How To Train Your Dragon Movie Facts
31 of the most interesting How To Train Your Dragon facts you didn't know about. Handpicked and verified, these little-known details can be obscure enough most people will miss. These behind the scene easter eggs and hidden messages will give you another view of How To Train Your Dragon movie message.
When the Dreamworks logo appears on screen with the boy sitting in the crescent moon at the beginning of 'How To Train Your Dragon' (2010), a Night Fury can briefly be see flying through the night sky in the lower right of the screen.

How To Train Your Dragon Movie Trivia Facts
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Hiccup almost died when he fell into the fire caused by the Red Death's exploding body. Parallels, in How to Train Your Dragon 2, Hiccup almost died when Drago's Bewilderbeast shot him with an icy blast, a completely opposite way. Both times Toothless protected him.
How To Train Your Dragon Easter Eggs
Hidden objects, characters, easter eggs, and their meanings are wonderful ways to discover the filmmaker's perspectives of any given movie.
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That joke just slipped right past me the first time I saw the movie. Ruffnut (the girl) has a crush on Eret (the guy) -
At the end of the movie you can see Stoic riding his dragon, Skullcrusher, in a tapestry behind the chiefs seat at the dragon racing arena -
Stylised animations demonstrate what each group of visual artists does (eg character effects: simulates hair and cloth; digimatte makes digital backgrounds, crowds... make crowds, etc) -
Toothless' mating dance is inspired in one of nine steps of the Carolas' Parotia mating dance.
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Drago's bewilderbeast can be found in the hidden world in How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World" (2019)
How To Train Your Dragon Hidden Facts
Stoick wears a helmet made from his missing wife's armor because "it keeps her close." In HTTYD 2 (2014), when they are unexpectedly reunited after 20 years, Stoick immediately removes his helmet upon seeing her -- he no longer needs it as a reminder of his wife.
Stoick stabs a map to emphasize finding the Dragon's Nest, then when they sail for it using the map later, the hole is still present.

Composer John Powell inserts the movie's first new theme at the moment Hiccup opens the map to new worlds. All the music before that scene is taken from the first movie to help viewers get reacquainted with the Viking world.

Valka recognizes Hiccup as her son when she discovers his scar near his chin. In Valka's flashback, she sees her dragon Cloudjumper get startled when playing with hiccup which ended up giving him the scar. The same scar can be seen in How to Train Your Dragon 1.


Hiccup gains symbolic "wings" the moment he puts the prosthetic tail on toothless



Storm fly turns her head to the side to look at Astrid because Deadly Nadder dragons have a blind spot in front of their nose.

Hiccup and Drago are direct parallels to each other.
When Stoik and Valka are dancing their familiar dance, Valka isn't used to Stoik's extra volume of his beard until they get close
When calming the pack of dragons surrounding him in the ice caves, Hiccup has to reload his sword Inferno with another Zippleback gas canister, because he had used up the previous one demonstrating the weapon to Eret son of Eret.
In this scene in How to Train Your Dragon 3 you can clearly see (from mark 2:30-2:33) Toothless eyes are following Hiccup's son while he is been thrown in the air
Stoick tells the story of the first time he encountered Drago Bludvist. As he recalls Drago's words, the flashback of Drago speaks almost in-sync to Stoick's narration e.g "man of the people" at 0:24.


Hiccup, is seen writing with his left hand

How To Train Your Dragon Plot
A hapless young Viking who aspires to hunt dragons becomes the unlikely friend of a young dragon himself, and learns there may be more to the creatures than he assumed.
Cast and Details
Here are the full cast and crew of How To Train Your Dragon. The goofs, crazy credits, and trivia they have performed may have not taken your attention. Some are hidden for a reason, while others randomly forgotten.
Genre | Animation, Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy |
Director | Dean DeBlois |
Stars | Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, Craig Ferguson, America Ferrera |
IMDB score | 8.1 |