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Growing Wings
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Since the dawn of time man has wanted to fly. But, well... To be honest it is pretty darn hard. It took a long time to figure out that humans themselves could not fly and it took even longer before man could do it with tools. But what if if could be done easier? What if humans could simply grow wings themselves and fly away? Growing Wings is a trope centered around a person, animal, or even an object that sprouts wings. The wings either grow over time, or are gained instantly. The wings can appear suddenly, often as a result of a magical spell or MacGuffin. In case of a person or animal, the character could also go through Metamorphosis. They can wake up one morning to discover tiny wings on their back, which grow over time until they are functional. The initial sprouts can be ridges, feathery tufts, or tiny, articulated wings. The more realistic the story is, the more slow and painful the change will be. If the transformation is graphic and large flight muscles also develop, it can be a case of Transformation Horror. Note that this trope is for permanent or semi-permanent wings. Wings that appear and disappear go into the category of Power Gives You Wings. For instances where people wish this would happen, see Call of the Wild Blue Yonder. |
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Puella Magi Madoka Magica: Madoka sprouts a pair upon her ascension as a goddess. Homura grows wings in Puella Magi Madoka Magica The Movie: Rebellion. |
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Realm of the Elderlings: In The Rain Wild Chronicles, Thymara eventually develops wings, due to influence from her dragon. They are not strong enough to allow her to fly, however. | |
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World War Etheria: In comparison Glimmers wings only come in after a healing form She-Ra, years later the same thing happens with Glow. | |
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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Battle Tendency: In the climax, Kars, having just become the ultimate life-form, gains Voluntary Shapeshifting. He uses it to grow wings and fly after Joseph's plane. | |
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Naruto: Sasuke sprouts wings during his fight with Naruto. The transformation sequence looks a bit painful and they burst through his clothing. | |
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Darksiders: War obtains demon wings after completing a quest for one of the hellish archlords stranded on earth. Although these don't give flight, they will allow War to float to new areas and jump higher. | |
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Morbius: In his 3rd solo series, Morbius grows bat wings after an attempt to cure himself of his scientific vampirism goes wrong and the bat DNA starts taking over the human DNA. They grow bigger as he becomes less human. | |
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Cardcaptor Sakura: Sakura gains wings when she uses the Fly card in the second season. In the first, her staff sprouted the wings and she rode it like a witch's broom. There's also Yue and Ruby Moon who have wings in their true forms but not their false ones. | |
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The Binding of Isaac: Getting certain upgrades in tandem with Transcendence will cause Isaac to grow a pair of wings. | |
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Homura grows wings in Puella Magi Madoka Magica The Movie: Rebellion. | |
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Homestuck: Any troll characters who die on their questbed or die and are placed there ascend to god tier and grow a pair of wings the same color as their blood. | |
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Tithe: As Kaye begins showing her pixie heritage, she sprouts gossamer buglike wings from two bumps on her shoulder blades. As with insects, they take a bit to dry off after emerging, and Kaye is large enough that they aren't capable of actual flight. | |
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Uncanny X-Men: The Uncanny X-Men Vol. 1 story arc "Quarantine" (issues 530-534) introduces an experimental drug that gives a specific mutant's power to ordinary humans. One of the volunteers, Penny Newsom, chooses Angel. Shortly after taking it, she sprouts wings. | |
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In Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures, the Cubi race grows a second pair of wings on their head in addition to the pair on their back when they come into power. | |
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The Fades: A plot point for Paul, the protagonist, signaling his role in the apocalyptic crisis developing around him. | |
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Eureka Seven: In the final episodes, Eureka is distressed when she undergoes a mysterious transformation that includes the sprouting of bright green butterfly wings. | |
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Flight: The Volume 1 short comic "I wish..." by Vera Brosgol is about a teenage girl that grows angel wings one day. It's mostly her talking with a friend about growing up wishing she could fly. | |
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She-Ra: In The Wake: The tiny wings on Glimmer's shoulders grew to full size by the start of the story, the sudden metamorphosis apparently how that works with her mother's species. | |
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The Titan. In his Rousing Speech, the Evilutionary Biologist tells the volunteers for a program to settle humans on Titan that the changes they undergo will turn them into supermen. He didn't mention he was secretly splicing the volunteers with animal DNA; one subject is shown to grow bat wings right when he goes crazy, kills his wife and is shot dead by soldiers. At the end of the movie the only successful test subject is shown with similar wings, flying over a methane lake on Titan. | |
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Haibane Renmei: The Haibane grow small, non-functional wings within a few hours of their "birth". The wing-growing is shown to be extraordinarily painful, as the wings tear through the skin on the back and come out covered in blood. | |
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Lucifer (2016): In the season 2 finale, Lucifer is knocked out and wakes up in the middle of the desert, his wings having grown back after having cut them off before the series began. The following episode, he has had his wings cut off multiple times, only for them to grow back in an instant. | |
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Thumbelina (1994): At the end, Thumbelina sprouts a pair of fairy wings when she marries fairy prince Cornelius. | |
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Vision of Escaflowne: Draconians appear as normal people until they do this. There is a long-standing prejudice against them, so they don't do it unless it's absolutely necessary. | |
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The Magician's Nephew: Aslan gives Strawberry wings and renames him Fledge. Instant Cool Horse. | |
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X-Men: The Last Stand: Angel is shown to have something growing out of his back as a child. Fast forward ten years: he has wings. | |
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Boomer Express: Jarred experiences this early in. It was quite the painful episode. | |
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Domina: The aves stole the toy box from Necessarius in order to use its more advanced Bio-Augmentation to grow wings for themselves. They barely made any progress by the time they were forced to flee the city. Several people with powers have been shown to have variants of this ability. A shifter can shift into a form with wings (though they will eventually run out of power and snap back), and a morpher can grow wings over the course of hours or days. In both cases, it's noted that wings aren't the best methods of flight, and most other types outpace them in both speed and maneuverability. |
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This Bites!: As a result of feeding on the strength increasing drugs found in Mereville, Conis's wings end up tripling in size. However, according to Chopper, it would take her at least two years for her to figure out how to flynote Which she ends up getting when the Straw Hat Pirates are inevitably scattered by Kuma. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: This often happens in Wham Episodes: "Magical Mystery Cure": At the end, Twilight Sparkle gains wings, becoming an alicorn when she manages to finish an incomplete spell created by Starswirl the Bearded. "Molt Down": Spike grows wings after dealing with a magical symptom called "the molt", which is essentially dragon puberty, and a very uncomfortable one at that. Supplementary info implies that the opposite happened to Princess Cadance: she already had wings, and gained a unicorn horn instead. |
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The Wayfarer Redemption: The Icarii race are born wingless, and develop wings in infancy. Dormant wing-buds of half-Icarii, half-human adults can still be encouraged to sprout, using magic. | |
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Battle Angel Alita: Last Order: Alita sprouts wings with damascus metal blades for feathers after her second resurrection. She's not impressed with them, since they impede her fighting style. | |
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She-Ra and the Princesses of Power: Glimmer already has wings, tiny cute ones that many viewers mistake for tattoos, unlike her mother's full feathered wings. Come Season 4 after fully accepting the Moonstone's power following Angella's death, they glow and grow to full size only to disappear and never seen being used. | |
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Princess Ai: Ai sprouts a pair on account of her unconventional heritage. | |
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Dr. Franklin's Island: It happens to Miranda in a horrifying way — she loses her hands and her breastbone bursts through her skin as she turns into a bird. As it happens she tries to stay positive about it, saying that she'd love to be able to fly. | |
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Aion: Ascending to Daevahood lets a player character summon a pair of wings at will. | |
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Angel Beats!: Kanade programs angel wings on herself after Otonashi suggests it. | |
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