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