| “ | I'm going to grab my gear. Then we're going to get us that Night Fury... brother. | „ |
| ~ Dagur attempts to establish a brotherly bond with Hiccup |
| “ | That stuff can kill you from the inside, Hiccup. Revenge, anger, obsession. Trust me, I know. It can make you do things you never thought you were capable of. Cause you to take chances, make mistakes. And if that doesn't end you, it'll eat at you slowly. | „ |
| ~ Dagur after his redemption, telling Hiccup how people can be consumed by wrath and anger |
| “ | Heather, if you're reading this, I guess that's bad news for me. Sorry, but I couldn't let Hiccup fly you into a trap. Tell our little brother that if he really wants to hurt Viggo, hit his next dragon auction. It moves around, but if he turns over enough rocks, some worm will tell him where it is. One other thing, I didn't kill our father. When he disappeared, I let people believe that, so they would think I was tough enough to be Chief. I did a lot of things I am sorry for, but I couldn't rest in peace knowing you thought I did that. Be Safe. Your brother, Dagur. | „ |
| ~ Dagur's letter to Heather after his apparent demise |
Dagur the Deranged is a mayor character in DreamWorks' How to Train Your Dragon franchise. He is a major antagonist in Riders/Defenders of Berk turned protagonist in the follow-up series Race to the Edge.
He is voiced by David Faustino.
His Good Ranking[]
What Makes Him Admirable?[]
- After Oswald's dissapearance, he quickly took the throne to lead the Berserkers.
- When he encounters Hiccup in "The Night and the Fury", he is genuinely happy and relieved to see him, believing he had been killed in the "dragon attack" at Berk.
- When Ryker begins to suspect Heather as a traitor, he genuinely defends her and threathens to hurt anyone who tries something against her.
- Having witnessed Viggo's readiness to sacrifice anything and anyone to get his way, he begins to question his loyalties and listen to Heather's pleas that they should not turn on each other, which led him to redeem himself.
- He freed Windshear from the Hunters and later led them and Heather unto a cave during the attack on the riders, taking out all the hunters and freeing his sister, reuiniting her with her dragon and giving her the perfect chance to escape.
- He later left the hunters and was eventually left stranded on an island where he spent several months thinking and reflecting on how to grow as a person, regaining his sanity.
- When Hiccup and Toothless found themselves stranded on his island, he spots them being chased by hunters and ambushes them to save Hiccup.
- When Hiccup tries to attack him, Dagur tries to disuade him and remains only on the defensive while arguing that he wants to help.
- He convinces Hiccup to trust him and works with him to carry the injured Toothless to a secret cave behind a waterfall where he can rest. On the way there he also saved Hiccup from being killed by a dragon trap.
- Once in the cave he makes sure Toothless is comfortable and tries to explain his change of heart to Hiccup, even giving him the antidote to Dragon Root and promising to help him gather the ingredients.
- He helps Hiccup gather the necessary ingredients for the antidote, during this process he saved him from a wild Changewing.
- When they're attacked by hunters, he protects Hiccup and takes out all of them, sparing their lives as proof of his self-improvement.
- He gives a speech to Hiccup about how one can be consumed by negative emotions and the yearn for revenge like he was and advices him against holding grudges, which would help him in the long run.
- He pushes Hiccup out of the way and gets hit in the arm with a dragon root arrow.
- When Hiccup attacks him once again, he tries to explain himself and not hurt him even though Hiccup pushed him down a waterfall.
- When they were captured by hunters, Dagur kept them from burning Hiccup with their mark and upon escaping, he worked with Toothless to save Hiccup from the hunters.
- He took a ship from the hunters to go on his own so he can make up for his actions across the archipielago.
- He began searching for Heather so he could rebuild their family and apologize, even asking Hiccup for help.
- He eventually returned to the Edge so Hiccup could teach him how to ride a dragon, that way he could search for Heather more easily.
- Despite being initially dissapointed by being given a Gronckle, he grows a genuine bond with his dragon and comes to care greatly for him, stating there's no one else he'd rather die in battle with.
- Upon being captured by the riders, he tries to explain his new friendship with Hiccup and later agrees to train with them, even creating a new attack move with Fishlegs which would save the riders several times in the future.
- After understanding that Heather isn't interested in making amends, he decides to leave if it would make her happy to not have her in his life.
- Upon noticing Hiccup's strategy and the strangeness of Viggo's ship formation, he is able to deduce that it's a trap and tries to convince Hiccup not to carry on with the mission.
- Despite being accused of treachery and locked in the stables, he still tries to warn the riders about the threat their in.
- He breaks out and goes with Shattermaster on his own to confront Viggo's entire armada, exposing the trap to the riders and saving them from certain death, being willing to die during this and dissapearing, making everyone assume he died.
- Before leaving, he left a note for Heather (as he believed he would die) where he apologized for all his previous crimes and revealed that he never killed their father, having only said it to boost his image in the eyes of the tribe.
- Having survived and being captured by the hunters, he agreed to work with them only because they had his dragon prisoner and during this he was very friendly and casual with the hunters, treating them with more respect than Viggo, Krogan, or Johann.
- Upon being taken by Heather and Hiccup, he reveals why he was working with the hunters and tries to convince them to go back for Shattermaster.
- He works with Heather and Hiccup to infiltrate the hunters' ship, saving Shattermaster and hundreds of Gronckles before leading the hunters away and giving his sister and "brother" a chance to escape.
- At some point he began looking for his father Oswald as he might still be alive.
- After learning where Viggo hides his gold and knowing that some of it was from Berk, he returns to the edge to tell the riders.
- He asks Hiccup to give him a portion of the gold so that he can take Heather and leave to find his father and rebuild their family.
- He spends time bonding with Heather and teaching her the Berserkers' culture, finally making amends with her and leaving together to go find Oswald.
- He eventually rebuilt the Berserker Tribe and resettled in Berserker Island, reforming his entire tribe from bloodthirsty dragon hunters to allies of Berk.
- He was part of Hiccup's plan to attack Viggo and reclaim the Dragon Eye.
- Upon being attacked by Ryker's shellfire, he evacuates the island to protect his people.
- He helps defend the Edge from Ryker's final attack and when Shattermaster is injured, he resigns himself to die fighting as to not abandon his dragon.
- Upon being saved by Sleuther, he works with him to take out more hunters and later carry Shattermaster to safety.
- He gave chances to all the former Berserkers to reform themselves, even Savage.
- Knowing how destructive Gustav could be and that Stoick needed a break from him, he took the boy in as an apprentice for the Berserker program, and showered him with compliments and praises to help his self-confidence knwoing that he had barely any trust in himself from his previous failures.
- Upon being captured, he meditated as too contain his anger, not wanting to hurt anyone despite the fact that they were trying to overthrow him.
- After being freed by Snotlout, the two work together to take out the hunters and Savage, reclaiming the throne to the Berserker tribe. He later awards a trophy to Snotlout to thank him for helping save his people.
- Noticing how much Heather endangers herself in their search for Oswald, he tries to get Hiccup to convince her to temporarily abandon the search.
- He goes to Vanaheim with Hiccup and Fishlegs to find more clues on Oswald's location and even manages to get them in the island when they were attacked by the Sentinels.
- Upon finding his father's dead body inside a hut in Vanaheim, he and the others give him a proper burial with Dagur blaming himself for not trying to find him sooner.
- He makes peace with himself after reading his father's letter and leads out all the Grim Gnashers out of Vanaheim, fulfilling his father's efforts to protect the island and earning the respect of the Sentinels not only for himself but for Hiccup and Fishlegs as well.
- After hearing that Heather and Johann have left to meet a man who saw Oswald alive and realizing it's a trap, he instantly leaves to find her.
- He gets information from a merchant about Snotlout, Heather and Johann's current status and how they're being chased by Dragon Flyers, leaving to help them in the battle.
- He dives into the sea and saves Heather and Windshear from drowning with the help of Sleuther, pulling out the cage where Windshear was imprisioned.
- He tells Heather of Oswald's fate and gives her his letter for her.
- He attends a meeting with the riders and Mala to decide where to hide the Dragon Eye lenses, offering Berserker Island as a possible spot.
- He works through several challenges imparted by the Twins to work out his animosity with Mala, growing close with her and eventually developing romantic feelings.
- He succeds in the trials to become King of the Defenders of the Wing, taking an arrow in his shoulder for Mala.
- He goes to confront his old bully so he can get back the Dragon Eye lens he stole in their childhood.
- He agrees to help Ansen find the thunderfish despite their past and upon realizing it was actually a scauldron he saved him from being kiled.
- In order to spare Arsen the humilliation, he glorified a tale of what happened and earned the Dragon Eye lens back.
- He helps Hiccup get back the Dragon Eye lens that was being kept by an armorwing.
- When all of Krogan and Johann's forces attack Berserker Island looking for the Bewilderbeast that lived there, he readies his tribe for war and protects them from the attacks.
- He participates in the final battle, working with Mala to take out as much as possible of the hunters' armada.
What Makes Him Inconsistent?[]
- Despite reforming himself and abandoning his severely violent tendencies, he is still undeniably a berserker. He constantly charges to battle in a reckless way without a proper plan of attack and rarely shows respect to his opponents, harming them as much as possible and being very lethal in combat against both humans and dragons. Not to mention he is very eager to fight at any chance he gets and nearly got himself and Sleuther killed when he tried to go through the Sentinels headfirst without even considering listening to Hiccup and Fishlegs' strategy.
- He has several jerkish moments, especially towards Snotlout, whose name he constantly gets wrong on purpose (as it's shown he know his real name), writing his name as "Snotknuckles" on a trophy just to spite him and getting his name wrong on the entry list for the Berserker graduation ceremony. He is also a bit hypocritical as he is perfectly content giving nicknames to others but upon being called "Dagster" by Snotlout, he angrily pins him against the wall and threathens him even though he wasn't trying to offend him and called him a nickname in a friendly manner.
- He can be overly aggresive when trying to get what he wants as he threathened a merchant for info on Heather and tried to attack him before Hiccup stopped him.
- He shows little remorse over most of his actions, as the only things he's shown to really regret are his attempts against Heather and Hiccup, and he never shows any guilt over his past and his involvement in Johann, Ryker, and Viggo's plans
- His actions would continue to have a negative impact even 1,300 years later, when Leonard Burne found drawings of him and his weapons and drew inspiration from them
Trivia[]
- He is one of the 3 HTTYD characters to be IA, with Snotlout and Viggo.
- He and Viggo are also the only 2 HTTYD characters to be both IA and IH simultaneously.
External Links[]
- Dagur the Deranged on the Heroes Wiki
- Dagur the Deranged on the Villains Wiki
- Dagur the Deranged on the Inconsistently Heinous Wiki
- Dagur the Deranged on the How to Train Your Dragon Wiki
- Dagur the Deranged on the Heroes and Villains Wiki
- Dagur the Deranged on the DreamWorks Wiki
- Dagur the Deranged on the Universal Studios Wiki
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