Stoick Quotes in How to Train Your Dragon (2010)

Hiccup: [as Toothless gestures for him to get on] You got it, bud.

[He mounts Toothless, preparing to fly after the Green Death dragon]

Stoick: [grabbing Hiccup's arm] Hiccup!... I'm sorry. For-for everything.

Hiccup: Yeah, me too.

Stoick: You don't have to go up there.

Hiccup: [smiling] We're Vikings. It's an occupational hazard.

Stoick: [taking his hand] I'm proud to call you my son.

Hiccup: Thanks, Dad.

[takes off]

Stoick: [to Toothless] Thank you, for saving my son.

Gobber: [grimacing] Well, you know... *most* of him.

Stoick: Turns out all we needed was a little more of...

[gestures to Hiccup]

Stoick: This!

Hiccup: You just gestured to all of me!

[seeing Toothless down, with Hiccup nowhere in sight]

Stoick: [kneeling beside Toothless] Oh, son... I did this.

[Toothless stirs and opens his eyes, looking at Stoick]

Stoick: I'm s... I'm so sorry.

[Toothless rolls to the side and lifts his wings, revealing Hiccup clutched in his arms]

Stoick: Hiccup!

[Stoick picks him up, puts an ear to his chest and laughs with relief]

Stoick: Ah, he's *alive*! You brought him back alive!

[Vikings cheer]

Stoick: [about Hiccup] What am I going to do with him, Gobber?

Gobber: Put 'im in training with the others.

Stoick: No, I'm serious!

Gobber: So am I!

Stoick: He'd be killed before you let the first dragon out of its cage!

Gobber: Ah, you don't know that.

Stoick: I do know that.

Gobber: No you don't.

Stoick: No, actually, I do.

Gobber: No, you don't!

Stoick: Listen, you know what he's like. From the time he could crawl he's been... different. He doesn't listen, he has the attention span of a sparrow... I take him fishing and he goes hunting for, for trolls!

Gobber: Trolls exist! They steal your socks. But only the left ones. What's with that?

Stoick: When I was a boy...

Gobber: Oh here we go.

Stoick: ...my father told me to bang my head against a rock and I did it! I thought I was crazy, but I didn't question him. And you know what happened?

Gobber: You got a headache.

Stoick: That rock split in two! It taught me what a Viking can do, Gobber, he can, he can crush mountains, level forests, tame seas! Even as a boy, I knew what I was, what I had to become... Hiccup is not that boy.

Gobber: You can't stop him, Stoick. You can only prepare him. I know it seems hopeless, but the truth is you won't always be around to protect him! He's going to get out there again. He's probably out there now!

Stoick: [as Hiccup tries to sneak past] Hiccup.

Hiccup: Dad! Uh, I have to talk to you, Dad.

Stoick: I need to speak with you too, son.

[They both take deep breaths, then both speak at once]

Stoick: I think it's time you learned to fight dragons.

Hiccup: I've decided I don't want to fight dragons.

[then]

Stoick, Hiccup: What?

Stoick: Uh, you go first.

Hiccup: No no, no, *you* go first.

Stoick: All right. You get your wish. Dragon training. You start in the morning.

Hiccup: Oh, man, I should have gone first... Because, I was thinking, you know, we have a surplus of dragon-fighting Vikings, but do we have enough... *bread-making* Vikings, or small home-repair Vikings...?

Hiccup: [Stoick has just thrust a large battle axe into his hands] I... don't wanna fight dragons.

Stoick: [chuckles] Oh, come on, yes you do.

Hiccup: Rephrase: Dad, I *can't* kill dragons.

Stoick: But you *will* kill dragons!

Hiccup: No, I'm really, very extra sure that I *won't*.

Stoick: It's time, Hiccup...

Hiccup: Can you not *hear* me?

Stoick: This is *serious*, son. When you carry this axe, you carry all of us with you. Which means, you walk like us, you talk like us, and you think like us. No more of... this!

[gestures to all of Hiccup]

Hiccup: [miffed] You just gestured to *all* of me.

Stoick: Deal?

Hiccup: This conversation is feeling very one-sided...

Stoick: *Deal*?

Hiccup: [sighs, giving in] Deal.

Stoick: [presenting Hiccup with a helmet] Your mother would have wanted you to have it. It's half of her breastplate.

[Hiccup quickly takes his hand off the helmet]

Stoick: [tapping his own helmet] Matching set. Keeps her... keeps her close, you know.

Stoick: Either we finish them, or they'll finish us! It's the only way we'll be rid of them! If we find the nest and destroy it, the dragons will leave. They'll find another home! One more search, before the ice sets in.

Viking: Those ships never come back!

Stoick: We're Vikings! It's an occupational hazard. So, who's with me?

[Muttering and mumbling, most of the Vikings decline]

Stoick: All right. Those who stay will look after Hiccup.

Viking: To the ships!

Viking: I'm with you, Stoick!

Stoick: Aye, that's more like it.

Stoick: When we crack this mountain open, all hell is going to break loose.

Gobber: And my undies. Good thing I brought extras.

Hiccup: I knew it... I'm dead.

Stoick: [laughing] No, but you gave it your best shot.

Hiccup: [watching the dragons take off with their livestock] Okay, but I hit a Night Fury.

[Stoick grabs him and begins hauling him up the hill]

Hiccup: Ahh, it's not like the last few times, Dad, I mean, I *really* actually hit it! You guys were busy and I had a very clear shot, it went down just off Raven Point. Let's get a search party out there before it...

Stoick: STOP! Just... stop. Everytime you step outside, disaster falls. Can you not see that I have bigger problems? Winter is almost here and I have an entire village to feed!

Hiccup: Eh, between you and me, the village could do with a little *less* feeding, don't you think?

[the Vikings behind him touch their stomachs self-consciously]

Stoick: This isn't a joke, Hiccup! Agh, why can't you follow the simplest orders?

Hiccup: I - I can't stop myself! I see a dragon and I have to just... kill it, you know? It's who I am, Dad.

Stoick: Oh, you are many things, Hiccup. But a dragon killer is not one of them. Get back to the house.

[to Gobber]

Stoick: Make sure he gets there! I have his mess to clean up.

[Gobber smacks Hiccup upside the head to get him walking]

Tuffnut: [to Hiccup] Quite the performance.

Snotlout: I've never seen anyone mess up that badly. That *helped*!

Hiccup: Thank you, thank you, I was trying, so...

Stoick: Well, I can show my face in public again! If someone told me that in a few short weeks, Hiccup would go from, well, being, uh... *Hiccup*, to placing first in dragon training? Well, I would have tied him to a mast and shipped him off, for fear he'd gone mad!

[laughter]

Stoick: And you know it! But, here we are. And no one's more surprised... or more *proud*, than I am. Today, my boy becomes a Viking. Today, he becomes one of us!

[cheering]

Stoick: [confronts Hiccup about his friendship with Toothless] I should have known. I should have seen the signs.

Hiccup: Dad...

Stoick: We had a deal!

Hiccup: I know, we did, but that was before I, I... agh, it's all so messed up...

Stoick: So everything in the ring... A trick? A lie!

Hiccup: I screwed up. I should have told you before now; just... take this out on *me*, be mad at *me*, but please... just don't hurt Toothless!

Stoick: [shocked] The dragon? *That's* what you're worried about? Not the people you almost killed?

Hiccup: H-he was just protecting me! He's not dangerous!

Stoick: They've killed *hundreds* of us!

Hiccup: And we've killed *thousands* of them! They defend themselves, that's all! They raid us because they have to! If they don't bring enough food back, they'll be eaten themselves! There's, something *else* on their island, Dad, it... It's a dragon like...

Stoick: [interrupting] Their *island*! So you've been to the nest...

Hiccup: [realizes his mistake] Did I say nest?

Stoick: [demandingly] How did you find it?

Hiccup: What, no, I, I didn't! Toothless did, only a dragon can find the island!

[Stoick pauses; Hiccup realizes what he is thinking]

Hiccup: Oh no, Dad, no please, it's not what you think, you don't know what you're up against, it's like nothing you've ever seen!

[Stoick shoves Hiccup out of the way]

Hiccup: Dad please, I promise you, you can't win this one! Dad, no!

[Stoick continues to walk away. Hiccup runs up to him and grabs his arm, on the brink of tears]

Hiccup: For *once* in your *life*, would you please just *listen* to me?

Stoick: [throws him aside] You've thrown your lot in with *them*. You're not a Viking... You're not my son.

[leaves and closes the door behind him]

Stoick: READY THE SHIPS!

Viking: Get to the ships!

Stoick: No, no...!

[the Green Death blasts the Viking ships, trapping the Vikings on the beach]

Gobber: Smart, that one.

Stoick: I was a fool. Lead the men to the far side of the island!

Spitelout: Right!

Stoick: Gobber, go with the men!

Gobber: I think I'll stay, just in case you're thinking of doing something crazy.

Stoick: I can buy them a few minutes if I give that thing something to hunt!

Gobber: [takes his hand] Then I can double that time.

Gobber: [the Green Death emerges] Beard of Thor! What *is* that?

Stoick: [overwhelmed] Odin help us...

[running after the Mother Dragon]

Stoick: [shouts] Here!

Gobber: [chuckling] Oh-ho-ho, no...

[shouts]

Gobber: Here!