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== Anime ==
* In an episode of ''[[
* In ''[[One Piece]]'', Franky goes to the trouble of finding the keys to Caimie's [[Explosive Leash]], only to discover Rayleigh has already removed it by detonating it and pulling it off before the explosion reaches Caimie
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* During John Byrne's run on ''[[Fantastic Four]]'' there was a notable [[The Avengers (Comic Book)|Avengers]] crossover involving the return of [[X
== [[Film]] ==
* In ''[[Terminator 2]]'', Arnie punches through a car window then hot wires the car. John Connor flips down the windshield visor to reveal the keys. Arnie actually learns from this experience -- the second time he's required to steal a car, he gets in and flips down the visor. Boom! Keys.
* In ''[[The Matrix Reloaded]]'', Trinity is on a motorcycle with the Keymaker and asks for a download on how to hotwire vehicles, only to have her passenger hand her a key. Both convenient and [[Justified Trope|justified]], as the Keymaker is [[Exactly What It Says
* From ''[[Two Fast Two Furious]]'': One of the protagonists smashes a car window with his shirt covered fist. His partner stops him and simply opens the already unlocked door.
* A variant in ''[[A Muppet Christmas Carol]]'': Rizzo very reluctantly climbs up a gate and jumps off, and then, realising he's left his jellybeans behind, ''slips through the bars'' to get them.
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'''Gonzo''': You're an idiot.<br />
'''Rizzo''': What? Hey, ''what''? }}
* In ''[[The Bourne Series (
* In ''[[Black Mask]]'', at one point the [[Badass Normal]] police detective manages to handcuff a [[Super Soldier]] who feels no pain to a bar. The super soldier immediately and without hesitation ''cuts off his own hand''. The detective stares at him for a second and then (in the English dub at least) says "[[Crowning Moment of Funny|Damn. I had the key.]]"
* In ''Bachelor Party'' the hotel manager instructs the security guys to break down the door, then tells them wait, and unlocks it with his pass key.
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* Played with in the ''[[Star Wars Expanded Universe]]'' novel ''[[X Wing Series|Starfighters of Adumar]]''. Wedge Antilles and his fellow pilots are on the run from the citizens of Adumar, and encounter a door. Wedge orders the lock shot out, but fellow pilot Hobbie simply opens the door instead--it was unlocked.
{{quote| '''Hobbie''': [[Lampshade Hanging|Worth trying]].}}
* ''[[
== [[Live Action Television]] ==
* ''[[Animorphs (TV series)|Animorphs]]'' - Jake and Marco discuss climbing a fence with barbed wire, then see Cassie standing on the other side of the fence, smugly waving the keys.
* In ''[[Scrubs]]'', Laverne punches and breaks the window of Turk's car to help Carla steal Steven. Carla screams and points out that she has the keys.
* In the first season of ''[[
* In the [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]] episode ''A New Man'', after Buffy has broken down the door to the magic shop:
{{quote| '''Riley''': You shouldn't have done that to the door.<br />
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* In ''[[
* It's nodded at in [[Knights of the Old Republic]], when you take a quiz to determine which class of Jedi your character will be sorted into. One question involves knowing that what you seek is on the other side of a closed door - the Guardian breaks the door down, the Sentinel picks the lock, and the Consular knocks.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* An [http://www.xkcd.com/530/ example] from ''[[
* In ''[[
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* In the ''[[X-Men (
{{quote| '''Beast''': Ahem...the guard's keys?<br />
'''Wolverine''': So I'll buy him a new door! }}
** Seven episodes later show why they don't bother with keys. When Rogue and [[Storm]] try breaking out Colossus, Rogue had the wrong key and simply ripped the door off the hinges.
* Nanny from ''[[
* Invoked in an episode of ''[[Generator Rex]]'' with an elevator door. The [[Non-Human Sidekick]] managed to press the elevator button before any breakage transpired.
* [[The Fairly Odd Parents]] do this when Timmy and Cosmo want to enter Cosmo's mom's house. After Timmy broke the door using Cosmo as a Battering Ram, Cosmo states that he still has the house's keys.
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