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In some, you just keep falling until the water disappears and you hit solid ground -- always unharmed, of course. In others, you step or fall in, go down (what are those weird lights?), turn to head back up (wasn't this ''down'' a minute ago?), and find you're still in a body of water, but it's not in Kansas anymore. Such cases are not guaranteed to work both ways.
 
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 (Video Game)|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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* The ''[[Buffy]]'' episode ''Anne'' has a portal to a demon dimension where kidnapped street kids are taken to be worked to death that looks like a pool of used motor oil.
* 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 (TV)|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.}}
 
== Mythology ==
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