History Main / PortableHole

* [[https://youtu.be/7GeSWu7-UE0 This]] Apple Jacks commercial has Apple use one of these to slow down [=CinnaMon=]. [=CinnaMon=] lands on a subway and jumps through a grate in front of Apple to regain the lead and win.

* ''Homesteader Droopy'': In this Creator/TexAvery creation, the Wolf gets rid of an angry moose by getting it to charge into a barn, then shutting the door and removing it (from a now-blank wall), folding it up a dozen or so times, and casually flinging it over his shoulder -- where it hits the ground, rapidly unfolds and opens up, and the moose charges back out. The ''exact'' same joke was also used in an earlier Tex Avery cartoon, "Señor Droopy".

Portable Holes are functionally distinct from [[CoolGate teleportation portals]], but the two occasionally overlap, since teleportation portals are "holes" of a sort themselves (and OurWormholesAreDifferent). They are also related to [[BagOfHolding Bags of Holding]] and generally [[RealityBreakingParadox interact badly with them.]]

** A later episode involved Bugs Bunny causing a disaster at a Portable Hole ''factory'', ending with "liquefied" portable-hole [[RealityBreakingParadox swallowing up everything.]] Fortunately, Bugs happened to have a [[ResetButton spare Universe]] on his person [[CrazyPrepared just in case such such a thing would happen]].

* In ''Literature/DorothyAndTheWizardInOz'' the Braided Man was a manufacturer of holes: holes for Swiss cheese, holes for doughnuts, etc. This led to trouble when he made a lot of post holes, didn't know where to put them, and stacked them all up to store them... and then fell in.

-->'''Devil:''' Isn't it bad enough down there without ''her''?!

** WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadRunner occasionally played with this trope as well, though less often than with related tropes such as PaintedTunnelRealTrain.

* ''VideoGame/MultiDimensionalThief'', a text adventure, has a portable hole allowing you to pass through many walls, as well as the [[StairwayToHeaven ceiling]] and [[{{Hellevator}} floor]]. However, it's incompatible with a few surfaces...

* In the ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'' universe, [[http://marvel.wikia.com/Johnathon_Ohnn_%28Earth-616%29 "The Spot"]] had power over interdimensional portals, which he could place and remove as if they were solid objects.
* Doorman of the Great Lakes Avengers is a mutant whose power is essentially being a person-shaped portable hole. People are able to walk through him and past through the other side of any barrier he's laying against, hence his name.

* The children's story ''Whispering in the Wind'' by Creator/AlanMarshall has the characters participating in a TallTale competition. One of the tales involves a business cutting up disused mine shafts so they can be transported to the city to be sold as wells.

* In the children's story ''Whispering in the Wind'' by Creator/AlanMarshall, the protagonists have to participate in a TallTale competition, so one of them tells a tale about how he used to sell portable holes.

* The children's story ''Whispering in the Wind'' by Alan Marshall has a TallTale competition; one of the tales has a competitor discussing how he used to sell portable holes.

* The game credits of ''VideoGame/WarioWare: Smooth Moves'' has you moving one of these around to try and catch the developers' Miis.

* The game credits of ''VideoGame/WarioWare: Smooth Moves''.