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Plankton are mentioned occasionally in the How to Train Your Dragon Book series.

Description[]

Plankton is a term applied to a diverse and large group of organisms ranging from plants, animals, protista, bacteria, and achaebacteria. The distinction is anything living that is free-floating in marine waters that cannot swim against the tide or flows of water. This includes anything microscopic, tiny, barely visible organisms, to larger creatures such as jellyfish.

Function[]

Plankton are only mentioned in the Book series as a derogatory descriptor.

In reality, though humans do not consume plankton, it occupies the lowest rungs of the food chain and is essential to many other organisms and ecosystems humans rely on.

Appearances[]

How to Train Your Dragon[]

Snotlout yells at Fishlegs.

Nobody's listen to you, you plankton-hearted, fish-legged, distaster area.
  — Snotlout  


Later Stoick the Vast uses the term negatively at Mogadon the Meathead:

We already TRIED that, O Plankton Brain.
  — Stoick  


How to Be a Pirate[]

During an 'Advanced Rudery' lesson, Snotlout spars with Tuffnut Junior at hurling insults.

You ... are a cowardly cowering cuttlefish ... with the heart of a jellyfish, the brains of a plankton, and the stink of a barrelful of mackerel heads.
  — Snotlout to Tuffnut Junior in Book 2  


How to Speak Dragonese[]

The use of plankton to reference a small mind is continued in Book 3, when Gobber tells Fishlegs - "Easy-peasy, o plankton-brain".

How to Cheat a Dragon's Curse[]

Fishlegs slips into his berserker state due to an illness, and starts to harass a group of violent Hysterics while on an expedition on Mount Villainy.

YOU PATHETIC PIECES OF PLANKTON!
  — Fishlegs in Book 4  


References[]

Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg Plankton on Wikipedia

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