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* In ''[[Ghost in the Shell]]: Stand Alone Complex'' Togusa suggests that he pick a lock, while Bato just kicks the door down.
* At the begining of the [[Filler|Bount Arc]] in ''[[Bleach]]'', Ichigo and Co are trying to get into their kidnapped friend's house. They consider knocking the door down but Ichida calmly picks it instead. Later when they need to get in again, they decide that they're in too much of a hurry but the door's opened from the inside before they can open it.
* In ''[[Busou Renkin]]'', during the attack on the school, one of the L.X.E.'s familiars is telling the students to throw things at everything in the courtyard (the homunculi are immune, the heroes aren't). To get through the looked door, Daihama [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|smashed it with a cry of
* In one chapter of ''[[Keroro Gunsou]]'', Momoka's [[Action Mom|street-fighting mother]] Oka circumvents the newly-installed set of heavy locks on the entrance to Keroro's [[Elaborate Underground Base]] by simply ripping the door open with her bare hands.
* In one episode of ''[[The Big O]]'', Roger is with his snarky [[Robot Girl]] companion Dorothy and they come to a locked door. Roger takes out a lock picking device he had stowed away, and gets ready to use it, but Dorothy just calmly pushes the door open and gives him a look.
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* There is a children's book about a band of thieves trying to break into a castle. The lead character, has trained for years and years by his master and is able to open any lock. After the first series of heavy doors, the group gets closer to the throne room, but the locks become more and more complicated. At one door, the character realizes he's faced with the lock his mentor had always warned him about: a hexagonal Devil Hole. He spends a good number of pages agonizing about his abilities until he realizes that the whole point of the Devil Hole is pure mindfuck: it's not a lock. It's just a hole. The door was open all along.
* When Hagrid comes to collect [[Harry Potter]] from the shack in the first book, he knocks the door completely off its hinges while knocking.
* ''#38: The Arrival'' from the ''[[Animorphs]]'' series:
** When Jake got a rhino morph, he became the official door-opener for much of the book. He'd often not even ''notice'' the door until he was in the process of smashing through it.
* In the David Eddings series Elenium/Tamuli, the queen is locked in a room. Mirtai, a warrior giantess, smashes through the heavy wood door easily. She comments that many old doors have wood rot after so long, making them fragile, subverting and discussing the trope.
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* On ''[[The Secret Saturdays]]'', Fiskerton is the family's designated locked-door opener or blank-wall smasher-downer, but the entire [[Badass Family|Saturday family]] except Zak seems capable of pulling off the same feat if required.
* In an episode of ''[[Thunderbirds]]'' Parker (an ex-thief) opens a highly sophisticated Bank of England vault using one of Lady Penelope's hairpins.
* In ''The World's Finest'' movie, Superman knocks down a door and then gives Batman a sarcastic "after you" gesture, to which Batman sardonically remarks, "You're learning."
* [[Popeye]] uses the exact line "Open Says Me" when punching a stone door open, in a cartoon inspired by the tale of ''Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves''.
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** The Flash has repeatedly done the "push every combination" method to open doors. Once Batman subverted it by telling Flash the combination after about ten seconds of rapid typing.
* Toph pulls one in the finale of ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' when she pulls a [[Shave and a Haircut]] and blasts the door out of the way on the 'two bits' with metalbending. Doubles as a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|C.M.O.A]].
* In an episode of ''[[DuckTales (1987)]]'', Magica de Spell magically turns the combination lock on her own safe, but it fails to open when she orders, "Open, says me!" She finally groans, "Oh, why do I bother?!" and smashes the safe with a sledgehammer she apparently just happened to have lying around.
* [[Playing with a Trope|Played with]] on the "[[Atlantis]]" episode of ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]''. Phineas attempts to decode the writing on the door leading to Atlantis, but [[Friendly Enemy|Buford]] simply punches the door, causing it to ''open properly''.
** In another episode, there was a door that'd only open if someone told how many jellybeans there were in a nearby jar. Buford ate them all and answered "zero". The door opened.
* Judging by the 1990's ''[[X-Men]]'' animated series, [[Blade Below the Shoulder|Wolverine]] really hates doors.
* The Amazing Mumbo in ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'' uses it as an incantation instead of the expected [[Open Sesame]].
== [[Truth in Television]] ==
* [[Averted]] in [[Real Life]], sort of: on ''[[
** In another episode, they demonstrated that it is quite possible to break through a standard door by force, even against deadbolts. The only reason the deadbolt held fast in the show was that Jamie had used a stronger set of screws than the standard; had Jamie used the standard screws, he likely would have broken through the door on the first try.
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