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Windows are there to be broken in fictional settings. And not just broken in {{Bar Brawl}}s or by the sonic boom of some fast or loud thing happening in the middle of your action movie.

No, you can damage a window in more "subtle" ways.

If your teenager needs to get the attention of his crush who's [[YouAreGrounded grounded]], he can throw pebbles at [[EnterStageWindow the window]]. Too much force, though, and CRACK!

If your [[TheSyndicate crime syndicate]] is trying to scare a witness into leaving town so they don't have to MakeItLookLikeAnAccident, they may toss a rock or a brick through the window, and CRACK! Threatening message sent.

The good guys are trying to get a WellIntentionedExtremist to give up his hostages? Fire up that tear gas canister gun, and [[RuleOfThree CRACK!]] Canisters released right at the guy's feet to get him to come out with his hands up.

The most innocent variation is [[BrokenGlassPenalty kids playing ball.]] One kicks or hits the ball too far. We hear the window break offscreen, and the children scatter to avoid getting in trouble for it.

Frequently, [[ThatPoorCat a cat is heard]] from behind the broken window.

Other variations include:

* Threatening notes may be tied to the brick or stone put through the window. [[AbsurdityAscendant Or they may be non-threatening notes.]]
* A MolotovCocktail through a window is a slightly stronger way of encouraging someone to leave town. Or a sign of [[PowderKegCrowd mass civil unrest]].
* During a DisasterMovie looters will put a brick through a store window so they can run off with expensive merchandise.
* A good guy pretending to be a bad guy will "accidentally" put a brick or a stone through a window to alert the authorities.
* Vandals will break windows for fun or to get back at "TheMan".
* Heroes and/or villains will [[SuperWindowJump smash windows to make an entrance or exit.]]
* [[{{Toon}} Cartoon characters]] will almost always [[ImpactSilhouette leave their silhouette]] in the windows they break.

Generally the window never shatters as it would in real life. The object just goes through and makes a hole big enough for itself.

Note that [[IThoughtItMeant this trope isn't about]] [[DestinationDefenestration a guy getting thrown out a window]]. Nor is it about the frustration and annoyance caused by a certain PC operating system.

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!!Examples:

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[[folder:Advertising]]
* Arby's restaurant has frozen burgers thrown into their restaurant with the note tied to them. The workers in Arby's are not terribly threatened.
* Geico insurance [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUQqDskjvh8j0fbmLnJA has one]] that proudly proclaims "Casey Mears drives [list of vehicles], Geico insures [previous list]. We insure almost everything Casey drives!" Casey hits a golf ball, it breaks a window. Announcer repeats, "...''almost''," as Casey drops the club and sheepishly backs away.
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[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* Just barely avoided in ''Manga/HellTeacherNube'': Nube is giving class as usual, when [[AnIcePerson Yukime]] appears and sits on the tree branch just outside. She lovingly [[{{Squee}} blows small ice cubes at him to catch his attention]], which bounce off the window pane. Then heart-shaped ice blocks. Nube opens the window and greets her just before she puts a [[BiggerIsBetter bulldozer-sized ice boulder]] through the window.
* In ''Manga/StrawberryMarshmallow'', Miu hits a baseball through Ana's classroom window, hitting Sasazuka, which [[ButtMonkey obviously gets him in trouble]].
* There are ''numerous'' panes of glass in ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'', but only one dramatic window-smashing incident: Madoka throws a bucket through one (because it was full of [[spoiler:potentially lethally toxic volatile liquids]]). Appropriate, since [[MeaningfulName "mado" means "window."]]
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[[folder:Audio Plays]]
* Vivian Stanshall's LP version of ''Sir Henry at Rawlinson End'' includes the following scene:
-->There was a terrific crash and a brick smashed through the window. About the brick was wrapped a note, which read simply: (''Irish accent'') "Hello, now. Oi'm yer new neighbour."\\
Henry was plainly delighted. "He seems a decent enough egg. At least he didn't have the impertinence to present himself at the front door."
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[[folder:Card Games]]
* ''[[TabletopGame/{{Deadlands}} Doomtown]]'' lets you install Stained-Glass Windows in one of your buildings to set this up (so that e.g. your dudes in the Town Square can join the fight).
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* Parodied (as many, many superheroes tropes) in ''ComicBook/{{Rat-Man}}''. A superteam break-in plan to enter a villain house requires one of them to stealth to a windows, cut the glass, and crawl inside. Then he signals the other to enter... which they do by purposely smashing every other windows in the process.
* Happens in ''Franchise/{{Tintin}} in America'', with a note reading, "For the last time: mind your own business!" From the implication that this is not the first time, Tintin starts to realize who he's up against.
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[[folder:Comic Strips]]
* ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'': Jon once got a brick through the window with the less-than-threatening message of "You seem boring". Garfield notes they should send the writer a thank you brick.
* One ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'' strip had one of Dilbert's (now) ex-girlfriends describe how much she didn't enjoy their first and only date by writing a multi-page document on the subject, wrapping each page around a different rock, and throwing each rock through a different window.
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[[folder:Fan Works]]
* Shortly before ''Fanfic/ChrysalisVisitsTheHague'' is set, Judge Mullan's window gets smashed by a hefty battery wrapped in a note reading, "Paardenneuker"[[note]]"Horse fucker" in Dutch[[/note]].
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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* ''Film/TheThinMan''
** In the first film of the series, Nick accidentally breaks a window playing with his new toy gun.
** In ''Film/AfterTheThinMan'', a stone with a note attached flies through the Charles' kitchen window. HilarityEnsues when their dog Asta grabs the note in his jaws and is pursued through the house.
* In ''Film/TheIncredibleHulk'' (2008) tear gas canisters are fired through the windows of a glass bridge at a cornered Bruce Banner. [[UnstoppableRage Very bad idea...]]
* Parodied in the Creator/MelBrooks movie ''Film/HighAnxiety''. The main character, the new head of a mental asylum, receives a rock to the window with a message - a friendly welcome note from the psycho ward.
* In ''Film/ForrestGump'', Upon returning to live with Forrest, Jenny Curran comes across the old homestead of her abusive father while walking with Forrest, and in a release of all the anger from the suffering that began in that old house, she starts throwing rocks at the old house, one of which ends up going through a window, before ultimately breaking down when she runs out of rocks to throw.
-->'''Forrest:''' Sometimes, I guess there just aren't enough rocks.
* The main action of ''Film/HoneyIShrunkTheKids'' starts when Ron, one of the Thompsons from next door, hits a baseball through the Szalinskis' upper window, which activates Wayne's shrinking machine and gets in the path of the laser that was making it so that it blew up the apples he was using to test the machine out.
* In ''Film/HomeAlone 2'', when Kevin sees that the toy store is being robbed, he breaks the window in order to set off the alarm. He attaches a note to the brick explaining his actions to the owner.
* Played with in ''Film/HotFuzz'', where Nicholas Angel throws his nightstick to shatter a glass window...before jumping through the still-intact glass ''door'' beside it.
* Repeatedly in ''Film/{{Penelope}}''. Every last suitor up to the point Penelope's mother realized shatterproof glass was a good idea.
* ''[[Film/FortyEightHours Another 48 Hrs.]]'' must set a record for most broken glass in a single film.
* The original ''Film/DieHard'' turns this into a plot point when the villain shoots out all the glass around the barefoot hero.
* In Film/{{The Matrix}} when a helicopter crashes into a glass building.
* In ''Film/BladeRunner'', Zhora runs through several store window panes while being shot by Deckard.
* In ''Film/{{Gia}}'', the made-for-TV movie adaptation of the life of Gia Marie Carangi, Gia smashes her girlfriend's window to let herself in.
* In ''Film/YoungFrankenstein'', the title character is playing darts with Inspector Kemp, and the conversation is unnerving him enough that the darts end up in all sorts of [[ThatPoorCat unlikely places]], including through the window.
* In ''Film/TheLastCastle'', the prisoners construct a trebuchet to put rocks through the warden's office window.
* ''Film/RememberTheTitans'' features this in classic "brick through the window" form.
* In ''Film/{{Footloose}}'', Ren tries to start a movement to repeal his town's "no dancing" law... and late at night, he gets a brick through a window of his home for his troubles.
* ''Film/AnimalHouse'': Pinto goes the rocks-at-the-window route to get the attention of his girlfriend Clorette. Suffice it to say he succeeds.
* In ''Film/LeftBehind2014'', Chloe Steele breaks through the glass of a sealed-off hospital to find her brother Raymie, who was CaughtUpInTheRapture.
* In ''Film/TheHunt'', Lucas gets a brick thrown into his kitchen window, supposedly by Theo, whose daughter Lucas allegedly molested.
* In ''Film/TheHoundOfTheBaskervilles'', a rock with a threatening note tied to it is tossed through Sir Henry's carriage as it drives into London, warning him to stay away from Baskerville Hall or face madness and death.
* In ''Film/MississippiBurning'', the Klan sends a message to the two FBI agents by shooting a hole into the window of their apartment. Same happens later to Lester.
* ''Film/ThreeBillboardsOutsideEbbingMissouri'': Dixon chooses smash the glass door of Red's building with his nightstick and step through the empty frame instead of just opening it. Likewise, he smashes the window in Red's office before [[DestinationDefenestration before throwing Red out]].
* ''Film/{{XX}}: In "Don't Fall", Gretchen throws [[spoiler:Paul]]'s body through the rear window of the RV.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* In the ''Literature/FatherBrown'' story "The Blue Cross," Valentine finds a restaurant with a smashed windowpane while searching for Flambeu. When he asks the waiter about it, this humorous exchange occurs:
-->"'Here,' I says to the chap who was nearly out of the door, 'you've paid too much.' 'Oh,' he says, very cool, 'have we?' 'Yes,' I says, and picks up the bill to show him. Well, that was a knock-out."
"What do you mean?" asked his interlocutor.\\
"Well, I'd have sworn on seven Bibles that I'd put 4s. on that bill. But now I saw I'd put 14s., as plain as paint."\\
"Well?" cried Valentin, moving slowly, but with burning eyes, "and then?"\\
"The parson at the door he says all serene, 'Sorry to confuse your accounts, but it'll pay for the window.' 'What window?' I says. 'The one I'm going to break,' he says, and smashed that blessed pane with his umbrella."
* In Sarah Caudwell's ''The Sybil in Her Grave'', someone throws a rock through Daphne's window to scare her away. The kicker is that [[spoiler: Daphne threw it herself, to make herself look sympathetic and persecuted.]]
* In Creator/JodiPicoult's ''Salem Falls'', a Molotov cocktail is thrown through the main character's window after it becomes common knowledge that he was previously convicted of rape. It's discovered before it can cause too much damage, and it is implied that it was poorly made and intended to send a message rather than cause real damage.
* During ''Literature/GalaxyOfFear'', Zak Arranda has recurring BadDreams about his dead parents standing or floating outside of his window hammering on or otherwise trying to open it. In one, they break it.
* The short ''[[Literature/TheDresdenFiles Dresden Files]]'' story "Day Off" has [[HarmlessVillain Darth Wannabe]] throw a smoke bomb into Harry's basement via window. Unfortunately, Harry kind of had some bigger problems some at the time...
* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'':
** In ''Discworld/TheColourOfMagic'', Rincewind reflects that there's no room for logic in a world where the gods go round to atheists houses and smash their windows.
** Similarly, in ''Discworld/SmallGods'', the barman at the Ephebian taverna doesn't like the philosophers to discuss religion, since it leads to [[BoltOfDivineRetribution lightning bolts]] coming through the roof with notes wrapped round them.
** PlayedForDrama in ''Discworld/{{Jingo}}'', when anti-Klatchian rioters chuck a firebomb through the window of Mr Goriff's takeaway.
** The Golem Trust are victims of a brick through the window in ''Discworld/GoingPostal'', but Adora Belle just [[TheComicallySerious picks it up and files it under B]].
* ''Literature/GirlWaitsWithGun'' draws on this trope for a lot of its source material. Being the (mostly) true story of three sisters harassed by local criminals, a lot of the "brick-mail" letters still exist in official records.
* ''Literature/YoungSherlockHolmes'': When Matty is kidnapped in ''Red Leech'', the kidnappers throw a large rock with a note tied to it through Crowe's window. The note says that if Crowe leaves them alone for three months, Matty will be released unharmed.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* ''Radio/OurMissBrooks'': In "The Jewel Robbery", Mr. Conklin accidentally breaks a jewelry store window with a bag of laundry. Unlike in most examples of this trope, the whole window shatters from the (unintended) impact.
* ''Series/PoliceSquad'':
** An [[InvertedTrope inversion]]: a window with a note attached is thrown into the rock garden. Later that same episode, the same criminal throws a rock with a note attached--except the note is a mime, who ''acts out'' the message.
** In another episode, the neighborhood protection racket tries to send a message to the owners of a key store by perforating the place with machine guns... and then throwing a rock through the window. Naturally, Frank Drebin focuses on the rock and fails to notice the machine-gun fire. He later asks the forensics lab to find out where the rock came from, and gets a geology lesson in response. Later on Drebin confronts the mook who threw the rock, who starts giving the exact same geology lesson.
* ''Series/TheDrewCareyShow'': In the "Drew and the Singles Union" episode, some angry employees throw a ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'' doll through Drew's window in a nod to the similarities between the two.
-->'''Kate:''' ''[reads attached note]'' Next time, it's life size!
* ''Series/{{House}}'' breaks a window with a rock to illegally enter a patient's home in "Alone."
* ''Series/{{Heroes}}'':
** Episode 1, volume 4. [[spoiler: Matt gets shot with a taser that comes through the window.]]
** Happens quite a lot in ''Heroes''. In season one, Jessica threw Matt through a window.
** In season two, Claire punched out Elle's car window, which didn't have SoftGlass, to intimidate her by showing off her regeneration.
** At the end of season two, Elle blasts Sylar through a window, which also didn't have SoftGlass ([[GoodThingYouCanHeal but he had a bottle of healer juice so all was good]]).
* Randy from ''Series/TheWire'' gets a MolotovCocktail through his window for talking to the police.
* A ''Series/TheWhitestKidsUKnow'' sketch features a businessman "at war" with a rival investment bank across the street, culminating in him launching a mortar shell through their window (this is after, of course, a sniper shoots one of his interns and a flashbomb sails through the window and goes off).
* In the {{Pilot}} of ''Series/{{Outsourced}}'', one of the disgruntled employees whose job was outsourced throws a brick with an attached message through the window.
-->'''Todd:''' "You bastard"?\\
'''Jerry:''' ''[cheerfully]'' That's for me. ''[places it on a pile of similar bricks]''
* ''Series/GoodLuckCharlie'' has the mom playing goalie for her younger son's practice at hockey. But the kid's first shot goes through an internal window out into the yard.
* In ''Series/{{Misfits}}'', Kelly uses the leg of a stool to punch out a window pane so they can break into a flat.
* Parodied in an episode of ''Series/WillAndGrace''. Will and Jack start renting a place together, and one of their new neighbors throws a brick through their (open) window. It's actually a loaf of homemade banana bread, with a note giving them a warm welcome to the neighborhood. (The locals are thrilled to have two gay men move in, since if a gay district springs up, property values would increase).
* In one episode of ''Series/BurnNotice'', some hitmen are sent to take out a guy Team Westen needs alive. In order to buy some time, Fiona throws a brick through the target's window and starts screaming for him to come out and face her like a man. The hitmen, seeing that the guy's "crazy ex-girlfriend" has just triggered the alarm and alerted the cops, decide to come back another day.
* Averted in the ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' episode "The Train Job", where Mal gets thrown out a hologram bar window. Presumably it's cheaper than repeatedly replacing real windows.
* ''Series/RedDwarf'': In the '''Sdrawkcab'' episode, Lister gets in a pub fight and has to leap backwards through a broken window that reassembles itself, landing in the arms of two kind people who catch him so as to cushion his fall.
* ''Series/SledgeHammer''; when a classic CartoonBomb is sent to Trunk's office, Hammer begins pounding on a window with a chair so as to throw it out. The window is both fixed and reinforced, so it takes some battering. However, even after Doreau has extinguished the fuse by dipping it in her coffee, Hammer keeps battering away at the window till it shatters. Despite the need to break the window having passed.
* ''Series/TheWorstYearOfMyLifeAgain'': In the SchoolPlay episode, Alex attempts to attract Nicola's attention by throwing a rock at her bedroom window. Naturally, he smashes her window.
* ''Series/{{Motive}}'': In "Bad Blonde", the killer throws a half-brick through the windscreen of the VictimOfTheWeek's classic car not long before the murder.
* ''Series/TheDoctorBlakeMysteries'': In "Sorrow Songs", the gypsies throw a brick through the window of the Ballarat Courier after editor Edward Tyneman is accused of Nadia's murder.
* ''Series/{{Cannon}}'': In "Devil's Playground", the bikers throw a rock through the window of the diner where Cannon is holed up with his prisoner.
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[[folder: Music]]
* The intro to BillyJoel's "You May Be Right", the opening track from his 1980 album ''Glass Houses'', whose cover photo shows Billy holding a rock, about to throw it through a large window. The back cover photo shows Billy looking out through a broken pane of glass.
* BillyIdol's "Shock to the System" opens with glass shattering, although it's not clear whether it's a window or a [[GrievousBottleyHarm bottle]]. Given the song's theme about the [[PowderKegCrowd 1992 Los Angeles riots]], it could be either.
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[[folder:Theater]]
* The play ''Theatre/{{Cabaret}}'' has this - to a Jewish man in just-pre-Nazi Germany.
* Happens in the play ''Sheik, Rattle and Roll'', leading to the following joke:
-->"It's a brick. With a note tied to it."\\
"What does it say?"\\
"'Mustafa Abdul. Window Repairer'."
* In ''Theatre/TheBat'', a stone is thrown through a window with a vaguely worded threatening note tied on with string.
* In ''Theatre/MarginForError'', an angry mob throws a brick through a window at the Consul, narrowly missing him as he raises a toast to a bust of UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* In EVERY FPS with windows, you can shoot them for no reason. Just fun.
** Sometimes, though, as seen in ''VideoGame/HalfLife,'' they'll be bulletproof or bullet-resistant glass to keep players from going places they're not supposed to.
** Played with in ''Machinima/FreemansMind'' "I refuse to believe every window in this place is bullet proof *smashes window* '''YES!'''"
* ''VideoGame/TimeSplitters2'' takes the cake: 3 bonus timed missions involve breaking EVERY windows in the area, one with the grenade launcher fixed to an AKA 47, one with bricks, one with a grenade launcher. And the game even remember how many windows you broke in your career.
* In ''VideoGame/MirrorsEdge'' you can jump through windows by punching at them just before impact.
* ''VideoGame/PaperBoy'': you get bonus points for each non subscriber's window you put a paper through.
* ''VideoGame/TrailOfAnguish'' begins with you locked out of your college dorm in the middle of the night. The PlayerCharacter throws some rocks at the windows in an attempt to get someone to let her in. Eventually, she manages to break a window and a lamp inside of it, starting a fire in the dorm. (Yes, you have to do all of this to progress.) Breaking another window with a rock distracts a security guard and gets you into the library after hours.
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[[folder:Web Comics]]
* Parodied [[http://web.archive.org/web/20080702160740/http://drmcninja.com/page.php?pageNum=27&issue=3 here]] in ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja''.
* Parodied in [[http://www.precociouscomic.com/archive/comic/2012/02/18 this]] strip of ''Webcomic/{{Precocious}}''.
* In ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'', [[http://web.archive.org/web/20120505215123/http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3258 how Lil' Evil got his confirmation message from the Illuminati]] or Seymour [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2012-10-15 here]].
* ''Webcomic/SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal'': A priest advocates random acts of kindness instead of violence. Later that night, an ice cream cone is chucked through his window.
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[[folder:Web Original]]
* Nabi the cat gets a rock through his window at the end of ''WebAnimation/ThereSheIs'' Step 3, then several more rocks during the course of the dark and dramatic Step 4.
* In Episode 34 of ''WebAnimation/TheMostPopularGirlsInSchool'', Brittnay [[ItMakesSenseInContext throws a Thanksgiving ham through the window, smashing the latter.]]
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* Happens when Fred and Barney run afoul of some criminals in ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones''
* In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'', it's not a rock, but one of the poisoned Joker Fish that comes through the window of a predicted victim's home.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** In "Bart of War", [[HumanDoorstop Ralph (with a note attached)]] is thrown through the Simpsons' window; he announces "I'm a brick!"
** On another occasion, instead of a brick with a note, a ''ringing telephone'' is thrown through a window.
** In "Moe'N'a Lisa", Mow throws a brick with a note through the Simpsons' window after Homer forgets his birthday.
** Parodied in "The War of Art", where after the Simpsons refuse to give back a valuable painting they bought from the the Van Houtens, a rock gets thrown through the window telling them to give the painting back, followed by rock with another note telling they have the right to keep the money. Soon, ''dozens'' of rocks have been thrown through the window and the Simpsons are sorting out the notes supporting and threatening them.
-->'''Marge:''' We don't even get this many Christmas cards!
** On another occasion Bart throws a rock through Mr Burns' window. Burns initially thinks it is a bird that has become petrified and lost its sense of direction.
* A would-be assassin shoots a ''harpoon'' through a ''porthole'' in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuest''.
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' kept the glaziers working overtime in the city of Townsville with all their entrances and exits.
* ''WesternAnimation/SwatKats'' escaped from the newly originated Dr. Viper in season two by throwing themselves out through the window.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' has a few examples:
** Vicky defenestrates ''forest animals'' through of the Turner house in "Vicky Loses Her Icky".
** Timmy gets toy chattering teeth attached to bricks thrown through his window by the mean dentist, "Dr. Bender".
* Cat 22 in ''Creator/CartoonNetwork'''s "Wedgies" series throws himself through windows on several occasions to get away from his bosses and their ministrations once he's injured doing his spy-on-dogs job.
* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/CowAndChicken'': the Red Guy uses bricks, each engraved with a single word (or sometimes two short words), to send a long message to the eponymous characters' house, with each brick tossed nailing Chicken in the head. Naturally, the house is a mess afterwards. It's pretty evident that Red isn't throwing bricks to catch the household's attention as much as [[ForTheEvulz he's sadistic and likes tossing bricks through people's windows]].
* Happens to [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Sylvester]] after singing the "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXA7dD9B6sQ Pussy Kins Cat Food]]" song in "Claws in the Lease".
-->'''Sylvester''': Are you eating more cat food lately... but enjoying it less?
* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': "Tales of Ba Sing Se - The Tale Of Iroh" [[InvokedTrope invokes the trope]]. A bunch of children are playing and put their projectile through a window made of rice paper.
* In Rankin-Bass' adaptation of ''WesternAnimation/TheLifeAndAdventuresOfSantaClaus'', the villains, a group of troll-like monsters called Awgwas, go the threatening-note route, throwing a rock through a window of Santa's workshop tied to a note that reads "If you make one more toy, we're coming for you." Santa [[BadAssSanta is undeterred]].
* In ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', in episode "Not All Dogs Go to Heaven", after the town discovers that Brian is an atheist, not only does a rock get thrown through the window, but a '''[[CarMeetsHouse CAR]]''' as well.
-->'''Brian:''' I thought he who is without sin can cast the first Prius.
** In "Ratings Guy", a trash can gets thrown through the window.
** Played with in "The Simpsons Guy", when a brick gets thrown through the window when feminists are outside protesting Peter's misogynist comic.
-->'''Peter:''' Hey, it's that brick I ordered. ''(another brick gets thrown)'' Uh-oh, I didn't order ''that'' brick.
* This happens in the ''WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine'' episode "Whistle & Sneezes" where a group of troublesome boys were throwing stones at Henry's Express coaches, which nearly endangered the passengers. The coaches then express their pain:
-->'''Coaches''': They've broken our glass! They've broken our glass!
* In the ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' episode, "[[Recap/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballS1E28TheClub The Club]]", when Gumball and his family are having dinner, the members of the Reject Club send a brick with a DVD with their message about taking revenge to Gumball tied to it through the dining room window.
-->'''Richard:''' At least it landed in the [[StockYuck vegetables]]. ''[the brick falls on the cake and squishes it]'' [[BerserkButton Aaaah! The cake!]]
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[[folder:Real Life]]
* Inverted with [[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/01/man-throw-brick-knocked-out_n_6778346.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000063 the video]] of an Irish car robber trying to commit a break-in. If anything, the window is the one causing ''him'' pain.
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* In ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'', [[http://web.archive.org/web/20120505215123/http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3258 how Lil' Evil got his confirmation message from the Illuminati]].