Question: Who dies in how to train your dragon 2?

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question: Who is the character who dies in how to train your dragon 2?
short_answers: Stoick the Vast
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question: Who is the actor who plays the character who dies in how to train your dragon 2?
short_answers: Gerard Butler

Answer: How to Train Your Dragon 2 is a 2014 American computer-animated action fantasy film loosely based on the book series of the same name by Cressida Cowell, produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by 20th Century Fox. It is the sequel to the 2010 film How to Train Your Dragon and the second installment in the trilogy. In the film, Stoick the Vast, played by Gerard Butler, is killed after getting hit by a plasma bolt by a hypnotized Toothless.