DRAGON[ドラゴン] self explanatory
Oh okay... a bunch of these are super impossible to make sense of from the datacard portaits alone plus a few go through dramatic redesigns so here's some with their more notable changes all side by side and i'll get to the ones with less variation afterward...
CREVASSE[クレバス]
JIHĀD[ジハード] from... uh.... JIHĀD[جهاد]??? Not gonna comment on that one
RAGNAROKS[ラグナロックス] from Ragnarøkkr, the apocalyptic event of norse mythology where all the gods of asgard die seemingly returns in MR3 as just RAGNA[ラグナ]
TECHNO-DRAGON[テクノドラゴン]
ATHENA[アテナ] from the Greek Goddess ATHENA[Ἀθῆνα]
GALIEL[ガリエル] GALI and the suffix -IEL[יאֵל] meaning "-of god" in Hebrew and commonly used in the names of angels in both biblical and apocryphal, and erroneous european occultist texts
CAUCASUS[コーカサス] like the Chalcosoma chiron aka Caucasus Beetle, a type of rhinobeetle
CRUSTAA[クラスター] from CRUSTACEAN
DIABLOS[ディアボロス]
ARMORED-DRAGON[アーマードラゴン]
OCELOT[オセロット]
DODONGO[ドドンゴー] I swear I knew that the Dodongo was from some kind of actual folk lore and not just a Zelda thing but now I can't seem to pinpoint a clear origin
GHIDORAHS[ギドラス] like King GHIDORAH from Godzilla?
APOCALYPSE[アポカリプス] also came in a white variant
MAGMA-HEART[マグマハート]
MUU[ムー] the weird barely present villain of the franchise, from the Japanese MUU[無有]: "nonexistence/having nothing/oblivion"
SIMURGH[シムルグ] the legendary bird(?) SIMURGH[سیمرغ] of ancient Iranian mythology
ZARATAN[ザラタン] the ZARATAN[سرطان]: "crab(?)" of Arabic lore. Oddly it appears in the same text as a supposed sea dragon, but they didn't name it after that instead?
DURGA[ドルゥーガ] from the Hindu goddess DURGA[दुर्गा]
FAFNIR[ファフニール] the mythic dragon of Germanic lore in the Volsung saga
GRYPPS[グリュプス] another name for a Griffin/Gryphon
KUJATA[クジャタ] from the KUJATA[كيوثاء] from Islamic cosmology, which carries the world on its shoulders.
KUNGFU[クンフー] dressed like Bruce Lee in Game of Death
DRAGON-KATZE[ドラゴンカッツェ] from KATZE the german word for "cat
ROSWELL[ラズウェル] it's definitely how youd write ROSWELL like Roswell New Mexico, but it's a Mocchi subtype so I kind of ant to assume it was meant to be ROSE-WELL? But it kind of doesn't make too much sense either way.
FLASHER[フラッシャー]
JABBERWOCK[ジャバウォック] from Lewis Carrol's JABBERWOCKY
OCTOGON[オクトゴン] OCTOPUS DRAGON
CUÉLEBRE[クエレブレ] from the El Cuélebre of Spanish folklore
FUR-DRAGON[ファードラゴン] or maybe meant to be FURRED-DRAGON with the DO syllable shared
OUROBOROS[ウロボロス] from the Greek [ουροβóρος] the dragon eating its own tail
VOUIVRE[ヴィーヴル] the French folklore monster, akino to a Wyvern
DIVA[ディーヴァ]
HAMSTERN[ハムスタン] HAMSTER DRAGON
FAIRY-FEATHER[フェアリフェザー]
GATE-KEEPER[ゲートキーパー]
VRITRA[ヴリドラ] from VRTRA[वृत्र] an asura in hindu mythology
LINDWURM[リンドブルム] another mythic serpent of european lore
DRAGON-CRYSTAL[ドラゴンクリスタル]
FEATHER-GOLD[フェザーゴールド]
WYVERN[ワイバーン]
OWL-BEARD[オウルベアード]
NIDHOGG[ニーズヘッグ] from the norse mythological Níðhǫggr
EDOKKO-DON[エドッコドン] from EDOKKO[江戸っ子] denoting someone born and raised in Edo and I assume DON here is mean to be the sound of a drum?
CHAOS-DRAGON[カオスドラゴン]
GIGA-METAL[ギガメタル]
SRAOSHA[スラオシャ] seemingly from the zoroastrian concept Sraosha[سروش]
PAPER-DRAGON[ペーパードラゴン]
VEGA[ベガ] seemingly named after the brightest star in the constellation Lyra, which is generally characterized as an eagle
WOODY[ウッディー]
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