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| 18 | ->''"Jesus Christ, that could have taken my head off! How are you supposed to turn it on without dying? How are you supposed to turn it'' off''?!"'' |
| 19 | -->-- '''Gordon Freeman''', ''WebVideo/FreemansMind'', musing on the practicality of [[NoOSHACompliance installing these]] (and putting the 'on' switch ''underneath'' the deadly fan in question) |
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| 21 | Fan blades are dangerous. So dangerous, in fiction, that if you get too close, even a humble household ceiling fan might take your head clean off. Sometimes the blades are sharp or serrated, but the most blunted of fans turn into deadly shredding machines when moving fast enough. |
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| 23 | These are most commonly encountered in narrow spaces where they cannot be easily avoided, sometimes as part of a DeathCourse. In video games, it is sometimes possible to slow them down or break them by jamming a rod or beam between the blades, allowing the player to get past. Some characters employ them as weapons. They can also be deadly if a rope is involved, with one end looped around the victim and the other end looped around the axis of the fan. |
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| 25 | This is TruthInTelevision to an extent, as metallic fans, including airplane propellers, can be very destructive and very deadly; after all, this is the same principle on which a blender or lawnmower operates. That said, in fiction, this effect tends to be greatly exaggerated; an ordinary domestic fan with ordinary plastic or wooden blades typically won't give you worse than a nasty bruise, and in some cases, the fan itself suffers more damage. In video games, sometimes the player needs to go through the not very fast rotating fan between the blades. |
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| 27 | Supertrope of HelicopterBlender and TurbineBlender. Compare DeadlyDisc. Not to be confused with PaperFanOfDoom or that [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_death Urban Legend]] prevalent in Korea that says sleeping in an enclosed room with a fan on can be fatal. |
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| 29 | !!As a {{Death Trope|s}}, all Spoilers will be unmarked ahead. Beware. |
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| 31 | !!Examples: |
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| 33 | |
| 34 | [[folder:Advertising]] |
| 35 | * A TV commercial has a man get around quickly by hopping around on bent stilts. At the end of the commercial, he hops up and down in his apartment, right under a spinning fan. He hops a little too high and is immediately turned into [[ChunkySalsaRule fine red paste]], despite the fan barely touching him. |
| 36 | [[/folder]] |
| 37 | |
| 38 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 39 | * Discussed at least twice in ''ComicBook/{{Titeuf}}''. |
| 40 | ** There is a time where the kids tell about gruesome deaths they heard of, one of them is about a helicopter cleaner who got sliced by the blades. |
| 41 | ** Titeuf once metaphorically says that french kissing is like crossing a fast-spinning blade because you must not do any false movement to not get cut. |
| 42 | * Rick Chalker from ''ComicBook/XFactor'' attempts to use [[{{Cyborg}} rotors grafted in place of his hands]] as weapons, extremely incompetently. |
| 43 | [[/folder]] |
| 44 | |
| 45 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 46 | * Taken to its most absurd conclusion in ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesTheSeries'' when [[{{Technopath}} Electro]] captures Andy, Socrates, and Sherman, dangled from the ceiling by power cords, and set to slowly descend into a ''blender''. As in, a normal, household blender. |
| 47 | * ''Fanfic/TheGreatAlicornHunt'': This trope is both Discussed and Averted in chapter 38 when three batponies find themselves dealing with a runaway airplane. |
| 48 | -->"What do we do? We can't land this thing!!" Moonpenny shrieked over the redlining motor. "It'll just lawnmower its way down the Midway!" |
| 49 | [[/folder]] |
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| 51 | [[folder:Films — Animated]] |
| 52 | * In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanGothamByGaslight'', Jack the Ripper attempts to force Batman's head into the propeller of police airship. The ears on Batman's cowl get sliced off before he is able to break loose. |
| 53 | * ''WesternAnimation/BatmanMaskOfThePhantasm''. In a derelict World's Fair, the Joker uses a giant jet engine turbine to not only disperse the [[SmokeOut smoke cloud]] of the Phantasm but also to try and suck them into the engine. Naturally he makes an ObligatoryJoke about how ImYourBiggestFan. |
| 54 | * In ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo'', during the Tank Gang's first attempt at jamming the filter, Nemo swims inside the filter to jam the fan with a pebble, but unfortunately it turns out that Nemo didn't jam the filter hard enough, and as a result, the other fish actually had to stick a fake plant inside the filter to get Nemo out before he gets sliced into sushi. |
| 55 | * Subverted at the end of ''WesternAnimation/{{Rio}}'' where [[DragonInChief the evil cockatoo Nigel]] is actually revealed to have survived being shredded alive by an airplane's propellers, and as a result, it also caused him to lose all of his feathers. |
| 56 | [[/folder]] |
| 57 | |
| 58 | [[folder:Films — Live-Action]] |
| 59 | * In ''Film/{{Alien 3}}'', one of the prisoners (Murphy) is killed in a ventilation fan. Then another draws attention to the fact the fan wasn't sucking, it was blowing, so Murphy had no reason to fall into it. |
| 60 | * ''Film/ArmyOfDarkness'': Ash incorporates a windmill's vanes into his battle-refitted Oldsmobile, then drives this whirling mega-fan into the undead horde and sends flying every one that fails to evade. |
| 61 | * In ''Film/{{Becky}}'', Becky kills Hammond by slowly reversing an outboard motor into him so he is cut to pieces by the propeller. |
| 62 | * ''Film/BlackEagle'', an early Creator/JeanClaudeVanDamme films where he plays TheDragon, ends with Van Damme's character fighting the hero on a boat, and kicked backwards into the water, right into the propellers. |
| 63 | * At the end of ''Film/CatsEye'' the little troll is thrown into a normal-sized fan and gets sliced as a result. |
| 64 | * Chucky gets thrown into a giant, flashing ventilation fan at the end of ''Film/ChildsPlay3''. |
| 65 | * ''Film/{{Eliminators}}'' has Kuji using his martial arts prowess to time diving through one of these. |
| 66 | * Franchise/FinalDestination: |
| 67 | ** Frankie's head is shredded by an engine block fan in ''Film/FinalDestination3''. |
| 68 | ** ''Film/FinalDestination4'': During the build-up to Samantha's death in the hair salon, we are shown a loose fan that's ready to come off at any moment, and what appears to be a bottle of shampoo starting to move to a smoking hair straightener due to condensing water. Finally, the hair straightener explodes, sending the bottle flying into the air, and hitting the ceiling fan, which begins to fall... meters away from Samantha. Unfortunately, she doesn't survive for long. |
| 69 | * In ''Film/TheFirstPower'', the serial killer with satanic powers rips a fan from the ceiling, and despite the lack of a power connection rotates the blades to full speed and chases the protagonists down the corridor. |
| 70 | * In ''Film/{{Frankenfish}}'', the gigantic male fish is killed when it runs into the equally gigantic propeller on the back of the protagonist's boat. |
| 71 | * In ''Film/GalaxyQuest'' there's a giant spinning fan under a narrow walkway that Gwen and Jason almost tumble off into but catch themselves. Nobody dies in it but it's implied to be dangerous, especially since it comes right before the "[[DeathCourse chompers]]". |
| 72 | * In ''Film/HardcoreHenry'', Henry breaks off the grate of an air conditioner unit, then throws a mook headfirst into the fan, which shreds him. |
| 73 | * In ''Film/IdleHands'', one of the girls is killed by the fan in the school ceiling. |
| 74 | * ''Franchise/IndianaJones'': |
| 75 | ** Played straight in ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'', where a burly German mook is fighting with Indy, [[PunchPunchPunchUhOh unfazed by Indy's punches]], and ends up getting hit with an airplane propeller. |
| 76 | ** Averted in ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom'' when Indy wraps one end of his whip around a {{Mook|s}}'s neck and the other end around the ceiling fan in his room; the thug is pulled into the fan blades, causing the whip to tighten and strangle him to death. |
| 77 | ** And a ship's propeller tears apart a boat in ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade'', although nobody dies this time. |
| 78 | * At the end of ''Film/ISpitOnYourGrave'', Stanley moves towards the boat and grabs hold of the motor to climb aboard, begging Jennifer not to kill him. She repeats the order he made to her during the sexual assaults, "Suck it, bitch!", then starts the motor, disemboweling him with the propeller as she speeds away. |
| 79 | * ''Film/JonahHex2010'': Jonah kills Burke, the man responsible for the death of his wife and son, by shoving his face into a rotating fan. |
| 80 | * In the climax of ''Film/KillerCrocodile'', [[spoiler:the environmentalists throw a boat propeller into the crocodile's mouth and turn it on, tearing the beast to shreds.]] |
| 81 | * A man has his skullcap sliced off by a ceiling fan that has machetes attached to the blades in ''Film/KillingSpree''. |
| 82 | * ''Film/Leprechaun2'': The Leprechaun kills Ian by casting an illusion of a girl he's interested in taking her top off in front of him, but he's actually sticking his head into two rotary blades. |
| 83 | * ''Film/LiveFreeOrDieHard'': How the henchman Rand is disposed of while fighting John in a freezer room. John kicks a lever causing a gust of freezing air to hit Rand, making him miss a grip on a set of railings and subsequently falling into a spinning fan. |
| 84 | * ''Film/MissionImpossibleGhostProtocol''. Brandt has to infiltrate a computer server room via the heating vents, which involves leaping 25 feet into a vertical shaft at the bottom of which is a large cooling fan, and hope his metallic suit will keep him suspended above a remote-controlled robot with a large magnet trundling beneath it. As a RunningGag in the movie is the failure of the various gadgets the IMF team is equipped with, this plan does not fill him with confidence. |
| 85 | * ''Film/TheMummy1999'': Rick O'Connell hoists Beni up as an interrogation technique as if he's about to ram the little creep's head into a ceiling fan. Subverted because Beni spills his guts rather than field-test this trope's validity. Bonus points for the [[AudibleSharpness metallic ring]] of the fan's blunt wooden blades. |
| 86 | * One character in ''Film/TheOuting'' is decapitated with a rotary fan when the genie lifts him to it. |
| 87 | * The lead character in ''Film/TheParoleOfficer'' tries this. With a desk fan. Nobody is very impressed. Especially when he accidentally pulls the cord out. |
| 88 | * ''Film/PhantomOfTheMallEricsRevenge'': When a mall maintenance worker spots Eric in the ventilation ducts, Eric kills him by forcing his head into a running fan. |
| 89 | * In ''Film/{{Razorback}}'', the eponymous boar gets killed by a giant industrial cooling fan. |
| 90 | * The Refrigerator in... ''Film/TheRefrigerator'' brings some fans to life and has them obliterate a man's face. |
| 91 | * ''Film/ResidentEvilTheFinalChapter''. Our heroes enter the [[ElaborateUndergroundBase Hive]] via an [[AirVentPassageway air intake]], which requires easing themselves between the blades of a giant turbine. The power starts to come on while they are doing this, but surprisingly all of them make it through; however, Wesker sees what they are doing on the cameras and reverses the turbine, sucking a MauveShirt into the [[TurbineBlender spinning blades]] before the power goes out again. |
| 92 | * In ''Film/{{Serenity}}'' there's a giant fan beneath Mr. Universe's secret backup broadcast station, and Mal (and the Operative) has to swing across over the fan to the broadcast station using chains hanging from the ceiling. |
| 93 | * ''Film/StrangerInHongKong'' has this happening to a henchman in the warehouse final confrontation when said henchman tried making an escape from the police surrounding the warehouse through an inactive ventilation fan. One of the cops suddenly turns the fan on, [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe cutting the henchman into half by the waist]]. |
| 94 | * One slimy bit character in the B-movie ''Film/{{Superfights}}'' is killed by the villain's mooks by having his head held up to an ordinary bedroom ceiling fan — [[MadeOfPlasticine which cleanly slices off the top of his skull.]] |
| 95 | * Charlie and Grandpa Joe narrowly escape one of these in ''Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory'', during the Fizzy Lifting Drinks scene. |
| 96 | [[/folder]] |
| 97 | |
| 98 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 99 | * Konrad Knabe, in his ''Lapin lentotiedustelijat'' (Lappland Reconnaissance Squadron) describes a situation when the wife of one of the pilots accidentally walks into the spinning propellers of Dornier Do 17. Messy. |
| 100 | [[/folder]] |
| 101 | |
| 102 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 103 | * ''Series/{{Alias}}'': One episode ended on a {{Cliffhanger}} with Sydney struggling not to get pulled upwards through an {{air vent|Passageway}} into a huge fan. |
| 104 | * ''Series/{{Arrow}}''. The BatmanColdOpen of "Honor Thy Father" has the Arrow encouraging a CorruptCorporateExecutive to rethink the ethics of his pension fund embezzlement by knocking the safety grill off a ventilator fan and pressing his face to it. |
| 105 | * ''Series/DoctorWho'': In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E2TheEndOfTheWorld "The End of the World"]], the Doctor must [[DeathCourse navigate a series of these]] in order to reach an [[MalevolentArchitecture otherwise inaccessible]] switch. |
| 106 | * In ''Series/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneys'', one villain used deadly metal fans as part of his method of brainwashing people into being loyal followers of his cult. Iolaus manages to trick the villain into falling into the fans during their fight, shredding him in the process. |
| 107 | * ''Series/TheMagician'': Tony is left dangling above a giant spinning fan when an attempt to use an AirVentPassageway goes awry in "The Illusion of the Deadly Conglomerate". |
| 108 | * Subverted on ''Series/MyNameIsEarl''. After Earl tipped over his ex-wife's trailer home on a bender and was unable to rent a crane to lift it up again, Joy and Darnell were making do with the sideways trailer. The ceiling fan ended up being on a wall instead of on the ceiling, and it lopped off one of Joy's pigtails, much to her anger. Otherwise, it did no real harm or damage. |
| 109 | * The ceiling fan decapitation variant was busted by ''Series/MythBusters'', who found that even an industrial fan, while probably lethal, would be unable to decapitate a person. |
| 110 | * Twiggy's character bites it this way in the ''Series/TalesFromTheCrypt'' episode "The New Arrival". The ceiling fan has some sort of jagged blades affixed to it and lowers itself down to take off her noggin. |
| 111 | [[/folder]] |
| 112 | |
| 113 | [[folder:Roleplay]] |
| 114 | * In ''Roleplay/RubyQuest'', one room has a catwalk crossing over a pair of giant fans. They're proven deadly in a flashback when Ruby shoves Stitches into them. |
| 115 | [[/folder]] |
| 116 | |
| 117 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 118 | * ''TabletopGame/{{Paranoia}}'' adventure ''The Yellow Clearance Black Box Blues''. One of the traps in the Mission Three "dungeon crawl" is a giant exhaust fan. If any of the {{P|layerCharacter}}Cs is sucked into it they'll "become thousands of julienne fries in seconds." |
| 119 | [[/folder]] |
| 120 | |
| 121 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 122 | * The vents in the UsefulNotes/GameBoy ''VideoGame/Alien3'' are ''filled'' with these, spinning with enough force to pull you in and kill you if touched. Turning the switches to make them blow the other way makes for one of the major puzzles in the game. |
| 123 | * In ''VideoGame/AtomicRoboKid'', one type of enemy resembles a corridor-spanning rotary fan (with a central eye) that slowly advances toward the player. Apparently, its name is [[JapaneseRanguage Brade]]. |
| 124 | * In ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie'', Clanker's belly contains rapidly-moving fans with serrated blades, while the Rusty Bucket is fitted with deadly propellers. The sequel ''Banjo-Tooie'' has these in areas of Jolly Roger Lagoon that link to the Glitter Gulch Mine and Grunty Industries levels. Unlike the previous game, there actually is a way to get rid of them (for good) to make your life easier; to do so all you need to do is freeze them with ice eggs and then blast them with grenade eggs to destroy them. |
| 125 | * ''VideoGame/{{Battletoads}}'' has the Sucka traps, which pull 'Toads in with VentPhysics and will grind them up head first. |
| 126 | * ''VideoGame/{{Bulletstorm}}'' has a skillshot called "Sucker" for killing an enemy by knocking them into a fan. |
| 127 | * At one point during ''VideoGame/CallOfCthulhuDarkCornersOfTheEarth'' you have to flee into the sewers, but the way is blocked by a sharp fan. You have to break one of the blades to slow it down and open a passage and even then you'll get chopped (but not always killed) if you're hit. |
| 128 | * In ''VideoGame/ConkersBadFurDay'', underwater rotating fans are encountered during the [[DownTheDrain U-Bend Blues]] segment. |
| 129 | * ''VideoGame/DeadRising'' and its sequels feature the auger - a man-portable giant drill. Drilling it into a zombie will cause it to stick to the drill, turning ''[[GrievousHarmWithABody the zombie itself]]'' into a deadly rotary fan. (Until after its limbs fly off after striking a few other zombies, leaving only a torso on the drill.) |
| 130 | * ''VideoGame/DeadSpace'' contains several menacing ventilation fans. One particular fan in ''[[VideoGame/DeadSpace3 3]]'' deserves special mention: Isaac encounters it while rappelling down a mine shaft, freezes it with Stasis, and continues onward. But once Stasis wears off and the fan starts turning again, his line gets caught in it, forcing Isaac to cut himself free before he's pulled in. |
| 131 | * ''VideoGame/DeusEx'' has the occasional deadly fan, normally large metal fans only accessed by doing the usual vent-crawling. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwSLvTkV2Y4 Bob Page seems to be a fan of them.]] |
| 132 | * ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'': ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'' features large rotating blades coming from the ground in [[OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame Dwemer]] ruins. |
| 133 | * There are a series of these in ''VideoGame/EpicMickey'''s "World of Gremlins" dungeon (which imitates the "It's a Small World" ride). They spin too quickly for Mickey to easily get through unharmed, but he can use paint thinner to erase some of the blades long enough to pass by unscathed. |
| 134 | * One of the [[StageFatality stage fatalities]] (Blade's stage) in ''VideoGame/EternalChampions'' lets the player knock their opponent into the huge fan in the center of the stage. LudicrousGibs ensue. |
| 135 | * The "Whirligig" course in ''VideoGame/FallGuysUltimateKnockout'' has giant fans that act as obstacles. Fortunately, they are slow enough that you can slip between them, and if you do get hit, the worst that happens is that you fall down. |
| 136 | * A skeleton in ''VideoGame/Fallout3'' can be found with a small fan. It seems as if he put a part of himself you'd like to keep as safe as possible right into the fan. |
| 137 | * ''VideoGame/FearEffect'': In the second game, ''Retro Helix'', during Glas' flashback; one scenario had the players (as Glas) navigating their way through a dozen air vents, each with razor-sharp rotary fans, attempting to find a safe, disabled vent to infiltrate a Siberian facility. Choose the wrong vent and players are treated to a cutscene where Glas enters what he ''assumes'' is a safe vent... only for the rotary fan to suddenly activate and [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe cuts him into half from the waist]]. |
| 138 | * One of the Nightmare Realm levels in ''{{VideoGame/Gauntlet}}: Dark Legacy'' has several huge fans blocking your way. You can hit the "slow down" switch to make it past them. |
| 139 | * In ''VideoGame/HalfLife1'', there are several instances of this. The first time you have to pass by an exposed fan, a headcrab demonstrates exactly [[LudicrousGibs what will happen if you touch the fan blades]]. The trope returns in ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'', in the "Nova Prospekt" chapter: the only way to cross the fan in the vent shaft safely is by jamming the blades with something sturdy enough to break the motor. |
| 140 | * In ''VideoGame/LabOfTheDead'', the Handheld Fan rotor can cut a zombie's jaw off. |
| 141 | * In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'' and ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask Majora's Mask]]'', Peahats attack using these. |
| 142 | %%* Featured prominently in ''Videogame/MadWorld''. |
| 143 | * In ''VideoGame/MonsterBash'' there are spinning ceiling fans which you have to shoot the motors off in order to stop them from hurting/killing you. |
| 144 | * ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' |
| 145 | ** This is the stage fatality in the Prison stage of ''VideoGame/MortalKombat4'', naturally. Though the fan is starting up at the beginning of the match and gains momentum, it starts speeding up when the stage finisher starts. It's also unique in that it doesn't have the winner simply uppercut the opponent into the thing, but rather grabbing an arm and a leg and spinning just fast enough to throw them into the blender without missing. |
| 146 | ** In ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX'', we have Kenshi, basically a blind samurai with [[MindOverMatter telekinetic powers]], whose fatality involves throwing his sword and commanding it to spin mid-air, then lifting up his opponent and moving them towards the spinning blade. |
| 147 | * The second stage of ''VideoGame/TheNinjaWarriorsAgain'' has these. They will pause for a while, giving an opportunity for the player to get through. Mooks, on the other hand, [[TooDumbToLive blindly walk into these]] when they are spinning. |
| 148 | * ''VideoGame/OpenArena''[='=]s deathmatch level pxlfan also features a big deadly rotary fan at the very bottom of the level. |
| 149 | * Philip has to pass such a fan in ''VideoGame/{{Penumbra}}''. He even comments that it "could slice meat in a millisecond". He has to take an object and jam it in the blades to stop the motor. |
| 150 | * ''VideoGame/{{Propagation}}: Paradise Hotel'' has an AirVentPassageway filled with exposed fans, which shreds your health on contact where you'll need to be wary not to step too much to the left or right. One zombie in the same area got it's hand caught in an active fan and is pulled in, and then a glorious red geyser comes out. |
| 151 | * This is one of the special interrogations in ''VideoGame/{{The Punisher|THQ}}'' video game. |
| 152 | * Some levels of ''VideoGame/QuakeII'' have these. One level has an alternate route that requires you to swim through one. In another, the fan has to be turned off to proceed. |
| 153 | * ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankIntoTheNexus'' has rotating blades within the ventilation of the Meero Museum. Fortunately, they do not spin fast enough to pose a threat to the player and only serves to point them in the right direction. |
| 154 | * ''VideoGame/RoomboFirstBlood'' allows you to turn on ceiling fans and drop them on intruders, to bloody effect (which you can then clean up). |
| 155 | * This is one possible way to deal with the mooks in the SNES video game adaptation of ''Film/TheShadow''. It reduces the tediousness of the game somewhat. |
| 156 | * This is one of the very many environmental attacks in ''VideoGame/SleepingDogs2012'' where Wei can literally shove a man's head to a rotary fan and the result can be bloody. |
| 157 | * In one of ''VideoGame/SoldierOfFortune'''s cutscenes, a {{mook|s}} is sucked into a fan and reduced to LudicrousGibs when Mullins activates the ventilation system. The player can also suffer the same fate if they're not careful. |
| 158 | * The ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'' enemies E-06 Spinner and E-16 Electro Spinner are fitted with these. The game also features a HelicopterBlender obstacle in Speed Highway. |
| 159 | * In the expansion of ''VideoGame/Splatoon2'' the main antagonist Telephone traps Captain Cuttlefish and 10,008 in a giant blender and proceeds to lower a spinning blender blade of doom to basically turn them into a DNA smoothie. Luckily Agent 3 shows up and knocks out Telephone to keep the E10+ rating. |
| 160 | * The infamously NintendoHard ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' video game for the Sega Genesis had this on [[ThatOneLevel the Bajoran Cave level]], with fans that created air currents that would either suck Commander Sisko in and take most of his health or push him away and cause him to fall off platforms. |
| 161 | * ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'': |
| 162 | ** An obstacle in some levels of ''VideoGame/ShadowsOfTheEmpire''. |
| 163 | ** In ''Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace'', one early level has your character traversing ventilation shafts containing spinning fans that can be fallen onto. If you fall onto one, you are instantly chopped into small pieces, with the pieces still screaming for a moment afterwards. |
| 164 | * Some levels in ''[[VideoGame/MeatBoy Super Meat Boy]]'' have giant fans that can propel you through the air. Get too close to the blades, though, and SPLORCH! |
| 165 | * When Ark confronts Dr. Beruga on his giant airship near the end of ''VideoGame/{{Terranigma}}'', Beruga gloats that his jet boots will allow him to simply fly away from the crashing ship to safety, leaving Ark and his friends to die in the wreckage, only for a large fan behind him to unexpectedly begin spinning, dragging him towards it. The screen [[GoryDiscretionShot fades to black before he contacts it,]] [[SubvertedTrope only to suddenly flash blood red with a sickening crunching sound]]. |
| 166 | * ''VideoGame/Titanfall2'''s campaign features a level in a laboratory where Jack, the game's protagonist, has access to a handheld device that can blink him forward or backward in time. One section has you repeatedly switching time to avoid falling into rapidly moving fans that, in the future, have fallen just slightly further down a ventilation shaft than they were in the past. |
| 167 | * ''VideoGame/TombRaiderII'' and ''[[VideoGame/TombRaiderIII III]]'' use giant fans in vents that can quickly kill you if you get too close. The ones underwater can also drag you into them if you aren't careful. Most fans have to either be avoided, turned off, or have the fans spin slower so you can pass through without harm. |
| 168 | * In addition to providing [[VentPhysics air currents that the player can utilize]], the fans in ''VideoGame/{{Turok}} 2'''s Primagen Lightship stage can also be a death trap. |
| 169 | * The ''VideoGame/{{Unreal|I}}'' Deathmatch level [=DmDeathFan=] features a big rotary fan at the very bottom of the level. Players being pushed into it, naturally, die. This is also one of the things the player has to avoid in the single-player level "Rrajigar Mines". ''VideoGame/UnrealTournament2004''[='=]s Deathmatch level [=DM-Insidious=] also features one, in the center of the map. |
| 170 | * From ''VideoGame/TheWhiteChamber'', there is a giant fan located on the ship. Later on in the game, you find out that [[spoiler:Sarah threw one of her colleagues into it, killing him]]. |
| 171 | * ''VideoGame/WorldOfGoo'' features these as hazards on some levels. |
| 172 | * Seen in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', in a quick shoutout to ''Franchise/IndianaJones'' in the Uldum questline. At one point "Harrison Jones" is in a fistfight with an enemy while you finish a nearby quest. [[TakeYourTime You have plenty of time to finish it]], of course, but those who remember the movies will know exactly what will happen when you hop in a nearby airplane... |
| 173 | ** In Deepholm, Stormcaller Myra uses the rotary fan of an airship to interrogate a Twilight's Hammer leader into giving you some information. After all is said and done, Myra reveals she had air elementals supporting the Ogre's weight and he wasn't in any real danger. The Ogre, knowing that his superiors would give him a FateWorseThanDeath if they found him decides to kill the air elementals and let himself fall into the fans, dying in a spray of LudicrousGibs. |
| 174 | [[/folder]] |
| 175 | |
| 176 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 177 | * ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'': In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrwAGaerQwA&list=PL19B0B5CCFEF1C0C9&index=117 this Summer short]], Petunia gets her face ''shredded'' by a '''''pinwheel''''' once the winds blow too strongly for her liking. |
| 178 | ** In "A Handy Nanny", Pop knocks over a fan that shreds Handy to pieces. |
| 179 | * ''WebAnimation/LlamasWithHats'': |
| 180 | -->''"The people have spoken. ''Viva la Resistance!''"\ |
| 181 | "You pushed the resistance leader into a ''giant fan''."\ |
| 182 | "He was a traitor and a scoundrel!"\ |
| 183 | "He was trying to stop you from pushing other people into a ''giant fan''."'' |
| 184 | * {{Parodied|Trope}} in the third season of ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'', using the giant fan in Zanzibar: |
| 185 | -->'''Tex:''' Then we'll have to get past the giant fan...\ |
| 186 | '''Tucker:''' What, that thing? It's moving at like two miles per hour!\ |
| 187 | '''Tex:''' I didn't say it'd be ''hard'' to get past. |
| 188 | [[/folder]] |
| 189 | |
| 190 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 191 | * The ''WesternAnimation/CelebrityDeathmatch'' episode "Fandemonium I" features a giant killer fan wheel during the Adam Sandler vs Chris Rock fight. |
| 192 | * Subverted in one episode of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' where a fight against Peter Griffin and Ernie the Chicken Man ended with Ernie supposedly being shredded alive by propellers at an airport... but like always, it turned out that Ernie survived. |
| 193 | * In ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'''s "Benders Game", The Planet Express team have to pass through giant ventilation fan blades to infiltrate [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Mom's]] dark matter facility. [[FromBadToWorse Oh]], and the blades are also red hot. |
| 194 | * In the ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'' episode "Party Animal", Cuddles gets shredded by a ceiling fan. |
| 195 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In "Angry Dad: The Movie", Bart has some fun while his family is out by trying a long rope to himself and a ceiling fan so he can get pulled through the room and break many objects as it spins. When he realizes he's close to the end of his rope, Bart manages to untie himself before he gets shredded. |
| 196 | ** In "Marge Gets a Job", the Simpsons' house starts to tilt as the foundation sinks. Maggie slides toward a fan and tries desperately to crawl away. Homer rescues her. |
| 197 | ** In "24 Minutes" (a WholePlotReference to Series/TwentyFour), a tied-up Bart and Groundskeeper Willie end up trapped in a room while [[ItMakesSenseInContext flooding hot dog water]] starts to float them towards a vent fan at the top of the room. |
| 198 | --->'''Bart:''' The hot dog water is gonna push us into the fan!\ |
| 199 | '''Willie:''' [[ExaggeratedTrope And I just sharpened those blades!]] |
| 200 | * One of Kenny's deaths in ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' occurs when "Jimmy the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Don't-Hold-On-To-A-Magnet-While-Someone-Else-Uses-A-Fan-Nearby]] Falcon" demonstrates on him by handing Kenny the magnet while turning on a giant fan. |
| 201 | * ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'': In [[Recap/StarWarsRebelsS1E10VisionOfHope "Vision of Hope"]], while escaping through the {{Absurdly Spacious Sewer}}s of Lothal City, Hera and Ezra come across one of these. Kanan ends up having to use the Force to stop the fan's movement so the ''Ghost'' crew can get past it and escape the Imperials. |
| 202 | * ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'': In [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS2E1HolocronHeist "Holocron Heist"]], BountyHunter Cad Bane and his droid Todo-360, while breaking into the Jedi Temple through its [[AirVentEscape extremely large vents]], run into two of these, and nearly get sucked into one before Todo turns it off. |
| 203 | [[/folder]] |
| 204 | |
| 205 | [[folder:Real Life]] |
| 206 | * The well-known phenomenon of birds getting killed by airplane propellers or jet turbines. Not likely to turn out too well for the plane, either. |
| 207 | ** There's a bumper sticker floating around there: "Eagles may soar, but weasels never get sucked into jet engines." |
| 208 | ** There's a [[NightmareFuel set of photos]] of the aftermath of [[NauseaFuel an incident]] where [[NotEnoughToBury this happened]] to [[ChunkySalsaRule an airport mechanic]] [[note]]For the morbidly curious: Imagine an airplane turbine whose interior walls are coated with marinara sauce....except that "marinara sauce" was once a human being. A simple web Image Search with words like "plane turbine death" or whatever should quickly bring the pics up.[[/note]]. |
| 209 | * Airplane propeller blades and/or blade tips are usually marked with yellow and/or stripes to warn anyone from walking into the spinning propeller when the propeller is revolving. Still, accidents do happen. Amazingly, people are known to have survived such incidents. |
| 210 | ** Skydivers are taught ''always'' to approach an airplane for boarding from behind. In Estonia, an experienced skydiver walked into the propeller of the jump plane in 2008, with fatal results. |
| 211 | ** This is ''exactly'' the reason why [[CaptainObvious pusher configuration aircraft are not suitable]] for skydiving jump planes and parachute operations. |
| 212 | * During the sinking of the HMHS Britannic in 1916, 30 people were killed when two lifeboats were lowered without permission and got sucked into the still-turning propellers that had begun to rise out of the water. |
| 213 | * To avoid this trope being a problem with small handheld and desktop fans, sometimes the blades are made of soft foam that is harmless to your fingers. |
| 214 | * The German [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schienenzeppelin ''Schienenzeppelin'']] (Rail Zeppelin), designed and built in 1923. It was basically a propeller-driven aerodynamically designed railcar, which had a pusher propeller and an aicrcraft engine. It could attain speeds up to 230 km/h and was luxuriously fashioned inside. The big problem was that [[CaptainObvious because of the pusher propeller it could not haul additional wagons]] and the Deadly Rotary Fan in form of the pusher propeller when calling a station. |
| 215 | * One of the possible means of making ceiling fans less dangerous is to use large, softer blades that would deform or detach from the fixture if it strikes an obstruction so that the potential for severe damage to someone is reduced. |
| 216 | * Even the apparently slow-moving wind-farm windmills are estimated to kill 8 to 57 million birds every year. Due to their sheer size, parts of the blades are moving at very high speed, and generate huge vortexes that suck birds and bats in. This is fewer than the number that are killed by [[CatsAreMean domestic cats]] or [[GlassSmackAndSlide crashing into buildings]], but it is a concern nonetheless. |
| 217 | * Catholic theologian and anti-war activist Thomas Merton most likely died from stepping on an electric fan after getting out of a bath, although in his case [[HighVoltageDeath the operative word was "electric"]]. |
| 218 | * Creator/VicMorrow and child actor Myca Dinh Le were decapitated by the top propellor of a helicopter that fell on them while filming ''Film/TwilightZoneTheMovie''; the vehicle was knocked down from flying too close to some pyrotechnics on Creator/JohnLandis' orders. A second child actor, Renee Shin-Yi Chen, was crushed by the helicopter's strut. |
| 219 | [[/folder]] |
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