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[[File:IconianGateway 3368.jpg|link=Star Trek: The Next Generation|frame| We know [[Good Thing You Can Heal|you can replace the arm]] [[Deceptively-Human Robots|Data]], but you still [[Hand in the Hole|shouldn't stick it in weird places!]]]]
This is a door that opens to a location other than the one behind it; in time, space, and even ''[[Place Beyond Time|outside of it!]]'' This door may be a [[Cool Gate]], but it can be of much more mundane make and manufacture.
How does this door bend space and time like a Dali painting? It may be a [[Teleporters and Transporters|technological teleportation device]], a [[Time Machine]] (or both). It could also be made through magic (which usually justifies it being otherwise mundane looking), and may lead to the [[Magic Land]], [[Spirit World]] or [[Dark World]]. Lastly, it may be some form of "naturally" occurring gateway of Eldritch origin that leads to an [[Alternate Universe]].
See also [[Cool Gate]], [[Portal Network]], [[Portal Book]] and [[Portal Pool]]. [[Sub-Trope]] of [[Teleporters and Transporters]].
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== Film ==
* ''[[The Matrix Reloaded]]''. The doors that can open to different locations depending on which person or key opens them.
* Done in ''[[Monsters, Inc.]]'' with the doors that serve as portals from the monsters' office building to the bedrooms of children they're supposed to scare.
* ''[[Beetlejuice]]''. Following the instructions in a book, the ghostly protagonists use chalk to draw a door on a wall, open it and walk through it into the afterlife bureaucracy.
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== Literature ==
* [[Dan Simmon]]'s ''[[Hyperion]]'' overcomes the problem of space travel and communication with two different systems. The space travel system is essentially portals. Some very wealthy homes consist of rooms on different planets connected by these portals.
* In [[Neil Gaiman]]'s ''[[Neverwhere]]'' (book and show), Door and her family can open up doors anywhere. Their home is a bunch of unconnected rooms.
* The door in [[Dan Abnett]]'s ''[[Ravenor]]'', a plain wooden door that opens through space and time. Originally, it used by special trained operators, to let the questions of those who came to them direct it; when the house was broken, Ravenor operated it to put his powerful psionic abilities into play.
* Susan Cooper's ''[[The Dark Is Rising]]'' series. Powerful Old Ones (such as Merriman Lyon) are able to summon a magical gate (which looks like a pair of doors) that allows travel through time and space.
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* The title tollbooth of Norman Juster's ''[[The Phantom Tollbooth]]''.
* ''[[The Forgotten Door]]'' by Alexander Key. An inter-dimensional machine/gate.
* The appropriately-named Gates in [[Mercedes Lackey]]'s ''[[Heralds of Valdemar]]'' series. They have a number of important limitations, in that they are single-use constructions created by a powerful mage [[Cast
* In [[Patricia A. McKillip]]'s ''The Bell at Sealey Head'', Emma keeps opening doors and finding Princess Ysabo. She never dares go in for fear that she can't come back. And one day when she opens the door to her grandmother's room, it shows the princess in a different room. She closes it, reopens it, and finds her grandmother's room.
* ''The Green Door'' in [[H. G. Wells]]' short story of the same name.
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* In ''[[Harry Potter and The Order of The Phoenix]]'' during the battle in the Department of Mysteries, Sirius Black gets pulled into an ominous veiled archway after being cursed by [[Royally Screwed-Up|Bellatrix]]. [[Anyone Can Die|And he hasn't been back since]]...
** Frankly, Sirius thought the trip was ''[[Incredibly Lame Pun|to die for]]''.
* In [[The Chronicles of Narnia]]: [[Prince Caspian]] when Aslan sends the four Pevensies home and some of the Telmarines to the deserted island their ancestors came from through a door made of 2 vertical sticks and a horizontal one on top.
* Professor Chronitis's time-travelling study in ''[[Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency]]'' appears as a door in a convenient wall, or cliff face.
== Live Action TV ==
* The key in ''[[The Lost Room]]'' can turn any door with a tumble lock into this.
* The ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]'' episode, "All Our Yesterdays" has the Atavachron, a machine that creates a portal door/wall to a time in that planet's past.
== Tabletop RPG ==
* ''[[Planescape]]'' has Sigil, the City of Doors, which is pretty much made of this trope, though all "bounded spaces" can be portals, so not all the portals in Sigil are actual doors.
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* ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess|The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess]]'' features accessing The Temple of Time through a door with a black-and-white entry. [[Fridge Logic|This is extremely out-of-place]], because the only other time the black-and-white happens in the series is in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker|The Wind Waker]]'' when [[It Makes Sense in Context|initially traveling to Hyrule]].
* ''[[Star Ocean: Till the End of Time]]'' features the main hero Fayt Leingod's high level move, Dimension Door. This attack not only allows the player to teleport behind the enemy and strike, but holding the attack button can damage and potentially stun opponents.
* The room doors in ''[[Silent Hill 2]]'''s nightmare hotel.
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* In ''[[Dream Catcher]]'' due to running in between the two worlds, Riza gets plenty of use out of a couple. One being a door, the other being the dreamcatcher.
* In the comic [http://www.flipsidecomics.com/ Flipside], creating a portal involves slapping a door-sized piece of enchanted paper on a surface.
* This is how Merlin's time machine appears in ''[[Arthur, King of Time and Space]]''; a heavy wooden door in the nearest available wall.
{{quote|'''Mordred''': Sire, the other side of that wall is the exterior hull of the ship and open space. Where did that door lead to?
'''Arthur''': Everywhere. }}
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[The Simpsons]]'': In a [[Treehouse of Horror]] episode Homer finds a portal to the "third dimension" behind the bookcase.
{{quote|That's weird, it's like something out of that twilighty show about that zone.}}
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