User blog comment:GokuXBulma/who think hiccup and ruffnut make a good couple/@comment-118.137.126.247-20120827143515/@comment-170.94.43.242-20120827154341

Gross? I don't think gross. She apparently isn't an abomination to Hiccup. When she says that line, he smiles. There's no shiver, no disgust, no drawing back. It's not bad, just not his LOVE. Her whole purpose is flat comedy as a 2nd string character: twins are always portrayed as being near mirror images of each other whether they are fraternal or identical. So here, the fraternal twins are almost exactly the same (each one on one head of the zippleback?) Without Tuffnut, she's not even comedic, she would be just a spaceholder. A person in the crowd of teens.

There's not enough time in the movie to grow her, either it's Astrid or Ruffnut. Not both.

TV's a bit different, time to develop each teen as an adjuct to Hiccup.