Editing Dragon (section)

==[[Star Wars]]==
In the original Star Wars movie we see the skeleton of a creature called a krayt dragon on Tatoonie. They come in multiple subspecies, the skeleton is stated to belong to a greater krayt dragon, a creature that is over a hundred meters long and resembles a western dragon, minus the wings, and it has around a dozen legs. The krayt dragon is the top carnivore on Tatoonie, traveling through the sand like a giant worm and feeding on anything it finds. Tusken Raiders are terrified of them, with Obi-Wan scaring a group off by mimicking a krayt dragon's roar. A smaller but still large subspecies called a canyon krayt also exists. These resemble your standard quadraped western dragon.

Since all the details on what a krayt dragon looked like in canon were limited to reference books when a live one appeared in [[Star Wars:The Mandalorian| The Mandalorian]], while the greater krayt dragon draws traits from artwork in Legends, the design is changed to make the dragon look more alien. Its body is covered in armor, more snake like while its head more resembles that of a shark. In source books it is confirmed to still have legs which is how it propels itself through the sand, they simply weren't visible because all we see of the dragon are its head and neck. While this krayt dragon has a mouth full of teeth, it's so big that it simply swallows prey hole. Despite their size the krayt dragon actually prefers to retreat when threatened. If still attacked when corned it can spit up acid flesh melting acid akin to how a typical dragon breaths fire.

The Dark Forces video game introduced a a smaller relative called a kell dragon because it wasn't possible to depict a krayt dragon at its proper size.