9. Nightcrawler’s Teleportation
- Company: Marvel Comics
- Real Science: Quantum Physics
- Possible to Recreate: Somewhat
Nightcrawler is a popular mutant from the X-Men comics who is known for his ability to teleport. Conditional to his teleportation abilities is that he cannot teleport anywhere he cannot see. This means he cannot just teleport to another country overseas. Marvel also explained that when Nightcrawler disappears, he goes into another universe that has him run through what is basically a portal where he will show up.
This creates a poof of smoke each time he disappears and then reappears somewhere else. The facts behind comic book characters like Nightcrawler are fascinating. We can sort of explain his powers through Quantum Tunneling. This is a known quantum mechanical phenomenon. In it, subatomic particles pass through what is believed to be a potential barrier without restrictions from classic mechanics or normal scientific law. Nightcrawler could be accessing this in some way to teleport.