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6	->''"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."''
7	-->-- ''Literature/GalaxyOfFear: The Doomsday Ship''
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9	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 opponent's 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. 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.
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11	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.
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13	A common inversion involves grabbing hold 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.
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15	SuperTrope to ToyotaTripwire and TacticalDoorUse, non-accidental and non-humorous SisterTrope to TheDoorSlamsYou. 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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20	!!Examples of slamming a door against someone:
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22	[[folder:Comic Books]]
23	* A vertical example in ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}} and Cleopatra'': While Asterix, Obelix and Getafix are in a jail cell, Obelix calls out to the guard, telling him they're going to leave now. The guard (who's standing in front of the door) just starts laughing, and so ends up ''under'' the door after Obelix pushes it back.
24	-->'''Obelix:''' These Egyptians are crazy! You tell them to get out of the way and they don't move!
25	* In ''ComicBook/TheFurtherAdventuresOfIndianaJones'' #28, Indy kicks open the door of his car into the face of the Tong member who is reaching through the window trying to grab him.
26	* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'': in "Big Fish Story," the girls are playing an airborne game of tag with Bubbles "it." She tags Blossom with such force they collide into the front door which in turn collides into the Professor, just as he's about to open it.
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30	* In ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc1'', Mike slams a door on Randall and says, "I hope that hurt, lizard boy!"
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33	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
34	* In ''Film/TwentyTwoBullets'', Charly repeatedly slams Pascal's head in a car door.
35	* In ''Film/TheAggressionScale'', Lloyd knocks on the door, and then kicks it open as Maggie comes to open it: smashing the door into her face.
36	* ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'': After rescuing Marty with the [=DeLorean=] in Alternate 1985, Doc Brown knocks out Biff with one of its doors.
37	-->'''Marty:''' Nice shot, Doc!
38	* ''Film/BetYourLife'': When Chuck tries to shout a warning to Sonny, one of the thugs hiding in the limo uses the limo door to knock him down.
39	* ''Film/{{Birds of Prey\|2020}}'': When two thugs attempt to load the drunk Harley into the back of their van, Dinah fights them. During the fight, Dinah kicks the van door into one of them so his head smashes through the door window. Later, during the fight in the jail, Harley kicks a cell door into one of the inmates.
40	* ''Film/BloodWidow'': While Hugh and Kenneth are making their way through the house, Hugh reaches for a door to open it, and the killer slams the door open in his face, which knocks him out cold.
41	* The ending of ''Film/BodyWeapon''. After Miriam delivers a GroinAttack on the SerialKiller responsible for offing her husband, Officer Wu follows up with a kick that sends the villain into the way of an opened sliding door. Miriam slams it close on the [[NeckSnap villain's neck]].
42	* ''Film/{{Cleanskin}}'': When Paul knocks Ewan's gun from his hand and tries to escape, Ewan throws himself against the door--pinning Paul between the door and the jamb--and [[ImpaledPalm nails his hand to the wall with a knife]].
43	* In ''Film/CradleOfFear'', The Man telekinetically slams a cell door in an orderly's face, knocking him out.
44	* ''Film/CreepVan'': In one scene, a girl is lured to the van by a song that she hears it playing. When she peeks inside to find the driver, the door slams shut on her head, crushing it.
45	* In ''Film/DeadlyDetention'', the killer uses a closing prison door to [[spoiler:allegedly]] crush Taylor's head.
46	* ''Film/{{Deadpool\|2016}}'': Deadpool does a variation where he kicks a SUV's door off its hinges into a motorcycle-{{mook}} who's riding up alongside the SUV to shoot him.
47	* During the final fight in ''Film/DeathWalksOnHighHeels'', Michel catches Robert as he is attempting to get into a police car and slams the door into him several times. Robert then turns the tables and smashes Michel in the face with the door.
48	* ''Film/DriveHeSaid'': When [[spoiler:Gabriel]] breaks into Olive's home to rape her, she hides inside a closet until he's right outside, then flings it open, hitting him, and runs away.
49	* In a deleted scene from ''Film/GalaxyQuest'', Tawny tricks a couple bumbling enemy soldiers into getting flattened by a blast door.
50	* In ''Film/{{Girlhouse}}'', Loverboy murders one of the IT staff that keep Girl House online by repeatedly slamming his head in a door.
51	* During the FightScene in ''Film/TheGreatRace'', [[TheHero Leslie]] slams a door in the face of one of the Baron's {{mooks}} -- and doesn't seem to realize it until he opens the door and said mook collapses.
52	* When Hellboy and Johann have a locker room disagreement in ''Film/{{Hellboy II\|The Golden Army}}'', 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]].
53	* In ''Film/HomeAlone2LostInNewYork'', the two crooks hear a noise on the other side of the door. It's a heavy toolchest, which smashes them and the door against the opposite wall. In utterly unrealistic fashion, they only get their noses bent.
54	* In ''Film/{{Hummingbird}}'', Joey slams the head of an enforcer who threatens him a machete in the door of a telephone booth.
55	* ''Film/JamesBond'':
56	** In ''Film/OnHerMajestysSecretService'', after arriving at a floor in an elevator, Bond doesn't leave it in order to lure a guard over. Just as he is about to knock, Bond charges out of the door, throwing it into the guard and leaving him open to be knocked out.
57	** ''Film/TheLivingDaylights'':
58	*** Bond's Vienna contact Saunders is killed when Necros uses a small explosive charge to propel a sliding glass door into him at lethal velocity.
59	*** Later, Bond slams the cell door on the arm of the jailer in the Soviet airbase, probably breaking it.
60	** Bond slams the reinforced door in the archive on to one of the Soviet soldiers as he is trying to come through it in ''Film/GoldenEye''.
61	* In ''Film/KillBill'', the Bride/Beatrix Kiddo smashes a heavy steel hospital door into [[OrderliesAreCreeps Buck]]'s head while demanding to know where Bill is, before finally killing him with it when she realizes that Buck was the guy who [[DudeShesLikeInAComa raped her while she was in her four-year coma]].
62	* In ''Film/LadyFrankenstein'', Charles slams the door of the laboratory cold room door into the Monster's face during the final battle.
63	* ''Film/LethalWeapon2'': After a couple of thugs try to drown him, Riggs repeatedly slams a car door on the head of one of them.
64	* ''Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheFellowshipOfTheRing''. When the Nazgul burst into Bree, the terrified door guard looks through the door, and gets it slammed off its hinges, ''on top'' of him. Ouch.
65	* In ''Film/MassacreAtCentralHigh'', David interrupts an AttemptedRape by standing outside the room and saying "Hey, open up, it's Mark." When Paul opens the door, David hits him in the face with it.
66	* In ''Film/MightyMorphinPowerRangersTheMovie'' movie, Adam disposes of one of Ivan's grunts through the means of a construction yard vehicle's door.
67	-->'''Adam:''' Let me get the door!
68	* During the 'leg of lamb' robbery in ''Film/MoneyMovers'', Dick Martin kicks the door of the armoured car into the face of one of the robbers, knocking him cold. Later, Eric Jackson slams a car closed on one of the car thieves.
69	* In ''Film/MurderOnTheOrientExpress2017'', the Professor knocks out the Count by slamming the compartment door into him when the Count is attacking Poirot.
70	* In Creator/JackieChan's ''[[Film/ArmorOfGod Operation Condor]]'' a mook is hanging onto the balcony, eavesdropping on the heroes conversation. Jackie slams open the French doors, which crush the man's hand so he falls off.
71	* ''Film/OrdinaryDecentCriminal'': When trying to find out what happened to the gold, Lynch's boys [[{{Fingore}} slam Tommy's fingers]] in a car door.
72	* In ''Film/{{The Punisher\|2004}}'' (2004) during Frank's fight with the Russian he gets his head slammed by the Russian closing the refrigerator door on in twice.
73	* ''Film/TheQuickAndTheDead''. One of the BigBad's mooks is hitting and abusing Cort, a [[HeelFaithTurn former gunman turned preacher]], in the belief that he won't hit back. As he's thrown at the BigBad's feet, Cort suddenly lashes back with a foot, slamming the door in the mook's face and breaking his nose.
74	* ''Film/TheReturnOfThePinkPanther'': A burglar breaks into a museum to steal the title diamond. The alarm goes off and guards pursue the burglar. As a guard is approaching a door the burglar throws it shut, hitting the guard and knocking him out.
75	* ''Film/RumbleInTheBronx'' has one move where Jackie uses a full-size fridge to his advantage: he blocks a stabbing with the large lower door and then swings out the upper freezer door into the attacker's face.
76	* In the 2004 ''San Antonio'' movie, police Lieutenant Bérurier (Creator/GerardDepardieu) and his young ward Toinet follow a trail to a bad guy's flat and knock. The bad guy spots them through the eye-hole and is about to gun them down through the door, but he waits too long. Béru runs out of patience and just rams the door into his face, pinning the bad guy underneath it.
77	* ''Film/StrippedToKill'': When Heineman catches the mobile entrepreneur trying to get back into his car, he slams his foot into the car door: pinning the entrepreneur between the door and the car. He [[JackBauerInterrogationTechnique questions him]] by repeatedly pressing on the door until the entrepreneur tells him what he want to know.
78	* ''Film/TheSuicideSquad'': During her escape from the presidential palace, Harley slams a steel grille door into the face of one of the soldiers more than a dozen times.
79	* ''Film/Terminator3RiseOfTheMachines''. When the Terminator walks up naked to a strip club, the bouncer thinks he's part of the act and tells him to go round to the front entrance. The Terminator just walks past him and yanks open the door, slamming it into the bouncer as he does so.
80	* In ''Film/TerrorTrain'', Alana kicks the door of the conductor's cage into the face of the killer when she escapes from the crew car.
81	* In ''Film/ToySoldiers'', the BigBad rushes into the kitchen looking for one of the [[KidHero Kid Heroes]]. The kid in question hides behind the kitchen's swinging door, and for a moment it looks like it's worked. And then the BigBad grabs the door and slams it into the wall, crushing the kid and knocking the wind out of him.
82	* ''Film/{{Transit}}'': When breaking into Robyn's motel room, Marek kicks the door into her face.
83	* ''Film/TheWarWagon'': Taw slams the door of the War Wagon into the face of one of Pierce's mooks when he takes back his gun. Later, during the BarBrawl, he kicks the saloon door into TheSheriff's face.
84	* In ''Film/WhenEightBellsToll'', a member of a BoardingParty sticks his head through a deck hatch only to find someone sitting on the deck waiting for him, who uses his feet to slide shut the hatch on the mook's head.
85	* In ''Film/WhenTaekwondoStrikes'', Huang pushes a goon behind a door and hits him with it.
86	* ''Film/TheYakuza''. Creator/RobertMitchum's character discovers his friend has betrayed him. He knocks on the door of his office and pretends to the bodyguard who answers that he's come round for a casual chat with his friend. When the bodyguard unhooks the chain lock, he slams the door open, pinning the bodyguard against the wall, then fires his gun into the door, killing him.
87	* In ''Film/YellowHairAndTheFortressOfGold'', one of the Apaches knocks out a sentry at the Mexican fort by swinging the heavy fort gate into him.
88	* In ''Film/ZoltanHoundOfDracula'', Veidt is lying in the back of the hearse as Inspector Branco approaches, and kicks the rear door open and into Branco as he gets close.
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92	* ''Literature/CodexAlera'': In ''Academ's Fury'', the Canim break a door down on Centurion Bartos, crushing him to death. Max and Miles later do [[IronicEcho the same thing]] to the Canim.
93	* ''Literature/MrsSmithsSpySchoolForGirlsPowerPlay'': After [[TheProtagonist Abby]] unties Veronica, Veronica uses the door to the room she was held hostage in to knock one of the guards unconscious by slamming it against him.
94	* ''Literature/OctoberDaye'': When Toby and Quentin are trying to leave ALH Computing, the portcullis at the gate crashes down on her car, almost killing them.
95	* ''The Specialist'', by Gayle Rivers. The protagonist realizes he's being followed, so enters a public urinal and when exiting "accidentally" slams the door in the man's face. The man is only disoriented enough to be quickly searched to establish that he's carrying a gun before he comes round. It's more the lack of overt anger afterwards that establishes that he's a professional intelligence agent.
96	* ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'': In ''Literature/GalaxyOfFear''[='=]s tenth book. The ship's A.I. has gone evil, the doors are [[OurDoorsAreDifferent science-fiction things that slide open]], and when one of the heroes starts to pass through a doorway...
97	-->''As he did, the heavy door slammed shut with the force of a rocket, crushing Dash against the door frame.''
98	* In ''Literature/TheTwelveChairs'', a minor character Alchen is somewhat obsessed with door springs and outfitted every door in the retirement home he's in charge of with springs of his own makings and extremely varying designs, including pneumatic, hydraulic, blocks-and-counterweights and so on. The only thing those contraptions have in common is them being extremely powerful, so those doors open with tremendous effort and then snap shut like bear traps, slamming people (especially old ladies living there) on regular basis. Even [[MagnificentBastard Ostap Bender]], after paying a visit to Alchen, gets smacked "[[LiteralAssKicking below his back]] with a-ton-and-a-half force" by the front door.
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101	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
102	* ''Series/OneHundredThingsToDoBeforeHighSchool'': In "Pilot", Crispo uses the door to knock out Hall Monitor Paul Schmolitor when he catches CJ in the science room attempting to release the raccoon.
103	* ''[[Recap/BlackadderSS2BlackaddersChristmasCarol Blackadder's Christmas Carol]]'': A knock comes from the door, and says Blackadder to Baldrick: "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 UsefulNotes/QueenVictoria and Prince Albert.
104	* PlayedForLaughs In ''Series/{{Bottom}}'' during one of the many violent altercations between Richie and Eddie, Eddie repeatedly slams a refrigerator door against Richie's head to an accompanying LaughTrack.
105	--> '''Eddie:''' You know, It's funny; they say television encourages violence. I'm smashing his face in, and we haven't got [a television]!
106	* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'':
107	** Once while fighting a group of vampires in a parking lot Buffy slams a car door on a vampire's neck, decapitating him.
108	** During a fight in Joyce's house, Faith opens a French door in Buffy's path so she goes crashing through the glass.
109	** Giles realizes that one of Glory's minions is listening at the door, so he yanks it open causing the eavesdropper to start to fall inside, then slams the door into the minion's face.
110	* ''Series/{{Cannon}}'': In "A Flight of Hawks", Jerry slams the door of the storeroom he had been locked up in into the face of one the mercenaries.
111	* In ''Series/{{Daredevil\|2015}}'', [[ComicBook/TheKingpin Wilson Fisk]] uses the door of his limo to [[{{Gorn}} repeatedly bludgeon Anatoly Ranskahov's head]] until he finally gets [[OffWithHisHead decapitated]].
112	* ''Series/DoctorWho'': In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E9ItTakesYouAway It Takes You Away]]", after Ryan locks the door to the bedroom and pockets the key so Hanne, who is blind, won't try to go through the portal, she later knocks him out by slamming a door in his face to get the key.
113	* In ''Series/{{Leverage}}'', Eliot Spencer uses this as an attack. He is fighting a group of drug dealers, one of whom is in a truck repeatedly trying to get out to help his friends. Every time he tries, Eliot slams the door on him, at one point simply yelling "stay in the car!" which apparently intimidates the man enough not to even ''try'' the other door.
114	* ''Series/MacGyver2016'' has Mac in "Muscle Car + Paper Clip" go up against a close protection officer of the US Secretary of Defense after he and Cage try to abduct him because of hackers going after his pacemaker and he's not convinced that someone's after him. Mac decks him by using the Suburban's SUV door to stun him before he gets knocked out cold.
115	* In the BatmanColdOpen of ''Series/TheMandalorian'', a quarren is foolish enough to fire on the title character while lying across the doorway of a DilatingDoor. The Mandalorian proceeds to ShootOutTheLock causing it to [[DestructionEqualsOffSwitch close automatically]] and cut him in half.
116	* In ''Series/TheMinistryOfTime'', Julián steps in when Lope de Vega is about to sleep with Amelia by knocking on the door to his inn room, waiting until he hears him to be close to the door, then open it quickly enough to whack him in the face.
117	* ''Series/TheNewAvengers'': An intruder kicks the door closed into Steed's face as he goes to enter Stannard's apartment in "The Eagle's Nest".
118	* ''Series/NCISNewOrleans'': In "Collateral Damage", a fleeing suspect swings open the door of a cargo container to flatten one his pursuers, who runs into it at full speed.
119	* ''Series/TheProfessionals''
120	** In "Blind Run", a carload of gunmen tries to ambush our heroes. Doyle rushes up to the car and--as a gunman is climbing out--kicks the car door into him.
121	** In "A Stirring of Dust", Doyle realises that a hitman is hiding behind a door. He slowly eases it open as if he's going to cautiously enter the room, then suddenly slams it fully open into the hitman. Unfortunately there's a second hitman on the other side of the door who then jumps Doyle.
122	** Parodied in a skit by ''Series/TheTwoRonnies'' which had a gun-waving Doyle kicking open a door and searching an apartment for the villain, only to find no-one. As he leaves and closes the door behind him, the SquashedFlat villain falls out from behind it.
123	* ''Series/RizzoliAndIsles'': In "Love Taps", Nina stops a suspect who is attempting to flee on skateboard by kicking a gate into him as he tries to skate through it.
124	* ''Series/TalesFromTheCrypt''. When a street gang attempts to carjack Carlton in his newly young body in [[Recap/TalesFromTheCryptS2E2TheSwitch "The Switch"]], he slams one of them in the face with the car door.
125	* ''Series/WantedDeadOrAlive'': In "The Martin Poster", an outlaw is hiding behind a door waiting to jump Josh. Tipped off by the marshal's eye movements, Josh uses his elbow to slam the door back into the outlaw.
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129	* At ''Wrestling/WrestleMania'' 18, Christian won the Hardcore title by slamming a door in Mighty Molly's face.
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132	[[folder:Video Games]]
133	* This is an actual gameplay mechanic in ''VideoGame/BonanzaBros''. In fact, the first enemy in the game has almost certainly been deliberately placed to be dispatched in this manner. The title characters can pull it off to temporarily knock out guards; useful when said guard is armored and otherwise immune to bullets. But said guards can pull the trope right back on you if you stand too close to the door as they enter.
134	* In ''VideoGame/BrainDead13'', this happens to the {{c\|reepyCentipedes}}entipede in the wine cellar, except that when it chases Lance towards the exit, he opens the door and intentionally slams it into its face, putting it out of commission.
135	* In ''VideoGame/DeadCells'', if the Beheaded dodge rolls into a door or hits it with an attack, it goes flying open. This breaks the door and damages and stuns any enemies that were standing near it.
136	* In ''VideoGame/DukeNukem3D'', both Duke and the aliens can be crushed by sliding doors.
137	* ''VideoGame/DungeonMaster'': The button to close a door is not blocked by monsters standing in the doorway. As such, the player can start closing the door to have it slam against creatures for some ongoing damage as the door tries closing again and again.
138	* ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'': [[http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Dwarven_atom_smasher A drawbridge]] destroys anything under it while lowering, if it isn't too big to prevent the bridge from coming down.
139	* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'': Michael does this to fraudulent car dealer Simeon Yetarian with the door of the car he leased to Michael's son for "five grand a month".
140	* Faust from ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'' weaponizes this with one of his special attacks, which has him disappear, then emerge from a door that suddenly appears in front of/behind his opponent.
141	* Kratos disposes of Theseus in ''VideoGame/GodOfWarII'' after the fight proper by trapping him between a pair of gates, one locked, one moveable, and repeatedly slamming the moveable gate into Theseus's face untill he dies.
142	* A gameplay mechanic in ''VideoGame/{{Gunpoint}}''. Wire a door just right, and it'll smack a rent-a-cop in the face. This knocks them out. Wire a door just wrong, and it'll smack you in the face. This gives you an achievement. Jumping kick a door off its hinges, and it can hit a rent-a-cop in the face. This knocks them out ''and'' gives you an achievement.
143	* ''VideoGame/HotlineMiami'': Jacket opens the door with a slam, which can knock a mook down if they are hit by it. Better; there's an unlockable mask that lets you kill mooks by hitting them with the door slam. You can keep using doors, after they've been used, so you can always cause a door slam.
144	* In ''VideoGame/InsurgencySandstorm'', kicking in a door, whether off its hinges if it opens towards you or open if away from you, will instantly kill anyone unfortunate enough to be on the other side.
145	* In the 3D ''[[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Legend of Zelda]]'' games, fake doors crush Link ''against the floor'' by falling on him.
146	* In ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion1'', some of the doors are fake. When Luigi goes to open them, they'll swing around and crush him against the wall.
147	* This is the main form of attack of the eponymous mouse policeman in the Arcade/NES classic ''VideoGame/{{Mappy}}''. The game allows the player or open or close doors in the face of enemies to stun them. There are also flashing doors which release a shockwave when opened that sends them flying out of the house.
148	* This can be done in the ''VideoGame/MetalGear'' games, starting with ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty''. If you're hiding in a locker or similar, exiting while someone is directly in front of the door will knock them out of the way (possibly creating a domino effect if he flies into another person). ''VideoGame/{{Metal Gear Solid 3\|SnakeEater}}'' introduced swinging doors, and charging through them full speed will knock aside anyone on the other side of the door. In all cases, these are quite unstealthy, but handy if you need to make a run for it in a pinch.
149	* ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'' & ''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvil5 5]]'' allow you to either open doors slowly and quietly in order to stealth in, or loudly kick the door open. If you use the more DynamicEntry then any enemies standing on the other side will be knocked back.
150	* One of the attack techniques of everyone's favourite mechanical assassin, ''[[VideoGame/RetroGameChallenge Robot Ninja Haggle Man]]''.
151	* In ''VideoGame/SaintsRow2'', the Boss knocks a door off its hinges when breaking into Johnny Gat's hearing, squashing one of the bailiffs under it (and promptly taking his keys to open Johnny's cuffs).
152	* ''VideoGame/ShadowsOfDoubt'' turns this trope into a very easy way to deftly knock out an inconvenient citizen. Knock on the door, wait for the sound of a key in the lock, and then shoulder tackle the door. Most of the time, the door will fly open into the other person's face, knocking them out cold. If your suspect is on the other side of the door, this is often a quick and easy way to subdue them and cuff them for the authorities to come and pick up.
153	* In both ''VideoGame/SplinterCell: Chaos Theory'' and ''Conviction'', you can kick open doors and knock out anyone else who is blocking it from the other side. A guard can also kick open a door if something is blocking it in the former. If that something is you, then the door will knock you out, causing an instant mission failed.
154	* In various of ''VideoGame/WWEVideoGames'', you can slam the other wrestler against doors in the Backstage arenas.
155	* In ''VideoGame/Yakuza1'', Kiryu kicks open a door a guy happens to be standing on the other side of, sending him flying offscreen. In other games, this is also one of Kiryu's HEAT actions where he crushes a thug's head in a taxi cab door.
156	** In the DLC story for the spinoff game ''VideoGame/LostJudgment'', some enemies during stealth missions are taken down this way.
157	* ''VideoGame/VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines'': In a GuideDangIt moment, it's possible, albeit quite difficult, to kill an otherwise-invulnerable AdvancingBossOfDoom by crushing it with the closing shutter of an observatory dome.
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161	* ''[[WebAnimation/ASDFMovie ASDF Movie 6]]'' has the door itself use this as the culmination to its own KnockKnockJoke in one of the skits:
162	-->'''Voice:''' Knock Knock!\
163	'''Guy:''' Who's there?\
164	''[the door swings open and hits the guy]''\
165	'''Voice:''' The Door!
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169	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'' episode "Party at Neutron's", Jimmy knocks out a ''velociraptor'' by slamming a door in its face.
170	* In the WesternAnimation/BuzzLightyearOfStarCommand prologue movie our heroes Buzz Lightyear and Warp Darkmatter are faced with a locked door to the Evil Emperor Zurg's hidden laboratory, which is immune to their laser weaponry. After Buzz gives up on blasting it down Warp decides to just walk over and knock on it, causing one of Zurgs [[MinionWithAnFInEvil minions]] to ''answer'' said door to the ''hidden laboratory'' -- which Warp then immediately slams in his face. Door now unlocked and minion knocked out, they walk right in. [[spoiler: Although this might have been all part of the plan, considering Warp's status as TheMole for Zurg.[[note]]"My name is ''[[CardCarryingVillain Darkmatter]]'' -- [[LampshadeHanging who's surprised here]]?"[[/note]]]]
171	* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' used this gag several times, in various forms:
172	** In "WesternAnimation/EasterYeggs", 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.
173	** In "WesternAnimation/BewitchedBunny", Witch Hazel is riding her broomstick through her house in pursuit of Bugs Bunny. Bugs opens a top-and-bottom type double door, runs through and slams the top half while leaving the bottom half open. Hazel then runs into the closed top half. Later in the cartoon, Bugs pulls the same gag in reverse, closing the bottom half and leaving the top half open. Witch Hazel (still on her broom) then runs into the bottom half.
174	* ''WesternAnimation/PrivateSnafu'': In "Operation Snafu", Snafu tricks the three Japs chasing him into bowing, then slams a door on their heads.
175	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' has used this a few times.
176	** In "Duffless", it's PlayedForLaughs: Homer sees that Barney is too drunk to drive and tries to knock him out using his car's door. Barney gives up and hands Homer the car keys.
177	** In "Treehouse of Horror XI" story "Night of the Dolphin": the FinalBattle has a dolphin using a car door to slam Comic Book Guy's head.
178	* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'': During the Citadel arc a clone is literally [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe cut in half]] by a security door. Another door [[GoryDiscretionShot slams shut in front of him right before his gruesome death]].
179	* 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.]]
180	* ''WesternAnimation/SpaceGhost'' episode "The Web". Black Widow forces Space Ghost to fight a monster in an arena without his power bands. When Space Ghost gets his power bands back and can put up a fight, Black Widow calls for her guards to attack him. As they run through a door into the arena, Jace pulls a lever that causes the door to slam down on them and prevent them from entering.
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183	!!Examples of slamming someone against a door:
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186	* Franchise/JamesBond is fond of this trope in the numerous fights that has happened throughout the franchise. Not that windows, curtains, or other furniture get a pass either.
187	* In ''Film/{{Casino}}'' a local boy takes his cowboy boots off and puts his feet up on the card table where he's playing. After rudely refusing attempts by both the casino manager and [[VillainProtagonist "Ace" Rothstein]] to get him to put his shoes back on and show respect, Ace tells his security staff to literally throw the guy out and "Use his head to open the door." [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKf7Zre1djE They do just that]], with a couple of them picking the guy up and ramming him into the door like a battering ram.
188	* In ''Film/TheRaidRedemption'', Rama uses a variation of [[WrestlerInAllOfUs 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]].
189	* In ''Film/AccidentMan'', Mike kicks Jane through a door hard enough to knock the door off its hinges.
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193	* ''Literature/CallahansCrosstimeSaloon'' series short story "The Guy with the Eyes". Callahan's Bar has a heavy oak door with a poorly-repaired split in the centre. The split was caused by the head of a thieving patron named Big Beef [=McCaffrey=] in 1947 when Callahan threw him out of the bar.
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197	* On ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'', Al likes to do this to any of Kelly's boyfriends he finds unsuitable (i.e. most of them). As he is tossing them out of the house, he "introduces" their face to various parts of the door first.
198	* ''Series/LawAndOrderCriminalIntent'': In "Gods & Insects", the VictimOfTheWeek is murdered by having his head slammed repeatedly in a car door.
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201	[[folder:Video Games]]
202	* In ''VideoGame/FinalFightStreetwise'', 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.
203	* In ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil5'' Wesker kicks Chris through a door right after he delivers the hilariously appropriate line "Your future ''hinges'' on this fight!"
204	* ''VideoGame/Yakuza0'' has this whenever a story level takes place. When the last man in a room is knocked out, the door to the next room is shown being opened by Kiryu/Majima punching or throwing a {{Mook}} through it. Presumably the handle was jammed or something.
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