History Main / BerserkBoardBarricade

The character has to watch out for who is assisting him with the barricade, though. [[TheCatCameBack Sometimes it's his pursuer]], which would in these cases overlap with AbsurdlyIneffectiveBarricade.

* Piglet does this to his door and windows in ''WesternAnimation/BooToYouTooWinnieThePooh'' when he is afraid of Halloween monsters coming for him. At one point he hammers the boards in so fast that he appears to be in three places at once. But immediately after he opens up his door to let his friends in without taking the boards off so he must not have done it very well.

* Barricading your house is essential in ''VideoGame/{{Darkwood}}''. However, the ''things'' can smash their way through eventually if they know for sure you're inside the room.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Contagion}}'', the nailgun is an item "loaded" with wood planks and used to put up barricades on doors and windows. It takes a few seconds to put one up and they're more resilient than they seem unless it's only one against the full brunt of a horde. For players, breaking a barricade takes a good few whacks with a melee weapon.

%%* Done in a few ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' episodes. (ZeroContextExample)

* Barricading your house is essential in ''VideoGame/{{Darkwood}}.'' However, the... things... can smash their way through eventually.

%%* Done in a few ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' episodes.

* This is how they try and keep the zombies out in ''VideoGame/NaziZombies'' (''Call of Duty World at War/Black Ops''). Indeed, its such a fundamental part of the game mechanics you get points (to buy weapons) from nailing boards down and a power-up called "Carpenter" auto-repairs all windows in the level in this style at once.

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This is a common trope in animation. Because of {{Hammerspace}}, the character can get the needed hammer in an instant, plus a pile of boards and nails. The boards will always crisscross and overlap, as if the character doesn't have time to be precise with their work due to the dire nature of the threat on the other side. Often the boards are placed in ways that would make them bulge out and very hard to nail down. In RealLife, this is a semi-realistic trope - boarding up a door is a fairly good way to barricade it, and if you have some people to hold the door closed as you do it, then it can make a reasonably speedy improvised weapon. Variations have been used in several mediaeval and early modern sieges.

* Common gag in ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' cartoons, desperate characters may even resort to producing bricks and mortar from {{Hammerspace}} and adding a brick wall to the fortifications

* Wakko Warner takes this trope a step further in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' episode "Temporary Insanity". In a bid to beat his siblings to the phone (Just roll with it) he first shuts the door, pulls a steel gate in front of it, then a steel door, and then an elevator door! As a finishing touch, he adds a wall of bricks.

* ''WesternAnimation/CampLazlo'', where the Bean Scouts barricade the door of their cabin to keep the Squirrel Scouts out. In order to get the wood for the barricade, they completely dismantle the back wall of their cabin.

* ''Series/{{Mythbusters}}'' showed in the zombie special that nailing boards over a door actually is an effective way to keep the zombie horde out; Adam and the volunteers easily broke through a normal barn door, but were unable to break through despite repeated attempts after Jamie reinforced it.G

* ''Series/{{Mythbusters}}'' showed in the zombie special that nailing boards over a door actually is an effective way to keep the zombie horde out; Adam and the volunteers easily broke through a normal barn door, but were unable to break despite repeated attempts it after Jamie reinforced it.

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[[folder:Anime and Manga]]

* The anime of ''RanmaOneHalf'' has a similar episode. There's one sequence where Ranma accidentally ends up barricading himself into a hallway and several other characters in awkward positions (Akane and Nabiki in their rooms, Soun Tendo outside, Genma out of the toilet when he really needs to go).

[[folder:Films]]
* In ''Film/TheMask'', the eponymous hero races out of the park, closes the doors, boards them shut, chains them shut, and for good measure, locks the door. The rest of the police force was right behind him the entire time.

* Subverted in ''ScaryMovie 3'': A character boards up the front door to his house, but another character is able to open said door normally regardless.
** Mainly because he put the boards across the door, and never actually nailed them to the doorframe.

* Invoked in the ''[[BlackAdder Blackadder Goes Forth]]'' episode "General Hospital".

* This is how they try and keep the zombies out in ''VideoGame/NaziZombies'' (''Call of Duty World at War/Black Ops''). Indeed, its such a fundamental part of the game mechanics you get points (to buy weapons) from nailing boards down and a power up called Carpenter auto repairs all windows in the level in this style at once.

* Done in a few ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' episodes.

* ''CampLazlo'', where the Bean Scouts barricade the door of their cabin to keep the Squirrel Scouts out. In order to get the wood for the barricade, they completely dismantle the back wall of their cabin.

* When a priest on ''RobotChicken'' sees a family playing "[[FictionalVideogame Humping Robot]]" he boards up the door and pours gasoline on the ground. [[KillItWithFire Before he throws a match inside]], he changes his mind and decides to join them.
* In the ''{{Catscratch}}'' episode "Bringing' Down the Mouse", when Waffle mentions he's friends with the infamous mouse Squeakus, Gordon and Mr. Blik lock up the door. But when Waffle mention's he's actually ''inside'' the house, they unlock the door, go outside, and board up the house with a couple of boards and a log.
* In the ''SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode "I Was a Teenage Gary", Squidward barricades his front door and window to keep a transformed [=SpongeBob=] from getting in. The [=SpongeSnail=] manages to get inside by slipping through a knothole in the wood.

* This is how they try and keep the zombies out in NaziZombies (Call of Duty World at War/Black Ops). Indeed, its such a fundamental part of the game mechanics you get points (to buy weapons) from nailing boards down and a power up called Carpenter auto repairs all windows in the level in this style at once.

** In Creator/TomSavini's [[Film/NightOfTheLivingDead1990 1990 remake]], they try to use interior doors to board up the windows only to learn that they're all cheap hollow-core luan doors that couldn't stop a kitten.

* Non-comedic example: In ''NightOfTheLivingDead'', Ben uses these to board up the doors and windows of the farmhouse.
** In Creator/TomSavini's 1990 remake, they try to use interior doors to board up the windows only to learn that they're all cheap hollow-core luan doors that couldn't stop a kitten.

* In an episode of ''{{Catscratch}}'', when Waffle mentions he's friends with Squeakers the mouse, Gordon and Mr. Blik board up the door. But when Waffle mention's he's actually ''inside'' the house, they unboard the door, go outside, and board up the house with ''a tree.''

* In an episode of ''{{Catscratch}}'', when Waffle mentions he's friends with Squeakers the mouse, Gordon and Mr. Blik board up the door. But when Waffle mention's he's inside the house, they unboard the door, go outside, and board up the house with ''a tree.''

** In "Squid's Day Off", Squidward boards up his door with wood, chains and police tape to keep himself inside and enjoy his "day off" without running back to the Krusty Krab to worry about [=SpongeBob=].

* In anticipation of a typhoon, the Moroboshi family in ''Manga/UruseiYatsura'' board up all of the doors and windows this way. Why they didn't have storm shutters in a part of the world prone to typhoons is beyond me.
** Houses in hurricane-prone areas of the U.S. often don't. TruthInTelevision?
** In Japan, storm shutters generally come standard. RuleOfFunny.

** In Tom Savini's 1990 remake, they try to use interior doors to board up the windows only to learn that they're all cheap hollow-core luan doors that couldn't stop a kitten.

* For that matter the same goes for it's 2d counterpart ''{{Terraria}}''. Especially useful during the much-dreaded Blood Moons.

* [[Literature/HarryPotter Vernon Dursley]] does this in the beginning of ''[[HarryPotter/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone The Sorceror's Stone]]'' in an attempt to stop Harry's letters from getting into the house. [[RuleOfFunny It doesn't work, of course.]]

[[folder:Live Action Television]]

This is a common trope in animation. Because of {{Hammerspace}}, the character can get the needed hammer in an instant, plus a pile of boards and nails. The boards will always crisscross and overlap, as if the character can't line up boards straight, thinks it's more efficient that way, or simply doesn't have time to be precise with their work due to the dire nature of the threat on the other side. Often the boards are placed in ways that would make them bulge out and very hard to nail down. In RealLife, this is a semi-realistic trope - boarding up a door is a fairly good way to barricade it, and if you have some people to hold the door closed as you do it, then it can make a reasonably speedy improvised weapon. Variations have been used in several mediaeval and early modern sieges.