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'''Elan:''' No. [[Prestige Class|Dashing Swordsmen]] are immune to damage from shattered glass. It helps us make dramatic window entrances.|''[[The Order of the Stick|Order of the Stick]]''}}

 

* Mostly averted in ''[[One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest]]'': when McMurphy punches through the nurse's station's window, he severely injures his hand and has it bandaged up for a long time (however, he's able to break one of the replacement windows with a basketball). The ward windows are made of a durable safety glass that can only be broken if an enormous <s> water fountain</s> control panel is thrown into them with full force.

* Averted in ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy/Mostly Harmless|Mostly Harmless]]'', when Ford Prefect finds himself sitting on the window ledge outside the thirteenth floor of the Guide offices:

* Averted in ''[[Mercy Thompson]]''. A werewolf in a hurry jumps through the porch window, covering himself in numerous deep cuts. His exasperated alpha points out that he could have died even despite his [[Healing Factor]] due to the sheer number of the cuts. Even worse, though, is that a naked woman with normal human healing was standing beneath the window, and she ends up covered with broken glass.

* Averted in a major way in [[Ann Rice]]'s ''[[Queen of the Damned]]'', where {{spoiler|Mekare}} pushes {{spoiler|Akasha}} through a plate glass window. One of the larger shards decapitates {{spoiler|Akasha}}.

* ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]''

** During the McDonald's arc, Dr. McNinja interrogates three workers to learn Ronald's whereabouts. After they refuse to talk, he "super sizes their pain" by throwing one of them out the window. They were robots, but still... and then there's this line.

** The plate glass windows of Doc's office have also been emergency egresses (and ingresses!) to the point where Doc's got a "wall and window man" on call.

* Averted in ''[[Dominic Deegan]]: Oracle for Hire'', where a man is thrown through a window and ends up cut half to ribbons (and [[Bar Brawl|possibly]] broke some bones in the process). Still, [[You Fail Biology Forever|Biology Is Failed Forever]] since it supposedly cut an artery lengthwise (with no cover or pressure) and he was [[Made of Iron|still alive over a minute later]].

** Subverted in the episode "South Park Is Gay": Mr. Slave attempts to assassinate the cast of ''Queer Eye for the Straight Guy''. He manages to crash through their hotel window... and then lies bleeding on the hotel room floor.

** Later, in two episodes of the "Imaginationland Trilogy" this happens three times in order to break into the same room in the Pentagon. Twice by Cartman, once by Kyle. Part of the window was broken the first time; the second time the window was put together with tape and broken again; the third time Kyle simply dove into the non-broken part of the window.

* ''[[American Dad]]''

** Half-averted in the episode "Bullocks to Stan". Bullock, attempting to placate Stan's wrath, tries to convince him that their fight was an elaborate test. He then laments not getting to use the "breakaway glass window." It's real, so when he hits it, it doesn't break. He puts a few bullets in it then repeats the act successfully, though he still might have been injured by the glass.