Teleportation Sickness: Difference between revisions

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

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

 

[[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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== [[Comic Books]] ==

* In ''[[Watchmen]]'', other people teleported by Dr. Manhattan don't always take to it so well. Laurie (Silk Spectre) always has to vomit afterwards, and some of the rioters he sent to their homes suffered heart attacks from the sudden change of surroundings. Averted with Rorshach for whatever reason, since he doesn't even notice having been teleported until looking around.

** 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]].

 

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

* In [[Stephen King]]'s short story "The Jaunt", a kid neglects to take his sedative before transport, and experiences a hugely long period of time while in transit, driving him insane.

{{quote| '''Arthur:''' What's so bad about that?<br />

'''Ford:''' You ask a glass of water. }}

* In the ''[[Deryni]]'' books, using Transfer Portals provokes this kind of disoriented feeling, often described as the floor tipping away in a blur from under the traveler's feet. It's usually highlighted when a character is introduced to using a Portal. Kelson experiences his first trip in ''Deryni Rising'' as " a sickening wrench in the pit of his stomach, a fleeting impression of falling, a slight dizzy sensation."

* The ''[[Childe Cycle]]'' has a variant of this. In the stories, FTL travel is done using a "phase-shift drive", allowing for a ship to instantly travel from one point to another. However, there are side effects that cause people to feel physically ill. People need to take medication, and repeated multiple jumps can be lethal.

* [[Isaac Asimov]]'s robot short story "Escape!". A supercomputer creates a jump drive that causes the passengers to temporarily die during the jump -- and experience the complete sensation of death while doing so.

* In ''[[Harry Potter]]'', Harry dislikes apparating and describes it as "Being forced through a very small tube". It makes him low on breath and sick to his stomach. It isn't portrayed as fun in the movies either.

 

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** 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.

** In the episode "The High Ground", terrorists are using a form of dimensional jump (not a standard transporter) that bypasses normal space and so cannot be blocked or shielded against. The problem is that nothing that makes the jump comes through 100% perfect -- there's always a tiny bit of distortion that after more than a few jumps scrambles people's DNA enough to make them terminally ill.

* On ''[[Fringe]]'', the teleporter David Robert Jones uses to escape from prison causes severe damage to his body, due to the need to reassemble all his body's molecules on arrival. He takes precautions, like spending weeks in a hyperbaric chamber after the escape, yet by the end of the season he's still disfigured and dying.

* In ''[[Sanctuary]]'', John Druitt's teleportation power causes his brain chemistry to slightly alter each time he uses it, gradually turning him into a raving mad homicidal lunatic.

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

* ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'' has this, in addition to the various [[Teleporter Accident|Teleporter Accidents]]. This seems proportional to the distance, as short-ranged teleportation apparently has little to no health effects.

** In Sandy Mitchell's [[Ciaphas Cain]] novel ''The Emperor's finest'', Cain and Jurgen are teleported over what is probably a few kilometers, and Cain spends a week in sickbay to recover from the warp exposure (which [[Anti-Magic|Jurgen]] shrugs off in less than a day). It is said that the [[Space Marine|Space Marines]] who own the teleporter employ shielding devices in their armor to prevent this effect. Cain and Jurgen were not expecting to teleport and had no such protection.

 

 

== [[Web Comics]] ==

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

 

 

 

== [[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.

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

** [[Batman Beyond|Terry McGinness]] has the same reaction.