Dragons II: The Metal Ages

Dragons II: The Metal Ages is the 2005 television animated adventure film, and the sequel to the 2004 film Dragons: Fire & Ice.

The movie starts with Scylla, high priestess and queen of the Odaku army, writing strange symbols on the surface of a mountain. Using these symbols and a magic fire, she summons Shadow Dragons Gryndel and Daakon, the spirits of two evil dragons who were exiled from their world by its king. She offers to open a portal to the Dragon Realm if they aid her in battle against the Norvagen and Draigar... and you can tell where this is going.

Tropes used in Dragons II: The Metal Ages include:

• Action Girl: Kyra once again, also Scylla.
• Affably Evil: Scylla tries this when she talks to Kyra.
• Animation Bump: Hit and miss for this one. Facial animations got a tremendous improvement, but some animation of minor characters look worse than its predecessor.
• Artifact of Doom: The Load Stone, a fragment of the Aurothon has incredible power over earth.
• Awesome Yet Practical: The small stone Gorhagar carries around with him.
• Badass Grandpa: Dev had an ancestor with a penchant for going berserk, but it didn't end well.
• Battle Couple: Dev and Kyra... also Kyra and Gorhagar, much to Dev's dismay.
• The Berserker: Dev, and his grandad.
• Berserk Button: Kyra can be soundly beaten in battle, feel betrayed, and almost betray her best friend, and still maintain a steady composure. but call her "Princess Stork Legs" and she'll tear you a new one.
• Bloodless Carnage: Justified for a children's film.
• Character Development: Dev and Kyra, and now Gorhagar. Originally Dev despised Gorhagar, most likley out of jealousy.
• Chekhov's Gun: Light Dragons V.S. Shadow Dragons, what else is there to say?
• Death From Above: The Shadow Dragons love to swoop down upon helpless foes.
• The Dragon: An actual dragon this time, Slann.
• Exactly What It Says on the Tin: Shadow dragons are quite literally made entirely from shadows. Same goes for the light dragons.
• Hey, It's That Voice!: Wouldn't ya know it? The queen of this trope makes it even into obscure animations.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Dev is certainly this. He's even worse near the beginning.
• Large Ham: Jennifer Hale must've had a blast going all out to play a villain on this one.
• Never Say "Die": Averted times a plenty, as many characters speak about death and killing rather casually.
• No Flow in CGI
• Oh Crap: Everybody's horrified expression whenever Dev starts to go all berserker.
  • When the shadow dragons first attack.
• Sequel Hook: Slann reappears at the very end as a shadow dragon in the Dragon World.
• The Smurfette Principle: Averted, Kyra isn't the only lead female this time around.
• Take Over the World: Scylla
• Weapons That Suck: Norvagen and Draigar weapons seem pretty primitve when compared to the ones being used by the Odaku army.