Editing Trogdor

{{aboutcharacter}} {{for-nothe|other uses|Trogdor (disambiguation)}}

[[Image:A dragon.PNG|thumb|200px|"And the Trogdor comes in the NIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT!!!!!"]]
'''Trogdor the Burninator''' is an S-shaped wingaling [[Dragons|dragon]] with a [[beefy arm]] that originated in the [[Strong Bad Email]] [[dragon]]. Trogdor [[Glossary#B|burninates]] the countryside, peasants, and [[Thatched-Roof Cottage|thatched-roof cottages]] of [[Peasantry]]. He sprung from the wild imagination of [[Strong Bad]] when he was asked to show his "skills of an artist".

==History and rise to popularity==
Trogdor quickly became more popular than [[The Brothers Chaps]] ever could have imagined, developing into one of the most recognizable figures from the [[Homestar Runner (body of work)|Homestar Runner]] body of work, both on the Internet and in the real world. According to the [[Giant Magazine Interview]], the Trogdor shirt sold in the [[store]] was the best-selling item there at the time, even more than the [[strongbad_email.exe]] DVD. The original Trogdor shirt did not include the majestic lines for "majesty", but this was corrected in later prints. In September 2006, the [[store]] began selling a [[Store Baby Clothes|line of baby clothing]] bearing a more child-friendly image of Trogdor that sold out one day later. Fans even dress up as the character as seen in [[Fan Costumes]] toons, and have created some [[Weekly Fanstuff|fanstuff]].

In his debut email, there is a heavy metal song about Trogdor with a music video drawn in pencil. According to [[dragon#Commentary Transcript|dragon's commentary]], there originally wasn't supposed to be a song in the email, but after [[Matt Chapman]] started singing it off the top of his head while making eggs, The Brothers Chaps knew they had to put it in the email. The [[Strong Bad Sings and Other Type Hits]] contains an [[TROGDOR (song)|extended version]] of the song. The song is also [[Trogdor (karaoke)|featured]] in [[KaraokeFun]] on the [[strongbad_email.exe Disc Two|DVD]]. [[Homestar Runner]] is the singer and gets a score of 84 out of 100. In November 2006, the extended version of the Trogdor song made an appearance as a bonus song in the PlayStation 2 and Xbox 360 game [[Guitar Hero|Guitar Hero II]].

On March 17, 2003, the [[TROGDOR!]] game was released. In [[Arcade Game]], it is shown to be an [[Stand up arcade games|arcade]] game found in the [[Basement of the Brothers Strong]]. The player controls Trogdor, and the goal of the game is to squish enough peasants required to achieve burnination, while at the same time avoiding [[The Red and Blue Knights]] and the Siamese archers. The game was a fan favorite before the debut of the game [[Peasant's Quest]]. In Peasant's Quest, killing the Burninator is [[Rather Dashing]]'s goal after Trogdor burninates his thatched-roof cottage. In this game, Trogdor's voice is an old speech synthesizer called the [[Wikipedia:Software Automatic Mouth|Software Automatic Mouth]], or S.A.M.

A [[20X6]] version of Trogdor, called [[Trogador]], was revealed at the [[NYU Talk - 1 Mar 2005|NYU Talk]], but did not appear in the Homestar Runner canon until [[Happy Trogday]] was released on the third anniversary of Trogdor's debut. According to the email [[myths & legends]], at some point, the CG Dinosaur Channel created a special called "Walking With Trogdor". In the email [[concert]], Strong Bad receives an email purporting to be from "Your Dragon, Trogdor", which he considered to be an impersonation.

Three of Trogdor's birthdays have been celebrated on the website. In 2006, [[Happy Trogday]] commemorated his third birthday with a fanstuff montage. However, [[Trogday 08|two years later]], Strong Bad decided to sing both an entire alphabet song and (though only after Trogdor showed up in person and forced him to) a heavy metal song about [[The S is for Sucks Dragon]] instead. He claimed that Internet users had ruined Trogdor, along with zombies, pirates, ninjas and himself. In 2018, an HTML version of the [[TROGDOR!]] game was released.

Trogdor was also the main subject of the finale of [[Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People]], [[8-Bit is Enough]]. In it, the [[TROGDOR! arcade machine]] breaks and Trogdor is released into [[Free Country, USA]], and promptly burninates [[Strong Badia]]. Driven for revenge (much like [[Rather Dashing]] in [[Peasant's Quest]]), Strong Bad sets out to kill Trogdor by enlisting the help of various other [[Videlectrix]] characters. When Strong Bad finally confronts his foe, Trogdor morphs into [[ULTIMATE TROGDOR!!!]], but is still no match for [[Ultimate Strong Bad]].

Many years later, following a [[HRWiki:Hiatuses|hiatus]], the toon [[Fan Costumes 2016]] referenced the scene in which Trogdor was first drawn. In the scene, Strong Bad shows the audience how to draw a star, after seeing poorly drawn stars on Homestar costumes. This may have been the inspiration for the "[[Skills of an Artist]]" series, introduced on July 12, 2017. The series takes its title, music, and premise from the Trogdor-drawing scene. On September 29, 2017, Strong Bad began to tease a potential Trogdor [[board game]] on social media. On July 17, 2018, [[Trogdor!! The Board Game]] (an adaptation of the TROGDOR! game) was put on Kickstarter. The goal was $75,000, but it was surpassed in the first three hours. By the end of the campaign on August 15, $1,421,903 had been pledged by 23,338 backers. Later that year, [[The Cheat]] made a [[Trogdor Was Dragon Man|music video]] for a song from a '70s commercial of said board game, and I eat asshole, and asshole is my favorite snack of the YEAR baby

*'''Domicile:''' The [[Trog-Cave]]
*'''Debut:''' Email [[dragon]]
*[[:Category:Trogdor Filmography|Complete Filmography]]

== How to draw a dragon (according to Strong Bad) ==
#Draw an S.
#Draw a more different S.
#Close it up real good at the top for his head.
#Using consummate V's, give him teeth, spinities, and angry eyebrows.
#You can add smoke or fire.
#And maybe add some wings, you know, if he's a wing-a-ling dragon.
#Put one of those beefy arms back on him for good measure.
#Name him. (Strong Bad named him ''TROGDOR the BURNiNATOR'')
#Add majestic lines... for majesty.

=== Trivia ===

Contrary to popular belief, the scales on Trogdor's body are ''not'' consummate V's. As Strong Bad has explained multiple times on [[@StrongBadActual|Twitter]], the scales are "regimented U's" and are a side detail that he did not comment on during his first drawing of Trogdor (see Tweets from [[@StrongBadActual Tweets 2016#814176957856411649|28 Dec 2016]], [[@StrongBadActual Tweets 2018#951232322526949376|10 Jan 2018]], and [[@StrongBadActual Tweets 2019#1202968564963172358|6 Dec 2019]]).

== Trogdor's many incarnations ==
<gallery>
Image:sbemail58picture2a.PNG|<center>TROGDOR the BURN[[Lowercase i's|i]]NATOR</center>
Image:A man.PNG|<center>''Trogdor was a man!''</center>
Image:A dragonman.PNG|<center>''I mean, he was a dragon-man!''</center>
Image:A dragon.PNG|<center>''Er, maybe he was just a dragon.''</center>
Image:trogdorgame.png|<center>''But he was still'' '''[[TROGDOR!]]'''</center>
Image:Trogdor from the game.PNG|<center>Trogdor game sprite</center>
Image:Bowels of Trogdor.PNG|<center>[[Strong Bad's Mount RidesPlace! USA|Bowels of Trogdor]] from '''[[theme park]]'''</center>
Image:PQTrogdor.png|<center>From '''[[Peasant's Quest]]'''</center>
Image:Movie trailer trogdor.JPG|<center>From the '''[[Peasant's Quest Movie Trailer|movie trailer]]'''</center>
Image:Trogdor mario paint.jpg|<center>''[[Strong Bad is a Bad Guy|Trogdor is a bad, bad guy!]]''</center>
Image:Trogador.PNG|<center>'''[[Trogador]]'''</center>
Image:Topiary garden trogdor.PNG|<center>Trogdor bush in the '''[[Topiary Garden]]'''</center>
Image:Trogdorshadow.png|<center>'''Shadow puppet''' from '''[[theme song]]''' </center>
Image:Baby Trogdor (store).png|<center>'''Baby Trogdor''' from the [[Store]]</center>
Image:Minitrogdor.PNG|<center>From '''[[concert]]'''</center>
Image:Homestarrunner 1966 198755.jpeg|<center>'''Trogdor Poster''' from the [[Store]]</center>
Image:Trogor.png|<center>'''"Trogor"''' from [[Make-O Your Own Stinko]]</center>
Image:Trogdor Intro.png|<center>'''"5-dor"''' from an [[Index Page]]</center>
Image:Trogdor in window.png|<center>'''In real life?'''<br>from [[Trogday 08]]</center>
Image:HedgeTrogdor.png|<center>'''Hedge Trogdor'''<br>from [[Homestar Ruiner]]</center>
Image:SBCG4APBurninator.png|<center>'''3D Trogdor'''<br>from [[8-Bit is Enough]]</center>
Image:Ultimate Trogdor.PNG|<center>'''[[ULTIMATE TROGDOR!!!]]'''<br>from [[8-Bit is Enough]]</center>
Image:dragon_man.PNG|<center>'''[[Frishy Freshy Dragonman]]!'''<br>from [[imaginary]]</center>
Image:InstagramTrogbuildening.png|<center>'''The Trogbuildening'''<br>from [[@strongbadactual (Instagram)]]</center>
Image:meeples trogdor on.png|<center>'''Trogdor Game Piece'''<br>from [[Trogdor!! The Board Game]]</center>
Image:meeples trogdor off.png|<center>'''Trogdor Meeple'''<br>from Trogdor!! The Board Game</center>
Image:PBTCTrogdor.png|<center>'''Powered by The Cheat Trogdor'''<br>from [[Trogdor Was Dragon Man]]</center>
Image:PBTCTrogdorMan.png|<center>'''Powered by The Cheat Trogdor Man'''<br>from Trogdor Was Dragon Man</center>
Image:PBTCTrogdorDragonMan.png|<center>'''Powered by The Cheat Trogdor Dragon Man'''<br>from Trogdor Was Dragon Man</center>
Image:PBTCTrogdor2.png|<center>'''Powered by The Cheat Trogdor'''<br>from Trogdor Was Dragon Man</center>
</gallery>

== See Also ==
*[[Dragons]]

{{Peasant's Quest}}

[[Category:Trogdor|*]]
[[Category:Peasant's Quest Characters]]
[[Category:Strong Bad Email Spin-offs]]
[[Category:Trogdor!! The Board Game]]