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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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* [[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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* Peter Potamus' hot tub in ''[[Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law]]'' somehow turns into a portal to prehistory.
* ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy]]'' parodies the Twilight Zone episode in "Puddle Jumpers", when Grim's scythe turns Billy's inflatable pool into a "cosmic sinkhole" that leads to several different worlds, including a bayou inhabited by a kindly old grandmother... except [[I'm a Humanitarian|she wants to bake Billy into a pie]].
* 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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