Line #2 Main/DoorFu


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:Knock knock!]]
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4	->''"Let's show our ''friends'' the door."''
5	-->-- '''Braum''', ''Videogame/LeagueOfLegends''
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7	In RealLife, doors are big, sturdy, unwieldy, heavy, and often securely fastened to their hinges. They are used to block or allow entry to different parts of a structure, and their use as weapons is generally not even considered beyond [[TheDoorSlamsYou slamming them in someone's face]] [[DoorSlamOfRage in a fit of anger]].
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9	In fiction-land, however, those same traits above lend doors to be perfect {{Improvised Weapon}}s for TheBigGuy or other characters with SuperStrength: They're big, so they are not so easily dodged; they're sturdy, so they aren't going to break after short use and make for excellent improvised tower shields (some doors are outright MadeOfIndestructium); they come with handles to alleviate the whole 'unwieldy' aspect (and unlike RealLife, these handles almost never break); they are heavy, so you can make sure any blow you strike inflicts just as much blunt damage as a bona-fide ShieldBash; and so omnipresent that if you are in any location with a building, you can be assured there's a door within reach should you need a weapon.
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11	Compare TheDoorSlamsYou, which is comedic and unintentional for the characters; DoorJudo, which is when a character tries to break down a door by charging at it only for the door to open and leaving said character TooFastToStop; and TaeKwonDoor for when a door isn't wielded, but still recognized for its ability to inflict damage. If it's a car door, see ToyotaTripwire.
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13	!!Examples:
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17	[[folder:Comic Books]]
18	* ''ComicBook/{{Lanfeust}}'': Hebus the troll tries to break open a steel porticullis, and when that fails, to bend it. Cut to a guard leaning against the gears smugly mentioning he'll never get through, then back to Hebus simply grabbing and then ''lifting'' the grate, pulling the unfortunate guard's body into the gears as the mechanism is reversed.
19	* In the ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'' story ''The Pit,'' Dredd and some other judges are trapped in a traffic-monitoring station in the middle of a sector-wide riot. At one point the rioters manage to break in via the upper floor, causing one judge to exclaim "They're in!" Dredd picks up the door the rioters just blew off its hinges, scoops up half a dozen of them with it and throws them off the roof, replying "They're out again!"
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22	[[folder:Film -- Live Action]]
23	* ''Film/ComingHomeInTheDark'': At one point, when Tubs goes to open the back door of the car, [[TheProtagonist Hoaggie]] kicks it open into Tubs' face, sending him to the ground and giving Hoaggie a chance to get away.
24	* ''Film/Elves2017'': After Colin's been strangled by his assailant, said assailant put Colin's head into his car's door and slams it shut on him multiple times to kill him.
25	* ''Film/KillerUnderTheBed'': [[TheProtagonist Kilee]] uses a closet door to knock Mr. [=McCabe=] unconscious.
26	* In ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark'', Ian Malcolm uses a door as a shield against a velociraptor.
27	* ''Film/MrNiceGuy'' (starring Creator/JackieChan) has Chan's titular character caught in a ScoobyDoobyDoors-style chase, while beating up his pursuers by closing doors on their hands or faces, though Chan does get doors slammed on himself a few times. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Idd_BqloFYY It's as funny as it's impressive]].
28	* In the climax of the kung-fu film ''Film/TheRescue1971'', when the heroes are trapped in a Mongol Fortress filled with enemy mooks. Most of the good guys have swords, axes or spears, and fights with weapons, but Cha-de, the largest guy (he's played by muscleman Creator/BoloYeung, after all) instead rips a set of gates off their hinges and uses them as improvised clubs.
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31	[[folder:Literature]]
32	* This happens one time in the ''Literature/CodexAlera'' series when some characters are trying to hold a room against some taken Canim (giant zombie wolfmen), they are about to break through the door, so one character decides to break the door down in such a way that it falls outwards and crushes one of the Canim.
33	* ''Literature/AHerosWar'': When Morey's party finds an ancient facility with a door [[MadeOfIndestructium made of crysteel]], they break down the wall and take the door with them as a very effective shield.
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37	* ''VideoGame/Bayonetta3'' introduces a weapon called Tartarus. Normally it's wielded like a pair of bulky tonfas with built-in gatling guns, but its halves can be joined to create a heavy door which can be used as a ramming weapon, a portal to summon other weapons, or a vacuum hole that sucks in enemies.
38	* In ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyAdvancedWarfare'', the player can rip off car doors to shield against a drone swarm in the opening mission.
39	* In ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsIII'', the Giant Door Shield is a pair of doors used as shields. The wielder [[DualWielding dual wields]] a pair of doors to [[LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe block incoming attacks]], slam their enemies, crush them by [[TheDoorSlamsYou shutting both doors]], or charging toward them [[InvulnerableAttack while negating most attacks]].
40	** This was a more-refined variation of a pair of individual greatshields from ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsII'' called Orma's Greatshield and Reeve's Greatshield, which could be dual wielded in Power Stance to generate a similar "slam" attack.
41	* DiscussedTrope in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemPathOfRadiance'' in [[JerkAss Shinnon]] and [[AFoolAndHisNewMoneyAreSoonParted Gatrie]]'s A support, which overlaps with NoodleIncident since we never got to saw it in action.
42	--> '''Gatrie''': What about the other day, when I bought the Ultimate Shield?!
43	--> '''Shinnon''': Gatrie, that was a castle gate.
44	* Braum from ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' wields a massive shield that was once a door. There's a story behind it: A devious troll tricked Ornn, the demi-god of the forge, into creating an indestructible door to protect his treasure hoard. Ornn did [[ExactWords exactly as commanded]]… but neglected to include any method of ''opening'' said door, leaving the troll as trapped outside as any thief. Later on, the indestructible door got between [[FolkHero Braum]] and saving a troll child. Now, usually any object in that position [[SuperStrength ceases to be so in short order]], but this one even Braum couldn't touch... [[MyopicArchitecture so he smashed through the mountain around it]], and picked it up to use himself, under the logic that if it can stand up to him, it can stand up to anything his enemies might throw at him. Usually he uses it for defense, but...
45	--> '''Braum''': Sometimes, shield becomes ''smashing board''.
46	* A type of zombie in ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombies'' carries a screen door to protect himself, which has high durability and shields him from most straight-shot attacks. The way to defeat the zombie easily is to either by using a Fume-shroom or Gloom-shroom, whose fume attacks can penetrate through the door; using catapult plants that can lob attacks over the door; or by snatching the door from the zombie using a Magnet-shroom.
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49	[[folder:Webcomics]]
50	* In ''WebComic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', Thog breaks through a door and immediately uses it as an improvised weapon.
51	* In ''Webcomic/RustyAndCo'', the [[BlobMonster Gelatinous Cube]] tears two [[AnimateInanimateObject magical, intelligent doors]] off their hinges and paddles enemies with them. The doors are very unhappy about it.
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