How to Train Your Dragon is a British/American media franchise from DreamWorks Animation and loosely based on the eponymous book series of the same name by British author Cressida Cowell.

Although initially dismissed as a clumsy and underweight misfit, he soon becomes renowned as a courageous dragons expert, alongside Toothless, a member of the rare Night Fury breed as his flying mount and closest companion.

After finally capturing his first dragon the infamous and elusive Night fury , and with his chance of finally gaining the tribe's acceptance and father's recognition, he finds that he no longer has the desire to kill the dragon and instead befriends it.He soon realise that to protect the Night fury (Toothless) he must show the Vikings the truth of dragons.The film grossed nearly $500 million worldwide, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.

[5] It was announced that the entire original voice cast – Baruchel, Butler, Ferguson, Ferrera, Hill, Mintz-Plasse, Miller and Wiig – would return for the sequel.

[8] Set five years after the events of the original film, Hiccup and Toothless have successfully united dragons and Vikings on the island of Berk.

On October 12, 2010, it was announced that Cartoon Network had acquired worldwide broadcast rights to a weekly animated series based on the movie, which was scheduled to begin sometime in 2012.

[28] Jay Baruchel, who voiced Hiccup, also stars in the series, as well as America Ferrera (Astrid), Christopher Mintz-Plasse (Fishlegs), and T. J. Miller (Tuffnut).

The Nine Realms stars Jeremy Shada, and is executive produced by showrunner John Tellegen, Chuck Austen and Henry Gilroy.

Book of Dragons is an 18-minute[33] short film which was released by DreamWorks Home Entertainment on DVD and Blu-ray on November 15, 2011 along with Gift of the Night Fury.

Written and directed by Steve Hickner and co-written by Bart Coughlin and Joshua Pruett, Book of Dragons stars the voices of Jay Baruchel, Craig Ferguson, America Ferrera, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Jim Cummings and Tress MacNeille.

Book of Dragons shows a total of 14 different dragons, each separated into 7 classes: Stoker (Terrible Terror and Monstrous Nightmare), Boulder (Gronckle and Whispering Death), Fear (Hideous Zippleback and Snaptrapper), Sharp (Deadly Nadder and Timberjack), Tidal (Scauldron and Thunderdrum), Mystery (Changewing and Boneknapper) and Strike (Skrill and Night Fury).

[34] Gift of the Night Fury (also known as Dragons: Gift of the Night Fury) is a 22-minute Christmas special directed by Tom Owens, written by Adam F. Goldberg and starring the voices of Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, Craig Ferguson, America Ferrera, Jonah Hill, T.J. Miller, Kristen Wiig and Christopher Mintz-Plasse who all reprise their roles from the first How to Train Your Dragon film.

[34] Gift of the Night Fury takes place in the middle of preparing for the Viking winter holiday of Snoggletog, when suddenly, all the dragons inexplicably fly away on a mass migration, except for Toothless, so Hiccup gives him something to help.

Gift of the Night Fury was also released again on DVD and Blu-ray on October 15, 2019 by Universal Pictures Home Entertainment, this time as part of the DreamWorks Ultimate Holiday Collection set.

[36] Directed by John Sanford and Elaine Bogan and written by Art Brown and Douglas Sloan, the short film features the voices of Jay Baruchel and America Ferrera[37] along with the cast from the Dragons television series.

In this short film, a hunt for a lost sheep turns into a competition between Hiccup and his friends for the first title of Dragon Racing Champion of Berk.

[38] Directed by Tim Johnson and written by Jonathan Groff and Jon Pollack, the short film features the voices of Jay Baruchel and America Ferrera along with the cast from the Dragons television series, although T.J. Miller was replaced by Justin Rupple for the role of Tuffnut Thorston.

It is a single continuous 28-minute shot of a Christmas fireplace with various gags involving the franchise's main characters, Viking and dragon alike, happening every so often.

Dark Horse Comics have released a series of graphic novels based on the franchise, starting with How to Train Your Dragon: The Serpent's Heir in 2016.

It also features villagers and Vikings, including Hiccup (Rarmian Newton/Riley Miner), Astrid (Sarah McCreanor/Gemma Nguyen), Stoick (Robert Morgan), and Gobber (Will Watkins).

[69][70] The show premiered as How to Train Your Dragon Arena Spectacular on March 3, 2012, in Melbourne, Australia,[71] and was followed by a New Zealand tour in April 2012.

[72] Renamed to How to Train Your Dragon Live Spectacular, it toured United States and Canada between June 2012 and January 2013,[70] when it was cancelled in favour of taking the show to China where it premiered in July 2014.

It offers three different flying attractions and a boat ride where guests venture into the dark Dragon Caves to meet and help Hiccup, Toothless and their friends.

[78] Universal Studios Beijing's Hollywood Boulevard area contains Untrainable, an immersive How to Train Your Dragon-themed stage show with largescale puppets and sets.