History Main / RealFakeDoor

* ''VideoGame/Portal2'': A chase sequence ends with a door labeled "[=GLaDOS=] Emergency Shutdown and Cake Dispensary. Keep Unlocked.", which ''falls over'' when you approach it. And like most test chambers, [[MobileMaze the "wall" it was on is a series of movable segments]], which then come apart to show empty space behind it. [=GLaDOS=] mocks you for falling for her SchmuckBait, [[StupidityIsTheOnlyOption but you actually had no option but to try the door]].

* ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'': {{Portal Door}}s not connected to power will open to nothing. [[spoiler:Waternoose banishes Sully and Mike by sending them through a door to a remote cold area and then disconnecting it, causing it to open to nothing on the other side.]] This also applies to the closets the factory uses, which open as normal in the human world when not connected to a powered door, and especially when those closets are destroyed.

* In ''Film/TheMatrix'', an alteration to the Matrix results in a brick wall hidden behind a curtain, where a window should be, trapping the protagonists inside that building.

* A common occurrence in WesternAnimation/TexAveryMGMCartoons, where a character tries to go through a door, only to open it and crash into a brick wall with a sign reading "Imagine that--no door!" This happens in ''WesternAnimation/RedHotRidingHood'' as the Wolf tries to escape Grandma's apartment, and then in ''WesternAnimation/TheScrewyTruant'' when Truant Officer Meathead tries to capture WesternAnimation/ScrewySquirrel and return him to school.

* ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'': {{Portal Door}}s not connected to power will open to nothing. [[spoiler:Waternoose banishes Sully and Mike by sending them through a door to a remote cold area and then disconnecting it, causing it to open to nothing on the other side.]] This also applies to the closets the factory uses, which open as normal in the human world when not connected to a powered door.

* ''Series/WalkerTexasRanger'': Trivette encounters one in Season 2's "Unfinished Business". A guard tells him he can't enter a bar through that door, but Trivette pays no attention and beats him up, [[ShootOutTheLock shoots the lock]] and opens the door to find out too late it's bricked up.

* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winchester_Mystery_House The Winchester Mansion]] was purposely built with several of these.

* ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'': {{Portal Door}}s not connected to power will open to nothing. [[spoiler:Waternoose banishes Sully and Mike by sending them through a door to a remote cold area and then disconnecting it, causing it to open to nothing on the other side. This also applies to the closets the factory uses, which open as normal in the human world when not on power.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'': {{Portal Door}}s not connected to power will open to nothing. [[spoiler:Waternoose banishes Sully and Mike by sending them through a door to a remote cold area and then disconnecting it, causing it to open to nothing on the other side. This also applies to the closets the factory uses, which open as normal when not on power.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'': {{Portal Door}}s not connected to power will open to nothing. [[spoiler:Waternoose banishes Sully and Mike by sending them through a door to a remote cold area and then disconnecting it, causing it to open to nothing on the other side.]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/RedHotRidingHood'', as the Wolf tries to escape Grandma's apartment, he opens a door and crashes into a brick wall with a sign reading "Imagine that--no door!"

* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winchester_Mystery_House The Winchester Mansion]] was purposely built with several of these, most likely to confuse the spirits whom Sarah Winchester built the house to appease.

* Played with in ''VideoGame/{{Scratches}} ''. After Micheal Arthate finds a hidden room in the blueprints of Blackwood Manor, the supposed door is hidden behind wallpaper, and when Micheal cuts it open, he finds that the door's been bricked up. The only other way to get in is by ''rappelling'' down the outside of the house and entering through the window.

* The TropeNamer is ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'', where one episode features an advertisement for 'Real Fake Doors' which may be mounted on and open onto a wall.

* In the "Communications" level of ''VideoGame/Doom3'', there is a door covered in blood, with a white light above it that turns red to the sound of a pounding from the other side. Approaching it causes it to burst open to reveal a wall of flesh and teeth, and a gigantic snapping mouth to lunge out at you, before pulling back as the door slams shut.

* In ''VideoGame/Fallout3'', there's a door that, upon opening, reveals a wall with graffiti saying "FUCK YOU".
* ''VideoGame/Portal2'': A chase sequence ends with a door labeled "[=GLaDOS=] Emergency Shutdown and Cake Dispensary. Keep Unlocked.", which ''falls over'' when you approach it. And like most test chambers, [[MobileMaze the "wall" it was on is a series of movable segments]], which then come apart to show empty space behind it. [=GLaDOS=] mocks you for falling for her SchmuckBait, [[StupidityIsTheOnlyOption but you actually had no option but to try the door]].

* ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion'': A hazard found in the corridors. If Luigi tries to open one, it will [[TheDoorSlamsYou slam him into the wall]]. There is even a [[FollowTheMoney trail of coins on the floor]] leading to one to bait players into falling for the trap.

* In ''WesternAnimation/RedHotRidingHood'', as the Wolf tries to escape Grandma's apartment, he opens a door and crashes into a brick wall with a sign reading "Imagine that--no door!"

* Played with in DuckTales2017. In one episode, the characters find out they're trapped in a ShowWithinAShow, at which point the door to the room they're in becomes this.

* ''Series/TheGoodies'': In "The End", the Goodies open their front door only to run into a featureless wall of concrete, as their office has just been encased in a solid block of concrete (as a result of Graeme's architectural design).

* ''Series/TheGoodies'': In "The End", the Goodies open their front door only to run into a featureless wall of concrete, as their office has just been encase in a solid block of concrete (as a result of Graeme's architectural design).

* The TropeNamer is ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'', where one episode features an advertisement for 'Real Fake Doors' which may be mounted on and open onto a wall - this is actually an example parodying the trope.