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* ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'': The superhero Dean Gate/Doorman from the "Miraculous New York" special has the power to turn any door into a portal that connects to other doors.

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* ''Film/{{Beetlejuice}}''. Following the instructions in a book, the ghostly protagonists use chalk to draw a door on a wall, open it and walk through it into the afterlife bureaucracy.

* The Rift from ''Film/PacificRim''.
* Blink from ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'' has the mutant power to create these at will.

* ''Film/WarCraft2016'' has the appropriately-named Portal, which is a gate through which MassTeleportation can be conducted.
* ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet3DreamWarriors'': Nancy and the teenagers are ready to confront Freddy Krueger when a floating door appears in front of them. There's nothing behind it, but the door itself is a portal to Freddy's hell-like lair.
* ''Film/FromBeyondTheGrave'': In "The Door", he door begins to exert a strange fascination over Seaton, and he finds that when he finally opens it, a mysterious blue room lies beyond. There, he finds the notes of Sir Michael Sinclair, an evil occultist who created the door as a means to trap those who entered through it, so that Sinclair can take their souls and live forever.

* Done in ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'' with the doors that serve as portals from the monsters' office building to the bedrooms of children they're supposed to scare.

* Creator/AAPessimal's ''Franchise/{{Discworld}}'' and ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' crossover ''Fanfic/TheManyWorldsInterpretation'' has a scenario where, after contact is established between Unseen University of Ankh-Morpork and a fellow institution called Caltech in Pasadena, a theoretical physicist called Doctor Sheldon Cooper re-opens such a portal door between the two colleges. HilarityEnsues.
* In the ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''/''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'' crossover ''Fanfic/TheVampireOfSteel'' a group of vampires opens a dimensional rift on top of the Sears Tower to summon M'Nagaleh, an otherwordly cosmic horror.
-->An aperture was opening in the very air above them, and something was tumbling out.
* In ''Fanfic/RWBYDestinyOfRemnant'':
** Salem was shown to have this ability, and so does Raven at times.
** In Chapter 51, Argentius and Ruby travel throughout the different places within the mindscape through portals.
** Jaune and Pyrrha, being the current Guardians of the Aura Crystal, travel around the mindscape within the Crystal by using portals as well.
* In FusionFic ''Fanfic/AManOfIron'', a portal suddenly appears in Winterfell's crypt... and swallows Rickon in.
* In ''Fanfic/HellsisterTrilogy'', [[ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes Legionnaires]] ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} and Colossal Boy use a dimensional gate to travel to Hell and back to Reality.
* Lampshaded by Martha Kent in ''Fanfic/SorrowfulAndImmaculateHearts'' when ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'', ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' and ''Franchise/WonderWoman'' use one to go back in time.
-->'''Wonder Woman:''' Clark, we need to leave soon—before the portal closes.\\
'''Martha:''' There's a portal?\\
'''Batman:''' There usually is.
* In crossover ''Fanfic/TheInstituteSaga'', a dimensional portal is developed with the aid of Asgard and used to link the two realms as well as several Super-team bases.
* ''Fanfic/ACertainMagicalFriendship'': A hole in the ground, where falling into it takes people into another world, is what changes the story, from it's source works.

* ''Fanfic/WeirdIncidentShit'' has a portal window stuck on Webcomic/ProblemSleuth's door. It leads to [[Videogame/{{Touhou}} Gensokyo]].
* In the MagicalGirl CrisisCrossover ''FanFic/ShatteredSkiesTheMorningLights'', [[MysteriousWaif the Stranger]] uses these to take survivors of the five magical girl universes to [[InnBetweenTheWorlds the Lighthouse]], a PlaceBeyondTime designed as a sanctuary [[spoiler:(and a fallout shelter)]] for those who have lost their worlds.

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* ''Fanfic/ACrownOfStars'': Several portal doors leading to other dimensions show up as soon as the first chapter when Daniel opens one inside Shinji and Asuka's tent to pick them up and take them to Avalon. During their stay in Avalon, both teenagers found out that magic and technology capable to create or build inter-dimensional gates or time doors are commomnplace. Also, bad things happen when a portal [[spoiler:collapses, leaving the main characters cut off and stuck on other dimension.]]
-->''Asuka’s rest did not last long undisturbed. Shinji was just rising from replacing his cello in its padded trunk when the sun rose in their tent.''\\
''Shinji whirled around. “What?” He blinked his eyes repeatedly against the sudden blaze of gold. A perfect seven-foot circle of seeming daylight stood on the far side of the tent, filling the tent with noontime brightness. Shading his eyes with his hand allowed Shinji a slightly better look at it. Almost too bright to look at directly, it seemed for all the world like a floodlit pool stood on its side. Shinji had only a moment to stare in confusion when the light dimmed as a man stepped out of it. This did not diminish his puzzlement.''\\
''“Pilot Ikari Shinji-san?” The man inquired in Japanese.''\\
''“Third, what’s th---” Asuka blinked awake in her suddenly brightly lit sleeping bag, then bolted upright. “Who the hell are you?! What is that?”''\\
''“Fräulein Pilot Asuka Langley Sohryu? I’m sorry to interrupt your rest, but this is the earliest I could arrive.” Shinji still could hardly see the backlit figure, just a caped silhouette. The figure noted his squint. “Ah, my apologies for the brightness of the portal. Rather a large energy differential between here and home. Let me get that.” He snapped his fingers and the glowing mini-sun shrank to a point and vanished. The near-daylight illumination dropped to just the solitary camp lantern hanging at the tent’s entryway.''

* Several of these appear in ''[[FanFic/SonicGenerationsFriendshipIsTimeless Adventures on the Friendship Express]]'' in the form of mirrors. Events and worlds shown on these mirrors include the ones from ''VideoGame/Sonic3AndKnuckles'', ''VideoGame/SonicSpinball'', ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyAndFriends'', ''VideoGame/SonicLostWorld'', ''VideoGame/SonicBoom'' and ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls''.

* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'':
** The Gate To Hell.
** The senkaimon (a gate that looked like a big sliding door) that Soul Reapers could create to travel from the world of the living to the Soul Society (Captain Kuchiki uses one early in the series to return himself, Rukia and Renji).

* One of ''Anime/{{Doraemon}}'''s recurring [[MacGuffin tools]] is the "Anywhere Door", which when walked through brings you to any location you tell it, as long as you made sure you [[LiteralGenie worded your request carefully]].

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* The ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh'' [[CardGames TCG]] happens to have multiple takes on this, including 'Different Dimension Gate', 'Monster Gate', and even a card meant to restrict attacks, "The Dark Door", which takes the form of a CoolGate (or at least [[NightmareFuel a door out of a very freakish universe]]).

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* ''ComicBook/TheAuthority'' can call [[CoolStarship The Carrier]] for a Door to anywhere in the world, or back to the Carrier, and at least once to parallel universes.
* Dimensional portals show up quite frequently in ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'' stories:
** In ''ComicBook/DemonSpawn'', villainous sorceress Nightflame opens a dimensional rift to travel from her universe to the physical world.
--->Suddenly, it appears — hanging in mid-air... Here, on a street in San Francisco... Shimmering, crackling and growing... a crack, a rip in the very fabric of the universe! And out of it comes a figure... humanoid, yet huge... an Amazon... brandishing a fiery sword!
** ''Comicbook/TheSupergirlFromKrypton'': Supergirl's rescue party use a mother box to reach Apokolips, and later Superman uses another to go from the Sun to the Wall Source.
** In ''[[ComicBook/Supergirl1972 Supergirl (Volume 1)]]'' issue #5 a villain uses a dimensional gate resembling a normal door to drag the Girl of Steel in another dimension.
** In ''[[ComicBook/Supergirl2005 Good-Looking Corpse]]'', a group of villains use portals to find and harass heroes.
** In the beginning of ''ComicBook/SupergirlCosmicAdventuresInThe8thGrade'''s GrandFinale, a glowing space-time vortex opens in Linda and Lena's dorm, and an alternate Supergirl flies out of it.
* In Franchise/{{Superman}} storyline ''Comicbook/KryptoniteNevermore'', [[AlternateDimension Quarrm]]'s life-forms slip in Earth through several translucent "holes" in the air.
* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'': Though just what dimension or pocket dimension Paradise Island/Themyscira is in has always been subject to the whims of the writers the place has consitantly been host to and guardian of Doom's Doorway, a rift which leads to the outer realms of Hades and the Underworld, ever since the [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1987 Post-Crisis Reboot]].
* Marvel's "Fallen Angels" series introduced Ariel, an alien with the ability to open a portal through any door to any other door she wants. According to her, her entire planet is capable of doing this, achieving it through knowledge of spatial physics. An accident with an explosion mid-transit gave her the ability to open a flaming doorway in midair at will.
* ''ComicBook/TheMightyThor'': In ''ComicBook/TheSurturSaga'', capturing the warp-gate assembled by the Fire Demons at New York City became crucial for Asgardian and Earth forces in stopping the invasion of the Fire Demons, as it allows them to reach the Sahara Desert, where an even BIGGER warp-gate linking directly to Muspelheim is located and allows the endless Fire Demon hordes to pour forth.
* ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'': In ''ComicBook/TheGreatDarknessSaga'', the [[ComicBook/{{Darkseid}} Master of Darkness]] creates space warps to move his minions through the galaxy. They come to life in midair, and stars and barren planets can be seen on the other side of the rift.
* ''ComicBook/{{Touch}}'': Levon Carlisle approaches Cooper and tires to get him to fight corporations together in a magical fashion. When Cooper refuses, Levon uses his powers to make a portal in the wall which he steps through, then it vanishes.
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* ''Comicbook/NewGods'': One of mother box's powers is open spatial portals named "Boom Tubes" leading to any place in the universe. The "science" of boom tubes has never been explained (as is normal for the New Gods, though Orion, in the first issue, says that a tube "stems from the waves of the mind") but they allow people to quickly travel interstellar distances, and between dimensions, by creating an apparent tube between two points through which people can travel.

* ''Webcomic/AwfulHospital'': The "out of order" door that leads to [[spoiler: The Abyss]].

* In ''Webcomic/IrregularWebcomic'' there is a teleportation gate connecting the sister villages of Footcrag and Cragfoot, on opposite sides of the nigh-impassable Orcrift Mountains. [[http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/1880.html As explained here]].

* In ''Webcomic/NoRestForTheWicked'', it's surrounded by CreepyCrows, [[http://www.forthewicked.net/archive/04-10.html it has to be dug up]], it's [[http://www.forthewicked.net/archive/04-47.html an ordinary door—flat in the ground]]; and [[http://www.forthewicked.net/archive/04-49.html when they open it]], [[http://www.forthewicked.net/archive/04-50.html it draws November and Clare in]].

* This is how Merlin's time machine appears in ''Webcomic/ArthurKingOfTimeAndSpace''; a heavy wooden door in the nearest available wall.
-->'''Mordred''': Sire, the other side of that wall is the exterior hull of the ship and open space. Where did that door lead to?\\
'''Arthur''': Everywhere.

** In ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' these windows return and work the same way they do in Problem Sleuth. The only difference is that the path from one window to another involves a shortcut through [[PlaceBeyondTime the Furthest Ring]].
* ''Webcomic/AwfulHospital'': The "out of order" door that leads to [[spoiler: The Abyss]].
* The picket gate that lets Nadia into Inbetween in ''Webcomic/{{Kukuburi}}''. [[spoiler: Also, some hats.]]

* In ''Script/AHDotComTheSeries'', it is revealed that all the "[=PERSONNEL ONLY=]" doors in bars connect to Ian's bar in the Hub.

* In ''Franchise/SpyroTheDragon'', archways are how Spyro gets from a homeworld to one of its levels. Spyro exits through them after reaching an exit platform.
* ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' has lots of them. Most notably the door to the heart of all worlds. It's a game in which the main character wields [[ImprobableWeaponUser a gigantic key]]. Doors tend to be prominent.
* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'' features accessing The Temple of Time through a door with a black-and-white entry. [[FridgeLogic This is extremely out-of-place]], because the only other time the black-and-white happens in the series is in ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker The Wind Waker]]'' when [[ItMakesSenseInContext initially traveling to Hyrule]].
* ''VideoGame/StarOceanTillTheEndOfTime'' features the main hero Fayt Leingod's high level move, Dimension Door. This attack not only allows the player to teleport behind the enemy and strike, but holding the attack button can damage and potentially stun opponents.
* The room doors in ''VideoGame/SilentHill2'''s nightmare hotel.
* ''Videogame/{{Portal}}'' and ''Videogame/{{Portal 2}}'' give you a gun that makes these. Pretty much the whole premise of the games.
** Portal 2 maps can also include "world portals", which work just like the portals you use but are placed within the map and can be any size. These were used in the game to create a BiggerOnTheInside scenario.
* ''VideoGame/{{Antichamber}}'' has various variations of this, usually entire hallways that connect in strange ways.
* ''VideoGame/Persona3 FES'' during "The Answer" there is a door in the dorm which opens to what ever they truly need/desire at that time. so for most of the game it opens to the mall because they needed supplies [[spoiler:but later in the game they use it to travel to the moment when the SilentProtagonist makes his HeroicSacrifice so that they can understand it and hopefully come to terms with it.]]
* ''VideoGame/TheMatrixPathOfNeo'' has this as a main component of a TheThreeTrials, AnotherDimension, {{Bizarrchitecture}} maze, the key is finding the right doors to escape from it.
* ''VideoGame/{{Scribblenauts}}'' has a portal as an object you can create. You can't go in it, although seconds after you create it, it will disintegrate and release a random monster.
* ''VideoGame/MysteryOfMortlakeMansion'' has several small doors hidden all over the real-world mansion, each requiring a specifically-coloured crystal to unlock. Once unlocked, a colour/sequence/shape-matching puzzle must be completed in order to open a SwirlyEnergyThingy leading to the "shadowy" version of the room in which the door is found. The shadowy mansion in ''VideoGame/MysteryOfMortlakeMansion'' has the same rooms as the real-world one, but connected differently (and illogically), resulting in several isolated groups of rooms which are not accessible from each other. Travelling from one group of rooms to another can only be done by returning to the real world and using another PortalDoor.
* The Dark Portal in the ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}}'' franchise that was created by Medivh is used to connect Azeroth to Draenor.
** In ''VideoGame/HeroesOfTheStorm'', Medivh gains the ability to create two-way portals for several seconds, which he and his team can go back and forth while the portal lasts.
* In ''VideoGame/GemsOfWar'', the jewel that Tyri spends her quest looking for turns out to be on the other side of one — and it's the anchor for that portal, meaning that taking it will collapse the portal and leave the taker trapped.
* The Conduit from ''VideoGame/NexusClash'' is a RealityWarper specializing in creating portals. Early dabbling with Conduit powers is limited to cleaving portals only from a PlaceOfPower, but more powerful Conduits can connect portals to and from ''anywhere''.
* ''VideoGame/KyleAndLucyWonderworld'': The main characters fell through a portal into a MagicalLand at the start of the game. Portals are also used to enter and exit stages.
* Psycho-Portals in ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}'' are small, door-shaped objects that, when attached to someone's head, allows psychics to enter their MentalWorld.

* ''VideoGame/DistortedTravesty 3'' is structured around six 'gates' and eight 'nightmare gates' which take you into various video game worlds. Such as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9mD5Gq5m4A&index=22&list=PLSQLREUw9vwlhzS9yaZ0PTWL7w2IwkcET Castlevania]], The [[https://youtu.be/DlOV0u2Fd9Q?t=26m28s Legend of Zelda]], and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9RiPCbYQ8U&index=2&list=PLSQLREUw9vwlhzS9yaZ0PTWL7w2IwkcET Mario]], just to name a few.
* ''Franchise/{{Disgaea}}'s'' dimensional gates warps the user to the selected location.

* The ''VideoGame/BigFunInFurbyland'' minigame ''In the Clouds'' features floating, gem-encrusted doors that will teleport the flying Toys/{{Furby}} into a pocket dimension filled with gems and jewels.

* ''ComicBook/{{Touch}}'': Levon Carlisle approaches Cooper and tires to get him to fight corporations together in a magical fashion. When Cooper refuses, Levon uses his powers to make a portal in the wall which eh steps through, then it vanishes.

* In ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' series, the [[TheOrder Psijic Order]], a powerful MagicalSociety and the oldest monastic order in Tamriel, has the "Dreaming Cave" on their home island of Artaeum. The Dreaming Cave is a portal to Oblivion and allows for communicating with the [[OurGodsAreDifferent Daedric Princes]].

* ''TabletopGame/{{Planescape}}'' has Sigil, the City of Doors, which is pretty much made of this trope, though all "bounded spaces" can be portals, so not all the portals in Sigil are actual doors.

* The entrance to the Crystal Temple in ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' is a [[RealFakeDoor normally-featureless door]] that is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GqFaNQL3KA magically augmented]] by the Gems to open up to any room in the temple.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In a WesternAnimation/TreehouseOfHorror episode Homer finds a portal to the "third dimension" behind the bookcase.
-->''That's weird, it's like something out of [[Series/TheTwilightZone that twilighty show about that zone]].''
* The title character of ''Mot'' has the power to turn any door into a PortalDoor that leads to any other door he chooses.
* The entrance to the Crystal Temple in ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' is a [[RealFakeDoor normally-featureless door]] that is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GqFaNQL3KA magically augmented]] by the Gems to open up to any room in the temple.
* The "Doors" series of animations ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Tr5rDR4RVs 1]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSfKusgaEDU 2]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nxtWm5c3Qc 3]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9m1EEs1Wrs 4]]) features a long series of these as a framing device for a collaborative animation, wherein the black protagonist must overcome whatever each particular animator chooses to be their obstacle to reach the door to the next stretch of his journey. Ranging from elaborate fight sequences, strange spatial effects, others in need of aid, the avoidance of dragons, awkward social interactions, to even [[spoiler: his own past self]], each segment lasts from a few seconds to no more than two minutes.

* ''Franchise/StarTrek'':
** ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'':
*** The episode, "All Our Yesterdays" has the Atavachron, a machine that creates a portal door/wall to a time in that planet's past.
*** There is also the Guardian of Forever (a sentient time portal) in "The City on the Edge of Forever". Goes pretty much anywhere and anywhen, has a mind of its own.
** The Iconian doorway from ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''. It has no apparent limitation to range, and at times opened to the ''Enterprise''-D and the Romulan ship also in orbit.
%%** Another appeared in ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' under control of a rogue Jem'Hadar faction.

%%* The portal into [[spoiler: Sylvain]] in ''Podcast/TheAdventureZoneAmnesty''.%Needs more context

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': The place is full of doors, and some of them lead to other dimensions.

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* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'':
** The episode, "All Our Yesterdays" has the Atavachron, a machine that creates a portal door/wall to a time in that planet's past.
** There is also the Guardian of Forever (a sentient time portal) in "The City on the Edge of Forever". Goes pretty much anywhere and anywhen, has a mind of its own.
* The Iconian doorway from ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''. It has no apparent limitation to range, and at times opened to the ''Enterprise''-D and the Romulan ship also in orbit.
%%* Another appeared in ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' under control of a rogue Jem'Hadar faction.

* Jenkins of ''Podcast/TheAdventureZoneBalance'' can create one of these, albeit with restrictions.
* The portal into [[spoiler: Sylvain]] in ''Podcast/TheAdventureZoneAmnesty''.