1 | So you're a medieval peasant boy living a [[TheDungAges typical medieval peasant life]], until one day a traveling minstrel tells you that you're destined to become a hero. What do you do? Enroll at a school for dragon slayers, of course! It's not all it's cracked up to be, though; the food is terrible, the teachers are [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} kind of weird]], [[{{Jerkass}} the headmaster]] cares more about gold than the welfare of his students, and on top of all that, there's the [[RecurringCharacter frequent encounters]] with a wizard who [[GoneHorriblyWrong can't do anything right]]. This is the premise of ''Dragon Slayers' Academy'', a series of [[ChildrensLiterature children's books]] by [=Kate McMullan=]. The series chronicles the strange (and occasionally downright improbable) adventures of Wiglaf, a student at the eponymous Dragon Slayers' Academy. |
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3 | [[folder:List of books in the series]] |
4 | * ''The New Kid at School'' |
5 | * ''Revenge of the Dragon Lady'' |
6 | * ''Class Trip to the Cave of Doom'' |
7 | * ''A Wedding for Wiglaf?'' |
8 | * ''Knight for a Day'' |
9 | * ''Sir Lancelot, Where Are You?'' |
10 | * ''Wheel of Misfortune'' |
11 | * ''Countdown to the Year 1000'' |
12 | * ''97 Ways to Train a Dragon'' |
13 | * ''Help! It's Parents Day at DSA'' |
14 | * ''Danger! Wizard at Work!'' |
15 | * ''The Ghost of Sir Herbert Dungeonstone'' |
16 | * ''Beware! It's Friday the 13th'' |
17 | * ''Pig Latin -- Not Just for Pigs!'' |
18 | * ''Double Dragon Trouble'' |
19 | * ''World's Oldest Living Dragon'' |
20 | * ''Hail! Hail! Camp Dragononka'' |
21 | * ''Never Trust a Troll!'' |
22 | * ''Little Giant -- Big Trouble'' |
23 | * ''School's Out... Forever!'' |
24 | [[/folder]] |
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26 | !!These books provide examples of: |
27 | * AccidentalMisnaming: Zelnoc ''never'' pronounces Wiglaf's name correctly. |
28 | %%* AdultsAreUseless |
29 | %%* AfraidOfBlood: Wiglaf. |
30 | * AnachronismStew: There's a lot of this, in case the fact that the books are set in a school during the medieval period didn't tip you off. |
31 | %%* BigEater: Angus. |
32 | %%* CoolOldLady: Angus's aunt (and Mordred's sister), Lady Lobelia. |
33 | * {{Crossover}}: ''Countdown to the Year 1000'' is a crossover with ''Series/TheZackFiles''. |
34 | %%* DeanBitterman: Mordred. |
35 | %%* TheDungAges |
36 | * ExtranormalInstitute: Aside from the Dragon Slayers' Academy itself, there's also the ''other'' DSA, the Dragon ''Slackers''' Academy ([[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a school for dragons who are also slackers]]). |
37 | %%* FantasticRacism: Goes both ways with humans and dragons. |
38 | * ForcedTransformation: In ''Danger! Wizard at Work!'', Zelnoc turns the main characters into dragons. |
39 | %%* IntellectualAnimal: Daisy. |
40 | %%* {{Jerkass}}: Mordred. |
41 | * KidHero: The entire point of DSA is to create kids who can become heroes capable of slaying dragons. |
42 | * MassiveNumberedSiblings: |
43 | ** Wiglaf has twelve of them. |
44 | ** Then there's Seetha, who has ''3684'' children. [[ExaggeratedTrope They don't call her "the Mother of All Dragons" for nothing!]] |
45 | * MoneyFetish: Mordred will do anything to get his hands on some gold. |
46 | * MotherOfAThousandYoung: Seetha has ''3684'' children. |
47 | %%* NonHumanSidekick: Daisy. |
48 | * OneGenderSchool: DSA starts out as an all-boys' school, which is why Erica [[SweetPollyOliver disguises herself as a boy]] so she can attend. This is eventually subverted after it becomes a co-ed school (purely so Mordred can make more money from more students attending), which allows Erica to be open about her gender. |
49 | * OnlySaneMan: DSA's librarian, Brother Dave is one of the very few adult characters who isn't TheDitz, a {{Jerkass}}, incompetent, or all three. |
50 | * PigLatin: Daisy (who is an actual pig) speaks Pig Latin because Zelnoc messed up a spell that was meant to turn her into a TalkingAnimal. In ''Pig Latin -- Not Just for Pigs!'', King Ken also ends up speaking Pig Latin after yet another messed-up spell, courtesy of Zelnoc. |
51 | * PublicDomainCharacter: Characters from [[Myth/ArthurianLegend the Arthurian mythos]] are featured in some of the books. |
52 | * {{Revenge}}: In ''Revenge of the Dragon Lady'', Seetha comes after Wiglaf for killing one of her sons ([[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin hence the title]]). |
53 | * ShoutOut: |
54 | ** Erica's parents are [[{{Franchise/Barbie}} Queen Barb and King Ken]]. |
55 | ** Erica's aunt and uncle are [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons King Homer and Queen Marge]]. |
56 | ** Wiglaf is most likely named after a character from ''Literature/{{Beowulf}}''. |
57 | * TheSixthRanger: Technically the ''fourth'' ranger -- Janice, who joins the PowerTrio after DSA starts accepting female students. |
58 | %%* SlidingScaleOfSillinessVersusSeriousness: Definitely on the silly end of the scale. |
59 | * SweetPollyOliver: Erica pretends to be a guy until Mordred turns DSA into a co-ed school ([[MoneyDearBoy because more students = more money]]). |
60 | %%* TalkingAnimal: Parodied with Daisy, who can only speak Pig Latin. |
61 | %%* UpliftedAnimal: Daisy. |
62 | * WeaksauceWeakness: Every dragon has a secret weakness, and some of them are ''very'' weak. For example, Gorzil's is [[spoiler:bad jokes]] and Seetha's is [[spoiler:bathing]]. |
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