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** Also he yells on the way down, because that's a long way to fall and he hadn't thought it through. Still able to shoot prefect circles into the floor while falling and screaming, though.
* Not a method of escape, but of infiltration: In ''[[Sonic X]]'', Tails creates a perforated circle in the side of Dr. Eggman's headquarters, which Sonic "punches out" with a spindash. ''Perf''ect!
* During the Alabasta arc in ''[[One Piece (Manga)|One Piece]]'', Miss Doublefinger uses her spike growing ability to punch a hole in the wall separating her from her target.
* In ''[[SoSora Rano No wo ToWoto]]'', in order to escape a building, the girls use their huge [[Spider Tank]] cannon to blow an opening in its wall... taking down the whole building with it.
* Wei in ''[[Darker Than Black]]'' uses [[Bloody Murder|his power]] to breach walls as needed, and once cuts a "trapdoor" in the floor under himself. Also, one Contractor operative in ''Shikkoku no Hana''.
 
== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Underworld (Filmfilm)|Underworld]]'' uses the "floor" variety.
** It was used as the example in [[Myth Busters]]. The movie used two 9 mm guns with one magazine each to escape; Mythbusters couldn't do it with over 350 9mm rounds fired by an MP5 submachine gun, even after using a 12 gauge shotgun to weaken structural support timbers. (After two guys worked on it for half an hour, including a great deal of stomping on the weakened section of floor, they broke through.)
** She does it again with the bottom of a rapidly descending elevator in ''Awakening''. [[Subverted Trope|Subverted]], ''[[Oh Crap|it doesn't work.]]'' {{spoiler|The elevator lands on her, but the bullets made the floor weak enough (and she's ''tough enough'') that it doesn't particularly bother her}}.
* In the 1989 ''[[Batman (Comic Book)|Batman]]'' movie, the Batmobile uses its machine guns to cut off the bottom section of a wooden warehouse door.
* In the [[James Bond (Filmfilm)|James Bond]] move ''[[Licence to Kill (Film)|Licence to Kill]]'', Pam Bouvier (the [[Bond Girl]] of the week) fires a shotgun at a wall and creates a perfectly round hole to escape through, rather than just pock-marking it with shot. Must be a mighty thin wall.
* In ''[[Robo CopRoboCop]] 3'' the main character, a cyborg weighing hundreds of kilograms and who has repeatedly proven himself able to smash through walls with no damage, wants to enter the room of a baddie. Instead of smashing right through the flimsy wooden door, he feels it necessary to waste many dozens of bullets (all [[Bottomless Magazines|without reloading]]) in shooting out his silhouette in the door, through which he then enters the room.
* Snake Plissken carves a hole in the wall with a machine gun as part of his ''[[Escape Fromfrom New York]]''.
* In ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]'', the weasels open Eddie's door by shooting a hole around the lock.
* As the heroes try to escape from a pursuing helicopter in ''Sahara'', they use an assault rifle to perforate an ancient rock wall so that their car can break through.
* In ''[[The Fifth Element]]'' Ruby Rhod gets an oval floor exit from Bruce Willis and the opportunity to ride the piece down one level.
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* Buzzsaw variation and subversion in ''Van Helsing''. Van Helsing is trapped in a heavy bell, and uses his buzzsaws to cut a hole in the floor. When Hyde lifts the bell to investigate the noise and sees the hole (which is too small for Van Helsing to pass through), it turns out that it was Van Helsing's plan to get Hyde to free him by hiding in the top of the bell.
* [[Dwayne Johnson]] does the floor variant in ''Walking Tall'', blasting several times with a shot gun, then kicking the floor out.
* In ''[[The Long Kiss Goodnight]]'', Charley Baltimore (Geena Davis) uses a submachine gun to shoot out a window to use to escape a bomb, then on the way down to the frozen lake below she uses it again ([[Bottomless Magazines|without reloading, naturally]]) to weaken the ice enough that she and [[Samuel L. Jackson]]'s character don't kill themselves by getting splattered all over the ice when they hit it. Not that falling three floors into the water is much more enjoyable, but that's another trope.
* The film version of ''[[Judge Dredd]]'' did this when Dredd enters the first room to take out the first group of baddies in a block war.
* ''[[Ultraviolet (Filmfilm)|Ultraviolet]]'' has a variation with an actual door: Violet uses a machine gun to shoot the hinges off a car door, and upon crashing the car into a subway entrance causes the door to go flying off.
* ''[[JasonFriday Xthe 13th (film)]]'' has a scene where Kay-Em uses dual automatic pistols to blast a rough outline around Jason in the wall behind them, then kicks him through it. At least in this case, Kay-Em is superhumanly strong and Jason has to weigh a lot more than an average human.
 
== [[Literature]] ==
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* Subverted in ''[[Phule|Phule's Paradise]]'': Despite gunfire leaving many holes in the wall, somebody has to open the door from the inside.
* Detritus uses the Piecemaker to do this in some ''[[Discworld]]'' novels (generally removing the door entirely rather than opening it). Since the Piecemaker is a modified siege crossbow, it's plausible.
* In a magical variant from ''[[The Long Dark Tea -Time of the Soul]]'', the Norse god Thor uses his flying hammer to bash through a floor to which he's been superglued by Odin's lackey. It smashes its way up and down through the floorboards until he can walk away unharmed, albeit with wooden splinters coating his limbs and back.
 
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* In the new series of ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'', Captain Jack and River Song make doors with a [[Applied Phlebotinum|sonic blaster]] (also called a "squareness gun") that can remove sections of wall and replace them with ease. This drains the batteries heavily though.
* ''[[CSI: NY]]'' featured a group of robbers breaking into the lab vault in this way. Done slightly more realistically than most of the examples on this page, involving a .50BMG sniper rifle (i.e. a [[BFG]]) and taking most of the episode.
* Done too, in all things, an episode of ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'' (it makes sense in context). Though rather than using a gun, they use something similar to the Real Life example below - a flat slab of directed explosives on wheels.
* In an episode of "[[Stargate Atlantis]]", Larrin used an energy gun much like Ronon's to melt a door through a wall in an Atlantean ship.
 
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* The boss Puppet from ''[[Odium]]'' introduces himself this way in a cinematic, by suddenly blasting his way out of a wall with a healthy dose of [[More Dakka]]. ([[Stationary Boss|And then, during the actual battle, he just stands there and doesn't move.]])
* [[Bayonetta]] shoots a heart-shaped one when she, Luke, and Cereza are trying to reach Isla del Sol after one of the security gates have been shut.
* The second-tier archery skill in ''[[Disgaea 4 a Promise Unforgotten (Video Game)|Disgaea 4 a Promise Unforgotten]]'' shoots a hole out from under the enemy this way. That's right, an ''archery'' skill.
* Technically doable with the destructible walls in ''[[Deus Ex: Human Revolution (Video Game)|Deus Ex Human Revolution]]'', although it takes a huge amount of ammunition and time as well as being very likely to alert any nearby guards, while Adam can get an augmentation that lets him punch straight through instead.
** Explosions are very effective at wall-breaking, but generally the only explosives that wouldn't be wasted breaking down a single wall are revolver rounds with the exploding ammo upgrade and possibly a frag grenade/mine. The aug is still arguably better because it [[Notice This|will point out to you hidden, breakable parts of walls.]]
** Curiously, you can also destroy doors with guns and explosives, but not with the wall-punching aug.
 
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* Pip in ''[[Sequential Art (Webcomicwebcomic)|Sequential Art]]'' tries it with an [[Energy Weapon]] ("[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=303 Well... It works in the movies]").
 
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Taken to the extreme by Purple Dragons of [[TMNTTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003|2003s TMNT]] in ''[[Turtles Forever]]'', when they hit the wall enough time, so 2003's Leo can drop the wall on them and their boss, Hun, during the rescue of the [[TMNTTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987|1980s TMNT]].
 
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