Wing Pull: Difference between revisions

* {{spoiler|Nico Robin}} in ''[[One Piece]]'' can sprout wings for five seconds. The usefulness of this is drama dependent.

* In ''[[Saint Seiya]]'', after the Wall of Lamentations dividing the [[Hell|Inferno]] from [[Heaven|Elysium]] [[Tear Jerker|has been pierced]], the Saints find themselves faced with an infinite void of warped space. Conveniently, the Bronze Cloths (that had been splashed with drops of [[Chekhov's Gun|Athena's blood at the beginning of the story]]) can not only protect them from the instantly-lethal dimension, but also grow wings that allow them to fly to Elysium.

* Akira the ''[[Devilman]]'' literally pulled a pair of wings out of his back in order to stop a fall and then fight a flying demon. Since he's, well, a devilman that wasn't too much a surprise but still he never used or even demonstrated them before that moment.

* Beelzebumon from ''[[Digimon Tamers]]'' sprouts a pair of black, feathery wings out his back when he goes into Blast Mode.

** A better example would be the Main character/main mon hybrid Dukemon who gains SIX angelic wings on activating his Crimson Mode.

* [[Eden of the East|Diana, Seleção No. 11]], to escape the hotel where she was. {{spoiler|It turns out it was an illusion, but, being Juiz's work, was a really good one.}}

 

== [[Comic Books]] ==

* Happens to [[Meaningful Name|Hawke]] near the end of the original run of the comic ''Tellos''. {{spoiler|He suffers lethal injuries during the flight, and when he dies, he turns into... you guessed it... a giant hawk.}} It had been foreshadowed several times: Hawke keeping some big secret was causing real problems in his relationship with his love interest.

 

== [[Film]] ==

== [[Literature]] ==

 

* This happens to the Karnee folks in Holly Lisle's ''Matrin'' books, who also have to fall off a mountain or a building or something in order to fly.

 

** It's actually more of a [[Chekhov's Skill]] from Sora and company's time in [[Peter Pan|Neverland]] in the first game and a function of Sora's [[Clothes Make the Superman|costume upgrade]] in the second. In the first game Sora only starts flying during the final battle after gaining the resolve to fight in a variation of [[Think Happy Thoughts]] with [[Heroic Willpower]].

* [[Interactive Fiction]] example: ''[[Photopia]]''. {{spoiler|The way to escape [[The Maze]] is to 'go up'.}}. The author [http://adamcadre.ac/content/phaq.txt mentioned] that he got the idea from Ron Hansen's ''Mariette in Ecstasy''.

* Eddie suddenly gains the ability to sprout awesome-looking demon wings in ''[[Brutal Legend]].'' Apparently [[The Power of Rock]] has to be invoked, because the wings disappear whenever he's not in a Stage Battle.

* In ''[[World of Warcraft]]'', Baron Sablemane at first gives the player lots of things to help them kill the gronns. At the end of the chain, in Alliance version, he personally help the player to fight Goc, starting with some...questionable words, and shortly after transformed into his true form, he is a black dragon all along. Once finished, he even apologized to the players for his "startling transformation".

== [[Web Comics]] ==

* Aldran, the necromancer and party leader in ''[[Antiheroes]]'', didn't reveal that he has wings until the party confronted his archenemy {{spoiler|and twin brother, who also has them}}. May be justified by his secretive personality, as he didn't even admit his name was Aldran until the 36th strip.

* Happens in about half of Aylee's forms in [[Sluggy Freelance]]. Apparently her [[Involuntary Shapeshifting|body has decided that it's too useful not to have flight]].