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- Outside of the comic books, boom tubes have been seen on a number of occasions. They are first seen in the last two seasons of the Super Friends animated series, Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show and The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians on a number of occasions. Here, they are referred to as "Star Gates," and they are used by the natives of Apokolips, though without the sonic boom caused by boom tubes. New Genesis was never shown or mentioned.
- In the Legends miniseries they are also referred to as star gates.
- The DC Animated Universe incorporated the Boom Tubes in their shows: They were first seen in Superman: The Animated Series, as well as Justice League, Justice League Unlimited, and Batman Beyond.
- In the Legion of Super-Heroes television series, Superman X uses a device similar to a Mother Box called a "warp key" to open a portal to the past to recruit the Legion of Super-Heroes to battle Imperiex.
- Boom tubes appear briefly in the video game Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe as one of many transportation methods used. In the first scene of the DC Universe side of the story, Darkseid attempts to escape defeat in Metropolis via a boom tube. However, Superman blasts him with a heat ray as he enters the boom tube, coinciding with Raiden of the Mortal Kombat multiverse blasting Shao Kahn with a lightning blast as he enters a portal in another plane. The cosmic coincidence of Darkseid and Shao Kahn using similar portal-like apertures simultaneously combined with the also simultaneous energy discharge from the respective protagonists' attacks results in the being Dark Kahn, the antagonist of the game.
- A Boom tube appears in the Biyalyan desert at the end of the Young Justice episode "Bereft", where it transports the Super-Cycle to Earth. It is referred to by the Light (a clandestine organization working in opposition of the Justice League) as a "delivery system" given to the group by an unspecified benefactor. Boom tubes are again seen in "Disordered", this time used be Desaad and the Forever People.
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