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* Averted in [[Jack London]]'s ''[[White Fang]]''. The title dog breaks through a window to reunite with his master and is badly cut up along his stomach for it.

* [[Terry Pratchett]]'s ''[[Discworld]]''

** Also averted several times in ''Witches Abroad'', as Granny Weatherwax smashes several mirrors during the course of the story, and almost gets killed by a shower of broken glass. (The ever-patient Nanny Ogg patches her up, lamenting, "Oh, Esme, you do take winning hard.")

** In Maskerade a panicked lady clobbers Nanny Ogg with a ''full'' bottle of champagne to try and knock her out so as to make an escape. The bottle doesn't break, but the book takes this moment to point out that somewhere in the Ogg family tree is a bit of dwarf, meaning Nanny has a skull you could break rocks with, so all getting hit really does is stun her momentarily.

* Averted (Subverted?){{verify}} in ''[[Tracker]]'', where Mel punches out a pain of glass with the "wrap your hand in fabric" method and still gets a nasty cut on her knuckles.

 

* For an angle in [[WCW]], Bill [[Goldberg]] was required to punch through a real glass window of a limousine. He was originally supposed to conceal a small piece of pipe in his hand to aid with the punching, but after the cameras started rolling he lost it and decided to punch through the window with his bare fist. A shard of glass caused a huge gash down his forearm and he was out of action for months. [http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=3i5Ju0mhjAE Watch it here.] Watch for him checking his arm after smashing the third window and the subsequent splatter of blood when he pounds on the white hood.

* In a [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] example, there was the spot during King Of The Ring 2001 where [[Kurt Angle]] attempted to suplex [[Shane McMahon]] through a sheet of glass. The glass did not break and Shane landed right on his head. It took them three tries before the glass finally broke. Moments later they tried the same thing again with the same amount of success.

* The set for Brutus Beefcake's [[Talk Show With Fists]], ''The Barber Shop'', has a big glass window that was just begging for someone to be thrown through it. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCljiGVZ5fE That someone was Marty Jannetty,] courtesy of his tag-team partner [[Shawn Michaels]], in a move that solidified Michaels's [[Face Heel Turn]] and launched his singles career. Note that in [[Real Life]], the window was not real glass, and Jannetty was applying the blood while he was draped over the windowsill and his face was out of sight. (Interestingly, many people misremember this as "Michaels superkicking Jannetty through the glass," when what actually happened was Michaels superkicking Jannetty to the floor, then picking him up and ''throwing'' him through the glass.)

* This happens a lot in Japanese and American "Death Match" or other [[Garbage Wrestling]] venues. The lucky ones work for a league that invests in prop beer mugs and break-away panes of glass that, like most pro wrestling, looks horrid but is relatively safe. The unlucky ones get dropped through actual, thin window panes, have actual glasses and bottles busted over their heads, and get hit with/thrown through actual fluorescent tubes. The latter of which, btw, shatter into countless razor-sharp shards, tend to [[Nausea Fuel|turn the upper layer of skin and flesh into hamburger]], and [[Too Dumb to Live|contain potentially carcinogenic chemicals]].

 

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