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* ''Literature/BrokenSky'': The [[SecretPolice Jachyra]] are able to see and travel through any reflective surface, making them highly effective spies and assassins for the BigBad King Macaan. [[LaResistance Parakka]] take pains to make sure their hidden bases have as few of such surfaces as possible.
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* In an early episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'', Tommy and Chuckie tumble into a (supposedly) antique cheval mirror and, through a number of contrived coincidences, are convinced they entered a "mirror world."
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* ''Literature/WearingTheCape: Recursion'': When her "normal" travel methods are blocked, Ozma uses mirror magic to link one of her mirrors [[spoiler:to The Cloud Gate[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_Gate]] to bring reinforcements near the blocked area.]]
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* ''Literature/WearingTheCape: Recursion'': When her "normal" travel methods are blocked, Ozma uses mirror magic to link one of her mirrors [[spoiler:to The Cloud Gate[[https://en.[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_Gate]] org/wiki/Cloud_Gate The Cloud Gate]] to bring reinforcements near the blocked area.]]
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* ''Manga/RozenMaiden'': Any reflective surfaces - mirrors, glass windows, water puddles - can be used as portal gates to the N-Field, a DreamLand that reflects the subconscious minds of people and their desires and sorrows. The main cast use these surfaces to travel to and from the N-Field in order to resolve conflicts related to the [[ForeverWar Alice Game]].
* ''Manga/TougeOni'': Tsukuyomi-no-Mikoto's ancient treasure, the Yata-no-Kagami, can transport anyone to the Moon and other compatible mirrors. Tsukuyomi however reveals that his treasure isn't the mirror given to the royal family--''anything'' that can reflect the Moon, including the ''entire ocean'', counts as his treasure and can work just as well.
* ''Manga/TougeOni'': Tsukuyomi-no-Mikoto's ancient treasure, the Yata-no-Kagami, can transport anyone to the Moon and other compatible mirrors. Tsukuyomi however reveals that his treasure isn't the mirror given to the royal family--''anything'' that can reflect the Moon, including the ''entire ocean'', counts as his treasure and can work just as well.
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* ''Manga/TougeOni'': Tsukuyomi-no-Mikoto's ancient treasure, the Yata-no-Kagami, can transport anyone to the Moon and other compatible mirrors.Tsukuyomi however Tsukuyomi, however, reveals that his treasure isn't the mirror given to the royal family--''anything'' family -- ''anything'' that can reflect the Moon, including the ''entire ocean'', counts as his treasure and can work just as well.
* ''Manga/TougeOni'': Tsukuyomi-no-Mikoto's ancient treasure, the Yata-no-Kagami, can transport anyone to the Moon and other compatible mirrors.
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Some forms of {{Teleportation}} come with their own limitations such as needing a visual of where you are teleporting to or not teleporting beyond a certain distance. A particularly common type of teleportation is the use of reflective surfaces as a medium to travel from one place or another. Rather than using a MagicMirror to traverse locations, the teleportation ability is innate and any reflective surface will do (although some versions of this trope will limit what kind of reflective surfaces can be used).used, whereas others would allow [[PortalPool even water]]). Alternatively, reflective surfaces being portals could be a natural phenomenon of the setting.
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* ''Manga/TougeOni'' reveals that Tsukuyomi-no-Mikoto's ancient treasure, the Yata-no-Kagami, can transport anyone to the Moon and other compatible mirrors. Tsukuyomi however reveals that his treasure isn't the mirror given to the royal family--''anything'' that can reflect the Moon, including the ''entire ocean'', counts as his treasure and can work just as well.
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* ''Videogame/FallenLondon:'' All reflective surfaces can be used as portals to [[DreamWorld Parabola]] by those who know to use this ability. There is an entire science (Glasswork) dedicated to the study of this power, and one of the tricks experts can do (including the playe character in the second half of the game) is travel from one mirror to the other; long-distance crossings, espionage and even assassination are easily carried out using mirrors in the right places. This is one ''big'' reason Londoners are careful with mirrors; another reason is that humans aren't the only ones that can do this.
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* ''Series/{{Grimm}}'': In the final season, Eve is stalked by a skull face that appears in mirrors. First she and Nick see it together, and it just sort of glares creepily stares at them before disappearing. Next time, Eve is alone and is strangled by a demonic hand that comes out of the mirror. Later, Eve travels to another dimension using a mirror, and Nick follows to help her. This turns out to be a mistake, as it allows the series BigBad Zerstorer to follow them into our world.
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** Recap/DoctorWhoS28E4TheGirlInTheFireplace: It is possible to teleport from a 51st century alien spaceship in another galaxy to 18th century France using reflective surfaces aboard the ship, and in the house.
** Recap/DoctorWhoS32E3TheCurseOfTheBlackSpot: The "Siren" that haunts and kidnaps the pirates seemingly appears wherever there is still water, but is later realized to be able to materialize wherever there is a sufficiently large reflective surface. The pirates' collection of treasure also qualifies.
** Recap/DoctorWhoS32E3TheCurseOfTheBlackSpot: The "Siren" that haunts and kidnaps the pirates seemingly appears wherever there is still water, but is later realized to be able to materialize wherever there is a sufficiently large reflective surface. The pirates' collection of treasure also qualifies.
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** Recap/DoctorWhoS28E4TheGirlInTheFireplace: [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E4TheGirlInTheFireplace The Girl In The Fireplace]]: It is possible to teleport from a 51st century alien spaceship in another galaxy to 18th century France using reflective surfaces aboard the ship, and in the house.
**Recap/DoctorWhoS32E3TheCurseOfTheBlackSpot: [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E3TheCurseOfTheBlackSpot The Curse Of The Black Spot]]: The "Siren" that haunts and kidnaps the pirates seemingly appears wherever there is still water, but is later realized to be able to materialize wherever there is a sufficiently large reflective surface. The pirates' collection of treasure also qualifies.
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**"[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E3TheCurseOfTheBlackSpot The Curse of the Black Spot]]": Recap/DoctorWhoS32E3TheCurseOfTheBlackSpot: The "Siren" that haunts and kidnaps the pirates seemingly appears wherever there is still water, but is later realized to be able to materialize wherever there is a sufficiently large reflective surface. The pirates' collection of treasure also qualifies.
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** The "Siren" that haunts and kidnaps the pirates in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E3TheCurseOfTheBlackSpot The Curse of the Black Spot]]" seemingly appears wherever there is still water, but is later realized to be able to materialize wherever there is a sufficiently large reflective surface. The pirates' collection of treasure also qualifies.
** The "Siren" that haunts and kidnaps the pirates in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E3TheCurseOfTheBlackSpot The Curse of the Black Spot]]" seemingly appears wherever there is still water, but is later realized to be able to materialize wherever there is a sufficiently large reflective surface. The pirates' collection of treasure also qualifies.
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** In "Recap/DoctorWhoS28E4TheGirlInTheFireplace", it "Recap/DoctorWhoS28E4TheGirlInTheFireplace": It is possible to teleport from a 51st century alien spaceship in another galaxy to 18th century France using reflective surfaces aboard the ship, and in the house.
**The "Siren" that haunts and kidnaps the pirates in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E3TheCurseOfTheBlackSpot The Curse of the Black Spot]]" Spot]]": The "Siren" that haunts and kidnaps the pirates seemingly appears wherever there is still water, but is later realized to be able to materialize wherever there is a sufficiently large reflective surface. The pirates' collection of treasure also qualifies.
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* ''Literature/WearingTheCape: Recursion'': When her "normal" travel methods are blocked, Ozma uses mirror magic to link one of her mirrors [[spoiler:to The Cloud Gate[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_Gate]] to bring reinforcements near to the blocked area.]]
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* ''Literature/WearingTheCape: Recursion'': When her "normal" travel methods are blocked, Ozma uses mirror magic to link one of her mirrors [[spoiler:to The Cloud Gate[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_Gate]] to bring reinforcements near to the blocked area.]]
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* In the Literature/{{Wearing the Cape}} book Literature/{{Recursion}}, when her "normal" travel methods are blocked, Ozma uses mirror magic to link one of her mirrors [[spoiler:to The Cloud Gate[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_Gate]] to bring reinforcements near to the blocked area.]]
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* In the Literature/{{Wearing the Cape}} book Literature/{{Recursion}}, when ''Literature/WearingTheCape: Recursion'': When her "normal" travel methods are blocked, Ozma uses mirror magic to link one of her mirrors [[spoiler:to The Cloud Gate[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_Gate]] to bring reinforcements near to the blocked area.]]
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* ''The Revolutions'' by Felix Gilman: The occultists who recruit Arthur and Josephine warn them to stay away from mirrors, as ?every mirror is an eye [?], every eye is a door? and ?evil influences? can pass through them. It's unclear what they mean until Arthur inspects a business card left at his house by a rival magician, discovers that it has a shiny and reflective surface, and sees not only his own face in it but also said rival magician and three of his goons, who have [[MirrorScare suddenly manifested behind him]]. An unusual variant in that they didn't physically come out of the mirror, it?s just a component of the spell that let them teleport to him.
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** ''Film/TheMatrix'': When Neo first meets with Morpheus ''and'' the rest of the hackers, Morpheus offers Neo a way to see the truth of the Matrix: a red pill (which shows him how the reality of the system can be twisted to one's own ends) or a blue pill (which signifies one's desire to return to their own life). Neo chooses the red pill, and a mirror is brought before him. Touching the mirror causes it to warp and distort like mercury. Some of this material affixes to Neo's finger and begins to spread over his body. Meanwhile, the hackers are using a machine that will do... ''something'' (as of this point of the movie, for an unknown purpose). When the machine is activated, the mirror-like substance completely spreads over his body, and reality breaks down into a green wireframe and digital noise. Neo then is ejected from the Matrix and awakens in true reality, naked and inside of a pod with a pink mucus-like substance, but still attached to a large complex machine by a port on the back of his head.
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* ''Fanfic/TheLandOfWhatMightHaveBeen'': The [[KnowledgeBroker Mistress of Mirrors]] can spy on her targets through mirrors and shadows. When she finally decides to remain NeutralNoLonger, this extends to transporting her allies and herself through mirrors, to the point that her secret hideout is only accessible through the reflection cast by an isolated lake.
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* ''Manga/RozenMaiden'': Any reflective surfaces - mirrors, glass windows, water puddles - can be used as portal gates to the N-Field; a DreamLand that reflects the subconscious minds of people and their desires and sorrows. The main cast use these surfaces to travel to and from the N-Field in order to resolve conflicts related to the [[ForeverWar Alice Game]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': In "Yesterday's Lie", Luz enters an astral plane where she can summon cubes that allow her to look into the Human Realm through reflective surfaces there, with anyone present able to see her inside said surface. Near the end, she appears as a life-sized hologram of sorts when a car's headlights shine through a rainy night.
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Some forms of {{Teleportation}} come with their own limitations such as needing a visual of where you are teleporting to or not teleporting beyond a certain distance. A particularly common type of teleportation is the use of reflective surfaces as a medium to travel from one place or another. Rather than using a MagicMirror to traverse locations, the teleportation ability is innate and any reflective surface will do (although some versions of this trope will limit what kind of reflective surfaces can be used). Alternatively, reflective surfaces being portals could be a natural phenomenon of the setting.
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* ''Manga/AhMyGoddess'': Belldandy can use mirrors to traverse long distances.
* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind'': Illuso has a Stand called "Man in the Mirror" that can pull people and objects into a mirror world using reflective surfaces as portals.
* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'': [[AnIcePerson Haku]] can create mirrors made of ice that he can travel between, allowing him to attack his opponent from multiple angles.
* ''Manga/OnePiece'': Charlotte Brûlée can use mirrors to teleport to and communicate with any location that has a mirror. She is also able to bring other people with her. Her Devil Fruit ability comes in very handy when the Straw Hats need to escape from Big Mom's pirate crew and meet up with Luffy after [[spoiler:he defeats Katakuri]].
* ''Manga/RozenMaiden'': Any reflective surfaces - mirrors, glass windows, water puddles - can be used as portal gates to the N-Field; a DreamLand that reflects the subconscious minds of people and their desires and sorrows. The main cast use these surfaces to travel to and from the N-Field in order to resolve conflicts related to the [[ForeverWar Alice Game]].
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* ''ComicBook/TheFlash'': Mirror Master uses a RayGun that turns any reflective surface it hits into a portal to any other reflective surface. He can also enter into a world of reflections and do a whole bunch of other weird stuff with mirrors.
* ''ComicBook/{{Glory}}'': The titular heroine has an ability called "The Slip" which allows her to teleport using reflective surfaces, or as the narration of issue #0 puts it "where light casts the deepest shadow".
* ''ComicBook/TheInhumans'': The 1998 series featured Dewoz, an Inhuman made of [[ChromeChampion shiny material]] who can move through mirrors and other reflective surfaces.
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* ''Fanfic/TheLandOfWhatMightHaveBeen'': The [[KnowledgeBroker Mistress of Mirrors]] can spy on her targets through mirrors and shadows. When she finally decides to remain NeutralNoLonger, this extends to transporting her allies and herself through mirrors, to the point that her secret hideout is only accessible through the reflection cast by an isolated lake.
* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12132374/ Six Pomegranate Seeds]]'': Hermione ''pretends'' to use the Mirror Road Charm to escape from Professor Snape's custody using a bathroom mirror. Her initial cast is only partially successful, marking the glass but not actually transporting her anywhere; still, it's enough to provide a plausible explanation and cover up the fact that Hogwarts' elves are helping her. She later learns to use the charm properly.
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* ''Film/DoctorStrangeInTheMultiverseOfMadness'': After being trapped in the mirror dimension, the Scarlet Witch breaks out by using her magic to teleport out into the reflections of Kamar-Taj. She pops in hands first, dragging some enemy wizards into the reflection and forcing her other enemies to try to cover up every puddle and surface to keep her from getting into the room. Unfortunately for them, she's too quick.
* ''Franchise/TheMatrix'':
** ''Film/TheMatrix'': When Neo first meets with Morpheus ''and'' the rest of the hackers, Morpheus offers Neo a way to see the truth of the Matrix: a red pill (which shows him how the reality of the system can be twisted to one's own ends) or a blue pill (which signifies one's desire to return to their own life). Neo chooses the red pill, and a mirror is brought before him. Touching the mirror causes it to warp and distort like mercury. Some of this material affixes to Neo's finger and begins to spread over his body. Meanwhile, the hackers are using a machine that will do... ''something'' (as of this point of the movie, for an unknown purpose). When the machine is activated, the mirror-like substance completely spreads over his body, and reality breaks down into a green wireframe and digital noise. Neo then is ejected from the Matrix and awakens in true reality, naked and inside of a pod with a pink mucus-like substance, but still attached to a large complex machine by a port on the back of his head.
** ''Film/TheMatrixResurrections'': Mirrors seem to be the main way to exit the Matrix now, given that time has passed, [[TechnologyMarchesOn and landline phones are no longer the norm]] (in our world, at least).
* ''Film/TheSorcerersApprentice'': One of the spells a wizard in this setting can use is turning reflective surfaces into a portal to an empty world that mirrors our own. This spell, called "the Hungarian Mirror Trap", is first used by the main hero to trap an enemy wizard mid-fight and is later used by that same villain to trap the heroes mid car chase, forcing them to find another reflective surface.
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* ''Literature/JonathanStrangeAndMrNorrell'': Magicians can step through mirrors into a distorted otherworld that serves as an ExtradimensionalShortcut. As [[TheMagicComesBack magic is restored]], it becomes clear that these "King's Roads" have more entrances than mirrors and more exits than the physical world, like the LandOfFaerie.
* ''Literature/KeysToTheKingdom'': The Fifth Key takes the form of a small hand mirror that allows the user to teleport to any reflective surface, provided they've previously visited that location via conventional methods.
* ''Literature/{{Pact}}'':
** The demon Barbatorem can move between reflective surfaces such as glass, metal, and even one's eyes. It's advised that one should not look at it directly lest it enter their eyes and never leave.
** Rose Thorburn can move between mirrors at will.
* ''The Revolutions'' by Felix Gilman: The occultists who recruit Arthur and Josephine warn them to stay away from mirrors, as ?every mirror is an eye [?], every eye is a door? and ?evil influences? can pass through them. It?s unclear what they mean until Arthur inspects a business card left at his house by a rival magician, discovers that it has a shiny and reflective surface, and sees not only his own face in it but also said rival magician and three of his goons, who have [[MirrorScare suddenly manifested behind him]]. An unusual variant in that they didn?t physically come out of the mirror, it?s just a component of the spell that let them teleport to him.
* ''Literature/SpinningSilver'': When [[UnevenHybrid Irina]] wears the three pieces of [[SilverHasMysticPowers Staryk silver]], they {{amplif|ierArtifact}}y her latent magic enough for her to use any reflective surface as a portal between the human and [[LandOfFaerie Staryk]] worlds.
* ''Literature/StormFront'': While Harry's apartment is being described, it is noted that it has no mirrors [[MirrorMonster because a number of unpleasant creatures could use it to teleport straight into his apartment and kill him in his sleep.]]
* ''[[Creator/RobertAHeinlein The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag]]'': The evil Sons of the Bird have the ability to travel to other locations using mirrors to other places, both in reality and in dreams. Painting over a mirror prevents them from passing through it.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
** In "Recap/DoctorWhoS28E4TheGirlInTheFireplace", it is possible to teleport from a 51st century alien spaceship in another galaxy to 18th century France using reflective surfaces aboard the ship, and in the house.
** The "Siren" that haunts and kidnaps the pirates in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E3TheCurseOfTheBlackSpot The Curse of the Black Spot]]" seemingly appears wherever there is still water, but is later realized to be able to materialize wherever there is a sufficiently large reflective surface. The pirates' collection of treasure also qualifies.
* ''Series/TheFlash2014'':
** This show's version of Mirror Master is a metahuman with the ability to teleport through reflective surfaces and trap people inside such objects.
** Season 5 features a metahuman named Eva [=McCulloch=] who is a {{Gender Flip}}ed version of Evan [=McCulloch=], the second Mirror Master from the comics. Like Scudder, Eva was trapped in a mirror and gained reflective teleportation powers from the S.T.A.R. labs particle accelerator explosion.
* ''Series/{{Grimm}}'': In the final season, Eve is stalked by a skull face that appears in mirrors. First she and Nick see it together, and it just sort of glares creepily stares at them before disappearing. Next time, Eve is alone and is strangled by a demonic hand that comes out of the mirror. Later, Eve travels to another dimension using a mirror, and Nick follows to help her. This turns out to be a mistake, as it allows the series BigBad Zerstorer to follow them into our world.
* ''Series/KamenRiderRyuki[=/=]Series/KamenRiderDragonKnight'': The Mirror World/Ventara is an alternate dimension which can only be accessed by Kamen Riders through reflective surfaces.
* ''Series/PowerRangersSPD'': In "Reflection", Sky goes to interrogate Mirloc, a dangerous criminal who can travel through any reflective surface. The high-security prison cell he is held in takes extra precautions to keep anything reflective away, including covering SPD badges and giving visitors opaque sunglasses (since human eyes are themselves reflective). [[spoiler:However, when Mirloc asks for Sky to tell him his worst memory in exchange for his help with the VillainOfTheWeek, Sky's SingleTear gives Mirloc the opportunity to escape. Even worse? The memory was of Sky's dad's death, ''which Mirloc himself was responsible for''.]]
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[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* ''TabletopGame/VampireTheRequiem'': [[MirrorMonster Red Jack]] [[DealWithTheDevil offers]] exclusive access to the non-standard, mirror-themed [[MagicByAnyOtherName Discipline]] of Ars Speculorum. Its capstone power lets the vampire step into one mirror and exit out another one in a matter of seconds -- unless they roll a CriticalFailure, in which case exiting isn't guaranteed.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* ''Videogame/FallenLondon:'' All reflective surfaces can be used as portals to [[DreamWorld Parabola]] by those who know to use this ability. There is an entire science (Glasswork) dedicated to the study of this power, and one of the tricks experts can do (including the playe character in the second half of the game) is travel from one mirror to the other; long-distance crossings, espionage and even assassination are easily carried out using mirrors in the right places. This is one ''big'' reason Londoners are careful with mirrors; another reason is that humans aren't the only ones that can do this.
* ''VideoGame/LegoDCSupervillains'': Turning mirrors into portals is one of the rarest abilities. Once Raven or Mirror Master with this ability hit two of these mirrors with a projectile, any character can jump through one and teleport to the corresponding mirror. Puzzles using this ability generally rely on transporting the mirrors to somewhere Mirror Master can hit them or to an unreachable location you need to teleport to get to.
* ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion'': Scanning any mirror teleports you to the lobby. Even the mirror in the lobby itself.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/InfinityTrain'': In Book 2, it's shown that Agents Sieve and Mace, "mirror cops" from the Chrome Car, can emerge from any reflective surface, including water, while chasing and apprehending rogue reflections. As a precaution, M.T. carries around black spray-paint to use on shiny surfaces to ensure the two won't come for her.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': In "Yesterday's Lie", Luz enters an astral plane where she can summon cubes that allow her to look into the Human Realm through reflective surfaces there, with anyone present able to see her inside said surface. Near the end, she appears as a life-sized hologram of sorts when a car's headlights shine through a rainy night.
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-->-- ''Literature/JonathanStrangeAndMrNorrell''
Some forms of {{Teleportation}} come with their own limitations such as needing a visual of where you are teleporting to or not teleporting beyond a certain distance. A particularly common type of teleportation is the use of reflective surfaces as a medium to travel from one place or another. Rather than using a MagicMirror to traverse locations, the teleportation ability is innate and any reflective surface will do (although some versions of this trope will limit what kind of reflective surfaces can be used). Alternatively, reflective surfaces being portals could be a natural phenomenon of the setting.
Often an ability of a MirrorMonster. SubTrope of TeleportationWithDrawbacks.
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!!Examples:
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[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* ''Manga/AhMyGoddess'': Belldandy can use mirrors to traverse long distances.
* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind'': Illuso has a Stand called "Man in the Mirror" that can pull people and objects into a mirror world using reflective surfaces as portals.
* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'': [[AnIcePerson Haku]] can create mirrors made of ice that he can travel between, allowing him to attack his opponent from multiple angles.
* ''Manga/OnePiece'': Charlotte Brûlée can use mirrors to teleport to and communicate with any location that has a mirror. She is also able to bring other people with her. Her Devil Fruit ability comes in very handy when the Straw Hats need to escape from Big Mom's pirate crew and meet up with Luffy after [[spoiler:he defeats Katakuri]].
* ''Manga/RozenMaiden'': Any reflective surfaces - mirrors, glass windows, water puddles - can be used as portal gates to the N-Field; a DreamLand that reflects the subconscious minds of people and their desires and sorrows. The main cast use these surfaces to travel to and from the N-Field in order to resolve conflicts related to the [[ForeverWar Alice Game]].
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* ''ComicBook/TheFlash'': Mirror Master uses a RayGun that turns any reflective surface it hits into a portal to any other reflective surface. He can also enter into a world of reflections and do a whole bunch of other weird stuff with mirrors.
* ''ComicBook/{{Glory}}'': The titular heroine has an ability called "The Slip" which allows her to teleport using reflective surfaces, or as the narration of issue #0 puts it "where light casts the deepest shadow".
* ''ComicBook/TheInhumans'': The 1998 series featured Dewoz, an Inhuman made of [[ChromeChampion shiny material]] who can move through mirrors and other reflective surfaces.
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[[folder:Fan Works]]
* ''Fanfic/TheLandOfWhatMightHaveBeen'': The [[KnowledgeBroker Mistress of Mirrors]] can spy on her targets through mirrors and shadows. When she finally decides to remain NeutralNoLonger, this extends to transporting her allies and herself through mirrors, to the point that her secret hideout is only accessible through the reflection cast by an isolated lake.
* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12132374/ Six Pomegranate Seeds]]'': Hermione ''pretends'' to use the Mirror Road Charm to escape from Professor Snape's custody using a bathroom mirror. Her initial cast is only partially successful, marking the glass but not actually transporting her anywhere; still, it's enough to provide a plausible explanation and cover up the fact that Hogwarts' elves are helping her. She later learns to use the charm properly.
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[[folder:Film - Live-Action]]
* ''Film/DoctorStrangeInTheMultiverseOfMadness'': After being trapped in the mirror dimension, the Scarlet Witch breaks out by using her magic to teleport out into the reflections of Kamar-Taj. She pops in hands first, dragging some enemy wizards into the reflection and forcing her other enemies to try to cover up every puddle and surface to keep her from getting into the room. Unfortunately for them, she's too quick.
* ''Franchise/TheMatrix'':
** ''Film/TheMatrix'': When Neo first meets with Morpheus ''and'' the rest of the hackers, Morpheus offers Neo a way to see the truth of the Matrix: a red pill (which shows him how the reality of the system can be twisted to one's own ends) or a blue pill (which signifies one's desire to return to their own life). Neo chooses the red pill, and a mirror is brought before him. Touching the mirror causes it to warp and distort like mercury. Some of this material affixes to Neo's finger and begins to spread over his body. Meanwhile, the hackers are using a machine that will do... ''something'' (as of this point of the movie, for an unknown purpose). When the machine is activated, the mirror-like substance completely spreads over his body, and reality breaks down into a green wireframe and digital noise. Neo then is ejected from the Matrix and awakens in true reality, naked and inside of a pod with a pink mucus-like substance, but still attached to a large complex machine by a port on the back of his head.
** ''Film/TheMatrixResurrections'': Mirrors seem to be the main way to exit the Matrix now, given that time has passed, [[TechnologyMarchesOn and landline phones are no longer the norm]] (in our world, at least).
* ''Film/TheSorcerersApprentice'': One of the spells a wizard in this setting can use is turning reflective surfaces into a portal to an empty world that mirrors our own. This spell, called "the Hungarian Mirror Trap", is first used by the main hero to trap an enemy wizard mid-fight and is later used by that same villain to trap the heroes mid car chase, forcing them to find another reflective surface.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* ''Literature/JonathanStrangeAndMrNorrell'': Magicians can step through mirrors into a distorted otherworld that serves as an ExtradimensionalShortcut. As [[TheMagicComesBack magic is restored]], it becomes clear that these "King's Roads" have more entrances than mirrors and more exits than the physical world, like the LandOfFaerie.
* ''Literature/KeysToTheKingdom'': The Fifth Key takes the form of a small hand mirror that allows the user to teleport to any reflective surface, provided they've previously visited that location via conventional methods.
* ''Literature/{{Pact}}'':
** The demon Barbatorem can move between reflective surfaces such as glass, metal, and even one's eyes. It's advised that one should not look at it directly lest it enter their eyes and never leave.
** Rose Thorburn can move between mirrors at will.
* ''The Revolutions'' by Felix Gilman: The occultists who recruit Arthur and Josephine warn them to stay away from mirrors, as ?every mirror is an eye [?], every eye is a door? and ?evil influences? can pass through them. It?s unclear what they mean until Arthur inspects a business card left at his house by a rival magician, discovers that it has a shiny and reflective surface, and sees not only his own face in it but also said rival magician and three of his goons, who have [[MirrorScare suddenly manifested behind him]]. An unusual variant in that they didn?t physically come out of the mirror, it?s just a component of the spell that let them teleport to him.
* ''Literature/SpinningSilver'': When [[UnevenHybrid Irina]] wears the three pieces of [[SilverHasMysticPowers Staryk silver]], they {{amplif|ierArtifact}}y her latent magic enough for her to use any reflective surface as a portal between the human and [[LandOfFaerie Staryk]] worlds.
* ''Literature/StormFront'': While Harry's apartment is being described, it is noted that it has no mirrors [[MirrorMonster because a number of unpleasant creatures could use it to teleport straight into his apartment and kill him in his sleep.]]
* ''[[Creator/RobertAHeinlein The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag]]'': The evil Sons of the Bird have the ability to travel to other locations using mirrors to other places, both in reality and in dreams. Painting over a mirror prevents them from passing through it.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
** In "Recap/DoctorWhoS28E4TheGirlInTheFireplace", it is possible to teleport from a 51st century alien spaceship in another galaxy to 18th century France using reflective surfaces aboard the ship, and in the house.
** The "Siren" that haunts and kidnaps the pirates in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E3TheCurseOfTheBlackSpot The Curse of the Black Spot]]" seemingly appears wherever there is still water, but is later realized to be able to materialize wherever there is a sufficiently large reflective surface. The pirates' collection of treasure also qualifies.
* ''Series/TheFlash2014'':
** This show's version of Mirror Master is a metahuman with the ability to teleport through reflective surfaces and trap people inside such objects.
** Season 5 features a metahuman named Eva [=McCulloch=] who is a {{Gender Flip}}ed version of Evan [=McCulloch=], the second Mirror Master from the comics. Like Scudder, Eva was trapped in a mirror and gained reflective teleportation powers from the S.T.A.R. labs particle accelerator explosion.
* ''Series/{{Grimm}}'': In the final season, Eve is stalked by a skull face that appears in mirrors. First she and Nick see it together, and it just sort of glares creepily stares at them before disappearing. Next time, Eve is alone and is strangled by a demonic hand that comes out of the mirror. Later, Eve travels to another dimension using a mirror, and Nick follows to help her. This turns out to be a mistake, as it allows the series BigBad Zerstorer to follow them into our world.
* ''Series/KamenRiderRyuki[=/=]Series/KamenRiderDragonKnight'': The Mirror World/Ventara is an alternate dimension which can only be accessed by Kamen Riders through reflective surfaces.
* ''Series/PowerRangersSPD'': In "Reflection", Sky goes to interrogate Mirloc, a dangerous criminal who can travel through any reflective surface. The high-security prison cell he is held in takes extra precautions to keep anything reflective away, including covering SPD badges and giving visitors opaque sunglasses (since human eyes are themselves reflective). [[spoiler:However, when Mirloc asks for Sky to tell him his worst memory in exchange for his help with the VillainOfTheWeek, Sky's SingleTear gives Mirloc the opportunity to escape. Even worse? The memory was of Sky's dad's death, ''which Mirloc himself was responsible for''.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* ''TabletopGame/VampireTheRequiem'': [[MirrorMonster Red Jack]] [[DealWithTheDevil offers]] exclusive access to the non-standard, mirror-themed [[MagicByAnyOtherName Discipline]] of Ars Speculorum. Its capstone power lets the vampire step into one mirror and exit out another one in a matter of seconds -- unless they roll a CriticalFailure, in which case exiting isn't guaranteed.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Video Games]]
* ''Videogame/FallenLondon:'' All reflective surfaces can be used as portals to [[DreamWorld Parabola]] by those who know to use this ability. There is an entire science (Glasswork) dedicated to the study of this power, and one of the tricks experts can do (including the playe character in the second half of the game) is travel from one mirror to the other; long-distance crossings, espionage and even assassination are easily carried out using mirrors in the right places. This is one ''big'' reason Londoners are careful with mirrors; another reason is that humans aren't the only ones that can do this.
* ''VideoGame/LegoDCSupervillains'': Turning mirrors into portals is one of the rarest abilities. Once Raven or Mirror Master with this ability hit two of these mirrors with a projectile, any character can jump through one and teleport to the corresponding mirror. Puzzles using this ability generally rely on transporting the mirrors to somewhere Mirror Master can hit them or to an unreachable location you need to teleport to get to.
* ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion'': Scanning any mirror teleports you to the lobby. Even the mirror in the lobby itself.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/InfinityTrain'': In Book 2, it's shown that Agents Sieve and Mace, "mirror cops" from the Chrome Car, can emerge from any reflective surface, including water, while chasing and apprehending rogue reflections. As a precaution, M.T. carries around black spray-paint to use on shiny surfaces to ensure the two won't come for her.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': In "Yesterday's Lie", Luz enters an astral plane where she can summon cubes that allow her to look into the Human Realm through reflective surfaces there, with anyone present able to see her inside said surface. Near the end, she appears as a life-sized hologram of sorts when a car's headlights shine through a rainy night.
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