History Main / TeleportInterdiction

* ''Series/{{Smallville}}'': Alicia Baker can teleport, but she can't use her power if she is touching or surrounded by lead, so she can be imprisoned in a lead-lined room.

* ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'':
** Touma Kamijou's [[AntiMagic Imagine Breaker]] means that he cannot be teleported at all. [[RealityWarper Othinus]] gets around this because she actually changes the surroundings instead of moving Touma. Also, when Awaki Musujime tries to kill Kuroko by teleporting a massive object on top on her, Touma punches the object while it is materializing, causing it to return to its starting position.
** According to the author, Accelerator can negate attempts to teleport him against his will or TeleFrag objects into him. Teleportation still requires a vector of movement, so Accelerator can reflect it just like he can reflect other attacks.
* In ''Anime/FateStayNightUnlimitedBladeWorks'', when Gilgamesh traps Berserker in his magical chain Enkidu, Illya tries to rescue him by using a Command Spell to make Berserker teleport back to her, but it doesn't work. Gilgamesh points out Enkidu can trap even a god, so teleportation won't work.
* In ''LightNovel/FateApocrypha'', Mordred and Kairi Sisigou get separated during their fight with Semiramis. Kairi tries to use a Command Spell to make Mordred teleport back to him, but Semiramis explains her magic can prevent it from working.

** Vaarsuvius has also used the Dimensional Anchor spell a few times to lock down a teleporting character. It's even a minor plot point in the strip [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0862.html "Pop Goes Pop"]], where the villains can escape an ambush only because V is not with the heroes to lock them down.
** In the dwarven council chamber in Firmament, past the orange barrier any planar travel coming from the outside is blocked. (Not initiated from the inside, though, which makes Plane Shift still an offensive option.)

** In general, TeleportersAndTransporters are called "transmats". They're not as widely-used as in ''Franchise/StarTrek'', but blocking them has come up before.

** ''Magazine/{{Dungeon}}'' magazine #25 adventure "A Rose for Talakara". The evil wizard Talakara used wishes from a Ring of Wishes to prevent anyone else from entering her castle by means of Teleport or Dimension Door spells.

** ''Magazine/{{Dungeon}}'' magazine #25 adventure "A Rose for Talakara". The evil wizard Talakara used wishes from a Ring of Wishes to prevent anyone from entering her castle by means of Teleport or Dimension Door spells.

* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'':

Teleportation is a tactical and strategic game-changer in any setting. Defensive methods become necessary. This trope covers that eventuality.

-->'''Sean "Dark Smoke Puncher" [=McNinja=]''', ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja''

** ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'': In [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/33p135/ "The End Part 2"]], [[spoiler:Dark Smoke Puncher hacks a portal that Dracula is using to escape, depositing him in the middle of a desert. ''On a sunny day.'' "Bleh" indeed.]]

* ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'' has Teraport Area Denial technology which prevents all teraports into, out of or within a given volume of space. These systems can "paint" an exception, allowing authorized people (or ships or whatever) to teraport in or out without lowering all the defenses. They can even create an entire pocket within the interdiction zone that can be used as a locus for in- or out-bound travel. Since the comic is military sci-fi, teraport interdiction usually is a huge plot point as whoever isn't interdicted can move around troops, ships and ''live ammunition'' at their leisure. There are also teraport cages, which can be installed within interdiction zones and allow for teraportation within them, but they burn themselves out quickly in the process and are thus mostly used to move squads around for rapid ambushes. Finally, TAD technology ''can'' be simply [[CuttingTheKnot brute forced through]], but the energy requirements for it are so utterly ridiculous that only [[DeusEstMachina the Fleetmind]] (who finds, in the head intelligence Petey's words, "Petawatts are ''chump change''") has been able to do so consistently. And even so, it's done sparingly because that energy's got better uses elsewhere, [[spoiler:and when scaled up to planet-size almost lead to breaking the core generator they have, AKA they almost '''broke the galaxy''' by making its core stop spinning from energy expenditure]].

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* In ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry'', the Klingon penal colony Rura Penthe has a magnetic shield which prevents beaming. This is their only measure against escape, as the field is large enough that any attempt to walk around it is a probable death sentence.
* In ''Film/StarTrekInsurrection'', the crew sets up "transport inhibitors" which, well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin inhibit transport]]. The Son'a shoot those, but the planet also has ore which naturally interferes with transports. That one is beaten by isolinear tags which allow the transporters to obtain a lock through the interference.

* In the Literature/HeraldsOfValdemar novel ''Winds of Change'', the spirit of Herald Vanyel hijacks Firesong's CoolGate, bringing his party to the Forest of Sorrows instead of their intended destination. Vanyel is apologetic, but since he's a [[OurGhostsAreDifferent ghost]] who can't leave the Forest, this is the only way he has of getting in touch with them.

*** The "iris" is a metal cover that prevents unwanted visitors from entering Stargate Command on Earth. Stargate Command personnel and their allies are given a GDO ("garage door opener") which transmits an IDC (Gateworld wiki says this is an "iris deactivation code"), and only with a valid and received IDC will Stargate Command open the iris and allow people on the other side of the gate to reach Earth. The big keyboard near gates, the DHD ("dial home device") is merely the object which activates a gate and has nothing to do with the iris (though on Atlantis, the DHD panel in the control room has a button to raise the iris-like force shield). In case that doesn't work, there are machine guns and a heavy steel door between the stargate and the rest of the base. The Asgard develop a version of their own which uses an almost-invisible force-field. SG-1 often tells less technologically advanced peoples to just bury their gate to avoid unwanted visitors. In the BackStory, the ancient Egyptians covered the gate with a big rock, and ''then'' buried it. The Tollan intangibility technology can go through the iris, so eventually the Goa'uld attempt to blackmail them into using it to bomb Earth.

** The 2nd Edition ''Drow of the Underdark'' supplement mention that the Underdark, where lives the dark elves and their evil neighbors, is a highly magical place that makes teleportation unreliable.

* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' has teleport jammers that don't stop you teleporting in so to speak, but rather stops you from reappearing in the material world, which is ''[[FateWorseThanDeath very bad]]'' considering that teleportation involves going through ''[[HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace hell]]''.

** Other episodes introduce other limitations villains can exploit to trap unicorns, such as not being able to teleport through solid objects, sometimes not even through ''nets'' despite ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie'' portraying the ability as turning into wisps of energy and the aforementioned warps to Tambelon.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer40000}}'' has teleport jammers that don't stop you teleporting in so to speak, but rather stops you from reappearing in the material world, which is [[FateWorseThanDeath ''very bad'']] considering that teleportation involves going through [[HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace ''hell''.]]

* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer40000}}'' has teleport jammers that don't stop you teleporting in so to speak, but rather stops you from reappearing in the material world, which is [[FateWorseThanDeath ''very bad'']] considering that teleportation involves going through [[ HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace ''hell''.]]

* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer40000}}'' has teleport jammers that don't stop you teleporting in so to speak, but rather stops you from reappearing in the material world, which is [[FateWorseThanDeath ''very bad'']] considering that teleportation involves going through [[ HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace''hell''.]]

* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer40000}}'' has teleport jammers that can disrupt, stop or relocate things that are teleporting down into combat.