History Main / TrespassingToTalk

* ''Film/Daredevil2003''. Kingpin finds Bullseye in his office with his feet up on the desk, and is shown to have killed one of his bodyguards to get that far. Kingpin doesn't take offence as Bullseye has proved himself a capable assassin. And anyway, a deleted scene shows [[BadBoss Kingpin is not above killing his bodyguards]] ForTheEvulz himself.
* ''Film/TheDarkKnight''. Despite RobbingTheMobBank in the ActionPrologue, the Joker casually strolls into a heavily guarded meeting of mob bosses and makes an offer to kill Batman for them. When one of them tries to throw him out, the Joker sticks a pencil in his eye.

*** At the end of "The Ones We Leave Behind," having resigned from the ''Bulletin'', Ben Urich returns to his apartment, and finds Wilson Fisk sitting in an armchair in a darkened corner of his home office. The conversation lasts several minutes (not least because of Fisk's [[VerbalTic stutter]]), with Fisk getting increasingly emotional due to having discovered that Ben has spoken with his mother[[note]]Ben doesn't admit that he had been tricked by Karen Page into doing the interview, and she had left him under the impression he was being shown a nursing facility where he could place his Alzheimer's-afflicted wife until it was too late to back out. Fisk won't find out that part until season 3, when she visits him[[/note]], which is one of Fisk's many [[BerserkButton temper triggers]], until he suddenly gets out of the chair and chokes Ben to death with his bare hands.
*** In "Kinbaku," picking up from the ending of "Penny and Dime," Matt reenters his apartment, in a love daze after [[RomanticRain kissing Karen in the rain]], to find Elektra in his apartment, having been sent by Stick to recruit Matt in the Chaste's fight against the Hand.

** ''Series/{{Jessica Jones|2015}}'': In "AKA 1000 Cuts", Kilgrave breaks into Jessica's apartment to threaten her into giving over his father in exchange for Hope being spared.

*** Mariah Dillard's brownstone is not really well secured. As a result, criminal associates tend to let themselves in uninvited to the point it's a RunningGag. The first instance is in "Manifest," when Shades visits to chide Mariah for letting her family's reputation fall so far. Then it happens twice in "Soliloquy of Chaos": first, Diamondback does it when he visits to provide her with a satchel of seed money for her projects. Later in the episode, Shades lets himself in through the back door again, having foiled Zip's attempt to kill him on Diamondback's orders.
---->'''Hernan "Shades" Alvarez:''' [[LampshadeHanging You really need a security system]].
*** By season 2, Shades regularly uses the back door to let himself in when he needs to talk to Mariah. This results in a hilarious moment where he's lurking in the entryway to interrupt Mariah while she's having breakfast with Tilda, and Tilda is the first to take notice. Mariah chides Shades with, "You need to stop showing up like this!"
*** In "On and On," Mariah and Tilda are preparing to flee in light of Bushmaster killing Piranha and bankrupting them. They're cut off by Bushmaster and his men barging their way in, tying them to chairs, and Bushmaster deciding to give Mariah the same fate that Mama Mabel gave his mother 30 years ago in Jamaica, and burns down the brownstone, leaving Tilda untied with the challenge of rescuing her mother. They are only rescued thanks to Luke being tipped off about the fire by D.W. and rushing into the flames to grab them before Mariah can pass out.
*** The first episode of season 2 sees Nigel Garrison, leader of the Brooklyn-based Yardies, return to his pad to find Bushmaster and his lieutenant waiting for him. Bushmaster has found out from his spy in Harlem's Paradise about Nigel making a gun deal with Mariah Dillard- ("[[InsistentTerminology STOKES, Mariah Stokes]]") and proceeds to kill Nigel and wound his bodyguards.
** ''Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}}'': After Rand Enterprises board member Lawrence Wilkins orchestrates a boardroom coup to oust Danny Rand, plus Joy and Ward Meachum, Harold decides to do something about it. Harold and his bodyguard Kevin Singleton sit in chairs in Lawrence's office, waiting for Lawrence to come back (taking advantage of the building security being offline for maintenance reasons). Lawrence is surprised since Harold has technically been dead for thirteen years. Harold attempts to blackmail Lawrence into reinstating Joy and Ward to the board of directors by showing him compromising photographs that Joy had hired Jessica Jones to take, showing Lawrence being loaded into a police car as well as documentation of Lawrence's prostitution and embezzling. Harold offers for Lawrence to take his own life in exchange for his reputation being left intact. When Lawrence says no, Harold shoots him in the head, plants the gun in his hand, and leaves the damning evidence on his desk.

** During Season 4, Catra enters Hordak's sanctum whenever she pleases and sits on his worktable. Hordak is forced to tolerate her because she can rip off [[AchillesHeel the power source of his armor]], leaving him defenseless; however, after a while, he seems to actually enjoy their conversations, since he has no one else to talk after Entrapta's disappearing. (That probably has something to do with StockholmSyndrome too.) With Double Trouble, however, Hordak is not so tolerant.

* ''Series/{{The Twilight Zone|1959}}'' episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS1E12WhatYouNeed What You Need]]". When Mr. Pedott arrives home at his apartment, he enters and [[LightswitchSurprise turns on the light. When he does, he discovers]] that Mr. Renard has broken into his room and is waiting in a chair to talk to him.

* ''Film/MinorityReport'': John Anderton trespasses into Dr. Iris Hineman's estate to chat with Iris herself, but is poisoned by the fictional intoxicating vines protecting her walls. John has the benefit of being a famous Precrime agent who intends to avoid killing or harming anyone, and resorts to this due to being a fugitive framed for a future murder.

* ''Film/MinorityReport'': John Anderton trespasses into Dr. Iris Hineman's estate to chat with Iris herself, but is poisoned by the fictional poison vines protecting her walls. John has the benefit of being a famous Precrime agent who intends to avoid killing or harming anyone, and resorts to this due to being a fugitive framed for a future murder.

* ''Film/MinorityReport'': John Anderton trespasses into Dr. Iris Hineman's estate to chat with Iris herself, but is poisoned by the fictional poison vines protecting her walls. John has the benefit of being a Precrime agent who intends to avoid killing or harming anyone, and resorts to this due to being a fugitive framed for a future murder.

** The first BondGirl shown on screen, Sylvia Trench in ''Film/DrNo'' accepts Bond's [[MyCard card]] with his phone number but decides to cut to the chase and turns up in his apartment, dressed in Bond's shirt and playing golf on the floor. Even though she doesn't know Bond is a spy, [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight she's not the least bit ruffled when Bond bursts in waving a gun at her.]]

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* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'':
** The ending of the ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'' storyline ''ComicBook/{{Bizarrogirl}}'' - pictured above - has a variant in where Lana Lang walks into her office and finds Cat Grant sitting on her couch in the dark and wanting to talk about Lana's connection with Supergirl.
** In ''ComicBook/SupergirlRebirth'', Supergirl returns to her [[HomeBase Fortress of Solitude]] and finds Cyborg Superman waiting for her and claiming he can take her back to Krypton.

** In ''ComicBook/KryptonNoMore'', Clark Kent walks out of the shower and finds his cousin Supergirl sitting on his couch and waiting for him to discuss a space mission.
** At the beginning of ''ComicBook/TheGreatPhantomPeril'', Superman returns to his apartment and finds a stranger has slipped into his home while he was away.

* Batman pulls this on Amanda Waller in the ''[[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Justice League Unlimited]]'' episode "[[Recap/JusticeLeagueUnlimitedS2E3TheDoomsdaySanction The Doomsday Sanction]]" -- while she's ''stepping out of the shower'', no less. Notably, Waller shows no signs of being intimidated by Batman in the least and is able to defend her viewpoints enough that [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness he leaves without a]] StealthHiBye or trying to get the last word in. He later does this again ''within the CADMUS Headquarters'', to force her and CADMUS to reexamine their business relationship with Lex Luthor.

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': The episode [[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE5PrettyPoison "Pretty Poison"]] sees Batman infiltrating Pamela's private greenhouse, aiming to get the antidote and answers results in him winding up in the tight embrace of her overgrown flytrap. Isley after, [[SlipIntoSomethingMoreComfortable changing for the evening]], slinks out to [[TheTease flirtatiously greet]] her (seemingly) pacified intruder, whereupon they converse about Harvey Dent, why she saw fit to poison him.
* In ''[[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries The New Batman Adventures]]'' episode "[[Recap/TheNewBatmanAdventuresE16AnimalAct Animal Act]]," Batman pulls this on Nightwing, informing him on what he found out about Haly's Circus. Given that their relationship at this point is rocky, the latter is less than pleased to see the former.
-->'''Nightwing:''' You... could knock.
* Batman pulls this on Amanda Waller in the ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueUnlimited'' episode "The Doomsday Sanction" -- while she's ''stepping out of the shower'', no less. Notably, Waller shows no signs of being intimidated by Batman in the least and is able to defend her viewpoints enough that [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness he leaves without a]] StealthHiBye or trying to get the last word in. He later does this again ''within the CADMUS Headquarters'', to force her and CADMUS to reexamine their business relationship with Lex Luthor.
* TheStinger from ''Film/IronMan1'' is parodied on ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'', where Tony questions why Nick broke in only to discover that "Nick" is actually a burglar.

* ''Series/BetterCallSaul'': In "Expenses," Daniel Wormald enters his darkened house, in which he has installed a very elaborate security system to prevent break-ins in light of his previous dealings with Nacho Varga...only to find Nacho calmly sitting on his living room couch. Nacho demands that Daniel supply him with some empty pill capsules (which he plans to swap with Hector's meds so as to induce a heart attack in Hector). All the while, Daniel expresses disbelief that someone could bypass his deadbolt locks and security system. But after they conclude their business, the camera focuses on Daniel for a moment, and then pans over to Nacho as he leaves the house...by way of the kitchen's unlocked and unprotected sliding glass door. Later, when Daniel wonders how Nacho could have defeated his security system, Mike mentions that all Nacho would have had to do was disconnect the phone line.

** In "Rally 'Round the Flagg, Boys", Potter walks into his office, with Father Mulcahy in tow, to find Colonel Flagg waiting for them, and neither of them (nor Radar, who was in his outer office the whole time) know or can even figure out how Flagg even got in there in the first place.

* ''Series/{{NCIS}}'': This happens to Gibbs a few times.

** ''Film/OnHerMajestysSecretService''. After Bond saves her life and then bails her out at the casino, Tracy invites Bond up to her hotel room. When he goes there however, he gets into an altercation with one of her father's thugs who's there instead. When Bond returns to his room, he finds Tracy there ReadyForLovemaking.
** Creator/DanielCraig-era has made a habit of breaking into M's house/flat/whatever in order to talk with her. Various other films, especially earlier ones, also have someone waiting in Bond's room or vice versa.
** Our introduction to Craig-Bond in ''Film/{{Casino Royale|2006}}'' involves a corrupt SIS station chief encountering Bond in his office. [[UnderestimatingBadassery He's not impressed]], assuming Bond is engaging in theatrics to scare him into a confession, and that Bond isn't going to kill him. [[TooDumbToLive He's wrong.]]
** In [[Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough one case]], the Bond girl was the first thing the apartment's owner saw, letting him snark about calling security to congratulate them... then Bond shows up from behind the door with a gun.
--->'''Zukovsky:''' Who are you, and how did you get in? I'll call security and congratulate them. Drink?

* One story in ''Fanfic/TheDaysofReckoningAreUponUs'' deconstructs Nick Fury doing this in Iron Man; upon returning home to find a stranger hiding in his house in the dark, Tony Stark, who had recently been attacked in his own home, [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome shoots Fury.]]

* ''Series/NCIS'': This happens to Gibbs a few times.

* On 9th July, 1982, in one of the most incredible breaches of royal security, 31-year-old painter Michael Fagin managed to scale the walls of Buckingham Palace, climb a drainpipe and end up in Queen Elizabeth II's bedchamber. Anecdotal accounts say that she kept him distracted in conversation for 10 minutes before the police arrived, but he genuinely did want to talk to the Queen and make a statement rather than cause any harm. [[https://www.historyextra.com/period/20th-century/buckingham-palace-intruder-michael-fagan-the-crown-queen-what-happened-why-say-conversation-bedroom/ You can read about it here.]]

*** Section 31 officer Sloan's preferred method of meeting/recruiting Bashir seems to be waiting in a chair by Bashir's bed, in the dark, until he wakes up. [[spoiler:This one predictable trait proves his undoing when Bashir sets up a forcefield trap.]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'', Milo enters his apartment to find Helga inside with a proposal from Mr. Whitmore to lead an expedition to Atlantis.

* Grimmel does this to Hiccup in WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragonTheHiddenWorld. The dragon riders try to subvert the trope, but fail.

* ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica:'' Steve does it to Tony Stark after they have a fight during the events of ''Armor Wars'', so that Steve can lay into Tony for starting a fight, and accidentally causing a prison break, and to return the new shield Tony had given him.

* In ''Film/TheDarkKnight'', the Joker manages to sneak into a heavily guarded meeting of mob bosses and makes an offer to kill Batman for them.

* In ''Film/TheBourneSupremacy'', Jason Bourne does this to a girl to [[spoiler:confess to murdering her parents, since she believed it was a [[MurderSuicide murder-suicide]]]].

* ''Film/Daredevil2003''. Kingpin finds Bullseye with his feet up on Kingpin's desk in his office, and is shown to have killed one of his bodyguards to get that far. Kingpin doesn't take offence as Bullseye has just proved himself a capable assassin. And anyway, a deleted scene shows Kingpin is not above killing his bodyguards ForTheEvulz himself.