The pencil is a mundane but ubiquitous object seen in a vast array of media in the DreamWorks Dragons Franchise.
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The pencil is seen throughout various media in the DreamWorks Dragons Franchise, and maintains its appearance with only small changes. It first appeared in the very first installment of the Franchise: How to Train Your Dragon the movie. Since it has appeared in all TV series and many games.
How to Train Your Dragon[]
In the first film, Hiccup is seen using one multiple times to either draw in his journal, or draw plans and a cheat sheet for Toothless' Saddle and Tail Fin. In one scene, he is playing with a pencil on his desk before his father approaches him about his achievments at dragon training.
Book of Dragons[]
In the short, Hiccup is using a pencil to update the Dragon Manual in the Great Hall.
Riders/Defenders of Berk[]
Hiccup and Fishlegs are both often seen using pencils, usually to update the Dragon Manual. Cups used to store pencils and paintbrushes are seen sitting on Hiccup's desk and bedside table throughout the series. In the episode "The Terrible Twos", Hiccup's pencil is what launches a fight between Toothless and Torch when it breaks and Hiccup has to leave the room to fetch new charcoal for it.
Dragons: Race to the Edge[]
Multiple characters are seen using pencils to write or draw. Hiccup uses one to update his map in "A Grim Retreat". Fishlegs uses one to draw his Dragon Cards in the episode "Crash Course". Viggo is seen with a pencil in "Dire Straits" where Ryker reported that another operation has be destroyed, causing Viggo to break the pencil and using another one to cross it off a map.
How to Train Your Dragon 2[]
Hiccup is seen carrying a pencil in his flightsuit, and sharpening it with his knife. He uses it to update his map, and gives it to Astrid so she can add to the map as well.
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World[]
Grimmel the Grisly is seen using a pencil in the third film to draw on his map, predicting where the Hooligans would be heading next. He is seen with it again when he has Ruffnut as his prisoner but due to her irritating him, he breaks it.
Dragons: The Nine Realms[]
Characters in modern day are seen using more advanced pencils, with erasers glued to one end. Tom uses one to draw a sketch of a creature he has seen in "First Flight, Part 2". Jun uses a pen to draw Nibbles in "Uniconned" and later brings presumably the same pen to the Hidden World in "Magma Breather", though she doesn't use it there.
Physical Appearance[]
The appearance of pencils in the Franchise changes little throughout all media. It consists of a piece or rod of dark material - presumably charcoal - inserted into one end of a twig or rod of wood and bound together with twine. The versions seen in Dragons: Rescue Riders appears more streamlined and closer in appearance to modern real-life pencils than in other parts of the Franchise, but still retains the same design and function.
Function[]
The use of the pencil is the same throughout Franchise media, as in real life: For writing and drawing. Characters, especially Hiccup, are seen taking notes, making lists, drawing, journal writing, planning, letter-writing, and so on with pencils.
Appearances[]
| Films and Shorts | ||||||||||||
| "How to Train Your Dragon": | Appears | "How to Train Your Dragon 2": | Appears | |||||||||
| "Legend of the Boneknapper Dragon": | Absent | "Dawn of the Dragon Racers": | Absent | |||||||||
| "Book of Dragons (Short)": | Appears | "How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World": | Appears | |||||||||
| "Gift of the Night Fury": | Absent | "How to Train Your Dragon: Homecoming": | Absent | |||||||||
| Riders of Berk | |||||||||
| 1. "How to Start a Dragon Academy": | Appears | 11. "Heather Report, Part 2": | Absent | ||||||
| 2. "Viking for Hire": | Appears | 12. "Thawfest": | Absent | ||||||
| 3. "Animal House": | Absent | 13. "When Lightning Strikes": | Absent | ||||||
| 4. "The Terrible Twos": | Appears | 14. "What Flies Beneath": | Absent | ||||||
| 5. "In Dragons We Trust": | Absent | 15. "Twinsanity": | Absent | ||||||
| 6. "Alvin and the Outcasts": | Absent | 16. "Defiant One": | Absent | ||||||
| 7. "How to Pick Your Dragon": | Absent | 17. "Breakneck Bog": | Absent | ||||||
| 8. "Portrait of Hiccup as a Buff Man": | Absent | 18. "Gem of a Different Color": | Absent | ||||||
| 9. "Dragon Flower": | Appears | 19. "We Are Family, Part 1": | Absent | ||||||
| 10. "Heather Report, Part 1": | Appears | 20. "We Are Family, Part 2": | Absent | ||||||
| Race to the Edge, Season 2 | |||||||||
| 1. "Team Astrid": | Absent | 8. "Edge of Disaster, Part 1": | Absent | ||||||
| 2. "Night of the Hunters, Part 1": | Absent | 9. "Edge of Disaster, Part 2": | Absent | ||||||
| 3. "Night of the Hunters, Part 2": | Absent | 10. "Shock and Awe": | Absent | ||||||
| 4. "Bad Moon Rising": | Absent | 11. "A Time to Skrill": | Absent | ||||||
| 5. "Snotlout Gets the Axe": | Absent | 12. "Maces and Talons, Part 1": | Absent | ||||||
| 6. "The Zippleback Experience": | Appears | 13. "Maces and Talons, Part 2": | Absent | ||||||
| 7. "Snow Way Out": | Absent | ||||||||
| Rescue Riders, Season 1 | |||||||||
| 1. "The Nest": | Absent | 8. "Bad Egg": | Appears | ||||||
| 2. "Deep Trouble": | Appears | 9. "Home Alone": | Absent | ||||||
| 3. "Boo to You": | Absent | 10. "Slobber Power": | Absent | ||||||
| 4. "Where There's Smoke": | Absent | 11. "Crash Course": | Absent | ||||||
| 5. "Heavy Metal": | Absent | 12. "Furious Fun": | Appears | ||||||
| 6. "Iced Out": | Absent | 13. "Grumblegard, Part 1": | Absent | ||||||
| 7. "Sick Day": | Appears | 14. "Grumblegard, Part 2": | Absent | ||||||
| Rescue Riders, Season 2 | |||||||||
| 1. "Double Finked": | Absent | 7. "Hot, Hot, Hot": | Absent | ||||||
| 2. "Divewings": | Absent | 8. "High Anxiety": | Absent | ||||||
| 3. "Mecha-Menace": | Absent | 9. "King Burple": | Absent | ||||||
| 4. "Summer Holiday": | Appears | 10. "Charged Up": | Appears | ||||||
| 5. "Treasure Riders": | Absent | 11. "Belly Flop": | Absent | ||||||
| 6. "Puff Enuf": | Absent | 12. "Game of Horns": | Absent | ||||||
| Dragons: Rescue Riders Other Media | |||||||||
| 1. Dragons: Rescue Riders: Hunt for the Golden Dragon: | Appears | 3. Dragons: Rescue Riders: Huttsgalor Holiday: | Absent | ||||||
| 2. Dragons: Rescue Riders: Secrets of the Songwing: | Absent | ||||||||
| Rescue Riders, Season 3 | |||||||||
| 1. "Chiefless": | Absent | 4. "Snooping Around": | Appears | ||||||
| 2. "Crystal Clear": | Absent | 5. "Oh, Brother": | Absent | ||||||
| 3. "How I Met Your Summer": | Absent | 6. "Search for the Sunken City": | Absent | ||||||
| Rescue Riders, Season 4 | |||||||||
| 1. "Teamwork is Magic": | Absent | 4. "The Big Sheep": | Absent | ||||||
| 2. "The Incredible Burple": | Absent | 5. "Rescue Racers": | Absent | ||||||
| 3. "Flight of the Stinkwing": | Absent | 6. "Day Without Dragons": | Appears | ||||||
| Rescue Riders, Season 5 | |||||||||
| 1. "The Inflato-Force Awakens": | Absent | 4. "Gludge-Tastic Voyage": | Appears | ||||||
| 2. "Return to the Sunken City": | Absent | 5. "Dragon Out of Water": | Absent | ||||||
| 3. "My Dragonguard": | Absent | 6. "Nest Day": | Appears | ||||||
| Rescue Riders, Season 6 | |||||||||
| 1. "Full Metal Magnus": | Appears | 4. "The Greatest Showdragons": | Appears | ||||||
| 2. "Triple Trouble Tuesday": | Absent | 5. "Copy That": | Absent | ||||||
| 3. "Where's Waldondo": | Absent | 6. "And You Are?": | Absent | ||||||
Other Appearances[]
A pencil appears in the corner of the journal screen in the defunct game, Flight of the Night Fury.
Trivia[]
- Real-life, modern pencils mainly use a graphite mixture core. Graphite was not described and used for pencils until the 1500's and 1600's. Charcoal pencils are still in use, however, for some types of artwork.
