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* The old Cyberpunk manga ''Manga/GokuMidnightEye'' has a female assassin who prefers FullFrontalAssault and has a cybernetic peacock tail with deadly hypno-eyes, who almost kills the protagonist via them, forcing him to [[EyeScream put out his own left eye]] in order to survive the encounter.

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%%* A Peacock Boy appears in ''Coldheart Canyon'', and has a very squicky origin. [[spoiler: He's a cross between a live peacock and a female human ''ghost''.]]

* A woman in Creator/JohnPatrickLowrie's sci-fi novel ''Literature/DancingWithEternity'' is one of these. She's been augmented so the peacock tattoos on her arms fan into a feathery peacock tail.

* Music/MileyCyrus wore a corset-dress with a giant peacock tail in her video "Can't Be Tamed".
* One or two shots in the video for "Leaving Las Vegas" by Music/SherylCrow has some showgirls with huge fan tails.
* The cover of Music/{{Goldfrapp}}'s ''Supernature'' album is cropped from a picture of Alison Goldfrapp [[http://farm1.static.flickr.com/17/92960608_ecd2fd98ac.jpg wearing a peacock tail]], although it's not flared.
* Icelandic singer Music/{{Bjork}} is known for wearing many bird-themed dresses. She once wore a sparkly peacock dress during one of her shows.
* Music/{{Sugababes}}' ''Shape'' music video: one of the guests at the masquerade has a peacock-themed costume and flares the train at the girl. Mutya is not very impressed.

* Creator/TakarazukaRevue shows love this. In revues and during finales, many numbers have just about everyone with a peacock tail on their costumes. It doesn't matter if it's a {{Bifauxnen}} in a suit or a lady in a PimpedOutDress. That being said, traditionally top stars - the leading otokoyaku (male role player) - tend to be the only one to wear "finale feathers" when the cast descends the Grand Staircase at the very end of the show.
* In RealLife, there is a showgirl accessory like this called a "fan tail", which is common in stage shows with showgirls.
* Some stage dancers, including burlesque, will put a pair of large feather fans behind their backs, which makes a tail, and also evokes the CoyGirlishFlirtPose (although without the coy part).

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* ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'': [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]] in the character of Peacock, an Avatar bound to a peacock spirit, and can manifest a brilliant peacock tail that mesmerizes people. Unfortunately for her, she's now a partial GenderBender, so she's in Poe Cottage with the other changelings. Lina is not at all happy with being intersexed now, and her family hasn't taken it well either.
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* Peek-A-Blue from ''WesternAnimation/SheRaPrincessOfPower'' has a tail, and the [[EyesDoNotBelongThere eye-like spots]] on her tail have [[{{Seers}} vision powers]].
** Averted in [[WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower the reboot]], where Peekablue is [[GenderFlip a guy]]. [[spoiler:We never actually see him, but Double Trouble impersonates him in one episode; if their portrayal is accurate, he's a {{Bishonen}}.]]

* ''VideoGame/MySims'' has the character Ms Nicole, a fashion boutique owner who wears a rather large hair accessory resembling a peacock tail.
* In ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'', there's a snooty ostrich villager named Julia who resembles a peacock.

Compare WingedHumanoid, GiantWaistRibbon.

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* Ro's PimpedOutDress in ''WesternAnimation/BarbieAsTheIslandPrincess'' includes a peacock tail, that is made of tail feathers given to her by her peacock friend (which [[RuleOfGlamorous somehow]] change from green to {{pink| means feminine}}).
* In ''WesternAnimation/DisneyPrincessEnchantedTalesFollowYourDreams'', Jasmine is briefly dressed up in a peacock getup for a portrait. It has a flared collar like a tail, though a train that isn't flared. She sheds it for the song "Not a Peacock Princess".
* [[BigBad Coco LaBouche's]] wedding dress at the end of ''WesternAnimation/RugratsInParis'' has a tail on the back.

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* Several outfits worn by female dancers during the carnival season in Latin America sport giant fan tails from huge feathers.
* Vaudeville and cabaret dancer outfits from the 30s and 40s sometimes had this instead of a traditional skirt. This was considered incredibly scandalous at the time (or rather, butts were considered scandalous: partly due to the anal sex taboo). sometimes they were actual peacock feathers.
* Plenty of Hallowe'en costumes, usually cheap, with various justifications.
* Skating and ballet outfits often have this, the ballet ones tend to be more outrageous since aerodynamics is more of a consideration for skaters. Though the two types of outfits are frequently enough completely interchangeable. Some ballets feature birds as characters or characters that become birds, or whatever: so you're likely to see this in Swan Lake, The Firebird, etc. Though many people consider it better if the costumer takes things a bit less literally, because the look is not seen as particularly tasteful.
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* A woman in John Patrick Lowrie's sci-fi novel ''Dancing With Eternity'' is one of these. She's been augmented so the peacock tattoos on her arms fan into a feathery peacock tail.

* An entire kingdom of Peacock People (both men and women) appears in Madame d'Aulnoy's FairyTale ''[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/aulnoy/1892/princessrosette.html Princess Rosette]]''. The kingdom's ruler, the aptly-named King of the Peacocks, wears a peacock train as a crown.

* ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'': [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]] in the character of Peacock, an Avatar bound to a peacock spirit, and can manifest a brilliant peacock tail that mesmerizes people. Unfortunately for her, she's now a partial GenderBender, so she's in Poe Cottage with the other changelings. Lina is not at all happy with being {{intersex}}ed now, and her family hasn't taken it well either.

* ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'': [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]] in the character of Peacock, an Avatar bound to a peacock spirit, and can manifest a brilliant peacock tail that mesmerizes people. Unfortunately for her, she's now a partial GenderBender, so she's in Poe Cottage with the other changelings. Lina is not at all happy with being [[{{Hermaphrodite}} intersexed]] now, and her family hasn't taken it well either.

** [[spoiler: Nathalie]] uses it at the end of the second season to become Mayura, wearing a a BadassLongcoat that includes a fantail.

* The Zuka club in ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'' has a set of outfits with feather tails, as a ShoutOut to {{Takarazuka}}.

* Theatre/TakarazukaRevue shows love this. In revues and during finales, many numbers have just about everyone with a peacock tail on their costumes. It doesn't matter if it's a {{Bifauxnen}} in a suit or a lady in a PimpedOutDress. That being said, traditionally top stars - the leading otokoyaku (male role player) - tend to be the only one to wear "finale feathers" when the cast descends the Grand Staircase at the very end of the show.

** Duusuu, the Kwami of the Peacock Miraculous, is technically genderless but identifies as female.

* In an OVA for ''Franchise/SakuraWars'', the girls get into a fight while wearing costumes that have feathers arranged this way. It creates a comedic contrast to see them dressed this grandly while arguing, and even resorting to attacking each other with their powers.

This is common on girls in fiction, [[AnimalGenderBender despite the peacock flared train being a feature of male peafowl]] in RealLife[[note]]females, called peahens, can flare out their tail feathers, but it's not for mating, and it's nowhere nearly as grand as the males[[/note]], but such a thing on a human guy isn't entirely unheard of. This may sometimes make a guy appear like TheDandy, CampGay, or CampStraight, but not always.

* In ''Disney/DisneyPrincessEnchantedTalesFollowYourDreams'', Jasmine is briefly dressed up in a peacock getup for a portrait. It has a flared collar like a tail, though a train that isn't flared. She sheds it for the song "Not a Peacock Princess".

* Theatre/{{Takarazuka}} shows love this. Many numbers have just about everyone with a peacock tail on their costumes. It doesn't matter if it's a {{Bifauxnen}} in a suit or a lady in a PimpedOutDress.

* ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'': The [[AnimalThemedSuperbeing Peacock]] [[TransformationTrinket Miraculous]] was formerly owned by [[spoiler:[[BrokenAce Adrien]]'s MissingMom]], though it's unknown what she looked like when she used it.
** [[spoiler: Nathalie]] uses it at the end of the second season to become Mayura, wearing a a slinky PimpedOutDress that includes a fantail.

* ''VideoGame/{{Skullgirls}}'' has Peacock, a cyborg girl whose cybernetic arms each have three eyes on them that resemble the tail feathers of the bird, and one of her attacks has her hat turn into a peacock head while an array of eyes line up behind her, fanning out and looking even more like a peacock's tail. Interestingly, she's ''also'' one of the least feminine of the female characters in the game.

* vaudeville and cabaret dancer outfits from the 30s and 40s sometimes had this instead of a traditional skirt. This was considered incredibly scandalous at the time (or rather, butts were considered scandalous: partly due to the anal sex taboo). sometimes they were actual peacock feathers.
* plenty of Hallowe'en costumes, usually cheap, with various justifications.
* skating and ballet outfits often have this, the ballet ones tend to be more outrageous since aerodynamics is more of a consideration for skaters. Though the two types of outfits are frequently enough completely interchangeable. Some ballets feature birds as characters or characters that become birds, or whatever: so you're likely to see this in Swan Lake, The Firebird, etc. Though many people consider it better if the costumer takes things a bit less literally, because the look is not seen as particularly tasteful.

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