How many night furys are there

Size: Unknown. The unholy offspring of lightning and death itself. Never engage this Dragon. Your only chance, hide and pray it does not find you. You know, I just happened to notice the book had nothing on Night Furies. Is there another book? Or a sequel? Maybe a little Night Fury pamphlet? In the original How To Train Your Dragon , when Hiccup looks up the existing information about the Night Fury dragons, everything is listed as being "unknown", yet everyone seems to be able to immediately identify that Toothless is a Night Fury.

This continues into the second movie, where Eret, Valka and Drago all immediately recognize the species. Valka states that Toothless may be the last surviving Night Fury. The Night Fury species seems to be awfully recognizable for a species that is supposedly all but extinct, and that no information is known about it. What happened to the rest of the Night Fury dragons? Is this addressed in any of the extra materials, or in any of the books? He claims to have wiped out all of the Night Furies except Toothless.

So we know that all the other Night Furies were hunted by Grimmel, and that Toothless escaped, presumably by his mother hiding him as a hatchling, or young dragon, before being killed herself. This means that Toothless is the only Night Fury left because they were all hunted to extinction but somehow Toothless survived. Recognizing a Night Fury shouldn't be that difficult.

It's flight profile, speed, aerial grace and signature plasma burst should make it almost unable to be mistake for any other dragon.

Since Night Furies are undoubtedly the most capable of all of the smaller dragons, it is in my mind, unlikely they would be extinct. Hard to find? Difficult to track? Highly intelligent and certainly smart enough to avoid Vikings? Most certainly. This is confusing given how her shape so closely mirrors Toothless'. But the best way that you can tell that their species are entirely different is in the appearance of their children.

At the end of the movie, we are treated with the sight of Toothless and the Light Fury's babies. They are all spotted black and white. This indicates that they are a mixed species, mismatched genetic offspring of a Night Fury and a Light Fury.

In The Hidden World, when Toothless expresses a desire to live in the wild with the Light Fury, Hiccup builds an automatic tail for him. Astrid mentions that Hiccup has tried this before, but Toothless didn't want it. Initially, some of you might think it's awfully convenient that an "automatic" tail fin could be instantly conceptualized.

But before you get your tail feathers in a knot, check out the holiday special, Gift of the Night Fury. In that short film, Hiccup did indeed build Toothless his very own automatic tail.

The enemy in The Hidden World is Grimmel. He's a pretty big deal because it is revealed that he is the man responsible for eliminating all the Night Furies except for Toothless. However, if you recall, the Night Fury entry in the Dragon Manual was blank when Hiccup read it in the first movie.

That means that the Dragon Manual must have been written long after Grimmel eliminated most of the Night Furies. It is either a very recent book or Grimmel is a very old man. The people of Berk had to flee from their original islands because their collection of dragons was getting too big. Dragon hunters from around the world craved controlling those dragons. Grimmel figures out the Berkians must have fled west.

However, it is only thanks to Ruffnut that Grimmel found them. If Ruffnut had not been captured and then followed to the Berkians' new home, Grimmel might have spent the rest of the movie roaming the western seas.

Stoick the Vast, Hiccup's father, was voiced by the indubitable Gerard Butler. For those of you who don't know who Gerard Butler is, he is the actor responsible for bringing King Leonidas to life in the film Hiccup remembers quiet moments he had with his father when he was young. In these flashbacks, Stoick is still voiced by Butler.

Much and more happened during How to Train Your Dragon 2. It was quite a shock to see how much Hiccup and Berk had changed since the first movie. Dragons were widely accepted, and Hiccup and turned into a kind of tough-guy hero type. Only a year passed between those two story-lines.

The most that can be said to have happened is Hiccup accepting his role as a leader. After seeing The Hidden World, we can all laugh about Toothless' inept courting techniques. Toothless acted such a fool in front of the Light Fury, we couldn't really blame her for getting slightly annoyed at him.

However, you might not have noticed that she was the one who initiated courtship with Toothless. She displayed that behavior on the beach first. The big difference between the two of them is that she did it right. Toothless looked like a crazed chicken. Your eyes might have been dazzled when Astrid and Hiccup first encountered the Hidden World. There were thousands of dragons in there, and the colors of their scales were mesmerizing.

You may not have noticed that among all these dragons, there were several Light Furies. There were plenty of them residing in the Hidden World. Much like the Light Fury , Night Furies have a 'cloaking' ability.

This allows them to blend into their surroundings. They do this by summoning lightning from the sky to turn their scales reflective, although it has been shown to use up a lot of their energy. The Night Fury is the fastest known dragon. It is said to reach speeds that break the sound barrier, however, the one known instance of this happening is during the introduction sequence of Dragons: Riders of Berk and Dragons: Defenders of Berk.

The Night Fury's streamlined sleek-shaped body and massive powerful wings help it obtain a speed limit rivaling a real-life P Mustang. Night Furies don't have sharp spikes or spines, instead, they have short and thin fin-like spines.

The reason for this is because the short fin-shaped spines prevent greater air resistance than tall sharp spines. This gives the Night Fury a huge advantage in high-speed flight. Night Furies are incredibly agile dragons that are able to dodge many blasts from dragons, arrows and catapults. They also have a very quick reaction to an opposing threat. On land, they are able to outrun and outmaneuver most other dragons and even being able to jump to and leap from various objects like trees or walls.

In the 1st and 2nd series of Race to the Edge, Toothless never got hit once by a dragon root arrow due to his expert dodging and weaving. Night Furies' tails are also one of the main sources of their flying ability, and altering the tail can change its abilities.

Very few species of dragons are able to rival the speed of Night Furies while in flight. The claws of Night Furies appear to simply be black extrusions of keratin, in truth they can actually flex on command and act as rudimentary fingers. In the first film, Toothless escapes the cove by being able to flex his claws and secure his grip past the edge of the cove wall, enabling him to pull himself up. Night Furies have an uncannily great sense of hearing and they are able to hear long distances, as proven by Toothless when he was able to hear Hiccup yelling from the cove.

Night Furies have a good sense of smell from a certain distance until they lose track. They also have large eyes that give them excellent nocturnal vision as they are adapted to fly at night. However, their night vision is limited to a sufficient light source. They cannot see well in complete darkness, thus they will use echolocation, such as in a cave, or when their vision is restricted. Night Furies, being excellent flyers in speed and agility, also have extremely high stamina, as Toothless has proven to fly many times without any break between in the TV Series.

Night Furies are also shown to be quite tough, like all dragons. They can survive falls from the sky with fairly minor injuries as demonstrated in the films and DreamWorks Dragons: The Series.

Also they can use their wings to repel weapons as also shown in the TV series and in "Dragon Eye of the Beholder, Part 1", where a bunch of arrows bounces off Toothless' wing when he shielded Hiccup from it. In The Hidden World, Toothless also shows to be able to recover quite quickly. When hit with an arrow filled with Deathgripper venom, Toothless wakes up quickly, while the Light Fury remains unconscious for a while longer. Night Furies are extremely intelligent, surpassing all known dragon species.

Toothless can almost completely understand everything said to him. He is able to understand verbal cues and non-verbal cues, as showcased in "Twinsanity". Toothless also displays an impeccable ability to learn, process and remember various tricks like the "Barrel Roll" in "Worst in Show". In daily, casual conversations, Toothless also appears to be able to grasp Hiccup's words and comprehend them. Night Furies displays a high level of emotional and sentimental awareness of both humans and other dragons alike.

Toothless' emotional intelligence, arguably, surpasses almost all other dragons in the series and is responsible for the close bond between him and Hiccup. Toothless is able to sense emotions by picking up on oral and behavioral signals and act accordingly in response to them. For example, during the events of How to Train Your Dragon, he sensed that Hiccup was not out to hurt him and reciprocated by letting down his guard.

However, his emotional awareness is not be disregarded as mere obedience. Night Furies are wary creatures which are observant and evaluative and Toothless only trusted Hiccup after assessing him. Furthermore, in "Animal House", Toothless was the first to sense that the Riders were cold and suffering and took the initiative to shield them, showcasing a heightened awareness and empathy towards his surroundings.

In "The Eel Effect", despite suffering from Eel Pox, Toothless stopped himself from shooting blasts when he accidentally hit Hiccup and ran away in order to protect his rider from himself. In "Free Scauldy" and "Living on the Edge", Toothless was shown to grieve for the dying Scauldy and Garffiljorg, despite not knowing them for much time. Night Furies also seem to be able to command and manipulate others to an extent, such as when he told the other dragons to back off when he was facing his nemesis.

This showcases the certain level of leadership that Night Furies possess. In "We Are Family, Part 2", Toothless was captured and imprisoned in Outcast Island and he was able to outsmart two Outcast soldiers by himself by pretending to be unconscious and tricking them into freeing his mouth muzzle. Toothless also knew what Grimora parasites were, and as soon as he felt the water he knew what they were in there and refused to go for a swim.

Night Furies also seem to be one of the few dragons who attempts to show creativity. In the first film, Toothless was attempted to draw Hiccup after seeing him draw. In the second film, Toothless attempted to draw again after Valka drew Hiccup's map on snow. This also shows that Night Furies have the ability to mimic others. This also includes human facial expressions, as displayed in the same film. When Night Furies are at locations where their visual sight is limited, making it dangerous to fly, they can use a special roar.

This roar, visualized as a purple colored sound waves bounces off all objects and obstacles nearby and allows the dragon to avoid them, even in mid-flight. Unlike bats, this roar, or at least part of it, is still low enough to be within human hearing range; humans are able to hear the dragon using the roar.

Night Furies can also use this method when they are trying to find an object in open areas where visibility is low, such as when Toothless was trying to locate the Snow Wraith in a snowstorm in episode "Dragon Eye of the Beholder, Part 2".

This sound wave is in a sonic ringed shape, rather than a lined sound wave. Night Furies have incredible jaw strength.

They can also retract their teeth, to avoid chipping and breaking when not in use. Another unconfirmed explanation is that the dragon would retract its teeth to protect them from the plasma blast if its jaws are restricted the plasma being more dangerous than the lava, mist, smoke, or fire most dragons use. The retractable teeth is what earned Toothless his name.

Night Furies are shown to be good swimmers as demonstrated by Toothless. He can swim at high speed and hold his breath for quite a while, but Night Furies do have a limited lung capacity and will drown unless they have access to air, as evidenced in the first film and several episodes.

In the second film, Valka showed Hiccup hidden spines on Toothless' back, that even the dragon himself didn't know about, most likely because he lacked other Night Furies to show that feature to him.

After that he is able to extend them at will. Those "flaps" are flat, leathery fins, placed in 'V' shape and extending from his back, to the end of tail.

They gave him more maneuverability and control in flight. As Valka was able to do this with the first Night Fury she'd ever met, there is probably a similar or equivalent ability in another dragon species she has more experiences with. Night Furies are also shown to have a dominance display where they "charge" themselves which gives them stronger firepower. As they charge themselves, their plasma blasts increase to a higher temperature than normal. When this happens, various parts of their body, such as the spines, the converging points of the wing and body, mouth, nostrils, and center section of their forehead glow translucent blue.

The only warnings that it gives is the sound of the dive-bombing with a loaded blast, right before it attacks with a powerful plasma blast, as well as the stars disappearing behind it. The only way to spot a Night Fury flying at night is when it passes its flame-engulfed blast. Hiccup was able to shoot one down as it flew past a burned catapult tower that it just shot. Much like Light Furies , Night Furies are capable of cloaking.

This allows them to blend into their surroundings. They do this by summoning lightning from the sky to turn their scales reflective and become temporarily invisible, although it has been shown to use up a lot of their energy. As a Night Fury enters its 'cloaked form', it causes a massive wave of electrical energy that electrocutes everything within a close radius, which is shown when Toothless electrocutes Grimmel's Deathgrippers that are clinging onto him and Hiccup, causing them to plummet into the sea.

Toothless seemed unaware of this ability until he attempted to copy the Light Fury. The Night Fury is among the fastest known dragons. It is said to reach speeds that break the sound barrier. The Night Fury's streamlined sleek-shaped body and massive powerful wings help it obtain a speed limit rivaling a real-life P Mustang. Night Furies don't have sharp spikes or spines, instead, they have short and thin fin-like spines.

The reason for this is because the short fin-shaped spines prevent greater air resistance than tall sharp spines. This gives the Night Fury a huge advantage in high-speed flight. Night Furies are incredibly agile dragons that can dodge many blasts from other dragons, arrows, and. They also have a very quick reaction to an opposing threat. On land, they can outrun and outmaneuver most other dragons and even being able to jump to and leap from various objects like trees or walls as shown when Toothless was running to save Hiccup from the Monstrous Nghtmare in the first film.

In Dragons: Race to the Edge , Seasons 1 and 2 , Toothless never got hit once by a dragon root arrow due to his expert dodging and weaving. Night Furies' tails are also one of the main sources of their flying ability, and altering the tail can change its abilities. Many species of dragons are capable of rivaling the speed of Night Furies while in flight.

While the claws of Night Furies appear to simply be black extrusions of keratin, in truth they can flex on command and act as rudimentary fingers. In the first film, Toothless escapes the cove by being able to flex his claws and secure his grip past the edge of the cove wall, enabling him to pull himself up. In " Tone Death ", the claws are also able to easily slash through Death Song amber that has been weakened by flaming Monstrous Nightmare gel. Night Furies have an uncanny sense of hearing and they can hear long distances, as proven by Toothless when he was able to hear Hiccup yelling from the cove.

They also have a good sense of smell, as Toothless tracked Hiccup by his sense of smell, but loses him when Hiccup takes to the air on the back of a Deadly Nadder. They also have large eyes that give them excellent night vision as they are adapted to fly at night. They cannot see well in complete darkness, thus they will use echolocation, such as in a cave, or when their vision is restricted.

When angry, or under eel influence, Night Furies will see everything in shades of red. Night Furies also have high stamina and durability. They can survive falls from the sky with fairly minor injuries as demonstrated in the films and DreamWorks Dragons: The Series.

They can use their wings to repel weapons as also shown in the TV series and in " Dragon Eye of the Beholder, Part 1 ", where a bunch of arrows bounced off Toothless' wing when he shielded Hiccup from it. Night Furies are extremely intelligent, surpassing nearly all known dragon species.

Toothless can almost completely understand everything said to him. He can understand verbal cues and nonverbal cues, as showcased in " Twinsanity ". Toothless also displays an impeccable ability to learn, process, and remember various tricks like the "Barrel Roll" in " Worst in Show ". In daily, casual conversations, Toothless also appears to be able to grasp Hiccup's words and comprehend most of them.

Night Furies display a high level of emotional and sentimental awareness of both humans and other dragons alike. Toothless can sense emotions by picking up on oral and behavioral signals and act accordingly in response to them.

For example, during the events of How to Train Your Dragon , he sensed that Hiccup was not out to hurt him and reciprocated by letting down his guard. However, his emotional awareness is not to be disregarded as mere obedience. Night Furies are wary creatures that are observant and evaluative and Toothless only trusted Hiccup after assessing him. Furthermore, in " Animal House ", Toothless was the first to sense that the Riders were cold and suffering and took the initiative to shield them, showcasing a heightened awareness and empathy towards his surroundings.

In " Free Scauldy " and " Living on the Edge ", Toothless was shown to grieve for the dying Scauldy and Garffiljorg , despite not knowing them prior. In " We Are Family, Part 2 ", Toothless was captured and imprisoned in Outcast Island and he was able to outsmart two Outcast soldiers by himself by pretending to be unconscious and tricking them into taking off his mouth muzzle.

Night Furies also seem to be one of the few dragons who attempts to show creativity. In the first film, Toothless was attempted to draw Hiccup after seeing him draw. In the second film, Toothless attempted to draw again after Valka drew a map in the snow. The range of his mimicry also includes human facial expressions, as displayed in the first film. When Night Furies are at locations where their sight is limited, making it hard to fly, they can use a special signal.

This signal, taking the shape of purple-colored sound waves, bounces off of all objects and obstacles nearby and allows the dragon to avoid them, even in mid-flight. Unlike bats, this signal, or at least part of it, is still low enough to be within the human hearing range; humans can hear the dragon using the signal. Night Furies can also use this method when they are trying to find an object in open areas where visibility is low, such as when Toothless was trying to locate the Snow Wraith in a snowstorm in Dragon Eye of the Beholder, Part 2.

Night Furies have high jaw strength. They can also retract their teeth, to avoid chipping and breaking when not in use. The ability to retract his teeth is what earned Toothless his name. He can swim at high speed and hold his breath for quite a while, but Night Furies do have a limited lung capacity and will drown unless they have access to air, as evidenced in the first film and several episodes. After that, he can extend them at will.

Those spines are flat, leathery fins, placed in 'V' shape and extending from his back to the end of his tail. They gave him more maneuverability and control in flight. Dragons acquire this ability when they reach a certain age as revealed in the film commentary. When the Night Fury's "Alpha" mode is unleashed, its spines, the ridge between its eyes, the inside of its mouth, and its nose glow with a translucent blue, reminiscent of the blueish plasma blasts it fires.

Also, although this may just be natural video blurring, when Toothless fires shots, the now translucent blue parts of his body glows a little brighter. After having fired the shots, the glow slowly fades away. In "Alpha" mode, Night Furies also appear to not have a shot limit. Night Furies have very few weaknesses, making them hard to combat. However, a dragon root arrow could render them weak and vulnerable for some time, while other dragons can recover faster, as seen in " Enemy of My Enemy ".

The Night Furies' large wings make them vulnerable to powerful sheering winds if they were to attempt a prolonged hover in such conditions, as displayed in " Portrait of Hiccup as a Buff Man ", but this could be said for most dragons with an average wingspan. The Night Furies' dual tail fins on their tails allow them to remain stabilized in flight. Night Furies are unable to survive in consistently cold environments like tundras, snowy mountains, or arctic islands. Hiccup was able to train his Night Fury without too much difficulty, partly because Toothless couldn't fly and was trapped in a cove.

A wild Night Fury will likely just fly away and ignore you unless you catch its interest or prevent its flight. It is preferable to catch it without hurting it.