Dragons II: The Metal Ages is a 2005 television animated adventure film, and the sequel to the 2004 film Dragons: Fire & Ice.
The movie starts with Scylla, high priestess and queen of the Odaku army, writing strange symbols on the surface of a mountain. Using these symbols and a magic fire, she summons Shadow Dragons Gryndel and Daakon, the spirits of two evil dragons who were exiled from their world by its king. She offers to open a portal to the Dragon Realm if they aid her in battle against the Norvagen and Draigar... and you can tell where this is going.
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Dragons II: The Metal Ages contains examples of
- Actually Pretty Funny: After narrowly escaping capture and still on the run from Scylla, Dev starts cracking up thinking about her calling Kyra "Princess Stork Legs".
- Affably Evil: Scylla tries this when she talks to Kyra.
- Animation Bump: Hit and miss for this one. Facial animations got a tremendous improvement, but some animation of minor characters look worse than its predecessor.
- Artifact of Doom: The Load Stone, a fragment of the Aurothon has incredible power over earth.f
- Battle Couple: Dev and Kyra... also Kyra and Gorhagar, much to Dev's dismay.
- The Berserker: Dev, and his grandad.
- Berserk Button: Kyra can be soundly beaten in battle, feel betrayed, and almost betray her best friend, and still maintain a steady composure. but call her "Princess Stork Legs" and she'll tear you a new one.
- Bloodless Carnage: Justified for a children's film.
- Character Development: Dev and Kyra, and now Gorhagar. Originally Dev despised Gorhagar, most likely out of jealousy.
- Chekhov's Gun: Light Dragons V.S. Shadow Dragons, what else is there to say?
- Death from Above: The Shadow Dragons love to swoop down upon helpless foes.
- The Dragon: An actual dragon this time, Slann.
- Exactly What It Says on the Tin: Shadow dragons are quite literally made entirely from shadows. Same goes for the light dragons.
- Hoist by Their Own Petard: During the siege of the Ramparts of Ryuzen, Dev devises a plan to use large panels of polished metal to deflect the Odaku weapons back to them.
- Indy Ploy: After Scylla pushes Kyra's Berserk Button, she snatches Dev's sword and charges in alone for the kill only to get her and Dev captured once again.Dev: Gee, that worked!Kyra: Just shut up!
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Dev is certainly this. He's even worse near the beginning.
- Large Ham: Jennifer Hale must've had a blast going all out to play a villain on this one.
- No Flow in CGI
- Oh, Crap!: Everybody's horrified expression whenever Dev starts to go all berserker.
- When the shadow dragons first attack.
- Sequel Hook: Slann reappears at the very end as a shadow dragon in the Dragon World.
- The Smurfette Principle: Averted, Kyra isn't the only lead female this time around.
- Take Over the World: Scylla
