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* ''Converging from all directions'': Door panels coming not only from left and right but also from above and below. Uses even more space. Less common in [[Live Action TV]] because it is expensive to build on a set. A typical example is the "[[Dilating Door|iris door]]".
Note that while the first two traits are [[Tropes Are Not Bad|justifiable]] in most cases, the others are often a consequence of [[Rule of Cool]], with essentially no advantage over simpler designs.
This trope is mainly intended for high-tech door designs that are needlessly complicated and impractical. It usually does not apply when magic is involved, after all, [[A Wizard Did It|wizards can do anything]].
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** ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series|Star Trek the Original Series]]'' had a set whose doors (and corridors) were unusually shaped; it was reused, with different trim and paint schemes, for many episodes set on alien planets or ships.
* ''[[Babylon 5]]'': Many doors on the station are automatic and hinged at the top. However it is subverted on Earth where they have perfectly ordinary wooden hinged doors in most buildings. It would appear that the station needs doors that can be sealed in the event of a hull breach, which is not a problem on Earth.
** On Z'ha'dum, the automatic doors opened with the standard door noise. The shadows tried sneaking up on Sheridan by using a quiet door, but Sheridan wasn't caught off guard.
* ''[[SeaQuest DSV]]'': Played very straight, with lots of ''different'' doors and hatches. Going red alert on the SeaQuest includes closing all kinds of hatches, so they show this off a lot.
* Parodied in the ''[[Get Smart]]'' underground headquarters, with the veritable gauntlet of doors, hatches, etc. The already-bumbling main character has to go through them to get to work; [[Hilarity Ensues]].
* ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'': The scene right before the movie starts shows a hallway with various different kinds of doors.
* In the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' serial "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S6
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