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* In ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld'', the alternate dimension of Agartha acts as a sort of [[PortalNetwork trans-dimensional subway system]], complete with [[QuintessentialBritishGentleman quintessential British stationmaster]].
* ''VideoGame/{{Darksiders}}'' has the snakeroads, that reside in a green-tinted (or orange) dimension which lets the player quickly traverse between levels. They are accessible through Vulgrim's shops, and some of them even have secret chests in them.
* In ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiNocturne'', this is the main usage of The Amala Network. Terminals allow the player to enter the network at one location and exit it at another location. Generally, this takes no more than a few seconds, but a couple of times you get stuck and have to navigate your way through the Network to find the exit.
* In ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion'' certain islands in the lava of Mehrunes Dagon's plane of Oblivion, reached through the Oblivion Gates, contain a second gate on the opposite side of the island from the one you entered. You can exit the second gate and potentially end up on the other side of Cyrodiil from where you entered (it's random).
* In ''VideoGame/{{Stellaris}}'' Jump Drive, used by [[HigherTechSpecies Fallen Empires]] and researchable in mid- to late-game by playable empires, shifts a ship into an alternate dimension where the speed of light is much faster, allowing them to conduct jumps that completely bypass the standard HyperspaceLanes and the PortalNetwork. [[spoiler: Unfortunately, it has a chance of tearing open a rift to the universe/dimension inhabited by the omnicidal, LifeEnergy-consuming Unbidden.]]

* In ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'', Kassadin is able to Void Walk- an ability that makes him disappear and reappear instantly at a new location- by transporting momentarily to the Void.
* In many ''Franchise/{{Kirby}}'' games, as well as ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'', Meta Knight can dimension hop in battle, disappearing from reality completely for a few seconds.
* In ''Videogame/GodOfWarPS4'', this is how [[IntrepidMerchant Brok and Sindri]] travel around the world and are able to show up everywhere Kratos and Atreus goes. According to Sindri, dwarves are capable of traveling between realms in a way that renders them seemingly invisible to others. They also give you access to the Bifrost portal, which functions as a WarpWhistle.
* In the backstory of ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'', teleportation experiments used Hell as this. The demons didn't like it and started to invade our universe.
* ''Videogame/FateGrandOrder:'' Chaldea's special APC truck, Shadow Border, is able to perform a jump into the "Sea of Imaginary Numbers" in order to travel into the "Lostbelts", which are protected by powerful storms that makes regular travel not possible. It is said that the flow of time frequently fluctuates between said Sea and the real world.
* This is how teleporters work in ''VideoGame/HalfLife''. All teleportation is funneled through the [[VoidBetweenTheWorlds Xen border world]], with various portals within Xen allowing either for exit back to Earth or for travel to other locations within the border world. By the time of ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'', this has been refined to the point where physical travel through Xen is no longer necessary, with the traveller effectively slingshotting around the border world without actually passing through before returning to local space.
* ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankRiftApart'' has this as a major gameplay mechanic. Ratchet damaging the Dimensionator causes interdimensional rifts to pop up all over the universe, allow the titular duo to travel between worlds near-instantaneously.

* One scene in ''[[VideoGame/HenryStickminSeries Henry Stickmin: Infiltrating the Airship]]'' has Henry using one of these in order to bypass some closing doors while chasing down [[BigBad Reginald Copperbottom]]. Unfortunately for him, his mind isn't quite suited for handling [[HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace the extremities of hyperspace]], leading to a fail.
-->'''FAIL Screen:''' ''"Some are not mentally prepared enough for alternate dimensions."''

* ComicBook/{{Nightshade}} (Eve Eden) "teleports" by slipping through shadow into her mother's realm and then stepping out elsewhere.

-->-- '''Creator/RodSerling''', closing narration to "In His Image", ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959''

* ''Literature/{{Snuff}}'' provides a Literature/{{Discworld}} take on this. Earlier novels in the tiffany Aching series revealed that some [=NacMcFeegle=] have the secret of the Crawstep, enabling them to open doorways into other worlds, through which they can then guide and navigate people. In ''Snuff'', Air Watch Feegle Buggy Swires uses the Crawstep for long-distance travel, entering the Otherworld over Ankh-Morpork and leaving it again a few minutes later, but this time over Howondaland, several thousand miles away by the direct route.

* The canonical idea of the Crawstep which Feegle can use to navigate over vast distances - see ''Literature/{{Snuff}} - is used far more extensively in Creator/AAPessimal's Air Watch-set fic ''Fanfic/ThePriceOfFlight''. Here, a far more greatly expanded Air Watch, practically an Air Force in its own right, employs Feegle as Flight Navigators to get people (and air vehicles) exactly where they are needed around the Literature/{{Discworld}}.

* ''Literature/HisDarkMaterials'': The titular knife in ''The Subtle Knife'' is sharp enough to cut through reality, creating dimensional doorways. While this is mostly used for simple travel between worlds, there is also one case where the characters need to steal a small and well protected artefact. To do this, they travel through a different world until they think they are in the right position then cut a small doorway right next to the object, reach thorough and grab it. Another time, their exit in one world needs to be much higher than the ground level in the current one, requiring that they find a hill and two storey building to be able to position the doorway correctly.

** Some characters such as Ruin and ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes member Phantom Girl travel through the [[PrisonDimension Phantom Zone]]as a method of teleportation.

* In the ''Literature/HonorHarrington'' universe hyperspace is layered like an onion, with our normal spacetime being the outer layer. The distance between points becomes further compressed as you transit to higher bands, although until ''Mission of Honor'' nobody's transited higher than the theta bands and lived to tell the story. Most ships don't go higher than the zeta bands under normal circumstances.

* This is the way hyperspace works in the ''Series/BabylonFive'' universe. Hyperspace is actually another physical dimension parallel to ours, but where distances between points are significantly shorter.

-->''"Some are not mentally prepared enough for alternate dimensions."''

* [[Recap/DigimonTamersM1BattleOfAdventurers The first]] ''Anime/DigimonTamers'' [[Recap/DigimonTamersM1BattleOfAdventurers movie]] has Omnimon bring Henry, Rika, and their Digimon to Okinawa by way of a portal in cyberspace so that they can back up Takato and Guilmon. This gives Omnimon the time to drop some exposition about his efforts to stop [[BigBad Mephistomon]].
* The ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' movies show that Goku travels through another dimension (called the Teleport Zone by ''Daizenshuu 7'') when he uses his ''Instant Transmission'' technique.
** He and Meta-Cooler [[PhantomZone go into it to fight]] in ''[[Anime/DragonBallZTheReturnOfCooler The Return Of Cooler]]''.

* Some characters such as Ruin and ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes member Phantom Girl travel through the [[PrisonDimension Phantom Zone]]as a method of teleportation.

* ''Franchise/MarvelUniverse'': The mutant Cloak can teleport himself and others through the dimension of darkness he has access to.
* ComicBook/XMen member ComicBook/{{Nightcrawler}}'s teleportation abilities involve him slipping into an dimension, traveling very quickly through it then popping out elsewhere. The exact nature of this dimension varies from adaptation to adaptation, but usually, when we do get to see it, HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace. In the "main" Marvel Universe of the comics, it's eventually revealed that the dimension Nightcrawler teleports through is [[spoiler: [[PhysicalHell Hell]]]].
* Fellow X-Man Magik can teleport across time and space using the Hell-like Limbo dimension as a shortcut.
* 616 canon Marvel hero Nightmask is capable of teleporting interstellar distances by going a few feet through a dimension connected to the universal subconscious. The same dimension is used by his creators to travel between parallel universes.

* ''ComicBook/RobinSeries'': When tracking a gun runner's sources through Appalachia Tim meets and befriends the retiree Stephen whose "shortcuts" through the woods allow him to walk places faster than anyone could drive there, and take him through an alternate forest full of flora and fauna that don't belong in the American north-east. If he brings anyone with him and they lose sight of him they'll be lost there forever.

* Some Creator/DCComics characters such as [[ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes Phantom Girl]] and Ruin travel through the Phantom Zone PrisonDimension from the ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'' comics as a method of teleportation.

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-> ''"But sometimes it happens that the shortest distance between two points is a crooked line... through the Twilight Zone."''

* ''VideoGame/StarTrekOnline'' re-invents warp travel and subspace by calling it "sector space", apparently a different dimension between the stars where FTL travel is possible (and combat is not allowed).

-> ''"...but sometimes it happens that the shortest distance between two points is a crooked line... through the Twilight Zone."''

# The character [[InterdimensionalTravelDevice enters]] another dimension etc.
# They physically travel some distance
# They have a choice of exits, leading to different locations in the home dimension

* ComicBook/XMen member ComicBook/{{Nightcrawler}}'s teleportation abilities involve him slipping into an dimension, traveling very quickly through it then popping out elsewhere. The exact nature of this dimension varies from adaptation to adaptation, but usually, when we do get to see it, HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace.