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* ''Film/CommandoCodySkyMarshalOfTheUniverse''. In "Chapter 2: Atomic Peril", Commando Cody is threatened with being thrown out the decompression chamber hatch of his rocketship if he doesn't help its hijackers fly it. As the FilmSerial was shown in TheFifties, some {{exposition}} was required.

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* ''Film/CommandoCodySkyMarshalOfTheUniverse''. In "Chapter 2: Atomic Peril", Commando Cody is threatened with being thrown out the decompression chamber hatch of his rocketship if he doesn't help its hijackers fly it. As the FilmSerial was shown in TheFifties, some {{exposition}} was required.required regarding this trope. It implies they'll let Cody keep his SpaceMask, which would be worse than straight-out spacing him.
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* ''Film/CommandoCodySkyMarshalOfTheUniverse''. In "Chapter 2: Atomic Peril", Commando Cody is threatened with being thrown out the decompression chamber hatch of his rocketship if he doesn't help its hijackers fly it. As the FilmSerial was shown in TheFifties, some {{exposition}} was required.
-->"We will simply throw you overboard when we're out of Earth's gravity. You won't fall, you will simply...float around in space, [[AndIMustScream from now on]]."
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* Downplayed in ''Film/{{Rubikon}}''. When Gavin tries to commit suicide after realising the FogOfDoom has caused TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt, he just steps into the airlock and vents it. The others have to get the airlock to reset before they can increase the pressure and open the door. Later Gavin succeeds in killing himself this way, so his companions open the outer door to give him a BurialInSpace.
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This trope also covers instances where the character is not thrown out an airlock, but a hole is made in the hull through which the character is pulled out in the vacuum of space.

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This trope also covers instances where the character is not thrown out an airlock, but a hole is made in the hull through which the character is pulled out in into the vacuum of space.
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This trope also covers instances where the character is not thrown out an airlock, but a hole is made in the hull through which the character is pulled out in the vacuum of space.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonsLooniversity'': In "Tooned in Space" Marvin the Martian takes the cast into space, where they get shot at by aliens. A hole is blown in the ship, and all the air is being sucked out, nearly taking the crew with it.
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* ''[[https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/137637/hidden-intruder Hidden Intruder]'' allows killing the alien using this method. However, it can obtain the fast reflexes mutation to avoid being thrown out, and also become immune to vacuum (and therefore prevent the humans from winning when it's alive outside the station.)
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* ''WesternAnimation/ExoSquad'': During the climax of "The Last Man," a hangar door is openend and a Neo Mega ends up in the vacuum of space, while several memebrs of the [=ExoFleet=] nearly join him. Later, in "Flesh Crawls," [[spoiler:a shape-shifter]] opens a hangar door, which results in two pirates being spaced.

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* ''WesternAnimation/ExoSquad'': During the climax of "The Last Man," a hangar door is openend and a Neo Mega ends up in the vacuum of space, while several memebrs of the [=ExoFleet=] nearly join him. Later, in "Flesh Crawls," [[spoiler:a shape-shifter]] opens a hangar door, which results in two pirates being spaced.spaced and Maggie Weston nearly joining them.
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* ''WesternAnimation/ExoSquad'': During the climax of "The Last Man," a hangar door is openend and a Neo Mega ends up in the vacuum of space, while several memebrs of the [=ExoFleet=] nearly join him.

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* ''WesternAnimation/ExoSquad'': During the climax of "The Last Man," a hangar door is openend and a Neo Mega ends up in the vacuum of space, while several memebrs of the [=ExoFleet=] nearly join him. Later, in "Flesh Crawls," [[spoiler:a shape-shifter]] opens a hangar door, which results in two pirates being spaced.
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* ''WesternAnimation/ExoSquad'': During the climax of "The Last Man," a hangar door is openend and a Neo Mega ends up in the vacuum of space, while several memebrs of the [=ExoFleet=] nearly join him.
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* In ''Fanfic/AColderWar'', when Steve Rogers and Tony Stark discover that [[spoiler:astronaut Shipley has been essentially possessed by the essence of the Red Skull, they defeat Schmidt by opening the airlock of the space shuttle before he can force them to take him back to Earth]].

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