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This is one of the older tropes. Everyone knows how the typical Dragon myth goes. Either a dragon steals a princess or a princess is given to that dragon as an offering. Where the story goes from there is not always so clear, but the beginning is where the trope lies. For some reason, dragons just have an attraction to princesses. Maybe royal blood tastes better. Maybe virgins taste better. Maybe they want someone to talk to. Maybe it's just a status symbol (in the Indo-European mythologies where this started, the dragon/serpentine monster usually abducts the princess to make her his wife, so the status symbol interpretation is hopefully the more correct one.). Whatever the reason, they tend to show up in each other's company. In some cases, the sacrifice of princesses to a dragon may be a periodic thing, and several will have been fed to the beast before a hero comes along and saves the latest. In medieval stories, this often goes hand in hand with Dragons Versus Knights, as the knight must defeat the dragon to save the princess. This trope is often a setup for the Standard Hero Reward to whoever saves the princess. Nowadays, this trope is about as likely to be played straight as it is to be played with. A modern story may Gender Flip the characters, with a female dragon abducting a prince (the knight or other rescuer then might be female too). Another common way to deconstruct this is to have the dragon and the princess get along just fine, sometimes to the point of Interspecies Romance. In situations like these, the princess may rebuff or even fight back against any knight or other hero trying to "rescue" her. Other times, the dragon is actually the victim of a malicious princess. And occasionally, the dragon and the princess are the same character, usually of the Cute Monster Girl kind, who forms a Beast and Beauty relationship with the knight. Related to Save the Princess, Damsel in Distress, I Have You Now, My Pretty, Monster Misogyny, occasionally to Virgin Sacrifice. For another mythical being with a similar but less destructive taste in human companionship, see Unicorns Prefer Virgins. |
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In Tarma and Kethry's parts of the Heralds of Valdemar, this comes up twice. A Tale of Heroes has a monster, not apparently draconic but certainly very large, very hairy, and very fast, with a marked preference for eating women and children. A local lord offers the Standard Hero Reward, marriage to his daughter and charge of part of his lands, to the slayer of the monster, who is lured out with a weekly sacrifice. The lord puts on a show of that sacrifice being his daughter, who's paraded out on a horse, but it is in fact always an unlucky prisoner, which the monster finds acceptable as the prisoners are drugged and chained. A Dragon In Distress has Tarma and Kethry pass through a portal into another canon's setting, where they come to the aid of a Delightful Dragon who had Happily Adopted a princess who was stolen from her cave by a prince who wants to marry her. |
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Starbound: Invoked in the beta. In order to summon the Dragon King boss, you need to craft a Decoy Princess in order to attract it. | |
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Part of the backstory revealed in Dragonheart was that the dragon Draco had loved the queen (played by Julie Christie) back when she was princess, and so later donated part of his heart to save her son, leading to tragic consequences for her in the film. | |
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What's New? with Phil and Dixie takes it in a slightly twisted direction in one strip, where the princess critiques the dragon's knot-tying technique and things eventually escalate into a BDSM scene. | |
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Catalyst Verse: The dragon spirit who watches over the Thornhill royal family is far more attached to Princess Root than anyone else. She's never even spoken to King Harold. | |
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Dungeons & Doodles: Tales from the Tables: This comic uses the virgin variant for humor when the party is sent to deal with a dragon said to have developed a particular taste for the flesh and blood of innocent virgins, which he can supposedly smell from a mile away. The cleric and rogue aren't especially worried ("Good thing we're all adults, then"). The paladin, who it later turns out doesn't believe in premarital sex, doesn't quite share her friends' confidence. | |
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Played with in Odin Sphere. No dragons straight out capture princesses but the game features a few of both interacting one way or another. For one, Oswald is promised the Valkyrie princess Gwendolyn as his wife for defeating the dragon Wagner. Eventually, all five characters of royal blood have to fight dragons at least once. | |
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An inversion in Dragon-in-Distress: The dragon doesn't want a princess, it's Princess Florinara Tansimasa Qasilava Delagordune who wants the dragon. | |
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Ozy and Millie, Isolde reveals that princesses are bargaining chips for buying off knights. | |
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Dungeon Keeper Ami: Princess Julia is saved from a dragon by Jadeite, and wants to be returned there for some reason. | |
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Enchanted Forest Chronicles: Played with. While dragons do traditionally kidnap princesses, the main protagonist of Dealing with Dragons, Cimorene, is a Rebellious Princess who fled to the dragons to escape traditional life as a princess and forge her own path. Her relationship to her dragon, Kazul, is friendly and she's more of a live-in cook/housekeeper/librarian/cavemate than a hostage. Most of the princesses are in fact captives and rather silly, and are mostly kept around as status symbols for the dragons. A later book in the series also establishes that the stereotype of dragons eating princesses is untrue (which makes sense, given that the first book explains that there aren't enough princesses to go around). The first book also lampshades the Standard Hero Reward aspect, with one character speculating that it's surprising that more princesses aren't voluntarily working for dragons, since it pretty much guarantees a good marriage, although another surmises that part of the reason most don't is that their life expectancy drops significantly if the dragon happens to lose its temper. | |
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Overly Sarcastic Productions: In Trope Talk: Dragons, Red discusses dragons' tendency to kidnap and/or eat damsels alongside other traits of dragons in folklore and modern fiction. It got its start in the middle ages, as the usual motivation for dragonslaying — getting the dragon's gold — was seen as too base and greedy a motivation for a knight, so rescuing a damsel for the sake of rightness and love was substituted; however, it's also seen in other mythologies with some frequency. Nowadays it's seen as very cliched, so it's usually subverted or otherwise played with. | |
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Vainqueur The Dragon: The number that a dragon possesses is one measure of status among them. But they release them after a time, so the population can be kept up, and find them by an ability literally called in the RPG Mechanics 'Verse, as Virgin Princess Radar. | |
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Tales From Verania: The plot of the first book is that a horny dragon has kidnapped the prince, and Sam of Wilds needs to rescue him despite the fact that the prince is an asshole. | |
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Nodwick has it as a recurring joke, including that princesses have a business for renting themselves with a "no dragons" policy. | |
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The villain in the DC Super Hero Girls Two-Part Episode "#TheFreshPrincessOfRenFaire" is a shapeshifting dragon who only wants to eat a real princess, and she's been starving since princesses aren't exactly common these days. Zee is in costume as a princess, so she becomes the dragon's target, but once she actual gets a taste, she declares Zee is disgusting. Luckily for her, Diana doesn't dress up in fancy gowns, but she is literally the daughter of a queen and heir to the throne of her home nation, i.e. a real princess. | |
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Discussed in Campione!. Earth Goddesses are a type of female goddess which typically manifest as vast serpents or dragons. If slain by a God of Steel, the serpent's power is stolen by the Steel while the goddess is reduced to a Divine Ancestor, a weak maiden beholden to her "savior". This interplay of divine powers originates from the myths which form the gods. When primitive Earth Goddess deities were absorbed into more complex and patriarchal religions, they were recast as a demonic monster "slain" by a hero to "rescue" a maiden figure. | |
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The Restaurant at the End of the Universe: While the monsters are not explicitly dragons, there is a poem about five Golgafrincham princes who, amongst other things, "rescue beautiful monsters from ravening princesses". | |
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The Dragon Hoard has a Story Within a Story about a princess who is kidnapped by a dragon. She inadvertently wins her freedom when she tries to mollify it by spinning straw into gold; it turns out the dragon is allergic to gold, and it lets her go before she can do any more damage. | |
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In King's Quest III: To Heir Is Human, the three-headed dragon demands a maiden be sacrificed each year. King Graham decides to leave his daughter, Princess Rosella, tied at the stake to be eaten by the dragon. | |
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The InCryptid series takes this in a new direction. The women found around dragon lairs, commonly known as Dragon Princesses, are a species of Cryptid that happen to look human and have a symbiotic relationship with dragons. Both require gold to maintain their health for unknown reasons, so the princesses gather the gold, and the dragons protect it. Later investigations reveal that the dragon princesses are actually female dragons. | |
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Dragon Quest: The hero's first mission is to rescue the princess from the evil dragon that captured her. This is only half the game, though, as you still need to defeat the Dragonlord. | |
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Pathfinder: One of the later Bestiaries for 1st Edition has a sorta-Slavic three-headed dragon called the Gorynych, who specializes in snatching princesses along with any attractive, young, wealthy human female. They also mate with them, producing half-dragon offspring, and are considered to be perverts by other dragons for it. | |
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Disney Ducks Comic Universe: In one story, there's a school play about a princess who was captured by a dragon. Several accidents with the scenery force the students to rewrite the story so that a whirlwind carries the princess to the dragon's lair. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons: There's at least one supplement that mentions a dragon who, using her natural shapeshifting, would disguise herself as a maiden, either as a trap or to be "rescued" by a knight. This may be inspired by Fridge Logic or the legend of Melusine. Of the five varieties of evil dragons in the game, red dragons are the species most likely to kidnap maidens; like most dragons, they can eat anything, but they claim that female humans and young elves taste best. The 3.5 Edition Heroes of Horror supplemental rulebook offers options for running horror-themed campaigns and includes a section on using common monster tropes in more frightening ways. One example is to question why dragons are portrayed as kidnapping princess, and offers as explanation that the dragon wants to use them as Breeding Slaves to produce half-dragon descendants with Royal Blood. |
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In King's Bounty The Legend, Princess Amelie fears that she may be kidnapped by a dragon, as she's a princess, but is sure that the main character will save her. At the very end, she is kidnapped and taken hostage by Haas, the Big Bad dragon. | |
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In Gragyriss, Captor of Princesses, one of your main goals as a dragon is to capture princesses as the title claims. Winning enough battles in a specific region will eventually lead to you capturing its princess, and they end up being a helpful captive, willingly giving you buffs or abilities you can use to improve your growth or to battle enemies (including their own people) more efficiently. The ending shows the princesses hanging out with your dragon, so the preference seems mutual in this case. | |
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The Paper Bag Princess: Gender-inverted. A dragon carries off Prince Ronald, and Princess Elizabeth sets out to rescue him. | |
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Super Mario Bros. deserves an honorable mention, even though Mario is far from being a knight and Bowser isn't a typical kind of dragon. Super Mario Odyssey visually invokes a more traditional version of this. During his journey to rescue Peach, Mario must stop in the Ruined Kingdom, where he fights the Ruined Dragon, a surprisingly realistic-looking Western-style dragon. One of the outfits Mario can buy here is a knight's plate armor, which he can wear while fighting the Ruined Dragon. |
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"Prince Lindworm": Subverted. The dragon prefers maidens, but not necessarily princesses. Makes a little bit more sense than most versions, considering said dragon is actually a young prince. | |
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According to Franz Scorchmaw, Dragon of Mechanicsburg, in Girl Genius, dragon small talk includes "which kingdoms have the best princesses." | |
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In Dragonslayer, a kingdom chooses which virginal young woman will be sacrificed to a dragon by drawing lots. When Princess Elspeth learns that the King has made sure her name is never included in the lottery, she rigs it so that her name is chosen, and voluntarily goes to the dragon. Unfortunately she pays the price for her honesty and is eaten by the dragon's babies. | |
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Shrek has the major quest involve Princess Fiona locked up in a tower that is guarded by a dragon. Of course, since this is Shrek, things aren't quite what they seem, nor do they end that way: Donkey falls in love with said dragon and has children. Similarly, Shrek and Fiona become a couple. | |
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Tales of the Five Hundred Kingdoms: As the books are based on traditional myths and fairy tales, most evil dragons find themselves forced to capture a maiden, preferably a princess, at some point. This forms a major plot point in the second book, One Good Knight, which is 1/3 the myth of Andromeda, 1/3 George and the Dragon (although the dragon didn't actually have many choices in the matter, being under compulsion at the time), and 1/3 trying very hard NOT to have the endings of either of those legends happen. | |
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Choice of the Dragon: Played with. One of the choices offered to the player character is whether to be the kind of dragon that kidnaps princesses. Options include "Yes, because it's Traditional" and "In the interests of gender equality, half the time I kidnap princes instead". The game also explores the motives for kidnapping royalty, including "It's all about companionship and good conversation" standing out from the more traditional answers. | |
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One side-quest in Dragon's Crown involves you acting as the representative of The Church to slay the dragon solo in an attempt to discourage the worship of a legendary princess who was said to have offered herself to a red dragon to save her kingdom. The Flavor Text of the Treasure Art for completing this quest reveals that, after you defeated the dragon you found the princess' ring among the Dragon Horde, which gave evidence of her Heroic Sacrifice and unsurprisingly encouraged her followers to worship her even more. The church eventually co-opts this worship by canonizing her as a saint. | |
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Defied in Dragon's Dogma, while the dragon may occasionally kidnap the duchess for a "Leave Your Quest" Test, depending on your affinity with the others, it is more often for him to pick anything that moves. | |
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A Certain Droll Hivemind: Misaka Mikoto meets the last dragonslayer, and is told that all dragons are extinct. Mikoto, who thinks magic isn't real, notes this is "convenient" (because it makes their existence impossible to prove). Her clone Misaka-11111 and the Network on the other hand, have a different opinion. | |
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Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: Tohru complains about this stereotype when she first meets Kobayashi. | |
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The Dark Eye: The more powerful dragons occasionally do this. However, they're typically after entertainment, not food, and prefer nobility because they tend to be better conversationalists. | |
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In Fairy Tail the dragon Zirconis states that men taste horrible when he chooses to disrobe (clothes also taste bad) Lucy so he can eat her. He also listens to Princess Hisui and takes the title she offers him later on. | |
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In The Two Princesses of Bamarre, Princess Addie allows herself to be kidnapped by and kept as a pet/companion by the dragon Vollys, intending to stay long enough to learn a cure for the plague sweeping the land but escape before Vollys decides to eat her. Like with the St. George example below, Vollys doesn't prey exclusively on princesses (the previous humans she kept with her were pretty much anyone she managed to kidnap, starting with a chair maker). Addie just happened to be the latest she caught. | |
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In the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Dunces and Dragons", Princess Pearl is kidnapped by the dragon jellyfish. Although Princess Pearl has been held captive by the Evil Sorcerer Planktonamor, the dragon jellyfish becomes dazzled with the taste of a Krabby Patty. | |
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El Goonish Shive: The Writer's Block fights a dragon with a sword at one point and ends up saving a princess, implying that the dragon was holding her hostage. | |
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Super Mario Odyssey visually invokes a more traditional version of this. During his journey to rescue Peach, Mario must stop in the Ruined Kingdom, where he fights the Ruined Dragon, a surprisingly realistic-looking Western-style dragon. One of the outfits Mario can buy here is a knight's plate armor, which he can wear while fighting the Ruined Dragon. | |
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Gunslinger Girl. When the staff of the Social Welfare Agency are inventing a fairy tale for Angelica, someone suggests introducing a dragon to kidnap the princess and they argue over whether it's a Dead Horse Trope or Tropes Are Tools. | |
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In "The Nine Peahens and the Golden Apples", the prince rescues a princess from a dragon. When it chases after them, their horses talk, and the dragon's horse is persuaded to throw and kill it. | |
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In Hoard, one of the modes is to kidnap more princesses than any rivals. | |
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Dragon's Lair, of course, has Princess Daphne kidnapped by the evil dragon Singe. You play as Dirk on his way to rescue her. | |
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New World of Darkness: The unofficial supplement Dragon: The Embers gives a justification to this trope; in this universe, Dragons draw power from having subordinates worshiping them, which they frequently accomplish by collecting "Maidens" to trap in a life of subservience. With a princess, they could force a lot more people to worship them than they could with just, say, a housemaid. | |
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In Potatoes and Dragons, the King keeps calling for knights to kill the dragon that lives near the palace, for fear it might kidnap his daughter; unbeknownst to him, the princess has befriended the dragon and is actively thwarting each attempt on its life. | |
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Merlin (1998): Invoked by Queen Mab, who convinces King Vortigern that the only way to keep his tower from collapsing is by sacrificing his hostage Nimue — who while not technically a princess, is the daughter of a high-ranking lord — to the Great Dragon. Played with (and arguably subverted) in that, while the dragon certainly seems to enjoy barbecuing Nimue, the sacrifice itself was merely a ploy to bait Merlin into breaking his oath and use magic - particularly since it's later revealed that the reason behind the tower's inability to stand is purely mundane in nature. |
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In Guards! Guards!, it's mentioned that noble dragons prefer to eat people of noble blood because they taste better. It's also implied that it's a dominance ritual; the more important the human sacrifice is, the clearer it is that all humans are subservient. When a noble Dragon takes over the city of Ankh-Morpork, she calls the various civil leaders to a dinner to explain the distinction over dinner. It occurs to them all midway through the conversation that the dragon has been serving them all a very large, very fattening meal. Since there are no actual princesses in Ankh-Morpork, the city leaders (to save their own necks) decide the closest is its richest woman, Lady Sybil (who fortunately enough has a lot of meat on her bones already). Unforunately, people who want to offer Lady Sybil to a dragon are not going to have an easy time of it. | |
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