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* "Literature/TheStoryOfTheYara": For whatever reason, the Yara only goes after men who are on the eve of their wedding. Alonzo points out that he's been frequenting the jungle pools on hot nights for a long time, and nothing has ever gone wrong. Julia herself says that the pools won't be dangerous after they marry. However, in the period in between, the Yara is a major threat to Alonzo's life and their happiness.
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* In ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'', Cendrillon's magic lets her move fast enough to dodge a cluster bombing and automatically readjusts external factors to make her nearly untouchable. However, since her power is based on the legend of Cinderella, her power will fade at both midnight and sunrise. As such, her powers will fade when the sun comes up or if she's presented with something that represents a sunrise or the clock striking twelve, such as changing every nearby clock to show 12:00 or detonating an oil tanker to create a bright flame mimicking the sun.
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* In ''Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex'', Cendrillon's magic lets her move fast enough to dodge a cluster bombing and automatically readjusts external factors to make her nearly untouchable. However, since her power is based on the legend of Cinderella, her power will fade at both midnight and sunrise. As such, her powers will fade when the sun comes up or if she's presented with something that represents a sunrise or the clock striking twelve, such as changing every nearby clock to show 12:00 or detonating an oil tanker to create a bright flame mimicking the sun.
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* Discussed and Exploited in ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' when [[GeneralFailure Zap Branigan]] lists some of his "accomplishments," namely, his method of winning the war with the Killbots. Since the Killbots have a killing quota of 999,999, before automatically shutting down, [[WeHaveReserves Branigan just ordered wave after wave]] of earth soldiers to go after the Killbots.
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One of the easiest, and therefore most common, ways to ratchet up the dramatic tension in an action scene is the to impose a strict time limit on the heroes. There are a whole host of tropes that branch off from this concept, RaceAgainstTheClock being chief amongst them. The reason why is obvious enough; few things raise the audience's heart rate more effectively than a race against time to disarm a bomb or accomplish some other similarly fiendish task.
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Subtrope of RaceAgainstTheClock. May incorporate elements of TimedMission or ExactTimeToFailure. See also HoldTheLine and MyDefenseNeedNotProtectMeForever, which describe strategic answers to this trope. Contrast TimeLimitBoss, IncreasinglyLethalEnemy, and StalkedByTheBell, in which the enemy imposes a deadline on the ''heroes''. See also VictoryByEndurance, which describes winning by simply outlasting the enemy without any specific deadlines.
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Subtrope of RaceAgainstTheClock. May incorporate elements of TimedMission or ExactTimeToFailure. See also HoldTheLine and MyDefenseNeedNotProtectMeForever, which describe strategic answers to this trope. Contrast TimeLimitBoss, IncreasinglyLethalEnemy, and StalkedByTheBell, in which the enemy imposes a deadline on the ''heroes''. See also VictoryByEndurance, which describes winning by simply outlasting the enemy without any specific deadlines.
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* In ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'', bloodthirsty spirits assail Guts and Casca during the night, thanks to their Brands of Sacrifice. Once the sun rises, however, the spirits disperse. As a result, Guts begins to sleep during the day so he can be ready to protect himself at night.
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* In ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'', Cendrillon's magic lets her move fast enough to dodge a cluster bombing and automatically readjusts external factors to make her nearly untouchable. However, since her power is based on the legend of Cinderella, her power will fade at midnight. As such, her powers will fade at sunrise or if she's presented with something that represents the clock striking twelve, such as changing every nearby clock to show 12:00 or detonating an oil tanker to create a bright flame mimicking the sun.
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* ''Fanfic/ACertainCrazyChristmasSpecial'': The villain is a BadSanta, a deranged magician who can do anything related to Christmas, but his powers only work during Christmas time. Motoharu suggests simply staying clear of him until Christmas is over, but unfortunately that is not an option since he is actively attacking people.
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One of the easiest, and therefore most common, ways to ratchet up the dramatic tension in an action scene is the impose a strict time limit on the heroes. There are a whole host of tropes that branch off from this concept, RaceAgainstTheClock being chief amongst them. The reason why is obvious enough; few things raise the audience's heart rate more effectively than a race against time to disarm a bomb or accomplish some other similarly fiendish task.
Sometimes, however, the heroes aren't the one with the time limit. Sometimes the ''enemy'' is the one who has only a certain amount of time, fuel, or other resource before they are neutralized, shut down, or even ''dead''. In these cases, the heroes' goal is not to race the clock, but to stall and wait out the enemy's clock while trying to avoid being captured or killed in the meantime. The heroes are facing a ''Danger with a Deadline''.
The Danger with a Deadline trope covers situations in which an enemy poses a very real and present danger, but only poses a threat for a finite amount of time. After that time is up, the threat is either greatly reduced or completely neutralized. While the ''exact'' amount of time need not be known to either TheHero or the audience, it's generally made apparent in some way that the danger ''does'' have a deadline. This may be accomplished by dropping hints, [[LampshadeHanging saying so directly]], or simply making it obvious enough that the audience can figure it out themselves.
While this trope often appears as "the enemy is in a RaceAgainstTheClock," it can manifest in other ways. It may be Exploited by TheHero as a means to evade or defeat an otherwise insurmountable enemy, it can be PlayedForLaughs by having the enemy run out of time at a particularly awkward or inopportune moment, or it can provide a scare by having the [[JumpScare enemy set upon the heroes at the last minute]] only to fail by a hair's breadth.
While not the most common trope in the world, it appears in almost all narrative-based mediums and still enjoys much use today, especially in cartoons and comedies. In fact, the relatively new medium of {{Video Game}}s has given the trope a new lease on life, as it can be used to add layers of challenge and/or strategy to certain enemies and boss fights, or at least create some really bizarre EasterEgg situations.
Subtrope of RaceAgainstTheClock. May incorporate elements of TimedMission or ExactTimeToFailure. See also HoldTheLine and MyDefenseNeedNotProtectMeForever, which describe strategic answers to this trope. Contrast TimeLimitBoss, IncreasinglyLethalEnemy, and StalkedByTheBell, in which the enemy imposes a deadline on the ''heroes''. See also VictoryByEndurance, which describes winning by simply outlasting the enemy without any specific deadlines.
'''As this trope [[DeathTrope often involves death]] or the defeat of a major enemy, spoilers are inherent this page and will be unmarked. Reader beware.'''
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* In ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'', demons are incredibly difficult for humans to kill thanks to having far greater strength, toughness, and speed, nearly limitless stamina, and a HealingFactor unless their heads are cut off. However, all demons are vulnerable to sunlight and will crumble into dust if caught outside at the crack of dawn.
* In ''Manga/OnePiece'', anyone who drinks Hero Water gains [[HourOfPower incredible physical strength]] for a short time, but it will inevitably kill them five minutes after consumption. Alabasta's finest guardsmen drink it in an attempt to defeat Crocodile. Unfortunately for them, Crocodile is well aware of the lethal side effects and dodges their attacks and floats away with the powers of his Sand-Sand Fruit, letting them drop dead without lifting a finger.
* Makoto Shishio from ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'' is an incredibly powerful warrior, but due to being burnt to a crisp earlier in life, he can now only engage in strenuous activity (like ''swordfighting'') for a very short period of time due to his extreme hyperthermia. He physically and mentally starts breaking down after 15 minutes of activity due to his extreme body heat, and after 25 minutes, ''he bursts into flame and dies''.
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* ''Film/FrightNight1985''. The protagonists manage to avoid being killed by the vampire Jerry Dandrige until sunrise. They then rip the coverings off the house's windows and "let the sun shine in", eventually trapping Dandrige in sunlight and destroying him.
* While vampires have historically been considered nocturnal, Count Orlok from the 1922 German horror film ''Film/{{Nosferatu}}'' is the earliest example of a vampire actually being ''killed'' by sunlight. The movie's influence is hard to overstate; even today, a large percentage of vampires in Western fiction are either killed, weakened, or otherwise adversely affected by daylight.
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* In ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'', Cendrillon's magic lets her move fast enough to dodge a cluster bombing and automatically readjusts external factors to make her nearly untouchable. However, since her power is based on the legend of Cinderella, her power will fade at midnight. As such, her powers will fade at sunrise or if she's presented with something that represents the clock striking twelve, such as changing every nearby clock to show 12:00 or detonating an oil tanker to create a bright flame mimicking the sun.
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* Most modern portrayals of werewolves hold that they change back into humans when the sun comes up or the moon is no longer full, so theoretically one just has to avoid being killed during a full moon. While this idea's origin is difficult to track, the earliest known recorded mention of a werewolf transformation being reversible dates back to Ancient Greece, namely the ''Literature/TheHistories'' of Herodotus, although those particular transformations lasted several days. It's worth noting, however, that these "werewolves" were ''actual wolves''; the wolf-man chimera of today is a more recent invention.
* In ''Literature/TheHobbit'', Gandalf notices that trolls have caught Bilbo and the dwarves, so from his hiding place Gandalf disguises his voice to keep reigniting the trolls' argument over how to prepare the dwarves and hobbit for eating, stalling for time until the sunrise turns the trolls to stone.
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* The ''Series/{{Angel}}'' episode "Heartthrob" centred on a vampire who had taken a DeadlyUpgrade to kill Angel, which would make him invulnerable for six hours, at the end of which he would die.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'': The [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E9TheFamilyOfBlood Family of Blood]] are a family of short-lived body-snatching aliens. When they start hunting The Doctor, he decides to hide in human form for a few months on Earth in hopes of waiting out their lifespan. [[spoiler: This fails to stall them quite long enough.]]
* On an episode of ''Series/RedDwarf'', Rimmer is playing chess against one of the automated cleaning robots with full knowledge that while the robot might be able to outplay him, it also begins its work shift in a few minutes meaning it has to leave and thus forfeit the game.
* ''Series/TheWitcher2019'' has Geralt facing down a vicious monster called a Striga that has been cursed to rise from its tomb at night and cause havoc, he has to keep it out of its coffin until after sunrise in order to defeat it. The effort of doing this nearly gets him killed.
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* ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater'': The boss battle against The End can be won without actually fighting him -- you have the option of saving during the battle, leaving the game, waiting for a whole ''week'', and then picking up where you left off. The End, who is already well over 100 years old, will die of old age. It's not very sporting or even fun to do, but it works.
* In ''VideoGame/PhantasyStarOnline2'', Gehl Bulfs are flying, nigh-unkillable, intangible Falspawn that deal massive amounts of damage to any ARKS op they come into contact with, chasing them through walls and obstacles to ram them as many time as they can. But they can only last a few minutes at most and can only move in a straight line with short pauses between rushes. ARKS ops are recommended to simply avoid it until it expires by running in wide circles, though a stationary Photon Cannon that ''can'' kill the Gehl Bulf in one hit will sometimes be teleported in.
* ''VideoGame/SlayTheSpire'': Transients are extradimensional creatures that have near-unkillable amounts of HP, but also have a timer on them that causes them to fade out of existence within five turns, automatically winning you the match. The difficulty is in holding out until then, both battening down the hatches and smacking them around to lower their horrifically high damage.
* In the ''VideoGame/StarCraftII'' campaign ''VideoGame/WingsOfLiberty'', "Outbreak" takes place on a planet whose star has a very high UV output which burns Zerg units instantly. Thus the level has you bunker down and defend against swarms of Infested Terrans by night (a ZombieApocalypse in all but name) and attack their bases by day. You ''can'', however, attack during the night if you feel like going for an achievement.
* Played straight in ''VideoGame/{{Terraria}}'' with three of the five nocturnal bosses (Eye of Cthulhu, The Twins, and The Destroyer), who only appear at night and despawn if the player manages to outlast them until dawn. Subverted with Skeletron and Skeletron Prime; if Skeletron is not killed by the time dawn comes, it sends its head flying into the player at high speed, dealing enough damage to kill the player quickly.
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* Exploited in ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}''. Sam gets away from [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff800/fv00741.htm a delivery bot with a grudge against him]] by hiding under the delivered box and reminding the bot that it can't wait him out because it's falling behind in its delivery schedule.
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* Discussed and Exploited in ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' when [[GeneralFailure Zap Branigan]] lists some of his "accomplishments," namely, his method of winning the war with the Killbots. Since the Killbots have a killing quota of 999,999, before automatically shutting down, [[WeHaveReserves Branigan just ordered wave after wave]] of earth soldiers to go after the Killbots.
* In most ''WesternAnimation/MerrieMelodies'' shorts starring [[PunchClockVillain Ralph Wolf]] and [[PunchClockHero Sam Sheepdog]], such as ''Woolen Under Where'', the two characters are expectedly antagonistic towards each other. Until, that is, the end-shift whistle blows, in which they immediately stop whatever beatdown is about to occur, become downright amicable with each other, punch out and go home.
Sometimes, however, the heroes aren't the one with the time limit. Sometimes the ''enemy'' is the one who has only a certain amount of time, fuel, or other resource before they are neutralized, shut down, or even ''dead''. In these cases, the heroes' goal is not to race the clock, but to stall and wait out the enemy's clock while trying to avoid being captured or killed in the meantime. The heroes are facing a ''Danger with a Deadline''.
The Danger with a Deadline trope covers situations in which an enemy poses a very real and present danger, but only poses a threat for a finite amount of time. After that time is up, the threat is either greatly reduced or completely neutralized. While the ''exact'' amount of time need not be known to either TheHero or the audience, it's generally made apparent in some way that the danger ''does'' have a deadline. This may be accomplished by dropping hints, [[LampshadeHanging saying so directly]], or simply making it obvious enough that the audience can figure it out themselves.
While this trope often appears as "the enemy is in a RaceAgainstTheClock," it can manifest in other ways. It may be Exploited by TheHero as a means to evade or defeat an otherwise insurmountable enemy, it can be PlayedForLaughs by having the enemy run out of time at a particularly awkward or inopportune moment, or it can provide a scare by having the [[JumpScare enemy set upon the heroes at the last minute]] only to fail by a hair's breadth.
While not the most common trope in the world, it appears in almost all narrative-based mediums and still enjoys much use today, especially in cartoons and comedies. In fact, the relatively new medium of {{Video Game}}s has given the trope a new lease on life, as it can be used to add layers of challenge and/or strategy to certain enemies and boss fights, or at least create some really bizarre EasterEgg situations.
Subtrope of RaceAgainstTheClock. May incorporate elements of TimedMission or ExactTimeToFailure. See also HoldTheLine and MyDefenseNeedNotProtectMeForever, which describe strategic answers to this trope. Contrast TimeLimitBoss, IncreasinglyLethalEnemy, and StalkedByTheBell, in which the enemy imposes a deadline on the ''heroes''. See also VictoryByEndurance, which describes winning by simply outlasting the enemy without any specific deadlines.
'''As this trope [[DeathTrope often involves death]] or the defeat of a major enemy, spoilers are inherent this page and will be unmarked. Reader beware.'''
!!Examples:
[[AC:Anime & Manga]]
* In ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'', demons are incredibly difficult for humans to kill thanks to having far greater strength, toughness, and speed, nearly limitless stamina, and a HealingFactor unless their heads are cut off. However, all demons are vulnerable to sunlight and will crumble into dust if caught outside at the crack of dawn.
* In ''Manga/OnePiece'', anyone who drinks Hero Water gains [[HourOfPower incredible physical strength]] for a short time, but it will inevitably kill them five minutes after consumption. Alabasta's finest guardsmen drink it in an attempt to defeat Crocodile. Unfortunately for them, Crocodile is well aware of the lethal side effects and dodges their attacks and floats away with the powers of his Sand-Sand Fruit, letting them drop dead without lifting a finger.
* Makoto Shishio from ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'' is an incredibly powerful warrior, but due to being burnt to a crisp earlier in life, he can now only engage in strenuous activity (like ''swordfighting'') for a very short period of time due to his extreme hyperthermia. He physically and mentally starts breaking down after 15 minutes of activity due to his extreme body heat, and after 25 minutes, ''he bursts into flame and dies''.
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* ''Film/FrightNight1985''. The protagonists manage to avoid being killed by the vampire Jerry Dandrige until sunrise. They then rip the coverings off the house's windows and "let the sun shine in", eventually trapping Dandrige in sunlight and destroying him.
* While vampires have historically been considered nocturnal, Count Orlok from the 1922 German horror film ''Film/{{Nosferatu}}'' is the earliest example of a vampire actually being ''killed'' by sunlight. The movie's influence is hard to overstate; even today, a large percentage of vampires in Western fiction are either killed, weakened, or otherwise adversely affected by daylight.
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* In ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'', Cendrillon's magic lets her move fast enough to dodge a cluster bombing and automatically readjusts external factors to make her nearly untouchable. However, since her power is based on the legend of Cinderella, her power will fade at midnight. As such, her powers will fade at sunrise or if she's presented with something that represents the clock striking twelve, such as changing every nearby clock to show 12:00 or detonating an oil tanker to create a bright flame mimicking the sun.
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* Most modern portrayals of werewolves hold that they change back into humans when the sun comes up or the moon is no longer full, so theoretically one just has to avoid being killed during a full moon. While this idea's origin is difficult to track, the earliest known recorded mention of a werewolf transformation being reversible dates back to Ancient Greece, namely the ''Literature/TheHistories'' of Herodotus, although those particular transformations lasted several days. It's worth noting, however, that these "werewolves" were ''actual wolves''; the wolf-man chimera of today is a more recent invention.
* In ''Literature/TheHobbit'', Gandalf notices that trolls have caught Bilbo and the dwarves, so from his hiding place Gandalf disguises his voice to keep reigniting the trolls' argument over how to prepare the dwarves and hobbit for eating, stalling for time until the sunrise turns the trolls to stone.
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* The ''Series/{{Angel}}'' episode "Heartthrob" centred on a vampire who had taken a DeadlyUpgrade to kill Angel, which would make him invulnerable for six hours, at the end of which he would die.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'': The [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E9TheFamilyOfBlood Family of Blood]] are a family of short-lived body-snatching aliens. When they start hunting The Doctor, he decides to hide in human form for a few months on Earth in hopes of waiting out their lifespan. [[spoiler: This fails to stall them quite long enough.]]
* On an episode of ''Series/RedDwarf'', Rimmer is playing chess against one of the automated cleaning robots with full knowledge that while the robot might be able to outplay him, it also begins its work shift in a few minutes meaning it has to leave and thus forfeit the game.
* ''Series/TheWitcher2019'' has Geralt facing down a vicious monster called a Striga that has been cursed to rise from its tomb at night and cause havoc, he has to keep it out of its coffin until after sunrise in order to defeat it. The effort of doing this nearly gets him killed.
[[AC:Video Games]]
* ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater'': The boss battle against The End can be won without actually fighting him -- you have the option of saving during the battle, leaving the game, waiting for a whole ''week'', and then picking up where you left off. The End, who is already well over 100 years old, will die of old age. It's not very sporting or even fun to do, but it works.
* In ''VideoGame/PhantasyStarOnline2'', Gehl Bulfs are flying, nigh-unkillable, intangible Falspawn that deal massive amounts of damage to any ARKS op they come into contact with, chasing them through walls and obstacles to ram them as many time as they can. But they can only last a few minutes at most and can only move in a straight line with short pauses between rushes. ARKS ops are recommended to simply avoid it until it expires by running in wide circles, though a stationary Photon Cannon that ''can'' kill the Gehl Bulf in one hit will sometimes be teleported in.
* ''VideoGame/SlayTheSpire'': Transients are extradimensional creatures that have near-unkillable amounts of HP, but also have a timer on them that causes them to fade out of existence within five turns, automatically winning you the match. The difficulty is in holding out until then, both battening down the hatches and smacking them around to lower their horrifically high damage.
* In the ''VideoGame/StarCraftII'' campaign ''VideoGame/WingsOfLiberty'', "Outbreak" takes place on a planet whose star has a very high UV output which burns Zerg units instantly. Thus the level has you bunker down and defend against swarms of Infested Terrans by night (a ZombieApocalypse in all but name) and attack their bases by day. You ''can'', however, attack during the night if you feel like going for an achievement.
* Played straight in ''VideoGame/{{Terraria}}'' with three of the five nocturnal bosses (Eye of Cthulhu, The Twins, and The Destroyer), who only appear at night and despawn if the player manages to outlast them until dawn. Subverted with Skeletron and Skeletron Prime; if Skeletron is not killed by the time dawn comes, it sends its head flying into the player at high speed, dealing enough damage to kill the player quickly.
[[AC:Web Comics]]
* Exploited in ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}''. Sam gets away from [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff800/fv00741.htm a delivery bot with a grudge against him]] by hiding under the delivered box and reminding the bot that it can't wait him out because it's falling behind in its delivery schedule.
[[AC:Western Animation]]
* Discussed and Exploited in ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' when [[GeneralFailure Zap Branigan]] lists some of his "accomplishments," namely, his method of winning the war with the Killbots. Since the Killbots have a killing quota of 999,999, before automatically shutting down, [[WeHaveReserves Branigan just ordered wave after wave]] of earth soldiers to go after the Killbots.
* In most ''WesternAnimation/MerrieMelodies'' shorts starring [[PunchClockVillain Ralph Wolf]] and [[PunchClockHero Sam Sheepdog]], such as ''Woolen Under Where'', the two characters are expectedly antagonistic towards each other. Until, that is, the end-shift whistle blows, in which they immediately stop whatever beatdown is about to occur, become downright amicable with each other, punch out and go home.
