A winged unicorn is a fictional ungulate, typically portrayed as a horse, with wings like Pegasus and the horn of a unicorn. 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, or as a pegacorn, a portmanteau of pegasus and unicorn.
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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. 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".
Tokimeki Tonight features them as part of a royal crest visible on a throne in the Underworld.
A character named Whisper appears in Whisper, the Winged Unicorn, story by Karen Styles, and Whisper's Golden Friend by Jill Wolf.
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.
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.
In Valkyria Chronicles, the princess Cordelia wears a winged unicorn hat.
In the universe of ', the rare and powerful winged unicorns, referred to as alicorns, play a role as ponies of royal status in Equestria. Such characters include Princesses Celestia, Luna, Cadance, Twilight Sparkle, Cadance's daughter Flurry Heart and the villain Cozy Glow.
In Sofia the First episode "Baileywhoops", Cedric turns a merry-go-round of unicorns into winged ones. 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.
In 2016, video game heroine Cora Veralux is depicted wearing a winged unicorn turtleneck as a cadet.
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 ' 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.
In the Nate Temple series by Shayne Silvers, Nate bonds with Grimm, a black alicorn with a cool of peacock-like feathers that are black with red tips. Grimm is the brother of Pegasus and arrives with a flash of lightning.
