Line #14 Recap/DragonsRidersOfBerkS3E12TheNextBigSting


1	While Hiccup tries out his flight suit for the first time, he and the gang find a wounded Speed Stinger, which they rescue and take it back to Dragon's Edge, unaware of the dangers that follow.
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6	* AndroclesLion: Because Hiccup saved the baby Speed Stinger, it protects Hiccup and the gang when the adult Speed Stingers return.
7	* AmusingInjuries: Ruffnut gets paralyzed in different places by the Stinger.
8	* AndThenWhat: Hiccup is asked this when he rescues the baby Speed Stinger. His answer is that they'll nurse it back to health and then return it to its native island.
9	* AwesomeButImpractical: The others think that Hiccup's flying suit is this, since they have dragons (and how "awesome" they think it is is up for debate).
10	* BodyHorror: Ruffnut's paralyzed upper half is kind of grotesque.
11	* ButtMonkey: For once Ruffnut is this instead of Snotlout or her brother; the Speed Stinger baby likes to target her.
12	* CallBack:
13	** Once again Hiccup takes in an injured baby dragon and bonds with it.
14	** Snotlout does not have fond memories of Speed Stingers.
15	* CallForward: Hiccup debuts prototype versions of the flight suit he uses in ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon2''.
16	* CassandraTruth: Snotlout warns everyone that the Speed Stinger is going to go ballistic and sting them. Halfway through the episode, it tries, [[SelfFulfillingProphecy because Snotlout kept riling it up]].
17	* ChekhovsGun: The Speed Stinger's foot webbing inspires Hiccup to make another flight suit, one that looks like a flying squirrel's webbing rather than a backpack with wings attached.
18	* ChronicHeroSyndrome: Lampshaded.
19	-->'''Snotlout:''' Is he seriously going back?\
20	'''Astrid:''' Snotlout, meet Hiccup. He's ''always'' going back.
21	* ConflictingLoyalty: The baby Speed Stinger is torn between rejoining his pack and defending the riders from said pack.
22	* TheDragAlong: Barf gets paralyzed while Belch does not, which means the latter ends up dragging the former around for the rest of the episode.
23	* EpicFail: Zigzagged with Hiccup's first flight suit. His first two test runs have him plummet like a stone and require saving from Toothless. Then his third test has him actually glide on a current... then he realizes he can't steer, or land.
24	* FireForgedFriends: Snotlout only starts to like the baby Speed Stinger after they fight the Speed Stinger pack together.
25	* FromDressToDressing: Hiccup uses the tatters of his flight suit to create a splint for the baby Speed Stinger.
26	* HeroicSacrifice: Snotlout draws the Speed Stingers away from the rest of the group and is then ambushed. He immediately decides it was a bad idea.
27	* LetsGetOutOfHere: Snotlout says this word for word. He wants nothing to do with the Speed Stinger, and proposes leaving it before others join it.
28	* TheMedic: Fishlegs plays this role for the Speed Stinger.
29	* OhNoNotAgain:
30	** This is Snotlout's reaction when they find an injured baby dragon.
31	** Ruffnut when, seconds after the Speed Stinger venom wears off, the baby hits her once more.
32	* SelfFulfillingProphecy: Snotlout's warnings about the baby Speed Stinger wouldn't have come true if he hadn't kept antagonizing it.
33	* ShooTheDog: Hiccup decides to let the baby Speed Stinger return to his family, so that the latter has a proper place.
34	* ShoutOut:
35	** The story is loosely based on ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark''
36	*** The episode presents a juvenile Speed Stinger with an injured leg, similar to the baby Tyrannosaurus in the movie. Plus, both of them were brought back to the protagonists' respective bases and healed by them.
37	*** Like the film's Tyrannosaurus parents, the Stinger pack go after the missing juvenile, which involves them attacking the main characters.
38	* SignatureMove: Hiccup holding out his hand to a new dragon is apparently this for him.
39	-->'''Fishlegs:''' He's gonna do the hand thing, right? Ohhhh, ''please'' tell me he's gonna do the hand thing!
40	* SilentSnarker: Toothless makes his opinion on the flight suit very well known, complete with a laugh.
41	* ThirdTimesTheCharm: Hiccup tries his first flight suit three times. The first two times he fails to get any lift and has to be saved by Toothless. The third time, he succeeds in gliding around the island, until he realizes he can't steer or land safely, requiring Toothless to save him again.
42	* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: Astrid threatens to lock Hiccup up if he keeps trying to test his flight suit.
43	* WalkOnWater: The subspecies of Speed Stinger in this episode has webbing between its toes, which, when combined with their SuperSpeed, allow them to run across bodies of water.

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