History Main / PortalCut

* This is what happens if you unplug a window while halfway through it in ''MSPaintAdventures''. It is the method of attack used to slay [[spoiler:Flthulu]].

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---> '''O'Neill''': "Give my regards to King Tut, asshole!"

** This also sorta/kinda happens to Frank Archer in the original anime who just happens to be standing on the border of the philosopher's stone's transmutation circle when it activates. The left half of his body is absorbed as material, though he inexplicably survives (in perhaps the anime's biggest WallBanger) and [[TwoFaced has it replaced with automail]].

** This also sorta/kinda happens to Frank Archer in the original anime who just happens to be standing on the border of the philosopher's stone's transmutation circle when it activates. The left half of his body is absorbed as material, though he inexplicably survives and [[TwoFaced has it replaced with automail]].

* This is the power of the MarvelComics mutant Blink. She (well, an AlternateUniverse version of her) later refines this into actual full-body teleportation.

* [[spoiler: Superman]] kills [[spoiler: Mr. Mxyzptlk]] with the [[spoiler: Phantom Zone projector]] like this in WhateverHappenedToTheManOfTomorrow.

* In ''The Tomorrow War'' setting by Alexander Zorich with the volume moved by an {{FTL}} drive is effectively limited (the cost becomes prohibitive), so big ships have to use several. When some malfunction causes them to activate ever so slightly out of sync, this doesn't end well.

* ForgottenRealms novel ''[[http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Elfshadow Elfshadow]]'' shows strike team trying to jump through opened portal while mage tries to move it into more defended location to prevent such attacks. For one of attackers, very messy death ensued.

* In The WheelOfTime series, gateways cause Portal Cuts when they open as well as when they close. This comes into play as a weapon in the "Deathgate" weave, in which gateways are sent zooming through the battlefield, rapidly opening and closing. It should be noted, however, that the chief purpose of Deathgates is not {{portal cut}}ting but rather just to send its targets [[PortalSplat to random locations]], as shadowspawn [[MagicAIsMagicA can't survive]] traveling through gateways.

** Also alluded to in ''StargateUniverse'' when one of the main characters (Eli Wallace) sticks his hand in the portal to hold it open for just long enough for the rest of the group to get through. From the look on his face and his hesitance to perform the act, he's clearly aware of what might happen if the safety feature does not work as intended. Jack O'Neill did the same thing at least once in Stargate SG-1.
*** Normal Stargates apparently have a built-in safety feature that the portal will not [[PortalCut close while a solid object is in transit]]. Earth's gate, however, was modified and partially reverse engineered. The usual control interface was missing when the gate was dug up, so scientists had to painstakingly reverse-engineer it just to activate the gate. This system is more buggy than the normal interface and often requires [[TimTaylorTechnology Tim Taylor methods]] just for normal use, but on the other hand it allows them to do things not featured in the manual like a Portal Cut (by killing the power), and their reverse-engineered dialing device is unaffected by a computer virus that disables normal gates. And as a safety feature, Stargate Command installed an iris over the gate, a metal screen so close to the wormhole's event horizon that it would prevent reintegration of matter that came through the gate; basically, it simulates a {{Portal Splat}} at very high speeds.

* In TheTwilightZone episode ''Little Girl Lost'', after pulling everyone out of the other dimension, a guy goes, "Another few seconds, and half of you would've been here, and the other half....."

* One possible ending for the Gallonigher levels in {{colony wars}} is for this to happen to a Navy Titan as you close the warp hole.

* In {{Runescape}}, This is the fate of one of the new boss creatures in the new skill. The boss, simply called Stomp, is a behemoth, much like the other ones... except for that it's too large to get through, so only its head sticks out of a portal... that calls down rocks in the fight. After the portal gets weakened several times, at the end of the fight the portal snaps shut, resulting in a suprisingly graphic death - The wall where the portal was gets [[{{Understatement}} rather bloodstained]], and the monster flails then shudders to it's death. It would be almost sympathetic if the boss [[ThatOneBoss wasn't so irritating]] due to a huge amount of FakeDifficulty.

* Occurs in ShinjiAndWarhammer40k during the fight against Leliel, when the opening to the Dirac sea closes on something, "cutting away at it with the universe's sharpest possible edge".

* This happens in ReBoot when one of Bob's time locked portals closed when a guardian ship was passing through it.
* In an episode of ''Johnny Test'', Bling Bling Boy's teleporter delivers him without one of his legs, causing him to fall over. This is only because that teleporter isn't quite perfected yet however; he explains to Johnny that the teleporter has done this before, and sure enough, the leg reappears a few seconds later.

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* In LEGO's ''{{Bionicle}}'' storyline, there is a particularly powerful mask (Kanohi Olmek) which grants the wearer the power to create portals to his own or other dimensions. This can be used as a sort-of teleport, but more than once a character has been stranded in an alternate universe and needed to find their way back. When Toa Takanuva got to a MirrorUniverse version of his home, he had to take the mask from the city's ruthless ruler, Toa Tuyet... who decided to wear the mask "just in case" when she realized they had a visitor who was looking for it. When she decided to venture to other dimensions and conquer them as well, Takanuva managed to rip the mask off her face and jump through the portal she had just created. While he was floating in inter-dimensional space, Tuyet grabbed his foot, unaware of the portal closing around her waist. She was sliced in half and died instantly. Luckily bio-mechanical robots can't bleed, or so WordOfGod states.

* In Bio-Booster Armor {{Guyver}}, the Zoalord Yentsui, who can cut holes in space and close them at will, uses this as his main offensive tactic,

* In LEGO's ''{{Bionicle}}'' storyline, there is a particularly powerful mask which grants the wearer the power to create portals to his own or other dimensions. This can be used as a sort-of teleport, but more than once a character has been stranded in an alternate universe and needed to find their way back. When Toa Takanuva got to a MirrorUniverse version of his home, he had to take the mask from the city's ruthless ruler, Toa Tuyet... who decided to wear the mask "just in case" when she realized they had a visitor who was looking for it. When she decided to venture to other dimensions and conquer them as well, Takanuva managed to rip the mask off her face and jump through the portal she had just created. While he was floating in inter-dimensional space, Tuyet grabbed his foot, unaware of the portal closing around her waist. She was sliced in half and died instantly. Luckily bio-mechanical robots can't bleed, or so WordOfGod states.

* This is referred to as "splinching" in ''HarryPotter'', and it is caused by a lack of concentration on the entire object to be [[strike:teleported]] apparated (most often, oneself).

* In {{Runescape}}, This is the fate of one of the new boss creatures in the new skill. The boss, simply called Stomp, is a large worm-like creature coming through a portal that calls down rocks in the fight. After the portal gets weakened several times, at the end of the fight the portal snaps shut, resulting in a suprisingly graphic death - The wall where the portal was gets [[{{Understatement}} rather bloodstained]], and the monster flails then shudders to it's death. It would be almost sympathetic if the boss [[ThatOneBoss wasn't so irritating]] due to a huge amount of FakeDifficulty.

* A man in ''[[SixSixSixSatan 666 Satan]]'' has an O-Part that's two rings which can become portals between each other, and he can close the portal while something is going through to cut it apart (he does this to Jio's boomerang).

* A man in ''[[SixSixSixSatan 666 Satan]]'' has an O-Part that's two ring which can become portals between each other, and he can close the portal while something is going through to cut it apart (he does this to Jio's boomerang).