The series was released on both Peacock and Hulu on December 23, 2021, while season two was released on May 5, 2022.[1] The third season was released on August 18, 2022,[2] while the fourth season was released on November 17, 2022.[3] The fifth season was released on March 2, 2023.[4]
Premise
The series is set in the modern world, 1,300 years after the events of How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019). It follows a group of misfit kids, brought by their parents to a huge fissure caused by a comet, who uncover the truth about dragons and where they've been hiding.[5]
Characters and cast
Main
Jeremy Shada as Tom Kullersen, an adventurous and kindhearted fourteen-year-old who is the leader of the Dragon Riders. In season 5, he is revealed to be a descendant of Chief Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III. His dragon is a Night Light (Night Fury/Light Fury hybrid) named Thunder.
Ashley Liao as Jun Wong, Tom’s childhood friend who has an interest in myths and fantasy stories. Her dragon is a two-headed Mist Twister named Wu & Wei.
Marcus Scribner as D'Angelo Baker, the team's veterinarian. His dragon is a crystal-horned Gembreaker named Plowhorn.
Aimee Garcia as Alex Gonzalez, the team's socially awkward tech expert, who never goes anywhere without her tablet. Her dragon is a cloaking Featherhide named Feathers.
Vincent Tong as Eugene Wong, Jun's cocky elder brother. He discovers the dragons in season 3 and is reluctantly accepted into the club. His dragon is a six-legged Deadly Spinner named Webmaster.
Recurring and Supporting
Julia Stiles as Olivia Kullersen, Tom's mother and a geologist who works at Project ICaRIS. She finally discovers the dragons in the season 4 finale. Like her son, she is also a descendant of Hiccup.
Haley Joel Osment as Leonard "Buzzsaw" Burne, a lumberjack turned dragon-hunter and the main antagonist of the series. He starts hunting dragons after a forest fire burns down his logging business which he wrongfully believes Thunder started. He discovers the Hidden World in the season 3 finale, and eventually acquires his own dragon: a Timberjack named Old Jack.
Carrie Keranen as Wilma Sledkin, a cocky and devious Rakke Corp scientist. She has a bitter rivalry with Olivia, and often attempts to discredit her work. She is known for always putting the company's needs above the people she works with.
Keston John as Philip Baker, D'Angelo's father and the chief of security at Project ICaRIS.
Lauren Tom as May Wong, Jun and Eugene's strict dwarf mother and the director of Project ICaRIS.
Pavar Snipe as Angela Baker, D'Angelo's wheelchair-bound mother and the head medic at Project ICaRIS.
Angelique Cabral as Hazel Gonzalez, one of Alex's mothers and a biologist at Project ICaRIS.
Justina Machado as Carla Gonzalez, one of Alex's mothers and a cave botanist at Project ICaRIS.
Story by : Henry Gilroy Teleplay by : Henry Gilroy and John Tellegen Storyboard by : Sol Chen, Micah Gunnell, Paul Cohen, Ibraheem Jara, Josh Covey, Tim Maltby, George Gipson and Eric Pinedia
December 23, 2021 (2021-12-23)
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Robert Briggs
Storyboard by : Josh Covey, Ji-Young Na and Chris Staggs Written by : John Tellegen
Tom Kullerson and his mom, Olivia, arrive by helicopter at the Kullerson Fissure, a massive trench in the earth's crust that goes down 7 miles created by a meteor strike, which also happens to be home to Project ICARIS: a scientific research station built to study the phenomenon. Once there, Olivia gets to work while Tom takes an orientation course of ICARIS with 3 other kids; Jun Wong, a childhood friend who believes in all things mythical and magical; D'Angelo Baker, an animal-loving army brat; and Alexandra 'Alex' Gonzalez, a shy and reserved computer hacker with the online alias "Cinnabot538". However, Tom chooses to run off to see the fissure and barely manages to help Phillip Baker, ICARIS' Chief of Security, save a worker who nearly fell in when an earthquake struck, catching a glimpse of a glowing creature underneath the fissure. That night, Tom catches up with Jun and decides to send a camera drone down into the fissure. The drone shorts out partway down and, despite being warned against it, Tom heads down into the fissure in order to retrieve it. Down there, he discovers a creature caught beneath rubble and frees it, inadvertently making a most remarkable discovery: a real live dragon. Tom finds himself face to face with the dragon and freaks out. As the skittish beast flies away, he attempts to climb back up but fails and falls down the fissure. He gets rescued by the dragon, who drops him off in a cave. After the dragon's curiosity gets on Tom's nerves, he finds a way out of the cave and heads back to ICARIS to rest for the night. The next day, he can't help but wonder as to what he saw that night, and Jun suggests that it might be a dragon. While Jun believes that the dragons may be real, Alex points out that if they were real, they would be hunted, exploited, and monopolized for profit, causing Tom to decide to keep the dragon a secret. With some help from Alex, Tom finds the cave where the dragon lives and befriends it. While going a flight with the dragon, an earthquake causes them to forcibly land and discover a crystalline cave with an entire realm filled with dragons. Dragons discovered : Night Light
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"A Hole New World"
Andrew Collins
Storyboard by : Federico Ferrari, Derek Moore and Belynda Smith Written by : Emma Dudley
December 23, 2021 (2021-12-23)
Tom's astonishment is short-lived when his mother calls him and he races home. The next day, sensors are put up and Tom asks for Alex's help in sneaking past. As Tom heads for the cave, Jun catches up and goes down the cave where the Night Light sleeps. She is awestruck to finally meet a dragon in real life but as she attempts to take a picture of it, Tom convinces her otherwise in order to keep their existence a secret and, after naming it "Thunder", brings her to the hidden world. She is amazed and sees a pack of dragons feasting on the crystals. When she approaches, however, they quickly become aggressive and attack. As the trio try to escape, Jun falls down to a cavern while Tom and Thunder are kept busy by the aggressive dragons. Down the cavern, she discovers a two-headed dragon with the ability to breathe fire and ice and unsuccessfully attempts to befriend them by asserting dominance or tricking them with treasure repeatedly. As she laments her inability to train them, the dragon sympathizes with her and realizes they deserve respect. This allows her to bond with them and she names them "Wu and Wei". Together, they escape the cavern just as it collapses. She reunites with Tom and Thunder after the two manage to escape the aggressive pack of dragons. As they fly away, the dragons abruptly stop on their path and growl at a gigantic hole in the wall. Dragons discovered : Terrible Terror, Gembreaker and Mist Twister
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"Dragon Club"
Mandy Clotworthy
Storyboard by : Abby McKenzie, Adam Murphy and David Smith Written by : Mark Henry
December 23, 2021 (2021-12-23)
Tom and Jun wonder what could've made the hole and go on their way. As they fly, they notice an injured Gembreaker dragon nearby. As they come closer, the dragon becomes aggressive and they decide to help it by returning to ICARIS to gather medical supplies, while almost being seen by a flying camera drone. In the hospital area, D'Angelo is helping his mother arrange supplies and reveals to her his struggles with befriending the others. He catches Tom and Jun stealing a first-aid kit and wishes to come along as he possesses veterinary skills. Jun convinces a reluctant Tom to reveal their secret to a terrified and hesitant D'Angelo. They bring him to the hidden world and convince him to help the injured dragon. While they initially struggle to come closer, D'Angelo manages to get close enough to treat her and, remembering his mother's advice, allowing them to bond. Afterward, the aggressive Gembreakers return and bully her, causing D'Angelo to intervene and distract the bullies while the dragon flies away. As they are chased by the bullies, the dragon returns. With the others surrounded, the two work together and break a large crystal from above which falls right onto the Gembreakers, which sends them fleeing. D'Angelo joins the club and names the female Gembreaker "Plowhorn". Back at ICARIS, Tom and Jun join D'Angelo for dinner where he nearly exposes their secret to his father, but soon convinces him that it was all just a game that they were playing.
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"Featherhide"
Andrew Collins
Storyboard by : Manny Banados, Federico Ferrari, Derek Moore and Belynda Smith Written by : Mae Catt
December 23, 2021 (2021-12-23)
While flying through the fissure, Thunder gets distracted by the sight of lightning and almost gets caught by a flying helicopter, while being secretly followed by an invisible dragon. Alex sees glimpses of Thunder and becomes suspicious of Tom. Back at the cave, the group is being watched by the invisible dragon as they practice their stealth skills. Alex tries to find Tom in the woods and sees the dragons, which scares her and sends her running back home with the trio and the dragons in pursuit. The invisible dragon follows her and reveals itself to the group, which Alex is initially scared of. Her parents come home just as the Riders try to wrangle the dragon, and choose to let Alex hang out with her new friends by heading out. Alex tries to avoid the dragon and eventually opens up to Tom about her past and fear of the outside world. After some comforting words from Tom, Alex is able to bond with the dragon which she attributes to a creature from her ancestral culture. After dodging security and a cranky sheep, the kids successfully flee into the woods along with their dragons. At the cave, Alex joins the Dragon Riders and names her dragon 'Feathers' while Tom realizes Thunder acted strange because he is searching for his own family that he was separated from and promises to help him find them. Dragons discovered : Featherhide
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"Fault Ripper"
Mandy Clotworthy
Storyboard by : Abby McKenzie, Adam Murphy and David Smith Written by : John Tellegen
December 23, 2021 (2021-12-23)
ICARIS begins experiences dangerous tremors and Olivia suggests that they send a manned probe down the fissure to blow up the area that is the very source, which worries Tom as it is very close to the entrance of the Hidden World. While discussing the issue, Wilma Sledkin (Olivia's rival) arrives and tries to shut Olivia's plan down. The staff side with Olivia and proceed with her plan. Concerned for their dragons' safety, Tom and the others decide to send them to the hidden world. As they leave, the kids discover that a burrowing dragon has been causing the quakes. Tom realizes that they'll have to save their parents on their own. Tom and Jun take the probe into the fissure while D'Angelo and Alex keep watch. Down there, they confront the subterranean dragon and discover it is blind. Chief Baker arrives forcing D'Angelo to flee, and begins to pull up the probe after Tom and Jun manage to reach the ledge. Olivia and Baker take the probe back down while Tom and Jun arrive at the entrance only to find it collapsed. Olivia and Baker carry out the plan, but the explosion attracts the Fault Ripper who knocks them unconscious. Thunder and the dragons reunite with Tom and Jun and as Tom and Thunder engage the Fault Ripper, Jun breaks for the Surface while Olivia catches a glimpse of Tom riding Thunder. Thunder frees the probe allowing it to return to the surface. Together with the other kids, they defeat the dragon by exploiting its weakness to sound and send it falling into the fissure. The probe returns and Olivia dismisses her vision of Thunder as a dream, maintaining the secret. Back at the cave, the kids swear to protect the dragon's secret and place their handprints on a rock. Thunder marks as a symbol on the rock which Tom recognizes from his mom's ancestral Viking helmet. Dragons discovered : Fault Ripper
Season 2 (2022)
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"Uniconned"
Robert Briggs
Storyboard by : Josh Covey, Travis Marks, Jin-Young Na and Chris Staggs Written by : Emma Dudley
May 5, 2022 (2022-05-05)
Time has passed since the battle with the Fault Ripper but Tom is still plagued by dreams of the event, the dragon riders begin to explore other parts of the hidden world. While exploring the group discovers the same group of gembreakers trapping something in a small cave. After opening the crevice, they find a small cute dragon inside. Jun is smitten by it and asks the others to let her keep it but Tom, D'Angelo and Alex refuse since it is against the rules. Jun smuggles the dragon out of the fissure and into her house but is shocked to find her older brother Eugene waiting for her, she avoids him and runs into her room. Jun names the dragon "Nibbles", since it likes to nibble food and tries to go to sleep, but Nibbles tricks Jun into letting him out and makes a mess in the kitchen. Jun is almost caught by Eugene but while she's distracted, Nibbles escapes and screeches loudly. Jun chases after him but is confronted by Tom, D'Angelo, and Alex who force her to confess what she did. The kids track Nibbles to the storehouse and work together to capture him, as they make their way back to the fissure Nibbles's family arrives and frees him but before they go the Tiny dragons combine their power and create a giant bubble bomb and send it towards the town. Jun and Wu and Wei freeze the bubble while the others push it down the fissure, after its over Jun apologizes for her actions and realizes Eugene is at the storehouse. Dragons discovered : Bubblehorn
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"Magma Breather"
Andrew Collins
Storyboard by : Manny Banados, Derek Moore and Belynda Smith Written by : Mark Henry
May 5, 2022 (2022-05-05)
Tom has learned that his mother, Olivia is going to investigate a cave in the fissure that might have deposits of gold. However, Dr. Sledkin has her reassigned to a different cave, which concerns Tom and the Dragon Riders as it just so happens to be the cave that leads to the Crystal Realm and the dragons that live there. Coming up with a plan to keep the secret of dragon safe, Tom convinces his mom to take him on the expedition into the caves while the other riders work on a way to seal the cave entrance to force the explorers away. D’Angelo, looking to prove his leadership skills to the others, takes command of the team and basically yells his orders just like his father would, which gets on everybody's nerves. While making their way through the cave system, Tom and his mom reminisce on old times while discovering a bright green Crystal that Tom has seen in the dragon world, but decide to keep it from Sledkin when she shows up to join them. While D’Angelo is trying and failing to seal the cave entrance, Plowhorn leads the others to a new dragon that she believes could help them, a lava-belching boar-like dragon that they dub a Magma Breather. After learning that the dragon is quite hateful to D’Angelo, Jun and Alex decide to use that to get the dragon to use its lava to seal the cave. When Tom, Olivia and Sledkin get close to the cave entrance, lava starts flowing towards them quite rapidly, and as such, forces them to retreat back to the original cave opening in the Fissure, keeping the secret safe. D’Angelo since learns to trust his team and Tom is left pondering over the strange crystals in the realm. Dragons discovered : Magma Breather
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"Dragons of the Undead"
Mandy Clotworthy
Storyboard by : Abby McKenzie, Adam Murphy and David Smith Written by : Mae Catt
May 5, 2022 (2022-05-05)
The day begins with our heroes in a classroom learning about the importance of public speaking, a subject that terrifies Alex. The riders practice their speeches in the lair just as they get an alert from the sensors they placed in the Crystal Realm. Rushing in to investigate, they suddenly get attacked by a large horde of white Featherhide dragons that capture Feathers and take her away. While the riders regroup, Jun presumes that the dragon that attacked them could be zombies and D’Angelo; who got bitten by one, becomes convinced that he's turning into one of them. Alex and the riders track the Featherhides to a cavern with a crystal tower where Feathers is being held prisoner and try to rescue her, only to be chased off by a white Titan-wing Featherhide. Alex, refusing to leave her friend behind, summons all the strength and courage she has and goes back in alone to get Feathers back, while instructing the other riders to keep the horde busy, even though by this time D’Angelo has had Tom tie him to Plowhorn to keep his friends safe from him. Through some creative thinking and a hologram that she has made of herself for her speech, Alex manages to sneak past the horde, climb the tower and free Feathers. Tom, Jun and their dragons do their best to hold back the horde and are almost overrun. Luckily, Alex and Feathers come to the rescue by blasting the other Featherhides, realizing that the dragons are actually molting their scales, which makes them far more aggressive than usual. After blasting all of the Featherhides, including the Titan-wing, the riders are saved and the dragons return to their home. Feathers choose to stay with Alex and the other riders take comfort in the fact that Alex can be brave, but only when it really counts.
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"Downpour"
Robert Briggs
Storyboard by : Josh Covey, Mitchell Lin, Travis Marks, Jin-Young Na and Chris Staggs Written by : John Tellegen and Emma Dudley
May 5, 2022 (2022-05-05)
While searching for clues about the connection between Thunder and the symbol of on his viking helmet, Tom discovers an area filled with water home to large water dragons called Floodfangs. When Leonard Burne, AKA Buzzsaw, the unstable head of a logging company unknowingly starts a forest fire, members of the ICARUS team go out to rescue those still trapped in the fire. The dragon riders secretly follow the rescue team and discretely help evacuate the trapped loggers. The fire grows even more dangerous when Buzzsaw, in a foolish attempt to save his family's company, accidentally crashes his gasoline filled car into the fire. With the intensifying fire nearing ICARUS, Tom heads back to the lake in the dragon realm to train the Floodfangs to put out the fire, but has to be rescued by Alex. After lecturing Tom on his poor teamwork, Alex helps lure the Floodfangs to the fire using fireflies that resemble the glowing plankton they eat. The Floodfangs managed to put out the fire and Tom promises to be more open with his team. After the fire is extinguished, Buzzsaw discovers his family's logging company was destroyed by the fire and when he sees Thunder flying overheard, believes him to be a "lightning bird" that started the fire, unaware it was actually his own fault, and vows revenge. Tom reveals his mysterious link between Thunder and his ancestors to Jun, but keeps it a secret from D'Angelo and Alex Dragons discovered : Floodfang
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"The Tangled Web"
Andrew Collins
Storyboard by : Manny Banados, Derek Moore and Rhianna Wynter Written by : Emma Dudley
May 5, 2022 (2022-05-05)
While exploring the dragon realm, the group comes across an area filled with strange webbing but leave at a frightened Jun's insistence. Tom's friendship with D'Angelo becomes strange when the former's recklessness gets the latter in trouble with his father, who believes Tom to be a bad influence. Later, the group discovers a lost spider-like dragon called a Spiderwing that ends up clinging to Jun's head. When they return the Spiderwing back to the webbed area, Jun and Alex are captured by its pack and Tom and D'Angelo's arguing complicates their attempts to rescue them. Their arguing reaches its peak when D'Angelo tells Tom he doesn't understand what a dad is like because his father ran out on him and his mom, but the two realize their arguing has gone too far and apologize. D'Angelo explains he appreciates his father's strictness, but being a dragon rider is in direct contrast to how he's been raised and tells Tom he needs to trust his judgement at ICARUS like he trusts Tom in the dragon realm, and the two reconcile. After figuring out that all their dragon's firepower combined can destroy the Spiderwings' webbing, the pair free Jun and Alex and escape the Spiderwings' lair. D'Angelo speaks with his father, defending Tom, earning Philip's respect. Dragons discovered : Spiderwing
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"Follow the Lightning"
Robert Briggs
Storyboard by : Josh Covey, Kathy J. Liu, Travis Marks, Jin-Young Na and Chris Staggs Written by : Mark Henry
May 5, 2022 (2022-05-05)
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Mandy Clotworthy
Storyboard by : Abby McKenzie, Adam Murphy and David Smith Written by : Mae Catt
Part 1 : Shortly after the incident with the Spiderwings, Tom and the other riders plan to spend the day exploring the hidden world but when they arrive at the lair, Thunder is gone, leaving Tom devastated but determined to find his dragon. Meanwhile, Eugene starts to suspect Jun is hiding something and tries to find answers. Tom, Jun, D'Angelo and Alex start to follow Thunder's trail and the path leads them to what appears to be a dead end but Wu and Wei blast a hole in the wall and the group discover a new dragon world Tom sees a lightning strike in the distance and decide to follow it but soon after setting out the kids fly through a stampede of Terrible Terrors and are then ambushed by a cluster of Spiderwings. After narrowly escaping, they continue on they come across a water hole and rest and refuel as they do Nibbles and his pack attack them but Wu and Wei freeze them in ice. Jun begins to feel unsafe and suggests they turn back and D'Angelo and Alex agree with her but Tom is still intent on finding Thunder and reveals his secret to D'Angelo and Alex but fails to convince them to continue on and sets off on foot shortly after they catch up to Tom and make up, the dragon riders start moving and come across a tornado blocking their path the tornado is revealed to be caused by a steel-scaled dragon. The dragon attacks them and Jun suspects it is protecting something, the riders defeat the dragon and find Thunder, Tom learns that Thunder was trying to find his family from whom he was separated. The kids find a scale from an unknown dragon on the ground and look on at a large hole in the wall. Part 2 : The dragon riders learn the truth about why Thunder wandered off and follow the footprints belonging to the unknown dragon into the cave. Meanwhile, back at ICARIS, Eugene continues his investigation about Jun and attempts to break into her laptop. He even reads through her Journal but becomes disinterested. Tom, Jun, D'Angelo, and Alex emerge from the cave and into a crystal maze where they wander around trying to find a way out, but instead come face to face with a sleeping Titan-wing dragon with a wyvern-like appearance, the dragon responsible for separating Thunder from his family. The dragon is asleep and the dragon riders and their dragons attempt to quietly walk away careful not to wake it but Thunder full of hateful growls at it despite Tom's pleas to leave it be. The dragon wakes up and uses its lightning breath to bring the cavern down splitting the kids up. They manage to regroup and realize that getting past the is the only way that they will escape the maze. Tom also realizes that large veins of silver in the walls are absorbing the lightning from the dragon, so he uses a piece of a silver fashioned to look like a sword as a lightning rod to drain the dragon's power and supercharge Thunder. After a Mega-Lightning Blast defeats the dragon and opens a new route back home, Tom swears to the riders to always be there for them and the riders swear to help Thunder find his family. The kids watch as the dragon disappears into another dragon realm filled with magma and fire. As they look inside Tom finds a spear head with the same symbol on it and realizes other people have been there before. Dragons discovered : Razorwhip and Skrill
Season 3 (2022)
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"Fire Escape"
Andrew Collins
Storyboard by : Manny Banados, Derek Moore and Rhianna Wynter Written by : Mae Catt
August 18, 2022 (2022-08-18)
The group tries to develop a fire-proof suit capable of withstanding the heat of the Fire Realm, and Tom comes up with a plan to use a dragon from the Fire Realm to perfect the suits. Eugene keeps trying to find out what dragon club is, but encounters Buzzsaw, who is roaming the woods looking for the "lightning bird." Tom lures out a Monstrous Nightmare from the Fire Realm, but his attempts to train it to test the suit only anger it. Jun points out that Tom isn't giving the dragon the respect of a living being and he apologizes for trying to use it, appeasing the dragon. The Monstrous Nightmare grows interested in Tom's bond with Thunder and Tom manages to befriend it, but the playful dragon flies out into the fissure. While talking with Buzzsaw, Eugene realizes that his description of the "lightning bird" matches the drawing of Thunder he saw in Jun's journal. While the group tries to bring the Monstrous Nightmare back to the dragon realm, Eugene witnesses the dragon, but gets separated from Buzzsaw. Tom manages to get on top of the Monstrous Nightmare and ride it back to its home. Afterwards, the group discovers the Monstrous Nightmare's gel can be used to perfect the fire suits. Dragons discovered : Monstrous Nightmare
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"Ride or Die"
Mandy Clotworthy
Storyboard by : Abby McKenzie, Adam Murphy, David Smith and Quynh Truong Written by : Emma Dudley
August 18, 2022 (2022-08-18)
Jun gets in an argument with her mother, who believes she won't be able to survive in the world if she keeps believing in fantasy. The group manages to perfect two fire suits to explore the fire realm and the group invites Jun to explore the fire realm with tom to cheer her up. Wilma coerces Olivia to share the unknown crystal she previously found, which is harder than diamond, and plans to explore the area it was found. While exploring the fire realm Jun vents to Tom her frustrations about her mom trying to choose her path in life and not trying to understand her. The pair find a shield in the fire realm, more proof humans have been there before. D'Angelo and Alex discover Wilma is trying to mine more crystals like the one Olivia found and try to scare them off, but Wilma is undeterred. Tom and Jun find a Terrible Terror being attacked by a new pack of aggressive dragons and work to save it, but become trapped. D'Angelo and Alex finally manage to scare off Wilma's miners using Feather's cloaking. Using the shield and tactics from the myth of Medusa, Jun is able to hold off the new dragons until they are called away by an unknown dragon. Tom assures Jun that her mom is wrong and she can survive on her own just fine. Dragons discovered : Flame Throwers
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"Empty Fireworm Nest"
Andrew Collins
Storyboard by : Manny Banados, Derek Moore and Rhianna Wynter Written by : Ricky Roxburgh
August 18, 2022 (2022-08-18)
Alex's moms beginning missing having Alex around since she's been hanging around with her new friends. The group uses their completed set of fire suits to explore the Fire Realm together and discover a flock of small glowing dragons, one of which secretly stows away in Alex's bag. Buzzsaw decides to begin investigating ICARUS. Eugene confronts Jun about his sighting of a Monstrous Nightmare, but she narrowly manages to keep the secret. After Alex's moms discover the stowaway, which they name "Glowmer"; the group plans to free it before the rest of ICARUS finds out or the rest of the flock expose themselves looking for their missing member. However, Alex's moms become enamored with Glowmer, which begins to weaken without the heat from the rest the of its flock. Jun and Alex managed to grab the dragon, but Eugene steals it and tries to expose. Jun manages to trick Eugene into giving up the dragon by claiming that it gives bad luck. Alex's moms catch the two trying to release the dragon and one of Wilma's workers takes the dragon to show Wilma. Alex explains to her parents she was trying to set the dragon free because it is suffering in captivity and her parents forgive her. To get the dragon back before Wilma can see it, Alex launches one of ICARUS's defense drills and manage to free it with some help from Feathers and Alex's parents. They return just in time to return the dragon to its flock and Alex spends some time with her parents. Dragons discovered : Fireworm
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"Dr. Catastrophe"
Robert Briggs
Storyboard by : Josh Covey, Mitchell Lin, Kathy J. Liu, Travis Marks and Chris Staggs Written by : Mark Henry
August 18, 2022 (2022-08-18)
After helping calm down a rampaging sheep D’Angelo grows quite overconfident in his knowledge of animal treatment. The group finds a pack of bulky dragons from the Fire Realm that wandered into the crystal realm and are eating crystals that are making them sick. D'Angelo comes up with a plan to use rocks the dragons normally eat to lure them back to the fire realm, but ignores Plowhorn's objections to the rocks he picks to use as bait. When the group tries to use the rocks, the dragons go wild over eating them and Plowhorn shows the group the "rocks" turn out to be the eggs of a massive mother dragon. Horrified over his mistake, D'Angelo gives up and the rest of the group tries to return the egg and Gronckles to their homes. They manage to lure the pack back to the fire realm using the only remaining stolen egg and return the egg to its mother, but the dragon believes the bulky ones deliberately stole her remaining eggs. Alex finds D'Angelo and brings him back to help. D'Angelo redeems himself by using his animal knowledge to cause the dragons to vomit out the eaten eggs intact. Dragons discovered : Gronckle and Catastrophic Quaken
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"It Flies in the Family"
Mandy Clotworthy
Storyboard by : Abby McKenzie, Adam Murphy, David Smith and Simon Williams Written by : Mae Catt
August 18, 2022 (2022-08-18)
Eugene finds the group's lair and threatens to reveal the secret unless the group helps him train his own dragon. The attempts to find a dragon for Eugene all fail, but before Eugene can leave, the same pack of Flame Throwers appear in the Crystal Realm. While fending off the Flame Throwers, the group discovers the Flame Throwers have carved a path from the Fire Realm to invade the Crystal Realm and that they are hunting a new dragon called a Deadly Spinner. While running from the Flame Throwers, Eugene saves the Deadly Spinner from them and bonds with it. The dragon riders manage to repel the Flame Throwers and seal their entrance with the help of the Deadly Spinner, who Eugene names "Webmaster". Eugene officially becomes the newest member of the Dragon Club. Dragons discovered : Deadly Spinner and Hobgobbler
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"Magma Comes to the Surface"
Robert Briggs
Storyboard by : Josh Covey, Max Lawson, Mitchell Lin, Travis Marks, Ji-Young Na and Chris Staggs Written by : Laura Bowes
August 18, 2022 (2022-08-18)
Tom plans to turn the chunk of crystal he used against the titan Skrill into a sword, but when the group finds a Magma Breather to get the lava to forge it, they discover it is sick. After determining something is clogging the Magma Breather's liquid lava, the group decides to bring it to the ICARUS infirmary to use the ultrasound machine to find the source of the block. They use the dragon's dislike of D'Angelo to bring it to the fissure and sneak him into the infirmary while Eugene, who seeks to prove himself to the group, keeps an eye on the other dragons. Eugene ends up keeping Buzzsaw from finding the dragons, by distracting him. The group discovers an eaten crystal is blocking the Magma Breather's ability to produce magma, but the prolonged lack of exposure to heat causes the heat dependent dragon to begin freezing to death. Eugene almost manages to get Buzzsaw to believe the "lightning bird" he's hunting for isn't real, but Thunder is discovered and Eugene is forced to knock him out and keeps the incident a secret. The group brings the Magma Breather back to the Fire Realm, with Eugene and Webmaster helping to create a web net to carry it. The Magma Breather is saved and Eugene is made a full member of the dragon riders. Using the Magma Breather's lava, Tom forges his new sword.
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"The Sky Torcher"
Andrew Collins
Storyboard by : Manny Banados, Arron Davies, Ian Milne and Derek Moore Written by : Ricky Roxburgh
August 18, 2022 (2022-08-18)
Tom still has guilty nightmares about the battle with the Fault Ripper and decides to find it to make sure it is okay. Olivia and Wilma investigate a sinkhole away from the fissure, but are observed by Buzzsaw, who owns the land the sinkhole is on. Before Tom can search for the Fault Ripper, a large pack of Flamethrowers invade and they are led by a massive long-necked white dragon. The giant alpha proves to powerful to stop on their own so Tom decides to find the Fault Ripper to help them. Jun and Tom fly down to the bottom of the fissure and discover the Fault Ripper is alive, but it is still angry at them. Buzzsaw's unstable behavior and attempts to interrogate the location of the "lightning bird" drives Olivia and Wilma to end their investigation early, but he ends up falling down the sinkhole. The Fault Ripper continues to be aggressive towards Tom and Jun, but the former discovers it is actually afraid of them because of the last time they fought. Tom apologizes to the dragon for what happened and manages to tame it. With the help of the Fault Ripper, the group fights the invaders, but they get cornered by the alpha. The dragons of the Crystal Realm band together to fight the white alpha and send it retreating back into the Fire Realm along with the Flame Throwers. The battle ends up revealing a secret chamber containing a hidden canister with Tom's ancestral symbol. At the bottom of the sinkhole, Buzzsaw discovers another dragon realm covered in snow and ice. Dragons discovered : Sky Torcher
Season 4 (2022)
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"Cold Open"
Mandy Clotworthy
Storyboard by : Abby McKenzie, David Smith and Simon Williams Written by : John Tellegen
November 17, 2022 (2022-11-17)
Tom obsessively searches for a way to open the canister and Jun and Alex drag him to investigate a sinkhole to get his mind off it. and discover that the sinkhole leads to an dragon realm of ice. When Thunder gets separated from the group, gets caught in a trap set by Buzzsaw, who tries to kill him. Thunder escapes, and Buzzsaw learns about the dragon riders. He pretends to be an injured hiker who accidentally fell into the ice realm to get close enough to kill Thunder. When Jun goes to get Eugene and D'Angelo to help bring Buzzsaw back to the surface, Eugene explains his previous encounters with Buzzsaw. Tom and Alex eventually figure out Buzzsaw's deception, but he escapes into the frozen woods. Meanwhile, Olivia experiments on the crystal she found and triggers an unknown reaction.
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"Uncharted Territory"
Robert Briggs
Storyboard by : Max Lawson, Mitchell Lin, Ji-Young Na and Chris Staggs Written by : Mark Henry
November 17, 2022 (2022-11-17)
While searching for the key to the canister in the Ice Realm, Webmaster and Feathers get separated from the group when an underground storm hits and the group is forced to leave them behind to avoid getting caught in it as well, against Eugene and Alex's objections. During the night, Eugene and Alex decide to go back on their own and find their dragons and the rest of the group ends up join them after realizing it was unfair to force the decision to leave. They find Feathers and Webs being held captive by a snow-white dragon with large spiky horns and rescue them. Afterward, Tom discovers the key to the canister is a horn from his ancestral viking helmet and unlocks the canister's contents: the Book of Dragons. Dragons discovered : Yetiwing
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"Journey to the Snowcano"
Andrew Collins
Storyboard by : Manny Banados, Ian Milne and Derek Moore Written by : Mae Catt
November 17, 2022 (2022-11-17)
While chasing Flame Throwers, Wu and Wei exhaust their ability to produce steam and become sick. Wu and Wei fly off toward a giant snow-covered volcano which Jun believes connects to a myth from her childhood, which may help cure Wu and Wei but Tom finds a page about it in the book of dragons that seems to warn of danger. Jun encourages everyone to follow Wu and Wei up the mountain despite Tom's hesitance, facing sheer winds and hallucinatory gas. At the top of the volcano, the group encounters a titan wing Mist Twister which tries to drop Wu and Wei into the volcano. Tom believes the dragon is hostile, but Jun discovers the titan-wing doesn't mean harm and it brings Wu and Wei into a volcanic spring inside the volcano that heals them. Inspired by the discovery, Tom decides to beginning adding his own entries into the book of Dragons Dragons discovered : Titan-wing Mist twister
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"The Decoy"
Mandy Clotworthy
Storyboard by : Rachel Mackey, Abby McKenzie, David Smith and Simon Williams Written by : F.M. De Marco
November 17, 2022 (2022-11-17)
Tom discovers that another piece of crystal, which Olivia agrees to name Dragoncite, has been found and worries it may lead to the dragon realm being discovered. The group begins searching for Buzzsaw and discovers he's capturing dragons using a purple massive-winged dragon he can control with a hand-carved whistle. Tom comes up with a plan to sneak into Buzzsaw's camp and steal the dragon whistle, but he falls into a trap and is captured. Tom manages to trick Buzzsaw into letting him "train" his dragon to create an opportunity to steal the whistle, buying enough time for the other dragon riders to rescue Thunder and the captured dragons. Tom manages to steal the whistle and Buzzsaw gets carried away when the released dragon flies off and he gets caught on a rope tied to it. Back at Icarus, Olivia begins to suspect Tom has been keeping secrets. Dragons discovered : Timberjack and Snowtail
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"The Night Lights"
Robert Briggs
Storyboard by : Fernando Corrales, Jeffrey Chang, Max Lawson and Chris Staggs Written by : Ricky Roxburgh
November 17, 2022 (2022-11-17)
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Andrew Collins
Storyboard by : Manny Banados, Ian Milne and Derek Moore Written by : John Tellegen
Part 1 : While searching for Buzzsaw, Tom and Thunder find a baby Night Light called Shadow, who is Thunder's little brother, caught in a trap. When the group gets food for the dragon, Olivia becomes more suspicious and begins searching the footage from Tom's drone. The group follows Shadow to find his and Thunder's home and family and he leads them into a cave set up with traps meant to keep humans out. The groups reaches a new realm where Thunder reunites with his whole family. Though Thunder's parents are wary of the group, they quickly warm up to them, but the elder of Thunder's pack distrusts them when he sees Tom's lightning sword. Having finally reunited Thunder with his family, Tom tearfully leaves Thunder behind with his family. While studying the drone footage, Olivia discovers the location of the dragon lair. Before the group can leave the King's Realm, Shadow brings them back and they discover the cave has been attacked and Thunder's family is nowhere to be found. Part 2 : The dragon riders find Thunder and his family hiding in where they discover a workshop and an illustration of Hiccup and his family, who Tom realizes are his ancestors. Olivia begins investigating Tom's secret but keeps it a secret from Wilma, who tries but fails to follow her. The group is ambushed by a white tusked dragon, which was responsible for the assault on Thunder's home and pack, and are separated from their dragons. Tom believes the dragon followed them into the realm and blames himself for bringing it to the King's Realm, but the group urges him to fix his mistake rather than blame himself. Tom modifies the traps from earlier to stun the dragon with a paralyzing dart, but another one arrives to aid the first one and they injure Thunder and set their sights on Thunder's family members next. With Thunder too injured to fight, Tom rides the elder Night Light to battle the offending pair until Thunder rejoins the fight and Tom uses his lightning sword to focus Thunder and the elder's lightning into a powerful blast that drives off the pair. Afterward, realizing that Thunder and Tom belong together, the elder Night Light accepts Tom as a friend and lets Thunder stay with the Dragon Club. Thrilled to have his friend back, Tom and the group return to the dragon lair, only for Tom and Thunder to be found by Olivia. Dragons discovered : Snow Wraith
Season 5 (2023)
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"Punishment and Torcher"
Leo Riley
Storyboard by : Rachel Mackey, Derek Moore, David Smith and Simon Williams Written by : Ricky Roxburgh
March 2, 2023 (2023-03-02)
Taking place right after the previous episode, Olivia discovers Thunder and is outraged with Tom about his lies. Though the other dragon riders avoid getting discovered and Olivia agrees to keep Thunder a secret for the time, Olivia grounds Tom and forbids him from leaving his house. When the other dragon riders investigate an alert from the Ice Realm, they discover Buzzsaw has built a makeshift base and has been capturing dragons again using his Timberjack and all of them except for Thunder are captured. Thunder sneaks into ICARIS to get Tom's help, but Olivia refuses to let Tom leave. Tom manages to convince Olivia to let him help the other dragon riders by admitting the whole secret about the hidden world and the other dragon riders. Tom and Thunder try to confront Buzzsaw, but the confrontation is interrupted by the arrival of the Sky Torcher. Using newly deciphered knowledge from the Book of Dragons, the dragon riders manage to subdue it and discover the Sky Torcher only came to free its pack of Flamethrowers that Buzzsaw had captured. When the Flamethrowers are freed, the Sky Torcher leaves peacefully down a tunnel to a new realm filled with plants. Tom returns home and reconciles with Olivia, but is nervous about revealing the hidden world to her. Meanwhile, Buzzsaw recruits his former logger employees to help him with his operations.
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"Welcome to the Wonderful World of Dragons"
Mandy Clotworthy
Storyboard by : Rachel Mackey, Derek Moore, David Smith and Simon Williams Written by : Mark Henry
March 2, 2023 (2023-03-02)
When Olivia tells Tom she plans to explore the hidden world to determine whether it is safe for the kids to be down there, Tom comes up with a plan to stage a fake tour of the crystal realm to convince her it is not dangerous. The dragon club gathers docile dragons to place along the determined route and the plan works at first. However, a Scuttleclaw dragon Eugene added to the tour causes havoc when its high-pitched roar makes the other dragons agitated. Tom is forced to admit he staged the tour, but Olivia is impressed when the dragon club catches the Scuttlclaw and calms down the dragons. Olivia decides not to forbid the kids from the hidden world, but reveals she is planning on telling all the kid's parents about it.
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"Barrel of Vine Tails"
Robert Briggs
Storyboard by : Fernando Corrales, Max Lawson and Chris Staggs Written by : Bethany Armstrong Johnson
March 2, 2023 (2023-03-02)
Tom discovers the clue to the identity of his ancestor and the key to his connection with the dragons when he finds a passage in the Book of Dragon that mentions his ancestor's final resting place is in the nature realm. While searching for the gravestone, the Book of Dragons is stolen by a pack of new dragons called Vinetails. While reclaiming the book, the dragon club is lured by the Vinetails into a trap of dragon-eating carnivorous plants to distract them so the Vinetails can acquire food from a fruit tree the plants surround. When the plants are too strong to break free of, Tom convinces the Vinetails to help free the dragons and repay them by creating a permanent safe to the fruit tree. The dragon club finds the resting place mentioned in the book, but discover it was actually referring to a place to relax and the only clue they find to the identity of Tom's ancestor is the word "Haddock" carved in. Tom later shares what he learned with Olivia who reveals her ancestor's family name was Haddock, leading Tom to piece together his ancestor's identity: Hiccup Haddock III.
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"Scent of a Dragon"
Andrew Collins
Storyboard by : Manny Banados, Ian Milne and Derek Moore Written by : Stephanie Streisand
March 2, 2023 (2023-03-02)
Jun and Eugene get into a fight when Jun complains about how Eugene lets their mother baby him while she is treated strictly. While the dragon club explores the Nature Realm in search of a new dragon called a Sniffflehide, the find Buzzsaw and his henchmen trying to capture it. The Snifflehide ends up kidnapping Eugene and escaping to her nest, where the dragon club discovers the dragon thinks Eugene is one of her babies, because the dragon relies on smell instead of sight and Eugene's cologne makes him smell like her eggs. The club manages to wash the cologne off Eugene, but when Buzzsaw tries to steal the Snifflehide's eggs, they chase him off by dunking him in Eugene's cologne and letting the Snifflehide chase him away. Afterward, Eugene tells Jun that their mother treats them differently because she actually thinks Jun is more capable than him, and he decides to become more self-sufficient. However, Olivia struggles with the pressure of keeping the dragon secret as it becomes increasingly hard to keep it.
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"Sting It On!"
Robert Briggs
Storyboard by : Fernando Corrales, Max Lawson and Chris Staggs Written by : F.M. De Marco
March 2, 2023 (2023-03-02)
Tom and Olivia argue about keeping the dragon secret, with Olivia pointing out Tom doesn't understand the duties of being a parent. Things get worse when Sledkin announces she is planning to investigate the sinkhole leading to the Ice Realm in search of more dragonsite. Tom comes up with a plan to get some draonsite first and use it to deter Sledkin from discovering the Ice Realm, but Olivia goes into the Ice Realm alone without telling anyone. Jun and D'Angelo stall Sledkin's expedition while Tom, Alex, Eugene, and the dragons search for Olivia. When Tom's group finds Olivia, they discover she's been paralyzed by a pack of Speed Stingers, which ambush the group and paralyze many of them. While trying to think of a way to escape the Speed Stingers, Tom comes to understand the worries her mom has about him. The group defeats the Speed Stingers by using Fleather's cloaking ability to trick them into stinging each other until one is left. The last Speed Stinger flees into the entrance tunnel just as Sledkin enters and it paralyzes her. Sledkin is sent to the infirmary under the guise of being bitten by a cave snake, but Olivia tells Tom she's unable to keep the secret and plans to tell the other parents.
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"Deep Freeze"
Andrew Collins
Storyboard by : Manny Banados, Ian Milne and Derek Moore Written by : Ricky Roxburgh
March 2, 2023 (2023-03-02)
While ICARIS is beset by a blizzard, Sledkin recovers from her paralysis and rants about being attacked by a "large creature." Olivia decides to reveal the dragon secret before Sledkin can, but is prevented from doing so when the blizzard worsens and causes the power to fail, threatening everyone at ICARIS. Philip assigns Linda to retrieve emergency winter gear from a supply outpost while he and Olivia try to restart the power. However, Linda slips her van on a patch of frozen road and crashes on the way back from getting supplies and Philip and Olivia fail to restart the frozen generator. The dragon club decide to enlist their dragon's aid to secretly help Icarus survive the blizzard. D'Angelo and Eugene are sent to rescue Linda while Tom, Jun, and Alex try to restart the power. Tom's group manages to almost restore power, but Sledkin finds them and shoots Thunder with a tranquilzer dart, causing him to accidentally fry it. Alex knocks out Sledkin, but Olivia discovers their actions and decides keeping the secret is doing more harm and plans to reveal it after the blizzard. When things get desperate, Philip and Olivia try to take a helicopter to get supplies, but the cold causes the heliocopter to malfunction and lose control. Before it can crash into the fissure, the dragon riders save them and reveal the dragons to the ICARIS crew, who D'Angelo reminds are forbidden under secrecy guidelines that forbid them from telling others about anything discovered at ICARIS. Tom introduces the dragons and explains they can be friends if they are shown respect and protected, but Eugene causes an accident with Webmaster trying to show off, leaving the introduction of dragons to an uncertain start.
Production
DreamWorks announced Dragons: The Nine Realms on October 13, 2021. The series was released on Peacock and Hulu on December 23, 2021, with season one containing six episodes for 22 minutes each. The series stars Jeremy Shada. It was produced by showrunners John Tellegen, Chuck Austen and Henry Gilroy.[7]
In May 2022, DreamWorks Animation and Universal announced that a game based on the series is in the works titled Dragons: Legend of the Nine Realms, published by Outright Games and developed by Aheartfulofgames, making this their second DreamWorks game since Spirit: Lucky Big Adventure. The game tells an original story before from the series and players get to play as Thunder, Tom's dragon, trying to find his family in the hidden world. The game was released on September 23, 2022 with Jeremy Shada reprising his role as Tom, narrating through.[citation needed]
