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{{quote|"[[Sarcasm Mode|Knock, knock!]]"|'''[[John Wayne]]''' after kicking down a door in ''Brannigan'' (1975).}}

 

 

And then along comes [[The Big Guy]] who just punches it in, smashes it with a rock, kicks it, blasts it with a weapon, or runs into it [[Use Your Head|head first]]. The lock gets crushed, sputters feebly, and the door obligingly opens. Occasionally you have a speedster or a robot picking the lock by blazing through all combinations faster than the human eye can follow.

See also [[Dungeon Bypass]] and [[Steal the Surroundings]]. Related to [[Axe Before Entering]]. The [[Subverted Trope]], where they bust down the door, and an ally notes they didn't need to, is [[We Have the Keys]]. And the trope wherein they could've used the door but smash through the ''wall'' instead is [[There Was a Door]].

 

 

== [[Anime]] ==

* 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 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.

== [[Comic Books]] ==

* Rorschach from ''[[Watchmen]]'' does this repeatedly, [[Running Gag|mostly to his friend, the second Nite Owl's, door]]. Of course you could argue he was asking for it using a company called [[Meaningful Name|Gordian Knot]].

* [[The Flash]] does this with the 'push every button until sparks fly out' method.

* A humorous version occurs when [[Mortadelo Y Filemon]] pay a visit to the President of the USA. A security guard goes through a number of scans and checks (iris scan, voice recognition, access code, etc.) to open a door in the White House, prompting Mortadelo to remark that "Security sure is tight." Then along comes the cleaning lady, who just kicks the door a few times to open it. Perhaps she is an [[Almighty Janitor]].

* In ''[[Sin City]]'', when Marv is locked in Kevin's basement, he simply runs head-first into the huge, thick, vault door until it eventually breaks down. The movie contained a slightly different escape.

* [[Doom (Comic Book)|The Infamous Doom Comic]]: [http://www.doomworld.com/10years/doomcomic/comic.php?page=2 Page 2]

 

== [[Film]] ==

* A numeric keypad doorlock is defeated by kicking the door open in ''[[Sneakers]]''.

* Used in ''[[Gone in Sixty Seconds]]'' when the hotshot [[Smart Guy]] tries to pick a lock on a small power box. [[The Voiceless]] [[Big Guy]] steps in and abruptly snaps the door open with a knife.

* In ''[[Terminator]] 2'', young John Connor tries to electronically hack a keycard lock with his laptop, to no avail. Then [[Robot Buddy|the T-800]] steps up with [[No Kill Like Overkill|a grenade launcher...]]

* 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.

** 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.

 

== [[Live Action TV]] ==

** In "School Reunion":

'''K9:''' [[Ramming Always Works|We are in a car]]. }}

** In "Battlefield", an extremely literal version of this trope:

'''The Doctor:''' Voice-activated lock; just the sort of thing I'd do. }}

* ''[[Sapphire and Steel]]'', episode 6:

'''Lead:''' It isn't now. }}

* In ''Warehouse13'' Myka has no time to wait for Claudia to hack the lock again if they're going to rescue Pete, so she gives the computer lock a roundhouse kick.

* On ''[[Criminal Minds]]'', this happens practically [[Once an Episode]] with Morgan. On a gag reel, they once unscrewed the door so that when Shemar Moore tried to kick it down, it merely fell.

** In recent episodes, Morgan hasn't kicked down a lot of doors because Moore broke his foot.

** In the [[Hilarious Outtakes]], [[John Barrowman]] actually kicks the entire door off its hinges ''on accident'' and tromps over it on his way into the scene. He manages to stay in character and continue the scene for about fifteen seconds before he cracks up.

* [[Subverted Trope|Subverted]] on one episode of ''[[The OC]]'', when [[Hollywood Homely|Seth Cohen]] ''attempts'' to break open a door in a badass way while talking on his cell phone... and fails miserably. It turns out he could have just opened it.

* [[Buffy]]'s habit of breaking down doors is lampshaded on a couple of occasions, such as when she breaks into the Magic Shop only to be told by Riley that [[We Have the Keys|he's got a master key]], or when Spike gripes at her habit of barging into his crypt whereas he [[Vampire Invitation|needs an invitation]]. Spoofed in "Grave" when Xander is seen hammering ineffectually at the type of crypt door Buffy breaks down on a regular basis.

* On an episode of ''[[American Pickers]]'', a man was just starting to get an old storage unit cleaned out.

 

== [[Tabletop Games]] ==

* Nearly everyone who played a tabletop dungeon crawl RPG has had this happen at some point.

'''Rest of party:''' *points at the barbarian* }}

** And the magic users have the "Knock" spell, or its equivalent.

== [[Video Games]] ==

* [[Ace Attorney|Phoenix Wright]] has something of a history of killing doors, to the point where even the judge admits it was pretty cool.

 

== [[Web Comics]] ==

== [[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 ''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''.

*** Rorschach was created '''because''' Alan Moore could not use The Question, along with the other Charlton Comics characters.

** 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.

** 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.

 

== [[Truth in Television]] ==

** 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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