The Dragon / Western Animation

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• 101 Dalmatian Street
  • Despise being presented as The Man Behind the Man, it was revealed ultimately that Hunter was after the dalmatian family by order by his great aunt, Cruella De Vil.
  • Cuddles is helping Hunter to catch the dalmatian family, but in the season finale, Hunter shocked by Cruella De Vil's true intentions and then he ditches him for Cruella.
• This character concept is parodied on Adventure Time by Gunter, the Ice King's favourite penguin.
• Aladdin: The Series has Haroud as Abis Mal's Dragon, despite almost every line Haroud says to him is dripping with sarcasm, he never actually becomes The Starscream. Also, Xerxes is to Mozenrath as Iago was to Jafar.
• Amphibia:
  • As the humans of the story arrive in Amphibia, Sasha is initially imprisoned by toads. She is able to sway them into liking her, and Commander Grime ends up making her second in command, making her the dragon of season 1.
  • The big bad of season 2 is King Andrias, but it turns out he is just the dragon to something far bigger and far scarier. And that's saying a lot because King Andrias is already huge and intimidating.
• Angel Wars: Satan is called "The Dragon" in-universe, but is not an example by this wiki's definition; that said, some villains do have seconds-in-command:
  • Krak ruled over a demonic pocket dimension called the Valkawa Nethercell, and had a jester minion who did announcements for him. After Morg challenged him and beat him, the jester worked for Morg.
  • Slitherhook led a very large army of ripwings, and was able to see distant battles for himself even while he was at his home base through an eye implant on his second-in-command, who was appropriately named Oculus.
• Avatar: The Last Airbender:
  • In the original show, Princess Azula is not only the heir-apparent to her father Fire Lord Ozai, but also his most capable combatant and strategist.
  • In the backstory, Azula's uncle Iroh presumably served in a similar capacity to her grandfather Azulon as his highest ranking general, trusted with overseeing the siege of Ba Sing Se, the Earth Kingdom's capital city.
  • The Legend of Korra:
    • Amon's second-in-command, credited as "The Lieutenant", is also the Equalists' best fighter besides Amon himself; he single-handedly takes down both Mako and Bolin during his first appearance and is nearly a match for Avatar Korra herself.
    • During his brief stint as Republic City's Chief of Police, Saikhan is the chief enforcer of Councilman Tarrlok's increasingly tyrannical policies, though his villainy is more of the punch-clock variety and he willingly steps down after the events of Book 1.
    • Korra's uncle Unalaq is revealed to be this to Vaatu, the ancient spirit of darkness, though between the former having his own agenda, Vaatu not being able to directly accomplish anything until being freed, and the two of them ultimately merging into one threat as the Dark Avatar, they could be considered a Big Bad Duumvirate instead.
    • Kuvira from Book Four has Bataar Jr., the eldest son of Suyin and Bataar Sr., who is her most loyal enforcer, Number Two, and her chief scientist/engineer. Varrick also serves as one of Kuvira's Co-Dragons until his defection, as he and Bataar Jr. were the top members of her inner circle once it was established.
• From The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes, the Enchantress is The Dragon to Loki, Abomination and Absorbing Man are Co-Dragons to the Leader, and Grim Reaper, Madam Viper, and Black Widow are Co-Dragons to Baron Strucker though Widow was actually a double agent, working for SHIELD against Strucker.
  • The second season features the Skrull Captain America, who serves as a Dragon to the Skrull Queen.
• The premiere of Batman Beyond has Mr. Fixx as Derek Powers' bodyguard, hit man, and all-around Dragon. He's killed off by the time it's over, but that's okay — a little dose of Radiation-Induced Superpowers, and Mr. Powers is set for the season.
• Ben 10:
  • Vilgax has Psyphon as his Dragon.
    • Vilgax gets Demoted to Dragon under Diagon, until Vilgax absorbs him.
  • Zs’Skayr has Dr. Viktor as his Dragon.
  • Malware had alien hunter Khyber as his Dragon.
• In BIONICLE, many Arc Villains are this to Makuta Teridax, though they are often manipulated. Examples include the infected Rahi, the Rahkshi (Chronicles), Morbuzakh, Nidhiki, Krekka, Nivawk (Adventures), and Spinax (having been brainwashed by Teridax through the possessed Maxilos) (Legends). In an in-house example, out of all members of the Brotherhood of Makuta, who all star as the Big Bads of the 2008 story (albeit with Teridax absent), Antroz stands victorious for being the brotherhood’s most skilled tactical commander, even though he’s not the brotherhood’s strongest member besides Teridax. That title goes to Icarax instead, whose traits are the reason why he isn’t the Dragon.
• Beverly to Amanda Killman from Bunsen Is a Beast.
• In Buzz Lightyear of Star Command, Warp Darkmatter is the Dragon to Big Bad Zurg. Though once the TV series started, that relationship seems to have ended, as Warp had since gone freelance.
• Rhesus-2, a cyborg monkey with a penchant for brain puns, is the Dragon for Lord Nebula in Captain Simian and the Space Monkeys.
• The Greaser Dogs, Mr. Sunshine and Sally O'Neil serve this to Rancid Rabbit from CatDog.
• Gobots: Crasher is Cy-Kill's giggling, psychotic henchwoman and is genuinely more powerful, more threatening and above all else, scarier then he is.
• Code Lyoko features Season 2 newcomer William Dunbar as the unwilling Dragon for an immaterial Big Bad in Season 4. Ironically, while William is "resurrected" numerous times after the heroes "destroy" him, his appearances are never treated only as annoyances, but instead are considered a real threat every time, thus keeping him from entering Mook territory.
  • Before this, in Seasons 2 and 3, a unique monster called "Scyphozoa" was fulfilling this role, directly enabling XANA's scheme (unlike the ordinary Mecha-Mooks). After William's conversion, the Scyphozoa was never again seen at the same time in Season 4.
• The Delightful Children from Down the Lane serve as a collective Dragon to Big Bad Father in Codename: Kids Next Door, although they also serve as the Dragon-in-Chief and the Non-Action Big Bad.
• Fright Knight from Danny Phantom acted as one to both Pariah Dark and Dark Danny. It seems he would have played the same for Vlad, but their alliance is left ambiguous due to the original writer leaving.
  • And occasionally, Skulker plays this role to Vlad.
• Dana fills this role for Bob Santino in Dogstar.
• In The Fairly Oddparents, the Lead Eliminator took on this role for The Darkness in the Wishology trilogy.
• In the first season finale of Gravity Falls, this was Bill Cipher to Gideon. In the season 2 and series finale however, it becomes more apparent that Bill is the true primary antagonist and Gideon is Demoted to Dragon before his redemption.
• Mina in Grojband, of the Minion with an F in Evil variety.
• The History episode of Home Movies has a comedic example: Evil George Washington, Picasso and Annie Oakley are planning to destroy the human race and George unveils his "killing machine, who also happens to be [his] favorite kitty" Mr. Pants, who is introduced with a catchy rap song.
  Mr. Pants: I'm the roughest, toughest kitty in the land/My name is Mr. Pants, I'm the kitty cat man/Nobody's gonna stop me from having my way/My name is Mr. Pants and have a nice day
• From Jem episodes: "The Beginning" to "Hot Time In Hawaii", Zipper is the Dragon for Eric Raymond. Zipper is arrested by the Holograms. In the same cartoon, Techrat and "The Stingers" could be considered Dragons to Eric at different times.
• General Molotov, Heloise, and Samy alternate in this role to Lucius on Jimmy Two-Shoes.
• Jonny Quest episode "Dragons of Ashida". Sumi is the bodyguard of his master Dr. Ashida. Race Bannon defeats him in a judo match before facing Dr. Ashida.
• On Kim Possible, Shego is the Dragon for Doctor Drakken. She's a good deal more practical, clever, competent and, well, better at everything other than designing and building doomsday devices than he. In the Bad Future Movie, she becomes The Supreme One over the entire world, upstaging all the other bad guys.... and transforming Drakken into her own personal Dragon.
• My Life as a Teenage Robot: Commander Smytus serves as The Dragon for Queen Vexus. Although he's competent enough to be an independent threat, he plays the role straight in Escape From Cluster Prime, and even outlasts Vexus by the climax.
• My Little Pony: Make Your Mark: Misty Brightdawn is the dragon to the main villain Opaline, but she is a different type of dragon, being an abused child forced into the role of henchmare.
• Gantu fron Lilo & Stitch: The Series is this to Dr. Jacques von Hamsterviel.
• In the Looney Tunes short "Knighty Knight Bugs", Yosemite Sam as the Black Knight actually has a dragon for a sidekick as part of his evil plan to prevent Bugs Bunny from retrieving the Singing Sword, but he constantly messes things up. At the end of the short, Sam and the dragon are tricked inside a castle tower full of dynamites, and he warns the dragon not to sneeze otherwise he will send them both blasting off into space. The dragon sneezes, and as a result the entire tower flies off to the moon with the two still inside.
  Sam: Dragons is so stupid.
• Masters of the Universe
  • In The New Adventures of He-Man, Skeletor was demoted to Dragon for the Big Bad Flogg. However, Skeletor was constantly manipulating Flogg from behind the scenes. In the action figures' mini-comics (and the revised Masters of the Univers Classics continuity), the roles were reversed.
  • That said, in both the 1980's cartoon and the 2002 revival Skeletor would eventually be revealed as simply an agent of actual Big Bad Hordak.
  • And Hordak himself was answering to a still bigger Big Bad, Horde Prime. The 2002 series didn't last long enough for us to see if he would be a player there as well, unfortunately.
• Norm to Dr. Doofenshmirtz on Phineas and Ferb.
  • In Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension Alternate Dimension Doofenshmirtz captured and defeated his dimension's Perry the Platypus and turned him into Platyborg, the General of the Norm-bot army. Platyborg is the Dragon, and the Norm-bots are sort of "sub-dragons."
• Mia and Me: General Gargona to Panthea, in the first season.
  • If Panthea has defeated, Gargona is the Dragon for Lord Drakon with Rixel (season 2) and Dax (season 3).
• Portia serves this to her mom, Mary Francis from The Mighty B!
• Motorcity: Has three main antagonists and thus three Dragons. Kane has Tooley, an idiotic but loyal man, Kaia has Rall, a shirtless terra with a mohawk whom she gives orders to and accompanies her into battle, and The Duke of Detroit has a red headed woman known as "No. 2" (possibly fitting the trope concept).
• Ninjago:
  • Samukai to Lord Garmadon in the pilot, but he gets destroyed when he unsuccessfully tries to pull a Starscream at the last second.
  • Skales to Pythor in season 1.
  • Skales to Lord Garmadon in season 2, who successfully pulls Starscream, then Garmadon and General Kozu are this to the Overlord
  • General Cryptor and Pythor to the Digital Overlord in season 3.
  • Clouse to Master Chen in season 4.
  • Morro to The Preeminent in season 5.
  • Harumi, Pythor, The Mechanic, Aspheera, and others to The Crystal King in season 15.
• The Golden Guard from The Owl House is Emperor Belos's right hand man, who often stands guard beside him or fulfills duties Belos doesn't want to leave to the Coven Scouts. It's revealed in "Hollow Mind" that Hunter, the current Golden Guard, is actually the latest in a very long line of Grimwalkers who have all served as Belos's right hand man, and were killed when they betrayed him. After learning this, Belos tries to kill Hunter as well, forcing him to flee and kickstarting his Heel–Face Turn.
• Pinky of Pinky and the Brain.
• Gwen Grande to her grandmother Giselle Grande from Polly Pocket.
  • Beth was this to Lorelei in Pollyworld.
• Paddy Padderson, the Paddleball Camp Master, Paulie and Dan Duck from Scaredy Squirrel.
• The Secret Saturdays Big Bad V.V. Argost has Munya, a silent zombie like butler who can transform into a giant half man/half spider.
• In Sheep in the Big City, Private Public is this to General Specific.
• The Simpsons:
  • Wayland Smithers Jr. is this to Charles Montgomery Burns.
  • While he usually fulfills the narrative role of The Don, Fat Tony is technically the Dragon to the rarely-glimpsed actual Don, Vittorio DiMaggio.
• South Park:
  • Kenny or Butters usually act as this to Cartman.
  • Cthulhu more or less became this to Cartman in "Mysterion Rises".
  • General Disarray to Professor Chaos.
• In The Spectacular Spider-Man, Hammerhead is the Dragon for Tombstone.
  • Most of the major villain factions in the series have Dragons. Electro acts this role for Doctor Octopus, and Silver Sable for Silvermane.
  • During the Gang War arc, the Vulture takes over as Doc Ock's Dragon while Electro is in the asylum.
• Spider-Man: The Animated Series: Alistair Smythe and Herbert Landon work as The Kingpin's Dragons in addition to being his Evil Geniuses.
  • Landon took over as the Dragon after Smythe defected.
• In Superman: The Animated Series, Darkseid's son, Kalibak, functions as his Dragon. Then Superman learns that, on top of everything else, Darkseid himself is even stronger.
  • Kalibak isn't really Darkeid's Dragon - he considers him an annoying and incompetent liability, and refuses to let him fight Superman. Desaad or Granny Goodness are probably better examples.
  • Mercy Graves probably counts as Lex Luthor's Dragon as a Ninja Maid type, but outside of her memorable Cat Fight with Harley Quinn in the "World's Finest" crossover, she never got to do much Dragon-ing. (After all, when your main adversary is Superman...)
• In Supernews, Steve Jobs has The Finder do his bidding and track down Bill Gates when they have their nerd wars.
• In many adaptations of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Shredder switches between being the Big Bad and The Dragon, though he is the most consistent archenemy of the Turtles'.
  • In the '80s cartoon, Shredder and Krang are better described as a Big Bad Duumvirate.
  • In the 2003 series, the role of the Shredder's dragon is initially filled by Hun, the Lightning Bruiser leader of the Purple Dragons gang. Eventually, he comes to share the role with Shredder's adopted daughter Karai. Later on still, the role is taken by Master Khan, a Foot member trying to bring the organization back together after its apparent dissolution.
• There are plenty of dragons in Teen Titans (2003) and a clear tendency among them to turn on their masters, beginning with Slade's failure to properly inspire Robin's loyalty or fear, continuing with Terra blasting him into a pool of lava, and Bumblebee very soon after her introduction as Brother Blood's apparent second in command. In the fourth consecutive season, Slade gets to be the dragon to Trigon. No points for guessing how that goes. In the fifth season, The Brain had much better luck with his Dragon (part of his Quirky Miniboss Squad) in the form of Monsieur Mallah: those two got their asses kicked together.
  • In season five, we actually see Co-Dragons. Monsieur Mallah is very often seen in the company of The Brain, but does not do much for the majority of the season except act as his personal bodyguard. The 'Enforcer' portion of that is sidelined to Madame Rouge, who is frequently seen as a terrifying opponent able to defeat numerous Titans with brutal efficiency, including Robin.
• Allan in Tintin is the closest the series has to a Dragon. First he's an associate of Omar Ben Salaad, then ultimate Big Bad Rastapopoulos. A bullying, volatile, aggressive creep, the only person he kowtows to is his boss of the time, although he doesn't always respect him. His longstanding relationship with the Captain means he's good at mental cruelty too.
• Transformers: Generation 1 had Starscream as Megatron's most iconic Dragon. In Season 3, Cyclonus is the Dragon to Galvatron.
  • On Transformers: Animated, the Ragtag Bunch of Misfits manage barely against the two Brutes because of Blitzwing's uncontrollable temper and Lugnut being just the sort of big, tactless idiot that would be named "Lugnut". But The Dragon, Starscream, is an intelligence and focused force that towers over all the Autobots, save Optimus himself. He even takes out Optimus' commander in one shot. Scarier still is how this foreshadows Megatron, who is bigger than both Starscream and Optimus and Starscream can't put a dent in Megatron to save his life. Who knows what horrors await in Season 3 now that Starscream has cloned himself 4 times.
    • The Starscream clones haven't done much, but Megatron did show why he's the Big Bad and Starscream's The Dragon. In the two-part season finale, Megatron gets hit by an explosion with a 100-mile radius in a small Deus ex Machina ball of Heroic Sacrifice. And all that does is damage him enough so that Optimus Prime can take him down with the Magnus Hammer.
  • Another show, Transformers: Robots in Disguise, has two dragons: Sky-Byte starts out in this role, but then is later upstaged by Scourge.
  • On Beast Wars, The Dragon role for Megatron is a little more sketchy, as it seems Dinobot fulfilled that role before his Heel–Face Turn in the pilot episode, leaving Scorponok as the official second-in-command for the rest of the season, until his abrupt death. Inferno assumed the role from that point due to his fanatical devotion to Megatron, but even he was eventually replaced by Dinobot II, who the maintained role until his Heel–Face Turn at the end of the series.
  • Transformers: Prime: Starscream is once again Megatron's Dragon, and is Dragon-in-Chief for a time while Megatron is comatose, during which Knock-Out is his dragon.
    • Now that Megatron has reawakened and Starscream has deserted him it appears Airachnid and Knockout have become Co-Dragons. Though when Airachnid tries to order the Decepticons to abandon Earth (and Megatron), Soundwave steps in and effortlessly stops her power grab.
    • After Airachnid's failed power-play she's still working for the Decepticons, but Soundwave seems to have supplanted her as The Dragon.
    • Airachnid eventually goes rogue, at which point newly-introduced Dreadwing is promoted the second-in-command position.
    • Interestingly, when Megatron realizes that Unicron's resurrection is imminent in the season one finale, he attempts to position himself as Unicron's Dragon. Unfortunately for him, Unicron considers him beneath notice which leads the infuriated Megatron to enter an Enemy Mine with Optimus to take Unicron down.
  • The Fallen is usually this to Unicron, betraying the other twelve original Transformers in the process.
  • Transformers: Robots in Disguise: Thunderhoof, a short-tempered mob boss, becomes Steeljaw's Dragon, though he occasionally shows tendencies of The Starscream.
• Mr. Lunt from VeggieTales is often portrayed as the Dragon, especially when with Mr. Nezzer.
  • He's actually the true Big Bad in "Esther: The Girl who Became Queen," although he still works for Nezzer; he's playing Haman this time.
• The Venture Bros.:
  • #21 Took a Level in Badass following #24's tragic death and became the Monarch's top mook, inspiring and training the rest of the butterfly troops to new heights of efficiency in henchmen. Two-Ton Twenty-One played a huge role in making Monarch a true menace once again.
  • Dr. Girlfriend was originally this, but one of her conditions for marriage was to upgrade the relationship to a Big Bad Duumvirate.
  • The Blue Morpho was this to Jonas Venture, albeit unwillingly with Jonas blackmailing Morpho into doing all the dirty work that Jonas himself couldn't do without tarnishing his squeaky clean public image.
• Muttley is the dragon to Dick Dastardly on Wacky Races, although he's not afraid to bite the hand that feeds him where applicable. On Dastardly & Muttley in Their Flying Machines, he's more of a grunt reluctantly consigned to follow orders of a superior officer.
• Commander Peepers to Lord Hater from Wander over Yonder. He's a Watchdog like the rest of Lord Hater's army, but is clearly his right-hand man.
• In Wakfu, the Shushu Anathar is the strongest and most favored servant of the Shushu king Rushu.
• Cedric for Prince Phobos in W.I.T.C.H..
  • In the second series, Raythar and then Shagon serve as The Dragon to Nerissa at various points. Raythar then briefly takes over Cedric's Dragon role to Phobos, before Cedric goes all Starscream and takes over, making Miranda his Dragon. Villainous second-in-commands for everyone!
• Leslie from WordGirl is this to Mr. Big.
• In X-Men: Evolution, Mystique starts out as the Dragon to Magneto, before striking out on her own in the second season. Sabretooth then seems to take over the Dragon role. Later on, Mesmero serves as the Dragon to Apocalypse.
• Being a DC Comics adaption, Young Justice (2010) has plenty. Of note is Lex Luthor's bodyguard Mercy Graves, who in this incarnation is a Cyborg with a powerful Arm Cannon.
  Lex Luthor: Young man, if you expect to detain me, please contact my attorney.

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