Tropescilloscope: Destination Defenestration

Someone is thrown through a window, often from a great height and to their death. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Historical Hero Upgrade Broken Aesop The '70s Daddy's Girl Those Two Bad Guys Foil Due to the Dead Dies Wide Open Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Karma Houdini Artistic License – Biology The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Evil-Detecting Dog Creative Closing Credits Overly Long Gag Improvised Weapon Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Death Seeker Exactly What It Says on the Tin It Will Never Catch On Conspicuous CG The Un-Reveal Cool Shades Awesome, but Impractical Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Honor Before Reason Mad Scientist Sinister Minister A Father to His Men Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Action Genre Would Hit a Girl The Bully Stuff Blowing Up No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Pretty in Mink Not So Above It All You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Eiffel Tower Effect Love at First Sight Light Is Not Good Suspiciously Similar Substitute Cain and Abel Rated M for Manly Parental Substitute Ambiguous Disorder timeperiod Hate Sink Super Strength Face–Heel Turn Drowning My Sorrows Hoist by His Own Petard Red Right Hand Small Name, Big Ego Silence Is Golden Punny Name Broken Bird Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Dumb Blonde I Have Your Wife Chekhov's Skill Room Full of Crazy "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue All Just a Dream Dissonant Serenity Artistic License – Law Mundane Made Awesome Neck Lift Lampshade Hanging Tap on the Head War Is Hell Running Gag Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Suspiciously Specific Denial Defiant to the End The Brute Credits Gag Psychopathic Manchild Oh, Crap! Only in It for the Money Face Death with Dignity BFG Title Drop Red Eyes, Take Warning Obstructive Bureaucrat Hollywood Darkness Shut Up, Hannibal! Faux Affably Evil O.O.C. Is Serious Business Pet the Dog 20 Minutes into the Future The Quiet One Flashback Central Theme Mugging the Monster Big Bad Duumvirate The Sociopath Evil Counterpart Distracted by the Sexy Idiot Ball Police Brutality Dark Is Not Evil Interrupted Suicide An Axe to Grind Slap-Slap-Kiss Jerkass Karmic Death What Happened to the Mouse? From Bad to Worse Chewing the Scenery Yandere Villain Song Stalker with a Crush Villain Ball The End... Or Is It? Psychological Thriller Evil Laugh Sequel Escalation Country Matters Bittersweet Ending The Load Laser-Guided Karma Reasonable Authority Figure Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Composite Character Pay Evil unto Evil Line-of-Sight Name Not So Different Television Movie Index Almost Kiss Big "NO!" Retirony Music Stories Unspoken Plan Guarantee Pyrrhic Victory Evil Is Hammy Extremely Short Timespan Re-Cut Black and Gray Morality The Alleged Car Dogged Nice Guy Freudian Excuse Getting Crap Past the Radar Final Girl Recycled IN SPACE! 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Heroic BSoD Historical-Domain Character She Cleans Up Nicely Crazy-Prepared The Chick Bond One-Liner The Lost Lenore Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Bilingual Bonus Dwindling Party Improbable Aiming Skills Closed Circle Babies Ever After Manic Pixie Dream Girl Retcon The Ghost Depraved Bisexual Not Even Bothering with the Accent Taking the Bullet Evil Is Petty As Himself Reckless Gun Usage Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Belligerent Sexual Tension Big Eater Earn Your Happy Ending Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Hair-Trigger Temper Beard of Evil Plot Hole Big Bad Calling the Old Man Out Beware the Nice Ones Parental Abandonment Off-into-the-Distance Ending Roger Ebert: Great Movies List I'm a Humanitarian The '50s Dramatic Gun Cock Contrived Coincidence Body Horror Adaptational Badass Beta Couple Grey and Gray Morality Exact Words Mistaken for Gay Heroes Want Redheads Wrong Genre Savvy Real Life Writes the Plot Vacation Films Villain Protagonist Twist Ending Dark and Troubled Past All Men Are Perverts Noodle Incident One-Man Army Fate Worse than Death All There in the Manual Man on Fire Badass in a Nice Suit Spell My Name with an "S" Deliberate Values Dissonance Let's Get Dangerous! The Stoner Adapted Out Dropped a Bridge on Him Neck Snap Pragmatic Adaptation Based on a True Story In the Back Only Known by Their Nickname Worthy Opponent Heterosexual Life-Partners The Reveal More Dakka Death of a Child Not So Stoic Car Fu A Date with Rosie Palms An Aesop My Beloved Smother Badass Boast Have a Gay Old Time Blackmail Adaptation Expansion The Dreaded Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Agony of the Feet Expy Arch-Enemy Film Noir Index Soft Glass Tempting Fate Shown Their Work Funny Foreigner And I Must Scream Camp Gay Gold Digger Even Evil Has Loved Ones Cool Old Guy Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Does Not Like Shoes Dark Reprise '80s Hair Expository Hairstyle Change Throwing Your Sword Always Works Too Dumb to Live Real Life Serious Business Danny Peary Cult Movies List Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Cat Scare Skewed Priorities Intergenerational Friendship Alpha Bitch The Bad Guy Wins Sequel Hook Drill Sergeant Nasty Woman in White Scary Black Man Precision F-Strike Frame-Up Ambiguously Gay Costume Porn You Have Failed Me Everyone Has Standards B-Movie Casting Gag "Shaggy Dog" Story Corpsing Dirty Cop You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! "Well Done, Son!" Guy Make It Look Like an Accident How We Got Here Naïve Newcomer The Smurfette Principle Never Found the Body True Companions Bolivian Army Ending As Long as It Sounds Foreign He Knows Too Much Stealth Hi/Bye Stylistic Suck Leave the Camera Running The Cavalry Sci-Fi Horror The '80s Mr. Fanservice La Résistance folderlabel Left the Background Music On Dull Surprise Ghost Fiction Framing Device Same Language Dub The Musical Spiritual Successor Badass Normal Together in Death Bloodless Carnage Improbable Weapon User Important Haircut Rousing Speech Anachronic Order Bloody Hilarious Sanity Slippage The Cameo Captain Ersatz Broken Pedestal The Hero Dies Red Shirt Crapsack World Hypocrite Abhorrent Admirer Alas, Poor Villain Video Credits Rape as Drama Wham Shot Public Domain Feature Films Hidden Depths Soundtrack Dissonance Documentary Genre Savvy Easily Forgiven Insane Troll Logic Scare Chord Bait-and-Switch Meaningful Background Event The Smart Guy Ironic Echo Self-Deprecation Sir Swears-a-Lot Facial Horror Tranquil Fury Married to the Job Gilligan Cut Wham Line Animal Title Index Fourth Date Marriage Reality Has No Subtitles Shirtless Scene Those Two Guys Badass Grandpa Pragmatic Villainy Shipper on Deck Even Evil Has Standards Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Mooks Reality Is Unrealistic Shout-Out The Mafia Peek-a-Boo Corpse Arc Words Jerk with a Heart of Gold Genre Throwback Despair Event Horizon Mercy Kill Japanese Films Take a Third Option No Name Given Outrun the Fireball Break the Haughty Green-Eyed Monster Martial Arts Movie Novelization Match Cut Evil Brit Russian Films Fun with Acronyms Anti-Villain Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Dressing as the Enemy Combat Pragmatist Here We Go Again! Took a Level in Badass Kill It with Fire Straight Gay Cassandra Truth Deconstruction In Medias Res Ominous Latin Chanting Product Placement Every Car Is a Pinto Death by Irony Our Vampires Are Different Hope Spot Batman Gambit Does This Remind You of Anything? 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Nice Guy Annoying Younger Sibling Paper-Thin Disguise Groin Attack Made of Explodium Call-Back Took a Level in Jerkass Authority Equals Asskicking In Name Only Adaptational Villainy Spanner in the Works Fatal Flaw Historical Villain Upgrade Madness Mantra Bond Villain Stupidity Last-Name Basis Psycho for Hire Slasher Movie Affectionate Parody No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Sassy Black Woman Demonic Possession Gratuitous English Needs Wiki Magic Love The Faceless Epic Fail The Stinger Curb-Stomp Battle Unusually Uninteresting Sight Only One Name Red Herring Revenge The Power of Love Drives Like Crazy The Remake Rule of Three Artistic License – Physics Brother–Sister Incest For Want of a Nail Adaptational Attractiveness Cloudcuckoolander The Place Foreshadowing Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Adult Fear Instant Death Bullet Heel Realization Papa Wolf As the Good Book Says... Dual Wielding The '60s Badass Bookworm Genre Shift Guns Akimbo Big Brother Instinct Your Head A-Splode Ripped from the Headlines Film Noir Protagonist Title Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Rule of Funny Posthumous Character Double-Meaning Title Stepford Smiler Age Lift Badass Longcoat Adaptational Heroism Male Gaze Knight Templar The '90s Would Hurt a Child Fainting Adaptation Distillation Henpecked Husband Logo Joke Obfuscating Stupidity Guile Hero Mighty Whitey World of Ham Blatant Lies Lock and Load Montage Chase Scene Trailers Always Spoil Sole Survivor Evil Plan Mood Whiplash The Dragon Intrepid Reporter Toplessness from the Back Loads and Loads of Characters Eureka Moment Put on a Bus Half the Man He Used to Be Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism MacGuffin Dark Action Girl Male Frontal Nudity Tagline Celebrity Paradox Motor Mouth Death by Adaptation Made of Iron Kick the Dog Meaningful Echo Very Loosely Based on a True Story Foregone Conclusion Politically Incorrect Villain Mr. Exposition Military and Warfare Films Black Comedy Rape Laughing Mad Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? My God, What Have I Done? Captain Obvious Vitriolic Best Buds Only Sane Man Cool Old Lady Humiliation Conga Never My Fault Really Gets Around Cruel and Unusual Death Vomit Discretion Shot Diabolus ex Machina Determinator The Mole All for Nothing Bavarian Fire Drill Bad "Bad Acting" NO INDOOR VOICE Missing Mom Men Are the Expendable Gender Evil Cannot Comprehend Good The Starscream Whole Plot Reference Police are Useless Dirty Old Man Bowdlerise Slashed Throat Call-Forward Asshole Victim Darker and Edgier The Atoner Sadistic Choice Show Within a Show Not What It Looks Like May–December Romance Attempted Rape Monumental Damage Smoking Is Cool Better to Die than Be Killed Scenery Gorn Animal Motifs Air-Vent Passageway The Big Guy Card-Carrying Villain Greater-Scope Villain Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Never Trust a Trailer Parental Incest Fanservice Fat Bastard Redshirt Army Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! 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Is a Crapshoot Immune to Bullets Jerk Jock Black Comedy The Great Depression Rule of Symbolism Determinator aka: The Determinator Chuck Cunningham Syndrome A God Am I Pimped-Out Dress She's Got Legs Chiaroscuro Hell Is That Noise Becoming the Mask Developing Doomed Characters Artistic License – Military Bound and Gagged Gone Horribly Right Major Injury Underreaction Black Best Friend Brutal Honesty Bury Your Gays Catch-Phrase Fanservice Extra Cowboy Cop Deliberately Monochrome Bar Brawl Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Rasputinian Death Disproportionate Retribution Shower Scene Dutch Angle Villain Opening Scene Bring My Brown Pants Gender Flip Jump Scare Malevolent Masked Men Insult Backfire Bunny-Ears Lawyer Gory Discretion Shot It's All About Me Biopic Refuge in Audacity Crucified Hero Shot Smug Snake Actor Allusion Eye Scream Unwitting Instigator of Doom Rule of Cool All Girls Want Bad Boys Mama Bear Aside Glance Star-Crossed Lovers Disappeared Dad Overprotective Dad Manipulative Bastard Wretched Hive And the Adventure Continues Covers Always Lie Ax-Crazy Scenery Porn Time Skip Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold No OSHA Compliance Knife Nut Deadpan Snarker Implacable Man Your Cheating Heart Aluminum Christmas Trees "The Reason You Suck" Speech Abusive Parents Mystery and Detective Films Storming the Castle Wicked Cultured Funny Background Event Camera Abuse Amusing Injuries French Films Canadian Movies Ass Shove Sexy Discretion Shot Bottomless Magazines Jitter Cam Early-Bird Cameo No Ending Hooker with a Heart of Gold Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Informed Ability Femme Fatale Unresolved Sexual Tension After the End Death Glare Homage Fire-Forged Friends Big Fancy House Fantasy Films Artistic License – Geography Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Romantic False Lead Extreme Doormat Taking You with Me Artistic License – Gun Safety Humans Are Bastards Brick Joke Wounded Gazelle Gambit Daylight Horror Double Entendre Leitmotif There Is No Kill Like Overkill Say My Name Eldritch Abomination I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Hong Kong Films N-Word Privileges I Need a Freaking Drink Berserk Button As You Know Well-Intentioned Extremist Armor-Piercing Question Disney Villain Death Animated Credits Opening Zombie Stories Failed a Spot Check Morality Pet Comically Missing the Point Large Ham Bad Boss Deal with the Devil Irony Stock Footage He Who Fights Monsters Anguished Declaration of Love The Alcoholic Nice Hat Ms. Fanservice All There in the Script Gainax Ending Amoral Attorney From Nobody to Nightmare Redemption Equals Death The Lancer Kids Are Cruel Parental Neglect Big Applesauce Fake Shemp No Celebrities Were Harmed Blood Knight No Antagonist Epic Movie Dirty Coward I Did What I Had to Do Nothing Is Scarier The Ace Fantastic Racism Punch-Clock Villain Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Random Events Plot Antagonist Title Anti-Hero My Greatest Failure Evil vs. Evil Hero of Another Story Our Zombies Are Different Enemy Mine Riddle for the Ages Drugs Are Bad Book-Ends Unreliable Narrator Beauty Is Never Tarnished Empathic Environment Chekhov's Gun Flipping the Bird Cold-Blooded Torture Blood from the Mouth Setting Update For the Evulz The Hero Love Triangle Non-Indicative Name Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Naked People Are Funny Children Are Innocent Alliterative Name Ship Tease Older Than They Look Be Careful What You Wish For Early Installment Weirdness The Voiceless Anachronism Stew Training Montage Author Appeal Sealed Evil in a Can Establishing Character Moment Accidental Murder Shoot the Shaggy Dog British Films Death by Sex Kubrick Stare Breaking the Fourth Wall Woman Scorned Retired Badass Action Girl Betty and Veronica Victoria's Secret Compartment Race Lift Roaring Rampage of Revenge Ungrateful Bastard It's Personal Offscreen Moment of Awesome Faking the Dead It Can Think Canon Foreigner Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer And Starring Names to Run Away from Really Fast Freeze-Frame Bonus Bi the Way Anyone Can Die Dying Moment of Awesome Affably Evil Bloodier and Gorier Grievous Bottley Harm Vomit Indiscretion Shot Evil Sounds Deep Cluster F-Bomb Villain with Good Publicity Driven to Suicide Translation Convention "Awesome McCool" Name What the Hell, Hero? Villainous Breakdown Loophole Abuse Four-Temperament Ensemble Insistent Terminology Dramatic Irony Sacrificial Lion Famous Last Words Adaptation Name Change