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* ClockOfPower: A timepiece that has superpower or grants superpower to its user / inhabitant.

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* CueOClock: One or more of the numbers on a clock is replaced with a word or image telling what will happen on the hour.

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* CueOClock: One or more of the Clock dial numbers on a clock is are replaced with by a word non-time-related cue or image telling what will happen on the hour.nonsense.
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* CuckooClockGag: A cuckoo clock's tendencies are played for comedy.
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* RingRingCrunch: Someone attacks their alarm clock to stop it from ringing.
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[Disney/{{Pinocchio}} I wonder what time it is...]]]]

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* CueOClock

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* CueOClockCueOClock: One or more of the numbers on a clock is replaced with a word or image telling what will happen on the hour.
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* CueOClock
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* ExactTimeToFailure: You have exactly this much time to live.


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* RaceAgainstTheClock: The heroes have to do something to stop the countdown, or else the consequences will be catastrophic.
* RightOnTheTick: An event happens at an exact time.


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* StoppedClock: A broken clock as proof of a disaster or catastrophic event.
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* StockClockHandHang: Holding on for life on the hands of a clocktower clock.
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* TwentyFourHourTropeClock
* ClockDiscrepancy
* ClockPunk
* ClockTampering
* ClockTower
* ClocksOfControl
* ClockworkCreature
* ClockworksArea
* DeathsHourglass
* DoomsdayClock
* FloatingClocks
* SpinningClockHands
* TickTockTerror
* TickTockTune
* TheWatchmaker
* WestminsterChimes
* WhenTheClockStrikesTwelve

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* TwentyFourHourTropeClock
TwentyFourHourTropeClock: Ways that time--whether it be the hour of the day, or its passage--are portrayed in a work.
* ClockDiscrepancy
ClockDiscrepancy: An event does not happen when someone says it did.
* ClockPunk
ClockPunk: Steampunk with particular emphasis on clock mechanisms.
* ClockTampering
ClockTampering: Messing with a clock for your benefit.
* ClockTower
ClockTower: A clock tower of particular importance to the plot or setting.
* ClocksOfControl
ClocksOfControl: Strict, order-obsessed characters have a certain clock motif.
* ClockworkCreature
ClockworkCreature: Mechanical creatures that have their clockwork parts visible, such as cogs or wind-up pins.
* ClockworksArea
ClockworksArea: A factory, clocktower, or similar space is filled with large, moving mechanisms that characters use to move.
* DeathsHourglass
DeathsHourglass: A physical representation showing how much time a character has to live.
* DoomsdayClock
DoomsdayClock: A clock counting down to nuclear doomsday.
* FloatingClocks
FloatingClocks: During a time-travel sequence, floating clocks appear as a visual cue.
* SpinningClockHands
SpinningClockHands: Clock hands speed around to show the passage of time.
* TickTockTerror
TickTockTerror: The tick-tock of a clock used to make an eerie, tense atmosphere.
* TickTockTune
TickTockTune: Clock sounds used as part of a work's score.
* TheWatchmaker
TheWatchmaker: A (likely mysterious) noteworthy character is a watchmaker.
* WestminsterChimes
WestminsterChimes: The most common type of tune given by clocks. It consists of four sets of four notes, followed by a different note struck the same amount of times as the current hour.
* WhenTheClockStrikesTwelveWhenTheClockStrikesTwelve: Characters have until midnight to accomplish their task.
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* TwentyFourHourTropeClock
* ClockDiscrepancy


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* WestminsterChimes

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* ClocksOfControl


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* ClocksOfControl



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* ClocksOfControlClockworkCreature


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* DoomsdayClock
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* TickTockTerror
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[[quoteright:350:[[WesternAnimation/MiscellaneousDisneyShorts http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ticktocktale.jpg]]]]
[[caption-width-right:350:[[Disney/{{Pinocchio}} I wonder what time it is...]]]]

This index is for tropes having to do with all sorts of timepieces. Clocks, watches, even sundials or hourglasses. Tropes about clockworks also go here.
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* ClockPunk
* ClockTampering
* ClockTower
* ClocksOfControl
* ClockworksArea
* DeathsHourglass
* FloatingClocks
* SpinningClockHands
* TickTockTune
* TheWatchmaker
* WhenTheClockStrikesTwelve
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