Sandbox / Every Helicopter Is A Huey Wick Check

Since there are only 62 wicks I decided to just exclude wicks on other trope pages.

Correct (17/56)

• Curse of Snakes Valley: Amazingly, prologue set in the French Indochina features one. That is, despite the fact, that there was no Hueys in 1954. Could also qualify for Anachronism Stew
• Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer: As the team are flown over the Thames in a pair of Hueys. Since the US military long since phased out the Huey and the British military never used them at all, it's anyone's guess where on Earth they even got the things unless they raided an air museum.
• Raise the Titanic!: Apparently, the Soviet Navy uses Huey helicopters instead of Kamovs. Artistic License – Military
• Rambo: First Blood Part II: Besides the iconic Faux Hind appearance, two Hueys makes an appearance. While nothing is wrong about the CIA extraction helicopter, the second (and more significant) one is very dubious. First, while the Vietnam People's Air Force actually had former South Vietnam UH-1s in their inventory, this one is a twin-engined Bell 212, that Vietnam never got. Second, it bears the wrong national insignia. Third, it was operated by Soviets (one would think that they would use an Mi-8 for liaison duty). In the original script, the helicopter was specifically described as a VPAF UH-1D, captured from the ARVN in 1975.
• Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home: Sulu tells a helicopter pilot that he trained on Hueys at the Academy, as a hobby (though the pilot probably didn't know he meant Starfleet Academy). The Novelization expands on it.
• Sucker Punch: In the fantasy world where the girls try to defuse a bomb on a speeding train, they do it from a Huey.
• Terminator Salvation: Despite being set in a Used Future the Resistance appears to have no problem getting hold of multiple combat-ready Hueys. It does help that a huge chunk of the Resistance is made from the remnants of the US Military.^note Though the UH-1 and derivatives have long since been replaced by the UH-60 Blackhawk, and the number of Hueys in US military service has dwindled rapidly.
• Under Siege 2: Dark Territory: The terrorists hijack the train in a matched pair of Hueys, one of which apparently vanishes into thin air sometime before the climax. This appears to happen more because it'd be a really cool way to hijack a train than because it makes any logistical sense at all.
• Underworld (2003): Very nearly averted - the helicopter shown in long-shots is a modified SA 360 Dauphin that just happens to sound like a Huey. Unfortunately, sometime between the helicopter landing and The Squad piling out the back, it's turned into a Huey anyway. In an apparent compromise, the prop used after it inevitably crashes and turns into a Helicopter Blender looks like some unholy fusion between the two.
• Archer S 3 E 3 Heart Of Archness Part Three: The chopper the group steals is a Huey.
• Combat Hospital: Played straight. While the Canadian Forces still use updated Hueys, the pilots and pararescuemen are US service members, and should not be flying one.
• Series/Lexx: "Apocalexx Now" has Hueys in the background in Vietnam, where it it appropriate though anachronistic. "Lyekka vs Japan" has Hueys in Tokyo, where it makes considerably less sense.
• Strike Back: Even British ones, apparently, though the British army have never used them.
  • Including one notable scene, the rescue of Walter Latulu from prison, where the helicopter changes from a US Navy Seahawk in one scene to a Huey in the next. Special Effects Failure
• The Last Ship: Lampshaded in the third season, where a Huey pilot bemoans having to fly an older helicopter as opposed to the more modern Seahawk.
• Transformers Prime Tropes D to F: In spite of the show's otherwise high-tech setting, the only US military helicopters that appear are Hueys. Since the animators could have drawn any helicopter they wanted, one presumes the Huey was selected as they would be universally recognised as "American military helicopters".
• Army Men: Owing to The Vietnam War being a heavy influence on the original plastic figures, and by extension the Army Men games - if the game isn't focused entirely on the air power, Hueys are the helicopter for every side. Air Tactics does move you into a Black Hawk by the 5th mission and then a Cobra by the final levels. Air Attack applies this to the player's side (Tan helicopters are almost universally Cobras instead), where the player starts off with a Huey and generic allied Green pilots continue to swear by them even as the player is able to upgrade through to Chinooks, Super Stallions, and Apaches.
• Independence Day: Though most of the aircraft used are period — and setting-appropriate, two Hueys still show up to escort the doomed S-64 Skycrane "Welcome Wagon". They explode moments later.

Aversions (6/56)

• Fire Birds: Utterly averted, though it is worth noting that the AH-1 Cobras seen in the intro are in fact a cousin of the Huey, being originally based on the UH-1. Aversions are not allowed
  • A Huey DOES appear near the end of the film at the cartel's camp, albeit for about 2 seconds. If another helicopter appeared earlier then it's not this trope.
• Flight of the Intruder: Averted. The one time a helicopter is featured in the film, it is an HH-3 "Jolly Green Giant" rescue chopper, easily recognized for being designed with a boat-hull for a lower body, being designed for amphibious operations. Aversions are not allowed.
• Rambo III: Averted, unlike in the second movie. However, that brings an issue of disguised French Gazelle helicopters, that looks like nothing from the Soviet helicopter park and doesn't even try to. No aversions.
• Superman Returns: Averted with Lex Luthor's AW109. No aversions.
• The Walking Dead Tropes D to K: Averted, several Apaches are seen in a flashback. Later, the helicopter used by the National Guard troops the Governor has gunned down is a Huey, but given that the NG usually has older equipment than the active services, there's nothing particularly unusual about it.
• M*A*S*H Tropes A to I: Mostly averted in favor of the historically-accurate Bell 47G (or H-13 Sioux, as it was designated for military use). However, some early episodes have a model Huey hanging from the ceiling of Col. Blake's office, and later on the O Club has a poster on the wall reading "4077th Med. Co. Air Ambulance" and featuring an illustration of either a Huey or another Vietnam-era chopper.
  • Incidentally, the Bell 47G is the only helicopter that really makes that "chirp-chirp-chirp" sound as the drive belts disengage. It's become a well-known helicopter movie cliche.

Intentional/Justified Depictions (6/56)

• The Punisher MAX: Played perfectly straight with all of Frank's flashbacks to Vietnam, in which every helicopter shown happens to be a Huey. Later on in "Kitchen Irish", Castle even boards a stationary Huey as he lies in wait for some Irish hoods to show up, musing to himself about how "it's been a long time since I've killed someone from a Huey". Instances of Hueys being used in the Vietnam War don't count
• Tour of Duty: Played straight for the most part. Other than a rare cameo of a Chinook in a couple of first season episodes, a crashed Cayuse in the opening credits, and a civilian Jetranger in the series finale, EVERY helicopter shown in the show is the venerable Huey. Examples in media taking place during the Vietnam War do not apply.
• Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil: The HEA chopper is very conspicuously a Huey. Given that the movie is animated, it was probably intentional. If it was intentional, it's not this trope.
• Missing in Action: So much that even the PAVN and French drug dealers use them. Averted in the third film. Film is set in the Vietnam War.
• M*A*S*H Tropes A to I: Possibly intentional, as in the movie and in the first few seasons, Korea was meant to be a metaphor for Vietnam. If it was intentional, it doesn't count.
• Hamburger Hill: Justified. It's the Vietnam War, and historically accurate. Justified examples are not allowed.

General Misuse (6/56)

• We're Alive: One of the two helicopters found by the survivors in Season 2 is a Bell 412, with the other being a Coast Guard Pelican (Sikorsky HH3). The helicopters used by Fort Irwin in Season 3 were Blackhawks, however. Other helicopters are depicted.
• The Last Alarm: Not only JSDF Hueys are used, but other helicopters like the Bell 412, Chinook, UH-60 Blackhawk, AH-1Z Viper, and the AW101 also appear. Just listing off helicopter models used in addition to a Huey, which is not what this trope is supposed to be.
• Superman Returns: Superman foils a bank robber attempting to make a rooftop getaway in a Huey, who used the door-mounted minigun to hold off the cops. This doesn't work quite so well on Superman. Doesn't explain why it doesn't make sense to use a Huey here
• Heart of Evil: Many of them are fought throughout the mod, and before the player has to take them down, Percy witnesses the Viet Cong destroying them. Is a slash trope with Hellish Copter, which is not allowed
• Compelled Series: A Bell 214 to be more exact, which is also equiped with a machine gun and a rocket launcher Why this is inappropriate?
• Kong: Skull Island: Played mostly straight. Why that is actually inaccurate is discussed under Artistic License – Military above. There are two exceptions, with one (the CH-53 Sea Stallion) being a plot point. Examples that point to other examples are not allowed

ZCE (13/56)

• The Walking Dead (2010): Georgia Their helicopter.
• DMZ: A Huey being purchased is a plot point. How though?
• Carnosaur
• Clear and Present Danger: The helicopter that Ryan gets for the climax is a Huey.
• Cliffhanger
• Hulk: General Ross coordinates the far more high-tech Hulkbusters from one on at least one occasion.
• Platoon
• Ransom: The FBI SWAT team arrives during the drop with Cubby on helicopters, prompting a quadbike chase. Are the helicopters Hueys?
• The Deer Hunter: And how.
• The Walking Dead S03 E03 "Walk with Me": The National Guard helicopter.
• Lexx: Gigashadow, the fully grown Insect from the eponymous episode, actually propels itself through space this way. With a Huey?
• Rush'n Attack
• Die Hard: The helicopters Hans demands for his "escape" turn out to be just that. As in he specifically requests a Huey? I've never seen Die Hard.

Potholes (6/56)

• Funny.The Blue Shell Incident: After Garfield (or Lasagna Ocelot if you insist) misfires and hits Mario, he attempts to escape from Zanzibar on a Huey, and just as Luigi screams Mario's name over his "death", Garfield flies off to the horizon... only to suddenly explode from Toad's BUP.
• Headscratchers.Army Men: It could also be that the helicopters before Air Tactics were basic and bog-standard Bell Hueys but the helicopters you pilot in Air Tactics and games past that are more specialized with the hoist cables, signal beacons or weapons such as bottle rockets and napalm bombs.
• Headscratchers.Rogue One: If all else fails, it's a big galaxy (far far away), with a wide variety of hardware being used by many folks. It's possible that the U-Wings are in use elsewhere, and we just don't see them because the heroes don't happen to be using them. Compare to how Every Helicopter Is a Huey in films, even if a wide variety of helicopters have always been in use for as long as practical helicopters have been around, even in the Huey's heyday. Alternately, the U-Wings will be digitally added in to a later re-issue of the previous films.
• Headscratchers.Transformers Prime: And we know MECH's Hueys were modified with energy weapons. Logic follows Fowler's has one now too.
• UsefulNotes.The Vietnam War: "...The UH-1 Huey, with both side doors open, flying low over the canopy of a jungle with a grizzled soldier manning the door gun is one of the war's most enduring images..." Sinkhole
• VideoGame.Hearts Of Iron: ** In II and Darkest Hour, cavalry is basically outdated and outperformed by pretty much anything it can meet, as contemporary units will be always stronger, better armed and armored. When cavalry gains few trucks, a purposefully build motorised infantry is already present. Cavalry gets halftracks? There is mechanized infantry already for few years. And then after a series of semi-related secret tech research, you unlock air cavalry. Sinkhole.

Unsure (2/56)

• Henry Stickmin Series The Government: In the original version of Airship, their helicopters vaguely resemble Hueys. For the rest of the series after that point, the helicopters look more streamlined. '''What does "streamlined" mean?
• Short Circuit: Although the helicopter that chases down and destroys the decoy Number Five is not a Huey, but a JetRanger, this trope is lampshaded: This is more of a Discussed Trope
  Skroeder: ...and I'm going to need some Hueys.
  Howard: Some what?
  Skroeder: HELICOPTERS, Howard. Jesus Christ!
  Howard: I thought they were choppers.
  Skroeder: Well, now they're called Hueys.
  Howard: Well, why wasn't I notified?
  • This is likely Skroeder's mistake, as "Huey" is a specific model of helicopter, not the catch-all term for helicopters Skroeder seems to think it is.
  • Either that, or he did know the difference, but was too annoyed to explain it to Howard. Natter