Is gobber gay
Anonymous asked:
why everyone thinks gobber is gay? I believe in he is just like tuffnut -strange asexual man who loves his weapons-
Gobber the Belch is canonically gay and confirmed to be so by both Craig Ferguson, the voice actor who plays Gobber, and Dean DeBlois, the director and journalist of HTTYD 2. Check out this article here, friend!
The line that canonically reveals Gobber’s sexuality is in HTTYD 2. When Stoick and Valka reunite, Hiccup and Gobber linger in the background. “This is why I never got married,” Gobber comments quietly to Hiccup. “That, and one other reason.”
While that remark is very subtle, it is an intentional indication that Gobber is queer. Audiences immediately understood the reference the moment HTTYD 2 was premiered, and news articles popped up everywhere about what this petite line of Gobber’s entailed. That “one other reason” Gobber did not get married was because he was never interested in women. He prefers men.
Craig Ferguson adlibbed that line during a recording session for HTTYD 2, and after he recorded it, he said, “Yup, Gobber is coming out of the closet.” Craig Ferguson thus made the adlibbed comment as an intentional indic
So, how gay is How to Instruct 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 first How to Prepare Your Dragon.
In a standard-issue “Junior Knows Best” plot with an imperious, disapproving authoritarian father — Stoick the Wide-ranging — who didn’t understand his scrawny but thoughtful offspring Hiccup, Gobber was a sympathetic leadership 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 own up 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 mature tough who trains young Vikings in the ways of
If you’ve ever watched How to Train Your Dragon and establish yourself thinking, “Wait… Gobber might be gay, right?”—you’re not alone. For years, the franchise’s beloved blacksmith has quietly held room as a fan-favorite queer-coded nature. He’s rugged. He’s emotionally ready. He’s got that one-liner in How to Train Your Dragon 2 about why he’s never married. And let’s be honest: the man wears fur-lined armor like it’s couture.
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But until now, the question of Gobber’s sexuality has remained floating in fandom theory and rainbow-colored subtext. So, when CinemaBlend’s Jeff McCobb sat down with Nick Frost, the actor taking up Gobber’s hammer for the upcoming live-action How to Train Your Dragon movie, the question was finally asked head-on.
Frost, described aptly as “something of an unexpected gay icon a la Golden Girls or The Babadook,” didn’t flinch. He leaned in—literally and metaphorically—and said:
“I believe it’s true. I don’t assess it’s a theory, right? Has it been? I don’t believe [Dean DeBlois] has confirmed, but, yeah, I think potentially Gobber is gay. Which is amazing, b
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 movie 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 like interest Astrid and Gerard Butler as his dad Stoick the Vast, the cast also included Scottish actor, comedian, and TV host Craig Ferguson, who voiced Gobber the Belch.
As the resident blacksmith in How To Train Your Dragon, Gobber is a respected member of his Viking community. A drawn-out time friend and trusted adviser to village principal 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