While not as many dragons appear in animated films compared to TV shows, they're just as likely to come packed with lots and lots of fire.
- Animalympics: At the beginning of the movie, the Olympics torch is lit by the fiery breath of a sleeping dragon.
- Barbie & The Diamond Castle: Lydia's main henchman, Slyder, is a small, snake-like european dragon who speaks with a lisp. Most of the characters simply call him a snake.
- Bartok the Magnificent: The villainous Ludmilla receives an unwitting transformation into a pink, fat, three-horned wingless dragon during her Villain Song (as seen here
) after drinking Bartok's potion, which is said to "bring out the inner self" when consumed. Being extremely vain and caring about her own beauty and lust for power turned her into a dragon based on her personality. Somewhat related to Maleficent's transformation in Sleeping Beauty, except more comedic and less threatening (she was defeated by a freakin bat for crying out loud! At least it took a bunch of magical fairies and an enchanted sword to bring Maleficent down). This also ends up as a rare unintentional case of Scaled Up. - Beowulf (2007): The dragon is similar to a wyvern, with two hind legs and two batlike wings for forearms. The one we see also has fins on his tail to help with swimming, and may be fully amphibious. It's unclear if this is standard for dragons in the setting, or if he's part sea serpent due to his mother's aquatic heritage. Aside from him, another dragon is mentioned and yet another is spoken of in the novelization.
- Disney Animated Canon:
- Fantasia 2000: A dragon can be seen among the various mythical creatures (the others being a unicorn and a gryphon) that were mocking the animals that were boarding Noah's Ark, and is presumably drowned in the flood.
- Mulan: Mushu is an Eastern dragon reduced to being a Plucky Comic Relief Empathy Pet. His lack of powers may be due to his being demoted after failing as a family guardian. He claims that his small stature is intentional ("I'm travel-sized for your convenience"), but is most likely a bluff. He can breathe fire (a little) and fly (with help), which comes in handy later on.
- Raya and the Last Dragon: The titular dragon Sisu is an Eastern dragon who is portrayed as being the Last of Her Kind. While she can fly by manipulating rainwater, she breathes ice instead of fire. And in addition to being able to talk like a human, she's able to assume the form of one, which is quite useful since Raya is trying to keep Sisu's true nature a secret for the first half of the movie.
- Sleeping Beauty: At the end of the movie, Maleficent turns into a huge, black-scaled dragon to fight the prince.
- The Sword in the Stone: During the Shapeshifter Showdown, Merlin objects to Madame Mim's turning into a dragon as this goes against the rules she herself laid out. Mim retorts that she only banned pink dragons, as such — she didn't say anything about purple ones, specifically.
- Doraemon: Nobita and the Winged Braves: Phoenicia is a large dragon-like creature. He doesn't show fire-breathing until he gets accidentally evolved by the Transgression Beam.
- Dragon and Slipper: Goliath is a retired dragon, who no longer kidnaps princesses, and just wants to be left alone fishing. However, he admits that in his active years, he was just like the other dragons in folklore.
- Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children: Kadaj manages to use Yuffie's Materia to summon a Bahamut, Bahanut SIN. A wicked, twisted looking Western dragon with ram's horns on its head and the ability to blast blue fire/plasma bolts.
- The Flight of Dragons is a story Inspired by… the art book The Flight of Dragons by Peter Dickinson (described on the Literature page). The dragons are able to fly despite their large size because they generate hydrogen gas within their bodies (by eating limestone), and then steer with their wings, and breathe fire when they exhale said gas. This also means that if they breathe too much fire, they will not be able breathe more fire or fly until they can generate more hydrogen gas. An explanation is also given for them having a Dragon Hoard: gold is comfortable (soft) to sleep on, and won't catch on fire. Most of the dragons pictured are Western-style and have extremely varied coloration and horn combinations, although one Eastern-style dragon does appear.
- Hotel Transylvania: Transformania: Downplayed. It's not explicitly stated if Johnny's monster form is a bone-fide dragon, lizardman or some other reptilian creature. However, his horns, green scales, serpentine body and tall stature, as well as the fire breath and wings he develops later on, are all traits commonly associated with dragons.
- How to Train Your Dragon is founded on this trope, and even its own dragons are often very different from one another. Almost all dragons possess a Breath Weapon: fire is the most common, but others include corrosive slime, sonic roars, boiling water and lightning. Limb configuration varies — some dragons have the classic six-limbed arrangement, some are wyvern-like bipeds, others are still four-limbed but move on all fours like bats, some are entirely wingless and still others have no limbs but their wings — and a number of species are polycephalic. Almost all of these are trainable and, minimally, semi-sentient. They tend to understand human languages and the smartest ones, like Toothless, are at least as smart as people.
- Dragons are divided into a number of classes in the franchise's internal mythos: Strike (fast, powerful, and intelligent Lightning Bruisers), Stoker (particularly focused on the use of fire), Boulder (themed around rocks and the earth; many Boulder-class dragons are either adept diggers, rock-eaters or both), Tracker (distinguished by keen senses, such as smell or eyesight), Sharp (possessing a variety of bladed or piercing Natural Weapons), Tidal (marine dragons of various sorts) and Mystery (dragons that don't fit anywhere else).
- The original movie introduces a relatively limited roster of dragons as part of the flock that raids Berk: the Night Fury (a frighteningly fast Strike-class dragon with a Breath Weapon like a turbolaser), the Monstrous Nightmare (a four-limbed, bat-like Stoker that can emit flame from its entire skin), the Gronckle (a Boulder-class that looks like a huge, armored bumblebee), the Zippleback (a two-headed Mystery dragon; one head breathes gas, the other head lights it), the Deadly Nadder (a wyvern-like Tracker that can shoot spikes out of its tail), the Terrible Terror (a diminutive Stoker that's pretty dangerous despite its small size) and the Red Death (which is big enough to chew up a longboat, has club tail, six eyes and enough firepower to blow away the entire grounded fleet with one burn, and kept all the other dragons in thrall). Several more species re given a passing mention in the Dragon Manual (a dragonslayers' textbook of sorts), all of which are given more attention in the sequel films and the animated series.
- How to Train Your Dragon 2 adds several new species, the most notable of these being the absolutely gigantic (bigger than anything we've seen before) ice-breathing sea dragons called "Bewilderbeasts" and the Stormcutter, a slightly owl-like dragon with four wings that form an X shape when it flies when viewed from the front.
- The Loud House Movie: Not only are they actually real, like Lana speculated, but they seemingly grow older by how much they eat: during the course of the movie, Lela goes from about Lily's size to twice her size just by eating some burritos, and by the climax she's about as big as the former dragon of the family.
- Babe the Dragon in Luck (2022) is the CEO of the land of luck, she has the ability to sniff out bad luck, and her fire can forge good/bad luck stones. She lacks wings and has six legs, giving her an appearance more akin to eastern dragons/drakes than typical western depictions.
- The titular missing link in The Missing Link encounters a foul-mouthed dragon with comparatively small wings that farts fire voiced by Bill Murray.
- Monkey King: Hero Is Back: In this case, a beautifully animated traditional Chinese dragon, Bai Long Ma (White Dragon Horse).
- My Father's Dragon: Boris (and supposedly his family) are striped dragons with tiny wings, that glow when they are about to take flight. They also age the equivalent of one human year every 10 years. To breathe fire, they also need to go through the process of becoming an After Dragon, by absorbing Wild Island's core, which threatens to sink every 100 years.
- Ne Zha: The dragons here are the classical Chinese kind, with serpentine bodies, thick manes, catfish-like whiskers and short antlers engraved with complex patterns. They once battled and imprisoned demons and monsters in the service of Heaven, but have since become trapped in their domain as eternal jailers of their charges and have come to be seen as themselves being demons and monsters, something they're profoundly bitter about.
- NIMONA (2023): One of Nimona's forms is a dragon. Specifically, the Kwispy Dragon mascot which can breathe cereal pieces.
- Onward: The Lightfoots have a small pet dragon named Blazey that acts like a dog. A brief scene in the prologue shows a party of adventurers battling a huge and aggressive dragon, suggesting that they were selectively bred over the centuries to be pets and used to be larger and fiercer. A dragon-shaped golem made up of buildings and objects is brought to life by a curse.
- The Pilgrim's Progress (2019): During Christian’s journey he encounters “the Supervisor” (who is actually Apollyon). After failing to talk Christian out of his quest, he turns into a dragon and tries to kill him. The dragon form has the traditional six limbs but lacks the long neck normally seen on western dragons.
- Quest for Camelot: Dragons are fairly standard fire-breathing, vaguely crocodilian hexapods that attack humans on sight. Except the one that joins the main characters as comic relief, which is bipedal, anthropomorphic, and has two heads with opposite personalities. They claim to be a result of inbreeding, which would mean the other dragons are intelligent but don't talk to humans. Their breath weapon appears to be anachronistic references.
- Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School: Matches is tiny, and he can't breathe fire indefinitely; if he breathes too much fire in too short a period of time (or if he gets wet), his "pilot light" will go out and he'll only be able to breathe smoke until it recharges.
- Shrek: The huge dragon at first appears to be an old-fashioned monstrous Western Dragon, but is soon revealed to be surprisingly intelligent. And female. Although she isn't capable of human speech per se, she's capable of grunts, growls, and other sounds that work as a language well enough for Donkey, at least, to understand. She goes on to be the partner of Donkey, bearing children with him.
- Son of the White Horse: The dragons are shape-shifters, for one. To further elaborate...
- The Three-Headed Dragon is a rock caveman that can retract two of his heads. He's the personification of the male side of lust and fertility, with prominent balls, though he lacks a penis.
- The Seven-Headed Dragon looks like a tank bristling with cannons, representing 20th century warfare and domestic abuse with a massive tank-turret phallos.
- The Twelve-Headed Dragon is a fluid, crawling city that can spawn limbs at will, has reflective, electronic faces, and wears smog as a robe. No visible genitalia on this one, and he doesn't mind if one of his "heads" (read: skyscrapers) gets blown off.
- Wish Dragon: One of the first things Din notes about Long is that he is pink and furry instead of green and scaly. Long is a wish dragon, which is a punishment for mortals before they ascend to Heaven to learn the true value of life. He has to grant three wishes to ten masters before he is allowed to move on to the afterlife.
