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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You Have Got to Be Kidding Me!
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
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Beauty Is Never Tarnished
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Truth in Television
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Not So Different
Put on a Bus
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Does This Remind You of Anything?
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Death of a Child
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Girl-on-Girl Is Hot
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Flipping the Bird
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Reality Is Unrealistic
All There in the Script
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What You Are in the Dark
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Screw the Money, I Have Rules!
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Take That!
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Cain and Abel
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Morality Pet
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"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue
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Our Zombies Are Different
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Bury Your Gays
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Only One Name
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Men Are the Expendable Gender
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All Men Are Perverts
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Riddle for the Ages
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Getting Crap Past the Radar
Large Ham
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No Name Given
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Kill 'em All
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As Long as It Sounds Foreign
Never My Fault
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For Want of a Nail
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Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil
Took a Level in Badass
Broken Pedestal
Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold
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Pet the Dog
Annoying Younger Sibling
Dying Moment of Awesome
For the Evulz
Not Even Bothering with the Accent
Asshole Victim
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Twist Ending
Adapted Out
War Is Hell
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Calling the Old Man Out
Horror Comedy
Maybe Ever After
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Never Trust a Trailer
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Gratuitous English
Even Evil Has Standards
Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome
Together in Death
Contrived Coincidence
Determinator
aka: The Determinator
Redshirt Army
Shout-Out
Mad Scientist
Not So Stoic
Death by Sex
Mugging the Monster
No OSHA Compliance
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The Smurfette Principle
Author Appeal
Gone Horribly Right
Spiteful Spit