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The spyglass is a handheld device, similar to a telescope, seen throughout the DreamWorks Dragons franchise.
History[]
Dragons: Riders of Berk[]
A spyglass is first seen in the episode, "Alvin and the Outcasts". While Hiccup and Astrid are discussing their dragons on a cliff on Berk, Astrid sees something on the sea nearby that appears to be a ship. Hiccup pulls out a spyglass from an unknown pocket and inspects the vessel, revealing it to be an enemy Outcast ship.
A spyglass is also seen in the episode, "Dragon Flower" when Hiccup offers one he made to Johann in trade for a jar of squid ink. Johann refuses the trade however, reminding Hiccup that he's already traded five just like it, yet he still only has two eyes.
Two spyglasses are seen in "Defiant One" where Hiccup uses his to locate a forge to build a new connecting rod. After Savage capures Hiccup, Alvin watches gleefully with his own spyglass as Hiccup is led closer to the dragons for training.
In "Breakneck Bog", Hiccup is seen using a spyglass that Tuffnut acquired from Johann's ship to take a closer look inside a cave where Smothering Smokebreaths are nesting to find and repossess a chest.
Dragons: Defenders of Berk[]
In "Appetite for Destruction", Astrid used a spyglass when she was on Dragon Island to search for Snotlout and the twins after they sent an Air Mail to them.
In "Cast Out, Part 1", Dagur used one when spying on the Dragon Riders. He saw Hiccup locking Hookfang in his pen and sees it as the perfect time to put his plan into motion.
Dragons: Race to the Edge[]
Season 1[]
In "Dragon Eye of the Beholder, Part 2", Gobber used a spyglass to inspect a Viking that had stepped on a thorn.
In "When Darkness Falls", Hiccup used a spyglass and noticed more Changewings were coming.
In the episode "Reign of Fireworms", the Twins find a stone on Dragon's Edge with worn writing on it. They dub it the Namey Rock, and say it was left by an ancestor claiming the island. This means that the Twins own Dragon's Edge. Gobber travels to Dragon's Edge to verify the script and uses a spyglass to closely inspect it.
Mulch and Bucket are seen using a spyglass at the beginning of the episode, "Have Dragon Will Travel, Part 1". They are watching an unknown Dragon Rider on a Razorwhip attacking a ship. Later, in the same episode, Hiccup uses one to spy on Heather's activities.
In "Total Nightmare", Astrid uses a spyglass to see when Hiccup and Toothless are closing so she can tell the twins to close the dome.
Season 2[]
In "Team Astrid", Dagur uses a spyglass to spy on the Dragon Riders.
In "The Zippleback Experience", the Twins used one to spy on Snotlout and Hiccup fight as a plan to get Barf and Belch back. However this failed as they underestimated how strong Hiccup was. Two Berserker Soldiers had one when they were spying on Hiccup in attempt to kidnap him, when both Toothless and Barf and Belch leave.
In "Edge of Disaster, Part 2", Tuffnut used one and saw more Dragon Hunters coming to the edge.
Season 3[]
While using a spyglass in "Buffalord Soldier", Astrid spots a boat in the middle of the ocean and decides to investigate it.
Hiccup uses a spyglass on multiple occasions to scope out an island where Viggo is holding a dragon auction, in "Last Auction Heroes".
Fishlegs keeps an eye on the activities at a marble quarry, and realizes the Dragon Hunters are using Catastrophic Quakens to do the demolition work, in "Between a Rock and a Hard Place".
In "Last Auction Heroes", Hiccup found where most dragons were placed during Viggo's dragon auction using a spyglass. He later used one to try to find Gobber after Astrid and Stormfly saved him from drowning.
Hiccup uses a spyglass in the episode, "Defenders of the Wing, Part 1", when inspecting the island called Caldera Cay. The Dragon Riders see a strange village and a large statue of a dragon species they hadn't seen before. It is later revealed to be an Eruptodon.
Season 4[]
In "Defenders of the Wing, Part 2", Viggo used a spyglass to watch the Dragon Riders trying to take back their base.
In "Not Lout", Hiccup used a spyglass to get a close up on the Dragon Root production.
In "The Longest Day", Hiccup used a spyglass when he and Toothless were on an island and saw strange dragons hiding in the brushes
In "Gold Rush", Heather used one to observe the Dragon Hunter ships after the caught Hiccup, Astrid, Snotlout, and the Twins.
Season 5[]
In "Snotlout's Angels", Hiccup and Fishlegs use a spyglass to find Snotlout on Wingmaiden Island.
In "Dawn of Destruction", Viggo saw through a spyglass how Fishlegs fell off his dragon and immediately reported it to Krogan.
Season 6[]
In "In Plain Sight", Ruffnut spots several Dragon Flyers through a spyglass at the Northern Markets.
In "King of Dragons, Part 1", Johann looks through a spyglass before ordering his men to aim a harpoon at the Titan Wing Dramillion. Later while Hiccup sadly says that Johann has obtained the power to control all the dragons with the Titan Wing Dramillion in his hands, Fishlegs looking through a spyglass and sees the Dramillion laying on the surface of the ocean, wounded and half dead. Later near the end of the episode, Heather looks through a spyglass and sees an entire armada of the Dragon Hunters and Dragon Flyers. Heather then jokingly asks her brother if he is still bored while taking out her axe. Dagur takes out his axe too and laughs maniacally.
In “King of Dragons, Part 2”, Hiccup used a spyglass when explaining to Heather and Dagur that there is a King of Dragons under Berserker Island which is the reason why dragons can't fly over the border.
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World[]
In How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, while flying on Toothless, Hiccup uses a spyglass to gaze across the ocean in search of the Hidden World.
Graphic Novels[]
The Serpent's Heir[]
On his way to Nepenthe, Hiccup looks through a spyglass and sees the back of a Fathomfin.
Games[]
Dragons: Rise of Berk[]
A spyglass appears nominally in this game, during an assessment period in a 'Defend Berk' activity. The player has 30 seconds to scout the type and formation of ships attacking Berk before sending dragons to defeat the enemy.
Physical Appearance[]
Similar to the appearance of a telescope, the spyglass is probably made of animal skin, wrapped in a conical shape, with lenses on each side. It is fairly small, as it can be held in the hand with ease, and stored in a satchel easily.
Function[]
- Scoping: Spyglasses' are used to see far off things up close so they can be observed in greater detail. In the episode "Reign of Fireworms", Gobber uses it as a magnifying glass to closely inspect The Twins' Namey Rock.
Trivia[]
- Although it's unknown how the Outcast, Berserkers, and Dragon Hunters obtain them, it is possible that the five spyglasses that Hiccup used as payment when trading items with Johann were later traded with said tribes.
- Tuffnut Thorston likes to use the spyglass backwards to see close things as if they were further away.