Dragon Quest/Trivia


 * Fountain of Expies: The original Dragonlord from Dragon Quest I. Both Hargon of Dragon Quest II and Zoma of Dragon Quest III are blue-skinned villains with black headgear... just like the Dragonlord.
 * Not to mention the antagonists of most RPGs of the eighties.
 * No Export for You:
 * The series as a whole entered an age of this after the release of Dragon Quest IX, the remake of Dragon Quest VI, and Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 2 in 2010-11. The West missed out on Dragon Quest X, Slime Morimori Dragon Quest 3 and the remakes of Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 2, Dragon Quest Monsters: Terry's Wonderland, and Dragon Warrior Monsters 2: Cobi's Journey and Dragon Warrior Monsters 2: Tara's Adventure. The drought finally ended in 2016, with Dragon Quest Heroes and the remakes of Dragon Quest VII and Dragon Quest VIII all receiving English-language releases and Dragon Quest XI getting a decently timely release in 2018, but for ages it looked like the Dragon Quest VII and Dragon Quest VIII remakes would miss the boat too, and naturally, all of the previously-mentioned titles seem to be in permanent export limbo (which is maddening for Dragon Quest X).
 * And of course, people are/were extra sore about this (Dragon Quest VII in particular) because this wasn't even the franchise's first trip out into the woods. After Dragon Quest IV's awful-because-it-was-years-late showing in 1992, the franchise entered a years-long period of missed or sporadic releases in the 90's, with Dragon Quest V and Dragon Quest VI infamously left to molder and only sporadic releases of spinoffs happening, along with Dragon Quest VII somehow making it over. It was only after Dragon Quest VIII in 2004, and in the lead-up to Dragon Quest IX, that the newly-formed Square Enix seemed to be interested in making a new push for the franchise.
 * Screwed by the Network: All the problems discussed in Bad Export for You and No Export for You above are because the American branch of Square Enix seems to have no faith in this series outside of Japan.
 * Network to the Rescue: Nintendo. They are the ones who are responsible for the Western releases of Dragon Quest IX, Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 2 and the remakes of Dragon Quest VI, Dragon Quest VII and Dragon Quest VIII. Sometimes they even took on the responsibilities of translating and marketing the games themselves.