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