User blog comment:Dual Energon/What I think makes HTTYD 2 the supremely better movie./@comment-5690373-20151114030013/@comment-24865409-20160112025054

"His entire plan to save Berk depended on Toothless breaking out of the Bewilderbeasts control, but how did he know that was even possible??"

"Once you earn a dragon's loyalty, there is nothing it won't do for you."

Might I point out that the climactic battle in HTTYD 1 could have been avoided if Stoick wasn't such an incompetent fool.

"Also Hiccup wanted to talk some sense into Drago, but when did he ever change anyone's mind by talking?"

He changed the minds of his tribe in HTTYD 1.

Albeit, it was rushed, but he changed their minds nonetheless.

"He willingly and stupidly put himself in danger."

You mean how like Stoick stupidly put everyone in danger in HTTYD 1?

"Snot, Ruff and Tuff served the purpose of establishing that Hiccup was an outcast in the first movie."

And they never received any karma for it.

"Anyone other than these three barely treated Hiccup badly."

I disagree, but that's not the point.

"In the second movie they were there just as comic relief. They were even more irrelevant to the story than in the first movie."

Turning those jerks into comic relief is one of HTTYD 2's better changes.

And they never served a purpose in HTTYD 1 other than to be unbearable idiots.

"Valka never got redeemed for anything. Hiccup just accepted her as her mother simply because, Hiccup didn't even hold a grudge against her."

She does apologize and that's when their bond seems to finally solidify.

Oh yeah, call out Valka but don't call out Stoick for his abusive parenting.

Hiccup didn't even have a grudge against Stoick.

So did you think he would be any different with his mother?

"Hiccup and Astrid's relationship in HTTYD 2 is abusive. Hiccup is regularly getting punched by his girlfriend and I'm supposed to find it funny? Sorry, but Hiccup didn't laugh so I didn't."

Hypocrite.

She just punched him once in HTTYD 2 and grew out of it at the end.

She punched him a hell of a lot more in HTTYD 1 and the TV Show.

"The climax battle in HTTYD 1 was what the entire movie was building up to, I don't see how you call that unnecessary."

It goes against HTTYD 1's message of "dragons are not inherently bad".

The Red Death is just an animal trying to survive and it's slaughtered with no remorse.

"Drago as a villain has as much backstory as the Red Death. The difference is that the Red Death is an animal following its instincts, Drago is an intelligent human whose reasons were never explained and is evil just because."

Drago's village and family and arm were taken from him by dragons. That's enough information (though an additional flashback would have been welcome).

And again, if you say the Red Death is just trying to survive, why is it treated as a villain and killed with no remorse?