History WesternAnimation / TheFlightOfDragons

* DragonsUpTheYinYang: Lo Tae Shao is Asian, and so is his dragon, Shen Zu.

* EthnicMagician: The four brothers are oddly diverse. Carolinus is your typical white Merlin-type of wizard, Solarius is an AmbiguouslyBrown man whose garb suggests Arabia, Lo Tae Shao is Asian (and even has an Asian dragon). Ommadon... well, he's sort of a chalky gray... and hobgoblin-ish.

* DecapitatedArmy: The Sandmirks disperse and run off after their queen gets killed by Aragh.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Peter's ''[[TitleDrop Flight of Dragons]]'' fantasy role-playing game reflects the ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' boom of the early [[TheEighties Eighties]].

%%* HereThereWereDragons

** The Ogre of Gormley Keep gets a facefull of fire from Peter (in Gorbash's body) while the latter tries to free himself from the Ogre's KillerBearHug. Unfortunately for Peter, [[NoSell it does nothing to the Ogre]]. Smrgol had actually told Peter as they were heading to fight the Ogre that ogres couldn't be harmed by fire so don't bother trying it and instead he should save it for flying.

** The Ogre of Gormley Keep gets a facefull of fire from Peter (in Gorbash's body) while the latter tries to free himself from the Ogre's KillerBearHug. Unfortunately for Peter, [[NoSell it does nothing to the Ogre]].

* AdapatationalNationality: The real Creator/PeterDickinson was British. The movie's Peter is American, like Jim Eckhart.

* HeroesWantRedheads: Both played straight and averted. There are two heroes, and one ends up with the redhead, and the other gets the blonde, though technically, the redhead herself could count as a hero.

* WifeHusbandry: As mentioned, when Sir Orrin first met Melisande when she was five and he was a fully grown adult he decided he would marry her... he changed his mind pretty quickly when the (also fully grown adult) Danielle appeared.

* AdaptationalNameChange: Sir Brian Neville-Smythe becomes Sir ''Orrin'' Neville-Symthe, probably to make him sound more fantastical. Oddly Orrin was the name of Geronde's father in the original story.

* AdaptationalWimp: Peter is much less capable in Dragon-form than Jim Eckert who took on men-at-arms and managed to beat an Ogre single-handedly, as opposed to Peter's ineffectiveness.

* OffModel: There are minor animation flaws throughout -- ''e.g.'' the dragon-rose, described by Peter/Gorbash as "that small golden flower," is quite clearly deep pink.

** The Ogre of Gormley Keep gets a facefull of fire from Peter (in Gorbash's body) while the latter tries to free himself from the KillerBearHug. Unfortunately for Peter, [[NoSell it does nothing to the Ogre]].
* ImprobableHairstyle: Melisande's long blonde hair is beautiful...except for the part where it looks like she's wearing gigantic seashells on either side of her head (though if you remember what Ommadon's voice actor is [[Franchise/StarWars most famous for]], it becomes obvious where [[https://townsquare.media/site/442/files/2016/12/star-wars-leia.jpg her hairstyle came from]]).

* TheLastDance: Upon confronting Bryagh for the final time, Sir Orrin draws his sword and gives one last pretty {{badass creed}}:
->''"Blade with whom I have lived, blade with whom I now die. Serve right and justice one last time! Seek one last heart of evil, still one last life of pain. Cut well old friend, and then... farewell!"''

* EvilSoundsDeep: Evil Sounds Like Creator/JamesEarlJones. [[Franchise/StarWars But we already knew that.]]

* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: The dominant colors on Bryagh are red and black, and he's the single more cruel dragon there is.

* YankTheDogsChain: Perhaps inadvertently done by Sir Orrin towards the Hell's Way Innkeeper. When the Innkeeper laments that the party's draconic allies are basically devouring his larder in the basement, an inebriated [[KnightInShiningArmor Sir Orrin]] reminds the man that "dragons have gold, you know." The relieved Innkeeper asks if they have it with them, only to be told that he will be paid eventually and lamenting that his father told him never to extend credit to a dragon. [[spoiler:Becomes harsher in hindsight when [[BigBad Ommadon]] sends his minion to destroy the inn, "paying" the Innkeeper for offering the heroes hospitality by killing him.]]