Portal (fiction)

A portal in fiction is a magical or technological doorway that connects two distant locations.

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 the wormhole.

Portals play a primary role in:
* Army Men
* Asheron's Call
* Being John Malkovich
* Broken Angels
* Contact (film)
* His Dark Materials series
* Diablo (video game)
* Diablo II
* Donnie Darko
* Doom 3
* Farscape
* Half-Life
* Halo 3
* Harry Potter series
* Hot Wheels AcceleRacers
* Hot Wheels World Race
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* Metroid Prime Hunters
* Mighty Max
* Mortal Kombat (series)
* Narnia
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* Planescape
* Portal (video game)
* Prey (video game)
* Sliders
* Spyro Series
* The Stargate series
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* Timeline
* The 10th Kingdom
* The Dark Portal
* The Legend of Zelda (series)
* The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
* The Wheel of Time
* Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987 TV series)
* Through the Looking-Glass
* Tunnel in the Sky
* W.I.T.C.H
* The Warcraft series

ee also

* Portals in science fiction
* Teleportation
* Wormhole