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[[File:ps156.gif|link=Problem Sleuth (Webcomic)|frame|Bad idea.]]
 
{{quote|""No! Think about it! You put ''something'' inside the cylinder of wormholes, turn them on for a fraction of a second, turn them off again... what have you got?"<br />
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* In Bio-Booster Armor [[Guyver]], the Zoalord Yentsui, who can cut holes in space and close them at will, uses this as his main offensive tactic.
** Arguably happens every time Sho and Agito bioboost, as the Guyver armor crossing dimensions brings up a 'blast field' destroying everything within a certain radius of them. Whether this counts as [[Portal Cut]] or [[Tele Frag]] is under debate.
* A man in ''[[Six Six Six Satan|666 Satan]]'' has an O-Part that consists of two rings which can become portals between each other, and he can close the portal while something is going through to cut it apart (he does this to Jio's boomerang).
* In ''[[Naruto]]'', Hatake Kakashi's [[Deadly Upgrade|Mangekyou]] [[Evil Eye|Sharingan]] puts up a barrier the contents of which are sucked into another dimension, and will just do this to whatever isn't all the way in. It's not as neat as most examples though, as it's more like whatever is ripped off by force.
** {{spoiler|Danzo}}'s "Reverse Four Symbols Sealing Technique" forms a [[Sphere of Destruction]] sealing anything within range inside the user's body, [[Portal Cut|Portal Cutting]] anything only partway in.
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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 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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* In Marvel's [[Age of Apocalypse]] storyline {{spoiler|the alternate-reality version of Nightcrawler teleports a villain's head off}}.
* The original scene for [[Booster Gold]]'s death in [[Fifty Two]] was supposed to appear as if Booster tried to time travel to escape his fight with Supernova. Because of Supernova's interference with Booster's attempt to travel, Booster shows up a minute later... as a pair of legs. His torso shows up a bit later. In the end, they went with Booster's death in an explosion.
* [[X Men|X-menMen]] villain Fitzroy {{spoiler|met his end this way, as he tried to head through one of his portals [[A God Am I|to merge with time itself]]. He got halfway in, but a shot from Bishop distracted him long enough that the other half didn't before it closed.}}
* This is how Manhunter killed {{spoiler|her supervillain father}}.
* [[Stormwatch]] defeated superpowered [[Nietzsche Wannabe]] killing machine "Father" with this technique.
* {{spoiler|Superman}} kills {{spoiler|Mr. Mxyzptlk}} with the {{spoiler|Phantom Zone projector}} like this in [[Whatever Happened to Thethe Man of Tomorrow?]]. Normally the {{spoiler|Phantom Zone projector}} ''can't'' do this, but it was a special case since at the same time, {{spoiler|Mr. Mxyzptlk}} panics and tries to teleport away himself, so that half of him ends up in his own dimension and half in {{spoiler|the Phantom Zone}}.
* Doctor Finitevus references this in Sonic Universe series when a character jumps at him, only to be redirected by a portal created by Doctor Finitevus. While that character is going through, Doctor Finitevus "wonders" what would happen if the portal were closed while someone were in it.
 
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* The time travel machine in the ''[[Terminator]]'' franchise creates a perfectly spherical bubble for the traveler, cutting out any matter that happens to be in the way of the destination.
* Time travel in the movie ''[[Timeline]]'' causes an odd variation. It's described as being, essentially, a fax machine in 3D. Send a person through enough times and the copy distorts. This results in one unfortunate traveler not only being dumped in the desert, but his organs/veins/bones/etc. being joined together about a 1/2 inch off, causing massive hemorrhages and most likely a painful death.
* When they activate the magic key in [[Masters of the Universe (Filmfilm)|Masters of the Universe]], a good portion of earth gets teleported into the throne room. Along with a car and a part of the adjacent wall.
* The ''[[Stargate (Filmfilm)|Stargate]]'' film had this happen to Ra's [[The Dragon|Dragon]] when his head is inside the ring teleporter, but the rest of his body isn't.
* This happens to the Tall Man in ''[[Phantasm III Lord of the Dead]]'', but he's still able to [[Helping Hands|lend a hand]] afterwards.
 
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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 Aa 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]].
* In Terry Bisson's ''Numbers Don't Lie'', {{spoiler|a lunar rover is cut in half when it stays part-way through the portal too long}}.
* One reason why [[The Witcher|Geralt]] dislikes using portals is his memory of the time he saw one half of a man fall out of one.
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* 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.
 
== Live Action TV ==
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** This also happens with the ring transporters: what's inside gets transported and what's outside isn't, so if a certain [[Colonel Badass]] holds you down and brings the rings down on your neck...
{{quote| '''O'Neil''': "Give my regards to King Tut, asshole!"}}
** Alluded to in the ''[[Stargate Atlantis (TV)|Stargate Atlantis]]'' episode "Thirty-Eight Minutes" wherein the team's [[Cool Ship|jumper]] is stuck halfway through a Stargate, as their engine pods wouldn't retract. McKay shuts the hatch to the forward section, and explains why:
{{quote| '''McKAY''': So that when the Stargate shuts down and the forward section is severed, we're not directly exposed to space.<br />
'''Ford''': Will it hold?<br />
'''McKay''': Like a screen door on a submarine. I just prefer hypoxia to explosive decompression. It's a, it's a personal thing. }}
** Also alluded to in ''[[Stargate Universe (TV)|Stargate Universe]]'' when one of the main characters (Eli Wallace) sticks his hand in the portal to hold it open for just long enough for the rest of the group to get through. From the look on his face and his hesitance to perform the act, he's clearly aware of what might happen if the safety feature does not work as intended. Jack O'Neill did the same thing at least once in ''Stargate SG-1''.
** Narrowly averted in the [[Stargate SG -1|SG11]] episode "Bad Guys". Mitchell is helping Vala manually dial the gate, standing smack in the middle of it. Once they hit the final chevron, Vala yanks him out of the way moments before the wormhole forms right on top of him.
* ''[[Primeval]]'' features this when an anomaly closes on the [[Monster of the Week]] and severs its head.
* The season finale of ''[[Fringe]]'' has this in several instances as Mr. Jones tries to cut his way through to the parallel universe {{spoiler|where William Bell is hiding}}. First time he takes the rear axle off a truck that's passing through the gate; second time, he cuts a soccer player in half as the gate collapses. {{spoiler|He gets his comeuppance when Peter shuts down the portal as he's trying to pass through it}}.
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* An issue of [[Dungeons and Dragons|Dungeon? Dragon? magazine]] with Shadow-powered artifacts relates how this happened to the thief who previously owned them. He'd crafted a bodysuit out of Shadow-matter, and used it to slip in and out of treasuries all over the various kingdoms. One King set up lots of lights, leaving only a single shadowed area large enough for him to step through, with several guards at the ready. When said Thief popped out, the guards cut off his hands and head, causing the rest of him to fall back into the Plane of Shadows. The artifacts were basically the hood and gloves of his suit.
* In the ''[[Magic: theThe Gathering (Tabletop Game)|Magic the Gathering]]'' novel of the "Invasion" set, the ''Weatherlight'' manages to cut an attacking Phyrexian warship in half using this tactic. Notably, rather than doing something as simple as cutting the juice, they blew up one of the Phyrexian ships maintaining the portal, taking out the whole mess with one volley. (And trapping them on the wrong side of the portal, but that's exactly where they need to be.)
* A common tactic in earlier editions of ''[[Dungeons and Dragons (Tabletop Game)|Dungeons and Dragons]]'' was to use the [[Game Breaker|Dimensional Door]] spell in this manner until it was nerfed in 3E. Essentially it allowed a relatively low level spell to cut almost anything in half vertically...
** In 4e the Warlock gets an ability that causes physical damage to an enemy while it teleports them, presumably via this method.
* In ''[[Traveller (Tabletop Game)|Traveller]]'', the only means of traveling faster than light is with a jump drive, a device that surrounds a starship with a "jump bubble" 1-2 metres from the skin of the ship, and then sends it through an alternate dimension for a few parsecs. In addition to potentially driving a person mad if they look at it directly, any object which passes through the bubble is gone and the edge touching the event horizon is cut perfectly between atoms. The parts which passed through are presumably spread out in a thin mist stretching across a good portion of a light year of empty space.
* Very specifically averted in ''[[Planescape (Tabletop Game)|Planescape]]'' with Sigil's numerous interdemensional portals, it's made explicit that if a portal closes when somebody is walking through it they just get shunted to one side or the other depending on how far through the portal they were when it closed.
 
== Toys ==
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* This is revealed to be what happened with the drydock around Aperture Science's ship (the Borealis) at some point before ''[[Half-Life]] 2: Episode Two''.
* This occurs to {{spoiler|the part of the ship Master Chief and Cortana are escaping on}} at the end of ''[[Halo]] 3''.
** It's also done deliberately in ''[[Halo: Reach]]'' {{spoiler|to a Covenant Supercarrier. Noble Team converts the slipspace drive from a UNSC Frigate into a "slipspace bomb" and sets it off inside the supercarrier. The circular portal leaves the severed nose and tail of the ship drifting dead in space while most of the ship - [[Heroic Sacrifice|and Jorge]] - is portal'd out and presumably annihilated}}.
* In one end of ''[[Eternal Darkness]]'' the [[Cosmic Horror]] Ulyaoth [[Curb Stomp Battle|fights]] Chattur'gah using these.
* Specifically [[Averted Trope|averted]] in ''[[Portal (Video Gameseries)|Portal]]''. According to the [[Word of God|developer commentary]], they wanted players to feel safe when standing in portals, so they made sure that if a portal ever closed while the player, or an object, was inside of it, said player or object would be pushed or teleported out of the portal unharmed.
** Actually, you CAN do this to yourself because of a glitch, it just requires a very specific situation: shortly after {{spoiler|1=GLADoS tries to kill you in the incinerator}}, there's a large block-shaped piece of equipment with a small gap you can only get under by crouching. Crawl under it, make a portal on the bottom, make a second somewhere else, stand up while below the first portal, and move the first portal somewhere else. However, it doesn't kill you, as the game engine is not capable of slicing the player, your legs are transported inside the wall (or floor), and you're stuck until you load a new save.
** This actually happens, on purpose, to objects attached to a surface you create a portal on, such as cameras ("vital testing apparatus destroyed") or steps on a bar ladder. Although game-engine wise it's more like the invisible glue that holds them on gets removed.
* In ''[[Starlancer]]'', destroying an enemy cruiser in this manner is a bonus objective in one mission. You have to watch your timing to accomplish it, though.
* In ''[[Runescape]]'', This is the fate of one of the new boss creatures in the new skill. The boss, simply called Stomp, is a behemoth, much like the other ones... except for that it's too large to get through, so only its head sticks out of a portal... that calls down rocks in the fight. After the portal gets weakened several times, at the end of the fight the portal snaps shut, resulting in a suprisingly graphic death - The wall where the portal was gets rather bloodstained, and the monster flails then shudders to it's death. It would be almost sympathetic if the boss [[That One Boss|wasn't so irritating]] due to a huge amount of [[Fake Difficulty]].
* In the lore for ''[[World of Warcraft (Video Game)|World of Warcraft]]'' this happens every time you close a portal on something baring one exception; that being a titian can hold off the force of the portal closing.
** Actually, Titans can't even survive this. The physical form of [[Big Bad|Sargeras]] was destroyed during ''[[The War of the Ancients]]'', a whopping ''ten-thousand years'' before the setting of the series. He's been a spirit ever since, though on at least one occasion manifested an Avatar on Azeroth as part of his plans.
* And though not directly confirmed as adhering to the trope, [[Starcraft]] has the Protoss Dark Templar's weapon of choice; the "Warp Blade".
* In ''[[Mortal Kombat 9 (Video Game)|Mortal Kombat 9]]'', Noob Saibot uses this as his second fatality.
* In ''[[Another World (Videovideo Gamegame)|Another World]]'', This happens to Lester's lab in the intro. The particle experiment goes awry, taking Lester and a sphere of space around him to a distant planet. This leaves exposed piping and missing wall and floor in his lab.
 
== Web Comics ==
 
* This is what happens if you unplug a window while halfway through it in ''[[Problem Sleuth (Webcomic)|Problem Sleuth]]''. It is the method of attack used to slay {{spoiler|Flthulu}}.
* In ''[[Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic)|Sluggy Freelance]]'' Riff tried to use this to pull off the [[Saw a Woman In Half]] trick. There were a [http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=070813 couple] [http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=070815 complications].
** It also cuts [http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/20040824 chains].
* In ''[[Hitmen for Destiny (Webcomic)|Hitmen for Destiny]]'', an otherwise apparently invulnerable assassin is killed by portal-cutting his lower body off. His dead upper body shows up at several points later on, apparently still invulnerable as it shows no signs of decay.
* Averted in ''[[Fite]]'', where it's [http://home.comcast.net/~x8099/thomasblue/fite5to8.html#13 a] [http://home.comcast.net/~x8099/thomasblue/fite5to8.html#14 slam] rather than a cut.
* Happens to a Golden Sand Dragon in [http://www.lfgcomic.com/page/467 this page of] ''[[Webcomicb/Looking For Group|Looking For Group]]''- specifically, the one Cale was riding, resulting in the Dragon being cleanly split in half, which was so gross that even one of the Portal Mages had to remark "Dude. Sick."
* In ''[[Erfworld (Webcomic)|Erfworld]]'', Jack uses this to screw with a bunch of spellcasters; he's looking through the portal when suddenly it fizzles out, decapitating him instantly. Two panels later he drops the illusion spell to show both he and the portal are perfectly fine.
* Mentioned in ''[[Schlock Mercenary (Webcomic)|Schlock Mercenary]]'' [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2012-02-03 here], where a new teleportation device is first tested on Schlock, who can survive dismemberment since he is an amorphous blob of carbosilicate.
 
 
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== Western Animation ==
 
* ''[[Legion of Super -Heroes (TV series)|Legion of Super Heroes]]'' has an odd example. In "Brain Drain," an unstable transmatter gate nicknamed "Old Chompy" apparently has a tendency to not only short out, but to randomly switch destinations, sending Brainiac 5's [[Losing Your Head|head to one planet and his body to another]].
* After hastily trying to get a teleporter to work, Dr. Venture in ''[[The Venture Bros]]'' ends up teleporting his body into various places, including an arm that appeared outside of a prison miles away. The body parts still function as if they were attached, as evident when Venture observes that when one of his nipples feels cold, they both shrivel ([[Too Much Information|which Brock really didn't want to hear about]]).
* This happens in ''[[Re Boot]]'' when one of Bob's time locked portals closed when a guardian ship was passing through it.
* In an episode of ''[[Johnny Test]]'', Bling Bling Boy's teleporter delivers him without one of his legs, causing him to fall over. This is only because that teleporter isn't quite perfected yet however; he explains to Johnny that the teleporter has done this before, and sure enough, the leg reappears a few seconds later.
* In [[Spider-Man: theThe Animated Series (Animation)|Spider-Man the Animated Series]], the Hobgoblin acquires the portal-opening Time Dilation Accelerator and goes on a crime spree. Then he loses a part of his cape this way, [[Oh Crap|making him realize]] that he ''really'' needs to find a battery for the device that's ''not'' about to go dead.
* A [[Running Gag]] with the Picture Teleporter in the "Picture This!" episode of ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]''. In their first demonstration of the device, Phineas and Ferb teleport an apple off of Buford's head, taking off a bit of his hair with it and giving him an impromptu buzzcut. When they teleport Ferb's skateboard back from their grandparents's place, they accidentally take their grandfather's feet with it. [[Amusing Injuries|It's played for laughs, though,]] so there's no blood, and the boys immediately send the feet back... backwards.
* Implied to have happened in a ''[[Robot Chicken]]'' clip, in which a magician pulls a rabbit's decapitated head out of a hat. To judge by his reaction, he'd been expecting a whole rabbit.
* In ''[[Thundercats 2011 (Western Animation)|Thundercats 2011]]'', {{spoiler|Grune is being sucked into [[Another Dimension]] and grabs onto Panthro's arms, telling him pulling him out is the only way either can survive. Panthro decides to take his chances, and Grune is sucked in, taking both of Panthro's arms with him. For the sake of [[Bloodless Carnage]] the ends of the arm stumps are glowing the same color as the portal, but were still bandaged up afterwards as if they were bleeding.}}
* In an episode of ''[[Martin Mystery]]'', the [[Monster of the Week|Sandman]] tried to get into to the waking world through a portal in a computer screen, managing to get an arm through before Martin turned off the power. Instead of acting like a guillotine though, the closed portal was more along the lines of a slammed window, pinning the Sandman's arm and trapping him.
 
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