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{{trope}}
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Windows are there to be broken in fictional settings. And not just broken in [[Bar Brawl
No, you can damage a window in more "subtle" ways.
If your teenager needs to get the attention of his crush who's [[You Are Grounded|grounded]], he can throw pebbles at the window. Too much force, though, and CRACK!
If your [[The Syndicate|crime syndicate]] is trying to scare a witness into leaving town so they don't have to [[Make It Look Like an Accident]], they may toss a rock or a brick through the window, and CRACK! Threatening message sent.
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The good guys are trying to get a [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]] to give up his hostages? Fire up that tear gas canister gun, and [[Rule of Three|CRACK!]] Canisters released right at the guy's feet to get him to come out with his hands up.
The most innocent variation is [[Broken Glass Penalty|kids playing ball.]] One kicks or hits the ball too far. We hear the window break offscreen, and the children scatter to avoid getting in trouble for it.
Frequently, [[That Poor Cat|a cat is heard]] from behind the broken window.
Other variations include:
* Threatening notes may be tied to the brick or stone put through the window. [[Absurdity Ascendant|Or they may be non-threatening notes.]]
* A [[Molotov Cocktail]] through a window is a slightly stronger way of encouraging someone to leave town.
* During a [[Disaster Movie]] looters will put a brick through a store window so they can run off with expensive merchandise.
* A good guy pretending to be a bad guy will "accidentally" put a brick or a stone through a window to alert the authorities.
* Vandals will break windows for fun or to get back at "[[The Man]]".
* Heroes and/or villains will [[Super Window Jump|smash windows to make an entrance or exit.]]
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* An [[Inverted Trope|inversion]] in ''[[Police Squad!]]'': a window with a note attached is thrown into the rock garden.
** Later that same episode, the same criminal throws a rock with a note
** In another episode, the neighborhood protection racket tries to send a message to the owners of a key store by perforating the place with machine guns... and then throwing a rock through the window. Naturally, Frank Drebin focuses on the rock and fails to notice the machine-gun fire. He later asks the forensics lab to find out where the rock came from, and gets a geology lesson in response. Later on Drebin confronts the mook who threw the rock, who starts giving the exact same geology lesson.
* ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'' breaks a window with a rock to illegally enter a patient's home in "Alone."
* ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'' episode 1, volume 4. {{spoiler|Matt gets shot with a taser that comes through the window.}}
** Happens quite a lot in ''Heroes''. In season one, Jessica threw Matt through a window. In season two, Claire punched out Elle's car window, which didn't have [[Soft Glass]], to intimidate her by showing off her regeneration. At the end of season two, Elle blasts Sylar through a window, which also didn't have [[Soft Glass]] ([[Good Thing You Can Heal|but he had a bottle of healer juice so all was good]]).
* Randy from ''[[The Wire]]'' gets a [[Molotov Cocktail]] through his window for talking to the police.
* A ''[[The Whitest Kids U' Know]]'' sketch features a businessman "at war" with a rival investment bank across the street, culminating in him launching a mortar shell through their window (this is after, of course, a sniper shoots one of his interns and a flashbomb sails through the window and goes off).
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* Parodied [https://web.archive.org/web/20091025075223/http://www.drmcninja.com/page.php?pageNum=27&issue=3 here] in ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]''.
* Parodied in [http://www.precociouscomic.com/archive/comic/2012/02/18 this] strip of ''[[Precocious (Webcomic)|Precocious]]''.
* In ''[[Sinfest]]'', [
== [[Web Original]] ==
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* In ''[[The Simpsons]]'': Ralph (with a note attached) is thrown through the Simpsons' window; he announces "I'm a brick!"
** On another occasion, instead of a brick with a note, a ''ringing telephone'' is thrown through a window.
* A would-be assassin shoots a ''harpoon'' through a ''porthole'' in an episode of ''[[Jonny Quest]]''.
* ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'' kept the glaziers working overtime in the city of Townsville with all their entrances and exits.
** IIRC it was mainly roofs that the PPGs demolished, although with all the mayhem that went on in Townsville the glaziers were kept as busy as all the other repairfok.
* ''[[Swat Kats]]'' escaped from the newly originated Dr. Viper in season two by throwing themselves out through the window.
* ''[[The Fairly
** Vicky defenestrates ''forest animals'' through of the Turner house in "Vicky Loses Her Icky".
** Timmy gets toy chattering teeth attached to bricks thrown through his window by the mean dentist, "Dr. Bender".
* Cat 22 in ''[[Cartoon Network]]'''s "Wedgies" series throws himself through windows on several occasions to get away from his bosses and their ministrations once he's injured doing his spy-on-dogs job.
* In ''[[Cow and Chicken]]'', the Red Guy uses bricks engraved with a single word to send a long message to the eponymous characters' house, with each brick tossed nailing Chicken in the head. Naturally, the house is a mess afterwards.
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