History Main / LazyDragon

Naturally a subtrope of OurDragonsAreDifferent. Often combined with OrcusOnHisThrone and AllPowerfulBystander, depending on the power level, intelligence and general monstrosity of dragons in the setting. On the other hand, very rarely related to DragonTheirFeet, despite the names' similarities. For other lazy creatures, see CatsAreLazy, SluggishSeal, and LaidBackKoala.

* ''VideoGame/EarthboundBeginnings'': A dragon in Crystal Cavern guards not a literal hoard of treasure, but it knows the sixth melody. It won't awaken until Ninten is strong enough for it to sense his presence.

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[[caption-width-right:350:Well, he does breathe fire everyday, so can you blame him for being [[Pun burnt out?]]

[[caption-width-right:350:Well, he does breathe fire everyday, so can you blame him for being [[Pun burnt out?]]]]

[[caption-width-right:350:Well, he does breathe fire everyday, so can you blame him for being burnt out?]]

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[[caption-width-right:350: Awww. Sleeping like a little hatchling.]]

This typically translates into a sleeping dragon who has been slumbering for millennia ([[AwakeningTheSleepingGiant though he will probably get woken up during the plot's unfolding, and that's probably bad news]]). Their long (sometimes millennia-long) sleep may be handwaved as [[WeAreAsMayFlies dragons being so long-lived that a century-long nap is]] [[TimeDissonance a reasonable hibernation time for them]]. In some settings, this will be linked to the dragons' age, with younger specimens being more active in the world but spending longer and longer periods of time sleeping or idling in their lairs as they age.

-->--Flavor text for the '''Dragon's Lair''' building, ''VideoGame/TotalWarWarhammerII''

* {{Defied}} in ''Literature/WingsOfFire''. The Dragonets of Destiny's caregivers accuse Glory of being lazy because she likes to sleep in the afternoon, but it turns out that "suntime" is an important part of a [=RainWing's=] daily routine.
* ''Literature/ThePaperBagPrincess'': The dragon is already exceedingly tired when it is confronted by Elizabeth, having "eaten an entire castle today." She eventually manages to trick the dragon into exhausting himself further to the point where he has to take a nap. The dragon is descibed as being such a HeavySleeper it doesn't even react to Elizabeth sticking her head into its ear and yelling.

** In 1st Edition Advanced ''D&D'', all dragons encountered inside their lairs had a percentage chance of being discovered while asleep. This ranged from a low of 5% for Bahamut the Platinum Dragon to a high of 60% for a white dragon.

-->--'''Description of the Dragon's Lair building''', ''VideoGame/TotalWarWarhammerII''

** ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/16375/sharing-the-night Sharing the Night]]'': Dragons are born as fairly active creatures but spend increasingly long periods asleep and increasingly short ones awake as they age. Young adults, like the dragon seen in "Dragonshy", only sleep for a century or so at a time between periods of activity, but the truly ancient ones never wake at all. Aging dragons, instead of dying, simply find a good spot to sleep and stay there, letting plants and dirt gather over their slumbering forms until they become parts of the landscape. It's implied that a very large portion of Equestria, if not its entirety, lays on the backs of hundreds upon hundreds of sleeping, dreaming dragons.

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* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E7DragonShy Dragonshy]]", a dragon only poses a passive threat because of the smoke it breathes out while sleeping. It spends most of the episode asleep on its hoard -- it's stated it will keep sleeping for a century if left undisturbed -- and the biggest reaction it has to the ponies before Rainbow Dash kicks it in the snout is to yawn, stretch and go right back to sleep. Not even quakes on the mountain it nests in are enough to wake it.

* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'': While technically not a Dragon-type, the otherwise draconic Charizard is definitely lazy during his rebellious phase, rarely battling on Ash's behalf. This changes in "Charizard Chills", where he's frozen by an Ice Beam and Ash stays up all night thawing him out and warming him back up; afterwards, he's as loyal and dependable as any of Ash's other Pokémon.

* ''ComicBook/{{Saga}}'': When Gwendolyn, Sophia, and Lying Cat travel to the planet Demimonde '''NSFW''': [[spoiler: in search of dragon spunk ([[ItMakesSenseInContext long story]]), they find the last male dragon not just constantly lounging, but... [[ADateWithRosiePalms auto-fellating]].]]