History Main / WingedHumanoid

* Van from ''Anime/TheVisionOfEscaflowne'' sports a pair of impressive bird-like wings, though [[FreakinessShame he feels self-conscious about them]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheDragonPrince'', Sky mages (such as the main hero Callum) can turn their arms into wings for flight. Such an ability is extremely rare and only the most powerful of mages can do this.

* ''Art/CupidAndPsycheBouguereau'': Cupid is given fluffy white wings befitting a Christian angel in this romantic ode to the love he bore for Psyche, who gets a pair of (comparatively smaller) butterfly wings.

* Pit from ''VideoGame/KidIcarus''. His wings don't become functional until the final stage, though.
** In ''VideoGame/KidIcarusUprising'', his wings are still dysfunctional, but Palutena [[spoiler:and later Viridi]] grant him the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Power of Flight]], enabling him to fly. Also in ''Uprising'', there's his {{Doppelganger}} Dark Pit, whose wings were functional due to using Pandora's remnants. [[spoiler:He loses this capability as he saves Pit in a late chapter.]]

*In ''Manga/The100GirlfriendsWhoReallyReallyReallyReallyReallyLoveYou'', the God of Love resembles an old man with wings.

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* In Creator/WilliamAdolpheBouguereau's Myth/CupidAndPsyche {{paintings}} like ''Art/TheRaptureOfPsyche'' and ''Art/CupidAndPsycheAsChildren'', Cupid is often portrayed as having white angel wings while Psyche has moth wings, [[ButterflyOfTransformation representing her metamorphosing into a goddess, as though emerging from a chrysalis]].

Subtrope of VertebrateWithExtraLimbs and MonstrousHumanoid. See also DraconicHumanoid, who may have dragon wings but looks decidedly less human. Subtropes include BirdPeople (usually), TheMothman, and HarpingOnAboutHarpies. Compare PeacockGirl and {{Pegasus}}. May become a BrokenAngel if their wings are [[ClippedWingAngel clipped.]]

* Serene, Ledah, and a few others from ''VideoGame/RivieraThePromisedLand''.

* The Master in ''VideoGame/ActRaiser2''. [[NotQuiteFlight Can't truly fly]], though (that would be a GameBreaker). And in the first game, you got a flying angel armed with a bow in the simulation stages.

* In ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' pro hero Hawks had the quirk “Fierce Wings” which gave him long, feathered wings. Unfortunately, [[spoiler: All for One stole his quirk near the end]]

Biologically improbable due to human bone and muscle structure (though at the same time, usually easy to ''rationalize'' at first glance due to the nature of our shoulders), and if they're intended for actual flight, you may have to [[ArtMajorPhysics write off several laws of physics]] as well. Therefore, such characters are often assumed to be [[SufficientlyAdvancedAlien not entirely]] [[FunctionalMagic of this world]], especially since the domain of birds shares a name with God's kingdom: {{Heaven}}. This ties into the classic depictions of [[OurAngelsAreDifferent winged angels]] as well.

** Aarakocra have been described as a possible flying PC race, for ''TabletopGame/DarkSun'' in 2E, also present in TabletopGame/{{Spelljammer}} and some locations in TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms and for any sort of campaign in 3E. Their arms are feathered wings, so they don't fit the most common image for this trope, but are a lot more plausible.

* In ''Literature/CrescentCity'', angels are one of the many species of non-humans in the series and have a heavy focus put on them.

* Creator/AlexandreCabanel's ''Art/TheFallenAngel'': By welding [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Grecorroman]] art and [[UsefulNotes/{{Christianity}} religion]], UsefulNotes/TheRenaissance artistic movement started the whole idea of Christian angels being winged humanoids. A trend that Neoclassicists such as Cabanel followed. Therefore, not only the angels in the background are depicted as young men with feathery wings, but also Lucifer, the [[TitleCharacter titular fallen angel]]. The good angel's wings are white while Lucifer's are slowly darkening.

* Thanagarians from Franchise/TheDCU (inspired by ''Franchise/FlashGordon'''s Hawkmen), including ComicBook/{{Hawkman}} and Hawkgirl, who use the AppliedPhlebotinum of "Nth Metal" to provide antigravity. That metal is usually carried in the belt, the wings themselves are typically attached to a harness and are only used to steer in flight. In some continuities, however, the wings are a part of their body.

* ''ComicBook/ElfQuest'' has Tyldak, who may be a bit of a subversion in that his whole body was (painfully) reshaped via magic so he could fly where most of his fellow Gliders would simply use their powers of levitation to float; for example, his batlike wings are clearly his former arms.
* Superhero Divangelic from ''ComicBook/{{Empowered}}'' is a pair of ConjoinedTwins -- her left half, Charity, is an angel, but her right half, Vanity, is a devil. They share a pair of wings (traditional style, that is feathery / bat-like, respectively).

* ComicBook/TheInferiorFive once encounter a team who are a parody of the original ComicBook/XMen, who are genetic throwbacks. The team includes an Angel counterpart named Icarus who is a throwback to the birds (and, yes, the fact that humans aren't descended from birds is {{lampshade|Hanging}}d). Somewhat ironically, and probably coincidentally, the actual X-Men would decades later have a member called Icarus.
* Dawnstar from ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'' is a woman with feathered wings.

* Komodo of the comic ''ComicBook/{{Nocturnals}}'' used to have wings, but when he tried to escape the evil laboratory he was raised in by flying, his creators removed them. While taunting a guard who tries to re-capture him, Komodo indicates that he doesn't miss his wings, as they "itched like hell."

* All aliens native to the planet Landfall in ''ComicBook/{{Saga}}'' look like humans with wings of one type or another. Some are feathered, some are bat-like, some are insect-like.

* The Jimmy Natale version of the Vulture from ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'' (the previous Vultures all relied on [[ClothesMakeTheSuperman high-tech flight suits]]).
* Subverted during the Creator/BobOksner run on ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'' in the mid-1970s. Linda encountered a young man who had assisted a MadScientist on a faraway island (before making off with a [[Literature/TheEyeOfArgon huge diamond from the head of an idol]] -- there always is at least one). The professor had an idea on how to create winged humans and experimented on the locals by [[LegoGenetics injecting them with DNA and other essentials from birds]]. Instead, he ended up with half-bird, half-human people who were very annoyed with what had been done to them.
* Shy Crazy Lolita Canary, of Franchise/TheDCU's ComicBook/SuperYoungTeam. An interesting case, she's the size of an actual canary.

* The latest volume of ''ComicBook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesMirage'' introduces Raptarr, a winged super-hero in the mold of ''ComicBook/XMen'''s Angel.

** Archangel is a mutant with white feathered wings. He was later {{retcon}}ned into [[RequiredSecondaryPowers having super-strength and unbreakable, ultra-light bones]], to [[HandWave explain away]] the biological improbabilities (he also has eagle-keen vision, though no-one seems to remember this). When transformed into the Horseman Death by Apocalypse, his previously amputated feathered wings were replaced by [[RazorWings razor-sharp]] mechanical ones that [[FeatherFlechettes shot poison-tipped feathers]]. His white-feathered wings returned eventually, having grown back underneath the metal ones. He can now switch between normal Angel and blue-skinned, metal-winged Archangel forms.
** The younger Angel introduced during Creator/GrantMorrison's run of ''ComicBook/NewXMen'' has fly-like wings sprouting from her back, though she was de-powered after ''ComicBook/HouseOfM''. Her husband Beak, who resembles a sort of human-chicken hybrid, also has bird-like wings on his arms, but he also lost them after M-Day.