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* DestructiveTeleportation: When "teleportation" is actually the duplication of the original object at a new location, with the original object being destroyed.

In depth:

* {{Teleportation}}

Tropes:

* AlternateSelf (Sometimes caused by a TeleporterAccident)
* {{Butlerspace}} (A servant suddenly appears out of nowhere when needed. May or may not be literal teleportation, but the effect is the same.)
* CoolGate (A structure in a fixed location generating a portal that is walked through.)
** PortalPool (A magical teleporter made of water.)
** PortalDoor (A door that leads to someplace non-adjacent.)
* DestructiveTeleportation (When "teleportation" is actually the duplication of the original object at a new location, with the original object being destroyed.)
* DimensionalCutter (Bladed weapons can create portals by cutting)
* ExtradimensionalShortcut (When direct teleportation is not possible)
* FlashStep (SuperSpeed that acts as teleportation)
* {{Hellgate}} (A portal to somewhere awful)

* MagicMirror (One of its many possible uses is a portal gateway)

* MentalSpaceTravel (Uploading one's brain to a body at the destination)
* MultistageTeleport (Teleporting short distances over and over to achieve long-distance travel)
* NoFlowPortal (Portals are strangely selective about what goes through.)

* OneToMillionToOne (A person shattering into pieces or animals or other objects which may go elsewhere before reforming)
* PortalBook (A book that teleports people.)
* PortalCrossroadWorld (A location with a particularly high concentration of portals)
* PortalNetwork (A series of linked teleporters.)
* PortalPicture (A painting that teleports people.)
* RandomTransportation (When the teleportation is random)

* ShadowWalker (A character who teleports via shadows.)

* SummonMagic (A character teleports another being to his place to aid him)
* SwapTeleportation: Teleportation that switching places with something.

* TeleportationMisfire (Being sent to the wrong place)

* TeleporterAccident (Something...''bad''...happens in the process of teleportation.)
** PortalSlam (Running into a teleporter only to discover that it is no longer there.)
** PortalCut (Teleporting only part of an object.)
** TeleFrag (Death by teleport.)

* TeleportInterdiction (Security measures to limit who can teleport and/or where they can go.)

* TelevisionPortal (used mainly for horror purposes)
* ThinkingUpPortals (when you can step through a portal you created yourself!)

* {{Twinmaker}} (A teleporter that makes a clone somewhere else and destroys the original)
* VillainTeleportation (Villains are more likely to have better or exclusive access to teleporting than the heroes)

* WarpZone (when there is a specific hub that sends you places)
* WeaponizedTeleportation (using {{Teleportation}} to kill or incapacitate, and weapon-like teleportation devices)

* {{Butlerspace}}

* WeaponizedTeleportation (using TeleportersAndTransporters to kill or incapacitate, and weapon-like teleportation devices)

* CoolGate (A fixed location teleporter.)
** PortalBook (A magical teleporter sending one into a book.)
** PortalPicture (A magical teleporter sending one into a painting.)

* VillainTeleportation

->''"Whenever he used the transporter it felt like every subatomic particle in his body was violating Heisenburg's Principle of Uncertainty."''

->''Whenever he used the transporter it felt like every subatomic particle in his body was violating Heisenburg's Principle of Uncertainty.''

* ThinkingUpPortals (when you can step through a portal you made up yourself!)

Tropes about portals, teleporters, and transporters. See also FasterThanLightIndex.

** MergingAccident (Two things are merged by the teleporter)

Tropes about portals, teleporters, and transporters.

* AlternateSelf (Sometimes caused by a TeleporterAccident... deliberate, or actually accidental.)

** MergingMachine (Two things are merged by the teleporter)

* TeleportersAndTransporters

* MentalSpaceTravel (Uploading one's brain to a body at the destination.0

* FlashStep: SuperSpeed that acts as teleportation.

* WeTookTheElevator can be used to lampshade how a character suddenly appeared in an area.

* LoveTranscendsSpacetime