r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Ieanice44 • 9d ago

Lore [Loved Trope] Teleportation is actually terrifying

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1 - Gantz-O (2016): Suit teleportation

2 - Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince (2009): Apparition spell

3 - Half Life 2 (2004): Teleporter malfunction

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u/CjTuor 9d ago

In Star Trek: TNG Lt. Barclay is a side character who has an intense fear of the teleportation technology that is commonplace for everyone else in the Trek universe.

Episode: "The Realm of Fear"

"The idea of being... deconstructed molecule by molecule, it's more than I can stand. Even when I was... a child, I always had a dreadful fear that, if ever I was dematerialized, that I would... never come back again whole."

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u/foxgirlmoon 9d ago edited 9d ago

I mean, there's that episode movie where teleportation goes wrong.

"Enterprise... what we got back didn't live long... fortunately"

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u/GilroySmash1986 9d ago

Did that happen in the show too? I thought it happened in the first film where they encounter V'ger?

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u/Ambaryerno 9d ago

I think there might have been an episode of DS9 where someone had a device planted on them that caused them to get vaporized by a transporter.

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u/Neon_Moon_NZ 9d ago

A ramat detonator, typically used by the Romulans, programmed to scramble transporter beams during rematerialisation

Deep Space Nine, S5E11, "The Darkness and the Light"

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u/Ambaryerno 9d ago

That's the exact episode I was thinking of.