History Main / DraconicAbomination

* Myth/RussianMythologyAndTales: The Zmey Gorynych is a shapeshifting draconic beast with iron claws and anywhere from three to twelve heads -- which it can regrow if severed. One specimen -- Chudo-Yudo -- is sometimes said to the brother of [[OurLichesAreDifferent Koschei the Deathless]] and the son of Literature/BabaYaga, who in some legends is a HumanoidAbomination herself. Another example, Tugarin Zmeyevich, is described as being a personification of malice and gluttony, is covered in flaming snakes, and sometimes has wings made of paper.

** The malevolent dragon-goddess Tiamat, firstborn of the primordial dragon-god Asgorath, is a lesser deity who appears as a massive five-headed dragon -- with each head being a different type of chromatic dragon -- and the long stinger-tipped tail of a wyvern; 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 worshiped by both chromatic dragons and various mortal 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.

** The Tarrasque -- named after a draconic beast from French folklore -- is a colossal monster resembling a cross between a theropod dinosaur and a wingless dragon, with a spiny shell on its back and massive horns on its head. It has a MultipleChoicePast ranging from having been created by dark magicians experimenting with forbidden magics to being an abomination created by the Primordials to devour the gods and even the world itself. It is one of the most powerful monsters in the game -- though how powerful it is varies depending on the version of ''D&D'' being played.[[note]]At the height of its prowess, in the 3.5 edition, the Tarrasque was capable of making five attacks per turn that can ignore any and all resistances its opponents might have, can swallow beings as large as Giants whole and digest literally anything, and it is NighInvulnerable -- being resistant to most forms of damage, completely immune to magic attacks and various status effects, and capable of regenerating a significant amount of HP per turn. It is also stated that the Tarrasque is capable of regenerating from anything -- even complete disintegration -- unless its slayers use the Wish spell to ensure it stays dead. Its presence strikes terror into everything in its vicinity and restricts flight-capable opponents to a maximum altitude of twenty feet (within eating range), and it is capable of earth gliding and is said to hibernate within the planet's core.[[/note]] A ritual to summon it requires the heads of five adult dragons to perform, implying it is somehow connected to them as well.
** ''[[https://www.rpgnow.com/product/3481/Immortals-Handbook--EPIC-BESTIARY-Volume-One?it=1 The Immortals Handbook: Epic Bestiary 3rd-Party rulebook]]'', designed to make the best of the AbsurdlyHighLevelCap features the "Nehaschimic Dragons", beings who are described as "nightmarish interdimensional creatures extraneous to the universe itself... transdimensional tapeworms writhing within the body of the [universe], a surreal symbiosis of reality and unreality". In the rules, all Nehaschimic Dragons have the '[[RealityWarper Alter Reality]]' power, extremely high DamageReduction, [[AntiMagic immunity to all but a few]] [[AchillesHeel specific types]] of magic and [[ElementalRockPaperScissors elemental damage]], can travel at the speed of light ([[FasterThanLightTravel or faster]]), [[SuperSenses see all the way to the]] [[AnotherDimension edge of their current universe]], [[SizeShifting grow to become bigger than]] [[AlienGeometries the universe]] ([[YourMindMakesItReal at least from your perspective]]) and their very presence causes [[GoMadFromTheRevelation permanent insanity]] for everything within miles. They also far exceed most other monsters in sheer size; the largest are well over a quarter mile long, at least as far as their stats are concerned. Unfortunately, or perhaps fortunately, there was only one Nehaschimic Dragon ever published, the Nexus or Wormhole Dragon. It has a BreathWeapon with a [[NoSavingThrow flat 50% chance]] (or higher) to shunt you into an AlternateUniverse, [[BornLucky power over probability]], and an aura of "[[PowerNullifier Unknowing]]" which can even cause the universe to [[RetGone forget you]] if you're weak enough. A few others have been [[http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?268666-3-5E-Nehaschimic-Dragons unofficially published online]], and are just as weird, if not more so, than the Nexus Dragon. On the [[http://www.enworld.org/forum/forumdisplay.php?304-Eternity-Publishing-Hosted-Forum forum which discusses possible ideas for these books]], one person suggested an adventure where a planet needs to be evacuated because it's a dragon egg about to hatch. The poster eventually made the idea into dragons[[note]] called Muhlatimic, after the Hebrew word for ultimate [[/note]] which are the nerves of the AkashicRecords (the one power above God, basically). Their flavor text is about a MultiversalConqueror who has just crushed the God of another universe... and then he sees one of these dragons. It ends with him realizing that [[spoiler:the almighty artifact around which he built his empire is merely a scale said dragon lost.]]

* ''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 an eldritch BioweaponBeast resembling a six-armed, six-eyed bipedal dragon; 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. Execrated beyond space and time, it wanders the multiverse seeking to devour anything it comes across.

* ''WesternAnimation/Ben10'': Dagon is [[EldritchAbomination an Old One]] resembling a colossal green octopus-monster, but can also manifest as a black dragon with a green underbelly.

* ''Film/AliceInWonderland2010'': The Jabberwocky, the Red Queen's monstrous pet, [[VillainHoldsTheLeash by which she controls the populace of Underland]]. Apart from being a massive black dragon with [[RedEyesTakeWarning red eyes]], it appears in the final battle emerging from the ground like a zombie, it has a short, barbeled face that makes it appear like a FiendishFish, and it makes some creepy vocalizations that no reptile should be able to do, in addition to [[BreathWeapon shooting purple lightning from its mouth instead of fire like a normal dragon]]. It also is sapient, and speaks with the nightmarish BassoProfundo voice of Creator/ChristopherLee for the three lines it actually gets to speak. Clearly, the Jabberwocky is '''not''' a normal dragon.

** Jormungandr is mentioned, and he and Thor have apparently fought in the past, a fight that ended in Thor barely winning by throwing him into a neutron star. Being one Surtur's Great Captains, empowered by [[spoiler: Dark Phoenix Fire]] he survived, despite being at a comparatively low ebb in his strength.

* ''Literature/NightDragon'' has the titular monster, a SealedEvilInACan CosmicEntity predating the world and time itself, described as being as uncanny and unnatural as possible, alien to all dragon kinds, where its mere presence twists its lair into something similar to it and plagues the [[DreamLand Dreamtime]] with awful nightmares. It is such an otherworldly monstrosity that [[spoiler: after it's killed, it's head detaches itself, grows skeletal legs, and continues fighting]]!

* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': In "[[Recap/TheOwlHouseS3E3WatchingAndDreaming Watching and Dreaming]]", [[spoiler: [[Characters/TheOwlHouseEmperorBelos Belos]] infects the Titan's heart in an attempt to assimilate the country-sized corpse and claim its godlike power for himself. One of the first things he does after doing so is manifesting a draconic avatar out of his necrotic green MeatMoss that's capable of breathing blue flames from its jaws]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': In "[[Recap/TheOwlHouseS3E3WatchingAndDreaming Watching and Dreaming]]", [[spoiler:Belos infects the Titan's heart in an attempt to assimilate the country-sized corpse and claim its godlike power for himself. One of the first things he does after doing so is manifesting a draconic avatar out of his necrotic green MeatMoss that's capable of breathing blue flames from its jaws]].

* ''VideoGame/FateSamuraiRemnant'': The final boss of the "Ray of Light" route is [[spoiler:Yasomagatsuhi, an ancient god of destruction in the shape of a six-eyed dragon with a fiery underbelly and eyes on its wings]].

* ''Anime/PlanetWith'': The main antagonist of the series is a monstrously powerful, city-sized creature being known only as "The Dragon" - eventually revealed to be [[LivingRelic the last mutated survivor]] of a {{Precursor}} race who failed to AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence with the rest of his people. Before the events of the series the Dragon destroyed Soya's home planet of Sirius after [[BlackAndWhiteInsanity seeing Siriusian troops invade another world and immediately judging their entire race as evil]]. This so horrified [[TheFederation the pacifist galactic government of Nebula]] that they agreed to perform their first ever execution, psychically lobotomising the Dragon and throwing its comatose body into a black hole. However, some time later Nebula detect the Dragon's aura somehow coming from Earth, where [[spoiler:even while comatose, it has subconsciously created a human avatar of itself - one who eventually develops PsychicPowers and becomes obsessed with using them to punish evildoers]].

** Corra is a sky demon that takes the form of a giant serpent or dragon. Since her story is more or less a duplicate of the Caorthannach story, many of the same elements come into play (unfathomably old, godlike power, variations on who defeats her). Depending on the telling, she is either slain (usually [[KillItThroughItsStomach disemboweled from the inside]] ) with her remains becoming part of the landscape, or [[SealedEvilInACan cast into Lough Na Corra and forever trapped there.]]

*** [[OurAngelsAreDifferent Seraphim]] are typically described as dragon-like (for example, see the description of chalkydri in the Second Book of Enoch), though in the Bible proper their description is very vague aside from having six (and in some cases twelve) 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 to assume they're supposed to be snake-like to some degree). Like all angels, they are immensely alien beings who inspire terror in mortals and can set you on fire just for seeing them.

* 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 [[TopGod Ra]] -- 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.
* Hittite Mythology: In the Hittite and Hurrian cultures' Chaoskampf myth -- thought to be the inspiration for the Greek Typhonomachy myth -- the serpentine dragon-god Illuynka fights the storm-god Tarḫunz/Tarḫunna and defeats him. In one version, Tarḫunz/Tarḫunna beseeches the aid of his daughter, the goddess Inara. Inara hosts a feast and gets Illuynka drunk, whereupon Tarḫunz/Tarḫunna takes his revenge. In another version, Illuynka rips out Tarḫunz/Tarḫunna's eyes and heart, instigating a complex revenge plot where Tarḫunz/Tarḫunna manipulates his son into marrying Illuynka's daughter and requesting his stolen body parts as a wedding gift. Once made whole, Tarḫunz/Tarḫunna defeats Illuynka in a rematch; but his horrified son attempts to stop him from killing the dragon-god by demanding that he be killed too, Tarḫunz/Tarḫunna obliging and killing them both.

* ''Manga/{{Yaiba}}'' uses this as a depiction of the Yamata no {{Orochi}}: before it's debut, it was ominously described as an incredibly destructive and terrifying monster of unknown origin that rampaged across Japan before being defeated by Susano'o and sealed deep inside the earth, pinned there by several magic swords. However, the monster kept absorbing negativity and grow larger during its sealed phase, so that when it's finally released the Yamata no Orochi turns into a colossal monstrous dragon the size of Japan,.... by ''enveloping the entire Japanese archipelago in its flesh''. In his released form he eventually splits his heand into eight monstrous heads, each different and monstrously-shaped, while its powers allow it to burn the entire North America to ashes in ''minutes''.

* Maleficent's [[OneWingedAngel dragon form]] at the end of ''WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty''.

** Giratina, also introduced in ''VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl'', is a Ghost/Dragon-type Legendary Pokémon that was so violent and destructive that it was banished to the [[EldritchLocation Distortion World]]. It appears as a cross between a skeletal dragon and a centipede with shadowy wings in its Altered Forme, and in its Origin Forme it loses its legs and its wings become CombatTentacles.

* ''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 an eldritch BioweaponBeast resembling a six-armed, six-eyd bipedal dragon; 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. Execrated beyond space and time, it wanders the multiverse seeking to devour anything it comes across.

*** The Film/MonsterVerse incarnation of Godzilla -- while ostensibly a species of prehistoric reptile from the Permian period -- is at least [[TimeAbyss 251 million years old]],[[note]]The novelization of ''[[Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019 Godzilla: King of the Monsters]]'' has a character speculate that the Titans are the last remnants of a form of life that originated in the volcanic hellscape of the Hadean period, 4 ''billion'' years ago and long before conventional life evolved.[[/note]] feeds off radiation either passively or by eating other Titans, was worshipped as a storm-god by ancient civilizations, lives in an active volcano adjacent to a sunken Cyclopean city (one of a number of shout-outs to the ''Cthulhu Mythos''), emits a form of radiation that terraforms the Earth, and a deceased member of his species was worshipped by the Canaanites as the sea-god Dagon (another ''Cthulhu Mythos'' shout-out).[[note]]Toho's stipulations for Godzilla's portrayal in ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'' and the crossover with ''[[VideoGame/CallOfDutyModernWarfare2019 Call of Duty: Warzone]]'' make him even more otherworldly, stipulating him to be a SingleSpecimenSpecies, removing his association with radiation, and stating that he does not need to eat or drink to survive.[[/note]]

*** 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. In the ''Godzilla vs. [[Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion Evangelion]]'' crossover pachinko machine, Evangelion Unit-01 and Unit-02 are infused with Godzilla tissue samples, eventually [[TheVirus causing them to mutate]] into Evangelion/Godzilla hybrids called "Eva-01 Godzilla Awakening Form" and "Eva-02 Beast Godzilla Mode".
*** A deleted scene meant to be used at the end of ''Shin Godzilla'' would've established this incarnation of Gojira as even more eldritch in nature, with pieces of him that were blown off during the fight growing eyes and teeth and implicitly mutating into more, smaller Godzillas that will continue threatening humanity.