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Ask a lot of folks what the most beautiful bird is, and they're very likely to say "swan." And really, why wouldn't other answers come up as often? Maybe it's because of their pure white plumage, their graceful movements, the legendary song they're said to make when they die, or the fact that their wings can break human bone. Yes, you heard right — their wings can break human bone.note According to some sources, that's a myth or at least an exaggeration. Even so, there's no denying that it would at minimum bruise and really hurt. A lot of portrayals of swans in the media paint them as beautiful, peaceful birds, which isn't surprising considering that they're nigh-exclusively herbivorous.note Again, not really; swans are actually omnivores like most other water birds, and can and will eat things like insects, amphibians, fish and crustaceans, and on rare occasions, other birds! That said, however, peaceful they ain't — thanks to media depictions of them as almost angelic in behavior, not many people realize swans are very territorial birds and that a pissed-off swan will mess you up, especially during nesting season when they've got cygnets to protect — swans are among the greatest parents in the animal kingdom, and will protect their cygnets with their life against any predator or intruder, including careless humans. Nonetheless, that hasn't stopped folklore and fiction from portraying swans as symbols of purity, because their imagery is very similar to that of angels, and that includes the white feathers, and everyone knows that Light Is Good. They have also been used as symbols of love, due to their monogamous habits and the heart shape their necks make when two swans face each other. Many Shapeshifting Lovers are swans. The meme of the swan as graceful on the water and somewhat otherworldly has been influential on human minds, especially those who dwell in riverfaring cultures: witness the existence of Swan Boats in many cultures. On a side note, expect all swans you see in pop culture to be white, and typically based on Whooper swans, Mute swans and Trumpeter swans; the Tundra swan is shown considerably less than the others. Black swans and black-necked swans do exist, but they're only native to Australia and South America respectively, which explains why Western culture never even heard of them until around the 18th century or so. In fact, black swans were for a good while used as metaphors for something which could not exist, and later for something whose existence couldn't be predicted but is later rationalized as predictable. Swans are the largest members of the duck family, Anatidae. Contrast Foul Waterfowl, where water birds (like swans) are depicted as violent. |
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Adventure Time: Princess Bubblegum has a swan that she rides around on, that can shoot laser beams out of its eyes. She pulls a Big Damn Heroes moment and puts in a Terminator Shout-Out along with it. | |
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And Kamen Rider Fourze has the Cygnus (the swan) Zodiarts, an enemy based on that constellation (for more info on that constellation, go to the link in Real Life). Though it initially fights for good. Then it secretly beats people up who questions it. | |
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E.B. White's The Trumpet of the Swan is a children's story about a trumpeter swan who, having no voice, wants to play a literal trumpet. | |
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Planet Zoo: The Eurasian Animals Pack adds mute swans, who are safe enough for guests to enter their habitats. | |
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Singer Thom Yorke of the band Radiohead released a song entitled "Black Swan" on the soundtrack of the 2006 film A Scanner Darkly, and three days later on his debut solo album The Eraser. | |
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Bleak Expectations: Bungling Inventor Harry Biscuit is just a teensy bit obsessed with swans as the solution to all life's problems. During a period where he turns incredibly evil, he manages to turn a flock of swans to his side by infecting them with evil... by kissing them. And not on the beak... | |
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In Mossflower Martin and his companions see swans and are very careful to get away unnoticed, knowing how dangerous the birds can be. However, the mooks who are tracking them are somewhat less informed on swans' nature, and it does not go well for them. | |
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There is a running gag in Shades of Grey involving swans of various sizes being very dangerous. | |
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In Rose is Rose, two swans say Jimbo and Rose are not so graceful as swans, but they are as romantic. | |
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TierZoo: At the end of the "Are Geese OP?" video, TierZoo makes no hesitation at telling the viewers that swans are territorially-aggressive animals which are "everything scary about geese but shifted to maximum overdrive" such as actually having a good attack stat, and also have one of the highest aesthetics/beauty values in the game. | |
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Princess Tutu borrows a LOT of swan imagery: Her costume is based on Odette's, Muggles see her only as a giant swan, and since she's really a duck, there's an element of The Ugly Duckling, too. Also, although she's technically a "raven", Rue/Princess Kraehe is often compared to Odile, the Black Swan. Neither of them are really fighters, but it's easy to forget in light of their epic Ballet Battles. | |
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Discworld In Witches Abroad, Nanny Ogg compares palaces to swans; they look as if they glide gracefully through history, but only because there's a hell of a lot of work going on beneath the surface. Maskerade has a brief scene where Death visits a swan who is presented as an arrogant noble of the waterfowl world, and is also quick to add that he can break a man's (or Anthropomorphic Personification's) arm with a blow of his wing. |
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Maskerade has a brief scene where Death visits a swan who is presented as an arrogant noble of the waterfowl world, and is also quick to add that he can break a man's (or Anthropomorphic Personification's) arm with a blow of his wing. | |
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In Hot Fuzz, Nick Angel makes it his personal mission to track down a rogue swan and bring it to justice. During the climax of the film, it attacks Frank Butterman, stopping him single-wingedly. | |
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In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Cho Chang, who is noted to be beautiful and graceful even if she is an emotional wreck that year following the murder of her boyfriend, manages to learn how to produce a corporeal Patronus and discovers that hers is a swan, a nice reflection of her beauty and her willingness to fight. | |
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In Science Ninja Team Gatchaman, Jun from the Five-Man Band has a uniform based on a swan. She's just as tough and fierce as the bird itself. | |
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In Kamen Rider Ryuki and Kamen Rider Dragon Knight, the one female Rider (Femme and Siren, respectively) is a swan-themed Distaff Counterpart of The Lancer (who himself has a bat theme). | |
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Invoked in Civilization VI when Ludwig II of Bavaria sends a delegation to you — as a patron of the arts and elegance he sends a hundred swans as a gift to you. However, as Ludwig is also a bit of a Cloudcuckoolander and not the most meticulous of planners, all but one of the swans fly away right as he's introducing them to you. | |
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Carmina Burana includes the movement "Olim lacus colueram", a lament sung by a swan that once swam in lakes but has been roasted and is about to be eaten. | |
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Peter Pan: Peter Pan briefly landed on a pair of swans and rode on them as if they were waterskis while taking the Darling children to Neverland during the song "You Can Fly!" | |
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In The Tudors, after Anne Bolyn's beheading, King Henry is depicted breaking apart a roasted swan and devouring it. It probably means...something. | |
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Molly of Denali: In "Reading the Mud," Molly and Tooey head to the lake after receiving a tip from Trini's dad on a big, white bird. It turns out to be just a tundra swan. | |
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The Swan Princess is based on the Swan Lake ballet. It also has six sequels as of 2017. Interestingly, Odette is a former Tomboy Princess who's still brave and tenacious, so she actually combines the traditional image of swans with their real-life ability to fuck you up. | |
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Not swans per se, but the Pegasi from the "Pastoral Symphony" in Fantasia evoke their imagery when they land on a lake and glide along its surface. | |
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The elegant swan ballerina Madame Bella Swanna makes a brief appearance in the background of "Punchinello" in The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast, and gets her own poem in the sequel The Peacock Party. | |
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In Choujin Sentai Jetman, Kaori Rokumeikan is White Swan. Similarly, DekaSwan from Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger. | |
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Lohengrin was Ludwig II of Bavaria's favorite opera and the reason he had his famous Castle Neuschwanstein ("New Rock of the Swan") decorated with plenty of swans. | |
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In Witches Abroad, Nanny Ogg compares palaces to swans; they look as if they glide gracefully through history, but only because there's a hell of a lot of work going on beneath the surface. | |
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This trope is averted in Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction. When Adrian lives near a canal, swans are no thing of beauty, but his enemy, and he writes that he is constantly being "harrassed" by them, and they will not let him pass. He tries to contact the council to have an injunction taken out against them, adding that as swans belong to the Queen, she is responsible for their behaviour, and Her Majesty may well end up in court. Adrian nicknames one of the swans Gielgud, and it becomes a Running Gag that everyone who hears where he lives says "a swan can break a man's arm, you know". | |
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In The Lord of the Rings, the Fellowship sees a flock of swans flying by while boating down the river. They are also mentioned to be black swans, which seems to disturb Aragorn. | |
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The Black Swan never misses an opportunity to mention how lovely the poor maidens are when swimming as swans. | |
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Pokémon Black and White gives us Swanna, the White Bird Pokémon. Sure, it's beautiful and it dances at dusk, but the creators also kept its Killer Rabbit/Feathered Fiend status in mind. Of course, it should be kept in mind that Swanna's White dex entry claims that it attacks with its beak, despite the fact that the only move involving a beak it can learn is Pluck by TM. However, it CAN learn a fair few wing-based attacks, so it would have been more accurate if the dex entry had said that it administers punishing blows with its WINGS instead, as swans often do in Real Life. | |
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Catherine-Marie Cygne of Aviary Attorney has the head and part of the neck of a swan. Described as 'sorry-looking', she's an impoverished flower-seller. | |
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Zig-zagged by Wonder Woman villain the Silver Swan. The three women to have worn the identity are all fairly dangerous individuals armed with a deadly "Swan Song", but all of them fall under Tragic Villain to one extent or another, having their insecurities manipulated by worse (usually male) villains. | |
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The Forgotten Beasts of Eld has The Black Swan of Tirlith, who once carried a king's daughter from the stone tower of exile. Larger and stronger than an ordinary swan, the Black Swan is unafraid of mere men. | |
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Swans also appear in Irish mythology. For example, the Irish legend "The Children of Lir" is about a stepmother transforming her children into swans for 900 years. In another instance, in the legend "The Wooing of ÉtaÃn", the king of the Sidhe transforms himself and the most beautiful woman in Ireland, Etain, into swans to escape from the king of Ireland and Ireland's armies. | |
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In The Six Swans, the brothers are turned to swans. | |
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The Swan Maiden - Common to mainland Europe, and Russia. The women (occasionally men too) in question are normally swans, but they leave their feathered cloaks behind when they bathe as humans. This has influenced many stories, modern and old, including the ballet Swan Lake, Swanmays in Three Hearts and Three Lions and Dungeons & Dragons, Anita Blake's Swan Men, etc. Fairy Tales incorporating this in the Quest for the Lost Wife include "The Swan Maiden" and "The Three Swans". Fairy tales that end with the wife's escape include "The Swan Maiden". |
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The literary fairy tale "The Ugly Duckling" tells the story of a cygnet ostracized by his fellow barnyard fowl because of his perceived homeliness. To his delight (and to the surprise of others), he matures into a graceful swan, the most beautiful bird of all. The swans themselves are depicted as friendly and welcoming. | |
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Richard Wagner's Lohengrin famously has the mysterious eponymous virtuous knight appears in a boat drawn by a swan. The animal itself turns out to be a cursed prince. | |
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In King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella, there is a landmark on Genesta's island: a bridge over a pond with swan heads carved at either end, as well as a swan swimming in the water. It had absolutely nothing to do with the gameplay, but was one of the game's most striking images. | |
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In Loom, Weavers turn one another (or occasionally themselves) into swans, usually as a precursor to exile. Their patron spirit is The Swan; several characters are swan-themed; the main character's mother is named Cygna (Latin for 'swan') and all the game music is from Swan Lake. Yup, everything's swannier with Loom. | |
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John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme: The example of Zeus and Leda mentioned up in Myths and Legends is savaged. Leda is not remotely turned on by being propositioned by a swan, especially since Zeus makes it clear A: it's not a costume, and B: he intends to seduce her in swan form | |
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Irish folk-rockers The Horslips use the black swan motif in their remorse-and-regret laden Time to Kill, which, (in the context of a protracted messy war), regrets the Irish national tendency to kill first without taking too much time to think beforehand. | |
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Mobile Legends: Bang Bang: The hero Odette, being a homage to Swan Lake, is a mage who accompanies her spells with swan imageries, shooting out a swan-shaped beam for her first skill. She's aptly titled 'Swan Princess' and lives in 'Swan Castle'. She's known to be a great, graceful beauty much like swans being considered beautiful. And her swan-based spells hurt, as long as enemies do not get a jump on her early. | |
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Swan imagery is associated with Abigail Lockwood in The Room: Old Sins. | |
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Hyoga from Saint Seiya has Cygnus, the Swan, as his patron constellation. This leads to a lot of swan imagery as well as a lot of ice-elemental attacks accompanied by remotely ballet-esque movements. | |
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Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number: Invoked by Alex and Ash, who wear swan masks and fight as a duo, with Alex wielding a chainsaw and Ash using any firearms he picks across. As two brutal killers of mafiya mobsters and street gangs, the twins are inseparable. | |
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