History Main / ToyotaTripwire

* ''Film/HotFuzz'' uses the bicycle version on a lady rolling down the street, GunsAkimbo.

* ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' uses this with Barricade attacking Sam.

** A way for motorists to avoid this is (for left hand drives) to open the door with the right hand (and for right hand drives with the left hand), which makes one automatically turn in such a way that one sees any approaching cyclist. In some places, this is called the "Dutch Reach", as it is the standard method of opening a car door taught in the Netherlands (not using this method during a driving exam can be grounds for failing the exam). This can save lives, please do it!

* ''WebVideo/NotJustBikes'' points out on several occasions the danger of painting a bike lane between traffic and parallel parked cars without giving the riders any room to avoid collisions with abruptly opened doors. Bike lanes with more space separating them from parked cars are an improvement.

* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': Invoked accidentally by Peter in "Internal Affairs"; He opens the door to his car just before [[ArchEnemy Ernie the Giant Chicken]] goes by on a bicycle, triggering another one of their epic battles.

* ''VideoGame/SleepingDogs'' lets you open your door while driving in order to perform drive-by shootings or prepare to leap onto an adjacent vehicle and hijack it from the roof. (It's every bit as awesome as it sounds.) Or you can take advantage of its functional collision physics and simply use it to knock people off their motorcycles.

* Since Doc Brown's [=DeLorean=] in ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' has hatch-style doors that swing open vertically, he's able to pull off the extremely rare move of clocking a stationary onlooker -- namely Biff -- upside the head with his.

* The Ewoks pull this on a speederbike-riding stormtrooper in ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi''.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan'': In "Accomplices", [[TheDragon Hammerhead]]'s chauffeur hits Silver Sable in the face with the car door in order to stop her from getting away with the drive containing the Rhino armor specs.

* Hammond (Creator/EddieMurphy) did this to a criminal in ''Film/FortyEightHours''. Then he hits him with this: "What's happening, Luther? I'm sorry about the door man. Did that hurt? [[ThatsGottaHurt It looked real painful when you slammed into it]]."

* Happens to Gregor when he's running away in Arles in ''Film/{{Ronin}}''.

* The 2007 ''{{Film/Transformers}}'' movie uses this with Barricade attacking Sam.

* In ''Film/BlackWidow2021'', Yelena kicks out the door of the getaway car - that to make things more difficult, is moving and going backwards at the time - to take out a Widow on a motorbike during the CarChase in Budapest.

* In the TV movie ''Film/OpenDoors'', Robert does this unintentionally to Bruce: swinging open the door of the cleaning van just as Bruce is coming round the side, and knocking him out before he has a chance to discover the robbery.

* Happens accidentally to a cyclist in ''Film/BrokenWings''.

* In the TV movie ''Open Doors'', Robert does this unintentionally to Bruce: swinging open the door of the cleaning van just as Bruce is coming round the side, and knocking him out before he has a chance to discover the robbery.

* ''Series/CSIMiami'': In "F-T-F", Horatio and Delko are undertaking a stakeout in a parking garage. Delko confronts the suspect he flees, only to be flattened when Horatio opens the door of his hummer.

* ''Film/HalloweenKills'' has a scene where Michael Myers is approached by a woman shooting at him, so he kicks an open car door in her face, causing her to [[AccidentalSuicide accidentally shoot herself]].

* In ''Film/BlackWidow2021'', Yelena does this to take out a Widow on a motorbike during the CarChase in Budapest. to make things more difficult, the car is moving and going backwards at the time.

** An inverse for this trope also exists, in which an aggressive cyclist punches off the wing mirrors of a motorist who didn't spot them in time - SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome when the helmet cam incriminates the cyclist for damaging property over a comparatively minor slight!

** An inverse for this trope also exists, in which an aggressive cyclist punches off the wing mirrors of a motorist who didn't spot them in time - RealityEnsues when the helmet cam incriminates the cyclist for damaging property over a comparatively minor slight!

* In the TV movie ''Film/OpenDoors'', Robert does this unintentionally to Bruce: swinging open the door of the cleaning van just as Bruce is coming round the side, and knocking him out before he has a chance to discover the robbery.

** A way for motorists to avoid this is (for left hand drives) to open the door with the right hand (and for right hand drives with the left hand), which makes one automatically turn in such a way that one sees any approaching cyclist. This can save lives, please do it!

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Not to be confused with a tripwire for use on cars. And no, [[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant Toyota doesn't have a car called the Tripwire.]] SubTrope to TaeKwonDoor. Compare with CarFu. Contrast with PedestrianCrushesCar. See also TheDoorSlamsYou.

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* An FBI agent drops a sex offender with this in the season 4 pilot of ''Series/VeronicaMars''.
* ''Series/KnightRider'', featuring a car that ''can'' take care of itself quite handily, frequently featured variations on this trope.

* ''Series/SledgeHammer'' caught a snatch thief in the pilot by opening the door of his car to clock the perp.

* Brian 'Memory' Lane does this in the ''Series/NewTricks'' episode "Good Morning Lemmings": opening the door of the surveillance van to flatten a fleeing suspect.
* Magda Szubanski stirred up a hornet's nest by suggesting on an episode of ''Series/GoodNewsWeek'' that drivers should deliberately do this to cyclists.
* One of AJ's 'junior mafia' buddies does this accidentally on ''Series/TheSopranos''. When the biker gets up to complain, the guy beats him up further.

* ''Series/BurnNotice'': Michael does this is in "Question and Answer", driving alongside someone who is attempting to run away from him and then opening the door to knock him down when he refuses to stop.

* ''Series/CSICyber'': "Fire Code" opens with Elijah chasing an informant. They run into an alley and Avery drives into the other end of the alley to block it off. The informant attempts to dodge round the SUV only for Avery to open the door and flatten him.
* ''Series/TheNewAvengers'': In "The Tale of the Big Why", Gambit and Purdey drive after two villains who chasing a man across a field. Gambit opens the door of the Range-Rover as they drive past to knock down one of the villains as he stops to aim his shotgun at the fleeing man.
* ''Series/{{Banacek}}'': In "Now You See Me, Now You Don't", a gunman forces Banacek to get into his car and then goes to climb in the passenger side. As he does so, Banacek reserves and knocks him down with the open door.
* A rather gruesome episode from the pseudo-documentary ''Series/UntoldStoriesOfTheER''. A teenager that was biking comes in with a severely slit throat. It turns out that she was riding down the side of the road when another woman in a car opened her door. [[spoiler:The girl on the bike makes it.]]
* ''Series/CSIMiami'': In "F-T-F", Horatio and Delko are undertaking a stakeout in a parking garage. Delko confronts the suspect he flees, only to be flattened when Horatio opens the door of his hummer.

* Creator/JeffDunham's Walter puppet talks about running down a man who parks in handicap spots to "make an honest man out of him." When his actually handicapped mother gets out of the car to scream at him, Walter takes her out with the door.
* Creator/LouisCK talked about an incident in which he witnessed a cyclist about to run into a car door. He had several seconds to warn him, but wasn't able to come up with an adequate warning for the cyclist in time, so he just shouted "Bad thing!" to him.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Carmageddon}} TDR 2000'', as long as the doors are still on the vehicle they can be opened to sweep zombie crowds. Depending on the active buff/debuff, it can be useful against other cars, but that's likely to remove the doors.
* You can open car doors in ''Videogame/StateOfDecay'' to smack zombies. It's far superior to trying to run them over, as it results in less damage to the vehicle. Fittingly, the achievement for doing so is Tallahassee's advice in ''Film/{{Zombieland}}'': "Gotta enjoy the little things."