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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. |
* 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. |
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* 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 Hagrid comes to collect [[Harry Potter]] from the shack in the first book, he knocks the door completely off its hinges while knocking. |
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* ''#38: The Arrival'' from the ''[[Animorphs]]'' series: |
* ''#38: The Arrival'' from the ''[[Animorphs]]'' series: <small>'''Jake:''' <Too bad there's no door. Rachel? Marco? Ax? Make a door.></small> The three, being in highly powerful and destructive morphs at the time, proceed to bash the wall in. |
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** 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. |
** 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. |
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* 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. |
* 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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