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[[caption-width-right:350: One thousand years ago there lived a man of honour and a creature of Legend.]]

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[[caption-width-right:350: One thousand years ago there lived a man A Man of honour and a creature Creature of Legend.]]
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Quaid plays Bowen, a knight in 10th Century (Saxon) England who is one of the few left who adheres to the "Old Code" of Myth/KingArthur and the Knights of the Round Table. Bowen is the teacher and mentor to a young prince named Einon. During a peasant uprising, the King is killed in battle and the prince is injured. Bowen takes the boy to his mother, who strikes a deal with a dragon (Connery) to perform an ancient ritual, which will give the prince his life back. A few weeks later as Einon assumes his role as the new King, Bowen realizes that Einon is [[TheCaligula cruel and sadistic]], more than the previous King. Disillusioned, Bowen believes that the dragonheart corrupted Einon and sets out to hunt down and kill every last dragon.

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Quaid plays Bowen, a knight in 10th Century (Saxon) England who is one of the few left who adheres to the "Old Code" of Myth/KingArthur and the Knights of the Round Table. Bowen is the teacher and mentor to a young prince named Einon.Einon (Thewlis). During a peasant uprising, the King is killed in battle and the prince is injured. Bowen takes the boy to his mother, who strikes a deal with a dragon (Connery) to perform an ancient ritual, which will give the prince his life back. A few weeks later as Einon assumes his role as the new King, Bowen realizes that Einon is [[TheCaligula cruel and sadistic]], more than the previous King. Disillusioned, Bowen believes that the dragonheart corrupted Einon and sets out to hunt down and kill every last dragon.



Bowen eventually gives the dragon a name, Draco, after the dragon constellation. His time with Draco reminds him of how far he has gone away from the Old Code, and he realizes that Einon was always evil. Both Bowen and Draco believed their influence could change him but they were wrong. They then decide to encourage another peasant uprising to bring an end to Einon’s tyrannical rule. With Bowen as a leader and with Draco as the muscle, they believe they can succeed. What no one expected was that Draco and Einon's fates are linked together through the dragonheart.

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Bowen eventually gives the dragon a name, Draco, after the dragon constellation. His time with Draco reminds him of how far he has gone away from the Old Code, and he realizes that Einon was always evil. Both Bowen and Draco believed their influence could change him but they were wrong. They then decide to encourage another peasant uprising to bring an end to Einon’s tyrannical rule. With Bowen as a leader and with leader, Draco as the muscle, muscle and the help of an aspiring poet and Monk (Postlethwaite) and a plucky peasant (Meyer), they believe they can succeed. What no one expected was that Draco and Einon's fates are linked together through the dragonheart.

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%%* StarringSpecialEffects: Draco.

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%%* StarringSpecialEffects: Draco.Draco is a main character who is entirely CGI and voiced by Sean Connery.
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* StarringSpecialEffects: Draco.
* StarsAreSouls: Good dragons who die become a star in the Draco constellation. [[spoiler:This happens to Draco when he dies.]]

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* %%* StarringSpecialEffects: Draco.
* StarsAreSouls: {{Stellification}}: Good dragons who die become a star in the Draco constellation. [[spoiler:This happens to Draco when he dies.]]



* TheStoic[=/=]StoicWoobie: Queen Aislinn, in the novelization. She seems to have developed this personality as a result of her forced marriage to a ruffian and the equally brutal kingship of her only child.

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* TheStoic[=/=]StoicWoobie: TheStoic: Queen Aislinn, in the novelization. She seems to have developed this personality as a result of her forced marriage to a ruffian and the equally brutal kingship of her only child.
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* DistaffCounterpart: Siveth is the first named and voiced female dragon in the Dragonheart film series.
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%%* DeceptiveDisciple: Einon, to Bowen.

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%%* * DeceptiveDisciple: Einon, to Bowen.Bowen. Bowen fully believed that he had trained Einon to value the Old Code so that he'd be honorable, a better king than his father. All along, Einon only ''pretended'' to go along with it, in reality just wanting to learn how to fight. When he reveals his true self, it turns out he's just as cruel as his father.
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Quaid plays Bowen, a knight in 10th Century (Saxon) England who is one of the few left who adheres to the "Old Code" of KingArthur and the Knights of the Round Table. Bowen is the teacher and mentor to a young prince named Einon. During a peasant uprising, the King is killed in battle and the prince is injured. Bowen takes the boy to his mother, who strikes a deal with a dragon (Connery) to perform an ancient ritual, which will give the prince his life back. A few weeks later as Einon assumes his role as the new King, Bowen realizes that Einon is [[TheCaligula cruel and sadistic]], more than the previous King. Disillusioned, Bowen believes that the dragonheart corrupted Einon and sets out to hunt down and kill every last dragon.

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Quaid plays Bowen, a knight in 10th Century (Saxon) England who is one of the few left who adheres to the "Old Code" of KingArthur Myth/KingArthur and the Knights of the Round Table. Bowen is the teacher and mentor to a young prince named Einon. During a peasant uprising, the King is killed in battle and the prince is injured. Bowen takes the boy to his mother, who strikes a deal with a dragon (Connery) to perform an ancient ritual, which will give the prince his life back. A few weeks later as Einon assumes his role as the new King, Bowen realizes that Einon is [[TheCaligula cruel and sadistic]], more than the previous King. Disillusioned, Bowen believes that the dragonheart corrupted Einon and sets out to hunt down and kill every last dragon.

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* {{Constellations}}: The constellation Draco is also known as the Dragon's Heaven. According to dragon religion, dragons that live honorable lives are allowed to become a star in the constellation when they die.



* DeceptiveDisciple: Einon, to Bowen.

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* %%* DeceptiveDisciple: Einon, to Bowen.



* ADogNamedDog: "Draco" is Latin (or as Bowen calls it, the "scholar's tongue") for "dragon". Justified in that he refuses to tell his real name and says humans can't pronounce it anyway. Lampshaded by Draco:

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* ADogNamedDog: "Draco" is Latin (or as Bowen calls it, the "scholar's tongue") for "dragon". Justified in that This is because he refuses to tell his real name and says humans can't pronounce it anyway.anyway, and Bowen comes up with "Draco" as a simple nickname. Lampshaded by Draco:



* TheDragon: Einon's general, Brok.

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* %* TheDragon: Einon's general, Brok.
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* AdamAndOrEve: Drago is the first dragon on earth and the first dragon to share his heart with a human. He was also the guardian of the clutch of eggs that are to be the next generation of dragons.

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* AdamAndOrEve: Drago is the first dragon on earth and the first dragon to share his heart with a human. He was is also the guardian of the clutch of eggs that are to be the next generation of dragons.

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* AdamAndOrEve: Drago is the first dragon on earth and the first dragon to share his heart with a human. He was also the guardian of the clutch of eggs that are to be the next generation of dragons.


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* AdamAndOrEve: Drago is the first dragon on earth, he is also the first dragon to share his heart with a human. He is also the guardian of a clutch of eggs that are to be the next generation of dragons meant to help humanity.

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* AdamAndOrEve: Drago is the first dragon on earth, he is also earth and the first dragon to share his heart with a human. He is He was also the guardian of a the clutch of eggs that are to be the next generation of dragons meant to help humanity.dragons.

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* AdamAndOrEve: Drago is the first dragon on earth, he is also the first dragon to share his heart with a human. He is also the guardian of a clutch of eggs that are to be the next generation of dragons meant to help humanity.



* FirstOfItsKind: Drago is the first dragon on earth, he is also the first dragon to share his heart with a human. He is also the guardian of a clutch of eggs that are to be the next generation of dragons meant to help humanity.

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* FirstOfItsKind: Drago is the first dragon on earth, he is also the first dragon to share his heart with a human. He is also the guardian of a clutch of eggs that are to be the next generation of dragons meant to help humanity.



* FirstOfItsKind: Drago is the first dragon on earth, he is also the first dragon to share his heart with a human. He is the guardian of a clutch of eggs that are to be the next generation of dragons meant to help humanity.
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* FirstOfHisKind: Drago is the first dragon on earth, he is also the first dragon to share his heart with a human. He is the guardian of a clutch of eggs that are to be the next generation of dragons meant to help humanity.

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* FirstOfHisKind: FirstOfItsKind: Drago is the first dragon on earth, he is also the first dragon to share his heart with a human. He is the guardian of a clutch of eggs that are to be the next generation of dragons meant to help humanity.
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[[caption-width-right:350: Where it all began]]

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[[caption-width-right:350: Where Back to where it all began]]began...]]
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* FirstOfHisKind: Drago is the first dragon on earth, he is also the first dragon to share his heart with a human. He is the guardian of a clutch of eggs that are to be the next generation of dragons meant to help humanity.
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* LastOfHisKind: Drake is the last dragon [[spoiler: This is briefly averted with the introduction of the evil dragon ‘Griffin’ however after Drake kills Griffin he truly becomes the last dragon again]].

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* LastOfHisKind: Drake is the world’s last living dragon [[spoiler: This is briefly averted with the introduction of the evil dragon ‘Griffin’ however after Drake kills Griffin he truly becomes the last dragon again]].
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[[caption-width-right:350: A Revenge Quest is best served Ice-[Dragon]-Cold“]]

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[[caption-width-right:350: A Revenge Quest Vengeance is best served Ice-[Dragon]-Cold“]]
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[[caption-width-right:350: “Revenge is best served cold“]]

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[[caption-width-right:350: “Revenge A Revenge Quest is best served cold“]]Ice-[Dragon]-Cold“]]
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[[caption-width-right:350: ]]One Kingdom. Two Rulers. The Battle begins]]

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* NoNameGiven: Just before Draco is able to tell Bowen his real name he is suddenly interrupted when he collapses from pain because of the shared heart and he never does say his real name, instead he gets nicknamed by Bowen after the Draco constellation, which he happily accepts.

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* NoNameGiven: Just before Draco is able to tell Bowen his real name he is suddenly interrupted when he collapses from pain because of the shared heart and he never does say his real name, heart, instead he gets nicknamed by Bowen after the Draco constellation, which he happily accepts.

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* LastOfHisKind: Literally for Draco; for Bowen, he was the only one who kept to the Old Code.

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* LastOfHisKind: Literally for Draco; for Bowen, he was is the only one knight left who kept to follows the Old Code.


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* NoNameGiven: Just before Draco is able to tell Bowen his real name he is suddenly interrupted when he collapses from pain because of the shared heart and he never does say his real name, instead he gets nicknamed by Bowen after the Draco constellation, which he happily accepts.
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* MythologyGag: The first film had Draco stating that Bowen could not possibly pronounce his real name. This prequel shows just how difficult to pronounce a dragon's name is.

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* MythologyGag: The first film had Draco stating that Bowen could not possibly pronounce his real name. name when asked what it is. This prequel shows just how difficult to pronounce a dragon's name is.is when Drago tells Gareth his real name.



* OurDragonsAreDifferent: This one came to Earth inside an ''asteroid''.

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* OurDragonsAreDifferent: This one came to Earth inside an ''asteroid''.''asteroid'' and learned human language after he shared his heart.
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''Dragonheart'' is a 1996 Medieval {{Fantasy}} {{Adventure}} movie starring Creator/DennisQuaid, Creator/DavidThewlis, Creator/PetePostlethwaite, Creator/JasonIsaacs, Creator/DinaMeyer, and, most famously, the voice of Creator/SeanConnery as Draco.

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''Dragonheart'' is a 1996 Medieval {{Fantasy}} {{Adventure}} movie starring Creator/DennisQuaid, Creator/DavidThewlis, Creator/PetePostlethwaite, Creator/JasonIsaacs, Creator/DinaMeyer, and, most famously, and the voice of Creator/SeanConnery as Draco.
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** The story begins with Drago assuming that he'll die with the king; the only reason he doesn't, apparently, is that his bond somehow passed onto Edric and Meghan. This is the exact opposite of how it worked in the original movie, where the human partner can't die as long as the dragon is alive.

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** The story begins with Drago assuming that he'll die with the king; the only reason he doesn't, apparently, is that his bond somehow passed onto Edric and Meghan. This is the exact opposite of how it worked in the original movie, where the human partner seemingly can't die as long as the dragon is alive.
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* A fourth film titled ''Dragonheart: Battle for the Heartfire'' was released direct-to-video and on Netflix in June 2017. It's a sequel to ''Dragonheart 3'' and Drago is voiced by Creator/PatrickStewart. After Gareth, king of Britannia, passes away, his twin grandchildren, Edric and Mehgan, fight each other for the throne using their inherited dragon strength and fire powers. When Vikings led by Thorgrim steal the Heartfire -- Drago's source of power -- and challenge the siblings' rights to the throne, Edric and Mehgan must set aside their sibling rivalry or the kingdom may fall.

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* A fourth film titled ''Dragonheart: Battle for the Heartfire'' was released direct-to-video and on Netflix in June 2017. It's a sequel to ''Dragonheart 3'' and an older Drago is voiced by Creator/PatrickStewart. After Gareth, king of Britannia, passes away, his twin grandchildren, Edric and Mehgan, fight each other for the throne using their inherited dragon strength and fire powers. When Vikings led by Thorgrim steal the Heartfire -- Drago's source of power -- and challenge the siblings' rights to the throne, Edric and Mehgan must set aside their sibling rivalry or the kingdom may fall.

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