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Post by angel624 on Apr 3, 2010 19:50:53 GMT -5
*Just* came back to the movie and saw what happened to the leg. You have to really be paying attention because the split second after Toothless unfurls his wings to reveal Hiccup, the leg in question is crushed between Toothless' two back legs. Case closed. :] Now I gotta be looking out for that when I see it again tomorrow. Also, my friend who's going with me has NO IDEA that Hiccup loses his leg in the end, can't wait to see her reaction. xD
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Post by Stormy on Apr 3, 2010 19:54:29 GMT -5
My friend who went with me had no idea either, but she guessed it before the big reveal. D: It was disappointing for me.
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Post by CJ the Slightly Unhinged on Apr 4, 2010 1:19:28 GMT -5
Okay so before I go pass out.
I went and saw the movie again today, this time with a friend. We got to talking about it while looking at toys at Wal-Mart, and we came up with some theories that actually seem pretty sound.
Consider, if you will, that Hiccup essentially had his foot in a metal stirrup. They were flying up, and wham. ENTIRE FRONT full of big clubby spikey tail. He didn't just get knocked out, he was ripped clean from his saddle, which means that his leg was probably somehow caught up in there.
The damage didn't have to come from Toothless at all, per se. Well, not directly. The damage could have been a sort of trickle-down biproduct. The very device Hiccup used to steer Toothless in the air after doing damage that prevented him from flying?
Was the very device that cost him his left leg.
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Post by Mothy on Apr 4, 2010 2:23:46 GMT -5
You mean like his leg got yanked out of its socket or something? Because we see him falling later, and he still has both legs, so it didn't get ripped off...or altered in any way.
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Post by Admin on Apr 4, 2010 2:43:55 GMT -5
Well, if you look closely his left legs seems to be a bit... LOOSE when he falls.
I think his foot was pulled out of the socket or broken in the boot when he was knocked out (or just falling), then Toothless accidentally made it worse while trying to save him now. It may not have broken when he was ripped out, but it was at least damaged to the point of "OW". I fell off a horse once and badly twisted my ankle and popped it out of place, but you wouldn't have know it just by looking at my foot in the boot.
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Post by Deadly Nadder on Apr 4, 2010 2:44:17 GMT -5
Maybe the force of hitting the Red Death's tail threw Hiccup forwards at an angle that- with his foot wedged in the stirrup- it broke (possibly shattered) the shin bone, and vikings don't have the technology to repair extreme damage like that.
Trust me, having a foot caught in the stirrup of a horse is painful, thus flying dragon momentum + getting smacked with another giant dragon's tail with a foot jammed in a stirrup = Hiccup losing his foot.
I love how ... techincal and scientific we get with this! xD
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Post by CJ the Slightly Unhinged on Apr 4, 2010 9:47:13 GMT -5
Oh, believe you me, I know how much it hurts falling off a horse and having your foot stuck. Happened to me when I was still competing once. And his leg did look really loose after he got knocked free. I don't think his leg was ripped off, no, but it's quite plausible that the force did some tendon/ligament damage. A viking certainly wouldn't know how to repair a torn Achilles tendon or hamstring, so bam. Replacement leg it is.
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Post by Jade K. on Apr 4, 2010 20:05:27 GMT -5
I believe that there is a possible chance that his leg did get caught on the saddle and had his leg ripped a bit when Toothless grabbed him to save him from the explosion. Or, as CJ said, it got caught on the Green Death's tail and then it got ripped.
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Post by Welcome on Apr 4, 2010 22:53:27 GMT -5
JEEZ. Next time I go to see it (I hope I do, my 17 year old brother wants to go LOL)... I'm wearing my glasses. This is a very mysterious matter indeed.
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Post by Mothy on Apr 4, 2010 22:55:47 GMT -5
Yeah, and I'm sitting closer to the screen next time I go (with a buddy). I never noticed that his leg looked "looser." In any case...could we have finally solved the mystery?!
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Post by angel624 on Apr 4, 2010 23:32:50 GMT -5
I saw it again today, I did see the 'looser' thing. All during that last bit, I kept my eyes on his legs, like, "Okay, there its loose, now its crushed between Toothless' legs...okay, yeah, I see what's going on now..." So yes, I think the mystery has been solved. Rooby rooby roooooooo! (Oh, and my friend initially thought he lost BOTH of his legs. ^^
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Post by Mothy on Apr 4, 2010 23:43:35 GMT -5
Oh God, that would have been an even BIGGER gut-punch...><
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Post by Admin on Apr 4, 2010 23:55:21 GMT -5
Oh man, I don't think I could have kept from crying if he lost BOTH of them D8.
Emotional kick to the groin, much?
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Post by Welcome on Apr 5, 2010 5:46:05 GMT -5
He's lucky he only lost one leg; that would be the end of walking if he had!
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Post by Ditto the Devious on Apr 5, 2010 22:15:18 GMT -5
Seeing as I actually wanted him to die(*dodges flamethrowers* I'm the Tragedy Queen!), loosing both legs actually would have made me happier. Hero's ay a great deal to do what they do and it can end with their end or loss.
Anyways, he lost up to about his knee, right? Well, as someone said with the stirrup, would his other leg been broken too? It would actually make sence to have lost both legs if that was the case.
And someone else said that 'absolutly' Toothless broke his leg because you could see Tooth had Hiccups leg crushed under his. I disagree, because BOTH of hiccups legs were covered by Toothless. So it couldn't have been that.
My best bet is the either Toothless landed wrong, the tail crushed his leg, or it was burnt off.
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