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* In the ''Anime/{{Trigun}}'' anime finale, [[spoiler: Vash's and Knives' [[{{BFG}} Angel]] [[WaveMotionGun Arms]] are unleashed to the maximum level,]] and spontaneously sprout wings.
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** In the manga, [[spoiler:Vash and Knives]] growing feathers and wings is a sign they're activating their powers as Plants ([[PersonOfMassDestruction and that normal humans should run for their lives]]). At one point the former loses control and morphs into a bizarre feathery creature that seems made up of nothing ''but'' wings, struggling not to kill everything around him.
** In the manga, [[spoiler:Vash and Knives]] growing feathers and wings is a sign they're activating their powers as Plants ([[PersonOfMassDestruction and that normal humans should run for their lives]]). At one point the former loses control and morphs into a bizarre feathery creature that seems made up of nothing ''but'' wings, struggling not to kill everything around him.
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* ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'': In TheMovie ''[[Anime/SwordArtOnlineTheMovieOrdinalScale Ordinal Scale]]'' and the ''Alicization'' anime, when Asuna uses Yuuki's Mother's Rosario, she grows a pair of angelic wings.
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* The Crusniks in ''LightNovel/TrinityBlood'' sprout wings in their more powerful forms.
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** [[TheCaptain Admiral Lindy]] sprouts wings when receiving Mana beamed from [[CoolStarship Arthra's]] main reactor. It's more of a side-effect, a sign of the ship's massive output, as the wings are made of ''excess'' Mana, rather than what she directly uses for her magic. It's also a MythologyGag to the original ''Lyrical Toy Box'' story that evolved into Nanoha, wherein she's a fairy.
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** In the first ''Anime/YesPrettyCure5'' movie, the team becomes Super Precure 5 and grows butterfly wings as shown in the picture above. In the second, the leader becomes Shining Cure Dream, with feathery wings. The butterfly wings appear in the final of ''[=Yes! 5 GoGo=]'' again.
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* In ''Anime/DayBreakIllusion'', another magical girl series, Ginka gains red and blue wings (and even a halo!) in her Tenebrae form.
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* In ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'', during the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCp3LXNjFIg&feature=related Sinnoh Grand Festival]] where Zoey battles Nando. Mismagius used Psywave to give Leafeon an ''awesome'' set of ''[[PowerGlows glowing]]'' HardLight wings.
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* In ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'', ''Anime/PokemonTheSeriesDiamondAndPearl'', during the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCp3LXNjFIg&feature=related Sinnoh Grand Festival]] where Zoey battles Nando. Mismagius used Psywave to give Leafeon an ''awesome'' set of ''[[PowerGlows glowing]]'' HardLight wings.
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* Many {{Shoujo}} related stuff. They may not always keep the wings, but the wings will always show up in their MagicalGirl transformation or something. And of course, wings are decorated on their accessories, weapons, and battle outfits as well.
* ''Manga/AirGear'': When Minami Ikki discovers the wing road and later on the storm road, his motif is often depicted as a set of wings. He can also literally summon a pair of wings from his Air Treks whenever he enters the Wing road.
* Used in ''Manga/AngelicLayer,'' where the most powerful Deus had an Angel that could spontaneously grow wings. [[spoiler: By the end of the series, so could the protagonist - but only in the anime.]]
* ''Anime/ArmitageIII'': The upgrade that Armitage receives at the end of the OVA plays with this, as the wings (and the subsequent mobility they provide) is half of the upgrade. Even Armitage [[LampshadeHanging finds them to be a little pretentious]].
-->'''Armitage:''' It's a little too ''angelic'' for my taste.
* Subverted in ''Manga/BattleAngelAlita: Last Order''. In the ZOTT Finals, Alita grows a pair of enormous, angel-like wings with damascus blades instead of feathers, which seem to hamper her more than anything else. Her actual thoughts shortly after growing them? "Seriously though, what's with these wings?! They're in the way! Why did I grow them in the first place?"
* When [[spoiler:Griffith]] becomes a Godhand at the end of ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'', he takes on a rather sleek demonic form with batlike CapeWings known as Femto.
* ''Manga/BlackClover'':
** Asta's Black Asta form comes with vastly increased speed, power, and control of the anti-magic in his blades. It also gives him a devil wing on his right side, a horn, turns the right side of his hair black, and a red devil eye.
** When Yuno combines with Sylph, he gets a massive power boost to his Wind Magic, complete with a crown, a crown like bracelet made of mana around his left hand, and eventually a sword made of pure mana. He also gains a fairy like wing on his back.
** Noelle's Valkyrie Armor form has her gain a boost to her magical power and speed, with wing-like ornaments that jut out from her lower back and help her to fly through the air.
* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': This trope is often combined with OneWingedAngel for final-form powerups.
** [[AloofBigBrother Byakuya Kuchiki]] manifests an aura in the shape of a pair of wings when he uses the "Final Scene, White Imperial Sword" attack of his EmpathicWeapon.
** Toshiro Hitsugaya gets a pair of [[AnIcePerson ice wings]] when he unleashes his ''bankai''.
** Uryu Ishida gains a single wing of light when he unleashes his ultimate power.[[spoiler: It's later stated this was an incomplete form of an even more advanced Quincy technique, which can produce two wings.]]
** [[spoiler:Ulquiorra's bat wings]].
** [[spoiler:Tosen's fly-like wings in his resurrección and Aizen's brief butterfly-like wings when fused to the hogyoku.]]
** Ginjo gets some weird-ass dragonfly wings when he unleashes his full power. The anime made them ''bright pink''.
* Parodied in ''Manga/BoboboboBobobo'': Bo-bobo, after showing off the powers of his [[MidSeasonUpgrade new jacket]] when fighting [[GreenThumb Wild Wister]], says he can grow even stronger, and sprouts wings....out of his afro.
* The Fly card in ''Manga/CardcaptorSakura'' initially causes wings to grow on Sakura's sealing staff, which she then can ride like a FlyingBroomstick. But early in the Sakura Card arc, [[spoiler: she changes the card to instead grow wings on her back, letting her fly alone and leaving the staff free to be used with the Sword card.]] [[MentorMascot Kero]] is completely astonished that she was capable of this.
* The protagonist of ''Manga/{{Clover}}'' deploys an ArmCannon from his [[ArtificialLimbs prosthetic arm]] at the end of the story. It has wings for no particular reason.
* In ''Anime/CodeGeass'', the ninth-generation Knightmare Frames, the Lancelot Albion and Guren SEITEN both sport glowing, angel-like wings made of green and red energy, respectively.
* It's probably easier to name the ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' who ''don't'' get wings (or at least some form of flight) as they reach their highest levels of power. Though Digimon does have a bit of a trend that the more wings you have, the more powerful you are. Example; Angemon, (six wings), Magnaangemon (eight wings), and Seraphimon, (ten wings).
* ''Anime/DualParallelTroubleAdventure''. During the final battle, after the limiter is removed, Zinv gets Lighthawk Wings and [[Film/TheyLive runs out of bubble gum.]]
* In ''Manga/FairyTail'', [[spoiler: when [[BlowYouAway Wen]][[BadassAdorable dy]] obtains [[SuperMode Dragon Force]], she grows white feathers on her back that resemble wings,]] which makes sense considering that [[spoiler: the Sky Dragon Grandine (who taught her her magic in the first place) actually has a more bird-like form than most Dragons, including feathery wings.]]
* In ''Anime/GaoGaiGar'', both J-Der and King J-Der have a utility called Plasma Wing. It basically gives the mecha 10 peacock-tailfeather-shaped wings, that allow them to travel much faster, and are fueled by [[{{Determinator}} raw determination]]. King J-Der only uses its Plasma Wings once, however, as part of its special attack, J-Phoenix, where it sets itself on fire and rams the enemy.
* In ''Animation/GuardianFairyMichel'', Michel's most common power-up is the ability to grow wings.
* Various machines in the Franchise/{{Gundam}} multiverse have wings in various forms, mostly {{Mid Season Upgrade}}s:
** ''Anime/MobileSuitVictoryGundam'': The Victory 2 has energy wings that double as cutting weapons.
** ''Manga/MobileSuitCrossboneGundam'' introduced the F99 "[[SuperSpeed Recordbreaker]]", precursor to the V2... unfortunately, they fell victim to a NoPlansNoPrototypeNoBackup goof by the heroes, hence why it took 20 years to re-invent them.
** The ''Anime/TurnAGundam'' and ''Turn X'' have the [[http://fc09.deviantart.net/images3/i/2004/10/8/f/Turn_A__Moonlight_Butterfly.jpg Moonlight Butterfly,]] wings made of nanomachines. [[spoiler: They destroy [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt CIVILIZATIONS.]]]]
** ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny'': The Destiny has physical wings that can briefly sprout a [[http://images4.fanpop.com/image/photos/24400000/GSD-gundam-seed-destiny-24471449-1024-768.jpg pair of red/pink energy wings.]] Aside from granting greater mobility, the energy wings also leave behind vibrant after-images that confuse eyes and sensors alike but guzzle power at an accelerated rate.
** ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED'': The Freedom has [[http://www.google.com/imgres?num=10&hl=en&biw=1280&bih=651&tbm=isch&tbnid=NxEDsQgWXmVj0M:&imgrefurl=http://juniorgundam.wordpress.com/2011/07/15/for-the-love-of-freedom/&imgurl=http://juniorgundam.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/freedom1.jpg&w=640&h=480&ei=bIo_UMqOKcX_4QT1lIHQBA&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=316&vpy=241&dur=421&hovh=194&hovw=259&tx=188&ty=89&sig=101543106199624412025&sqi=2&page=1&tbnh=124&tbnw=165&start=0&ndsp=18&ved=1t:429,r:13,s:0,i:180 ten physical wings]] for [[WingsDoNothing purely aesthetic purposes]][[labelnote:*]][[AllThereInTheManual Supplementary materials clarify]] that the wings aid in aerial maneuvering, but aren't actually needed for flight itself.[[/labelnote]] (except the topmost pair which contain [[WaveMotionGun positron cannons]]). Its successor, the Strike Freedom, has wings that double as AttackDrone racks and can [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-nFs51gsrzwg/TdEXWVc6Y7I/AAAAAAAAAFs/9UftzLmaNNM/s1600/Gundam_Seed_Destiny___11_by_neofireatlarge-1.jpg sprout four blue energy wings once the drones are detached.]]
** ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing'': The Wing Zero gets a pair of [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_K27lD4vnypM/TLhZ3ZGIdtI/AAAAAAAAABo/s9p6KdQvEg0/s1600/1064960920_cturesZero.JPG feathery-looking wings]] in ''Endless Waltz''. The upgraded Deathscythe also gets a pair of [[http://www.mahq.net/mecha/gundam/endlesswaltz/xxxg-01d2.jpg bat-like wings]] that give it stealth capabilities.
** ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam00'': The 0 Gundam has a pair of seraphic wings in the first episode; WordOfGod states that the "wings" are formed from massive [[MinovskyPhysics GN Particle]] [[PowerIncontinence leakage]]. Why this would ''look'' like seraphic wings? Probably because angels are a central theme to the series.
** The Throne Drei from the same series spreads false GN particles as an extremely effective form of chaff. What isn't justified is the emitters being arranged in such a way that the particle burst [[http://www.darkmirage.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/27_gundam00_ep16h.jpg resembles a massive phoenix.]] The 00 Raiser gets its own version with [[http://media.photobucket.com/image/recent/00collector/Trans-Am/trans-amburst04.png Trans-Am Burst.]]
** The epilogue of TheMovie briefly shows us [[http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/339/screenshot20110104at147.png/ the 00 Quan[T] assimilated by the ELS]] with eight translucent wings.
** ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamAGE'' follows tradition with the AGE-2 Double Bullet and its [[http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120326021304/gundam/images/f/f4/AGE-2_Double_Bullet_-_Using_Beam_Sabers.jpg shoulder-mounted beam saber wings,]] in what seems a deliberate CallBack to the V2 Gundam.
* ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'': Alucard and Seras are both capable of sprouting shadowy wings when they wish to quickly move from point A to point B without interference. However, they still can't cross running water without help.
* In a more comedic example, England from ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' grows a pair of white, feathery wings in his Britannia Angel form.
* In ''Anime/HyperSpeedGranDoll'', Hikaru's final power-up, Gran Master, comes with wings.
* In ''Anime/IlSolePenetraLeIllusioni'', another magical girl series, Ginka gains red and blue wings (and even a halo!) in her Tenebrae form.
* In the climax of ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureBattleTendency'', once Kars uses the power of the Red Stone of Aja to reach his ultimate form, he grows a pair of wings. Sort of a subversion though, since the wings weren't an inherent part of his powerup-- one of his new abilities was shapeshifting, and he created the wings for the specific purpose of chasing down Joseph's plane.
* In ''Anime/KMissingKings'', [[spoiler: Anna]] gets HotWings after Awakening as the [[spoiler: new Red]] King.
* Both Yayois in ''Manga/KoiKoi7'', who have wings in white and black, respectively. The pink-haired Yayoi made a DivingSave with hers, and the silver-haired Yayoi's wings were mostly limited to the OP to show that she meant trouble.
* ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'':
** Hayate sprouts six black wings when she [[FusionDance unisons]] with Reinforce, and Signum gains [[HotWings wings of fire]] when she unisons with [[spoiler: Agito]].
** While Nanoha herself doesn't do this, her staff Raising Heart ''does'', the number and size of the wings it sprouts for any given spell are a good rough indicator of just how much someone's going to get hurt. Subaru's [[EmpathicWeapon Mach Caliber]] has Gear Excellion, which is a blue version of Nanoha's and she uses it against [[spoiler:her older sister Ginga, who's been {{Brainwashed}} by Scaglietti as a Number.]]
* Both [[spoiler: Arika]] and [[spoiler: Nina]]of ''Anime/MyOtome'' grow wings during their final battle.
* Once they turn into their mecha forms, the Mashin of ''Manga/MagicKnightRayearth'' each have enormous wings based on their animal forms. Selece has draconic wings, Windam has bird wings, and Rayearth the wolf has ''fire wings''. Oh, and in Part II of the manga, [[spoiler:Mokona gains angelic wings when it reveals itself to be the Creator]].
* ''Anime/MazingerZ'': One of the many {{Mid Season Upgrade}}s that the titular HumongousMecha gets is the Jet Scrander, a JetPack with huge, red RazorWings.
* [[spoiler:Rin Asougi]] in ''Anime/{{Mnemosyne}}'' sprouts a pinkish-white pair of wings after becoming the new Guardian of Yggdrasil. It may be interesting to mention that there are "normal" {{Winged Humanoid}}s (appropriately called "[[OurAngelsAreDifferent angels]]") in the series but their wings are bloody red in color.
* Michel in ''Manga/MermaidMelodyPichiPichiPitch'' starts out with four wings. After [[spoiler:killing the Black Beauty Sisters and stealing their LifeEnergy]], he's got six.
* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'':
** In the "Rescue Sasuke" arc, [[TheBigGuy Chouji]] uses a number of food pills during a battle to give him power boosts. The third one instantly converts all his body fat into chakra, which blaze from his back like glowing blue butterfly wings ([[MeaningfulName Chouji means "butterfly"]]). [[spoiler:He is later able to summon the chakra wings without taking the red pill.]]
** Also Sasuke's Curse Seal Level Two, though instead of being angelic they're more of a cross between bat wings and ''[[http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/naruto/images/e/eb/Sasuke_in_Cursed_Seal_Level_2_2.jpg webbed hands]]'', and he can't fly, just glide and use them as shields.
* Setsuna's pactio card in ''Anime/NegimaSecondSeason'' gives her large, beautiful white wings with which to fly around slicing the MonsterOfTheWeek. Does not apply in [[Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi the main manga]], as she (as a [[HalfHumanHybrid half-crow demon]]) has the power to pull out from the beginning but largely does just fine without them.
* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'':
** Rei Ayanami gets a set of six wings in ''End of Evangelion''. Suitably, her wings become so large, they can cover the entire earth.
** Unit 01 and Shinji gain wings of pure energy when exiting the Geofront explosively, giving it a [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic Seraph-like appearance]]. Except it doesn't really help, as he finds outside the reason why he fought--the last person who he thought alive who he loved--turns out to have been ''eaten'', that being [[spoiler: Asuka]].
** Unit 01 also sprouts six energy wings in the opening, even though that never occurs in the show itself (until the movie, anyway). Also, [[spoiler:Adam sprouted quite a few wings...probably six too, before it initiated Second Impact, wiping out half of humanity and messing up the World's Ecosystem permanently.]]
** A more straight example appears in ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion'' after Eva-01 merges with [[spoiler:Rei and the remains of Zeruel (who had been given a ''very'' epic ass-kicking from Shinji)]] and grows wings of energy.
* The Thriller Bark arc of ''Manga/OnePiece'' had Robin showcasing a power where she can use her Hana Hana abilities to makes wings. The downside is that she can only stay in the air for five seconds. The wings are made of body parts after all.
* In ''Manga/PhantomThiefJeanne'', Jeanne got a large wings in the final of the anime.
* In ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'', during the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCp3LXNjFIg&feature=related Sinnoh Grand Festival]] where Zoey battles Nando. Mismagius used Psywave to give Leafeon an ''awesome'' set of ''[[PowerGlows glowing]]'' HardLight wings.
* All spirits in the world of ''VisualNovel/{{Polyphonica}}'' have wings by default; the more they have, the more powerful they are. A great majority of them are two-winged, but one of the most powerful, Corti, has six.
* ''Manga/{{Pretear}}'', Pretear's final form White Pretear has huge translucent butterfly wings.
* Very common in the ''Anime/PrettyCure'' franchise:
** Since ''Anime/FreshPrettyCure'', every movie features the lead Cure getting an upgrade with wings which later appear in the final of each TV series, but that said upgrade includes the entire group.
** In the second ''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCureMaxHeart'' movie, the main characters got wings, new hairstyles and new costumes.
** In the first ''Anime/YesPrettyCure5'' movie, the team becomes Super Precure 5 and grows butterfly wings as shown in the picture above. In the second, the leader becomes Shining Cure Dream, with feathery wings. The butterfly wings appear in the final of ''[=Yes! 5 GoGo=]'' again.
** In ''Anime/FreshPrettyCure'' Cure Peach becomes Cure Angel with angel wings. In the final episode of the series, everyone becomes Cure Angel.
** Averted in ''Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure'', where the the wings of their SuperMode are already featured before the movie was aired and the ultimate upgrade in the series is something completely different.
** In ''Anime/SuitePrettyCure'' movie, Cure Melody becomes Cure Crescendo Melody with two pairs of golden wings. The group gets this upgrade later in the final episode.
** In ''Anime/SmilePrettyCure'' movie, Cure Happy becomes Ultra Cure Happy, the group gets the Ultra upgrade in the final episode. However, Ultra Cure Happy's wings are much larger in the movie than in the series.
** The ''Anime/PrettyCureAllStars'' movies give every Cure new wings in the final battles.
* Kaoru from ''Manga/PsychicSquad'' gets angel wings when she faces off against one of [[DarkMagicalGirl Mio's]] clones combined with a bulldozer. The show's second opening theme is titled "MY WINGS", and plays up the wing symbolism further by showing the entire trio with wings.
* ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'': [[spoiler:The eponymous character]] gets a pair of wings in her [[spoiler:[[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence Goddess form]].]] Later, [[spoiler:Homura]] inherits this power. At an unspecified time in the future, her wings turn into a [[TheStinger disturbing black tattered wings-thingie]].
* All Tennyo, save for Akira and Ryo, in ''Anime/RakugoTennyoOyui'', have a pair of glowing wings on the back of their magical girl outfits.
* ''Manga/Reborn2004'': [[spoiler: After Byakuran finishes finishes his little Exposition about Ghost, he shows off the flames Ghost absorbed as wings.]]
* ''Franchise/SailorMoon'':
** Sailor Moon has wings during her second transformation; for about 3 seconds before they disappear in a burst of feathers. She also has wings on her Eternal fuku, but these appear to be purely decorative along with her FrillyUpgrade. Later on, when it's time for the final battle, she grows real wings. Her opponent, Sailor Galaxia, grows demon wings.
** In the [[Manga/SailorMoon manga]], Moon, [=ChibiChibi=], the Starlights, and Kakyuu can grow wings and [[BatmanCanBreatheInSpace fly in space]], apparently.
* In ''AudioPlay/SaintBeast'', all angels have wings, but most [[WingsDoNothing can't use them]]. Among the characters that can, however, are Rey, who gets functional wings bestowed on him at the Day of Benediction ceremony as mediated sort of power-up, and Luca [[spoiler:an AmnesiacGod]], whose wings appear under duress.
* ''Manga/SaintSeiya'':
** ''Every single time'' (particularly in [[TheMovie the movies]]) Seiya's Cosmo burns bright enough to make him a real threat to the latest BigBad, he summons the Sagittarius armor to him to replace the Pegasus Cloth. The wings, golden halo, and bow and arrow seem designed to inspire an angelic symbolism.
** The Divine Cloths of the Saints are more powerful and winged versions of their normal armours. Especially notable with Shun and Shiryu since, while the other three bronze saints have winged animal motifs, Shiryu's symbolism is all based on the (wingless) Chinese dragon and Shun's patron constellation is a human princess. Yet, god cloth equals wings.
** In ''Anime/SaintSeiyaOmega'' and ''Anime/SaintSeiyaSoulOfGold'', the new Bronze Saints and the original Gold Saints respectively get Omega cloths and god gold cloths with brand new wings.
* Nodoka of ''Manga/{{Saki}}'', when she's channeling the Nodocchi personality that allowed her to become the top online TabletopGame/{{Mahjong}} player, will be depicted as sprouting wings from her back.
* The ''Anime/SamuraiPizzaCats'' had a MidSeasonUpgrade with robot bird booster packs, which granted them flight capability and some increase in power.
* Wings are very prominent in ''Manga/{{Sekirei}}'', where a kiss from an Ashikabi is required to "wing" a Sekirei, granting them greater power. More a case of "wings give you power", but still a good example.
* In ''Manga/ShugoChara'', Amu and Utau's most powerful forms - [[spoiler:Amulet Diamond and Seraphic Charm]] - both have very large wings that enable them to fly in pretty formations. [[spoiler:Utau's prove useful, as [[PerpetualMolt the feathers]] purify all the X-Eggs in the area.]]
* ''Manga/SoulEater'':
** Maka demonstrates her new-found power (special 'Grigori' soul plus Death Scythe partner) by producing wings on Soul for them to fly with. Cute but unimpressive at first, Soul Resonance transforms them into large, angelic ones. They were only cute and unimpressive because Maka demanded cute wings. She later grows out of that line of thinking. It was also down to her and Soul disagreeing on the image of wings. Maka wanted 'cute angel', Soul could not imagine 'angelic' in relation to Maka, and the conflict makes them crash. The compromise resulted in the little wings they got when flying with Kim. As per usual, their mutual feeling and badassery allowed them to up the ante to fight Gopher. As with the black blood, the rather cool wings shown in that fight might well end up the norm.
** Much earlier on, the result of consuming the souls collected by Nidhogg enables Crona and Ragnarok to grow wings. Kid appropriately calls them the "black dragon".
** Hiro grows a pair of wings made of light while holding Excalibur.
** Gopher's own grigori soul allows him to grow wings (though not physical ones) to fly, but unlike Maka's they are black which she puts down to magic, presumably Noah's influence.
* ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'': In TheMovie ''[[Anime/SwordArtOnlineTheMovieOrdinalScale Ordinal Scale]]'' and the ''Alicization'' anime, when Asuna uses Yuuki's Mother's Rosario, she grows a pair of angelic wings.
* Both Ameri and Yumina receive wings during the course of events in ''VisualNovel/{{Tayutama}}''. Yumina's wings are angelic and golden, so they're clearly good. Ameri's are dragonlike and black, so they are clearly bad.
* ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'', where Tenchi and Juraian warships have the Light Hawk Wings.
** Much like kitsune mythology, the number of Light Hawk Wings shows how much power one has up to nine wings. Three is the highest a mortal can possess; ten wings are worn by gods and goddesses. [[spoiler:Tenchi's not mortal, as the final (current) episode of the OVA shows that Tenchi's now sporting ''five'' of those things. Ryoko (as the daughter of a goddess) will also be able to have ten of them when she reaches full maturity (if Tenchi gives her back her other two power gems, that is), but given that she hasn't done so yet after [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld 5000 years]], who knows how long that will take.]]
* In the ''Anime/{{Trigun}}'' anime finale, [[spoiler: Vash's and Knives' [[{{BFG}} Angel]] [[WaveMotionGun Arms]] are unleashed to the maximum level,]] and spontaneously sprout wings.
* The Crusniks in ''LightNovel/TrinityBlood'' sprout wings in their more powerful forms.
* ''Manga/ViolinistOfHameln'': [[spoiler: Hamel sprouts wings while delivering the final blow to Kestra. It was the first time his angel blood showed.]] The wings disappear soon after.
* In ''Anime/UmiMonogatari'', Urin appears with a pair of butterfly wings after she awakens from a literal cocoon. In the final episodes the wings grow huge and colorful.
* In ''Anime/YuGiOhCapsuleMonsters'', Yami Yugi gains wings after using the Duel Armor to merge with his monsters. Usually, these monsters either have wings themselves or can fly on their own.
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* ''Manga/AirGear'': When Minami Ikki discovers the wing road and later on the storm road, his motif is often depicted as a set of wings. He can also literally summon a pair of wings from his Air Treks whenever he enters the Wing road.
* Used in ''Manga/AngelicLayer,'' where the most powerful Deus had an Angel that could spontaneously grow wings. [[spoiler: By the end of the series, so could the protagonist - but only in the anime.]]
* ''Anime/ArmitageIII'': The upgrade that Armitage receives at the end of the OVA plays with this, as the wings (and the subsequent mobility they provide) is half of the upgrade. Even Armitage [[LampshadeHanging finds them to be a little pretentious]].
-->'''Armitage:''' It's a little too ''angelic'' for my taste.
* Subverted in ''Manga/BattleAngelAlita: Last Order''. In the ZOTT Finals, Alita grows a pair of enormous, angel-like wings with damascus blades instead of feathers, which seem to hamper her more than anything else. Her actual thoughts shortly after growing them? "Seriously though, what's with these wings?! They're in the way! Why did I grow them in the first place?"
* When [[spoiler:Griffith]] becomes a Godhand at the end of ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'', he takes on a rather sleek demonic form with batlike CapeWings known as Femto.
* ''Manga/BlackClover'':
** Asta's Black Asta form comes with vastly increased speed, power, and control of the anti-magic in his blades. It also gives him a devil wing on his right side, a horn, turns the right side of his hair black, and a red devil eye.
** When Yuno combines with Sylph, he gets a massive power boost to his Wind Magic, complete with a crown, a crown like bracelet made of mana around his left hand, and eventually a sword made of pure mana. He also gains a fairy like wing on his back.
** Noelle's Valkyrie Armor form has her gain a boost to her magical power and speed, with wing-like ornaments that jut out from her lower back and help her to fly through the air.
* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': This trope is often combined with OneWingedAngel for final-form powerups.
** [[AloofBigBrother Byakuya Kuchiki]] manifests an aura in the shape of a pair of wings when he uses the "Final Scene, White Imperial Sword" attack of his EmpathicWeapon.
** Toshiro Hitsugaya gets a pair of [[AnIcePerson ice wings]] when he unleashes his ''bankai''.
** Uryu Ishida gains a single wing of light when he unleashes his ultimate power.[[spoiler: It's later stated this was an incomplete form of an even more advanced Quincy technique, which can produce two wings.]]
** [[spoiler:Ulquiorra's bat wings]].
** [[spoiler:Tosen's fly-like wings in his resurrección and Aizen's brief butterfly-like wings when fused to the hogyoku.]]
** Ginjo gets some weird-ass dragonfly wings when he unleashes his full power. The anime made them ''bright pink''.
* Parodied in ''Manga/BoboboboBobobo'': Bo-bobo, after showing off the powers of his [[MidSeasonUpgrade new jacket]] when fighting [[GreenThumb Wild Wister]], says he can grow even stronger, and sprouts wings....out of his afro.
* The Fly card in ''Manga/CardcaptorSakura'' initially causes wings to grow on Sakura's sealing staff, which she then can ride like a FlyingBroomstick. But early in the Sakura Card arc, [[spoiler: she changes the card to instead grow wings on her back, letting her fly alone and leaving the staff free to be used with the Sword card.]] [[MentorMascot Kero]] is completely astonished that she was capable of this.
* The protagonist of ''Manga/{{Clover}}'' deploys an ArmCannon from his [[ArtificialLimbs prosthetic arm]] at the end of the story. It has wings for no particular reason.
* In ''Anime/CodeGeass'', the ninth-generation Knightmare Frames, the Lancelot Albion and Guren SEITEN both sport glowing, angel-like wings made of green and red energy, respectively.
* It's probably easier to name the ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' who ''don't'' get wings (or at least some form of flight) as they reach their highest levels of power. Though Digimon does have a bit of a trend that the more wings you have, the more powerful you are. Example; Angemon, (six wings), Magnaangemon (eight wings), and Seraphimon, (ten wings).
* ''Anime/DualParallelTroubleAdventure''. During the final battle, after the limiter is removed, Zinv gets Lighthawk Wings and [[Film/TheyLive runs out of bubble gum.]]
* In ''Manga/FairyTail'', [[spoiler: when [[BlowYouAway Wen]][[BadassAdorable dy]] obtains [[SuperMode Dragon Force]], she grows white feathers on her back that resemble wings,]] which makes sense considering that [[spoiler: the Sky Dragon Grandine (who taught her her magic in the first place) actually has a more bird-like form than most Dragons, including feathery wings.]]
* In ''Anime/GaoGaiGar'', both J-Der and King J-Der have a utility called Plasma Wing. It basically gives the mecha 10 peacock-tailfeather-shaped wings, that allow them to travel much faster, and are fueled by [[{{Determinator}} raw determination]]. King J-Der only uses its Plasma Wings once, however, as part of its special attack, J-Phoenix, where it sets itself on fire and rams the enemy.
* In ''Animation/GuardianFairyMichel'', Michel's most common power-up is the ability to grow wings.
* Various machines in the Franchise/{{Gundam}} multiverse have wings in various forms, mostly {{Mid Season Upgrade}}s:
** ''Anime/MobileSuitVictoryGundam'': The Victory 2 has energy wings that double as cutting weapons.
** ''Manga/MobileSuitCrossboneGundam'' introduced the F99 "[[SuperSpeed Recordbreaker]]", precursor to the V2... unfortunately, they fell victim to a NoPlansNoPrototypeNoBackup goof by the heroes, hence why it took 20 years to re-invent them.
** The ''Anime/TurnAGundam'' and ''Turn X'' have the [[http://fc09.deviantart.net/images3/i/2004/10/8/f/Turn_A__Moonlight_Butterfly.jpg Moonlight Butterfly,]] wings made of nanomachines. [[spoiler: They destroy [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt CIVILIZATIONS.]]]]
** ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny'': The Destiny has physical wings that can briefly sprout a [[http://images4.fanpop.com/image/photos/24400000/GSD-gundam-seed-destiny-24471449-1024-768.jpg pair of red/pink energy wings.]] Aside from granting greater mobility, the energy wings also leave behind vibrant after-images that confuse eyes and sensors alike but guzzle power at an accelerated rate.
** ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED'': The Freedom has [[http://www.google.com/imgres?num=10&hl=en&biw=1280&bih=651&tbm=isch&tbnid=NxEDsQgWXmVj0M:&imgrefurl=http://juniorgundam.wordpress.com/2011/07/15/for-the-love-of-freedom/&imgurl=http://juniorgundam.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/freedom1.jpg&w=640&h=480&ei=bIo_UMqOKcX_4QT1lIHQBA&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=316&vpy=241&dur=421&hovh=194&hovw=259&tx=188&ty=89&sig=101543106199624412025&sqi=2&page=1&tbnh=124&tbnw=165&start=0&ndsp=18&ved=1t:429,r:13,s:0,i:180 ten physical wings]] for [[WingsDoNothing purely aesthetic purposes]][[labelnote:*]][[AllThereInTheManual Supplementary materials clarify]] that the wings aid in aerial maneuvering, but aren't actually needed for flight itself.[[/labelnote]] (except the topmost pair which contain [[WaveMotionGun positron cannons]]). Its successor, the Strike Freedom, has wings that double as AttackDrone racks and can [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-nFs51gsrzwg/TdEXWVc6Y7I/AAAAAAAAAFs/9UftzLmaNNM/s1600/Gundam_Seed_Destiny___11_by_neofireatlarge-1.jpg sprout four blue energy wings once the drones are detached.]]
** ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing'': The Wing Zero gets a pair of [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_K27lD4vnypM/TLhZ3ZGIdtI/AAAAAAAAABo/s9p6KdQvEg0/s1600/1064960920_cturesZero.JPG feathery-looking wings]] in ''Endless Waltz''. The upgraded Deathscythe also gets a pair of [[http://www.mahq.net/mecha/gundam/endlesswaltz/xxxg-01d2.jpg bat-like wings]] that give it stealth capabilities.
** ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam00'': The 0 Gundam has a pair of seraphic wings in the first episode; WordOfGod states that the "wings" are formed from massive [[MinovskyPhysics GN Particle]] [[PowerIncontinence leakage]]. Why this would ''look'' like seraphic wings? Probably because angels are a central theme to the series.
** The Throne Drei from the same series spreads false GN particles as an extremely effective form of chaff. What isn't justified is the emitters being arranged in such a way that the particle burst [[http://www.darkmirage.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/27_gundam00_ep16h.jpg resembles a massive phoenix.]] The 00 Raiser gets its own version with [[http://media.photobucket.com/image/recent/00collector/Trans-Am/trans-amburst04.png Trans-Am Burst.]]
** The epilogue of TheMovie briefly shows us [[http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/339/screenshot20110104at147.png/ the 00 Quan[T] assimilated by the ELS]] with eight translucent wings.
** ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamAGE'' follows tradition with the AGE-2 Double Bullet and its [[http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120326021304/gundam/images/f/f4/AGE-2_Double_Bullet_-_Using_Beam_Sabers.jpg shoulder-mounted beam saber wings,]] in what seems a deliberate CallBack to the V2 Gundam.
* ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'': Alucard and Seras are both capable of sprouting shadowy wings when they wish to quickly move from point A to point B without interference. However, they still can't cross running water without help.
* In a more comedic example, England from ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' grows a pair of white, feathery wings in his Britannia Angel form.
* In ''Anime/HyperSpeedGranDoll'', Hikaru's final power-up, Gran Master, comes with wings.
* In ''Anime/IlSolePenetraLeIllusioni'', another magical girl series, Ginka gains red and blue wings (and even a halo!) in her Tenebrae form.
* In the climax of ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureBattleTendency'', once Kars uses the power of the Red Stone of Aja to reach his ultimate form, he grows a pair of wings. Sort of a subversion though, since the wings weren't an inherent part of his powerup-- one of his new abilities was shapeshifting, and he created the wings for the specific purpose of chasing down Joseph's plane.
* In ''Anime/KMissingKings'', [[spoiler: Anna]] gets HotWings after Awakening as the [[spoiler: new Red]] King.
* Both Yayois in ''Manga/KoiKoi7'', who have wings in white and black, respectively. The pink-haired Yayoi made a DivingSave with hers, and the silver-haired Yayoi's wings were mostly limited to the OP to show that she meant trouble.
* ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'':
** Hayate sprouts six black wings when she [[FusionDance unisons]] with Reinforce, and Signum gains [[HotWings wings of fire]] when she unisons with [[spoiler: Agito]].
** While Nanoha herself doesn't do this, her staff Raising Heart ''does'', the number and size of the wings it sprouts for any given spell are a good rough indicator of just how much someone's going to get hurt. Subaru's [[EmpathicWeapon Mach Caliber]] has Gear Excellion, which is a blue version of Nanoha's and she uses it against [[spoiler:her older sister Ginga, who's been {{Brainwashed}} by Scaglietti as a Number.]]
* Both [[spoiler: Arika]] and [[spoiler: Nina]]of ''Anime/MyOtome'' grow wings during their final battle.
* Once they turn into their mecha forms, the Mashin of ''Manga/MagicKnightRayearth'' each have enormous wings based on their animal forms. Selece has draconic wings, Windam has bird wings, and Rayearth the wolf has ''fire wings''. Oh, and in Part II of the manga, [[spoiler:Mokona gains angelic wings when it reveals itself to be the Creator]].
* ''Anime/MazingerZ'': One of the many {{Mid Season Upgrade}}s that the titular HumongousMecha gets is the Jet Scrander, a JetPack with huge, red RazorWings.
* [[spoiler:Rin Asougi]] in ''Anime/{{Mnemosyne}}'' sprouts a pinkish-white pair of wings after becoming the new Guardian of Yggdrasil. It may be interesting to mention that there are "normal" {{Winged Humanoid}}s (appropriately called "[[OurAngelsAreDifferent angels]]") in the series but their wings are bloody red in color.
* Michel in ''Manga/MermaidMelodyPichiPichiPitch'' starts out with four wings. After [[spoiler:killing the Black Beauty Sisters and stealing their LifeEnergy]], he's got six.
* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'':
** In the "Rescue Sasuke" arc, [[TheBigGuy Chouji]] uses a number of food pills during a battle to give him power boosts. The third one instantly converts all his body fat into chakra, which blaze from his back like glowing blue butterfly wings ([[MeaningfulName Chouji means "butterfly"]]). [[spoiler:He is later able to summon the chakra wings without taking the red pill.]]
** Also Sasuke's Curse Seal Level Two, though instead of being angelic they're more of a cross between bat wings and ''[[http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/naruto/images/e/eb/Sasuke_in_Cursed_Seal_Level_2_2.jpg webbed hands]]'', and he can't fly, just glide and use them as shields.
* Setsuna's pactio card in ''Anime/NegimaSecondSeason'' gives her large, beautiful white wings with which to fly around slicing the MonsterOfTheWeek. Does not apply in [[Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi the main manga]], as she (as a [[HalfHumanHybrid half-crow demon]]) has the power to pull out from the beginning but largely does just fine without them.
* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'':
** Rei Ayanami gets a set of six wings in ''End of Evangelion''. Suitably, her wings become so large, they can cover the entire earth.
** Unit 01 and Shinji gain wings of pure energy when exiting the Geofront explosively, giving it a [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic Seraph-like appearance]]. Except it doesn't really help, as he finds outside the reason why he fought--the last person who he thought alive who he loved--turns out to have been ''eaten'', that being [[spoiler: Asuka]].
** Unit 01 also sprouts six energy wings in the opening, even though that never occurs in the show itself (until the movie, anyway). Also, [[spoiler:Adam sprouted quite a few wings...probably six too, before it initiated Second Impact, wiping out half of humanity and messing up the World's Ecosystem permanently.]]
** A more straight example appears in ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion'' after Eva-01 merges with [[spoiler:Rei and the remains of Zeruel (who had been given a ''very'' epic ass-kicking from Shinji)]] and grows wings of energy.
* The Thriller Bark arc of ''Manga/OnePiece'' had Robin showcasing a power where she can use her Hana Hana abilities to makes wings. The downside is that she can only stay in the air for five seconds. The wings are made of body parts after all.
* In ''Manga/PhantomThiefJeanne'', Jeanne got a large wings in the final of the anime.
* In ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'', during the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCp3LXNjFIg&feature=related Sinnoh Grand Festival]] where Zoey battles Nando. Mismagius used Psywave to give Leafeon an ''awesome'' set of ''[[PowerGlows glowing]]'' HardLight wings.
* All spirits in the world of ''VisualNovel/{{Polyphonica}}'' have wings by default; the more they have, the more powerful they are. A great majority of them are two-winged, but one of the most powerful, Corti, has six.
* ''Manga/{{Pretear}}'', Pretear's final form White Pretear has huge translucent butterfly wings.
* Very common in the ''Anime/PrettyCure'' franchise:
** Since ''Anime/FreshPrettyCure'', every movie features the lead Cure getting an upgrade with wings which later appear in the final of each TV series, but that said upgrade includes the entire group.
** In the second ''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCureMaxHeart'' movie, the main characters got wings, new hairstyles and new costumes.
** In the first ''Anime/YesPrettyCure5'' movie, the team becomes Super Precure 5 and grows butterfly wings as shown in the picture above. In the second, the leader becomes Shining Cure Dream, with feathery wings. The butterfly wings appear in the final of ''[=Yes! 5 GoGo=]'' again.
** In ''Anime/FreshPrettyCure'' Cure Peach becomes Cure Angel with angel wings. In the final episode of the series, everyone becomes Cure Angel.
** Averted in ''Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure'', where the the wings of their SuperMode are already featured before the movie was aired and the ultimate upgrade in the series is something completely different.
** In ''Anime/SuitePrettyCure'' movie, Cure Melody becomes Cure Crescendo Melody with two pairs of golden wings. The group gets this upgrade later in the final episode.
** In ''Anime/SmilePrettyCure'' movie, Cure Happy becomes Ultra Cure Happy, the group gets the Ultra upgrade in the final episode. However, Ultra Cure Happy's wings are much larger in the movie than in the series.
** The ''Anime/PrettyCureAllStars'' movies give every Cure new wings in the final battles.
* Kaoru from ''Manga/PsychicSquad'' gets angel wings when she faces off against one of [[DarkMagicalGirl Mio's]] clones combined with a bulldozer. The show's second opening theme is titled "MY WINGS", and plays up the wing symbolism further by showing the entire trio with wings.
* ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'': [[spoiler:The eponymous character]] gets a pair of wings in her [[spoiler:[[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence Goddess form]].]] Later, [[spoiler:Homura]] inherits this power. At an unspecified time in the future, her wings turn into a [[TheStinger disturbing black tattered wings-thingie]].
* All Tennyo, save for Akira and Ryo, in ''Anime/RakugoTennyoOyui'', have a pair of glowing wings on the back of their magical girl outfits.
* ''Manga/Reborn2004'': [[spoiler: After Byakuran finishes finishes his little Exposition about Ghost, he shows off the flames Ghost absorbed as wings.]]
* ''Franchise/SailorMoon'':
** Sailor Moon has wings during her second transformation; for about 3 seconds before they disappear in a burst of feathers. She also has wings on her Eternal fuku, but these appear to be purely decorative along with her FrillyUpgrade. Later on, when it's time for the final battle, she grows real wings. Her opponent, Sailor Galaxia, grows demon wings.
** In the [[Manga/SailorMoon manga]], Moon, [=ChibiChibi=], the Starlights, and Kakyuu can grow wings and [[BatmanCanBreatheInSpace fly in space]], apparently.
* In ''AudioPlay/SaintBeast'', all angels have wings, but most [[WingsDoNothing can't use them]]. Among the characters that can, however, are Rey, who gets functional wings bestowed on him at the Day of Benediction ceremony as mediated sort of power-up, and Luca [[spoiler:an AmnesiacGod]], whose wings appear under duress.
* ''Manga/SaintSeiya'':
** ''Every single time'' (particularly in [[TheMovie the movies]]) Seiya's Cosmo burns bright enough to make him a real threat to the latest BigBad, he summons the Sagittarius armor to him to replace the Pegasus Cloth. The wings, golden halo, and bow and arrow seem designed to inspire an angelic symbolism.
** The Divine Cloths of the Saints are more powerful and winged versions of their normal armours. Especially notable with Shun and Shiryu since, while the other three bronze saints have winged animal motifs, Shiryu's symbolism is all based on the (wingless) Chinese dragon and Shun's patron constellation is a human princess. Yet, god cloth equals wings.
** In ''Anime/SaintSeiyaOmega'' and ''Anime/SaintSeiyaSoulOfGold'', the new Bronze Saints and the original Gold Saints respectively get Omega cloths and god gold cloths with brand new wings.
* Nodoka of ''Manga/{{Saki}}'', when she's channeling the Nodocchi personality that allowed her to become the top online TabletopGame/{{Mahjong}} player, will be depicted as sprouting wings from her back.
* The ''Anime/SamuraiPizzaCats'' had a MidSeasonUpgrade with robot bird booster packs, which granted them flight capability and some increase in power.
* Wings are very prominent in ''Manga/{{Sekirei}}'', where a kiss from an Ashikabi is required to "wing" a Sekirei, granting them greater power. More a case of "wings give you power", but still a good example.
* In ''Manga/ShugoChara'', Amu and Utau's most powerful forms - [[spoiler:Amulet Diamond and Seraphic Charm]] - both have very large wings that enable them to fly in pretty formations. [[spoiler:Utau's prove useful, as [[PerpetualMolt the feathers]] purify all the X-Eggs in the area.]]
* ''Manga/SoulEater'':
** Maka demonstrates her new-found power (special 'Grigori' soul plus Death Scythe partner) by producing wings on Soul for them to fly with. Cute but unimpressive at first, Soul Resonance transforms them into large, angelic ones. They were only cute and unimpressive because Maka demanded cute wings. She later grows out of that line of thinking. It was also down to her and Soul disagreeing on the image of wings. Maka wanted 'cute angel', Soul could not imagine 'angelic' in relation to Maka, and the conflict makes them crash. The compromise resulted in the little wings they got when flying with Kim. As per usual, their mutual feeling and badassery allowed them to up the ante to fight Gopher. As with the black blood, the rather cool wings shown in that fight might well end up the norm.
** Much earlier on, the result of consuming the souls collected by Nidhogg enables Crona and Ragnarok to grow wings. Kid appropriately calls them the "black dragon".
** Hiro grows a pair of wings made of light while holding Excalibur.
** Gopher's own grigori soul allows him to grow wings (though not physical ones) to fly, but unlike Maka's they are black which she puts down to magic, presumably Noah's influence.
* ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'': In TheMovie ''[[Anime/SwordArtOnlineTheMovieOrdinalScale Ordinal Scale]]'' and the ''Alicization'' anime, when Asuna uses Yuuki's Mother's Rosario, she grows a pair of angelic wings.
* Both Ameri and Yumina receive wings during the course of events in ''VisualNovel/{{Tayutama}}''. Yumina's wings are angelic and golden, so they're clearly good. Ameri's are dragonlike and black, so they are clearly bad.
* ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'', where Tenchi and Juraian warships have the Light Hawk Wings.
** Much like kitsune mythology, the number of Light Hawk Wings shows how much power one has up to nine wings. Three is the highest a mortal can possess; ten wings are worn by gods and goddesses. [[spoiler:Tenchi's not mortal, as the final (current) episode of the OVA shows that Tenchi's now sporting ''five'' of those things. Ryoko (as the daughter of a goddess) will also be able to have ten of them when she reaches full maturity (if Tenchi gives her back her other two power gems, that is), but given that she hasn't done so yet after [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld 5000 years]], who knows how long that will take.]]
* In the ''Anime/{{Trigun}}'' anime finale, [[spoiler: Vash's and Knives' [[{{BFG}} Angel]] [[WaveMotionGun Arms]] are unleashed to the maximum level,]] and spontaneously sprout wings.
* The Crusniks in ''LightNovel/TrinityBlood'' sprout wings in their more powerful forms.
* ''Manga/ViolinistOfHameln'': [[spoiler: Hamel sprouts wings while delivering the final blow to Kestra. It was the first time his angel blood showed.]] The wings disappear soon after.
* In ''Anime/UmiMonogatari'', Urin appears with a pair of butterfly wings after she awakens from a literal cocoon. In the final episodes the wings grow huge and colorful.
* In ''Anime/YuGiOhCapsuleMonsters'', Yami Yugi gains wings after using the Duel Armor to merge with his monsters. Usually, these monsters either have wings themselves or can fly on their own.
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