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* [[Action Girl]]: Astrid and Ruffnut.
* [[Adaptational Badass]]: In the books, Toothless is essentially what the Terrible Terrors are in this film: an annoying, common pest. Here, he's part of a new species that's nicknamed "the unholy offspring of Lightning and Death." He lives up to that, to be sure.
* [[Adaptational Personality Adjustment]]: This pretty much goes for any major character when making comparisons to the original source material:
* [[Adaptational Weakling]]:In the [[How to Train Your Dragon (novel)|''How to Train Your Dragon'' novels]], Snotface Snotlout is [[The Ace]] and top of the Hooligans' class, as well as Gobber's favorite student. He's a big jerk and a bully to his cousin Hiccup as a result, who {{spoiler|eventually betrays Hiccup and the tribe multiple times}}. During ''How to Train Your Dragon's three movies, in contrast, Snotlout is probably the worst student of the Dragon Trainers excluding Hiccup before the latter starts excelling; he's full of braggadocio but can't aim, as a laughing Stormfly noted when he missed hitting her with a mace, and spends more time flirting with the ladies than focused on fighting. Even the twins are relatively better, as it's shown they figured out Stormfly's blind spot and hid it in while arguing. The first TV series showed that he does make up for it with hand-to-hand combat, which he uses to save Hiccup.▼
** Book Hiccup is a quiet, bookish dragon nerd kid that only snarks occasionally, while book Fishlegs spends his time snarking at the stupidity of the adults around them that are in charge of their lives. The film and franchise reverse their personalities where movie Fishlegs is the bookish dragon nerd kid and Hiccup is the [[Deadpan Snarker]].
** Book Toothless was a bratty housecat with wings. He spends most of his screen-time refusing to obey Hiccup, coercing fish and treats from him. Movie Toothless is more akin to a panther, and closer to Hiccup's riding dragon Windwalker as well as his elder companion The Wodensfang {{spoiler|who belonged to Hiccup I}}; he is a deadly predator that never misses, but also willing to train Hiccup as much as Hiccup trains him.
** Stoick the Vast is chief in both versions, but book Stoick is more [[Dumb Muscle]] defined by the fact that his winning virtues are love for his son and loyalty to his people. Movie Stoick has those virtues, but is a lot more harried with Hiccup hitting puberty and causing trouble during raids. Anyone would get grey hair having to pull their teenage son regularly out of dragonfire range. ''The Hidden World'' in a flashback shows part of it is {{spoiler|he's mourning his wife Valka, whom dragons took away in a raid}}.
▲* [[Adaptational Weakling]]: In the [[How to Train Your Dragon (novel)|''How to Train Your Dragon'' novels]], Snotface Snotlout is [[The Ace]] and top of the Hooligans' class, as well as Gobber's favorite student. He's a big jerk and a bully to his cousin Hiccup as a result, who {{spoiler|eventually betrays Hiccup and the tribe multiple times}}. During ''How to Train Your Dragon's three movies, in contrast, Snotlout is probably the worst student of the Dragon Trainers excluding Hiccup before the latter starts excelling; he's full of braggadocio but can't aim, as a laughing Stormfly noted when he missed hitting her with a mace, and spends more time flirting with the ladies than focused on fighting. Even the twins are relatively better, as it's shown they figured out Stormfly's blind spot and hid it in while arguing. The first TV series showed that he does make up for it with hand-to-hand combat, which he uses to save Hiccup.
* [[Adorkable]]: There's been plenty of fan gushing at how cute the geeky Hiccup is. This should really be expected when he's voiced by [[Jay Baruchel]].
* [[Adult Fear]]: {{spoiler|Stoick believing his son was dead after the fight with the Green Death}}. And Stoick's own misguided actions led to that event.
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{{quote|"And now the [[Everything's Better with Spinning|spinning.]] Thank you for nothing, you useless reptile."}}
* [[One Dialogue, Two Conversations]]: Stoick appears to have discovered Hiccup's friendship with Toothless and asks why his son has been keeping it a secret from him. Hiccup tries to apologize, Stoick says he's actually ''proud...'' and Hiccup then realizes that his dad is talking about Hiccup doing a good job in Dragon Training.
* [[Opposite Gender Protagonists]]: Hiccup and Astrid. Hiccup starts with a crush on Astrid, but his clumsy nature contrasts with Astrid's skills as a fierce warrior, leading to a gap between the two leads. The gap grows smaller and smaller as Hiccup finds and tames Toothless, a feared Night Fury. Astrid starts to see Hiccup's ways with dragons, and over the course of the trilogy, beginning with this film, they grow closer.
* [[Organ Autonomy]]: The two heads of a Hideous Zippleback are distinct and do not share each other's thoughts. If the heads start arguing, the dragon can stall out, leaving it completely vulnerable to attack.
* [[Our Dragons Are Different]]: It's implied that there are dozens of dragon species, each with a different method of killing you that runs the gamut from sonic screeches (Thunderdrum) to spitting boiling water (Scauldron.) They have limited ammunition, and how much they have varies from species to species {{spoiler|(Except the Green Death, being the Ultimate Master Dragon[[Tradesnark™|™]], appears to have infinite ammo.)}} We only see seven species in the course of the movie, however: the Terrible Terror, Hideous Zippleback, Gronckle, Deadly Nadder, Monstrous Nightmare, and the Night Fury. {{spoiler|And then there's the (unnamed in the film) Green Death, the grandaddy of all dragons.}}
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* [[Recycled Soundtrack]]: "Battling the Green Death" features elements from "Dragon Battle," "Focus, Hiccup!" "Test Drive," and "The Downed Dragon" mixed into the song. Possibly a [[Boss Remix]].
** This pours over into a musical version of [[Meaningful Echo]] as the themes that are reused reflect parallels between when they were used. For example the falling section of "Test Drive" is used when Hiccup and Toothless have to catch someone out of midair.
* [[Recycled: the Series]]: [[Cartoon Network]] has acquired the rights to air a series based on the film in 2012. [https://web.archive.org/web/20151020213627/http://blastmagazine.com/2010/10/12/cartoon-network-picks-up-rights-to-how-to-train-your-dragon-tv-series/ Apparently, the series will remain truthful to the original film and further explore the characters and locations made for it].
* [[Redheaded Hero]]: Hiccup.
* [[Redhead in Green]]: Stoick and Hiccup.
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