History Main / DestinationDefenestration

* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13986094/11/The-Abyss-Between The Abyss Between]]'' Harry casts a blasting curse which pushes Lucius Malfoy through a French window.

** During the tear-jerking final act of Season 4's "[[Recap/WalkerTexasRangerS4E13Flashpoint Flashpoint]]", this happens [[DrivenToSuicide voluntarily]] to two [[UsefulNotes/TheTroubles IRA Terrorists]] deciding it's [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled better to die than go to prison]].

* ''Series/WalkerTexasRanger'': How a NoSell bad guy is finished off after his weakness is revealed.

* 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]], [[JustAFleshWound shakes off his injuries]] and climbs back up the side of the building to help [[BigDamnHeroes rescue the royal party]].

** In the prequel book ''Recap/StartOfDarkness'', 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.

* In the anime version of ''LightNovel/HighSchoolDxD'', Issei punches Raynare through the glass and outside the church. In the light novels, it was through a wall instead.

* In ''Fanfic/ThinkingInLittleGreenBoxes'' the first act of the new Magic Avengers is to throw most of the [[KickTheSonOfABitch Ministry of Magic people]] out of their office windows.

* 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 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.[[/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.[[/note]] Though there wasn't such a thing as a Czech 'nation' at the time, people of the present day nation-state of the Czech Republic 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.

* 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 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. Modern historians generally think they survived because the window they were thrown out of wasn't particularly high up.[[/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.[[/note]] Though there wasn't such a thing as a Czech 'nation' at the time, people of the present day nation-state of the Czech Republic 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.

* In ''Film/TheHauntedMansion'', 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.

-->'''Doctor Feelbad:''' [[TemptingFate Your next stop is the hospital!]] ''(Tormentor ([[WesternAnimation/{{Cars}} Mater's]] monster truck alter ego) pulls him onto the ropes from behind the ring)''\\

* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5678692/1/A-Hole-in-Your-Mind A Hole in Your Mind]]'':
-->'''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.

** Inverted in the ending to "The Twisted World of Marge Simpson"; a MobWar 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.

* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'': In "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.
* ''Series/PersonOfInterest''

* ''Series/TheProfessionals''

* ''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 "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.

** 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 [[RuleOfDrama inexplicably]] printed on a huge vertical sheet of glass, for Worf to be dramatically hurled through.

** In "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.
** In "Schizogeny", the victim was pulled out the window, not pushed. [[spoiler:By trees.]]

* 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".

* 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.

See 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.

* 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.

** 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.]]
** 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.]]
** 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.]]
** 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.]]

* 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.

* 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''.]]
* [[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]].]]

** 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!".]]

* 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]].

** 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.]]
* 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.]]

* 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]].]]

* 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.]]

* 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.]]
* 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.]]]]

** 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.

--> '''Atropos:''' I recommend the experience. We should start Throw A Drug Dealer Out The Window Day. Make it an annual event.

** In "A New Dawn", [[spoiler: Shendu]] throws Miranda and Wong through windows and ''far'' away from the castle in a [[EvilerThanThou show of force.]]

* 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]]...]]

*** 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.

* 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.

* ''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.

* ''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]].

* ''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]].

* 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.
-->'''Indy:''' (''{{Beat}}, then shrugs'') No ticket.
-->(''[[MassOhCrap Entire cabin of passengers suddenly swarm him waving their tickets in a panic]]'')
* The death of [[spoiler: Wong Chi-shing]] in the first film of ''Film/TheInfernalAffairsTrilogy''.
* ''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.

'''Belgarath:''' ''[looking puzzled]'' Maybe it'll come to him in time.\\
'''Silk:''' He doesn't really have all that long. ''[sound of crashing from far below]'' Does bouncing count?
* 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]].]]

* 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 someone who made a suggestion is to throw him out the window.

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* ''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.

* 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.

* 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.]]

''[cut to a man being thrown through a skyscraper window]''\\

-->'''Doctor Feelbad:''' [[TemptingFate Your next stop is the hospital!]] ''[Tormentor ([[WesternAnimation/{{Cars}} Mater's]] monster truck alter ego) pulls him onto the ropes from behind the ring]''\\
'''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]''

The sad fate of many a {{Mook}}... 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.

* In this [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/4574838/chapters/12901267 one-shot]] featuring Darcy/Bucky in a soulmate!AU, 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".

* In ''Film/PhantomOfTheMallEricsRevvenge'', 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.