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[[File:Glasss.jpg|frame|[[Don't Try This At Home|Don't try this at home.]]]]

 

{{quote|'''Kazumi:''' Didn't that hurt?

 

[[Reality Is Unrealistic|Glass is harder than you think it is.]] It takes a lot of force to break a glass window, and, even if you succeed, you have many shards of sharp glass all over the place that are very likely to injure you. However, [[Rule of Cool|that isn't cool.]] It's so much cooler to have your [[Badass]] [[Action Hero]] effortlessly leap through a window and come out unharmed.

 

See also [[A Glass in the Hand]], and [[Grievous Bottley Harm]] where the strength of glass is also underestimated.

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== General ==

* Virtually all bar-fights in any [[The Western|Western]] series result in at least one cowhand going through a saloon window, often followed by him getting up and running back into the fray.

 

 

* In ''[[Ranma ½]]'', sending someone flying through a window is a favorite pastime of the characters (especially female ones). Akane's bedroom window, and the homeroom window at school, are the most common victims. Ironically, after Akane tossed Ranma through the ''open'' window one time, he tried to leap back up, only to smack firmly into the glass when she closed it.

* Averted in ''[[xxxHolic]]'': Watanuki's fall from the school's second floor probably wouldn't have done more than break a limb or two if he didn't have the misfortune of breaking his fall on a pane of glass. As it was, he was put in a six-day coma, and it was only through some serious supernatural intervention that he was able to survive at all. It's also implied that blood loss from the numerous cuts from the glass would've been what killed him, specifically damage to his neck, as the scars that {{spoiler|Himawari}} takes in his place as "payment" for his survival seem to indicate.

* This is subverted in Season Two of ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX]]''; in one scene, [[Big Bad| Saiou]] starts [[Talking to Themself| arguing with his better half]] (being a villain with [[Multiple Personalities]]) who he sees manifested in a mirror; he eventually flies into a rage and smashes the mirror, cutting his arm doing so. The whole scene pretty much cements his reputation as a maniac.

 

* ''[[Spider-Man]]''

** Hilariously subverted in an issue of ''[[Ultimate Spider-Man]]'', where Spidey, trying to make a dramatic entrance into the Kingpin's office, finds that Fisk has installed much stronger glass than last time Spidey was around.