I mean, that does happen with a lot of traditionally scary monsters to be fair. Look at how cutesy Halloween monsters sometimes get portrayed as, or dragons, which at least in the European sense would traditionally have been dangerous and scary monsters but nowadays are just as often friendly or protective as they are hostile.
TBF, HTTYD originally starts off with the vikings murderously scared of dragons because they kill people. Hiccup is the first one to not be scared of a dragon and everyone thinks he’s crazy for it at first. Everyone thinks of Toothless, but up until his appearance in the movie we have only seen dragons portrayed as fearsome.
I mean, that does happen with a lot of traditionally scary monsters to be fair. Look at how cutesy Halloween monsters sometimes get portrayed as, or dragons, which at least in the European sense would traditionally have been dangerous and scary monsters but nowadays are just as often friendly or protective as they are hostile.
How to train your dragon, but with hyper realistic traditional dragons. Yes please.
TBF, HTTYD originally starts off with the vikings murderously scared of dragons because they kill people. Hiccup is the first one to not be scared of a dragon and everyone thinks he’s crazy for it at first. Everyone thinks of Toothless, but up until his appearance in the movie we have only seen dragons portrayed as fearsome.