History Main / DragonsVersusKnights

* In the fourth ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf'' movie, ''Mission Incredible: Adventures on the Dragon's Trail'', the goats and wolves don brightly-colored knight armor as they go on a quest to stop the evil dragons from causing turmoil in the dragon world and, [[SaveBothWorlds by extension]], in the Green Green Grassland.

* ''ComicBook/JLAALeagueOfOne'': The opening prologue features Drakul up against an army of European Knights.

* ''WesternAnimation/BlazingDragons'' inverts this - the protagonists are a group of heroic dragon knights, and their arch-enemies consist of a group of evil human knights.

See also DragonsPreferPrincesses, which this trope is often paired with -- the setup of a knight facing a dragon to rescue a kidnapped princess is a fairytale classic. Contrast DragonKnight, when either the knight is themed around dragons or the dragon ''is'' the knight. If a knight is successful at defeating his foe, he may become TheDragonslayer.

* ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'': The main protagonist Jaden uses a deck of Warrior-type monsters called the Elemental Heroes while two of his rivals use dragons; Chazz uses the Armed Dragon as one of the archetypes in his deck while Zhane uses Cyber Dragons, Machine-type monsters with dragon appearances.

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* In ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'' has the ''Of Dungeons and Dragons'' arc in the sequel culminate in this in the sequel, with Harry doing the bulk of the fighting against the Elder Wyrm (which had been dormant until disturbed by the First Task of the Triwizard Tournament, before playing up the Smaug influence and tormenting the other Champions), being sardonically referred to as "the KnightInShiningArmour" by Wisdom. Funnily enough, it's also quite literal, as Harry has at this point been knighted, thanks to the Battle of London, and is a member of the [[UsefulNotes/KnightFever Order of the Garter]].

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* ''VideoGame/GemsOfWar'', several Knight troops have traits or sometimes even spells that deal more damage to Dragons.

This pairing is firmly rooted in medieval stories and symbology. In European Christianity, [[DragonsAreDemonic serpents and dragons represented satanic powers]], a connection ultimately derived from the serpent of Eden, and Satan himself was often depicted as a draconic beast. Knights were instead associated with a marriage of piousness with the warrior ideal, serving as the archetypal champions of Heaven and righteousness on Earth. The image of a knight laying a hideous dragon low was thus a popular metaphor for good's triumph over evil.

* Myth/SaintGeorge is one of the most archetypal examples of this. In the original myth, George of Lydda is a wandering Cappadocian soldier who comes across a city being held under siege by a dragon that demands periodic sacrifices of people. George slays it just before it devours the city's princess, whose turn it was to be fed to the beast, on the condition that the city converting to Christianity. In medieval and later retellings and depictions of the story, however, George is invariably depicted as a high medieval armored knight, typically slaying the dragon from horseback.

* The short film ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVKRkA9Xm8Y Ritterschlag]]'' is about an older dragon teaching a younger one how to properly defend against an endless stream of incoming knights.

* ''Thanatos'' on the UsefulNotes/ZXSpectrum: You play as the dragon, fighting various enemies. When the dragon runs out of flame, it refuels by eating a witch. Each witch is always guarded by a knight on horseback, whom you need to kill before you can eat the witch.

* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'': While knights are just heavily armed warriors and no more likely to survive against a dragon than anyone else, being dragons essentially living weapons of mass destruction, there are several legends of dragonslaying knights. Serwyn of the Mirror Shield slew the dragon Urrax by approaching it while staying behind his reflective shield, keeping the dragon transfixed with his own reflection until he got close enough to spear it through the eye. Sir Galladon of Morne slew a dragon with his enchanted sword. Davos of the Reach, who is described as a knight despite having lived centuries before the origin of Westeros' knightly tradition, is better known as Davos {{the Dragonslayer}}.

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* ''Recap/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'': In "Dumb-Dumbs and Dragons", Billy goes back in time to the Middle Ages to learn how to be brave, and becomes an apprentice to a knight who tells him that, as a rite of passage, all knights must slay a dragon.

* ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'': One episode has Wander and Sylvia help a knight try to rescue a princess from a supposedly evil dragon, only to find out 1) said knight is a pompous jerkass who views himself as a hero when he's really a DirtyCoward and 2) [[spoiler: the princess and dragon are actually a couple and the trio arrive just as the pair are set to be married. The knight just has a hard time accepting the reality of it.]]

* ''ComicBook/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicIDW'': In ''[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicIDWIssue51To53 From the Shadows]]'', when the main characters are trapped in short time loops based on museum exhibits, Fluttershy and Spike find themselves in a battle between knights and a dragon. The knights are hostile enough towards dragons to treat the presence of the baby dragon Spike as an enemy intrusion, while the drago is very vocal about the enmity between his kind and theirs, and that he's attacking in retribution for their attacking dragons in the past. Fluttershy is able to defuse the situation by pointing out that this animosity is just perpetuating a CycleOfRevenge where each group attacks the other in retribution for the other attacking them.

* Characters/DisneyDucksComicUniverse: In a story where one of Gyro Gearloose's inventions allows creatures and characters from imagination to enter reality, a fairytale dragon is amongst the newly real beasts roaming around Duckburg. He makes it very clear that he does ''not'' like [[KnightErrant knights errant]], which he considers to be dragons' worst enemies, and pointedly questions Huwey, Dewey and Louie as to whether any of them plans to become a knight errant when he grows up.

-->'''Fluttershy:''' Excuse me, mister dragon, sir? But why are you tormenting these ponies?
-->'''Dragon:''' Are you ''kidding?'' Because they're ''knights!'' They try to ''slay dragons!''

-->'''Franz:''' Ah-- some of your... friends?
-->'''Red dragon:''' Don't be insulting. They're ''knights!''