something just crossed my mind about the "all dragons followed toothless back to the hidden world" thing.
iirc, per the film script, the dragons went with toothless because they cannot resist an alpha's command. it's also obvious that the film intended for every dragon on earth to have returned to the hidden world, per hiccup's speech at the end.
but, seeing as hiccup and co. did not defeat every legion of dragon hunters and trappers on earth, then there are undoubtedly dragons still within captivity at the time that toothless orders all dragons to follow him, no? what about them? did they just break free because the alpha told them to? did he fly across the world and free them?
and people say hiccup didn't give up on dragons by sending them away.
You know... as much as I hate the Light Fury, there's one thing after all these years that makes me genuinely feel bad for her.
The Hidden World sets her up as this poor abused, traumatized soul. She has been tortured and intimidated so much by humans that she can't connect with them. Just getting a glimpse of one makes her turn tail and flee for her life.
And yet, the movie robs her of her own revenge. She doesn't get to fight Grimmel, or the hunters. Leading up to and during the film's final battle, she's tranquilized, bound, has her life directly threatened, and then gets taken control of again and used against Toothless.
And she doesn't get revenge for any of it. She doesn't even get to fight in the armada battle. The one scene where she at least growls at her captors was animated specifically for the trailer, and isn't even in the final version.
You can argue that she got some form of control by choosing to save Hiccup and not Grimmel (thus killing him), but even so, there's no focus on her victory. It doesn't feel like a victory connected to her abuse, but instead, another setup that the movie forgot to pay off.
DreamWorks wanted a tormented, broken dragon, but forgot to let her fight for herself.
Even I can admit she deserved that much.
Me watching hiccup, astrid and toothless discover the dragon's nest in HTTYD1: wow this is just as bad as the hidden wor-