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* [[All-Star Superman|Superman]] keeps the key to his Fortress of Solitude under the ''welcome'' mat by the entrance. But it's made of White Dwarf star matter and only he can lift it.
== Fan Works ==
* Parodied in the ''[[Team Fortress 2]]'' video ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aLjwVVNq4s End of the Line]''. Scout got into a freight train car, and tried to disarm a bomb inside, but was dismayed when he saw a lock. Then he backs up and sees that there is a doormat in front of the bomb (inside the train). Also part of the key is sticking out from under the mat.
== Film ==
* Doc Brown's laboratory in ''[[Back to The Future]]'' has one of these.
* In the movie ''Following'' a burglar named Cobb uses a key under a doormat to break into an apartment.
* Subverted in ''
* The second ''[[Terminator]]'' movie uses the "car key hidden in the sun visor" variant. Twice.
* In [[Alfred Hitchcock]]'s ''Dial M For Murder'', the key under the staircase carpeting is a [[Incredibly Lame Pun|key]] plot point.
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* ''[[A Fairly Odd Movie: Grow Up, Timmy Turner!]]'': Magnate's headquarters has the key hidden under the doormat.
* A deleted scene in the 2009 ''[[Star Trek (film)|Star Trek]]'' movie reveals that the young Kirk found the keys to his father's Corvette above the sun visor.
== Literature ==
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* One is mentioned in ''The Cat Who Went Underground'' by Lillian Jackson Braun.
* ''Mrs. Tiggy Winkle'' does this in the story by [[Beatrix Potter]].
* [[Discussed Trope]] in ''Mr. Bean's Scrapbook'', a tie-in for the ''[[Mr. Bean|Bean]]'' film, in which Mr. Bean easily finds the key to get into an unfamiliar house because "if you have the choice of hiding your key under a brick or under Kermit the Frog, which do you choose? EXACTLY". In a bit of [[Hypocritical Humour]], the appendix indicates that Mr. Bean ''also'' keeps his spare key under a model of a frog, albeit a photorealistic one.
== Live Action TV ==
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* In ''[[The Bernie Mac Show]]'', Bernie gets locked out of his house by the children in a hot day after he punished them and had the air conditioner fixed. With every door and window locked, the last place to look for is the key under the doormat. Brianna was sent to get the key, but was taken by Bernie and leads to a negotiation with the other two kids.
* ''[[Starsky and Hutch (TV series)|Starsky and Hutch]]'': Hutch keeps it on top of the door-frame. None of the repeated times the bad guys break into his place ever seem to convince him to stop doing this.
* In one episode of ''[[Studio 60
* ''[[Power Rangers Zeo]]'': When Rita and Zedd are fleeing from the Machine Empire, she asks her father if they can stay at his place. He agrees and says he'll leave a spare key under the mat.
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* The first puzzle of ''[[Maniac Mansion]]'' is getting the front door key from beneath the mat.
* Checking under the front mat of Lefty's in ''[[Leisure Suit Larry]] 1'' gets you a snarky comment from the narrator, wondering why you'd expect to find a key there when the door is unlocked.
* In ''[[Alone in
* Lara Croft finds the keys in the sun visor for the Jeep during the driving cutscene in ''[[Tomb Raider]] II''.
* In ''Rhiannon'', you're told outright that the key to the house is under a flowerpot. Note that the keys to everyplace else you'll need to unlock are well hidden.
* A key required for ''Return to Ravenhearst'' is on the front porch, under the ''cat''. No, you can't pick the cat up to get it, but bribing it with a mouse works fine.
== Web Comics ==
* ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' had [https://archives.sluggy.com/book.php?chapter=54#2008-01-30 a moment] when Riff "used the spare key we hide in the shed" ({{spoiler|it's a crowbar}}).
== Web Original ==
* In the [[Homestar Runner|Strong Bad email]] "50 emails", Strong Bad tells an unknown caller:
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* In the online flash game MOTAS, there is a key under a doormat. The doormat is on top of a grate for some reason, so after you accidently knock the key down you have to go down and get it.
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* ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'' remembers he keeps a spare key under his doormat after spending one whole episode stuck outside his pineapple.
* In the first episode of ''[[Ben 10: Alien Force|Ben 10 Alien Force]]'', Ben finds the key to the Rustbucket in a fake rock near the door.
* Bart did this in an episode of ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]''. In order to get into the locked school, he...yeah. Homer also did it it one episode TWICE, the first time to get into the nuclear power plant, the second time to get into the reactor! And furthermore, even the key inside the plant was hidden under a small rock lying on the pristine floor, potentially subverting this trope.
* In the second episode of ''[[X-Men: Evolution|X-Men Evolution]]'', Rogue accidentally touches a football player and takes his running/tackling skill and memory. And the knowledge that a spare key to his house was in the gutter above the door.
* There is a key under a doormat in an episode of [[Ned's Newt]]. On the doormat is a huge picture of a key and an arrow pointing to one corner of the mat.
* In the ''[[All-Star Superman]]'' movie the key to the Fortress of Solitude is kept under the doormat. Lois is bemused and asks where the big gold key (a staple in Silver Age comics) went. Supes remarks that the doormat method is more secure. This is because the key is made out of dwarf star material and is '''really''' heavy.
* In an episode of ''[[Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' where Scratch loses his memory and thinks he's Sonic's ally, he recalls that Robotnik leaves the key to his fortress under his "unwelcome" mat.
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