The Red Death is the main antagonist of the first How to Train Your Dragon film. He is a gigantic dragon that forced other dragons to hunt for him and bring back their catch out of fear of being eaten themselves.
Form[]
The Red Death is a formidable dragon on the island which he and others of his kind consider home. His appearance is similar to that of a Gronckle and possesses six eyes (three on each side). This feature is shared with that of the deadly Nadder. His tail is pegged with spikes, similar to that of a mace or chain ball. His great wings allow him to take flight, despite his colossal size.
Background[]
Personality[]
Unlike the other dragons, the Red Death appears to be truly evil and monstrous. He is the largest and most powerful dragon of all so he is able to easily overthrow and enslave the other dragons. The Red Death appears to be very ruthless and intolerant of failure as he eats other dragons that fail to bring back enough food. The Red Death appears to be untameable, unlike the other dragons. And it is unknown if it has any fear, being the largest and strongest. He is also extremely selfish as he didn't care about neither humans nor other dragons.
How to Train Your Dragon[]
The Red Death first appears when Hiccup, Toothless, and Astrid discover the Dragon's nest. After a Gronckle drops a tiny piece of fish to the Red Death, he emerges and devours the dragon. Then, the Red Death tries to eat Hiccup and his friends when he spots that Toothless has contributed nothing and has humans on his back, but they manage to escape. The Red Death then appears again when Stoick attacks the Dragon's nest. He attacks the Vikings and destroys their ships in the process. Fortunately, Hiccup and his friends arrive and stall the Red Death while Stoick frees Toothless. Hiccup drives the Red Death into the clouds and conceals Toothless' form. Toothless fires several lightning blasts at the Red Death's wings but it doesn't harm the monster. Enraged, the Red Death shoots fire in all directions around him and manages to light Toothless' tail ablaze. Using as much time as they had left, Hiccup and Toothless lead the Red Death out of the clouds and allowed it to chase them until he attempted to light them on fire. However, Toothless fired a plasma blast down his throat and lit his insides ablaze. The dragon's wings are ripped apart, causing it to fall. In a resulting explosion, the Red Death is killed.
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Trivia[]
- The Red Death was the one who was responsible for the war between the Vikings and the Dragons in the Barbaric Archipelago.
- The Red Death resembles the Tyrannosaurus Rex.
- Although the Red Death is a male, many people rumoured the Red Death to be female with little to no sources/citations backing them up prior to the rumours starting. The number of sources referring to the Red Death villain as male is expected to grow in future generations to come.
- Astrid refers to the Red Death as a "queen" only to describe the behaviour of the Red Death's nest as it was behaving like a giant beehive.
- The running quote "every nest has its queen" stated by Valka in How To Train Your Dragon 2 (2014) was only referring to any future Red Death dragons as female and therefore isn't associated with the Red Death from the 2010 film, as he was dead well before the quote was addressed.
- Although Red Death is the main antagonist, he only has a total of 4 minutes and 33 seconds of screentime.
- The Red Death is similar to the Spiny Mandrilla from The Croods: A New Age, which came out 10 years later.
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