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When a ''very'' large number of people, a whole fleet, an entire city, or even a whole planet, is sent to another place, another time, or another dimensional plane.
A '''Mass Teleportation''' through time is more specifically referred to as an ISOT (acronym for ''[[Island in The Sea of Time]]'', a novel by [[S.M. Stirling]] in which the entire island of Nantucket is teleported back to the Bronze Age).
The phenomenon may be deliberate, but is usually [[Freak Lab Accident|accidental]], [[Hand Wave|unexplainable]], or the work of an [[Alien Space Bats]]. When an ISOT takes place on a small scale, the victim is [[Trapped in the Past]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In the anime series ''[[Macross]]'' the entire superdimensional fortress and surrounding city are teleported just beyond the planet Pluto during a desperate attempt to flee an overwhelming alien assault.
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* In ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'', it turns out that {{spoiler|after the moon is stopped from being used to destroy the world, it's actually a GIANT SPACESHIP. The real one? Oh, that's stowed away in a [[Pocket Dimension]].}}
== [[Comic
* One time, in Ultimate Comics: Avengers 3, the Triskelion was facing a vampire invasion. So Captain America used the hammer of Thor (Mjölnir) to teleport them all to the Iranian desert, were the vampires were killed by the daylight. The reason for not teleporting the Triskelion into a desert area of an ally (e.g. Israel, Egypt, Saudi-Arabia) but to that of an enemy ("Great Satan", you remeber) is, that it would've been less badass (You appear in broad daylight on enemy territory and they can DO NOTHING!!).
* A ''[[Justice League of America]]'' graphic novel had the heroes fighting an advanced race of aliens who stole Earth (along with other inhabited planets) in order to chronicle the races' various beliefs of the afterlife, since for all the aliens' advances, they were reaching the end of their mortal lives and were as clueless about what happens next as everyone else.
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* ''[[Guardians of the Galaxy]]'' once had the entire population of a planet teleported to a safer solar system.
* In ''Cavewoman'', the entire town of Marshville is transported back to the prehistoric past.
* In [[Phil Foglio]]'s ''[[Buck Godot]]'', the titular character convinces the only life-form in the galaxy capable of true teleportation (known simply as "The Teleporter") to help out with a small problem: the star around which a heavily-populated planet orbits is about to go nova. Buck suggests that the population could be distributed to several convenient planets elsewhere, but the Teleporter [https://web.archive.org/web/20150409232950/http://www.airshipentertainment.com/buckcomic.php?date=20070426 offers a rather simpler solution] that simultaneously resolves one of Buck's personal problems.
** Actually that's two problems with separate solutions (both involving teleporting). Teleporting X-Tel to Kooblen solves Buck's (and everyone else's) problem with them. On the next page we learn that the Teleporter saved the doomed planet by moving the whole planet to a different system.
* ''[[Watchmen]]'' has Doctor Manhattan using this to disperse a large scale riot by teleporting every rioter back to their home. As per the [[Crapsack World]] nature of Watchmen, [[Finagle's Law|multiple teleportees die of heart attacks on arrival]].
== [[
* The event that transported Ryanverse Earth and its surroundings into the ''[[BattleTech]]'' universe, in ''[[An Entry With a Bang]]'', is even referred to as an [[Island in The Sea of Time|ISOT]] event, in a nod to Stirling's novel, and was teleported into the [[1632|Grantville]] cluster.
== [[Film]] ==
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* ''[[Battlefield Earth]]'': The Psychlos teleport an army and an airforce to Earth.
* ''Island in the Sea of Time'': Where ISOT comes from.
* ''[[Left Behind]]'': The Rapture is, after all, a type of
* In the [[Arthur C. Clarke]] novel ''Time's Eye'', a parallel universe world is built using chunks of Earth from different parts of time. This includes [[Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny|Alexander the Great and Genghis Khan, and their respective armies]]. And a colonial British regiment (with [[Rudyard Kipling]]) and a Soyuz capsule orbiting the earth.
* The West Virginia mining town of Grantville being teleported to 1632 Thuringia in the ''[[1632]]'' saga by Eric Flint.
* In the novel ''[[Jonathan Strange
* This is what everyone ''thinks'' happened to all of Europe in ''Darwinia'' (the book, not the game). Actually, they're {{spoiler|[[Inside a Computer System]]}}.
* John Birmingham's ''Axis of Time'' trilogy, inspired by ''[[The Final Countdown]]'' (see above), depicts a military task force that somehow gets sent back in time from 2021 to 1942.
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* Ben moves the whole island in the fourth season of ''[[Lost]]''.
* ''[[The 4400]]'': people are abducted individually at various times and places throughout the 20th century, but all 4,400 of them get teleported back simultaneously to the same location.
* ''[[Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)|Battlestar Galactica]]''. Although actually an example of an [[Faster-Than-Light Travel|FTL drive]], the moment when [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|''Galactica'' dives into the atmosphere]] of New Caprica, then jumps out moments before it [[Colony Drop
* ''[[Voyager]]'': The entire starship Voyager is transported inside the Voth's city ship in one episode.
** This is also the premise of the series.
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* On an episode of ''[[Sliders]]'', they travel to a world where Quinn's double has slid the entire population of his Earth to another dimension except for himself.
== [[Tabletop
* ''[[GURPS]]'' Fantasy's Yrth setting. A phenomenon called the Banestorm transports collections of living creatures to the world of Yrth from other universes.
* In ''[[Dungeons
* The plane of Rath in ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' was built from a shapeshifting material called flowstone, with the idea that it could be made to resemble another world and then overlay itself on top of it. All part of a complex invasion plan. That actually works.
** In the same rough plotline, the planeswalker Teferi teleports an entire continent away to enable its people to escape the said invasion.
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* The Republic of Japan in ''[[Rifts]]'' is a collection of three (formerly four) cities from the time before the [[The End of the World as We Know It|Coming of the Rifts]] that was teleported into a pocket dimension after a group of scientists performed a teleportation experiment at the exact moment the disaster hit. They end up spending a few days there, then come back three hundred years later.
* In the Star Fleet Universe of ''Star Fleet Battles'', the planet Aurora mysteriously teleported from the Federation (in the SFU's Beta Sector) into the Omega Sector.
== Toys ==▼
* In ''[[Bionicle]]'', the island of Destral is equipped with special technology that causes the entire island to teleport.▼
== [[Video Games]] ==
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** In [[World of Warcraft]], Jaina Proudmoore is specifically referred to as a master of this skill (and she uses it to good effect at the end of the Wrathgate storyline).
*** Cataclysm added this as a perk for high level guilds, called "Have group, will travel" it allows one person to summon up to 39 other people to their location instantly.
** The Protoss Arbiter in ''[[
*** Ditto for the Protoss Mothership in ''[[Star Craft 2]]''.
*** As a matter of fact, this is how ALL Protoss units and buildings are “built.” Instead of being constructed from local materials, local materials are merely used to fuel powerful wormholes that teleport over finished items from the heavily industrialized Protoss homeworld. This allows a skilled player to rapidly [[Teleport Spam]] an entire base into existence with a single [[Worker Unit]].
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* The Jump Point Beacon in ''Haegemonia'' allowed the player to teleport entire fleets across space in an instant and even bypass the wormholes usually required to travel between systems. Unfortunately there is a small chance of your fleet failing to arrive at that location, sometimes appearing somewhere else sometime later, sometimes never reappearing at all.
* In the lesser known game ''[[War Wind|WarWind 2: Human Onslaught]]'', a human military base is teleported from the Arctic into the alien world of Yavaun.
* In ''[[Suikoden IV]]'', Viki (the [[The Ditz|ditzy]] [[Time Travel
* In ''[[Sonic Adventure Series|Sonic Adventure 2]]'', Sonic learns how to manipulate time and space via Chaos Control. When he and Shadow, both in [[Super Mode|super form]], perform Chaos Control simultaneously, they're capable of teleporting space stations back into orbit.
** And in ''[[Sonic Chronicles]]'' we discover that several civilizations from multiple dimensions have been sucked into a realm called the Twilight Cage. Exactly why this is happening is [[Left Hanging]], but the proposed theory is that someone or something is [[Sealed Evil in a Can|sealing away cultures that become too powerful]].
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* The Chronosphere in ''[[Command & Conquer]]'' ''Red Alert'', which is mentioned to be the result of the Philadelphia Experiment (above).
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* In [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0643.html this] ''[[Order of the Stick]]'' comic, Vaarsuvius teleports the entire Azure City refugee fleet to another continent.
** And a few strips earlier [[Chekhov's Skill|it was noted one of the souls he is spliced with had teleported armies .]]
* One of the big secrets of the ''[[Unicorn Jelly]]'' setting is that {{spoiler|humans were brought to the universe of Trysmaltian in a hyperspace "rainstorm" that transported divots of land there from different places and times on Earth}}. [[Eternal Recurrence|And it was neither the first nor last time this occurs]].
* In ''[[Starslip]]'' the entire human race and all of its planets get transported halfway across the universe after the main characters annoy the [[Sufficiently Advanced Aliens|Anthelerix]].
* In ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'' there were some extreme applications of teraport.
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** The Ob'enn and Kssthrata developed in the same Tause system, found a broken toy of [[Precursors|a previous galactic civilization]] and plundered it for materials, then fought each other for 2300 years or so; the Ob'enn turned into an [[Absolute Xenophobe]] theocracy, so this just could not stop, but when teraport went to public domain, Kssthrata evacuated everyone on their homeworld and all local assets into an uninhabited system.
▲== Toys ==
** After several factions began to fight over another relic of [[precursors]] — in working condition and somewhat more massive than Earth — Petey stole it, though first had to hijack at least one nearby capital ship, to get rid of [[Teleport Interdiction|Teraport Area Denial]].
▲* In ''[[Bionicle]]'', the island of Destral is equipped with special technology that causes the entire island to teleport.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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