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Ear Wings
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A trope mainly seen in fantasy: a character or creature is gifted with huge ears, possibly as large as their body. Those ears don't just mundanely grant keen hearing: they can somehow flap, and are strong enough to actually give the power of Flight. Don't expect the actual physics or biology behind this to be anything but handwaved. Sometimes, the ears may even look more like real wings, with or without feathers, attached to the head rather than actual ears. A Sub-Trope of Unusual Ears. When the ears are instead spinning like a rotor, it falls into Heli-Critter. Compare Hair Wings, Mercury's Wings, and Helicopter Hair. |
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In Natsume's Book of Friends episode "The Maiden's Circle", a small youkai Natsume asks about the youkai that cursed Taki flies using its oversized ears. | |
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Doraemon Film Series: Rokoroko, the alien Canine Companion from Doraemon: Nobita's Little Space War can fly with his ears. Early on when the gang needs to perform an aerial infiltration, Doraemon hands everyone Takecopters, only for Rokoroko to unfurl his ears and spread them like wings. General Ganbosu from Doraemon: Nobita's Three Visionary Swordsmen has ears which can serve as wings, until Nobitania slices his left ear off. Meba, a shapeshifting alien mercenery from Doraemon: Nobita and The Space Heroes, can transform her ears into wings for flight, unlike her colleagues Ogun and Hyde who use Jet Packs. |
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Patamon, Terriermon, Lopmon, and Culumon from Digimon can fly with their large ears. Though whether Patamon's are actually ears or just wings growing out of his head is up for debate. And Terriermon more rides air currents than flies. | |
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The imps on Gaia Online have literal wings for ears and they can use them to fly. That they can do this in humanoid form is somehow more confusing than when they can do this as Waddling Heads. | |
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RuneQuest has the Chonchon (see above), a creature from the spirit world that manifests as a deformed head flying with its gigantic ears. | |
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The Simpsons: A gag from the 2017 season is to parody Jeff Sessions as having mobile ears, which he sometimes flaps around to fly. | |
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Looney Tunes: Bugs Bunny uses his ears to gain flight twice: He uses them like a helicopter to escape from Yosemite Sam of Outer Space in "Lighter Than Hare". His ears suddenly turn into bat wings when he says "abraca-pocus" in "Transylvania 6-5000". |
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A manga story based on Tamagotchi shows that Yumemitchi can stretch her ears, and she at one point flies around with her Tama-Friends using her ears as wings. This story is All Just a Dream, though. | |
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Happy Tree Friends Adventures: The rainbow critters have large ears allowing them to fly. | |
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| Ear Wings / int_50749345 | type |
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Galaxy Angel: Mint Blancmanche can sometimes fly with her ears, though unlike most examples hers are rather small and should not be able to support her. Rule of Funny is at play here depending on the episode. | |
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In Kaze and the Wild Masks, donning the eagle mask causes Kaze's ears to grow feathers and become makeshift wings. | |
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In Vib-Ribbon, getting a high enough score causes Vibri to float up offscreen using her ears as wings. | |
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In the Xenoblade Chronicles series, the Nopon race have a downplayed version of this. Their wings are connected to the back of their heads in a very earlike position, and resemble ears when held upright, but don't seem to be their actual ears. As a bonus, they also use their wings as hands more often than their actual hands. | |
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In Tik Tak Tail, Tik the rabbit can use his ears to fly. | |
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The demoness Syren from Devilman is within the subtrope of having large wings attached to her head. | |
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Avatar: The Last Airbender, The Legend of Korra: In "The Guide", Jinora is seen playing with some spirits looking like multicolored bunnies with dragonfly wings instead of ears, allowing them to fly. Later in season 3, one of them becomes good friend with Bumi and follows him everywhere. Another kind of spirits looks like gerbils with very large ears, also used for flying. They too tend to flock to Jinora, and she uses one "Original Airbenders" to send a distress message to her uncle Bumi. |
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From The Snouters: Form and Life of the Rhinogrades, the Earwing (Otopteryx volitans) flies with its ears (using its nose to steer). | |
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In the Blackstar cartoon, Gossamer the Trobbit is a gnome with large ears allowing him to fly. | |
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The Remlits in The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword use their ears for flight. | |
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Meba, a shapeshifting alien mercenery from Doraemon: Nobita and The Space Heroes, can transform her ears into wings for flight, unlike her colleagues Ogun and Hyde who use Jet Packs. | |
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In Dumbo's Circus, the adult Dumbo can still fly with his ears, including while pulling a wagon full of his friends behind him in the opening credits. | |
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Mario from Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins flies with his bunny ears when he has the Magic Carrot powerup. Otherwise, the bunny ears are more for slowing your descent instead of flying. They can send you impressive distances if you quickly tap the button repeatedly rather than holding it to hover, though. | |
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In the Wakfu OVA The Legend of Ogrest, the title character finds by accident that his large ears allow him to fly by flapping very fast (hummingbird-like fast, in fact). It's quite instinctive at the start and Ogrest has a hard time controlling it, leading to a few crashes. | |
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Pokémon: Dragonair have wings where their ears should be. Unlike the anime (which has it fly with them in the second Pikachu short and a Journeys episode), it's usually seen more swimming or floating in the games. Sky Forme Shaymin, growing antler-like wings as part of gaining the Flying type. |
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Cream the Rabbit from Sonic the Hedgehog can fly with her ears. | |
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Kowl, from She-Ra: Princess of Power, pictured above. He seems to be a hybrid of a koala and an owl (hence his name), and uses his ears as wings. Although his flight appears to be magic and quite apart from how he flaps his ears. Note how, in "The Secret of the Sword", his response to getting startled is to freeze — and he just stay there sitting frozen in mid-air. | |
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Kirby and the Forgotten Land: Kirby's Fairy Companion Elfilin can fly using his massive ears. Even a notable Ear Notch isn't enough to impede his flight. The Big Bad Fecto Forgo gains even larger ears to fly with after it merges with Elfilin. | |
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Accel World: In the anime's first OVA "Reverberation," Nega Nebulous finds themselves pulled into the now defunct predecessor to Brain Burst called Accel Assault. In doing so, the characters each transform into an amalgamation of their combat and school avatars. This results in Haruyuki appearing in his pink pig form, but with feathery (and flight capable) wings for ears in reference to his Silver Crow form. | |
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Oswald the Lucky Rabbit occasionally uses his long floppy ears to fly as a quick visual gag, such as in "Oh What a Knight" when he uses them to escape falling into an alligator-filled moat. | |
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Klonoa: Klonoa can glide for a few seconds with the help of his rather long ears. | |
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Baku from Sanrio's Onegai My Melody series, can extend his ears and use them to fly. | |
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Milla Basset from Freedom Planet can fly by flapping her ears. | |
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General Ganbosu from Doraemon: Nobita's Three Visionary Swordsmen has ears which can serve as wings, until Nobitania slices his left ear off. | |
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Sticking to the "insult everyone" theme, Family Guy portrays Ben Stiller as having this ability. | |
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In Tales of the Abyss, Team Pet Mieu can learn to do this if you follow a certain sidequest chain. He does it naturally in The Anime of the Game. | |
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Alias the Jester: Alias's pet, a doglike alien creature named Boswell, has a pair of small but functional wings sprouting from his head. There's reason to believe that Alias (never seen without a hat that covers the sides of his head) does too. | |
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