History Main / DestinationDefenestration

See SuperWindowJump for when someone does this to themselves. Compare RailingKill. This trope by its nature subverts SoftGlass. Might overlap with DisneyVillainDeath. This is one answer to TheWindowOrTheStairs.

DoNotConfuseWith [[http://www.idodi.org/ destination imagination]]

[[TheAdventuresOfDoctorMcNinja "Now tell me where Ronald is before I super-size your pain for only thirty-nine cents more!"]]

** In ''PumaMan'', the sidekick does this to the DesignatedHero. He survives, proving he is the PumaMan. Unfortunately, the rest of the movie proves he's also pretty much worthless.

->'''Eclipse Trooper''': I've got nothing else to say to you. If you- ''[[ActionCommands (RENEGADE INTERRUPT)]]'' ''AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhh.....''

* In {{Foxes}}, one of the main characters rides by a bully, and pushes him (explosively) into the plate glass window of a supermarket so the kid he's picking on can escape.

-->''[[DestinationDefenestration * TROPE'D* ]]''

See SuperWindowJump for when someone does this to themselves. Compare RailingKill. This trope by its nature subverts SoftGlass. Might overlap with DisneyVillainDeath. This is the answer to TheWindowOrTheStairs.

* There was also the defenestration of Jezebel sometime around 850 BCE (although it wasn't called "defenestration" at the time). Still, makes it older that, well, ''a lot of things''.

* In an issue of ''{{Transmetropolitan}}'', Spider Jerusalem threatens to have his bodyguard defenestrate someone. "[[SophisticatedAsHell And you wouldn't want anything to happen to your fenestrates, would you?]]"

* ''[[MassEffect Mass Effect 2]]'' invokes this trope, while also proving that [[PressXToNotDie QTEs]] [[TropesAreNotBad can]] [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome be]] [[RuleOfFun fun]].

See SuperWindowJump for when someone does this to themselves. Compare RailingKill. This trope by its nature subverts SoftGlass. Might overlap with DisneyVillainDeath.

-->-- '''Old Man''', ''Disney/TheEmperorsNewGroove''

* Early on in ''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 the page-quote above.

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See SuperWindowJump for when someone does this to themselves. Compare RailingKill. This trope by its nature subverts SoftGlass.

* In a recent SaturdayNightLive sketch, President Barack Obama, when antagonized by his Republican rivals and egged on by [[HeroicSociopath Rahm Emanuel]], [[YouWannaGetSued "hulks out"]], turning into DwayneJohnson, and throws his enemies out the Oval Office window--though, as John McCain is assured, "Relax, it's only the first floor."

* In ''{{Heroes}}'', Peter Petrelli gets ''telekinetically'' thrown out of a window. That counts, right?

* In NoMoreHeroes 2: Desperate Struggle, [[spoiler:It's possible for the final boss in his second form to instantly kill Travis by punching him out the window]].

* The first CrashBandicoot pulls one of these off during its [[ExcusePlot minimal backstory.]]
* In TheForceUnleashed, 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.

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