History Main / HelicopterBlender

* In ''[[Literature/GreatShip The Memory of Sky]]'', a hovering VTOL aircraft has its wing blasted off by a [[ZeppelinsFromAnotherWorld zeppelin's]] autocannon - the propeller is sheared off from stress and flies straight through the zeppelin's gondola, slicing a technician in half and eviscerating another.

* In ''VideoGame/DoubleDragon Neon'', Skullmageddon deploys a Killacopter to take out the Lee brothers at several points during the game. In Mission 6, after its initial missile barrage fails, the pilot attacks them by turning the chopper ''upside down'' so that the blades deal serious damage by shredding everything underneath.

** The helicopter mini-bosses from Level 2 in HardCorpsUprising will occasionally land on either side of the screen and throw their blades at the players.

* In one of the BinderOfShame stories, everyone has derailed the campaign and is on the run from the law. El Disgusto's ninja finds his path blocked by a police helicopter and attempts to jump his motorcycle over it using a crashed police car as a ramp.

* In Series/Firefly, Mal does this to the leader of the band of mercenaries Niska sent to kill him. After being captured and giving a defiant speech when asked to return with a peace offering for Niska, Mal quietly says "[[PreMortemOneLiner darn]]" and then kicks him into Serenity's engine.

* Aircraft propellers are generally stronger than helicopter blades, but an intentional application of this trope during WorldWar2 deserves mention. Two USMC aviators were tasked with intercepting a Japanese reconnaissance aircraft that was spotting for kamikaze attacks, flying 1000 feet above the theoretical maximum altitude of US interceptor aircraft. The guns on the aircraft malfunctioned due to their lubricating oil freezing up, so instead they closed on the aircraft and used their propellers to attack the Japanese aircraft, and forced it down. The pilot credited with the kill, Bob Klingman, lost about 6 inches off each tip of the propeller of his aircraft in the process.

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' has Steve become a ShellShockedVeteran after attending a VietnamWar ''[[WarReenactors reenactment]]''; at one point, the sight of a spinning lawn sprinkler triggers an {{Art Shift}}ed flashback where he sees one poor soldier get sliced in half vertically by the propeller flung from a destroyed helicopter.

* A helicopter crashes at the end of ''IfLooksCouldKill'' and its rotor blades come off and pursue the hero across a rooftop.

* Done in ''Film/FantasticFour: 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...

* ''UnderworldEvolution'' 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 BigBad as the heroine pushes him into them.

* The flying saucers ("Velocipods") that Syndrome's minions used in ''TheIncredibles'' were apparently designed with this trope in mind. The craft fly by means of a spinning metal disc--a cross between helicopter rotors and a sawblade--around the edge. The rotor is capable of tilting (for keeping the craft upright while turning, and for trying to slice trespassers to bits) and strong enough to cut through a palm tree without sustaining notable damage.

* Played realistically in JohnWoo's ''[[Film/BrokenArrow1996 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.

* ''TerminalVelocity'' ended with the main baddie parachuting on a wind generator. We don't get to see the blending, but the next scene shows one of the blades with blood on it, implying it's killed him. The blade has no damage whatsoever, despite the rather muscular human that slammed on it.

* Averted in ''EscapeToWitchMountain'', in which a helicopter that's flying ''upside-down'' lands in a field in that position without so much as clipping the grass with its rotors. It'd be a major YouFailPhysicsForever, if long-distance telekinesis weren't actually responsible for keeping it in the air while inverted and for landing the thing safely.

** Played with in ''Die Hard With a Vengeance''. The BigBad's helicopter hits a light pole with its main rotor, producing a shower of sparks; however, instead of this causing the rotor to shatter and the helicopter to simply drop a few metres on the ground, the whole thing just blows up for no clearly defined reason.
** In ''A Good Day to Die Hard'', the tail rotor of the helicopter the bad guys are using winds up being inadvertently used to puree [[spoiler:Yuri Komorov]], who's knocked off of a building the helicopter was flying near, during a fight with [[spoiler:the junior John [=McClane=]]], in a DisneyDeath subversion.

* In the finale of ''Film/TheExpendables 2'' Lee Christmas fights with [[AllThereInTheManual Hector]] (the Sangs' [[TheDragon Dragon]]) near the starting chopper. Their [[GoodOldFisticuffs punch-up]] brings them near the tail rotor, after which both start to try to push each other into the blades. [[LudicrousGibs Christmas succeeds,]] breaking the rotor in the process.
* ''ResidentEvilAfterlife''. One character tries to escape a building surrounded by every zombie in Los Angeles, using a Yak-52 prop plane that's crashlanded on the roof. After the plane goes off the roof it swoops so low over the crowd it leaves a large red smear before pulling up.

* ''IfLooksCouldKill'' has a scene at the end where a helicopter's rotor blades come off and pursue the good guys across a rooftop.

* In the finale of ''Film/TheExpendables2'' Lee Christmas fights with [[AllThereInTheManual Hector]] (the Sangs' [[TheDragon Dragon]]) near the starting chopper. Their [[GoodOldFisticuffs punch-up]] brings them near the tail rotor, after which both start to try to push each other into the blades. [[LudicrousGibs Christmas succeeds,]] breaking the rotor in the process.

* In the finale of ''Film/TheExpendables2'' [[JasonStatham Lee Christmas]] fights with [[AllThereInTheManual Hector]] (the Sangs' [[TheDragon Dragon]]) near the starting chopper. Their [[GoodOldFisticuffs punch-up]] brings them near the tail rotor, after which both start to try to push each other into the blades. [[LudicrousGibs Christmas succeeds,]] breaking the rotor in the process.

* Averted in the film Year of the Comet, in which the protagonists use a helicopter to chase the villain who is driving a car. The female lead believes that they've got the advantage, to which the male lead says "What do you want me to do, hover him to death?"

* Completely averted in Arabesque, where the Hero defeats the BigBad, by dropping a ladder on his helicopter, completely shattering the rotor, and causing the aircraft to fall.

-->"Correction, your character was a ninja. Now he's confetti, [[LudicrousGibs wet red confetti]].

->-"But my character's a ninja!
->-"Correction, your character was a ninja. Now he's confetti, [[LudicrousGibs wet red confetti]].

->"But my character's a ninja!
->"Correction, your character was a ninja. Now he's confetti, [[LudicrousGibs wet red confetti]].

* The helicopter death scene in ''UnderworldEvolution'' is [[ParodiedTrope heavily parodied]] in ''StationeryVoyagers: Night of the Whiteout''. [[spoiler: The Mystery Wanderer]] kills Mauvio...with a ''[[ComedicSociopathy lawn mower]]''.
-->"Sometimes, it feels great to accomplish identical results, on a smaller budget." - [[spoiler: Mystery Wanderer]]