History Main / DoorClosesEnding

* ''{{Friends}}'': In an utterly [[{{TearJerker}} heartbreaking final scene]], the last shot of the series pans arounds Monica's empty apartment, past the six keys belonging to the characters and fades out on the purple door and iconic gold frame that is the Friends motif to millions.

* An episode of ''TheLarrySandersShow'' combines this with BrickJoke: midway through an episode, a character can be seen drawing something on the office door. The last thing that happens is people walk out the door, and as they close it behind them, we're treated to a drawing of a giant [[FlippingTheBird middle finger]].

* ''Webcomic/OneOverZero'' ends this way, with a happy ending where everyone is {{Back For The Finale}}. Those who died during the comic's run were resurrected get turned into humans (except the Running Gag, which gets turned into a fish). The door in question is a dimensional door between the world of the comic (which will be destroyed) and the real world.

* When {{Terrytoons}} started formatting their cartoons for TV, they attempted to end each show with a door closing, the character's face on the door and a star flashing above. Only three shows had this closing--''[[MightyMouse Mighty Mouse Playhouse]], [[HeckleAndJeckle The Heckle And Jeckle Cartoon Show]]'' and ''The Deputy Dawg Show.''

* Film/TheMaskOfZorro ends with a door closing behind the eponymous hero as he strides out into the sunset.

--->'''Peter Parker:''' Come her... and I'll show you. (''Closes the door in the audience's face'').

* Several of the ''{{Saw}}'' films.

* A the end of the 1984 film ''The Stone Boy'', about a boy who accidentally shoots & kills his older brother and the family's grief, there is a shot of the survivng brother and his father closing the barn doors, seen from the inside.
* At the end of KennethBranagh's ''Film/HenryV'' the modern-dress Chorus ends the film with his epilogue, then closes the door on the newly engagned King Henry and his bride-to-be. This [[BookEnds parallels the opening of the film]], where after the Chorus's prologue he throws open the doors to show the first scene.

* ''Webcomic/OneOverZero'' ends this way, with an Happy ending where Where everyone is {{Back For The Finale}} and those who died during the comic transcurse were resurected so {{Everybody Lives}} and all get turned into humans(except the running gag, who gets turned into a fish), and since the door in question is a dimentional door between the world where the comic takes place(wich will be destroyed) they also make sure that {{No One Gets Left Behind}}

* ''Film/TheGodfather'''s final shot is homaged in the ending of a mafia-themed episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', with Lisa in the role of Kay. Subverted as the door opens again to reveal Michael is playing with his toys.

* The ''Film/{{Godfather}}'' final shot is homaged in the ending of a mafia-themed episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', with Lisa in the role of Kay. Subverted as the door opens again to reveal Michael is playing with his toys.

* ''[[Webcomic/OneOverZero 1/0]]'' ends this way, with an Happy ending where Where everyone is {{Back For The Finale}} and those who died during the comic transcurse were resurected so {{Everybody Lives}} and all get turned into humans(except the running gag, who gets turned into a fish), and since the door in question is a dimentional door between the world where the comic takes place(wich will be destroyed) they also make sure that {{No One Gets Left Behind}}

* The Film/Godfather final shot is homaged in the ending of a mafia-themed episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', with Lisa in the role of Kay. Subverted as the door opens again to reveal Michael is playing with his toys.

* In ''{{Fantasia}}'', the "Dance of the Hours" segment ends with the palace doors slamming so hard they're knocked off their hinges.
* The director's cut of ''BladeRunner'' ends like this, immediately after the main character [[spoiler:has found out he's a replicant too.]]

* At the end of ''TheGodfather'', after Michael lies to Kay about not being responsible for killing his brother-in-law, we see the door shut on Kay as Michael is being proclaimed the new Don.
* At [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aHf7VdOpsE the end]] of ''TheSearchers'', a happy family reunion occurs inside a house, but Ethan realizes there is NoPlaceForMeThere and wanders off to the background desert. Ethan is left literally out of the picture as the door of the house closes and "The End" appears.

* The film of ''DonGiovanni'' ends with a servant closing the palace's doors.

* ''BabylonFive'':

* ''{{Warehouse13}}'' has shots before some commercial breaks where the final screen shrinks and as if panning back to show the screenshot is inside a crate on a black field, then the top of the crate closes over it with a snap sound effect and then it goes to commercial.
* ''{{Charmed}}'' did this many times throughout the series, including the series finale.
* In ''TheCloser'': the last we see of Brenda Leigh Johnson in the GrandFinale is her eating one of her long-missed chocolates as the elevator doors close.
* ''{{Scrubs}}'' 1x15, ''Bed, Banter, and Beyond'' deconstructed WillTheyOrWontThey, showing JD and Elliot's first day together as well as the ensuing weeks and their break-up. The episode ended on the door of JD's apartment closing on the DramaticIrony of JD and Elliot promising each other the relationship won't proceed down the path we just saw it follow.
* There's an episode of ''TheLarrySandersShow'' that combines this with BrickJoke: midway through an episode, a character can be seen drawing something on the office door. The last thing that happens is people walk out the door, and as they close it behind them, we're treated to a drawing of a giant [[FlippingTheBird middle finger]].

* SweeneyTodd ends with Sweeney slamming a door after he has walked through it.

* ''KatawaShoujo'' has one for Rin's Route [[spoiler: If you select "Then Explain" during Hisao's argument with her, he slams the door on his way out, ending with a short quip.]]

* ''SuperSmashBros'' for the N64 had a variation on this. After defeating Master Hand on Classic, the camera zooms out to reveal the room from the title sequence, followed by the screen going black to the sound of a door shutting. Cue credits.

* ''[[OneOverZero 1/0]]'' ends this way, with an Happy ending where Where everyone is {{Back For The Finale}} and those who died during the comic transcurse were resurected so {{Everybody Lives}} and all get turned into humans(except the running gag, who gets turned into a fish), and since the door in question is a dimentional door between the world where the comic takes place(wich will be destroyed) they also make sure that {{No One Gets Left Behind}}

* The Godfather final shot is homaged in the ending of a mafia-themed episode of ''TheSimpsons'', with Lisa in the role of Kay. Subverted as the door opens again to reveal Michael is playing with his toys.

* At the end of ''TheGodfather'', after Michael lies to Kay about not being responsible for killing his sister's husband, we see the door shut on Kay as Michael is being proclaimed the new Don.

* At the end of ''TheGodfather'', after Michael lies to Kay about not being responsible for killing his sister's husband, we see the door shut on Kay as Michael is being proclaimed the new Don

* At the end of ''TheGodfather'', after Michael lies to Kay about him not being responsible for killing his sister's husband, we see the door shut on Kay as Michael is being proclaimed the new Don