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
• 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
• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
• 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

See also

• Portals in science fiction
• Teleportation
• Wormhole

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