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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Say My Name
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From Nobody to Nightmare
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More Dakka
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Big Fancy House
Very Loosely Based on a True Story
Missing Mom
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No OSHA Compliance
What You Are in the Dark
It's Personal
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My Beloved Smother
A God Am I
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It Will Never Catch On
Breaking the Fourth Wall
Evil Is Hammy
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Exactly What It Says on the Tin
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Closed Circle
Pre-Asskicking One-Liner
I Did What I Had to Do
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Real Life
All There in the Manual
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Toplessness from the Back
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Not So Stoic
Enemy Mine
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Made of Explodium
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Gone Horribly Right
Our Zombies Are Different
Gory Discretion Shot
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