Mercury's Wings: Difference between revisions

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There are characters who have wings or use substitutes in different ways like using [[Ear Wings|gigantic ears]] or [[Hair Wings|magical hair]]. But then we have characters who have grown or were born with actual tiny wings attached to both sides of their heads, or on their feet. It's [[Fridge Logic]] to consider how they can even fly in the first place.

Characters who were not born with or have grown wings often use helmets, hats and sandals with wings to achieve this effect. Characters who have neither winged accessories nor wings will have wings on their headgear or costume for ornamental reasons.

The [[Trope Maker]] for these wings, is Hermes/Mercury, the messenger of the gods. Because of this, many characters that have worn the winged helmet or winged sandals that are reminiscent to the ones he wore. They also tend to be quite swift in their movements.

This is a form of [[Good Wings, Evil Wings]], as almost any character that has these wings are good or divine.

[[Super -Trope]] to [[Hair Wings]] and [[Ear Wings]]. See also [[Helicopter Hair]] and [[Hat of Flight]].

* The Nothing (or alternatively, The Hope Card) from the second movie of ''[[Cardcaptor Sakura (Manga)|Cardcaptor Sakura]]'' has wings on its head.

** The Golden Age Flash actually had a hat with such wings on it, a clear homage to Mercury.

* [[Captain America (comics)]] has small wings on both sides of his mask, much like the Flash.

** This is also true of his [[Distaff Counterpart|Distaff Counterparts]]s, Namorita and Namora.

* The Spirit of the Post in ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Going Postal (Discworld)|Going Postal]]'' is a golden statue with a winged helmet, winged sandals and a winged fig leaf. Moist, as Postmaster and possible avatar, gets [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/91/Discworld_Postal.jpg a gold postman's hat with real pigeon wings attached to it, and a matching pair of boots]. (There's also some kind of elasticated arrangement, but he decides to forgo this.)

* The ''[[Dungeons and& Dragons]]'' supplement ''Unearthed Arcana'' (1985) introduced the magic item Winged Boots. When the wearer concentrates on the desire to fly, the boots sprout wings at the heel and allow the wearer to fly for a total of two hours per day.

* Winona, the flying type gym leader from ''[[Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire (Video Game)|Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire]]'', has tufts of hair that are shaped like wings that stick out of her aviator helmet and goggles. It is for stylistic purposes only, though.

* Harpuia from ''[[Mega Man Zero]]'' wears a winged helmet (purely for decor) along with having thruster containing mechanical wings on his back. Very fast moving when airborne to the point where he is one of the only things in the series that can actually outrun Zero (and Zero's quite fast himself). This is an [[Anti -Villain]] or [[Hero Antagonist]] example, if not both.

* Bosworth the dog in ''[[Alias the Jester (Animation)|Alias the Jester]]'' has wings sprouting from his head that let him fly. It's not clear whether Alias himself wears a winged mask or a mask with holes in it for his wings, but he can fly as well. (When he's Jester, his wings would be covered by his jester's hat.)

* In one of the Rudy Larriva ''[[Wile E. Coyote and The Road Runner (Animation)|Wile E Coyote and The Road Runner]]'' cartoons, Wile E. ties pigeons on his feet to catch the Roadrunner, inspired by the Mercury myth. [[Failure Is the Only Option|Like all of his plans]], it doesn't go well.

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