Rift

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Rifts are a type of controlled space-time abnormalities.
==Description==
=== Nature ===
Rifts are tears in the fabric of reality. Stepping through a Rift can allow one to cross from one world to another easily, or to suck in items from other dimensions.The Mad Cupid of the Euclidean Plane (2019).Let's Get Dangerous! (2020). Although this has been leveraged at various times by dimensional engineers such as Solego as the basis for dimensional vehicles, with the Solego Circuit allowing its user to create Rifts to specific worlds of their choosing, Rifts are an inherently unstable constructs and will begin to multiply exponentially the more Rifts are created in close proximity. Rifts can also be created purely by accident, as a result of paradoxes: one time-traveller allegedly caused an epidemic of Rifts when he tried to kill death.The Grand Multiverse Hotel (2020).
Manifesting principally in the early 21st century as far as the and were concerned, a Rifts Crisis once spread throughout the multiverse, causing chaos and threatening the collapse of countless realities. Its origins were dubious, but Pythagoras-858 suspected that the crux of the event was not the ultimate cause (or causes) of the Rifts epidemic, but rather the actions of a third party who was actively accelerating the spread of the Rifts and deterioration of the multiverse. Jenny Everywhere suspected the Consistency Imperium of being that third party, although Pythagoras was unsure.
=== Properties ===
“Wild” Rifts are dangerous not only because their destination is unpredictable and might not be a livable environment,Pythagoras-858 and the Quest for the Stovepipe (2020). but also because a proliferation of Rift can put a given universe, and perhaps even an entire “region” of the multiverse, in jeopardy. Due to their disrupting the fabric of the universe in which they appear, Rifts can also disable normal methods of dimensional travel to and from that universe, even as they themselves present a way out. Rifts can, however, be contained with Dimensional Prism. Another effective method of dealing with a Rift situation is to disable or cancel out whatever caused the Rift in the first place, such as destroying the machine which generated the ur-rift or rebooting reality itself into a version of History where the Rifts never existed.
=== Appearance ===
Visually, Rifts usually appear as vertical, irregular, crackling gashes in the fabric of reality, emitting a white or reddish light. However, some larger Rifts can appear as black abysses, making them indistinguishable from a regular crevice or ravine at first glance, except for the fact that they are functionally “bottomless”. 
Yet another Rift, created as a byproduct of the activation of Stanford Pines's Interdimensional Portal, originally appeared as a shifting “blob” opening into a starfield while contained, but, once “activated” by Bill Cipher, took on the more familiar jagged, reddish appearance, albeit in the form of a cross.Weirdmageddon (2015).
==Behind the scenes==
An Interdimensional Rift is believed to have first appeared in -related media covered on this Wiki in the Gravity Falls series, being first mentioned in the episode A Tale of Two Stans. 
Although Gravity Falls is only tangentially related to the Disney Comics Universe, with its continuity being a parallel world relative to Donald Duck's world and to the continuity of DuckTales 2017, the visual use of the Rift in Gravity Falls clearly inspired the design used for the Ram Rod-created Rifts in Let's Get Dangerous!.
However, setting aside traceable real-world influence, one might argue the earliest appearance of a Rift in media this Wiki considers canonical in some sense was in the 1981 Doctor Who episode Warrior's Gate, the first of many stories set in the Doctor Who universe to involve Space-Time Rifts — being that the Doctor's universe was shown in many stories to be a valid parallel universe in the same multiverse as the world of Mickey Mouse & Co., including in Don Rosa's Ducktor Who. The Grand Multiverse Hotel explicitly ties the "Cracks in Time" of Series 5 of Doctor Who, and the Time Fracture of the Time Lord Victorious spin-off, into the Rifts Crisis story arc, albeit in a winking, non-copyright-infringing way.
===Notes & References===
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