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A series for Image Comics past Erik Larsen. The championship graphic symbol first appeared in Graphic Fantasy #ane (June, 1982). The character connected appearing through The '80s in either self-published works or works by pocket-sized publishers. When Epitome was launched, Larsen had the opportunity to launch a regular serial based on the character. An initial 3-outcome miniseries (July-Dec, 1992) sold decently, leading to an ongoing title. It was launched in June 1993 and (as of 2019) is still ongoing, albeit on a scattershot schedule. It is the longest-running American full-color comic by a single creator/creative team.

The Dragon is an extremely wide and muscular green guy with a fin on his head, who was found in a burning field by Lieutenant Frank Darling of the Chicago Police Department. With "Superfreaks", genetically and/or cybernetically-modified criminals running loose in the streets, the Dragon somewhen takes up the fight against them. Non as a superhero, mind you, merely equally a member of the Chicago Police. This allows him to legally and openly fight crime of all sorts, and has also resulted in him being "loaned" to the Law Departments of other cities, which has led him on other adventures (such as an run into with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles). At commencement, his primary Arch-Enemy was Overlord, the leader of a superpowered gang chosen the Vicious Circle. The Dragon defeated Overlord, only to create an Evil Power Vacuum that resulted in a city-wide gang war as factions within the Circle fought each other for dominance. Since then, he has met other heroes, such as Wildstar and The Maxx, gotten sent to Hell, where he encountered Spawn and witnessed God and Satan throw down over his soul, had a son, lost his son, met Hellboy, fought off a Martian invasion, and was finally suspended from the Police Department.

Since then, Dragon has become a bounty hunter, formed a government super-squad composed of many of his friends, traveled to alternate universes, plant his son again, adopted a daughter, nearly been elected President of the United States, and many, many other things.

In issue #150, Dragon was seemingly killed off by the newly returned Overlord. Despite Larsen's insistence this did not stick, only shifted the focus of the series on Dragon's kids Malcolm and Affections every bit the protagonists. This was finally cemented in issue #193 where Malcolm officially took over the book.

In 1995, an animated series was aired for the USA Network'southward Drawing Limited. It was much Lighter and Softer than the comic, and aimed at a younger audience. It was actually rather good, due to maintaining the comic'due south odd humor. (Sentient leeches?)

Savage Dragon is one of the 2 original Paradigm Comics Series that is notwithstanding beingness published since the company was formed, the other existence Spawn, mainly because it, like Spawn, managed to develop a loyal fanbase, and quickly broke away from the stereotypical Image fare of the time. Information technology is peradventure notable as the only founding Paradigm Comic to notwithstanding be written and drawn by its creator Erik Larsen, a fact that Peter David, who one time feuded with Larsen, has applauded.

This serial has Loads and Loads of Characters so it naturally has its own Graphic symbol Sail.

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Savage Dragon provides examples of:

• Accidental Misnaming: On the Savage Earth, Dragon keeps getting the name of Ann Stevens' boyfriend wrong.
• After the Stop: Darkworld is mostly uninhabitable, and has an unstable core that's weeks abroad from Going Disquisitional. The Savage World looks similar this when Dragon starting time arrives, just somewhen it gets improve.
• Amazing Technicolor Population: The humans are restricted to the normal range of skin tones, just freaks come in all colors.
• Creature-Themed Superbeing: Dragon is of the Mythical Monster Motif diverseness, although there are many side characters who fit other types such as Widow.
• And This Is for...: Dragon, She-Dragon, Affections, and Alex Wilde do this while chirapsia up Dragon's Evil Twin
• Another Dimension: The Void
• Anyone Can Die:
  • Dragon recently bit it. Again.
  • The best example would exist Rapture who was a major character in the series and Dragon's ex-girlfriend. She was killed in a unmarried page in 1 of the most shocking scenes in the series. The furnishings of her death resonate even today.
  • Some other strong and literal contender would be the destruction of Earth. And Darkworld. And Godworld. And Warworld. Each of these events killed off a number of significant character. Heck, the devastation of Earth wiped out near the entire cast.
  • Every bit of the well-nigh recent issues, it is shown that anyone fifty-fifty includes GOD!
• An Arm and a Leg: dismemberment is fairly frequent when the superpowered freaks battle one anther. Dragon has lost enough limbs to exist a quadruple amputee many times over. His Healing Factor lets him grow dorsum any missing pieces so its not a big deal for him.
• BFG: Used frequently when Dragon's on the law. Justified in his case, since he'due south super-strong. But man characters as well tend to heft effectually giant bazookas from time to time.
• Big Bad: Dragon's universe is total of villains, but some are tougher than others.
  • Overlord.
  • Darklord.
  • Cyber Face.
  • New Overlord.
    • New Overlord is somewhat of a subversion, in fact though he has killed people, he has very good intentions, and has been shown to be declining in the area of evil planning.
  • Emperor Kurr.
• Big Creepy-Crawlies: Roughshod World's Commonwealth of australia has plenty of giant bugs ^annotation as a event of Martian enlarging rays, which they've domesticated.
• Blackmail: Ever since Lt. Darling engineered The Call Knows Where You Live, he'due south been under the Cruel Circumvolve's pollex.
• Body Fill-in Drive: Has featured a number of characters with Power Armor who had previously downloaded their brainwaves into the conform, allowing them to continue fighting long afterwards decease.
• Brainwashed:
  • Everyone in Covenant of the Sword.
  • The psychotic and savage Emperor Kurr was brainwashed by two of his scientists to save the Earth. He is, in fact, the titular grapheme.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: Horde's victims tend to go on killing sprees.
• The Telephone call Knows Where You Alive: Lt. Frank Darling had to give the phone call Dragon'due south address. Afterwards Dragon Refused the Call to join the law, Frank paid some Vicious Circle members to threaten his cousin (for whom Dragon was working) to bring home the threat of the supercriminal crime wave. Instead, they blew upward the cousin'southward warehouse, killing him. Dragon was convinced to join the constabulary, merely Frank'south scheme got him blackmailed by the Savage Circle.
• Helm Ersatz: Many, just ane of the most notable is Mighty Man, who at the beginning appears to be an obvious nod to Fawcett/DC's Captain Marvel (the ane who, until recently, was not Shazam). However, Larsen tweaked the idea to make the superhero class an actual, separate entity that resides inside a host torso, rather than the Older Modify Ego that Captain Marvel ordinarily appears as. Thus, when the dying host of Mighty Man transfers his powers to his attention nurse (believing her, in his dying stupor, to be his grandson), her Superpowered Alter Ego is the same blond-haired, alpha male person Mighty Human, but with her mind in the driver's seat. Another twist is that, wherever the host body "goes" when the Mighty Human class is summoned, time still passes for that body; thus, if the host spends all of his or her fourth dimension as Mighty Homo, their ain body will waste away from starvation, dehydtration and muscle atrophy, to the bespeak where their effectiveness as Mighty Man volition reject (every bit the effects on the body besides affect the host's mental state) and, in a severe case, their own trunk volition exist so weakened that they volition expire near-instantly when they modify back. Ironically, in trying to make Mighty Man less similar the modernistic DCU Captain Marvel, he concluded up condign more like the original version of the character.
• Cartwright Expletive:
  • The women Dragon dates or only sleeps with usually end up biting the bullet (Debbie Harris, Rapture, Normal!Ann Stevens, Jenniver Murphy in two realities... the list goes on). The first time information technology happens really affects him a lot, and he tries avoiding relationships for a while to avert this (information technology does not stick).
  • Invoked by Tierra when she breaks up with Malcolm. She recaps some of Dragon's expressionless relationships to make her point.
• Chick Magnet: A lot of women tend to fall for Dragon. In the Original Earth, near every female character brutal for him or at to the lowest degree slept with him at one point.
• Urban center of Adventure: The comic's version of Chicago seems to be i big Weirdness Magnet. God City also counts for obvious reasons.
• Cluster F-Bomb: Jimbo Da Mighty Lobster; Wesley during a cantankerous-over.
• Condemned Contestant: The participants in the Forced Prize Fights.
• Comic-Book Time: Averted, events have progressed and characters have aged in realtime since the series was launched in 1992. Larsen has said this makes crossovers with series that have Comic-Volume Time a brain-straining nightmare.
• Continuity Nod: In issue #24, the Chicago Bull ^note a done up freak player reviled past the freak community for beingness a sellout attacks a Bad-Guy Bar, where he's killed hands. In result #75, when that bar is shown in a montage depicting the effects of the Nega-Bomb on Chicago'due south freaks, the Balderdash'southward head tin can exist seen mounted on a wall.
• Crossover: There accept been several that have happened in the pages of this series: Hellboy, Spawn, Madman, Bone, Megaton Man, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Mars Attacks!, Destroyer Duck, The Maxx, Wildstar, Youngblood and more.
• Cross Through: In the drawing,a "Warrior King" appeared at one point, chasing a powerful orb; he also chased it through the other USA Network action cartoons at the time: Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm, and Wing Commander Academy.
• Deader Than Expressionless: Years after Debbie Harris' first death, she resurfaces as an angel. Then she dies in a hovercar crash.
• Deadly Dodging: Dragon tricks a behemothic robot into blowing off its own head this way.
• Differently Powered Individual: People with powers are known as "superfreaks", or but "freaks".
• Diner Ball: Between Zeek and Rock, the start time they meet in the Savage World.
• Death Is Cheap: Averted with almost everyone else, Larsen has strong feelings about reviving characters left and right (comically brought up when Gwen Stacey appears serving Norman Osborn and Lex Luthor luncheon at a diner).
  • Dragon himself "dies" a off-white bit. Ar at least, he'due south believed dead past the characters even though the readers know what really happened. Happens so much that it's a running gag.
    • Played with recently in the current storyline inwhich Dragon's revival has atomic number 82 to him returning to the evil persona of Emperor Kurr. Whats more, Larsen claims that he may exist fully intending to have Dragon'due south son Malcolm take up the drapery.
  • It should exist noted that this trope mostly only applies to Dragon. That said, in about cases, the audience knows for a fact that he isn't dead. Information technology's the world effectually him who believe that he'due south been killed. Otherwise, if someone dies, they stay dead.
  • Since dimensional travel is a recurring theme within the book, dead characters are ofttimes replaced with their counterparts from another dimension. Arguably that could exist counted as resurrecting, but nearly of the time the new version is in some way dissimilar than the original, often quite drastically.
• Draconic Humanoid: Dragon comes from an conflicting race of dragon-similar humanoids.
• Dragon Rider: The Skyriders on the Brutal Earth.
• Dung Fu: Dung, who fires hot faeces from his arm cannons.
• World All Along: Darkworld — Dragon makes this realization when he finds a Coca-Cola vending machine.
• Earth-Shattering Kaboom: The fate of Darkworld and Godworld and Earth and Warworld
• Elaborate Secret Base: In Vicious World, the Freedom League headquarters is underneath Dragon's house.
• Enemy Mine: On a few occasions, Dragon has to team upward with the Vicious Circle to defeat a greater threat: on the original Earth, it'due south Darklord; on Savage Globe, information technology'due south Cyberface.
• Exact Words:
  • When Angel says that she wishes she would be large so that she would do anything she wants, Mister Glum concots a potion for granting her wish... which does enlarge her to 3 storeys alpine. She has to explain that she meant being a grown-upward.
  • When Mister Glum finds a manner to force the entire population of Earth to do his bidding he orders Mighty Man to "go after Dragon'south blood". Mighty Man (whose modify ego is a nurse) takes this opportunity to retrieve Dragon'due south blood and inject a comatose Dragon with information technology, thus reviving him.
• Fake Static: On Cruel World, Vanguard does this to cut brusk an awkward conversation with Dragon, except without the tunnel, since Vanguard's on a spaceship.
• Faking the Dead: Lt. Darling sends a shapeshifting drone to get vaporized past Overlord in his identify. Afterward averted due to the drone's resilience; it regenerated and repeated its prior actions, tipping off Overlord to the switch.
• Fantastic Racism
• Fish People: Atlanteans.
• Floating Continent: God Boondocks
• Flying Brick: Mighty Man, Solar Man, Powerhouse, The Fiend, Overlord, Dread Knight, Kid Crimson, Vanguard, and Superpatriot to a certain extent.
• Flying Car: Dragon has one in Savage World.
• Flying Saucer: Martian ships
• Forced Prize Fight: Gladiatorial combat in Savage World Australia.
• For Desire of a Nail: Diverse flashbacks testify in detail how the events of the Savage Earth timeline can be traced back to Dragon having killed the time-traveling Darklord.
• Fun with Acronyms: Special Operations Southtrikeforce, the regime-sponsored superhero squad Dragon leads for awhile. When Erik Larsen came upwardly with the idea back when he was a kid, it was called Society Of Superheroes.
• Total-Frontal Attack:
  • Dragon being attacked past an regular army of naked, significant Alternate Universe Jennifers that have been brainwashed by the Covenant of the Sword.
  • Besides Dragon himself whenever his dress get destroyed.
• George Lucas Contradistinct Version: The original miniseries was rewritten once collected in a merchandise, with several new scenes (including Dragon'due south famous speech where he berated a bigoted police officer) being added and the flashbacks being collected at the commencement of the story rather than interspaced within information technology, so that the unabridged story is in chronological order.
• Giant Spider: One of the first of many monsters Dragon faces upon arrival in the Vicious Earth continuity.
• Glad-to-Be-Alive Sexual practice: Battle Girl and Mr. Glum engage in passionate sex amongst the battlefield in commemoration after winning a battle against an conflicting horde.
• God's Easily Are Tied: In the Savage Earth timeline, the gods of every pantheon live together in God Town at the pinnacle of a mount in the USA. But because their leader long ago forbade gods from interfering in mortal affairs, they won't do a thing to help overthrow the Evil Overlord Cyberface.
• Good Girls Avoid Abortion: During the Mars Attacks! Image crossover, Superpatriot'south daughter Liberty is abducted and raped by Martians in a crossbreeding experiment, merely she's then staunchly pro-life that she keeps the One-half-Human Hybrid. Though this turns out to be a bad idea, equally the baby grows up to go Darklord.
• Proficient Scars, Evil Scars:
  • Psychotic Vigilante Man Mace used to exist an Alternate Company Equivalent of Bucky, merely a bomb that killed his mentor left his confront severely burnt from the olfactory organ up, ruining his chances of joining the epitome-obsessed superteam Youngblood.
  • The main visual difference betwixt Dragon and his Evil Twin from Darkworld is that the latter, having lost his healing factor in the nega-bomb, is covered in scars.
• Gratuitous German: Brainiape who is the Brain of Adolf Hitler transplanted into a drinking glass bowl on an ape body takes ze trope and runs with ze trope all ze mode to the fuhrer hauptquartier.
• Groin Attack:
  • Satan kicks God in the crotch during their fight over Dragon's soul.
  • And in the Savage World timeline, Rapture kills her quondam pimp by grabbing his crotch and electrocuting him through information technology.
  • In the showtime run, Savage Dragon literally crushes the groin of an antagonistic, racist law officer who had previously almost gotten thrown off the forcefulness out due to Police Brutality, then lectures him on how his discrimination is only making their job harder. Bearing in mind that Barbarous Dragon has Super Forcefulness and the cop is last shown on the floor in the fetal position, the damage may have been beyond the hope of medical intervention.
• Guarding The Portal: Regarding the interdimensional portal built in Dragon'due south basement:

  Angel: How come we accept ane of those?
  Dragon: I'grand in accuse of information technology. I accept to brand sure no monsters escape.
  Angel: If we didn't accept it, no monsters could escape.
  Dragon: Uh... yeah, well, y'all run into... why don't you go bother your mother?

• Harmful Healing: When The Savage Dragon's bones are prevented from setting, they simply heal in whatever position they're already in, so having all his bones broken and beingness stuffed into a smokestack leaves his body horribly malformed, requiring that he have his bones cleaved again so they can be set properly.
• Healing Cistron: Deconstructed. Dragon can regenerate lost torso parts, and generally heals from injury faster than a normal person, only he doesn't heal instantaneously, and severe injuries still require medical treatment (suturing wounds to forbid expiry from blood loss, setting bones so that they heal properly, etc.). Thus, after breaking near every os in Dragon'southward trunk, the Fiend has fourth dimension to stuff Dragon's mangled trunk down an industrial chimney, and strength the bones to heal....wrong. Though he nonetheless manages to climb out of the chimney under his own ability, Dragon's body is horribly and painfully misshapen, and barely able to move. The worst office? Since Dragon is too much more durable than the average person, it required someone with superhuman strength to re-break his bones so they can be set to heal in their proper positions, forcing Dragon to endure through the pain of it all a second fourth dimension. Luckily, Mighty Human being is a nurse in her secret identity (see Captain Ersatz to a higher place).
• Heroes "R" U.s.: SOS
• Hidden Elf Village: On the Savage Earth, Atlantis and Australia are this way during Cyberface's rule, and Godtown remains neutralist even after he's overthrown.
• Hurl It into the Sun: How Savage Globe Vanguard disposes of the remains of Cyberface.
• Hurricane of Puns: Dragon has a field day with this when he fights Powerhouse, a Flying Brick with the caput of a craven.
• Hypocritical Humor: When Dragon receives an offer from Marvey Comics to adapt his life story into a series of comic books, Jennifer responds "Have you lot seen some of those comic magazines? They're aught only T&A! Every foursquare is a cheesecake shot emphasizing a shapely torso part of some overdeveloped bimbo". Note that Jennifer herself has the Most Common Superpower, and the panel in which she says this consists generally of a shot of her ass. Heck, the comic does this constantly, so it'southward not just her.
• I Did What I Had to Do: Amnesiac-Kurr-Dragon says this to Malcolm after killing Darkworld-Dragon and eating his encephalon to ensure he doesn't come back.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: On a church steeple, dorsum in 1997.
• Improvised Weapon:

  Dragon: There wasn't a gun. No bullet, either. I didn't have 1 on me, and so I chewed on a dime while I was scaling the edifice and I spit it through his forehead.

• Incest Is Relative: Information technology is very strongly hinted at several points that Angel and Malcolm Dragon being attracted to each other, as they are non blood related. This comes to a caput in issue 200 where both participate in a threesome with Malcolm's girlfriend Maxine.
• Indecisive Parody: The comic tends to lampoon quite a few superhero tropes, from the '90s Anti-Hero type that Paradigm was partly responsible for popularizing to the generally ridiculous nature of C-list supervillains (Dung and his diarrhea-cannons, for example) — non to mention the inclusion of fan creations like Jimbo de Mighty Lobster — but sometimes information technology'due south ambiguous as to whether Larsen is making fun of a trope or playing it totally direct and trying to tell a more-or-less serious story.
• In Spite of a Nail: Although kickoff appearing to exist a wasteland under the dominion of Cyberface, Savage Earth eventually comes to await a lot like Original Earth, downward to having the same U.s.a. Presidents.
• Invisible President: Averted for every sitting president since the series started. When Dragon wakes up in the start event, he mentions that George Bush (senior) is the president but has no data regarding his own name. Later in the series, Nib Clinton, George West. Bush-league, and Barack Obama all make appearances while in office. Even Al Gore appears every bit president in ane issue (he was appointed subsequently Clinton got killed). This trope is also played with since Dragon himself nigh became the president at ane indicate.
• Information technology'southward All My Error: Dragon angsting over the destruction of his dwelling Earth in his absence.
• Killed Off for Existent: With the exception of the championship character himself, who has made revivals a addiction, people who die, normally stay expressionless and when they don't, unremarkably they are practically a unlike character. Larsen claims that Dragon'due south almost recent demise at the end of the Emperor Dragon storyline volition exist the concluding we encounter of him. And yet again averted; Dragon (or at least the clone with his mind; long story) has been revived by his alien species, but has decided to aid them instead of taking back the book.
• Kinetic Weapons Are Just Meliorate: Due to Universo'south Energy Absorption powers, the only weapons information technology'south safety to use against him are guns. Patently, he tin't absorb kinetic energy.
• Law of Changed Fertility: Dragon idea he was sterile ^note Before being dropped on Earth by his people, they sterilized him so he wouldn't have kids. Unfortunately, he was severely injured in a, ah, delicate expanse, and his healing gene regenerated unsterilized genitals.
• Literal Genie:
  • Affections wishes she was "large" i.e. an developed, and then adults couldn't dominate her around. But Mr. Glum misinterprets her wish and concocts a serum for her that makes her grow to giant size, destroying the house and hospitalizing her mother.
  • Lampshaded later by Affections when Mr. Glum is trying to decide what to use the God Gun's third wish on. She figures out the precise way to word his wish to permit him to Take Over the Globe.
  • Even later diction his wish correctly and acquiring a Compelling Vocalism, Glum'due south commands sometimes don't event in the desired furnishings. For example, when he tells Mighty Human "You lot should be out for Vicious Dragon's blood. Go have care of him!", Mighty Man goes to the hospital to get some of the blood Dragon donated back before he lost his healing factor, and injects Dragon with it, returning his original power level.
• Loads and Loads of Characters: Despite the championship focusing on a single character, there have been literally hundreds of supporting characters, side characters, and villains throughout the years.
• Magma Man:
  • Volcanic, a Vicious Circle freak.
  • And on the Savage Earth, the Lava Lords and the Magmanites are ii whole races of magma men.

• Made of Plasticine: Characters without some class of superhuman resilience tend to die rather messily when punched by a superpowered freak. Even the really tough guys are non safety, when plenty strength is practical.
• Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex: Dragon is a massive greenish-skinned humanoid with superhuman strength who is shown having sex with multiple human females in the comic without problem. This trope comes into play when his backstory revealed he so strong compared to the balance of his kind that he would tear whatever women that he slept with his strength lone! Information technology'southward possible he restrains himself when getting down to business. In that location'south likewise the fact that he was a Monster before, so he probably didn't care about restraining himself.
• Mass Super-Empowering Outcome: Inverted with the Nega-flop, which permanently removes the powers of every one in Original World.
• Misfit Mobilization Moment: Ruthlessly averted when a tycoon decides to recreate Freak Strength in the Savage Globe afterwards reading Dragon's memories from the Original World. Later his attempt horribly fails due to Savage Freak Forcefulness members' utter inexperience and lack of cooperation ^annotation Barbaric and Ricochet are grossly out of shape, Sprint and Superpatriot are loners who don't function well in a team, Horridus is inexperienced, Rapture is insane and Mighty Human being's electric current alter-ego is a Knight Templar skilful of Disproportionate Retribution, causing his complete financial ruin and the expiry of his wife, he gives a rousing speech on how the feel may yet accept created a bond between them and that mayhap they will make Freak Strength alive even though he can't pay them any more (which was their original motivation for participating in the team). They unanimously bond out right subsequently his speech ends, leaving the poor human being crying over the corpse of his wife
• Mobile Fishbowl: A group of Atlantis characters popped up in the series from time to time, with aquatic "breathing" gear to use to go on state for an invasion. This was a Running Gag in which the gear always malfunctioned in some way, killing all of them.
• Monster Modesty: Strongly averted. Dragon and several characters look monstrous but are usually fully clothed.
• Most Common Superpower: It's non restricted to superhuman women by far. Lampshaded at one signal when Dragon's dating one of the few women with a normal sized chest to appear in the comic: "the girls he dates usually look similar they'd bounciness right dorsum onto their feet if they brutal forward"
• Must Not Die a Virgin:
  • Angel tried to pull that i on Malcom. He declines. Rex and Horridus get through with the Pre-Climax Climax a few pages afterward.
  • In Issue #184 it'due south revealed that Frank jr. is but as unfaithful as Angel and got Tierra pregnant. Angel does not take this well.
• My Life Flashed Before My Eyes: Oddly, despite his various most-death and actual-death experiences, this doesn't happen to Dragon until the relatively uneventful event 63, when he's abducted past Overlord.
• Nazi Hunter:
  • Super-Patriot'south side job.
  • A Crossover with Hellboy also showed this side of the graphic symbol.
• Nebulous Evil Organisation: Covenant of the Sword
• Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot:
  • During his crossover with Hellboy, Dragon fights a giant gorilla mummy.
  • In one backup feature, Superpatriot fights ninja cyborgs... who are also Nazis!
  • Giant RADIOACTIVE ZOMBIE OSAMA BIN LADEN!!
• No Ontological Inertia: When the God Gun is destroyed, the wishes it granted are undone.
• Noble Bigot with a Badge: Officer Howard Niseman hates blacks, gays, and freaks, simply gets partnered with a gay black human being, and later with the freak She-Dragon, and apparently does his chore well to the satisfaction of his black commanding officer. In fact, in She-Dragon'south case, he's oftentimes more annoyed with being saddled with a rookie officer for a partner than the fact that she'due south a super-freak.
• No 1 Could Survive That!: Happens a lot to Dragon, but on the Vicious Earth, information technology becomes a Running Gag for these two guys to bear witness up, look at the footage of his supposed death and debate about whether he could've survived.
• "Non Making This Up" Disclaimer: Dragon has to practice this several times in the Roughshod Earth timeline, since he keeps having to explain the events that led to him being on this alternate Earth.

• Obstructive Bureaucrat: Mendosa, who, equally The Mole, did this intentionally. Stephenson afterward plays this role in SOS.
• The Just One: Justifiably invoked in consequence 65, since Dragon is the only i immune to Simon Kane's mind control.
• Only the Chosen May Wield: Mjölnir. Merely touching it with his blank hand causes half of Dragon'southward torso to melt away.
• Origins Effect: Dragon's origin was finally revealed (to the readers; his by was unknown in-continuity until he regained his original memories in early 2010) in 2005, 13 years after The Brutal Dragon began.
• Phlebotinum Overload: When Dr. SivanaNirvana's power draining AmazoAbsorbanoids are shot by DarkseidDarklord'due south ParademonsDevil Dogs while they're already busy draining Mighty Man, they overload and explode.
• Pinned to the Wall: This was lampshaded and averted in an consequence. An ally of the Dragon's, known equally Star, uses bladed stars to stab some criminals along their arms to disarm them. When they complain, he admits he can't practice this trick.
• Power Nullifier: In that location are a lot of way for characters to lose their powers in Savage Dragon universe:
  • The bad guy called "The Nullifier" can permanently remove the powers of everyone he touches. Savage World Jennifer loses her powers that way.
  • The "Nega-bomb" tin depower every being caught in its radius. This is how every superpowered character in Normal Earth save for Dragon and a couple of others lose their powers.
  • The "freakout" drug can reverse a mutation when injected to someone (multiple doses may be necessary).
• Powers as Programs: Billy Berman uses a Dr. Nirvana-constructed-device to steal Ann's Mighty Homo powers.
• Putting the Ring Back Together: On Vicious World, fanboy Augie De Blieck Jr. tries this with Freak Force. Except in this reality, at that place never was a Freak Force— he's trying to rebuild a team that he but knows well-nigh from Dragon's stories most his original Globe.
• Redshirts:The SWAT squad that accompanies Dragon to abort Overlord. Human cops in full general have a tendency to die by the bucketload.
• Really 700 Years Old: Due to having spent several decades in suspended blitheness, Daredevil (no relation) and the trivial wise guys do not historic period whatsoever more than (at least until Sprint 2 murders the little wise guys).
• Reset Button: Supplied past Darklord after Kurr completely massacres the homo race and most anybody else on World except himself and Virus!Dragon.
• Reverse Cerebus Syndrome: The title started off existence dark and edgy since it was first published in The Dark Age of Comic Books. Equally the serial came into its own, information technology became much lighter.
• Ripple Event-Proof Retention: Justified — Dragon doesn't remember the past of the Vicious World timeline because his mind switched places with that of SW'due south original Dragon.
• Roger Rabbit Effect: Megaton Man in a crossover.
• Room Total of Crazy: The dwelling of Gertie, Jennifer'south friend in the Brutal Earth timeline.
• Public Domain Character: Gilt Age Daredevil and the Little Wise Guys, along with a few others.
• Running Gag: The Atlanteans keep trying to invade the surface world, only to go along exploding from Explosive Decompression.
• Ruritania: Lieberheim, a small state ruled by Doctor DoomDread Knight.
• Schmuck Bait: Dragon, earlier going to set on the Covenant of the Sword, leaves BatmanSgt. Marvel with a sealed envelope and tells him to open it if he doesn't hear from him in 3 days. He opens it equally soon as Dragon leaves the room, only to discover that the note says "Sgt Marvel, Yous prick— I knew you couldn't await three days. I went after the bad guys. I'g on a rescue mission. Y'all're the hotshot detective— you lot effigy it out."
• Screw the Rules, I Have Supernatural Powers!: The explicitly stated rationale of some of the criminal freaks.
• Seinfeldian Conversation: The SWAT team that accompanies Dragon to arrest Overlord has a couple of guys arguing about Forrest Gump.
• Sexual activity Equals Honey: Dragon and Alex'south stint as Friends with Benefits eventually ends when Alex wants something more and Dragon doesn't.
• Shared Universe: Larsen considers all of comicdom to be in the same universe, forth with his own series (and any spin offs). This has led to creator endemic characters such as Hellboy to make appearances and every few issues, there is a Lawyer-Friendly Cameo or 2 from characters who are about certainly non a office of the Marvel Universe or The DCU.
• She Is Not My Girlfriend: Alex keeps having to correct the Vicious Circle goons holding her hostage that she'due south non his girlfriend. At this indicate, she and Dragon are technically but friends with benefits.
• Shifting Voice of Madness: The title graphic symbol's Distaff Analogue, She-Dragon, would to all appearances exist talking to herself in different voices, all of whom, had their own distinct give-and-take balloons and personalities. She was believed to exist crazy for years only it turned out, she was speaking to inter-dimensional beings.
• Shoot the Hostage Taker: In the first event, the hero is taking down a group of hostage takers, only for someone else to shoot the lead criminal: the vigilante known equally Star.
• Side Bet: In event 64, Dragon asks out Marcy Howard, the assistant director of a commercial he's starring in. His friend Chester, who he leaves backside to babysit Angel, doesn't think she'll give him the time of day. When Dragon and Marcy get dorsum and appear to accept hit it off, Angel says "That'due south 5 bucks yous owe me."
• Society Is to Blame:
  • Powerhouse is really desperate to convince Dragon that Fantastic Racism confronting freaks makes it okay for him to establish a criminal syndicate.
  • The new Overlord makes the same merits, and actually backs it upwardly pointing out that normal work isn't really an pick for "Freaks" thanks to all the Fantastic Racism
• Space Law: The Cosmic Cops
• Spoof Aesop: Afterwards Dragon and Angel's run-in with Candyman:

  Dragon: Well, I hope you learned something today, Affections...
  Affections: Oh, I did. I learned was that you need good traction to run on chocolate.
  Dragon: That's not really what I meant...
  Angel: That, and it'due south possible to choke down broccoli if it'south properly prepared.

• Spotting the Thread: Dragon is approached on two separate occasions by imposters impersonating expressionless lovers of his. Both times, he can tell by their mannerisms, inflection, and option of words that they're fakes.

• Super Gender-Bender: Ann Stevens, a nurse who becomes a tall, blond, male superhero when she taps her wrists together.
• Superpowerful Genetics: This series has been running in real time for nearly twenty years, and by now, there are plenty of second-generation superhumans running around.
• Super Soldier: Baby Darklord kidnaps women carrying superpowered fetuses from all over The Multiverse in order to create an army of Super Soldiers.
• Super Force: In that location is a variety of powers on display here merely nearly every superhuman has super strength to i degree or another. Since this is the Dragon'south main ability, it makes sense that it's the nearly mutual... well, 2nd most common.
• Take That!:
  • In that location have been several against John Byrne and Curiosity Comics.
  • The Lawyer-Friendly Cameo of The Sandman... who Dragon promptly punches in the faced, calling him a "hair-teased Tim Burton refuse" and saying that there is "any boob tin come up with a cheap knock-off similar you."
  • Issue 3 of the original miniseries has Bedrock/Badrock show upwardly and start fighting dragon for seemingly no reason. The 2 brawl for a while before Bedrock stops and reveal it was but a test to run into if he was Youngblood material and offers him to join them. At which bespeak Dragon arrests him for for assaulting a police officer and all the property damage caused during their fight, all while also berating Boulder and youngblood for existence a bunch of fame obsessed idiots.
• This Cannot Be!: spoken by some big-headed mind controller after Dragon figures out that he'south the i decision-making his opponent in the Forced Prize Fight.
• Three Wishes: The wish-granting God Gun can but be fired 3 times per user.
• Time Skip: 2 years pass in result 96 while Dragon is trapped for what he perceives equally a few minutes in a gelatinous bubble in the Void. This allows the Fell World's recovery from After the Stop to a normal state to happen entirely off-panel. Later, the globe recovers from Mr. Glum'southward reign of terror during a 1 yr Time Skip.
• Too Dumb to Alive: Malcolm's schoolhouse cracking Witherspoon. He constantly harasses Malcolm for obviously riding off his father's success, being a virgin, and according to him, a lame superhero, constantly egging him on. This is despite the fact that after punching him in the face, he broke his mitt.

  Malcolm: Y'all just punched a brick wall.

• Transformation Ray: In the wake of Mars Attacks! Prototype Comics, in that location are Martian shrinking rays floating around. Dragon shrinks a bunch of villains with ane, and later gets striking by one himself.
• Unfortunate Names: The Chicago PD's roster has at one time or another included Rita Medermade, Ben Dover, Richard Head, Semore Heiney, Mike Rotch, Bea O'Trouble, Mike Litoris, Eileen Ulick, Urassis Itchy, Anita Isle of man, Dick Hertz, Hugh Jass. In that location was also one-fourth dimension appearance by a reporter named Michael Hunt, and a recurring talk-evidence host named Harry Paratestees.

  Dragon: [bursting into a seedy bar] I'm looking for Amanda Love!
  [bar patrons flee in a panic]
  Dragon: [facepalms] Oh, for Christ'southward sake...!

• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Savage World Affections helps Mister Glum formulating a wish that allows him to effectively take over the Earth past pointing out to him the flaws in the various ideas he came up with first.
• Wham Episode: Issue 76, the comic's setting suddenly changes to The Savage World, the folio layout changes, the sexual activity and profanity is gone (for a little while, at least), at that place are a lot more thought bubbles, and the comic acquires a new third-person Narrator.
• Why Won't You Die?: Overlord'due south response later on vaporizing a shapeshifting robot disguised every bit Lt. Darling for the 2d time is "How many times must I kill you?"
• Earth in the Sky: The Void/Dimension-10 appears to be a bunch of planets, planetoids and diverse debris floating around, with characters apparently able to breathe usually when floating between them.
• Would Hurt a Child: Dart 2 has now upshot with murdering the little wise guys in common cold blood. Granted, they spent decades in suspended animation and then their actual age is more than that of an adult's, merely they still look and act similar children.
• You Can't Get Home Over again: Afterward returning to the Fell World from an try to Set Right What One time Went Wrong on his Earth, Dragon has to destroy the machine that would've allowed him to return home in social club to prevent Darklord from coming through, and the only characters capable of powering the motorcar take been abducted. And later on, an Earth-Shattering Kaboom ensures that Dragon has no home world to return to.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Overlord and Darklord accept each washed this at one fourth dimension or another.
• Your Head Asplode: too many instances to list them all. Notable victims include Dart ◊, Solar Man ◊, Simon Kane, Chaos, the whole atlantean army and Dragon himself (more than once!)

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Alternative Title(s): The Brutal Dragon

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