Dragons.

You know, Mortasheen used to have dragons back when it was called Necromon. Scythe retired them, but I and Dodoman think Scythe should bring them back. Anyone else think so?

Holy shit, fuck yeah. Those are some awesome dragons.

I vote they should.

Dragons are prettymuch the surest way to make me throw a work of fiction at the wall in disgust. They are literally my biggest berserk button of all time, and I loathe how pop culture has twisted them into a million vile shapes, then driven them into the ground, each one more loathsome than the last.

Your average fantasy dragon literally goes out of its way to combine all the most fragile parts of all the animals it can think of, and somehow I'm meant to be scared.
They're been girlified to hell and back, and they're not getting any better. Literally NO fantasy is allowed to exist without dragons of some sort. Shit, even million-eyed space-mollusks get called dragons these days, for absolutely NO reason at all! A million bizarre and unique monsters are all referred to as dragons, thereby depriving them of any coolness they might have. It is SICKENING!

Dragons are to fantasy as Edward Cullen is to girls in puberty. These days they're either omnipotent, high strung elves in the bodies of flying, long-tailed horses, or cosmic entities that are in no way reptilian, let alone draconic.

You have what is, in essence, a glorified snake crossed with a large terrestrial predator, and it has been transformed into... whatever this is. These days "Dragon" is prettymuch slang for "God".

You can NOT design a reptilian monster without people assuming it's a dragon. When you ask people their favorite animal, at least half of them will say "dragon". DRAGONS ARE NOT ANIMALS, DAMN IT!!

Dragons are the physical personification of everything I hate about fantasy. They're like wolves, but ten times worse!



*Ahem*


there are *two* instances, in all of fiction, where I enjoyed the inclusion of dragons.

Exhibit A.









How to Train Your Dragon was more or less perfect in its portrayal, giving us a wide variety of bizarre and outlandish dragons, all of which are portrayed as *animals*. Simple, not majestic, not magical, high strung or polluted with girlification. Just simple, fucking, intelligent, respectable AMINALS.

Ehibit B.



Yeah. I liked Dragon Fighter. It was a dinosaur adapted for flight and flame breath, and by the Gods, that's all I want!


Every other dragon in the universe ever can go screw itself.

Holy shit, Gregole, calm down. You're starting to sound like Beelzebuzzer.

Anyway.....


This is Tarasca, a dragon from Spanish folklore. He eats children.


This odd, almost aquatic-looking animal is Adventure Time's idea of a dragon (this is the same show that featured a youkai-esque skeleton and called it a mermaid!).

Though I do enjoy the movie Falkor, I find it interesting that the common book-cover makes him look like a giant lion. However, on the cover of my copy of the book, he looks like this:

I love Adventure Time. A recent episode had a Gelatinous cube!

I always loved the basic Green Dragon design from Dragon Quest.

It's extremely simple, but it's pretty much an iconic figure in the series at this point.

I've never found a way to design a dragon myself that I liked, including those old mortasheen ones. Those two designs look and feel utterly generic and boring to me

BUTTS.

goddamn you outhouseinferno, I never even noticed that thing's buttcheeks until you brought it up!

I've been thinking of getting a dragon tattoo for a long time, but could never find one that wasn't 'generic.' Now I think I know what I'll draw.

So you consider a skeletal dragon with a deer head and insect-type legs to be boring and generic? Wow, youre even crazier than I thought.

Yeah, the undead one was kinda 'typical' but the skeletal deer-dragon was made of pure win.

I dunno when I made this but here's the creature profile I wrote for Dragons,
"Dragons are extraordinarily rare animals found only within the ream of Wyrmgeat. Due to this unusual rareness humans find them particularly interesting and hold them in the same light as other such creatures like the fairy. What many people fail to realize is that dragons are highly territorial and would rather eat humans than keep their company, and they don't like the taste of humans. While dragons were once believed to be reptiles, recent advances in the field of dragonology has proven that they are in fact mammalian and even give birth to live young.

They do not have scales, per se, but rather metallic Keratin (D-Keratin) growths on certain parts of their skin that provide a type of armorial protection against attacks. On their head there is what is called the crown, which is a large D-keratin growth richer in blue iron than the ones on the body, so much so to the point it's almost made entirely of the metal. It begins to grow only weeks after birth and continues in proportion with the body all the way up until death. Similar to their keratin, dragons' hair is rich in metals, particularly gold.

Dragons are monogamous and breed only once during their lifetimes. Their preferred meals include animals with high levels of metals in their blood streams and indeed the metals themselves. Their preferred metals are gold, iron, silver, mercury, lead, and zinc. Dragons are in no way related to the Ryu, which is sometimes called the Eastern Dragon, as they are in fact fish and not mammals."

Anything with incendiary breath is welcome in my house, no matter what they look like. ...Provided they don't use that breath in my house.

Besides, I quite like the iconic appearance of a bog-standard dragon. I have a few next to me as I type. It's big, it flies, and it's an angry dick - and the aforementioned breath.

I don't despise the typical dragons, I just think they're overexposed and overdone.

I've seen some wonderful pictures in this thread though. Dragons can still be cool, they just need some new life and originality breathed into them.