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** ''Series/KyoryuSentaiZyuranger'': Burai and his ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' counterpart Tommy; Burai's official title is even "Dragon Ranger". Burai is more knightly than Tommy is, but both qualify as dragon-themed warriors. It's taken even further when their dragon-themed Zords [[CombiningMecha combine with other zords]], transforming into Megazords that resemble giant warriors with dragon-themed armor.
** ''Series/KyukyuSentaiGoGoV'': Salamandes and his US counterpart Olympius from ''Series/PowerRangersLightspeedRescue'' look like Dragon Knights. When they go OneWingedAngel during the finale, they turn into a dragon like form.
** ''Series/PowerRangersMysticForce'': Nick becomes one when he physically merges with a dragon for his SuperMode, known as the Red Dragonfire Ranger.
** ''Series/JukenSentaiGekiranger'': Long and Dai Shi from ''Series/PowerRangersJungleFury'' have the ability to transform into a Dragon Knight-like form. But in this case its based on an eastern dragon. [[spoiler:It is revealed during the finale that Long and Dai Shi are actually real dragons, with Long disguising himself as a human to manipulate the other characters for his own amusement and Dai Shi possessing a human while he regains power.]]
** ''Series/UchuSentaiKyuranger'': Shou Ronpo is a DraconicHumanoid alien who channels the power of the Draco constellation in his Ranger form.

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** ''Series/KyoryuSentaiZyuranger'': Burai from ''Series/KyoryuSentaiZyuranger'' and his ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' counterpart Tommy; Burai's official title is even "Dragon Ranger". Burai is more knightly than Tommy is, but both qualify as dragon-themed warriors. It's taken even further when their dragon-themed Zords [[CombiningMecha combine with other zords]], transforming into Megazords that resemble giant warriors with dragon-themed armor.
** ''Series/KyukyuSentaiGoGoV'': Salamandes from ''Series/KyukyuSentaiGoGoV'' and his US counterpart Olympius from ''Series/PowerRangersLightspeedRescue'' look like Dragon Knights. When they go OneWingedAngel during the finale, they turn into a dragon like form.
** ''Series/PowerRangersMysticForce'': Nick of ''Series/PowerRangersMysticForce'' becomes one a Dragon Knight when he physically merges with a dragon for his SuperMode, known as the Red Dragonfire Ranger.
** ''Series/JukenSentaiGekiranger'': Long from ''Series/JukenSentaiGekiranger'' and Dai Shi from ''Series/PowerRangersJungleFury'' have the ability to transform into a Dragon Knight-like form. But in this case its based on an eastern dragon. [[spoiler:It is revealed during the finale that Long and Dai Shi are actually real dragons, with Long disguising himself as a human to manipulate the other characters for his own amusement and Dai Shi possessing a human while he regains power.]]
** ''Series/UchuSentaiKyuranger'': Shou Ronpo in ''Series/UchuSentaiKyuranger'' is a DraconicHumanoid alien who channels the power of the Draco constellation in his Ranger form.



** The series has dabbled with this with some of its monsters, but it wasn't until ''VideoGame/DragonQuestVIII'' that there was actually a full blown Dragon Knight in the party.
** The Mandrake line of monsters are draconian sword-and-shield fighters.
** Hero's Spear weapon-tree in ''VIII'' contains many skills that are typically associated with Dragon Knights. At level 70, the Hero is capable of learning "Dragon Soul", a move that actually calls onto the powers of Dragon. Two of the hero's special armors, Metal King Armor and [[spoiler: Dragovian]] Armor even look very similar to the "Dragoon" Armor you'd find from the ''Final Fantasy'' series. [[spoiler: The reveal of the Hero's true heritage as Half-Human, Half-Dragovian makes this go full circle and makes him a literal Dragon Knight.]]

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** The series has dabbled with this with some of its monsters. The Dragon Rider line, introduced in ''VideoGame/DragonQuestIV'', is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin; knights riding dragons. The Mandrake line of monsters introduced in ''VideoGame/DragonQuestV'' are draconian sword-and-shield fighters. There's also the Hackasaurus line, introduced in ''VideoGame/DragonQuestVI'', that is only a little knightly by being bipedal dragons with axes but no armor -- except for one variant in ''VideoGame/DragonQuestX'', Paladinos, that do have armor.
** Both ''VideoGame/DragonQuestVI'' and ''VideoGame/DragonQuestVII'' allowed the party to learn draconic skills, as the JobSystem in each includes vocations based on
monsters, but it including dragon options. ''VI'' in particular had just ''two'' monster vocations, and "Dragon" got one of the exclusive slots (the other was MetalSlime).
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wasn't until ''VideoGame/DragonQuestVIII'' that there was actually a full blown Dragon Knight in the party.
** The Mandrake line of monsters are draconian sword-and-shield fighters.
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party: the Hero's Spear weapon-tree in ''VIII'' contains many skills that are typically associated with Dragon Knights. At level 70, the Hero is capable of learning "Dragon Soul", a move that actually calls onto the powers of Dragon. Two of the hero's special armors, Metal King Armor and [[spoiler: Dragovian]] [[spoiler:Dragovian]] Armor even look very similar to the "Dragoon" Armor you'd find from the ''Final Fantasy'' series. [[spoiler: The [[spoiler:The reveal of the Hero's true heritage as Half-Human, Half-Dragovian makes this go full circle and makes him a literal Dragon Knight.]]
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'''Iroh''': [[PreAsskickingOneLiner I was thinking more of a]] [[BreathWeapon demonstration]]...

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'''Iroh''': [[PreAsskickingOneLiner I was thinking It's more of a]] [[BreathWeapon demonstration]]...demonstration, really]]...


** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTacticsAdvance'' and ''[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyTacticsA2 A2]]'' have Dragoon as an exclusive job for [[LizardFolk Bangaa]] which in addition to the traditional Jump attack, have a FireIceLightning BreathWeapon and a [[MakeMeWannaShout scream attack]].

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** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTacticsAdvance'' and ''[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyTacticsA2 A2]]'' have Dragoon as an exclusive job for [[LizardFolk Bangaa]] which in addition to the traditional Jump attack, have a FireIceLightning BreathWeapon and a [[MakeMeWannaShout [[SuperScream scream attack]].

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** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyII'' introduces the class with Richard Highwind, the SoleSurvivor of Deist's dragoons. He mostly uses swords, and he can't jump, but his armor has a dragon theme and you do get a wyvern to [[DragonRider ride into battle]].

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** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyII'' introduces the class with Richard Highwind, the SoleSurvivor of Deist's dragoons. He mostly uses swords, used swords instead of spears and he can't jump, but his armor has a dragon theme and you do get a wyvern to [[DragonRider ride into battle]].battle]]. Later remakes of the game did give him proficiency with spears.



** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTactics'' has the Dragoon as a job specializing solely in the [[DeathFromAbove Jump]] skill which allows them to [[InASingleBound excecute leaping attacks from very far away]].

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** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXVI'' has the Holy Knights Dragoon, the most honored division of knights that serve the Holy Empire of Sanbreque, which is also lead by the Empire's crown prince, Dion Lesage. For added points, the Empire consider dragons divine creatures, lesser dragons like wyrms are trained as beasts of war, the Dragoons' acrobatic fighting style is said in-game to be modeled after the movements of dragons, and Dion himself is the current Dominant of Bahamut.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTactics'' has the Dragoon as a job specializing solely in the [[DeathFromAbove Jump]] skill which allows them to [[InASingleBound excecute execute leaping attacks from very far away]].
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* ''Literature/TheBeginningAfterTheEnd'': The main protagonist Arthur Leywin is a legacy Beast Tamer who was given his Beast Will by the dragon Sylvia, which allows him to borrow her abilities in combat. Not only that, but before she died she entrusted him with caring for her daughter Sylvie, who becomes his bond and frequently [[DragonRider serves as his mount in battle]]. Later on, he becomes one of the Lances, the most powerful MagicKnight[=s=] in Dicathen. In Volume 8, [[spoiler:his mana core is damaged beyond recovery due to him overexerting himself in the climax of the previous volume, which in turn prevents him from using his Beast Will. However, thanks to Sylvie performing a HeroicSacrifice to keep him from tearing himself apart in the process, his body has become part draconic. From that point onward he eventually finds a way to RePower himself through mastering [[ElementNumberFive aether]], and he even gets access to an ancient suit of PoweredArmor. In an ironic twist, at the same time he learns that the dragons were responsible for committing genocide on the ancient [[{{Precursors}} Djinn]], who as it turns out his family are descended from]].
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Not to be confused with ''Literature/TheDragonKnight'' series of books, ''Series/KamenRiderDragonKnight'', or the manga ''Manga/DragonKnights''.

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Not to be confused with ''Literature/TheDragonKnight'' series of books, ''Series/KamenRiderDragonKnight'', or the manga ''Manga/DragonKnights''.
''Manga/DragonKnights'', or ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPandaTheDragonKnight''.
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* ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'': The Dragoons, who have a distinct dragon motif in their armor and are famed for their [[InASingleBound jumping attacks]] and [[BladeOnAStick spears]]. Oddly, the translations name them for a type of real-world soldier that has nothing to do with spears, jumping, ''or'' dragons; they are properly "dragon knights" in the Japanese games. Translations of the SNES-era ran into CharacterNameLimits, and {{Woolseyism}} stepped in.

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* ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'': The Dragoons, who have a distinct dragon motif in their armor and are famed for their [[InASingleBound jumping attacks]] and [[BladeOnAStick spears]]. spears. Oddly, the translations translation's name them for a type of real-world soldier that has nothing to do with spears, jumping, ''or'' dragons; they are properly "dragon knights" in the Japanese games. Translations of the SNES-era ran into CharacterNameLimits, and {{Woolseyism}} stepped in.
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* ''VideoGame/EmeraldDragon'': Atrushan is a dragon, who takes human form to avoid the anti-dragon curse that is placed on the human world. During his time there he dons armor and [[HeroesPreferSwords fights with a sword]], returning to his original form only for one-off {{Limit Break}}s, that [[CastFromHitPoints hurt him]].
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** In ''Anime/YuGiOhCapsuleMonsters'' Joey again fuses with Red-Eyes, albeit this time it's corrupted by a cursed sword stuck inside its back, so Joey himself becomes possessed as well. Later, Yami Yugi uses the Duel Armor to fuse with Blue-Eyes White Dragon, and against the FinalBoss he fuses with the four dragon monsers his friends and grandfather collected during the season.

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** In ''Anime/YuGiOhCapsuleMonsters'' Joey again fuses with Red-Eyes, albeit this time it's corrupted by a cursed sword stuck inside its back, so Joey himself becomes possessed as well. Later, Yami Yugi uses the Duel Armor to fuse with Blue-Eyes White Dragon, and against the FinalBoss he fuses with the four dragon monsers monsters his friends and grandfather collected during the season.
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** In ''Anime/YuGiOhCapsuleMonsters'' Joey again fuses with Red-Eyes, albeit this time it's corrupted by a cursed sword stuck inside its back, so Joey himself becomes possesed as well. Later Yami Yugi uses the Duel Armor to fuse with Blue-Eyes White Dragon, and against the FinalBoss he fuses with the four dragon monsers his friends and grandfather collected during the season.

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** In ''Anime/YuGiOhCapsuleMonsters'' Joey again fuses with Red-Eyes, albeit this time it's corrupted by a cursed sword stuck inside its back, so Joey himself becomes possesed possessed as well. Later Later, Yami Yugi uses the Duel Armor to fuse with Blue-Eyes White Dragon, and against the FinalBoss he fuses with the four dragon monsers his friends and grandfather collected during the season.



** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII'' has the final boss The Undying which is the BigBad [[TheEvilPrince Vayne]] grafted with with giant pair of [[ClockworkCreature clockwork dragon]] {{wing|edHumanoid}}s, armor and head ac reated by fusing with machinery from his OminousFloatingCastle. His most powerful attack is to shoot a BreathWeapon from the skull of the dragon parts.

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** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII'' has the final boss The Undying which is the BigBad [[TheEvilPrince Vayne]] grafted with with giant pair of [[ClockworkCreature clockwork dragon]] {{wing|edHumanoid}}s, armor and head ac reated are created by fusing with machinery from his OminousFloatingCastle. His most powerful attack is to shoot a BreathWeapon from the skull of the dragon parts.



** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'' has Oerba Yun Fang, styled after Dragoons with her usage of spears and her jump-based LimitBreak. For bonus points, her Eidolin is the baddest dragon in the series, Bahamut.

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** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'' has Oerba Yun Fang, styled after Dragoons with her usage of spears and her jump-based LimitBreak. For bonus points, her Eidolin Eidolon is the baddest dragon in the series, Bahamut.



** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTacticsAdvance'' and ''[[Videogames/FinalFantasyTacticsA2 A2]]'' have Dragoon as an exclusive job for [[LizardFolk Bangaa]] which in addition to the traditional Jump attack have a FireIceLightning BreathWeapon and a [[MakeMeWannaShout scream attack]].

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** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTacticsAdvance'' and ''[[Videogames/FinalFantasyTacticsA2 ''[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyTacticsA2 A2]]'' have Dragoon as an exclusive job for [[LizardFolk Bangaa]] which in addition to the traditional Jump attack attack, have a FireIceLightning BreathWeapon and a [[MakeMeWannaShout scream attack]].



* ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara'': Date Masamune is a samurai version of this. His name is "the One-eyed Dragon", his sheathes for his 6 swords have "webs" inbetween that gives them the splitting image of dragon's wings, and the dragon imagery comes up in some of his attacks.

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* ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara'': Date Masamune is a samurai version of this. His name is "the One-eyed Dragon", his sheathes for his 6 swords have "webs" inbetween in-between that gives them the splitting image of dragon's wings, and the dragon imagery comes up in some of his attacks.

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* ''LightNovel/MagicalGirlRaisingProject'': La Pucelle uses a dragon motif. La Pucelle's armor and swords have dragon-like markings all over them. The whole outfit is completed with dragon eyes, horns, and a dragon tail. In-Universe, La Pucelle's nickname is even "Dragon Knight".


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* ''Literature/MagicalGirlRaisingProject'': La Pucelle uses a dragon motif. La Pucelle's armor and swords have dragon-like markings all over them. The whole outfit is completed with dragon eyes, horns, and a dragon tail. In-Universe, La Pucelle's nickname is even "Dragon Knight".
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* ''Series/HouseOfTheDragon'': Daemon Targaryen owns an impressive armor with dragon-like features, and possibly like in the books, he and the rest of the Targaryens might be genetically connected to dragons.
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** While the Dragon Cult worships dragons, the warriors of Dragon Communion ''consume'' Dragons, specifically their hearts, to use their powers in battle. We don't see any Dragon Communion warriors in the game...except the Magma Wyrms, Dragon Communion warriors that have eaten so many dragon hearts they transformed into full dragons themselves. However, the PlayerCharacter can get in on it by trading dragon hearts for incantations at either the Church of Dragon Communion in Limgrave, or the Cathedral in Caelid.

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** While the Dragon Cult worships dragons, the warriors of Dragon Communion ''consume'' Dragons, specifically their hearts, to use their powers in battle. We don't see any Dragon Communion warriors in the game... except the Magma Wyrms, Dragon Communion warriors that have eaten so many dragon hearts they have transformed into full pale imitations of dragons themselves.that can only crawl on their bellies instead of flying majestically through the air (just like in previous [=FromSoft=] games, trying to turn yourself into a dragon never goes well). However, the PlayerCharacter can get in on it by trading dragon hearts for incantations at either the Church of Dragon Communion in Limgrave, or the Cathedral in Caelid. While they can't consume enough to go full Magma Wyrm, their eyes will eventually turn yellow and slitted like a dragon's.

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* ''VideoGame/EldenRing'' has two different flavors of dragon knights:

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* ''VideoGame/EldenRing'' has two a few different flavors of dragon knights:



** While the Dragon Cult worships dragons, the warriors of Dragon Communion ''consume'' Dragons, specifically their hearts, to use their powers in battle. We don't see any Dragon Communion warriors in the game...except the Magma Wyrms, Dragon Communion warriors that have eaten so many dragon hearts they transformed into full dragons themselves.

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** While the Dragon Cult worships dragons, the warriors of Dragon Communion ''consume'' Dragons, specifically their hearts, to use their powers in battle. We don't see any Dragon Communion warriors in the game...except the Magma Wyrms, Dragon Communion warriors that have eaten so many dragon hearts they transformed into full dragons themselves. However, the PlayerCharacter can get in on it by trading dragon hearts for incantations at either the Church of Dragon Communion in Limgrave, or the Cathedral in Caelid.
** The Crucible Knights draw their power and name from "the primordial crucible of life", but in practice most of these manifest with a draconic theme, as the dragons are tied to primordial life - particularly the fire breath attack.
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* ''VideoGame/EldenRing'' has two different flavors of dragon knights:
** The Dragon Cult knights are the main bulk of the forces of the capital city of Leyndell; they worship the ancient dragons and wield lightning incantations.
** While the Dragon Cult worships dragons, the warriors of Dragon Communion ''consume'' Dragons, specifically their hearts, to use their powers in battle. We don't see any Dragon Communion warriors in the game...except the Magma Wyrms, Dragon Communion warriors that have eaten so many dragon hearts they transformed into full dragons themselves.
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** Hero's Spear weapon-tree in ''VIII'' contains many skills that are typically associated with Dragon Knights. At level 70, the Hero is capable of learning "Dragon Soul", a move that actually calls onto the powers of Dragon. Two of the hero's special armors, Metal King Armor and [[spoiler: Dragovian]] Armor even look very similar to the "Dragoon" Armor you'd find from the Final Fantasy series. [[spoiler: The reveal of the Hero's true heritage as Half-Human, Half-Dragovian makes this go full circle and makes him a literal Dragon Knight.]]

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** Hero's Spear weapon-tree in ''VIII'' contains many skills that are typically associated with Dragon Knights. At level 70, the Hero is capable of learning "Dragon Soul", a move that actually calls onto the powers of Dragon. Two of the hero's special armors, Metal King Armor and [[spoiler: Dragovian]] Armor even look very similar to the "Dragoon" Armor you'd find from the Final Fantasy ''Final Fantasy'' series. [[spoiler: The reveal of the Hero's true heritage as Half-Human, Half-Dragovian makes this go full circle and makes him a literal Dragon Knight.]]
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** Imrik is the greatest living member of those Dragon Princes: he [[KnightInSourArmor is also very arrogant]]. He led his household during the Great Chaos Incursion to protect the sleeping dragons, and he took part in the Siege of Couronne defending King Charlen of Bretonnia. As his homeland is threatened by invasion again, he [[LastStand assembled]] the Dragon Princes and attempted to awake the dragons of Ulthuan.

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** Imrik is the greatest living member of those Dragon Princes: he [[KnightInSourArmor is also very arrogant]]. He led his household during the Great Chaos Incursion to protect the sleeping dragons, and he took part in the Siege of Couronne defending King Charlen of Bretonnia. As his homeland is threatened by invasion again, he [[LastStand assembled]] assembles]] the Dragon Princes and attempted attempts to awake the dragons of Ulthuan.
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* ''Film/TransformersTheLastKnight'' features the Knights of Iacon, who transform from knights to dragons. Other dragon Transformers in the franchise can qualify even if they aren't explicitly knights, like the Transmetal 2 version of Megatron from ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' and the Predacons from ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime''.

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* ''Film/TransformersTheLastKnight'' features the Knights of Iacon, who transform from knights to dragons. Other dragon Transformers in [[Franchise/{{Transformers}} the franchise franchise]] can qualify even if they aren't explicitly knights, like the Transmetal 2 version of Megatron from ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' and the Predacons from ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime''.
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** In ''Anime/YuGiOhCapsuleMonsters'' Joey again fuses with Red-Eyes, albeit this time it's corrupted by a cursed sword stuck inside it back, so Joey himself becomes possesed as well. Later Yami Yugi uses the Duel Armor to fuse with Blue-Eyes White Dragon, and against the FinalBoss he fuses with the four dragon monsers his friends and grandfather collected during the season.

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** In ''Anime/YuGiOhCapsuleMonsters'' Joey again fuses with Red-Eyes, albeit this time it's corrupted by a cursed sword stuck inside it its back, so Joey himself becomes possesed as well. Later Yami Yugi uses the Duel Armor to fuse with Blue-Eyes White Dragon, and against the FinalBoss he fuses with the four dragon monsers his friends and grandfather collected during the season.
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* ''LightNovel/MagicalGirlRaisingProject'': La Pucelle uses a dragon motif. La Pucelle's armor and swords have dragon-like markings all over them. The whole outfit is completed with dragon eyes, horns, and a dragon tail. In-Universe, La Pucelle's nickname is even "Dragon Knight"

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* ''LightNovel/MagicalGirlRaisingProject'': La Pucelle uses a dragon motif. La Pucelle's armor and swords have dragon-like markings all over them. The whole outfit is completed with dragon eyes, horns, and a dragon tail. In-Universe, La Pucelle's nickname is even "Dragon Knight"Knight".

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