History Main / ThrownOutTheairLock

** In ''[[Anime/MobileSuitVictoryGundam Victory Gundam]]'', [[spoiler:whenever the Angel Halo fortress was hit]] in the GrandFinale, many of the [[spoiler:"psycickers" inside of it (Newtypes [[PoweredByaForsakenChild acting as the "power batteries" for the Halo itself]])]] got thrown into space without spacesuits and died.
** Also, the "thrown into space in a spacesuit with a few days' worth of air" version was applied to [[spoiler:DarkActionGirl Fuala Griffon. She was rescued in the nick of time via orders of the local [[TheStarscream Starscream]], Tassilo Vargo, but [[AxCrazy her almost unexistant mental stability]] was fully gone by that point.]]

*** In "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS07E09Covenant 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 "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS03E03TheHouseOfQuark The House of Quark]]", Kozak threatens to throw Quark out of the nearest airlock if he insists that the Klingon that had died in his bar -- revealed to be an old enemy of Kozak's -- died in a drunken accident instead of in honorable combat against Quark.

* Cap'n Crosby from ''Webcomic/FarOutThere'' is known to threaten people with this. [[http://faroutthere.smackjeeves.com/comics/1030263/page-113-and-this-is-why-you-dont-cross-the-capn/ And he'll do it, too]].

* ''VideoGame/ConkersBadFurDay'' throws an alien out an airlock, blatantly spoofing the scene from ''Film/{{Alien}}''. However, it’s downplayed- every time you do so, the alien grabs onto the sides of the airlock and jumps back into the arena. It’s death is ultimately caused in a different way. 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 [[ItSeemedLikeAGoodIdeaAtTheTime how stupid of an idea it was]] to travel to space.

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'': In "The Cold Equations", Marilyn Lee Cross must be jettisoned into space after she stows away on the Emergency Dispatch Ship because her added weight means the ship doesn't have enough fuel to land safely at its destination Woden.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'':

** In the penultimate mission, Cerberus attempts to vent the hangar that Shepard's squad is assaulting. EDI ensures otherwise, provided you find and reach the correct console before [[NonStandardGameover the invisible timer runs out]].

* ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'': During a ''Franchise/StarWars'' parody, Darth Vader gets rid of Jar Jar Binks, [[OffingTheAnnoyance who is annoying him]], by throwing him into an escape pod chamber that lacks an escape pod, causing Jar Jar to freeze to death in space. Unfortunately for Vader, Jar Jar comes back as a Force Ghost, and now Vader can't shut him up.

* ''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 [[ItSeemedLikeAGoodIdeaAtTheTime how stupid of an idea it was]] to travel to space.

* Film/JamesBond does this to Hugo Drax after shooting him with a poison dart in ''Film/{{Moonraker}}''. It's the current page image.

* In the ''Literature/{{Lensman}}'' series, Boskone-affiliated pirates routinely space the crews and passengers of ships that resist capture. (Except for any [[AFateWorseThanDeath post-pubescent females]], of course.)

** In "[[Recap/FireflyE09Ariel Ariel]]", Mal almost does this to Jayne for ratting Simon and River out to the Feds on Ariel for the reward money. Jayne fearfully states that this "ain't no way for a man to die," and though Jayne wanted both of the Tams off the ship for a variety of reasons, as Mal vehemently points out during the confrontation, "[[AFatherToHisMen you turn on any of my crew, you turn on me!]]"

** In ''[[Anime/MobileSuitVictoryGundam Victory Gundam]]'', [[spoiler:whenever the Angel Halo fortress was hit]] in the GrandFinale, many of the [[spoiler:"physickers" inside of it (Newtypes [[PoweredByaForsakenChild acting as the "power batteries" for the Halo itself]])]] got thrown into space without spacesuits and died.

* PlayedForLaughs in ''[[Creator/HarryPartridge Starbarians]]'' Episode 3, where Killgar tricks the unnamed female servant on his ship, the DD Rex, into doing this to herself after being asked for a raise. She survives, but [[Main/TakeThisJobAndShoveIt quits]] after being fed up with how poorly the Starbarians treat people.

* Parodied in ''WebComic/{{Intragalactic}}]]. Being blown out the airlock is how the crew maroons stowaways.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': In "The Sting", after Fry and Leela are fatally stabbed by a space bee's stinger, Bender quickly grabs the bee and ejects it out the airlock, where it's [[LookBothWays splattered by a passing space truck]].

* Lex Luthor does this to Grodd in the next-to-last episode of ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Unlimited''. As far as last words go, "You twisted pink rabble of a hominid, I'm not done with you! I'll get out of this and when I do...!" are some of the better ones.
-->'''Luthor:''' Goodbye, Grodd. It could have gone the other way.\\

** 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. Once he gets back in, Flash is understandably unhappy, and [[LetsGetDangerous proceeds to take it out on the crew]] in about five seconds.
* Happens rather accidentally to either Jeebs or his brother (Or both?) in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/MenInBlack''.
* ''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]].

** Homer accidentally jettisons the two presidential candidates out of Kang and Kodos' ship in a Treehouse of Horror episode.
** Bart and Homer deliberately space themselves when their rocket (full of Earth's most irritating people) wasn't flying into the sun fast enough in another Treehouse of Horror episode.
** Averted when Homer goes up in the Space Shuttle by the heroic action of [[spoiler:an inanimate carbon rod]].

* At the end of the ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' two part episode "The Main Man," this is how Superman and Lobo manage to escape the Preserver's ship.

* An episode of ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' had a kamikaze baddie that could magnetically attach herself to metal, and guide some NegativeSpaceWedgie missile. At the end of the episode, after she escapes her cage and attaches herself to a wall, Crighton nonchalantly informs her that she attached herself ''to an airlock'', and a detachable one to boot. Moments later, the airlock itself is thrown out, taking her with it.

* ''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 quickly earned the FanNickname "Madame Airlock" for her fondness of using this method to deal with undesirables. More recently, [[spoiler:Cally Tyrol]] was murdered by a Cylon in this fashion.
** Often, it is not the airlock that is used, but Galactica's launch tubes — usually used for launching the ship's Vipers. [[JustifiedTrope Which justifies the long tube with a quick-opening door at the end.]]

* ''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 quickly earned the FanNickname "Madame Airlock" for using this method to deal with undesirables. More recently, [[spoiler:Cally Tyrol]] was murdered by a Cylon in this fashion.

* ''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 likes to use the airlock method of dealing with undesirables. More recently, [[spoiler:Cally Tyrol]] was murdered by a Cylon in this fashion.

* Mystek of the ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueTaskForce'' was Thrown Out the airlock due to a tag-team combo of ExecutiveMeddling and the resulting CreatorBreakdown. As writer Christopher Priest explains [[http://www.christopherpriest.com/hi.htm at his website]]:

* In ''Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross'', Hikaru, Max, and Ben board the Zentradi command ship in order to rescue a captured recon plane with Misa on board. In the fighting, they manage to blast a hole in the ship's hull and blow the Zentraedi's 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.

* In the ''ComicBook/WhatIf'' story "What if Professor X became the Juggernaut?", Cyclops is forced to do this to defeat Xavier with Uatu noting in bitter irony the Juggernaut's usual catchphrase of nothing stopping the Juggernaut.

* Parodies in ''Film/NationalLampoonsMenInWhite'' where the protagonist finds a button on the arm of the chair he's strapped to labelled "Push this if your name is [[Franchise/{{Alien}} Ripley]]" which blasts the villain out an airlock and releasing our hero after it closes.

* In Creator/ArthurCClarke's ''2010: Odyssey Two'', Walter Curnow claims that this is the official punishment for falling asleep on-duty. He's presumed to be joking, though, as the narrative then observes that such a punishment would've left the ''Leonov'' crew sadly short-handed.

** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E2PlanetOfEvil "Planet of Evil"]]: One of the cliffhangers has the Doctor and Sarah in the process of being conveyed out the airlock by one of the spaceship officers, who thinks the Doctor and Sarah are responsibe for the story's high body count. Another murder happens at that point, but even then they only escape death because someone has the decency to run back and stop the process.

** Abigail Brand does this to [[spoiler:Henry Peter Gyrich]] in the final issue of ''ComicBook/SWORD2020''. She claims afterward he comitted suicide despite her efforts to stop him. Nobody really buys it, but Gyrich was awful they don't press her.

** Abigail Brand does this to [[spoiler:Henry Peter Gyrich]] in the final issue of ''ComicBook/SWORD2020''.