![]() ![]() ![]() In one episode of Code Geass, Lelouch is given five hours to find his sister Nunnally who has been kidnapped by a Geass-using psychopath, who may or may not have stuck to the assigned limit.It's because Aya is pregnant, and Ceres wants to finish things before the baby gets dragged into the mess. If Aya does not manage to stop the Mikages or return Ceres' celestial robe to her by then, Ceres will take Aya's body over by force and kill every Mikage. ![]() In Ceres, Celestial Legend, its last third has Ceres lay down a time-limit of six months.In the original manga and old series, his father gives him one year to reach the championship with the Toho team if not, he'll have to come back home and inherit the dojo. A subplot in Captain Tsubasa has Ken "Karate Keeper" Wakashimazu defying his parents because he wants to play soccer and not become the Heir to the Dojo.This gets sped up to hours and minutes when the government decides to prepare a Kill Sat in the climax. The final opening of the anime even reminds us of how many days are left. The students, along with the handful of people aware of the threat, only have a year to kill him. Assassination Classroom: On March 13th of the next year, Koro-sensei plans to blow up the Earth.The video game subversion is Take Your Time, where they tell you that it's a Race Against The Clock, but you're not penalized for going at your own pace. The video game equivalent is the Timed Mission. Usually, such a sequence will serve as a dramatic finale. Interestingly, the audience will probably buy these coincidences since they come off, if done well, as an application of Finagle's Law. In other cases, time itself is the foe with the help of some random coincidences that impede the hero's progress. This sucks in the case of victims, since all but the last victim are still dead, but hey, at least the villain didn't win. In this case, the hero will stop the last, and only the last, step in the evil plan. One variant is that a specific time isn't the point of success the villain must instead be stopped before he collects all the Plot Coupons or kills all of his intended victims. Compare When the Clock Strikes Twelve and Right on the Tick. This is a frequently used but still effective method of adding more tension to the story. even if it takes a Magic Countdown to line things up properly. It's especially powerful when combined with Real Time. Naturally, things will go down to the wire and the hero will foil the evil scheme at the last possible second. The hero has until that moment to stop the villain. In many cases, for whatever reason - be it the alignment of planets, a scheduled public event to sabotage, a "you have one hour to comply or." threat, or just a plain old Time Bomb - the villain's plot is time sensitive: It will succeed at a given moment and not one second sooner. ![]()
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