Stoick the Vast [to a Monstrous Nightmare that's out of fire breath]
You're all out.
Tied for 2nd most-quoted character in How to Train Your Dragon (2010): in 24 of its 93 quotes
Most scenes with: Hiccup (9), Gobber the Belch (8), Astrid (4)
We're Vikings! It's an occupational hazard!
More lines from Stoick the Vast
11 quotes Stoick the Vast Stoick the Vast Every time you step outside, disaster follows. Can you not see that I have bigger problems? Winter is almost near, and I have an entire village to feed!
Stoick the Vast Either we finish them, or they'll finish us!
Stoick the Vast [presents Hiccup with a horned hat]
Your mother would have wanted you to have it. It's half her breastplate. [points to his own hat] Matching set. Keeps her... keeps her close, you know.
Stoick the Vast I would have gone for the hammer.
Stoick the Vast [to Hiccup]
You've thrown your lot in with them. You're not a Viking. You're not my son.
Stoick the Vast [to Toothless]
Lead us home, Devil.
Stoick the Vast This isn't over! Form your ranks! Hold together!
Stoick the Vast (looks upon the Red Death)
Odin, help us.
Stoick the Vast [apologizing to Hiccup]
I'm sorry... for everything.
Stoick the Vast [to Hiccup]
I am proud to call you my son.
Scenes with Stoick the Vast
12 scenes
Aw, come on! Let me out, please. I need to make my mark!
Oh, you've made plenty of marks. All in the wrong places!
Please, two minutes. I'll kill a dragon; my life will get infinitely better. I might even get a date.
You can't lift a hammer. You can't swing an axe. You can't even throw one of these! [holds up a set of bolas, which a Viking snatches and throws at a Gronckle]
Okay, fine. But this... [gestures to a catapult invention] will throw it for me. [touches the machine and it goes off, firing a set of bolas out the window that hits a Viking]
Now, see, this right here... [gestures to Hiccup's invention] ...is what I'm talkin' about!
But, uh... mild calibration issue...
Don't you-- No...! Hiccup! If you ever want to get out there to fight dragons, you need to stop all... [gestures to all of Hiccup] this.
But you just pointed to all of me!
Yes, that's it. Stop being all of you.
Oh, yes.
[awkwardly, but standing his ground]
You-you, sir, are playing a dangerous game. Keeping this much raw... "Viking-ness" contained? THERE WILL BE CONSEQUENCES!
[voice-over]
One day I'll get out there. Because killing a dragon is everything around here. A Nadder head is sure to get me at least noticed. Gronkles are tough; taking down one of those would definitely get me a girlfriend. A Zippleback? Exotic. Two heads, twice the status. And then there's the Monstrous Nightmare. Only the best Vikings go after those. They have this nasty habit of setting themselves on fire.
Stoick [A fiery Monstrous Nightmare attacks the catapult crew]
Reload! [calmly] I'll take care of this.
Viking 1
NIGHT FURY!
Viking 2
GET DOWN!
Stoick [The catapult Stoick and the other men are on suddenly explodes. The Night Fury, Toothless responsible for the explosion shoots by, barely visible.] [To the other men]
Jump!
[voice-over]
This thing never steals food, never shows itself, and [The catapult is blasted once again by Toothless] never misses. No one has ever killed a Night Fury. That's why I'm gonna be the first.
[after making a disaster of the latest dragon raid]
Okay, but I hit a Night Fury. [Stoick angrily grabs him and drags him away] 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 [shouts]
STOP! [Hiccup stops, surprised] Just...stop. Every time you step outside, disaster follows! Can you not see that I have bigger problems?! Winter is almost here, and I have an entire village to feed.
[lowers his voice]
Well, between you and me, the village could do with a little less feeding, don't you think?
Stoick This isn't a joke, Hiccup! [sighs] Why can't you follow the simplest orders?
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 [sighs]
You are many things, Hiccup. But a dragon killer is not one of them. Get back to the house. [to Gobber] Make sure he gets there. I have his mess to clean up.
Stoick When I was a boy...
Oh, here we go...
Stoick My father told me to bang my head against a rock, and I did it. I thought he was crazy, but I didn't question him. And you know what happened?
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 who I was, what I had to become... Hiccup is not that boy.
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 [Hiccup returns home after failing to kill Toothless. He tries to sneak up to his bedroom, but Stoick hears him]
Hiccup...
Dad! Uh, I have to talk to you, Dad.
Stoick I need to speak with you too, son.
Stoick I think it's time you learned to fight dragons.
Stoick Uh, you go first.
Stoick Alright. [takes another deep breath] You get your wish. Dragon Training. You start in the morning.
[panicky]
Oh, man, I should have gone first! Uh, 'cause 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?
Stoick [not paying attention; drops a large battle axe into Hiccup's arms]
You'll need this.
Stoick [chuckles]
Oh, come on, yes, you do.
Rephrase: Dad, I can't kill dragons!
Stoick But you will kill dragons.
No... I'm really very extra sure that I won't.
Stoick It's time, Hiccup.
Stoick This is serious, son. [takes the axe from Hiccup] When you carry this axe, [returns the axe] you carry all of us with you. Which means you walk like us, you talk like us, you think like us. No more... [gestures to Hiccup] this.
Stoick Deal?
This conversation is feeling very one-sided...
Stoick Deal?
Stoick You've been keeping secrets.
I-I have?
Stoick Just how long did you think you could hide it from me?
I-I don't know what you're...
Stoick Nothing happens on this island without me hearing about it.
Oh?
Stoick [gravely]
So...let's talk...about that dragon.
Oh, gods... Dad, I'm so sorry, I-I was going to tell you, I just didn't know how to... [Stoick suddenly laughs heartily; Hiccup nervously laughs along] You're... you're not upset?
Stoick [still heartily]
WHAT? I was hoping for this!
Stoick And believe me, it only gets better! Just wait 'til you spill a Nadder's guts for the first time, and mount your first Gronckle head on a spear. [Pushes Hiccup in compassion and Hiccup falls down] WHAT A FEELING! You really had me going there, son! [Hiccup gets up] All those years of the worst Viking Berk has ever seen! [To the sky] Odin, it was rough. [To Hiccup] I almost gave up on you, and all the while, you were holding out on me! [Extremely joyous] OH, THOR ALMIGHTY! [Calms down] Oh! With you doing so well in the ring... [Sits down and scooches closer to Hiccup] we finally have something to talk about.
[During the last day of Dragon Training]
Stay out of my way! I'm winning this thing. [runs off]
[Stoick smiles and waves at Hiccup, who awkwardly returns the gesture. Astrid approaches Meatlug stealthily]
This time. This time, for sure!
Stoick [She prepares to attack Meatlug - only to find that Hiccup has somehow already defeated her. The Vikings cheer] [proudly]
That's my boy!
[furiously, wildly swinging her axe]
NO!!! NO!! SON OF A HALF-TROLL, RAT-EATING, MUNGE-BUCKET!!!
Oh-oh, not so fast!
Uh, I'm kind of late for...
Stoick [Hiccup is about to step in to fight a Monstrous Nightmare, Hookfang]
Well, I can finally show my face in public again! If anyone had told me that in just a few short weeks, Hiccup would have gone 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) 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)
What are you gonna do?
Put an end to this. I have to try. Astrid, if something... goes wrong, just make sure they don't find Toothless.
I will. Just... promise me it won't go wrong.
Stoick [Hiccup and Hookfang are face to face. Hiccup drops his knife and shield and reaches out to touch Hookfang. The Vikings start mumbling]
What's he doing?
[to Hookfang]
It's okay. It's okay. [takes his hat off and throws it aside] I'm not one of them.
Stoick [The Vikings gasp in shock]
Stop the fight.
No! I need you all to see this. They're not what we think they are. We don't have to kill them.
Stoick I SAID, STOP THE FIGHT!!! [whacks his hammer on the ring cage railing with a loud clang, which startles Hookfang into attacking Hiccup]
Stoick When we crack this mountain open, all hell is gonna break loose.
In my undies. Good thing I brought extras.
Stoick No matter how this ends, it ends today.
Stoick Odin help us...
[After Stoick rescues Hiccup and Toothless from drowning, Toothless motions to Hiccup]
You got it, bud. [mounts Toothless]
Stoick Hiccup! [grabs Hiccup's hand; Hiccup turns] I'm sorry... F-For everything.
Yeah, me too.
Stoick You don't have to go up there.
We're Vikings. It's an occupational hazard.
Stoick [takes his hand]
I'm proud to call you my son.
Thanks, Dad.
Twins
I'm on it!
Tuffnut
[arguing]
I'm on it first! I'm ahead of you!
Ruffnut
[arguing]
Hey! let me drive!
Tuffnut
Aw, I can't believe that worked!
NIGHT FURY! Get down! [Red Death pushes Astrid off her dragon and falls to her death until Toothless saves her]
Did you get her? [Toothless looks upside down to see if he saved Astrid. Then he safely put her down]
Go.
[last words]
That thing has wings! Okay, let's see if it can use them! Do you think you can do it? Okay Toothless, time to disappear! Come on, bud! Here it comes! Watch out! Okay, times up! Let's see if this works. COME ON! IS THAT THE BEST YOU CAN DO?! Stay with me, buddy. We're good. Just a little bit longer. Hold, Toothless... NOW! [a spiky ball comes through and hits them] No! NO!
Stoick Hiccup! HICCUP?! SON! [sees Toothless but with Hiccup nowhere to be found] Hiccup. [kneeling beside Toothless] Oh, son... I did this. [Toothless stirs and opens his eyes, looking at Stoick] [close to tears] I'm s... I'm so sorry. [Toothless lifts his wings, revealing Hiccup clutched in his arms] Hiccup! [picks him up, puts an ear to his chest and laughs with relief] Oh, he's alive! You brought him back alive! [the Vikings cheer and Stoick puts a hand on Toothless's head] Thank you for saving my son.
[comes over; grimacing]
Well... you know, most of him.
[Hiccup is later seen to have lost his foot during the battle]
Stoick [chuckling]
No, but you gave it your best shot. So, what do you think?
Viking
Look, it's Hiccup!
Stoick [The Vikings gather around Stoick and Hiccup]
Turns out all we needed was a little more of... [points to Hiccup] this.
[Stoick smiles and nods]
Well, most of you. [gestures to Hiccup's peg leg] That bit's my handiwork, with a little Hiccup flair throw in. You think it'll do?
[The Vikings laugh. Astrid comes up behind Hiccup and punches him in the arm]
That's for scaring me!
[shocked]
Wha-what?! What, is it always gonna be this way? 'Cause-- [Astrid cuts him off by kissing him on the lips. Hiccup's expression changes to one of pleasant surprise.] I could get used to it.
[Astrid smiles]
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