History Main / BulletholeDoor

* In the original novel of ''Literature/{{Goldfinger}}'', Creator/IanFleming has the villain planning to blast open the vault door of Fort Knox with a stolen tactical nuclear weapon! (In the movie they are [[AdaptationDistillation trying to destroy the gold]], instead of stealing it)

* Taken UpToEleven in the original novel of ''Literature/{{Goldfinger}}'', where Creator/IanFleming has the villain planning to blast open the vault door of Fort Knox with a stolen tactical nuclear weapon! (In the movie they are [[AdaptationDistillation trying to destroy the gold]], instead of stealing it)

* In ''Film/TheLongKissGoodnight'', Charley Baltimore (Geena Davis) uses a submachine gun to shoot out a window to use to escape a bomb, then on the way down to the frozen lake below she uses it again ([[BottomlessMagazines without reloading, naturally]]) to weaken the ice enough that she and Creator/SamuelLJackson's character don't kill themselves by getting splattered all over the ice when they hit it. Not that falling three floors into the water is much more enjoyable, but that's [[Software another trope]].

* In ''Film/TheLongKissGoodnight'', Charley Baltimore (Geena Davis) uses a submachine gun to shoot out a window to use to escape a bomb, then on the way down to the frozen lake below she uses it again ([[BottomlessMagazines without reloading, naturally]]) to weaken the ice enough that she and Creator/SamuelLJackson's character don't kill themselves by getting splattered all over the ice when they hit it. Not that falling three floors into the water is much more enjoyable, but that's another trope.

See also ShootOutTheLock and ThereWasADoor. Contrast ConcealmentEqualsCover, where bullets can't go through anything the shooter can't see through at all.

* ''Film/{{Ultraviolet}}'' has a variation with an actual door: Violet uses a machine gun to shoot the hinges off a car door, and upon crashing the car into a subway entrance causes the door to go flying off.

* A major ability in ''VideoGame/TheForceUnleashed''.
** Of course, you use [[PsychicPowers The Force]] not guns...

* ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'' has it done occasionally. [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome Which doesn't mean]] that [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2008-11-07 cutting it in a meter-thick bulkhead]] will also automatically open the "door", as opposed to, say, have it weld back in a few places.

* ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'' has it done occasionally. [[RealityEnsues Which doesn't mean]] that [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2008-11-07 cutting it in a meter-thick bulkhead]] will also automatically open the "door", as opposed to, say, have it weld back in a few places.

See ShootOutTheLock. Contrast ConcealmentEqualsCover, where bullets can't go through anything the shooter can't see through at all.

* In the US Army's field manual on urban combat (or, as they call it, "Military Operations in Urban Terrain"), they suggest using the 25 mm autocannon on the M2 Bradley to make new doors for the troops to use. At least in an older version of this manual, it gives guidelines for creating loopholes (big enough to aim a weapon through, perhaps to stick an arm through, but not crawl out of) with rifle or machine-gun fire, and indicates this requires some 100–200 rounds. Creating a hole large enough for a person would probably require thousands.

* In ''Disney/LiloAndStitch'', Jumba uses a "shoot-through-the-ceiling" variety, causing the large chunk of ceiling that Stitch was standing on to fall. He uses thrown ''dinner plates'' to make the holes.

* Not a method of escape, but of infiltration: In ''Anime/SonicX'', Tails creates a perforated circle in the side of Dr. Eggman's headquarters, which Sonic "punches out" with a spindash. ''Perf''ect!

** It was used as the example in ''Series/{{Mythbusters}}''. The movie used two 9 mm guns with one magazine each to escape; Mythbusters couldn't do it with over 350 9mm rounds fired by an [=MP5=] submachine gun, even after using a 12 gauge shotgun to weaken structural support timbers. (After two guys worked on it for half an hour, including a great deal of stomping on the weakened section of floor, they broke through.)

* Buzzsaw variation and subversion in ''Film/VanHelsing''. Van Helsing is trapped in a heavy bell, and uses his buzzsaws to cut a hole in the floor. When Hyde lifts the bell to investigate the noise and sees the hole (which is too small for Van Helsing to pass through), it turns out that it was Van Helsing's plan to get Hyde to free him by hiding in the top of the bell.
* Chris Vaughn (Wrestling/DwayneJohnson) does the floor variant in ''Film/WalkingTall2004'', blasting several times with a shot gun, then kicking the floor out.

* ''Film/JasonX'' has a scene where Kay-Em uses dual automatic pistols to blast a rough outline around Jason in the wall behind them, then kicks him through it. At least in this case, Kay-Em is superhumanly strong and Jason has to weigh a lot more than an average human.

** In ''Duty Calls'', a rogue Inquisitor makes his escape by blowing a hole in the floor. But not only was he using a plasma pistol, he fired at a hidden trapdoor, so it's doubly-justified.

* Done too, in all things, an episode of ''Series/{{House}}'' (it makes sense in context). Though rather than using a gun, they use something similar to the Real Life example below - a flat slab of directed explosives on wheels.

* In the squad-level strategy ''VideoGame/SilentStorm'', with destructible environments, cinematic physics and big guns, blowing man-sized holes in the walls and floors is a viable way to maneuver. The risk of collapse is there, too. Additionally, this makes a submachine gun a far faster method to "open" a locked door than lockpicks (though the player IS [[WhatTheHellHero penalized for excessive collateral damage]]).

* Most of the ''VideoGame/{{XCOM}}'' series have allowed the player to blast his way through walls to get to the hostile aliens - particularly viable once you get access to powerful, alien weapons. You can even drill your way through a yards-thick wall with a powerful enough gun.

* This is the only way to open most doors in the ''Franchise/{{Metroid}}'' series, and you need need different weapons for different colored doors. However, the blast usually just deactivates the [[ColorCodedForYourConvenience color-coded force field]] and opens the door normally, rather than damaging it.

* ''Film/{{Nemesis}}'' did the floor variety about a decade before ''Film/Underworld2003'' did, and much more crazily, too, as Alex shoots his way through ''several'' floors at once, screaming as he plunges. It was probably one of Albert Pyun's most ambitious effect shots in his career.

* In an episode of ''Series/StargateAtlantis'', Larrin used an energy gun much like Ronon's (in fact, her people is where it came from) to melt a door through a wall in an Atlantean ship. She had to burn most of the gun's power supply to do it, though, and it took her a fair amount of time to pull off.

* In ''Film/RoboCop3'' the main character made a bad habit of this. In his first action scene, he felt the need to shoot off a section of the roof of his car off and punch a hole through it rather than open the door. Later on, he, a cyborg weighing hundreds of kilograms and who has repeatedly proven himself able to smash through walls with no damage, wants to enter the hotel room of a baddie. Instead of smashing right through the flimsy wooden door, he feels it necessary to waste many dozens of bullets (all [[BottomlessMagazines without reloading]]) in shooting out his silhouette in the door, through which he then enters the room.

* ''Film/{{Underworld 2003}}'' uses the "floor" variety.

* ''Film/{{Nemesis}}'' did the floor variety about a decade before ''Film/{{Underworld}}'' did, and much more crazily, too, as Alex shoots his way through ''several'' floors at once, screaming as he plunges. It was probably one of Albert Pyun's most ambitious effect shots in his career.

* In the 1989 ''Film/{{Batman}}'' movie, the Batmobile uses its machine guns to enter the Axis Chemicals building. Somewhat more realistically, it doesn't cut out an outline or hole so much as shoot out the lower part of the door high enough to drive through.

* ''Film/DogSoldiers'' in the final stand at the farmhouse, Wells and Cooper get into a wardrobe and shoot out the floor with a submachine gun after one of the werewolves starts shaking the wardrobe. "Open your mouth, watch the ears and mind your toes"

* In the new series of ''Series/DoctorWho'', Captain Jack and River Song make doors with a [[AppliedPhlebotinum sonic blaster]] (also called a "squareness gun") that can remove sections of wall and replace them with ease. This drains the batteries heavily though.

* Nemesis does this with ''arrows'' in an episode of ''Series/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneys''.
* ''Series/TheMrPotatoHeadShow'': In the superhero episode, Mr. Potato Head's "[[ShowWithinAShow Spudman]]" character uses EyeBeams to create a door to enter the BigBad's lair.

* In the 1989 ''Film/{{Batman}}'' movie, the Batmobile uses its machine guns to cut a hole in the door of the Axis Chemicals building so it can enter.

** Explosions are very effective at wall-breaking, but generally the only explosives that wouldn't be wasted breaking down a single wall are revolver rounds with the exploding ammo upgrade and possibly a frag grenade/mine. The aug is still arguably better because it [[NoticeThis will point out to you hidden, breakable parts of walls.]]

* Taken to the extreme by Purple Dragons of the 2003 ''[[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003 TMNT]]'' in ''WesternAnimation/TurtlesForever'', when they hit the wall enough time, so 2003's Leo can drop the wall on them and their boss, Hun, during the rescue of the [[TMNT1987 1980s TMNT]].
* When Numbuh 2 and 5 are cornered by a horde of zombie nerds in ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'', Numbuh 2 shoots out the floor around them. Causing them to fall through the floor just as they were about be overrun.

* The 'Harvey Wall Banger' as invented by the British SAS is a high pressure air cannon that fires a plastic barrel of water at a wall, that will cause a hole large enough to walk through.
* The British Anti Structure Munition (A version of the Singapore/Israeli MATADOR) is a shoulder launched rocket that can either operate in anti structure blast mode (leveling a building) or in penetrating/mouse-holing mode to defeat light armoured vehicles and create "mouse-holes" in double thickness urban walls big enough for men to enter through.

* In ''Film/RoboCop3'' the main character, a cyborg weighing hundreds of kilograms and who has repeatedly proven himself able to smash through walls with no damage, wants to enter the room of a baddie. Instead of smashing right through the flimsy wooden door, he feels it necessary to waste many dozens of bullets (all [[BottomlessMagazines without reloading]]) in shooting out his silhouette in the door, through which he then enters the room.

** Selene does it again with the bottom of a rapidly descending elevator in ''Film/UnderworldAwakening''. {{Subverted|Trope}}, ''[[OhCrap it doesn't work.]]'' [[spoiler: The elevator lands on her, but the bullets made the floor weak enough (and she's ''tough enough'') that it doesn't particularly bother her]].

* ''Film/ResidentEvilRetribution'' has two examples, one with [[spoiler: Ada shooting a hole in the floor to escape a bomb]] and another with [[spoiler: Alice shooting the ice out from under Rain's feet, causing a doorway to the monsters' layer below. ]]

* Taken to the extreme by Purple Dragons of [[TMNT2003 2003s TMNT]] in ''WesternAnimation/TurtlesForever'', when they hit the wall enough time, so 2003's Leo can drop the wall on them and their boss, Hun, during the rescue of the [[TMNT1987 1980s TMNT]].

* In the 1989 ''Film/{{Batman}}'' movie, the Batmobile uses its machine guns to cut off the bottom section of a wooden warehouse door.

* ''Film/{{Underworld}}'' uses the "floor" variety.

** She does it again with the bottom of a rapidly descending elevator in ''Awakening''. {{Subverted|Trope}}, ''[[OhCrap it doesn't work.]]'' [[spoiler: The elevator lands on her, but the bullets made the floor weak enough (and she's ''tough enough'') that it doesn't particularly bother her]].