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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
A subcategory of [[Teleportation Tropes]].
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* In ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'', these sort of things work like out-right airports for wizards. The background story also mentioned massive use of this teleportation type to transport an entire army and change the course of war.
* In ''[[Dragonball Z]]'', Goku & co use the Dragon Balls to wish for all Nameks to be teleported to earth.
* ''[[Pokémon:
* In the ''[[Magic Knight Rayearth|Rayearth]]'' [[Alternate Continuity]] [[OAV]], Clef teleports ''every last bit of animal life on Earth'' (except the [[Power Trio|Magic Knights]] and [[Team Pet|Mokona]]) to... some other dimension. This is to keep them safe from the invasion from Cephiro, and conveniently enough lets the Knights and their foes demolish Tokyo with abandon.
* In ''[[Zipang]]'' a modern Japanese Aegis destroyer named the ''JDS Mirai'' gets inexplicably teleported back to the Battle of Midway.
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== [[Fanfic]] ==
* The event that transported Ryanverse Earth and its surroundings into the [[
== [[Film]] ==
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* ''Island in the Sea of Time'': Where ISOT comes from.
* ''[[Left Behind]]'': The Rapture is, after all, a type of [[Mass Teleportation]].
* In the [[Arthur C. Clarke
* The West Virginia mining town of Grantville being teleported to 1632 Thuringia in the ''[[1632]]'' saga by Eric Flint.
* In the novel ''[[Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell]]'', Mr. Strange teleports an entire European city to North America to save it being attacked in the Napoleonic wars. He remembered to put it back (although some of the regiments, who deserted, were not brought back with it). However, he neglected to move another city (moved to make it match the maps) back to where it originally was. He also switched the places of two churches, mostly to demonstrate the theory, and forget to put them back.
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* 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.
* In the ''[[Godspeaker Trilogy]]'', Emperor Han and his witchmen teleport '''an entire armada''' to fight the [[Armies Are Evil|forces]] of the [[The Empire|Mijaki]].
* In a ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'' [[Expanded Universe]] novel, a glitch in a race's planet-wide transporter system causes anyone on the planet to be transporter to a parallel universe every few hours. The real problem starts when one of the universes does not have this planet, so billions of people get dumped into outer space every few hours. Cue the Cree of that universe's ''Voyager'' trying to figure out (and failing) how to keep billions alive without a planet.
* A novel whose name escapes me starts with a mountain town and the surrounding area transported to an alien planet. A possible explanation is that this planet exists slightly off-phase and has for a brief moment come in contact with Earth. However, the displaced people aren't too worried about how they got there, as they must now focus on survival in this strange world.
* In ''[[Dune]]'', the Spacing Guild heighliners are enormous starships that instantly travel anywhere by folding space. They are described as so large that an entire planet's population and all of their equipment will take up only a small portion of the cargo space.
* In the [[Orson Scott Card]] novel ''[[Enchantment]]'', a 747 is magicked in flight back to pre-Medieval Russia.
* Long before the story begins in ''[[It's a Good Life]]'', the monster psychic child teleported his entire town away from the rest of the Earth. (Either that, or he destroyed the rest of the Earth. No one is sure.)
* The ''[[
* The [[Charles Stross]] novella ''Missile Gap'' is about the citizens of Earth dealing with the planet being transported to a flat disk millions of miles across during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
* The conclusion to [[Peter F. Hamilton|Peter F Hamilton's]] [[Nights Dawn]] Trilogy sees the entire human Confederation, star systems and all, teleported {{spoiler|to a region a few dozen lightyears around above the Milky Way's elliptic with help from [[Deus Est Machina|the Sleeping God.]]}} It should be noted that this is ''over 900 systems'' and is estimated to be ''almost a trillion people,'' {{spoiler|minus the souls of the recently-returned dead, of course.}} Ostensibly, it's so humanity can start working away from it's current economic and political system {{spoiler|toward something [[Ascend to
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
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* ''[[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 and Dragons]]'', this is how the demiplane of Ravenloft came into existence: chunks of land from other planes were teleported into it.
* The plane of Rath in ''[[Magic:
** In the same rough plotline, the planeswalker Teferi teleports an entire continent away to enable its people to escape the said invasion.
* In the fluff to the tabletop game ''Robo Gear'', the imperial empire of Terra's last ditch attempt to try to regain control of the galaxy was to build a colossal Jump Drive and teleport the entire planet from star system to star system. [[Futurama|My memory is a little sketchy but I believe the entire earth was destroyed]].
* Part of the world's backstory of ''[[The Dark Eye]]'' has a big chunk of jungle inhabited by various intelligent reptile species being ripped from the land and transported/turned into a pocket dimension, possibly to avoid getting overrun by humans.
* The Republic of Japan in ''[[Rifts]]'' is a collection of three (formerly four) cities from the time before the [[The End of the World
* 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.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* In the [[Real Time Strategy|RTS]] [[Achron]] humanity has integrated teleportation throughout society, with mass teleportation between star systems happening on a daily basis. Then they are attacked by aliens that not only are even better at teleportation, but have mastered [[Time Travel
** In multiplayer games it is not unheard of for players to teleport, or even [[Time Travel|chronoport]] their entire army.
* This is done in the backstory of the MMO [[Ryzom]]. Apparently the technique utilizes [[Everything's Better
* In the ''[[Neverwinter Nights]] Hordes of the Underdark'' campaign, you encounter an entire Avariel city that has been teleported to the underdark. (And everyone's personality twisted)
* Archmages in ''[[Warcraft III]]'' can teleport entire armies to allied units or buildings. The scroll of teleportation is similar, but can only be used to return to a town hall.
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* In ''[[Suikoden IV]]'', Viki (the [[The Ditz|ditzy]] [[Time Travel|Time Traveling]] teportation mage who appears in every game of the main series) is able to teleport the heroes' entire naval fleet (consisting of up to 5 battleships, if you do well enough in the naval battles). And it doesn't even seem to be remotely difficult for her; there's no MP cost, no sign of strain, and no limit to how often she can do it. Of course, there's no reason to think that teleporting multiple warships would be more difficult than teleporting a century back in time, something so easily that Viki literally did it ''by accident''. Oddly enough, though, [[Gameplay and Story Segregation|your "master" strategist never thinks of putting her ridiculously powerful ability to strategic use.]]
* 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
* Even though personal transportation and FTL travel use the same technology in ''[[Marathon
* The Chronosphere in ''[[Command and Conquer]]'' ''Red Alert'', which is mentioned to be the result of the Philadelphia Experiment (above).
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* 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 ''[[
== Toys ==
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* On ''[[Justice League Unlimited]]'', A.M.A.Z.O. once ''moved a planet out of the dimension'' on his trip back to Earth. More than that, the planet was ''Oa'', home of the [[Sufficiently Advanced Aliens]] who give the [[Green Lantern]] Corps their rings. If ''they'' couldn't stop A.M.A.Z.O., you know the Justice League's chances didn't look good.
* The Prison Planet in ''[[Shadow Raiders]]'' aka ''War Planets''. Each and [[Planet of Hats|every planet in the cluster]] is equipped with [[Lost Technology|a World Engine]] which sprouts world-sized rockets, seals the atmosphere, and allows the entire thing to travel across space. The exception is the Prison Planet, whose World Engine consists of a massive teleport unit. During the [[Grand Finale]], the Prison Planet is sacrificed to the [[Planet Eater|Beast]] and its Engine is activated, whisking the foe to the other end of the galaxy.
* This was the main goal of the Highbreed army in ''[[Ben 10: Alien Force
* In an episode of ''[[Batman:
* On ''[[
* The ''[[Invader Zim]]'' [[Christmas Episode]] was based around Zim's plan to teleport the entire human species to [[Big Bad Duumvirate|the Tallests]] to be used as slaves. He fails, [[Failure Is the Only Option|of course]].
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