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9	[[quoteright:350:[[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dracolich_4e.png]]]]
10	[[caption-width-right:350:Two great tastes that taste great together... and think ''you'''ll taste great, too.]]
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12	[[OurDragonsAreDifferent Dragons]] are scary. TheUndead are scary. [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs Undead Dragons]] are [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot super scary]].
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14	Often the most badass type of undead, dracoliches are never to be taken lightly. They are always heavy hitting monsters, if not outright bosses. Any {{Necromancer}} should do well to seek to have one, or [[ScaledUp outright become one]]. It's not a rare thing, however, for these dragons to be weaker than their regular, living counterparts as they inherit the weaknesses of TheUndead like ReviveKillsZombie while dragons rarely have such exploitable flaws. But in some cases, they might instead be [[OurLichesAreDifferent literal liches]], where so long as their SoulJar is undamaged, they are NighInvulnerable, making them stronger than regular dragons.
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16	Often the dragon's classic fire BreathWeapon will be turned into a [[PoisonousPerson poison breath]] or [[GhostlyChill ice blast]] when they become undead. If it remains fire, expect some form of TechnicolorFire - blue and green being popular picks.
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18	A specific type of NonHumanUndead and UndeadAbomination. Related to DraconicAbomination. May overlap with UndeadFossils in cases of DinosaursAreDragons.
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25	* ''Anime/{{Bakugan}}'': Naga, the BigBad of the first season, resembles a skeletal Dragonoid.
26	* From ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'', we have [=SkullGreymon=]. The Greymon family somewhat [[DinosaursAreDragons blurs the line between dinosaurs and dragons]], but [=SkullGreymon=] looks pretty firmly on the dragon side. His bones are as hard as Chrome Digizoid and he has a nuclear missile launcher built into his back, as well as the ability to use [[AllThereInTheManual cursed breath]].
27	* Entmon from ''Anime/DigimonAdventure2020'' is an enormous draconic beast made of dead and rotting trees. Even worse, it exists symbiotically with a huge swarm of insect-like digital lifeforms that suck the life out of everything in their path.
28	* ''Manga/FairyTail'':
29	** While there haven't been any signs of skeletal/undead dragons in the conventional sense, one was inadvertently created before Fairy Tail's founding [[spoiler:when Yuri Dreyar taking [[ArtifactOfDoom the Tenrou Jade]] caused the dark magic to fuse his body and soul with a massive dragon skeleton. The spell Mavis was forced to use to save his life [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom ends up having dire consequences for the state of the world even a hundred years into the future]].]]
30	** ''Manga/FairyTail100YearsQuest'': Skullion Raider is the [[BadWithTheBone Corpse]] Dragon Eater who wears [[SkeletonsInTheCoatCloset armor made of bones]] and uses the [[AshesToAshes power of ash]] to [[TouchOfDeath dissolve whatever he touches]], all of which invokes the imagery or powers of a dracolich.
31	* ''Literature/HalfPrince'': Doll summons up Hell's Inferno, a dragon from hell, during the [[VersusCharacterSplash tournament arc]] in order to defeat the opponents and take the phoenix
32	* ''Literature/Overlord2012'': [[{{Necromancer}} Khajit]] summons two Skeletal Dragons against Narberal Gamma. Skeletal dragons are immune to magic... below seventh tier, that is.
33	* ''Literature/The8thSonAreYouKiddingMe'': Wendelin's rise to fame and power starts with him defeating an undead dragon that attacks the airship he is traveling on in episode 4.
34	* ''Manga/ThoseWhoHuntElves'': The Skeleton Army from the third episode has a dracolich.
35	* ''Manga/TouhouSuzunaanForbiddenScrollery'': The powerful demon [[SealedEvilInACan sealed in Kosuzu's Night Parade Picture Scroll]] is briefly depicted as a wingless dracolich made out of black smoke, complete with BreathWeapon.
36	* ''Anime/YuGiOh'' has various dragon monsters, some of which have been revived at various points into zombies or other such things.
37	** This includes [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Dragon Zombie]].
38	** Also features in one of the anime's most infamous examples of ScrewTheRulesIHavePlot when Yugi somehow fuses his Mammoth Graveyard (a wooly mammoth skeleton) with Kaiba's Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon (a three-headed dragon created by combining three copies of the iconic Blue Eyes White Dragon card). This turns the dragon into a zombie, causing its stats to drop each turn as its body decomposes.
39	** There's also Berserk Dragon, called Berserk Dead Dragon in the Japanese version.
40	* Naofumi deals with one of those in ''Literature/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero''. After Ren, the Sword Hero, [[TheDragonslayer slays a dragon]] but fails to properly dispose of the creature's remains, its carcass begins rotting and causes an epidemic in a nearby village. Naofumi decides to help after ensuring the village [[PunchClockHero pays for both the earlier treatment and disposing of the dragon's corpse]], but soon finds out that the situation has gone FromBadToWorse when the corpse stands up and attacks his party. Even after accessing his SuperpoweredEvilSide upon witnessing the creature devouring one of his companions, Naofumi is still unable to defeat the abomination, [[spoiler:luckily Filo [[GettingEatenIsHarmless survives being eaten]] and finds the monster's [[AttackItsWeakPoint magical core]], [[KillItThroughItsStomach ripping it out of the zombie dragon on her way out]] and killing it instantly.]]
41	* ''Literature/ThatTimeIGotReincarnatedAsASlime'': These exist, and are the result of a dragon becoming an undead. While they lose access to whatever elemental attribute they possessed in life, in exchange they often become {{Monster Lord}}s over lesser undead due to their sheer power. Over a thousand years before the main events of the series, a Zombie Dragon amassed an army of undead near the border of the Great Forest of Jura, but was stopped by the cleric Adalman and his closest companions at the cost of their own lives ([[UriahGambit all according to plan by Adalman's superiors]]). Through a series of events however, Adalman and his companions revived as undead as well and all of them were [[{{Curse}} bound by a curse from a Demon Lord]]. The Zombie Dragon eventually befriended Adalman and evolved into a Death Dragon, becoming a 20 meter-long undead dragon with a corrosive Breath Weapon, high strength and speed, and can regenerate from any injury as long as Adalman is alright since he ended up becoming its SoulJar, as proven when it fights Souei and it starts PullingThemselvesTogether after being reduced to LudicrousGibs. After they're all freed from the curse thanks to Shuna, the dragon joins Adalman in becoming a member of Tempest and stays with him as a boss in the Labyrinth. [[spoiler:When Adalman evolves into a True Demon Lord during the war with the Eastern Empire, the Death Dragon receives a power boost and combined with being named "Wenti" by Rimuru allows it to evolve into a Death Dragon King, [[BishonenLine upon which it gains a human form]] and [[SamusIsAGirl transforms into]] a ghostly-looking CuteMonsterGirl with a scythe.]]
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45	* ''VideoGame/ColossalKaijuCombat'': Prior to its cancellation, ''CKC'' had a CollectibleCardGame spin-off that was used to vote in "Progenitor" monsters that could appear in prospective future games. One of the monsters, Valok, was a four-winged alien dragon who ruled over the planet Galias, but his use of dark magics saw him overthrown and killed by his subjects. The dark magic suffusing his corpse reanimated him into an almost-mindless undead monstrosity sustained by devouring the souls and agony of his victims, being capable of exhaling a corruptive life-stealing miasma and and ripping open portals to other dimensions.
46	* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'': Undead dragons -- generally represented as creatures with both the Dragon type and either the Zombie or Skeleton types -- are not uncommon.
47	** The legendary creature [[https://scryfall.com/card/ima/193/bladewing-the-risen Bladewing the Risen]] is an infamous zombie dragon from Dominaria.
48	** [[https://scryfall.com/card/som/79/skithiryx-the-blight-dragon Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon]], a dragon from Mirrodin that was slain and raised as a skeletal minion by the Phyrexians that overran that world.
49	** Dominaria also has [[https://scryfall.com/card/arc/99/vampiric-dragon vampiric dragons]]. Other zombie dragons include [[https://scryfall.com/card/c17/15/boneyard-scourge Boneyard Scourge]], which can return from the graveyard whenever a dragon dies, and [[https://scryfall.com/card/cma/66/scourge-of-nel-toth Scourge of Nel Toth]], while skeletal dragons further include the [[https://scryfall.com/card/m19/88/bone-dragon Bone Dragon]].
50	** Kaldheim has another vampire dragon in the form of the [[https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=507235 Immersturm Predator]], who inhabits the setting's version of Hell and can feed on the living and the dead alike to empower itself.
51	* Zombie Dragons are a race of creatures in the ''TabletopGame/DuelMasters'' card game.
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55	* ''ComicBook/AdventureTimeGraphicNovels'': "The Four Castles" has a zombie dragon who [[spoiler:isn't evil and is called Meredith]].
56	* ''ComicBook/DungeonsAndDragonsHonorAmongThievesTheFeastOfTheMoon'': The town is being besieged by a giant undead dragon named Glyrgoth. When the characters wind up in its lair, they don't even try to fight it and just hightail it out of there.
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60	* ''Fanfic/AbraxasHrodvitnon'': In this ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' Franchise/MonsterVerse fanfiction, [[Characters/AbraxasHrodvitnonTitansAndOtherCreatures the Many]] infect and reanimate [[spoiler:the corpse of the long-dead elder [[SeaSerpents Manda]]]] in Chapter 13.
61	* ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'' has Gravemoss first pull a [[WebComic/TheOrderOfTheStick Familicide]] on every Hebridean Black dragon available, then resurrects them as aerial troops to send on a direct course for London as part of HYDRA's counter-blow to SHIELD's Operation Overlord, meaning that there are ''hundreds'' of draconic zombies to deal with. Thankfully, their relatively slow flight speed counts against them and they're intercepted by the RAF, War Machine and [[spoiler:Warren Worthington III a.k.a. [[RazorWings Archangel]]]].
62	* ''Fanfic/SplitSecondMyLittlePony'' has Thorn, the alternate timeline counterpart to [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Spike]]. Interesting in that he is not quite dead, but not alive either. He also happens to be a [[SoulJar horcrux]] for [[{{Necromancer}} Sparkle]].
63	* ''Fanfic/TheEquestrianWindMage'': [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess Stallords]] -- gigantic, animated reptilian skeletons -- are, according to Vaati, the reanimated skeletons of dragons. The heroes fight one as the very first boss.
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67	* The main villain of the ''WesternAnimation/DragonHunters'' CGI movie is the World-Gobbler, an absolutely '''gigantic''' skeletal dragon.
68	* ''Franchise/HowToTrainYourDragon'': One short involves the heroes being attacked by a skeletal dragon called the Boneknapper. However, it's revealed at the end of the short that the Boneknapper is actually friendly and that it just wanted its collarbone (which allows it to roar) back. The Boneknapper isn't really skeletal, however. It just wears bones that it finds along the ground as armor.
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72	* In ''Film/DungeonsAndDragonsWrathOfTheDragonGod'', BigBad Faluzure, the evil dragon god of decay and undeath, appears as an undead dragon.
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76	* Undead Dragons occasionally shows up in ''Literature/FightingFantasy'' gamebooks. Notably in ''Literature/LegendOfZagor'', where a Skeletal Dragon serves as a ClimaxBoss in the dungeon.
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80	* In the ''Literature/CraftSequence'', dragons don't have any particular rules or sentimental inclinations about what should happen to their bodies after death, a fact that is very pleasing to human necromancers. Undead dragons were used as weapons in the [[GreatOffscreenWar God]] [[RageAgainstTheHeavens Wars]], and in ''Literature/LastFirstSnow'' [[spoiler:the King in Red deploys one to put down an alleged rebellion in his city]].
81	* ''Franchise/ForgottenRealms'' novels:
82	** ''Literature/TheYearOfRogueDragons'' features both dracoliches (in this case literally a dragon turned into a [[OurLichesAreDifferent lich]]) and a [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampiric]] smoke drake (a leftover from the BigBad's previous attempt to create undead dragons).
83	** In ''Literature/TheSellswords'', a dracolich is the final boss of a dungeon that Artemis and Jarlaxle raid with a party of adventurers from Damara.
84	** In ''Literature/TheFindersStoneTrilogy'' novel ''The Wyvern's Spur'', an intelligent ghostly wyvern stands guard over the Wyvernspur family crypt and the spur which gives the family its name. It allows members of the family to pass unmolested but kills anyone else who tries to enter.
85	* The ''Literature/{{Spellbent}}'' series has Sap Daddy, an old zombie dragon that has been overgrown by plants.
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89	* ''Series/GameOfThrones'': In the season 7 episode "Beyond the Wall", [[spoiler:one of Daenerys' dragons, Viserion, is slain by the Night King and sinks into a frozen lake. It's later dragged out of the ice by the army of the dead and resurrected as a Wight by the [[BigBad Night King]]. In the next episode, "The Wolf and The Dragon", the Night King rides it into battle and uses it to [[BreachingTheWall destroy the Wall]]. He shoots blue fire, apparently. Eventually, it is destroyed when the Night King himself is killed, [[KeystoneArmy along with the rest of his army]].]]
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93	* UrExample in Myth/EgyptianMythology, with the DraconicAbomination Apep being unkillable due to being of the underworld, hence making it undead.
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98	* The EvilSorcerer in Creator/WilliamsElectronics' ''Pinball/{{Sorcerer}}'' summons some sort of ghostly/skeletal flaming dragons, with only their skulls and bony claws visible.
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102	* ''Series/TheMuppetShow'': Uncle Deadly is implied to be a rare benign example, being variously referred to as a ghost and a dragon.
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106	* ''TabletopGame/ThirteenthAge'': The Lich King has a habit of turning white dragons into these, starting with their patron, known simply as the White -- thus explaining why white dragons are weaker than other chromatics. The dragons are rarely as on board with this plan as the Lich King is.
107	* ''TabletopGame/TheDarkEye'' has Rhazzazor, an ancient undead dragon who follows Borbarad.
108	* ''TabletopGame/DragonDice'' has the dracolich as one of the monsters for its Undead faction -- it has the usual combination of melee and magic prowess.
109	* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' gives us the TropeNamer. The dracolich is a dragon that imbibed a fatal potion in order to rise as a [[OurLichesAreDifferent lich]], becoming a powerful undead being. Across the various editions, zombie, common skeleton (mindless undead puppets controlled by necromancers, unlike the free-willed and intelligent dracoliches), ghost, wraith and vampire dragons have all been offered up as well. The advantages and disadvantages of being a dragon undead are all noted. For example, a draconic vampire [[MustBeInvited can't enter a home uninvited]]. But [[LoopholeAbuse a smoldering pile of rubble no longer counts as a home]].
110	** In 3rd edition, becoming a dracolich reduces your hit points, which is a large drawback for a beefy creature like a dragon, but it is very easy for the dracolich to regain a body in very short time by possessing a reptilian corpse. The advantage of being immortal can be achieved more easily by becoming a dragon ghost, which gets a new BreathWeapon and is even harder to kill outright. Of course, it is harder to become a ghost than a dracolich. The latter requires, at least in the ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'' setting, a dragon to simply imbibe a special poison, while you cannot exactly decide just to become a ghost.
111	** Thanks to several splatbooks, it's possible to have a level 1 kobold dracolich (''Races of the Dragon'', the ''Draconomicon'', ''Fiendish Codex 1'' and ''Player's Guide to Faerun'' are all you need).
112	** 4th Edition has multiple types of dracolich (ranging from the plain to fossilized dracoliches to dracoliches who only exist in the plane of dreams), as well as multiple types of zombie dragons, skeleton dragons (the mindless walking dead version of a dracolich), wraith dragons and vampire dragons.
113	** Hollow dragons are a Good-aligned alternative to dracolichdom pursued by metallic dragons who see undeath as a means to pursue a noble purpose. These dragons undergo a magical ritual to transform themselves into undead, burning away their bodies until they're left as nothing more than hides filled with radiant energy, and become single-minded, eternal champion of their chosen purpose. Most hollow dragons embrace death once their purpose is fulfilled, but some simply pick up a new mission to dedicate themselves to.
114	** Played with in regards to dragonbone golems, who appear to be dracoliches at first glance but are in fact mindless {{golem}}s [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin made of dragon bones]]. They are even classified as constructs rather than undead.
115	** Interestingly, in the ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'', the inventor and (until his death in the run-up to the Spellplague) main proponent of dracolichdom was a human -- he was an archmage that went crazy, mistranslated a prophecy and decided to help fulfill it. Dracoliches were his solution on how to get dead dragons that are smart enough to rule the world. (He also later became a lich himself.)
116	** The 5th edition adventure ''TabletopGame/DragonlanceShadowOfTheDragonQueen'' has death dragons, long-dead dragons reanimated by "Cataclysmic fire" as flaming skeletons that have been charred black. They can breathe this same fire, turning slain humanoids into fiery zombies under their command.
117	* ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'': Just to show that not even the dead are safe from his dickery, the Ebon Dragon has a charm that can turn him into a Creature of Death (i.e., a ''temporary'' dracolich).
118	* ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}'': ''TabletopGame/GURPSDragons'' discusses undead dragons in a chapter dedicated to types and variants of draconic monsters. It notes that such beings, and NonHumanUndead in general, are recent fantasy invention, because folkloric undead were a reflection of human fears about their own mortality. They began to crop up in recent fiction because in settings where undeath is a clear thing that exists in its own right it can become difficult to justify why it only affects humans, and because there are few things more intimidating, if in a somewhat excessive way, than an undead dragon.
119	* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'':
120	** The original ''D&D'' dracolich is reworked into the "ravener". Raveners maintain their existence by eating souls, which form a protective shell around them as they're digested, and are often created by particularly ruthless dragons [[DealWithTheDevil making deals with very nasty powers]]. They retain their old breath weapons, but infused with negative energy that withers the living and strengthens the undead.
121	** Wyrmwraiths are ghostly creatures that form from the souls of deceased dragons that refused to accept death (as opposed to the ravener's intentional transformation into an undead). They loathe their undead existence, and are consumed with bitter loathing against those that can still walk as living beings -- and especially for still-living dragons. Their breath weapon is replaced by a burst of pure negative energy.
122	** "Standard" dragon ghosts exist as well, and ''Dragons Unleashed'' includes as a stetted character the ghost of a copper dragon slain by a powerful red wyrm and left to haunt his old lair.
123	** There are also umbral dragons which, while not truly undead, are affected by positive and negative energy ("life" and "undeath" energy, respectively) as if they were undead and can turn their victims into undead servants.
124	* ''TabletopGame/ResArcana'': The Bone Dragon resembles an undead skeleton dragon. Fittingly, its summoning cost consists almost exclusively of Death essences.
125	* ''TabletopGame/{{Tormenta}}'' only has one, the Dragon King Lich, who in itself [[DarkIsNotEvil isn't that much of a bad guy]], which is a good thing because he is ''the'' strongest dragon in the entire setting and could be a GREATER DEITY if he so wished. He doesn't, so he contents himself with protecting a cute young lady who can't cook.
126	* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'':
127	** Zombie dragons feature heavily as epically powerful [[HorseOfADifferentColor steeds]] for vampires (and, in some editions of the codex, necromancers), who supposedly journey to a [[ElephantGraveyard legendary dragon graveyard]] to find dragon corpses to reanimate. Unlike most undead dragons, though, they are nothing more than mindless automatons, being basically extra-beefy flying zombies.
128	** The Tomb Kings and High Priests of Khemri also make used of reanimated dragon skeletons as war mounts. These are often incredibly ancient remains, preserved from the days when ancient Nehekhara clashed against the dragons of the World's Edge Mountains.
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132	* ''VideoGame/{{Absinthia}}'': At the top of the Umbralair, Lilith revives [[spoiler:Typhus the Worldbreaker as an undead dragon, much like Lissandra did with Typhus the Younger]].
133	* Creator/ArtixEntertainment has some examples:
134	** Drakath from ''VideoGame/AdventureQuest'' whose element is Darkness.
135	** ''VideoGame/AdventureQuestWorlds'' has The Huge dracolich Fortress as well, the two Dracoliches at the bottom of the Doomwood Temple, the option to turn your own Baby Dragon to a Baby dracolich, and [[spoiler:Desolich]].
136	** ''VideoGame/DragonFable'':
137	*** The castle-sized dracolich that Sepulchure's fortress is literally built onto.
138	*** And the Super Ultra Mega dracolich -- it's the size of a ''planet''!
139	** ''VideoGame/AdventureQuest3D'': [[spoiler:Towards the end of the Dragon Graveyard story, Zakaru summons one of these in order to transport you to Skalazar, the villian of the quest chain.]]
140	** ''VideoGame/MechQuest'' has 2 examples: The Sepulchure Mech summons a dracolich (that is also known as Fluffy) and then there is Drakrylos, who is more of a Dragonoid (a Robotic Dragon) that looks similar to dracolich.
141	* Undead Antares from ''VideoGame/BabylonsFall'' is a zombified dragon who flies circles around you within an arena, with ghostly flames poking out it's skull-holes to boot.
142	* ''VideoGame/BattleForWesnoth'': One level features a Scheletrical Dragon as enemy leader. Despite possessing no weapons besides its claws and jaws, it's still incredibly powerful.
143	* In ''VideoGame/BravelyDefault'', one of these must be fought when trying to enter [[TheEmpire Eternia]]. Can become an AntiClimaxBoss due to how ReviveKillsZombie is in effect.
144	* ''Franchise/BreathOfFire'': As expected, this is a type of dragon that appears regularly in the series.
145	** ''VideoGame/BreathOfFireII'' presents the "Necroman(cer)", the OneWingedAngel form of Father Mason. It takes the appearance of a skeleton dragon with ''remains of skin, muscle and organs'' in its wings, back and ribcage; and it has the power to control undead zombies.
146	** The first post-TimeSkip boss in ''VideoGame/BreathOfFireIII'' is the Dragon Zombie, a skeletal dragon created by the clan's enmity towards Garr. This fight is either really easy (if you have the Kyrie spell, which is either a GuideDangIt to acquire through the Master system, or naturally gained by Garr if sufficiently leveled-up), or devastatingly tough (as your main healer in the battle, Ryu, is also your main damage dealer, and he can't do both).
147	** ''VideoGame/BreathOfFireIV'' has the Dragonne, a zombified dragon that's half-way rotten, with patches of flesh missing here and there, most visibly in its jaw.
148	** ''VideoGame/BreathOfFireDragonQuarter'' has the dragon Odjn, who's a corpse pinned to a wall. He makes a pact with the main character Ryu, and gives him access to the [[OneWingedAngel Wyrm powers]].
149	* ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'': A few undead dragons (usually of the skeletal variety) have appeared as bosses and enemies.
150	** ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaCircleOfTheMoon'' has a DualBoss where you fight two zombie dragons at once. Whichever one you don't kill first starts eating the other's corpse in order to heal.
151	** ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaLordsOfShadow'' has a colossal lich-possessed skeletal dragon that's even named 'dracolich' as it's penultimate boss.
152	** ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaPortraitOfRuin'' has a zombie dragon as a unique (but respawning) enemy inside the Egyptian tomb, with many blades and weapons embedded in its body.
153	* ''VideoGame/TheCrystalOfKings'' has a skeletal dragon as the third boss, fought in an underground crypt.
154	* ''VideoGame/CryptKiller'' have skeletal dragon heads in a few areas, taking up plenty of the screen and spamming fireballs on you as GiantMook enemies.
155	%%* ''VideoGame/DarkMessiah': This is pretty much the final boss of ''Dark Messiah of Might and Magic''.
156	* ''VideoGame/DandyDungeon'' has Bone Dragons, which are almost a BossInMookClothing. They're tough, deal lots of damage, can breathe fire and poison.
157	* The ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'' series, being built on DarkFantasy tropes, utilizes this numerous times:
158	** Undead Dragons in ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsI'' are very strong, non-respawning enemy, having loads of hitpoints, hitting like a truck and spewing poison breath over a wide area. One perches off a ledge in the Valley of Drakes, seemingly dead until the player [[SchmuckBait picks up items next to its head]]. A late-game area, Lost Izalith, is populated by nothing except the lower halves (read: only the leg part, no head, no torso, nothing) of said undead dragons. Whatever happened to the upper parts? Nobody knows.
159	*** There's another Undead Dragon in the Painted World of Ariamis, [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe split into two halves]] on top of a bridge. The upper half comes to life and charges across to attack if you get too close, leaving the lower half behind.
160	*** The original design of the Undead Dragons had maggots crawling over their flesh, but Creator/HidetakaMiyazaki squashed that idea, as one of the main themes of ''Dark Souls'' was decaying majesty, and the maggots would have robbed the dragon of that.
161	*** [[spoiler:Seath the Scaleless is referred to by Big Hat Logan as a "true undead", thanks to the power of the [[SoulJar Primordial Crystal]] he stole after the war on the Everlasting Dragons.]]
162	*** In the ''Artorias of the Abyss'' DLC, the player encounters Black Dragon Kalameet a few times but only earns the right to fight him after enlisting the aid of Hawkeye Gough. While most dragons and wyverns that the player encounters throughout the game breathe fire ([[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness or lightning]]), Kalameet has the distinction of wielding the powers of the Abyss, and even Gough himself tells the player that Anor Londo itself fears his wrath. True to form, Kalameet is [[{{Superboss}} the most difficult boss of the DLC]], not only being fast and nimble but using breath attacks that will utterly wreck anything hit by it, as well as being able to inflict the player with his [[DamageIncreasingDebuff Calamity mark]], causing them to take double damage from anything that hits them. Defeating him normally will earn the player the Calamity Ring, which only really serves as a BraggingRightsReward but which is carried over to later games in the franchise as a tradition.
163	** The Ringed City DLC of ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsIII'' gives us Darkeater Midir, the [[{{Superboss}} optional "harder than hard" boss]]. Throughout ''Dark Souls I'', the Abyss and the Dark have been been built up as the only power in the series that Lord Gwyn and the rest of the gods feared, and thus they go to extreme lengths to suppress it, to the point of commanding Midir, a descendant of the Everlasting Dragons (the first enemies of the gods) to eternally combat it owing to his immortality. However, at some point, Midir himself became corrupted by the Abyss, and would eventually be consumed by it should the player not kill him. When encountered by the player, Midir exhibits all of the toughness and strength of a dragon, along with the dark powers of the Abyss which make him extremely lethal. Not only will all of his melee attacks inflict Dark damage (making shields less reliable), but during his second phase he will start casting Affinity waves, and his [[Film/ShinGodzilla laser breath attack]] becomes a SpamAttack that will outright one-shot players under the right circumstances.
164	** ''VideoGame/EldenRing'' continues the tradition with [[spoiler:Lichdragon Fortissax]], an optional boss at the end of an ending-unlocking questline. In the lore, it is established that the Rune of Death, otherwise known as Destined Death, is the only power that is capable of killing a demigod, and a fragment of it was used to murder Godwyn the Golden on the Night of the Black Knives. As the player further explores the Lands Between, they learn that during the war against the Ancient Dragons, Godwyn had defeated and then befriended Fortissax one of the Ancient Dragons. [[spoiler:When the Rune of Death was used to slay Godwyn's soul, Fortissax entered Godwyn's dream to fight against the death within him, only to become corrupted by it. The player can also enter Godwyn's dream and confront Fortissax in this corrupted form. Unlike other Ancient Dragons, Fortissax will use Deathblight-inflicting lightning attacks against the player, which [[NoSavingThrow instantly kills them if the status bar fills up]]. Beyond unlocking the Duskborn ending upon victory, the player also earns the Remembrance of the Lichdragon, which can be used to redeem the Death Lightning incantation, allowing them to inflict Deathblight upon other player-like entities.]]
165	* ''Franchise/{{Disgaea}}'': The Dragon Zombie class starting with the second game. They take halved damage from physical attacks, and boast very high defense and attack stats, but do poorly against magical attacks, especially wind (Though that problem can be remedied for one on your side). Their Darkness Breath is also generally one of the strongest area attacks in the game. They're rather dim compared to normal dragons, but this doesn't come up much.
166	* ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'':
167	** The Queen of Blackmarch in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOriginsAwakening'' is a ghost dragon. She is the baddest {{Superboss}} in the expansion.
168	** The Archdemon in the original game might also count, as it is effectively a corrupted fallen god in dragon form. There is some debate as to what exactly the Archdemon ''is'', as neither anti-dragon nor anti-Darkspawn runes/weapons have any bonus effect on it.
169	* ''Website/DragonCave'': There are several types of dracolich, like the [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Vampire Dragon]] and [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Undead Dragon]] species.
170	* ''VideoGame/DragonBlaze2000'' has a ''heroic'' example. One of the heroes, Ian, rides a skeletal dragon as his steed.
171	* ''VideoGame/DragonGun'' have you fighting assorted dragon enemies, including skeletal dragons.
172	* ''VideoGame/DragonQuestMonsters'' has the Skullgon/Skelegon, a lower ranking monster that's usually created when you merge a member of the Dragon family with a member of the Zombie family.
173	* ''VideoGame/DragonsDogma'':
174	** The {{Superboss}} is an undead dragon known as the Ur-Dragon.
175	** Even more literally is the fight with the undead Bishop and his undead dragon. Hit him hard enough and they'll fuse together for even more powerful attacks!
176	* In ''VideoGame/DragonStrike'' a fight with a dracolich takes place above Dargaard Keep.
177	* ''VideoGame/DragonValor'': One of the bossfights is a skeleton dragon named Hades.
178	* ''VideoGame/{{Drakan}}'' features skeletal dragon enemies.
179	* ''VideoGame/DungeonCrawl'' has reanimated dragons of the skeletal or zombified varieties (and spectral and simulacra versions, if you want to be thorough). There are also Bone Dragons, which are a seperate kind of monster altogether that pack a huge punch and have tons of HP. Dispel Undead is your friend.
180	* ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'':
181	** A Skeleton Dragon appears during a College of Winterhold quest. As expected, killing it doesn't net you a dragon soul. It is also weaker than live dragons and cannot fly.
182	** Durnehviir from the ''Dawnguard'' DLC states that he is caught "between [[PoirotSpeak laas and dinok]], between life and death", and certainly looks the part. He's a dragon that explored necromancy to the point of selling his soul in exchange for power to the Ideal Masters, the rulers of the Soul Cairn where all souls sacrificed for necromancy end up. During his 4,000-year imprisonment in the Soul Cairn, his body is warped to [[http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20121012041458/elderscrolls/images/2/29/VC-Durnehviir.jpg a rotting skeletal version of his former self.]] The Ideal Masters did keep their promise, though, and granted him powerful necromantic abilities which he uses in combat. After an awesome battle with Durnehviir, the Dragonborn is told that Durnehviir is no longer a normal being and his body can reconstruct itself, which it later does. Out of respect, he then grants the Dragonborn the ability to summon him from the Soul Cairn for a short time, to aid the Dragonborn in battle (which benefits him as well because it grants him even a momentary reprieve from his imprisonment) He's pretty much an ideal dracolich, even if he never technically 'died'.
183	* ''VideoGame/EasternExorcist'' has an Oriental take on the trope, an undead Chinese dragon animated by spirits, as a boss. It spends the whole fight flying circles around the boss arena, and you can see it's ribs through the holes along the sides of it's elongated body.
184	* ''VideoGame/EpicBattleFantasy'':
185	** Zombie dragons appear in the second and third games. They're among the hardest bossfights in the game since they show up in pairs and revive each other at full health as soon as one dies.
186	** In ''VideoGame/EpicBattleFantasy 4'', [[spoiler:Godcat]] has these for backup.
187	* ''VideoGame/EverQuest'' and ''VideoGame/EverQuestII'':
188	** Both feature the dracoliche in the Plane/Shard of Fear, a (at the time of their release) very tough boss monster. Strangely, thanks to its immunity to magic-type spells, it was immune to spells that worked against undead and dragons.
189	** There's also Trakanon, who is more of a zombie-dragon, but follows most of the criteria.
190	* ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'':
191	** Zombie Dragons (or Dracozombies) are recurring enemies in the games.
192	** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'', an UnderwaterBossBattle pits the heroes against Evrae Altana, the unsent form of a boss just a little earlier in the storyline. ReviveKillsZombie is in effect.
193	** The undead dragons in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII'' are variations of the plate wyrm enemies (winged dragons who remain on the ground during encounters). They have been reduced to skeletons, with visibly rotting bones. A variation, the Dragon Lich, has blue-white light floating near its wings. Another is fought as a boss, [[NonIndicativeName inexplicably named Hydro]] despite its lack of association with water.
194	* ''Franchise/FireEmblem'':
195	** In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemGaiden,'' one of the few ''Fire Emblem'' games to include monsters as enemies, Draco Zombies are [[BossInMookClothing very powerful enemy units]] who attack by biting. The bizarre PhysicalGod Duma appears as a slime-covered dragon-shaped being with exposed muscle and bone, best depicted in [[http://fav.me/d4c284a this fanart.]] Unlike most examples, Duma is fully sapient and has a sense of honor.
196	** In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheSacredStones'', the Draco Zombie class returns as a boss of the second-to-last chapter, now using a poisonous BreathWeapon known as ''Wretched Air.'' During the final chapter, on the penultimate map, there are ''two'', and on the final map, the BigBad may choose to summon these as ''mooks''. Gets worse in the [[BrutalBonusLevel Lagdou Ruins]], where the final map features no fewer than ''seven'' of them. Now you know why you've been saving up all those S-Ranked weapons. Thankfully, [[AntiAir bows are also effective against them]].
197	** The Malig Knight class in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'' combines this with DragonRider as they ride Undead Wyverns.
198	** ''VideoGame/TearRingSaga'' has Dracozombies, just like Gaiden, and Sacred Stones, they're a BossInMookClothing.
199	* ''VideoGame/ForgottenWorlds'': The Dust Dragon is a giant, dying and half-rotten red dragon. Its stomach is wide open, giving the player a nice veiw of its entrails and ribs, which it uses to attack.
200	%%* ''VideoGame/GargoylesQuest'': The first boss in ''Demon's Crest''.
201	* ''VideoGame/{{Gothic}}'': The Undead Dragon is the final boss of ''Gothic II''.
202	* ''VideoGame/GranblueFantasy'': Fediel's true form (and her incarnation as a raid boss) is that of a decaying dragon whose miasma constantly damages both your party and herself.
203	* ''VideoGame/GuildWars'': Bone Dragons are ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
204	* In ''VideoGame/GuildWars2'', Zhaitan is the Elder Dragon of Death and Shadow, and resembles [[DraconicAbomination several undead dragons mashed together, with a half-dozen heads and nine wings]]. All of his lieutenants are undead dragons.
205	* ''VideoGame/HeroesOfMightAndMagic'':
206	** Spectral/Bone Dragons. Despite looking cool, these dragons are arguably the ''weakest'' creatures of their level in any game they have appeared, as they have much lower HP, attack and defense values than average. They make up for it with sheer numbers, though, as V has a building upgrade that increases the number of dragons produced. Spectral Dragons in ''Heroes 3'' do have a redeeming factor in their unique chance to cast a spell upon attack which causes the victims to [[RapidAging age rapidly]] -- instantly halving the health points of every unit in the attacked stack, thus making all survivors of the dragons' attack much squishier. Additionally, their sight is so terrifying to behold on the battlefield they reduce the enemy's morale just by being there, something even live dragons usually don't do.
207	** They are notable in that Dragons are the only creatures not converted into skeletons when using any "skeleton transformer" type structure. Instead, putting dragons through this will result in one of these (who have better interactions with your undead troops, since apparently even living dragons are fearful of the dead).
208	** In the fan-made GameMod of the third game, "In the Wake of Gods", the Spectral Dragons can be upgraded further to make them less underwhelming. Those dragons are on par with [[OlympusMons Rank 8 creatures]] in terms of power. One of the possible upgrades is actually called the dracolich, and with the ability to shoot [[SplashDamage plague clouds]] just like a regular Lich, only much more powerful. The other one, the Ghoul Dragon... hoooo boy. It retains all the strong points of the Spectral Dragon and takes them up a notch. In addition to being all-around stronger and faster, they reduce enemy morale twice as much as Spectral Dragons do, can still execute an aging attack, and most terrifyingly, [[LifeDrain drain life from living units upon attack]] just like Vampire Lords (themselves a borderline GameBreaker) do. Their low health comparatively to live dragons is not improved, but the vampiric attack allows them to revive fallen members of the stack with utmost ease.
209	* ''VideoGame/HungryDragon'':
210	** Blaze's "Reaper" skin gives him an undead appearance with white GlowingEyelightsOfUndeath and white splotches on his otherwise dark grey body.
211	** Draconis' "White Flyer" skin turns her into an icy undead dragon.
212	** Goldheist's "Spectre" skin turns him into a translucent ghostly dragon.
213	** Umbra is an undead dragon with open wounds on her body that radiate spectral flames.
214	** Skully is a skeletal dragon who is wreathed in demonic flames.
215	* ''VideoGame/ImpressiveTitle'': In ''Wyvern Hills'', there is a rare chance for a ''Zombie Dragon'' to spawn, which is actually an [[OurDragonsAreDifferent undead wyvern with an angelic halo above its head]]. They are renowned for being one of the toughest enemies in the game thanks to their RegeneratingHealth and MultipleLifeBars.
216	* ''VideoGame/JewelMaster'' have a dragon boss that, upon defeat, lose it's skin and crumbles into bones... only for the Demon King, Jardine to reanimate those bones into a skeletal dragon and continue the battle. Though you can change the SequentialBoss into a SkippableBoss using the Blade Ring, which destroys the dragon's dracolich form before it can even attack.
217	* ''Kaan: Barbarian's Blade'': One shows up as one of the only three bosses in the entire game.
218	* ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing'' has an undead boss monster in the Cyrpt (near the Misspelled Cemetary) called the [[MyNaymeIs Bonerdagon]]. It's an undead dragon made of bones, not to be confused with an undead rdagon made of bones, and certainly not to be confused with an undead [[FishPeople dagon]] made of boners.
219	* ''VideoGame/KnightBewitched'': If the party returns to the Lair of Typhus the Younger and explore the new underground section, they can fight a zombified version of Typhus the Younger.
220	* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'':
221	** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'': Volvagia is stated to have been killed by an ancient Goron warrior and later revived by Ganondorf. He seems to have gotten all his flesh back, though, so it's not really apparent just from looking at him that he's undead (except possibly [[SkullForAHead his face]], though that could just be armor). A fan theory is that Stallord used to ''be'' Volvagia, this time revived but ''not'' getting his flesh back.
222	** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOracleOfSeasons'':
223	*** Gleeok, the seventh dungeon boss, becomes headless skeletal dragon after its two heads are severed.
224	*** Onox's true Dark Dragon form has a distinctly skeletal look.
225	** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'': Stallord is a giant dragon skeleton (later just skull) reanimated by Zant.
226	* ''VideoGame/LegendsOfRuneterra'': the Empires of the Ascended set's "Rise of the Underworld" expansion brought with it undead Shadow Isles dragons, largely to permit combos with Shyvana (who is subverted by Viego in the event), including an undead version of a previously established dragon, Kadregrin the Infernal (now Kadregrin the Ruined). Some of them are undercosted, but with the drawback of dealing damage to your Nexus or a unit on your side...although considering the number of units with on-death triggers in the Shadow Isles, and that most dragons have the Fury mechanic (which lets them get stronger when they kill units, including ones on your side), this may not be as problematic as it sounds.
227	* ''Videogame/LostKingdoms'': The zombie dragon is the most powerful non-deity Earth creature in the game.
228	* ''VideoGame/{{Manafinder}}'': The Edgekeeper is an undead skeletal dragon that is the boss of Aevi's Edge, and it stands between the manafinders and the manastone of the area.
229	* In ''VideoGame/{{MARDEK}}''[='=]s second chapter, the dragon that was the [[FamedInStory grand hero]] Social Fox's last battle enjoyed the fight so much that it came back to life in hopes that he would too, so it could fight him again.
230	* ''VideoGame/MediEvil2'': Combined with DinosaursAreDragons, resulting in a fire-breathing, fossilized Tyrannosaurus Wrecks.
231	* ''VideoGame/MinionMasters'' has Nyrvir, an undead dragon who serves Morellia, the Lich Queen.
232	* ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter'': Several Elder Dragons resemble undead beings:
233	** Gogmazios in ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter4 Ultimate'' looks like a corpse that crawled out of a tar pit.
234	** Nakarkos from ''VideoGame/MonsterHunterGenerations'' looks like a skeletal, two-headed hydra. [[spoiler:It's actually a giant cephalopod that excretes an adhesive substance to [[SkeletonsInTheCoatCloset coat itself in its victims' bones.]] Its two "heads" are its front tentacles topped with dragon skulls. Its actual head, as well as the majority of its body, are usually kept hidden until significantly enraged.]]
235	** ''VideoGame/MonsterHunterWorld'' features Vaal Hazak, which probably isn't actually ''undead'', but has a rotting, skeletal appearance and has the power to control decay-related gases, absorb life force from other monsters, and revive those same monsters to attack the player.
236	* ''VideoGame/MonsterRancher'': The Death Dragon/Diaboros is an animated dragon skeleton that can be obtained either from certain discs or combining a Dragon with a [[MonsterClown Joker]].
237	* ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights'': A dracolich features as an OptionalBoss in ''Hordes of the Underdark''.
238	* ''VideoGame/NinjaGaiden'' (the new-gen series, not the original NES trilogy) has one of these serves as the boss of Chapter 7 in the first game.
239	* ''VideoGame/OgreBattle'': Zombie Dragons are top tier dragon units created by using an Undead Ring on a Tiamat.
240	* In the world of ''VideoGame/PillarsOfEternity'', dragons take on the characteristics of their environment. So when, in the ''[[VideoGame/PillarsOfEternityIIDeadfire Beast of Winter DLC for the second game]]'', the player comes across a dragon that apparently lives in the [[{{Hellmouth}} Vytmawdh]], a gate to an afterlife that emphasizes cold, entropy, and the gradual destruction of the soul, the dragon appropriately has the appearance of a half-rotted frozen corpse, with an exposed ribcage and skeletal wings. [[spoiler: Later in the quest it's revealed that the dragon is quite literally a lich as well, having bound her soul to a phylactery to live forever. [[TheGrimReaper Rymrgand]] took issue with that, and now she's trapped in his realm; when the [[PlayerCharacter Watcher]] gets trapped in the Vytmawdh as well, the dragon's (permanent) death is the price Rymrgand demands before letting them return to the realm of the living.]]
241	* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'':
242	** Giratina has large spikes protruding from its body that resemble ribs, and is also part Ghost-type. It takes this even further by not only representing antimatter in the Pokeverse, but also being an EldritchAbomination [[{{Expy}} akin to]] that of [[Creator/HPLovecraft Yog-Sothoth]].
243	** Kyurem from ''Black/White'' and ''Black 2/White 2'' is a [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot zombie dragon from outer space]] that is stated to have a taste for human flesh. However, it's not malevolent. The storyline in ''Black 2/White 2'' reveals that [[spoiler:all it wants is to be whole again]].
244	** Gen VIII introduces the Dreepy/Drakloak/Dragapult family. They're all Ghost/Dragon type, and are described as being the ghosts of a long extinct species.
245	** Eternatus, also from Generation VIII, is designed after this and resembles a skeletal dragon, but is actually an EldritchAbomination alien that is very much alive.
246	* The unreleased sequel to the ''VideoGame/PrimalRage'' arcade fighting game would have featured one of these called Necrosan that serves as both the BigBad and FinalBoss. If that wasn't bad enough the character also happens to be resembling a theropod dinosaur enforcing the DinosaursAreDragons trope and is actually an EldritchAbomination that is this verse's God of Death. Even worse, it's revealed [[spoiler: that Necrosan is an alien that was sealed inside a meteorite egg and his crashing into the future Earth caused a worldwide apocalypse. His plan (had the game been released) is to turn all the humans into zombies and use them to hatch his parasitic brood, forcing the heroes and even the other villains to work together and stop him]].
247	* ''VideoGame/PuzzleAndDragons'' has the Zombie Dragon and Corpse Wyrm, as well as their evolved formes.
248	* ''VideoGame/QuizAndDragons'': In the Japanese version, it's possible for dragons to come back as skeletons once killed the first time.
249	* ''VideoGame/RivieraThePromisedLand'': The underworld BonusLevel has the party fight Hades, who takes the form of a dragon zombie. Disappointingly, he's a PaletteSwap of an earlier, optional mini-boss, though his attacks are much, much stronger. (That said, [[WaveMotionGun the Fanelia item]] will settle his hash quite nicely.)
250	* ''VideoGame/RuneScape'':
251	** ''Old School Runescape'' features a zombified blue dragon boss called Vorkath, which is considered both a zombie and a dragon for the purpose of in-game mechanics. In addition to having rotten flesh and exposed bones, Vorkath can also summon [[FlunkyBoss additional undead minions]].
252	** Vorkath is eventually introduced in ''[=RS3=]'' after [[{{necromancer}} Zemouregal]] raises his corpse in preparation for a raid on Fort Forinthry. Vorkath occasionally [[FightingFromTheInside attacks his new master]] as the player reduces his health throughout the boss fight, before Zemouregal is able to re-establish control. Eventually, Vorkath breaks Zemouregal's hold completely and flies off to parts unknown, lifting Zemouregal's damage cap and allowing the player to give him their full attention.
253	** Revenant dragons are the cursed ghosts of dragons slain in the [[ForeverWar God Wars]].
254	** Skeletal wyverns, however, are explicitly ''not'' undead. They are reanimated piles of bones, and anti-undead spells don't work against them. In 2023 this was {{retcon}}ned and they now count as undead monsters.
255	* ''VideoGame/{{Skylanders}}'': Although he doesn't appear directly, [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfSpyro Malefor]] does appear in the backstories of certain characters, and has been {{Retcon}}ned into an undead dragon. Quigley believes Cynder came BackFromTheDead, in which case she would be a dracolich too.
256	** Vathek, the antagonist of the Dragon's Peak adventure pack, is an undead wyvern.
257	** Skeletal cyclops dragons appear as enemies in ''VideoGame/SkylandersTrapTeam''.
258	* ''VideoGame/{{Slashout}}'' contains a skeletal dragon as it's second-to-last boss. Appropriately enough, the arena you fight it is a massive RibcageRidge.
259	* ''VideoGame/SolomonsKeep'' has Bone Daddy, who spits out poison [[{{Squick}} along with maggots]]. If you try to be funny and stay out of his poison spit range, he stomps the ground, causing his bones to fly all over the place to damage you.
260	* ''VideoGame/{{Starbound}}'' has the Bone Dragon, a huge skeletal dragon boss. It still breathes fire, however. It's revealed that it's actually [[RoboticReveal a robot made to look like a skeletal dragon]], and as it takes damage you see the mechanical parts underneath.
261	-->When you purchase the Bone Dragon, not only do you get a realistic facsimile of a dragon, you also get those classic dragon traits -- the gift of flight, red-hot fiery breath, and a predilection for murder! [[ButWaitTheresMore BUT THERE'S MORE-]]
262	* In ''VideoGame/SuikodenI'', Tir has to defeat one to gain control of his castle.
263	* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'':
264	** ''VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBros'': Dry Bowser is a skeletal version of the draconic turtle monster Bowser.
265	** ''VideoGame/PaperMario'':
266	*** ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'': Bonetail, a skeletal dragon fought as an optional boss at the bottom of the Pit of 100 Trials, is a bit of an odd example, as he is explicitly stated to have never died. His flesh just rotted off over the ages and he [[AgeWithoutYouth kept living regardless]]. He otherwise fits all staples of the trope perfectly.
267	*** ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario'': Bonechill is a [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot skeletal dragon with a cannon for a lower body and six feathery angelic wings]], who seems to be the resident SatanicArchetype.
268	** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioRPGLegendOfTheSevenStars'': When the Czar Dragon is defeated, it falls into a lava pit and reemerges as the [[DemBones skeletal]] Zombone.
269	** ''VideoGame/YoshisStory'': Skeletal, three-headed Bone Dragons are encountered in a number of areas in an UndergroundLevel, and must be defeated for Yoshi to be able to progress.
270	%%* ''VideoGame/{{Tibia}}'': A few have popped up.
271	* ''VideoGame/TotalWarWarhammer'': Zombie dragons are available as a high-level steed for [[HeroUnit Lord units]] of the Vampire Counts. They can fly, which allows them to easily bypass terrain obstacles and enemy units, cause [[MoraleMechanic Terror]] among enemy units and are very powerful in combat. Unlike other examples of this trope, they are just reanimated dragon corpses, simply another type of puppets bound to their masters' will.
272	* ''VideoGame/UltimaOnline'' has Skeletal Dragons.
273	* ''VideoGame/{{Ultrakill}}'' has [[KrakenAndLeviathan The Leviathan]], the boss of Wrath. While it's a [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Demon]] instead of a proper dragon, the Leviathan is still close enough for being a {{sea serpent\|s}} that not only has [[DemBones a skeletal appearance]], [[spoiler:[[BodyOfBodies its body is born from countless souls of dead sinners]] who were merged together by the same force that created the other Demons after they sunk to the [[UnderworldRiver ocean Styx's abyss]] out of despair.]]
274	* ''VideoGame/ValkyrieProfile'': There are Dragon Zombies, but they're a slight subversion in that, being both draconic and undead, they're vulnerable to spells that specifically target both and are actually not that big of a threat. One combo by a character with a dragon slayer or undead-targeting weapon and they're done for.
275	* ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}}'' and ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'':
276	The frost wyrms of the Scourge are the animated skeletons of blue dragons, and exhale giant blasts of cold. * Sindragosa deserves special mention, having appeared on the latter's login screen for the duration of ''Wrath of the Lich King'' and ''really'' annoying players with her loud roar.
277	*** Another one worth mentioning is Sapphiron, a blue dragon slain and raised by Arthas. He too is a raid boss in ''World of Warcraft'' in the necropolis of Naxxramas.
278	*** The progenitor of all dragons, Galakrond, deserves a mention. One of the projects of the Lich King was to exhume the skeletal remains of this IMMENSE (probably the size of a small mountain; just his head, early spine, and right foreleg were excavated, and those alone took up a large chunk of the map) dragon and reanimate it as a frost wyrm. Fortunately (or maybe unfortunately, since the boss battle with that thing could have been epic) players crash this project before it can be achieved. According to the novel ''Dawn of the Aspects'' and the official lore compendium ''Chronicles'', he was essentially already this in life. After eating everything else in his hunting grounds he began to cannibalize other proto-dragons. This twisted and corrupted his very being to the point that eventually the proto-dragons he consumed returned as undead horrors, thereby making him the progenitor and embodiment of necromancy on Azeroth.
279	** Other, less-seen skeletal dragons include magmawyrms, created from black dragons, and emberwyrms, raised from (usually) the remains of red dragons. Nightbane from Karazhan, originally the blue dragon Arcanagos, is one such. Emberwyrms got a graphical update with the ''Legion'' expansion, and Nightbane became obtainable as mount by players in this expansion.
280	** Fel dragons are an even rarer variant created from dragon skeletons infected with demonic magic. The boss Felmyst in Sunwell Plateau is the only known fel dragon, originally the blue dragon Madrigosa. She was raised by the blood of Pit Lord Brutallus seeping to her corpse.
281	* ''VideoGame/WarDragons'' has Bolt, Yanari, Habrok, Ladon and several more Undead Dragons that are skeletal.
282	* ''VideoGame/WarOfTheMonsters'': Raptros' fourth skin is a skeletal dragon.
283	* In ''VideoGame/Wizard101'', the rank 8 Death spell [[ExactlyWhatItSaysontheTin "Skeletal Dragon"]] summons one of these as an attack.
284	* ''VideoGame/WonderBoyIIITheDragonsTrap'' has a Mummy Dragon, a Zombie Dragon and a Vampire Dragon.
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288	* ''Webcomic/EightBitTheater'': As the final test of overcoming their inner demons at the Castle of Ordeals, the Light Warriors have to battle [[GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere a giant skeletal dragon]]. As Fighter explains, "[[SpoofAesop Maybe the bone dragon represents our skeletons.]] [[CaptainObvious Those are inside of us.]] [[ShapedLikeItself Like skeletons.]]" Thief defeats the dragon by stealing its vertebrae.
289	* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'': In [[https://www.reddit.com/r/elgoonishshive/comments/h0s2el/a_talking_wand/ "A Talking Wand???"]], "zombie dragon" is mentioned as a possibility of meeting a dragon, but not one that's alive.
290	* ''Webcomic/TheHandbookOfHeroes'' has Jeremy the dragon. After being killed by Fighter, he returns as an undead dracolich.
291	* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'':
292	** Xykon temporarily uses a zombified silver dragon as a mount after clearing out a dungeon of Good-aligned creatures (#429 and onwards, explicitly calling it a zombie in #441).
293	** Vaarsuvius casts Create Greater Undead on a black dragon's ''head''. However, this is for the express purpose of casting [[spoiler:Familicide on it, thus killing everything that had any familial connection to that dragon]], and they disintegrate it after they're through.
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297	* ''WebOriginal/TheClockworkRaven'': "Bone Dragons" are the primary antagonists.
298	* The Undead (a.k.a. Zombie) dragons from Website/DragonCave. They are created from dead dragons that the breeder attempts to revive, with a small chance of being successful. Undead dragons match the general morphology of the breed they used to be, i.e. a turned lindwurm (wings and a pair of arms) will have an Undead sprite with that appearance.
299	* ''LetsPlay/{{Mahu}}'': In "Frozen Flame", the army of prince Arius faces an undean force mixing spirits and a small squad of undead dragons, each powerful enough to tear through regiments with its claws and decimate a whole army flank with its poisonous breath. Only through a mixture of tactics, resurrecting troops and sacrifice do Arius and his men achieve victory.
300	* ''WebVideo/VShojo'': Bittersweet Apricot, known to all as Froot, is a half-dragon lich. [[DiscardAndDraw She's stated to have lost much of her draconic power in exchange for immense necromantic power as a lich]], resulting in a LittleBitBeastly appearance. Defying the usual reputation of dracoliches, Froot is very much a PerkyGoth, and usually the TokenWholesome amongst her friends.
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304	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Ninjago}}'': In Season 13, the legendary dragon Grief-Bringer is resurrected as an undead skeleton by the Skull Sorcerer.
305	* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': [[spoiler:While Emperor Belos started his life as a human, by the time the show proper takes place he's turned himself into an undead HumanoidAbomination made of liquefied, necrotic flesh in his efforts to live long past his natural lifespan. When he uses this liquid rot to infest the heart of the Titan (the GiantCorpseWorld the story takes place on), he begins rapidly covering the entire island in MeatMoss, and creates a draconic-looking avatar for him to inhabit, covered in eyes and bigger than his entire ''castle''. In this form, he's practically invincible, even to someone as powerful as the Collector, and able to shoot [[BreathWeapon beams of corruption from his mouth]].]]
306	* ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'': In the GrandFinale, [[spoiler:Unicron]] raises and commands a swarm of zombie Predacons. That's an entire army of [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot undead alien robot dragons]].
307	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Wakfu}}'' Season 4: the [[HorrorHunger Necros]] host include a colossal, undead Dragon called Rotalström. While no longer able to fly or talk, the beast can bite down on huge chunks of scenery and, unusually, employ a Wakfu BreathWeapon to feed hordes of Necros at once. [[spoiler: It is later revealed that Efrim, the Eliatrope Dragon brother of Nora, has been turned into a sentient Necros after being left behind in the Necroworld for centuries, though he mostly resembles a zombie-like lizard person with glowing magenta eyes and mouth.]]
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