Cera (The Land Before Time)

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The Land Before Time character
Cera
Gender	Female
Color	Pinkish-Orange
Colored eyes	Blue Green
Species	Triceratops
Height	unknown
Weight	unknown
First appearance	The Land Before Time
Portrayer	Candace Hutson (I-IV) Anndi McAfee (V-present)

Cera is a friend of Littlefoot in The Land Before Time film series. She is a Triceratops.

Cera has brothers and sisters, who were seen briefly in The Land Before Time, and has two cousins, who are Dana (voiced by Nancy Cartwright, who also voices Bart Simpson in The Simpsons) and Dinah (voiced by Sandy Fox). Dinah and Dana made their appearances and were seen in The Land Before Time VI: The Secret of Saurus Rock.

Cera's father Topsy, whose name was revealed in The Land Before Time XI: Invasion of the Tinysauruses, is seen in every film in The Land Before Time film series, but her real mother was only seen in background shots of the original The Land Before Time. She may have died, broken up with her father, or been lost. In The Land Before Time XI: Invasion of the Tinysauruses, Cera's dad was in love with his new girlfriend, Tria (voiced by Camryn Manheim) and had his name Topsy revealed.

Cera is a bossy and snobby young dinosaur who tries her best to show no fear. She has no problem bragging about her accomplishments, even going so far as to fabricate entire portions to make herself seem more brave, but will run away at the first sign of any real danger. She is also very sweet and caring, but that side of her personality is usually masked by her normally gruff exterior. Cera also has a fear of heights, as seen when she and her friends have to cross a ravine. She is also afraid of lightning.

In the original The Land Before Time, she was very bitter, arrogant, and, like her father, a racist--or speciesist. That was shown in how she told Littlefoot that "threehorns never play with longnecks" and that "they only talk to other threehorns and they only travel with other threehorns." This was made explicit when she told Littlefoot that "My father told me that flatheads [an ethnic slur directed at longnecks] have very small brains." She also disparaged Littlefoot's mother as a "stupid longneck" despite the fact that she saved both their lives and as they were searching for the Great Valley, she took control of the group from Littlefoot. She began to reform only after a rather severe humiliation when she begged for Littlefoot or any of the others to save her from a tar monster--not knowing that the tar monster was in fact Littlefoot and the others. She then angrily stomped away and began crying because, the narrator said, "Cera was still too proud to admit that she'd gone the wrong way."

In later films, she was still rather agressive and domineering but not to the extent that she was in the first film. In fact, by the events of The Land Before Time V: The Mysterious Island Cera was so used to living an multi-racial (or multi-species) community that when the Great Valley herd was forced to leave the Valley and perhaps break up and join other herds, Cera said "I don't wanna live with a bunch of threehorns, they're too bossy!"

In The Land Before Time II: The Great Valley Adventure, her design was slightly modified to make her look older and more appealing. Her head and face is now less round and more angular, but her body design remains true to the original film.

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Film series	The Land Before Time (1988) • The Great Valley Adventure (1994) • The Time of the Great Giving (1995) • Journey Through the Mists (1996) • The Mysterious Island (1997) • The Secret of Saurus Rock (1998) • The Stone of Cold Fire (2000) • The Big Freeze (2001) • Journey to Big Water (2002) • The Great Longneck Migration (2003) • Invasion of the Tinysauruses (2004) • The Great Day of the Flyers (2006/7)
Characters	Littlefoot • Cera • Ducky • Petrie • Spike • Chomper • Sharptooth • Minor Characters
TV series	The Land Before Time (2007-)
Songs	Peaceful Valley (1994)