Door Tropes

An index for tropes regarding those ingenious devices that permit people to walk through completely solid walls unhindered.

Only tropes that literally involve doors belong in this index: Heel Face Revolving Door, for example, does not. Not transdimensional portals, either; they have to be actual doors.


 * Axe Before Entering
 * Battering Ram
 * Bucket Booby Trap
 * Closed Door Rapport
 * Doom Doors
 * Door Dumb
 * Door Focus
 * Door Judo
 * Door of Doom
 * Door Roulette
 * The Door Slams You
 * Force Field Door
 * Ghost Butler
 * Interchangeable Antimatter Keys
 * Key Under the Doormat
 * Locked Door
 * Ominously Open Door
 * Oops, I Dropped the Keys
 * Open Says Me
 * Our Doors Are Different
 * Dilating Door
 * Script Reading Doors
 * Scooby-Dooby Doors
 * Skeleton Key Card
 * Slow Doors
 * Indy Hat Roll
 * There Was a Door
 * Toyota Tripwire
 * We Have the Keys