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* ''Series/StrangerThings'': In the Season 3 episode "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.

* ''Film/MissionImpossibleGhostProtocol'' has an assassin being killed that way. It happened at the Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world! It's also justified by the fact that the window was removed from the room.

* Not shown, but there was much talk in ''Film/PulpFiction'' about Marcellus Wallace throwing "Tony Rocky Horror" out of a fifth storey window - supposedly [[DisproportionateRetribution for giving his wife a foot massage]], though Mia denied it.

* 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.

* ''Manga/ShonanJunaiGumi'':
** Eikichi throws Takezawa through a window ''into'' the building where his gang have Shinomi prisoner.
** Natsu throws a guy out a window in front of Kamata. Two chapters later, he throws Eikichi into a window.
** 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.

* 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.

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* In ''Film/{{Gremlins}}'', this is the fate of AssholeVictim Mrs. Deagle when [[GrippingAboutGremlins the gremlins]] mess with her stair lift to send her flying up and out the upstairs window.

* In ''Film/{{Gremlins}}'', this is the fate of AssholeVictim Mrs. Deagle when the gremlins mess with her stair lift to send her flying up and out the upstairs window.

** PlayedForDrama in the season two finale "True Colors", where King Andrias attempts to kill Sprig by callously dropping him out the window of his OmninousFloatingCastle. This ends up triggering Anne's SuperMode, while Joe Sparrow saves Sprig.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'' episode "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.

** In "Last Act", Nick shoves a murderer through a high-rise window (without opening it) and is entirely willing to drop him, but fortunately his partner shows up.

* In the VampireDetectiveSeries ''Series/ForeverKnight'', Nick and his partner are faced by 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.

* In the "[[{{Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS5E15IWasMadeToLoveYou}} I Was Made To Love You]]" episode of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', Spike gets thrown out the window of a college house party by a robot looking for the man she is programmed to love. 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.

** Happened to Angel himself in "[[Recap/AngelS05E16Shells Shells]]". Illyria easily tossed him out of the window.

** 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 and landing at his feet, having pissed off yet another gang of thugs with big bank accounts.

See also GlassSmackAndSlide for the more comical subversion. When someone does this with an object that's ApplianceDefenestration. See SuperWindowJump for when someone does this to themselves. 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". Might overlap with DisneyVillainDeath. Not necessarily related to TheWindowOrTheStairs, despite the name.

And remember: It's NotTheFallThatKillsYou. Compare: DisneyVillainDeath.

* In ''Film/TheManWhoChangedHisMind'', Dick--in Laurience’s bod--manages to escape a deadly gas chamber and falls out of a window, breaking all his bones.

* ''Film/MissionImpossibleGhostProtocol'' has an assassin being killed that way. It happened at the Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world! It's also justified by the fact that the window was removed from the room.

** 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 motorcicling accident, and points out that it would be cowardly of Josuke to beat up an injuried 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.

* ''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 appartment preventing the assassins from properly identifying their marks.

* ''WebAnimation/UnbiasedHistory'': The episode on the Defenestrations of Prague cover all the notable real-world instances of this in Prague be it of [[CorruptChurch Papists]] or [[DirtyCommunists Commies]].