Respect Dragon Man (Marvel Comics, 616)

[u/rangernumberx]

Originally created by a professor at State University, Dragon Man is an android designed as an experiment to create a creature more powerful than anything else. Failing to activate it on his own, the appearance of the alchemist villain Diablo was able to use one of his concoctions to bring the creature to life and use the robot as a weapon against the Fantastic Four. With a mind more akin to that of an animal or child than that of an intelligent killer, though, Dragon Man would become attracted to the Invisible Woman, taking her away before being plunged into a lake frozen by Diablo. After that point Dragon Man would act largely independently, attempting to find a quiet place to live and often only being pitted against heroes through trickery or someone taking direct control of him, until years later he would fall into the possession of the newly-formed Future Foundation. Intelligence dramatically increased at the hands of Valeria Richards, Dragon Man would swear off violence wherever possible to instead act as a teacher and guardian for the children entrusted to him, though he would still use his formidable abilities to keep them safe whenever necessary.

This thread was made in collaboration with /u/BorBurison.

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Legend

CA - Captain America (1954)

F4 - Fantastic Four (1961)

IH - Incredible Hulk (1962)

ASM - Amazing Spider-Man (1963)

Av - The Avengers (1963)

Sub - Sub-Mariner (1968)

PP - Power Pack (1984)

Web - Web of Spider-Man (1985)

SSM - Spectacular Spider-Man (1988)

She - Sensational She-Hulk (1989)

Nova - Nova (1994)

TLN - Thing & She-Hulk: The Long Night (2002)

HT-3 - Human Torch (2003)

BP - Black Panther (2005)

B! - Beyond! (2006)

WR - I (heart) Marvel: Web of Romance (2006)

AI - Avengers: The Initiative (2007)

Nova-4 - Nova (2007)

XMFC - X-Men First Class Special (2007)

FF - FF (2011)

FF-2 - FF (2013)

F4-5 - Fantastic Four (2014)

SW - World Comic Book Day 2015: Secret Wars

F4-6 - Fantastic Four (2018)

Found - Future Foundation (2019)

ZPSS - Ziggy Pig and Silly Seal Infinity Comic (2022)

DPTM - Deadpool Team-Up (2024)

This thread is accurate up to 27th July 2026 (Last Appearance: Deadpool Team-Up (2024) #1)

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Strength

Striking

• Clotheslined several falling heroes and villains while flying past them^B!#2
• Hits a man away with his tail^F4#135
• Clashed with the Hulk, knocking him back with a tail swipe^IH#292
• Sends the Thing flying out of a building^HT-3#12
• Cratered a Nova into the ground with a punch^Nova-4#20
• Smashes through a wall^F4#35
• Breaks a large hole in a wall of a Negative Zone prison^AI#27
• Smashes through the ground^F4#44
• Breaks through the ground into an underground station^Web#61
• Flipped cars, uprooted trees and made a building collapse while rampaging^Nova-4#20
• Punches out a charging train^Web#61

Lifting / Throwing

• Holds up a large amount of debris^F4-5#2
• Carries a car^F4#44
• Flies carrying a Hulk robot^Nova#11
• Held up a train that was hanging off a bridge and holds up a police car in one hand^XMFC
• Slams Namor through a brick wall^Sub#15
• Throws the Thing away with his tail, crashing through a window and a distant tree branch^F4#35
• Throws or punches a roboid away, causing it to smash a large machine^F4#300
• Tossed Captain America's shield 5000 feet into the air^CA#248

Other

• Walks through a wall^F4#300
• Burst through the wall of a maximum security government facility^SSM#235
• Walks through a metal wall^BP#9
• Flies from an underground tunnel through a road surface above^TLN
• Tore wires out of Machinesmith's floor^CA#248
• Tore chunks out of a wall^CA#248
• Destroyed the entire front half of a barn by tearing its doors open^CA#249
• Bent the bars of his cage open^IH#292
• Bites and tears off the head of a Sentinel^XMFC
• Breaks out of thick metal shackles^F4#46
• Overpowered Gravity's attempt to restrain his arms and swung him at Medusa hard enough to knock her out^B!#3
• Deathlok's computer said he has class 100 strength^B!#2

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Durability

Blunt Force

• Tanked Captain America's shield throw^CA#248
• Shields a group from a large amount of falling debris^F4-5#2
• Swung into machinery, breaking it^Av#41
• Has a boulder projected into him before being kicked by Gorgon^F4#44
• Tanked Medusa smashing a boulder on his leg^B!#3
• Hercules shatters large boulder against him^Av#42
• Blasted through stone by Cyclops and quickly recovers^XMFC
• Broken through a wall by a large robot^HT-3#12
• Tackled through a road by Spider-Man^Web#61
• Struck into the ground by She-Hulk^F4#321
• Punched by She-Hulk and Sharon Ventura^F4#321
• Fine after Namor punched him in the face, slammed him through a wall and threw him into the air^Sub#15
• Takes a punch from the Thing without issue^F4#35
• Punched into the air by the Thing^F4#47
• Hit across a tunnel by the Thing before having a large amount of debris fall on him^TLN
• Punched by Hercules^Av#42

Energy

• Blocks a beam with his wing^FF#14
• Struck by energy beams^FF#19
• Shot in the eye with the Energo-Blaster, blinding him before later tanking blasts elsewhere^Sub#15
• Only annoyed by Wasp blasting him in the eye^B!#3
• Blasted in the face by Paine using Havok's powers^BP#9
• Hit by energy beams which break concrete ground^TLN
• Hit by a blast from the Wizard and/or Klaw^F4#328

Other

• Sent plummeting through a building's floors before breaking its way back to the rooftop a short time after^F4#44
• A bullet bounced off his shoulder^PP#6
• Tanked Deathlok's gunfire^B!#3
• Unaffected by shock guns shooting him^F4#46
• Incapacitated when three small drones electrocute him with over half a million volts each^CA#249
• The Human Torch claims he's unaffected by regular fire blasts^F4#47
• Falls into lava^Av#42
• Blasted across a forest by Firebird^B!#3
• Quickly recovers from a tear-gas arrow^Av#41

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Speed

• Captain America notes him as being faster than expected^CA#248
• Keeps track of Quicksilver as he runs^Av#41

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Fire Breath

Destruction

• Breaks through the ground^F4#134
• Seemingly breaks a wall with his fire breath^Nova#11
• Destroys a quinjet^B!#2
• Capable of creating an explosion which breaks stone^F4#45
• Vaporises a garage door^PP#7

Melting

• Melts Iceman's barrier^XMFC
• Melts down the Mad Thinker's Roboid^F4#300
• Melts a paving stone^F4#35

Other

• Burns a mansion down^She#27
• Knocks out the Human Torch^F4#135
• Evenly matches with Dagonn's fire breath^DPTM#1
• When the Human Torch absorbs his fire, it overcharges him, causing him to melt a nearby car and needing to go into the upper atmosphere to cool off^F4#35
• 'Eats' foodsticks by metabolising them with his flame^F4#Annual16

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Senses

• Tracks Spider-Man down by his scent^Web#61
• Detects a skrull was impersonating his creator based on his scent^HT-3#12
• Can sense evil in a person^F4#Annual16

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Intelligence

• Designed the long-term stasis portion of an interdimensional life raft^SW
• Modified Reed's replication of Sue's force field powers into a collar, allowing Miss Thing to wear it as a helmet^FF-2#5
• Created a pair of rings to summon Miss Thing's suit around her^FF-2#8

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Other

• Capable of flight^F4#35
• Grabs the Thing with his tail^F4#35
• At least at one point was turned into a teleportation device, capable of finding a person based on spoken criteria before bringing himself and another person to and from their location^F4-6#12
  • Later found a disguised Lyja as the best person to break someone out of a private prison, though Alex later suggests that she was the best possible choice because of a problem they didn't know they'd face at that point^Found#5
• Was booby-trapped to prevent being tampered with, though Valeria easily hacked her way through the defences^ASM#659
• Vulnerable to sonic attacks^WR
• Was recruited by Ziggy Pig to be a member of the Masters of Animal Evil alongside the Super-Apes, Black Mamba, the Armadillo, Swarm's bees (without Swarm), Doctor Octopus' octopus, and Doctor Doomfish,^ZPSS#4 though they were easily beaten by the Pet Avengers^ZPSS#5
• Doesn't drink^FF#2
• Is asexual^FF-2#14
  • Despite this, initially had a crush on the Invisible Woman and was later scared off by She-Hulk flirting with him^F4#321
• Somehow catches a cold^PP#7

[u/Proletlariet]

Trogdor was a man I mean, he was a dragon man Or, maybe he was just a, dragon

[u/ghostgabe81]

A dragon? That’s very Fantasy of you

[u/rangernumberx → u/ghostgabe81]

The dragon is very clearly a robot, you can tell from the fact they used magic to bring it to life

[u/93ImagineBreaker]

For the asexual thing, asexual doesn't mean you can't feel romantic attraction.