The book was written far too early for this to be intentional, but in The Last Unicorn, the monstrous Red Bull causes the unicorns to run away, i.e. take flight.
Gotta have Gene Khan show up in the Marvel sections of my group's megacrossover just so someone who hates him can refer to him as Tambur-lame, or possibly Genghist Khan't. (Not a race thing - the character's whole schtick revolves around trying to be like Genghis Khan.)
... the teen antagonist/sometimes ally from Iron Man: Armored Adventures? Who's actually descended from fantasy-superhero-Genghis Khan?