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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]].
A subcategory of [[Teleportation Tropes]].
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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.
** The Protodevelin do this to the city section of the titular ''[[Macross 7]]''. The New Macross class colony ships are designed to do this voluntarily as well.
* Hell's Gate and Heaven's Gate in ''[[Darker Than Black]]'' may qualify. It's left kind of vague whether the things were teleported to another dimension or are just completely sealed off.
* 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.
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== [[Literature]] ==
* ''[[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 [[Mass Teleportation]].
* 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 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.
* 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]]}}.
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* 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 ''[[Animorphs]]'' novel ''The Ellimist Chronicles'' has [[Sufficiently Advanced Alien|the Ellimist]] move the entire Earth halfway around its orbit to keep [[Evil Counterpart|Crayak]] from destroying it.
* 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 a Higher Plane of Existence|higher]].}}
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* Entire planets get teleported around the universe with disturbing regularity in ''[[Doctor Who]]''.
** The titular world of the Fourth Doctor adventure "The Pirate Planet" teleports itself around other planets so as to more easily strip-mine them dry, while pretending that the mineral deposits are the world's own mines.
** Earth and several other worlds being stolen by the Daleks at the end of [[Continuity Snarl|thirtieth/fourth]] season.
** {{spoiler|Gallifrey, the homeworld of the Time Lords itself, is transported next to Earth in the 10th Doctor's final story - for all of 5 minutes.}}
* ''[[Andromeda]]'' has the entire solar systems of Tarn Vedra and Ral Parthia being teleported off to a pocket dimension to hide them from a Magog invasion.
* 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.
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* In ''[[The Outer Limits]]'' episode "Feasibility Study", a neighborhood is teleported to another planet.
* In ''[[Fringe]]'' an entire building is transported from the alternate universe into our own, smack-dab on top of its counterpart building. Things get pretty weird...
* ''[[The Event]]'' relied on teleportation a lot, most notably in the first two episodes when a plane is teleported across the country, and in the finale where {{spoiler|the aliens' entire planet gets teleported next to Earth}}.
* In the ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]'' [[Series Fauxnale]] Doomsday, Rita teleported the entire population of Angel Grove to one of her dark dimensions. If they remained trapped there too long they'd vanish.
* 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 RPG]] ==
* ''[[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: 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.
* 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 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.
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* The Xen creatures in ''[[Half-Life]]'' could be considered an example, but the Combine in ''Half-Life 2'' are definitely one: they teleport massive armies to Earth and take over within hours.
** According to some interpretations, the Combine even teleported in the Citadel, their massive headquarters building. Also in Episode 2, the Aperture Science Borealis might count, since it's an entire ship, and a reference to the Philadelphia Experiment.
* 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|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 a Can|sealing away cultures that become too powerful]].
* Even though personal transportation and FTL travel use the same technology in ''[[Marathon Trilogy|Marathon]]'', it was still quite a shock to all observers when an ancient [[Precursors|Jjarro]] device was used to {{spoiler|transport an ''entire inhabited moon'' into orbit}}.
* The Chronosphere in ''[[Command
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