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A portal in fiction is a magical or technological doorway that connects two distant locations, whether separated by time and/or, more commonly, space.
Portals are a common concept in science fiction and fantasy fiction. They can be of two forms: either you must step through the frames of an object (a mirror, a cupboard, a picture frame, a gateway etc.) which serves as a portal or, when they stand alone, the portal will commonly appear in the form of a vortex of energy.
Places that a portal will link to include: a different spot in the same universe (in which case it might be an alternative for teleportation); a parallel world (inter-dimensional portal); the past or the future (time portal); and other planes of existence, like heaven, hell or other afterworlds.
Portals are similar to the cosmological concept of a wormhole, and some portals work using wormholes.
Portals play a primary role in:
- Army Men
- Asheron's Call
- Avalon
- Being John Malkovich
- Broken Angels
- Chrono Trigger
- Contact (film)
- The Dark Tower series
- Diablo (video game)
- Donnie Darko
- Doom 3
- Farscape
- Half-Life
- Halo 3
- Harry Potter series
- His Dark Materials series
- Hyperion (novel)
- Metroid Prime 2: Echoes
- Metroid Prime Hunters
- Mighty Max
- Mortal Kombat (series)
- Narnia
- Nomaris: The Edge of Remembering
- Planescape
- Portal (video game)
- Prey (video game)
- Sliders
- Spyro Series
- The Stargate series
- Super Mario Brothers series
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987 TV series)
- Time Bandits
- Timeline (film)
- The 10th Kingdom
- The Dark Portal
- The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
- His Dark Materials
- Legend of Zelda (series)
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
- The Wheel of Time
- Through the Looking-Glass
- Tunnel in the Sky
- W.I.T.C.H
- Warcraft (series)
- Wolfenstein (2009 video game)
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