Teleporter Accident: Difference between revisions

 

Not to be confused with a [[Porting Disaster]].

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== Anime and Manga ==

* In ''[[Noein]]'', the Dragon Knights run this risk each time they travel between dimensions. Kuina has it particularly bad, inevitably losing another chunk of himself with each transport; the only one to suffer worse is a [[Red Shirt]] who dies in the first episode when he arrives with half his body missing.

* This is referenced and mocked in the very first issue of ''Hiroshi: Strange Love'', after the titular [[Mad Scientist]] invents a teleporter. According to his assistant, "One, you'll probably end up fusing someone with an animal, two, you'll end up trapped between spaces, or three, your mind will switch with someone else's . . ." {{spoiler|It's number one--the assistant [[Catgirl|merges with a stray cat]].}}

 

== Comic Books ==

* A variation occurs in ''Cable & Deadpool'': the two characters genetic code got mixed up beforehand, leading to Cable's transporter fusing them together every time they use the wrong command.

** He actually uses the "Teleport by one" command again, just to piss Cable off.

 

== Film ==

* ''[[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.

 

== 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 Guide to The Galaxy]]'' there's an anti-teleporter [[Protest Song]] that goes:

* "Counter Foil" by George O. Smith is a short story where the ubiquitous teleporter system breaks down. People go in, but suddenly people stop coming out.

 

* Transporter Accidents are recurring plot devices in various ''[[Star Trek]]'' series. Which makes several characters' insistence to the safety of the procedure rather bizarre. As any viewer can tell you, when transporters mess up, the result rarely are pretty. Perhaps, like air travel, they're very safe except when they ''really'' aren't. Transporter malfunctions have been known to:

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

** Cause people to get transporter psychosis, going nuts. Implied to be the result of putting the complex structures of the brain back together just slightly wrong.

** Split one entity into [[Good Angel, Bad Angel|good and evil entities]].

** Send people [[Time Travel|back in time]].

** Beam people inside solid rock or out into open space.

** Outright kill people.

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

** De-age people back into kids.

*** In ''[[Deep Space Nine]]'' the characters (of the [[mirror universe]]) have [[Alternate Universe Reed Richards Is Awesome|created technology to allow transport between the two universes at will]].

* In ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'', O'Neil and Carter enter the [[Cool Gate|Stargate]] to return to base, but end up on an ice planet instead. However, {{spoiler|it turns out they did make it back to Earth, only they rematerialized in Antarctica.}}

** Teal'c also ended up spending a few days as data trapped in the gate's teleport buffer after the other gate was destroyed during transit, forcing the SGC to shut down gate operations (to avoid overwriting him) until they got him out.

** The [[Techno Babble]] explanation is that the gate sends objects as energy through the wormhole, reintegrating them on the other side. The buffer keeps that information for a short instant before the gate re-forms and expels the travelers it just received. It's also the reason iris stops reintegration with a [[Portal Slam]].

** A ring transporter near a dialing supergate and its singularity will send the matter stream to the galaxy where the supergate connects to. It's implied that the Ori made sure the matter stream would then find a ring transporter on a planet for Vala to re-integrate into.

** An energy discharge in a wormhole bisecting a black hole causes all subsequent wormholes bisecting the black hole from the same direction (in any alternate universe to boot) to connect to a specific alternate universe's stargate on Earth.

 

== Video Games ==

* A teleporter accident with Lucca's latest invention is what starts off the adventure in ''[[Chrono Trigger]]''.

* 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''.

* 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.]]}}

* ''[[The Game of the Ages]]'': Until you learn to protect yourself, portal pools rip you apart.

 

== Web Comics ==

* In ''[[Wapsi Square]]'', Monica is capable of teleporting, but isn't particularly good at it. As a result, she tends to suffer comical but harmless mishaps such as [http://wapsisquare.com/comic/fillmein/ poor] [http://wapsisquare.com/comic/assledtheway/ arrival] [http://wapsisquare.com/comic/homeagain/ placement,] upside down [http://wapsisquare.com/comic/justafewholes/ on arrival,] and [http://wapsisquare.com/comic/hang-of-this/ switching clothing with the person traveling with her.]

* The first arc of the highly NSFW comic ''Devious Tangents'' had [http://devioustangents.com/main/2010/07/15/unforeseen-consequences/ two guys] (well, [[Wrong Genetic Sex|sort of]]) coming out of a transporter as [http://devioustangents.com/main/2010/07/19/unforeseen-consequences-page-3/ one girl]

* ''[[Red Space Blues]]'': [http://redspaceblues.com/2012/03/25/red-space-blues-79/ this]{{Dead link}} unfortunate goat, even before that the teleporter had a bad habit of duplicating a person and then exploding the original.

 

 

== Western Animation ==

* 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."

* In ''[[X-Men: Evolution]]'', Forge tries to extend the range of Nightcrawler's teleportation, and ends up creating rifts to the hell-like dimension Nightcrawler uses to move from place to place. Needless to say, the inhabitants get out.

* ''[[Dexter's Laboratory]]'' episode "Sole Brother" featured Dexter testing a teleporter. When he used it on himself, he ended up fused with Dee Dee's foot.

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

 

== Urban Legends ==

* The Philadelphia Experiment was supposedly a US Navy-sponsored attempt to develop an [[Invisibility Cloak]] for a destroyer escort. The story goes that the ship successfully vanished for a period of time, then returned with some of its crewmen [[Body Horror|stuck through the bulkheads.]]

** This was said to be the experiment that produced the Chronosphere in ''[[Command & Conquer]]'': ''Red Alert''.