History Main / HelicopterBlender

* In the Creator/StephenKing short story "Battleground", a hitman's fingers are [[{{Fingore}} sliced to the bone]] when he grabs at a fully-functional ''toy'' helicopter while fighting [[ItMakesSenseInContext a set of military miniatures]].

* On ''Series/{{Revenge}}'', Conrad pushes Pascal into a helicopter's propellers.
* 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.

* 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 ''VideoGame/SyphonFilter 2'', the heavily-armored FinalBoss can [[PuzzleBoss only be killed]] by using the knockback from a shotgun to knock him into a handy helicopter's tail rotor. At least this one isn't in the air...

* Bystanders in ''[=SimCopter=]'' can be killed or injured by the rotary blades while landing. You lose points for doing so unless it's a fleeing criminal.

* 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.
** The helicopter mini-bosses from Level 2 in ''VideoGame/HardCorpsUprising'' will occasionally land on either side of the screen and throw their blades at the players.
** ''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]]?
* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'', during the battle, Palmer narrowly escapes being beheaded by the Tiny Bronco's propeller and runs away mocking the heroes, only to be run over by an inexplicably and suddenly incoming truck.
* ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty4ModernWarfare'' 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.
* ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'':
** In [[ThatOneLevel Ravenholm]], there are several makeshift devices that are basically helicopter blenders, without the helicopter. Such a device is just an engine with a scrap-metal blade crudely attached to the drive shaft. It cuts zombies, and you, if you're not careful, in half!
** From the same game are "manhacks", which are spinning, flying, bladed robots about the size of a football. Their goal is to fly into you and [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin do what their name says]]. Between their own clumsiness and the [[BlownAcrossTheRoom knockback from your weapons]], they spend a lot of time grinding against concrete walls and other immovable objects, with no apparent ill effect.
* In the Wolverine Origins game, Wolvie's status quo for taking down a helicopter is to pounce on its windshield, punch through it, pull out the pilot, and stuff his head up into the blades.
* 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.
** 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).
* Inverted with Yoshimitsu from ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}}'' and ''VideoGame/SoulCalibur'': He's a [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot cyborg ninja]] who has a spinning hand and a [[LaserBlade Laser Katana]]. In this case, the primary use is combat, flying is just an [[MundaneUtility added benefit]].
* ''VideoGame/MetalSlug 3'' lets you choose a jet or a helicopter as your starting vehicle in its final mission. If you choose the helicopter, you can fly under the soldiers parachuting down, and slice them dead with the rotor.
* 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 ''VideoGame/Left4Dead'', the blades of the various escape helicopters aren't instant-kill, but they do deal out a nice chunk of damage, and then very quickly do it again, so odds are it ''will'' kill you. Normally this wouldn't concern the Survivors (unless you're playing Low Gravity), but Specials like the high-flying Hunter and Jockey can get chopped up if they aren't careful with their last-ditch attacks.
* In ''VideoGame/DoubleDragonNeon'', 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. Lampshades abound.
* A variation in ''VideoGame/TransformersFallOfCybertron'' in which [[CombiningMecha Bruticus]] uses Vortex's rotors as a shield. In a BossBattle as Jazz, he uses them offensively against you.
* In ''VideoGame/DeadRising3'', Nick Ramos kicks General Hemlock into the still spinning blades of a crashed helicopter.
* ''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... and causes the helicopter to spin out of control and crash before the Game Over screen pops up.
* In the mobile/Steam versions of ''VideoGame/BloonsTowerDefense 5'' (carried into future games using the unit), the Heli Pilot's 3/x upgrade qualifies as this, as it deals damage to any bloons the Heli Pilot flies over. On the one hand, this is being used to ''pop balloons''. On the other, the most important point of this upgrade is that it allows the helicopter to pop ''[[DoubleSubversion metal]]'' balloons (and will be employed to chew through masses of ceramic armor and zeppelin hulls soon enough after).
* Discussed in ''VideoGame/TonyHawksUnderground'' when the protagonist decides to do a [=McTwist=] while jumping over a police helicopter.
-->'''Eric Sparrow:''' You serious? You miss your ollie and we'll be sending you back to Jersey in a coffee can!
* 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.
* The above is given a 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!
* ''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 Joseph Seed]] away. It actually portrays this trope [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome 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.]]
* In ''VideoGame/MortalKombat11'', Sonya Blade uses this in a fatality. She calls in a helicopter, flings her opponent into the air, and shoots them repeatedly until they are pushed into the blades and become splattered.
* ''Baldies'': The player can do this to their own cursor by trying to pick up a helicopter. This obliterates the fingers of their hand cursor, disabling the ability to pick things up until the fingers regrow.
* The Flash game, ''Zombie Choppa'', is "made" from this trope. The premise of the game is that the player is a helicopter pilot evacuating civilians during a ZombieApocalypse, and should any zombies attempt to board the player's chopper, the player will then perform some mid-air maneuvers throwing zombies into the air so they land on the rotors.

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* In ''Webcomic/{{Achewood}}'', two of the characters argue if helicopter blades either cleanly slice peoples' heads off or causes skull-shattering blunt trauma.

* In their LetsPlay of ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCity'', the LetsPlay/FreelanceAstronauts lament the inability to pick up hookers while piloting a helicopter. Maxwell tilts the helicopter in the direction of the hooker, and there's nothing left of said hooker except a bright red cloud.

* 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.
* The first episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{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 out -- then cut to the pilot assuring them that "we're just chewing through a few thousand doves up here; don't worry, the rotors will grind them into paste in no time." Later, the chef is launched out a window ''upwards'' into the blades and [[AmusingInjuries torn to shreds]]. He got better... mostly.
** "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.

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' parodies this trope; a series of quick skits throughout the episode feature a parade of increasingly ridiculous objects falling off a cliff and getting shredded by the rotors of a nearby helicopter; the final skit has the helicopter falling over the cliff and into ''another helicopter''.
* In an episode of the ''[[WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfSamAndMaxFreelancePolice Sam & Max]]'' 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.
* 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 lawnmower.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperHeroSquadShow'', the Falcon's pet falcon, Redbird (a ButtMonkey of epic degree... like Falcon himself) flies out of the SHIELD Helicarrier. An instant after Falcon yells "Watch for the rotors!" we hear the sound of a buzzsaw. [[spoiler: Redbird only suffered AmusingInjuries.]]

* At the end of an episode of ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'', the obnoxious "[[{{Troll}} Wisdom Cube]]" is floating above the Aqua Teen's house taunting them, and is suddenly shredded by a helicopter which passes by [[RuleOfFunny for no reason]].
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' 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.
* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' has Steve become a ShellShockedVeteran after attending a UsefulNotes/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.
* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'': In "Triumvirate of Terror!", Batman uses the blades of his Whirly-Bat to slash the envelope of the Joker's blimp.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' episode "The Rerun", one of the items in The Void, a dimension where all of the world's mistakes go, is a helicopter with an ejector seat flying out through the windshield and getting sucked into the rotor.
* ''WesternAnimation/BigCityGreens'': In the climax of "Chipocalypse Now", [[ArchEnemy Chip Whistler]] tries to kill the Greens with a helicopter.
-->'''Chip:''' [[VillainousBreakdown Cricket Green, you've made a fool of me]] ''[[VillainousBreakdown FOR THE LAST TIME!]]''

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

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* 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...
* ''Franchise/JamesBond''
** ''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''!
** 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, [[ChekhovsGun was seen doing so earlier in the movie]]. Not only that, but the device [[TruthInTelevision is actually a real-life tool,]] called an [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerial_saw "Aerial saw,"]] which is used to trim trees in remote or hard-to-reach locations.)
** 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.
* In ''Film/{{Planet Terror}}'' helicopter blades are used to cut through zombies during the film's climax.

* ''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...
* 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.
* 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 Helicopter Blender. Take that, bad guy (and all you people sprayed with body bits, and the pilot)!

* Although it violated several other laws of physics, ''Film/TheItalianJob2003'' remake averted this trope. The pilot didn't threaten the main character with his rotor blade, and when he tried to block his mini with his tail-rotor, the mini won. To the helicopter's and the pilot's credit, it didn't immediately spin out and crash, but the damage forced the pilot to land ''immediately'' and the BigBad had to find alternate transport by carjacking someone's truck.
* ''Film/TerminalVelocity1994'' 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.
* In ''Film/YearOfTheComet'', 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?"
* In ''Film/ShootEmUp'' near the end of the skydiving shootout sequence Mr. Smith (Clive Owen) kicks the Lone Man towards a helicopter that just happened to be nearby.

* 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.]]
** Blackout uses the tail rotor as a weapon, the main rotor hangs from his back. He can spread the blades open to look menacing.
* Completely averted in ''Film/{{Arabesque}}'', where the Hero defeats the BigBad, by dropping a ladder on his helicopter, completely shattering the rotor, and causing the aircraft to fall.
* 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.
* At the beginning of ''Film/SpyKids1'', at one point a helicopter pursuing the newlyweds beheads a couple of statues as it flies between them.

* A helicopter crashes at the end of ''Film/IfLooksCouldKill'' and its rotor blades come off and pursue the hero across a rooftop.
* In ''Film/HotShots'', the President exits his helicopter and lifts his baseball cap to greet those waiting for him. There's a BZZZZZZ sound before the President puts his now-shredded cap back on.
* A similar effect (albeit with the propeller of an experimental flying-wing craft) shredded the Nazi pugilist in ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk''.

* In the climax of ''Film/OnDeadlyGround'', Forrest (Steven Seagal) shoves the TortureTechnician, [=MacGruder=], into the rear blades of a helicopter about to take off.
* ''Film/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.
* ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse''
** ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'' had in this in the climax as Cap is trying to make his way to Red Skull's airship. He hitches a ride on a mook's plane and ends up in a fight with another on it. The one driving it tries to tilt the plane to throw Cap off. Cap manages to hang on and, due to the propeller being on the back of the plane, the poor mook he was fighting against falls right into the blades and turns into instant red mist.
** Happens ''again'' in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'', this time with a S.H.I.E.L.D. 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 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...
** 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.]]
* ''Film/MacheteKills'' had a [[BlackComedy lot of fun with this one]]. First Machete guts Zaror, throwing his intestines into the rotor blades so he's reeled up into them. Then Machete is flying to safety when his helicopter is damaged by mooks in a powerboat. He leaps into the boat then, as the unmanned chopper spins wildly out of control overhead, fires a harpoon into it, attaching the other end to a mook who's pulled into the air and the rotor blades -- the mook gets [[CruelAndUnusualDeath shredded, then blown up with the helicopter]]. Later improved by Machete by attaching his grappling hook to the rotor and using his machete to decapitate mooks faster than the eye can see.
* The hero threatens to do this to a suspect in the film ''Film/{{Basic}}''. The story is about former Army Ranger Tom Hardy being asked by his old friend who's still in the military to investigate what happened during a training exercise that killed a group of Ranger trainees and their notorious DrillSergeantNasty. There are only two living witnesses from the group of trainees, both of whom are telling ''very'' different stories about what happened. At one point, it's revealed that one of the witnesses was definitely lying and Hardy catches up to the guy as he's about to be flown off the base, grabs the guy, and threatens to shove him into the plane's propeller, then interrogates him mere feet from the propeller blade. [[spoiler:Although it turns out to be a subversion, as Hardy and the trainee are actually in cahoots are using the fact that no one else can hear them over the propeller to plan their next move.]]

* ''Film/Deadpool2'': Among the X-Force casualties caused by the [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome unwise skydive in strong winds]], there is Shatterstar who lands straight into a helicopter about to take off, resulting in [[AlienBlood green]] LudicrousGibs all over the place.
* ''Film/DeathTrain'': Narrowly subverted when a spy is outed in the middle of a helicopter ride and he accidentally knocks out the pilot. Graham and Carver manage to wake him up right before they crash.

* Appears in Max Brook's ''Literature/WorldWarZ''. During a panicked rout, one helicopter pilot tries to cover the retreat (having run out of ammo) by chopping up zombies with the rotors, but he quickly clips a car and crashes. The soldier being interviewed for that chapter calls him a "Brave, beautiful motherfucker."

* 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.

* In a Franchise/{{Godzilla}} novel, a harpooner is turned into a PinkMist by a helicopter rotor that is torn off by Godzilla during a sea battle with the behemoth.
* 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 the Creator/StephenKing short story "Battleground", a hitman's fingers are [[{{Fingore}} sliced to the bone]] when he grabs at a fully-functional ''toy'' helicopter while fighting [[ItMakesSenseInContext a set of military miniatures]].
* ''Literature/{{Countdown}}: H Hour'': As a self-inflicted injury, a British doctor ran towards a helicopter that landed on the beach to retrieve a critically wounded soldier, only to run into the chopper's tail rotor. As the book put it: "Think: Cuisinart."
* In ''[[Literature/GreatShip The Memory of Sky]]'', a hovering VTOL aircraft has one of its engines blasted off by a [[ZeppelinsFromAnotherWorld zeppelin's]] autocannon, causing the propeller to get sheared off from stress and fly straight through the zeppelin's gondola, slicing a technician in half and eviscerating another.

* In ''VideoGame/SyphonFilter2'', the heavily-armored FinalBoss can [[PuzzleBoss only be killed]] by using the knockback from a shotgun to knock him into a handy helicopter's tail rotor. At least this one isn't in the air...

* 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.

* 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''!
* 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, [[ChekhovsGun was seen doing so earlier in the movie]]. Not only that, but the device [[TruthInTelevision is actually a real-life tool,]] called an [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerial_saw "Aerial saw,"]] which is used to trim trees in remote or hard-to-reach locations.)
* 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.

* 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)!

* An aversion of this concludes ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4''. After stealing the final [[MacGuffin sample]], [[spoiler: Ada]] jumps off of a platform. Less than five seconds later, a helicopter rises over the platform ''with [[spoiler: Ada]] in the passenger compartment.'' Granted, she has a grappling hook able to zip her around quite well, so she could have dropped past it and hooked onto a skid (with a really good pilot and ''really'' good timing), but it's double-take worthy. Just accept it as an application RuleOfCool

* George A. Romero's ''Film/DawnOfTheDead1978'' features an accidental zombie decapitation by the still-rotating main rotors of a landed helicopter. This was a ChekhovsGun for the original DownerEnding, where the heroine commits suicide by sticking her own head in the rotors.

* 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]]. Not only that, but the device [[TruthInTelevision is actually a real-life tool,]] called an "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerial_saw Aerial saw]]", which is used to trim trees in remote or hard-to-reach locations.)

* In the mobile/Steam versions of ''VideoGame/BloonsTowerDefense 5'', the Heli Pilot's 3/x upgrade qualifies as this, as it deals damage to any bloons the Heli Pilot flies over.

* 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]].)

* In ''VideoGame/MortalKombat11'', Sonya Blade uses this in a fatality. She calls in a helicopter, flings her opponent into the air, and shoots them repeatably until they are pushed into the blades and become splattered.

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' has Steve become a ShellShockedVeteran after attending a UsefulNotes/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.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'': "Herbicidal Maniac" has General Skarr fly through the air and up into a helicopter's blades after his lawnmower blows up:
-->'''General Skarr:''' Phew. It's funny, I had this foreboding feeling I was going to be accidentally mulched. Hm. AHHHH!!!

* A variation in ''VideoGame/TransformersFallOfCybertron'' in which [[CombiningMecha Bruticus]] uses Vortex's rotors as a shield.

* Peahat in ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' attacks like this in some games.

* Although it violated several other laws of physics, ''Film/TheItalianJob2003'' remake averted this trope. The pilot didn't threaten the main character with his rotor blade, and when he tried to block his mini with his tail-rotor, the mini won.

* The thirty-eighth ''Webcomic/SweetBroAndHellaJeff'' plays this for laughs in a CrossesTheLineTwice sense, playing up the {{gorn}} to incredible heights.

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

* ''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 Joseph 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/{{Baldies}}'': The player can do this to their own cursor by trying to pick up a helicopter. This obliterates the fingers of their hand cursor, disabling the ability to pick things up until the fingers regrow.

* Always a danger for service crew working around helicopters. When this troper was serving in the Israeli Airforce in the early 2000's, a female soldier walked straight into a rear rotor, resulting in deadly head trauma.

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

* In ''Film/{{Grindhouse}}'' helicopter blades are used to cut through zombies.
* ''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 fewer 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.

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