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== 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]].
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* In the 2010 relaunch of ''[[Birds of Prey]]'', White Canary has just finished her [[Evil Gloating]] and is starting to leave when this happens:
{{quote|'''Black Canary:''' Hey Eggwhite. Guess... guess what I just noticed? Both your hands are occupied. [Canary Cries her through a window] }}
* Two instances occur in [[Sin City]]: Dwight is thrown out of a window by Manute in ''A Dame To Kill For''. Manute is likewise tossed out of a window by Wallace in ''Hell And Back''.
* Happens in ''[[Sandman]]: World's End'' when the corrupt Carnifex of Aurelia gets thrown throught the window of an attic crypt by his undead predeccessor into his [[Karmic Death]].
* In ''[[Power Girl]]'', villain Satanna goes to [[Shazam|Dr. Sivanna]] to get a weapon to revenge herself on Power Girl and gives him her body as payment. Afterwards he attempts some minor small-talk and she, [[Card-Carrying Villain|because she and he are villains]], does not feel it is necessary to disguise the fact that she felt this was a heartily disgusting event which she did solely as part of a business exchange. He agrees with her, then points out that since they are bad guys [[Eviler Than Thou|he no longer cares about her desires since she gave him what he wanted]], and throws her out the window.
* [[Superman]] has had to rescue people that have had this happen to them on multiple occasions.
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* Done with the Prince Edward's lover in ''[[Braveheart]]''.
* In ''[[Star Wars]]: [[Revenge of the Sith]]'' Palpatine uses his Force Lightning to shoot Mace Windu out the window (and it's a rare case where the glass had already been broken).
** And in ''[[The Empire Strikes Back]]'', during their light saber duel in Cloud City Darth Vader sends Luke out through a window using heavy pieces of equipment shoved at him with the Force.
* The death of {{spoiler|Wong}} in ''[[Infernal Affairs]]''.
* This happens to Franklin Bean in ''Cadence''. Humorously, if you watch closely, as the cameras change the POV, Franklin falls out the window facing one way, but ends up landing facing the opposite direction.
* In ''Foxes'', one of the main characters rides his skateboard by a bully, and pushes him (explosively) into the plate glass window of a supermarket so the kid he's picking on can escape.
* Father Malius gets harpooned through a window in ''[[Happy Hell Night]]''.
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** And then there's what Jaime Lannister does to that kid at the tower due to him stumbling upon {{spoiler|his affair with his sister Cersei}}. "The things I do for love," indeed.
* [[Arthur C. Clarke]]'s short story "The Defenestration of Ermintrude Inch". Collected in ''Tales from the White Hart'', which are [[Framing Device|framed]] as tales heard but-not-quite-believed by an [[Expy]] of Clarke himself and told by the irascible and enigmatic Harry Purvis at The White Hart, a fictional [[British Pub|pub]] near Fleet Street at which scientists, engineers, science writers, and science-fiction writers would congregate. "The Defenestration of Ermintrude Inch" is story of a couple in 1950s Britain, in which the husband, Osbert, accuses his wife Ermintrude of talking too much--specifically 100 times as much as he does. Being a sound engineer for the BBC, Osbert sets up a word-counter, which works at first, but {{spoiler|his wife figures out a way to make it so that ''Osbert'' has the higher count, which infuriates him, particularly after he figures out that she'd surreptitiously recorded his speech and had him playing on a loop while he was not at home. Ermintrude falls out a window shortly afterward, although it isn't clear if she's pushed. Shortly after the tale wraps up, a woman comes into the pub and chews Harry Purvis out--to which he replies meekly, "Yes, Ermintrude."}}
* In the second book of [[Ranger's Apprentice]], Alyss and Halt go on a diplomatic mission at a local baron's castle- who turns out to be an arrogant, sexist pig. When the baron in question makes the massive folly of insulting Alyss by ripping up her credentials, [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Halt throws him out the window into the moat.]] [[Crowning Moment of Funny|A pair of workers emptying privies into the moat]] [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight|don't even flinch.]]
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* ''[[The Order of the Stick|Order of the Stick]]'' [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0355.html #355]: Roy is fighting Sabine when all her magical enhancements wear off. She surrenders and attempts to seduce him instead, telling him he can do anything he wants with her now, so he cheerfully uses the privilege to toss her out of the warehouse to the street below.
** In the prequel book, [[Start of Darkness|Start Of]] [[Trope Namer|Darkness]], Xykon is strangling {{spoiler|Right-Eye, but after Redcloak stands up to him, he merely throws him into Redcloak, who is standing in front of a window.}} They fall out, covered in cuts from the window.
** Haley gets knocked out of a window by Tarquin in [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0722.html this comic]... and later apologizes for her defenstration in [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0726.html this one].
* In ''[[Goblins]]'', {{spoiler|Minmax}} defenstrates {{spoiler|Dellyn Goblinslayer}} after he finds out that he {{spoiler|rapes his yuan-ti slave nightly}}.
* ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]'': "Now tell me where Ronald is before I super-size your pain for only thirty-nine cents more!"
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== Real Life ==
* 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.
** 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''.
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