Rogg

**Rogg** is a large red friendly gorilla-like monster, who is a central characters in both seasons of the television series.

He is voiced by the late Willie Rushton, who provided voices for all other speaking characters in the television series.

## Biography

Rogg had made his onscreen debut in *Lurkings*, and had appeared as a supporting character throughout the TV series since.

One afternoon, Berk organises a fishing trip. Berk leaves the castle with Boni and Drutt, but he forgets to close the trap door on the way out. Rogg appears into the cellar, and admires his surroundings, before making his way outside. Rogg makes his way down to the swamp, and soon arrives at the lake. Rogg calls for attention, before he properly approaches Berk, and Berk wonders who it was that just suddenly shouted. After initially ignoring Boni’s warning, Berk finally listens to Boni’s warning about Rogg approaching him. Berk turns around, and falls into the lake in shock. Rogg introduces himself to the group. Boni then feels cheered up by Rogg, for inadvertently causing Berk to plunge into the water. Rogg tells Berk how much he likes fishing, and asks whether he can join in, much to Berk’s disapproval.

After his introduction in the swamp, Rogg starts to develop friendships with the residents of the cellar. He forms an especially friendly relationship with Boni, despite still not quite establishing trust with Berk. Rogg occasionally pops out of the trap door, whenever he feels bored with his life in the castle’s dungeon, and he pay his friends a visit. However, he often ends up getting into trouble during their misadventures.

On one occasion, when Boni complains about how bored he feels, Rogg’s sudden appearance from out of the trap door cheers Boni up. Rogg decides to have some fun, so he takes Boni outside of the castle to play. Rogg makes his way up to the top of the castle with Boni. There, Rogg tells Boni that they should be able to hide from Berk. Boni continues chattering away, but Boni’s monologues causes Rogg to sleep, and Rogg falls off of the battlements. Berk and Drutt finds Boni with Rogg, but Rogg lands on Berk, and Berk is squashed flat.

One day, as Berk plays loud music from his radio, Rogg is one of the many monster to appear out of the trap door. Amidst all the activity, Rogg decides to play a trick on Berk. Rogg opens the trap door, whilst Berk is not looking. Berk falls through, but the Thingy brings Berk back up. The other trapdoor creatures proceed to make their ways down the trap door, whilst the music ends, and Rogg slams the trap door shut. Rogg then compliments on how much he enjoyed the music.

On a later day, when Berk is about to dispose of some rubbish down the trap door, Rogg reappears out the trap door for another visit. Rogg becomes attracted to the scent of the garbage from the dumbwaiter, so he goes to it, and eats up the rubbish. Berk becomes impressed with Rogg, until Rogg sends himself up into the lift to the Thing Upstairs’ room. After the Thing Upstairs kicks Rogg out of his room, Berk orders Rogg to come back down the trap door. However, Rogg refuses to comply. Instead, he knocks Berk out of an open window.

In *Bye Bye Berk*, when Berk foolishly leaves the trap door open when tidying up, Rogg is one of many monsters to appear out of the trap door. Rogg, as well as Boni, learns that Berk is leaving the castle for good. However, Berk eventually misses his old home. Rogg watches in delight, and Boni remarks happily, when Berk returns.

Rogg comes out of the trap door, not long later, after Bubo sneaks back into the cellar. Berk conducts a “scunge fight”, and Rogg is intrigued enough to join in. Rogg is about to be attacked by Bubo, but Rogg thumps Bubo against the trap door walls. As Bubo falls down the trap door, Rogg celebrates his victory with Berk.

Berk becomes very fed up of Drutt’s boisterous behaviour, one day, and he throws Drutt down the trap door. After Boni reprimands Berk, Berk soon regrets his actions. Berk attempts to fish Drutt out of the trap door, but catches The Small Red Thing instead. Rogg soon appears, and reveals to have found Drutt in the castle’s dungeon. He unintentionally crushes the Small Red Thing, who revealed itself to be a fierce creature, with the trap door in the process.

Rogg visits the cellar, once again, on Boni’s birthday. Rogg asks Berk what he is doing, and, as it is Boni’s birthday, Berk tells Rogg that he is making a birthday cake for Boni. Rogg watches Berk in admiration, as Berk concocts Boni’s cake. Rogg even claims to have never had birthday cake before. Berk tells Rogg that he can try some cake, as long as he stays around for long enough. After Berk finishes the cake, Rogg, as well as Berk, wishes Boni many happy returns. Rogg, Berk and Boni soon sees Drutt entering the hallway with his newborns. Boni becomes upset, because Drutt’s nippers eat his cake. Like Berk, Rogg feels too smitten by Drutt’s babies to care.

When a foul-smelling pink lump emerges out of the trap door, Rogg also soon appears. Rogg’s sudden appearance into the cellar startles Berk, because he initially mistakes Rogg for the Lump. Rogg becomes intrigued by the Lump, and he does not even seem to be bothered by the smell of it. Berk asks Rogg for a suggestion on how to dispose of the Lump. Rogg tries to fathom an idea, but he tells Berk that he could not think of one. Rogg, and everybody else in the cellar, continues observing the Lump. The Lump makes a display of loud squeaking and honking noises, until Berk forces it to be quiet.

Rogg appears from out of the trap door, on a cold day, and Boni notices a funny-looking twitching creature on top of Rogg’s head. Rogg, who did not notice the fuzzy green creature initially, sees the creature come off of his head. It then sticks to the wall, and sticks itself to Boni. Rogg finds this very funny, but Boni is far from amused. Rogg tries to get the Twitching Green Thing off of Boni, but it soon attaches itself to Drutt. Berk then comes downstairs, after successfully fixing the Thing Upstairs' heater, and sees that Rogg has paid a visit. Berk sees the Twitching Thing, before he is called back upstairs. Unbeknownst to Berk, the Twitching Thing attaches itself to Berk’s back. Rogg, as well as Boni, is happy that the twitching creature will unlikely bother him ever again.

Rogg appears from the trap door, again, when the Weird Thing invades the cellar. Berk informs Rogg how unhappy he is, because the Weirdo is causing things to disappear. Rogg and Berk see the weird creature appearing through the archway, and Berk repeatedly whacks it with his rolling pin. Boni, Drutt and Drutt’s nippers are freed. However, Berk asks for Rogg’s assistance to get the dinner out. Rogg does so, but the impact causes Berk to shoot into the wall.

Rogg pokes out of the trap door, whilst the Big Red Thing wreaks havoc in the cellar. Rogg asks what all the commotion is about, but the Big Red Thing slams Rogg’s head against the trap door wall, and the Red Thing storms violently out of the castle. An angered and injured Rogg follows the Big Red Thing, intent of teaching the big mean monster a lesson. Berk, Boni, Drutt and Drutt’s Nippers soon finds Rogg’s whereabouts. Rogg fights the Red Thing, whilst everybody else watches. Things start off very well, but the Red Thing soon knocks Rogg out unconscious. It is presumed that Rogg is dead. However, it is confirmed that Rogg is alive. The Red Thing then terrorises Rogg, as well the rest of the group, one final time.

## Personality

Although Rogg is quite clumsy and stupid, he is generally a lot more intelligence than most of the other monsters from underneath the trap door. This is because he can speak, he can demonstrate good manners, and he can help Berk out of a predicament every now and again. Despite being rather dumb, he is also usually very kind. Rogg can often display bad-tempered, stubborn and naughty behaviour. However, he is usually only ever like this when he feels intimidated.