Toothless

**Toothless** is a 21-year old male Night Fury appearing in the How To Train Your Dragon franchise. The last known Night Fury in existence, Toothless is the dragon mount and best friend of Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III and the current king of the dragons in and around the Barbaric Archipelago and on Berk. He is the most powerful dragon known and is famous with Hiccup for ending the war between vikings and dragons and for uniting the two races together. He is also responsible for bringing the dragons of Berk to the Hidden World, the ancestral homeward of all dragons, where he would remain forevermore. He is a supporting character in the Disney Universe.

## **Appearance**

Toothless has black scales covering his whole body, his sides having small light patches in a pattern similar to that of a manta ray or even a black panther.

## Appearances

### Appears in

How to Train your Dragon 1,2, and 3

Toothless also possesses two sets of wings (one main pair and one smaller pair near the base of his tail). He is missing the left side of his tail-fin, which he lost when Hiccup took Toothless down with his Mangler Cannon. This is later replaced by a mechanical fin that Hiccup constructs himself.

Toothless has a rather large scar on his right shoulder/neck which is around a foot in length with a width of about an inch. He also has two scars on his left front leg as of the fourth season of Dragons: Race to the Edge and How to Train Your Dragon 2 due to a fight with a Razorwhip dragon, where he was slashed by its tail. His eyes are bright green and are located very near the front of his face giving him excellent depth perception and reflexes in flight. He can narrow his pupils to slits when threatened or angry, similar to that of a cat. However, when he is docile or happy, his pupils dilate and become more dog-like. Toothless gets his name from his sets of retractable teeth.

Toothless has two extremely large wings that allow him to do vertical takeoffs and landings. Behind that is a set of smaller wings that aid in gliding and soaring. At the end of his tail he used to have yet another set of wings that aided in steering and stability, but his left one is now missing and has been replaced by a mechanical tail fin provided by Hiccup.

As shown in How to Train Your Dragon 2, the spines on his head and forelegs have become slightly longer (most likely with age). He also has three new sets of extra plates growing on his lower jaw. He is also revealed to have a set of extended spines running along his back that aid him in making tight turns. Toothless didn't know about them, as no other Night Furies were around to show him this ability, but they were revealed by Valka, Hiccup's mother. Toothless is also a lot more playful than he was in the first film, likely due to his extended time with Hiccup. It is also revealed by Valka that Toothless is the same age as Hiccup, being twenty-three years old. This may be another reason for how well the duo get along so well.

As a Titan Wing Night Fury, Toothless gains blue markings on his body when at full power, with those markings on his spines and head glowing. He appears to have grown slightly larger in this form.

## **History**

Toothless' early history is unknown, but it is presumed that Toothless lived in the Dragons' Nest ruled by the Red Death along with all the other dragons that would raid Berk, and was hatched around 15 years before the events of How To Train Your Dragon. He was rendered the last male Night Fury as a result of dragon hunter Grimmel the Grisly hunting down and driving his kind to near-extinction.

As the only Night Fury, Toothless remained elusive in battle, carrying out strategic and lethal strikes against the Vikings' weaponry rather than steal food like the others. Hiccup, needing some way to prove himself to the rest of Berk, successfully shoots Toothless down with his handmade mangler cannon and sends him shrieking from the sky.

During the crash, Toothless loses his left tail fin, leaving him forever crippled from natural flight. Hiccup then follows the wreckage caused by his crash until he comes across the dragon, who lies unconscious until Hiccup inadvertently wakes him. As Hiccup prepares to cut out the Toothless' heart to take back to his father once he discovers him, he is shocked to see how frightened the mighty creature is. As he looks into the dragon's eyes, Hiccup sees himself and his own fright.

Thus, Hiccup is unable to kill Toothless and instead begins to cut the ropes. Surprised that he is being set free, Toothless pounces on the young viking and rears back, but instead of killing Hiccup, he simply roars loudly at him and then tries to fly out of sight. Toothless' sparing of Hiccup makes him realize that the idea that dragons always going for the kill is wrong.

Despite having escaped from being killed, Toothless finds himself trapped in a cove, unable to fly due to his damaged tail and therefore unable to escape. Knowing the dragon is still alive, Hiccup discovers the cove and observes him attempting to catch fish and his failed attempts at flying out. Toothless hears Hiccup drop his pencil during his observations and stares at him, but remains passive. Hiccup later returns where Toothless is waiting on him. Though suspicious of the Viking, Toothless becomes relatively docile after Hiccup offers him fish. During this, Hiccup inadvertently gives Toothless his name when he discovered that the dragon has retractable teeth.

The hungry dragon takes the offer and regurgitates half of it into Hiccup's lap, deciding to "share" with him. Hiccup plays along and fakes a smile to hide his disgust. Curious about the mannerism, Toothless pulls his face into a confused and comical looking attempt at a smile. Hiccup is awestruck at the dragon's intelligence and reaches out to try and touch him. Toothless is not interested and flies off.

After waking from a nap, Toothless notices Hiccup is still in the cove and curiously looks at the picture of himself that Hiccup is scratching out with a twig. Once again to Hiccup's utter astonishment, Toothless shows his intelligence by drawing a maze of squiggles and lines in an attempt to imitate the boy and draw him. Hiccup eventually reaches forward to touch the dragon again, but when Toothless leans back while growling, Hiccup keeps his open hand still and closes his eyes in an act of trust, letting the dragon decide whether to close the gap or not. Amazed by the boy's bravery, Toothless leans his head forward and touches his snout gently to Hiccup's hand before leaving.

Hiccup, knowing that Toothless is doomed unless he is able to fly again, begins to work on a new prosthetic tail-fin for him. Their first attempt at flying ends in failure when Toothless realizes that he needs Hiccup to operate it. Over countless test flights, Hiccup designs tail-fin after tail-fin, each attempt bringing the boy and dragon closer. In between these flight tests, Hiccup discovers more of Toothless's playful and curious nature and uses his new found knowledge of dragon behavior to his advantage in Dragon Training.

Because of this, Hiccup becomes remarkably popular, much to the annoyance of his fellow Viking Astrid. Now extremely close friends through their interactions, Hiccup and Toothless carry out their first proper test flight. Though temporarily running into a snag and nearly crashing, the two snap into focus with one another and instinctively manage to carry out amazing mid-air maneuvers. The flight is a success and both Hiccup and Toothless are made ecstatic.

When Hiccup later unknowingly leads Astrid to the cove after she is bested in the final test, Toothless shows his protective side by assuming that she is a threat after she hurts Hiccup. Only through Hiccup's words does he manage to calm down, though Toothless remains wary of her. When Astrid threatens to tell the village of their friendship, Toothless proceeds to abduct her and strands her in a tree to stop her. Even though Hiccup invites her to a flight to show Toothless is not dangerous, the Night Fury isn't convinced that Astrid can be trusted and pulls off daring moves to terrify her. After she apologizes, Toothless follows Hiccup's words and smooths out his flight. He gives both Astrid and Hiccup a beautiful "dragon's eye view" of Berk and the beauty of the moment breaks Astrid's long held beliefs about dragons.

Unfortunately, Toothless' ties to the other dragons show themselves when he hears a strange call and diverts their flight into a huge flock that are carrying great amounts of food. Hiccup and Astrid soon find themselves inside the Dragons' Nest, discovering that the monstrous Red Death effectively holds the dragons hostage with their hauls and devours the ones that don't make satisfactory offerings. Toothless rockets out of the mountain when the Red Death tries to eat him and the trio make a hasty retreat back to Berk. Afterwards, when Astrid wonders why Hiccup doesn't dare tell his father, Stoick the Vast about the Dragon's Nest, Hiccup replies that he intends to keep the secret to protect Toothless, which earns him Astrid's admiration and friendship. After she kisses Hiccupp on the cheek and leaves, Toothless looks at Hiccup, silently hinting to his rider that Astrid might like him.

The next day, Toothless hears Hiccup screaming from afar in the cove. Realizing his human is in danger, Toothless manages to claw his way out of the cove and immediately rushes to Hiccup's side to protect him from the dragon he is supposed to kill, where he swiftly defeats it. He refuses to leave his friend's side, even when the Vikings eventually get in on the fight and gang up on him. He threatens to kill Hiccup's father Stoick, but only stops when Hiccup yells at him to. This makes the Night Fury let his guard down long enough to be captured. After berating Hiccup for befriending the dragon and learning from Hiccup that only a dragon can find the Nest, Stoick has Toothless chained up and used as a compass to find it.

Despite the Vikings' initial sense of victory, the Red Death suddenly bursts out of the Nest and Toothless' ship is set alight in the battle that follows. Hiccup, along with the other Vikings on dragons of their own, arrive to save him until the Red Death breaks the ship apart. Hiccup then dives into the water in a desperate attempt to free Toothless, but passes out from the lack of air. To Toothless' shock, Stoick dives back into the water to break him free and the dragon brings the Viking up to the surface with him. With a roar of encouragement, Hiccup and Toothless team up to take down the Red Death.

The pair soon have the enormous dragon chasing them into the clouds as Berk's Vikings and the other dragon riders watch, where the Red Death loses sight of them. They proceed to attack it over and over, blasting its wings from the hidden safety of the cloud cover. As it blows fire everywhere in anger at having lost them and angry at their continued attacks from the darkness, Toothless' prosthetic tail-fin catches fire, leaving them with little time to act. Toothless leads the Red Death in a dive to the ground and waits until the larger dragon is about to breath fire before firing one more plasma blast into its mouth on Hiccup's signal. The enormous creature crashes into the ground and then explodes in a fireball.

Though they try to escape the flames racing after them, the loss of the prosthetic tail-fin leave Hiccup and Toothless unable to avoid a collision with the Red Death's tail, resulting in Hiccup getting knocked off Toothless' back. Seeing his human friend falling to his fiery death, Toothless bravely dives into the exploding body of the Red Death to save him. To Stoick and Astrid's relief, Toothless is able to save Hiccup life by wrapping him in his wings, though is unable to save Hiccup's left leg from being burned.

After returning home, Toothless is overjoyed when Hiccup wakes from the battle. Sensing his human's shock at having lost part of his limb, he helps Hiccup to walk with his new prosthetic, the pair of them now equal having lost a part of themselves. After Hiccup discovers Berk has taken the dragons in as companions, Toothless is given a new tail-fin by Gobber and takes off into the skies with his friend once again.

## **Ability**

As a Night Fury, Toothless has many abilities. He is the fastest dragon known and can fire plasma-based flames that are controllable in power. He can camouflage easily, particularly at night. Fast in the air and on the ground, few can match him, save for one or two other dragon species. He can echolocate and swim well, though he cannot swim indefinitely. He is also strong enough to carry a Monstrous Nightmare, a much larger dragon, in his talons in flight. He has also bested far larger dragons including the Red Death and Drago's Bewilderbeast in combat, adding to his physical prowess. It is likely that he is by far the most powerful of all dragons given all his feats alongside Hiccup. Toothless also possessed the ability to turn invisible. By generating lightning across his body and then firing a plasma blast and flying through it, his scales temporarily gain mirroring abilities that allow him to reflect the environment around him, essentially making him a chameleon, not unlike a Changewing.

Toothless' saliva is a great adhesive substance and does not wash out. His teeth are retractable and his bite is exceedingly strong. His hearing and sense of smell are also superb.

Toothless' intelligence is second-to-none and he is creative and strategic. He shows many of the qualities and abilities to lead other dragons, something that eventually results in his becoming the Alpha dragon and later the king of all dragons. It is also shown that he can understand much of what is said towards him and react accordingly, another indication of his vast intelligence.

Toothless has very few weaknesses, but is susceptible to the effects of dragon root (which can drive most dragons to madness), is allergic to eels, can be poisoned by blue oleander flowers, and is affected by grimora parasites, which make him act wild and almost rabid. Toothless and Liry also recieved the ability to talk