Dragon King (disambiguation)
The Dragon King or Dragon Kings (also Dragon Gods(s)), are deities in Chinese tradition (Taoism).
Dragon King(s) in Hinduism and Buddhism refer to the Nagarajas. The Dragon King in Japanese tradition is Ryū-ō aka Ryūjin ("Dragon god") of Ryūgū-jō, sometimes equated with the sea-god Watatsumi.
Dragon King may also refer to:
Arts and entertainment
- Dragon King (DC Comics)
- Dragon King, an enemy of comics superheroine Spider-Girl
- Dragon Kings, fictional characters in Exalted
- Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King, a 2004 German television film
- Dragon Kings (Dark Sun), an accessory for Dungeons & Dragons
- Onaga or the Dragon King, a Mortal Kombat character
- The Dragon King (adventure book), by Trevor Baxendale, 2008
- The Dragon King (novel), by R. A. Salvatore, 1996
- Dragon king, a playing piece in Shogi
- Ryūō ('Dragon King'), an annual Japanese professional shogi tournament and the title of its winner
Other uses
- Druk Gyalpo ('Dragon King'), the head of state of the Kingdom of Bhutan
- Dragon king theory, a statistical metaphor
- Operation Dragon King, a 1978 military operation in northern Arakan, Burma
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