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Portal Picture
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- 101 feature instances
- 85 referencing feature instances
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Paintings are sometimes described as a 'window into another world'. Some series, especially in video games, take this all too literally. A magic painting will contain an entire world or dungeon which the heroes must enter to defeat the enemies within. In some cases, the art style will shift to match that of the painting, emphasizing the otherness of the painting world. If this gimmick is used more than once, a magic art gallery can be the basis for the Hub Level of a game. In rare cases, some nefarious ill-doer or oblivious Muggle may attempt to destroy a Portal Picture while another character is inside the painting world. The results vary: if the painting was literally a portal to another world, then destroying the portal will leave the characters Trapped in Another World. The more common metaphysical position, though, is that the painting world is actually formed out of the paint and brushstrokes on the canvas, and by wiping away the painting, the world itself disintegrates. Either way, the painting may be used as a prison. Sub-Trope to Anomalous Art. Compare with Portal Book and Trapped in TV Land, for different media acting as a portal. See also Art Initiates Life. When this is done symbolically as a Scene Transition, that's Picture-Perfect Presentation by way of Living Photo. See also The Man in the Mirror Talks Back and The Television Talks Back, which usually leads to this trope. Examples |
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Rayman Legends has the "magic art gallery" version: All of the levels are accessed by jumping into paintings, as are all of the playable characters. | |
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in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Aberforth has a portrait of his sister Ariana that functions as a portal between the Hog's Head and the Room of Requirement that is used to supply Nevile, Luna, and Ginny's reinstated version of Dumbledore's Army, allow the trio to get into the castle, and evacuate students. | |
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In Devil May Cry, there are several strategically-placed paintings that serve as gateways floating in the air when you return to the castle. Pretty convenient, as several doors have disappeared. | |
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Dragon Quest VIII requires the party to pass through one to access its Secret Level, the Troll Maze. | |
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Green Lantern Annual #6 has Kyle Rayner buy a rather garish painting by a Planetary Romance artist, and get sucked into the world it shows. It turns out that the artist himself escaped into the painting, but as his creativity fades, the world is collapsing. | |
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The Dutch Master: A sexually frustrated young woman, Teresa, begins having erotic fantasies about a handsome man in a 17th century painting that she saw in a museum. Eventually she crosses the portal, stepping through the frame and going into the painting's world where she seeks out the man. | |
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Viewfinder: This trope features this as a central game mechanic. Any image you find lying around can be used to rewrite reality when placed in front of you, allowing for such phenomena as getting to otherwise inaccessible areas or grabbing objects within. You can even take photos that do the same with fixed cameras found within levels, and later a portable camera of your own! In the endgame, there's a variant where you can use timed fixed cameras to take selfies and then use those selfies to teleport somewhere else. In that case, you swap places with your silhouette the instant you place the photo. |
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In Dragon Quest VII, one of these is key to reversing the "Groundhog Day" Loop a town is unknowingly caught within. However, it's only accessible when the heroes figure out how to trigger a complete time freeze. | |
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The Angel tie-in novel Image does this. When a person is under the influence a certain type of magic, they can paint pictures that are portals to the worlds in the paintings. | |
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In Dark Souls, there is a giant painting of a rope bridge in the snow inside a large building in Anor Londo. If you have the right item (the Strange Doll found in your cell upon returning to the tutorial level), you can touch the painting and be sucked inside to the Painted World of Ariamis. | |
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In Final Fantasy Record Keeper, the Record Realms are accessed by entering a portrait depicting a scene from a Final Fantasy game. | |
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A number of the Nano Fiction pieces in Nobilis are about these, such as "the Box." | |
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RPC Authority: RPC-478's power before it became depowered was to transport people into the world it depicts. | |
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This was done more than once in Looney Tunes by Roadrunner making it through Wile E. Coyote's fake tunnels. | |
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In Ib, the titular character enters the painting world through a painting titled "Abyss of the Deep" and can leave it through another painting much later on. | |
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Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers has a part where you need to enter different paintings in a virtual art gallery, in which Tomoko's soul has been trapped. | |
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The Sandman, "The Doll's House": Matthew the raven is given the task of travelling from the Dreaming to the waking world and keeping an eye on Rose. The briefing takes place in a room in Dream's palace with a ceiling painted to resemble a sunny sky full of fluffy clouds. At the end of the briefing, Matthew flies up to and then into the ceiling, which gradually becomes a real sky, and then down to perch on the roof of the building where Rose is staying. | |
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A Darkwing Duck villain, Splatter Phoenix, has a paintbrush that allows her to enter paintings, alter them, or create surreal helpers based on various art styles. | |
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Dead Gorgeous: In "Love's First Kiss", one of Rebecca's former suitors escapes from a portrait and traps Jonathan in the painting to take his place. | |
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Super Mario 64 used paintings as the gateways to most non-hub worlds. Other gateways were located inside a model mansion in a small cage, an invisible portrait that only appears in the mirror in front, a seemingly normal wall, two small pools of water, a clock's face, a bunch of small wells, a trap door, and holes. | |
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SCP Foundation: Iris Thompson, a.k.a. SCP-105, has the ability to use any photograph in this way; when she holds a photograph, it changes from a fixed image to a real-time view of the target, which she can reach through to physically manipulate objects in the target location. Originally, she could only reach through photographs taken using her personal Polaroid camera (designated SCP-105-B), but she's since demonstrated this ability with photographs taken using other cameras, with doing so being easier for her the faster the image develops after being taken. The effect extends to photos taken and displayed electronically (for instance, on a smartphone's screen), although this apparently feels like pushing through wet sand (and, indeed, she scratches up her hand badly enough to draw blood at least once while doing so). | |
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In The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, there was a side quest involving the "Painted World." | |
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In both Epic Mickey games, there are film projector screens showing old Disney shorts on them. These screens showing the cartoons act as bridges of sorts from area to area. | |
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Played for laughs several times in Mortadelo y Filemón. In one example, Mortadelo hides from the Súper in a picture of a marine landscape, submerged and disguised as Neptune (or Poseidon, take your pick) | |
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The 2013 short Get a Horse! has the movie screen itself as a barrier between a black-and-white cartoon world and our modern CGI world. | |
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Sasano Hiroyuki's ability in "Sagrada Reset" allows anyone who rips one of his photographs to enter the picture for a period of 10 minutes. | |
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The Midnight Library story "Picture Perfect" has two boys discover a strange painted mural behind some wallpaper of their Grandaunt's house that depicts a different historical period from the pilgrim age all the way to the present. Each section has a child from that era staring out of the painting in terror. Above each period is scribed the latin phrase, "Fatum tuum, nisi celata fuerit pictura, idem erit". One brother becomes obsessed with uncovering the entire mural. When he reaches the very end, he sees an empty scene resembling his grandaunt's house and gets sucked into the painting. He then learns far, far too late what the Latin phrase meant: "Your fate will be the same if the mural is not concealed"! | |
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One of the Land of Oz books mentioned a picture of a river drawn so well, that when the artist attempted to draw flowers on the other side, he fell in and drowned. | |
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A movie-based example happens in Obsidian, where after a video of Max's memories reaches his nightmare of the Mechanical Spider, that segment jumps off the screen, fills your view, and thrusts you into that dream world. | |
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In The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, this was how Edmund, Lucy and Eustace got to Narnia: via a painting located in Eustace's house. Quite likely a homage to George MacDonald. | |
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In Wee Sing in Sillyville, Scott, Laurie, and their dog Barney get pulled into the world of Sillyville through a colouring book. | |
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Persona 5: In Madarame's Palace, the party can hop into paintings, using them to sneak around foes and reach alternate areas. | |
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Xanth series: The entire premise of Crewel Lye is that the main character is reduced in size and transported into the world that is depicted in a tapestry. Another character, (fullsized and outside the tapestry) can follow his progress by watching him in the tapestry. The Sorceress Tapis creates tapestries that function this way. (She's the one who created the tapestry in Crewel Lye A later book also involved a painting which transported the characters into the world of one of the author's other series. |
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Inheritance Trilogy has the Blind Seer and artist Oree Shoth, who can create these by accident. Complete with gruesome accidental Portal Cut when they close on someone's middle. | |
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Red Dwarf did it in "Timeslides". Once the pictures (brought to life with mutated developing fluid) were projected on a screen, they were big enough to step into, for Time Travel fun—though you couldn't go outside the frame. | |
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The main character in Blue Lacuna has the ability to draw a picture of a previously unvisited reality and then travel to it by entering the picture. | |
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Erma: Erma can warp with comic books. | |
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Blue's Clues. In nearly every episode, the main characters "Skidoo" into a painting, book, drawing, or even wrapping paper for educational puzzle-solving. In The Movie, they even went into a sheet of music. | |
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A plot point in Dragon Quest V, where a painting of a real-life scene allows the protagonist to travel to it... even going back in time. In Dragon Quest VII, one of these is key to reversing the "Groundhog Day" Loop a town is unknowingly caught within. However, it's only accessible when the heroes figure out how to trigger a complete time freeze. Dragon Quest VIII requires the party to pass through one to access its Secret Level, the Troll Maze. |
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In Harry Potter, portraits cannot be entered, but their inhabitants can move freely from one frame to another, so long as they're close enough. In addition, a person in their own portrait can move to any other of their own portraits at will, and from there into any other portraits that are close enough. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons, Dungeon magazine #45 adventure "Prism Keep". In the title castle is a magical picture of a beach at sunset. The picture acts as a Gate to a distant land. Anyone who touches the picture is transported to the beach. | |
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Portal Picture | |
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Call of Cthulhu: Dreamlands boxed set, adventure "Pickman's Student". While dreaming, the PCs have to pass through several paintings into various parts of the Dreamlands. Masks of Nyarlathotep, adventure "A Serpent in Soho". The PC's can enter a painting and go back in time to when the Serpent Men ruled the Earth. |
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Portal Picture | |
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The Maid of Fairewell Heights: Marshmallow enters the landscape picture world by being painted into it. | |
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Portal Picture / int_76488c41 | |
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Portal Picture | |
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Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin had this as one of its gimmicks, allowing players to explore very different settings from the 'typical' environs of Dracula's castle. | |
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Portal Picture / int_76c6804a | |
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Portal Picture | |
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The Chameleon from Super Secret Squirrel did this with stolen paintings for recreation, until the titular protagonist subjected him to and trapped him within modern art. | |
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Portal Picture / int_77e30f15 | |
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Portal Picture | |
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Gunnerkrigg Court: In "Schoolyard Myths", while wandering the old library, Annie and Kat come across a painting which has a set of footprints leading into it. | |
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Portal Picture / int_7c48915b | |
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Portal Picture | |
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Played with in What Dreams May Come. What is being painted on paintings is created as reality in the Painted World of the afterlife. | |
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Portal Picture / int_823a8e7b | |
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Portal Picture | |
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On The Office (US), Michael has left Pam with a list of excuses to give when he doesn't want to take a phone call. Her favorite, which she's saving for a special occasion, is "He's trapped in a oil painting." | |
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Portal Picture / int_82439e64 | |
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Portal Picture | |
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Super Mario Bros. series: Super Mario 64 used paintings as the gateways to most non-hub worlds. Other gateways were located inside a model mansion in a small cage, an invisible portrait that only appears in the mirror in front, a seemingly normal wall, two small pools of water, a clock's face, a bunch of small wells, a trap door, and holes. In Super Mario Sunshine, Shadow Mario painted his M symbol on various landmarks all over the place and these became portals to levels. In Luigi's Mansion, Mario was captured in a portrait, and when you finish a big boss fight, you turn all of the major bosses you faced into portraits, the frame color depending on how well you did. Super Mario Odyssey brings back the paintings from Mario 64, this time as shortcuts between the various kingdoms. They're also used to refight certain bosses (from towers in the Mushroom Kingdom), to rebattle Bowser again (in the chapel on the Moon) and as part of the Brutal Bonus Level Culmina Crater (specifically, to access the part where you play as a captured Bowser). Also happens very briefly in Poshley Heights in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. |
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Portal Picture / int_8258e260 | |
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Portal Picture | |
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In Mystery of Mortlake Mansion, the real-world mansion's pictures all become these in the "shadowy" version, with all of them looking into the same realm. Indeed, one set of pictures on the same wall in the shadowy hall all look out onto the same scene, as if they were simply panes in a large window. | |
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Portal Picture / int_83d85959 | |
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Portal Picture | |
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A Legend of the Seeker episode had a painter able to out any object or person into a painting just by drawing them on it. In order to get out, the painter had to paint the object or the person on a canvas from within the painting. | |
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Portal Picture / int_8459204b | |
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Portal Picture | |
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Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me. Mrs. Tremond and her mask-wearing grandson surprise Laura in the parking lot of the diner with a framed picture of a door of a room of an abandoned house. Tremond says, "This would look nice on your wall."◊ Laura then hangs the picture on her bedroom wall and has the world's worst acid trip that involves seeing herself standing in the doorway in the picture and then entering the picture... | |
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Portal Picture / int_8674eacf | |
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Portal Picture | |
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In Final Fantasy VI, the optional quest to find Relm in the World of Ruin involves fighting your way through an art gallery in a wealthy man's house. Most paintings come to life to attack you, but some can draw you into it, effectively acting as a portal. | |
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Portal Picture / int_86814e56 | |
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Portal Picture | |
| Portal Picture / int_949a3364 | comment |
Frogman's painting from Emerald City Confidential is a portal to his secret files on his illegal activities. The painting allows him to hide his books in plain sight. | |
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Portal Picture / int_949a3364 | |
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Portal Picture | |
| Portal Picture / int_986143f5 | comment |
In Art of the Dead, the seven paintings can not only corrupt the souls of those in contact with them, but once they are fully corrupted, they will be drawn into the painting and trapped there permanently. Wilde can also cause the paintings to reach and snatch people and objects into them. | |
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Portal Picture / int_986143f5 | |
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Portal Picture | |
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W.I.T.C.H.: In "Framed", Will, Taranee, Cornelia and Hay Lin are pulled into a painting which served as the prison for an artist whose work had offended Phobos. Irma and Caleb come to their rescue by entering the painting's world through another copy in Phobos's castle. | |
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Portal Picture / int_9989595b | |
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Portal Picture | |
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In The 7th Guest, this is the only way to enter and exit the Art Gallery. Access to it involves traveling through a rug that turns into a portal leading there, and a painting of the Music Room acts as the exit, with the frame expanding and becoming the room itself. Course, this just fits right at home with other, more bizarre transitions elsewhere in the house. Since all the passages have changed over time, the sequel subverts this by using the canvas of the painting as a door in the wall behind the frame. |
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Portal Picture / int_999299b5 | |
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Portal Picture | |
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C's world from Code Geass is not entered by a picture portal, but the memories stored there are displayed in a portrait gallery or library that can be entered. | |
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Portal Picture / int_a4a6b86a | |
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Portal Picture | |
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Shadow Hearts: From The New World has its Bonus Level of Hell (okay, Purgatory) in a painting. | |
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Portal Picture / int_a95d1979 | |
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Portal Picture | |
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minus. does it several times. Here, for example. | |
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Portal Picture / int_aa404079 | |
| Portal Picture / int_ac58ea30 | type |
Portal Picture | |
| Portal Picture / int_ac58ea30 | comment |
The opening title animation for The Pink Panther Strikes Again has the Inspector tailing the Panther into a movie theater, then into the screen through several parody movie clips — he ends up trapped in the screen as the Panther watches from the seats. | |
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Portal Picture / int_ac58ea30 | |
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Portal Picture | |
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In the Malazan Book of the Fallen, Ganoes Paran finds ingenious ways to use his powers as the Master of the Deck of Dragons. He has an artist paint new cards to his specifications, then uses them to create portals to transport his army across vast distances, or to bait an enemy commander into another realm. | |
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Portal Picture / int_ad622d64 | |
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Portal Picture | |
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An episode of Courage the Cowardly Dog had the paintings and various exhibits in a museum brought to life after being affected by the full moon. | |
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Portal Picture / int_ae0356e0 | |
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Portal Picture | |
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In The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, this is one of the basic gimmicks for the boss fight against Phantom Ganon in the Forest Temple. Occurring during the first phase of the battle, Phantom Ganon leaped in and out of Spooky Paintings with his horse and Link had to determine which painting he will pop out of so he can strike with his arrow. Link needs to scan each painting carefully for the real Phantom Ganon so he isn't fooled by one of his clones, which will immediately turn around and run off at the last second when it reaches the picture frame while the real one comes out and delivers a devastating electric attack. After this phase, Phantom Ganon's horse vanishes, and it becomes a Tennis Boss fight. | |
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Portal Picture / int_ae050a9f | |
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Portal Picture | |
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In the Muppet Babies (2018) episode, "You Oughta Be In Pictures", the monkey from Sunday Afternoon at the Grand Jetee steals Fozzie's lunchbox, and the babies jump after it, hopping from one painting to another. | |
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Portal Picture / int_b1cd847c | |
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Portal Picture | |
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Used in the last episode of Friday the 13th: The Series. A curse painting allows an obsessed history professor to contact the Marquis de Sade in the past, where the two exchange bodies of their victims. | |
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Portal Picture / int_b2913b67 | |
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Portal Picture | |
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One of SoulBlazer's early dungeons was contained within a painting. | |
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Portal Picture / int_b6145a16 | |
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Portal Picture | |
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"Chapter Two: A Day Out" of Mary Poppins is the inspiration for the chalk-drawing scene in the film, Mary and Bert the Match Man (but not Jane and Michael) enter one of his pavement sketches, where they have afternoon tea and travel to Yarmouth on merry-go-round horses. | |
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Portal Picture / int_b6e6a7c7 | |
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Portal Picture | |
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In Super Mario Sunshine, Shadow Mario painted his M symbol on various landmarks all over the place and these became portals to levels. | |
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Portal Picture / int_b87de35b | |
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Portal Picture | |
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The Throne of Yord from Shamanic Princess appears to be a painting, and characters enter and exit a world within it...But the Throne of Yord is evidently anything it wants to be. | |
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Portal Picture / int_b8f4145d | |
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Portal Picture | |
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In Snoopy vs. the Red Baron, you enter levels by flying through billboards in the Hub Level. | |
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Portal Picture / int_b9386a5e | |
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Portal Picture | |
| Portal Picture / int_c2eb1b78 | comment |
When the party are starving in Delicious in Dungeon, Laios jumps into a living painting to try and eat the food depicted there. He manages it, but when he jumps back out the food disappears and he's left hungry again. | |
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Portal Picture / int_c2eb1b78 | |
| Portal Picture / int_c35ec21c | type |
Portal Picture | |
| Portal Picture / int_c35ec21c | comment |
Super Mario Odyssey brings back the paintings from Mario 64, this time as shortcuts between the various kingdoms. They're also used to refight certain bosses (from towers in the Mushroom Kingdom), to rebattle Bowser again (in the chapel on the Moon) and as part of the Brutal Bonus Level Culmina Crater (specifically, to access the part where you play as a captured Bowser). | |
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Portal Picture / int_c35ec21c | |
| Portal Picture / int_c43df4d8 | type |
Portal Picture | |
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Doctor Who: In"Fear Her", a girl has the ability to convert people into crayon drawings. | |
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Portal Picture / int_c43df4d8 | |
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Portal Picture | |
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Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo has a scene were Deuce, high on "space cakes," enters a painting of a Dutch maid and starts fondling her... only problem is, he was actually fondling his best friend... | |
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Portal Picture / int_c5f40ad3 | |
| Portal Picture / int_c81bb075 | type |
Portal Picture | |
| Portal Picture / int_c81bb075 | comment |
Van Helsing has a Portal Picture, it's where Dracula the Big Bad has hidden his castle. Literally. His castle is inaccessible unless you enter through a painting. | |
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Portal Picture / int_c81bb075 | |
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Portal Picture | |
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In the Night Gallery episode "Escape Route", a Nazi war criminal on the run from the authorities in South America takes refuge in an art gallery. He discovers that with concentration, he can project himself into a painting and decides to use this to escape from his pursuers, choosing to enter a peaceful painting of a man on a boat. Unfortunately for him, he winds up projecting himself into the wrong painting, and ends up in a horrific painting depicting the tortures of a concentration camp. | |
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Portal Picture / int_c9777ec1 | |
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Portal Picture | |
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With a Single Spell by Lawrence Watt-Evans, though its portals depict locations elsewhere in the same world, rather than other worlds. Later books in the series show the same magic being used to transport to other worlds and back. | |
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Portal Picture / int_cefe086 | |
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Portal Picture | |
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A central point to Legacy of the Ancients, where your character's begins the adventure by discovering a Galactic Museum filled with these. You do most of your traveling trying to get jewel coins to unlock and use the exhibits. | |
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Portal Picture / int_d1fd59b9 | |
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Portal Picture | |
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Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: In Pleasant Goat Fun Class: The Earth Carnival episode 25, the featured carnival attraction is a picture containing a candy world that can be entered. The candy world often experiences earthquakes, forming the educational topic of the episode. | |
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Portal Picture / int_d22a9a66 | |
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Portal Picture | |
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In Luigi's Mansion, Mario was captured in a portrait, and when you finish a big boss fight, you turn all of the major bosses you faced into portraits, the frame color depending on how well you did. | |
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Portal Picture / int_d43cbccb | |
| Portal Picture / int_d4bef992 | type |
Portal Picture | |
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The second Azada game does this with the illustrations in Expy versions of several literary classics. | |
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Portal Picture / int_d4bef992 | |
| Portal Picture / int_d4e59f77 | type |
Portal Picture | |
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The primary setup for Drawn is Iris' ability to create these. | |
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Portal Picture / int_d4e59f77 | |
| Portal Picture / int_d68171d | type |
Portal Picture | |
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Simon in the Land of Chalk Drawings was a 1970s British animated series (featured in the US on Captain Kangaroo, and later on the Nickelodeon series Pinwheel) which applied this trope to a chalkboard by way of a small boy's imagination. | |
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Portal Picture | |
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In the children's program Zoobilee Zoo one of the characters ventures inside a picture made by her friend, one created with magic paint. When she starts hearing a crackling sound, she realizes the paint is beginning to dry, and races to get back out before she somehow gets sealed in. | |
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Portal Picture / int_d6bcbb88 | |
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Portal Picture | |
| Portal Picture / int_d7c4626a | comment |
In The Sandman (1989), each of the Endless has a family gallery with which they can summon each other to their domain. Most appear to be picture galleries, but Despair has a Hall Of Magic Mirrors and Destiny a garden of colossal statues. | |
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Portal Picture / int_d7c4626a | |
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Portal Picture | |
| Portal Picture / int_d8a841f4 | comment |
Invoked in The Longest Journey, where April's dimension-traveling abilities seem to be tied to her painting talents. The first time she travels to another world without external assistance, she paints the place she wants to go until it turns into a Shift that takes her there. | |
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Olympus is accessible via a mural in Xanadu. | |
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Also happens very briefly in Poshley Heights in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. | |
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The Mickey Mouse short Thru the Mirror, a Shout-Out to Through the Looking Glass. The 2013 short Get a Horse! has the movie screen itself as a barrier between a black-and-white cartoon world and our modern CGI world. |
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Princesses of the Pizza Parlor: In the fourth book, the paintings in the mansion take the princesses to other parts of the mansion. | |
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Once Upon a Time falls somewhere between this trope and Portal Book - in Season 4, it is revealed that The Author is trapped behind a door in Henry's storybook. | |
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The Mary Poppins movie had a scene of this sort which took place in a sidewalk chalk drawing. The end sequence is interesting, as the background melts into blobs of color because it's started to rain, causing the chalk on the sidewalk to run, thus ending the characters' visit. | |
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The classic video for a-ha's "Take On Me." | |
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In Looney Tunes: Back in Action, a chase sequence in the Louvre involves several escapes into famous paintings. | |
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The linking books in Myst. The books have a picture window at the beginning which shows the user the world they will be linking to. Overlaps a bit with Portal Book since the book must have a description of the world it's linking to written in it, although it generally links to a place, not a story. | |
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In Avencast: Rise of the Mage, the player character discovers a set of portraits painted by a condemned mage, which transport him back in time to prevent the mage's execution. | |
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In the Charmed (1998) episode "The Painted World", a demon is trapped inside a magical painting. | |
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The heroine of the Grim Tales series has the ability to enter photos or drawings that have something to do with her family. | |
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In Moominpappa at Sea, Moominmamma misses home, paints picture of it and is able to go into the picture. | |
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The Chronicles of Amber had the "Trumps," which were most commonly the size and shape of Tarot cards, but people skilled in using them could mentally communicate (or combat) the individuals depicted thereon. They also facilitated travel across the dimensions, as either person could offer to bring the other through. Trumps could also depict particular locations, which made them handy escape tools. In the course of the novels, it is revealed that it is not so much the materials of which Trumps are composed as the skills of the Trump artist that gives them their powers: two are scribed onto prison cell walls and become significant plot points later on. Later on, we also find two main characters within a Wonderland (as in Carroll) bar that's being painted onto a wall by an artist. The point between reality and mural moves back and forth. | |
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