# Wings **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 9, 2009, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wings/520597 "2009-12-09T15:53:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wings/520597/1 "2009-12-09T15:53:04Z")
What sort of wings would you want, if you had to choose? I think I’d take leathery wings, but colorful, not brown like a bat’s. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wings/520597/2 "2009-12-09T15:57:12Z")
Hummingbird wings(properly sized). I want to be able to hover and fly backward. And I won’t have to learn the words. ---
**Author:** ![Lanzy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/74df32/32.png) [@Lanzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lanzy)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wings/520597/3 "2009-12-09T16:01:02Z")
Stainless Steel - Razor Sharp! ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wings/520597/4 "2009-12-09T16:04:38Z")
Jet-powered backpack wings for me, thank you. And a helmet. ---
**Author:** ![Oredigger77](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oredigger77/32/3181_2.png) [@Oredigger77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oredigger77)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wings/520597/5 "2009-12-09T16:05:42Z")
> [@Lanzy](#): > > Stainless Steel - Razor Sharp! +1 If I was going to have wings I’d want to have Archangel’s ---
**Author:** ![Serenata67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/serenata67/32/10646_2.png) [@Serenata67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serenata67)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wings/520597/6 "2009-12-09T16:52:38Z")
Sometimes I surprise myself with just how girly I can be. I opted for Dragonfly wings. Beautiful, iridescent, colorful, shimmery… they’d be so pretty! ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wings/520597/7 "2009-12-09T17:07:03Z")
I’d go for what [Tyrael in Diablo 2](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQyta80a5wc&feature=related) used as wings. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wings/520597/8 "2009-12-09T17:08:18Z")
Shiny aluminum ones, attached to an airplane. THAT can happen. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wings/520597/9 "2009-12-09T17:10:24Z")
I thought this was going to be about chicken wings. ☹ Still, I picked feathery. And enormous, thank you very much, that fold back in nicely. ---
**Author:** ![Kickback\_Joe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/cdc98d/32.png) [@Kickback\_Joe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kickback_Joe)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wings/520597/10 "2009-12-09T17:15:36Z")
Wings would be super cool. At least until everyone had them. For mine I just want them to be strong enough to hold and disguise sidewinder missiles to fire at people who decide to piss me off. ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wings/520597/11 "2009-12-09T17:18:21Z")
I thought this was going to be about our favorite character on Wings. Crystal Bernard. And some space-age material, like Batman’s. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wings/520597/12 "2009-12-09T17:32:24Z")
Suicide. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wings/520597/13 "2009-12-09T17:33:13Z")
Buffalo. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wings/520597/14 "2009-12-09T17:56:30Z")
Feathery. And black. ---
**Author:** ![FloatyGimpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/floatygimpy/32/7750_2.png) [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wings/520597/15 "2009-12-09T18:27:58Z")
Fairy wings. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wings/520597/16 "2009-12-09T18:30:25Z")
I was going to say Buffalo, or Hot. Since those are not options I would choose big feathery angel wings, like Hawkman or Matt Damon in _Dogma_. ---
**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wings/520597/17 "2009-12-09T18:45:12Z")
Leathery, if when folded they clasped around my neck and looked like a cape - like that Disney’s Gargoyles cartoon. I’m a pale white guy though, so leathery wings my skin color would look rather sickly - like the part in ET where he almost dies from exposure. I guess I’d want cool colors like prehistoric flying reptiles may have had. Second choice black feathers. ---
**Author:** ![maladroit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f475e1/32.png) [@maladroit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maladroit)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wings/520597/18 "2009-12-09T19:25:39Z")
I just finished reading Patterson’s Maximum Ride series about the avian-humna hybrid children, so I immediately pictured big feathery bird wings, but I had a strong desire for the dragonfly wings so I picked those. Pretty. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wings/520597/19 "2009-12-09T19:31:51Z")
I’d like pretty ones, but I’d have to go for functional and folding ones (don’t want to get silly here, now). I like the Gargoyles one, too. Razor sharp claws on them would also be awesome. ---
**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wings/520597/20 "2009-12-09T21:32:32Z")
Red. Until the Kings take them out in the second round. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wings/520597.md?page=2)