User blog comment:Dual Energon/What I think makes HTTYD 2 the supremely better movie./@comment-24018437-20151113155518/@comment-24865409-20151115035242

@ Lightning the Skrill

Maybe if Stoick had placed a lot more trust and love in Hiccup, maybe I could feel more sympathy for Stoick. Key word "if".

Instead, all we got was:

"Stop all of this."

"Stop being all of you."

"Deal? DEAL?!" (Oh yeah, forcing a deal on someone is a brilliant way to get them to do what you want.)

"You're many things, but a dragon killer is not one of them." (At the time that's basically saying you are not like us and never will be.)

"All those years of the WORST VIKING Berk has seen!"

"I almost gave up on you!" (Saying that straight to your child's face. Nice parenting... NOT!)

And yet after all of this, people are still trying to say that Stoick is not abusive. Yeah right.

If Stoick can't even make his son feel loved, then what's the point of caring for Stoick as a character?