History Main / DragonsAreDemonic

** ''Anime/YuGiOh'' (anime): The Big Five's main boss monster in both Virtual World arcs is the "Five-God Dragon", also F.G.D. for short. It's a gigantic dragon with five heads that represent five different elements and it can only be destroyed by battle by a LIGHT or DIVINE Attribute monster. "Five-God Dragon" serves as a classic JRPG final boss. After its second appearance and defeat, the Big Five immediately replace the defeated dragon with another demonic-looking dragon, "Berserk Dead Dragon", a zombie dragon that looks even more intimating despite its weaker power.

*** Jack Atlas's Signer Dragon is called "Red Daemon's Dragon" and it is heavily supported with Fiend-types (called Demon-types in Japan). "Red Daemon's" serves as the rival counterpart to Yusei's "Stardust Dragon" and is significantly more destructive. Its two evolutions "Savior Demon Dragon" and "Scar-Red Nova Dragon" aren't completely exempt from this trope. "Savior Demon Dragon" is both, angelic and demonic, which is not only reflected in its name, but also with its angel-like wings and fire motif. "Scar-Red Nova Dragon" was created with the power of the Crimson Devil that got sealed within the body of "Red Daemon's Dragon", which makes "Scar-Red Nova Dragon" a physical manifestation of a devil.

** ''Manga/YuGiOh5Ds'' (manga): The Duel Dragon counterpart to Jack's Red Daemon's Dragon is "Jeweled Demon Dragon -- Red Daemon", which has an even more destructive effect. "Red Daemon" also got evolutions like the original "Red Daemon's", but the evolutions of "Red Daemon" are far more demonic looking with even more menacing names: "Abyss", "Bellial" and "Calamity". Those three version look outright more like demons than actual dragons despite still being labeled as such.

*** Kiryu's Dark Synchro Monster is "One Hundred-Eye Dragon", which is a monstrosity of a black dragon with one hundred eyes on its entire body. It is used in an Infernity deck, which is comprised of DARK Demon-types, and "One Hundred-Eye Dragon" has the ability to use the effects of Kiryu's DARK monsters in his Graveyard. Killing the dragon only makes things worse, since it allows Kiryu to add his "Earthbound God Ccapac Apu" from his deck to his hand.

** ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'': Two of the Dark Masters, Machinedramon and [=MetalSeadramon=], are based on dragons.
** ''Anime/DigimonTamers'': Guilmon and his digivolution Growlmon are referred to as Demon Dragons (Dark Dragons in the English localization), and are red Virus-type dinosaur-like dragons that specialize in combat. Upon extreme anger of Takato over the death of Leomon at Belzemon's hands, he transforms his partner Guilmon into one of these, named Megidramon. His powers are so acute and massive that he causes the Digital World to slowly crumble around him simply by existing. Fortunately he's calmed down before he could destroy everything.
** When Lucemon, the GreaterScopeVillain of ''Anime/DigimonFrontier'', goes OneWingedAngel a second time, he takes the form of a gigantic bestial dragon with UnholyNuke powers.

** ''Manga/YuGiOh'': The Fusion of Jonouchi's "Red-Eyes Black Dragon" and Yugi's "Daemon's Summon" is called "Black Daemon's Dragon", and it also has the moniker "Devil Dragon". This moniker would later be added to "Black Daemon's Dragon's" name with its retrained version in the OCG, making it "Devil Dragon -- Black Daemon's Dragon", which is pretty much what the original version was called in the manga/anime anyway.

** ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'' (anime): Jack Atlas's Signer Dragon is called "Red Daemon's Dragon" and it is heavily supported with Fiend-types (called Demon-types in Japan). "Red Daemon's" serves as the rival counterpart to Yusei's "Stardust Dragon" and is significantly more destructive. Its two evolutions "Savior Demon Dragon" and "Scar-Red Nova Dragon" aren't completely exempt from this trope. "Savior Demon Dragon" is both, angelic and demonic, which is not only reflected in its name, but also with its angel-like wings and fire motif. "Scar-Red Nova Dragon" was created with the power of the Crimson Devil that got sealed within the body of "Red Daemon's Dragon", which makes "Scar-Red Nova Dragon" a physical manifestation of a devil.

** ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'' (anime): Duel Monster Spirit Yubel is a demon (and even classified as such in real card game) but was also described as draconic in [[AmbiguousGender their]] past life. This is far more obvious in their [[OneWingedAngel "Terror Incarnate" and "Ultimate Nightmare"]] forms.

** ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'' (anime): Jack Atlas's Signer Dragon is called "Red Daemon's Dragon" and it is heavily supported with Fiend-types (called Demon-types in Japan). "Red Daemon's" serves as the rival counterpart to Yusei's "Stardust Dragon" and is significantly more destructive.
** ''Manga/YuGiOh5Ds'' (manga): The Duel Dragon counterpart to Jack's Red Daemon's Dragon is "Jeweled Demon Dragon -- Red Daemon", with an even more destructive effect. "Red Daemon" also got evolutions like the original "Red Daemon's", but the evolutions of "Red Daemon" are far more demonic looking with even more menacing names: "Abyss", "Bellial" and "Calamity". Those three version look outright more like demons than actual dragons despite still being called as such.

*** The ultimate BigBad is "Supreme King Dragon Z-ARC", who is the combined form of Zarc and the Four Heavenly Dragon. Z-ARC a gigantic black dragon that is hellbent on destroying the world to fulfill the people's craving for violence. Because of that, Zarc is referred to as the Devil Duelist and he can still duel even in his dragon form.

** ''Manga/YuGiOh'': The Fusion of Jonouchi's "Red-Eyes Black Dragon" and Yugi's "Daemon's Summon" is called "Black Daemon's Dragon", and it also has the moniker "Devil Dragon". This moniker would later be added to Black Daemon's Dragon's name with its retrained version in the OCG, making it "Devil Dragon -- Black Daemon's Dragon", which is pretty much what the original version was called in the manga/anime anyway.

** ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'': Duel Monster Spirit Yubel is a demon (and even classified as such in real card game) but was also described as draconic in [[AmbiguousGender their]] past life. This is far more obvious in their [[OneWingedAngel "Terror Incarnate" and "Ultimate Nightmare"]] forms.

** ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'': Jack Atlas's Signer Dragon is called "Red Daemon's Dragon" and it is heavily supported with Fiend-types (called Demon-types in Japan). "Red Daemon's" serves as the rival counterpart to Yusei's "Stardust Dragon" and is significantly more destructive.
** ''Manga/YuGiOh5Ds'': The Duel Dragon counterpart to Jack's Red Daemon's Dragon is "Jeweled Demon Dragon -- Red Daemon", with an even more destructive effect. "Red Daemon" also got evolutions like the original "Red Daemon's", but the evolutions of "Red Daemon" are far more demonic looking with even more menacing names: "Abyss", "Bellial" and "Calamity". Those three version look outright more like demons than actual dragons despite still being called as such.
** ''Anime/YuGiOhArcV'':

** ''Manga/YuGiOhArcV'': The BigBad of the manga is "Genesis Omega Dragon", or "G.O.D." for short. It is foretold that G.O.D. would destroy the world, with the main cast trying to prevent that from happening. "G.O.D." is basically the manga counterpart to Z-ARC. Unlike Z-ARC, G.O.D. is a manipulator.

** Cymbal, the youngest son of Demon King Piccolo in the original ''Dragon Ball'', is a villainous dragon-shaped mutated Namekian.
** The Shadow Dragons from ''Anime/DragonBallGT'', spawned by Black Smoke Shenron, an EvilCounterpart of Shenron, are evil beings created by the overuse and built-up negative energies of the Dragon Balls through the series, and serve as the final antagonists for our heroes to defeat. Fittingly enough, a good deal of them look quite similar to traditional depictions of winged, horned demons and they all exist to create as much chaos and destruction as possible. However, Nuova Shenron is instead a TokenGoodTeammate who eventually teams up with Goku to try and defeat Omega Shenron. [[spoiler:Alas, he is defeated]].

* ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'': Duel Monster Spirit Yubel is a demon (and even classified as such in real card game) but was also described as draconic in [[AmbiguousGender their]] past life. This is far more obvious in their [[OneWingedAngel Terror Incarnate and Ultimate Nightmare]] forms.

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!!Examples:

** In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'', King Garon transforms into the Blight Dragon during the final battle of ''Birthright'', complete with [[RedEyesTakeWarning glowing red eyes]].

** ''TabletopGame/DarkSun'': All dragons are the embodiment of the horrific, rapacious corruption of arcane magic on Athas, each one born from an act of genocide.

* In ''TabletopGame/IronKingdoms'', the core factions of each gameline have the same basic arrangement: Good-Ish Guys (Trollbloods, Cygnar), WellIntentionedExtremist Guys (Menoth, Circle Orboros), Imperialistic and Kinda Dickish Guys (Skorne, Khador), and Straight-Up Bad Guys (Cryx, Everblight). In both lines, the Straight-Up Bad Guys faction is tied to dragons: Cryx is ruled by the first of the dragons, and their long-term objective is killing all of the other dragons so that Toruk can regain his full power, while Everblight is one of Toruk's spawn who has corrupted most of the Nyss elves. Aesthetically, Cryx is a horrible den of undead and black, hissing insect-like warjacks, while the forces of Everblight are a nightmarish mess of BodyHorror mutations who direct blind monsters bred solely to kill against their enemies.

* The giant fire-breathing dragon from ''WesternAnimation/ThePagemaster'' is some sort of enigmatic PrimalFear that pursues the protagonist across the real world, dreams, and the fantasy setting of the library. It will take on whatever form it needs to, to get him. We identify it as [[YourWorstNightmare fear incarnate]], but no explanation is ever given on why it pursues after one small boy.
* The evil fairy Maleficent in ''WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty'' proclaims to Prince Phillip prior to fighting her that he must now face her and "all the powers of Hell", before [[ScaledUp transforming]] into a giant black dragon with glowing green eyes and the ability to breathe green flames.

* ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'': While normal dragons exist and are seen once the barrier between the spirit world and the mortal world is torn down, the first "dragon" to appear in the series is Grunbeld, a demonic warrior working for [[BigBad Griffith]], whose true Apostle form is that of a corundum-skinned dragon. Ironically, as far as Apostles usually go, Grunbeld is a NobleDemon with a side of TragicVillain as revealed in ''LightNovel/BerserkTheFlameDragonKnight''.

** Avalanche Abassy is one of the [[BonusBoss superbosses]], appears at night on Valak Mountain during a raging blizzard, and is ''the'' most powerful enemy in the game.

* ''Fanfic/DeadOrAlive4TheDevilFactor'': When searching the DOATEC building for Kasumi and Ayane's mother, Dante is forced to fight Apophis, a robotic dragon who shoots red lightning. His brother Vergil gained Apophis' servitude by [[AsskickingEqualsAuthority defeating him in battle]].

* While several [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Elder Dragons]] in the ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter'' franchise tend to fall either in DragonsAreDivine or DraconicAbomination, there are a specific few Elder Dragons that are a cut above the rest, called the Black Dragons, who are far more demonic, ominous, and [[ItCanThink intelligent]] than their more animalistic bretheren:

*** Magnamalo is not an Elder Dragon at all, rather a Fanged Wyvern, but it is a feared monster known as the "Wyvern of Malice" and thematically has a distinctly demonic bent, the purple flame it uses to attack even being dubbed "{{hellfire}}".
*** The expansion ''Sunbreak'' is [[spoiler:Gaismagorm, expressly called the "Archdemon of the Abyss". It primarily uses attacks which resemble hellfire, crawls its way out of the depths akin to Hell, and has a FlowerMouth resembling a pentagram. The monster itself is made as one gigantic reference to the Devil itself as a dragon.]]

** The most classic example in the franchise is Fatalis, a Western dragon who destroyed an entire kingdom singlehandendly, is rumored to be able to have ResurrectiveImmortality, and humans are so scared of it they only put the best of the best they have to kill it whenever one shows up.
** Alatreon, while not as AxCrazy as its fellow Black Dragons, is still an incredibly dangerous Elder Dragon who pretty much makes any habitat he decides to live on as inhospitable as possible [[TheHermit so only he can live alone and in peace]].
** Dire Miralis is a gigantic WalkingWasteland Elder Dragon who sinks islands just by walking into them, boils the ocean he walks on, and is even called demonic in some item descriptions.
** While not officially considered a Black Dragon, the first Siege boss of ''Iceborne'', Safi'jiiva, has all the qualifications of the classical, medieval interpretations of dragons: Hellish red scales, long black horns, can drain the lifeforce of other living beings or even the land itself to feed itself (as if 'stealing their souls').
** Magnamalo is not an Elder Dragon at all, rather a Fanged Wyvern, but it is a feared monster known as the "Wyvern of Malice" and thematically has a distinctly demonic bent, the purple flame it uses to attack even being dubbed "{{hellfire}}".
** [[spoiler:Gaismagorm, the final boss of ''Sunbreak'' is expressly called the "Archdemon of the Abyss", primarily uses attacks which resemble hellfire, crawls its way out of the depths akin to Hell, and has a FlowerMouth resembling a pentagram. The monster itself is made as one gigantic reference to the Devil itself as a dragon.]]

*** The Daedric Titans take it UpToEleven. Titans are dragons that have had their [[OurAngelsAreDifferent Aedric]] souls forcibly replaced with [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Daedric]] ones, and primarily serve [[GodOfEvil Molag Bal]] and other [[OurGodsAreDifferent Daedric Princes]].

* In ''Fanfic/TheBridge'', the normal Equestrian dragons are, relative for a fantasy setting, normal beings whom can be good or evil. The cosmic monstrocity, Grand King Ghidorah on the other hand combines the worst aspects of the character from multiple film incarnations, is responsible for the deaths of untold millions; and is treated more like an AnimalisticAbomination that just happens to ''look'' like a dragon.

* In ''FanFic/TheBridge'', the normal Equestrian dragons are, relative for a fantasy setting, normal beings whom can be good or evil. The cosmic monstrocity, Grand King Ghidorah on the other hand combines the worst aspects of the character from multiple film incarnations, is responsible for the deaths of untold millions; and is treated more like an AnimalisticAbomination that just happens to ''look'' like a dragon.

* What's left of the BigBad of ''VideoGame/DooM3'' has fused with a giant demon dragon in the expansion pack ''Resurrection of Evil'', and given that said demon dragon guards Hell itself, it's as literal as you can get.

* ''Videogame/DungeonKeeper'' has [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Demon Spawns]], violent toad-like creatures that can be trained past the regular limit of Level 10 to turn into Level 4 [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Dragons]].

** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemElibe'': This setting has its dragons sent to another dimension after losing a war against humanity. While both played dirty in the war, it was actually humanity that started the war. The prequel ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBlazingBlade'' has an EvilSorceror attempt to unleash Dragons on the war as part of a plot to get revenge on the world. The sequel ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBindingBlade'' has a [[TheRemnant has the last dragon soldier left on the continent]] team up with a nihilistic King to restart the dragons ancient line of [[ArtificialHuman artificial]] Dragon soldiers, and use them to conquer humanity in favor of dragonkind. Fittingly the dragon they use produce these soldiers is literally called the ''Demon Dragon.''

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' has Malchior, an evil dragon who was sealed inside a book that came into the possession of Raven. He tricks her into releasing him by posing as the wizard who sealed him inside the book. His dragon form even resembles the one Maleficent has.

** Abyssal Drakes have a very dragon-like appearance, but are native to the Abyss and considered demons in all respects. They are said to be the result of an experiment conducted by the [[DemonLordsAndArchDevils Demon Lords]] into cross-breeding red dragons, wyverns and demons into [[DragonRider a beast that could be used as a steed]], but were too strong-willed and broke fre from their master's control.

** The Abishai are a race of devils that have the appearance of DraconicHumanoids and serve as the servants and heralds of Tiamat within the Nine Hells.