The live-action How To Train Your Dragon remake is hitting theaters this weekend as fans new and old line up to journey to Berk with Hiccup and Toothless in an entirely new medium. But after the credits roll on this genuinely compelling reimagining of the 2010 classic, is there any sort of post-credits scene for fans to feast their eyes on?
Post-credits scenes have existed in cinema since The Silencers in 1966, but grew to prominence after the first Iron Man and the rise of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Now, anyone and everyone, including live-action remakes of animated films, have them too. Yes, How to Train Your Dragon does include a small bonus scene at the very end of the credits. As for what it is and what it means, you’ll have to keep reading to find out.
What happens in How To Train Your Dragon‘s post-credits scene?
After the initial set of credits give us several sweeping landscape shots of Berk, we then cut to the main credits overlayed on top of what appear to be pages from the Book of Dragons. This is confirmed once we actually get to the post-credits scene, in which a just-off-screen Hiccup places his drawing of Toothless from earlier in the film into the aforementioned book; indicating that he plans to update the Night Fury section of the text using what he’s learned from Toothless.
What does this mean for How To Train Your Dragon 2?
2014’s How To Train Your Dragon 2 is already set to be adapted in live-action in June 2027 as a follow-up to this remake. In that film and its sequel, How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, Hiccup and Toothless spend a considerable amount of time discovering new dragon species and exploring new lands beyond Berk. You could say that Hiccup placing the Night Fury drawing into the Book of Dragons is indicative of his new role as the island’s primary dragon expert per the mainstream adoption of dragons at the end of this film.
But given how brief the scene is, it tells us very little else about what to expect from the live-action How To Train Your Dragon 2, beyond the fact that it will most likely follow the original largely to the letter in the same way that this film followed the first film. There’s no sign of the five-year time skip between films like the animated version as of yet, nor is there any particular indication as to what any characters besides Hiccup will be doing in the sequel.
And of course, there’s no mention nor any hint of casting for HTTYD 2‘s major new characters: the villain Drago Bludvist, the dragon trapper Eret and Hiccup’s not-actually-dead mother Valka. These three were played by Djimon Hounsou, Kit Harrington, and Cate Blanchett respectively in the original and it is unclear as to whether or not any of these three actors will return like Gerard Butler did for this film, reprising his role as Stoick.
Indeed, while How To Train Your Dragon‘s post-credits scene may offer a subtle hint at what’s to come for our main hero, it’s not really meant as an epic tease for more despite the sequel already being confirmed. Rather, it’s meant as a simple bookend to the story we just watched, allowing the film to stand on its own while still giving audiences who waited through the credits a nice bonus.
The live-action How To Train Your Dragon is now playing in theaters
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