Cera (The Land Before Time)
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| The Land Before Time character | |
| Cera | |
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| Gender | Female |
| Color | Yellow |
| Eye color | Blue Green |
| Species | Triceratops |
| First appearance | The Land Before Time |
| Portrayer | Candace Hutson (I-IV) Anndi McAfee (V-present) Maaya Sakamoto (Japanese dubs, I-II) Rica Matsumoto (Japanese dubs, III-present) |
Cera is a friend of Littlefoot in The Land Before Time film series. She is a Triceratops.[1]
Cera has brothers and sisters, who were seen briefly in The Land Before Time, and has a nephew, Dana (voiced by Nancy Cartwright, who also voices Bart Simpson on The Simpsons and Chuckie Finster from Rugrats to All Grown Up!), and a niece, 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. In The Land Before Time XII: The Great Day of the Flyers, Cera now has a half-sister, which is Tricia, the daughter of Tria and Topsy.
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, except The Land Before Time IV: Journey Through the Mists, 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.
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[edit] Personality
Cera is a bossy and snobby but sometimes nice baby 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.
In the original The Land Before Time, she was very bitter, arrogant, and, like her father, bigoted towards other species (an allegory for racism). 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 a racial 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 after his search for the Great Valley yielded no results. 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 aggressive 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 in a diverse-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!"
[edit] Notes
- 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.
- Although Cera resented Chomper in the second film and showed a careless attitude of him in the fifth film, the two seem to have no qualm around each other now.
- She has a fear of both heights and lightning, and she is also violently prone to sea-sickness.
- Her nickname out of the series is "Sweet but Strongwilled Cera". [2]
- Cera was made a female character upon George Lucas's suggestion.[3]
- Cera appears to be missing two of her horns. Some have suggested that this is because she is in fact a Monoclonius, although official sources continue to state that she is a Triceratops. Her father however has the correct number of horns (three). However, in The Land Before Time XIII: The Wisdom of Friends, she states that she would grow more new horns when she's older, indicating that her species are born with one horn and grow two more when they grow up.
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