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The hero is being chased by some [[Mook
The helicopter first comes to a low altitude, and you may think the baddies would just open fire en masse and rain hot lead all over the place because, hey, there's only so many bullets a hero can dodge. But no, that'd be too easy.
Instead, the helicopter first hovers right above ground, then tilts forward at a very steep angle. It then proceeds to slowly move forward, its rotor becoming a deadly, razor-sharp weapon that slices and dices everything it touches. All sorts of objects, people, even vehicles are thrown aside and shredded to pieces by the
The hero seems doomed, but at the last moment he always finds a way out (bonus points if it involves jumping over the helicopter).
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* Before the helicopter takes off, or after it has landed, a person can be pushed into the spinning rotors.
Trying this in real life, is, of course, very, ''very'' ill-advised. Helicopter blades are quite
[[Transforming Mecha]] with a helicopter as a secondary mode (and [[Combining Mecha]] with a helicopter as a component) often have these as a weapon, but it can be assumed that ''their'' blades are specifically designed with said use in mind.
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* ''[[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...
* 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
* 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
*** they also forgot to take into account that the train in question (the TGV) has an average speed of 300
*** 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]] 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
* 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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== Western Animation ==
* Many ''[[Transformers]]'' with helicopter alternate modes can do this, in part because their rotors usually become a sword or blade weapon, and partly because they ''are'' the copter and can thus maneuver correctly without falling.
* The first episode of ''[[Metalocalypse]]'' has the band telling their current helicopter chef that all their previous helicopter chefs have died in freak accidents. Cue an unsettling grinding sound as the chopper goes off-balance and the chef freaks
** [[Ear Worm|"SEWN! BACK! TOGETHER WRONG!"]]
** This is ''Dethklok's'' personal transport chopper we're talking about. Whatever ungodly strong material the rotor is made from, it's probably designed to do this kind of thing.
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== Real Life ==
* Parachutists getting killed by rotor blades is unfortunately [[Truth in Television]].
* Very sadly [[Truth in Television]] in the case of ''[[The Twilight Zone]]'' movie - Vic Morrow and two child actors were killed rather horribly by a helicopter being used in filming that spun out of control and struck them, due to the director's insistence that the helicopter pilot fly lower and lower, and the fact that he worked the pilot past the point of exhaustion, completely ignoring film industry safety regulations.
* Boris Sagal, director of ''[[The Omega Man]]'' and Katey Sagal's father died in a similar way; he was nearly decapitated when he walked into the tail rotor blades of a helicopter during the filming of the miniseries ''World War III''.
* Vietnam-era Huey helicopters had unusually tough rotor blades. Pilots, when called to extract troops from clearings which hadn't been cleared quite well enough, would sometimes use this to their advantages, and essentially chop their way down low enough through the tree branches (though not trunks; bamboo are fair game though) - it's not blending people, but it's still awesome.
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