History Main / DoorJudo

* The climax of the ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' short "Professor Tom", Tom tries to ram the front door down to get at Jerry. However, Tom's pupil opens up the door (and gets SquashedFlat by Tom), then Jerry sets up an innertube across the backyard patio so that Tom will be sling-shot back through the doors and into the mailbox.

** Once when Maxwell Smart and 99 are trapped in a corridor with two villains trying to break down the doors on either side, our heroes open each door in turn so they knock themselves out. CONTROL agents know this as the "Double Door Deception Trick." Another time, Smart and the Chief are breaking into a cabin from opposite ends, when CHAOS agents simultaneously open both doors. Smart and the Chief run past each other and out the opposite doors, and two CHAOS agents shoots at them - missing and shooting one another instead.

*** The ultimate example is probably ''WesternAnimation/BullyForBugs'', which sets up Bugs' FinalStrike against the bull.

Compare DoorFu, which is when a character tears off a door (or picks up a torn-off door) and uses it as a weapon. Contrast TaeKwonDoor; for when you want to use the door to ''cause'' damage to your enemies instead of letting them through.

* Inadvertently done in ''Film/TheGrandBudapestHotel''. Agatha, fallen out a window and [[LiteralCliffhanger hanging for dear life]]. Zero, one floor too high, needing to go down to the correct room in order to pull her in. The correct room, unfortunately locked and with a "Do Not Disturb" sign. Zero, yielding to politeness and knocking desperately, before less politely trying the doorknob, and finally charging the door. The guest, opening the door in answer to Zero's knock, in time for Zero to charge right through and out the window, to hang beside Agatha.

* This is taken UpToEleven in the first episode of ''Anime/{{Symphogear}} AXZ'', where two characters aboard a helicopter play double-Door Judo with ''an antiaircraft missile''.

* ''WesternAnimation/MegaMan'' pulls this off in "Terror of the Seven Seas" with a pursuing Guts Man. While running down a hallway, he sets it up by ''closing'' several doors in Guts Man's face before ''opening'' the final door that leads to a maintenance shaft.

* This is taken UpToEleven in the first episode of ''[[Anime/SenkiZesshouSymphogear Symphogear AXZ]]'', where two characters aboard a helicopter play double-Door Judo with ''an antiaircraft missile''.

* In the Creator/TexAvery short "WesternAnimation/LittleRuralRidingHood", Red Riding Hood does this to the wolf, who runs all the way to the second story of the house and falls out the window.

* ''Manga/UruseiYatsura'': After finding out that Lum and Ataru will be spending the night together, Lum's Stormtroopers and Mendo decide to break down the door. So on the count of three they charge, only to have Ataru open the door and Lum open the window on the opposite side of the room.

* In ''Franchise/{{Tintin}} in the Land of the Soviets'', Tintin opens a door for a bad guy trying to charge it at full speed. The bad guy hits his head on the far wall, and Tintin closes the door in the face of the others following him.

* Played with in ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2'' (and not just in it being essentially Vent Judo) during the "UseYourHead" bit. The toys run at the vent with Rex as a BatteringRam, unaware that Woody had already unscrewed it and left it loose. They pass right through and wind up in a dogpile inside Al's room. Inverted during the AnimatedOuttakes, where [[TaeKwonDoor the vent had not been unscrewed prior to "filming"]].

* Creator/PeterSellers in ''Film/AShotInTheDark''. He charges at a door just as it opens, and his momentum carries him across the room, out the opposite window, and into a river.
* ''Film/Jungle2Jungle''. Tim Allen's business partner is trying to talk his daughter into coming out of her room. Tim shows up, with his son on the other side of the door. Tim suggests that they ''both'' try to knock down the door. In the bedroom, the son tells the daughter "Baboon here. He make peace," and opens the door. Tim and the partner run through, crash through the window and the balcony, only to end up in a crumpled heap on the ground below.
* In ''Film/{{Watchmen}}'', Rorschach uses this against the SWAT team at Moloch's apartment, throwing the door breacher completely off balance as he swings his sledgehammer into the floor. The level of shock and disarray this causes in the ''rest'' of the SWAT team seems exaggerated, though.

* Done ridiculously in ''Film/ThePirateMovie''. On their first run at the door, the pirates use their ram to ''ring the doorbell''. On their second run, the butler opens the door for them, leaving them to charge into the mansion. The pirates then carry the ram up a spiral staircase for no reason before dumping it on the second floor.

* ''Film/UpTheChastityBelt'': When Sir Sir Braggart de Bombast's men attempt to break down the door of Lurkalot's workshop with a battering ram, he opens the door so they crash into the wall opposite. Before doing so Frankie Howerd breaks the fourth wall to say there is no way such an old joke can work.

* Creator/DavidDrake did a variant on this in his book ''Patriots''. The heroes tricked a Benedict Arnold {{Expy}} into being filmed dramatically charging through a door marked "command center." [[spoiler: He found out too late he was running into a very large open-pit latrine, and just managed to scream "[[{{Pun}} Holy sh--]]" before falling into it. It was deep enough that he was completely submerged in liquid crap.]] That gave them blackmail evidence.

* In one of the ''Literature/ConfessionsOfGeorgiaNicolson'' books, Georgia suspects her mother of having an affair with the builder, and skips school to spy on them from the other side of the door. She is caught when they open the door and she falls through it abruptly, forcing her to pretend that she had just been sent home sick from school.

* ''Series/JeevesAndWooster'' has one moment where [[LargeHam Roderick]] [[BoisterousBruiser Spode]] charges a door just as [[TheJeeves Jeeves]] opens it. Jeeves (as usual) is completely unsurprised by the large man charging past him and making a loud crash, and simply greets the other man standing outside with his trademark "Good evening, sir."

* ''Series/DadsArmy'': In "Museum Piece", the museum caretaker defeats the platoon's attempt to break down the museum door with a BatteringRam by opening the doors so they charge straight through.
* Hilariously inverted in ''Series/DrakeAndJosh''. In one episode, where the titular stepbrothers are hiding inside their English teacher's bathroom to hide from said teacher's vicious dog while house-sitting, Drake realizes he left his cellphone in the living room and has Josh open the door for him to run out very quickly to circumvent the vicious dog in the living room. When Drake tries to run out, Josh forgets to open the door, causing Drake to crash hard into it.

* A rare example where the door ''isn't'' opened by someone on the other side: in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/DangerMouse'' DM attempts to knock down a door with a runup while Penfold [[LuckBasedSearchTechnique leans on a lever on the wall which opens the door]].
* In Creator/HannaBarbera's ''WesternAnimation/TopCat'', Benny once goes on a cruise, prompting the rest of the gang to tag along. At several points, Officer Dribble, the ship's captain, and a counterfeit artist try to barge into the cabin... only to end up [[GravityIsAHarshMistress running right off the ship]], having to cling (unsuccessfully) to the side of the hull.

* WesternAnimation/MegaMan pulls this off in "Terror of the Seven Seas" with a pursuing Guts Man. While running down a hallway, he sets it up by ''closing'' several doors in Guts Man's face before ''opening'' the final door that leads to a maintenance shaft.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheMadDoctor'' has this get pulled on WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse near the end. It sets up [[StrappedToAnOperatingTable strapping him to an operating table]] for the climax.

* ''Series/GetSmart''. Once when Maxwell Smart and 99 are trapped in a corridor with two villains trying to break down the doors on either side, our heroes open each door in turn so they knock themselves out. CONTROL agents know this as the "Double Door Deception Trick." Another time, Smart and the Chief are breaking into a cabin from opposite ends, when CHAOS agents simultaneously open both doors. Smart and the Chief run past each other and out the opposite doors, and two CHAOS agents shoots at them - missing and shooting one another instead.
** The wheelchair-bound criminal mastermind Leadside has his minion push him towards Max so he can run Max through with a sword. Max opens the door behind him so they go flying down the stairs instead.

* Used twice in the comedy TV series ''Series/GetSmart''. Once when Maxwell Smart and 99 are trapped in a corridor with two villains trying to break down the doors on either side. Our heroes open each door in turn so they knock themselves out. CONTROL agents know this as the "Double Door Deception Trick." Another time, Smart and the Chief are breaking into a cabin from opposite ends, when CHAOS agents simultaneously open both doors. Smart and the Chief run past each other and out the opposite doors, and two CHAOS agents shoots at them - missing and shooting one another instead.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'', As one of the BigBad's ram minions does a full-on charge against the locked door of the subway car, Nick uses this against him so he goes charging into one of his fellow minions knocking him out the window and getting stuck there in his place.

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* In ''Disney/TheEmperorsNewGroove'', EvilChancellor Yzma gets a ridiculously complex Door Judo treatment from Pacha's family, involving OffscreenTeleportation, a beehive, a [[AnachronismStew floor waxer]], a feather pillow, and a conveniently placed birthday party.
* In ''Disney/{{Zootopia}}'', As one of the BigBad's ram minions does a full-on charge against the locked door of the subway car, Nick uses this against him so he goes charging into one of his fellow minions knocking him out the window and getting stuck there in his place.

* In the ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'' world [[Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast Beast's Castle]], Donald falls flat when Belle opens the door Donald was about to break down.

* A rare example where the door ''isn't'' opened by someone on the other side: in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/DangerMouse'' DM attempts to knock down a door with a runup while Penfold [[ShaggySearchTechnique leans on a lever on the wall which opens the door]].

The trick is to do it at the exact moment when they would have rammed it. When it works, the villains do not attempt to stop or even slow down, but just keep going at full speed. Then they usually run into any number of traps prepared to bring them down -- or out another door on the far side of the room.

*** Also happens in ''Hare Way To The Stars'' with WesternAnimation/BugsBunny and the huge green aliens created by Marvin the Martian. Similarly to ''Mississipi Hare'', they open doors for one another and the aliens end up [[YouFailPhysicsForever falling to space]] when the last door leads nowhere.

* In the Creator/TexAvery short ''Little Rural Riding Hood'', Red Riding Hood does this to the wolf, who runs all the way to the second story of the house and falls out the window.

*** Also happens in ''Hare Way To The Stars'' with BugsBunny and the huge green aliens created by Marvin the Martian. Similarly to ''Mississipi Hare'', they open doors for one another and the aliens end up [[YouFailPhysicsForever falling to space]] when the last door leads nowhere.