History Main / HelicopterBlender

* 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).

* Very sadly TruthInTelevision in the case of ''Film/TwilightZoneTheMovie'' -- 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. [[note]]Pyrotechnic explosions hit the helicopter in flight, and it crashed at the exact angle for its blades to hit the three actors; Morrow and one of the children were decapitated instantly. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djVBzrucNLY The accident can be seen (from multiple angles) here.]] It's not as graphic as you'd expect, but it's still a terrible, terrible thing.[[/note]] Director John Landis was charged with negligent manslaughter, but [[KarmaHoudini eventually acquitted.]]

* ''Anime/GaoGaiGar'': Big Volfogg's Murasame Sword attack uses the blades of the Gungrue, a transforming helicopter, as a spinning sword attack, because EverythingsBetterWithSpinning.

* 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 [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome the right man]] to play Bond.

* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'', during the battle, Palmer narrowly escapes being beheaded by the Tiny Bronco's propeller and runs away mocking the heroes, [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments only to be run over by an inexplicably and suddenly incoming truck]].

* ''VideoGame/RideToHellRetribution'' has a sequence in which Jake must jump over a helicopter on his motorcycle. Failing to get enough speed results in the inevitable...[[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments and causes the helicopter to spin out of control and crash before the Game Over screen pops up]].

* The above is given a [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments hilarious]] callback in ''VideoGame/SonicMania'''s Hydrocity Zone Act 1: you take control of the vehicle from the original Act 2 and try to suck Eggman into the propeller!

* In an episode of the ''SamAndMax'' animated series, the duo is sent on an important mission in a forgotten corner of Central Park. How are they to parachute down through the dense canopy of trees, inquires Max? Simple. That's what the blades are for, says Sam, as the helicopter flips upside down.

** [[EarWorm "SEWN! BACK! TOGETHER WRONG!"]]

The hero seems doomed, but at the last moment he always finds a way out (bonus points if it involves jumping over the helicopter).

* In ''ComicBook/FridayThe13thSpecial'', a helicopter tries shoot the undead killer Jason Voorhees, but he manages to drop it by long-distance-killing its pilot. The vehicle falls on a tree, and soon takes out the remaining person after Jason by going to ground for good and slicing her to pieces with its still-spinning blades along the way.

* Later averted in ''Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough'', where the helicopter just has several enormous rotary saw blades dangling from a helicopter instead. (It was designed to fly above treetop level and use the rotary saw blades below it to clear branches, and in fact was [[ChekhovsGun was seen doing so earlier in the movie]].)

* Done in ''Film/FantasticFourRiseOfTheSilverSurfer''. 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...

* ''Film/TwentyEightWeeksLater'' 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.
* ''Film/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. This seems slightly less unlikely after seeing [[https://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...

* In the Creator/BruceWillis actioner ''Film/TheLastBoyScout'', the climactic fight with TheDragon, 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 HelicopterBlender. Take that, bad guy (and all you people sprayed with body bits, and the pilot)!
* Played realistically in Creator/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.
* Although it violated several other laws of physics, ''Film/TheItalianJob2003'' 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.

* Averted in ''Film/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 major ArtisticLicensePhysics, if long-distance telekinesis weren't actually responsible for keeping it in the air while inverted and for landing the thing safely.
* In the beginning of ''Film/SpyKids1'', at one point a helicopter pursuing the newlyweds beheads a couple of statues as it flies between them.

** In ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'', Iron Man and Captain America have to stabilize one of the Helicarier's propellers, and Iron Man has to jump in in order to do the repairs. Things go awry and Iron Man winds up getting shredded by the blades; it's a good thing he has his armor on, for if he didn't...

* In the Literature/AbleTeam action/adventure novels (a spin-off of ''Literature/TheExecutioner'' series) there's a scene where a group of South American bad-guys are terrifying the locals by zooming down at them in their helicopter, pretending to strafe them. One old farmer deliberately runs for a solitary tree knowing that the pilot, flying low and focusing on him, will fly right into it. Fortunately TheDragon points out the danger in time. In an earlier book '[[MrFixit Gadgets]]' Schwatz destroys a helicopter machine-gunning his friends by throwing a roll of barbed wire (he's standing on a cliff above it) whereupon the wire gets sucked into the helicopters rotor blades, locking them together and crashing the chopper.
* Averted in Creator/TomClancy's ''Literature/RainbowSix''. A terrorist leader is escaping down the freeway in a Jaguar, and Rainbow's transport helicopter is the only unit available at the moment to follow him. The pilot briefly puzzles over how the hell he's going to stop a car with an unarmed Blackhawk, before he decides to just run parallel with the car about 30 meters off the ground while one of his passengers empties his pistol at the car out the side door. The scene even included a moment where the first attempt to shoot the car failed when the chopper had to pull up suddenly to avoid flying into a road sign.

* Cassie of the ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' once tried to deliberately jam up a helicopter's blades with her own [[{{Animorphism}} transformed-into-a-humpback whale]] body: a desperate ploy to be sure, but they believed that if Cassie were in the form of a humpback whale, she would survive. And they were correct in predicting that the helicopter wouldn't have survived this attack, and that this particular helicopter was so important that it was worth the risk. The helicopter, seeing an enemy coming down towards its propeller, dodged out of the way and so both the helicopter and Cassie were safe. But as luck would have it, [[TurbineBlender an ordinary seagull got caught in its propeller]], and this was the end of the threat posed by that helicopter. And the poor seagull.
* The novel ''Tin Man'' inverts the trope. The hero wears a suit that makes him invulnerable, and disables a helicopter by deliberately leaping into the rotors.

* In an episode of ''Series/{{ER}}'' a careless move during a landing in a blizzard costs Dr. Romano an arm. He gets it back, [[spoiler:but not well enough to continue as a surgeon]]. Then later on in the series he is killed [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill by that same helicopter crashing down on top of him in a fireball of death]].

* In the first season finale of ''Series/FearTheWalkingDead'', an infected soldier is running around in a panic when the military is evacuating their base [[spoiler:as it's overrun by zombies]], and runs straight into the tail rotor of one of the helicopters waiting to lift off.

** Hobby grade radio controlled helicopters are actually quite deadly. You're talking about a machine with a 4hp engine swinging 600mm carbon fiber blades at 2200rpm. Even the small 500 class machines are basically flying lawnmowers with 1500 watt brushless electric motors and 430mm blades that can easily dismember and kill if it hits someone.

* In ''VideoGame/UrbanChaosRiotResponse'', after you shoot some hostage-taking psycho he will [[RailingKill fall off the edge of the building]] and get cut to pieces by the T-Zero helicopter much to the annoyance of the pilot ("Damn it Mason, I only just got it cleaned!")

** In the [=PS2=]/Xbox-360 versions of the ''Transformers'' movie games, Blackout and Grindor use their helicopter rotors as powerful melee weapons, swinging them (folded up) as swords or unfurling them to spin them. As could be expected, these characters do the second highest melee damage in the games, second only to Megatron, quickly trashing large numbers of the smaller enemies with every swing. (Especially visible during Blackout's boss fight vs Ironhide).

* From the ''Roleplay/GlobalGuardiansPBEMUniverse:'' A group of bank robbers tries this against Ultra-Man during their getaway. The rotors snaps off and the helicopter crashes (well... it falls about eight feet to the roof of the bank) because Ultra-Man is NighInvulnerable.

* In an episode of the ''SamAndMax'' animated series, the duo are sent on an important mission in a forgotten corner of Central Park. How are they to parachute down through the dense canopy of trees, inquires Max? Simple. That's what the blades are for, says Sam, as the helicopter flips upside down.
* An old ''WesternAnimation/YogiBear'' cartoon by Hanna-Barbera showed Yogi flying a helicopter upside-down over the treetops, trimming them all to the same height like a lawn mower.

* Aircraft propellers are generally stronger than helicopter blades, but an intentional application of this trope during UsefulNotes/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.

* Again speaking of aircraft propellers, the Internet is chock full of photos and videos of general aviation airfields, where the small plane violence agains each other is endemic. Small spaces, tight aprons, dubious competence of many amateur pilots and an often cavalier attitude to safety ensure that a lot of planes end up chopped up by their peers.
* During the US invasion of Panama, a special operation was mounted to retrieve an American citizen who'd been held in captivity, but the helicopter was shot down and one of his rescuers was struck in the head by the still-rotating blades as they exited. Amazingly however, he would not only regain consciousness but had the presence of mind to check on the "precious cargo" before leading him to a safer position.

** There is at least one instance of this happening to a dog during the early days of flight. An English pilot was preparing to do a Channel crossing, when a dog ran onto the tarmac and in front of the plane as the pilot was throttling up. There was not much left of the unfortunate pooch.

* Diverted by helicopters which have intermeshing rotors, such as Kaman HH-43 Huskie. Those helicopters have two parallel sets of rotors, whose blades rotate in syncronicity with the rotor arcs intersecting each other.

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* In the ''WesternAnimation/FairlyOddparents'' episode "Just The Two Of Us", Trixie tries to [[IfICantHaveYou kill Timmy for dumping her]] by attempting to shoot him with missiles from a military helicopter. When it turns out that the missiles are sold separately, she tries to shred him with the blades.

* Parachutists getting killed by rotor blades is unfortunately TruthInTelevision. ''All'' skydiving students are always taught to approach the jump plane from rear. Now and then someone tends to forget it and walks into spinning propeller. With obvious results.

* Averted in ''Film/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.

* In the intro to ''Film/SpyKids'', at one point a helicopter pursuing the newlyweds beheads a couple of statues as it flies between them.

* Starting in ''VideoGame/Sonic3AndKnuckles'', rotary blades on badniks tend to damage Sonic and company if struck. The boss of Hydropolis is all about this trope, in fact, as Eggman tries to suck you up into the propeller on the underside of his vehicle.
* The above is given a [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments hilarious]] callback in ''VideoGame/SonicMania'''s Hydropolis Act 1: you take control of the vehicle from the original Act 2 and try to suck Eggman into the propeller!

* ''Film/Deadpool2'': Among the X-Force casualties caused by the unwise skydive in strong winds, there is Shatterstar who lands straight into a helicopter about to take off, resulting in green LudicrousGibs all over the place.

* 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 [[MomentOfAwesome the right man]] to play Bond.

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* ''Anime/MobileSuitVictoryGundam'' justifies this with humongous mecha equipped with beam rotors. That is to say, their blades were effectively ''[[LaserBlade lightsabers]]'', so chopping things up with them would be rather easy. (Actually ''flying'', however, we're not so sure about.)

* [[Anime/GaoGaiGar Big Volfogg's]] Murasame Sword attack uses the blades of the Gungrue, a transforming helicopter, as a spinning sword attack, because EverythingsBetterWithSpinning.

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* In ''Comicbook/FridayThe13thSpecial'', a helicopter tries shoot the undead killer Jason Voorhees, but he manages to drop it by long-distance-killing its pilot. The vehicle falls on a tree, and soon takes out the remaining person after Jason by going to ground for good and slicing her to pieces with its still-spinning blades along the way.

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* The flying saucers ("Velocipods") that Syndrome's minions used in ''WesternAnimation/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.

* ''Film/TomorrowNeverDies'' has this (and is indeed the TropeCodifier). Everybody's favorite secret agent Film/JamesBond finds himself in a large square on a motorbike, with a helicopter leaning forward and trying to blend him (and his female companion). It fails, as they manage to slide under it and motor away, but cuts up plenty of material while trying. The chopper does crash in the end - not due to physics exacting its revenge, but because a heavy rope gets thrown in the blades, tangling them and causing it to lose lift and crash. Because the blades can shred metal, but rope, that's ''tough''!

* ''Film/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.
** 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...
* 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).

** Happens ''again'' in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'', this time with a SHIELD Pilot being knocked into the turbine of a quinjet by The Winter Soldier.
** In ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'', Iron Man and Captain America have to stabilize one of the Helicarier's propellers, and Iron Man has to jump in in order to do the repairs. Things go awry and Iron Man winds up getting shredded by the blades; it's a good thing he had his armor on, for if he didn't...
** Shows up [[BlackComedy yet]] [[RunningGag again]] in ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'', when [[spoiler:Bucky is temporarily re-brainwashed by Zemo and, when Cap [[{{Trainstopping}} keeps his escape chopper from taking off]], he tries to use the still-moving blades to kill him instead. On the bright side, Cap's PlotArmor means this is the first time in his movies that no one dies of this trope.]]

-->'''Eric Sparrow''': You serious? You miss your ollie and we'll be sending you back to Jersey in a coffee can!

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* From the ''Roleplay/GlobalGuardiansPBEMUniverse:'' A group of bank robbers tried this against Ultra-Man during their getaway. The rotors snapped off and the helicopter crashed (well... it fell about eight feet) to the roof of the bank) because Ultra-Man is NighInvulnerable.

* In ''WebAnimation/{{Bunnykill}} 5'', [[spoiler:this is how Dust finally finishes off Smoke, combining this with ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks and ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice]].
* In one of the Literature/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.
-->"But my character's a ninja!
-->"Correction. Your character was a ninja. Now he's confetti, [[LudicrousGibs wet red confetti]].
* In ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'', Seto Kaiba falls victim to this when he does an overly dramatic pose from his helicopter with his index finger pointed high.
--> '''Kaiba:''' Don't forget to register and pick up your Duel Disks, because exactly one week from tod--''(slice)''--AAH! MY FINGER! IT CAME CLEAN OFF! SOMEONE CALL AN AMBULANCE! Mokuba, can't you fly this helicopter properly?\\
'''Mokuba:''' Sorry, bro.

* 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. Blades of the G1 Protectabots even gets his name because of how fond he is of doing so.

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', the Peter-Copter crashes on Joe's lawn, and proceeds to shred it apart.

-->''"Phew. It's funny, I had this foreboding feeling I was going to be accidentally mulched. Hm. AHHHH!!!"''

* Parachutists getting killed by rotor blades is unfortunately TruthInTelevision.
** ''All'' skydiving students are always taught to approach the jump plane from rear. Now and then someone tends to forget it and walks into spinning propeller. With obvious results.
* Very sadly TruthInTelevision in the case of ''Film/TwilightZoneTheMovie'' - 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. [[note]]Pyrotechnic explosions hit the helicopter in flight, and it crashed at the exact angle for its blades to hit the three actors; Morrow and one of the children were decapitated instantly. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djVBzrucNLY The accident can be seen - from multiple angles - here.]] It's not as graphic as you'd expect, but it's still a terrible, terrible thing.[[/note]] Director John Landis was charged with negligent manslaughter, but [[KarmaHoudini eventually acquitted.]]

* 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.
** This is not without drawbacks, though; The impact of chopping would deform the blades, making the return trip harder. Basically, this stunt can be used in a pinch, but not to be used every sortie.

* Discussed in ''VideoGame/TonyHawksUnderGround'' when the protagonist decides to do a [=McTwist=] while jumping over a police helicopter.

-->-- The sound effect when '''[[Webcomic/SweetBroAndHellaJeff Sweet Bro]]''' is on the receiving end of this trope

*** There's even a friendly variation involving [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtxhEmShETA a tall building, a helicopter, and a physics glitch.]]

* ''VideoGame/FarCry5'' kicks off its plot when a cultist deliberately invokes this trope on ''himself,'' launching his body into the rotors of the police helicopter hauling [[BigBad Jacob Seed]] away. It actually portrays this trope [[RealityEnsues realistically]] in what would actually happen if you threw 200 pounds of dead weight into the spinning blades of a light utility chopper: It [[HellishCopter damages the helicopter to the point of losing control and crashing.]]

* ''VideoGame/FarCry5'' kicks off its plot when a cultist deliberately invokes this trope on ''himself,'' launching his body into the rotors of the police helicopter hauling [[BigBad Jacob Seed]] away. It actually realistically portrays what would happen if you threw 200 pounds of dead weight into a helicopter's rotors: [[RealityEnsues the chopper promptly loses control and crashes.]]

* In ''VideoGame/StrongBadsCoolGameForAttractivePeople: Baddest of the Bands'', this happens to What's-Her-Face when Strong Bad uses a [[FakeBand Limozeen]] coloring book to create "WebAnimation/TeenGirlSquad [[CrossOver Meets Limozeen]]".

* In ''{{Bunnykill}} 5'', [[spoiler:this is how Dust finally finishes off Smoke, combining this with ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks and ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice]].

* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'', during the battle, Palmer narrowly escapes being beheaded by the Tiny Bronco's propeller and runs away mocking the heroes, [[CrowningMomentOfFunny only to be ran over by an inexplicably and suddenly incoming truck]]
* ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty4'' has a helicopter being shot down and digging itself into the ground while sliding towards the player and his partner. The latter frantically tries to get away from the blades, which come to a stop just before hitting him. He's still injured in the process, though, and you have to carry him around for the rest of the level.

* You can do this in (at least the DS version) of the ''{{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.
** In the [=PS2=]/Xbox-360 versions of the ''{{Transformers}}'' movie games, Blackout and Grindor use their helicoptor rotors as powerful melee weapons, swinging them (folded up) as swords or unfurling them to spin them. As could be expected, these characters do the second highest melee damage in the games, second only to Megatron, quickly trashing large numbers of the smaller enemies with every swing. (Especially visible during Blackout's boss fight vs Ironhide).

* ''VideoGame/RideToHellRetribution'' has a sequence in which Jake must jump over a helicopter on his motorcycle. Failing to get enough speed results in the inevitable...[[FunnyMoments and causes the helicopter to spin out of control and crash before the Game Over screen pops up]].

* The above is given a [[CrowningMomentOfFunny hilarious]] callback in ''VideoGame/SonicMania'''s Hydropolis Act 1: you take control of the vehicle from the original act 2 and try to suck Eggman into the propeller!