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Broken-Window Warning

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When it comes to intimidating someone, a common method is to break a window. The message a smashed windowpane sends is clear: someone doesn't want you in their town, and if you don't pack your stuff and go, something more precious than a window might get broken next.
Although the broken window on its own is often enough of an Implied Death Threat to get the point across, a common variation is to throw a rock, brick or other heavy object with a message tied to it in order to spell things out more explicitly. Or, in another variation that's Played for Laughs, a completely mundane and non-threatening message.
See also Enter Stage Window, which can include throwing rocks at someone's window to get their attention in a non-threatening way, Broken Glass Penalty, when a window is broken by accident during a sports game, Destination Defenestration, when a person gets thrown out a window, and Super Window Jump, when a person throws themselves through a window.
Not to be confused with a sign warning people to watch for shards of glass around a recently broken window. Or an error message on a Windows computer. Contrast Defiant Stone Throw.
Sister Trope to, and sometimes combined with, Dead Animal Warning.
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Adventure Time: In "A Glitch is a Glitch", Ice King's idea of "e-mailing" a virus to Finn and Jake is throwing a cinder block with a 3.5" floppy disk taped to it through the window of their treehouse.
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The Far Side had a strip with a pair of cats standing next to a broken window and a brick on the floor, reading the attached note: "Arf arf arf arf arf!"
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Wonder Woman (1987): A brick with a message tied to it gets thrown through the Kapatelis' front window by some of the stooges taken in by G. Gordon Godfrey's anti-hero rants.
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The Doctor Blake Mysteries: In "Sorrow Songs", the gypsies throw a brick through the window of the Ballarat Courier after editor Edward Tyneman is accused of Nadia's murder.
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Remember the Titans features this in classic "brick through the window" form.
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Cannon: In "Devil's Playground", the bikers throw a rock through the window of the diner where Cannon is holed up with his prisoner, accompanied by a yelled demand to release the prisoner.
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The 1978 film adaptation of An Enemy of the People ends with the protagonist telling his family to board up the windows (as a sign of defiance, not defence), as a hostile group of townspeople outside have been throwing rocks to drive them out of town.
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In The Simpsons:
In "The Bart of War", Ralph (with a note attached) is thrown through the Simpsons' window; he announces "I'm a brick!"
In "Grade School Confidential", instead of a brick with a note, a ringing telephone is thrown through the window of the school cafeteria.
In "Moe'N'a Lisa", Moe throws a brick with a note through the Simpsons' window after Homer forgets his birthday.
Parodied in "The War of Art", where after the Simpsons refuse to give back a valuable painting they bought from the Van Houtens, a rock gets thrown through the window telling them to give the painting back, followed by rock with another note telling they have the right to keep the money. Soon, dozens of rocks have been thrown through the window and the Simpsons are sorting out the notes supporting and threatening them.
In "Burns' Heir", Bart throws a rock through Mr Burns' window after Burns fails choose him as his heir. Burns initially thinks it is a bird that has become petrified and lost its sense of direction.
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In the Dave the Barbarian episode "King for a Day or Two", when Candy lets Dave briefly take her place as ruler of Udrogoth, he does a rather poor job. After his proclamation that everyone must have their cats shaved, the cats send him a supposedly threatening message through a window of the castle.
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In The Hound of the Baskervilles, a rock with a threatening note tied to it is tossed through Sir Henry's carriage as it drives into London, warning him to stay away from Baskerville Hall or face madness and death.
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Motive: In "Bad Blonde", the killer throws a half-brick through the windscreen of the Victim of the Week's classic car not long before the murder, in an attempt to dissuade him from pursuing his investigation.
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal: A priest advocates random acts of kindness instead of violence. Later that night, an ice cream cone is chucked through his window.
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In Footloose, Ren tries to start a movement to repeal his town's "no dancing" law... and late at night, he gets a brick through a window of his home for his troubles.
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Nabi the cat gets a rock through his window at the end of There she is!! Step 3, then several more rocks during the course of the dark and dramatic Step 4.
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One Dilbert strip had one of Dilbert's (now) ex-girlfriends describe how much she didn't enjoy their first and only date by writing a multi-page document on the subject, wrapping each page around a different rock, and throwing each rock through a different window.
Another, earlier strip, had Dilbert telling his boss of an idea he just had, only for the boss to shoot down the idea. A brick flies through the office window: "We know you have an idea in there. Give it up."
In another arc, Dilbert joins the neighborhood arc despite knowing that "Bad Ed" is the only criminal in the neighborhood. One evening, Bad Ed throws a brick through the window, summoning neighborhood watch members to a meeting.
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The Dresden Files Dresden Files: The short story "Day Off" has Darth Wannabe throw a smoke bomb into Harry's basement via window. Unfortunately, Harry kind of had some bigger problems at the time...
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Rocko's Modern Life: In "Junk Junkies", Rocko learns he has to pay back his tab at a pizza joint, and at one point they throw a pizza through his kitchen window with a threatening note taped to it.
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Garfield: Jon once got a brick through the window with the less-than-threatening message of "You seem boring". Garfield notes they should send the writer a thank you brick.
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Discworld:
In Small Gods, the barman at the Ephebian tavern doesn't like the philosophers to discuss religion, since it leads to lightning bolts coming through the roof with notes wrapped around them.
The Golem Trust are victims of a brick through the window in Going Postal, but Adora Belle just picks it up and files it under B.
In Making Money, Moist discovers a letter from the late Topsy Lavish warning him the Assassin's Guild will go after him if he allows anything bad to happen to her dog (and current head of the bank) Mr. Fusspot. Right on cue, a "warning shot" in the form of an Arrowgram from the Assassin's Guild crashes through the window of his office.
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In the Mika route of Shining Song Starnova, a disgruntled, violent fan throws a rock through Mika's apartment window in the middle of the night, complete with an attached note instructing her to kill herself. This incident convinces Mika’s producer to put her and the other members of Starnova up at a hotel for their protection.
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Goodness Gracious Me: Dinner at the Koop-... er, Cooper household gets momentarily interrupted when the racist neighbours throw a brick through the front door. The Koopahs ignore the message and just dump it in the bucket with all the others.
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In The Bat, a stone is thrown through a window with a vaguely worded threatening note tied on with string.
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In Making Money, Moist discovers a letter from the late Topsy Lavish warning him the Assassin's Guild will go after him if he allows anything bad to happen to her dog (and current head of the bank) Mr. Fusspot. Right on cue, a "warning shot" in the form of an Arrowgram from the Assassin's Guild crashes through the window of his office.
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Non-threatening variant: The Brodax Popeye cartoon "Take it Easel" starts with the mailman throwing Popeye's mail through the window and hitting him on the head with it then yelling "Mail!"
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In Wendigo, Otis fires bullets through the windows of the Stuckey house even after George and his family have moved in in an attempt to drive the newcomers out (as well as to vent his frustration).
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In High Heels and Low Lifes, Frances tosses a brick through the window of the backdoor of Mason's house. This is actually a distraction to let Shannon sneak in through the front door while Mason runs to the back to see what has happened.
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Girl Waits With Gun draws on this trope for a lot of its source material. Being the (mostly) true story of three sisters harassed by local criminals, a lot of the "brick-mail" letters still exist in official records.
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Young Sherlock Holmes: When Matty is kidnapped in Red Leech, the kidnappers throw a large rock with a note tied to it through Crowe's window. The note says that if Crowe leaves them alone for three months, Matty will be released unharmed.
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In Black Patch, Flytrap throws a rock through Morgan's window in an attempt to goad the marshal to come out for a Showdown at High Noon.
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Marvel Cinematic Universe: In Spider-Man: No Way Home, someone throws a brick with a threatening note attached through Peter's window, but it's caught by his lawyer, Matt Murdock. When Peter questions how his blind lawyer did that, he simply responds, "I'm a really good lawyer."
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Outsourced: In the pilot, one of the disgruntled employees whose job was outsourced throws a brick with an attached message through the window.
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In Weak Hero, Jake performs a variant after defeating Juwon, the strongest of Cheongang's members. When one of the other members steps forward to retaliate, Jake raises a fist and smashes the giant window behind him, scaring the guy into submission.
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Frankenstein Created Woman: After Frankenstein ignores an angry mob pounding on his door, they get his attention by throwing a cobblestone through the window.
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In After the Thin Man, a stone with a note attached flies through the Charles' kitchen window. Hilarity Ensues when their dog Asta grabs the note in his jaws and is pursued through the house.
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The Golem Trust are victims of a brick through the window in Going Postal, but Adora Belle just picks it up and files it under B.
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That Mitchell and Webb Look: Gilbert and Sullivan get a hint that their audience aren't taken with their operas when someone hurls a brick through their window and shouts "WE'RE VERY DISAPPOINTED WITH YOUR NEW OPERETAS!"
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Cabaret has a subplot in which a Jewish man and his landlady fall in love in just-pre-Nazi Germany. She faces public disapproval for the relationship, which escalates to the point that somebody throws a brick through her window.
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In The Flintstones, Fred is an umpire at a Little League baseball game, and makes a very unpopular call that costs the local team the game. Days later, he gets a note through his window saying "Change your decision or else... Yours Truly, Anonymous." Betty sees the note, and says, "Well at least we know it's not from Barney. He doesn't know how to spell 'anonymous."
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In Brickleberry episode "Miss National Park", a rock gets thrown through the ranger station window. It says "You're a dead man, fatso." Woody thinks it's for Connie.
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Will & Grace: Parodied. Will and Jack start renting a place together, and one of their new neighbors throws a brick through their (open) window. It's actually a loaf of homemade banana bread, with a note giving them a warm welcome to the neighborhood. (The locals are thrilled to have two gay men move in since if a gay district springs up, property values would increase).
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Amen. A brick is thrown the church window while everyone is rehearsing for a live broadcast of the service. Attached is a death threat against Reverend Gregory from a local gang (he's been helping the police arrest their members).
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Vera: In "Broken Promise", the father of the Victim of the Week gets a rock thrown through his window with a note tied to it that reads "YOUR BOY'S DEAD HA HA".
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In Blood Harvest, Jill gets a phone call saying, "Fuck you, bitch." As soon as the caller hangs up, a brick smashes through her window.
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In Batman: The Animated Series, it's not a rock, but one of the poisoned Joker Fish that comes through the window of a predicted victim's home.
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In Rankin-Bass' adaptation of The Life & Adventures of Santa Claus, the villains, a group of troll-like monsters called Awgwas, throw a rock through a window of Santa's workshop tied to a note that reads "If you make one more toy, we're coming for you." Santa is undeterred.
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The Six Shooter: In "Red Lawson's Revenge", Red fires a bullet through the window of Dan and Mary's house; narrowly missing Mary and the baby.
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The Drew Carey Show: In the "Drew and the Singles Union" episode, some angry employees throw a Dilbert doll through Drew's window in a nod to the similarities between the two.
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Parodied in Cow and Chicken: the Red Guy uses bricks, each engraved with a single word (or sometimes two short words), to send a long message to the eponymous characters' house, with each brick tossed nailing Chicken in the head. Naturally, the house is a mess afterwards. It's pretty evident that Red isn't throwing bricks to catch the household's attention as much as he's sadistic and likes tossing bricks through people's windows.
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The Dry: After Ellie drowns, someone attempts to drive Aaron and his father out of town by throwing a rock through their window, and dumping a dead calf with its throat slit on their doorstep.
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In Mississippi Burning, the Klan sends a message to the two FBI agents by shooting a hole into the window of their apartment. Same happens later to Lester.
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In one episode of 'Allo 'Allo!, René is accused of being a Nazi collaborator. Someone throws a brick through the window of his café, with a note attached reading "Next time, our aim will be better."
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The Fairly OddParents!: In the episode "The Same Game", Timmy gets harassed by the narcissistic jerk dentist, Dr. Bender, including one moment where ends up getting three chattering teeth toys thrown through his window, though confusingly, they come out consecutively as "Teeth", "Stupid!", and "Big".
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Scary Gary: A rock with a note tied to it crashes through Gary’s window and Leopold assumes it's another hateful note for Gary from the mob of people who occasionally chase him, but it’s actually just a note from Leopold’s mother wishing Leopold a happy birthday.
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In The Amazing World of Gumball episode, "The Club", when Gumball and his family are having dinner, the members of the Reject Club send a brick with a DVD with their message about taking revenge to Gumball tied to it through the dining room window.
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A slight variant occurs in the The Legend of Zelda (1989) episode, "The Moblins Are Revolting". While Link is starting to tell Zelda about what happened earlier, a rock flies through a nearby windowless archway. It instead smashes a pitcher on a bookcase shelf right after he says, "Then from a window, I hear this crash—" ("Goodness! You certainly tell a realistic story!" —Zelda) The note is from Ganon's army of creatures (not just the moblins), who revolted against their master and decided to try and take over the castle themselves.
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Endeavour: In "Cartouche", racist thugs attempt to throw a brick through the window of a community centre helping migrant families, but it bounces off the toughened glass.
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In his first appearance in Spider-Man 2, the Vulture throws one saying "I shall steal the priceless jewel from under your noses!" He catches the jewel's handlers by surprise by flying out of a manhole and fleeing with the jewel into the sewers.
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In On the Run's sequel series "Kidnapped", a cement brick is thrown into the Falconer's house with the word "Payback" written in Magic Marker to warn them.
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Referred to in Strike Back, when Colonel Alexander Coltrane mentions pedaling 25 miles to throw a brick through the window of a superior officer he despised—"The man was a certified idiot". Though this seems to have been just to get back at him over his incompetent leadership rather than threatening him outright.
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Doctor Who. Played for Laughs in "Fugitive of the Judoon". Judoon Space Police are preparing to fire a temporal cannon at the house the Doctor is in, but first launch a Final Warning Missile; a glowing red spiky ball that smashes through the window and plays a recorded Countdown Sequence and some legalese which no-one bothers to listen to.
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The Wire: Randy gets a Molotov Cocktail through his window for talking to the police.
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Safehold: In A Mighty Fortress, Merlin chooses to deliver important information on the activities of agents of the Corrupt Church in Corisande to Sir Koryn Gahrvai via an envelope tied to a rock tossed by one of Owl's remotes through his study window.
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Shortly before Chrysalis Visits The Hague is set, Judge Mullan's window gets smashed by a hefty battery wrapped in a note reading, "Paardenneuker."note "Horse fucker" in Dutch
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Police Squad!:
An inversion: a window with a note attached is thrown into the rock garden. Later that same episode, the same criminal throws a rock with a note attached—except the note is a mime, who acts out the message.
In another episode, the neighborhood protection racket tries to send a message to the owner of a key store (actually Frank Drebin working undercover) by perforating the place with machine guns... and then throwing a rock through the window. Naturally, Drebin focuses on the rock and fails to notice the machine-gun fire. He later asks the forensics lab to find out where the rock came from and gets a geology lesson in response. Later on, Drebin confronts the mook who threw the rock, who starts giving the exact same geology lesson.
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The Ultimates: When Hulk arrives at the building where Betty is having lunch with Freddie Prinze Jr., the windows exploded from the impact.
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In The Hunt, Lucas gets a brick thrown into his kitchen window, supposedly by Theo, whose daughter Lucas allegedly molested.
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The Rowdyruff Boys throw a football with a note attached to it through The Powerpuff Girls' bedroom window. The note has the Ruffs challenging the girls to a football game. From the story "Anything Boys Can Do, Squirrels Can Do Better" (Cartoon Network Action Pack #1).
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The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel: Early in season 2, Joel is dismayed to learn his parents get their loans from loan sharks. The sharks' way of telling Moishe that it's time to collect is that they send some guys to break in and bust up some windows.
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In Lust for Gold, Walz threatens to shoot anyone who follows him out of the saloon. The saloon keeper says he's bluffing, only for two warning shots to shatter his window.
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Midsomer Murders: In "Send in the Clowns", one of the suspects receives a threatening note written in pig's blood tied to a brick and thrown through the window of their restaurant.
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Family Guy:
In the episode "Not All Dogs Go to Heaven", after the town discovers that Brian is an atheist, not only does a rock get thrown through the window but a CAR as well.
Double Subverted in "The Simpsons Guy", when a brick gets thrown through the window when feminists are outside protesting Peter's misogynist comic.
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In Small Gods, the barman at the Ephebian tavern doesn't like the philosophers to discuss religion, since it leads to lightning bolts coming through the roof with notes wrapped around them.
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Cold Squad: In "Janine Elston", ex-detective Tom Elston is harassing Wayne Corby, the man he is convinced murdered his daughter. On the day Corby is released from prison (for a different crime), Elston throws a rock through his window.
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In Ask a Policeman, a note tied to a rock is thrown through the police station window. Upon unwrapping it, Sgt. Dudfoot finds it is a flyer from the local drapers and thinks this is some new aggressive advertising campaign. However, on turning it over, he finds a note scrawled on the back telling him to back off or face the consequences.
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In Margin for Error, an angry mob throws a brick through a window at the Consul, narrowly missing him as he raises a toast to a bust of Adolf Hitler.
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