Grimmel the Grisly

**Grimmel the Grisly** is the main antagonist of *How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World*. He was a dragon hunter who believed that dragons must be exterminated, and was responsible for bringing the Night Furies to near extinction, leaving Toothless the last one of his kind.

## Personality

Grimmel is a veteran dragon hunter who lives for the thrill of the chase. He is cunning, determined, single-minded and patient, ready to strike at any opportunity, but perfectly willing to wait until his target is assured. He is adept at anticipating and predicting the moves and behavior of his prey and enemies. He is ruthless and sadistic, as he is willing to do absolutely anything to get what he wants, such as threatening to destroy everything Hiccup loves if he doesn't deliver him Toothless or burning much of Berk with his Deathgrippers, or mocking Hiccup, saying that he's nothing without Toothless.

Grimmel is both manipulative and treacherous, having formed partnerships with Eir Stormheart and the Warlords, only to betray them once he had achieved his goals.

Grimmel holds great prejudice towards dragons and is of the firm belief that they must be imprisoned or eliminated. Any alternate ideas that involve coexistence are unacceptable to him, as he believes that dragons and humans simply cannot live together and that humans are superior to dragons, going as far as to call the idea of harmony with dragons a "toxic" notion and "nonsense". This stems from the time he killed a Night Fury when he was just a boy and being hailed as a hero by his village, which motivates him to wipe out every last one and coming in conflict with Hiccup and the Berkians just because Hiccup had the last Night Fury with him. Grimmel also reneged his deal with the Warlords so he would kill Toothless despite the promise of a huge payment if he delivered him to them. However, his hatred for dragons doesn't stop him from using Deathgrippers both as transports and as weapons in order to hunt other dragons.

Grimmel does have a humorous side, sarcastically asking the Warlords how were going their plans to conquer the world while they are having great difficulties to assemble and control dragons, tauntingly asking Hiccup on how he should address him while doing an audible hiccup and spelling out to the Warlords the direction where the Berkians and the dragons were going after leaving Berk in a comical way.

Grimmel is a hypocrite as despite justifying his actions by saying that dragons are nothing but murderers and thieves and that he works to bring real peace to the world, he has little if any regard for anyone other than himself, having no qualms with threatening, robbing, betraying and trying to kill other humans and being in truth motivated by his blind prejudice against dragons rather by any desire to help others. He is also somewhat delusional, regarding his first killing of a Night Fury as an act of courage despite having killed it in its sleep instead of facing it directly.

Grimmel is also a highly independent character, working alone with his Deathgrippers most of the time and having no allegiance to anyone except himself. He also acts as if he was equal or even superior to individuals in positions of power, speaking in a familiar and condescending manner to the Warlords, sitting in Stoick's chair and treating Hiccup as a boy rather than a chief.

Grimmel is also quite arrogant due to his intelligence and exploits as a dragon hunter, treating the Warlords with contempt and viewing Hiccup as little more than a boy. He also rarely loses his composure, staying completely calm when a Rumblehorn charged at him or when Hiccup threatened him with his flaming sword and set a trap for him, even looking amused in the latter case. However, he has his limits, as he was very annoyed by Ruffnut's endless talking and panicked when Hiccup caused him to fall into the ocean. Grimmel's arrogance ultimately caused his own downfall, as he seriously underestimated Hiccup and thought that the young chieftain and the other Berkians were powerless without their dragons and didn't represent a threat to his plans once Grimmel captured Toothless and all of the other dragons. His inability to even consider the possibility of humans and dragons being capable of bonding together also caused him to underestimate how far Hiccup would go to save Toothless and he was totally shocked when the Light Fury came back to save Hiccup from falling.

## Trivia

* Grimmel is the foremost antagonist in the *How to Train Your Dragon* series, along with Drago Bludvist, as he hunted the Night Furies to near-extinction, which is one of the two reasons why there was no information in the Book of Dragons and was never seen in the first film, as well as the fact that it was a plot point in some of the episodes. However, he is proven to be arguably even more dangerous than Drago, who was just being driven by revenge to hunt and enslave dragons rather than being driven for sadism and pleasure to kill them without reason. Grimmel also serves as the final antagonist of the series.
* Grimmel will become the enemy of Thomas, Twilight Sparkle, The Lion Guard, The Wild Kratts, Princess Elena, Sooty and their friends in *Thomas and Twilight Sparkle's Adventures of How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World.*

* Grimmel somewhat resembles Pitch Black in appearance, the main villain of the film *Rise of the Guardians*, which was also produced by DreamWorks Animation.
* Grimmel is also similar to Lord Shen from *Kung Fu Panda 2*.
	+ Both are thin, handsome, and white-haired villains.
	+ Both hate other races (Grimmel: Dragons, Shen: Pandas).
	+ Both tried to kill the heroes of their respective stories, only to inadvertently end up facing their own demises.

## Gallery

Grimmel injecting one of his Deathgrippers with its own venomGrimmel threatening HiccupGrimmel looking at a Light FuryGrimmel with RuffnutGrimmel with the WarlordsGrimmel falling to his deathGrimmel's death