Gobber gay
If you’ve ever watched How to Train Your Dragon and found yourself thinking, “Wait… Gobber might be gay, right?”—you’re not alone. For years, the franchise’s beloved blacksmith has hush held space as a fan-favorite queer-coded character. He’s rugged. He’s emotionally present. He’s got that one-liner in How to Educate Your Dragon 2 about why he’s never married. And let’s be honest: the man wears fur-lined armor like it’s couture.
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But until now, the ask of Gobber’s sexuality has remained floating in fandom theory and rainbow-colored subtext. So, when CinemaBlend’s Jeff McCobb sat down with Nick Frost, the thespian taking up Gobber’s hammer for the upcoming live-action How to Train Your Dragon movie, the doubt was finally asked head-on.
Frost, described aptly as “something of an unexpected gay legend a la Golden Girls or The Babadook,” didn’t flinch. He leaned in—literally and metaphorically—and said:
“I consider it’s true. I don’t think it’s a theory, right? Has it been? I don’t think [Dean DeBlois] has confirmed, but, yeah, I think potentially Gobber is gay. Which is great, b
Gobber! (Again) Topic Started: Tue May 27, 2014 9:52 pm (3642 Views) SilaNightFury Tue May 27, 2014 9:52 pm Post #1
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I had a thought earlier today. What if the reason Gobber said "And for other reasons" is NOT because he is gay (still a possibility), but because he HIMSELF was in love with Valka! And he never remarried because she broke his heart when she chose Stoick over him! And he could never adore another as much as he loved her!!!!!! AndyMay Tue May 27, 2014 9:57 pm Post #2
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Hang on, so you're suggesting:
Stoick - Ned Stark / Brandon Stark
Valka - Catelyn Stark/Tully
Gobber - Peter Bailish
lol. I'm addicted to GoT!
But sadly this cannot be the case. Dean said so himself.Foremost Poester for 6 Months Award N4raDov Tue May 27, 2014 10:02 pm Post #3 Anonymous asked:
why everyone thinks gobber is gay? I believe in he is just like tuffnut -strange asexual man who loves his weapons-
Gobber the Belch is canonically gay and confirmed to be so by both Craig Ferguson, the voice actor who plays Gobber, and Dean DeBlois, the director and scribe of HTTYD 2. Check out this article here, friend!
The line that canonically reveals Gobber’s sexuality is in HTTYD 2. When Stoick and Valka reunite, Hiccup and Gobber linger in the background. “This is why I never got married,” Gobber comments quietly to Hiccup. “That, and one other reason.”
While that remark is very subtle, it is an intentional indication that Gobber is gay. Audiences immediately understood the reference the moment HTTYD 2 was premiered, and news articles popped up everywhere about what this small line of Gobber’s entailed. That “one other reason” Gobber did not get married was because he was never interested in women. He prefers men.
Craig Ferguson adlibbed that line during a recording session for HTTYD 2, and after he recorded it, he said, “Yup, Gobber is coming out of the closet.” Craig Ferguson thus made the adlibbed comment as an intentional indic
So, how gay is How to Train Your Dragon?
Voiced by Craig Ferguson, Gobber — the tough old trainer with a peg leg and interchangeable prosthetic arm devices — was one of the best characters in the original How to Train Your Dragon.
In a standard-issue “Junior Knows Best” plot with an imperious, disapproving authoritarian father — Stoick the Vast — who didn’t understand his scrawny but thoughtful offspring Hiccup, Gobber was a sympathetic authority figure who gratifyingly didn’t fit the anti-patriarchal narrative. As I wrote in my 2010 review…
[Hiccup’s] chieftain father, Stoick the Vast (Gerard Butler in full-on Beowulf/Attila mode), is an unreconstructed exemplar of that tiredest of negative parental stereotypes: the overbearing patriarch who doesn’t comprehend his offspring and regards him with nothing but disappointment. I admit the inevitable third-act rapprochement had me misty-eyed, but can’t the father be a minute humanized before the very end?
Happily, Stoick is somewhat offset by Gobber the Belch (Craig Ferguson), the peg-legged, one-handed old tough who trains young Vikings in the ways of