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** ...but he exits by leaping out the window.
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** John smashes through a ''load-bearing'' wall. The building collapses, badly injuring or even maiming some of his teammates and destroying whatever they went there for. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Oops.]]
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* '''Exaggerated''': John runs through a wall made of wood/brick/cement/metal/lasers into the evil lair, despite the villain leaving the entrance unlocked and unguarded.

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* '''Exaggerated''': John runs through a wall made of wood/brick/cement/metal/lasers into the evil lair, despite the villain leaving the entrance unlocked open and unguarded.
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** John Strong opens the door normally, then tells the villains "There, I used the door. [[RuleOfCool 'Doesn't look as threatening, now does it?]]"
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Actually happened to me in XCOM 2. The pillar was too far from the door and I wanted to get out ASAP, henceI ordered my Grenadier to practice some goodold fashioned mouseholing.

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** The door is too far from the objective to get in, place explosives, and get out using it, so TheSquad blasts the wall using high explosive since it's closer, and are seen making an escape JustInTime.
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** John is sent to the BigBad's workplace so that he can strangle the Big Bad to death, but he keeps trying to jump through the (indestructible) window instead of walking through the open door right next to it. When he gives up and goes home to TheTeam, he says that the door was locked.
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** John is on enemy turf, and causing property damage might inconvenience them later.
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** The building itself is in such disrepair that there's no walls at all. John goes through the single door on what used to be a house anyway.
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* '''Parodied''': John is incapable of using doors, and as a result everywhere he goes has gaping holes in the walls.

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* '''Parodied''': '''Parodied''':
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John is incapable of using doors, and as a result everywhere he goes has gaping holes in the walls.walls.
** John blasts a hole in the wall and then uses the door a few feet away.

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** John slams through the wall and one of the villains laments that ThereWasADoor.

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** John slams through the wall and one of the villains laments that ThereWasADoor.



** "Do you have any idea of the cost of repairing that wall? The landlord will kill me!"



* '''Exploited''': ???

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* '''Exploited''': ???The villain is so GenreSavvy that he does not place traps in the door: he places traps in the window and walls, fully aware that John Strong will enter that way.

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* '''Justified''': John wants to take the enemy by surprise by not using the door.

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* '''Justified''': '''Justified''':
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John wants to take the enemy by surprise by not using the door.



* '''Inverted''': John finds a locked door and he blasts it using high-powered explosives in order to enter a building... Despite the fact that there was a conveniently open window a few feet away from said door!

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* '''Inverted''': '''Inverted''':
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John finds a locked door and he blasts it using high-powered explosives in order to enter a building... Despite the fact that there was a conveniently open window a few feet away from said door!



* '''Double Subverted''': ...but it's locked tight and he has to go through the windows anyway.

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* '''Double Subverted''': ...Subverted''':
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but it's locked tight and he has to go through the windows anyway.



* '''Deconstructed''': John ends up in a pile of broken glass and covered in cuts, or bruised and stunned at the foot of the wall.
** John has to pay for all the damage he causes. Bashing through walls is not known to be cheap.
* '''Reconstructed''': John is MadeOfIron and is unharmed.
** The people trying to get damages from him are villains. Are they really going to go into a courtroom and demand payment for a hole in the room leading to the [[PoweredByAForsakenChild orphan furnace?]]



* '''Averted''': John simply uses the doors.

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* '''Averted''': '''Averted''':
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John simply uses the doors.



* '''Lampshaded''': John slams through the wall and one of the villains laments that ThereWasADoor.

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* '''Lampshaded''': '''Lampshaded''':
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John slams through the wall and one of the villains laments that ThereWasADoor.



* '''Exploited''': ???



* '''Played For Laughs''': John carries around a window with a stand and only enters doorways by jumping through it.
** Alternatively: John tries and fails spectacularly to enter through a simple screen door, but has no trouble bashing through the walls instead.

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* '''Deconstructed''':
** John ends up in a pile of broken glass and covered in cuts, or bruised and stunned at the foot of the wall.
** John has to pay for all the damage he causes. Bashing through walls is not known to be cheap.
* '''Reconstructed''':
** John is MadeOfIron and is unharmed.
** The people trying to get damages from him are villains. Are they really going to go into a courtroom and demand payment for a hole in the room leading to the [[PoweredByAForsakenChild orphan furnace?]]
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John carries around a window with a stand and only enters doorways by jumping through it.
** Alternatively: John tries and fails spectacularly to enter through a simple screen door, but has no trouble bashing through the walls instead.



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%%* '''Implied''': ???
%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???
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** [[IntangibleMan John can walk through walls without damaging them.]]

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** ...[[VisualPun literally.]] He smashes through the doors.
** ...by smashing through.

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** ...[[VisualPun literally.]] He smashes through the doors.
** ...by smashing through.
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** ...[[VisualPun literally.]]

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** ...[[VisualPun literally.]]]] He smashes through the doors.



** He smashes through the doors.
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* '''Straight''': [[TheBigGuy John Strong]] leaps through a window into the evil lair, despite the villain leaving the entrance unlocked and unguarded.
* '''Exaggerated''': John runs through a wall made of wood/brick/cement/metal/lasers into the evil lair.

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* '''Straight''': [[TheBigGuy John Strong]] leaps through a window into the evil lair, despite the villain leaving the entrance unlocked and unguarded.
lair.
* '''Exaggerated''': John runs through a wall made of wood/brick/cement/metal/lasers into the evil lair.lair, despite the villain leaving the entrance unlocked and unguarded.
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* '''Straight''': [[TheBigGuy John Strong]] leaps through a window into the evil lair.

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* '''Straight''': [[TheBigGuy John Strong]] leaps through a window into the evil lair.lair, despite the villain leaving the entrance unlocked and unguarded.
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** He smashes through the doors.
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** John is big enough to where using the door would have caused collateral damage anyway.
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* '''Downplayed''': ???

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* '''Downplayed''': ???The wall is weak around the door, and all it takes is a touch to make it crumble, making the entry through the wall easy.
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** "And now you can have two!"
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* '''Reconstructed''': John is only faking his injuries and attacks the villains when they try to investigate.

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* '''Reconstructed''': John is only faking his injuries MadeOfIron and attacks the villains when they try to investigate.is unharmed.
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** The villains come crashing through the walls/windows of John's home instead.
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** John needs to take the enemy by surprise. Unfortunately, the doors have all been bricked up. What does John do? Bust through the wall? No! Using ArtInitiatesLife, he simply draws a door on the wall and uses that!
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* '''Straight''': John Strong leaps through a window into the evil lair.

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* '''Straight''': [[TheBigGuy John Strong Strong]] leaps through a window into the evil lair.
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* '''Downplayed''': ???
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** The people trying to get damages from him are villains. Are they really going to go into a courtroom and demand payment for a hole in the room leading to the [[PoweredByAForsakenChild orphan furnace?]]
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Back to ThereWasADoor

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Back to ThereWasADoor[[ThereWasADoor There was a tab up there.]]

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* '''Subverted''': John gets a good, long running start...and simply tries to open the door.

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* '''Subverted''': John gets a good, long running start...and simply tries to open goes through the door.


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** ...[[VisualPun literally.]]
** ...by smashing through.

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* '''Invoked''': "Careful...he could come in through the windows!"
* '''Defied''': The room has thick walls and no windows; the door is John's only option despite previous entrances.

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* '''Invoked''': "Careful...he could come in The villain gets a heavy, clearly reinforced door for his evil lair, but leaves a window open right beside it...because the window is booby-trapped and will kill/capture/maim anyone who tries to enter through the windows!"
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* '''Defied''': The room has thick walls and no windows; the door is designed to be John's only option despite previous entrances.option.



* '''Conversed''': "John always comes in through the windows, doesn't he?"

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* '''Conversed''': "John always comes in through the windows, doesn't he?"he? It's getting a bit ridiculous; it's starting to strain my WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief."


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** Alternatively: John tries and fails spectacularly to enter through a simple screen door, but has no trouble bashing through the walls instead.

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