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Flying Flightless Bird
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Not all birds possess the ability to fly; in fact, there's a good number of birds who can't. The specific reasons vary between each flightless bird, but the most common explanation boils down to their wings are not made for flying. Despite this, there are plenty of times in media in which a bird that shouldn't be able to fly actually does. It could be just one of its kind, or the entire species. In any case, if you see any birds known to be unable to fly in any source of media showing the ability to fly, they belong on this list. Note that if the flightless bird is using some sort of tool to fly (like an airplane or a jetpack), then it does not count since without it, the bird would truly be flightless. While not completely flightless, chickens may also count for this list on account of how their ability to fly only gets them 10 feet off the ground. If the chickens can go any higher than that, they qualify. Contrast Acrophobic Bird, for when birds who can fly don't fly for one reason or another. Compare Ridiculously Small Wings for creatures who shouldn't be able to fly, yet can. |
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Bread & Fred: Charlie is a flying penguin that can carry both player characters the 500 meters of mountain. There are no living species of penguin capable of flying even if all penguins retain the killed sternum required for it. | |
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In the second season of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Buck and the crew meet the character Hawk, a humanoid-evolved bird who was a skilled pilot. At one point, Hawk remarks that other humanoids hunted birds, so much so that the ability to fly was bred out of his kind. | |
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The Simpsons: "Bart's Comet": When Bart's comet's shadow loomed over the Springfield zoo and over the penguin exhibit, the birds then took flight to escape. "Brake My Wife, Please" has a scene in which Lisa opens the door of a penguin habitat that has been closed for repairs and discovers the penguins flying. When they realize they're being watched, they immediately land and try to act nonchalant. |
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Kiwi! is about a, well, kiwi's dream of flying. It achieves this, sort of, by nailing trees to a huge cliff to give itself the impression of flying above the treetops, though unfortunately it's a Tragic Dream. | |
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Kirby: King Dedede is a possible example. He looks to possibly be a penguin, and just like Kirby, he can fly by puffing up like a balloon. | |
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Loonatics Unleashed: Rev Runner is a roadrunner with the ability to fly. Justified as he gained this power from a meteorite. It should be noted that real roadrunners, contrary to popular belief, are fully capable of flying. | |
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Some of the enemy penguins in Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island flap around in midair unless Yoshi stuffs them in his mouth and spits them out, after which they'll simply waddle around like the other penguins. | |
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ARK: Survival Evolved has a downplayed pterosaur variant. The Quetzalcoatlus is shown to remain airborne constantly (this is reflected by it's low stamina drain when you tame it) and never landing, however fossil evidence seems to indicate that it was much more terrestrial than other pterosaur groups and would likely only take flight to escape larger predators. There's also another downplayed variation with the Terror Bird, it's a fast heavyset runner like it's real counterpart but can use it's tiny wings to glide a considerable distance. |
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The Dinotopia series features Dimorphodons as the pterosaurian equivalent of an Instant Messenger Pigeon, thus implying long-distance flying ability; later studies would uncover that Dimorphodon would likely have been about as good at flying as a chicken—that is to say, not very, due to its body being heavy and its wings being short. It still could fly, but likely only for short distances and in emergencies. This is justified due to science marching on, as all this wasn't known at the time the books were originally published. | |
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Jackie Chan Adventures: The Rooster Talisman grants the user the power of levitation and telekinesis, and when combined with the rabbit talisman grants the power of flight. When the talismans are destroyed in season 3, the energies inhabiting them are transferred into the animals they represent. The Rooster Talisman's power is absorbed by a farm rooster named Eggbert. | |
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Teen Titans (2003): In a blink and you'll miss it moment during the Scooby-Dooby Doors section of the episode "Mad Mod", Beast Boy is a Penguin and is flying from one door to the other. | |
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Migration: Gwen is fully capable of flight despite being a duckling. Later in the film, the domestic ducks are shown fully capable of flying on a long distance trip to Jamaica, despite domesticated ducks mostly having their flight ability cut down to a few feet off the ground. | |
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Pocoyo: In the episode "Chicks Dig Me", Pocoyo found three eggs that hatched into little chicken that can't be controlled. When Pato found them, he finally can control them and teaches them how to stay quiet and still, to skate and even to fly for the surprise of all (the narrator included). | |
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Ice Age: Collision Course features "dino-birds" which are flying raptors. In real life, no dromaeosaurid is capable of flight, the smaller kinds being able to glide at best. | |
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Pokémon: Doduo and Dodrio are based off of an ostrich, which is known for not being able to fly. Nevertheless, the line is still able to learn the move Fly. Many of Doduo's Pokédex entries note that it is a poor flier, but they don't say it can't fly at all. Some of the 3D games have them achieve flight by running in place. Delibird is also capable of learning Fly even though it is essentially a penguin. |
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Implied to be the case with Overdrive Ostrich in Mega Man X2. He used to be able to fly, but an accident robs him of his flying capabilities. He's still good at running fast as an ostrich would. | |
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Burn Rooster from Mega Man X8, is capable of flying despite being based on a mostly flightless bird, in contrast to Overdrive Ostrich. | |
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A plot point in Chicken Run is the chickens trying to learn how to fly from a rooster named Rocky after Ginger saw him flying. It turns out Rocky didn't actually fly, he was just shot out of a cannon. In the end, the chickens are able to fly... a plane they created. | |
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Madagascar: The opening scene has Marty running through a savannah. However, when the chorus of penguins take off and fly in formation, it's a clue to the viewer it's just a dream sequence. | |
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The Foxbusters: This British cartoon features three chickens capable of flight, and they use their unusual power to protect their farm from foxes. | |
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Plants vs. Zombies 2: It's About Time has the Dodo Rider Zombie fought in Frostbite caves. It's normally a grounded mook, but when it encounters some plants like Spikeweed or ice floes the dodo frantically flaps its wings to fly, temporarily becoming an Airborne Mook until it passes the threat. | |
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Bump in the Night: In one episode, when Bumpy and Squishy are chasing after a plucked turkey, they find it flying over their heads. Squishy protests the impossibility of this, even getting out the encyclopedia to prove to the turkey that he can't fly. The moment this sinks in, the bird falls out of the air. | |
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Levels in Super Mario Odyssey have small birds which look different in each level; they fly away as Mario approaches. The birds in Shiveria are tiny penguins, which fly just as well as the others. | |
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The Pebble and the Penguin: On his introduction, Rocko tells Hubie that his wish in life is to fly, despite the fact that he is a penguin. Near the end of the film, he actually does and teaches other penguins how to fly. | |
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In Joust, the first player's mount is a flying ostrich. | |
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Pokémon: The Series: The music video "It'll be fine!" ends with Dawn's Piplup riding on Dawn's Togekiss so that they both can fly high into the sky. | |
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Mega Man X: Implied to be the case with Overdrive Ostrich in Mega Man X2. He used to be able to fly, but an accident robs him of his flying capabilities. He's still good at running fast as an ostrich would. Burn Rooster from Mega Man X8, is capable of flying despite being based on a mostly flightless bird, in contrast to Overdrive Ostrich. |
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Digimon Tamers: One of the twelve Devas, is Sinduramon. He is based on a rooster and is able to fly. | |
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Sgt. Byrd from Spyro: Year of the Dragon is a military penguin who has missiles strapped to him. He is also capable of flying by flapping his little penguin flippers. Handwaved by how he's trained by the hummingbirds to flap his flippers fast enough. This is later averted with the use of a jet-pack in Spyro: A Hero's Tail. | |
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Downplayed by Expresso the Ostrich from Donkey Kong Country, who can't fly but can flap his wings when falling to slow his descent and give the player more control on where he lands. | |
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The Critic: Played for Laughs when Franklin discovers his airline pilot is a penguin — who's been drinking. | |
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