Teleport Spam: Difference between revisions

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== Anime and Manga ==

* Any character who is described as being incredibly fast in ''[[Dragon Ball]]'' is generally going to be able to do this, though with [[Super Speed]] rather than teleportation, and this especially comes up with Cell, whose speed is a plot point several times. In most cases this is done by both combatants at the same time - when it is taken [[No, I Am Behind You|particularly far]] the result looks like nothing more than random shockwaves in the air.

** Movie 6 is a more appropriate example, with Goku and Metal Cooler spamming the Instantaneous Movement technique against each other.

 

== Comic Books ==

* The ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'' character Nightcrawler was fond of this tactic. In the comics, he could deck several opponents before the first hit the ground. In the second movie, he [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|uses this technique to take out at least a dozen Secret Service agents]], [[Crowning Music of Awesome|while scored to Mozart's Dies Irae]]. In ''[[Marvel Ultimate Alliance]]'', one cut scene has Nightcrawler use this to defeat a bunch of Doom Bots. In fact, because of the somewhat stressful nature of his teleport, it's a viable tactic for him to simply grab an enemy and port a few times, leaving them exhausted or unconscious.

** He leaves a layer of gas from the dimension he teleports to each time he does. In the movie example, one off-screen fight has him take out a moderate sized room filled with agents. When the door to that room is opened, it is seen that he had teleported so much that the midday, open window-shade room is now pitch black from the gas.

 

== Film ==

* Kirigi did this in ''[[Elektra (film)|Elektra]]''.

* In the movie ''[[Jumper (novel)|Jumper]]'', they do this a lot, sometimes to the point of knowing that they are just showing off.

** As well as John Wraith. Deadpool did [[Powers as Programs|borrow it from him]], after all. {{spoiler|Which didn't help much when Victor figured out that he teleported in a predictable pattern, and got him to teleport into roughly the same area as Victor's claws, with predictable results.}}

* The Lord Marshal uses a variation of this technique during the final duel in ''[[The Chronicles of Riddick]]''. He splits in two, one being in the original spot, the other being wherever he wants to go, and then chooses on one or the other. In this case, he dies because he's caught by surprise mid-teleport and would be killed in either of the two locations.

* Jason Voorhees does this to Eva in ''[[Friday the 13th (film)|Friday the 13 th]] Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan'', appearing in and out of her sight, making her unable to escape and in the end appears before her and strangles her.

 

== Literature ==

* Short story ''Not a Prison Make'' by Joseph P. Martino. The natives of an alien planet have the ability to teleport at will. They use it to make guerrilla attacks against invading Earth troops, including suddenly appearing and attacking without warning.

* In Brian Lumley's ''[[Necroscope]]'' novels, Harry Keogh tends to do this once he's learned now to access the Moebius Continuum.

* Fletcher from ''[[Skulduggery Pleasant]]'' (said to be the last living Teleporter) has this as his favoured tactic once he's able to teleport more than a few feet. Typically, he'll teleport in increasingly effective weapons to strike an opponent with, before just teleporting away with them when they're sufficiently battered. Ironically, this arguably makes him the most effective combatant in the series despite being the least capable fighter, the weakest, and probably the most cowardly (which all also mean that a sufficiently prepared and powerful opponent doesn't have much trouble with him).

* The characters in ''[[Harry Potter]]'' don't tend to Apparate in the midst of battle quite as often as do the other examples on this page. However, [[Those Two Guys|Fred and George]] take advantage of the spell as soon as they're legally able to. Contrasting them with an older brother, their mother says "Bill didn’t feel the need to Apparate every few feet!" (amusingly, two books previously they complained when their next oldest brother, Percy, also apperated down the stairs and the like just to show he could).

 

* [[Heroes (TV series)|Hiro Nakamura]] tends to fight like this on the (rare) occasions when he's not holding the [[Idiot Ball]].

* Kamen Rider Odin in ''[[Kamen Rider Ryuki]]'' favors this tactic above all else.

* In ''[[Sanctuary]]'' Adam Worth uses this against Magnus. Over the course of their battle she becomes much better at dealing with it and eventually manages to turn the power against him by damaging his protective gear just before he jumped.

 

* Blink dogs in ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]''. Phase spiders, in another style—pop on the Prime behind someone, bite, dive back into [[Layered World|Border Ethereal]], move around, repeat.

** And thus ''Blink'' spell, especially when uncontrollability was buffed away in D&D 3.

 

== Web Animation ==

* In ''[[Dead Fantasy]]'' part one, Kasumi does this to dodge and attack Yuna and Rikku.

* Mecha Sonic in ''[[Super Mario Bros Z]]'' does this to Axem Pink to disorient her before hitting her from behind.

 

== Web Comics ==

* {{spoiler|Charles}} in ''[[PS238]]''.

* Bro of ''[[Homestuck]]'' is so good at this that Dave (who's already fairly proficient at [[Flash Step]]ping to begin with) winds up fighting his ''afterimage'' during their duel.

 

== Web Original ==

* In the fan film of ''[[Mega Man (film)|Mega Man]]'', the eponymous robot gets his own teleporter and does this against Wily and Copy Robot. Odd, since in the games it's Wily, not Mega Man, who tends to do this.

 

== Western Animation ==

* ''[[Wakfu]]'' has Yugo, and all Eliatropes by proxy ( {{spoiler|not that there's any left to compare}}), who uses this as his main strategy.

** So would we call Teleport Spam a common EliaTrope?

** In season 2, {{spoiler|Qilby, another Eliatrope, appears. When he reveals himself as the [[Big Bad]], he displays teleport spamming even better than Yugo's.}}

* Kyd Wykkyd did this against Kid Flash in ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]''. Impressive, considering it was done against someone with [[Super Speed]].

** Discord is also [[Villain Teleportation|quite a fan of this.]]

** Twilight does it again throughout 'Lesson Zero'. Note that in both that episode and 'Applebuck Season', she's using it to actually spam. Well, talk a lot, anyway. (She also uses a tactical version in 'Luna Eclipsed' to block a panicking Pinkie.)

 

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