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--->'''Garion:''' It was Brill.\\

A 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!

* 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.

* [[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.

* 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.)

* ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' 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.

** 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 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.

* The StrangelySpecificHoroscope for Scorpios in Creator/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".

** [[HornyDevils Elise]] is SPANKED out a cathedral window.

* ''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.

-->'''Black Canary:''' Hey Eggwhite. Guess... guess what I just noticed? Both your hands are occupied. <[[MakeMeWannaShout Canary Cries]] her through a window>

* ComicBook/{{Daredevil}} 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.
* In the Eros Comix miniseries, ''Literature/DominoLady'' knocks the crime boss Lester Musgrove out of a window in the radio station atop a skyscraper.
* Doctor Professor claims that he shot Star Fighter in ''ComicBook/GodHatesAstronauts'' out of a window in their headquarters, [[UnreliableNarrator but...]]

* ''ComicBook/{{Hitman}}'' has Defenestrator, a member of Section Eight who is a loony superhero wannabe armed with a window frame. He throws criminals through it.
* 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.
* ComicBook/{{X 23}} does this to a Mook she's shaking down during the "Mercury Falling" arc of ''ComicBook/NewXMenAcademyX'' (while for [[{{Fanservice}} some inexplicable reason]] dressed up as a schoolgirl). 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.
* In the first issue of ''ComicBook/{{Prez|1973}}'', 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.

** ''ComicBook/Robin1993'': Tim Drake vs 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.

* Happens in ''ComicBook/TheSandman: 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.
* 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:Batman]] - chucks him out the high-rise window instead.

* Franchise/SpiderMan does this a lot. In a [[http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/11/118094/2787762-1463596_981365_spiderman25_super_super.jpg famous scene]], he does it to Wolverine. [[MadeOfIron Being]] [[GoodThingYouCanHeal Wolvie]], he just stands up and walks back up...

* In ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' comics:
** In ''ComicBook/SupermanBirthright'', ComicBook/LexLuthor throws ComicBook/LoisLane off a rooftop, hoping Superman is too busy to stop her freefall. He isn't.
** 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.
** 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.
** In ''[[ComicBook/SupergirlRebirth 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.
** ''ComicBook/PowerGirl2009'': Satanna goes to ''ComicBook/{{Shazam}}'''s nemesis Dr. Sivanna to get a weapon to kill ComicBook/PowerGirl, 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.
** Subverted 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]].

* ''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.

* Subverted 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.

* ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'':

** The children in [[Film/ChildrenOfTheCornIITheFinalSacrifice the second movie]] 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.
** A corn doll is thrown at Cole in the opening of [[Film/ChildrenOfTheCornGenesis the eighth movie]], which somehow sends him flying through a window that is on another side of his house.

* Not to mention ''Film/DangerDeathRay'', where a mook attempts to take out the hero by - wait for it - leaping at him as he stands in front of a window. The hero merely performs a NonchalantDodge, then says "What a shame." The ''Series/{{MST3K}}'' guys, of course, have a field day with the leap, then express disappointment at the lack of a BondOneLiner.

* ''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]].

* In ''Film/{{Deewaar}}'', [[spoiler:Vijay throws Samant out of a window to his death several floors below.]]

* 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."

* In ''Film/DirtyWork'', parodied 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!"

* This is how Nicole's evil boyfriend David is taken out in ''Film/{{Fear}}''.

* In ''Film/{{Foxes|1980}}'', 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.
* ''Franchise/FridayThe13th''
** In the [[Film/FridayThe13th1980 original film]], 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.
** Similar thing happens in ''[[Film/FridayThe13thPartIII Part III]]'' when Jason throws Rick's body through a window from the outside to frighten Chris.
** Happens yet again with corpses in ''[[Film/FridayThe13thTheFinalChapter The Final Chapter]]'', with Jason throwing Rob's body through a window into the Jarvis house.
** In ''[[Film/FridayThe13thPartVIJasonLives Jason Lives]]'', Jason's killing blow to Paula sends her crashing through a window. He then pulls her back inside for further mutilation.
** In ''[[Film/FridayThe13thPartVIITheNewBlood The New Blood]]'', Jason throws Robin through a window, and the resulting fall kills her.
** Charles in ''[[Film/FridayThe13thPartVIIIJasonTakesManhattan Jason Takes Manhattan]]'' 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.

* ''Film/GiveEmHellMalone'': Malone's first onscreen kill. The film literally opens with a mook being shot out of a window in the first two seconds, before cutting to the shootout occurring inside between Malone and several other mooks.
* In ''Film/{{Hancock}}'', the titular character does this to several mooks who are attacking him in a hospital.

* The exceptionally violent Hong Kong gangster film, ''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]].

* 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.
* Several mooks gets decked out of a tavern's windows in the ''wuxia'' film ''Film/TheImperialSwordsman'', by the titular hero. Said tavern is located facing a cliff, by the way.

* This happens a lot in ''Film/{{RoboCop|1987}}'', 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.

* Happens accidentally in ''Film/{{Scavenger Hunt|1979}}''. Lars (Arnie) throws a medicine ball to Henry, who catches it. The impact propels him backwards out the second floor window off the gym.

* In ''Film/{{Seven|1979}}'', Ed kills Mr. Lee by sliding him along his conference table and out the window of his penthouse: without opening it first.

* At the end of ''Film/{{Shaft|2019}}'', [[spoiler:Shaft II kills [[BigBad Gordito]] by shooting him out a window to his death.]]

* ''Film/{{Shazam|2019}}'':

* ''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.

'''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.]]\\

* ''Series/{{Luke Cage|2016}}'':

* In the ''Series/{{Titans|2018}}'' 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.

* ''Series/{{Warehouse 13}}'':

* ''Fanfic/JWITCHSeason1'':

* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''. This rarely happens in the ''Star Trek'' universe, as the windows are generally made of transparent aluminum (and overlook the vacuum of space). That didn't stop Geordi and Ro in "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.
* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', however, fleshes out Ferengi culture and notes that while they 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.
** In "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 inexplicably printed on a huge vertical sheet of glass, for Worf to be dramatically hurled through.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan'' has this happen a lot, one episode even starts with it.

* ''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.]]
** That form of the boss also meets his end that way, before going OneWingedAngel.

* Woody does this to Buzz in ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'' 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]].

* ''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]] Dolgren Hill and tossing him out a window to his death.

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

* In ''Film/ShaPoLang'', this happens to [[spoiler:Inspector Ma Kwun at the end]].

* In the ''Series/{{Titans}}'' 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.

* ''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.

* [[spoiler: Rin Sohma]] from ''Manga/FruitsBasket'', courtesy of [[AxCrazy 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.]]

* An accidentally self-inflicted version happens in ''Film/MysteryDate'' when a martial artist hitman misses his target and gets the window...

*** 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.

* ''Film/{{Dredd}}'': The final confrontation between Dredd and [[spoiler: Ma-Ma]] is concluded with him chucking her out of a penthouse window.