25 Hidden Secrets In How To Train Your Dragon

The How to Train Your Dragon movies have been captivating audiences since 2010 with their incredible animated stories, sweet stories, and charming characters. The story of the unlikely friendship between Hiccup and Toothless has been nominated for a ton of awards and has captured the hearts and minds of moviegoers around the world. are some awesome

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from the three movies you've probably never seen, don't forget to subscribe to our channel and bring that notification belt to stay up to date with all the exciting new content from Screen Rant, just let me show you the first one. The surprise DreamWorks has for us in the first How to Train Your Dragon movie is that we meet Toothless before we know it.

At the beginning the classic DreamWorks logo appears on the screen in which the boy sits on a crescent moon with a fishing line dangling. In the night sky we can see the toothless silhouette as he flies by. It's one of those blink-and-you'll-miss-it moments. Animators love to slip right under our noses. Many people may not know this, but How to Train Your Dragon was actually a book first before becoming a successful animated film franchise in 2010 and the 12-book series Toothless, the lovable but hardly diminutive

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character is actually very, very small, its original description has not just been the size of an iguana, but it was decided by The animators said that for the film it should be much larger and we ended up with the adorable toothless giant that we have today.

His size wasn't the only aspect of Toothless that was altered from the book version; in addition to making him larger, the animators also modeled his appearance and behavior on a black panther with additional qualities of domestic cats and dogs. These qualities not only make Toothless a very cute

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, but also allow him to be more relatable to the audience. The dragon is able to express different emotions that remind us of our pets and other animals that we have seen in nature. There is a perfect example of animators using real life animals as inspiration for Toothless for a scene where Toothless has a problem. with the tip of his tail and appears not knowing what to do. one of the animators actually stuck a piece of rolled up duct tape to the end of his own cat's tail and filmed his cat trying to get rid of it, don't worry, his cat came out totally unharmed and is a very nice side. -Side video A big plot point in the first movie and a very important character trait about Hiccup is that he has never killed the dragon, while all the other Vikings take pride in the fact that his collection is much gentler and they would prefer not cause them.

Ironically, he is the only character we see kill a dragon at the end when he has to defeat Red Death to save everyone and bring peace between dragons and Vikings. In the scene where Hiccup reads the dragon manual, it might look like he is reading. an ancient language or something made up for movies, in reality what he is reading is written in simple English that has been overlaid or encrypted in ancient runes. Runes are the first written language developed by the Germanic people, so what he is reading is actually accurate to the time period. where Hiccup lives, with careful translation it is possible to find out exactly what Hiccup is reading.

The Dire Terrors are known for being the smallest species of dragon, but no less terrifying to anyone unlucky enough to cross their path. What you may not know. is that the sounds that the terrible terrors make are actually based on the sound that a chihuahua makes not just any chihuahua nor specifically a chihuahua named Paco one of the sound designers had seen Paco on the internet and they contacted his owners Paco was compensated with One hundred dollars for

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time and effort One of the most moving and interesting things about the ending of the first film is how the narrators decided to have Hiccup lose his leg.

He is the first amputee to appear in an animated film other than for comic relief. Apparently, audiences had a lot to do with why that was kept when DreamWorks screened the film in a focus group. People were so moved by the ending that they insisted it stay as it was because it didn't take away from who Hiccup was as a character. person and the scene right before Toothless brings Astrid and Hiccup to the Dragons' nest, we got a glimpse of many different species of dragons, all flying eerily together through the blue clouds. If you look closely at one of the Dragons you can see in the animators' Easter egg caught in the clutches of the monstrous nightmare is Paul Gloria, the hippopotamus of Madagascar.

Well, you could say he could be any hippopotamus. This fact has been confirmed by the filmmakers in the audio commentary. The town where Hiccup and Astrid live is called Berk, which may sound like any old Viking word, but it actually has a deeper meaning: Birk is actually a British slang term and a bit insulting, it's taken from the song Berkeley Hunt and The short form is an affectionate way of calling someone a little. How silly, this is only used by people who don't actually know it comes from the song, yet it doesn't actually mean anything hurtful.

Animators love to include references to some of their favorite classic movies whenever they can and this one. That's

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in the first one. How to Train Your Dragon is so fast you might miss it on Hiccup's design board, where he draws up plans to fix Toothless's tail. You can see a drawing that looks suspiciously like the flux capacitor from Back to the Future. the small Y-shaped device that allows Marty and Doc to travel back in time in their DeLorean. The scene in the first How to Train Your Dragon movie where Toothless learns what a smile is and how to make one was in the script, but actually got inspiration from him.

From someone more personal, the entire scene is inspired by the way one of the animators, Sun himself, learned to smile after learning this fact. Going back and rewatching the scene makes it even more adorable and heartwarming when you can imagine a little toothless baby learning how to do it. to do the same thing you opened this resident, all hell will break loose and my underwear is good that I brought access, while the Vikings in Viking lore were a big part of the creation of the world of How to Train Your Dragon, these they are not the only ones.

Popular animated and film characters that come from the same culture, the famous Asgardian god of thunder, Thor, also comes from Norse mythology and you may see an important similarity between him and the Stoic. If you look closely at the Stoics' hammer, you'll see that it bears a strong resemblance to Thor's Mjolnir from the Marvel film franchise How to Train Your Dragon. It has quite a few famous voices lending their talents to the cast of characters such as Jay Baruchel Gerard Butler America Ferrera Kristen Wiig Jonah Hill and Christopher mintz-plasse II. but a secret cameo could make fans of both the books and the movies very happy.

David Tennant, who actually recorded the audiobook versions of the original stories, has a small cameo as the Stoics' second-in-command in Cloud of Spies, well, he's nameless in the movie in which he appears. The credits and super fans will recognize his voice immediately. The second installment of the How to Train Your Dragon franchise hits Hiccup and Toothless five years later and introduces even more surprising actors to the animated world. Cate Blanchett voices her alka character Djimon Honsou. as Draaga and Kit Harington, Kate Blanchet signed on because the first film had been a big hit with her two young sons and she wanted to do a project that they would both be very excited about - this was, of course, before she joined the cast of four Ragnarok, while How to Train Your Dragon 2 may seem like a sprawling epic film, its timeline may surprise you - although the first film in the franchise takes place over several weeks, all the action and adventure of the second is condensed In just a couple of days, this is made even more interesting by the fact that, even though its exciting story makes the film seem like it flies by at one hundred and two minutes long, it is DreamWorks Animation's longest film.

To date, there's one awesome reference in How to Train Your Dragon 2 that some viewers may not have even noticed, but Game of Thrones fans would probably have immediately caught the scene where Astrid turns to vent and says: you know nothing? There is more than meets the eye. team, this is a reference to how Ygritte says you don't know anything about Jon Snow in Game of Thrones. The line was put in because Kit Harington not only voices Aaron in the film, but also plays Jon Snow on the popular TV show in the scene where Valka recognizes that he has the hiccups. he does it because he notices the scar on his chin.

You can see the same scar on his chin when he is a baby and is captured by Stoic. It's a pretty subtle hint from the animation department, but that kind of attention to detail and all those little minutes. The additions are what make this film franchise one of the best in the dragon stables in the town of Berk. He may notice some drawings on the wooden walls of the barn. These drawings may seem insignificant, but if we know the animators, there is nothing there without a reason and it almost always has a deeper meaning than at first glance these drawings were actually made by all the children of all the team members who worked in the film.

That's a big deal to have parents who worked for such a cool animation studio. How to Train Your Dragon 2 was pretty devastating for a lot of people and be careful if you haven't seen the movie because we're about to reveal the original draft of the script to you when Toothless gets brainwashed and becomes violent. It's not his fault, it was supposed to be Gobber who was killed by him, but when famous director Guillermo del Toro read it, he suggested that Stoic be the one who died as it would have more impact. There's a Momin in the second movie that's a very direct callback to the first chapter about

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dragon, but it's so subtle that it can be hard to understand unless you're looking for it.

The Drago-billed wildebeest loses its left tusk in the same way that Drago himself loses. his left arm to a dragon, this parallels the moment when Hiccup loses his left leg, which is foreshadowed by the way Toothless loses his left tail fin Gobber is one of our favorite characters voiced by the hilarious Craig Ferguson Gobber Burp is definitely one of the biggest sources of comic relief in the film, as the somewhat stoic, lovable and enthusiastic sidekick may really surprise you, as Gobber is actually the first animated character to come out of the closet in a DreamWorks film, alludes to this when listing the reasons. why he never married and was confirmed by Ferguson and writer Dean Dubois As anticipation builds for the third installment of the How to Train Your Dragon franchise, there is a little we know about the upcoming film, we know it will be the final film of this series and we will conclude the adventures of Toothless and Hiccup.

It will also introduce us to the entire

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world of dragons. It was also revealed in the trailer that Toothless is the last of the Night Furies because the rest have been hunted to extinction by Grimille with every good movie a lot of rumors arise, or fans go crazy trying to find out what the movie will be about. plot or something leaks from the studio and unexpectedly reveals rumors about the hidden world of How to Train Your Dragon. They are pure speculation, but they could be something that some suggest that in this movie we will finally learn the reason why all dragon species have become extinct and why we don't have dragons coexisting with us today.

It remains to be seen if this is correct but he could be right, in the trailer we see the introduction of the white knight fury who Toothless immediately falls in love with and we see his hilarious attempts to woo her while dancing like a bird of paradise, some think that due to the danger. that they are in for being the last two Night Furies that the movie will see the two of them fly into hiding together and be forced to hiccup the rest of the humans to protect them, it would be bittersweet and perfect, I know.

There are 25

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from the How to Train Your Dragon movies. What do you think about this list? Did we miss anything exciting that you think is important? How excited are you for the hidden world? Let us know in the comments and don't forget to press. the subscribe button to stay up to date with the latest Screen Rant news thanks for watching