Special:Badtitle/NS90:Forum:Trope Talk/The Dragon: The most sacred of all sacred cows/reply (3)

My suggestion was "Top Enforcer". The term already plays a distinguished part in the trope description, the first sentence of which goes, "The Dragon is the Big Bad's top enforcer." There is also the Noble Top Enforcer trope, which can only have been named that way because people didn't want to perpetuate the Dragon silliness and name the trope as "Noble Dragon".

There are however some Dragon tropes that use the word, and I think they also should be changed. For example:
 * Co-Dragons - "Co-Enforcers"
 * Demoted to Dragon - "Demoted to Second"
 * Devour the Dragon - "Eat the Enforcer"
 * Dragon Ascendant - (need to think about this one)
 * Dragon-in-Chief - "Enforcer with the Force"
 * Dragon Their Feet - "Tardy Top Enforcer"
 * Dragon with an Agenda - "Enforcer with Ideas"

(Incidentally the list on The Dragon page also has The Starscream, which is a trope named after a character and should be changed too to something more sensible.)

As for the parallelism with the Five-Bad Band members, I don't think that's important at all. But anyway, if you look at the individual pages you can see that most of the old names with the definite articles have been turned into redirects. The Five-Bad Band members now feature the Big Bad, the Evil Genius, and the Dark Chick. Only The Brute still retains its unnecessary definite article (unnecessary, that is, because this site uses Mediawiki instead of pmwiki).