Chomper

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The Land Before Time character
Chomper
Gender	Male
Color	Greyish Indigo (Purple in the TV series)
Colored eyes	Red
Species	Tyrannosaurus
First appearance	The Land Before Time II: The Great Valley Adventure
Portrayer	Rob Paulsen (II) Cannon Young (V) Max Burkholder (TV series)

Chomper is a character in the Land Before Time films and TV series. He is a Tyrannosaurus, which is known as a sharptooth in The Land Before Time film. He is bilingual, being able to speak both the herbivore language of Littlefoot and his friends (heard as English to the viewer), and the "Sharptooth" language of Tyrannosaurus, which seems to consist of grunts, roars, and clicks. Littlefoot and his friends originally found Chomper as an egg and took care of him as surrogate parents until he was found by his real parents. He left the Great Valley with them and was not seen again until The Land Before Time V: The Mysterious Island, where he was living on an island with his parents. Now that the landbridge which connected the island to the mainland has been destroyed, he and his parents cannot get off the island.

In the TV series, Chomper is accepted into the Great Valley and currently lives with Ruby in a cave. It is unknown how Chomper escaped the island when the land bridge was destroyed in The Mysterious Island, although we do know that Chomper's parents gave Ruby the responsibility to take care of him, says Ruby in the episode The Cave of Many Voices. A flashback in The Star Day Celebration tells us that Chomper and Ruby initially went to the Great Valley together when pursued by Redclaw.

Chomper's form has also been slightly modified in the TV series. He is now more purple (compared to his bluish color in the movies The Great Valley Adventure and The Mysterious Island). His teeth are also positioned differently.

[edit] Trivia

• In 1995, Don Glut, wrote the book Chomper, a book in a series of Dinotopia junior novels. It concerns an infant Giganotosaurus named Chomper that was separated from its parents and was raised by a human boy. However, it ends with the boy realizing that he can no longer take care of Chomper and returning him to the wilds of the Rainy Basin where other meat eating dinosaurs live. Whether this is just a coincidence or if Glut intentionally copied The Land Before Time II: The Great Valley Adventure--which he has stated that he hates--is unknown.
• He is one of the four guest characters to reappear in a full supporting role so far. The other characters were Tria, Tricia, and Ali.

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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 (2003) • The Great Longneck Migration (2004) • Invasion of the Tinysauruses (2005) • The Great Day of the Flyers (2007)
Characters	Littlefoot • Cera • Ducky • Petrie • Spike • Chomper • Ruby • Sharptooth • Characters
TV series	The Land Before Time (2007-)
Others	Voice Actors