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[[File:locke-defenestration.jpg|link=Lost|frame|There goes [[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series|Chad from]] [[Bob From Accounting|Accounting...]]]]
{{quote|''It's not the first time I've been thrown out a window, and it won't be the last! What can I say, I'm a rebel.''|'''Old Man''', ''[[The Emperor's
The sad fate of many a [[Mook]]...mostly because [[Rule of Cool|it looks really cool]]. A sufficiently [[Badass]] characters punches, throws, or in any other way applies the force necessary in order to toss someone else through a window. A loud clangy window with shards rippling everywhere.
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== Anime and Manga ==
* A small (almost human sized) titan is kicked out a window in episode 4 of season 2 of [[Attack on Titan]].
* In ''[[Beelzebub]]'', Oga is told to do this to a [[Mook]] by one of the school's gang leaders. Oga punches the gang leader through the window instead.
* In ''[[The Cat Returns]]'', just.. don't irritate the Cat King, whether you're performing for him or breaking out in hysterical laughter from another act. (Both victims are tossed through high windows with no glass, but naturally, as cats, they're okay, and show up sitting against the wall in a later scene)
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* In the opening sequence of the ''[[Akira]]'' movie, little guy Kaisuke knocks a rival gang member right through a window, reminding us that being [[Ambiguously Gay]] doesn't mean you can't kick major ass.
* In one early chapter of ''[[Chrono Crusade]]'', Chrono deals with Rosette's not waking up no matter how had Azmaria tries by picking her up and tossing her out the window. Rosette wakes up when she hits the pond, climbs back through the window, and spits a fish out onto the floor.
== Comic Books ==
* The [[DC Universe]] has Defenestrator, a loony superhero armed with a window frame. He throws criminals through it.
* Bane does this to hilarious effect in ''[[Secret Six]]'' #9: He gets a hold of a mook and is about to execute his Signature Move when the mook pleads with him "''Don't crack my spine!''" Bane, out of respect "for the man this city belonged to" - {{spoiler|Batman}} - chucks him out the high-rise window instead.
* In one issue of ''[[The Punisher]]'', a [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] presses Frank's [[Berserk Button]] by dealing in slave trade. When he confronts her in her office he tries to throw her out the window but it turns out to be reinforced glass. So he slams her repeatedly against it until the window frame breaks.
** He ''knew'' it was reinforced glass. It's just that he's [[Pay Evil Unto Evil|The Punisher]] and that she was a [[Complete Monster]].
* The events of ''[[Watchmen]]'' are set off by somebody throwing The Comedian out a window. The rest of the plot follows up on the "why".
* [[Spider-Man]] does this a lot. In a [http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/3/37849/1463596-981365_spiderman25_super_super.jpg famous scene]{{Dead link}}, he does it to Wolverine. [[Made of Iron|Being]] [[Good Thing You Can Heal|Wolvie]], he just stands up and walks back up...
* In an issue of ''[[Transmetropolitan]]'', Spider Jerusalem threatens to have his bodyguard defenestrate someone. "[[You Keep Using That Word|And you wouldn't want anything to happen to your fenestrates, would you?]]"
* In the 2010 relaunch of ''[[Birds of Prey]]'', White Canary has just finished her [[Evil Gloating]] and is starting to leave when this happens:
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== Film - Animated ==
* Early on in ''[[The Emperor's
* During the climax of ''[[WALL-E]]'', just right before Captain McCrea finally shuts down [[
* Stitch actually throws Jumba out of a window near the end of ''[[Lilo and Stitch]]'' just right before hitting him with a VW Beetle.
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* Also in ''[[Ransom]]'', by the most awesome Scottish person ever, Mel Gibson, Mel throws the bad guy trough a window pane. Subversion here is, it actually buggers him up!
* ''[[Kick-Ass (film)|Kick-Ass]]'': [[Big Bad]] shot out the window. And then exploded. WITH A ROCKET-PROPELLED GRENADE.
* The fourth ''[[Mission: Impossible (film)||Mission Impossible]]'' has an assassin being killed that way. [[Bonus Points]] for happening at the Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world! Also justified by the fact that the window was removed from the room.
* At the end of the forgettable [[Charles Bronson]] movie ''Assassination'' the [[Big Bad]] behind the attempted murder of the First Lady gets thrown through a window. We then hear a radio report saying he [[Treachery Cover-Up|"died of a heart attack"]] despite the fact that any number of people must have seen the incident, and the injuries would be more consistent with a suicide or accidental fall.
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* The historical backstory of the [[Vorkosigan Saga]] includes [[The Caligula|Mad Emperor Yuri's]] Defenestration of the Privy Council. (Referred to by various characters but never actually portrayed or described in detail.)
* In Max Barry's ''Machine Man'', this happens to {{spoiler|Better Future's [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] Manager}} when he jokes about Lola's {{spoiler|[[EMP]] [[Heart Trauma]]}}.
* ''[[Discworld]]'':
** In ''[[
** In ''[[Jingo]]'', Vimes throws a Klatchian woman out a window to save her when the embassy is on fire. [[Giant Robot Hands Save Lives|Detritus catches her]].
* This is what ultimately happens to {{spoiler|Lysa Arryn}} in ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]''. Made more ironic by how {{spoiler|she threatened to do this to Sansa when she believed she was trying to seduce her second husband, Sansa's "tutor" Littlefinger. [[Death by Irony|Who's the one who pushed Lysa to her death]].}}
** Made even more ironic because {{spoiler|Littlefinger was the one trying to seduce Sansa}}.
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== Live
* Pictured atop this image is ''[[Lost]]'', when John Locke is ''spectacularly'' thrown out a window by his own father and becomes paralyzed as a result.
* In ''[[Firefly]]'', Malcolm Reynolds gets thrown out of a bar window at the beginning of "The Train Job". Subverted that the "window" is actually a hologram, not glass, and doesn't shatter.
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{{quote|'''Hyde:''' I'm wondering about that wee window up there and if you'd fit through it at speed.
(Christopher stands to attention.)
'''Benjamin:''' This is Christopher... and in the event of you attempting any violence on my person, Mr Hyde, Christopher's going to take an attitude, and believe me when I tell you when you don't wanna be there when Christopher takes an attitude. [...] Now, there's two things we can do, here: I can tell you what the hell I'm talkin' about, or you can try an throw Christopher out that itty-bitty window. [[Tempting Fate|I don't think Christopher'll fit.]]
([[Gilligan Cut]] to Christopher, bloody and covered in bits of glass, hauling himself off the pavement.) }}
* The ''[[Dark Angel]]'' episode, "Art Attack" features this as a major plot point. It happens, it's threatened, and it's mentioned by name.
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* This is [[Conan O'Brien|Conando's]] entire fighting style.
* [[Played for Laughs]] on [[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]. Two accountants are sitting in an office, and a body flies by the window. [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight|They posit upon who it was.]] Another falls by, and they remark how uncommon it is...[[Crosses the Line Twice|then they start betting on who'll jump next,]] [[Comedic Sociopathy|leading to them goading and imploring someone to jump.]]
* On one [[Burn Notice]] the team interrogates two bad guys by putting a mattress at a window and kicking one of them out to land safely when he is reluctant to intimidate the other into thinking them capable of committing murder for the sake of information.
== Professional Wrestling ==
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* ''[[Mass Effect|Mass Effect 2]]'' invokes this trope, while also proving that [[Action Commands|QTEs]] [[Tropes Are Not Bad|can]] [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|be]] [[Rule of Fun|fun]].
{{quote|'''Eclipse Trooper:''' I've got nothing more to say to you. If you-
''[[Unsound Effect|*TROPE'D*]]''
'''Shepard:''' [[Bond One-Liner|How 'bout "goodbye."]] }}
* The first ''[[Crash Bandicoot]]'' pulls one of these off during its [[Excuse Plot|minimal backstory.]]
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Creely: Oh yeah! Jack did a great job! }}
* ''[[Oni]]'' has a pretty hilarious take on this in the third level. Konoko is at the top of a tower in a factory complex. A squad of TCTF troops is outside, being pinned down by fire from Syndicate goons in the main lobby. Konoko radios to say she'll be right down to help them when a previously-defeated Syndicate goon stands back up.
{{quote|'''Demo Trooper''': "Fool! I've just triggered my [[Action Bomb|detonation harness]]! In five seconds this entire tower will be vaporised!"
Konoko looks at the trooper, out the window, and back to him. Cut to an exterior shot of the tower, where the trooper smashes out the window, falls through the skylight of the lobby, and detonates.
'''TCTF Officer''': "Uh, roger that. Foyer secured." }}
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* ''[[Hark! A Vagrant]]'''s Strong Female Characters give us...[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=311 post-coital defenestration!]
* In ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'', {{spoiler|[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2004-04-17 Damien] and [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2009-07-20 Adrian Raven]}} were both blown out what was partly window. Both survived this and falling one story down to the ground after, both being [[Made of Iron|tougher than normal humans]].
* In chapter 33 of ''[[Drowtales]]'', Shodun, an agent of [[Big Bad|the Nidraa'chal]], [https://web.archive.org/web/20180529165601/http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?id=1717 does this] to {{spoiler|Sandaur}}.
* [[Hejibits]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20160406035439/http://www.hejibits.com/comics/outlook-oust/]
== Web Original ==
* In the now-famous [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSuvOVH0aSQ "I'm the Juggernaut, bitch!"] parody video, the first segment ends with Juggernaut tossing Professor X out of a window.
* In ''[[Darwin's Soldiers]]'', Alfred throws someone through a reinforced window...with fatal results.
* [[James Rolfe|Cinemassacre]] has an entire video on this trope alone called [https://web.archive.org/web/20140209062811/http://cinemassacre.com/2013/05/06/top-20-window-jumps/ Top 20 Window Jumps!] under the condition it's on the [[Badass|person free will]].
== Western Animation ==
* Roddy MacStew is thrown out by [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|Gutierrez]] in the origins episode of ''[[Freakazoid!]]''. He survives, but leaves a [[Efficient Displacement|him-shaped hole]] in the snow (it was Christmas eve).
* In the pilot episode of ''[[The Boondocks]]'', 8 year-old Riley fires a shotgun at Ed Wuncler the Third, knocking him through a window onto the lawn in the middle of a garden party. The twist? He ''asks'' Riley to shoot him, to prove how strong his kevlar vest is. Apparently it helps him survive a two-story fall in a pile of broken glass, too.
** A vest that is strong enough to stop a bullet, it can stop shards of glass, and a two story fall is quite survivable if you don't hit your head.
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{{quote|'''Spider-Man:''' "The dictionary defines defenestration as the act of throwing a person or thing out a window... Really not my favorite word."}}
* Happens to Doctor Feelbad (an ambulance monster truck wrestler) in the [[Pixar Shorts|Pixar animated short]] "Monster Truck Mater."
{{quote|'''Doctor Feelbad''': [[Tempting Fate|Your next stop is the hospital!]](Tormentor ([[Cars|Mater's]] monster truck alter ego) pulls him onto the ropes from behind the ring)
'''Tormentor''': Don't worry, I'll git ya some flowers. (he lets go, and as a result Doctor Feelbad is thrown out of the arena and into a hospital, where the referee then counts to three) }}
* In the ''[[Swat Kats]]'' episode "The Metallikats", the titular villains do this to Deputy Mayor Callie Briggs because she was the one who denied their parole. {{spoiler|Fortunately for Callie, the SWAT Kats show up just in time for one of their [[Big Damn Heroes]] moments.}}
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== Real Life ==
* It's common enough that [[Trope Namer|someone]] came up with a word for it. There are at least two notable [[wikipedia:Defenestrations of Prague|Defenestrations in Prague]], the second of which is the [[Trope Namer]] since the word "defenestration" itself was coined to describe the event. (This particular defenestration started the [[Thirty Years' War]].) There's at least one more (when the [[Dirty Commies]] showed up); apparently, Czechs don't believe that it's a revolution until somebody gets thrown out a window.
**More specifically, at the beginning of the [[Thirty Years War]] a Hapsburg official was tossed out a window but survived. The Catholics said Mary saved him, the Protestants said it was a heap of garbage. Now that one thinks of it [[Take A Third Option|one supposes]] both could be true for all we know.
** There was also one (rarely mentioned, though rather bloody and significant) between two mentioned, in 1483, and some also call death of Jan Masaryk "fourth defenestration of Prague". Its kind of national sport.
* There was also the defenestration of Queen Dowager Jezebel sometime around 850 BCE (although it wasn't called "defenestration" at the time). Still, makes it older that, well, ''a lot of things''.
** It's also a stunningly powerful aversion of the hero/villain dichotomy with regard to how horrifically it's described. She hits the ground, falls apart like Judas ''[[Humiliation Conga|and gets eaten by dogs.]]''
* During the [[Red China|Cultural Revolution]], Deng Xiaoping's son, Deng Pufang was tortured by the Red Guards before being thrown out of a third floor window at the Beijing University; he survived, but was left a paraplegic. While neither openly denounced the revolutionaries, nor [[Mao Zedong|Mao]] for that matter, there are rumors that Deng Xiaoping always held a grudge towards Mao over the incident.
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