A teacher may say aloud to students, Mistakes help your brain grow, but then in the next breath that same. The more you learn, the better you’ll get at seeing more sides of. Katie Wright highlights this in her post Do as I Say, Not as I Do. Continuous learning opens your mind and changes your attitude by building on what you already know. It’s progressive, it’s honest, and it feels good, so we wanted to keep it.” It’s one thing to say that we believe in students but when there is a lack of congruence with what we say and what we do, actions always speak louder than words. He commented on an interview once, “I think it’s nice. Dean DeBlois, when he heard the line, liked it so much that he kept it for the final movie, also with the knowledge and intention of it being a subtle reference to Gobber’s homosexuality. He prefers men.Ĭraig 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 indicator of Gobber’s sexuality. That “one other reason” Gobber did not get married was because he was never interested in women.

While that remark is very subtle, it is an intentional indication that Gobber is homosexual.Īudiences immediately understood the reference the moment HTTYD 2 was premiered, and news articles popped up everywhere about what this little line of Gobber’s entailed. 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.” The line that canonically reveals Gobber’s sexuality is in HTTYD 2. 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 writer of HTTYD 2.

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