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* ''Film/TheFlash2023''. As General Zod's army fights the US military, a Blackhawk gets its tail sliced off but Supergirl lowers it safely to the ground, only to explode as Zod smashes down on top of the helicopter, [[AllForNothing to Supergirl's fury]].
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* ''Film/TheFlash2023''. As General Zod's army fights Zod [[GrievousHarmWithABody hurls Supergirl into]] a US Army Blackhawk, slicing the US military, a Blackhawk gets its tail sliced off but off. Supergirl lowers it safely to the ground, only for the helicopter to explode as Zod smashes down on top of the helicopter, it, [[AllForNothing to Supergirl's fury]].
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* ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty''
** ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty4ModernWarfare'': [[spoiler: Sergeant Jackson's helicopter, and several others, crashes due to being caught in the pressure wave of a nuclear explosion. Sergeant Jackson barely survives the crash, and lives just long enough to see the results of the nuke before [[DownerEnding succumbing to his injures]].]]
** ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty4ModernWarfare'': [[spoiler: Sergeant Jackson's helicopter, and several others, crashes due to being caught in the pressure wave of a nuclear explosion. Sergeant Jackson barely survives the crash, and lives just long enough to see the results of the nuke before [[DownerEnding succumbing to his injures]].]]
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* ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty''
If a player character in the ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty'' series ever boards a helicopter, their flight is very likely to end up short-lived.
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*** At the beginning of the mission "Hunted", the chopper extracting Captain Price's squad after they secured Nikolai gets shot down over enemy territory, forcing them to continue their exfiltration on foot.
*** [[spoiler: Sergeant Jackson's helicopter, and several others, crashes due to being caught in the pressure wave of a nuclear explosion. Sergeant Jackson barely survives the crash, and lives just long enough to see the results of the nuke before [[DownerEnding succumbing to his injures]].]]
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*** At the beginning of the mission "Hunted", the chopper extracting Captain Price's squad after they secured Nikolai gets shot down over enemy territory, forcing them to continue their exfiltration on foot.
*** [[spoiler: Sergeant Jackson's helicopter, and several others, crashes due to being caught in the pressure wave of a nuclear explosion. Sergeant Jackson barely survives the crash, and lives just long enough to see the results of the nuke before [[DownerEnding succumbing to his injures]].]]
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** Actually, it seems to be noteworthy if a POV character climbs aboard a helicopter in the ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare'' games and the chopper ''doesn't'' get shot down somehow, though most times it's actually the ShortLivedAerialEscape at work.
*** Subverted in the "Black Tuesday" level in ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyModernWarfare3'', where the player character's helicopter take a massive hit and almost crashes into a New York high-rise, but manages to level out and fly away to safety.
*** Although played straight with the Russian Hind the player's helicopter was fighting. After getting shot out of the sky by the player, the Hind spins into the player's helicopter (the aforementioned massive hit), before slamming into said high-rise.
** ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps'': One helicopter gets ''harpooned'' with the harpoon's cable secured to the side of a building. When the helicopter tried to pull away, it ended up whipping itself around into another building.
*** Subverted in the "Black Tuesday" level in ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyModernWarfare3'', where the player character's helicopter take a massive hit and almost crashes into a New York high-rise, but manages to level out and fly away to safety.
*** Although played straight with the Russian Hind the player's helicopter was fighting. After getting shot out of the sky by the player, the Hind spins into the player's helicopter (the aforementioned massive hit), before slamming into said high-rise.
** ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps'': One helicopter gets ''harpooned'' with the harpoon's cable secured to the side of a building. When the helicopter tried to pull away, it ended up whipping itself around into another building.
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** Actually, it seems to be noteworthy if a POV character climbs aboard a helicopter in the ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare'' games and the chopper ''doesn't'' get shot down somehow, though most times it's actually the ShortLivedAerialEscape at work.
***Subverted in the "Black Tuesday" level in ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyModernWarfare3'', where the player character's helicopter take a massive hit and almost crashes into a New York high-rise, but manages to level out and fly away to safety.
*** Althoughsafety, though played straight with the Russian Hind the player's helicopter was fighting. After fighting; after getting shot out of the sky by the player, the Hind spins into the player's helicopter (the aforementioned massive hit), before slamming into said high-rise.
**''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps'': One ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps'':
*** During Mason and Reznov's escape from Vorkuta, a helicopter gets''harpooned'' ''harpooned'', with the harpoon's cable secured to the side of a building. When the helicopter tried tries to pull away, it ended ends up whipping itself around into another building.building.
*** Two more helicopters that Mason rides in during his time in Vietnam get knocked out of the sky, with one of them nearly sinking into a lake with him still inside.
*** The chopper that Mason pilots during the assault on the Rusalka in the final mission suffers the same fate, with Mason having to jump out and onto the deck below after it takes too much damage to stay airborne.
** ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyModernWarfare2019'': Plenty of helicopters are shot down throughout the course of the campaign, many times with the player still on board, and Spec Ops begin with your chopper being beaned by an RPG and spiraling out of control.
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*** During Mason and Reznov's escape from Vorkuta, a helicopter gets
*** Two more helicopters that Mason rides in during his time in Vietnam get knocked out of the sky, with one of them nearly sinking into a lake with him still inside.
*** The chopper that Mason pilots during the assault on the Rusalka in the final mission suffers the same fate, with Mason having to jump out and onto the deck below after it takes too much damage to stay airborne.
** ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyModernWarfare2019'': Plenty of helicopters are shot down throughout the course of the campaign, many times with the player still on board, and Spec Ops begin with your chopper being beaned by an RPG and spiraling out of control.
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** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'' has the loud approach to the Big Score, where multiple Merryweather attack choppers are blown out of the sky.
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** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'' has has, among others, the rooftop approach for the Bureau Raid, in which the helicopter meant to extract the protagonists and their crew is shot down by another chopper, and the loud approach to the Big Score, where multiple Merryweather attack choppers are blown out of the sky.
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* Franchise/MonsterVerse fanfiction ''[[Fanfic/AbraxasHrodvitnon Abraxas]]'': Several of Monarch's Osprey tiltrotors are taken down by a monster, [[spoiler:Keizer Ghidorah. It vaporizes one Osprey, and causes another to crash via {{EMP}} blast]].
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* Franchise/MonsterVerse fanfiction ''[[Fanfic/AbraxasHrodvitnon Abraxas]]'': Several of Monarch's Osprey tiltrotors are taken down by a monster, [[spoiler:Keizer Ghidorah. It vaporizes one Osprey, and causes another to crash via {{EMP}} blast]].
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* A nigh identical scene happens in the DirectToDVD Creator/RogerCorman movie ''[[Film/{{Carnosaur}} Carnosaur 2]]''. [[FollowTheLeader And again in another such film called]] ''[[FollowTheLeader Manticore]]''.
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* ''[[Film/TheReturnOfGodzilla Godzilla 1985]]'', Godzilla blasts a helicopter with his breath and sends it plummeting onto a crowded highway, [[EveryCarIsAPinto setting off a massive chain reaction of car explosions]].
* ''Film/MacheteKills''. Machete is flying to safety when his helicopter is damaged by mooks in a powerboat. He leaps into the boat then, as the unmanned chopper spins wildly out of control overhead, fires a harpoon into it, attaching the other end to a mook who's pulled into the air and the rotor blades -- the mook gets [[CruelAndUnusualDeath shredded, then blown up with the helicopter]].
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* ''Film/MacheteKills''. Machete is flying to safety when his helicopter is damaged by mooks in a powerboat. He leaps into the boat then, as the unmanned chopper spins wildly out of control overhead, fires a harpoon into it, attaching the other end to a mook who's pulled into the air and the rotor blades -- the mook gets [[CruelAndUnusualDeath shredded, then blown up with the helicopter]].
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* ''Film/TheReturnOfGodzilla'': Godzilla blasts a helicopter with his breath and sends it plummeting onto a crowded highway, [[EveryCarIsAPinto setting off a massive chain reaction of car explosions]].
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* Franchise/MonsterVerse:
** ''Film/KongSkullIsland'': The battalion of U.S. military helicopters sent to Skull Island get completely eradicated by Kong in a matter of minutes.
** ''[[Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019 Godzilla: King of the Monsters]]'': Being the most apocalyptic and high-stake instalment in the [=MonsterVerse=] to date, with [[BigBad King Ghidorah]] forcing Titans to attack worldwide and Godzilla, Mothra and humans needing to work together to defeat him; it comes as no surprise that a ''lot'' of rotor aircraft fall like flies in this film.
** ''WesternAnimation/SkullIsland2023'': The only helicopter seen in the series (a rescue copter sent to pick up the mercenaries) gets torn apart by the BigBad kraken with zero problem on the kraken's end.
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* Franchise/MonsterVerse:
** ''Film/KongSkullIsland'': The battalion of U.S. military helicopters sent to Skull Island get completely eradicated by Kong in a matter of minutes.
** ''[[Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019 Godzilla: King of the Monsters]]'': Being the most apocalyptic and high-stake instalment in the [=MonsterVerse=] to date, with [[BigBad King Ghidorah]] forcing Titans to attack worldwide and Godzilla, Mothra and humans needing to work together to defeat him; it comes as no surprise that a ''lot'' of rotor aircraft fall like flies in this film.
** ''WesternAnimation/SkullIsland2023'': The only helicopter seen in the series (a rescue copter sent to pick up the mercenaries) gets torn apart by the BigBad kraken with zero problem on the kraken's end.
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* ''VideoGame/Left4Dead'': At the end of the first campaign, "No Mercy", the survivors get on a helicopter to escape a hospital rooftop. All seems fine, until the pilot turns into a zombie, forcing Zoey to shoot him, whereupon it crash lands in the industrial county seen in "Crash Course". The exact same thing happens in the sequel at the end of "Dark Carnival": the helicopter pilot turns mid-flight, Nick shoots him dead, and the unmanned helicopter crashes at the entrance to the marshland where "Swamp Fever" takes place.
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* ''VideoGame/Left4Dead'': ''VideoGame/Left4Dead'':
** At the end of the first campaign, "No Mercy", the survivors get on a helicopter to escape a hospital rooftop. All seems fine, until the pilot turns into a zombie, forcing Zoey to shoot him, whereupon it crash lands in the industrial county seen in "Crash Course".
** The exact same thing happens in [[VideoGame/Left4Dead2 thesequel sequel]] at the end of "Dark Carnival": the helicopter pilot turns mid-flight, Nick shoots him dead, and the unmanned helicopter crashes at the entrance to the marshland where "Swamp Fever" takes place.place.
** The tie-in comic for "The Sacrifice" shows a Tank laying waste to a military helicopter by grabbing it by the tail and throwing it.
** At the end of the first campaign, "No Mercy", the survivors get on a helicopter to escape a hospital rooftop. All seems fine, until the pilot turns into a zombie, forcing Zoey to shoot him, whereupon it crash lands in the industrial county seen in "Crash Course".
** The exact same thing happens in [[VideoGame/Left4Dead2 the
** The tie-in comic for "The Sacrifice" shows a Tank laying waste to a military helicopter by grabbing it by the tail and throwing it.
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** When the same scene comes up in ''VideoGame/Residentevil2Remake'', it's changed, leaving it ambiguous as to why it crashed, though the appearance of zombies on fire implies that the pilot was attacked by a passenger that changed midflight.
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** In ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Remake'', the helicopter gets brought down much earlier in the story (before Jill has even reached downtown), via the Nemesis throwing... something into the copter's tail rotor.
