User blog comment:The Pro-Wrestler/Pure Good Removal: Stoick/@comment-39032584-20191021233157

Yeah, I vote cut. I could see Stoick the Vast being considered an Outright hero, especialy due to his strong, genuine devotion toprotecting his people and keeping them safe, but Pure Good he is definitely not. He may have gotten better, but he was outright neglectful towards Hiccup in the first movie due to not seeing him as a "proper viking", and only started paying attention to him after he heard about how well he was doing during his "dragon training". Then, when he saw him fight a dragon (which he earned the right to do for the sake of killing it after doing well in said training), he got so outraged when he saw him try to tame it instead that he started screaming to "STOP THE FIGHT" and banged on the cage, which agitated the dragon into nearly killing Hiccup. If Toothless hadn't shown up to defend him in time, he could have gotten his son killed, all because he couldn't accept that Hiccup was against killing dragons, and, you know... show a little tact, which would have gone a long way to preventing the situation from spiraling out of control like that. And of course, most significantly of all, he temporarily flat-out disowned Hiccup after that incident.

So yeah, he does get some points for eventually coming around to see the value in Hiccup's philosophy (to the point he even adopted his own dragon pet), but it still took a lot for him to come around to that, namely, seeing him and Toothless defeat the Red Death. Up until then though, he was way too much of a close-minded and all-around crummy father to be considered an ebodiment of pure good. And yes, Hiccup may have recalled some positive bonding experiences they had when he was little in the third movie, which showed that he could be nurturing and a good father when he wanted to be. However, I think, as is typical for many people in real life when they lose loved ones, Hiccup was choosing to focus on all the good things about him, and and less so on his less upstanding traits.