler:proves to simply be an ordinary meteorite]]. That said, he ''does'' draw the line at murder and harming children.
62	* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: [[TheStoic Grandpa Longneck]] gets visibly heated upon hearing Pterano's come to the Valley. Anyone who can get ''[[GentleGiant him]]'' that upset has got to be trouble.
63	* PapaWolf: An ''uncle'' example occurs, after Pterano and his minions kidnap Ducky, Petrie tries to reason with him into letting her go, only to be knocked out of the sky by Rinkus (one of Pterano's goons). Pterano does not take too kindly to this and promptly wallops him for hurting his nephew.
64	-->'''Pterano''': "[[EvenEvilHasStandards If there's one thing I will not tolerate, it's violence]]!"\
65	'''Rinkus''': "[[TooDumbToLive Then why are you hitting me]]?"\
66	'''Pterano''': "Right, make that two things: Violence, ''and'' stupid questions!" (''[[DopeSlap Proceeds to wallop Rinkus a second time]].'')
67	* PoorCommunicationKills: The adults and children were separated from each other when Pterano got part of the herd killed, and the adults never told the children what had happened. It isn't until Ducky is kidnapped that they realize what a mistake this was.
68	* PragmaticVillainy: Pterano is against threatening or intimidating the children for the answers he seeks, since he knows they will tell their parents what happened and it will put ''all'' of the heat on them as a result.
69	* RealAfterAll: While [[spoiler:the Stone of Cold Fire itself has no magical powers]], the ending reveals [[spoiler:there ''are'' supernatural forces at work when the Rainbow Faces depart in what's all but stated to be their spaceship]].
70	* RopeBridge: In order to cross a canyon, the little dinosaurs walk across a bunch of vines. Unfortunately, [[BigEater Spike]] spots a flower on the vines and eats it, cutting the vines and sending the dinosaurs swinging into a cave.
71	-->'''Cera:''' ''[to Spike]'' Don't ever. do that. AGAIN!
72	* SeriesContinuityError: Either that or ArtisticLicensePaleontology. The two rainbow faces are meant to be ''Gallimimus'', and their kin seem to be harmless vegetarians, given how they are allowed into the Great Valley without rousing any suspicion. Meanwhile, Ozzie and Strut, the ''Struthiomimus'' brothers from the [[WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTimeIITheGreatValleyAdventure second movie]], are depicted as [[EvilEggEater Evil Egg Eaters]], and the same is true with the random ''Struthiomimus'' at the beginning of the first movie. Since both animals are ornithomimids (as closely related as a T. rex and ''Albertosaurus''), you would expect them to have similar diets.
73	* ShaggyDogStory: As mysterious as it is and despite being the driving force of the whole plot, [[spoiler:the Stone of Cold Fire has no magical powers. [[WorthlessTreasureTwist It's just a rock]]]].
74	* ShownTheirWork: An odd case; at one point, Sierra makes a paddling motion with one foot while [[KidnappingBirdOfPrey carrying Ducky in the other]]. While this was ''definitely'' not something pterosaurs could do, it is behaviour displayed by modern birds of prey when they're carrying particularly heavy loads in their talons.
75	* TheStarscream: Pterano's two lackies, Sierra and Rinkus, decide that Pterano has much too high of an opinion of himself and they don't like his more moral goals, so they intend to take the Stone of Cold Fire for themselves.
76	* SurvivorGuilt: This is Petrie's pompous uncle Pterano's tragic backstory. [[spoiler:Pterano, [[MyGreatestFailure blinded by arrogance, unintentionally lead a smaller herd into an earthshake/raptor ambush where EVERYBODY but himself was killed, and he barely managed to escape]] (and that's only because he can fly). He's shown ''watching at least one follower die'' (the swimmer that falls off the cliff). When he meets back up with the main herd at the Valley, he can only turn his back and cradle his head in his hands in grief and shock.]] ''Ouch.''
77	* TerribleTrio: Pterano, Rinkus, and Sierra. Subverted when Pterano turns out to be less of a villain, and Rinkus and Sierra take a more direct position of antagonist later on.
78	* TraitorShot: As Pterano sings about how brilliant but misunderstood he is, his partners Rinkus and Sierra have a brief conversation about kicking him out once they have the stone. This culminates in a shot of them shaking hands behind Pterano's back and singing "the very important we" instead of "the very important me" (where "me" refers to Pterano).
79	* VillainSong: "Very Important Creature" has Pterano sing about how he sees himself as being smarter and more important than everyone else around him.
80	* WhamLine: This one, revealing that Rinkus and Sierra are planning to backstab their "boss", as well as the fact that Rinkus [[ObfuscatingStupidity isn't as dopey as he leads on]]:
81	-->'''Rinkus:''' (''to Sierra about Pterano'') Just be patient! Let ''him'' lead ''us'' to the stone...
82	* WorthlessTreasureTwist: At the end of the movie it's revealed [[spoiler:the Stone of Cold Fire isn't magical. It's just a meteor that happened to be blue. (And, as Rinkus and Sierra find out, ''explosive''.)]]

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