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* From Sesame Workshop.

## Characters

### Main

* Emmy is a 6-year-old girl, who commonly appears as the leader of the group until she gave her position to Enrique while helping him get used to Dragon Land. She's Max's older sister. Her best friend is Cassie, and she's perhaps known for saying "Definitely!" whenever a good idea arises. Though Emmy is not ashamed to do "girly" things with Cassie, she's also heavily into sports and games and generally is up for any activity. Though she experiences occasional jealousy of her brother, the 2 are otherwise usually together within Dragon Land and share many adventures. Though a brave, smart natural leader, she's also impulsive and does not always think before she acts.
* Max is 4 years old, and is Emmy's younger brother. For the most part, he and Emmy get along fine, but occasionally have arguments due to him being prone to anger. His best friend is Ord. Though Max loves Emmy, he sometimes struggles with being the younger brother, and is usually frustrated about being too little to do certain things, or when Emmy acts in certain ways. He's of an adventurous sort and sometimes helps to give courage to Ord when he's afraid of certain things. He's kind to others, but often enjoys acting silly or goofy. He sometimes acts in a stubborn manner, determined to prove that a child his age can do things on his own, even when he really needs help. Max was named after the son of executive producer Jim Coane.
* Enrique is 6 years old. He is Emmy and Max's new best friend and next-door neighbor who moved from Colombia to the United States and also once lived in Puerto Rico. He is raised by his father and his grandmother ("*abuelita*")  He first appears in the Season 3 episode "To Fly with a New Friend", and travels to Dragon Land with the children when Max encourages Emmy to share their secret. His recent experiences in South America provide more opportunities for the characters to demonstrate the meanings of new Spanish words. He misses his homeland of Colombia and saddened by reminders of times from his old home. He rides with Zak and Wheezie, the two-headed dragon who rarely flew with any human friends prior to Enrique's debut in Season 3. His personality is somewhat bashful but he is sometimes shy to join in on new experiences. However, he finds that he enjoys himself when he allows himself to let go, express his feelings and then move forward to have fun. He's raised by his grandparents and described as an intensely smart, good, and logical character. A series of moves throughout his early life has left him jaded and wary of both making new friends and trying new things. Enrique received mixed reviews. The presence of Enrique on the program, in conjunction with Max and Emmy, was the subject of a study "'They Are?!' Latino Difference vis-à-vis Dragon Tales," which was critical of the show's use of the characters, feeling that the series ultimately "undermines multiculturalism because it fails to nurture children's ability to live fearlessly with and within difference."
* Ord is a strong blue male dragon who is Max's best friend. He is extremely fond of food and always carries some just in case; a running gag in the show features Ord making "*Dragon Corn*" by throwing the kernels in the air and popping them with his fire breath. He's also allergic to dandelions. Despite his physical strength, Ord is sometimes scared due to his fear of the dark and thunder, and possesses a magical tendency to turn invisible when he is upset or frightened. Ord's sun-shaped Dragon Badge glows when he faces his fears. Ord is extremely sweet and kind in nature, he learns moral lessons when he is not kind. For instance, in "Kingdom Come" he refuses to share his huge cupcake, but finally gives in and learns moral lessons. Also, he overcomes his fear of bugs when he helps his pals catch a Flutterby-a kind of large orange-and-yellow butterfly.
* Cassie is a shy, cute, reserved and sweet pink female dragon who is Emmy's best friend. She possesses a magical tendency to shrink when she is too shy, sad, or scared, may occasionally come across as slightly insecure and uncertain, and is prone to worrying, especially about making a mistake. However, Cassie is distinguished by her kind heart and maternal sweetness, primarily as a result of her responsibilities as an older sister and babysitter to a myriad of younger siblings. Cassie also is characterized by her color combination of pink and yellow, along with blue speckles in some areas. Cassie knows just about everything there is to know about Dragon Land and has a deep love of fairy tales, both stemming from her love of reading, as well as being an amazing singer and dancer. Her dragon orb-shaped badge glows when she feels confident and believes in herself.
* Zak and Wheezie are conjoined twin green and purple dragons with opposite personalities; Zak is male, and Wheezie is female. Zak is neat and clean, worries a lot, and is pessimistic about many things. His catchphrase is "Take it easy, Wheezie!", which he often says when Wheezie takes off running, dragging him with her. Wheezie, on the other hand, is bold, hyper, confident, and free-spirited, with a tendency to be messy, much to her brother's annoyance. Her catchphrase is "Love it!", when she loves something. The two have a shared love of music and performing and they often perform in talent shows and recitals together. Zak and Wheezie always fly with Enrique, though they rarely flew with any human friends in the first two seasons. In the third season, Enrique became their partner following his debut. Their dragon badges are musical notes that glow when they work together and get along, though they will sometimes glow independently when one of them accomplishes something on their own of significance. Although they fight a lot, they are very close and they love and care about each other a lot. In the episode "Not Separated at Birth" the viewers get a view of what Wheezie and Zak would look like separately as if they were born that way. They get in a fight and Queztel decides to grant them their request to be separated. Finally being able to live separately, it is short lived as they want to be back together.
* Quetzal is an elderly yellow male dragon originally from Mexico who is the teacher at The School in the Sky where young dragons attend. He tries to encourage his students to find solutions to their problems on their own, but is a sounding board who offers stability and comfort, as well as sound advice. In the episode "Snow Dragon", Quetzal mentions it has been hundreds of years since he visited the dragon snow sculpture as a child, implying he is centuries old. He speaks Spanish with a very strong accent. He also has an identical twin brother named Fernando who works in his garden.

### Supporting

* Arlo is an orange male dragon who works at the Dragon Dump. He has a machine at the Dragon Dump which he calls his "lil' lo' recycler" that sorts out things that can be used again.
* Dr. Booboogone is a veteran pink dragon who works as a doctor who helps dragons and other species who are sick or hurt. She wears a doctor's coat.
* Captain Scallywag is a pirate who captains a flying ship.
* Chilly is a living snowman who lives on top of the Stickleback Mountains with his snow-dog Nippy.
* Cyrus is a conniving lizard-like slinky serpent, the main antagonist of the show. He often tries to steal others' eggs to eat, until he's offered some custard eggs in an episode called "My Fair serpent" .
* The Doodle Fairy is a fairy with green skin and purple dress. She does not speak but can doodle, but in the follow up series, she speaks fast.
* The dragonfly fairy is a fairy with wings and a dress, she does speak but is a fast-talker.
* Eunice is a winged unicorn who cannot see very well, so she wears glasses.
* Finn is Cassie's younger brother. He is light blue, toddler-aged, attached to his blankie, and only just learning to fly. He is prone to tantrums when upset.
* The Giant of Nod is the leader of a group of gnome-like creatures called the Nodlings. While much bigger than his fellow Nodlings, he is smaller than any of the main characters but is enormously strong.
* Princess Kidoodle is the ruler of the Doodle Fairy Kingdom. She seems to be much older than any other doodle fairies, but she talks fast at times.
* Kiki is Cassie's younger sister. Kiki is light green. She seems slightly younger than Finn and still wears diapers and drinks from a bottle. She is attached to her "squishy", an oddly-shaped seed that she enjoys squeezing.
* The Little Bird with the Big Eyes, is a bird that lives in the Forest of Darkness who has big round eyes. She is described by Max every time she leaves them as "nice bird!"
* Lorca is Max, Emmy, Zak, Wheezie, Ord and Cassie's friend. He was born without wings and can use a wheelchair because he was born this way and is incapable of flight. Despite his physical limitations, however, Lorca enjoys participating in adventures and sports activities and encourages his friends to think of new ways to do things.
* Norm is a friendly little talking gnome who loves to count.
* Monsieur Marmadune is the main ruler and leader of Kingdom Come, who tells Ord that Kingdom Come is the happiest place a dragon could ever be.
* Mr. Pop is a gnome-like character that temporarily steals Wheezie's laugh with his sound switcher.
* Mungus is a giant who lives in a castle in the clouds. He knows many folks in Dragon Land since he can travel far and wide in just a few steps.
* Polly Nimbus is the operator of the cloud factory, which controls Dragon Land's weather.
* The dragon beavers-these beavers speak, build, and can be helpful.
* Mr. Dragon owl-he's a wise-talking hooting dragon-owl, he's based on Hoots the owl from Sesame Street.
* Poozy is a fairy with butterfly wings that was once Cassie's pet caterpoozle. She looks similar to the Doodle Fairy and like the Doodle fairy she does not speak, except at certain episode when she talks like Sea Breeze from My little Pony-friendship is magic episode-it's not Easy Being Breezie.
* Poozy 2-Cassie's new pet Caterpoozle, she's purple and loves to laugh.
* Priscilla is the manager at the lost and found, who during her first appearance, was feeling embarrassed because her wings were bigger than those of other dragons. She eventually realized that there is nothing wrong with being different when she uses her big wings to help Mungus clean up his castle in a "different" way.
* Sid Sycamore is a talking tree who loves telling jokes that relate to the concept of trees, the dragons' tree house is attached to him. When upset, the children will sometimes go to talk to him to be cheered up by his jokes.
* Slurpy is Zak and Wheezie's pet fur-ball.
* Spike is a cool student who loves his Yo-Yo but he is also a mean bully whenever he gets sad or alone. He is paired up with Cassie when the group picks Dragon Plums. He bullies Cassie and when she gets upset about this, Quetzel advises her to be friends with Spike. Because Quetzal implied that Spike might be a bully because he is sad and alone, much like how Cassie shrinks when she is shy, scared or sad.
* Windy is a little wind that likes to blow like her father.
* Wyatt is a talking wishing well that immediately grants any wish for a single coin. He's old friends with Quetzal. Whenever coins pile up too high, he knows it is time for them to be emptied and taken to the First Dragon Land Bank. Earlier in the series, he was called Willy.

## Episodes sampler

1. Zak and the Giant-The Do-Re-Mi birds, Cyrus, the dragon-chickens, the dragon-owls and mana-mana birds have been kidnapped, and it is up to Emmy, Max, Zak & Wheezie and their pals to come to their rescue. When they learn that Mungus the Giant took the birds and Cyrus because he loves their songs, they teach him how to make his own music.
2. My fair serpent-Cyrus the Slinky Serpent steals a rhyme bird egg once again, and luckily, Ord has an idea to help Cyrus change his ways and offers him some special custard eggs to save the egg.
3. Return to the magic pop-up book-When the gang uses Quetzal's magic pop-up book to make up stories, they all talk at once but nobody listens. They soon realize that by taking turns, everyone's story gets to be heard. Later on, they make up a jungle adventure story with toucan, rhinos, crocodiles, vultures, pythons, and more!
4. Return of the Me-first Wizard-The friends race over who should go first on an obstacle course and unleash a two-headed wizard who always goes first. It's up to them to recite a spell to help him learn to take turns before the After-you Wizard will send him back.
5. Down the forever hole-Ord's favorite blanket goes down the Lost Forever Hole, but luckily, the gang makes a deal with a greedy gnome named gnome-mine to get Ord's blanket back and cheer him up.
6. Once upon a Dragon-The kids and dragons go back into Quetzal's magic pop-up book. This time, with Kiki, Finn, Equine, and Lorca to imagine the fairy tales and stories and meet the characters themselves, such as Goldilocks, the 3 bears, the Big Bad wolf and pigs from the 3 little pigs, the reluctant dragon from "The Reluctant Dragon", Alice and her pals from "Alice in Wonderland", the mermaid from "The Little Mermaid", Belle and the Beast from "Beauty and the Beast", Jim Hawkins, Long John Silver and his parrot Capt. Flint from "Treasure Island", the dinosaurs (e.g. Tyrannosaurus) and pterosaurs and animals from "How the Littlest Stegosaurus got his plates", the crocodile from "Peter Pan," Baloo the bear, the vultures, Kaa the snake and other animals from "The Jungle Book", The Lion and the Mouse, the Tortoise and the hare, Judge owl, Merlin and his owl pal from "The Sword in the stone", the witches from Macbeth, the Golden goose, Jack and the giant from "Jack and the Beanstalk", the Old Woman who Lived in the Shoe, Goosey Goosey Gander, the ducklings from the Ugly Duckling, and King Midas.
7. Easter egg hunt surprise-The friends team up with Cyrus to search for eggs in the Custard Egg Hunt, but they have their hands full looking after Cassie's siblings Kiki and Finn.
8. Dragon scout bird-watching surprise-Enrique and his pals sing "^6 little ducks" which attracts the attention of a whole flock of daffy duck-esque blue faced dragon-ducks.
9. One Small Step For Cassie, maybe: Max, Emmy, and their dragon friends take a trip to the moon. There, Cassie observes something dangerous and is afraid to speak up. Eventually, she speaks up and saves both herself and her friends.
10. Circle of Friends for Life: Max is bad at drawing circles, and so his dragon friends try to help him. In the end, Max's circles improve, and he feels better.
11. You can count on the Number gnome: When Nome the Number gnome shows up, Enrique meets him and the number game begins!
12. Simon says-you win: When Max, Enrique and their pals meet Simon, the game has just begun.