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Helicopter Flyswatter
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A classic move for the giant-monster genre, from King Kong to Cloverfield, this is when a gigantic creature or similar menace lashes out and destroys a helicopter or other low-flying aircraft. The aircraft might be attacking the monster, circling too close to capture footage of the creature (news crews, beware this trope!), or simply passing by and/or trying to get the hell away from it. One of the many hazards of being an Acrophobic Bird, and a standard tactic for filmmakers to justify a monster not simply being blown away by an air-to-ground missile. Of course, if the threat is ground-based, and the pilots would logically know it possessed no ranged weaponry, this may be a case of Too Dumb to Live. Often overlaps with Hellish Copter. Bonus points if we see someone reporting from the helicopter as it gets swatted, making it Deadline News as well. |
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The Simpsons: In "Thirty Minutes over Tokyo", the plane that the Simpsons are on going home gets attacked by Godzilla. | |
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Your first kaiju form in Hakaiou: King of Crusher as a Not Zilla have you dealing with military helicopters by swatting them out the air. Of course, that's before you grow wings and gain the ability of flight. | |
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Miraculous Ladybug: In "Stoneheart - Origins (Part 2)", Stone Heart swats at the pursuing helicopters as he climbs the Eiffel Tower carrying Mylène. | |
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Taz-Mania: In "Taz in Keeweeland", Taz becomes a giant atop a skyscraper, swatting at the Keewee in a biplane. | |
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Can be done in Crush, Crumble, and Chomp!, though it's actually somewhat difficult. The helicopter units are fairly good at keeping their distance from the monster, and good at evading the monster's "grab" attack. | |
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Night Shift: The human protagonist of "Battleground" swats one of the attacking mini-choppers out of the air barehanded (suffering appropriate injuries to his hand), then throws a blanket over the other and stomps on it. | |
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Especially notable in Godzilla, Mothra, King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack!, in which Godzilla throws Baragon into a news chopper. What a way to die. | |
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In Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion, Asuka drop-kicks a VTOL craft using Unit-02. | |
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The Adventures of Dr. McNinja: Hellish Copter vs. Giant Enemy Crab: 0-1 As the Alt Text says: "Helicopters only exist in this comic to get exploded. They serve no other purpose." | |
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This is possible by many ways and is greatly recommended in War of the Monsters, as helicopter gunships are, like those in CCAC, fairly good at evading the player, while at the same time peppering you with their cannons. Fortunately, there are a number of ways to beat them, including by throwing items at them, shooting them with your projectile weapon, close-range special attacks, swatting them, jumping into them, or even grabbing another helicopter and using ITS guns to down the others. They are especially dangerous in the 4th mission, where you not only have to face helicopters, but also a Mecha-Kong and the mantis Preytor, who exhibits all the traits of the aforementioned choppers. | |
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Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus uses the standard version when the octopus swats a fighter plane, and takes it far beyond credibility when the shark leaps 30,000 feet up to nom an airliner. | |
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The Creature That Ate Sheboygan, which simulates an Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever, includes rules for having the monster destroy helicopters that fly too close. | |
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Pacific Rim shows the first Kaiju doing this to the fighter jets attacking it. | |
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King Kong (1933): King Kong swats at attacking aircraft at the climax of the movie. He manages to take down three, but unfortunately, it's not enough to save him. | |
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In Monsters vs. Aliens, Ginormica does this by accident, while trying to explain how she's not dangerous at all. | |
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Parodied in the opening scene of Beavis and Butt-Head Do America. | |
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The 50-foot Ginger that climbs up the Tower of Art in Moving Pictures (Discworld) tries to play out this trope when two wizards start strafing it from a Flying Broomstick. | |
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Godzilla and his Kaiju colleagues do this all the time. In Godzilla (1998), the titular 'zilla does this to a helicopter that's tracking him though the city by sneaking up on it from below. Especially notable in Godzilla, Mothra, King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack!, in which Godzilla throws Baragon into a news chopper. What a way to die. |
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In the Futurama episode "Benderama", a Giant human boy is destroying the city. Zapp Brannigan shoots at him from a helicopter but then the Giant grabs the helicopter and uses it to give himself a shave. | |
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In Batman: Mask of the Phantasm, Batman does this with small radio-controlled choppers in the old "Gotham of the Future" miniature diorama, which now serves as the Joker's home base. | |
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Lampshaded by Yotobi during his review of Megapython vs Gatoroid: "Since this is an Asylum movie, if you're riding a plane or a chopper, chances are something will try to eat you." | |
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This is actually in music. The intro to Arockalypse by Lordi is a spoken news bulletin about a zombie invasion, including a snippet from a reporter who gets knocked out of the sky by a monster climbing a building. | |
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In Godzilla (1998), the titular 'zilla does this to a helicopter that's tracking him though the city by sneaking up on it from below. | |
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Near the end of Cloverfield, the monster takes down a helicopter full of evacuees the protagonists. | |
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Kong: Skull Island continues the tradition with actual helicopters, and uses enough of them that Kong not only swats them, but grabs them to toss at other helicopters. The largest, he snatches out of the air and twists apart with both hands. | |
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The monsters in Rampage can do this to attacking helicopters. | |
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