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* Another painful one from Hong Kong- during the filming of ''[[Enter the Dragon]]'', [[Bruce Lee]] got quite badly lacerated during a take of his fight with O'Hara (Robert Wall), as the glass bottles Wall smashed to make his ersatz daggers were quite real

* Averted in ''[[Daredevil (film)|Daredevil]]''. Kingpin throws Daredevil full force at a glass window that cracks a lot but doesn't break. Bullseye is also thrown from a huge height onto a car windshield that doesn't break.

* Played dead straight in ''[[Attack of the Clones]]'' when Obi-wan jumps headfirst through Padmé's window. This is particularly [[Egregious]] because according to the [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]] Coruscant's windows are made of [[Unobtainium|transparisteel]], not glass. This is a transparent material that is much tougher than glass (they use it for viewports on starships among other things). Of course, Obi-wan's a Jedi Master, [[A Wizard Did It|so check your assumptions at the door]].

 

== Live-Action TV ==

* Subverted in an episode of ''[[Rawhide]]'', where Rowdy Yates goes through a pane of glass and is ''seriously'' cut up by it.

* ''[[Angel]]'' was rather fond of crashing through skylights. He also smashed through a lot of windows. The fact that he's a vampire might account for his ability to survive such an impact, but not the fact that he never gets cut. Subverted in one episode in which he's thrown out of a Skyscraper window. He recovers shortly after but is shown to be in extreme pain and spitting up Blood upon impact.

* Simultaneously subverted and double subverted in an episode of ''[[Bones]]'': It is known that a wine bottle was broken over the victim's head, after which the intact end was shoved into the victim. As it turns out, good quality wine bottles (such as those used in the winery where the body was found) [[Subverted Trope|don't break that easily]]. [[Double Subversion|A cheap knock-off of said winery's bottles, filled with cheap knock-off wine, sold as if it were from that expensive winery, though...]]

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