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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 breathefire? Or 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 ancient and powerful as the Earth itself? Are they benevolent? Malevolent or even outright demonic? Are they divine entities or spirits, or just really cool animals? They could even be aliens, in some works of fiction.

The answers to these questions generally fall within two traditions, 'Western' and 'Eastern'. Even then, in addition to cultural differences, dragons fall into a very wide range of types even in one local mythology.

Eastern dragons, such as in the Eastern Zodiac, come from different traditions and as such aren't technically the same monster as their Western counterparts; Westerners who encountered stories and images of Chinese lóng and Japanese tatsu/ryuu sprung on the similarities to the European dragon and couldn't think of anything better to call them.

Even within these traditions, however, there is much variability. This has increased in modern times, as Western and Eastern authors have blurred the traditions by mixing and matching attributes from both (benign Western dragons are quite popular these days, for instance). Some authors invent completely new attributes to set their dragons apart from the crowd or just make themcooler. And some authors put dragons in their stories just for the sole reason of making a story look cool.

The western dragon has a number of variants◊. Some appear in mythology and folklore, others are a more recent invention.

• The most popular variation has been the wyvern, which resembles a bat, with clawed wings as forelimbs and two legs for hind limbs, this configuration generally being considered more 'realistic' as something that could actually evolve.^note It's also easier to animate with most methods.^note In some settings, this is the only type and will simply be called 'dragons'. In other settings, wyverns are not considered 'true' dragons, but are a related and usually less powerful or intelligent species. Wyverns are less likely to breathe fire, and more likely to be venomous (even when dragons in the same setting are not venomous.)

The term 'wyvern' is less likely to be used if the creature in question walks quadrupedally (using the wings as forelimbs, like a bat or a pterosaur), such as Smaug from The Hobbit, Vermithrax Pejorative from Dragonslayer and the dragons from Reign of Fire or Game of Thrones.

• 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; for each head you cut off, two rapidly grow to replace it. ^note If they have a Breath Weapon, it's often a different one for each head. The original sprayed poison and had poison for blood.
  • As an alternative to hydra, the Zmey of Slavic mythology is catching on. They are similar creatures right down to the poison blood but there are a few salient differences. Zmey always have some limbs, almost always have wings and can fly, and more often than not have a bulky lizard-like body instead of the traditional hydra's snake-like body. The most major difference is that, while some modern hydras have a fixed number of heads, the zmey always does (and its usually at three). It can regenerate its fixed number of heads if they are removed without fire and their bodies are said to be either invulnerable or have a potent healing factor. On top of all that, they traditionally have fire breath and poison breath of western dragons. While nearly all named Zmeys are antagonist in the works they appear, many traditions point out they can be good.^note These have obviously always been popular in Slavic cultures, but the Cold War has stunted their spread to west until recently.
• A drake is usually a creature related to dragons but smaller and less intelligent, equivalent to the relationship between humans and chimpanzees. More likely than dragons to come in multiple varieties adapted to different environments (e.g. the drakes that live around volcanos may be the only ones able to breathe fire). In terms of appearance, they are most commonly depicted as largely similar to 'common' dragons but with small or nonexistent wings; on other occasions, they may have two wings and two legs in the same manner as wyverns. Sometimes they're simply young or adolescent dragons rather than a separate species. In other cases 'drake' is interchangeable with 'dragon', or is a term for male dragons in particular.
• 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 enormous serpents. This type of dragon may be referred to as a wyrm (pronounced 'worm'). Sometimes, however, 'wyrm' will simply be a synonym for dragons in general.
  • Occasionally, winged but legless dragons may be referred to as amphipteres instead, a name derived from a kind of winged serpents traditionally used in French heraldry.

Naturally, all of these may be in play, making 'Dragon' more of a higher Taxonomic rank like 'Order' or 'Class' than Species or Genus. By this reckoning, other reptilian or avian mixed mythological creatures, particularly the Basilisk, Cockatrice and Quetzalcoatl, may be considered types of dragons or similar creatures in some works.

Further, it's also become fairly common for dragons to come in different flavors of Elemental Powers, especially in settings where Elemental Rock–Paper–Scissors are enforced. This may simply manifest in their Breath Weapon, or it may affect all properties of the dragon. Elemental rainbows of dragons are most common in video games and tabletop games where diversity of creatures and gameplay balance are considerations. While fire remains the most common breath weapon among fictional dragons, ice or freezing air is a common alternate — ice dragons tend to show up as one-off variants, often in contrast to 'regular' fire dragons, even when other types of elemental dragons do not. When multiple types of breath weapons are possible, poison, acid and lightning are common choices. Undead dragons are also not unheard of, usually breathing ice or poison.

As mentioned above, a recent trend has been to try and make dragons that could actually exist in the real world. Naturally, these tend to either use Science Fiction concepts or be very different from traditional dragons. Also common in later works is a tendency for dragons to form a life-long bond with any human or humanoid who is present when they hatch (probably inspired by the 'imprinting' which occurs with most birds in Real Life, which is why birds raised in captivity with the intent to be released must be cared for by puppets). This gives writers a way to give dragons unique psychology without having to come up with unique motivations for them. It also explains why humanoid Dragon Riders can boss them around. Yet another trend appearing here and there is for dragons to be depicted as looking similar to dinosaurs, usually the bigger theropods (like Tyrannosaurus rex), but occasionally sauropods (such as Brachiosaurus) as well. The two are often outright confused with each other. Another common trend in modern fantasy is the miniature pet dragon, suitable for perching on one's shoulder.

Compare Giant Flyer, Kirin and other Dragon Tropes. Supertrope to Cat-like Dragons, Dracolich, Draconic Abomination, Draconic Humanoid, Dragon Ancestry, Dinosaurs Are Dragons, Dragons Are Demonic, Dragons Are Divine, Feathered Dragons, Seahorses Are Dragons, Shoulder-Sized Dragon and Weredragon.

Not to be confused with The Dragon, a position only sometimes held by a real dragon (while dragons themselves can just as easily be Big Bads).

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• Two oil paintings (1470◊, c. 1460◊) of St. George's fight with the Dragon by the Italian painter Paolo Uccello (1397—1475) depict a dragon with two legs and wings with eye spots, as are found on the wings of butterflies in real life.

• Calvin and Hobbes: One of Calvin's many fantasies sees him imagine himself as a fierce, fire-breathing dragon that utterly destroys a knight foolish enough to challenge him in his lair.
  The knight is fried to a crunchy crisp.. his armor fused into a solid piece! The dragon circles overhead, daring other fools to come after him!
• The Far Side: Dragons — typically as big, wingless, lizardy beasts with many small horns — have featured in a few strips:
  • One depicts young dragons, when their parents aren't home, using matches to set their sneezes on fire.
  • A couple play off of the traditional enmity of knights and dragons, usually skewed in the dragons' favor: one strip, for instance, features a dragon handling the scalding hot armor of a freshly roasted knight and calling for his wife to hurry up with the hot pads; another features an irritated dragoness scolding her husband for eating in bed and leaving leftovers (i.e., knights' armor) all over the sheets.
• On the Fastrack: The Moat Monster that lives in the moat around the Fastrack, Inc.'s headquarters is a talking, dragon-like creature that was spawned by Fastrack dumping excessive amounts of toxic waste there.. and which is so acclimated to her environment that she regularly eats the stuff and was convinced not to accept a job somewhere else by Fastrack buying other companies' own waste products and dumping them in her moat. She can also shapeshift into an attractive human woman.
• Phoebe and Her Unicorn: Todd the Candy Dragon is a tiny dragon who says nothing but 'Rar' and, true to his name, produces candy and ice cream from his mouth.
• Prince Valiant: The fen dragons in early strips were basically gigantic crocodiles who dwelt in the swamps. A much more recent story arc pitted Val against a truly titanic lizard from a Lost World, which attacked Camelot seeking its stolen egg.
• What's New? with Phil and Dixie: Growf the tiny purple dragon is a recurring character that induces Squees followed by third degree burns, and reproduces by 'explosive parthenogenesis' when wet.

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• Ah! Archfall!: Two dragons appear, and both seem to be some sort of Animalistic Abomination.
  • Lind's true form (at least the visible bits) resembles a huge, white, thousand-headed dragon covered in eyes and spines.
  • Gandamak is vaguely based a Western dragon but is nearly 100 foot long, has four 50 foot wings, ten legs, tusks and a single eye on the end of a stalk. Further, if you chop off one head two will grow from the stump.
• And We Can Watch The Stars On The Water: The dragons in Flights of Fancy aren't quite gone into detail, but they're happy to have bonded humans fly on their backs, they've apparently got enough of a language that they can use sarcasm (even if they can't speak human languages), and can interbreed with humans.
• Austraeoh: The dragons are rare, powerful and supremely unfriendly creatures, and are ruled by dragon matriarchs older than the alicorns.
• The Bridge: Several varieties from two worlds show up:
  • Equestrian dragons are as they appear in the show. They can mature naturally as well as experience rapid growth caused by excessive greed, at the cost of becoming rabid. Greed-growth isn't reliant on just material greed and can be caused by craving anything from prey to revenge. Most aside from Spike are a bunch of jerks.
  • Grand King Ghidorah, Des Ghidorah and Kaizer Ghidorah are alien lifeforms that just happen to resemble dragons. They are some of the most powerful kaiju, and all have three heads, two tails, and two wings. Des Ghidorah and Kaizer Ghidorah are six-limbed quadrupeds whereas Grand King Ghidorah has only four limbs. Each can travel through space and manipulate gravity, in addition to having various unique powers.
  • While unseen, dragons are mentioned as having existed on Terra in the past, being animalistic versions of The Fair Folk. When magic largely was extinguished across the planet, they reverted into normal crocodiles and snakes.
• Catalyst Verse: Dragons are stand-ins for the artificial superintelligences of canon translated into the story's fantasy world. They are few in number but ancient and powerful; even their ashes can be used to fuel magic.
• Child of the Storm has three different kinds of dragon:
  • The canonical dragons from Harry Potter, which are very large, fire-breathing magical creatures, but basically just animals. They're mentioned as being mere shadows of the Elder Wyrms discussed below — which, as it happens, is a very, very good thing.
  • The Great Dragons of Avalon which are mentioned in passing as being classic Western Dragons, intelligent, magically powerful, neither inherently good or evil. They either remain in Avalon or are practically extinct. It isn't explained whether or not they're related to either of the other two varieties.
  • The Elder Wyrms, which were created by Surtur as shock troops for his campaign a million years ago, ranking only below Surtur's Great Captains and Surtur himself. They're very Tolkienian in both description and personality, being a) between 'colossal' and 'Kaiju' size-wise (as in, a large example 'could eat Godzilla like a bar-snack'), b) a mixture of winged and wingless, c) extremely intelligent Animalistic Abominations, and d) exceptionally magically powerful, being capable of controlling armies of spirits while still technically asleep, and providing a challenging fight for Greater Gods, let alone mortal heroes.
• Dragons Unite: There's a couple hundred million of them living in the alternate Earth the story's set in, who are as intelligent as people, have opposable thumbs, stand about two meters tall and four long, live for hundreds of years, have wings (except for the Asian variety) and magical elements (again, except for the Asian variety), a varying amount of non-elemental magic, and make up 99.99% of the character count in the average story.
• Earth and Sky: Due to dragons being magic creatures, their physical forms change based on their desires. For instance, a dragon that lived by himself in the middle of nowhere grew a second head just so he'd have someone to talk to. This is also apparently why Spike has wings now when he didn't during his greed-induced growth spurt; he didn't want them back then, but has since learned to enjoy the concept of personal flight.
• For the Love of the Gods: Dragons are ancient, magical creatures, having existed for as long as fairies and gods, and are some of the few things capable of harming a god. Because of this, gods generally avoid them.
• Hope for the Heartless: According to the Horned King, despite resembling them, gwythaints such as the two he kept aren't dragons. He did once encounter a true dragon, which was built like a gwythaint but had four legs and bronze-colored scales, and was as large as two peasant houses put together. It didn't breathe fire (but he has heard tales from people who have actually seen firebreathers), but spat lava instead, something some dragon types can do by eating rocks and digesting them into a lava-like substance.
• It's a Dangerous Business, Going Out Your Door:
  • Dragons come from the nation of Carcosa and have their own language, Draketongue, a tonal tongue (meaning that tone and pitch are as important as, if not more important than, the actual sound of words in conveying meaning) noted to be highly melodic and sung more than spoken.
  • The komagas, large reptilian creatures that rampage across Gildedale for a month every year, destroying anything in their way (they only do this in one direction and return the next year from the same way as before; no one knows where they go the rest of the time), were, according to Gildedale tradition, dragons who long ago committed some unknown sin and were punished by their gods with the loss of their wings and fire and being cursed to eternally roam the earth, and who over the aeons have degraded into mindless beasts.
  • Longs are also mentioned, and apparently live in the nation of Salamar. They are not true dragons, however, and apparently dislike being mistaken for such.
  • In addition, Besides the Will of Evil also introduces various dragon-like creatures among the monsters created by Reiziger during the Deer War, which become part of his forces again when he returns:
    • Wyverns resemble cobras with dragon wings and blue fire burning in their mouths, eyes, and a slit along their backs.
    • Fell beasts are bigger, almost the size of a small dragon. They have only four limbs — wings and taloned legs — and their long necks and tails give them an almost wormlike appearance. Their shrieks cause supernatural terror.
• Kindred: Discussed when Bella compares Mulan's Eastern interpretation of dragons to her own Western versions.
• The Last Draconequus: According to Discord's inner monologue, eastern dragons exist alongside the western kind, and are capable of interbreeding with ponies to create a chimeric species called the long-ma. The draconequi were long-ma who migrated west. The original long-ma followed a different evolutionary path and are still around today, and deny being draconequui at all, but Discord still considers them basically the same species. Western dragons are stated to be an inherently chaotic species, and as such, like the draconequi, can potentially produce an Avatar of Chaos.
• Let the Galaxy Burn: Dragons can fly through space, and are colossal — Balerion the Black Dread is said to have been bigger than a ship of the line, making it several kilometers in length. An ice dragon is also encountered.
• My Little Mages: The Nightmare's Return: Unlike canon, Spike looks hardly any different from an ordinary iguana, save for his coloring (which annoys him). He's too young to speak yet, and can only communicate with Twilight telepathically.
• The Palaververse: They used to rule most of the world in the past, but their power began to slip as civilization grew, and was lost in a series of disastrous wars against the Diamond Dogs, the Capric Empire and Equestria, forcing most of them out of Ungula and to the archipelago of the Burning Mountains. They also have their own unique but poorly understood form of magic, hoard treasure as both a way to store food and as a mating display of sorts, and though mostly loners they have a loose society, ruled by the Fire Queen through Dragon Lords acting as intermediaries and viceroys.
  • An interesting note is that, although most dragons dismiss religion as something for more mortal beings to bother with, particularly old and powerful dragons almost invariably develop beliefs centering on the size of one’s hoard determining the value and “brightness” of one’s soul, and of a 'Last Dark' to be met with as bright a soul as possible, refusing to elaborate on this even to their younger kin.
  • The caverns of the underworld are known to be home to blind, flightless dragons that breathe mind-clouding fumes and poison instead of fire.
• RainbowDoubleDash's Lunaverse: The dragons are the same as in the base canon (i.e., they're of the Western type, have nigh-invulnerable scaly hides, fire breath and six limbs (counting the wings), eat gemstones, and collect a Dragon Hoard because they grow larger the more stuff they possess). However, this is heavily Deconstructed. Because dragons are so individually powerful, and can find their food so easily, they never developed a civilization beyond the crudest level of 'might makes right'. Very few dragons can even read and write, and the handful of more civilized dragons have to learn other languages just because Draconic lacks the vocabulary to express many of the things they want to say. In addition, since the greatest threat to a mature dragon is another dragon, they never work together, and though they may spawn whelps, they would never take them into their own lairs, for they might steal something. As a result, there are only a few thousand dragons on the planet. As one abnormally wise dragon puts it:
  'We are dragons. We are mighty. We are the strongest of the mortal races. We have no equals. And because of that.. we are dying.'
• The Roboutian Heresy: The Salamanders are themed after them, being proud, loot-obsessed conquerors who pillage and dominate largely to prove they can. Their Daemon Primarch, Vulkan, has taken the form of a great black dragon after his ascension, and the Dragon Warriors take similar forms.
• Still Waters Series: Dragons are separated into two main types: Common Dragons and True Dragons. Common Dragons (further subdivided into Greater and Lesser Dragons) are the sort found everywhere in Mundus Magicus and are not sapient, while True Dragons are extremely rare, highly intelligent, and capable of great magic. The ancient dragon riders are thought to have ridden True Dragons, alsthough the more modern version rides purpose-bred dragons that are a pale imitation of the real things.

• Gloryhammer: The song 'Magic Dragon' from the first album, Tales From The Kingdom of Fife is about a magic dragon who becomes Angus McFife's ally after a magic spell is cast.
  'Demon attacked me but then it was slain
  The dragon appeared and a battle was fight.' [sic]
  'I spoke from the words of a powerful scroll
  And magical dragon became now allied.'
• The protagonist of the 'Dragonland Chronicles' album trilogy of the Swedish Heavy Metal band Dragonland is said to descend from dragons. In addition to that to cite an example 'Dragondawn', the first song of their first album is accompanied (it's instrumental) by these verses:
  'As the dragons of the dawn spread their wings
  And in the first blazing rays of the flowing morninglight
  Set flight over oceans of radiant azure blissfull tides
  Over majestic mountains of old, mountains of gold (..)'

• Gottlieb's Gladiators has The Beast, a three-headed flying green dragon that is the final boss in the game.
• Dungeons & Dragons has a fire-breathing scaly red dragon as the antagonist.
• The dragons in Flash Dragon apparently like to take photographs of players.
• The 'Dragon's Keep' table of Full Tilt! Pinball has a red dragon that breathes fire.. and eats pinballs.

• CHIKARA Running In The Red, November 13, 2005, saw the surprise debut of Dragon Dragon, a guy in a foam green dragon costume. That was it, and it got over immediately with Eddie Kingston putting him over huge on commentary. He would make on-and-off appearances over the years, until Oleg The Usurper destroyed him with his Off with His Head!Finishing Move at WiF! Ripe For The Picking on July 27, 2013.
• Ricky 'The Dragon' Steamboat. Most notably in his regrettable 1991 WWF stint.
• Ultimo Dragon^note doesn't breathe fire or have wings, but he flies just fine without them.
• Jacqueline has a black belt in Taekwondo and at one point had an official website called dragonjackie.com.
• Wani's name referred to a dragon or Sea Monster from Japanese Mythology, though it could also be translated as crocodile.

• While conventional Western Dragons have been summoned in Destroy the Godmodder, the main three dragons in the series are closer to Physical Gods than conventional dragons:
  • The Secret of the Void is a primordial being from the dawn of time who played a major role in creating reality as we know it. He is a major ally of the Narrative and serves as a Big Good for the series until his death at the hands of the Conflict.
  • The Red Dragon is the brother of the Secret of the Void and is a bona-fide Eldrich Abomination the size of an entire planet. He was imprisoned by Notch and the Secret of the Void in a dimension that became the Nether, but shards of him occasionally escape, and exist as powerful bosses in their own right. In addition, Herobrine himself was merely the champion of the Red Dragon, whose real name is 'Brine.'
  • The Ender Dragon initially appears to be a conventional dragon, albeit a particularly tyrannical one, until the players find out that she is actually a 'shadow' created when the Red Dragon was imprisoned, and seeks to free her brother from the confines of the Nether.

• The Journey into Imagination attraction at EPCOT features Figment, a cheerful purple dragon who acts as the park's mascot. He doesn't seem to have any fire-breathing powers, and he's (for a dragon) not particularly big. He does have some powers, though - in the third incarnation (and the current one) of the attraction, he manages to literally turn his house upside-down.

• Throughout the years, The LEGO Group has produced a number of dragons:
  • In the 1990s, the Castle theme introduced 'big-fig' dragons figures built with only a handful of bricks; bright green bodies, frills, a head-piece shared with alligators, a separate wing pieces. The 2013 revival featured a significantly larger big-fig dragon.
  • In the Ninjago theme, the ninjas occasionally use dragons as transport and to assist in combat. They have wildly varying appearances, wyverns, quadrupedal dragons and drakes, and Chinese Lung dragons. Unlike Castle, the dragons are fully brick-built (like a vehicle), and are very posable thanks to ball-and-socket joints. In The LEGO Ninjago Movie, Llyod Garmadon uses a bright green dragon mech based on the Chinese lung dragons.
  • In the Elves theme derived from the girl-centered Friends, the elves ride magical winged two or four-legged dragons in all sorts of flashy colors that behave like giant overgrown dogs. As with Ninjago, they are brick-built, albeit with custom head pieces allowing for more expression.
  • The Creator theme has had a number of dragons that are 100% brick built and like Ninjago encompass all sorts of body types.