Winged Tropes

Pop Quiz! What kinds of wings can you spot?^Answer  top row from left to right: Mercury's Wings (Classical Mythology), Winged Humanoid with Good Wings (by Aubrey Beardsley); middle row: Ear Wings (Dumbo), Symbolic Wings + "Spread Wings" Frame Shot (Deus Ex: Mankind Divided); bottom row: Evil Wings (Maleficent), Wing Pull + Winged Humanoid + Power Gives You Wings (Steven Universe)

Take these broken wings
And learn to fly again
And learn to live so free

— Mr. Mister, "Broken Wings"

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Tropes about wings.

But just having "wing" in the title is not enough. Look at the description before adding any trope to this list. Unless almost every example has to involve wings in some form, it doesn't belong here.

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Tropes:

Related:

• Angelic Tropes
• Avian Tropes
• The Caped Index
• Dragon Tropes
• Fairy Tropes
• Fine Feathered Tropes
• Flying Tropes
• This Index Blows

• Cape Wings
• Clip Its Wings
• Ear Wings
• Feather Flechettes
• Feather Motif
• Good Wings, Evil Wings
• Growing Wings
• Hair Wings
• Hot Wings
• Icarus Allusion
• Mercury's Wings
• Our Wyverns Are Different
• Pegasus
• Perpetual Molt
• Power Gives You Wings
• Razor Wings
• "Spread Wings" Frame Shot
• Stationary Wings
• Symbolic Wings
• Wind from Beneath My Wings
• Winged Humanoid
• Winged Unicorn
• Wing Pull
• Wings Do Nothing
• Wing Shield

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