Basic Trope: Dragons portrayed as friendly.
- Straight: Dracone the Dragon is very friendly, serving as an ally to the main characters Alice and Bob.
- Exaggerated:
- Dragons are an Always Lawful Good species in the work.
- Dracone is an All-Loving Hero.
- Dracone is a Draconic Abomination and a Big Good.
- Downplayed:
- Dracone is definitely on the side of good, but Good Is Not Soft and he can certainly be dangerous at times.
- Dracone is inquisitive and playful like a dolphin, but can also be as dangerous as one when provoked.
- Dracone is quite nice, but he is "merely" a Draconic Humanoid, not a full-sized dragon.
- Justified: Alice, Bob, and Dracone live in a society that worships dragons, or at the very least dragons and humans live together peacefully.
- Inverted: Dragons Are Demonic
- Subverted:
- Dracone turns out to have only pretended to be nice.
- Dracone may be nice, but he's also quite sad over his not-so-great life.
- Double Subverted:
- Dracone ends up Becoming the Mask later, when he realized he really did like being good.
- Dracone is sad over his life, but then he makes it better through The Power of Friendship.
- Parodied:
- Dracone tries to be scary, but everyone loves him and wants to hug him. Dracone is annoyed with the situation, but he goes along with it.
- Dracone, a character in a comedic Urban Fantasy story, is as delightful as he is lazy - acting like a gigantic fire-breathing cat as people grab his attention with bouncy balls and laser pointers and make funny videos of him playing around in his Dragon Hoard of shiny oddities.
- Zig-Zagged: Dracone acts like a wild animal that has been partially tamed. He can be affectionate towards people he trusts, but when he feels threatened, he attacks brutally.
- Averted:
- There aren't any dragons in the work.
- Dragons aren't portrayed as particularly friendly.
- Enforced: Dragons are cool, and the author wanted to subvert the typical stereotype of dragons being evil.
- Lampshaded: "Dracone goes against every expectation. You'd imagine a dragon to be hostile and threatening, but he... isn't!"
- Invoked:
- As a mere hatchling, Dracone decided he would do all he could to be a good person, simply because Good Feels Good. It worked.
- In trying to fight his tendency to chase after gold and riches, Dracone joins a Monsters Anonymous support group for dragons, which leads him to meet Alice and Bob.
- Exploited:
- People know Dracone is kind and forthcoming, so if they have a problem, if no-one else can help, and if they can find him, they go to him for all kinds of assistance.
- In an Urban Fantasy story, Dracone quickly becomes an internet celebrity, and both him and people around him exploit his popularity to do good things, such as raising money for charity.
- Defied: Dracone enjoys the Evil Is Cool aspects of being a dragon too much - so he either acts like a self-interested gold hoarder, or at best an Anti-Hero who steals from the rich to give to himself.
- Discussed: "Dracone, what are you going to do today?" "In the morning, I'll be helping Astrid with blacksmithing, and then giving people rides over the valley! Wheeee!"
- Conversed: ???
- Implied: A big town/small city has a large picture of Dracone among the big portraits of honorary citizens in one of the parks, with numerous good deeds listed alongside it, but the story never has Dracone show up in-person.
- Played for Laughs: Dracone tends to get into all sorts of hilarious trouble because of his playful and friendly nature, often ending up as the locomotive of the wacky hijinks himself when he feels bored and wants to make things more interesting.
- Played for Drama: Dracone is cheerful, compassionate, and all-around delightful. The world around him, however, isn't, and as one of the protagonists, he faces incredible challenges as he and his like-minded allies try to use their power (and Dracone does have a lot of power to spare) to make the world a better place.
- Played for Horror: Dracone is an extremely cheerful dragon who just wants to make friends - his problem is, in his world the dragons are utterly terrifying and have an array of contagious otherworldly powers, most of the dragons long gone and known only by terrifying legend. You do the math.
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