History Main / Teleportation

* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1963'' featured teleportation in several episodes.
** In the series pilot, "The Galaxy Being", a tinkering radio station engineer makes FirstContact with the titular alien, who is somehow teleported from a planet in the Andromeda galaxy to Earth when a disc jockey increases the power of the station's transmitter.
** In "The Mice", aliens from the planet Chromo send human scientists the instructions to build a "Teleportation Agency" so that one of their people can be "transmitted" from Chromo to Earth -- and, eventually, vice versa.
** In "The Special One", EvilTeacher Mr. Zeno travels between Earth and his homeworld via a "lightning bolt" effect that is one of the series' most striking visuals.

* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'':
** Important to the plot of "Think Like a Dinosaur".
** In "Déjà Vu", the US government is running a teleportation experiment which is designed to transport three animals (a dog, a raccoon and a goat) several miles from a testing area to a research lab. It requires the energy produced by a tactical nuclear warhead in order to work. The technology was developed by Dr. Mark Crest, based on the work of his colleague (and former lover) Dr. Cleo Lazar.

** This is the plot of the original ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' and ''VideoGame/DoomII''. The original ''Quake'' has ''slipgates'' which attract the attention of Lovecraftian monstrosities rather than the more traditional fire-and-brimstone demons of the ''Doom'' series.

* ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'':
** This is the central part of the plot in ''Doom III:'', where teleportation is done by moving matter ''[[HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace through Hell itself]]''. {{Satan}} didn't like the idea of seeing stuff coming in and out of Hell just like that, and next time the people know, the LegionsOfHell come barging in through the "teleporters" and start wrecking massive havoc on Mars.
** This is the plot of ''Doom I'' and ''II''. The original ''Quake'' has ''slipgates'' which attract the attention of Lovecraftian monstrosities rather than the more traditional fire-and-brimstone demons of the ''Doom'' series.

* Ryoko has this as an ability in most ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'' incarnations. The main limit she cites is needing to have previously been in that location.

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** The most famous Tekeporter in Comics would be ComicBook/{{Nightcrawler}}, long time member of the X-Men. It's his primary power and acompanied by black smoke that smells of brimstone, because he travels trought a hell-like dimension when he teleports. This way of teleporting puts considerable strain on things, but fortunately for Nightcrawler (and unfortunately for his foes), his body is tougher than the average human's, making TeleportSpam a viable strategy for him. People who aren't either used to it or have SuperToughness will often be knocked if Nightcrawler drags them along for a single teleport, let alone multiple ones.

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* ''Manga/SailorMoon'' has two flavors:
** The most diffused method is portals. It's mostly used by some villains that can open them at will, but in the manga Sailor Neptune showed her Deep Aqua Mirror can work this way too, with the added feature that if the enemy on the other side kills her and whoever followed her on the mission they simply come out of the Mirror slightly beaten with the Mirror's glass broken.
** Sailor Teleport allows the user to simply reappear in a different location, but has some limits-one needs to know the destination, the distance covered is vast but limited (the manga makes clear it's unusable over interstellar distances, and in the anime's first movie it fails to cover the full distance to Fiore's asteroid), and is quite difficult to pull (in the anime it needs ''at least'' the whole Inner Senshi group, and in the manga it initially had the same limitation ''and'' needed to be used while transforming, at least the first time).

* ''VideoGame/MarioParty6'': The minigame T Minus Five puts two dueling characters in a station installed in the moon. The goal is to reach a rocket to lift off, and the only thing separating each of them is five yellow-colored teleport platforms. They begin to glow green one by one in succession, and each character has to GroundPound theirs in the exact moment it's glowing so they can teleport to the next yellow platform in the row (if a character flubs the timing of their stomp, they'll be electrocuted and waste precious time). For each step a character manages to make upon teleoprting, the green glow in their glow will pass faster and faster, requiring a better timing to land the stomps in the exact moment. Whoever manages to teleport to the rocket's entrance door first wins.

* ''[[VideoGame/MegaManClassic Mega Man]]'', his cousins ''[[VideoGame/MegaManX X]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/MegaManZero Zero]]'', and his counterparts [[VideoGame/MegaManZX Vent, Aile, Ashe and Grey]] constantly teleport from place to place, generally at the beginning of levels. Averted with the ''[[VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork Battle Network]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/MegaManLegends Legends]]'' series, since in one the "Mega Men" are simply packets of data traveling through a representation of computer systems and the internet, and the other is in a future so far ahead that this kind of technology has been probably lost forever.

** "Teleport" is one of the [[PsychicPowers PSI powers]] in the first two ''MOTHER'' games, and it allows the player to revisit towns they have previously been to. While ''Videogame/EarthBoundBeginnings'' only has one Teleport level, the sequel ''Videogame/EarthBound'' has [[SpellLevels two]], α and β. The first game's Teleport and the second game's Teleport α require the users to run a certain distance in a straight line before teleporting; should they run into anything, the teleport fails, which results in the participants getting [[AshFace ash-faced]]. β instead has the users SpinningOutOfHere without the need for a running start.

** Teleport was [[WhatCouldHaveBeen likely planned to be]] in ''VideoGame/MOTHER3'' as well, as shown by [[DummiedOut unused teleportation sprites]] of Duster and Kumatora. It was scrapped in the final release, likely because of the lack of towns to visit in the game, as well as the Saturn Table and Pork Bean making its function somewhat redundant.

* ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'':

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* In ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' and related works, a Master can get a Servant to teleport with a Command Spell.
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* The astrobeam on ''WesternAnimation/ChallengeOfTheGoBots'' functioned like the zeta beam in ComicBook/AdamStrange comics -- it could teleport an individual across interstellar distances, but only temporarily; after a given period of time, the person would automatically and unavoidably teleport back to their starting point. On one hand, this makes troop extraction after a mission extremely easy, and it avoids any danger of capture. On the other hand, it makes the device useless for travelling anywhere you do intend to ''stay''. Hence, the Go Bots still make heavy use of spaceships.

* The evaporators in the original "WesternAnimation/DuckDodgersInTheTwentyFourthAndAHalfCentury" short.

* ''Young Samson & Goliath''

* It is fantastically easy to teleport in ''VideoGame/{{Achron}}''. The tutorials teach you cross-map teleportation before they tell you about ''control groups''. The humans have teleporters which can send units halfway across most maps, as well as slingshots (a smaller, shorter ranged, mobile version of the teleporter). The Vecgir have an upgrade that gives their vehicles the ability to self-teleport, and can build sligates which can teleport and [[TimeTravel chronoport]] units.
** According to the dev blog, they've had to repeatedly tone teleportation down because the absurd ease with which it could be used started devolving the game into telefrag-fests where players routinely jumped their bases to different points on the map. It's a lot better now.

* The ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlertSeries'' has the Chronosphere, a mass teleportation device based on time travel technology.
** The mass-teleport version of the Chronosphere is instantly fatal to any unshielded biological creature.
** ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert2'' has a number of teleporting infantry units based on the Chronosphere technology. Fortunately, while they can move anywhere in an instant, it takes a while to materialize completely, leaving them vulnerable for a short time. There's also the Chrono Miner, whose teleportation is limited to making a return trip home with a truckload of ore.

* ''VideoGame/DiabloII'' and ''VideoGame/DiabloIII'' have waypoints, huge tiles on the ground that allow you to travel instantly between levels once you've activated them.
** In ''VideoGame/DiabloIII'', wizards also have a short-range spell called Teleport that can bring them instantly to wherever the cursor is.

* The Excelsior Transporter from ''VideoGame/{{dnd}}'' is a machine which can teleport you from town to a layer of the dungeon you've already been you, just like a transporter from ''[[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Star Trek]]''. This doesn't mesh well with the medieval fantasy setting of the game, but it was more convenient for the developers than mapping out a ton of stairs, so transporters it is.

** This is the central part of the plot in ''Doom III:'', where teleportation is done by moving matter ''[[HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace through Hell itself]]''. Needless to say, {{Satan}} didn't liked the idea of seeing stuff coming in and out of Hell just like that, and next time the people know, the LegionsOfHell come barging in through the "teleporters" and start wrecking massive havoc on Mars.
** This is of course also the plot of ''Doom I'' and ''II''. The original ''Quake'' had ''slipgates'' which attracted the attention of Lovecraftian monstrosities rather than the more traditional fire-and-brimstone demons of the ''Doom'' series.

** Livewire could turn into electricity and [[RideTheLightning travel along power lines.]] She could teleport anywhere as long as there was an electrical outlet nearby. 'Cept for that one time the Flash grabbed a wire and threw it into a flooded fire engine...ouch.

** A similar example from an earlier Creator/{{Disney}} series is the "Modemizer", from the '' WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'' episode "A Fly in the Ointment". Both plots are similar to ''Series/TheAdventuresOfSuperman'' episode mentioned earlier.

** Meanwhile, another Sony series, ''WesternAnimation/DragonTales'', had the kids using a mystical dragon scale to travel between Earth and Dragon Land, in conjunction with a MagicalIncantation (there two, depending on whether you were going to or from Dragon Land).

* In the 2012 OAV adaptation of ''LightNovel/AiNoKusabi'', every single doorway save for the main gate of Tanagura's Eos Tower is actually a teleporter that will get you to different rooms or platforms within the tower.

* In ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime'', the thing that sends you between the Artifact Temple and the Impact Crater could be considered one.
** Another appears on planet Bryyo in ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime3'', which sends you to the other side of the planet. The object scan even confirms that it is a teleporter.
* ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' lets you create portals to a hellish world (called the Nether) which you use to travel back to the surface again in an alternate-reality way. 1 block in the Nether equals 8 blocks on the earth-like main world and so people are using them to travel large distances.

* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'':

* The ''Halo'' teleporters show up in ''Machinima/RedVsBlue''. Initially, the main issue is that it tends to cover the soldiers' armor in "black stuff" (and also hurts like hell). There also seem to be some time delays. And don't forget user error and sabotage...

* A throwaway line on ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' is the only examination of the social effects of the transporter that ''Franchise/StarTrek'' ever had: Sisko says that when he first started going to Starfleet Academy in UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco, he got so homesick that he went back home to UsefulNotes/NewOrleans every night to have dinner with his father. He used up an entire month's worth of transporter credits in a week. For comparison, today this would be a four-hour plane trip costing around $500.
* In ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' the transporter was a new technology "approved for bio-transport", but with the crew reluctant to use it for anything but inanimate objects. Sheer necessity forces them to do otherwise during the Season 3 Xindi conflict, and after that 'beaming' becomes a standard tactic. However, in the episode "[[Recap/StarTrekEnterpriseS02E010VanishingPoint Vanishing Point]]", Hoshi Sato uses the transporter and begins to fade out of existence. [[spoiler:It turns out to be AllJustADream experienced in mere seconds as Hoshi was rematerialising. A recommendation is made to Starfleet to compress the transport beam.]]

* ''Webcomic/NiceShowForWeenies'': Your Host was genetically modified by their creator, Eggiey, in order to have this ability so at the [[BadassFingersnap snap]] of their [[FingerlessHands non-existent fingers]], they can transport themself and the contestants to vastly different locations instantaneously, such as from the competition grounds to the city which is a four-hour walk on foot, as well as sending the eliminated ones to their PocketDimension inaccessible by any other means.

* ''Webcomic/NiceShowForWeenies'': At the [[BadassFingersnap snap]] of their [[FingerlessHands non-existent fingers]], Your Host can transport themself and the contestants to vastly different locations instantaneously, such as from the competition grounds to the city which is a four-hour walk on foot, as well as sending the eliminated ones to their PocketDimension inaccessible by any other means. Your Host was genetically modified by their creator, Eggiey, in order to have this ability.

* Steven Gould's ''Literature/{{Jumper}}'' and its sequels are about a man, David Rice (and, in the ensuing decades, his wife and daughter, because apparently teleportation is catching) who can teleport to any location he can remember clearly. He remains unclear on why he can do so, despite unwilling participation in research of his ability, but the initial trigger appears to be an extreme fight or flight experience (in order by person, rape, falling, and avalanche). Other nuances also come into play, such as the preservation of momentum through 'jumps', the RequiredSecondaryPowers that allow him to jump with him anything he can lift (therefore leaving things he 'can't' lift as potential restraints) and the utilization of the hole in space created and the displacement of whatever is being jumped into to pour water, air, sand, and vacuum from one place into another. It also explores the ethical implications to a limited degree, as David and family have a strict no killing policy, but he initially uses his powers to rob a bank and later uses them as a one man infil/exfil team for the government (with, again, tight restrictions).

* ''Film/GalaxyQuest'' exploits the same joke with the "digital conveyer". Using it is more an art than a science, and it only works with humans. Using it on pig-lizards has negative results [[note]]of the "turns-it-inside-out-and-then-it-explodes" variety[[/note]].

* This is Vergil's main ability in ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry''. At first it appears as simply superspeed, but his katana, [[CoolSword The Yamato]], has the power to cleave through space. Whether it's opening portals, [[FlashStep short range teleportation]], or projecting the slice of the blade faster than it could possibly go. If ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry4'' and ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry5'' are any indication, it's all in the sword. As Dante and Nero can use these abilities in the former, and in the latter Vergil apparently had to walk everywhere before getting it back from Nero.

** Sedara Bakut, a character from later issues of ''ComicBook/PsiForce'', can create door-like portals in space.

** Sedara Bakut, a character from later issues of ''Psi-Force'', can create door-like portals in space.