Dragon

From the Super Mario Wiki

Not to be confused with Dragoon.

The dragons, or wyrms, are a helpful lizard-like species encountered twice in the game Yoshi's Story. The first, a green dragon, is seen during the the third part of Stage 3-1: Cloud Cruising. When jumped on, the creature will start flying across the air. It acts merely as a moving platform. The other, a red dragon, is later seen in Stage 6-4: Magma Castle. This dragon acts similar to the green one, but swims in lava rather than flying in air.

[edit] Paper Mario series

In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, there are three dragons, all of whom are enemies and extremely big. They also have four legs.

• Hooktail is the chapter boss of Chapter 1, and has her own castle. She eats Koopas, and once ate Koops's father, but was defeated and killed by Mario and his team. The reason she was beaten so easily was because Mario used a badge that makes his attacks sound like a cricket (although it is possible to defeat her without the badge if one superguards all her attacks), and she hates crickets. She has 20 HP, 5 ATK, and 1 DEF, which can be lowered by using the badge.
• Gloomtail is Hooktail's older brother. He is found in the Palace of Shadow, and must be defeated in order to get a stone to use in Riddle Tower. His breath can poison Mario and his partners, and he can also charge up and use Megabreath. Gloomtail is much tougher than Hooktail, with 80 HP, 8 ATK, and 2 DEF.
• Bonetail is found at the hundredth floor of the Pit of 100 Trials. He is completely optional. He is nothing but a bonewyrm, and howls like a wolf. His breath can confuse, freeze, shrink, or put to sleep. He can also heal 20 HP, twice. His stats exceed those of the Shadow Queen (with 200 HP, 8 ATK, and 2 DEF), and aside from his high HP are the same as Gloomtail's.

In Super Paper Mario, the first chapter boss is a robotic dragon named Fracktail, who is a snakelike dragon. He is not evil and guards the Pure Heart, but Dimentio causes him to malfunction and attack Mario. Mario fights Fracktail and is forced to kill him by throwing enemies at his antenna. There is also a more violent dragon named Wracktail at the bottom of the Pit of 100 Trials, who appears to be an evil god created by the Ancients, although Luigi makes this fight even easier than Fracktail.

In the Paper Mario series, every dragon's name ends in "tail". Also, after beating Gloomtail, if the player uses Goombella's tattle in the room, she will point out that dragons live a long time.