Line #93 ComicBook/Firebreather


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4	Once upon a time, a [[InterspeciesRomance gigantic rampaging dragon and a human woman fell in love]]. The product of their union was Duncan, a HalfHumanHybrid. Though they divorced, Duncan's parents share custody. He spends most of his time trying to fit in at school despite his obviously draconic features, and when with his dad he is tutored in the ways of becoming the next king of the world's {{Kaiju}}.
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6	For real.
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8	Fun fact: The character was originally supposed to be a member of the ComicBook/YoungAvengers in the Franchise/MarvelUniverse and Duncan was to be the son of the alien dragon Fin Fang Foom, a foe of ComicBook/IronMan.
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10	An AllCGICartoon animated movie based on the comic premiered November 2010, on Creator/CartoonNetwork, directed by Creator/PeterChung, the creator of ''WesternAnimation/AeonFlux''.
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13	!!This comic book series provides examples of:
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15	* ActionGirl[=/=]ActionMom: Margaret, in the movie at least. Flies jets, shoots, threatens Belloc and means it.
16	* AdaptationDistillation
17	* AllCGICartoon: The MadeForTVMovie adaptation was produced by Pistor Productions and Cartoon Network Studios in complete CGI.
18	* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Kids at school sometimes foolishly persist in picking on Duncan despite the fact that he's a fire-breathing monster and his dad is ten times worse.
19	* AlliterativeName: A school example: '''H'''erbert '''H'''oover '''H'''igh.
20	* ArbitrarySkepticism: Which Belloc lampshades when Duncan finds himself in disbelief that aliens are real.
21	-->'''Belloc''': The dragon boy finds extraterrestial life farfetched.
22	* ArtShift: The beginning show the movie in a traditional type of animation, before becoming CGI for the entire movie.
23	* BettyAndVeronica: Isabel and Jenna.
24	** Kenny (Betty) and Duncan (Veronica) for Isabel's Archie, however this is all one sided from Kenny's point-of-view.
25	%%* BigDamnHeroes
26	* BigNo: Duncan gives one when Barnes orders another full attack on Belloc.
27	* BizarreAlienBiology: Though Duncan looks mostly human, he eats coal rather than human food.
28	** He apparently enjoys Twinkies though. At least, we can assume so as his mother packed some in his lunch.
29	* BullyingADragon: Troy doesn't see anything wrong with bullying Duncan, even after he discovers his powerful abilities.
30	* CallingTheOldManOut: Duncan immediately does this to his father for forcing him into something he doesn't want, even though Belloc wasn't in his life for sixteen years.
31	* CaptainErsatz: Duncan's father, the dragon Belloc, is initially presented as a Captain Ersatz of Godzilla, but is later developed beyond that into the more traditional, Tolkien-esque ancient dragon of intelligence and greed who [[DragonHoard hoards treasure]], then his backstory was revealed to be more in the line of Fin Fang Foom as he and the other kaiju are aliens.
32	* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler: Belloc knew he made the right choice to mate with Margaret.]]
33	%%* ComingOfAgeStory
34	* CursedWithAwesome: Orange skin and bullying aside, one can't help but wonder what Duncan finds so terrible about being inhumanly strong, impervious to extreme heat, and being able to breathe fire... and this is before he gets his true powers unlocked.
35	* CutShort: The second issue of the third series ends in the middle of a fight, a preview for the third issue's cover is shown... and it never came out despite numerous hanging plot threads.
36	* DidYouJustRomanceCthulhu: Duncan's mom. The first thing most people think when they show Duncan's [[HotSkittyOnWailordAction monstrous, 100 story tall father]] is "How did that ''work''?" Duncan, however, [[ParentalSexualitySquick does]] ''[[ParentalSexualitySquick not]]'' [[ParentalSexualitySquick want to know]].
37	* DraconicHumanoid: The main character is one of these, thanks to his father being an actual 60-foot Dragon.
38	* EvilLaugh: The kaiju are very fond of this.
39	* {{Fingore}}: Duncan defeats one kaiju in the movie by bending its finger back 180 degrees. ''Ouch.''
40	* FourFingeredHands:
41	** Duncan plays this for laughs, asking the principal to "Help me out here. Exactly which one is "the bird"?" and showing the five fingered principal, his four fingered hands.
42	** The animated movie gives him five fingers. As giving the horns is the recurring hand gesture of the movie, this is easy to notice.
43	%%* FreeTheFrogs
44	* AGlassInTheHand: Kenny manages a glass in ''each'' hand.
45	%%* GodzillaThreshold
46	* GoshDangitToHeck: Barnes is fond of this.
47	* HalfHumanHybrid: Duncan is the son of a human woman Margaret Rosenblatt and the dragon Belloc.
48	* HighSchool: Where most of the story takes place.
49	* HighSchoolDance: The climax starts here of all places.
50	* HopelessSuitor: Kenny to Isabel, and Isabel to Duncan.
51	* HotBlooded: Duncan. Clearly gets it from his dad.
52	* HotSkittyOnWailordAction: ''Firebreather'' stars the offspring of a pairing between a human woman and a giant dragon, which resulted in a scaled, orange-skinned, four-fingered, but essentially human-looking offspring. She tried to explain how this happened, but we don't know because her son [[TooMuchInformation covered his ears.]] Apparently it was quite simple.
53	* HumansAreInsects: In the adaptation, Belloc states that despite what the humans think, the kaiju were on Earth first, and to that end, many of them view humans as an infestation in their world.
54	* IJustWantToBeNormal: Duncan isn't exactly happy with how his appearance and dragon-based abilities isolate him from everyone else at school.
55	* IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim: [[spoiler:Margaret basically said this trope as a reason why Duncan didn't kill the two Kaijus. Though he wanted to but his reason not to is because "it wouldn't change anything". Meaning that the rest of Belloc's subjects ''still'' wouldn't accept Duncan as their future king.]]
56	* InnocentlyInsensitive: Jenna gives Duncan the cold shoulder when he comments on how Troy would want his dad to just disappear. A few minutes later, Isabel informs Duncan that Jenna's father is dead.
57	* InterspeciesRomance: Naturally. Duncan's mom ''does'' try to explain this to him, saying "[[HotSkittyOnWailordAction I bet you're wondering how you were conceived.]]" [[{{Squick}} Duncan covers his ears and tries not to listen]]. The Creator/CartoonNetwork adaptation keeps that exchange.
58	* JerkJock: Troy plays it completely straight.
59	* {{Kaiju}}: Belloc and all of his rivals and subjects. They're even ''called'' Kaiju in-universe.
60	* LoveAtFirstSight[=/=]SingleTargetSexuality: Duncan towards Jenna.
61	** And apparently, [[LikeFatherLikeSon Belloc]] towards Margaret.
62	* LoveDodecahedron: Kenny likes Isabel, who likes Duncan, who likes Jenna, who's dating Troy. In the movie Jenna and Troy have broken up.
63	* MagicPants: So magic in fact that lava doesn't even singe them.
64	** Except for the very bottoms, which quickly rise to mid-calf.
65	** Adverted in the comic, in which his father's breath fries everything including his Fruit of the Loom.
66	* MaleGaze: Duncan towards Jenna twice.
67	* MamaBear: Margaret. She'll take on anyone who threatens Duncan. Including his father.
68	* MusclesAreMeaningless: Duncan is the size of a normal human, yet has physical strength on par with a full-sized Kaiju.
69	* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Even though he doesn't exactly say it, Kenny feels this way after telling Duncan's secret at the dance.
70	** Jenna gets one after discovering that it was Duncan who helped her pay for the dance, and she just brushed him off.
71	* NeverHeardThatOneBefore:
72	-->'''Duncan:''' Kenny Rogers, huh? Do you know when to hold 'em, when to fold 'em?
73	-->'''Kenny:''' [''deadpan''] No. Not even a little.
74	* NoFlowInCGI: The movie has its moments of falling into this.
75	* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Belloc is a {{Kaiju}} that looks like a DraconicHumanoid when he's standing up, but more like a western dragon when he bends down.
76	* PapaWolf: The protagonist's dad is a ''{{Kaiju}}''; messing with his son is something few are willing to do a second time. Let's put it this way, if you hate the city you live in enough to take them out - yourself included - hurting Duncan almost assures success.
77	* {{Parkour}}: The chase scene in the movie.
78	* {{Pun}}: "And orange you just adorable."
79	* ShirtlessScene: By comparison, the lava does remove his shirt nicely, though Duncan is quick to abandon it whenever he starts fighting.
80	* ShoutOut:
81	%%** Music/KennyRogers
82	** The way several of the kaiju move throughout the film is similar to the old Godzilla films.
83	** Belloc is the King of the Monsters, or Godzilla.
84	** One of the unnamed monsters that makes a brief appearance when Belloc names Duncan as his heir bears a definite resemblance to [[VideoGame/DragonQuestIV Death Pisaro]].
85	** The two villainous kaiju are named after biblical demons (Astaroth and Abbadon)
86	** Belloc bares some resemblance to Fin Fang Foom.
87	* SingleGirlSeeksMostPopularGuy: GenderFlipped, Jenna calls Duncan out on this.
88	* {{The Starscream}}s: Two of Belloc's subjects are not pleased with their king ordering them not to harm any humans. But mating with one is the last straw.
89	* StockScream: Used during the school chase scene.
90	* TheTalk: Barnes tries this in Volume 1 Issue 2.
91	** It has a few details, but is cut mercifully short by Belloc's new security system.
92	* ThouShaltNotKill: Duncan doesn't want to take of a Kaiju even if it nearly killed him.
93	* TookALevelInBadass: Duncan takes several over the course of the film.
94	%%* UltraTerrestrials: The Kaiju.
95	%%* WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld
96	* YouDoNotWantToKnow: While many fans would like to know just how Duncan was conceived, ''he'' clearly does ''not''.
97	%%* YouSexyBeast: Duncan.

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