The Problem With Toothless' Lightning Powers
So I have a problem with Toothless gaining the power to draw in lightning onto his back, and use it to go invisible and shoot out lightning attacks.
This was a power that seemed unnecessary and only given to Toothless for a few reasons. One being to give Toothless a new power for the new film because he is the mascot dragon. But second it was probably done to take the "unholy offspring of lightning and death itself" literally.
Soooo… I the first part of this that doesn't work is the fact that Night furies don't need to go be able to go invisible, as show in the first film their bluish black coloration makes it where they blend into the night sky. Also, as I made clear in my rant, the Light Fury was primarily designed as well the girl dragon and really has nothing else going for it. But the species was given a unique ability to go invisible using their reflective scales reaction to heat. However, this one unique trait is undermined by the fact that Night Furies can use them too.
The second problem is that Toothless didn't need such a power boost, let alone a lightning one. First off, the lightning part in the phrase is in reference to how the plasma blasts look like lightning in a cloudy or night sky. But second, this basically is stealing the power of the other speed class dragon that can keep up with Night Furies, the Skrill. The Skrill is a dragon that is treated as almost as rare as a Night Fury, and it's special ability being the fact is can draw lightning from the sky. And by giving Night Furies the ability to do the exact same thing makes the Skrill seem less unique and special.
One final problem is it didn't make sense as a new ability. The spliting scales thing for example was something Toothless simply hadn't discovered he could do, and doesn't add too much to Tootheless. Meanwhile the addition of the echolocation ability made sense because Night Furies would primarily be active at Night, and them having echolocation to help them navigate the night sky makes sense. Written By Eris
