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The Dragon and the Butterfly Saga

General

• While the How to Train Your Dragon elements are from the movie, Hiccup's Atrocious Alias — "Hiccup the Useless" — is from the book series.

The Dragon and the Butterfly

• Chapter 1: Rude Awakening: The village discovering Toothless is word-for-word a lot like how Astrid discovered him in How to Train Your Dragon.
  Hiccup: He wasn't gonna hurt you, you scared him!
  Luisa: I scared HIM?
• Chapter 10: Cracking Up: The way Mirabel describes her relationship with Alma is the same as how Hiccup described his relationship with his father in How to Train Your Dragon.
  Mirabel: Abuela looks at me like with this disappointed scowl, like someone skimped on the meat in her sandwich!
• Chapter 12: Room of (Almost) Doom: When their toucan companion flies out of the room in terror, Hiccup yells "Thank you for nothing, you useless bird!"
• Chapter 15: Lunchtime for Heroes: Hiccup quotes How to Train Your Dragon with a line usually directed at him.
  Hiccup: It’s clear to me that what they needed, what the Encanto needed was more of- [gestures to all of her] This!
• Chapter 25: Astrid's Idea: The chapter includes a rewritten version of "We Don't Talk About Bruno" were various Berk vikings sing about Hiccup.
• Chapter 30: Coming Back Around: When the Madrigals hear an incoming Toothless, Isabel says that if it's Hiccup, he'll be leaving missing a leg.
• Chapter 50: Nautical Nonsense: Hiccup muttering "Miercoles" is a reference to when Augustin said it in Encanto.
• Chapter 59: Two Hatchlings: The flashback to Stoick meeting and proposing to Valka is very similar to Alma revealing Pedro's fate in Encanto.
• Chapter 64: Four Years Later: When Alma tells Mirabel that she is making her the new "Candle-Holder", their conversation starts out like a conversation Hiccup and Stoick had in How to Train Your Dragon 2.
  Alma: You're the pride of the Encanto, and I couldn't be prouder!
  Mirabel: Aw thanks, Abuela. I'm pretty impressed with myself too!
• Chapter 66: Dragon Things Out: The chapter borrows elements from the Dreamworks Dragons episodes "How to Pick Your Dragon" (Hiccup trying to get a family member to try a dragon, only for them to bond with a dragon causing their village problems) and "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" (dragons stealing metal from the village when nobody is looking).
• Chapter 69: Family Reunion: Eret and Arny's revenge plot against the Dragon Riders — planting Whispering Death eggs underneath Berk and let them tear it apart — is taken from Alvin the Treacherous' plan in "Tunnel Vision".
• Chapter 70: Meeting of the Moms: The text claims that Julieta's glare can "crush mountains, level forests, tame seas."
• Chapter 82: Belly Bump: The only names Hiccup and Mirabel find in the Berk Name Book that they don't find ridiculous are "Zephyr" and "Nuffink", the name Hiccup and Astrid's kids have in the Babies Ever After ending of How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World.

Dragons, Butterflies, And Who Knows What Else?

• Chapter 8: Oh Brother: Part 1: When Dagur accuses Stoick of amassing an army of dragons for conquest, the latter notes that the idea is disgustingly familiar.
• Chapter 9: Oh Brother: Part 2: The biggest casualty of Pepa's storm is Tuffnut's beloved mace, Macy.
• Chapter 15: Pain in the Back: Arny unwittingly become a surrogate parent to a baby Razorwhip is similar to the plot of the Dreamworks Dragons episode "Ruff Transition" where it happened to Ruffnut.
• Chapter 18: Twilight Terror: Part 1:
  • Mirabel and Hiccup trying to leave, only for their guardians to "ground" them for their safety against Dagur on the warpath is a lot like the Dreamworks Dragons episode "Live and Let Fly", where Stoick "grounded" the dragon riders to protect them all from Alvin.
  • Hiccup and the other riders heading out for ingredients to an Eel Pox cure reflects the episode "The Eel Effect", with the reveal that Dagur infecting their island as a form of biological warfare being similar to when he used Johann to plant a Smokebreath nest on Berk in "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" and Vigo planning on causing a Scourge of Odin-pandemic for a Poison and Cure Gambit in "Buffalord Soldier".

The Dragon and the Butterfly: Whiteout

• Chapter 2: Rise and Shine: Bruno claims "we don't talk about Hernando" after a disastrous play he did about him.
• Chapter 3: Party Panic:
  • An In-Universe theatrical recreation of the first installment (in this case, The Dragon and the Butterfly) that goes horribly wrong? Sounds an awful lot like How to Train Your Dragon: Homecoming.
  • The theatrical portrayal of Toothless being played by a Terrible Terror is an obvious reference to the books, where Toothless is a small dragon not unlike the Terrible Terror.
• Chapter 4: Ranting the Night Away:
  • The things Hiccup and Mirabel rant about their kids are, ironically, things Stoick ranted to Gobber about him; how different Peep was "since she could crawl", how Pedro has the attention span of a Sparrow and Karla's inability to listen to anyone and cause chaos as a result, leaving them to clean up after her.
    Hiccup: I swear... It's like every time they outside, some type of disaster follows...
  • Mirabel also realizes that she sounds just like Alma when she wished her kids would "step aside" so that they could run the town without the chaos they cause.
• Chapter 12: On a Wing and a Prayer: Hiccup's disastrous flight-suit prototypes are a reference to the Dreamworks Dragons episode "The Next Big Sting".
• Chapter 18: The Art of War: The chapter starts with the line "[t]oday's lesson was all about attack", something Gobber says at the start of training day against Stormfly in the first movie.
• Chapter 21: Hunting Hour:
  • Drago darkly says "I believe in learning on the job" when he brings Karla and Pedro with him on a mission.
  • The "challenger" the Northern Alliance finds is a Purple Death, a Titan-class alpha-species that only appeared in the Dragons: Riders of Berk comic book tie-in from Titan Comics.

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