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* At the end of the fourth arc of ''Podcast/TheFallenGods'', [[spoiler: Janna's foot]] gets cut off after they get shoved through a portal to another city. When Solvin tries to give it back through another portal (one which has been explicitly stated to be communications-only), [[soiler: it gets turned into platinum.]]

* In ''Literature/ConSentiency'', temporary portals are main transportation method, so these accidents happen, especially in hasty action (''Whipping Star'').

** At the end of the cold open of ''Film/ThorRagnarok'', Thor gets beamed up by the Bifrost just as a dragon is about to devour him. The dragon's head comes along for the ride, without the rest of the dragon, causing Skurge and the two women he's chatting up to get covered in its gunk.

* In Creator/VernorVinge's ''Literature/AcrossRealtime'' series, the "bobbles", spherical fields that place anyone and anything within in temporal stasis, cut through anything intersecting the field's boundary when they activate.

* In Creator/VernorVinge's ''Literature/ThePeaceWar'', the "bobbles", spherical fields that place anyone and anything within in temporal stasis, cut through anything intersecting the field's boundary when they activate. When Vandenberg Air Force Base was bobbled during the War, an aircraft was on the edge of the volume of effect and one wing was sliced off by the boundary. Later in the book, one of the protagonists is trying to escape a secret hideout before the villains bobble it, and ''nearly'' makes it; his friends, searching for him, find the tips of two of his fingers, the only part of him that was outside the bobble when it formed.

* In Creator/VernorVinge's ''Literature/AcrossRealtime'', the "bobbles", spherical fields that place anyone and anything within in temporal stasis, cut through anything intersecting the field's boundary when they activate. One scene in the latter book has a man in a bobble just long enough to be taken out of his house, which suffers quite a bit of damage - not from the bobble itself, but from the physical act of cutting it out of the house.

*** When Thor takes Jane to Asgard, the Bifröst clips the front end of a nearby police car. The bumper tumbles out the other end a few seconds before Thor and Jane arrive.

** At the end of the cold open of ''Film/ThorRagnarok'', Thor gets beamed up by the Bifrost just as a dragon is about to devour him. The dragon's head comes along for the ride, without the rest of the dragon.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Runescape}}'', This is the fate of one of the boss creatures in Dungeoneering. 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 surprisingly graphic death - The wall where the portal was gets rather bloodstained, and the monster flails then shudders to it's death. It would be almost sympathetic if the boss [[ThatOneBoss weren't so irritating]] due to a huge amount of FakeDifficulty.

* ''ComicBook/XMen'' villain Fitzroy [[spoiler: met his end this way, as he tried to head through one of his portals [[AGodAmI to merge with time itself]]. He got halfway in, but a shot from Bishop distracted him long enough that the other half didn't before it closed.]]

* In Creator/MercedesLackey's ''[[Literature/HeraldsOfValdemar Owl]]'' trilogy, the protagonist Darian loses his parents to WildMagic. Years later, he tracks down their campsite and finds a nearly-perfect granite sphere, with the buried bones of a foot pressed against it. Using the bones, he finds that the magic swapped his parents' campsite with a mountainside to the far north, with his father's foot outside the area of effect.

* ''[[Manga/{{Guyver}} Bio-Booster Armor Guyver]]:''

* This is the power of the Creator/MarvelComics mutant Blink. She (well, an AlternateUniverse version of her) later refines this into actual full-body teleportation. The [=AU=] version is quite capable of slicing up what she teleports too, but the mainstream Franchise/MarvelUniverse version could ''only'' do that because of her [[HowDoIShotWeb limited of control of her powers]].
* Another Marvel mutant, Locus (this one a villain) likes to do this, or at least threatens to do it a lot (not sure if she's ever done so "onscreen").

* [[spoiler: Superman]] kills [[spoiler: Mr. Mxyzptlk]] with the [[spoiler: Phantom Zone projector]] like this in ''ComicBook/WhateverHappenedToTheManOfTomorrow''. Normally the [[spoiler:Phantom Zone projector]] ''can't'' do this, but it was a special case since at the same time, [[spoiler:Mr. Mxyzptlk]] panics and tries to teleport away himself, so that half of him ends up in his own dimension and half in [[spoiler:the Phantom Zone]].
* Doctor Finitevus references this in [[ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics Sonic Universe]] series when a character jumps at him, only to be redirected by a portal created by Doctor Finitevus. While that character is going through, Doctor Finitevus "wonders" what would happen if the portal were closed while someone were in it.

* Later in ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', [[spoiler:Dirk]] purposefully sticks his own head in a microwave-sized sendificator, sending his head to the destination and leaving his decapitated corpse behind as part of his plan.

* Doctor Finitevus references this in [[ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehog Sonic Universe]] series when a character jumps at him, only to be redirected by a portal created by Doctor Finitevus. While that character is going through, Doctor Finitevus "wonders" what would happen if the portal were closed while someone were in it.

* ''Series/{{Primeval}}'' features this when an anomaly closes on the MonsterOfTheWeek and severs its head.

* ''WesternAnimation/GeneratorRex'' : Played literally with Breach, who can throw portals she creates vertically like round FuumaShuriken.

* ''[[WesternAnimation/GeneratorRex]]'' : Played literally with Breach, who can throw portals she creates vertically like round FuumaShuriken.

* ''[[WesternAnimation/GeneratorRex]]'': Played literally with Breach, who can throw portals she creates vertically like round FuumaShuriken.

** In the Big Finish audio ''Colditz'', one of the remaining antagonists manages to stop the TARDIS doors from fully closing as the Doctor starts to leave, but is unable to fully enter as it dematerializes and leaves his lower half behind.

* Two Contractors with different kinds of teleportation powers in ''Anime/DarkerThanBlack'' do this as an attack. The first could swap-teleport two objects, and would often switch an opponent's [[BeatStillMyHeart vital organs]] with some random object. The second could teleport things covered by [[BloodyMurder his blood]], so he would take a knife and fling bits of his blood all over people before teleporting the sections of their body the blood covers... somewhere else.

--> '''Husband:''' I'm gonna have to run out to the hardware store.

* Very specifically averted in ''Tabletopgame/{{Planescape}}'' with Sigil's numerous interdemensional portals, it's made explicit that if a portal closes when somebody is walking through it they just get shunted to one side or the other depending on how far through the portal they were when it closed.

* In ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'':

* In ''WesternAnimation/ThunderCats2011'', Grune is being sucked into AnotherDimension and grabs onto Panthro's arms, telling him pulling him out is the only way either can survive. Panthro decides to take his chances, and Grune is sucked in, taking both of Panthro's arms with him. For the sake of BloodlessCarnage, the ends of the arm stumps are glowing the same color as the portal but were still bandaged up afterwards as if they were bleeding.

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'' has Scrooge and the gang teleported to another dimension by a druid circle similar to Stonehenge during a game of golf. Launchpad and Huey are in a golf cart which is stuck between two of the stones at the time the portal (outlined by the stone circle) activates. The back half of the cart still outside the circle is severed and they spend most of the rest of the episode comically carrying around the front half as if nothing happened.

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* ''WesternAnimation/LegionOfSuperHeroes'' has an odd example. In "Brain Drain," an unstable transmatter gate nicknamed "Old Chompy" apparently has a tendency to not only short out, but to randomly switch destinations, sending Brainiac 5's [[LosingYourHead head to one planet and his body to another]]. Incidentally, the gates had a ''very'' strong resemblance to Franchise/{{Stargate|Verse}}s. However, in the Live Action TV section, you'll see that the real thing has safeguards that make it better at avoiding such things.

* This happens in ''WesternAnimation/ReBoot'' when one of Bob's time locked portals closed when a guardian ship was passing through it.

** A more serious (yet still bloodless) version happens in ''TheMovie'', when the protagonists escape from a Goozim by opening a portal to another dimension. The portal is too small for the Goozim to fall through, so as a result his limbs are cut off.

** In ''Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross'', this [[MassTeleportation is what happens to South Ataria Island and a good amount of the '' environment]]'' around it]]. The [[ImportedAlienPhlebotinum Fold Engines]] on the Macross generate a [[SphereOfDestruction spherical field]] around the ship, engulfing part of the island and neatly cutting it off the Earth. The other end of the Fold gate, on the orbit of Pluto, shows a perfect sphere of land, sea, air, clouds, ''and sunlight'', instants before dissipating.... which [[SpaceIsCold flash-freezes]] the teleported mass.