Deadly Rotary Fan: Difference between revisions

 

Supertrope of [[Helicopter Blender]] and [[Turbine Blender]]. Compare [[Deadly Disc]]. Not to be confused with [[Paper Fan of Doom]].

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* Rick Chalker from ''[[X-Factor (comics)|X-Factor]]'' attempts to use [[Cyborg|rotors grafted in place of his hands]] as weapons, extremely incompetently.

 

== [[Film]] ==

* In ''[[Army of Darkness]]'', Ash incorporates a windmill's vanes into his battle-refitted Oldsmobile, then drives this whirling mega-fan into the undead horde and sends flying every one that fails to evade.

 

* The ceiling fan decapitation variant was busted by ''[[MythBusters]]'', who found that even an industrial fan, while probably lethal, would be unable to decapitate a person.

* In the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "The End of the World", the Doctor must [[Death Course|navigate a series of these]] in order to reach an [[Malevolent Architecture|otherwise inaccessible]] switch.

* ''[[Alias (TV series)|Alias]]'': One episode ended on a [[Cliff Hanger|cliffhanger]] with Sydney struggling not to get pulled upwards through an [[Air Vent Passageway|air vent]] into a huge fan.

 

* ''[[Paranoia (game)|Paranoia]]'' adventure ''The Yellow Clearance Black Box Blues''. One of the traps in the Mission Three "dungeon crawl" is a giant exhaust fan. If any of the [[PC]]s is sucked into it they'll "become thousands of julienne fries in seconds."

 

* ''[[OpenArena]]'''s deathmatch level pxlfan also features a big deadly rotary fan at the very bottom of the level.

* Featured prominently in [[MadWorld]].

 

== [[Web Original]] ==

'''Tucker''': "What, that thing? It's moving at like two miles per hour!"

'''Tex''': "I didn't say it'd be hard to get past." }}

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==