Our Dragons Are Different/Live-Action TV

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Examples of Our Dragons Are Different in Live-Action TV include:

  • The Discovery Channel Miniseries Dragons: A Fantasy Made Real is a Mockumentary all about a how dragons could be scientifically possible. There are four types of dragons covered: Prehistoric Dragons, Marine Dragons (Sea Monsters), Forest Dragons (Chinese Dragons), and Mountain Dragons (European Dragons). There are also "Desert Dragon" shown but it was never elaborated upon.
  • Along those same lines, Sci-Fi's Beast Legends makes a dragon from a mix of real animal parts, and ends up with a creature resembling the Kaiju Varan about the size of a bull.
  • In Knightmare there seem to be three differenttypes of Western style dragons, based on color. The smallest and weakest are blue and are never actually seen, just mentioned. Greens are the friendliest (in the sense that they are willing to deal at all with humans). Red dragons are both the most powerful and most wildly destructive.
  • In Merlin [BBC], the (male) dragon lives under the castle in a cave, can talk and knows magic. It can be controlled by a dragonlord (of which Merlin is the last) and must obey him. Apparently dragons on this series are also born with the help of a dragonlord, who calls them from the egg by naming them.
    • The episode Eye of the Phoenix has Wyverns. They are a lot smaller and act more like a pack of intelligent, but not sentient, animals.
  • In Lost Tapes a "Dragon" appears, but as a variant of the Real Life Komodo Dragon that was thought to be extinct: the Megalania. It eats a Survivorman wannabe.
  • Special Unit 2 references European and Asiatic dragons, and prominently features a "Native American" dragon. However, it acts like (and vaugely resembles) the stereotypical European portrayal in terms of behavior, is armored like a Tank and has a taste for gnomes.
  • Kamen Rider has had three dragon featuring seasons so far. Kamen Rider Agito is a chinese dragon based humanoid and the show implies that humans will become like Agito. Kamen Rider Ryuki has the twin dragons Dragredder and Dragblacker. Finally, Kamen Rider Kiva has Tatuslot as Kiva's power-up.
    • How could you forget Castle Doran and his chibi power-up?
    • Heck, Kiva himself can transform into what looks like one.
    • With the help of Kamen Rider Decade, Ryuki can also transform into a leaner version of Dragredder.
  • Flight of the Conchords one-off Show Within a Show Albi the Racist Dragon features a fairly traditional-looking Western dragon with fire breath and no wings - but who cries tears that turn into jellybeans. He's also racist.
  • Farscape had Budongs. Giant space dragons which would occasionally eat passing spaceships and were a real threat to interstellar travel. Dead Budongs were inhabited by mining colonies.
  • Power Rangers: There are number of Zords based on dragons. The most famous would be the Dragonzord, which is aquatic and resembles Godzilla, followed by the Red Dragon Thunderzord, which is modeled after Eastern dragons. Serpentera is also an Eastern dragon. But that's just the Mighty Morphin era. There's a dragon in Power Rangers Ninja Storm, two dragons (one of which is a carrier) in Power Rangers Mystic Force, and a blue dragon in Power Rangers Samurai. All of these are based on Eastern dragons, which is part of why the original Dragonzord still stands apart.
  • In the tv series version of The Dresden Files a dragon appears in one episode and it's strongly hinted that a member of the White Council is one in human disguise.
  • In Primeval (Season 3, Episode 7), a dinosaur known as a Dracorex wanders through an anomoly into the middle ages, where it is mistaken for a dragon.
  • Supernatural's budget constraints gave us dragons that could shift between human and dragon forms, and apparently they prefer to be in human form most of the time.
  • One season 10 episode of Stargate SG-1 had a dragon attack the motley crew (SG-1, Ba'al, and Adria) searching for Merlin's anti-ascended being weapon. This dragon was actually a sophisticated technological illusion; beating it required Daniel yelling its creator's name at it.
  • In Game of Thrones, as in its source material, dragons are unintelligent, fire-breathing wyverns, with the main pecularity being that they are a hermaphroditic One-Gender Race.
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