How to Train Your Dragon 3: What is the Villain Grimmel All About?

DreamWorks has finally revealed to us How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, but so much of the film is still a mystery to fans. For one, we don't know that much about the villain Grimmel, and director Dean DeBlois has come out to give us more on his backstory and what his motivations are for the film.

DeBlois tells ScreenRant:

"Grimmel is of the belief that dragons need to be eliminated or enslaved. Put them in a zoo if you must, but he does not want a world in which dragons roam free. He sees himself as a superior species, and made his name by wiping out the most feared dragons known to mankind. Those were the Night Furies. Toothless is a discovery that's made in this movie, but [Grimmel] has built his name and his fame on being the man who drove Night Furies to extinction."

As contrasted to Hiccup, who thinks that dragons are just misunderstood, DeBlois explains that Grimmel is someone who is all about intolerance. DeBlois continues:

"On a fundamental level Hiccup believes that dragons are misunderstood, and that given the chance we could all live peacefully together. And Grimmel, he's just all about intolerance. [He thinks] dragons are vermin. They are the enemy, they must be suppressed or removed. He cannot tolerate a world in which he has to live with dragons, and the idea that there's some young Viking chief on the island of Berk trying to teach people that they can all live together is personally offensive to him."

I think this is an interesting contrast when it comes to villain from the last film, Drago Bludvist. With Drago wanting to use dragons to gain power, Grimmel here looks to actually hate them—which I think is kind of hypocritical considering that he does look to be a dragon rider as well.

Whatever happens, How to Train Your Dragon has grown to be a very interesting franchise for DreamWorks, and I have no doubt that they're planning something big when it comes to capping off the trilogy of Hiccup and Toothless.

Catch How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World in theaters March 1, 2019.

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