History Film / Dragonheart

->''A knight is sworn to valor.\\

His wrath undoes the wicked!''\\
-- [[BadassCreed The Old Code]]

A 1996 movie starring Dennis Quaid and the voice of Creator/SeanConnery.

* OffingTheOffspring: Well, Queen Aislinn ''tries''... that's the reason she hires the dragonslayers. She realizes that Einon will die if Draco does. Unfortunately for her, [[DangerouslyGenreSavvy Einon figures it out too]].

* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: Brude's pretty quick to catch onto things. For example, he realizes almost immediately that Drago has shared his heart with Gareth, and that if he wants to use Drago, he needs to keep Gareth alive.

* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: Einon proves to be this when one of his advisors scoffs at the peasant rebellion. Einon refuses to underestimate them, Bowen, ''or'' Draco. Subverted in the battle that follows, as he arrogantly leads his men straight into a trap that gets all of them killed and he is forced to make a humiliating retreat back to his castle.
** Played straight again when he realizes his connection to Draco and has the dragon chained up rather than killed. He later correctly anticipates that his mother will try to kill Draco when no one else is around, and thus is there to stop her.

[[folder: ''Dragonheart'' (1995)]]

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Due to the bond shared by Draco and Einon, in order for Einon to be beaten, Draco himself must die. Oh, and also he's the last dragon still alive in the entire world.]]
** But as for the sweet and/or Heartwarming part: [[spoiler:even though Draco dies, by sacrificing his life in order to stop Einon, he's redeemed himself and earned his place in the Dragons' Heaven, among his brothers again at last]].

* BreathWeapon: There are dragons. Need I say more?
** It's interesting to note, though, that Draco breathes fire from his ''nostrils'', not from his mouth. Most likely, this is to make the stalemate in his battle with Bowen plausible.
*** It would have been easy for Bowen to stab Draco if Draco burned him so where the fire came from didn't affect the stalemate.

* CreatorCameo: Director Creator/RobCohen is Draco's singing voice. He also makes an appearance in the second con scene (the one where the water is too shallow): he is the villager that walks out and says "Meat!" first.

%%* DisappearsIntoLight: [[spoiler: Draco.]]

* DoNotTauntCthulhu: Kara's father remarks to Einon that the should be grateful, for it was a stroke from his blade that made Einon a king. [[EyeScream That crack ends up costing him dearly.]]

* FateWorseThanDeath: None in particular, but the trope deserves mention because Einon is a big fan of them. In his words, 'Death should be a release, not a punishment.'
** Invoked, with this exchange between Kara and Einon: "In your kingdom, Einon, there are fates worse than death!" "I'll think one up for you." He later decides to make her his bride, which may be the fate he intended.
** I'd say that one's soul dissipating into nothingness (the implied fate awaiting Draco if he cannot redeem himself) counts.

* GiantFlyer

* IWasBeatenByAGirl: [[spoiler:Brok is killed by Kara. His dying lines are even: "A girl?"]]

* TheMagicGoesAway: [[spoiler:Dragons are gone after Draco's death.]]
* {{Matricide}}: [[spoiler:After the tyrannical King Einon's mother tries to kill the dragon who provides Einon with immortality as long as their hearts are shared, he murders her without remorse to cement how evil he is.]]

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Bowen doesn't want to kill Draco because he's the last of his kind. But ''whose fault is that'', dragonslayer?
** Not to mention he was only killing dragons in the first place to ''kill Draco'', thinking that it was his heart transplant that made Einon evil. Turns out Einon was a massive prick to begin with and parroted the teachings of the Old Code just to satisfy Bowen and be taught how to fight.

* ObviouslyEvil: So obvious for Einon that it's baffling how everyone saw it but Bowen.

* OffingTheOffspring: Well, Queen Aislinn ''tries''... that's the reason she hires the dragonslayers. She realizes that Einon will die if Draco does. Unfortunately for her, [[GenreSavvy Einon figures it out too]].

* RedemptionInTheRain: [[spoiler: Bowen renews his knightly vows in the pouring rain, kneeling before King Arthur himself.]]
* RedheadInGreen: Kara.

* ActionGirl: Lian, definitely.

* BadassPrincess: Lian.

* FanDisservice: Seeing a monk - even a supposedly teenage one - run around in nothing but underwear (which happens to look quite a bit like a diaper).

* IdiotBall: [[spoiler:Lian and Kwan are knowingly carrying around the heart of an extremely evil dragon. How did it not occur to them until Osric regained his true form that his heart, rather than Drake's, might possibly be the one in the prophecy?]]

* LiterallyShatteredLives: [[spoiler: Drake kills Griffin by breathing ice on him instead of fire. Griffin falls to the ground and shatters. Unfortunately, one of the pieces impales Geoff.]]

* OneWingedAngel: [[spoiler: Osric transforms into a dragon at the film's climax.]]

** [[spoiler:Kwan]] [[TakingTheBullet does this at the climax.]]

** [[spoiler:Geoff throwing his sword at Griffin in the climax.]]

* WeCanRuleTogether: [[spoiler:Once Osric becomes a dragon again, he calls Drake "brother" and invites him to destroy humanity together.]]

* AndThisIsFor: [[spoiler:When Rhonu kills Brude, she says, "For my mother!"]]

* AuthorResearchFailure: In this film, it is said that after a dragon shares their heart with a human, the human has to be killed for the both of them to die. In the first film, it's the other way around.

* BloodFromTheMouth: [[spoiler:Sir Horsa when Gareth kills him.]]

* TheMagicGoesAway: [[spoiler:Dragons are gone afer Draco's death.]]

* WeCanRuleTogether: Einon offers Kara to be his queen. Because she has no interest in marrying or bedding with her father's murderer, she refuses.

* AnnoyingArrows: Gareth takes an arrow to the gut and still keeps running and fighting for a good minute before even slowing down. Somewhat subverted since once the fight ends and the Adrenalin rush is gone Gareth would have died had Drago not intervened.

* TrainingThePeacefulVillagers: Bowen, Draco, and Kara raise a peasant army.

* EvilAllAlong: Einon.

** Played straight again when he realizes his connection to Draco and has his chained up rather than killed. He later correctly anticipates that his mother will try to kill Draco when no one else is around, and thus is there to stop her.

* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: Einon proves to be this when one of his advisors scoffs at the peasant rebellion. Einon refuses to underestimate them, Bowen, ''or'' Draco.

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* RecycledTrailerMusic: The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTKSUlMbp9A main theme]] has been recycled countless times in other movie trailers. If you don't recognize it right away, go to about 2:28 on that video. If you still don't recognize it, you probably haven't been to a movie theatre since 1996. It is frequently used for montages at the {{Academy Award}}s, possibly because the score was not even nominated the year the movie came out.

* ActionGirl: Rhonu. When he suggests that she not accompany him and insists that it's for her protection, her reaction is disbelief.

-->'''Drago:''' She sneered at you! That means she likes you.

* DistractedByTheSexy: When Drago tries teaching Gareth to shadowjump, he comments that maybe Gareth can't concentrate because his mind is too distracted by thinking of Rhonu.

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: When a shopkeeper can't pay the tax, Gareth keeps Sir Horsa's attention away from the man, and breaks a cheap vase instead of the ornate dragon one the shopkeeper loved, so we know he's a good guy.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Rhonu to Kara (both FieryRedhead whose parent had been killed by the villain) and Lorne to Gilbert (clumsy comic relief).
* {{Synchronization}}: Drago and Gareth feel each other's pain and emotions. Used hilariously in a scene where they hurt themselves (i.e. stomping on their own foot) just to bother the other one, culminating in Gareth hitting himself in the groin and Drago laughing because he's armored there and didn't feel it.

* YouNoTakeCandle: Gareth tries to communicate with the dragon this way before he reveals that he can talk properly.
* YouKilledMyFather: Brude killed Rhonu's mother and taunts her about it.

* DramaPreserving Handicap: Brude puts a spell on Drago early on that makes him ghost-like when light shines on him, thereby nullifying his StoryBreakerPower for much of the film (this of course, has the added bonus saving the film money by not having to animate Drago realistically in all scenes)

* Drama-Preserving Handicap: Brude puts a spell on Drago early on that makes him ghost-like when light shines on him, thereby nullifying his StoryBreakerPower for much of the film (this of course, has the added bonus saving the film money by not having to animate Drago realistically in all scenes)

A third film, titled ''Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer's Curse'', is set for direct-to-video release on February 24, 2015. The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_30xs2baMkQ trailer]] is out, as well as a [[http://www.cnbc.com/id/102212529 press release]] detailing the plot: aspiring knight Gareth, while in search of treasure, has his life saved by a dragon named Drago, causing the two to become bonded. They must work together to defeat an evil sorcerer, and along the way, Gareth learns the true meaning of being a knight. A blog containing prerelease pictures and behind-the-scenes footage can be found [[http://dh-the-sorerers-curse.tumblr.com/ here]].

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* SelfMadeOrphan: [[spoiler: Einon eventually kills his mother.]]

A third film, titled ''Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer's Curse'', is set for direct-to-video release on February 10, 2015. The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_30xs2baMkQ trailer]] is out, as well as a [[http://www.cnbc.com/id/102212529 press release]] detailing the plot: aspiring knight Gareth, while in search of treasure, has his life saved by a dragon named Drago, causing the two to become bonded. They must work together to defeat an evil sorcerer, and along the way, Gareth learns the true meaning of being a knight. A blog containing prerelease pictures and behind-the-scenes footage can be found [[http://dh-the-sorerers-curse.tumblr.com/ here]].

* DawsonCasting: Lian's age isn't ever said, but she appears to be a teenager (the other main characters, Geoff and Mansel, are meant to be about 16), and she is referred to as a "girl" instead of a woman. Whatever her age, it's certainly younger than actress Rona Figueroa's 28 at the time of filming.

* SequelGap: Released 15 years after the second movie.