History Main / GrowingWings

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* In [[Literature/RealmOfTheElderlings The Rain Wild Chronicles]] Thymara eventually develops wings, due to influence from her dragon. They are not strong enough to allow her to fly, however.

* In [[RealmOfTheElderlings The Rain Wild Chronicles]] Thymara eventually develops wings, due to influence from her dragon. They are not strong enough to allow her to fly, however.

* ''Fallen'', the 2006 miniseries starring Paul Wesley, involves various angelic and half-angelic characters sprout wings, with their size and color being marginally plot-relevant. This is particularly climactic for the protagonist, who does not know his is not human, or (once he learns the truth) whether he can claim his true nature.

* In the fantasy novel Black And Blue Magic set in the time of the Great Depression the young boy protagonist is gifted a bottle from a mysterious man who for a short while rents a room from his mother (and is implied to both be of fantastic age and his large bag to contain many magical items from ancient stories including Aladdin's Lamp), by rubbing a drop of the pearlescent liquid inside on each of his shoulderblades and reciting a magical chant he grows large wings that remain until he recites the counter-spell (which he's genre savvy enough to commit to heart).

* In the climax of ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureBattleTendency'', [[BigBad Kars]], having just become the ultimate life-form, gains VoluntaryShapeshifting, which he uses to grow wings and fly after Joseph's plane.

* In ''VideoGame/Darksiders'', War obtains demon wings after completing a quest for one of the hellish archlords stranded on earth. Although these don't give flight, they will allow War to float to new areas and jump higher.

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* In ''Anime/CardCaptorSakura'', Sakura gains wings when she uses the Fly card in the second season. In the first, her staff sprouted the wings and she rode it like a witch's broom. There's also Yue and Ruby Moon who have wings in their true forms but not their false ones.

* Beret Guy in Webcomic/{{XKCD}} has "endless wings", as seen in 1099.

In case of a person or animal, the character could also go through {{Metamorphosis}}. They can [[JustWokeUpThatWay wake up one morning]] to discover tiny wings on their back, which [[SlowTransformation grow over time]] until they are functional. The initial sprouts can be ridges, feathery tufts, or tiny, articulated wings. The more realistic the story is, the more slow and painful the change will be. If the transformation and large flight muscles also develop, it can be a mild case of BodyHorror.

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* In ''Anime/CardCaptorSakura'' the titular Sakura gains wings when she uses the Fly card in the second season. In the first, her staff sprouted the wings and she rode it like a witch's broom. There's also Yue and Ruby Moon who have wings in their true forms but not their false ones.

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* The ''[[Comicbook/{{Flight}} Flight]]'' Volume 1 short comic "I wish..." by Vera Brosgol is about a teenage girl that grows angel wings one day. It's mostly her talking with a friend about growing up wishing she could fly.

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* In ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'', Angel is shown to have something growing out of his back as a child. Fast forward ten years: he has wings.

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* In ''[[Webcomic/DanandMabsFurryAdventures DFMA]]'', the Cubi race grows a second pair of wings on their head in addition to the pair on their back when they come into power.

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* At the end of ''WesternAnimation/{{Thumbelina|1994}}'' the titular heroine sprouts a pair of fairy wings when she marries fairy prince Cornelius.

* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' Twilight Sparkle gains wings, becoming [[WingedUnicorn an alicorn]], when she manages to finish an incomplete spell created by Starswirl the Bearded in the season three finale "Magical Mystery Cure". Supplementary info suggests the opposite happened to [[spoiler:Cadence]]: she already had wings, and gained a unicorn horn instead.

* At the end of ''WesternAnimation/{{Thumbelina}}'' the titular heroine sprouts a pair of fairy wings when she marries fairy prince Cornelius.

* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' Twilight Sparkle gains wings when she creates new magic. Supplementary info suggests the opposite happened to [[spoiler:Cadence]]: she already had wings, and gained a unicorn horn instead.
** During season 08, Spike the dragon gains his wings (and a massive strength boost) after completing a specially uncomfortable metamorphosis proccess that all young dragons must pass through.

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* People often sprout wings in Red Bull commercials.

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* An interesting variation occurs in the novel ''Mail-Order Wings'' by Beatrice Gormley. The protagonist Andrea builds a set of artificial wings from a kit and drinks a potion that causes them to gradually become real. Unfortunately for her, the potion also causes her to slowly metamorphose into a bird.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' Twilight Sparkle gains wings when she creates new magic. Supplementary info suggests the opposite happened to [[spoiler:Cadence]]: she already had wings, and gained a unicorn horn instead.

* At the end of ''WesternAnimation/{{Thumbelina}}'' the titular heroine sprouts a pair of fairy wings when she marries fairy prince Cornelius.

* At the end of ''WesternAnimation/{{Thumbelina}}'' the titular heroine sprouts a pair of fairy wings when she marries fairy prince Cornelius.
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* Avians are people who attempted this trope and succeeded. They can fly, but keep their wings hidden a lot,
This is to keep them safe from [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheGovernment AWTOK.]]

* In the final episodes of ''Anime/EurekaSeven'', [[spoiler: Eureka is distressed when she undergoes a mysterious transformation that includes the sprouting of bright green butterfly wings.]]

** [[spoiler: Madoka sprouts a pair upon her ascension as a goddess]].
** [[spoiler: Homura grows wings in ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagicaTheMovieRebellion''.]]

* Avians are people who attempted this trope and succeeded. They can fly, but keep their wings hidden a lot.
This is to keep them safe from AWTOK.

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* Ascending to Daevahood in ''{{Aion}}'' lets a player character summon a pair of wings at will.