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* 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.

* [[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]]''

** In one of the [[Spinoff Babies|X-Babies]] appearances (perhaps ''Excalibur: Mojo Mayhem''),{{verify}} there's a sequence where—of course—the door is not used.

{{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.

* [[Spider-Man]] tends to use windows to enter skyscrapers, but this Trope is lampshaded and Inverted in one story where [[Silver Sable]] has ''The Daily Bugle'' contact Spidey to ask to meet with him. Spidey decides to be direct, and goes to the office waiting room of the Symkarian Embassy as anyone else would; eventually, Silver comes out, upset because he's scaring away her appointments, and asks, "Don't you usually come in through the window?"

 

* 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.}}

* The opening credits of the second season of ''[[The Munsters]]'' starts with [[Frankenstein's Monster| Herman]] exiting the door to their house, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0drJKnYg5-s forgetting to open it first.]

 

* ''[[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....

** 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.

 

* Parodied by the [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] tag-team The Acolyte Protection Agency, whose "office" consisted of a door, a card table, a cooler full of beer—and no walls. Anybody who walked around the door to try and talk to them was admonished in this manner.

* Attempted with the Shockmaster to hilarious results.

 

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

 

* Musician Wendy Bagnell's "Here Come the Rattlesnakes" features a hypothetical example. Once, when performing at what turned out to be a church of snake-handlers, he relates his and his backup singer's reactions when the eponymous reptiles are produced:

{{quote|''I said, "Just take it easy! Don't panic. Just look around, and figure out where the back door is." She said, "I already looked, and there ain't none!" I said, "Reckon where do they '''want''' one?"}}

 

* 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.

* ''[[River City Girls]]'' (from the he Kunio-kun series); [[Dumb Muscle| Misuzu]] (the first boss) makes her debut in a cutscene where she crashes through a brick wall; Misako goads her by telling her to "Go punch through another wall until you figure out how doors work!"

 

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

* In the ''[[Helluva Boss]]'' episode "Loo Loo Land", Millie is so excited when Blitzo announces they're going to the eponymous amusement park that she smashes through his office door's window, even though Moxxie has already opened it.

 

* 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.

* Used, [http://www.antiheroforhire.com/d/20080915.html word-for-word], in ''[[Antihero for Hire]]''.

{{quote|He's only ''halfway'' through the wall.}}

 

* 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.

 

* In Season 4 of ''[[Star vs. the Forces of Evil]]'', Star broke into a place through a wall, and the person running it asked why she didn't go through ''the other holes she made during previous incursions''.

* 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.

* 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.

* The ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' short "An Itch of His Own" starts with the Mighty Angelo the Flea breaking down the door to his dressing room of a flea circus; inside he leaves a note to his manager that he's going on vacation, with a P.S. noting, "I'll fix the door when I get back."

 

* 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.