Good Wings, Evil Wings: Difference between revisions

* '''Metallic Wings''' are generally unseen outside of [[Heavy Metal]] album covers, but are quite popular there. Usually denotes the character as a [[Badass]] with [[The Power of Rock]], in addition to other implications based on type.

 

 

For further reading, see [[Power Gives You Wings]] and [[Winged Humanoid]].

* ''[[Gundam Wing]] [[The Movie|Endless Waltz]]'' has Wing Zero, [[The Hero]]'s Gundam, which has angel wings. [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Deathscythe Hell]] has bat wings, but belongs to [[The Lancer]], who nicknamed himself "[[Shinigami]]" and is an example of [[Dark Is Not Evil]]. In the TV series, Wing Zero had large booster pods in place of wings, while its [[Evil Counterpart]] Epyon had draconic wings to go along with its wyvern-like flight mode.

* While ''[[Gundam Wing]]'' has the more prominent example, Gundam has several stories with winged Gundam -in such cases energy wings help portrait the machine's sheer power. Best example: Victory 2 Wings of Light. This are sort of a swiss-blade: They can boost the mecha up to 20G (yeah 20), slice enemy goons and other things but mostly looking cool.

* ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED|Gundam SEED]]'' and its sibling ''[[Gundam Seed Destiny]] have Destiny Gundam Wing of light and eponymous boy's Gundam too: Strike Freedom.

* ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00]]'' doesn't escape this trend. In the first opening we see the Exia featuring GN wings, which is never explained but then it wasn't a plot point either. The Gundam grandaddy, the 0 Gundam, had giant energy wings called GN Feather (which were caused by a faulty drive configuration mind you). Also, you could make a point of saying that the almighty 00 Raiser produces energy wings to show its might.

* ''[[SD Gundam Force]]'' had Zero Custom, Knight of Silver Wings for the angelic character. And Deathscythe, Knight of Drakness/{{spoiler|Deed the Icey Knight}} for the demonic one.

** Plus Nana, who is a bat anima, is very self-conscious about the fact she has the bat wings when she first meets the group.

* The [[Cape Wings]] sported by Femto (a.k.a. {{spoiler|Griffith}}) of ''[[Berserk]]'' look very much like the wings of a demon.

* Reversed in ''[[D.N.Angel]]'', where Dark is a good guy (with black wings) and Krad is a violent psychopath (with white wings).

* Setsuna of ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' is the child of a [[Winged Humanoid|Tengu]], crow demons of Japanese Mythology. She also suffers from a rare case of [[Heroic Albino|Albinism]], making her wings white instead of the usual black, which fits perfectly with her good guy alignment. Of course, it also made her anathema to her demon heritage, and she ended up being an outcast. This gave her an enormous complex about the wings, which causes her to [[Blessed with Suck|view herself as a monster.]] At least until all of her friends point out that [[Cursed with Awesome|having wings is awesome]] and [[But Your Wings Are Beautiful|make her look like an angel.]]

** {{spoiler|1=Hayate herself seems to have inherited both the wings and the bulk of said book's power as of ''StrikerS''...}} [[Dark Is Not Evil|good thing she's on the heroes' side]].

** Towards the end of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS|StrikerS]]'', Signum gets a pair of flaming wings when {{spoiler|unisoned with Agito}}, going nicely with her [[Flaming Sword]]. Again, both good and extremely [[Badass]].

== Tabletop [[RPGs]] ==

* In ''[[In Nomine]]'' all the demons that have wings have bat wings, all the winged angels have feathered wings. Interestingly the Malakim, who are [[Proud Warrior Race Guy]] angels that never Fall have black feathery wings. (It is heavily implied that they did Fall, but refused to rebel against God anyways.)

** Jasmine in ''[[Forgotten Realms]] Comics'' and ''Lost Gods'' is as close to normal human as [[Winged Humanoid]] with [[Spelljammer|spelljamming]] and planewalking experience can ever be—she is a normal human, but after {{spoiler|an encounter with goddess incognito}} [[Be Careful What You Wish For|she got wings]], and their form changes {{spoiler|to fit the current plane. So well that in the Abyss she was mistaken for [[Horny Devils|Alu-fiend]] by ''locals''}}. Good luck making any assumptions regarding her nature or disposition on this basis.

** For that matter, [[Spelljammer|spelljamming vessels]] of elven design have butterfly-shaped living wings (sails/air-recycling plants). Some other ships are shaped like birds, several light ships are built like ''Hymenoptera'' (starting from Dragonfly). The Spelljammer itself resembles enormous manta ray.

** D&D 3.5 ''Complete Divine'' has "Favored Soul", character class for the character who's chosen of a particular deity. One of the high level class features is a pair of wings. Favored of good deities get feathery angel wings while favored of evil deities get leathery demonic wings. (If your deity is neutral, you get to choose.)

* The being pictured on Change Of Heart has one white angel wing and one black devil wing to show it's power to [[Mind Control|change the target's loyalty.]]

** Also from the [[Black Crusade]] RPG, [[Player Character|Heretics]] can gain wings as a mutation. Heretics aligned to Khorne gain bat wings, Nurglites get fly's wings, Slaaneshi heretics get beautiful, gossamer-like "pinions", and followers of Tzeentch get bird's wings. Unaligned or Chaos Undivided characters are subject to the whims of players and the GM. Since all Heretics are, by definition, evil on some level, the Khornate wings are the only one that plays this trope completely straight.

 

** ''[[Final Fantasy VI]]'', Kefka has four purple-bordering-on-white angel wings, and two purple-bordering-on-black demon wings.

** ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'', Sephiroth has six white angel wings in place of a lower body, and a black angel wing in place of a right arm. His spin-off appearances have since incorporated a black angel wing over his right shoulder as part of his iconic appearance.

** ''[[Final Fantasy VIII]]'', [[Big Bad]] Ultimecia has black angel wings, Squall's love interest Rinoa has white angel wings on her outfit {{spoiler|and sprouts actual wings in her [[Limit Break]] after becoming a Sorceress}}. Adel, a minor antagonist, has black wings of [http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20070721234439/finalfantasy/images/5/53/Adel_FFVIII.jpg a unique design], most closely resembling bone wings.

** In ''[[Final Fantasy XII]]'' Vayne gains a set of mechanical-energy wings when he fuses with {{spoiler|Venat}} for the last of the [[Boss Rush]] on the [[Very Definitely Final Dungeon|Bahamut]].

* Wings in ''[[City of Heroes]]'' run the entire spectrum from Feathered to Batlike to Bone to Insect/Butterfly and even technological while also coming in varying sizes. The player can choose whatever kind he/she pleases and color them to their liking.

** ''[[Champions Online]]'' is similar and since there's no option to be a villain, you can have truly demonic-looking super heroes flying with wicked-looking wings.

** Her predecessor, the ''[[Person of Mass Destruction|much]]'' more powerful [[You Are Number Six|Mu-12]], [[Rage Against the Heavens|Sword of the Godslayer:]] [[Japanese Mythology|Kusanagi]], has nigh-identical magically levitated sword-wings, but hers can also transform into a [[BFS|Big Fucking]] [[Laser Blade]] when she swings them in unison. In case you haven't been clued in yet: Mu-12 is world destroyingly evil, has the power to pull it off, ''and'' fully intends to go through with it.

* Astranagant in ''[[Super Robot Wars Alpha]]'' has this when using the T-Link Feather attack

* Dizzy from ''[[Guilty Gear]]'' has a blue angelic wing named Undine and a black (it's actually green) angel wing named "Necro". Undine takes on the form of a woman, while Necro appears as a grim reaper. It's quite obvious they don't get along very well.

* In ''[[Dragon Quest IX]]'', the Celestrians have white, feathery wings. However, {{spoiler|after being corrupted by his hate for humanity, Celestrians Corvus' wings lose their feathers, revealing them as green and bat-like underneath. King Godwin, another boss and villian, has a second form which has bone wings.}}

* Essentially [[Averted Trope]] in [[Fire Emblem Tellius|the Fire Emblem games set in Tellius]]. None of the winged laguz tribes in the game are universally aligned, and that a good number of the player character winged laguz with stereotypically "bad" wings (like Nealuchi (raven wings) and Kurthnaga (leathery dragon wings)) are among the most noble of the laguz seen in-game. Naesala, the most morally ambiguous Laguz shown also has raven wings, however. The herons you see in the game also have pure white, feathery wings, and they all contain huge amounts of [[Order Versus Chaos|Balance]], but it is stated that white wings are restricted to the royal family.

* Nina has wings along with the rest of Wyndians in ''[[Breath of Fire]] I'' and ''[[Breath of Fire II|II]]'', but in ''II'' she has dark purple wings which signify her as an evil omen in Wyndian Prophecy, yet ironically instead of bringing disaster, she helps save the world.