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* ''Series/TheAlmightyJohnsons'':
** The series finale ends with[[spoiler: Axl and his family giving up their godhood and becoming human. The final scene is Axl going to his friend's house (who doesn't remember him) and offers to move in with him]]. The last shot of the show is Axl closing the door to the apartment before the credits roll.

* ''Series/{{The Almighty Johnsons}}'':

* The Almighty Johnsons:

* ''Series/The Almighty Johnsons'':
** The series finale ends with([[spoiler: Axl and his family giving up their godhood and becoming human. The final scene is Axl going to his friend's house (who doesn't remember him) and offers to move in with him]]). The last shot of the show is Axl closing the door to the apartment before the credits roll.

--->'''Mary Jane''': ''framed in the doorway'' Now...let's discuss ''just'' how you feel about Felicia Hardy.
--->'''Peter''': ''from behind the now-closed door'' Felicia ''who''?

* In ''Series/TheCloser'': the last we see of Brenda Leigh Johnson in the GrandFinale is her eating one of her long-missed chocolates as the elevator doors close.

* ''Series/StarTrekPicard'': The final shot of the episode "[[Recap/StarTrekPicardS1E06TheImpossibleBox The Impossible Box]]" is of Hugh and Elnor preparing to hold off Romulan footsoldiers until the Sikarian spatial trajector can power down, with the queencell's chamber door closing over them.
* Inverted after the final battle of ''Series/TheDefenders2017''. As the Defenders file into the room where their friends are waiting to embrace them, Foggy Nelson and Karen Page are left staring at the open door, waiting for Matt Murdock to enter as well. He doesn't.

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* [[Music/MichaelJackson Michael Jackson's]] song "Thriller" begins (appropriately for a song about classic horror movies) with a creaky door opening, and ends (over [[Creator/VincentPrice Vincent Price's]] EvilLaugh with that same door creaking shut and closing.

* [[Music/MichaelJackson Michael Jackson's]] song [[Music/{{Thriller}}"Thriller"]] begins (appropriately for a song about classic horror movies) with a creaky door opening, and ends (over [[Creator/VincentPrice Vincent Price's]] EvilLaugh with that same door creaking shut and closing.

* [[Music/MichaelJackson Michael Jackson's]] song "Thriller", from [[Music/Thriller the album of the same name,]] begins (appropriately for a song about classic horror movies) with a creaky door opening, and ends (over [[Creator/VincentPrice Vincent Price's]] EvilLaugh with that same door creaking shut and closing.

* The title song of [[Creator/MichaelJackson Michael Jackson's]] Music/Thriller begins (appropriately for a song about classic horror movies) with a creaky door opening, and ends (over [[Creator/VincentPrice Vincent Price's]] EvilLaugh with that same door creaking shut and closing.

** The [[Film/{{Spiral}} ninth film]] ends with [[spoiler: Emmerson (William Schenk) escaping the warehouse via elevator and Zeke shouting a BigNo before the elevator doors close, after Marcus has died.]]

!!As this is a {{Death Trope|s}}, [[Administrivia/SpoilersOff unmarked spoilers abound]]. [[Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned Beware]].

->''SHUT THAT DOOR!''

-->-- closing line of ''WesternAnimation/RapsittieStreetKidsBelieveInSanta''

* Inverted at the end of ''Series/TheDefenders2017''. As the Defenders file into the room where their friends are waiting, Foggy Nelson and Karen Page are left staring at the open door, waiting for Matt Murdock to enter as well. He doesn't.

* ''VideoGame/MarioParty'' ''8'' has this in one minigame; the minigame starts with a door opening to find Player 1 in a room full of clocks. The winner, however, will be shown for the minigame end scene, where all of the clocks start ticking. After a while on the results screen in Party Mode, the door is then shown to be closing.

* In ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'', the bonus chapter "The Blind Alchemist" ends with the doors closing behind the Elric brothers as they depart.