• Doraemon: Nobita and the Winged Braves has a new character, the once-mighty Birdopian war hero Icarus, who blames himself over getting his best friend Seagrid shot by humans because of his mistake, where he quits his high-ranking position in the Bird Migration Patrolling Troops and allows himself to be imprisoned, remaining a recluse in Birdpia's equivalent toThe Alcatraz until he found out the monster Phonenixia is being unleashed and his help is required.
• InErgo Proxy, one of the characters is a scientist named Dr. Daedalus and one of his creations is given wings and dies from exposure to the sun (not because of wings melting, but because she was a Proxy and sunlight is theirAchilles' Heel)
• InFullmetal Alchemist, a parallel is drawn between Icarus and the Elric brothers, who believed they could successfully performhuman transmutation despite the fact that no one ever had before. Of course, they failed.
• Heaven's Lost Property's Deurotagonist Ikaros is the titular 'lost property'; an Angeloid that fell from theFloating Continent of Synapse. In the manga's final arc,she lives up to her namesake when Tomoki leads the Angeloids to an attack on Synapse; Ikaros delivers Tomoki to Synapse, but it turns out she was installed with a 'safeguard' after trying to turn on Synapse, that her wings would burn up if she came too close.
• One Piece:
  • Parodied when thegiant squidDaidalos flew too close to the sun and turned into surume (dried squid), traumatizing his friendIkaros.
  • Played straight when Dr. Vegapunk talks about trying to build a source of endless energy, and how that power was abused. One of the chapters where he's giving this speech is titled, "The Wings of Icarus"
  Vegapunk: I dreamt of a source for endless, eternal energy...and in my desire to push the world forward into the future...I flew too close to the sun!!
• InTokyo Ghoul:Re, Matsuri Washuu invokes the myth of Icarus while discussing the coming battle at theL.E. Building, referring to it as "Daedalus's Tower". Mirumo Tsukiyama has sent his son, Shuu, to be evacuated from the building's heliport in order to escape extermination. The ensuing battle for the Tsukiyama Heir results in two helicopters going up in flames, and Shuu (Icarus) being thrown from the roof of the building. He survives only because his cousin leaps after him, and sacrifices her life to save him.

• The Eternals: Ikaris's origin is, in some tellings, the basis of the myth of Icarus. The twist is that Ikaris was originally the Daedelus figure and his son was Icarus. After his son died, he took on the name Ikaris himself.
• Fun Home: TheBookends have Alison discuss the myth of Icarus and Daedalus and how it relates to her own relationship with her now-deceased father.

• Infinity Train: Seeker of Crocus: Icarus is a common,if misapplied, motif used to portray Chloe as aDeath Seeker.
• Infinity Train: Wake Me Up: During the events of the Horsegirl Race Car, aversion of Chloe Cerise appears, dubbed "The Icarus", and she's depicted as aWinged Humanoid.
• HZD Terraforming Base-001 Text Communications Network: When Sylens joins the group chat, Alva quickly gives him the display name "Icarus." Because he keeps coming up with grandiose plans that inevitably bite him in the ass. Tilda, who joined at the same time, gets "SilverVixen."
  Sylens: Ha. How amusing.
  Tilda: How do you even know what either of those things are?
  Alva:Stargate andUrban Dictionary!
  Tilda: Oh dear god.
• Laserllama: The description of the Aeronaut subclass (which allows Artificers to create machines that let them fly) mentions how many attempts at creating their signature tech end in catastrophic failure; an allusion to the most iconic myth of artificial flight.
• Next Grand World: After Hiryu Kakogawa/Another Zi-O leaves the Crypters a message about his intent to take over the Lostbelts, Wodime directly names him as a would-be Icarus.
• The audio drama prequel to the fancomicProject Riribirth draws an analogy between Icarus's fall and aCareer-Ending Injury Riri Williams suffers while in battle.

• 24-Hour Party People (2002) opens with a segment of Tony Wilson, TV personality and later head of Factory Records, doing a news segment on hang gliding. After crashing, Wilson turns and starts talking to the camera.
  Tony Wilson: You’re gonna be seeing a lot more of that sort of thing in the film. All of that actually did happen. Obviously, it’s symbolic. It works on both levels. I don’t want to tell you too much, don’t want to spoil the film. But I’ll just say, "Icarus." OK? If you know what I mean, great. If you don’t, doesn’t matter. But you should probably read more.
  • Around the 60 minute mark of the movie, we get a flash back scene of Paul and Shaun Ryder feeding pidgeos poisoned bread, and watching as they come crashing down, foreshadowing howShaun's descent into drugs would poison and bring down the record label.
• Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice: Upon using Zod's corpse to create Doomsday in the genesis chamber of the Kryptonian ship, Lex Luthor tells him "You flew too close to the Sun".
• Birdman: In what is perhaps the only Classical mythology reference in the entire film, Birdman in Riggan's head suggests pulling an Icarus and throwing himself off a roof of a block of flats in New York.
• Brazil: The protagonist hasrecurringDreams of Flying in which he dons an armor with crystalline wings and romances a floatingDamsel in Distress that he wants to save from manifestations of theCrapsack World he lives in. When he discovers Jill Layton, a woman who looks identical to the dream girl, Sam wants to pursue her at all costs, while making his life a downward spiral.
• Death Note: During their first confrontation in person, L compares Light to Icarus through his use of the death note (he doesn't quite know yethow he killed hundreds of people all over the globe, just that it's obviously supernatural). He says his purpose is to make sure Light burns up and crashes.
• InDie Another Day, Icarus is the code name of Gustav Graves solar energyKill Sat. During the final battle with Bond, Graves is defeated when his plane flies through the beam of solar energy being projected by Icarus.
• Eternals: Ikaris's last act in the movie is to fly off into space and throw himself into the sun. Subtlety, thy name isnot the MCU.
• The French movieI As In Icarus has this as the name of some criminal operation. At the end of the movie, the protagonist is on a phone conversation with his wife who surmises thatit's about offing someone who has come too close to the truth... right asthe operation is carried out on her husband.
• Icarus: The parallel of Icarus to Olympic athletes cheating to improve performance is obvious, but there's also a parallel to Russian scientist Dr. Rodchenkov daring to expose the Russian doping program, and getting his life destroyed in return.
• Iron Man 1 had Tony fly toward the moon, causing a buildup of ice on his suit.He later solves this problem and uses it to his advantage against an enemy who has built a suit based on his earlier designs.
• InKong: Skull Island, Lieutenant Colonel Preston Packard references Icarus as he and the rest of the Sky Devils fly their helicopters through the dangerous storm surrounding Skull Island. He boasts that unlike Icarus' father, the U.S. Army was not neglectful enough to give them wings of wax and feathers. Instead, the U.S. Army gave them wings of white-hot, cold-rolled Pennsylvania steel, guaranteed not to melt. While the squadron does get through the storm successfully, this boast shows that Packard suffers from the exact kind ofhubris the tale of Icarus is meant to warn against.
• Additional material for the originalPlanet of the Apes reveals that theSleeper Ship used by Taylor and his crew was called "Icarus", which draws a parallel with the myth given how the ship was meant to ambitiously bring humanity to new worlds but ended up failing and falling back to Earth.
• Sunshine has two spaceships named theIcarus flying very close to the sun.Icarus 1 fails in its mission, butIcarus 2 succeeds.
• Top Gun: Maverick: Rooster is the son of a pilot, Goose, his surrogate father is also a pilot, Maverick. We do not know much about whether the first one encouraged Rooster's career but Maverick definitely didn't want him to fly too high. In any case, Rooster's flying tactics aren't too wild, nor too cowardly. He just thinks too much when flying his planes, and "Don't think" by Maverick becomes like a quote-motif throughout the movie.
• Up: A man nurses a hawk to health, sets it free, and then starts taking to the skies in a hang glider in an effort to follow it. The man, soaring up high into the sky, eventually falls to his death when his harness breaks. It's implied that this is the consequence of his hubris, especially after he landed on a very tall, very narrow Monument Valley butte.

• InAccel World, Sky Raker is given the mocking nickname of Icarus due to her self-destructive quest to upgrade her avatar'sJump Jet Pack into trueFlight.
• InBlindsight an array of solar collectors and particle accelerators hanging in space near the sun known as The Icarus Array teleports antimatter to Earth and spaceships as a power source. Towards the end it goes offline.
• The fourth book in theDare to Be Scared series has the story "Witch", following ambitious young Annabelle as she seeks to learn magic while working under a powerful witch. She eventually steals her mentor's broom in an attempt to fly, which proves a fatal mistake. Unlike Icarus though, Annabelle doesn't crash or fall-instead, the broom continues to fly, and she dies of starvation, with her skeletal remains still gripping the broom becoming an urban legend for those who see it in the night sky....
• The Divine Comedy:
  • When flying on a scorpion/dragon/demon monster made of lies down into the largest pit of soul-corpses, Dante was more afraid than Icarus was at the moment of his wings burning off. Sure, Icarus flew too close to the sun and fell, but Dante didn't even get to fly up before descending right into the realm of the dead.
  • The counterfeiter and liar Griffolino oddly references the Icarus myth with him in the role of a wiser Daedalus who admitted he couldn't safely make Icarus fly. Of course, Griffolino is using this reference to aggrandize himself for lying about being able to fly and getting burned at the stake for being unable to back his claims up.
• InEragon, neither Eragon nor his dragon, Saphira, knows that air gets thinner the higher you go. One night, they fly too high. The lack of air makes it impossible for Saphira to concentrate and communicate mentally with Eragon, and she doesn't realize there's a problem until Eragon passes out.
• Beatty inFahrenheit 451 compares Montag to Icarus.
• InHonor Harrington: In Enemy HandsHaven launches a counterattack against Manticore codenamed "Operation Icarus". The admiral in charge hangs a lampshade on it, thinking that if he were in commandhe wouldn't name an offensive after that particular myth. Strangely it's the single most successful Havenite engagement up to that point, which makes one wonder ifDavid Weber wasn't using Icarus to refer to theManticorans instead.
• AnotherRay Bradbury story,Icarus Montgolfier Wright, involves a man named Jedediah Prentiss who, in 1970, is about to be the first man to walk on the moon. As he sleeps the night before, he dreams of Icarus, as well as Ettiene Montgolfier (who launched the first hot air balloon) and the Wright brothers(inventors of the first airplane).
• Impossible Creatures (2023): Early on, the heroes discuss the story of Icarus while gutting fish. The Archipelagans tell Christopher that he was real, only he didn't fly into theactual sun, but a miniature, magical sun called the Somnulum.Thisforeshadows the climax, where Mal completely unfolds her flying coat so she can fly into the Somnulum and incinerate theBig Bad... and herself.
• InIncarceron, there is a Sapphique myth that features him building wings to try and fly Out.
  Sapphique strapped the wings to his arms and flew, over oceans and plains, over glass cities and mountains of gold. Animals fled; people pointed up. He flew so far, he saw the sky above him and the sky said, "Turn back, my son, for you have climbed too high."
  Sapphique laughed, as he rarely did. "Not this time. This time I beat on you until you open."
  But Incarceron was angered, and struck him down.
• Both the original novel and the 1976 film adaptation ofThe Man Who Fell to Earth reference this myth (the opening section of the novel is called "Icarus Descending") — the protagonist is an alien who comes to Earth in hopes of saving hisDying Race back home, but gradually succumbs to Earthly vices.
• Zo inRed Mars Trilogy is compared to, and thinks of, Icarus a few times. It gets her killed in the end. She doesn't fly too high but tries to rescue another flyer who's crashing, a feat beyond her skill.
• According toThe Shepherd's Crown, theDiscworld equivalent of the Icarus myth tells of Pilotus and his son Langas, who crashed almost immediately because what they were attempting simply wasn't going to work. The moral is "understand what you are doing before you do it".
• InMercer Mayer'sProfessor Wormbog and the Search for the Zipperump-a-Zoo, the titular professor crafts a pair of wings with feathers and glue, only for them to get destroyed in a thunderstorm mid-flight.

• InBabylon 5, the scientific expedition that reawoke the Shadows by poking intoThings Man Was Not Meant to Know was called the "Icarus expedition", after the ship on which it traveled.
• CSI: NY: In "Cold Reveal", the team investigates the death of Toby Finch, who was found dead in a church with angel wings strapped to his back after seeminglyfalling from the sky. Initially, Toby's friend and girlfriend are seen as suspects but further investigation reveals what really happened. Toby,obsessed with becoming internet famous, drunkenly attempted to catapult himself off a roof, expecting that his artificial angel wings would help him soar across the sky like a hang glider. To ensure this, he pre-cuts the bungee cords on his safety harness, thinking that the force of the catapult would fully disconnect them. Unfortunately, they held faster than he expected, giving him such severe whiplash that hisneck snaps in two places killing him before he even fell through the church's paned window. Mac surmises that the only crime committed was the victim's misdirected ambition.
• A two-part episode of the seriesFarscape is titled "Daedalus Demands" and "Icarus Abides". The episodesare about the alien who put the wormhole knowledge in Chrichton's head returning, fearing he had given it to the wrong people. To cut a long story short, they end up in a situation where they need to unlock the wormhole knowledge in his head and give him complete access to it in order to build a wormhole weapon to destroy a massive ship. He goes on to die of radiation from the open power source(the "flying too close to the sun" bit).
• InFringe, a scientist trying to find a way for his disabled son to walk, stumbles upon a new element that when injected into the blood can make someone lighter than air. Unfortunately it requires repeated injections to remain effective and the subject will eventually die of toxic shock. Throughout the episode, Walter alludes to the myth and at the end, notes that while the scientist's sondidn't die, other parents had sons who weren't so lucky.
• Interview with the Vampire (2022): Lampshaded by Alderman Fenwick in "Is My Very Nature That of a Devil" when he derides Louis de Pointe du Lac for being foolish like Icarus, which is why he believes Louis deserves to "drown" in the figurative ocean after aiming too high for a man of his race.
  Fenwick: Storyville is a sinking ship, and naturally, you are the first to drown. But that's your problem, Louis, always has been. You're arrogant. You haven't accepted your place in this world. And your pale lover, with his seemingly endless supply of capital, and the weird goings-on in your Sodomite townhouse won't change the fact that you're a tiny man flying too close to the sun. And that's what I am, Louis — the sun.
• The second-to-last episode ofLaw & Order: Criminal Intent,Ripped from the Headlines of theTroubled Production of the Broadway musicalSpider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, substituted a musical inspired by the Icarus story for the Spidey show; the murder victim of the week was the show's lead, who fell to his death when his flying harness was sabotaged.
• Played for Laughs inOrange Is the New Black when Nicky and Big Boo have a contest of who can have sex with more women at the prison, and after Nicky tries to approach one of the female guardswho is straight, Nicky laments "I'm like Icarus, whose wings melted before he could fuck the sun"
• Invoked by theGovernment Conspiracy targeting Clark and his fellow heroes in Season 10 ofSmallville. They pick "Icarus" as their name, because they're counting on the heroes' arrogance to be their downfall. One of the leaders of the organization even comments on seeingHawkman's death that he never expected to seea man with burning wings fall to his death.
• InStargate Universe the offworld base trying to reach the nine-chevron gate address is called Icarus Base. The novelization of the series pilot mentions the ever-Genre Savvy Jack O'Neill tearing a strip off whichever idiot named it that and jinxed the expedition.

• Bastille does this rather bluntly in their song "Icarus".
• FromBTS's "Boy with Luv",its name in Korean being "A Poem for Small Things" (fromthis translation):
  There were times when I was acting arrogant without knowing
  The sky that became too high, the hall that became too big
  Sometimes I prayed to let me run away
  But your scar is my scar —
  when I realized it, I promised myself
  that, with Icarus’ wings that you gave me,
  I'd fly to you, not the sun
  Let me fly
• According toGarfunkel and Oates number "Such a Loser" the myth of Icarus is bullshit, because even if you fail it's important to try and see how far you can fly in the first place instead of not trying at all.
• Iron Maiden's song "Flight Of Icarus".
• Referenced inKansas' song "Carry On Wayward Son":
  Once I rose above the noise and confusion
  Just to get a glimpse beyond this illusion
  I was soaring ever higher
  But I flew too high
• Kristoph Klover's "Fire in the Sky", about the history of space exploration:
  Gagarin was the first, back in 1961
  When like Icarus undaunted, he climbed to reach the sun
  And he knew he might not make it, for it's never hard to die
  But he lifted off the pad, and rode a fire in the sky!
• Vic Mensa's "Codeine Crazy (Icarus Story)":
  Icarus flew too close to the sun
  I could be guilty of being too high to die
  I'm a winner but I can't roll just one
  Like a black stone, gotta roll up five
  They want you to think that your wings melt
  When you make your dreams real
  So black boy, don't fly too high
  I gotta keep my niggas with me like a seatbelt
• The Moody Blues' song "Departure" (the intro piece that segues into "Ride My See-Saw") has the line:
  Or to fly to the sun without burning a wing
• Phish's "The Squirming Coil":
  I'd like to lick the coil some day
  Like Icarus, who had to pay
  with melting wax and feathers brown
  He tasted it on his way down
• Sabaton: The chorus of "The Red Baron" says Richthofen is flying too fast and too high, and the song urges him ever on to push the limits further and further. A verse also mentions him embracing his fame.
  Higher!
  Higher, the king of the sky
  He’s flying too fast and he’s flying too high
  He's flying higher, an eye for an eye
  The legend will never die
  Higher!

• TheBTS music video of "Blood, Sweat and Tears" (and theWINGS era in general) contains several visual references to Greek mythology,and references the Icarus myth several times, with V (that is, hisBTS Universe character) being associated with Icarus/fallen angel imagery. Most notably, during the second pre-chorus, the camera goes through a door that leads to a balcony on which V is sitting. He turns to the camera, smiles, and he jumps off, revealing the background wall to be"Landscape with the Fall of Icarus" by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Similarly, the painting"The Lament for Icarus" by Herbert James Draper also appears in the background of a group shot in the beginning.

• One ofCHIKARA's all-timeHeels is'The Winged Ring Warrior' Icarus.

• InCabin Pressure, Captain Martin Crieff makes a living driving a van for his company Icarus Removals. When he finds out, Douglas points out that this is not a good name for an inexperienced pilot to give to anything. (This is an in-joke on the part of the writer: when the first series was in development, MJN Air was called Icarus Airlines, but as the character of Carolyn, the airline's owner, got more fleshed out he realised she would never be daft enough to use such a name.)

• According to one fan expansion ofFreedom City, his son's fate is why Daedalus hatesLies to Children. He told Icarus not to fly "too close to the sun" because it seemed simpler than explaining thereal problems with flying too high. When Icarus found that it actually gotcolder when he flew higher, he assumed there was nothing to worry about.

• Invoked in"Burn" fromHamilton, when Elizafinds out that Alexander had had an affair and publicly admitted it.
  Do you know what Angelica said
  When she learned what you'd done?
  She said, 'You've married an Icarus
  He's flown too close to the sun.'
• Cirque du Soleil'sVarekai is an alternate take on the legend of Icarus where instead of falling into the sea and drowning, Icarus lands in aMagical Land reminiscent ofAlice's Adventures in Wonderland.

• Invoked by Mr. Torgue inBorderlands 2.
  Mr. Torgue: Flyboy's so arrogant, he thinks his Buzzard army will protect him! But once you wipe them all out, he'll learn that pride goeth before a fall! ICARUS SYMBOLISM!
• Cruelty Squad has three augments that increase the player's jump height. The highest tier is the Icaros Machine, which increases your jump to the point you'll take fall damage unless you happen to land on a higher surface.
  "Designed for the military future fighter program as an attempt to reconfigure the linear spatial dimensionality of warfighting but retired after an entire squad of fully augmented supersoldiers ended up decentering biological life against the pavement".
• InDestiny andits sequel the alien Cabal have a similar legend, that of Acrius seeking to claim the sun and its power. A human historian directly compares the myth to the story of Icarus and notes it says a lot about the Cabal'scultural mindset that instead of failing as a warning against hubris Acrius was completely successful and used the sun to become emperor. Current Empress Caiatl knows (and possibly invented) another version of the story where Acrius was only the last in a long line of warriors who sought the sun, each one making the way easier for the next warrior, changing the moral to the importance of serving the Cabal people as a whole, rather than chasing personal glory.
• Deus Ex: Human Revolution is fueled entirely by allusions to the Icarus myth and the colour yellow. Both Sarif and Darrow claim to be the Daedalus to Jensen's Icarus (Sarif Industries' logo is a wing and Sarif often calls Jensen "son"), theTie-In Novel is namedDeus Ex: Icarus Effect, and there are more allusions after that. Also, to prevent fall damage, Jensen can unlock the "Icarus Landing System." On top ofthat, the opposing sides interpret the myth in mutually exclusive ways;
  • Members of theIlluminati such asHugh Darrow reference the common knowledge of the myth; the father feeling regret for his son's death due to pride. The Illuminati are thus justified in bringing the chaotic and proud under control for their own good.
  • La Résistance believes that they're twisting the myth to suit their goals; "Daedalus was an arrogant bastard. The man built a maze of death, and killed his nephew when he thought he might be smarter than him." The Illuminati are simply justifying the murder of innocent people to maintain control of the world - it's hard to bully people stronger than you.
• The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind has an NPCspecifically, a Bosmer named Tarhiel that falls out of the sky to his death.^note Unless you'reCrazy-Prepared and save him, despite having absolutely no advance warning of this event. On his body are several "Scrolls of Icarian Flight", which boost Acrobatics through the roof, allowingamazing feats of jumping, but their duration is far too short, and they inevitably wear off mid-jump, likely resulting in your death.^note Unless, again, you'reCrazy-Prepared and do something to save yourself. This time you at least have plenty of warning.
• InKid Icarus, main character Pit is an angel who cannot fly unless he gains the power of the three Sacred Treasures, and inKid Icarus: Of Myths and Monsters he loses his wings after approaching too much to the Sun even with the aforementioned objects. As ofKid Icarus: Uprising, Palutena can grant him the Power of Flight, but warns that if he flies for too long, (or, as is discussed later, too quickly in succession) his wings will burn up. Viridi is later shown to be able to bestow the same powerwhen they need to ally against aBrainwashed and Crazy Palutena. Sure enough, afteralready pushing the five-minute timer very close to ignition, Pit demands that Viridi let him fly again in order to save Dark Pit.
• InMirror's Edge, the story of Icarus is recalled by Merc when Faith first finds evidence of the Project Icarus,an ambitious project byThe Government to bring the runners and their clients under control, which ends with Faith demolishing its main total surveillance center.
• One of Ashe's voicelines inOverwatch is the common English saying that is a direct reference to this tale: "Get too close to the sun, you're gonna burn!"
• InSpec Ops: The Line, shortly after Walker'sMoral Event Horizon moment, the squad enters a tower with huge golden statues of winged men suspended by wires (which don't seem to be attached to anything, but extend all the way up into the heavens). One of these statues has fallen and has a missing arm/wing. It can be assumed that the broken statue represents Walker himself — a modern Icarus who, in his quest for glory, went too far and paid a terrible price.
• InThomas Was Alone, the DLC character Benjamin takes his father's invention, flies too close to the light of the Fountain, and is blinded by the Internet.
• Xenoblade Chronicles X has a collectible item named the Icarus Wings, described as an invention ofNopon who wished to fly. Unsurprisingly, they don't work, though the flavor text notes thatthis doesn't stop many Nopon from plummeting to their deaths trying.

• Minecraft SOS:Invoked in the finale. At the end of the series,Scott goes out by flying upward in deliberate defiance to theStatic Charge mechanism and his episode specifically cites his cause of death as "flew too close to the Sun".
• Pirates SMP: In the treasure quest "The City of Submerion – Wizards", tales speak of an alleged wizard who was obsessed with reaching the higher heavens and made a pair of magically enhanced wings that would allow him to fly. The result of him throwing himself off a platform outside his tower is, naturally, tumbling into the icy waters below and dying from the fall. Jokes have been made about this being the series' version of the Icarus myth.
• The Spider (Just Preston): The only picture the protagonist takes of Spider-Man's fight with The Vulture is after the former ripped the latter's wings-off as the Vulture plummets many stories to his death.
• What If? (xkcd):
  • The entry"Interplanetary Cessna" concludes that the myth is not a morality tale about human limitations, but rather one of engineering limitations.
  • An alternate view on the Icarus tale is provided in"Into the Sun": melting takes time, even at high temperatures, so Icarus' problem wasn't flyingtoo close to the Sun, it was staying near the Sun fortoo long.

• Icarus also shows up inHercules: The Animated Series. Naturally, he has a permanent tan and lightning bolt-shaped hair. The opening even shows him flying up against the sun, burning his wings, and falling. He never seems to learn his lesson.
• Love, Death & Robots: In "Fish Night", two salesmen discover the ghostly remains of an ancient ocean in the Arizona canyons. The young man, overjoyed at the concept of swimming with the prehistoric creatures, ventures upward to join them despite the old man's warning. Cue the shark about to eat him.
• In one episode ofMuppet Babies (1984) dealing withGreek Mythology, Gonzo has anImagine Spot of being Icarus and flying high in the sky. Unfortunately, it's at this point that Nanny mentions the part where flying too close to the sun would cause Icarus's wings to melt.
  Gonzo: Huh? Melt?! Oh,nowthey tell me!Aaahhhhh!
• My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: The episode "Sonic Rainboom" subtly homages the myth with a spell Twilight Sparkle casts on Rarity to give her magical butterfly wings, since non-pegasus ponies can't enterCloudsdale orwalk on the clouds it's made of. Ignoring Twilight's warning that her newfound wings are very delicate, Rarity enters the Best Young Flyers' Competition alongside Rainbow Dash, despite originally going to Cloudsdale to provide emotional support. The climax of her act has her fly as high as possible so that the sun shines through her wings and covers all of Cloudsdale in colorful light, but sure enough, the sun's heat destroys her wings, and (after anOh, Crap! moment) Rarity plummets nearly to her death, nearlytaking three other flyers with her. Thankfully, Rainbow Dash manages to rescue all of them at literally the last moment.
  • At one point in "Testing Testing 1, 2, 3", Twilight notes in passing that the favorite flight pattern of Princess Celestia, who controls the sun, is the "Icaranean Sun Salutation".
• The Owl House: "Knock, Knock, Knockin' on Hooty's Door" references this briefly when Eda dreams of chasing the Owl Beast down through memories of negative experiences she blames on it, and ends up running into its own memory of being turned into a curse, transforming her into it. As her dream self flees from the Collector while in this state, her wings burn away into nothing, and she morphs again into the shape of a scroll representing the Beast's curse form while falling into the sea below.
• In theSouth Park episode "Cartman's Incredible Gift" Cartman tries to fly from his roof with cardboard wings and ends up in the hospital recovering from head trauma. The cops believe that he now has psychic abilities because they have heard of similar cases; they take his advice and dismiss Kyle's. Kyle concludes he has to be as stupid as Cartman to be acknowledged. Before he does so, Butters tells him not to fly too close to the sun.

• The engineer and authorNevil Shute pointed out that the wax on Icarus' wings would never have melted — the atmosphere gets colder as you fly higher. The wax would havefrozen and shattered due to brittleness first.Either way, same ending.
• Subverted by theJapaneseSolar Sail IKAROS (Interplanetary Kite-craft Accelerated by Radiation Of the Sun). The sail didn't melt.
• Type foundry URW++ began creating digital fonts in the 1970s, long before the desktop publishing revolution began. Their font editor software,Ikarus, was so named because it crashed a lot during development.
• For some reason, theHellenic Air Force Academy's official name since 1967 is "Icarus Air Force Academy."
• DARPA'sInbound, Controlled, Air-Releasable, Unrecoverable Systems program is designing paper drones that disintegrate in midair. They're intended to carry medicine or other supplies to specific locations that might be difficult to access by land.
• Icarosaurus was a reptile from the Triassic Period that was closely related to modern lizards but not a true lizard. It gets its name from having elongated ribs that had a membrane between them to act as a gliding mechanism, similar to modernDraco lizards. Presumably it did not have to worry about its wings melting off.

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Ed's Arm and Leg

Ed reveals his metal limbs to Rose and Father Cornello which he got due to his attempt at human transmutation.

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