List of unicorns
This is a list of unicorns in modern popular culture, chiefly literature, film and television, arranged chronologically:
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- 1871: Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll, features the nursery rhyme characters of "The Lion and the Unicorn."
- 1940 (November 13): Fantasia depicts unicorns and a unicorn donkey in the Pastoral Symphony segment of the film.
- 1956 (March 15) Forbidden Planet makes reference to a virgin's ability to tame unicorns
- 1956 (September 4) The Last Battle, by C. S. Lewis, describes Jewel, a noble unicorn who is King Tirian's best friend.
- 1962: "The Unicorn" is a song by Shel Silverstein, best known in the 1968 recording by The Irish Rovers.
- 1965: The Wandering Unicorn, a novel by the Argentinian Manuel Mujica Láinez features a magical unicorn's horn used as a lance during the Crusades.
- 1965: Elidor by Alan Garner features a lost unicorn from another world
- 1968: The Last Unicorn, a worldwide best-selling novel by Peter S. Beagle, believes she is the last of her kind in the world and undertakes a quest to discover what has happened to the others.
- 1976: Unico features a baby unicorn from Osamu Tezuka
- 1982 (October 28): Tokimeki Tonight episode 4 features a unicorn pulling a carriage that the star family takes to the underworld. Two are also seen at the end of episode 6 when an imaginary one is seen pulling a carriage carrying the two stars in wedding regalia, and then another appears tugging another pursuing carriage.
- 1982 (November 19): The Last Unicorn, a film adaptation of the 1968 novel, features a unicorn on the cover.[1]
- 1983: Dungeons & Dragons (TV series) features a unicorn called Uni
- 1985: Legend features a unicorn's horn being cut off by the villain
- 1987: The Care Bears Adventure in Wonderland -- saving a unicorn is part of Alice's princess test
- 1992: Blade Runner: in the director's cut, Rick Deckard has a dream of a unicorn. The meaning of the dream is central to his self-identity.
- 1994-2010: The Unicorn Chronicles are a fantasy series by Bruce Coville, including Into the Land of the Unicorns (1994), Song of the Wanderer (1999), Dark Whispers (2008) and The Last Hunt (2010).
- 1996: Kleo the Misfit Unicorn also features a wide cast of normal unicorns to complement the main character, who is a winged unicorn
- 1997: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone a unicorn is injured and its blood is drunk
- 1998: Nico the Unicorn movie, based on the 1996 book by Frank Sacks
- 2001 (October 17): Zoo Tycoon video game easter egg unicorn cheats exhibits
- 2001 (November 4): Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film), Lord Voldemort and Professor Quirrell are shown to be feeding off the blood of a dead unicorn.
- 2002: The Twelve Kingdoms anime has "Qilin", the Japanese term for unicorns
- 2005 (May): Jack Frost (manhwa) features a very ugly unicorn
- 2005 (November 26): Charlie the Unicorn, a viral video first released on Newgrounds, features the eponymous unicorn Charlie as well as two other unicorns
- 2005 (December 8): The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe shows Peter riding a unicorn into battle
- 2006 (February): Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn serial novel begins
- 2006 (March 20): The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Sidequest
- 2006 (June 10): Sugar Sugar Rune anime episode 49 has a unicorn transformed into a boy in the final exam, Chocolat and Vanilla need to retrieve his horn
- 2007 (July 5): Noah's Ark features unnamed unicorn
- 2007 (August 10): Stardust features a unicorn coming to help out Yvaine the fallen star.
- 2009 (February 24): The Princess and the Unicorn is a children's novel in which a unicorn is vital to the survival of a fairy community.
- 2010 (June 18): Toy Story 3 features Buttercup
- 2010 (October 10): My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic has a variety of unicorn ponies. Some of the main cast (both Rarity and Sweetie Belle) are unicorns. The main character Twilight Sparkle was a normal unicorn for the first three seasons until becoming a winged unicorn.
- 2011: Puella Magi Madoka Magica episode 9 features one alongside a mermaid
- 2012 (February 10): The Season 7, 14th episode of Supernatural, "Plucky Pennywhistle's Magical Menagerie" shows a unicorn chasing down a neglectful father and impaling him on its horn.
- 2012 (March 9): The Cabin in the Woods depicts a unicorn killing a man by stabbing him through the chest
- 2012 (April 22): Phoebe and her Unicorn webcomic series debuts[2]
- 2013 (April 30): The Fire Ascending from the series The Last Dragon Chronicles by Chris d'Lacey features an unnamed unicorn.
- 2013 (December 4): Lana Del Rey's short film Tropico features a unicorn along with other animals.
- 2014: Taylor Swift's Blank Space Music Video shows an alicorn (a unicorn with wings) beside her bed.
- 2015
- (January 18) in episode 1b ("Party With a Pony") of Star vs. the Forces of Evil, the character Flying Princess Pony Head is introduced, who is a floating unicorn head.
- (April 13) in episode 4a ("Cheer up Star") of Star vs. the Forces of Evil, Star plays Marco's ringtone which is a song called "space unicorn". In "Quest By" a unicorn on a treadmill is revealed to power Star's wand.
- (June 22) in episode 7b ("Sleep Spells" of Star vs. the Forces of Evil, when Marco asks Star to paint a picture of her childhood, there is a purple unicorn in it.
References
- ↑ Seen on the cover
- ↑ http://www.gocomics.com/phoebe-and-her-unicorn/2012/04/22
See also
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