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* In an episode of BigO, Roger whips out a technologically advanced morphing key to unlock a door--just before Dorothy kicks it down.

* Nanny from ''CountDuckula'', although this is more a lethal combination of absent-mindedness and [[GentleGiant not knowing her own strength]].

* ''{{Animorphs}}'' - Jake and Marco discuss climbing a fence with barbed wire, then see Cassie standing on the other side of the fence, smugly waving the keys.

Examples:

* TheFairlyOddparents do this when Timmy and Cosmo want to enter Cosmo's Mom's House. After Timmy broke the door using Cosmo as a Battering Ram, Cosmo states that he still has the house's keys.

* TheFairlyOddparents do this when Timmy and Cosmo want to enter Cosmo's Mom's House. After Timmy broke the door using Cosmo as a Battering Ram, Cosmo states that he still has the House's Keys.

* In the very first episode of the ''Series/{{X-Men}}'' Animated Series, "Night of the Sentinels," Wolverine uses his adamantium claws to slice open a locked door. However, after getting inside.

** Seven episodes later show why they don't bother with keys. When Rogue and Storm try breaking out Colossus, Rogue had the wrong key and simply ripped the door off the hinges.

* Invoked in an episode of GeneratorRex with an elevator door. The NonHumanSidekick managed to press the elevator button before any breakage transpired.

* In ''BlackMask'', at one point the BadAssNormal police detective manages to handcuff a SuperSoldier who feels no pain to a bar. The super soldier immediately and without hesitation ''cuts off his own hand''. The detective stares at him for a second and then (in the English dub at least) says "Damn. I had the key."

Contrast CuttingTheKnot, where violence ''is'' the simple option.

* In ''TheMatrix The Matrix Reloaded'', Trinity is on a motorcycle with the Keymaker and asks for a download on how to hotwire vehicles, only to have her passenger hand her a key. Both convenient and [[JustifiedTrope justified]], as the Keymaker is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin in addition to his more figurative role.

* Played with in the ''StarWars'' novel ''[[XWingSeries Starfighters of Adumar]]''. Wedge Antilles and his fellow pilots are on the run from the citizens of Adumar, and encounter a door. Wedge orders the lock shot out, but fellow pilot Hobbie simply opens the door instead--it was unlocked.

* During JohnByrne's run on ''FantasticFour'' there was a notable [[Comicbook/TheAvengers Avengers]] crossover involving the return of [[XMen Jean Grey]]. At one point, Hercules and members of the FF accompanied Jean to her parents' home to uncover the reason for her resurrection, but their front door was locked. After Hercules smashed the door down, Jean took him to task, pointing out that her folks kept a spare key in a secret compartment inside a fake rock by the front step.

* TheFairlyOddparents do this when Timmy and Cosmo want to enter Cosmo's Mom's House. After Timmy broke the door using Cosmo as a Battering Ram, Cosmo states that he still has House's Keys.

Along the lines of ThereWasADoor, an Action Hero proves his manliness by [[OpenSaysMe busting down or through a locked door]], or hotwiring a car so he can steal it. After he's proven his manliness in this fashion, one of his companions holds up the keys to the door or car in question, which prompts a remark from the Hero.

* In ''{{Terminator}} 2'', Arnie punches through a car window then hot wires the car. John Connor flips down the windshield visor to reveal the keys. Arnie actually learns from this experience -- the second time he's required to steal a car, he gets in and flips down the visor. Boom! Keys.
** Apparently nobody has pockets in these movies...
** They were ''spare'' keys. Stupidly hidden spare keys, but spare keys all the same.
* In ''TheMatrix Reloaded'', Trinity is on a motorcycle with the Keymaker and asks for a download on how to hotwire vehicles, only to have her passenger hand her a key. Both convenient and [[JustifiedTrope justified]], as the Keymaker is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin in addition to his more figurative role.

* There's a scene in the ''{{Animorphs}}'' short-lived TV show (can't remember if it happened in the books) where Jake and Marco discuss climbing a fence with barbed wire, then see Cassie standing on the other side of the fence, smugly waving the keys.
** Definitely not in the books. They would have just [[{{Animorphism}} flown over it]].
*** This was at a point before they had any flight-capable morphs; they were sneaking into The Gardens, where Cassie's mother works (hence why she had the keys) to get some new morphs. All the same, not in the books.

** [[{{Kiai}} LAVEEEEEERRRRRRNE,]] [[ThisIsSparta ROBEEEEEEEEERRRTS!]]

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* A variant in ''MuppetChristmasCarol'': Rizzo very reluctantly climbs up a gate and jumps off, and then, realising he's left his jellybeans behind, ''slips through the bars'' to get them.

* In the first season of ''{{24}}'', Jack Bauer and George Mason come upon a fence. Jack immediately hops over it, while George rolls his eyes and strolls through the gate.

*In ''[[TheBourneSeries The Bourne Identity]]'': Bourne plans out a complex plot to get information from a hotel information desk. When he doesn't get the phone call from Marie, he assumes that she's bailed on the plan. She then appears right behind him. "I just asked them for it."