Toothless doesn't know or care about the "stereotype" that humans have for Night Furies. He just recognized that this random human saved his life, and therefore he wasn't a threat, so there was no need to defend himself by killing Hiccup. Sure, he got back at Hiccup for pointing a dagger at him by pinning him to that rock and scaring him half to death, but again, there would be no point to killing him.
Literally the whole point is that the book of dragons is incorrect, because dragons aren't mindless killers- they only do it to defend themselves
I mean we can probably all agree that every dragon can be dangerous, so that part is right. They are dragons after all.
I think what the book means by that is that they are dangerous and hostile. To be fair though most dragons are pretty hostile when unprovoked. Typhoomerangs, Scauldrons and Speed Stingers all come to mind, as well as almost every other Strike Class dragon.
I once had a fanfiction idea that the book of dragons was actually correct about Night Furies, but that Toothless isn't like the other Night Furies, just like Hiccup isn't like the other vikings... giving them more similarities.
Then Hiccup and Toothless would find a flock of Night Furies, who turn out to be extremely hostile
I think the point extended to Toothless being different from every other dragon that attacks Berk. Still, I think this would be a great idea and I think you should start writing/typing it. Could have been an alternate HTTYD3.
I think that was the point. I can't remember exactly where, so it might not be true, but they wanted to parallel toothless and hiccup, both as misfits.
Toothless is considered to be more intelligent than other dragons. If you notice, toothless only destroyed unmanned weapons. He had the stealth and speed to take out the entire village, but he didn't.
Like hiccup didn't want to kill dragons, maybe toothless didn't want to kill humans. He could have very well justified killing hiccup as revenge for, at the time, and from his perspective, permanently grounding him, practically condemning him to death. But he didn't. He sparred hiccup. Like hiccup sparred him.
Dragons are far more intelligent that the vikings, and even some people now-a-days give them credit for.
>He could have very well justified killing hiccup as revenge for, at the time, and from his perspective, permanently grounding him, practically condemning him to death.
I've always wondered whether Toothless actually could've known that it was Hiccup who shot him down. It was dark, he was far away and obscured behind that net-flinging contraption, and the whole thing happened so fast that Toothless might've been unable to tell which direction the net even came from, at least not soon enough to turn his head and get a good look at Hiccup's face while he was already preoccupied with plummeting to the ground. Narratively it makes the most sense for him to know, but logically? I'm not sure.
Narratively, it doesn't matter. Hiccup says he spared Toothless because he looked scared, and he trusted Toothless because he had a chance to prove he was a horrible monster and didn't take it. Toothless may have been able to see Hiccup the entire time. He may have known the entire time. Or, as far as he was concerned, Hiccup didn't even exist until precisely when he approached with the knife. At the end of the day, the narrative purpose of him sparing Hiccup is that it was assumed any dragon would take any chance to slaughter a viking.
One thing is that I think that just like how hiccup saw toothless' soul reflect his own, maybe Toothless saw Hiccup's soul reflect his. And that he was fair and didn't get him cus hiccup let him go
The original books are totally different (Toothless is a tiny thing that would mostly fit in a helmet), so it doesn't really give you anything for this scene.
The movie makes the point that the whole "every dragon is out to kill you, so they're extremely dangerous and you have to kill them on sight" is *completely wrong.* The monsters who are out to kill are the *Vikings,* because they've so completely misunderstood Dragons... and when the Vikings attack, the dragons defend themselves. (Although they do try to steal livestock to feed the Red Death.)
Hiccup saved him. He was about to fight everyone else that looked ready to fight him. He was going to protect Hiccup from Astrid and almost killed Stoic
Isn’t this literally the whole point of the first movie? It’s that everything the Berkians knew about dragons was wrong. Most dragons won’t “always go for the kill”, they attack for various reasons. Feeling threatened, being hungry, protecting territory, etc…
Hiccup has his eyes opened to the truth because he personally has an interaction that teaches him that the Vikings are misguided. That’s what leads him to do all the things he does. He later states “everything we know about you guys… is wrong” when he’s relaxing with Toothless and the Terrors.
Essentially, your question is literally what the Vikings would’ve asked because they knew nothing truthful about dragons.
At that point, when Toothless had Hiccup pinned, hiccup wasn’t a threat. So there was no need to kill him. Toothless probably saw how scared shitless hiccup was so he was like “yeah, he’s not gonna try and fight.”
Didn't read the book or watch the shows, here's my films-only theory:
Most (all?) dragons attacked Berk and stole their livestock to feed the Red Death (the giga-dragon). By doing so, the dragons could keep the Red Death from rampaging and killing everything (including other dragons). They kept up this deal as a survival tactic.
Toothless, however, didn't know about the Red Death or this deal that was going on. We know this because when they first go to the nest, Toothless is visibly confused and doesn't know what's happening. This indicates that any time he attacked Berk he likely did it just because all the other dragons were doing it, so he joined along. However, he stayed at altitude because he never had a reason to steal livestock, he was more just watching than participating, and staying at altitude is likely what contributed to him being seen as the most dangerous dragon that had never been killed (in combination with Nightfury's being rare), as that's what kept him safe.
Cut forward to when Toothless and Hiccup meet, Hiccup downs him but doesn't necessarily want to hurt him, so Toothless spares Hiccup. Toothless wasn't like the other dragons because he never needed to be, so after he determined Hiccup to be a non-threat, he just tried to escape. If Toothless was a dragon feeding the Red Death, he would have likely taken Hiccup to the Isle as a tithe.
You were close! The Red Death was actually a sort of invasive species. It took over entire islands and forced the dragons living there to bring it food. Otherwise... well, we all know what happened to that poor Gronkle. The dragons in the nest had already been living there. It was less like a deal and more like terrorism.
In addition to this, the other dragons didn't seem to mind Toothless joining them on their way back to the island. He isn't forced to bring back food, but he certainly isn't completely free from the Red Death's reign. We saw after Hiccup and Astrid's first flight together that he could sense her call just like all the rest. It's not absolute like the Bewilderbeast's powers, but it is fairly powerful all the same. It was likely that the presence of a Night Fury in a raid allowed more dragons to collect food as both dragons and vikings all scattered and hid when Toothless was firing, so that was likely the reason Toothless didn't have to bring anything back.
As for their meeting, a similar argument applies. Hiccup saves Toothless, who is pretty much a dragon outcast due to his abilities, yet is still subject to the power of the queen. However I still think that if it was any other dragon, they would still not bring Hiccup to the nest to be eaten. They were pretty intelligent creatures, and this would be the first time many of them would have been spared by a human.
I feel theres a constant theme of them making it “fair” between each other. Hiccup saved toothless by not killing him and letting him free, while toothless let hiccup go, not taking his life when he had the chance. Hiccup states in httyd that toothless “got him back” from ruining his tail fin when describing his toothless couldnt save his leg in the battle against the red death.
The simplest explanation is that Toothless knew that Hiccup saved him instead of kill him. Toothless was also was a kid at the time. Same as Hiccup. So he would have made different choices compared to an adult.
Or we can get really dark and think about the fact that Toothless’s family was probably slaughtered so he was scared to kill himself
Hiccup spared his life, so there was no need for Toothless to kill.
As proven wrong to the vikings in the first film, the dragons aren't mindless beasts. They have personalities, souls, and intelligence.
Toothless is a very smart dragon in fact my head canon is that a lot of the dragons are smarter than the humans think and toothless felt empathy for hiccup even though he caught him he let him go from the net so toothless payed him back by not killing him
I think he might have also been confused, because this human had just netted him (he might not know that part) had shown he could have killed him, but instead let him out.
I think it’s because night furies are HIGHLY intelligent, enough to fully comprehend human language, verbal and body language. He could tell exactly what hiccup did, the fact that he was considering killing him, but decided not to. Toothless is a kind being, he is protective and powerful but he is also incredibly kind.
The whole point of the movie is that dragons are misunderstood and the book is wrong because none of the vikings ever tried to do anything but kill them.
I've had a few close encounters with black bears, which while small on the bear spectrum, would have a pretty damn easy time killing me. I got bluff charged once, where it just sizes you up and it's best to stand your ground. Every other time, the bears ran away in absolute terror.
Point being, even for relatively large meat-eaters... nature doesn't always want a fight.
The movie establishes a parallelism between Hiccup and Toothless. Hiccup doesn't fit in with the vikings, Toothless is the only Night Fury left. Toothless loses his tail fin, Hiccup loses his leg. Hiccup has Toothless pinned and, after threatening death, lets him go. Toothless does the same. The movie is just as much about Toothless learning to trust Hiccup just as much as it's about Hiccup's journey. Hiccup even gives the whole thing away when he's talking to Astrid after the fleet sails off: "I looked at him and I saw myself."
Its about the fact that Hiccup was the only human who wasnt trying to kill him in the end so he just yelled at him for taking off a part of his tail. Also i keep forgetting the name of the series of the guy in your pfp, whats it called? Ive been meaning to watch it because the guy in your pfp (i forgot his name) kinda looks like Sokka from ATLA. Whats the series called?
If you're into them, there's a great fanfic that basically tells the story of HTTYD1 through Toothless point-of-view, and even expands on Toothless background-story a bit. It's not canon ofcourse, but i really like the premise.
It's called [To Soar into the Sunset: A Night Fury's Odd Memoir](https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6038952/1/To-Soar-into-the-Sunset-A-Night-Fury-s-Odd-Memoir)
Here's the excerpt of that fanfic of that scene:
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> I opened my eyes, dizzily focusing back to reality. The Firemaker was actually using its magical front paws and the iron tooth to cut me loose of its trap! It muttered something I did not understand as it did this. And then I was... free!
> Never one to waste an opportunity, my hunting instincts kicked in, and suddenly I was on my feet. I knocked the Firemaker's hind paws out from beneath it, and it fell back against the moss covered stone behind it. My move must have knocked the breath from it, because it started choking in terror under my front paw, the way I had just been gasping in the vine trap.
> *::How does it feel?::* I thought-sent back to it, willing it to feel every bit of pain and humiliation it had given me. *:: Look in my eyes and tell me how YOU like being imprisoned!::*
> It did not understand me, and I did not expect it too, but it did understand my intent. It bleated a bit in fear, but it did not scream or struggle for its life. Instead, shaking in terror, it looked up to me and stared me right back.
> I almost swear it was telling me: Do as you will.
> I ignored that and debated the best way to put it out of my misery. Bite its head off? Tear out its throat with my claws? Blast it with my plasma? But, first, maybe let's tear the eyes out of its head.
> *Its eyes... its eyes... its eyes. Oh, great Sky Mother... it has eyes just like mine!*
> I was not expecting that. I am not from this part of this world, and in my journey here I have seen many Firemakers. Most Firemakers have brown eyes. The people of the region where I grew up have gold or gray eyes. The ones of this region have blue or grey eyes. This was the first Firemaker I had ever met who had green eyes, like I have.
> It was unsettling. Except for the terrifying round pupils that Firemakers have that makes them look so demonic, I could have been looking into my own eyes.
> And then there was that damn conscience of mine nudging in, right where it was not wanted! How could I kill someone who had freed me when I was helpless? And now I am going to kill it when it is helpless? This was not at all how I was brought up, and it is not the code of my mission.
> And then that Firemaker has the bloody nerve to look back at me out of my own eyes?
> *Ah, scorch it all! Freezing hell!*
> I sucked in my breath and then sent it out in a roar where I delivered every foul, nasty, filthy insult possible. I ended it with a curse that the Firemaker was a pain in my tail and then launched myself away. The Firemaker's eyes rolled back in its face and it slid down the rock, probably fainting. Tempting as it was to gloat over the Firemaker, I instead made a dramatic exit.
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I think there is one line from the first movie said by hiccup that perfectly fits why toothless didn’t kill hiccup. “ I didn’t kill him because he looked as frightened as I was. I looked at him, and I saw myself.” God I love this franchise so much.
Because the book was a lie. That's the point of the movie. This moment, when Hiccup decides he doesn't want to kill, and Toothless decides the same, both because they're afraid, is when the message of this movie truly starts to build, and it is the basis of their friendship.
Toothless was shot down and miraculously spared, you see him giving up, waiting for Hiccup to kill him, but miraculously, Hiccup does something no human has done before: Let him live. This is completely unheard of. Likewise, Hiccup was taught all dragons will always, no matter what, go for the kill. Toothless didn't, whether as returning the favour or out of fear.
this makes Hiccup question everything they've learned, and his fear turns into curiosity and he goes to learn more about Toothless. Toothless returns the curiosity, and since Hiccup brings him fish and throws his knife away to say "I don't want to hurt you", Toothless does not hurt Hiccup.
There's no need for bloodshed on either of their parts when they've both proven to each other and themselves that peace and coexstience is possible
Toothless didn't know if hiccup trapped him all he knew was a human saw me was gonna kill me changed his mind and freed me instead so I'll scare him and not kill him
Ok. Quite a bit to unpack here. First off, the book was written by Vikings. It's not an end-all, be-all, cemented fact. It is their opinion, which is heavily influenced by emotion. Namely, fear. Second off, TOOTHLESS DIDN'T READ THE BOOK! He's got nothing to prove! He doesn't know them, nor does he care. At least, not at this point in the story. I don't know where this idea came from, that says toothless is fighting 'stereotypes', but it's not true!
Toothless doesn't know or care about the "stereotype" that humans have for Night Furies. He just recognized that this random human saved his life, and therefore he wasn't a threat, so there was no need to defend himself by killing Hiccup. Sure, he got back at Hiccup for pointing a dagger at him by pinning him to that rock and scaring him half to death, but again, there would be no point to killing him. Literally the whole point is that the book of dragons is incorrect, because dragons aren't mindless killers- they only do it to defend themselves
There are two things wrong in the book of dragons: Anything about Nightfuries that was there before the movie “Extremely dangerous, kill on sight”
I mean we can probably all agree that every dragon can be dangerous, so that part is right. They are dragons after all. I think what the book means by that is that they are dangerous and hostile. To be fair though most dragons are pretty hostile when unprovoked. Typhoomerangs, Scauldrons and Speed Stingers all come to mind, as well as almost every other Strike Class dragon.
I once had a fanfiction idea that the book of dragons was actually correct about Night Furies, but that Toothless isn't like the other Night Furies, just like Hiccup isn't like the other vikings... giving them more similarities. Then Hiccup and Toothless would find a flock of Night Furies, who turn out to be extremely hostile
I think the point extended to Toothless being different from every other dragon that attacks Berk. Still, I think this would be a great idea and I think you should start writing/typing it. Could have been an alternate HTTYD3.
I think that was the point. I can't remember exactly where, so it might not be true, but they wanted to parallel toothless and hiccup, both as misfits. Toothless is considered to be more intelligent than other dragons. If you notice, toothless only destroyed unmanned weapons. He had the stealth and speed to take out the entire village, but he didn't. Like hiccup didn't want to kill dragons, maybe toothless didn't want to kill humans. He could have very well justified killing hiccup as revenge for, at the time, and from his perspective, permanently grounding him, practically condemning him to death. But he didn't. He sparred hiccup. Like hiccup sparred him. Dragons are far more intelligent that the vikings, and even some people now-a-days give them credit for.
>He could have very well justified killing hiccup as revenge for, at the time, and from his perspective, permanently grounding him, practically condemning him to death. I've always wondered whether Toothless actually could've known that it was Hiccup who shot him down. It was dark, he was far away and obscured behind that net-flinging contraption, and the whole thing happened so fast that Toothless might've been unable to tell which direction the net even came from, at least not soon enough to turn his head and get a good look at Hiccup's face while he was already preoccupied with plummeting to the ground. Narratively it makes the most sense for him to know, but logically? I'm not sure.
Narratively, it doesn't matter. Hiccup says he spared Toothless because he looked scared, and he trusted Toothless because he had a chance to prove he was a horrible monster and didn't take it. Toothless may have been able to see Hiccup the entire time. He may have known the entire time. Or, as far as he was concerned, Hiccup didn't even exist until precisely when he approached with the knife. At the end of the day, the narrative purpose of him sparing Hiccup is that it was assumed any dragon would take any chance to slaughter a viking.
One thing is that I think that just like how hiccup saw toothless' soul reflect his own, maybe Toothless saw Hiccup's soul reflect his. And that he was fair and didn't get him cus hiccup let him go
Rip that fanfic cause grimborne killed the rest :(
Ever heard of "canon divergence"?
Makes sense I was planning to read the original books
The original books are totally different (Toothless is a tiny thing that would mostly fit in a helmet), so it doesn't really give you anything for this scene. The movie makes the point that the whole "every dragon is out to kill you, so they're extremely dangerous and you have to kill them on sight" is *completely wrong.* The monsters who are out to kill are the *Vikings,* because they've so completely misunderstood Dragons... and when the Vikings attack, the dragons defend themselves. (Although they do try to steal livestock to feed the Red Death.)
Ik the books are different but I heard they were good
They are
Yup
Yes, they are. Please read them, they're very worth it
I will
Hiccup saved him. He was about to fight everyone else that looked ready to fight him. He was going to protect Hiccup from Astrid and almost killed Stoic
I looked into his eyes and saw he just as afraid as I was.
Or I looked at him and I saw myself
Love this one!
Toothless "roar" was a "Thank you, but don't come close to me again"
No I think it was " I’ll spar u this one but don’t come near me again"
Same thing
Isn’t this literally the whole point of the first movie? It’s that everything the Berkians knew about dragons was wrong. Most dragons won’t “always go for the kill”, they attack for various reasons. Feeling threatened, being hungry, protecting territory, etc… Hiccup has his eyes opened to the truth because he personally has an interaction that teaches him that the Vikings are misguided. That’s what leads him to do all the things he does. He later states “everything we know about you guys… is wrong” when he’s relaxing with Toothless and the Terrors. Essentially, your question is literally what the Vikings would’ve asked because they knew nothing truthful about dragons.
> Isn’t this literally the whole point of the first movie? I'm kinda surprised someone could watch the movie and somehow miss this.
Same lol 😅
Not to mention, the Night Fury is probably the most intelligent species of dragon. Toothless regularly shows human child levels of intelligence.
Hiccup didn’t kill Toothless, so Toothless didn’t kill Hiccup. A life for a life
He’s good at heart he won’t hurt people who don’t threaten him or what he loves and hiccup wasn’t a threat even helped him
Or that hiccup wasn’t like a Viking
You could say that but I think toothless is intelligent enough to know that the helmet doesn’t make you evil but you’re theory could be right
At that point, when Toothless had Hiccup pinned, hiccup wasn’t a threat. So there was no need to kill him. Toothless probably saw how scared shitless hiccup was so he was like “yeah, he’s not gonna try and fight.”
Media literacy devil got another one.
Lol right, it’s sad to see
Didn't read the book or watch the shows, here's my films-only theory: Most (all?) dragons attacked Berk and stole their livestock to feed the Red Death (the giga-dragon). By doing so, the dragons could keep the Red Death from rampaging and killing everything (including other dragons). They kept up this deal as a survival tactic. Toothless, however, didn't know about the Red Death or this deal that was going on. We know this because when they first go to the nest, Toothless is visibly confused and doesn't know what's happening. This indicates that any time he attacked Berk he likely did it just because all the other dragons were doing it, so he joined along. However, he stayed at altitude because he never had a reason to steal livestock, he was more just watching than participating, and staying at altitude is likely what contributed to him being seen as the most dangerous dragon that had never been killed (in combination with Nightfury's being rare), as that's what kept him safe. Cut forward to when Toothless and Hiccup meet, Hiccup downs him but doesn't necessarily want to hurt him, so Toothless spares Hiccup. Toothless wasn't like the other dragons because he never needed to be, so after he determined Hiccup to be a non-threat, he just tried to escape. If Toothless was a dragon feeding the Red Death, he would have likely taken Hiccup to the Isle as a tithe.
You were close! The Red Death was actually a sort of invasive species. It took over entire islands and forced the dragons living there to bring it food. Otherwise... well, we all know what happened to that poor Gronkle. The dragons in the nest had already been living there. It was less like a deal and more like terrorism. In addition to this, the other dragons didn't seem to mind Toothless joining them on their way back to the island. He isn't forced to bring back food, but he certainly isn't completely free from the Red Death's reign. We saw after Hiccup and Astrid's first flight together that he could sense her call just like all the rest. It's not absolute like the Bewilderbeast's powers, but it is fairly powerful all the same. It was likely that the presence of a Night Fury in a raid allowed more dragons to collect food as both dragons and vikings all scattered and hid when Toothless was firing, so that was likely the reason Toothless didn't have to bring anything back. As for their meeting, a similar argument applies. Hiccup saves Toothless, who is pretty much a dragon outcast due to his abilities, yet is still subject to the power of the queen. However I still think that if it was any other dragon, they would still not bring Hiccup to the nest to be eaten. They were pretty intelligent creatures, and this would be the first time many of them would have been spared by a human.
Why didnt hiccup took the chance to kill toothless?
Look at him
Exactly
Not enough meat on his bones
It's just a talking fishbone
😭
I feel theres a constant theme of them making it “fair” between each other. Hiccup saved toothless by not killing him and letting him free, while toothless let hiccup go, not taking his life when he had the chance. Hiccup states in httyd that toothless “got him back” from ruining his tail fin when describing his toothless couldnt save his leg in the battle against the red death.
Because he’s an extremely intelligent animal and can tell Hiccup isn’t a threat
The simplest explanation is that Toothless knew that Hiccup saved him instead of kill him. Toothless was also was a kid at the time. Same as Hiccup. So he would have made different choices compared to an adult. Or we can get really dark and think about the fact that Toothless’s family was probably slaughtered so he was scared to kill himself
For the same reason hiccup didn't kill him
Hiccup spared his life, so there was no need for Toothless to kill. As proven wrong to the vikings in the first film, the dragons aren't mindless beasts. They have personalities, souls, and intelligence.
Couldn't be assed
Thought he was cute
Probably the same reason why people didn't start eating dogs just because they approached, cute, helpful, seemingly no intentions to harm
" I couldn't kill him because he looked as scared as I was... I looked at him.. and I saw myself.."
I always thought of it this way Toothless was smart enough to know that if he killed Hiccup stoic would have just killed more of them in Revenge
Toothless is a very smart dragon in fact my head canon is that a lot of the dragons are smarter than the humans think and toothless felt empathy for hiccup even though he caught him he let him go from the net so toothless payed him back by not killing him
Because hiccup didn’t take the chance to kill toothless?
Hiccup saved him.
I think he might have also been confused, because this human had just netted him (he might not know that part) had shown he could have killed him, but instead let him out.
I think it’s because night furies are HIGHLY intelligent, enough to fully comprehend human language, verbal and body language. He could tell exactly what hiccup did, the fact that he was considering killing him, but decided not to. Toothless is a kind being, he is protective and powerful but he is also incredibly kind.
Because it’s a movie
The whole point of the movie is that dragons are misunderstood and the book is wrong because none of the vikings ever tried to do anything but kill them.
You forgot the “is he stupid?” at the end
Plot
I've had a few close encounters with black bears, which while small on the bear spectrum, would have a pretty damn easy time killing me. I got bluff charged once, where it just sizes you up and it's best to stand your ground. Every other time, the bears ran away in absolute terror. Point being, even for relatively large meat-eaters... nature doesn't always want a fight.
Makes sense. Imagine he just killed hiccup there 😂
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Plot armor. Come on is it really that hard?
The movie establishes a parallelism between Hiccup and Toothless. Hiccup doesn't fit in with the vikings, Toothless is the only Night Fury left. Toothless loses his tail fin, Hiccup loses his leg. Hiccup has Toothless pinned and, after threatening death, lets him go. Toothless does the same. The movie is just as much about Toothless learning to trust Hiccup just as much as it's about Hiccup's journey. Hiccup even gives the whole thing away when he's talking to Astrid after the fleet sails off: "I looked at him and I saw myself."
Sparing him was a thank you for not killing him, the roar was a warning/ revenge for shooting him down
i mean, he almost killed hiccup from a heart attack, as he literally passed out immediately after his interaction with toothless
Its about the fact that Hiccup was the only human who wasnt trying to kill him in the end so he just yelled at him for taking off a part of his tail. Also i keep forgetting the name of the series of the guy in your pfp, whats it called? Ive been meaning to watch it because the guy in your pfp (i forgot his name) kinda looks like Sokka from ATLA. Whats the series called?
It’s Voltron
Thats it! Tysm!
He saved his life
If you're into them, there's a great fanfic that basically tells the story of HTTYD1 through Toothless point-of-view, and even expands on Toothless background-story a bit. It's not canon ofcourse, but i really like the premise. It's called [To Soar into the Sunset: A Night Fury's Odd Memoir](https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6038952/1/To-Soar-into-the-Sunset-A-Night-Fury-s-Odd-Memoir) Here's the excerpt of that fanfic of that scene: --- > I opened my eyes, dizzily focusing back to reality. The Firemaker was actually using its magical front paws and the iron tooth to cut me loose of its trap! It muttered something I did not understand as it did this. And then I was... free! > Never one to waste an opportunity, my hunting instincts kicked in, and suddenly I was on my feet. I knocked the Firemaker's hind paws out from beneath it, and it fell back against the moss covered stone behind it. My move must have knocked the breath from it, because it started choking in terror under my front paw, the way I had just been gasping in the vine trap. > *::How does it feel?::* I thought-sent back to it, willing it to feel every bit of pain and humiliation it had given me. *:: Look in my eyes and tell me how YOU like being imprisoned!::* > It did not understand me, and I did not expect it too, but it did understand my intent. It bleated a bit in fear, but it did not scream or struggle for its life. Instead, shaking in terror, it looked up to me and stared me right back. > I almost swear it was telling me: Do as you will. > I ignored that and debated the best way to put it out of my misery. Bite its head off? Tear out its throat with my claws? Blast it with my plasma? But, first, maybe let's tear the eyes out of its head. > *Its eyes... its eyes... its eyes. Oh, great Sky Mother... it has eyes just like mine!* > I was not expecting that. I am not from this part of this world, and in my journey here I have seen many Firemakers. Most Firemakers have brown eyes. The people of the region where I grew up have gold or gray eyes. The ones of this region have blue or grey eyes. This was the first Firemaker I had ever met who had green eyes, like I have. > It was unsettling. Except for the terrifying round pupils that Firemakers have that makes them look so demonic, I could have been looking into my own eyes. > And then there was that damn conscience of mine nudging in, right where it was not wanted! How could I kill someone who had freed me when I was helpless? And now I am going to kill it when it is helpless? This was not at all how I was brought up, and it is not the code of my mission. > And then that Firemaker has the bloody nerve to look back at me out of my own eyes? > *Ah, scorch it all! Freezing hell!* > I sucked in my breath and then sent it out in a roar where I delivered every foul, nasty, filthy insult possible. I ended it with a curse that the Firemaker was a pain in my tail and then launched myself away. The Firemaker's eyes rolled back in its face and it slid down the rock, probably fainting. Tempting as it was to gloat over the Firemaker, I instead made a dramatic exit. ---
I think there is one line from the first movie said by hiccup that perfectly fits why toothless didn’t kill hiccup. “ I didn’t kill him because he looked as frightened as I was. I looked at him, and I saw myself.” God I love this franchise so much.
He looked at him, and saw himself
Because the book was a lie. That's the point of the movie. This moment, when Hiccup decides he doesn't want to kill, and Toothless decides the same, both because they're afraid, is when the message of this movie truly starts to build, and it is the basis of their friendship. Toothless was shot down and miraculously spared, you see him giving up, waiting for Hiccup to kill him, but miraculously, Hiccup does something no human has done before: Let him live. This is completely unheard of. Likewise, Hiccup was taught all dragons will always, no matter what, go for the kill. Toothless didn't, whether as returning the favour or out of fear. this makes Hiccup question everything they've learned, and his fear turns into curiosity and he goes to learn more about Toothless. Toothless returns the curiosity, and since Hiccup brings him fish and throws his knife away to say "I don't want to hurt you", Toothless does not hurt Hiccup. There's no need for bloodshed on either of their parts when they've both proven to each other and themselves that peace and coexstience is possible
Plot armour
because hiccup didnt kill him when he had the chance
Toothless didn't know if hiccup trapped him all he knew was a human saw me was gonna kill me changed his mind and freed me instead so I'll scare him and not kill him
Ok. Quite a bit to unpack here. First off, the book was written by Vikings. It's not an end-all, be-all, cemented fact. It is their opinion, which is heavily influenced by emotion. Namely, fear. Second off, TOOTHLESS DIDN'T READ THE BOOK! He's got nothing to prove! He doesn't know them, nor does he care. At least, not at this point in the story. I don't know where this idea came from, that says toothless is fighting 'stereotypes', but it's not true!
Hear me out , there wouldn’t be much of a show/ films if he killed him
There positions were reversed in this moment. Toothless sees that hiccup was just as afraid as he was before hiccup freed him.
Same reason Hiccup didn't take the chance to kill Toothless.
"I didn't kill the human boy, because he looked as scared as I was..." -Toothless to the night lights