History Main / ThrownOutTheairLock

* In the backstory of ''LightNovel/TrinityBlood'', [[spoiler:[[NameOfCain Cain]]]] gets thrown out an airlock by his siblings. Not only does he survive being spaced, he (eventually) recovers from ''re-entering Earth's atmosphere''. ''From space''.

* ''Series/DarkMatter'':

* In ''Anime/TheSuperDimensionFortressMacross'', Hikaru, Max, and Ben board the Zentradi command ship in order to rescue a captured recon plan. In the fighting, they manage to blast a hole in the ship's hull and blow the Zentraedi commander Breetai out of his own ship. It doesn't take. Breetai manages to grab onto the ship and make his way back on board before beating all three pilots and their mecha down.

** Another CMOF: when Sheridan spaces a teddy bear, which is later encountered by Keffer.

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

* ''Series/BlackMirror'': In the episode "USS Callister", Daly threw [[spoiler:a digital copy of Walton's son Tommy out the airlock to break Walton's spirit]] and force him to comply with Daly's orders.
* ''Series/BlakesSeven''.
** Another take on this trope has an airlock tunnel between two spacecraft being torn loose as one vessel suddenly blasts off, killing those inside. This happens in the episodes "Space Fall" and "Gold".
** In "Warlord", Servalan leaves a [[StickyBomb magnetic bomb]] in the airlock of Warlord Zukan's spacecraft. Zukan sends in his aide to remove it, blowing him out the airlock the moment he detaches the bomb from the metal wall. Unfortunately, the bomb explodes at that point, fatally crippling the spacecraft, so the warlord dies anyway.
** In "Orbit", Avon tries to airlock Vila when they're both stuck on an escape pod that [[ColdEquation needs to lose a lot of weight quickly to avoid crashing]]. Things get... pretty dark before an alternative solution is found.

** In "The Heiress", several Mandalorians are doing a mid-air seizure of an Imperial transport, only to be sealed behind blast doors in the cargo hold.

** In "The Rescue", the main character does the same thing to a platoon of [[EliteMooks Dark Troopers]]. Unfortunately, since they're droids armed with rocket boots, it doesn't get rid of them for long.

** In "The Voyage Home", an astronaut jettisons one of his crew members because he thinks that the guy turned into a monstrous alien in front of him.
** In "Abaddon", Curtis Sandoval is jettisoned from the waste disposal system of the interplanetary hauling vehicle ''Pequod'' by Virgil Nygard.
** In "Think Like a Dinosaur", [[spoiler:Michael Burr throws Kamala Shastri out the airlock of the Tuulen Transfer Station on UsefulNotes/TheMoon in order to balance the equation of the Hanen jump technology.]]

* In ''Series/{{Space 1999}}'': ''End of Eternity'', this is how the villain of the week is dispatched. The airlock was on the Moon rather than in space, and the villain's final resting place is glossed over: given his HealingFactor, it could be an AndIMustScream situation.

*** In the episode "Tangent", Jack O'Neill and Teal'c have to do this to themselves (ie. leave their ship without suits) in order to be evacuated to another ship with a Ring Transporter. They [[RealityIsUnrealistic survive unharmed]].
*** In "Prometheus", Jack and Teal'c use this method on the eponymous ship to get rid of the [[spoiler:Goa'uld-infested Colonel Simmons]].

*** "Company of Thieves", Vala does this to a Lucian Alliance goon who was about to kill Samantha Carter, albeit without an airlock: She uses a damaged Asgard transporter to beam him into space, albeit not on purpose -- they didn't know where the goon had been transported to until they looked out the window.

*** In the episode "Travelers", Larrin threatens to drop Sheppard out of Hangar Bay, going as far as opening the doors, leaving him standing on a force shield. Though she doesn't actually voice the threat beyond saying "Don't worry. You're safe as long as the force shield doesn't malfunction, and that almost never happens." Her crew previously state they assume she blew the last man who disappointed her out into space, though this could simply be posturing.
*** This is one of the ways [[spoiler:the Wraith virus controlling the Daedalus]] likes to kill people in the episode "The Intruder". It spaces an unfortunate Red Shirt, and tries to do the same to [=McKay=] and Sheppard, leading to an amusing OhCrap moment before they realize that they are protected by a force field.
*** Also done to Niam in "Progeny". Since Asurans don't need to breathe, it doesn't actually kill him, but he's left floating in high orbit around the planet.

----->'''Riker''': You were right. Somebody blew out the hatch. They were all ''sucked out into space''.\\
'''Data''': Correction, sir. [[ComicallyMissingThePoint That's]] '''''[[ComicallyMissingThePoint blown]]''''' [[ComicallyMissingThePoint out.]]\\
'''Riker''': (mildly irritated) ''Thank you'', Data.\\
'''Data''': [[SarcasmBlind A common mistake, sir.]]

*** In "Covenant", Gul Dukat spaces a follower who's [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness become inconvenient]], though he only opens the airlock a crack so she'll suffocate. Kira finds her JustInTime to save her.

*** In "The Nagus", Quark is nearly thrown out an airlock by [[CharacterizationMarchesOn his brother Rom]].
*** In "Defiant", Will Riker [[spoiler:(actually Thomas Riker)]] tells Sisko that Dr. Crusher practically pushed him out an airlock in order to get him to go on shore leave.
*** In "Afterimage," Garak nearly spaces himself during an acute attack of {{claustrophobia}}.

*** The above scene from ''Enterprise'' hits many of the same notes as one in "Equinox, Part II", with Captain Janeway as the increasingly obsessive interrogator, and a room open to alien attacks as the airlock. The big difference is that Janeway ''doesn't'' back down -- Chakotay intervenes to save the prisoner. This scene earned Janeway a "Madame Airlock" reputation well before Roslin.

*** In "Rise" the VillainOfTheWeek gets thrown out of a SpaceElevator which is so high up in the ionosphere it counts as this trope.
*** In the "Scorpion" two-parter, Chakotay tries to vent the Borg into space after Seven of Nine hijacks control of the deflector array to create a portal into fluidic space. It works on all but Seven, who manages to brace herself until the pressure equalizes. Thanks to her implants, she can carry on in a vacuum.

*** In "Cold Front", Silik spaces himself (his BizarreAlienBiology allows him to survive in a vacuum for short periods) and almost takes Archer with him.
*** In "Regeneration", Archer spaces two Borgified Tarkaleans when Malcom's security team cannot kill them with phasers.

*** In the alternate-timeline episode "Twilight", TheBridge itself gets shot off during the climactic battle, and the entire bridge crew get spaced.
*** Also during the Xindi arc, during the battle in "Azati Prime", ''Enterprise'' suffers multiple hull breaches, one of which shows three redshirts getting blown into space.

*** The evil MirrorUniverse Archer threatens to space T'Pol if she betrays him -- in that case there's no doubt he would carry out his threat.

*** The second episode features a BigBadassBattleSequence, during which two officers on the ''Shenzhou'' are spaced through hull breaches. One is friends with Commander Burnham, and she's visibly distressed to watch him die right in front of her.

*** Discussed in "Nepenthe" when Rios suspects that Raffi is a Tal Shiar mole.
---->'''Rios''': Raffi, I have one more thought about finding this guy. But I don't think you're gonna like it very much.\\
'''Raffi''': Why? Does it involve shooting me out of an airlock?\\
'''Rios''': I really hope not.
*** In "Broken Pieces", the Romulans vent the Artifact's compartments containing the unprocessed Borg before Seven of Nine can turn them to her side.

* ''Series/{{The 100}}'': In order to save as much resources as possible, every execution in [[SpaceStation the Ark]] is done by "floating", or ejecting people into space without protection. And because on the Ark AllCrimesAreEqual, that happens a lot.

** In the [[TheDocumentary reporter-visit episode]] "And Now For A Word," Dr. Franklin describes an incident when he was a kid where he and one of his friends were playing a game and the friend hid in an airlock. He was accidentally ejected and killed, and as a result, Franklin never laughs at jokes about putting people out of the airlock.

** In a SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}} from the season four episode "The Illusion of Truth", Sheridan calls Ivanova on threatening to space a nosy [=EarthGov=] reporter. His objection wasn't to the threat, but that she didn't mention that the reporter was to be stripped naked before being spaced, in order to save his clothes for use on a station that's short on supplies due to a trade embargo. [[ActuallyPrettyFunny The reporter got a good laugh from that]].

* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': In "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS3E23BackToTheMoon Back to the Moon]]", Sardonyx uses her hammer to smash the fused Ruby Squad out of the moon base airlock, unfortunately taking Steven with them when Eyeball grabs him.

* Ford and Arthur in ''Radio/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy1978''. 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/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy2005 film]] replaced it with a less "odd" scene involving sofas. However, the BBC [[Series/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy1981 television adaptation]], despite its much smaller budget, portrayed the scene much closer to the original. (As did the [[Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxyTrilogy novel]].)

* In one episode of ''Anime/CowboyBebop'', Spike spaces a rogue [[spoiler:refrigerator]]. Notably, the HollywoodScience aspects of the trope were averted as the would-be space had to be physically kicked out of the ship when air movement proved insufficient to do the job.
** He also, as detailed on the ExplosiveDecompression page, jumps out himself in another episode.
** In yet another episode, after a bunch of criminals take control of a prison ship, one of them opens a door to an area of the ship, unaware that there was a hole in the ship's hull on the other side.

* Played straight in Creator/GeorgeRRMartin's sci-fi horror story ''Nightflyer''. Two passengers on the eponymous spaceship try to find out more about their mysterious and unseen captain by hacking into the ship's computer, only to have an OhCrap moment when they realize the corridor has just been sealed and the cargo-loading hatch above their heads is opening. As they're traveling at superlight speed, the resulting explosion rips them apart and causes major damage to the ship. The survivors correctly assume that this was no accident.

* ''VideoGame/LastScenario'' does this but with an airship instead of a spaceship. Before Tiamat can blow up the ''Brunhild'' and everybody on it, Alison grabs her and, after getting Ethan to open up a cargo hatch, [[TakingYouWithMe drags the both of them out through it.]]

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** Abigail Brand does this to [[spoiler:Henry Peter Gyrich]] in the final issue of ''ComicBook/{{SWORD}}''.

** While Flash is fighting a mook in a spacesuit, the latter opens the airlock sending them both out into space. The mook pulls himself back in with a safety line, but Flash would have died if not for Green Lantern.

* Multiple times in ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'':
** In the episode 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]]!
** In the episode "The Spy Humongous", a [[OvertOperative very poor Pakled spy]] decides to slip away from Ransom and Kayshon to use the restroom. Unfortunately, he mistakes an airlock for the restroom and when he goes to "flush", he's shot out into space. Amazingly, he's somehow resilient enough to ''survive''. Or [[AchievementsInIgnorance just too stupid to realize better]].
** In the episode "I, Excretus", Mariner is put through a simulated test with the crew acting on the infamous polywater intoxication incidents. For the test, this means a massive orgy. [[BrainBleach She is so disturbed by this she willingly vents herself and the crew just to end the test]].

* Cortana in ''Machinima/ArbyNTheChief'' was [[spoiler:thrown into the centre of an alien sun after a gay alien that looks suspiciously like the creator of the show's chin raped and ate her friends Travis and Todd]].

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** ''Literature/TimeEnoughForLove'', Lazarus Long tells a story of how he ended up staying years -— long enough for his sons to be grow up enough to help him with mechanical work -— on a planet because the government confiscated his ship, and it took that long to make enough money to buy it back. 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. Asked about the Protector of Servants, he says, "I ''spaced the bastard! Alive. He went thataway, eyes popped out and peeing blood. What did you expect me to do? Kiss him?"

** Naomi does this to herself, [[spoiler: barely managing to survive, in an attempt to get herself to a ship she can use to escape Marco Inaros.]]

* ''Series/TheOrville'': The [[spoiler: Kaylons]] send a crewman out the airlock and [[ForcedToWatch make Ed watch]] as punishment for his resistance to their occupation of the ''Orville''.

** In "Think Like a Dinosaur", [[spoiler: Michael Burr throws Kamala Shastri out the airlock of the Tuulen Transfer Station on UsefulNotes/TheMoon in order to balance the equation of the Hanen jump technology.]]

*** "Company of Thieves", Vala does this to a Lucian Alliance goon who was about to kill Samantha Carter, albeit without an airlock: She uses a damaged Asgard transporter to beam him into space, albeit not on purpose - they didn't know where the goon had been transported to until they looked out the window.

*** The above scene from ''Enterprise'' hits many of the same notes as one in "Equinox, Part II", with Captain Janeway as the increasingly obsessive interrogator, and a room open to alien attacks as the airlock. The big difference is that Janeway ''doesn't'' back down--Chakotay intervenes to save the prisoner. This scene earned Janeway a "Madame Airlock" reputation well before Roslin.

* ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'': This is how [[spoiler: Evil Morty]] disposes of dozens of other Ricks and Mortys, dead or alive, once [[spoiler: he becomes President of the Citadel]].

** Averted when Homer goes up in the Space Shuttle by the heroic action of [[spoiler: an inanimate carbon rod]].

** Brock is nearly blown into space without a space suit when a space station hatch opens--being Brock he survives, but coughs up something big.

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** Naomi does this to herself, [[spoiler: barely managing to survive, in an attempt to get herself to a ship she can use to escape Marco Inoros.]]

** ''Literature/TheRollingStones'', but here it is a trope used by various family members when plotting and writing scripts for a successful commercial space opera serving as an income source for the family, the original scripts having been written by the Grandma character Hazel Meade Stone.

** [[Recap/StarWarsRebelsS2E06BloodSisters "Blood Sisters"]]: Chopper gets sucked into space when Ketsu shoots out the hatch of Sabine's stolen shuttle. He takes the opportunity to sabotage her weapons array.

* ''VideoGame/ConkersBadFurDay'' throws an alien out an airlock, blatantly spoofing the scene from ''Film/{{Alien}}''. Before that, the dead bodies of the Panther King and Berri get thrown out of the airlock, too. Professor Von Cripplesac is tossed out of it as well, lamenting how stupid of an idea it was to travel to space.