History YMMV / HowToTrainYourDragon2

* CompleteMonster: Drago Bludvist, an unfeeling madman who seeks to take over Berk. Having lost his village and family to dragons when he was younger, Drago subverts a FreudianExcuse by becoming exactly like the ones who he sought revenge against and using fear to dominate anyone in his path. Prior to the plot, Drago came to a chieftain's meeting and offered to drive away the dragons if they would kneel to him. When they declined, [[DisproportionateRetribution Drago responds by burning them alive]] and leaving no survivors but Stoick, Hiccup's father. In the current, Drago raises a dragon army, led by a Bewilderbeast he abused into loyalty, and attempts to execute his right hand man for failing him, as well as the other dragon riders he brought with him. [[spoiler: Drago enslaves the dragons living under Valka's care and kills their Alpha to assert his power. Drago even hypnotizes the loyal Toothless to fire on his own master, Hiccup, and simply scoffs when Stoick takes the blast. He then proceeds to raze Berk with his new-found army, taking no prisoners.]] Power hungry beyond salvation, Drago ended up putting even the [[WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon first movie's]] BigBad to shame.

* CompleteMonster: Drago Bludvist is an unfeeling madman who seeks to take over Berk. Having lost his village and family to dragons when he was younger, Drago subverts a FreudianExcuse by becoming exactly like the ones who he sought revenge against and using fear to dominate anyone in his path. Prior to the plot, Drago came to a chieftain's meeting and offered to drive away the dragons if they would kneel to him. When they declined, [[DisproportionateRetribution Drago responds by burning them alive]] and leaving no survivors but Stoick, Hiccup's father. In the current, Drago raises a dragon army, led by a Bewilderbeast he abused into loyalty, and attempts to execute his right hand man for failing him, as well as the other dragon riders he brought with him. [[spoiler: Drago enslaves the dragons living under Valka's care and kills their Alpha to assert his power. Drago even hypnotizes the loyal Toothless to fire on his own master, Hiccup, and simply scoffs when Stoick takes the blast. He then proceeds to raze Berk with his new-found army, taking no prisoners.]] Power hungry beyond salvation, Drago ended up putting even the [[WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon first movie's]] BigBad to shame.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: If you've got a DarkerAndEdgier sequel with emotional trauma regarding parental separation [[spoiler: and death]], heaps of NightmareFuel, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and]] [[ActionizedSequel loads more frantic action]], you've probably got something more questionable for the kiddies.

* MoralEventHorizon: If Drago hadn't crossed it before, he ''soars'' over it when he [[spoiler: hypnotizes Toothless to kill his own loyal master. When Stoick [[TakingTheBullet takes the blast instead]], Drago simply scoffs in satisfaction.]]
** Arguably, he crosses it at the part where he has his enslaved dragons kill all the chiefs who refused to go along with him, which is what convinces Stoick that he can't be reasoned with.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdlbrSpPf8U This video.]]

*** Valka and Drago had never even MET before Drago attacked Valka's place. Drago only knew her as a mysterious dragon rider, and Valka "battling" him had only ever been her interfering with his troops capturing dragons.

*** Valka and Drago had never even MET before Drago attacked Valka's place. Drago only knew her as a mysterious dragon rider, and Valka "battling" him had only ever been her interfering with his troops capturing dragons. Could've been a lot more backstory thrown in there with little lost.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Hiccup's mom Valka: Kind-hearted individual who felt that dragons were peaceful, and wished to help them? Or moron who didn't think of using a dragon and her connection with them to simply go home and see her family? Or person who simply abandoned her family, ignoring how they were probably mourning her so she could play Jane Goodall to the dragons?

** Valka and Drago had never even MET before Drago attacked Valka's place. Drago only knew her as a mysterious dragon rider, and Valka "battling" him had only ever been her interfering with his troops capturing dragons. Could've been a lot more backstory thrown in there with little lost.
** It can be explained by the ArcWords "heart of a chief, soul of a dragon", that while Valka has "the soul of a dragon", she is not a leader. She fights to free the dragons but could not convince the villagers of Berk to stop the war. She couldn't do what Hiccup did; she was afraid to return to her family. But, without her, chances are that Hiccup wouldn't have tried to mend his bond with Toothless or lead the final fight. She may not be on the spotlight for long, but her role is of paramount importance.

** It can be explained by the ArcWords "heart of a chief, soul of a dragon", that while Valka has "the soul of a dragon", she is not a leader. She fights to free the dragons but could not convnce the villagers of Berk to stop the war. She couldn't do what Hiccup did; she was afraid to return to her family. But, without her, chances are that Hiccup wouldn't have tried to mend his bond with Toothless or lead the final fight. She may not be on the spotlight for long, but her role is of paramount importance.

** As [[http://thedissolve.com/features/exposition/618-were-losing-all-our-strong-female-characters-to-tr/ this review]] points out, Valka starts off as a well-developed character who, unfortunately, gets thrown to the sidelines as soon as the action picks up. She's excellently nuanced, with her own strengths and flaws that are open to interpretation (as noted above), but her own personal character arc gets overturned in favour of Hiccup's own. She ends up becoming [[CharactersAsDevice a means]] for reconciling Hiccup's identity crisis. In the end her contributions ended up meaning nothing, her role amounting to a mere pep-talk to get Hiccup going past [[DarkestHour the darkest hour]]. This may or may not have been the result of major script changes that had Valka as the primary antagonist, originally, and it remains to be seen if her character will be redeemed in the third movie (noting that the original had meant to have a strong focus on her relationship with Hiccup, which was passed over for Stoick and Hiccup).
** Not as glaring when one considers Valka and Drago had never even MET before that day. Drago only knew her as a mysterious dragon rider, and Valka "battling" him had only ever been her interfering with his troops capturing dragons.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: As [[http://thedissolve.com/features/exposition/618-were-losing-all-our-strong-female-characters-to-tr/ this review]] points out, Valka starts off as a well-developed character who, unfortunately, gets thrown to the sidelines as soon as the action picks up. She's excellently nuanced, with her own strengths and flaws that are open to interpretation (as noted above), but her own personal character arc gets overturned in favour of Hiccup's own. She ends up becoming [[CharactersAsDevice a means]] for reconciling Hiccup's identity crisis, especially glaring since it was Valka who single-handedly battled Drago for the last 20 years. In the end her contributions ended up meaning nothing, her role amounting to a mere pep-talk to get Hiccup going past [[DarkestHour the darkest hour]]. This may or may not have been the result of major script changes that had Valka as the primary antagonist, originally, and it remains to be seen if her character will be redeemed in the third movie (noting that the original had meant to have a strong focus on her relationship with Hiccup, which was passed over for Stoick and Hiccup).
** Not as glaring when one considers Valka and Drago had never even MET before that day. Drago only knew her as a mysterious dragon rider, and Valka "battling" him had only ever been her interfering with his troops capturing dragons.

* WordOfGay: Gobber.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdlbrSpPf8U This video.]

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: As [[http://thedissolve.com/features/exposition/618-were-losing-all-our-strong-female-characters-to-tr/ this review]] points out, Valka starts off as a well-developed character who, unfortunately, gets thrown to the sidelines as soon as the action picks up. She's excellently nuanced, with her own strengths and flaws that are open to interpretation (as noted above), but her own personal character arc gets overturned in favour of Hiccup's own. She ends up becoming [[CharacterAsDevice a means]] for reconciling Hiccup's identity crisis, especially glaring since it was Valka who single-handedly battled Drago for the last 20 years. In the end her contributions ended up meaning nothing, her role amounting to a mere pep-talk to get Hiccup going past TheDarkestHour. This may or may not have been the result of major script changes that had Valka as the primary antagonist, originally, and it remains to be seen if her character will be redeemed in the third movie (noting that the original had meant to have a strong focus on her relationship with Hiccup, which was passed over for Stoick and Hiccup).

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: As [[http://thedissolve.com/features/exposition/618-were-losing-all-our-strong-female-characters-to-tr/ this review]] points out, Valka starts off as a well-developed character who, unfortunately, gets thrown to the sidelines as soon as the action picks up. She's excellently nuanced, with her own strengths and flaws that are open to interpretation (as noted above), but her own personal character arc gets overturned in favour of Hiccup's own. She ends up becoming [[CharacterAsPlotDevice a means]] for reconciling Hiccup's identity crisis, especially glaring since it was Valka who single-handedly battled Drago for the last 20 years. In the end her contributions ended up meaning nothing, her role amounting to a mere pep-talk to get Hiccup going past TheDarkestHour. This may or may not have been the result of major script changes that had Valka as the primary antagonist, originally, and it remains to be seen if her character will be redeemed in the third movie (noting that the original had meant to have a strong focus on her relationship with Hiccup, which was passed over for Stoick and Hiccup).

* CompleteMonster: Drago Bludvist is an unfeeling madman who seeks to take over Berk. Having lost his village and family to dragons when he was younger, Drago subverts a FreudianExcuse by becoming exactly like the ones who he sought revenge against and using fear to dominate anyone in his path. Prior to the plot, Drago came to a chieftain's meeting and offered to drive away the dragons if they would kneel to him. When they declined, [[DisproportionateRetribution Drago responds by burning them alive]] and leaving no survivors but Stoick, Hiccup's father. In the current, Drago raises a dragon army, led by a Bewilderbeast he abused into loyalty, and attempts to execute his right hand man for failing him, as well as the other dragon riders he brought with him. [[spoiler: Drago enslaves the dragons living under Valka's care and kills their Alpha to assert his power. Drago even hypnotizes the loyal Toothless to fire on his own master, Hiccup, and simply scoffs when his father takes the blast. He then proceeds to raze Berk with his newfound army, taking no prisoners.]] Power hungry beyond salvation, Drago ended up putting even the [[WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon first movie's]] BigBad to shame.

* CompleteMonster: Drago Bludvist is an unfeeling madman who seeks to take over Berk. Having lost his village and home to dragons when he was younger, Drago subverts a FreudianExcuse by becoming exactly like the ones who he sought revenge against and using fear to dominate anyone in his path. Prior to the plot, Drago came to a chieftain's meeting and offered to drive away the dragons if they would kneel to him. When they declined, [[DisproportionateRetribution Drago responds by burning them alive]] and leaving no survivors but Stoick, Hiccup's father. In the current, Drago raises a dragon army, led by a Bewilderbeast he abused into loyalty, and attempts to execute his right hand man for failing him, as well as the other dragon riders he brought with him. [[spoiler: Drago enslaves the dragons living under Valka's care and kills their Alpha to assert his power. Drago even hypnotizes the loyal Toothless to fire on his own master, Hiccup, and simply scoffs when his father takes the blast. He then proceeds to raze Berk with his newfound army, taking no prisoners.]] Power hungry beyond salvation, Drago ended up putting even the [[WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon first movie's]] BigBad to shame.