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* ''[[Lineage 2]]'' usually (read: nearly always) follows the western style of dragons, despite this being a Korean game. Hey, it is a medieval European setting... Within this though are somewhat large variety of them, sometimes taken to extremes verging on [[Beyond the Impossible]]. This goes all the way up to the terrible twosome, Antharas the green earth dragon, and Valakas, the four-winged red fire dragon. Both of them are, from the player's perspective, probably as big as oil tankers. And I'm talking about SHIPS, not trucks.
* ''[[Lunar]]'' dragons resemble Western dragons (though with feathers rather than scales), but it's notable that young dragons look like small, winged cats. And apparently, they shit diamonds (At least the White one does. You might get Rubies/Sapphires/Onyx from the other three.).
* The Dragon, Bone Dragon, and Great Wyrm/Entei in the ''[[Disgaea]]'' series are nothing out of the ordinary as far as dragons go appearance wise (The fact that they, among other things, go to high school and run for office, though...). But then there's the [[Non-Indicative Name|Serpent]] class of ''[[Disgaea Hour of Darkness (Video Game)|Disgaea Hour of Darkness]]'', a ''shark'' dragon (Which is what the class was called in the Japanese version), as well as the fluffy, angelic, dog-faced Holy Dragon, first introduced in ''[[Disgaea 2 Cursed Memories]]'', whom most probably wouldn't call a dragon until they saw its class name.
** [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in ''[[Disgaea 3 Absence of Justice]]'' by its introduction lines to your other characters upon creating one:
{{quote| Holy Dragon: I look like a dog, but I am a dragon! Don't get it confused. Woof!}}
* ''[[Final Fantasy VI]]'' had eight legendary dragons in the World of Ruin (which were simply [[Palette Swap|Palette Swapped]] versions of other enemy sprites). Beating all eight would unlock a powerful summon that deals a lot of unblockable damage to everyone on the battlefield, [[Awesome but Impractical|your party members included]], which was otherwise unobtainable. Of course, you had to be near the very end of the game to beat all eight dragons anyway.
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** Various ingame [[Encyclopedia Exposita]] also mention a 'Great Dragon', the local Creator and [[Have You Seen My God?|(apparently on sabbatical)]] head of the [[Celestial Bureaucracy]].
* ''[[Pokémon]]'' considers "Dragon" to be one of the many elemental types that a Pokémon can have, but also features a few non-Dragon Pokémon who definitely fit the classical mold, namely [http://i417.photobucket.com/albums/pp255/spekkie_the_first/revamp/dezard.png Charizard] (Western) and [http://i372.photobucket.com/albums/oo169/maxiree_photo/gyarados.jpg Gyarados] (Eastern, albeit with the behavior of a Western dragon). And there's also some Dragon-type Pokémon who are ''very'' different ([http://i313.photobucket.com/albums/ll384/DarkLucario000/altaria.jpg Altaria]).
** Dragon is also the [[Infinity+1 Element]] of sorts, as its only weaknesses are to [[Kill It Withwith Ice|Ice]] and itself. (the latter of which was [[Game Breaker|meaningless in the]] [[Pokémon Red and Blue|first generation]].
** What are the iconic dragons of Pokémon, Dratini-Dragonite? Eastern for Dratini and Dragonair, but Western for Dragonite?
*** Not necessarily, dragons and [[Sea Monster|sea serpents]] have a long history of overlap.
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** Those who know about the Draic Kin dislike the word "dragon", as dragons aren't real.
** They also greatly vary in size. The Green, Red, and White Kin are all about the same size, maybe 3-4 times the size of a human. The Blue Kin, on the other hand, is truly gigantic and, apparently, the oldest. This would imply the Draic Kin keep on growing until they die.
* ''[[War CraftWarcraft]]'' dragons look Western, and are primarily represented by five differently-colored groups of called dragonflights. The leader of each dragonflight is called an Aspect. Each Aspect is charged by the Titans with protecting a specific domain: Life (red), earth (black), nature (green), magic (Blue), and time (bronze). Some of the Dragonflights have become corrupted or mad over time. In [[War CraftWarcraft]] II all dragons were green and were your average fantasy dragons, only their leaders had actual sentience. They take on their current form after the novel [[Day of the Dragon]] in which they were based off the dragons in Dragonlance.
** Red dragons are generally benign but are still predators (they have a burning hatred for Orcs after forced into their service in Warcraft 2). Green are usually benign but rarely seen (some have gone insane). Blue and bronze dragons are neutral. Black dragons used to be good, but that changed after their aspect, Neltharion (now known as Deathwing), was driven insane from the whisperings of the [[Eldritch Abomination|Old Gods]].
** Naturally, there is plenty of opportunity to fight dragons in ''[[World of Warcraft]]'', from whelps that are barely more than a annoying common enemy up to 40-man raid encounters.
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*** Apparently having a cannon as part of your body is normal for at least a couple dragons, ''e.g.,'' Michael's Black Burst belly cannon.
** And none of these descriptions even touch the dragon's counterparts, the Virage. They're...well...just [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIa4m_RrTeM look]. And that's the ''normal-looking'' kind.
* Dragons in [[Tales of Vesperia]] are members of the [[Precursors|Entelixia]] race, who have developed a [[Kill All Humans|thorough dislike of humanity by the time the game begins]]. {{spoiler|Given that their race's souls are used to power [[Powered Byby a Forsaken Child|blastia]], it's easy to see why.}}
* Dragons in the ''[[Breath of Fire]]'' series are shape-shifters who spend most of their time in human form, sometime unaware of their true nature. In the fourth game, they're also "Endless", the [[Physical God|physical gods]] of that verse.
** Just to make things confusing, ''[[Breath of Fire]]'' can't seem to decide what type of dragons they want. The first two games feature exclusively Western types (though the Agni/Infinity dragon of the first game looks more like a ''lizard-centaur''). The third game has mostly Western dragons, but a few special transformations (namely the fire/ice/thunder gene mix) are explicitly Eastern. The fourth game has mostly Eastern dragons, but the protagonist changes into exclusively Western dragons. ''Dragon Quarter'' goes all the way back to Western dragons exclusively (though, since there's only ''two'' dragons in the game, it's not that big a leap).
** In ''Dragon Quarter'' the "D-Constructs" are apparently some kind of artificial life form that are able to fuse with humans and give them vast amounts of power at a cost of [[Blessed Withwith Suck|slowly taking over the body of their host]], although the estimated chance to successfully complete the fusion is [[Title Drop|only 1/4 at very best]]. While they do look like normal Western dragons in their natural state (accomplished by either fully taking over their host's body either via repeated use of their powers or when the host dies in another manner), they appear as featureless black humanoids with [[Tron Lines]] running through them in their dormant state. It's also possible to forcibly implant parts of their dormant form into humans for a moderate power increase, but this also leads them into looking like a combination of a zombie and a battle-damaged Terminator. The successfully fused form, on the other hand, looks similliar to the Warrior form in the previous games of the series: humanoid in size and overall design, with scaled hands and feet and a pair of small wings engulfed in flames.
* Ridley from ''[[Metroid]]'' is a ''[[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|space pirate dragon]]'' (and [[The Dragon]] in almost every game) that fits the Western definition on almost all points -- he flies, he breathes fire, he seems to show up at least once per game regardless of how many times he's apparently been killed (the series has a chronology and no [[Reset Button]]), follows the six-limbs morphology, is fairly large, possesses weak points on his chest and in his mouth, and is generally guarding or hoarding something, be it a new route or a new weapon.
** Ridley only has a weak point in his chest in the 3d games. In 2d games he's actually the only boss without a weak spot (hit him anywhere but the tail and it harms him). He's still a very difficult boss, especially in Super Metroid, where he took an absurd amount of punishment, was very fast and flew around more or less randomly.
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* In ''[[Puzzle Quest]]: Challenge of The Warlords'', you're led through a realm populated by Western-style dragons. One of whom you can optionally add to your party. You can also capture a wyvern for a mount.
** There are also dragon ''spiders''. The only thing they have in common with normal dragons is the ability to breathe fire.
* [[Super Mario Bros.|Bowser]], The King of Koopas. Though shaped more like a turtle, he displays all sorts of dragony characteristics, down to the fiery breath.
** Though, instead of being a dragon turtle, he is actually an ox-turtle. Shigeru Miyamoto first envisioned him to be an ox, but one of the other devs instead suggested making him a turtle. He still retains his ox-like features in his current design, making him look dragon-like.
** There is also Yoshi, although he's more like a dinosaur horse at first glance. However, under certain conditions, he can spit fire and grow wings to fly. There are also other breeds of Yoshi, sporting different colors, that present different abilities, though the green is the most versatile.
*** He's a dragon, he calls himself as such at one point.
*** They're all equally versatile, actually-colored Yoshis get all the same powers as the consumer model under the same conditions, but each color automatically presents a particular power no matter what color shell they're carrying, meaning the green Yoshi is actually ''less'' versatile since he can only use one at a time (and green shells don't give him a power at all).
** [[Super Mario Bros.]] also has lots of actual dragons, both of the Western and Eastern varieties (and nearly all try to kill Mario). Hooktail and Gloomtail from [[Paper Mario (Video Gamefranchise)|Paper Mario]] are Western Dragons (evil), Bonetail is a [[Dem Bones|skeletal]] Western Dragon, Fracktail is a [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|malfunctioning robot Eastern Dragon]], Wracktail is an ''evil'' robot Eastern Dragon, Bonechill looks like a skeletal version of Satan crossed over with a dragon and a giant cannon, Dragohoho from [[Mario and Luigi Superstar Saga (Video Game)|Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga]] is Prince Peasley changed into a dragon.
** The [[Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Video Game)|Super Mario Galaxy 2]] Boss, Gobblegut is an Eastern style dragon with pretty much the behaviour of a Western style one, and is fought as a boss under the control of Bowser Jr in Bowser Jr's Fiery Flotilla, as well as a fiery version fought as a secret boss in the Battle Belt Galaxy.
* ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]'' has a handful of dragons as bosses. Both variants, no less. And some ''hybrids''--Volvagia breathes fire and is a dangerous monster, and has a head like a Western dragon--but his body type and the way he flies suggest an Eastern dragon, Valoo has a more Eastern face but a Western body type, Argarok is more a Wyvern than anything and so is the [[One-Winged Angel]] version of {{spoiler|General Onox}}.
** [[Skyward Sword]] features three dragons that have hominid faces and wear kimonos.
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* [[Sword of the Stars]]: You know the myth of feathered serpents on Earth? Big, intelligent, powerful, proud? [[Ancient Astronauts|Those are Morrigi females]]. Concendentally, [[Our Angels Are Different|their males are angels]], but thats due to their [[Psychic Powers|Glamour]] making them appear as winged [[Bishonen]] of the onlooker's race.
* Dragons are a staple of the ''[[Fire Emblem]]'' series and have appeared in every game. They're generally sentient western-type dragons who choose to remain in a human form most of the time for varying reasons. They also have smaller, non-sentient relatives who are used as mounts by the Dragon Knight class, usually called wyverns to distinguish them from the intelligent dragons, and may or may not be bipedal depending on the game.
* In the ''[[Monster Hunter (Video Game)|Monster Hunter]]'' franchise, most of the monsters one fights are Wyverns, bipedal with a long tail and claws on both wings. The dragons of the series are quite varied, but extremely powerful; in-game they are referred to as Elder Dragons. All but two monsters titled as Elder Dragons have four legs, wings, and can deal dragon-based damage (which is also the element they are weakest to). This means the more traditional fire-breathing dragons such as Teostra and Lunsatra, and the god-like Fatalis and Alatreon, are in the same category as the sand-swimming giant, Jhen Mohran. The classification is also used for monsters that share certain characteristics as dragons, but do not fall into any specific category. The way it is used in-game, an Elder Dragon is best described as a UMA. The main examples of this are Kirin, basically a thunder-horse, Ceadeus, a horned whale, and Yamatsukami, a gigantic octopus-like monster, as they are considered Elder Dragons.
** "Wyvern" in Monster Hunter is almost that world's term for "Monster". Nearly every main monster in the series is classified as a Wyvern of some kind.
*** "Bird Wyverns" are either small Wyverns with bird-like features (like beaks and feathers) or Dromaeosaurs the size of shipping containers,
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*** "Elder Dragons" come in all sorts of sizes and shapes, but they're all extremely powerful.
* In ''Heart of Winter'', the expansion of ''[[Icewind Dale]]'', the source of all the trouble turns out to be {{spoiler|a dragon's ghost. Apparently, she had been killed sometime before, and her spirit trapped by the sword that broke off in her heart. When the sword was removed, she escaped, possessed the body of a recently deceased barbarian chief, and began working to bring the Barbarian Tribes and the Ten Towns to war. She also killed her mate and ripped the souls out of her own offspring so that she could have a body. Her motivation for all this was that she "had a broken heart".}}
* ''[[Chrono Cross (Video Game)|Chrono Cross]]'' features six elemental dragon gods, who are all pretty standard Western dragons (except for one, who is {{spoiler|a female human sized and shaped harlequin with a french accent}}. They fuse together to form a protoplasmic WMD created by dinosaurs in another dimension.
* The Sky Dragons in ''[[Cave Story (Video Game)|Cave Story]]'' are unintelligent winged reptilian fire-breathers. They're also a bit on the [[Super-Deformed]] side.
* Dragons in ''Dragonseeds'' were cloned from fossils discovered in ruins, and come in a wide variety. Apart from the traditional Saurian and Winged varieties, there are such oddities as crabs, bees, one-eyed golems and animated coffins.
** The "Super" forms of these dragons all resemble humans.
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** For a good reference, one of the awakened dragons was mistaken for ''a mountain range'' in the original ''[[Guild Wars]].''
** The dragons in the sequel are very different from most other dragons. Rather than just being giant, winged lizards, they're more like incredibly powerful [[Eldritch Abomination|EldritchAbominations]]. For example, one of them turned a huge stretch of land into a crystal wasteland while simultaneously mutating its inhabitants. How did it do this? Through some powerful spell? Some elaborate ritual? No. ''By flying over it''.
* ''[[Mega Man 2 (Video Game)|Mega Man 2]]'' has a Western-styled ''robot'' dragon, who breathes fire (and is weak to boomerangs upside the head).
* Dragons haven't yet made an official appearance in [[Touhou|Gensokyo]] but the lore makes them out to be something fantastic. They're essentially known as dragon ''gods'' and Rinnosuke says that [[Magi Babble|when a god's body dies its bones swell with power and grow into]] [[Dinosaurs Are Dragons|what the Outside World have called dinosaur fossils]]. Backstory indicates that just before [[Pocket Dimension|the Great Hakurei Border]] was established, a dragon made one final appearance to its denizens before normal contact with the Outside World was severed.
** There's a statue of a dragon in the Human Village that predicts the weather - thanks to ''kappa'' technology - and there's a palace in one of the regions of the Heavens called the Dragon Palace, though it seems to be in name only; [[Ascend to Aa Higher Plane of Existence|noble Celestials]] [[My Friends and Zoidberg|and Tenshi]] l
*** Not so much, apparently, the "Highest God Of Illusions" (AKA, Gensokyo's God) is simply called "The Dragon" and in fact was the dragon that helped in the creation of the Hakurei Barrier, the "Dragon Palace" in Bhava-Agra makes much more sense, since Bhava-Agra is essentially Gensokyo's Heaven, they'd be pretty much the ones to hold the Palace towards Gensokyo's God.
* There are only six dragons in [[Rift]], and each one is only a [[You Cannot Grasp the True Form|manifestation]] of the leaders of the Elemental Planes.
* The second [[Tomb Raider]] game has this in form of the power granted by the Dagger of Xian, which can turn people into dragons. However, the result is a clumsy, fire-breathing dinosaur-like chinese dragon.
* ''[[Sacrifice]]'''s dragons are the highest-level creature available to Persephone, the goddess of life and nature. They look like a green and short-necked dinosaur with feathered wings. They are sentient, intelligent, and good-aligned, and their [[Breath Weapon]] breathes life that is able to resurrect dead beings. They attack with their powerful bite.
* The first boss of [[KirbysKirby's Epic Yarn (Video Game)|Kirbys Epic Yarn]] is a green dragon named Fangora who blows flames, flaps his wings to blow Kirby backwards, and sticks out his tongue in the form of a spear and shoots it at Kirby. His tongue can be used against him when he tires himself out. He is later brought back by [[Big Bad|Yin-Yarn]] in the final boss battle.
* In ''[[Game/Magic Carpet|Magic Carpet]]'', dragons are fairly low-level enemies that look like flying caterpillars and shoot fireballs. On the other hand, the wyverns that you encounter much later look like traditional dragons.
* In the ''[[Disciples]]'' games, the dragons are of your typical Western variety, although there are multiple kinds with different types of [[Breath Weapon]]: Black with acid breath (Death), Blue with steam breath (Water), Green and Red with fire breath (Fire), and White with vapor breath (Air). The [[The Undead|Undead Hordes]] also have reanimated dragons in the form of Deathdragon, Doomdrake, Dreadwyrm, and Wyvern. All the dragons (except for the undead ones) are ancient and intelligent creates and are one of the first created in Nevendaar. Also, it is claimed that the [[Our Orcs Are Different|Greenskins]] were created by a dragon deity.
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* The dragons of ''[[Dark Souls]]'' have stone scales and four wings, and were overthrown by the gods to establish the Age of Fire. And the dragons in-game have plenty of variety on their own.
* ''[[Minecraft]]'' has an enderdragon. It's a western-type dragon who doesn't breathe fire, but can fly and phase through terrain as it is nothing. It evaporates any material not native to The End realm.
* In ''[[Shining the Holy Ark (Video Game)|Shining the Holy Ark]]'' one of the main characters is a dragonman. Half dragon half human, best not to think how that came about.
* Whereas ''[[Shining Force III (Video Game)|Shining Force III]]'' has many different types of dragons. Your army will often be fighting wyverns you do at one point fight a baby dragon. If you avoid the fight with the baby dragon you'll be able to recruit a friendly dragon in the second game, kill the baby and you've got to fight an adult dragon to get past.
* The iPhone-game [[Dragonvale]] has you running a dragon-zoo/conservatory, so needless to say, it contains an enormous number of very different dragons, divided into 8 elements with various hybrids, seasonal variants, and a couple of '[[Infinity+1 Element|special]]' types. The sheer variety indicates a lot of brainstorming-session along the lines of "What would a Plant/Cold dragon be? What about a Lightning/Plant? Or a Water/Metal?" ...the results being a Lichen Dragon, a Cactus Dragon and a Rust Dragon, respectively.
** One interesting detail: While the majority of the dragons are either some variety of Western, or completely unique, there is only a couple of dragons that fit the 'Eastern' pattern - and those are some of the rarest and most valuable dragons around, specifically the [[Luck-Based Mission]] Rainbow Dragon, and the golden Leap Year Dragon which was only breedable for about a week around leap-day... and won't be available again for another 4 years.
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