History Fridge / HowToTrainYourDragon

* Gobber mentions that a dragon cannot fly with an injured tail. this leads to Hiccup realizing he needs to make a new tail for toothless. No one has ever seen a Night Fury before and none of the other dragons have fins on their tails.
** I don't get it, is this supposed to be FridgeLogic or FridgeBrilliance? I'd pick the latter. Hiccup figuring out how he should help an animal he, or anybody else, has never seen before to ''fly'' is absolutely ''brilliant''.
** It's rather obvious. I don't think this counts as fridge anything.
*** the fridge logic is not that Hiccup figures out he needs to make a tail fin. It's why did Gobber say a dragon cannot fly without it's tail when tail fins are unique to a dragon he had never seen before.
*** Tails don't need fins to be necessary for balance. Think cats and monkeys. A regular dragon without the whole tail could be just as crippled as Toothless is without the fin.
* If no one has ever seen a Night Fury before, why do they yell, "The Night Fury!" when [[spoiler: Toothless shows up to rescue Hiccup in the training arena]]?
** They recognized the [[BombWhistle familiar sound]] of a horse/cat/bat/jet-engine.
* How do trolls tell the difference between a left sock and a right one? Unless they steal them while you're wearing them...
** Gobber only has one leg, and that's his left one. He ''can't'' wear a sock on his right one. Hence why he thinks the trolls only steal the left.

* FridgeHorror: How did Hiccup [[spoiler:lose his foot? He looks like he has both while falling into the fire...which means ''[[FridgeHorror Toothless must've torn it off in rescuing him]]?!'']]
** Or crushed under Toothless' weight. Thank God for the GoryDiscretionShot
** Half your leg or your life. I'd go with the former.
** Maybe Hiccup's leg was amputated rather than actually lost in the fall? It wouldn't have had to have been so bad to be beyond the Viking's capabilities of saving it. A really nasty burn that got infected on the boat-ride back, for example?
* Fridge Brilliance: The scene where Hiccup and Toothless are taking Astrid for a ride, and the Aurora comes out. This troper could not stop thinking of the Rainbow Bridge, and how much the Lights must have looked like that to them. A truly powerful moment.

* In relation to the video game: Toothless is seen only eating fish in the movie, while in the game Night Furies refuse to eat fish at all.
* Not quite sure if this ''is'' FridgeBrilliance but Gobber (and one of the above tropers) mentioned that a downed dragon is a dead dragon. When Hiccup tells Astrid about why he didn't kill Toothless, he says it's because he looked as frightened as Hiccup was. Before that, he also points out to his father that the dragons have killed hundreds of Vikings and the Vikings have killed thousands of dragons. It also reminded me that most Vikings excluding [[BadAss Stoick]] need a weapon when fighting a dragon or they'll be killed. Which got me thinking about when Hiccup dropped his knife when releasing Toothless or during the fish offering: he was totally defenseless. Anyway, the brilliance is: Hiccup released Toothless because he was scared shitless and ''[[NotSoDifferent Toothless spared Hiccup because he was also scared shitless.]]''

* Just how did all the vikings get back after [[spoiler:killing green death?]] It burned all their ships in battle. Seems the only transportation available at that point were the teens' dragons.
** The time frame is left unclear, so a variety of options are available. They could have scavenged what remained from the destroyed ships to build a few new ones. They could have found a stand of trees on the other side of the island to build new ships. The kids on the dragons could have flown back to the village to assemble a rescue party with more ships. Or perhaps by the end scenes not everyone was back yet. Hiccup, being injured, would have been taken home first, perhaps flown. The village could still be in the midst of sending ships to ferry the remaining people back. (The most outlandish option - lots of the smaller dragons returned to the island after the destruction of the Green Death, were successfully tamed, and everyone flew back).

* FridgeBrilliance here. Why does the [[spoiler: Green Death explode]]? Well, before it, they had shown how the Zippleback ignited the fire: one head put sparks to the other's gas. Gas that looked exactly the same as [[spoiler: Green Death's mouth's content before Toothless attacked it. Assuming the dragons can "direct" their fire out, Toothless ruined the attack and turned it against Green Death by creating a gas explotion inside it!]].

* FridgeBrilliance: At the end of the scene where Hiccup and Stoick talk in the smithy (aka "the breast hat" scene), Stoick leaves and accidentally bumps into a bunch of weapons and such and scrambles to catch them all. When I first saw the movie, I thought that was just supposed to be a display of Stoick being awkward and didn't think much of it. Then, after buying the movie and watching that scene again, I realized something. Before Stoick knocks over all that stuff, he and Hiccup strike the exact same pleased pose. It's showing that, [[NotSoDifferent for all Stoick's posturing about being a "true Viking", he can be just as clumsy, awkward, and unsure of himself as Hiccup can be.]] I wouldn't be surprised if Stoick were a lot more like Hiccup when he was a kid, but had it squashed out of him by his own father.

** They recognized the familiar sound of a horse/cat/bat/jet-engine.

** The time frame is left unclear, so a variety of options are available. They could have scavenged what remained from the destroyed ships to build a few new ones. They could have found a stand of trees on the other side of the island to build new ships. The kids on the dragons could have flown back to the village to assemble a rescue party with more ships. Or perhaps by the end scenes not everyone was back yet. Hiccup, being injured, would have been taken home first, perhaps flown. The village could still be in the midst of sending ships to ferry the remaining people back. (The most outlandish option - lots of the smaller dragons returned to the island after the destruction of the Red Death, were successfully tamed, and everyone flew back).

* FridgeBrilliance here. Why does the [[spoiler: Red Death explode]]? Well, before it, they had shown how the Zippleback ignited the fire: one head put sparks to the other's gas. Gas that looked exactly the same as [[spoiler: Red Death's mouth's content before Toothless attacked it. Assuming the dragons can "direct" their fire out, Toothless ruined the attack and turned it against Red Death by creating a gas explotion inside it!]].

* Gobber mentions that a dragon cannot fly with an injured tale. this leads to Hiccup realizing he needs to make a new tail for toothless. No one has ever seen a Night Fury before and none of the other dragons have fins on their tales.

* At first I was all: Wait, why do the Vikings have Scottish accents instead of Scandinavian ones? And then I was all: Ah! Because this is a Viking settlement-- ''in Scotland''!

** Furthermore, the crash probably smashed it's face in, compressing the gas, leading to an explosion, and not just a fireball.

* FridgeBrilliance here. Why does the [[spoiler: Red Death explode]]? Well, before it, they had shown how the Zippleback ignited the fire: one head put sparks to the other's gas. Gas that looked exactly the same as [[spoiler: Red Death's mouth's content before Toothless attacked it. Assuming the dragons can "direct" their fire out, Toothless ruined the attack and turned it against Red Death by creating a gas explotion inside it!]].

* The boneknapper. It's been chasing Goober for years. Years when it hasn't had a full set of armour. Years without a roar. It wasn't mean, it was just, [[YouNeedToGetLaid frustrated.]]

* Just how did all the vikings get back after [[spoiler:killing green death?]] It burned all their ships in battle. Seems the only transportation available at that point were the teens' dragons.

** And also because this is a kids' movie [[{{Natter}} but anyway...]]

* In relation to the video game: Toothless is seen only eating fish in the movie, while in the game Night Furies refuse to eat fish at all.

* I'm not sure if it's brilliance, but at some point I got the point of Hiccup's oversized vest as a piece of character design; it makes him look smaller. When he doesn't wear it, such as when he has on the flight harness, he looks more natural.

* During the training sequence with the Nadder in the maze, Hiccup looses all his weapons. His axe is blasted and his shield is smashed. These were his ties to his villiage. "When you carry this axe you carry all of us with you" Well, when it's gone, that leads into the very next scene where he tries to make contact with Toothless. [[FridgeBrilliance Brilliant!]]

** Then suspension of disbelief is snapped; Hiccup, Astrid, and Toothless are above cloud cover and are north enough to witness aurora borealis. Frostbite and hypothermia should be imminent, if not immediate.

** Maybe Hiccup's leg was amputated rather than actually lost in the fall? It wouldn't have had to have been so bad to be beyond the Viking's capabilities of saving it. A really nasty burn that got infected on the boat-ride back, for example?

** Half your leg or your life. I'd go with the former.

** Or crushed under Toothless' weight. Thank God for the GoryDiscretionShot

* FridgeHorror: How did Hiccup [[spoiler:lose his foot? He looks like he has both while falling into the fire...which means ''[[FridgeHorror Toothless must've torn it off in rescuing him]]?!'']]

Gobber mentions that a dragon cannot fly with an injured tale. this leads to Hiccup realizing he needs to make a new tail for toothless. No one has ever seen a Night Fury before and none of the other dragons have fins on their tales.
* I don't get it, is this supposed to be FridgeLogic or FridgeBrilliance? I'd pick the latter. Hiccup figuring out how he should help an animal he, or anybody else, has never seen before to ''fly'' is absolutely ''brilliant''.
* It's rather obvious. I don't think this counts as fridge anything.
** the fridge logic is not that Hiccup figures out he needs to make a tail fin. It's why did Gobber say a dragon cannot fly without it's tail when tail fins are unique to a dragon he had never seen before.

If no one has ever seen a Night Fury before, why do they yell, "The Night Fury!" when [[spoiler: Toothless shows up to rescue Hiccup in the training arena]]?
* They recognized the familiar sound of a horse/cat/bat/jet-engine.

How do trolls tell the difference between a left sock and a right one? Unless they steal them while you're wearing them...

During the training sequence with the Nadder in the maze, Hiccup looses all his weapons. His axe is blasted and his shield is smashed. These were his ties to his villiage. "When you carry this axe you carry all of us with you" Well, when it's gone, that leads into the very next scene where he tries to make contact with Toothless. [[FridgeBrilliance Brilliant!]]

During the training sequence with the Nadder in the maze, Hiccup looses all his weapons. His axe is blasted and his shield is smashed. These were his ties to his villiage. "When you carry this axe you carry all of us with you" Well, when it's gone, that leads into the very next scene where he tries to make contact with Toothless.

How do trolls tell the difference between a left sock and a right one? Unless they steal them while you're wearing them...