User blog comment:Megadracosaurus/STOP HATING STOICK!!!/@comment-24865409-20151104090601/@comment-24018437-20151113161348

Hiccup never fully understood it wasn't a game. He saw the entire war as a way to become popular with the tribe. Stoick and Adtrid and knew the harsh reality: it was a battle for survival, one that Hiccup didn't take seriously at first. And like I said in another post, can you honestly blame the Vikings for hating Dragons? And Hiccup did cause trouble. It was in the very opening of the film. It was his fault that the Dragons the Vikings captured were released, and that they lost their food. If the heir of a Tribe doesn't care that his Tribe is gonna starve to death, something is off. And while the Dragons were indeed part of the reason the Village almost got destroyed in the opening, who caused that giant torhc thing to roll through the village again? A Nightmare. And who was it firing at? Hiccup. Of course, he did managed to shoot down Toothless before that, but still.

And why was Hiccup treated like Crap, as you say? Not because he was small and weak, though that was part of the reason. It was because he caused so much trouble. Would you really want to be friends with someone who endangered the lives of other's? And Hiccup NEVER listened. Stoick and Astrid and Gobber did gave him good advice from time to time. But he never listened! He only made things worse...Of course, him not listening paid of in the end when he befriended Toothless. Although it did backfire slightly in the second film. Stoick was right about Drago, when he said that diplomacy wouldn't work on him.