It's More Likely Than You Think Anime Smack

This Slapstick move is a specific disfavor of Soft Glass. When a grapheme unwittingly runs, swings (from a rope), flies or is thrown into a pane of glass, rather than go through it or bounciness backward, he or she will simply smack flat against it.

More than often than not, the affect is seen from the other side of the window. This is unremarkably followed by a short suspension, sometimes with a close-upwards of the comically distorted face against the glass, before gravity reclaims the victim. Or, if dangling from a cablevision or the like, he or she is dragged away.

The unfortunate then starts sliding with a Stock Sound Effect of mankind slipping against glass. The fact this peculiar racket is generally considered grating by most people is part of the gag.

Mostly seen in animation, although live-action examples are not unknown. In the more cartoony shows, the character will probably exist fully Squashed Flat confronting the glass, like a bug on a windshield.

Sometimes, particularly if the graphic symbol is super potent, super fast or very heavy, the Soft Glass disfavor will be pointed out by the drinking glass being reinforced, or an indestructible substitute. This adds to the humor by having the pratfall happens to someone unexpected.

Sometimes combined with Camera Abuse when the "drinking glass" hit happens to be the screen. Lookout man Out for That Tree! is a Super-Trope. Compare Running into the Window, where the humor is from the glass not being detected, and there'southward normally no "getting squashed and slide" function since the impact is less speedy (although both tropes can exist combined), and Destination Defenestration, which is generally intentional on the part of another character throwing the other one, and is much more Dominion of Cool as a thing, as the impacting character keeps going. Unless the glass resists the bear upon.

Do not confuse with Bar Slide, which is most sliding a glass along a bar.

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Examples:

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    Advertising

• In an Audi commercial that aired during Superbowl 2014, one of the Doberhuahuas runs into a coffee shop window and slides down afterwards.

    Animation

• The Photographic camera Abuse variant appears in Season eight episode 24 of Happy Heroes. Big G. and Little Yard. are doing an Evil Laugh when Huo Haha shushes them, saying that he thinks they should make their evil laugh quieter since he doesn't want them to scare the viewers. Big M. them promptly smacks Huo into the screen, and he slides downward.
• In Pleasant Caprine animal and Big Large Wolf, there are at least 2 instances of this combined with Camera Corruption, once in Joys of Seasons episode 78 and in one case in the beginning movie. Both times, Wolnie hits Wolffy with a frying pan, causing him to hit the screen and slide off.
• In the first episode of SEER, Simon manages to boom a jump onto the Seercraft, but hits a drinking glass panel and slides down it afterwards, in forepart of two other Seer bots who only ignore him.

    Anime & Manga

• The Mysterious Cities of Gilded: In season 4 episode 24, Zares throws a smoke grenade inside the Golden Condor, and in the ensuing brawl Gaspard is sent smashing face-first confronting the cockpit before sliding downwards.

    Fan Works

• Exploited and not Played for Laughs in The Secret Render of Alex Mack. Alex's power to turn into a silverish puddle allows her to be collected on the windscreen of an SR-71 Blackbird on a track too short for it to fully end. It takes a special hatch to let her enter, and the maneuver takes some do to become it right, just information technology ways excellent response times when she has a Terawatt Code Carmine.

    Films — Animation

• In Craven Little, as he's bullied in sports class, Chicken Footling is thrown against a gymnasium's window where he smacks flat. And and so he slides down like a Wacky WallWalker.
• On FernGully: The Last Rainforest, Zach falls into the logging machine'south windshield and slides downwardly equally his coworkers picket.
• Nigel the pelican from Finding Nemo hits a window in flight. We don't come across him sliding, though, equally the scene cuts to the reactions of the characters inside the room.
• Costless Birds: During the activation of the Fourth dimension Machine, which causes some serious magnetic/gravitic anomalies, the chrononaut and a baby-sit are pressed against the big drinking glass window of the control room, on which they slide sideways under the confused optics of the President, the General and the technicians. Then the machine departs and the gravity returns to normal, leaving the chrononaut and guard sliding down normally.
• Inside Out: When Joy and Sadness are catapulted back to Headquarters, they are tossed against the window, remaining there for two seconds before slowly sliding down.
• The Lorax: When villain O'Hare, flying with 1 of his goons thank you to rocket headgear, slams into a delivery truck driven by some other of his goons, he gets squished on the windshield and, as he'due south sliding downwards, yells "You're fired!"
• Republic of madagascar:
  • In Republic of madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, Mort the mouse lemur tries to follow the rest of the gang every bit they are most to have flight. All the same, simply as he'south jumping toward the plane, Rex Julien closes the door and Mort smacks flat against its small window, before sliding downwards.
  • In Penguins of Madagascar, the four penguins, while in freefall, stop upwards smacking against the windshield of a passenger plane, before being pushed away by the wipers.
• Monsters, Inc.: In the Hilarious Outtakes at the stop of the moving picture, a CDA agent tries to fast-rope through a window in response to a 23-19... and doesn't quite manage it.
• In Mr. Peabody & Sherman, a rift in the space-time continuum brings several historical figures slamming against the windshield of the WABAC, and then sliding away. When King Tutankhamen hits the windshield and calls to Penny (whom he had tried to marry earlier), a jealous Sherman turns on the wipers.
• The last shot of Open up Flavor is of Boog throwing a rabbit, which smacks flat against the movie screen and slides down. The End.
• At the beginning of Rio, on seeing Blu inside the "Blue Macaw" Library, Tulio rushes toward him but slips on the snow, and ends up with his face comically smashed against the drinking glass. And and then he slips down with the expected audio.
• The Secret Life of Pets: Gidget heroically rushes out the window... just to plummet and land onto an awning, which launches her at Chloe'due south apartment window where she smacks flat, earlier sliding down.
• The Simpsons Movie:
  • Afterwards the dome gets stuck over Springfield, there is a scene where a group of birds splat against the dome wall and fall down it, every bit hungry cats wait below.
  • When Bart is skateboarding through town naked, he ends up smacking into the glass walls of a Krusty Burger and sticks on as customers Ned, Rod and Todd Flemish region look on, horrified;
• Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse:
  • Peter B. Parker arrives in Miles' dimension at high speed. He gets slammed into a billboard where he remains motionless for three seconds before falling down.
  • When Miles Morales and an unconscious Peter B. are dragged across New York by a stray webline stuck to a tramway, at one point they smack against the window of an eatery and are dragged in deadening motion with the usual audio — with Peter's face stuck inside a snowman'southward head flattened against the glass, to boot. Yep, It Makes Sense in Context.
  • A very curt take on it with the Flashback to the rest of the Spider-Gang'southward inflow: a Separate Screen shows SP//dr, Spider-Ham and Spider-Noir all squashed flat against a Broadway billboard upon their arrival in this dimension.
• Happens a lot in Storks. Considering it takes place in a globe of Funny Animals, and nosotros are often reminded that birds can't see glass.

  Hunter: Junior, exercise you lot know why I built my office entirely out of glass, even though birds tin can't come across glass?
  [several storks smack into the office]

• Exaggerated to a degree in 1 of the promos for Trolls: World Tour, where most of the moving picture's bandage, including a number of generic characters, are thrown into a fourth wall together. They don't slide down after that, though, instead remaining still due to the pressure that's being applied to each other.
• During the climax of Up, when Russell tries to escape from Charles Muntz's dirigible, he accidentally smacks into the windshield and slides by right in front of Muntz while property onto the hose from Carl'south house for dear life. The resulting cringe-inducing sound is probably the lengthiest example of information technology. Muntz's reaction is an aroused, but evidently bad-mannered glare as Russell passes past.
• Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day: Happens when Piglet and Pooh, being carried through the air by a stiff air current, smack into Owl'southward treehouse.

  Owl: Well, I say, now! Someone has pasted Piglet on my window. [smack] Well, well! Pooh, too! This is a surprise. Do come in and make yourselves [opens the window; both fly into the house and hit the wall] comfy.
  [Pooh and Piglet sigh in relief]

    Films — Live-Action

• Happens in the movie Benoit Brisefer: Les Taxis rouges, following a Super Spring from Benoit straight at the building of the villains. He ends up mashed against the drinking glass of the main function before sliding down with the expected sound, under the shocked optics of the Big Bad.
• The usually comedic trope is Played for Horror in Carrie. When Carrie snaps and starts her telekinetic rampage, a fleeing Heather is hurled into the airtight gym door, cracking the window and leaving a thick smear of blood when she slips down.
• Cats & Dogs:
  • Happens at the offset of the pic with a bloodhound.
  • With Calico at the wheel, the car comes to an abrupt stop and Mr. Tinkles gets to experience this trope.
• 8 Legged Freaks: One Giant Spider attempts to spring through a shop window, only to smack "face"-first and spread-eagled into the drinking glass, make a groggy noise and slide downwards slowly with an audible squeal while the people inside stare in disbelief.
• In Enchanted, during the Disney Creatures of the Farce sequence, as Giselle summons critters to help clean the apartment, a flock of pigeons wing through the half-open window, save for one who smacks confronting the drinking glass and slide down on the ledge. Information technology's fine, though, to Giselle's relief.
• In Galaxy Quest, this serves as a Brick Joke when it happens to a Mook that was just thrown out of an airlock by the Milky way Quest cast after avoiding the same fate themselves.
• In the Garfield live-activeness moving picture, Jon takes Odie on his date with Liz, leaving Garfield behind. Garfield begins chasing Liz'due south selection-up truck and manages to climb onto the bed. So the traffic light turns red and Liz puts the brakes on, sending Garfield smacking into the dorsum window in the same manner every bit his infamous suction-loving cup doll, while Jon and Liz take no discover of him.

  Garfield: [muffled] Oh, my poor nose...

• In George of the Jungle, this happens to George when he is carried away by a parachute and loses command of it. He smacks into the window of a boat and slides downwardly.
• In Ghostbusters, Louis Tully is chased by the Gatekeeper, Vinz Glortho, and is attacked past him until he slams face first into the window of a eating place and slides down, screaming. On the other side of the glass are a bunch of swanky, upscale diners who glance up briefly, then go back to exactly what they were doing.
• Green Lantern: Used more for drama than for sense of humor when Hector Hammond propels Doctor Waller against a reinforced window, and we encounter her face mashed against the broken glass. And so, when Hal Jordan intervenes, Hector releases his telekinetic hold, and Dr. Waller slides downward the glass.
• At the offset of The Hudsucker Proxy, Waring Hudsucker, CEO of Hudsucker Industries, commits suicide by running over the council tabular array and jumping through a window from the height of the skyscraper. Later, i of the executives, thinking that he is ruined, tries to kill himself in the verbal same way — except that he smacks flat confronting the replaced glass pane, staying comically stuck at that place for several seconds (with the aforementioned close-upwardly on his face from the other side) earlier sliding downward.
• Looney Tunes: Dorsum in Action has Kate Houghton driving the Cool Car with Bugs Bunny riding shotgun. She's searching Las Vegas for Daffy Duck, only disparages her chances of finding him, saying, "In that location's got to be 314 hotels and 142 casinos in Las Vegas. We are never going to detect that duck." The next moment, Daffy scrambles straight into their path, and ends upwards molded against the windshield.

  Bugs: Daffy never misses a cue.

• Marvel Cinematic Universe:
  • In one case per Episode with the Thor films.
    • Thor: When Thor, Brought Down to Normal, wakes up in the hospital after getting tazed past Darcy, he immediately starts fighting with the nurses and orderlies, just to get taken downwards by medication, and ending upwards face-first confronting the room'south window. He and then slide downwards with the typical audio.
    • Thor: The Dark World: After a series of Random Transportations, Thor and Malekith appear to a higher place the St Mary Axe tower in London (a.k.a. the Gherkin), land on the top and start sliding downwardly the sloped glass ceiling with the usual sound, nether the gazes of some stunned bystanders below.
    • Thor: Ragnarok: Happens when Thor is held captive on Valkyrie's ship. She moves it forward and Thor's face hits the glass pane and slides around.
  • Guardians of the Galaxy: During the escape from Kyln in the commandeered control module, a prison baby-sit floating in naught-G smacks against the window before sliding away.
  • And combined in Avengers: Infinity War, with Thor smacking into the canopy of the Guardians' ship.
• Men in Black: International: When the Flying Car lifts off and its rocket-heave starts, the diminutive Pawny is sent tumbling by the dispatch and ends up squashed against the glass of the rear window.
• Happens in Pokémon Detective Pikachu when Detective Pikachu is taunted by a Mr. Mime and lunges at it, merely to smack into its Barrier and slide downward.

  Detective Pikachu: In my head, I saw that differently.

• R.I.P.D.: After getting fed up with his obnoxious new partner, Nick Walker (Ryan Reynolds) throws Roy Pulsipher (Jeff Bridges) in front end of a passing charabanc, and he lands on the windshield. (They're ghosts, and then it's not like this is going to kill him.) For added funny, this isn't Roy we encounter smacked flat against the glass before sliding down, but his avatar that the living ones see as a gorgeous adult female.
• This happens to Clumsy Smurf in The Smurfs when Grace Winslow finds him inside a wad of wet toilet paper that she lifts out of the toilet and she inadvertently throws him against a window in fearfulness.
• Star Wars Episode VIII The Last Jedi: During the battle of Crait, when Chewbacca has the Millennium Falcon exercise a sharp turn, one of the stowaway porgs he picked on Ahch-To is thrown confronting the side window of the cockpit and flattened on the glass.
• In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, this is the fashion Raphael lands on an aeroplane.
• In Zathura, at the conclusion to the scene where the house passes through the gravity well of a star, Danny is being pulled towards a window and hanging onto a low-cal fixture. Just equally they're leaving the well he loses his grip and looks like he's going to crash correct through the window, information technology'southward this trope instead...

    Live-Action TV

• CSI: Miami: In the Cold Open of "And We're Offed," a wealthy racehorse owner is shot inside his luxury suite overlooking a racetrack while he's using binoculars to watch his prized equus caballus in a race. The original shot of him hit the glass is just that - shown from the outside, he hits the window & his bullet wound is seen. Later, it's re-shown with a bit more detail. Because the floor-to-ceiling window is angled outward, he doesn't fully slide downwards information technology, more like slumps over onto information technology, dropping his binoculars.
• Get Smart: In one episode, Max's apartment gets booby-trapped because someone is out to kill him. This includes an invisible bulletproof wall that comes downwards from the ceiling. When Max sets it off, he afterwards walks into it and his face becomes mushed on the glass.
• The Mandalorian: In "Chapter xi: The Heiress", during the assault on the Gozanti Cruiser, Koska grabs a stormtrooper and takes off with her jetpack; the unfortunate trooper is later seen landing on the cockpit of the ship before sliding away.
• In the first scene of She Spies, the trio swing downwards from the roof of a building and crash through the penthouse windows — except Cee Cee, whose window refuses to shatter on impact. She's stuck in that location smooshed until the other She Spies pull her in.
• In the infamous dog-cannon sketch of That Mitchell and Webb Look, David Mitchell and Robert Webb are arguing about the claim of using a domestic dog fired from a cannon as a method of informing the house most who's at the door before you band the bong. Webb storms out to test his invention, and the camera stays with Mitchell in the living room for a moment. So a domestic dog is fired at the window. It doesn't break equally intended, and the bloodied fake domestic dog slides downward the window with the traditional sound outcome. Accompanied by this cute slice of dialogue:

    Roleplay

• City of Lost Characters: This happens to Plague Knight on Day 8 as he slams against the window of the library after Negi casts a stiff tailwind.

    Toys

• A line of acrylic keychains made for various anime series feature the characters doing this.
• The Wacky WallWalker is an octopus-shaped slice of semi-adhesive plastic; you throw information technology against a wall and it "crawls" its manner down.

    Video Games

• In Angry Birds 2, depending on how yous defeat a boss squealer, he may wing up and crash into the "screen" then slide downward.
• In the credit-sequence Hilarious Outtakes of Confidential Mission, Howard fails at the try to dramatically smash through a window after a zero-line sequence.
• Crash Bandicoot: Level xv of Warped. Get striking by one of the ii-headed giants, and you'll become smacked into the screen.
• Kirby:
  • In Kirby: Triple Deluxe, certain hazards will cause Kirby or Male monarch Dedede to exist slammed confronting the screen, dropping whatever Copy Power the old has in the process.
  • In the same vein, when piloting the Robobot Armor in the sequel Kirby: Planet Robobot, it causes the screen to crevice temporarily.
• In Super Smash Bros. , characters who go KO'ed past beingness sent flight off the top border of the screen will sometimes be launched into the screen and bonk off of it on their mode back down for a slightly swifter KO than flying into the background. Starting from the fourth installment in club to even out foreground and groundwork KO speeds, the fighters will instead smack the screen and slide downwardly in a comical fashion.
• In Trog, whenever a Trog using springs to spring lands on a trampoline, he splats against the monitor screen.

    Visual Novels

• This happens rather tragically to Chiaki and Monomi in Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair while running from their execution. It includes the comical face-plant in spite of the fact that both of them and so autumn into a pit apace filling with Tetris blocks that are about to crush them to death before exploding. Made even more than tragic by the symbolism in that no matter where they go, they'll always be "trapped behind the screen."

    Web Animation

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    Western Animation

• Big Urban center Greens:
  • Done past Remy in "Critterball Crunch" when he gets struck out by a Critterball-driven Gloria.
  • In "Ding Dongers", Cricket does this well-nigh the beginning, which is caught past Remy's DingDong app, inspiring him to utilise Cricket'southward antics to become pop.
• Darkwing Duck:
  • In "Water Style to Go", Darkwing, propelled by a sandstorm, smacks confronting the windshield of Launchpad's car.
  • Besides happens in another episode where Darkwing tries to finish the villains by standing in front end of their van.

    Darkwing Duck: I am the terror that flaps in [smack] ...your windshield.

• Gravity Falls, "Weirdmageddon Office 2: Escape from Reality": Bill's forces wing out into the sky to spread their chaos to the earth, only to unexpectedly run splat into an invisible wall, then sliding downwards with the usual dissonance.
• In Justice League, supervillain Copperhead leaps at John Stewart, and John reacts past immediately putting up a shield, which Copperhead smacks into. You tin can almost hear the squeaking sound every bit he slides down information technology.
• Kaeloo: In Episode 104, Olaf freezes Kaeloo and Mr. Cat and keeps them in drinking glass People Jars. Stumpy shows upward to save them past swinging on a rope, but he ends upwards smacking face first into the drinking glass and sliding down it.
• In the first episode of The Legend of Korra, Korra creates a wall of water ice to get rid of some pursuing cops. One who was grappling on to her and being dragged along slams right into information technology and slides down.
• Mixels: Happens to the Infernites as soon as the Orbitons' ship-infinite causes them to hit the glass dome of Orbitopia later on a kicking in "Mixel Moon Madness".
• My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic:
  • In "Games Ponies Play", Rainbow Dash is sent flying and smacks flat against the sloped glass ceiling of a Crystal Empire edifice, earlier sliding down. Rarity, below, is briefly intrigued past the sound but doesn't recall of looking upwardly.
  • In "Princess Twilight Sparkle – Part 1", Twilight Sparkle (with Fasten on her back) is attempting a landing in Ponyville, but her wings all the same being new for her she loses command. Twilight teleports straight inside the library, but Fasten is left behind and smacks against the window, before sliding with the usual sound.
  • In "For Whom the Sweetie Bell Toils", after their Improvised Zipline moment, the Cutie Mark Crusaders smack confronting the window of Sapphire Shores's studio. The window swivels and lets Sweetie Bong fall within, just Apple Bloom and Scootaloo stay stuck outside and slide down.
  • In "The Ending of the Stop – Part 2", during the concluding boxing, a changeling is sent smacking flat against the domed forcefield collectively generated past the unicorns, shortly followed by a Wonderbolt, and they both start sliding downwardly the shield every bit if it were glass.
• Ninjago episode "The Surge": The Ninjas autumn out of the window of a high belfry, but they grasp a firehose and swing, expecting to re-enter through another window below. Except the reinforced glass holds true, making them smack against information technology and slide down. Thankfully, at that place is a window cleaner nacelle right beneath them.
• In the Ready Jet Go! episode "Castaway Carrot", the saucer malfunctions, which causes Jet, Celery, and Sunspot to finish up smushed against the saucer window. They then slide off.
• The Simpsons: The finale episode from the ninth flavor is "Natural Born Kissers", which has Homer and Marge attempt to render home through Springfield while naked. At one indicate, Marge operates a hot air balloon while Homer dangles from an anchoring line. The wind carries the balloon over a church with a sloping glass ceiling. Homer smacks confronting the glass, so slides upward along it as the balloon tows him. The minister directs the congregation to admire the parquet floor to avoid staring at naked Homer. Information technology doesn't assist that the friction causes Homer to wail, "Ow! My ass!"
• Star vs. the Forces of Evil: In "Girls' Twenty-four hour period Out", Star tries to free the class hamster by tossing it out the window... except she forgets to open it first. Hence, the little critter smacks flat confronting the glass, before sliding down.
• The Camera Corruption version happens several times on Zig & Sharko: After Sharko propels Zig far away at bounding main, he smacks flat against the Idiot box screen, and then slides down.

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Source: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GlassSmackAndSlide

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