Why "Littlefoot"?

[Sneak]

Wanna see a reality with Thunderfoot and lovely Ovie name.

Littlefoot would not hear name jokes about how he is little.

Ruby would... Well, I don't see there will be difference.

The most imortant change: finally, there would not be huge army of shippers, because Cera is male in this reality! *fireworks*

[Ducky123]

or some of the names they got in other languages... Plotvoetje xD

[Sneak]

Крошки-Ножки FOREVER!!!!

[Littlefoot505]

Крошки-Ножки FOREVER!!!!

Kroshki-Nozhki (yes I can read Cyrillic letters) has a nice ring to it. However, I died laughing when I translated that into English!!  

[Sneak]

maybe because I made intentional spelling error?

[Littlefoot505]

maybe because I made intentional spelling error?

Lol ok. What's his actual Russian name?

[Sneak]

Little - Feet
Крошки - Ножки

[DaveTheAnalyzer]

The most imortant change: finally, there would not be huge army of shippers, because Cera is male in this reality! *fireworks*

Have you encountered slash? Shipping rivals who are either both male or female is often the one of the most popular ship within any one fandom.

Building from what other people mentioned, I believe I read that they dubbed "Littlefoot" in late enough in production that the lip flaps still make out Thunderfoot? I'm unsure if it's late enough that they already recorded lines with Thunderfoot said that then had to be redubbed or not. I also agree with others I can't imagine Littlefoot or any other characters with any other names but they are the default now. If they used Thunderfoot or Ovie after all, and we later heard they were considering changing it to Littlefoot and Ruby, maybe we would have found the latter unnatural too.

Slight tangent: It was kind of obvious within hindsight that Shorty would become Littlefoot's brother since they both have size-challenged names that'd become quite ironic if they grow up to be big (Especially true for Shorty, whose kind grow larger than Littlefoot and Bron's kind. Oh, I can already tell Shorty would tease Littlefoot and probably Bron about this!)

[Sovereign]

Have you encountered slash? Shipping rivals who are either both male or female is often the one of the most popular ship within any one fandom.

Luckily there isn't such a phenomenon in this franchise but it's actually surprising that no one has gotten the idea of genderbenbing either Littlefoot or Cera and then writing a steamy romance between them.    

I also agree with others I can't imagine Littlefoot or any other characters with any other names but they are the default now.

Like in the Seven Hunters? I've seen your reviews on Fanfiction and it seems you like the story quite a bit. As for the overall issue, the names are probably just a matter of getting used to but I certainly wouldn't want to see as lazy names as Ovie (how would Cera sound with a name like Tricie? ) However, I'm not too fond of Shorty's name. Most of the other characters' names seem to be at least neutral to the character whereas Shorty is basically just a childish slur. His and Littlefoot's names' similarities were a good observation but that still doesn't make the green longneck's name too appealing, imo.

[Sneak]

slash or gender changing in LBT - NOT COOL

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Tricie! ^^
cutie Cera! ^^

You have something against my Ovie?? >:O

jk

[Sovereign]

I put the slash comment just to demonstrate how stupid it is and I'm not really into romantic stories so yeah... As for Ovie, I don't have anything against "her" now but I could have if Ruby actually had such a name. Just not the most creative or interesting name there is for an official character.

[Sneak]

One of the best and nice name.
Beautiful even if you never heard about Oviraptors scientific species name...

Well, everyone have differences preferences...

[DaveTheAnalyzer]

Luckily there isn't such a phenomenon in this franchise but it's actually surprising that no one has gotten the idea of genderbenbing either Littlefoot or Cera and then writing a steamy romance between them.

I wouldn't know about lucky, since I love me some queer stories and seen many done well (Though I can understand a lack of interest in romance. Even in some future fics I have in mind, there are characters many of whom I fav I keep unmated and childless), but anyway...

I've already seen some shipping of Littlefoot and Cera as their current gender identities, so no gender-shifting needed. Formula: rivalry+characters of near age to one another=shipping fuel regardless of the gender identities or sexual orientations involved.

Like in the Seven Hunters? I've seen your reviews on Fanfiction and it seems you like the story quite a bit.

I still mentally default to their birth names when identifying them. Even when they used their sharptooth names, it can still throw me off. It's how I began to know them and it's how I still know them. It's kind of like hearing their kid voices have imprinted in my mind. Even when I read fanfics where they are adults or even elders, they still speak with prepubescent voices in my mind.

You could always name OCs those original names as a kinda shout out if they interest you enough.

[Sneak]

So now we know why "Littlefoot".

https://www.gangoffive.net/index.php?topic=18073.msg549887#msg549887

Can someone, please, add this info to Wiki properly?