History Main / ThrownOutTheairLock

* In VictoryGundam, [[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.

** Also done to Niam in ''Progeny''. Possibly subverted as it doesn't actually kill him.

* In ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'', Petey dumps a bunch of space marines out of an airlock that wasn't there until he boarded the ship. (He didn't just cut a hole; he "installed" a complete airlock.) But the marines are all wearing PoweredArmor, so they should be able to reach one of the other ships nearby.

* In the 1990s ''AlienVsPredator'' PC game, marine players had to beat the Queen by airlocking her.

* In the in-game tutorial for the StarTrek MMO, you are required to space a number of borg drones by teleporting them into a corridor that is open to space, though safely on the other side of an atmospheric ForceField from where you are standing.
* The first level of the Episode IV room of Lego Star Wars gives players the opportunity to space as many imperials as you have time for during a level replay.

* In ''LittleBigAdventure 2'', on the Emerald Moon, you can trick one of the Franco guards inside the base into following you into the airlock, then put on your space suit which automatically opens the gate leading outside. Bye-bye, Franco guard.

* In Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, during the part where the Yolkians find Jimmy's 'toaster', the one who delivered it to the King was 'spaced' because he entered the throne room unannounced.

** How would have taken their sabres as trophies if he did that?

** This also happened to James T. Kirk at the beginning of ''StarTrekGenerations''. Of course, [[HesJustHiding he was just hiding in the Nexus]], and they brought him back to [[DroppedABridgeOnHim drop a bridge on him]].

** Played with when Grand Moff Tarkin hears that an officer has been spreading (partially true) rumors that Admiral Dalaa was sleeping with the Moff for her position; he jettisons the officer into space in low orbit around the planet in a spacesuit and leaves the suit's comlink on so the rest of the ship can hear his final moments as he plunges into the atmosphere and disintegrates.
* In ''Literature/HonorHarrington'', using this method of execution is rightly regarded as an unforgivable atrocity. [[SpacePirates Pirates]] do it regularly, of course (there is NO romanticisation of piracy in that universe). Slavers one-up them with ships designed to efficiently space ''every'' prisoner aboard in the event of boarding or mutiny. Just getting caught with such a ship- regardless of any evidence that it's ever actually carried slaves- is enough to be shot. A slaver ship's true purpose is impossible to hide from the inside, so if they're boarded and don't have a cargo of slaves they're assumed to have spaced them beforehand and as such are automatically guilty of mass-murder. In the book where this is stated, one slaver captain, while flying without a cargo, muses that it would be better to get caught with a full load of slaves; slaving will just get the whole crew life in prison, whereas being charged with mass-murder will get them all shot on the spot.

* In one of the original Han Solo books, Han determines that one of the people on his ship has betrayed them all to the enemy. The traitor flees, hoping to find a place on the ''Falcon'' where he can hole up...but stumbles into the airlock instead. "Saves me the trouble," Han says, and hits the button.
** In addition, they were in [[HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace hyperspace]] and his body was annihilated once he left the Falcon's protective field.

** In ''DeepSpaceNine'''s "Covenant," Gul Dukat spaces a follower who's become inconvenient.

* The new version of ''BattlestarGalactica'' 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 of this method of dealing with undesirables. More recently, [[spoiler:Cally Tyrol]] was murdered by a Cylon in this fashion.

* In the ''StargateAtlantis'' 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.

Throwing someone out a spaceship or space station's airlock without a suit, or as some universes call it, "spacing," or simply "airlocking," is a common method of killing someone in sci-fi works involving space travel. This one is usually reserved as a last-ditch effort to get rid of a bad guy, though certain [[TheCaptain Captains]] (especially SpacePirates) have been known to use this as a method of execution. By all accounts, getting exposed to the hard vacuum of space is not a pleasant way to die, and the effects of this on the body are covered in much more detail on the ExplosiveDecompression page.

* Master Chief throws himself and a bomb out an airlock in ''{{Halo 2}}''. In ''HaloReach'', Jorge throws Noble Six out an airlock of the Covenant supercarrier just before the slipspace portal bomb goes off, taking Jorge and the ship with it.

* Happens in the original {{Gaiking}} series, to the wife of [[AntiVillain an alien enemy]] some time before their daughter is [[spoiler:shot to death and he's brainwashed into becoming Darius's minion. [[OrIsIt Or Is He?]]]].

* JamesBond does this to Hugo Drax after shooting him with a poison dart in ''{{Moonraker}}''.

* If you manage to find the Comm Satellite secret level of ''QuakeII'', you'll notice a threshold with danger markings at the beginning of the level. Beyond the threshold is [[SchmuckBait a stash of goodies placed conveniently near an opened airlock]]. Do the math.

Throwing someone out a spaceship or space station's airlock without a suit, or as some universes call it, "spacing," or simply "airlocking," is a common method of killing someone in sci-fi works involving space travel. This one is usually reserved as a last-ditch effort to get rid of a bad guy, though certain [[TheCaptain Captains]] have been known to use this as a method of execution. By all accounts, getting exposed to the hard vacuum of space is not a pleasant way to die, and the effects of this on the body are covered in much more detail on the ExplosiveDecompression page.

* In ''SchlockMercenary'', Petey dumps a bunch of space marines out of an airlock that wasn't there until he boarded the ship. (He didn't just cut a hole; he "installed" a complete airlock.) But the marines are all wearing PoweredArmor, so they should be able to reach one of the other ships nearby.

* Used at the end of a segment in ''Film/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]].

** G'Kar's first aide, Ko'Dath, is offhandedly mentioned to have been [[DroppedABridgeOnHim died in a freak airlock accident (off-screen, in between episodes)]] when her replacement arrives ([[RealLifeWritesThePlot this is because her actress refused to return to the show, due to the heavy makeup demanded by Narns]]).

** G'Kar's first aide, Ko'Dath, is offhandedly mentioned to have been [[DroppedABridgeOnHim spaced by a malfunctioning airlock (off-screen, in between episodes)]] when her replacement arrives.

* ''[[{{Friday the 13th}} Jason X]]'' involved the titular character in space. Airlock ventings were an important plot point. Too bad common sense was not.

* Happens rather accidentally to either Jeebs or his brother (Or both?) in an episode of MenInBlack.

* In the HonorHarrington books, using this method of execution is rightly regarded as an unforgivable atrocity. [[SpacePirates Pirates]] do it regularly, of course (there is NO romanticisation of piracy in that universe). Slavers one-up them with ships designed to efficiently space ''every'' prisoner aboard in the event of boarding or mutiny. Just getting caught with such a ship- regardless of any evidence that it's ever actually carried slaves- is enough to be shot.
** Specifically, it's stated that since a slaver ship's true purpose is impossible to hide from the inside, if they're boarded and don't have a cargo of slaves they're assumed to have spaced them beforehand and as such are automatically guilty of mass-murder. IIRC, in the book where this is stated, one slaver captain, while flying without a cargo, muses that it would be better to get caught with a full load of slaves; slaving will just get the whole crew life in prison, whereas being charged with mass-murder will get them all shot on the spot.