History Main / TeleportationSickness

* ''Series/{{Arrowverse}}'': Whenever Barry Allen, aka the Flash uses his superspeed to zip other people around, they tend to be just a little bit disoriented, but none the worse for wear. John Diggle, aka Spartan, on the other hand, always throws up whenever Barry speeds him anywhere.

* On ''Series/{{Fringe}}'', the teleporter David Robert Jones uses to escape from prison causes severe damage to his body, due to the need to reassemble all his body's molecules on arrival. He takes precautions, like spending weeks in a hyperbaric chamber after the escape, yet by the end of the season he's still disfigured and dying. Interestingly, this grants him certain powers, such as being immune to bullets.
* In ''Series/{{Sanctuary}}'', John Druitt's teleportation power causes his brain chemistry to slightly alter each time he uses it, gradually turning him into a raving-mad homicidal lunatic. This is {{Ret Con}}ed later as having picked up a "hitchhiker" during one teleportation, which affects his sanity.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' [=RPGs=] (''VideoGame/AttackTheLight'', ''VideoGame/SaveTheLight'', and ''VideoGame/UnleashTheLight''), Amethyst sometimes regrets eating burritos after using the Warp Pad.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'', the player can throw an Enderpearl (dropped by the {{Teleport Spam}}ing Endermen) in order to be teleported to where it lands -- but it does 2 1/2 hearts worth of damage in the process.

** At one point in "Endwalker", the Warrior of Light, Thancred, and Urianger must take a trip to another continent with a proto-type aetheryte. Normally, one can simply travel to any given aetheryte and attune it, but as none of them had ever been to that continent before and time was of the essence, they used the proto-type to get there. The scientist warned that they may experience some aether sickness upon arrival, but it becomes clear that she undersold the effect as all 3 are knocked flat on their asses seconds after arriving and can barely move for a while without risking throwing up.

** During the Fisher role quests for the Studium, the Warrior of Light is partnered with T'laqa Tia, a scientist with a condition that causes him to experience aether sickness upon attempting ''any'' manner of aether manipulation (simply attuning to an aetheryte is enough to make him throw up). At one point, he needs to travel to Thavnair and is forced to use the aforementioned proto-type. You arrive after the worst of his sickness had passed, but it was apparently a disgusting sight to behold. It also apparently caused him to hallucinate in the process.

* In ''WebAnimation/TheAmazingDigitalCirucs'', Caine gives Pomni a tour of the digital world she landed in by teleporting her all around the grounds and even the void. Once he returns her to the start after about five sudden shifts, Pomni [[VomitIndiscretionShot pukes up a large puddle of black bile]] onto the floor while in a daze.

* Creator/DeanKoontz's ''The Bad Place'': Accumulated reassembly errors in teleportation and the complications from same happen to [[spoiler:Frank Pollard]]. He figures out a way to weaponize this against [[spoiler:his brother "Candy", to save the Dakotas from being murdered]], although this results in his death as well.

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* ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'': Awaki Musujime has a trauma involving a TeleporterAccident in her childhood. As a result, her powerful teleportation abilities are offset by three seconds, and she has great difficulty in teleporting herself, becoming heavily nauseous and fatigued afterwards. Later on, to balance this out, [[spoiler:GROUP provides her with a massage device to relieve her trauma whenever she uses her abilities.]]
* In ''LightNovel/{{Maoyu}}'', the Hero can teleport. If he takes someone with him, they tend to get nauseous if they aren't used to it.
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* In ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'': We meet the inventor of Starfleet's transporter: Emory Erickson. He's forced to use a wheelchair, and his back has several gruesome deformities, which stem from using the new, Sub-Quantum Transpporter, which has a flawed design.
* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'':
** Hypochondriac Lt. Barclay is very uncomfortable with the transporters. At one point he thinks he has Transporter Psychosis, which hasn't been around in half a century.
** In the episode "The High Ground", terrorists are using a form of dimensional jump (not a standard transporter) that bypasses normal space and so cannot be blocked or shielded against. The problem is that nothing that makes the jump comes through 100% perfect -- there's always a tiny bit of distortion that after more than a few jumps scrambles people's DNA enough to make them terminally ill.

* On ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery'', Lieutenant Stamets uses himself as the navigator for the experimental "spore drive" that allows the titular CoolStarship to teleport itself anywhere in the known galaxy. The initial effects are a sense of mellowness and other odd behavior that come across as a low-grade MushroomSamba (which it kinda is, as the drive uses fungal spores to travel an intergalactic mycelial network); as he keeps navigating the network, however, he becomes increasingly disoriented until one particularly bad jump overwhelms him and leaves him delirious.

* ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'':

* In ''[[ComicBook/YoungAvengers Avengers]]: ComicBook/TheChildrensCrusade'', Speed uses his super-speed to vibrate his teammates out of a building through the wall. The experience is apparently... [[VomitDiscretionShot unpleasant]].