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Sometimes characters or devices with the power of teleportation suffer from a specific form of [[Power Incontinence]]. They just can't control where they're going. Depending on the range of their powers, they could end up on the other side of the galaxy or two feet to the left of where they're standing. Or [[Tele Frag|inside a wall]]. Whether this is the result of a limitation of the power, a desperate gambit to get out of somewhere in a hurry when there's no time to properly designate a target location, or plain old human error, sometimes teleportation is just random.
If it's terrestrial teleportation, it'll have the courtesy never to put the victim inside a wall or 30 feet in the air. It's more believable with space travel, because [[Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale|space is so frigging big]] that something the size of your average [[Star Trek|ship named ''Enterprise'']] need not emerge inside a planet no matter how many times something sends it where it doesn't want to be.
[[Million-to-One Chance|If you're lucky, you can control when it happens.]] See also [[Teleporter Accident]].
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This very wiki has a built-in [[Special:RandomPage|Random Teleporter]].
== Anime and Manga ==
* In ''[[Irresponsible Captain Tylor]]'' this happens when they use their [[Warp Drive|Hyperdrive]] without inputting a destination.
* In the ''[[BattleTech]]'' franchise, this is known as a [http://www.sarna.net/wiki/JumpShip#Misjump Misjump].
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* In ''[[With Strings Attached]]'', Ringo suffers from this. When he is badly startled, he automatically teleports to someplace he perceives as safe. This can be as close as 50 feet or hundreds of miles away, with corresponding inconvenience.
* In the ''[[Ranma ½]]/[[Sailor Moon]]'' crossover ''[[Relatively Absent]]'', Ranma discovers during her first few tries teleporting that if she loses focus on her intended target, she may go somewhere else familiar which is similar to where she actually ''wanted'' to go, or where she subconsciously wishes she were (like the Tendo dojo).
== Film ==
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* Moya in ''[[Farscape]]'' is equipped with a "Starburst" drive which teleports the ship randomly, which the crew use to flee.
* Nadia Popov
** In the novels, her powers (like those of many other ghosts) were actually activated by touching her own nose - but every time she sneezed she covered her nose and ended up triggering her power.
* In ''[[Power Rangers RPM]]'', when the Green Ranger first tries to use his teleportation power, he accidentally appears in an underground bank vault, which leads to the rest of the team learning about his criminal past.
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** Although River Song seems to manage a smooth ride just peachily on her own, while simultaneously implying the Doctor is a crap driver who 'leaves the brake on'.
* Hiro Nakamura in the latest season of ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]''
* In the re-imagined ''[[Battlestar Galactica
** In the finale, {{spoiler|Starbuck enters a series of random coordinates as the Cylon homebase launches the last of it's defenses and begins to explode around them, based on the notes to the recurring music connected to her father and the final five cylons. Galactica ends up jumping to a point in orbit of Earth (ours, not the radioactive one from earlier in the series)}}
* ''[[Stargate]]'', at least once a season.
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== Literature ==
* ''[[Dragonriders of Pern]]''. When they're first beginning to control dragons and learning to teleport, you can sometimes screw it up. During excavations inside a weyr once, the weyrfolk came across a dragon and rider who'd been entombed in solid rock after making a misaimed teleport.
* The ''Space Hawks'' Choose Your Own Adventure Books feature the Emergency FTL Jump, a last-resort escape method that skips the usual safety checks and calculations. It's mentioned that this kind of blind jump has the potential to strand the pilot in space {{spoiler|though in practice, there's only one book out of the six in which the emergency FTL jump will kill you}}.
* In ''[[The Time
* In the book ''Casting Spells'', when Chloe finally inherits her magical powers, she ends up teleporting her love interest around accidentally by thinking of him. Oops.
* The [[Hyperspace]] version of this happens at the start of [[C. J.
* In [[Robert Heinlein]]'s novel ''[[Starman Jones]]'', a MisJump (the result of a navigational error) causes a ship to become lost in space. The crew finally
* Frank Pollard from The Bad Place by [[Dean Koontz]] can teleport, but suffering from amnesia, he does it unconsciously and goes all over the place, especially while sleeping. His powers aren't under control until near the end of the novel, when he regains his memory.
* In the [[Larry Niven]] story "One Face", a misjump brings the crew to apparently the wrong system. Turns out after a while that it's the right system, but they've appeared billions of years in the future, when Earth is no longer habitable.
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** Actually to a random spawnpoint (where you also respawn after death) on the map, so not totally random.
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* In ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' the whole premise behind Riff's Dimensional Flux Agitator is that it teleports people into [[Another Dimension|random dimensions]]. They're sometimes able to teleport themselves back or reopen old portals, but the mostly the device is just one giant crapshoot.
* ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]''{{'}}s {{spoiler|Parley}} does something like this. It happens at random times and takes her to random places, though later she manages to learn to control it.
== Western Animation ==
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