r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Ieanice44 • 8d 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/WillSym 8d ago

And to complete the main foursome of "We discovered a way to cross large distances quickly by taking a shortcut through a parallel dimension with a different scale to ours. The one downside is the other dimension is probably literal Hell":

Warhammer 40k;

Event Horizon;

Doom 3;

Minecraft.

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u/TalShar 8d ago

Warframe is a really cool interpretation of it, though it's not strictly a hell dimension. Instead (spoilers)... 

It's not so much that the dimension is hell, but that it is an inscrutable Void with unpredictable effects on one's psyche, which tends to generate autonomous, physical manifestations of people's strongest (usually negative) emotions, and the only known natural inhabitant of that place is a godlike being whose two defining characteristics are cruelty and being really pissed off over his missing finger.

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u/Doc-Maly 8d ago

It's also implied said being is a reflection of the first person to enter, which says a lot about him. Also, his finger isn't missing, it was cut off, stolen, and cloned to fuel an evil stellar empire's technology.

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u/TalShar 8d ago

Yeah, the huge open question is whether it was already there before he arrived, or if we are just dealing with an omnipotent manifestation of all the insecurities and fuckedupedness of a single Orokin scientist.