History Main / SuperWindowJump

** ''Film/BatmanForever'', Batman does this through a ceiling window to confront ComicBook/TwoFace after he crashes Edward's event. Edward tells ComicBook/TwoFace: ''Your entrance was good, his was better''."

** ''Film/BatmanForever'', Batman does this through a ceiling window to confront ComicBook/TwoFace after he crashes Edward's event.
*** Edward to ComicBook/TwoFace ": ''Your entrance was good, his was better''."

* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'': In "The High Cost of Loathing", Rusty jumps headfirst out a window to demonstrate his hover boots, after which he experiences blood loss from all the shards of glass on him.

* ''Film/{{Help}}'' - the Beatles dive out the window in a pub to get away from bad guys.

* A RunningGag in "La Oficina" sketch of the Chilean show ''Jappening con Ja'' is having [[ProfessionalButtKisser Espina]] open one of the office building's windows (and the office itself is located in one of the top stores of a rather high building) and throw himself off it whenever his "beloved" boss lectured him, screaming [[CatchPhrase "Me castigo jefe, ME CASTIGO"]] ("I'm punishing myself, sir, I'm punishing myself!"). Then [[IronButtMonkey he would return to the office completely unharmed]].

* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'' features its own take on this, with Strong Bad's action hero alter ego Dangeresque, who often goes out of his way to make this exit (preceded by his CatchPhrase "Looks like I'm gonna have to ''jump''!")

* In ''Series/{{Danger 5}}'', this is done OncePerEpisode by no one other than ''Hitler''. The Danger 5 team, having fought their way through another slew of [[WidgetSeries improbably freakish bad guys]], will confront Hitler only for him to escape through the nearest window. Head first. Sometimes while he's duel-wielding machine guns. And in a RunningGag, it's always StockFootage from the first time he does this. Our heroes only succeed in killing him ([[NotQuiteDead or so they think]]) when they finally corner Hitler in an undersea base which doesn't have windows. In Season 2 this is replaced by a RunningGag where they keep crashing through the walls of the cheap sets.

* Ellen tries this in ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' shortly after her creation and subsequent CloningBlues, with added coolness from making her duplicate (or original?) throw her at the window. The coolness factor is negated when the window lacks any glass. And is a story up. THUMP.

** Like his mentor, Robin usually plays this one straight, but in one of the last issues of [[ComicBook/RobinSeries his own comic]], the Boy Wonder tackles someone through a large window, and the internal monologue mentions, "I'm going to be picking glass out of my hair all night. Remind me why I just wear a domino mask again?" This becomes HarsherInHindsight later on, when [[spoiler:half of his head is horribly burned in an explosion because of the lack of protection.]]

* In ''{{VideoGame/WarioWare}}'' ''Gold'', besides 5-Volt smashing the window with her fist to look at 9-Volt in ''Sneaky Gamer'', one of the things that 5-Volt has that never appeared in ''Game & Wario'' was, after a ScareChord, doing this to enter 9-Volt's room. It's so quick, it can catch the player off guard if they are not prepared for this.

* An immortal leaps out a window in ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'' to escape the one thing that can truly kill him.

* Zelgadis in ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'' does this as his stylish return to the series, also providing some much-needed reinforcements for the heroes.

* [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass Abel Nightroad]], from ''LightNovel/TrinityBlood'' does this twice, and even [[LampshadeHanging says something about it]]. "This is becoming something of a habit for me, it seems.

* Otcho in ''Manga/TwentiethCenturyBoys'' does a very impressive one, not in the least because he's over 55 years old.

* ''Manga/MyLoveStory'': Episode 4. Takeo leaps through a 3rd floor window of a restaurant that's on fire. He lands safely and embraces his girlfriend, Rinko, seemingly oblivious to the fact that he's on fire. Luckily he's MadeOfIron, so he's unharmed.

* Spoofed when Series/{{Angel}} does this and later complains about being billed for the broken window.

* Omar Little did this to escape certain death on ''Series/TheWire''. Unusually for the trope [[RealityEnsues he was badly injured by the move]], but it was from a fourth-floor window. This was taken from Omar's real-life inspiration, Donnie Andrews, with one difference: Donnie jumped from the ''sixth'' floor. [[RealityIsUnrealistic The TV show had to turn it down to make it believable]], and even then...

* Omar Little did this to escape certain death on ''Series/TheWire''. Unusually for the trope he was badly injured by the move, but it was from a fourth-floor window. This was taken from Omar's real-life inspiration, Donnie Andrews, with one difference: Donnie jumped from the ''sixth'' floor. The TV show had to turn it down to make it believable, and even then...

* Averted in the Tony Jaa movie ''[[Film/TomYumGoong The Protector]]''. Tony's character is being chased by a four-wheeler down a hallway with large window at the end. Instead of jumping through, Tony ''runs vertically up the glass,'' and the four-wheeler crashes through below him.

** After running out of arrows in ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'', Hawkeye swings down and crashes right through a massive window. He isn't badly hurt, but his pained body language seems to imply that he got poked by a few pieces of glass.
** While running from [[DarkActionGirl Ellen Brandt]] in ''Film/IronMan3'', Tony Stark jumps through a store glass window. His expression afterwards implies that it was painful at least.

*** After the ElevatorActionSequence in S.H.I.E.L.D. HQ, Cap jumps through the glass of the elevator all the way to the lobby using his shield.
*** He does another version when chasing The Winter Soldier who had just shot [[spoiler: Fury]], jumping across the street and through a window. He does have the advantage of his shield to protect him compared to most examples.

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* Averted in ''The Krays'' (1991). Jack the Hat tries to throw himself through a French door to escape being killed, but just gets stuck in it, easy prey for the gangsters who simply haul him out.

* TheWestern ''The Long Riders'' (1980): An outlaw gang are trapped in a town's main street by a posse, so they escape by [[InvulnerableHorses riding their horses through the windows]] of a store, then out another set of windows at the back. [[ContrivedCoincidence Why a store would also have]] large plate glass windows (which would have been very expensive to make and transport) on the side facing ''away'' from the main street is not mentioned.

* In ''Anime/TheAdventuresOfTomSawyer'', the scene described below in Literature is quite dramatic. During Moff Potter's murder trial, Tom finally confesses to witnessing Injun Joe commit the murder. The villain tries to kill Tom, but is forced to flee by the sheriff and he leaps through the courthouse window, in slow-motion, with nary a scratch. But then, Injun Joe ''is'' pretty strong, not to mention ''huge''. [[MadeOfIron ...And therefore invulnerable.]]
* In ''Anime/AngelBeats'' this happens twice in the first episode. It's more played for laughs since the characters [[DestinationDefenestration didn't exactly do it on purpose]]. Or with a secure landing.

* An immortal leaps out a window in ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}!'' to escape the one thing that can truly kill him.

* In the ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' Movie, Spike jumps through a train window to get to the villain. He shoots the window first, so it'll shatter easily, and is apparently protected from injury by just being that badass.

* ''Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex''. Having a cyborg body helps.

* In ''Manga/HayateTheCombatButler'', Hayate jumps through (or is thrown through) windows without any protection, as just one of his near-superhuman abilities. Klaus does this later on, as well, but he was {{s|houtOut}}poofing [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure an immortal vampire]] at the time...
* America from ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' did this twice in episode 13 of the fifth season. The first time he ended up with a shard of glass stuck in his forehead, although he was uninjured the second time. When a little kid asked him why he went through the window, he claimed it was because he had just gotten back from Hollywood.
* In the first episode of ''Anime/{{K}}''- before the opening, even - Misaki Yata does this into a gangster's hotel suite, on his skateboard, ''from the roof of the building across the street'', establishing early on his views on the idea of practicality vs. ''awesome''.

* [[CoatHatMask Phantom Renegade]] from ''VideoGame/{{Medabots}}'' pulls this off occasionally.

* ''Manga/{{Nichijou}}'' - When Mio sees her crush walking arm-in-arm with another girl, the ''first'' thing she does is jump headlong out the window and start running. And that's only the beginning...

* Used totally straight in the ''Anime/PrincessTutu'' episode "Black Shoes", when Fakir jumps through a window to face the DarkMagicalGirl--and then proceeds to pick up a glass shard from the window to use as a weapon. He has no powers that would protect him from the glass, and he's only wearing his school uniform...he's just fond of being very dramatic and badass.

* Spoofed in the "New Year's Cleaning" episode of ''Manga/SgtFrog'', where Keroro does a Super Window Jump into the bathroom to tell Natsumi she's not cleaning the bathtub properly... only to get knocked back ''out'' the window for getting broken glass all over the floor.
** In one episode, Keroro is watching a movie where a hero jumps through a window into the villains' lair. He actually thought it was open, though.

* ''[[Franchise/AssassinsCreed Assassin's Creed: Templars]]'' The Black Cross does one of these... then ruins the moment by saying that, as much as he does it, he can never stop glass from getting everywhere.

* In ''Film/DieHard'', John [=McClane=] does this and doesn't hurt himself, even though the rest of the movie realistically depicted him getting his feet horribly mangled due to the broken glass everywhere he had to walk on.
** The first kick didn't break the window, though, forcing him to shoot the glass.

* Miss Piggy via motorcycle in ''Film/TheGreatMuppetCaper''.

* Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse:

* 1994's ''Film/TheShadow'' does a variation on this. Villain Shiwan Khan jumps out a window, to be sure, but he first breaks the glass telekinetically.
** Farley Claymore later ends up diving through a window overlooking the lobby (three floors up) while trying to flee from the Shadow, notably after the Shadow [[PsychicAssistedSuicide used his powers to make him believe that it really was an exit]]. Well, at least the glass isn't gonna be an issue for long...

* ''Franchise/StarWars'': In ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'', Obi-Wan jumps through the window to grab the killer-bug carrying droid. (Although, as the ''Webcomic/DarthsAndDroids'' [[http://darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0226.html annotation points out]], you'd expect Anakin to do this instead of him.)

* Subverted in the Made For TV ''Series/TheWildWildWest'' movie. After knocking down the British agent who had captured them, they try crashing through the window to escape. Unfortunately, the window features a new invention - bulletproof glass. They bounce.
** ... and later on use a different trope to get away.

* Used as one of many possible takedowns in the ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamSeries''.

* Marle in ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'' does this (in slow motion) to rescue her father on trial. Bonus points, though a ''[[BloodstainedGlassWindows stained glass window]].''

* The first ''VideoGame/{{Crash Bandicoot|1996}}'' pulls one of these off during its [[ExcusePlot minimal backstory.]]
* Possible in ''VideoGame/DeusEx'', but only with ceiling glass, and unless you have something soft to break your fall or the right augments it will likely result in broken legs.Impossible to do with windows, as they have to be shot or otherwise broken before making the jump.

* Done with BulletTime at the beginning of ''VideoGame/MaxPayne3'''s second level.

* In ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'', Leon is capable of jumping through windows without injury, simply by covering his face, which is good, because he tends to exit buildings this way. He also almost never climbs ''down'' a ladder.
** Leon really takes it to the extreme in this game. Almost any window you can walk up to can be leapt through with no consequence (and thanks to the giant flashing button on the screen, it's encouraged). Leave a house through the door? NEVER; OUT THE SECOND FLOOR WINDOW! Climb down a ladder in the three story tower? NO, JUST JUMP STRAIGHT DOWN! It's worth noting you can break a window and still jump through it, but it often just has Leon hop over the windowsill instead of [[RuleOfCool diving through it]].
** Hell, even Ada, who's wearing a skin-bearing UsefulNotes/{{qipao}}, can pull it off exactly like Leon, without getting a scratch.
* In ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilCodeVeronica'', Steve jumps through a window in BulletTime, a ShoutOut to the opening of ''Film/TheMatrix'', to save Claire from a Bandersnatch.

* All units in ''VideoGame/XCOMEnemyUnknown'' can, and will, bash their way through glass windows when they need to get to point B. Justified, as your XCOM soldiers are wearing body armor (and later PowerArmor), the aliens are rather [[WeHaveReserves callous towards their infantry]] and most are strong enough anyway, and any surviving civilians during Terror missions are probably desperate/terrified enough that they won't care about the potential injuries.

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* Batman does this regularly in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries''.
** Despite the Joker knowing enough about the silliness, he does a super window jump (from a considerable height) of his own in ''[[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries Mask of the Phantasm]]''. But then again he IS aware of his own JokerImmunity.

* Kid Flash does this in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'', as he is in a hurry to deliver the organs that Queen Perdita needs for her surgery before her EvilUncle can stop it. SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome OCCURS, as he ends up fainting and getting hospitalized from the impact of running through glass and the shards falling on him.

* ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko'' engages in this on occasion, "The Pretender" is one.

* Mr. Slave does one of these in the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "South Park Is Gay!". Unfortunately, because it wasn't safety glass [[LampshadeHanging he ends up a bleeding mess on the floor]].

** [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS4E10CarnageOfKrell "Carnage of Krell"]]: After Rex confronts him, traitorous Jedi General Pong Krell begins his escape from the airbase by smashing through the window of the control tower to land on the ground several storeys below.
** [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS7E4UnfinishedBusiness "Unfinished Business"]]: Obi-Wan Kenobi and Mace Windu lead an attack on droid forces by jumping out of some hovering gunships, smashing through a large skylight, and then falling a considerable ways further to land on the floor of the building. Their troopers follow using {{jetpack}}s.

* Casey Jones makes a dramatic entrance this way in one episode of the 2003 ''[[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]''.

* ''VideoGame/HalfLife1'': a scientist does this rather awesomely, only to die moments later. This is commented on in ''Machinima/FreemansMind''.