Wings of Fire, being written by an Erin Hunter, is no stranger to violent deaths.
- The Dragonet Prophecy:
- The prologue has a dragon trying to steal an egg in order to fulfill The Prophecy. A rival queen captures him and proceeds to throws the egg off a cliff in front of him. Burn then spears him in the head with her poisonous tail, instantly killing him, and flings his body off the cliff too.
- The first thing that Scarlet does on-screen is bite the head off of a human. The book goes into quite a bit of detail on it as well. The sight is so upsetting that it kills Clay's appetite, even though he and his friends have previously joked about wanting to hunt humans.
- Scarlet graphically snaps Dune's neck.
- Horizon is a minor dragon who is pitted against Peril. Realizing that he can't win, he grabs hold of her and burns himself to death on her scales.
- In order to make sure no dragonets could fulfill the prophecy, all the Skywing dragonets born on the Brightest Night were killed.
- In the first book, Clay is made to fight an IceWing named Fjord. When no one is looking, Glory sprays Fjord with acid. Fjord dies a slow, agonizing death as his face and neck melt away. Clay can't bear to watch.
- Osprey is an older dragon who can't fly anymore. Scarlet grabs him and drops him from a great height. Dragon bones are difficult to break; however, Osprey falls and shatters multiple bones. He doesn't instantly die on impact.
- In the first book, a bunch of Nightwings kill all of Scarlet's IceWing prisoners. The IceWings were chained and couldn't defend themselves.
- When Clay arrives home for the first time, he and the others come across a battlefield of rotting, burning corpses.
- At the end of The Dragonet Prophecy, Queen Blister decides that Kestrel is unneeded anymore, slits her throat, and then stabs her in the heart with her poisonous tail. She wasn’t dead yet, so Morrowseer nudged her off a cliff.
- Book 2 has Tortoise, who is killed by having each one of his teeth pulled out, then impaled by Coral. Notably this is one of two deaths that seem to be censored, with Tsunami conviently looking away halfway through.
- Crocodile meets the same fate as Fjord from book one; what is essentially acid in his eye.
- A decayed sloth is found rotting in the bushes by the protagonists in book 3. It’s still alive until Clay snaps its neck so it won't die a slow, painful death.
- Book 4 has Vengeance, who is drowned in lava. Later Viper suffers a similar fate by pure accident.
- In Book 5, Blister explodes into dust after taking the Eye of Onyx.
- Book 6 has a bomb going off in a school, killing 2 dragonets.
- Book 7 reveals one of the most horrifying ones yet. 2,000 years ago Foeslayer was enchanted by Queen Diamond to be able to die over and over, then freeze in place and regenerate to be woken and killed again. She apparently has died thousands of times, and feels the pain of dying, but still lives on.
- Book 8 has Scarlet’s neck snapped.
- Darkstalker might be the darkest book yet, with several of the most violent deaths yet:
- The most notable death is Arctic’s death, the 2nd death to be censored. Arctic is forced by Darkstalker to cut out his tongue and then disembowel himself. While not described in too much detail, it still is horrifying.
- Albatross kills many dragons with an magical knife, which is an event so traumatic that it actually gives Fathom PTSD.
