History Main / ThereWasADoor

** Grimmjow's epic save of Orihime. To stress just how epically unnecessary this was, Grimmjow blew a hole in the wall when the door, which was destroyed by Loly and Menoly when they entered, was literally three feet away. He even acknowledges the door was open, but says he came through the wall because the door was "busted".

* Creator/VivienneMedrano seems fond of this joke; in the companion show to ''WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss'', ''WebAnimation/''WebAnimation/HazbinHotel'', the hotel's south wall is repeatedly destroyed.

* In ''WesternAnimation/FreaknikTheMusical'', this is how The Perminator tends to enter a room. [[CatchPhrase CRASH, bitch!]]

* ''Series/TheThundermans'': Hank has a habit of exiting buildings with "[[CatchPhrase Thunderman, away!]]" and flying through the ceiling. His family occasionally remember that they have dozens of man-shaped holes in their roof.

* In ''VideoGame/CaveStory'', Balrog is first introduced doing this. Amusingly, he ''did'' enter exactly where the door was, but since he's way too wide to use it, he just busts through the door ''and'' the door-sized bits of wall on either side of it. That scene is probably why his CatchPhrase of "Huzzah!" was changed to a Kool-Aid-Man-style "OH YEAH!" in the re-translation of the console and handheld versions. Later in the game, he tends to make his entrances by crashing through ceilings.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': In the "I Was a Teenage Gary" episode, when the bus for the convention arrives to pick them up, an overly excited Patrick smashes through the wall in SpongeBob's house, [[ImpactSilhouette leaving a star-shaped hole]] right next to the open door. And also through the bus itself.

** Inverted in ''ComicBook/TheAmazingSpiderMan1963'' #303, when [[Characters/MarvelComicsWildPack Silver Sable]] has ''The Daily Bugle'' contact Spidey to ask to meet with him. Spidey decides to be direct, and simply go to the office waiting room of the Symkarian Embassy; eventually, Silver comes out, upset because he's scaring away her appointments, and asks, "Don't you usually come in through the window?"

* ''Film/EdgeOfTomorrow'': The protagonists are wearing PoweredArmor, so when they need to make use of an abandoned car quickly (knowing that the enemy is waiting in ambush) they just rip the doors off, which also gives them room to dive inside wearing said armor.

** One time on Website/TheOtherWiki, someone vandalized a page on Kool-Aid saying that he was wanted for causing thousands of dollars of property damage and is still at large. While it wasn't kept, it [[ActuallyPrettyFunny was moved onto a section of the site dedicated to some actually funny edits]].

* Done in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-t6AIMSCdw this Old Spice Odor Blocker Body Wash commercial.]]

* [[http://aph.starry-sky.com/xmas.html Parodied]] in ''Anime/HetaliaAxisPowers''. America [[MakesSenseInContext (as Santa Claus)]] smashes through a window to get into a little boy's room. Apparently he [[TakeThat just got back from Hollywood.]]

* In ''Anime/TigerAndBunny'', [[DestructiveSavior Kotetsu]] has a known habit of taking the most direct route in or out of a dangerous situation -- walls or windows be damned. Ben chides him for it in the first episode, reminding him that entering monorails through the front window will just up the premium on his HeroInsurance.

--->'''Gothic Guard:''' ''[after the door has been broken five times]'' [[http://asterixonline.info/comics/index.php?manga=Asterix_Comics&chapter=03&page=34 WILL-YOU-KINDLY-LEAVE-THAT-DOOR-ALONE!!!]]

** Lampshaded in issue #286, guest-starring ComicBook/TheAvengers, where the two teams help ComicBook/JeanGrey get back into her old life after being replaced by the Phoenix for so long. They take her to parents' house but they weren't home, so [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHercules Hercules]] breaks down the door and is chewed out by Jean, who points out that there was a key beneath a paving stone meant for her and her sister. ComicBook/CaptainAmerica assures her they'll write her parents a check.

** During Creator/PeterDavid's run on ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk1968'', when he had the brains of Banner in the Hulk's body, he decides to sneak out the back way by creating a back way. Subverted in a later punch up with ComicBook/CaptainAmerica, where despite being inside a fragile house, nothing is damaged. He's thrown cleanly out the front door thanks to Cap's judo skills.

* In the ''ComicBook/MarvelAdventures'' take on ''ComicBook/TheInfinityGauntlet'' story, ComicBook/DoctorDoom's idea of a casual entrance involves [[IncomingHam blowing up a wall of the Baxter Building and telling all the heroes present to "Behold the grim visage of DOOM!"]]. When Spider-Man points out that most normal people would use the door, [[https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/7130433792/h8A731717/ Doom simply brushes off such methods as beneath him]].

** Inverted in ''ComicBook/TheAmazingSpiderMan1963'' #303, when ComicBook/SilverSable has ''The Daily Bugle'' contact Spidey to ask to meet with him. Spidey decides to be direct, and simply go to the office waiting room of the Symkarian Embassy; eventually, Silver comes out, upset because he's scaring away her appointments, and asks, "Don't you usually come in through the window?"

** Superman does it so often, in fact, that ComicBook/JimmyOlsen once caught him with the "[[BucketBoobyTrap bucket over the door]]" gag by putting the bucket over a random spot in the wall, which Supes of course broke right through.

** ''ComicBook/SupermanVsTheAmazingSpiderMan'': When Spider-Man and Superman break into ComicBook/LexLuthor and ComicBook/DoctorOctopus' lair, Spidey sneaks in the place, but Supes directly bursts through the main door.

** Early on, ComicBook/{{Superboy}} (Kon-El) had a bad habit of entering and exiting buildings through walls, though he only really did so during fights when he was in a hurry.

*** Later, Supergirl and ComicBook/MaryMarvel burst into [[BigBad Karmang]]'s castle through a wall.

* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': While Diana can easily crumple even the doors of safes she does on occasion go through the wall next to the door instead. In "The Return From the Dead" she realizes the Holliday Girls are unconscious behind the steel door ComicBook/SteveTrevor is trying to pick the lock to and quickly steps through the wall next to the door to rescue them from the room behind it which is quickly filling with toxic gas.

** In an issue, the X-Men are imprisoned in Murderworld. ''Comicbook/{{Cyclops}}'' faces three doors, and Arcade tells him one of them leads to life, the two others lead to death. Cyclops [[TakeAThirdOption takes a fourth option]] and just blasts through the side wall, which turns out to be the right move because all ''three'' doors were trapped. ([[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin There's a reason]] Arcade calls his personal amusement park "[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Murderworld]]"...)
** Heck, the X-Men were doing this as far back as ''the fifth issue''. Professor Xavier has been [[DePower depowered]], so the X-Men have to break him into his own house to get him some rest. Cyclops blasts the front door despite the fact that the key was right there.

* The movie version of ''Film/AloneInTheDark2005'' sports large swaths interspersed with [[{{Narm}} accidental lulz]]. In the fight scene near the beginning, the snarling ImplacableMan insists on leaping headlong through every plate glass window that crosses his path.

* Even more common for Batman in the 1966 ''Series/Batman1966'' series than for his comic book counterpart.

* DoubleSubverted in an episode of ''Series/ElChavoDelOcho''. Doña Cleotilde gives El Chavo a cake she baked for Don Ramón, and tells him to enter Don Ramón's house through the window to leave it on the table. El Chavo enters the house through the door (which wasn't locked as Doña Cleotilde assumed) to ''open the window'', then exits again to grab the cake and enter again through the window.

** Eddie, being the designated recipient of each week's {{Anvilicious}} {{Aesop}}, tries to drive a car after failing his license exam, guilty of the classic cliché, "I did it to look cool and impress my girlfriend"- and promptly wipes out half the front entrance of the Winslow household.
** Another episode has Eddie and Waldo trying to make sense of a snowmobile -- HilarityEnsues.

** [[ComicBook/{{Superman}} Clark]] does this on occasion, but you are not an evil kryptonian if you break down every door you see.
** "Kara": [[ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} Kara]] pulls an elevator's doors apart. An annoyed Clark says if she had just waited a few seconds, they would have opened. Kara retorts that this "inferior Earth technology" is too slow.

** And in the GrandFinale, [[spoiler:Clark crashes through the top of the Fortress and flies into the sky as he changes into Superman.]] Who cares, it is '''[[RuleOfCool awesome]]'''.

* Parodied by the Wrestling/{{WWE}} tag-team The Acolyte Protection Agency, whose "office" consisted of a door, a card table, a cooler full of beer -- and no walls. Anybody who walked around the door to try and talk to them was admonished in this manner.

* ''Series/TheMuppetShow'', [[Franchise/StarWars Luke Skywalker, R2D2 and C3PO]] enter the episode by smashing their way through the wall of the guest star dressing room.

** Due to InsurmountableWaistHighFence, a number of games may allow you to break through doors, but never allow you to just open them. Some, such as ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty'', have doors that can be opened by [=NPCs=], but not you, or only unlock after a certain ScriptedEvent. May be used as a DynamicLoading barrier.

* In some areas of ''VideoGame/XMenLegends'' 1 and 2, the doors will be the ''only'' interior sections that you can't simply smash your way through. After a big fight, you can easily end up with a forlorn door standing uselessly in the middle of a room with 20 feet of hole on either side of it.

* Used, [[http://www.antiheroforhire.com/d/20080915.html word-for-word]], in ''Webcomic/AntiheroForHire''.

* Agent Delacroix in the ''Website/SCPFoundation'' tale [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/pulsar-chapter-3-the-trail Pulsar]]. He was delivering flash drives.

* In ''WebVideo/HonestTrailers'' video of ''Film/DragonBallEvolution'', after [[WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged Goku]] and the other gave their exposition on the film. They fly out through the narrator's roof.

** Lampshaded by ComicBook/TheJoker in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' when Batman and Robin crash through a glass ceiling to face him.

*** Bizarro isn't the smartest tool in the shed. He smashes through a wall to yoink ComicBook/LoisLane.

* ''ComicBook/The IncredibleHulk'' animated series has the Hulk leaping towards Doctor Doom's lair, and after smashing up his enforced cage, he makes for the door to do the same thing, until it opens by itself, to which the Hulk simply says: "Oh." Doctor Doom then says "There was a door, you destructive brute."

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'':

** A commercial for ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' showed them smashing through the ceiling, only for the hole to be patched with wood, then bricks only to get destroyed each time. The last shot finally shows the hole turned into an opening with an "Exit" sign...only for the girls to break through ''the wall''.

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'':

* Like the Powerpuff Girls, ''{{WesternAnimation/Underdog}}'' almost always smashes through a wall or ceiling when entering or leaving a building. One episode sees Underdog smash through a ship this way, leaving it to take on water. After giving his HeroInsurance catchphrase (''"I'm a hero who never fails; I can't be bothered with such details."''), the ship's crew calls him on such and insist he fix the hole, which Underdog does.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'':

** Case in point: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Nimrod "Operation NIMROD"]], the [[UsefulNotes/BritsWithBattleships SAS]] assault during the Iranian Embassy Siege, London 1980. Some of the most famous images of the SAS are of officers breaking into the embassy through [[http://www.notoo7.com/images/smg1.h30.jpg windows]] and [[http://www.military-art.com/mall/images/dhm863.jpg balconies]].

* ''WebAnimation/SomethingAbout VideoGame/Kirby64'' has several instances of Kirby & co crashing through a wall right next to a door.

** Referenced in the first episode of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', and then parodied in several later episodes. In "Peterotica," a car crashes through the wall of Kool-Aid Man's house, and he remarks "Wow! You know, from the other side, that's kind of annoying." After Kool-Aid has just finished repairing it, he says "Good as new!" -- when Peter comes crashing back through the wall, and he shouts "OH, COME ''ON!!''" Also in the courtroom, where the courtroom audience goes "Oh, NO!" and the Kool-Aid Man comes crashing through the wall, "OH YEAH!" When the Kool-Aid Man realizes where he is, he backs out in embarassment. The Judge tells everybody to stop doing that, "'Cause the f*ckin' Kool-Aid Man gonna keep showin' up."

** Also done in ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' multiple times in one episode. Interestingly, the protagonists of the scenes (who are the same two guys) are ''intentionally'' invoking Kool-Aid man even after witnessing his reign of terror.

* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': Inverted in ''ComicBook/TheAmazingSpiderMan1963'' #303, when ComicBook/SilverSable has ''The Daily Bugle'' contact Spidey to ask to meet with him. Spidey decides to be direct, and simply go to the office waiting room of the Symkarian Embassy; eventually, Silver comes out, upset because he's scaring away her appointments, and asks, "Don't you usually come in through the window?"

* Interestingly, in ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'', Dr. Scott enters the lab through the wall, but not because it was in the script. It was because the set builders had ''forgotten to build an extra door''!
** So, in fact, [[InvertedTrope There Wasn't A Door.]]

** Sorcerers tend to disregard niceties such as doors when irritated or in a hurry, frequently using their powers to blast through doors, walls, or in [[ChosenOne Garion's]] case in the second series, entire buildings, making this a crossover with DungeonBypass.

'''Garion:''' Now... the library is about that direction, isn't it?'
*** Which is promptly lampshaded by DeadpanSnarker Liselle:
--->'''Velvet:''' ''[chiding him gently]'' Belgarion, now really, that's no way to behave. Kal Zakath has been a very courteous host. I'm sure that now that he understands the situation, he'll be more than happy to cooperate, won't you, your Imperial Majesty? ''[smiling winsomely at the Emperor]'' We wouldn't want the Rivan King to get really angry, now would we? There are so many breakable things about -- windows, walls, houses, the city of Rak Hagga -- that sort of thing.

* In ''Series/TheAdventuresOfSuperman'', Superman bursts through a wall to rescue Lois and Jimmy, and Jimmy [[LampshadeHanging comments]] that he "could have come in through the door."

* Due to InsurmountableWaistHighFence, a number of games may allow you to break through doors, but never allow you to just open them. Some, such as ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty'', have doors that can be opened by [=NPCs=], but not you, or only unlock after a certain ScriptedEvent. May be used as a DynamicLoading barrier.

* Virtually no-one in ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' can be bothered to use doors. They just break through windows, walls, and even the ''doors themselves''! It's made even funnier by the fact that most of the doors open '''automatically'''.

** Standard practice in urban warfare is called mouse-holing: cutting (or blasting) a hole to move from room to room and building to building. As often as not, this is done because the needs of the military are different than the needs of the previous occupant, so even if there actually ''was'' a door, [[AvertedTrope there still wasn't a viable entrance]].
*** As practiced by the Red Army during the house-to-house fighting in the battle for Berlin.
** Also, in a fortified building there is a good chance that the occupants have [[BoobyTrap boobytrapped]] any obvious entrances. Making your own entrance is not only the quickest, but also the safest, option.

* There's also the briefly fashionable criminal enterprise known as ram-raiding; ram a stolen SUV or backhoe through the wall of an electronics or jewelry store, help yourselves to as much valuable loot as you can carry and run like hell for the getaway car parked in a handy side street. Something of a lost art these days, because most storefronts positioned in such a way that you could get enough speed up to ram through the frontage now have waist-high bollards in front of them. These bollards can stop anything short of a main battle tank.
** The placement of these bollards in front of federal buildings became standard practice after 9/11.
* In some office buildings, the doors are solid wood in a metal frame, which is a nuisance for firefighters trying to get through if the door is locked. On the other hand, as noted in the ''Series/BurnNotice'' example, the wall ''next'' to the door is usually simple drywall and can easily be punched through in order to reach in and unlock the door. Even better, some of those building will have ordinary glass windows next to the door.

** Played with: The two protagonists find themselves in a cell with a steel door. Filemón starts making a hole in the wall, all the while brushing off Mortadelo who's trying to tell him something. When, after considerable time, he finally breaks through the wall, he finds Mortadelo there waiting for him -- it turns out that [[TheGuardsMustBeCrazy the bad guys forgot to lock the door]]...

** In a season 6 episode, Sam uses a washing machine and a pipe to rip a hole in a laundry room wall to escape a gang. Did we mention that Burn Notice likes this trope?

*** The evil Kryptonians Jax-Ur and Mala just fly through any building they meet in a straight line. This is used to emphasize how they don't care about the humans at all. In the same fight, Superman flies around the buildings.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/LegionOfSuperHeroes'' episode "The Man from the Edge of Tomorrow; Part 2", Kell-El flies up through the roof, leaving Superman to look through the resultant hole and remark, "I'm guessing they don't have doors in the future." (Kell-El is from the 41st Century.)

** Parodied by Kyle Baker in his ComicBook/PlasticMan's run. Superman is nearly kept from his face-off with (then-president) Lex Luthor because the [[ComicBook/IdentityCrisis recent crisis]] had him rethinking his disregard for public property, and the little old lady receptionist guarding the door [[ObstructiveBureaucrat wouldn't let him in]]. Later, it's exaggerated by Superman's imperfect duplicate Bizarro, who refuses to use, not just the door, but the hole he left in the wall the first time.

* In the season 2 finale of ''WebAnimation/SonicForHire'', Both Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog's enemies and his allies burst through the walls into his apartment to fight... Except VideoGame/EarthwormJim, who actually uses the door. Sonic complains about losing his deposit, of course.

* Throughout the ''[[LetsPlay/LifeSMP 3rd Life SMP]]'', most people opt to break through Dogwarts' wall rather than use the door, much to Rendog's annoyance.

--->'''Dementor:''' Vha-vhy did you kick down ze door? It vasn't even locked. I JUST HAD IT PAINTED!

** During Creator/PeterDavid's run, when he had the brains of Banner in the Hulk's body, he decides to sneak out the back way by creating a back way. Subverted in a later punch up with ComicBook/CaptainAmerica, where despite being inside a fragile house, nothing is damaged. He's thrown cleanly out the front door thanks to Cap's judo skills.

* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'':

* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': Inverted in one comic where ComicBook/SilverSable has ''The Daily Bugle'' contact Spidey to ask to meet with him. Spidey decides to be direct, and simply go to the office waiting room of the Symkarian Embassy; eventually, Silver comes out, upset because he's scaring away her appointments, and asks, "Don't you usually come in through the window?"

* ''Franchise/XMen'':

** From Creator/JossWhedon's ''Astonishing X-Men'' run, Danger has teamed up with SufficientlyAdvancedAlien Ord of the Breakworld to invade the X-Mansion (again). The superstrong and mildly berserk Ord is bashing through everything in his path, ripping doors off their hinges and generally making a mess.

** [[Franchise/{{Superman}} Clark]] does this on occasion, but you are not an evil kryptonian if you break down every door you see.

* In the season 2 finale of ''WebAnimation/SonicForHire'', Both Franchise/{{Sonic}}'s enemies and his allies burst through the walls into his apartment to fight... Except VideoGame/EarthwormJim, who actually uses the door. Sonic complains about losing his deposit, of course.

** Parodied by Kyle Baker in his ComicBook/PlasticMan's run. Superman is nearly kept from his face-off with (then-president) Lex Luthor because the [[IdentityCrisis recent crisis]] had him rethinking his disregard for public property, and the little old lady receptionist guarding the door [[ObstructiveBureaucrat wouldn't let him in]]. Later, it's exaggerated by Superman's imperfect duplicate Bizarro, who refuses to use, not just the door, but the hole he left in the wall the first time.

* Throughout the ''[[LetsPlay/LifeSMP 3rd Life SMP]]'', most people opt to break through Dogwarts' wall rather than use the door, much to Ren's annoyance.

** Broken subversion in ''ComicBook/EarthX'': Bruce Banner (separated from the Hulk) appears to be telling Hulk to be careful with Dr. Strange's walls. But he tells Hulk "We don't need to use a door here", apparently a typo for "We need to use a door" or "We don't need to make a door". Hulk use door anyway.

* In ''Manga/{{Saiyuki}} Reload'', Gojyo's old friend Banri says hi by kicking down Gojyo's door.

** ''ComicBook/TheDominatorWar'': When Supergirl's XRayVision finds the Wanderers' secret hideout, the ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes burst crash through one wall and into the place.