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1->''A warehouse door will be reinforced. The walls around it ''will not''. [[DynamicEntry The walls beneath windows will not have reinforced beams.]]''
2-->--'''Michael Westen''', ''Series/BurnNotice''
3
4->''"Hey Mario! Lots of people use something called a "door" to go in and out of their houses..."''
5-->--'''Toad''', ''VideoGame/SuperMarioRPG''
6
7->''"And here he's crashing through another window! What is with this guy and his fear of doors? Did a door kill his family?"''
8-->-- '''[[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]]''', on the first chase scene in the ''Film/AloneInTheDark2005'' movie
9
10->''"Hehehehe! Oh, [[spoiler:Bats]], I've missed you. All the subtlety and nuance of a napalm enema."''
11-->--[[spoiler:'''Joker''']], after Batman uses the Batmobile to rip a wall down, ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight''
12
13-><Knock Knock Knock>\
14'''D.P. Gumby:''' Come in!\
15<CRASH!>\
16'''D.P. Gumby:''' No, open the door and come in!
17-->-- ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'', "Gumby Theatre presents ''The Cherry Orchard'' by Creator/AntonChekhov"
18
19->''"You were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!"''
20-->-- '''Caine''', ''Film/TheItalianJob1969''
21
22->''"Whoa. Somewhere in that building, there's a door whose feelings are hurt."''
23-->-- '''Shameik Moore''', ''Series/IncredibleCrew''
24
25->''"You know, the door was '''open''', [[TheNicknamer Chief Break-Everything]]!"''
26-->-- '''Old Jewish Man''', ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''
27
28->''"Uh, Nice? Why'd ya [[StuffBlowingUp blow it up]] when the door's already open?"''
29-->-- '''Donny''', ''Literature/{{Baccano}}''
30
31->''"That's a nice angle on the wall, straight through it! I like your style! Certainly had me fooled! That's only part of the puzzle: most days you come through the door! Sometimes you even open it! But today you didn't, today you suddenly changed your routine! Why, eh? You in trouble, Vyv?"''
32-->-- '''Mike''', ''Series/TheYoungOnes''
33
34->'''Tommy:''' What's with the chainsaw?\
35'''Hacken:''' Oh, I heard voices comin' from in here, you know? And I always figure it's best to make a really cool entrance--\
36'''Tommy:''' Jesus... Hacken, you see this? This is a ''door'', incredible invention. Opens an' closes for you whenever you want. All you do is, you pull the handle here, see?
37-->-- ''Comicbook/{{Hitman|1993}}''
38
39->''"Wouldn't the door have been easier?"''
40-->-- '''Doctor Eggman''', ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006''
41
42->'''Kayla:''' How we gonna get it out of here?\
43'''Chase:''' The window!\
44'''Kayla:''' There ''is'' no window!\
45'''Chase:''' There is now!
46-->-- ''Manga/FightingFoodons''
47
48->''"Doors are for people with no imagination."''
49-->-- '''Skulduggery''', ''Literature/SkulduggeryPleasant''
50
51->''"Superman, thanks for saving my life... but did you have to come through my ''wall''? I'm renting here, they got a security deposit! What am I supposed to do?"''
52-->-- '''Jerry Seinfeld'''
53
54->'''Spider-Man:''' YOU BLEW UP A WALL!\
55'''Dr. Doom:''' Yes? That is how '''[[ThirdPersonPerson DOOM]]''' [[IncomingHam enters a room]]. How do you do it?\
56'''Spider-Man:''' Uh, through the '''door'''? [[SuperWindowJump And sometimes the window]], but that doesn't count.\
57'''Dr. Doom:''' The '''DOOR'''? Like a '''PEASANT'''?
58-->-- ''ComicBook/MarvelAdventures The Avengers: Infinity Gauntlet''
59
60->''"Megamind! You're actually the guy I wanna see! Also, there's a door here."''
61-->-- '''Titan''', ''WesternAnimation/{{Megamind}}''
62
63->''"I've yet to encounter a potentially dangerous situation that can't be defused by smashing through a wall."''
64-->-- '''Garrus Vakarian''', ''Fanfic/{{Renegade}}''
65
66->'''Factory Robot:''' You could have knocked.
67->'''Sawtooth Rivergrinder:''' Doors are for the weak.
68-->-- ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}''
69
70->''"I THINK this is a docking station. Ready? *WHAM* Good news: that is NOT a docking station. So there's one mystery solved. [[UnusualEuphemism I'm going to attempt a manual override on this wall.]] Could get a bit technical. Hold on!"''
71-->-- '''[[IdiotBall Wheatley]]''', ''VideoGame/{{Portal 2}}''
72
73->'''Marine:''' Why did you break (the wall) if you ended up having to fix it?!\
74'''Garp:''' [[GenreSavvy Because it's cool to enter a scene like that!]]
75-->-- ''Manga/OnePiece''
76
77->'''Saivah:''' Where did you come from?\
78'''Shogetsu:''' Through the front door, of course.\
79'''Salsaneia:''' It was a heavy door, so it took us a while.\
80'''Befyladita:''' [[ApologizesALot I'm sorry.]] I guess he was too excited to ring the doorbell.
81-->-- ''Manga/{{Dazzle}}''
82
83-> (After Bizarro broke down the wall to a restaurant, Lois wants to leave.) \
84'''Lois''': But use the door next time.\
85'''Bizarro''': Ok. (breaks down the door)
86-->-- ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries''
87
88->I don't feel like using doors — or windows either! The wall is good enough for me!
89-->-- '''Franchise/{{Superman}}''', ''Comicbook/KryptoniteNevermore''
90
91->''"Hobbes, I don't know about you, but I'm about to make a new door in this cellar!"''
92-->-- '''Calvin''', ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesTheSeries''
93
94->'''Dr. Doofenshmirtz:''' Wait, no, no! Don't open the door; you'll let in Perry the Platypus!\
95'''Vanessa:''' You know he'll just blow the door down if you don't open it. (opens door revealing Perry holding a bazooka) Come in, Perry. Toodles!\
96'''Doofenshmirtz:''' I'm worried about her, Perry the Platypus. (notices Perry's bazooka) Hey! You were going to to blow down my door!
97-->-- WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb
98
99->''"USE THE DOORS! USE THE DOORS!"''
100-->-- '''Robotnik''', ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog, Robo-Ninjas''.
101
102->''"Yeah, coming through the wall was real fucking cool. USING THE FRONT DOOR WAS COOL!"''
103-->-- '''Creator/DaneCook''', "Not So Kool Aid"
104
105->''"You don't go through doors, you go through walls. Do you have some kind of grudge against buildings? '''Do you have some mental issue? A complex? A pathological hatred of architecture?"'''''
106-->-- '''Odin''', ''Webcomic/OhMyGod''
107
108->''"Oh, look who's [[DeusEstMachina too all-powerful]] to stoop to using airlocks."''
109-->--'''Ennesby''', ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary''
110
111->'''Cartel Soldier 1:''' They're gone, man!\
112'''Cartel Soldier 2:''' Shit, even the walls are gone!
113-->-- ''Manga/BlackLagoon'', "Roberta's Blood Trail"
114
115->'''Ethel:''' Isn't there any other way Superman enters a room?\
116'''Lucy:''' Well, sometimes he comes bursting through the wall, but you know how Fred would feel about that.
117-->--''Series/ILoveLucy''
118
119->''"Nice entrance. Either you've never heard of a door, or you just like pulling glass out of your shorts!"''
120-->--'''ComicBook/TheJoker''' questioning the DynamicEntry of his [[ComicBook/{{Batman}} archenemy]] and his [[ComicBook/{{Robin}} sidekick]], ''[[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries The New Batman Adventures]]''
121
122->"Hey! I just fixed that door!"
123-->--'''Bill Cipher''''s reaction to [[spoiler:a HumongousMecha breaking through his castle's door]], ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls''
124
125->'''Wanda:''' Vis! We talked about this!
126->'''Vision:''' Well, [[ExactWords the door was open]], so I assumed...
127-->''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'', shortly after the Vision phases through a wall.
128
129->She was interrupted when Kizo smashed through the outer wall of the building.\
130The Kryptonian deliberately avoided crushing the communications board against the wall. He thought he might have use for that. But it was fun to make an entrance like this, and note the fear and surprise in his enemies' eyes. Superman must have done it like this.
131-->-- ''Fanfic/AForceOfFour''
132
133->'''Elan:''' ''[crashing through the window]'' The jig is up, Kubota! Surrender now!\
134'''Therkla:''' Elan, I left the door open for you, you know.\
135'''Elan:''' Right, that's why I had to go around and find another way to crash dramatically into the scene. Don't worry, you're new at this, it's an easy mistake to make.
136-->-- ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0589.html "Entrance Qualifications"]]
137
138->I dunno... [[GodOfHumanOrigin lab-perfected pinnacle of human evolution]] and it couldn't operate a bloody door handle...
139-->--'''Reddin''' on Malak's destruction of Tehran, ''ComicBook/{{Supergod}}''
140
141->"I would have knocked but my fist had other plans."
142-->-- '''Jack Stiles''', ''Series/JackOfAllTrades''
143
144->Mag entered in the manner so many of these self-absorbed supernatural cretins seemed to adore. He blasted the door into a cloud of flying splinters with what I presumed was magic.
145->[[OnlySaneMan For God's sake]].
146->[[EvenEvilHasStandards At least the vampires would call for an appointment]].
147-->--''[[Literature/TheDresdenFiles Even Hand]]''
148
149->"What's going on?" shouted [[TheSmartGuy Dorcas]]. "What about the door?"\
150"We'll open the door! We'll open the door!" [[TheHero Masklin]] shouted.\
151"How?"\
152"Well, it didn't look very thick, did it?"\
153The world of [[OurGnomesAreWeirder nomes]] is, to humans, a rapid world. [[TimeDissonance They live so fast that the things that happen around them seem quite slow]], so the lorry seemed to drift across the floor, up the ramp and hit the door in a leisurely way. There was a long drawn-out boom and the noise of bits of metal being torn apart, a scraping noise across the roof of the cab, and then there was no door at all, only darkness studded with lights.
154-->--''[[Literature/NomesTrilogy Truckers]]''
155
156->We've concluded that there is no way any man or machine could have kept control of [[Music/SixxAM Nikki Sixx]] at this time in his life. If you put a 1987 era Nikki Sixx on one side of a brick wall and heroin on the other side, you will end up with a [[ImpactSilhouette Nikki Sixx-shaped hole in your brick wall]]. The wall could be only six-feet long and have a door in it, and he'd still go right through the thing like it was paper.
157->'''A Typical Day If You Were Nikki Sixx's [[BeleagueredAssistant Personal Assistant]]:'''
158->'''You:''' Hey, Nikki, have you... oh no, my wall! Oh my. I should not have left that heroin lying behind that brick wall. For this I have no one to blame but myself.
159-->--'''Website/{{Cracked}},''' [[http://www.cracked.com/article_18586_the-7-most-impossible-rock-stars-to-deal-with.html The 7 Most Impossible Rock Stars To Deal With]]''
160
161-><Get me to the door!> I yelled to the others.
162-><Left... okay, now right... okay now... jeez, what are you, blind? Left, right, okay, CHARGE!>
163->[[RhinoRampage I charged]].
164->WHAMMMM!
165->I felt like I'd hit a truck. I backed up and slammed forward again.
166->WHAMMMM! Crunch.
167-><Man, that was a tough door!> I said.
168-><Um, Jake? [[BlindMistake You missed the door]]. That was the wall.>
169-->--''Literature/{{Animorphs}} #16: The Warning''
170
171->"Theron's methods can sometimes be a bit too... stylish," Marcus explained, choosing his words carefully.\
172"Stylish?"\
173"He prefers to go through the window instead of a perfectly good door."
174-->--''Literature/StarWarsAnnihilation''
175
176->'''Itona''': Victory is mine. I have proven myself stronger than the classroom wall.\
177'''Class 3-E''': COME ON! USE THE DOOR NEXT TIME!
178-->--''Manga/AssassinationClassroom''
179
180->If the attack had come by way of the only doorway, so that the pirates could have concentrated their weapons upon one or two Patrolmen, the commander might have had time enough to do what he was under compulsion to do. But while the Patrolmen were still in space a plane of force sheared off the entire side of the room, a tractor beam jerked the detached wall away, and the attackers floated in en masse.
181-->-- ''[[Literature/{{Lensman}} First Lensman]]''
182
183->The second thing that happened was the arrival of Superman, Dev-Em, Captain Action, and Action Boy, tearing apart what remained of the roof and the rooms above Darkseid's chamber. Kal and Dev had used their X-ray visions to pinpoint his location, and smashed their way to his darkened room. A few seconds beforehand, they wouldn't have been able to breach the force-field with all their combined strength. Now, four fists struck, and the door and wall around it crumbled. Power Girl got there an instant afterward.
184-->-- ''Fanfic/HellsisterTrilogy''
185
186->[[{{Hulkspeak}} Me]] get up, crash through roof.\
187Me am hear her yell, "Number one, wait! You am not go out naked!"\
188Oops!\
189Me crash back in through roof, embarrassed as all heaven. "How me am remember that? Sorry, sourbunch."\
190Helpfully, her am hand over Bizarro No. 1 medallion. Her am so unthoughful, that am why me love her.\
191Then, medallioned, me crash through another part of roof. Me figure out that, at end of this gig, me got to put on new roof so me have some part left to crash through next time.
192-->-- '''Bizarro''', ''Fanfic/TheUnfantasticAdventuresOfBizarroNo1''
193
194->Walls can't stop justice, little girl!
195-->--'''Chief''', ''VideoGame/InvestiGatorTheCaseOfTheBigCrime''
196
197->'''Ben:''' How'd you get in here?\
198'''Kevin:''' The usual way. By the way, you might wanna fix that hole I punched in your door.\
199'''Ben:''' You could have knocked!\
200'''Kevin:''' I sorta did.
201-->--''WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce''
202
203->'''Yo:''' Why didn't you just use the door?\
204'''Oz:''' It's called [[DynamicEntry "making an entrance"?]] Duh!
205-->--''WesternAnimation/FanboyAndChumChum''
206
207->'''Deacon:''' Nick, why don't you just use the front door? The neighbors can see you flying around the house. [[{{Masquerade}} You want to draw attention to the house, hmm?]]\
208'''Nick:''' [[HypocriticalHumor You've got a whole documentary crew following you around!]]
209-->--''Film/WhatWeDoInTheShadows''
210
211->'''Miller:''' What's the go signal...for the uh...for the assault?\
212'''Drummer:''' ''(points at bulkhead of BreachingPod)'' That will explode and turn into a door. Good hunting.
213-->-- ''Series/TheExpanse'', "Doors and Corners"
214
215->'''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Cadance]]:''' There ''was'' a door.\
216'''[[TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 Leman Russ]]:''' When you're wearing power armour, everything is a door!
217-->-- ''Fanfic/TheMLPLoops''
218
219->'''Anne:''' Cú Chullain, how many times must we tell you to ''open'' the door, not ''obliterate'' it.\
220'''Cú Chullain:''' Ah! You must forgive me! In my day, we had no doors!
221-->-- ''VideoGame/BravelySecond''
222
223->"I strode over to the door and with a mighty [[IKnowKungFaux triple-wristed, quarter-Nelson drop-kick]]--broke it down!"
224-->-- ''Kremmen of the Star Corps''
225
226->''"We have a driveway, you know!"''
227-->-- '''Viridian City Nurse Joy''', ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' "Pokémon Emergency!"
228
229->"Congratulations. The most evil creature in the universe has successfully vanquished an old door."
230-->-- '''The Doctor''', ''Series/DoctorWho'', "Eve of the Daleks"
231
232->"Satan's ''asscrack'', enough with [[RunningGag the wall shit]]! We have a ''door''!"
233-->-- '''Blitzo''', ''WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss''
234
235-> ''Sonovagun--! ComicBook/{{Superman}}! Don't you ever come in through the door like normal people?''
236-->-- '''[[Characters/SupermanSupportingCast Inspector Henderson]]''', ''ComicBook/ActionComics #561''

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