History Main / HeliCritter

(''Snoopy zooms by; Lucy looks shocked'')\\

** While she usually flies by [[EarWings flapping them]], in ''VideoGame/SonicChronicles'', Cream the rabbit flies with her ears like the page image.

** While she usually flies by flapping them, in ''VideoGame/SonicChronicles'', Cream the rabbit flies with her ears like the page image.

** DonaldDuck also uses his tail as a propeller in ''Alpine Climbers''.

** In the episode [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E6TheCutiePox "The Cutie Pox"]], Apple Bloom gets herself airborne with her tail. It's a lesser example in that she doesn't do it just with her tail, but by spinning a hula hoop at high speed.
** In [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E12AmendingFences "Amending Fences"]], Pinkie is shortly seen flying by spinning her tail. This being Pinkie Pie, the only surprising thing about it is that she hadn't done it sooner.

* In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbXrESuU6fE this commercial]] for Energizer batteries, the Energizer Bunny uses his ears to hover.

* ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong'':

** The Deku Scrubs in ''MajorasMask'' use flowers this way. Link himself gains this power when he transforms into one.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E6TheCutiePox "The Cutie Pox"]], Apple Bloom gets herself airborne with her tail. It's a lesser example in that she doesn't do it just with her tail, but by spinning a hula hoop at high speed.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Hoodwinked}}'', Japeth -- [[CursedWithAwesome who can ONLY sing]] -- survives he and Red's mine cart by using a set of his [[SwissArmyAppendage interchangeable horns]] to do this -- to a set with rotors. Red's reaction to seeing this is a disbelieving, "What?"

* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E6TheCutiePox "The Cutie Pox"]], Apple Bloom gets herself airborne with her tail. It's a lesser example in that she doesn't it just with her tail, but by spinning a hula hoop at high speed.

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* In the fanfic ''Fanfic/TailsOfTheOldRepublic'', a crossover/ FusionFic between ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' and the videogame ''Franchise/StarWars: VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'', Tails the fox has two tails like in the games and other media he regularly features in, and he can [[HeliCritter fly]] with them, [[BewareMyStingerTail fight]] with them, and even [[LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe shield]] himself with them. In here, he has two basic flight modes: a general-purpose 'helicopter mode' that has great versatility and a top speed of about 200 MPH, and a much faster and energy-intensive 'turbofan mode' (similar to a jet engine) that can propel him up to 600 MPH or higher.

* Two creatures are seen in ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' that use wheels. Actual, biological wheels, that are part of their body. They are owned by [[BigBad Visser Three]], and each of them could split into two creatures, one wheeled, one flying. They were like organic [[TheEighties 80's]] action figure accessories. The unlikeliness of such creatures [[LampshadeHanging does not pass without mention.]]

* In the ''Series/RoundTheTwist'' episode "The Whirling Derfish", Bronson swallows a rare whirling derfish and discovers he now has the ability to swim incredibly fast by using his penis as a propellor.

* ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy2'' features a green parrot-like enemy that flies using four spinning blades around its neck. A plant enemy has a similar feature at its underside.

* Miles "Tails" Prower, the young fox from ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'', uses his two tails to fly and hover like a helicopter.

* Peahats, a species of monstrous plants from ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda''.

* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}''

* ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong''

* VideoGame/EarthwormJim is able to do this with his... upper body, or whatever would be roughly equivalent to that on a cartoon worm. In the sequel, the manual jokes that due to back strain, he can't do this anymore, and instead he uses Snot to glide.

* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes''

* ''WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts''

** The giant bees from Videogame/DonkeyKongJungleBeat, whose wings twirl around their "torsos"

** The epynomous Helibirds from DonkeyKongJungleBeat

* Tails the fox from ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' uses his two tails to fly and hover like a helicopter.

* The fan lizard from JamesCameron' ''Film/{{Avatar}}''. The lizard spins with its fan, so it is slightly more plausible than some other examples.

* ''Karlsson-on-the-Roof'' by Swedish author Astrid Lingren, about a male person of [[VagueAge indeterminate age]] with a propeller on his back and a button on his stomach to turn it on.

Often a subtrope of BizarreAlienLocomotion. See also HelicopterHair, EarWings.