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[[File:the-shining-with-axe.jpg|link=The Shining|
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Compare to [[There Was a Door]] for when somebody's so impatient, they just break through the ''wall'' instead of the door.
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== Anime & Manga ==
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== Film ==
* 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
* ''[[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
* This happens in ''Prince of Darkness'' when the [[Sealed Evil in A 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
* Michael Myers from ''[[Halloween (Film)|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.
** In the remake, he likes this trope so much he even bursts through ''solid walls''.
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== Live Action TV ==
* Done in the ''[[Two Pints of Lager and A Packet of Crisps]]'' episode "When Janet Killed Johnny!" as a [[Shout
* ''[[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.
* In one episode of ''[[The Young Ones]]'', the students' landlord goes crazier, becomes an "axe-wielding homicidal maniac", and starts to hack his way through the door.
* 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.
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== Music ==
* A [[Shout
== Video Games ==
* In ''[[Zombies Ate My Neighbors]]'', the [[Friday the
* The Raincoat Killer in ''[[Deadly Premonition (Video Game)|Deadly Premonition]]''.
* ''[[Alan Wake]]'' has a direct reference to ''The Shining'' when Stucky slams an axe through the door Alan just ran through.
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