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[[caption-width-right:330:[[{{X-Men}} Nightcrawler]] called, he wants his [[SpecialEffects SFX]] back.]]

So far how much he's used it to directly influence things in the present is incredibly minimal: he's delayed a group to let two people hold their fight uninterrupted, saved one of his allies once, and took down two minor enemies. He went a long time without apparently using them at all, and afterward mostly uses it to command his subordinates and taunt/[[MrExposition inform]] his enemies. His reasoning for the first is likely to help preserve his true identity, and for the later appears to be that he's in some sort of weakened state and he becomes vulnerable when he actually interacts with anything.

->''Bullshit!''
--> -- [[TheNostalgiaCritic Albert Einstein, on the Nostalgia Critic review of the same movie, about the above quote.]]

* [[GoldenSun Alex]] could Warp, which was a strange type of Psyenergy that no other character could use.

** Season Three BigBad Brother Blood also has the power to teleport, as do [[QuirkyMinibossSquad HIVE]] member Kyd Wykkyd and Slade after becoming Trigon's minion.

** If you say "blinking" into the place with no visual effect whatsoever is evil-looking, then sure.

* [[spoiler:[[BigBad Madara Uchiha]]]] from ''{{Naruto}}'' is a villain and one of the only two characters that could really teleport. The other, heroic one is the Fourth Hokage, but he's dead and his power was much more limited: [[spoiler:Madara]] can apparently go anywhere he knows how to get to and teleport part of himself to become an IntangibleMan, but the Fourth can only teleport to certain fixed points (although it did give him quite a body count, and a reputation).\\

** Additionally, Zetsu cannot actually teleport, but he can move undetected through natural terrain my merging with the ground and traveling through roots and water veins. However, he doesn't seem to have a lot of offensive power, so he mostly acts as a spy, look-out, [[ManEatingPlant corpse disposer]], and CombatCommentator.
** [[spoiler:The Fourth's powers might not actually be so limited; in a flashback, when he fights Madara, he comments that they both use "space time jutsu", which has never been mentioned before, and the Fourth wins that fight. Also, it seems Naruto might be able to use the Flying Thunder God technique now.]]

* Extremely common in ''PowerRangers'', particularly [[MightyMorphinPowerRangers the]] [[PowerRangersZeo early]] [[PowerRangersTurbo seasons]]. The good guys teleport in streaks of light, but the bad guys use smoke and such personal touches as, in one case, a bouncing skull superimposed over the screen.
* The Cult of Skaro Daleks used their ability to "emergency temporal shift" to evade [[DoctorWho The Doctor]] many times,much to his annoyance.Of course this backfires when the cult is wiped out leaving just Caan who shifts straight into [[spoiler: the Time war]]

** What's mystifying is how ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluto_%28Disney%29 Pluto the dog]]'' can apparently do it. And no, he's not evil or dark; nor will he ever be.

** Which it [[DesignatedHero pretty much does]].

* ''{{Slayers}}'' '''loves''' villain teleportation. Most of the time, it's [[JustifiedTrope justified]], as the primary villains throughout most of the series are the Mazoku, the AlwaysChaoticEvil demon race. While they can take physical forms, they're actually nonphysical beings whose true home is on the astral plane, and can phase in and out of it at will, for StealthHiBye. But since Spiritual (fully) and BlackMagic (partially) work in Astral, against such spells hiding there is no better than taking cover behind a paper curtain. So they also have tactical teleport via [[HammerspaceHideaway space pockets]] -- in ''Next'' a Mazoku even pulled the party inside. It's so typical, in ''Perfect'' it was a tell-tale sign for both Lina and Naga: "He did ''spatial shift''? Ah. Must be a Mazoku.". A few non-Mazoku mages like Rezo teleport somehow, but never jump around in the combat, so they could use proper astral travel for all we know.

* ''{{Slayers}}'' '''loves''' villain teleportation. Most of the time, it's [[JustifiedTrope justified]], as the primary villains throughout most of the series are the Mazoku, the AlwaysChaoticEvil demon race. While they can take physical forms, they're actually nonphysical beings whose true home is on the astral plane, and can phase in and out of it at will. On the other hand, how the non-Mazoku villains who teleport do it isn't as clearly explained.
** It's so typical, in ''Perfect'' it was a tell-tale sign for both Lina and Naga. "He did ''spatial shift''? Oh. Must be a Mazoku." But they use astral travel only for StealthHiBye. Astral is where Spiritual spells (fully) and BlackMagic (partially) work, so against Elmekia Lance (or worse) hiding there is no better than taking cover behind a paper curtain. The tactical spatial shift involves a [[HammerspaceHideaway pocket space]], in ''Next'' Mazoku even pulled the party inside. Human mages like Rezo could use proper astral travel for all we know -- it's not like they jump around in the combat.

--> -- [[ThatGuyWithTheGlasses Albert Einstein, on the Nostalgia Critic review of the same movie, about the above quote.]]

* [[spoiler:[[BigBad Madara Uchiha]]]] from ''{{Naruto}}'' is a villain and one of the only two characters that could really teleport. The other, heroic one is the Fourth Hokage, but he's dead and his power was much more limited: [[spoiler:Madara]] can apparently go anywhere he knows how to get to and teleport part of himself to become an IntangibleMan, but the Fourth can only teleport to certain fixed points (although it did give him quite a body count, and a reputation). So far how much he's used it to directly influence things is incredibly minimal: he's delayed a group to let two people hold their fight un-interrupted, saved one of his allies once, and took down two minor enemies. He went a long time without apparently using them at all, and afterward mostly uses it to command his subordinates and taunt/[[MrExposition provide exposition]] to his enemies. His reasoning for the first is likely to help preserve his true identity, and for the later appears to be that he's in some sort of weakened state and he becomes vulnerable when he actually interacts with anything.