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* The most famous video game example would be, you guessed it, {{Portal}}, the TropeNamer. In particular, you're given an Aperture Handheld Portal Device which allows you to create linked orange and blue portals on conductive surfaces. Don't worry, its harmless- they know how to rip apart a quantum space hole.

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* This is how powerful [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividual Others]] teleport in ''NightWatch''. They create portals to anywhere in the world. In one book, a villain needed to get to the ISS, so he created a portal into orbit... but probably forgot to carry the 2 in calculating the destination, and ended up floating in space, helpless (the Others need humans nearby in order to use magic), until he burned up on re-entry.

* ''{{Touhou}}'': [[RealityWarper Yukari Yakumo]] is known for her "gaps", and actually ''sits'' on one in her portrait.

* Gates from ''Comicbook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'' was a bug-like alien with the mutant power to create, well, gates--small portals that he and his teammates could use to travel long distances. His portals also have sharp edges that can destroy anything they open inside of (like [[spoiler:Ra's al-Ghul's arm]]). Because his power could often break the story, Gates was often a victim of TheWorfEffect.

* Janemba, villain of the 12th ''Manga/DragonBall Z'' movie, has this as part of his overall RealityWarper package. He uses it to send one of Goku's ki attacks right back at him. He also has an even weirder teleport effect - turning into jigsaw pieces that blink out of existence and reappear elsewhere.

* Gates from ''Comicbook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'' was a bug-like alien with the mutant power to create, well, gates--small portals that he and his teammates could use to travel long distances. His portals also have sharp edges that can destroy anything they open inside of (like Ra's al-Ghul's arm). Because his power could often break the story, Gates was often a victim of TheWorfEffect.

* Gates from ''Comicbook/TheLegionOfSuperHeroes'' was a bug-like alien with the mutant power to create, well, gates--small portals that he and his teammates could use to travel long distances. His portals also have sharp edges that can destroy anything they open inside of (like Ra's al-Ghul's arm). Because his power could often break the story, Gates was often a victim of the WorfEffect.

* In ''{{Absorption}}'', though you can't create portals, you need to replace existing ones to solve puzzles.
* ''KingdomHearts'': Corridors of Darkness can be opened by anybody who gets too close to the Darkness.

* This is pretty much what ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'' and VideoGame/{{Portal 2}} are all about, the only deviations being that it's a gun that's making the portals, and you need a certain type of conductive surface to hold them.

* This is pretty much what ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'' and VideoGame/{{Portal 2}} are all about, the only deviations being that it's a gun that's making the portals, and you need a certain type of conductive surface to hold them.
* ''{{Prey}}'''s Hunters and Harvesters travel around the Sphere via portals that the Mother creates for them; it's very usual for you hear the familiar hissing sound their gates make, and seconds later find yourself ambushed from all sides. The Keepers, being higher up in the hierarchy, can use their [[HollywoodCyborg cybernetics]] or PsychicPowers to [[TeleportSpam jump around you mid-battle]].
* In ''{{Absorption}}'', though you can't create portals, you need to replace existing ones to solve puzzles.

* Desdemona in ''[[Webcomic/EvilInc Evil, Inc.]]'' can manifest portals for traveling through - completely or partly, or simply for slipping other things through (and even holding them open while ropes pushed through are manipulated on the other side).

* Fiends in ''OrderOfTheStick'' can travel between planes through portals.

* Breach from ''WesternAnimation/GeneratorRex'' can create portals to and from anywhere she wants as long as she can move her [[MultiArmedAndDangerous giant second set of arms.]] Though, she can apparently do it by instinct without them.
* In ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'', the Door Lords can throw magical keys at any spot they choose, and it will create a door between that spot and wherever they choose to go. The doors can apparently be in any position or angle they want.

* In ''{{Scion}}'', characters who learn Boons from the Psychopomp purview can do this: Rainbow Bridge (Psychopomp 7) lets a character teleport anywhere in the World, and Otherworldly Portal (Psychopomp 9) allows a character to teleport between planes of existence.

* MarvelComics characters Doorman and Spot have portal-based teleportation as their powers, while villain Black Hole, a "living singularity", could suck objects through a portal in his body to another dimension.

* In ''{{Digimon}}'', the extremely powerful but rarely-appearing [=MagnaAngemon=] has "Gate of Density" as his primary attack. It can send enemies through a portal into AnotherDimension, and trap them there permanently.

* In ''{{Digimon}}'', the extremely powerful but rarely-appearing [=MagnaAngemon=] has "Gate of Density" as his primary attack. It can send enemies through a portal into another dimesion, and lock them there permanantly.

* In ''{{Digimon}}'', the extremely powerful but rarely-appearing MagnaAngemon has "Gate of Density" as his primary attack. It can send enemies through a portal into another dimesion, and lock them there permanantly.

* In ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'', the Door Lords can throw magical keys at any spot they chose,and it will create a door between that spot and wherever they choose to go. The doors can apparently be in any position or angle they want.

* In ''DannyPhantom'', Wulf the ghost can create portals to the Ghost Zone at will. Danny's [[FutureMeScaresMe evil alternate-future self]] can do the same.

* Breach from GeneratorRex can create portals to and from anywhere she wants as long as she can move her [[MultiArmedAndDangerous giant second set of arms.]] Though, she can apparently do it by instinct without them.

The name is derived from the "Thinking With Portals" tagline of the ''{{Portal}}'' video games.

* This is pretty much what ''{{Portal}}'' and it's [[{{Portal 2}} sequel]] are all about, the only deviations being that it's a gun that's making the portals, and you need a certain type of conductive surface to hold them.

* As an Eliatrope, Yugo from ''{{Wakfu}}'' can create teleportation portals. Shushu king Rushu is particularly interested in acquiring Yugo since Eliatrope portals are the only means of travel off the Shushu world.

* ''{{Prey}}'''s Hunters, Harvesters travel around the Sphere via portals that the Mother creates for them; it's very usual for you hear the familiar hissing sound that they make, and seconds later find yourself ambushed from all sides. The Keepers, being higher up in the hierarchy, can use their [[HollywoodCyborg cybernetics]] or PsychicPowers to [[TeleportSpam jump around you mid-battle]].

* This is pretty much what ''{{Portal}}'' and it's [[Portal2 sequel]] are all about, the only deviations being that it's a gun that's making the portals, and you need a certain type of conductive surface to hold them.