Voiced most times by John Ingle. Despite this, at the end of the film, she returns to the gang, and made amends with them, after which Littlefoot finds the Great Valley with his mother's spiritual guidance. ", by Longneck 626, on, The Land Before Time XVI: The Threehorn Gathering. [29] The book was illustrated by Charles Grosvenor (who has directed the Land Before Time sequels since 1997). Cera was voiced by Japanese singer Maaya Sakamoto in the Japanese dubs of The Land Before Time and The Land Before Time II: The Great Valley Adventure. It is implied in movies V and VI that Cera is afraid of heights. He is seen growling at Littlefoot (whom he sees as a bad influence on Cera) and telling him that "Threehorns never play with Longnecks." Likewise, in the opening teaser for "The Amazing Threehorn Girl", when Cera temporarily trips and falls, Chomper stays back to help her, until she assures him she's alright. "If all you're worried about is losing sleep, it will only take a few minutes; my goodness, you're impatient," Topsy shot back. The Land Before Time XI: Invasion of the Tinysauruses When the tinysauruses were trapped in the cave, Cera's dad told her to come, and she no, I want to be with Littlefoot. Cera's logo on the official Land Before Time website, featuring the shortened version of her real-world nickname, "Strong-willed Cera". Accept ALL the sequels and the TV series. Orange w. Cream underbelly In the original The Land Before Time, Cera had an antagonistic side because she is very bitter, arrogant, obnoxious, argumentative, and (like her father) bigoted towards other species (an allegory for racism). However, when he and Cera are reunited at the end of the film, his wife, and Cera's siblings, are gone. ", Cera At the same time, when Spike was nearly carried off by the current in the episode "The Star Day Celebration", and the vine the others used to pull him to safety snapped, Cera hastily fetched a long stick to perform the task with. Voiced by Burke Byrnes in the first film, John Ingle from the second film to the thirteenth film, and currently by George Ball, he is a Triceratops, and the father of main character Cera. In The Land Before Time III: The Time of the Great Giving, he seems to have a nephew or niece. Cera tries her best to show no fear, and often professes that she can defend the others, as in The Land Before Time V: The Mysterious Island, when the children see the tracks of a predatory creature heading away from their direction, and she states that she'll fight it if it comes back. However, in the television series episode, "The Big Longneck Test", Cera, along with the others, gets annoyed when Shorty brags to them about having already passed his test, and being such a skillful leader. The Land Before Time is a 1988 American animated adventure film directed and co-produced by Don Bluth (at Sullivan Bluth Studios), and executive-produced by Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Kathleen Kennedy, and Frank Marshall.. The Land Before Time: Cera's Shiny Stone. They at first mistake her for somebody else, until she lifts up a lily pad she was wearing as a hat, and are surprised to see that she is in a calm, gentle state. In "The Brave Longneck Scheme", she, along with Littlefoot, are most concerned about Ali being fooled by Rhett's made-up stories, and the two of them think up the plan of having Chomper act like a mean Sharptooth, in order to scare Rhett and prove to Ali that he is not really a "scarer of Sharpteeth". As he bites it, a chunk of the vine comes off, and the vine splits, sending them swinging into a cave in the side of the rocks below. An example is in The Land Before Time VII: The Stone of Cold Fire, when Cera, along with most of the residents of the Great Valley, openly expresses skepticism towards Littlefoot's sighting of the "Stone of Cold Fire", and Littlefoot yearns for a way to convince them. Cera, frowning up at Petrie as he perches on her head, during the song sequence of "Good Inside". Cera, reflecting with annoyance on Spike during the sequence for the song "Family", in The Land Before Time VIII: The Big Freeze, Cera appears to have developed a confidence with Ducky, as when Ducky is upset with her brother Spike in The Land Before Time VIII: The Big Freeze, she asks her what the matter is, and helps her to realize she is mad at Spike. Another instance is in the TV episode "Through the Eyes of a Spiketail"; as the gang searches for the hardwater sweets (frozen grapes), Cera begins to doubt if such a thing exists, while Littlefoot remains confident that they are indeed real. Later in the film, when the herd of the Great Valley is migrating in search of a place with food, and Daddy Topps and Littlefoot's grandfather begin arguing over which direction to walk in, she gets angry and attacks Littlefoot when he says that her father was being impolite to his grandfather. When confront with Littlefoot, Cera is often seen by the others as the word of reason and listen more to her when their adventures are ongoing and seem to have no end as the press onward; relatively though this is due to her being a Threehorn, being more equipped with a offense/defensive horn and her aggressive behavior. After Ali saves Cera from the rapids in a river a little farther away from the cave, and from the Belly Dragger and Sharp Beak, Ichy and Dil, she befriends Ali. She may also have disliked the fact that he was the least manipulated by whatever she said. [5] As the character was in mid-animation,[6] George Lucas made the suggestion to change him to a female named "Cera". Another instance of her caring demeanor is in The Land Before Time XI: Invasion of the Tinysauruses, when she softly tells Tria that she believes the reason Daddy Topps was so mean to the Tinysauruses was because he felt that they had effectively hurt Tria when they ate the tree sweets off of the tree, as she could no longer have the first one of the year. When his mother dies protecting him from a sharptooth, he is forced to travel through the harsh wilderness alo… In most instances in which the main characters are listed in order, she is placed second, after Littlefoot. If she was too proud to admit going the wrong way the second time, she may have also been held back by a much greater guilt. Hutson was the only voice actor or actress from the original film to return for the sequels, and her departure after The Land Before Time IV: Journey through the Mists marked the last time a voicer from the original film performed in the sequels. He has a positive attitude and encourages the rest of the group to work together. She is most commonly mistaken to be a Monoclonius, while her name is frequently mistaken to be spelled as "Sarah". Ducky: Run, Petrie! After a distant shot of the other characters joining her on the log, the eyes return to normal. When Spike gets covered in mud, and the others comment on his resulting odor, Cera says that he stinks "worse than usual", and when Littlefoot tells Spike that it was clever of him to use the stench to frighten off Red Claw and the fast biters, Cera mutters "There's a first time for everything". The Land Before Time is The Land Before Time, no matter what it is. More noticeably, in Journey through the Mists, she is upstanding to Ali after she shows fear towards Cera and the rest of Littlefoot's friends, believing her to be cowardly. Her biological mother has not been seen since the original movie, but as of the eleventh installment, Invasion of the Tinysauruses, she has a stepmother named Tria. Cera then confesses that the only reason she didn't like him was because of the fact that the others had been obsessing over him; she wanted to receive some attention as well. This would make Dinah and Dana Cera's cousins if correct. She is also sarcastic and has a dry sense of humor. Petrie is having trouble with a precision flying exhibition the flyers are putting on, and the gang helps a microraptor named Guido, who doesn't know what he is. In The Land Before Time II: The Great Valley Adventure, Cera's design was slightly modified, possibly in order to make her look more mature and appealing. The shape of her head and face is now less rounded and more angular, although her body design remains true to the original film. [16][17][18] The name was deliberately misspelled as "Sarah" in the Los Angeles Times review of The Land Before Time, by Shiela Benson, with Benson saying "It's spelled Cera, but Sarah it is to our ears".[19]. After Sakamoto left, the character was voiced by singer Rica Matsumoto, who has voiced her from the third film to the present; Later, Matsumoto would also voice Ash Ketchum in Pokemon. The Land Before Time X: The Great Longneck Migration She wanted to go look for Littlefoot when the others didn't want to. A major example of her softer side is shown in The Land Before Time VI: The Secret of Saurus Rock, when she is watching over her niece and nephew. A shorter variation on the nickname is just "Strong-willed Cera". From the original movie until the fourth, Cera was voiced by Candace Hutson. Cera, understanding Ruby's mood, cautions him away from doing so; suggesting that he might make her feel even worse. Prehistoric Pals Images of the Cera's Dad voice actors from the Land Before Time franchise. Daddy Topps (also known as Cera's Dad in later films, Topsy, as he is called by Tria and Mr. Threehorn as he is called by the other characters in the Great Valley) is a character in the Land Before Time films and television series. His birth marks the beginning of the very first film. Also, in the episode "Through the Eyes of a Spiketail", she quickly doubts the existence of the hardwater sweets (frozen grapes), despite Littlefoot's reminders that Mr. Thicknose had said they are difficult to find. Her solo song ". Associations Cera's father, Daddy Topps, is seen in every film in the Land Before Time film series, except The Land Before Time IV: Journey through the Mists, but her real mother is only seen in background shots of the original Land Before Time. "We're only IMPATIENT 'cause YOU woke us up!" However, near the end of the film, when the Swimming Sharptooth attacks them for the final time, and Mo appears to sacrifice himself to save them, the five all mourn him. Cera, trying to break free from her egg, while her mother and sisters look on. Other foreign-language voice actors for the character include Hanna Alström (in the Swedish version of the original The Land Before Time), Sauvane Delanoë (in the French version of The Land Before Time), Paula Fonseca (in the Portuguese version of the TV series), and Satu Nurmi (in the Finish version of The Land Before Time). Candace Hutson (I - IV)Anndi McAfee (V - present) As the character was in mid-animation, George Lucas made the suggestion to change him to a female named \"Cera\". Given the fatalistic attitude of the first film (the narrator having stated that "Sharpteeth stalked the herds waiting to seize any who strayed") it is possible they died on the way to the Great Valley, or decided to follow Pterano away from the herds. He … Cera : My father told me that Flatheads have very small brains! However, she still has maintained her dominant and egotistical behavior, as seen on multiple occasions, such as in the beginning of The Mysterious Island, when she says that the remaining treestar on one of the trees should go to her, professing that she is the oldest of the group (despite the fact that Ducky was shown to be born before Cera). [6] For a year, the characters were associated with the restaurant's children's menu and birthday parties. "Dad, what are you doing? Cera is friends with the other six main characters of the franchise: Littlefoot, Ducky, Petrie, Spike, Chomper, and Ruby (that are Cera's friends), although her strongest friendships appear to be with Littlefoot and Ducky. He is shown to be very protective of his daughter, even to the point of calling Littlefoot a bad influence, which enrages Littlefoot's grandfather and also horrifying Littlefoot's grandmother and Littlefoot's friends. He has been shown to be part of the Great Valley's leadership, sharing power with Littlefoot's grandfather. Likewise, Spike has helped Cera on other occasions, as in The Land Before Time V: The Mysterious Island, when Cera is flung off the log by the swimming Sharptooth, and swims back, Spike and Littlefoot help her up again. Production This happened while he and his wife were attacking the Great Valley in search of Chomper. In the original The Land Before Time, Cera had an antagonistic side because she is very bitter, arrogant, and, like her father, bigoted towards other species (an allegory for racism). Littlefoot snapped. ), and a niece, Dinah (voiced by Sandy Fox). Land Before Time Wiki is a FANDOM Movies Community. [13], Cera's species has been the subject of some dispute, although the confusion over what she is has not been as drastic as it has been for the character Ducky. She is also the secondary antagonist of The Land Before Time. The Land Before Time III: The Time of the Great Giving, The Land Before Time VII: The Stone of Cold Fire, https://dino.wikia.org/wiki/Daddy_Topps?oldid=32921. After Invasion of the Tinysauruses, Topps and Tria have another daughter, Tricia. However, her father, Daddy Topps, has the correct amount of horns for a Triceratops, as did her mother in the original film, and official sources continue to state that she is a Triceratops. Also, in The Land Before Time IX: Journey to Big Water, she is jealous of Mo for the attention and popularity he quickly receives from her friends, and deliberately insults him. In the eleventh installment of the film series, Template:Film, the new character Tria, an old sweetheart of his, called him "Topsy". Cera was visibly angered when Ducky called her father Topsy, but it is possible that Cera didn't know her dad's name, and disliked it because she had learned it from Tria, whom she was envious of for taking most of her father's attention from her. Spike nods, before realizing that it was a biting remark. Cera's stepmother Tria first appears in The Land Before Time XI: Invasion of the Tinysauruses. She is a Triceratops, which is known as a "Threehorn" to the characters in the franchise. As seen in The Wisdom of Friends and the television series, Cera can also have a fun-loving side if given proper stimulus first, the yellow bellies admiring her horn in the case of The Wisdom of Friends and Tria's secret mud pools in the case of the television series. Since then, many assume that Topsy is his real name, although there has been argument over whether it is really his name or merely a pet name given to him by Tria. Fan-Preferred Couple: Littlefoot/Ali (to those who aren't unnerved by them being near-clones or Kissing Cousins) and Littlefoot/Cera are both pretty popular, as … They then sing a song about the difficulties worrying fathers can bring for young girls. She gets along best with her fellow heroines, while she argues the most with the male characters, including Littlefoot, Petrie, and even her own father; Spike, who frequently annoys her … Cera does not view Ali very highly at first, in the fourth film, and later is envious of her for receiving Littlefoot's gratitude for saving him, when she does not receive any for her part. Cera is shown to be very skeptical on many occasions. It is also revealed in this film that she is violently prone to sea-sickness. Although very stern, and at times cold towards them, especially when they start to play mischievous games, she still tries to be nurturing towards them. She is also the secondary antagonist of The Land Before Time. She then says that he just doesn't want her to have fun, and hides away in the tall grass. Female Alignment Alive She even gives up her life fighting against the sharptooth in order to save Littlefoot and his then acquaintance; later frie… It is likely she was designed this way when she was still Bambo. As Cera climbs onto a log acting as a bridge over a river, while singing in "Things Change", the whites of her eyes temporarily turn light blue. At the end of the episode, however, when they notice that Ducky is acting in an extremely paranoid and aggressive way over her stash of stones, they realize they were behaving similarly towards each other, and make up. The only story to-date in which she hasn't appeared is ", Although she has a tendency to grunt angrily when singing, Cera is viewed by many to have a surprisingly good singing voice, especially in the later films, in which she developed a slight vibrato in her singing voice. She also refuses, like the others, to believe that the red tickly treestars Spike ate have brought them bad luck. Most of his peers called him \"Threehorn\" or \"Old Threehorn\", while Grandma and Grandpa Longneck call him \"my friend\", \"Mr. Threehorn\" or \"Old Mr. Threehorn\". Whether she has any brothers or not is unknown. British journalist M.J. Simpson's review of, List of awards issued at the January 2003 DVD Exclusive Awards Ceremony, on the, Revision history of Cera's Wikipedia article, and, Goodwin, M. B., Clemens, W. A., Horner, J. R., and Padian, K. 2006, Photograph of 4.5" Plastic figural nodder of Cera, at, Photograph of 7" Cera plush figure from Kelly Toys, at, 12 inch by 30 cm Land Before Time - Cera Medium Soft Toy, at, 6 inch by 15 cm Land Before Time - Cera Beanie Toy, at, Photograph of rolling Cera toy ("pull back and release, it rolls forward") from Burger King, at, A Land Before Time fanfic entitled "Revenge" on Fanfiction.Net, * A Land Before Time fanfic entitled "Last of My Herd" on Fanfiction.Net, A Land Before Time fanfic entitled "Toxic Promises" on Fanfiction.Net, A Land Before Time fanfic-video on video.aol.com, A Land Before Time fanfic titled "What Have We Done? In The Land Before Time V: The Mysterious Island, she mentions in the song "Always There" that she possesses a fear of storms in general. She also insulted his hygiene and intelligence in "The Meadow of Jumping Waters". 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