Terrible Terror

Box title	Terrible Terror
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Row 1 title	Dragon
Dragon	Terrible Terror
Row 2 title	Friends
Friends	Hiccup (one after he fed it)
Row 3 title	Voiced By
Voiced By	Paco the Chihuahua
Row 4 title	Personality
Personality	Inquisitive and curious animals, their only downfall is their territorial in-fighting.
Row 5 title	HAH! Factor
HAH! Factor	SIBLING RIVALRY - They expend most of their energy fighting and competing with one another like bickering siblings.
Row 6 title	AHH! Factor
AHH! Factor	ENORMOUS FIRE BLAST - Though small, their fire blasts are so pin-point accurate they're more like sniper bullets than flame throwers.
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The Terrible Terror is among the smallest of the dragons, but also one of the most feared. It loosely resembles the Common or Garden Dragon and is roughly the size of a small cat. The Terror can crawl into Viking homes, sheds, outhouses and shacks, attacking when its prey is least expecting it. The only warning a Terror gives is the hissing sound it makes just before breathing fire. It is capable of such pinpoint accuracy with its flames that it can be considered the sniper of the dragon world.

Hiccup learns from Toothless that dragons are easily distracted by reflected light on the ground, similar to a cat, and uses this to his advantage to lure a Terror back into its pen during Dragon Training. He also learns that dragons are not as fireproof on the inside as one might think when Toothless spuits a fireball into a Terror's mouth for attempting to steal one of his fish. Before it leaves, Hiccup tosses it another fish and finds that it is not fierce as Vikings claim they are after it curls up beside him to sleep. Seeing this makes Hiccup realise that everything the Vikings know about dragons is completely wrong.

Terrible Terror breathing fire

The Terrible Terror in flight

{{The official Website describes the Terrible Terror as follows: "Smallest of the dragons is the TERRIBLE TERROR. This tiny menace is unmistakable, with a small snakelike body and tiny wings. Terrors can be found roosting in the rafters of Viking barns and under the floorboards of Viking houses. Though a single Terror is too small to carry away a sheep or inflict much damage to a Viking, they are usually found in flocks. The largest on record was a mob of Terrors over two hundred strong. In those numbers even the strongest Viking can be overwhelmed, and the biggest sheep can be stolen."

"These undersized creatures, based on the original teeny Toothless character from the books, travel in packs and are prone to infighting. “They are small and underestimated,” says DeBlois. “If there is comic relief in the dragon world, it is the Terrible Terrors. They are like naughty little terriers and make a lot of noise.” Adds Sanders, “They are annoying, like seagulls.”"

Trivia

• The growling and other sounds of the Terrible Terror are actually based on a purebred Chihuahua from Cotton Grove.
• The Terrible Terror was originally designed to be a more faithful take on the original Toothless from the book series, but the creators of the film felt that it would be best to leave them as a seperate species and make Toothless the more threatening Night Fury to give Hiccup's story a sense of tension. This is referenced in the Filmmaker's Commentary of the DVD release, where they relate the "tug of war" between Toothless and the Terror as a battle between Toothless' original and new incarnations.

References

Dragon Species
Seen in the Books Arsenic Adderwing • Basic Brown • Big Spotted Gormless • Bloody Crocoraptor • Blubberwing • Brainless Leg-Remover • Brainpicker • Breathquencher • Bullingdozer • Bullguard Slavedragon • Bullrougher • Bullpuff • Burrowing Slitherfang • Carrier Dragon • Caterbillar • Centidile • Chickenpoxer • Common or Garden • Cuckoo Dragon • Darkbreather • Deadly Nadder • Deadly Nightshade • Deadly Shadow • Deepest Purple Fleshfang • Devilish Dervish • Dimbruiser • Doldrum • Doomfang • Dreader • Dreamserpent • Driller-Dragon • Drowsy-Tipped Dragonmouse • Eaglefly • Eight-Legged Battlegore • Eight-Legged Nadder • Electricsquirm • Electricsticky • Emperor Beetleboog Bolderbug • Exterminator • Fernwinder • Fire Dragon • Firestarter • Flamehuffer • Flashfang • Flutterfire • Flying Gator • Giant Bee-Eater • Giant Deathwatch • Gloomer • Glow-worm • Golphin • Goreblaster • Gorebluffer • Gorebreather • Goredragon • Goreslingus Rex • Gorgenghast • Greater Pricklepine • Grimler • Grimwing • Gronckle • Guardians • Hellsteether • Hogfly • Horrors • Hurricane • Hypnomunk • Lackwit • Lesser Blackbacked Seadragon • Lesser-Spotted Squirrelserpent • Leviathorgan • Lightwing • Loafer Dragon • Long-Eared Caretaker Dragon • Long-Eared Flutterfire • Marsh Tiger • Mocker • Monster of the Amber-Slavelands • Monstrous Nightmare • Monstrous Strangulator • Mood-Dragon • Octodangle • Piranha Hermit Dragon • Plankenteenie • Poison Darter • Poisonous Piffleworm • Polar Serpent • Popdragon • Prickleboggle • Pricklepine • Puff Nadder • Puggle • Rageblast • Raptortongue • Ravenhunter • Razorwing • Red-Hot Itchyworm • Red Tiger • Repto • Rhinoback • Riproarer • Rocket-Rage • Rocket Ripper • Rottdragon • Sabre-Tooth Driver Dragon • Sand Rattler • Sandrazor • Sandshark • Savager • Scarer • Screech Dragon • Seadragonus Giganticus Maximus • Serpent-tongue • Sharkworm • Shooter • Shortwing Squirrelserpent • Sidewinder • Silver Phantom (Books) • Skullion • Sky Dragon • Slitherfang • Slitherhawk • Slugbulb • Snare Dragon • Sniffer Dragon • Snub-Nosed Hellsteether • Specklehound • Squealer • Stealth Dragon • Sticky Stealer • Stickyworm • Stink Dragon • Storm Dragon • Swiftglider • Terrorfang • Terrorwing • Thor's Thunderer • Thunderer • Tiddly-Nip Tick-Botherer • Tigerbreath • Toothless Daydream • Tonguetwister • Tornado • Toxic Nightshade • Trotterdragon • Two-Headed Gormatron • Underground Tail-Hunter • Unknown Dragons • Vampire Dragon • Vampire Ghouldeath • Vampire Spydragon • Venomous Vorpent • Vultureclaw • Water Dragon • Windwalker • Winterflesher • White Dragon • Wodensfang • Woden's Nightmare • Wolf-Fang • 'X' Dragon • Yellow Vampire • Zebramount
Seen in the Franchise Armorwing • Bewilderbeast • Boneknapper • Buffalord • Catastrophic Quaken • Cavern Crasher • Changewing • Deadly Nadder • Death Song • Devilish Dervish • Egg Biter • Eruptodon • Fireworm • Flightmare • Foreverwing • Gobsucker • Grapple Grounder • Groncicle • Gronckle • Hackatoo • Hideous Zippleback • Hobblegrunt • Hotburple • Lycanwing • Moldruffle • Monstrous Nightmare • Mudraker • Night Fury • Night Terror • Prickleboggle • Purple Death • Raincutter • Razorwhip • Red Death • Rumblehorn • Sand Wraith • Scauldron • Screaming Death • Scuttleclaw • Seashocker • Shivertooth • Shockjaw • Shovelhelm • Singetail • Skrill • Slithersong • Sliquifier • Smothering Smokebreath • Snafflefang • Snaptrapper • Snifflehunch • Snow Wraith • Speed Stinger • Stinger • Stormcutter • Submaripper • Sweet Death • Sword Stealer • Terrible Terror • Thornridge • Threadtail • Thunderclaw • Thunderdrum • Thunderpede • Tide Glider • Timberjack • Triple Stryke • Typhoomerang • Whispering Death • Windgnasher • Windstriker • Windwalker • Woolly Howl • Unknown Dragons