History WesternAnimation / HowToTrainYourDragon

* AdultFear: [[spoiler:Stoick believing his son is dead after the fight with the Red Death]]. To make it worse, this was due to Stoick's own misguided actions that led to the above event.

* AbusiveParents: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] and later [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] with Stoick the Vast. While he and his son do genuinely love each other, their relationship is distant and strained because of Hiccup's constant antics and Stoick's open disapproval, though it's clear that Stoick's strict demand for Hiccup to conform is not borne out of malice, but out of concern for Hiccup and the tribe's well-being. [[spoiler:In the third act, Stoick disowns Hiccup in a moment of anger when he discovers his friendship with Toothless, [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone though he clearly regrets doing this]] and takes it back during the final battle. Stoick ultimately sees the error of his ways when Hiccup and Toothless work together to defeat the Red Death, and proudly accepts his son for who he truly is]], allowing their relationship to be much stronger in the franchise's subsequent instalments.

* KarmicInjury: [[spoiler: Hiccup's trap disabled Toothless by taking his left tail fin, which required an ArtificialLimb in order to fly again. At the end of the film, Hiccup loses his left leg, which is purposely paralleled with Toothless's missing tail fin. Discussed in [[WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon2 the sequel]] that this may have been purposeful on Toothless's part.]]

* {{Hypocrite}}: Despite Hiccup firmly believing in not killing dragons and instead trying to understand them, he makes no such effort when it comes to the [[spoiler:Red Death]], and not he nor anyone else even comments on it.

* MoralDissonance: Despite Hiccup firmly believing in not killing dragons and instead trying to understand them, he makes no such effort when it comes to the [[spoiler:Red Death]], and not he nor anyone else even comments on it.

** While Stoick has [[BadassBeard too much beard]] to look like Creator/GerardButler, it's not too far off to see him playing the role in live-action.

* BadassBeard: Most prominently, Stoick. [[BeardOfBarbarism Again, Vikings]].

* LikeFatherUnlikeSon: Stoick the Vast is a [[LargeAndInCharge big]] [[BadassBeard bearded]] man who is every bit a typical Viking warrior whose main defining feature is his strength. Stoick's son Hiccup is a rather scrawny weak kid who is more of a GadgeteerGenius than a fighter. Despite this, Stoick cares for his son and eventually becomes [[SoProudOfYou proud of him as well]].

--> '''Tuffnut:''' "Wait, you mean ''read''?"
--> '''Ruffnut:''' "While we're still ''alive''?"
* HeldGaze: The [[HeterosexualLifePartners platonic]] version occurs between Stoick and Gobber in this movie when they grasp hands, looking each other in eye, before going off to distract [[spoiler: Red Death]] together to buy their people some time.

** [[spoiler:Although Hiccup and Toothless defeat the Red Death, the latter's massive tail knocks Hiccup off of Toothless and he falls back unconscious into the explosion. Though he survives, Hiccup is not only in a coma for several days afterwards, but also wakes up to discover that he's lost a leg]].

* ForScience: In a benevolent example, Hiccup tries to repair Toothless' tail without concern of the consequences of restoring a huge predator's ability to fly, [[RealityEnsues which become apparent all too soon]].

* RealityEnsues:
** Near the end, [[spoiler:all the teens get dragons of their own, and fall off within minutes of each other during the final battle because Hiccup is the only one with safety lines]].
** [[spoiler:The hero battles and defeats the BigBad, however, he doesn't get away scot-free, but ends up ''losing a leg.'']]

* BadassBolas: Hiccup builds a crossbow-like bola-throwing device in order to take down a dragon.

* GoodScarsEvilScars: Curiously, both Hiccup and Stoick have scars on the right sides of their faces. Stoick's isn't so noticeable with facial features and age, but when the light shines on Hiccup's mouth/chin at a certain angle, it ''clearly'' shows. [[spoiler:The second movie reveals that Cloudjumper gave Hiccup that scar when he was a baby, before carrying off his mother during a dragon raid. Apparently some dragon horns cut like knives.]]

%% * AbusiveParents: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] and later [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] with Stoick the Vast. Completely ashamed of his son when his son embarrasses him, is completely blunt in expressing his dislike of Hiccup's unique habits, disowns Hiccup when the boy finds an alternate way to solve the conflict, and is only proud of Hiccup when he pulls off a BigDamnHeroes moment and rescues his life and that of the tribe full of jerks. By the end, he has apologized to Hiccup for how he treated him and has completely lost this trope come the sequel.

* AdaptationalNiceGuy: While still somewhat insensitive in this adaptation, Gobber is nicer in comparison to his book counterpart, who was a great deal nastier.

* AbusiveParents: [[DownplayedTrope downplayed]] and later [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] with Stoick the Vast. Completely ashamed of his son when his son embarrasses him, is completely blunt in expressing his dislike of Hiccup's unique habits, disowns Hiccup when the boy finds an alternate way to solve the conflict, and is only proud of Hiccup when he pulls off a BigDamnHeroes moment and rescues his life and that of the tribe full of jerks. By the end, he has apologized to Hiccup for how he treated him and has completely lost this trope come the sequel.

* AbusiveParents: Stoick the Vast. Completely ashamed of his son when his son embarrasses him, is completely blunt in expressing his dislike of Hiccup's unique habits, disowns Hiccup when the boy finds an alternate way to solve the conflict, and is only proud of Hiccup when he pulls off a BigDamnHeroes moment and rescues his life and that of the tribe full of jerks. By the end, he has apologized to Hiccup for how he treated him and has completely lost this trope come the sequel.

* NotSoDifferent: Hiccup and Stoick, shown subtly throughout the entire movie, and highlighted in their {{Meaningful Echo}}es (each quoting the other without having heard the line from them). Gobber is aware of this from listening to them complain about one another, and eventually [[LampshadeHanging points it out to Stoick]] near the end of the film. On the more amusing side, take note of how tongue-tied and awkward Stoick becomes during his "first talk" with his son due to "finally having something in common", and his very clumsy exit afterward from the smithy, complete with nearly knocking his helmet off on the doorway; definitely channeling Hiccup there.

** In the shorts and TV series that followed the film, all of the main riders' dragons are visibly affectionate with Hiccup, some even more so than with their actual riders. It becomes apparent why when watching the first film's training montage, where Hiccup used the tricks he learned from Toothless to pacify and tame all of them without violence. They remember the fact that he was the first human to treat them with kindess.

** For those who have seen the series or the sequel, check out all the dragons that Hiccup fights in the Arena... and realize that these are Stormfly, Meatlug, Hookfang, and Barf and Belch.

** Some of the trailers also spoiled the appearance of [[spoiler:the Red Death, the queen of the Dragons' Nest]], event though this character's existence is a major twist in the second half of the film.

* WeirderThanUsual: Astrid says to Hiccup something along the lines of "You're acting strange... well, stranger."

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The "a wet dragon head can't light its fire" dragon lesson is the only dragon-related ChekhovsGun that doesn't get fired. It does somewhat misfire though, [[spoiler:during dragon training against the zippleback.]]

* ChainmailBikini: Stoick gives Hiccup his very own viking helmet to keep him safe in the ring, only to tell him that it was half of his mother's breast-plate, Stoick wearing the other half as ''his'' helmet.

* MissingMom: Hiccup's. It's never mentioned what happened to her [[spoiler:until the sequel.]]

* MoodWhiplash: Awww, look at the cute little Gronckle. He only brought back one tiny little fi[[YouHaveFailedMe HOLY SHIT WHAT IS THAT!?!?]]

** Some of the trailers also spoiled the appearance of [[spoiler:the Red Death]].

** Extremely different tone for this song, but "Flying with Mother" also heavily features pipes.