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Villain Overview

Odin help us...
~ Stoick upon seeing the Red Death.

The Red Death is the main antagonist of DreamWorks’ 19th full-length animated feature film How to Train Your Dragon, based on the original book of the same name, and the first installment of the How to Train Your Dragon trilogy.

She is a gigantic, sadistic, tyrannical, heartless, gluttonous and ravenous dragon who is considered as the "Queen of Dragon Island" and has enslaved all the dragons, whom she uses as pawns to attack the Vikings and bring food to her in order to satisfy her gluttony. However, she was eventually defeated when Toothless, one of her former servants, showed Stoick the Vast the way to her nest, with Stoick's son Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III teaming up with the Night Fury to stop his master in killing Stoick's crews. She is also Toothless' former master and arch-nemesis, and the reason he met and befriended Hiccup in the first place.

Her vocal sound effects were provided by Frank Welker, who also made the sound effects of Max 3000 in Man's Best Friend, Rudy in Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Rhino in James and the Giant Peach, Ludmilla in Bartok the Magnificent, Sabor in Tarzan, Mor'du in Brave and the Harvesters in the 1996 film Independence Day.

Biography[]

The Red Death first appears when Hiccup, Toothless, and Astrid discover the Dragon's nest, feasting off what her servants bring her. After a Gronckle drops a tiny piece of fish to the Red Death, she emerges and devours the dragon. However, the Red Death spots Hiccup and her friends when she sees that Toothless has contributed nothing and has humans on her back, but they manage to escape.

The Red Death appears again when Stoick and her Vikings attack the Dragon's nest. She attacks the Vikings and destroys their ships in the process. Fortunately, Hiccup and her friends arrive and while Hiccup's friends distract the Red Death, Hiccup and Stoick save Toothless from drowning as she was caged on one of the sinking ships. Hiccup and Toothless then drive the Red Death into the clouds and conceals Toothless' form. Toothless fires several plasma blasts at the Red Death's wings but they don't have an effect on the monster dragon.

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The Red Death coming out of her nest to destroy the Vikings and dragons.

Enraged, the Red Death shoots fire in all directions around herself and manages to set Toothless' prosthetic tailfin on fire. Using as much time as they had left, Hiccup and Toothless led the Red Death out of the clouds and allowed her to chase them until she attempted to deliver a fatal blow at them. However, Toothless fired a plasma blast down her throat, lighting her insides ablaze. The dragon's wings are ripped apart, causing her to hit the ground at full speed and resulting in an explosion, killing the Red Death for good.

Appearance[]

The Red Death is a gigantic, muscular, kaiju-sized dragon with a nasal horn, a large coral-shaped frill like a Triceratops, six eyes, large claws and huge jaws that are lined up with massive needle-like teeth which protrude from her mouth when she closes it. Her coloration is a grayish blue with an orange underside while her body sports coral-like spines and red spikes. The Red Death's tail is equipped with an Ankylosaurus-like bludgeon that she can use as a dangerous and lethal weapon. Despite her gargantuan size, the Red Death's wings are more than large and strong enough to give her a full-powered flight.

Personality[]

Unlike the other dragons, the Red Death appears to be truly sadistic, ruthless, heartless and monstrous. She is one of the largest and most powerful dragons of all, so she is able to easily overthrow and enslave the other dragons. The Red Death was a cruel and ornery dragon, with no mercy for her subjects or her slaves. The Red Death is very ruthless and intolerant of failure as she eats other dragons that fail to bring back enough food. The Red Death appears to be untamable, unlike the other dragons. Being one of the largest and strongest dragons, it is unknown if it has any fear, besides while plummeting to the ground, she was visibly frightened as she was unable to slow her descent. She is also extremely selfish as she cared about neither humans nor other dragons and only cared about being fed with food.

Powers and Abilities[]

  • Firepower: The Red Death's methane-based flame jets are enormous and are powerful enough to take down an entire fleet of Viking ships in just one breath. The blazing torrents are able to create huge amounts of black smoke, which also makes them resemble volcanic pyroclastic flows.
  • Immense durability: The Red Death's entire body is heavily armored with dense scales, horns and a coral-like frill, enabling her to perforate, pierce, and demolish enormous rock cliffs of the volcano and smaller mountains entirely. Her thick hide and sheer size allow her to overcome plenty of catapults, several of Toothless' plasma blasts, and various physical blows from the rest of the riders nearly unscathed.
  • Immeasurable strength: The Red Death has demonstrated immense strength due to her gargantuan size, capable of effortlessly lifting up Viking ships in her mouth and crushing them with one powerful bite, and even smashing through the volcano and numerous sea stacks of Dragon Island, showing no strain. She utilizes her many advantages to combat the few brave souls that dare stand up to her, using her clubbed tail, immense size and weight to ram and shove while using her powerful jaws and limbs to shred through foes. She also utilizes her keen senses and flight to locate and track opponents and obliterate whatever remains with her powerful, explosive fire breath.
  • Immense mobility: Because she is too gigantic, the Red Death is slower compared to other dragons. However, she is able to swing her tail or swing her head to smash other dragons or objects. Even so, she showed no lack of speed during flight, as she was fast enough to catch up with Toothless in the air. However, it's quite possible that Toothless only slowed down to make the Red Death stay close, or that her tail fin mechanism wasn't allowing the Night Fury to fly at maximum speed at the time.
  • Powerful senses: The Red Death primarily uses her extraordinary senses and hearing in order to track and hunt down her prey. She also does not have a blind spot, due to having six sensitive eyes, and heavily relies on scent and hearing. her sense of smell was even strong enough to swiftly detect intruders in her volcanic abode.
  • Mind control: The Red Death is capable of enforcing smaller dragons to obey, even against their wills. her controlling measure is somewhat similar to the methods used by the Bewilderbeasts. Like bees, the queen howls a sub-vocal homing signals that reach miles away to call up minions. It is unknown how powerful this ability is compared to a Bewilderbeast, and so far, the Red Death has only been seen forcing other dragons to go to her nest. The Red Death is shown appearing unable to stop the Riders' dragons from attacking her, nor called upon other dragons for help. Unlike the Bewilderbeasts and kinder individuals, the Red Death can also harness fear to enslave other dragons; single stares from her six eyes is strong enough to diminish smaller dragons' self-possession completely. Commanding thousands of minions, the Red Death has acute intelligence and keen insight, to notice small events or intruders into her nest. The system to enslave and dominate smaller dragons in the areas in the first stages is unknown. The dragon, while in magma, seemed to command the minions to drop gathered foods into an exact spot; her mouth, otherwise the food would be cremated before passing through the fangs of the queen. It is also unclear whether she has traits of the Tidal Class to be able to manage respiration under thick liquids.
  • Inhalation: Being a dragon of titanic size, the Red Death possesses the ability to have a massive intake in the air and "suck in" victims inside her mouth. She is strong enough to pull in even swift and maneuverable dragons such as a Deadly Nadder in mere seconds.

Film Developer Description[]

This ultimate monster, seen pursuing Toothless and Hiccup, is the most vicious. According to legend, she lives 2,000 years and, before she dies, lays 3,000 eggs. The hatchlings fight each other to the death, a process that can take up to 100 years, until only one survives.

All dragons have a blind spot. Except this one. That is one reason we gave him six eyes instead of two. The other reason is that we wanted him to be just generally upsetting. This one is our Godzilla.

Trivia[]

  • The Red Death has the distinction of being the only main antagonist from the How to Train Your Dragon trilogy to be a dragon and female. Drago Bludvist and Grimmel the Grisly, her successors, were both male humans.
  • The Red Death is the first Dragon in the series to actually be somewhat evil. The second is Drago's Bewilderbeast and the third is the Deathgrippers. However, unlike Drago's Bewilderbeast who redeemed himself after his evil master Drago Bludvist's defeat, the Red Death never redeemed herself, and in the Deathgrippers' case, Grimmel drugged them with their own venom (though, it's implied that they were already dangerous before Grimmel brainwashed them).
  • The Red Death's defeat is, without a doubt, one of the most violent, painful, gruesome, and agonizing deaths in the entirety of DreamWorks' history; She is blown up and torn apart from the inside once Toothless shoots a fireball into her throat causing her methane fuel to ignite.
  • Despite being called the "Red Death", the score that accompanies the final battle is named "Battling the Green Death". This is because the Green Death was the dragon's counterpart in the original book.

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