Winged unicorn

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A winged unicorn (cerapter, flying unicorn, pegacorn, or unisus) is a fictional ungulate, typically portrayed as a horse, with wings like Pegasus and the horn of a unicorn.^[1] In some literature and media, it has been referred to as an alicorn, a Latin word for the horn of a unicorn, especially in alchemical texts,^[2] or as a pegacorn, a portmanteau of pegasus and unicorn.

The term Pegasus is actually the name of the winged horse character of Greek mythology, a child of the god Poseidon, and does not refer to all winged horses. The Greek common noun meaning ‘flying horse’ is πτερίππους (pterippus).

Description[]

A winged unicorn on the Manège d'Andréa

Winged unicorns have been depicted in art. Ancient Achaemenid Assyrian seals depict winged unicorns and winged bulls as representing evil, but winged unicorns can also represent light.^[3][4]

Irish poet W. B. Yeats wrote of imagining a winged beast that he associated with ecstatic destruction. The beast took the form of a winged unicorn in his 1907 play The Unicorn from the Stars and later that of the rough beast slouching towards Bethlehem in his poem "The Second Coming".^[5]

In popular culture[]

Detail of the embroidered dress of an Apkallu, showing four-legged winged and horned animals. From Nimrud, Iraq. 883-859 BCE. Ancient Orient Museum, Istanbul

• Tokimeki Tonight features them as part of a royal crest visible on a throne in the Underworld.^[6]
• A character named Whisper appears in Whisper, the Winged Unicorn (sticker book, 1983), story by ,^[7] and Whisper's Golden Friend (sticker book, 1986) by .^[8]
• A recurring character on the popular podcasts The Scathing Atheist, The Skepticrats, and God Awful Movies is Carl the Pugapegacorn, who claims to be a unicorn, Pegasus, and Pug hybrid/chimera. Often depicted as overweight, the character's obesity is presumably a consequence of eating too much garlic bread, evidenced by the character's purported cravings for it as a running gag.^[9]
• She-Ra, a spin-off of Mattel's Masters of the Universe, features Swift Wind.^[10]
• In Hasbro's My Little Pony Tales episode "Up, Up and Away", Dazzleglow, a leader of extraterrestrial pegasi, has a unicorn horn. The character's colour and other appearance is based on a Glow 'n Show unicorn character of the same name released during the original generation of the My Little Pony toy line, but the Tales incarnation of Dazzleglow with a pair of wings was never released as a toy.
• Arthur features a winged "My Fluffy Unicorn" toy that D.W. names "Uni" is the focus of "Hic or Treat" when she considers giving it to the Tibbles to get rid of her hiccups.^[11]
• In Valkyria Chronicles (2008), the princess Cordelia wears a winged unicorn hat.
• In the universe of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, the rare and powerful winged unicorns, referred to as alicorns^{[note 1]}, play a role as ponies of royal status in Equestria. Such characters include Princesses Celestia, Luna, Cadance, Twilight Sparkle (who was a unicorn until "Magical Mystery Cure"), Cadance's daughter Flurry Heart and the villain Cozy Glow (only during "The Ending of the End - Part 1 & 2").
• In Sofia the First episode "Baileywhoops", Cedric turns a merry-go-round of unicorns into winged ones.^[15] The episode "The Mystic Isles" features winged unicorns.
• In Little Charmers episode "A Charmazing Race", Hazel Charming's racing broom has a unicorn horn and wings.^[16]
• In 2016, video game heroine Cora Veralux is depicted wearing a winged unicorn turtleneck as a cadet.^[17]
• Ever since their introduction in Fire Emblem Gaiden in 1992, members of the "Falcon Knight" class in the Fire Emblem series ride winged unicorns.
• In the Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero episode "Alpha, Bravo, Unicorn," the dragons of Dragon World are at war with winged unicorns that have Australian accents.
• In Corn & Peg, the main characters’ idol Captain Thunderhoof is a winged unicorn.
• The antagonist of the Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown DLC missions is the rogue ballistic missile submarine/submersible aircraft carrier Alicorn, whose emblem is a stylized winged unicorn.
• "The Last Winged Unicorn", music by Rhapsody of Fire, released in 2000.
• In Sailor Moon SuperS, Chibi Usa befriends a winged unicorn named "Pegasus".

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