History Main / SheetOfGlass

* ''Film/AngryVideoGameNerdTheMovie'' provides a subversion: a pane of glass actually ''stops a military car'' and doesn't even break.
--> '''Dark Onward''': Wha...?! Explanation, [=McButter=]?!
--> '''[=McButter=]''': Glass, sir. Double pane, sir.

** Reverend Lovejoy's train set isn't so lucky: being carried just like a SheetOfGlass, it gets shredded as Homer's car drives through it, prompting Lovejoy to look at the heavens and say "Why do you hate my trains?!"

* Subverted in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{SpongeBob SquarePants}}'', in which Spongebob is chasing a frisbee and destroying everything on the beach, and when he nears two guys carrying a sheet of glass the frisbee turns around and continues in the other direction.

* Occurs in ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'', in Episode 2 when [[spoiler:Dipper, Mabel, and Soos were being chased by the Gobblewonker]], they crash through a SheetOfGlass. ''In the middle of a lake,'' creating an example not unlike the ''Simpson's'' image above.

* One of the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgITTlY2wiw&t=85 few played straight examples]] was in a 'polizziottesco' (Italian crime) film from the early-mid 1970s.

* Jackie Chan's ''Armour of God'' doesn't use a sheet of glass, but rather a large painting instead which gets run over in a car chase.

* Parodied in the climax of a really weird movie, that involved a fight in a factory. Two people would periodically walk in carrying a large sheet of glass, just in time for someone to fly through it. The one time someone regains their balance before hitting the glass, runs through it on purpose.

* Subverted in ''ThreeWordPhrase'', when an out-of-control car manages to (at separate occasions) crash into the two men carrying the glass sheet instead, shattering them to pieces and leaving the glass sheet standing upright and solitary in the middle of the road.

* ''VideoGame/BackToTheFuture'': The [[TheProblemWithLicensedGames videogame adaptation]] for the NES involved timed races from one checkpoint to another while dodging obstacles, with the SheetOfGlass as one of the more sensible enemies (why are ballerinas [[EverythingTryingToKillYou trying to kill us]] again?). Oddly, the pane itself is invisible until you crash into it.

* In ''[[Film/TheBourneSeries The Bourne Identity]]'', during the Paris car chase, Jason Bourne drives through the glass door of a phone booth that just happened to be open at that moment.

* ''Film/WhatsUpDoc'': The Sheet Of Glass appears in Peter Bogdanovich's affectionate homage to the Screwball Comedy. [[note]]Nothing to do with BugsBunny.[[/note]] [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in that none of the cars smash it; it's another worker swinging from a broken banner who breaks it.

* Taken UpToEleven in the DramaticChaseOpening of the sci-fi BMovie ''The Hidden''. Two men are carrying a sheet of glass across a park for no apparent reason when the BodySurf alien comes roaring up in a stolen car. He not only drives through the glass, he also [[KickTheDog runs over the two men in the process]].
* Tim in ''Film/FinalDestination 2'' is killed when a sheet of glass falls on and crushes him.

* In the comedy ''Short Time'' during the chase scene a car drives up onto a loading dock and smashes through a truckload of window glass being unloaded.

* Played dead straight in a 70s PublicServiceAnnouncement on British television, which showed somebody running down the street, oblivious to the two men carrying the sheet of glass. Ouch. Slogan: "[[DontTryThisAtHome For heaven's sake, don't run!]]"

* ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'' features this, and it doubled as a ShoutOut, as the two guys carrying it looked ''exactly'' like [[SuperMarioBros Mario and Luigi]].

* A character in ''Film/{{Pieces}}'' skateboarded through a sheet of glass.

* ''Film/AngryVideoGameNerdTheMovie'' provides a subversion in that a pane of glass actually ''stops a military car'' and doesn't even break.

* Played with in ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball''. Gumball and Darwin are chasing a senior citizen on a mobility scooter, and the two "crash" into a sheet of glass carried by construction workers. However, because the scooter is so slow Gumball and Darwin just lightly press their faces against it. Gumball asks [[LampshadeHanging why the workers are carrying the glass around in a park]], and they respond by asking him why they're chasing an octogenarian on a scooter.

See also SubvertedTrope, where this trope is used as an example to illustrate the variations of it.

--> '''Dark Onward''': Wha...?! Explanation, McButter?!

* ''Film/AngryVideoGameNerdTheMovie'' provides a subversion in that a pane of glass actually ''stops a military car'' and doesn't even break.
--> '''Dark Onward''': Wha...?! Explanation, McButter?!
--> '''McButter''': Glass, sir. Double pane, sir.

* A disturbing variant in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad''. The moving men decide to hold the glass horizontally instead of vertically, and accidentally cut a running man in half as a result.

* Handled with realism in ''Manga/HellTeacherNube''. [[{{Tsundere}} Kyoko]] and friends are walking down the street, oblivious, while discussing a [[{{Obake}} very ugly-looking man-faced dog]] that has grown attached to her. As the two workmen carrying the sheet of glass lose their grip, the sheet falls (edge-first) directly towards her neck... and the [[HeroicSacrifice poor dog]] [[DivingSave dives at her]], pushes her out of the way, and [[TakingTheBullet is beheaded]] by the glass.

* Tested by the Series/MythBusters. While it's obviously possible to drive through such a sheet of glass, both regular and tempered glass would produce high-speed flying shards that would cause injury to the people actually carrying it. Laminated glass would be safer, but it wouldn't look anything like the spectacular shattering depicted in films, leaving this trope [[TropesTestedByTheMythBusters Busted]].

* Occurs in ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'', in Episode 2 when [[spoiler:Dipper, Mabel, and Soos were being chased by the Gobblewonker]], they crash through a SheetOfGlass. ''In the middle of a lake,'' creating an example not unlike this trope's image.