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* ''Film/EmpireRecords'' uses this trope during the scene where Lucas is chasing Warren after the latter was caught shoplifting. After finding different escape routes blocked by Lucas more than once, Warren [[spoiler:his name isn't frikkin' Warren!]] finally finds himself apparently in the clear. He runs away down the sidewalk... right into the suddenly-opened door of the car in which Lucas was hiding.
* ''Film/HotFuzz'' uses the bicycle version on a lady rolling down the street, GunsAkimbo.

* The 2007 ''{{Film/Transformers}}'' movie uses this with Barricade attacking Sam.
* Played the motorbike variation straight in 2003's ''[[Film/TheItalianJob2003 The Italian Job]]''.
* ''Film/TheGumballRally'' pulls this one on the accident prone Lapchik. On a motorcycle.
* Happens to Gregor when he's running away in Arles in ''Film/{{Ronin}}''.

* Tallahassee of ''Film/{{Zombieland}}'' loves doing this to any zombie he's driving by.

* In ''Film/WaynesWorld'' a variant of the bike version happens to Wayne's [[StalkerWithACrush ex girlfriend]] except she strikes the front wing of a car parked in a driveway.
* A deleted scene from ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'' puts a twist on this, when super-strong Mr. Incredible uses his arm to knock a motorcyclist fleeing the cops off his bike.
* In ''Film/WildTarget'', Tony gets this as he, Victor, and Rose escape by car in his first scene.

* ''Film/TheCar'' does this to one of its victims.
* Happens accidentally to a cyclist in ''Film/BrokenWings''.
* In ''Film/ResidentEvilRetribution'', Alice does it to a zombie.
* Since Doc Brown's [=DeLorean=] in ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' has hatch-style doors that swing open vertically, he's able to pull off the extremely rare move of clocking a stationary onlooker -- namely Biff -- upside the head with his.
* In ''Film/{{Getaway}}'', [[Music/SelenaGomez The Kid]] does this to a mook on a motorcycle.
* In the TV movie ''OpenDoors'', Robert does this unintentionally to Bruce: swinging open the door of the cleaning van just as Bruce is coming round the side, and knocking him out before he has a chance to discover the robbery.
* In the South Korean movie ''Film/{{Quick}}'', this happens to a motorcycle cop during the chase through the marketplace: a patrol car opens its door as he is approaching, knocking him off the bike and catapulting him over the door.
* PlayedForLaughs in ''Film/GeorgeOfTheJungle''. FishOutOfWater George sticks his head out of a limousine window in downtown San Francisco, and promptly [[AmusingInjuries brains himself]] on the door of a van.
* In ''Film/LoneStarStateOfMind'', during a shootout in a warehouse, Jimbo jumps into a parked car, then opens the door to slam it against two mooks.
* How does John Wick deal with a motorcycle pursuer in ''Film/JohnWickChapter2''? By opening the door and slamming the brakes of course! This is a rare moving-vehicle version of this trope.
* In ''Film/{{Krampus}}'', Max slams one of the elves with the door of the snowplough as he and Stevie escape.
* ''Film/{{Deadpool|2016}}'' 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.
* ''Film/TheGentlemen'': The kid running away from Bunny on the estate is on a bike and keeps looking over his shoulder and shouting mocking comments. Until Ray open the door of the Range Rover and slams him off the bike, that is.

* In ''ComicBook/theFurtherAdventuresOfIndianaJones'' #4, a helpful cabbie slows down a group of Nazis who are chasing Indy by opening his cab door in their path so the lead Nazi runs straight into it.

* ''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.

* This happened once with Eugene in ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold!'', with the bike variant, except the door is open to start with and he spots it. However, the bike's brake cables are broken, and, not surprisingly (it is Eugene, after all), he ends up in the hospital in a full-body cast.

** A way for motorists to avoid this is (for left hand drives) to open the door with the right hand (and for right hand drives with the left hand), which makes one automatically turn in such a way that one sees any approaching cyclist. This can safe lives, please do it!

* ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'': Dr. [=McNinja=] [[http://drmcninja.com/page.php?pageNum=22&issue=4 knows how it's done.]]

* In the ''Manga/GunslingerGirl'' fanfic "Death in Scampia", Jean does this as a KickTheDog to a female teenage gang soldier on a moped, who's driven alongside them and is catcalling through the window.

* Happens twice in ''Film/ChildrenOfMen'', to the same guy. Once using the motorcycle gag (albeit, the car is ''reversing'' to accomplish this), and once ''[[CrowningMomentOfAwesome chasing a car downhill. On foot]]''.

* The Irish minister for the environment once caused a number of [[StronglyWordedLetter letters to the editor]] when he opened the door of his limo and clocked a cyclist in this manner.
* Bob Roll, a UsefulNotes/TourDeFrance commentator for Versus and former cyclist, was at the medic car when he was in the tour. The doctor then accidentally opened the car door, sending Bob flying. The whole event was caught on video. Keep in mind that a member of the official medical staff did this to a cyclist in the ''Tour de France''.

* A rather gruesome episode from the pseudo-documentary ''Series/UntoldStoriesFromTheER''. A teenager that was biking comes in with a severely slit throat. It turns out that she was on the side of the road when another woman in the car opened her door. [[spoiler: the girl on the bike makes it.]]

* The song "Blow em Away" by Chuck Brodsky has a line where the protagonist intentionally does this to a motorcyclist for "cutting in line" by driving between the lanes during a traffic jam.

Not to be confused with a tripwire for use on cars. And no, [[IThoughtItMeant Toyota doesn't have a car called the Tripwire.]] SubTrope to TaeKwonDoor. Compare with CarFu. Contrast with PedestrianCrushesCar. See also TheDoorSlamsYou.

Not to be confused with a tripwire for use on cars. And no, [[IThoughtItMeant Toyota doesn't have a car called the Tripwire.]] Compare with CarFu. Contrast with PedestrianCrushesCar. See also TheDoorSlamsYou.

* There's an old Australian BlackComedy joke in which a travelling swagman is picked up by a guy in a snazzy new Mercedes with the traditional hood ornament. The driver spends a while bragging to the swagman about the various bells and whistles of his car, before jokingly saying the hood ornament is a sight for running over cyclists, before rather irresponsibly trying to get close to a cyclist and swerve off at the last moment. He hears a thump and sees the cyclist on the road in some pain. The swagman says, "Get your sights checked - if I hadn't opened the door, you'd have missed him!"
** A variant involves a priest and a lawyer. "[[EvilLawyerJoke Don't worry my son, I got him with the door!]]"

* The 2007 ''[[TransformersFilmSeries Transformers]]'' movie uses this with Barricade attacking Sam.

* Bob Roll, a TourDeFrance commentator for Versus and former cyclist, was at the medic car when he was in the tour. The doctor then accidentally opened the car door, sending Bob flying. The whole event was caught on video. Keep in mind that a member of the official medical staff did this to a cyclist in the ''Tour de France''.

** Ditto ''NedsDeclassifiedSchoolSurvivalGuide''.

* Hammond (EddieMurphy) did this to a criminal in ''Film/FortyEightHours''. Then he hits him with this: "What's happening, Luther? I'm sorry about the door man. Did that hurt? [[ThatsGottaHurt It looked real painful when you slammed into it]]."