History Main / TaeKwonDoor

SuperTrope to ToyotaTripwire and TacticalDoorUse, non-accidental and non-humorous SisterTrope to DoorSlamsYou. If someone is actively carrying around a door as an ImprovisedWeapon, then you're looking at DoorFu. Contrast DoorJudo where doors are opened not to cause damage, but rather to ''prevent'' damage to the door and render the attacker TooFastToStop. No relation to HeelFaceDoorSlam barring very specific circumstances. If the door breaks from the abuse, (typically from especially {{hard head}}ed characters hitting it) you've just performed an accidental OpenSaysMe.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'', Mike slams a door on Randall and says, "I hope that hurt, lizard boy!".

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* When Hellboy and Johann have a locker room disagreement in ''Film/HellboyII'', Johann, being a formless ectoplasmic being and thus [[NighInvulnerability Made of Air]], travels inside the lockers and begins slamming them open, one at a time in Hellboy's face - and every other part of him - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSDqDOLupNc repeatedly]].

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* On ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'' Al liked to do this to any of Kelly's boyfriends he found unsuitable (ie most of them). As he was tossing them out of the house he would "introduce" their face to various parts of the door first.

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* In the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' episode "Easter Yeggs", WesternAnimation/BugsBunny is being chased by WesternAnimation/ElmerFudd, so Bugs closes a door on him, and Elmer's head goes right through the door. Bugs then proceeds to paint Fudd's face it like an Easter egg, and a BrattyHalfPint that was antagonizing Bugs earlier grabs it and tries to smash it open.

-> Dash stepped into the open doorway. As he did, the heavy door slammed shut with the force of a rocket, crushing Dash against the door frame.

* ''Film/Deadpool'' does a variation where he uses his SuperStrength to kick a SUV's door off its hinges into a motorcycle-{{mook}} who's riding up alongside the SUV to shoot him.

** Buffy does this on at least two occasions. Once by opening a door in her house while Faith is running towards her so Faith goes crashing through the glass, and once while fighting a group of vampires in a parking lot she slams a car door on a vampire's neck, decapitating him.

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': Buffy does this on at least two occasions. Once by opening a door in her house while Faith is running towards her so Faith goes crashing through the glass, and once while fighting a group of vampires in a parking lot she slams a car door on a vampire's neck, decapitating him.

* In ''Film/MonstersInc'', Mike slams a door on Randall and says, "I hope that hurt, lizard boy!".

* In ''VideoGame/FinalFight: Streetwise'', [[TheProtagonist Kyle Travers]] has to deal with "The Weasel" (real name: Nicky Wissell) about clues of where's his brother Cody. After sending some thugs (and defeating them), Kyle hasn't a better idea than corner Weasel and slam his head in his office's door until he wants to talk.

* One of the attack techniques of everyone's favourite mechanical assassin, ''[[RetroGameChallenge Robot Ninja Haggle Man]]''.

To those with the strength to carry them, doors make for [[DoorFu good improvised weapons to carry around]]. Those without said strength can still make use of doors in combat, however, by way of Tae Kwon Door: slamming a still-hinged door in their opponents face. Depending on the medium this can either knock your opponent out cold or kill them either by way of blunt trauma or decapitation if they managed to get their head through before the slam and, depending on the situation, any usually innocuous or decorative features on the door can quickly become genuine threats in their own right thanks to the momentum of the slam; Doorknobs become clubs, glass windows shatter to become jagged knives, handles become daggers, doorframe edges become sharp enough to cut, and should your opponent's head be [[HardHead sturdy enough]] to break through the door they've now got wooden splinter-barbs all pointing towards their vulnerable neck.

This trope is not just limited to your standard building doors; Portcullis generally don't even bother with pretending and are often outright spiked to facilitate skewering people from above as they close, vault doors are giant metal slabs meant to be swung around, vertically closing doors might as well be either blunted guillotines or crushers depending on their thickness[[note]] Although these tend to be SlowDoors, which might make them difficult to use to intentionally cause harm[[/note]], Drawbridges will leave anyone standing where they land SquashedFlat, {{Dilating Door}}s can leave your opponent HalfTheManHeUsedToBe, and don't be fooled by the lack of mass that Future {{Portal Door}}s and {{Cool Gate}}s have, either; they can be just as deadly as 'shutting' them at the right time leads to death by PortalCut.

A common inversion involves grabbing ahold of your opponent and shoving them into the door as part of what make doors so dangerous is their sturdiness and so you can rely on them being solid enough for the full effect of Newton's third law to affect your opponent.

* In the WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003 episode 'Hun on the Run' a fight between [[TheBrute Hun]] and [[ImprobableWeaponUser Bishop]] sees Bishop close a train car door to trap Hun's arm in it. It doesn't last as hun responds by [[DoorFu ripping the door off its hinges and attempt to bludgeon Bishop with it.]]

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* One ''[[Webcomic/The Order of the Stick]] comic has Thog kick a door off its hinges and use it as an Improvised Weapon. As Elan puts it:
-->'''Elan:''' Huh. I guess Orcs always did have a "kick in the door" fighting style.\\
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--> '''Eddie:''' "You know, It's funny; they say television encourages violence. I'm smashing his face in, and we haven't got [a television]!"

* A knock comes from the door, and says Series/{{Blackadder}} to Baldrick:
-->'''Blackadder:''' See who that is Baldrick. And whoever it is, slam the door in their face, or I'll slam your face in the door.
** Unfortunately for Blackadder, it is QueenVictoria and PrinceAlbert.

-->'''Voice:''' Knock Knock!
'''Guy:''' Who's there? ''[the door swings open and hits the guy]''

* In ''Film/TheRaidRedemption'', Rama uses a variation of [[TheWrestlerInAllOfUs a facebuster]], grabbing a mook's head and bringing it crashing down on a [[https://biggiesplace.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/the-raid-1.gif?w=517&h=287 broken door]].

* DwarfFortress [[http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Dwarven_atom_smasher A drawbridge]] destroys anything under it while lowering if it isn't too big.

This trope is not just limited to your standard building doors; Portcullis generally don't even bother with pretending and are often outright spiked to facilitate skewering people from above as they close, vault doors are literally MadeOfIron, vertically closing doors might as well be either blunted guillotines or crushers depending on their thickness[[note]] Although these tend to be SlowDoors, which might make them difficult to use to intentionally cause harm[[/note]], Drawbridges will leave anyone standing where they land SquashedFlat, {{Dilating Door}}s can leave your opponent HalfTheManHeUsedToBe, and don't be fooled by the lack of mass that Future {{Portal Door}}s and {{Cool Gate}}s have, either; they can be just as deadly as 'shutting' them at the right time leads to death by PortalCut.

* In ''Disney/MonstersInc'', Mike slams a door on Randall and says, "I hope that hurt, lizard boy!".

This trope is not just limited to your standard building doors; Portcullis generally don't even bother with pretending are often outright spiked to facilitate skewering people from above as they close, vault doors are literally MadeOfIron, vertically closing doors might as well be either blunted guillotines or crushers depending on their thickness[[note]] Although these tend to be SlowDoors, which might make them difficult to use to intentionally cause harm[[/note]], Drawbridges will leave anyone standing where they land SquashedFlat, {{Dilating Door}}s can leave your opponent HalfTheManHeUsedToBe, and don't be fooled by the lack of mass that Future {{Portal Door}}s and {{Cool Gate}}s have, either; they can be just as deadly as 'shutting' them at the right time leads to death by PortalCut.

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