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{{quote|"[[Sarcasm Mode|Knock, knock!]]"|'''[[John Wayne]]''' after kicking down a door in ''Brannigan'' (1975).}}
There's a door the heroes must get through! But there's a lock (often involving a complex computer combination lock) in the way. Our heroes have to get past it, to get the weapon, or the artifact or whatever [[MacGuffin]] is important to the plot right now. They don't have a brilliant hacker kid like young [[Terminator|John Connor]] or mutant kid like [[Heroes (TV series)|Micah]]. Somebody tries to pick the lock, or to blow powder on it to see what the most used key combinations may be, or find some way to get the lock open before time runs out.
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.
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== [[Anime]] ==
* In ''[[Ghost in
* 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 ''[[Busou Renkin]]'', during the attack on the school, one of the L.X.E.'s familiars is telling the students to throw things at everything in the courtyard (the homunculi are immune, the heroes aren't). To get through the looked door, Daihama [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|smashed it with a cry of ]]'''[[Crowning Moment of Awesome|"DIE DOOR!"]]'''
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== [[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]].
* In ''[[
* [[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]].
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== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Sherlock Holmes (
* A numeric keypad doorlock is defeated by kicking the door open in ''[[Sneakers]]''.
* ''[[The Princess Bride (
* ''[[Iron Man (
* 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...]]
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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.
* When Hagrid comes to collect [[Harry Potter]] from the shack in the first book, he knocks the door completely off its hinges while knocking.
* ''#38: The Arrival'' from the ''[[
** 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":
{{quote| '''Mickey:''' Okay, no time to explain, we need to get inside the school. Do you have, like, I don't know, a lock picking device?<br />
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* 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 ''[[
** 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.
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== [[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.
* In ''[[
* In ''[[
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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*** 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.
* Toph pulls one in the finale of ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' when she pulls a [[Shave and
* In an episode of ''[[
* [[Playing
** 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.
* The Amazing Mumbo in ''[[Teen Titans (
== [[Truth in Television]] ==
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