"How to Train Your Dragon" Talkback (Spoilers)

I just realized that I can write an essay about how HTTYD has a lot of Freudian themes about it. NSFW. Click at your own peril.
You see. The Dragons are merely the wild id of our own sexuality. The reason the vikings fight them is because they are a representation of how emasculated males are in modern society. We must kill our sexuality, and hide our shame by masking it with the boosting our other body parts.

The Night Fury represents the ultimate apogee of our sexuality. You look at the distinct smoothness of its colour, skin, and design, and it resembles the perfect uncut phallus. Hiccup tries to succumb to the fake sexuality of his society, but ultimately decides instead to learn about his sexuality, and eventually master it. The flight scenes are the climax in the unity between man and dragon, as in man and his own sexual being, one in harmony in the sky. And eventually we realize that our sexuality is not as bad as it seems.

In fact sometimes our sexuality is controlled by an alpha sex. One that forces the promiscuous endeavour to screw things over for anybody, and emasculating us along the way. This is how the final dragon villain is represented. It is by destroying this false morality and false id that puts our sexuality into bondage and makes us afraid of it, that it allows us to live in peace and harmony with us, comfortable in our own skins. Thus, we have reached the heavenly balance that realizes our human frailties and our true sexuality, and how we can control it once and for all.
 
I think they understand being caged, being hit, and being killed. Even dogs understand this. And if you look at the gestures Toothless makes they must be rather intelligent. Also, the group we see is obviously very inept because Hiccup screws everything up. Other groups probably get some good hits on the dragons.
 
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