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Traveling at the Speed of Plot

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Traveling at the Speed of Plot	comment	The heroes need to get from point A to point B; occasionally, these things have a specific distance, and other times the distances involved are left fuzzy. Sometimes traveling at the speed of plot is a function of intentionally vague traveling speeds, sometimes of distance. In Speculative Fiction, travelling at the speed of plot ensures that the characters arrive Just in Time for a plot point, whether that's in the nick of time or a You Are Too Late where the only thing you can do is mop up. If distance and speed are too overused as factors, Phlebotinum Breakdown is a great way to make sure the characters don't arrive early, whether it's due to transporter malfunction or a jump-drive misalignment. This trope usually goes unacknowledged. If the writers explain it in a way that makes sense, then the trope no longer applies. If the writers explain it in a nonsensical way, Unscientific Science or New Rules as the Plot Demands are in effect. In Horror or Action series set in the near modern age, travelling at the speed of plot is often enforced by My Car Hates Me. The trope name comes from J. Michael Straczynski's partly tongue-in-cheek declaration of the cruising speed of the Excalibur on Crusade in June 2000; he said similar about the Starfuries in Babylon 5. In video games, see also Always Close for when a video game universe bends itself to fit this trope, and Take Your Time, which is about detours rather than travel speed. This trope is sometimes referred to as 'jetpacking'. Sister Trope of Weapon Running Time, when a projectile's time to hit its target is long enough for things to happen. See also Overdrive, Faster-Than-Light Travel, Conversation Cut, Offscreen Teleportation, Transformation at the Speed of Plot. Traveling at the speed of the plot may also be why there are No Delays for the Wicked.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_11c6567a	comment	Lampshaded naturally in the Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_12768c35	comment	Super Troopers has Farva running to join the local cops before the climax of the movie. It takes him forever to do this, but it's necessary because he needs to miss the scene where the team figures out what's going on. By the time Farva arrives, he's missed the info that the local cops are the the ones helping smuggle the pot. The amount of screen time totals about 2 and a half minutes with one cut, possibly with a gap of another minute. Farva handwaves this by saying he was securing the perimeter. It's lampshaded in the commentary that the perimeter isn't very big and he was jogging, so it should have taken half the time.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_12bdb280	comment	In Doom House, Officer Cop arrives at the doom house for the first time before Linux is finished speaking on the phone with the emergency operator.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_13a61240	comment	The Rise of Skywalker: Past films showed hyperspace travel ranges from hours to days if not longer. Here, most of the film takes place over sixteen hours with ships having to cross the galaxy in moments.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_13d88835	comment	Cowboy Bebop (2021): When Spike is strapped into a computer system that's trying to fry his brain on Mars, Jet and Faye take the Bebop to Earth to destroy the master computer. It's previously established that even if two planets are relatively close together thanks to their orbital positions, Gate travel still takes a matter of days, but they're still able to get to Earth, find the remote base where the computer is located, land, and destroy the computer before Spike suffers any serious brain damage.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_169f043b	comment	StarCraft has infamously inconsistent warp speeds. The lore booklet that came with the first game's manual throws out some solid numbers: it took the original supercarriers 28 years to travel the 60,000 light-year distance from the Koprulu sector to Earth, it takes about a week to go from the Confederacy/Dominion core worlds to the fringe worlds, and it took the zerg Overmind's hive fleets 60 years to get to the Koprulu sector from wherever they were at the time he learned about the terrans. Taking into account the roughly known distance in the former two examples and assuming the Overmind crossed a good chunk of the galaxy's 100,000 light year radius for the latter case, and FTL is consistently placed at around six light-years per day. Things start to spiral out of control come Brood War. Its plot is dependent on the idea that the United Earth Directorate was able to send an expeditionary fleet from Earth to the Koprulu sector just a few months after learning about the existence of sapient aliens, which would require something like a thousand light-years per day of travel time. While ordinarily this wouldn't be a huge deal as you could simply assume Earth has more advanced FTL than the Koprulu factions, the end of the expansion has Kerrigan's Zerg Swarm outpacing the UED fleet when it tries a strategic retreat, which would require FTL hundreds of times faster than what was specified for the first game. Fan Wank usually goes with the explanation that Kerrigan's wormholes are just better than the Overmind's (that wouldn't be the first thing she could do that it couldn't), but this is never explicitly explained in the game. Wings of Liberty and Heart of the Swarm have their own issues even assuming the above Fan Wank is true. In Wings, Kerrigan ultimately loses because she overstretches her forces and leaves Char vulnerable to a decapitation strike. She tries to recall her broods to Char, but as noted by both Word of God and in-game news reports, they couldn't get from the Dominion core worlds to Char fast enough to stop Raynor and Valerian's strike that took at least a day - even though Char is a former core world and thus should be quite close to them in relative terms. So in this case, it appears that they're back to the few light-years per day speeds of the Overmind's Swarm. Heart of the Swarm however has Kerrigan travel from Koprulu to Zerus, located in the center of the galaxy (so tens of thousands of light-years away), in what's implied to be a pretty short time period and is definitely nowhere close to even a single year, putting zerg FTL speeds back at Brood War levels. As noted on the StarCraft Wiki page for Zerus, one Blizzard employee actually lampshaded this and noted that Heart gave the false impression of Zerus being right next to the Koprulu sector given how easily Kerrigan goes there and back.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_1869a077	comment	Samurai Jack: In "XCVII", Ashi spends the entire episode wondering around in numerous places searching for Jack and comes across many of the people he helped in previous episode. The setting even changes to night in the climax and Ashi is still nowhere near finding Jack. Yet she still arrives at the cemetery just in time to prevent Jack from committing Seppuku.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_1a248cc8	comment	On The Pajanimals, the Pajanimals can get to whatever magical lands they want or wherever, such as clouds that are close enough for them to talk to the moon, in just as long as it takes to "bundle up, huggle up, snuggle up and go!"
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_1b781911	comment	The Butt-Ugly Martians can reach other solar systems and back in the space of an episode where as Emperor Bog's fleet spends the entire series journeying from Mars to Earth.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_1d75c931	comment	In The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making, A-Through-L explains that Pandemonium, the capital of Fairyland, comes to people whenever it likes; therefore, people quite travel at the speed of plot, no matter what.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_1e015a5d	comment	The Empire Strikes Back: Enforced. Luke and the crew of the Millennium Falcon leave Hoth at about the same time. Luke does a hyperspace jump to Dagobah to go meet Yoda. The Falcon, whose hyperdrive malfunctions, tries to evade Imperial forces in a nearby asteroid field. Word of God states that the Falcon's trip from Hoth to Bespin took several months because of the aforementioned issues, giving Luke enough time to get a crash course in Jedi training and arrive on Bespin at roughly the same time as them.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_21938c93	comment	Avengers: Age of Ultron: After Wanda brainwashes Banner and he Hulks out, he somehow manages to travel 400 miles from the African coast to Johannesburg in the span of a few minutes.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_2212773a	comment	In the series finale of Angel, Illyria walks in literally seconds too late to save Wesley from being mortally wounded by the villain he was fighting. Given how effortlessly she'd dispatched her own foes and the fact that she was not showing any sign of being in hurry, Illyria could've easily arrived minutes earlier just by traveling at a slightly brisker walk, let alone running...it's just that the plot required her to arrive late.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_22211d68	comment	Bones has it when Sweets dies. Booth and Brennan were questioning someone in Virginia when Aubrey called that Sweets was injured. We later learn he died from a punctured aorta and massive internal bleeding. Even assuming Booth used the siren all the way back, itâ€™s hard to see how they made it back to D.C. before Sweets succumbed and even before the ambulance.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_2250e67e	comment	This extends to the sequel; the crew travels to the Klingon homeworld, partway in the Enterprise, and partway in a small ship. The sequence lasts several minutes, despite Star Trek: Enterprise stating that Qo'nos was four days away at warp 4.5. The real-life equivalent star system, Omega Leonis, is 112 lightyears away.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_22f78bbb	comment	In Final Fantasy IV: The After Years, Ceodore's squad enters Baron castle, fights with his Brainwashed and Crazy father, and banters a little. Meanwhile, Rydia, Edge, Luca, and the Man in Black travel all over the world, saving people and collecting allies. There are cutaways to the fight against Cecil and a barrier preventing the other characters from entering Baron, indicating that these events are simultaneous.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_23d67c89	comment	Jackson's The Hobbit film are even worse about this. In The Desolation of Smaug Gandalf manages to go from the borders of Mirkwood to Rhudaur on the other side of the Misty Mountains and then get back across them to Dol Guldur by the time Thorin's Companey leaves Mirkwood. He must have been using Eagles. Also Legolas and Tauriel somehow get from the Long Lake to Gundabad which is located hundreds of miles across Mirkwood at the top of the Misty Mountains and travel back to Dale in only a few days just before Bolg's army arrives. (The only solution is to assume Gundabad is located at the tip of the Gray Mountains which makes the distance plausible.)
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_28fe1376	comment	Fringe often assumes that the investigating team can navigate the Boston-New York-Washington megapolis in a matter of moments.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_29efc2f3	comment	The Disney animated version of Sleeping Beauty falls prey to this one. Prince Philip returns from the woods where he has met the girl of his dreams. When his father shows disinterest, Philip spurs his horse around and leaves at a gallop. Between that moment and his arrival at the cottage, the good fairies inform the girl that she is a princess and escort her back to the castle on foot, night falls, and the evil sorceress arrives at the cottage to set a trap for him. Notice also that Philip makes it back to the castle in less time than it takes Aurora to get back to the cottage from her errand, unless we are to assume these events are purposely presented out of order.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_2a77a546	comment	Inside Out: Joy and Sadness get themselves sucked out of Headquarters while Riley is at school. They they apparently proceed to spend the entire rest of the day just landing in Long Term Memory and walking across Goofball Island, a distance which they are later able to cross in roughly thirty seconds when the island starts to collapse. Pops up a few other times throughout the movie as well, but this is by far the most obvious one.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_2b113e02	comment	The Mummy (1999): The initial journey from Cairo to Hamunaptra takes the heroes several days by camelback and by river. After Imhotep has awakened, they flee back to Cairo in seemingly a single day — this might have to do with the fact that on the initial journey, they didn't know how long it would take them to reach Hamunaptra and they took more supplies with them. Later in the movie, the main cast make it back to Hamunaptra just after Imhotep in time to stop his ritual, even though the heroes were escaping zombies, getting to Winston and flying a bi-plane whilst Imhotep and his human luggage were traveling inside a sandstorm.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_2b6c0401	comment	Alien: Covenant: The crashed Engineer ship and the main cast's landing site are supposed to be eight kilometres apart, but when the crew hear whilst exploring the wrecked ship what's happening in the shuttle's medical bay, they make it back on foot, just in time to see the shuttle blow up at the end of a crisis that can't have occurred over more than several minutes.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_2bb4ae0f	comment	Most episodes of Heroes take place approximately over one day. However, they fail to explain how characters can continually take part in plot revelations in New York, Texas, Los Angeles, and Las Vegas constantly. Even the one character who can teleport is shown driving from one end of the country to the other with distressing frequency.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_2e3e7ac2	comment	Justice League had the Green Lantern travel at varying speeds. Sometimes he could fly fast enough to approach light speed and other times he flew about as fast as Batman ran. It wouldn't be so bothersome if it weren't for the fact that when he was flying at the slow speeds he would get captured, even though he could've outrun his would be captors.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_30a5ebfd	comment	Naruto: Naruto revealed Sage Mode, which provided him dramatically enhanced speed, enough to move hundreds of meters in a few seconds. But when he's fighting Deva Pain, he struggles to travel less than a hundred feet in the five seconds the guy needs to wait between bursts of his power. From a standing start. During the Fourth Shinobi World War Arc, Naruto spends many episodes running towards his friends. Despite being close enough to help some of his friends out along the way, he doesn't reach the main group until the Filler arc ends. Other characters manage to travel across the battlefield and help out other squads in a single episode. During the same arc, Sasuke travels to the Hidden Leaf village and back in a single night.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_30b255fb	comment	Supergirl is sometimes even faster than Superman. She's been known to shoot a handgun, dash forward, grab the bullet, flicking the forehead's target so onlookers think he's been shot and go back to her initial position with none the wiser. However her speed fails when the plot demands she isn't fast enough.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_31313512	comment	ANNO: Mutationem: After Ann is informed about Sigrid possessing reality-warping abilities, as soon she travels back to check on her, agents from The Consortium had already taken Sigrid with them before quickly leaving.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_3188db6e	comment	In preparation for the climax of The Wolfman (2010), Lawrence, Gwen, and Inspector Aberline all travel from London to the village, leaving at roughly the same time. Lawrence is on foot and seems to be keeping away from the roads. Gwen is on horseback. Aberline is in a horse-drawn carriage with several other policemen. They all arrive on the same day.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_31a8701b	comment	The Flash is fast, but just how fast seems to depend on the situation he's facing. Sometimes, he clearly moves faster than light and there are only negative effects of high speeds (sonic boom, becoming super massive) when he wants them. In one infamous case, he evacuated the entire population of a city to save them from a nuclear bomb... after the bomb had detonated, carrying half a million people to safety 35 miles away, one at a time, in the span of 0.00001 microseconds. He can also tap into a cosmic force called the Speed Force that allows him to control the physics of movement at will. Fine, but this raises the question of why he has any trouble handling normal-speed foes, though. Or for that matter, how he has any trouble handing anything short of reality-warpers.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_32c541e6	comment	Trains in Fullmetal Alchemist tend to work like this, arriving just in time for Ed and Al to solve some crisis (sometimes on the train itself).
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_32d026ec	comment	The gang in Rave Master is stuck traveling by foot or horse when there's no time limit or something they need to find nearby. If there is a time limit or nothing close by, they get an airship (someone else's, if Musica's has yet to be repaired from the last time it crashed as an excuse to make everybody walk).
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_35a060cc	comment	The flight in Airplane! is supposedly only taking one night, but somehow newspapers and TV newscasters are reporting on it quickly. Given that the film's a parody, it's best not to overthink it.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_36ef13eb	comment	In Adylheim, this is lampshaded (and possibly even justified!) by having the god of time and causality also be the god of drunkenness and debauchery. Why did it only take a day to get from Nander to Spire City? Quanoth's been at the barrel again.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_38ce5997	comment	The Boys (2019): In season 2, The Deep makes it to the Boys' yacht's location far ahead of the Seven and manages to recruit several marine animals to help him, despite being based hundreds of miles further inland than the Seven's coastal location.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_39b19313	comment	Jack of All Trades routinely depicted people (including heads of state like NapolÃ©on Bonaparte and George III!) making quick journeys from Europe or America to the South Pacific island of Pulau Pulau that would, in Age of Sail reality, likely take 6 months at the very least. (Of course, this is a show where Rule of Funny trumps everything else, and Bellisario's Maxim is very much in effect.)
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_3ac755dd	comment	Disney's Beauty and the Beast has the Amazing Spooky Path of Variable Length. It is unclear how close to the village Beast's castle (which, apparently, none of the villagers have seen before) is, since depending on the requirements of the plot, it seems to take characters between five minutes and several days to travel between the two. For instance, while Maurice manages to wander aimlessly about in search of the castle for long enough to catch pneumonia, Gaston and his mob move from the village to the castle in the space of a single song. Of course, it also isn't clear whether Belle spends three days or three months at the castle.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_3aeb1c75	comment	Dragon Ball: Dragon Ball and Z use this trope for all it's worth, thanks to never establishing geographical distances: Goku will always arrive just in the nick of time after travelling at top speed, no matter how far away his destination was. Similarly, after Raditz is defeated Vegeta and Nappa are eleven months away from Earth. A few episodes later, the narration mentions they're at the edge of our solar system but still a few months away. In later seasons, spaceships (including the same type Vegeta and Nappa use) can get anywhere in the galaxy in no more than a few days. Dragon Ball Super nods at this trope by having Whis state that it takes about 25 minutes for him to ferry Beerus across the universe, meaning they'll always arrive at the end of the episode or the beginning of the next one, making for a more dramatic entrance. In practice, this limitation is only observed when it's useful for drama.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_41a02930	comment	Zig-zagged in the Dragons of Requiem series. There are times where a character or group of characters must reach a destination, and in the very next chapter, they'll already be there. And then there are times where the character(s) will be stuck in one location for half a book, particularly if they're cornered by the enemy.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_432e5c6f	comment	Stone Ocean: Jotaro spends most of the story comatose at a Speedwagon Foundation facility. After regaining consciousness, he was able to travel towards Florida's space center and arrived in time to save Jolyne from Pucci after utilizing a harpoon fired combined with Ermes' stickers.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_43576f5	comment	Dean's '67 Chevy Impala from Supernatural does this on an alarmingly frequent basis, although the journeys usually last long enough for the Winchesters to hold whatever heartfelt conversation needs to be held in order to advance the plot.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_43f52aa9	comment	The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion: The only aversion to this is introductory quest to the Thieves' guild has you competing with someone else to steal something - you have to figure the location out, travel there, and steal it faster than they do. If you do fail it due to this reason, the guild gives you another way in.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_457b671e	comment	Since every episode of 24 by definition takes one hour, it's amazing that a character can get from the north side of Los Angeles to the south side in ten minutes, in LA rush hour traffic. Of course, this is trumped by a character going from LA to Washington in twenty minutes. No, not Seattle. Washington, DC. There's also a case of a helicopter breaking the laws of physics by flying from Santa Barbara to LA in twenty minutes. And that trip to Mexico... A CTU assault on enemy forces can take any length of time to co-ordinate as long as it's ready when the episode has ten minutes to go. Occasionally, travel times on the show can be calculated in seconds, usually in the form of someone arriving at CTU to hear plot-critical information moments after they left another location. Perhaps CTU has access to Offscreen Teleportation?
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_475972f0	comment	Y: The Last Man apparently takes place in real time... even so the fact that it takes two years to get from one coast of the US to the other, even in a somewhat post-apocalypse landscape, considering that trains and cars are still running, and the friggin' Oregon Trail was consistently done in 6 months, seems like their traveling speed just follows the month-to-month plot.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_4817e818	comment	This frequently happens in the Lord of the Rings films, due to squashing down the events of the books (which followed a fairly realistic schedule for the journeys and distances involved, with events regularly being separated by days or weeks). The most glaring example is Gandalf's journey to Isengard in Fellowship where he manages to get to there before Frodo and Sam even leave the Shire after they depart Bag End at the same time (in the book, Frodo waits a few months before leaving the Shire after Gandalf's departure). Another odd example is the film addition of the Marchwardens at Helm's Deep, which arrive right before the battle; meaning they would have had to leave Lorien right after the Fellowship and before they knew there was even going to be a battle. Elrond manages to get from hundred of miles away in Rivendell to Dunharrow just in time to give Aragorn the reforged Anduril. Likewise desite it being repeatedly mentioned that it takes three days to get to Minas Tirith from Edoras, Theoden and his army manage to make it in two days. Jackson's The Hobbit film are even worse about this. In The Desolation of Smaug Gandalf manages to go from the borders of Mirkwood to Rhudaur on the other side of the Misty Mountains and then get back across them to Dol Guldur by the time Thorin's Companey leaves Mirkwood. He must have been using Eagles. Also Legolas and Tauriel somehow get from the Long Lake to Gundabad which is located hundreds of miles across Mirkwood at the top of the Misty Mountains and travel back to Dale in only a few days just before Bolg's army arrives. (The only solution is to assume Gundabad is located at the tip of the Gray Mountains which makes the distance plausible.)
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_4b434423	comment	PokÃ©mon Sword and Shield: The time of day outside of the Wild Area runs off what time it is in the main story, rather than the console clock. In the postgame, the time of day throughout the region matches the console clock.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_4b790c79	comment	Iron Man: It's this trope, or Tony Stark is apparently so good at seducing women that he can infatuate Christine Everhart at the beginning of the movie enough to make her drive four-and-a-half hours from Las Vegas to Malibu just to have sex with him. Not a lot of time is spared showing Tony flying halfway across the world to Gulmira after suiting up in the Mark III in Malibu. In a deleted scene this is mitigated by him throwing a party at his home in Dubai first, then using fireworks and an orgy to cover up his tracks and launch from there.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_4bb953f3	comment	Professor Dr. from The B-Movie Comic has been in enough movies to work it out, as he explains to an esteemed colleague.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_4c095a1f	comment	In The Transformers, the Autobots can travel to anywhere in the world in an hour from their Cascades headquarters. Memorable destinations include the Congo, India, New York, France and Antarctica. How a bunch of cars got to the middle of Africa in an hour is anyone's guess.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_508ec184	comment	The City of Lost Characters roleplay, being a Spiritual Successor to The Massive Multi-Fandom RPG, also takes place in an ever-shifting city with similar benefits for the players.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_50e2e357	comment	Used in J.J. Abrams' Star Trek (2009), when the U.S.S. Enterprise — which is over three times bigger than the original — seemingly takes only three minutes to go from Earth to Vulcan. However, the sequence actually takes significantly longer than it appears to, since Kirk wakes up from being knocked out by a sedative after mere moments of screen time, in which McCoy has had time to change his uniform. Word of God is that the editing deliberately glossed over the passage of time to create the illusion of a real-time immersive experience.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_54a7dc07	comment	Space: 1999 was based on the idea that Earth's moon (which was occupied by the 300 occupants of Moonbase Alpha) was blasted out of orbit by a massive explosion and sent hurtling through space. There was never any suggestion that the moon was traveling faster than light but it passed through numerous star systems during the two years of the series. Even more magically; while the moon manages to travel between stars in little time between episodes, it also travels slow enough during episodes to allow Eagles to shuttle people between Moonbase and any nearby planets. However, some episodes feature the moon going through space/time warps, which sends the Alphans across a whole lot of light years. Also, the first season features a loose Story Arc where a "cosmic intelligence" is manipulating the moon's departure from Earth and later journey.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_56ce2da8	comment	Jay Jay the Jet Plane: In most episodes, it doesn't take much long to fly to Pangabula Island and back; one episode shows Tracy and Savannah visiting the island and making it back home within barely an hour or two. However, it ranges to at least 24 hours on one occasion, complete with a full night cycle, with Snuffy repeatedly asking "Uh, Are We There Yet?" in between intervals.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_5755b96a	comment	The Order of the Stick: Described here. Julio ScoundrÃ©l's airship goes faster the higher the stakes, but it never gets anywhere earlier than the nick of time. One map included in the sidestory book Good Deeds Gone Unpunished has a distance key where the measurement, rather than miles or kilometers, uses "strips" and "game sessions."
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_5afbc0cb	comment	In Undertale, NPCs will instantly travel to their mandated location at the drop of an Event Flag, even if that's halfway across the game world from where they left you just a few moments ago.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_5bd0554b	comment	Happens in all materials in the Warcraft universe, due to the writers never really establishing the size of anything. Especially bad in the World of Warcraft comic, where it takes a hippogryph less than a minute to fly from Ashenvale to Thunder Bluff, which would make the world about as big as the map in World of Warcraft, ignoring the obvious Space Compression that's present in the latter.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_5c3b1859	comment	Captain America: Civil War: When Tony and his allies intercept Cap's side at the airport, he says, regarding when Ross gave him the deadline to bring in Cap and his allies, "Ross gave me 36 hours to bring you in. That was 24 hours ago." Which means that all of the events that took place in between happened within 24 hours. Some of these are reasonable: Steve, Bucky, and Sam were already in Germany, so they had no trouble making it to the airport in that time. But others are not: On Team Iron Man's side, this means that Tony flew back to New York to recruit Peter, traveled upstate to pick up Vision from the compound, then flew back to Germany. While Peter (as further established in Spider-Man: Homecoming) got his passport, flew separately on a private jet with Happy Hogan, and still somehow had time to check into a hotel, go sightseeing in Berlin, spent the night at the hotel, then traveled to Leipzig/Halle, all in under 24 hours. On Team Cap's side, this means Steve, Sam and Bucky sat around and waited while Clint Barton brought allies over from the United States when they could've just immediately stolen a jet and gotten a full day's head start. Assuming Steve contacted Clint immediately, this would mean Clint went from his farm in Iowa to the Avengers Compound in upstate New York to pick up Wanda, then they went to San Francisco to pick up Scott, then traveled across the Atlantic to Germany...in the span of 24 hours, an incredible feat if we're to assume they took commercial flights (note that before Tony saw them at the airport he expressed awareness that Clint and Wanda were back in the game since Vision would've reported about Clint coming to free Wanda from house arrest), since Clint and Wanda probably didn't steal a supersonic Quinjet from the Avengers compound (given the whole reason they went to the airport in Leipzig was to steal a Quinjet or chopper to take to Russia). After the battle at the Leipzig airport is over, Steve and Bucky rush to Siberia on the Quinjet. In the time it takes them to fly there, Tony takes Rhodey to the hospital, stays with him until the doctors give him a full set of exams, has a talk with Natasha, flies to the Raft (located somewhere in the Atlantic) to talk to the imprisoned members of Steve's team, suits up, and then heads to Siberia. He arrives at the hidden HYDRA base only minutes after Steve and Bucky did.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_5e150650	comment	Exalted uses this when you enter the Wyld; as it's the domain of The Fair Folk, progress between points is not measured in hours or miles, but rather by where you are in a particular story.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_61028f2	comment	Johnny Mnemonic: Once Johnny makes it out of the hotel in Central Beijing, his subsequent arrival at the Newark airport on the other side of the world is practically instantaneous. The commercial plane flight alone would take about 13-and-a-half hours today and would still take over 7 hours on the Concorde that is shown, but when Johnny arrives at customs in Newark, expository dialogue still mentions the maximum 24-hour deadline for Johnny to get the data out of his head, which he uploaded in Beijing before even getting to an airport. Baldy, despite being left unconscious in a bathroom and undoubtedly leaving the Beijing Hotel well after Johnny does, is somehow still able to arrive in Newark before Johnny can even get there and lay a trap for him. Inverted for Shinji and his Mooks taking an elevator from the lobby of the hotel in Beijing to the floor where Johnny and his present clients are; what would realistically be a seemingly brief moment is slowed to a crawl while concurring plot points (which are important) play out in the hotel room in their own time. It takes the entire length of time for Johnny to prepare for uploading the data (starting with when Johnny opens his briefcase containing his equipment), receive the data, and make a printout of the download code (roughly two minutes and forty-two seconds of screentime, and that's with the aid of movie editing making all of Johnny's setup move a lot faster than it actually would have) just for the elevator the bad guys are in to finally arrive on the same floor. It then takes the bad guys another minute and a half of the movie's time length (enough time for Johnny's clients to destroy the original copy of the data they gave him and for Johnny himself to regain his composure in the bathroom) to walk from the elevator to their hotel room door.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_6155364	comment	Wolfenstein: The New Order: BJ ends Chapter 14 outside the London Nautica (built over Westminster Palace) learning that the Kreisau Circle's headquarters (in Berlin) is under seige. Chapter 15 begins with BJ crashing into the hidden entrance to the Circle while the seige is still underway, implying that he traveled a straight-line distance of over 900 kilometers in under a few hours.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_61c6b600	comment	In Star Trek: First Contact, the Enterprise-E travels from the Romulan Neutral Zone to Earth to aid in a battle between Starfleet and a Borg Cube. Depending on what part of the Zone they were patrolling, this would require crossing a substantial portion of Federation space in a very short time. Granted, they were late getting there....
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_6306cffc	comment	Taken to the extreme late in the series. Treize is in space, in the path of Libra's main cannon, as it is getting ready to fire. Lady Une is unconscious in a hospital on Earth. In the time it takes for Libra to fire its cannon and its massive energy beam to reach Treize, Lady Une wakes up, gets in a space suit, steals Wing Gundam, flies out into space, and arrive just in time to knock Treize away to take the brunt of the hit. You'd think she was a Weeping Angel.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_6744d821	comment	The Owl House: In "Watching and Dreaming", Belos and Raine race eachother to the Heart, which Belos wants to use to possess the Titan. While Raine is significantly weakened and visibly struggles with the stairs, Belos doesn't have legs, and has to crawl his way there. Despite this, Belos gets there before Raine does, and ambushes them when they enter the throne room.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_69d15cc0	comment	Marvel Cinematic Universe: Iron Man: It's this trope, or Tony Stark is apparently so good at seducing women that he can infatuate Christine Everhart at the beginning of the movie enough to make her drive four-and-a-half hours from Las Vegas to Malibu just to have sex with him. Not a lot of time is spared showing Tony flying halfway across the world to Gulmira after suiting up in the Mark III in Malibu. In a deleted scene this is mitigated by him throwing a party at his home in Dubai first, then using fireworks and an orgy to cover up his tracks and launch from there. Avengers: Age of Ultron: After Wanda brainwashes Banner and he Hulks out, he somehow manages to travel 400 miles from the African coast to Johannesburg in the span of a few minutes. Captain America: Civil War: When Tony and his allies intercept Cap's side at the airport, he says, regarding when Ross gave him the deadline to bring in Cap and his allies, "Ross gave me 36 hours to bring you in. That was 24 hours ago." Which means that all of the events that took place in between happened within 24 hours. Some of these are reasonable: Steve, Bucky, and Sam were already in Germany, so they had no trouble making it to the airport in that time. But others are not: On Team Iron Man's side, this means that Tony flew back to New York to recruit Peter, traveled upstate to pick up Vision from the compound, then flew back to Germany. While Peter (as further established in Spider-Man: Homecoming) got his passport, flew separately on a private jet with Happy Hogan, and still somehow had time to check into a hotel, go sightseeing in Berlin, spent the night at the hotel, then traveled to Leipzig/Halle, all in under 24 hours. On Team Cap's side, this means Steve, Sam and Bucky sat around and waited while Clint Barton brought allies over from the United States when they could've just immediately stolen a jet and gotten a full day's head start. Assuming Steve contacted Clint immediately, this would mean Clint went from his farm in Iowa to the Avengers Compound in upstate New York to pick up Wanda, then they went to San Francisco to pick up Scott, then traveled across the Atlantic to Germany...in the span of 24 hours, an incredible feat if we're to assume they took commercial flights (note that before Tony saw them at the airport he expressed awareness that Clint and Wanda were back in the game since Vision would've reported about Clint coming to free Wanda from house arrest), since Clint and Wanda probably didn't steal a supersonic Quinjet from the Avengers compound (given the whole reason they went to the airport in Leipzig was to steal a Quinjet or chopper to take to Russia). After the battle at the Leipzig airport is over, Steve and Bucky rush to Siberia on the Quinjet. In the time it takes them to fly there, Tony takes Rhodey to the hospital, stays with him until the doctors give him a full set of exams, has a talk with Natasha, flies to the Raft (located somewhere in the Atlantic) to talk to the imprisoned members of Steve's team, suits up, and then heads to Siberia. He arrives at the hidden HYDRA base only minutes after Steve and Bucky did.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_6a8ce345	comment	Avatar: Used in Avatar: The Last Airbender, as also noted on It's Always Spring. The last season was particularly notable for this as in the first half, it took a while for them to travel to the rendezvous point, with Sokka constantly complaining about all the detours cutting into their travel time note They get there 4 days early anyway. In the last 4 episodes though, they travel from the Fire Nation to the Earth Kingdom and back again in less than 3 days. In the first season it was a bit more justified since they flew everywhere and the timescale was a lot less defined, but that just made the way Zuko easily kept pace in an obsolete steamship which was explicitly slower than them stand out. Later in The Legend of Korra Book 2, Korra and friends manage to travel by ship from Republic City, which is located in the northern regions of the Earth Kingdom Continent, all the way to the South Pole in just under the 3 day time limit.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_6b1e2d01	comment	Saint Seiya: Saint Seiya: In the Hades Arc, some of the Bronze Saints need to reach Greece despite some of them being in Japan and Siberia. Saint Seiya Omega: The Bronze Saints move from Greece to Mexico on foot. Unlike the original, they actually have a normal person traveling with them, making even less sense.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_6cc7497b	comment	Castlevania: Defied, and has a Surprisingly Realistic Outcome as a result. While scouting the territory that Carmilla wants to capture, Morana and Striga spend weeks traveling, and in that time only manage to cover a small fraction of the land. The two of them realize that ruling such an empire would be a logistical nightmare.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_6ea0c1f4	comment	Battle Tendency: Joseph and his allies quickly catch up to the train carrying the Red Stone of Aja after learning its whereabouts in Rome.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_6f734712	comment	In Smallville the name-giving town and the city of Metropolis seem sometimes directly adjacent and sometimes it's a three-hour ride with the car.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_70163e71	comment	Anyone in the least bit familiar with the geography of the Peruvian Amazon will find Cassie's trip to Peru in the third act of Madame Web (2024) taking just one week to get there and back, more than a bit iffy: If the connecting flights lined up perfectly, she would need a whole day either way just to get from New York City to Lima and from there to either Iquitos, Pucallpa, or Puerto Maldonado, the main transport hubs in the Peruvian Amazon. Then the light aircraft seen in the movie would have to be chartered because the only people flying those on a schedule in that region in the early 2000s were oil companies going to and from oil fields and drug runners. The next leg of the trip is shown to be on a bus. The only problem with this is that any place in the Peruvian Amazon remote enough to require a light aircraft to reach is not going to have any roads around, or bus service for that matter. Most transport of people and cargo in the Amazon region of Peru is done by river boat. Finally, the last leg of the journey is shown to be made by trekking on foot in the jungleâ€¦ with a backpack that is clearly not designed for camping, implying that the remote home of the Spider Tribe is just a few kilometers away from the last bus stop.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_70814599	comment	The hyperdrives on ships in the world of Stargate SG-1 are weird... In both it and Stargate Atlantis, there are relative speeds to all the ships. Tau'ri ships go faster than Wraith ships, Asgard and Replicator ships go faster than both, and Ancient ships range from far faster than Tau'ri ships to just slightly faster than them, depending on the ship. However, as far as speed goes? Sometimes you can cross twenty lightyears in a few hours, sometimes it's a few days. The only set speed we know of is that it takes two weeks for a typical Tau'ri battleship to travel between Earth and the planet Atlantis is on in the Pegasus Galaxy. This is partially explained in that some ships have separate intra- and intergalactic hyperdrives, and that is easier to go faster between galaxies than within one.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_7149a731	comment	Wonder Woman (2017): Diana and Trevor leave Themyscira for London, crossing the Mediterranean Sea on a small boat. It's not mentioned how long the trip took place, but it takes the difference of two scenes in the movie. Steve mentions that they got lucky and were able to hitch a ride on a presumably-faster boat. Also they didn't stay awake to keep the boat on-course, suggesting that it's magical, and can move faster than it should be able to.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_72262aee	comment	Used in Avatar: The Last Airbender, as also noted on It's Always Spring. The last season was particularly notable for this as in the first half, it took a while for them to travel to the rendezvous point, with Sokka constantly complaining about all the detours cutting into their travel time note They get there 4 days early anyway. In the last 4 episodes though, they travel from the Fire Nation to the Earth Kingdom and back again in less than 3 days. In the first season it was a bit more justified since they flew everywhere and the timescale was a lot less defined, but that just made the way Zuko easily kept pace in an obsolete steamship which was explicitly slower than them stand out.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_746814ae	comment	In "D.W.'s Name Game" from Arthur, D.W. specifically invokes this in her dream sequence. Walter the deer, who is a real deer in the world of Arthur, but has become a Talking Animal in her fantasy, tells her that the Thesaurus dwells beyond the woods at the library. She says it's a long way to walk, so she asks if he has a picture of it. He holds one up and she leaps into it, Breaking the Fourth Wall to comment to the viewer that it would have been "so boring" to watch her walk through the woods.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_74a4c704	comment	The computer does this in Kingdom Hearts. Upon arriving in Monstro, the player encounters Geppetto and Pinocchio. Pinocchio was previously seen in Traverse Town, and the game establishes that without a Gummi Ship or dark powers, traveling between worlds is impossible. Sora even asks Pinocchio "how did you get here?", but Geppetto starts talking to him, and somewhere between that and Pinocchio wandering off, the game forgets to explain it.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_74cdc7b	comment	Distance and even reality are never barriers for the Wonder Pets! when it comes to saving an animal in need. In the second story of the first episode, they travel into space to save a chimp in the time it takes to sing a cheery tune and in the first story of the second episode, they zip into a storybook to save a unicorn.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_75c31694	comment	An example from The A-Team: The villains capture the A-Team and ship them off to be executed while they leave for a cemetery to kill a judge. The A-Team is driven to a car junkyard, where they escape, knock out their captors, and manage to repair, jury-rig, and clean and polish a hearse with a fold-out coffin with an armed gunman inside it. They then leave for the graveyard at what appears to be a reasonable speed and arrive one second before the villains.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_760aead0	comment	Among many other less than plausible things in The Event was the protagonists' ability to drive across the USA in a few minutes (or fly from the USA to France). Basically, the time it took to travel between any two locations was generally "about one ad break".
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_7668653a	comment	Averted in Mass Effect 2. There are two storyline missions that start automatically when you receive them: one where you can dawdle, and the big one, the suicide mission: you can choose when to do it, but if you do more than ONE mission, then a member of your abducted crew will die. The death toll gets higher the more missions you do, culminating in Dr Chakwas being the only survivor. You can still get to your destination with time to spare, no matter where you are in the galaxy — even if it's on the other side of the galaxy.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_7668653b	comment	No matter how quickly you complete all previous missions in Mass Effect 3 you will not get the vital information about Thessia until Cerberus is already there one step ahead of you.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_77452922	comment	Double subverted after Ash gets the Beacon Badge in PokÃ©mon the Series: Diamond and Pearl. Flint tells them that there's still a month to go before the Sinnoh League starts, although they only arrive the day before it begins. This is despite the fact that, in the game, the island that the PokÃ©mon League is on isn't that far from Sunyshore.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_7884e8d1	comment	Pulp Fiction: "That's thirty minutes away. I'll be there in ten." Though Mr. Wolf is noted for driving very fast - the thirty minute estimate probably reflects a normal, law-abiding driver's time.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_7988cb68	comment	Mass Effect: Averted in Mass Effect 2. There are two storyline missions that start automatically when you receive them: one where you can dawdle, and the big one, the suicide mission: you can choose when to do it, but if you do more than ONE mission, then a member of your abducted crew will die. The death toll gets higher the more missions you do, culminating in Dr Chakwas being the only survivor. You can still get to your destination with time to spare, no matter where you are in the galaxy — even if it's on the other side of the galaxy. No matter how quickly you complete all previous missions in Mass Effect 3 you will not get the vital information about Thessia until Cerberus is already there one step ahead of you.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_798e6a69	comment	DM of the Rings: The trope is described in the comments of one of the strips: "A player is never late, Dave. Nor is he early. He arrives precisely when the plot dictates he should."
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_7a380f3b	comment	General Hospital Jax whisks Courtney off to Italy for a romantic dinner. Her friend Carly pursues them and arrives at the restaurant in time to interrupt them. This fails to account for the fact that a flight from upstate New York (where GH is set) to Italy is anywhere from 6-8 hours, plus whatever time Carly would need to travel from the airport to the city itself, not to mention the time difference between NY and Italy (6 hours), all of which mean there is no way Carly could have left New York when Jax and Courtney started dinner and arrived in Italy while they were still eating. In another episode, Stefan goes to Switzerland to visit Laura and is stunned when her husband Luke walks into the room, as he clearly left Port Charles long before Luke did. Luke lampshades this by snapping, "Haven't you ever heard of the Concorde?"note Which was still in operation at the time—1997—this episode aired. Fair enough, but Stefan's nephew Nicholas arrives shortly after Stefan, even though he also left Port Charles after he did and took a regular flight as well.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_7a7d900b	comment	A particularly egregious example occurs in Transformers: ★Headmasters "Birth of the Fantastic Double Convoy" early in the series where Convoy (Optimus Prime) is fighting his way to the core of Seibertron (Cybertron) where Vector Sigma is becoming unstable. Convoy spends a good episode and a half battling his way past various hazards, only for other characters, such as Cyclonus and Hot Rodimus (Hot Rod) to just show up at Vector Sigma having been on Earth mere minutes before in the same episode.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_7bf6a74c	comment	In the Thanksgiving 1968 episode of The Beverly Hillbillies, the Clampetts are seemingly able to drive from their mansion in Californy to Petticoat Junction in only a few hours. Other trips to and/or from Hooterville, including Granny's motorcycle/airplane/horseback jaunt home from caring for the Elliott baby, also appear to take a relatively short amount of time. However, by all indications, Hooterville is somewhere in the Midwest - probably not too far away from the Clampetts' native Ozarks due to the implied relation between their cousin Pearl Bodine and Hooterville's Kate Bradley. If it took the Clampetts several days to drive out to Californy from their cabin, as stated in an earlier episode, Hooterville shouldn't be a day trip for them.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_7cea4fb2	comment	Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019): When the various Titans awaken, their locations are given; with Methuselah in Munich, Scylla in Arizona, Behemoth in Rio de Janeiro, and a new female MUTO, which Word of God states was underneath Hoboken, New Jersey. Despite originating thousands of miles apart, they all make it to Boston at the exact same time, despite Methuselah and possibly Behemoth needing to make ocean crossings, Scylla needing to cross North America, and the new female MUTO being only two small states away. Furthermore, there were two other Titans in Washington, DC., and both make it to Boston several hours ahead of the others.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_7e9d1a6c	comment	Frozen: Elsa takes apparently no more than a few hours to get from Arendelle up to the top of the North Mountain on foot. It takes about a day and a half to two days for Anna to travel up the North Mountain to Elsa's ice palace, first by horse, then by foot, then by Kristoff's sled, then by foot the rest of the way. This is likely because she was not initially traveling to the mountain specifically, but rather searching around for the missing Elsa - she may have been traveling away from the North Mountain until the scene at the trading post when she overhears Kristoff's remarks to Oaken about the storm coming from the direction of the North Mountain. Likewise, it appears to take Hans and the Arendelle soldiers roughly thirteen to eighteen hours to travel from the castle in Arendelle to the ice palace on horseback since they appear to leave in the early afternoon and are seen arriving at the ice palace just as dawn is breaking. The difference between the travel times of Hans and Anna could be explained by Hans and his team riding horses the whole way and with soldiers who may have known the terrain and/or been more experienced trackers, whereas Anna made the majority of the the journey on foot and half of it unaccompanied, after spending most of her life in isolation, but no explanation is actually given how they found where to go.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_7f87dafc	comment	Mobile Suit Gundam SEED has one notable example. When Kira gets his shiny new Freedom Gundam, he flies off from a space colony all the way down to Alaska, just in time to save the Archangel. The way the sequence of events is shown suggests that this all took a few hours at most, though the official SEED timeline clarifies that Kira actually spent three days flying from the colony to Earth.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_7f8a38b6	comment	Late in Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, Relena goes to try to talk down White Fang's leader Milliardo. We get scenes with her en route for two episodes before she finally arrives on Libra in a third, making her trip last four days total (according to an official timeline). In a series where space flight has been around for over 200 years, that's pretty dang slow. On the other hand, there's no sense that Faster-Than-Light is possible, so this might actually be a more realistic example than the Gundams' rate of speed. Gundam Wing does this frequently. There are a number of episodes where Wing Zero goes from space down to earth in one episode, and then back again in the next one. That thing must be damn fast. Taken to the extreme late in the series. Treize is in space, in the path of Libra's main cannon, as it is getting ready to fire. Lady Une is unconscious in a hospital on Earth. In the time it takes for Libra to fire its cannon and its massive energy beam to reach Treize, Lady Une wakes up, gets in a space suit, steals Wing Gundam, flies out into space, and arrive just in time to knock Treize away to take the brunt of the hit. You'd think she was a Weeping Angel.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_7fd1ab56	comment	King Kong (1933): In all adaptations of King Kong the pursuit through the jungle lasts more than a day, involving many adventures and attacks for everyone involved. And yet, when the girl is first tied up, it only takes Kong 5 minutes to arrive once the natives start on the gong/horns/drums-and-lava. This is impossible if he were simply wandering the jungle. The only conceivable excuse is that he were waiting for his bride, except the initial ceremony had been "ruined" by the heroes' arrival on the island. If Kong were waiting for his bride, one would expect him by nighttime to be mighty impatient and incredibly noisy. So they manage to capture the giant ape on Skull Island, but the question is how they would be able to keep him alive on the boat journey back to New York City. Skull Island is located in the Indian Ocean, west of Sumatra, so they would need to either cross the entire Pacific Ocean and sail up the Eastern Seaboard, or cross the entire Indian and Atlantic Ocean, and steam boats of the time had a cruising speed of about ten knots. The journey would have to take several weeks, but no one ever asks how in the world they're keeping Kong alive and contained for that long. The 1976 remake partly rectifies this by showing the crew throwing cratefuls of fruits and vegetables down into the cargo hold to keep him fed. Godzilla vs. Kong, while not a direct adaptation, has a similar sequence where Kong needs to transported across the ocean, and actually shows how they go about it. Kong is chained and sedated, he's periodically fed on fish they can catch from the sea, and they're travelling with a Skull Island native that Kong's befriended to help keep him calm.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_81692f99	comment	Star Trek: Happens constantly in all versions, driving hard-core fans nuts because the mechanical capabilities of the warp drive, impulse drive, and the shuttles vary violently from episode to episode. When the first Star Trek role-playing game came out, this characteristic was written into the rules. Unlike most science fiction RPGs, no maps with star systems, distances, and travel times was provided. The instructions specified that all this information should be made up according to the requirements of whatever adventure was being run. Turbolifts. Fast enough to throw people around when slowing or changing direction with inertial dampeners off, yet take long enough for a decent-length conversation (although they do typically hold them in the shaft if they are going to have a long one). The record holder must be the TOS episode "The Enterprise Incident" in which Spock and the Romulan Captain take the turbolift from the Bridge (Deck 1) to Deck 2 and have time for a minute-long conversation. This page lists all instances where both travel time and distance have been mentioned in any Star Trek series. The top speed that occurs is in the first series (mentioned to be at warp 8.4), and that would have been enough to get the Voyager home in a month! From TNG on, the writers had a warp speed equation they were supposed to use for consistency. TNG was pretty consistent about it. Deep Space Nine seemed to be half a day's travel by shuttle from both Bajor and Earth, but shuttles are only supposed to be capable of something in the range of warp 4. Voyager did better, but Enterprise threw it clean out the window, managing to establish that the Klingon homeworld Qo'noS is closer to Earth than Proxima Centauri.note They did this very precisely too; the speed of their maximum warp is given in the pilot and matches the equation, and the travel time to Qo'noS is given in the same episode. Specifically, they say that Enterprise can get to "Neptune and back in six minutes"; at that speed, it would take nineteen days to get to the Alpha Centauri system, yet they claim that they can get to Qo'noS in four days. That would put Qo'noS at just under a light-year from Earth. However, even this is suspect.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_8470802c	comment	Under the Pendulum Sun: This is literally true of travel in the Land of Faerie because "In Arcadia it's about the journey". As such, the fae coachman is late to deliver an important letter, as the trip takes "two revelations and an epiphany" and Catherine was slow to work out parts of Queen Mab's plot.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_84986bf9	comment	Up until the recent events of the quest The World Wakes, the time in RuneScape has stood still for the player character; meaning hundreds of hours for random skill training, other quest plots, etc. have occurred within the same 24 hour period as no other quest give a sense of time passing and are referred to as "in the past" for anyone who does them after The World Wakes.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_8558d643	comment	Phantom Blood: Upon learning of Dio's Sacred First Kiss with Erina, Jonathan furiously made it back to his family mansion in a few seconds.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_86814e56	comment	In Final Fantasy VI, the heroes are split up into three groups, all trying to get to Narshe. Terra's group is able to take the most direct route. Locke has to infiltrate South Figaro first and get some intel before heading there, which is certainly a detour, but doesn't send him all that far out of the way. Sabin, meanwhile, is thrown completely off-course, and has to help fight back against the invasion of Doma, deal with a train full of ghosts, cross a giant plain, take an underwater passage to Nikeah, and from there sneak onto a boat to South Figaro (which, remember, is where Locke was) before heading to Narshe. Most of Sabin's path has him traversing nearly the opposite side of the world from Narshe. While Terra's group is in the middle of pleading with Narshe's elder for assistance (and it's implied that her team hasn't been there very long), Sabin somehow gets there about a minute before Locke does.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_87549c34	comment	The Star Wars d6 released by West End Games in the late Eighties had detailed rules for hyperspace travel and even "standard duration" travel times between systems mentioned or seen in the original trilogy, but it also says in the gamemaster section that travel between any two planets takes "as long as you want it to" so that the gamemaster can make travel times serve the plot. The section goes on to suggest reasons that the travel time might be longer (intervening gas clouds, energy storms, rogue planets) or shorter (a better route was found).
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_88e691e3	comment	Frozen: Frozen: Elsa takes apparently no more than a few hours to get from Arendelle up to the top of the North Mountain on foot. It takes about a day and a half to two days for Anna to travel up the North Mountain to Elsa's ice palace, first by horse, then by foot, then by Kristoff's sled, then by foot the rest of the way. This is likely because she was not initially traveling to the mountain specifically, but rather searching around for the missing Elsa - she may have been traveling away from the North Mountain until the scene at the trading post when she overhears Kristoff's remarks to Oaken about the storm coming from the direction of the North Mountain. Likewise, it appears to take Hans and the Arendelle soldiers roughly thirteen to eighteen hours to travel from the castle in Arendelle to the ice palace on horseback since they appear to leave in the early afternoon and are seen arriving at the ice palace just as dawn is breaking. The difference between the travel times of Hans and Anna could be explained by Hans and his team riding horses the whole way and with soldiers who may have known the terrain and/or been more experienced trackers, whereas Anna made the majority of the the journey on foot and half of it unaccompanied, after spending most of her life in isolation, but no explanation is actually given how they found where to go. Frozen II: It takes several days for the heroes to journey to Northuldra the first time they traveled there, but in the climax Elsa rides the Nokk back to Arendelle just in time to save the city from getting flooded when the dam in Northuldra is destroyed. Justified as she's riding a magical water-horse on top of a flash-flood wave caused by the destroyed dam, already heading towards Arendelle; on the way up to the forest, they were on a cart being pulled uphill by Sven, a single reindeer pulling 3 adults, a snowlem, and other supplies.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_8ac4e993	comment	Gundam: Late in Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, Relena goes to try to talk down White Fang's leader Milliardo. We get scenes with her en route for two episodes before she finally arrives on Libra in a third, making her trip last four days total (according to an official timeline). In a series where space flight has been around for over 200 years, that's pretty dang slow. On the other hand, there's no sense that Faster-Than-Light is possible, so this might actually be a more realistic example than the Gundams' rate of speed. Gundam Wing does this frequently. There are a number of episodes where Wing Zero goes from space down to earth in one episode, and then back again in the next one. That thing must be damn fast. Taken to the extreme late in the series. Treize is in space, in the path of Libra's main cannon, as it is getting ready to fire. Lady Une is unconscious in a hospital on Earth. In the time it takes for Libra to fire its cannon and its massive energy beam to reach Treize, Lady Une wakes up, gets in a space suit, steals Wing Gundam, flies out into space, and arrive just in time to knock Treize away to take the brunt of the hit. You'd think she was a Weeping Angel. Mobile Suit Gundam SEED has one notable example. When Kira gets his shiny new Freedom Gundam, he flies off from a space colony all the way down to Alaska, just in time to save the Archangel. The way the sequence of events is shown suggests that this all took a few hours at most, though the official SEED timeline clarifies that Kira actually spent three days flying from the colony to Earth.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_8b6eb3c0	comment	Hsu and Chan lampshaded this. The protagonists declare that they're going to go to the park. In the next panel, they're in the park. Hsu says "One Panel! That was fast!" before moving onto other matters.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_8b7b9cd5	comment	A New Hope: The Death Star arrives in the Yavin system such that it takes another twenty minutes to round the moon and target Yavin-4.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_8d7f29ec	comment	On Glee, not only do characters easily travel all over Ohio between cities that are hours apart in real life, but most of the McKinley graduates have gone on to college out of state, yet have no trouble making trips back home when the plot calls for it, regardless of travel time, cost, or school/work schedules. This is lampshaded by Sue, and later possibly explained by Brittany:
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_8d817ccb	comment	Lost: When there's time, it takes days to cross the island. In other episodes the Losties seem to be able to get anywhere they need to be in an hour or two. Of course, time and geography are a little wonky on the island. The show has an interesting variation of the trope in that the time to travel between any two points seems to decrease each time. The first time they travel somewhere, it takes an episode or more; afterward, it takes less and less time until the trip is reduced to taking place offscreen. This can be explained by the simple fact that they don't know the route the first time, and will have some kind of beaten trail or markers to follow on subsequent journeys so they won't need to keep stopping to get their bearings.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_8d81bb26	comment	NCIS The show does this all the time with the elevator. Rides in this thing last long enough to hold surprisingly lengthy conversations. Since the building they're in is no more than a handful of stories tall and the conversations can last up to a minute, it can on occasion stretch suspension of disbelief to the breaking point. Sometimes however this trope is subverted by Gibbs, as he usually flips the elevator's emergency stop switch so he and whoever he's with can have a chat (or interrogation, depending on your point of view).
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_8df5521b	comment	Superman can zip about at supersonic speeds, for example grabbing something out of someone's hand and returning to where he was standing before they notice. Of course, he can't do this in the case of hostages, or any other situation where the plot requires him to move at a certain speed.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_8e8ed866	comment	The 2008 Knight Rider movie had an egregious example of this. The bad guys chase the super-car, who leaves them snarled up in a traffic accident. The car then travels AT SUPERSPEED to Las Vegas, hundreds of miles away. The very same bad guys are waiting for them when they arrive. Nobody in the plot feels this is worth commenting on.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_90a3a7f4	comment	Kim Possible and Ron Stoppable travel across the world by calling in favors with people they have helped in the past, while always arriving at the villains' lair in the nick of time and returning home in time to resume their mundane activities; they are late only when that episode plot requires it. Used specially in The (First) Movie where Ron Stoppable traveled independently from Norway to America, Australia and Africa; it was a plot point for him to be late to the action until the last location. The plot was kind of on the ball in this case, as Africa is a shorter trip from Norway than from the US, even accounting for the speed difference.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_92916f5b	comment	In Shrek 2, it takes Shrek, Fiona, and Donkey several days to get to Far Far Away. Later in the movie, when the supporting cast finds out that the group is in trouble, they get there in just a few hours. It's implied that perhaps the supporting guys were riding on Dragon and Dragon is capable of flying at a much faster speed than a typical horse-drawn carriage is able to travel. Worse in Shrek Forever After, Shrek travels the distance between his home and Far Far Away three times within less than a day.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_94377b17	comment	Steel Ball Run: Johnny and Gyro are able to arrive at a racing checkpoint and catch up with the other racers at the exact same time following a battle with a Villain of the Week.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_9518407	comment	CSI: Cyber has a team based in Washington, D.C. which is able to travel to cities across the country and back again with no sense of urgency over the dozens of hours that would be lost in the process. In one notable instance, the team manages to travel from Quantico to Tampa in the time it takes a perp to finish his internet browsing session on a library computer.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_97abe183	comment	Lampshaded in The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius when Jimmy, Sheen, and Carl are traveling back from the moon: The speed of Jimmy's spacecraft seem to vary depending on the episode. In some episodes such as the one mentioned above, travel seems to be limited to below light speed and it takes the characters hours or at least minutes to accomplish interplanetary travel within the solar system, and in other episodes they can jump millions of light years within hours. Weirdly, Jimmy's love interest April from "Win, Lose, and Kaboom" cites interstellar/intergalactic distances as a reason for why they can't maintain a consistent friendship/relationship, despite the fact that within the same episode they jumped light years nearly instantaneously.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_985ad25d	comment	Dragon Ball Super nods at this trope by having Whis state that it takes about 25 minutes for him to ferry Beerus across the universe, meaning they'll always arrive at the end of the episode or the beginning of the next one, making for a more dramatic entrance. In practice, this limitation is only observed when it's useful for drama.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_986e857e	comment	Ben 10: The length of time it takes the Omnitrix to time out varies to fit the episode's plot, as does the length of time it's bleeping to signal a time-out before it changes Ben back. Ben 10: Omniverse justifies this via Azmuth explaining that when Ben slams down on the thing, he's accidentally setting the timer to randomize.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_990dea86	comment	In Moana, the "darkness" has been creeping across the world and takes 1000 years to reach Motunui. The World-Healing Wave in the end arrives at the island at the same time Moana does, probably a few days' journey from Te Fiti's island.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_992e16dc	comment	JoJolion: After Toru's defeat, his Wonder of U, continues to persist even after his death, leaving the others stricken on how to fight it until Josuke, who moments ago was T.G Hospital, arrived in such a short timespan to deliver the finishing attack.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_9932d505	comment	In All-Star Batman & Robin, the Boy Wonder, an incredible amount of other things happen in the time it takes Batman to get Dick Grayson to the Batcave, to the point that it apparently took days for the Batmobile to cross town.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_9d47a2a2	comment	This got more pronounced as the series progressed, especially as it increasingly diverged from its source material from Season 5 onward. Westeros is a huge place, approximately the size of South America; Essos is even larger, more like Asia. Going from King's Landing to the Wall should take months, as it would be like traveling between Buenos Aires and Panama, on horseback.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_9dab421d	comment	Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl: The Black Pearl is the fastest ship in the Caribbean, and the ghost pirates are suffering from a horrible curse. So after they abduct Elizabeth Swan, mistaking her for the one they need to break the curse, they would presumably head straight back to Isla de Muerta to do just that. Meanwhile, Will Turner wakes up the next day and, after an unsuccessful conversation with Norrington, breaks Jack Sparrow out of prison. The two steal a ship and sail for Tortuga where they recruit a crew. Then they proceed to Isla de Muerta. Despite what must have been a considerable detour and at least a few days head-start for a ship which is expressly faster than their own, Will and Jack still arrive at Isla de Muerta within hours of the ghost pirates at most. Perhaps the ghost pirates aren't in quite the hurry we would expect. Or perhaps it's a never-referenced-before-or-after ability of Jack's magic compass. Happens again after Jack and Elizabeth are marooned. With Will in custody, the pirates now have the real person they need. Yet Jack and Elizabeth spend the night on the island before being rescued by the Royal Navy. With Jack's navigation they reach Isla de Muerta, and again it's before the ceremony has started.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_9e2f90f4	comment	One Piece: All distances traveled by the crew between islands is left completely undefined; with a couple of exceptions, we're never told how long they spend sailing in between story arcs. It could be a few days or it could be months. Whenever they're racing to stop an event, though (the civil war in Alabasta, Robin being sent to prison,etc.) they always arrive just as the unwanted event is starting, thus ensuring maximum mayhem as they try to set things right. Characters whose travels we do not follow sometimes seem to travel ridiculously fast, even if their ships should be no faster than the Straw Hats' ship. The following examples are not the only ones: The islands of the Grand Line generally seem to be at least within a few hours' travel time from each other. But when Mr. 3 and Miss Goldenweek, who are on a vacation on a resort island, are told to kill the Straw Hats on Little Garden, they manage to go there and build a wax house within what seems to be around 10-15 minutes. Nico Robin/Miss All Sunday makes it all the way back to Alabasta while the Straw Hats are still on Little Garden. Granted, she has the Eternal Pose to Alabasta, but for the sake of the plot, the villains seem to travel more quickly than the heroes do in that arc. Mihawk appears in East Blue during the Baratie arc and then shows up at an unspecified island in the New World already after the end of the next arc. While it's not directly stated how long time passed, it doesn't at all seem to be more than a week, while the Straw Hats used several weeks, if not months, to get there (with a two-year Time Skip in between, but that shouldn't count as they didn't travel during that time). The Straw Hats spend a whole day of sailing from Punk Hazard to reach Dressrosa. Doflamingo as well as his two underlings manage to do that journey in one or two hours.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_9fdbe934	comment	In Willow, the villain's climactic ritual seems to take weeks. We see her chanting and pouring magical potions, while the heroes gather their forces, march overland to her castle, dig fairly deep trenches... she doesn't seem to sleep, eat, or do anything else for what must be rather a long period of time.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_a183d57f	comment	Futurama: The Planet Express Ship can travel to the edge of the universe and back in a week, which should make any trip in the Milky Way trivially short, yet they are shown to take days whenever convenient for the plot.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_a1af70f8	comment	In the LeapFrog educational release Math Adventure to the Moon, Leap, Lily and Edison board a rocket bound for the moon. The entire point of this DVD is to teach kids about counting and math, so the rocket has a speed gauge with 1 being the slowest speed and 10 being the highest. As the two learn to count by 2s, then 5s, then 10s, the gauge keeps getting replaced with greater numbers, finally going up to a 100. Tad orders it to slow down and the computer says that cruising speed has been achieved. It then says that the moon is 93,000 kilometers... behind them. They've overshot.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_a1b9a8bb	comment	On Team Iron Man's side, this means that Tony flew back to New York to recruit Peter, traveled upstate to pick up Vision from the compound, then flew back to Germany. While Peter (as further established in Spider-Man: Homecoming) got his passport, flew separately on a private jet with Happy Hogan, and still somehow had time to check into a hotel, go sightseeing in Berlin, spent the night at the hotel, then traveled to Leipzig/Halle, all in under 24 hours.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_a3748187	comment	Golden Wind: When the team survives the destruction of their borrowed airplane to land near Sardinia, Diavolo, who was in Naples at the time, inexplicably arrived at their destination before they did.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_a535581a	comment	The Emperor's New Groove spoofs this - in a montage we see Kuzco and Pacha race against Yzma and Kronk back to the palace. Yzma and Kronk fall into a gorge on the way, but they still manage to arrive first and be waiting for Kuzco. The following gem of an exchange then takes place:
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_a7ff76a4	comment	Freddy vs. Jason: Canonically, Springwood is a town in Ohio, and Camp Crystal Lake is in New Jersey. The protagonists drive from one to the other in about an hour.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_a81325d3	comment	Final Fantasy: In Final Fantasy IV: The After Years, Ceodore's squad enters Baron castle, fights with his Brainwashed and Crazy father, and banters a little. Meanwhile, Rydia, Edge, Luca, and the Man in Black travel all over the world, saving people and collecting allies. There are cutaways to the fight against Cecil and a barrier preventing the other characters from entering Baron, indicating that these events are simultaneous. In Final Fantasy VI, the heroes are split up into three groups, all trying to get to Narshe. Terra's group is able to take the most direct route. Locke has to infiltrate South Figaro first and get some intel before heading there, which is certainly a detour, but doesn't send him all that far out of the way. Sabin, meanwhile, is thrown completely off-course, and has to help fight back against the invasion of Doma, deal with a train full of ghosts, cross a giant plain, take an underwater passage to Nikeah, and from there sneak onto a boat to South Figaro (which, remember, is where Locke was) before heading to Narshe. Most of Sabin's path has him traversing nearly the opposite side of the world from Narshe. While Terra's group is in the middle of pleading with Narshe's elder for assistance (and it's implied that her team hasn't been there very long), Sabin somehow gets there about a minute before Locke does.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_a8150af4	comment	The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: Used in tandem with Compressed Adaptation. It takes 6 days for Galadriel and a critically injured Halbrand to gallop from the Anduin region west of Mordor to Eregion. A somewhat similar journey in Tolkien's works - Boromir travelling alone from Minas Tirith to Rivendell, but losing his horse halfway - takes almost four months, and Gandalf in Shadowfax is able to reach The Shire from Rohan - roughly half the distance - in six days.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_a9dd1e47	comment	The novelization of Revenge of the Sith features this. Just after his duel with Yoda, Palpatine senses that Anakin is in danger on Mustafar (in the Outer Rim), where he was currently dueling with Obi-Wan. Palpatine leaves the Senate chamber, boards his shuttle, leaves Coruscant, travels across the galaxy, and arrives at Mustafar moments after the Anakin/Obi-Wan duel has ended, while Obi-Wan is still standing over Anakin's burning, cut-up form. (The travel time is lengthened somewhat in the feature film, while this can be handwaved to a certain extent, since it's not clear when exactly he felt the premonition relative to Vader's duel.)
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_aca7b22d	comment	The premise behind The Amazing World of Gumball episode "The Countdown" relies on Gumball and Darwin missing the bus to school and having to get there in six minutes or face expulsion, complete with an on-screen timer (that they're immediately aware of) showing how much time they have left. After Gumball and Darwin agree they should get moving, the episode cuts to them running through Elmore without the timer changing at all, despite Darwin complaining that they've been running for hours (he immediately Handwaves the disparity by saying it seemed longer when watching the clock). Later, Gumball and Darwin end up in the desert outside of town with three minutes left, and Gumball immediately wonders how they got so far into the desert in four seconds. This costs them a minute in the timer. Darwin logically deduces it'll only take them a minute to get back to town. Sure enough, the episode cuts to them back in town, and another minute is gone from the timer.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_af583f46	comment	Exaggerated on case 2 of Justice for All, when little Pearl, who's lived all her life in a small, isolated village, makes it to her cousin's trial on foot. Said village is an hour away by train, which she didn't take because she did not know what trains were. Never mind how exhausting it would've been for her, realistically, she never would've made it on time.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_b0028436	comment	JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood: Upon learning of Dio's Sacred First Kiss with Erina, Jonathan furiously made it back to his family mansion in a few seconds. Battle Tendency: Joseph and his allies quickly catch up to the train carrying the Red Stone of Aja after learning its whereabouts in Rome. Stardust Crusaders: Following his injury received during the battle with Hol Horse, Avdol spent time recuperating before managing to catch up with the team when they made a stop at an island. Diamond is Unbreakable: After narrowingly evading Highway Star, Josuke is able to arrive at Morioh hospital from the port fast enough for Koichi to tell him where he can find the user. Golden Wind: When the team survives the destruction of their borrowed airplane to land near Sardinia, Diavolo, who was in Naples at the time, inexplicably arrived at their destination before they did. Stone Ocean: Jotaro spends most of the story comatose at a Speedwagon Foundation facility. After regaining consciousness, he was able to travel towards Florida's space center and arrived in time to save Jolyne from Pucci after utilizing a harpoon fired combined with Ermes' stickers. Steel Ball Run: Johnny and Gyro are able to arrive at a racing checkpoint and catch up with the other racers at the exact same time following a battle with a Villain of the Week. JoJolion: After Toru's defeat, his Wonder of U, continues to persist even after his death, leaving the others stricken on how to fight it until Josuke, who moments ago was T.G Hospital, arrived in such a short timespan to deliver the finishing attack. The JoJoLands: In the battle with The Cat, Usagi immediately ran back to the car to pick up a bag and quickly traveled back to where the group was to explain his plan to defeat The Cat.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_b08200f3	comment	Transformers: Age of Extinction: At one point the characters are shown driving from Beijing to Hong Kong in what appears to be a few hours, tops. The two locations are on opposite ends of the country, nearly thirteen-hundred miles apart. This would be a journey by car that would take a few days, not hours; it would only take a few hours if they were travelling by airplane.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_b0e228be	comment	Generator Rex Played straight during the "A Family Holiday" episode. There ware two scenes happening simultaneously (we know because there is radio contact between the two). Holiday gets in trouble, so Six orders rex to fly him there. "But that's a hundred miles away!" They make it in about twenty-five seconds. That's four miles a second (or Rex messed up the distance). And that's using a jetpack. Rex might be made of Iron, but Six...well, he still seems to be, even if he is supposedly a normal human. Complicated by the earlier episode Payback, where Rex was using the jetpack to try to catch Van Kliess, who was flying away on his whale-blimp EVO. Rex pushes himself to keep up, while VK is only about a mile head of him at most and not moving much faster than the average car, so we know it's this trope.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_b0ec0986	comment	Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep: The trio's interconnected plot lines across the worlds lead to some bizarre travel speeds. For example, though Terra leaves the Land of Departure barely a minute before Ven does, heâ€™s still able to complete Enchanted Dominion then go to Dwarf Woodlands before Ven can travel to his first world, also Dwarf Woodlands. And though Terra leaves the woodlands first, Ven is able to reach Castle of Dreams and complete it before Terra can arrive there.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_b30ae4db	comment	Game of Thrones: This got more pronounced as the series progressed, especially as it increasingly diverged from its source material from Season 5 onward. Westeros is a huge place, approximately the size of South America; Essos is even larger, more like Asia. Going from King's Landing to the Wall should take months, as it would be like traveling between Buenos Aires and Panama, on horseback. This first reached memetic status in Season 2 when Littlefinger was given his own Adaptation Expansion subplot which consisted of him meeting with various people throughout Westeros, causing him to flit hundreds of miles between episodes. However, his appearances were sporadic and the logistics weren't particularly egregious given that small parties travel faster than armies and Catelyn returned to Robb's army in the same timespan. This discrepancy led to the popular joke that Littlefinger is using a jetpack offscreen to travel in-between locations. Bryan Cogman is generally the only staff writer to make even a token effort to explain this, usually simply by insisting that different storylines aren't in sync or are even in Anachronic Order for pacing reasons, which is reasonable enough as in the above example with Littlefinger in Season 2. The problem is Cogman also uses this argument to handwave even criticism of interconnected plotlines that cannot be explained this easily, such as Littlefinger learning of Sansa's escape and travelling halfway up the continent from the Vale to the Wall (half of it with an army) to meet with Sansa in the span of at most a few weeks when judged by the events of Sansa's own plotline. This became so blatant as the show began racing for the finish line in Season 7 that even mainstream news sites took note and criticized it. Characters and even armies now regularly flit up, down, and across the continent (journeys that previously took half a season or more), sometimes multiple times between scenes. This is especially blatant because in Season 7 there's enough characters and communiques passing between storylines to prove they're all happening at the same time, not to mention Cersei's pregnancy (which is revealed early and still isn't showing by the end) constricting timeline to at best five or six months, less than half the implicit timeline of previous seasons. So yes, Jon travelled up and down the continent multiple times in a few months, not counting all the time he was confined on Dragonstone as Lannister and Targaryen fleets and armies zipped back and forth from coast to coast or had to await rescue from Dragonstone in "Beyond the Wall". Perhaps the most blatant example is the climactic sequence in "Beyond the Wall" where, after a long march, Jon and his company are surrounded by foes but are rescued because their messenger runs all the way back to the Wall, sends a messenger raven halfway down the continent to Daenerys, who then flies her dragon all the way north again to save them, all in the same sequence and implicitly in under 48 hours since they're only shown spending one night beyond the Wall, while the besieging White Walkers (who possess ranged weaponry) as well as thirst, hunger, fatigue, and the elements all stand by patiently. Even the episode's director had to admit he just tinged all the scenes in perpetual twilight and hoped Emotional Torque would override the logistics. In the final season, Arya and the Hound depart from Winterfell together (on horses) toward King's Landing, with the armies of Daenerys' and Jon's alliance leaving after them toward the same destination (most of them on foot), along the same road. The two of them end up arriving at the capital to find it already besieged by the army which marched out behind them, meaning a thousands-strong force overtook and passed them with enough time to set up a siege (and for Dany and her court to travel to Dragonstone and back twice on boats). Neither group ran into any complications or delays shown on screen along the way. Further complicating the situation is that Jaime, who left Winterfell a significant amount of time after Dany and Jon's armies, ends up arriving and being captured after the siege is set up but before Arya and the Hound show up.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_b31b332f	comment	Transformers Film Series: Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen: The Autobots go from Giza, Egypt to Petra, Jordan and back in what seems to be a few minutes at most. Even apart from the substantial distances involved, this would involve crossing into and out of Israel four different times, which would probably not be the quickest endeavor for a platoon of unlicensed vehicles. Transformers: Age of Extinction: At one point the characters are shown driving from Beijing to Hong Kong in what appears to be a few hours, tops. The two locations are on opposite ends of the country, nearly thirteen-hundred miles apart. This would be a journey by car that would take a few days, not hours; it would only take a few hours if they were travelling by airplane.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_b37304ba	comment	A double example in The House of Hades. The Argo II has to reaches the Doors of Death at the exact same time as Percy and Annabeth do. Even more impressive (and implausible) when your remember the Argo II can fly, while Percy and Annabeth were on foot, plus they were traveling through a literal hellscape filled with monsters.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_b46d4dee	comment	As the conflict in The Ballad of Edgardo escalates and the mods become increasingly apathetic, all sides begin ignoring the actual traveling rules and just arrive where they want just in time for another fight.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_b4fe32c9	comment	Invader Zim: The first episode indicates it takes Zim six months to get from the planet Conventia to Earth. All other trips into space, however, seem to go more quickly: for example, Foodcourtia is only three days away. Either Conventia is waaaaay out there on the far border of Irken space, or the first episode's time was just to torture Zim with six months of "The Doom Song." In another episode, Zim is shown to be enduring Gir's messing around with base's computer for a year - it's a Running Gag. Another one: Sizz-Lorr mentions 20 years of being trapped on Foodcourtia after Zim runs away, but Zim's mission lasted no longer than few years. It got lampshaded with time-warp-thing. To sum it up, Sizz-Lorr did 20 years in about 2 or so.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_b6886bfd	comment	Star Trek Into Darkness: This extends to the sequel; the crew travels to the Klingon homeworld, partway in the Enterprise, and partway in a small ship. The sequence lasts several minutes, despite Star Trek: Enterprise stating that Qo'nos was four days away at warp 4.5. The real-life equivalent star system, Omega Leonis, is 112 lightyears away. A smaller scale example: Kirk, Spock and Uhura leave the cockpit to take a smaller ship down to the surface of Qo'nos, leaving Sulu as Acting Captain. As soon as Sulu starts speaking to inform the crew of this, just a few seconds after the aforementioned three left the room, the camera cuts back to them to reveal they've already changed clothes and are about to get on the smaller ship.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_b78ae0b5	comment	The Blues Brothers has a good example of somehow traveling as slow as the plot demands—despite how fast they're going, the Bluesmobile takes something like eight hours to cover the 106 miles to Chicago, so they don't get there until after the tax assessor's office has opened.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_b962c879	comment	In Fairy Tail, Happy could transform into a flying mode for a brief time and could only carry one person rather slowly. But when the team needs to stop a villain headed towards a town he suddenly has a "max speed" which lets him catch up with the guy even though he could fly quite quickly and was most of the way there.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_babeae6a	comment	Godzilla vs. Kong, while not a direct adaptation, has a similar sequence where Kong needs to transported across the ocean, and actually shows how they go about it. Kong is chained and sedated, he's periodically fed on fish they can catch from the sea, and they're travelling with a Skull Island native that Kong's befriended to help keep him calm.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_bc274933	comment	In 3-2-1 Penguins!, the penguins' ship, the Rockhopper, travels as fast or as slow as the plot demands, as this conversation in The Cheating Scales of Bullamanka shows.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Warp travel in Warhammer 40,000 is notoriously prone to messing with the timestream, meaning that depending on the story, author or requirements a warp-traveller might (assuming that they don't get lost in a roiling hell of pure emotion) end up arriving exactly in time, years early, decades late or before they even set out on a rescue mission and end up broadcasting the doomed distress call that caused them to attempt the trip in the first place.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_bcb32dc6	comment	In the Shadowrun novel The Lucifer Deck, a snooping character is trapped behind an office desk by an Awakened guard dog, and calls a friend for help. In a Speed-of-Plot demo that exceeds even The A-Team example (above), the friend calls a shaman he barely knows, persuades her to help, drives across town to meet her, and sets up an experimental ritual, allowing the shaman to send a spirit to assist the cornered snoop ... all in the time it takes a hellhound to muscle its way past a desk. Worst of all, the book even gushes about the spirit's incredible speed of travel when it flies to the rescue, never mind how long took to get the summons underway!
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_bd310eaa	comment	In El Goonish Shive, Mr. Verres and Agents Cranium and Wolf arrive a few minutes after Not-Tengu is dealt with having left as soon as Diane contacted them. As soon as they arrive, the snow that had slowed them down stops.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_c353ea41	comment	Jurassic Park: The Lost World: Jurassic Park: The rescue helicopters arrive on Isla Sorna less than ten minutes after receiving the distress call, assuming there were no significant time skips and the movie was happening in roughly real time in the sequence. Isla Sorna is established to be over two-hundred miles from mainland Costa Rica and the cruising speed of a non-military helicopter is about 100 mph, so, unless there was a boat waiting on standby just offshore, there's no way it could've gotten to the island in the timespan as shown; it would require a time skip of at least two hours or so (not including the time to disembark, assuming optimal weather conditions, actually finding the characters in the jungle, and assuming they came directly from Costa Rica and not the US), which, given the frantic pace of the sequence, seems unlikely. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom: The cargo ship gets from Isla Nublar, somewhere off the coast of Costa Rica, to somewhere in Northern California in a single night. That's a journey of roughly four thousand miles in a vessel that has a maximum speed of about 45 mph (which it can't maintain for long periods of time) in less than 12 hours. Even if they could have sustained that speed, it should have taken roughly four days plus the time it would have taken to actually get the ship unloaded (a lengthy process even if they'd bribed everyone involved to expedite things and not ask questions), plus the time required to get the dinosaurs from whatever dock they used to the remote mansion where the final act was set.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_c3c3dfc	comment	Stardust Crusaders: Following his injury received during the battle with Hol Horse, Avdol spent time recuperating before managing to catch up with the team when they made a stop at an island.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_c4282b71	comment	The time it takes to travel between Ponyville and Canterlot in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic seems to vary depending on the plot. It can range from a five-minute walk to a one-day train ride.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: The TARDIS always arrives at the exact right time for the Doctor to become embroiled in the plot of the week. Usually justified in that the TARDIS is sentient and almost certainly doing this on purpose. This is made explicit in "The Doctor's Wife": "Blink": The Weeping Angels are said to be extremely fast, but they sure can take their time sneaking up on people when no one's watching. Some of it can likely be explained by the fact that the Angels are psychopaths who like to mess with their victims. And some of it can be explained by the fact that, in this episode, the Angels can't move when the audience is looking at them, either. The TARDIS journeys are instantaneous or spend a few seconds in the Time Vortex at most, the 1996 movie has The Doctor settling down with a book and a cup of tea after setting course for Gallifrey. The Doctor later tells Grace that it would take the TARDIS ten minutes to travel from Earth to Gallifrey.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_c489a759	comment	Digimon Adventure 02 is rife with this. Tamachi and Odaiba are about an hour's drive apart by car, but Raidramon's able to get Davis from Odaiba to Tamachi in what looks like a few minutes, yet in a later episode, Raidramon has to spend considerable time chasing a truck as if it's too fast for him. Izzy and Kari seem able to cross all of Hong Kong from one border to another in just a few minutes. The whole World Tour arc relies on the heroes allegedly being unable to use portals to the Digital World as a shortcut to travel to other countries on Earth because of the distance between portals within the Digital World, but Michael and Mimi previously once used a portal in New York to come to the same Digital World location as the other kids coming from Japan. In short, when distance is needed to be an obstacle, it is; when it's not, it's not.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_c86d70b5	comment	The Lost World: Jurassic Park: The rescue helicopters arrive on Isla Sorna less than ten minutes after receiving the distress call, assuming there were no significant time skips and the movie was happening in roughly real time in the sequence. Isla Sorna is established to be over two-hundred miles from mainland Costa Rica and the cruising speed of a non-military helicopter is about 100 mph, so, unless there was a boat waiting on standby just offshore, there's no way it could've gotten to the island in the timespan as shown; it would require a time skip of at least two hours or so (not including the time to disembark, assuming optimal weather conditions, actually finding the characters in the jungle, and assuming they came directly from Costa Rica and not the US), which, given the frantic pace of the sequence, seems unlikely.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_c9b8f0f8	comment	Lampshaded by Space Captain Smith when our titular hero takes some damage to his navigation computer.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_cc3c0f37	comment	Saint Seiya Omega: The Bronze Saints move from Greece to Mexico on foot. Unlike the original, they actually have a normal person traveling with them, making even less sense.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_ccf875f7	comment	Criminal Minds is a frequent abuser of this trope. No matter what city the team is investigating in, if the episode is almost finished and the team has someone to rescue, they arrive in the nick of time to save the day, and if the episode isn't almost done, they don't rescue the victim. The only time the show changed things up was at the end of "Our Darkest Hour" where the Los Angeles traffic rears its ugly head- even though, again, it was invoked solely for the plot, just so that the team couldn't come by to help out the final victim, who was kidnapped by the UnSub to be rescued in the following episode.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_ce50887e	comment	Dragon Ball and Z use this trope for all it's worth, thanks to never establishing geographical distances: Goku will always arrive just in the nick of time after travelling at top speed, no matter how far away his destination was. Similarly, after Raditz is defeated Vegeta and Nappa are eleven months away from Earth. A few episodes later, the narration mentions they're at the edge of our solar system but still a few months away. In later seasons, spaceships (including the same type Vegeta and Nappa use) can get anywhere in the galaxy in no more than a few days.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_d0c31ab	comment	In Star Trek: Generations, the Nexus goes as fast as it needs to to be relevant to the plot. This means travelling at impulse in the opening then jumping to warp so it can move between solar systems almost as fast as the Enterprise.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_d0e25eb9	comment	In Heavy Object, the 37th quickly travels between battlefields scattered across the globe, often visiting multiple continents during a single volume. The timeframe is usually left vague, but Volume 17 establishes the characters fought at the North Pole on Christmas Day and were in the Alps by New Year's Day. This seems reasonable enough, except that during the intervening week the 37th also visited South America.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_d2dfd2f2	comment	In Journey to the West, the initial trip from China to India takes over a decade, the return, about a week.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_d461a59f	comment	The trope was played agonizingly straight in the original Battlestar Galactica (1978), where the fleet explicitly travelled at a maximum of "lightspeed" — and usually slower since not all ships could manage that pace — and yet they passed through at least three different galaxies in the course of the series. Although that's as much bad research as Speed of Plot.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_d461f757	comment	Battlestar Galactica plays this trope. The miniseries, the webisodes "The Face of the Enemy", and the finale suggest that colonial FTL drives may have an unlimited range, but the calculations required to use them become nonlinear when jumping farther than the "red line" and the difficulty in performing them increases exponentially. It can be done, either at great risk or with divine intervention. Which means that the effective top speed of the colonial fleet is dependent on how badly they want to get where they're going. The factor isn't velocity, it's accuracy. Cylon FTL drives are better because they are more accurate.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_d4642985	comment	Averted rather painfully in the hard sci-fi novel Redemption Ark by Alastair Reynolds, the second half of the book is mostly a prolonged chase between two spaceships... Taking over sixty years. While the story is interesting, it would be an understatement to say that the plot moves very very very slowly.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_d5ddd6c1	comment	PokÃ©mon: The Series: No matter how many distractions the characters encounter, they'll always manage to collect all their Badges/Ribbons just in time for the annual competition at the end of the saga. Double subverted after Ash gets the Beacon Badge in PokÃ©mon the Series: Diamond and Pearl. Flint tells them that there's still a month to go before the Sinnoh League starts, although they only arrive the day before it begins. This is despite the fact that, in the game, the island that the PokÃ©mon League is on isn't that far from Sunyshore. In the first season, there are many filler episodes in between getting the last badge and actually entering the competition because Ash has two months to spare (plus the time it takes for him to travel back to Pallet Town to find out where it's on).
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_d78af2ac	comment	In Kingsman: The Secret Service, Harry manages to get from his home in England to a church in the United States quickly enough that A. Eggsy is still hanging around and checking Harry's laptop, and B. Harry expects to be back soon to continue a conversation. Apparently the Kingsmen have a really quick way to get around.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_d9c602eb	comment	When Hell's Pass Hospital was first introduced in South Park, it took a while for Chef to drive the boys there, with scenes showing him having to drive over 35 miles across mountains to get to it. This has seemingly been forgotten in every other episode featuring the hospital, as characters are shown to be sent to it seemingly quickly after needing it.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_da9348f	comment	Clash of the Titans (1981). While Perseus is returning to Joppa on Pegasus, he's shown passing over mountain ranges a long way from the sea. Even though he's clearly not traveling fast enough to get to the seashore in time, he does so anyway.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_daff6a21	comment	The final arc of the first season of Yu Gi Oh 5Ds has a truly egregious example. Mikage has marked on a map the 5 locations where the 4 heroes need to go to duel their opponents — far apart but all relatively similar distances from where the group is at the time. The groups splits up with 1 duelist each going by car or motorcycle to 4 of the locations. It would seem logical that all the duels would begin at times relatively close to each other (showing events one at a time that took place at the same time is common and easy in fiction, after all). Instead, everyone is shown spending all episodes before their own duel driving. And driving and driving. So no duels take place at the same time, and everyone arrives at their own destination after another duel has ended and before another begins. In addition to being a huge coincidence, and the length of traveling time and distances not making sense, this completely defeats the purpose behind why they agreed to split up in the first place rather than go as a group to each location one at a time.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_db96ded4	comment	Later in The Legend of Korra Book 2, Korra and friends manage to travel by ship from Republic City, which is located in the northern regions of the Earth Kingdom Continent, all the way to the South Pole in just under the 3 day time limit.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_dc85cde0	comment	Coby's Choice has a lampshaded and justified example. Smoker is ordered to head straight to Punk Hazard while the Neo-Marines incident is ongoing. In the meantime, the Straw Hats were dealing with the Neo-Marines. Which is why it is a surprise to him and Tashigi that the Straw Hats arrived at Punk Hazard first. Turns out Smoker and Tashigi had to deal with a lot of delays and speedbumps on the way to Punk Hazard, which included storms, dealing with pirates on the way, resupplying, and hangovers of the crew from the resupply.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_de6659ec	comment	Most travel in Once Upon a Time takes place at the speed of plot. Crossing Storybrooke or the Enchanted Forest takes from seconds to hours, as needed. Characters can leave Point A and arrive at Point B at the same time, even if one set of characters stops for a side quest along the way. Walking, horses, cars, boats, flying, and teleportation all take about the same amount of time, as needed. For example, in Season Four's "Poor Unfortunate Soul", it takes about the same amount of time to cross town as to travel between worlds, get to Poseidon, convince him to come to Storybrooke, travel between worlds, and bring Poseidon to Ursula.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_defedb34	comment	In Shadow Hearts: Covenant, it takes you about five or six hours and a couple dungeons to travel from the game's real starting place in the Ardennes Forest to the first major destination, Wales, as the party travels through Paris and then has to find a ship willing to travel to Britain during the height of World War One. From Wales, the party instantly and effortlessly travels to its next destination... Florence, Italy.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_df07d96e	comment	Another insane example comes from Season 3 of Lois & Clark. In episode 2, Superman is seen flying from Metropolis to places around the world like Japan and Switzerland to get stuff for Lois, arriving back with the goods in less time than it takes to tell — less than 5 seconds per return trip at the most; a few episodes later, he has 15 seconds to get to Eastern Europe to intercept a nuclear missile, but somehow he can't get there in time. Instead, he tunnels directly through the Earth because it's quicker...? Made for a good scene when he saves the day, but forget about it making sense.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_e0cc2a40	comment	In Dragons: Riders of Berk the group leave Berk and set out to explore new lands, creating a Home Base called Dragon's Edge. It's demonstrated to take at least a day by dragon to get from Berk to Dragon's Edge, but this extreme distance only seems to be a problem when it's convenient for the plot.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_e333c908	comment	First two seasons of The Massive Multi-Fandom RPG take place in a city which keeps randomly shifting its layout when no one is looking. This is highly convenient for the players, as no matter where the characters are, they can immediately arrive anywhere else as quickly or as slowly as desired. The City of Lost Characters roleplay, being a Spiritual Successor to The Massive Multi-Fandom RPG, also takes place in an ever-shifting city with similar benefits for the players.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_e5b8fbed	comment	Looney Tunes: Back in Action spoofs this when the heroes realize they have to navigate from a remote desert to Paris, France. When asked how they would get from the middle of nowhere to Paris, Bugs Bunny replies "Simple. Like this." and proceeds to pull the side of the screen creating a transition from the current setting to Paris.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_e5feb1e	comment	Ace Attorney: Several cases have you investigating locations that are stated to be on opposite sides of a large city or even on the countryside, hours away by train (and yes, this distance is often a factor in the cases when it comes to alibis). However, if you miss something in one location (and you most probably will) nothing stops you from going back and forth several times in a single day, without missing any events that in-universe depend on office hours. Justified, since otherwise the game would be near-unplayable. Exaggerated on case 2 of Justice for All, when little Pearl, who's lived all her life in a small, isolated village, makes it to her cousin's trial on foot. Said village is an hour away by train, which she didn't take because she did not know what trains were. Never mind how exhausting it would've been for her, realistically, she never would've made it on time.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_e7e37776	comment	During the development of the RPG based on Firefly a discussion was held about how long it took for spaceships to travel between locations. One of the developers related J. Michael Straczynski's reference to how Starfuries in Babylon 5 traveled at the speed of plot. This became the official rule.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_e863cc41	comment	Mega Man Battle Network: Once Lan is given access to airplane travel, suddenly traveling to countries around the world is done almost instantly. While it is convenient for gameplay purposes, it causes some logical issues when strict time limit is concerned, most notably during the KendoMan scenario in Battle Network 4. Lan asks permission to delay their match for what is assumed to be a short time period so that he can bring back Mr. Famous, who is being held hostage in Netfrica. Electopia and Netopia are relatively closer, yet it takes half a day to travel by plane.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_e8970723	comment	Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom: The cargo ship gets from Isla Nublar, somewhere off the coast of Costa Rica, to somewhere in Northern California in a single night. That's a journey of roughly four thousand miles in a vessel that has a maximum speed of about 45 mph (which it can't maintain for long periods of time) in less than 12 hours. Even if they could have sustained that speed, it should have taken roughly four days plus the time it would have taken to actually get the ship unloaded (a lengthy process even if they'd bribed everyone involved to expedite things and not ask questions), plus the time required to get the dinosaurs from whatever dock they used to the remote mansion where the final act was set.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_e951212	comment	In Dawn of a New Age: Oldport Blues, despite there being a provided map of Oldport that details the exact distance between each location, characters are sometimes quicker to arrive than would be physically possible in order to better fit the plot. This is occasionally lampshaded when it happens.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_e9974633	comment	On Special Agent Oso, whether Oso is halfway across the country or on the moon, you can be sure that as soon as he's informed of a child in trouble, he will arrive in time to help that child before it's too late, then return in time to finish his training exercise without inconveniencing anyone.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_eb0c9938	comment	Diamond is Unbreakable: After narrowingly evading Highway Star, Josuke is able to arrive at Morioh hospital from the port fast enough for Koichi to tell him where he can find the user.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_ed2a7866	comment	Sword Art Online: When Kirito is poisoned by Kuradeel and is on the verge of dying, Asuna runs so fast she breaks the game's dexterity speed limit and is just in time to save him.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_f2eaba83	comment	The JoJoLands: In the battle with The Cat, Usagi immediately ran back to the car to pick up a bag and quickly traveled back to where the group was to explain his plan to defeat The Cat.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_f3464a68	comment	Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen: The Autobots go from Giza, Egypt to Petra, Jordan and back in what seems to be a few minutes at most. Even apart from the substantial distances involved, this would involve crossing into and out of Israel four different times, which would probably not be the quickest endeavor for a platoon of unlicensed vehicles.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_f5855286	comment	The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom: One of the side-quests is helping Hudson and Rhondson's daughter prepare for her pilgrimage to Gerudo Town. However, she won't arrive there until after you complete the Gerudo Town story quests, which is probably for the best considering the state it's in beforehand.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_f5a4d814	comment	In Stargate: The Ark of Truth, the time on the spaceship fighting the replicators seems to take less than a day, however Teal'c goes on an epic journey through mountains on foot in that same span of time.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_f688799b	comment	My Little Pony: The Movie (2017) sees Twilight Sparkle captured by the villains and taken by airship most of the way back to Canterlot before the rest of the Mane Six even know she's gone. However, once they know, they not only manage to arrive shortly after the ship carrying Twilight (having traversed the same distance on hoof), they've also baked a cake large enough to conceal five parrot-lizard people and a hippogriff.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_f6a54e75	comment	Kingdom Hearts: The computer does this in Kingdom Hearts. Upon arriving in Monstro, the player encounters Geppetto and Pinocchio. Pinocchio was previously seen in Traverse Town, and the game establishes that without a Gummi Ship or dark powers, traveling between worlds is impossible. Sora even asks Pinocchio "how did you get here?", but Geppetto starts talking to him, and somewhere between that and Pinocchio wandering off, the game forgets to explain it. Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep: The trio's interconnected plot lines across the worlds lead to some bizarre travel speeds. For example, though Terra leaves the Land of Departure barely a minute before Ven does, heâ€™s still able to complete Enchanted Dominion then go to Dwarf Woodlands before Ven can travel to his first world, also Dwarf Woodlands. And though Terra leaves the woodlands first, Ven is able to reach Castle of Dreams and complete it before Terra can arrive there.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_fa46743e	comment	In Star Trek: Nemesis, Shinzon's ship is going to be able to travel from Romulus (presumably deep in the Beta Quadrant) in roughly two days—still an amount of time that is bizarrely short when compared to travel times mentioned in the TNG TV series—which means that either the Enterprise-E travels at the speed of plot or the Romulan Empire is so large that traveling from its capital to its edge requires at least 40 more hours than getting from the Neutral Zone to Earth.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_fa89a1ac	comment	Frozen II: It takes several days for the heroes to journey to Northuldra the first time they traveled there, but in the climax Elsa rides the Nokk back to Arendelle just in time to save the city from getting flooded when the dam in Northuldra is destroyed. Justified as she's riding a magical water-horse on top of a flash-flood wave caused by the destroyed dam, already heading towards Arendelle; on the way up to the forest, they were on a cart being pulled uphill by Sven, a single reindeer pulling 3 adults, a snowlem, and other supplies.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_fcacaa36	comment	The Man in the High Castle: The events in the series are mostly set in San Francisco (occupied by the Japanese), New York City (occupied by the Germans), Canon City (the neutral Rocky Mountains), and also Berlin starting from the end of season 1. Characters will often travel from one place to the other within the same episode, though it's not always clear how much time has elapsed in between. Season 2 suggests that the events of the previous season only took 2 weeks. Some of this is explained by high speed air travel, but at some points they'll just take a car drive across several states instead.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_fdc66d32	comment	The RevolGarry from Kamen Rider Double seems to move exactly as fast as it needs to in order to instantly cover any distance between the Narumi Detective Agency and wherever Double happens to be.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_fe49cc8b	comment	On Creative Galaxy, travel takes as long as it takes for Arty to quite literally draw up the Creative Spark rocket ship in mid-air and zip to the planet where he wants to create his art in Real Time as a bit of cheery music plays. On the way back, a special "speed" for the ship is specified, such as "quiet speed" when Arty needs to get home without disturbing his baby sister, but the speed is again always just long enough to give an impression to little kids of time passing and get back in time to have taken care of the problem without anyone having to wait very long.
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot / int_fe83990a	comment	Saint Seiya: In the Hades Arc, some of the Bronze Saints need to reach Greece despite some of them being in Japan and Siberia.
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Batman: Arkham City (Video Game) / int_f314f8c4	type	Traveling at the Speed of Plot
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Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (Video Game) / int_f314f8c4	type	Traveling at the Speed of Plot
Freelancer (Video Game) / int_f314f8c4	type	Traveling at the Speed of Plot
Hades (Video Game) / int_f314f8c4	type	Traveling at the Speed of Plot
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Overwatch (Video Game) / int_f314f8c4	type	Traveling at the Speed of Plot
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Shenmue II (Video Game) / int_f314f8c4	type	Traveling at the Speed of Plot
Stasis: Bone Totem (Video Game) / int_f314f8c4	type	Traveling at the Speed of Plot
Tales of Berseria (Video Game) / int_f314f8c4	type	Traveling at the Speed of Plot
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Jay Jay the Jet Plane / int_f314f8c4	type	Traveling at the Speed of Plot
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Liberty's Kids / int_f314f8c4	type	Traveling at the Speed of Plot
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Monsters, Inc. / int_f314f8c4	type	Traveling at the Speed of Plot
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PAW Patrol / int_f314f8c4	type	Traveling at the Speed of Plot
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