History Main / DraconicAbomination

* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'': In the "Power" filler arc, Kabuto infects Naruto with miniature snakes capable of duplicating a person's appearance by draining their chakra. These snakes absorb [[AnimalisticAbomination Kurama]] the [[{{Kitsune}} Nine-Tailed Demon-Fox]]'s chakra and merge into a SnakePeople clone of Naruto in his four-tailed [[OneWingedAngel Version Two]] mode. When it falls into the Ama no Hoko superweapon and absorbs its power, it mutates a colossal, grotesque reptilian fox-monster with [[{{Orochi}} eight tails tipped by draconic heads]].

%%* ''LightNovel/ThatTimeIGotReincarnatedAsASlime'': The True Dragons -- "Star King Dragon" Veldanava, "White Ice Dragon" Velzado, "Scorch Dragon" Velgrynd, and "Storm Dragon" Veldora Tempest -- are immeasurably powerful spiritual beings often worshipped as gods, with Veldanava being the creator of the multiverse. [[spoiler:Yuuki Kagurazaka creates an artificial True Dragon called the "Berserk Evil Dragon" Zero using the Ultimate Skill "Evil Dragon Lord" Azi Dahaka.]]

* ''ComicBook/{{Venom}}'': The Grendel and its ilk are gestalt symbiotes in the shape of massive wyverns, and were manifested by the primordial dark god Knull from the Living Abyss. They are capable of interstellar flight, are powerful enough to devour most gods, and if defeated disperse into symbiotes that then seek out hosts.

** King Ghidorah was inspired by the {{Orochi}}, Zmey, and {{Hydra|Problem}}; and its various incarnations are usually depicted as being three-headed alien dragons that can spit bolts of golden lightning, survive and fly freely in space, sometimes manipulate gravity and the weather, and sometimes drain their opponents' life force. The Showa, ''Mothra Leo'' trilogy, and [[Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019 MonsterVerse]] versions in particular are established as being civilization-destroying calamitous entities completely outside the natural order, their very existence causing chaos and destruction.
** Godzilla himself qualifies, with a kaiju-sized helping of DinosaursAreDragons thrown in for added flavor. In [[Film/Godzilla1954 the original film]] and Legendary's Film/MonsterVerse continuity, Godzilla is worshipped as an ancient storm-god; while in ''Film/ShinGodzilla'' he is a constantly-mutating marine reptile transformed into a living nuclear reactor, and is capable of rapidly adapting to anything that opposes him.

** Satan in the Literature/BookOfRevelation takes the form of a seven-headed dragon who throws down one-third of the stars to earth with a swipe of his tail.

* Dragons in medieval European art were often hideous and monstrous things, as they were typically interpreted as living manifestations of Hell and the Devil's influence with no place in the natural order ordained by God. They typically melded traits of every animal considered wrong or evil in the Middle Ages, such as rodents or snakes, and some examples -- such as Hendrick Goltzius's [[http://bogleech.com/scrapbook/dragon-goltziuslarge.jpg three-headed avatar of hunger]], or a horde of [[http://bogleech.com/scrapbook/dragon-eyes.jpg two-headed dragons absolutely covered in eyes]] -- were horrors by any metric.

** Typhon is the offspring of Gaia and Tartarus, sired to avenge the Titans and sometimes the Giants as well by killing the Olympians. He is often described as a mountainous monster with wings, serpentine coils for legs, and anywhere from a hundred to a thousand draconic heads constantly spewing volcanic flames and calamitous noise. In some versions, Typhon was so powerful and horrifying that the gods fled in terror to Egypt, and he was able to subdue and mutilate [[TopGod Zeus]] by ripping out his sinews. However, Typhon was ultimately defeated by Zeus and either vaporized by his thunderbolts, cast into Tartarus, and/or crushed underneath Mt. Etna.

* Myth/EgyptianMythology: While usually depicted as a [[AnimalisticAbomination monstrous snake]], some iterations of Apep -- a primordial god of chaos, evil, and destruction who seeks to devour Ra, the TopGod -- depict him as a dragon, and one of his epithets is the "Evil Dragon". He also possesses ResurrectiveImmortality, being slain each day but reviving to try again the next night.
* Myth/JapaneseMythology: The Yamata-no-{{Orochi}} was a malevolent mountain-sized dragon-god with eight heads and eight tails, and was so powerful that it terrified the lesser earth-bound kami into subservience and the (exiled) celestial kami Susanoo had to get it drunk on eight (one for each head) vats of sake in order to kill it.

%%* ''BreathOfFireIV'': Ryu and Fou-Lu are [[LiteralSplitPersonality two halves]] of a primal dragon-god that founded the Fou Empire. Their ultimate forms, Kaiser and Tyrant -- along with their merged Eternal form --resemble colossal reptilian beasts with forked tails, {{jagged mouth}}s, and eight energy wings extending from their elongated forearms.

** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'': Grima the Fell Dragon is a colossal draconic abomination that is worshipped as a god of destruction by the nation of Plegia, and is responsible for the BadFuture that Lucina seeks to avert. In ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemGaiden Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia]]'' it's revealed that Grima was created by the mad alchemist Forneus using -- among various ingredients -- human flesh, special herbs, nectar, and the blood of a DivineDragon; but quickly grew too powerful and malevolent for even him to control.

** Special mention should goes to the Fatalis. While looking like a fairly standard western dragon -- unlike the more exotic Elder Dragons that were introduced later in the series -- in lore it's stated that it single-handedly destroyed an entire kingdom by itself, and even other Elder Dragons are afraid of it. The White Fatalis, also called Old Fatalis due to its implied TimeAbyss age and the "beard" that grows under its chin, is even worse, replacing the fire breath of the regular Fatalis with blue lightning and having a constant eclipse covering the arena as you fight it.

** Guzzlord is a Dark/Dragon-type Ultra Beast that is constantly ravenous, has a massive BellyMouth and two pincer-tipped tongues, and is capable of eating anything without needing to defecate.
** Necrozma is a black crystalline Ultra Beast that absorbs light -- devastating entire dimensions -- in order to restore itself; with the Sparkling Stones harnessed to perform Alola's Z-Moves are theorized to be shards of Necrozma's incomplete body. In its complete Ultra Necrozma form it becomes a Psychic/Dragon-type entity composed of radiant golden (silver in its Shiny form) light, and is only surpassed in terms of power by [[DragonsAreDivine Mega Rayquaza]].
* The Archdemon in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins''. It looks like some kind of rotten, twisted, almost undead take on a dragon, but the truth is it's something else entirely. It hold supreme dominion over all Darkspawn, capable of controlling them ''en masse'' with a single thought. Worse, should it ever be killed, [[spoiler:it will merely BodySurf to the closest Darkspawn, who will then take its shape]]. Most tellingly, runes that do more damage to Darkspawn or Dragons have no effect on the Archdemon.

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* ''Anime/GodzillaThePlanetEater'': The film's iteration of King Ghidorah is an interdimensional planet-eating energy-being in the shape of a 20 kilometer-long three-headed dragon. When manifested by an anchor, it violates the laws of physics -- being intangible but still able to attack its targets, and capable of killing people by literally CastingAShadow -- and its very presence warps space and time.

** The malevolent dragon-goddess Tiamat appears as a massive five-headed dragon -- with each head being a different type of chromatic dragon -- and a long tail tipped with a venomous stinger; contrasting her brother Bahamut, who just looks like a generic dragon. Tiamat possesses all of the powers of the different types of chromatic dragons, as well as her own otherworldly divine abilities, and is worshipped by both chromatic dragons and various cults seeking to facilitate her conquest of the world. Even when she's temporarily stripped of her divinity, which brings her down to three heads, she's still an otherworldly entity in dragon form.

* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': The Void Dragon Mag'ladroth is the most powerful of the C'tan, primordial star-eating eldritch entities that manifested physical forms using the organic metal technology of the Necrontyr, with Mag'ladroth taking the shape of a biomechanical dragon-like entity. What became of it following the Necrons' rebellion is unknown, but a shard of it is believed to have battled the Emperor of Mankind and been sealed away on Mars, where it is worshipped as the Machine God or Omnissiah by the Cult of the Dragon sect of the Adeptus Mechanicus.

* ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'' has Grunbeld, an [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Apostle]] who takes on the form of a giant quadrupedal dragon encrusted with corundum crystal scales that make him nearly invulnerable to conventional weaponry. True dragons in the ''Berserk'' universe have been shown to be spiritual creatures that normally exist in the deeper layers of the Astral World that was previously inaccessible to humans, which would make Grunbeld less of an actual dragon and more of a demonic imitation of a dragon crafted by the [[DemonLordsAndArchdevils God Hand]].

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* In Zoroastrianism, Zahhak -- also known as Azhi Dahaka -- is a malevolent three-headed dragon-god spawned by the dark spirit Angra Mainyu/Ahriman, though in some versions he was originally a human corrupted by Ahriman.

* ''Manga/ChaosicRune'': Most of the more-powerful Dragon-type entities only vaguely resemble dragons and often possess nightmarish physics-breaking abilities, but Death Rex stands out as a literally all-devouring abomination that was so powerful that when it was sealed its body was split into five parts -- head, arms, body, wings, and tail. Each part has a mind of its own, is capable of harnessing the powers of any monster it devours, and seeks to become the dominant part of their recombined form. Furthermore, if summoned by someone with insufficient willpower the Death Rex part will assimilate them and go on a rampage.

** Millenniummon is a digital abomination formed of a fusion between Machindramon and Kimeramon, and is the GreaterScopeVillain behind the ''Digimon'' multiverse -- jumping from continuity to continuity. Its sealed form and revived form, Moon=Millenniummon and [=ZeedMillenniummon=], resemble a spectral two-headed dragon made of darkness, and seeks to destroy everything it comes across.

* ''Manga/GaRei'': The Nine-Tailed Fox -- ostensibly a powerful and malevolent {{kitsune}} that served the evil onmyoji Tamamo-no-Mae -- is actually a skyscraper-sized supernatural monster that is composed of tens of thousands of years' worth of spiritual corruption, and only the vaguest resemblance to a fox -- it's covered in scales and screaming faces rather than fur, and its tails are more akin to CombatTentacles -- with six coming out of its back. It's so powerful and metaphysically ''wrong'' that it can be seen by people without TrueSight and vaporizes almost everything it comes into contact with. In the finale, the Nine-Tailed Fox is reborn with three heads and six arms on top of the above when Kirin -- a scaley black wolf-monster manifested from the remnants of its miasma -- assimilates the Asura, a god of destruction summoned to take part in the annihilation of humanity.

** Squamous Things, a type of monster in the game's 4th edition, are the result of dragon eggs being tainted by the [[EldritchLocation Far Realm]]. The ensuing abominations are essentially draconic Shoggoths (or to use ''D&D''[='=]s parlance, Gibbering Mouthers); appearing as malformed, chaotic, scaly messes of eyes, horns, wings, jaws, fangs, tails, and other draconic body parts.

** Squamous Things, from the 4th Edition ''Draconomicon'', are the result of dragon eggs hatching in areas tainted by [[EldritchLocation the Far Realm]]. The resulting creatures emerge from their eggs as chaotic, gibbering masses of scales, claws, wings, fangs and draconic flesh, any trace of their kind's splendor lost to the Far Realm's insane influence.

* ''VideoGame/ColossalKaijuCombat'', prior to its cancellation, had a CollectibleCardGame spin-off that was used to vote in "Progenitor" monsters that could appear in prospective future games. One of these monsters, Asura, was a bloodthirsty EldritchAbomination resembling a wingless dragon with six arms, six eyes, and [[XenomorphXerox a Gigeresque exoskeleton]].

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** Godzilla himself qualifies, with a kaiju-sized helping of DinosaursAreDragons thrown in for added flavor. In [[Film/Godzilla1954 the original film]] and Legendary's Film/MonsterVerse continuity, Godzilla is worshipped as an ancient storm-god; while in ''Film/ShinGodzilla'' he is a constantly-mutating marine reptile transformed into a living nuclear reactor and capable of rapidly adapting to anything that opposes him.

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** Satan in the Literature/BookOfRevelation takes the form of a seven-headed dragon who throws down one third of the stars to earth with a swipe of his tail.
** [[OurAngelsAreDifferent Seraphim]] are typically described as dragon-like (see for example the description of chalkydri in the Second Book of Enoch), though in the Bible proper their description is very vague aside from having six wings (though given the fact that "seraph" is also used for snakes and seraph imagery is likely based on the goddess Wadjet it seems reasonable toa ssume they're supposed to be snake like to some degree). Like all angels they are immensely alien beings who can set you on fire just for seeing them.

** Typhon is the offspring of Gaia and Tartarus, sired to avenge kill the Olympians and avenge the Titans and sometimes the Giants as well. He is often described as a mountainous monster with wings, serpentine coils for legs, and anywhere from a hundred to a thousand draconic heads constantly spewing volcanic flames and calamitous noise. In some versions, Typhon was so powerful that the gods fled to Egypt and he was able to subdue and mutilate [[TopGod Zeus]] by ripping out his sinews. However, Typhon was ultimately defeated by Zeus and either vaporized by his thunderbolts, cast into Tartarus, and/or crushed underneath Mt. Etna.

** Alduin the World-Eater is a primordial draconic entity worshipped as a god of death and destruction by the ancient Nords, with the priests of the Dragon Cult still serving him [[OurLichesAreDifferent even in undeath]]. While he appears as a large, spiny jet-black dragon, he is distinctly more powerful and otherworldly than the other dragons, being the self-proclaimed "Firstborn of Akatosh".[[note]]Exactly what that means is unclear and a source of speculation both in-universe and out, with some theorizing him to possibly be Akatosh himself, a LiteralSplitPersonality of Akatosh, or the first and most powerful of Akatosh's draconic creations.[[/note]] He is said to [[TimeAbyss predate the existence of the world itself and to have destroyed its previous incarnation; to have fought the creator-god Lorkhan/Shor at the beginning of time and come out no worse for wear; and to [[ExtremeOmnivore be able to eat literally anything]], in one myth devouring the lifespan of the entire Nord population down to age six. He's prophesied to [[PlanetEater devour the world]] at the end of time -- though he conquered it instead. He can pop in and out of the afterlife of Sovngarde to devour souls and replenish his power; and unlike other dragons he can only be injured if the Dragonrend Shout is used on him. Even after Alduin's physical form is slain his soul cannot be absorbed by the Dragonborn, with it being speculated that he'll eventually reconstitute himself. Furthermore, his title of "the World-Eater" is implied to not be a hyperbole -- which indicates that the full extent of his power and/or his true form have never been revealed.

** While more-commonly associated with cephalopods, Cthulhu himself is described as being a vaguely anthropomorphic dragon with an octopoid head, though it's actually a godlike extraterrestrial -- and possibly extradimensional -- entity whose existence tends to warp reality and break people's minds.

* Dragons in medieval European heraldry were often hideous and monstrous things, as they were typically interpreted as living manifestations of Hell and the Devil's influence with no place in the natural order ordained by God. They typically melded traits of every animal considered wrong or evil in the Middle Ages, such as rodents or snakes, and some examples -- such as Hendrick Goltzius's [[http://bogleech.com/scrapbook/dragon-goltziuslarge.jpg three-headed avatar of hunger]], or a horde of [[http://bogleech.com/scrapbook/dragon-eyes.jpg two-headed dragons absolutely covered in eyes]] -- were horrors by any metric.

** Alduin the World-Eater is a primordial draconic entity worshipped as a dark god of death and destruction by the ancient Norns -- with the priests of the Dragon Cult still serving him [[OurLichesAreDifferent even in undeath]]. While he appears as a large, spiny jet-black dragon, he is distinctly more powerful and otherworldly than the other dragons, being the self-proclaimed "Firstborn of Akatosh".[[note]]Exactly what that means is unclear and a source of speculation both in-universe and out, with some theorizing him to possibly be Akatosh himself, a LiteralSplitPersonality of Akatosh, or the first and most-powerful of Akatosh's draconic creations.[[/note]] He is said to [[TimeAbyss predate the existence of Nirn/Mundus]] (the world of the ''Elder Scrolls'' series) and have destroyed the previous incarnation of the world; to have fought the creator-god Lorkhan/Shor at the beginning of time and come out no worse for wear; to [[ExtremeOmnivore be able to eat literally anything]], in one myth devouring the lifespan of the entire Nord population down to six years; and is prophesized to [[PlanetEater devour the world]] at the end of time -- though he conquered it instead. He can pop in and out of the afterlife of Sovngarde to devour souls and replenish his power; and unlike other dragons he can only be injured if the Dragonrend Shout is used on him. Even after Alduin's physical form is slain his soul cannot be absorbed by the Dragonborn, with it being speculated that he'll eventually reconstitute himself. Furthermore, his title of "the World-Eater" is implied to not be a hyperbole -- which indicates that the full extent of his power and/or his true form have never been revealed.

** Special mention should goes to the Fatalis. While looking like a fairly standard western dragon -- unlike the more exotic Elder Dragons that were introduced later in the series -- in lore it's stated that it single-handedly destroyed an entire kingdom by itself, and even other Elder Dragons are afraid of it. The White Fatalis, also called Old Fatalis due to its implied Time Abyss age and the "beard" that grows under its chin, is even worse, replacing the fire breath of the regular Fatalis with blue lightning and having a constant eclipse covering the arena as you fight it.

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** King Ghidorah was inspired by the {{Orochi}}, Zmey, and [[HydraProblem Hydra]]; and its various incarnations are usually depicted as being three-headed alien dragons that can spit bolts of golden lightning, survive and fly freely in space, sometimes manipulate gravity and the weather, and sometimes drain their opponents' life force. The Showa, ''Mothra Leo'' trilogy, and [[Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019 MonsterVerse]] versions in particular are established as being civilization-destroying calamitous entities completely outside the natural order, their very existence causing chaos and destruction.

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** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'': Grima the Fell Dragon is a colossal draconic abomination that is worshipped as a god of destruction by the nation of Plegia, and is responsible for the BadFuture that Lucina seeks to avert. In ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemGaiden Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia]]'' it's revealed that Grima was created by the mad alchemist Forneus using -- among various ingredients -- human flesh, special herbs, nectar, and the blood of a [[DragonsAreDivine Divine Dragon]]; but quickly grew too powerful and malevolent for even him to control.

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* Myth/JapaneseMythology: The Yamata-no-{{Orochi}} was a malevolent mountain-sized dragon-god with eight heads and eight tails, and was so powerful that it terrified the lesser earth-bound kami into subservience and the (exiled) celestial kami Susanoo had to get it drunk in order to kill it.

* ''Literature/TheBible'': The Leviathan is an enormous sea-dragon so powerful that even the mightiest of mortal warriors are driven to despair by the sight of it, and only God Himself can slay it.

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