

That coupled with the fact that obviously grows and appears to lose his juvenile markings, it is probable that Toothless was in the latter years of his adolescence during the first movie. Which means that in the first movie, Toothless would be on par with a fifteen year old. Not to mention it is canon that Toothless is Hiccup’s age. These dragons that were big and strong enough to carry a full grown human over open ocean were not controlled by the “king of all dragons.” Size does not always mean maturity in the HTTYD universe. When Hiccup is given the grand tour of Valka’s sanctuary she jokingly mentions that the baby dragons “listen to no-one.” The is later used as a plot device to get the dragon riders back to Berk for the final act of the movie.
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So what was it then that made them so special, and what changed between the first and the scene in the second movie where good dragons were controlled by bad people? Cloudjumper was under his own power during the entire sequence, and for the entire sequence he was well within the range of the Death on account for the dozens of controlled dragons. This then implies that he was present on his own interests, not the Death’s.

Valka implies that the Stormcutter’s motivation was of mere innocent curiosity, and that he was not a ravenous predator hunting for food. During which, he broke into the Haddock residence to find and observe an infant Hiccup. There is another issue with the range theory… CloudJumper.ĭuring HTTYD2, it is revealed CloudJumper was present for at least one raid on Berk. Had he been under control, would he not ignore those weapons and acted like all the other dragons in the area? He does not even get close enough to the ground to be illuminated by the torch light, spending all of his time high above the chaos destroying catapults and other weapons being used to defend the island. It is specifically mentioned in the beginning of the first movie that the Night Fury never steals food, never participates in the main and mostly likely only objective of the raids. Which presents a problem because well… he wasn’t. However, this assumes that Toothless was even under the influence of the Death’s power in the first place. It is widely accepted that the Death’s range did not cover all of Berk and that Hiccup’s bola managed to knock Toothless to a safe zone. I have seen the fandom grapple with this for years. Why wasn’t Toothless, or Cloudjumper, controlled by the Red Death?
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However, one small detail has always bugged me about How To Train Your Dragon… I find very little fault in the How To Train Your Dragon franchise (RoB/DoB not withstanding) The animation is breathtaking, the writing and execution of the script is outstanding, the score is what the angels will sing in my personal heaven, and the story is as clean as it is riveting.
