History Main / RealFakeDoor

* Played with in ''VideoGame/{{Scratches}} ''. After Micheal Arthate finds a hidden room in the blueprints of Blackwood Manor, but 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.

* Played with in ''VideoGame/{{Scratches}}. After Micheal Arthate finds a hidden room in the blueprints of Blackwood Manor, but 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.

* In ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}: [[Recap/TintinTheSevenCrystalBalls The Seven Crystal Balls]]'', Haddock runs into a wall behind a prop door at the theatre.

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* ''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.]]

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.

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* ''Film/FourteenOhEight'': As soon as Mike fully realizes how dangerous the room really is and tries to make a break for it, it creates a brick wall behind the front door so he can't leave.

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** In "Father's Day", when the Doctor leaves Rose [[spoiler:to stay with her father after he saves her]], the TARDIS turns out to be completely empty, with the doors opening to the inside of a box as one would normally expect.
** At the end of "The Pandorica Opens" and through the beginning of "The Big Bang", [[spoiler:River Song is stuck in a time loop inside the TARDIS where she plays around with the controls a bit and then runs to the door to try and escape]], behind which is a solid concrete wall.
** At the beginning of "The Zygon Inversion", when Clara is [[spoiler: trapped in the Zygon pod, and thus in a dream state,]] she notices some weirdness about where she is, and then attempts to leave, noticing that the front door to the apartment she's in opens to a brick wall, and the curtains appear to just be attached to the wall, with nothing but more wall behind it.
** Early on in "Heaven Sent", the Doctor uses a psychic link to open a door and escape from the creature, and it opens to a very short corridor, functionally just another wall.

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* ''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]].

* ''LiveActionTV/DoctorWho''
** In ''Father's Day'', when the Doctor leaves Rose [[spoiler:to stay with her father after he saves her]], the TARDIS turns out to be completely empty, with the doors opening to the inside of a box as one would normally expect.
** At the end of ''The Pandorica Opens'' and through the beginning of ''The Big Bang'', [[spoiler:River Song is stuck in a time loop inside the TARDIS where she plays around with the controls a bit and then runs to the door to try and escape]], behind which is a solid concrete wall.
** At the beginning of ''The Zygon Inversion'', when Clara is [[spoiler: trapped in the Zygon pod, and thus in a dream state,]] she notices some weirdness about where she is, and then attempts to leave, noticing that the front door to the apartment she's in opens to a brick wall, and the curtains appear to just be attached to the wall, with nothing but more wall behind it.
** Early on in ''Heaven Sent'', the Doctor uses a psychic link to open a door and escape from the creature, and it opens to a very short corridor, functionally just another wall.

* ''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 ''Father's Day'', when the Doctor leaves Rose [[spoiler: to stay with her father after he saves her]], the Tardis turns out to be completely empty, with the doors opening to the inside of a box as one would normally expect.
** At the end of ''The Pandorica Opens'' and through the beginning of ''The Big Bang'', [[spoiler: River Song is stuck in a time loop inside the Tardis where she plays around with the controls a bit and then runs to the door to try and escape]], behind which is a solid concrete wall.

** Early on in ''Heaven Sent'', the doctor uses a psychic link to open a door and escape from the creature, and it opens to a very short corridor, functionally just another wall.

* ''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, 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]].

* 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!"

Although (as stated above) this is most commonly a wall, a variation occurs if the door is supposed to be a portal of some kind, where nothing is behind the door but whatever is physically behind the door. It can also occur with other things as stand-ins for doors, such as curtains.

* Justified in ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'', where any door not connected to power will open to nothing (the above mentioned variation). This trope comes into play after [[spoiler: Waternoose banishes Sully and Mike and then disconnects the door, causing it to open to nothing on the other side.]]

* This kind of thing can happen in Video Games that are broken or glitching, possibly causing a case of UnwinnableByMistake.

* In ''VideoGame/Fallout 3'', there's an instance of a door that, upon opening, reveals a wall with graffiti saying "FUCK YOU".

* ''VideoGame/Antichamber'' has the exit door be this. Except for when it isn't.

* ''Film/The Matrix'' has a brick wall hidden behind a curtain, where a window should be.

* 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!"

* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': When Peter tries to complain to a network executive about a show being cancelled, the secretary tells him he can't go through a particular door, which Peter disregards and walks into a brick wall. The secretary tells him "No, you can't go in there because that door leads 'nowhere'. Use the one next to it."