#;Fatalis

[yakovski]

You don't get it..... I wish you would get it.....

[cosmopoliturtle]

Fatalis - Dragon of the Evil Eye

[zennesaph]

that which is king of all things, the perfect being

[wakalakaog]

Chimera Falin + Fatalis

[simon-newman]

TIL I learned that the initial plans for Smaug in the Hobbit movies had him with four legs and a pair of wings like an actual dragon should be:

Supposedly the original design was still used in the first movie original cut and only changed to show winged forelimbs in the enhanced version.

what we ultimately got is the bat-like front limbs that serve as both arms and wings.

NGL. I still love him but there's this tiny voice at the back of my head saying "this is a wyvern".

Now. Why was the change made?

The official answer is:

"Originally, the dragon we envisioned was bigger. The idea was to get the fear through his bulk. In fact, if you go back and look at the first film and the scenes that he was in, he was actually a four-legged dragon because we just had him stomping through Erebor in all of those flashback scenes," Letteri said. "But we realized that once you saw him performing -- we especially got this from watching Benedict perform. He got down on the grown and starting slithering around like the way Tolkien described Smaug in the books, which is as a big worm. Once we saw Benedict doing all of that, we realized you can't have him be this four-legged creature with wings on him back, he needs to be two legs and his wings need to be his arms properly, as you would expect a creature to be like a bat or a bird."

So in order to make him move like Tolkien described they had to make him not fit the Tolkien's description of having four legs.

They made him less accurate to make him more accurate?

Plus. The excuse that he will be slithering around means he can't have four legs?

This is Fatalis - the most powerful monster in the Monster hunter franchise. It's an Elder Dragon with uniquely Draconic design.

Most regular MH monsters are some kind of a wyvern with four limbs. Elder dragons are different and like Fatalis many have six limbs.

Uniquely - Fatalis is the classic European dragon in terms of design - something that set him apart from other monsters in the franchise.

It is a monster and destroyer of kingdoms.

And he slithers around.

He can move in two ways - by lying flat on his belly and pulling himself forward with wings - in this case the forelegs are held close to his body.

The other method is to actually use the front limbs instead of wings. This gives him multiple means of movement depending on the situation and intentions.

He has a few more animations where he just lies flat or jumps forward - both ending with him flat on the ground and able to stand up easily. Those are attacks that intend to crush enemies with his entire body.

Four legs don't interfere in the slightest with all those movements.

The excuse is weak.

It is just my theory but seeing the recent push for "realistic" design for dragons I personally blame the Game of Thrones.

It began airing too late for the first movie to be changed as the production was likely in a very late stages.

Second one tho? Yeah. I could see how they implement the idea based on G.R.R. Martin's design.

For REALISM.

Of a mythical, flying, fire breathing monster.

I'm just waiting for "realistic" dragons appearing alongside creatures like gryphon and pegasus with the same excuse being made.

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Thank you to listening to my rant.

[easydoggo]

The Fatty trio but they are dragon quest boss enemies

[cave-thing]

idk if im ever gonna finish this so im posting. my fav geriatric dragon

[sharp-ies]

Fatalis

[gummywyvern]

Fatalis!

[angelicobituary]

lady eris, destroyer of schrade.

[0bir]

fatty +0+

[ezlo-x]

Oh yeah a Fatalis and Ganon duo would be deadly. Two eternal haters that make up 99.9% of the lore in their worlds💀

they couldn't put two bad bitches together cause they knew the world wouldn't handle it (literally)

[necroticvessel]

MonHun doodlin'

[zennesaph]

veni, veni, monstorum deus

caelum et terra tua sunt

Fatalis!

[damnwyverngems]

Monster Hunter 20th Anniversary - Great Hunting Exhibition.

Photos by Pekoson_

[archiepelago]

sittin like a kitty