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* In the ''Animation/{{Lamput}}'' episode "Boxing", after the boxing match, Slim Doc waves to the arena spectators and the frame cuts to a closer shot of him, causing his hand to go off-screen. When his hand is on-screen again, Lamput, who was shaped as boxing gloves on his hands, has already disappeared; he's at the arena's exit.

* This is functionally Taylor's power in ''Fanfic/CameraShy''. She can shift into an incorporeal "ghost" state in which time is effectively paused and in which she can move freely in any direction, but she cannot enter this state if anyone is visually observing her and she can't exit the state in any location anyone is visually observing.

* Amusingly done in ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'' between Sully and Boo, the latter being a cute little girl who reappears out of nowhere like something out of a horror movie whenever he's got his back turned. Of course, to Sulley it ''is'' exactly like being inside a horror movie considering he believes that her presence is deadly to him.
* Then ''WesternAnimation/MonstersUniversity'' plays with this a few times, particularly with the character Squishy, who is so quiet that he often unintentionally sneaks up and startles people. And he does learn to use that to his advantage.
-->'''Mike:''' We gotta put a bell around you.

Though possible in a multitude of genres, {{Horror}} movies are particularly prone to playing this one straight - the killer will know exactly where his victim is running to and be waiting for him before he even gets there, obviously because it lends itself so well to alarming the audience. This is especially common when the victim was ExploringTheEvilLair. This is one of those powers that the horror villain [[MonsterThreatExpiration loses]] as he goes through victims and starts to approach the final characters. Perhaps he's losing his [[TheScourgeOfGod Scourge Of God]] advantage? It's all covered by the RuleOfScary. For further examples done in the name of horror, see also FlashStep, VillainTeleportation and MobileMenace. Compare AlreadyUndoneForYou.

* Subverted in season 9 of the ''LetsPlay/HermitcraftServer''. From Impulse's point of view, Grian seems to repeatedly show up ahead of him without explanation as part of the latter's "Secret Fools" prank. In reality, Grian is using a series of Ender Pearl stasis chambers and walk-through paintings to pull off the effect, with the long hallways in between the rooms keeping Impulse from being close enough to hear the sound effects.

Even if his victim (usually it's a good guy running from a baddie) just ran five miles to get away from him and up two flights of stairs to hide in a closet with one entrance; when he flicks on the light, the other guy will be right behind him, without a sign of sweat or fatigue.

* ''LightNovel/NyarukoCrawlingWithLove'':

Compare TravellingAtTheSpeedOfPlot, a usually less blatant situation in which characters make it to a location much faster or slower than expected. See also FakeoutEscape (characters usually always find time to hide and tend to do it offscreen) and ImplausibleCorneredEscape. Contrast HeWasRightThereAllAlong.

Compare TravellingAtTheSpeedOfPlot, a usually less blatant situation in which characters make it to a location much faster or slower than expected. See also FakeoutEscape (characters usually always find time to hide and tend to do it offscreen). Contrast HeWasRightThereAllAlong.

* Rather subtle because the distances involved were so small, but in the scene of ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'' where Donkey and Shrek are arguing underneath the moon, Donkey demonstrates an unusual knack for getting in Shrek's face no matter which way the ogre turns.

Outside of horror, this trope is really popular with characters who are supposed to be mysterious (such as fortune tellers, ninjas, wise old people and Batman), because it gets them away quickly before the person they were talking to has a chance to ask too many questions.

* In ''Webcomic/{{Rain}}'', Ana goes from sitting at one end of a table to standing at the other end between [[https://www.deviantart.com/jocelynsamara/art/RAIN-p874-875-Misfits-664090426 the end of one strip]] and [[https://www.deviantart.com/jocelynsamara/art/RAIN-p876-Blue-or-Pink-664788857 the beginning of the next]].

* In the anime adaptation of ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders'' the main antagonist, DIO, appears at first to have this ability. As it turns out, it's just because his Stand, The World, has the ability to [[spoiler:make [[TimeStandsStill time stand still]].]]

** ''WebVideo/MarbleHornets'', being the [[GenreLaunch first Slender Man series]], is probably the originator for this trope, but they subvert it on a couple of occasions. For a split second in Entry #54 you can see the Operator moving into a room really, ''really'' fast, and in Entry #72 he teleports onscreen.

* In ''Fanfic/JerichoMLP'', there's an exchange wherein [[FirstPersonSmartass Jeri]][[SociopathicHero cho]] is going up against the [[AuthorityEqualsAsskicking leader of the Blackguard]] for control of the [[LostTechnology Cœur]], and the leader of the Blackguard randomly appears far away from where he was just a moment before. Jericho asks him thereabout, resulting in this amusing exchange:

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* This occurring in real life is why motorists should keep their eyes on the road. A road safety video depicted this by having a camera in a car driving down a suburban street turn away for three seconds. When it turns back, a ‘’camel’’ is walking halfway across the street and right in the car’s path. The lesson being that conditions on the road can change much faster than you’d think.

* In episode 8 of ''LightNovel/{{Gosick}}'', Kujo [[LiteralCliffhanger dangles off a cliff, held up one-handed by Victorique]], for a significant length of time because he's dazed from inhaling smoke and she's too weak to lift him. Three adults, all bigger and stronger than either Kujo or Victorique, were right there when he fell. But none of them do anything, because RuleOfDrama made them all vanish. They're all back again in the next scene.