Line #89 Main/PeacockGirl


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11	[[quoteright:350:[[WesternAnimation/SheRaPrincessOfPower https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/peekablue_n_4651.jpg]]]]
12	[[caption-width-right:350:She's not asking anyone out. [[RuleOfGlamorous It's just to look pretty.]]]]
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14	When a humanoid person has a peacock tail or is wearing a bunch of feathers arranged as though it was a peacock tail (which is actually a separate group of feathers known as a "train").
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16	This is common on girls in fiction, [[AnimalGenderBender despite the peacock flared train being a feature of male peafowl]] in RealLife[[note]]females, called peahens, can flare out their tail feathers, but it's not for mating, and it's nowhere nearly as grand as the males. In some cases, peahens may stop laying eggs and develop male plumage, but this is fairly uncommon.[[/note]], but such a thing on a human guy isn't entirely unheard of. This may sometimes make a guy appear like TheDandy, CampGay, or CampStraight, but not always.
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18	'''Note these do not require the feathers to be peacock feathers, only that they be arranged in a fantail. Futhermore simply wearing peacock feathers is not an example, as that's Administrivia/TheSameButMoreSpecific of FluffyFashionFeathers.'''
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20	A SubTrope of either LittleBitBeastly or FluffyFashionFeathers (depending on whether this character actually has a tail or is just wearing one).
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22	Compare WingedHumanoid.
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24	Not to be confused with women who work for Creator/{{NBC}}, or with AgentPeacock.
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26	!!Examples:
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30	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
31	%%* The peacock outfits from {{Bizenghast}}.
32	* ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'' has Kada who wears a peacock-themed outfit and is known as the Peacock Princess.
33	* The old Cyberpunk manga ''Manga/GokuMidnightEye'' has a female assassin who prefers FullFrontalAssault and has a cybernetic peacock tail with deadly hypno-eyes, who almost kills the protagonist via them, forcing him to [[EyeScream put out his own left eye]] in order to survive the encounter.
34	* The Zuka club in ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'' has a set of outfits with feather tails, as a ShoutOut to Creator/TakarazukaRevue.
35	* In ''Anime/SummerWars,'' a PowerUp gives Natsuki's Oz avatar (which basically looks like her) [[PowerGivesYouWings angel wings]] and a peacock tail while battling [[AIIsACrapshoot Love Machine]].
36	* In an OVA for ''VideoGame/SakuraWars'', the girls get into a fight while wearing costumes that have feathers arranged this way. It creates a comedic contrast to see them dressed this grandly while arguing, and even resorting to attacking each other with their powers.
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39	[[folder:Comic Books]]
40	* ''ComicBook/TheLegendOfWonderWoman2016'': Pamela Smuthers' most notable GlamorousWartimeSinger dress is designed to bring a male peacock's fanned feathers in mind.
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43	[[folder:Film -- Animation]]
44	* Ro's PimpedOutDress in ''WesternAnimation/BarbieAsTheIslandPrincess'' includes a peacock tail, that is made of tail feathers given to her by her peacock friend (which [[RuleOfGlamorous somehow]] change from green to {{pink\| means feminine}}).
45	* In ''WesternAnimation/DisneyPrincessEnchantedTalesFollowYourDreams'', Jasmine is briefly dressed up in a peacock getup for a portrait. It has a flared collar like a tail, though a train that isn't flared. She sheds it for the song "Not a Peacock Princess".
46	* [[BigBad Coco LaBouche's]] wedding dress at the end of ''WesternAnimation/RugratsInParis'' has a tail on the back.
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50	%%* A Peacock Boy appears in ''Coldheart Canyon'', and has a very squicky origin. [[spoiler: He's a cross between a live peacock and a female human ''ghost''.]]
51	* A woman in Creator/JohnPatrickLowrie's sci-fi novel ''Literature/DancingWithEternity'' is one of these. She's been augmented so the peacock tattoos on her arms fan into a feathery peacock tail.
52	* Kong Xuan from ''Literature/FengshenYanyi'' appears to be a human with a golden aura and a fan of five colored ligh beams fanning out of his back and his real form is that of the red-crested divine peacock who eventually becomes Buddha's mount. He's very arrogant and cocky and in certain versions he actually has a phantom golden peacock tail fanning behind his back (and at least in one TV adaptation, can poke a peacock's head out of his forehead).
53	* The end of ''Literature/ImogenesAntlers'' has the titular girl wake up without the antlers she mysteriously grew, only to grow a peacock's tail.
54	* An entire kingdom of Peacock People (both men and women) appears in [[Creator/MadameDAulnoy Madame d'Aulnoy]]'s FairyTale ''[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/aulnoy/1892/princessrosette.html Princess Rosette]]''. The kingdom's ruler, the aptly-named King of the Peacocks, wears a peacock train as a crown.
55	* In ''Literature/MythicMisadventures'', Pandora's younger brother has a peacock tail because her mother annoyed Hera.
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60	* In ''Series/GoseiSentaiDairanger'', Kujaku, the incarnation of the Peacock Buddha wears an appropriately peacock-esque outfit complete with a feathered headdress and tail.
61	* In ''Series/KamenRiderOOO'', the title character's red Body Medal is the Peafowl, which generates an aura resembling the classic peacock feathers - except OOO can [[MacrossMissileMassacre fire the "eyes" at enemies]].
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65	* Icelandic singer Music/{{Bjork}} is known for wearing many bird-themed dresses. She once wore a sparkly peacock dress during one of her shows.
66	* One or two shots in the video for "Leaving Las Vegas" by Music/SherylCrow has some showgirls with huge fan tails.
67	* Music/MileyCyrus wore a corset-dress with a giant peacock tail in her video "Can't Be Tamed".
68	* Music/KatyPerry wears a showgirl outfit with the tail made of pink feathers in "What Happens in Vegas".
69	** And for "Peacock", she wears [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Katyperry-cdt-peacock-edit.jpg a blue leotard complete with tail]].
70	* Music/{{Sugababes}}' ''Shape'' music video: one of the guests at the masquerade has a peacock-themed costume and flares the train at the girl. Mutya is not very impressed.
71	* The cover of Music/{{Goldfrapp}}'s ''Supernature'' album is cropped from a picture of Alison Goldfrapp [[http://farm1.static.flickr.com/17/92960608_ecd2fd98ac.jpg wearing a peacock tail]], although it's not flared.
72	* Music/WeirdAlYankovic dresses as a peacock briefly in his "Perform This Way" video, and wears said costume in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GUm0WFhwN0 live performances]].
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76	* In Greek myth, the peacock was sacred to Hera, Queen of the Gods who was sometimes shown wearing a peacock tail. According to myth, the blue eye spots on the peacock's feathers were Hera's way of honoring Argus, a hundred-eyed guard who died defending her golden apple tree.
77	* Mahāmayūrī‐vidyārājñī ("great peacock wisdom queen") is a female deity in Buddhist mythology who is always depicted sitting atop a golden peacock with its feather train fanned out behind her.
78	* The Demon Adramelech is depicted as a humanoid figure with a mule's head and a flared peacock trail on the back. He's based on an ancient Middle Eastern solar deity, which explains the radiant motif.
79	* The Dai people of China and Southeast Asia have the tale of ''Peacock Princess''. Like the European [[Literature/TheSwanMaiden Swan Maiden]], she can alternate between human and bird form. A human prince named Chao Shutun (or Zhaoshutun) marries her, but when the couple is betrayed by an evil wizard, the Peacock Princess has to fly back to her kingdom, which prompts the prince's quest to find her.
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83	* In ''TabletopGame/VampireTheRequiem'' supplement ''Shadows Of Mexico'' the clan splat portrait for [[VampiresAreSexGods the Daeva]] is wearing a designer outfit with a peacock feather train on her back.
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87	* ''Amaluna'' plays with this, featuring the Peacock Goddess and female backup dancers with smaller, more mobile peacock trains, but only the males have the full-size erectable trains.
88	* ''Creator/TakarazukaRevue'' shows love this. In revues and during finales, many numbers have just about everyone with a peacock tail on their costumes. It doesn't matter if it's a {{Bifauxnen}} in a suit or a lady in a PimpedOutDress. That being said, traditionally top stars - the leading otokoyaku (male role player) - tend to be the only one to wear "finale feathers" when the cast descends the Grand Staircase at the very end of the show.
89	* In RealLife, there is a showgirl accessory like this called a "fan tail", which is common in stage shows with showgirls.
90	* Some stage dancers, including burlesque, will put a pair of large feather fans behind their backs, which makes a tail, and also evokes the CoyGirlishFlirtPose (although without the coy part).
91	%% * Vaudeville and cabaret dancer outfits from the 30s and 40s sometimes had this instead of a traditional skirt. This was considered incredibly scandalous at the time (or rather, butts were considered scandalous: partly due to the anal sex taboo). sometimes they were actual peacock feathers.
92	%% * Skating and ballet outfits often have this, the ballet ones tend to be more outrageous since aerodynamics is more of a consideration for skaters. Though the two types of outfits are frequently enough completely interchangeable. Some ballets feature birds as characters or characters that become birds, or whatever: so you're likely to see this in Swan Lake, The Firebird, etc. Though many people consider it better if the costumer takes things a bit less literally, because the look is not seen as particularly tasteful.
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96	* ''Toys/FairyTails'' has the Fan Tails series. The Fan Tails each have a fan sitting atop their regular tail that can be opened and closed as if it's a peacock's tail. And of course, the Fan Tails are all girls.
97	* ''Toys/MonsterHigh'' has a range of "Inner Monster" dolls, who can be customized [[BodyHorror inside and out]] based on one of a few emotions they could be feeling. One of the four dolls, Spooky Sweet/Frightfully Fierce, is wearing a fantail in her Spooky Sweet mode.
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100	[[folder:Video Games]]
101	* In ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'', there's a snooty ostrich villager named Julia who resembles a peacock.
102	* In ''VideoGame/BatenKaitosEternalWingsAndTheLostOcean'' Savyna's Wings of the Heart (summoned at will wings that most people in the setting have) for some reason also have a [[https://batenkaitos.fandom.com/wiki/File:Savyna-art.jpg peacock-like tail]] as their part. She uses feathers from this tail for her first finisher, [[FeatherFlechettes Burning Arrow]].
103	* ''VideoGame/MySims'' has the character Ms Nicole, a fashion boutique owner who wears a rather large hair accessory resembling a peacock tail.
104	* ''VideoGame/NamuAmidaButsuUtena'': King Konjikikujaku, being the GenderFlip of Mahāmayūrī above, wears a tailcoat with a very long frilly tail which resembles a closed peacock train, decorated with plenty of FluffyFashionFeathers.
105	* One of the characters in ''VideoGame/RolyPolysNoNanakorobiYaoki'' is a peahen (female peacock) dancer named Las Vegas Akiko who has a peacock tail. Her profile acknowledges that [[AnimalGenderBender real peahens don't have a train]] and justifies it by having it be a wig that she only wears while dancing.
106	* One of the shows in ''VideoGame/SakuraWars'' had outfits with yellow feathers arraigned as tails.
107	* ''VideoGame/{{Skullgirls}}'' has Peacock, a cyborg girl whose cybernetic arms each have three eyes on them that resemble the tail feathers of the bird, and one of her attacks has her hat turn into a peacock head while an array of eyes line up behind her, fanning out and looking even more like a peacock's tail. Interestingly, besides wearing a dress, she's one of the least feminine of the female characters in the game.
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111	* ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'': [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]] in the character of Peacock, an Avatar bound to a peacock spirit, and can manifest a brilliant peacock tail that mesmerizes people. Unfortunately for her, she's now a partial GenderBender, so she's in Poe Cottage with the other changelings. Lina is not at all happy with being intersexed now, and her family hasn't taken it well either.
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115	%%* One of the disco dancers during ''Galaxy Goof-Ups''' {{Disney Acid Sequence}}s.
116	* ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'': The [[AnimalThemedSuperbeing Peacock]] [[TransformationTrinket Miraculous]] obviously will make any female bearer into one of these when transformed, though its kwami, Duusu, is male. The current bearer, [[https://i.pinimg.com/736x/44/5e/fb/445efb1b047e75fdf20124abc8a3411f.jpg Mayura]], has a nice BadassLongcoat with a peacock-like train. [[spoiler:She's Adrien's father's assistant, Nathalie. Adrian's MissingMom Emilie also used the Peacock Miraculous, though it's unknown what she looked like transformed.]]
117	* Peek-A-Blue from ''WesternAnimation/SheRaPrincessOfPower'' has a tail, and the [[EyesDoNotBelongThere eye-like spots]] on her tail have [[{{Seers}} vision powers]].
118	** Averted in [[WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower the reboot]], where Peekablue is [[GenderFlip a guy]]. [[spoiler:We never actually see him, but Double Trouble impersonates him in one episode; if their portrayal is accurate, he's a {{Bishonen}}.]]
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