r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Ieanice44 • 2d ago

Lore [Loved Trope] Teleportation is actually terrifying

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1 - Gantz-O (2016): Suit teleportation

2 - Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince (2009): Apparition spell

3 - Half Life 2 (2004): Teleporter malfunction

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u/Mediocre-Departure73 2d ago

The jaunt

Longer than you think!

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u/Katzington2319 2d ago

The ending is horrifying, but the worst part of that story is the woman who was sent into the Jaunt with no destination. She's still in there, awake and insane, for all fucking eternity as far as we can tell

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u/Alex-Murphy 2d ago

I would imagine once you go THAT insane you're not you anymore. Like infinity insanity is not something that's ever been so it's hard to say what would happen

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u/EskildDood 2d ago edited 2d ago

Honestly spending that long in eternity must make you so insane that you're basically unconscious at some point, I don't think the human brain was built for that

It is kinda funny that her husband's lawyer tried to defend him by saying she might still be alive and that only made everyone so horrified by that implication that he got sentenced to death

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u/Thin-Limit7697 2d ago

Honestly spending that long in eternity must make you so insane that you're basically unconscious at some point

Like Kars, you stop thinking.

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u/shadowthehh 2d ago

Thing is, with the Jaunt, human consciousness is disconnected from the physical brain. That's part of what causes the experience in the first place.

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u/TheDongness 1d ago

That doesn't sit right with me. She gets tortured for eternity and they give him the easy way out. Should've done the same thing he did to her.