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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 [[Everything's Better With Spinning]].
 
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** 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.
* ''[[Twenty Eight28 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.
* ''[[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...
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* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
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