History OffscreenTeleportation / Videogames

* [[SuperMarioBros Luigi]] in VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy2 takes this to somewhat extreme levels. He teleports from galaxy to galaxy when you aren't looking, and he doesn't have a spaceship of his own. He also reaches Starship Mario either this way, or he can [[InASingleBound jump even higher than he shows us]].
** In ''SuperMarioRPG'', [[GoldfishPoopGang Croco]] breaks into Bowser's Keep even with all access cut off. Toad makes it farther to the Final BossCorridor despite being captured every few minutes by low-level enemies in one of the first areas of the game.

** [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in the Wiiware/PC remake. The eye thing now stays where it is when you go across screens, and needs to catch up to you.

* Scorpion from the video game series ''MortalKombat'' can ''literally'' do this -- jumping off the screen in one direction, results in him instantly appearing, fist-first, from the ''other'' side of the screen.
** Scorpion is justified in that he is an [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot angry ninja ghost]]. However, most of the cast can teleport in MortalKombat2011.
* Chronos from ''OneMustFall2097'' has a similar power, with the in-game explanation being that it's a HumongousMecha designed for time-critical spaceship rescues.

* Used as part of a game mechanic in ''VideoGame/Left4Dead'' - the Infected team in Versus can spawn -anywhere-, as long as there's no Survivor within 10 feet and no Survivor has a line of sight to the spot. Also, if the Survivor team gets too far away, the Infected can Offscreen Teleport closer to their location.

* In ''MetalGearSolid3'', during your fight with The End, he can immediately appear right next to Snake if the player spends too long in first-person mode.

* Used by Flying Fox in ''HeavenlySword'', though he uses it on another villain and is played for laughs due to Bohan's confusion.

** ''VideoGame/{{F-Zero}}'' for the SNES provides a particularly blatant example of OffscreenTeleportation. If 2nd place is far enough behind you to be off screen (ie not by much), it will literally be just BehindTheBlack no matter what.

** [[spoiler:The ending and particuarly ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'' make it clear that he is some kind of [[MonsterSuit Alien in a Human Suit]] who does in fact have the ability to teleport between dimension. Either by a device in his briefcase or as a natural ability.]]
* There's an add-on for Garry's Mod called the "[[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial Harmless]] Companion Cube." Don't turn your back on it......
* How exactly do the villains in ''{{Pokemon}}'' get away when the game decides to turn the lights out?

* ''[[RedFaction Red Faction: Guerrilla]]'' - no matter how fast you drive between safehouses, Sam will be there to exchange salvage for goodies.

* The ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'' games do this with the police and other authorites once you get above a two-star warning level. Essentially, there is no hiding spot inconvenient enough that the authorities can't magically appear to shoot at you, even when it should be impossible for them to even know where you are. IE, if you run out of their line of their sight for a long time and are holed up in say a small shack, they will still spawn close to you just out of your LOS.

** Game past IV averted it somewhat with the HUD showing the cops line of sight. Still, you will often see a cop line of sight appear on your HUD in areas that it would make no logical sense for them to suddenly appear (any event triggered wanted level will do this as well).

* In the first episode of ''[[VideoGame/StrongBadsCoolGameForAttractivePeople Cool Game for Attractive People]]'', ''HomestarRuiner'', [[WebAnimation/HomestarRunner Homestar]] will move into Strong Bad's house and lament the three problems that have crept into his life. As he does so, there are effectively three Homestars at once, implying that he's teleporting around when Strong Bad isn't looking. This gets a reaction shot when Strong Bad first notices.

* Ran with in ''VideoGame/RainbowSix: Vegas'' with the terrorists. In some rooms, you can equip your Thermal Goggles and see a squad of terrorists appear out of thin air.
** Same with ''GhostRecon: Advanced Warfighter''.

* The AI in ''MarioKart'' can be like this at times...you ''just'' knocked Yoshi off of the road. Yet [[RubberBandAI there he is right behind you]].

* All Link's Animal Companions do this in The Legend Of Zelda series. In the 3D ones when calling your horse, Epona, the camera usually makes an effort to pan in the direction you couldn't see only for her to be there running towards you. She can't teleport to places she can's naturally reach however. Maybe she's just faster than she lets on.
* The bronze man of Kraven Manor moves about whenever you're not looking at it, and will try to strangle you if it gets close enough. [[spoiler: He eventually foregos any and all subtlety, and demonstrates the ability to move whether you look at him or not.]]

* Just like in the film it's based on, the game for ''TheEmperorsNewGroove'' lampshades this during the City and Catacomb levels, where Pacha appears at the beginning and end of each, despite Kuzco (the player character) having to do many difficult tasks to get to the same spot. Pacha explains that he just takes shortcuts, causing Kuzco to ask him to tell him about the shortcuts next time.
* Any Turtle not keeping up with the lead Turtle(s) in TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2013 in the FixedCamera will magically teleport next to you. This can lead to a bug where they WON'T due to you being in a tight space they can't fit, leaving you stuck and unable to move, or them not following you if they're blocked by a railing or other InsurmountableWaistHighFence but are still visible, leaving you unable to move forward until you go back to retrieve them.

* Any Turtle not keeping up with the lead Turtle(s) in TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2013 in the FixedCamera will magically teleport next to you. This can lead to a bug where they WON'T due to you being in a tight space they can't fit, leaving you stuck and unable to move, or them not following you if they're blocked by a railing or other InsurmountableWaistHighFence but are still visible, leaving you unable to move forward until you go back to retrieve them.

* In the epilogue "The Last Visit" from ''{{Scratches}}: The Director's Cut'', [[spoiler: Robin Blackwood]] somehow appears in the dead-end confines of the [[spoiler: bathroom]] while your back is turned.

* Any Turtle not keeping up with the lead Turtle(s) in TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2013 in the FixedCamera will magically teleport next to you. This can lead to a bug where they WON'T due to you being in a tight space they can't fit, leaving you stuck and unable to move, or them not following you if they're blocked by a railing or other InsurmountableWaistHighFence but are still visible, leaving you unable to move until you go back to retrieve them.

* Zacharie, the MetaGuy merchant in ''VideoGame/{{Off}}'', mentions when you meet him that "[he'll] always find [himself] in places you're going to visit before you arrive." In addition, in area 1 Zone 3, he says he'll race you to area 2, offering a free item if you beat him. When you arrive in area 2, he's already there, and mentions that you had no chance of success because it was scripted (but he gives you the item anyway).

* Zacharie, the MetaGuy merchant in ''VideoGame/{Off}'', mentions when you meet him that "[he'll] always find [himself] in places you're going to visit before you arrive." In addition, in area 1 Zone 3, he says he'll race you to area 2, offering a free item if you beat him. When you arrive in area 2, he's already there, and mentions that you had no chance of success because it was scripted (but he gives you the item anyway).

** Hey, be fair now, HouseoftheDead did it first!

** Scorpion is justified in that he is an ''[[NinjaPirateZombieRobot angry ninja ghost]].''
** Chronos from ''OneMustFall2097'' has a similar power, with the in-game explanation being that it's a HumongousMecha designed for time-critical spaceship rescues.
** Reimu has an ability very similar to this in ''Subterranean Animism'', the eleventh ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' game, when she has Yukari helping her. Minus the punching, since this is a [[ShootEmUps SHUMP]] and all that. This ability was later given to Yukari in a patch of ''Scarlet Weather Rhapsody''. Still minus the punching, since it's still a defensive tactic.

* Used as part of a game mechanic in ''Left4Dead'' - the Infected team in Versus can spawn -anywhere-, as long as there's no Survivor within 10 feet and no Survivor has a line of sight to the spot. Also, if the Survivor team gets too far away, the Infected can Offscreen Teleport closer to their location.

* In ''HalfLife'' this is the first major hint that the mysterious man in the suit is much more than just a regular [[TheMenInBlack Man In Black]] overseeing the military opperation at Black Mesa. He often is seen in the distance during firefights with aliens or soldiers, calmly going his way, often into rooms or side passages that turn out to be dead ends without any doors when you try to catch up with him.
** [[spoiler:The ending and particuarly the second game make it clear that he is some kind of [[MonsterSuit Alien in a Human Suit]] who does in fact have the ability to teleport between dimension. Either by a device in his briefcase or as a natural ability.]]

* The Luteces from ''Videogame/BioshockInfinite'' used this at first to pop in and out all over Columbia offering random choices and clues to Booker and Elizabeth, [[spoiler: until [[SchrodingersCat their true nature it's revealed]], when [[StealthHiBye they don't even bother waiting for you to turn your back before they just vanish into thin air]].]]

* Ran with in RainbowSix:Vegas with the terrorists. In some rooms, you can equip your Thermal Goggles and see a squad of terrorists appear out of thin air.

* The bronze man of Kraven Manor moves about whenever you're not looking at it, and will try to strangle you if it gets close enough.

** [[spoiler:The ending and particuarly the second game make it clear that he is some kind of [[MonsterSuit Alien in a Human Suit]] who does in fact have the ability to teleport between dimension. Either by a divice in his business suitcase or as a natural ability.]]