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* ''Converging from all directions'': Door panels coming not only from left and right but also from above and below. Uses even more space. Less common in [[Live Action TV]] because it is expensive to build on a set. A typical example is the "[[Dilating Door|iris door]]".
 
Note that while the first two traits are [[Tropes Are Not Bad|justifiable]] in most cases, the others are often a consequence of [[Rule of Cool]], with essentially no advantage over simpler designs.
 
This trope is mainly intended for high-tech door designs that are needlessly complicated and impractical. It usually does not apply when magic is involved, after all, [[A Wizard Did It|wizards can do anything]].
 
[[Sub -Trope|Subtropes]]:
* [[Dilating Door]] - Doors which are [[Cool but Inefficient]]
* [[Script -Reading Doors]] - Doors which know when to open, when to close, and when not to
 
{{examples|Examples}}
 
== Anime and Manga ==
* ''[[Galaxy Angel (Animeanime)|Galaxy Angel]]'' has several including two-tone double doors that split diagonally along different axises.
 
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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* Spoofed in the second ''[[Airplane!]]'' movie, where the doors were voice activated and made a sound when the command to activate them was given. So you had [[William Shatner]] making the ''[[Star Trek]]'' door sound and the door making its own variation as it obligingly opens.
* ''[[Forbidden Planet]]'': The doors left by the Krell had two of these traits, "no right angles" (a flattened pentagon) and "converging from all directions". See it [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQwmKClCAbQ here, starting at 2:20].
* In ''[[Santa Claus Conquers the Martians]]'' (which was once featured on ''[[MST3KMystery Science Theater 3000]]''), the Martians doors opened by pointing at them.
 
== [[Literature]] ==
* ''[[The HitchhikersHitchhiker's Guide to Thethe Galaxy]]'': Doors manufactured by the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation are programmed to love their simple lives; they love nothing more than to open and close for passing users, and thank them profusely for so emphatically validating their existence.
* ''[[Neverwhere]]''. Door's family can open, well, anything. Their house is really freaky.
* The Gringotts door in ''[[Harry Potter]]'' is an example of the doors being different in a fantasy, rather than sci-fi, setting. So many parts move when the goblin unlocks it that it's pretty much a door whose entire surface is its lock mechanism.
* Hobbit doors are round in ''[[The Lord of the Rings (Literature)|Lord of the Rings]]''.
 
== [[Live -Action TV]] ==
* ''[[Star Trek (Franchise)|Star Trek]]'': Used mildly on Federation vessels. The doors are automated and come with a trademarked sound, but are otherwise normal ([[Script -Reading Doors|except for knowing when they're needed]]). Played straight with ''[[Deep Space Nine]]'', with lots of weirdly shaped doors. The creators went overboard with the automated doors. Almost every alien society has them, no matter what their technological level or whether there's actually an energy source available to power them. It should be noted that reality still writes the plot, as not a single door goes down into the floor, since the soundstage floor can't really be altered.
** ''[[Star Trek: the Original Series (TV)|Star Trek theThe Original Series]]'' had a set whose doors (and corridors) were unusually shaped; it was reused, with different trim and paint schemes, for many episodes set on alien planets or ships.
* ''[[Babylon 5]]'': Many doors on the station are automatic and hinged at the top. However it is subverted on Earth where they have perfectly ordinary wooden hinged doors in most buildings. It would appear that the station needs doors that can be sealed in the event of a hull breach, which is not a problem on Earth.
** On Z'ha'dum, the automatic doors opened with the standard door noise. The shadows tried sneaking up on Sheridan by using a quiet door, but Sheridan wasn't caught off guard.
* ''[[Sea QuestSeaQuest DSV]]'': Played very straight, with lots of ''different'' doors and hatches. Going red alert on the SeaQuest includes closing all kinds of hatches, so they show this off a lot.
* Parodied in the ''[[Get Smart (TV)|Get Smart]]'' underground headquarters, with the veritable gauntlet of doors, hatches, etc. The already-bumbling main character has to go through them to get to work; [[Hilarity Ensues]].
* ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'': The scene right before the movie starts shows a hallway with various different kinds of doors.
* In the ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' serial "[[Doctor Who (TV)/Recap/S6 E7/E07 The War Games|The War Games]]", the aliens' security chief has a door of the 'converging from all directions' design. The top part is deliberately made to resemble a guillotine blade. The aliens' space/time machines also have noisy powered doors.
 
== [[Video Games]] ==
* The X-Naut fortress in ''[[Paper Mario: theThe Thousand Year Door (Video Game)|Paper Mario the Thousand -Year Door]]''. {{spoiler|It's on the moon.}} The doors require passwords and keys, and make a "swish" sound upon opening.
* ''[[Fallout 3]]'' has overcomplicated doors everywhere, a standard secure door folds up sideways and then the middle part sinks into the floor. Then there's the Vault doors, which light up and having a warning klaxon and spin when the open button is pressed.
* ''[[Mass Effect]]'' and its sequel love their bizarre, six or more segment doors.
* In ''[[Sam and Max|Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse]]'', the doors on General Skun-ka'pe's ship slide Ina different direction every time they open or close. For example, the first time, a door will slide to the right to open and then come up from the bottom to close. The next time, the door could open by sliding up and close from the left. Apparently, his ship, like everything in the game, runs on the [[Rule of Funny]].
* Doors in ''[[Batman: Arkham Asylum]]'' are massive steel slabs with body scanners and several locks and slide open either very fast or incredibly slow. [[Justified Trope|Justified]] since they are designed to keep the worst psychopaths from escaping the asylum, [[Cardboard Prison|but it's not like they actually work.]]
* Space Pirate Doors in Metroid are opened by firing lazer weapons at them, are circular, and come in many, many component parts that open seperatly. Wierdly, they're unlocked with weapons the space pirates [[Fridge Logic|do not possess]]. Galactic federation doors, [[Damn You, Muscle Memory!|to confuse players]], are simple automated doors.
 
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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