History Main / TeleportGun

* In ''ComicBook/DoomsdayClock'', Lex Luthor shoots the Comedian with a gun "negating the vibrational frequency" the brought him to the [=DC=] Universe, sending him back to the ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'' universe as he falls to his death at the beginning of the story.
* In one issue of ''ComicBook/LaffALympics'', Dread Baron acquires one of these guns from some extraterrestrial beings. He uses it to send various members of the Yogi Yahooeys and Scooby Doobies to distant places.

* In a ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'' storyline, Spidey teams up with the Jury to deal with Venom once and for all. Their plan is to appropriate an experimental teleporter - it disassembles the target perfectly well, but they haven't developed the receiver technology to re-assemble the target, effectively obliterating them, and that suits the Jury just fine. When Spidey realises their intentions are murder, he is not happy.
* Johnny's time bombs in ''ComicBook/StrontiumDog'' are grenades that send the target through time to a point where the world has moved and their freezing to death in space. A prequel story shows that the Kreelers had guns that did this.

* ''Franchise/XMen'': Blink has the mutant power to throw crystals that let her teleport whatever she hits with them, in addition to regular teleportation of herself. She often uses this offensively, either to teleport enemies into locations where they're no longer threats, or in some cases for [[PortalCut far]] [[{{Telefrag}} nastier]] effects when she feels the situation is bad enough to warrant it.

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* The Displacer from ''VideoGame/HalfLife1: Opposing Force''. It teleports its victims to the dimension Xen, and you can also use it on yourself in order to hop into Xen and find some resources there (as well as a convenient portal back to Earth.)

* In ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'', [[Film/DoctorStrange2016 Doctor Strange]] gives Spider-Man a magically modified web-shooter that teleports and villain he shoots to a cell in Strange's basement. This ends up creating a problem after he and [[spoiler:[[Film/SpiderMan3 Sandman]]]] team up to defeat [[spoiler:[[Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan2 Electro]]]]; once Spidey zaps away the latter, the former (not knowing what the device does) [[NotWhatItLooksLike assumed he just vaporized someone in cold blood]] and attempts to retaliate, forcing Spidey to teleport him to his own cell.

* ''Series/TimeTrax'': Darian Lambert is a cop from the future who has come back in time to retreive criminals who escaped from 2193. When he finds them he shoots them with a beam or a pellet gun disguised as a car alarm remote; the pellet or beam (DependingOnTheWriter) doses them with some {{Phlebotinum}} and sends a signal that the person is ready for transport. It's implied that anyone can be transported at any time. However, time travel is deadly to anyone who isn't dosed with TXP.

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* ''Manga/{{Gantz}}'': The "Y-Gun" traps its victims with an InescapableNet, then teleports them to an unknown location.

* DC Comics' Darkseid uses his Omega Beams in this fashion all the time. They can either disintegrate or teleport their target, and it looks identical in either case; he tends to teleport/imprison those he thinks he can use later.

* In one issue of ''ComicBook/LaffALympics'', Dread Baron acquires one of these guns from some extraterrestrial beings. He uses it to send various members of the Yogi Yahooeys and Scooby Doobies to distant places.
* In ''ComicBook/DoomsdayClock'', Lex Luthor shoots the Comedian with a gun "negating the vibrational frequency" the brought him to the [=DC=] Universe, sending him back to the ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'' universe as he falls to his death at the beginning of the story.
* Johnny's time bombs in ''ComicBook/StrontiumDog'' are grenades that send the target through time to a point where the world has moved and their freezing to death in space. A prequel story shows that the Kreelers had guns that did this.

* Andalite shredders and dracon beams work this way in ''Fanfic/AnimorphsTheReckoning,'' teleporting matter into Z-space and back thousands of times a second. The resulting friction causes matter to break down, essentially making making each weapon a DisintegratorRay.

[[folder:Films -- Animation]]

* The aliens in ''WesternAnimation/ChickenLittle'', which resemble the tripods from ''Film/WarOfTheWorlds2005'', appear to be using a similar DeathRay. Of course, because it's a G-rated movie, we later find out that it merely teleported the townsfolk to a holding cell.

[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* In ''Film/StarTrekInsurrection'', there were dart guns whose darts carried trackers for the transporter, allowing them to beam up anyone who was struck.

* The Hyper weapons from Creator/DavidWeber's ''Literature/EmpireFromTheAshes'' (second book) project a hyperspace field that surrounds a target and moves them into hyperspace ''and leaves them there''.

* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': In "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS7E4Gambit Gambit]]", Picard is supposedly vaporized by an EnergyWeapon beam in a bar fight. Turns out he was transported to a mercenary ship.

* A portal weapon features prominently in ''Series/StarTrekPicard'' Season 3.
** First used in "[[Recap/StarTrekPicardS3E01TheNextGeneration The Next Generation]]" underneath a building and causing it to reappear several hundred feet in the air. Even 25th Century buildings can't survive that, nor can what it lands on.
** "[[Recap/StarTrekPicardS3E03SeventeenSeconds Seventeen Seconds]]" reveals the weapon has been installed on Vadic's ship ''Shrike''. First, they use it to ensure that when the ''Titan'' tries to flee a nebula, it just comes right back in. Then when ''Titan'' opens fire with torpedoes, the portal catches them and spits them back at the ''Titan''.
* The Timer in ''Series/{{Sliders}}'' was more like a remote control than a gun, but it was occasionally used for this exact function on villains of the week, by the main characters opening up a surprise wormhole that sucked the villain away into another dimension, or possibly oblivion. Logan St. Clair (a villain who was meant to return but never did) met her fate this way.
* Several episodes of ''Series/EarthFinalConflict'' featured a black market device based on Taelon technology that was like a harpoon gun that deployed an interdimensional Gate for personal use. In this case, its purpose was providing the user with a teleportation mechanism.

* ''Series/SeaQuestDSV'': The holographic programmed defender of the alien ship encountered by the submarine crew in Season 1 had a bracelet-like weapon that dematerialized people into thin air. They could be rematerialized, if the user chose to do so, indicating this was a kind of teleportation system.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
** Jack Harkness carries a squareness gun that can disintegrate and reintegrate the objects he shoots with it.
** In the episode "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E12BadWolf Bad Wolf]]", it is revealed that [[spoiler:the losing contestants 'disintegrated' on the Game Station were actually teleported to the Dalek fleet to be broken down into raw materials with which to grow new Daleks.]]
** This is also the way [[spoiler:Missy]] survived apparent disintegration to return the following season.
** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E3Rosa Rosa]]", Krasko intends to use a temporal displacement weapon to send Rosa Parks into the future because he was given a neural inhibitor in prison that stops him killing people.
* In ''Series/StargateSG1'' they use a teleporter to beam a nuke aboard an enemy ship they were unable to hit with conventional munitions. Unsurprisingly, it was both very effective and soon blockable. It was however used again later on. Also used in Atlantis.

* The ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'' series: ''VideoGame/Portal1'' and ''VideoGame/Portal2'': The iconic [[https://theportalwiki.com/wiki/Handheld_Portal_Device Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device]] ("Portal Gun"), though the mechanics are slightly different: the gun shoots connected orange and blue portals but does not instantaneously teleport its target as the user themselves have to go through the portals. This helps create the bulk of the game's puzzle-solving. Aperture designed it as part of a contract to [[MadScientist make shower curtains for the army]], and after that fell through they couldn't think of any better use for it than [[MisappliedPhlebotinum constantly running it through meaningless tests]].
* ''VideoGame/PortalReloaded'': Uses this from the ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'' series its based on to be ThinkingUpPortals.
* This is an Inverted Trope in the game ''VideoGame/{{Xenosaga}}'' as most of KOS-MOS projectile weaponry, transports its ammo to the gun from huge stockpiles which is then fired.

* Viki is a RecurringCharacter in the ''VideoGame/{{Suikoden}}'' series, whose entire skill set is based on her Blink Rune, which allows her to teleport people and objects across great distances. From ''VideoGame/SuikodenII'', onward, she can be used as an active party member. In battle, she either: a) teleports random objects (including herself!) onto enemies heads, b) randomly teleports an enemy off the field, or c) randomly teleports a party member off the field. The last one is especially worrisome since there's a slim possibility she might [[spoiler: teleport the entire party away, leaving only herself!!]]
* ''Words Worth'': Maria may be a [[{{Expy}} homage]] to [[VideoGame/{{Suikoden}} Viki]], since she dresses in white, has blue hair, and has teleportation as her main offensive weapon. In both the game, and the anime adaptation, she blasts Astral twenty years into the future with her [[LightEmUp Mystral]] [[KameHameHadoken Window]] ability!
* ''VideoGame/UnrealTournament'' and its sequels feature the Translocator, a gun whose primary fire launches a beacon and secondary fire teleports the user to the beacon. [[SwissArmyGun It can also be used as a remote camera]], and can TeleFrag any enemies who are standing on the beacon.
* ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'' includes a teleport grenade explicitly modeled after the Translocator (see above) as part of Sombra's abilities.
* At one point in the Romulan storyline in ''VideoGame/StarTrekOnline'', you get handed an example of this trope (camouflaged as a Romulan disruptor, and designed so that the teleportation effect looks identical to such a disruptor's disintegration effect), as part of a on-the-spot rescue of a captured Starfleet officer (you arrange things so she 'tries to make a run for it'. She gets shot and teleported to safety, and your cover is protected).
* The [[Website/FourChan /tg/]] branch of ''VideoGame/SpaceStation13'', as well as others derived from it, features a stationary cannon known as "[[AnotherDimension Bluespace]] Artillery". The user may select a destination aboard the station, click the Fire button and create instant breaches and LudicrousGibs from a safe distance.
* In ''VideoGame/PhantasyStarOnline2'', the Chase Arrow Photon Art for the Bullet Bow weapon turns your bow into a strange inversion of this, as it functions more like ChekhovsGun as an attack. The user fires up to three arrows (one per cast) into the sky, which teleport out to places unknown. When an enemy is then attacked by one of your other Photon Arts, said arrows return from places unknown to deal additional damage to that target.

* Similar to ''Perry Rhodan'', ''VideoGame/FTLFasterThanLight'' also has teleporting bombs. Bombs are filled with all sorts of nasty surprises, like incendiary gel and hull-breaching charges, but never directly damage an enemy ship since they bypass the hull. They can still kill all enemy crewmembers indirectly. The Zoltan aliens have a special DeflectorShield that acts as a [[TeleportInterdiction teleport interdictor]], stopping teleported bombs (and boarding parties) from working.

* Breidablik, the unusual gun used by the summoner protagonist to invoke various warriors in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemHeroes''.

* A kind of inversion exists in ''Videogame/BlazBlue:'' Noel's MagiTek gun, Bolverk, can make its shots phase through barriers to hit the target behind them directly. It's usable in gameplay, with one of her special moves (Optic Barrel).

* ''VideoGame/StreetsOfRogue'' has warp grenades which teleport anything in their blast range unharmed to elsewhere on the level.
* ''VideoGame/{{Splitgate}}'' is a multiplayer first person shooter where every player has a portal gun similar to the ones in ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}''.

* Used in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'', where it was used to fake Mark Chang's death so he could escape from his Yandere alien princess bride.
* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' features a Teleport Gun invented by Farnsworth advertised in the back of comic books as a disintegrator. This detail becomes plot important later.

* Link's zapping sword in ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfZelda1989'' works like this when used against Ganon's creatures, teleporting them back to the giant "Evil Jar" in Ganon's lair. (When used against non-Ganon creatures, its [[EnergyWeapon ray-zap]] is just a painful sting.)
* ''WesternAnimation/FilmationsGhostbusters'' use "Dematerializers", which send ghosts back to the netherworld, temporarily.

* ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' has it's own iconic [[https://rickandmorty.fandom.com/wiki/Portal_Gun "Portal Gun"]] which is a constant between almost all Ricks (including our main one), it works almost similarly to [[VideoGame/{{Portal}} the other iconic Portal Gun]], although with very it's own unique twists. While it creates circular gateways, you can't see what's on the other side till you go through it and instead of needing to create two doorways yourself, you only need to make one, the other end just creates it's own gateway to the desired extradimensional location by itself.
-->'''Rick (C-137)'': You know the worst part about inventing teleportation? Suddenly, you're able to travel the whole galaxy, and the first thing you learn is, you're the last guy to invent teleportation

* Subverted in an episode of the ''WesternAnimation/AxeCop'' cartoon; Axe Cop zaps the two thieves who stole the sun with such a gun. Axe Cop's partner supposes they've been teleported to space jail, but Axe Cop bluntly corrects that, no, they've just been disintegrated and killed.

* Franchise/{{Superman}} has the Phantom Zone projector in ''WesternAnimation/HarleyQuinn'' though it's the portal gun variant this time. He can press a button on it to make the portal suck people in but luckily Poison Ivy is able to grab [[Franchise/WonderWoman Wonder Woman's]] truth lasso to prove they're not responsible for the plant monsters attacking Gotham and Shoes switches it off before they go through.

* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': the orks' Shokk Attack Gun works by teleporting snotlings through the Warp and into vehicles and PowerArmor. Their short trip through the warp makes them go completely insane, so when they arrive they swarm anything they can, essentially paralyzing or killing the unit.
** An early edition had several additional outcomes for the attack: the snotling winds up infesting a weapon or leg; the target is a veteran of these weapons, so when the snotling arrives he turns his head and takes a big bite; [[BodyHorror the snotling fuses with the target]]...

** And because it's an ork weapon, there are plenty of ways for it to go catastrophically wrong. Ranging from the snotling panicking and running the other way to the gun sending the ork ''firing'' the weapon at the target instead (comparing an ork to a snotling is like comparing a bull to a mouse), or simply the gun sucking everything around itself into the Warp.

* The aliens in ''WesternAnimation/ChickenLittle'', which resemble the tripods from ''Film/WarOfTheWorlds'', appear to be using a similar DeathRay. Of course, because it's a G-rated movie, we later find out that it merely teleported the townsfolk to a holding cell.

* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': "Gambit," Part 1- Picard is supposedly vaporized by an EnergyWeapon beam in a bar fight. Turns out he was transported to a mercenary ship.

** "Inter Arma Silent Leges"- We see a Romulan disruptor (disruptors being lethal and usually set to vaporize a target) used on a Section 31 Agent. Next scene, he's still alive (and gloating). Turns out that what he was transported to safety right before the weapon's beam hit him.
** Another episode featured a projectile rifle that was modified with a special scope and a microtransporter, enabling the user to fire bullets through walls, bulkheads and (presumably, though not confirmed) force fields at targets he could observe through solid walls. This meant the weapon could be used to kill anyone on the station, from anywhere on the station.

** The Vidiians, a SpeciesOfHats involved in OrganTheft, have a device that can not only do a detailed medical scan, it can instantly transport someone's internal organs out of their body. Neelix is shot by this device, loses his lungs, and only immediate transportation to Sickbay saves his life.
** In another episode, ''Voyager'' is attacked by pirates that use combination scanners/transporters to quickly locate and steal any valuables aboard the ships they raid. ''Voyager'' loses its computer core to the attack and the rest of the episode is spent getting it back.

[[folder:Theatre

Inversions and other Subversions, like guns that teleport bullets through walls to reach a target, or guns that teleport virtually endless ammunition from another location into their magazines, are worthy of mention. Subtrope of WeaponizedTeleportation. Sometimes used as a way of [[NeverSayDie averting the terms "kill" and "die"]], especially in more kid-friendly works. Compare with DimensionalCutter.

* Link's zapping sword in ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfZelda'' works like this when used against Ganon's creatures, teleporting them back to the giant "Evil Jar" in Ganon's lair. (When used against non-Ganon creatures, its [[EnergyWeapon ray-zap]] is just a painful sting.)

* In a ''Franchise/SpiderMan'' storyline, Spidey teams up with the Jury to deal with Venom once and for all. Their plan is to appropriate an experimental teleporter - it disassembles the target perfectly well, but they haven't developed the receiver technology to re-assemble the target, effectively obliterating them, and that suits the Jury just fine. When Spidey realises their intentions are murder, he is not happy.

* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'':

* In ''ComicBook/DoomsdayClock'', Lex Luthor shoots the Comedian with a gun "negating the vibrational frequency" the brought him to the [=DCU=], sending him back to the ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'' universe as he falls to his death at the beginning of the story.

* In ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'', [[Film/DoctorStrange2016 Doctor Strange]] gives him a magically modified web-shooter that teleports and villain he shoots to a cell in Strange's basement.

* In ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'', [[Film/DrStrange2016 Dr. Strange]] gives him a magically modified web-shooter that teleports and villain he shoots to a cell in Strange's basement.

* Millie and later Guy have Portal Guns in ''Film/FreeGuy'' similar to the ones from ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}''. Though Millie is able to open a portal to her base which is nowhere near by.

* The ''[[TabletopGame/{{Munchkin}} Star Munchkin]]'' card game has a card titled "Foof Gun". It gives a big bonus against enemies, but using it forfeits going up levels, since you don't kill them but teleport them away.

* In ''Manga/{{Gantz}}'', the "Y-Gun" traps its victims with an InescapableNet, then teleports them to an unknown location.

* X-Men member ComicBook/{{Blink}} has the mutant power to throw crystals that let her teleport whatever she hits with them, in addition to regular teleportation of herself. She often uses this offensively, either to teleport enemies into locations where they're no longer threats, or in some cases for [[PortalCut far]] [[{{Telefrag}} nastier]] effects when she feels the situation is bad enough to warrant it.

[[folder:FanWorks]]

* Millie and later Guy have Portal Guns in ''Film/FreeGuy'' similar to the ones from ''VideoGame {{Portal}}''. Though Millie is able to open a portal to her base which is nowhere near by.

* ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' has it's own iconic [[https://rickandmorty.fandom.com/wiki/Portal_Gun "Portal Hun"]] which is a constant between almost all Ricks (including our main one), it works almost similarly to [[VideoGame/{{Portal}} the other iconic Portal Gun]], although with very it's own unique twists. While it creates circular gateways, you can't see what's on the other side till you go through it and instead of needing to create two doorways yourself, you only need to make one, the other end just creates it's own gateway to the desired extradimensional location by itself.

** In the episode "Bad Wolf", it is revealed that [[spoiler:the losing contestants 'disintegrated' on the Game Station were actually teleported to the Dalek fleet to be broken down into raw materials with which to grow new Daleks.]]

* In the ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' episode [[Recap/JusticeLeagueS2E19And20Hereafter "Hereafter"]]. Toyman attacks Superman with a giant mecha styled after a toy that is armed with a DisintegratorRay. When Toyman successfully managed to hit the Man of Steel with it, many people thought it absolutely vaporized him. But unbeknownst to anyone, including Toyman himself. It just flung the Man of Tomorrow into the far far future. Vandal Savage (the last living human being on the Post Apocalyptic Earth), [[AchievementsInIgnorance snarks how Toyman had had effectively built]] the world's first ''weaponized'' time machine/teleporter.[[note]]or at least a tachyon particle beam[[/note]] And merely assumed it was a simple Disintegrator Ray.

* ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'': The iconic [[https://theportalwiki.com/wiki/Handheld_Portal_Device Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device]] ("Portal Gun"), though the mechanics are slightly different: the gun shoots connected orange and blue portals but does not instantaneously teleport its target as the user themselves have to go through the portals. This helps create the bulk of the game's puzzle-solving. Aperture designed it as part of a contract to [[MadScientist make shower curtains for the army]], and after that fell through they couldn't think of any better use for it than [[MisappliedPhlebotinum constantly running it through meaningless tests]].