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* DisproportionateRetribution: Refuse to pay your landing/taking off tax? Your going to the dungeon. Disrespect the Sargent-at-Arms? Going to the dungeon. Flying at equal speed with Barf and Belch? Dungeon. Write a sub-par poem in Tuffnut's honor that fails to impress his pet chicken? Dungeon.

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* DisproportionateRetribution: Refuse to pay your landing/taking off tax? Your going to the dungeon. Disrespect the Sargent-at-Arms? Sergeant-at-Arms? Going to the dungeon. Flying at equal speed with Barf and Belch? Dungeon. Write a sub-par poem in Tuffnut's honor that fails to impress his pet chicken? Dungeon.



* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Subverted. Hiccup is about to break out of prison with the other riders when the Fireworms invade, but Ruffnut and Tuffnut appears and begs for them to come out.

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* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Subverted. Hiccup is about to break out of prison with the other riders when the Fireworms invade, but Ruffnut and Tuffnut appears appear and begs beg for them to come out.
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* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: The other dragon riders sans Hiccup all shout [[BigNo Big NOs]] when Gobber authenticates the twins' ownership of the island.

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* NoSympathy: After Gobber verifies the twins' claim to the island, Stoick only tells Hiccup, "Welcome to my world. And it's about to look like your world."

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* NoSympathy: After Gobber verifies the twins' claim to the island, Stoick only tells Hiccup, "Welcome island:
-->'''Hiccup:''' No, Dad, Dad, Dad, you can't be serious. You're not leaving me with this? (twins singing & dancing victoriously)\\
'''Stoick:''' Yes, I am. Welcome
to my world. And Only now, it's about to look like your world."
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** Snotlout, [[ButtMonkey of all people]], somehow manages to induce an [[InvertedTrope inversion]]. When the twins start assigning roles he's fully prepared to get an awful job but ends up being assigned the best one instead.

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** Snotlout, [[ButtMonkey of all people]], somehow manages to induce an [[InvertedTrope inversion]]. When the twins start assigning roles he's fully prepared to get an awful job but ends up being assigned the best one instead.instead -- sergeant-at-arms.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: Refuse to pay your landing/taking off tax? Your going to the dungeon. Disrespect the Sargent-at-Arms? Going to the dungeon. Flying at equal speed with Barf and Belch? Dungeon. Write a sub-par poem in Tuffnut's honor that fails to impress his pet chicken? Dungeon.
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* BigDamnHeroes: After being missing for most of the episode, the Night Terrors show up while swarming in the shape of the Fireworm Queen, and draw the Fireworms away from the island.
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* TyrantTakesTheHelm: After the twins take over and make life ridiculous at Dragon's Edge.

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* TyrantTakesTheHelm: After the twins take over and make life ridiculous at Dragon's Edge.Edge.
* YankTheDogsChain: At the end, the twins at least have the claim stone to remind them of the time they ruled the island. Then Meatlug eats it and barfs it out as lava.
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* NoSympathy: After Gobber verifies the twins' claim to the island, Stoick only tells Hiccup, "Welcome to my world. And it's about to look like your wrold."
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Subverted. Hiccup is about to break out of prsion with the other riders when the Fireworms invade, but Ruffnut and Tuffnut appears and begs for them to come out.

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* NoSympathy: After Gobber verifies the twins' claim to the island, Stoick only tells Hiccup, "Welcome to my world. And it's about to look like your wrold.world."
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Subverted. Hiccup is about to break out of prsion prison with the other riders when the Fireworms invade, but Ruffnut and Tuffnut appears and begs for them to come out.

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* TyrantTakesTheHelm: After the twins take over and make life ridiculous at Dragon's Edge.



** Snotlout, [[ButtMonkey of all people]], somehow manages to induce an [[InvertedTrope inversion]]. When the twins start assigning roles he's fully prepared to get an awful job but ends up being assigned the best one instead.

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** Snotlout, [[ButtMonkey of all people]], somehow manages to induce an [[InvertedTrope inversion]]. When the twins start assigning roles he's fully prepared to get an awful job but ends up being assigned the best one instead.instead.
* TyrantTakesTheHelm: After the twins take over and make life ridiculous at Dragon's Edge.

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* CardboardPrison: The dragon riders can break out of the pens, given that Ruffnut and Tuffnut had them locked up ''with their dragons''; the only reason they stay is because the twins technically own the island and Hiccup wants them to learn about TheChainsOfCommanding. They only try and break out when the Fireworms invade, but Tuffnut then begs them to come out and handle the Fireworms.
** It's also shown that since the pins are made to hold dragons the bars are in no way tightly grouped enough to keep a human from slipping past.

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* CardboardPrison: The dragon riders can break out of the pens, given that Ruffnut and Tuffnut had them locked up ''with their dragons''; dragons'' and that the bars are so far apart that a human could easily just crawl through them; the only reason they stay is because the twins technically own the island and Hiccup wants them to learn about TheChainsOfCommanding. They only try and break out when the Fireworms invade, but Tuffnut then begs them to come out and handle the Fireworms.
** It's also shown that since the pins are made to hold dragons the bars are in no way tightly grouped enough to keep a human from slipping past.
Fireworms.



* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: After the twins rescind their claim to the island, Meatlug eats the granite stone with their ancestor's name on it. Snotlout and Hiccup proceed to dance as now the island is all theirs-- the Dragon Riders.



* LaserGuidedKarma: The very first thing that burns is the twins' nameplate for their new outpost, "Thorstonton" after they ignored Hiccup's warnings to prepare for the Fireworms.

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* LaserGuidedKarma: LaserGuidedKarma:
** Hiccup teases Astrid about ending up in the twins' dungeon, then gets sent there barely an hour later. Upon seeing him, Astrid takes the opportunity to [[IronicEcho parrot his earlier comment back at him.]]
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The very first thing that burns is the twins' nameplate for their new outpost, "Thorstonton" after they ignored Hiccup's warnings to prepare for the Fireworms.



* TyrantTakesTheHelm: After the twins take over and make life ridiculous at Dragon's Edge.

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* TyrantTakesTheHelm: After the twins take over and make life ridiculous at Dragon's Edge.Edge.
* TemptingFate:
** Hiccup insists that the twins' new rules and assignments aren't that bad, then immediately gets assigned the worst job of all -- stableboy.
** Snotlout, [[ButtMonkey of all people]], somehow manages to induce an [[InvertedTrope inversion]]. When the twins start assigning roles he's fully prepared to get an awful job but ends up being assigned the best one instead.

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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Astrid laughs when Hiccup is assigned to be "stableboy". Her position to sweep away brush isn't much better, however.

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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Astrid laughs when Hiccup is assigned to be "stableboy". Her position "stableboy," given he was just enjoying her being assigned to sweep away brush isn't much better, however.clear brush.

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* CardboardPrison: The dragon riders can break out of the pens, given that Ruffnut and Tuffnut had them locked up ''with their dragons''; the only reason they stay is because the twins technically own the island and Hiccup wants them to learn about TheChainsOfCommanding. They only try and break out when the Fireworms invade, but Tuffnut then begs them to come out and handle the Fireworms.

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* CardboardPrison: The dragon riders can break out of the pens, given that Ruffnut and Tuffnut had them locked up ''with their dragons''; the only reason they stay is because the twins technically own the island and Hiccup wants them to learn about TheChainsOfCommanding. They only try and break out when the Fireworms invade, but Tuffnut then begs them to come out and handle the Fireworms. Fireworms.
** It's also shown that since the pins are made to hold dragons the bars are in no way tightly grouped enough to keep a human from slipping past.
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* CardboardPrison: The dragon riders can break out of the pens, given that Ruffnut and Tuffnut had them locked up ''with their dragons''; the only reason they stay is because the twins technically own the island and Hiccup wants them to learn about the ChainsOfCommanding. They only try and break out when the Fireworms invade, but Tuffnut then begs them to come out and handle the Fireworms.

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* CardboardPrison: The dragon riders can break out of the pens, given that Ruffnut and Tuffnut had them locked up ''with their dragons''; the only reason they stay is because the twins technically own the island and Hiccup wants them to learn about the ChainsOfCommanding.TheChainsOfCommanding. They only try and break out when the Fireworms invade, but Tuffnut then begs them to come out and handle the Fireworms.
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* AcquiredSituationalNarcissim: Downplayed, but the power of ruling an island really goes to the twins' heads.

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* AcquiredSituationalNarcissim: AcquiredSituationalNarcissism: Downplayed, but the power of ruling an island really goes to the twins' heads.
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While preparing for a Fireworm invasion, the twins discover a stone with their name on it. Gobber authenticates it as a claim by Magnus Thorston, the twins' ancestor, that gives Ruff and Tuff ownership of the island.

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* AcquiredSituationalNarcissim: Downplayed, but the power of ruling an island really goes to the twins' heads.
* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Astrid laughs when Hiccup is assigned to be "stableboy". Her position to sweep away brush isn't much better, however.
* AintTooProudToBeg: When they realize that the Fireworms are going to destroy what they built and Hiccup is the only one who knows how to handle this, they beg Hiccup and the others to come out of jail. Hiccup plays up the need for "rules" to be enforced, until the twins rescind their claim of the island.
* BreakTheHaughty: PlayedForLaughs when Tuffnut assigns Hiccup to be the "stableboy," that is one who has to wait on all the dragons.
* CardboardPrison: The dragon riders can break out of the pens, given that Ruffnut and Tuffnut had them locked up ''with their dragons''; the only reason they stay is because the twins technically own the island and Hiccup wants them to learn about the ChainsOfCommanding. They only try and break out when the Fireworms invade, but Tuffnut then begs them to come out and handle the Fireworms.
* TheChainsOfCommanding: Hiccup hopes that by letting Ruff and Tuff be the boss that they realize how hard a job it is.
* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: After the twins rescind their claim to the island, Meatlug eats the granite stone with their ancestor's name on it. Snotlout and Hiccup proceed to dance as now the island is all theirs-- the Dragon Riders.
* DidNotThinkThisThrough: Hiccup invokes this when he tries to point out to Ruffnut and Tuffnut that by imprisoning everyone, there's no one to defend the island from the Fireworms. They [[ComicallyMissingThePoint lock him up for breaking a rule]] as he's warning them, but in time his prediction comes true.
* InsaneTrollLogic: Don't try and understand the twins' rules, especially their elimination of the letter "s".
* LaserGuidedKarma: The very first thing that burns is the twins' nameplate for their new outpost, "Thorstonton" after they ignored Hiccup's warnings to prepare for the Fireworms.
* NoSympathy: After Gobber verifies the twins' claim to the island, Stoick only tells Hiccup, "Welcome to my world. And it's about to look like your wrold."
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Subverted. Hiccup is about to break out of prsion with the other riders when the Fireworms invade, but Ruffnut and Tuffnut appears and begs for them to come out.
* TyrantTakesTheHelm: After the twins take over and make life ridiculous at Dragon's Edge.

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