Film Theory: Wait… Dragons are REAL?! (How to Train Your Dragon)

It should be mentioned that, for quite a long time, the Komodo dragon’s deadly bite was actually quite a mystery. The inside of the lizard’s mouth is so full of dangerous bacteria and stuff that we couldn’t tell if it was the venom or illness that was deadlier and thus the true power of their bite. It was only relatively recently that we gained the technology to look into their venom better and discover that, although the germs in the Komodo dragon’s mouth are certainly strong enough to cause fatal illness, the venom is much worse.

Mad respect for Matpat, he has 3 other channels to work on and a live channel as well. Thank you for making HTTYD theories, this show made my childhood to this day.

I’m so glad you made a HTTYD theory. I’ve been waiting for one like this forever. It’s still one of my favorite movie series to this day

Man I used to spend days brainstorming about the biology of these fictional creatures. Ecological niches that they'd fill, the roles they'd took in history and our culture.

Was so excited to see MatPat make another HTTYD video. Instant rush of nostalgia man

HTTYD actually acknowledges the gas build up into fire breath as something dragons do. In the first movie, after hiccup and Toothless fly for the first time, a type of dragon called terrible terrors start to spit fire at toothless by building up gas into their mouth. But tootless shoots a small spark into the mouth before the dragon is ready, causing the gas to explode in the dragon's mouth. They show that because it sets up the ending of the final battle, where hiccup and toothless use the same trick to beat the red death (the big bad dragon).

Still one of my favorites animated movies of all time. Loved this nostalgic theory.

this turned out way more interesting than I thought it was going to be

Always love when matpat talks about kid movies/shows

This is why I love the How to Train Your Dragon universe, it's different dragons are made in such way that they make sense in one way or another and their bodies reflect that.

Not many of the dragons from the movie are actually in the books, (which I prefer) but I would love to see a monstrous nightmare in the books, just l would love to see an actual small toothless in the movies. (Toothless is a seadragonus giganticus maximus at a very young age, and seadragonus are tiny when they are young, tiny when they are old, and ABSOLUTELY giant when in the prime of their life).

Matpat and the theorists - not enough people know about the httyd books, they are one of my special interests - I HIGHLY reccomend you read them or listen (the audiobooks are on youtube). IMO, the books are superior and have a COMPLETELY different plot but the movies reference them occasionally. Also thank you for theorising HTTYD!

This video topic is actually something I've thought about for a few months for a personal project of mine. The way I've been rationalizing the Bewilderbeast's ice attack is by using super cooled pure water, like those videos of freezing cold bottles of liquid water flash freezing when they get hit. I had imagined their biology could filter out particles from the water (which they could use for nutrition to help get so big like a whale) and then store that pure water in an organ somewhere to be spat out later. Them being a tidal class dragon might also help with this as having the water all around them could help cushion the super cooled water and keep it from freezing inside them. They could potentially control the amount of water they release too to give a little puff of water that would freeze into ice crystals in the air almost like snow like we see with Hicup and Valka

I'd love to see a part 2 to this video, talking about other dragons from the franchise, like the Fireworms, the Death Song, the Gronkle, the Flightmare, the Changewing, and the Razorwhip.

I love HTTYD so much and I'm so happy that it's getting recognition again because I was literally raised on it and I would LOVE to see another video on it showing all the other subspecies of the dragons like the bone snatcher, the speed stingger, even the changewing and its ability camouflage perfectly, and my favorite the Death Song an how it spits liquid amber that hardens almost immediately. Idk it would just be really cool to see these dragons explained along with a lot of others because HTTYD is so thought out and all their dragons are so different I just feel like the 5 main abilities just cant cover them all

The best part of the channel is the editing hasn’t changed in 7 years Fantastic

God am I happy to see u still making HTTYD theories. HTTYD was literally my entire childhood. The movies, shows, and games Edit: Yes, I love the original books too

11:10 That Snap! 😂😂

At 3:27 it jitters, but on the whole another perfect video from matpat

I’m hurt by the lack of references to the Dragon Prince, given that they portray both electric and fire breathing dragons 😭