Terror and the Impracticality of Non-Violence in How To Train Your Dragon 2 — collider.com

About a third of the way through How to Train Your Dragon 2, there’s a curious exchange between audience-surrogate Hiccup (Jay Baruchel) and his domineering papa Stoick (Gerard Butler). The two are arguing over the picture’s villain (the aptly named Drago Bludvist [Bloodfist]) and how to deal with his – Drago’s – crusade to enslave all the dragons and annihilate the world. Hiccup passionately implores his father for some sort of civil discourse. He argues that if they could only talk to Drago then they could reason with him. Minds can be swayed, hearts changed Hiccup pleads. But Stoick isn’t having it. Some men cannot be reasoned with, some hearts cannot be changed. War is inevitable.

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