History Main / TeleportationRescue

This is a trope where someone rescues somebody else, usually from a long way away, by teleporting. They don't just teleport to where they're being held and bust them out; they go right to where the person is, grab them, and then teleport out with them. It can also be done other ways, such as the rescuee being teleported from far away, or a rescuer arriving on foot to give the rescuee a WarpWhistle to allow him/her to escape. The exact execution isn't important (it could be technological, magical, or somewhere in the middle; the crucial element is that the teleportation is the direct means of the rescuing.)

* ''Manga/DragonQuestTheAdventureOfDai'': When Dai, Hadlar, and Popp are ensnared in Kill-Vearn's deadly fire trap, Hadlar decides to sacrifice his own body to hold back the flames long enough for Popp to blow a temporary hole in the trap with a Medoroa spell, grab Dai, and teleport out with him using the Zoom spell. [[spoiler: The spell successfully evacuates Dai, but Popp is left behind after his sympathy over leaving Hadlar to die makes him hesitate to escape.]]

* In ''Manga/SummerTimeRendering'', Shinpei receives the power to loop back in time to the day he arrived on the island that activates each time he dies. While [[MentalTimeTravel only his consciousness will return to the past]], Shadow Ushio will physically follow him back in time as long as she wasn't killed in the previous loop. In order to escape their captors Shide and Haine in the fourth loop, [[spoiler: Shinpei drinks an entire bottle of poison, grabs ahold of Shadow Ushio with his consciousness once he finally succumbs to it, and pulls her into the time warp just in time to avoid an incoming fatal strike from Shide's blade.]]

* In the Franchise/MarvelUniverse, this is part of Sidewinder's stock in trade. When he founded the Serpent Society, one of the perks he promised members was that he could free them if they got arrested. He was shown doing this in ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica'', teleporting into a jail cell, grabbing the imprisoned member, and teleporting out.
* Happens to Hal Jordan in ''ComicBook/{{Justice}}'': after he is teleported by the villains so far outside the known universe that no ComicBook/GreenLantern ring, including his own, would help him get back, ComicBook/ThePhantomStranger eventually locates and teleports him back to Earth, because magic.

* ''WebAnimation/InvaderZimAVeryTallProblem'': In the series pilot episode, Minimoose performs a SwapTeleportation with the Almighty Tallest just as they are about to be executed by a [[LaResistance Resisty]] firing squad. While Minimoose's actions did save the Tallests' lives, he also teleported them to a desert on Earth, effectively stranding them in the last place they wanted to be.

* In ''Film/X2XMenUnited'', the X-jet is damaged by an Air Force fighter's missile and Rogue falls out of the plane. Nightcrawler teleports out to catch her, then teleports back. He also rescues the children imprisoned at Stryker's base later in the same film (probably more efficient than breaking down the door or blasting the lock).

** In ''Film/StarTrekBeyond'' [[spoiler:this is used twice. First it is used to save Spock and Bones just before they get killed by a few of the drone ships, later it is used to rescue the rest of the crew from Krall's compound.]]
* In ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows'' Dobby Apparates to his former home of Malfoy Manor after he learns Harry, Ron and Hermione have been imprisoned there and Apparates the trio as well as Luna Lovegood, Garrick Ollivander and Griphook to safety.

* Literature/CiaphasCain '''(HERO OF THE IMPERIUM!!!)''' is saved this way in ''The Emperor's Finest''. While being chased by both Orks and Genestealers through a space hulk he and Jurgen stumble upon one of the recon robots that was dispatched earlier and Drumon is able to use the teleport homer inside of it to teleport them both to safety moments before they would have been overrun.
* ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows'': Albus Dumbledore's brother Aberforth had most of Sirius' mirror (Harry had a shard of it and got the occasional glimpse of someone he couldn't quite identify and who looked like the then-deceased Albus Dumbledore). When Harry, Ron and Hermione were caught by the snatchers and taken to Malfoy Manor, Aberforth is able to have Dobby Apparate into the manor and rescue them, as well as Luna Lovegood, Dean Thomas, the goblin Griphook and the wand expert Ollivander.
* ''Literature/InterestingTimes'': At the beginning of the book, Rincewind is teleported to the Agatean Empire with the wizards teleporting a local object as a counterweight ([[FantasyGunControl a long tube with a lit fuse at one end called a Barking Dog]]). Towards the end of the book, as he's about to be killed by Lord Hong, the wizards teleport him back, sending the Barking Dog back... having relit the fuse, reasoning that it should be sent back as it was found. However, this time Rincewind is not sent to the Unseen University, the spell sent him to Fourecks instead.

* In the second season of ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'', Gordon the teleporter rescues several people this way. He does it for Raina at the end of "Aftershocks" when she's surrounded by SHIELD troops, and for Skye at the end of "One Door Closes".
* Happens in almost every episode of ''Series/BlakesSeven'', usually JustInTime too. Averted however in "Orbit" when Avon and Vila are in a shuttle struggling to reach escape velocity, and Dayna suggests teleporting over with a couple of teleport bracelets and rescuing them. She's told it's too difficult to teleport between two fast-moving points.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'': Done multiple times, often involving the Doctor summoning the TARDIS to himself. In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E13Doomsday Doomsday]]", Rose and the Doctor are trying to close an interdimensional breach, thereby sucking the warring [[spoiler:Daleks and Cybermen]] off of Earth and into the void. Rose loses her grip and falls into the void, but the AlternateUniverse version of her father transports from the alternate universe, catches her, and transports back as the breach closes.

* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'': Several times, naturally. Either beam the endangered landing party out or beam down a well armed security contingent. Often the issue is complicated either because they don't have access to communicators to signal or can't violate PrimeDirective by vanishing into thin air in sight of clueless natives. Or the transporter goes offline at the most inconvenient moment, leaving Kirk to yell at Scotty to fix it ASAP.
** In "[[Recap/StarTrekS3E2TheEnterpriseIncident The Enterprise Incident]]", the plan involves teleporting Spock out of the Romulan ship he infiltrated before they get round to executing him. Kirk assumes this would be easy as there is only one Vulcan aboard that ship, so it should be easy enough to isolate his life signs. Unfortunately, Romulan and Vulcan physiologies are nearly identical...
* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': In "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS3E22TheMostToys The Most Toys]]", Data has been kidnapped by an absolute scum of a man, but he's managed to free himself and is pointing the man's own illegal gun at him (illegal because it causes an very agonizing death). Oh, and the man he's facing just so happens to have murdered someone with the gun and plans to murder more just to browbeat him, and he's just [[ZerothLawRebellion realized that said illegal gun is the only means he has of stopping this psychopath]]. As the ''Enterprise'' beams him out, they notice that the gun had been discharged during the transport, which Data claims [[BlatantLies must surely have been some side effect of the transporter beam]]. So not only did they rescue Data, but unintentionally [[SaveTheVillain saved the villain]] as well.
* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''
** In "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS3E5FalseProfits False Profits]]", Chakotay and Paris convince the primitive local population to strap their "Sages" (actually, Ferengi) to poles and set them ablaze in order for them to [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence ascend]], as per their poem. As the Ferengi are about to burn, ''Voyager'' beams them out, making it look like they really did ascend.
** In "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS3E17Darkling Darkling]]", Kes and the Doctor fall off a cliff, but Voyager transports them in mid-fall.
* ''Series/StarTrekPicard'':
** In "[[Recap/StarTrekPicardS1E04AbsoluteCandor Absolute Candor]]", shortly after Elnor decapitates Tenqem and threatens the remaining Romulans with death if they try to harm Picard, a goon starts to unholster his disruptor and points out that [[NeverBringAKnifeToAGunFight Elnor can't dodge that]]. The goon never gets to test that theory, as Picard urgently orders a pending beam-up to happen immediately.
** Later in the same episode, Raffi transports Seven of Nine to ''La Sirena'' just before the latter's ship explodes when it hits Vashti's security net.
** In "Nepenthe", Narissa beams away a split second before she would've been hit by her own knife that Elnor throws back at her.
** In "Broken Pieces", Narissa teleports to safety before she's mauled to death by the xBs.

* A variant occurs in ''Podcast/TheFallenGods'' thanks to [[spoiler: Mishakal's]] intervention teleporting the party to a temple of Palandine when they're about to be attacked by a mother Black Dragon.

* ''VideoGame/EXTRAPOWERAttackOfDarkforce'' Happens at a couple points in the game. When Blackberry and Kurogane escape from a Dark Force spacecraft only to find that the invasion fleet has filled the sky and Mensouma is about to attack them, the demon king sealed in Kurogane teleports them back to the rest of the team.

* ''VideoGame/StarCraft'': In both games, Protoss Zealots disappear when killed, since their armor contains an emergency teleporter that instantly warps them back to Aiur (or their home base) when destroyed. Other troops like Dragoons and Immortals aren't so lucky (being grievously wounded Zealots in a battlesuit) and suffer {{Permadeath}}.
* A few times in ''VideoGame/MegaManZero'', when Zero has to rescue someone, he'll go to a stage, run towards them and then gives them a teleport beacon so the MissionControl can teleport them to base.
* ''VideoGame/GoldenSun'': Alex uses his short-range TeleportSpam to rescue Saturos after his first boss fight goes wrong, preventing the heroes from finishing him off (whether they actually would kill him off is discussed by the villains, who escape just after).
* Tyrael saves Leah this way in ''VideoGame/DiabloIII'' when she is faced with Azmodan after falling asleep while researching the Black Soulstone.

* In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemGenealogyOfTheHolyWar'', [[DragonInChief Julius]] did this twice for Ishtar and Arione when the two were defeated at one point in the game.
* In the Soviet campaign of the original ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert'', Soviet troops capture Albert Einstein, and in order to use him a TrickAndFollowPloy, they bug Einstein and spread the rumor that they're about to execute him. The Allies extract Einstein directly by teleporting him with the Chronosphere, the bug promptly cluing the Soviet high command on its location.

* Near the beginning of ''VideoGame/TalesOfPhantasia'', Cress and Mint are saved from [[SealedEvilInACan recently-released Dhaos]] curbstomping them by Morrison teleporting them to the past. They later return to that exact same moment, more than ready to defeat Dhaos.
* In ''VideoGame/FTLFasterThanLight'', you can use your teleporter to save the crew of a spaceship stumbling shieldlessly through an AsteroidThicket. With an upgraded teleporter you can also infiltrate a friendly [[PrisonShip slaver ship]] to rescue any slaves they might hold. Regardless of your success though, the slaver will turn on you if you try that.

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* ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'': Done once using repurposed [[WeaponizedTeleportation Terapedoes]].
* ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'': Done when [[spoiler:Parley rescues Annie from Jeanne after the latter ghost traps Annie while Annie is trying to use her blinker stone]].
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* In ''Literature/TheSalvationWar'', Michael once rescues Uriel this way using a Heavengate.

* ''WesternAnimation/AvengersAssemble'': Iron Man tries to make a HeroicSacrifice by using the last of the power in his armor to manually push Ultron into the Sun. Luckily for him, Thor suddenly teleports in to take him back to Earth.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Centurions}}'' limits the StoryBreakerPower of its "beam chambers" by adding the restriction that living beings can't use them safely without an [[ClothesMakeTheSuperman Exo-Frame]] or special metal harness. However, the series still uses this trope to save the heroes from time to time.
* ''WesternAnimation/MonkieKid'': [[spoiler:Macaque]] does this when Mk is about to be punched by [[spoiler:Wukong Possesed by the Lady bone demon]] by slipping a portal under Mk's feet, sending him far away.

* ''WesternAnimation/MonkieKid'': [[spoiler:Macaque]] does this when Mk is about to be punched by [[spoiler: Wukong]] [[FightingYourFriend Possesed by the Lady bone demon]] by slipping a portal under Mk's feet, sending him far away.

* In the ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' fanfic "The Flux of Mortal Things", Seven finds himself in a LiteralCliffhanger, holding onto B'Elanna with one hand and an overhead pipe with the other. B'Elanna starts to slip out of her hand, so Seven orders an emergency beam-out and lets go of the pipe, trusting the transporter to catch both of them. Seven was the only one who had a commbadge, so B'Elanna couldn't do this herself.

* In ''Manga/SummerTimeRendering'', Shinpei receives the power to loop back in time to the day he arrived on the island. While [[MentalTimeTravel only his consciousness will return to the past]], Shadow Ushio will physically follow him back in time as long as she wasn't killed in the previous loop. In order to escape their captors Shide and Haine in the fourth loop, [[spoiler: Shinpei drinks an entire bottle of poison, grabs ahold of Shadow Ushio with his consciousness once he finally succumbs to it, and pulls her into the time warp just in time to avoid an incoming fatal strike from Shide's blade.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'': In "[[Recap/StarTrekLowerDecksS1E04MoistVessel Moist Vessel]]", when the ''Merced''[='s=] life support is failing, Freeman and Mariner perform an emergency transport of its crew to the stasis chamber of the alien vessel they're towing.

* In ''WesternAnimation/AvengersAssemble'', Iron Man tries to make a HeroicSacrifice by using the last of the power in his armor to manually push Ultron into the Sun. Luckily for him, Thor suddenly teleports in to take him back to Earth.

* In ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemJugdral Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War]]'', [[DragonInChief Julius]] did this twice for Ishtar and Arione when the two were defeated at one point in the game.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Centurions}}'' limits the StoryBreakerPower of its "beam chambers" by adding the restriction that living beings can't use them safely without an [[ClothesMakeTheSuperman Exo-Frame]] or special metal harness. However, the series still uses this trope tp save the heroes from time to time.

* ''WebAnimation/InvaderZimAVeryTallProblem'': In the series pilot episode, Minimoose performs a SwapTeleportation with the Almighty Tallest just as they are about to be executed by a [[LaResistance Resisty]] firing squad. While Minimoose's actions did save the Tallests' lives, he also teleported them to a desert on Earth, effectively stranding them in the last place they want to be.

** In "The Enterprise Incident", the plan involves teleporting Spock out of the Romulan ship he infiltrated before they get round to executing him. Kirk assumes this would be easy as there is only one Vulcan aboard that ship, so it should be easy enough to isolate his life signs. Unfortunately, Romulan and Vulcan physiologies are nearly identical..
* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': In "The Most Toys", Data has been kidnapped by an absolute scum of a man, but he's managed to free himself and is pointing the man's own illegal gun at him (illegal because it causes an very agonizing death). Oh, and the man he's facing just so happens to have murdered someone with the gun and plans to murder more just to browbeat him, and he's just [[ZerothLawRebellion realized that said illegal gun is the only means he has of stopping this psychopath]]. As the ''Enterprise'' beams him out, they notice that the gun had been discharged during the transport, which Data claims [[BlatantLies must surely have been some side effect of the transporter beam]]. So not only did they rescue Data, but unintentionally [[SaveTheVillain saved the villain]] as well.

** In "False Profits", Chakotay and Paris convince the primitive local population to strap their "Sages" (actually, Ferengi) to poles and set them ablaze in order for them to [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence ascend]], as per their poem. As the Ferengi are about to burn, ''Voyager'' beams them out, making it look like they really did ascend.
** In "Darkling", Kes and the Doctor fall off a cliff, but Voyager transports them in mid-fall.

* ''WebAnimation/InvaderZimAVeryTallProblem'': In the series pilot episode, Minimoose performs a SwapTeleportation with the Almighty Tallest just as they are about to be executed by a [[LaResistance Resisty]] firing squad. While Minimoose's actions did save the Tallests' lives, he also teleported them to a desert on Earth, effectively leaving them stranded.