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Well, maybe when Toothless crashed when Hiccup shot him down it damaged him mentally as well as physically. Something could have happened in his brain that caused him to forget his instincts.
No. Just no. The word "no" does not adequately convey the sheer no-ness I'm thinking right now.
There is absolutely no evidence to suggest that Toothless has any sort of mental damage. By all evidence, he is among the most intelligent dragons (with his only rivals being Cloudumper, and possibly the Red Death and the Bewilderbeasts), so this doesn't even begin to make sense.
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Toothless could've spent so much time with Hiccup that he thinks he's a human (it happened with Valka, only vice versa; and she was the one who modified him XD so maybe she could have know this).
Um, Valka doesn't think she's a dragon. If she did, she'd actually be a halfway interesting character, and wouldn't speak perfectly-enunciated English (what DeBlois was thinking when casting Blanchett in this role, I have no idea - terrible, terrible miscasting). There's a reason I brought up the Timothy Treadwell comparison, because she really is more like him, that is, a person so desperately trying to be an animal, and just revealing the sheer ridiculousness of their enterprise. Sadly, unlike Treadwell, Valka hasn't been eaten. This not only means we're stuck with her (thankfully, Race to the Edge is still managing to avoid this giant problem), but also removes any element of cautionary example from her character, thus leaving us with this functionally perfect, and thus frustratingly boring, excuse for a character.
Getting things back on topic, Toothless was around for about a dozen years before he even met Hiccup. That's twice as long as they've known each other, covering their formative years. It's complete nonsense to suppose that Toothless thinks he's a human. He's way past the point of imprinting. Sure, he's picked up a few human mannerisms, but that's completely different from forgetting how to perform a basic conscious bodily action. Heck, both Gift of the Night Fury and HTTYD 2 show that he still knows how to fly by himself, even though he's largely incapable of physically doing it.
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And maybe he thinks Hiccup or other humans can do everything for him. Hiccup was able to make him fly again, so I think it's possible that he's just become reliant.
You know, that might almost work, if it wasn't for the fact that there are loads of examples in the films, shorts and TV series of Toothless either taking the lead or outright fending for himself. He's not dependant on Hiccup for anything other than flight and the occasional Magic of Friendship speech.
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However, even Bewilderbeast mind-control was able to be resisted by Toothless, as we saw, and Valka might have been able to bring back Cloudjumper using a special method too - given her expertise with dragons, even though she hadn't seen Bewilderbeast mind-control before
Point of order: I'm pretty sure that Valka must have seen Bewilderbeast mind-control before, or she wouldn't know that the baby dragons answer to no one.
Getting back towards the main point, it's rather bizarre that Valka doesn't do anything to snap Cloudjumper out of mind-control. Two dragons would surely be more useful than one, especially since she's clearly not doing anything else. On the other hand, whenever I'm watching that bit, I'm always so grateful for every precious second that she's not on screen that this issue doesn't bother me. With that said, it's still bad writing.