Teleportation Misfire

Captain Gabriel Lorca: That is not Corvan II!
Commander Saru: No, sir, it is not.
[...]
Lorca: Wrong off-ramp, Lt Stamets.
Lieutenant Paul Stamets: The nav-buffer overloaded. I couldn't hold the plotting.

— Star Trek: Discovery, "The Butcher's Knife Cares Not For the Lamb's Cry", after an attempt to jump to Corvan II lands Discovery in the gravity well of a star light-years away

Sometimes characters or devices with the power of teleportation suffer from a specific form of Power Incontinence. They just can't control where they're going. Depending on the range of their powers, they could end up on the other side of the galaxy or two feet to the left of where they're standing. Or inside a wall. Whether this is the result of a limitation of the power, a desperate gambit to get out of somewhere in a hurry when there's no time to properly designate a target location, or plain old human error, sometimes teleportation is just random.

If it's terrestrial teleportation, it'll have the courtesy never to put the victim inside a wall or 30 feet in the air. It's more believable with space travel, because space is so frigging big that something the size of your average ship named Enterprise need not emerge inside a planet no matter how many times something sends it where it doesn't want to be.

Sub-Trope of Teleportation with Drawbacks due to a drawback in the area of "control". If you're lucky, you can control when it happens. See also Teleporter Accident, Blind Jump, and Random Transportation, for when it's totally out of control.

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Examples:

Anime & Manga

• In Irresponsible Captain Tylor this happens when they use their Hyperdrive without inputting a destination.
• Starship Girl Yamamoto Yohko: Happens about halfway through the series, when the heroines are being transported home using the Chronos, due to unknown interference they wind up in the middle of desert to their utter shock and horror. Fortunately, the operator realizes this in time and brings them back safely.
• Also occurs in Super Dimension Fortress Macross/Robotech when the Macross ends up near Pluto, along with a chunk of the island it had been sitting on.
• Lala from To Love Ru has a teleport-device that works like this — it's fairly short-range, but specifically ensures that you won't land in a wall — anywhere else, though, is entirely possible. Also, you lose any physical possessions you're carrying, including your clothes. Needless to say, in this case, "random location" translates into "wherever would be most embarrassing to end up without clothes". Its first two uses land the user in an occupied bathtub, and in the locker room locker of the girl the user has a crush on. Later, Lala makes an improved version to fix the "removes your clothes" part. Unfortunately, the "improvement" is that it only removes most of the targets' clothes. Needless to say, this isn't actually any less embarrassing.

Comic Books

• In Enigma, Envelope Girl is a Silver Age comic book villain come to life who mostly goes around to random people, wraps them in her teleport cloak and transports them to a cardboard box somewhere else at random.
• Magik of the New Mutants is reasonably good about getting where she wants to go. When is another matter.

Fan Works

• In With Strings Attached, Ringo suffers from this. When he is badly startled, he automatically teleports to someplace he perceives as safe. This can be as close as 50 feet or hundreds of miles away, with corresponding inconvenience.

Films — Animation

• Wreck-It Ralph shows Vanellope suffering this, known in the film as "glitching". The most prominent example is when she's learning to drive. After jumping off a ramp, she teleports about 9 feet high, and slams into the Mentos stalactites, sending them into the Diet Cola lava below. She learns how to control the glitching by the end of the movie, turning it into a feature.

Films — Live-Action

• In The Unidentified Flying Oddball, the space shuttle winds up in the Dark Ages while testing a FTL drive.
• Thor: Ragnarok: Loki and Thor are travelling by Bifröst when they're attacked by Hela, who followed them. The ensuing fight has first Loki and then Thor pushed out of the rainbow tunnel and plummeting through the space-time continuum. Thor ends up on Sakaar and later finds Loki there too, although he landed weeks before (the Grandmaster mentions that time works weirdly on this planet). It is implied that, thanks to the multitude of portals opening over the sky of Sakaar, most teleportation/hyperspace mishaps result in people being stranded there.
• In French comedy movie Alad'2, after having freed the genie in the previous film, Aladin needs again his help and reconnect him to the magic lamp. However, after that the genie's powers go awry, despite a call to a genie help desk. When Aladin wishes to be transported back to Bagdad, at first the teleportation moves them a few meters away. Then the genie keep missing the mark, sending them all over the world, notably in France to fight alongside Musketeers, to a Frozen Palace where they meet the Ice Queen, or the Americas where they cross Christopher Columbus. One last jump finally reaches the outskirts of Bagdad.

Gamebooks

• Choose Your Own Adventure:
  • The Space Hawks books feature the Emergency FTL Jump, a last-resort escape method that skips the usual safety checks and calculations. It's mentioned that this kind of blind jump has the potential to strand the pilot in space though in practice, there's only one book out of the six in which the emergency FTL jump will kill you.
  • Another book series, Star Challenge, has this as one possible outcome of warping (as is known there teleporting), if done without the adequate precautions. Depending of the book being teleported in space and/or in time and, of course, stuff such as having your atoms scattered over the entire Milky Way.
• Fighting Fantasy: One of the bad endings of Starship Traveller have you and your crew porting onto the surface of a planet that turns out to consist of nothing but water, where everyone ends up drowning on the spot.
• The Teleport Spell from Sorcery! seems designed to screw with the players by default, where it misfires in practically every instance it is available. For instance, trying to use it to escape a landslide will teleport the player... closer to the landslide. The only instance this spell actually works is when attempting to escape the Archmage's Captain, but by doing so you're missing an essential item (obtainable by confronting said captain), rendering the book unwinnable.
• The high-level Teleportation spell available in the Lone Wolf spin-off series ‘Grey Star’ can fail disastrously on low rolls by teleporting your character inside of solid objects, such as granite walls.

Literature

• Dragonriders of Pern. When they're first beginning to control dragons and learning to teleport, you can sometimes screw it up. During excavations inside a weyr once, the weyrfolk came across a dragon and rider who'd been entombed in solid rock after making a misaimed teleport.
• In the book Casting Spells, when Chloe finally inherits her magical powers, she ends up teleporting her love interest around accidentally by thinking of him. Oops.
• The Hyperspace version of this happens at the start of C. J. Cherryh's Foreigner (1994) series: some malfunction with the Hyperspace engine sends the human starship to a completely uncharted region of space.
• In Robert A. Heinlein's novel Starman Jones, a MisJump (the result of a navigational error) causes a ship to become lost in space. The crew finally uses Now Do It Again, Backwards to get home.
• Frank Pollard from The Bad Place can teleport, but suffering from amnesia, he does it unconsciously and goes all over the place, especially while sleeping. His powers aren't under control until near the end of the novel, when he regains his memory.
• In the Larry Niven story "One Face", a misjump brings the crew to apparently the wrong system. Turns out after a while that it's the right system, but they've appeared billions of years in the future, when Earth is no longer habitable.
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
  • This was how Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect ended up on the Earth of two million years past in The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. Trapped on a spaceship that was about to crash into a sun, their only way out was a teleporter whose navigation controls were broken.
  • In the first book, Arthur Dent suggests activating the infinite improbability drive without defining any parameters. Subverted when rather than transporting anything, the drive transforms the missiles they were trying to escape into a very confused-looking sperm whale and a bowl of petunias, to everyone's surprise. This is because the abilities of the drive are literally infinite, and everyone just uses it for space travel.
• Done intentionally to a soldier obstructing Aziraphale and Crowley in Good Omens. Aziraphale is the one who actually does it, but it's implied Crowley does it all the time. Aziraphale being Aziraphale, the soldier is eventually revealed to have arrived in his own bedroom in his parents' house.
  Aziraphale: I hope I haven't sent him somewhere dreadful.
  Crowley: You just send 'em. Best not to worry about where they go.

• In the Ciaphas Cain HERO OF THE IMPERIUM series, Inquisitor Vail has a shield that automatically teleports her to a random nearby location whenever her life is threatened. Yes, it's just as hilarious as it sounds.
• This is the way teleportation works for one Powered in Super Powereds, whenever he sneezes. He can end up anywhere on Earth, although, so far, he hasn't ended up anywhere dangerous, so the power has an instinct of self-preservation. He had learned to use it to get out of inconvenient situations by carrying a feather to induce a sneeze.
• Journey to Chaos features this as a side-effect of Annala's Touched by Vorlons experience. To better manage her new power, she wears items that store the power and spiritual essence in other dimensions, and a result of this is occasionally being pulled into one of those dimensions.

Live-Action TV

• This is the critical downside to a Leviathan's "Starbrust" (like Moya's) in Farscape. For this reason it's most often used as an emergency escape rather than a regular mode of travel.
• Nadia Popov, in So Bad, It's Good British kids' TV show Rentaghost would randomly teleport whenever she sneezed, and suffered from allergies. In the novels, her powers (like those of many other ghosts) were actually activated by touching her own nose — but every time she sneezed she covered her nose and ended up triggering her power.
• In Power Rangers RPM, when the Green Ranger first tries to use his teleportation power, he accidentally appears in an underground bank vault, which leads to the rest of the team learning about his criminal past.

• In Battlestar Galactica (2003), inputting no co-ordinates into the FTL drive and activating it will result in a random jump, that carries no small risk with it — you could end up anywhere, even inside a sun. It's only ever done as a last resort, most notably by the battlestar Pegasus' last-ditch escape from the Scorpia Fleet Shipyards. In the finale, Starbuck enters a series of random coordinates as the Cylon homebase launches the last of its defenses and begins to explode around them, based on the notes to the recurring music connected to her father and the final five cylons. Galactica ends up jumping to a point in orbit of Earth (ours, not the radioactive one from earlier in the series).
• This happens once in a while in the various Stargate-verse series.
  • Sometimes (as in Stargate SG-1's "Solitudes"), the sending gate is hit with enough energy to overload it while opening; this causes the wormhole to jump from the receiving gate to the next nearest gate.
  • Other times ("1969") the wormhole passes near a star, which if it happens during a solar flare causes the traveler to travel through time. The DHDs controlling the gates have safeguards that avoid letting wormholes going too close from stars, but the Earth gate, with its jury-rigged system, is more susceptible to it. Note that it's not truly random in that both types of glitches could be replicated later once characters figured out what caused the problems. They just seemed random the first time someone was caught in them.
  • The first hyperdrive on the Prometheus is completely random, as all attempts to deal with the instability of its naquadriah power source failed. Later a more conventional hyperdrive is substituted. The F-302 fighters, on the other hand, never can take hyperspace trips like they were intended, as no conventional hyperdrive could be made small enough to fit in them. Thus, their hyperdrive is only actually used twice: once when the fighter is being used to remove an about-to-explode Stargate, so that it doesn't actually matter where it ends up, so long as it is "not here", and once when the hyperspace jump lasts for a microsecond (to bypass a ship's Deflector Shields) so that any variance is so minor as to not matter.
• Almost as often in Star Trek.
  • In the original series, the Enterprise winds up in the '60s. Not to mention the "Mirror, Mirror" universe. Note that once they figure out time travel can happen from an accident, they do it on purpose at will both in the series and in the fourth film. Although later series have a "time police" to put the kibosh on time travel.
  • Star Trek: The Next Generation:
    • In "Where No One Has Gone Before", the Enterprise ends up in the wrong galaxy due to the presence of "The Traveler" onboard.
    • Implied in the episode "True Q", where Amanda tells Q that when she practices her teleportation, she always ends up somewhere she doesn't want to be.
  • The titular starship of Star Trek: Discovery uses a Displacement-Activated Spore-Hub Drive to teleport anywhere in known space, though an early attempt to jump to a system under Klingon attack almost throws them into a star light-years away. This, however, is nothing compared to when an attempt to spore-jump to a friendly starbase throws them into the Mirror Universe — and to make it worse, Lieutenant Stamets, who's been controlling the jumps, is left brain-scrambled and delirious and in no condition to get the ship home. The "accidental" part, however, is subverted when it turns out that Captain Lorca deliberately programmed the drive to take them to the MU. In fact, he is from the MU.
  • In the Star Trek Verse, wormholes can be used in principle for very long distance interstellar travel, but in practice aren't because they're unstable and can land you at any random location in the galaxy with no guarantee that they'll open up again to bring you back. The wormhole in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is notably stable, taking you from point X in the Alpha Quadrant to point Y in the Gamma Quadrant and back again every time; but that's because it was artificially created by the Prophets/wormhole aliens instead of being a natural phenomenon.
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Weaponized in "Blood Ties" when Willow and Tara teleport Glory away to stop her wiping out the Scooby Gang. Unlike other examples of this trope, Glory ends up several hundred feet in the air, though as she's a god she survives the fall.
  Willow: Teleportation spell. Still working out the kinks.
  Buffy: Where'd you guys send her?
  Willow: Don't know. That's one of the kinks.

Tabletop Games

• Dungeons & Dragons:
  • Sometimes there is a chance of "misfire" when teleporting, mostly too high or too low, so be careful which teleport spells you use!
  • There also exists certain spells (at least in 3.5) that specifically teleports the target to a random location — anywhere in the multiplanar world of D&D, from the lowest reaches of Gehenna to the world-engine of Mechanus... it's primarily used as a tool to get rid of troublesome enemies who resists damage and conventional status-ailments — few think to protect themselves from teleportation...
  • It's said this is the fate of anyone who jumps from the edge of the city of Sigil in Planescape
  • Nybor's joyful voyage spell from the Forgotten Realms.

• Paranoia. In older editions, the Teleport mutant power could strand you just about anywhere if you failed a Power check when using it.
• This happens fairly often in the Warhammer 40,000 universe. Understandable, as their teleportation would be more accurately described as "taking a quick jaunt through Hell". Teleporting into rough terrain can cause a Tele-Frag, and other malfunctions can result in being sent wildly off-target, a delayed teleport, or being lost in the Warp. Teleportation beacons, and other, stranger pieces of wargear can actually allow easy teleportation, but even the ones that are most commonly seen are very rare pieces of technology.
• A common result of impatient jumpship crews charging their drives too quickly in the BattleTech 'verse. This is known as a Misjump.
• In Traveller, a Misjump caused a starship to travel multiple parsecs in a random direction, which could easily result in the death of the crew if the ship ended up in an empty area of space without a source of fuel. It could be caused by using unrefined fuel (hydrogen) or failure to provide annual maintenance for the jump drives. The different races in Traveller often have rituals to make them less nervous when they go into jump because of the fear of a misjump. One Traveller adventure involved exploring a ship that had been trapped in jumpspace as a result of a Misjump.
• In Hc Svnt Dracones Translocation TTI implants get increasingly random as they increase in Cuil level. To the point where which planet you end up on (if any) is the result of a die roll at Cuil 4.
• Pathfinder (2nd edition) the teleport spell has the weakness of D&D teleport (chance of spell failure, knowledge of target required and a chance of arriving in the wrong place) with the additions of it gets more imprecise with long distances, equivalent to 1% margin of error, so at higher levels you could end up anywhere from one to one hundred miles off target.

Video Games

• In Ancient Domains of Mystery, all teleportation is random unless you have teleport control (which is rare: either drink randomly from pools — which can cause dooming — or eat a blink dog that leaves a corpse). The teleportation intrinsic causes you to teleport now and then without being able to choose when, and there are also teleportation traps, wands and spell. All of these are random without the control intrinsic. Trying to aim controlled teleportation into a blocked area also results in a random destination.
• Angband has Rings of Teleportation, which teleports you randomly every once in a while. Some of its variants have other sources of random teleportation, including mutations and weapon properties. Additionally, the Teleport and Phase Door spells teleport you to a random empty space within a given radius.
• This what the Hyperspace button does in Asteroids. Many early arcade space shooters had a "hyperspace" or "warp" button that jumped the player's ship randomly around the screen. Besides Asteroids, other examples included Defender, Pleiads, and Stargate, and the problem was the same in all of them: you never knew where you were going to reappear on the screen or which direction you'd be facing, and often you'd find yourself in an even worse mess than the one that drove you to press "warp" in the first place! The angrish and swearing from frustrated players teleporting themselves to their deaths got so loud that later arcade games (including Asteroids' own sequel, Asteroids Deluxe) mostly abandoned this trope in favor of "shield" buttons.

• Baldur's Gate II:
  • One of the Bhaalspawn teleports randomly whenever he gets scared, which he found very inconvenient. Someone helped him overcome this so he could settle down - just in time for the city to be besieged by an army of giants intent on killing every Bhaalspawn in there. You can use a spell to artificially induce fear and help him escape, though.
  • There's a spell called Teleportation Field. When cast, it creates a zone that will cause every enemy within it to be randomly teleported to another location within the zone each round. There is no saving throw and it ignores magic resistance. The spell is useless most of the time, except in a couple of duels, since you can cast the spell so that half the zone is inside the arena and half is out. If the enemy stays in the zone long enough, they'll eventually be teleported outside the arena and you can turn the 1-on-1 fight into a 5-on-1 beatdown.
• The Unstable Teleport Plasmid in BioShock 2 will teleport all over the place in as you try to acquire it, then will start teleporting YOU all over the place if you're successful in doing so.
  • There's also a cursed pair of boots that teleports you to a random enemy every few seconds.
• The early Macintosh game Cap'n Magneto has the Z-Gate item, which teleports the eponymous hero to a random point on the map.
• Conquest: Frontier Wars has this (sometimes)if a ship gets sucked into a black hole, they can end up in any other system.
• There's also a ring of teleport in Crawl that does just this and... let's just say that it's become a genre staple, along with spells and scrolls that randomly teleport you on demand and some way of gaining control of all your teleports.
• In Diablo, there's a spell called Phasing that teleports you randomly to an area within view. There's also a shrine that does the same thing, with the appropriate flavor text: "Wherever you go, there you are."
• One of the Geo Panel effects in Disgaea is warp, which teleports the character on the panel to a random panel of the same colour.
• This is how the Telelocator Staff in Don't Starve works by default: it teleports whoever or whatever it's used on to a random land-based point on the map. This can get rid of bosses or other monsters you don't want to deal with, or you can use it on yourself to get out of a bad situation or try to reach a new area. Building a Telelocator Focus and filling it up with purple gems ensures that the staff will send its target there instead, which consumes the gems.
• In Dungeons of Dredmor, the player character's first spell in the Mathemagic skill line is a random teleport. The booze Spatial Instability Infusion also gives the player the ability to randomly teleport. As both are only random in location and not in timing, using the skill or quaffing the drink can be useful during the first few levels as a (rather unreliable) method of escape.
• Escape Velocity: Nova has 20^note Actually 21 but one doesn't work. wormhole ends that send ships instantly^note In zero days just like Hypergates., but randomly, to other ends. By re-entering the wormholes it's possible to randomly cycle through them and end up the where you want.
• In order to reach the endgame Optional Boss Kirin in Final Fantasy XI, a player has to use one of the many portals in the collection of areas. Small problem: The portal in question also transports players to a room full of Magic Pots, and despite rumors, it really does seem to be random.
• Gordon Freeman in the beginning of Half-Life 2. In the original, the initial cascade resonance warps Gordon to random spots in Xen. It also did the same to the various aliens, later on. In Opposing Force, this was the secondary fire of the BFG — it would drop you down an endless void, or transport you to an area where there was some ammo for your other weapons. Happens as part of Blue Shift's finale.
• In Halo, human ships traveling through Slipspace will either end up near their destination, or way off course. The Covenant don't suffer this effect, due to crystals that guide their systems, and humanity's post-war ships can now travel much more accurately as well.
• Henry Stickmin Series features the teleporter as a recurring object. In every game except Stealing the Diamond and Completing the Mission, picking it will result in a fail.
• Heretic/Hexen:
  • The series has the chaos device, which transports a player to an apparently random location (usually the start of the level or section)
  • Hexen series also has the displacement/banishment device which does the same to enemies.

• Kingdom of Loathing has a status effect called "teleportitis" (named after the condition in Nethack), which randomly teleports you around every time you try to adventure. One person has played through the entire game this way. And they made an item with the effect in his honor.
• In King's Quest III you could learn an optional random teleportation spell that takes you to a random screen in the area. This is useful for getting out of dangerous situations (as long as you don't randomly end up in the same place).
• The old DOS game Laser Chess has one Hypercube piece on each side, plus the center square is also a Hypersquare. Moving one's piece onto the Hypercube or Hypersquare would cause it to reappear on a random empty square on the 9 by 9 board. The Hypercubes could also be moved to achieve the same effect.
• The Minecraft mod Thermal Expansion adds a liquid that, when jumped in, will teleport you to a random place within about 10 metres (including up in the air or inside a solid object). Drinking it increases the horizontal range by several kilometres.
• Mouse Trap (1981) has the IN gate in the center of the maze that the mouse can use to teleport to any of the four corners to escape either the cats or the hawk that shows up from time to time to harass the player.
• Nethack: You can catch teleportitis from different circumstances in the game. Unless you have a ring of teleport control or the teleport control intrinsic, you end up teleporting randomly every few steps. This can be very dangerous, and not just due to the possibility of suddenly finding youself somewhere you really don't want to be - teleporting out of a shop while holding items you haven't paid for counts as shoplifting.
• Nox had a spell that teleported Jack randomly across the current area, except in the very final dungeon, where it inevitably teleported him to the final key.
• In Quake III: Arena, players can pick up a personal teleporter (shaped like a T), and when they activate it, it just throws them to some random spawnpoint on the map.
• Quest for Glory IV begins with the main character having been forcibly teleported into the Dark One's Cave. Later it is revealed that the vampire sorceress Katrina had cast the spell to summon the hero to Castle Borgov, but the Dark One had interrupted the spell to send the hero into itself instead.
• In Ragnarok Online, the first level of the skill "Teleport" actually lands you anywhere in the current map. Also, if someone sets a warp to a point in a map that you cannot be in, it jumps you randomly in the map too. That is mostly to avoid having to "delete" those tiles from the skill (thus allowing for a much easier script, even if it might repeat itself a couple times), but it is also abused by some Game Masters to create random warp portals for events and such.
• In the old computer game Robots and its derivatives, one of the tools available to the protagonist randomly teleports them to any empty square. Since there's no guarantee their new position will be any safer than their old one, this is generally reserved as a last resort. Some versions label this move as a 'safe' teleport, while also having a completely random one that can warp you right on top of an enemy for an instant death.
• In the PS1 game Sentinel Returns you actually had an ability which caused a random teleportation, using it caused you to appear on free square on the levels map that was either the same or lower altitude than your current but always a random location. It could actually end you up in a pit with no chance to get out so this REALLY was random.
• Star Control: secondary power of a Arilou Lalee'lay Skiff is random teleportation.
• The Teleportation Potion in Terraria teleports you to a random location. It is advised to prepare oneself before using a Teleportation Potion, as it may teleport you into a hazard, on top of a trap trigger, or something else dangerous.
• Viki in the Suikoden series who randomly teleports between games by sneezing or other accidents. This can be exploited in certain games of the series to allow you to go to areas you cannot access by any other means. Also, she apparently not only teleports through space but through time to some degree as well; there are multiple versions of her.
• In Sword of the Stars, the Hivers use a Portal Network for their FTL. Normally this requires dragging a gate to the destination the slow way first. But later developments can allow gates to send ships to systems without a gate up to 10 light years away, but a quarter of those trips will miss the destination by several light years. But it's still closer than traveling the whole way by sublight.
• In Trilby's Notes, you randomly teleport twice, once to the past and the other to the distant future.
• Bally/Midway's TRON has a pink diamond in the center of the maze in the Tanks mission that would teleport your tank to a random location.
• In Wild ARMs 2 Lilka is infamously unlucky with Teleport Gems and begins the game in a random town because of this, as well as being the key to reaching an otherwise unreachable island.
• World of Warcraft:
  • Engineering teleporters. 4/5 times they will teleport you to a preset location, but that other 1/5 times...anything can happen, your character turns into the last person who went through, split into a "good" and "evil" side, turned into various small critters, end up anywhere else on the continent, and the most infamous one, simply teleport a mere 100 yards away from the teleport pad, or 100 yards straight up.
  • Later engineer-built items open a wormhole that will take you to a zone you choose. The catch is that it'll send you to one of several places in the zone, and it's not uncommon to end up materializing 100 yards above the ground. Hope you have a Goblin Glider Kit or other slow-fall ability....
  • The item "Scroll of Recall" could potentially have this effect. Normally it acts similar to a Hearthstone, sending you back to a previously set home point. If your level is too high for that particular level of scroll, however, the effect becomes more random.
  • Also, the archeology artifact, The Last Relic of Argus, is a highly sought after item, because it is a teleporter that you can use during combat, with no casting time. The downside: it picks your destination point at random. At least the Last Relic takes three seconds to activate, so it's not instant, but it's a whole lot faster than a hearthstone/Astral Recall exit. Also, the destination is selected at random from a large list but you'll always end up at one of the locations. The benefit is that all possible destinations are safe.
  • There is a Druid-only spell called One With Nature that functions a lot like the Last Relic of Argus, sending the Druid using it to a random location. In this case, they are all natural locations (as the name implies) such as forests, glades, or jungles.

Web Animation

• One of many outcomes in XLR105's A Heavy's 2fort Adventure when a friendly Engineer neglects to input coordinates for his teleporter

Webcomics

• Gunnerkrigg Court's Parley does something like this. It happens at random times and takes her to random places, though later she manages to learn to control it. Working with a partner whose power is to innately create orderliness helps out a lot.
• The Society of The Glass Scientists apparently has a teleporting cat. Going by poor feline's expression and place of landing, one can guess the animal doesn't have much control over where and when it teleports.
• In Alice and the Nightmare, when Alice falls into Dreaming Dome's teleporter for the first time, she's accidentally teleported to Dreamlands for a few (terrifying) seconds before popping back in the Dreaming Dome. Apparently, no-one else notices a thing.
• In The Order of the Stick a drunk wizard mistakenly teleports the party to a Roc's nest. On the bonus side, he is so drunk that eating him knocks the bird out.
• Schlock Mercenary has the Teraport (which can be scaled from personal use to transporting entire cities; actual usages and distances depend partially on how much power you supply); one story was kicked off by the ship ending up in a random location. Finding out the reason why leads to, among other things, a time travel story, the formation of The Fleetmind, declaring war against the Andromeda Galaxy, and has had an indirect influence on the storyline to this day.
• Vector, the protagonist of Castoff has this problem. His teleportation being, as of the time of writing, a Defence Mechanism Superpower that activates against his will when he's terrified for his life, tends to bring him (and people touching him) to safe places. Safe places he has never heard of, much less wanted to go to.

Web Original

• SCP Foundation: SCP-761 ("Slightly Less Dangerous Trampoline"). When someone jumps on the trampoline they end up in a random location within 15 meters. If there is already a solid object where they arrive they suffer a Teleporter Accident and become merged with the object. Depending on how much of their body is merged with the object they can suffer a Tele-Frag.

Web Videos

• Britanick: One of the side effects of the Fantastic Drug Herpex. Possibly its only effect, as it may not cure herpes. As seen in the spoof ad.
• Flander's Company: Gadgeteer Genius Caleb has teleportation as a superpower; in episode "Unlimited", when his power gets out of control because of one of his inventions, he starts blinking uncontrollably all over the place, to finally ends up in Egypt.

Western Animation

• Johnny Test: When Johnny uses his Mad Scientist sisters' lab to get the ability to teleport, they use it to send him to random places as punishment.
• X-Men: Evolution: In one episode, a cold-stricken Nightcrawler's sneezes teleport him (and Kitty, who was holding onto him at the time) all over town.
• Futurama: At the end of Into the Wild Green Yonder, the heroes enter a wormhole, which could send them anywhere in the entire universe. At the start of the following season, they end up back at the Planet Express building.
• My Little Pony:
  • My Little Pony 'n Friends: In "The Return of Tambelon - Part 1", the first sign that something is amiss is the fact that unicorns who "wink out" (i.e., teleport) don't wink back in again. It's later revealed that as Tambelon comes closer to reality, it interferes with unicorn winking, and teleporting unicorns are all drawn to Tambelon.
  • My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: In "Twilight's Kingdom - Part 2", when trying to get the hang of her boosted powers, Twilight's attempt at teleportation sends her to random spots all across Equestria.
• Megas XLR: In "Coop D'Etat", Coop accidentally sends Megas into a teleportation loop, causing them to transport to random places all over the universe one after another.
• House of Mouse: In "Hydro-Squirter", Professor Ludwig von Drake accidentally turns his shower into a teleportation machine, leading to several embarrassing incidents as he tries to travel back to his lab.
• Invincible (2021): In "Neil Armstrong, Eat Your Heart Out", Cecil attempting to teleport to the Graysons' front door causes him to teleport into their living room instead. This nearly costs him his life when a jumpy Nolan Neck Lifts him before he realizes it's Cecil and not someone who means them harm.
• The Venture Brothers: In "Powerless in the Face of Death", Dr. Venture tests out Jonas Jr.'s experimental teleporter, but a power outage causes the warp to go wrong and for him to be (harmlessly) split into three pieces — his head and half of his torso gets stuck in the lab wall, his lower body gets stuck in a TV, and the other half of his torso is somewhere outside (with The Monarch discovering its location in The Stinger).

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