History Main / ClipItsWings

* ''VideoGame/PhantasyStarUniverse'': In the first UsefulNotes/PlaystationPortable spinoff, one of the bosses can be knocked to the ground by hitting its wings enough times. You can hit it with melee weapons, and then the wings grow back and you repeat until you beat it.

* ''Fanfic/EnneaSeries'': [[spoiler:Kaetsu cuts off Hawks' wings with a hacksaw]] in chapter thirty-four. They may grow back, but the regeneration will take a while.

* ''Anime/DoraemonNobitaAndTheWingedBraves'': Expectedly, since the adventure is set in a world of bird-people. The villain Seagrid holds a grudge towards humans because he was once shot in the wings by humans, during a routine migration trip to the human world. And then there's the hero, Icarus, who tries buying time for the gang in the final battle by battling the monster Phoenixia only to have his wings incinerated by Phoenixia's flames.

* In ''Pessi and Illusia'', a Finnish fairytale, Illusia-fairy decides to leave her rainbow home to visit the ground below. While being there, however, a spider bites off her wings when she's asleep. Since Illusia can't fly anymore this prevents her from returning home. It also leads her to fall in love with the troll, Pessi, of which the story is about.

* ''VideoGame/StarFox'': Your ship can sometimes lose its wings when it's damaged, particularly if you fly too close to something big and clip them yourself. It stays flying thanks to the ship's G-Diffuser system, but its laser goes back to being standard if you had collected upgrades. ''VideoGame/StarFox64'' not only keeps the laser loss penalty if your wings are clipped, but your Arwing will also start drifting to the side depending on which wing is broken. If both wings are broken, you'll be constantly descending.

* ''Manga/SoulHunter'': When the Makai Yonshu manage to put down [[WingedHumanoid Raijinshi]], they immediately decide to tear of his wings, that allowed him to [[{{Flight}} fly]] and project [[BlowYouAway powerful winds]].

* ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'': You can't target a dragon's wings specifically, but if you deal enough damage to one it'll land (or plow into the earth, leaving a long furrow) and spend the rest of the fight on the ground. Then later in the main quest you gain the "Dragonrend" [[MakeMeWannaShout Shout]], which briefly forces immortal, aedric beings to experience the concepts of mortality and a finite, temporary existence. This proves so disorienting that any dragon hit with this Shout is temporarily unable to fly or Shout itself.

* The space shuttle ''Columbia'' broke up because the area of heat shield on the left wing’s leading edge was damaged by falling foam at launch. The hot gas entering the hole and damaging the internal structure eventually caused most of the left wing to fall apart and tear off. Because it was banked at a diagonal angle to bleed off speed, ''Columbia''’s nose was pulled downward by the sudden loss of lift on that side and the shuttle entered an uncontrolled tumble and disintegrated.

* ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'': The Winter Soldier rips one of the wings off Sam's Falcon flight suit.

Wings are cool. If you have a pair, you can fly, [[WindFromBeneathMyWings blow people away with their flaps,]] and [[RuleOfCool generally look cool]]. Unfortunately, because of their size relative to the body, it makes a very good target. So if anything has wings, it has a fairly high chance of having its wings, or just one of them, damaged. Having one or both of their wings damaged might cause the flyer to never be capable of flight again.

[[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant Usually doesn't refer to clipping feathers so a bird can't fly]] (though it can overlap), or to ClippedWingAngel.

See also AntiAir. This can also result in a BrokenAngel.