History Main / ThrownOutTheairLock

** In ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness'', this happens again to several crewmembers, who are blown out of a hull breech... ''[[UpToEleven at warp.]]'' Not a nice way to go.

* In Creator/BenBova's ''Venus'', this is turned UpToEleven by [[spoiler:Captain Fuchs]], who [[spoiler:places rebelling crew members onboard a faulty EscapePod and ejects it, leading to an extremely painful and messy ExplosiveDecompression]].

** The ActionPrologue of [[Recap/DoctorWho2011CSTheDoctorTheWidowAndTheWardrobe "The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe"]] takes this UpToEleven, with the airlock disintegrating around the Doctor, who then has to catch and put on a spacesuit [[BatmanCanBreatheInSpace while both are falling towards the planet's surface]]. He succeeds (of course) but puts his helmet on backwards in the rush.

* Creator/LoisMcMasterBujold's ''Literature/VorkosiganSaga'':
** In ''Literature/TheVorGame'', Oser orders Miles and Co. thrown out of an airlock to eliminate them quickly, rather than let Miles have time to take over as he had before. It didn't work.
*** This happens to poor Miles ''again'' later in the same book, although the second time he had the advantage of a lifeboat.
** In ''Literature/FallingFree'', a character tries to commit suicide this way. Fortunately enough, her friend got there in time and jammed the airlock shut.
** At the end of ''Literature/{{Komarr}}'', Ekaterin and her aunt are being held hostage in an airlock, partly to enable this threat and partly so Ekaterin can't get out and wreck the hostage-takers' plans ''again''.

* Subverted in ''Film/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' movie: Prefect and Dent stand in the Vogon airlock while klaxons sound, facing the standard giant, ominous-looking space door, waiting for it to open and send them to their doom. Nothing happens. Then a tiny and inconspicuous TrapDoor opens under them instead.

* Ford and Arthur in ''Radio/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy''. They survive the airlock toss out of the Vogon ship thanks to the Infinite Improbability Drive, in a surreal scene involving MovingBuildings, detached limbs, [[EverythingsBetterWithPenguins penguins]], and an infinite number of [[MonkeysOnATypewriter monkeys using an infinite number of typewriters]] (which naturally results in a [[Creator/WilliamShakespeare Shakespeare]] script). It's kind of hard to explain, which is probably why the [[Film/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy film]] replaced it with a less "odd" scene involving sofas. However, the BBC [[Series/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy television adaptation]], despite its much smaller budget, portrayed the scene much closer to the original. (As did the [[Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy novel]].)

** In one of the later stages in ''VideoGame/{{Halo 4}}'', you can do this to Covenant who are trying to enter a space station through an airlock.

* ''VideoGame/{{Portal 2}}'': [[spoiler:At the end, [[TheHero Chell]] wins the fight with Wheatley by opening one portal directly under him and the other one ''on the surface of the Moon'', blowing out everything that isn't nailed down, including the Portal Gun, Wheatley, and herself. After they end up hanging on the Wheatley's cable, [=GLaDOS=] reaches her mechanical claw in, knocks Wheatley into space, and, surprisingly, pulls Chell back, then seals the portal.]] Interestingly, it also completely justifies the "long wind" issue, as it had ''the entire Earth atmosphere'' to equalize.

* ''Fanfic/RocketshipVoyager''. The crew encounter Nee'Lix when he's literally dumped on them by a passing convoy of alien spacecraft, who throw him out the airlock in a [[SinisterSuffocation leaking]] OrganicTechnology pod. Fortunately they're curious enough to grapple the pod and bring it on board.

** In [[Anime/Zeta Gundam]] a variation of this trope, Kamille' mother is held hostage in a sealed glass case in space in exchange for mobile suits; When his attempt to rescue her fails, case is shattered and she is spaced in a vacuum.

* Multiple times in ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks''

* Multiple times in''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks''

* In ''VideoGame/BulletStorm'', Gray does this to a captured bounty hunter in the very first scene of the game.

* ''VideoGame/DeadSpace2'' allows a variant on this; in some sections of the Sprawl that are being renovated, the reinforced glass is replaced by a breakable variety; shooting those panels will depressurize the room and drag any necromorphs out with it. Players must be quick to hit the emergency release, or they will get blown out as well.

* ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003'' turned the word "airlock" into a verb. This is the standard method of execution, usually employed to deal with Cylons and suspected Cylon collaborators. Laura Roslin is often referred to as [[FanNickname "Madame Airlock"]] because of her fondness for this method of dealing with undesirables. More recently, [[spoiler:Cally Tyrol]] was murdered by a Cylon in this fashion.

** ''Literature/TimeEnoughForLove'', Lazarus Long tells a story of how he ended up staying years — long enough for his babies to be grown men — on a planet because the government confiscated his ship, and it took that long to make enough money to buy a replacement ship. Also, that planet is a ''slaver'' planet, where slavery and slave trading are legal, something Lazarus detests, badly. So, when he's about to leave, the Protector of Servants (the Chief Slave Overseer for the planetary government's slave management department) gets suspicious when Lazarus and his entire family decide to do a "pre-flight inspection" (before slaves are loaded), and tags along to the inspection, probably suspicious they might not pay all taxes owed before leaving. Lazarus takes off almost immediately after everyone is aboard, and jettisons anything and everything out of the ship that would indicate it was prepared to be used for carrying slaves. He also spaces the Protector of Servants. "Alive. He went that-a-way, eyes bugged out of his head and peeing blood. What did you expect me to do, kiss him?"

** Also in ''Citadel'', Shepard and Javik find themselves guest-starring in ''[[ShowWithinAShow Blasto 7]]''. Javik eventually gets fed up with Blasto's actor being ThePrimaDonna.

* In ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'', HAL 9000 kills Frank Poole by maneuvering his space pod and using the gripper arms while he is on EVA to replace the AE-35 unit. David Bowman rushes out in another pod to rescue his fellow astronaut, but in his haste neglects to take a helmet for his pressure suit. When HAL refuses to open the pod bay doors so Bowman can reenter ''Discovery'', since Bowman lacks a helmet, he has to throw ''himself'' out of the airlock in order to regain entry into the spaceship. He is able to open the outer door of the airlock with the gripper arms, but the pod hatch does not mate with the door completely. Bowman blows the explosive bolts on the hatch, tucks down, and is blown into the airlock. In seconds, he is able to shut the outer door manually and repressurize the airlock. Although this scene is perfectly plausible, despite ExplosiveDecompression, Bowman inhales and holds his breath right before the hatch blows, which is the wrong thing to do. This may have been a mistake by actor Keir Dullea, however.
** Creator/ArthurCClarke reportedly said that if he had been on the set that day, he would have corrected this.

* In ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'' episode "Envoys", Rutherford is taking a command test and, at the suggestion of Commander Ransom, uses the "Janeway Protocol", which ends up somehow venting an entire classroom of children into space. Ransom stops the simulation, [[WhatTheHellHero expresses shock at the fact that this was the first time ever seeing that before]]... [[BenevolentBoss before setting up another simulation with even MORE children]]!

* ''Webcomic/{{Narbonic}}'' parodies "The Cold Equations" (mentioned above) in [[http://www.webcomicsnation.com/shaenongarrity/narbonic_plus/series.php?view=archive&chapter=39493 this week]] of strips.

* Used at the end of a segment in ''WesternAnimation/HeavyMetal'', when Captain Sternn pulls a lever and sends Hanover Fiste out of a space station airlock. Fiste subsequently [[SpaceDoesNotWorkThatWay catches fire in the vacuum of space]]. Or he might have [[ReentryScare burned up on reentry]], if you're feeling charitable. (WordOfGod is that it was supposed to be on atmospheric entry, but they ran out of money and couldn't make the planned bridge to the next segment. It was meant to show the way the Lohknar Fiste was holding affected the development of the planet that the next segment occurred on.)

* Classic ''TabletopGame/{{Traveller}}'' Adventure 1 "The Kinunir". In the scenario "The Lost Ship", the title starship's {{AI}} became paranoid and evacuated the ship to vacuum, killing the crew and blowing their bodies into space. The {{PC}}'s can find several bodies near a small asteroid.
* The Imperial Navy of ''[[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} Warhammer 40K]]'' prescribes this as a punishment for many, many offenses.

** Can also accidentally happen to Tails in one level set on the ARK: if the explosive packs on an airlock are hit with homing missiles, ExplosiveDecompression ensues, and Tails can get blown out into space if he wanders to close to the hole he just made.

** In ''Literature/HanSoloAtStarsEnd'', Han determines that one of the people on his ship is TheMole. The traitor flees, hoping to find a place on the ''Falcon'' where he can hole up... but stumbles into the airlock instead. Once he gets the information he needs (and the captive has tried to claim Solo's NotSoDifferent) and finds time to quip that it's just as well he stumbled into the airlock since he would've ended up there anyway, Han just hits the button. Since they're in {{hyperspace|IsAScaryPlace}}, his body is annihilated once he leaves the ''Falcon''[='=]s protective field.

'''Officer:''' In the cargo control are--\\

-->'''[[spoiler:Harrison]]: Oh, I'm scared, I'm so scared! Hahahahaha, joke's on you, Herman, you big [[CurseCutShort assh-]]