History Main / FighterLaunchingSequence

* A one-time example occurs during episode 14 of ''Anime/MaiHiME'', where an AmazonBrigade made up of most of the [=HiME=] is shown heading into battle against the season's BigBad. Each of the girls (minus Mikoto, who just goes into a blind, screaming charge) emerges from an ElaborateUndergroundBase, summons her [[BondCreatures CHILD]], and launches into the fray while a ThemeMusicPowerUp triggers in the background. Midori naturally lampshades it by yelling "TAKEOFF!" when it's her turn.

* ''Manga/{{Area 88}}'', which is set in a {{Qurac}}i LegionOfLostSouls air force unit, has several of these across all continuities, usually sending the fighters off to attack some objective. Actual attacks on the eponymous base are relatively rare.

** ''VideoGame/{{Halo 4}}'': In the first episode of ''Spartan Ops'', following the Infinity's DynamicEntry at Requiem by way of [[RammingAlwaysWorks ramming]] ''through'' a Covenant battlecruiser, the massive starship then proceeds to a scrambling sequence that involves mass deployment of [[DropShip Pelicans]], [[SpaceFighter Broadswords]], and even entire Charon-class ''frigates'' from internal bays, immediately engaging the Covenant remnant forces above the shield world.

** Its spiritual successor ''VideoGame/{{Fury 3}}'' had a similar scene for when the game is first launched (the ship is prepped and launched from a space station), while the next sequel, ''Hellbender'' had its launch scene at the start of the first level (where the player's ship is launched from a carrier, where it never returns to after each mission - both the player's ship and the carrier warp independently to each succeeding mission).

* ''VideoGame/{{Battlefield 3}}'' The start of the level ''Going Hunting'' had this as well as all of the pre-flight checks.

* In ''[[Videogame/MechWarrior MechWarrior Living Legends]]'', aerospace fighters are assembled in a hangar and must be taxied out before taking off. Some levels like "Stone Rose" and "Kagoshima" have dramatic launch tunnels, which can be harrowing in the large and lumbering ''Shiva'' and ''Xerxes'' aerospace fighters.

* The first episode of ''Anime/KantaiCollection'' includes such a sequence with NaiveNewcomer Fubuki launching into battle for the first time. Because this is her first live battle ''ever'', she winds up stumbling out of formation, irritating the rest of her fleet.

* Subverted in David Lynch's version of ''Film/{{Dune}}''. As the Atreides troops become aware that their shields have been crippled, they run for their ships... which are blown up in their faces by Harkonnen bombers.

* Creator/LucasArts' ''Metal Warriors'' for the SNES featured this for the player's GiantMecha as part of the first mission's opening cutscene, complete with dramatic switch-flipping.

* Not fighters, but the ending of the opening episode of ''Series/BandOfBrothers'' has the paratroopers getting into the plane, the plane takes off, and then another and another, as the camera pulls back to slowly reveal the whole sky full of planes,and the fleet below, to show just how damn big the invasion was.

* Not fighters, but the ending of the opening episode of ''Series/BandOfBrothers'' has the paratroopers getting into the plane, the plane takes off, and then another and another, as the camera pulls back to slowly reveal the whole sky full of planes,k and the fleet below, to show just how damn big the invasion was.

* ''Anime/TransformersCybertron'', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no-BxyU7MWA as shown here.]] They start lampshading the stock footage [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_5ee0jzO2Q pretty quickly.]]

* ''Anime/DragonBall'' has this in the episode "Deep Blue Sea", featuring an extended Scramble filler sequence of General Blue's forces preparing to depart by air and sea.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents'': "I LIKE TO SCRAMBLE ZE FAIRIES!"
* The opening of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' featured the Batmobile jetting out of the Bat Cave.
* ''WesternAnimation/ExoSquad'' often had extended sequences showing Able Squad "framing up".

* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' had a memorable one in the episode 'The Nothern Air Temple'.
* ''WesternAnimation/StarcomTheUSSpaceForce'' is another opening sequence example.

* ''NoMansSky'' evokes this when you take off from a space station.

* ''Film/{{Batman}}'' films often have a one-vehicle version.

* ''Series/{{Batman}}'' again (the Creator/AdamWest incarnation): "To the Batmobile!" followed by "Atomic batteries to power, turbines to speed..." (the latter appears as a ShoutOut in ''VideoGame/WingCommander III'', as the fighter start-up while waiting for the mission to load.)

* Happens several times in ''Anime/SentouYouseiYukikaze''. The most prominent one is in the final episode when whole squadrons of planes are taking off from an AirborneAircraftCarrier thousands of feet in the sky.

* In ''VideoGame/RogueSquadron'', each mission starts with a cutscene showing your selected craft take off from a hanger and fly out through space towards the appropriate planet. Including when that craft is a snowspeeder.

Compare EngagingChevrons, TransformationSequence, StandardEstablishingSpaceshipShot.

* Happens several times in ''Franchise/SentouYouseiYukikaze''. The most prominent one is in the final episode when whole squadrons of planes are taking off from an AirborneAircraftCarrier thousands of feet in the sky.

* ''Franchise/WallaceAndGromit'':

* When the ships take off in ''Film/ANewHope'' to attack the first Death Star. The 1977 version showed the takeoff from a distance, with the fighters rendered as glowing dots. The 1997 [[ReCut Special Edition]] replaced these with CGI fighters.
* ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'' with the Rebel Snowspeeders taking off in Hoth Base to fly off against the attacking Imperial walkers.
* ''Film/RogueOne'' has the scene where Rebel forces are being scrambled for the attack on Scarif.
* In ''Film/TheLastJedi'', [[spoiler: it's [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] ''horrifically''. As the Resistance are about to launch their fighters, almost all their pilots are killed and their fighters destroyed by a surprise attack on their hanger.]]

There are several reasons for this. One is the ''[[MostWonderfulSound sound]]'' of the fighters starting up. There is something very [[RuleOfCool evocative]] about fighter engines -- the promise of power and danger right there in the turbine's whine (or the exhausts' roar). Science fiction versions of the trope will have the fighters make a very similar sound despite not running on turbine engines. This isn't always a case of SpaceIsNoisy (because they're probably still in the pressurized hangar) but it's definitely common.

* ''WesternAnimation/StarcomTheUSSpaceforce'' is another opening sequence example.

* ''Starcom: The U.S. Space Force'' is another opening sequence example.