Teleportation Sickness: Difference between revisions

{{quote|'''Harry Potter''': ''"I...I just [[Teleporters and Transporters|disapparated]], didn't I?"''

'''Dumbledore''': ''"Indeed. Quite successfully too, if I might add. Most people vomit the first time."''

 

[[Teleporter Accident]] is when [[Teleportation]] goes awry and something nasty happens. But teleportation isn't always nice even when it works. Often, it's traumatic for the characters teleported. After all, you're perhaps being [[One to Million to One|disassembled into your component particles and reassembled elsewhere]], sent through [[Hyperspace Is a Scary Place|scary hyperspace]], or blasted with some serious magic. In any case, you are at least instantly moved to a completely different location in a way that is never part of the normal course of things for most physical beings. This trope is when teleportation works the normal way, but it still causes some kind of negative effects on those transported. An inversion of motion sickness, as it were.

 

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* In ''[[Maoyuu Maou Yuusha]]'', Hero's teleporting can cause this for people he takes along. Young Merchant fell to one knee after Hero took him all the way into the Demon World in a single unexpected jump; Big Sister Maid, when traveling with him a shorter distance and with warning, only mentioned feeling a bit dizzy.

 

== [[Comic Books]] ==

** The actual reason for this is that whenever he teleports, he goes through a dimension that is actively hostile to human life (that's where the smoke comes from). He's built up an endurance to it, while people he teleports offensively usually haven't.

* In ''[[Young Avengers|Avengers: The Children's Crusade]]'', Speed uses his super-speed to vibrate his teammates out of a building through the wall. The experience is apparently... [[Vomit Discretion Shot|unpleasant]].

 

== [[Fan Works]] ==

 

* In ''[[The One (film)|The One]]'', inter-dimensional teleportation looks very uncomfortable and causes everyone teleported to become incapacitated for a time. Even Yulaw becomes helpless, which seems to be the main purpose of this feature, as it allows him to be arrested without any further fuss.

* In the movie ''[[Jumper (novel)|Jumper]]'', the protagonist has the power to teleport at will. At some point, he "Jumps" while holding his girlfriend, taking her with him. Afterwards, she experiences heavy dizziness and disorientation.

 

* In the ''[[Dragaera]]'' books set after the Interregnum, magical teleportation is easy, safe, and relatively cheap. However, almost all Easterners suffer motion sickness when teleported, whereas Dragaerans don't.

** Some of the other forms of magical transportation used in the series also have side effects, such as dizziness.

* Teleportation in the ''[[Dragonriders of Pern]]'' series involves going Between, which apparently requires passing through a frigid inter-dimensional environment. Unusually, this is often played as a positive thing, as Thread is more vulnerable to cold than are dragons or humans, so Thread-fighters can teleport to destroy any bits of it that stick to their bodies or clothing.

 

* ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]''

** Hypochondriac Lt. Barclay is very uncomfortable with the transporters. At one point he thinks he has Transporter Psychosis, which hasn't been around in half a century.

* [[Buffy]] and Dawn are both strongly affected by Willow teleporting them from a cemetery to the Magic Box at the end of season six.

 

 

* The psionic power of Teleportation in Classic ''[[Traveller]]''. Long range teleports caused disorientation for 20–120 seconds. Changing altitude also had negative effects: each change in altitude of 1 kilometer up or down lowered or increased body temperature by 2.5 degrees Centigrade.

* ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'' has this, in addition to the various [[Teleporter Accident]]s. This seems proportional to the distance, as short-ranged teleportation apparently has little to no health effects.

* ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' has almost any translocation leading to short disorientation during which travelers are unable to act. The tactical effect is that setting an ambush at a likely destination to catch or slaughter arrivals in "teleport afterdaze" is a no-brainer, which gives teleporting people one more reason to [[Crystal Ball|scry on the exit]] unless they're sure this can't happen in the place they chose.

* ''[[GURPS]]'' has both Timesickness disadvantage (teleportation or time travel makes you ill) and Body Control skill (needed to avoid disorientation due to teleportation).

 

== [[Web Comics]] ==

* In ''[[Under The Lemon Tree]]'' (and rerun in ''[[Goblin Hollow]]''), the tulpas/[[Our Goblins Are Wickeder|goblins]] once teleported with Ben. He said, "[[Deadpan Snarker|That was fun.]] Let's never do it again."

* In the [[Fanfic|fan]][[Web Comic|comic]] ''[[Roommates 2007|Roommates]]'' and its [[Spin-Off]] ''[[Girls Next Door]]'' [[The Phantom of the Opera|Erik]] doesn't take teleportation too well (it's probably at least disorienting for the others as well, but he has the most violent reaction). This is why they tend to travel the more [http://asherhyder.deviantart.com/art/Roommates-43-Automobile-86666616 conventional way].

 

== [[Web Original]] ==

* BriTANicK had a bit about this. A herpes medication called "Herpex" [[Side Effects Include|causes random teleportation]] in its users. During the commercial, one man talks about the "[[Eldritch Location|place between places]]" that you end up while teleporting, which is shown to be a hellish [[Hell Is That Noise|scream-filled realm]]. You can watch it [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrVqD67zils here].

* Played straight in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Am7oKBD3PU It's a Snap!].

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

** In "Dragon Quest", Twilight teleports her entire group an undefined large distance (at least several dozen miles, and likely much farther) and none of her friends appear to have any ill effects from it. Twilight herself is visibly exhausted by the feat, but does not appear otherwise incapacitated.

* In the episode "Hunting Grounds" from ''[[Wolverine and the X-Men]]'', Nightcrawler and his [[Ship Tease|sort-of-but-not-quite love interest]] [[Scarlet Witch]] find themselves trapped in one of Mojo's [[Hunting the Most Dangerous Game|"games"]], pitting them against his foot soldiers and (later) {{spoiler|a [[Brainwashed and Crazy|mind-controlled]], [[Ax Crazy|feral]] [[Wolverine]]}}. Fearing Wanda's safety, Kurt performs [[Teleport Spam|a series of teleports to cover ground]]. After several, Wanda collapses to her knees and asks Kurt to stop for the time being, as her stomach was "two teleports back".

* [[Batman]] has an aversion to boom tubes in ''[[Justice League]]'' because they make him sick whenever he uses them.

 

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