History Main / SheetOfGlass

* Happens in the Hong Kong film ''Film/EnemyShadow'' where the ActionGirl protagonist gets chased by mooks on a pedestrian bridge. Her route ahead is blocked by two men carrying a sheet of glass that covers both sides of the passage, but she simply drops to the floor and slides underneath. The mooks on the other hand runs straight into the glass sheet and smashes it.

* ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}'': When [[ChaseScene being chased by the police]], Sam and Helix [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1300/fc01270.htm wind up with one of these in their way.]] The last frame of the strip shows [[ImpactSilhouette the results]].

* ''Discworld/FeetOfClay'', the {{narrator}} of this Literature/{{Discworld}} novel speculates that the people who block every chase in the multiverse with [[SheetOfGlass sheets of glass]], [[FruitCart heavily laden carts]] and long racks of clothes may be agents of a secret society.

Nowadays the car chase version is a DeadHorseTrope. Often accompanied by a FruitCart or CardboardBoxes. If it's a person going through a window, it's DestinationDefenestration.

* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''. Likewise, in "Tacking Into the Wind," in the absence of suitable windows, Worf simply has to be thrown through an objet d'art made out of a vertically positioned sheet of glass. Never mind what a large fragile sculpture is doing in a military installation during a war (or how it's even survived repeated attacks on the station unshattered until that moment).

Nowadays the car chase version is a DeadHorseTrope. Often accompanied by a FruitCart or CardboardBoxes. See also WindowPain. If it's a person going through a window, it's DestinationDefenestration.

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* A cartoon referenced the 'pretend to carry glass' trick. The boss of a glass factory is suspiciously watching two of his employees. He tells the foreman to keep an eye on them. "I'm not sure they're carrying anything."
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[[caption-width-right:300:Why some people tend to do this we'll never know.]]

* Similarly to the above: the Belgian travel company Eurostar ran an ad campaign to promote new rail service from Belgium to London in 2007, which featured two workmen carrying a sheet of glass about to collide with a John Cleese lookalike doing the famous Silly Walk from [[MontyPythonsFlyingCircus Monty Python's]] "Ministry of Silly Walks" sketch. The tagline: "Watch out! London is just around the corner!"

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Storks}}'', Junior has to go through a maze of glass panes inside a warehouse.while being chased by wolves. Since birds can't see glass, he ends up hitting each and every one until he finally makes it out, only to then run into the classic sheet being carried by two men.

* Played with in ''Series/MakoMermaidsAnH2OAdventure''. As Zac and Evie attempt to move Rita (stuck in her mermaid form, and using her magic to turn herself invisible) somewhere out-of-the-way, a random student walks toward the "empty" space between them, sees them, stops for a moment, and completely nonchalantly walks around them, as though expecting the sheet of glass.

* 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.

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' ''Bubble Boy'', this trope had been taken [[UpToEleven Up To Eleven]]. The Rowdyruff Boys (plus Bubbles, minus Boomer) had played a game where they would spit at a plane and see who hits. Of course, they all missed. But when the first two boys did it, it was sent into space just as two astronauts were replacing the lens for their satellite. You know what happened next.

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'', ''Bubble Boy'', this trope had been taken [[UpToEleven]]. The Rowdyruff Boys (plus Bubbles, minus Boomer) had played a game where they would spit at a plane and see who hits. Of course, they all missed. But when the first two boys did it, it was sent into space just as two astronauts were replacing the lens for their satellite. You know what happened next.

* The Belgian travel company Eurostar ran an ad campaign to promote new rail service from Belgium to London in 2007, which featured two workmen carrying a sheet of glass about to collide with a John Cleese lookalike doing the famous Silly Walk from [[MontyPythonsFlyingCircus Monty Python's]] "Ministry of Silly Walks" sketch. The tagline: "Watch out! London is just around the corner!"