Talk:Dragons: Race to the Edge, Season 6/@comment-33257948-20171109022204/@comment-3361111-20180101155602

Neither HTTYD2 or the series are more canon than each other. They're more like branches of a tree that ascen from the same trunk, the first movie. In my opinion, the second movie is less canon than the series, since Riders and Defenders of Berk existed before the second movie, and people who watch the series generally prefer the first movie and the series over the second movie. The people who wrote the second movie clearly wrote it as a deuterocanon special to the series, as is common with movies for television series, failing to incorporate elements of the Cartoon Network series that the movie writers were not aware of existing, because they wrote it for those who had never seen the series. The writers of both should have outlined the main changes in the series, so that they could address them in the second movie. Instead, they tried to make a bridge in the Netflix series, but outside of a couple little things, nothing in the Netflix series has anything to do with the second movie.

Gift of the Night Fury seems to be the only thing that is non-canon to the rest of the series, because later episodes, specifically "Total Nightmare," ignore the existence of the babies in "Gift of the Night Fury." Seeing as how the special was made before the series was started, they knew they would have to make it non-canon to ignore the riders' dragons being parents after that. It's not uncommon for series to have to change things in the first couple of years like that.