History Main / TeleportationWithDrawbacks

** There have been many different teleportation spells over the editions, "Teleport" tends to have no range limit but a random chance of a TeleporterAccident depending on how familiar the caster is with the destination. While "Dimension Door" is 100% accurate but limited to 500 feet.
** 5[[superscript:th]] Edition {{Nerf}}s the ''Teleport'' spell by raising it to a higher {{Spell Level|s}} and increasing the chance of failure (i.e.: going off-target or having a TeleporterAccident) to 25-75% unless the spellcaster has a SympatheticMagic connection or PortalNetwork coordinates to the destination.

* TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}: Has a teleport spell with even more drawbacks that it's D&D counterpart, including 10 minute casting time, up-casting required if you want to go further than 100 miles, precise knowledge of were you are going and its relative position to you required and a 1% targeting error that can leave you between a few metres and ''several hundred miles'' off target even when you manage to cast successfully.

* ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasy'': The Seafang ({{Literature/Wulfrik}}'s longship) can teleport anywhere and can lead other ships if they're chained to it, but doing so is extremely dangerous as this requires sailing through the Warp for some time and falling prey to the daemons that infest it. And unlike the starships of 40K, longships aren't enclosed, so every crewman is at risk.

* ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert3'': The Chronosphere can move vehicles in an area to another area (infantry not in APCs are instantly killed), but requires vision of both areas (unless, of course, used by TheAllSeeingAI). Teleporting land units into sea or vice versa (or onto a building) kills them instantly, so it can be used defensively as well as offensively.

* TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}: Has a teleport spell with even more drawbacks that it's D&D counterpart, including 10 minute casting time, upcasting required if you want to go further than 100 miles, precise knowledge of were you are going and its relative possition to you required and a 1% targeting error that can leave you between a few metres and ''several hundred miles'' of target even when you manage to cast succuesfully.

* ''Series/Ultraman'': The titular hero is shown to have the ability to teleport in order to quickly return to Earth from Venus. However, doing so drains energy from his color timer, [[HourOfPower lowering the amount of time he can fight on Earth to below his standard three-minute time limit]]. Hence, he only uses it on this one occasion.

-->-- '''The narrator''' of ''Series/{{Ultraman}}'', "[[Recap/UltramanEp16SciencePatrolToSpace SciencePatrolToSpace]]"

* [[Characters/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPowerGlimmer Glimmer]] from ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower'' has the ability to teleport and shoot sparkly blasts. She uses TeleportSpam as her main tactic while fighting, though as she must recharge every once in a while, her powers slowly deplete for every use, leaving her exhausted. Glimmer also cannot make long-range jumps without some kind of power boost, and carrying multiple people is taxing to the point of her becoming liable to leave limbs behind. However, after [[spoiler:claiming the full power of the Moon Stone, none of these tropes apply]].

** [[spoiler:When Luz steals Charlie's Quirk after killing him and awakens [[PoweParasite All For One]], Warping gets a PowerUp. So long as Luz knows the whereabouts of a specific person, she can either do one of two things - warp herself to them or warp them to her. This can also work through other Realms, but only with the condition that Luz has seen their face in person, and knows their current location.]]

* ''Fanfic/AllForLuz'': Charlie, a Wittebane assassin, has a Quirk is called "Warping" - the same one All For One used in canon - and it allows him to teleport individuals to and from his current location, even across State lines. However, it can only bring people and items to and away from Charlie, and in the case of the latter, only people Charlie knows personally. It can also cause severe tonsillitis to Charlie (which might explain why he never talks), and the OminousObsidianOoze produced from the teleportee's mouth [[EvilSmellsBad while using it is remarked to stink a lot]]. However, Charlie doesn't need to know anyone's ''exact'' location to use it.

* ''Fanfic/TheMountainAndTheWolf'': The Wolf's longship goes through the Warp and emerges back in realspace (though not necessarily the ''same'' world, this being a GOT/Warhammer crossover) and can pull other ships behind it. However, the ship is under attack by daemons the whole time.

* ''Franchise/XMen'':
** Nightcrawler is the X-Men's most well-known teleporter. However, he usually cannot teleport more than two miles, carrying passengers is tiring and gives TeleportationSickness for all travelers, but Nightcrawler's superhuman endurance mitigates it enough that he can use the sickness to attack people he snatches up. Also, teleporting to places he has not been to and cannot see bears the risk of TeleFrag.

** PSI Teleport requires that the user run in a straight line in order to gain enough speed to take off, making it impossible to use in enclosed spaces.
** ''VideoGame/EarthBound1994'': Subverted once PSI Teleport Beta is acquired, as the user only has to run in a circle which makes it far easier to use.