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| Ozzy and Strut | |
|---|---|
| Info | |
| Gender |
Male |
| Status |
Unknown |
| Color |
Pale tan and gray (Ozzy) |
| Eye color |
Amber (Ozzy) |
| Species | |
| Food |
Eggs (Ozzy) |
| Voice actor |
Jeff Bennett (Ozzy) |
| First appearance | |
| Last appearance | |
Ozzy and Strut, voiced by Jeff Bennett and Rob Paulsen, are villains in The Land Before Time film series. They are the main antagonists of The Land Before Time II: The Great Valley Adventure. They are Struthiomimus brothers, as verified in a line of the song "Eggs". Ozzy is the primary antagonist and Strut is the secondary antagonist of the two.
Personalities[]
Ozzy is the greedy, dominant, and usually the brain of the duo. He is usually the one who makes plans and also the most cruel of the two brothers and shows a real obsession about eggs, according to the song Eggs. He dominates even his brother Strut and generally abuses him, often by whacking him with his tail, or blames him when something is wrong about their plans. He's showed caring very little for his younger sibling and generally when a situation is dangerous, he is often the one to run away in crying "Me first". However, he could deep down care for him as he want to take him away from his soft spot for plants.
Ozzy, much like Sierra, appears to be a hotheaded psychopath. He seems to be cruel to everyone around him, including his own brother. He wants to harm Littlefoot and his friends over an egg. He later tries to give the kids lava baths after being foiled of getting eggs a second time. Later, he shoves Strut out of the way when lava is coming and runs across the log first, yelling "I'm first. I'm first. I'm always first." Ultimately, he tries to murder Littlefoot by throwing him off the Great Wall, a move that was thankfully foiled by Chomper. In addition, despite Strut saying he is very hungry, he continually knocks the green out of Strut's hands when he tries to eat it, demanding that Strut eat eggs like him.
Unlike his brother, Strut is the dominee of the duo and usually Ozzy treats him like his slave. He doesn't make an obsession about eggs like Ozzy but likes plants, much to Ozzy's irritation. He is afraid of his brother, and makes everything Ozzy wants and it's unknown if he cares for him or not. Strut actually is less antagonistic toward Littlefoot and the others, as he tries at first to get Ozzy to back off, reminding him that it was just an egg. However, as the movie progresses, he becomes more aiding to Ozzy, culminating with him proposing to kill Littlefoot near the ending of the film and his attempt to strangle Chomper, a move which led to him and Ozzy being chased by Chomper's angry parents.
History[]
They entered the Great Valley in hopes of stealing eggs, although the more relaxed Strut was willing to eat plants, much to Ozzy's fury. It was because of this duo's failed attempt at stealing an egg from Ducky's nest, that the five protagonists found Chomper's egg in "The Mysterious Beyond," mistaking it for Ducky's unhatched sibling. Ozzy and Strut were bumbling villains who were vengeful of Littlefoot and the gang because if it weren't for them, Ducky's little brother or sister would have been dinner. Ozzy thought that the egg that contained Chomper was the egg that they attempted to steal, and thus when Cera told him that the egg hatched, he was even more vengeful towards Littlefoot and the gang.
The two characters seem to have a knack for getting into trouble. Ozzy first tried to get an egg from a mother Maiasaura's nest, only to have that egg replaced as a rock when he got hit by the gang, and him biting into it. Later, after they unsuccessfully took one of Ducky's unhatched siblings, they were un-fatally crushed under a mountain of rocks. In the middle of the film, they jump off a cliff when they were mistaken to Chomper's shadow and they thought it was a Sharptooth coming for them. Ozzy and Strut were later chased off on the ridge of the mountain when they were about to steal eggs from a mother Pteranodon. While chasing Littlefoot and his friends across a tree-bridge during an eruption by the Smoking Mountain, Ozzy attempts to cross but the lava sets the tree on fire and he falls. Strut jumps off after him. Near the end of the film, they are shown to have survived their fall and go after Littlefoot and Chomper, but discovered dinosaur rule number 1: even hunters get hunted, when they ended up getting chased out of the Great Valley and into the Mysterious Beyond by Chomper's angry Sharptooth parents, after they saw the duo strangling Chomper. Whether or not they were eaten remains unknown and neither of them have been seen since.
Eggs
Other Possible Appearances[]
Their first appearance was in The Land Before Time II: The Great Valley Adventure. However, this might not be their only appearance, so too might one of the panicked Struthiomimus who are seen leaping past Cera and into the river in The Land Before Time IV: Journey Through the Mists. Also in the fourth film, when the Old One tells the story about her herd happening to leave the Land of Mists two Struthiomimus are seen running across the water that look exactly like Ozzy and Strut, which could possibly be them. Though this is highly unlikely since the Struthiomimus resembled more of Ozzy than Strut in appearance by with the majority of their color scheme.
Egg Stealers do not appear in The Land Before Time VII: The Stone of Cold Fire, but Cera does say "It smells like egg stealer breath" at one point during the film.
Egg Stealers do not appear and are not mentioned in any future films.
Trivia[]
- Strut is voiced by Rob Paulsen, who uses the same voice and accent for the character of Pinky from Amblin's WB show Animaniacs and it's spinoff Pinky and the Brain.
- Ozzy is voiced by Jeff Bennett, who uses the same voice and accent for many of his role characters most notably particular is Kowalski from Nickelodeon's Penguins of Madagascar.
- Ozzy is the first and only dinosaur in The Land Before Time series to mention and know what dinosaur species he is. Oddly, Ozzy and Strut are called Velociraptor in several uploads of clips for the second movie on the official The Land Before Time YouTube channel, despite explicitly being referred to as Struthiomimus in the movie itself.
- Littlefoot indirectly mentions Ozzy and Strut in The Land Before Time V: The Mysterious Island when talking about Chomper ("This is Chomper, remember? We saved him from "egg eaters".)
- They were the first two antagonists who are defeated by a Sharptooth.
- On the back of the movie case and in the scene selection, Ozzy's name is spelled "Ozzie". However, in the subtitles and storyboard for the movie, his name is spelled "Ozzy".[2]
- Ozzy and Struth's names have several potential origins. Ozzy's may be a shortening of "ostrich mimic" (the english translation for the dinosaur's name) or a reference to the scientist Henry Fairfield Osborn who named the first discovered specimen. Strut's name is likely a shortening of his genus name, Struthiomimus. "Oz" (as a nickname for the country) and "Struth" (as a minced oath) are also slang associated with Australia, though the genus is only known from North America.
- The way Ozzy has a suggestive addiction to eggs is possibly a subtle spoof of drug addiction.
- The constant gag conflict between Ozzy and his brother Strut's diet (Ozzy is highly prejudiced against plant-eaters in both demeanor and word choice) may reference to still-ongoing paleontological debates on the exact nature of ornithomimid diets (specifically Struthiomimus), citing adaptations for both carnivorous or herbivorous behaviors.
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