History Main / GunshipRescue

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* ''{{Warhammer 40000}}'' has several. [[ExpandedUniverse In the fiction]], during the siege of Terra, the general Rogal Dorn seemingly deserted his post, only to return in the nick of time aboard a city-sized floating superweapon.
** Apocalypse games using flyers can throw this out a lot, especially now that it is (slightly) more affordable to have an entire Elysian army mounted in Valkyries. One can imagine the variety of scenarios that could be put together; a small Imperial Guard garrison set to hold a fortress against an overwhelming tide of Tyranids until [[ItsRainingMen a Space Marine company with a Thunderhawk swoops in to the rescue]]...Or a band of Eldar Guardians holding the line until half a dozen [[BadAss Aspect Warrior]]-laden Vampires drop out of the sky and start opening Webway portals all over the battlefield...
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* ''WeWereSoldiers'': In the final battle scene of the movie as the U.S. soldiers crest the hill they are staring down the barrels of the enemy weapons who are about to shoot them. Just as it looks like they are about to get shot to pieces you see the enemy getting splattered by rockets and minigun fire from Huey Gunships allowing the American's to finish storming the enemy positions.

** DoubleSubverted in ''Return of the Jedi'' when Han and Leia manage to take care of a couple of storm troopers giving them trouble, only for a AT-ST Chicken Walker to approach them. They give the OhCrap look, only to find out it was the one Chewbacca and the Ewoks hijacked moments earlier. And in the end they used the communications link in the walker to draw the base guards out rather than just blast open the doors.

** Also is in ''FinalFantasyIX'' The main character's airship is facing down a large flight of silver dragons when Lindblum's Aerial Fleet Arrives and takes them on to open the way for the heroes.

* You are the GunshipRescue several times throughout the AceCombat series. AceCombat04, Operation Bunker Shot plays this twice in the same mission. The first is you doing this; the second was the Eruseans attempting this at the end of the mission with their flight of A-10s showing up

* At one point in ''StarWars RepublicCommando'' the squad prepares to make their LastStand and to TakeThemWithUs. And then the Acclamator assault ship ''Arrestor'' drops from Hyperspace to save the day.

* In ''[[TransformersFilmSeries Transformers]]'', the Decepticon Scorponok had several soldiers pinned down and facing imminent death, when they call in two [[CoolPlane A-10 Thunderbolts]] and an AC-130 Specter. Later in the movie, [[spoiler: Megatron is beating the crap out of Optimus, when a bunch of F-22 Raptors [[MacrossMissileMassacre swoop in and shoot]] Megs and Blackout.]] ''Revenge of the Fallen'' features an air assault to help the ground troops trying to hold their position that was represented on-screen with a Guinness Record for the largest explosion Hollywood has ever done.

** "Sir, there's another starship coming in. ''[[StarTrekFirstContact... It's the Enterprise!]]''" Cue the shiny new ''Enterprise-E'' swooping in like an avenging angel to save the mangled ''Defiant'' (piloted by [[TheWorfEffect Worf at the time]]) from the Borg cube.

** ''StarTrekFirstContact'' has a textbook example when the shiny new ''Enterprise-E'' swoops in like an avenging angel to save the mangled ''Defiant'' (piloted by [[TheWorfEffect Worf at the time]]) from the Borg cube.

* ''CallOfDuty4'' featured at least three GunshipRescue scenes: one is in the USMC mission "Bog", featuring two Super Cobras coming to TheSquad's rescue when it's overwhelmed by enemies; the second features a ''Lockheed AC?130'' gunship appearing just before the team faces a enemy armored platoon; and the third one is in the very end, when a Havoc arrives to rescue Soap in the last damn moment. There's also a mission where you can call in a Mi-28 at will, so whether it invokes a BigDamnHeroes moment depends entirely on you.
** A section of the "War Pig" tank escort mission sees the titular tank immobilized with a busted track, and under fire from the Derka-Derkastani soldiers from all over the place. You defend it for a bit, take out an AA position, and then paint a house where they're all holed up. Two gunships then swoop by to give the baddies a very bad case of dead.
** A very similar scene to the ending of [=COD4=] appears in ''ModernWarfare 2'', when Roach and Ghost escape from Markarovs [[BigFancyHouse Dacha]], chased by dozens of russian {{Mooks}}. 30 meters from the extraction point, you get knocked out by a grenade right next to you, only to awaken while being dragged away by the collar by Ghost. As you try to take some more enemies down through your blurry gaze, the ringing in the ears turns into the unistakeable sound of miniguns warming up and a chopper flies over your head, completely shredding the pursuing soldiers to pieces. [[spoiler:But once you're up on your feet and handed the retrieved data to General Shepherd, he shots Roach and Ghost to have their bodies burned in a ditch, making it a CavalryBetrayal.]]

Often preceded by ItHasBeenAnHonor. It also invokes some resemblance to DeathFromAbove.

* The ending of ''SavingPrivateRyan'' features the U.S airforce saving the day.
* ''We Were Soldiers'' heads toward a BolivianArmyEnding, with the platoon charging an entrenched enemy tipped off to their attack. However, to the baddies' (and viewers') surprise, the tip neglected to mention the heavily armed attack helicopter spearheading said attack.

* In ''RedDawn'', the DirtyCommies finally catch LaResistance out in the open, and the Wolverines find out that Mi-24s are out of their league.

** Which would have been very one-sided in the Monitor's favor had the Union been less paranoid about safety and put the full powder charge in the Monitor's oversized turret cannons.