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Subtrope of [[Deadly Rotary Fan]]. Compare [[Turbine Blender]].
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== 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.)
** 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 [[
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== 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''!
** 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
* 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...
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*** Especially since, upon seeing the helicopter madness unfolding, the train operator at the rear told his counterpart up front to "Accelerate, accelerate!"
*** 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)!
* 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.
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