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Toothless' Nemesis is a male Whispering Death who first appeared in "What Flies Beneath".

Official Description[]

This Whispering Death and Toothless have some history together... really BAD history. The Rival even has a bite from a Night Fury on his tail! But no one knows the story (yet).
  Dragons: Rise of Berk  


Personality[]

This Whispering Death first appeared in "What Flies Beneath", where it was revealed he and Toothless had a history, and not a nice one. He is a ferocious and merciless fighter, who was determined to kill Toothless. He is also shown to be quite intelligent, being able to figure out Toothless couldn't fly, and thus was an easy opponent. After Toothless defeated him, it is assumed both have moved on and consider the matter closed. However, it is also possible that he is still angry, but just knows that he couldn't beat Toothless, and so leaves him alone.

Dragons: Riders of Berk[]

"What Flies Beneath"[]

This Whispering Death appeared in episode fourteen (What Flies Beneath). He held a grudge against Toothless who had bitten him before Toothless and Hiccup became friends, and got into two fights with Toothless after he arrived on Berk. In the first one, he showed himself to the rest of Berk's dragons, but they all backed off when Toothless attempted to confront the Whispering Death by himself. Hampered by his inability to fly, Toothless wrestled with the Whispering Death until he was shot in the leg by one of the Whispering Death's spikes. In the second fight, Hiccup was prepared to help Toothless, but Toothless refused and tried to manage on his own. Without Hiccup, Toothless was unable to fly properly, so the Whispering Death knocked him out of the sky and used his fire to send him onto a ledge where the Whispering Death attempted to send Toothless into a canyon, which would kill him. Only by accepting Hiccup's help was Toothless able to defeat the Whispering Death, Hiccup deliberately forcing Toothless to accept his aid by jumping off the canyon himself, leaving Toothless to save Hiccup and accept his aid or let his friend die to save his vendetta. After he and Hiccup were able to down the Whispering Death using its weakness to direct sunlight, Hiccup convinced Toothless to spare his foe, which then fled back to its tunnel.

Dragons: Race to the Edge[]

Season 6[]

Toothless’ Nemesis appeared in Hiccup’s thoughts [imagination] in "Darkest Night", in place of the Red Death if Hiccup had never shot down Toothless in the first place, as the dragon blows off Hiccup’s foot and Toothless’ tail fin.

Abilities and Skills[]

As a Whispering Death, Toothless' Nemesis is a formidable dragon. It is shown to be a good flyer and quite fast and agile while in flight and also while burrowing. It could tell that Toothless couldn't fly and that made him weak to be easy to defeat.

  • Burrowing/Tunneling: He shown to make a lot tunnels being alone at high speed. Also knowing his digging skills will be useful to surprise his enemy and prey to come out of anywhere. It has incredible jaw strength to use its jaw to travel quickly through solid stone and can take lots of damage without showing signs of weakness.
  • Fire Ring Breath: Toothless' Nemesis can shoot rings of fire multiple times (dragons mostly breathe streams of fire) with a fireball in the middle of it. Whispering Death's fire forms a series of rings around a thin stream of fire, caused by its rotating teeth and circular mouth.
  • Dragon Nip Immunity: Like the rest of his kind, Toothless' Nemesis is shown to have an immunity to Dragon Nip but they seem to be more allergic to it, as when Hiccup tried to give Dragon Nip to him it only sneezed instead of fainting like the other dragons did.
  • Spine Shot: Similar to a Deadly Nadder, a Whispering Death can shoot its spines at an extremely high speed which makes them difficult to dodge.
  • Intelligence: Toothless' Nemesis is shown to be incredibly intelligent as he figure out Toothless was unable to fly on his own and used it to his advantage.
  • Fighting Skills: Toothless' Nemesis is shown to be the longest Whispering Death, even for an adult. He shows to be a powerful and worthy opponent for Toothless by using his long body and abilities to use against him and others. He demonstrated that a Thunderdrum’s sonic blast has no effect on him. His looks makes most Vikings too afraid to fight back. He is able to use his sharp teeth, horn, spines, tail, and head as weapons to battle his opponents.

Trivia[]

  • It has never been revealed how, where, or why Toothless and this Whispering Death developed a grudge for one another in the first place. However, the game, Rise of Berk, hinted that the story behind their grudge might be revealed in a later season of Race to the Edge; this was later proved to be false, as it never was revealed.
  • He is the first Whispering Death in the series and the first to make a physical appearance in the franchise.
  • It is possible the Whispering Death could not be trained by Hiccup because he picked on Toothless' scent from the Viking. He does seem to attack Hiccup more directly afterwards and attempted to kill him several times.
  • He was originally going to be called "Groundshaker" in Rise of Berk before his name was changed.

References[]

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