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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 (
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== Anime ==
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX]]'': The hot spring at Duel Academia turns out to be a portal to the Duel Monsters' world. Fortunately for the boys, [[Fetish Retardant|the wayward trip comes with instant wardrobe replacement]].
* ''[[Kyou Kara Maou]]'': Yuuri's primary conveyance between the two worlds are bodies of water. His first trip was amusingly brought about by getting his head dunked in the toilet.
* ''[[Inuyasha]]'' has a portal ''well''. However, it's ''empty'', so be sure you meet the requirements for transport, 'cause if you don't make it across, it's gonna hurt.
* Skuld in ''[[Ah!
* The manga series ''[[Shinobi Life]]'' has first Kagetora, and then others, sent back and forth between the modern era and the time period Kagetora's from, via falling into a lake. However, arriving back in our time somehow results in appearing right above and a little to the left of a large skyscraper. Good thing he's a ninja.
* ''[[
* [[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.
== Film ==
* [[Hot Tub Time Machine
* In ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]: At World's End'', {{spoiler|the ocean of Davy Jones' Locker acts as a one-way [[Portal Pool]] that leads [[Back From the Dead]], but only if you're in an upside-down boat, and only at sunset (which is sunrise in the living world). And anything that sucks you underwater from this end - waterfalls, whirlpools, humongous invertebrate cephalopods - can take you over.}}
** 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.
* [[
* 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 [[Portal Pool]] that his son got lost in several years before.
* ''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.
* [[
** 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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* A [[Tom Sawyer]]-esque fantasy world (complete with rustic Earth Grandmother) at the bottom of a swimming pool appears in an episode of the ''[[The Twilight Zone]]''.
* Perhaps more a stylistic similarity than [[Playing
* The [[Lost World]] at the bottom of the waterfall in the original ''[[Land of the Lost (TV series)|Land of the Lost]]''.
* The eponymous ''Catweazle'', a bumbling wizard, casts a spell in the 11th century to escape from invading Normans, jumps into a lake, and finds himself transported to the 20th century. He goes back in the last episode of series 1, but repeats the procedure in series 2.
* Angel jumps into an empty swimming pool in Season 2 of ''[[Angel]]'' that acts a portal to another place.
* In ''[[
* 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.
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== Video Games ==
* The entrance to the Hazy Maze Cave and Dire Dire Docks (in this case a vertical wall of water) in ''[[Super Mario Bros.|Super Mario]] 64''.
** The entrance to the Metal Cave in Hazy Maze Cave, which turns out to be [[Mind Screw|behind the suspicious waterfall outside the castle.]]
* While not literal, Sora's dream sequence in the beginning of ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' evokes the same sort of imagery as he plummets into the ocean and lands in a surreal, foreshadowing, tutorial sequence.
** It also happens to {{spoiler|Roxas}} and {{spoiler|Ventus}} in the opening movie cutscenes for ''[[
* In ''[[
* The Mermaid Pools in ''[[Okami]]'' serve as the game's [[Warp Whistle]].
* In ''[[Neverwinter Nights]]'', a pool in Neverwinter Wood allows access to the realm in which the forest's guardian spirit dwells. Rather than simply jumping in, however, the player must acquire a special knife and then it ''stab it into his/her own heart'' while kneeling therein.
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* Not exactly the same thing, but old-school hilarious adventure game ''[[Eric the Unready]]'' featured a magical banana which could be summoned out of any body of water by speaking a magic word.
* The Jade Passage in ''[[Final Fantasy II (Video Game)|Final Fantasy II]]''.
* ''[[Clive
* Your first trip through one in ''[[
== Western Animation ==
* ''[[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
* ''[[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 ''[[
* [[Courage the Cowardly Dog]] featured a sea witch of sorts who used these to transport back and forth in between her magical lair.
== Web Original ==
* ''[[
** They also have [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-120 SCP-120], a pool that cycles through 11 different destinations. To choose a particular destination, Class D personnel have to be used. Why? Five of the eleven destinations are the Lagrange points. Which are in space. And the pool only works with living, awake humans.
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