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Slow Doors

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Slow Doors	label	Slow Doors
Slow Doors	page	SlowDoors
Slow Doors	comment	So, you're running towards a top-secret facility with heavily armed bad guys in hot pursuit. Or you learn that an airstrike or Alien Invasion is inbound. You need to initiate Lockdown! Fortunately, the first thing you did when you was install huge, nearly impenetrable blast doors. Once they're closed, nothing can go through. You run in, press the Big Red Button marked ' "emergency Blast Doors close" and...wait...and wait... But there's only one flaw: they take too much time to close. Way too much time. Sometimes it seems that the "message" to close the doors takes its time to get to all of them as well; Door #1 will start to close, then sometime after that Door #2 will start to close, then Door #3 etc. When the doors close, the mechanism moves slowly. There are some Real Life examples that lend this trope some credibility. Of course, the 25 ton armored blast doors on a nuclear bunker are gonna move slowly. The watertight doors on the RMS Titanic closed very slowly, with only the last foot or so dropping quickly, in order that personnel could escape the sections that were closed off alive. Some rather large and heavy doors also use high-torque hydraulics or electric motors to raise and lower, which are notoriously slow, having traded off speed for strength. Fictional blast doors may be on heavy hinges or they may drop or roll down down into position. In science fiction, some blast doors use an iris-like dilating design which creates a progressively smaller circle as it closes. If they close downward, expect this to turn into the Sub-Trope, Indy Hat Roll. Otherwise, people will jump or squeeze through whatever gap is still left when they reach the door, which is conveniently just wide enough. If this is done with vehicles and the escapee being pursued is a hero with Plot Armor, expect the hero to just make it through, but the pursuers will be unable to stop in time and crash into the blast doors. Blast doors that drop down rapidly, like a guillotine blade, are not this trope.
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Slow Doors	isPartOf	DBTropes
Slow Doors / int_2d23c8ae	type	Slow Doors
Slow Doors / int_2d23c8ae	comment	Near the end of Entrapment: After the characters accidentally trip the security system, a wall of gates closes rapidly around them, but for some reason the door blocking the actual exit moves incredibly slowly, long enough for them to escape.
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Slow Doors / int_33dd1d8f	comment	The Half-Life chapter "We've Got Hostiles" has fire doors that take forever to close. Luckily you set them off manually, meaning you can shut them behind you and cut off the hostiles creatures dogging you. It's only one way, but you can open it again, except for the Door to Before; the blast door you went through is securely shut. Opposing Force uses this trope with a blast door that's partially open, but slowly closes thanks to the G-Man, and you can't go under it (without noclipping).
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Slow Doors / int_37ae0bc8	comment	Averted in episode 5 of Kiddy Grade. When Lumiere closes all of the doors in an enemy spaceship, they snap shut before the bad guys even realize what's happening.
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Slow Doors / int_3afbac7c	comment	Averted in chapter 18 of Blattodea when Alice lures Hanakamakiri into getting smashed by a blast door she had hacked into. The gate drops instantly with a large shockwave on impact, but despite leaving him trapped between it and the floor it seems to not have injured him at all.
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Slow Doors / int_3d6b812b	comment	The theater owner's bomb shelter in Matinee.
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Slow Doors / int_44fe781e	comment	Averted in Neon Genesis Evangelion, where the internal security doors of the Geofront, once activated, snick shut instantly, sealing corridors extremely quickly. Twenty million times.
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Slow Doors / int_4ce969a9	comment	Some doors in the Marathon franchise, such as the Door to Before in Blaspheme Quarantine, and the big doors on Durandal's ship in the second game. The first level of the mini-scenario The Collective is unwinnable on Total Carnage difficulty, since your Oxygen Meter runs out before the doors open.
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Slow Doors / int_52690c13	type	Slow Doors
Slow Doors / int_52690c13	comment	One small area in Penumbra requires you to flip a lever in a far off room which opens the exit door that slowly closes as you approach. The tension is greater if you didn't kill all the spiders.
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Slow Doors / int_68997cdd	comment	Screamers. The soldiers return to their bunker only to find it overrun by the killer robots. Fortunately the bunker door opens slowly giving them time to retreat to higher ground. However there are too many robots and they have to set off a tactical nuke to survive.
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Slow Doors / int_7357234c	comment	Beyond Good & Evil has looter caves with Doors that instantly lower half-way once the spark reaches them, but slowly close past that point.
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Slow Doors / int_778c0c2c	type	Slow Doors
Slow Doors / int_778c0c2c	comment	Averted in Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII in a minor scene where the WRO locks down against intruders; a redundant and somewhat impractical set of doorways down a corridor slam shut in quick succession.
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Slow Doors / int_7981ca33	comment	In WarGames, we see NORAD personnel walking in and out while a ridiculously thick metal door is closing. This is Truth in Television: The blast doors◊ of the Cheyenne Mountain Complex are 25-ton monsters of concrete and steel, and take about 15 seconds to close. They're on record as the world's largest hinged doors.
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Slow Doors / int_79845a63	comment	The first arc of the animated series Droids featured a landspeeder chase scene that used this trope, plus several others (like the Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy) repeatedly and in quick succession. R2-D2 suggests it's a trap, and it turns out it is: Behind the last set of slow doors is a dead end and a bunch of guys with blasters.
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Slow Doors / int_7c07df33	comment	Averted in Billion Dollar Brain. General Midwinter puts the Master Computer in Lock Down after seeing on his CCTV cameras that Leo Newbigen is trying to reprogram the Brain. The doors close too quickly for Leo to escape, but one door closes on a trolley that's being pushed through at the time, leaving a gap for him to squeeze through.
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Slow Doors / int_8d817ccb	type	Slow Doors
Slow Doors / int_8d817ccb	comment	Used on Lost: the blast doors in the Swan lower rather quickly; however, they don't all close simultaneously, which allows Locke to wedge his toolbox under the last door before it closes.
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Slow Doors / int_9aabac2f	comment	Played straight and averted in The One, as Gabriel escapes the Police Compound, he ducks under one of these. However, his Police Pursuers also make it through (though one of the trucks wangs its lightbar on it).
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Slow Doors / int_a183d57f	comment	Parodied twice in Futurama: In the Central Bureaucracy everyone manages to make it through the door, except Bender, who just walks right through the metal. The second one is when fleeing the spaceship Titanic, when Zoidberg stops the door with only a few inches of space, forcing Hermes to limbo underneath.
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Slow Doors / int_a40b1126	comment	The alien mother ship in Independence Day had a single triangular access opening that slowly closed after the heroes fired their nuke into the center of the ship. Naturally their spaceship managed to squeeze through while the pursuers all smashed into the closed door. In this case it's definitely justified as being slow as said doors are HUGE!
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Slow Doors / int_a4274674	comment	Averted in Man of Steel, enabling the holographic Jor-El to use them in helping Lois Lane escape General Zod's ship. A female mook charges in with a hand blaster, only for a door to slam down knocking the blaster out of her hand so Lois can use it, and trapping the mook on the opposite side. Jor-El cuts off several other guards this way, when there's too many for Lois to shoot.
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Slow Doors / int_a599305d	type	Slow Doors
Slow Doors / int_a599305d	comment	In Mega Man Zero one mission requires you to sneak into a factory. if you're detected, the Slow Door starts closing. if you're not through it before it closes, Game Over.
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Slow Doors / int_a5d9b112	comment	Zygote. The Final Girl shoots the Body Horror creature pursuing her and (after a Borrowed Biometric Bypass) is able to open the vault-like door to the corporate safe room. However the creature then starts to rise again and shambles towards her as the door slowly closes...
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Slow Doors / int_a78fff6d	comment	Played with twice in the pilot episode of SeaQuest DSV. In the first case, an undersea wildcat miner is attempting to escape corporate security after he infringed on their mining fields one too many times; he pulls off an Indy Hat Roll with his mini-sub by asking his buddy at home base to start closing the docking bay doors before he's through. The trope is played straight in the second case (and re-used as stock footage several times thereafter), as a crewman is seen jumping through the main "clamshell" hatch to the titular submarine's bridge as general quarters is sounded.
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Slow Doors / int_ab42c63a	comment	In the end credits sequence of Get Smart, Max leaves CONTROL headquarters and all the doors that opened in the Title Sequence slam shut behind him, except the last one. When Max goes to close them manually, they shut on his nose.
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Slow Doors / int_b1678eb4	comment	The Adventures of Fox Tayle: As Fox Tayle is escaping the BioCon labratory where he was created, alarms go off and he has to slide underneath a slow-moving (downward) door to escape a room.
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Slow Doors / int_b3710357	comment	The door to ENCOM in TRON. Lampshade Hanging with an Ad Lib from the actor playing Flynn: "Now THAT is a big door!" Ironically, that's a real door at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory outside Oakland, where some other live-action scenes (including the laser lab) were also filmed. TRON: Legacy also uses the line. Though the door is significantly faster.
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Slow Doors / int_b94ae31e	type	Slow Doors
Slow Doors / int_b94ae31e	comment	Subverted in Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers. When Wallace under the control of Feathers Mcgrew attempting to steal a diamond trips a laser beam, the chamber's vertically-dropping entrance door starts to close slowly (about 10 seconds after the alarms first go off), but instead of attempting an Indy Hat Roll, he instead immediately turns around and heads for the window - granted, he was walking on the ceiling!
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Slow Doors / int_b9c1cff1	comment	The games in the Prince of Persia series are full of Slow Doors. Prince of Persia does have one door in Level 8 that closes just too late for the player (and then is reopened by mus ex machina). The Sands of Time series somewhat subverts this - some of the doors close quite quickly, but can be passed using the dagger's time slowing ability.
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Slow Doors / int_b9cdc91d	comment	Averted in Dredd. When Peach Trees goes into Lock Down, a nuclear blast door comes down on top of a Beggar with a Signboard before he can do more than look up. Played straight with the (admittedly larger) blast doors at the very top of the megastructure's air shaft, but no-one can exit through them anyway.
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Slow Doors / int_ba366aa8	comment	The final level of Syphon Filter has this. You have to make it through a missile silo before the missile blasts off. There's a slowly closing blast door, and the controller has an Unnecessary Combat Roll button. Do the math.
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Slow Doors / int_c06a9c1c	comment	Final Space: In "The Remembered", when Gary takes a Dimensional Key from it’s vault in the Lord Commander's palace, he triggers an alarm and the vault begins to close again. But the door closes so slow that Gary can easily leave. He lampshades the trope:
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Slow Doors / int_c0920aaf	comment	Inverted in Another Metroid 2 Remake. One setpiece involves Samus escaping a location about to explode only to come across the pair of closed blast doors at its entrance. No matter how well the player performs, the doors are so slow to open that Samus will always get blasted through the second one at critical health.
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Slow Doors / int_c0c57462	comment	In Chrono Trigger, your team has to escape a robot factory that you've just shut down. You just squeak by the first set of Slow Doors, but Robo has to hold the second one open with his body.
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Slow Doors / int_c305f9a9	comment	Two appear in the second stage of Axelay, but you can use your guns to blast them open.
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Slow Doors / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: "Dalek" has the door to the lower levels of Henry van Statten's bunker, which closes slowly as Rose and Adam run for it. Adam makes it, but Rose isn't quite fast enough, leaving her trapped with the Dalek.
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Slow Doors / int_c6f7e804	comment	Blake's 7. "Redemption" was filmed in a nuclear power station so a real-life version is used. A Red Shirt performs a Heroic Sacrifice because he has to stay outside to push the thick radiation-proof door shut. In "Pressure Point", Gan has a Heroic Sacrifice holding up a descending door long enough for the others to pass under. "Space Fall" has a variation; Blake tries to shut the hatch to an airlock transfer tunnel but it won't budge, and he gets shot and wounded by his pursuer. Then the Liberator blasts off and the hatch shuts automatically leaving his pursuer to be Thrown Out the Airlock.
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Slow Doors / int_cf10c600	comment	TRON: Legacy also uses the line. Though the door is significantly faster.
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Slow Doors / int_d109f322	comment	Andromeda: The doors on the titular ship close at a reasonable pace, but the bigger, more important ones (such as onto the command center), have a design that allows one to jump through the closing door.
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Slow Doors / int_d3893e60	comment	Zigzagged in The Atomic Submarine (1959). A sailor tries to flee an alien spacecraft through a Dilating Door as it slowly closes, but he's not quick enough and gets his arm caught and crushed. Later someone with Plot Armor does the same and succeeds, despite there being more than one door in his case (though the last door is held open by another character so he can squeeze through).
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Slow Doors / int_e293455a	comment	Buffy the Vampire Slayer did the "message" version completely straight when Spike was escaping from the Initiative.
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Slow Doors / int_e5da0fa0	comment	The Myst games play this trope straight, particularly in Riven and Uru.
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Slow Doors / int_e6267766	comment	Star Wars Legends: In the game Dark Forces, on the level titled Gromas Mines, the player must successfully place a detonator on the reactor and escape through not one, but five slow-moving doors. The trick though is that while the doors stay open as long as the player is beyond their threshold, once he or she crosses it the doors close in a matter of seconds. If the player is caught in between one of the sections however, the doors can be reopened by a switch on the wall.
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Slow Doors / int_e726a3b6	comment	Some of the doors in Star Wars Droidworks do this, particularly the huge stone ones in the 5th training mission and Salvage Yard.
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Slow Doors / int_e76f2e85	comment	Zigzagged in The Murderbot Diaries novella Exit Strategy. Murderbot and Dr. Mensah are trying to sneak through the space station dock to their shuttle, when someone puts the dock into Lock Down. At first the trope looks like it will be played straight as only air barriers go up; they're designed to hold in the atmosphere against decompression, but you can force your way through them. Then metal security barriers come up just before they reach the entrance. Murderbot is able to convince the dock supervisor to raise the barrier enough to let Mensah escape, but not itself.
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Slow Doors / int_e885c808	comment	Spaceballs parodies the below Star Wars example, the characters jump through a door closing from the top and bottom, and are caught by the troops on the other side. However once the captain comes in behind them and asks them to turn around it is revealed it was the stunt doubles that were caught. The doors also close very slowly until the heroes/stunt doubles jump through, at which point they snap shut.
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Slow Doors / int_f1414a2b	comment	Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, allowing Ahnold to jump under the door and hold it long enough for John and Katherine to crawl under it.
Slow Doors / int_f1414a2b	featureApplicability	1.0
Slow Doors / int_f1414a2b	featureConfidence	1.0
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines	hasFeature	Slow Doors / int_f1414a2b
Slow Doors / int_f163bd9f	type	Slow Doors
Slow Doors / int_f163bd9f	comment	Used with crazy timing in ElfQuest: The Searcher and the Sword, when two elves are trying to escape from crazed trolls. What's crazy about it is that it's implied that the elves had plenty of time to escape, except that the rescue party's entrance alerts their enemies, who then check on the prisoners, see that they're gone, and trigger the trap, leaving the escapees to vault through the door at the last second. Drama! Did I mention that this is all done with giant slabs of stone a la Egyptian tomb? Read up on the thrilling escape here.
Slow Doors / int_f163bd9f	featureApplicability	1.0
Slow Doors / int_f163bd9f	featureConfidence	1.0
ElfQuest (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Slow Doors / int_f163bd9f
Slow Doors / int_f74b5f80	type	Slow Doors
Slow Doors / int_f74b5f80	comment	Averted on Babylon 5. The blast shield closes quickly enough to protect C&C from an attack that had already been launched.
Slow Doors / int_f74b5f80	featureApplicability	-1.0
Slow Doors / int_f74b5f80	featureConfidence	1.0
Babylon 5	hasFeature	Slow Doors / int_f74b5f80
Slow Doors / int_ff9ab17f	type	Slow Doors
Slow Doors / int_ff9ab17f	comment	Star Trek: The Next Generation: in "Relics", the Enterprise-D manages to fly through the closing space-doors of a Dyson Sphere, with the aid of a nice roll maneuver.
Slow Doors / int_ff9ab17f	featureApplicability	1.0
Slow Doors / int_ff9ab17f	featureConfidence	1.0
Star Trek: The Next Generation	hasFeature	Slow Doors / int_ff9ab17f

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Slow Doors	processingCategory2	Door Tropes
Slow Doors	processingCategory2	Insecurity System
Slow Doors	processingCategory2	Velocity Index
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The Adventures of Fox Tayle / int_c4b910bf	type	Slow Doors
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Marathon (Video Game) / int_c4b910bf	type	Slow Doors
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Paladins (Video Game) / int_c4b910bf	type	Slow Doors
Perfect Dark (Video Game) / int_c4b910bf	type	Slow Doors
Primal Carnage (Video Game) / int_c4b910bf	type	Slow Doors
Strafe (Video Game) / int_c4b910bf	type	Slow Doors
Syphon Filter (Video Game) / int_c4b910bf	type	Slow Doors
Cyberchase / int_c4b910bf	type	Slow Doors
Ninjago / int_c4b910bf	type	Slow Doors
Toy Story 2 / int_c4b910bf	type	Slow Doors
Get Smart / int_c4b910bf	type	Slow Doors
Iron Man: Armored Adventures / int_c4b910bf	type	Slow Doors

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