Meatlug / Biography

Meatlug is Fishlegs' Gronckle.

How To Train Your Dragon
Meatlug is the first dragon the teens are forced to battle during the Dragon training lessons. She downs all of them except for Astrid and nearly kills Hiccup. She notably does not even contemplate sparing him, but Gobber yanks her away just in time to save Hiccup. The teens continue to train with her throughout the film, and Hiccup's tactics, which he has learned from watching Toothless, work very well with her. At the film's climax, Hiccup taught his classmates how to ride the dragons before they flew off to rescue their tribe from the Red Death. Meatlug was ridden by Fishlegs. She fights in the battle, but gets discombobulated by the noise of the Viking shields. She spins out of control and lands on Fishlegs. That ends her part in the battle. She is seen again at the end of the film being ridden by Fishlegs. She and her rider race off after Hiccup as the new era of Berk begins.

Gift of the Night Fury
It is revealed Fishlegs named his Gronckle Meatlug, and Berk is preparing to celebrate Snoggletog for the first time with their dragons when suddenly the dragons all leave.

Fishlegs is revealed to have chained up Meatlug, preventing her from leaving until Hiccup accidentally releases the Gronckle and she flies off with him. After the takeoff, Hiccup yells, "Meatlug?!", in surprise that Meatlug had not left. Meatlug did not acknowledge Hiccup until he yelled by taking her eyes off the sky in front of her to look at Hiccup in equal shock for a second before returning to flying. Inside the barn where Fishlegs kept Meatlug, he, Astrid, Snotlout, Ruffnut Thorston and Tuffnut discover that Meatlug is a she when they found her eggs in the hay. Until that point, the Vikings had thought that Meatlug was male, although apparently having noticed some behaviors more in line with female dragons, Fishlegs comments that "actually explains a few things".

Meanwhile Meatlug, with Hiccup on her back, flies to an island filled with dragons and their newly-hatched babies. There, Hiccup realizes this is where all the dragons come to lay their eggs. Hiccup manages to return all the dragons and their babies to Berk, where Meatlug immediately goes to feed her hatchlings which she left at the barn and is tackled by a happy Fishlegs. Meatlug presumably partakes in Snoggletog with her rider as Fishlegs is holding two of her babies.

Dragons: Riders of Berk
Side-by-side, In "In Dragons We Trust", they express that they really care for each other and both appear to be extremely heartbroken when they had to leave each other.

in "Dragon Flower", Fishlegs tells a story to Meatlug, which involved Meatlug to fart an awful smell which Fishlegs quotes as: "Smells like rose petals." But despite his words he keels over and passes out from the terrible stench.

In "Twinsanity", Fishlegs developed a series of hand signals to give Meatlug instructions without needing to speak. Meatlug and the other dragons were able to scare off the Berserkers.

In "Gem of a Different Color", Meatlug found a stone of good fortune, which was actually a Changewing egg. She then helped Fishlegs confront Snotlout and found the egg he took from the changewings.

In "Cast Out, Part 2", Meatlug helped the other dragons rescue Hiccup and Toothless from Alvin and his Outcasts.

Dragons: Defenders of Berk
In "The Iron Gronckle", Meatlug, when she and Fishlegs were dismissed from finding an Outcast ship because they were slow, Meatlug ingested a large amount of rocks, which allow her to create a lava pool that when dried up was stronger and lighter than iron, dubbed Gronckle Iron by Gobber. After she ran out, Fishlegs and Gobber gave her different rocks, accidentally giving her a magnet making her skin magnetic. Meatlug became frightened and ran out of the village after attracting different metal objects, including Hiccup's metal leg, and discovering the Outcast ship, Fishlegs and Hiccup used her magnetism to disarm the Outcast ship, sinking it in the process.

In "Fright of Passage", Meatlug went with Fishlegs and Stormfly to assist Hiccup, Astrid and Toothless in fighting off the Flightmare during Aurvandil's Fire.

In "Worst in Show", Meatlug felt neglected when Fishlegs spent time training with Iggy During the competition, Meatlug found Alvin, Savage and Mildew spying on the teens. She was then captured by them and used as a hostage. The Terrors were used to save her. Afterward, having regreted neglecting her, Fishlegs decided to catch up with Meatlug and played games with her.

In "Appetite for Destruction", Meatlug and Fishlegs were able to rally the wild Gronkles of Dragon Island to defend their home against the Screaming Death.

In "A View to a Skrill, Part 1", Meatlug then helped Fishlegs and Hiccup examine the Frozen Skrill that was found by the Berserkers. Meatlug and Toothless then tried to keep the Skrill at the Academy but escaped. Meatlug then held off the Berserkers while Hiccup took on the Skrill. After the Skrill and the twin disappeared, Meatlug and Fishlegs then searched for them with little success.

In "A Tale of Two Dragons", Meatlug assisted Hiccup and the other riders in cleaning up Mildew cabbage field. When Stormfly and Hookfang started to act weird, Meatlug assisted Fishlegs in finding the cause, which was Dragon Root. After Stormfly cut it loose, Meatlug flew it out to sea.

Dragons: Race to the Edge, Season 1
In "Dragon Eye of the Beholder, Part 1", Meatlug assisted Fishlegs in his new job as a historian to Berk's children by carrying several of them. Meatlug then rescued Fishlegs, who was hypnotized into Thor Bonecrusher, from a wild Scauldron.

In "Big Man on Berk", Meatlug was able to scare Fishlegs out his Bonecrusher personality and fly him away from the Scauldron.

In "Quake, Rattle and Roll, Meatlug assisted Fishlegs in his search for Dark Deep by lighting the Dragon Eye with her Lava blasts, revealing the location.

Dawn of the Dragon Racers
Meatlug then assisted the other dragons and their riders in catching Silent Sven's sheep. She then assisted Fishlegs in building his ship for the Regatta. However, she became sea sick and sank the ship. She and Fishlegs then helped Hiccup and Toothless in winning the first Dragon Race by finding the real black sheep.

Sometime later, she and Fishlegs then had the Ingerman family crest for their face paint for the dragon races.

How to Train Your Dragon 2
Five years after the first film, Meatlug and Fishlegs participated in Dragon Racing. She got in time to captured the black sheep before Astrid and Stormfly but being behest gave it to Ruffnut. She and the other dragons then helped Astrid in finding Drago Bludvist but were captured by his men. After Eret helped them escape, Meatlug then helped Hiccup's mother Valka in fighting Drago. However, After Drago's Bewilderbeast defeated hers, Meatlug and the others then followed its call. However, Meatlug and the other dragons were then freed when Toothless challenged the Bewilderbeast and became the new Alpha dragon. Meatlug was then reunited with Fishlegs and they resumed their participation in the dragon races.

School of Dragons
Meatlug appears with Fishlegs in some of the player quests, and is also mentioned in some Farm Job activities.

One Quest called "Back in the Saddle Again, Part 1" has Fishlegs and Meatlug crash landing in the Wilderness area of the School of Dragons Island. Fishlegs thinks it is because of the rusted saddle rings. The player proceeds to get them galvanized with Gobber, reassembles the saddle and put it on Meatlug. However, Meatlug has a very sad demeanor the whole time, and is not brightened from the fixed saddle.