Tropescilloscope: Destination Defenestration

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

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