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[[File:greatbatman13 1744.jpg|link=Batman|frame|He does this all the time...]]
{{quote|''"Attention [[The Mafia|mafia types]]. Stop hanging out in buildings with skylights. They'll only get broken."''
The modern spin on the [[Sheet of Glass]]. An example of the [[Rule of Cool]].
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▲== Anime & Manga ==
* ''[[Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex]]''. Having a cyborg body helps.
* In the first episode of ''[[Murder Princess]]'', a group of bounty hunters bursts through a palace window on a motorcycle with balls of fire for wheels.
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* Otcho in ''[[20th Century Boys]]'' does a very impressive one, not in the least because he's [[Badass Grandpa|over 55 years old]].
* In their climatic fight scene in ''[[Gunslinger Girl|Gunslinger Girl: Il Teatrino]]'' Pinnochio throws Triela through a (closed) window, only to have her smash through another window after him just moments later.
* Completely random [https://web.archive.org/web/20100729005625/http://www.mangafox.com/manga/fate_kaleid_liner_prisma_illya_2wei/v01/c009.6/2.html example] in ''[[Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya]]''.
* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass|Abel Nightroad]], from ''[[Trinity Blood]]'' does this twice, and even [[Lampshade Hanging|says something about it]]. "This is becoming something of a habit for me, it seems.
* [[Lupin III]] has bailed through several windows, open and closed alike, in the course of his career.
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{{quote|'''Shiva''': Perfectly good set of stairs...}}
* Ethan, Ashleigh & Skink do this from the Raven castle in ''Scion'' to escape from Bron. They land in water.
* This is how the protagonists enter and exit a rather badly damaged building in the [
* Made explicit in Dynamite's ''[[Lone Ranger]]'' comic.
{{quote|'''Tonto''': You could have used the stairs.
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* The skylight variation is used in ''[[Kyon: Big Damn Hero]]'' {{spoiler|when Kyon interrupts a meeting whilst holding a spy.}}
* ''[[The Dark Knight]]'' continuation fanfic ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20120420222334/http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6949110/1/A_Piece_Of_Glass A Piece Of Glass]'' has OC Breech Loader throw a chair at a window, which only cracks. She uses the weakened glass and her running momentum to smash through it and drop three stories to the ground, to escape Arkham Asylum. [[The Joker]], who was using her much louder escape as a diversion for his own, is very impressed.
* As demonstrated in the second page quote, L does this at one point in ''[[Light and Dark - The Adventures of Dark Yagami]]''. It is completely insane.
{{quote|''"I will have to use stealth instead" said L [[With Catlike Tread|and jumped in the broken window screaming]].'' All this from the world's three greatest detectives. }}
* In the ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic]]'' fanfic ''[[Article 2]]'' it is subverted and deconstructed at the same time. Shane shoots the glass panel first to only then dive through it, and the cuts he suffered are very frequently mentioned.
* in ''[[The Secret Return of Alex Mack]]'', Hanna "Action Girl" Heller makes a [[Dynamic Entry]] this way through a skylight into a society function taken over by supervillains.
== Film ==
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== Webcomics ==
* [[Dominic Deegan]] ends up doing one [https://web.archive.org/web/20110303201656/http://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2011-01-26 here]. Sorry, haters, but it's just an [[Imagine Spot]]; he's not leaping to his death.
* Sal Walters, one of the [[Super Soldier|alien-enhanced abductees]] in ''[[It's Walky!]]'' jumps in and out through upper story windows more often than not, leading comments from her boyfriend about all the broken glass. The [[Big Bad]] eventually gets to cause an excellent anticlimactic moment with Sal-proofed windows. (She then promptly bursts through the ''floor'', but it was a good try.)
* Plasma-Man has done this [https://web.archive.org/web/20131027083333/http://amazingplasmaman.com/comics/32 at least] [https://web.archive.org/web/20131027095027/http://amazingplasmaman.com/comics/57/ twice] in ''[[The Incredible and Awe Inspiring Serial Adventure of The Amazing Plasma-Man]]''.
* In ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'', this is one of the special abilities of the Dashing Swordsman prestige class, [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0392.html which is demonstrated] right after Elan [[Took a Level in Badass|takes a level in it]].
** The trope is further lampshaded in [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0471.html this strip], where Elan explains that the Dashing Swordsmen are immune to damage caused by sharp glass.
** This happens [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0589.html again], but it's the third dramatic entrance on the whole page.
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* Ellen tries this in ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'' shortly after her creation and subsequent [[Cloning Blues]], with added coolness from making her duplicate (or original?) throw her at the window. The coolness factor is negated when the window lacks any glass. And is a story up. THUMP.
* In ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]'', Dr. McNinja gets the jump on some thugs by entering the warehouse via the skylight. This comes immediately after he asks himself "What would [[Batman]] do?"
** A [https://web.archive.org/web/20091025075228/http://www.drmcninja.com/page.php?pageNum=30&issue=3 few pages] later, ''Ronald McDonald'' pulls one.
* In ''[[Xkcd]]'', this is the [http://xkcd.com/439/ logical conclusion] to worrying about relationships.
* In ''[[Stick Man Stick Man]]'', a [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] [http://qntm.org/files/stickmanstickman/comics.php?n=556 pulls one]{{Dead link}} to escape. The height aspect is [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]].
* Invoked in [http://leasticoulddo.com/comic/20081110 this] ''Least I Could Do'' strip ... and immediately subverted in the [http://leasticoulddo.com/comic/20081111 next one].
* ''[[Panthera]]'' uses this [http://www.pantheracomic.com/?p=1353 here] when {{spoiler|the Ovid building is collapsing because of Oosterhuis}} and they all need to get out ''immediately''.
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* Despite the Joker being [[Genre Savvy]] enough for the above quote, he does a super window jump (from a considerable height) of his own in ''[[Batman: The Animated Series|Mask of the Phantasm]]''. But then again he IS [[Genre Savvy]] enough to be aware of his own [[Joker Immunity]].
* In the ''[[Futurama]]'' episode "Less Than Hero", the mayor attempts to summon the New Justice Team - {{spoiler|Actually Fry, Leela, and Bender}} - while they're right in front of him in his office. In order to not blow their identities they quickly make up excuses; {{spoiler|Fry}} declares that he can't take life anymore and jumps out through a window, and instantly returns in-costume through a ''different'' window.
* When [[The Grim Adventures of Billy
* When [[Family Guy|Stewie]] does this he's replaced with a ''very'' noticeable [[Stunt Double]].
* ''[[Spider-Man: The Animated Series]]'', forbidden (among numerous [[Moral Guardians|heavy restrictions]]) to depict anyone breaking through glass, caused Spidey to leap through always open or conspicuously, utterly windowless spaces.
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