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== Anime and Manga ==
== Anime and Manga ==
* ''[[Mobile Suit Victory Gundam (Anime)|Mobile Suit Victory Gundam]]'' justifies this with humongous mecha equipped with beam rotors. That is to say, their blades were effectively ''[[Laser Blade|lightsabers]]'', so chopping things up with them would be rather easy. (Actually ''flying'', however, we're not so sure about.)
* ''[[Mobile Suit Victory Gundam]]'' justifies this with humongous mecha equipped with beam rotors. That is to say, their blades were effectively ''[[Laser Blade|lightsabers]]'', so chopping things up with them would be rather easy. (Actually ''flying'', however, we're not so sure about.)
** In the ''[[Gundam Seed]] Astray: Red Frame'' short, Lowe attaches the head of a BuCUE to Red Frame's arm so he can use the double-ended beam saber in its "mouth". He then rigs it to spin, creating much the same effect as a Beam Rotor. May or may not have been a [[Shout-Out]], given that the upgrade was a one-shot with a shorter lifespan than most of the Red Frame's.
** In the ''[[Gundam Seed]] Astray: Red Frame'' short, Lowe attaches the head of a BuCUE to Red Frame's arm so he can use the double-ended beam saber in its "mouth". He then rigs it to spin, creating much the same effect as a Beam Rotor. May or may not have been a [[Shout-Out]], given that the upgrade was a one-shot with a shorter lifespan than most of the Red Frame's.
* [[Gao Gai Gar|Big Volfogg]]'s Murasame Sword attack uses the blades of the Gungrue, a transforming helicopter, as a spinning sword attack, because [[Everything's Better With Spinning]].
* [[GaoGaiGar|Big Volfogg]]'s Murasame Sword attack uses the blades of the Gungrue, a transforming helicopter, as a spinning sword attack, because [[Everything's Better with Spinning]].




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== Films -- Live-Action ==
== Films -- Live-Action ==
* ''[[Tomorrow Never Dies (Film)|Tomorrow Never Dies]]'' has this (and is indeed the [[Trope Codifier]]). Everybody's favorite secret agent [[James Bond (Film)|James Bond]] finds himself in a large square on a motorbike, with a helicopter leaning forward and trying to blend him (and his female companion). It fails, as they manage to slide under it and motor away, but cuts up plenty of material while trying. The chopper does crash in the end - not due to physics exacting its revenge, but because a heavy rope gets thrown in the blades, tangling them and causing it to lose lift and crash. Because the blades can shred metal, but rope, that's ''tough''!
* ''[[Tomorrow Never Dies]]'' has this (and is indeed the [[Trope Codifier]]). Everybody's favorite secret agent [[James Bond (film)|James Bond]] finds himself in a large square on a motorbike, with a helicopter leaning forward and trying to blend him (and his female companion). It fails, as they manage to slide under it and motor away, but cuts up plenty of material while trying. The chopper does crash in the end - not due to physics exacting its revenge, but because a heavy rope gets thrown in the blades, tangling them and causing it to lose lift and crash. Because the blades can shred metal, but rope, that's ''tough''!
** Later averted in ''[[The World Is Not Enough (Film)|The World Is Not Enough]]'', where the helicopter just has several enormous rotary saw blades [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|dangling from a helicopter instead]] (It was designed to fly above treetop level and use the rotary saw blades below it to clear branches, and in fact was [[Chekhov's Gun|was seen doing so earlier in the movie]]. Here's an actual company that uses them: http://www.helimatic-gmbh.de/en_1.htm
** Later averted in ''[[The World Is Not Enough (Film)|The World Is Not Enough]]'', where the helicopter just has several enormous rotary saw blades [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|dangling from a helicopter instead]] (It was designed to fly above treetop level and use the rotary saw blades below it to clear branches, and in fact was [[Chekhov's Gun|was seen doing so earlier in the movie]]. Here's an actual company that uses them: http://www.helimatic-gmbh.de/en_1.htm
* Done in ''[[Fantastic Four (Film)|Fantastic Four]]: Rise of the Silver Surfer''. The Silver Surfer flies above the place where Mr Fantastic and Invisible Woman are having their wedding, disrupting the controls of a nearby press helicopter. It careens wildly and crashes right on the place where the ceremony is being held. As it's skidding, its rotor blades hit the ground and start throwing chairs and other assorted objects in the air. The chopper is then stopped rather unceremoniously by The Thing, who proceeds to rip its tail off. It's a bit less unrealistic, as the helicopter is not deliberately used as a weapon, but the rotor really should have broken up and/or flipped the helicopter over...
* Done in ''[[Fantastic Four (film)|Fantastic Four]]: Rise of the Silver Surfer''. The Silver Surfer flies above the place where Mr Fantastic and Invisible Woman are having their wedding, disrupting the controls of a nearby press helicopter. It careens wildly and crashes right on the place where the ceremony is being held. As it's skidding, its rotor blades hit the ground and start throwing chairs and other assorted objects in the air. The chopper is then stopped rather unceremoniously by The Thing, who proceeds to rip its tail off. It's a bit less unrealistic, as the helicopter is not deliberately used as a weapon, but the rotor really should have broken up and/or flipped the helicopter over...
** That one scene being unrealistic was the least of that movie's problems...
** That one scene being unrealistic was the least of that movie's problems...
* In ''[[Grindhouse (Film)|Grindhouse]]'' helicopter blades are used to cut through zombies.
* In ''[[Grindhouse]]'' helicopter blades are used to cut through zombies.
* ''[[28 Weeks Later (Film)|Twenty Eight Weeks Later]]'' has an awesome use of this against an army of infected, truly earning the pilot his badass credentials. To clarify, the pilot had to fly with the blades spinning,angled downwards and at a height of less than 2 metres off the ground. He does it, survives, kills a heap of zombies and flies off into the sunset, leaving dozens of mangled, twitching corpses in his wake.
* ''[[28 Weeks Later|Twenty Eight Weeks Later]]'' has an awesome use of this against an army of infected, truly earning the pilot his badass credentials. To clarify, the pilot had to fly with the blades spinning,angled downwards and at a height of less than 2 metres off the ground. He does it, survives, kills a heap of zombies and flies off into the sunset, leaving dozens of mangled, twitching corpses in his wake.
* ''[[Underworld Evolution]]'' has the third variant of this trope: a military helicopter is hit and takes a dive down a hole in the ground. The rotor shatters upon hitting said hole's walls, which also keep the helicopter in position, nose-down, after it stops moving. Despite the crash, the impacts, the physical damage and the fact that nobody's at the controls, the engines keep working and the transmission is miraculously still intact. This causes the stumps of the blades to keep rotating, and they promptly blend the [[Big Bad]] as the heroine pushes him into them.
* ''[[Underworld Evolution]]'' has the third variant of this trope: a military helicopter is hit and takes a dive down a hole in the ground. The rotor shatters upon hitting said hole's walls, which also keep the helicopter in position, nose-down, after it stops moving. Despite the crash, the impacts, the physical damage and the fact that nobody's at the controls, the engines keep working and the transmission is miraculously still intact. This causes the stumps of the blades to keep rotating, and they promptly blend the [[Big Bad]] as the heroine pushes him into them.
** This seems slightly less unlikely after seeing [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwSsnEdteQ8 this]. Still, surely a permanent vertical position would make things a lot harder, if nothing else for fuel reasons...
** This seems slightly less unlikely after seeing [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwSsnEdteQ8 this]. Still, surely a permanent vertical position would make things a lot harder, if nothing else for fuel reasons...
* The flying saucers ("Velocipods") that Syndrome's minions used in ''[[The Incredibles]]'' were apparently designed with this trope in mind. The craft fly by means of a spinning metal disc--a cross between helicopter rotors and a sawblade--around the edge. The rotor is capable of tilting (for keeping the craft upright while turning, and for trying to slice trespassers to bits) and strong enough to cut through a palm tree without sustaining notable damage.
* The flying saucers ("Velocipods") that Syndrome's minions used in ''[[The Incredibles]]'' were apparently designed with this trope in mind. The craft fly by means of a spinning metal disc--a cross between helicopter rotors and a sawblade--around the edge. The rotor is capable of tilting (for keeping the craft upright while turning, and for trying to slice trespassers to bits) and strong enough to cut through a palm tree without sustaining notable damage.
* Near the end of the first ''[[Mission Impossible (Film)|Mission Impossible]]'' film, a baddie flies a helicopter into a train tunnel (specifically the one used by the TGV train for crossing the english channel) and attempts this on the protagonist. The rotors even bounce off the walls with no ill effects (only some pretty sparks).
* Near the end of the first ''[[Mission Impossible (film)|Mission Impossible]]'' film, a baddie flies a helicopter into a train tunnel (specifically the one used by the TGV train for crossing the english channel) and attempts this on the protagonist. The rotors even bounce off the walls with no ill effects (only some pretty sparks).
** Additionally, the writers don't take any thought to the aerodynamics of the passing train, which would leave a VERY low-pressure area immediately behind it, which would make maneuvering the helicopter EXTREMELY difficult as it neared the train-- particularly in a tunnel due to the inability for air to move freely; however the movie features the chopper maneuvering as easily as if it was in an open field with no wind.
** Additionally, the writers don't take any thought to the aerodynamics of the passing train, which would leave a VERY low-pressure area immediately behind it, which would make maneuvering the helicopter EXTREMELY difficult as it neared the train-- particularly in a tunnel due to the inability for air to move freely; however the movie features the chopper maneuvering as easily as if it was in an open field with no wind.
*** they also forgot to take into account that the train in question (the TGV) has an average speed of 300 km/h, most helicopters can only manage 220-250 km/h at best, that little chopper would've been very quickly left behind
*** they also forgot to take into account that the train in question (the TGV) has an average speed of 300 km/h, most helicopters can only manage 220-250 km/h at best, that little chopper would've been very quickly left behind
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*** Although the aforementioned low-pressure area would likely create a "drafting" effect, speeding up the helicopter beyond what it would normally be able to do.
*** Although the aforementioned low-pressure area would likely create a "drafting" effect, speeding up the helicopter beyond what it would normally be able to do.
* In the generic [[Bruce Willis (Creator)]] actioner ''[[The Last Boy Scout]]'', the climactic fight with [[The Dragon]], the boss's toughest henchman occurs up in the lights over a crowded football stadium. Inexplicably, in the middle of the fight, a helicopter flies into the stadium and ''underneath'' the two men fighting on the highest catwalk, not only endangering those aboard, but thousands of football fans directly below them. Why would the chopper pilot do something this insane? Why, so Bruce can kick his opponent off the catwalk and ''downward'' into the [[Helicopter Blender]]. Take that, bad guy (and all you people sprayed with body bits, and the pilot)!
* In the generic [[Bruce Willis (Creator)]] actioner ''[[The Last Boy Scout]]'', the climactic fight with [[The Dragon]], the boss's toughest henchman occurs up in the lights over a crowded football stadium. Inexplicably, in the middle of the fight, a helicopter flies into the stadium and ''underneath'' the two men fighting on the highest catwalk, not only endangering those aboard, but thousands of football fans directly below them. Why would the chopper pilot do something this insane? Why, so Bruce can kick his opponent off the catwalk and ''downward'' into the [[Helicopter Blender]]. Take that, bad guy (and all you people sprayed with body bits, and the pilot)!
* Played realistically in [[John Woo]]'s ''[[Broken Arrow 1996 (Film)|Broken Arrow]]''. A helicopter strapped to a flatbed traincar is preparing for takeoff when a mook is knocked up into the path of the rotor blades, resulting in only a large gash in his chest as he is flung thirty or so feet. Notably, this happens while the helicopter is still grounded, so there are no flight issues. Played ''un''realistically in the same movie, when a ''flying'' helicopter decides to kill some other mooks by ramming them with the main rotors. The guy that gets hit is thrown from the train while the chopper isn't inconvenienced in the slightest.
* Played realistically in [[John Woo]]'s ''[[Broken Arrow (1996 film)|Broken Arrow]]''. A helicopter strapped to a flatbed traincar is preparing for takeoff when a mook is knocked up into the path of the rotor blades, resulting in only a large gash in his chest as he is flung thirty or so feet. Notably, this happens while the helicopter is still grounded, so there are no flight issues. Played ''un''realistically in the same movie, when a ''flying'' helicopter decides to kill some other mooks by ramming them with the main rotors. The guy that gets hit is thrown from the train while the chopper isn't inconvenienced in the slightest.
* Although it violated several other laws of physics, ''[[The Italian Job]]'' remake averted this trope. The pilot didn't threaten the main character with his rotorblade, and when he tried to block his mini with his tail-rotor, the mini won.
* Although it violated several other laws of physics, ''[[The Italian Job]]'' remake averted this trope. The pilot didn't threaten the main character with his rotorblade, and when he tried to block his mini with his tail-rotor, the mini won.
* ''[[Terminal Velocity]]'' ended with the main baddie parachuting on a wind generator. We don't get to see the blending, but the next scene shows one of the blades with blood on it, implying it's killed him. The blade has no damage whatsoever, despite the rather muscular human that slammed on it.
* ''[[Terminal Velocity]]'' ended with the main baddie parachuting on a wind generator. We don't get to see the blending, but the next scene shows one of the blades with blood on it, implying it's killed him. The blade has no damage whatsoever, despite the rather muscular human that slammed on it.
* Averted in the film Year of the Comet, in which the protagonists use a helicopter to chase the villain who is driving a car. The female lead believes that they've got the advantage, to which the male lead says "What do you want me to do, hover him to death?"
* Averted in the film Year of the Comet, in which the protagonists use a helicopter to chase the villain who is driving a car. The female lead believes that they've got the advantage, to which the male lead says "What do you want me to do, hover him to death?"
* In ''[[Shoot Em Up (Film)|Shoot Em Up]]'' near the end of the skydiving shootout sequence Mr. Smith (Clive Owen) kicks the Lone Man towards a helicopter that just happened to be nearby.
* In ''[[Shoot'Em Up (film)|Shoot Em Up]]'' near the end of the skydiving shootout sequence Mr. Smith (Clive Owen) kicks the Lone Man towards a helicopter that just happened to be nearby.
* George A. Romero's ''[[Dawn of the Dead (Film)|Dawn of the Dead]]'' features an accidental zombie decapitation by the still-rotating main rotors of a landed helicopter. This was a [[Chekhov's Gun]] for the original [[Downer Ending]], where the heroine commits suicide by sticking her own head in the rotors.
* George A. Romero's ''[[Dawn of the Dead (film)|Dawn of the Dead]]'' features an accidental zombie decapitation by the still-rotating main rotors of a landed helicopter. This was a [[Chekhov's Gun]] for the original [[Downer Ending]], where the heroine commits suicide by sticking her own head in the rotors.
* An interesting variation appears in ''[[Transformers (Film)|Transformers]]'', where Blackout uses his main rotor as a hand weapon. And then they have [[Shout-Out|Lennox using a motorcycle to slide beneath him.]]
* An interesting variation appears in ''[[Transformers (film)|Transformers]]'', where Blackout uses his main rotor as a hand weapon. And then they have [[Shout-Out|Lennox using a motorcycle to slide beneath him.]]
** Blackout uses the tail rotor as a weapon, the main rotor hangs from his back. He can spread the blades open to look menacing.
** Blackout uses the tail rotor as a weapon, the main rotor hangs from his back. He can spread the blades open to look menacing.
* Completely averted in Arabesque, where the Hero defeats the [[Big Bad]], by dropping a ladder on his helicopter, completely shattering the rotor, and causing the aircraft to fall.
* Completely averted in Arabesque, where the Hero defeats the [[Big Bad]], by dropping a ladder on his helicopter, completely shattering the rotor, and causing the aircraft to fall.
* Averted in ''[[Escape to Witch Mountain]]'', in which a helicopter that's flying ''upside-down'' lands in a field in that position without so much as clipping the grass with its rotors. It'd be a major [[You Fail Physics Forever]], if long-distance telekinesis weren't actually responsible for keeping it in the air while inverted and for landing the thing safely.
* Averted in ''[[Escape to Witch Mountain]]'', in which a helicopter that's flying ''upside-down'' lands in a field in that position without so much as clipping the grass with its rotors. It'd be a major [[You Fail Physics Forever]], if long-distance telekinesis weren't actually responsible for keeping it in the air while inverted and for landing the thing safely.
* In the intro to ''[[Spy Kids (Film)|Spy Kids]]'', at one point a helicopter pursuing the newlyweds beheads a couple of statues as it flies between them.
* In the intro to ''[[Spy Kids]]'', at one point a helicopter pursuing the newlyweds beheads a couple of statues as it flies between them.
* Played with in ''[[Die Hard With a Vengeance]]''. The [[Big Bad]]'s helicopter hits a light pole with its main rotor, producing a shower of sparks; however, instead of this causing the rotor to shatter and the helicopter to simply drop a few metres on the ground, the whole thing just blows up for no clearly defined reason.
* Played with in ''[[Die Hard With a Vengeance]]''. The [[Big Bad]]'s helicopter hits a light pole with its main rotor, producing a shower of sparks; however, instead of this causing the rotor to shatter and the helicopter to simply drop a few metres on the ground, the whole thing just blows up for no clearly defined reason.
* In ''Flight of the Living Dead'', a zombie that's sucked out of a rupture in the airliner's fuselage gets caught in one of the engines and has its legs diced by the turbine blades. {{spoiler|Which is ''not'' enough to kill it, as it's seen at the end [[Half the Man He Used To Be|walking on its palms]].}}
* In ''Flight of the Living Dead'', a zombie that's sucked out of a rupture in the airliner's fuselage gets caught in one of the engines and has its legs diced by the turbine blades. {{spoiler|Which is ''not'' enough to kill it, as it's seen at the end [[Half the Man He Used To Be|walking on its palms]].}}
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* Averted in [[Tom Clancy|Tom Clancy's]] ''Rainbow Six''. A terrorist leader is escaping down the freeway in a Jaguar, and Rainbow's transport helicopter is the only unit available at the moment to follow him. The pilot briefly puzzles over how the hell he's going to stop a car with an unarmed Blackhawk, before he decides to just run parallel with the car about 30 meters off the ground while one of his passengers empties his pistol at the car out the side door. The scene even included a moment where the first attempt to shoot the car failed when the chopper had to pull up suddenly to avoid flying into a road sign.
* Averted in [[Tom Clancy|Tom Clancy's]] ''Rainbow Six''. A terrorist leader is escaping down the freeway in a Jaguar, and Rainbow's transport helicopter is the only unit available at the moment to follow him. The pilot briefly puzzles over how the hell he's going to stop a car with an unarmed Blackhawk, before he decides to just run parallel with the car about 30 meters off the ground while one of his passengers empties his pistol at the car out the side door. The scene even included a moment where the first attempt to shoot the car failed when the chopper had to pull up suddenly to avoid flying into a road sign.
* In a [[Godzilla]] novel, a harpooner is turned into a [[Pink Mist]] by a helicopter rotor that is torn off by Godzilla during a sea battle with the behemoth.
* In a [[Godzilla]] novel, a harpooner is turned into a [[Pink Mist]] by a helicopter rotor that is torn off by Godzilla during a sea battle with the behemoth.
* Cassie of the ''[[Animorphs (Literature)|Animorphs]]'' once tried to deliberately jam up a helicopter's blades with her own [[Animorphism|transformed-into-a-humpback whale]] body: a desperate ploy to be sure, but they believed that if Cassie were in the form of a humpback whale, she would survive. And they were correct in predicting that the helicopter wouldn't have survived this attack, and that this particular helicopter was so important that it was worth the risk. The helicopter, seeing an enemy coming down towards its propeller, dodged out of the way and so both the helicopter and Cassie were safe. But as luck would have it, [[Turbine Blender|an ordinary seagull got caught in its propeller]], and this was the end of the threat posed by that helicopter. [[Captain Obvious|And the poor seagull.]]
* Cassie of the ''[[Animorphs]]'' once tried to deliberately jam up a helicopter's blades with her own [[Animorphism|transformed-into-a-humpback whale]] body: a desperate ploy to be sure, but they believed that if Cassie were in the form of a humpback whale, she would survive. And they were correct in predicting that the helicopter wouldn't have survived this attack, and that this particular helicopter was so important that it was worth the risk. The helicopter, seeing an enemy coming down towards its propeller, dodged out of the way and so both the helicopter and Cassie were safe. But as luck would have it, [[Turbine Blender|an ordinary seagull got caught in its propeller]], and this was the end of the threat posed by that helicopter. [[Captain Obvious|And the poor seagull.]]
* The novel ''Tin Man'' inverts the trope. The hero wears a suit that makes him invulnerable, and disables a helicopter by deliberately leaping into the rotors.
* The novel ''Tin Man'' inverts the trope. The hero wears a suit that makes him invulnerable, and disables a helicopter by deliberately leaping into the rotors.
* [[Matthew Reilly]] uses variants of this trope. A mook in ''Scarecrow'' tried to drop Mother onto a helicopter while she was hanging out of the side of a skyscraper, but fell through himself. In ''Temple'' and ''Area 7'', the rotors of a helicopter on the ground are used as an improvised weapon.
* [[Matthew Reilly]] uses variants of this trope. A mook in ''Scarecrow'' tried to drop Mother onto a helicopter while she was hanging out of the side of a skyscraper, but fell through himself. In ''Temple'' and ''Area 7'', the rotors of a helicopter on the ground are used as an improvised weapon.
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== Live-Action TV ==
== Live-Action TV ==
* In an episode of ''[[ER (TV)|ER]]'' a careless move during a landing in a blizzard costs one doctor an arm. He gets it back, {{spoiler|but not well enough to continue as a surgeon}}. Then later on in the series he is killed [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|by that same helicopter crashing down on top of him in a fireball of death]].
* In an episode of ''[[ER]]'' a careless move during a landing in a blizzard costs one doctor an arm. He gets it back, {{spoiler|but not well enough to continue as a surgeon}}. Then later on in the series he is killed [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|by that same helicopter crashing down on top of him in a fireball of death]].
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vh-kw3DOIgk Seen here,] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8Bj0BAmKuM here.]
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vh-kw3DOIgk Seen here,] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8Bj0BAmKuM here.]
* Oddly averted on ''[[The A-Team (TV)|The A-Team]]'', considering how Murdock loved to [[Drives Like Crazy|fly like crazy]] in a helicopter.
* Oddly averted on ''[[The A-Team]]'', considering how Murdock loved to [[Drives Like Crazy|fly like crazy]] in a helicopter.
** Not so strange if you remember this is the show that featured almost no on-screen deaths despite enormous amounts of gunfights and explosions. It is however a little difficult to justify anyone being only mildly bruised and with a slight layer of dirt on them after a blender encounter.
** Not so strange if you remember this is the show that featured almost no on-screen deaths despite enormous amounts of gunfights and explosions. It is however a little difficult to justify anyone being only mildly bruised and with a slight layer of dirt on them after a blender encounter.
* ''[[Torchwood Miracle Day]]'': In the first episode, the Torchwood team narrowly avoids getting blended by the rotor of a helicopter that they just shot down.
* ''[[Torchwood: Miracle Day]]'': In the first episode, the Torchwood team narrowly avoids getting blended by the rotor of a helicopter that they just shot down.




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* Bystanders in ''[[Sim Copter]]'' can be killed or injured by the rotary blades while landing. You lose points for doing so unless it's a fleeing criminal.
* Bystanders in ''[[Sim Copter]]'' can be killed or injured by the rotary blades while landing. You lose points for doing so unless it's a fleeing criminal.
* An aversion of this concludes ''[[Resident Evil]] 4''. After stealing the final [[MacGuffin|sample]], {{spoiler|Ada}} jumps off of a platform. Less than five seconds later, a helicopter rises over the platform ''with {{spoiler|Ada}} in the passenger compartment.'' Granted, she has a grappling hook able to zip her around quite well, so she could have dropped past it and hooked onto a skid (with a really good pilot and ''really'' good timing), but it's double-take worthy. Just accept it as an application [[Rule of Cool]]
* An aversion of this concludes ''[[Resident Evil]] 4''. After stealing the final [[MacGuffin|sample]], {{spoiler|Ada}} jumps off of a platform. Less than five seconds later, a helicopter rises over the platform ''with {{spoiler|Ada}} in the passenger compartment.'' Granted, she has a grappling hook able to zip her around quite well, so she could have dropped past it and hooked onto a skid (with a really good pilot and ''really'' good timing), but it's double-take worthy. Just accept it as an application [[Rule of Cool]]
* One of the missions in the ''[[Spider Man]] [[Spider Man (Film)|II]]'' videogame features Spidey chasing a copter. While the copter doesn't try to blender you, a few careless swings can result in you crashing into the rotor, which ''hurts''.
* One of the missions in the ''[[Spider-Man]] [[Spider-Man (film)|II]]'' videogame features Spidey chasing a copter. While the copter doesn't try to blender you, a few careless swings can result in you crashing into the rotor, which ''hurts''.
* The helicopter mini-bosses in ''[[Viewtiful Joe]]'' use this technique. While it may be tempting to go into slo-mo mode and pound away at the chopper while it's flying, you'll lose valuable VFX power if the blades are spinning and pink.
* The helicopter mini-bosses in ''[[Viewtiful Joe]]'' use this technique. While it may be tempting to go into slo-mo mode and pound away at the chopper while it's flying, you'll lose valuable VFX power if the blades are spinning and pink.
* One of the bosses in ''[[Contra]]:Hard Corp''s uses this as an attack, complete with sparks flying as it grinds towards the vertical shaft walls. Might be justified in that it's meant to be a versatile killer mecha to begin with, but it's probably more of a question of [[Rule of Cool]] being in effect, considering this is [[Testosterone Poisoning|Contra]] we're talking about.
* One of the bosses in ''[[Contra]]:Hard Corp''s uses this as an attack, complete with sparks flying as it grinds towards the vertical shaft walls. Might be justified in that it's meant to be a versatile killer mecha to begin with, but it's probably more of a question of [[Rule of Cool]] being in effect, considering this is [[Testosterone Poisoning|Contra]] we're talking about.
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* In ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'', during the battle, Palmer narrowly escapes being beheaded by the Tiny Bronco's propeller and runs away mocking the heroes, [[Crowning Moment of Funny|only to be ran over by an inexplicably and suddenly incoming truck]]
* In ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'', during the battle, Palmer narrowly escapes being beheaded by the Tiny Bronco's propeller and runs away mocking the heroes, [[Crowning Moment of Funny|only to be ran over by an inexplicably and suddenly incoming truck]]
* ''[[Call of Duty 4]]'' has a helicopter being shot down and digging itself into the ground while sliding towards the player and his partner. The latter frantically tries to get away from the blades, which come to a stop just before hitting him. He's still injured in the process, though, and you have to carry him around for the rest of the level.
* ''[[Call of Duty 4]]'' has a helicopter being shot down and digging itself into the ground while sliding towards the player and his partner. The latter frantically tries to get away from the blades, which come to a stop just before hitting him. He's still injured in the process, though, and you have to carry him around for the rest of the level.
* In ''[[Half-Life 2 (Video Game)|Half-Life 2]]'''s [[That One Level|Ravenholm]], there are several makeshift devices that are basically helicopter blenders, without the helicopter. Such a device is just an engine with a scrap-metal blade crudely attached to the drive shaft. It cuts zombies, and you, if you're not careful, in half! From the same game are "manhacks," which are spinning, flying, bladed robots about the size of a football. Their goal is to fly into you and [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|do what their name says]]. Between their own clumsiness and the [[Blown Across the Room|knockback from your weapons]], they spend a lot of time grinding against concrete walls and other immovable objects, with no apparent ill effect.
* In ''[[Half-Life 2]]'''s [[That One Level|Ravenholm]], there are several makeshift devices that are basically helicopter blenders, without the helicopter. Such a device is just an engine with a scrap-metal blade crudely attached to the drive shaft. It cuts zombies, and you, if you're not careful, in half! From the same game are "manhacks," which are spinning, flying, bladed robots about the size of a football. Their goal is to fly into you and [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|do what their name says]]. Between their own clumsiness and the [[Blown Across the Room|knockback from your weapons]], they spend a lot of time grinding against concrete walls and other immovable objects, with no apparent ill effect.
* In the Wolverine Origins game, Wolvie's status quo for taking down a helicopter is to pounce on its windshield, punch through it, pull out the pilot, and stuff his head up into the blades.
* In the Wolverine Origins game, Wolvie's status quo for taking down a helicopter is to pounce on its windshield, punch through it, pull out the pilot, and stuff his head up into the blades.
* You can do this in (at least the DS version) of the ''[[Transformers]]'' game of the movie when using a helicopter form, but it only really works on random vehicles driving around, and only damages them a little bit.
* You can do this in (at least the DS version) of the ''[[Transformers]]'' game of the movie when using a helicopter form, but it only really works on random vehicles driving around, and only damages them a little bit.
** In the [[PS 2]]/Xbox-360 versions of the ''[[Transformers]]'' movie games, Blackout and Grindor use their helicoptor rotors as powerful melee weapons, swinging them (folded up) as swords or unfurling them to spin them. As could be expected, these characters do the second highest melee damage in the games, second only to Megatron, quickly trashing large numbers of the smaller enemies with every swing. (Especially visible during Blackout's boss fight vs Ironhide).
** In the [[Play Station 2]]/Xbox-360 versions of the ''[[Transformers]]'' movie games, Blackout and Grindor use their helicoptor rotors as powerful melee weapons, swinging them (folded up) as swords or unfurling them to spin them. As could be expected, these characters do the second highest melee damage in the games, second only to Megatron, quickly trashing large numbers of the smaller enemies with every swing. (Especially visible during Blackout's boss fight vs Ironhide).
* Inverted with Yoshimitsu from ''[[Tekken]]'' and ''[[Soul Calibur]]'': He's a [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|cyborg ninja]] who has a spinning hand and a [[Laser Blade|Laser Katana]]. In this case, the primary use is combat, flying is just an [[Mundane Utility|added benefit]].
* Inverted with Yoshimitsu from ''[[Tekken]]'' and ''[[Soul Calibur]]'': He's a [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|cyborg ninja]] who has a spinning hand and a [[Laser Blade|Laser Katana]]. In this case, the primary use is combat, flying is just an [[Mundane Utility|added benefit]].
* ''[[Metal Slug]] 3'' lets you choose a jet or a helicopter as your starting vehicle in its final mission. If you choose the helicopter, you can fly under the soldiers parachuting down, and slice them dead with the rotor.
* ''[[Metal Slug]] 3'' lets you choose a jet or a helicopter as your starting vehicle in its final mission. If you choose the helicopter, you can fly under the soldiers parachuting down, and slice them dead with the rotor.
* In ''[[Strong Bads Cool Game for Attractive People (Video Game)|Strong Bads Cool Game for Attractive People]]: Baddest of the Bands'', this happens to What's-Her-Face when Strong Bad uses a [[Fake Band|Limozeen]] coloring book to create "[[Teen Girl Squad (Web Animation)|Teen Girl Squad]] [[Crossover|Meets Limozeen]]".
* In ''[[Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People|Strong Bads Cool Game for Attractive People]]: Baddest of the Bands'', this happens to What's-Her-Face when Strong Bad uses a [[Fake Band|Limozeen]] coloring book to create "[[Teen Girl Squad]] [[Crossover|Meets Limozeen]]".




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* From the ''[[Global Guardians PBEM Universe]]:'' A group of bank robbers tried this against Ultra-Man during their getaway. The rotors snapped off and the helicopter crashed (well... it fell about eight feet) to the roof of the bank) because Ultra-Man is [[Nigh Invulnerable]].
* From the ''[[Global Guardians PBEM Universe]]:'' A group of bank robbers tried this against Ultra-Man during their getaway. The rotors snapped off and the helicopter crashed (well... it fell about eight feet) to the roof of the bank) because Ultra-Man is [[Nigh Invulnerable]].
* In their [[Let's Play]] of ''[[Grand Theft Auto Vice City]]'', the [[Freelance Astronauts]] lament the inability to pick up hookers while piloting a helicopter. Maxwell tilts the helicopter in the direction of the hooker, and there's nothing left of said hooker except a bright red cloud.
* In their [[Let's Play]] of ''[[Grand Theft Auto Vice City]]'', the [[Freelance Astronauts]] lament the inability to pick up hookers while piloting a helicopter. Maxwell tilts the helicopter in the direction of the hooker, and there's nothing left of said hooker except a bright red cloud.
* In ''[[Bunnykill]] 5'', {{spoiler|this is how Dust finally finishes off Smoke, combining this with [[Throwing Your Sword Always Works]] and [[Impaled With Extreme Prejudice]]}}.
* In ''[[Bunny Kill]] 5'', {{spoiler|this is how Dust finally finishes off Smoke, combining this with [[Throwing Your Sword Always Works]] and [[Impaled with Extreme Prejudice]]}}.
* In ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh the Abridged Series]]'', Seto Kaiba loses a raised finger this way when standing under a helicopter.
* In ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series]]'', Seto Kaiba loses a raised finger this way when standing under a helicopter.




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* An episode of ''[[Robot Chicken]]'' parodies this trope; a series of quick skits throughout the episode feature a parade of increasingly ridiculous objects falling off a cliff and getting shredded by the rotors of a nearby helicopter; the final skit has the helicopter falling over the cliff and into ''another helicopter''.
* An episode of ''[[Robot Chicken]]'' parodies this trope; a series of quick skits throughout the episode feature a parade of increasingly ridiculous objects falling off a cliff and getting shredded by the rotors of a nearby helicopter; the final skit has the helicopter falling over the cliff and into ''another helicopter''.
* In an episode of the ''[[Sam and Max]]'' animated series, the duo are sent on an important mission in a forgotten corner of Central Park. How are they to parachute down through the dense canopy of trees, inquires Max? Simple. That's what the blades are for, says Sam, as the helicopter flips upside down.
* In an episode of the ''[[Sam and Max]]'' animated series, the duo are sent on an important mission in a forgotten corner of Central Park. How are they to parachute down through the dense canopy of trees, inquires Max? Simple. That's what the blades are for, says Sam, as the helicopter flips upside down.
* An old ''[[Yogi Bear (Animation)|Yogi Bear]]'' cartoon by Hanna-Barbera showed Yogi flying a helicopter upside-down over the treetops, trimming them all to the same height like a lawn mower.
* An old ''[[Yogi Bear]]'' cartoon by Hanna-Barbera showed Yogi flying a helicopter upside-down over the treetops, trimming them all to the same height like a lawn mower.
* In ''[[The Super Hero Squad Show]]'', the Falcon's pet falcon, Redbird (a [[Butt Monkey]] of epic degree... like Falcon himself) flies out of the SHIELD Helicarrier. An instant after Falcon yells "Watch for the rotors!" we hear the sound of a buzzsaw. {{spoiler|Redbird only suffered [[Amusing Injuries]].}}
* In ''[[The Superhero Squad Show]]'', the Falcon's pet falcon, Redbird (a [[Butt Monkey]] of epic degree... like Falcon himself) flies out of the SHIELD Helicarrier. An instant after Falcon yells "Watch for the rotors!" we hear the sound of a buzzsaw. {{spoiler|Redbird only suffered [[Amusing Injuries]].}}
* In an episode of ''[[Family Guy]]'', the Peter-Copter crashes on Joe's lawn, and proceeds to shred it apart.
* In an episode of ''[[Family Guy]]'', the Peter-Copter crashes on Joe's lawn, and proceeds to shred it apart.
* At the end of an episode of ''[[Aqua Teen Hunger Force (Animation)|Aqua Teen Hunger Force]]'', the obnoxious "[[Troll|Wisdom Cube]]" is floating above the Aqua Teen's house taunting them, and is suddenly shredded by a helicopter which passes by [[Rule of Funny|for no reason]].
* At the end of an episode of ''[[Aqua Teen Hunger Force]]'', the obnoxious "[[Troll|Wisdom Cube]]" is floating above the Aqua Teen's house taunting them, and is suddenly shredded by a helicopter which passes by [[Rule of Funny|for no reason]].
* In the [[Fairly Oddparents]] episode "Just The Two Of Us", Trixie tries to [[If I Can't Have You|kill Timmy for dumping her]] by attempting to shoot him with missiles from a military helicopter. When it turns out that the missiles are sold separately, she tries to shred him with the blades.
* In the [[Fairly Oddparents]] episode "Just The Two Of Us", Trixie tries to [[If I Can't Have You|kill Timmy for dumping her]] by attempting to shoot him with missiles from a military helicopter. When it turns out that the missiles are sold separately, she tries to shred him with the blades.


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** The Russians actually had this down to a combat maneuver called the "Taran" (translated "Ram").
** The Russians actually had this down to a combat maneuver called the "Taran" (translated "Ram").
* During the US invasion of Panama, a special operation was mounted to retrieve an American citizen who'd been held in captivity, but the helicopter was shot down and one of his rescuers was struck in the head by the still-rotating blades as they exited. Amazingly however, he would not only regain consciousness but had the presence of mind to check on the "precious cargo" before leading him to a safer position.
* During the US invasion of Panama, a special operation was mounted to retrieve an American citizen who'd been held in captivity, but the helicopter was shot down and one of his rescuers was struck in the head by the still-rotating blades as they exited. Amazingly however, he would not only regain consciousness but had the presence of mind to check on the "precious cargo" before leading him to a safer position.
* During the filming of ''[[From Russia With Love (Film)|From Russia With Love]]'', [[Sean Connery]] was nearly killed when the helicopter got too close to him.
* During the filming of ''[[From Russia with Love]]'', [[Sean Connery]] was nearly killed when the helicopter got too close to him.
* Witness a helicopter almost [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3Pp4vOr3SE blending itself]! Luckily, military choppers are made to survive light blade strikes... some can actually keep flying if one of five blades is entirely cut off.
* Witness a helicopter almost [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3Pp4vOr3SE blending itself]! Luckily, military choppers are made to survive light blade strikes... some can actually keep flying if one of five blades is entirely cut off.
* The Kamov Ka-50 'black shark' has ejection seats. To prevent this trope applying to its own crew, it has explosive charges in the rotor hubs to forcibly detach the blades.
* The Kamov Ka-50 'black shark' has ejection seats. To prevent this trope applying to its own crew, it has explosive charges in the rotor hubs to forcibly detach the blades.
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