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How To Train Your Dragon: An Ad-Lib Made Gobber A Rare Gay Animated Hero
Here’s how an ad-libbed line in the How To Train Your Dragon franchise made Gobber the Belch a rare LGBT animated hero. How To Train Your Dragon came out in 2010 and was the start of a charming film trilogy that told the coming-of-age tale of young Viking Hiccup (Jay Baruchel) and his adventures as a dragon rider. Alongside American Ferrera as Hiccup’s love interest Astrid and Gerard Butler as his dad Stoick the Huge, the cast also included Scottish star, comedian, and TV host Craig Ferguson, who voiced Gobber the Belch.
As the resident blacksmith in How To Drill Your Dragon, Gobber is a regarded member of his Viking community. A long time confidant and trusted adviser to village leader Stoick, Gobber is an uncle figure, comic sidekick and dedicated mentor to Hiccup and the other dragon riders. Although his sexuality wasn’t addressed in the first film, an improvised line in the sequel offered some clues.
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There’s a scene in 2014's How To Train Your Dragon 2 in which Stoick and his long-lost wife Valka (Cate Blanchett) are reunited and im
Nick Frost Gets Real About Rumors Surrounding How To Train Your Dragon's Gobber Being Gay: 'I Think He'd Have A Charming Gay Dragon As Well'
For years, there have been theories and speculation about Gobber, the beloved How to Train Your Dragonblacksmith, being gay. Moments in the second and third animated movies allude to the idea, however it’s never directly confirmed or denied. So, with the live-action film being on the 2025 movie schedule, we asked Nick Frost about this ongoing conversation.
During CinemaBlend’s interviews with How to Train Your Dragon’s cast, Jeff McCobb asked Gobber actor Nick Frost about this ongoing discourse. Noting that the actor, who is “something of an unexpected gay icon a la Golden Girls or The Babadook," he brought up the theories regarding his character's sexuality. In response, the Hot Fuzz star said:
I think it’s true. I don’t think it’s a theory, right? Has it been? I don’t think [Dean DeBlois] has confirmed, but, yeah, I think potentially Gobber is gay. Which is great, because I think he’d have a lovely gay dragon as well.
McCobb noted the theories and evidence surr
So, how gay is How to Drill Your Dragon?
Voiced by Craig Ferguson, Gobber — the tough old trainer with a peg leg and interchangeable prosthetic arm devices — was one of the best characters in the unique How to Prepare Your Dragon.
In a standard-issue “Junior Knows Best” plot with an imperious, disapproving authoritarian father — Stoick the Huge — who didn’t understand his scrawny but thoughtful offspring Hiccup, Gobber was a sympathetic power figure who gratifyingly didn’t fit the anti-patriarchal narrative. As I wrote in my 2010 review…
[Hiccup’s] chieftain father, Stoick the Vast (Gerard Butler in full-on Beowulf/Attila mode), is an unreconstructed exemplar of that tiredest of negative parental stereotypes: the overbearing patriarch who doesn’t understand his offspring and regards him with nothing but disappointment. I accept the inevitable third-act rapprochement had me misty-eyed, but can’t the father be a little humanized before the very end?
Happily, Stoick is somewhat offset by Gobber the Belch (Craig Ferguson), the peg-legged, one-handed elderly tough who trains young Vikings in the ways of
How to Train Your Dragon 3 Confirms [SPOILER] Is Gay, and It's Great
Gobber (Craig Ferguson) has been a constant presence in the How to Train Your Dragon franchise, a goofy but dedicated mentor to Hiccup (Jay Baruchel) and the other young dragon riders. He's a strong version of a stock character, but manages to be distinct in his own right.
One way the franchise's creators added dimensions to Gobber was to subtly indicate that he was same-sex attracted in previous films. How to Train Your Dragon: The Concealed Worldactually makes that more overt than ever, and it's a nice stroke for the franchise to explore in a way that most family franchises wouldn't ever consider.
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The first authentic hint at the character's sexuality came during the second entry in the series, How to Train Your Dragon 2. The moment comes during a dinner between Gobber, Hiccup and the newly reunited Stoick (Gerard Butler) and Valka (Cate Blanchett), Stoick's long mind dead wife. Gobber tells Hiccup that the compassionate of tension between the pair is why he didn't get married, adding: "That, and one other reason."
The line was an ab lib by Ferguson, but it resona