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* In ''Series/{{Defiance}}'' this apparently happened in the backstory to Datak's romantic rival when the other man was on his way to duel Datak over Stahma's hand in marriage. "Accidentally" of course. [[spoiler:Stahma later confirms it was she who spaced her own unwanted fiancé, rather than leave things to chance]].

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* In ''Series/{{Defiance}}'' this apparently happened in the backstory to Datak's romantic rival when the other man was on his way to duel Datak over Stahma's hand in marriage. "Accidentally" of course. [[spoiler:Stahma later confirms fan suspicions that it was she and not Datak who spaced her own unwanted fiancé, rather than leave things to chance]].

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* In ''Series/{{Defiance}}'' this apparently happened to Datak's romantic rival. "Accidentally" of course.

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* In ''Series/{{Defiance}}'' this apparently happened in the backstory to Datak's romantic rival.rival when the other man was on his way to duel Datak over Stahma's hand in marriage. "Accidentally" of course. [[spoiler:Stahma later confirms it was she who spaced her own unwanted fiancé, rather than leave things to chance]].

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** Another variation, seen in [[spoiler:"Blood on the Scales"]], is to have the person or persons killed while in the launch tube, which would then be opened. Execution and burial, all in one.
** [[spoiler:Cally Tyrol]] dies this way in [[spoiler:"The Ties That Bind"]] when she finds out that [[spoiler:her husband is one of the Final Five Cylons]] and takes her son into the launch tube with intent to commit MurderSuicide. She's stopped by [[spoiler:Tory Foster]], another of the [[spoiler:Final Five]], who takes the kid before locking her in and sending her into space.

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** Another variation, seen in [[spoiler:"Blood [[Recap/BattlestarGalactica2003S04E14BloodOnTheScales "Blood on the Scales"]], is to have the person or persons killed while in the launch tube, which would then be opened. Execution and burial, all in one.
** [[spoiler:Cally Tyrol]] dies this way in [[spoiler:"The [[Recap/BattlestarGalactica2003S04E03TheTiesThatBind "The Ties That Bind"]] when she finds out that [[spoiler:her husband is one of the Final Five Cylons]] and takes her son into the launch tube with intent to commit MurderSuicide. She's stopped by [[spoiler:Tory Foster]], another of the [[spoiler:Final Five]], who takes the kid before locking her in and sending her into space.



** It happens to [[spoiler:Two]] in "Episode Ten". [[spoiler:She survives, and does it to Wexler in the next episode.]]
** Pre-amnesia, after Three discovered Five stowing away, he was about to do this to her. Six stopped him, and he claimed he wasn't actually going to go through with it.

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** It happens to [[spoiler:Two]] at Wexler's hands in "Episode Ten". [[spoiler:She survives, and does it to Wexler in the next episode.]]
** Pre-amnesia, after Three discovered Five [[LittleStowaway stowing away, away]], he was about to do this to her. Six stopped him, and he claimed he wasn't actually going to go through with it.it but just wanted to scare her.



** Later, [[spoiler:Portia and Marcus]] eject every prisoner being held on a transport into space, as they're useless to them.

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** Later, [[spoiler:Portia [[spoiler:the EvilCounterpart versions of Portia and Marcus]] Marcus from an AlternateUniverse]] eject every prisoner being held on a transport they just liberated into space, as they're useless to them.

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** Several episodes mention that spacing is the preferred method of execution for treason and mutiny in the Earth Alliance military; one character is threatened with spacing after it is discovered that he [[spoiler:shot Garibaldi in the back]].

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** Several episodes mention that spacing is the preferred method of execution for treason and mutiny in the Earth Alliance military; one character is threatened with spacing after it is discovered that he [[spoiler:shot Garibaldi in the back]]. Treason is the only crime still punishable by physical death; murderers are sentenced to the supposedly more humane DeathOfPersonality.
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* In the series finale of ''Podcast/Wolf359'', [[spoiler: this is the ultimate fate of Kepler after his HeelFaceTurn]].
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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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'''Since this is a DeathTrope, beware of spoilers.'''

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'''Since this is a DeathTrope, {{Death Trope|s}}, beware of spoilers.'''
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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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