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A land far away, where the existence of dragons is known to people. A land where wizards care for dragons for thousands of years. A land where you will be swamped with requests by new players to click their eggs.
This is the world of ''[http://dragcave.net/ Dragon Cave]''.
''Dragon Cave'' is a popular adoptable site created by T.J. Lipscomb, with sprite contributions made by the users. Upon registration, each user is given a scroll that they can fill up with dragons of many different kinds. The dragons' growth is made possible by the amount of views received.
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'''This site provides examples of: '''
* [[Actual Pacifist]]: [[Planet of Hats|Every single white dragon.]]
* [[Abusive Parents]]: If you decide to act like this, you may end up with a neglected dragon. They are incredibly rare and difficult to get, and are therefore some of the most desired dragons in the game.
* [[Aerith and Bob]]: Members are free to name their own dragons, and often the lists of their dragons names can end up like this, or else pass into the bizarre and the surreal.
* [[Anthropomorphic Personification]]: "The Guardians of Nature" which are the personifications of....well, guess.
* [[Art Evolution]]: Most of the sprites haven't changed since their introduction, but since the site's creation the egg sprites have become more polished and male and female dragon sprites of the same breed now often have different poses.
** Also, many of the original sprites were very rushed, and has restrictions on the number of colours used. Now that sprites have more time and colours available to them, they tend to be more detailed and realistic.
* [[Balloon Belly]]: The [[Meaningful Name|Balloon Dragons]].
* [[Brainwashed]]: Averted. Many people assume this about the daydreams, but the creator has said many times that all it can do it distract you, not control someone's mind.
* [[Breath Weapon]]: Some dragons are explicitly stated to use breath attacks, though others lack breath powers and others use various forms of magic.
* [[Combat Tentacles]]: The Dark Green or [[Fan Nickname|"Vine"]] dragons use their masses of vines to attack and eat anything around them.
* [[Dark Is Not Evil]]: The Black Marrow dragons, black and red Halloween dragons with skeletons that grow through their scales and eat carrion also happen to be kind mates and doting parents.
* [[Dishing Out Dirt]]
* [[Easter Egg]]: Quite literally. For Easter 2010 and 2011, there was a "Festival of Eggs" in which several very pretty eggs made by the people who sprited the dragons would randomly appear around the site. They don't hatch into anything, though.
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* [[Everything's Better with Chocolate]]: Heartseeker dragons smell like it.
* [[Everything's Better with Dinosaurs]]: Suspiciously Yoshi-like dragon eggs appear very rarely.
* [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]: Some of the dragon species run into this, especially those named after a colour. For example, the Cheese Dragon is....a dragon made of cheese.
* [[Fire, Ice, Lightning|Fire Ice Lightning Dragons]]
* [[Fluffy the Terrible]]: The Flamingo Dragons, who despite their name and pretty pink colour, are some of the most violent dragons in the cave.
* [[Four Seasons]]: A seasonal dragon will take the appearance of whatever season its laid in.
* [[Fragile Speedster]]: The [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|whiptail dragons.]]
* [[Gotta Catch Em All]]
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** Now they're just encouraging it, too, with a breed of dragon that can ''only'' be obtained by breeding Skywings and Water dragons.
* [[Incest Is Relative]]: You should see some family trees.
* [[Living Shadow]]: The aptly named Shadow-Walkers, at least most of the time.
* [[Lotus Eater Machine]]: Daydream dragons are implied to sometimes have such an effect.
* [[Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me]]: Guardian dragons have large shields at the end of their tails, and their wings are also heavily armoured.
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* [[Our Dragons Are Different]]: They need ''views'' to even hatch.
* [[Our Vampires Are Different]]: Vampire dragons were originally introduced on Halloween '09, and cannot breed but can bite eggs to turn them into vampire eggs.
* [[Our Zombies Are Different]]: More of the classical necromancy version, where you can raise a hatchling or adult dragon and turn it into a zombie on Halloween. Somehow this manages to completely change their skeletal structure.
* [[Retcon]]: The formerly all-female Pink dragons "traditionally being thought as female" due to their color, along with a sprite change.
** Another formerly all-female breed, the Purples, now have males as well.
* [[Ridiculously Cute Critter]]: Quite a few, but the Pillow dragons stand out as being literal balls of fluff ''who love to cuddle''.
* [[Serious Business]]: People are '''killing''' pixel dragons? The murderers!
* [[Shout-Out]]:
** A couple to ''[[Pokémon]]'':
*** [http://dragcave.wikia.com/wiki/Pokemon_Night Pokémon Night] itself, when many of the dragons' sprites were replaced with those of Pokémon for a joke.
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*** The Desert Sands release was the Sunstone and Moonstone dragons, which are orange and blue. The release's image said "The Blue and Orange conspiracy theory continues." Members immediately thought of Portal, but in reply TJ linked to a site pointing out [[Orange-Blue Contrast]].
** TJ's fake egg "<3", which can be seen [http://dragcave.net/view/%3C3 here]. One member had commented how the released dragons matched up with the elements on ''[[Captain Planet]]'' and joked how the release was missing "the element of heart", so TJ added the heart egg.
** Saurian, a language invented for the game ''[[Star Fox Adventures]]'', is used a lot on this site:
*** TJ used to post all the announcement threads in Saurian, requiring users to translate the message.
*** All of TJ's dragons are named in Saurian (thus, dragons descended from his are known as "Thuwed" dragons, as "thuwed" is Saurian for "dragon" and appears in the names he gives his dragons - for example, "Wahc Fadb Thuwed", which is literally "[[A Dog Named "Dog"|Girl Pink Dragon]]").
*** In the Halloween 2011 Haunted Mansion event, there were "spells" that were really just words in Saurian.
*** One of the 2012 Valentine's Day valentine messages was "Xuff0 Lucokado'j Tu0" - "Happy Valentine's Day" in Saurian.
** TJ has apparently stated that the [[Everything's Better with Chickens|chickens]] are a reference to the ''[[Harvest Moon]]'' games.
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* [[Stock Ness Monster]]
* [[Telepathy]]: All dragons use telepathy to communicate, save for a few sounds made by hatchlings.
** Averted with the Drake species, who can only breed among themselves and have an animal-level intelligence.
* [[Teleporters and Transporters]]: Magi dragons have the "Teleport" Breed Specific Action which allows for safe trading and gifting of eggs and hatchlings.
* [[The Matchmaker]]: Heartseeker dragons.
* [[Video Game Cruelty Punishment|Adoptables Game Cruelty Punishment]]: Formerly, if a member killed too many of their dragons, their scroll would automatically be erased. As it is now, members can only kill a certain number of dragons before having to wait.
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