Crash in Through the Ceiling - TV Tropes

"Nice entrance. Either you've never heard of a door or you just like pulling glass out of your shorts."

• JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: In JoJolion, Ojiro Sasame attacks Josuke by having his Fun Fun Fun enter an attack from above through the ceiling in an apartment room.
• A Certain Magical Index: Misaka Mikoto is thrown through the roof of the the Anti-Art Attachment storage room by her enemies, and uncovering the weapon that she uses to save Touma from Kihara Yuiitsu.
• In Saint Seiya, The Bronze Saints enter Hades' Castle through its ceiling.
• Usagi-chan de Cue!!: The Public Welfare Board uses a helicopter to drop a huge crate through the skylight of a shopping mall. Inside is Dekao, rebuilt yet again into a Giant Mecha on tank treads. This is his fourth try to eradicate Inaba Mikami and his first at slaying Nekoi Koshka.
• Fruits Basket: Kyo first appears by crashing through the ceiling of the Sohma house, eager to fight Yuki.

• You'll find many covers of Batman crashing his way through skylights.
• In one X-Men continuity, Kitty Pryde, who had just manifested her Intangibility powers, had a habit of accidentally phasing through the floors and ceilings of all the apartments below her, sometimes leading to Interrupted Intimacy for people whose bedrooms she fell through.

• Inverted in The Incredibles: Syndrome tries to escape with Jack-Jack by flying out through the ceiling he just blew a hole into.
• Deconstructed in Killer Bean Forever: The titular bean crashes through a warehouse skylight onto a table some mooks are loitering around. After landing, he lets out a yell of pain and finds shards of glass stuck in his boots.
• Oliver & Company has the homeless kitten pursue the crafty Dodger to Fagin's derelict boat. Oliver spies on Dodger and his cohorts through a hole in the roof. Suddenly, Oliver's patch of roof buckles, dropping this kitten and some canvas into the middle of the cabin, startling the five dogs.

• Batman Film Series:
  • Batman: Batman famously rescues Vicki Vale from the Joker by dramatically entering through the skylight.
  • Batman Forever: Batman crashes the party being thrown by Edward Nygma this way after it's already been crashed by Two-Face.

    Riddler, to Two-Face: Your entrance was good... his was better.

• The Batman (2022): In the climax, Batman literally gets the drop on the Riddler's goons by blowing up the glass dome roof of Gotham Square Garden and leaping into the rafters from above.
• Beethoven: George breaks through the crystal ceiling of the warehouse, right when Dr. Varnick and his goons are about to kill Beethoven.
• The Blacksheep Affair, Dong, The Lancer, arrives to reinforce the good guys at the embassy by making a hole in the roof and Fast-Roping through, firing away at terrorists left and right via machine gun.
• The Boondock Saints: The protagonists try a "Mission: Impossible" Cable Drop, but get lost in the vents and get into a fight, leading to the vents giving way and sending them crashing right through the ceiling — fortunately enough, right into the room with the Russian mob dudes they were there to kill. As they fall, they get tangled in their rope...and still manage to kill every Russian mob guy in the room as they spin about upside down. This is how Agent Smecker deduces that the brothers are amateurs who most likely got the idea through bad television.

  Agent Smecker: Television...television is the explanation for this. You see this in bad television. Little assault guys crawling through the vents, coming in through the ceiling — that James Bond shit never happens in real life! Professionals don't do that!

• The Breakfast Club: John Bender escapes from the library closet he was locked in by getting into the dropped ceiling and crawling through it... only to fall through it half-way and crash into the library.
• Deep in the Valley: Diamond Jim sends Carl and the video booth back to the real world with a click of his fingers. They appear in real world above Carl's house and smash in through the ceiling of the living room. Later, Carl is laying in bed when he sees Lester on TV. Lester snaps his fingers and Bambi disappears from the screen. A few seconds later, Carl realises the significance of this and rolls off the bed just before Bambi smashes through the ceiling and lands on the bed where he had been lying.
• Doctor in the House (1954): After helping Nurse Gibson get into the nurses' home after hours via the roof, Simon attempts to get back down to the ground, only to fall through a skylight and land in Sister Virtue's room.
• The Game (1997): Nicholas's really weird day culminates with crashing a party by dropping through a glass ceiling into a crowded ballroom. Luckily for him, there's a big airbag below to catch him and the party turns out to be in his honour.
• Marvel Cinematic Universe:
  • Iron Man: One of Tony's armor test flights ends with him crashing through the roof, wrecking a sports car and a piano before ending up in his basement workshop.
  • Iron Man 2: Tony and Rhodey's fight during the former's birthday party leads to them to crashing through the ceiling of the kitchen.
  • Avengers: Infinity War: Wanda and Vision flee from the Black Order by crashing through the glass roof of Waverley Station, and their pursuers follow the same way. Then the Black Order leave that way, too.
• The Naked Gun 2½: Frank is chased across a rooftop by a guard dog, and accidentally crashes into the villains' hideout via the skylight.
• X-Men: The Last Stand has a shot where the Juggernaut throws Wolverine up through the ceiling to the second floor, then he drops back down in the living room again crashing through the ceiling.
• In Zoltan, Hound of Dracula, Zoltan chews through the shingles on the roof of the fishing cabin, and then crashes through the ceiling to land on top of Michael and Inspector Branco.

• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: To make it simpler to collect the Bucket family, and their double bed which won't go through the door, Mr Wonka crashes the Great Glass Elevator through the roof of the Buckets' house.
• Kadingir: In The Shapla Case, the leaders of every race in Ki meet in an unprecedented symposium to discuss how to tackle a planetary crisis. Mistrust and a very recent war makes it a tense situation, and it doesn't help that King Vizvi comes in crashing through the great ceiling dome for no particular reason other than the fact that being an Attention Whore goes with his job description.
• The Running Gag of the children's book No Jumping On The Bed. Young Walter lives near the top floor of a high-rise apartment block, and when he jumps on his bed, it crashes through the floor, and through the next floor, taking the occupants of each floor with him.
• Old Couple Plants Taro: The old couple hides in the attic when the monkey search for them. The attic breaks and falls down with couple, chasing the monkeys away.

• Arrow:
  • Oliver Queen first meets the Black Canary when he's surrounded by a SWAT Team, only for the Canary to smash through an overhead skylight, then break every other sheet of glass in the room using her sonic device so she and Oliver can jump out the window while everyone else is clutching their ears in pain.
  • In "Three Ghosts", Oliver saves Roy Harper by blasting a hole in the ceiling and Fast-Roping through the hole.
  • In Season 6, Oliver is on trial for being the Arrow, so an Identity Impersonator does a Big Entrance by crashing through the courtroom's skylight to further sell the idea that he's the real Green Arrow.
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer: An accidental version in the fourth season premiere, when Buffy spies on the vampire antagonists through the glass ceiling of their lair. The glass, however, can't support her weight and she falls in their midst.
• The Defenders (2017). The episode "Take Shelter" opens with the leaders of the Hand and their henchmen piling into vehicles and racing off to attack our heroes at the Royal Dragon restaurant, except for Murakami who just takes out a baton and jumps through the skylight to take them on singlehanded.
• Doctor Who:
  • "The End of Time". It was the quickest way for the Doctor to jump from a low-flying spacecraft into the room he had to be in as quickly as possible. It really hurt.
  • Also near the start of "The Woman Who Fell to Earth" when the Doctor crashes through the roof of a train having being thrown out of the TARDIS. Her ongoing regeneration stops her getting hurt.
• Hawkeye (2021). Subverted when Kate Bishop tries to rescue Hawkeye (not knowing he's been Captured on Purpose). She smashes through the skylight into the midst of his captors, only to screw it up and land flat on her face, moaning in pain and surrounded by men with guns. As Hawkeye had been trying to convince his captors that Kate is not a superhero, it's Not Helping Your Case.
• Sesame Street: When Super Grover 2.0 hears an artistic pineapple crying for help, he crashes through the ceiling of the studio. He then apologizes for causing its destruction before helping the sentient fruit.

• ANNO: Mutationem: At The Walter Raleigh, the security warden engages Ann in battle after bursting through the ceiling above upon seeing her attempting to rescue one of the prisoners in the holding cells.
• One potential first appearance of the Scissorman in Clock Tower (1995) is for him to crash through a glass ceiling, with Anne directly underneath his blade.
• Devil May Cry 4: Seconds after Nero's Devil Bringer starts glowing, Dante crashes through the roof of the Opera House to shoot Sanctus in the face. Unfortunately, it's not enough to keep Sanctus down.
• Early in the Seattle section of the game The Last of Us Part II, Ellie is captured by enemies. Her companion Dina attempts a rescue by shooting down on the captors from a skylight, but in so doing she stands on the glass, allowing the bad guy to shatter it and drop her into the room.
• Shantae: Risky's Revenge: Risky crashes the Relic Hunters' Expo by going though the roof by hanging on an anchor that went in with her.
• In the prologue of Sly 2: Band of Thieves, Murray makes his entrance by smashing through a glass skylight with his Thunder Flop.
• In Sonic the Hedgehog (2006), Shadow needs to talk with Dr. Eggman, tracking down his base and eventually busting into his little lair through the metal ceiling. The game immediately lampshades how this appears to be normal business:
• Splatoon 2: At the start of "Octo Expansion"'s finale, Agent 3 bursts in through the glass ceiling to dive-kick Commander Tartar. Too bad she ends up unconscious and mind-controlled, despite buying agent 8 enough time to escape.
• Toward the end of the Moleville section of Super Mario RPG, Mario and company end up on a runaway mine cart with the missing Mole children Dyna and Mite in tow. Their ride ends when the track does, and the cart is sent flying over Moleville, where Ma and Pa Mole comment that they have a feeling that someone will be "dropping in" soon. Sure enough, the cart comes crashing through the ceiling of their house.
• Subverted in an early stage of Zombie Infection, when Sharpe tries to infiltrate an adjacent house by jumping towards the opened skylight. He missed and made a hole through the roof instead.

  Sharpe: [getting back up] Ehh, close enough.

• Super Mario Bros. Z: In Episode 7, Mecha-Sonic crashes through the top of the cave in an attempt to kill Sonic until Mario quickly pushes him out of the way.

• Arcane: At the start of Season 2, the Chemtanks dramatically interrupt the memorial service by crashing through the ceiling.
• Darkwing Duck: In "Darkly Dawns the Duck", Darkwing falls through a hangar ceiling during the opening chase with Bulba. He gets accosted by the owner, Launchpad McQuack, who believes he's a thief after his planes before recognizing him.
• DC Animated Universe:
  • An episode of Batman: The Animated Series has Batman and Robin smash through a glass ceiling. Joker's response to them provides the page quote.
  • In Superman: The Animated Series episode "World's Finest", Batman makes his entrance by crashing through the ceiling of a strip club in Metropolis.
• Megas XLR: The R.E.G.I.S. attacks a mini-mart by crashing through the ceiling and demanding the citizens to not panic before firing off his weapons.