"One adventure will change two worlds."
— Tagline for The First Story
How to Train Your Dragon is a franchise that began as a series of twelve children's books, written by British author Cressida Cowell.
It was then given a film adaption by DreamWorks Animation, with Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois at the director's helm. It has gone onto include two sequels (both directed by just DeBlois), several television cartoons, several Licensed Games and Graphic Novels, amongst other derivatives set in the world of the films.
Works in this franchise:
- How to Train Your Dragon - The series of books written by Cressida Cowell that the franchise is (loosely) based on.
Feature films
- How to Train Your Dragon (2010)
- How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014)
- How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019)
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A live-action remake
of the animated films by original director Dean DeBlois. (2025)
Short films
- The Legend of the Boneknapper Dragon (2010) - Gobber, Hiccup and the other Viking teens head out to hunt down a supposed renegade dragon called the Boneknapper, a dragon that wears bones as armor.
- Book of Dragons (2011)
- Gift of the Night Fury (2011)
- Dawn of the Dragon Racers (2014)
- How to Train Your Dragon: Homecoming (2019) - A Christmas Special released as an epilogue to the trilogy's Distant Finale.
Comic Books
- Titan Comics
- Dragons Riders Of Berk (2014-2015)
- Dragon Down
- Dangers of the Deep
- The Ice Castle
- The Stowaway
- The Legend of Ragnarok
- Underworld
- Dragons Defenders Of Berk (2016)
- The Endless Night
- Snowmageddon
- Dragons Riders Of Berk (2014-2015)
- Joe Books, Inc.
- How to Train Your Dragon Cinestory Comic
- Dark Horse
- How To Train Your Dragon Burning Midnight (2016)
- How To Train Your Dragon: The Serpent's Heir (2017) - After the events of the second movie, the riders come to the aid of an island suffering mysterious earth tremors.
- How To Train Your Dragon Dragonvine (2018)
Literature
- How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World: Meet the New Dragons (2019)
Tabletop games
- How to Train Your Dragon: Dragon Training 101 Board Game (2010)
- How to Train Your Dragon 2: Sheep Launcher Game (2014)
- How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World – Battle Royale Game (2019)
- How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019)
Television series
- Dragons: Riders of Berk (2012-2013)
- Dragons: Defenders of Berk (2013-2014)
- Dragons: Race to the Edge (2015-2018)
- Dragons: Rescue Riders (2019-)
- Dragons: The Nine Realms (2021-)
Theatre
- How to Train Your Dragon Arena Spectacular/How to Train Your Dragon Live Spectacular (2012)
- How to Train Your Dragon ON ICE (2014)
Theme Parks
- Untrainable (Universal Studios Beijing, 2021)
- Unnamed How to Train Your Dragon-themed land at Universal's Epic Universe (2025)
Video games
- How to Train Your Dragon (2010)
- Flight of the Night Fury (2010)
- Dragon Training Legends (2011)
- DreamWorks Super Star Kartz (2011)
- Tap Dragon Drop (2012)
- DreamWorks Dragons: Wild Skies (2012)
- School of Dragons (2013)
- Outcast Attack (2013)
- How to Train Your Dragon (2014)
- Dragons Hero Portal (2014)
- Dragons: Rise of Berk (2014)
- Dragon Racers: The Dragon Berry Dash (2014)
- DreamWorks Dragons: Online Card Game (2015)
- Dragons: Titan Uprising (2019)
- DreamWorks Dragons: Dawn of New Riders (2019)
- Dragon Pets (2019)
- Funko Pop! Blitz (2020) note
- Dragons: Legend of the Nine Realms (2022)
- DreamWorks All-Star Kart Racing (2023)
Tropes Include:
- The Kids Are American: Every single member of the parents' generation speaks with a Scottish accent. Every single member of Hiccup's speaks with an American one. Word of God is that this was intentional to make the younger generation more relatable to the western (read: American) audience and to underscore the divide between the traditionalist adults and the modern, progressive youth.
