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Plot Time

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 Albert Einstein amazed the world in 1905 when he published his paper on special relativity, which predicted —among other things— that time was, indeed, relative.
The writers, however, were left unimpressed, because they have been familiar with a similar principle for ages untold: for you see, it is a trivial matter to derive from the Theory of Narrative Causality that — just as things happen because the plot damn well needs them to — they also happen when it is convenient for the story.
This phenomenon is known as Plot Time, and it crops up in a lot of Tropes.
Not to be confused with Time Travel Tropes, though the two do frequently cooperate. Compare 24-Hour Trope Clock, for how times are used in plots.
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 Dropped link to JustInTime: Not a Feature - IGNORE
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 Bait-and-Switch Time Skip
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 Comic-Book Time
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 Conversation Cut
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 Correlation/Causation Gag
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 Dramatically Delayed Drug
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 Frozen in Time
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 Magic Countdown
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 Plot Detour
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 Real Time
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 Refugee from Time
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 Ridiculously Fast Construction
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 Scotty Time
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 Sneeze Cut
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 Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome
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 Talking Is a Free Action
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 Time Skip
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 Transformation Is a Free Action
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 Traveling at the Speed of Plot
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 Video Game Time
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 Webcomic Time
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 Transformation at the Speed of Plot
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The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

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 Airplane! / int_63371833
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 Ghostbusters (1984) / int_63371833
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 Left Behind (2014) / int_63371833
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 There's Nothing Out There / int_63371833
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 Grey's Anatomy / int_63371833
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 Terra Nova / int_63371833
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 Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors (Visual Novel) / int_63371833
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