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{{quote|''"Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup."''}}
Nearly every culture has myths about something called a 'dragon', despite the fact none of them can agree on exactly ''what'' dragons are. How big are they? What do they look like? How many heads do they have? Do they breathe [[Kill It with Fire|fire]]? Or [[Kill It with Ice|ice]]? Do they fly (and if so, with or without wings)? How many legs do they have? Are they dumb as planks, or superintelligent? Are they low scaly pests, or ultra-rare Uber-serpents [[Stronger with Age|ancient and powerful as the Earth itself]]?
And most importantly, ''do they think we taste good with ketchup?!?''
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|Live for a very long time, if not actually immortal.||May be an out and out [[Physical God]].
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|Are [[Flying Brick|incredibly strong]] and [[Healing Factor|hard to kill]] but usually have one or two [[Achilles' Heel|fatal weak spots]]. This is traditionally under the chin, but post-Tolkien, it's more likely to be on the chest or belly, and [[Go for the Eye|the eye]] is popular too.||In relation to the above, pretty much invincible. Not that people actively seek them out to kill them anyway.
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|Sometimes have poisonous blood, breath, saliva, or some such. Often, this will kill you after you kill it. If their blood isn't poisonous, it grants special powers such as invincibility.||
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Rivaling the wyvern is the '''Hydra''' from [[Greek Mythology]], which is often depicted as a flightless dragon-like water or swamp beast with one or more heads; [[Hydra Problem|for each head you cut off, two rapidly grow to replace it.]] If they have a [[Breath Weapon]], it's often a different one for each head. The original sprayed poison and had poison for blood.
Very old (Greek and Roman, and some medieval) dragons are presented as more serpentine than the more recent ones -- if winged, the wings are usually their only limbs; and some were totally limbless, just *very enormous* serpents. This type of dragon may be referred to as a '''wyrm''' (pronounced just like "worm"). Some do have legs as well as wings, and walk similar to a bat, hunched over and using the wings as arms.
Other reptilian or [[Biological Mashup|reptile/avian mixed]] mythological creatures, particularly the '''Basilisk''', '''Cockatrice''' and '''Quetzalcoatl''', may be considered types of dragons or similar creatures in some works.
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* [[Our Dragons Are Different/Web Original|Web Original]]
* [[Our Dragons Are Different/Western Animation|Western Animation]]
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