History Main / HelicopterBlender

** The wolverine/kamaitachi-based Hurricaune the Wolveroid from ''VideoGame/MegaManZX'' has no less than five energy-based helicopter blades, with two on her arms, two on her legs, and one going around her chest and upper back. She can use them both to fly and to slice up her victims.

** The wolverine/kamaitachi-based Hurricaune the Wolveroid has no less than five energy-based helicopter blades, with two on her arms, two on her legs, and one going around her chest and upper back. She can use them both to fly and to slice up her victims.

* One of the bosses in ''VideoGame/{{Contra}}: Hard Corps'' 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 RuleOfCool being in effect, considering this is [[TestosteronePoisoning Contra]] we're talking about.

** ''Neo Contra'' has one even more ridiculous example an aversion to boot - ever seen a man [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwNNdbW5Dlk RUNNING on the blade]] and [[RuleOfCool fighting enemy robots at once]]?

* Boris Sagal, director of ''Film/TheOmegaMan'' 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''.

* Played realistically in Creator/JohnWoo's ''[[Film/BrokenArrow1996 Broken Arrow]]''. A helicopter strapped to a flatbed train car 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. An averted third example comes before either early in the film when Riley pulls Terry out of the way of a crashing helicopter's blades. John Woo really liked this and HellishHelicopter (since all three helicopter's crash in the film), didn't he.

** For a third James Bond example, this nearly happened ''[[FatalMethodActing in real life]]'' during the filming of ''Film/FromRussiaWithLove''. Sean Connery had a real-life hero moment when a stunt helicopter was coming in too steeply and heading straight for co-star Daniela Bianchi. Connery tackled her out of the way, if he'd been any slower, she would have been [[OffWithHisHead decapitated]] by the rotors. Clearly he was the right man to play Bond.

* Near the end of the first ''Film/MissionImpossible'' 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). The effect is invoked in the end when the helicopter crashes as the train comes to a stop, leaving one blade, broken to a sharp point from all the previous action, coming to a stop inches from Ethan's neck.

* Starting in ''VideoGame/Sonic3AndKnuckles'', rotary blades on badniks tend to damage Sonic and company if struck. The boss of Hydrocity Zone Act 2 is all about this trope, in fact, as Eggman tries to suck you up into the propeller on the underside of his vehicle.

* An interesting variation appears in ''Film/{{Transformers}}'', where Blackout uses his main rotor as a hand weapon. And then they have [[ShoutOut Lennox using a motorcycle to slide beneath him.]]

* You can do this in (at least the DS version) of the ''Film/{{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.

* Many ''Franchise/{{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. Blades of the G1 Protectabots even gets his name because of how fond he is of doing so.