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[–] Susaga@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Technically, it's not an overdone trope. Because it's hardly done at all.

In most folktales with a dragon as a villain, they either hoard wealth or hold a woman captive before eating her, rarely both. And they don't even need to kidnap her, because she's offered to the dragon as a tribute to avoid its wrath. And this isn't even mentioning worldwide variations on dragon mythology.