Axe Before Entering: Difference between revisions

* ''[[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.

* ''[[Hanamaru Kindergarten]]'''s 10th episode had a horror-style ending which used this trope, among others.

* ''[[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]]}}... 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]].

* ''[[Friday the 13th]]'' - 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.

** In the remake, he likes this trope so much he even bursts through ''solid walls''.

* In ''Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny, & Girly'', the titular family favor this type of dramatic entrance as one of the psychological games they play on their "friends".

 

== Live Action TV ==

* 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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== Video Games ==

* In ''[[Zombies Ate My Neighbors]]'', the [[Friday the 13th|Jason Voorhees]] [[Captain Ersatz|Captain Ersatzes]] are able to destroy obstacles such as doors, just like the player's bazooka.

* ''[[Alan Wake]]'' has a direct reference to ''The Shining'' when Stucky slams an axe through the door Alan just ran through.

* This is the main use for the axe in ''[[Mitadake High]]''. It's also the loudest sound in the game.