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Perpetual Molt
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In fiction, any feathered creature, from a sparrow or crow to gryphon or winged angel, always seems to be molting loose feathers, such that whenever one takes flight, it leaves behind a trail (or shower) of loose feathers. Molting is a natural process in real life birds — those iconic flight feathers do occasionally need to be shed and regrown, but it only happens in seasonal intervals, and large birds only shed one or two feathers at a time (much like people and other mammals shed a few hairs here and there). Only extreme stress causes a bird or mammal to shed rapidly. Some species of smaller birds and waterfowl (ducks, say) who do shed all of their flight feathers at once are in fact left unable to fly until their new ones grow back in. If a bird were to shed the same quantity of feathers as depicted in fiction, it would probably be a sign of parasites or disease, and either way the bird would be grounded. As such, this trope occurs mainly for its value as a visual spectacle (and, in video games, to show off the system's particle effects). See also Feather Motif for when feathers are used as a recurring metaphor or symbol in a work. Also compare Feather Flechettes, which is what occurs if one weaponizes all those loose feathers. Examples |
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Blake Thorburn, in Pact, starts bleeding feathers when he's cut instead of blood at one point, as part of his general bird motif. | |
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Kirby Super Star Wing Kirby, who does this whenever he flies — only when he flies, too. Wing Kirby also has an attack that involves shooting his feathers as projectiles. And in the remake, there is a new angel-winged boss called Galacta Knight who sheds feathers in some animations, most notably when he first appears and zooms to the top of the screen. |
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The Oni-Eating Tengu Haruka in Tactics always takes off in a shower of falling plumes. In especially dramatic scenes it's practically a downpour of them. | |
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Awkward Zombie: Parodied here where Link tries to use a chicken to glide across a gap in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. He grabs the chicken fine, but the chicken's frantic flapping and Perpetual Molt cause it to lose all its feathers in the time it takes to reach the gap, sending Link plummeting into the abyss. | |
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In AIR, Kanna is in ethereal Perpetual Molt, and Ryuuya's descendants are perpetually chasing after her with her feathers as clues. Kanna's feathers are dangerous, every single one of them. | |
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In the Pixar Short called "For the Birds", a large bird stands in the middle of a telephone wire populated with many small birds, bending it down like a bowstring. When they make him fall off, it snaps back, and all the birds shoot into the air and fall to the ground featherless, the feathers falling around them. | |
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The angels in Ah! My Goddess, as well as the goddesses themselves when depicted with wings, practically leave a trail of shining magical feathers. The opening credits of the 2005 TV series version shows a veritable rain of feathers around the winged goddesses. | |
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Hayate's magical form in the Lyrical Nanoha franchise has her shedding black feathers from her wings whenever she uses them. | |
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In Samurai Warriors, Oda Nobunaga and his White Knight counterpart Akechi Mitsuhide manage to do this without any visible wings. | |
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The Last Guardian's Trico usually averts this trope, save for an entirely justified case near the end in which his getting mauled by others of his kind has him trailing feathers as he flies. | |
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Some of the main characters being angels with giant wings, this is common in Riviera: The Promised Land. | |
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In Baten Kaitos, Kalas, post-Face–Heel Turn molts when he first gets his pretty glowy white wings. In the prequel, Sagi can use his wings for a temporary speed boost when walking around, which also results in this effect. |
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A slight molt effect is added to some of his landings in Kid Icarus: Uprising, which turns this into a conversation that Pit and Palutena might have | |
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World of Warcraft has Giorgio's Caduceus of Pure Moods, a healing staff with a head that looks like a pair of wings encircling an egg, and has a magical aura that makes it look like it's molting. It drops of Ji-Kun, a large bird boss from the Throne of Thunder raid who uses a Feather Flechettes attack. | |
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While the eponymous archangel in Michael doesn't fly, the number of feathers he drops from his wings throughout the movie seem to be an indicator of how much longer he can stay on Earth. After bringing a dog back to life, he loses many feathers all at once, and is greatly weakened. | |
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An extreme example is the Wing Gundam Zero Custom in Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz. This mecha features large angel-like wings which are composed of individual feather-like sections. Although the feathers are supposed to be made of metal, in several scenes the Wing Zero appears with drifting feathers filling the air around it. This has been explained away as an optical illusion caused by sunlight striking the wings, but nobody is really convinced by that. | |
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In X-Men: Evolution, Angel is spotted by Cyclops and Rogue, who don't know his civilian identity yet, by the trail of feathers he leaves. As a rule, though, he doesn't leave a shower of feathers behind in any version. | |
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Shanoa's magical wings in Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia, which are either justified or Handwaved by the wings being generated by magic; presumably, the MP cost when you activate the glyph includes periodic upkeep. | |
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Parodied in 3rd Rock from the Sun as the death of a chicken is punctuated by a "snowfall" of feathers — in 3D, no less! | |
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In Ace Online, one of the Randomly Drops armor is the Exorcist Binder, a jet fighter the shape of a bird. One of the weapons associated with this armor is Charisma of Emperor, which is a set of missiles that leaves a trail of burning feathers. Supposedly, Exorcist Binder itself is supposed to leave a trail of feathers from its jet engine wake. Not that fanmade mods hasn't fixed it yet. | |
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The titular mecha from RahXephon does this in the show's intro, and near the end of the series. | |
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The Bride of the Water God: The Emperor sheds more or less continuously when he is wearing his miniature black wings. | |
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The Legend of Zelda In The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Cuccos constantly molt while you hold them (as parodied in this Awkward Zombie strip). The wings that encase Link when playing the Song of Soaring in The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask. Kaepora Gaebora does it to help Link cross a series of invisible platforms in Goron Village. The Helmaroc King in The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker. Its appearance in Hyrule Warriors goes the weaponizing route with Feather Flechettes. |
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Banjo-Kazooie turns this trope into a gameplay mechanic: Red Feathers must be used continuously to keep Kazooie in flight, and Golden Feathers are slowly used up as she uses the Wonderwing move. In their Smash incarnation, the latter seems to molt a ton of feathers at once, rather than a few at a time, as it can only be used 5 times per stock. | |
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Every character with wings in Devils and Realist both angel and demon seems to shed their feathers all the time, the worse offender of this trope is Lucifer, the emperor of demon. He is a fallen angel but he has wings for hair and in one episode he shed/rain feathers enough to pile up on the ground. | |
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Tales of Symphonia: This happens to the angels every single time they bring out their wings, also done by Remiel every time he vanishes at a seal. Later in the game, Colette gets a spell that grants a status boost. How is this portrayed? By making your entire party molt pink feathers constantly. Somewhat justified in the case of angels other than Remiel, since they have energy wings instead of the kind with bird feathers. |
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Subverted in Watership Down, in which Kehaar is seen to lose only one flight feather. That one was probably justified, as he was recovering from a cat attack and the lost feather might've been shed because it was damaged, not because he was molting out-of-season. | |
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In Howl's Moving Castle, Bird!Howl loses more and more feathers as the story unfolds. | |
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Kamen Rider: Sieg from Kamen Rider Den-O. This and his leitmotif are always a sign that he has arrived. Likewise, a sign of Kamen Rider Odin's presence in Kamen Rider Ryuki. Normally overpowered and untouchable, even capable of rewinding time, he takes his first hit ever when Shinji, with his partial Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory, writes himself a note that says "When you see gold feathers, punch behind you." |
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Suigintou in Rozen Maiden. This trope was the trigger of a two-episode Story Arc: one of Suigintou's feathers got stuck on Shinku's body, causing her and Hinaichigo to temporarily become inert dolls. Indeed, Suigintou's Perpetual Molt is weaponized. She keeps shooting those feathers as projectiles at her enemies. | |
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The elder Sakamoto-sama in Princess Princess is shown emitting a Perpetual Molt, even though he doesn't have wings or feathers. | |
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In the Panzer Dragoon universe, massive flying creatures called Els Enora can shed large quantities of feathers at will. These feathers quickly act as a seed crystal for nearby snow and ice particles, forming a giant wall/net in the path of fleeing prey. And by "prey" we mean player character, who must act quickly to shoot a hole in the wall of feathers or suffer collision damage. | |
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The titular Gunvolt of the Azure Striker Gunvolt series constantly sheds electricity in the form of azure feathers. When he rescues Joule at the start of the first game, she first mistakes him for an angel due to this effect. | |
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Gundam An extreme example is the Wing Gundam Zero Custom in Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz. This mecha features large angel-like wings which are composed of individual feather-like sections. Although the feathers are supposed to be made of metal, in several scenes the Wing Zero appears with drifting feathers filling the air around it. This has been explained away as an optical illusion caused by sunlight striking the wings, but nobody is really convinced by that. Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny does this with the Destiny Gundam...who has non-feathered wings made of Pure Energy. |
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The villain Dr. Muraki in Descendants of Darkness was occasionally surrounded by white feathers falling from the sky, usually in highly allegorical circumstances. When protagonist Tsuzuki was possessed by a demon, he grew large black bird's wings that shed feathers, too. | |
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While not being a bird, Alita Tiala's brooch lets a flock of feathers into the air every time she is distressed in Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney. | |
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Super Smash Bros. Brawl subjects Pit to this trope. Every time he flies, he seems to lose a ton of feathers. But he's using a magic one (the move was based off a powerup from Kid Icarus) so that's okay. | |
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Pokémon has the Feather Dance move, which coats the opponent in feathers, reducing their Attack...probably by cushioning any physical blows that they attempt to make. | |
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The Haibane of Haibane Renmei manage to subvert this trope. There are places with giant piles of Haibane feathers at times, but it's always indicative of serious problems when more than a single feather falls out. | |
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The Helmaroc King in The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker. Its appearance in Hyrule Warriors goes the weaponizing route with Feather Flechettes. | |
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The pigeon named "John Woo" in Read or Die the TV Series. | |
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Final Fantasy: The One-Winged Angel(s) from Final Fantasy VII. Not just Sephiroth, Angeal and Genesis too had a single wing that, well, always give rains of feather. Zack's death is symbolized by a rain of feathers as Angeal picks his arm to go to the Lifestream. It seems that everyone with a wing has infinite feathers. In Kingdom Hearts, the optional battles Sephiroth also feature him warping around the stage, leaving a shower of feathers whenever he does so, and also the occasional falling when he attacks with his sword. This is also carried over into Dissidia Final Fantasy. Play with the extended battle openings on, and both Sephiroth and Ultimecia will enter with falling black feathers fluttering around them. Ultimecia actually takes this a step further by molting constantly all throughout any battle with her. If you don't know what's going on, the first time you see it you may be prompted to think your PSP is developing dead pixels. |
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Ran of Akame ga Kill!, when he releases his Teigu and shows his wings, they are constantly losing feathers, which is in fact a purposely built in feature of them as he can manipulate the feathers to attack his targets and they are extremely deadly. | |
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If anyone plays Yu-Gi-Oh! Tag Force Series, in the fourth and fifth installations, Crow's Ace monsters (or the ones with cutscene animations) have this problem. Their summon and attack animations all have an absurd amount of Black Feathers in them, the worst offender is Black Feather-Arms Wing, who uses the feathers as bullets. | |
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In The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Cuccos constantly molt while you hold them (as parodied in this Awkward Zombie strip). | |
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D.N.Angel: To say the angels Dark and Krad shed feathers all over the place is the understatement of the year. It can be said without exaggeration that there's times when they shed thousands of feathers all at once. | |
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Zap!: In an interesting case, the powers of the psychic Zap often manifest as glowing wing-like shapes. A carnival case full of stuffed animals is destroyed during an epic showdown, filling the air with golden feathers. When Zap's power manifests, the feathers in the air make it look like this trope is happening. | |
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A plot point in the Pure arc of Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch. Lucia must collect the fragments of Seira's heart, which have attached themselves to Michel's angel feathers. This means she has to run into him when his Quirky Miniboss Squad attacks the town. Why he wouldn't just stay in his own dimension is beyond me, especially with his health condition... | |
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In Happy Feet, this trope is subverted. The main character, Mumble, is an adult Emperor Penguin. Yet he didn't ever finish shedding his down feathers in the movie. He's the only adult penguin that has this occur. It was later explained that the editors wanted him to have a unique look throughout the movie. This permanent molt makes it look like he is wearing a tuxedo, appropriate for tapdancing. Played straight in the storybooks, however. | |
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The trope is so pervasive that the cover to the soundtrack album to Simoun shows Aaeru and Neviril reclining on a helical motor wheel with the feathers from a Perpetual Molt flying in the air around them, even though neither of them have wings or feathers, and no bird or angel is visible anywhere nearby. | |
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Philomena in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, justified as she's reaching the rebirth part of her phoenix life cycle and so actually is molting. | |
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Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny does this with the Destiny Gundam...who has non-feathered wings made of Pure Energy. | |
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Explained in an episode of CSI, when a pile of feathers is found at a crime scene. When they were taken to a pet store to attempt to identify the type of bird, the owner explains that birds only shed one or two at the most. For the amount found, "Someone yanked. Hard." | |
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Every appearance of Beelzebumon in Digimon Fusion starts with feathers falling down. | |
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Aladdin: A Running Gag with Iago, who keeps losing feathers while suffering Amusing Injuries. | |
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In League of Legends, the angel champion Kayle molts a shower of golden feathers onto her target whenever she casts her healing spell. | |
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In Spelljammer, ships of the Aarakocra are made faster than normal, but there's a good reason why the rest of Wildspace races don't form a line to buy them at three times the stated price... or even seek passage more than once. What with feathered sails and the atmosphere perpetually contaminated with down feathers. | |
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In Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg, when you hatch an Elder, they always hatch out with a burst of feathers. Interestingly, one of the hatchable powerups (a double-jump, aptly named 'Wings') will also let loose a flurry of feathers, every time you use it. | |
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Tekken While Jin Kazama does not usually leave a trail of feathers wherever he goes in his Devil Jin form, he is not excempt from this trope: in his Tekken 4 ending, Devil Jin escapes Honmaru through the roof, leaving behind a rain of black feathers (among them a single white one, symbolizing the good in him). The same scene is used as the very first visual of the Tekken 5 opening. In the console opening to Tekken Tag Tournament 2, Angel is shown surrounded by feathers, which molt whenever she uses them, by jumping or flying. It's easier to see the feathers against a dark background. |
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This is also carried over into Dissidia Final Fantasy. Play with the extended battle openings on, and both Sephiroth and Ultimecia will enter with falling black feathers fluttering around them. Ultimecia actually takes this a step further by molting constantly all throughout any battle with her. If you don't know what's going on, the first time you see it you may be prompted to think your PSP is developing dead pixels. | |
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Namu Amida Butsu! -UTENA-: King Konjikikujaku apparently lets his feathers fly around a lot, which gets him constant chastisement from Ususama My��. | |
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In Kingdom Hearts, the optional battles Sephiroth also feature him warping around the stage, leaving a shower of feathers whenever he does so, and also the occasional falling when he attacks with his sword. | |
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When wings, including bird-like angel-wings, were introduced to the MMO City of Heroes, they were originally planned to be in Perpetual Molt. This was, however, scrapped before they "went live", due to the demands this would've put on the physics engine. With the release of issue 20.5, a "feather" aura which produces this exact effect is available for Incarnate characters to purchase. | |
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