How to Train Your Dragon

How to Train Your Dragon is a 2010 animated film produced by DreamWorks based on Cressida Cowell's How to Train Your Dragon. It stars Jay Baruchel as Hiccup, as well as Gerard Butler, Craig Ferguson, America Ferrera, Jonah Hill, and David Tennant. In 2014, a sequel was released.
It is one of many fandoms to star dragons.
==Canon==
===Books===
The books are quite different from the films, featuring a small dragon instead, and are mostly ignored by the fandom.
The books' story line is focused on Hiccup becoming a Hero as he calls it "The Hard Way."
===Films===
The Dreamworks film is about a meek Viking boy named Hiccup, who meets an injured Night Fury, a rare and dangerous dragon his father wants to kill. Hiccup secretly befriends the dragon, betraying Viking culture.
===DreamWorks Dragons===
The animated television series created by DreamWorks to bridge the gap between the first and second films. The first two seasons were subtitled Riders of Berk and Defenders of Berk. Forty episodes aired on Cartoon Network. The remaining five seasons were released exclusively on Netflix and were subtitled Race to the Edge. 
==Fandom==
There is a lot of Tumblr activity for this film. See the Tumblr tag.
A popular crossover known as Rise of the Brave Tangled Dragons, which crosses Rapunzel (from Tangled), Jack Frost (from Rise of the Guardians), Merida (from Brave), and Hiccup (from How to Train Your Dragon) together. Toothless also sometimes appears in Animashes, which is unusual for a 3D animated character.
===Shipping===
* Hiccup/Astrid
* Toothcup, Hiccup/Toothless, often with a redesigned and more anthropomorphic Toothless
* Stoick/Valka
Both Hiccup and Toothless are involved in Crossover pairings in Rise of the Brave Tangled Dragons and Animash videos.
=== Memes ===
Due to the nature of the characters' youthful shenanigans and wild selection of personalities, this has cultivated a colorful fandom full of quips, sarcastic charm and inside jokes.
==== "So, want to deliver some scrap metal?"https://www.tumblr.com/search/httyd%20scrap%20metal ====
In the Netflix series, Race to the Edge (RTTE), Hiccup has developed a habit of going out to collect scrap metal for his inventions, to the point of ill-timedly blowing off spending time with his girlfriend, Astrid. The fans have used this to jokingly portray Hiccup loving scrap metal more than his partner.
==== Snotlout and Lightning ====
Snotlout has a penchant for getting struck by lighting throughout the series. This has lead to fans guffawing and wondering how he's survived throughout his life.
==== "You're as beautiful as the day I lost you"https://youtu.be/ZhKJ8C1Yc_4?si=5cqKftqL3vWgcOfs ====
In one of the most romantic, poetic, and tragic scenes of the films, Stoick delivers the line "You're as beautiful as the day I lost you" to his long lost wife, Valka. This has prompted many fans to draw, write or edit scenes of their favorite ships and characters in similar scenarios.
==Fanworks==
===Fics===
* blinded by the sun by Akamine_Chan. Road trip for boy and dragon. AU written for Yuletide 2012
* Hitchups by AvannaK, Hiccup didn't see the point in stopping Astrid as she ran off towards his village—towards his father—with his most desperately protected secret. He was leaving anyway. A coming-of-age tale. Deviates from movie. Borderline bromantic-comedy.
* A Thing Of Vikings by athingofvikings, a Longfic that explores how the events of the first movie would impact the course of real-world history. Longest fic in the HTTYD tag on AO3 as of 7 December 2022.
===Arts===
*How To Train Your Dragon by pinali
*How to Train Your Dragon by Flayu
*We all need a friend by Saki-BlackWing
*How To Steampunk Your Dragon by Cafcow
*Httyd 2 - Hiccup and Toothless by Eyoha
===Vids===
* Battle Scars (Hiccup & Toothless)
* I Will Not Die (Hiccup & Toothless)
===Other Works===
* Page of Analyses (Excellent analyses of anything from the themes of the movie down to specific character analysis - Hiccup, Astrid, Snotlout, Stoick, Riders of Berk/Defenders of Berk)
* What 'HTTYD: The Hidden World' Could Have Been (Analysis of problems in the third movie and how they might have been tweaked or otherwise changed in order to solve many of the movie's weaker points.)
=== Zines ===
* Bare Your Teeth
==Archives and Communities==
* How to Train Your Dragon works at AO3
* How to Train Your Dragon and crossovers at FanFiction.Net
===LiveJournal Communities===
* httyd
* train_dragon
* httyd_graphics
* hiccup_astrid
* hiccupxtoofless
* How To Train Your Dragon Big Bang
==External Links==
* How to Train Your Dragon tag at Tumblr
===Deviantart===
* How to Train Your Dragon tag at Deviantart
* HowToTrainYourDragon
* HTTYD Club
* HTTYD Fanclub
* HTTYD Book Fans
* HTTYD Girl Power
Dragons:
* Nadder Club
* Terrible Terror Fans
Pairings:
* ToothlessXHiccup (Hiccup & Toothless)
* Rufflges FC (Ruffnut/Fishlegs)
==Resources==
==References==
Category:How to Train Your Dragon