Dragon Curse
is a Webtoon about a fantasy world where dragons once ruled the lands until the elves cursed them to take a weaker, more human-like form. Mal, one of the last surviving dragons, tries to live a more humble, low key life. That is, until she gets swept up by her best friend and notorious thief, Jex, on an epic adventure. When they're forced to team up with Viktor, an elf, to investigate a mysterious tower, Mal has her reservations. What happens next? A lot of shenanigans, magic spells, and secrets revealed.
- Ambiguous Gender: Mal doesn't have any obvious female body traits (which makes sense because she's a dragon), and not to mention a gender-neutral name. At the end of the first chapter, the writers specified that Mal is in fact a woman.
- Beast and Beauty: Ironically, the woman in this relationship is a beast that can turn into a giant, firebreathing dragon, while the man is the beauty, being a graceful, handsome elf.
- Breaking the Fourth Wall: Jex does this...a lot. He frequently makes references to other genres, characters, and points out events that are just plot conveniences.
- Cast Full of Gay: Jex and Finn are both gay and happily in a relationship, Mal is bisexual, etc.
- Dating Catwoman: Mal and Azara are not dating anymore and have been apart for 500 years, but they clearly had a romantic relationship, and Mal is still slightly hung up on defeating her.
- Forced Transformation: A renegade group of Elves cast a spell that turned all dragons into wingless humanoids.
- For Your Own Good: Viktor traps Mal after she reveals her father is Maverick, the very dragon that dark forces are trying to bring back to life. He assumes that she will try to stop him, which, of course, is dead wrong.
- Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Mal is really short. Viktor is really tall.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Azara, no matter how much she hates elves, won't kill or harm Mal for siding with them.
- Keeping Secrets Sucks: When Finn is under mind control by the witches, he stabs Finn in the side and leaves him to die. When Finn is rescued and snaps out of the spell, it turns out he doesn't remember a thing during his time under the spell. Jex decides to keep quiet about the stab wound to not upset Finn. Fin, however, is growing suspicious.
- King Incognito: Mal reveals that she is actually Malyza, the only true daughter of king Maverick. Problem is, there are no dragons left in the realms, as they were all killed off, so her royal status is pretty much useless. Or so she thinks...
- Last of His Kind: Mal has long assumed that she was the last dragon alive. Not only is the Big Bad her ex, but there might be a whole dragon village out there.
- Love Across Battlelines: Dragons hate the elves for transforming their kind into a weakened state and killing them off, and elves hate dragons for being ruthless beasts. Nevertheless, Mal and Viktor grow past their hatred and bigotry and start to see each other as friends. And maybe even more than friends...
- Mind Control: within the mysterious tower in Hudo, it's revealed that the royal guards, including Jex's boyfriend Finn, have been put under a mind-control spell by the three witches.
- Missing Mom: Mal and Viktor's mothers are never mentioned, but their fathers are. It was revealed in a Q&A that dragon moms just lay their egg and leave, and Mal's mother is no different.
- Monster Progenitor: Maverik was the first dragon, and ended up creating the other members of the species via magic.
- Not So Extinct: Contrary to Mal's assumptions that she was the Last of Her Kind, other dragons beside her former guard and lover have hidden themselves.
- Opposites Attract: Finn is a high-class member of the royal guard, constrained by rules and expected to fulfil his duties. His boyfriend, Jex, is a low class thief who isn't bound by any rules and can do whatever he pleases. In addition, the former is a lot more cautious and knows how to plan, while the latter likes to run head first into situations and improvises everything
- Voluntary Shapeshifting: After the curse is broken, Mal can change between her smaller form and her uncursed form at will.
- Waif-Fu: Most of the female characters, sans Rylee.
- We Can Rule Together: Azara basically says this to Mal once they see each other again. And of course, Azara isn't happy when Mal refuses.
- Would Be Rude to Say "Genocide": It's known that the humans killed all of the dragons once they were hit with the De-power spell, but the word "genocide" is never outright stated, nor is it really talked about. there is, however, whispers of a hidden village full of dragons, but we don't know if it's real yet.
