Stoick the Vast is Hiccup's father and the short-tempered former chief of the Hairy Hooligan tribe. He hopes his son will mature and become strong enough to be chief himself one day, but fears that he is not suited to the Viking life. Stoick has a large horned helmet (supposedly one half of his late wife's breastplate in thefilm) and is a friend to Gobber the Belch. Stoick the Vast is also the creator of The Viking Song. In the film, he is voiced by Gerard Butler.
In the book series, Stoick has two dragons; a Groncklenamed Newtsbreath, and a Monstrous Nightmare namedHookfang.
In the TV series, Stoick's dragon is a Thunderdrumnamed Thornado, but he released Thornado so that he can raise three adolescent Thunderdrums in the episodeBing! Bam! Boom!.
In the second movie, Stoick has a new dragon; a Rumblehorn named Skullcrusher.Skullcrusher is a Rumblehorn who is Stoick's new Dragon and later Eret's, in How to Train Your Dragon 2.
