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[[File:the-shining-with-axe.jpg|link=The Shining|rightframe| Jack Nicholson, putting the 'Ax' in '[[Ax Crazy]].']]

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* ''[[Outlaw Star]]'': Melfina shoots down Harry's requests to "go with him" and locks the door of the ship. Harry's pretty unstable and doesn't take it well. He bangs incessantly on the door but Melfina ignore his cries to let him in. Cue Harry shoving his fist through the door, and wrapping it around the throat of a surprised Melfina effectively pinning her in place and chocking her for a few moments. He releases her and opens the locks in a quick fashion, much to Melfina's horror.

* ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia (Manga)|Axis Powers Hetalia]]'': [[Yandere|Belarus]] has done this to her brother Russia once by literally ripping out the door handle.

* ''[[Mawaru Penguindrum]]'': Tabuki in episode 11. {{spoiler|Ringo's [[Love Potion]] actually ''works'' on him}}, but then he {{spoiler|starts acting like a frog ([[Hell Is That Noise|"ribbit" included]]) and making really horrible [[Nightmare Face|Nightmare Faces]]s}}... as well as when he also ''punches through a door'' to try and get {{spoiler|Ringo}} back inside, presumably {{spoiler|to rape her after she decides to not have sex with him.}}

* The [[Trope Maker]] and likely [[Ur Example]] is 1921 Swedish silent film ''Körkarlen'' (''[[The Phantom Carriage]]''). The scene in ''[[The Shining]]'' is a clear reference to this one, even if ''[[The Shining]]'' is what every following [[Shout -Out]] is to.

* ''[[The Shining]]'' is the [[Trope Codifier]]. Jack Nicholson, having gone [[Ax Crazy]], hacks through a door after his wife Wendy and shouts, ''"HEEEEEEERE'S JOHNNY!"'' In fact, there are likely enough parodies of this one scene out there to form its own [[Sub -Trope]].

* This happens in ''Prince of Darkness'' when the [[Sealed Evil in Aa Can]] infects several members of a research team. It sends them after the uninfected members, having them break through blocked/locked doors to do so.

* In ''[[The Man Who Knew Too Little (Film)|The Man Who Knew Too Little]]'', Wallace uses a croquet mallet to smash through a door. Naturally, he shouts "Heeeere's Johnny!" right after.

* ''[[Friday the 13 th13th]]'' - This trope is used in every movie, usually against the [[Final Girl]]. A machete against a closet door in the first film, a pitchfork against a kitchen door and a pickaxe against a shrine door in ''Part 2'', a regular axe against a closet door in''Part 3'', an axe that goes through the door and into someone's torso in ''The Final Chapter'', etcetera.

* Michael Myers from ''[[Halloween (Filmfilm)|Halloween]]'' also likes this trope. A particularly hilarious example happens in ''Resurrection'' where Michael simply ''walks through'' a reinforced mental-hospital door as if it were made out of cardboard.

== Live Action TV ==

* Done in the ''[[Two Pints of Lager and Aa Packet of Crisps]]'' episode "When Janet Killed Johnny!" as a [[Shout -Out]] to ''[[The Shining]]".

* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]:'' In the episode "School Hard", one of Spike's minions is trying to break down a door. Spike tells him to use his head, grabs him by the scruff of his neck, and uses his head to break the glass on the fire axe case beside the door.

* In ''[[Angel (TV)|Angel]]'', Wesley goes insane and goes after Fred with an axe. Parodied on the [[Hilarious Outtakes|blooper reel]], when the blade comes off the axe mid-chopping. Alexis Denisof, without missing a beat, continues... politely tapping on the door with the axe handle.

* Parodied in ''[[A Bit of Fry and Laurie]]'', when [[Bad Cop, Incompetent Cop|the two Special Squad policemen]] arrive at a woman's house looking for a suspect. Laurie's character begins smashing the door down with a sledgehammer, and Fry points out that it's unlocked and steps inside. Laurie answers that he didn't carry the hammer all this way just to turn the handle and makes Fry close it behind him so he can keep breaking it down, and even puts a couple of extra holes in it once he's on the other side himself.

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* In the pilot episode of ''[[Misfits (TV)|Misfits]]'', the psychotic probation officer uses an axe to bust into the toilet cubicle where his first victim is hiding.

== Music ==

* A [[Shout -Out]] to ''[[The Shining]]'' happens in [[PinkP!nk]]'s music video for "Please Don't Leave Me".

* In ''[[Zombies Ate My Neighbors]]'', the [[Friday the 1313th th(film)|Jason Voorhees]] [[Captain Ersatz|Captain Ersatzes]]es are able to destroy obstacles such as doors, just like the player's bazooka.

* The Raincoat Killer in ''[[Deadly Premonition (Video Game)|Deadly Premonition]]''.

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100728183820/http://braindead.snafu-comics.com/?comic_id=40 This page] of ''Brain Dead''.

{{quote| (Homer chops through door)<br />

'''Homer: ''' Heeeere's Johnny!<br />

(camera pulls back to reveal empty room)<br />

'''Homer: ''' D'oh!<br />

(Homer chops through another door)<br />

'''Homer: ''' [[David Letterman|Daaaaavid Letterman!]]<br />

'''Abe Simpson:''' Hi David, I'm Grampa!<br />

'''Homer: ''' D'oh!<br />

(Homer chops through another door)<br />

'''Homer: ''' (holding a ticking stopwatch) I'm Mike Wallace, I'm Morley Safer, and I'm Ed Bradley. All this and Andy Rooney tonight on ''[[Sixty60 Minutes]]''!<br />

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