Ragnar the Rock is the secondary antagonist of DreamWorks Animation's 2019 feature film How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World. He is one of the Warlords of the Northern Alliance who hired his old friend Grimmel the Grisly to kill Hiccup and capture Toothless in order to continue their dragon poaching operations so they could conquer the world and avenge the death of his leader Drago Bludvist.
Background[]
Personality[]
Ragnar can be seen as the most jovial and the least mature of the three Warlords. Even when he and his colleagues are discussing plans to catch more dragons, he cannot help in goofing off in front of them, much to their chagrin. He is still a practical, if dimwitted man, as he is the one who convinces Grimmel to assist them in capturing Toothless and later urges Grimmel to get to the point when he is explaining why he had not yet captured the Night Fury. Ragnar has also been shown as the least brave of three Warlords, being easily frightened by threatening dragons, and he was only willing to standup to Grimmel, whom he feared, when he had the support of his partners.
Like Griselda and Chaghatai, Ragnar is an impatient person, sharing a mutual feeling of frustration with his fellow warlords when they learn they must continue waiting for the dragon to be delivered to them while the hunter indulges himself in the pursuit of his target. In addition, despite his jovial and childlike disposition, Ragnar is a violent and warmongering individual, expressing sadistic delight while fighting and defeating Gobber the Belch. Like all members of the Northern Alliance, Ragnar holds a condescending view of dragons, seeing them primarily as living weapons for mankind to exploit. Despite this, he seems to hold a soft-spot for dragons he finds cute, such as Hobgobblers.
Physical appearances[]
Ragnar is a large and muscular Warlord with light auburn hair and beard, as well as dark brown eyes. He often wears his full armor and fur cape over his blue tunic, brown boots, and he sports tattoos on both of his arms.
Role in the film[]
After Hiccup and the Dragon Riders freed another batch of captured dragons, Chaghatai Khan, Ragnar, and Griselda the Grevious decided to hire Grimmel the Grisly to hunt Toothless, the last Night Fury known in existence. They also offered him a female Light Furyto use as a bait for Toothless.
The three Warlords and Grimmel then traveled to Berk, but found the island empty. The latter discovered the route the Berkians have taken and the four hunters sailed after them.
Soon after Grimmel's tower was attacked by the Dragon Riders, Chaghatai, Ragnar, Griselda, and Grimmel planned their next move. They were continuously disrupted by Ruffnut Thorston, so they decided to release her and follow her to New Berk. There, Grimmel managed to capture both Toothless and the Light Fury and brought them back to the Warlords.
However, the Dragon Riders came to rescue their dragons, and began fighting the Warlords and the other Trappers. Later during the battle, Gobber the Belch, Valka, and Eret were brought by their dragons and were directly confronted by the Warlords. Ragnar is last seen overpowering Gobber, but was forced to flee in terror when a pack of Hobgobblers came to the latter's rescue. It is unknown if Ragnar had survived the Hobgobblers' attack.
Trivia[]
- Ragnar's name "Ragnar the Rock" sounds like Ragnarok.
- His voice actor, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson was the Icelandic dub for Stoick the Vast in all three movies of the How to Train Your Dragon franchise.