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{{quote|'''Digory''': I think we can get out of this place into jolly well Anywhere! We don't need to jump back into the same pool we came up by. Or at least not yet."
'''Polly''': The Wood between the Worlds. It sounds rather nice.|''[[The
If you're a character in a fantasy setting, proceed with caution when approaching any large body of water. The most mundane-looking lake, spring, waterfall or well could secretly be a [[Cool Gate|portal]] to a [[Magical Land]]. Your [[Breather Episode|Breather]] at the [[Hot Springs Episode|local hot spring]] could turn dreadfully exciting without warning.
In some, you just keep falling until the water disappears and you hit solid
Compare [[Portal Picture]], its oil-and-canvas counterpart. Compare also [[Portal Door]], when doors lead to someplace non-adjacent. Not to be confused with [[No-Flow Portal]], which can be about portals immersed ''in'' pools, nor with the pools in ''[[Portal (series)|Portal]]'', which will cause an [[Grimy Water|unsatisfactory mark on your official testing record, followed by death]]. Nor [http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lny984puEU1qemhe7o1_500.jpg this,] as long as we're talking about ''Portal.''
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* [[Big Bad|Fate Averruncus]] from ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' can use water to teleport (Evangeline and Kotaro use shadow instead).
** {{spoiler|Akira}}'s Artifact lets her get in on the act, too.
* In ''[[
* One of the three demons lords in ''[[Demon City Shinjuku]]'' resides in an aquatic abyss, and uses the city's puddles as portal pools to pull in and drown unwary travelers. When the hero kills the demon in its own realm, all the puddles suddenly erupt as geysers, throwing him back into the real world.
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* [[Hot Tub Time Machine|Hot Tub]] [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Time Machine]].
* In ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]: At World's End'', {{spoiler|the ocean of Davy Jones' Locker acts as a one-way
** In ''On Stranger Tides'', the pool of gravity-defying water in the cave is a portal to the Fountain of Youth, although at first it looks like the pool "eats" things that touch it.
* Inverted in ''[[Enchanted]]'': a fairy-tale princess is pushed down a well and ends up in the very ''un''-magical land of modern Manhattan.
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* The 1997 movie ''[[Warriors of Virtue]]'' consisted of this when the protagonist falls into a whirlpool and is teleported to the land of Tao.
* In ''[[Poltergeist|Poltergeist 3]]'', an oil slick in a parking deck turns into a portal pool, with monstrous hands reaching out of it to abduct Carol Anne, as well as her cousin and the cousin's boyfriend. The rest of her family later finds the other two chilled to the bone but otherwise unharmed {{spoiler|...at least, [[Doppelganger|so it seems]]}}.
* The horror movie ''House'' (not that ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'') has several portals connected to one another through different parts of the house. The portal pool effect comes into play when Roger explores the abyss behind the bathroom mirror, and ends up falling into a black ocean that leads down into a river in his Vietnam-based [[Mental World]]. Diving into the river again causes him to surface in the swimming pool behind the house, which was the same
* ''The Water Babies''.
* ''[[The Blair Witch Project]]'' - Ten-year-old Eileen Treacle went to the first annual Wheat Harvest Picnic near Tappy East Creek. During the picnic, Eileen wandered off to wade in ankle deep water. Eleven eye-witnesses claimed to have seen a ghostly white hand reach up out of the water and pull her in under the surface. No body was ever recovered. Later, the creek mysteriously became clogged with oily bundles of sticks, rendering the water useless for thirteen days.
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* There was a [[Choose Your Own Adventure]] book that used this trope.
* [[C. S. Lewis|CS Lewis]]'s ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia]]'': The portals branching off to various worlds in The Wood Between The Worlds lie in pools scattered about the Wood. Jump into a pool, land in a
** Interestingly, pools can also lead to "empty worlds" where nothing exists yet (allowing some characters to {{spoiler|actually witness the creation of Narnia}}), though the destruction of a world causes its pool to dry up (as happened with {{spoiler|Jadis' home world}}).
* Dian Curtis Regan's ''Princess Nevermore'' (much like ''[[Enchanted]]'') features a princess from a magical land who travels to the "real" world by way of a magical pool.
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* In [[Fringe]] episode set back in eighties Peter Bishop, {{spoiler|recently kidnapped from another universe}}, tried to invoke this trope almost dying in progress.
* Subverted in ''[[Doctor Who]]'' "The Curse of the Black Spot". The "siren" is initially thought to enter the ship through standing water so everyone hides in the driest parts of the ship. {{spoiler|She actually uses reflections to travel and she's really a misguided computer simulation doctor from an alien ship.}}
== Music ==
* In the music video for ''[[Blue (video)|Blue]]'' by ''[[The Birthday Massacre]]'', the centre of the main room contains a grate over a vent filled with blue ink. Reaching in, Chibi is able to manipulate the room on the other side, and starts trying to drag a doll back through to her side.
== Mythology ==
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* ''[[Codename: Kids Next Door]]'', "Operation POOL": In fact, in this episode, any swimming pool combined with the proper [[Applied Phlebotinum]] can become a portal between the real world and the [[Mirror Universe]].
* Peter Potamus' hot tub in ''[[Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law]]'' somehow turns into a portal to prehistory.
* ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy
* The ''[[Cow and Chicken]]'' episode "The Laughing Puddle": people are disappearing one by one into a creepy laughing puddle, until Chicken is the only one remaining. With great trepidation he jumps
* [[Courage the Cowardly Dog]] featured a sea witch of sorts who used these to transport back and forth in between her magical lair.
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