Set in a fantasy medieval setting, the series ' protagonists are dragons who are beset by evil humans, reversing a common story convention.

In Western folklore, dragons are usually portrayed as evil, with the exceptions mainly in Welsh folklore and modern fiction.

Depending on the time period, the evil chromatic and the good metallic dragons are rare or plentiful.

The eggs of good dragons create evil draconians, and vice versa.

The good fairy who altered the evil prophecy is summoned by a dwarf wearing seven-league boots and returns in a chariot of fire drawn by dragons.

The paper snakes, centipedes, scorpions, lizards and toads-those that supposedly lured " evil spirits "-where sometimes placed in the mouths of the carved wooden dragons.

Unlike the dragons in European mythology which are considered to be evil and demonic, Asian dragons are regarded as wholesome and beneficent, and thus worthy of veneration, not slaying.

Tiamat, the five-headed deity of evil dragons, stands watch over the way to the next layer with her draconic and abishai servitors.

The lower 6 categories are yecha 夜叉 " Yaksha ; cannibalistic devils ; nature spirits ", gantapo 乾闥婆 " Gandharva ; half-ghost music masters ", axiuluo 阿修羅 " Asura ; evil and violent demigods ", jialouluo 迦樓羅 " Garuda ; golden bird-like demons that eat dragons ", jinnaluo 緊那羅 " Kinnara ; half-human half-bird celestial music masters ", and maholuluojia 摩睺羅迦 " Mahoraga ; earthly snake spirits ".

In a race to save the land, players had to fight off the evil Dragonsworn army, defeat the adolescent dragons, and save their realms by destroying the realm dragons.

; Wilderness Dragons: Wilderness Dragons are evil dragons that hunt people.

Because D & D dragons are essentially monstrous creatures designed to antagonise player characters, the majority of dragons in D & D are evil by default.

However, with 4th edition, the classifications were changed: chromatic dragons became not strictly evil, and metallic dragons became not necessarily good.

Also, there are several new categories ( although the gem dragons have not yet returned ): " planar dragons " which are defined as dragons that were warped by living on a plane of existence other than the Material Plane, " catastrophe dragons ", which take on the aspects of natural disasters which are chaotic evil and cause chaos for its own sake, and " scourge dragons ".

Chromatic dragons are usually of evil alignment.

* Notes: Shadow dragons are the second most intelligent evil dragons.

Fëanor did not trust Melkor and refused to communicate with him, but was still caught in the evil Vala's plot.

In Islam, Abraham's father is believed to have been a highly evil, ignorant and wicked man, who refused to listen to the constant advice of his wise son.

When the evil scientist Superia offered Captain America a cure, Captain America refused it because Superia said that Captain America would " owe her ".

His spirit was refused entry into the afterlife, however, instead being sent back to Earth to eliminate evil by an entity referred to only as " The Voice ".

In Alfred Vohrer's Die toten Augen von London ( 1961 ), his character refused any personal guilt for his evil deeds and claimed to have only followed the orders given to him ; Kinski's performance reflected the post-war Germans ' reluctance to take responsibility for what had happened during World War II.

Later, after Graham banished evil from Daventry, he traveled to Kolyma, where he enchanted Pegasus, turning it into a viper, when he refused to let the wizard ride him.

The queen left him in care of an evil fairy, who tried to seduce him when he became an adult ; when he refused, she transformed him into a beast.

Although he preached the Message of God with immense zeal, his people refused to mend their ways, leading to his building of the Ark and the famous event of the Deluge, the Great Flood in which all the evil people of his time perished.

The 1985 TV movie I Dream of Jeannie: 15 Years Later reiterates most of Jeannie's first-season origin when she tells her son, Tony Jr., that she was trapped in her bottle by an evil djinn after she refused to marry him.

Only the evil can join, therefore paladins are refused.

However, the trial court refused this request and instructed the jury that if they found that Reynolds, under religious influence, " deliberately married a second time, having a first wife living, the want of consciousness of evil intent — the want of understanding on his part that he was committing crime — did not excuse him, but the law inexorably, in such cases, implies criminal intent.

* Pegasus: The evil Enchanter in Kolyma had turned the horse into a viper after he had refused to be his steed.

Later, after Graham banished evil from Daventry, he traveled to Kolyma, where he enchanted Pegasus, turning it into a viper, when he refused to let the wizard ride him.

When Phaedra, an agent of the Hand, resurrected Shingen and stole a piece of Wolverine's soul to torture him, when Wolverine made a deal with Azrael, the Angel of Death, where he would kill Phaedra to stop her resurrecting the dead if Azrael would heal his soul, Phaedra attempted to convince Wolverine to spare her life by offering to resurrect Mariko, but Wolverine refused, stating that, while he would pay any price to bring Mariko back, he deeply loved Mariko because she was a better person than him in every way, and she would never accept life if it meant that someone as evil as Phaedra was allowed to live as well.

He refused to allow her to be involved in his evil deeds, and he would not allow her to engage the Rangers in battle despite her requests.

Holmes cites this interview with Blaine as the most awkward moment of his professional career and one of TV's bloopers when he refused to speak and gave him the " evil eye ".

Benevolent eunuchs who had refused to be contaminated by evil influences were likewise slaughtered.

Andrews refused, and in a second interview, said that " it would be as evil to apologize for truth, as it would be to lie.

Indignantly she denounces Rangoni for his evil thoughts and orders him to leave her.

It casts a spell upon them so that they leave with a feeling of having been in the mysterious presence of an evil power.

Then relief would come to Saul ; he would feel better, and the evil spirit would leave him.

The government promised not to hurt those who would leave xiéjiào ( 邪教 ), translated as an " evil cult / religion " or a " heretical organization ".

Indignant, Thomas retorted, " By God's precious soul, I mean no evil, and I will not leave it!

During these ceremonies, they would leave the person / people's hair hanging down until after dancing ; they would then cut the hair and tie it back tightly so that no evil spirits could enter and no good spirits could escape.

* Ill-favoured Ones, two evil characters CHRISTIANA sees in her dream, whom she and MERCY actually encounter when they leave the Wicket Gate.

At 8pm on 19 October, two hours before the Governor returned to Wellington, however, Hall convened an emergency meeting of his Executive Council and Prendergast issued a proclamation berating Te Whiti and his people for their " threatening attitude " and giving them 14 days to accept the dismemberment of their land and leave Parihaka or suffer " the great evil which must fall on them ".

Trent is approached at a bar by Johnny's father who warns him to leave before the evil infects him as it has the inhabitants of Hobb's End.

The Maxx considers attacking him, but the Jungle Queen says to leave him be, because even evil deserves a place to rest.

The antagonist would often leave the victim to die whilst they commit their evil scheme.

: Do after the good and leave the evil, and it shall bring you to good fame and renown.

Eventually, Lindsey is offered the promotion, but he elects to leave the firm, disillusioned by the extent of its evil.

As Link and Zelda leave to celebrate in Hyrule, the six maidens restore Hyrule to peace and tranquility while the people of Hyrule celebrate all the traces of evil being vanquished from their kingdom.

Upon seeing this, Magtymguly composed the following lines: “ Flood took my manuscript, thus leaving me behind with tears in my eyes .” The poem also contains the lines “ Making my dear life lost to all that's good, / An evil fate wrought awesome sacrilege / Hurling the books I'd written to the flood, / To leave me bookless with my grief and rage .”

They leave the battle, along with Gladiator, Ronan and Beta Ray Bill to chase down Lord Mar-Vell, the evil alternate version of Captain Marvel.

Jajang enjoined the evil dragons to leave by reciting a magic Buddhist scripture.

It is then Lindsey decides to leave Wolfram & Hart permanently, casually informing the board in a meeting he's bored with the firm's games and warning them not to follow him due to his " evil hand issues ".

Not believing that such a naive, innocent boy could be an evil demon lord, she tried to leave, only to be attacked by a somewhat miffed Raenef.

Before they can leave the station, Olive is captured by the evil mailman, who tells people that Olive is wanted on several counts of mail fraud, such as " licking self-adhesive stamps and not mailing early for the holidays ".

Oki and Puja and their friends are forgiven for their evil deeds, she says, but they must leave Igloolik immediately and never return.

" So that notable deeds should not perish with time, and be lost from the memory of future generations, I, seeing these many ills, and that the whole world encompassed by evil, waiting among the dead for death to come, have committed to writing what I have truly heard and examined ; and so that the writing does not perish with the writer, or the work fail with the workman, I leave parchment for continuing the work, in case anyone should still be alive in the future and any son of Adam can escape this pestilence and continue the work thus begun.

After numerous events which lead to a pseudo-play in which Olaf attempts to legally marry Violet without suspicion, the Baudelaires reveal Olaf's evil plans and leave with Mr. Poe, to live with the children's Uncle Montgomery Montgomery, but Olaf escapes before he is caught.

The book describes this technique as " subtle pressure ," in contrast to the " razor wire, landmines, angry dogs, crocodiles and evil mystery bubble Marge confronts to escape, while being reminded again that she is certainly free to leave.