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When a stereotypical airplane (or spaceship) pilot speaks over the radio, either to flight controllers on the ground or to his own passengers, he does so in a very soft, smooth register, just barely loud enough to pick up on the radio, probably with a faint American Southern accent (unless he's British, in which case it is an upper-class one). He uses radio jargon, even when he doesn't really need to. A true Danger Deadpan never loses his cool or changes his tone of voice under any circumstances whatsoever, a habit which is often Played for Laughs. May often be found in the cockpit of a Cool Plane. Particularly likely from pilots with Nerves of Steel. In Real Life, this makes a lot of sense. Even if your plane's lost two engines and half a wing, the last thing you need is a bunch of scared people in the back of the plane panicking and raising hell; you can't be screaming "OH GOD WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE" over the radio. Not to mention the fact that if you stay calm and actually tell Mission Control what the problem is, you won't throw away what may be your last chance to actually work out how to fix it or at least get to the ground in one piece. Especially true for a test pilot, whose flight data will be of future utility even if they do die. |
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The Wraith pilot from StarCraft. "Woah. They're all over me." By extension, Tom Kazansky, a hero from the bonus campaign, who has the exact same voice and face, but being a Hero Unit is probably the original. Confirmed by a caption on the official website. Same with the Firebat and other heroes. His name is also a Shout-Out to Val Kilmer's character in Top Gun - appropriately callsigned Iceman. The dropship pilot as well, being a fairly obvious reference to Corporal Ferro above. As of Starcraft II, they've been replaced by the Viking and Medevac pilots, respectively. The Wraith is still in Starcraft II's campaign with the same smooth voice and quotes. Infamously so, as while other units sound like they are in various states of duress and infestation from being infected by a neural parasite, the Wraith's voice is completely unaffected and just as calm as ever. The Banshee, while somewhat more aggressive-sounding (and apparently relishing in the idea of bombing things) also keeps remarkably calm. In fact, the only Terran pilot (close to the only Terran soldier period) who doesn't is the Lovable Coward Battlecruiser captain. |
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Homeworld and Homeworld 2 radio chatter is filled with Chuck Yeagers: ship captains, fighter pilots, and even Fleet Command, herself. They barely break out in panic even in hopeless situations: the most that you will hear is a slight tone of urgency. It almost borders on Creepy Monotone. Although not a full 180-degree spin, Homeworld: Cataclysm radio chatter deviates from Chuck Yeager by a significant margin. Fridge Brilliance as Cataclysm's pilots are all civilians, hastily trained no less. |
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In Zero Dark Thirty, en route to Usama Bin Laden's compound, the helicopter shakes alarmingly. One of the SEAL team members asks, mildly, "Anyone here been in a Helo crash?" Several hands are raised without comment, and he grins "Okay, then!" | |
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Matt Kowalski from Gravity remains unflappably calm and collected throughout the entire disaster. Justified as he's trying to keep Stone calm by acting calm himself. | |
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Luke himself qualifies in The Empire Strikes Back, calmly issuing orders to his squadron throughout the Battle of Hoth, including directing Wedge to make his attack on a walker moments after his own gunner was killed by ground fire. The only real tension in Luke's voice during the battle is when his speeder is fatally damaged and he reports in he's been hit. | |
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The totally deadpan "I'm hit, I'm going in." from the Helicopter attack scene in Apocalypse Now. | |
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When The Simpsons fly home from Japan, the Chuck Yeager pilot keeps his cool even when the plane is grabbed and shaken about by Godzilla. In the episode "Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming", two fighter jets are scrambled to intercept Sideshow Bob's escape in the Wright brothers' plane. It does not go well, as the pilot comments Yeagerly: "Bogey's airspeed not sufficient for intercept. Suggest we get out and walk." |
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Batman does this a lot in Justice League, including when the Batplane and his ejection seat are shot out of the air and he's freefalling. Superman catches him at the last moment, and Batman, in the same voice, immediately switches to coordinating his colleagues' efforts based on what he just saw. | |
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The opening scene of A Matter of Life and Death where Carter calmly and politely chats to a female radio operator about how utterly screwed he is, and that the best hope for survival is to bail out without a parachute and hope that he is wrong about the height he is flying at. | |
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Disconcertingly the Hell Talon pilot from Dawn of War: Soulstorm talks like this. This is because, according to the fluff, Hell Talons are piloted by Servitors, who are basically partially organic robots created from clones or lobotomized convicts. | |
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Double Homework has a fake bus driver (who formerly posed as a sea captain) who keeps maddeningly calm when the bus that he drives into the mountains runs into some snow. | |
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Invoked in Clear and Present Danger: as crew chief Buck Zimmer dies in Jack Ryan's arms, Jack is nearly enraged by the helo pilot's calm reply to the news. The narrative notes that the pilot's demeanor is a defense mechanism: if he hadn't learned how to compartmentalize his rage and grief, he could never have lasted as long as he has. | |
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Similarly with any of Glenn Morshower's characters: most of the pilots, as well as 'Overlord', 'Warlord' and the NORAD HQ controller in Modern Warfare 2. The latter gets a disturbingly subtle hint of malice if you kill more than ten people in a single Predator Missile strike, though. | |
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Rocko's Modern Life: Rocko and Heffer are just about to start a plane trip when the captain comes over the intercom and mentions in a deadpan voice that he'll do his best not to pass out at high altitude like he usually does. | |
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Parodied in the comedy Hot Shots!. On returning from the big mission, Topper is calmly narrating as his plane falls apart ("Lost my wing. There goes the other one.") And he is cheerily talked in by Washout, who give calm words of reassurance in response to each new glitch ("Looking good. Doing fine. Call the ball.") Followed by Topper landing by way of the smoldering wreck of his plane falling straight down onto the deck. It's that kind of movie. | |
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Maybe there's just something about flying as Red Leader that keeps you calm: when it's Wedge's turn with the callsign in Return of the Jedi this time he's the one staying professional as everyone else gets jumpy. It's actually a bit of Character Development for Wedge, as in the original film Red Leader has to admonish him to keep the channel clear, and he's still rather excitable at Hoth. | |
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The Twilight Zone episode "The Odyssey of Flight 33" has a fair bit of this: | |
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The Twilight Zone (1985): An averted, non-pilot example, in the episode "A Little Peace and Quiet." In the final scene, nuclear war has broken out between the Soviet Union and the United States, and a radio newscaster — who would normally be calm even in the presence of imminent death — is clearly losing his efforts to keep calm as he advises the public as to the warning. He is starting to cry and say his goodbyes as the protagonist (a harried housewife who had found an amulet that can stop time) manages to freeze time shortly before she is killed in a nuclear explosion. | |
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The crew of the Messiah from Deep Impact keep their cool throughout their mission even when discussing their eventual Suicide Mission to stop one of the comets. The only time anyone gets emotional is when Gus is blown off the surface of the comet and sent drifting into space, Tulchinsky yells at Tanner to go back for him and lets out a Precision F-Strike when Tanner refuses. | |
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Red Dwarf: Ace Rimmer, who calmly reports that he's broken his arm, then apologizes in advance for fainting briefly. | |
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In one episode of Deadliest Catch: After The Catch, Mike Rowe is talking to a Coast Guard helicopter pilot and lampshades the pilot's display of this trope, and discusses it at length. | |
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Chillingly averted in Metro: Last Light when Artyom and Pavel share visions/hallucination/ghosts reliving their last moments: the crashed jetliner is shown minutes before the war gliding without power while Moscow goes up in flames as nuke after nuke bombards the surface. The pilot is barely holding it together while the co-pilot and passengers are screaming for their lives. | |
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Kyosuke Nanbu is portrayed as such in the Super Robot Wars series, he has occasional bouts of shouting Hot-Blooded-ness but his overall character is the 'cool and levelheaded' archetype, slumbering volcano deal. | |
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Uncle Hoole in Galaxy of Fear almost always keeps to Dissonant Serenity during stressful situations. Several of these involve Coming in Hot; on one such occasion his niece exclaimed: "We're going to make it!" (as in, land fine) and he told her "I'm afraid not." | |
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O'Neill employs this in the Stargate SG-1 episode "Redemption Part 2" as he's rapidly falling back to Earth in the X-302 after the initial plan fails and his engines have burned out. | |
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Played straight, averted, and subverted by [PROTOTYPE]. You hear all enemy radio chatter, so when you take out a helicopter you hear the pilot's reaction to what you do - and final words. Some pilots are calm and collected going in, some panic and wail immediately, and some lose control just before they hit. After a while, the panicked screams can become tearjerker material. | |
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Halo: One level of Halo 3 includes several crashed human aircraft. Standing near one reveals some interesting radio chatter regarding a space-battle above, including the calmly-stated line "I've lost avionics, I'm gonna try and hit their carrier. Goodbye guys." The UNSC for some reason really likes to hire laidback Texan women to pilot their Pelicans. The one in the first game was even given a nickname, Foehammer, and survived until the last level; her calm demeanor and steadfast reliability through the entire game made her death in the last seconds of the game heartbreaking. |
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If you play the Omega DLC as an Engineer Shepard in Mass Effect 3, when you reach the central reactor, you can use a Paragon interrupt to re-route power to the city instead of shutting it down, which achieves not only the shutdown of the force fields but saves the civilians instead. If you use it, once you get away from the reactor, you get this dialog: | |
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Joker in the Mass Effect series combines this with Deadpan Snarker for his scenes when not actively flying. If you play the Omega DLC as an Engineer Shepard in Mass Effect 3, when you reach the central reactor, you can use a Paragon interrupt to re-route power to the city instead of shutting it down, which achieves not only the shutdown of the force fields but saves the civilians instead. If you use it, once you get away from the reactor, you get this dialog: |
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Rebuild World: Akira being a Humble Hero, often reports his amazing feats such as Improbable Aiming Skills or taking down The Swarm of monsters like this, which gets a verbal Double Take from others. This is because he thinks it’s only due to his Virtual Sidekick Alpha that he could. The Robot Maid agent who sells her martial services to the highest bidder Olivia, talks like this in the middle of chaotic battlefields due to being an Artificial Intelligence. |
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Trudy Chacon's final line in Avatar, uttered calmly as she tries to retain control of her Samson after it was shredded by heavy machine gun fire. | |
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The UNSC for some reason really likes to hire laidback Texan women to pilot their Pelicans. The one in the first game was even given a nickname, Foehammer, and survived until the last level; her calm demeanor and steadfast reliability through the entire game made her death in the last seconds of the game heartbreaking. | |
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The Wraith is still in Starcraft II's campaign with the same smooth voice and quotes. Infamously so, as while other units sound like they are in various states of duress and infestation from being infected by a neural parasite, the Wraith's voice is completely unaffected and just as calm as ever. | |
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The former trope namer himself shows up in The Right Stuff, played by Sam Shepard. Not to mention a cameo by the real Yeager. | |
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Hitman: Agent 47 just doesn't do visible displays of emotion unless the situation is pretty extraordinary, and "a job that's gone south" is not extraordinary. Three disguises compromised already? Running low on ammo and ICA specialist gear, with a remaining arsenal consisting mostly of tinned foods and soft drinks? Half a dozen people who can see through his current disguise just outside the door? Doesn't matter. Any interaction he has is still going to be in a borderline monotone, with maybe a little bit of snark. | |
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A non-pilot example: On M*A*S*H, Hawkeye is noted in-universe as staying "cool as a cucumber" in the OR no matter how many casualties and how bad the injuries he is having to deal with. If he starts sounding riled up at all, it's usually to get across to someone else the need for urgency, or anger either at who inflicted the casualty or who's making it hard to treat it, not panic. When he does lose his composure, it's always a case of O.O.C. Is Serious Business. | |
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Evil Genome have the protagonist, Lachesis, who gets quite snarky in the face of danger, notably when snapping at her AI Mission Control at times. For instance, after defeating a gigantic Sand Worm boss trying to devour her: | |
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In Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 the Allied Harrier jets apparently have pilots that sound like your typical Chuck Yeager-type pilots when clicked on. The only time they sound panicky is when they get shot down. The Allied Rocketeers were more or less the same. And then in Red Alert 3 you get this for pretty much anyone who flies a plane — including Japanese pilots and Soviet women pilots. The Century Bomber pilots are a clear homage to Major Kong. The Apollo pilots sometimes shout "Where's the eject?" when you shoot them down. "Mig going down, Mig going dooowwwnnn!!!" Earlier in the series in Tiberian Sun, GDI had the rather unshakeable Orca pilots and Nod had the even more unshakable Banshee pilots, who upon being shot down uttered a deadpan "Whoops". Tiberian Sun's land armor pilots are particularly more Yeagerish than other C&C equivalents and are on par with aircraft ones. |
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Murdock (sort of) does this in the film of The A-Team. While he's quite excited to be flying in such a dangerous situation, when the plane is actually hit by a missile, he calmly says, "Ladies and gentlemen, if you look out the side of the aircraft, you'll see the right wing is on fire." | |
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A variation occurs in Good Omens, during an... interesting incident at a nuclear power plant: | |
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Apollo 13: The infamous, understated, oft-repeated line "Houston, we have a problem", as delivered in the film, owes at least a little to the Chuck Yeager spirit. Jack Swigert (as played by Kevin Bacon) had this going on for most of the film. After the potentially-fatal reentry, which took over a minute-and-a-half longer than anticipated, the real response was just "Okay, Joe". |
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World War Z. After the hero's satellite phone goes off while they're trying to sneak past some zombies who wake up and swarm them, one of the snipers chimes in with a truly beautiful bit of snark over the radio: | |
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During Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor, Luke commands part of a fleet during a battle. For most of it he's outwardly calm but quietly nervous inside, sure things are about to go wrong - when things do go wrong, he feels calmer and absolutely shines, soothing the alarmed crew, sending a message to repeat, setting up to pull off what most would call an impossible landing, and in general being low-voiced and "preternaturally" calm. | |
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Phill Jupitus has a routine about this in his Quadrophobia show, in which he contrasts the Danger Deadpan approach seen in Apollo 13 with the probable result if the astronauts had been British: not so much "Houston, we have a problem" as "THE F**KING ROCKET'S F**KING F**KED!!" Notable as an example of an inversion of British Stuffiness. | |
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Iceman, in the first Wing Commander game, is described in the manual as being the calm, cool, collected pilot, and the one on top of the scoreboard when you start the game. A fellow pilot notes that everyone else shouts in combat, but you sometimes have to strain to hear Iceman, because he's pretty much whispering in terse, two-or-three-word sentences. | |
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The Discovery's mission controller in 2001: A Space Odyssey, who was played by an actual U.S. Air Force radio operator stationed in England, whom Kubrick hired because he couldn't find any actors who could do this kind of voice. | |
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In the Jack McKinney novelization of Robotech, the pilots are all described as discussing their life and death situations in combat "as if they were talking about the weather", and lampshades this with an explanation that combat pilots are traditionally superstitious that displaying any worry or fear of death invites its attention. | |
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Aside from the legions of aerospace pilots in Warhammer 40,000, where some of this is to be expected, there's also servitors (lobotomized humans, typically convicts, extensively augmented/modified and then used for things like heavy lifting, factory work, and as walking weapon platforms) who cannot panic given they do not feel fear or pain, and then there's also the Mechanicus. Tech-Priests invariably speak in robotic monotones thanks to their training and augmentations, though occasionally an undercurrent of urgency or fear can be detected. Or just annoyance at whatever tech-heresy the unaugmented meatbags are committing this time. | |
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The ironclad units from Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds are a British, naval version of this trope, remaining much calmer than their land-based compatriots even when reporting that Martian units are firing at them. Come on Thunderchild indeed. | |
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In My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fanfic Thirty Seconds over To-ki-rin, a downplayed version is used by fighter pilot Dusk Skyshine as he begins to realize exactly how much trouble his wingman Dash Firehooves is in. Culminating in | |
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Captain Stapley of Concorde Golf Victor Charlie in the Doctor Who serial "Time-Flight". Brand new Air Hostess Tegan Jovanka too: "Ladies and Gentlemen, your flight is ready, please begin boarding." This would be after the aircrew has managed to repair their Concorde which has crash-landed in the Cretaceous. They call it Time-Flight for a reason. |
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Charlotte Yeager does this in Strike Witches; not surprising, since she's the Distaff Counterpart of the real-life Chuck Yeager. | |
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Every airman in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. The best example is probably Outlaw 2-5, who responds to being told he's in danger of getting nuked with a deadpan "Copy, we know what we're getting into." Deadly, the downed Cobra pilot Outlaw 2-5 landed to rescue, remains admirably collected whilst losing her tail rotor and plowing into a building. The next you hear from her, she's a bit more shaken up. Considering she's also trapped in the cockpit with a broken leg or worse, her gunner is dead, and angry Quraqis with lots of guns and a grudge against American air power are pouring out of the woodwork, this is forgivable. Taken to the logical extreme in the level "Death from Above", where you are the gunner of an AC-130 gunship. The crew responds to you disintegrating both infantry and vehicles alike with less emotion than a guy watching sports on TV; the only guy who speaks above a normal, conversational tone of voice is the loader for the plane's 105mm cannon, whose only dialogue is "Gun Ready!". Similarly with any of Glenn Morshower's characters: most of the pilots, as well as 'Overlord', 'Warlord' and the NORAD HQ controller in Modern Warfare 2. The latter gets a disturbingly subtle hint of malice if you kill more than ten people in a single Predator Missile strike, though. The replacement voice for helicopter pilots in Modern Warfare 3 remains the same, though with one instance where he does lose his cool during the first mission, when you shoot down an enemy gunship with one of the side-mounted miniguns and it plows into your helicopter on the way down; while the helicopter pulls through, the pilot is shouting as he tries to get it back under control, even calling it a "son of a bitch". |
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Another nice reference in The Cardinal of the Kremlin - "When he spoke, it was in the matter-of-fact tone that professional soldiers reserve for only the worse nightmares. The Colonel had just had the privilege of witnessing something that few men in human history ever saw. He had just seen the world change, and unlike most men, he had understood the significance of it." | |
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One level of Halo 3 includes several crashed human aircraft. Standing near one reveals some interesting radio chatter regarding a space-battle above, including the calmly-stated line "I've lost avionics, I'm gonna try and hit their carrier. Goodbye guys." | |
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You can customize your player model in Tribes 2, including your character's voice. One of the options for a Human Male player model is "Iceman." It sounds as you might expect. | |
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Firefly: Wash was very lively and emotional normally, but when piloting under pressure became a zen-like stoic. Joss Whedon wanted the contrast for the character and was dismayed during the making of one episode to discover everyone had dispensed with this to have Wash flying as excitably as his actor had been playing his brand new X-Box. When they all cited Rule of Funny at him, Joss agreed to let it stay in. | |
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Quagmire from Family Guy, on the one occasion where we see him actually doing his job as an airline captain, uses this voice, a severe contrast to his catchphrase-laden normal speech. He throws in one "giggity"note "headwind" in the last sentence. Of course, when things start going to hell a little later when the plane runs out of fuel halfway through the flight, he starts freaking out. | |
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Parodied in Monkey Dust - a pilot who got perfect scores in his pilot exam is rejected because his voice is goofy, while a terrible pilot gets through when he brushes off the fact he failed his exam with "a little spot of bother there, but we're through the worst of it" in a suave, clipped voice. | |
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The Black Hawk designated Super 61, piloted by CW3 Clifton "Elvis" Wolcottnote portrayed by Jeremy Piven in Black Hawk Down was the first of the two Black Hawks to be shot down during the First Battle of Mogadishu in 1993. He was noted as always being extremely calm on the radio. He legendarily maintained his calm after Super 61 was hit, and remained almost casual on the radio up to the moment of his death during the impact. | |
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The Adventures of Letterman, the animated skit from the live-action series The Electric Company: In the infamous skit involving Spellbinder turning a plane into a plant, the pilot — realizing there is nothing that can be done to save themselves — cries out, "Air traffic control ... please talk to me!" | |
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In Star Trek: The Next Generation Starfleet captains seem to have this attitude. Admiral Hanson who commanded the fleet in their first engagement with the Borg deserves special mention. While in the middle of the largest defeat Starfleet had faced in generations, he transmitted a simple "The fight does not go well, Enterprise" before being cut off by his ship being destroyed. | |
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