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Scaled Up

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Scaled Up	comment	There's probably something symbolic about the tendencies of a villain to turn into a snake. In the West, there is a strong established symbolism for snakes as symbols of evil from The Bible (most famously the serpent in the Garden of Eden) and Norse Mythology, and there's Orochi in Japanese Mythology. Adding onto this, there is the fact that when walking in the wild, it's generally not a good idea to stop and pet a snake. Of course, the result of all that symbolism is that when a villain turns into a snake there can be no doubt about the evil nature of a foe, and it gives The Hero a comfortably scary and suddenly less human foe to kill. Villains do love their symbolism and cliches, however, so despite how often this trope tends to end with the villain chopped up on the hero's sword, (usually rather easily too) villains everywhere still love the order Squamata because, of course, Snakes Are Sinister. Think about it for a second: how often have you ever seen a villain turn into, say, a bear, a rhino, a lion, a koala, or something else that would actually be useful? This trope is not strictly limited for the bad guys; indeed, there are arguably just as many places around the world that revere snakes as much as other places dislike them, and, if done properly, a serpentine hero can easily satisfy the Rule of Cool. However, when it's the good guys doing this, they typically turn into dragons instead of snakes. That said, villains turning into dragons is not unheard of either. It isn't also limited to just snakes either. Usually all Reptiles Are Abhorrent, and even if isn't. They are still included. These other reptiles include lizards, crocodilians, turtles, and even dragons. Extra points if the protagonist is female. A specific variant of One-Winged Angel. Villains transforming into a dragon can fall under Dragons Are Demonic. This can also overlap with the Reptilian Conspiracy in instances when Snake People make themselves look human before revealing their true forms. If you're looking for video game characters being shown as grotesquely oversized compared to their surroundings on an overview map, that's over at Units Not to Scale. Also not to be confused with Make My Monster Grow, although it often gets invoked alongside this trope.
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Scaled Up / int_112b0b4e	comment	Dragons in Gold Digger all have the ability to disguise themselves as humans, and several dragon characters have in fact been Mode Locked in human form. Generally, the dragon population is divided on the opinion of whether a race of talking mammals like humans is adorable ("They're like little talking bunnies! I want to play at being a bunny too!") or disgusting ("They're like little talking rats!").
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Scaled Up / int_1367cea0	comment	Lung of Worm slowly metamorphoses into a dragon as he fights. Not surprising. Lung is Chinese for Dragon.
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Scaled Up / int_1869a077	comment	Samurai Jack: In "Scotsman Saves Jack", the burly Scotsman tries to help an amnesiac Jack by retrieving his lost memories from a trio of sirens who hypnotize unlucky travelers. In the final battle, they combine into a fiery, three headed snake like creature and almost defeat the Scotsman before Jack finally remembers who he is and beheads (threeheads) the creature.
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Scaled Up / int_1a8119af	comment	The Lord of the Dragovians from Dragon Quest VIII also transforms into a large, ferocious dragon.
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Scaled Up / int_1a8d488a	comment	Parodied in Munchkin with a monster modifier card "...That Turns Into a Giant Snake." Even monsters that would logically be more powerful in their original forms, like a Plutonium Dragon or Cthulhu itself, gain an advantage by scaling up.
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Scaled Up / int_1aacbbc9	comment	Dragon Age: In Dragon Age: Origins, Flemeth turns into a dragon and is one of the hardest fights in the game. She does it again in Dragon Age II, although this time she helps the player. In Dragon Age: Inquisition, Morrigan can potentially turn into a dragon at the climax if she drank from the Well of Sorrows.
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Scaled Up / int_1adee40d	comment	The World Ends with You: The Final Boss first fights you in his human form, which is a tricky fight because his attacks are fast and unpredictable and can hit very hard. Then he turns into a giant snake, which is generally easier because its attacks are much slower and easier to avoid. Then he turns into an even bigger dragon and traps all your partners in bubbles.
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Scaled Up / int_1bdeba5a	comment	X-Men villain Scaleface has the ability to transform into a dragon-like reptile creature.
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Scaled Up / int_1c4cd79d	comment	47 Ronin: Mizuki, the witch who serves Lord Kira, is normally a Kitsune, but in the final battle, she transforms into a dragon to fight Kai.
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Scaled Up / int_1d1ca8f7	comment	The villainess in The Lair of the White Worm turns into a snake shortly before the good guys kill her.
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Scaled Up / int_1d91c65a	comment	In Nightmares on Elm Street, Freddy appears as a dragon to Alice in the Wonderland dreamscape. He carries the form to the climactic confrontation.
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Scaled Up / int_2127e14c	comment	In The Once and Future King Scaling Up is explicitly described as being the ordinary strategy of a wizards' duel:
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Scaled Up / int_2192aeb3	comment	The Manaketes in Fire Emblem provide both heroic and villainous examples of this in the dragon variety, and are a force to be reckoned with for those not fortunate enough to have a dragon-slaying weapon on hand. They're not so much becoming dragons as they are reverting back into dragons, though, having been forced to take human forms to avoid losing their minds.
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Scaled Up / int_21a64727	comment	Avaritia, the leader of the Black Knights in 11eyes, stays on the sidelines for most of the story. Come the final fight, he transforms into a gigantic black dragon. Kukuri and Shiori face him down, and, though it takes a hell of a lot of power from Shiori, they just barely end up victorious.
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Scaled Up / int_21e1640f	comment	A drug PSA features a drug dealer who gets more snake-like towards the end. JonTron had a field day with it.
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Scaled Up / int_21e2f10d	comment	In later games, the Be Dragon spell, or Puff as it is now known, appears a handful of times. It allows the user to transform into a fire-breathing dragon for a few turns. Very effective, especially in Dragon Quest III where it was introduced; in that game, it's the only reliable way to kill multiple Liquid Metal Slimes in a single battle.
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Scaled Up / int_2247a14a	comment	In The Chronicles of Prydain, when Evil Overlord Arawn, (based on the Celtic God of the Dead, who shares the name), master of terrible armies and incomprehensible Black Magic is finally confronted face to face, he promptly turns into a serpent and dies within a paragraph or two, managing only to kill the slightly less evil queen before falling to everyone's favorite assistant pig keeper. Justified as he was trying to get the hell out of his invaded castle.
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Scaled Up / int_22a8a2dd	comment	In Chinese Paladin 3, one of the heroines turns into a snake to get an extra edge in combat.
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Scaled Up / int_2354d12c	comment	Dragon Quest: The Dragonlord in Dragon Quest turns into a bipedal, black-winged, violet dragon after defeating his normal human form. It only partially works for him because unless you've procured Loto's/Erdrick's Sword, your attacks will only do scratch damage to him, making the fight take a while. It's still quite possible to defeat him with the Flame Sword, and possible in theory with the weaker buyable weapons. In later games, the Be Dragon spell, or Puff as it is now known, appears a handful of times. It allows the user to transform into a fire-breathing dragon for a few turns. Very effective, especially in Dragon Quest III where it was introduced; in that game, it's the only reliable way to kill multiple Liquid Metal Slimes in a single battle. The Lord of the Dragovians from Dragon Quest VIII also transforms into a large, ferocious dragon.
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Scaled Up / int_2372359	comment	In The Belgariad, the kingdom of Nyissa is heavily snake-themed, with their patron god Issa having been a snake god (who's Not Quite Dead, but not particularly active), and their Queen Salmissra — originally Issa's handmaiden, who he fell in love with, then, unfortunately, forgot to make immortal, meaning that when each dies (after their lifespan and youth is dragged out as long as possible via some very weird drugs), they're replaced by an Identical Stranger. Since they're conditioned for the role from childhood, they tend to end up with broadly the same personality, enough that the immortal Polgara tends to treat them as all being the same person — though as the prequels show, this isn't invariable, and some are quite different. The latest Salmissra, in the second book, decides to interfere with Garion, having him drugged and kidnapped since he is The Chosen One, and she's got ambitions to have him as her consort and gain immortality that way. Polgara, his many times great aunt and foster mother takes very poorly to this and decides to give Salmissra immortality by turning her into a giant snake. As it turns out, though, everyone from palace eunuchs to Salmissra herself is actually quite happy about this, as Nyissans love snakes and the lack of drugs means that she's much more rational and easy to manage.
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Scaled Up / int_25f6f1a0	comment	Umineko: When They Cry: During the climactic fight at the end of the first anime season, Beatrice summons meta-Kinzo, who immediately gives an Evil Laugh, turns into a dragon, and tries to eat meta-Battler's face, only to be stopped by a non-magical explanation and blasted to pieces by a multitude of flying spikes that accompany Battler's signature dramatic gesture.
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Scaled Up / int_265fb4f1	comment	Hyrule Warriors has Volga, a knight who borrows many elements from dragons, including turning into one.
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Scaled Up / int_28486597	comment	Averted in Aladdin: The Return of Jafar, the Kingdom Hearts games, and in some of the storybooks, however, where he is instead either fought as a human or immediately goes straight to becoming a genie. Played straight in the Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis games, however, which both use his snake form as the Final Boss and omit the second One-Winged Angel form of the Genie.
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Scaled Up / int_29efc2f3	comment	Played straight by a female Dark One at the conclusion of The Wizard of Sunset Strip. Probably a tribute to Sleeping Beauty, as the battle in question takes place at a reconstructed Disneyland.
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Scaled Up / int_2af19e5c	comment	Wyvern from The Chimera Program arc of Cool Kids Table, as per her codename, can become an enormous draconic creature. She doesn't manifest fire or wings at this stage, however.
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Scaled Up / int_2b3ed0ee	comment	Blackhorn from the NES version of Astyanax transforms into a dragon upon his first defeat at the top of his tower, and is quite a bit harder to defeat.
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Scaled Up / int_2b9aa6f0	comment	In The Mechanisms' concept album "The Bifrost Incident", Odin turns into Jormungandr, the World Serpent, after being fully corrupted by the Old Gods.
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Scaled Up / int_2c9a932f	comment	In the Vampirella story "She who Waits" the Cobra Queen can transform into a giant cobra.
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Scaled Up / int_2d316ba2	comment	In TMNT: The Lost Episodes, the True Shredder, a human merged with a demon, has the ability to manifest his spirit avatar, which takes the form of a hideous dragon. In the Backstory regarding him, the Ninja Tribunal also transformed into dragons to do battle with and defeat him. In the climax of his battle with the Turtles, the Shredder once again transforms into a dragon, to which the Turtles, having trained under the Tribunal, also manage to manifest their avatars, which are dragons.
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Scaled Up / int_2d316bc0	comment	In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012), Karai winds up mutating into a serpentwoman during season 2. This is an unintentional case, as she fell into a vat filled with mutagen meant for the Turtles, as the Foot Clan was going to forcibly turn them into vipers in a plot to kill their master Splinter. For added irony, Karai was starting to transition from villain to Anti-Hero at that point.
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Scaled Up / int_2f04f447	comment	In The War of Embers a character is permanently turned into a dragon. Doubles as Rule of Cool and Cursed with Awesome as he also gains their magic but has to deal with the social and mental consequences of being a dragon.
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Scaled Up / int_2f9430dc	comment	In the fourth book, House of Chains, the Tiste Liosan Osserc veers into a dragon in order to fly his son L'oric, who had come seeking him unbidden, out of the crumbling memory of the desert Raraku, since it's much easier for dragons to travel between realms and Osserc wants to get rid of L'oric again as soon as possible.
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Scaled Up / int_3055fc61	comment	In the first game, after being thrashed sufficiently by Isaac's team, antagonists Saturos and Menardi transform into a single two-headed dragon. While the Fusion Dragon is a more powerful boss than either opponent separately, team Isaac still wins.
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Scaled Up / int_30a5ebfd	comment	Orochimaru from Naruto probably takes inspiration from his namesake Orochi and does this in the series. He gets taken out by a certain Ineffectual Loner after said loner's Faceâ€“Heel Turn. Though his chances as a snake were probably better than a drugged-up old man who was near-dying, and he apparently didn't have a choice in the matter. Rather, Orochimaru takes his inspiration from the original Orochimaru, who likely gets it from his namesake Orochi. Later, he takes on a Hydra form to fight an attack called Susano, named for the god that killed the eight-headed serpent Orochi. It doesn't go well for him — he was mythologically doomed to lose that fight. In contrast to the above, Kabuto turning into a snake let him escape a trap and kidnap someone on his way out. He later "evolves" this snake form into an Evil Counterpart to Naruto's Sage Mode, changing from a snake to a dragon.
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Scaled Up / int_33743d80	comment	In The Kid Who Would Be King, Morgana has a humanoid snake-dragon form she becomes to fight Alex and his knights.
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Scaled Up / int_34d050c6	comment	In the Darkwing Duck episode "Jurassic Jumble", when the villain uses a ray gun that de-evolves anthropomorphic ducks into dinosaurs, the main character gets turned into a Godzilla-like dinosaur.
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Scaled Up / int_3651bc0c	comment	Although The Princess and the Frog does a good job at subverting the Reptiles Are Abhorrent trope, even going as far as to feature a benevolent snake as the pet of the Big Good, a happy-go-lucky alligator as one of the main protagonists and a pair of frogs as the central leads (not reptiles, but close enough insofar as fiction tends to care), Dr. Facilier's Living Shadow briefly turns into a snake during the "Friends on the Other Side" scene. Since Princess is from the same directors as Aladdin, this may have been a nod to Jafar.
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Scaled Up / int_39fe00f1	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_39fe00f1	comment	In Dragon Age: Inquisition, Morrigan can potentially turn into a dragon at the climax if she drank from the Well of Sorrows.
Scaled Up / int_39fe00f1	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_39fe00f1	featureConfidence	1.0
DragonAgeInquisition	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_39fe00f1
Scaled Up / int_3a345608	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_3a345608	comment	Women in When Women Were Dragons can spontaneously transform into dragons when provoked. For example, a woman named Stella dragons out in response to a group of men harassing her, and an unnamed woman dragons after her husband slaps her. Another group of women dragon to take out a team of strike-breakers.
Scaled Up / int_3a345608	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_3a345608	featureConfidence	1.0
When Women Were Dragons	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_3a345608
Scaled Up / int_3afa6616	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_3afa6616	comment	Sorceress Irendri in the ending of the fantasy film Once Upon a Warrior, befitting her as a snake-themed villain, have her turning into a green, snake-human hybrid monster, having snakes protruding from her hair, arms, and her lower body turning into multiple snake tails, which she use to brutally assault the heroes.
Scaled Up / int_3afa6616	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_3afa6616	featureConfidence	1.0
Once Upon A Warrior	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_3afa6616
Scaled Up / int_3ddddb25	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_3ddddb25	comment	Chase Young from Xiaolin Showdown often turns into an anthromorphic lizard when the going gets tough.
Scaled Up / int_3ddddb25	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_3ddddb25	featureConfidence	1.0
Xiaolin Showdown	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_3ddddb25
Scaled Up / int_3e8ff668	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_3e8ff668	comment	Dino Squad is about a group of Teenagers With Attitude who can turn into dinosaurs, fighting a dinosaur who can turn into a man, who wants to turn every creature on Earth into a dinosaur.
Scaled Up / int_3e8ff668	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_3e8ff668	featureConfidence	1.0
Dino Squad	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_3e8ff668
Scaled Up / int_40864d6a	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_40864d6a	comment	In the video for the game Dragon Strike, as well as its tie-in Marvel comic, Teraptus turns into the giant dragon Darkfyre.
Scaled Up / int_40864d6a	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_40864d6a	featureConfidence	1.0
Dragon Strike (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_40864d6a
Scaled Up / int_41b0198a	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_41b0198a	comment	In The Dresden Files, Cassius's Denarian form is a snake-man. He manages to present a significant threat for a while, until two very angry Knights of the Cross and a wizard corner him and he gives up his coin to avoid being killed. ... upon which said wizard breaks Snakyboy's newly re-acquired kneecaps.
Scaled Up / int_41b0198a	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_41b0198a	featureConfidence	1.0
The Dresden Files	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_41b0198a
Scaled Up / int_42e39628	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_42e39628	comment	In book three, Memories of Ice, Anomander Rake — being on the pragmatic side of things — veers into a dragon in order to harry a bunch of enemy troops away rather than having to kill them.
Scaled Up / int_42e39628	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_42e39628	featureConfidence	1.0
Memories of Ice	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_42e39628
Scaled Up / int_43f0c559	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_43f0c559	comment	Edgar Oinkie from Anarchy Reigns invented a Super Serum he calls "the Juice" that can temporarily give him the bulk, scales, and claws of the settings Mutants.
Scaled Up / int_43f0c559	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_43f0c559	featureConfidence	1.0
Anarchy Reigns (Video Game)	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_43f0c559
Scaled Up / int_44345e0a	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_44345e0a	comment	Also in Gardens of the Moon, Anomander Rake veers into his draconean form before he attacks a Demon Lord that has been set free in the city of Darujhistan. He eventually sembles back into his Tiste Andii form because he'd rather not destroy half the city with his draconean bulk, though.
Scaled Up / int_44345e0a	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_44345e0a	featureConfidence	1.0
Gardens of the Moon	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_44345e0a
Scaled Up / int_474a2c24	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_474a2c24	comment	In The Darkness Series Harry learns how to transform into a sea krait using "parselmagic."
Scaled Up / int_474a2c24	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_474a2c24	featureConfidence	1.0
The Darkness Series / Fan Fic	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_474a2c24
Scaled Up / int_4a8026a3	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_4a8026a3	comment	In Curse Of The Wolf Girl the Big Bad's dragon really can turn into a dragon and manages to put up a good fight and has Malveria's army on the ropes. Of course, there remains the issue that the reason there are no true dragons left is because Malveria killed them all years ago, and turned them into dragon-scale outfits. It ends about as well as can be expected when Malveria turns up to take charge personally.
Scaled Up / int_4a8026a3	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_4a8026a3	featureConfidence	1.0
CurseOfTheWolfgirl	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_4a8026a3
Scaled Up / int_4be1bdd0	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_4be1bdd0	comment	Golden Sun: In the first game, after being thrashed sufficiently by Isaac's team, antagonists Saturos and Menardi transform into a single two-headed dragon. While the Fusion Dragon is a more powerful boss than either opponent separately, team Isaac still wins. In Golden Sun: The Lost Age, the final boss is actually another fused dragon comprised of three of the heroes' parents. The Flame Dragons in The Lost Age were transformed Agatio and Karst, as the Wise One wanted to keep them from being the ones to restore Alchemy. The Wise One was successful. Agatio and Karst were not. In all these cases, the dragon shape really is far more powerful (especially in the case of the Doom Dragon), but results in a nasty case of Villainous RRoD when it wears off. A line of Saturos's before his transformation suggests he knew about this which would explain why he and Menardi were Driven to Suicide after their defeat as the Fusion Dragon. In The Lost Age, everyone who transformed was explicitly stated afterward to be too weak to withstand Mars Lighthouse's environmental hazards, which is how Agatio and Karst died. The heroes' parents were saved by Deus ex Machina.
Scaled Up / int_4be1bdd0	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_4be1bdd0	featureConfidence	1.0
Golden Sun (Video Game)	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_4be1bdd0
Scaled Up / int_4c08aa7e	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_4c08aa7e	comment	In The Return of Hanuman, Rahu and Ketu's henchmen turn into their true forms; which are dragon-like creatures, in order to snatch Rahu and Ketu's snake staff from Maruti. They failed because Maruti tricked them and eventually their necks get twisted and tied up.
Scaled Up / int_4c08aa7e	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_4c08aa7e	featureConfidence	1.0
The Return of Hanuman (Animation)	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_4c08aa7e
Scaled Up / int_4c095a1f	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_4c095a1f	comment	The Golden One transforms into a dragon and back in The Transformers episode "Madman's Paradise".
Scaled Up / int_4c095a1f	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_4c095a1f	featureConfidence	1.0
The Transformers	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_4c095a1f
Scaled Up / int_4c2fb967	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_4c2fb967	comment	Mortal Kombat: Annihilation infamously worked the Animalities from the third game into the plot, with Liu Kang transforming into a dragon to fight Shao Kahn, who likewise becomes a hydra. In a subversion, neither really benefits from the arrangement, with the encounter not even lasting two minutes before they revert to their mortal bodies to continue the fight.
Scaled Up / int_4c2fb967	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_4c2fb967	featureConfidence	1.0
Mortal Kombat: Annihilation	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_4c2fb967
Scaled Up / int_4c51dda2	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_4c51dda2	comment	Very rare heroic example: in Manimal, to get his girlfriend (?!?) out of a quicksand peril. The girl is a bit ophidiophobic, maybe a giraffe would have been a better idea...rats, not enough money for the FX. Played with in another episode: the snake is actually real and the girl, who played Fearless Snakecharmer, promptly faints when Manimal comes to the scene.
Scaled Up / int_4c51dda2	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_4c51dda2	featureConfidence	1.0
Manimal	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_4c51dda2
Scaled Up / int_4cf7c27b	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_4cf7c27b	comment	In Yamato Takeru, the Big Bad Physical God Tsukuyomi turns into the Yamata no Orochi when he really feels like destroying.
Scaled Up / int_4cf7c27b	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_4cf7c27b	featureConfidence	1.0
Yamato Takeru	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_4cf7c27b
Scaled Up / int_4d26e24a	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_4d26e24a	comment	Also in Reaper's Gale, in a deliberate anticlimax, Silchas Ruin veers into a dragon in order to attack the city of Letheras because he feels like it, only to be driven off by a couple of soldiers with grenades who shout that they'd had enough of dragons for the day.
Scaled Up / int_4d26e24a	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_4d26e24a	featureConfidence	1.0
Reaper's Gale	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_4d26e24a
Scaled Up / int_4d6af409	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_4d6af409	comment	In Chapter 33 of Buster Girls we're introduced to Saya's Heartless form, Saydra, a giant multi-bodied hydra.
Scaled Up / int_4d6af409	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_4d6af409	featureConfidence	1.0
Buster Girls	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_4d6af409
Scaled Up / int_4ee42f1	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_4ee42f1	comment	In the Omega Men comic book, turning into a giant snake was Demonia's only real superpower. It did, however, make her quite tough in a fight. All things considered, it is unsurprising that Demonia turned out to be The Mole.
Scaled Up / int_4ee42f1	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_4ee42f1	featureConfidence	1.0
Omega Men (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_4ee42f1
Scaled Up / int_5075737a	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_5075737a	comment	In Golden Sun: The Lost Age, the final boss is actually another fused dragon comprised of three of the heroes' parents.
Scaled Up / int_5075737a	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_5075737a	featureConfidence	1.0
Golden Sun: The Lost Age (Video Game)	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_5075737a
Scaled Up / int_507dfb6a	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_507dfb6a	comment	In EarthBound (1994), the dragonite item turns one character into a dragon and damages every enemy for a ton of damage.
Scaled Up / int_507dfb6a	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_507dfb6a	featureConfidence	1.0
EarthBound (1994) (Video Game)	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_507dfb6a
Scaled Up / int_5088a5aa	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_5088a5aa	comment	Count Logan once Dr. Beljar takes over in The End of Ends.
Scaled Up / int_5088a5aa	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_5088a5aa	featureConfidence	1.0
The End of Ends / Fan Fic	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_5088a5aa
Scaled Up / int_50bcf7a6	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_50bcf7a6	comment	Homestuck: When cherubs mate, they each grow into a serpentine form that is one astronomical unit (149,597,871 km, the distance between the Sun and Earth) in length. Then, in great hatred, they wage an epic battle around a black hole, and they conclude this battle with a position shaped like AURYN from The Neverending Story. It is implied, then, that this form is at least incorporated into Lord English's One-Winged Angel.
Scaled Up / int_50bcf7a6	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_50bcf7a6	featureConfidence	1.0
Homestuck (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_50bcf7a6
Scaled Up / int_510569d	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_510569d	comment	In Dreamscape, villain Tommy gets the bright idea of turning into a snake-like monster, quickly resulting in his decapitation. By the President of the United States, no less. And not a President Action, either, but an old, overweight, out-of-shape President Target who hits him from behind with a shovel.
Scaled Up / int_510569d	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_510569d	featureConfidence	1.0
Dreamscape	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_510569d
Scaled Up / int_51455a02	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_51455a02	comment	Claymore has Ophelia turn into an Awakened, resulting in her becoming a massive snake-like being with lots of blades. At first, it helps against Clare, until she realizes it herself by seeing her reflection, after which she has Clare to play a game of kill or get killed.
Scaled Up / int_51455a02	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_51455a02	featureConfidence	1.0
Claymore (Manga)	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_51455a02
Scaled Up / int_5178149f	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_5178149f	comment	In an episode of Batman: The Brave and the Bold, Morgan LaFey turns into a dragon with obvious results.
Scaled Up / int_5178149f	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_5178149f	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman: The Brave and the Bold	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_5178149f
Scaled Up / int_534c1b6b	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_534c1b6b	comment	In the final battle of the Ryuki arc of Kamen Rider Decade, Decade uses the Final Form Ride to force Ryuki into changing into a leaner version of his own contract monster, Dragredder. Ryuki as Dragredder tears the enemy's shark contract monster to pieces before they use Ryuki's finisher, with Decade taking Ryuki's part and Ryuki-as-Dragredder taking Dragredder's part, to temporarily blow up the enemy himself. Naturally what makes it work in this instance is that the good guys did it. Kamen Rider Kiva had his own heroic example one year earlier — Emperor Form: Flight Style turns him into a winged dragon with an impressive Breath Weapon. There are two accounts of how he got it — in the Non-Serial Movie, it's forced on him by the villain, and he's unable to control it until he gets a cooldown-hug from Otoya. He reverts to normal until the villain uses his own One-Winged Angel form. In the actual series, it's just an extension of Emperor Form that he unlocks late in the series and has no problem controlling.
Scaled Up / int_534c1b6b	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_534c1b6b	featureConfidence	1.0
Kamen Rider Ryuki	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_534c1b6b
Scaled Up / int_542776ac	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_542776ac	comment	In The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Eustace, up to now a Jerkass protagonist, is turned into a dragon for being greedy (again, symbolic). It's a Literal Transformative Experience, since being an old-style gangly ugly dragon, having a metal ring digging painfully into his arm the entire time due to his increase in size, inability to communicate and finally understanding how much of The Load he is have wonderful effects on Eustace's personality.
Scaled Up / int_542776ac	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_542776ac	featureConfidence	1.0
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_542776ac
Scaled Up / int_55226230	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_55226230	comment	Breath of Fire: This is the main character's signature ability. He usually starts out as a human from a Lost Tribe with the power to transform into dragons, and throughout the game, he gradually acquires bigger and more powerful dragon forms to use. In the fifth game, he only has a single transformation and has to avoid overusing it. Major antagonists in the series usually have a similar power: Emperor Zod in the first game, Teepo in the third, and Fou-lu in the fourth all fight the party in their dragon forms, the last more than once. The situation in the fifth installment is more complicated, but the technical final boss and the Superboss are still both dragons.
Scaled Up / int_55226230	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_55226230	featureConfidence	1.0
Breath of Fire (Franchise)	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_55226230
Scaled Up / int_56edb129	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_56edb129	comment	A Nightmare on Elm Street comics: In Nightmares on Elm Street, Freddy appears as a dragon to Alice in the Wonderland dreamscape. He carries the form to the climactic confrontation. In New Line Cinema's Tales Of Horror, Freddy turns into a giant snake, coils around his crazy fan and informs him that their supposed partnership could never work, as he won't be able to eat souls of those who weren't killed by him personally.
Scaled Up / int_56edb129	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_56edb129	featureConfidence	1.0
A Nightmare on Elm Street (Franchise)	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_56edb129
Scaled Up / int_5755b96a	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_5755b96a	comment	The Order of the Stick: Vaarsuvius at one point turns into a dragon... while inside another dragon.
Scaled Up / int_5755b96a	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_5755b96a	featureConfidence	1.0
The Order of the Stick (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_5755b96a
Scaled Up / int_5908ee91	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_5908ee91	comment	Skyrim contains plenty of actual dragons, but the only thing that comes close to this trope downplays it. Dragon Aspect is a Shout that — true to form — is the Signature Move of Miraak, the Big Bad of the Dragonborn expansion, and The Last Dragonborn can learn it as well. While the user does not literally become a dragon, an ethereal outline of dragon scales and horns does surround them and they gain dragon-like features — a tough hide that boosts armor, a boost to physical strength that empowers melee attacks, higher resistance to fire and frost elemental damage and more powerful Shouts with a shorter cooldown.
Scaled Up / int_5908ee91	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_5908ee91	featureConfidence	1.0
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Video Game)	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_5908ee91
Scaled Up / int_5b686581	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_5b686581	comment	Sonic Heroes has Metal Sonic, having spent the entire game masquerading as Eggman so he could copy the powers of the heroes along with that of Froggy and a Chao who both contain parts of the DNA of Chaos from Sonic Adventure, use the combined data to reconfigure himself into a massive mechanical dragon called Metal Overlord.
Scaled Up / int_5b686581	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_5b686581	featureConfidence	1.0
Sonic Heroes (Video Game)	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_5b686581
Scaled Up / int_5ce3fc86	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_5ce3fc86	comment	Medusa the Serpent Witch from Soul Eater turns into a small snake to escape when her main body is cut in half. This is after her band succeeded in releasing the Sealed Evil in a Can; so definitely a win, while her opponent thinks he killed her so hard it destroyed her soul.
Scaled Up / int_5ce3fc86	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_5ce3fc86	featureConfidence	1.0
Soul Eater (Manga)	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_5ce3fc86
Scaled Up / int_5d354f8	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_5d354f8	comment	A variant occurs in the Red Dwarf episode "Polymorph" when a shapeshifting Emotion Eater turns into a snake. It works because it wasn't for combat reasons, but to freak Lister out (as he is scared of snakes). It helps make him even more scared until the beast assumes its true form and drains him of his fear.
Scaled Up / int_5d354f8	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_5d354f8	featureConfidence	1.0
Red Dwarf	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_5d354f8
Scaled Up / int_5d44346b	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_5d44346b	comment	Divine Ancestors in Campione! have the ability to gain a massive increase in power by transforming into their primordial form, a dragon or serpent. This comes at a cost as doing so sacrifices their eternal youth and hampers their ability to regain their lost powers.
Scaled Up / int_5d44346b	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_5d44346b	featureConfidence	1.0
Campione!	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_5d44346b
Scaled Up / int_5e150650	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_5e150650	comment	Exalted: The real form of the Unconquered Sun (the de-facto and de-jure Big Good of the settings) is a gigantic golden dragon with tons of HP and an attack that does unlimited points of damage.
Scaled Up / int_5e150650	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_5e150650	featureConfidence	1.0
Exalted (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_5e150650
Scaled Up / int_615c5032	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_615c5032	comment	In the climax of Maleficent, the titular fairy transforms her raven/servant Diaval into a dragon to do battle with King Stephan and his knights. After a brief tangle with some chains around the maw, he proceeds to wreak vengeance upon the throne room.
Scaled Up / int_615c5032	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_615c5032	featureConfidence	1.0
Maleficent	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_615c5032
Scaled Up / int_629cd094	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_629cd094	comment	In Dragon Age: Origins, Flemeth turns into a dragon and is one of the hardest fights in the game.
Scaled Up / int_629cd094	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_629cd094	featureConfidence	1.0
Dragon Age: Origins (Video Game)	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_629cd094
Scaled Up / int_6365ff2d	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_6365ff2d	comment	The Dragonlord in Dragon Quest turns into a bipedal, black-winged, violet dragon after defeating his normal human form. It only partially works for him because unless you've procured Loto's/Erdrick's Sword, your attacks will only do scratch damage to him, making the fight take a while. It's still quite possible to defeat him with the Flame Sword, and possible in theory with the weaker buyable weapons.
Scaled Up / int_6365ff2d	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_6365ff2d	featureConfidence	1.0
Dragon Quest (Video Game)	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_6365ff2d
Scaled Up / int_654ebc56	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_654ebc56	comment	In Part 7 of Jojos Bizarre Adventure, there is a Stand called "Scary Monsters" that allows its user Dr. Ferdinand and, later Diego Brando, to transform himself and anyone he injures into dinosaurs.
Scaled Up / int_654ebc56	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_654ebc56	featureConfidence	1.0
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (Manga)	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_654ebc56
Scaled Up / int_65aabcf0	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_65aabcf0	comment	Buso Renkin: At the beginning of the series, one of Kazuki's teachers morphs into a mechanical, king cobra-like creature that is covered in spikes and large enough to swallow a person whole.
Scaled Up / int_65aabcf0	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_65aabcf0	featureConfidence	1.0
Buso Renkin (Manga)	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_65aabcf0
Scaled Up / int_663dbbec	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_663dbbec	comment	Scaled Up (not the trope namer): Adrien, one of the main characters, often turns into a dinosaur against his will. This happens to Patricia too in the 4th part of the Pilot comic thanks to User Override being turned on when she and Adrien time travel.
Scaled Up / int_663dbbec	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_663dbbec	featureConfidence	1.0
Scaled Up (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_663dbbec
Scaled Up / int_68237790	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_68237790	comment	Pathfinder 1st edition includes a versatile spell, Form of the Dragon, with three variations for Medium, Large, and Huge dragons, and the user choosing which dragon to turn into. Draconic sorcerers get access to all three versions as bloodline spells. 2nd edition instead has the Arcane and Primal spell Dragon Form, which turns you into a Large dragon, and has a heightened version for Huge dragons, which Draconic sorcerers again receive as a bloodline spell. Characters with the Dragon Disciple prestige class — which generally, but not always, requires being a draconic-blooded sorcerer or bloodrager to start with — slowly transform into dragons as they level up. In 1st edition the Dinosaur druid archetype could use their Wild Shape ability to change into a dinosaur. 2nd edition has the Dinosaur Form Primal spell.
Scaled Up / int_68237790	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_68237790	featureConfidence	1.0
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_68237790
Scaled Up / int_694ab80	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_694ab80	comment	The Batman Beyond episode "Splicers" has the villains mix animal DNA with their own. While the lead villain uses DNA from several different animals, he winds up as basically an eight-foot-tall snake (at least until Terry overloads him with injectors and he turns into a monster). He puts up a fairly decent fight against Batman (certainly better than he would have as a human), but still loses in the end.
Scaled Up / int_694ab80	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_694ab80	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman Beyond	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_694ab80
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Scaled Up / int_6ac55ec7	comment	In the 4th edition of Dungeons & Dragons a druid can take the Paragon path of the coiled serpent, where you have the ability to scale up. what you do with this ability and whether you die or not is at the player's (or more realistically, the DM's) discretion. Inverted by an NPC from the Carnival Ravenloft supplement, a snake familiar who had a Heelâ€“Face Turn and abandoned her evil master after he turned her into an elf. Also, many types of D&D dragons are depicted as being able to shapeshift into human form. Some even fall in love with humans. Many yuan-ti can also transform into full-on snakes — though their normal forms are already a mixture of serpentine and human features, looking progressively snakier as you go up through the Fantastic Caste System (in an inversion of the Bishōnen Line). Mystara has a race of small dragon-like creatures called drakes who can become human at will. Back in 3.5, the spell Dragonshape lets you instantly turn into an adult red dragon. There's also the variant spells Least and Lesser Dragonshape, which turns you into a pseudodragon and a young red dragon, respectively. The 5th edition has the ninth level spell True Polymorph, which, among other things, allows its user to transform any creature into another creature of equal or lower level or challenge rating. Coincidentally (?), two creatures of challenge rating 20 are the Ancient Brass Dragon and the Ancient White Dragon. So it's perfectly possible to see a high-level wizard or warlock turn into a giant dragon in a pinch. A slightly less impressive result may be attained at lower level with the regular Polymorph spell, which only allows transformation into beasts as opposed to any creature. Coincidentally (?), the highest challenge rating beast one can transform into just so happens to be none other than Tyrannosaurus rex. (Which may or may not count as Scaling Up, given that it is now known T. rex was feathery instead, although common public perception of it remains as a reptilian creature.)
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Scaled Up / int_6ae1d164	comment	During Galaxy of Fear, the heroic shapeshifter Hoole has at least two snake forms, one for stealth and the other suitable for combat. Bad things happen more than once when he does, notably while on Kiva. He once fights another shapeshifter, his own clone, and both take snake forms during their Shapeshifter Showdown. The battle is a draw and ultimately the deciding factor is another character going Spot the Impostor.
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Scaled Up / int_6b85085e	comment	Mortal Kombat: One of Liu Kang's finishers is to turn into a dragon and bite the opponent in two. Likewise, Shang Tsung's animality from Mortal Kombat 3 had him turn into a glowing green giant cobra that swallowed the victim whole.
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Scaled Up / int_6bfb87c3	comment	Happens twice in Der Ring des Nibelungen, to the same Leitmotif. In Das Rheingold, when Alberich is demonstrating the shapeshifting powers of the Tarnhelm, he first transforms into a dragon, and Loge pretends to be frightened. (Wagner's actual word, Riesenwurm, literally means "giant worm.") In Siegfried, Fafner has already transformed himself from a giant into a dragon. Since he has the Artifact of Doom, his fate is sealed.
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Scaled Up / int_6cb2d709	comment	Averted, as well as inverted, in the Harry Potter series. In a world where wizards can, with hard work, learn to transform into an animal that (arguably) fits their personality, Voldemort is: the last descendant of a man known for talking to snakes, an inheritor of this ability, member of a House whose symbol is a snake, commander of a giant serpent, owner of the pet snake Nagini, and wearer of a face repeatedly described as "snake-like". At no point does he turn into a snake. (Although events in Order of the Phoenix may confuse one into thinking so.) However, in Deathly Hallows, Nagini is at one point disguised as a human.
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Scaled Up / int_6d10ab05	comment	Likewise, Shang Tsung's animality from Mortal Kombat 3 had him turn into a glowing green giant cobra that swallowed the victim whole.
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Scaled Up / int_6e939b21	comment	Chuubo, the titular character of Chuubo's Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine, has the ability to turn into a giant 108-meter snake at will. The name of that power? "It Probably Wouldn't Help." Sure enough, there is an actual law of physics in that game (backed by the rules) which states that turning into a snake cannot help you.
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Scaled Up / int_6ed09d93	comment	In Big Mouth and its spinoff Human Resources (2022), Love Bugs transform into "Hate Worms" when fueled by their clients' hate or their own hate. While some Hate Worms just look like worms, if they consume enough hate, they can grow into massive destructive snakes.
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Scaled Up / int_701f0ece	comment	In Berserk, the Apostle form of the Baron of Koka Castle is a disturbingly Freudian snake-monster who actually manages to land a few good hits on Guts (although, pretty much every Apostle lands many good hits on him). He still doesn't last very long though, due to Guts unloading his Arm Cannon right into the Baron's face and then hacking him in half in one blow with the Dragon Slayer.
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Scaled Up / int_705bb59a	comment	In Vampire: The Masquerade the Followers of Set, one of the 13 main clans, have an entire set of powers related to becoming a snake, called Serpentis. The 1st power lets you immobilize someone with your gaze, the 2nd grows a razor-sharp tongue to use as a weapon, the 3rd gives you armored scales, and the 4th turns you into a giant cobra. The Tzimisce have as one of their final and most powerful abilities of their powerset, The Last Dracul, the ability to transform themselves into dragons, winged and fire-breathing and all.
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Scaled Up / int_70814599	comment	Inverted in Stargate SG-1: The Goa'uld are actually snakes that turn into humanoids (sort of). More like Double Subverted or just Played With. Physically, Goa'uld are foot-long, water-dwelling worms with big fangs on a round mouth and a fin or frill below their heads — basically, snakes with Spikes of Villainy. However, they are also Puppeteer Parasites who take over the bodies of humans and other species. However, some Goa'uld ruled over humans as God Emperors, most of whom used some kind of totem animal as an icon, and the Big Bad for the first several seasons happened to use a snake as his icon. So there's a snake inside a human, whose Mooks are ordered to dress up as snakes...
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Scaled Up / int_7318210e	comment	Dragalia Lost gives anybody who possesses the ability of "dragonblood" the ability to shapeshift into a dragon they've created a pactstone with. Most notably, all of the royal Alberian family has this ability, though there are a few exceptions, such as the twelve Wyrmclan leaders of Hinomoto (incidentally, they call pactstones "soulpacts" over there.) In-game, however, any playable character can shapeshift as long as they have a dragon equipped, forming the game's main "gimmick."
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Scaled Up / int_74f7210c	comment	The Legend of Zelda: Onox, the main villain of The Legend of Zelda Oracle of Seasons, turns into a dragon in the final battle. Hyrule Warriors has Volga, a knight who borrows many elements from dragons, including turning into one. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom: In the final battle, Ganondorf swallows Queen Sonia's stone to transform into the mindless, serpentine Demon Dragon. Tears of the Kingdom also has a heroic example in Princess Zelda herself, who underwent a similar process after being sent 10,000 years in the past in order to take The Slow Path back to Link. The result is Link riding atop Zelda as a Power Up Mount, taking her high into the air so he can land on the Demon Dragon's body and Attack Its Weak Point.
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Scaled Up / int_78d4f24	comment	Mega Man Star Force: Lovable Alpha Bitch Luna turns into Queen Ophiuca when she accepts the FMian Ophiuchus' offer and allows herself to be possessed. The possession turns her into a lamia-esque being, complete with a snake-like tail.
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Scaled Up / int_79bf0b84	comment	Slightly Damned: Moonshade transforms into a giant cobra with earth powers (which he acquired by killing his ancestor Moku the Snake) to kill the guardians Melli the fire bee and Meeros the mortori bird and unlike most villainous versions he succeeds, slaying Melli and seemingly driving away Meeros.
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Scaled Up / int_7c31fdd7	comment	In a heroic version, Aelia of Valkyrie Profile turns into a dragon briefly during her Finishing Move to fire a giant beam at enemies. It only partially works because it's a bit weaker than most anyone else's finishing move, and is even less useful when you consider the one hit does little to help the Combos.
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Scaled Up / int_7d271ad1	comment	The Sword in the Stone: At the beginning of Merlin and Madam Mim's wizard's duel, Mim explicitly forbids turning into "make-believe things like, uh, oh, pink dragons and stuff." She later breaks this rule on a technicality in an attempt to beat Merlin by claiming she didn't specify purple dragons, only to have Merlin go in exactly the opposite direction and turn into an infectious bacterium. He makes her sick, which pushes her to bed rest. She also turns into a crocodile and a rattlesnake earlier in the fight, and Merlin himself starts off by transforming into a turtle.
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Scaled Up / int_7e22b6b0	comment	Draconis and Abazigal from Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal revert to their true forms — adult dragons — upon being whacked sufficiently while in human form. While you still kill them, the 'partial success' part is because Draconis' dragon form is a challenge (or at least a bloody annoyance) and is widely considered to be an actually difficult boss. Abazigal, however... Isn't.
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Scaled Up / int_7fcbd3e	comment	Mystara has a race of small dragon-like creatures called drakes who can become human at will.
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Scaled Up / int_80c382f4	comment	The Defenders of the Earth episode "Dracula's Potion" also contains a rare example of one of the heroes turning into a snake, albeit involuntarily. The titular potion transforms most of the Defenders into the animals which best reflect their personalities; in Mandrake's case, the animal in question is a cobra.
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Scaled Up / int_819853fe	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_819853fe	comment	In Final Fantasy XIII-2, the Big Bad Caius Ballad has the ability to become his Eidolon Bahamut, a process that is normally fatal but doesn't bother him at all because he is immortal. As the Final Boss he becomes a different more powerful dragon and summons two more to aid him for good measure.
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Scaled Up / int_87e00d8e	comment	Teen Titans (2003): Malchior, though he didn't so much transform into a dragon as he was transformed back to his real form. It still doesn't help him much (technically he was handing the entire Titan team their asses, but it slipped his mind that Raven, the one who unsealed him in the first place due to his manipulations, knew both the spell to put him away again and had the will to do it until she already brought the sealing book up). Done again when Beast Boy gets an Evil Twin. It transforms into a cobra, just to show it's evil by using a form Beast Boy never would. Of course, Beast Boy himself is also a heroic example: he Scaled Up into a pteranodon, tyrannosaur, or a Jurassic Park-style velociraptor on occasion. One time he even Scaled Up into a T-Rex to fight his Scaled Up Evil Twin, who turned into a spinosaur.
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Scaled Up / int_88383ee7	comment	Near the end of Fullmetal Alchemist (2003), Envy turns into a giant serpent in order to cross the Gate and kill his father, Hohenheim. He ends up getting stuck in Germany, where he's captured by the Thule Society and used as a giant Ouroboros to activate their transmutation circle and open a portal to Amestris. However, this process does accomplish the one thing he really wanted: killing Hohenheim.
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Scaled Up / int_88b580f0	comment	Werewolf: The Apocalypse has a double-helping of this trope: the 1st Edition Players Guide introduced us to the Mokole, a race of were-saurians whose relationship to the sun is similar to the wolves' relationship to the moon, while the 2nd Edition Players Guide introduced the Nagah, a predominantly Asian and Middle-Eastern race of were-snakes who functioned primarily as assassins.
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Scaled Up / int_8d0c222c	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_8d0c222c	comment	In Harry Is a Dragon, and That's OK, the climax involves Voldemort taking a leaf out of Harry's book and making a flash-grown Hungarian Horntail into his newest body.
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Scaled Up / int_8ee74374	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_8ee74374	comment	Gargoyle's Quest: In Demon's Crest, Phalanx uses the Crest of Heaven to transform into a giant demonic naga if you complete enough levels to make the game its longest.
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Scaled Up / int_9009c9a4	comment	In New Line Cinema's Tales Of Horror, Freddy turns into a giant snake, coils around his crazy fan and informs him that their supposed partnership could never work, as he won't be able to eat souls of those who weren't killed by him personally.
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Scaled Up / int_90c73dda	comment	Animorphs: In the second-to-final book, The Answer, Jake morphs an anaconda on the cover. He uses it in the book to convince the Taxxons to turn on their Yeerk overlord and go nothlit, in order to escape their constant, mind-breaking hunger by turning into animals that only need a good meal once every few months. This also plays into the final book. Rachel has snuck aboard Tom's ship, hoping to defeat his rogue Yeerk army. She transforms into a Grizzly Bear and he sends his minions after her after they have each changed into equally fearsome and tough creatures. Rachel has just enough of an opportunity during the battle to check on Tom as he hangs back and transforms — into a king cobra. Rachel defeats several minions, but his small size and her poor vision makes it difficult for her to track him in the chaos. He successfully bites and poisons her, but she (with help) impales him on her claws and then bites him in half. She demorphs, exhausted, and another minion, transformed into a polar bear, kills her with a single blow. Series author K. A. Applegate seems to have a thing for giving snake morphs to Smug Snake characters. Marco (admittedly a hero, but his ego can sometimes get the better of him) and Tom both have cobra morphs, while David acquires a rattlesnake for maximum heel factor in The Solution. Ax meanwhile has a rattlesnake morph, but rarely uses it. The first time he does, it's for an assassination mission. Cassie of all people has a pit viper morph, but she only uses it once and only to intimidate.
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Scaled Up / int_928a8b2b	comment	In The Death Gate Cycle, the ultimate evil beings are shape shifters that like to take the form of giant dragon-snakes, probably meant to resemble wingless Chinese dragons with a more snakelike head. In a final confrontation with the heroes, one of them reverts into this shape, growing too large, and his head hits the roof of the room they're in, which is inscribed with death runes, thus killing him. Somewhat justified by Fridge Logic, as the chamber the Final Battle took place in was filled with magical energy that was anathema to the serpent — he was likely dying by inches from the moment he entered it (which he only did out of desperation). At the climax of the first book in the series, the Evil Sorcerer antagonist pulls a more traditional version of this trope, turning himself into a giant snake, but he dies quickly because he'd already been fatally knifed in human form and the wound carried over. A protagonist turns into a dragon during The Siege in the sixth book. He kicks a lot of ass (mostly off-screen, but considering what he's facing it's still badass). It's only a partial success because he ends up missing in action. The seventh book reveals why: he was defeated and captured by a real dragon. How powerful is that? ''One person in the entire series has defeated one in battle.
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Scaled Up / int_933d8984	comment	The Finder's Stone Trilogy: The second book, The Wyvern's Spur, has heroic and villainous examples of this. On the heroic side, anyone who possesses the titular spur (and meets certain other criteria) can use it to transform themselves into an abnormally large, red-scaled wyvern. On the villainous side, the Big Bad Flattery Wyvernspur can turn himself into a blue dragon using his magic. The climax of the novel is a High-Altitude Battle between the two beasts.
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Scaled Up / int_95594cfc	comment	Wizards: The prologue has Blackwolf turning himself into a snake during his battle with his brother, Avatar. Avatar responds by turning himself into an eagle before banishing Blackwolf to Scortch.
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Scaled Up / int_98c55b59	comment	One of the minor villains in Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura is Kraka-Tur, a human who, tired of being bullied for his weakness, killed Arcanum's last dragon by feeding him poison and used his blood in a magic ritual which turned him into a dragon, a crime for which he was banished. While the transformation gives him impressive strength and fighting prowess, he still has the personality of a coward.
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Scaled Up / int_990ba067	comment	Tales of Wedding Rings has a heroic example in Saphir, who once used the Ring of Water to transform herself into an enormous dragon and devour the kraken that was menacing her friends.
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Scaled Up / int_997ea899	comment	In the 1973 B-movie Sssssss, a Mad Scientist turns his lab assistants into king cobras.
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Scaled Up / int_9989595b	comment	In W.I.T.C.H., Cedric's snake-man form is initially very effective; however, as the heroines become increasingly proficient in using their powers (and in battle in general) he's increasingly left in the dust.
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Scaled Up / int_999855bb	comment	Heroes of Might and Magic III: This turns out to be the Nighon Overlord Mutare's goal in her campaign in Armageddon's Blade, which she succeeds at in the second-to-last mission. She turns up again in Heroes Chronicles, leading an army of dragons to conquer more lands after establishing dominance over Nighon. For this trope, it was unusually successful — it did lead to success for quite a while after her transformation, it just eventually led her to being too greedy and ambitious and overreaching.
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Scaled Up / int_9d34190a	comment	The Elder Scrolls: The Ka Po' Tun, an Akaviri race of "tiger folk", hold dragons in high reverence. Their ultimate goal is to become dragons, with their leader, Tosh Raka, being the first and (so far) only one known to succeed. He now rules them as a God-Emperor and, once their Arch-Enemy Tsaesci are eliminated, he intends to invade Tamriel. (The continent where all of the games to date in the series have taken place.) Maybe — the only source for this is the book Mysterious Akavir, which both reads as unreliable and by the time of Skyrim is over two hundred years old with no sign of a Tosh Raka-led invasion. This trope plays into why the Argonians subject to Fantastic Racism by the other races. In Oblivion, Martin pulls a heroic version of this at the end of the main quest, becomingnote it's possible he also summoned the avatar, but in such a way that his own body was destroyed the avatar of Akatosh, the draconic Chief Deity of the Nine Divines pantheon, in order to defeat the Daedric Prince Mehrunes Dagon Skyrim contains plenty of actual dragons, but the only thing that comes close to this trope downplays it. Dragon Aspect is a Shout that — true to form — is the Signature Move of Miraak, the Big Bad of the Dragonborn expansion, and The Last Dragonborn can learn it as well. While the user does not literally become a dragon, an ethereal outline of dragon scales and horns does surround them and they gain dragon-like features — a tough hide that boosts armor, a boost to physical strength that empowers melee attacks, higher resistance to fire and frost elemental damage and more powerful Shouts with a shorter cooldown.
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Scaled Up / int_9e2f90f4	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_9e2f90f4	comment	One Piece has Zoan Devil Fruits, so of course there are reptile-based ones. In fact, two specific "families" of reptile Zoan Devil Fruits have appeared in canon: The Snake-Snake Fruits, which turn their users into specific kinds of snake, and the Dragon-Dragon Fruits, which are actually a family of Ancient Zoan Fruits that covers dinosaurs. The first Snake-Snake Fruit users were the Boa sisters Marigold (King Cobra) and Sandersonia (Anaconda). Their big sister Hancock, however, breaks the theme by instead having a Paramecia that lets her petrify anyone who thinks lustful thoughts about her. Marigold and Sandersonia actually fare pretty well against Luffyâ€¦up until the point where he stops holding back. A Mythic Zoan branch of the Snake-Snake Fruit tree, the Yamata no Orochi Model, turns up in the Wano arc. Fittingly, it's been consumed by the evil Shogun of Wano, Kozuki Orochi... although he's so pathetic that he's a complete waste of the fruit's powers. The main purpose of it turns out to be allowing 7 different people who have good reasons to want Orochi dead to get their own turns at decapitating him before he dies for good. One of the Supernovas, the most formidable pirates to set sail during the timeframe of the series, is X Drake, who has the Allosaurus model of the Dragon-Dragon Fruit. Most of the other Dragon-Dragon Fruits appear during the Wano arc, in the hands of high-ranking members of Emperor Kaido's Beast Pirates: King has the Pteranodon fruit, Queen has the Brachiosaurus fruit, Sasaki has the Triceratops fruit, Ulti has the Pachycephalosaurus fruit, and Page One has the Spinosaurus fruit. Kaido himself has the ability to transform into a massive Eastern dragon. Ironically, despite having multiple Dragon-Dragon Fruit users under his command, it turns out his fruit is classified as a Mythical Zoan model of the Fish-Fish Fruit! (A reference to the Legendary Carp of Chinese and Japanese folklore.) Momonosuke has the same ability as Kaido, as he's eaten an artificial replica of Kaido's fruit created by Dr. Vegapunk.
Scaled Up / int_9e2f90f4	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_9e2f90f4	featureConfidence	1.0
One Piece (Manga)	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_9e2f90f4
Scaled Up / int_9e876c22	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_9e876c22	comment	Inverted in Good Omens: Crowley was originally known as Crawly, aka the snake that told Eve about the Fruit of Knowledge. In modern times, he takes on the appearance of a human male (with shades to hide his snake eyes and has a tendency to hiss) but never turns into a snake.
Scaled Up / int_9e876c22	featureApplicability	1.0
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Good Omens	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_9e876c22
Scaled Up / int_a09bf720	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_a09bf720	comment	The Last Temptation graphic novel by Neil Gaiman and Alice Cooper (yes, you read that right) has The Showman turn into a giant snake at the end, but he doesn't actually attack the hero. He just messes with his head a bit, and scares him away. If this story is meant to tie into Cooper's song "Welcome To My Nightmare", (which many of his fans believe it is) then it was an entirely successful head-mess, because by then, Stephen is a Serial Killer.
Scaled Up / int_a09bf720	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_a09bf720	featureConfidence	1.0
The Last Temptation (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_a09bf720
Scaled Up / int_a09ee7cc	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_a09ee7cc	comment	Underworlds: Loki transforms into the eponymous Ice Dragon to battle the kids in The Ice Dragon.
Scaled Up / int_a09ee7cc	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_a09ee7cc	featureConfidence	1.0
Underworlds	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_a09ee7cc
Scaled Up / int_a5f47de3	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_a5f47de3	comment	In Klonoa: Door to Phantomile, during Joka's boss battle, he frequently transforms into a creature resembling a cross between a turtle and a lizard. What's worse is that Joka's clownish appearance carries over to his reptilian form, making it a literal Monster Clown.
Scaled Up / int_a5f47de3	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_a5f47de3	featureConfidence	1.0
Klonoa: Door to Phantomile (Video Game)	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_a5f47de3
Scaled Up / int_a6827dcf	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_a6827dcf	comment	In 3Ã—3 Eyes we have Hua She, a snake demons who spends the entire second series as the human consciousness of the protagonist, Pai. After she sacrifices herself to stop Benares, she undoes the spell and returns being a small harmless snake... only for Parvati to actually give her a human identity which plays a bigger role during the fourth act, Trinetra. Benares himself usually appears as a human (well, a really big human) but when Yakumo tries to seal him away with Genma Hoshin he forcibly assumes his true form: a colossal, mindless wyrm made of brilliant energy. Benares willingly undergoes a draconic-snakelike transformation for the final battle.
Scaled Up / int_a6827dcf	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_a6827dcf	featureConfidence	1.0
3Ã—3 Eyes (Manga)	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_a6827dcf
Scaled Up / int_a75ed289	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_a75ed289	comment	In Oblivion, Martin pulls a heroic version of this at the end of the main quest, becomingnote it's possible he also summoned the avatar, but in such a way that his own body was destroyed the avatar of Akatosh, the draconic Chief Deity of the Nine Divines pantheon, in order to defeat the Daedric Prince Mehrunes Dagon
Scaled Up / int_a75ed289	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_a75ed289	featureConfidence	1.0
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Video Game)	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_a75ed289
Scaled Up / int_a825da3e	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_a825da3e	comment	There's a Magic: The Gathering card for everything: Form of the Dragon. The card has found a home in at least one successful combo deck (Enduring Ideal) as a powerful finisher. The Eventide set gave us Snakeform, which has the (temporary) obvious effect on the affected creature...which in the process loses all its special abilities for the duration and generally becomes much weaker as well. So you obviously shouldn't be using it on your creatures... Dragon's Maze gave us Dragonshift, and Modern Horizons gave us a card literally called Scale Up. These cards can turn one or all of your creatures into Dragons or Wurms respectively (Wurms, in Magic, basically being gigantic land serpents).
Scaled Up / int_a825da3e	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_a825da3e	featureConfidence	1.0
Magic: The Gathering (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_a825da3e
Scaled Up / int_a8639b13	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_a8639b13	comment	In the fourth Fablehaven book, inverted with Gavin, Kendra's "boyfriend," turns back into his true self, the demonic dragon Navarog. He could have easily killed all the heroes then, but he decides to revert to his human form and capture Kendra, allowing the small fairylike dragon Raxtus to bite him in two.
Scaled Up / int_a8639b13	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_a8639b13	featureConfidence	1.0
Fablehaven	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_a8639b13
Scaled Up / int_a8729c90	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_a8729c90	comment	On one of The Fairly OddParents! pilot shorts, Vicky gets turned into a dragon at the end. In this case, it wasn't intentional on Vicky's part, but because Cosmo and Wanda lose control of their magic.
Scaled Up / int_a8729c90	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_a8729c90	featureConfidence	1.0
The Fairly OddParents!	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_a8729c90
Scaled Up / int_a939e3b2	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_a939e3b2	comment	Hana the Fox Girl's Haru Sakamoto is an inversion. She was born a snake but has the ability to transform into a human. She was adopted and raised by a human couple who saw her hatch and change.
Scaled Up / int_a939e3b2	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_a939e3b2	featureConfidence	1.0
Hana the Fox Girl (Manga)	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_a939e3b2
Scaled Up / int_a9cb14fc	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_a9cb14fc	comment	Inverted by an NPC from the Carnival Ravenloft supplement, a snake familiar who had a Heelâ€“Face Turn and abandoned her evil master after he turned her into an elf.
Scaled Up / int_a9cb14fc	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_a9cb14fc	featureConfidence	1.0
Ravenloft (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_a9cb14fc
Scaled Up / int_aa019531	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_aa019531	comment	Bartok the Magnificent: An unintentional example, where the villainous Ludmilla steals and drinks a magic potion under the belief it would make her ten times more beautiful. However, the potion actually makes people's appearance ten times what they are on the inside, she transforms into a giant ugly purple dragon.
Scaled Up / int_aa019531	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_aa019531	featureConfidence	1.0
Bartok the Magnificent	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_aa019531
Scaled Up / int_aa40269b	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_aa40269b	comment	3 Slytherin Marauders has a (anti)-heroic example when Tom Riddle discovers his animagus form is of a great black dragon.
Scaled Up / int_aa40269b	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_aa40269b	featureConfidence	1.0
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Scaled Up / int_aaaee755	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_aaaee755	comment	In The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, the Emperor turns into a three-headed dragon, kidnapping Lin and managing to evade the heroes. He doesn't return to that shape, though. Later on, he shifts into a Kirin and was similarly unbeatable. In fact, it's safe to say that had he not been goaded into a fair fight, he'd have succeeded.
Scaled Up / int_aaaee755	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_aaaee755	featureConfidence	1.0
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_aaaee755
Scaled Up / int_aad9b544	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_aad9b544	comment	The Wyrmic class in Tales of Maj'Eyal have skills that allow them to transform into several different kinds of dragon, including elemental, Draco Lich (Undead Dragon), and Draconic Abomination (Scourge Dragon) types.
Scaled Up / int_aad9b544	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_aad9b544	featureConfidence	1.0
Tales of Maj'Eyal (Video Game)	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_aad9b544
Scaled Up / int_af2a147e	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_af2a147e	comment	Enchanted: Narissa pulls a Maleficent-crossed-with-King Kong when she turns into a dragon, kidnaps Robert, and climbs a skyscraper during a thunderstorm. Bad idea. The result is impressive, though. Still a strange move, though, considering that being Genre Savvy was one of her more dangerous villainous traits until that point.
Scaled Up / int_af2a147e	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_af2a147e	featureConfidence	1.0
Enchanted	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_af2a147e
Scaled Up / int_afd530db	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_afd530db	comment	King's Quest V: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder!. The showdown with Mordack involves him shapeshifting into various forms, which Graham must counter with some spells he learned very conveniently about five minutes earlier. One of which is a dragon (defeated by turning into a rabbit, too nimble for the dragon to hit). Straight after, it's a snake (obviously countered by a mongoose).
Scaled Up / int_afd530db	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_afd530db	featureConfidence	1.0
King's Quest V: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder! (Video Game)	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_afd530db
Scaled Up / int_b24837f5	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_b24837f5	comment	Simon the Sorcerer. At one point, you partake in a "wizard's duel" (read: magical rock-paper-scissors) with a witch. Upon winning three rounds, the witch transforms into a dragon (breaking the rule she set at the start). This is completely ineffective, of course — you just transform into a mouse and escape through the small mouse hole in the wall.
Scaled Up / int_b24837f5	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_b24837f5	featureConfidence	1.0
Simon the Sorcerer (Video Game)	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_b24837f5
Scaled Up / int_b4967d43	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_b4967d43	comment	Sonic the Hedgehog: In his final form, Chaos, the Big Bad of Sonic Adventure, becomes a large, serpentine, dragon-like beast. Sonic Heroes has Metal Sonic, having spent the entire game masquerading as Eggman so he could copy the powers of the heroes along with that of Froggy and a Chao who both contain parts of the DNA of Chaos from Sonic Adventure, use the combined data to reconfigure himself into a massive mechanical dragon called Metal Overlord. Sonic Superstars has a heroic example with Trip, a sungazer, becoming a dragon in her Super Mode.
Scaled Up / int_b4967d43	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_b4967d43	featureConfidence	1.0
Sonic the Hedgehog (Franchise)	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_b4967d43
Scaled Up / int_b4996199	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_b4996199	comment	One of Spider-Man's longest-running foes is the Lizard, a kindly scientist who accidentally transformed himself into an evil lizard-like monster. How lizard-like and sapient he is tends to vary depending on writer and artist, but he's always bad news - and sometimes he plans on turning others into lizards like himself. Spidey's also faced off with other, similar Lizard Folk villains, including Iguana and Stegron.
Scaled Up / int_b4996199	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_b4996199	featureConfidence	1.0
Spider-Man (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_b4996199
Scaled Up / int_b5a6027f	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_b5a6027f	comment	Harry Potter also does this in Oh God, Not Again!, having become a snake Animagus before getting sent back in time. He only uses this to capture Wormtail, though.
Scaled Up / int_b5a6027f	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_b5a6027f	featureConfidence	1.0
Oh God Not Again! / Fan Fic	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_b5a6027f
Scaled Up / int_b5f7e809	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_b5f7e809	comment	Beren and LÃºthien: Sauron at one point becomes a snake in an effort to defeat Huan, the Hound of Valinor. It wasn't any more successful than any of the other forms he tried.
Scaled Up / int_b5f7e809	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_b5f7e809	featureConfidence	1.0
Beren and LÃºthien	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_b5f7e809
Scaled Up / int_b88252e9	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_b88252e9	comment	Legends of Baldur's Gate: As befits someone associated with the Cult of the Dragon, Deniak turns into one. It's probably not quite what he was after — he wanted draconic power, not shape.
Scaled Up / int_b88252e9	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_b88252e9	featureConfidence	1.0
Legends of Baldur's Gate (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_b88252e9
Scaled Up / int_b962c879	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_b962c879	comment	Fairy Tail: While it doesn't turn them into dragons, first-generation Dragon Slayers are capable of using an advanced magic ability called Dragon Force, which immensely increases their magic power and gives them visible scales on their bodies. Natsu is first seen using it during his fight with Jellal, and Wendy and Gajeel are seen using it against Ezel and Bloodman, respectively. However, the Dragon Slayer in question must consume A LOT of magical energy to enter this state. Second and third-generation Dragon Slayers, like Laxus, Sting and Rogue, are capable of using it at will, but it lacks a lot of "oomph" compared to the real deal. Acnologia and Irene Belserion, however, are capable of turning into full-fledged dragons. In the sequel series the fifth-generation Dragon Slayers (or Dragon Eaters) are introduced, they do have Dragon Force but consider it a Dangerous Forbidden Technique: they do gain a transformation and an incredibly powerful form, but they slowly and inexorably undergo Dragonization and irreversibly become true dragons.
Scaled Up / int_b962c879	featureApplicability	1.0
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Fairy Tail (Manga)	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_b962c879
Scaled Up / int_ba1083f7	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_ba1083f7	comment	In Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock, this is Casey Lynch's powered-up form.
Scaled Up / int_ba1083f7	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_ba1083f7	featureConfidence	1.0
Guitar Hero (Video Game)	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_ba1083f7
Scaled Up / int_bb3fde3d	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_bb3fde3d	comment	Danny Phantom: While the second episode that showed a dragon (transformable via a magic pendent) played this trope straight, the second, more evil one, was much, much harder for the hero to defeat. In fact, his abused little sister was the one who ended it, but not before he created some serious damage.
Scaled Up / int_bb3fde3d	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_bb3fde3d	featureConfidence	1.0
Danny Phantom	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_bb3fde3d
Scaled Up / int_bc1dc95a	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_bc1dc95a	comment	The Pirates of the Caribbean: Jack Sparrow book, City of Gold concludes with voodoo witch Madame Minuet fusing with her two new allies into a three-headed serpent to try and take down the young pirate.
Scaled Up / int_bc1dc95a	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_bc1dc95a	featureConfidence	1.0
Pirates of the Caribbean (Franchise)	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_bc1dc95a
Scaled Up / int_be720e78	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_be720e78	comment	The classic Betty Boop cartoon "Snow White" ends with the Evil Queen turning into a dragon after her magic mirror blows up, and promptly being taken down by Betty, Koko the Clown and Bimbo the Dog. Considering that the highlight of the cartoon involves Koko being turned into a ghost-like creature singing "St. James Infirmary Blues" with the voice of Cab Calloway, this can be seen as the least bizarre moment in this cartoon.
Scaled Up / int_be720e78	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_be720e78	featureConfidence	1.0
Betty Boop	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_be720e78
Scaled Up / int_bf23eedd	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_bf23eedd	comment	Fullmetal Alchemist Near the end of Fullmetal Alchemist (2003), Envy turns into a giant serpent in order to cross the Gate and kill his father, Hohenheim. He ends up getting stuck in Germany, where he's captured by the Thule Society and used as a giant Ouroboros to activate their transmutation circle and open a portal to Amestris. However, this process does accomplish the one thing he really wanted: killing Hohenheim. In the manga and Brotherhood anime, Envy tries it again on Mustang after revealing he was the one to kill Hughes... but Rule 34 of the Evil Overlord List kicks him hard when Mustang demonstrates that all Envy did was give Mustang an easier target with his flame alchemy.
Scaled Up / int_bf23eedd	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_bf23eedd	featureConfidence	1.0
Fullmetal Alchemist (Franchise)	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_bf23eedd
Scaled Up / int_c0f8022c	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_c0f8022c	comment	In Hercules: The Animated Series, Hercules and Adonis visits Nereus, an elderly, grouchy shape-shifter able to turn into various creatures. While attacking Hercules, Nereus transforms into a gorilla, serpent, and giant spider.
Scaled Up / int_c0f8022c	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_c0f8022c	featureConfidence	1.0
Hercules: The Animated Series	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_c0f8022c
Scaled Up / int_c41a1960	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_c41a1960	comment	Protagonist example: This is how Violet, of all people gains the power to stop the Big Bad in Rise of the Galeforces. A surprisingly interesting example in that Ludlow was the one who gave Violet that power in the first place, attempting to turn her into his own personal Tyke-Bomb. Velociripper makes matters even worse (for the antagonists, anyway) when he gives Vi a dose of his devolution ray, momentarily trapping her in her Tyrannosaurus rex form. Needless to say, she immediately goes on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge, cripples Ripper in single combat, destroys most (if not all) of the villainous forces, and fights the Big Bad's tank. Really!
Scaled Up / int_c41a1960	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_c41a1960	featureConfidence	1.0
The Incredibles (Franchise)	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_c41a1960
Scaled Up / int_c423806f	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_c423806f	comment	Voyages of the Wild Sea Horse: Lilith is a Sky-lander with a model of the Snake-Snake Devil Fruit that lets her turn into a cobra. Her full cobra form is "merely" 160 centimeters long, which makes it as big as she is in her human form. Hybrid form, on the other, turns her into a 616 centimeter long snake woman, which makes her roughly two meters bigger than Miriam, who was previously the biggest person aboard.
Scaled Up / int_c423806f	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_c423806f	featureConfidence	1.0
Voyages of the Wild Sea Horse (Fanfic)	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_c423806f
Scaled Up / int_c43df4d8	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: In the climax of "Kinda", the Mara, a malevolent entity that possesses both Tegan and a member of the titular tribe, is revealed to be a giant snake after being exorcised by the Doctor and the rest of the tribespeople. The Mara reappears in "Snakedance", where its serpentine form is shown much more frequently. The Master briefly turns into a gelatinous, cobra-like creature during the TV movie after being seemingly reduced to ash by the Daleks, and slithers down Bruce's throat while he's asleep in order to possess him.
Scaled Up / int_c43df4d8	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_c43df4d8	featureConfidence	1.0
Doctor Who	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_c43df4d8
Scaled Up / int_c62995ba	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_c62995ba	comment	Child of the Storm has both heroic and villainous examples. In the former case, Loki transforms into a giant serpent to hold a zombified Kraken still so Thor can get a clean shot in on it. In the latter case, in the sequel, Selene Gallio transforms into a black long wyrm (fire-breathing dragon with no wings), in an attempt to destroy her enemies, getting into a fight with Sue, Harry Dresden's zombie t-rex in the process — Dresden and Wanda actually quote the Evil Overlord List, with Wanda noting that Strange made her memorise it, and speculates that he might well have written it. It doesn't work, as Wanda Maximoff drops Dresden on her back, he uses his staff as an improvised spear and lightning conductor into her brain.
Scaled Up / int_c62995ba	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_c62995ba	featureConfidence	1.0
Child of the Storm (Fanfic)	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_c62995ba
Scaled Up / int_c7f59f7d	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_c7f59f7d	comment	In New Teen Titans #5, they were mind-controlled. One guess which form Changeling took when developing a crush (their pun, not mine) on Zatanna'.
Scaled Up / int_c7f59f7d	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_c7f59f7d	featureConfidence	1.0
Teen Titans (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_c7f59f7d
Scaled Up / int_cb1e142a	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_cb1e142a	comment	In Batman vs. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Joker mutates into a snake after being sprayed with Ooze.
Scaled Up / int_cb1e142a	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_cb1e142a	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman vs. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_cb1e142a
Scaled Up / int_cb6abea3	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_cb6abea3	comment	An inversion in Yu-Gi-Oh! in the Waking the Dragons arc: the secret of the three dragons is that they were actually knights transformed by Dartz in an attempt to weaken them. Yami Yugi transforms them back into knights in order to defeat Dartz.
Scaled Up / int_cb6abea3	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_cb6abea3	featureConfidence	1.0
Yu-Gi-Oh!	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_cb6abea3
Scaled Up / int_cbdbf3a0	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_cbdbf3a0	comment	In the prologue of Midnight Tides, the fifth volume, Silchas Ruin, and Scabandari Bloodeye use their draconean form to better be able to attack the flying fortresses of the K'Chain Che'Malle, which they couldn't have reached otherwise.
Scaled Up / int_cbdbf3a0	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_cbdbf3a0	featureConfidence	1.0
Midnight Tides	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_cbdbf3a0
Scaled Up / int_ce3fcb72	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_ce3fcb72	comment	The titular prince in the ending of The Snake Prince reveals his true, One-Winged Angel form at the end of the film, having been exposed to sulphurous smoke — as a giant snake monster. One of the rare non-villainous examples of this trope.
Scaled Up / int_ce3fcb72	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_ce3fcb72	featureConfidence	1.0
The Snake Prince	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_ce3fcb72
Scaled Up / int_cf69b21e	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_cf69b21e	comment	Transmetal II/Megatron in Beast Wars and Beast Machines. Considering all the bad guys who this doesn't work for, it seems ironic that he grows to hate his Scaled Up form despite it being responsible for his success.
Scaled Up / int_cf69b21e	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_cf69b21e	featureConfidence	1.0
Beast Wars	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_cf69b21e
Scaled Up / int_d0f95259	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_d0f95259	comment	The Incredibles comic arc, City of Incredibles has Shifty taking on the form of a dragon after having his shapeshifting powers enhanced by a superpower virus, only to be taken down by the family after they powered up on the same disease.
Scaled Up / int_d0f95259	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_d0f95259	featureConfidence	1.0
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Scaled Up / int_d120122a	comment	Kamen Rider Kiva had his own heroic example one year earlier — Emperor Form: Flight Style turns him into a winged dragon with an impressive Breath Weapon. There are two accounts of how he got it — in the Non-Serial Movie, it's forced on him by the villain, and he's unable to control it until he gets a cooldown-hug from Otoya. He reverts to normal until the villain uses his own One-Winged Angel form. In the actual series, it's just an extension of Emperor Form that he unlocks late in the series and has no problem controlling.
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Scaled Up / int_d2ea0091	comment	In G.I. Joe: The Movie, Cobra Commander, former leader of Cobra, is punished by his masters in Cobra-La for his repeated failures in conquering the world by being turned into a humanoid snake that eventually devolves into a full, but human-sized, snake, with limited speech capacity. This somewhat bites Golobulus and co. in the ass towards the end of the film, when a vengeful Cobra Commander attacks Serpentor, CC's usurper and Cobra-La's new favorite, just when the Cobra Emperor is about to finish off new hero Lt. Falcon.
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Scaled Up / int_d3633586	comment	In Tenko and the Guardians of the Magic, Jana and Jason combine their starfire crystals to turn into a two-headed dragon.
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Scaled Up / int_d3633586	featureConfidence	1.0
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Scaled Up / int_d36b8ea7	featureConfidence	1.0
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Scaled Up / int_d456b5a9	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_d456b5a9	comment	In the Eleutherophobia series, Tom's (the real Tom) preferred battle morph is a king cobra. He mainly uses it to inject venom into morph-capable opponents, giving them enough time to demorph before it kills them; the only person he's killed this way was his Yeerk, and he deserved it.
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Scaled Up / int_d4f9ccf	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_d4f9ccf	comment	In Disney's Aladdin, Jafar transforms into a humongous snake after gaining sorcerer powers from the Genie, as pictured above. He actually has Aladdin and company on the ropes for quite a while until Al tricks him into trying to gain even more power by using his last wish to become a Genie, and Jafar is sealed inside a new lamp. In hindsight, Jafar should have stuck to the reptile form.
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Scaled Up / int_d4fa523c	comment	In Faria, after the Big Bad's first form is defeated, he uses the powers of the King's scrolls to transfer his soul into a dragon.
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Scaled Up / int_d5d1c44b	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_d5d1c44b	comment	Eye of the Beholder 2 has Dran Draggore turn out to be a Dragon. Of course, the dragon is still vulnerable to the attack+ side-step maneuver.
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Scaled Up / int_d69208d2	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_d69208d2	comment	In the series finale of Codename: Kids Next Door, Father transforms into a giant, black dragon. Still gets knocked into a pit, but unlike most examples, doesn't die.
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Codename: Kids Next Door	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_d69208d2
Scaled Up / int_d9af8733	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_d9af8733	comment	Freddy Krueger in A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors turned into a serpentine creature to swallow a dreaming teen whole. He managed to gulp down her legs when Nancy appeared to haul her back out of his mouth. This scene could be considered foreshadowing, as we later learn that he absorbs/eats the souls of his victims to grow stronger.
Scaled Up / int_d9af8733	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_d9af8733	featureConfidence	1.0
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_d9af8733
Scaled Up / int_db30cf92	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_db30cf92	comment	In the Warrior Cats Multiple Animator Project "Serpent Sol", Sol transforms into a giant snake for his final confrontation with Squirrelflight and Feathertail.
Scaled Up / int_db30cf92	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_db30cf92	featureConfidence	1.0
Warrior Cats	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_db30cf92
Scaled Up / int_dbb68ab6	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_dbb68ab6	comment	The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lady of the Green Kirtle does this in The Silver Chair. Lewis was definitely being symbolic in this case, but it's still a dumb move, especially when confronted by a Stupid Good hero who Wouldn't Hit a Girl but has no problem cutting a giant serpent in half. The same villainess apparently used her serpent form to assassinate the queen of Narnia, some years previously and had pulled it off without a hitch, though. In The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Eustace, up to now a Jerkass protagonist, is turned into a dragon for being greedy (again, symbolic). It's a Literal Transformative Experience, since being an old-style gangly ugly dragon, having a metal ring digging painfully into his arm the entire time due to his increase in size, inability to communicate and finally understanding how much of The Load he is have wonderful effects on Eustace's personality.
Scaled Up / int_dbb68ab6	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_dbb68ab6	featureConfidence	1.0
The Chronicles of Narnia	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_dbb68ab6
Scaled Up / int_de6659ec	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_de6659ec	comment	Once Upon a Time: As fitting with her original tale, Maleficent can turn into a dragon. Her daughter has the ability, too, though she hasn't quite learned how to control it yet.
Scaled Up / int_de6659ec	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_de6659ec	featureConfidence	1.0
Once Upon a Time	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_de6659ec
Scaled Up / int_deaae920	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_deaae920	comment	The top-tier transmutation spell in Dungeon Crawl is Dragon Form which turns the player into a dragon. Whether or not it helps depends on the player's skill. On the one hand, the player is rendered vulnerable to cold and loses the benefits of any magical items other than rings. But the player is also a dragon, and, capable of breathing fire on enemies and, with sufficient skill in unarmed combat, tearing even other dragons to shreds in hand-to-claw combat.
Scaled Up / int_deaae920	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_deaae920	featureConfidence	1.0
Dungeon Crawl (Video Game)	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_deaae920
Scaled Up / int_df14b87a	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_df14b87a	comment	The big bad from Lord of Magna: Maiden Heaven transforms into this for the final battle. While he loses his incredibly accurate instant death attack, he becomes such a massive Damage Sponge that it can take hours to beat him. He also gains an attack that's able to wipe out any party member that isn't the Stone Wall caught in its radius, so he doesn't lose much by changing.
Scaled Up / int_df14b87a	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_df14b87a	featureConfidence	1.0
Lord of Magna: Maiden Heaven (Video Game)	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_df14b87a
Scaled Up / int_e0730aee	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_e0730aee	comment	In Dr. Franklin's Island, Arnie is turned into a creature that resembles a thick snake and is extremely fast and powerful, striking with its tail and head to great destructive effect.
Scaled Up / int_e0730aee	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_e0730aee	featureConfidence	1.0
Dr. Franklin's Island	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_e0730aee
Scaled Up / int_e0e9e904	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_e0e9e904	comment	In the Robbie Williams music video "Radio", Robbie becomes something like this at the very end.
Scaled Up / int_e0e9e904	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_e0e9e904	featureConfidence	1.0
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Scaled Up / int_e144ba19	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_e144ba19	comment	She does it again in Dragon Age II, although this time she helps the player.
Scaled Up / int_e144ba19	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_e144ba19	featureConfidence	1.0
Dragon Age II (Video Game)	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_e144ba19
Scaled Up / int_e293455a	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_e293455a	comment	This was actually the end goal of the Mayor from Season 3 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which he'd spent a century working towards and built all sort of elaborate machinations around. He promptly gets taken out, of all things, by Buffy exploiting his love for his pseudo-adopted daughter. Oh, and a stockpile of well placed explosive, while a bunch of high schoolers mostly armed with crossbows and such fight off his minions. But hilarious-aside from his undeniably evil aspirations, he's been characterized as a personable, mildly absent-minded guy who doesn't like swears. His only comment on his seconds-nigh doom? "Well gosh!"
Scaled Up / int_e293455a	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_e293455a	featureConfidence	1.0
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Scaled Up / int_e4d1ce93	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_e4d1ce93	comment	A recurring antagonist in Shakugan no Shana lives to be recurring only because he shapeshifts into a small snakelike creature to escape a losing battle.
Scaled Up / int_e4d1ce93	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_e4d1ce93	featureConfidence	1.0
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Scaled Up / int_e7a9c06c	comment	In "Pikappa", the reboot of Paperinik New Adventures, Vendor developed a gas that transforms people into dinosaur-like creatures.
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Scaled Up / int_e7a9c06c	featureConfidence	1.0
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Scaled Up / int_eabeea64	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_eabeea64	comment	In The Wonderful World of Puss 'n Boots, Lucifer the ogre shapeshifts into a three-headed dragon in an attempt to kill the heroes and impress his forced-fiancÃ©e Princess Rosa with his sheer power. Unfortunately for him, it doesn't work as she faints at the horrific sight of him. But fortunately for him, he's so powerful that all the heroes can do is run for their lives or else get burned alive by his fire breath.
Scaled Up / int_eabeea64	featureApplicability	1.0
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The Wonderful World of Puss 'n Boots	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_eabeea64
Scaled Up / int_eceb5cfd	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_eceb5cfd	comment	Gaming All-Stars: Reptilian transformations featured in this series include the dragon-like Metal Overlord in The Ultimate Crossover and Remastered, and Zarokâ€™s serpent phase in 2.
Scaled Up / int_eceb5cfd	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_eceb5cfd	featureConfidence	1.0
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Scaled Up / int_ed05196	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_ed05196	comment	Mister Monday transforms into a giant snake in the first book of the Keys to the Kingdom series, He ALMOST succeeds in killing Arthur, until Arthur gets Suzy to write on him with her fingers and a bottle of ink, causing him to be attacked by hundreds of text-destroying, acid-spitting, Nithling-snakes. Made creepier by having his face perfectly intact on top of the snake's head with the normal snake mouth beneath it.
Scaled Up / int_ed05196	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_ed05196	featureConfidence	1.0
Keys to the Kingdom	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_ed05196
Scaled Up / int_ed0795d4	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_ed0795d4	comment	The Lady of the Green Kirtle does this in The Silver Chair. Lewis was definitely being symbolic in this case, but it's still a dumb move, especially when confronted by a Stupid Good hero who Wouldn't Hit a Girl but has no problem cutting a giant serpent in half. The same villainess apparently used her serpent form to assassinate the queen of Narnia, some years previously and had pulled it off without a hitch, though.
Scaled Up / int_ed0795d4	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_ed0795d4	featureConfidence	1.0
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Scaled Up / int_f1360d68	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_f1360d68	comment	Inverted by Mobile Fighter G Gundam's Cobra Gundam, which starts off as a Naga and can separate into a humanoid Humongous Mecha and a mechanical snake, operated by the pilot's pet snake.
Scaled Up / int_f1360d68	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_f1360d68	featureConfidence	1.0
Mobile Fighter G Gundam	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_f1360d68
Scaled Up / int_f349915b	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_f349915b	comment	The novel Brothers in Arms inverts this trope: the Dark Action Girl Kitiara is trying to kill a dragon and her only chance to do so is when he is in his vulnerable human form, rather than in his nigh-invincible natural shape.
Scaled Up / int_f349915b	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_f349915b	featureConfidence	1.0
Dragonlance	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_f349915b
Scaled Up / int_f5855286	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_f5855286	comment	The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom: In the final battle, Ganondorf swallows Queen Sonia's stone to transform into the mindless, serpentine Demon Dragon. Tears of the Kingdom also has a heroic example in Princess Zelda herself, who underwent a similar process after being sent 10,000 years in the past in order to take The Slow Path back to Link. The result is Link riding atop Zelda as a Power Up Mount, taking her high into the air so he can land on the Demon Dragon's body and Attack Its Weak Point.
Scaled Up / int_f5855286	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_f5855286	featureConfidence	1.0
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Scaled Up / int_f6a54e75	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_f6a54e75	comment	In the Kingdom Hearts series, Maleficent sometimes turns into a dragon at times of danger. She'd tried it ten years earlier against an Action Girl with the same type of weapon, as well as Prince Phillip himself. The result? She survives. Barely.
Scaled Up / int_f6a54e75	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_f6a54e75	featureConfidence	1.0
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Scaled Up / int_f6db149f	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_f6db149f	comment	Sonic Superstars has a heroic example with Trip, a sungazer, becoming a dragon in her Super Mode.
Scaled Up / int_f6db149f	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_f6db149f	featureConfidence	1.0
Sonic Superstars (Video Game)	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_f6db149f
Scaled Up / int_f70c0e06	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_f70c0e06	comment	In the manga and Brotherhood anime, Envy tries it again on Mustang after revealing he was the one to kill Hughes... but Rule 34 of the Evil Overlord List kicks him hard when Mustang demonstrates that all Envy did was give Mustang an easier target with his flame alchemy.
Scaled Up / int_f70c0e06	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_f70c0e06	featureConfidence	1.0
Fullmetal Alchemist (Manga)	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_f70c0e06
Scaled Up / int_fb9c177d	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_fb9c177d	comment	Transformers: The Golden One transforms into a dragon and back in The Transformers episode "Madman's Paradise". Transmetal II/Megatron in Beast Wars and Beast Machines. Considering all the bad guys who this doesn't work for, it seems ironic that he grows to hate his Scaled Up form despite it being responsible for his success.
Scaled Up / int_fb9c177d	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_fb9c177d	featureConfidence	1.0
Transformers (Franchise)	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_fb9c177d
Scaled Up / int_fc0e7530	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_fc0e7530	comment	Dexter's Laboratory: One of the very few examples where it's a good character doing this. When Dee Dee was a baby she gave birth to an imaginary world called Koosland, with Peepers as her first creation, a cynical rabbit like creature who gave away so much happiness in the land that he left none for himself. One day, an evil animesque alien kidnapped him to use as an energy source. In the end, foiled by the efforts of Dexter and Dee Dee's other imaginary friend, Koosy, the alien warlord meets his demise by being stomped by Peepers, who mutated himself in a flesh-colored, evil-looking dragon.
Scaled Up / int_fc0e7530	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_fc0e7530	featureConfidence	1.0
Dexter's Laboratory	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_fc0e7530
Scaled Up / int_fca0567c	type	Scaled Up
Scaled Up / int_fca0567c	comment	At first, Thulsa Doom of the first Conan the Barbarian movie seems to be doing this for no reason at all, but then subverts the expectations of the audience by fleeing through a hole in the wall made for a snake and getting to safety. (It's also in keeping with his character so far as he seems to have a thing for snakes: his religion worships them, he has a pet snake that Conan kills, he has snake arrows... no, really.)
Scaled Up / int_fca0567c	featureApplicability	1.0
Scaled Up / int_fca0567c	featureConfidence	1.0
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Dorohedoro (Manga) / int_a675997a	type	Scaled Up
Soul Eater (Manga) / int_a675997a	type	Scaled Up
You Are Being Summoned, Azazel (Manga) / int_a675997a	type	Scaled Up
Skeleton Soldier Couldn't Protect the Dungeon (Manhwa) / int_a675997a	type	Scaled Up
MotÃ¶rhead (Music) / int_a675997a	type	Scaled Up
The Mechanisms (Music) / int_a675997a	type	Scaled Up
Fiery Discourse (Podcast) / int_a675997a	type	Scaled Up
Sibylline Sounds (Podcast) / int_a675997a	type	Scaled Up
Kamen Rider Decade / int_a675997a	type	Scaled Up
Chuubo's Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine (Tabletop Game) / int_a675997a	type	Scaled Up
Dark Sun (Tabletop Game) / int_a675997a	type	Scaled Up
Feng Shui (Tabletop Game) / int_a675997a	type	Scaled Up
Munchkin (Tabletop Game) / int_a675997a	type	Scaled Up
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_a675997a	type	Scaled Up
Unknown Armies (Tabletop Game) / int_a675997a	type	Scaled Up
Vampire: The Masquerade (Tabletop Game) / int_a675997a	type	Scaled Up
ActRaiser (Video Game) / int_a675997a	type	Scaled Up
AdventureQuest (Video Game) / int_a675997a	type	Scaled Up
Aladdin (Capcom) (Video Game) / int_a675997a	type	Scaled Up
Aladdin (Virgin Games) (Video Game) / int_a675997a	type	Scaled Up
Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura (Video Game) / int_a675997a	type	Scaled Up
Astyanax (Video Game) / int_a675997a	type	Scaled Up
Dark Souls (Video Game) / int_a675997a	type	Scaled Up
DragonFable (Video Game) / int_a675997a	type	Scaled Up
Dragon Quest (Video Game) / int_a675997a	type	Scaled Up
Dungeon Crawl (Video Game) / int_a675997a	type	Scaled Up
Eye of the Beholder (Video Game) / int_a675997a	type	Scaled Up
Grow (Video Game) / int_a675997a	type	Scaled Up
Heroes of Might and Magic (Video Game) / int_a675997a	type	Scaled Up
Lost Souls (MUD) (Video Game) / int_a675997a	type	Scaled Up
Marvel's Spider-Man 2 (Video Game) / int_a675997a	type	Scaled Up
MediEvil: Resurrection (Video Game) / int_a675997a	type	Scaled Up
Path Of Achra (Video Game) / int_a675997a	type	Scaled Up
PokÃ©mon Radical Red (Video Game) / int_a675997a	type	Scaled Up
Secret of Mana (Video Game) / int_a675997a	type	Scaled Up
Simon the Sorcerer (Video Game) / int_a675997a	type	Scaled Up
The Legend of Zelda: Oracle Games (Video Game) / int_a675997a	type	Scaled Up
Tomb Raider II (Video Game) / int_a675997a	type	Scaled Up
Trials of Mana (Video Game) / int_a675997a	type	Scaled Up
Vampire: The Masquerade â€“ Redemption (Video Game) / int_a675997a	type	Scaled Up
Gaming All-Stars (Web Animation) / int_a675997a	type	Scaled Up
TF2 Analysis (Web Animation) / int_a675997a	type	Scaled Up
The Frollo Show (Web Animation) / int_a675997a	type	Scaled Up
Bad JRPG: The Legends of Krys (Web Video) / int_a675997a	type	Scaled Up
Warning! Readers Advisory! (Web Video) / int_a675997a	type	Scaled Up
Addictive Science (Webcomic) / int_a675997a	type	Scaled Up
Asperchu (Webcomic) / int_a675997a	type	Scaled Up
Once Stung (Webcomic) / int_a675997a	type	Scaled Up
Poharex (Webcomic) / int_a675997a	type	Scaled Up
Slightly Damned (Webcomic) / int_a675997a	type	Scaled Up
SporeWiki Fantasy Universe (Website) / int_a675997a	type	Scaled Up
Animal Crackers (2017) / int_a675997a	type	Scaled Up
Bartok the Magnificent / int_a675997a	type	Scaled Up
Beowulf (2007) / int_a675997a	type	Scaled Up
Big Hero 6: The Series / int_a675997a	type	Scaled Up
Breadwinners / int_a675997a	type	Scaled Up
Dino Squad / int_a675997a	type	Scaled Up
Gargoyles / int_a675997a	type	Scaled Up
Happily Ever After / int_a675997a	type	Scaled Up
Hotel Transylvania: Transformania / int_a675997a	type	Scaled Up
Jackie Chan Adventures / int_a675997a	type	Scaled Up
Justice League: Warworld / int_a675997a	type	Scaled Up
Ninjago / int_a675997a	type	Scaled Up
Puss in Boots (1999) / int_a675997a	type	Scaled Up
Sabrina: The Animated Series / int_a675997a	type	Scaled Up
Scooby-Doo! The Sword and the Scoob / int_a675997a	type	Scaled Up
Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century / int_a675997a	type	Scaled Up
Sleeping Beauty / int_a675997a	type	Scaled Up
Snow White (1933) / int_a675997a	type	Scaled Up
Tenko and the Guardians of the Magic / int_a675997a	type	Scaled Up
The Secret of Kells / int_a675997a	type	Scaled Up
Xiaolin Showdown / int_a675997a	type	Scaled Up
Digimon Fusion / int_a675997a	type	Scaled Up
Digimon Xros Wars / int_a675997a	type	Scaled Up
Facing the Future Series (Fanfic) / int_a675997a	type	Scaled Up
Gardens of the Moon / int_a675997a	type	Scaled Up
The Chronicles of Prydain / int_a675997a	type	Scaled Up
Dark Sun (Video Game) / int_a675997a	type	Scaled Up

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