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Line 47: == [[Literature]] == * A couple of very mild ones happen in ''[[Artemis Fowl]]: The Lost Colony'' in the time-tunnel. Artemis and Holly each wind up with one of the other one's eyes, and No1 loses a couple megabytes' worth of memories. * [[Lampshaded]], but not used, in ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]''. In ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy/The Restaurant At The End of The Universe\|The ~~Hitchhikers~~Restaurant ~~Guide~~At toThe End of The ~~Galaxy~~Universe]]'' there's an anti-teleporter [[Protest Song]] that goes: {{quote\|''I teleported home one night, ''With Ron and Sid and Meg. Line 53: ''And I got Sidney's leg. }} * [[Arthur C. Clarke]]'s short story ''Travel by Wire'' wryly outlines some of the problems inherent in teleportation, with the system's designer admitting that he'd far rather travel by rocket. * In ''[[~~Discworld/Interesting Times\|~~Interesting Times]]'', Ponder Stibbons does go into excruciating detail about the risks of it happening (e.g. ending up inside a mountain, that kind of thing). The calculations come off much better than that, but {{spoiler\|Instead of just swapping Rincewind and the "Barking Dog" again, they accidentally send Rincewind to [[Land Down Under\|XXXX]]. The kangaroo he replaces is teleported to the university and ends up laminated against a wall.}} Ponder figures out a [[Techno Babble]] explanation for this. * While scrambling into action at the climax of the first ''[[Time Wars]]'' novel, [[Red Shirt\|several people]] are teleported to the same time and place. The resulting [[Biological Mashup]] is reported to be mercifully short-lived. * Played straight, and averted in a ''[[Ciaphas Cain]]'' novel. A squad of World Eater Berserker Marines are teleported in front of Cain and co. These Berserkers are fine and butcher their way through hordes of Slaaneshi cultists. However, [[Footnote Fever\|the foot notes]] mention that teleporting is inaccurate, especially when done through a planet as was the case here. Its likely that there are dozens of World Eaters entombed throughout the planet's crusts in near misses, unless {{spoiler\|the cultists' [[Summoning Ritual]]}} helped. Line 97: * The ''[[Doctor Who]]'' two-parter episode "Silence in the Library"/"Forest of the Dead" featured Teleporter Accidents on a planet-wide scale deliberately like a lifeboat. {{spoiler\|The main computer of the Library teleported everybody ''into'' her database in order to save them from evil shadowy pirahna particles.}} * ''[[The Comic Strip Presents]]'': "The Yob" parodies ''[[The Fly]]'' remake by having a scientist accidentally merged with a soccer hooligan. Also, at the end of the episode, a macho stud ends up with the lower body of {{spoiler\|a tomcat}}. * In the ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' episode "Blood Ties", Willow and Tara are able to get rid of Glory by teleporting her, but seeing as this is the first time they have used the spell, they have no idea where she went. It seems Glory is the victim of a "too high" misfire, but seeing as she is immortal, she survives the fall. (But, it is implied, not unscathed, as she is unseen for the next couple episode -- possibly recovering from injuries suffered when she hit the ground.) == [[Oral Tradition]], [[Folklore]], Myths and Legends == Line 170: {{reflist}} [[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]]▼ [[Category:Transformation Causes]] [[Category:Doppelgänger]] [[Category:Teleportation Tropes]] ▲[[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]]