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Heli-Critter
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This is a creature that flies (or, in some cases, swims) using an organic propeller instead of wings. Though some bacterial life forms in Real Life really do move this way, it is impossible in more complex organisms, because such a structure requires at least two separate parts and there'd be no way for their nerves, veins, et cetera to make it from one to the other. It does tend to show up in fiction, though, largely due to the Rule of Cool and because spinning is spectacular. Often a subtrope of Bizarre Alien Locomotion, always a Sub-Trope of Instant Flight: Just Add Spinning! See also Helicopter Hair, Ear Wings. |
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Super Mario Galaxy 2 features a green parrot-like enemy that flies using four spinning blades around its neck. A plant enemy has a similar feature at its underside. | |
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Angoramon of Digimon Ghost Game can fly by spinning his long ears. He can also whip up whirlwinds with them. | |
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An Awkward Zombie strip uses this as a theoretical explanation for the burning question of how the hell Doduo can learn fly. Answer: by spinning its two heads (and necks). | |
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Dixie Kong from Donkey Kong Country uses her ponytail as a propeller. | |
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The Wacky Adventures of Pedro has one storyline in which an overdose of Power-Up Food causes Pedro's ears to stretch and rotate like helicopter blades. | |
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Karlsson on the Roof by Swedish author Astrid Lingren, about a male person of indeterminate age with a propeller on his back and a button on his stomach to turn it on. | |
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The Simpsons: Ralph Wiggum's Imaginary Friend uses his tail (in some unspecified manner) to fly. | |
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Looney Tunes: The short "Go Fly a Kit" is about a kitten who was raised by an eagle and learns to fly by spinning its tail. The epilogue shows the kitten as an adult cat with kittens who fly the same way. Bugs Bunny sometimes uses his ears as a propeller. In "Lighter Than Hare", he uses his ears as helicopter propellers to get away from an outer space version of Yosemite Sam. Not always voluntarily, though, as in "Bunny Hugged" where the Crusher wounds up his ears and sends him flying around. |
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Some of the small ones can be seen in the background of Wii version in A Boy and His Blob on Blob's home planet. | |
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Classic Disney Shorts: Donald Duck uses his tail as a propeller in "Alpine Climbers". As with a seagull seen in the House of Mouse short "Mickey and the Seagull". |
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As with a seagull seen in the House of Mouse short "Mickey and the Seagull". | |
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In the fanfic Tails of the Old Republic, a crossover/Fusion Fic between Sonic The Hedgehog and the videogame Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Tails the fox has two tails like in the games and other media he regularly features in, and he can fly with them, fight with them, and even shield himself with them. In here, he has two basic flight modes: a general-purpose "helicopter mode" that has great versatility and a top speed of about 200 MPH, and a much faster and energy-intensive "turbofan mode" (similar to a jet engine) that can propel him up to 600 MPH or higher. | |
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In Hoodwinked!, Japeth survives when the mine cart he and Red rode off the end of a broken track by using a set of his interchangeable horns to do this — one with rotors. Red's reaction to seeing this is a disbelieving, "What?" | |
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Garfield: Garfield unintentionally does this to himself, while winding a leg too much preparing for another literal Kick the Dog gag with Odie. He also has wound up Odie's ears like an airplane propelled on occasion. In a Surprisingly Realistic Outcome, his flight ends as his ears unwind. |
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The giant bees from Donkey Kong Jungle Beat, whose wings twirl around their "torsos". Ironically, the Helibirds are not examples. | |
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Finder (Experiment 158) from Lilo & Stitch: The Series can use his ears to fly like a helicopter in order to help others find things. | |
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In Disney's Robin Hood, Sir Hiss floats by using a bag of air around his head and his tail as a propeller. | |
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Not always voluntarily, though, as in "Bunny Hugged" where the Crusher wounds up his ears and sends him flying around. | |
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In at least one episode of Ready Jet Go!, it's shown that Sunspot can move his ears like a propeller to fly. | |
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Donald Duck uses his tail as a propeller in "Alpine Climbers". | |
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Kaze in Kaze and the Wild Masks can hover by spinning her huge ears like helicopter blades. | |
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Metal Slug 6 has an Invader alien called the Smasher, it resembles a crab-like thing that spins its legs like a helicopter to fly before inflating itself to smash down on you. | |
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Possibly the trope namers are flying Critters from Cave Story which move that way. | |
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Hey! Pikmin: Coppellers and Muggonflies have flower-like growths on their backs that rotate around their axes, allowing them to fly. | |
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Conker the squirrel uses his tail this way in Conker's Bad Fur Day, in the move he dubbed "Helicoptery Tail Thingy". | |
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The Mansion of E has Helipaths, tentacled creatures who fly using this method. | |
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The Owl House: Hooty can fly in his "Porta-Hooty" form by stretching and angling his neck and whirling his head around. He can carry at least one person with him. | |
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Avatar: The Last Airbender: A couple of the spirits in The Legend of Korra have propellers. | |
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Muttley from Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines sometimes uses his tail as a propeller. | |
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Beacon of Hope has an appliance variation: Desk lamp Beacon can hover by spinning his power cord like a propeller. | |
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In Di Gi Charat, Rabi~en~Rose uses the ears of her bunny costume to fly. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: Peahats, a species of monstrous plants, fly by twirling their leaves like helicopter blades. The Wind Waker introduces the marine Seahats, which do the same with a ring of fins. The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask: The Deku Scrubs use flowers this way. Link himself gains this power when he transforms into one. |
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Claws of Furry: Robodog can achieve flight by spinning his ears like helicopter blades. | |
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Earthworm Jim: Earthworm Jim is able to do this with his... upper body, or whatever would be roughly equivalent to that on a cartoon worm. In the sequel, the manual jokes that due to back strain, he can't do this anymore, and instead he uses Snot to glide. Evil the Cat can also do this with his tail in the second game to attack you from above. |
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Super Mario Bros.: The Mario Bros themselves are also able to float slowly to the ground if they manage to get spinning fast enough. And in the Galaxy games, they actually manage to imitate helicopters with their arms as the blades, somehow spinning their bodies while their head remains stationary. Super Mario Galaxy 2 features a green parrot-like enemy that flies using four spinning blades around its neck. A plant enemy has a similar feature at its underside. |
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Donkey Kong: Dixie Kong from Donkey Kong Country uses her ponytail as a propeller. Tiny Kong from Donkey Kong 64 uses her pigtails as a propeller. The giant bees from Donkey Kong Jungle Beat, whose wings twirl around their "torsos". Ironically, the Helibirds are not examples. |
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Bugs Bunny sometimes uses his ears as a propeller. In "Lighter Than Hare", he uses his ears as helicopter propellers to get away from an outer space version of Yosemite Sam. Not always voluntarily, though, as in "Bunny Hugged" where the Crusher wounds up his ears and sends him flying around. |
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In Silver Quill's "After the Fact: Amending Fences", upon seeing Pinkie Pie using her tail to fly (see the example in Western Animation below), the hippogriff gets envious — part of a running gag about him taking a very long time to get a flying animation. So Silver Quill tries to copy Pinkie by spinning his own tail, but has no control over it and is sent flying backward. | |
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Flagada makes a couple of cameos in Gaston Lagaffe, as a disguise (which doesn't fly) or a fancy desk fan (which does fly, and wrecks De Mesmaeker's contracts). | |
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Tiny Kong from Donkey Kong 64 uses her pigtails as a propeller. | |
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Fishgun, where all your enemies are anthropomorphic fruits, have sentient flying cherries who use their stalks as organic rotors to fly around. | |
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The Billywig, a magic insect from Australia, as detailed in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, a defictionalized textbook from Harry Potter. | |
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Two creatures are seen in Animorphs that use wheels. Actual, biological wheels, that are part of their body. They are owned by Visser Three, and each of them could split into two creatures, one wheeled, one flying. They were like organic '80s action figure accessories. The unlikeliness of such creatures does not pass without mention. | |
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In the Round the Twist episode "The Whirling Derfish", Bronson swallows a rare whirling derfish and discovers he now has the ability to swim incredibly fast by using his penis as a propeller. | |
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Pom's Pilot Pup in Them's Fightin' Herds flies by spinning its tail. | |
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One Piece: Sasaki can fly by spinning the frills of his half-triceratops form like a propeller. When called on it, Sasaki insists that this is something a triceratops can do. | |
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Pokémon: Hoppip and Skiploom fly by spinning a pair leaves and a flower, respectively. Their evolution Jumpluff instead floats using dandelion puffs. An aquatic Pokémon named Buizel. It doesn't fly, however, but uses its tails as a propeller in water. Though it can create a stream of water to "fly" through when using Aqua Jet. This also applies to its evolved form, Floatzel. Barraskewda, from Sword and Shield, is based on a torpedo and also has a propellor-like tail. An unlicensed game for the SNES lets you play as a Chikorita who can fly using the leaf on its head. The Aqua Breed variety of Paldean Tauros uses its three tails as a boat propeller when it swims. |
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Mother 3: The Really Flying Mouse enemy is a Cyborg mouse that has had a propeller and a jetpack grafted onto it by the Pigmasks. | |
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Mocchi of DearS does this in omake with its ears. | |
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Peahats, a species of monstrous plants, fly by twirling their leaves like helicopter blades. The Wind Waker introduces the marine Seahats, which do the same with a ring of fins. | |
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In Pleasant Goat Fun Class: Animals & Plants episode 1, Wolffy thinks elephants can spin their trunks to fly in the air. Weslie tells him that elephants can't do that. | |
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Snoopy from Peanuts is sometimes seen using his ears as a propeller. One particular strip has a Surprisingly Realistic Outcome when after utilizing this ability, Snoopy has an abrupt crash landing due to his ears becoming too tangled up from the spinning. | |
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Sonic the Hedgehog: Miles "Tails" Prower, the young fox friend of Sonic, uses his two tails to fly and hover like a helicopter. Cream the Rabbit, as well. While she usually flies by flapping them, in Sonic Chronicles, she twirls her ears like a helicopter when performing a certain POW move, much like the page image above. |
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Jargonaise from The Lingo Show spins the feathers on top of her head like a propeller as her method of flight. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask: The Deku Scrubs use flowers this way. Link himself gains this power when he transforms into one. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: In the very first episode, "Mare in the Moon", upon seeing Rarity for the first time, Spike spins the tip of his dragon tail, although using it only as propeller: the actual lift is provided by Love Floats. In the episode "The Cutie Pox", Apple Bloom gets herself airborne with her tail. It's a lesser example in that she doesn't do it just with her tail, but by spinning a hula hoop at high speed. In "Amending Fences", Pinkie is shortly seen flying by spinning her tail. This being Pinkie Pie, the only surprising thing about it is that she hadn't done it sooner. |
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Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Rocket Raccoon can use his tail to hover for a short time. | |
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Nate Is Late: In episode "The Tree People", most of the younger tree sprites can fly thanks to the pair of leaves atop their heads turning like a rotor. | |
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The title character of The Rabbit with the Checkered Ears can spin said checkered ears like a propeller to fly to the aid of the human cast, as they are longer than the rest of its body. | |
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In The Adventures of Lomax, the plume of Lomax's helmet can work like this if you have the proper ability. | |
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In Digimon Fusion, Taiki turns Dorulumon into one of these by DigiXrossing him with Starmon and the Pickmons, which turns the drill on Dorulumon's tail into a propeller. On one hand, it saves them from a fall of thousands of feet. On the other hand, it leaves Dorulumon hanging in the air by his rump, much to his embarrassment. | |
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In the Grand Finale of Samurai Pizza Cats, The Big Cheese is seen using his tail as a helicoptor propeller. | |
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Goku does this early in Dragon Ball a few times by spinning his tail. (Before he can fly by using his ki, naturally.) | |
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Ultraman Leo has a Monster of the Week called Kendoros who takes the form of a living artichoke with arms and legs, and also blade-like leaves on its top which allows it to hover and fly. | |
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One of Keith Laumer's Retief novels is all about a planet where basically every living creature has spinning parts as basic anatomy. Flying creatures all have propellers, swimming creatures all have turbines, and land-dwellers all have wheels. | |
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Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: A variant occurs in the first episode of Ultimate Battle: The Next Generation, in that Wolffy spins his tail to propel himself across a void that he and Weslie are brought to and float in. | |
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In Animal Jam, the bunny's "play" animation has it jumping into the air and helicoptering with its ears. | |
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The Ice Dragon from Kirby's Dream Land 2 uses its tail as a propeller to fly. | |
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Pikmin: Onions, the Pikmin's living nests, fly by means of flowers on their tops that rotate like helicopter blades. Hey! Pikmin: Coppellers and Muggonflies have flower-like growths on their backs that rotate around their axes, allowing them to fly. |
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Purple: Light-blue slimes have propellers that pop out when they leap. | |
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Marlon the mynah bird from The Brady Kids would fly by spinning his tail feathers like a rotor. | |
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Rayman: One of the abilities that Rayman gains in the first game and keeps (averting the Bag of Spilling) in the later ones. | |
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The rabbits in the Jazz Jackrabbit games would use their ears as a propeller to float. | |
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Monster Hunter Portable 3rd has the Duramboros, which can launch themselves into the air simply though spinning using their heavy tails. If in rage mode, they only need one swing to launch themselves into the air. Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate adds the Rust Duramboros, a pink-colored subspecies that retains the main ability of its standard cousin. | |
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Spiral Knights: The snipes (small, spherical bird-like creatures) move by twirling their wings around their midsection. | |
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Super Marisa Land: In New Super Marisa Land, Marisa using the Reisen suit gains limited flight from spinning her bunny ears. It's more of a double jump technique but because it can be used to reverse a fall it's technically flight. | |
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In "Lighter Than Hare", he uses his ears as helicopter propellers to get away from an outer space version of Yosemite Sam. | |
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Kinnikuman: Sneagator's frill-necked lizard form allows him to fly by spinning the neck frill like a propeller. He also uses it like a buzzsaw. | |
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