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

** 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.
** In the Season 4 finale "The Piggyback", Nancy uses a shotgun to blast [[BigBad Vecna]] out of an attic window in the [[AnotherDimension Upside Down]] version of the Creel house. Unfortunately, while badly wounded, he survives to [[VillainExitStageLeft escape]].

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E144WhatsInTheBox What's in the Box]]", during his [[DomesticAbuse brutal attack]] on his wife Phyllis, Joe Britt punches her in front of an open window and she falls to her death. Although he had not intended to kill her, the glimpses of the future shown on his television indicate that he will be convicted of murder and executed for his crime.
* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'': {{Discussed|Trope}} in "Act Break". Maury Winkler and Harry are writing a play in which an English aristocrat named Roger kills a woman named Ethel but they can't decide how he should do it. Harry suggests throwing her out the window. When Maury says that people don't die from being thrown out of first story windows, Harry thinks that she should fall into a swimming pool that is being renovated. They eventually agree that Roger should strangle Ethel.

** In "[[Recap/AmphibiaS3E03TurningPoint Turning Point]]", Grime's plan for him and Sasha to escape the self-same castle was for him to throw Sasha out the window and jumping out after her. [[DidntThinkThisThrough Unfortunately]], he didn't have a plan for surviving the crash into the ground, but luckily, Joe Sparrow was there to catch them and help them get to Wartwood.

* In ''Series/{{Heroes}}'', Peter Petrelli gets ''telekinetically'' thrown out of a window.

* In ''Fanfic/TiberiumWars'', a Nod soldier tries to rape a female GDI prisoner. In this story, the Brotherhood of Nod has declared [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil rape a capital offense]] and [[TooDumbToLive anyone caught doing it can be summarily executed.]] Cue one of the [[WarriorMonk Black Hand]] bursting into the room, [[PunctuatedPounding beating the would-be rapist against the wall while listing off his offenses]] and then [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome hurling him out a third story window.]]

How we see this trope typically depends on who is doing it. If a heroic character does it, we actually see them throw someone out the window, but typically not the very messy landing. With villains it's the other way around- to emphasize the cruelty. An ambiguously portrayed character may perform this feat, but you'll have to TakeOurWordForIt, since showing this trope usually inspires some sort of positive or negative feeling with whoever is doing it.

** 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 motorcycling 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.

* In the first issue of ''ComicBook/{{Alias}}'', Jessica Jones deals with an unruly client by chucking him through the window on her office door. This scene is [[MythologyGag recreated]] in the first episode of the [[Series/JessicaJones2015 live-action series]].
* 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.
* ''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.

* This happens in ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'' a lot. In a [[http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/11/118094/2787762-1463596_981365_spiderman25_super_super.jpg famous scene]], Spider-Man does it to ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}. Being Wolvie, he [[GoodThingYouCanHeal just stands up and walks back up]]...

* '"Franchise/CSIVerse'':

* ''Series/{{CSI}}'': In "Stalker", Nick gets shoved out of a window when he is surprised by the guy whose apartment he's searching, and winds up being hospitalized.
* ''Series/CSIMiami'': In one episode, Horatio rescues a young woman about to be raped, just in the nick of time. He then explains to the perp that he's going to give him a taste of what to expect while he's in prison... and proceeds to throw him through the end window of the trailer in which he'd been holding the woman hostage.

And remember: It's NotTheFallThatKillsYou ...though in terms of this trope, even if you survived the landing, [[ThePowerOfGlass the broken glass from the window you were put through might say otherwise]].

And remember: It's NotTheFallThatKillsYou[[note]]Though in terms of this trope, even if you survived the landing, the broken glass from the window you were put through might say otherwise.[[/note]]

And remember: It's NotTheFallThatKillsYou

** In a ''Science of Discworld'' book this happens to some [[KnightTemplar Omnian fanatics]].

* 'Literature/{{Animorphs}}'': In book 7, in a heated skirmish between 4 Animorphs plus Ax and 8 Hork-Bajir while in a skyscraper, Rachel as a grizzly bear shoves one of the latter out a window... letting Tobias in, and putting the foe to rout.

* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12264844/1/Intimidation-Can-Be-Fun Intimidation Can Be Fun]]'' Harry's accidental magic throws a nameless Ministry stooge out a window after he proves unwilling or unable to help Harry and Draco.

* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12264844/1/Intimidation-Can-Be-Fun Intimidation Can Be Fun]]'' Harry sends a Ministry employee out a window after he states that Harry and Draco, who're being forced together due to a marriage law, will be firm friends within a week and life partners after a month if they just give it a try.

->''"The dictionary defines defenestration as the act of throwing a person or thing out a window. ''[Spider-Man is thrown out the window of a skyscraper]'' Really not my favorite word."''

* In ''Film/TheWalkingDead1936'', Merritt suffers a heart attack while trying to attack Ellman [[ChairmanOfTheBrawl with a chair]] and falls backwards through his bedroom window.

* ''Film/WonderWoman2017'': 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.

* ''Film/Zorro1975'': The final battle between Zorro and Huerta had both combatants battling in a bell tower, culminating in Huerta trying to knock Zorro to his death. Zorro managed to prevent himself from falling by grabbing the bell's rope, where he ends up swinging sideways until crashing through an ornate stained-glass window. Cue Huerta emerging to the tower's balcony... only to see Zorro already there waiting to finish the duel.

'''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?

* ''Series/Charmed1998'': Phoebe's FetusTerrible forces her to shove Paige out of a window in the attic. Luckily Paige's powers include the ability to [[FlashyTeleportation Orb]] allowing her to save herself before she lands on [[FriendOnTheForce Darryl]] who was approaching the house just below her.

** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS21E4ResurrectionOfTheDaleks "Resurrection of the Daleks"]], the Doctor kills a Dalek by shoving it out of an upper-story window; upon hitting the pavement, it explodes.

* The StrangelySpecificHoroscope for Scorpios in Music/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".

* 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.]]

* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'', Fred and Barney are helping a billionaire detective with a case. When Fred goes to the apartment of some suspects, they throw him out the window. Outraged at them doing that, the detective tells Fred to go back in and throw ''them'' out the window...only for it to happen to Fred again.

** PlayedForDrama in the season two finale "True Colors", where King Andrias attempts to kill Sprig by callously dropping him out the window of his OminousFloatingCastle. This ends up awakening Anne's SuperMode, while Joe Sparrow saves Sprig.
** In "Turning Point", Grime's plan for him and Sasha to escape the self-same castle was for him to throw Sasha out the window and jumping out after her. [[DidntThinkThisThrough Unfortunately]], he didn't have a plan for surviving the crash into the ground, but luckily, Joe Sparrow was there to catch them and help them get to Wartwood.
** In the 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.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arcane}}''. In " Some Mysteries Are Better Left Unsolved", Powder notices some commotion outside the arcade they're hiding out in, and sees Marcus and some Enforcers grilling passersby about where they could be hiding. The impudent man they're currently interrogating opts to spit on Marcus's shoe, who simply looks at him while taking a breath. Powder then tries to warn everyone about what's going on, before getting cut off by the man getting flung through the arcade's window with a slow-motion crash, making any explanation moot.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' episode "On Leather Wings", [=ManBat=] attacks a security guard and flings him through a plate glass window from several stories up. He survives because he [[SoftWater falls into a river]] below.

** Inverted in the ending to "The Twisted World of Marge Simpson"; a MobWar between the {{Yakuza}} and Fat Tony's gang 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.

* An ad for Boot's No.7 cosmetics range features a woman in a white ballgown running from security guards, crashing through a window and dropping twenty storeys into an airbag, ending with her stunt double walking away and saying "I've never been the right age to.jump off a building".

* The ''Series/DarkAngel'' episode "Art Attack" features this as a major plot point. It happens, it's threatened, and it's mentioned by name.

* 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 from UsefulNotes/{{Prague}} City Hall 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 [[UsefulNotes/{{Czechia}} Czech]] 'nation' at the time, people of the present day nation-state of Czechia 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.