History WesternAnimation / HowToTrainYourDragonHomecoming

* VanityProject: Hiccup has the idea of making a pageant that retells how the Hooligans made peace with the dragons. He asks Gobber to co-produce the show and write the script. Gobber winds up hijacking the show by making it all about him and his grief over Stoick, rewriting events so that it was ''Stoick'' who tamed Toothless with Gobber himself in the lead-role.
* VoiceChangeling: Fishlegs is able to mimic Stoick's voice perfectly.

* HistoricalBadassUpgrade: Inverted. Gobber [[DemotedToExtra demphasizes Hiccup's role in ending their war with the dragons]] and emphasizes his less admirable traits, the Hiccup character in the pageant being portrayed as [[AdaptationalWimp more cowardly and weak than he was]].

* AdaptationalWimp: InUniverse. Gobber [[DemotedToExtra demphasizes Hiccup's role in ending their war with the dragons]] and emphasizes his less admirable traits, the Hiccup character in the pageant being portrayed as more cowardly and weak than he was.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Sending the dragons away to the Hidden World does not resolve the issue of them being misunderstood by humans, and in some ways it actively worsens it. Despite Hiccup's attempts to pass on his positive view of the dragons, Berk's future generations are not able to see first hand what wonderful creatures they are, and they start to become superstitious and fearful of them [[HistoryRepeats just as they ancestors were]]. Zephyr, Hiccup's own daughter, adamantly refuses to believe that dragons are anything other than dangerous monsters, and doesn't change her mind until she sees a dragon face-to-face.

* RealityEnsues: Turns out the whole issue of dragons being misunderstood isn't going to be resolved by sending the dragons away so they can't be seen or understood. Even Hiccup's play doesn't win Zephyr over fully; it's not until she sees a dragon in the flesh that her hatred instantly gives way to wonder.

''How to Train Your Dragon: Homecoming'' is the second ChristmasEpisode of Creator/DreamworksAnimation's ''Franchise/HowToTrainYourDragon'' franchise. When it becomes clear that the new generation of Vikings doesn't remember the bond between dragon and human, Hiccup sets a plan to celebrate dragons with a grand Snoggletog holiday pageant and gets a heartwarming surprise visit from Toothless for one more adventure.

* DenouementEpisode: Serves as one to the ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'' franchise as whole, as this is set after the GrandFinale shown in ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragonTheHiddenWorld'', but shortly before the DistantFinale since it shows how the people of New Berk are coping without their dragons ten years after parting ways.

''How to Train Your Dragon: Homecoming'' is the second ChristmasEpisode of Creator/DreamworksAnimation's ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'' franchise. When it becomes clear that the new generation of Vikings doesn't remember the bond between dragon and human, Hiccup sets a plan to celebrate dragons with a grand Snoggletog holiday pageant and gets a heartwarming surprise visit from Toothless for one more adventure.

* ButtMonkey: Hiccup. To list: He gets constantly hit by his children's dragon traps, gets reminded of what kind of a person he was like before the events of the films to the extent that his wife actually mistakes the person playing Hiccup as him, got DemotedToExtra in his ''very own play'', has all his achievements credited to his father, and gets trapped in the Toothless costume he himself invented. Though it's offset by the fact that his play accomplished ''exactly'' what he wanted: to honor Stoick's memory and endear the next generation of Berkians to dragons.

* KidHasAPoint: In-spite of every adult's insistence to the contrary, Zephyr's fear of dragons is perfectly rational in a vacuum. They ''are'' giant, flying, sharp-toothed, fire-breathing animals that were ''technically'' responsible for her father's missing limb. Good thing they never asked who killed their grandfather...

* DenouementEpisode: Serves as one to the ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'' franchise as whole, as this is set after the GrandFinale shown in ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragonTheHiddenWorld'', but shortly before the DistantFinale as it shows how the people of New Berk are coping without their dragons ten years after parting ways.

* ButtMonkey: Hiccup. To list: He gets constantly hit by his children's dragon traps, gets reminded of what kind of a person he was like before the events of the films to the extent that his wife actually mistakes the person playing Hiccup as him, got DemotedToExtra in his ''very own play'', has all his achievements credited to his father, and gets trapped in the Toothless costume he himself invented.

* HeyLetsPutOnAShow: Seeing that his children are growing to fear dragons inspite of what their parents tell them, Hiccup decides to throw a Snoggletog pageant.

* MistakenForAnImposter: [[spoiler:With the smoke caused by the fire and Hiccup unable to see inside his costume, no one catches on that it's the real Toothless on stage.]]
* RealityEnsues: Turns out the whole issue of dragons being misunderstood isn't going to be resolved by sending the dragons away so they can't be seen or understood. Even Hiccup's play doesn't win Zephyr over fully; [[spoiler: it's not until she meets Toothless face to face that her hatred for dragons instantly gives way to wonder.]]

* AllPartOfTheShow: The stage fire and [[spoiler: Toothless appearing and replacing Hiccup]] did nothing to get the pageant's intended purpose - to acclimate the children to dragons and honor Stoick - across. If anything, it ''helped.''

* ButtMonkey: Hiccup. To list: He gets constantly hit by his children's dragon traps, gets reminded of what kind of a person he was like before the events of the films to the extent that his wife actually mistakes the person playing Hiccup as him, got DemotedToExtra in his ''very own play'' and gets trapped in the Toothless costume he himself invented.

* KidHasAPoint: In-spite of every adult's insistence to the contrary, Zephyr's fear of dragons is perfectly rational in a vacuum. They ''are'' giant, flying, sharp-toothed, fire-breathing animals that were ''technically'' responsible for her father's missing limb.

* LikeFatherLikeSon: Zephyr is shown to be mechanically inclined like Hiccup. Nuffink isn’t shown to have a rough and tumble personality not unlike Astrid.

** Every time Hiccup says in voice over "and then it hit me", he gets hit by something.

* KidHasAPoint: In-spite of every adult's insistences to the contrary, Zephyr's fear of dragons is perfectly rational in a vacuum. They ''are'' giant, flying sharp-toothed fire-breathing animals that were ''technically'' responsible for her father's missing limb.

* AdaptationalWimp: InUniverse, Gobber's script for the pageant makes Stoick the one to tame Toothless, while Hiccup is demoted to being the PluckyComicRelief.

* MistakenForImposter: [[spoiler:With the smoke caused by the fire and Hiccup unable to see inside his costume, no one catches on that it's the real Toothless on stage.]]

* RunningGag: Nuffink has the odd habit of banging his head against random things.
--> '''Astrid''': Kid can take a hit.

* HistoryRepeats: Discussed. Hiccup stages the play because signs to point their children's lack of exposure to dragons will cause them to fear them like their ancestors did.