Here’s Johnny!

A common Stock Phrase, most often by a villain, to express upon entering the area of the target. Often times, it would include the destruction of a barrier, commonly a door, with an object such as an axe. Originally as a friendly phase on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson with “Here’s Johnny”, it was made popular and haunting when in the film “The Shinning” by Jack Nicholson. Since then, it had made it’s way into popular culture as a trope of all its own, with different names and/or words replacing Johnny.

Film

 * The Shinning: This phase was made famous in the scene where Jack Torrance takes an axe to the door in order to track down Wendy.

Live-Action TV

 * The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson: Trope Namer as it was a common phase spoken by Ed McMahon. It was originally phase as it was originally a friendly gesture, as McMahon introducing the host of the program.

Video Games

 * One of the fatality done by Johnny Cage in ''Mortal Kombat X, as he rips his victim from the waist, stating "Here's Johnny".

Western Animation

 * In the firth  Treehouse of Horror, "The Shinning", Homer chases his family and spokes a version of this phase. First, with the standard, next with David Letterman… only to be greeted by Abe. Third time, Homer was successful on finding the rest of the family.