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4''[[https://www.dragon-mango.com Dragon Mango]]'' is a "possibly funny" webcomic, set primarily in the Kingdom of Fafnir. When the human population was nearly wiped out a thousand years ago, the Dragon Slayers arrived to save them. Now a modern-day Dragon Slayer is anxious to prove her worth and restore her family's honour.
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6Her first challenge is to escape the pile of rock candy she just released from her dragon-shaped pinata.
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8The comic is [[{{Animesque}} in a Japanese style]], though drawn by Canadian artists. The storyline [[CerebusRollercoaster switches from deadly serious to absurd]], [[MoodWhiplash often on the same page]], and has several arcs that are starting to come together. It's liberally sprinkled with pop culture and anime references, with quite a bit of very original humour. The artwork, especially in the early comics, is a bit inconsistent, so don't be put off by the first comics being mainly in black-and-white. Colour and animation are used for the more important scenes.
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10Dragon Mango is written, drawn, and produced by Mark Sprague, Crystal Kearns, Adam Lockhart, Doug Middleton, and Karen Hayman, who together comprise Unpredictable Fish. A new comic is published every Thursday.
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12!! This webcomic provides examples of:
13* AccompliceByInaction: The executives of Square One are a VillainWithGoodPublicity, but behind the scenes, they are terrifyingly evil psychopaths with {{God Complex}}es. Meanwhile, the immediate boss of the science division, Chocolate Explosion, is a MadScientist who has creative punishments for those who defy her. With the scientists of Square One facing a MortonsFork between snitching on Chocolate Explosion's schemes against the executives or letting it be, they choose the latter. When Chocolate Explosion gets caught, they begrudgingly flee with her rather than face the Executives' wrath.
14* AdvancedAncientAcropolis: Square One was humanity's first settlement and continues to be the most advanced city-state in the entire world. A {{Magitek}} accident isolated them from the rest of humanity, leaving their city unharmed but separating it from the world by stranding it in the center of a radioactive crater. They are leaps ahead of the rest of humanity due to the fact that they were one of the few countries that didn't ban {{Magitek}} and the fact that they had the inspiration to study gnomes, a race of short lived yet prolific innovators.
15* AprilFoolsDay: On April Fool's, Cherry takes over the website, with the art often switching to a crayon style.
16** Most of the April Fool's updates consist of the "Bestest comic ever".
17** One of them is a simple [[https://dragon-mango.com/comic/extra/cherrygame.htm platformer game]].
18** In the [[https://dragon-mango.com/Cherry-2022.htm 2022 comic]], it comments on the obsoletion of Adobe Flash as medium for animations and games, along with the newer technology the website will be replacing it with.
19** The [[https://www.dragon-mango.com/April2023.htm 2023 comic]] previews Dragon Mango, the live action movie! All created with AI art based on Stable Diffusion and edited with Photoshop.
20* ArbitraryHeadcountLimit: The trope is discussed, with it being stated that most [[PlayerParty adventuring parties]] in that world are composed of 3, with 4 pushing it. When attempting to travel through a PortalNetwork that imposes a limit on how many people can go through at once, they complain about the trope and use LoopholeAbuse to send two separate adventuring parties one after another.
21* BadassAdorable: Peaches and Cherry.
22* BeastMan: Attacked the farm.
23* BecauseDestinySaysSo: The rulers of Square One are initially unconcerned about the rumors of a rebellion in the lower levels, because the Records of Fate tell them that there will ''be'' no uprising. Cue them being InstantlyProvenWrong.
24* BlackMagic: Destructive magic. Its combat uses mean it's not evil.
25* BigBadEnsemble: There are multiple major antagonists, some of them directly related, some of them not.
26** There are hints of a troll king planning to obtain ultimate power by stealing dragon orbs.
27** Princess Phenylalanine plans to destroy the dragonslayer kingdom and doom the world by releasing the evil dragons [[SealedEvilInACan from the seal]].
28** The directors of Fenix Corp, who rule the city-state of Square One and are responsible for poisoning its underclass so that they can use them as [[LivingBattery living batteries]]. They are implied to be {{Godhood Seeker}}s who plan to erase all of existence to remake it InTheirOwnImage.
29* BigBrotherIsWatching: Square One maintains surveillance cameras that allow them to detect troublemakers. [[spoiler:They also built surveillance into the cybernetic enhancements they integrated their SuperSoldiers with so that they can quietly detect and eliminate any [[HeKnowsTooMuch who know too much]] or rebel.]]
30* BigNo: Spoofed in [[https://www.dragon-mango.com/comic/chapter05/dm05-10.htm this strip]], when Pumpkin's father returns after a four-year journey into faraway lands and gives Mango a rare treat, called a "sweet swirl stick", which Cherry eats in one bite.
31-->''"''Wow'', you're right, that ''was'' really good! Is there any more?\
32"[[AC:NOOOOOO!]]"\
33"Okay, I was just askin'."''
34* BilingualBonus: A book on trapping demons has some Swedish text in it. The name of the book is, "hur att fängsla demoner," which is the literal translation (but grammatically incorrect) of, "how to imprison demons." A page in the book says, "Den som kan sova evigt är inte död," which means, [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos "One who can sleep forever is not dead."]]
35* BoldInflation: A liberal amount of words are for more or less arbitrary reasons bolded. Usually nouns.
36* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Eclair, Candy, and Cupcake fall victim to [[spoiler:Princess Phenylalanine's powers and are reduced to her mind controlled slaves. Her control over them has grown strong enough to completely usurp their minds whenever she pleases, but since this eliminates the creativity that makes them so effective to begin with, the Princess usually settles for keeping their loyalty by manipulating their memories. As a result, they now act as antagonists to the dragon slayer parties, believing they need to kidnap the dragon slayer princess to save the world.]]
37* BreakingTheFourthWall: The ScheduleSlip is referred to by the characters. And {{exploited|Trope}}, since it allows the characters more time than the InUniverse time would otherwise give them.
38* CallingYourAttacks: The dragonslayers do it because modern "dragon slaying" is largely just for show, and they want to make sure their "opponent" is ready for it, but it is hardly limited to them and is a fairly common trait. Steen Dragonsbane {{Lampshade}}s how inefficient it is that dragonslayers tend to advertise their every move.
39* CelestialDeadline: The raw power of the stars' alignment.
40* ChainmailBikini: Downplayed with Mango's armor, which is steel around her vital spots and boring leather covering everything else.
41* ColdIron: All types of fairies, including Elves, are extremely vulnerable to iron and magnetism, but can [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower learn to resist it]] through TrainingFromHell. Afterwards they use iron armors as a PowerLimiter. [[https://www.dragon-mango.com/comic/chapter02/dm02-22.htm Half-Elves]] are completely immune to it, likely due to their human half's iron-based blood.
42* CollapsingLair: The count's lair collapses [[ShoutOut exactly like]] Franchise/{{Castlevania}}.
43* ComicallyIneptHealing: The WhiteMage in charge of healing the tournament contestants, Colleen, is pretty clueless about treating any condition that requires mundane healing rather than magic and keeps trying to treat said conditions with her mallet.
44* ConservationOfNinjutsu: [[DiscussedTrope Called "Snow Dancer Syndrome"]] by Berry, and referred to as a scientific principle. She mentions that if a previously formidable enemy attacks en masse, they're all a lot less powerful.
45* DeliberatelyDistressedDamsel: The princess of Stalashen [[https://www.dragon-mango.com/comic/chapter10/dm10-27.htm wears]] a t-shirt that invokes the trope, saying "Kidnap Me ♥".
46* DeliberatelyMonochrome: Black and white. [[https://dragon-mango.com/comic/chapter05/dm05-47.htm sometimes with splashes of color]]
47* DistressedDude: Chapter 10, "A Wuss in Distress", features [[IronicName Prince Badass]] offering himself as a VirginSacrifice to appease Lecithin.
48* DoctorsOrders: An injured gladiator is not allowed up.
49* DominantSpeciesGenes: While never explicitly stated, this appears to be the case for Oni, with the results of Human/Oni pairings always appearing to be full fledged Oni.
50* DoNotAdjustYourSet: How Dug initiates the revolution against the Square One government, broadcasting a speech with a signal too powerful to be jammed to every receiver.
51* DoNotTauntCthulhu: When a mysterious voice coming from a bright light explains to Mango's party how portals work, Bleu, not buying the explanation, complains about it. Not knowing who the voice belongs to, Mango asks Bleu not to pick a fight just in case said voice is a god or a powerful wizard, though the voice turns out to just be a gnome stuck on a lamp post.
52* TheDragonslayer: Dragonslayers are an actual species. They are much stronger than humans, have innate magical abilities, and are the ones most easily able to deal with dragons. [[spoiler:In actuality, they ''are'' dragons, who decided to assume human-like forms, befriend humans, protect them from their brethren, and use them as easy meal tickets]].
53* EdibleThemeNaming: Most of the major characters are named after things you can eat, mostly fruits and other grown edibles for humans and dragonslayers, and desserts for elves. There ''are'' exceptions, and Lemon {{Lampshade}}s it, commenting on what a stupid name Steve is.
54* ElementalRockPaperScissors: Part of how the comicverse works. Pumpkin, an earth dragonslayer, is unable to transmit her earth magic through water, meaning she cannot levitate any rocks that have sunk into it. Likewise, Lecithin, an energy dragon, is weak against earth-based attacks and his own attacks are less effective against Pumpkin.
55* EngineeredHeroics: The [[spoiler:Dragonslayer deal]].
56* EmpireWithADarkSecret: WordOfGod describes the upper levels of Square One as a pseudo utopia, with most of its residents unaware that their lives are supported by the suffering of others. Square One's top research facility is supposedly a gathering of their top scientists, responsible for developing the innovations that allows Square One to survive despite being trapped by a radioactive accident. In truth, their innovations were taken from 32 gnome colonies who are treated like lab rats, and that isn't even the worst of their secrets. [[spoiler:The city itself is PoweredByAForsakenChild, extracting energy by mutating humans with chaos energy and imprisoning them in PeopleJars. When the truth gets out, it becomes the trigger for a CivilWar.]]
57* EquippableAlly: Female Oni are able to transform animals and even dragons into weapons.
58* EverybodyKnewAlready: When Dr. Chocolate Explosion is about to confess to the fact that she has been sponsoring [[LaResistance Ashes]], the researchers of Square One reveal that they already knew. After all, their new developments kept showing up in Ash's hands.
59* TheExile: King Citrus, at the urging of his advisor, forbade dragonslayers from learning the arts of war. A secret society of dragonslayers formed, in which they secretly passed said knowledge on to the next generation. But many of said younger generation grew deeply resentful of King Citrus's edict and attempted to launch a revolution. It was put down by a dragonslayer currently known as Ginger. She made King Citrus spare their lives, sending them into exile instead. And disapproving of King Citrus's edict herself, she went with them.
60* ExplosiveLeash: [[spoiler:Fenix Corp is run by psychopaths, but they use the well-intentioned as duped {{Super Soldier}}s. Since their soldiers would inevitably turn on them if they ever figured out the truth, Fenix Corp has secretly designed their cybernetic enhancements to kill them in the event that they turn on them.]]
61* FlungClothing: In [[https://www.dragon-mango.com/comic/chapter06/dm06-20.htm this page]], Lemon manages to take ''all'' of her clothes off in a single dramatic pull. Apparently it's a ninja thing.
62* FormulaicMagic: An accountant, also known as a Financial Wizard, is a mage who has achieved at least level 4 in White and Black magic and specializes in using magic based on math. An accountant can, for example, use magical math equations to blow up everyone in the area with a height divisible by some number. They are extremely powerful, but are rarely used in combat due to the high rate of friendly fire.
63* FourFingeredHands: Averted with most characters, but played straight with gnomes like Dug.
64* GainaxEnding: Let's just say Cherry's Ultimate magic spell [[RealityWarper screws with reality]]. [[RealityIsOutToLunch Off its hinges]]. And then the story arc immediately ends HappilyEverAfter because she said so![[note]]Despite the two dozen plot holes she ripped open in the process...[[/note]]
65* GenghisGambit: Junior's entire motive for launching the Goblin Invasion is to unite the monsters of the forest by showing that together, they can beat even Mango, who is legendary to them due to them having never successfully stolen a single chicken from the farm she guarded.
66* GiantMecha: Originally invented by Dr. Chocolate Explosion of Square One. The Cell Knights pilot these gargantuan robots into battle. They are powered by [[SummonMagic summoning]] a Heroic Spirit, which also means that OnlyThePureOfHeart can use them as the Heroic Spirit will not react otherwise.
67* GlobalAirship: Mango's PlayerParty acquires an airship from Princess Awesome as a reward for defeating Lecithin, allowing them to travel to the deadly island they believe Ginger to have made her new home in. The comic's title describes it as the quest entering the "Open World" stage.
68* GoodOldWays: Mango fights monsters, the way [[spoiler:dragons]] used to.
69* HalfHumanHybrid:
70** The half-Dragonslayers, of whom Mango is the first. Since the dragon slayers' population had been in decline, the discovery they can mate with humans is considered to have saved their race and has in fact more than doubled it in only 20 years. They are slightly weaker than purebloods, but unlike purebloods, [[spoiler:who are actually dragons themselves and require human blood to take human form, half-dragons are born with human-like forms and can learn to assume dragon form later]].
71** Female Oni, such as Peaches, are close in that they have human mothers, though this is in fact a thing that is inherent to their race since female Oni are only able to bear sons.
72* HardHead: Some characters' concussions are expected to just "wear off."
73* HealingPotion: using fighting the count -- and when Mango is found in the woods.
74* TheHerald: As soon as the girls are accepted as Lolita Knights, a cloaked figure appears to urge them to reject it for a greater challenge.
75* HypocrisyNod: Dr. Chocolate Explosion admits that it's a bit hypocritical to betray Square One out of outrage at them using her inventions to make the city PoweredByAForsakenChild and then steal some of those so forsaken to power her own escape when she gets caught.
76* HumansAreCthulhu: To the goblins, Mango is a terrifying goddess of death and destruction.
77* ImmuneToMindControl: High Priestess Raisin and Bonbon, Chocolate Cupcake's pet pig, are immune to Princess Phenylalanine's powers.
78* ImpossibleItemDrop: Parodied; Mango receives a suit of [[BreastPlate fashion plate mail]] for swatting a mosquito, then wonders how killing a bug made armor appear. (Answer: it was a [[IncrediblyLamePun drop bug.]]) She later has to assure her mother that she didn't hack anyone for it.
79* IndustrializedEvil:
80** The Oni created a free-range farm of oblivious humans to cannibalize and ''rape''. In the event of a riot, they will reset the farm by purging most of the humans and kidnapping fresh travelers.
81** The humans of Square One manage to EvilerThanThou the above cannibals by ''enslaving entire colonies of oblivious gnomes'' and using them to develop scientific research by subjecting them to various disasters and plagues until they invent a solution the humans can plagiarize. They are also willing to reset colonies. What the Square One government does to the gnomes isn't even the worst of their crimes. [[spoiler:The city was originally powered by {{Magitek}} reactors, but due to their instability, they were insufficient to meet their needs. They eventually discovered that it was possible to mutate humans with massive amounts of chaos energy, imprison them in PeopleJars, and extract power from them, meaning that the city is PoweredByAForsakenChild]].
82* IronicName: Most of the royal family of Stalashen has these. King Sensible and Queen Prudence come up with rather foolish plans, and Prince Badass is brave, but rather sickly. Nevertheless, they still manage live up to their names in unusual ways. As stupid as King Sensible and Queen Prudence's plans were, they still worked due to the enemy dragon's lack of attention for detail. And while Prince Badass is naturally weak, he is able to become a [[WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse1983 He-Man]] {{Expy}} with the aid of a magic sword.
83* IWantGrandkids: Bleu's father wants her to find a husband and continue their line. Bleu would rather focus on school.
84* JediMindTrick: The Baloney Stone is a relic that allows any who have it to tell magic lies almost everyone believes. Steve used it to make himself famous, but Lime ends up stealing it fron him.
85* JustBetweenYouAndMe: Count Baklava explains his evil plan in complete detail to the kidnapped mayor, to get it off his chest and [[DefiedTrope ensure he doesn't blab it to an actual hero]] who might use it against him. The mayor tells the heroes instead. [[spoiler:Baklava expected him to, and [[UnspokenPlanGuarantee left out a few key bits]].]]
86* JustThinkOfThePotential: Square One has come up with a number of very creative, very evil uses for a number of the inventions developed by Dr. Chocolate Explosion. Inventions that were originally intended for completely benign purposes.
87** Her HumongousMecha was originally intended to give Square One a way to do work in the PollutedWasteland surrounding the city, allowing them to recover more resources. Square One gets the idea to use them as weapons of war against the revolutionaries. By making said mecha restricted to OnlyThePureOfHeart, she was able to limit the damage they could do, but they were still able to work around it by manipulating {{Unwitting Pawn}}s.
88** The invention Dr. Chocolate Explosion intended as a HealingVat gets repurposed to [[spoiler:mutate victims with chaos magic and harvest the resulting energy, allowing the city to be PoweredByAForsakenChild]].
89* LeakedExperience: Cherry gains a CharacterLevel from Mango's combat encounter, despite not doing anything herself.
90* TheLittleShopThatWasntThereYesterday: The Tarrasque shops [[https://www.dragon-mango.com/comic/chapter06/dm06-03.htm apparently have]] a reputation for this, and licenses are required for such shops. It helps that they can literally be packed and unpacked from enchanted suitcases. The shops set up in popular locations are more likely to linger.
91* {{Magitek}}: Magitek is technology that is powered by magic-generating reactors. It was outlawed in most countries after a Magitek reactor blew up the technologically advanced city of Square One[[note]]The capital survived, but the surrounding areas are now a magical-radioactive wasteland that hasn't died down in 200 years[[/note]].
92** As a by-product, Magic produces chaos energy, which causes the laws of physics to shut down. The minuscule amount generated by typical spells is harmless, but Magitek reactors generate massive amounts of magic, and by extension, massive amounts of chaos, which could theoretically result in continent-wide destruction.
93** And then there's the chaos filters; by using human sacrifices in technology-based magic siphoning, Magitek can achieve greater power generation than a thousand Magitek reactors.
94* MeaningfulName: The government of Square One calls itself Fenix Corp, after the [[ThePhoenix legendary immortal bird]]. The revolutionaries opposing them call themselves "Ashes", which is what they plan to reduce them to, permanently, without letting them rise again from them.
95* MixAndMatchCritters: One of the many main characters summoned a hippogryff -- half-hippopotamus, half-griffin.
96* MoneySpider: Mango goes off fighting the monsters of the forest in hopes of getting enough money for fashion armor. The "cheapskate" monsters drop little cash, but one small bug ''does'' have a literal ImpossibleItemDrop of fashion armor.
97* MonsterLord:
98** There exists a recent new Troll King.
99** Junior is the King of Goblins, and is an especially big, strong, and intelligent member of his kind.
100** Female Oni are rare and though smaller, are also much more powerful than the males, usually ending up in charge of their tribe.
101* MonsterProtectionRacket: Having long since [[SealedEvilInACan sealed]] most of the genuinely evil dragons, the Dragonslayers do this to continue to receive funding and glory. With the added twist that [[spoiler:they are the dragons.]]
102* MorphicResonance: Dragons are capable of VoluntaryShapeshifting into the form of any creature they have tasted blood from, but they always retain a few draconic traits, like horns or tails.
103* MysteriousStranger: Subverted. [[spoiler:Chocolate Explosion reveals the truth in the same panel where she appears.]]
104* NominalImportance:
105** [[https://dragon-mango.com/comic/chapter02/dm02-07.htm After Eclair passes her trial]], two girls waiting in line note that she ''had'' to, because [[LampshadeHanging she was the only character with a name]]. After a {{beat}}, they then turn directly to the audience and introduce themselves as Candy and Cupcake.
106** Lampshaded [[https://www.dragon-mango.com/comic/chapter04/dm04-55.htm here]], when two characters introduced in a way that [[{{Retirony}} heavily]] [[RedShirt suggested]] that they were cannon fodder found themselves alive a number of comics later.
107** Also lampshaded [[https://www.dragon-mango.com/comic/chapter10/dm10-12.htm here]], when Bleu figures that the overly designed guy is more likely to have plot-relevant information than the highly generic townspeople.
108* NotHyperbole: Many years ago, a barkeeper bragged that his ale, Dragon's Breath, was potent enough to knock out a dragon. The visiting dragonslayers [[spoiler:who are dragons disguised as humanoids]] took that as a challenge and soon learned that he wasn't kidding.
109* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler:Chocolate Explosion]]
110* NudityEqualsHonesty: During the Pockfighting competition, Lemon is accused of using the [[JediMindTrick Baloney Stone]] for cheating by Steve (And he's right) and she decides to prove him wrong by [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl stripping off her clothes on the spot]] to 1. prove she doesn't have it on her 2. make [[CannotTalkToWomen Steve]] [[{{Fainting}} faint]] by the sight of her naked 3. Getting the crowd DistractedByTheSexy and too busy EatingTheEyeCandy to notice the obvious lie.
111* OnlyThePureOfHeart: In order to ensure Square One wouldn't abuse her invention of the HumongousMecha, Dr. Chocolate Explosion designed them to be powered by Heroic Spirits, who can only be summoned by the pure of heart. Unfortunately, it turns out the pure of heart can be rather naive, so Square One works around this by manipulating well-intentioned dupes.
112* OurAngelsAreDifferent: Heroic Spirits can be called via SummonMagic by a sufficiently [[IncorruptiblePurePureness pure-hearted]] hero. Dr. Chocolate Explosion's narration of one depicts a WingedHumanoid. Square One uses them to power the Cell Knights.
113* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Dragons are giant flying reptilian creatures. Each dragon is born with specific traits, such as frost dragons, which can breathe ice, and dream dragons, which function as selectively tangible illusions. They are extremely tough, but they are somewhat weak against magic. In the ancient past, dragons would prey on humans, and some still do, but peaceful wild dragons are also known to exist. [[spoiler:The so called "dragon slayer" species is actually an entire civilization of dragons who have secretly shapeshifted into human-like forms and integrated into human society.]]
114* OurElvesAreDifferent: A LongLived pointy-eared species with a weakness to ColdIron. High Elves tend to be drug addicts.
115* OurGnomesAreWeirder: Gnomes are a race of short humanoids with slightly pointy ears. They have a natural talent for engineering and innovation. For an intelligent species, they have a remarkably short lifespan of only nine months. As a result, other sapient races find it difficult to relate to them and treat them like wildlife. Humans mostly see them as pests due to the fact that they tend to build colonies near human settlements and mess with their plumbing. But some have taken notice of their ingenuity and observe them, copying the results of their successful experiments.
116* OurGryphonsAreDifferent: [[https://www.dragon-mango.com/comic/chapter02/dm02-28.htm They're really cute]]. ([[https://www.dragon-mango.com/comic/chapter02/dm02-29.htm And half-hippo]]).
117* OutGambitted: [[LaResistance Ashes]] had a plan to prove to one of the Cell Knights the crimes the Phoenix Corp. were committing and have them - heroes of the people - expose them to the public. Dug managed to get Agent Catalina to go along with the plan... [[spoiler: only for Catalina's cybernetics to prove to be booby trapped, killing her and making it look like Ashes murdered a Cell Knight.]]
118* ThePardon: Long ago, Passion fell in love with a human man. The other dragonslayers demanded that she marry another of their kind because of their declining birth rates, but she ran away instead, leading them to permanently exile her from the dragonslayer areas. Even using her discovery that dragonslayers and humans can breed didn't lessen their anger for defying them in the first place. King Citrus eventually grants her a pardon on her daughter, Mango's behalf.
119* PartialTransformation: One dragonslayer technique is to only partially [[spoiler:use their dragon forms, while remaining largely human]], allowing them to use their full strength even while disguised. Mango gets the inspiration to use it once during a competition. It is later revealed that the legendary dragonslayer Ginger used it on a regular basis. However, it requires a great deal of focus to maintain, and Ginger is the only dragonslayer in history to have enough to make practical use of it.
120* PortalNetwork: The Tarrasque item shops are linked by these to a warehouse, which is why the proprietors can afford to set up shops in very isolated locations.
121* PowerCrystal: There is a naturally occurring crystalline substance which can be used to conduct and focus magical energy. It is often used as a material for magic staffs and crystal balls. They form natural {{Ley Line}}s of magic power that can be tapped by sufficiently skilled magicians.
122* ProphecyTwist: High Priestess Raisin predicts that the dragonslayer princess will break the SealedEvilInACan and doom the world. To prevent this future from happening, she tries to kill Cherry (extremely ineffectively). [[spoiler:It turns out there's a second dragonslayer princess, and while Cherry does accidentally crack the seal, its Princess Phenylalanine who wants to force Cherry to break the seal entirely]].
123* PropagandaMachine: The main reason Fenix Corp is a VillainWithGoodPublicity. WordOfGod states that Fenix Corp has a stranglehold over the media of Square One. Most of the Square One upper class are decent enough people, who have no idea that their lives are being supported by the suffering of the underdwellers. Meanwhile, the underdwellers themselves consider themselves to be lucky to even be alive after the {{Magitek}} accident, and are under the assumption that everyone else is just as bad off as them, little realizing the ways in which Fenix Corp is taking advantage of them. Anyone who says otherwise is written off as a ConspiracyTheorist.
124* TheQuest: Two at once. Mango, Bleu, and Cherry, are sent out to recover Ginger, the only dragonslayer still tough enough to stand up to the evil dragons threatening to break out of the seal. Pumpkin, Lemon, and Lime's group is sent out to gather the closest descendants of the seven sages to repair said seal.
125* RaygunGothic: What the technology of Square One has developed to.
126* {{Revenge}}: What the beast-men are seeking.
127* RPGMechanicsverse: There are references to stats, HitPoints, item drops, {{Character Level}}s, and {{Save Point}}s, though these are treated more like gags than consistent rules.
128* RunningGag: Statues of Mango always get smashed, it's gotten to the point that they come in packs of two now.
129* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler: Cell Knight Catalina. Introduced, implied to be the lynchpin to Ashes' master plan and murdered within seven pages.]]
130* SantasSweatshop: In [[https://www.dragon-mango.com/comic/extra/xmas/xmas2016.htm one of the]] Christmas comics, Satan Claus kidnaps a bunch of elf children and uses them as slave labor to build cheap toys for export.
131* ScheduleSlip[[invoked]]: Character can get through a maze in a month -- from the readers' point of view.
132-->'''Damn this erratic update schedule!'''
133* SchmuckBait: [[https://www.dragon-mango.com/comic/chapter04/dm04-12.htm Free Meat!]] In the middle of a large red target. Next to a "Free Meat" sign. Directly under a sixteen-ton weight. And poisoned. [[https://www.dragon-mango.com/comic/chapter04/dm04-13.htm In response]]:
134-->'''Claw:''' You let the princess eat raw meat off the floor?!\
135'''Mango:''' Sorry! Sorry! It's just... well... Have you ever tried to get between that kid and a hunk of meat?\
136'''Claw:''' Okay... I have to admit you have a good point there.
137* SealedEvilInACan: The dragon slayers defeated most of the dragons that plagued the world and helped seal them away. The seal is protected by a prophecy, making it so that only the dragonslayer king's heir can break it. Several villains have and are attempting to break said dragons out of the seal for their own purposes. Bleu even suspects that there might be a traitor among the dragonslayer council. When Cherry accidentally cracks it, Mango and her friends are sent out on a quest to find the only dragonslayers that still have the training to fight the evil dragons and find the descendants of the sages who created the seal.
138* SecretShop: Tarrasque shops can get set up in some absurdly obscure locations. One member of the dragonslayer council [[https://www.dragon-mango.com/comic/chapter05/dm05-49.htm mentions]] that he found one behind a wall in a dungeon he had to blow up with a bomb to find.
139* ShoutOut: There are often two to five references to other works per page. Some of them are:
140** Mango wishes the goblins would come and take Cherry away '''[[Film/{{Labyrinth}} right now]]'''!
141** When Cherry summons a bunch of rabbits, one of them is wielding a switch blade, which is presumably a reference to Bunbun of ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance''.
142** When the prospective Lolita Knights take out the boss of a castle, it crumbles very much like the titular Franchise/{{Castlevania}} does at the end of every game.
143** Mango defeats a bunch of monsters, and after that she gets a ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' win messages, complete with the ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' win fanfare.
144** While looking for her sword, Mango comes across what's totally not the [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Master Sword]], because if it were, someone might sue. And the triforce is upside down.
145** Her own sword is found in a [[Myth/KingArthur Sword in the Stone]] routine.
146** Raisin performs the Ritual of Contravity daily and thus has infinite lives. [[KonamiCode It's Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start.]]
147** Sharkey, God of Cheating, is a reference to the ''VideoGame/GameShark''.
148** There's a sign for the World Gladiatorial Federation, [[Wrestling/WorldWrestlingEntertainment with the word Federation crossed off and replaced with Entertainment.]]
149** Colleen, Sandwich, and Bleu Berry are dressed as a [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyI White Mage, Black Mage, and Red Mage]] respectively.
150** One opponent in the tournament is Grateman, who bears more than a slight resemblance to [[Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles The Shredder]].
151** The poster of the Sherbert School of Incredibly Dangerous Swordplay has [[WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse1983 He-Man]] on it in a pose closer resembling Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian with a girl clinging to him.
152** The first thing hat happens when Lady Strawberry Cheesecake and Mr. Tea Biscuit enter the Sherbert School, [[VideoGame/{{Tetris}} tetriminoes]] fall on them.
153** The explanation for what magic is is suspiciously similar to the explanation of [[Franchise/StarWars The Force]], including something controversial that starts with "midichlori—".
154** The goblins get rolled up like a [[VideoGame/KatamariDamacy katamari.]]
155** The password for the safety of Vinegar's cellblade is Film/THX1138.
156** When trying to cheer Mango up, Cherry brings several familiar object, such as a [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros 1up mushroom]] (which has also appeared previously), a six-pack of [[Film/TheMalteseFalcon1941 Maltese Falcons]], [[Film/TheWizardOfOz ruby slippers]], [[Franchise/{{Transformers}} the Creation Matrix]], [[Franchise/MyLittlePony Rapunzel]] (the pony), and some lost footage from ''Film/TheMagnificentAmbersons''.
157** When Mango [[spoiler:is sentenced to death]], Berry [[Franchise/AceAttorney objects]], complete with properly formatted red "Objection!" text and pointy finger.
158** The temple of Sharkey is hidden by a [[Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy Somebody Else's Problem Field]].
159** Pockfighting is described as a sport where kids go out and capture wild animals and make them fight for entertainment. If that's not [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} familiar enough]], one of the characters uses an electric hamster, which is described as a starter mon. There are a bunch more references as well.
160** There's a girl named Peaches. Just like Literature/{{Momotaro}}, she's got three animal friends, and she fights [[{{Youkai}} oni]].
161** One of the many times Mango falls to the ground from a great height is a clear reference to Yamcha's memetic fall in ''Anime/DragonBallZ''. Japanese text included.
162** The Literature/LittleRedRidingHood shows up to buy some wolf repellent for her trip to her grandma's house.
163** When the trainee Lolita Knight party is on the verge of breaking her [[spoiler:mind control and about to expose]] Princess Phenylalanine's plans, she [[Franchise/MassEffect assumes direct control]].
164** [[https://www.dragon-mango.com/comic/chapter11/dm11-13.htm When the power suddenly goes out]] after a huge explosion, one of the executives of Square One demands to know what is happening in Vecna's name, who happens to be an evil god inside of ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''.
165* SlaveRace: In Square One, humans, elves, dwarves, and dragonslayers are recognized as citizens. Gnomes, centaurs, satyrs, and dragons that haven't learned to disguise themselves on the other hand are treated by Square One's rulers as experimental test subjects. It should be noted that most of Square One's citizens don't even know that any are in the city-state in the first place, with Fenix Corp keeping this well hidden.
166* SoulJar: It isn't their usual or intended purpose, but a dragonslayer's dragon orb contains a portion of their soul, which theoretically makes it possible to resurrect a dead dragon slayer if they left theirs behind.
167* SquishyWizard: Like all dragon slayers, Mango has natural magical abilities. When the attacking Oni see Mango use a fire blast, they assume her to fit the trope. Mango quickly proves them wrong, stating that the back row magic specialist is Bleu while she's a straight up fighter.
168* StagedPopulistUprising: A rare heroic example. As much as they would like to rebel, the underdwellers of Square One are far too beaten down to provide any real resistance against Square One's evil experiments. So a few sympathetic members of Square One's middle level management fake a revolt and come to quietly sponsor a real one.
169* StarScraper: What Square One has developed into. A {{Magitek}} accident stranded them and left them trapped in a radioactive wasteland. As a result, they are unable to build up their city state horizontally and have to build their city vertically instead. The city of Square One has been converted into a gargantuan spire that reaches up to the heavens. At this point, it has gotten so tall that they are only able to stabilize it using anti-gravity technology.
170* SummonMagic: They are called callers. Summoning tends to require GeometricMagic, but a sufficiently skilled caller can make do without it. Especially skilled callers can manifest dream creatures.
171* TakeThat: [[https://www.dragon-mango.com/comic/chapter06/dm06-11.htm Makes fun]] of ''[[Anime/PokemonTheSeries Pokémon]]'' over the fact that it is StrictlyFormula and resets the entire plot every season or two, making all previous development meaningless.
172* TapOnTheHead: Used to enforce the DoctorsOrders.
173* {{Thoughtcrime}}: All rumors about V.E.R.G.E. [[BigBrotherIsWatching have been flagged]] by the AI as misinformation. {{Magitek}} is completely safe. [[AGodAmI Fenix Corp]] has [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial no plans]] to [[InTheirOwnImage erase reality]]. By viewing this untruthful disinformation with no basis in fact, you have been placed on a list. An officer will be with you shortly to check your thinking.
174* TomatoSurprise: [[spoiler:The Dragonslayers are all shapeshifted dragons, the occasional dragon attacks are just to keep dragonslayer funding.]] It doesn't come at the end but does mark the end of an arc and the start of some of the bigger ones.
175* TrainingFromHell: Lord Sherbert teaches the [[https://www.dragon-mango.com/comic/chapter04/dm04-15.htm ''Sherbert School of Incredibly Dangerous Swordplay'']]. He is said to have "more fatalities than graduates", but an Elf who makes it through can withstand wearing an ''iron'' armor without even twitching from pain, while [[ColdIron a simple direct contact with iron can kill an untrained Elf]].\
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177His current pupil, an alumnus from another such school, ''asks for more'': When he learns the girls are in danger, he asks Sherbert to crank it up to eleven so he can quickly graduate and rush to their help. Even Sherbert is surprised.
178* TransformationTrinket: There exist special objects called dragon orbs. [[spoiler:Dragons have the power of VoluntaryShapeshifting and can assume the form of any creature they have tasted the blood of. However, this requires a great deal of concentration to maintain. To ease this, dragons will use a ritual to create a dragon orb. The dragon orb contains a tiny fragment of their soul, as well as all the extra mass and magic of their true forms, allowing them to remain shapeshifted as long as they need to. They can return to their true form by fusing back with their orb. Count Baklava, an elf, somehow managed to acquire one and was able to fuse with it to become a dragon himself.]]
179* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Dragons can assume the shape of any creature they have tasted the blood of.
180* UndressingTheUnconscious:
181** Dr. Yong-Yi changes an injured and unconcious Mango to treat her. When she [[https://dragon-mango.com/comic/chapter07/dm07-26.htm realizes this]] she has a [[DelayedReaction delayed]] NakedFreakOut and doesn't accept his insistence that he's a doctor as an excuse and enters PervertRevengeMode, sending him flying out of the building and with him saying [[UnprovokedPervertPayback he doesn't feel he deserved that]].
182** Happens to her again not long after with Mango [[https://dragon-mango.com/comic/chapter07/dm07-42.png falling unconscious after a fight]]. This time [[https://dragon-mango.com/comic/chapter07/dm07-67.htm when she wakes up]], Dr. Yong-Yi tells her he made sure he healed her with his eyes closed and had female nurse dress her.
183* UnwittingPawn: OnlyThePureOfHeart can pilot the GiantMecha Square One uses as weapons of war. As such, the VillainWithGoodPublicity that is Fenix Corp uses a bunch of well-intentioned dupes to fight [[YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters terrorists]].
184* WaddlingHead: Candy's summoned bunnies are basically giant rabbit heads.
185* WantedASonInstead: Blue Berry's father technically ''has'' two sons, but he's still unhappy Blue is a girl because she was his second wife's firstborn and ended up giving her a name considered to be masculine.
186* WebcomicTime: Occasionally {{Lampshade}}d when updates are slow, such as when some characters navigate a deadly maze instantly InUniverse because the comic was updating so slowly.
187** Lampshaded [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/two_month.jpg here]] where a character notes the out-of-universe time that has passed since the last strip was posted.
188* WellIntentionedExtremist: Junior wants to organize goblinkind into a civilization, but is willing to resort to forcing other goblins to obey him, taking hostages, and even killing Mango on whom he has a crush. Fortunately, a happy compromise is found when goblins discover the true value of their large reserves of gold and are given newfound respect by gold-hungry humans.
189* WhenThePlanetsAlign: Occurs once every one thousand years. With all the planets aligned, it causes all of their star system's {{Ley Line}}s to converge, which in turn can wreak havoc on delicate spells and hardware.
190* WhiteMage: White mages can use HealingHands. Notably, this doesn't necessarily mean they can heal ''everything'' with magic or know anything about mundane healing. One white mage attempts to heal a concussion with a hammer, while Bleu makes some well-intentioned efforts on Mango's many wounds that eventually require a real doctor to fix.
191* WhiteMagic: Also, Holy Magic. It heals.
192* WhyAmITicking: [[spoiler:When Agent Catalina becomes a case of HeKnowsTooMuch, Fenix Corp remote detonates the ExplosiveLeash they quietly planted in her body. She notices her instruments claim that everything is normal, but feels a strange power surge. She guesses what is happening just quickly enough to push Dug through his portal, asking him to avenge her, as the explosion annihilates the building she was previously standing in.]]
193* WorldsStrongestMan: The dragonslayer currently known as Ginger is considered to be the strongest dragonslayer to have ever lived. Pamplemousse says that destroying thousands of mountains would be nothing compared to her.
194* WorthlessYellowRocks: The goblin king refuses a sack of gold and [[https://www.dragon-mango.com/comic/chapter04/dm04-78.htm demands something useful like a chicken or a box of donuts]], saying that they have literally whole walls made of the that "worthless gold". [[https://www.dragon-mango.com/comic/chapter04/dm04-79.htm Then]], war is averted with a happy ending when the true worth of gold is explained to him (and almost immediately goblins are reclassified from monsters to people by surrounding nations)
195* WouldHurtAChild: Even when it's Cherry, that's bad.
196* VitriolicBestBuds: More or less the nature of Mango and Bleu's relationship.
197* YourSoulIsMine: Popular legend claims that bane dragons can feed on souls.
198* YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters: Square One's government doesn't give a damn about its lower class, and would rather invest in military assets to crush them with than in recovering more resources to appease them with. Needless to say, the Square One government defines the revolutionaries as a terrorist uprising, but at least a few heroic figures are sympathetic to them. Given just how evil Square One's government is, they have ''very'' good reasons to rebel.

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