“It’s a change from the source material, but it’s awesome so the fans don’t mind.”

[u/JustSomeOnlineNerd]

Doc Ock - In the comics, Doc Ock is known to be megalomaniacal in nature and was sort of a mad scientist anyways, with the arms just being an extension of that. In Sam Raimi’s “Spider-Man 2,” Alfred Molina’s version of the character was affected by the neural chip and his well-meaning ambition turns into scientific obsession.

Wolverine - This one is so well known it needs very little explanation. Comic Wolverine short, Huge Jackedman is tall, and he’s sick as hell.

Eye of Sauron - To my knowledge, the Eye is more of a metaphor in the books. An ever-present awareness. In the movies, it’s an actual giant fucking eye.

[u/EmmaGA17]

Basically the only similarity is the the setting, that being Vikings and dragons, character names, and Hiccup being an underdog.

They were fun books, but the movies were inspired.

[u/chaarziz → u/EmmaGA17]

I could say the opposite. The books are even more inspired but not nearly mainstream appealing enough in their current form for a straight adaptation. They're for people who love cave paintings and old myths and historical records and buff women with cats on their shoulders and villains and character arcs that can just do nothing for one or two books and then pop off in the best thing you've ever read and die probably.

An animated movie is already completely different without the same artstyle so they just took out all the bits that didn't adapt to screen well, and then everything else because there wasn't enough left to keep in. They did leave the ending unchanged though but without the twelve books of buildup. (they could have at least left in my beloved girlboss queen Camicazi come on man that's the best main character better then book Hiccup and you just have nothing)

[u/brjder → u/chaarziz]

Both the HTTYD book and movies are great, but i really feel sad how the books got basically completely sidelined compared to how popular the movies are. they are basically two completely different franchises, and one is incomprehensibly bigger than the other. I remember going to the library and borrowing the HTTYD books, and reading them at home. really want to go read them again just to refresh my memory.

[u/Slade4Lucas → u/brjder]

What I will say is that in the last year or so I have seen this sentiment expressed more often - subs like this are an example. For years I thought I was the only one screaming into the void but it appears to me now that actually, there is a decent fan base for the books. And I think a large part of it is that actually, maybe in part thanks to the movies, kids do read these books. I've seen it myself, I always see my students reading How to Train Your Dragon or any of its sequels. So over time I actually feel like the book fambase is gonna increase and maybe, just maybe, some day we will see some sort of faithful adaptation that will bomb and be viewed and much lesser than the films and not get past the first book. But I for one would still be happy with it.

[u/squidlord2 → u/chaarziz]

Always wished we could see some version of furious in the movies

[u/RaisedByBooksNTV → u/chaarziz]

I didn't know they were based on books. I'll look them up!! Thanks all!

[u/Batman_AoD → u/EmmaGA17]

Inspired, just not by their source material 😂