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[[Applied Phlebotinum|Phlebotinum]] constructs that "beam" characters from the [[Cool Starship]] to [[Kirk's Rock]] and back again. Could also be done on-demand if the character has a device to "summon" one, or if the story puts them [[Inside a Computer System]] and they can just select the place within the system to teleport to.

 

Related tropes:

* [[Teleportation Tropes]], usually

** [[Inconvenient Summons]]

 

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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* ''[[Dragon Ball]]'': Goku learns a specialized movement ability called "instantaneous movement", though he can only teleport to places where there are people with ki to lock onto. This means his effective limit is his limit for sensing ki.

** But given that Goku can simply skip into the Spirit Realm to extend his range, basically, if there's life (or afterlife), Goku can go there.

* In the end, the whole plot of ''[[Martian Successor Nadesico]]'' boils down to a fight over the [[Applied Phlebotinum]] that allows teleportation of everything from individuals to whole fleets of starships (note that the former is actually harder, as it takes a lot of effort to teleport living creatures without killing them). As a bonus, said teleportation also allows for [[Time Travel]], or rather, vice versa.

** Musujime Awaki has the ability "Move Point" which is basically a stronger version of Kuroko's Teleport: while Kuroko can only teleport things she touches, Awaki's ability boils down to "everything from point A to point B" as long as both are within 800 meters and the target doesn't weight more than 4,5 tons. It also has a downside, though: while Teleport [[Tele Frag|displaces matter from the destination space]], Move Point '''does not'''. In her backstory, Awaki found this out the hard way when, to quote [[The Other Wiki]], "she miscalculated and teleported her leg inside a wall, accidentally tearing her leg skin and muscles out from the wall".

* Noticeably absent in [[Gundam]] for all of its Sci-Fi tropes until The ∀ Gundam and the Turn X. Notable for being done with [[Nanomachines]] somehow.

* In ''[[Gantz]]'', the titular sphere uses a slow teleportation process to send the team members on their missions. In keeping with the [[Crosses the Line Twice]] spirit of the series, the insides of the characters' bodies are visible during transportation. Also, one of the [[Gantz]] weapons, the Y-Gun, uses the same process to send captured enemies to an as yet unknown location.

* ''[[Doraemon]]'' had the "Anywhere Door", which was a door that could take you wherever you specified. You have to be [[Literal Genie|pretty specific]] about your target location, as it doesn't care whether or not it'd be practical for you to, say, end up walking over the threshold straight into the ocean.

* The ability to teleport in ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' is treated as an extremely difficult and high level type of magic. Artfacts tend to be required, usually an entire [[Instant Runes|rune]] port being involved; these are the mage versions of an airport and there <s>are</s> were only 11 in the [[Magical Land|Magical World]]. A small few can teleport without one (usually by creating an [[Elemental Powers|elemental]] gate of [[Portal Pool|some sort]]).

* In ''[[Star Blazers]] / [[Space Battleship Yamato]],'' the Gamilons have a teleporter called the SMITE that can transport whole ships (or whole flocks of space mines) across relatively short tactical distances. Also, the [[Our Wormholes Are Different|space warp]] ability possessed by most ships in the Yamatoverse is essentially a form of very long-range teleportation.

* This was the ability of the large monster in [[Cencoroll]], who seemed to create small holes in the air and get sucked throught them.

* Ryoko has this as an ability in most ''[[Tenchi Muyo!]]'' incarnations. The main limit she cites is needing to have previously been in that location.

* The 00 Raiser from ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00]]'' can "quantize" itself when in Trans-Am, allowing for effectively short distance teleports. From the movie, the 00 Qan[T] has the same ability, {{spoiler|except the Qan[T] can quantize itself over vast interstellar distances}}.

 

== [[Comic Books]] ==

** There's also Lila Cheney, who can't teleport less than intergalactic distances (she crosses most of the universe just to go half a mile). There is also Magik, who can teleport through both time and space but has to go through the demonic dimension of Limbo to do it. Subverted in that increased time or distance can (and has) distort the chances of arriving in the right...time or space.

** Magik's spell has been taught to another character, Megan Gwynn (Pixie) who made Nightcrawler feel obsolete for a story (as the Magic Teleport travels greater distances and accurately). However we've never seen Magik or Pixie teleport a 'short' distance.

* {{spoiler|Charles Brigman}}, aka "Greyhound" from ''[[PS238]]'' is a high-level teleporter, capable of teleporting himself plus at least one passenger in physical contact to any place he has previously physically visited in an instant, regardless of distance (he can even teleport across [[Another Dimension|dimensional boundaries]]). He, as well as anyone teleporting with him, [[Inertia Is a Cruel Mistress|keeps momentum between jumps]].

* In the [[Marvel Universe]], [[Cloak and Dagger (comics)|Cloak]] can teleport via the "darkforce dimension," which his [[Teleport Cloak|cloak]] is a portal to. He can take passengers, but it's a pretty traumatizing ride if his partner Dagger isn't around to ameliorate the effects.

* The universe of ''[[Watchmen (comics)|Watchmen]]'' has teleportation tech - with a major drawback that things teleported tend to explode upon arrival. This effect turns out to be a major part of {{spoiler|Ozymandias' [[Batman Gambit]]}}

* John Stone of ''[[Planetary]]'' has his [[Sharp-Dressed Man|Blitzen Suit]] which enables [http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v418/Wonderfullabs/junque/blitz1.jpg short-range teleportation].

* Tempest of ''[[Atari Force]]'' has the powers of Nightcrawler, but in a lighter flavor. (Transfer dimension is a pleasant, sunny place.)

 

* ''[[With Strings Attached]]'' has several instances of teleportation:

** All of the skahs wizards can do it.

** Ringo teleports when he gets a sudden shock, back to the last safe location he'd seen or been. Once he teleported more than 400 miles away from his original location.

 

* ''[[Spaceballs]]'' deliberately parodies ''[[Star Trek]]'''s transporters, down to "Shall I have Snotty beam you down, sir?" It does not go well, as one man ends with his body twisted around. It wasn't particularly necessary, as he was one room over.

** It must also be noted that the idea of conveyer is less naive that the traditional transporter. It must be actually targeted on the object to transport or place to transport back.

* {{spoiler|A machine that duplicates a person and teleports the copy}} is a major plot point in ''[[The Prestige]]''.

** Or does it {{spoiler|leave the copy and teleport the original}}?

* Let us not forget the ''[[Star Trek]]'' films themselves (ST:I - VI TOS cast, VII - X TNG cast, newest one a "reboot" of TOS cast). Interestingly, the 2009 ''[[Star Trek (film)|Star Trek]]'' film by [[J.J. Abrams]] uses a different visual effect for the transporter beam, to try to differentiate it from all pre-existing versions, it uses a swirling pattern as the molecules are dissolved. Also interesting to note that in this film, {{spoiler|they have problems locking on to some people, and at one point Scotty uses a new method he developed to beam on to a ship that is far beyond normal transporter range}}.

* While typically depicted as a sort of jump-gate technology, Space Bridges in the [[Transformers Film Series]] are teleportation devices utilized by the Seekers to (initially) find unpopulated solar systems to harvest. They can take passengers, but landing is apparently troublesome if you're not a giant robot.

* The digitization laser in ''[[Tron]]'' was originally intended to be used as a teleporter, but its use has so far been limited to sending people into [[Cyberspace]].

 

== [[Literature]] ==

* The time travel of [[Michael Crichton]]'s ''[[Timeline]]'' involved a mix of "turn you into data, transmit, retranslate back into matter" (accomplished via super-powerful quantum computers) teleportation and alternate universes.

* In [[David Weber]]'s ''[[Empire From the Ashes]]'' series, in addition to standard FTL, the Fourth Empire also made use of a network of "mat-trans" devices that threw matter through hyperspace and caught it on the other side. {{spoiler|This caused the fall of the Fourth Empire by allowing the spread of a horrifically-effective bio-weapon.}}

* In the novel ''[[Good Omens]]'', apparently demons can transport themselves over the telephone network. When Crowley escapes a Lord of Hell, he traps the aforementioned Lord in his answering machine's tape in a [[Crowning Moment of Funny]].

* ''[[Tunnel Through Time]]'' by Lester del Rey has some characters going back to the time of the dinosaurs, the [[Applied Phlebotinum]] breaks down and they are stranded, then later, one of the scientists comes back to get them after developing some improvements that allow him to summon the gateway with a device like a remote control.

** He also put teleporting booths in the otherwise [[Mohs Scale of Sci Fi Hardness|hard-science]] ''A World Out Of Time''. Unlike the Known Space teleporters, these were innately short-range and required a long, unbroken string of booths to travel long distances.

** Niven also wrote another Verse where exploring the social and economic ramifications of similar teleport technology is the main theme of the stories.

* In [[George R. R. Martin]]'s shared world series, ''[[Wild Cards]]'', there are several characters who use various forms of teleportation. Examples include "Popinjay," a private detective who uses his forefinger and thumb to form a gun and can teleport anyone or anything he points at to anywhere he can visualize including the N.Y. jails or the scoreboard at Yankee stadium. In the recent books, "Lilith" is an assasin who teleports herself and can teleport others she grabs.

* Alfred Bester's novel ''The Stars My Destination'' posits a future in which people have learned to teleport ("jaunte"), but only over moderate distances (up to a few hundred miles, depending on the jaunter's skill). Jaunting through space is believed impossible, until the [[Action Survivor|protagonist]] somehow jaunts several hundred thousand miles to escape from his doomed spaceship. {{spoiler|[[Cursed with Awesome|It doesn't improve his life.]]}}

* ''[[The Grimnoir Chronicles]]'': Travelers from the Grimnoir books.

* Harry Harrison's short story collection ''One Step From Earth'' posited the idea of a teleportation system that involved taking two objects and connecting them across any distance by allowing them to share the same spot in another continuum (where, conveniently enough, time doesn't exist). As one character puts it: "What goes in one comes out the other." The book then goes on to explore the impact of such a thing on everything: warfare, romance, colonization, medicine, crime and punishment, and mankind's ultimate destiny as a species.

* In the ''[[Heralds of Valdemar]]'' books, this falls within the telekinetic skill called 'Fetching'. A skilled Fetcher can move living things without harming them; under duress they can even move themselves. Companions and other magical beings (Firecats most notably) can move themselves and a passenger this way, though it's [[Teleportation Sickness|somewhat unpleasant]], especially if they make a number of 'Jumps' in a row.

* Septimus and Marcia Overstrand in ''[[Septimus Heap]]'' use teleportation spells a few times. These have a rather long lag time between the start and the end of the process, which results in a few troubles.

 

* ''[[Star Trek]]''. The main built-in limitation was the need for communicators to provide homing signals (directly or via forward observation) for the ship's transporter system, although practically any [[Negative Space Wedgie]] will probably also conveniently block or disrupt the transporter beams until it's been dealt with. Transporters were also supposed to be unable to beam through [[Deflector Shields|shields]], although there have been several counterexamples.

** ''[[Star Trek: Insurrection]]'' had some sort of energy beam which was being used to capture colonists and force-migrate so that the planet and its resources could be exploited. The exploiters weren't willing to commit murder, but kidnapping by teleportation was sufficient.

** Whenever there is a transporter malfunction leaving people stranded on the planet, the crew immediately forgets about the shuttlecraft, without even so much as a hand-wave to explain why they can't use them.

*** Let's not forget (although the crew seems to) the subcutaneous transponder, which is supposed to be able to allow them to be located and transported without a communicator. Its real storyline purpose was to have a cool new way to escape a jail cell.

** Interestingly, the effect on the transporter pad was different than the effect on the planet (or other remote location.) The planet had the white outline, while the transporter pad had a sine-wave distortion effect.

** When the special effects improved in Series 4, the ''Scorpio'' teleportation effect was more similar to a ''[[Star Trek]]''-style beaming.

** The old series established the rule that "short hops" in the TARDIS - moving only a small distance in time or space - were very dangerous and for emergencies only, because many plots could have been resolved too easily if the TARDIS could be used as a teleporter. The new series have quietly dropped this rule.

** In the second half of the Tenth Doctor's run, he seemed pretty hostile towards people (or at least humans) trying to use, develop, or exploit teleportation and teleportation-related devices.

** Subverted in one episode where O'Neill and Teal'c are trapped in an experimental spacecraft. Jacob Carter shows up with a Tok'ra spaceship but they face the problem of how to get the two from the disabled craft to his. When O'Neill asks if he can't just "Beam them up", Carter responds "Who do I look like, Scotty?"

** The Stargates themselves do not count. They are wormholes, which work by bending space-time.

* ''[[Red Dwarf]]'' has featured several different teleportation devices, each of which has had different rules governing its operation. Usually the [[Rule of Funny]].

* The original 1960s version of ''[[The Outer Limits]]'' featured teleportation in several episodes.

** In "Fun and Games", the Anderan alien "electroports" two humans to and from the site of the [[Gladiator Games]] his planet holds.

* This is one of Hiro's powers on ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]''.

* The TV show ''[[Sliders]]'' had them traveling from alternate universe to alternate universe through a portal that they opened when it was available through a device similar to a Motorola Tele-Tac cellular phone.

* In ''[[Soap]]'' Saul and Burt try to escape the UFO using a transporter and manage to go back in time to Ancient Rome and in front of a Mexican firing squad.

* An episode of ''[[Earth: Final Conflict]]'' has a human scientist develop a teleportation device, which he uses to teleport small bombs near Taelons. When his hideout is raided, he teleports himself to a warehouse he owns, not realizing that the feds previously raided the place and moved things around, so he ended up [[Tele Frag|fused with a shelf]]. In order to prevent himself from being captured and end this horrible existence, he teleports to the same exact location, which somehow creates [[Antimatter]] and blows up the warehouse (really, that much anti-matter should've destroyed the entire city at the least). The technology is lost, [[No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup|of course]], and is [[Reset Button|never mentioned again]].

* In ''[[The Adventures of Superman]]'' episode "The Phony Alibi", [[Bungling Inventor]] Professor Pepperwinkle creates a system for transporting people through telephone wires. As usual with Pepperwinkle, a gang of crooks befriends the naive professor, then uses his invention for evil; they commit crimes in Metropolis, then phone themselves to distant cities and make sure plenty of people see them to set themselves up with a (seemingly) perfect alibi.

 

== [[Tabletop Games]] ==

** Except the Tau, as they know practically nothing about the Warp (which is one of the many areas in which the Imperium is more advanced than them).

* ''[[Traveller]]'' has a set of rules worked out for psychic teleporters based on energy limitations, changes in momentum and altitude, and numerous other [[Mohs Scale of Sci Fi Hardness|hard-physics]] factors.

* The "Warp" advantage in ''[[GURPS]]''. A later supplement built a whole power around the ability to teleport, including the ability to teleport poison out of your body.

** So many Demons and Devils have the ability to teleport at will, in fact, that it is surprising most of them still have legs and/or wings.

** 4th edition appears to limit this to 'set' teleport circles, and a special ritual to try to beam yourself to one. This had the overall goal of balancing increased access to utility spells (rituals can be cast by any character) against the ridiculously powerful nature of the 3rd edition spells.

 

* ''[[Bionicle]]'' has several methods that allows a being to teleport. Some beings (like Botar's species) have the power naturally, others needs to wear a [[Mask Power|Kanohi Kualsi]] ("Mask of Quick-Travel", allows one to teleport to any location within eyesight). Finally, the mysterious Arthaka apparently has the power to teleport anyone from anywhere, as he did when he summoned the Toa Nuva to his island.

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

*** Given the Forerunners' mastery of slipspace (their version of [[Human Popsicle|cryosleep]] involved storing them ''inside'' slipspace, and they also have the ability to [[Time Travel]] with it), their teleporters probably worked by moving the traveller through slipspace, rather than the ''[[Star Trek]]'' method of killing you and building an identical copy at the destination.

* In the ''[[Zone of the Enders]]'' games, some of the [[Humongous Mecha]] has the ''Zero-Shift'' ability. By compressing the space between the ''Orbital Frame'' and its destination, it could appear to cover the intervening distance instantaneously. Usually used in the game to teleport into attack range, particularly to warp in behind enemies for a sneak attack.

** There's a similar type of gate that takes you to {{spoiler|"The End," a floating island in a spooky black alternate dimension}}. These gates can't be built, though; you have to find one in the overworld and activate it with [[Twenty Bear Asses|a bunch of rare items]].

* ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' engineers can build a [http://www.wowpedia.org/Wormhole_Generator:_Northrend Wormhole Generator]. It can teleport you to a location of your choice in Northrend. However, it may decide to deposit you 100 meters ''above'' the target location. Best have a parachute on hand.

* This is the central part of the plot in ''[[Doom]] III:'', where teleportation is done by moving matter ''[[Hyperspace Is a Scary Place|through Hell itself]]''. Needless to say, [[Satan]] didn't liked the idea of seeing stuff coming in and out of Hell just like that, and next time the people know, the [[Legions of Hell]] come barging in through the "teleporters" and start wrecking massive havoc on Mars.

** This is of course also the plot of Doom I and II. The original Quake which had ''slipgates'' which attracted the attention of [[Cosmic Horror|Lovecraftian monstrosities]] rather than the more traditional fire-and-brimstone demons of the Doom series.

** Additionally, the Protoss transport unit, the ''Warp Prism'' is described as effectively doing a slow-motion teleport: The transported units are stored as data, but the warp prism needs to move across the battlefield to the target location before reconstituting them there.

** Gateways can also be upgraded to Warp Gates, which instead of acting like a [[Stargate]] allows the player to "warp-in" infantry anywhere within Pylon power range. The Warp Prism can also deploy as a Pylon.

* In the ''[[Pokémon]]'' games, Teleport will end battles with wild Pokémon when used by either side; [[Metal Slime|Abra]] doesn't even learn any other moves normally. Teleport can also be used outside of battle, where it works as an [[Escape Rope]].

** There's also the Pokéballs and Pokémon storage system. How else can you fit a 28 foot long rock snake in a ball that fits in the palm of your hand? Or drop it off in Lavender town to be picked up in Fuschia city a few days later?

** Trainers ''themselves'' teleport in the Saffron Gym in ''[[Pokémon Red and Blue]]''.

** Some of the villainous team buildings also have warp panels. The Team Galactic headquarters in ''[[Pokémon Diamond and Pearl]]'' /Platinum has them, and the Team Rocket underground headquarters in ''[[Pokémon Gold and Silver]]'' and their remakes.

* The Space Pirates of [[Metroid]] are very fond of doing this and seem to have multiple styles. Sometimes they appear from nowhere, and other times they appear to materialize in beams of light. Still others have personal teleporters (mostly Commandos) that they use constantly. As well, certain creatures, like Warp Hounds and Reptillicus in ''Metroid Prime 3'' are able to teleport naturally and ''magically'', respectively. And Leviathans can open wormholes at will.

** According to the dev blog, they've had to repeatedly tone teleportation down because the absurd ease with which it could be used started devolving the game into telefrag-fests where players routinely jumped their bases to different points on the map. It's a lot better now.

* With all the expansion packs for ''[[The Sims]] 2'', there are no less than three kinds of teleportation available.

* ''[[Touhou Project]]'' character Yakumo Yukari is a nigh-omnipotent [[Reality Warper]], but (perhaps due to her [[The Gods Must Be Lazy|extreme laziness]]), her usual way of using her power in the fighting games is to teleport various objects on top of her opponent.

** [[Shinigami|Komachi]] [[Grim Reaper|Onozuka]] has the power to manipulate distance, which she uses to teleport in battle, change how long her boat takes to cross The Sanzu River, and, most efficiently, for [[Professional Slacker|slacking off]].

** The mass-teleport version of the Chronosphere is instantly fatal to any unshielded biological creature.

** ''Red Alert 2'' has a number of teleporting infantry units based on the Chronosphere technology. Fortunately, while they can move anywhere in an instant, it takes a while to materialize completely, leaving them vulnerable for a short time. There's also the Chrono Miner, whose teleportation is limited to making a return trip home with a truckload of ore.

* In ''[[Sam and Max|Sam & Max Season 3]]'', Max gains [[Psychic Powers]] in the form of ancient Toys of Power. One of these, a telephone, allows him to teleport to any number he dials.

* ''[[Space Quest]] V and 6'' feature ''[[Star Trek]]'' teleporters that beam you to your select destination. Part of V played a homage to ''The Fly'' when Roger was spliced into a fly and in the beginning of 6, a teleport malfunction puts his waist below under the road.

* ''[[Tutankham]]'' had warp portals in several places allowing the player easy passage between the top and bottom halves of the level.

* The ''[[X (video game)|X-Universe]]'' series has two sets. First, we have the games' [[Portal Network|jumpgate network]], which instantaneously transport objects entering them to the gate they're paired with. Works like ''[[Stargate Verse]]'' gates, except the gates are two-way, and the link between two gates is permanent (though the [[Precursors|Ancients]] {{spoiler|and the Hub}} can change which gate goes where). Secondly, pilots can purchase a Transporter Device add-on that allows cargo and personnel to be transported ship-to-ship without needing to dock both ships at a station (or one inside the other, in the case of carriers and fighters).

 

* The teraport in ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'', with the notable (and realistic) twist that it revolutionizes pretty much the entirety of galactic civilization (and starts a war). People's discomfort with the metaphysical implications of what a teraport does is also mentioned.

* ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' involves lots of teleporting through time and [[Another Dimension|other dimensions]], though so far only the wizards in the "[[Harry Potter|Torg Potter]]" stories have used more traditional teleportation.

** Jones insists on calling it "distortion of space" though. Even Tom makes fun of her.

* In ''[[Wapsi Square]]'' various supernatural(?) creatures can "poit" from place to place, apparently anywhere on Earth and neighbouring dimensions like Phix's Library. {{spoiler|Later on Monica figures out how to do it too, though her landings aren't always elegant.}}

* Sonoda Yuki from ''[[Megatokyo]]''.

* Doc in ''[[The Whiteboard]]'' made a "Pizza Teleporter" so he could get food in seconds. Unfortunately it only teleports to a specific spot on his counter, trying to send it to say, the field results in the toppings and crust separating or cheese blocking up an engine.

* The ''Halo'' teleporters show up in ''[[Red vs. Blue]]''. Initially, the main issue is that it tends to cover the soldiers' armour in 'black stuff'. There also seem to be some time delays. And don't forget user error and sabotage..

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* A number of ''[[Transformers]]'' have this ability, mostly Decepticons. The most famous is Skywarp, and he has a limiting factor that isn't part of the technology: he's about as bright as a box of hammers and requires constant supervision.

** He mostly uses it to pull pranks on his fellow 'Cons. Because, come on, a suprise push down a staircase is ''hilarious.''

** And of course, the Space Bridge is a teleporter that works across ''intergalactic'' distances and can be built large enough to transport a whole ''planet.'' Since its most common use seems to be transporting stored energy from Earth to Cybertron, one assumes that the bridge itself consumes danged little energy when operating.

*** Maybe not - in the original 3-parter, they were able to store enough energy to go back to Cybertron on a single spaceship. Yet they spend the rest of the next two seasons constantly gathering energy and sending it home through the space bridge. It must not have been all that efficient. A possible explanation is that until they made contact with Shockwave, they didn't realize how ''much'' time had passed, and how badly de-energized Cybertron was after 4 million years.

* ''[[Kim Possible]]'' had an episode featuring a teleportation device which sent the user through the telephone network.

** A similar example from an earlier [[Disney]] series is the "Modemizer", from the '' [[Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers (animation)|Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers]]'' episode "A Fly in the Ointment". Both plots are similar to ''[[The Adventures of Superman]]'' episode mentioned earlier.

* ''[[Justice League (animation)|Justice League]]'': Although teleporters were deliberately avoided in the first seasons of the show in favor of the "Javelin" shuttlecraft/plane/submarine, the rebuilt Watchtower of ''[[Justice League Unlimited]]'' has a teleportation system, as well as a whole fleet of "Javelins". In a [[Shout-Out]] to the [[Silver Age]], the teleporters are probably captured and repurposed Thanagarian technology, since they didn't appear until after the invasion in the multi-part episode "Starcrossed".

** After the Watchtower was attacked by Cadmus agents, the League went after the true mastermind Luthor/Brainiac. All of the Javelins were destroyed and the teleporter naturally was disabled, prompting a dismayed Martian Manhunter to mutter that "they are more trouble than they're worth". Of course it's necessary, just so the original seven can face down Brainuthor...

** Livewire could turn into electricity and [[Lightning Can Do Anything|travel along power lines.]] She could teleport anywhere as long as there was an electrical outlet nearby. 'Cept for that one time the Flash grabbed a wire and threw it into a flooded fire engine...ouch.

* ''To Be'', a Canadian cartoon short by John Weldon, spotlighted on the extinct Cartoon Network show ''[[O Canada]]'' investigated the philosophical issue of teleporters. In it, a scientist shows off to a crowd a teleporter that functions by making an exact copy of someone elsewhere then destroying the original. A woman in the crowd, horrified by this, suggests to the scientist that he test the moral ramifications of the process by stepping through himself, and delaying the destruction of the original by five minutes. Thus, the scientist has an exact clone. They find this wonderful and exciting, until it comes time for one of them to be destroyed, whereupon each claims to be the copy. After the issue is resolved and one scientist is zapped into nothingness, the scientist changes his mind about the usefulness of the teleporter. The woman feels guilty for <s>possibly impeding scientific progress</s> basically killing someone to prove her point, and atones for this by stepping through the machine herself, claiming that her new copied self is free of guilt for what her original had done.

* In the ''[[Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers]]'' episode "Tower of Combat", evil militaristic alien The General uses a stolen alien teleporter to kidnap several of the heroes.

* The Prison Planet in ''[[Shadow Raiders]]'' is an entire teleporting ''planetoid'', intended to hold dangerous criminals by warping across the universe so that they can't get home. {{spoiler|In the finale, the planet is used to teleport the Beast Planet away. Unfortunately, it's implied that the Beast Planet assimilated the teleporting ability.}}

* ''[[Code Lyoko]]'' has several of these. The most obvious of them is the scanner, which transports human beings into the virtual world of Lyoko (and back). In Season 4, the boarding pads for the Skid count as a teleporter and the "broadband acceleration" nodes count as a slower-than-light transporter.

* The [[Care Bears]] had their Rainbow Rescue Beam which is quite similar in concept to the transporters in the ''[[Star Trek]]'' franchise. However, it was only really prominent in the first movie.

* The evaporators in the original ''[[Looney Tunes|Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2 Century]]'' short.

* As an Eliatrope, Yugo from ''[[Wakfu]]'' can create teleportation portals. Shushu king Rushu is particularly interested in acquiring Yugo since Eliatrope portals are the only means of travel off the Shushu world.

* On ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'', an app on Jimmy and Beezy's phone will automatically teleport [[Mad Scientist|Heloise]] to them.

 

== [[Real Life]] ==

 

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