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E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial influenced How to Train Your Dragon
Added by Media Influence Map · 23 October 2026
The influence
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
Film · 1982
The work it shaped
How to Train Your Dragon
Animation · 2010
The evidence
Dean DeBlois named E.T. among the films How to Train Your Dragon came from, a boy who befriends a creature everyone around him fears and has to hide it.
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