Fishlegs Ingerman

**Fishlegs Ingerman** is one of Hiccup's close friends in the film franchise. He is clumsy and inept, always making mistakes at inappropriate moments. Stoick the Vast calls him "Fisheggs", and Snotface Snotlout and Dogsbreath pick on him constantly. In the first film and the three specials he is 14 years old and 19 in the sequel.

## Film Franchise

### *How to Train Your Dragon*

Fishlegs is quite the opposite to his book counterpart. He is very
big and chubby and often spouts off information about dragons whenever
he can, usually as if he were describing the stats of a creature in an
RPG. This annoys the other teenagers frequently during their sessions at
 Dragon Training.

Later, Fishlegs learns how to fly on a dragon from Hiccup and ends up flying and owning the Gronckle used in Dragon Training, which he later names Meatlug.
 His analysis of dragons becomes invaluable for the rest of the Vikings
when he identifies the characteristics and weaknesses of the Red Death.

### *Dragons: Riders of Berk*

Fishlegs is among the riders who participate in Dragon Racing shown at the beginning of the film. He cheers as Meatlug picks up a sheep, but it is taken by Snotlout, who then tosses it to Ruffnut. When a black sheep is launched, Meatlug catches it before Stormfly can. Fishlegs congratulates Meatlug for catching the black sheep before tossing it to Ruffnut, but Astrid takes the black sheep and wins the race.

Later, Fishlegs and the other Dragon Riders, led by Astrid (since Hiccup is with his long-lost mother), capture Eret, Son of Eret, so that they can go to Drago Bludvist, only to be captured upon arrival. He participates in a battle against Drago's forces, during which Hiccup's father Stoick is killed by a mind-controlled Toothless, under hypnosis from Drago's Bewilderbeast.
 Fishlegs's Meatlug is taken by Drago's Bewilderbeast, the new alpha,
while he and his companions mourn the death of Stoick. After listening
to Hiccup's speech that they are going back, Fishlegs and the others
ride back to Berk on baby Scuttleclaws.

After Hiccup and Toothless return the dragons back to their side
and defeat Drago and his Bewilderbeast, Fishlegs celebrates victory with
 the others. He then happily reunites with Meatlug, hugging her
affectionately, and celebrates Hiccup's coronation as the new Chief of
Berk.

## Relationships

### Meatlug

Fishlegs and Meatlug first met each other in the Arena, where they
were pitted against one another. Later, before they went to fight the Red Death,
 Hiccup taught him how to train her. Like most dragons and Riders,
Meatlug and Fishlegs have shown to be very close. They have shown one of
 the strongest bonds between a dragon and a Rider so far, resulting in a
 strong, but slightly weird relationship. Meatlug likes to lick
Fishleg's feet before they sleep, and he sings about her and tells her
stories about 'Princess Meatlug'. Because they have such a strong bond,
they find it hard to be away from one another, which was demonstrated
several times.

He was trying to make sure Meatlug wouldn't go back to her feral
side since seeing Hookfang acting strange over female dragon, he was
trying to everything he can to make her stay with him.

### Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III

Fishlegs and Hiccup often work together when it comes to dragon
related subjects, both being very interested in said creatures. But
while Hiccup learns from experience, Fishlegs rather learns from books.
Nevertheless, these two had developed a strong friendship. It is
possible that aside from Astrid Fishlegs is his closest human friend of
the group.

### Ruffnut Thorston

Though Fishlegs was often a target for pranks and teasing of the
twins, he has been seen fighting with Snotlout for Ruffnut's affection
in *How to Train Your Dragon 2*.

### Snotlout Jorgenson

Mostly Snoutlout bulliest him often as more then he treat the others.
 Snotlout has been teasing and pranking Fishlegs quite often as was seen
 in *Twinsanity* and *Gem of a Different Color*. However, in the latter episode, Fishlegs finally stood up for himself, successfully convincing Snotlout to give back the Changewing Egg. In the second season, not much of their relationship has been seen. By *How to Train Your Dragon 2*, they are fighting for Ruffnut's affection as rivals.

### Astrid Hofferson

Astrid and Fishlegs have been shown working together for a few times,
 despite Astrid thinking very little of Fishlegs and Fishlegs thinking
Astrid is 'Mean in a nice way'.

### Stoick the Vast

Like most Vikings, Fishlegs is seen respecting and sometimes fearing
Stoick, and he, along with the other Dragon Riders, was deeply saddened
after the Chief was killed.

As Bonecrusher, Fishlegs called Stoick the Vast-ly overrated.[5]

### Gobber the Belch

Though not much of their relationship has been seen, it can be concluded Gobber and Fishlegs are friends. In *The Iron Gronckle*,
 he and Gobber have been working together, and Gobber 'comforted' him in
 his own way. At the end, he even gave Fishlegs the first Sword he had
made out of Gronckle Iron.

### Iggy

Iggy was the Terrible Terror that Fishlegs trained*.*[8] He
 originally wanted to name him 'Deathwing', but eventually went for Iggy
 instead. Fishlegs taught Iggy how to recognize several objects, which
helped them save Meatlug from the Outcasts.

### Toothless

He even rides on him to save his dragon and Hiccup
 but was very afraid of his speed but able to overcome his fear for his
love of his dragon. Fishlegs stated that Toothless is the best dragon
for competitions since his abilities are greatest and can learn amazing
skills.

### Hookfang

Though he believes like everyone that this dragon is a lot like his
owner and possible used to be afraid of Hookfang. Although he seen how
he listen to his commands that was meant for Meatlug only. Also he shown
 to care about him to help him to find cure, thought of Fireworms that
can try to reignite his fire. He even try to comfort him on Fireworm
Island.

He thought that Hookfang was going back to his feral side once
agian thinking this could happen to other trained dragons as he thought
to make sure Meatlug wouldnt becoem like Hookfang.

### Heather

Fishlegs finds Heather very acctrive and gets bit barrass around her.

Heather said to Astrid that she was more attracted to Fishlegs
than Snotlout, that she liked the smarter viking than a brawn one. It is
 unclear if Fishlegs knows about Heather's attraction to him.[7]

## Appearance

In the second movie, Fishlegs is wearing the same furry outfit only
this time with furry armbands, a belt with pockets and a helmet with
something that resembles little Gronckle ears or wings. He has grown a
thin beard. He also grown heavier since the past five years.

## Abilities and Skills

Fishlegs is probably one of strongest and smartest, but also one of
the most cowardly and quietest members of the Academy. Despite his
flaws, he still a valued member of the gang. He also had some experience
 as a artist when he drew a sketch of the Razorwhip.[7]

**Intelligence and Builder:** Fishlegs has proven several
times, especially in the first film and in the series whenever a new
species of Dragon appeared, that he has a great knowledge on dragons.
However, where Hiccup learns from experiences, Fishlegs rather learns
from books. He even thought of hand signals, knows why Changewings were looking at the boat because of Snotlout
 having the fourth egg, using different colors on dragons for different
islands to study their territory for specific reasons, figuring out why
the Flightmare comes every ten years but mostly his dragon was the one to figure it out, and taught some ideas for his Meatlug
 to improve her combat ability to learn new fighting skills that were
shown all great success. He even build his own Viking ship but failed
for to Meatlug getting sea sick and release lava out of her mouth.[9]

**Strength:** It was revealed that when Fishlegs gets angry, he will go berserk, successfully defeating enemies and intimidating people.[3] This
 is probably based on the books, where Fishlegs was half Berserker, half
 Murderous. He was also able to tackle-hug Meatlug in Gift of the Night
Fury, (though Meatlug might not have expected it, so she probably didn't
 hold her ground much.)

As Bonecrusher he shows off his true strength able hold cart with no sign of struggle.

**Dragon Training and Riding:** So far, Fishlegs has trained two dragons. His Gronckle, Meatlug and a Terrible Terror named Iggy.
 However, he isn't the best Dragon Rider. He flew on Toothless once,
though he was very afraid of doing so being so fast that he wasn't used
to it. However, he was able to overcome his fear in order to save
Meatlug. He has multiple useful ideas for Dragon Training methods, as he
 was the one who invented the hand signals. He is also quite skilled in
Dragon Calls. He the only one thought of great training ideas for
Meatlug to improve her combat ability to gain amazing skills which all
have become success. And using pictures for Iggy to know which object to get for him.[8]

As Bonecrusher, he was able wrangle a wild Scauldron with little success.[5]

**Navigator Skills:** Fishlegs shown to be the best for
navigating islands and locations. As he shown this skill as he was able
to recognize different dragons locations on certain colors. Also able to
 recognize their surroundings around Berk.

**Speed:** He shown for his heavy weight he able to run fast to catch up to the teens when he afraid.

As Bonecrusher, he was able to run faster than a baby Yak.[5]

**Endurance and Stamina:** In the first film he shown to be
able to take Meatlug weight on him when she fall and his stamina for
heavy weight teen he able to run long distance with out showing any type
 of difficulties at all.

## Trivia

* In the books, Fishlegs is even skinnier then Hiccup, but in the movie, he's clearly a heavy-set teen.
* Fishlegs is the only one in the movie that doesn't seem to

actually make fun of Hiccup besides Astrid (who still criticized,
scolded, threatened and harmed Hiccup on separate occasions throughout
the film).

* Even though he receives the Gronckle Iron sword from Gobber at the end of *The Iron Gronckle*, he doesn't use it after that episode.
* Fishlegs has Binge Eating Disorder.
* He is the Berk Dragon Academy's Boulder Class Dragons expert.
* Of all the main characters during Defenders of Berk, Fishlegs had the most episodes that focused on his character development.
* In Dawn of the Dragon Racers, he also seems to creep out Hiccup when he appears from behind him like a ghost.
* Speed Stingers are one of Fishlegs' favorite dragons.