Dragon Turtle
- Bowser, the arch-nemesis of Mario in the Super Mario Bros. video game franchise, is a well known dragon turtle.
- In the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game dragon turtles are gigantic sea creatures, feared by sailors for their ability to capsize the largest ships. They are massively armoured and breathe a cloud of scalding steam.
- Dragon turtles are monsters in some DragonQuest/DragonWarrior games, often called Tortragon.
- There are dragon turtles in the game Might and Magic VIII.
- In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003) (season 5), the turtles turned into creatures that resembles dragon turtles.
- In World of Warcraft the Pandaren race can ride Dragon Turtles
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Famous quotes containing the words dragon and/or turtle:
“Opinion is not worth a rush;
In this altar-piece the knight,
Who grips his long spear so to push
That dragon through the fading light,
Loved the lady; and it’s plain
The half-dead dragon was her thought....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one,
and come away.
For lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone;
The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land;”
—Bible: Hebrew The Song of Solomon (l. II, 10–12)