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Line 110: == Video Games == * Since so many [[Video Game]] [[RPG]]s have dragons included as monsters for this trope, it would be easier to list exceptions. ''[[Dragon Quest I]]'' has a dragon kidnap a princess. Since that makes it the apparent [[Big Bad]] (the actual Big Bad is the Dragon''lord'' who is not a dragon), it does not fit this trope. Hence it is a quest to fight the dragon. * More a case of playing with the trope, as the [[Big Bad]] is known to not be a dragon right off the bat, but the Dragon''lord'', who can command dragons. Rescuing the princess isn't even required (though it helps a ''lot'' in getting one necessary quest item). In the NES english version, beating the Dragonlord in his human form makes him turn into a dragon, but the original Japanese Famicom version has his pet dragon attacking you after you kill him, which makes slightly more or less sense depending on who's playing. Future games in the series don't even bother with the dragons as big-time enemies, just high-level mooks. The ''[[Breath of Fire]]'' series is another exception, as the main character is ''always'' a human-dragon hybrid of some sort. * That doesn't mean that you don't fight dragons. In fact, every game in the series has you fighting against your own kind for some reason or another, and they are ''always'' more powerful than you. * ''[[Final Fantasy VI]]'' got a sidequest based on~~, yeah,~~ dragons (some of which [[Dinosaurs Are Dragons\|look like dinosaurs]]). There isn't any background lore on them nor are any of them directly related to the story (some of them are found in the last dungeon, but they can easily be skipped). The paper-thin background lore is that Crusader, the strongest of the Espers, was sealed during the ancient War of the Magi using the power of eight dragons. These "Crusader" dragons are vicious, but defeating them will get you the Crusader magicite, the only Esper that can teach Merton/Meltdown. [[Awesome but Impractical\|Which really isn't much of a reward, but hey.]] The Bahamut summon that appears in almost every FF game. Line 123 ⟶ 122: * [[Altered Beast]] allows players to become a dragon in level 2. Also, two of the bosses are dragons. * In ''[[The Elder Scrolls]]'', the only games in which dragons of some sort appear without playing a major part in the story is Daggerfall, with the small and actually-not-dragons dragonlings (an actual dragon is in the game files, but it does not seem to have been implemented). The other three games with dragons - Redguard (the super-weapon that set-up the situation and Tiber Septim's loyal servant), Oblivion (an avatar of a God that shows up to rescue the day after desperate measures are taken) and Skyrim (the [[Big Bad]]) - all have them as important parts of the story, and so does not quite fit this trope. That the God of Time near-universally amongst Tamriel's peoples is a ''Dragon'' God of Time may have something to do with this trope, though... * In ''E.V.O.'', if you eat a red crystal you temporarily get a powerful form depending on your current animal type. Naturally, if you're a bird, that temporary form is a Dragon ~~(and, arguably, THE strongest form in the game)~~. ** The red crystal forms are fixed, you just have to be a bird to reach the dragon one (and the gargoyle one). Temporarily turning into one via green crystal works too, since the effect doesn't wear off inside the cloud maze for some reason. * In the infamous MMORPG ''[[Maple Story]]'', there's a 3rd job class that is pretty much dedicated to this trope. The Dragon Knight. Said class's skills ALL INVOLVE DRAGONS in some way or another. Dragon Crusher, Dragon Fury, Dragon Roar, Dragon Blood, etc. These attacks are arguably some of the flashiest skills in the game, which is a huge motivation point for those who went for the extreemely boring Spearman class and want to keep going forward.