60 Fun Facts About How to Train Your Dragon

What is the name of the Viking village where the story takes place?

In the third film the Berkians abandon it and settle a new island they call New Berk.

What kind of dragon does Hiccup shoot down with a bolas launcher?

Nobody believes him, so he goes into the forest alone and finds it.

Why does Hiccup name his dragon Toothless?

In the books the name is literal: that Toothless is a tiny green dragon with no teeth at all.

Why can't Toothless fly on his own after Hiccup brings him down?

Hiccup builds a prosthetic fin and a harness so that the pair can fly together.

Who is Hiccup's father, chief of Berk?

Gerard Butler is the only voice actor from the animated films to reprise his role in the 2025 live-action remake.

Who voices Hiccup in the animated trilogy?

His full name is Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III; Jonah Hill voices Snotlout instead.

Which actress voices Astrid?

Kristen Wiig is in the cast too, as Ruffnut.

Who voices Gobber the Belch, Berk's blacksmith?

He is also the one who teaches the teenagers dragon training.

Which future Doctor Who star voices Spitelout Jorgenson, Snotlout's father, in the first film?

He is Stoick's aide and deputy.

Which cinematographer was hired as a visual consultant on the first film to give it a live-action feel?

He came back for the sequel and even joined the research trip to Svalbard.

Who composed the score for all the How to Train Your Dragon films?

It earned him his first Academy Award nomination; he lost to Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross.

The 2010 film lost the Best Original Score Oscar to which film?

The film's other nomination that night was Best Animated Feature.

How many Academy Award nominations did the first film receive?

It also picked up fourteen Annie Award nominations and won ten of them.

Where was the first film's premiere held on March 21, 2010?

It had originally been scheduled for November 2009 but was pushed to avoid Planet 51 and other family films.

Roughly how much did the 2010 film gross worldwide?

It opened at number one in North America with $43.7 million.

Which giant dragon controls the nest and is destroyed at the end of the first film?

In Cowell's books the equivalent monster is Merciless the Green Death.

What does Hiccup lose in the battle at the end of the first film?

He wakes to find Gobber has made matching prosthetics for him and Toothless.

What kind of dragon does Hiccup face in his final exam?

Stoick enrages it into attacking, and Toothless is captured coming to the rescue.

What species is Astrid's dragon Stormfly?

Sound designer Randy Thom voices both Toothless and Stormfly.

What is the name of Fishlegs' Gronckle?

Her stubby wings make her the slowest of the riders' dragons.

Snotlout's dragon Hookfang is which species?

In battle he coats himself in flammable saliva and sets himself on fire without harm.

The twins Ruffnut and Tuffnut share a two-headed Hideous Zippleback. What are the heads called?

One head breathes explosive gas and the other ignites it.

Which actor plays Fishlegs in the animated films?

His dragon lore comes out in role-playing-game stats.

How to Train Your Dragon 2 is set how many years after the first film?

The Hidden World then follows a year after Hiccup becomes chief.

Who plays Valka, Hiccup's long-lost mother, in the second film?

She was presumed dead after a dragon carried her off during a raid; she had been rescuing dragons ever since.

Who is the warlord villain of How to Train Your Dragon 2, played by Djimon Hounsou?

Kit Harington voices Eret, the dragon trapper who works for him.

What kind of giant, ice-breathing dragon controls other dragons as an alpha in the second film?

After Drago's Bewilderbeast is defeated, the dragons accept Toothless as their new alpha.

How does Stoick die in How to Train Your Dragon 2?

Hiccup is made chief of Berk at the end of the film.

At which festival did How to Train Your Dragon 2 premiere on May 21, 2014?

It went on to win the Golden Globe for Best Animated Feature.

Which two films did director Dean DeBlois cite as his main inspirations for the second film?

He agreed to return only on the condition that he could make a trilogy.

DeBlois and his team visited which Arctic archipelago for inspiration on the sequel's setting?

They watched wild polar bears with armed guides; DeBlois had learned from Lilo & Stitch that setting a film somewhere is a good way to get to visit.

Which award did How to Train Your Dragon 2 win for Best Animated Feature?

It was nominated for the Oscar but did not win.

Which Icelandic musician co-wrote 'Where No One Goes' for the second film?

The Sigur Rós frontman also co-wrote the score for the franchise's arena show.

Who plays Grimmel the Grisly, the villain of The Hidden World?

He claims to have hunted almost every Night Fury to extinction.

What kind of dragon does Toothless fall for in The Hidden World?

Lighting her required DreamWorks to invent new software.

What are Toothless's three hybrid offspring called in the epilogue?

The epilogue is set a decade later, when Hiccup and Astrid bring their two children to visit.

In which country was The Hidden World released first, on January 3, 2019?

The US had to wait until February 22.

Who replaced T.J. Miller as the voice of Tuffnut in The Hidden World?

Miller had recorded the part but was recast after an arrest for a fake bomb threat and sexual-assault allegations; Rupple dubbed over his lines.

How much did The Hidden World gross worldwide?

The second film remains the franchise's animated high with $622 million.

Who plays Hiccup in the 2025 live-action remake?

Nico Parker plays Astrid and Nick Frost is Gobber.

Where was the 2025 live-action remake filmed?

It is DreamWorks Animation's first live-action film since it was spun off from the live-action studio in 2004.

Roughly how much did the 2025 live-action remake gross worldwide?

That made it the second-highest-grossing live-action/animated hybrid ever.

In 2025, which release date was set for the live-action How to Train Your Dragon 2?

Dean DeBlois again writes and directs; Universal announced the June 2027 date in 2025.

Who wrote the How to Train Your Dragon novels?

She grew up partly on an uninhabited island off the west coast of Scotland with no phone, TV or electricity.

How many full novels are in Cowell's How to Train Your Dragon series?

The first came out in 2003 and the last, How to Fight a Dragon's Fury, in 2015.

In the books, Toothless is described as what?

He is arrogant and childlike, and is later revealed to be a young Seadragonus Giganticus Maximus.

What is the name of Hiccup's tribe in the novels?

Their neighbours and rivals are the Meathead Tribe, led by one-legged Mogadon.

What honour was the author of the novels given in 2019?

She was appointed MBE in 2020 and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2021.

The first two seasons of the TV series DreamWorks Dragons aired on which channel?

Seasons three onwards moved to Netflix under the title Race to the Edge.

What was the subtitle of DreamWorks Dragons seasons three to eight?

Race to the Edge served as a prequel to the second film and ran from 2015 to 2018.

How many episodes did DreamWorks Dragons run for across its eight seasons?

With Rescue Riders and The Nine Realms added, the TV franchise totals 223 episodes.

Which short film was included on the first film's 2010 DVD release?

Gift of the Night Fury and Book of Dragons followed in 2011.

How to Train Your Dragon: Isle of Berk is one of five lands in which theme park that opened in May 2025?

Its launch coaster is called Hiccup's Wing Gliders.

Which German attraction opened a How to Train Your Dragon section called "The Island" in 2016?

Motiongate Dubai has a hanging coaster called Dragon Gliders.

How many animatronic dragons featured in the How to Train Your Dragon Arena Spectacular?

It premiered in Melbourne in March 2012 and later toured North America and China.

Which studio distributed the first animated film in 2010?

Fox handled the second film and Universal the third, as DreamWorks' distribution deals changed.

Chris Sanders co-directed the first film. Which Disney film had he previously co-directed?

DeBlois and Sanders were a team on Lilo & Stitch too; Sanders sat out directing the sequel because of The Croods.

Which Scottish actor voices Hiccup's father in the animated films?

His character enrolls Hiccup in dragon-fighting class before sailing off to hunt for the dragons' nest.

Who voices the brash, overconfident Snotlout Jorgenson in the first film?

The directors recorded him alongside Mintz-Plasse, Kristen Wiig and T.J. Miller to capture their improvisation.

The film's original November 2009 release was pushed back to avoid competing with which animated movie?

It finally opened in March 2010, where it ran into a 3D 'traffic jam' with Clash of the Titans a week later.