History Main / GateGuardian

* ''Anime/DigimonSavers'': Of the Royal Knights, [[BlackKnight Cranniummon's]] duty is to guard the entrance to Yggdrasil's realm. You have to show that you can fend off against his shield and spear, so he would let you in. Which is difficult to do, considering how strong he is and that his shield is really, really tough. Only the Burst Mode can meet up his power.

* ''Anime/YuGiOhArcV'': The entrances to the East Tower and West Tower of Academia, where Rin and Ruri are held captive, are guarded by Apollo and Diana, who both wear Ancient Greek-themed clothing as opposed to the uniforms Academia are known for and they both use Guardian decks with defensive strategies. Both of them are defeated in the same episode (since both of their duels happened simultaneously), thus their opponents have free reign to enter the respective tower.

* ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'': In ''Camelot'', Gawain acts as the gatekeeper of the Holy City, along with several Enforcement Knights.

* ''Manga/YuGiOh'': The Meikyuu brothers protected the gates of the underground labyrinth of Duelist Kingdom, and appropriately, their ace monster is Gate Guardian, a monster that is allowed to attack every other monster within the labyrinth. The brothers not only use Duel Monsters to keep the trapped people within the labyrinth, but they also use lies and tricks to make them choose the wrong door.

* In ''Film/{{Ghostbusters 1984}}'', Zuul (who looks like a large demonic dog) is the Gate Keeper of the dimensional portal that Gozer the Gozerian arrives through. Its (her?) counterpart, Vinz Clortho, The Keymaster, also looks like a giant demon dog.

* Oimo and Kashii from ''Manga/OnePiece'' initially start off as this during the Enies Lobby Arc against the protagonists before making a HeelFaceTurn. They made a contract with the World Government to protect the gates of Enies Lobby for 100 years, so they can get their captains Broggy and Dorry free from prison But after 50 years of successfully doing that, they are not only defeated, but they also the that their contract was based on lies and that Broggy and Dorry were free the entire time and are still alive.

* ''Film/GingerSnapsBackTheBeginning'': Cormac is positioned at the forts gate, examining anyone outside through the peephole before deciding if they should come in.

** At the town of Benning (where the Postman is already inside) the men at the gate refuse to let in the Holnsit militia when they arrive looking for the Postman, shooting arrows out them and yelling for the bandits to "Drop dead and go to hell." [[BullyingADragon This causes the Holnists to attack the town in force]].

* The Thresholder Heartless, pictured above, from ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'' is the result of a Possessor Heartless, well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin possessing]] a carving on a door in [[Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast Beast's Castle]]. You need to get through the door to rescue Cogsworth and the other ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast'' characters and in order to do that, you need to take this thing out.

* ''Discworld/MovingPictures'', a pastiche of film history, has the golden man, an obvious ShoutOut to [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAward the Oscar]], who is at first is taken by the characters to be some kind of dangerous god sealed away behind a gate. Then they realise that the text with this information should be read right to left, and he is in fact standing in front of the gate, i.e. as a guard against the {{Eldritch Abomination}}s on the other side.

* ''VideoGame/BlazBlueCalamityTrigger'': Subverted with Hakumen, who serves as the game's penultimate boss, challenging anyone who happens to find their way to the gate of the Cauldron. He doesn't actually guard the gate, he's just waiting for the gate to open, so he can enter it by himself. Anyone else he meets is just unlucky to cross paths with him.

* ''VideoGame/BlazBlueCalamityTrigger'': Subverted with Hakumen, who serves as the game's penultimate boss, challenging anyone who happens to find their way at the gate of the Cauldron. He doesn't actually guard the gate, he's just waiting for the gate to open, then he can enter it by himself. Everyone else he meets is just unlucky to cross paths with him.

* In the ''[[TabletopGame/YuGiOh Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game]]'', there's "Gatekeeper", a mechanical creature who seems to guard dimensional gateways. There's also "Gate Guardian", the Paradox Brothers' ace monster in the [[Anime/YuGiOh anime]]. Presumably it guards gates with its mighty power.

* Oimo and Kashii from ''Manga/OnePiece'' initially start off as this during the Enies Lobby Arc against the protagonists before making a HeelFaceTurn.

* ''[[http://www.scp-wiki.net/dr-clef-s-proposal Dr. Clef's SCP-001 Proposal ("The Gate Guardian")]]: is a literal version of this trope. It guards the Garden of Eden from Christian mythology, and kills anyone within a 1 kilometer radius of the garden.

* ''[[http://www.scp-wiki.net/dr-clef-s-proposal Dr. Clef's SCP-001 Proposal ("The Gate Guardian")]]: is a literal version of this trope. It guards the Garden of Eden from Christian mythology and kills anyone within a 1 kilometer radius.

* Hong Meiling from ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' guards the gate of the Scarlet Devil Mansion. Fandom has flanderized her as spectacularly inept at her job, often sleeping all day long and punished for it by [[NinjaMaid Sakuya]]. Canon actually states that she's fairly good at her job, except she's massively outclassed by Marisa, who ''nobody'' can keep out.

* In ''Videogame/DevilMayCry 3'', [[HellHound Cerberus]] is the guardian of the entrance of the [[EvilTowerOfOminousness Temen-ni-gru]] who prevents humans from getting in. [[RedOniBlueOni Agni & Rudra]] guard a specific door inside temen-ni-gru to prevent further progress of anyone who got past Cerberus.
* In ''Franchise/DynastyWarriors'', Dong Zhuo's officers Hua Xiong and Lu Bu are in command of guarding Sishui and Hulao Gates, respectively, when the allied forces attempt to remove Dong Zhuo from power. Defeating, or avoiding in the case of Lu Bu, these two officers is usually an objective in one of the early stages of each games campaign.

Supertrope to AngryGuardDog, and not to be confused with ThresholdGuardians, although a gate guardian can also be one of those. A gate guardian often invokes YouShallNotPass by nature of his job. Related to NPCRoadblock, compare and contrast LockedDoor.

Supertrope to AngryGuardDog, and not to be confused with ThresholdGuardians, although a gate guardian can also be one of those. A gate guardian often invokes YouShallNotPass by nature of his job. Related to NPCRoadblock, compare and contrast LockedDoor. A BeefGate can be a literal gate guardian, but not always.

* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'' has Jack discovering a working time portal, and a guardian who is sworn to not allow ''ANYONE'' to use it unless they are worthy. Jack's repeated pleas that he needs to use the time portal to defeat [[BigBad Aku]] is met with general apathy from the guardian. Jack finally decides to take the portal by force, and battles it out with the guardian. In the end, Jack is defeated and is politely told to leave, which he does. The guardian looks into the portal and [[spoiler:sees an older Jack leading an army against Aku. He]] says that Jack wasn't worthy of using the portal. [[spoiler:Not yet...]]