History WesternAnimation / HowToTrainYourDragon2

** The wave-like ice sculpture Hiccup and Astrid come across looks a lot like the one [[WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheGuardians Jack and Pitch made while fighting in Antarctica]], and parts of the interiors resemble {{Superman}}'s Fortress of Solitude (especially in ''Film/SupermanTheMovie'').

** Stoick catches up to Hiccup attempting to arrange a meeting with Drago. He attempts a WhatTheHellHero, saying what Hiccup is doing is irresponsible. Hiccup counters, "I'm trying to protect our dragons and stop a war. How is that irresponsible?" Stoick then says, his expression changing, "Because war is what he wants, son!" Hiccup pauses, as Stoick proceeds to explain. The viewer then realizes that Drago may be unreasonable.

* GoodColorsEvilColors: A lot of the dragons inhabiting Valka’s Dragon Sanctuary have bright, colorful patterns. Drago’s dragon army is made up of dragons who are colored dull grays with only patches of blue or red patterns.

** Drago's backstory isn't fleshed out much, but in many ways he's what a meaner, more aggressive Hiccup could have been; lost family, [[spoiler:lost a limb]], and learned to master dragons by studying their animal behaviors, but focusing on the animal mechanics of dominance and submission rather than trust.

* BondVillainStupidity: Occurs [[spoiler:after Stoick's death]]. Drago has all of the dragons under his control and the heroes are [[spoiler:mourning Stoick]]. Instead of taking the opportunity to kill them all, he instead tells his army to meet him at Berk and leaves.

* AdultFear:
** Stoick on [[OhCrap hearing Drago Bludvist's name]] gets into overprotective mode for Berk, because he knows that one cannot reason with a senseless murderer. Hiccup's response? Fly to seek Drago via [[spoiler:ISurrenderSuckers with dragon trapper Eret, giving up his weapon and locking himself up in the brig, while snarking about it the whole time.]] Small wonder that Stoick went overboard with the [[spoiler:not necessary]] rescue attempt. And Hiccup ''still'' doesn't listen the second time he hears the tale.
** We then see that Stoick is ProperlyParanoid when Drago [[spoiler:brainwashes Toothless to fire on Hiccup.]] Stoick sees this from a distance, and realizes immediately what's going on. [[spoiler:He then races down to Hiccup and Toothless to take the blow, without hesitation.]]
** In Valka's flashback, Valka dropped her peaceful attitude once she saw Cloudjumper break into her and Stoick's home, ''right where their baby son was sleeping''. [[spoiler:Granted it turned out he was peaceful]] but it's very similar to what would happen if a wild animal breaks into a house with an infant child unprotected. And Cloudjumper does scratch Hiccup on the chin, leaving a small scar.
** The fact Hiccup was born premature and probably wouldn't have survived the harsh living conditions of Berk at the time. Both of these together create the ultimate Adult Fear for expectant mothers: Your baby has just beaten incredible odds surviving a premature birth... then you have to deal with trying to keep said baby alive against ''dragons''.
** At the climax, Valka [[spoiler:has to spend several agonizing seconds believing Hiccup has been trapped within a giant block of ice.]]
** In a non-progeny related example, [[spoiler:imagine meeting your estranged spouse, who has believed you were dead for two decades after you left them without warning, and they just keep staring and walking toward you, without a word. No wonder Valka freaks out a little.]]
--->'''Valka:''' Go on! Shout! Scream! ''Say something!''

''How to Train Your Dragon 2'' is the sequel to the film adaptation of ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon''. It was written and directed by Creator/DeanDeBlois (co-writer and co-director of the first film). Set five years after the first film, Berk and the dragons have learned to live in harmony, but now face a new enemy, Drago Bludvist, who seeks to enslave all dragons.

-->'''HTTYD:''' The food that grows here is tough and tasteless. The people that grow here, even more so.\\

** Stoick catches up to Hiccup attempting to arrange a meeting with Drago. He attempts a WhatTheHellHero, saying what Hiccup is doing is irresponsible. Hiccup counters, "I'm trying to protect our dragons and stop a war. How is that irresponsible?" Stoick then says, his expression changing, "Becuase war is what he wants, son!" Hiccup pauses, as Stoick proceeds to explain. The viewer then realizes that Drago may be unreasonable.

** Stoick catches up to Hiccup attempting to arrange a meeting with Drago. He attempts a WhatTheHellHero, saying what Hiccup is doing is irresponsible. Hiccup counters, "I'm trying to stop a war. How is that irresponsible?" Stoick then says, his expression changing, "Becuase war is what he wants, son!" Hiccup pauses, as Stoick proceeds to explain. The viewer then realizes that Drago may be unreasonable.

** Stoick catches up to Hiccup attempting to arrange a meeting with Drago. He attempts a WhatTheHellHero, calling Hiccup selfish. Hiccup counters, "I'm trying to stop a war. How is that selfish?" Stoick then says, his expression changing, "Becuase war is what he wants, son!" Hiccup pauses, as Stoick proceeds to explain. The viewer then realizes that Drago may be unreasonable.

* NotSoDifferent: [[spoiler:Stoick and Valka. Stoick's stubborn personality is evident, and Valka, who refused to return home for twenty years because of her ideological differences with him, is hardly what you would call pliant. They both also try to dissuade Hiccup from his attempt to reason with Drago, citing the need to protect their own]].

* {{Kaiju}}: The Bewilderbeasts.

Kaiju: The Bewilderbeasts.

* WhamLine: "But a mother never forgets."

Followed by a sequel, ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragonTheHiddenWorld''.

* ThreatBackfire: When Drago captures Astrid and the other riders, minus Hiccup, Astrid tries to make him back down by boasting of their many dragons and specifically of Hiccup's ability to train them. Drago instead sees at as a challenge to his authority and is only that much more determined to prove himself superior, causing him to move up his timetable and attack immediately.

* ThisCannotBe: Line spoken by Bludvist when Toothless breaks free from the Alpha's brainswashing due to the PowerOfFriendship.

* NarratingTheObvious: After Toothless gets his EleventhHourSuperpower, he confronts the Alpha which prompts following piece of conversation.

* IronicEcho: [[spoiler:Hiccup attempts to tell Drago "Let me ''show'' you [that dragons are kind]" like he'd done with his tribe and father in the first film, only to get the same line thrown back at him by Drago, showing him that Toothless can be mind controlled into attacking his own best friend without mercy.]] More so tragic is the fact that Stoick had been trying to do what Hiccup had done in the previous film, The Chief was so dead center on eliminating the dragon scourge to berk that any reasoning Hiccup tried to offer fell on deaf ears till it was all too late. Here the reverse is applied when Stoick tries to convince Hiccup that talking Drago out of his mania was a bad idea.

* {{Foil}}:
** Eret is this to both Drago and Hiccup. Like both of them, he has a natural talent with dragons. As with Drago, his initial motivation comes from fear (of Drago). But as with Hiccup, he eventually looks into a dragon's eye, approaches said dragon with a calm rather than a raised sword, and comes to realize what Hiccup has learned.
** Drago's backstory isn't fleshed out much, but in many ways he's what a meaner, more aggressive Hiccup could have been; lost family, [[spoiler:lost a limb]], and learned to master dragons by studying their animal behaviors, but focusing on the animal mechanics of dominance and submission rather than trust.

** The fact that Drago [[spoiler:possessed a Bewilderbeast was foreshadowed early in the movie. First with the ice base then with various close up shots of the water under Dragon's fleet]].