Line #22 Main/TeleportationTropes


1	->''Whenever he used the transporter it felt like every subatomic particle in his body was violating Heisenburg's Principle of Uncertainty.''
2	-->-- '''Farce Contact''', a ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' ParodyFic
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4	Tropes about portals, teleporters, and transporters. See also FasterThanLightIndex and TimeTravelTropes.
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8	!!Tropes:
9	[[index]]
10	* '''{{Teleportation}}''' (main topic)
11	* AlternateSelf: Sometimes caused by a TeleporterAccident.
12	* AnchoredTeleportation: Teleportation that requires the presence of a specific person or object at the intended destination to work.
13	* ArtisticLicensePhysics: There are often a lot of AcceptableBreaksFromReality involved in teleporting in fiction, when compared to reality, where non-[[UsefulNotes/QuantumPhysics quantum-sized]] objects can't.
14	** ''Rotational physics'': It's a given that with most teleportation stories that "whatever is 'down' is always 'down'", so teleporting to another location won't leave you at an angle to floor[-/-]ground -- for example, when teleporting to the exact opposite side of the Earth, the character won't usually end up upside down and thus falling or standing on their head.
15	** ''The Conservation of Momentum'': Everything in the universe is moving relative to everything else -- spaceships, planets, everything. For example, the surface of the earth is revolving at a different rate at each latitude, meaning a character would have to compensate for speed the farther location north or south they teleported to.
16	* BlindJump: When "here" is so dangerous that you don't care where you end up.
17	* BodyUploading: Teleporting bodies and other physical things into computer systems.
18	* {{Butlerspace}}: A servant suddenly appears out of nowhere when needed. May or may not be literal teleportation, but the effect is the same.
19	* CoolGate: A structure in a fixed location generating a portal that is walked through.
20	** PortalPool: A magical teleporter made of water.
21	** PortalDoor: A door that leads to someplace non-adjacent.
22	* CrackInTheSky: A damaged point in reality that can serve as a gateway to other places.
23	* DestructiveTeleportation: When "teleportation" involves destroying the origin in some way. It comes in {{Twinmaker}} and OneToMillionToOne forms.
24	* DimensionalCutter: Bladed weapons can create portals by cutting.
25	* ExtradimensionalEmergencyExit: A character avoids a crisis by escaping into another dimension.
26	* ExtradimensionalShortcut: When direct teleportation is not possible.
27	* FightingAcrossTimeAndSpace: Characters fight or chase each other while teleporting across different locations.
28	* FlashStep: SuperSpeed that acts as teleportation.
29	* FlashyTeleportation: Teleportation with effects.
30	* {{Hellgate}}: A portal to somewhere awful.
31	* InconvenientSummons: Someone being teleported against their will and without notice.
32	* MagicMirror: One of its many possible uses is a portal gateway.
33	* MassTeleportation: A large area or group of people are teleported together.
34	* MentalSpaceTravel: Uploading one's brain to a body at the destination.
35	* MultistageTeleport: Teleporting short distances over and over to achieve long-distance travel.
36	* NinjaLog: Ninjas teleporting away from attacks and replacing themselves, and presumably basically SwapTeleportation, with a log.
37	* NoFlowPortal: Portals are strangely selective about what goes through.
38	* NoWarpingZone: An area where teleporting is impossible or at least too dangerous.
39	* OffscreenTeleportation: Characters get from point A to point B impossibly fast when the camera isn't looking.
40	* OneToMillionToOne: A person shattering into pieces or animals or other objects which may go elsewhere before reforming.
41	* PortalBook: A book that teleports people.
42	* PortalCrossroadWorld: A location with a particularly high concentration of portals.
43	* PortalEndpointResemblance: The area around a portal looks like the destination it takes you to.
44	* PortalNetwork: A series of linked teleporters.
45	* PortalPicture: A painting that teleports people.
46	* PsychicTeleportation: When it's one of the PsychicPowers.
47	* RandomTransportation: When the teleportation is random.
48	* ReflectiveTeleportation: Teleporting through reflective surfaces.
49	* ResurrectionTeleportation: A dying/dead character uses teleportation to return to life.
50	* ShadowWalker: A character who teleports via shadows.
51	* SpinningOutOfHere: Teleportation involves spinning.
52	* StealthyTeleportation: Teleportation where the only effect is disappearance and reappearance of something.
53	* SubspaceOrHyperspace
54	* SummonMagic: A character teleports another being to his place to aid him.
55	* SwapTeleportation: Teleporting by switching places with something.
56	* TelephoneTeleport: Telephones used as teleportation devices.
57	* TeleportationMisfire: Being sent to the wrong place.
58	* TeleportationRescue: Someone who was in trouble gets teleported to safety by a third party.
59	* TeleportationSickness: Being teleported is rough on the participants.
60	* TeleportationWithDrawbacks: Limitations placed on teleportation.
61	* TeleporterAccident: Something...''bad''...happens in the process of teleportation.
62	** PortalSlam: Running into a teleporter only to discover that it is no longer there.
63	** PortalCut: Teleporting only part of an object.
64	** TeleFrag: Death by teleporting into another object.
65	* TeleportersVisualizationClause: Teleportation targets are limited to places the teleporter can clearly visualize.
66	* TeleportCloak
67	* TeleportGun
68	* TeleportInterdiction: Security measures to limit who can teleport and/or where they can go.
69	* TeleportSpam
70	* TelevisionPortal: Television screens as portals to somewhere else.
71	* ThinkingUpPortals: When you can create portals by yourself.
72	* TimeAndRelativeDimensionsInSpace: When TimeTravel can lead to a change in location, or, if the location doesn't change, then possibility of location change is at least acknowledged.
73	* ToiletTeleportation: A character travels by going down a toilet, usually ending up at their destination via a point in the plumbing system.
74	* TravelToProjectile: When a character warps to the location of where their projectile makes contact with something.
75	* {{Twinmaker}}: A teleporter that makes a clone somewhere else and destroys the original.
76	* VillainTeleportation: Villains are more likely to have better or exclusive access to teleporting than the heroes.
77	* WarpWhistle
78	* WarpZone: When there is a specific hub that sends you places.
79	* WeaponizedTeleportation: Using {{Teleportation}} to kill or incapacitate, and weapon-like teleportation devices.
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