This document summarizes the 2010 animated film How to Train Your Dragon. It provides information on the film's production, awards, and main characters like Hiccup and Toothless. The plot involves Hiccup, the son of a Viking chief, shooting down a rare dragon called a Night Fury. Rather than killing it, he cares for the injured dragon and learns about dragons. He discovers the dragons were being forced to steal food for a giant dragon called the Red Death. In the climax, Hiccup and Toothless work together to defeat the Red Death and end the war between Vikings and dragons.

1. How to Train Your Dragon

2. Information
• A 2010 American 3D
computer-animated
fantasy film by
DreamWorks Animation
• Loosely based on the
English 2003 book of
the same name
• The film was directed by
Chris Sanders and Dean
DeBlois, the duo who
directed Disney's Lilo &
Stitch

3. Awards
• The film was released March
26, 2010 and was a critical and
commercial success, earning
nearly $500 million worldwide
• Nominated for the Academy
Award for Best Animated
Feature and Best Original
Score at the 83rd Academy
Awards, but lost to Toy Story
3 and The Social Network,
respectively
• The movie also won ten Annie
Awards, including Best
Animated Feature

4. Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III
• Member of the Hairy
Hooligan tribe
• Son of the chief, Stoick
the Vast
• Smart and is constantly
creating inventions for
various uses
• Obsessed with proving
himself to the rest of his
tribe at first

5. • Doesn't think things
through and determined
to gain the recognition
• Often causing problems
for the tribe and himself.
• shows great aptitude at
being a leader and
strategist
• has very good
observational skills
which come in handy
during his time with
Toothless and during
dragon training

6. • first comes off as awkward, mainly
because he is a poor fighter, and rather
scrawny for a Viking.
• remains shy and secretive, preferring to be
alone with Toothless
• sarcastic with a dry sense of humor that
can sometimes put him at odds with the
other Vikings in his tribe.

7. Toothless
• a Common or Garden
Dragon
• possesses at least two sets of
wings
• He is missing the left of his
tail fin, lost when Hiccup
takes Toothless down with
his Bolas-Shooting Ballista
• his is later replaced by a
mechanical fin that Hiccup
constructs himself
• gets his name from his sets
of retractable teeth.

8. • He does not take kindly to
being offended or anyone
offending or endangering
his human friend,
• Usually playful, docile,
maybe even a little teasing
when not threatened.
• He also shows a great
curiosity, imitating
Hiccup's actions

9. Astrid Hofferson
• a teen Viking girl of the
Hairy Hooligans tribe
• striking, tough, beautiful
and her determined and
strong persona makes her
hard to impress
• Hiccup's main love
interest
• the only Viking without a
helmet
• determined and extremely
dedicated to becoming a
Viking Warrior.

10. • She is generally
uninterested in the
other teenagers
• hot tempered
• most knowledgeable in
dragons
• has a caring side,
although this is hidden
by an initial attempt at
violence to cover it up
• Her dragon is Stromfly

11. Plot
• The island of Berk is a Viking village that is
plagued by attacks from dragons that steal
their livestock and burn their homes.
• Hiccup, the awkward son of the village
chieftain, shoots down a dragon he thinks may
be a Night Fury, a rare dragon nobody has ever
actually seen.
• But finds he is unable to kill the helpless
animal. Hiccup instead cuts it free

12. • Hiccup finds the dragon trapped with its tail
injured, preventing it from flying normally.
• Hiccup discovers a way to earn the dragon's
trust and begins to care for it.
• He soon becomes the star pupil
• Much to the dismay of Astrid, a girl in dragon
training on whom Hiccup has a crush.

13. • Astrid discovers Toothless and attempts to tell
the villagers, but Hiccup takes her for a ride
on Toothless instead.
• Toothless unexpectedly takes the Astrid and
Hiccup straight into the dragon's nest, where
the truth behind the dragons' constant raids of
their village is revealed
• The Red Death, a gigantic dragon, depends on
the food they bring back or else it feeds on the
dragons themselves.
• Astrid wants to tell the village of the nest, but
Hiccup wants to keep it a secret to protect
Toothless.

14. • Hiccup fails to show the village the dragon's
true nature and put himself in danger
instead.
• Toothless flies in to save him, but is
captured himself.
• Stoick refuses to listen to his son, demotes
Hiccup from being a Viking, disowns him,
and leaves with another fleet
• Hiccup then concocts a plan to save the
Vikings with the help of the school's captive
dragons and his classmates.

15. • The teens arrive when the Viking
fleet has already discovered the Red
Death.
• Hiccup and Toothless kills the Red
Death with a massive explosion.
• Once the explosion has settled,
Stoick finds Toothless, who reveals
an unconscious Hiccup safely
wrapped in his wings.
• The film ends with the war
between Vikings and Dragons
finally over with Hiccup and his
friends racing their dragons
• They finally live happily forever
after :)

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