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