A Viking and dragon, natural born enemies, attempting to bond with one another... Hilarity Ensues.
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How to Train Your Dragon
- The actual "How to Train Your Dragon" book. And all the adult Vikings apparently never having realized just how short it is.CHAPTER THE FIRST (AND LAST)
The Golden Rule of Dragon Training is to...
YELL AT IT!
(The louder the better.)
THE END. - Gobber's first image in the books, and its label.Label: Idiot in charge of initiation.
How to Be A Pirate
- Vikings cannot resist Schmuck Bait like opening a coffin or treasure chest that says "DO NOT OPEN".
- The Strangulator is as stupid as it is deadly.
- Alvin terrifying the entire tribe when he sits up in Grimbeard the Ghastly's coffin. Since the Hairy Hooligans had assumed he was the corpse of Grimbeard, they go into a panic, with Gobber the Belch screaming at the top of his lungs and Stoick diving under the table.
- After a Swordfighting-at-Sea lesson ends up with the boat being destroyed, Gobber's response after everyone has washed up on the beach, is only to point out that they're late for the next lesson.
- Fishlegs pointing out the various ways he and Hiccup have nearly died so far today.
- Alvin promises not to kill Hiccup if he opens the door in the underground sea cave.Alvin: Word of a Treacherous.Fishlegs: Word of a Treacherous. It says it all, really.
- Alvin assuring Hiccup, in between swipes of his sword, that he wouldn't harm a hair on his head.
How to Speak Dragonese
- Alvin is terrible at speaking Dragonese. That is all.
- Alvin trying to look dignified as he climbs out of the toilet. The narration points out that this was tricky.
- Hiccup, in an uncharacteristic fit of rage, insults Snotlout. Gobber comes in and cheerfully compliments him on his 'Advanced Rudery.'
- The entire existence of Big-Boobied Bertha of the Bog-Burglars.
How to Cheat A Dragon's Curse
- Fishlegs going bersek and insulting Stoick the Vast.
- Stoick fainting when Hiccup is saved from dying at the last minute.
- To save Hiccup, Fishlegs has to shoot him with an arrow. Stoick takes a second to think, "Typical. What a nutcase," before panicking and throwing himself over his son.
- Norbert the Nutjob swings between calm and murderous at the drop of a hat.
- The sheer absurdity of the climax, in which Hiccup and Camicazi escape the Hysterics' grasp by sledding down the roof of their tribal hall on a silver lunch tray wielding the tribe's sacred potato. The prose is proportionately aware of the situation's idiosyncrasies.
How to Twist A Dragon's Tale
- Before the "Herding-Reindeer-on-Horseback" lesson starts, Gobber asks if everyone brought their hunting dragons. It is mentioned that Clueless brought his hunting flagon instead, and really shouldn't have been allowed out without a guardian.
- Camicazi puts the ruby heart stone down to hide it from Alvin. Then can't find it again after the fight.
- Humungous in the middle of fighting Alvin tells the others not to forget about the Quest. The narration points out that it might seem obvious to readers, but in the heat of the moment it's easy to get distracted.
- Humungous takes some time to decide whether to kill Hiccup or not. Whilst standing over a terrified Hiccup with a sword in the middle of the night.
- Clueless having trouble distinguishing between a reindeer and a sheep.
A Hero's Guide to Deadly Dragons
- Hiccup getting distracted while trying to barricade the door against the Driller-Dragons by a book written by someone with the same name as him. Fishlegs comments that he would be fascinated if he wasn't just about to die.
- The amnesiac Stormfly totally misinterprets the situation as a game and perceives the chase through the library as a game of hide-and-seek. Then, at a point where whistling would save all their lives, she can't remember anything to whistle.
- Fishlegs trying to read a book on sword-fighting to help Camicazi and Hiccup beat the Hairy Scary Librarian, then settling on just hitting him on the head with it.
How to Ride A Dragon's Storm
- Toothless and Stormfly getting snockered on dragon-nip. Toothless claims he was in Rome, or in the chimney with his friend the senator.
How to Break a Dragon's Heart
- Ug the Uglithug and the unnamed Berserker chief tell Blatant Lies about Camicazi.
- Fishlegs going Berserk, as he usually does when he gets bonked on the head. Hiccup later finds a letter from him with a P.S. saying, 'I think my mother was a teapot.' An arrow points it out as a 'sign that Fishlegs was still feeling a bit mad?'
- Fishlegs tries to tell the Chief Berserk that he is a Berserk. The Chief interprets this as him trying to get out of being killed in the Dead-of-Night Ceremony.Chief Berserk: Don't tell me you've got a very good reason why you can't participate in the Ceremony tonight. I've heard every single excuse in the book from you Fiancés. "My pimples make me poisonous," "I'm missing a very important dentists appointment," "I've got a note from my mother saying I can't be fed to the Beast today." I've heard 'em all...
- Humungous has every confidence that Hiccup can think his way out of the situation.Humungous: Quiet now everyone. Hiccup is thinking and we haven't got much time.
- The eleven Fiancés, determined to outdo each other in bravery, so much that they fight to be the first to be fed to the Beast.
How to Steal A Dragon's Sword
How to Seize A Dragon's Jewel
- In How to Seize a Dragon's Jewel, Alvin the Treacherous catches Hiccup and orders a huge group of slaves to bring him forward ... So Hiccup essentially crowd-surfs them towards his doom, all the while having a sweet conversation with Stoick and completely ignoring Alvin's mother screeching at them to shut up.
- Toothless' new obsession with being polite.
- Eggingarde telling Hiccup a story and getting really into it. And her Suspicously Specific Denial that she had never met Fishlegs.
- Alvin orders the Amber-hunters to search for the jewel.Alvin: DIG FOR YOUR LIVES! HUNT TILL YOUR EYES DROP OUT! BUT TAKE CARE OF YOURSELVES FOR THOR'S SAKE... we've been losing a lot of slaves recently.
- The first part of Hiccup's plan to escape the Monster - to let it eat him partially so he can get close enough to kill it - is a success.Although it might seem to be a strange sort of success.
How to Betray A Dragon's Hero
- A captive Toothless sneers at the witch, who is re-counting ships on the horizon, that she can't even count to ten, and starts singing the Viking equivalent of "one hundred bottles of beer on the wall". Starting from a hundred million.
- The Hogfly, who is completely out of touch with what is going on around him.
How to Fight A Dragon's Fury
- Unintentional on the author's part; in the previous book epilogue Hiccup asserts that his Trauma Conga Line in Dragon's Hero made him ready to face the Guardians of Tomorrow because Misery Builds Character. Come the start of Dragon's Fury, we soon learn that said trauma, which involved going into the Wind of Woden, sinking with a ship and losing his cousin Snotlout, has left Hiccup with Easy Amnesia.
The (In)Complete Book of Dragons
- Each and every time Hiccup breaks the informative format of the book in order to add an annotation or note his personal experiences.Annotation: Riproarers cannot stand the taste of parsnips so they won't go near you if you have recently eaten this vegetable. (only problem is, I can't stand parsnips either.)Annotation: Both with mushrooms, and dragon eggs, it is generally a really bad idea if they glow in the dark...Hiccup, concerning hatching dragon eggs: This is not a good moment for your dad to come back in the room, as it makes a tiny bit of a mess, and if you are really unlucky, the chairs will be on fire, and there will be dragon goo in his beard. This may get you in trouble.Annotation, accompanying a dragon bucking off a small child: Here, Snotlout's little sister, Adelaide, is demonstrating the importance of the safety strap.Annotation: You can see from the pleased look on Camicazi's face that this is REALLY REALLY dangerous.Hiccup: Woden's Nightmares are unbelievably scary. I have no idea what to do about them.
- Prickleboggles are, apparently, nanodragons so stupid, they confuse their prey for predators.
- Toothless's escapade with the Electricsquirm eggs.
- Dragonese, and the example conversations provided.
- Hiccup's attempts in the back cover of the book to find a name for himself.Hiccup the Vast, O Hear His Name and Tremble, UGH UGHHiccup the Quite Nice and Polite
Book Of Dragons
- Poor, poor Bork the Very, Very Unfortunate.
Rest of the Film Franchise
Other
Dragon-Viking Games Vignettes
- "Bobsledding":Gobber: Bobsledding requires three things: Strength. Courage! And a guy named Bob.
[video pauses to show that Hiccup and Astrid are using a guy named Bob as a sled] - In "Medal Ceremony", Snotlout, who won the "ham medal" with first place, gets carried away by a dragon, since dragons love ham. Ruffnut, who won second place, shrugs and steps onto the first place pedestal.
Dragon Training Lessons
- From Lesson 1
: Astrid, of all people, getting blasted away by a dragon and screaming. - In Lesson 3, Snotlout holds the Monstrous Nightmare's jaws shut as Gobber explains that this will prevent it from using them, but then goes on to note, "The rest of the dragon, however, is free to do whatever it wants." The dragon then raises its head with Snotlout still holding on, and slowly gets an evil grin as Snotlout gets an Oh, Crap! look, then it starts whipping its head around to bash Snotlout into the ground.
- In Lesson 4, Ruffnut and Tuffnut start arguing and fighting, and the two heads of the Zippleback snatch each of them up. Dangling in the air with their heads in its mouths, there's a Beat, then they continue to try and punch and kick at each other.
Animated Webisodes
- The fact that most of the other dragons' episodes end with them breathing fire at the screen as ominous music plays, while the Gronckle's ends with it falling asleep midair and plummeting to the ground next to a Viking, resulting in the same flame burst outro and ominous music.
