History Main / BigDoor

* The ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' series has the Vault doors: giant circular doors that seal the Vaults from the outside world after a nuclear war between China and America end the world until an "all-clear" signal would be broadcasted for the vault dwellers to start rebuilding. The signature form of the doors was used a lot in the ads, downloads, and merch of ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 4}}''.

* ''Franchise/KingKong'': [[Film/KingKong1933 All]] [[Film/KingKong1976 three]] [[Film/KingKong2005 versions]] of ''King Kong'' include the giant wall between the native village and Kong's territory, and the enormous gate that allows passage through the wall. While the gate is quite intimidating to the humans, it's not strong enough to keep the determined Kong from breaking through.

* ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' has a lot of these.

** The Gates of Moria in The Fellowship of the Ring.
** The Black Gate of Mordor in The Two Towers and The Return of the King.
** The Main Gate of Minas Tirith in The Return of The King.
* Also a Tolkien example: the gates of Angband from ''Literature/TheSilmarillion'' dwarfed all of the other aforemented Tolkien's Big Doors.
* The doors to the Great Temple in the Citadel of Kom in ''Literature/SmallGods'' are a hundred feet tall, made of solid bronze and have all Five Hundred and Twelve Commandments set on them in gold letters. They are opened by the breath of Om and a single touch from the high priest. (Actually, they're bronze-plated wood with steel reinforcement and are opened by a complex system of hydraulics, but they're still big.)

* ''Film/JurassicPark'' has a big, impressive gate whose sole purpose is to look impressive for park visitors. Malcolm jokes about it looking like the gate from King Kong (which is a joke on how it mimics its design).
* ''Film/KingKong1933'': the giant gate in the giant wall, big enough to let Kong in.

* ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl'': At the very end of the Subspace Emissary's Great Maze lies a massive, colorful door where [[spoiler:Tabuu]] resides. It only opens when the player fights the every other boss in the [[FunWithAcronyms SSE]] and the clone of every playable character the player had at that point, meaning this excludes [[spoiler:[[EleventhHourRanger Sonic]], [[BonusBoss Jigglypuff, Toon Link, and Wolf]]]].

* ''VideoGame/{{Portal 2}}'' has a truly enormous [[VideoGame/Fallout Vault-Tec style]] door separating the condemned old Aperture Science facility from the new. Behind it? [[spoiler: A wall, with a completely ordinary small door set into it.]] The developers joked that they were going to put a claim on the box saying, "Features the largest door in video games!"

* ''VideoGame/{{Portal 2}}'' has a giant, circular door separating the old Aperture Science facility from the new. Behind it? [[spoiler: A wall, with a much smaller door set into it.]] The developers joked that they were going to put a claim on the box saying, "Features the largest door in video games!"

Compare CoolGate. See also CoolKey for some of the keys which may fit the door. Not to be confused with a BigEntrance.

Compare CoolGate. See also CoolKey for some of the keys which may fit the door.

* Star Wars Episode VI: ''Film/{{Return of the Jedi}}'' has a gigantic door on Jabba's Palace on Tattooine, seen again in ''Series/{{The Book of Boba Fett}}'' Disney+ series. However, we never see anything big go through it. They only raise it enough for pedestrian access. The floor holes for the huge shear teeth at the base would make quite a hazard.

* Star Wars Episode VI: ''Film/{{Return of the Jedi}}'' has a gigantic door on Jabba's Palace on Tattooine, seen again in ''Series / The Book of Boba Fett'' Disney+ series. However, we never see anything big go through it. They only raise it enough for pedestrian access. The floor holes for the huge shear teeth at the base would make quite a hazard.