History Main / Pegasus

* ''Fanfic/{{Austraeoh}}'' obviously has the pegasus Rainbow Dash as the protagonist. What's notable, however, is that while the world is full of unicorns, earth ponies, and even more unusual races, Pegasi are extremely rare outside of Equestria. Most places Rainbow travels through are amazed at her wings, and in Verdestone she's immediately assumed to be the alicorn Queen Whitemane's daughter (despite looking nothing alike and Whitemane having no known daughter) simply because they both have wings.

* The famed [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_hussars Polish hussars]], also known as Winged Hussars, wore wood-framed wings on their backs. They couldn't fly, of course, and several theories have been proposed for why the wings were used. Some geeky sport scientists think that the wing was used to ''slow the horses down'' and keep them from [[HeroicRROD overexerting themselves on the first charge]], so the Hussars could be used for repeated charges. Others believe that as the Hussars charged en masse, their wings collectively buzzed in the wind, so they came down on their enemies with a [[HellIsThatNoise morale-shattering roar]].

* ''Anime/DoraemonNobitaAndTheBirthOfJapan'' have Nobita getting his hands on Doraemon's Original Life Set to create any pets he wants, so he creates a trio of mythological animals, one of the being [[ADogNamedDog a Pegasus named Pega]].

* ''Franchise/FireEmblem'' has the recurring Pegasus Knight class. Pegasi are known to not like letting men ride them, making the class and its promotions female only. The only exception to this comes in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'', with the reason given being that the pegasi living in Hoshido are a different breed to others.

* ''Anime/KingArthur'': King Arthur (yes, [[Myth/ArthurianLegend that one]]) rides a {{Pegasus}} that he was given to by Merlin.

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* ''WebOriginal/CodexInversus'': Pegasi are winged horses that fly thanks to a natural anti-gravity property in their bones. They descend from celestial horses that soared through Heaven before the Collapse. In the modern day, the Angelic Unison has spent a great deal of effort in maintaining careful breeding programs to prevent the pegasi's surviving bloodlines from being corrupted by the realities of earthly ecology like other heavenly animals were.

* In ''Literature/PegasusMcKinley'', there's an entire species of pegasi, who co-exist peacefully, though they can only communicate via specially trained Speaker magicians. Each member of the human royal family has a pegasus companion.

* In ''Anime/TheLittlePrinceAndTheEightHeadedDragon'', the young Susano uses a small flying horse sent to him by Amaterasu to battle Orochi, though it doesn't have any wings.

** ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'': The Pre-Crisis version of Terra-Man rode a winged, alien horse named Nova, which was officially called an Arguvian Space Steed.

* In ''[[Literature/McKinleyPegasus Pegasus]]'', by Creator/RobinMcKinley, there's an entire species of pegasi, who co-exist peacefully, though they can only communicate via specially-trained Speaker magicians. Each member of the human royal family has a pegasus companion.

* ''VisualNovel/{{Nightbound}}'': A premium scene with Nik in Chapter 13 has him say that not only do pegasi exist in the bayou, but he was hired to wrangle one. They have a much better disposition than unicorns do.
* ''VideoGame/{{Phelios}}'' is an arcade shooter where your titular character, rather than piloting a spaceship, instead rides a winged horse and fire energy blasts at enemies like dragons, harpies, and other airborne fantasy monsters.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'' character Blue Eyes, who appears in a few episodes as Smurfette's friend, is a pegasus allegedly voiced by an uncredited Creator/PattyMaloney.

* Website/SCPFoundation: [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-042 SCP-042]] is a pegasus that somehow lost his wings, and, because of that, [[DrivenToSuicide he is now suicidally depressed]] and tries to get Foundation personnel to [[TheWoobie put him out of his misery]].

* The crest of Valdemar in ''Literature/TheHeraldsOfValdemar'' is a rampant white pegasus trailing broken chains, which one character calls Windrider. Valdemar's best-known feature is its [[OurAngelsAreDifferent uncanny white horses called Companions]]. One in-universe song (since [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB5REAjzWwk made]] into [[FilkSong filk]] by the author) refers to Windrider as a winged Companion. All other Companions just look like beautiful white horses, so whether or not the wings are a metaphor is unknown.