History Main / TheDragonSlayer

* The arcade game ''Dragon Buster'' and its long-distance sequel ''VideoGame/DragonValor'' for the original UsefulNotes/PlayStation. The eponymous characters in ''VideoGame/DragonValor'' are individuals who wield magic swords which are the only thing that can kill dragons.

* ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'' has a entire race of people who do this, as a necessity because the dragons raid them for their sheep. Hiccup proves unable to do it however, and befriends one of them. [[spoiler:This changes everything.]] In the [[WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragonTheHiddenWorld third film]], we are introduced to Grimmel the Grisly, a famous dragonslayer who has hunted every Night Fury to extinction. Only Toothless has somehow managed to slip through his grasp.

* {{Deconstructed}} in ''Literature/SwordOfDestiny'', where dragon slayers are depicted either as [[WindmillCrusader idealistic buffoons out of touch with reality]] or [[ProfessionalKiller thuggish, ruthless (but efficient) poachers]].

-->'''Hamida:''' Do you know how ''boring'' things are when you're part of a super-powerful bloodline born of one of the Saints and made to kill dragons but your ancestors managed to wipe them all out? It's super-boring, trust me.

* ''Literature/TheQueenOfIeflaria'': Lisette is Esofi's bodyguard, who's quite a skilled warrior on her own.

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* ''VideoGame/OdinSphere'': Anyone who wields a [[EvolvingWeapon Psypher]] has the potential to be this, as a Psypher is one of the few weapons that can reliably pierce dragon scales. By the time the story takes place, almost all dragons have indeed been slain by Psypher wielders, and all five main heroes fight at least one of the remaining dragons during the course of the story while three end up slaying them. Specifically, [[BlackKnight Oswald]] kills [[{{Seers}} Hindel]] and [[MacGuffinGuardian Wagner]], [[KnightInShiningArmor Cornelius]] [[MercyKill fatally injures]] [[TragicMonster Belial]], and [[{{Valkyrie}} Gwendolyn]] tops everyone else by [[spoiler:being the destined slayer of [[BeastOfTheApocalypse Leventhan]], who by that point of the endgame grows so large his body could encircle the whole continent ''at least''.]]

* ''Fanfic/ACertainDrollHivemind'': Misaka-11111 and Mikoto encounter the last descendant of the old dragonslayers, a girl born and bred to fight dragons. Mikoto, who of course still doesn't know about magic, dryly notes that she's never seen a dragon. The girl says that her great-grandfather killed the last one, which Mikoto calls "convenient." The girl, on the other hand, is a BloodKnight looking for ''anything'' that might be a challenge for her superhuman body and skills.

* Lina Inverse from ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'' does not qualify, even though she's killed hundreds of dragons, because her technique is seen as overkill and not involving real skill. She does however meet an actual dragon hunter on her quest for gourmet cuisine (he's less a {{BFS}} variety, and more a specialist that uses knife skills).

* ''{{Franchise/Digimon}}'': [=WarGreymon's=] armor is equipped with WolverineClaws called "Dramon Cutters", which function as a OneHitKill against any Digimon [[OurDragonsAreDifferent with the -dramon ("dragon monster") suffix]].

** The protagonist is a professional dragonslayer, [[spoiler:seeking to kill the last dragon whose heart is making the king an immortal tyrant. He gives up the grudge after befriending said dragon and realizing that the heart only made the king immortal -- the king was always evil. In the end, he has no choice but to act as a dragonslayer one last time to put an end to the villain once and for all.]]

** If Shrek had not rescued Fiona, it's likely that the only person who would have been able to kill the dragon and then rescue her would have been Prince Charming. This would have been a subversion too, because Prince Charming -- who looks and sounds exactly like the stereotypical dragonslayer -- would likely only have been able to win the battle because his mother is a powerful sorceress, responsible for Fiona being locked up in the castle in the first place.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'':