Drago

Drago is the adolescent son of Shendu.

Like his father, Drago is both a dragon and a **Fire Demon**.

He served as the primary antagonist of Nerissa's Revenge Saga, the main antagonist of the Demon Chi Arc, striking out apart from his father and plotting to unite all eight of his family's elemental powers; by combining his aunts' and uncles' Demon Chi from the Eight Immortals' artefacts with his own Fire Demon Chi, so he could populate the Earth with demons.

## Appearance

Drago appears to be a humanoid dragon with green, scale-like skin and red eyes.

He has mixed Chinese and European dragon features, though he is technically purely Chinese like his father.

He has four fingers and a thumb, which makes him much more "human" than his father.

However, after Drago absorbs all eight demon chi powers, he is shown to be approximately the same height as Shendu and was now more muscular; he now has his uncle Dai Gui's horns, his uncle Hsi Wu's wings, his uncle Tchang Zu's toe claws and his aunt Bai Tza's tentacles (on his chin) and tail fin.

He also now has an elongated face shape with pointed cheeks, similar to his uncle Tso Lan.

Drago's attire consists of wearing a sleeveless gray-with-crimson-trim shirt underneath a black sleeveless jacket with a collar alongside a loose pair of charcoal pants complete with a crimson medium-length obi.

Drago sports a flame icon on the front of his shirt, denoting his status as a Fire Demon.

## Personality

Like his father, Drago is hotheaded, megalomaniacal, bloodthirsty and inadverse to attempting to murder his enemies, although he is not as experienced or mature as Shendu is.

Compared to his father and piblings who are regal and sophisticated; Drago displays a degree of street-smarts in addition to being wholly confident, and is highly quippy and makes puns (not dissimilarly to his nemesis Jade Chan), and he speaks in a more modern manner similar to a human adolescent.

Though he still doesn't resort to off-key shrieks and overt street-slang like StrikeMaster Ice does, once even implying when he mocked the latter that he finds his crude English annoying.

Drago can be obnoxious and rude to those around him when he wants to be or when his patience is pushed, as happened at the end of his phone conversation with Jade and Tohru when ransoming the Chan Clan - a disgusted Jade commented immediately afterwards, "Evil, *and* a jerk!" He's generally viewed as an all-round unpleasant teenager by such older individuals as Uncle and Miss Hartman.

Drago has a fiery temper much like his father; but Drago has less self-restraint compared to Shendu when his temper is triggered, often descending into anger-fuelled rants when he's annoyed past his (short) limit, or otherwise threatening and attacking whoever's around him.

This was seen at his audition for evil minions when he grew sick with the poor initial turnout, and the numerous times he took out his frustrations around the Ice Crew when he was dissatisfied with how a mission had turned out.

After absorbing all eight Demon Chi, Drago's former temper abated as he took on a notably calmer disposition - but after Shendu intervened in the final battle against Drago, the latter's short temper seemingly returned.

Drago displayed nothing but excitement at the idea of populating the Earth with freed demons and ruling over them, allegedly (possibly jokingly) feeling it was bigoted and unfair that humans got to have the Earth to themselves while demons remained trapped in other dimensions.

After obtaining all eight Demon Chi to this end, Drago expressed savage glee when causing destruction and making way for demonkind's arrival; laughing maniacally.

He seems to have a mindset that he can only rule over the Earth alone and can't share it with anyone, similar to his father, based on his betrayal of Shendu at the final battle.

Drago's treatment of his minions isn't much (if at all) less abusive than Shendu's - in addition to snapping at them with his fire powers when angered, he casually destroyed StrikeMaster Ice and MC Cobra's portable games consoles when they were playing those instead of listening to him.

Chow considered Drago an even worse boss than his father had been.

However, whereas Shendu was known to backstab his human allies once they ceased to be useful, Drago despite his abusiveness apparently stayed true to his offer to let his minions be at his side when he was victorious; infusing the Ice Crew with extra Demon Chi after he'd absorbed all eight demon powers (so they could eradicate Section 13, and after they'd briefly betrayed him no less), and allowing the Ice Crew to share in the spoils after they converted the Space Needle into their luxurious lair.

Unlike Shendu, Daolon Wong, Phobos and Tarakudo, who all kept the Enforcers under their service for some time despite their repeated failures; Drago was the only one who refused to hire them.

Despite his evil tendencies and following in his Demon Sorcerer family's footsteps, it has been hinted in spite of Drago's behaviour towards his minions that he isn't as completely evil as he lets on.

Drago claimed he doesn't suffer traitors well, and initially encased the Ice Crew in earth after they betrayed him and attempted to drown him so they could take the eight Demon Chi for themselves.

However, like his father, it appears Drago can change his mind at times when it comes to retribution, as he shortly afterwards released the Ice Crew and gave them another chance.

Whereas Shendu considered Jackie Chan specifically to be his nemesis, Drago seemingly treated the Chan Clan more broadly as his foes, although he does seem to have a personal animosity towards Jade in particular.

Initially, like most of the Chan Clan's other major foes including the majority of Drago's family, Drago made no preemptive attacks on them beyond clashing with them in pursuit of Demon Chi or striking when they had something he wanted.

But losing six Demon Chi to the Chans seemingly made Drago grow more unhinged, based on his immersion in enacting a commando-style mission (something he apparently has a personal fondness for), to the Ice Crew's confusion.

After both losing the seventh Demon Chi to the Chans and being stripped of his own fire powers by them, Drago seemingly considered the Chans a serious threat.

He subsequently took things a step further than merely targeting them; upgrading his and his minions' equipment so they could effectively and swiftly kidnap half the Chan Clan and Captain Black, and ransoming them to the remaining Chans in exchange for the eight Demon Chi.

This recognition of the Chans and Section 13 as a credible threat seemingly didn't abate after Drago absorbed all eight Demon Chi, sending the newly Demon Chi-empowered Ice Crew to eliminate Section 13 with orders to ensure everyone inside was also permanently neutralised.

Drago didn't appear overly threatened by Jackie Chan and the J-Team after absorbing all eight Demon Chi; though he summoned the Demon Chi-enhanced Ice Crew to eliminate them, he seemingly treated the J-Team's interference as nothing more than a game for him to watch for his own amusement.

Drago has a very poor, dysfunctional and resentful relationship with his father, not dissimilar to the latter's demon siblings.

When Drago and Shendu faced off and fought before being banished, Drago displayed insolence and defiance towards his father, feeling conquest was "a job for a fiery young dragon".

After they were both defeated and trapped in the Netherworld, Drago behaved like a petulant child when arguing with and chiding his father for not letting him have the Earth, implying he has unresolved childhood issues with Shendu.

The father and son Fire Demons appear to have a love-hate relationship, as despite their mutual issues and resentments, they both felt that Shendu would be proud to watch Drago use the Demon Chi to turn the Earth into a demon-world under his rule.

Drago at one point expressed a determination to not repeat Shendu's mistakes after striking out on his own.

Drago went as far as throwing his father into a rift to the Netherworld to get rid of him (when Shendu had conceded to saving Drago from the same fate after hearing his pleading, no less) so he could have the Earth for himself; an act of treachery very similar to how Shendu himself double-crossed and abandoned his siblings.

Ultimately, despite his father issues, Drago has a treacherous streak much like Shendu's when dealing with the latter (though it's unknown if Drago extends this behaviour to others; as he never got the chance to demonstrate if he'd go back on a deal with anyone else), and just like with his father, it got Drago into an otherwise-avoidable bad situation.

## Family

* Shendu (Father)
* Unnamed Mother
* Demon Sorcerers (Aunts & Uncles)