History Main / DraconicAbomination

*** The BigBad is [[spoiler:Regulusmon]], also known as the [[spoiler:Jet-Black Conqueror or [=GulusGammamon=]. Despite only resembling a dark, regal version of Canoweissmon, Regulusmon is a vicious Digimon who unleashes a Digital Hazard known as "Gulus Realm Burst" that can devastate the Digital World and turn its inhabitants into insane monsters, and is a vicious {{Sadist}} and [[TheSocialDarwinist Social Darwinist]] who believes that Digimon are heartless savages and seeks to turn the Digital World into a DeathWorld where his invincible army of corrupted Digimon will devour everything.]] He might just [[spoiler:a Perfect Digimon, but he can effortlessly slaughter standard Ultimates and seriously injure even the incredibly powerful [=BloomLordmon=], while the latter only breaks one of his horns with his strongest attack.]]

*** The BigBad is [[spoiler:Regulusmon]], also known as the [[spoiler:Jet-Black Conqueror or [=GulusGammamon=]. Despite only resembling a dark, regal version of Canoweissmon, Regulusmon is a vicious Digimon who unleashes a Digital Hazard known as "Gulus Realm Burst" that can devastate the Digital World and turn its inhabitants into insane monsters, and is a vicious {{Sadist}} and [[TheSocialDarwinist Social Darwinist]] who believes that Digimon are heartless savages and seeks to turn the Digital World into a DeathWorld where his invincible army of corrupted Digimon will devour everything.]] Despite being [[spoiler:a Perfect Digimon, he can effortlessly slaughter standard Ultimates and seriously injure even the incredibly powerful [=BloomLordmon=] while the latter only breaks one of his horns with his strongest attack.]]

*** The BigBag is [[spoiler:Regulusmon]], also known as the [[spoiler:Jet-Black Conqueror or [=GulusGammamon=]. Despite only resembling a dark, regal version of Canoweissmon, Regulusmon is a vicious Digimon who unleashes a Digital Hazard known as "Gulus Realm Burst" that can devastate the Digital World and turn its inhabitants into insane monsters, and is a vicious {{Sadist}} and [[TheSocialDarwinist Social Darwinist]] who believes that Digimon are heartless savages and seeks to turn the Digital World into a DeathWorld where his invincible army of corrupted Digimon will devour everything.]] Despite being [[spoiler:a Perfect Digimon, he can effortlessly slaughter standard Ultimates and seriously injure even the incredibly powerful [=BloomLordmon=] while the latter only breaks one of his horns with his strongest attack.]]

** Eyesmon and [=ZeedMillenniumon=] return in ''Anime/DigimonGhostGame'' as [[MonsterOfTheWeek troublemakers of the week]] and are some of the scariest pieces of work amongst a series already filled with terrifying Digimon. The former is a PuppeteerParasite who feeds on data by possessing/influencing humans to obsessively snoop on other people and causes numerous blood-red eyes to grow all over his host's body. The latter killed a woman as soon as it entered the human world as a Moon=Millenniumon through a lab accident, then took over its victim's body to trick a man into thinking his fiancee resurrected and fed on his soul for 10 days, in addition to attracting evil Digimon to haunt his house. [=ZeedMillenniumon=] is also treated as seriously as the catastrophic threat it is despite being a MonsterOfTheWeek.

** ''VideoGame/MonsterHunterRise'' has Narwa and Ibushi, respectively the male and female of a species of Elder Dragon that cause the Rampage, a horde of monsters in a [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere panicked frenzy]] from the two vibrating on a special frequency to communicate with each other from across the land. Their method of transportation is extremely unnatural; they ''[[PowerFloats levitate]]'', something never seen in any other monster to date. They're also capable of ''[[ItCanThink sapient thought]]'', and can transmit those thoughts ([[MindRape sometimes forcibly)]] through certain Wyverians. Ibushi, at the very least, doesn't seem to be inherently malicious, just extremely powerful and horny for Narwa. Narwa, or at least the specimen featured in ''Rise'', is much less benevolent; she [[AGodAmI declared herself a god]] and made the Rampage [[ForeverWar last indefinitely]] to kill [[AbsoluteXenophobe all other life, which she hates]], and [[DevourTheDragon consumed Ibushi]] [[YouHaveFailedMe when he got beaten a second time by the Kamura Hunter,]] thus becoming the variant [[OneWingedAngel Narwa the Allmother.]]

* ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'': Protagonist Kamijou Touma's mysterious Imagine Breaker ability -- which is able to negate almost anything supernatural that comes into contact with his right hand -- is revealed to somehow be connected to the "Dragon Strike", a draconic entity or entities that emerge when his right arm is lopped off. [[spoiler:In the spinoff ''Manga/ACertainScientificRailgun'', a total of eight dragon heads emerge when his arm is blown off by Mikasa Mikoto, who had lost control of her powers and begun to undergo apotheosis. The eight heads proceed to devour Mikasa's city-obliterating attack, negate her apotheosis, and return to Kamijou's body while restoring his arm.[[note]]The first head is a white-scaled dragon that possess the ability to devour memories, the second head is an eyeless black dragon that fills those in its presence with uncontrollable terror, the third head is a one-eyed blue-scaled cobra-like dragon that can conjure storms and has fangs containing the undiluted concept of poison itself, the fourth head is a four-eyed green dragon that can blur the boundry between illusions and reality, the fifth head is an undead dragon that radiates hellfire capable of immolating a being's lifeforce, the sixth head is a blue-white dragon made of ice that is almost indestructible and can freeze just about anything, the seventh head is a gold-armored dragon that radiates lightning and can fire powerful energy beams from its maw, and the eigth head is a white-feathered dragon that resembles an angel and has unknown abilities.[[/note]] Furthermore, illustrator Kiya Shii and editor Ogino Kentarou have revealed the existance of additional dragon-heads yet to make an appearance in the series proper.]]

* ''LightNovel/ThatTimeIGotReincarnatedAsASlime'':

** ''LightNovel/FateApocrypha'': Bašmu, one of the eleven offspring of the primordial dragon-goddess Tiamat, is a Divine Beast that appears as a green-and-black draconic creature with six eyes, a cobra-like hood, two arms, and centipede-like legs. The Assassin of Red -- aka the Mesopotamian demigoddess Semiramis -- is able to partially summon it using her Noble Phantasm, but it's so powerful that she can only manifest its upper half.
** ''LightNovel/GardenOfAvalon'' reveals that Artoria Pendragon's uncle Vortigern drank the blood of the legendary White Dragon and became a HumanoidAbomination embodying Britain's ruin, necessitating Artoria being made into the incarnation of the Red Dragon to oppose him.[[note]]''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'' reveals that both the White Dragon and the Red Dragon are names for the Dragon of Albion, a draconic deity far surpassing regular dragons in size and power.[[/note]] In their climactic final battle, Vortigern transformed into a massive draconic beast made of living darkness -- an insectoid version of which is depicted in ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'' -- that drowned out the holy light of both Excalibur and Galatine, and was only able to be slain by the divine lance Rhongomyniad.

** ''VideoGame/LightningReturnsFinalFantasyXIII'': Ereshkigal, a six-winged draconic Cie'th-like [[BonusBoss superboss]], is fought at the end of the Ultimate Lair and is [[GodIsEvil Bhunivelze]]'s most-powerful creation.

*** In ''Film/GodzillaMothraKingGhidorahGiantMonstersAllOutAttack'', Godzilla is an explicitly supernatural entity reanimated of the vengeful souls of those who died in World War II. He is powerful enough to easily defeat the benevolent Guardian Monsters -- Baragon, Mothra, and King Ghidorah -- and absorbs their souls to become even more powerful; and even when his body is almost-completely destroyed his disembodied heart continues to beat, indicating he'll just regenerate.

** Eyesmon and [=ZeedMillenniumon=] return in ''Anime/DigimonGhostGame'' as [[MonsterOfTheWeek troublemakers of the week]] and are some of the scariest pieces of work amongst a series already filled with terrifying Digimon. The former is a PuppeteerParasite who feeds on data by possessing/influencing humans to obsessively snoop on other people and causes numerous blood-red eyes to grow all over his host's body. The latter killed a woman as soon as it entered the human world as a Moon=Millenniumon through a lab accident, then took over its victim's body to trick a man into thinking his fiancee resurrected then fed on his soul for 10 days, in addition to attracting evil Digimon to haunt his house. [=ZeedMillenniumon=] is also treated as seriously as the catastrophic threat it is despite being a MonsterOfTheWeek.

** Deathwing, the BigBad of ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft: Cataclysm'', was originally Neltharion the Earth-Warder -- one of the five [[DragonsAreDivine Dragon Aspects]] -- before he was corrupted by the [[EldritchAbomination Old Gods]]. His insanity and incredible power slowly torn his body apart from the inside, to the point where he had to be reconstructed and held together by Elementiumn metal plates. Once you tear those plates off in his climatic BossBattle — no easy task due to his sentient blood forming tendrils to reattach them, and manifesting monsters to defend him — he crashes into the ocean and emerges as a writhing mass of tentacles and magma with a draconic torso.

** The Xeno'jiiva introduced in ''VideoGame/MonsterHunterWorld'' is a bizarre otherworldly Elder Dragon whose true origins are a mystery, but which feeds off the life energy of dying Elder Dragons, is disrupting the natural ecosystem of the world to obtain more of it, and is indicated to possesses ResurrectiveImmortality. Conversely, its adult form -- the Safi'jiiva -- is more along the lines of DragonsAreDemonic: it lacks its larval form's otherworldly appearance and is a traditional-looking western dragon with blood-red scales and glowing red eyes; though it retains the ability to drain life energy and can breathe torrents of spectral blue flames that it can focus into devastating energy beams.

** Deathwing, the BigBad of ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft: Cataclysm'', was originally Neltharion the Earth-Warder -- one of the five [[DragonsAreDivine Dragon Aspects]] -- before he was corrupted by the [[EldritchAbomination Old Gods]]. His insanity and incredible power slowly torn his body apart from the inside, to the point where he had to be reconstructed and held together by metal plates. Once you tear those plates off in his climatic BossBattle, he crashes into the ocean and emerges as a writhing mass of tentacles and magma with a draconic torso.

* ''Anime/InuYasha'': The ancient composite ''{{yokai}}'' whose soul formed the dark half of the Shikon Jewel was primarily draconic in shape, but sported numerous spider-legs, ExtraEyes, a LampreyMouth, a [[BladeBelowTheShoulder scythe-armed]] oni's head and torso sticking out of its chest, and CombatTentacles. It's revealed to be the GreaterScopeVillain of the series, manipulating Naraku from within the Shikon Jewel.

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* ''VisualNovel/DraKoi'': In a world that runs on MetaFiction, Ether Dragons like the unnamed female protagonist are city-destroying physics-breaking monsters that are impervious to modern weaponry and can only be defeated by equally fantastical beings and weapons like the Dragonslayer; and exist to fulfill a cyclical Chivalric Romance narrative wherein the Dragons fight and are ultimately slain by the Heroes -- in this case the unnamed male protagonist, who the Dragon falls madly in love with.
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* ''VideoGame/Sly3HonorAmongThieves'': General Tsao summons his family's mystical Stone Dragon as a last resort to keeping the Cooper Gang from dishonoring his family name and rescuing the daughter of a local crime lord that Tsao intends to marry [[AndNowYouMustMarryMe against her will]]. The Stone Dragon goes right for [[TheChick Penelope]] as a side-affect of Tsao's misogyny, forcing Sly to use rockets to battle the dragon head on and save her. It greatly resembles [[WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}} Mushu]], but is about 20m long, capable of flight, and has a tongue made of fire. Its origins are that of a GuardianEntity for the Tsao family, and works on the current generation's morality.

** In the 6th Lostbelt Avalon le Fae, it's elaborated on that the red dragon whose essence Altria Pendragon was imbued with and the white dragon whose blood Vortigern consumed to become a HumanoidAbomination were the same entity, Albion -- a mountain-sized 4.6 billion year-old biomechanical "pure-blooded" dragon whose not-quite-dead corpse forms a labyrinth beneath the foundations of the Clock Tower in London, and is to "modern" dragons what Grand Servants are to even the most powerful of regular Servants.

** ''ComicBook/{{Venom}}'': The Grendel and its ilk are massive wyverns formed from the "[[PowerOfTheVoid living abyss]]" by the primordial dark god Knull billions of years in the past. They are capable of interstellar flight, are powerful enough to fight and kill gods, and if defeated can disperse into countless symbiotes that then seek out hosts.

*** In ''Film/ShinGodzilla'', Godzilla is a marine reptile transformed by consuming radioactive waste into a hideously malformed and constantly-mutating living nuclear reactor, and is capable of rapidly adapting to anything that opposes him in ways that the team of genius scientists studying him struggle to comprehend and admit should be biologically impossible.

* ''Film/YamatoTakeru'': The [[{{Orochi}} Yamata no Orochi]] is an eight-headed dragon-god and the [[OneWingedAngel ultimate form]] of the dark god Tsukuyomi. It is capable of swimming through space and spitting bolts of red lightning as well as fire, and so powerful that the storm-god Susano-o was only able to seal it away in the ancient past.

* ''VideoGame/DaikaijuDaikessen: Versus/Rogue'': Ascha'Vovina -- an updated iteration of Asura from ''VideoGame/ColossalKaijuCombat'' -- is one of the many playable kaiju, and its backstory describes it as a BioweaponBeast created by a GodOfEvil to slaughter the other gods and purge the mortal world. Kept as a pet by the WarGod, it was used as a weapon of conquest and destruction but eventually grew too powerful and attempted to devour its master before being execrated beyond space and time.

* ''VideoGame/DragonMarkedForDeath'': The Astral Dragon Atruum only vaguely resembles a dragon, being a continent-sized EldritchAbomination with Combat Tentacles tipped by heads and lined with Extra Eyes. He is the patron god of the [[DraconicHumanoid Dragonblood Clan]], whose ancestors formed a pact with him after he was not-quite killed by his nemesis, the monkey-god Primatus; and his flesh and blood have mutated many of the planet's native plants and animals into predatory monsters.

* ''VideoGame/DragonsDogma'': The Great Dragon is a draconic entity that emerges from a portal to the Rift, and whose coming brings calamity to the Duchy of Gransys. Accompanied by a horde of monsters and worshiped as a god of destruction by the Salvation cult, the Dragon rips out and eats the hearts of people brave enough to face it in combat -- branding them [[TheChosenOne an Arisen]]. When confronted by an Arisen, the Dragon gives them the choice of facing it in combat or sacrificing a loved one in exchange for a wish being granted, making the Arisen its thrall if they choose the latter. If faced in combat, the Dragon has twenty hearts harvested from Arisen who failed its test or perished in combat against it. [[spoiler:It's revealed that the Dragon itself was a former Arisen who faced the Seneschal in combat and lost, and the purpose of its existence is to seek out those worthy of succeeding the Seneschal's post -- those who succeed become a god, and those who fail become a new incarnation of the Great Dragon. At the time of the game there have been at least three incarnations of the Great Dragon, one of which reduced the country to the west of Gransys -- as well as much of Western Gransys -- to monster-infested ruins.]]

** ''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 his creator to control.
** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'': Anankos was once a benevolent dragon-god of water, light, and dark -- among countless other powers; but excised his soul and the last of his sanity, succumbed to madness, and devolved into an omnicidal colossal eyeless beast holding a terrifying eye-covered orb in its jaws.
** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'': The Demonic Beasts and their Wild, Experimental, Altered, Flying, and Giant variants; Black Beast, Wandering Beast, and the White Beast [[spoiler:were all originally human, but were transformed into grotesque draconic horrors through being imbued with incompatible or damaged Crest Stones, which were formed from the blood of the Nabataens -- a race of dragons created by the progenitor-goddess Sothis. The Umbral Beast from the Cindered Shadows DLC is the result of Aelfric being transformed into a skinless dragon with a human skull for a face through a botched attempt to resurrect Sitri, an artificial Nabataen created by Rhea in an attempt to resurrect Sothis]].

** Gomorrah, Devourer of the Divine, crosses this with DragonsAreDemonic. It is an Infernal Demon that takes the form of a massive purple-and-black wingless dragon with a crown of spikes on its head, two small arms, four legs, and eyes lining its sides. Its profile notes that it devours everything it comes across, and in the first game it's used by Bayonetta to dispose of large angels.

* ''Manga/ChaosicRune'': Most of the Dragon-type entities [[OurDragonsAreDifferent 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 of its parts 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 by assimilating the others. Furthermore, if a part of Death Rex is summoned by someone with insufficient willpower, it will assimilate them and go on a rampage.

** The Trope image [[https://yugioh.fandom.com/wiki/Number_95:_Galaxy-Eyes_Dark_Matter_Dragon Galaxy-Eyes Dark Matter Dragon]] is a spectral dragon made of living darkness.

* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'': In the "Power" filler arc, Kabuto infects Naruto with miniature snakes capable of merging into a clone of a person by draining their chakra. These snakes merge into a copy of Naruto with [[SnakePeople scales and a serpentine tail]]; but as a result of also absorbing [[AnimalisticAbomination Kurama]] the [[AsianFoxSpirit Nine-Tailed Demon-Fox]]'s chakra, the "Nine-Tails Naruto Clone" spends most of its screentime in a darker version of Naruto's four-tailed [[OneWingedAngel Version Two]] form and seeking to drain the rest of Kurama's power out of Naruto. When it falls into the Ama no Hoko superweapon and absorbs its power, the "Nine-Tails Naruto Clone" mutates into a colossal, grotesque reptilian fox-monster with [[{{Orochi}} eight tails tipped by draconic heads]]; and it's only put down after Naruto taps into Kurama's [[GoldenSuperMode Nine-Tails Chakra Mode]].

** In the web-novel, [[spoiler:after becoming a Seraphim, Zero obtains the Ultimate Skill "Evil Dragon Lord" [[MeaningfulName Azi Dahaka]] previously held by Vega. After Zero absorbed the power of Ramiris' Labyrinth, Azi Dahaka evolved into the "Berserk Evil Dragon" and transformed Zero into a malevolent artificial True Dragon. To prevent the World from incarnating a new Berserk Evil Dragon after the destruction of Zero's physical body (a feat that took the combined efforts of ''four'' True Demon Lords: Dino, Zegion, Diablo, and Benimaru, to do), his spiritual core was fed to the Earth Dragon Gaia, causing him to apotheosize into the True Dragon Velgaia.]]
** In the light novel, there exists the World Destroying Dragon Ivarage, a primordial dragon of [[NothingIsScarier unknown origin]] whose power is on par with that of a [[DragonsAreDivine True Dragon]] despite [[AlmightyIdiot lacking any intellect and functioning solely on destructive instinct]]. When the angels proved unable to stop Ivarage and the risk of him destroying the world too great, [[TopGod Veldanava]] intervened and imprisoned him in the Otherworld, giving the angels the task of watching over him but ''not'' killing him, as Veldanava believed that one day Ivarage would gain an ego and thus deserved a chance. Ivarage's magicules would permeate the Otherworld so thickly that he [[MonsterProgenitor birthed]] the [[OurCryptidsAreMoreMysterious Cryptid]] race and indirectly created the Insectars (when the insect Cryptid Zelanus gained sapience and took control of his similar kind) and the Phantoms (when the angels led by Feldway and tasked with guarding Ivarage and destroying the Cryptids evolved from prolonged exposure to his magicules). [[spoiler:In the present day, during the war between Tempest and its allies versus the angels and Insectars, Ivarage would indeed finally develop an ego from absorbing the souls of the fallen Phantoms who rebelled against the angels' leader Michael, opening a path back to the world.]]

* ''VideoGame/ColossalKaijuCombat'': Prior to its cancellation, ''CKC'' had a CollectibleCardGame spin-off that was used to vote in "Progenitor" monsters that could appear in prospective future games; and several of the monsters submitted were eldritch draconic entities:

** Asura was a bloodthirsty "Void-Born" BioweaponBeast resembling a bipedal wingless dragon with six arms, six eyes, and [[XenomorphXerox a black Gigeresque exoskeleton]]; growing stronger through combat and seeking to become the UltimateLifeForm. It appeared in the SPN-5 card set, got a LightIsNotGood EVO form in the SPN-6 card set, and was voted into the fifth round of Progenitor monsters, but never got an official art collaboration as the game's cancellation followed shortly after.

** [[https://yugioh.fandom.com/wiki/Armillyre,_the_Starleader_Dragon Armillyre the Starleader Dragon]] is depicted as a dragon with branched tentacle-like wings tipped with red claws.

** ''ComicBook/{{Venom}}'': The Grendel and its ilk are massive wyverns formed from the "[[PowerOfTheVoid living abyss]]" by the primordial dark god Knull billions of years in the past. They are capable of interstellar flight, are powerful enough to devour most gods, and if defeated can disperse into countless symbiotes that then seek out hosts.

* ''Fanfic/AbraxasHrodvitnon'': King Ghidorah is even more eldritch than he is in the ''Franchise/MonsterVerse'' canon, being capable of assimilating other Titans into itself and infecting other beings with its biomass to mutate them into hybrid monstrosities. Even after being immolated by Godzilla, its HiveMind remains active and resurrects Dr. Vivienne Graham as a MonstrousHumanoid amalgam of herself and San (Ghidorah's left head)'s severed head that eventually metamorphoses into Monster X. Alan Johan's experiments splicing tissue samples from the severed head with corpses give rise to an UndeadAbomination horde called the Many. Ni (Ghidorah's right head) is severed and regenerates using the Many into a nightmarish gestalt monster called [=MaNi=]; and [[spoiler:Ghidorah creates a HumanoidAbomination servitor species called the Zmeyevich by impregnating human women with its mutagenic DNA]].

** Godzilla himself -- particularly antagonistic incarnations more geared towards horror -- blends this trope with DinosaursAreDragons and NuclearNasty. [[Film/Godzilla1954 Originally]] a blunt metaphor for the devastation wrought by nuclear weapons, Godzilla is a colossal city-leveling behemoth (typically between 50 and 100 meters tall) that is impervious to mundane weaponry, breathes torrents of radioactive plasma, spreads lethal radiation in his wake, absorbs radiation to sustain himself rather than -- or in addition to -- eating meat, has a healing factor that lets him recover from severe injuries, is capable of fighting [[PhysicalGod gods]] and {{Eldritch Abomination}}s to the death and ''winning'', and in several incarnations is named after and seen as the incarnation of a destructive oceanic storm-god by the inhabitants of Odo Island. Some iterations that stand out include:

** Fatalis looks like a fairly standard Western dragon, but this serves to make it stand out from the non-Elder Dragon monsters in the series, most of which are [[OurWyvernsAreDifferent wyverns]] -- especially in the first game, where it was the only six-limbed dragon specifically to make it feel unnatural. The lore surrounding Fatalis, its variants,[[note]]The regular Fatalis, which is said to have destroyed the Kingdom of Schrade in a single night thousands of years ago and dwells in the ruins of Castle Schrade; the Crimson Fatalis, which dwells in an active volcano and is capable of summoning meteors; the White Fatalis, which is rumoured to be [[TimeAbyss the original specimen]] that laid waste to the Kingdom of Schrade, controls lightning rather than fire, and is capable of causing eclipses with its power; and a unique six-horned "Black" Fatalis featured in the ''Frontier'' sub-series, which dwells in the ruins of Castle Schrade -- being rumored to be the original Fatalis that razed the kingdom, is feared as a legendary god of destruction said to have had a hand in the downfall of the Ancient Civilization, and possesses the unique Black Flame element -- a combination of the Fire and Dragon elements.[[/note]] and the weapons created from its body parts is obfuscated in-universe and only conveyed through item descriptions and apocryphal legends, but depict it as an unnatural malevolent entity with otherworldly abilities that effectively make it nigh-invincible and incapable of being permanently -- if at all -- killed. ''VideoGame/MonsterHunterStories'' gives Fatalis even greater eldritch connotations by implying that it is responsible for [[spoiler:the Black Blight, an otherworldly black miasma capable of infecting even other Elder Dragons, mutating them into blackened corrupted forms and causing them to go berserk.]]
** Alatreon is an Elder Dragon with [[AllYourPowersCombined control over all four (five as of Iceborne) elements at once.]] However, it's also unable to ''[[PowerIncontinence control]]'' the elements, so [[WalkingWasteland everything around it gets frozen solid or burnt to ashes]], which is why [[TheHermit it seeks out the most unreachable, inhospitable places known to man and monster alike]]. As with Fatalis, the descriptions of weapons and materials that come from it imply that its very presence also [[TheCorruption causes creatures' minds to erode]], making them go insane or yearn for dragonhood.
** Gore Magala and Shagaru Magala from the fourth installment. Gore Magala is a jet-black wyvern that looks intimidating enough, but what really pushes it into this territory is that it constantly spreads dust from its scales, which helps the nearly blind monster sense its surroundings but also infects other monsters exposed to it with a [[HatePlague "Frenzy Virus" that drives them into mindless, savage aggression]] until they eventually perish a few days later (or survive and gain new strength and abilities as Apex monsters. Fortunately, it's temporary and nonfatal to humans, though still debilitating as it suppresses natural healing. Gore Magala is called the "Black Eclipse Wyvern" because over the course of a fight with it, it eventually spreads enough of the stuff around to darken the area around it, even in broad daylight. Shagaru Magala is the [[EvolutionPowerup adult form of Gore Magala]], [[DragonsAreDivine whose appearance faintly resembles an angel or a deity with its glimmering scales]], but that doesn't make it any less dangerous, as its Frenzy Virus is even deadlier and more potent compared to that of its juvenile form. Special mention to Chaotic Gore Magala, [[BodyHorror which molted improperly and is permanently stuck in transition between Gore and Shagaru Magala]]. [[FateWorseThanDeath It's not a comfortable state, to say the least.]]

** Narwa and Ibushi are the male and female of a species of Elder Dragon that cause the Rampage, a horde of monsters in a [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere panicked frenzy]] from the two vibrating on a special frequency to communicate with each other from across the land. Their method of transportation is extremely unnatural; they ''[[PowerFloats levitate]]'', something never seen in any other monster to date. They're also capable of ''[[ItCanThink sapient thought]]'', and can transmit those thoughts ([[MindRape sometimes forcibly)]] through certain Wyverians. Ibushi, at the very least, doesn't seem to be inherently malicious, just extremely powerful and horny for Narwa. Narwa, or at least the specimen featured in ''Rise'', is much less benevolent; she [[AGodAmI declared herself a god]] and made the Rampage [[ForeverWar last indefinitely]] to kill [[AbsoluteXenophobe all other life, which she hates]], and [[DevourTheDragon consumed Ibushi]] [[YouHaveFailedMe when he got beaten a second time by the Kamura Hunter,]] thus becoming [[OneWingedAngel Narwa the Allmother.]]

* ''Film/YamatoTakeru'': The [[{{Orochi}} Yamata no Orochi]] is an eight-headed dragon-god and the [[OneWingedAgnel ultimate form]] of the dark god Tsukuyomi. It is capable of swimming through space and spitting bolts of red lightning as well as fire, and so powerful that the storm-god Susano-o was only able to seal it away in the ancient past.

** King Ghidorah was inspired by the {{Orochi}}, Zmey, and the Lernaean {{Hydra|Problem}}, and his backstory seems to draw from the Cthulhu Mythos as most incarnations of him are usually depicted as being ancient three-headed alien dragons that can spit bolts of golden lightning, survive and fly freely in space, are occasionally able to manipulate gravity and the weather, and can sometimes drain their opponents' life force. The Showa, ''Mothra Leo'' trilogy, and [[Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019 MonsterVerse]] versions in particular are established as being ancient civilization-destroying calamitous entities completely outside the natural order, their very existences causing chaos and destruction to Earth.

* ''VideoGame/DragonsDogma'': The Great Dragon is a draconic entity that emerges from a portal to the Rift, and whose coming brings calamity to the Duchy of Gransys. Accompanied by a horde of monsters and worshiped as a god of destruction by the Salvation cult, the Dragon rips out and eats the heart of a person brave enough to face it in combat -- branding them [[TheChosenOne an Arisen]]. When confronted by the Arisen, the Dragon gives them the choice of facing him in combat or sacrificing a loved one in exchange for a wish being granted, making the Arisen its thrall if they choose the latter. If faced in combat, the Dragon has twenty hearts harvested from Arisen who failed its test or perished in combat against it. [[spoiler:It's revealed that the Dragon itself was a former Arisen who faced the Seneschal in combat and lost, and the purpose of its existence is to seek out those worthy of succeeding the Seneschal's post -- those who succeed become a god, and those who fail become a new incarnation of the Great Dragon. At the time of the game there have been at least three incarnations of the Dragon, one of which reduced the country to the west of Gransys -- as well as much of Western Gransys -- to monster-infested ruins.]]

** Fatalis looks like a fairly standard Western dragon, but this serves to make it stand out from the non-Elder Dragon monsters in the series, most of which are [[OurWyvernsAreDifferent wyverns]] -- especially in the first game, where it was the only six-limbed dragon specifically to make it feel unnatural. The lore surrounding Fatalis, its variants,[[note]]The regular Fatalis, which is said to have destroyed the Kingdom of Schrade in a single night thousands of years ago and dwells in the ruins of Castle Schrade; the Crimson Fatalis, which dwells in an active volcano and is capable of summoning meteors; the White Fatalis, which is rumoured to be [[TimeAbyss the original specimen]] that laid waste to the Kingdom of Schrade, controls lightning rather than fire, and is capable of causing eclipses with its power; and a unique six-horned Fatalis featured in the ''Frontier'' sub-series, which dwells in the ruins of Castle Schrade -- being rumored to be the original Fatalis that razed the kingdom, is feared as a legendary god of destruction said to have had a hand in the downfall of the Ancient Civilization, and possesses the unique Black Flame element -- a combination of the Fire and Dragon elements.[[/note]] and the weapons created from its body parts is obfuscated in-universe and only conveyed through item descriptions and apocryphal legends, but depict it as an unnatural malevolent entity with otherworldly abilities that effectively make it nigh-invincible and incapable of being permanently -- if at all -- killed. ''VideoGame/MonsterHunterStories'' gives Fatalis even greater eldritch connotations by implying that it is responsible for [[spoiler:the Black Blight, an otherworldly black miasma capable of infecting even other Elder Dragons, mutating them into blackened corrupted forms and causing them to go berserk.]]