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[[Sub-Trope]] of [[Teleporters and Transporters]]. Compare [[Tele Frag]], which, if used on purpose rather than accidentally, is a [[Sub-Trope]] of this. Supertrope of [[Teleport Gun]]. Appropriate examples should go to subtrope pages.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In the ''[[Lyrical Nanoha]]'' franchise, Yuuno has displayed the ability to teleport living beings against their will (no other character is so far capable of it). In ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's]]'', he, Arf, and Shamal use that ability to teleport the [[Final Boss]] of the season into outer space (where it is finished off by a starship bombardment).
* In ''[[Naruto]]'', Madara Uchiha uses it often, offensively and defensively. Kakashi can use a similar technique as well.
* Two of the most powerful teleporters (if not ''the'' most powerful teleporters) in ''[[A Certain Magical Index]]'' have weaponized their powers in distinctly different ways: Kuroko Shirai usually uses her power defensively (for example, teleporting bystanders out of danger) but also uses her powers offensively (for example, teleporting spikes into firearms), while Awaki Musujime usually uses her power offensively only (for example, teleporting people into dangerous situations). When they go up against each other in ''[[A Certain Magical Index]] II'', {{spoiler|Shirai ends up in a wheelchair}}.
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* ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'': Any time Night Crawler used his natural mutant teleportation ability offensively against an enemy in combat.
** Also applies to Magik (Illyana Rasputin) of the ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]''. In one story, both she and Nightcrawler teleported part of Magus away, severely injuring him.
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* Joe Haldeman's novel ''Mindbridge'' has a race which uses miniature teleporting field projectors as cutting weapons.
* In ''[[The Wheel of Time]]'', the gateways are known to have deadly sharp edges, and we see people "accidentally" butchered a few times after being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Lews Therin shows Rand how to use these gateways as weapons on the battlefield.
* In the 1980s-vintage SF series ''The Journeys of McGill Feighan'' by Kevin O'Donnell, Jr., a monopoly employs all persons gifted with psionic teleportation (called flingers) and uses them to do interstellar shipping and transport. However, the monopoly conditions the flingers to be very ''unimaginative and conservative'' about the uses of their power. The main character escapes this, and at a critical moment in the storyline realizes that a clever (and unconditioned) flinger can use his power as seriously destructive weapon by cleverly exploiting the means by which he matches velocities between origin and destination.
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* On ''[[Blake's 7
* Any time a Transporter on ''[[Star Trek]]'' was used to beam someone directly into space, or inside a bulkhead, or some other hostile environment, was an offensive example of this trope. Beaming bad guys away without killing them would be the defensive use of this trope.
** ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]'': The Mirror Universe Kirk kept an alien device called the Tantalus Field which could make anyone, anywhere (presumably within its scanning range) instantly vanish. In an un-filmed episode of ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise]]'', it [[What Could Have Been|would have been revealed]] that the Tantalus Field was actually a kind of interdimensional/temporal transporter, which deposited its victims in isolated penal colonies. This would have allowed for the return of Mirror-Kirk, in a different century of a parallel universe. The Tantalus Field would count as a Teleport Gun if it weren't the size and shape of a TV set (it also didn't require manual targeting like a traditional weapon).
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