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A common variant is to have the tripper on a bike and be sent head over heels. Bonus points if the door opener leans out and delivers a [[Quip to Black]]. A cousin to the [[Offhand Backhand]].

 

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== Advertising ==

* An Australian car insurance ad has a guy trying to pick the lock on the car door. Suddenly, the door opens and knocks him out, before closing again. The hook was, "Unless your car can take care of itself, you should talk to us."

 

 

* ''[[Empire Records]]'' uses this trope during the scene where Lucas is chasing Warren after the latter was caught shoplifting. After finding different escape routes blocked by Lucas more than once, Warren finally finds himself apparently in the clear. He runs away down the sidewalk... right into the suddenly-opened door of the car in which Lucas was hiding.

* ''[[Hot Fuzz]]'' uses the bicycle version on a lady rolling down the street, [[Guns Akimbo]].

 

 

* An FBI agent drops a sex offender with this in the season 4 pilot of ''[[Veronica Mars]]''.

* ''[[Knight Rider]]'', featuring a car that ''can'' take care of itself quite handily, frequently featured variations on this trope.

 

 

* [[Denis Leary]] talks about this when ranting about cyclists in [[New York]].

* [[Jeff Dunham]]'s Walter puppet talks about running down a man who parks in handicap spots to "make an honest man out of him." When his actually handicapped mother gets out of the car to scream at him, Walter takes her out with the door.

 

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[[Category:Door Tropes]]

[[Category:Vehicle Tropes]]