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Throwing someone out a spaceship or space station's airlock without a suit, or as some universes call it, "spacing," or simply "airlocking," is a common method of killing someone in sci-fi works involving space travel. This one is usually reserved as a last-ditch effort to get rid of a bad guy, though certain [[The Captain|Captains]] (especially [[Space Pirates]]) have been known to use this as a method of execution. By all accounts, getting exposed to the hard vacuum of space is not a pleasant way to die, and the effects of this on the body are covered in much more detail on the [[Explosive Decompression]] page. A somewhat crueler version involves giving the executed a spacesuit with enough air to let them last a while so they can fully appreciate their upcoming death.

 

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== Anime and Manga ==

* In one episode of ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]'', Spike spaces a rogue {{spoiler|refrigerator}}. Notably, the [[Hollywood Science]] aspects of the trope were averted as the would-be spacee had to be physically kicked out of the ship when air movement proved insufficient to do the job.

** He also, as detailed on the [[Explosive Decompression]] page, jumps out himself in another episode.

* Benten of ''[[Cyber City Oedo 808]]'' tries this against the main bad guy of his [[A Day in the Limelight|focus episode]], who is a [[Our Vampires Are Different|vampire]]. It doesn't work.

* In ''[[Trigun]]'', a human who {{spoiler|bullied Rem, Vash and Knives}} and tried to {{spoiler|kill the twins}} dies like this.

* Happens in the original [[Gaiking]] series, to the wife of [[Anti-Villain|an alien enemy]] some time before their daughter is {{spoiler|shot to death and he's brainwashed into becoming Darius's minion.}}.

** In the backstory of ''[[G Gundam]]'', Canada's future Gundam Fighter lost his wife to decompression during an attack by [[Space Pirates]] lead by Russia's future Gundam Fighter. {{spoiler|Though he was actually trying to save her.}}

 

== Comic Books ==