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[Exodust]

Dragons are fucking dope. I think all us dorks can agree on that. Since there's so many different depictions across hundreds of mythology and thousands made within all mediums there's a metric fuckton of cool ass dragons out there.

Hell, I struggle to think of some because I've seen a lot of cool ones over the years but forget where they're from and what they're called, but in order to contribute to this thread here's this:

While I don't like any of The Hobbit movies, Smaug was great. Love his design, and seeing him in big budget hollywood glory was worth the ticket for an average movie.

The GOAT is still King Ghidorah:

Yeah, I just wanted an excuse to look at awesome dragon art, sue me.

 

[Firemind]

What's better than a dragon? A two-headed dragon.

 

[siddx]

Nicol Bolas from magic the gathering. MTG in general has the best Dragon depictions.
On mobile otherwise I'd link some pictures.
New design bolas obviously, not the old green dork version.

 

[RSP]

Loved this design back in the days. OOT Volvagia is cool too.

 

[Rynocirator]

Definitely my boy Charizard!

 

[KeyBladerXIII]

This counts, yes?

Gaping Dragon- Dark Souls

 

[Griss]

Deathwing from WoW is a pretty cool version of the super-powerful, heavyset dragon.

And here's an example of an ancient, thousand year old dragon of slighter build:

Spoiler

Spoiler

lol

 

[Zen Aku]

Shenron

GAF's slipping. Come on y'all.

 

[Apathy]

Deathwing for sure

 

[Red Arremer]

Generally though there's few dragon designs I dislike. Dragons are fucking cool, man. All of them.

 

[CONCH0BAR]

Nobody posted Grigori yet?

From Dragon's Dogma.

 

[dickroach]

 

[Firemind]

Scaled Wurm is better because of his smug face.

 

[wisdom0wl]

Shenron


GAF's slipping. Come on y'all.

.

 

[MisterHero]

TYRANNOSAURUS RED DRAGON THUNDERZORD POWER

 

[Lord Azrael]

Yugioh has some straight up ballin dragons

 

[SteveMeister]

 

[whitemex88]

 

[Fitz]

Zombie Dragon all the way

 

[CoyoteSpitfire]

I actually don't think dragons are cool, not by default at least. They're too overplayed. But my favorite dragon design is probably Seath the Scaleless from Dark Souls. Mostly because he's so damn weird.

No scales, no eyes, insect(?) wings, tentacles instead of legs, and breathes crystals instead of fire. What a freakazoid. I love him.

 

[Umibozu]

The record of Lodoss war universe seems to have some cool dragons that have some good variety. Scaled, haired, feathered, aquatic, airborne, and land based dragons with varying designs.

Elder dragons pictured below:

 

[ChronotriggerJM]

I like Dragons on the creepier side. I remember thinking the one in Demons souls opening was pretty unsettling with that flappy jaw bit.

https://youtu.be/fXq3NV9Uof0 @1:51

 

[dh4niel]

 

[wamberz1]

Hraesvelgr from Heavensward

And his brother Nidhogg

Love the use of their horns.

 

[itwasTuesday]

Although he always looked like he had a bad case of eczema.

 

[many places]

Deathwing from WoW is a pretty cool version of the super-powerful, heavyset dragon.



And here's an example of an ancient, thousand year old dragon of slighter build:

Spoiler

Spoiler

lol

Who's the anime girl?

 

[djplaeskool]

Hresvelgr and Nidhogg from FFXIV

edit: haha, beaten

 

[DrArchon]

A recent dragon design that I'm a big fan of is Glorybringer from the new Magic the Gathering set.

Fuck you, it's a crocodile dragon! Wearing armor and an Egyptian headdress! It even has the makeup around the eye, which just goes to show how much detail went into this design

Also OP, King Ghidora is only the 2nd best dragon ever. The real GOAT dragon is Mecha King Ghidora.

 

[Pickman]

WE DRAGONS LOVE TO SING

Forreal though, Reign of Fire had the best dragons I've ever seen in a movie:

 

[GhostWriter24]

 

[PantherLotus]

Put me down for "All of them." Dragons are bad ass.

As for my favorite favorites, I lean toward massive, world-ending black dragons like Ancalagon.

 

[Ferr986]

From movies Smaugh for sure.

From games, Kalameet from Dark Souls

 

[Firemind]

Forreal though, Reign of Fire had the best dragons I've ever seen in a movie:

thatsawyvern.gif

 

[roflwaffles]

Darkeater Midir is a prick but damn I love the design

 

[ShadowSwordmaster]

Balerion, the Black Dread, from Song of Fire and Ice.

 

[gaiadyne]

This guy

 

[PantherLotus]

I never saw the actual design but the dragons I imagined from Robin Hobb's Liveship Traders series sounded cool.

Massive fucking spoiler:

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[the ships were made from them]

 

[djplaeskool]

Generally though there's few dragon designs I dislike. Dragons are fucking cool, man. All of them.

okay, I laughed WAY too hard at this.

 

[Toxi]

Rathalos and Rathian from Monster Hunter (Yes, I know they're wyverns, not Elder Dragons. They're still giant winged fire-breathing venomous reptiles)

Darkeater Midir from Dark Souls 3

 

[stenbumling]

My man.

 

[televator]

GoT's big boy dragon looking brutal.

Best on screen, "realistic" dragon I've seen.

 

[NoblesseOblige]

or

 

[PantherLotus]

GoT's big boy dragon looking brutal.

Best on screen, "realistic" dragon I've seen.

i fucking LOVED the depiction of the flamethrower/chemical reaction organ there. GoT people knocked this one out of the park.

 

[WPS]

Who's the anime girl?

Nowi from Fire Emblem Awakening. She's a Manakete, a race with both humanoid and draconic forms. The series has a history of oh-they-just-look-like-a-young-girl-they're-really-a-5000-year-old-dragon, but Nowi is a special kind of awful. Her dragon form isn't too bad of a design, it looks like a weedy sea dragon as an actual dragon, but fortunately, Awakening has other, less appaling characters with the same dragon design.

Talking of Fire Emblem, I've always liked PoR and RD's black dragons (it helps that non of them are pre-adolescent girls):

Pokémon has some great dragons too. I'm a big fan of Kyurem's undead like design.

 

[Wanderer5]

The dragons in Avatar/Korra are a design that I am quite fond of. Druk!

 

[Aurongel]

Already been said but Gaping Dragon from Dark Souls is a legit inventive design:

 

[TickleMeElbow]

Forreal though, Reign of Fire had the best dragons I've ever seen in a movie:

[IMG]https://giffiles.alphacoders.com/246/24693.gif

Yeah these are my fav.

Their designs make the most sense too.

If a reptile could fly, it wouldn't have four legs + two wings. It would have two legs + two bigass wings.

 

[Nepenthe]

Toothless/Night Fury

Shenron

Hakamo-O

Mega-Charizard X

I like adorable/cartoony dragons. x3

 

[MetroidPrimeRib]

Deathwing from WarCraft, specifically his redisgn from Cataclysm.

A twisted abomination of molten flesh and steel being barely held together by his own rage.

Gaping Dragon from Dark Souls.

I would post Tiamat's designs from the SMT games, but thats a dragon in name only and also NSFW

 

[Mike M]

Scaled Wurm is better because of his smug face.

Looks like something out of The Dark Crystal.