Soft Glass: Difference between revisions

 

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

 

== General ==

** Carla has to get into Turk's car and brings fellow nurse Laverne along with her. The car's locked, so Laverne shouts a battle cry ("[[Leeroy Jenkins|Lavern Robaaaaaarts!]]") and punches out the window with nary a scratch. Carla is taken aback and cries "Laverne! I have the keys!"

** Averted in another episode, where J.D. tries to break a car window with a heavy object to prove a point. It takes him several minutes of repeated bashing before the glass eventually breaks.

* Subverted in an episode of the original (black and white) ''[[Superman]]'' TV series. The Man'o'Steel has just deflected an asteroid and is feeling a bit woozy. Jimmy Olsen is over and thinks Clark is sick and puts him in the shower. We hear the crash of breaking glass as Clark falls through the shower door. Jimmy later comments on how lucky Clark was as "there wasn't a scratch on him."

* ''[[Supernatural (TV)|Supernatural]]''

* ''[[Shadowgate]]'' has a place where you have to break one of three mirrors to proceed, [[Guide Dang It|with nothing other than past experience (yours or other players) telling you which one you should break.]] One mirror cuts you to ribbons if you break it. The other two don't, but while one merely lets you walk through unharmed, the other opens a magic portal to space, sucking you through and killing you.

* In ''[[Sonic Adventure (Video Game)|Sonic Adventure]]'', glass is broken in a few areas, but never is it a danger to you. When ZERO breaks through the wall of monitors, Amy can walk ''through'' the shards, no problem. In Speed Highway, Sonic and Tails can break glass by walking on it, but all that means is they have to get back up. Also in Speed Highway, there's a part where Sonic runs down the side of a building ''through several panes of glass''. Not only does he not get hurt from the impact, but he's also never even injured from being rained on by shards of glass.

* In ''[[The Godfather (Video Game)|The Godfather]]'' windows shatter easily. Naturally a second floor toss is an insta-kill. First floor? The mook will get back up and attack. Taken to a hilarious extent in the sequel, where you can vault through grilled windows without concern.

* The [[Dead Rising]] games let you punch or kick through sheets of glass with no problem. You won't get hurt even if you're in your underpants.

** There is a rumor that during the filming of the car window punching scene from ''Terminator'' Arnold broke his his hand punching out the wrong window, which hadn't been replaced by breakaway glass.

* There was a lawyer named [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garry_Hoy Garry Hoy] in Toronto who would demonstrate just how strong their glass was in their skyscraper to new interns. He would jump at the window, and of course it being toughened glass built for skyscrapers he would bounce back. He did this twice in a row before the safety glass popped from its frame and he fell to his death, and won a [[Darwin Awards]] for this. Ironically, he was right about the glass -- it was the frame that broke, and the glass itself survived the plunge.

* Behold the insane true story of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Magee Alan Magee], a [[WW 2]] B-17 gunner. His plane was shot down in 1943 (receiving 28 shrapnel wounds in the process), and after bailing out discovered his parachute wouldn't work. Magee free-fell 22,000 feet, through a train station's glass ceiling... and lived. It's speculated that the glass may have broken the fall.

* Before reinforced glass became common, there were quite a few instances of people not seeing glass sliding doors, walking into them, and the ensuing horrific consequences. Even now this can still happen, you just have to hit it extremely hard (usually by running).