Unicorn References

More Unicorns in Live Action Movies

• Cast a Deadly Spell: this movie presents a north-american city in the beginning of the 20th century, but with something different, magic is a common reallity there. A unicorn appears, pursued by a virgin woman. Later, she appears with her clothes stained with blood, supposedly from the unicorn. The movie is a parody of noir movies with story based on terror stories of H. P. Lovecraft. Though the movie can be enjoyable to people that have already read Lovecraft's stories, the insinuation that a unicorn had died is extremly disgusting.
• The NeverEnding Story: in the beginning of the movie, the main character, Bastian, is having his breakfast. His father says that the child's teacher had complained that he has been absent-minded, he had been caught drawing horses in his notebook. Bastian replies they were unicorns, not horses...
• Contact: in the bedroom of Eleanor, the main character, as a child, there is a picture of a unicorn on the wall, at the head of the bed. It was my impression that, later on the movie, she started to look like a unicorn, in her manners, in her ways...
• The Twilight Zone: in the 1980's episodes, the opening showed a unicorn's image inside a crystal ball.
• Harry Potter and The Philosopher's Stone: they killed a unicorn, those bastards...! No, I really didn't like the movie, not because they killed some unicorns (er, well, I have to admit that put the butterflies in my stomach in a frenzy), but because it is too stereotyped to my liking...
• Astérix et Obélix contre César: the druid uses a two headed unicorn milk to produce a special potion to fight the roman troops.
• Phenomenon: George Malley, the main character, makes a quick list of mammals, in increasing alphabetical order, including "unicorn" in it...
• Beast Master (TV series): "The Last Unicorns" present some unicorns (that also appear in the series opening sequence). The story is strange, the solution bizarre, but it has something...
• The Nanny (TV series): in the episode "Fran-Lite", the nanny replies to a good-night that, if she has some luck left, she will dream with a unicorn...
• Are You Afraid of The Dark? (TV series): in the episode "The Tale of The Silver Sight", there is a unicorn head in bronze in an old house, where the guys get the first piece of the silver sight.
• Murder By Night (teleplay): there is a unicorn jewel in the movie, I only realized it in the end of the movie, so I don't know if it appears earlier in the story...
• Spin City (TV series): on the episode "Rain on My Charades", the mayor's daughter destroys a plush unicorn he had bought her after he antagonizes her...

More Unicorns in Animation Movies

• Mahou No Tenshi Creamy Mami (Magical Angel Creamy Mami): an anime series about a girl that receives special powers from an alien. In the episode "Toki No Nemuru Mori" (Time's Sleep Forest) she meets a girl called Miya that lives in an enchanted forest, where time is meaningless...
  
• The Real Ghostbusters: this animation series is based on the movie Ghostbusters. It's a production with American scripts and Japanese animations. In the episode "Hard Knight's Day", an ancient warrior reincarnates from a tapestry. Touching other tapestries with his sword, he brings their characters to life, including some tapestries of unicorns. The ghostbusters are trying to fight the ancient warrior and his allies, but they are only four against hundreds of warriors and creatures. Trying to run away, they find the unicorns, whom help them in their fight. One of the ghostbusters asks to another how he knew the unicorns would help them, to which the other replies that someone like that ancient warrior should have some enemy. I don't know who wrote that episode's script, but it really got the "unicorn's spirit". I really love that series.
• Dungeons & Dragons: this American series is based on the homonymous RPG. The stories are centered in a group of youngsters that have been carried to a strange world of sorcery and monsters, where they find a baby unicorn, named Uni, whom joins the group in its adventures. In one episode (I think it was named "The Valley of The Unicorns"), the group finds the secret valley where the unicorns live. The series has good and bad stories. Unfortunatelly, that about the secret valley is not one of the best. The unicorns have just a background role in that plot.
• The Simpsons: in the episode "Brush with Greatness", Marge Simpson restarts to paint and, in a contest, wins the first prize. One of the paintings in the contest presented a unicorn asking "Why?", standing on a deserted land, covered with junk. In another episode, "Rosebud", Mr. Burns receives a unicorn as a present, amongst other treasures... In "Simpsons' Bible Stories", a unicorn named Garry dies exhausted trying to help Marge to get back into Eden...
• Wild Fire: this North-American series has Peter S. Beagle, the author of The Last Unicorn, as creative consultant. In one episode, all horses are being charmed and captured by the evil sorceress. When the enchantment is broken, the horses are set free. Among them are also some unicorns. I wonder who had the idea of putting the unicorns there. Do they think unicorns are horses with a horn? I didn't like the joke.
• Thundercats: in the episode "The Terror of Hammerhand", the thundercats help a group of unicorns against a gang of pirates, self called "Berserkers". What is interesting about these unicorns is that they actually do look like unicorns, not horses with horns, they even have cloved hooves. Of course, the unicorns are depicted a little too clumsy, or else they wouldn't be in any danger against a few pitates and there wouldn't be any story to be told. Something interesting about this cartoon series, it was produced by Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass, the same that produced "The Last Unicorn" animated movie.
• There is an American series about unicorns, but I don't know its name (I missed its opening and I only watched the first episode). The main unicorn character is a female unicorn that was born with wings (of course, she is deride by the other unicorns for being different). The main human character is a princess, whom has a magical crystal that can only be used by the winged unicorn and her, together of course, giving both special powers. There is also an evil sorceress and some dangerous artifacts that give her extreme powers and can, of course, destroy the world. Did I forget anything? Oh, yes, of course, the happy ending. When you start to watch it, the first thing you realize is that it will have an extremely happy ending, the kind that will give the moralists and censors hours of wonderful sleep. Of course, you are right, the unicorns are painted as one-horned horses, how did you guess that...?
• Rupert: this series present the adventures of Rupert, a young bear (anthropomorphic) in a land of magic and fantasy (you can't tell when or where one starts and the other ends). Amongst his wanders, he comes to meet some unicorns in trouble, pursued by a young and evil wizard, helped by a giant and a gryphon. The only unicorn not captured is a young female, too scared to fight back, but, of course, the young hero is there to help.
• Cats Don't Dance: this is a story about a cat that goes to Hollywood, dreaming about starring in musicals. A couple of unicorns appear in a diluvian musical... Nyan...

Unicorns Everywhere

• There is a Japanese game named "Area 88", based on a manga. The protagonists are members of a squadron, whose symbol is a "flaming unicorn", a unicorn with burning fire instead of manes and hair. Outside Japan, the game is named "U.N. Squadron". The same kind of flaming unicorn appears in "Pokemon" anime, based on another Japanese game called "Pocket Monster" (in Japanese, poketto monsuta-, abbreviated to poke mon).
• The video clip to the song "Return To Innocence", by Enigma, has a white unicorn, riding "back" to the wild (you will understand when you watch it).
• Another video clip, to a version of the song "I Will Survive", performed by a group named "Cake" (album "Fashion Nugget"), shows a series of crystal animals along the film. In the very beginning, it presents a prancing unicorn...
• There is a version of the song "The Last Unicorn", from "The Last Unicorn" animated movie, played by a certain "In Mood", sung by Juliette.
• Somebody wearing a unicorn mask appears in the song of the group "Echo And The Bunnymen" titled "Bring On The Dancing Horses", from the album "Songs To Learn And Sing".

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