History Main / UnicornsAreSacred

* In "The Fae and the Furious", a miniseries spin-off of the ''Literature/RiversOfLondon'' novels, a fey lord who's been compelling humans to participate obsessively in street races is discovered to also be rearing unicorns to be butchered, their horns and meat sold on the demimonde black market. The Faerie Queen whom Peter lures into the fey lord's slaughterhouse is so horrified that she unleashes her army on the lord and his vassals. (Note that the Queen in question is a pretty harsh figure herself, with little evident compassion for either mortals or her fey underlings: she just has a soft spot for unicorns.)

* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': Played with in "The Last Mabelcorn". Ford's research indicates that only the pure of heart can get unicorn hair because they themselves are so pure. Mabel bends over backwards to become worthy and stops Wendy, Greta, and Candy from taking the hair by force under this belief. Then it turns out that the whole thing is a scam because the unicorns simply don't want to share their hair (even though, in their own words, they have more than they know what to do with), and the one unicorn seen on-screen is an abrasive, holier-than-thou jerk. [[BattleDiscretionShot We don't actually SEE the fight that ensues]], but the girls arrive home disheveled with not only hair, but unicorn tears and eye lashes. [[KickTheSonOfABitch This is not portrayed as especially heinous]].

Unicorns are mythical animals which often represent things such as grace, purity and light in works of fiction. Given this, anybody killing or otherwise harming a unicorn can be taken to be an utterly repugnant character. This can often mean that they have crossed the MoralEventHorizon, but it doesn't have to. Often, the act of killing the unicorn will cause some curse to be placed upon the perpetrator.