Ryker Grimborn

Capture a pack of Snow Wraiths (*Snow Way Out*; succeeded at first, but then failed).
Capture the Frozen Skrill (*A Time to Skrill*; succeeded at first, but then failed).
Usurp the title of Chief of the Dragon Hunters for himself (succeeded).
Wipe out the entire Barbaric Archipelago to get rid of all islands the Dragon Riders have allies in. (failed)

### Moral Event Horizon

Assisting Viggo in unleashing the Scourge of Odin.
Forcing dragons to fight each other to death for profit.
Attempting to bomb every last island in the Barbaric Archipelago and purge it of all life.

### Kill Count

Hundreds
Thousands to Millions (attempted)

### Crimes

Animal cruelty
Mass murder
Attempted genocide
Terrorism
Mass corruption
Child abuse
Fratricide
Familicide
Public endangerment
Attempted mass populicide
Kidnapping
Poaching
Assault and battery
Hate crimes
Conspiracy
Betrayal
Usurpation
War crimes
Mass destruction
Vandalism
Treason

### Type of Villain

Sadistic Traitor

**​Ryker Grimborn** is a major antagonist in the Netflix computer-animated TV series *Dragons: Race to the Edge*. He is an Expert Dragon Trapper, the (former) second in command of the Dragon Hunters (until he usurps his brother) and Viggo's older brother. He, along with the rest of the Dragon Hunters, wanted to take the Dragon Eye for themselves.

He was the central antagonist in season 2, the secondary antagonist in season 3 and 4, and a posthumous antagonist in seasons 5 & 6.

He was voiced by Jean-Benoît "J.B." Blanc.

## What Makes Him Pure Evil?

* As his brother Viggo's chief lieutenant, Ryker has actively participated and overseen the entire Dragon Hunters operations, where dragons are captured, tortured and enslaved, before being killed to be sold for parts. Like Viggo, Ryker doesn’t care for his own men like when he threatened to kill The Fight Master before he brought Toothless into the fighting ring and when Ryker got a fishing boat infected with the Scourge of Odin.
	+ He also heavily assists in many of Viggo's vilest schemes, ranging from helping him start a Scourge of Odin epidemic and capture the Buffalord to profit off the cure and even threatened to kill the Buffalord to force Hiccup to surrender it, or imprisoning the Submaripper in Berk's trade routes to prevent traders from arriving on Berk and starve it, and capturing the Eruptadon and dooming Caldera Cay to destruction by depriving it of the only thing that could protect them from the threat of the active volcano on their island.
* Going by what was confirmed, Ryker was personally operating his own operation for money, in which he captures multiple dragons and forced them all to the duel to the death, with the reigning champion being a Triple Stryke named Sleuther, who killed so many the matches were over right before they began, and people were getting bored, and less revenue was being made.
* Ultimately, betrays Viggo and hijacks Project Shellfire to launch the deadliest campaign of death the Barbaric Archipelago has ever seen, planning to bomb every last island and purge it of all its life. Due to the scope of the franchise for most of the story being concentrated at the Barbaric Archipelago before the second film, Ryker is the closest the entire franchise has to a full-blown omnicidal maniac.
	+ It is even stated some Berserkers died during Ryker's test assault on Berserker Island.
* While he initially cared about his family and has standards against harming them, refusing to betray his brother and kill him even though he easily could and was offended when Dagur the Deranged called his cousin Lars#2 expendable for deserting the attack on the Edge, Ryker outright abandons such standards by betraying his brother and attempting to kill him, with his relationship with his cousin not being explained much more following the throw away joke scene he was mentioned in, and considering what happens in Season 4, is far too vague to be truly redeeming.
	+ In addition it was stated that Ryker fears his brother so his loyalty to Viggo was mostly out of fear not geneily loyalty.