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== Anime & Manga ==

* Nosferatu Zodd from ''[[Berserk]]''. He loses one of his horns after fighting against Griffith.

* 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.

** [[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.

* The demons in ''[[Chrono Crusade]]'' all have horns that mind link them to Pandemonium. Pandemonium controls their actions to a certain degree via this link and constantly supplies their "legion" cells with energy. If their horns are ever removed they must find an alternate source of power, such as a human's soul via a contract, or else they will die after their "legion" is depleted.

* The Boazans in ''[[Voltes V]]''.

* [[Elfen Lied|Diclonii]]. That is all.

** Also Elfman while using full body Take Over, Fried while using Dark Ecriture: Darkness, and Natsu in one of the original sketches.

* [[Big Bad|Onimaru]] and most of his demon servants from ''[[Yaiba]]''.

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

* [[Digimon]]: [[Digimon Adventure|Devimon, Wargreymon]] [[Digimon Adventure 02|Flamedramon (a rhino-like nose-horn)]] [[Digimon Frontier|Agunimon]] and [[Digimon Xros Wars|Yakasmon]]

 

 

== Comics ==

* Due to his [[Bizarre Alien Biology]], [[Concrete]] grew antlers for a while. He files them down now.

* [[Blue Devil]] and his former sidekick Kid Devil, what with being devils.

 

== Films -- Animation ==

** She might as well be a [[Our Demons Are Different|demon]], whether they call her a wicked fairy or not. Those horns are probably not a headdress.

* The Horned King from ''[[The Black Cauldron]]''.

 

 

* The Darkness in ''[[Legend]]''.

* ''[[Star Wars]]''' [[The Phantom Menace|Darth Maul]], and various other members of the Zabrak species in the [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]] and prequel trilogy. Devaronian males have two horns; the one seen in ''[[A New Hope]]'' is actually wearing a secondhand devil costume.

 

 

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

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

* ''[[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.

* The Damiani in the [[Star Trek Novel Verse]]. Damiani have three sexes, with the number of horns signifying which sex an individual belongs to. The loose equivalent of females have three, one on the forehead and one above each temple, the loose equivalent of males have only the forehead horn, and the third sex has only the two on the temples.

 

== Live-Action TV ==

 

 

** 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.

** Derived from that, [[wikipedia:Cuckold#Cultural usage|many Latin languages]] use horn-related words to describe a betrayed man.

* Cernunnos from the [[Celtic Mythology]].

* In ''<nowiki>~Changeling: The Lost~</nowiki>'', the Beast, Ogre, and sometimes even Fairest seemings sometimes have horns.

* Horns are an option for the Fallen's Apocalyptic Form in ''<nowiki>~Demon: The Fallen~</nowiki>'', which, in addition to looking badass, also gives them an extra attack form.

** While ''[[Pathfinder]]'' follows the earlier editions' lead in terms of keeping horns optional for tieflings, you'd be hard-pressed to find one ''without'' them in a ''Pathfinder'' illustration prior to the release of the tiefling-specific [[Splat|splatbook]] ''Blood of Fiends''. And even in said supplement, those with horns outnumber those without nearly two to one.

* Standard Trolls in ''[[Tabletop Game]]/Shadowrun'' sport a variety of different types of horns, as do the Fomori, Cyclops, and Minotaur subtypes.

== Video Games ==

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

* 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.

* ''[[Final Fantasy]]'': Most notably on the summons Bahamut and Ifrit.

** Malfurion's brother Illidan grows horns after the Skull of Gul'dan turns him into a partially demonic being. The Satyrs are similar, being former Night Elves that were corrupted by Fell magic.

* In ''[[World of Warcraft]]'', female Draenei have horns, while [[Bizarre Sexual Dimorphism|males]] have large bony crests. Some ogres also have a single horn.

* 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.

* 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.}}

* Playing [[Marathon Boss|the Endless Setlist]] in ''[[Rock Band|Rock Band 3]]'' will unlock one horned hairstyle for each gender of rocker.

 

 

== Web Comics ==

** Some of the Trolls point out how annoying their horns can be. Tavros's are so large, he cant get into his bed. Karkat gets picked on because his aren't pointed at the end, they're round. Equius is so strong, he no longer has two arrow shaped horns, he broke one off, so he has a flat one on his right side.

 

 

== Western Animation ==

* ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'' has this trope in spades: [[Big Red Devil|Lucius, Beezy]], [[Drill Sergeant Nasty|Molotov]], [[Rich Bitch|Jez]], plus several beckground characters.