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[[File:HornedGodsDaughter_7495.jpg|frame|link=http://www.epilogue.net/cgi/database/art/view.pl?id=110609|Molting season is not kind to his self esteem.]]

Whether huge and hideous or helical and handsome, having horns can hamper the head of hatless heroes and their hated foes. [[Our Demons Are Different|Habitants]] of [[Hell]] have traded [[Holy Halo|Holy Halos]] for [[Horny Devils|hot horns]]. Horns also adorn [[Beast Man|hairy]] [[Always Male|hombres]] and [[Always Female|hembras]] [[Gorgeous Gorgon|hermosas]] like crowns, highlighting the [[Half-Human Hybrid|Half Human Hybrids]]' heterogenous heritage that [[Petting Zoo People|fuses human with hoofed animals.]]

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* The characters who are souls encased in armor from ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' tend to have these, notably Al and Barry the Chopper.

** Roa gets this a little bit while fighting [[Large Ham|Major Armstrong]]. He ''is'' half cow.

* A little hanyou girl in the ''[[Inuyasha]]'' movie has tiny curling horns rather like a ram. The many oni are depicted with the traditional single horn.

* Tony Tony Chopper from ''[[One Piece]]'' has horns coming from holes in his hat.

** [[Word of God]] also says that horns are not uncommon on species of humanoids in the world like humans and giants, being analogous to buck teeth. For example, Moria (a human) and Oars (a giant) both have horns.

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* Son Goku the Four-Tails from [[Naruto]]

** And Kinkaku and Ginkaku. {{spoiler|And Kabuto in Sage Mode.}}

* Ririchiyo and Shoukin from [[Inu X Boku SS]] is this when they access their youkai heritage.

* The two princesses of Ledomiam in ''Drakuun''.

* Humans posessed by demons in [[Blue Exorcist]] often look like this. The protagonist himself gains a pair of fiery horns when using his flames.

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== Literature ==

* The beast in some versions of ''[[Beauty and The Beast]]'', most predominantly the Disney version.

* The Horned King in ''[[The Chronicles of Prydain]]''.

* ''[[Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn]]'': In the main character's dream, the king of the elves has a rack of horns like a deer. {{spoiler|For most of the book, that's what he thinks it is. It's not until he sees the king in person that he realizes it's a crown of branches.}}

* ''[[True Blood]]'': Maryanne builds an effigy featuring a man with horns, and when she sees a pure white bull, she calls it her god. Presumably she is referring to Dionysus.

* [[Thomas Burnett Swann]]'s mythological fantasies have lots of fauns and satyrs. Even his minotaurs (both of them) are more like bovine satyrs than the classical description.

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== Myths & Religion ==

* Dionysus was often called "the horned god," and was depicted either wearing horns or actually having them.

** And then there's Pan, the satyrs and the Minotaur.

* [[Youkai|Oni]] of Japanese legends had a single, sometimes off-center horn. Modern depictions in anime often have two-horned oni as well; when there's a literal [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]] pair, most likely one will have a single horn and the other will have two.

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* Medieval and Renaissance artists such as Michelangelo often depicted [[The Bible|Moses]] with horns, due to the Vulgate (Latin Bible translation) misreading the Hebrew of Exodus 34:35 as stating that Moses's face was "horned" (''keren'') instead of "shining" (''karan''). This contributed to the [[Unfortunate Implications|anti-Semitic belief]] that all Jews have horns.

** The klezmer group The Klezmatics played with this stereotype by titling one of their albums ''Jews with [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Horns]]''.

* [[Satan]] is often portrayed as having horns, which probably owes something to the pagan gods describes above. Note that the only passage in the Bible that even gets close to assigning Satan a physical form describes him as a [[Reptiles Are Abhorrent|serpent]] instead.

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== Video Games ==

* The Hero of ''[[Fable]]'' will end up growing a nice set of horns if one is particularly evil.

* The Succubus class from ''[[Disgaea]],'' as well as Taro and Raspberyl from ''[[Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories]]'' and ''[[Disgaea 3 Absence of Justice|3]]''

* The Succubus class from ''[[Disgaea]],'' as well as Taro and Raspberyl from ''[[Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories]]'' and ''[[Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice|3]]''

* The Desire Demons in ''[[Dragon Age]]'' look like beautiful, scantily-clad women... with horns.

** ''[[Dragon Age II]]'' shows that the Qunari are also horned, though the ones you meet in the first game are hornless. It's stated that naturally hornless Qunari aren't all that uncommon and [[Born Lucky|it's a sign that they're meant for a special role]], while the others are members of a merchant caste. The mercenaries and the merchant in ''Awakening'' apparently removed their horns, something that Qunari who have abandoned their people's dogma decided to do. Despite this, interestingly, there seems to be a positive correlation with horn size and rank--Qunari grunts in the second game have unimpressive horns, more skilled soldiers larger ones, and then the [[Large and In Charge|Arishok]]'s set puts Texas longhorns to shame.

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* Horns are surprisingly rare in ''[[Touhou]]''. They seem to be exclusive to Oni, and they're not the most common species.

** Keine Kamishirasawa has a pair in her beast form as a were-hakutaku, which she decorates with a pretty ribbon.

* Multiple types of horns are some of the many, many costume options in both ''[[Champions Online]]'' and ''[[City of Heroes]]''.

* Poor little [[Ico]]'s fairly bovine horns are seen as a curse, and he's left to die in a haunted castle because of them.

** In [[Spiritual Sequel]] ''[[Shadow of the Colossus]]'', {{spoiler|Wander starts to sprout some horns at the end as a sign of his tie with Dormin, who sports a pretty impressive pair of horns Themself.}}