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In fiction, when a character, especially one wandering through a ThirstyDesert, seems on the brink of death, vultures may be seen circling overhead or perching menacingly nearby, waiting for their prey to collapse and die. It's like a visual shorthand for the natural world itself saying IfYouDieICallYourStuff.
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In fiction, when a character, especially one wandering through a ThirstyDesert, seems on the brink of death, vultures may be seen circling overhead or perching menacingly nearby, waiting for their prey to collapse and die. It's like a visual shorthand for the natural world itself saying IfYouDieICallYourStuff.
IfYouDieICallYourStuff. It can often overlap with ForebodingCarcass, the thing that vultures tend to eat.
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Not to be confused with CirclingBirdies even though vultures are birds. See also KidnappingBirdOfPrey, for when the bird goes after the character while they're still alive. More often than not, these will be some of the only living things to keep you company in the SeaOfSand.
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Not to be confused with CirclingBirdies CirclingBirdies, even though vultures are birds. See also KidnappingBirdOfPrey, for when the bird goes after the character while they're still alive. More often than not, these will be some of the only living things to keep you company in the SeaOfSand.
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** ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': In "No Good Deed", vultures circling a body on a rooftop lead investigators to it after a long search.
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** ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': In "No "[[Recap/CSINYS05E16 No Good Deed", Deed]]", vultures circling a body on a rooftop lead investigators to it after a long search.
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!!'''As a DeathTrope, all Spoilers will be unmarked ahead. Beware of the vultures.'''
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!!'''As a DeathTrope, {{Death Trope|s}}, all Spoilers will be unmarked ahead. Beware of the vultures.'''
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* During the animals' soccer game in ''Film/BedknobsAndBroomsticks'', vultures serve as medics, waiting on the sidelines for the referee (Mr. Brown) to be trampled by the players. A RunningGag is made of them rushing into the field to "treat" Mr. Brown, only to be waved away after he turns out to be alive.
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* ''Film/BedknobsAndBroomsticks'': During the animals' soccer game in ''Film/BedknobsAndBroomsticks'', game, vultures serve as medics, waiting on the sidelines for the referee (Mr. Brown) to be trampled by the players. A RunningGag is made of them rushing into the field to "treat" Mr. Brown, only to be waved away after he turns out to be alive.
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* ''Literature/TheCalfOfTheNovemberCloud'': As exploring a hill, Konyek notices a flock of vultures flying in circles not far from his position, and guesses there had been a kill. Konyek rushes towards the place and comes upon an eland antelope's corpse. The boy quickly cuts strips of the eland's hide and walks away as a pack of hyenas claim the carrion and a flock of vultures "wheeled, and circled, and waited".
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* In ''Film/{{Five}}'', it is established that some birds survived the apocalypse. On seeing a circling vulture, Michael curses it as a horrible scavenger and tells Rosemarie how he saw flocks of them in the cities full of dead bodies after the bomb went off.
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* Although it's not a direct example, the sequence in ''[[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion End of Evangelion]]'' when the [[MonstrousHumanoid MP Evas]] are air dropped into the geofront is obviously intended to {{invoke|dTrope}} this.
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* Although it's not a direct example, the sequence ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'': Invoked in ''[[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion End ''End of Evangelion]]'' Evangelion'' when the [[MonstrousHumanoid winged MP Evas]] Evas are air dropped into the geofront is obviously intended to {{invoke|dTrope}} this.geofront.
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* In the RoundRobin comic book ''ComicBook/DCChallenge'', ComicBook/{{Aquaman}} is stranded in the desert, dying of dehydration. (This is the "can only be away from water 60 minutes" version of Aquaman.) Vultures are circling. [[{{Cliffhanger}} What can he do?]] Wait until one lands and then open it up and drink its blood - since blood is like 98% water, it counts.
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* In the RoundRobin comic book ''ComicBook/DCChallenge'', ComicBook/{{Aquaman}} is stranded in the desert, dying of dehydration. (This is the "can only be away from water 60 minutes" version of Aquaman.) Vultures are circling. [[{{Cliffhanger}} What can he do?]] Wait until one lands and then open it up and drink its blood - since blood is like 98% water, it counts.
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* ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'':
** In "the perils of improper circling", two of the vultures bonk heads in mid-air.
** One famous strip has some vultures gathered around an unseen corpse. One of them is wearing the guy's hat and coat and says mockingly "Hey! Look at me, everybody, I'm a cowboy! Howdy, howdy, howdy!"
** Another strip cartoon has a parched desert traveler crawling his way towards a pool of water. This prospect disappoints one vulture hovering above him, but a second vulture prepares to [[PianoDrop drop a piano on him]] before he reaches it.
** Yet another strip shows Pinocchio stranded in the desert, with the vultures replaced by ''woodpeckers'' intent on pecking on his wooden body.
** Another strip features two elderly men feeding birds at a park bench, commenting on the smaller birds eating their seed [[BlackComedy but wondering why two much larger birds nearby just stare at them]].
** And another one has the vultures gathered around a pepperoni pizza.
* One newspaper cartoon by Andrzej Mleczko depicted a vulture sitting on a branch, looking down at a dying rhino: "I hope I am not bothering you, sir, I am just waiting for you to croak."
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* ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'':
** In "the perils of improper circling", two of the vultures bonk heads in mid-air.
** One famous strip has some vultures gathered around an unseen corpse. One of them is wearing the guy's hat and coat and says mockingly "Hey! Look at me, everybody, I'm a cowboy! Howdy, howdy, howdy!"
** Another strip cartoon has a parched desert traveler crawling his way towards a pool of water. This prospect disappoints one vulture hovering above him, but a second vulture prepares to [[PianoDrop drop a piano on him]] before he reaches it.
** Yet another strip shows Pinocchio stranded in the desert, with the vultures replaced by ''woodpeckers'' intent on pecking on his wooden body.
** Another strip features two elderly men feeding birds at a park bench, commenting on the smaller birds eating their seed [[BlackComedy but wondering why two much larger birds nearby just stare at them]].
** And another one has the vultures gathered around a pepperoni pizza.
* One newspaper cartoon by Andrzej Mleczko depicted a vulture sitting on a branch, looking down at a dying rhino: "I hope I am not bothering you, sir, I am just waiting for you to croak."
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* These are the first clue to the fate of Duke Jared's army in ''Literature/HighDeryni''. It isn't pretty.
* Referenced in "Tiger! Tiger!" in ''Literature/TheJungleBook'':
* Referenced in "Tiger! Tiger!" in ''Literature/TheJungleBook'':
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* ''Literature/HighDeryni'': These are the first clue to the fate of Duke Jared's army in ''Literature/HighDeryni''. It isn't pretty.
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* ''Literature/TheJungleBook'': Referenced in "Tiger!Tiger!" in ''Literature/TheJungleBook'':Tiger!":
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* In ''[[Literature/{{Tarzan}} Tarzan the Untamed]]'', Tarzan has to [[CrossingTheDesert cross a large, completely barren desert region]] to reach an area of good hunting beyond. By the third day his food and water are gone, and [[ThirstyDesert the desert has no springs or other water sources]], nor any edible life of any kind that he can find. There's only a single vulture circling overhead. Being Tarzan, though, he subverts the trope and makes the vulture his salvation when he lures it into arm's reach, and kills and eats it.
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* ''Literature/TheSwordOfSaintFerdinand'': After a skirmish next to the Genil River, a flock of vultures quickly appears and starts circling over the ruins littered with bodies of dead soldiers. Somberly, the narration remarks that only carrion-eaters profit from the war.
* In ''[[Literature/{{Tarzan}} Tarzan the Untamed]]'', Tarzan has to [[CrossingTheDesert cross a large, completely barren desert region]] to reach an area of good hunting beyond. By the third day his food and water are gone, and [[ThirstyDesert the desert has no springs or other water sources]], nor any edible life of any kind that he can find. There's only a single vulture circling overhead.Being Tarzan, though, he subverts the trope and makes the vulture his salvation Subverted when he lures it into arm's reach, and kills and eats it.
* In ''[[Literature/{{Tarzan}} Tarzan the Untamed]]'', Tarzan has to [[CrossingTheDesert cross a large, completely barren desert region]] to reach an area of good hunting beyond. By the third day his food and water are gone, and [[ThirstyDesert the desert has no springs or other water sources]], nor any edible life of any kind that he can find. There's only a single vulture circling overhead.
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* The subject of several gags in ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'':
** One example being a depiction of "the perils of improper circling": two of the vultures bonk heads in mid-air.
** One famous strip has some vultures gathered around an unseen corpse. One of them is wearing the guy's hat and coat and says mockingly "Hey! Look at me, everybody, I'm a cowboy! Howdy, howdy, howdy!"
** Another strip cartoon has a parched desert traveler crawling his way towards a pool of water. This prospect disappoints one vulture hovering above him, but a second vulture prepares to [[PianoDrop drop a piano on him]] before he reaches it.
** Yet another strip shows Pinocchio stranded in the desert, with the vultures replaced by ''woodpeckers'' intent on pecking on his wooden body.
** Another strip features two elderly men feeding birds at a park bench, commenting on the smaller birds eating their seed [[BlackComedy but wondering why two much larger birds nearby just stare at them]].
** And another one has the vultures gathered around a pepperoni pizza.
* One newspaper cartoon by Andrzej Mleczko depicted a vulture sitting on a branch, looking down at a dying rhino: "I hope I am not bothering you, sir, I am just waiting for you to croak."
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* The subject of several gags in ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'':
** One example being a depiction of "the perils of improper circling": two of the vultures bonk heads in mid-air.
** One famous strip has some vultures gathered around an unseen corpse. One of them is wearing the guy's hat and coat and says mockingly "Hey! Look at me, everybody, I'm a cowboy! Howdy, howdy, howdy!"
** Another strip cartoon has a parched desert traveler crawling his way towards a pool of water. This prospect disappoints one vulture hovering above him, but a second vulture prepares to [[PianoDrop drop a piano on him]] before he reaches it.
** Yet another strip shows Pinocchio stranded in the desert, with the vultures replaced by ''woodpeckers'' intent on pecking on his wooden body.
** Another strip features two elderly men feeding birds at a park bench, commenting on the smaller birds eating their seed [[BlackComedy but wondering why two much larger birds nearby just stare at them]].
** And another one has the vultures gathered around a pepperoni pizza.
* One newspaper cartoon by Andrzej Mleczko depicted a vulture sitting on a branch, looking down at a dying rhino: "I hope I am not bothering you, sir, I am just waiting for you to croak."
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* The magnopterans in ''WebVideo/AlienBiospheres'' are a lineage of large opisthopterans that fill a similar niche to vultures, soaring over deserts with their long wings in search of carcasses.
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* In the ''Series/Forever2014'' episode "Best Foot Forward," after a dancer is kidnapped and they track down the hotel room where her foot was amputated, Henry spotting seagulls circling a spot on the shore is how they find where she was dumped, in this case ''before'' she becomes a corpse.
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* Cubone's Pokédex entries in [[Videogame/PokemonSunAndMoon Pokémon Sun]] and [[VideoGame/PokemonUltraSunAndUltraMoon Pokémon Ultra Sun]] mention that when it cries for its mother, the cries attract Mandibuzz, its natural predator.
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* ''Film/{{Airplane}}'': They're not circling, but' a bunch of vultures perch over the heroes as they prepare to crash-land.
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* ''Film/{{Airplane}}'': They're not circling, but' but a bunch of vultures perch over the heroes as they prepare to crash-land.
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* ''Film/TheAndromedaStrain'' (1971): When the SCOOP team approaches the town of Piedmont they see buzzards circling over the town, a {{Foreshadowing}} of the dead bodies they will find there.
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* ''Film/TheAndromedaStrain'' (1971): When the SCOOP team approaches the town of Piedmont they see buzzards circling over the town, a {{Foreshadowing}} of the dead bodies they will find there. When they see birds feasting on the corpses, they drop DeadlyGas grenades to stop them flying off and spreading the pathogen.
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* [[InvokedTrope Invoked and weaponized]] in ''Fanfic/ThisBites''. [[BountyHunter The Hiruno Familiga]], who specialize in psychologically ''breaking'' their bounties for ease of delivery, has trained vultures working for them who circle over the ships of their targets while carrying mirrors to reflect sunlight on the ship and cook the crew for added torture.
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* ''Film/TheAndromedaStrain'' (1971): When the SCOOP team approaches the town of Piedmont they see buzzards circling over the town - a {{Foreshadowing}} of the dead bodies they will find there.
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* ''Film/TheAndromedaStrain'' (1971): When the SCOOP team approaches the town of Piedmont they see buzzards circling over the town - town, a {{Foreshadowing}} of the dead bodies they will find there.
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** Just the film the series is based one, the military in search of the Scoop satellite sees buzzards circling over Piedmont, {{Foreshadow}}ing the massacre ThePlague has caused.
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** Just the film the series is based one, the The military in search of the Scoop satellite sees buzzards circling over Piedmont, {{Foreshadow}}ing {{foreshadow}}ing the massacre ThePlague has caused.
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* ''Series/SASRogueHeroes''. Shown at the end of episode 2 when the newly formed Special Air Service arrives at [[PlaceWorseThanDeath Kabrit]] for their first mission. [[{{Foreshadowing}} Which doesn't go well.]]
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* The PteroSoarer Scrapadactyls from ''WesternAnimation/{{Dinotrux}}'' will often circle above injured Dinotrux, making it easy to find someone in need of rescue.
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* The PteroSoarer TerrorDactyl Scrapadactyls from ''WesternAnimation/{{Dinotrux}}'' will often circle above injured Dinotrux, making it easy to find someone in need of rescue.
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* ''Webcomic/KevinAndKell'': [[https://www.kevinandkell.com/1997/kk0310.html In one strip]], Ms Aura (a school teacher and a turkey buzzard) is circling above Rudy's homework. Rudy and Bruno comment that this isn't a good sign.
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** [[https://www.kevinandkell.com/1997/kk0310.html In one strip]], Ms Aura (a school teacher and a turkey buzzard) is circling above Rudy's homework. Rudy and Bruno comment that this isn't a goodsign.sign.
** Subverted in the [[https://kevinandkell.com/2005/kk0612.html June 12, 2005 strip]]. A bunch of vultures are shown standing on the top of laptops at an internet café, which makes Kevin think the wi-fi the customers are using isn't secure... but then it turns out said vultures are just the waitstaff.
** [[https://www.kevinandkell.com/1997/kk0310.html In one strip]], Ms Aura (a school teacher and a turkey buzzard) is circling above Rudy's homework. Rudy and Bruno comment that this isn't a good
** Subverted in the [[https://kevinandkell.com/2005/kk0612.html June 12, 2005 strip]]. A bunch of vultures are shown standing on the top of laptops at an internet café, which makes Kevin think the wi-fi the customers are using isn't secure... but then it turns out said vultures are just the waitstaff.
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!!'''As circling vultures are mainly a forshadowing for a character death, it is considered a DeathTrope, and all Spoilers will be unmarked ahead. Please use the vultures as a warning.'''
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!!'''As circling vultures are mainly a forshadowing for a character death, it is considered a DeathTrope, and all Spoilers will be unmarked ahead. Please use Beware of the vultures as a warning.vultures.'''
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!!'''As a DeathTrope, all Spoilers will be unmarked ahead. Beware.'''
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!!'''As circling vultures are mainly a forshadowing for a character death, it is considered a DeathTrope, and all Spoilers will be unmarked ahead. Beware.Please use the vultures as a warning.'''
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* ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtheadDoAmerica'': Beavis and Butthead wander off into the desert in an idiotic attempt to try and reach Washington D.C on foot (from ''New Mexico!'') and end up slowly dying from dehydration (after briefly stumbling across two drifters who are heavily implied to be their long-lost fathers). Sure enough, the vultures show up. One even attempts to gnaw on Beavis while he's still alive. While very near death, they still take a moment to giggle at two of the vultures having sex. [[spoiler: They're eventually found by Muddy, the movie's BigBad who "rescues" them just so he can shoot them.]]
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* ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtheadDoAmerica'': ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHeadDoAmerica'': Beavis and Butthead Butt-Head wander off into the desert in an idiotic attempt to try and reach Washington D.C on foot (from ''New Mexico!'') and end up slowly dying from dehydration (after briefly stumbling across two drifters who are heavily implied to be their long-lost fathers). Sure enough, the vultures show up. One even attempts to gnaw on Beavis while he's still alive. While very near death, they still take a moment to giggle at two of the vultures having sex. [[spoiler: They're eventually found by Muddy, the movie's BigBad who "rescues" them just so he can shoot them.]]
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* ''WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'': Two vultures follow the Queen in her Wicked Witch disguise as she goes to the cottage to get Snow White, and their presence alerts the WoodlandCreatures that there is something seriously wrong about the "peddler woman" with her basket of apples. In the end, the vultures were not after Snow White at all, but after the Queen, and as she [[DisneyVillainDeath falls to her doom]], the vultures slowly circle down after her. Though they may be aware the Queen was trying to poison Snow White when they seem eager as the Queen was offering Snow White.
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* ''WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'': Two vultures follow the Queen in her Wicked Witch disguise as she goes to the cottage to get Snow White, and their presence alerts the WoodlandCreatures that there is something seriously wrong about the "peddler woman" with her basket of apples. apples, clearly being aware that the Queen was trying to poison Snow White and eager when she offered her an apple. In the end, the vultures demonstrate that they were not after Snow White at all, but after someone specific in particular, and thus, as the Queen, and as she Evil Queen [[DisneyVillainDeath falls to her doom]], the vultures slowly circle down after her. Though they may be aware the Queen was trying to poison Snow White when they seem eager as the Queen was offering Snow White.''her'' instead.
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* ''Film/{{Fall}}''. A vulture swoops down on Becky who has apparently died of exposure after being stranded on top of a 2,000-foot-high derelict transmission tower. However when it tries feasting on her wounded leg, she turns out to be PlayingPossum and kills it for enough sustenance to survive a little longer.
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* ''Film/{{Fall}}''. A vulture swoops down on Becky The plot involves two women who has apparently died of exposure after being are stranded in the desert on top of a 2,000-foot-high derelict transmission tower. However when it tries feasting on her wounded leg, Their situation is not made easier by a vulture that attacks the exposed wound of one of them, [[spoiler:though she turns out eventually [[PlayingPossum uses this to be PlayingPossum lure it close]] and kills kill it for enough sustenance to survive a little longer.]]