I think if he never got wings though that’d clearly make him a different type of dragon then the ones we saw before though. Maybe they could of pulled something like the one Courage the Cowardly Dog episode that had a dragon that didn’t understand why it couldn’t fly, but it was actually because he was a Water dragon. But it’s not like Spike had any webbed parts of his body to indicate that or anything.

Also I’ll take this opportunity to post the sprite rotation I have of Spike now that he has wings.

Wings Out:

Wings Folded: