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Surprise Vehicle
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The gang is standing on a cliff's edge when they are startled by a helicopter which rises, roaring, into view... and yet that roaring helicopter somehow didn't make any noise until they saw it. This is useful in a work to create some surprise wide-scale terror/action/heroics. This is not restricted to helicopters: any roaring vehicle that should have made noise before appearing is a Surprise Vehicle. It doesn't count if the audience hears the vehicle, but the character is too deep in thought or wearing headphones. In Real Life, combat aircraft do something similar to this, though at much longer ranges, typically using the terrain for cover. However, this trope is mostly about something that is, in Real Life, very loud and very close, but the character doesn't hear it until it is seen. Often a case of Gunship Rescue. Compare See No Evil, Hear No Evil, when off-screen events aren't audible until they appear on-screen. See also Silent Running Mode; Stealth Hi/Bye; Behind the Black; and Look Both Ways. Related to Rule of Perception. |
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Scorpion: At the end of "Shorthanded", a helicopter rises up roaring from behind a sand dune to surprise the bad guys and deliver The Cavalry to save Walter and his team. How it could have got behind the sand dune without the bad guys hearing it in the first place is never addressed. | |
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The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension. When Buckaroo is about to be run over by a truck, a ladder suddenly appears swinging from the sky. Buckaroo grabs hold and is lifted away by a Blue Blaze Irregular helicopter. | |
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All those times a helicopter is mistaken for a UFO, despite having a distinctive sound. Examples appear in Dark Skies, Airwolf, and The X-Files (which managed to avoid the cliche for several seasons until the episode where Agent Dogget first appears). Although Airwolf almost justified it with that distinctive Future Copter-ish engine noise that sounds very little like a normal helicopter. | |
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No Country for Old Men: The speeding car at the end that severely wounds Anton Chigurh at the end isn't heard until it crashes into Chigurh's car. | |
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Averted in Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando when Ratchet asks if Clank hears something before the Thugs-4-Less Leader reappears in a helicopter. | |
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Narrow Margin. Roger Ebert tore this movie a new one over this trope. | |
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Used a couple times in Half-Life 2. The first time, a Combine Hunter-Chopper suddenly pops up from behind a flood control gate to continue hounding Gordon through the Canals. The other time happens later when a Strider suddenly jumps out of a large crater in the ground. | |
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This happened in Final Fantasy VII with a giant airship that comes out of nowhere. | |
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The fel reaver patrolling Hellfire Peninsula in World of Warcraft. It's a 50-foot-tall demonic robot that shakes the ground with its footsteps and makes a sound not unlike a locomotive from hell, yet it still manages to surprise (and crush) unwary players who weren't paying attention to their surroundings. The game also has the dreaded Surprise Devilsaurs, which are even worse because they are actually quite sneaky (as sneaky as a T-rex can be). And then a classic Good Bad Bug made the fel reavers into normal-size bears. Which still shook the ground with their footsteps and made the locomotive from hell sounds. So, screaming stealth bears. Then there's the picture-perfect example of this trope in the Halls of Reflection dungeon, as you're running from the Lich King, just as you reach a cliff, your faction's flying base appears out of nowhere. These are the size of Naval battleships, and one of them is carried in the air by two separate zeppelin balloons. |
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The Amazing Spiez! episode "Operation Spy-Sitter" had a WOOHP helicopter appear outside the window of the kids' house. | |
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Toy Soldiers: Two mooks fail to notice a lurking attack helicopter within a few feet of them until it rises up to the same level as them. | |
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Happens frequently on Najica Blitz Tactics, thanks to Najica's ever-so-handy remote-controlled helicopter gunship. Might be partially justified by it being a low-noise Stealth Chopper specifically designed for the kind of secret missions she engages in, but still... | |
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Thelma & Louise has a helicopter rising up over a cliff. | |
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In Resident Evil 4, Ada makes her final exit this way, leaping off a cliff and then appearing inside a helicopter that rises up from out of sight. | |
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Blue Thunder. The title helicopter appears from below the side of a bridge to save a woman being (unjustly) pursued by the police. It was previously established that the helicopter actually has a "whisper mode" that can be turned on to make it quieter than normal. Apparently, it is not a good idea to use it all the time; it most likely reduces the performance in exchange for sound reduction. | |
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One of the Russian main characters of Red Storm Rising had an encounter a force of M1 Abrams MB Ts while he was on foot, noting that he didn't even hear them until they were practically on top of him. He noted that the engine design of the M1 makes them notably quieter than other MBTs. | |
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Pokémon the Series: Diamond and Pearl: Galactic Battles episode "Unlocking the Red Chain of Events!" When Ash, Dawn, and Brock confront Galactic Admin Jupiter, she escapes via a helicopter which appeared from below the side of a building without having made any noise beforehand. | |
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind. The "searchlight-bearing helicopter at night mistaken for a UFO" scene that would be copied by later TV shows. In fairness the helicopters first appear from over the horizon, so it's plausible the distinctive sound of their rotor blades might not be heard at that distance. Played straight with the UN Taskforce in the Gobi Desert when three range rovers and two helicopters leap over a sand dune. | |
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The first Final Destination has the stealth bus to end all stealth buses. | |
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Aliens. When Ripley and Newt are about to be attacked by the Alien Queen in the atmosphere processing plant, the dropship rises up from below the edge of the platform they're on — partially justified due to the explosions all around them. | |
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In Avatar a humungous tree-dozer SUDDENLY appears in the middle of the forest and starts wreaking terrible chaos and destruction all around it. | |
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Mighty Ducks: The Animated Series had bored Tag Along Kid Nosedive come to the rest of the ducks' rescue when they thought he'd stolen their only means of escape and left them stranded. | |
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Hanaukyō Maid Team La Verite episode 1. When the maids pick up Taro and Mariel in a helicopter, it appears right next to them with no noise warning of its approach. | |
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Charlie's Angels (2000) had a helicopter rising up over a castle. | |
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Cyclonus makes his appearance like this in Transformers (2004). | |
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In the season 3 episode "Not in Portland" of Lost, Juliet's husband is hit by a very quiet bus. | |
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In NCIS, Gibs and DiNozzo are out in the desert with the local sheriff, when a helicopter simply arrives over them with no hint of sound. Fortunately, McGee was tracking it by satellite and gave them warning. Gibbs shoots it down. | |
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Super Smash Bros. Brawl. In a confrontation, Mario chases Bowser to a ledge, down which Bowser falls. After a tense pause of about a second, Bowser taunts Mario from the safety of his loud flying clown copter, which was apparently waiting below the whole time. | |
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In the Leslie Nielsen film Spy Hard, the main character escapes by jumping off a roof, only to appear again in a Harrier jump-jet. | |
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In World War Z, a family is in the middle of a bumper-to-bumper traffic jam and being admonished by a police officer to stay in their vehicle when a garbage truck runs the police officer down, overturning cars as it goes. Despite the fact that it must have been pretty noisy in knocking over cars to get to the police officer in the first place, our first sight of the truck is when it actually hits the police officer. | |
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Exterminatus Now has a hilarious example with its subversion of Black Helicopters. | |
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The Spy Who Loved Me. Stromberg's attack helicopter appears from behind a low wall at the edge of a cliff with no warning. | |
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In Back to the Future Part II, Marty's Suicidal "Gotcha!" is aided by Doc's flying DeLorean. | |
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Dawn of the Dead (2004): As Ana is driving away through the chaos and panic in the opening sequence, a long shot shows her vehicle travelling northwards past a street intersection where no cars are seen... except for an ambulance that suddenly materializes out from behind one of the houses, driving at full speed, then crashes into another vehicle in front of Ana before plowing into a gas station and blowing that up. | |
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Undercover Brother. As the title character is fighting Mr. Feather, The Man's helicopter rises up from behind a wall. | |
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Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Cameron steps out onto the street when SMACK. She gets hit by a car and her head goes through the windshield and she tells the people inside to remain calm. | |
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Castellan Ursakar E. Creed's "Tactical Genius" special rule in Warhammer 40,000 allows him to infiltrate a single unit before the battle (see Mirror Scare for how it's supposed to look). Memetic Mutation has extended this to entire Baneblade tanks or even building-sized Titans, often through use of Behind a Stick. | |
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Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann. Lyle Swann is trapped against the edge of a cliff with the bad guys closing in. A helicopter suddenly rises up from below the cliff edge, scaring the fertilizer out of his pursuers. | |
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At the end of Escape Plan, a helicopter is approaching the ship as part of the Great Escape. The ship captain is surveying the sea when the chopper suddenly rises into his field of view, startling him. However, there is no sound of rotors until they are visible. | |
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The undermentioned stealth helicopter serves the protagonist of Deus Ex as a personal transport. | |
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Act of Valor. A terrorist financier is shown on his yacht in the middle of the ocean on a completely fine day, with guards keeping watch. Somehow no-one notices the US Navy surface vessels until they're right on top of them. | |
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Up has a scene right when Carl and Russel are just about to release Kevin into her natural habitat, and the Zeppelin ominously, silently rises up behind them, and only after it's snuck up did they see the floodlights and hear the roaring engines as the airship hovered to a stop. | |
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In True Lies, Harry manages to pull off a Surprise Harrier Jet. | |
| Surprise Vehicle / int_cbe3e313 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Surprise Vehicle / int_cbe3e313 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| True Lies | hasFeature |
Surprise Vehicle / int_cbe3e313 | |
| Surprise Vehicle / int_d531b6f7 | type |
Surprise Vehicle | |
| Surprise Vehicle / int_d531b6f7 | comment |
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. Dex suddenly appears in one of Totenkopf's hoversleds to save Sky Captain and Polly Perkins from pursuing robots. | |
| Surprise Vehicle / int_d531b6f7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Surprise Vehicle / int_d531b6f7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow | hasFeature |
Surprise Vehicle / int_d531b6f7 | |
| Surprise Vehicle / int_d578ee98 | type |
Surprise Vehicle | |
| Surprise Vehicle / int_d578ee98 | comment |
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier. On the planet where "God" is imprisoned, the Klingon Bird-of-Prey rises up from behind a hill to rescue Kirk. | |
| Surprise Vehicle / int_d578ee98 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Surprise Vehicle / int_d578ee98 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Star Trek V: The Final Frontier | hasFeature |
Surprise Vehicle / int_d578ee98 | |
| Surprise Vehicle / int_d6c9c0a4 | type |
Surprise Vehicle | |
| Surprise Vehicle / int_d6c9c0a4 | comment |
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 1st Gig, first episode ("Section-9"). After the Major captures a terrorist on top of a building, a helicopter carrying Batou rises up from below the edge of the building. | |
| Surprise Vehicle / int_d6c9c0a4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Surprise Vehicle / int_d6c9c0a4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex | hasFeature |
Surprise Vehicle / int_d6c9c0a4 | |
| Surprise Vehicle / int_df6c9f95 | type |
Surprise Vehicle | |
| Surprise Vehicle / int_df6c9f95 | comment |
Airwolf did this on more than one occasion, albeit justified by the eponymous helicopter having a Silent Running Mode to mask its noise. | |
| Surprise Vehicle / int_df6c9f95 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Surprise Vehicle / int_df6c9f95 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Airwolf | hasFeature |
Surprise Vehicle / int_df6c9f95 | |
| Surprise Vehicle / int_df72e458 | type |
Surprise Vehicle | |
| Surprise Vehicle / int_df72e458 | comment |
The President's Analyst - happens exactly as described as Russian agent Kropotkin, waiting at a roadside, is surprised by a helicopter rising from a valley just off the corridor. Luckily it's his American agent friend who he had arranged to meet. | |
| Surprise Vehicle / int_df72e458 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Surprise Vehicle / int_df72e458 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The President's Analyst | hasFeature |
Surprise Vehicle / int_df72e458 | |
| Surprise Vehicle / int_e3c37ed7 | type |
Surprise Vehicle | |
| Surprise Vehicle / int_e3c37ed7 | comment |
In the Even Stevens Movie, this stunt was pulled by Louis in order to fool the television producer of the reality show they were on. Louis ended up rising up on a helicopter, that was hosted by a rival television reality show. | |
| Surprise Vehicle / int_e3c37ed7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Surprise Vehicle / int_e3c37ed7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Even Stevens | hasFeature |
Surprise Vehicle / int_e3c37ed7 | |
| Surprise Vehicle / int_e67a7d6c | type |
Surprise Vehicle | |
| Surprise Vehicle / int_e67a7d6c | comment |
Negima! Magister Negi Magi does this with the reveal of Haruna's airship, which provides a way for Negi to get to Nodoka in time to save her from a group of bounty hunters. Repeated with the same vehicle during the Governor's Ball. | |
| Surprise Vehicle / int_e67a7d6c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Surprise Vehicle / int_e67a7d6c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Negima! Magister Negi Magi (Manga) | hasFeature |
Surprise Vehicle / int_e67a7d6c | |
| Surprise Vehicle / int_e7e37776 | type |
Surprise Vehicle | |
| Surprise Vehicle / int_e7e37776 | comment |
Serenity did this in the Firefly episode "The Train Job". | |
| Surprise Vehicle / int_e7e37776 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Surprise Vehicle / int_e7e37776 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Firefly | hasFeature |
Surprise Vehicle / int_e7e37776 |
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