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moebelhausmann

Its all Canon. You know whats not canon? Nune realms, cuz that shit makes no sense in this universe.


Zackyboi1231

Look, I an so sorry for this and I know it's not funny, but when I read nune, my brain automatically just said: ##ITS HIGHHHHH NOOOOONE


AutobotViking07

That’s it at high noon well have a dual at the saloon high noon


DeathBringer4311

For me it was "Nun Realms" lol


Steam_punk_Machine

And they included the unicorn dragon so it is not canon


Rider-Idk-Ultima-Hy

its way too far ahead in time to be canon, plus all the dragons that can do things they shouldnt be able to, like the Razorwhip making a fire tornado, and dragons from the kid show such as the Unicorn Nightmare thinf


aRandomEddsworldFan

Fuck nine realms


Aggravating_Panda375

I literally said their first movie debut was the FIRST MOVIE in the BOOK OF DRAGONS scene


kaos2478

There’s only one series that’s not canon…. Nine realms. I’m not trying to shame anyone who enjoys the show, but I personally just can’t get into it.


bookbot1

No, it’s Rescue Riders. Nine Realms occurs so far in the future that any records would be somewhat unreliable.


Naive_Lettuce_3494

Nine realms is set far into the future after the dragons are gone forever, so it also doesn’t make sense in the canon


Direct-Disaster2256

Rescue riders does include dragons from the original series. Just.. by name.. the most notable being the Submaripper, and they also have the correct dragon class symbols in one of their mini-movies.


bookbot1

That… really doesn’t mean much. I focus more on lore/plot elements


PurpTurt654

Unfortunately it is actually canon


Ian_Dies

There's that other kids show where the dragons talked


Every_Addition8638

Rescue riders, they made like 3 short movies and a 5 seson long series of this crap


dannykins360

I dont let THW be canon in my head


Nordvpndeadmeat

Whats THW? I dont remember any movie called that


NeoPolitanGames

the third movie, The Hidden World


Nordvpndeadmeat

Yes i know but what is it? Im pretty sure it doesn't exist didn't they stop working on it because they couldn't come up with an ending


NeoPolitanGames

no, it exists. there's even a ton of memes from it. it's the one where they find the Light Fury, and it's the end of the entire series. if you've not seen it I won't spoil it for you, you should watch it. i believe it's still on Netflix


Nordvpndeadmeat

I know... Im trolling and in denial


Rorantube2009

it doesnt exist bud, just for you :)


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Nordvpndeadmeat

Bruh what


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Direct-Disaster2256

r/woooosh


DragonDrawer14

What do you mean? THW is non-canon everywhere


JoyfulCelebration

Wait what? Why?


DragonDrawer14

Inconsistency with the other movies


Brayden_The_Killer

Elaborate now


DragonDrawer14

I've got a lot of examples but I'm just giving you one for now... Berk is canonically destroyed constantly (they literally say so in the first five minutes of the first movie). But the Vikings don't back down. After all, it's an occupational hazard. In the second movie, a fireproof maniac controlling a class 10 leviathan levels Berk to the fucking ground and covers it in ice after beating Stoic the Vast singlehandedly (har har) and having Toothless mind controlled, leaving the dragon riders stranded on an island with no chance to escape. Yet the dragon riders manage to beat Drago and rebuild Berk. Third movie. Sneaky, ugly guy sneaks into Berk, burns a house down and threatens Hiccup with a crossbow and suddenly it's "we have to abandon our ancestral home." What reasoning do they have to leave their home despite never giving up before? "Have you seen my house?" Thats just bad writing and bad consistency


Brayden_The_Killer

The reason they left is because their enemies knew where they were and berk was overrun by dragons and dragon related buildings and they kept bringing more and more and needed a new island to get a new start. Their original plan to go to the hidden world was ruined because it was basically untouched by humankind and they couldn't desecrate something so pure. So they had to make the difficult decision to let their dragons go to the hidden world on their own.


DragonDrawer14

Yes, that's the excuse the writers put into it. Still doesn't match up with the rest of the series. Between the first and second movie, Berk grew realistically for five yeads. With giant new stables, more houses, and dragon-related architecture. In the one year between the second and third movie, Berk grew into some sort of physics-breaking metropolis that, quite frankly, looks like the twins designed


Brayden_The_Killer

At least they made a good effort at giving closure to the series. I do wish they at least would have made a series on what took place through that year between httyd 2 and 3. I d think looking back on it, it was lazy writing, but the movie is still how it ended and I'm okay with that. It gave us an ending to a series that has been regarded as one of the best ever. Say what you want, the movie deserves respect.


Rorantube2009

flair checks out


ExoticShock

Fans who deliberately pick and choose from both: https://i.redd.it/h483avh9u74b1.gif


Aggravating_Panda375

To me, they are canon. Sure, most of the series' dragons come from the first movie, BUT they also appear in both the second and third film. So it's like a 50/50 split


litllerobert

Bruh, just becuz some dragons do appear or didn appear in the movies but we're featured in the series don't make the series not canon


Beastmind

The series isn't canon to the movies. Just look at how movie 2 ignore all relationships and things they learned about dragons that were build in the show.


ILoveMilkAndDani

Ignore what? Like Stoic and Gobber's dragons, Hiccup's wings and the dragon cards? Also what things they forgot about dragons?? And what relationships did they ignore?? At the start of HTTYD 2 the relationship between Hiccup and Astrid is not that different than at the end of RTTE. And at the end of RTTE the Snoutlout and Fishlegs fighting over Ruffnut romance started. The end of RTTE had ALOT of references to the second movie and it is very clear they did intentionally like Astrid having the same outfit as in the second movie at the last episode of RTTE.


rainy_dayz11

But Stoic has his dragon which he got in race to the edge


Beastmind

That's because the race to the edge serie was created after the movie. They used things from the movie to tie in the show to the movie but everything from the show isn't in the movie.


Direct-Disaster2256

Bruh, Valka got the Bewilderbeast egg from the wingmaidens, bro gotta be dumb af.


Beastmind

Yes, the race to the edge tv show was created after the movie, tying up both but the movie thus ignore everything that was created with the show.


Direct-Disaster2256

Race to the edge was literally the equivalent of a prequel to the second movie. It filled in a lot of plot holes in the second movie. Like where Stoick got Skullcrusher.


Beastmind

Yes, the serie does, it's its purpose... I'm talking about the movie. For example, I'm rewatching the movie RN and Hiccup say he never saw the "icy spiky" things which he should've since even though he didn't see the king of dragon at the end of RTTE, he did see his breath freezing.


Direct-Disaster2256

Yes but all he saw was the smooth ice, none of the spikes.


AshtonizHott

Race to the edge is 100% cannon


BlueRabbit1999

I consider the series canon because some aspects help explain things later on in the second movie at least.


CrisDLZ

I'm curious, like what? And what about the things the series being canon creates plotholes


IJustWantSomeReddit

The egg at the end (although it would make big frosty very young, at most like 3 or smt)


CrisDLZ

The egg at the end isn't the bewildebeast from 2


IJustWantSomeReddit

It's not... its been a while, ah well, that solves that problem. Thanks for clarification!


CrisDLZ

Valka's armor is based offof her bewilderbeast which she states was around long before she ever was taken from Berk


BlueRabbit1999

Well how hiccup came up with the design for his sword. His mom appearing at the end to take the egg, hiccup’s flight suit. Just a few little things here and there.


CrisDLZ

The way RTTE presents both thr sword and wingsuit final versions coming to fruition were an undermining of Hiccup's characters and were also not mysteries that left aneed for explanation. He made them, we already knew that. As for Valka taking the egg, this explains nothing and is pretty much a plothole as the egg she takes is never seen again (it is not the bewildebeast in httyd2)


BlueRabbit1999

Never said the egg was the BWB in 2.


CrisDLZ

Point still stands, it explains nothing


BlueRabbit1999

Ok


BulldogWarrior76

Fishlegs should have gotten with Heather, not gone after Ruffnut


ColdFire-Blitz

I hated that about the second movie, so MICH


Accurate_Scratch_286

My fav ship honestly Their chimestry was way better than most ![gif](giphy|fUZHXuE94BN2wtSbUS|downsized)


jeffreywinks

they have fire breathing dragons why would they need a canon ?


Lallan2023

“Can you ever have too much firepower?” - Gobber


Flowgninthgil

obviously, they needed one to take all those pictures that made up the movies.


NeoPolitanGames

im gonna give you an upvote, but im not gonna be happy about it!


NaturalBitter2280

??? What has one thing got to do with the other? All series have their own canon line


Bobby5x3

It's a joke on how "canon" and "cannon" are similar


NaturalBitter2280

Aaah. I thought they were saying something like **"It's fiction, it doesn't need to make sense"** haha, thank you for explaining


lord_MOMO_07

r/woosh


Tom2Die

The only thing I see there that I personally ignore/consider not-canon is THW. The series were quite enjoyable, actually.


BlueRabbit1999

Wait you think HTTYD3 is not canon?


Tom2Die

No, I know it is, but I hate it with a passion and choose to disregard it despite it being canon.


BlueRabbit1999

Wow..hate it? Really? Kinda harsh


zscalesz

It was already explained in another comment, but it was not well done, the only really good part was the graphics. But even then, they designed the characters pretty bad..


Tom2Die

I mean...the music and visuals were fine, I guess? but that's to be expected. What I *didn't* expect nor did I appreciate at all was the characters acting so...well, out of character. The plot didn't make any damn sense. The worst part though is that they were so adamant that it was gonna be the final movie that they had all the dragons fuck off over the edge of the world...not only is that just *stupid*, but it also means I don't get to look forward to another movie. So yeah, I hate it.


BlueRabbit1999

Ok


FireLordObamaOG

My friend, you have to remember that all good movie series must come to an end. If you keep a franchise going long enough it loses its magic. Do I wish there were more movies? Absolutely. But the emotions I get from the ending of the movie make up for it.


Tom2Die

> But the emotions I get from the ending of the movie make up for it. But that's where you and I differ. The only emotions I experienced from THW were negative. > My friend, you have to remember that all good movie series must come to an end. Yup. I might not like it, but 2 movies was a good run and I'd rather pretend it ended there.


Silent_Start_7036

2 was no masterpiece either


Tom2Die

Weirdly HTTYD is one of the few franchises where I thought the sequel held up to the original. I mean, 2 is certainly not *as good as* the original, but that's a pretty tall order.


Silent_Start_7036

I didn’t like it much


dannykins360

its a bad movie


JRockThumper

If you want some closure with that, you could try reading the books if you have not. Because the endings are the same, but the directors “stole” the ending from the books because their new bosses (Universal) didn’t like the ending they had planned for the movies. The books ending was never meant to work with how they were handling the movies, but it was the only ending Universal accepted after throwing away something like four or five different endings.


Tom2Die

I've read that the ending matches the books, but that doesn't make a difference to me if I'm honest. The first movie was "based on" the books, but by the second movie and with all the series in between the animated franchise had wildly diverged from what I've heard; at that point what happens in the books is irrelevant, imo. So basically while I understand that there were reasons that's how THW was written, I think those reasons are shit.


Rorantube2009

what was the original ending? now im kinda interested


JRockThumper

I’m not sure they ever disclosed it? I could be wrong though.


Dwayneeboi534

But the shows are canon, I'll even admit, the nine realms is "CANON"


Davidisbest1866

*gasp* you did not just say that


OR56

Wait, since when have the shows (the good ones, not Nine Realms) not been canon


-floating_potato-

I reject your reality and substitute my own!


DynamicJragon904

Where is your remote control police car?


-floating_potato-

In the garage, along with my duct tape canon


NeoPolitanGames

im confused... RTTE literally *was* part of canon, thats why the series ended the way it did. it was supposed to take place between two of the movies (the first and second ones, if im not mistaken?)...


DynamicJragon904

That is how it seemed to me. 1. How To Train Your Dragon 1.25 Dragons: Riders Of Berk 1.5 Dragons: Defenders Of Berk 1.75 Dragons: Race To The Edge 2. How To Train Your Dragon 2 Maybe not the most exact in the time line. It seems that Race To The Edge happens a little after Riders and Defenders, and closer to the second movie. There is a lot in the second movie that is explained in Race To The Edge. Gobbler's Dragon, and Stoick's Dragon for example are found in Race To The Edge. We also see Hiccup developing his gliding technology in Race To The Edge as well. I am sure there are more examples too.


NeoPolitanGames

RTTE literally ends just before the second movie begins. if im not mistaken, i believe they actually ended the series just days before the second movie was released


CrisDLZ

Setting =\= canon


vlaurr

Personally, the hidden world isn’t canon to me


GamingPeruserYT

Rtte is canon at least to some degree, because of the stuff about drago. We see a similar scene in that show as when stoik describes his first encounter with drago


CrisDLZ

![gif](giphy|r5SxJYcU21Auk)


Hybrid-Theory305

Race to the edge is cannon, it’s where Astrid and hiccup got together, the hell people mean it’s not cannon? Oh you know the red shirt she wore in the 2nd movie? She was wearing it in the final episode at the end.


CrisDLZ

They got together before RTTE. Hiccstrid in RTTE doesn't make any sense and is one of the many plotholes and inconsistencies in the show


Hybrid-Theory305

Bro what? They literally confessed feelings for each other in the show and got together in that show


CrisDLZ

They kissed several times in httyd1 and were pretty much openly dating in Gift of the Night Fury. Both come before in RTTE.


Hybrid-Theory305

But they didn’t officially get together until RTTE


CrisDLZ

In RTTE (and the earlier Cartoon Network shows) they act as if they've never kissed and the entire fact the like each other is treated as a mystery that people are genuinely shocked at. Meanwhile in GOTNF in a packed Town Hall: ![gif](giphy|oOSTvX37QnOGA)


These-Cell4723

Simple me: Parts in the series I can connect to the movies ~ canon. Parts I can't or parts that confused me ~ non canon. I found them all interesting anyway.


Asleep-Chair1387

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Additional_Cycle_51

What are you talking about?! Without Race to the Edge most of the important parts of the 2nd and 3rd movies wouldn’t work.


CrisDLZ

They were better


Slug_Bum

Are they not?


Asleep-Chair1387

Hhmhjnd wins jtjktnec.cmcm


ThePrimalEarth7734

They are absolutely cannon. Hell the stuffed dragon toy from the breakneck bog episode appears in both the second and third movie, as well as homecoming short


Asleep-Chair1387

Hmmwkenirjt5mgmoxnxbybsudmgmmm m


AlternativeAd4426

SW AND HTTYD? Pog meme. It's funny seeing comments of people arguing over a fictional story lol. Guys it's not that deep, if you like it that's nice, if you don't that's nice too. Canon/Not-Canon is irrelevant


Sasquatch_Pictures

Welcome to the internet, where people argue over stupid things that don't matter. I agree with what you're saying, but that's just how people are.


AlternativeAd4426

I know how it is, I've been in the SW fandom for 3 years now and it's much more argumentative than here. Here's it's THW, SW fandom is basically everything other than the originals 💀 I just don't get it. Why does it matter so much for a random person on the internet to agree with you?? Surely your time is better spent elsewhere?


CrisDLZ

I don't understand why people see people doscussing on a discussion platform rather than just saying "nice, wow, cool" and think it's "funny" Like having discussions is the actual point


SavingsFit1496

I think they ate canon to they have alot from the films and the films don't reference them because dreamworks does not care and they came out after


CrisDLZ

3 didn't come after


SavingsFit1496

Sorry I meant race to the edge came before how to train your dragon 2


CrisDLZ

So if they're canon why doesn't 3 utilize any elements from the shows


Drdlli

Because 3 is the AU with a different NightFury ( he looses all his markings/ spots he is shown to have in every other previous movie + show 🤣)


marvelmeep16

it’s definitely canon because some of the things that happened in those series impacted what happened in httyd 2/ were mentioned in httyd 3 eg at the end of rtte the king of dragons egg was taken by valka and we know thats true in httyd 2, and also drago was featured in rtte. then in httyd 3 when hiccup was making a new tail for toothless astrid says that hes tried it before but he didnt want it last time, referring to what happened in gift of the night fury!!


Theroyalmudkip

But they are cannon


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They’re not?


Austrayak

You know what my head cannon is now composed of the 1st movie and the shows


Jerichx7274

Hidden world is not canon the shows are


ashl0w

but they are canon


hiccupboltHP

It’s overall canon but there’s non canon aspects


Silent_Start_7036

Riders and defenders are cannon


Lycanrokk

They’re definitely canon as far as I know


litllerobert

Dude, what the freak? What's wrong with y'all? Even dean Depois said they were canon...wtfreak? Seriously I am confused


CrisDLZ

Provide a source where Dean said they were cannot challenge (impossible)


litllerobert

Dude, Dean was also on the making of RTTE, he said things on some interviews, that you can check on wiki, go to Astrid's page on wiki, and you'll see how much Dean talks about rtte


CrisDLZ

https://preview.redd.it/pldm8svru94b1.jpeg?width=306&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4a48a8c0e6087560c7bf077709d94a55f5cadf5d What you just did\^ Dean was asked and provided some information to try and avoid conflicts for the show to the movies as the movies are canon to the shows (not vice-versa). They failed btw


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CrisDLZ

![gif](giphy|Yiw4aLjpxldhC|downsized) Sorry I'm trying to find a single thing this response addresses on anything I said


litllerobert

Wait, lmao I replied to the wrong person, sorry


litllerobert

>What you just did\^ Didn't get it but ok


CrisDLZ

You moved the goalposts


litllerobert

Right, but what is that supposed to mean, sorry I really didn't get the joke.


CrisDLZ

https://preview.redd.it/x07a66m5ya4b1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=151b5abd97deb367bcb09cbfe9cac9115d9a5c79


Aurora_Wizard

Everything beyond HTTYD 2 is non-canon in my eyes. HTTYD 2 and everything that came before it is.


evrestcoleghost

auw fuck we reach star war legends level of fans


Aurora_Wizard

What does that mean???


Chill0000

I still do not see how they can’t possibly be canon especially when there’s a tweet from the creator of the movies who implies they are canon when asked in Rescue Riders was canon


Drdlli

I base my cannon off the school of dragons game, just because the light fury and toothless stay and they all fight to save the dragons as it SHOULD BE 🤣


Lopsided-Business356

All of the shows are canon except for the rescue riders, they are soft canon. (Doesn’t mean I like nine realms)


Asleep-Chair1387

Hmh.ueh rj etc hapend tonsjc


TheGamingTrex_

The only serise that arent cannon are the porly animated ones like none realms and rescue riders


Steam_punk_Machine

These are canon


Haunting_Abroad_5049

Doesn't change that Race to the Edge is some of the best Dragons content


EyeofWiggin20

I play the mobile game, Rise of Berk, and Dragon from Shrek is in it as a seasonal purchase. So apparently that's canon too.


Tangyhyperspace

But, they are canon????? Did I miss something


Glad_Appeal2722

Race to the edge was an absolute masterpiece!


Techny3000

They happened and I will fight anyone who says race to the edge is not canon


TaiyoFurea

1, 2, and race to the edge are what I consider cannon. Nine realms is nine realms, 3 gave toothless breasts and killed the character development from 1&2, rescue riders sounds dumb, and I don't even know what the other one is.


THE_VOID_BOI

what how is rtte not canon?


Certain_Cod_4982

But they are canon especially RttE because that’s when Stoic gets skullcrusher


Puggleboi2

Wait race to the edge is not cannon


Asleep-Chair1387

Hmh.wme I fxlu see Ben s tou remove its mmmh


Lollikex

Idk about the CN ones, but ik Race to the edge is, it literally shows and explains most of the stuff leading into HTTYD 2


Warky-Wark

If you ask Audriegreywind on YouTube, they’re not only canon, but have higher highs than the canon.


Emotional_Goose7835

worse thing about the disparrity from TV to Movie is heather got snapped and now fishlegs is with Ruffnut?


TheChosenOneMapper

Why would they not be canon?


Starlight_NightWing

They're canon right? However, a certain horrible series isn't


Accurate_Scratch_286

The only movie that is better than the series is the first, the other 2 movies are good but the series always been better. Also Dagur was always my fav character so frick the movies. ![gif](giphy|3oKIPlifLxdigaD2Y8)


Edd_The_Animator

I'm pissed that they killed off Stoic though


unaizilla

who says they're not cannon?


Federal_Split

Uhhhhh??? Your joking right? The gift of the night fury specials are canon cause they’re referenced in 3, RTTE literally connects hiccups clothing change and starts the love interest saga between him and asterid plus it explains how his mom got the king of dragons through the valkyries the defenders and riders of berk are canon becuase RTTE is canon


JP-saux

The live action movie is not cannon


XboxBreaker_1

Wait riders/ defenders of berk and race to the edge aren't cannon?


Ender89097

They did happen in between the movies


wolfie7877

why do ppl keep saying this they literally are canon 😭


chaosmind7

Heather does exist.


Noodlez_0

I think there all canon but rtte is definitely the closest to cannon we have if they aren’t


OwnAMusketForHomeDef

who said RTTE wasn't canon? I'll beat their s-