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7 | ''*[[WalkieTalkieStatic Chhhk]]*'' |
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9 | ''[[DangerDeadpan Tropers and tropesses, this is your captain speaking]]. We are currently cruising at an [[ReadingsAreOffTheScale immeasurable altitude]], and will be [[ComingInHot unexpectedly forced to make an emergency crash landing]] in approximately [[ExactTimeToFailure three and a half hours]]. The fasten seatbelts light has been switched off, so you may feel free to [[DeathInTheClouds murder your fellow passengers under mysterious circumstances]], but please be aware that [[RuleOfDrama drama dictates]] there be a GreatDetective on board at all times. Our [[SexyStewardess impossibly glamorous cabin crew]] will soon be along to provide you with FanserviceWithASmile, who may also provide you a free entry ticket to the MileHighClub, and in the meantime, please enjoy our fine selection of tropes related to aircraft and air travel.'' |
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12 | !!Tropes: |
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14 | [[index]] |
15 | [floatboxright: |
16 | Sub-categories: |
17 | + SkydivingTropes |
18 | ] |
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20 | * AcePilot: A top-class, badass pilot who can get several kills (if military) or overcome aircraft failures and save lives while piloting (if civilian). |
21 | * AirborneAircraftCarrier: A mobile floating airport and oftentimes fortress. |
22 | * AirplaneOfLove: An airplane (or bird) flying over someone's head to symbolize unrequited love. |
23 | * UsefulNotes/{{Airships}}: A UsefulNotes page on airships, how they work, their history, and their applications. |
24 | * AirstrikeImpossible: A pilot demonstrates their ImprobablePilotingSkills by flying through extremely tight or otherwise less-than-optimal flying spaces. |
25 | * AirVoyance: Characters standing outside an airport always know exactly which plane has their loved one on it. |
26 | * AlwaysKnowAPilot: A pilot's skills are useful or necessary in the story. |
27 | * BellyScrapingFlight: An aircraft (or flying creature) brushes the ground or a terrestrial obstacle in a close call. |
28 | * BlackHelicopter: The go-to aircraft for government agencies. |
29 | * BuzzingTheDeck: A pilot (or someone who can fly somehow) makes a fast pass very low to the ground or close to a target, usually with the intent to startle or frighten. |
30 | * ChopperOnStandby: There's a helicopter ready when a character needs need one. |
31 | * ClipItsWings: A flying target's wings are its most vulnerable spot, so attacking or damaging those wings can cause the target to no longer be capable of flight; applies to both planes and winged people/animals. |
32 | * ComingInHot: A barely controllable, if even that, aircraft comes in for what ground and air crews are convinced is an inevitable crash landing. |
33 | * CoolAirship: An exceptionally cool and often luxurious airship which is owned by a major character, or otherwise play a prominent role in the story. |
34 | * CoolPlane: An exceptionally cool plane, helicopter, or glider plane which is typically either luxurious or highly technologically advanced. |
35 | * CrashCourseLanding: The pilot of a plane is somehow incapacitated, and a civilian with no (or outdated) pilot training must land it safely. |
36 | * DangerDeadpan: A pilot who always keeps their cool; may also apply to non-pilots. |
37 | * DeathInTheClouds: A stock murder mystery plot which takes place on an airplane. |
38 | * DisposablePilot: The driver of a vehicle, in this case the pilot of the plane, has been incapacitated and cannot drive, spelling chaos for the passengers. |
39 | * EjectionSeat: A character's plane has an ejection seat, which they use to get rid of an undesirable, or to facilitate escape. |
40 | * EpisodeOnAPlane: An episode that takes place on an airplane. |
41 | * EveryHelicopterIsAHuey: Helicopters from the Bell Huey family showing up as a generic helicopter, often in place of other more logical choices. |
42 | * FighterLaunchingSequence: RuleOfCool insists that when a bunch of fighters (planes, spaceships, etc.) go into battle, you always have to see them taking off first. |
43 | * FutureCopter: Impossibly cool, futuristic, tiltrotor aircraft. |
44 | * GiantFlyer: Large flying creatures in fantasy works. |
45 | * GunshipRescue: The heroes are saved from a BolivianArmyEnding by the arrival of one or several combat vehicles, or combat aircraft in this case. |
46 | * HammerspaceParachute: A character pulls out a parachute from {{Hammerspace}}. |
47 | * HelicopterBlender: Using a helicopter's rotor blades as a weapon. |
48 | * HelicopterFlyswatter: A monster or character so big they can swat low-flying aircraft, oftentimes helicopters, with ease. |
49 | * HellishCopter: Helicopters disproportionately crash in media, even when it's not necessarily expected. |
50 | * ImprobablePilotingSkills: Good piloting lets vehicles outperform others of the same model, or even break the laws of physics. |
51 | * JustForTheHeliOfIt: When someone uses or suggests to use a helicopter to get somewhere, another character criticizes or ridicules this use. |
52 | * JustPlaneWrong: ArtisticLicense -- Aviation. |
53 | * LandingGearShot: A quick shot of a plane landing on a runway as shorthand for a change in geographical location to the other side of the country or the globe. |
54 | * LookMaNoPlane: A character who can fly without a plane can will fly very close to an aircraft, then either annoy or scare the living daylights out of the passengers. |
55 | * MidairCollision: One aircraft is damaged enough to cause it to veer off course and crash into another aircraft. |
56 | * MidairRepair: Repairing the aircraft (or spacecraft) in the middle of the flight. |
57 | * MileHighClub: Two or more characters have sex on a plane, usually in the bathroom. |
58 | * MissingManFormation: A ceremonial incomplete fighter jet formation to honor a fallen teammate. |
59 | * OceanicAirlines: If there's a fictional aircraft disaster, chances are, the airline involved is called this. |
60 | * OffscreenAirplanePullup: An aircraft pulls up out of a fall at the last second and out of view. |
61 | * OldSchoolDogfight: Aircraft (and spacecraft) behaving like pre-Cold War planes in situations where they shouldn't. |
62 | * OverlyLongAirplaneBannerGag: A really long banner is attached to an airplane. |
63 | * ParachuteInATree: Someone with a parachute snags onto something just before hitting the ground, leaving the owner dangling in the air. |
64 | * PardoPush: A pilot uses their aircraft to push a damaged aircraft so they can land safely. |
65 | * PlaneAwfulFlight: Plane flights are uncomfortable or even downright miserable to sit through. |
66 | * UsefulNotes/PlaneSpotting: A UsefulNotes page on tracking the movement of aircraft as a hobby. |
67 | * PlanesTrainsAndImbeciles: Airport workers being painfully unhelpful, if not outright abusive. |
68 | * ScreamingPlaneBaby: If a character is riding a plane (or public transportation), a baby will inevitably start crying. |
69 | * SexyStewardess: Female flight attendants are portrayed as MsFanservice. |
70 | * ShortLivedAerialEscape: A group, usually the bad guys, try to escape the scene on an aircraft, only for the enemy to take it down before it gets far. |
71 | * SkyConsumingDogfight: A large-scale battle sequence where many aircraft shoot at each other in close proximity. |
72 | * SkyHeist: Using an aircraft to steal something, then flying away with the object dangling from the aircraft. |
73 | * SpacePlane: A spaceship that looks and works like an airplane. |
74 | * StandardHollywoodStrafingProcedure: Attacking from the air with a heaping dose of RuleOfCool and RuleOfDrama. |
75 | * StukaScream: When something falls at high speed, it somehow always plays the Ju-87 "Stuka" siren, i.e. it sounds like a World War II German dive bomber. |
76 | * UsefulNotes/SuperiorFirepowerBombers: A UsefulNotes page on bomber planes. |
77 | * ThoseMagnificentFlyingMachines: Flying machines in fiction are weird and have a {{steampunk}} aesthetic. |
78 | * TurbineBlender: When a living entity flies into a jet engine, [[LudicrousGibs things get messy]]. |
79 | * {{Wingman}}: The guy flying the other warplane beside the hero. |
80 | * WrongParachuteGag: A character grabs a bag and jumps from a great height, mistaking it for a parachute, when it actually contains something else. |
81 | * ZeppelinsFromAnotherWorld: The prominence of Zeppelin airships are the first sign that you are in a parallel universe. |
82 | [[/index]] |
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84 | ''[[Film/SnakesOnAPlane That's it! I've had it with these time-consuming tropes on this time-consuming plane!]] Strap yourselves in, I'm gonna open some webpages!'' |
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