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== [[Literature]] ==
* A guru in one of the ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy|Hitchhiker's Guide]]'' books has the ability to step between a series of pillars and the mountains behind them.
* In the ''[[Discworld]]'' novel ''[[Discworld/Sourcery|Sourcery]]'', the [[Reality Warper|Sourceror]] has this power.
* A [[David Macaulay]] book had a picture of the "discovery of the vanishing point," a bunch of cowboys standing around looking at a spot where parallel train tracks meet.
* Number four is inverted in E. Rose Sabin's ''A School for Sorcery'' where a girl's vision of a terrible monster is defeated when she looks at it through a reversed telescope.
* Zorya Polunochnaya uses version 1 in ''[[American Gods]]'' to pick the moon out of the sky and give it to Shadow, in the form of a coin.
* In ''[[The Scar]]'', a grindylow magical artifact can give its user this power, and is used by a human spy to impressive effect. However, it comes with the price of [[The Corruption|starting to mutate him into something that doesn't quite seem human or grindylow...]]
* Professor H.M. Wogglebug. T.E. from ''[[The Marvelous Land of Oz]]'' (the sequel to ''[[The Wizard of Oz]]'') is a man-sized insect who became so after being projected on a screen—down from which he then climbed, to go about human-scale business in Oz.
 
== Live-Action TV ==
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