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