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3	The wings on a WingedHumanoid come in many shapes and sizes to give the audience an idea of what kind of character they are. But just as importantly as what kind of wings they have, or how many they have, is where the wings are on the character's body.
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5	If your character is female and you wanna emphasize her femininity, or he's a guy and you wanna show that he's InTouchWithHisFeminineSide, why not have the wings extend from the waist instead of the shoulders? Such wing placement would help to draw attention to the [[HartmanHips hips]]. When the wings fold around the character's body, they resemble a ShowgirlSkirt. While it's not the most practical wing placement realistically, such a design can give a character an air of [[RuleOfGlamorous elegance]] and/or [[RuleOfSexy sensuality]].
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7	Real-life vertebrates' wings (birds, bats, and pterosaurs) are evolved from arms, and thus are attached to their shoulders. If your character is a VertebrateWithExtraLimbs, this reason is no longer applicable and the wings could be anywhere. Biomechanically, they'd probably have to evolve a second set of shoulder-like bones wherever the wings are, for the muscles to attach to, but this is usually {{handwave}}d.
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9	See also MercurysWings for when a character's wings extend from their head or their feet.
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17	* In the ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'' series, Reinforce Eins, the master control program of the Book of Darkness, is depicted with multiple pairs of wings in official artwork. She has two smaller ones on each side of her head and four larger ones located around her waist.
18	* ''Manga/MusukoGaKawaikuteShikataganaiMazokuNoHahaoya'': Wings at the waistline are a common trait of the majority of demons in the series. The types of wings can vary, as Lorem's wings are feathery while her son Gospel has scaly, dragon-like wings. The wings are also functional, enabling flight for the demons that have them.
19	* Jibril, a [[OurAngelsAreDifferent flügel]] from ''Literature/NoGameNoLife'', has glowing white, feathered wings, befitting of her angelic appearance, extending from her hips.
20	* Albedo from ''Literature/Overlord2012'' has black, feathered wings extending from her lower back, complete with panels cut in her dress to accommodate for them.
21	* When Usagi Tsukino, a.k.a. ''Franchise/SailorMoon'', goes into her "eternal" form, her sailor suit gains four angelic wings extending from her lower back where her skirt bow normally is.
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25	* ''Series/MahouSentaiMagiranger''[=/=]''Series/PowerRangersMysticForce'': Vancuria/Necrolai has a set of wings connected to her hips, which fold up into a faux-skirt when not in use.
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29	* Some depictions/descriptions of the ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinnara kinnari]]'', mythical half-human, half-bird creatures of Buddhist lore and spread in Southeast Asia, have the upper part be that of a human woman and the lower part like that of a bird, that is, wings below the waist, and bird legs.
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33	* When Bayonetta does her [[FusionDance Demon Masquerade]] with [[BatOutOfHell Mictlante]][[ShockAndAwe cuhtli]] in ''VideoGame/Bayonetta3'', the gun-slinging witch becomes a succubus-like creature split at the waist with one pair of bat-like wings [[MercurysWings extending from her head]] and a second pair following this trope.
34	* Morrigan and Lilith of ''VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}}'' fame are examples of PlayingWith this trope. While their wings technically extend somewhere from their lower shoulder blade when they're drawn from the back, they're shown with their wings framed at their waist so often that it can't be a coincidence, especially considering their MsFanservice status. That is, they're ''deliberately'' drawn in a manner to hide the first digit to evoke this trope: drawing attention to their figures.
35	* ''VideoGame/Disgaea5'': The Sage class of demons has a pair of wings that extend from below their waists, coming to rest around their hips. This can be more easily seen when using their "Land Decimator" skill, as their wings extend outward during the skill.
36	* Brynn from ''VideoGame/{{Dislyte}}'', whose Esper powers borrow from the Valkyrie. To her chagrin, those wings can be pretty annoying to her because they get in the way when she tries to sleep on her bed.
37	* Of the many pairs of wings the [[BirdPeople Garuda]] sports ([[HairWings including a pair on her head]]) in both the [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV 14th]] and [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXVI 16th]] installments of ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'', at least one pair on each incarnation is an example of this trope.
38	** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'', [[OneWingedAngel Safer]] [[BigBad Sephiroth]] is a rare male example of this trope, having a grand total of seven wings coming off of his body. One of them has replaced Sephiroth's right arm, but six of them take this trope to a logical extreme, forming an apparatus of some kind replacing Sephiroth's lower body from the hips down.
39	** ''VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasyNT'': Safer Sephiroth appears as an alternative costume for Sephiroth, but he retains his legs unlike his original design with a pair of wings forming a hakama.
40	** Along with his signature [[OneWingedAngel one]] [[TropeNamer wing]], Sephiroth even sports a second pair of feathered wings from under his jacket during his appearance in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII''.
41	* ''VideoGame/GrimmsNotes'': A few characters have these, but [[WingsDoNothing no one is capable of flight]].
42	** Chaos Marie sports a pair of small wings on her lower back that go well with her fancy PimpedOutDress.
43	** Hahn too, which is justified because [[DudeLooksLikeALady he]] is [[LittleBitBeastly half-human, half-rooster]].
44	* One of the skins for Symmetra given out during ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'''s Halloween events, the [[DraconicHumanoid Dragon]] skin, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin turns her into a dragon woman]] with wings that this trope applies to folded around her hips, resembling a ShowgirlSkirt.
45	* ''VideoGame/Persona5'': Main protagonist Joker's signature Persona, Arsène, has massive black feathery wings that sprout from the small of his back.
46	* ''VideoGame/TrillionGodOfDestruction'': Ashmedia, Overlord of Lust, has a pair of wings emerging from the small of her back, though most scenes obscure these with both her preferred CG stance and her weaponry hovering nearby. Oddly, they disappear in her Hot Springs CG.
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50	* Ina'nis Ninomae, a VTuber from ''WebAnimation/{{Hololive}}'', has small, vestigial wings that wrap around her hips. Though they're easily missed compared to all her tentacles.
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54	* ''Webcomic/DanAndMabsFurryAdventures'': Most winged creatures have wings sprouting from their shoulders, SuccubiAndIncubi grow [[MercurysWings a second smaller pair on their heads]] at maturity, and a rare few 'cubi grow a third pair of wings on their hips. These "tri-wings" are quasi-immortal and usually found new clans.
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58	* ''WesternAnimation/TheDragonPrince'': Fewer than 1 in 10 Skywing Elves are born with wings, which extend from their lower back. Downplayed, since, due to both male and female elves having the potential to have wings, this doesn't appear connected to sensuality.
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