History Main / WarpZone

** The literal WarpWhistle in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros3'' works by transporting Mario to a Warp Zone (which is also called as "World 9" on the status bar). Using it in World 1 allows you to choose between Worlds 2, 3 and 4; using it in one of those worlds allows you to choose between 5, 6 and 7; and using it anywhere in that interval or in the warp zone itself takes you directly to World 8.

* ''VideoGame/ScottPilgrimVSTheWorld'' has hidden warp zones that allow players to more quickly traverse levels. The corridor connecting the two points is also home to [[MetalSlime flying piggy banks that drop a lot of money]].

* ''VideoGame/{{Silent Hill|1}}:'' The ladies' bathrooms in Otherworld Midwich.

A secret area in a video game (possibly a DebugRoom) that allows you to magically teleport to another level, possibly offering you a choice of levels.

** Every ''VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBros'' game except ''U'' has hidden cannons that launch Mario into farther worlds.

** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBrosTheLostLevels'' has a Warp Zone that can only be activated after entering through magic potion doors. You use the potion to create a sub-space door in a location where a particular vase is located. Dropping into that vase in sub-space warps you to a later level. There are multiple locations for this (namely in Worlds 1-3, 3-1, 4-2 and 5-3), and each warp zone takes you to a single specific later world (respectively 4, 5, 6 and 7). In ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosSuperShow'' King Koopa will often make his VillainExitStageLeft via the Magic Potion Warp Zone.

** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros2'' has a Warp Zone that can only be activated after entering through magic potion doors. You use the potion to create a sub-space door in a location where a particular vase is located. Dropping into that vase in sub-space warps you to a later level. There are multiple locations for this (namely in Worlds 1-3, 3-1, 4-2 and 5-3), and each warp zone takes you to a single specific later world (respectively 4, 5, 6 and 7). In ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosSuperShow'' King Koopa will often make his VillainExitStageLeft via the Magic Potion Warp Zone.

->''Yes! All worlds are linked, and I travel among them! No, I will not show you how. Such Power is not for you, who would cheat through life. True warriors must see all worlds before skipping among them. NOW, TO BATTLE!''

->'''''"WAAARRRP ZOOOOOOOOOOOOOONE!"'''''
-->-- ''[[VideoGame/MeatBoy Super Meat Boy]]''

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* ''VideoGame/PortalPrelude'' has one of these as an EasterEgg. With graphics taken straight from Super Mario Bros.

** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBrosTheLostLevels'' is infamous for the Warp Zones that take you back to an earlier world. One of them is nice enough to include suicide pits in said reverse Warp Zones, so you don't actually have to take them. Even if there aren't, you can just wait for the {{time|dMission}}r to run out and kill you. Furthermore, using Warp Zones is ''[[NoFairCheating discouraged]]'': If you use one, even one that takes you backwards, you are locked out of reaching World 9, and if it's the ''VideoGame/SuperMarioAllStars'' version, you lose World 9 privileges ''[[PermanentlyMissableContent permanently]]'' for that file, even if it's reached World 9 before.
** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros2'' has a Warp Zone that can only be activated after entering through magic potion doors. You use the potion to create a sub-space door in a location where a particular vase is located. Dropping into that vase in sub-space warps you to a later level. There are multiple locations for this (namely in Worlds 1-3, 3-1, 4-2 and 5-3), and each warp zone takes you to a single specific later world (respectively 4, 5, 6 and 7).
*** In WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosSuperShow King Koopa will often make his VillainExitStageLeft via the Magic Potion Warp Zone.

** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBrosTheLostLevels'' is infamous for the Warp Zones that take you back to an earlier world. One of them is nice enough to include suicide pits in said reverse Warp Zones, so you don't actually have to take them. Even if there aren't, you can just wait for the {{time|dMission}}r to run out and kill you. Furthermore, using Warp Zones is ''discouraged'': If you use one, even one that takes you backwards, you are locked out of reaching World 9, and if it's the ''VideoGame/SuperMarioAllStars'' version, you lose World 9 privileges ''[[PermanentlyMissableContent permanently]]'' for that file, even if it's reached World 9 before.