‘This is Berk’: How to Train Your Dragon Memes for Modern-day Vikings Expecting Their Pet Dragon

Giuliana Tiscioni • Writer

Aug 12, 2026 2:00 PM EDT

Do you also love the scene where Toothless and Hiccup fly together for the first time?

We will never forget the emotion we felt the first time we saw it. The adrenaline, the music that actually made us feel like flying, and the bond forming between Hiccup and Toothless was an experience hard to match. We don't know what kind of magic John Powell put in his score, but it definitely worked. His music accompanies the whole movie perfectly and transports you into a universe of magic and adventure. Test Drive must match the exact feeling of being completely free for the first time.

DreamWorks has that in its favor; the studio knows how to write and produce a wholesome and engaging story. The entire How to Train Your Dragon saga is beautifully animated and excellently written. You can see throughout the movies and TV shows how the characters grow and turn into the adults who are going to take on their respective places to fulfill their roles. They each have a full-circle moment when looking back at the first time they show up on screen. They are an excellent example of breaking damaging family patterns and making peace with themselves and their parent's expectations, Hiccup above all the others.

He starts as this insecure kid whose father is admired and feared by everyone, and he feels like he will never be good enough because he is vastly different from him. Throughout the film, he discovers his own talents and what makes him special, showing everybody that he doesn't need to be a replica of his father, and there are many different ways of living, some even better than what they were used to. They develop a whole new way of life, so at the end they set free what they love most, knowing that their bond is unbreakable, and that they will reunite when the time is right. It's a beautiful way to explain how life works, making it all the more interesting by adding dragons.

We've all felt related to Hiccup at some point, whether it's because of our own family dynamics, our search for our identity, or his unshakeable love for his pet, a type of bond we all understand. This pack of memes will make us laugh at the best moments of the movie, as well as display the soft side of our dragon scales.