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== Advertising ==
* An oddly ''harmless'' example comes from the Disovery Channel's ''Know More Than You Should'' series of advertisements. It starts with several scenes of the bottom half of a woman running blindly through a city bumping into things. Then it cuts to the top half of the same woman stuck in a home-made teleporter while her husband tries in vain to fix it.
{{quote|'''Husband:''' I'm gonna have to run out to the hardware store.}}
== Anime and Manga ==
* In ''[[Super Dimension Fortress Macross]]'', this is what happens to [[Mass Teleportation|Macross Island and a good amount of ''environment'' around it]]. The [[Teleporters and Transporters|Fold Engines]] on the Macross generate a [[Sphere of Destruction|spherical field]] around the ship, engulfing part of the island and neatly cutting it off the Earth. The other end of the Fold gate, on the orbit of Pluto, shows a perfect sphere of land, sea, air, clouds, ''and sunlight'', instants before dissipating.... which [[Space Is Cold|flash-freezes]] the teleported mass.
* In Bio-Booster Armor [[Guyver]], the Zoalord Yentsui, who can cut holes in space and close them at will, uses this as his main offensive tactic.
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== Comic Books ==
* This is the power of the [[Marvel Comics]] mutant Blink. She (well, an [[Alternate Universe]] version of her) later refines this into actual full-body teleportation. The AU version is quite capable of slicing up what she teleports too, but the mainstream [[Marvel Universe]] version could ''only'' do that because of her [[How Do I Shot Web?|limited of control of her powers]].
* Another Marvel mutant, Locus (this one a villain) likes to do this, or at least threatens to do it a lot (not sure if she's ever done so "onscreen").
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== Film ==
* The time travel machine in the ''[[Terminator]]'' franchise creates a perfectly spherical bubble for the traveler, cutting out any matter that happens to be in the way of the destination.
* Time travel in the movie ''[[Timeline]]'' causes an odd variation. It's described as being, essentially, a fax machine in 3D. Send a person through enough times and the copy distorts. This results in one unfortunate traveler not only being dumped in the desert, but his organs/veins/bones/etc. being joined together about a
* When they activate the magic key in [[Masters of the Universe (film)|Masters of the Universe]], a good portion of earth gets teleported into the throne room. Along with a car and a part of the adjacent wall.
* The ''[[Stargate (film)|Stargate]]'' film had this happen to Ra's [[The Dragon|Dragon]] when his head is inside the ring teleporter, but the rest of his body isn't.
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== Literature ==
* This is referred to as "splinching" in ''[[Harry Potter]]'', and it is caused by a lack of concentration on the entire object to be <s>teleported</s> apparated (most often, oneself). Luckily, magic healing is easily available most of the time.
** However, a particularly bad splinch could cause you to bleed to death.
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* In ''[[Shadow Ops]]'', protagonist Britton discovers that this is one of the deadlier applications of his inherent gate magic. The gates he can create instantly slice through any material when opening or closing, and Britton puts it to devastating use once he learns how to rapidly open and close them.
== Live
* One episode of ''[[Eureka]]'' has spheres of matter being transported through time.
* The eponymous Stargates in the [[Stargate Verse]] usually avert this, thanks to some [[Techno Babble]] about the [[Cool Gate]]s only transporting whole objects. However, there are a few instances where it happens. A person was partially decapitated after having their head stuck part-way through the gate while it was shutting down, but this was done purposefully. Another variation happens when the gate shuts down while an object is still in transit; without another stargate to reassemble the object properly, it comes out somewhere in space as a randomly assorted blob of molecules (which, as Carter points out, would be really bad for a person, but not so much for a pure element).
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== Tabletop Games ==
* An issue of [[Dungeons & Dragons|Dungeon? Dragon? magazine]]{{verify}} with Shadow-powered artifacts relates how this happened to the thief who previously owned them. He'd crafted a bodysuit out of Shadow-matter, and used it to slip in and out of treasuries all over the various kingdoms. One King set up lots of lights, leaving only a single shadowed area large enough for him to step through, with several guards at the ready. When said Thief popped out, the guards cut off his hands and head, causing the rest of him to fall back into the Plane of Shadows. The artifacts were basically the hood and gloves of his suit.▼
* In the ''[[Magic: The
▲* An issue of [[Dungeons & Dragons|Dungeon? Dragon? magazine]] with Shadow-powered artifacts relates how this happened to the thief who previously owned them. He'd crafted a bodysuit out of Shadow-matter, and used it to slip in and out of treasuries all over the various kingdoms. One King set up lots of lights, leaving only a single shadowed area large enough for him to step through, with several guards at the ready. When said Thief popped out, the guards cut off his hands and head, causing the rest of him to fall back into the Plane of Shadows. The artifacts were basically the hood and gloves of his suit.
▲* In the ''[[Magic: The Gathering|Magic the Gathering]]'' novel of the "Invasion" set, the ''Weatherlight'' manages to cut an attacking Phyrexian warship in half using this tactic. Notably, rather than doing something as simple as cutting the juice, they blew up one of the Phyrexian ships maintaining the portal, taking out the whole mess with one volley. (And trapping them on the wrong side of the portal, but that's exactly where they need to be.)
* A common tactic in earlier editions of ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' was to use the [[Game Breaker|Dimensional Door]] spell in this manner until it was nerfed in 3E. Essentially it allowed a relatively low level spell to cut almost anything in half vertically...
** In 4e the Warlock gets an ability that causes physical damage to an enemy while it teleports them, presumably via this method.
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== Toys ==
* In LEGO's ''[[Bionicle]]'' storyline, portals made by a Mask of Dimensional Gates close after a person enters them. An alternate "[[The Empire|Empress]]" version of Toa Tuyet, attempting to escape her dimension where [[La Résistance]] was closing in on her, tried to be number two. She was sliced in half and died instantly.
== Video Games ==
* One possible ending for the Gallonigher levels in ''[[Colony Wars]]'' is for this to happen to a Navy Titan as you close the warp hole.
* The space simulator ''[[Free Space]]'' essentially ends with this: {{spoiler|[[Reactor Boss|the Lucifer's]] last reactor is destroyed just as it emerges out of hyperspace near Earth. As a result, only the first half of the ship passes the portal's event horizon before it collapses. This also provides for some unforeseen consequences in the sequel.}}
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* In one end of ''[[Eternal Darkness]]'' the [[Cosmic Horror]] Ulyaoth [[Curb Stomp Battle|fights]] Chattur'gah using these.
* Specifically [[Averted Trope|averted]] in ''[[Portal (series)|Portal]]''. According to the [[Word of God|developer commentary]], they wanted players to feel safe when standing in portals, so they made sure that if a portal ever closed while the player, or an object, was inside of it, said player or object would be pushed or teleported out of the portal unharmed.
** Actually, you
** This actually happens, on purpose, to objects attached to a surface you create a portal on, such as cameras ("vital testing apparatus destroyed") or steps on a bar ladder. Although game-engine
* In ''[[Starlancer]]'', destroying an enemy cruiser in this manner is a bonus objective in one mission. You have to watch your timing to accomplish it, though.
* In ''[[RuneScape]]'', This is the fate of one of the new boss creatures in the new skill. The boss, simply called Stomp, is a behemoth, much like the other ones... except for that it's too large to get through, so only its head sticks out of a portal... that calls down rocks in the fight. After the portal gets weakened several times, at the end of the fight the portal snaps shut, resulting in a suprisingly graphic death - The wall where the portal was gets rather bloodstained, and the monster flails then shudders to it's death. It would be almost sympathetic if the boss [[That One Boss|wasn't so irritating]] due to a huge amount of [[Fake Difficulty]].
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== Web Comics ==
* This is what happens if you unplug a window while halfway through it in ''[[Problem Sleuth]]''. It is the method of attack used to slay {{spoiler|Flthulu}}.
* In ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' Riff tried to use this to pull off the [[Saw a Woman In Half]] trick. There were a [https://web.archive.org/web/20161003085624/http://sluggy.com/daily.php?date=070813 couple] [https://web.archive.org/web/20130906172246/http://sluggy.com/daily.php?date=070815 complications].
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== Web Original ==
* This is how {{spoiler|Bahamut}} is defeated in ''[[Dead Fantasy]]''.
* Occurs in ''[[Shinji and Warhammer40K|Shinji and Warhammer 40 K]]'' during the fight against Leliel, when the opening to the Dirac sea closes on something, "cutting away at it with the universe's sharpest possible edge".
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== Western Animation ==
* ''[[Legion of Super-Heroes (TV series)|Legion of Super Heroes]]'' has an odd example. In "Brain Drain," an unstable transmatter gate nicknamed "Old Chompy" apparently has a tendency to not only short out, but to randomly switch destinations, sending Brainiac 5's [[Losing Your Head|head to one planet and his body to another]].
* After hastily trying to get a teleporter to work, Dr. Venture in ''[[The Venture Bros]]'' ends up teleporting his body into various places, including an arm that appeared outside of a prison miles away. The body parts still function as if they were attached, as evident when Venture observes that when one of his nipples feels cold, they both shrivel ([[Too Much Information|which Brock really didn't want to hear about]]).
* This happens in ''[[
* In an episode of ''[[Johnny Test]]'', Bling Bling Boy's teleporter delivers him without one of his legs, causing him to fall over. This is only because that teleporter isn't quite perfected yet however; he explains to Johnny that the teleporter has done this before, and sure enough, the leg reappears a few seconds later.
* In [[Spider-Man: The
* A [[Running Gag]] with the Picture Teleporter in the "Picture This!" episode of ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]''. In their first demonstration of the device, Phineas and Ferb teleport an apple off of Buford's head, taking off a bit of his hair with it and giving him an impromptu buzzcut. When they teleport Ferb's skateboard back from their grandparents's place, they accidentally take their grandfather's feet with it. [[Amusing Injuries|It's played for laughs, though,]] so there's no blood, and the boys immediately send the feet back... backwards.
* Implied to have happened in a ''[[Robot Chicken]]'' clip, in which a magician pulls a rabbit's decapitated head out of a hat. To judge by his reaction, he'd been expecting a whole rabbit.
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