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* In ''VideoGame/UrbanDead'', characters can build barricades out of literally anything. In about one sixth of the amount of time it takes to stand up.

* This is seen ''everywhere'' in both ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2'' and ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Nemesis''. They didn't work very well, if the hordes of zombies everywhere are any indication. You can take a stab at assembling one, yourself, in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilOutbreak'' by using a nail gun on some boards in the first scenario; it doesn't last long at all once the zombie horde catches up with you. Played more straight in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2Remake'' where barricading a window prevents more zombies from flooding into the Raccoon City Police Department and keeps you from having to waste ammo on them.
* Barricading your house is essential in ''VideoGame/{{Darkwood}}''. However, the ''things'' outside can smash their way through eventually, and will do it for sure if they know for a fact you're inside the room, usually by noise or by light beams escaping through cracks in the walls and said barricades. Better watch where you put those lamps.
* ''VideoGame/RainbowSixSiege'' uses a variant, where defenders are able to put up full barricades near-instantly because the boards come in pre-made rolls, which are unrolled over the doorway or window in question and nailed in place in three or four spots with a nailgun. They can also be removed about as quickly, as any three melee hits to the barricade will destroy it, and defenders can also pull the whole thing down with a crowbar.

* In ''VideoGame/DontEscape'' you have to close off a window in this way to prevent your inner werewolf from escaping during the night. In the sequel, filling in a window with bricks and mortar is one of the things required to keep the zombie horde out of your makeshift shelter.
* ''VideoGame/FreeIcecream'': All the windows of the killer's home are boarded up, meaning [[PlayerCharacter the girl]] can't climb out of the killer's home through them.
* ''VideoGame/{{Harthorn}}'': At the start of the game, April tells you to check out the basement. When you do, she directs you to a boarded up door, which is part of a series of rumours about Harthorn High School. [[spoiler:When you go back there late in the game, the boards have been removed When you open the door, the villain rushes you and knocks you out.]]

* German soldiers are seen doing this in ''The Bunker''.
* ''Film/TheDeadDontDie'': As the zombies attack the town, Hank and Bobby board up their doorway with a bunch of nails and an electric drill. [[AbsurdlyIneffectiveBarricade moments later, a couple of the zombies break through the lowest-hangin board and start crawling under the door, and then it turns out that they'd forgotten to barricade the back door]].

* This is seen ''everywhere'' in both ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2'' and ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Nemesis''. They didn't work very well, if the hordes of zombies everywhere are any indication. You can take a stab at assembling one, yourself, in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilOutbreak'' by using a nail gun on some boards in the first scenario; it doesn't last long at all once the zombie horde catches up with you.

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* ''WebGame/FreeIcecream'': All the windows of the killer's home are boarded up, meaning [[PlayerCharacter the girl]] can't climb out of the killer's home through them.

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* In the CreepyPasta ''The Horror from the Vault,'' the residents of Sunnybrook barricade themselves in the school gym during the creature's rampage. It was seconds away from beating down the barricades when the sun drove it away.
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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 medieval and early modern sieges.

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

* This is seen ''everywhere'' in both ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2'' and ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Nemesis''. They didn't work very well, if the hordes of zombies everywhere are any indication.

* ''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, allowing the squirrel scouts to get in that way

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'': In "Party Animals", the babies are being chased by what appears to be a giant baby (actually their Cousin Bucky dressed as a baby for a costume party). After they manage to trap him in the bathroom, they run into their room and barricade the door with some toys.

[[caption-width-right:264:WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer, be sure to use it!]]

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* When professional monster-slayer ''Webcomic/{{Newman}}'' is forced to face his greatest fear ([[spoiler:a creepy clown]]), he chucks his family into a room, boards the entrances, and declares "This is where we live now."
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* In the CreepyPasta ''The Horror from the Vault,'' the residents of Sunnybrook barricade themselves in the school gym during the creature's rampage. It was seconds away from beating down the barricades when the sun drove it away.
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