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The [[Speculative Fiction]] version is shooting [[Destruction Equals Off Switch|the control panel]] for the automatic door or force field, or [[Force Field Door|automatic force field door]]. While there are doors that "fail safe" or "fail open" when power is cut, in fiction this is always coincidentally whichever the shooter and/or plot requires. (Note to villains: The [[Evil Overlord List]] recommends rigging yours to reverse this.)
[https://web.archive.org/web/20131104042508/http://www.theboxotruth.com/docs/bot5.htm Tested on ''The Box O'Truth''.]
Not to be confused with [[Thrown Out the Airlock|getting shot out of an airlock.]]
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* Spoofed in the ''[[Discworld]]'' novel ''Guards! Guards!'', where Captain Vimes orders Sergeant Colon to shoot the lock off a gate...while Colon is armed with a crossbow.
** Detritus later gets a siege crossbow called the 'Piecemaker' which can shoot out the lock...and the door...and the surrounding wall...and just about anything else in a 270-degree arc.
* There was a sci-fi book once where the variant seen in Star Wars - shooting it to keep it closed - was attempted, but it just jammed the door into "open". Don't remember the title, though.{{verify}}
* Lampshaded and averted in ''[[Sharpe]]'' - someone suggests shooting open a lock, but Sharpe points out that all it does is mangle the levers and make it worse. He does play it straight once, but in a way that would work. He shoots the door in. ''[[No Kill Like Overkill|With a cannon]].''
** Played straight in the TV series.
* A character in the ''Island'' series of
* The first ''[[Doom]]'' novel had the hero, as in the game, looking for many keys. The important thing was, blasting open a locked door was entirely possible, given his sci-fi ammunition, it was just that he preferred to save the bullets for the horrible monsters intending to eat him.
* Averted: When faced with a padlocked gate in ''[[The Bourne Supremacy]]'', Jason Bourne noted how useless shooting the lock would be, resulting in only shrapnel and wasted bullets. Instead, he cuts through the fence a discreet distance to the side.
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*** Which doesn't make much sense unless the Wraith use special materials in their locks, as the 5.7x28mm round used in the P90 is specially designed to defeat high-quality armor.
** An earlier SG-1 episode manages to avert this, when an NID agent uses a machine pistol on full auto to shoot ''around'' a lock, completely separating it from the rest of the door (and he actually reloads afterward, for bonus verisimilitude).
* Both subverted and used (almost) correctly in the ''[[Firefly (TV series)|Firefly]]'' episode "Ariel." Jayne attempts to shoot out a lock with a futuristic stun gun, resulting in total indifference on the part of the door (stun rifles aren't really designed to blow out locks anyway). However, {{spoiler|Mal's shotgun does a much better job at shooting out the lcok, doing substantial damage to the door itself}}.
* In the ''[[Chuck]]'' episode "Chuck Versus the Marlin," Casey shoots open the lock to free Sarah who had been locked in a freezer by an enemy spy.
* Kate successfully shoots a padlock in the ''[[Lost]]'' episode "Eggtown."
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