Line #3 Awesome/AThingOfVikings


1	!!Moment pages are Administrivia/SpoilersOff
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3	!!In General
4	* The epigraphs are always interesting and informative, whether they talk about culture, history, or the characters future legacies.
5	* Anytime someone attacks Berk or its holdings, and we see just how ''[[CurbStompBattle utterly]]'' [[CurbStompBattle outmatched]] a traditional army is to one reinforced by dragons.
6	** The first hint of this was in chapter 6, where Hiccup and the Hooligans return a longboat full of tied-up thieves, with Hiccup and Toothless snatching guards off of the walls of the fortress, and then a flock of dragons lifts the ship and puts it into the fort's courtyard as a pointed reminder that they could have easily done much worse.
7	** Later, the King of England and Denmark goes to attack Berk. The Hooligans fight back, but the English and Danes came prepared to fight dragons, and the riders get repulsed, losing nearly a tenth of their people and dragons to [[RainOfArrows massed archer fire]]. Then Hiccup takes charge... and invents ''bombs''. By morning, the fleet is broken and running for their lives.
8	** The third major attempt to attack Berk occurs when most of its usual army is mounting an attack on England for a recent assassination attempt against Hiccup, with the result that Hiccup, Astrid, Wulfhild, and their dragons are still grounded from their injuries and Stoick and Fishlegs are away. Despite the enemy being aided by a former Berkian with experience fighting dragons, and Berk possessing only newly-trained but un-partnered dragons, the dragons once again overwhelm their enemies.
9	* Berk's rise to power, [[FromNobodyToNightmare going from a small Viking settlement in the middle of nowhere to easily the most powerful nation in all of Europe, if not the entire world.]]
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11	!!Specific Instances
12	* Hiccup's proposal to Astrid, specifically the bride price he pays for her, manages to be awesome, funny, and heartwarming at the same time for how amazing it was. He literally gave her parents a ''king's ransom'', which floors everyone and makes nearly everyone present cheer, even one of the earls under said king. Everyone else who hears of it second hand thought the speaker was exaggerating at first before they reaffirm that it actually happened.
13	* At one point, Sigurd/Snotlout is LockedInTheDungeon, with a cell that gives him a view of the torture chamber. It has the intended effect of scaring him out of his mind... followed by him using his brains ''and'' brawn to literally ''rip the iron cell door off its hinges'', just before his rescuers arrive.
14	* Toothless' sister, Fearless, in a DyingMomentOfAwesome, triggers a volcano to take down the Screaming Death and Mildew.
15	* After hearing of the Jewish massacre perpetrated by Henry the Sinister, Stoick orders Spitelout to take every available resource they can to save every Jew in France they can.
16	* Spitelout's HeroicSacrifice in Chapter 141.
17	* In Chapter 143, Astrid unleashes a flood to rout Henry the Sinister's army.
18	--> ''A shout of alarm from their left flank made Bernhard turn his head—and his eyes widened at the sight of the wall of water rushing down the empty riverbed.''
19	--> ''Well, no.''
20	--> ''Not empty.''
21	--> ''It was full of knights.''

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