A mysterious dragon is haunting the Xiaolin Temple, petrifying everyone with its fire. Is this dragon connected to the new Shen Gong Wu? Only Dojo can save the day now!
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- Blazing Inferno Hellfire Sauce: Grand Pappy's Tin Horn Sizzlin' Salsa Sauce. When it touches lava, it generates a fiery explosion powerful enough to launch Clay. When Dojo drinks two bottles of it, his Breath Weapon blast out uncontrollably, which he uses to defeat the Sapphire Dragon.
- Dangerous Forbidden Technique: Due to its dangerous neutrality and inability to be controllednote , the Sapphire Dragon is said to be used only as an absolute last resort.
- A Day in the Limelight: This is the first episode to focus primarily on Dojo—he saves the others (and, by extension, the world) from the Sapphire Dragon.
- Dwindling Party: A non-lethal version as everyone in the temple is turned into sapphire statues one by one, until it's only Dojo.
- "Eureka!" Moment:
- When Dojo says the Black Dragon Wu wasn't actually black but blue, Omi realizes the dragon was covered in soot from the volcano and that's why they couldn't find it in the scroll.
- When a zombie Omi is bothered by his weak soot, Dojo then remembers that that's the reason why Dashi had hidden the Sapphire Dragon in a volcano in the first place (the Wu is weakened by soot).
- Failed Attempt at Drama: Dojo attempts to create a western showdown with the Sapphire Dragon but keeps failing because he can't find it or its servants anywhere. He finally succeeds when he catches them leaving the Temple, and calls out the Sapphire Dragon.
- From Bad to Worse: Things were bad enough when the Sapphire Dragon blasted Omi, leaving Dojo as the only one who wasn't a statue, but then the Sapphire Dragon revealed its newly gained ability to turn its victims into zombie minions.
- Heroic Second Wind: Dojo is beside himself with panic when he realizes his fire isn't strong enough to defeat the Sapphire Dragon. Then he gets to thinking, remembering Clay's pep talk earlier, and decides to use Clay's "Grand Pappy's Tin Horn Sizzlin' Salsa Sauce" to give himself the power he needs to win.
- Improvised Golem: When the Sapphire Dragon grows strong enough, it's able to animate its petrified victims into an army of zombie-like statues.
- Increasingly Lethal Enemy: The Sapphire Dragon grows stronger with every person it turns to sapphire, shown by absorbing the blue smoke coming off the newly created statues. After blasting everyone except Dojo, it gains enough power to animate their petrified forms.
- Leaning on the Fourth Wall: At one point, Dojo hides underneath the frames used to create a widescreen effect.
- Oh, Crap!: When Dojo figures out the Sapphire Dragon's weakness, he scales himself up to try and blast it with soot. He whimpers and retreats when the Sapphire Dragon blows it away with its own bigger cloud of smoke.
- Omnicidal Neutral: The Sapphire Dragon has no alignment, as it will turn anyone (good, evil, or indifferent) into sapphire.
- Once an Episode: A Xiaolin Showdown piting Omi against Jack in a search through an active volcano for the (what we now know to be) Sapphire Dragon, with Omi's Mantis Flip Coin versus Jack's Falcon's Eye. Omi wins after using Jack's Glob Shooter goo to insulate himself against the lava and grab the Sapphire Dragon with his teeth as it popped out from the lava pool.
- Shout-Out: The episode title is based after Night of the Living Dead (1968). It even features the Sapphire Dragon's victims acting like zombies.
- Taken for Granite: Everyone directly exposed to the Sapphire Dragon's fire is turned into a sapphire statue.
- Ungrateful Bastard: The Sapphire Dragon attacks everyone in the Temple even though they were the ones who rescued it from the volcano it was powerless in. This is lampshaded by Raimundo when he, Omi and Dojo are being attacked by it.Raimundo: You'd think he'd be a little more grateful that we rescued him from the volcano.
- You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: Said-word-for-word by Dojo when he sees the Sapphire Dragon gained the ability to animate its victims.
