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"What is it about princesses and getting kidnapped by dragons? What is the dragon going to do with them once they get them anyway? Actually I don't want to think about that, I'd rather get on with the job of rescuing her, as usual."
Stephen Westwood, Retro Gamer

"Yesh!! Don't think that all dragons are lolicons who ask for little girl sacrifices!! Princess moe my ass!!"

"Some dragons are way into sacrificial young ladies. Between all those western European folk tales of knights rescuing princesses, the Japanese folktale of Susanowo killing the Orochi to save a girl from being sacrificed to it, and the iconic Greek myth of Perseus rescuing Andromeda from Kytos, it seems that dragons really like endandering young women. This is another pretty cliched one, and between that and the additionally maligned one of Sexy Lamp Damsel in Distress, most writers only bring it up to subvert it these days. The dragon is just misunderstood, the girl is actually the villain, the girl is doing the rescuing, the girl IS the dragon, the girl is dating the dragon, it can get pretty weird."

And for the third time the voice still called for water; and when water was given it the last hoop was rent, the cask fell in pieces, and out flew a dragon, who snatched up the empress just as she was returning from her walk, and carried her off.

Green Arrow: (after narrowly dodging a taxiing airliner) That...dragon almost got us.
Princess Perdita: You do realize that I am ten, and do not require a fairy-tale metaphor?


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