How to train your dragon gay character

Animations should lean into queer narratives more if they could, and How to Train Your Dragon has always felt like an allegory for the queer expereince. Universal Pictures. One narrative thread that feels like a queer allegory is how Hiccup struggles to match with his father's expectations of him to be a stereotypically masculine man.

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Gobber may not quite understand Hiccup either, but he looks out for him and tries to mediate between Stoick and Hiccup. Not exactly. At least, that phrase is misleading, on more than one level. First, the idea that Gobber is gay is a new addition to his character, not something the filmmakers intended from the start.

Another possibility is that Greta is a weapon. The last option is that Gobber is not strictly homosexual-homoromantic and has some bisexual, biromantic, or heteroflexible romantic inclinations as well. Sign up Log in.

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