History Main / DraconicHumanoid

** It's implied that taking a humanoid form is an ability Ancient Dragons possess. Monnet goes around as a humanoid dragon [[spoiler:as does Jude, though his humanoid form looks no different than any other deity]].
** Terranord's daughter, Boule, is also one but in her case she was transformed into one by Laura to hold back her destructive nature. By the post-game, due to Laura being exhausted from [[spoiler:pooling in her magic to bring Pieberry back to life]] the spell began to weaken, though the shift is only temporary.

* In the ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' fanfic ''[[Fanfic/LeviathanMyHeroAcademia Leviathan]]'', Izuku is this when he has control of his transformation, [[https://78.media.tumblr.com/2e2154419f43a2f170b2b8ca8d78c48b/tumblr_p3p5gidztr1vn7x87o1_1280.png gaining scales and fins all over his body as well as a dragon-like tail.]] If the transformation continues, his legs mutate to become more reptilian, akin to a raptor-like dinosaur, giving him enhanced speed and maneuverability.
* In ''Fanfic/TheLoudAwakening'', Lori turns into a CuteMonsterGirl version, complete with blue draconic horns, scales, wings, and tail, as well as an increase in height and muscle mass.
* Interestedly enough, ''Fanfic/AKnightsTaleAsInquisitor'' presents an [[InvertedTrope inverted example]] in the form of protagonist Arturia Pendragon. Thanks to a [[BloodMagic blood ritual performed by Merlin]], Arturia is essentially the {{Reincarnation}} of the Red Dragon, meaning that she has all the qualities that belong to a dragon. It is actually more accurate to identify Arturia as a dragon that happens to ''look'' human.
* Bahija[[note]]whose true name is "Acutus", per the Author's Notes[[/note]] in ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/27736435 Zero Context: Taking Out the Trash]]''. Her humanoid form sports massive clawed feet and a body of durable fur, feathers and scales that lets her ignore a wide selection of physical damage.
* Nabiki Tendo ends up at the cruxpoint of this, WereDragon and CuteMonsterGirl in ''Fanfic/TeenTitansTokyo'' when she is cursed with "the last coin of Fafnir's hoard". She can freely shapeshift between her old form, and a form that looks like her with various draconic physical traits, including bestial paws for feet, clawed fingers, horns, a tail, vestigial wings, and a forked tongue. She actually struggles to remain in her human form for prolonged periods, but chooses to ignore the implications of that. Also, she can [[BreathWeapon breathe fire, ice and poison/acid]].

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Beowulf|2007}}'': Grendel's mother [[{{Glamour}} may look like]] a golden Creator/AngelinaJolie to observers, but whenever she is [[GlamourFailure seen in reflection]], it becomes clear her true form is that of a dragon-like humanoid with golden scales, and what appears to be a prehensile plait is actually a reptilian tail.
* [[BigBad Maleficent]] from Disney's ''WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty'' in her normal form resembles a green-skinned humanoid woman with some draconic features, such as twisting horns on her head and a cloak resembling massive wings. [[OneWingedAngel Guess what she can turn into...]]

* Shendu and his son Drago from ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'' take the form of wingless humanoid dragons. Shendu has two arms and two legs much like a human, but otherwise he still looks like a huge reptilian monster. Drago on the other hand is human-sized and has more anthropomorphic features. Shendu also temporarily alters Valmont's appearance to resemble one when it appeared that they would permanently have to share a body.
* In the first episode of ''WesternAnimation/MartinMorning'', "[[MartinMorningS01E01MightyDragonMartin Mighty Dragon Martin]]", Martin suddenly sprouts the hands, wings, ears, and tail of a dragon right after he wakes up in the morning, but the rest of his body remains human. He also gains fire breath.

* ''VideoGame/TwistedWonderland'': Dragon-based fairies shown onscreen all have pairs of dragon horns. Malleus in particular is nicknamed Tsunotarō/Hornton for it.

* [[BigBad Maleficent]] from Disney's ''WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty'' in her normal form resembles a green-skinned humanoid woman with some draconic features, such as twisting horns on her head and a cloak resembling massive wings. [[OneWingedAngel Guess what also turns into...]]

* ''Videogame/AlteredBeast'' had a Weredragon that while having human proportions [[https://blogtectoy.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/altered-beast-12.png had a more animal stance]], something not all followed in ''[[http://gaminghell.co.uk/images/pabeast4.jpg Project Altered Beast]]''. It also appeared in ''Videogame/SegaHeroes'', [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/sega-heroes/images/5/5f/WeredragonBeastModelSH.png/revision/latest?cb=20190929162440 even more humanoid]] because it remained on the ground instead of always flying.

* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'': The Targaryen family have been known to have stillborn babies with dragon features. The Targaryens boast that they are "the blood of the dragon," and this might suggest some literal DragonAncestry. These stories come from {{Unreliable Expositor}}s: maesters and Mirri Maz Duur -- but these two sources are completely unrelated and wouldn't have known about each other. The fact that they corroborate each other is makes both seem pretty believable. A conservative list of just the stillborns ''explicitly'' said to have dragon features includes:

* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'': The Targaryen family have been known to have stillborn babies with dragon features. The Targaryens boast that they are "the blood of the dragon," and this might suggest it's literally true. These stories come from {{Unreliable Expositor}}s: maesters and Mirri Maz Duur -- but these two sources are completely unrelated and wouldn't have known about each other. The fact that they corroborate each other is makes both seem pretty believable. A conservative list of just the stillborns ''explicitly'' said to have dragon features includes:

* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'': The Targaryen family boast that they are "the blood of the dragon," and they have stillborn babies with dragon features on more than one occasion. Some merely described as twisted or malformed, but a conservative list of ''just'' those who are explicitly mentioned as having dragon features includes:
** Dany's son Rhaego:

** Maegor's wife Elinor had a stillborn with small wings and no eyes.
** Rhaenyra and Daemon's daughter Visenya: "twisted and malformed, with a hole in her chest where her heart should have been and a stubby, scaled tail."

* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'': There's a series of the Targaryen family having stillborn babies with dragon features. The most prominent example is Dany's son Rhaego, who has scales, wings, and a small tail. Targaryen history is full of other examples. Maegor's wife Elinor had a stillborn with small wings and no eyes. Rhaenyra and Daemon's daughter Visenya had a scaled tail.

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* In both ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTacticsAdvance'' and ''[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyTacticsA2 A2]]'', one Bangaa job, the Dragoon, allows them to have breath weapons. Ordinarily they'd be LizardFolk, but it seems they're using their tangential relationship to dragons here. In ''A2'', the Gria race consists of humanoids that possess horns, tails, and wings like a dragon.
* PlayedWith in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' with the Au Ra, a race of people that look human and have horns, scaly patches on their bodies, and a scaly tail. However, they are not dragons. This didn't stop some of the knights in Ishgard for mistaking a group of Au Ra refugees as dragons and killing them anyway since dragons are Ishgard's sworn enemies. During development for the ''Heavensward'' expansion, the devs were going to have the Au Ra be actual dragon people, but they changed their designs to look more demonic since it wouldn't make sense for a race of dragon people to be able to walk freely in a city that hates dragons.

** Half-dragons have a particularly interesting history. They debuted in the setting ''TabletopGame/CouncilOfWyrms'' for TabletopGame/AdvancedDungeonsAndDragonsSecondEdition and were exclusively {{Nonhuman Humanoid Hybrid}}s, being the offspring of male gold, silver, copper or bronze dragons with female elves, dwarves, gnomes or halflings. Regardless of their mother's race, all half-dragons had the same form, which loosely resembled an elfin humanoid with serpentine facial features and scaly skin. An issue of ''Magazine/{{Dragon}}'' subsequently expanded the race by adding it to other settings, adding a few alternative dragon parents (such as [[TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms deep dragons]] and [[TabletopGame/{{Greyhawk}} Oerth dragons]]) and allowing for half-human half-dragons. These early half-dragons also had to sacrifice their {{demihuman}} racial abilities for their draconic abilities. In TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragonsThirdEdition, half-dragons could come from a much broader spectrum of demihuman/dragon couplings, it didn't matter which gender the dragon was (the TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms canonically have a female blue dragon who keeps a literal ''army'' of her half-dragon sons), their appearance was now "non-dragon parent with random degree of draconic bits", and their draconic abilities were added to their standard racial abilities.

* ''VideoGame/HonkaiStarRail'' has the Chinese dragon inspired Vidyadhara, a race of humanoids descended from the draconic Aeon of Permanance, Long. They are distinguished by their sharp pointed ears and long lifespans with periodic rebirthing from eggs. Their High Elders have dragon horns on their heads and have tails, as well as having the ability to transform into dragons. [[Spoiler:Dan Heng, one of the starting characters, is the current reincarnation of the last High Elder, Dan Feng, and is exiled from the race due to a grave sin Dan Feng committed.]]

** There is also the Sui: Dusk, Nian, and Ling, who also have eastern dragon characteristics, but are of an unidentified race separate from from the Lung. [[spoiler: Specifically, they are [[PiecesOfGod "siblings" created when an ancient dragon god was shattered]].]]\