History Main / HelicopterPack

* The first boss of ''VideoGame/{{Bug}}'' (a giant snail) has a variant of this, where it retracts into its shell and helicopter blades come out of the top.

%%* Roderick Hero of the early Creator/{{Activision}} game ''H.E.R.O.'' wears one of these.

-->--Helpdesk, ''[[VideoGame/RatchetAndClank2002 Ratchet & Clank]]'' [[VideoGame/RatchetAndClank2002 (2002)]]

[[folder: Anime & Manga ]]
* ''Manga/YuGiOhGX'''s manga has Elemental Hero Stratos, who has rotor/wing hybrids.
* Heavyarms gets one in the ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing'' remake ''Glory of the Losers''.

[[folder: Comic Books ]]
* The Penguin's umbrella from ''Franchise/{{Batman}}''.
* ''ComicBook/TomStrong's'' [[http://www.comics.org/issue/213210/cover/4/ heli-pack.]]

* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'': Lex Luthor in the 1929 story of ''ComicBook/SupermanAndBatmanGenerations''.
* Robota in ''ComicBook/PlanetTerry'' has a built-in helicopter pack that she uses to save Planet Terry from falling.
* ''ComicBook/MortadeloYFilemon'': Parodied, as a sort of parachute carried by Filemon that is ''manually operated'' using a crank and of course does not serve [[NotTheFallThatKillsYou to stop his fall]]
* ''ComicBook/Robin1993'': Jaeger wears a wing with small jet engines attached to each end strapped to his back.

[[folder: Fan Works]]

* ''Fanfic/RocketshipVoyager''. While in the cube-ship of the Psiborg Collective, Captain Janeway sees [[HollywoodCyborg Psiborgs]] flying around a vast docking bay using contra-rotating rotor blades. When the docking bay is decompressed they have to race to land before there's no more air to support them, and other Psiborgs with {{Jet Pack}}s take over.

[[folder: Films -- Animated]]
* The Rahaga in ''WesternAnimation/{{BIONICLE}} 3: Web of Shadows''. It's non-canon, but the filmmakers thought it would look cooler than having them climb everywhere. Their toys use these "packs" (actually Rhotuka spinners) as projectiles, so they're not really part of their anatomy.

[[folder: Films -- Live-Action ]]

* ''Film/TheWhispererInDarkness'' (2011): the aliens wear an engine pack with vibrating wings to pursue the protagonist in his biplane.
* ''Film/AgentCodyBanks'': Cody uses the Solotrek XFV (below), although the scenes in the movie were produced by special effects.
* The Vulture's suit in ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming'' uses 2 ducted fans in addition to wings.

[[folder: Literature ]]
* Creator/RobertAHeinlein novel ''Literature/TheStarBeast'': both John Thomas Stuart and Betty Sorenson use one of these (called a "flight harness" in the book). [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/The_Star_Beast_cover_9836.jpg The cover of the 1954 edition.]]

* Bernard Wolfe's science-fiction novel ''Literature/{{Limbo}}'' had a society where people willingly amputate their own limbs and replace them with artificial ones. In one scene, a group of such cyborgs fly into a jungle clearing, using contra-rotating helicopter blades attached to an extended ArtificialLimb.
* ''Literature/BlackMansBurden'', by Creator/MackReynolds: One character uses a heliohopper to impress the natives with his ability to fly, as it's basically this trope. On landing, it can be collapsed into a 75-pound pack.
* ''Literature/MoonOfIce'' by Brad Linaweaver. A [[StupidJetpackHitler Nazi assassin]] is [[NeuralImplanting implanted]] with a propaganda fantasy of him slaughtering giants using a four-bladed gauntlet that is both this trope [[HelicopterBlender and a weapon]].

[[folder: Live Action TV ]]
* The ''{{Series/MythBusters}}'' built one in season four, but couldn't get it to lift off.

* ''Series/LadyFan'', a TVB drama series set in the Tang Dynasty, has the supporting character, Ying-Lung, who is a rich playboy and genius inventor, creating a helicopter hat using ''BambooTechnology'', which can support an adult's weight and have it's wearer remain airborne for around ten minutes. Yes, in the ''Tang Dynasty''. And because ReedRichardsIsUseless, it never occurred to anyone in the show to mass-produce his inventions, instead dismissing Ying-Lung's various gadgets as "toys created by a bored rich playboy".

[[folder: Tabletop Games ]]

[[folder: Toys ]]
* ''Toys/HeroFactory'': Rotor
* In the UK in the 1970s, the Palitoy ''Action Man'' (the equivalent of GI Joe for Americans) had the highly desirable [=TurboCopter=] backpack.
* The ''Franchise/GIJoe'' "Adventure Team" line had one. ''This'' was part of a shared "power-pack" accessory: you got the battery-powered pack, and you could attach things like the helicopter as well as drills and saws (for rescues), signal lights, etc. The Adventure Team also featured a character called "Mike Power: Atomic Man" (a CaptainErsatz of Series/TheSixMillionDollarMan), who could fly with helicopter blades attached to his bionic hand.
** The ''[[WesternAnimation/GIJoeARealAmericanHero Real American Hero]]'' line has had a couple of these as well.
* ''Franchise/{{Transformers|Generation 1}}: Action Masters'' Bumblebee came with a helicopter pack (appropriately named "Heli-Pack") that transformed into a cannon.

* The ''WesternAnimation/PoliceAcademyTheAnimatedSeries'' toyline had a thief named Claw ([[WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget no, not that one]]) who used one of these in his getaways. ComicBook/TheJoker later got this accessory when Creator/{{Kenner}} made their ''Franchise/{{Batman}}: The Dark Knight Collection'' line.
* Although the [[ComicBook/{{Micronauts|MarvelComics}} comic book adaptation]] doesn't describe it that way, in the original Micronauts action figure line, Acroyear's huge backpack is clearly designed to look like one of these.

[[folder: Video Games ]]
* The Barrier Soldiers in Area 5 of ''VideoGame/BionicCommando''.
* The hero of ''Blade Force'' uses one of these.

* A player-usable one appears in the second ''VideoGame/DarkCastle'' game.

* Roderick Hero of the early Creator/{{Activision}} game ''H.E.R.O.'' wore one of these.

* ''VideoGame/{{Scathe}}'' have undead ''demons'' with helicopter packs organically grafted to their shoulders.
* Spawnable in ''VideoGame/{{Scribblenauts}}'' by typing "Helibackpack".

* [[{{Kappa}} Nitori]] uses one in the ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' FightingGame, ''VideoGame/TouhouShinkirouHopelessMasquerade''... which is a little weird since she could fly on her own.

[[folder: Webcomics ]]
* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' has a steampunk-version [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20110110 hybrid]] between this and JetPack, referred to as 'The Flight Raiment of King Darius the Incandescent'. Mk 2, ''of course''. Used by [[spoiler:Zola ]] to escape from Castle Heterodyne.

[[folder: Western Animation ]]
* WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget has one of these on his head.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheTick'', the quartet of Swiss thieves wore giant Swiss army knives on their backs, with deployable helicopter blades for flight.
* Jack Spicer from ''WesternAnimation/XiaolinShowdown'' has a helicopter pack; he got it as a present when he turned evil.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'': in the episode "Hate Floats" Brock Sampson and Phantom Limb try out a couple of these.
* As pictured, in ''WesternAnimation/GeneratorRex'' one of [[ShapeshifterWeapon Re]][[{{Technopath}} x's]] mechanical constructs is [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/842d08c88da90695e0d8d0bf6473636b.PNG the Boogie Pack]] which is capable of using part of its turbine to attack or grab an enemy. [[spoiler: [[WesternAnimation/Ben10GeneratorRexHeroesUnited And was even enhanced with rocket launchers by]] ''Upgrade'' [[WesternAnimation/Ben10GeneratorRexHeroesUnited in the crossover with Ben 10.]]]]

* Numbuh 2 of ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' has one in "Operation: P.R.E.S.I.D.E.N.T.". While the Kids Next Door are transporting the Fourth Grade President to City Hall in School Bus 1, Numbuh 2 makes use of this when he is sucked out of the bus by the Delightful Children from Down the Lane's robotic copy of the president. Numbuh 2 could only hopelessly look on as the bus flew out of sight after the fact[[spoiler:, but then uses it to save the real Fourth Grade President from falling to his death and drop him off at city hall after he is kicked off the bus after duking it out with the robotic fake, while Numbuh 1 pilots the bus and the robot President to a junkyard, where he and the rest of the team destroy them in a trash compactor]].
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': Rainbow Dash's [[spoiler: pet tortoise Tank]] is fitted with one at the end of "May The Best Pet Win".
* The Kopterpack from ''WesternAnimation/SpiralZone''.
* Airwave, the CommunicationsOfficer from ''WesternAnimation/COPSAnimatedSeries'', used one. Vowels, a character from the canceled third wave of the action figure line, would have had one too.
* ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPandaLegendsOfAwesomeness''. After the defeat of his HumongousMecha in "Sticky Situation", Taotie produces his staff from which blades appear and spin menacingly. Rather than attack Po however, he just holds it up in the air and takes off promising WeWillMeetAgain...until his improvised helicopter crashes because his slacker son forgot to grease the mechanism.

[[folder: Real Life ]]

* The weak point of the Baron K. Roolenstein of ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry3DixieKongsDoubleTrouble''. King K. Rool brings it back for use as his recovery move in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate''.
* A player-usable one appears in the second ''VideoGame/DarkCastle'' game.
* The hero of ''Blade Force'' uses one of these.
* ''VideoGame/MiniRobotWars'': During the [[NewGamePlus second episode]], many of the land-based Mooks get one, allowing them to become {{Airborne Mook}}s.
* The first boss of ''VideoGame/{{Bug}}'' (a giant snail) has a variant of this, where it retracts into its shell and helicopter blades come out of the top.
* The Barrier Soldiers in Area 5 of ''VideoGame/BionicCommando''.
* [[{{Kappa}} Nitori]] uses one in the ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' FightingGame, ''VideoGame/TouhouShinkirouHopelessMasquerade''... which is a little weird since she could fly on her own.

* The [[BizarreAlienLocomotion Sligs]] from ''[[VideoGame/{{Oddworld}} Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee]]'' use a small variant that is attached to their lower spine and is controlled by two joysticks.
* In ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'', winged character Kayle has a skin option (Riot Kayle) that replaces her wings with helicopter rotors.
* The Copter Pack from ''VideoGame/CrashBandicootTheWrathOfCortex'' is basically a simplified version of the rotor variant. [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/crashban/images/3/3f/Crash_Bandicoot_The_Wrath_of_Cortex_Copter_Pack.png/revision/latest?cb=20170121235053 See for]][[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/crashban/images/4/48/Wocpak.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20180405093501 yourself.]]

* Although the [[Comicbook/{{Micronauts|MarvelComics}} comic book adaptation]] doesn't describe it that way, in the original Micronauts action figure line, Acroyear's huge backpack is clearly designed to look like one of these.

* [[{{Kappa}} Nitori]] uses one in the ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' FightingGame, ''Hopeless Masquerade''... which is a little weird since she could fly on her own.

* The [[BizarreAlienLocomotion Sligs]] from ''[[Videogame/{{Oddworld}} Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee]]'' use a small variant that is attached to their lower spine and is controlled by two joysticks.

* The ''Film/PoliceAcademy'' toyline had a thief named Claw ([[WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget no, not that one]]) who used one of these in his getaways. The Joker later got this accessory when Kenner made their "Batman: The Dark Knight Collection" line.

** The ''Real American Hero'' line has had a couple of these as well.

* The G.I. Joe "Adventure Team" line had one. ''This'' was part of a shared "power-pack" accessory: you got the battery-powered pack, and you could attach things like the helicopter as well as drills and saws (for rescues), signal lights, etc. The Adventure Team also featured a character called "Mike Power: Atomic Man" (a CaptainErsatz of Series/TheSixMillionDollarMan), who could fly with helicopter blades attached to his bionic hand.

[[folder: Film ]]

* The Rahaga in ''WesternAnimation/{{BIONICLE}} 3: Web of Shadows''. It's non-canon, but the filmmakers thought it would look cooler than having them climb everywhere. Their toys use these "packs" (actually Rhotuka spinners) as projectiles, so they're not really part of their anatomy.

* Numbuh 2 of ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' has one in "Operation: P.R.E.S.I.D.E.N.T.". While the Kids Next Door are transporting the Fourth Grade President to City Hall in School Bus 1, Numbuh 2 makes use of this when he is sucked out of the bus by the Delightful Children from Down the Lane's robotic copy of the president. Numbuh 2 could only hopelessly look on as the bus flew out of sight after the fact[[spoiler:, but then uses it to save the real Fourth Grade President from falling to his death and drop him off at city hall after he is kicked off the bus after duking it out with the robotic fake, while Numbuh 1 pilots the bus and the robot President to a junkyard, where he and his teammates destroy them in a trash compactor]].

* The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoloTrek_XFV Solotrek XFV]]. Showed up on the big screen in Film/AgentCodyBanks, and it would have flown for real in the movie, but an incident during testing grounded it.

[[caption-width-right:350:[[WesternAnimation/ToyStory Not actually a flying toy.]]]]

* ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPandaLegendsOfAwesomeness''. After the defeat of his HumongousMecha in "Sticky Situation", Taotie produces his MartialArtsStaff from which blades appear and spin menacingly. Rather than attack Po however, he just holds it up in the air and takes off promising WeWillMeetAgain...until his improvised helicopter crashes because his slacker son forgot to grease the mechanism.

* ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPandaLegendsOfAwesomeness''. After the defeat of his HumongousMecha in "Sticky Situation", Taotie produces his SimpleStaff from which blades appear and spin menacingly. Rather than attack Po however, he just holds it up in the air and takes off promising WeWillMeetAgain...until his improvised helicopter crashes because his slacker son forgot to grease the mechanism.

* [[AwesomeMcCoolname Roderick Hero]] of the early Creator/{{Activision}} game ''H.E.R.O.'' wore one of these.

* Although the [[Comicbook/{{Micronauts}} comic book adaptation]] doesn't describe it that way, in the original Micronauts action figure line, Acroyear's huge backpack is clearly designed to look like one of these.

* Bernard Wolfe's science-fiction novel ''Limbo'' had a society where people willingly amputate their own limbs and replace them with artificial ones. In one scene, a group of such cyborgs fly into a jungle clearing, using contra-rotating helicopter blades attached to an extended ArtificialLimb.
* ''Black Man's Burden'', by Creator/MackReynolds: One character uses a heliohopper to impress the natives with his ability to fly, as it's basically this trope. On landing, it can be collapsed into a 75-pound pack.
* ''Moon of Ice'' by Brad Linaweaver. A [[StupidJetpackHitler Nazi assassin]] is [[NeuralImplanting implanted]] with a propaganda fantasy of him slaughtering giants using a four-bladed gauntlet that is both this trope [[HelicopterBlender and a weapon]].

* ''Lady Fan'', a TVB drama series set in the Tang Dynasty, has the supporting character, Ying-Lung, who is a rich playboy and genius inventor, creating a helicopter hat using ''BambooTechnology'', which can support an adult's weight and have it's wearer remain airborne for around ten minutes. Yes, in the ''Tang Dynasty''. And because ReedRichardsIsUseless, it never occurred to anyone in the show to mass-produce his inventions, instead dismissing Ying-Lung's various gadgets as "toys created by a bored rich playboy".