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People are upset that Astrid doesn’t look like her animated version—but her new backstory as an outsider actually makes sense.

Remember what Hiccup said? Vikings give their kids ugly names to scare off gnomes and trolls, like Snotlout, Fishlegs .even Hiccup himself—those names fit the rule. But Astrid is a perfectly normal name—which already made her different.

And fun fact—Astrid wasn’t even in the original books. The original rider of Stormfly was a girl named camicazi. She was meant to be heir to another tribe like Hiccup—But DreamWorks scrapped her because the name sounded like kamikaze—a World War II term—

Plus—Hiccup was only 10 in the books—so there wasn’t even a romance to begin with—