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This is an act displayed when someone slams the door hard when he or she is really mad, usually when having an argument with somebody. If PlayedForLaughs, the slam can cause a vibration that causes stuff surrounding the door to crash down onto the floor, or even the door itself. If the door has a window in it or is made of glass, said glass will inevitably shatter.

* Creator/{{Pixar}}'s ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'': When Bob Parr, the civilian identity of Mr. Incredible arrives home from work, he slips on a skateboard and almost falls, catching himself by gripping his car's door frame. His fingers make grooves in the metal, enough to prevent the driver's door from closing properly. When the door won't close, Bob resorts to slamming it shut, which shatters the window glass. Furious beyond reason, Bob then hoists the car overhead, intending to smash it to flinders... until a neighbor's kid stares at Bob in awe. Bob puts down the car, and ambles casually into his house.

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* ''Radio/OurMissBrooks'': In "Trying to Pick a Fight", Miss Brooks tells Mr. Conklin that some couples pick fights so they can make up later. Sometime later, Mr. Conklin calls Miss Brooks to his office. It seems in trying to pick a fight with his wife, Mr. Conklin only managed to provoke his wife into threatening to go home to her mother. Mr. Conklin leaves to head to the railroad station to try to prevent his wife's departure, angrily slamming his office door behind him.

* ''Series/{{Frasier}}'': Niles attempts to do this during an argument with Maris about her disappearing for three days without telling him where she was going. [[FailedAttemptAtDrama Unfortunately]] the door in question is an antique Cathedral door that's too heavy for him to slam alone, so he has to get several of the servants to help him.
-->'''Niles:''' But what it lacked in spontaneity it made up for in ''resonance''!

* During an NHL game, Doug Gilmour of the Montreal Canadiens once slammed the door to the penalty box so hard [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUtmK2uHnvc the glass broke]].

This is an act displayed when someone slams the door hard when they're really mad, usually when having an argument with somebody. If PlayedForLaughs, the slam can causes a vibration that causes stuff surrounding the door to crash down onto the floor, or even the door itself. If the door has a window in it or is made of glass, said glass will inevitably shatter.

->''"When I get angry, I just feel like slamming doors"''

This is an {{Anger Trope|s}}. Compare TaeKwonDoor for when the door is purposefully slammed to damage an opponent. Contrast TheDoorSlamsYou. This trope isn’t related to HeelFaceDoorSlam, though it might go along with it nicely in order to emphasize it or even kill the would-be-reformed villain.

* In ''The Western Air Temple'' of ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', after Katara gives Zuko an ImpliedDeathThreat, she leaves the room, and slams the door behind her. This serves as a warning that she’s keeping a close eye on him especially after he pulled a HeelFaceRevolvingDoor in Ba Sing Se.

* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': In "Point Of No Return", Dean [[DespairEventHorizon loses all hope in their fight]] and decides to follow a course of action that [[SenselessSacrifice negates everything]] [[FallenAngel Castiel]] has done for him and Sam, which ''seriously'' pisses off the angel. When Sam asks Castiel to let him talk to Dean alone, Castiel telekinetically slams the panic room's door shut in their face while [[DeathGlare glaring at Dean]].

* ''WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine'': In "Thomas Comes to Breakfast", after Thomas crashes into the stationmaster's house (thanks to a careless cleaner), the stationmaster's wife angrily berates Thomas for [[SkewedPriorities ruining her breakfast]], and slams the door, which causes more plaster to fall on Thomas.

* ''ComicBook/{{Hilda}}'': Hilda does this when she's [[spoiler:grounded by her mother, and she goes to her room in a state of infuriated distress]].
* In ''ComicBook/DemonSpawn'', [[ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} Linda Danvers]] slams her office's door angrily and loudly after an argument with her bullying co-worker Nasthalthia.

* In the ''Fairy Tail'' fanfic ''Fanfic/{{Wonderland}}'', Wonderland Lucy stops Earthland Natsu from following her into her room telling him how improper it would be because she is going to be changing. Natsu tells her that he doesn't see the problem because he has seen his Lucy naked plenty of times. She promptly slams the door in his face and is left quite flustered.

* In ''WesternAnimation/MickeysChristmasCarol'', after Scrooge breaks up with Isabelle, the heartbroken girl walks out the door, slamming it and causing Scrooge to lose count of his coins.

* Creator/{{Pixar}}'s ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'': When Bob Parr, the civilian identity of Mr. Incredible arrives home from work, he slips on a skateboard and almost falls, catching himself by gripping his car's door frame. His fingers make grooves in the metal, enough to prevent the driver's door from closing properly. When the door won't close, Bob resorts to slamming it shut, which shatters the window glass. Furious beyond reason, Bob then hoists the car overhead, intending to smash it to flinders... until a neighbor's kid stares at Bob in awe. Bob puts down the car, and ambles casually into his house.
* In the climax of ''WesternAnimation/{{Bolt}}'', when Penny and Bolt are rescued from the fire, Penny's agent, who cares only about exploiting Penny for his own gain by any means necessary, finally goes too far when he tries to exploit her near-death experience as she is being taken to the ambulance, and her mother realizes what a greedy, smooth-talking so-and-so he really is and angrily tells him that she, her daughter and their dog all quit. Even then, he still doesn't seem to get the message and pathetically begs her to reconsider -- only for the ambulance door to slam shut in his face.

* ''Literature/TheEagleTree'': When March's mother finds out that her brother Mike is in a relationship with Miss Stevens, the neighbor who reported March's self-harming meltdown and got him involuntarily committed for seventy-two hours, she kicks him out of the house, then slams the door so hard that a picture falls off the wall and cracks.
* In ''Literature/{{Rules}}'', Catherine slams the door to her mother's office out of frustration with being made to babysit David when she'd rather hang out with Kristi.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' episode, "D.W.'s Very Bad Mood", D.W. has a violent temper tantrum over not being invited to a birthday party that Lisa, one of her classmates is throwing, that lasts for several days. One of the things she constantly does during her tantrum is slam her bedroom door all through the night.
* ''WesternAnimation/ReadyJetGo'': In "Mindy's Mystery", Mitchell is very angry at Team Propulsion because he thinks that they're not real detectives, so he slams the door to his house in their face very hard.

* ''ComicBook/{{Orphanimo}}'': The page image comes from the second album; Alice and the Orphans go to the mayor in hopes that he will help them stop CorruptCorporateExecutive Hari Vallalkozo, who is out to get his hands on the orphanage. Sadly, the Mayor is uninterested since [[MayorPain he's a huge supporter of Vallalkozo]] and his plan to modernize the city, and even shows Alice some large maquettes of the skyscrapers Vallalkozo has already build. Enraged, Alice storms out of his office, slamming the door hard enough to shake the maquettes. Then she comes back in, [[AndAnotherThing tells the major that she definately is not going to vote for him]], and slams the door even harder. This time, it causes [[DisasterDominoes the maquettes to topple over like dominoes]], with the largest one falling on top of the mayor.
* ComicBook/{{Hilda}}: Hilda does this when she’s [[spoiler:grounded by her mother, and she goes to her room in a state of infuriated distress]].

* ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'': The page quote is from [[http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ga/1994/ga940306.gif this comic]], in which Garfield angrily slammed doors for no apparent reason, before doing the same thing to Jon.

* In the Fairy Tail fanfic ''Fanfic/{{Wonderland}}'', Wonderland Lucy stops Earthland Natsu from following her into her room telling him how improper it would be because she is going to be changing. Natsu tells her that he doesn't see the problem because he has seen his Lucy naked plenty of times. She promptly slams the door in his face and is left quite flustered.

* [[FieryRedhead Asuka]] attempts to do this several times in ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'', but since she's now living in Japan and they're sliding ''shoji'' doors it's [[FailedAttemptAtDrama less effective than she probably intended]].

* Parodied in ''Series/TheLatestBuzz'', where one episode has Michael pretend he has an invisible office around his desk and mimes things like the door and blinds. After Rebecca becomes frustrated at his arrogance, she slams the mime door shut in anger.

* Played for laughs in the ''Series/{{Friends}}'' episode "The One Where Eddie Won't Go". The girls have a spat and Monica and Rachel retreat to their rooms and slam the doors, but Phoebe is left in the living room. She opens and slams shut the lid of a decorative box on a table.

Subtrope of PercussiveTherapy.

* While not all that uncommon in real life, one should be aware that slamming doors can be a form of symbolic aggression and sometimes can be a red flag for abuse in a relationship. It can also be used as a form of emotional abuse, terrorizing the other person into submission. If you or someone you care about is being abused, please don't hesitate to report it to the police unless doing so would put you/them in greater danger.