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No idea if this is going right. But isnt "The black helicopters theory resonates well with the belief held by some in the militia movement that troops from the United Nations might invade the United States." Does this sound like anti-militia pointlessness? What does it contribute?--
Thuglifer04:13, 25 September 2007 (UTC)reply
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The phrase "black helicopters" has become a part of the popular lexicon, and is frequently used as a shorthand way of referring to conspiracy theories and government secrecy in general.
In the
1986 film
Biggles: Adventures in Time, one is stolen and travels back to the Western Front in 1917 to fight off Germans.
In the computer game
Deus Ex, the protagonist travels in the fictional SH-187, a sleek high-performance black helicopter with stealth technology, there are also mentions of mysterious black helicopters in news papers you can find throughout the game.
In the computer game
Psychonauts, the paranoid conspiracy theorist Boyd Cooper has his mental landscape constantly surveyed by black helicopters.
In the
1997 film Conspiracy Theory, they are seen using an active noise control system to operate secretly in urban areas.
Both
Blue Thunder (movie and
TV-series) and
Airwolf (TV) from the early
80s have similarities with Black Helicopters, in look as well as use.
Alt-
pop group
Soul Coughing has a song called "Unmarked Helicopters", which was briefly featured in the episode Max-2 of the TV series
The X-Files. There are several other portrayals of black helicopters in other episodes of the series (for example two in the final episode "Truth"), as well as the movie
The X-Files.
Bill Amend humorously mentions black helicopters (along with
Roswell and
CFR) in the introduction to the
FoxTrot collection FoxTrot Beyond A Doubt; he facetiously claims that writing a popular comic strip allows him to leak information on conspiracies to the public.
The organisation L.O.U.G.H.B.O.R.O.U.G.H. in
BBC Radio 4 sci-fi comedy
Nebulous own several black helicopters. The reason for this is given that although they aren't some "
fly by night" organisation, they still need to fly by night.
Three black helicopters, all armed, chase after Kim and Ron in a Season 4 episode of
Kim Possible. True to the show's nature, the conspiratorial nature of black helicopters is humorously touched upon: --Ron: So, what are the chances that they're not after us? --Kim: They're black helicopters, Ron. They're always after us.