Dragon (Reign of Fire)

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Reign of Fire is a 2002 post-apocalyptic fantasy film directed by Rob Bowman and starring Matthew McConaughey and Christian Bale, with the screenplay written by Matt Greenberg, Gregg Chabot, and Kevin Peterka. The film also features Izabella Scorupco and Gerard Butler.

The film is set in England in the year 2020, twenty years after London tunneling project workers inadvertently awakened dragons from centuries of slumber and the creatures have subsequently replaced humans as the dominant species on Earth. With the fate of mankind at stake, two surviving parties, led by Quinn Abercromby (Bale) and Denton Van Zan (McConaughey), find that they must work together to hunt down and destroy the beasts in a desperate attempt to take back the world.

The film was released by Touchstone Pictures on July 12, 2002. Upon release, it received generally mixed reviews from critics and audiences and became a commercial failure, grossing $82 million on a $60 million budget.

Dragons are the highly evolved, big, fierce, dangerous, prehistoric reptiles which serve as the main antagonists of the 2002 film "Reign of Fire" and which serve as both antagonists and protagonists in the video game adaptation "Reign of Fire".

These Dragons have only appeared in one film and one video game so far.

The dragon male as it appeared in the film "Reign of Fire".

The Dragon appeared for the first time in the 2002 film Reign of Fire where they served as the main antagonists, and especially the Male Dragon.

The dragon female as it appeared in the video game "Reign of Fire".

The Dragon appeared for the second and last time in the video game adaptation of the film, Reign of Fire. Unlike in the film, in the game you can choose dragons to be the antagonists as you're playing as dragon slayers, or play as a dragon from a protagonist view, where the humans are the antagonists.

The dragons in Reign of Fire are large four limbed creatures with a gland in their mouth capable of being ignited to produce fire, the liquid this gland produces also seems to have the potential to harm the eyes of any human it comes into contact with (Quinn has the liquid washed out with water as soon as he sees his mother).

It appears that the species survives by living on ash and feeding on all life it comes in contact with (We don't know if Marine life was destroyed as well).

The film is quite difficult in coming up with hypothesis as to how they truly function however as at the start the male is awakened and suddenly the planet is overrun with females as well, suggesting that the male can produce offspring as well but after doing so will allow the females to carry on spreading his genes.

Furthermore, since a male dragon existed, the specie must have a way to produce males that the characters and thus the audience as well didn't know of. Which means the dragons might not be extinct at the end of the movie.

Once they have killed everything it is unknown as to how long it will be until the male is forced into hibernation once more (Maybe not if he is able to continue feeding on females but we do know he was hibernating after the dinosaurs.)

In order for the dragon to be awakened it apparently must be found and woken, we can conclude this by looking at how much life there was between the dinosaurs and modern humanity.

One weakness the dragons have is to their vision at dawn, they have excellent vision during the day and even better vision at night but seem impaired enough at dawn to make fatal mistakes that they would not usually make.