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* Averted in ''Disney/AladdinTheReturnOfJafar'', the ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts'' games, and in some of the storybooks however, where he is instead either fought as a human, or immediately goes straight to becoming a genie.

* Malchior in ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'', though he didn't so much transform into a dragon as he was transformed back to his real form. It still doesn't help him much.

A [[SubTrope specific variant]] of OneWingedAngel. [[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant If you're looking for]] video game characters being shown as grotesquely oversized compared to their surroundings on an overview map, that's over at UnitsNotToScale. Also not to be confused with MakeMyMonsterGrow.

-->-- '''EvilOverlordList''', 'Rule 34' [[note]][[FreudWasRight No, not]] [[RuleThirtyFour THAT one]][[/note]]

Extra points if the protagonist is [[FreudWasRight female]].

** ''{{Mystara}}'' has a race of small dragon-like creatures called drakes who can become human at will.

* In the ''Literature/ChroniclesOfPrydain'', when EvilOverlord Arawn, (based on the Celtic God of the Dead, who shares the name), master of terrible armies and incomprehensible BlackMagic is finally confronted face to face, he promptly turns into a serpent and dies within a paragraph or two, managing only to kill the slightly less evil queen before falling to everyone's favorite assistant pig keeper.

* The Dragonlord Chronicles books from ''Literature/{{Mystara}}'' feature Sir George Kirbey, a seemingly human knight who is actually a sort of small were-dragon called a drake. Further, it is eventually revealed that [[spoiler: the hero Teldin is a descendent of the [[PhysicalGod dragons' gods,]] and he becomes one himself.]]

* The Dragonlord Chronicles books from ''{{Mystara}}'' feature Sir George Kirbey, a seemingly human knight who is actually a sort of small were-dragon called a drake. Further, it is eventually revealed that [[spoiler: the hero Teldin is a descendent of the [[PhysicalGod dragons' gods,]] and he becomes one himself.]]

** ''Reaper's Gale'' (book seven): In the ultimate anticlimax to this book, [[BadAss Silchas Ruin]] (Anomander Rake's brother) faces [[spoiler:(again) a bunch of measly humans and gets his butt handed to him]].

* Lung of ''Literature/{{Worm}}'' slowly metamorphoses into a dragon as he fights.

* The ''PiratesOfTheCaribbean: Jack Sparrow'' book, ''City of Gold'' concludes with voodoo witch Madame Minuet fusing with her two new allies into a three-headed serpent to try and take down the young pirate.

*** Of course, Beast Boy himself is also a heroic example: he ScaledUp into a pteranodon, tyrannosaur, or a ''Jurassic Park''-style velociraptor.

* Doing this is the villain's primary goal in ''[[OrsonScottCard Magic Box]]'', and a pretty well {{justified|Trope}} one too, given that dragons are ''extremely'' powerful in this book. [[spoiler:It almost works, but a minor character with a gun realized that [[TransformationIsAFreeAction transformation]] [[SubvertedTrope needn't be]] [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim a free action]].]]

* A drug PSA features a drug dealer who gets more snake-like towards the end.

* In the first episode/chapter of ''BusouRenkin'', one of Kazuki's teachers morphs into a cobra-like creature. He manages to swallow Kazuki's sister Mahiro whole, but gets thoroughly dismantled by Tokiko without even getting a chance to attack. ''Laaaaaame.''

* Webcomic/SlightlyDamned: [[spoiler:Moonshade transforms into a giant cobra with [[DishingOutDirt earth powers]] (which he [[VictorGainsLosersPowers acquired]] by killing his [[DivineParentage ancestor]] [[PhysicalGod Moku the Snake]]) to kill the guardians Melli the fire bee and Meeros the mortori bird and unlike most villainous versions, he succeeds, slaying Mellon and seemingly driving away Meeros.]]

* Maleficent from Disney's ''Disney/SleepingBeauty''.

* The prologue to the animated film ''WesternAnimation/{{Wizards}} has [[BigBad Blackwolf]] turning himself into a snake during his battle with his brother, [[TheHero Avatar]]. Avatar responds by turning himself into an eagle before banishing Blackwolf to Scortch.

-->-- '''EvilOverlordList''', 'Rule 34' [[note]]No, not [[RuleThirtyFour THAT one]][[/note]]

* {{Claymore}} has [[spoiler:Ophelia]] turn into an Awakened, resulting in her becoming a massive snake-like being with lots of blades. At first it helps against Clare, until she realises it herself by seeing her reflection, after which she has Clare to play a game of kill or get killed.

* From various ''Franchise/{{Bionicle}}'' works:

* In the PS1 StrategyRPG ''Saiyuki: The Journey West'', one of the characters is a dragon princess who can transform into her true form in combat. One of the other playable characters can turn into a monstrous turtle in the same way. (And if fish scales count, yet another of the playable characters transforms into a fish monster) On the villain's side, there's a dragon queen and a snake man, who you fight in both forms in separate battles.

* The EvilutionaryBiologist Grimsby Roylott turns himself into a giant snake-creature in order to slip into buildings [[AirVentPassageway through the air vents]] in the ''SherlockHolmesInTheTwentySecondCentury'' episode "Scales of Justice" (Holmes aficionados will recognise this plot as being just barely SuggestedBy "The Adventure of the Speckled Band"). It also helps in his fight with Holmes, but not as much as he'd hoped.

* ''VisualNovel/UminekoNoNakuKoroNi'': During the climactic fight at the end of the first anime season, Beatrice summons meta-Kinzo, who immediately gives an EvilLaugh, turns into a ''dragon'', and tries to eat meta-Battler's face, only to be stopped by a non-magical explanation and blasted to pieces by a multitude of flying spikes that accompany Battler's signature dramatic gesture.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'': The climax of the ''City of Incredibles'' arc of the comic has Shifty turn into a red dragon after being enhanced by the superpower virus, to take down the Incredibles and mutiny against his fellow supervillains.