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Ozzy and Strut are the main antagonists of The Land Before Time II: The Great Valley Adventure and mentioned in The Land Before Time V: The Mysterious Island. They are a pair of greedy Struthiomimus brothers. Ozzy, the older brother, is the leader, and Strut, the younger brother, is the comic-relief follower. Ozzy has a craving for eggs, while Strut was formerly a vegetarian. This is an irritation to Ozzy, as he is constantly seen trying to get Strut to eat eggs. However, the scenario appears to subtly interpret these eggs as a prehistoric form of drugs, making Ozzy seem like an addict.

Ozzy was voiced by Jeff Bennett (who later voiced Ichy in The Land Before Time IV: Journey through the Mists and also voiced Owen Burnett and Malibu in Gargoyles), while Strut was voiced by Rob Paulsen (who also voiced Thud in the 2007 cartoon and Helios in Gargoyles).

History[]

Ozzy and Strut were amateurish villains who arrived up in the Great Valley in hopes of stealing eggs. However, the more relaxed Strut was ready to eat plants, much to Ozzy's fury. The two characters seem to have a knack for getting into trouble. Ozzy tried to get an egg from a nest of a mother Maiasaura. And yet, the egg was replaced with a rock (thrown by Littlefoot, Cera, Ducky, Petrie, and Spike). Then Ozzy (still thinking he had the egg) bit into it. Then, the mother Maiasaura asked the gang to stop rolling rocks down the hill, because her nest was there.

Later, when they unsuccessfully took one of Ducky's unhatched siblings, they were crushed under a mountain of rocks, though surprisingly, it wasn't fatal to them. It was because of their failed attempt at stealing the egg that the five children found Chomper's egg in "The Mysterious Beyond", mistaking it for Ducky's unhatched sibling (which had shockingly rolled back down the mountain and into the family's nest without anyone being the wiser). Ozzy and Strut were vengeful toward Littlefoot and the others, because if it wasn’t for them, Ducky's unhatched little brother or sister would have been their supper. However, during a landslide that happened while Littlefoot, Cera, Ducky, Petrie, and Spike were pursuing them, Strut lost the egg they were stealing, and to cover with Ozzy later on, he fibbed that the five kids were stealing it from them to avoid his brother's wrath. Ozzy thought the egg that contained Chomper was the egg that they attempted to steal. And --after Ozzy asked Cera, Petrie, Ducky, and Spike what they did to his egg-- when Cera told him that she --and the rest of the gang-- didn't do anything with his egg and it hatched, he (Ozzy) was even more vengeful towards Littlefoot and the gang. (That is, as Ozzy says to Cera --after she told him that the egg hatched-- "IT HATCHED?! BEFORE I COULD EAT IT! MY EGG HATCHED?!".)

In the middle of the film, they were chased off a cliff when they were about to steal eggs from a mother Pteranodon. After not wanting to be pecked by the mother Pteranodon, they escaped into a nearby cave. And the she --the mother (Pteranodon) of the nest-- flew back to her nest and rested on the eggs (after missing them). Then Ozzy angrily told himself that the main characters had ruined their food "for the last time". While chasing Littlefoot and his friends crossed a tree-bridge (during an eruption by the Smoking Mountain) Ozzy attempted to cross. But the lava made contact with the tree and set the tree on fire. And he (Ozzy) fell into the crevice. Worried for his brother, Strut jumped off after him.

Near the end of the film, they’re seen for the last time when they’re shown to have survived their fall. And they ambush Littlefoot, whom they successfully catch and kidnap. To get revenge on him for meddling with their plans, they plan to "get rid of [him] once and for all" by throwing him off the Great Wall of the Great Valley (a plan hatched by Strut, much to Ozzy's shock and delight, as he hadn’t expected him to think of something so evil). However, Chomper (hearing Littlefoot's cries for help) manages to find his friend just as Ozzy and Strut are about to carry out their murderous plan. However, his attempt to rescue Littlefoot fails. Because Strut manages to grab him by the throat and begin strangling him (the new plan being to kill Chomper as well). Before Strut tries to throw Chomper off the Great Wall too, Ozzy says to him that he liked him better when he was an egg (meaning that he liked him better before he hatched so he could eat his egg). (That is, as Ozzy --to Chomper-- says, "You, I liked much better as an egg!".)

When Chomper's parents see the egg thieves trying to throw both Littlefoot and their son --Chomper-- off the Great Wall, they (Chomper's parents) fortunately rescued Chomper. And they unknowingly did the same with Littlefoot. Finally, Ozzy and Strut were chased out of the Great Valley and into the Mysterious Beyond by Chomper's infuriated parents, who had seen that the Struthiomimus brothers were nearly harming their child. The sharpteeth --after saving both Littlefoot and Chomper-- left the Great Valley (as they were chasing the Oviraptors into the Mysterious Beyond). After they --the sharpteeth-- left, Chomper (subsequently) followed his parents out of the valley. (That is, before the entrance --between the Great Valley and Mysterious Beyond-- was closed by the Great Valley's residents.) And whether or not they (Ozzy and Strut) were eaten, it remains unknown. Because neither of them have been seen since. They were mentioned by Littlefoot after he and the others got stranded on the island, when they reunite with Chomper.

Personalities[]

At the outset of the film, Ozzy was clearly the brainier, more merciless of the two brothers. He was the apparent leader of the duo. He kept a sharp focus on their main goal, which was devouring all of the eggs that they could. He was also highly testy, with a temper to match, as he had no problem striking Strut whenever he said something that set him off. However, it can be assumed that, in spite of his aggravation with Strut, he still cared deeply for his brother, since he was trying to "wean" him off vegetation and onto eggs, because he wanted him to grow up and be able to survive the way that they should. As he demonstrated, he was a very vengeful dinosaur who could hold a grudge easily, as well, based on his obsession with exacting revenge on Littlefoot, Cera, Ducky, Petrie, and Spike for stopping them from devouring the egg from Ducky's family's nest. As a matter of fact, his vengeance rose to murderous levels very quickly, as shown by his agreement with Strut's last plan for Littlefoot.

In the meantime, Strut came across as simpler-minded than Ozzy. He was more even-tempered and relaxed, at first, not getting mad all that easily. He also showed himself to be more passive, as he did not have any agency when it came to stealing eggs and had to rely on Ozzy to motivate him into it. He was also attentive, as he tended to recoil from Ozzy's verbal attacks and scoldings and didn’t seem to fight back against any of the physical abuse that he took from his brother. He was so fearful of Ozzy, in fact, that after losing Ducky's family's egg, he actually lied to Ozzy about who had truly cost them said egg to keep himself from getting hurt by him even more. However, as the movie progressed, it was clear that Ozzy's wickedness had started to rub off on him, as his own level of vengeance against the five young heroes eventually began to grow, as well, and he got just as eager to take revenge on them as Ozzy, as shown by him laughing wickedly at them when they cornered them near the tree-bridge. It can even be said that he grew even more sinister than Ozzy, given that he was the one who, upon their kidnapping of Littlefoot, very contentedly and eagerly suggested murdering him by throwing him off the Great Wall, even surprising his own sibling (although pleasantly so) with how evil he had become by that point. He also thought nothing of strangling Chomper when he tried and failed to rescue Littlefoot from him and Ozzy, showing that not even being a child would spare someone from his wrath.

In the end, it can be said that Ozzy was evil from their very first appearance, while Strut slowly, gradually grew into almost as evil of a villain as he was (possibly even more so) by the end.

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Trivia[]

  • Ozzy and Strut are two of the only Land Before Time villains to speak, the others being Hyp, Mutt, Nod, Ichy, Dil, Pterano, Rinkus, and Sierra.
  • They are also two of the few Land Before Time villains to utter evil laughs, with Ozzy doing so just as they are about to eat the egg from Ducky's family's nest, and Strut doing so just as they ambush Littlefoot, Cera, Ducky, Petrie, and Spike near the tree-bridge.
  • Ozzy and Strut share some similarities to Ichy and Dil in terms of their dynamic, as one is clearly the leader (Ozzy/Ichy), and the other is the follower (Strut/Dil). However, they are also different in that Ichy was evil to his very core, while Dil was more pragmatic than inherently evil, simply acting according to what occurred to her naturally as a predator, whereas Ozzy and Strut were both confirmed in-universe to be actually evil (even though Strut had to grow into it throughout the events of the movie).
  • It has been a huge debate about what the real-life Oviraptor and Struthiomimus (along with Ornithomimus and Gallimimus) ate if they were really an omnivore dinosaur. However, a lot of people say that these dinosaurs (Oviraptor, Struthiomimus, Gallimimus, and Ornithomimus --all seen in the Land Before Time franchise and film series) ate both plants and meat. (Because animals --who are omnivores-- eat meat and plants.) Strut shows such symptoms of being an omnivore after favoring Ozzy to eat plants instead. And Ozzy ate eggs.
    • In reality, the real dinosaur Oviraptor was an omnivore (meaning it ate meat and plants, in addition to dinosaur eggs).
  • Ozzy's name and behavior is a pun to Oviraptor, a real-life omnivore dinosaur that was once believed to have preyed on dinosaur eggs.
    • However, the brothers behave more like old depictions of Oviraptors, because they ate eggs in said movie. They indeed should've been Oviraptors instead of Struthiomimus. (Because Struthiomimus was most likely not an egg robber.)
  • Their defeat is similar to Dil's, as they were chased by a Sharptooth, and it is unknown if they were killed by said Sharptooth.
  • Strut has the same voice and accent as Pinky from the Animaniacs and Pinky and The Brain franchise possibly because they both have the same voice actor Rob Paulsen.
  • Ozzy and Strut have British accents; however, Oviraptor fossils have never been found in England or outside of Asia at all. On the other hand, Hyp is a Hypsilophodon, whose fossils have been found in England (on the Isle of Wight, specifically), yet he and his father lack British accents. Rinkus, however, is a Rhamphorhynchus, whose fossils have also been found in England, and he does have a British accent.
  • Ozzy and Strut are the first villains in the Land Before Time film series to be defeated by a Sharptooth.

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