History Main / BerserkBoardBarricade

* In ''Series/TheGoodies'', in the episode Bunfight in the O.K. Tearooms a random resident is seen boarding up his house from the outside. He jumps into a nearby barrel instead.

** In "Squid's Day Off", Squidward boards up his door with wood, chains and police tape to keep himself inside and enjoy his "day off" without running back to the Krusty Krab to check up on [=SpongeBob=].

* ''Film/{{Signs}}'': Amidst the alien invasion, Graham and Merrill board up every way to enter their house and it manages to keep the invaders out for a while.

* ''Film/TheMask'': After outfoxing the police officers that had been after him, the eponymous hero races out of the park, closes the doors, boards them shut, chains them shut, and for good measure, locks the door. He then turns around [[RightBehindMe to see the rest of the police force right behind him]].

* In ''Series/TheGoodies'', in the episode Bunfight in the O.K. Tearooms a random resident is seen boarding up his house from the outside. HilarityEnsues as he jumps into a nearby barrel instead.

* In anticipation of a typhoon, the Moroboshi family in ''Manga/UruseiYatsura'' board up all of the doors and windows this way. In Japan, storm shutters generally come standard on houses, making this RuleOfFunny.

* Piglet boards up his house very fast in ''WesternAnimation/BooToYouTooWinnieThePooh'' when he is afraid of Halloween monsters coming for him. At one point while he is hammering in the boards he [[SpeedEchoes moves so fast that he appears to be in three places at once]]. But immediately after he opens up his door to let his friends in without taking the boards off so he must not have done it very well.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsonsMovie'', Homer boards the door to his bedroom when the citizens of Springfield come for him, attempting to scare them off with a chainsaw... which he doesn't even have.

* German soldiers are seen doing this in ''The Bunker''.

* In ''Film/TheMask'', the eponymous hero races out of the park, closes the doors, boards them shut, chains them shut, and for good measure, locks the door. The rest of the police force is right behind him the entire time.

* Vernon Dursley does this in the beginning of ''Literature/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone'' in an attempt to stop Harry's letters from getting into the house. [[RuleOfFunny It doesn't work, of course.]]
* In ''Literature/TheMonsterAtTheEndOfThisBook'', a ''Series/SesameStreet'' [[Literature/LittleGoldenBooks Golden Book]], Grover tries to stop the reader from reaching the end of the book by making [[RuleOfThree three]] barricades. His first barricade is tying the pages together with a bunch of ropes, his second is nailing a bunch of boards to the pages, and his third is building a brick wall. [[NoSell Because they're all just illustrations in the book, they do nothing to stop the reader from turning the pages]].

* In ''Series/TheGoodies'', in the episode Bunfight in the O.K. Tearooms a random resident is seen boarding up his house from the outside. HilarityEnsues as he jumps into a nearby barrel instead.

* Barricading your house is essential in ''VideoGame/{{Darkwood}}''. However, the ''things'' outside can smash their way through eventually, and will do it for sure if they know for a fact you're inside the room, usually by noise or by light beams escaping through cracks in the walls and said barricades. Better watch where you put those lamps.
* In ''VideoGame/DontEscape'' you have to close off a window in this way to prevent your inner werewolf from escaping during the night. In the sequel, filling in a window with bricks and mortar is one of the things required to keep the zombie horde out of your makeshift shelter.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'', while not always using boards, one can build a wall very quickly to keep a monster away.
* Similarly to ''Minecraft'', the same can be done in its 2D counterpart ''VideoGame/{{Terraria}}''. Especially useful during the much-dreaded Blood Moons.
* This is how they try and keep the zombies out in ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty''[='=]s perennial [[VideoGame/CallOfDutyZombies Zombies mode]]. Indeed, it's such a fundamental part of the game mechanics you get points (to buy weapons) from nailing boards down and a power-up called "Carpenter" auto-repairs all windows in the level in this style at once.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Contagion}}'', the nailgun is an item "loaded" with wood planks and used to put up barricades on doors and windows. It takes a few seconds to put one up and they're more resilient than they seem unless it's only one against the full brunt of a horde. For players, breaking a barricade takes a good few whacks with a melee weapon if they don't have a nailgun, which can remove it instantly.

* Inverted in ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion3'', as the wooden boards blocking the hotel entrance are keeping him ''inside'' with the crazy ghosts that are out to get him.

* This is seen ''everywhere'' in both ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2'' and ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Nemesis''. They didn't work very well, if the hordes of zombies everywhere are any indication. You can take a stab at assembling one, yourself, in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilOutbreak'' by using a nail gun on some boards in the first scenario; it doesn't last long at all once the zombie horde catches up with you. Played more straight in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2Remake'' where barricading a window prevents more zombies from flooding into the Raccoon City Police Department and keeps you from having to waste ammo on them. Despite looking relatively flimsy, these barricades are permanent and enemies will never break through them.

* In ''VideoGame/UrbanDead'', characters can build barricades out of literally anything. In about one sixth of the amount of time it takes to stand up.
* Used a couple of times in ''VideoGame/DeadSpaceExtraction.'' However, you use metal scrap instead of wood, and your characters RangedEmergencyWeapon (a supertech rivet gun) to drive the nails. It goes up when being persued by a horde of lunatics, and comes down one level later when trying to escape [[OurZombiesAreDifferent necromorphs]].

* When professional monster-slayer ''Webcomic/{{Newman}}'' is forced to face his greatest fear ([[spoiler:a creepy clown]]), he chucks his family into a room, boards the entrances, and declares "This is where we live now."
* When the crew in ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' are attempting to barricade the door against zombies, they're foiled by that they're pulling the boards off the windows to nail to the door...

* Common gag in ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' cartoons, desperate characters may even resort to producing bricks and mortar from {{Hammerspace}} and adding a brick wall to the fortifications.
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/CampLazlo'', the Bean Scouts barricade the door of their cabin to keep the Squirrel Scouts out. However, in order to get the wood for the barricade, [[DidntThinkThisThrough they completely dismantle the back wall of their cabin]], allowing the Squirrel Scouts to get in that way.
* Done twice by the titular wallaby in ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife''

* In a segment from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''' "Treehouse of Horror III" episode spoofing the aforementioned ''Night of the Living Dead'', the family board up the windows in this manner, but when Marge asks Homer if he's boarded up the front door, he absent-mindedly mentions that he hasn't.
* Wakko Warner takes this trope a step further in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' episode "Temporary Insanity". In a bid to beat his siblings to the phone, he first shuts the door, pulls a steel gate in front of it, then a steel door, and then an elevator door! As a finishing touch, he adds a wall of bricks.

* When a priest on ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' sees a family playing "[[FictionalVideogame Humping Robot]]" he boards up the door and pours gasoline on the ground. [[KillItWithFire Before he throws a match inside]], he changes his mind and decides to join them.
** In a ''[[WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersofTheUniverse He-Man]]'' sketch, Evil-lyn and Beast Man board up the doors in Skeletor's castle after the three kill He-Man and fear the consequences.
** In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LGu1sOvxYs "The Twist"]], Creator/MNightShyamalan boards up his door after he finds his house on the moon and aliens trying to get in, and when one tries to reach under the door, cuts off its fingers with a kitchen knife. [[spoiler:Turns out they just wanted to borrow a cup of sugar.]]
* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Catscratch}}'' episode "Bringing' Down the Mouse", when Waffle mentions he's friends with the infamous mouse Squeakus, Gordon and Mr. Blik lock up the door. But when Waffle mention's he's actually ''inside'' the house, they unlock the door, go outside, and board up the house with a couple of boards and a log.

* In WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy episode "Spider Mandy" Billy does this in the span of few seconds then comments, [[LampshadeHanging "Wow, how did I do that?"]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' (or, more accurately, one of the ''WesternAnimation/OhYeahCartoons'' shorts that led to the series), when Timmy finds out his parents are going to leave him with Vicky, he runs into his room and boards up the door.
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': In "Stewie, Chris and Brian's Excellent Adventure", Peter boards up the door to Chris' room so he won't try to get out of studying for his history exam the next day. Unfortunately, he left his phone in there... just as Lois started sending him photos of her privates!
* ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'': In "Dr. Sinister", Fred and Barney are recruited by a mysterious woman named Madam Yes to partake in a spy mission. At the end of their harrowing adventure, they return home to find Madam Yes at their door asking them to fix her flat tire. [[WeAreNotGoingThroughThatAgain Fred promptly slams the door and starts madly boarding it shut.]]
-->'''Wilma:''' Fred, where are your manners? That poor woman is in trouble.
-->'''Barney:''' Leave him alone, Wilma! He knows what he's doing! ''(joins Fred in hammering)''

This is a common trope in animation. Because of {{Hammerspace}}, the character can get the needed hammer in an instant, plus a pile of boards and nails. The boards will always crisscross and overlap, as if the character doesn't have time to be precise with their work due to the dire nature of the threat on the other side. Often the boards are placed in ways that would make them bulge out and very hard to nail down. In RealLife, this is a semi-realistic trope - boarding up a door is a fairly good way to barricade it, and if you have some people to hold the door closed as you do it, then it can make a reasonably speedy improvised barricade. Variations have been used in several medieval and early modern sieges.

* ''Film/TheDeadDontDie'': As the zombies attack the town, Hank and Bobby board up their doorway with a bunch of nails and an electric drill. [[AbsurdlyIneffectiveBarricade moments later, a couple of the zombies break through the lowest-hangin board and start crawling under the door, and then it turns out that they'd forgotten to barricade the back door]].

* This is seen ''everywhere'' in both ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2'' and ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Nemesis''. They didn't work very well, if the hordes of zombies everywhere are any indication. You can take a stab at assembling one, yourself, in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilOutbreak'' by using a nail gun on some boards in the first scenario; it doesn't last long at all once the zombie horde catches up with you. Played more straight in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2Remake'' where barricading a window prevents more zombies from flooding into the Raccoon City Police Department and keeps you from having to waste ammo on them.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' episode "[[Recap/KimPossibleS2E12RufusVsCommodorePuddlesDayOfTheSnowmen Day of the Snowmen]]", the Possibles do this to their house, from the doors to the windows due to the [[{{Snowlems}} army of toxically-mutated snowmen]] converging. [[spoiler:This is due to said snowmen chasing after television host Summer Gale, who used a [[WeatherControlMachine weather machine]], which [[BigBad Dr. Drakken]] [[ContinuityNod previously]] [[CallBack used]] in "[[Recap/KimPossibleS2E7JobUnfair Job Unfair]]" to create an artificial snowstorm, and her use of the GrimyWater from [[AbandonedCampRuins Camp]] [[IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace Wannaweep's]] lake to create said storm caused the snowmen to come to life.]]

* In the ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' episode "[[Recap/KimPossibleS2E12RufusVsCommodorePuddlesDayOfTheSnowmen Day of the Snowmen]]", the Possibles do this to their house, from the doors to the windows due to the [[{{Snowlems}} army of toxically-mutated snowmen]] converging. [[spoiler:This is due to said snowmen chasing after television host Summer Gale, who used a [[WeatherControlDevice weather machine]], which [[BigBad Dr. Drakken]] [[ContinuityNod previously]] [[CallBack used]] in "[[Recap/KimPossibleS2E7JobUnfair Job Unfair]]" to create an artificial snowstorm, and her use of the GrimyWater from [[AbandonedCampRuins Camp]] [[IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace Wannaweep's]] lake to create said storm caused the snowmen to come to life.]]

* In the ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' episode "Day of the Snowmen", the Possibles do this to their house, from the doors to the windows due to the [[{{Snowlems}} army of toxically-mutated snowmen]] converging. [[spoiler:This is due to said snowmen chasing after television host Summer Gale, who used a [[WeatherControlDevice weather machine]], which [[BigBad Dr. Drakken]] [[ContinuityNod previously used]] in "Job Unfair" to create an artificial snowstorm, and her use of the GrimyWater from [[AbandonedCampRuins Camp]] [[IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace Wannaweep's]] lake to create said storm caused the snowmen to come to life.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/CampLazlo'', where the Bean Scouts barricade the door of their cabin to keep the Squirrel Scouts out. In order to get the wood for the barricade, they completely dismantle the back wall of their cabin, allowing the squirrel scouts to get in that way.

* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': In "Stewie, Chris and Brian's Excellent Adventure", Peter boards up the door to Chris' room so he won't try to get out of studying for his history exam the next day. Unfortunately, he left his phone in there... just as Lois starts sending him photos of her privates!