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Neither one does them much good against Superman.

Superman Returns: The bank robbers have a helicopter waiting for them on the roof.

Notably, the authorites do contact them about not having a flight plan, but Draco responds by declaring the flight is a rescue mission for Italian avalanche survivors.

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Bond then taps his future father-in-law Draco for help with 'aerial demolition.' Draco lost some good mooks to Blofeld, so he aids Bond with three helis full of armed goons.

On Her Majesty's Secret Service: James Bond is pulled from Operation Bedlam, leaving The Villain Blofeld to conduct his Evil Plan unopposed.

The Matrix: Neo and Trinity use a helicopter equipped with a gatling gun when rescuing Morpheus after he's been captured by Agent Smith.

Then in Lethal Weapon 2: Riggs and the woman he's with are attacked in his trailer by bad guys with machine guns in not one, but two helicopters.

Joshua accomplishes this shot from a helicopter.

Lethal Weapon: Murtaugh's old war buddy is sniped by Mr.

Justified as it is established that Murch can get his hands on just about any kind of vehicle given enough time (the novel has a sequence where he needs to get a locomotive).

In The Hot Rock, Dortmunder and his Ragtag Bunch of Misfits are able to access a helicopter when they need to assault the police station.

They leave James Bond and Bond Girl Natalya trapped on board with a ticking destruct timer.

GoldenEye has Alec Trevelyan and Xenia Onatopp depart an armored Soviet mobile command train via a helicopter housed in one of the cars.

Marshals use the helicopter to pursue the fleeing Kimble. Marshall Gerard learns that the ambulance that Kimble stole has been spotted, he gives a thumbs-up to a helicopter pilot to tell him to start it up.

In From Russia with Love, SPECTRE is able to deploy a helicopter to chase Bond across the plains after he kills Red Grant and leaves the Orient Express.

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The other films in this series play it much more straight with the bad guys using helicopters. The bad guys intend to make their escape in an ambulance they prepositioned in the parking garage. Die Hard: Averted in the first film, in that the antagonists don't use a helicopter themselves, they want the cops and FBI in the helicopters to see the roof blow up and assume the bad guys perished along with the hostages.Dark Man: The bad guys chase Darkman around an abandoned factory with a helicopter, all the while shooting at him with machine guns and grenade launchers.

Justified by Kelloway being the chief of NASA, and the number of henchmen needed to effect his Evil Plan. Two helis locate Walker headed south, two more catch Willis going north, then two more pursue Brubaker fleeing west. As a countermeasure, Brubaker has the escapees take different compass points in their flight.

The villain Doctor Kelloway from Capricorn One has at least six Army Loaches dispatched to silence the three astronauts that escaped his Black Site.

They also fly the helicopter through an electronic billboard (in order to try and shake off Batman) without the helicopter suffering any damage at all.

Batman Forever: Two-Face and his henchmen use a helicopter to escape from their bank heist.

Near the end, the Joker summons the helicopter to pick up him and Vickie Vale from the top of the Gotham City Cathedral.

Batman (1989): The Joker flies away from the Axis Chemical factory in a helicopter.After 9/11 the US military is going to shut that down very quickly.

God help you if you're anywhere near a military base or restricted airspace. Any aircraft appearing on radar that is unidentified is going to get immediate attention from both state and federal authorities. In Real Life all helicopters, even privately owned ones, are usually hangared at airports, must file a flight plan and contact local Air Traffic Control before taking off, and are clearly marked with identifying numbers. For the good guys, it's even easier if they're members of a police force, a government agency or the military, a foreign government, are wealthy enough to easily afford it, etc.Ī helicopter that can easily land and take off is also more practical and versatile for film-making purposes than an airplane that requires a runway. Can also involve a Short-Lived Aerial Escape, when the helicopter quickly gets shot down or disabled.įrom a film-making standpoint, this makes perfect sense as it doesn't require much suspension of disbelief at all to think that the bad guys would have access to a helicopter, especially if it's the Big Bad.

Can lead to Surprise Vehicle, and is a sister trope to Convenient Escape Boat.