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[[caption-width-right:350:[-The [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment coolest]] Cool Gate there is. [[SpectacularSpinning It even spins]], for added [[OverlyLongGag coolness]]... [[ForTheLulz 'Cause it's cool!!]]-]]]

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[[caption-width-right:350: [-The [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment coolest]] Cool Gate there is. [[SpectacularSpinning It even spins]], for added [[OverlyLongGag coolness]]... [[ForTheLulz 'Cause it's cool!!]]-] ]]

Note that ThinkingUpPortals is the trope for characters who can create holes in reality to transport themselves without crossing the intervening distances. {{Teleportation}} also does not cover it even if one end must have certain equipment to it. It may overlap OurWormholesAreDifferent.

** And there's a Shi'Ar Stargate at the edge of the solar system. Don't tell anyone, though, because using it can ''[[ApocalypseHow destabilize the Sun]]''. The Shi'Ar also use smaller personal Gates.

* The Digital Gate in ''Film/{{TRON}}''.

* ''Film/{{Stargate}}'' provides our page image.

* The Franchise/StargateVerse, source of our page image. ''Series/StargateSG1'', ''Series/StargateAtlantis'', and ''Series/StargateUniverse'', all four of 'em had the title gates be as cool as possible. While the details vary between gates, all of the gates activate with an [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/stargate/images/9/98/Kawoosh.JPG/revision/latest?cb=20090301185649 unstable vortex]] that destroys anything in its path, before settling into a rippling event horizon with the appearance of standing water.

[[caption-width-right:350: [-The [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment coolest]] Cool Gate there is. [[EverythingsBetterWithSpinning It even spins]], for added [[OverlyLongGag coolness]]... [[ForTheLulz 'Cause it's cool!!]]-] ]]

** The original [[http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100221045633/stargate/images/b/bf/Stargate.JPG SG-1 gate]] is the most iconic. [[MadeOfIndestructium Made of a nigh-indestructible stone-like material]] inscribed with a ring of constellations, at first glance it looks like a [[LandmarkOfLore mysterious ancient construct]] along the lines of Stonehenge or the Easter Island heads. When given power however, the inner ring is [[EverythingsBetterWithSpinning able to spin]], the chevrons light up, and the gate can be dialed like a rotary phone.

* ''Fanfic/SplitSecond'' has [[spoiler:[[TheGrimReaper Death's]]]] ''wings'' as a portal to the afterlife.

** How Simon Tregarth got there in ''Witch World''

* The Veil in the Department of Mysteries that claimed [[spoiler: Sirius]] is an example of such a portal from ''Literature/HarryPotter''.

** The Creator/GrantMorrison era of ''Franchise/{{Justice League|of America}}'' has Portal Gates like this at certain times that seemed to link the JLA moonbase to a few key locations. Not used very often (at least "on screen").

--->Suddenly, it appears — hanging in mid-air... Here, on a street in San Francisco... Shimmering, crackling and growing... a crack, a rip in the very fabric of the universe! And out of it comes a figure... humanoid, yet huge... an Amazon... brandishing a fiery sword!

* Franchise/MarvelUniverse:

[[TitleDrop Cool, ain't it]]?

%%* ''{{Anime/Madlax}}'': The Door of Era a.k.a. the Door of Truth. %%Needs to say how it fits, may belong in a subtrope instead
* ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'' has the Gateports to the [[MagicalLand Magic World]]. One of them is underneath TheWorldTree, another is ''Stonehenge''.

*** ''Comicbook/TheSupergirlFromKrypton'': Supergirl's rescue party use a mother box to reach Apokolips, and later Superman uses another to go from the Sun to the Wall Source.

** In the ''{{Franchise/Superman}}'' storyline ''Comicbook/KryptoniteNevermore'', [[AlternateDimension Quarrm]]'s life-forms slip in Earth through several translucent "holes" in the air.

* ''{{Franchise/Disgaea}}'s'' dimensional gates warp the user to the selected location.

* The protagonist's wand is seen to produce a ''very'' cool one in the trailer for ''VideoGame/{{Ninokuni}}''. Presumably it takes him to the titular Another World.

* Comically averted in the 7th installment of the ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' series (''Perfect Cherry Blossom''): at the end of the 4th stage, the playable character [[CuteWitch Marisa Kirisame]] comes across a giant gate at the entrance to the Netherworld; she notices that the gate is magically sealed, and states that a novice magician such as herself wouldn't be able to open it. Then, she is greeted by three ghost musician sisters, and finds out that they were invited for a celebratory musical performance into the Netherworld and are able to enter and leave it at will. [[spoiler: Marisa then demands that they open the gate for her, and the three of them fight her. After the ghost musicians are defeated, Marisa tells them to open the gate, and the ghosts say that the gate won't open. Marisa then asks how they enter and leave the Netherworld at will, only to hear that they fly above it.]]

** ''Videogame/XRebirth'' retains the Jump Gates, and adds in massive Super Highway gates, which create streams of energy capable of accelerating ships to faster-than-light speeds for interplanetary travel, and smaller highways for travel within planetary orbit.
* ''Videogame/FarGate'''s wormholes. Basically a combination of this and SwirlyEnergyThingy with DNA-shaped pink and blue strands coming out from the middle.

* One of the ways to get to new locations in ''Videogame/WitchesLegacy''. They are often both ways, sometimes they lead to some form of EldritchLocation and other times just somewhere new.

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* In the comic WebComic/{{Flipside}}, creating a portal involves slapping a door-sized piece of enchanted paper on a surface.

Has nothing to do with [[{{Scandalgate}} media or political scandals being referred to with a reference to "Watergate"]] or with [[IncrediblyLamePun a particular brand of toothpaste]].

* In the ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode "The Girl in the Fireplace", clockwork androids from the future use the hyperspace drive of a spaceship to create temporal gates disguised as mirrors, tapestries and fireplaces to stalk Madame de Pompadour's lifespan, finding the proper moment in her life to take her.

*** Episode "Assignment Earth". Gary Seven's "mist gate" transporter.

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' episode "Little Girl Lost". The title character accidentally falls through a spontaneously appearing gate in the wall of her room and ends up in another dimension. Her parents and a family friend try desperately to get her back before the gate closes.

* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'''s ''Film/{{Poltergeist}}'' parody has ''Meg's butt'' as one end of a portal.

* ''Film/{{Poltergeist}}'': The ghosts who are haunting the house creates a gate in the children's closet leading to the other side: another gate in the ceiling of the living room leads back to our world.

* Well, real theory: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wormhole Wormholes]], [[http://www.geeknews.net/2008/08/14/physicists-spooked-by-faster-than-light-data-transfer this]].

* In ''Film/{{Beetlejuice}}'', when you're dead, drawing a door on a wall will open a path to a wonderland of dreary bureaucratic waiting rooms. Which is still better than if you walk out of the location you're stuck haunting...

** Under Franchise/WonderWoman's home island Themyscira is a gate to Hades, at least in ComicBook/PostCrisis [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1987 continuity]], in the ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' cartoon and in ''ComicBook/WonderWomanRebirth''.

* Dimensional portals show up quite frequently in ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'' stories:

* ''VideoGame/DistortedTravesty 3'' gives us big swirly holes with [[https://youtu.be/cN7eE3pNzAs?t=5s blue (or red, in the case of nightmare gates)]] lightning scything out of it.

* ''Franchise/{{Disgaea}}'s'' dimensional gate warps the user to the selected location.

* Under Franchise/WonderWoman's home island Themyscira is a gate to Hades, at least in ComicBook/PostCrisis [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1987 continuity]], in the ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' cartoon and in ''ComicBook/WonderWomanRebirth''.

* The Creator/GrantMorrison era of ''Franchise/{{Justice League|of America}}'' has Portal Gates like this at certain times that seemed to link the JLA moonbase to a few key locations. Not used very often (at least "on screen").
* In the ''Franchise/StarWars'' comics, they introduce the [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Infinity_Gate Infinity Gates]] [[AncientArtifact built by]] the Kwa using the [[AppliedPhlebotinum technology of]] [[{{Precursors}} the Celestials]]. Apparently, there was a [[PortalNetwork network]] that allowed instantaneous travel nearly anywhere in the galaxy. Oh and for added fun, they could be used as devastating [[WaveMotionGun superweapons]], projecting [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Infinity_Wave Infinity Waves]] which [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill destroyed all life and matter at the target]] and made hyperspace travel impossible in its vicinity.
* Boom Tubes in the ''ComicBook/NewGods'' mythos. They can be summoned anywhere with a Mother Box computer, and are in general used by the Gods on a regular basis.

* The Oblivion Gates from ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion'', which let Daedra out of the gate's titular dimension. Note that they are shaped like the rune on the box art, which is the letter "O" in Daedric.