The Curse Dragon

The Curse Dragon is an antagonist in the 2020 Disney/Pixar animated feature film Onward. It is an artificial dragon made out of debris of Ian's high school, and was summoned by the theft of the cursed Phoenix Gem from a fountain across the street by Barley Lightfoot.
==Background==
===Physical appearance===
The Curse Dragon is a large draconic being made out of various debris. Its face is the mascot of the high school Ian goes to. Its core is made out of red mist while its wings are purely artificial.
Before becoming a dragon, its true form is a floating sphere made out of the red mist.
===Legend===
According to Corey's prophecy, legend tells of adventurers seeking Phoenix Gems. Upon the acquisition of the gems, the curse is activated, unleashing a vicious dragon or monster made out debris of anything it finds, who will seek to battle thieves to the death and reclaim the gems. The only way to slay the dragon or monsters is to use the Curse Crusher and stab the dragon/monster's main weakness, the core.
===Powers and abilities===
*Dragon Physiology: Due to its size, the Curse Dragon shakes the ground with each footstep and leaves large gashes in the earth from crash landings.
*Fire Breath: Typical of any dragon, the Curse Dragon possesses the ability to breathe a stream of fire as well as fireballs.
*Flight: The Curse Dragon is capable of flight. However, this ability can be negated if the Dragon's wings are severed by the Curse Crusher.
===Weaknesses===
*Curse Crusher: As a cursed being and dragon, the Curse Dragon can only be defeated with the Curse Crusher (which is made out of rare metals).
*The Core: The Curse Dragon's core serve as its heart and main weakness. If the core itself is stabbed, the Dragon and curse will be broken as well.
==Role in the film==
When Barley Lightfoot finds the Phoenix Gem at a nearby fountain towards the end of the film, a curse is unleashed and conjures a powerful dragon to emerge, causing the dragon to be made of pieces of New Mushroomton High School (including lockers, a vending machine, a desk, an air conditioner, the school sign, the driving test car, and the school bell) with the dragon mascot's face with artificial eyebrows lowering down to make the dragon look more aggressive after Barley tricked it into going after a car signal light. As the artificial dragon attacks Ian and Barley, the two elf brothers fight against the dragon as Corey and Laurel arrive to help the two during battle. During battle, Corey and Laurel got the dragon's attention and had it chase them until the manticore used the Curse Crusher to sliced off the dragon's wings, knocking it into the ground. Before they could stab its exposed core, the dragon recovered and knocked them aside with its tail, putting Corey's back out of action. As the now flightless dragon advances towards Ian and Barley, Laurel takes the Core Crusher, leapt onto the dragon and injected the sword at the core, slightly piercing it enough to stop the dragon temporarily, long enough to give the boys enough time to have their late father's wizard staff use the gem to start taking full effect on their father's restoration via Visitation Spell, when the core ejected Laurel off the dragon's back and the Curse Crusher into a pile of lockers used for the dragon's wings, continuing the dragon's advance. Ian then combats the dragon with his dad's wizard staff while his mom attempts to retrieve the Curse Crusher. He managed to use several spells against the dragon until it tossed him aside and knocked the staff into the ocean, before continuing its pursuit at Barley and his father. However, Ian receives a replacement staff from a splinter from the original in his hand as the gem gets more time restoring Wilden. Before the dragon could reach him and Barley, Ian fired a spell from his new staff to blast off its right side of its torso, exposing its core again. Having restored his father, Ian manages to slay the Curse Dragon by using his staff to throw the Curse Crusher tossed by his mom at the beast's core, stabbing it and breaking the curse once and for all.
The pieces of the school used to create the dragon would later be restored back to their original places by Ian and his magic as stated by him.
==Trivia==
*Whenever the Curse Dragon roars, one can hear a school bell ringing as the dragon is made out of debris from the school.
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