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A subcategory of [[Teleportation Tropes]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
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* 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 [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, [[
== [[Fanfic]] ==
* The event that transported Ryanverse Earth and its surroundings into the [[Battle Tech]] universe, in ''[[An Entry With a Bang (Fanfic)|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 [[
== [[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 (Creator)]] 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 ''[[
* 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 [[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|time travel]] as well.
** 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 [[
* 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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