It just occurred to me that the reason dragons have such ferocious names, “Night Fury”, “Deadly Nadder”, “Whispering Death”, etc; is because they were named by vikings to whom they were indeed vicious beasts. And true, dragons can be quite dangerous if provoked, but after seeing their behaviour in the HTTYD franchise? Please. You ain’t fooling anyone, pal.
Now, imagine a viking similar to Hiccup and the riders were the one who named them. We would have:
Monstrous Nightmare: Flammable Lizard.
Hideous Zippleback: Bickering Siblings.
Gronkle: Rock-eating Dog.
Deadly Nadder: Spiky Parrot.
Whispering Death: Creepy Albino Worm.
Stormcutter: X-shaped Owl.
And Night Furies? Psssh. Big Scaly Cats.
It would have added 14523875927 times more sarcasm to Hiccup’s monologues.