"Don't be confused by Police Story's complicated title — this is actually a safety video about the dangers of teaching too many people kung fu. After watching all these bodies fly through fish tanks and windshields, you'll realize that Hong Kong stuntmen have a shorter life span than the breakable objects behind Jackie Chan's enemies. Police Story is the reason I think there are 380 words for broken glass in Cantonese."
David: Nygma’s boss gets out of that eternity of suffering pretty quickly, as he gets pushed out of a window into a gigantic waterfall. In any other movie, that’d be a supervillain origin sequence.
Chris: Apparently there weren’t enough cats around to lick him back to life.
Chris: Apparently there weren’t enough cats around to lick him back to life.
—Chris Sims and David Uzumeri on
Batman Forever
Batman ForeverChris: Uzi, do you think there’s a team of maintenance men who are JUST assigned to repair the window in the CEO’s office at LuthorCorp? Because we’ve seen it broken like fifteen times.
David: To be fair, it gets broken about as much in the actual comics.
David: To be fair, it gets broken about as much in the actual comics.
—Smallvillains, on Smallville ("Kent")
Smallville ("Kent")Eclipse Trooper: I've got nothing else to say to you. If you- (RENEGADE INTERRUPT) AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhh.....
Commander Shepard: How 'bout goodbye?
Commander Shepard: How 'bout goodbye?
Naruto: Think, Naruto! What would Bill from Accounting do?
Bill From Accounting: (smashes through a window) AAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
Naruto: Well I guess I could do that, but damn it! There aren't any windows nearby!
Bill From Accounting: (smashes through a window) AAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
Naruto: Well I guess I could do that, but damn it! There aren't any windows nearby!
"Dad, the principal is insane! She threw a girl out the window by her hair!"
—Matilda, Matilda
"The dictionary defines 'Defenestration' as the act of throwing a person or thing out a window... Really not my favorite word."
—Spider-Man, The Spectacular Spider-Man, "Catalysts"
"Bloody hell! You threw me through a window! What's that about?!"
—Spike, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
I will risk a window to have your bulbous frame thrown out of here.
—Rogal Dorn, If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device
"I'll defenestrate 'em!"
—Catchphrase of Strong Guy, member of X-Factor
Judge: (Sentencing Barkley for throwing a man through a ground floor window during a bar fight) Your sanctions are community service and a fine, do you have any regrets?
Charles Barkley: Yeah, I regret that we weren't on a higher floor.
Charles Barkley: Yeah, I regret that we weren't on a higher floor.
—from the court transcript
"Ground floor, coming up."
"It's not the first time I've been thrown out a window, and it won't be the last! What can I say, I'm a rebel."
—Old Man, The Emperor's New Groove
"See if I ever do business with that last company again. Anyone who won't sacrifice a window to toss me out is too cheap for me."
James could hear an argument inside, then there was a crashing noise and the man in the suit flew out of the window in a shower of glass and splintered wood.
The werebat snatches hold of Van Ricten with clawed feet and, with two strong wing-beats, drags him up into the vault of the dome. You catch a glint of steel and hear the Werebat screech in pain, as it is sent tumbling towards one of the velvet-draped windows. With a splintering crash, the Vampire Hunter and the Werebat smashes through the glass and plunge to their deaths trapped in a mutual murderous embrace.
—Van Ricten the Vampire Hunter meets his fate in Howl of the Werewolf
Ivanova: You know how I feel about telepaths.
Sheridan: Do I ever. You threw one out a third-story window on Io.
Ivanova: There was an ample pool below the window!
Sheridan: I'll assume you knew that.
Sheridan: Do I ever. You threw one out a third-story window on Io.
Ivanova: There was an ample pool below the window!
Sheridan: I'll assume you knew that.
McCall: You have five seconds to give me the name.
[pause]
McCall: Time's up, throw him out of the window!
"Gaining power's a lot like scaling a tower, Chancellor. The longer you do, the more likely you are to fall."
-– Dread Empress Regalia I, before ordering her Chancellor thrown out the window, A Practical Guide to Evil
"Don't think of it so much as a fall, but rather as an opportunity to learn how to fly."
-– Dread Emperor Venal, securing his succession, A Practical Guide to Evil
I love the English language. It started more than thirty years ago, when I was still reading my SF novels with an English dictionary besides them. And then, in one of Laumer's "Retief" stories, I came across the word "defenestration". Which I had to look up.
And verily, I heard a heavenly choir upon realizing that the English language was so great as to have a word for the action of throwing someone or something out of a window.
I decided there and then that nothing could beat the English language. What wonders, what miracles might I yet find in it?!
And verily, I heard a heavenly choir upon realizing that the English language was so great as to have a word for the action of throwing someone or something out of a window.
I decided there and then that nothing could beat the English language. What wonders, what miracles might I yet find in it?!
-– Atlan
My author grabbed Finch's lapels, rolled backwards, sank his feet into Finch's girth, and judo-propelled the shorter-than-realized media personality high into the night air! High above the pansies lining the balcony railing
Finch's shriek - his life - ended in crumpled metal, twelve floors down.
Someone's drink poured on to the carpet.
Dermot "Duster" Hoggins brushed his lapels, leant over the balcony, and yelled "SO WHO'S EXPIRED IN AN ENDING FLAT AND INANE QUITE BEYOND BELIEF NOW?"
—Timothy Cavendish, Cloud Atlas
Vincent Vega: Tony Rocky Horror. You know him?
Mia Wallace: Fell out of a window.
Vincent: Hmm, hmm. Well, that is one way to say it. Another way to say it would be that he was thrown out. Another way would be that he was thrown out by Marcellus. And yet even another way to say it was that he was thrown out of the window by Marcellus because of you.
Mia Wallace: Fell out of a window.
Vincent: Hmm, hmm. Well, that is one way to say it. Another way to say it would be that he was thrown out. Another way would be that he was thrown out by Marcellus. And yet even another way to say it was that he was thrown out of the window by Marcellus because of you.
"That's some cold shit, throwing my man Leroy out the window. Just picked my man up and threw him out the goddamn window!"
—Willy, Shaft
"Let's take this outside."
Yu Ominae (before grabbing a mook and jumping out the window), Spriggan
"Finding himself still alive but resolved to end his useless life, Mr Rye dragged himself back into his house, crawled painfully up the stairs and, for the second time, defenestrated himself."
You stand frozen and Mary carries Sean indoors. You are impressed that she has used the word 'defenestrated' in a spoken sentence.
