Meatlug

**Meatlug** is Fishlegs' Gronckle.

## Appearance

According to Fishlegs, Meatlug is 14 feet long, has an 18 foot
wingspan, and weighs 5,724 pounds. She's dark brown in the film, but a
lighter brown.[1] She's also covered in small purple spots. Meatlug's height is about the same as Gobber's but standing on her hind legs she is much taller as seen in the episode animal house.

## In *How To Train Your Dragon*

Meatlug is the first dragon the teens are forced to battle during the Dragon training lessons. She downs all of them except for Astrid and nearly kills Hiccup. She notably does not even contemplate sparing him, but Gobber
 yanks her away just in time to save Hiccup. The teens continue to train
 against her throughout the film, and Hiccup's tactics he has learned
from watching Toothless work very well with her. At the film's climax,
Hiccup taught his classmates how to ride the dragons before they flew
off to rescue their tribe from the Red Death. Meatlug was ridden by Fishlegs.
 She fights in the battle, but gets discombobulated by the noise of the
Viking shields. She spins out of control and lands on Fishlegs. That
ends her part in the battle. She is seen again at the end of the film
being ridden by Fishlegs. She and her rider race off after Hiccup as the
 new era of Berk begins.

## In Gift of the Night Fury

In Gift of the Night Fury, it is revealed Fishlegs
 named his Gronckle Meatlug, and Berk is preparing to celebrate
Snoggletog for the first time with their dragons when suddenly the
dragons all leave.

Fishlegs is revealed to have chained up Meatlug, preventing her
from leaving until Hiccup accidentally releases the Gronckle and she
flies off with him. After the takeoff, Hiccup yells, "Meatlug?!", in
surprise that Meatlug had not left. Meatlug did not acknowledge Hiccup
until he yelled by taking her eyes off the sky in front of her to look
at Hiccup in equal shock for a second before returning to flying. Inside
 the barn where Fishlegs kept Meatlug, he, Astrid, Snotlout, Ruffnut and Tuffnut
 discover that Meatlug is a she when they found her eggs in the hay.
Until that point, the Vikings had thought that Meatlug was male,
although apparently having noticed some behaviors more in line with
female dragons, Fishlegs comments that "actually explains a few things".

Meanwhile Meatlug, with Hiccup
 on her back, flies to an island filled with dragons and their
newly-hatched babies. There, Hiccup realizes this is where all the
dragons come to lay their eggs. Hiccup manages to return all the dragons
 and their babies to Berk, where Meatlug immediately goes to feed her
hatchlings which she left at the barn and is tackled by a happy
Fishlegs. Meatlug presumably partakes in Snoggletog with her rider as
Fishlegs is holding two of her babies.

## In Dreamworks Dragons

In the TV series, Fishlegs and Meatlug establish a very endearing
relationship, very similar in strength to Hiccup and Toothless'
relationship.

### *Riders of Berk*

Side-by-side, they express that they really care for each other and
both appear to be extremely heartbroken when they had to leave each
other.[2]

Fishlegs tells a story to Meatlug, which involved Meatlug to fart
 an awful smell which Fishlegs quotes as: "Smells like rose petals." But
 despite his words he keels over and passes out from the terrible
stench.[3]

Fishlegs then developed a series of hand signals to give Meatlug
instructions without needing to speak. Meatlug and the other dragons
were able to scare off the Berserkers.[4]

Meatlug then found a stone of good fortune, which was actually a
Changewing egg. She then helped Fishlegs confront Snotlout and found the
 egg he took from the changewings.[5]

Meatlug then helped the other dragons rescue Hiccup and Toothless from Alvin and his Outcasts.[6]

### *Defenders of Berk*

Meatlug, when she and Fishlegs were dismissed from finding an Outcast
 ship because they were slow, Meatlug ingested a large amount of rocks,
which allow her to create a lava pool that when dried up was stronger
and lighter than iron, dubbed Gronckle Iron by Gobber. After she ran
out, Fishlegs and Gobber gave her different rocks, accidentally giving
her a magnet making her skin magnetic. Meatlug became frightened and ran
 out of the village after attracting different metal objects, including
Hiccup's metal leg, and discovering the Outcast ship, Fishlegs and
Hiccup used her magnetism to disarm the Outcast ship, sinking it in the
process.[7]

Meatlug then went with Fishlegs and Stormfly to assist Hiccup, Astrid and Toothless in fighting off the Flightmare during Aurvandil's Fire.[8]

Meatlug felt neglected when Fishlegs spent time training with Iggy.
 During the competition, Meatlug found Alvin and the others spying on
the teens. She was captured and used as a hostage. The Terrors were used
 to save her, and she was finally playing with Fishlegs after being
rescued.[9]

Meatlug and Fishlegs were then able to rally the wild Gronkles of Dragon Island to defend their home against the Screaming Death.[10]

Meatlug then helped Fishlegs and Hiccup examine the Frozen Skrill
 that was found by the Berserkers. Meatlug and Toothless then tried to
keep the Skrill at the Academy but escaped. Meatlug then held off the
Berserkers while Hiccup took on the Skrill. After the Skrill and the
twin disappeared, Meatlug and Fishlegs then searched for them with
little success.[11]

Meatlug then assisted Hiccup and the other riders in cleaning up
Mildew cabbage field. When Stormfly and Hookfang started to act weird,
Meatlug assisted Fishlegs in finding the cause, which was Dragon Root. After Stormfly cut it loose, Meatlug flew it out to sea.[12]

### *Race to the Edge*

Meatlug then assisted Fishlegs in his new job as a historian to Berk's children by carrying several of them.[13] Meatlug then rescued Fishlegs, who was hypnotized into Thor Bonecrusher, from a wild Scauldron. Meatlug was then able to scare Fishlegs out his Bonecrusher personality and fly him away from the Scauldron.[14] Meatlug then assisted Fishlegs in his search for Dark Deep by lighting the Dragon Eye with her Lava blasts, revealing the location.[15]

## In *Dawn of the Dragon Racers*

Meatlug then assisted the other dragons and their riders in catching Silent Sven's
 sheep. She then assisted Fishlegs in building his ship for the Regatta.
 However, she became sea sick and sank the ship. She and Fishlegs then
helped Hiccup and Toothless in winning the first Dragon Race by finding the real black sheep.

Sometime later, she and Fishlegs then had the Ingerman family crest for their face paint for the dragon races.

## In *How To Train Your Dragon 2*

Five years after the first film, Meatlug and Fishlegs participated in Dragon Racing.
 She got in time to captured the black sheep before Astrid and Stormfly
but being behest gave it to Ruffnut. She and the other dragons then
helped Astrid in finding Drago Bludvist but were captured by his men. After Eret helped them escape, Meatlug then helped Hiccup's mother Valka in fighting Drago. However, After Drago's Bewilderbeast defeated hers,
 Meatlug and the others then followed its call. However, Meatlug and the
 other dragons were then freed when Toothless challenged the
Bewilderbeast and became the new Alpha dragon. Meatlug was then reunited
 with Fishlegs and they resumed their participation in the dragon races.

## Relationships

### Fishlegs Ingerman

Meatlug was used for training against new beginners as she
attacked Fishlegs. Being her rider, Fishlegs and Meatlug are shown to be
 extremely close, to the point that their relationship is slightly odd;
Fishlegs often refers to himself as Meatlug's 'Daddy'. Meatlug has been
known to lick Fishlegs' feet before going to bed[16], and Fishlegs sings her songs[5] and tells her stories about 'Princess Meatlug'.[3]
 Meatlug is extremely affectionate and loving towards Fishlegs, and had
saved him several times. They have similar personalities, and have shown
 to hate being apart from one another. Meatlug always knows when to
comfort Fishlegs, though this is not always two-sided.

### Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III

Hiccup first met Meatlug in the arena, where she tried to kill him, but was fortunately stopped by Gobber the Belch. She was later outsmarted by Hiccup, because he used Dragon nip on her.[17] Later, he helped Fishlegs train her. Hiccup briefly rode Meatlug by accident, resulting in him landing on the Dragon Rookery.[18] Meatlug 'hugged' and licked him.[19]
 Hiccup's metal leg briefly became stuck to Meatlug when she became
magnetized as he was trying to calm her down from her panic, resulting
in him spending some time dangling from Meatlug until Fishlegs and
Toothless were able to get her to expel the magnetic rocks.[7]

### Toothless

Though their relationship has never been truly shown, it can be
assumed they are on friendly terms. Toothless was shown to comfort
Meatlug[9], assisted her in keeping the Frozen Skrill from escaping[11], and she even helped him to be captured from having the Eel Pox[19]
 to get the cure from their riders. Their relationship could be the same
 as their riders. Toothless wasn't too impressed that Meatlug was trying
 to be fierce to face off the Catastrophic Quaken as he shown her she
was wrong by using a small plasma blast that easily made her stunned. By
 the end of How to Train Your Dragon 2, Meatlug acknowledged Toothless
as the new Alpha dragon.

### Astrid Hofferson

Though they are not very close to one another, Meatlug did gave Astrid a ride when she saved her from Drago's Traps.[20]

### Gobber the Belch

She has shown at first to be like other dragons to be aggressive. She
 was going to try to kill Hiccup, but she was interrupted by Gobber to
be pulled back to her cage. She has shown later to like him when he
became more of a friend to Fishlegs. Later she was sick from eating too
many rocks and she was helped by Gobber by tickling her with a feather.
After that, she with Fishlegs and Gobber created Gronckle Iron. Later
she was fed different types of rocks only to make her a magnet. Later,
when they caught her, Gobber tickled her again to spit out the magnetic
rock. For thanks, Gobber made her a pair of earrings as a gift for
producing Gronckle Iron.[7] It can also be assumed that they are on good terms.

### Hookfang

She shown to get a bit of bullying from Hookfang as she was frighted
from his shadow from the episode of Dragon We Trust. But she has
protected him from the Fireworms when he ran out of hot shots. She even
got hit a few times from showing no concern for him at all as getting
hit from his wing when he flew in the Dragon Training Academy and use
his tail whip on her to get the sheep from her rider in the second film.
 Hookfang also helped in training Meatlug and Fishlegs to become fierce,
 as he got body slammed by her. She even tried to protect both Hookfang
and Ruffnut from Speed Stingers when they were already stung by Speedy.

### Snotlout

Though Meatlug has been teased by Snotlout many times from being the
slowest dragon of the group as she doesn't shown to get hurt from him.
She used her body slam on him with extra weight with her owner to show
off her new skill. She was even saved by Snotlout from Alvin and gave
him a ride to find Hookfang as well. She even got trained by Snotlout to
 become a fierce dragon in order to face off the Catastrophic Quaken.

### Stoick The Vast

Meatlug was shows some realtionship to the Leader of Berk as Stoick
was looking for dragon of his own. But he soon to realized that her
persoalnty is too motherly for him and not true dragon. She accidental
crash into him by full speed tackle when she and her rider were trying
to escpae from the traning acedemy from Dagur's dragon root. She was
very loney when her rider became hypotized from Snotlout to become
worthy vicking as she jump on Stoick to lick him so she won't too be
loney as this could be another resaon why she lick him becuase he might
understand losing best friend such as Thornado.

### The Quaken

At first Meatlug was very frightened by the Catastrophic Quaken when it took over Dark Deep itself, leaving all the other Gronckles inhabitable, and migrating to Dragon's Edge.
 The situation made Meatlug upset and later on grew angry. Meatlug then
trained with Fishlegs and Snotlout to take on the Quaken, though against
 Hiccup's advice. Soon on when Snotlout, Fishlegs and Meatlug ventured
to Dark Deep, the Quaken faced Fishlegs and Meatlug head on. Meatlug,
wanting to retreat as instinct, also wanted to return Dark Deep to the
Gronckles. So Meatlug faced the Quaken, not till she realized that the
Quaken was just lonely. So Meatlug gained a relationship with the
Quaken, and even took a nuzzle to it.

## Personality

Meatlug mellowed the most after the events in the movie. She is very
kind and loving. Meatlug is also motherly, as she even plays with the
younger kids on Berk, as seen on Gift of the Night Fury. She also
comforts Fishlegs when he's down. Meatlug can also be hostile to enemies[9].
 She cares about Fishlegs very much, and is usually by his side. Meatlug
 has shown multiple times to be very loyal to Fishlegs. They have a very
 sweet, though slightly weird relationship. They also understand each
other very well. In fact after Hiccup and Toothless they have the
strongest bond. Like most dragons and their riders, they have a similar
personality. They both show that they can be very afraid of things, but
both will try to get over their fear to face it. She saved Fishlegs on
numerous occasions and stood by him when he needed her, which was shown
in the cave. She is shown to be protective of Fishlegs, which was proven
 when she protected Fishlegs from the Speed Stingers. She was visibly
worried about Fishlegs when he got close to Gobber's traps.[12]
 Meatlug is also smart in her own way. She even shown to have more bit
of dog like personality such as when she gets upset she starts to whine
adorably. She also doesn't like being alone, as shown when Fishlegs was
hypnotized into Thor Bonecrusher.[14]

## Abilities and Skills

Thanks to her training with Fishlegs, Meatlug's skills have risen above the ordinary level of those of a regular wild Gronckle.

**Fire**: Like all Gronckles, Meatlug eats rocks in order to
breath fire in the form of balls made of molten lava. However, a hidden
ability of her is that the type of lava she producers, depends on what
type of minerals she ate. This was how Fishlegs and Gobber discovered Gronckle Iron.[7]

**Fighting Skills**: She learn some powerful skills from her rider that came in handy to defeat her enemies.

* **Gas, & Tail-Bludgeon:**She'll wait for an enemy to get

 close enough, then passes gas right in their face to stun them, then
use her tail to finish them off.[21]

* **Stop, Drop, & Hover**: She flies up in the air with her rider, then falls down with great speed. But this actually is a rescue skill.[9]

* **Gale Force Gronckle:**Meatlug will start spinning at a

very high speed using her head and clubbed tail to attack. It's shown to
 be so powerful, that it can knock a fully grown Typhoomerang out of the
 air.[19]

**Intelligence and Communication Skills**: She is shown to
understand Fishlegs and humans in general quite well. She usually knows
when Fishlegs needs company or comfort (Though this isn't always
two-sided) and can understand hand signals, such as when Fishlegs saved
Ruffnut and Tuffnut from a breaking tree branch.[4] She also figured out quickly Toothless had eaten an eel.[19]
 Meatlug has been trained to understand Fishleg's hand gestures as
commands, she has also learned how to recognize her rider's dragon call
that acts as a beckon in case she and Fishlegs get separated.[4]

**Gas**: When trapped in the Screaming Death's mouth, Meatlug
released gas by farting. The Screaming Death immediately let the
Gronckle go in disgust and surprise.[22]

**Endurance and Stamina**: Her skin is made mostly of rock like body armor making her an endurable opponent.[1] She can be hit in the face by Alvin the Treacherous, and still able to stand to try to hold her ground.[9] Her stamina has shown to be about one day long, before she dropped on the ground, exhausted.[11]

**Senses**: Meatlug has shown to have an amazing sense of
smell. She was able to find Fishlegs under his bed, detect hostile
Vikings such as Alvin the Treacherous, Savage, and Mildew,[9] find Dragon Root, and also managed to finds a Changewing egg that was buried in the sand.

**Brute Strength and Strength**: Meatlug with her heavy weight rider able to pin down some dragons, able to use on Toothless and Hookfang.[19] She has shown to be able to lift heavy riders as shown in the second film she able to hold 19yr old Fishlegs and 20yr old Astrid with no struggle.[20]
 She even was shown to be bit stronger as she was being train by
Snotlout to enhance her strength by smashing to large boulder as it too
several times for her to crush it to bits.

## Fire types

Meatlug's fire disposal comes in 3 different forms ( 4 technically)

**Lava blast**- The first form of her rock disposal is a "lava
 blast", which is really a molten rock melted in the Gronkle's stomach
that is spat out.

**Twin lava**- in the httyd game, a gronkle's level 2 fire
fires 2 blasts of lava that lock on the opponent with very very rare
failure, unknown what the move is called in general, It might have been
called twin lava.

**Lava burp**- level 3 fire of the Gronkle is called the lava
burp, the gronkle spits/burps a ball of condensed, heated rock that
burns the opponent before exploding into 3 balls of fire with common
failure,

**Lava burst**- it's the same fire as the lava blast, just fired at very high speeds.

## Trivia

* Meatlug and Fishlegs have a very close relationship; one example

 of this is that Meatlug licks Fishlegs' feet before he goes to bed.
Possibly just as close as Hiccup and Toothless

* According to Fishlegs, Meatlug's favorite food is granite.[6]
* Meatlug likes to play Toss the Sheep with Fishlegs.[9]
* In the film and in The Gift of The Night Fury, Meatlug's wings

beat like a hummingbird where you can't see the individual beats. In the
 series, you can easily see each beat of the wing.

* In the sequel, Meatlug's coloring is the same as in the series, not the first movie.
* Meatlug has shown to be able to walk on her hind legs and can stand up for the entire night just like Toothless, but prefers walking on all fours.
* Fishlegs mentioned Meatlug had a cousin, who was killed during the Dragon Training in the Arena.[16]
* Meatlug is incorrectly thought to be a male and her gender is revealed when the twins find her eggs.[18]
* She has the ability to create Gronkle Iron.[7]
* Meatlug's wings are actually shorter than her body length.
* She is the only one not affected by Dragon Root.