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== [[Comic Books]] == |
== [[Comic Books]] == |
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* 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. |
* 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. |
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** Heck [[X-Men|Angel]] has (pun intended) pulled this one off multiple times, when in civilian clothing. |
** Heck [[X-Men|Angel]] has (pun intended) pulled this one off multiple times, when in civilian clothing. |
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== [[Film]] == |
== [[Film]] == |
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* ''[[The Dark Crystal]]'' had a variation. Just as the two protagonists are falling off a cliff, the girl sprouts wings. It turns out only girls of that species have them, but since it's never mentioned before... |
* ''[[The Dark Crystal]]'' had a variation. Just as the two protagonists are falling off a cliff, the girl sprouts wings. It turns out only girls of that species have them, but since it's never mentioned before... |
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** ...except in some carvings you don't get all that long to look at, and it isn't really clear that the wings on some figures are actually for gliding, rather than just sartorial whimsy. |
** ...except in some carvings you don't get all that long to look at, and it isn't really clear that the wings on some figures are actually for gliding, rather than just sartorial whimsy. |
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* [[The Iron Giant]] doesn't find out he has boosters on his feet until he accidentally falls off a cliff and they activate automatically. |
* [[The Iron Giant]] doesn't find out he has boosters on his feet until he accidentally falls off a cliff and they activate automatically. |
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* In a villainous variant, ''[[Jeepers Creepers]]'' didn't reveal that its demon/monster/alien ''thing'' had wings until it'd been shown on screen several times. |
* In a villainous variant, ''[[Jeepers Creepers]]'' didn't reveal that its demon/monster/alien ''thing'' had wings until it'd been shown on screen several times. |
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== [[Web Comics]] == |
== [[Web Comics]] == |
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* 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. |
* 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. |
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* Marsha in ''[[ |
* Marsha in ''[[CRFH]]''. After being bitten months ago by vampire potatoes. She found out when she was about to kill herself by jumping off a tall building, but changed her mind, but then the cat with a piece of Dave's soul surprised her and she fell off. |
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* 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]]. |
* 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]]. |
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