Portal Cut: Difference between revisions

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The opposite of a [[Tele Frag]] (but no less deadly). See also [[Teleporter Accident]], for more general mishaps.

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* Two Contractors with different kinds of teleportation powers in ''[[Darker Than Black]]'' do this as an attack. The first could swap-teleport two objects, and would often switch an opponent's [[Beat Still My Heart|vital organs]] with some random object. The second could teleport things covered by [[Bloody Murder|his blood]], so he would take a knife and fling bits of his blood all over people before teleporting the sections of their body the blood covers... somewhere else.

* [[Bokurano|Coemushi]] does this when a character points a gun at him. He retaliates teleporting away the gun with the hand of the man still holding it.

* Vanilla Ice's stand Cream is capable of doing this in ''[[Jo ~~Jos~~ Bizarre Adventure (Manga)|Jo Jos Bizarre Adventure]]''--and indeed does wind up doing this to Avdol, leaving only his hands. He attempts this on Polnareff as well, managing to get his heels but ultimately failing to land the killshot.

* Vanilla Ice's stand Cream is capable of doing this in ''[[Jo Jo's Bizarre Adventure (Manga)|Jo Jos Bizarre Adventure]]''--and indeed does wind up doing this to Avdol, leaving only his hands. He attempts this on Polnareff as well, managing to get his heels but ultimately failing to land the killshot.

* [[Inuyasha]]'s Meidou Zangetsu and, even more explicitly, his Cutting Meidou do this all the time. In the latter's case, even to things that are outright immune to the former.

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* [[Forgotten Realms]] novel ''[http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Elfshadow Elfshadow]'' shows a strike team trying to jump through opened portal while mage tries to move it into more defended location to prevent such attacks. By the end of the spell, one of attackers was about halfway through.

* In [[Con Sentiency]], temporary portals are main transportation method, so these accidents happen, especially in hasty action (''Whipping Star'').

* In the ''[[Wheel of Time]]'' series, gateways cause Portal Cuts when they open as well as when they close. This comes into play as a weapon in the "Deathgate" weave, in which gateways are sent zooming through the battlefield, rapidly opening and closing. It should be noted, however, that the chief purpose of Deathgates is not [[Portal Cut|portal cutting]] but rather just to send its targets [[Portal Slam|to random locations]], as shadowspawn [[Magic a Is Magic A|can't survive]] traveling through gateways.

* In the ''[[Wheel of Time]]'' series, gateways cause Portal Cuts when they open as well as when they close. This comes into play as a weapon in the "Deathgate" weave, in which gateways are sent zooming through the battlefield, rapidly opening and closing. It should be noted, however, that the chief purpose of Deathgates is not [[Portal Cut|portal cutting]] but rather just to send its targets [[Portal Slam|to random locations]], as shadowspawn [[Magic A Is Magic A|can't survive]] traveling through gateways.

** One character particularly adept with Gateways [[Mundane Utility|uses tiny ones as very small knives]], to make perfectly clean cuts in his leatherworking.

* [[The Cross Time Engineer (Literature)|The Cross Time Engineer]] series employs [[Portal Cut|Portal Cuts]] for many purposes, including [[Cool Sword|embedding a super-thin layer of diamond in the center of a sword to make the edge]].

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* In ''The Tomorrow War'' setting by Alexander Zorich the volume moved by an [[FTL]] drive is effectively limited (the cost becomes prohibitive), so big ships have to use several. When some malfunction causes them to jump ever so slightly out of sync, this can't end well.

* The climax of the novel ''The Prestige'' by Christopher Priest features a version of this: {{spoiler|Borden turns off Tesla's copy/teleportation machine in the middle of its cycle while Angier's in it. This splits Angier's total body mass between the two locations. One ends up being a sort of ghost who can push through walls and the other simply deteriorates through a series of unnatural afflictions before dying some months later.}}

* This happens to the landscape as a side effect of the Ring of Fire event in [[~~Sixteen Thirty Two|~~1632]].

* This happens to the landscape as a side effect of the Ring of Fire event in [[1632]].

* In Vernor Vinge's ''[[The Peace War]]'' and ''Marooned in Real Time'', the "bobbles", spherical fields that place anyone and anything within in temporal stasis, cut through anything intersecting the field's boundary when they activate. One scene in the latter book has a man in a bobble just long enough to be taken out of his house, which suffers quite a bit of damage - not from the bobble itself, but from the physical act of cutting it out of the house.

* In ''[[Shadow Ops (Literature)|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.