Astrid Hofferson

### Honors and awards

Best Actress-Animated Female Film of Alliance of the Women Film Journalists Alliance (America Ferrera)
#7 on MsMojo's Top 10 Greatest Non-Disney Female Animated Characters

## Character information

### Occupation

General of Berk
Dragon Rider
Shieldmaiden
Berk Guard recruit (formerly)
Sharp Class specialist and second-in-command of the Berk Dragon Training Academy

### Affiliations

Good
Dragon Riders
House Hofferson
House Haddock

### Home

Berk (formerly)
New Berk

### Likes

Hiccup, riding her dragon, her friends and family, studying dragons

### Dislikes

fighting with her friends, Hiccup and her friends in danger, dragons (formerly)

## Family

### Parents

Unnamed father
 Unnamed mother

### Children

Zephyr Haddock (daughter)
Nuffink Haddock (son)

### Other relatives

Unnamed grandfather
 Unnamed grandmother
Unnamed great-grandmother
"Fearless" Finn Hofferson (uncle)
 Unnamed aunt
Stoick the Vast (father-in-law)
Valka (mother-in-law)

### Pets

Stormfly (Deadly Nadder)
Sneaky (Terrible Terror)
 Axewing (Timberjack)
 Unnamed Monstrous Nightmare
 Bork Week Nadders (Deadly Nadders)
 Garffiljorg (Death Song)

### Friends

Hiccup Haddock, Stormfly, Toothless, Heather, Stoick the Vast †, Valka, Gobber the Belch, Valka, Snotlout Jorgenson, Fishlegs Ingerman, Tuffnut & Ruffnut Thorston, Hookfang, Meatlug, Barf and Belch, Windshear, Cloudjumper, Skullcrusher, Grump, Mulch and Bucket, Alati, Wingmaiden Tribe, Mala, Throk, Garffiljorg, Sleuther, Gustav Larson, Dagur the Deranged, Alvin the Treacherous, Eret son of Eret †, Trader Johann (formerly)

### Enemies

The Red Death, Dagur the Deranged (formerly), Alvin the Treacherous (formerly), Eret son of Eret (formerly), Drago Bludvist, Ryker Grimborn, Viggo Grimborn, Hroar, Angrim Dammen, Grimmel the Grisley, Trader Johann

**Astrid Haddock** (nee **Hofferson**) is the deuteragonist of the *How to Train Your Dragon* franchise. She is the rider of Stormfly, a Deadly Nadder and is Hiccup's girlfriend and eventual wife.

## Background

When she was five years old, Astrid lost her uncle, "Fearless" Finn Hofferson, and it brought shame to the Hofferson family.

### Physical Appearance

Astrid is a fierce, and strikingly beautiful woman with blond hair she keeps in a braid, has blue eyes and fair skin. She also wears a headband as opposed to a Viking helmet like the rest of the citizens of Berk.

In the first film, Astrid is fifteen years old, twenty in the sequel and twenty-one in the threequel. In *Race to the Edge*, she was eighteen to nineteen. By the film's epilogue, she is thirty years old.

## Appearances

### *How to Train Your Dragon*

Astrid débuts in the 2010 film, *How to Train Your Dragon*. She initially disliked Hiccup and was annoyed by Snotlout. She was the only teenager to not mock Hiccup in front of everyone and ignored him when he was placed in dragon training. She is first seen in the beginning with the other teens in the brigade.

After Hiccup claims to have taking down a Night Fury, Astrid does not make fun of Hiccup but ignored him. During one of the lessons, Astrid tells Hugo that he has to pick a side because their parents' war is about to become hers.  One day, after being fed up with Hiccup gaining all the attention and fame, she gets suspicious of him and confronted him about his strange behavior. However, before she could question him further, Hiccup escaped with Toothless.

After Stoick and the search party return, Astrid grows even more infuriated when Hiccup gets chosen to kill the dragon the next day by Gothi instead of her. She confronted Hiccup in the woods and demanded to know what his secret was. When he gives her vague answers, Astrid assaults him. However, Toothless appears and sees Astrid as a threat. Seeing the dragon, Astrid yells for Hiccup to run but she learns that Hiccup and Toothless are friends. Astrid attempts to warn the village until the duo takes her up into a tree. Hiccup attempted to explain. However, she refuses to listen. Instead, Astrid yells for Hiccup to bring her down. However, Toothless, thinking Astrid still doesn't deserve forgiveness, attempts to scare her. Terrified, Astrid admits she was sorry. Hearing this, Toothless immediately stopped and, together, Astrid  was shown that Hiccup was right about Toothless and admitted that it was pretty amazing, including Toothless. However, she reminds Hiccup that he has to kill a dragon the next day. Before the conversation can escalate further, the two are taken to the dragon cave.

After they escape, Astrid initially wants to go to hiccup's father and tell them what they found. However, Hiccup convinces her otherwise and tells her to give him until tomorrow to figure everything out,Astrid as she sees that Toothless means so much to Hiccup. She then punches Hiccup in the arm for kidnapping her but then kisses him for "everything else" before returning home to the village.

The next morning, Astrid wishes Hiccup luck with the dragon but he tells her that it's not the dragon he is worried about. Hiccup has Astrid promise that if anything bad happens to him in the arena, she'll make sure that the other Vikings won't find Toothless. Regardless, Astrid agrees but ask him that nothing will go wrong. However, he never answered as Gobber has retrieved Hiccup.During the final exam, Hiccup attempts to show to everyone the dragons aren't what they think they are. It begins to work until stoic takes his hammer and yells for the fight to stop. Seeing Hiccup in danger, Astrid takes an ax and attempts to save him by throwing a hammer that hits Hookfang. However, the Monstrous Nightmare is even more infuriated. Though Stoick manages to get Astrid to safety, Hiccup is still cornered by Hookfang. Toothless appears into Hiccup's defense. She attempted to stop Stoick from hurting Toothless except he doesn't listen. After Toothless is attacked by the Vikings, Hiccup attempts to stop them. However, Astrid is forced to restrain him to stop him from getting hurt.

After being disowned by his father, Astrid fails in comforting Hiccup. She asks him why he did not kill Toothless, and the boy answers that he saw homeworld and couldn't bring himself to kill Toothless. she asks what he's going to do about it and Hiccup response that he's about to do something stupid. Astrid tells him he's already done that and instead he says that he's probably going to do something crazy. Because of that answer, Astrid rinse off after him. She convinced the other teenagers to join. After Hiccup shows his friends in taming dragons, Astrid rode with Hiccup as they went to and their parents and their people.

During the Battle, Astrid falls off of Stormfly. However Hiccup and Toothless capture her before she falls. Astrid witnesses Hiccup and Toothless defeat the Red Death but immediately believed Hiccup to be dead. However, after Toothless revealed he rescued Hiccup before the flames hurt them, Astrid cried in relief when Hiccup was announced to be alive.

After Hiccup recovered, Astrid punched Hiccup in the arm again for scaring her. Afterwards, she kisses him. Hiccup said he could get used to this. Now with their own dragons, Astrid and her friends race off, now with their now dragons

### *How to Train Your Dragon 2*

Five years after the events of *How to Train Your Dragon*, Astrid and Hiccup are revealed to be in a romantic relationship.She is seen at the beginning of the film, where she manages to win the dragon racing at the beginning of the film and rushes off to find Hiccup, who reveals that his father intends to rewire and make him Chief. Excited for her boyfriend, Astrid encourages him to search what's really inside.

### *How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World*

A year afterwards, Astrid accompanies her fiance and friends in another dragon raid. Appearing on deck, Astrid tells Hiccup that she thought it was supposed to be a stealth mission. However, hiccup said they always start off the way. The group is successful in saving their newfound dragons in return home to Berk.

Back home,Hiccup Astrid  are pressured by Gobber to put up their saddles and get married. Annoyed, Astrid walks away in disgust.When they are alone, Astrid comes and asks if this is where Hiccup comes to hide from Gobber. Hiccup asks if Gobber is right and that they should get married. However, Astrid believes they are no where near ready for getting married. She voices her concern about how they are becoming a bigger target by bringing all these dragons back home. Hiccup told Astrid that his father once spoke of a place where dragons would live called the Hidden World.

The two of them are interrupted when Toothless flees. The couple discover a new species of dragon, the Light Fury. Astrid sees that the dragon thinks of Hiccup and her as a threat. She brings him down before the dragon flees. The duo come up with two different names. Hiccup decides to go with Astrid's babe: Light Fury over Bright Fury.

Astrid was also the first to see that Toothless is in love. After Hiccup learns that someone is in Berk, Astrid takes part in an attempted ambush on their new enemy, Grimmel the Grisly. However, the plan falls through when Grimmel summons his death grippers. It attempts to go after Astrid but Hiccup manages to save his fiancé from the dragon's tail.
During a council meeting, Astrid supported Hiccup and convinced others to follow his lead to the Hidden World.  Later, Astrid joined Hiccup in an attempted to kidnap Grimmel but it immediately fell through. The dragon riders flee. She and Hiccup left on their own to find Toothless on Stormfly and in doing so, found their way to the Hidden World, where they saw Toothless and the Light Fury as the King and Queen of the hidden World. Hiccup and Astrid decide to leave when suddenly, a Rumblehorn catches them.

intruding. This catches Toothless, who manages to rescue them. The trio with Stormfly flee back to Berk, where they meet up with Ruffnut, who escaped Grimmel but unwittingly led him and Dragon Hunters to New Berk. After watching him take Toothless and the Light Fury, Astrid, motivated by Valka convinced Hiccup that they could still save Toothless and their dragons.

During the final battle, Astrid uses her ax to send the hunters' ship into a cliff. After Grimmel's defeat, Astrid watched as Hiccup realized the world wasn't ready for dragons and Humans to live in peace and tells toothless that they now have to look after themselves. Heartbroken, Astrid followed Hiccup's example and released Stormfly as the other Berkians released their dragons.

After settling on their Island, Hiccup and Astrid tied the knot and were married in front of their friends and family.

Ten years later, Astrid gave birth to two of Hiccup's children, Zephyr and Nuffink. The family rowed to the Hidden World, where they encountered Toothless, Light Fury, and his family. Astrid comforted her children when Toothless approached them and after recognizing Hiccup, Astrid assured her children that the dragon wasn't going to eat their father and both parents gently urged them to touch the dragon. After showing their children that dragons were docile, Astrid was reunited with Stormfly. She first rides Stormfly with Zephyr and then switched her daughter with Nuffink from Hiccup, now happy to protect the secret and hope for a time where dragons will one day live with humans in peace.

### Dragons: The Series

America Ferrera reprised her role from the film for the television series. Astrid appeared as one of the main characters in the series. She appeared in every episode except for "A View to a Skrill: Part 2" and "Turn and Burn."

She and Huccup Initially start off as best friends, but as the series progresses, so do their feeling for one another. They finally became a couple in "Blindsided" after Astrid was temporarily blind. They finally got betrothed in "Sandbusted"

#### Defenders of Berk

During "A Tail of Two Dragons,"Astrid and Snotlout start to get in each other's nerves, as do their dragons, Stormfly and Hookfabg. Hiccup tricks them into working together but things go awry when the dragons refuse to cooperate. Hiccup has attend and Snotlout switch dragons for the day. Astrid forms a bond with Hookfang.  At the end of the episode, the two of them learn to work together as a team.

#### Dragons: Race to the Edge

Astrid appears in *Dragons: Race to the Three Edge*. Taking place three years after the war with the Berserkers, Astrid tells Hiccup she and Stormfly were going to join the Berk guard. However, when Dagur was revealed to have escaped, Astrid and Stormfly joined Hiccup with the rest of their friends to the Reaper.

## Trivia

* Astrid is similar with Penny Peterson. Both are blond, extremely competitive and aggressive, are initially apprehensive to the main male protagonist who have crushes on them and are considered "nerdy", become jealous of the main protagonist for their abilities (Hiccup's new found "dragon slaying" abilities and Sherman's intelligence), share a romantic flight sequence in the movie with their respective love interests, and end up falling in love with the main protagonist.