History Literature / Jumper

* OlderSidekick: Millie, sort of.

On Jun 6, 2018 an adaptation of the story called ''Series/Impulse2018'' was released as a full-length series by Website/YouTube Red.

* GovernmentConspiracy: In the first book, the NSA acts a lot like this. It's played fairly realistically - the NSA are an ordinary government intelligence agency that want to understand how the heck David is teleporting and force him to work for them (or neutralize him as a potential threat), and are stepping outside of their constitutional authority to make it happen. Also, going to the courts is in fact a reasonable response to their illegal activities (assuming you have someone on the outside who knows that they've done something).

* StrawFeminist: Cent is rather aggressively feminist, to the point of halting conversations to insist on womanned, not manned, as a term for her ventures and insisting that her first interview be with a woman reporter, but was not deliberately written by Gould to be one of these. Whether she comes across as a reasonable subversion of this trope or an unwitting example of it depends largely on the reader.
* TeenGenius: Cent is able to develop new teleportation techniques while in high school, and at eighteen, is able to work alongside ''real'' Ph.Ds to launch a space program. She's not just doing grunt work, either - Apex Orbital is her show, and she makes knowledgeable decisions on all aspects of it.
* TeleportationWithDrawbacks: Jumper and its sequels are about a man, David Rice (and, in the ensuing decades, his wife Millie and daughter Cent, because apparently teleportation is catching) who can teleport to any location he can remember clearly. He remains unclear on why he can do so, despite willing and unwilling participation in research of his ability, but the initial trigger appears to be an extreme fight or flight experience (in order by person, rape, falling, and avalanche). Other nuances also come into play, such as the preservation of momentum through 'jumps', the RequiredSecondaryPowers that allow them to jump with them anything they can lift (therefore leaving things they 'can't' lift as potential restraints) and the utilization of the hole in space created to pour water, air, sand, and vacuum from one place into another. It also explores the ethical implications to a limited degree, as David and family have a strict no killing policy, but he initially uses his powers to rob a bank and later uses them as a one man infil/exfil team for the government (with, again, tight restrictions).

%%* {{Intangibility}}: It's discovered that whenever Davy jumps he opens a gateway for about a fifth of a second. [[UpToEleven Taken to the next level]] in book 2 when he works out how to "twin" himself, basically opening a Davy-shaped hole between any two locations.

* CutLexLuthorACheck: Davy ''starts'' by robbing a bank[[note]]he tries to get a legit job, but is underage with no high school diploma, birth certificate, or social security number[[/note]], but later on gets legitimate work doing jumps for the NSA that pays even better than disappearing money from the bank. He still doesn't miss the opportunity to pocket a bit of bad-guy cash when the opportunity presents itself, though. This bites him a bit when a conspiracy sets its sights on him, since they conclude there's no way they could simply hire him to do their dirty work due to his ethical restrictions and copious cash, and jump straight to kidnapping and murder.

* CutLexLuthorACheck: Davy ''starts'' by robbing a bank[[note]]he tries to get a legit job, but is underage with no high school diploma, birth certificate, or social security number[[/note]], but later on gets legitimate work doing jumps for the NSA that pays even better than disappearing money from the bank. He still doesn't miss the opportunity to pocket a bit of bad-guy cash when the opportunity presents itself, though.
** This bites him a bit though when a conspiracy sets its sights on him, since they conclude there's no way they could simply hire him to do their dirty work due to his ethical restrictions and copious cash, and jump straight to kidnapping and murder.

* WhamShot: InUniverse, Cent's first sight of the International Space Station is described essentially as a religious experience.

* {{Meganekko}}: Millie, whose designer glasses catch Davy's eye in the first book.

* ThouShaltNotKill: Davy is unwilling to kill anyone. Even terrorists, NSA agents, or his dad - though he comes really close with Dad. Millie is the same way. Millie largely follows his lead. Cent? Nope. When she's [[spoiler:captured by the NebulousEvilOrganization]] and she and Joe are threatened, she almost ''immediately'' uses deadly force to free herself.

* ContagiousSuperpowers: One of the requirements for learning to teleport is to have been teleported several times by someone else.

On Jun 6, 2018 an adaptation of the story called ''Series/{{Impulse 2018}}'' was released as a full-length series by Website/YouTube Red.

** In later books, the protagonists are heavily involved in humanitarian work - mildly in Reflex, where Davy places tight constrictions on what jobs he'll do for the NSA and personally intervenes in multiple homeless peoples lives, then with dedication to larger causes after TheConspiracy precludes government work. A short story shows David and Millie intervening in a drought stricken area, and multiple stories have them move supplies, resources, and people to where they're needed.

* LatexSpaceSuit: In ''Exo'', Cent uses the family's money to invest in the development of one of these to fulfill her dream of space flight. The main sticking point is that the suit is impossible to get on in the first place. [[spoiler: Cent can teleport into it, though.]]

* {{Teleportation}}: Jumper and its sequels are about a man, David Rice (and, in the ensuing decades, his wife Millie and daughter Cent, because apparently teleportation is catching) who can teleport to any location he can remember clearly. He remains unclear on why he can do so, despite willing and unwilling participation in research of his ability, but the initial trigger appears to be an extreme fight or flight experience (in order by person, rape, falling, and avalanche). Other nuances also come into play, such as the preservation of momentum through 'jumps', the RequiredSecondaryPowers that allow them to jump with them anything they can lift (therefore leaving things they 'can't' lift as potential restraints) and the utilization of the hole in space created to pour water, air, sand, and vacuum from one place into another. It also explores the ethical implications to a limited degree, as David and family have a strict no killing policy, but he initially uses his powers to rob a bank and later uses them as a one man infil/exfil team for the government (with, again, tight restrictions).