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12->''"The dictionary defines defenestration as the act of throwing a person or thing out a window.''\
13[Spider-Man is thrown out the window of a skyscraper]\
14''Really not my favorite word."''
15-->-- '''Spider-Man''', ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan''
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17The sad fate of many a {{Mook|s}}... mostly because [[RuleOfCool it looks really cool]]. A sufficiently badass character punches, throws, or in any other way applies the force necessary in order to toss someone else through a window. A loud clangy window with shards rippling everywhere, [[SoftGlass at least in fiction]]. In RealLife, the window might be opened first.
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19How we see this trope typically depends on who is doing it. If a heroic character does it, we actually see them throw someone out the window, but typically not the very messy landing. With villains it's the other way around -- to emphasize the cruelty. An ambiguously portrayed character may perform this feat, but you'll have to TakeOurWordForIt, since showing this trope usually inspires some sort of positive or negative feeling with whoever is doing it.
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21BarBrawl Variants (particularly if it's set in the Wild West): Cut to street view of the pub. A character comes flying through the window onto the sidewalk, picks themselves up, and wades back into the fray with much-determined sleeve-pushing-up and angry muttering. Or it signals the end of the brawl.
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23A safety note: [[SoftGlass although fictional characters may be thrown through windows and get up again afterwards]], in real life you can easily be killed by lacerations from large shards of broken glass, even when thrown through a ground floor window. Live-action TV doesn't use glass for this at all, but specially-made panes of ''sugar'', which is weaker and breaks into much less dangerous shards. In other words, DontTryThisAtHome!
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25See also GlassSmackAndSlide for the more comical subversion. When someone does this with an object that's ApplianceDefenestration. Compare RailingKill for bridges and balconies, ThrownOutTheAirlock when RecycledInSpace, WalkThePlank for ships at sea or in the air, and DeathFlight for flying someone into the sky and "dropping them off". Contrast SuperWindowJump, when someone does this to themselves, usually intentionally. Also contrast HelplessWindowDeath, when the character is forced to watch through a window while someone else is killed.
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27Might overlap with DisneyVillainDeath. Not necessarily related to TheWindowOrTheStairs, despite the name.
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29And remember: It's NotTheFallThatKillsYou ...though in terms of this trope, even if you survived the landing, [[FlechetteStorm the broken glass from the window you were put through]] [[ThePowerOfGlass might say otherwise]].
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37* A Bud Light commercial featured an office meeting, with the workers being asked for suggestions on how to save money. One guy suggested they stop serving Bud Light at the meetings. Cut to outside as the guy -- still in his chair -- goes flying through the window and lands on the ground outside the building.
38* A 90s commercial for Foster's Beer had a scene where a man is violently hurled out of a pub window by a woman while a nearby dog, who was resting on the front step of the pub's door, [[FunnyBackgroundEvent hauls ass away from the mayhem.]] What did it all translate from in Australian? The word "No".
39* An ad for Boot's No.7 cosmetics range features a woman in a white ballgown running from security guards, crashing through a window and dropping twenty storeys into an airbag, ending with her stunt double walking away and saying "I've never been the right age to.jump off a building".
40* A 1995 promo for ''Series/SportsCenter'' shows a pre-show meeting where anchor Jack Edwards suggests a story about how pitching great Roger Clemens had lost his best fastball. Fellow anchor Creator/KeithOlbermann disagrees and asks Clemens to come into the conference room to settle the dispute. After Olbermann tells Clemens about Edwards' claim, Clemens grabs Edwards and tosses him through the window. Cue shot of Olbermann holding a radar gun.
41--> Olbermann: 98 (miles per hour) ... pretty good.
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45* In the opening sequence of the ''Manga/{{Akira}}'' movie, little guy Kaisuke knocks a rival gang member right through a window, reminding us that being AmbiguouslyGay doesn't mean you can't kick major ass.
46* ''Anime/AngelBeats'': It's played for laughs in the very first episode. Twice. On the main cast.
47* In ''Manga/{{Beelzebub}}'', Kanzaki tells Oga to do this to [[YouHaveFailedMe Shiroyama]]. Oga punches Kanzaki through the window instead.
48* Hilariously parodied in ''Manga/{{Bleach}}''. When Ichigo kicks Ebern Azgiaro through his bedroom's window after he shows up out of nowhere standing on his bed (which seems to be kind-of a minor BerserkButton for him), Orihime actually ''opens said window'' so it won't break.
49* ''Manga/CaseClosed'':
50** Conan Edogawa gets thrown off a burning house's window in the Moonlight Sonata arc. Good thing, it's a first-floor window so the kid isn't that badly hurt. Bad thing? [[spoiler:The one who threw him out, Seiji Asou aka Narumi Asai aka the SympatheticMurderer, did that to save Conan from dying with him. Soon he dies in his burning home, playing the Moonlight Sonata in his dad's old piano until he either burns to death or fatally asphyxiates, as Conan and Ran can only sadly watch.]]
51** Also, several murders have the victims being thrown off windows and balconies or put in circumstances that will make them fall off. In fact, during the ''Night Baron'' case, Conan gets thrown off ''again'' by a killer of the week: this time it's a ''very'' high hotel balcony, but [[SoftWater he lands in the pool of the place]]. [[spoiler:Later, the victim of the week is killed in a similar way... plus being ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice.]]
52** Subverted in a case where it ''looked'' that [[spoiler:a talented illustrator had committed suicide by jumping off her balcony...]] but [[spoiler:it was a ruse from her killer who staged a complex scenario to trick the police into believing she has killed herself. Conan saw through his act soon, obviously.]]
53** In a later case, Conan almost plummets from a BigFancyHouse's balcony. The nearest person, however, cannot help because [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes he is terrified by heights and about to panic]], so the family butler rescues him. [[spoiler:And this helps Conan and Heiji deduce how the murder of the case was done.]]
54* In the manga version of ''Manga/ChronoCrusade'', Chrono actually tosses ''Rosette herself'' out the window when he becomes frustrated that she won't get up in the morning. When Azmaria responds with horror, Chrono quips "[[SoftWater don't worry, there's a lake below!]]" Cue Rosette coming back up to the window in a soaking wet nightgown and a fish in her mouth.
55* ''Anime/CrayonShinChan'': An issue of the manga has a pair of hooligans attempting to scam Susan Koyuki's diner by way of FakedFoodContaminant, only to be exposed. They then attempt to retaliate, [[BullyingADragon oblivious to the fact that Koyuki was an ex-Green Beret]]... cue Koyuki ejecting both of them via the diner's windows.
56* The ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' episode "[[Recap/CowboyBebopSession5BalladOfFallenAngels Ballad of Fallen Angels]]" has a very memorable scene where [[spoiler:Spike]] is thrown out of the window by [[spoiler:Vicious]]. He then falls in slow motion with the glass raining down alongside him, as soft music plays and fragmented flashbacks reveal their past together... and he casually flips a grenade through the window as he falls, ensuring a world of hurt for his tormentor.
57* A filler episode during the Trunks Saga of ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' had this: Chi-Chi hires a tutor named Mr. Shu for Gohan, who proves to be a SadistTeacher who prides himself on beating his students with a [[ATasteOfTheLash whip]] when they don't do what he says, and who gets a sick kick out of openly and relentlessly mocking and insulting Goku. When Chi-Chi finds out his true colors, she's so pissed off that she [[TranquilFury calmly]] opens a window, throws him out of said window, [[MamaBear and then jumps out the window and chases him off of her property while screaming at him to leave and never come back again.]]
58* This is how [[spoiler:Terry's first love Lily]] perishes in the ''VideoGame/FatalFury'' first anime special. To make it worse, [[spoiler:Geese throws her off a third-story window... ''with a Reppuken''.]]
59* [[spoiler:Rin Sohma]] from ''Manga/FruitsBasket'', courtesy of [[PsychopathicWomanChild Akito]]. [[spoiler:She actually survives, though she ''is'' seriously wounded (and her cousin Hiro, who witnessed the incident, is totally traumatised). It helps that she was thrown from a "mere" second floor. Her boyfriend Hatsuharu [[PapaWolf does not take this lightly]].]]
60* Happens to Ling Yao and Lan Fan from ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist: Brotherhood'' [[http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9wa0i5FZe1rwyn4so2_r1_500.gif at least once.]] It's hilarious due to how... ''nonchalant'' they look as they get thrown own the window itself.
61* ''Manga/Golgo13'' is targeted by cult members armed with hand grenades. He shoots one only to have a live grenade drop from his hand, so Golgo shoots into a nearby car window and dives through the broken glass so he's protected by the car's metal.
62* ''Anime/GrimmsFairyTaleClassics'': The witch in "Rapunzel" she pushes the prince out of the tower with her magic, unlike in the original stories where he jumped out or fell off on his own.
63* ''Manga/GTOTheEarlyYears'':
64** Eikichi throws Takezawa through a window ''into'' the building where his gang have Shinomi prisoner.
65** Natsu throws a guy out a window in front of Kamata. Two chapters later, he throws Eikichi into a window.
66** At the school festival, [[StoneWall Sakaki]] offers a million yen to anyone who can knock him out, with Ryuji failing with his RapidFireFisticuffs and having to pay him ten thousand yen. Kiwamezawa takes a different approach, throwing the punching bag Sakaki's in out the second floor window.
67* PlayedForLaughs in ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'', when Austria freaks out when young Italy sneaks into his bed and ends up kicking him off a window. It's supposed to be an allusion to one of the Defenestrations of Prague mentioned below.
68* In the anime version of ''Literature/HighSchoolDxD'', Issei punches Raynare through the glass and outside the church. In the light novels, it was through a wall instead.
69* ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable'':
70** A heroic example takes place when [[spoiler:before being murdered by Yoshikage Kira, the teenaged Reimi Sugimoto threw a toddler boy that she was taking care of outta the nearest window, saving the child's life but falling victim to the murderer almost immediately afterwards. The boy survived and grew up to adulthood... and into the manga artist and Stand User Rohan Kishibe, one of the main characters, who takes an ItsPersonal approach to the plot when he finds out about this.]] It's also lampshaded: [[spoiler:an old monk who knew Rohan as a kiddo says that when little!Rohan was found alive after Reimi's death, he was so traumatized that [[MadnessMantra he could only say]] "Reimi threw me out of the window!".]]
71** Another example from the same part occurs when Josuke is able to track down the minor antagonist Yuya Fungami, after spending all day being chased by his [[FightingSpirit stand]], Highway Star. Yuya turns out to be hospitalized after suffering a motorcycling accident, and points out that it would be cowardly of Josuke to beat up an injured man. Josuke responds by using his stand to [[HealingHands heal all of Yuya's wounds]], only to then beat him senseless and throw him out his room's window, thus leaving him in an even worse state than before. Strangely, [[DefeatMeansFriendship Yuya becomes Josuke's ally after this]].
72* ''Manga/KimiNoKnife'': In chapter 1, a student gets thrown out of a window during a fight. Shiki manages to catch the lower half of the student's body just before he falls out.
73* In ''Manga/TheLoveAndCreedOfSaeMaki'', MalevolentMaskedMan "the Mysterious Baron" warns Misao and Ran that "Sae is a sleepyhead". When they exit the underground hall they're greeted by [[spoiler:Jin, the Maki family BattleButler, crashing through the window, followed by a berserk, {{Sleepwalking}} Sae]].
74* In ''Manga/LovePistols'', Yonekuni's mother Makio pushes her girlfriend Karen out of a four-story window. Karen only survives because she's a ''madararui'', and yet she still breaks her legs.
75* In ''[[Manga/BakiTheGrappler New Grappler Baki]]'', an escaped villain who wants to fight Baki kidnaps his girlfriend [[spoiler:at Yujiro's behest (way to go dad)]] to induce him to fight at his fiercest, but comes to regret being in a room so high up. [[spoiler:He's only saved by some previously established improbable climbing skills]].
76* Bellamy, on his first appearance in ''Manga/OnePiece'', does this to some powerful pirate after he "cheated" in a game of poker.
77** Also, Elder Nyon gets kicked out of a window by Hancock. Good thing Nyon is ''very'' MadeOfIron, so she doesn't really get hurt.
78** A very young [[spoiler:Trafalgar Law]] gets tossed out of a window by [[spoiler:his soon-to-be BigBrotherMentor, Corazon, who does it to try dissuading him from joining Doflamingo's group.]]
79* Towards the end of ''Manga/PrivateActress'', [[spoiler:a man named Yuuichirou tries to kill Satoka, TheRival to Shiho because he blames her for the death of his girlfriend Misaki. Satoka, however, tricks him into falling off a window, and Yuuichirou is the one who dies instead. Shiho assists him in his last moments and he begs her to punish Satoka for her deeds in his LastRequest.]]
80* ''Manga/RosarioPlusVampire'':
81** Outer Moka defenestrates Kurumu after her other self warns her about the consequences of leaving Tsukune alone with a succubus. Also a case of BewareTheNiceOnes, as unlike her other self, Outer Moka avoids getting into fights if she can help it.
82** In the second serialization, Kurumu saves Mizore from an attempted suicide by auto-defenestration during the Yuki-Onna arc.
83* Happens to [[spoiler:Eudial]] in ''Anime/SailorMoon S'', when she [[spoiler:attacks Super Sailor Moon and she merely deflects it. She actually ''lives to tell''... [[EveryCarIsAPinto just not for long]].]]
84* ''Manga/{{Sanctuary}}'': Because of him cutting off illegal funds, Asami is briefly the target of a hit, but one of his assistants is the one being thrown out a window, "thanks" to the dark apartment preventing the assassins from properly identifying their marks.
85* In ''Manga/ShadowStar'', [[spoiler:the bully Hiroka is grabbed by Oni, the Shadow Dragon controlled by a girl she and other girls pretty much tortured, and she's then thrown out of a window as a KarmicDeath.]]
86* Alisa does this to Xiaoyu in ''Anime/TekkenBloodVengeance''.
87* Happens to [[spoiler:Watanuki]] in ''Manga/{{xxxHolic}}'', due to [[spoiler:his friend/crush Himawari's DoomMagnet aura affecting him. Poor Himawari decides to willingly take his resulting injuries onto her own body, and as a result, she's soon CoveredWithScars.]]
88* In ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'', during their duel Divine uses one of his monsters to pin [[spoiler:Carly Nagisa]] to a large glass window, hurting [[spoiler:her]] badly [[ElectricTorture with electrical attacks]] before actually sending [[spoiler:her]] through the glass. The impact kills the victim instantly. [[spoiler:Although she recovers... [[CameBackWrong Well, not entirely.]]]]
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92* ''ComicBook/{{Alias}}'': In the first issue, ComicBook/JessicaJones deals with an unruly client by chucking him through the window on her office door. This scene is [[MythologyGag recreated]] in the first episode of the [[Series/JessicaJones2015 live-action series]].
93* ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'':
94** In ''ComicBook/TheAttackOfTheAnnihilator'', ComicBook/{{Batgirl}} gets thrown off a rooftop by a telekinetic pulse of the titular villain. Fortunately, she's caught by ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}, who was visiting Gotham City.
95** ''ComicBook/TheBatmanAdventures'': At the end of "Mad Love", the Joker throws Harley out of a fifth-story window for the terrible offense of being better at killing Batman than him.
96* In the 2010 relaunch of ''ComicBook/BirdsOfPrey'', White Canary has just finished her EvilGloating and is starting to leave when this happens:
97-->'''ComicBook/BlackCanary:''' Hey Eggwhite. Guess... Guess what I just noticed? Both your hands are occupied. ''[[[SuperScream Canary-Cries]] her through a window]''
98* ''ComicBook/BlackMoonChronicles'': As the Baron of Moork, Wismerhill is badgered by the guild leaders who demand more rights of him. He eventually gets so annoyed that he throws the head of the guild through the castle window to his death. Two scared engineers then respectfully ask their lord if they should restore the window, given that they've already had to repair it twice that very week. Wismerhill is so amused that he promises them he'll just use a sword next time.
99* ''ComicBook/BlackOrchid'': The second issue of the 1993 series has Flora Black take out a pair of government agents by ordering them to jump through a closed window to their deaths.
100* In ''ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}'', the title character does this to someone [[RunningGag practically every time]] he visits [[BadGuyBar Josie's Bar]] for information. Eventually, Josie relocates underground, so when Hornhead inevitably shows up to beat the Kingpin's whereabouts out of her patrons, at least he can't throw them through windows.
101* ''Literature/DominoLady'': In the Eros Comix miniseries, Domino Lady knocks the crime boss Lester Musgrove out of a window in the radio station atop a skyscraper.
102* In ''ComicBook/GodHatesAstronauts'', Doctor Professor claims that he shot Star Fighter out of a window in their headquarters, [[UnreliableNarrator but]]...
103-->'''Star Fighter:''' It's a secret ''underground'' headquarters! Underground, dammit!
104* In ''Heart of Empire'' by Creator/BryanTalbot, a mook crashing a political meeting tries to throw a hand grenade. Victoria takes the live grenade from him, stuffs the grenade in his mouth, and throws him through a window.
105* ''ComicBook/Hitman1993'' has Defenestrator, a member of Section Eight who is a loony superhero wannabe armed with a window frame. He throws criminals through it.
106* ComicBook/{{X 23}} does this to a {{Mook|s}} she's shaking down during the "Mercury Falling" arc of ''ComicBook/NewXMenAcademyX'' (while dressed up as a schoolgirl for [[{{Fanservice}} some inexplicable reason]]). Fortunately for the Mook, Hellion is there to catch him and fly him back up again. When Julian scolds Laura about killing people, she flatly points out that he didn't die because Hellion saved him.
107* ''ComicBook/PowerGirl'': Satanna goes to the ''ComicBook/{{Shazam}}'' villain Dr. Sivanna to get a weapon to kill Power Girl, and she gives him [[SexForServices her body]] as payment. Afterwards, he attempts some minor small talk which Satanna finds unnecessary [[CardCarryingVillain because they are villains]], and she feels disgusted by their "business exchange". He agrees with her, then points out that since they are bad guys and she already gave him what he wanted, [[EvilerThanThou he no longer cares for what she wants]]. In reaction, Satanna try to attack him, and he gets her thrown out the window.
108* In the first issue of ''ComicBook/Prez1973'', Boss Smiley pushes one of his own {{Mooks}} out of a window for making a thoughtless comment. One of the remaining mooks calmly starts patching the window glass back together.
109* In one issue of ''ComicBook/ThePunisherMAX'', a CorruptCorporateExecutive presses Frank's BerserkButton by dealing in slave trade. Frank corners her in her office in a skyscraper. Since windows are made out of reinforced glass, Frank proceeds to [[PayEvilUntoEvil methodically break the window using the woman until the frame gives and defenestration is achieved]].
110* ''ComicBook/{{Robin}}'':
111** ''ComicBook/Robin1993'': Tim Drake versus King Snake. Snake tells Tim that if he surrenders, he'll kill him quickly. Tim manages to trick Snake with a feint and swing down from the opposite side to kick Snake through a window.
112** In ''ComicBook/RedRobin'', Tim himself gets kicked out the window of a skyscraper by [[spoiler:Ra's Al Ghul]] after foiling the villain's plans.
113* ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989'': This happens in ''World's End'' when the corrupt Carnifex of Aurelia gets thrown through the window of an attic crypt by his undead predecessor into his KarmicDeath.
114* Bane does this to hilarious effect in ''ComicBook/SecretSix'' #9. He gets a hold of a mook and is about to execute his Signature Move when the mook pleads with him: ''"Don't crack my spine!"'' Bane, out of respect "for the man this city belonged to" -- [[spoiler:ComicBook/{{Batman}}]] -- chucks him out the high-rise window instead.
115* In ''ComicBook/{{Silverblade}}'' #2, Emmett gets hit by his own ricocheting buckshot and knocked backwards through Belinda's window where he plummets into San Fernando Valley (with the effect possibly being given a magical push by the falcon).
116* ''ComicBook/SimonSaysNaziHunter'': In one panel, a Nazi is thrown through a window.
117* Two instances occur in ''ComicBook/SinCity'': Dwight is thrown out of a window by Manute in ''A Dame To Kill For''. Manute is likewise tossed out of a window by Wallace in ''Hell And Back''.
118* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': In a [[http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/11/118094/2787762-1463596_981365_spiderman25_super_super.jpg famous scene]] in ''ComicBook/TheAmazingSpiderManJMichaelStraczynski'' #522, Spider-Man throws ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} out a window for bad-mouthing his wife. Being Wolverine, [[GoodThingYouCanHeal he just stands up and walks back up]], grumbling about how some people have no sense of humor.
119* In ''ComicBook/StarWarsMarvel2015'', Chewbacca and Threepio enter a seedy bar looking for Luke. They ask the patrons for information on Luke's whereabouts, but to no avail. Cue Chewbacca throwing one of the patrons through a window.
120* In the ''Obsession'' miniseries of ''ComicBook/StarWarsRepublic'', Asajj Ventress does this to Obi-Wan Kenobi with the Force during the Battle of Boz Pity.
121* ''ComicBook/SullivansSluggers'': During a BarBrawl, two people, one of whom being a member of Casey's baseball team, ends up thrown through a window.
122* ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'':
123** {{Subverted|Trope}} in ''ComicBook/TheStrangeRevengeOfLenaLuthor''. Lena Colby believes her out-of-control telekinesis has killed Supergirl by nullifying her powers and throwing her out of the window. In reality, [[spoiler:Lena was being gaslighted by a criminal gang, and "Supergirl" was an impersonator who pretended to be pushed out of the window and fell into a cushion put on the fire scape on purpose]].
124** ''ComicBook/SupergirlRebirth'': In ''Reign of Cyborg Supermen'', a Kryptonian zombie grabs Ben Rubel by the collar and tosses him against a window. Ben crashes through the glass and falls down, but Supergirl shows up and stops his freefall.
125* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'':
126** Accidentally done by a Metallo in ''ComicBook/WhateverHappenedToTheManOfTomorrow''. Lois is trying to escape from him when she stumbles backwards and falls off an open window. Good thing Superman was around.
127** In ''ComicBook/SupermanBirthright'', Lex Luthor throws Lois Lane off a rooftop, hoping that Superman is too busy to stop her freefall. He isn't.
128* In an issue of ''ComicBook/{{Transmetropolitan}}'', Spider Jerusalem threatens to have his bodyguard defenestrate someone. "And you wouldn't want anything to happen to your fenestrates, would you?"
129* In ''ComicBook/TheUnbelievableGwenpool'', when his accountant fails to find any records on Gwen, M.O.D.O.K. [[YouHaveFailedMe throws him out the window to his death]].
130* ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'' begins with this. Somebody kills the Comedian by hurling him out his apartment window onto the sidewalk far below. The rest of the plot is finding out why. Detectives at the scene acknowledge how improbable this would be in RealLife. The window, like those of any skyscraper, was made of tempered glass that is almost impossible to shatter. Only [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower extreme force]] could have thrown the Comedian through it, meaning this was no accident and no ordinary attacker.
131* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': A policewoman gets shot out a window by an addict who was using one of the experimental weapons the White Magician recently flooded the black marked with. Her most serious injury comes not from being "shot" or going through the window but by the abrupt halt when Diana lassoed her and stopped her momentum a bit too quickly, though it still saved her life as the abrupt halt against the cement she'd been headed for would have been fatal.
132* ''ComicBook/XFactor2006'':
133** Happens to one of Madrox's dupes after he refuses to be bought out by Singularity, courtesy of Damian Tryp Sr.
134** Monet throws Madrox out of the window after he tells her about the LoveTriangle situation with between them and Siryn.
135* {{Subverted|Trope}} in the ''ComicBook/YokoTsuno'' story ''The Devil's Organ''. Yoko apparently gets thrown off a window by [[spoiler:the "Black Knight" a.k.a. Karl Moebius]], but a huge tree branch stops her fall enough for her, an accomplished ActionGirl, to right herself off and fall safely.
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139* ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'' has a comic with a doctor being hurled through a window of a building signed "Institute for the Study of Emotional Stress."
140-->"Hey... I feel better already."
141* ComicStrip/{{Garfield}} was [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/1981/03/29 once]] on the receiving end of this when he gave a particularly insulting "assessment" on one of Jon's trademark tacky outfits. It's worth noting that [[BlackComedyAnimalCruelty this happened to a]] ''[[BlackComedyAnimalCruelty cat]]''.
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145* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13986094/11/The-Abyss-Between The Abyss Between]]'' Harry casts a blasting curse which pushes Lucius through a French window.
146* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12857714/4/Adrift-in-a-World Adrift in a World]]'' Harry banishes Lucius Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle through the glass sliding door on his hotel room balcony.
147* In ''Fanfic/AllYouNeedIsLove'' Naomi gets fed up with [[ButtMonkey Matsuda]] and throws him out the window, [[AndThereWasMuchRejoicing much to everyone's relief.]]
148* ''Fanfic/TheBridge'':
149** King Sombra sneaks into Princess Cadance's bedchambers and attempts to stab her in her sleep. Xenilla arrives in time to tackle him, sending them both through the window. They crash through a roof and land inside, mostly unhurt.
150** During their fight in a hospital, Monster X throws Enjin out the window. [[ImplacableMan Enjin]] gets up from the pavement immediately and reenters the building. A few minutes later, X gets knocked unconscious and blown out a window by an explosion.
151* ''Fanfic/ChasingDragons'': When the Old Faith launch their rebellion in Gulltown, their first act is to storm the Pearly Sept, where the much-hated Gerold Arryn is getting married. While the rest of the wedding guests are slaughtered, the bride and groom and their in-laws are thrown out a sept window to their deaths, in a mockery of the Arryns throwing people out the Moon Door.
152* In this [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/4574838/chapters/12901267 one-shot]] featuring Darcy/Bucky in a Soulmate AU, ''Dabbling in Soulmates'', Bucky developed a habit of throwing bad guys through windows over the years because his soulmark (Darcy's first words to him) said so. Meanwhile, Darcy won a spelling bee because of the word "defenestration".
153* ''Fanfic/ADarkerPath'': When Atropos' power detects that Aisha is in danger, she throws a drug dealer out a third-floor window so he lands on the guy who is the threat.
154-->'''Atropos:''' I recommend the experience. We should start Throw A Drug Dealer Out The Window Day. Make it an annual event.
155* ''Fanfic/AnEmpireOfIceAndFire'': When Tywin returns to King's Landing following Joffrey's regime's disastrous loss at Riverrun, he expresses his displeasure by taking Joffrey's [[GeneralFailure chief military advisor]] Amory Lorch and tossing him out a window to his death.
156* ''Fanfic/GuardiansWizardsAndKungFuFighters'': At one point during the Sack of Torus Filney, a duel occurs between Phobos' TokenGoodTeammate Viscount Servantis and the Rebellion's TokenEvilTeammate Rhouglar, which ends with Servantis kicking Rhouglar out a window. The fall isn't far enough to kill him, but he's left heavily injured.
157* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5678692/1/A-Hole-in-Your-Mind A Hole in Your Mind]]'':
158-->'''Dumbledore:''' Prestwick the Mad?!? He was removed from his position violently, by defenestration from his office by his Deputy, Agatha [=McGonagal=], who was then promptly arrested and Kissed by Dementor after she admitted her guilt the day afterwards. She didn't even '''open''' the window first.
159* ''Fanfic/InfinityTrainKnightOfTheOrangeLily'': While resting in an apartment within the Fog Car -- or the Infinity Train version of ''Silent Hill'' --Specter has had more than enough trouble with Easter (A living lightning bolt sharing space in his body and is now separated from him) and makes his anger known by kicking them out of the window. He learns to regret his action scenes later.
160* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12264844/1/Intimidation-Can-Be-Fun Intimidation Can Be Fun]]'' Harry sends a Ministry employee out a window after he states that Harry and Draco, who're being forced together due to a marriage law, will be firm friends within a week and life partners after a month if they just give it a try.
161* Happens ''three'' times in the first chapter alone of ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14277879/1/Invader-Zim-Strength-of-the-Tallest Invader Zim: Strength of the Tallest]]'', wherein Red throws doctors out of windows on two different occasions when giving him news about Purple's medical condition that he doesn't like, and then to a member of a rival species' diplomatic party after he [[AssInAmbassador says one too many disparaging things]] about the Tallest. In all three cases, guards are dispatched to retrieve the defenestrated and make sure they don't die.
162* The ''Fanfic/JWITCHSeries'':
163** At one point in "Gladiatorial Clash", Jade and Cornelia use the Snake Talisman to sneak up on the Enforcers and toss them out a window.
164** In "A New Dawn", [[spoiler:Shendu]] throws Miranda and Wong through windows and ''far'' away from the castle in a [[EvilerThanThou show of force.]]
165* During a NoodleIncident in ''Fanfic/TheKeysStandAlone: The Soft World'', the four dropped some people who burst into their tenth-floor hotel room out of the window. Because they're [[ActualPacifist Actual Pacifists]], though, Ringo caught them [[MindOverMatter telekinetically]] before they hit the ground.
166* Almost happens to [[spoiler:Tsuruya]] in ''Fanfic/KyonBigDamnHero'', when [[spoiler:she catches Yamane Jun and his group in their clubhouse and Yamane tries to "silence" her. [[BigDamnHeroes Then Kyon]] [[BerserkButton shows]] [[HumiliationConga up]]...]]
167* In the 17th chapter of ''Fanfic/LovedAndLost'', a guard dares to ask from King Jewelius if [[spoiler:massacring the entire population of Ponyville along with the heroes]] is a little extreme. [[OffingTheAnnoyance In response]], [[BadBoss Jewelius]] magically throws the poor guard out of the throne room's window, [[ShoutOut saying that]] [[Film/BatmanReturns it's a lot]] extreme as the guard falls from the castle tower.
168* ''Fanfic/AManOfIron'': In Chapter 70 of Book 3, [[spoiler: Tywin]] is thrown out the window of his office to his death by [[spoiler: Margaery]] after he [[HeKnowsTooMuch learns]] [[spoiler: that she and Loras are actually Magneto's children, fostered by the Tyrells as part of a long-term alliance with the Blackfyres]].
169* ''Fanfic/TheMissionStaysTheSame'': Jack blasts an Eclipse merc off the top of a building during the mission to recruit Thane.
170-->"Have a pleasant flight, motherfucker!"
171* In ''Literature/HarryPotter'' fanfic ''Fanfic/{{Moratorium}}'', Dolores Umbridge gets thrown out a window, courtesy of Harry.
172* ''Fanfic/TheNewAdventuresOfInvaderZim'':
173** Season 1:
174*** In Episode 15, there's a brief gag where an angered Tak uses her MindControl implant to make Sara throw herself out a classroom window.
175*** Another minor example in Episode 19. When Zim is wrecking his house in a rage over [[spoiler:Tak retrieving the [[MacGuffin Meekrob crystal]] before him]], it's mentioned that he threw the Robo-Parents out a window. They apparently had no problem with it.
176** Season 2:
177*** In Episode 8, Nyx tosses the two Irken cops who [[HumanPet mistook Gaz for an animal and sent her to the pound]] off of the balcony of [[TheDon Grissom's]] office, with them landing in a fountain several floors below. [[ShoutOut She didn't know]] [[Film/DiamondsAreForever there was a fountain there.]]
178*** In Episode 10, Purple has this done to an Advisor he's mad at in lieu of his usual ThrownOutTheAirlock approach, since they're currently on a planet, not in a spaceship. He does it with another Advisor in Episode 11, and orders it done to a third at that chapter's end, but by then they're back aboard the ''Massive'', so he's eagerly able to go back to the airlock method.
179* At the end of the 18th chapter of ''Fanfic/OldWest'', this is done to [[PsychoForHire Henry]] by [[spoiler:his employer [[BigBad Dufayel]] and [[TheDragon Ramirez Arvenga]] when Dufayel [[ShootTheDangerousMinion decides that Henry is too volatile to be trusted anymore]]]]. However, while Henry has a not-so-short fall (he was injured with a knife and bullets, no less), he [[ThePowerOfHate remains alive thanks to his burning desire for vengeance]] and flees to fight another day.
180* In ''Fanfic/OpeningDangerousGates'', Gajeel throws Gray and Natsu out the window when they try to join Lucy, Levy, and Erza in the bath.
181* In Chapter 17 of ''Fanfic/OriginStory'', entitled "This Might Sting a Little", Alex Harris tosses Sentry through the bedroom sliding glass door of Hawkeye's old house. It actually turns into an involuntary FastballSpecial, as she throws Sentry into Thor hard enough to knock them both out of the air.
182* In the lore episode of ''Fanfic/PanemReborn'', [[VillainWithGoodPublicity Rubius Dalton]] is thrown out of a window following a protest by the Victors against a possible 101st Hunger Games. He survives the fall but is [[LookBothWays ran over by a vehicle]].
183* ''Fanfic/AShadowOfTheTitans'': At one point during the Gotham Arc, Jade telekinetically tosses Scarecrow out a third story window when she finds out that he [[spoiler:kidnapped and experimented on her neighbor Asuka-Tammy]]. He apparently walks away more angered than harmed; Penguin speculates that his costume is padded for protection against that kind of thing.
184* In ''Fanfic/ThinkingInLittleGreenBoxes'' the first act of the new Magic Avengers is to throw most of the Ministry of Magic people out of their office windows.
185* In ''Fanfic/TiberiumWars'', a Nod soldier tries to rape a female GDI prisoner. In this story, the Brotherhood of Nod has declared [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil rape a capital offense]] and [[TooDumbToLive anyone caught doing it can be summarily executed.]] Cue one of the [[WarriorMonk Black Hand]] bursting into the room, [[PunctuatedPounding beating the would-be rapist against the wall while listing off his offenses]] and then hurling him out a third story window.
186* Happens to Twilight Sparkle in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fan comic ''Webcomic/TwilightsFirstDay''. After knocking her books into the bathroom sink, she magically powers up the clockwork hoof-dryer to try and get them dry again, causing a mini-tornado that flings her out of the bathroom window.
187* ''Fanfic/ThePalaververse'': ''Second Sun'': As part of a BarBrawl:
188--> Light spilled out of the bar’s windows. So did a lot of screaming. At one point, a Nightguard came out that way as well amidst a shower of glass.
189* [[Recap/TriptychContinuumIfRainbowDashCantSleep Rainbow Dash]] finds herself on the receiving end in the ''Fanfic/TriptychContinuum'', but would like to get some [[Funny/TriptychContinuum clarification]] on events.
190-->'''Rainbow Dash:''' Twilight? Come on, Twilight, let me back in! Just for a minute! You didn't tell me what "defenestration" meant before you threw me out the window! I need to use the dictionary!
191* In the ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'' fic ''Fanfic/TurningRedSecretsOfThePanda'', Jason Vaugn leans against a broken window and falls through it after his climactic fight with Xia.
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195* This fate befalls Butt-Head in ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHeadDoAmerica'', when, while wandering through the White House, he stumbles upon Chelsea Clinton, and has the audacity to hit on her. Cut to Butt-Head ''flying'' through the second floor window.
196* In Russian StopMotion classic ''Animation/TheCameramansRevenge'', after the titular cameraman catches Mr. Beetle cheating on Mr. Beetle's wife with the cameraman's girlfriend, Mr. Beetle throws the cameraman out the front window of the hotel.
197* In ''Anime/TheCatReturns'', just... don't irritate the Cat King, whether you're performing for him or breaking out in hysterical laughter from another act. (Both victims are tossed through high windows with no glass, but naturally, as cats, they're okay and show up sitting against the wall in a later scene.)
198* Early on in ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove'', this is the fate of an elderly man who [[MusicalisInterruptus accidentally interrupts]] Emperor Kuzco's dance routine. Other RuleOfFunny AnachronismStew notwithstanding, this takes place before glass windows were invented, so there was no glass to break, and the old guy lands and gets tangled up in some banners. At the end of the film, when Kuzco ([[CharacterDevelopment now much less of a jerk]]) apologizes, the old man responds with "It's not the first time I've been thrown out a window, and it won't be the last! What can I say, I'm a rebel!"
199* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie'', Lord Business threatens Bad Cop with this as means of YouHaveFailedMe. Ultimately, he goes with a [[FateWorseThanDeath much crueler punishment]].[[spoiler:.. which he levies against [[KickTheDog Bad Cop's parents]].]]
200* Stitch actually throws Jumba out of a window near the end of ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch'' just right before [[CarFu hitting him with a VW Beetle]].
201* In the beginning of ''WesternAnimation/TheSpongeBobSquarePantsMovie'', Squidward catches [=SpongeBob=] in the shower with him, and after a small conversation with [=SpongeBob=], Squidward ''kicks [=SpongeBob=] out of his window.''
202* Woody does this to Buzz in ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory1'' so that [[GreenEyedMonster Andy will have to take him and not Buzz to Pizza Planet]]. In fairness, he only meant to knock Buzz under the ''desk'', but [[GoneHorriblyRight things quickly spiraled out of control]].
203* During the climax of ''WesternAnimation/WallE'', just right before Captain [=McCrea=] finally shuts down [[AIIsACrapshoot AUTO]] for good, he actually punches [[TheDragon GO-4]] out of the cockpit window, causing him to get smashed to pieces upon hitting the floor just below it.
204* ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'': In 8-bit form, while on-duty in "wrecking mode", Ralph breaks open Gene's window and throws him out of it during game play.
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208* In ''Film/{{Andhadhun}}'', Simi kills Mrs. D'Sa by throwing her out of a window.
209* At the end of the forgettable Creator/CharlesBronson movie ''Assassination'' (1987), the villain behind the attempted murder of the First Lady gets thrown through a window. We then hear a radio report saying he [[TreacheryCoverup "died of a heart attack"]] despite the fact that any number of people must have seen the incident, and the injuries would be more consistent with suicide or an accidental fall.
210* ''Film/TheAvengers2012'':
211** Loki hurls Tony through the window of the 80th-or-so floor of Stark Tower in a rage after [[spoiler:his attempt to brainwash Tony fails. Tony saves himself by realizing what's about to happen and quickly calling for JARVIS to send the Mark VII armor (which can assemble itself around him even while he's plummeting towards the ground, homing in on the bracelets he put on earlier) through the window after him.]]
212** In a later scene, Captain America gets blown through a window while blocking an explosive with his shield to save a group of civilians, subsequently landing onto a taxi on the streets below.
213* ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'': Part of Team Cap's DynamicEntry to reinforce Wanda and Vision during the Scotland fight scene involves Falcon swooping in and kicking Proxima Midnight through a glass storefront.
214* ''Film/BatmanReturns'':
215** Max Shreck pushes his assistant Selina Kyle out a window in an attempt to murder her. It doesn't take, mainly due to Selina being revived by her cat Miss Kitty and her feline friends.
216** Prior to that, when two clown gangsters leap onto the bonnet of the Batmobile and try to shoot Batman through the bulletproof windshield, Batman simply hits the brakes abruptly, sending them flying into a burning display window.
217* In ''Film/BeverlyHillsCop'', a group of Victor Maitland's thugs throws Axel Foley through a window in the ground floor of a building. It shatters spectacularly. What makes it especially cruel is that ThereWasADoor right next to the window that they could have thrown Axel through, they just wanted to be asses about it.
218* In ''Film/BladeRunner'', Zhora is dramatically defenestrated, though she was probably 'retired' by the preceding gunshots.
219* ''Film/{{Blastfighter}}'': The first time Wally and his buddies [[BullyingADragon attempt to pick a fight with Tiger]], he punches one of them through the window of the grocery store.
220* ''Film/{{Braveheart}}'': King Edward grows annoyed with his son's male lover and tosses him out the window.
221* In ''Film/{{Bruiser}}'', Henry throws [[spoiler:Janine]] out of a window: using a chair to smash the glass first. The extension cord that wraps around her neck ensures that she never reaches the ground.
222* ''Film/TheBurning'': While struggling with his prostitute victim, Cropsy knocks her partially through a window.
223* ''Film/BurntOfferings'': [[spoiler:The house's last victim, Ben, is killed from being forced out of a tall window by an unseen supernatural force, falling to his death]].
224* This happens to Franklin Bean in ''Film/{{Cadence}}''. Humorously, if you watch closely, as the cameras change the POV, Franklin falls out the window facing one way but ends up landing facing the opposite direction.
225* ''Film/TheChargeAtFeatherRiver'': When Sgt. Baker finds Pvt. Ryan dallying with his wife, he punches Ryan out through a window.
226* ''Film/ChildrenOfTheCorn'':
227** The children in ''Film/ChildrenOfTheCornIITheFinalSacrifice'' take over Mrs. West's electronic wheelchair with an RC controller and force it in the middle of the road, where it is hit by a truck which sends it flying through the window of the local Bingo hall.
228** A corn doll is thrown at Cole in the opening of ''Film/ChildrenOfTheCornGenesis'', which somehow sends him flying through a window that is on another side of his house.
229* In ''Film/{{Clownhouse}}'', Casey and Geoffrey shove the lunatic Dippo out of the upstairs window of the house to his death.
230* The climatic shootout of ''Film/{{Commando}}'' ends with John (Arnie) shotgunning the main villain out of his mansion's window.
231* ''Film/CrouchingTigerHiddenDragonSwordOfDestiny'': The film's pagoda climax culminates with Hades Dai throwing protagonist Wei-fang through ther sixth floor's window, which Wei-fang barely survived by grabbing on the temple's awnings.
232* ''Film/TheCrow1994'' has Eric Draven getting blown out a window by the four guys who attacked his apartment and his girlfriend. He returns the favor to one of the four guys in question, [[spoiler:Skank]], whom he throws right out another window to his death.
233* ''Film/{{Curtains}}'' offers an odd example; thanks to cutting two separate scenes together, a character is shown falling outside through a second-story window, and then crashing ''back inside'' through a first-story window.
234* In ''Film/DangerDeathRay'', a {{Mook|s}} attempts to take out Bart Fargo by -- wait for it -- leaping at him as he stands in front of a window. Bart merely performs a NonchalantDodge, then says "What a shame".
235* In ''Film/{{Darkman}}'', Durant throws Pauly out his apartment window without bothering to open it first; resulting in a fatal CarCushion.
236* ''Film/TheDarkTower2017'': At one point during the climax, one of [[BigBad Walter]]'s {{Mooks}} tackles Roland out a window, leading to them both [[CarCushion crashing onto a bus]].
237* ''Film/DeathRidesAHorse'': During the fight in Burt Cavanaugh's saloon, Bill punches a bartender out through a window.
238* ''Film/DeathRing'': When Matt breaks into Vachs' mansion to rescue Lauren, he is confronted by [[DragonLady Ms. Ling]]. During their fight, he grabs her and hurls her bodily out of the upper storey window.
239* In ''Film/{{Deewaar}}'', [[spoiler:Vijay throws Samant out of a window to his death several floors below]].
240* ''Film/Destroyer1988'': After grabbing the priest at his execution and [[NeckLift lifting him by the neck off his feet]], Ivan throws said priest through the window into the witness room.
241* In ''Film/DiamondsAreForever'', Plenty O'Toole is thrown out a window by some {{Mooks}} out to get Bond but survives due to landing in the hotel pool. When Bond compliments the head Mook on their aim, the Mook reveals "I didn't know there was a pool down there."
242* ''Film/DieHard'': Just ask John [=McClane=] what he did to Hans Gruber, or better yet, ask Hans's brother Simon.
243* {{Parodied|Trope}} in ''Film/DirtyWork'' when Mitch is thrown through a bar window, then, as if unfazed by this, immediately pulls out his tape recorder, and says "[[RunningGag Note to self]]; learn to fight!"
244* ''Film/DeathWish4TheCrackdown'': This is how Frank Bauggs met his maker in the hands of Paul Kersey, getting knocked out his penthouse window and falling onto a car.
245* ''Film/DragonsForever'': Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao does this consistently to mooks, one of them which ends up being kicked by Jackie out of the windows of an ocean liner, through a safety rail and into the sea.
246* ''Film/{{Dredd}}'': The final confrontation between Judge Dredd and [[spoiler:Ma-Ma]] is concluded with him chucking her out of a penthouse window after he gives her a dose of the Slo-Mo drug [[DrugsCausingSlowMotion giving the audience a chance to see it in slow-motion]].
247* ''Film/DriveAngry'': At the end of the DesignatedGirlFight, Piper throws her opponent out through the rear window of the camper.
248* ''Film/EndOfDays'': Jericho (Arnie) flings ''[[BigBad Satan]]'' of all people out of a window after rejecting his WeCanRuleTogether deal.
249* ''Film/{{Eraser}}'': During the cabin shootout, Krueger (Arnie), hanging from the ceiling, takes out a mook in this fashion kicking him out of a window.
250* ''Film/EveOfDestruction'': EVE VIII hurls a bank robber out a window.
251* ''Film/FatalChase'': Among the film's main antagonists, a married couple, the wife dies in this manner from being decked out of a tall window.
252* This is how Nicole's evil boyfriend David is taken out in ''Film/Fear1996''.
253* ''Film/FirstBlood'': During Rambo's breakout from the police station, a random policeman gets kicked out of a window by Rambo.
254* The martial arts movie ''Film/FlagOfIron'' has the protagonist, Iron Monkey Luo Xin, killing two of his opponents by kicking their blades back into their guts, through their backs, and sending them flying backwards through a tavern's windows with the bloody blades still sticking out their guts when they land.
255* In ''Film/{{Foxes}}'', one of the main characters rides his skateboard by a bully and pushes him (explosively) into the plate glass window of a supermarket so the kid he's picking on can escape.
256* ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'':
257** In ''Film/FridayThe13th1980'', Alice takes refuge in one of the cabins, only to be proven that she's not safe when a corpse of one her fellow camp counselors is thrown through a window.
258** Similar thing happens in ''Film/FridayThe13thPartIII'' when Jason throws Rick's body through a window from the outside to frighten Chris.
259** Happens yet again with corpses in ''Film/FridayThe13thTheFinalChapter'', with Jason throwing Rob's body through a window into the Jarvis house.
260** In ''Film/FridayThe13thPartVIJasonLives'', Jason's killing blow to Paula sends her crashing through a window. He then pulls her back inside for further mutilation.
261** In ''Film/FridayThe13thPartVIITheNewBlood'', Jason throws Robin through a window, and the resulting fall kills her.
262** Charles in ''Film/FridayThe13thPartVIIIJasonTakesManhattan'' tries to evade Jason by running into a derelict building. Unfortunately, Jason has teleported ahead of him and throws him through a window back outside.
263** After Steven in ''Film/JasonGoesToHellTheFinalFriday'' impales a person possessed by Jason with a fire poker, the guy starts thrashing around and ends up crashing through a window.
264* In ''Film/{{Gremlins}}'', this is the fate of AssholeVictim Mrs. Deagle when [[GripingAboutGremlins the gremlins]] mess with her stair lift to send her flying up and out the upstairs window.
265* This is Malone's first onscreen kill in ''Film/GiveEmHellMalone''. The film literally opens with a {{Mook|s}} being shot out of a window in the first two seconds, before cutting to the shootout occurring inside between Malone and several other Mooks.
266* In ''Film/GoldenSwallow'', the second Chang brother dies from falling through a restaurant's top-floor window... ''after'' getting his [[SlashedThroat jugular sliced open]] by the legendary assassin, Silver Roc. Said victim is a ruthless landlord who [[AssholeVictim framed an innocent farmer and had an entire family, including a young boy, murdered]] over a land dispute, so he's obviously not going to be mourned.
267* In ''Film/{{Hancock}}'', the titular character does this to several {{Mooks}} who are attacking him in a hospital.
268* In ''Film/HangmenAlsoDie'', the intended GetawayDriver for the assassination of UsefulNotes/ReinhardHeydrich does this to himself after being brought to the Gestapo headquarters by jumping out of a window to his death rather than be interrogated.
269* ''Film/HannieCaulder'': When Hannie shoots Frank Clemens, the impact of the bullet is enough to send flying backwards through the window of saloon, where lands on top of a woman walking by in the street.
270* Occurs in ''Film/HappyDeathDay'' when [[spoiler:the killer Lori]] is kicked out the second story window of the sorority house and hits the ground. Right in front of sorority girl Emily, who can only [[ScreamingAtSquick scream in terror and run away]].
271* In a deleted scene from ''Film/HappyGilmore'' after Happy finds out how cruelly an orderly (played by Ben Stiller) is treating his grandmother and the other residents, he does this to him.
272* Father Malius gets shot with a harpoon gun and flies through a window in ''Film/HappyHellNight'' to his not-death.
273* In ''Film/TheHauntedMansion2003'', the evil ghost can materialize enough to catch protagonist Jim Evers (Creator/EddieMurphy) in a NeckLift, then flies upward and sends him through a window.
274* ''Film/HongKongGodfather'' has a scene establishing the villains have [[WouldHurtAChild no qualms about hurting children]], by having one of them flinging the grandson on a rival mob kingpin through a glass window to death. [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2YtwCJxU41o See for yourself]].
275* The 1959 film version of ''Literature/TheHoundOfTheBaskervilles'' opens with Sir Hugo Baskerville throwing a hapless servant through a window at Baskerville Hall.
276* In ''Film/HudsonHawk'', Hudson takes out the vicious fox terrier Bunny this way by shooting him in the mouth with a tennis ball launcher causing him to go flying out the window of the castle.
277* In ''Film/TheImperialSwordsman'', several {{Mooks}} gets decked out of a tavern's windows by the titular hero. Said tavern is located facing a cliff, by the way.
278* In ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade'', Indiana and his father are trying to escape Nazi Germany via airship before they get caught by the SS officer Vogel. Indiana heads for the bathroom, during which time Vogel boards and eventually finds Henry Sr. At this moment, Indy returns dressed as a member of the airship crew and gets Vogel's attention just long enough to swiftly chuck him through an open window of the gondola all the way down to land on a pile of luggage. Indiana then turns to see the entire cabin staring at him in horrified silence at seeing what he just did.
279-->'''Indy:''' ''({{Beat}}, then shrugs)'' No ticket.\
280''([[MassOhCrap Entire cabin of passengers suddenly swarm him waving their tickets in a panic]])''
281* The death of [[spoiler:Wong Chi-shing]] in the first film of ''Film/TheInfernalAffairsTrilogy''.
282* ''Film/InTheLineOfDuty4Witness'': The main villain, [[spoiler:Michael]], gets kicked by Rachel and Luk, one at a time, until he ends up falling through a glass barrier to his death.
283* ''Film/JojoRabbit'': The titular character fully completes his rejection of Nazi ideals by symbolically kicking UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler out of a window.
284* ''Film/KickAss'': BigBad shot out the window. And then exploded. WITH A ROCKET-PROPELLED GRENADE.
285* ''Film/KungFuHustle'' have the Tailor's first action scene; when the Axe Gang members fights the Coolie, one of them, thinking the Tailor to be a cowering civilain, attacks him only for the Tailor to throw said mook out of his store's windows before stepping out to join the fray.
286* ''Film/AKillersBlues'': The assasination in a funeral parlour ends with the mob boss getting hit by a speeding trolley containing an empty coffin while standing near a window, where he ends up getting knocked out the window as well. For good measure, the coffin flies out the window with him, before landing '''on''' him.
287* The climax of the otherwise forgettable (and cringe-inducing) kung-fu comedy, ''Lady is the Boss'' has the titular lady, Mei Ling (played by Kara Wai) decking TheDragon out of a gymnasium's window. In one of the biggest continuity problems the film has to offer (and that's saying ''a lot''), the window is already broken when Mei Ling's allies barges through a few minutes ago, but it's magically '''un'''broken until Mei Ling has to kick the dragon into it!
288* In ''Film/LastActionHero'', during Danny's ImagineSpot, Hamlet (Arnie) flings a guy out of a castle's window.
289* ''Film/TheLastRitesOfRansomPride'': During their fight in the Pride house, The Bruja tackles Juliette out through the closed bedroom window.
290* In ''Film/LeftBehind2014'', Chloe Steele witnesses somebody getting shotgun-blasted through a glass door window during the chaos that follows the Rapture taking place.
291* In the comedy ''Film/LoveAtFirstBite'', Dracula is [[MuggingTheMonster attacked by muggers]] while walking the streets of New York, so he uses his powers to toss one through the window of a TV store. The mugger grabs a TV set from the window display and runs off with it.
292* In ''Film/TheManWhoChangedHisMind'', Dick--in Laurience’s body--manages to escape a deadly gas chamber and falls out of a window, breaking all his bones.
293* Plot element in ''Film/MinorityReport'', where the psychic precogs see visions of the hero shooting the villain, sending him flying out of a hotel window.
294* ''Film/MissionImpossibleGhostProtocol'' has an assassin killed being kicked out a window of the Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world! It's also justified by the fact that the window had been removed earlier.
295* ''Film/MoreDeadThanAlive'': After catching up with Luke Santee in the GhostTown [[spoiler:(just after Santee has killed Billy)]], Cain crash tackles him through a plate glass window and the pair of them crash out into the street.
296* An accidentally self-inflicted version happens in ''Film/MysteryDate1991'' when a martial artist hitman misses his target and gets the window...
297* In ''Film/TheNightStalker'' [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Skorzeny]] effortlessly throws an orderly trying to subdue him out a window during his attack on the hospital.
298* Something of a signature move of Creator/ChuckNorris movies, through the late '80s (examples include ''Film/BreakerBreaker'' and ''Film/ForcedVengeance''), usually executed via screaming jump kick.
299* In ''Film/NineToFive'', Violet finishes Mr. Hart off in her ImagineSpot by ejecting him through his window. This was after [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill she had poisoned his coffee]].
300* ''Film/OnceAThief'' have more than one mook getting decked through windows in the final shootout, with a rather ridiculous moment where Jim booby-traps a microwave oven, places a basketball on it, and the resulting explosion with a flaming basketball somehow sends a mook flying halfway through a kitchen before the guy goes through a window.
301* In ''Film/PhantomOfTheMallEricsRevenge'', Eric [[HoistHeroOverHead lifts Mayor Karen Wilton over his head]] before hurling her through the office window into the atrium of the mall where she falls to her death.
302* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome occurs in ''Film/{{Polar}}'' when someone tries to escape a hit team by jumping through the window. Unfortunately, he doesn't have enough force and just bounces off the glass. The hit team promptly kill him and walk out, [[BrickJoke whereupon the window breaks]].
303* The eponymous protagonist of ''Film/ThePossessionOfMichaelKing'' does it intentionally to himself to protect his daughter.
304* ''Film/PrairieFever'': During the BarBrawl, Preston hurls James bodily through the saloon window.
305* ''Film/PrinceOfDarkness'': During the climax, two of the [[DemonicPossession possessed]] get tossed out a window by the protagonists.
306* Not shown, but there was much talk in ''Film/PulpFiction'' about Marcellus Wallace throwing "Tony Rocky Horror" out of a fifth story window -- supposedly [[DisproportionateRetribution for giving his wife a foot massage]], though Mia denied it.
307* In ''Film/ThePumaman'', both the BigBad '''and''' the sidekick start the movie by tracking down and defenestrating people who matched the biological profile of Puma Man (because his cat-like powers would allow him to survive the fall). The only difference is, the villain is the one who expresses something like remorse, saying that he hopes they've found the right one for the sake of the innocent men yet to be "tested". Vadinho, however, didn't throw anybody but Tony out a window and that was because he already knew he was the Puma Man. The FridgeLogic here should be readily apparent.
308* In ''Film/QuigleyDownUnder'', the sharpshooter protagonist finds out that the "wild animals" that CattleBaron Marston hired him to shoot are, in fact, Australian Aborigines. Cue DeathGlare from Quigley, followed by Marston being hurled out the window.
309* In ''Film/TheRaid: Redemption'', Rama kills an EliteMook by pulling him right out a window, bringing both of them crashing down the fire escape. Rama lives by using the other guy to break his fall but emerges in worse shape than at any other point in the movie.
310* Also in ''Film/{{Ransom}}'' Creator/MelGibson's character throws the bad guy through a storefront window pane. The SoftGlass part is averted, though, in that the villain gets his throat cut by the broken glass.
311* ''Film/ReturnToABetterTomorrow'': The false caretaker who abuses Lobster Tsui's daughter while Lobster is in prison. When [[PapaWolf Lobster]] finds out the truth upon his release, he immediately marches to the caretaker's place, beats the snot out of him and pushes him through a fourth-storey window. Somehow he survived.
312* This is the fate of the corrupt bishop from ''Film/RobinHoodPrinceOfThieves'' courtesy of [[ReligiousBruiser Friar Tuck]], who is thoroughly fed up with the bishop's greed and corruption, and loads him up with enough gold (and thirty pieces of silver) to "pay the Devil ON YOUR WAY TO HELL!"
313* This happens a lot in ''Film/RoboCop1987'', to bad guys and Robo alike, the most famous example being [[spoiler:[[BigBad Dick Jones]]]]. Another memorable one is when Robo tosses Clarence Boddicker through several glass windows while Mirandizing him.
314* The abduction scene of the exploitation film, ''Run and Kill'', where the ruthless psychotic main villain of the picture proves he [[WouldHarmASenior have no qualms executing the elderly]] by shoving the main character's 80-year-old mom out of a twelfth-storey-window.
315* Happens accidentally in ''Film/ScavengerHunt1979''. Lars (Arnie) throws a medicine ball to Henry, who catches it. The impact propels him backwards out the second-floor window off the gym.
316* ''Film/TheScribbler'' centers around a series of apparent jumper-suicides at a high-rise halfway house for mental patients. [[spoiler:Turns out the deaths weren't suicides, but murders courtesy of a more-unhinged-than-usual patient. She later hurls the main character out the window; luckily, her WallCrawl powers save her.]]
317* In ''Film/Seven1979'', Ed kills Mr. Lee by sliding him along his conference table and out the window of his penthouse: without opening it first.
318* Hilariously performed in ''Film/TheShadow''. Except, in this case, the Shadow actually tries to ''save'' the Mongol warrior he's interrogating, but the Mongol throws himself off "to serve his Khan." Cut to Moe, the cab driver, reading a book called "Improving Your Psychic Abilities." He says, "I sense someone's coming" just as the Mongol lands right beside his cab!
319* At the end of ''Film/Shaft2019'', [[spoiler:Shaft II kills [[BigBad Gordito]] by shooting him out a window to his death]].
320* In ''Film/ShaPoLang'', this happens to [[spoiler:Inspector Ma Kwun at the end]]. Unfortunately for [[spoiler:Wong Po]], this results in [[spoiler:his wife and daughter both getting killed when Ma's body lands right on their car]].
321* One of the bad guys gets thrown out of a high-rise window by Burt Reynolds in ''Film/SharkysMachine''. Notable in Real Life for the record-setting high-fall stunt performed by "King of the Stuntmen" Dar Robinson.
322* ''Film/Shazam2019'':
323** When Billy Batson goes to town after gaining his powers for the first time, he ends up interrupting a robbery by throwing a pair of robbers through a store's windows... before apologizing for the damage.
324--->'''Billy:''' Sorry 'bout the window! But you're welcome for not being robbed!
325** During the BoardToDeath sequence, [[BigBad Sivana]] tosses his brother out of the board room's window to fall to his death dozens of stories below. Shortly after, at least one of the board member's bodies gets tossed out as well once one of the Sins bites the head off.
326* ''Film/ShanghaiGrand'': The fate of a triad boss who tries intimidating the two protagonists at the end of the first act, where he ultimately gets flung through a restaurant's third floor window.
327* ''Film/{{Soultaker}}'' features this trope complete with SlowMotion. Unfortunately, this makes the fall looks more comical than a threatening show of force and is riffed mercilessly as the guy slowly falls down.
328* ''Film/SpecialFemaleForce'': In the final shootout, a terrorist is about to shoot Madam Fong, but Fa arrives just in time and kicks him through a tall window pane to his death.
329* The ultimate fate of an unlucky ninja in the live-action ''Film/SpeedRacer'' movie. He attempts to poison Speed Racer, but Pops Racer isn't having any of that. Pops is a [[StoutStrength mountainous]] [[WrestlerInAllOfUs collegiate Greco-Roman wrestling state champion]] who is [[TranquilFury quietly]] [[PapaWolf furious that this ninja would dare to attack his family]]. The ninja is short, twiggy, and [[ItMakesSenseInContext just had his pants ripped off by a monkey]]. Pops proceeds to manhandle the ninja, smash him through furniture, and finally throw him onto a dessert cart and kick him out a nearby window, ejecting the hapless, no-pants mook into the night.
330-->'''Trixie:''' Oh my god, was that a ninja?\
331'''Pops Racer:''' [[BondOneliner More like a]] ''[[BondOneliner non]]''[[BondoneLiner -ja]]. [[SeenItAll Terrible what passes for a ninja these days]].
332* ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry'': Happens to the would-be assassin of the Federation President at the end, courtesy of Scotty.
333* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
334** In ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'' Palpatine uses his Force Lightning to shoot Mace Windu out the window (and it's a rare case where the glass had already been broken).
335** In ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'', during their lightsaber duel in Cloud City Darth Vader sends Luke out through a window using heavy pieces of equipment shoved at him with the Force.
336* In ''Steal'', Frank is thrown through a high window, but survives because he lands in a swimming pool.
337* Subverted in ''Film/StrokerAce'' as the window Stroker sends Aubrey through is actually dividing the hallway from a second-floor walkway over an indoor swimming pool, which Aubrey falls into instead.
338* ''Film/TheSubstitute'': In the first installment, Shale fights some gang members and school security guards in an upper floor library. Shale throws nearly all of them out the same window, though only first first opponent actually breaks glass.
339* In ''Film/{{Sunset|1988}}'', Tom Mix punches the Australian houseman through the closed French windows of Victoria's house. Being on the ground floor, this is not as fatal as this trope often is.
340* ''Film/Supercop2'': The fate of a MookLieutenant, through a third-storey window before landing on a table.
341* ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'':
342** In ''Film/TheTerminator'', this is what the Terminator does to nearly everyone it fights. Sometimes it picks someone up and [[InvokedTrope looks around]] for window to toss them through.
343** ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'':
344*** The above is mocked in ''T2'', where the Terminator attempts to throw someone through an unbreakable window in the asylum.
345*** The T-800 is pitched through a plate glass store window by the T-1000. [[MadeOfIron It doesn't slow it for long]].
346*** Also played straight at the beginning in the biker bar, where it throws one of the bikers through a window, and he lands on a parked car.
347* ''Film/TodayWeKillTomorrowWeDie'': During the fight in the trading post, O'Bannion [[HoistHeroOverHead hoists one of the Comancheros over his head]] and hurls him out through the window.
348* ''Film/TodayYouDie'': In the middle of a shootout, Steven Seagal gets ambushed by a surprisingly agile kung-fu fighting mook who kicks Seagal's pistol out of his hands. One short fight later and Seagal flings said mook through a nearby window leading to a twelve-storey drop outside.
349* The fate of Jerry Wang in ''Film/TransformersDarkOfTheMoon''. Laserbeak tosses him out the window after he discovers that "Deep Wang" gave Sam some information about their latest plan. That and he [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness outlived his usefulness.]]
350* ''Film/Transylvania65000'': When the FrankensteinMonster stops suddenly, Radu gets flung [[BigGuyRodeo off the monster's back]] and through the window in the stable door.
351* In ''Film/{{The Walking Dead|1936}}'' (1936), Merritt suffers a heart attack while trying to attack Ellman [[ChairmanOfTheBrawl with a chair]] and falls backwards through his bedroom window.
352* In ''Film/{{Watchmen}}'', that's how [[spoiler:the Comedian]] meets his death in the opening confrontation with the HiddenVillain as he gets hurled out a skyscraper's window with great force.
353* The Live-Action adaptation of the ''Wicked City'' manga has a demon being killed in the opening scene, firstly by [[OffWithHisHead decapitation]] and then by her headless body falling through a tall window before hitting the ground twenty storeys below.
354* The evil spirit in ''Film/{{Witchboard}}'' throws Zarabeth through a window where she she is ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice on a sundial.
355* ''Film/{{Wonder Woman|2017}}'': When Diana throws down in the warehouse in Veld, two German soldiers fly through a window; one flies through right in front of Steve and the boys as they try to keep up on the ground outside, and another gets a knee to the gut to send him flying as Diana finishes off in the warehouse and runs across the lower level's roof.
356* ''Film/ZeroTolerance'': The main villain, Manta, dies in this manner when protsgonist Jeff (played by Robert Patrick) chucks him out of a penthouse window to a twelve-storey drop.
357* ''Film/{{Zorro|1975}}'' (1975): The final battle between Zorro and Huerta had both combatants battling in a bell tower, culminating in Huerta trying to knock Zorro to his death. Zorro managed to prevent himself from falling by grabbing the bell's rope, where he ends up swinging sideways until crashing through an ornate stained-glass window. Cue Huerta emerging to the tower's balcony... only to see Zorro already there waiting to finish the duel.
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361* ''Literature/SixteenThirtyTwo'': In the novella ''The Wallenstein Gambit'', Wallenstein does this to Emperor Ferdinand's man in Prague, in a second attempt at the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defenestrations_of_Prague#Second_Defenestration_of_Prague 1618 Defenestration of Prague,]] this time making sure there's no miraculous survivor as happened in the 1618 event.
362* ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'': In book 7, in a heated skirmish between 4 Animorphs plus Ax and 8 Hork-Bajir while in a skyscraper, Rachel as a grizzly bear shoves one of the latter out a window... letting Tobias in, and putting the foe to rout.
363* ''Literature/ArtemisFowl'': Jon Spiro wishes he could still do this, but if you throw an employee out a window these days, he'll phone his lawyer on the way down.
364* In ''Literature/TheBelgariad'', this is the fate of Silk's nemesis Brill, after a short but ugly battle atop Rak Cthol (well, technically he was thrown over a parapet).
365-->'''Garion:''' It was Brill.\
366'''Belgarath:''' Again?! What was he doing?\
367'''Silk:''' The last I saw of him, he was trying to learn how to fly.\
368'''Belgarath:''' ''[looking puzzled]'' Maybe it'll come to him in time.\
369'''Silk:''' He doesn't really have all that long. ''[sound of crashing from far below]'' Does bouncing count?
370* One of TheManyDeathsOfYou in the ''Literature/ChooseYourOwnAdventure'' books. And it's a plot point in Louise Munro Foley's ''The Mystery of the Highland Crest'': [[spoiler:the curse on TheClan was triggered after one of the old leaders, a beautiful LadyOfWar named Margaret, fell to her death from a tower's window during an attack on the family castle, apparently pushed down it by [[CainAndAbel her treacherous twin sister Emily]].]]
371* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'':
372** In ''Literature/MenAtArms'', Detritus throws Cuddy out a window to go find help when they're both locked in a freezing-cold ground floor room.
373** In ''Literature/{{Jingo}}'', Vimes throws a Klatchian woman out a window to save her when the embassy is on fire. [[GiantRobotHandsSaveLives Detritus catches her]].
374** In the fourth ''Literature/TheScienceOfDiscworld'' book, this happens to some [[KnightTemplar Omnian fanatics]], who are then ''re''fenestrated back into the courtroom.
375* ''Literature/{{Dragaera}}'': In ''Literature/ThePhoenixGuards'', the main cast meet Mica when he becomes the victim of one of these.
376* ''Literature/TheFallOfGondolin'': As looking for his family during the battle, Tuor discovers that Maeglin is trying to take advantage of the chaos to kidnap his wife and murder his son. Mad with rage, Tuor seizes and hurls Maeglin off the battlement, and his body hits the rocks before falling into the flames burning the hill.
377* In the first chapter of ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince'', Minister of Magic Cornelius Fudge admits that UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher[[note]]It isn't explicitly stated to be the "Iron Lady" in the text (in fact, Fudge says that the PM in question was a man), but if you do the math, it lines up with her time in office[[/note]], of all people, tried to throw him out the window of her office during their first meeting.
378* ''Literature/HowlOfTheWerewolf'': How Van Ricten the VampireHunter meets his maker, when confronting the Countess Isolde in her tower; the Countess' werebat servant grabs hold on him and tackles Van Ricten towards a nearby window with a steep drop on the other side, but as he crashes through the window Van Ricten managed to fire a fatal shot into the werebat, [[TakingYouWithMe resulting in both of them falling to their deaths]].
379* ''Literature/IntoTheHinterlands'': Councillor Rubicon, a politician who came up from the commoner class, takes a derisive attitude to the NonIdleRich Allenson, saying that he probably thinks he's beneath his status to duel. Allenson retorts that duels are "a stupid way of settling disagreements"... and instead throws him bodily out the nearest window. It's only a bit later that another councillor reminds him they're on the third floor.
380-->'''Allenson:''' Oh dear. I hope I have not killed him.
381* ''Literature/LandOfOz'': In ''The Lost Princess of Oz'', the main characters are consulting with the (ordinary-sized) ruler of a village during their search for the lost Ozma. A giant enters and interrupts them. The ruler throws the giant out of the window.
382* In ''Literature/MachineMan'', this happens to [[spoiler:Better Future's CorruptCorporateExecutive Manager]] when he jokes about Lola's [[spoiler:{{EMP}} HeartTrauma]].
383* In ''Literature/TheMalloreon'', the sorcerer Senji relates to the protagonists how the Melcene University, upon learning that he appeared to be immortal, decided to test it by hiring someone to throw him out a window. This turned out very poorly for the defenestrator.
384* In ''Literature/{{Pact}}'', there is an unnamed Boogeyman in the Tenements section of [[EldritchLocation The Abyss]] whose whole power revolves around throwing people and ''others'' out of windows and off tall objects. Later he becomes the key player in a BrickJoke when [[spoiler:he reappears during the climactic battle in the endgame and [[SmallRoleBigImpact deals the final blow]] to the [[BigBad demon Barbetorem]], kicking him off of a building into a BottomlessPit.]]
385* Archer is introduced this way in ''Literature/{{Parellity}}''. Not giving, nor receiving, but ''both''.
386* ''Literature/ProvenGuilty'': Harry gets an apprentice in the form of [[spoiler:Molly Carpenter]], and her mother informs Harry that if the girl ends up coming to harm under his care, she'll come round to his office and throw him out the window. Harry replies "Death by defenestration. Got it."
387* In the second book of ''Literature/RangersApprentice'', Alyss and Halt go on a diplomatic mission at a local baron's castle -- who turns out to be an arrogant, sexist pig. When the baron in question makes the massive folly of insulting Alyss by ripping up her credentials and further insults her mentor Lady Pauline (a woman who Halt is in love with, by the way), Halt throws him out the window into the moat. A pair of workers emptying privies into the moat [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight don't even flinch]]. [[BrickJoke This is not the first time Halt has thrown a recalcitrant noble into the moat, either]].
388* In ''Literature/{{See You in November}}'', a Rhodesian special forces operative ponders an assassination method where you knock on someone's hotel room door, club them on the head when they answer, drag the body to the window and throw them out. The [[TheCoronerDothProtestTooMuch coroner invariably concludes]] the death was "suicide while the balance of their mind was disturbed." Later a member of the Rhodesian negotiating team falls out the window while in England, and after the coroner gives this verdict despite no apparent signs of depression, he wonders if this trope was in play.
389* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire''
390** Much of the tragic events of the novels lead from Jaime Lannister pushing Bran Stark out of a tower window because [[YouKnowTooMuch he witnessed]] him [[BrotherSisterIncest having sex with his sister]], Queen Cersei.
391** This is what ultimately happens to [[spoiler:Lysa Arryn, which is LaserGuidedKarma seeing as she was threatening to do the same thing to Sansa Stark.]]
392** There is a historical example known as the Defenestration of Sunspear, so named because Princess Meria Martell (at the time pushing 90 years of age and blind) personally disposed of Lord Jon Rosby by dragging him to the very top of the Spear Tower in Sunspear and chucking him out of a window. Despite said tower being one hundred and fifty feet high, Lord Rosby is said to have suffered a kinder death than the rest.
393* ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'':
394** Happens to a Yuuzhan Vong {{Mook}} in ''[[Literature/NewJediOrder Rebel Stand]]'', courtesy of [[GeniusBruiser Kell Tainer]]. Except the panel doesn't shatter -- it ''pops free of the structure'' and falls with him.
395* ''Literature/SweepTheStoryOfAGirlAndHerMonster'': When Mr. Crudd tricks Nan into coming to him, one thing he tries to do is push her into a fireplace. Then Charlie, who secretly followed Nan, bursts into the house, grabs Mr. Crudd, and throws him through a window.
396* Creator/ArthurCClarke's short story "The Defenestration of Ermintrude Inch". Collected in ''Literature/TalesFromTheWhiteHart'', which are [[FramingDevice framed]] as tales heard but-not-quite-believed by an {{Expy}} of Clarke himself and told by the irascible and enigmatic Harry Purvis at The White Hart, a fictional [[UsefulNotes/BritishPubs pub]] near Fleet Street at which scientists, engineers, science writers, and science-fiction writers would congregate. "The Defenestration of Ermintrude Inch" is the story of a couple in 1950s Britain, in which the husband, Osbert, accuses his wife Ermintrude of talking too much -- specifically 100 times as much as he does. Being a sound engineer for the BBC, Osbert sets up a word-counter, which works at first, but [[spoiler:his wife figures out a way to make it so that ''Osbert'' has the higher count, which infuriates him, particularly after he figures out that she'd surreptitiously recorded his speech and had him playing on a loop while he was not at home. Ermintrude falls out a window shortly afterward, although it isn't clear if she's pushed. Shortly after the tale wraps up, a woman comes into the pub and chews Harry Purvis out -- to which he replies meekly, "Yes, Ermintrude."]]
397* Played with in ''Literature/TheTamuli''. When a character is asked what she did with a mook, she replies that she defenestrated him. The character who asked [[GroinAttack looks ill]] until she explains that she threw him out the window.
398* This happens a couple of times in ''Literature/TheTraitorGame'':
399** In the Evgard storyline, [[spoiler:Argent, in an attempt to get Columen and Iaspis to safety,]] pushes some Mereish soldiers out through some windows.
400** Shitley pushes Michael through a window at one point. When Michael's mother sees him, she is worried that he [[BungledSuicide jumped deliberately]]. Michael points out that if he did, he would have at least ''opened'' the window first.
401* Brazilian writer Creator/LuisFernandoVerissimo likes writing about weird-sounding words. One of his texts was about "defenestration", and he tries imagining how the word might actually be used in the everyday life (brutally injured man in the sidewalk points up: "I was defenestrated...", and a bystander: "Poor man! And then they threw him out the window!").
402* In the thriller ''Literature/{{Victoria}}'', a corrupt federal official is thrown out of a window several stories up by a mob of angry citizens and does not survive the experience. This instance explicitly references the famous Defenestrations of Prague.
403* The historical backstory of the ''Literature/VorkosiganSaga'' includes [[TheCaligula Mad Emperor Yuri's]] Defenestration of the Privy Council. (Referred to by various characters but never actually portrayed or described in detail.)
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407* In the ''Series/OneThousandWaysToDie'' episode "Habeas Corpse", a sleazy lawyer kept demonstrating a stunt where he would jump on the tempered glass window on the 40th floor, but would be bounced back afterwards, but one time, he wasn't so lucky.
408* ''Series/AgentCarter'' essentially BookEnds its first season with fight scenes that end like this -- in the first episode, Carter throws the [[NebulousEvilOrganisation Leviathan]] agent who broke into her apartment out the apartment's window, while the season finale has her kick [[spoiler:[[TheDragon Dottie]]]] out of the window of the hanger radio room she's confronted the villains in.
409* ''Series/{{Angel}}'':
410** Angel shoves a vamp out the window in [[Recap/AngelS01E01CityOf the pilot episode]]. He bursts into flames from the sun, of course. No cleanup required!
411** In "[[Recap/AngelS04E09LongDaysJourney Long Day's Journey]]", the Beast throws Connor out a window.
412** Happened to Angel himself in "[[Recap/AngelS05E16Shells Shells]]". Illyria easily tossed him out of the window and then used her super speed to exit the building before he's even hit the ground, passing Angel as he's still falling in (what seems like to her) slow motion.
413** In "[[Recap/AngelS05E11Damage Damage]]", Spike gets tossed out of a fifth-floor window by a Slayer. At this point, he's almost jaded.
414--->'''Spike:''' Just thought I'd see what it was like to bounce off the pavement. Pretty much what I expected.
415** In "[[Recap/AngelS02E15Reprise Reprise]]", no sooner does a Senior Partner materialize in front of its employees than Angel lunges for its throat and tackles it through a window.
416* ''Series/{{Arrow}}'': When the Count returns in Season 2, he's able to deduce the titular hero's real identity and sets up a hostage situation for him, which ends with the Count taking three arrows to the chest and being knocked back through an already cracked window to fall what looks like [[DisneyVillainDeath a couple dozen floors]].
417* ''Series/TheAvengers1960s'': Lampshaded when Steed advises Tara King (who is practicing her judo) that if possible she should throw her opponent through a plate glass window.
418* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''
419** In "[[{{Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS5E15IWasMadeToLoveYou}} I Was Made To Love You]]", Spike gets thrown out the window of a college house party by a robot. It's seen as funny in this case, since Spike is, at that point, a character that the audience loves to hate, and of course vampires generally can't be killed by glass unless they get a really bad cut around the neck region.
420** A different version of this trope occurs in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS4E15ThisYearsGirl This Year's Girl]]" when Buffy and Faith are [[KungShui demolishing Joyce's house during their fight]]. Faith throws open a French door into Buffy's path so she [[SoftGlass runs right through it]].
421* ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}'': Phoebe's FetusTerrible forces her to shove Paige out of a window in the attic. Luckily Paige's powers include the ability to [[FlashyTeleportation Orb]] allowing her to save herself before she lands on [[FriendOnTheForce Darryl]] who was approaching the house just below her.
422* ''Series/{{Chuck}}'': How Chuck escapes Dale's building in "Chuck Vs The Zoom":
423-->'''Chuck'''''(via video-tape message)'' Sarah, there's a rather large window on the east side of the building. It's the only way out. So I'm going to be jumping through it. And Sarah, no matter what happens, I love you. Also, if at all possible, if you could check to make sure I'm alive on the roof of the van, that would be great.
424%%* This is [[Creator/ConanOBrien Conando's]] entire fighting style.
425* ''Franchise/CSIVerse'':
426** ''Series/{{CSI}}'': In "[[Recap/CSIS2E19Stalker Stalker]]", Nick gets shoved out of a window when he is surprised by the guy whose apartment he's searching, and winds up being hospitalized.
427** ''Series/CSIMiami'': In one episode, Horatio rescues a young woman about to be raped, just in the nick of time. He then explains to the perp that he's going to give him a taste of what to expect while he's in prison... and proceeds to punch him through the end window of the trailer in which he'd been holding the woman hostage.
428** ''Series/{{CSINY}}'':
429*** During the Cold Open of "[[Recap/CSINYS05E21 The Past, The Present and Murder]]," a man is seen crashing through the large window of newspaper magnate Robert Dunbrook's high-rise office. He lands on a subway grate on the sidewall below.
430*** In "[[Recap/CSINYS09E01 Reignited]]," arsonist Leonard Brooks jumps through the closed window of his upstairs apartment when he discovers it has been rigged it to explode when the light-switch is turned on. His would-be-killer is thrown through it as well, but is burned to death and her body lands near him on the street below.
431%%* The ''Series/DarkAngel'' episode "Art Attack" features this as a major plot point. It happens, it's threatened, and it's mentioned by name.
432* ''Series/DarkHole'': Hwa-sun accidentally defenestrates herself along with a zombie. She survives by grabbing the wall and climbing back up.
433* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
434** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E9TheEvilOfTheDaleks The Evil of the Daleks]]", Kemal throws himself at Jamie, misses and plunges out of a window.
435** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS21E4ResurrectionOfTheDaleks Resurrection of the Daleks]]", the Doctor kills a Dalek by shoving it out of an upper-story window; upon hitting the pavement, it explodes.
436** "[[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor The Day of the Doctor]]": '''Three''' [[TheNthDoctor incarnations]] of the Doctor [[BigDamnHeroes sonic a Dalek through the plate glass enclosing a time-cube painting]] so that they could [[ItMakesSenseInContext interrupt a nuclear holocaust and stop a Zygon plot]]. This, needless to say, was [[BigEntrance a hell of an entrance]].
437* In an episode of ''Series/EverybodyHatesChris'', Chris tries to decide if telling his father that he drove the car around town without permission is the best thing to do. He has an ImagineSpot of his father doing this to him, prompting Chris to keep it a secret.
438* ''Series/FearTheWalkingDead'': After [[TokenEvilTeammate Strand]] becomes a WastelandWarlord in Season 7, he develops a terrifying habit of throwing anyone he believes is acting against him (which his growing paranoia makes a vast list) off of the roof of the building he's turned into his fortress.
439* In ''Series/{{Firefly}}'', Malcolm Reynolds gets thrown out of a bar window at the beginning of "[[Recap/FireflyE02TheTrainJob The Train Job]]". Subverted that the "window" is actually a hologram, not glass, and doesn't shatter. [[FridgeLogic How useful that would be for keeping the weather out]] was the subject of some debate (see [[Headscratchers/{{Firefly}} the show's Headscratchers page]]), but one gets the impression that it's the kind of bar where people getting thrown through the window is a regular occurrence.
440* ''Series/ForeverKnight''
441** In the pilot of this VampireDetectiveSeries, Nick Knight and Don Schanke are faced with a hostage situation. Nick tells Schanke to keep the man talking while he "goes 'round the back", greatly puzzling his partner as they're several stories up. Nick them uses his vampire powers to float up to the window and yank the man through it.
442** In "Last Act", Nick shoves a murderer through a high-rise window (without opening it) and is entirely willing to let him fall, but fortunately his partner shows up.
443--->'''Schanke:''' Nick, you solved this thing! Besides, think of the paperwork if you drop him.
444* ''Series/{{Heroes}}'':
445** Peter Petrelli gets ''telekinetically'' thrown out of a window.
446** Matt Parkman is tossed through a window by Jessica.
447** Claire's college roommate Annie, in what's initially assumed to be a suicide. When talking about it, Claire's friend Gretchen seems strangely pleased by the opportunity to use "defenestrated" in a sentence.
448* In the [[Recap/HannibalS02E13 second season finale]] of ''Series/{{Hannibal}}'', the eponymous character's surprise protege does this to [[spoiler:Alana]], who later remarks in "[[Recap/HannibalS03E04 Aperitivo]]", "I’ve always enjoyed the word 'defenestration'. Now I get to use it in casual conversation."
449* In ''Series/HighAndLow'', Kohaku kicks Aoyagi out of a 2nd story office.
450* ''Series/HitlerTheRiseOfEvil'': Fritz Gerlich is contacted by a man who has inside information on Nazi Party collusion with shady foreign investors. This source is later pursued by several SA men at a train station, who throw him through a window to his death.
451* ''Series/{{Hollyoaks}}'': Texas Longford dies on her wedding day when she's pushed out of a window by her new husband.
452* In ''Series/{{Jekyll}}'', Benjamin Lennox and Christopher Browning find out the hard way that annoying Hyde is a very bad idea:
453-->'''Hyde:''' I'm wondering about that wee window up there and if you'd fit through it at speed.\
454''[Christopher stands to attention]''\
455'''Benjamin:''' This is Christopher... and in the event of you attempting any violence on my person, Mr. Hyde, Christopher's going to take an attitude, and believe me when I tell you when you don't wanna be there when Christopher takes an attitude. ''[...]'' Now, there's two things we can do, here: I can tell you what the hell I'm talkin' about, or you can try and throw Christopher out that itty-bitty window. [[TemptingFate I don't think Christopher'll fit]].\
456''[GilliganCut to Christopher, bloody and covered in bits of glass, hauling himself off the pavement]''
457* ''Series/LineOfDuty:'' In Series 2, a rookie cop dies when a dangerous suspect shoves her out a hospital window several floors up.
458* Pictured atop this image is ''Series/{{Lost}}'', when John Locke is ''spectacularly'' thrown out a window by [[ArchnemesisDad his own father]] and becomes paralyzed as a result.
459* ''Series/LukeCage2016'':
460** Cottonmouth throws Tone off the roof of his nightclub after Tone fires into Pop's Barbershop with two submachine guns in a botched hit on Chico, and Pop is killed in the crossfire.
461--->'''Cottonmouth:''' Nothing humbles a man like gravity.
462** Cottonmouth himself dies in this way. Mariah Dillard tosses him out of his private box at the nightclub, and then when that fails to kill him, she finishes him off with a microphone stand.
463** Luke gets thrown through the same window as Cottonmouth during a fight with Bushmaster late in Season 2.
464* In the ''Series/MacGyver1985'' episode "Phoenix Under Siege", the [[MonsterOfTheWeek villain of the week]] happens to be a martial arts expert and makes a jump-kick at our hero in a high-rise building but misses and ends up crashing through the window instead.
465* Max is physically introduced this way in ''Series/TheMaster''.
466* PlayedForLaughs on ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus''.
467** Two accountants are sitting in an office, and a body flies by the window. [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight They posit upon who it was.]] Another falls by, and they remark how uncommon it is...[[CrossesTheLineTwice then they start betting on who'll jump next,]] [[ComedicSociopathy leading to them goading and imploring someone to jump.]]
468** You might also find the unsuccessful encyclopedia salesmen making rapidly descending trips from high apartment windows.
469** In the first episode, Mozart announces a re-enactment of UsefulNotes/HoratioNelson's death. Cut to Nelson being thrown from a high window. He does manage to scream "Kiss me, Hardy!" on the way down.
470* ''Series/{{Motive}}'': The VictimOfTheWeek in "A Problem Like Maria" is killed by being thrown face-first through a 7th storey window.
471* When ''Series/MrRobot'''s protagonist, Elliot Alderson, was a kid, his dad pushed him through a window because he told his mom about his dad's leukemia. While we don't see him being pushed through the window, we do see the aftereffects, where he's laying in the snow, blood coming from the back of his head, as his parents rush to his side.
472* When ''Series/TheMusketeers'' are captured (along with the king, queen, Dauphin, and some courtiers) by an AxeCrazy fanatic masquerading as an astronomer, Aramis offers said fanatic some unwanted advice and gets himself thrown out a 3rd or 4th storey window. Being one of the [[PlotArmor eponymous]] [[BadassCrew heroes]], he [[NoOneShouldSurviveThat lands on an awning]], [[OnlyAFleshWound shakes off his injuries]] and climbs back up the side of the building to help [[BigDamnHeroes rescue the royal party]].
473* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'': In "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S3E10Awakening Awakening]]", when Beth Carter finds out that her co-called friends were the ones who have been {{Gaslighting}} her, she attacks them and knocks them through a window, which makes them fall to their deaths.
474* ''Series/PainkillerJane'': Happens in the first episode, where Jane's second encounter with a Neuro results in her partner being mentally coerced into throwing both of them out of a skyscraper window. Both of them die on impact. [[GoodThingYouCanHeal She gets better]].
475* ''Series/PersonOfInterest'':
476** John Reese has a RunningGag where he enters a BadGuyBar and beats up everyone inside for information, ending in a final mook being thrown through the window onto the street. On one occasion it's Reese who gets thrown out the window, but he just brushes off and goes back inside again.
477** In "Critical", Reese is informed that the VictimOfTheWeek's number has come up before. He asks WhoWouldBeStupidEnough to risk their life a second time. Cue embezzler Leon Tao flying out the window of a ground floor office and landing at his feet, having pissed off yet another gang of thugs with big bank accounts.
478** In "Liberty", in accordance with Team Machine's ThouShaltNotKill policy, Sameen Shaw is proud to inflict OnlyAFleshWound on a mook, only to have him stumble out the window to his death.
479* ''Series/TheProfessionals'':
480** The fake suicide version opens the episode "Everest Was Also Conquered" when a whistleblower to an impending corruption inquiry gets thrown out the window by her police protection detail, who've been bribed or blackmailed into the act.
481** In "A Stirring of Dust", Doyle is BoundAndGagged so takes care of an assassin by [[WithMyHandsTied kicking him]] through the window. He gets a bollocking for that from [[DaChief Cowley]] however, as the assassin got his throat sliced up so can't be made to talk.
482** Used as a plot-point in "Blackout" when a woman is found with cuts and bruises indicating she jumped out of a window. Later a [=CI5=] agent sees a window covered by a sheet of cardboard (instead of being properly boarded up) and realises the window was broken recently.
483** In the ActionPrologue of "Fugitive", a female terrorist posing as a [[RoomDisservice hotel waitress]] brings a breakfast tray for a senior member of the CIA staying in a London hotel. Two other terrorists who've been waiting in a nearby room then force their way in while the door is open and bundle him out the window.
484* In ''Series/{{Psych}}'', Shawn Spencer is kicked through a window (albeit a glass free window covered by thin wood slats) in the episode "Romeo and Juliet and Juliet". In the same episode, Gus accidentally threw Shawn through a glass window when the two of them were attempting a little late night undercover investigation.
485* ''Series/PsychopathDiary'': In-woo accidentally defenestrates himself when his fight with Dong-sik leads to him crashing into an already-cracked window. He survives thanks to a passing garbage truck.
486* Happens in reverse (yes, ''reverse'') in ''Series/RedDwarf'' when the crew ends up on an alternate Earth where everything goes backwards. Lister is propelled ''into'' a broken window, ''restoring'' the glass, and is ''caught'' by the thugs he's fighting.
487* In a recent ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' sketch, President UsefulNotes/BarackObama, when antagonized by his Republican rivals and egged on by [[HeroicComedicSociopath Rahm Emanuel]], [[YouWannaGetSued "hulks out"]] and turns into [[Wrestling/DwayneJohnson "The Rock" Obama]], and throws his enemies out the Oval Office window -- though, as John [=McCain=] is assured, "Relax, it's only the first floor."
488* In ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'' after a CIA agent injures Mrs. Hudson, Sherlock captures him and ties him up. Then he calls the police to report him, requests an ambulance and describes in gruesome detail the injuries that the burglar has received, then [[PreEmptiveDeclaration states that the man fell out the window]]. In the next shot, John is helping Mrs. Hudson wash up when a shadow falls past a window, with a loud crash.
489-->'''Mrs. Hudson:''' Oh! That was right on my bins!\
490''[cuts to the ambulance driving away while Sherlock and Lestrade stand on the curb]''\
491'''DI Lestrade:''' And exactly how many times ''did'' he fall out the window?\
492'''Sherlock:''' Oh, it's all a bit of a blur, Detective Inspector. [[BerserkButton I lost count]].
493* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': This rarely happens in the ''Star Trek'' universe, as the windows are made of transparent aluminum and you'd cause ExplosiveDecompression is you threw someone through them. That didn't stop Geordi and Ro in "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS5E24TheNextPhase The Next Phase]]", however. Afflicted by {{Intangibility}}, they are pursued by a Romulan in the same situation. When Geordi comes across him and Ro brawling, he manages to punch the phased Romulan ''straight through the hull'' -- partially including a nearby window -- and into space.
494* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''
495** In "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS07E22TackingIntoTheWind Tacking into the Wind]]", it being impractical to throw anyone through a window on a space station, the room where Worf and Gowron duel is conveniently supplied with a static tactical display [[RuleOfDrama inexplicably]] printed on a huge vertical sheet of glass, for Worf to be dramatically hurled through.
496** While the Ferengi don't have a lot of capital crimes, the few they have are traditionally executed by this trope. Being thrown from the top of the 40-story Tower of Commerce not only ensures the sentence is carried out, but the landing site down below is set up so that observing Ferengi (being Ferengi) can make bets on the landing.
497* ''Series/StrangerThings'':
498** In the Season 3 episode "[[Recap/StrangerThingsS3E6ChapterSixEPluribusUnum E Pluribus Unum]]", [[PsychicPowers Eleven]] saves Nancy from the miniature Mind Flayer stalking the hospital by flinging it around the room, and finally throwing it through a window to splatter on the pavement about five floors below.
499** In the Season 4 finale "[[Recap/StrangerThingsS4E9Chapter9ThePiggyback The Piggyback]]", Nancy uses a shotgun to blast [[BigBad Vecna]] out of an attic window in the [[AnotherDimension Upside Down]] version of the Creel house. Unfortunately, while badly wounded, he survives to [[VillainExitStageLeft escape]].
500* In ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' Meg is pushed out a window by the daeva she summoned in "[[Recap/SupernaturalS01E16Shadow Shadow]]".
501* In a ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' team-up special, [[Series/TokusouSentaiDekaranger Tetsu]] is undercover and really, ''really'' doesn't need [[Series/GoGoSentaiBoukenger Eiji]] revealing that he's SPD. So Tetsu pretends that Eiji is an enemy, and ''pitches him out of a window'' to shut him up. It's even more hilarious than it sounds.
502* In one episode of ''Series/TheTick2016'', the eponymous Tick is thrown through an office window something like 20 stories up by [[spoiler:anti-hero Overkill]], then shown thinking about how he is falling and grabbing onto a flag pole to try to stop. Said flag pole breaks and he slams face first into the ground. He gets up completely okay, afterwards, being [[NighInvulnerability nigh-invulnerable]]. This falling scene came from [[WesternAnimation/TheTick the original cartoon]].
503* In the ''Series/Titans2018'' episode "[[Recap/TitansS1E5Together Together]]", Dick is thrown out of a motel window by Dad of the Nuclear Family, [[CarCushion landing on a car below]]. Being [[BadassNormal Robin]], this barely slows him down.
504* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S5E24WhatsInTheBox What's in the Box]]", during his [[DomesticAbuse brutal attack]] on his wife Phyllis, Joe Britt punches her in front of an open window and she falls to her death. Although he had not intended to kill her, the glimpses of the future shown on his television indicate that he will be convicted of murder and executed for his crime.
505* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'': {{Discussed|Trope}} in "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S1E8 Act Break]]". Maury Winkler and Harry are writing a play in which an English aristocrat named Roger kills a woman named Ethel but they can't decide how he should do it. Harry suggests throwing her out the window. When Maury says that people don't die from being thrown out of first story windows, Harry thinks that she should fall into a swimming pool that is being renovated. They eventually agree that Roger should strangle Ethel.
506* ''Series/WalkerTexasRanger'':
507** During the tear-jerking final act of Season 4's "[[Recap/WalkerTexasRangerS4E13Flashpoint Flashpoint]]", this happens [[DrivenToSuicide voluntarily]] to two [[UsefulNotes/TheTroubles IRA Terrorists]] after their leader (the father of one of the victims) is killed by Walker and Trivette, deciding it's [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled better to die than go to prison]].
508** How a NoSell bad guy in Season 6's "Warriors" is finished off after his weakness is revealed.
509* ''Series/Warehouse13'':
510** In a season 1 episode, Pete throws himself out the window of a building that won't let anyone leave. While the initial jump is a SuperWindowJump, the fact that the house in question tosses him back through another window puts this in Destination Defenestration territory. Destination Refenestration?
511** In season 4, an Artifact throws Pete out of a house through the window. He wasn't even standing close to said window at the time.
512* In the ''Series/WKRPInCincinnati'' episode "Hoodlum Rock", the polite and well-dressed but evil rock group Scum of the Earth throw a bellboy out of the window of the hotel they're staying at. But...
513-->'''Blood:''' What floor is this on?\
514'''Johnny Fever:''' The ground floor.\
515'''Blood:''' Pity.
516* ''Series/TheXFiles'':
517** In "[[Recap/TheXFilesS01E24TheErlenmeyerFlask The Erlenmeyer Flask]]", a doctor who was involved in the experiment is thrown out of the window of his lab. It's supposed to look like a suicide.
518** In "[[Recap/TheXFilesS05E09Schizogeny Schizogeny]]", the victim was pulled out the window, not pushed. [[spoiler:By trees.]]
519* In ''Series/TheYoungOnes'' episode "Nasty", Vyvyan threatens to put the next person who asks if they have a video through the window. When Neil asks, Vyvyan subverts this trope by ripping the window off the wall and smashing it over Neil's head.
520[[/folder]]
521
522[[folder:Memes]]
523* In The Boardroom Suggestion, a boss asks 3 employees to make a suggestion. After one of them makes a suggestion that the boss doesn't like, his DisproportionateRetribution to the employee in question is to throw him out the window.
524[[/folder]]
525
526[[folder:Music]]
527* There's a kids' song called "Throw It out the Window", which fractures nursery rhymes by having every single one of them ending with [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "So (s)he threw [him/her/it/them] out the window/The window/The second story window/[repeat penultimate line]/So (s)he threw [him/her/it/them] out the window."]]
528* The StrangelySpecificHoroscope for Scorpios in Music/WeirdAlYankovic's "[[Music/RunningWithScissors Your Horoscope for Today]]" advises them to "get ready for an unexpected trip when (they) fall screaming from an open window".
529[[/folder]]
530
531[[folder:Music Videos]]
532* In the music video for Music/TaylorSwift's "Bad Blood", at the end of the opening fight, Swift is kicked out a window, falling into a parked car in the street below from where she begins singing the song.
533* In the music video for Music/TwistedSister's "We're Not Gonna Take It", the band repeatedly throws Douglas (played by [[TheNeidermeyer Mark Metcalf]]) out of the windows of his house with ThePowerOfRock. At the end of the video, the band's backed him into a corner with windows on both sides. He smugly stands in front of a solid wall, thinking he's outsmarted them. He goes through the wall anyway.
534[[/folder]]
535
536[[folder:Myths and Religion]]
537* In Literature/TheBible's Literature/BooksOfKings, the evil Queen Dowager Jezebel was betrayed by her own retinue and thrown out of the palace window. It's also a stunningly powerful aversion of the hero/villain dichotomy with regard to how horrifically it's described. She hits the ground, falls apart like Judas ''[[HumiliationConga and gets eaten by dogs]].'' (The latter had previously been prophesied by Elijah, incidentally.)
538* According to his legend, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_of_Menthon Saint Bernard of Menthon]] was a ShelteredAristocrat who wanted to be a priest rather than giving into an ArrangedMarriage. As he was trying to escape from the family castle, he threw himself off a window... located 12 meters above the ground; two angels took a hold of the "flying" Bernard and helped him reach the land unharmed, then guided to the nearby archdeaconry.
539[[/folder]]
540
541[[folder:Pinball]]
542* In Creator/{{Capcom}}'s unreleased ''Pinball/{{Kingpin}},'' mobster Frank Gritty gets killed by being thrown out of a window.
543* In ''Pinball/LightsCameraAction'', the rooftop ChaseScene includes a bystander knocked through a skylight window.
544* ''Pinball/WhoDunnit1995'':
545** Some cases begin with the killer throwing the victim's body off the roof of Tony's Palace, causing it to crash through a skylight.
546** Scoring a Jackpot during multiball shows a person being thrown through a plate-glass window.
547[[/folder]]
548
549[[folder:Print Media]]
550* In the ''Magazine/{{MAD}}'' "Tales from the Duck Side" comic "Absurd Man of Alcatraz," a Death Row inmate is ejected through a window from a spring-loaded seat. The warden angrily bursts into the room where this happened, shouting: "You IDIOTS! I said Lethal ''IN''-JECTION, not ''E''-JECTION!"
551[[/folder]]
552
553[[folder:Pro Wrestling]]
554* This played a part in one of the most famous tag team breakups in wrestling history when Wrestling/ShawnMichaels threw his Rockers teammate Wrestling/MartyJannetty through the glass window of Wrestling/BrutusBeefcake's "[[TalkShowWithFists The Barber Shop]]".
555* Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin was sent crashing headfirst into a plate glass window at the hands of Wrestling/TheUndertaker on the May 3, 2001, episode of WWF Smackdown
556* There's an infamous series of spots (including a couple of nasty looking botches) from a WWE(then F) match between Wrestling/KurtAngle and Wrestling/ShaneMcmahon at the King of the Ring in 2001 -- Shane ended up being thrown through three glass windows that made up part of the set, when the glass didn't break they simply repeated the spot (almost always a big no-no in wrestling) making the whole sequence that more brutal and deranged.
557** It's usually a big no-no because it makes it look scripted (which it more-or-less is) rather than free-flowing (which is how it's supposed to look). They got away with it because Kurt Angle had quite obviously been trying to do just this, rather than a spur-of-the-moment thing. Adding to the brutality, he was throwing Shane with a belly-to-belly suplex, which is done by flinging someone upside-down over your head. So when Shane bounced off the plexiglass, he landed on the back of his head and neck, twice, ''before'' the glass broke. Then got sent through two more panes.
558* In ''Wrestling/LuchaUnderground'', people frequently get thrown through the window of the owner Dario Cueto's office. He frequently complains that getting the window fixed is expensive.
559[[/folder]]
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561[[folder:Radio]]
562* Discussed in ''Radio/TheRickyGervaisShow'' when Karl talked about how a baby is more likely to survive being thrown out of a window than an adult because its unaware of what's happening so it won't tense up (which, according to Karl, causes falling damage). Stephen and Ricky told him he was talking crap and (in very serious tones) told him not to throw any babies (or cats) out of windows ''ever''.
563[[/folder]]
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565[[folder:Roleplay]]
566* In ''Roleplay/DarwinsSoldiers'', Alfred throws someone through a reinforced window...with fatal results.
567[[/folder]]
568
569[[folder:Sports]]
570* Happens from time to time in UsefulNotes/{{ice hockey}}. More likely in smaller arenas that use cheaper glass but even specially-designed NHL-quality glass [[https://youtu.be/ceUXWk50H7c can shatter with a hard enough hit]].
571* Charles Barkley did this to a fan as retaliation for getting hit with a cup of ice.
572[[/folder]]
573
574[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
575* In ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragonsThirdEdition'' (''Spell Compendium'' splatbook), the ''defenestrating sphere'' spell conjures [[BlowYouAway magical winds]] that violently [[BlownAcrossTheRoom hurl enemies away]] -- and, in a stylish quirk, automatically aims them at any window that happens to be nearby.
576* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'': [[https://cdn1.mtggoldfish.com/images/h/Defenestrate-MID-672.jpg Defenestrate]], an instant that destroys any creature without flying. Hilariously, this can include gargantuan creatures such as [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever giants, leviathans and beasts the size of centennial trees or entire forests]]. Those are some pretty big windows.
577[[/folder]]
578
579[[folder:Theatre]]
580* In ''Theatre/AccidentalDeathOfAnAnarchist'', the PosthumousCharacter of the Anarchist somehow fell out of a window during police interrogation. The Maniac and the police go through several reenactments of how this could have happened.
581[[/folder]]
582
583[[folder:Video Games]]
584* ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedSyndicate'': {{Subverted}}. During Evie and Lucy's fight, Lucy charges at Evie (who is standing in front of a large stain-glass window), intending to push or throw her through the window. Evie steps to the side at the last second and Lucy ends up throwing herself out the window. Although she's able to grab Evie's necklace key and hang from it, threatening to [[TakingYouWithMe take Evie with her]]. Evie uses her hidden blade to cut the key off, saving herself but losing the artifact.
585* ''VideoGame/BaldursGateIII'': If you pass a strength check, you can yeet enemies over ledges.
586* ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamOrigins'': [[spoiler:the Joker]] kicks [[spoiler:Electrocutioner]] out of a high-riser window, along with the chair he was sitting on. He takes at least ten seconds to reach the floor.
587* ''VideoGame/Bloodrayne2'' allows you to do this. Of special note: In one part of the assault on Kagan's tower at the end, you square off against a pair of {{Giant Mook}}s. You ''can'' fight them the traditional way. Or simply wait for them to charge at you, leap out of the way, and watch them run right through the glass windows behind you.
588* ''VideoGame/{{ClockTower}}'': This is poor Ann's fate. [[TheManyDeathsOfYou Sometimes]]. The 10-page prologue manga makes this death canon, though.
589* Upon defeating [[BigBad Derrick]] [[TerroristsWithoutACause Lynch]] in ''[[VideoGame/TimeCrisis Crisis Zone]]'', he is defeated like this.
590* [[spoiler:Commander Lockhart]] gets subjected to this in ''VideoGame/{{Crysis}} 2''.
591* ''VideoGame/CrisisBeat'' has a special move called Automatic Lock-On, which allow players to grab on mooks and pummel them repeatedly on a fixed location before sending them crashing into objects with a powerful uppercut. This trope happens if the object happens to be a window, or glass panels and storefronts.
592* The final boss fight of ''[[VideoGame/DefJamSeries Def Jam Fight for New York]]'' takes place in an office with three large windows. Chances are quite good that one of the fighters will go through and plunge to their death. This is, in fact, the ''only'' way to kill [[Music/SnoopDogg Crow.]] He's immune to defeat by environmental damage, submission hold, and through weapons.
593* ''VideoGame/DeusExHumanRevolution'' inverts this. After the tutorial segment, Jensen is tossed through a window and into the wall behind it. He's realistically cut up badly and bleeding everywhere, with some glass shards actually visibly sticking out of him. This is partially why he's augmented. The rest of it being [[BoomHeadshot a bullet to the head from his own revolver.]]
594* In ''VideoGame/DieHardTrilogy2VivaLasVegas'', the boss of the Hoover Dam light gun stage is blown through a window during her DisneyVillainDeath.
595* In ''VideoGame/DrakeOfThe99Dragons'', the hero Drake does this to himself as he thinks he has become immortal. He technically is, as he gets brought back to life every time he died.
596* In the opening of ''VideoGame/FableII'', [[BigBad Lucian]] [[BlownAcrossTheRoom shoots]] the Hero out the window of his study, causing them to fall several feet and [[MadeOfIron bang their head on a roof]] on their trip to the ground.
597* ''VideoGame/FatalFury''
598** In the very first game, losing against Geese will result in him kicking off the player from his tower, creating this trope's effect as the continue screen for his stage.
599** A ZigzaggedTrope in regards to [[spoiler:Terry and Geese's]] fight. First, [[spoiler:Terry does ''not'' intend to throw Geese off, it's a complete accident since they're fighting with the huge windows of Geese's penthouse office as background.]] Second, [[spoiler:Terry attempts to ''SaveTheVillain'' via [[TakeMyHand grabbing Geese's hand as he breaks through the balcony]].]] Third, [[spoiler:Geese ''refuses'' Terry's help and [[DrivenToSuicide willingly lets himself fall off]], an EvilLaugh ''and'' [[DyingSmirk a maniacal grin on his lips]].]] Fourth, [[spoiler:it's actually a ThanatosGambit from Geese: since he has a son named Rock who's around the same age that Terry was when Geese killed his and Andy's father Jeff, Geese let himself die [[IronicEcho to saddle Terry with the guilt of orphaning an innocent little boy]] -- the same feeling that [[YouKilledMyFather drove Terry and Andy to fight Geese in the first place]], thus [[MagnificentBastard he both leaves Rock in good hands AND avenges his own death in a really sharp way]].]]
600%%* ''VideoGame/FinalFight'':
601%%** How Belger is dispatched in the original game.
602%%** And also, Retu, the FinalBoss of the sequel.
603* In ''VideoGame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon'', the Point Man is thrown through a window by an explosion during his first encounter with Alma.
604* In ''VideoGame/Floor13'', you direct a secret organization whose only purpose is to keep the Government in power. Fail either in the goal or in being secretive enough, and a certain Mr. Garcia shows up to throw you out the window... from the aforementioned thirteenth floor.
605* ''VideoGame/TheForceUnleashed'':
606** Starkiller gets stabbed, thrown across the room a few times, ''then'' thrown out the window INTO SPACE all by someone he thought was on his side.
607** In escaping the subsequent level, this can be done to Stormtroopers, and there is an Xbox Live Achievement/Playstation Trophy for doing it.
608** In the sequel, Darth Vader Force-Pushes Juno Eclipse through a window. In the Light Side Ending, she survives. In the Dark Side Ending, she doesn't.
609* With ''VideoGame/FridayThe13thTheGame'' averting SoftGlass, it's possible to damage and even kill yourself if you go out a broken window or fall a story down. One of Jason's environmental kills even involves throwing a counselor through a window.
610* This trope is a bit of a [[CreatorThumbprint hallmark]] for Tom Francis:
611** ''VideoGame/{{Gunpoint}}'' has this happen to the player character at the beginning of the game. He gets flung out of his apartment's window, hits the wall of the building next door, and falls through the glass ceiling below him. After you get out of the building, it's revealed that he jumped out of the window himself, trying out a pair of "hypertrousers" that lets you jump with enough strength to shatter glass windows. There's even a track in the soundtrack called Defenestraight to my Heart. During standard gameplay, you have the ability to do this at will (if there's a window nearby).
612** In ''VideoGame/HeatSignature'', this happens again during the tutorial, but in space. Yes, the spaceships have windows. Yes, you can suck guards outside by shooting windows. If you're a traditionalist of the trope you can also smack or blast them through the window the old-fashioned way; especially useful when armor negates damage but ''not'' knockback.
613** In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYJR4Ts-ylE the trailer]] for Tactical Breach Wizards, somebody gets kicked out of the window in the first twenty seconds. On Steam, the three games are even referred to as [[https://store.steampowered.com/curator/34631927 The Defenestration Trilogy]].
614* At one point in ''VideoGame/GodHand'', Gene boots a mook out a window. He then helps a second mook line up with the window before doing the same to him.
615%%* In ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'', this is how one of the first named antagonists can be killed.
616* In ''VideoGame/MadTV1991'', the bosses of the three TV stations do this to the employees they fire, resulting in an animation of the poor schmuck tumbling from a high-up floor of a skyscraper onto the sidewalk below.
617* ''VideoGame/MadWorld'':
618** Elise is SPANKED out a cathedral window.
619--->'''Holmes:''' Out the window with her wings clipped! Now that's a classy kill... DID YOU SEE THAT?! THAT WAS AWESOME!!!\
620'''Kreely:''' Oh yeah! Jack did a great job!
621** You can do this to {{Mook}}s in the Courtyard of the Mad Castle, and you can also do it in the Facility level...[[ThrownOutTheAirlock right into SPACE]] for [[ExplosiveDecompression a messy end.]]
622* Defied by the BigBad of ''VideoGame/MarlowBriggsAndTheMaskOfDeath'', whose gigantic BaseOnWheels is proudly dubbed "The Indefenistrable III". It lives up to its name by not being thrown through a window at any point in the game. Whether its two predecessors lived up to their names is a question left answered.
623* ''Franchise/MassEffect'':
624** ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' invokes this trope:
625--->'''Eclipse Trooper:''' I've got nothing more to say to you. If you--'''[[PressXToNotDie RENEGADE INTERUPT]]'''\
626''[Shepard pushes him through the skyscraper window]''\
627'''Shepard:''' [[BondOneLiner How 'bout "goodbye"?]]\
628'''[[TokenEvilTeammate Jack]]:''' Damn, I need to take lessons from you.
629** In ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', if she's still alive, [[spoiler:Miranda Lawson]] will do this to [[spoiler:her father]] with biotics. We don't see the body, but it's through a reinforced window twenty feet down to a factory floor.
630* ''VideoGame/TheMatrixPathOfNeo'' has, at least, one level where you can throw {{Mook}}s out a window.
631** During another level you can throw an Agent down through a skylight.
632* ''VideoGame/MaxPayne3'' combines this with a SuperWindowJump at the beginning of Chapter 2, where Max pushes a {{mook}} through the VIP lounge window.
633* This is how [[BigBad Sigma]] is defeated in ''VideoGame/MegaManX7''.
634* In ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime3Corruption'', the Berserker Lord tosses a Federation soldier through the window in order to herald the boss's entrance. It's worth considering that the "window" is an external panoramic viewport overlooking the docking bay of a starship. An ''external'' docking bay. This implies that it is very thick tempered glass capable of holding an atmosphere, and the Lord throws the poor {{Redshirt}} through it so hard that it shatters into a ''bajillion'' tiny pieces.
635* ''VideoGame/MinorityReportEverybodyRuns'' allows the player to throw enemies through plate glass windows. It was such a fun highlight of an otherwise [[TheProblemWithLicensedGames lousy game]] that ''Magazine/NintendoPower'' named it best GuiltyPleasure of 2002.
636* ''VideoGame/MrShifty'': The titular character can punch people through windows. But only if the punch would have killed them anyway.
637* In ''VideoGame/MurderedSoulSuspect'', Ronan gets thrown out the window during his fight with the Bell Killer. The landing mostly killed him, but Ronan managed to pull himself back until the Bell Killer [[NoKillLikeOverkill shot seven bullets through his chest]] to finish him off.
638* During the climax of ''[[VideoGame/MysteryCaseFiles Mystery Case Files: Broken Hour]]'', [[spoiler:Meredith Huxley]] gets blasted through a glass clock face on top of a huge ClockTower and plummets down to [[spoiler:her]] demise.
639* ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes2DesperateStruggle'': [[spoiler:It's possible for the final boss in his second form to instantly kill Travis by punching him out the window]]. This fact is actually {{foreshadow|ing}}ed as early as the scene where Travis meets with Sylvia outside a restaurant, [[spoiler:where a guy falls out from the sky into a car. Seems to be a favorite of his]]. Travis then does the same to him, but the latter survives by going OneWingedAngel.
640* Queen Jocasta tells the player character in ''VideoGame/OedipusInMyInventory'' to "get Baby Oedipus out of the castle". This is how he chooses to interpret it.
641* ''VideoGame/{{Oni}}'' has a pretty hilarious take on this in the third level. Konoko is at the top of a tower in a factory complex. A squad of TCTF troops is outside, being pinned down by fire from Syndicate goons in the main lobby. Konoko radios to say she'll be right down to help them when a previously-defeated Syndicate goon stands back up.
642-->'''Demo Trooper:''' Fool! I've just triggered my [[ActionBomb detonation harness]]! In five seconds this entire tower will be vaporised!\
643''[Konoko looks at the trooper, out the window, and back to him; cut to an exterior shot of the tower, where the trooper smashes out the window, falls through the skylight of the lobby, and detonates]\
644'''TCTF Officer:''' Uh, roger that. Foyer secured.
645* In ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}''[='s=] Retribution event, the opening cinematic has Reyes shoot [[SmugSnake Antonio]] with his shotgun. The impact of the shot pushes him out the window he was standing in front of.
646* ''VideoGame/{{Paprium}}'' ends with you facing the FinalBoss, Murdock, in his penthouse office, ending with you uppercutting Murdock through the office's window to his demise.
647* ''VideoGame/RiverCityGirls'': After beating the final boss, the protagonists decide to drop-kick them out the window of their penthouse office. Unfortunately, they're a lot too enthusiastic about the drop-kicking and thus go sailing out the window themselves. They have time to lampshade how they DidntThinkThisThrough before hitting the ground. [[spoiler: Fortunately, as the game is highly comedic they're just fine, if a little banged up]].
648* ''VideoGame/SaintsRow'':
649** In ''VideoGame/SaintsRow1'', this is what Ben King does to [[spoiler:Tanya Winters]] at the end of the Vice Kings arc. Granted, [[spoiler:she]] managed to hold onto the window until Ben stomped [[spoiler:her]] arm, but it still counts.
650** In ''VideoGame/SaintsRow2'', The Boss shoots [[spoiler:[[BigBad Dane Vogel]]]] right out of an office building at least seventy feet in the air after subduing [[spoiler:Ultor]].
651* You kill the BigBad of the Creator/{{Taito}} LightGunGame ''Under Fire'' like this.
652* This happens twice to Nathan in ''VideoGame/Uncharted4AThiefsEnd'', both times he's thrown out by Nadine.
653** The first time occurs after Sam [[spoiler:has stolen the St. Dismas cross]] and the group are trying to get away. Nate opens a door and comes face to face with Nadine, who promptly hands him his ass. She finished the fight by kicking him out of a window, expecting the five story fall to kill him. Naturally, he's able to survive by clinging to a curtain and throwing himself onto the side of the building.
654** The second time happens much later, in chapter 15. After Nathan and Sam survive a chain of RPG shots, Nadine gets the drop on them. During the ensuing fight, Nadine throws Nathan out of a window and he once again needs to scale the side of a building (this one much less stable) but this time, it's to rejoin the fight.
655* ''VideoGame/Yakuza0'': After fighting his way through Dojima HQ to reach Kuze, Kiryu faces off against Yoneda in a bathroom, having [[MadeOfIron punched, kicked, slammed and beaten the man with furniture who still won't give up]] all the way through the building's myriad of rooms and corridors up to this point. What finally puts the guy down until he appears later in the game is Kiryu smashing Yoneda's head into a urinal, then quite literally ''dropkicking'' him out of the window!
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659* The protagonist of ''VisualNovel/DoubleHomework'' throws Dennis out of a second-floor window when he sees Dennis in Johanna’s bed undressed.
660* ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'': In the ''Fate'' route, Rider kicks Shirou out a window, but he uses a Command Spell to teleport Saber to his location and she catches him. Of course, if the player is dumb enough to have Shirou say a long speech to summon Saber instead of the simple, "Please come, Saber!", Shirou will splatter on the ground mid-sentence.
661* ''VisualNovel/{{Pesterquest}}'': Happens in Volume 3 when [[spoiler: the Reader tries to teleport away with Dave while one of Bro's cameras is still watching]] - Bro shows up and throws them out of the window.
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665* In the ''WebAnimation/ChimneyChickens'' episode ''Comeback King'', the {{Delinquent}} Rob [=McLaury=] hoists the HighSchoolHustler Blaze Hanson by the backs of his jacket and pants, and throws him out the window with much breaking of glass. To add insult to injury, when Blaze lands on the ground a couple of stories below and groans "I've fallen and I can't get up!" Rob yells back "You're talking, and you can't ''shut up''!"
666* ''WebAnimation/FallOfTheCrystalEmpire'' [[InvertedTrope inverts]] this by having Princesses Celestia and Luna ''begin'' the battle against King Sombra by Smashing through a stained glass window.
667* In the [[ShowWithinAShow imaginary]] ''Dangeresque'' films created by the ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'' characters, Dangeresque does this to himself (or rather, to his beleaguered stunt double, Strong Sad) as a RunningGag.
668-->'''Dangeresque:''' Looks like I'm gonna have to jump!
669* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'':
670** In the Yellow trailer, when Junior pulls out some of Yang's [[NobodyTouchesTheHair hair]], she [[DisproportionateRetribution punches him through the window of his own club]]. They're fighting on the ground floor. She punches him so hard he smashes through the window of the next floor up and falls a storey before landing on the street. ''Ouch.''
671** In episode one, Ruby deals with the first of many mooks by kicking him out a window of the store they were trying to rob.
672* Marine from ''WebAnimation/{{hololive}}'' posted [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeSEiI4iXFA a video]] where someone opened a door only to show her proudly declaring [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl that she's horny]], which results in her being thrown out the window of the Hololive office.
673* ''WebAnimation/UnbiasedHistory'': The episode on the Defenestrations of Prague cover all the notable real-world instances of this in Prague be it of [[CreepyCatholicism Papists]] or [[DirtyCommunists Commies]].
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676[[folder:Webcomics]]
677* ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'': "Now tell me where Ronald is before I super-size your pain for only thirty-nine cents more!"
678* Two of the {{Time Travel}}lers get defenestrated in the last panel of [[http://dresdencodak.com/2007/11/04/the-impasse/ this]] ''Webcomic/DresdenCodak'' strip. The Tokamak twins demonstrated why they wear lightning bolts on their shirts.
679* In chapter 33 of ''Webcomic/{{Drowtales}}'', Shodun, an agent of [[BigBad the Nidraa'chal]], [[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?id=1717 does this]] to [[spoiler:Sandaur]].
680* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', [[spoiler:[[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2004-04-17 Damien]] and [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2009-07-20 Adrian Raven]]]] were both blown out what was partly window. Both survived this and falling one story down to the ground after, both being [[MadeOfIron tougher than normal humans]].
681* ''Webcomic/EnnuiGo'': In "Defenestration", Hashim accidentally launches Sarah out their bedroom window while having sex with the force of his thrusting. She ends up landing on Izzy in the yard.
682* ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}'': [[LoveableRogue Sam Starfall]] observes that this happens to him a lot, and [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff600/fv00530.htm it makes him thankful]] that the people on Planet Jean have chosen to build ''out'' instead of up; getting defenestrated is a lot safer when you're on the ground floor.
683* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'':
684** While on board [[CoolAirship Castle Wulfenbach]], Othar Tryggvassen, '''''[[GentlemanAdventurer Gentleman Adventurer!]]''''' ''twice'' get knocked/carried off through one of the airship's windows, only to almost immediately [[ComicallyInvincibleHero reappear unscathed.]]
685--->'''Othar:''' ''FOUL!''
686** Later on, Martellus von Blitzengard (better known as Tweedle) awakens to find that in defiance of his orders, an advisor has decided to open some impending negotiations with a show of force and gotten a significant fraction of their airfleet obliterated. When that advisor acts smug about how much more he knows about royal politics ''despite having just gotten their asses kicked'', Tweedle hurls him through a window of their zeppelin and orders an immediate landing, an edict which nobody present is in any mood to defy.
687* In ''Webcomic/{{Goblins}}'', [[spoiler:Minmax]] defenestrates [[spoiler:Dellyn Goblinslayer]] after he finds out that he [[spoiler:rapes his yuan-ti slave nightly]]. It's a ground floor window, but it's the thought that counts.
688* ''Webcomic/HarkAVagrant'''s Strong Female Characters give us...[[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=311 post-coital defenestration!]]
689* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'':
690** In the prequel book ''[[Recap/TheOrderOfTheStickStartOfDarkness Start of Darkness]]'', Xykon is strangling [[spoiler:Right-Eye, but after Redcloak stands up to him, he merely throws him into Redcloak, who is standing in front of a window.]] They fall out, covered in cuts from the window.
691** In [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0355.html "Sore Loser"]], Roy is fighting Sabine when all her magical enhancements wear off. She surrenders and attempts to seduce him instead, telling him he can do anything he wants with her now, so he cheerfully uses the privilege to toss her out of the warehouse to the street below.
692** Haley gets knocked out of a window by Tarquin in [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0722.html "Block and Tackle"]], who later [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0726.html apologizes for her defenestration.]]
693** In "[[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0996.html Silencing Descent]]", [[spoiler:the High Priest of Hel tries to get rid of Belkar for good at the Godsmoot by throwing him out one of the temple's windows and sending him down a mountain. He survives thanks to a Feather Fall item he had recently obtained, but his grudge against the vampire is greater, along with being upset that the comic cut away when he was in peril]].
694* [[CuteBruiser Nova]] from ''Webcomic/OverlordAcademy'' reacts to people hitting her BerserkButton by doing this.
695* ''Webcomic/{{Hejibits}}'' has the executive [[https://hejibits.com/post/173307003744/134 thrown out]] for suggesting what customers want. This [[MemeticMutation gave birth to]] the [[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/boardroom-suggestion Boardroom Suggestion]] meme.
696* ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'': In "On the Run", [[KillerRabbit Bun-bun]] takes over a group of Black Ops Elves who used to work for Santa Claus, keeping tabs on everyone being naughty and nice. Since Bun-bun has made it to the top of the naughty list every year and repeatedly tried to kill Santa Claus, the elves are very unwilling to work for him. Thus, his method of persuasion is to go down the chain of command throwing people out of high windows until he gets to someone willing to serve him. Much later, in "Falling", he throws that elf out of a window too for doing stuff behind his back, but he's got softer, and it's only high enough to break his bones.
697* ''Webcomic/TalesFromSomewhere'': In ''The Legend'', [[https://www.talesfromsomewhere.com/comic/chapter-1-the-legend/ch1p3-eye-contact/ "Eye Contact"]], Morten tosses an unnamed character out the window of the tavern because they tried to insist on taking his spot at the bar. It is soon revealed that he does this on a regular basis.
698* ''Webcomic/UnOrdinary'':
699** John flips [[spoiler:Gavin]] out an upper story widow in their first fight when he charges at John. Due to [[spoiler:Gavin]]'s ability he's able to drag himself to the infirmary to get patched up.
700** Blyke blasts a rampaging [[spoiler:John]] out a window later on. He isn't much worse for wear either, as he borrows Blyke's ability to break his fall.
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704* ''Series/CobraKai:'' Two in a single episode ("December 19," the third-season finale). One happens to Bert after his investigation of a cat noise outside the Larusso household (landing him through the inside kitchen window). The other happens with both Kreese (who had previously gone at it with Johnny) and Daniel during their confrontation at the namesake dojo.
705* In ''Literature/TheOtherKindOfRoommate'', Xander not only deals with the first [[TheMenInBlack Agent]] of the story in this way, but says it's become so normal that he moved a dumpster underneath to catch all the falling bodies.
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708[[folder:Web Videos]]
709* ''[[Creator/JamesRolfe Cinemassacre]]'' has a video devoted to this, under the condition it's under the character's will: [[http://cinemassacre.com/2013/05/06/top-20-window-jumps/ Top 20 Window Jumps!]]
710* [[https://vimeo.com/16611269 "Defenestration: The Movie"]]: a full ''7 and a half minutes'' of compiled Defenestrations and Window Jumps.
711* ''Series/FlandersCompany'':
712** Maxence putting Cindy in a girly dress results in his fall from the top of the Flander's building. Luckily [[CrossesTheLineTwice an old lady cushions his landing]].
713** Kevin, using his groove powers on Alternate Hippolyte, [[InvoluntaryDance forces him to dance]] all the way through a window.
714* In the now-famous [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSuvOVH0aSQ "I'm the Juggernaut, bitch!"]] parody video, the first segment ends with Juggernaut tossing Professor X out of a window.
715* This trope is the topic of "The Defenestrations of Prague", the second episode of ''WebVideo/PuppetHistory'''s fifth season. [[spoiler:It's also how [[ArcVillain the Substitute]] is ultimately defeated.]]
716* ''WebVideo/SuperPowerBeatDown'':
717** Darth Vader Force-Throws Batman out a window overlooking the Death Star's hangar, but his Batwing catches him.
718** Darth Maul throws Spider-Man out of the warehouse by a window with telekinesis after destroying his webshooters. Since Spidey can't cast a webline to stop his fall, he lands rather hard.
719* From ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'':
720-->'''Croquet:''' Yeah... everyone involved with the production of the [[ArtifactOfDoom Egyptian God Cards]] was killed.\
721'''Pegasus:''' What!? Even [[BobFromAccounting Chad from Accounting]]?\
722''(cut to a man being thrown through a skyscraper window)''\
723'''Croquet:''' [[EspeciallyZoidberg Especially Chad from Accounting!]]
724[[/folder]]
725
726[[folder:Western Animation]]
727* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'':
728** In "[[Recap/AmphibiaS2E36TrueColors True Colors]]", King Andrias attempts to kill Sprig by callously dropping him out the window of his OminousFloatingCastle. This ends up awakening Anne's SuperMode, while Joe Sparrow saves Sprig.
729** In "[[Recap/AmphibiaS3E03TurningPoint Turning Point]]", Grime's plan [[NoEscapeButDown for him and Sasha to escape]] the self-same castle was for him to throw Sasha out the window and jumping out after her. [[DidntThinkThisThrough Unfortunately]], he didn't have a plan for surviving the crash into the ground, but luckily, Joe Sparrow was there to catch them and help them get to Wartwood.
730** In "[[Recap/AmphibiaS3E05AdventuresInCatsitting Adventures in Catsitting]]", the Plantars mention 'Cousin Stanley' who ended up being TheThingThatWouldNotLeave (and possibly wasn't an actual relative of theirs). Eventually, they had enough and made him leave... by chucking him out of a second story window into the nearby swamp.
731* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arcane}}'': In "[[Recap/ArcaneS1E2SomeMysteriesAreBetterLeftUnsolved Some Mysteries Are Better Left Unsolved]]", Powder notices some commotion outside the arcade they're hiding out in, and sees Marcus and some Enforcers grilling passersby about where they could be hiding. The impudent man they're currently interrogating opts to spit on Marcus's shoe, who simply looks at him while taking a breath. Powder then tries to warn everyone about what's going on, before getting cut off by the man getting flung through the arcade's window with a slow-motion crash, making any explanation moot.
732* In the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' episode "[[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE1OnLeatherWings On Leather Wings]]", Man-Bat attacks a security guard and flings him through a plate glass window from several stories up. He survives because he [[SoftWater falls into a river]] below.
733* In the pilot episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'', 8-year-old Riley fires a shotgun at Ed Wuncler III, knocking him through a window onto the lawn in the middle of a garden party. The twist? He ''asks'' Riley to shoot him, to prove how strong his Kevlar vest is. It helps him survive a two-story fall in a pile of broken glass, too.
734* In the first episode of ''WesternAnimation/BountyHamster'', Cassie waits by the window for her inept BountyHunter Marion to be tossed through after losing a spontaneous BarBrawl.
735* ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'' has an example in the episode "The Transplant". After the Computer tells Courage how to defeat a kangaroo monster, it takes the opportunity to snark at him ("Please deposit twenty-five cents for the next five minutes, or your call will be interrupted."), at which point an annoyed Courage promptly chucks it out the attic window.
736-->'''Computer:''' Some people can't take a joke.
737* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'', Fred and Barney are helping a billionaire detective with a case. When Fred goes to the apartment of some suspects, they throw him out the window. Outraged at them doing that, the detective tells Fred to go back in and throw ''them'' out the window... only for it to happen to Fred again.
738* [=Roddy MacStew=] is thrown out by [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Gutierrez]] in the origins episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Freakazoid}}''. He survives but leaves a [[ImpactSilhouette him-shaped hole]] in the snow (it is Christmas Eve).
739* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/GoofTroop'', when Pete learns that new safety inspector Goofy didn't shut down his rival car dealer like he wanted, he attempted to do this to him. When Peg refused to let him, Pete [[LoopholeAbuse opted to]] throw him [[SeanConneryIsAboutToShootYou towards the camera]].
740* In ''WesternAnimation/KimPossibleMovieSoTheDrama'', Kim feels that guys seeing her doing this to henchmen on TV [[NoGuyWantsAnAmazon weirds them out]].
741* Happens to Amon in the 12th episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'', who then lands in the ocean.
742* Happens to Doctor Feelbad (an ambulance monster truck wrestler) in the [[WesternAnimation/PixarShorts Pixar animated short]] "Monster Truck Mater".
743-->'''Doctor Feelbad:''' [[TemptingFate Your next stop is the hospital!]] ''(Tormentor ([[Franchise/{{Cars}} Mater's]] monster truck alter ego) pulls him onto the ropes from behind the ring)''\
744'''Tormentor:''' Don't worry, I'll git ya some flowers. ''(he lets go, and as a result, Doctor Feelbad is thrown out of the arena and into a hospital, where the referee then counts to three)''
745* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
746** Inverted in the ending to "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E11TheTwistedWorldOfMargeSimpson The Twisted World of Marge Simpson]]"; a MobWar between the {{Yakuza}} and Fat Tony's gang breaks out on the family's front lawn, resulting in a Yakuza member getting thrown ''into'' the house through a closed window. He gets up, brushes himself off, [[JapanesePoliteness bows and apologizes]], and rushes back outside to rejoin the fight.
747** A SignatureMove of [=McBain=], played by Schwarzenegger {{Expy}} Rainier Wolfcastle, who uses it twice in clips of his movie: first [[SoftWater non-lethally]] on his alleged ObstructiveBureaucrat chief for disallowing [=McBain's=] HandCannon pistol, and later lethally on the drug smuggling BigBad, Mendoza.
748* ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan'' has this happen a lot, and the episode "Catalysts" provides the page quote.
749-->'''Spider-Man:''' The dictionary defines defenestration as the act of throwing a person or thing out a window... Really not my favorite word.
750* In one episode of the 1960s ''[[WesternAnimation/SpiderMan1967 Spider-Man]]'' series, Doctor Octopus throws the hero out a window and rather optimistically proclaims that he's gone for good. Spidey immediately returns through the same window.
751* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'': In "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS4E11Kidnapped Kidnapped]]", Obi-Wan Force-pushes Darts D'Nar's tactical droid out of a large picture window after D'Nar [[WhyAmITicking activates the bomb he'd attached to it]], and the droid explodes in midair.
752* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'': In "[[Recap/StarWarsRebelsS3E08AnInsideMan An Inside Man]]", Ezra Force-pushes Agent Kallus through a large glass pane, one of those control room displays common in the ''Star Wars'' universe.
753* Happens occasionally in ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'', giving Superman somebody to rescue. At least once Clark Kent is thrown out of a high window, and it takes a well-placed open manhole and quick costume change for him to preserve his secret identity.
754* ''WesternAnimation/SwatKats'':
755** "The Metallikats": Mac and Molly drop Callie out of a window for denying their parole. [[spoiler:Fortunately for Callie, the SWAT Kats show up just in time for one of their BigDamnHeroes moments.]]
756** "Destructive Nature": Dr. Viper, annoyed that one of his Plantimals [[YouHaveFailedMe let Callie get away]], knocks it across the room towards a window with his tail. In a subversion, it just splats against the glass, which doesn't break.
757** "The Ci-Kat-A": Razor fires a missile through the window of the Megakat Tower penthouse. It hits BrainwashedAndCrazy scientist Dr. Street in the face, sending him flying through the air and ''out the other window'' at the opposite side of the room.
758** "The Origin of Dr. Viper": The SWAT Kats knock Viper out the lab window at the end of the episode. [[ForegoneConclusion He survives]] and escapes into the sewer.
759* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'':
760** A flash back to Doc and Brock's college days ends with a rampaging Brock throwing someone through a window. He also does this to a random thug in the pilot episode.
761** In a later episode, Rusty leaps through the window of a skyscraper. He's not committing suicide, he wants to show off a device that lets him hover. Unfortunately for him, he didn't take into account the glass shards and a huge one punctures his leg, causing him to black out.
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764[[folder:Real Life]]
765* There have been least three notable [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defenestrations_of_Prague Defenestrations in Prague in the past 600 years,]] the third of which is the TropeNamer since the word "defenestration" was first coined to describe the event. (That particular defenestration, of some Catholic officials from UsefulNotes/{{Prague}} City Hall by Protestant burghers, started the UsefulNotes/ThirtyYearsWar; unlike the other defenestrations, the defenestrees survived.[[note]]Catholic propaganda held that they survived on account of divine intervention, with angels gently lowering them down or some such; Protestant propagandists responded by claiming that they survived the fall because they landed on a dung heap. More charitable Protestants say that they survived because they landed on the city haystack. Modern historians generally think they survived because the window they were thrown out of wasn't particularly high up, without discounting the possibility that something (more likely to be hay than dung) might have cushioned theirs fall.[[/note]]) The earlier ones (1419, 1483) were associated with the proto-Protestant Hussite heresy and general rebellion in Greater Bohemia and Moravia. The fourth and last happened in 1948, the victim being Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk; DirtyCommunists were implicated in that.[[note]]The evidence is inconclusive that Masaryk's fall was a murder; the official line at the time of Masaryk's death was that his death was a suicide. While most of the circumstantial evidence points to him being pushed, the suicide story is at least plausible: unlike the other defenestrations, there are no third-party eyewitnesses. That being said, if Masaryk was suicidal, the Communists were probably to blame for that, too: he was the last non-Communist in Czechoslovakia's government, and he knew that whatever the Communists running the show had planned for him, it wasn't pleasant. On the other other hand, Masaryk was a singularly odd candidate for suicide; he was informally engaged to be married to the American writer Marcia Davenport, and was coordinating with her to meet in London to be married ASAP. However, she arrived in England literally days after his death, only learning of his passing after her arrival thanks to the communications technology of the time. Also, Masaryk himself was American on his mother's side; even though he wasn't a U.S. citizen (under the law at the time American women married to foreign men could not pass citizenship to their children born abroad), he was familiar enough with the Americans that the Truman Adminstration would have been accommodating to any attempt by Masaryk to take refuge with the American embassy in Prague if he felt his life or freedom was in danger, and so suicide seems like a deeply odd way out.[[/note]] Though there wasn't such a thing as a [[UsefulNotes/{{Czechia}} Czech]] 'nation' at the time, people of the present day nation-state of Czechia often consider Defenestration their nation's National Sport. Apparently, Czechs just don't feel it's a proper revolution until somebody gets thrown out a window. Political protests have been known to feature their targets being defenestrated in effigy.
766* During the UsefulNotes/CulturalRevolution that swept [[RedChina Communist China]], UsefulNotes/DengXiaoping's son Deng Pufang was tortured by the Red Guards before being thrown out of a third-floor window at the Beijing University; he survived, but was left a paraplegic. While neither openly denounced the revolutionaries, nor [[UsefulNotes/MaoZedong Mao]] for that matter, there are rumors that Deng Xiaoping always held a grudge towards Mao over the incident.
767* A story about windows and the Cultural Revolution was that of the famous mathematician Chen Jingrun (whose [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chen%27s_theorem groundbreaking work]] on the Goldbach Conjecture is usually rather anti-climatically over-simplified in the lay press as "proving 1+2=3"), who [[SuperWindowJump defenestrated himself from the top floor of his office building]] to escape Red Guards. He would have fallen to his death except a tree broke his fall and he managed to land unharmed. Apparently, the leader of that Red Guard brigade was very impressed, saying, "It is no wonder that you are a famous mathematician. You even know how to select the angle when you jump out of the window."
768* Toronto lawyer Gary Hoy apparently had a fondness for throwing himself against skyscraper windows to demonstrate their strength, which worked out just fine until July 9, 1993. His faith in the strength of the glass was justified; the window didn't break but instead ''[[MyopicArchitecture popped out of its frame]]'' and Hoy fell 24 stories to his death in an act of self-defenestration. The story was so infamous that it was tested by the ''Series/MythBusters''.
769* MurderInc killer Abe "Kid Twist" Reles became a police informant to avoid the death penalty. After he sent several of his bosses to the electric chair, he went out a 6th story window at the Half Moon Hotel in Coney Island. The official story was that he was trying to escape, which is pretty absurd. He was being "guarded" by several New York City policemen, but no one was arrested for his murder/suicide/accident. The newspaper headline announcing his death was "The Canary Who Could Sing, But Couldn't Fly." Very cold.
770* In 1969 alleged anarchist terrorist Giuseppe Pinelli ''somehow'' went fatally out of the fourth-floor window of a Milan police station while being interrogated. The death was officially declared an accident, to the disbelief of many. The incident inspired Dario Fo's play ''Theatre/AccidentalDeathOfAnAnarchist'', although the death is not actually depicted in it. One area of suspicion was that his arms were not broken, indicating he was dead or unconscious when he fell, as an instinctive reaction by someone falling head first (even a suicide) is to reach out their arms to protect their head.
771* Similarly, in 1920 New York City Italian-born anarchist Andrea Salsedo died after falling to his death from a 14th-floor window. He had been arrested in connection with the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1919_United_States_anarchist_bombings anarchist bombings]] which had rocked the US in 1919, due to one of the bombers accidentally blowing himself up. A flyer discovered by his body was traced to the print shop where Salsedo worked (an anarchist newspaper was printed on the premises). Salsedo was held by the Bureau of Investigation (precursor to the FBI) for eight weeks incommunicado, without a lawyer, and reportedly harshly interrogated. Whether he killed himself or was murdered has been a source of controversy. Some claim he chose suicide to avoid implicating fellow anarchists if he broke during interrogation. Others claim he did give names, so perhaps he killed himself out of guilt. There have been allegations that he was severely beaten by BOI agents during interrogation, and thrown to his death. Whatever the case, his fate was overshadowed with the arrest of Sacco and Vanzetti (connected with the same group) just two days later.
772* In UsefulNotes/SouthAfrica in UsefulNotes/TheApartheidEra, [[StateSec The Bureau Of State Security]] adamantly insisted black activist Steve Biko was interrogated robustly but within the legal guidelines, and they were so solicitous of his welfare that they even opened a window to air the twelfth-floor interrogation room. Ag, jislaaik, man, [[TheCoronerDothProtestTooMuch we couldn't be blamed for a communist fanatic choosing to throw himself to his death rather than crack under interrogation]], and he was an ANC terrorist anyway, so what's the big deal?
773* When someone in the body politic is found dead under a shattered high-level window, conspiracy theories flourish right on the spot. Norwegian politics have two examples:
774** Center Party politician Nils Trædal was found like this in 1949, apparently the day before a crucial political debate concerning the leadership of the Norwegian home front during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. He ''had'' been instrumental in securing that said home front did not seize complete political power after the German capitulation in 1945, and therefore, theories about his demise began to grow. Years later, another Center Party leader stated he had committed suicide, but...
775** During the debates concerning where to put a new main airport in Norway, a certain scientist with good arguments against the current plans was found dead outside his hotel in Denmark, presumably thrown out of the window of his room. This example is jarring because he was naked, and all his data was stolen. The airport 'was laid out as planned -- and nobody ever talked about it again. ''Officially''.
776* Similarly, when the ex-US Secretary of Defence James Forrestal was found dead under the window of his room in the Naval Medical Center, where he was interned for depression treatment, the theories of foul play were more than abundant. However, presiding over a controversial winding down and acrimonious reorganizing of a US post-war military, Forrestal ''was'' under a lot of stress, especially when differing political ideas brought him up against his former close ally, the President, and [[UsefulNotes/HarryTruman Truman]] fired him in the end after learning of his surreptitious contacts with his archrival Dewey. It's entirely possible (and generally believed most probable) that Forrestal ''did'' become suicidal, even after his state of mind seemed to improve, knowledge of clinical depression being rather slim in the late Forties. The oft-told legend that he threw himself from the window, shouting "The Russians are coming! The Russians are coming!", is still a legend, though. While Forrestal ''did'' believe that the confrontation with the Soviet Union was inevitable, nobody had seen him (or other people) defenestrating himself, and if any suicide note was written by him, it was an excerpt from the Sophocles tragedy ''Ajax''.
777* The death of the Serbian Nazi collaborator [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milan_Nedic Milan Nedic]] in 1946 involved him falling out of the window of a hospital in Belgrade. It's still not fully clear whether he willingly threw himself off [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled to avert being tried and surely executed]], or he was thrown out by others.
778* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXdvjyp-t0k As this video shows,]] it is perfectly possible for a momentary lapse in judgement to result in people defenestrating themselves through ground floor glass windows and doors. While some ground floor windows and doors are reinforced with this in mind, it doesn't take much force from someone running against a thin plate-glass window to send it crashing down.
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