Gigantosaurus

Gigantosaurus or simply called Giganto, is the titular character of the book and the animated series of the same name, Gigantosaurus. He is a huge, lonely Giganotosaurus living in Cretacia and who is usually at the center of Rocky, Bill, Tiny and Mazu's adventures, being their undisputed idol as well.
He is voiced by Vincent Tong who also voiced Prince Nicholas in Barbie: Princess Charm School, Muck in Bob The Builder, Sandbar and Flash Sentry in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Kai in Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu and Renegade Knucks/Gnarly Knuckles/Knuckles the Dread in Sonic Prime.
== Appearance ==
Giganto is a large, muscular carnivorous dinosaur with light greenish scales with some darker undertone and a beige belly. He also has slightly cracked fangs protruding from his large jaw and brown eyes. His arms are slightly short and has three fingers. From the top of his head to the end of his tail, Giganto has little red tips.
== Personality ==
Despite his intimidating and fierce demeanor, Giganto is just a peaceful dinosaur enjoying peace and quiet, regularly taking naps in broad daylight or going for a walk around aimlessly. Solitary by nature, Giganto avoids interactions with other dinosaurs, which leaves him appearing unsocial. He can be aggressive when disturbed, bothered or provoked in any way, which is the main reason why everyone fears him. Other dinosaurs generally describe him as being afraid of nothing.
Although his vicious appearance leaves one suggested that he is indifferent, Giganto cares about Cretacia and the dinosaurs that live there, not hesitating to put his life in danger to stop an avalanche once, briefly taking care of a lost egg, or to put all his effort to move a meteorite stuck in a volcano. Due to his size, Giganto can be unwilling to take in small things or small people at times when he doesn't bother to pay attention to everyone around him. He's also smarter than he looks.
His relationship with the gang is quite ambiguous throughout the series. On the one hand he seems to tolerate the occasional antics of small dinosaurs but otherwise he never really interacts with them or even ignores their presence at multiple times. For their part, the four small dinos idolize the large carnivore even if sometimes they are afraid of him. At the end of the first season, the gang forced to leave Cretacia admits to Giganto how much they admire him for who he is and subsequently Giganto to show them for the first time his benevolent nature. In the following seasons, Giganto is shown interacting more with the gang.
== Skills ==
* Physical Strength: Giganto possesses a very great physical strength, pushing swarms trampled the earth with one step. He can easily knock down blocks of ice, root trees and lift rocks. Giganto also has a very powerful tail capable of smashing a huge, barely smashed meteorite and huge blocks of ice with just a few hits. He is considered the strongest dinosaur in Cretacia.
* Durability: Giganto's scaled and muscular body gives him a great resistance to damage. He was able to survive an avalanche without any apparent injury.
* Intelligence: Giganto is smart enough to know how to solve Cretacia's occasional problems like when he cooled the pond with a column of ice or when he thought of using a coco phone to warn others that Mazu was in danger. He does much more, such as using a tree to save others from a disaster, setting glowing rocks to prevent spinos from doing harm, and give some teaching lessons to the young dinos.
== History ==
Giganto appears in every episode, either being the center of the story or making a noticed appearance. He often helps the gang unconsciously either by his physical faculties or by putting up to fight the antagonists.
=== Season 1 ===
In The Island, Giganto goes to the island in the middle of the lake to drink from the pond above. Later, as the gang is attacked by Termy, Giganto comes to their aid and briefly confronts the Terminonatator before sending her waltzed with a tail swing.
In Please Don't Pick The Flowers, Giganto almost begins a rampage when he can't find his daily bone that he and Rugo share together following Bill's awkwardness on the ecosystem. The gang scrambles to find a bone that Bill gives Giganto right away to calm him down. The theropod later arrives at the horseshoe crab swamp where he helps Bill sow the seeds of the flowers the horseshoe crabs eat by sneezing after the seeds enter his nostrils.
In No Joke, Dilo tries to play a prank on Giganto while he sleeps by waking up the geyser. Abruptly awake, Giganto roars in anger and scares the joking Dilophosaurus away while Tiny finds himself trapped atop a stone column. Once calmed down, Giganto allows Tiny to slide on his wet scales to come back down. As he leaves, Giganto bumps into the tree Dilo has taken refuge on, making him waltz in the water and making him give up doing any other bad tricks as a result.
In The Big Mean Green, Termy accuses Giganto of throwing her on a tree in the middle of the water while sleeping while claiming that he made the lake water hot by blowing on it. Everyone is starting to fear that Giganto ends up destroying everything so they decide to make him leave. While Mazu and Bill investigate what happened to the lake, Rocky and Tiny track down Giganto trying to push blocks of ice into the Frozen Land and then vainly attempt to impersonate him to stop the others. Without lending any intention to the dinosaurs, Giganto keeps pushing and rolls the block into the lake, cooling it completely. In the meantime, it turns out that it was a meteorite that caused all this mayhem and not Giganto, causing the others to regret accusing him when he was only trying to solve the problem.
In A Light In The Storm, Giganto crosses paths with the gang accompanied by Pachy and Marsh as night has just fallen and stops before accidentally crushing them thanks to Bill waving fluorescent plants. When Bill accidentally crushes the plants, Giganto triggers the luminescence of the juice smeared over Bill by sniffing it, allowing the young brachiosaurus to leave everyone towards the lair. Realizing the help Giganto has given him, Bill offers him foam as a thank you.
In Goodbye, Giganto!, Giganto tries to destroy a meteorite stuck in the volcano to prevent an explosion from coming but his efforts are in vain. Later, the band that had to leave Cretacia because of the volcano comes and even Giganto drinking, confessing to him the immense admiration they have for him while admitting to have also tried to move the meteorite only to slightly damage it. With this information, Giganto takes it again and this time manages to smash the meteor.
The gang then comes to see a sleeping Giganto where they continue to admit their idolation for him. At daybreak, the large carnivore covers the still sleeping young dinos with a blanket of leaves before leaving, promising that it will return. At the end of the episode, Giganto turns out to have left to bring back the belongings the gang lost when he destroyed the meteorite. The children sincerely thank him, making Giganto respond "Your welcome", revealing to the shock of the little ones that he knows how to speak.
=== Season 2 ===
In Termy Come Home, Rocky tries to convince the frogfish that Giganto is able to speak when he walks by the pond but the great theropod doesn't even notice him. He then tries to drink only to be bothered by the water lilies invading the river since Termy left. During their search for Termy, the kids face various dangers that run into Giganto each time but without their so-called friend helping them directly, letting them think he doesn't care about them. In Frozen Land, Rocky once again asks for Giganto's help in bringing Termy back only to be ignored again to the point that he declares that he no longer needs Giganto. However, later Giganto smashes a glacier before the gang and Termy crash into it as they hurtle down the mountain, also rekindling the gang's confidence in the Green Predator. When Giganto returns to the pond, Rocky promises him that from now on they will try to solve the problems on their own first instead of always calling him. Giganto then proceeds to sympathetically slide the children onto his tail.
In A New Best T, When a bully tyrannosaurus named T-Rex lands in Cretacia, he begins to claim to be the most terrifying until everyone tells him that Giganto is the most terrifying of them all. Jealous, T-Rex tries to do a nasty blow to Giganto by hanging coconuts on his tail but Rocky tries to stop him. Awakened by the heckling, Giganto roared at T-Rex, scaring him away in fear.
In The Great Sled Chase, Giganto arrives at the lair where he meets the kids about to leave in the cars for the Winter Party where a surprise awaits him. However, the gang does not manage to pull the presents, Giganto swings his tail to speed them up. Later while traveling to the Frozen Land, Giganto unconsciously causes the escape of T-Rex who had just stolen everyone's gifts then the big predator clears the snow with his sniff to find the stolen gifts. Giganto enjoys his fruity gifts and even receives a shiny plant from a repentant T-Rex as he continues to attend the party.
In Dino-Sitting, Giganto is first seen lurking by the river and then down a hill as Rocky, Bill, and Tiny collect toys for the baby dinosaurs. He later comes to the lair where he begins to be followed by the babies who escaped Mazu's watch. As he quenches his thirst, babies climb on his toes for fun. Surprisingly, Giganto starts to bubble in the water with his paw to amuse the little dinos, which allows Mazu to figure out how to calm their fuss.
In Master of the Elements, intrigued by why Giganto regularly goes into the Mist, the kids decide to follow him after Ayati is speculated that he may be looking for the mysterious end of the mist. Throughout the episode, the kids navigate a large natural maze pitting them against the Four Elements until they finally reach the end to discover a magnificent cave that is place where Giganto lives.
In A New Big Guy, Giganto finds himself up against a new rival to rival him in strength and ferocity, Spino the Spinosaurus.
=== Season 3 ===
In Sleeping Spino, Giganto protects Spino's gang who were attacking their lair. With the help of the cubs, Giganto manages to undo Spino by stomping on a puff, sending wind against Spino's crest which knocks him to the ground.
In Through Giganto's Eyes, the final series, Giganto is accused by the other inhabitants of Cretatia of having acted in all wickedness but in the end, the gang is able to prove his innocence. This is also the last time Giganto speaks.
== Gallery==
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Giganto4.jpg|Giganto fights against his worst enemy, Spino.
Giganto5.jpg|Giganto triumphs from Spino.
==Trivia==
* Due to the preschool nature of the series, Giganto's diet consists of golden moss, flower pollen, bone, coconut, and some fruits.
*In real life, the Gigantosaurus is a dinosaur in the sauropod family and does not belong to the carnivore or theropod family. It is possible that this character is portrayed by a Giganotosaurus, which is a theropod, which is often mispronounced as Gigantosaurus.
*His scales become very slippery when wet.
*Giganto often roams near the lair of the kids.
*By the time of the third and final season, Giganto has become much less feared by the people of Cretacia except for the antagonistic dinosaurs.
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