Portal (fiction)

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

Portals are a common concept in sci-fi 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 world (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.

Portals play a primary role in:

• Army Men
• His Dark Materials series
• Doom 3
• Half-Life (normal and one leading to a world at the edge between universes named Xen)
• Harry Potter series
• Metroid Prime 2: Echoes
• Mighty Max
• Planescape
• Portal (video game)
• Prey (video game)
• Sliders
• Spyro Series
• Stargate
• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
• Timeline
• The Dark Portal
• The Legend of Zelda (series)
• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987 TV series)
• Through the Looking-Glass
• W.I.T.C.H
• World of Warcraft

See also

• Fantasy
• Science fiction
• Teleportation
• The 10th Kingdom

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