History Main / BarrierBustingBlow

* In ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'', [[spoiler:Tex]] does this to [[spoiler:Simmons]] in an episode of ''Revelation''. While he's {{lampshad|eHanging}}ing NeverSplitTheParty, no less.

* ''Webcomic/FlakyPastry'': Marelle [[http://flakypastry.runningwithpencils.com/comic.php?strip_id=206 hides behind a wall]] while [[spoiler:kill-mode Prism]] stabs at her through it, the knife going through the wall.

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* Happens ''twice'' in ''[[http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/badidea Bad Idea]]''.
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* ''The Omega Key'': Subverted [[http://omega_key.comicdish.com/index.php?pageID=90 here]] -- the next page reveals that the person being grabbed just turns part of her body into spikes and skewers the character on the other side of the wall. (Ouch!)

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* In ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'', [[spoiler:Tex]] does this to [[spoiler:Simmons]] in an episode of ''Revelation''. While he's {{lampshad|eHanging}}ing NeverSplitTheParty, no less.

* There's an UpToEleven example in ''VideoGame/TheMatrixPathOfNeo'' after you get knocked back into the beginning of a later level it becomes a free-for-all of vampires exploding out of walls/columns to try and kill you. Also happens in a in-game cut-scene where a vampire bursts out of a wall, grabs Neo and they bust through a wall into a dungeon.

* In ''VideoGame/XCOMEnemyUnknown'', Berserkers have Bull Rush, an ability to run and punch straight through walls to attack an enemy. With lesser armors, this is enough to kill any XCOM soldier on the other side; after PoweredArmor and the [[DamageReduction melee-resistant]] Chitin Plating, the main danger is that it destroys the target's cover and leaves them exposed.

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* Batman does this twice in ''ComicBook/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns.'' The first time he hides under the floor, shoves his hand up through the floorboards, grabs the ankle of a nearby mook and pulls him down and probably beats on him even more. The second time he rams his arm through a wall (looks to be made of concrete, though the art makes it difficult to tell), pulls a mook through it, and beats him up more.

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* After ''Westernanimation/{{Mulan}}'' draws Shan Yu's wrath towards her, she closes the door between them... and then he punches a hole. Before a full-body charge that destroys the whole door. Shan Yu also later jumps through the ceiling to find Mulan in the rooftop.

* ''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead1968'' has this when Ben walks past one of the boarded-up windows and a bunch of zombie hands suddenly reach in at him.

** And the opening NightmareSequence in ''Film/DayOfTheDead1985'', [[spoiler:when hundreds of zombie arms break through a white wall to grab the female protagonist.]]

* Used in ''Film/RoboCop1987'' to get the drop of a hostage taker in the town hall. After determining the perp's exact position with his [[InfraredXrayCamera infrared vision]], Robo punches both arms through the wall, grabbing the criminal from behind and dragging him all the way into the other room.

* ''Film/AbbottAndCostelloMeetFrankenstein'': Glenn Strange's Monster punches through a door Bud and Lou are hiding behind, conking Lou in the head. Lou was ''supposed'' to stand on marks so Strange would miss him, but he kept forgetting. The director liked [[EnforcedMethodActing Lou's reaction]] and kept the take.
** In the earlier ''Creator/AbbottAndCostello'' film ''Hit the Ice,'' Bud makes a bet with Lou that, if they're standing on the same handkerchief, Lou won't be able to hit him, then wins by closing a door between them. Lou later tries the same trick on a hulking gangster...who just punches through the door and knocks him out.
* ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'' has the Nova Corps fighters link together and form a barrier to delay Ronan's approach on Xandar. Eventually Ronan uses the Infinity Stone to destroy most of them, eliminating the barrier.

* An interesting variation in ''Film/{{TC 2000}}'', where Matthias Hues's character flees Bolo Yeung's character and hides behind a big metal door, pressing his back against it. The latter remembers Newton's cradle (the suspended metal balls that transmit kinetic force between them), and uses a similar trick to deliver a fatal blow to the bad guy on the other side by punching the metal door. The door doesn't even appear to have a dent in it, but the bad guy collapses with BloodFromTheMouth.

-->'''Chakotay:''' The lifeform's [[SensorSuspense five meters away and closing]].
-->'''Kim:''' From where?
-->''(Alien smashes through the wall of the Borg vessel, knocking the humans aside like skittles)''

* A zombie in the music video for Music/LemonDemon "Bad Idea" does this through a ''brick wall''.

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-->'''Melinda''': Did you think seals were the only thing I could shatter with ease?

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* In the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' episode 'Legends of the Dark Knight', Batman does this to a mook in a sequence based on the aforementioned ''ComicBook/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns''.

* Subverted in ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHead''. After watching ''Film/{{RoboCop|1987}}'', the two decide that it would be a fun stunt to try. Butt-Head plays the criminal standing beside their door, while Beavis plays Robocop. When Beavis tries to ram the wall, he smacks it hard enough to knock some plaster off it. Butt-Head goes outside and complains to Beavis' unconscious (and possibly dead) body that he hardly made a dent.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' short ''Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Mouse'', Tom has accidentally fed Jerry a potion that turns him into a super-strong mouse.[[note]]Tom intended for the potion to fatally poison Jerry so he won't steal any more sips from his milk bowl.[[/note]]. To avoid him, Tom closes a door and tries to hold it shut, but Jerry breaks it down right over him (creating an ImpactSilhouette in the process). Afterward, Tom locks himself inside a metal safe, but Jerry drills a hole into the door with his fist and pulls Tom out through it.

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** Various militarys also employ this tactic when breaching a room, only their tools are typically a bit more lethal.

-->'''Chakotay:''' The lifeform's five meters away and closing.

* "Series/LostTapes": Happens in the Vampire episode

Sideshow performer Oofty Goofty seemed to have developed an immunity to pain after being coated with so much tar he had to be left on a roof for it to dissolve, and then falling onto a street. He then utilized his newfound resistance to pain by inviting the citizens of San Francisco to take a whack at him with a baseball bat for ten cents a swing. Worked out pretty well...until boxing champion John L. Sullivan took up the challenge and broke the bat over Oofty's back, fracturing three of his vertebrae.

* In ''Film/IronMan'', one of the villains gets pulled through a wall when he thinks he can hide from Tony.

* In ''VideoGame/PhantasyStarOnline2'', Buster Quests require the players to defend several towers in order to summon Buster Rams that can pierce the Arx Demonica protecting the main body of the [[LivingCastle Castrum Demonica]], which is otherwise impervious to attack. In the same quests, the Castrum Demonica may erect walls between the Buster Towers that make it difficult for players caught on either side of it to help one another, forcing them to slowly whittle away at the weak spots to bring the wall down. However, by using Dark Blast [Elder]'s "Punishment Knuckle" attack, the walls can be brought down with a single charged hit to the weak point.