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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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== [[Live Action Television]] ==
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* Any time a Transporter on ''[[Star Trek (Franchise)|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 (TV)|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 (TV)|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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* The [[Command and Conquer Red Alert|Red Alert]] series has the Chronosphere, which can be [[Video Game Cruelty Potential|creatively used]] to teleport any land vehicles into the sea, or any sea vehicles onto the land, destroying them instantly. Additionally, any infantry it is used on will die instantly as well.
* Subverted in the game ''[[Achron]]'', which features teleportation and [[Time Travel]] as major elements but where it's impossible to teleport enemy units and any attempts to make your own units teleport into the same space and time will damage or destroy both units, making weaponisation of this technique impractical. There are however two superweapons, one of which teleports anything it affects into another time period and the other, a missile that teleports to avoid incoming fire.
* In ''[[The Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion]]'', attacking [[Mad God|Sheogorath]] causes him to teleport you several thousand feet above Execution Point, with predictable results. The fall will still kill you even if you've enabled [[God Mode]]. If you head to Execution Point on foot you can find the bodies of other people who've displeased Sheogorath, including one who was sentenced to death for [[What Do You Mean
* Subspace Bombs of ''[[Super Smash Bros (Video Game)|Super Smash Bros]] Brawl'''s story mode ''The Subspace Emissary''. They transport the lands they're on into Subspace, but when exploding create a vacuum powerful enough to rip apart people caught the blast area. {{spoiler|Too many bombs launched in the same area can result in the land they swallow being disintegrated instead.}}
* The Banishment Device from ''[[Hexen (Video Game)|Hexen]]'', a magical artifact which shoots projectiles that teleport enemies to another location on the map.
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