History Main / CorporateDragon

** An ancient green dragon named Dretchnyliax, after getting beaten up for aggressive expansion efforts, settled down and started a family-run business centered on dragonflesh augmentation. She is also now triple her size and more mecha than flesh.

** The dragon Lofwyr controls one of the largest Mega Corporations in the world, and is the source of the ArcWords "never cut a deal with a dragon".

* Leviathan Investment Group in ''TabletopGame/{{Technomancer}}'' is the setting's biggest MegaCorp, with divisions in many branches of industrial magic. Its reclusive chairman, Joshua Rain, is a dragon, although this is not publicly known.

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* In New Zealand, the Hobbit Law (named after ''The Hobbit'' movie trilogy) was created for the purposes of the Filming Industry to not only lessen the rights of local actors at the benefit of more revenue, but also enabled political uproar across the country. Almost tragically apropos, given one of the trilogy's main antagonists is a beast obsessed with control and hoarding vast amounts of wealth stolen from an entire province of Middle-Earth whilst devastating said-province and the (literal) little people.
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** ''TabletopGame/ChangelingTheLost'' has two [[TheFairFolk Gentry]] that control international corporations. Baron Fairweather, aka the Free Market Dragon, owns Max Mart. Dorian Hargrave, aka Dzarumazh the Deathless, aka the Conqueror Worm, owns Hargrave Imports.

Sometimes, this theme includes a KnightInShiningArmor - intent on [[TheDragonSlayer slaying the dragon]] - appearing in the form of a PrivateDetective, a straight-arrow cop, a [[TheInformant whistle blower]], or similar protagonist intent on "slaying" the beast, or at the very least fending it off.

Sometimes, this theme includes a KnightInShiningArmor - intent on [[TheDragonSlayer slaying the dragon]] - appearing in the form of a PrivateDetective, a straight-arrow cop, a [[TheInformant whistle blower]], or similar protagonist intent on slaying the beast, or at the very least fending it off.

* In ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'', the [[CityPlanet city-plane]] of Ravnica has this trope in the MadScientist dragon Niv-Mizzet, parun and guild-master of the Izzet League. Said guild holds a monopoly on the civic works of the city, including water supply systems, sewers, heating systems, boilers, and roadways.

* In New Zealand, the Hobbit Law (named after ''The Hobbit'' movie trilogy) was created for the purposes of the Filming Industry to not only lessen the rights of local actors at the benefit of more revenue, but also enabled political uproar across the country. Almost tragically apropos, given one of the movie trilogy's main antagonists is a beast obsessed with control and hoarding vast amounts of wealth stolen from an entire province of Middle-Earth whilst devastating said-province and the (literal) little people.

* In New Zealand, the Hobbit Law (named after TheHobbit trilogy) was created for the purposes of the Filming Industry to not only lessen the rights of local actors at the benefit of more revenue, but also enabled political uproar across the country. Almost tragically apropos, given one of the movie trilogy's main antagonists is a beast obsessed with control and hoarding vast amounts of wealth stolen from an entire province of Middle-Earth whilst devastating said-province and the (literal) little people.

* In New Zealand, the Hobbit Law was created for the purposes of the Filming Industry to not only lessen the rights of local actors at the benefit of more revenue, but also enabled political uproar across the country. Almost tragically apropos, given one of the movie trilogy's main antagonists is a beast obsessed with control and hoarding vast amounts of wealth stolen from an entire province of Middle-Earth whilst devastating said-province and the (literal) little people.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'': It's very common in the setting for the ancient, cunning, and extremely manipulative dragons to control the {{MegaCorp}}s that rule much of the world's society:
** The dragon Lofwyr controls one of the largest Mega-Corporations in the world, and is the source of the ArcWords "never cut a deal with a dragon".
** The Great Dragon Celedyr used his hoard of treasure to take over the MegaCorp Transys Neuronet. After it merged with the corporations Erika and Novatech, he became Director of Research and Development for the combined corporation NeoNET.

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* In New Zealand, the Hobbit Law was created for the purposes of the Filming Industry to not only lessen the rights of local actors at the benefit of more revenue, but also enabled political uproar across the country. Almost tragically apropos, given one of the movie trilogy's main antagonists is a beast that hoards wealth stolen from the local province of Middle-Earth whilst devastating said-province and the (literal) little people.

* ''TabletopGame/BeastThePrimordial'' gives us Luca Rohner, the son of Swiss bankers, becoming an Apex Ugallu Ravager, as well as the head of his family's lucrative investment firm.
* ''TabletopGame/ChangelingTheLost'' has two [[TheFairFolk Gentry]] that control international corporations. Baron Fairweather, aka the Free Market Dragon, owns Max Mart. Dorian Hargrave, aka Dzarumazh the Deathless, aka the Conqueror Worm, owns Hargrave Imports.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'': It's very common in the setting for the ancient, cunning and extremely manipulative dragons to control the {{MegaCorp}}s that rule much of the world's society.

* ''Literature/InCryptid'', the female members of the dragon species--known as dragon princesses--pursue wealth which they trade for gold. This gold is then used for their nests. To do this, they often act as vicious traders and executives who are extremely reluctant to part with any money that they get.
* In Robert Lynn Asprin's ''Literature/DragonsWild'', where the literal dragon protagonist Griffen Mc'Candles becomes the owner of a casino operation in modern day New Orleans.
* Despite the fact that Dragons in ''Literature/TheInvisibleLibrary'' are based mainly on Eastern dragon tropes, in ''Literature/TheMaskedCity'', Irene meets the King of the Northern Ocean in a cyberpunkish dimension where he and his court take the form of the CEO and executives of a {{Megacorp}}.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'':
** The dragon Lofwyr controls one of the largest Mega-Corporations in the world, and is the source of the catchphrase: "Never cut a deal with a dragon".

* In ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'', the dragon Lofwyr controls one of the largest Mega-Corporations in the world, and is the source of the catchphrase: "Never cut a deal with a dragon".

* In ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'', the [[CityPlanet city-plane]] of Ravnica arguably has this trope in the MadScientist dragon Niv-Mizzet, parun and guild-master of the Izzet League. Said-guild holds a monopoly on the civic works of the city, including water supply systems, sewers, heating systems, boilers, and roadways.

* Despite Dragons in ''Literature/TheInvisibleLibrary'' being based on Eastern dragon tropes, in ''Literature/TheMaskedCity'', Irene meets the King of the Northern Ocean in a cyberpunkish dimension where he and his court take the form of the CEO and executives of a {{Megacorp}}.

* ''Literature/InCryptid'', the female members of the dragon species--known as dragon princesses--pursue wealth which they trade for gold. This gold is then used for there nests. To do this, they often act as vicious traders and executives who are extremely reluctant to part with any money that they get.

In western folklore, actual [[OurDragonsAreDifferent dragons]] were often depicted as living incarnations of sin or calamity. At their worst, they were the ultimate hoarders, jealously guarding what wealth and territory they saw as theirs by right of strength. But in modern times, the allegory of the dragon can be found not just in fairytales or tabletop games. It's the idea of a [[MegaCorp Corporation]] as this monolithic beast, whose domain is limited only by the shadow made from atop its tower as it spreads wide its wings to blot out the sun. The effects of such an organisation can bring desolation to natural resources or small businesses just to add more treasured assets to a mountainous hoard. If the company is a [[WarForFunAndProfit war-profiteer]], there might not even be a difference between actual beast and business, with distant lands being made barren or marred by fire-scorched ruins.

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* Elma, from ''Anime/MissKobayashisDragonMaid'', is a high ranking Harmony Dragon who is capable of facing [[PersonOfMassDestruction Tohru]] on even footing and works at an IT company... as a low level software engineer.