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The gang is standing on a cliff's edge when they are startled by a helicopter which rises, roaring, into view... and yet that roaring helicopter somehow didn't make any noise until they saw it.
This is not restricted to helicopters: any roaring vehicle that should have made noise before appearing is a '''Surprise Vehicle'''.
It doesn't count if the audience hears the vehicle, but the character is too deep in thought or wearing headphones.
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== Anime & Manga ==
* ''[[Ghost in
* Happens frequently on ''[[Najica Blitz Tactics]]'', thanks to Najica's ever-so-handy remote-controlled helicopter gunship. Might be partially justified by it being a low-noise Stealth Chopper specifically designed for the kind of secret missions she engages in, but still...
* ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' does this with the reveal of {{spoiler|Haruna's airship}}, which provides a way for Negi to get to Nodoka in time to save her from a group of bounty hunters.
** Repeated with the same vehicle during the Governor's Ball.
* In the first episode of ''[[
* ''[[Pokémon]] Diamond and Pearl: Galactic Battles'' episode "Unlocking the Red Chain of Events!" When Ash, Dawn, and Brock confront Galactic Admin Jupiter, she escapes via a helicopter which appeared from below the side of a building without having made any noise beforehand.
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** Though the processing plant was loudly exploding around them, so not hearing the ship coming can be excused.
* ''[[Thelma and Louise]]'' had a helicopter rising up over a cliff.
* ''[[
* The [[Humongous Mecha]] from ''[[Terminator]] Salvation'' that was able to sneak up on people despite its earthquaking footsteps and the deafening [[Scare Chord]] noises that its gears made every time it moved.
* ''[[Three Ninjas]]''
* ''[[
* In ''[[
* ''[[Narrow Margin]]''. [[Roger Ebert]] tore this movie a new one over this trope.
* ''[[Down With Love]]''
* In ''[[Avatar (
* ''[[Sky Captain and The World of Tomorrow]]''. Dex suddenly appears in one of Totenkopf's hoversleds to save the heroes from pursuing robots.
* ''[[Buckaroo Banzai]]''. When Buckaroo is about to be run over by a truck, a ladder suddenly appears swinging from the sky. Buckaroo grabs hold and is lifted away by a Blue Blaze Irregular helicopter.
* In ''[[Back to The Future Part II]]'', Marty's [[Suicidal Gotcha]] is aided by Doc's flying DeLorean.
* ''[[
* The first ''[[
* ''Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann''. Lyle Swann is trapped against the edge of a cliff with the bad guys closing in. A helicopter suddenly rises up from below the cliff edge, [[Monty Python's Flying Circus|scaring the fertilizer]] out of his pursuers.
* This happens in the final scene of The Mist. The main character is saved by the U.S Military but he never heard the rolling of the tanks which are rather hard to miss as they make plenty of noise as they literally shake the Earth as they move about. A fog shouldn't effect the clarity of sound, only sight.
* ''[[Toy Soldiers (
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* In the season three episode "Not in Portland" of ''{Lost}'', Juliet's husband is hit by a very quiet bus.
* In ''[[NCIS]]'', Gibs and DiNozzo are out in the desert with the local sheriff, when a helicopter simply arrives over them with no hint of sound. Fortunately, McGee was tracking it by satellite and gave them warning. Gibbs shoots it down.
* All those times a helicopter is mistaken for a UFO, despite having a distinctive sound. Examples appear in ''[[Dark Skies]]'', ''[[Airwolf]], and ''[[The X
== Video Games ==
* The Felreaver patrolling Hellfire Peninsula in ''[[World of Warcraft]]''. It's a 50-foot tall demonic robot that shakes the ground with its footsteps and makes a sound not unlike a locomotive from hell, yet it still manages to suprise (and crush) unwary players who weren't paying attention to their surroundings. The game also has the dreaded Suprise Devilsaurs, which are even worse because they are actually quite sneaky (as sneaky as a T-rex can be).
** And then a classic [[Good Bad Bug]] made the Fel Reavers into normal-size [[Everything's Worse
* The undermentioned stealth helicopter serves the protagonist of ''[[
* This happened in ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'' with a giant airship that comes out of nowhere.
* Used a couple times in ''[[Half-Life]] 2''. The first time, a Combine Hunter-Chopper suddenly pops up from behind a flood control gate to continue hounding Gordon through the Canals. The other time happens later when a [[Tripod Terror|Strider]] suddenly jumps out of a large crater in the ground.
* In ''[[Resident Evil 4]]'', Ada makes her final exit this way, leaping off a cliff and then appearing ''inside'' a helicopter that rises up from out of sight.
* Cyclonus makes his appearance like this in ''[[Transformers
* Averted in ''[[Ratchet and Clank]]: Going Commando'' when Ratchet asks if Clank hears something before the Thugs-4-Less Leader reappears in a helicopter.
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== Western Animation ==
* ''[[The Amazing Spiez]]'' episode "Operation Spy-Sitter" had a WOOHP helicopter appear outside the window of the kids' house.
* ''[[The Mighty Ducks (
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*** Of course, even at subsonic speeds, you are still dealing with an aircraft traveling at hundreds of miles per hour. If they are using terrain-following tactics, or if the visibility is low, you will usually be surprised when they finally appear, regardless of if you could hear them or not. The way the sound of the jet engine bounces off of every available vertical surface (buildings, terrain, etc.) add to the difficulty in figuring out where they will appear.
*** The plane is a hundred feet above you so it will take about a tenth a second for the sound to reach you, giving the plane time to travel from dozens of feet away from directly overhead to directly overhead.
*** Some attack aircraft are designed with relative silence in mind. The American A-10 Warthog uses high-bypass turbofans (think of the big engines typical of airliners) rather than the low-bypass turbofans favored by most other combat aircraft because they trade raw power <ref>
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