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[[File:There was a Door 7786.jpg|link=Ben 10: Ultimate Alien|thumb|400px|There's a door right there! A ''glass'' door!]]

 

 

 

Also often happens in the form of a fake out, where the audience is led to believe someone will enter through the door when the camera focuses on it, only to have them burst through the wall somewhere on either side instead.

 

{{examples|These examples don't know how to knock:}}

* The Kool-Aid Man. [http://misterkitty.org/extras/stupidcovers/stupidcomics81.html OH YEAAAAHHHH!!!]

** Also done in ''[[Robot Chicken]]'' multiple times in one episode. Interestingly, the protagonists of the scenes (who are the same two guys) are ''intentionally'' invoking Kool-Aid man even after witnessing his reign of terror.

** Dane Cook had a field day with this.

{{quote|'''Dane:''' [[Cluster F-Bomb|BEEP]] drinking out of him; if that was me, I'd be like, "You fix that [[Cluster F-Bomb|BEEPing]] wall before my dad gets home from work! He's gonna beat me with a belt; he's not gonna believe a talking bowl of fruit punch came in here."}}

** [[Atop the Fourth Wall|Linkara]] grows increasingly annoyed with this over the course of ''Adventures of the Kool-Aid Man #1''.

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lk3o-JvfTw *CRASH* "I'm not gonna pay a lot for this muffler!"]

* [[William Shatner]] does it by carving a [[Man Shaped Hole]] with a [[Frickin' Laser Beams|laser]] into a guy's living room in order to save him money on hotel discounts from his [[Beard of Evil|bearded]] [[Evil Twin]].

 

* ''[[One Piece]]''

** Garp bursts through a wall to beat Luffy's head. When his men ask him why he didn't use the door, Garp claims that his way was [[Rule of Cool|cooler]].

'''Kunō:''' Be silent, woman! }}

** Pantyhose Tarō also does this a lot in monster form—but then again, he doesn't ''fit'' the door.

* Shuichi Shindo of ''[[Gravitation]]'' seems to lose his ability to use doors whenever he is excited. This does not please Yuki. Nor is Tohma happy at the damages to his property when an exuberant Shuichi breaks down a wall to deliver his complete album. Yuki [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] this.

{{quote|'''Yuki:''' Learn how to open a door, you damn brat, I've just moved in here and you're already wrecking the place!}}

** Kenpachi loves this too, having busted through several walls and even a ceiling to get to where he needs to be. If he didn't, [[No Sense of Direction|he might never get to where he's going]].

** [[Dumb Muscle|Yammy]] does this so often there's a listing on his character page calling him Kool-Aid Man.

* In the second episode of ''[[Arcade Gamer Fubuki]]'', Mr. Mystery jumps through Fubuki's window to give her a card. He then jumps ''out'' another window to make his exit. Umm...

* Mr. Yotsuya of ''[[Maison Ikkoku]]'' frequently uses a log to break through the wall between his apartment and Godai's.

* [[Stuff Blowing Up|Rebecca Reed]] in ''[[Shakugan no Shana]]'' tends to blast through doors rather than opening them. Even in her own headquarters.

 

* ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]''

{{quote|'''Kitty Pryde:''' ''(exasperated)'' Classic X-Men style, guys: Never use a door when you can make one of your own!}}

** Note that the above remark is from someone whose power allows her to ''walk through walls''. On that note, while Kitty does phase through walls, she at least has the courtesy to phase through the door.

{{quote|'''Danger:''' I'm assuming that Breakworld technology never evolved doorknobs?}}

** In an issue, the X-Men are imprisoned in Murderworld. Cyclops faces three doors, and Arcade tells him one of them leads to life, the two others lead to death. Actually the three of them lead to death, and the only possible issue was blasting the side wall. Of course Cyclops does it.

* [[Superman]]: Super strong, super fast, can fly, is invincible, has X-ray vision, heat vision, can time travel, can't work a doorknob.

** He does it so often, in fact, that Jimmy once caught him with the "bucket over the door" gag by putting the bucket over a random spot in the wall, which Supes of course broke right through.

** And let's not forget our friend, Doomsday. He pretty much won't go anywhere, unless there's something in his way to smash to pieces. [[Justified Trope|Granted]] he's basically violence incarnate, so he may just smash stuff because he likes to.

* ''[[Fantastic Four (Comic Book)|Fantastic Four]]''

{{quote|'''[[Dr. Doom]]:''' The '''DOOR?''' Like a '''PEASANT?'''}}

* ''[[Sin City]]'': In his first appearance, Marv invokes this trope and subverts it... by running straight through a door instead of the wall.

 

* Lampshaded in the ''[[Elfen Lied]]'' [[Abridged Series]]:

{{quote|'''Bando:''' Thanks for the new arm and leg, but I gotta run! ''(jumps out a third story window)''

** This backfires a bit when {{spoiler|He revisits the first warehouse (Going through another wall of course) and finds the guy he needs to talk to has gone through the first hole and stole a car.}} Garrus's response to this? [[Tank Goodness|Borrow a tank from C-Sec]]

 

* In ''[[Megamind]]'', Megamind busts through Hal/Titan's apartment wall with his giant robot after waiting several hours for Hal to show up for an epic battle:

{{quote|'''Megamind:''' ''(after smashing through the wall and stomping inside)'' Would Metro Man have kept me waiting? Of course not! He was a PRO!

* Subverted in ''[[Over the Hedge (animation)|Over the Hedge]]''. The main characters escape through the door even though that's the only part of the wall left.

* In ''[[Freaknik: The Musical]]'', this is how The Perminator tends to enter a room. [[Catch Phrase|CRASH, bitch!]]

* [[James Bond (film)|James Bond]] in ''[[Casino Royale]]''. -- [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nN1zp6RIkqU&t=1m08s Bond smash!!]

* ''[[Superman (film)|Superman]]'' movies:

* Played with in ''[[The Kentucky Fried Movie]]'', when Big Jim Slade comes through the door. Not through the doorway, ''through the door.''

 

* Sorcerers in ''[[The Belgariad]]'' and ''The Malloreon'' tend to disregard niceties such as doors when irritated or in a hurry, frequently using their powers to blast through doors, walls, or in [[Chosen One|Garion's]] case in the second series, entire buildings, making this a crossover with [[Dungeon Bypass]].

** Garion makes a point of threatening the pre [[Heel Face Turn]] Zakath with a broken city when he finally decides he's been delayed long enough... and smashes through a few walls while going to make this threat.

** Harry does this by pulling a door outward (to avoid deadly shrapnel hitting those inside the building) in order to make a dramatic wizard entrance.

** Marcone, being [[Genre Savvy]], starts using cheap doors because of the regularity with which Harry does this.

* In one of the stories in ''If I Were an Evil Overlord'' (a collection of short stories inspired by the [[Evil Overlord List]]) the royal family is barricaded behind a magical door. The invading empress orders her men to tear down the wall instead.

* The agents of the US government have a perchance for breaking through random walls in ''[[Of Snail Slime]]'', regardless of other means of entry. As they so aptly put it, "Doors are for dorks."

 

* This happened at the end of the ''[[KYTV]]'' episode that spoofed the opening of the Channel Tunnel. A [[Running Gag]] through the episode was a reporter standing next to the tunnel, waiting for the first train to arrive. Which it eventually did, bursting out of the wall ten feet to the left of the tunnel.

* There is a ''[[Gilligan's Island|Gilligans Island]]'' episode where the title [[The Millstone|millstone]] dreams of being a swashbuckling hero. He breaks through the door to meet the [[Damsel in Distress|Distressed Damsels]], then closes ''a second door in the same frame'' and breaks through it.

** Frequently in the first season, instead of merely opening a door, Angel would kick it open dramatically (often breaking it). The recapper on [[Television Without Pity]] speculated that Angel just ''really hated'' doors. Sometimes doesn't quite work the way a normal person would use it. Being a vampire, he can't enter a home where he hasn't been invited. That's why he brings a human partner, who ''can'' enter an apartment uninvited.

** In one early episode, he bursts through a window... and later gets a bill for it.

* Glory, a big bad in ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', decided to make an entrance by ripping out the entire ''wall''. Relatedly, bad guys liked to smash through the windows all the time. Thank goodness Xander develops carpentry skills. Oddly, despite repeated instances, the windows are never armored. To his credit, Xander does eventually realize the futility of repairing windows that were smashed through on a weekly basis and just gives up. What makes it funnier? Once he gives up on fixing the picture window (which at that point was getting smashed in seemingly every other [[Once an Episode|Tuesday]], he just boarded it up with cheap particle board. From that point on, ''nobody ever tried to break into the house again''.

{{quote|'''Edmund:''' Baldrick, I advise you to make the excuse you are about to give, ''phenomenally'' good!

'''Baldrick:''' You said "Get the door."

'''Sally:''' I've come to check your phone. }}

* The intro to ''[[RoboCop]]'' the TV series shows various scenes from the show occasionally interrupted by someone trying to punch through a giant reinforced door from the other side. Finally, as the music reaches the climax, the last punch sends the door flying, revealing everybody's favorite cyborg lawman.

{{quote|''(tinkling sounds)''

* A variation of the trope occurs on an episode of ''[[Eureka]]'' when Carter retrieves a Nobel Prize by smashing the glass pane of a display case.

{{quote|'''Stark:''' It was open.}}

* Done on ''[[Knight Rider]]'' more times than anyone would care to count. Often justified in that there ''isn't'' a door, at least not one that KITT can fit through, anyway. But sometimes, even when there's a proper exit, walls are sacrificed for the sake of speed, or perhaps just because [[Rule of Cool|KITT busting through a barrier makes for a really awesome shot.]]

* In the 2006 ''Fox Volant of the Snowy Mountain'', martial artists Wu Yidao and Miao Renfen smash through three walls in a row when kicking off their [[Interesting Situation Duel]].

 

* ''[[Garfield (Comic Strip)|Garfield]]''

** There's one strip in which Jon calls Garfield to dinner. Garfield comes bounding up to Jon from off panel. Jon says, "I appreciate your promptness, Garfield...." and finishes in the last panel, "... but next time, OPEN THE DOOR!", revealing that Garfield broke through the (closed) door. Could be justified in that Garfield is a cat and can't work a doorknob, but....

** There's also one where he comes through the pet door, but gets stuck inside because he's too fat and thus rips the normal door from its hinges anyway. Also, he repeatedly kicked Nermal out the front door without opening it first.

** Happens in [https://web.archive.org/web/20110816003045/http://garfield.nfshost.com/1983/09/04/ yet another strip] when Jon yells "FIRE!" to test his pets' fire drill knowledge. Both run straight through the wall—or, rather, we assume they did, thanks to the hole.

 

* Attempted with the Shockmaster to hilarious results.

 

* ''[[Sesame Street]]'': [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anMadm6UG-E Did somebody say AIR?]

 

 

* Inverted in ''[[Max Payne (series)|Max Payne]]'', where in one in-game scene you [[Exact Eavesdropping|overhear]] two enemies arguing over a bomb they are about to place on a door so you set it off when you open that door. During their argument, they accidentally set off the bomb, killing themselves and blowing out the wall surrounding the door. The door is untouched, and remains resolutely locked, forcing you to go through the hole surrounding it.

* Due to [[Insurmountable Waist High Fence]], a number of games may allow you to break through doors, but never allow you to just open them. Some, such as ''[[Call of Duty]]'', have doors that can be opened by NPCs, but not you, or only unlock after a certain [[Scripted Event]]. May be used as a [[Dynamic Loading]] barrier.

** After solving the carriage wheel puzzle in ''[[Resident Evil 2]]'''s second scenario, Mr. X comes crashing through the wall. Then when you're back in the hallway, he smashes back through the same wall.

** If there is both a door and window into a building in ''[[Resident Evil 4]]'', you can ''always'' dive through the window instead of taking the door. However, this isn't usually a good idea, since an intact window will slow down Ganados for a second and give you an advantage.

* ''[[Pokémon Mystery Dungeon]]: Explorers of Sky'' has a Ludicolo and his team of Bellossom crash through the wall of Spinda's cafe whenever you win a jackpot at the lottery. Then comes the most hilarious [[Non Sequitur Scene]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWrMZNwziOQ Ever].

* In ''[[Metroid: Other M]]'', after getting his ass handed to him by Samus yet again, Ridley ends up so freaking scared of her that he crashes through a wall in a frantic attempt to get away.

** Order a Demolitions guy to blow up a weak wall?

** Get an Engineer to cut through a fence?

 

* ''[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/386773 Dad's at Work]'' is this trope.

 

* In the ''[[Accidental Centaurs]]''/''[[The Wotch]]'' [[Crossover]], Robin [http://classic.accidentalcentaurs.com/?op=display&iid=20041083&ep=4 announces his desire to smash through the wall]{{Dead link}} instead of using the window. Of course, the hole he made wasn't big enough.

* ''[[Bard]]'': One time we see Roby the Biker crash into the front door of the Leafy Bar, just narrowly avoiding slamming into Vas. The rest of that day, the bar had a gaping hole that needed repairs.

* Parodied in ''Bear Versus Zombies'' when Bear scares Jack the rabbit's children, prompting the entire survival group to crash through each and every window in the house one at a time to attack Bear, much to Jack's dismay, and ending in Bear leaving by crashing through the wall in disgust. Despite the fact the front door was open.

* In ''[[Beyond the Canopy]]'', there is a window in the room, but it's too low for Chief Redwood. So he enlarges it. With his fists.

* ''[[Dominic Deegan]]''

{{quote|'''Siegfried:''' DOMINIC DEEGAN! I REQUIRE YOUR ASSISTANCE!... You, however, require a new door.}}

* In [[Gunnerkrigg Court]], {{spoiler|the robot resurrected by Kat}} crashes through a wall looking for {{spoiler|Jeanne's "tomb."}} As usual, this is [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] by Tom in [[The Rant]]:

{{quote|"Free door!"}}

** It occurs [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0386.html here] three times in the same scene, with the [[Rule of Three|third one]] being much more unexpected and [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]].

** In the prequel ''Start of Darkness'', Xykon, after being transformed into a lich, kicks off his [[Look What I Can Do Now!]] sequence by surprising Lirian this way.

* In ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'', Raven calls Noah out on this once when he [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2011-03-23 pops up to talk to him through an air vent] [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2011-03-25 and then asks for help exiting the same way].

* From the ''Midnight Crew'' intermission of ''[[Homestuck]]'':

* Sal Walters, of ''[[Walkyverse|It's Walky!]]'', may as well be the [[Anthropomorphic Personification]] of [https://web.archive.org/web/20131018061832/http://www.itswalky.com/d/20070526.html property damage]. When she uses the door, it's usually [https://web.archive.org/web/20131011030134/http://www.itswalky.com/d/20030925.html as a melee weapon.]

* ''[[Oglaf]]'' has [[Assassin's Creed|yet another assassin]] [http://oglaf.com/stealth-kill/ climbing] the castle wall. Never mind the gate's open.

 

* Agent Delacroix in the [[SCP Foundation]] tale [https://web.archive.org/web/20110812091652/http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/pulsar-chapter-3-the-trail Pulsar]. He was delivering flash drives.

* Narrowly averted in ''[[Suburban Knights]]''. One of the teams breaks into a stranger's house and realizes the [[Mr. Exposition|Voice of the Ancients]] that they've been looking for is under the floor. They nearly start ripping it up until the woman they tied up points out that there's a basement.

 

* Rainbow Dash of ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' likes to do this every so often, bursting in from windows or dropping through the roof.

* ''[[G.I. Joe]]'', during the "Arise Serpentor, Arise" arc. In his attempt to arrest every one of his treacherous underlings, Cobra Commander blows up a perfectly functional door in order to make a flashy entrance.

** Referencing ''[[One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest|One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest]]'', there's a scene where an elderly Native American man dramatically throws a water fountain through the window and jumps out, prompting the Old Jewish man to yell after him. Later in the scene, the man throws the fountain back through ''another'' window and jumps up again because he forgot his hat.

{{quote|"You know, the door was ''open'', [[The Nicknamer|Chief Break-Everything]]!"}}

{{quote|'''Moe:''' He ''really'' needs a girlfriend.}}

* In an episode of ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'', the now-addleminded Baxter walks through the wall five feet to the left of the door to April's office. April manages to trick him into leaving. When he realizes this and comes back, he walks past the hole he made earlier, past the door, and breaks through the wall on the other side.

* In the Imaginationland trilogy of ''[[South Park]]'', this becomes a [[Running Gag]], with Cartman always breaking through the window in the room, in a different spot if necessary.

* In the ''[[Freakazoid!]]!'' episode "Dexter's Date", Freakazoid crashes through a wall full of TV monitors while trying to stop the Lobe. The Lobe immediately scolds him for causing damage and not using the door instead.

* In the ''[[Legion of Super-Heroes (TV series)|Legion of Super Heroes]]'' episode "The Man from the Edge of Tomorrow; Part 2", Kell-El flies up through the roof, leaving Superman to look through the resultant hole and remark, "I'm guessing they don't have doors in the future." (Kell-El is from the 41st Century.)

** There is one episode where Billy repeatedly exits his home by breaking through the doors and windows. He doesn't stop until he realizes, in dismay, that he's broken through them all. At which point he's trapped, as apparently leaving through the holes was completely out of the question. Then again, this IS [[Too Dumb to Live|Billy]] we're talking about...

** And after that, he ''does'' leave through the door, so that he can go to his friend's house ''and jump through '''his''' window!!''

'''Bizarro:''' Okay.

''(smashes door to pieces)'' }}

* An early ''[[Justice League (animation)|Justice League]]'' episode "Injustice For All" [[Narm|ruins]] a [[Big Damn Heroes]] moment when five of the heroes bust into the villains' lair. Hawkgirl breaks down the door, Superman breaks the wall next to the door, and Green Lantern goes through the window next to the hole Superman made.

* An episode in ''[[Danny Phantom]]'' has Jack and Maddie bursting through a wall in order to ask Sam and Tucker if they had seen their son. They leave by busting open ''another'' part of the same wall. Knowing this to be a common occurrence, Maddie disappointingly tells Sam to send the bill their way.

* Virtually no-one in ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'' can be bothered to use doors. They just break through windows, walls, and even the ''doors themselves''! It's made even funnier by the fact that most of the doors open '''automatically'''.

* In ''[[Superjail]]'', Jailbot only appears by crashing through walls, ceilings and even doors themselves. He'll inevitably destroy anything and everyone in his way, flying in a straight line with a wicked grin on his LED face. He will [[Disproportionate Retribution|create far more chaos catching Jacknife than the small-time crook created in getting Jailbot's attention.]]

** The Forever Knights blast a hole in a building where Ben is signing autographs despite a double door being not three feet from one side of the hole. They apparently felt that they needed to enter in formation.

** Reference in a later episode when bad guy Agregor crashes through the ceiling...twice. The second leading a rather annoyed Kevin to tell him there's a door.

{{quote|'''Guard:''' What the ''hell'' are you doing? You can use the ''door'', you ''work here!''

'''Coroner Rick (hands covered in his blood):''' I know, I know! Dumb idea.\\'''' }}

* In the ''[[Regular Show]]'' episode "Jinx": after Rigby locks the door to escape [[Mirror Universe|Ybgir]], Mordecai says that won't do any good- there's a big hole in the wall from when Ygbir escaped.

 

* Played straight by several business owners in the 2011 [[Stargate City|Vancouver]] [[wikipedia:2011 Vancouver Stanley Cup riot|Stanley Cup riot]], when rioters broke windows to enter stores to loot them.

* Police and military units will often avoid using the front door of a target building, to gain the element of surprise and to avoid the chance that whoever's on the inside is aiming right at the door with a finger on the trigger.

** Standard practice in urban warfare is called mouse-holing: cutting (or blasting) a hole to move from room to room and building to building. As often as not, this is done because the needs of the military are different than the needs of the previous occupant, and [[Averted Trope|so there actually wasn't a door]].

*** Also, in a fortified building there is a good chance that the occupants have [[Booby Trap|boobytrapped]] any obvious entrances. Making your own entrance is not only the quickest, but also the safest, option.