Dynamic Entry / Live-Action TV

Dynamic Entries in Live-Action TV.

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• Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.:
  • In the episode "Heavy Is the Head", Carl "Crusher" Creel enters a building by simply smashing his way through the glass doors.
  • In "Fractured House", May and Bobbi ambush Marcus Scarlotti and his team by bursting in through the windows.
• The melodramatic Angel also has a thing for kicking down doors while making Walk In Chime Ins or Pre Ass Kicking One Liners, as his friends and enemies often lampshade. Subverted in "Billy" when he kicks down Lilah Morgan's door.
  Lilah: That's a very dramatic entrance... except for the part where you can't enter.
  • The trope is lampshaded in "Conviction"
    Angel: You like to make an entrance.
    Eve: You always open both doors when you enter a room? (Angel looks embarrassed) I don't need to make an entrance. I need to make an impression.
• In The A-Team episode "Say It With Bullets", Harnett has discovered that Tawnia slipped a mini-microphone onto him and has her up against a wall staring at a drawn gun. Luckily, Murdock had heard the mic fizzle when Harnett dropped it into his drink. He suddenly appears in the nearest doorway and tackles the villain to the ground.

• Blake's 7. In "Animals", Avon shoots out the lock of a Mad Scientist Laboratory and charges inside, kicks over a chair for no reason then slips on some paper lying on the floor before recovering his balance to pose dramatically. The woman he's come to rescue isn't even there.
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
  • In "Once More, With Feeling" Buffy kicks the door to the Bronze off its hinges, causing the dancing demon Monster of the Week to quip, "I love a good entrance."
  • In "The Harvest", Luke is about to chow down on Cordelia when Buffy kicks one of his mooks over a railing and onto the stage below. Luke watches him land with a thud.
  • In the episode "Angel", things aren't going so well between Buffy and her fan club. As the leader of the Three is going for the kill, Angel suddenly yanks his hair from behind and punches him in the face.
    Angel: Good dogs don't... [socks vampire] bite!
  • In "When She Was Bad", Xander grapples with a vampire in a losing effort until a hand yanks the vamp away. We then see the vamp get pummeled by someone in a shiny micro-mini.
    Buffy: Miss me?
  • While Angelus is busy with her Watcher, Buffy swoops out of nowhere and judo kicks him in the back. ("Passion")
    Angelus: (to Giles) All right, you've had your fun, but you know what it's time for now?
    Buffy: My fun.
  • In "Becoming, Part 2". A Sunnydale cop, so nonexistent in previous weeks and so very prevalent in this one, jumps out and tells Buffy to hold it right there. Suddenly, the gun gets kicked out of his hands. Spike pops out of nowhere, slaps around the cop and kicks him into the hood of his car, knocking him out.
    Spike: Hello, cutie.
  • In the same episode, Angelus readies himself to free Acathla as his acolytes look on. Buffy enters quietly behind one of the henchvamps and cleanly decapitates him. O hai!
  • In "Consequences", Faith is straddling Xander in her bed and about to strangle him. She hears a sound and looks over to see Angel swinging a baseball bat before the screen goes black. Ow.
  • Xander, having earlier been taunted by Spike that he was nothing more than a "glorified bricklayer" (to which he meekly responded, "I'm also a pretty good bowler.) makes an audience rousing Dynamic Entry in the Season 5 finale by knocking Glory the Hellgod through a brick wall. With a wrecking ball.
    Xander: And the glorified bricklayer picks up the spare.
• Burn Notice had a lot of these, with a particular fondness for coming in through the wall.

  Michael Weston: He's waiting for you to come through the front door. So you don't come through the front door.

• In Castle, being a cop show, doors suffer much abuse. Castle is thrilled when he finally gets to break down a door himself (albeit ungracefully) and save Beckett.
• Doctor Who:
  • "The End of Time": The Doctor jumps out of a spaceship and crashes through a skylight to land between the Master and Rassilon. And then Surprisingly Realistic Outcome occurs as he's injured and can barely pull himself to his knees afterwards.
  • "The Pandorica Opens": Rory properly enters the episode killing the Cyberman that had been chasing Amy by pinning it to a door with his sword.
  • "The Woman Who Fell to Earth": The Doctor enters the episode's plot by doing exactly as the title says, smashing through the roof of a train and landing on the alien entity that had halted it just as it was about to attack several passengers.
  • "Fugitive of the Judoon": The first thing Captain Jack Harkness does when he gets onscreen is to snog Graham under the mistaken impression that he's the Doctor.
• Dollhouse: Just as handler Joe Hearn has cornered his active Sierra for one of his moments of forced intimacy, Boyd Langdon crashes in through a window and punches him out.
• Firefly
  • Dobson is holding River at gunpoint, threatening to kill her if her brother doesn't drop his weapon…at which point Mal casually walks into the room and shoots Dobson in the eye without blinking. Or even slowing down.
  • Mal, Zoe and Jayne's Big Damn Heroes moment in "Safe"
  • And Jubal Early knocks out Shepherd Book with a flying kick entrance.
• Game of Thrones:
  • Summer the direwolf tackles an assassin out of nowhere in "The Kingsroad".
  • Rakharo takes Viserys and the audience completely off guard with his whip in "Lord Snow".
  • Podrick rescues Tyrion this way in "Blackwater".
• Anna Devane of General Hospital is guilty of this as well. She once rappelled through the skylight of her daughter's apartment and when asked by said if she could ever use the door like a normal person, she replied, "Doors are so pedestrian."
• iCarly loves this trope, especially tied with a Big Damn Heroes moment. In the two episodes where the kids are captured by Ax-Crazy Nora (who may also be a Psycho Lesbian, as well), the rescue comes with one through the front door. The first time by Gibby and Guppy and the second time by Mrs. Benson and T-Bo...on a MOTORCYCLE.
• Kamen Rider:
  • Skyrider, the main character from (what else) Kamen Rider: Skyrider, does this quite often crashing his motorcycle, the Sky Turbo, through walls, windows and anything else. It even has its own name: Rider Break.
    • In Let's Go, Kamen Riders, every Rider ever hops on their bikes to join in the All Rider Break to take down the Great Leader once and for all (which really means "until the next teamup," knowing the Great Leader.)
  • In Kamen Rider Fourze, this is Meteor's method of entry into battle. He transforms somewhere, then flies into battle in a Sphere of Power that explodes when he appears, causing damage to anything in close proximity.
    • This is actually his transformation sequence. The Sphere of Power that appears when he transforms carries him off and he drops in on the enemy in an explosion; you don't see his full suited form until it dissipates. They don't call him Kamen Rider Meteor for nothing. It is extremely rare for him to still be standing where he was when he changed.
    • Gentaro is also quite fond of attacking Zodiarts this way. While un-transformed.
  • In Kamen Rider Wizard, Kosuke, aka Beast, is fond of leaping in and attacking the enemy once before suiting up. In old-school Rider Kick pose, even!
  • In Kamen Rider Ex-Aid Emu pulls an amazing one with a Hyper Critical Sparking to Cronus's face from out of nowhere. This being after Cronus got a well-deserved beating from Graphite and then attempted to reset time again, it is a truly cathartic moment.
• The Mandalorian: In "Chapter 24: The Return", Din Djarin is getting beaten up hard by Moff Gideon, when Bo-Katan comes to his rescue with a sudden and brutal jetpack-powered tackle, sending the villain sprawling.
• Monarch: Legacy of Monsters: The Frost Vark makes its debut bursting out of the ice to attack a plane in the third episode.
• Odd Squad:
  • In "Undercover Olive", when Olive has her Kooky Clown disguise exposed and the villains of the Rock–Paper–Scissors match start advancing on her, a dainty version of the show's theme tune is heard, causing them to stop and ask about its source. Cue the Odd Squad ice cream surveillance truck ramming through a wall and Otto and Oscar hopping out the back, armed with ice cream and ready to attack. It's an incredible comeback for the two agents considering that Olive being found out was their fault.
  • Oprah is very fond of these. Her idea of knocking, seen in "Behind Enemy Mimes", is using her bare hands to break through a wall before rushing in. Later on in the same episode, she attempts to break through the wall of the Thrimes' apartment before an exasperated Otis asks her to use the door handle. She agrees, and a few seconds later, we see what her idea of "using a door handle" is: punching a clean hole through the door, then unlocking and opening it from the inside.
  • One of Orla's signature battle moves is known as "Smash and Grab". In "Oswald in the Machine", she offers to use the move in order to retrieve the Float-inator from a warehouse run exclusively by villainous robots, but Opal and Omar shoot the idea down because the room where the gadget is being kept isn't accessible to humans. When Opal, Orla and Omar later try to take control of a second robot (following the first one dying due to it being coded in its movement incorrectly) and plan a way to free Oswald from being captured, Orla then decides to use the move, only with the robot instead of a human. She codes the robot to move forward 5 spaces, grab the gadget, then keep moving forward to burst through the wall and enter the Meeting Room, where Oswald is being kept. It ends up working, and the distraction buys Oswald enough time to nab the Float-inator and attack the robots.

• Power Rangers/Super Sentai:
  • Used by the Green/Dragon Ranger in both Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers and it source, Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger. He jumped onto the Megazord, opened the door, trashed up the Megazord, and threw the rangers out onto the ground. Has been subjected to severe Memetic Mutation.
  • Ban pulls this as well in an early episode of Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger. Hoji becomes exceptionally depressed over a mistake he made in combat, and Ban, unable to talk him out of it, simply waits for his depression to become a complete distraction before letting loose with "SNAP OUT OF IT" scream and a dropkick.
• Saturday Night Live: People Getting Punched Just Before Eating.
• Kramer, from Seinfeld. His trademark entry was averted in a couple of episodes. In one, Jerry's apartment is robbed while he's away, so he starts locking the door at all times. At one point there's a loud thump on his front door. When he opens it, Kramer is on the floor, holding his head. In another episode, Jerry has a woman in the apartment, and again, has the door locked, leading to another loud thump on the door.
• In the Stargate Atlantis series finale, there are two partial cases. The first occurs when the Big Damn Heroes realize that the Invisibility Cloak on their shuttle is useless against the Big Bad's sensors. As they are attempting to outrun alien Energy Weapons, the Daedalus arrives to cover them. Unfortunately, the Daedalus Beam Spam does little to hurt the Big Bad's ship. A similar case occurs near the end of the episode with the Atlantis city-ship arriving seconds before the Big Bad can unleash a barrage aimed at Earth. Once again, there is little humans can do against the enemy.
• Captain Jack Harkness gets one in the Torchwood episode "Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang", after having been away from the team for some time due to circumstances beyond his control. Gwen, Owen and Ianto have got themselves in over their heads with a hostage situation involving a dangerously high alien blowfish and a terrified civilian, at which point Jack strolls in, shoots the alien in the head and cheerfully greets his team.
  Jack: Hi, kids. Miss me?
• The Ultra Series does this a lot, notably when the main human host / human form of the Ultra transforms to deal with the Monster of the Week.
  • Especially evident in Ultraman Ace and Ultraman Taro, who frequently herald their arrival by backflipping a few times in the air before landing their foot on the monster's face.
  • With perhaps the crowning example coming in the first episode of Ultraman Leo, when our hero comes flying in between two Kaiju to nail Alien Magma with his Leo Kick, saving Ultraseven from certain death as triumphant music blares in the background.
• Walker, Texas Ranger: This is Walker's favorite way of pulling a Big Damn Heroes moment, usually with a leaping kick.
• This is the way Vyvyan is initially introduced on The Young Ones. As an added bonus, he came in through a wall. Holding a severed leg.

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