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->''"Where the hell do Safer Sephiroth's wings come from in VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII's final battle? Jenova? Lifestream? JRPG villain garage sale?"''
--> -- ''[[http://socksmakepeoplesexy.net/index.php?a=ff07 The Rise and Fall of Final Fantasy]]''

If an [[RidiculouslyHumanRobot android]], HumongousMecha, PoweredArmor, {{Mon|s}}, MagicKnight, MagicalGirl, or basically any super powered individual [[AmplifierArtifact gets a power up]], or starts out ''really'' powerful and [[PowerMakeover wants it to show]], they will have {{wing|edHumanoid}}s.

Specifically, feathery white angelic wings, [[OneWingedAngel even for villains!]] (Though they might only have [[FashionableAsymmetry the one]].) Wings made of HardLight or PureEnergy are also popular; expect them to be ColorCodedForYourConvenience. These wings will of course allow the character to {{fl|ight}}y, [[PowerFloats float]], and [[PowerGlows glow]], all [[StationaryWings without needing to flap them]]! If the cast already has a character with a pair and he's been [[MyKungFuIsStrongerThanYours surpassed]], the surpasser will have ''two'' pairs of wings. To differentiate what sort of wings your newly-powered-up character has gained, see GoodWingsEvilWings.

Often paired with a HolyHalo, just for the imagery, which you can [[ImageLinks/PowerGivesYouWings enjoy here!]]

The title is a play on the Creator/RedBull slogan "Red Bull Gives you Wings!" A SubTrope of GrowingWings.

''[[TropeCo/PowerGivesYouWings This item]] is available in the TropeCo/TropeCo catalog.''

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!!Example subpages:
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* PowerGivesYouWings/AnimeAndManga
* PowerGivesYouWings/VideoGames
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!!Other examples:

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[[folder:Advertising]]
* The TropeNamer is the famous ad campaign for Red Bull; "Red Bull gives you wiiiiiings!" Notably, in 2014, Red Bull [[https://www.businessinsider.com/red-bull-settles-false-advertising-lawsuit-for-13-million-2014-10 lost a lawsuit for false advertising because the drink didn't give you wings, literally or figuratively.]] Now they advertise that it gives you ''"wiiings"'', with three I's, [[LoopholeAbuse because you can prove it gives you wings, but not that it gives you "wiiings".]]
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* In ''ComicBook/{{Empowered}}'', Emp's DieOrFly-instigated uber-power-boost is accompanied by the appearance of temporary Energy Wings.
* ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'':
** Peter David's series had the heroine become an "Earth Born Angel" with Flaming Wings. However, she already had the ability to fly.
** ''ComicBook/SupergirlCosmicAdventuresInThe8thGrade'': During the GrandFinale, the titular heroine grows flaming wings after absorbing huge quantities of cosmic energy.
* In ''ComicBook/{{WITCH}}'' the wings of the Guardians are originally this, as (differently from the animated series) they can't actually fly (and admit they have no idea why they have them when [[LampshadeHanging Orube asks them why they have wings]]). Later the New Power MidSeasonUpgrade gives them working wings.
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[[folder:Fan Works]]
* ''Fanfic/AlternateTailSeries'': With Holy Scriopture Magic, Levy Mcgarden can create blue wings made from runes.
* ''Fanfic/TheBridge'' has an example with Monster X that is straight up BodyHorror. When changing into [[SplitPersonality Kaizer]] [[SuperPoweredEvilSide Ghidorah]], he grows a set of wings. Unlike the norm for the trope, the wings are entirely physical and have to burst out of his back first. A tamer example, ironically appearing alongside Monster X, would be Ultrawoman Corona's fully charged state having jets of light shoot out of her back resembling angelic wings.
* ''Chained Wings'': The premise of the story is that when [[VideoGame/Persona5 Akira awakens to Arsène]], Arsène also gives him wings like his. They're fully functional but are InvisibleToNormals.
* ''Fanfic/ChildrenOfAnElderGod'': As the main characters fight and kill {{Eldritch Abomination}}s, their bodies evolve and gain new powers. One of those powers is the ability to grow or form wings. Asuka's long flaming wings.
* ''[[Fanfic/CONSEQUENCESMiraculousLadybug CUTTING THE STRINGS]]'': When using the Ladybug Miraculous, Max Kanté as Bug-A-Boy can use wings since he needed them to fight Lila. After he and Kim defeated Lila and gave the Miraculouses back to their respective Kwami, Ladybug figures out how to add the same power.
* ''Fanfic/EquestriaGirlsFriendshipSouls'': True to its [[Manga/{{Bleach}} source]] [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls materials]], wings are pretty common sign of power:
** Rainbow Dash is the absolute Queen of this trope. With every power-up gaining on power, speed and number of wings. First, she had her regular [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsFriendshipGames blue wings]]. After that, they evolved into a pair of white, razor-sharp wings with rainbow colors along the fringes and crackling [[ShockAndAwe electric energy]]. In her evolved Fullbring, he'd six wings; two still made out of metal but bigger and four seemingly forged from solidified electricity. Finally, her Completed Fullbring gained a full meter of wingspan and transmuted into jets of solid light, while the electric wings turned, long, elegant and solid blades of metal, [[spoiler: not unlike her mother's]]. Firefly could only stare in awe upon seeing them.
** [[ZigZaggingTrope Played with]] Fluttershy. She still has her pegasus wings but, unlike Rainbow, they don't change and simply drown in the number of extra limbs.
** [[spoiler:Firefly]] has her powered armor with a series of blade-like energy wings and boots with smaller fin-like wings.
** Sunset's bankai gives her twin wings of phoenix flame, flowing with power and heat which can be used as jets to increase speed. Sunset compares the level of power to the [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls1 two]] [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsFriendshipGames previous]] moments in her life when she had wings.
** Guto's Ressurection takes a form that brings to mind an Aztec warrior with clothes decorated with feathers and the head of an eagle yet [[ZigZaggingTrope instead of wings]] he has jet turbines made out of bones.
** Every Quincy gets wings in the [[SuperMode Vollständig]] state but, they are all shaped in different kinds. To describe a few, there is a Sterrniter with five wings looking like heater shields floating around his back, one with a pair of glowing butterfly wings, one with circles made of fire that (the narration even mentions ancient texts describing angelic beings), one with two large, thin tendrils that were spawning even more tendrils, and one with wings made of clockwork. There are no set standards. There are as many types, as there are Sterrniters.
* ''Fanfic/EverythingTurnsToGold'': At the end of Chapter 26, after taking up the mantle of [[spoiler:Aeor's Champion]], [[spoiler:Jimmy]] gains a pair of [[HotWings fiery golden wings "of pure energy"]].
* ''Fanfic/OffTheLine'': In Terra Online high-leveled players can equip wings as that will allow them {{Flight}}. Even winged races like Gria, can only glide compared to the true flight of equipped wings. They also serve as decorative status symbols.
* ''Fanfic/ThousandShinji'': When [[spoiler:Asuka fights the [[{{Robeast}} MP-Evas]], she and her giant robot go berserker, and [[spoiler:Unit-02]] grows huge, black bat wings.
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[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls'':
** In [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls1 the first film]], Twilight Sparkle, along with the human versions of Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy gain wings when "ponied up" using the Element of Magic. The same goes for [[BigBad Sunset Shimmer]], who gets [[GoodWingsEvilWings evil-looking bat wings]] as part of the full OneWingedAngel package.
** ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsRainbowRocks Rainbow Rocks]]'': Rainbow Dash, Twilight Sparkle and Fluttershy get their wings -- and once they get enough power, the villainous Dazzlings get wings that look like fins, evoking their true siren forms. The novelization for the movie also gives the redeemed Sunset Shimmer wings, but this doesn't happen in the film proper. And in the Encore Shorts, Sunset Shimmer gets a pair of symbolic HotWings as she finishes singing ''My Past Is Not Today''. WordOfGod is that it's a metaphor, not an actual power; her "regular" powered form later in the series does not feature wings.
** Also features in the third film, ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsFriendshipGames Friendship Games]]''. Once [[spoiler: Human Twilight Sparkle unleashes the magic]] and goes OneWingedAngel, she gets very large, black feather wings that look like those of a bird of prey. Sunset Shimmer gets a set of wings made of light as part of her GoldenSuperMode.
** Later installments in the series show human Twilight also acquires wings in her powered forms[[spoiler:, despite the fact that her pony form seen in ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsSpringBreakdown Spring Breakdown]]'' is a wingless unicorn, rather than an alicorn like her Equestrian counterpart]].
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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* In ''Literature/FiveChildrenAndIt'', the children find a sand fairy (the title character) who grants them wishes. One of them is for wings. The wish is granted, the wings appear on their backs, much to the amazement of the children. They try the wings out and they work, [[TheJoyOfFirstFlight much to the delight of the kids]].
* It's probably redundant, given who the titular hero is, but in the climax of ''Film/UltramanXTheMovieHereComesOurUltraman'', Series/UltramanX -- upon absorbing Series/{{Ultraman}}'s and Series/UltramanTiga's powers, grows elegant, gold-coloured dragonfly-like wings, which multiplies his power to a whole new level. His wings can even sprout from Tokyo to five other cities currently being attacked by kaiju -- Shanghai, Geneva, Cairo, Bueno Aries and Dallas -- and empower the Ultramen over there, giving them enough power boost to destroy the monsters.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* In ''Literature/AccelWorld'', [[spoiler:Haruyuki's Avatar Silver Crow is the first Flying Avatar in the Accel World. His "basic" moves -- punch and kick -- are actually special moves -- ''flying punch'' and ''flying kick''.]]
* ''Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex'' provides a clear example of people who has started to reach the capability to understand the path of Heaven and God's will.
** [[SuperpowerLottery Accelerator]] does it during the climax of his fight against Kihara Amata grows [[GoodWingsEvilWings Black Wings]] coupled with UnstoppableRage, later being called ''[[PhysicalGod The One Who Wields the Power of God]]''. [[spoiler:They eventually become ''white'' wings where he also maintains his sanity after coming to a [[CharacterDevelopment personal realization]]]]. This is due to the fact that as the #1 Esper, he has the greatest potential of reaching the theoretical Level 6, [[spoiler:where an esper ascends to the level of an angel]].
** [[SuperpowerLottery Kakine Teitoku]], the second strongest esper, has not two but three sets of wings making him to look as a seraph being called: ''[[OurDarkMatterIsMysterious The One Who Has Touched the Territory of God]]''. [[spoiler:He's the only other Esper aside from Accelerator who can reach Level 6 naturally]].
** [[DimensionLord Aiwass]] also has Golden Wings hidden by his/her/its very long hair. [[spoiler:In the ''New Testament'', Accelerator is implied to achieve wings of this level during his ascension.]]
** [[TheOmniscient Index]] also grows ''Red Wings'' when she activates [[SuperMode John Penn Mode]], which is probably due to she is technically a God of Magic.
** [[ShockAndAwe Mikoto Misaka]], the third strongest esper, can form these out of electricity and water vapor to fly in the air if she has enough. [[spoiler:Unlike Accelerator and Kakine, however, her Level 6 form doesn't have wings, though this might be due to the fact it was both incomplete and artificially-induced unlike theirs]].
* In ''Literature/DoraWilkSeries'', Joshua and Miron gain ability to manifest wings as a result of [[spoiler:their Triumvirate bond forming]], increasing their power threefold.
* Somewhat spoofed in [[http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i165/dragonlance_never/Doujinshi/dl_pg19.jpg this]] ''Literature/{{Dragonlance}}'' doujinshi comic.
* In Creator/NeilGaiman and Creator/TerryPratchett's ''Literature/GoodOmens'' when [[spoiler: Crowley and Aziraphale take the side of the Antichrist in preventing The Apocalypse, they decide it's pointless hiding their wings anymore. In a subversion of the [[GoodWingsEvilWings devil wings]] trope, Crowley also has feathered wings; after all, he may be Fallen, but he's still an Angel.]]
* In ''Literature/ShakuganNoShana'', Shana sprouts HotWings during her second fight against Margery Daw.
* In the TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering ''Literature/WarOfTheSparkRavnica'' novels, Feather gets an interesting inversion. As punishment for an unmentioned crime, she had her wings bound and was demoted. When Kos removes the bindings, not only does she become able to fly, she also dramatically increases in power and her personality becomes more aggressive.
* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'':
** In the novel ''[[Literature/BloodAngels Deus Encarmine'' and ''Deus Sanguinius'']], Arkio grows wings -- although in this case, it also makes him look like their primarch reborn, as Sanguinius had wings. [[spoiler:Later, after the Chaos taint that had made Arkio like that was revealed, Rafen fights the demon behind it. For a moment, while wielding the power of the Spear of Telesto, he takes on the appearance of Sanguinius, complete with wings.]]
** In ''[[Literature/GauntsGhosts Sabbat Martyr]]'', the eponymous Saint[[spoiler:'s reincarnation]] is shown charging into battle with giant, [[PowerGlows glowing]], ethereal green wings. They don't appear to be functional, but they form the shape of the Imperial Aquila, serving as a sort of battle standard. They get ''even bigger'' when she [[spoiler: kills Enok Innokenti]], too.
** In ''[[Literature/ThousandSons Ahriman: Unchanged]]'', the Chaos Sorcerer Sar’iq grows a pair of functional feathery wings [[MasterOFYourDomain using]] {{Biomanipulation}} at one point.
* Kerry Ellison, in the Literature/WhateleyUniverse. Well, her codename ''is'' Seraphim, so it's not exactly a big surprise. Slightly subverted in that the first time she manifests her angelic wings she flaps around and can't fly straight until she gets used to them.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* The final episode of ''Series/{{GARO}}'' has the titular character growing wings on his armour to fight [[spoiler:Messiah]]. (In a slight subversion, he then [[spoiler:engages in a fight with an even more powerful foe ''after'' being BroughtDownToNormal and holds his own perfectly well]].)
* Franchise/{{Kamen Rider}}s with multiple forms tend to get wings as part of their MidSeasonUpgrade or later SuperMode:
** ''Series/KamenRiderBlade'' gives wings to both TheHero Blade and TheLancer Garren in their [[SuperMode Jack Forms]].
** ''Series/KamenRiderKabuto'' gains energy wings in his [[SuperMode Hyper Form]], but only when he activates [[SuperSpeed Hyper Clock Up]].
** ''Series/KamenRiderDenO'''s Wing form. While the wings are only on display for a second during the transformation, the form is indeed more powerful than Ryotaro's four default forms. This trope really comes into play when Sieg attaches to Climax Form, granting Ryotaro an actual pair of wings based on his mask. It is immediately [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]]:
--->'''Momotaros:''' ''(reaching around behind him and feeling the wings}'' What's this fluttery thing? Gah! Chicken-Wing Bastard, is that you?!

** Series/KamenRiderDouble's EleventhHourSuperpower, [=CycloneJoker=] Gold Extreme, has a trio of dragonfly wings, referencing the underlying insect theme common to all Riders.
** Series/KamenRiderOOO has animal-themed forms, and surprise surprise, the most powerful of the basic forms is the bird-themed one. He also gets wings as part of the actual SuperMode, a dinosaur form (courtesy of the pterodactyl part of that form).
* A number of ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' and ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' series add a flying mecha midseason, which combines with the main mecha to give it wings as a MidSeasonUpgrade. Examples of these flight combinations include [[Series/MiraiSentaiTimeranger TimeRobo Shadow]]/[[Series/PowerRangersTimeForce Shadow Force Megazord]], [[Series/BakuryuuSentaiAbaranger Killer AbarenOh]]/[[Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder Valkasaurus Megazord]], [[Series/GoGoSentaiBoukenger Ultimate DaiBouken]]/[[Series/PowerRangersOperationOverdrive DriveMax Ultrazord]], [[Series/EngineSentaiGoOnger Engine-Oh G9]]/[[Series/PowerRangersRPM SkyRev Megazord]], [[Series/SamuraiSentaiShinkenger Tenkuu ShinkenOh]]/[[Series/PowerRangersSamurai Battlewing Megazord]], and [[Series/ZyudenSentaiKyoryuger Raiden Kyoryuzin]].
** Played with in ''Series/NinjaSentaiKakuranger'' and the third season of ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'', where Tsubasamaru/the Falconzord can add wings to Kakure Daishogun/the Ninja Megazord, but ''not'' Muteki Shogun/the Shogun Megazord, where it forms laser cannons instead.
** The Mega Winger attaches ''only'' its large wing weapon to the Mega Voyager in ''Series/PowerRangersInSpace'' and ''Series/DenjiSentaiMegaranger''. Usually, the two full mechs would combine, but this is not the case here.
** Several exclusive-to-''Franchise/PowerRangers'' [[SuperMode Battlizer upgrades]] give wings to ([[LawOfChromaticSuperiority Red]]) Rangers themselves.
** ''Series/TensouSentaiGoseiger'' have the Goseigers show wings whenever they transform, Alata's show his wings when he uses Red Break and in the [[spoiler: final episode where they use sprout wings to stop the destruction of Earth and use them to fly away at the ending.]]
* Super Rescue Max in ''Series/TomicaHeroRescueForce''. It's basically the same as Rescue Max, except now it has wings built into it. It's surprisingly fast and agile.
* the Fairies in ''Series/Zapped'' have tiny insectoid wings and certainly fly, although this appears to be more magical than aerodynamic.
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[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'':
** Favored Souls grow a pair of wings at higher levels, as do [[PrestigeClass Dragon Disciples]].
** Bizarrely, natural half-dragons do not get wings unless they are size category large or bigger. But in 4th Edition, dragonborn ''can'' at level 11.
** The "Greater Visage of the Deity" spell in 3rd Edition allowed you to take the half-celestial/fiend template, which would give wingless characters wings.
** Fifth Edition allows 20th level paladins of the Oath of Vengeance to take on a (temporary) angelic avenger form, complete with wings.
* The ''TabletopGame/LegendSystem'' has this as a feat starting at level 9 and an ability for several tracks.
* Many Daemon Princes and Living Saints in ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' have wings. These include [[JeanneDArchetype Saint Celestine]], [[{{Plaguemaster}} Mortarion]], [[MagicOrPsychic Magnus the Red]], and [[ThePerfectionist Fulgrim]]. [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Sanguinius]], surprisingly, didn't get his wings from some power.
* Each member of the Sephira archetype in the ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh TCG'' has wings and according to the lore, they received power from the Naturia Sacred Tree in order to fight the Infernoids.
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[[folder:Web Animation]]
* In ''WebAnimation/DeadFantasy'', [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII Rinoa]] has a pair of white angel wings, to go along with her [[TookALevelInBadass new-found levels of badass]], presumably. In the second instalment of the series, when she turns up, she performs a huge BigDamnHeroes moment, then uses her new weapons and magic powers to deliver a CurbStompBattle to Team VideoGame/DeadOrAlive, which had been dominating until then.
* ''WebAnimation/DSBTInsaniT'': Andy's [[OurWerebeastsAreDifferent Monster form]] is a orange humanoid creature with large wings.
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[[folder:Webcomics]]
* In ''Webcomic/AlienDice'', Lexx gains wings after leveling up. One of them is immediately bitten off by a giant alien monster. Disappointing, but this did save him from being eaten completely (and it grows back later).
* ''Webcomic/ApricotCookies'': Jammy Smasher's magical girl outfit has wings in the back.
* ''Webcomic/AngelMoxie'': Alex's magical girl form.
* ''Webcomic/{{Beeserker}}'': [[http://www.beeserker.com/comics/ultimate-form/ When Snuhbee becomes Cosmic Scootsie X]], it gains three pairs of bee wings.
* [[http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/050807 X]] in ''Webcomic/BobAndGeorge''.
* In ''Webcomic/DanAndMabsFurryAdventures'' [[SuccubiAndIncubi Cubi]], who already have four wings, can gain a third pair if they accumulate enough power. At that point they are practically immortal and can found a Clan.
* in ''Webcomic/DangerouslyChloe'', young Abby has transformed herself into some sort of human/succubus hybrid ''MakesAsMuchSenseInContext''. this has given her horns and wings, which don’t appear to allow her to fly.
* In ''Webcomic/DevilBear'', the Daivas have wings made entirely out of (infrared?) [[http://www.thedevilbear.com/?p=121 light.]]
* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', the most powerful spell [[spoiler:Nanase]] got is FlyingBrick "angel form" giving pearly coating and two pairs of wings. In flight they at best add maneuverability, but apparently are [[MadeOfIron near-unbreakable]] and at least the tail pair is [[FeatherFingers prehensile]].
* In ''Webcomic/{{Goblins}}'', Maglubiyet the Goblin deity marks his chosen ones with wings at birth, and each is destined to become a great leader amongst the Goblins; Duv the White Terror, leader of the Viper clan, currently holds that honor.
* In ''Webcomic/HiToTsukiToHoshiNoTama'', the {{magical girl}}s borrow wings from their [[{{Mon}} beads]] -- accidentally, at first.
* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'': In the kids' session, anyone who uses the [[RingOfPower Rings Of Power]] of Prospit and Derse - that is to say, currently only [[spoiler:[[BigBad Jack Noir]] and PM]] - gains enormous crow wings; [[JustifiedTrope justified]] in that it [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot gives him the traits of any objects that have been "prototyped" into the players']] [[SpiritAdvisor Sprites]], one of which was a deceased crow. The same was the case in the trolls' session, as they prototyped at least two creatures with wings - Terezi's dragon and Kanaya's mother grub.
** The trolls themselves (with the exception of Blood players) grow butterfly wings when [[PhysicalGod they ascend to the God Tiers]], as a result of their cultural ideals of physical perfection [[BizarreAlienBiology as a vaguely insectoid race]]. Humans have no such cultural equivalent, and so don't gain wings (but can still fly).
* In ''Webcomic/ProblemSleuth'', using Sepulchritude at the start of chapter 22 grants the titular character huge white wings.
* In ''Webcomic/{{UC}}'', Iku gains a pair of [[http://www.wanderingchaos.com/uc/082412.html fairy wings]], when she uses her powers in the other plane they are exploring. It’s not clear if this is her tapping into her true form, or if it is an effect of the plane.
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[[folder:Web Original]]
* ''Literature/ArcanaMagiUniverse'':
** In ''Literature/ArcanaMagi'', Alysia Morales sprouted misty wings when she accepted her role as a Sentinel.
** In ''Literature/ArcanaMagiZero'', after their TransformationSequence, Alysia Perez and Megumi Miyazaki sprout wings from their [[TransformationTrinket Transformation Trinkets]].
* In the first campaign of ''WebVideo/CriticalRole'', cleric Pike [[AstralProjection astral-projects]] from another continent to aid her friends in a nasty battle, appearing as a glowing, slightly-less-than-tangible image of herself. When she leaps from a wall to attack a zombie army, her fortuitous roll of a natural 20 leads to the GameMaster describing glowing, ethereal wings bursting from her back as she hovers in the air before landing (and the players react in utter glee at the prospect of awesome fanart of the moment).
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheDragonPrince'': A “rare few” of the most powerful Sky mages can turn their arms into wings. As a testament to his growing power, Callum conjures so-called “mage wings” in the season climax to save Rayla.
* ''WesternAnimation/HazbinHotel'': Most angels have a single pair of wings while the majority of demons have no wings and get slaughtered en masse during the annual Exterminations that Heaven uses to control Hell's population. While the Seraphim, Heaven's rulers, have six wings each. Lucifer is a {{Fallen|Angel}} Seraph who kept his wings (though he usually hides them) after his Fall [[spoiler:along with enough power to curbstomp the leader of the Exterminations]].
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': Twilight Sparkle gets a pair in episode "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E13MagicalMysteryCure Magical Mystery Cure]]", both by completing Star Swirl the Bearded's most secret, unfinished spell, but also --and more importantly-- fulfilling her journey as Celestia's student and realizing all the most important lessons of friendship, thus becoming an [[WingedUnicorn alicorn]] princess. Notably, her flight ability with them has been shown to be no better than a regular pegasus, and even learning to do that much takes considerable time and effort. However, her power level has increased to the point that she is unironically called the "goddess of friendship" by the fandom.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls'', populated by regular (if otherwise pastel-colored) humans instead of ponies, does not give its main cast wings... until they come across their world's version of the [[CosmicKeystone Elements of Harmony]] and [[SuperMode transform into]] MagicalGirl-like forms that give wings of various shapes and sizes to the characters whose pony counterparts would originally have them. Otherwise, it would take a massive influx of magical power (such as wearing an ''actual'' Element of Harmony, or absorbing the magic of all the major cast members) to magically transform a single person into a winged form.
* ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'': During Lieutenant O'Connor's [[spoiler:transformation into an EnergyBeing]], he's surrounded by light that forms an image of a bird, which includes two large wings.
* ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'': The members of the [[MeaningfulName Butterfly]] family's [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment butterfly]] form, of course.
* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': Once Lapis's cracked gem is healed, she sprouts a pair of liquid wings that issue from her back-mounted gem. As a measure of how cool they are, she can fly through space.
* ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'':
** Optimus Prime frequently gets wings later in a series, though more mechanical than feathery. It's sometimes accomplished by [[CombiningMecha combining with another Autobot]], though.
** Optimus Primal also got wings after carrying Optimus Prime's spark for a few hours. The new modifications remained even after he gave the spark back to Prime.
** Cheetor in his Transmetal body could count. His flight mode wings had jets on the ends of them.
** On one occasion, [[WesternAnimation/BeastWars Megatron]] got wings as part of a power up. They were somewhat overshadowed by him getting the ability to turn into a dragon at the time, though.
* ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'': The characters are fairies, who by nature have wings as opposed to other types of magical girls, but every time they get a new form, their wings get bigger and prettier. So more of a 'More Power Gives You More Wings'.
* In the comic version of ''WesternAnimation/{{WITCH}}'' everyone's wings were useless except for Hay Lin. In the cartoon, everyone can fly.
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[[folder:Real Life]]
* TruthInTelevision for spacecraft: Large, winglike heat radiator structures would largely be necessary to dissipate the waste heat produced by high-powered space-based nuclear reactors, and most hypothetical designs for future nuclear-powered spacecraft incorporate them.
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