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* ''[[Event Horizon]]''. One of these leads to a movie that should have been named ''[[Nightmare Fuel]]<small>IN SPACE!</small>'' The teleporter sent the ship to a ''really'' unpleasant place, and from there it [[Came Back Wrong]], while its original crew [[Go Mad From the Revelation|left a nightmarish ship log]] before disappearing.

* The remake of ''[[The Fly]]'' has both accidental teleporting and [[Tele Frag|telefragging]]. The animals Dr. Brundle sends through come out "synthetic", inside out, and die in terrible pain. His own experiment with the teleporter doesn't go well either: a fly enters the chamber with him, and the two are merged together. [[Body Horror]] results.

{{quote| '''Jason''': Did I just hear that the animal turned inside out, and then it EXPLODED?}}

* In ''[[The Prestige]]'', Tesla succeeds in creating a teleporter... sort of. {{spoiler|What really happens is that it creates a copy at the desired location, without destroying the original.}}

* The [[Doom]] film has Pinky, a character who has a wheelchair for a lower body. "He went to one dimension, his ass went to another."

== Literature ==

{{quote| I teleported home one night,<br />

With Ron and Sid and Meg.<br />

Ron stole Meggie's heart away,<br />

And I got Sidney's leg. }}

* 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.

* ''[[Harry Potter]]'': Apparating (a witch or wizard's ability to teleport from one place to another anywhere, anytime) is far from safe. It actually requires a license and weeks of painstaking (sometimes literally) training to perform legally. If one apparates without their fullest concentration, ''splinching'' occurs. Splinching is when the person teleports, but they leave a little bit of themselves behind. Some of the time its something tiny like an eyebrow. Some of the time it's something big like a ''freaking leg!!'' All of the time it is extremely, extremely painful.

** Then there's the Floo network, which requires stating your destination while stepping into a fireplace. If you don't pronounce your destination clearly, like Harry did the first time, you'll end up somewhere else. Traveling by Portkey is also unpleasant.

== Live Action TV ==

** Create a clone of an individual (Riker).

** [[Biological Mashup|Merge two people and a plant]] together (Neelix and Tuvok) into one distinct being. Then unmerge them through the power of mad science!

** According to Chakotay, re-materialization without clothes has happened. Which considering the alternatives is getting off ''very'' light.

** De-age people back into kids.

*** A deleted scene would have shown the beagle re-materializing aboard the ''Enterprise'' [[Chekhov's Gag|at the very end]].

** Being stuck in the buffer too long so your pattern has degraded too much to be rematerialized.

** Note that despite all this, in every series except ''Enterprise'', when a character is shown to be unwilling or scared to used the transporters, they are treated as eccentric and unreasonable in their fear of the device.

** Also note that, apparently, [[Reed Richards Is Useless|none of these effects are reproducible when you might actually want them]]. A gizmo that can [[Fountain of Youth|turn an old man into a child, with his memory intact?]] A gate for entering parallel universes? Of course, most of these effects would be [[Story-Breaker Power|Story Breakers]] if they could be invoked at will. Even the related (and ubiquitous) replicator tech is never explored to its fullest potential, for this reason.

== Video Games ==

* Before that, Durandal, the rampant AI, captures the player mid-teleportation, and forces him to "Play a game" of killing the pfhor in a quarantine storage (leading to the level "Blaspheme Quarantine"), in which if the player loses, "(He and Durandal) will continue the relationship on friendlier terms," but if he loses, he dies. Later, Durandal has trouble teleporting you while you are in the alien ship. Tycho also steals the player from Durandal mid-teleportation a few times in ''Marathon: Infinity'' and once in ''Marathon 2: Durandal''.

* ''[[Doom]]'' has teleporters that use hell as a stop over. [[Hilarity Ensues]]. It's also the game that introduced the [[Tele Frag]].

** [[Fridge Logic|However]], it doesn't mention with which Pokémon and [[Fridge Horror|where it is right now]]. And outside the plot, the various cloning glitches in the early generations follow the same principles.

* The ''[[Half Life]]'' series has a number of teleporter incidents:

** Later in the game, when teleporting out of Nova Prospekt, the teleporter explodes while Alyx and Freeman are in mid-teleport, resulting in them being caught in a week-long teleport loop. As a result, by the time they emerge the revolution is in full swing.

{{quote| '''Dr. Kleiner''': "Fascinating. We seem to have developed a ''very slow'' teleport!"}}

* In the first ''[[Halo]]'' game, Cortana accidentally drops John-117 ''on his head''. Thankfully, it was only a few inches; he was on target, but arrived upside down (Cortana was working out the alien coordinate system and got plus mixed up with minus).

** In the multiplayer levels of ''[[Halo]] 3'', the player can place teleporters wherever they wish. This has lead to many Player Characters falling to their deaths.

{{quote| ''"These intra-dimensional gates have proven to be completely safe. The device, however, has not. Do not touch the operational end of the device. Do not look into the operational end of the device. Do not submerge the device in liquid, even partially. Most importantly, under no circumstances should you--[[Lost in Transmission|[power drain]]]"''}}

* In ''[[Space Quest]] V'', a transporter accident swaps your head with the head of a fly, in a [[Shout-Out]] / blatant rip-off of ''[[The Fly]]''.

* In the ''[[Unreal Tournament]]'' series, normal teleporting doesn't appear to have any side effects but [http://liandri.beyondunreal.com/Translocator translocators] (personal teleporters) use can give people dementia.

* The prologue to ''[[Saira]]'' involves one of these, where the main character seems to have been accidentally teleported into the distant future [[Epileptic Trees|(or another dimension, or something)]]. {{spoiler|Her [[Chastity Couple|apparent boyfriend]] was a mis-teleport victim, too; he was hurled to the other side of the galaxy by mistake, and the plot of the game revolves around Saira trying to teleport herself there. [[Multiple Endings|Most of the endings]] are also teleporter accidents; she gets sent to the wrong place if the teleport parts used aren't fancy enough, but somehow she [[Nobody Can Die|always ends up somewhere habitable.]]}}

* In one ''[[Venture Brothers]]'' episode where Dr. Venture ends up ([[Played for Laughs|harmlessly]]) stuck in the walls of various parts of the house for the duration of the story. To quote him "Well, wherever my lower half is, it must be outdoors. I think it's raining."

* When Candace and Perry fell into ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'''s teleporter in "Does This Duckbill Make Me Look Fat?", they [[Body Swap|swapped bodies]].

* The ''[[Pink Panther]]'' once fused the pale guy with a flower and himself to a bee.