History Main / MultistageTeleport

* ComicBook/{{Nightcrawler}} of the ''ComicBook/XMen'' has had to travel long distances quickly on several occasions and in different incarnations. Since he can only teleport along a line-of-sight, he does this by teleporting over and over in rapid succession, similar to how he does TeleportSpam in combat, but in a straight line. Eventually the line-of-sight requirement turns out to be more of a mental block that he overcomes, by which point he no longer fits the trope.

* ''TabletopGame/BattleTech'' [=JumpShips=] can only jump up to thirty light-years at a time, with long charging periods in between and only specific points within a solar system that they can safely land at.

* Thor/Asgardians in Marvel Cinematic Universe use this as the "Bifrost" bridge is fact a wormhole which permits near instantaneous transit to virtually any destination.

* In ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'' and ''Manga/ACertainScientificRailgun'', Kuroko Shirai's teleportation has a distance limit of about 81.5 meters, so she has to do this if she wants to move across the city.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Wakfu}}'', Yugo learns that he can use his portal abilities, which are usually limited in range, in a daisy-chain fashion, diving out of one and immediately into the next.

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/WolverineAndTheXMen'' has Nightcrawler visit Genosha, Magneto's island for mutants. At the end of the episode, Nightcrawler has to flee Genosha, but he has no transport, so he has to teleport back to the mainland across the sea, rapidly enough to avoid falling into the sea. He eventually ends up at Professor Xavier's Institute, exhausted.

* Aoi from ''Manga/ZettaiKarenChildren'' uses this as a form of NotQuiteFlight
* In ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'', Akira Okochi is granted a [[MagicallyBindingContract Pactio]] Artifact that allows her practically costless transportation between any bodies of water within 300 meter radius. So when you need to go further away (or confuse your pursuers) it can easily be used like this.

* In ''Literature/FoundationsEdge'', Foundation long-distance space travel is done one relatively short jump at a time, after which a ship must calculate the next jump. The calculations can take days. These "short" jumps are still hundreds of lightyears, but traveling all the way across the galaxy in one jump risks collisions with stars or other obstacles.

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* Another explanation that lends itself more to ScienceFiction is that if the work features true teleportation, the limit may come from dangerous [[InertiaIsAHarshMistress kinetic or potential energy differences]] between the entry and exit points.

{{Teleportation}} is a great way to get from Point A to Point B, but too often they're limited by the distances they can cover, for one reason or another. So what do you do when you need to travel farther than your abilities allow?

TeleportersAndTransporters are a great way to get from Point A to Point B, but too often they're limited by the distances they can cover, for one reason or another. So what do you do when you need to travel farther than your abilities allow?

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Wakfu}}'', Yugo learns that he can use his portal abilities, which are usually limited in range, in a daisy-chain fashion, diving out of one and immediately into the next, to produce an effect that's a hybrid between this and SuperSpeed.

* In ''{{Overwatch}}'', this is Tracer's ability; she can store up to three at once and use them in quick succession.

* In '"Fanfic/TheMaretian'', this is the basis of the Sparkle drive, which by the start of the fic can teleport a ship four meters forward, 250,000 times a second (which is about 0.3% of lightspeed).

* Played completely straight in ''Creator/AlfredBester'''s ''Literature/TheStarsMyDestination''. One person discovers how to "jaunt" (personal teleportation), and in a little while (almost) everybody can do it. The limitations are 1) you have to know where you are and where you are going (which allows prisons to exist and provides at least a minimum of personal security), and 2) the distance you can jaunt is limited by your personal capabilities. So large platforms are setup at reasonable distances apart so that people have intermediate destinations so they can jaunt large distances in stages.

* Played completely straight in ''Creator/AlfredBester'''s ''Literature/TheStarsMyDestination''. One person discovers how to "jaunt" (personal teleportation), and in a little while (almost) everybody can do it. The limitations are 1) you have to know where you are and where you are going (which allows prisons to exist and provides at least a minimum of personal security), and 2) the distance you can jaunt is limited by your personal capabilities. So large platforms are setup at reasonable distances apart so that people have intermediate destinations so they can jaunt large distances in stages.
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* In ''TabletopGame/TwentyThreeHundredAD'', the stutterwarp FTL drive works by performing small jumps of a few thousand meters each millions of times per second, giving an apparent velocity multiple times that of light.