Legacies season 3 copied a dragon twist from Game of Thrones: zombie dragons. The eight-season run of HBO’s crown jewel series unfolded a grounded political power drama in the trappings of fantasy. While most of the story revolved around the political intrigue of the various people vying for the throne, there were supernatural and magical elements incorporated in and around the main storylines. Of those fantasy elements, dragons were a permanent fixture and an important part of the series as the “children” of Daenerys Targaryen, the Mother of Dragons.

Through most of the series, the dragons were normal dragons. However, in a twist, at the end of season 7, one of Dany’s dragons, Viserion, died at the hands of the Night King who then resurrected Viserion as a zombie dragon that then spewed ice instead of fire. Ice dragons had long been hinted at in George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire books, but HBO’s Game of Thrones adaptation went one step further and made Viserion not just an ice dragon, but also a zombie – or technically a wight, as the Night King’s resurrected corpses were called. Seeing Daenerys’s beloved dragon rise from the dead was a chilling moment for audiences who could only imagine what it meant for the future, but seeing him fly around as a zombie dragon was honestly pretty great – even if he was now fighting the good guys.

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Season 3 of Legacies borrowed this visual trick from Game of Thrones, albeit without quite the same story implications as Viserion being resurrected as a zombie at the hands of the Night King. Legacies adopts more of a monster-of-the-week format than Game of Thrones‘ intertwined story. Still, there have been callbacks: In Legacies‘ first season, one of the monsters threatening the Salvatore School students was a dragon, which Hope Mikaelson took down and killed with a dark magic spell. Two seasons later, in Legacies‘ season 3 episode “Hold on Tight,” the dragon reappeared as a zombie and the characters were floored to realize it was the same dragon they’d killed all the way back in season 1.

 

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Interestingly, Legacies‘ zombie dragon shares some similarities with Game of Thrones‘ zombie dragon. Just as Viserion was resurrected by the Night King in Game of Thrones, the dragon in Legacies was resurrected by the Necromancer, the longtime enemy of the Salvatore team. Both the Night King’s and the Necromancer’s greatest power lies in being able to raise the dead, a skill they each used to turn what is arguably each show’s greatest weapon, dragons, against their opponents. And while it’s not directly related to the dragons, the Night King and the Necromancer even slightly resemble one another with their corpselike visages and desiccated skin. One notable difference between Viserion and Legacies‘ zombie dragons, however, is that once Viserion was resurrected, he spewed pure ice and cold as befitting of a White Walker while Legacies‘ dragon still roared fire.

The importance of dragons to the mythology of Legacies has been somewhat underplayed to this point. Dragons are supposedly apex superpredators, formidable, terrifying creatures that are so powerful it took an ancient alliance of a witch, vampire, and werewolf to combine their forces in order to make a magical golem strong enough to defeat the dragons. That golem became Malivore, a purgatorial Hell world that traps and releases monsters and is the thing around which the entire story of Legacies pivots. Even though the dragons were instrumental in Malivore’s creation, however, they’ve rarely been explored in the show. It would be great if season 3 or future seasons of Legacies could explore dragons more thoroughly as they have a backstory just as interesting as the dragons in Game of Thrones.

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Alisha Grauso is a features editor at Screen Rant, as well as the editorial lead for Atom Insider with Atom Tickets. Previously, she was the editor-at-large and editor-in-chief for Movie Pilot. Her work can be found, or expertise cited, at Forbes, CNN, CBS, Variety, CNBC, Marvel, Business Insider, Birth.Movies.Death, Film School Rejects, and more. She’s also the co-leader of California Freelance Writers United, a grassroots organization advocating for smarter legislation and forward-thinking labor law for freelance writers in California and across the country.

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