[ SECRET POST #3805 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3805 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Fictional creatures and their wonky anatomy

[kaijinscendre]

Any flying creatures. Pegasus definitely. No way they could fly.

Same with dragons. The traditional, huge monsters you see in fantasy would never be able to fly.

But I do think they could realistically breathe fire (or something similar to fire).

Re: Fictional creatures and their wonky anatomy

[(Anonymous)]

Have you ever seen Flight of Dragons? They posit that dragons fill up like balloons and that's how they fly.

Re: Fictional creatures and their wonky anatomy

[kaijinscendre]

I have not, what kind of gas do they feel up with?

Is it like this? https://youtu.be/yltlJEdSAHw

Re: Fictional creatures and their wonky anatomy

[(Anonymous)]

Here's the relevant part:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0j0Bjy6hFc

Re: Fictional creatures and their wonky anatomy

[kaijinscendre]

Is the know-it-all dragon one that used to be human or something?

Re: Fictional creatures and their wonky anatomy

[(Anonymous)]

If you mean the green dragon, yes. He's a scientist who was brought into the world of magic because they're trying to save magic from logic. He ends up being combined with a green dragon and spends the movie in that form.

Re: Fictional creatures and their wonky anatomy

[junee]

I think dragons could work if their body plan was more pterosaur like, especially azhdarchids like.

But, yeah, six limbed, flying vertebrates make no sense.

I actually have a speculative bio idea about dragons being venom spitters like spitting cobras. Apparently, cobra venom burns like hell when it hits the skin. Humans being humans, I don't think it would be a stretch for burning venom to be retold as fire.

Re: Fictional creatures and their wonky anatomy

[(Anonymous)]

This is why I liked that they gave Smaug only 4 limbs in The Hobbit movies.

6 limbs is also nonsensical in a world where all other vertebrates are 4-limbed. I remember the Pern novels solved this by having few indigenous animals on Pern and what there was were 6-limbed like the fire lizards, while the 4-limbed animals came from Earth.

Re: Fictional creatures and their wonky anatomy

[(Anonymous)]

The Smaug thing bugs me. They turned him from a dragon into a wyvern. Dragons have forelimbs plus wings, wyverns have forelimbs which are limbs.

Re: Fictional creatures and their wonky anatomy

[(Anonymous)]

I can see why that bugs people, but it would bug me more the other way.

Re: Fictional creatures and their wonky anatomy

[philstar22]

This is very true. But I love dragons, so I go with it. In universes that have magic, I think that's a reasonable answer. And otherwise, I just ignore it because dragons are awesome.