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* See the first stunt in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuQp2Wnnyok this Reebok commercial], where professional football players pitch themselves for the fantasy football draft. Whether these stunts are real or movie magic is a subject of lively debate.

 

 

* In the [[Martial Arts and Crafts|Martial Arts Figure Skating]] battle in ''[[Ranma ½]]'', Ryōga has just crushed Mikado Sanzen'in, the rival male skater, between two icebergs, forced Asuza Shiratori, his female partner, to flee, and buried Female!Ranma in the resulting multi-ton mass of broken ice (and she was already fully submerged in ice water, too). Just as he's relaxing and thinking about going to greet Akane after his victory, [[Made of Iron|Ranma]]'s hand breaks through the ice and [[Determinator|she clings tenaciously to his leg]].

* In ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'', Ed has knocked out several soldiers who were looking for him. The last one in the squad hides next to a door and waits for him to walk through. Ed punches through the wall with his automail arm and grabs the guy in a stranglehold.

* Happens in ''[[GTO]]'' once. After {{spoiler|Teshigawara snaps}}, Onizuka taunts him unseen until he backs against a wall, then Onizuka busts through it with one hand and drags him through.

 

* Batman does this twice in ''[[The Dark Knight Returns]].'' The first time he hides under the floor, shoves his hand up through the floorboards, grabs the ankle of a nearby mook and pulls him down and probably beats on him even more. The second time he rams his arm through a wall (looks to be made of concrete, though the art makes it difficult to tell) and pulls a mook through it and beats them up more.

 

* Near the end of ''[[Blade Runner]]'', replicant Roy Batty punches through a wall, pulls Deckard's hand through it and breaks two of his fingers.

* Ash gets his back up against a door in ''[[Evil Dead|The Evil Dead]]'' when suddenly... you know the rest.

* In ''[[The Rock]]'', Goodspeed is trying to dodge a pair of soldiers and hides behind a really flimsy wooden wall. Cue the soldiers smashing through the wall to grab him.

* In ''[[Iron Man (film)|Iron Man]]'', one of the villains gets pulled through a wall when he thinks he can hide from Tony.

* Used by [[RoboCop]] in the first movie to get the drop of a hostage taker in the town hall. After determining the perp's exact position with his [[Infrared X-Ray Camera|infrared vision]], he punches both arms through the wall, grabbing the criminal from behind and dragging him all the way in the other room.

* ''[[Shaun of the Dead]]'' has David apologize while moving back towards a window... cue the zombies breaking through the barricade and pulling him away to be eaten.

* The opening [[Nightmare Sequence]] in ''[[Day of the Dead]]'' {{spoiler|when hundreds of zombie arms break through a white wall to grab the female protagonist.}}

* In ''Live Free or [[Die Hard]]'', as a mook is trying to get through Farrell's door, McClane punches him through it.

* ''[[Dead Snow]]'' has an unusually [[Made of Plasticine|squishy]] version of this, where the zombies burst through the protagonist's barriers, grab the resident [[Genre Savvy]] nerd and crush his skull.

* In ''[[Species]]'', Sil punches through a bathroom stall to rip out a woman's spine.

* ''[[Phantasm (Film)|Phantasm]]'' and its sequels love this trope.

* The famous axe-through-the-door scene from ''[[The Shining]]''.

* Subverted in ''[[Sunshine (film)|Sunshine]]'' where the killer grabs a corpse lying on the other side of the wall instead of the girl he's stalking, giving her a chance to stab him before he realises his mistake.

 

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