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This trope can be pulled with the help of a CuckooClockGag. Compare RaceAgainstTheClock. Contrast ClockDiscrepancy. See also WhenTheClockStrikesTwelve, a trope specifically about midnight. All examples related to midnight should be listed there rather than here. See also ExactTimeToFailure, which is about relative time rather than absolute. For other references to clocks or time, see StoppedClock or TwentyFourHourTropeClock. For a character who's determined to keep everyone on time, see ClockKing. See also ClockworkPrediction and ThreeTwoOne Despite the name, has nothing to do with ''WesternAnimation/TheTick''.
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This trope can be pulled with the help of a CuckooClockGag. Compare RaceAgainstTheClock.RaceAgainstTheClock and ImplausibleSynchrony (all clocks show the exact same time of day). Contrast ClockDiscrepancy. See also WhenTheClockStrikesTwelve, a trope specifically about midnight. All examples related to midnight should be listed there rather than here. See also ExactTimeToFailure, which is about relative time rather than absolute. For other references to clocks or time, see StoppedClock or TwentyFourHourTropeClock. For a character who's determined to keep everyone on time, see ClockKing. See also ClockworkPrediction and ThreeTwoOne Despite the name, has nothing to do with ''WesternAnimation/TheTick''.
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* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'':
** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders Stardust Crusaders]]'': Boingo's Thoth can predict any event happening at the specific time it's meant to happen. However, most of the predictions end up having a completely different outcome as Boingo exclaims only on the fact that the predictions were technically correct and that any repercussions was due to either it simply being fate or because his brother and Hol Horse tried to change the outcome.
** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable Diamond is Unbreakable]]'': When Yukako is given a makeup by Aya, she's told that for thirty minutes she'll be able to be with Koichi. After thirty minutes have passed at their exact point, Yukako's makeup is undone and Koichi runs off due to a sudden stomach-ache.
** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind Golden Wind]]'': Abbacchio's Moody Blues replay specific events that occurred in whatever location he's present in, by shapeshifting into the people that were present at the time and mimicking their previous actions.
** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean Stone Ocean]]'': In the fight against Donatello Versus, his Under World traps Jolyne and Ermes in the memory of a plane that's going to explode at a allotted time. The memories of the passengers aboard the plane explain that any attempt to prevent the crash is pointless, as the explosion will occur at the time of the crash.
** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureSteelBallRun Steel Ball Run]]'': Johnny and Gyro are told by Sugar Mountain that if they don't use the items she had given to them by sunset, they'll be hit with a {{transflormation}}. At the moment sunset occurs, Gyro immediately turns into branches as he had one item to exchange beforehand.
** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureJoJolion JoJolion]]'': Whenever Yasuho's Paisley Park asks for a specific object to assist her, once she selects it, it immediately shows up at wherever it would help.
** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureTheJoJoLands The JoJoLands]]'': Curious to test the capabilities of the lava rock acquired from Rohan's villa, Usagi tosses a twenty dollar bill that had been touched by the rock. After Paco received got a twenty dollar refund for a bad drink a few seconds later, it confirms their hypothesis that the lava rock attracts money.
** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders Stardust Crusaders]]'': Boingo's Thoth can predict any event happening at the specific time it's meant to happen. However, most of the predictions end up having a completely different outcome as Boingo exclaims only on the fact that the predictions were technically correct and that any repercussions was due to either it simply being fate or because his brother and Hol Horse tried to change the outcome.
** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable Diamond is Unbreakable]]'': When Yukako is given a makeup by Aya, she's told that for thirty minutes she'll be able to be with Koichi. After thirty minutes have passed at their exact point, Yukako's makeup is undone and Koichi runs off due to a sudden stomach-ache.
** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind Golden Wind]]'': Abbacchio's Moody Blues replay specific events that occurred in whatever location he's present in, by shapeshifting into the people that were present at the time and mimicking their previous actions.
** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean Stone Ocean]]'': In the fight against Donatello Versus, his Under World traps Jolyne and Ermes in the memory of a plane that's going to explode at a allotted time. The memories of the passengers aboard the plane explain that any attempt to prevent the crash is pointless, as the explosion will occur at the time of the crash.
** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureSteelBallRun Steel Ball Run]]'': Johnny and Gyro are told by Sugar Mountain that if they don't use the items she had given to them by sunset, they'll be hit with a {{transflormation}}. At the moment sunset occurs, Gyro immediately turns into branches as he had one item to exchange beforehand.
** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureJoJolion JoJolion]]'': Whenever Yasuho's Paisley Park asks for a specific object to assist her, once she selects it, it immediately shows up at wherever it would help.
** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureTheJoJoLands The JoJoLands]]'': Curious to test the capabilities of the lava rock acquired from Rohan's villa, Usagi tosses a twenty dollar bill that had been touched by the rock. After Paco received got a twenty dollar refund for a bad drink a few seconds later, it confirms their hypothesis that the lava rock attracts money.
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* And in ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventuresHowISpentMyVacation'' there's a song about waiting for the tick at the start of the movie.
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* ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'': TropeNamer. The original has the Hill Valley clock tower struck by lightning at precisely 10:04 P.M. on November 12, 1955. Doc then comments how the post office should be as efficient as the weather service in the future. This foreshadows the ending, when right after [[spoiler: the [=DeLorean=] is struck by lightning, a man from 1955 Western Union delivers a letter from 1885 to Marty,]] which was instructed to be delivered not only at an exact time, but at an exact location.
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* ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'': ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture'': TropeNamer. The original [[Film/BackToTheFuture1 original]] has the Hill Valley clock tower struck by lightning at precisely 10:04 P.M. on November 12, 1955. Doc then comments how the post office should be as efficient as the weather service in the future. This foreshadows the ending, ending of [[Film/BackToTheFuturePartII the second film]], when right after [[spoiler: the [[spoiler:the [=DeLorean=] is struck by lightning, a man from 1955 Western Union delivers a letter from 1885 to Marty,]] which was instructed to be delivered not only at an exact time, but at an exact location.
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* In ''Film/DuckSoup,'' President Rufus T. Firefly (Groucho) is supposed to turn up when the clock strikes ten. Subverted for laughs as he sneaks in from the back using a fireman's pole.
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* In ''Film/DuckSoup,'' ''Film/DuckSoup'', President Rufus T. Firefly (Groucho) is supposed to turn up when the clock strikes ten. Subverted for laughs as he sneaks in from the back using a fireman's pole.
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** Deconstructed in ''Literature/MenAtArms'': Vimes has the culprit in his gonnesight and very much wants to shoot him, but knows he's still a Watch officer - duty-bound to bring the killer in alive - until the clock chimes the hour and his retirement becomes official. Clocks all over the city start chiming, apparently freeing him to do as he wishes, but ''none of them are correct''; clockwork technology in Ankh-Morpork isn't advanced enough to be relied upon, and some Guilds even set their clocks wrong on purpose. It's not until ''after'' Carrot has talked Vimes down that the watch he'd received as a retirement gift - a much more accurate timepiece - actually does chime the hour.
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** Deconstructed in ''Literature/MenAtArms'': ''Literature/MenAtArms''. Vimes has the culprit in his gonnesight and very much wants to shoot him, but knows he's still a Watch officer - duty-bound to bring the killer in alive - until the clock chimes the hour and his retirement becomes official. Clocks all over the city start chiming, apparently freeing him to do as he wishes, but ''none of them are correct''; clockwork technology in Ankh-Morpork isn't advanced enough to be relied upon, and some Guilds even set their clocks wrong on purpose. It's not until ''after'' Carrot has talked Vimes down that the watch he'd received as a retirement gift - a much more accurate timepiece - actually does chime the hour.
* ''VideoGame/{{Boktai}}'': Django can find the Javelin Solar Gun frame, the second best Heavy Shot guns with an S in Attack and an A in Stun, in a dungeon before Sol City. If this is obtained during the day, this trope is subverted. On the night of a full moon, however, Carmilla will appear to curse Django with Kaamos, preventing him from drawing in the power of sunlight until either a week has passed or Django heads under the Solar Tree exactly at sunrise.
* ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY'': One of the most economical healing items in the game is the Lumiose Galette, a cookie you can buy from a vendor in Lumiose City. It does everything a Full Heal does, but only costs 100 Poké Dollars, and if you buy enough of them, the vendor lowers the price to only 80. However, she tends to sell out fast, and to be assured that you can get a lot of them, you have to be at the stand when they make a new batch, which they do at 3AM, 9AM, 3PM, and 9PM. On top of that, if you get there when they're fresh, you get a Moomoo Milk with your galette for free.
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* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' has two examples. "Speed Demon" has Buttercup impatiently eyeing the clock to hit the dismissal time. "Him Diddle Riddle" is unusual in that the entire episode elapses in real time, with the tower clock in downtown ticking off time as the girls race to solve Him's riddles.
* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'':
** In episode [[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE25TheClockKing "The Clock King"]] this trope is justified. A ScheduleFanatic has been ruined by (in his eyes) Mayor Hill's suggestion to take his coffee break at 3:15 instead of 3:00. Exactly 7 years later, the villain prepares a [[ComplexityAddiction complicated]] DeathTrap for Hill and a diversion for the local hero Batman who surely will try to stop him. [[WhyDontYaJustShootHim Why doesnt he just shoot Mayor Hill?]] Because his whole motivation is to be ''on time.'' He ties Hill to the hands of a ClockTower that will crush him at 3:15. ''Hill's death is not enough, it has to be Right On The Tick.''
-->'''The Clock King:''' ...you have an appointment to keep at 3:15 precisely with the grim reaper! (''{{evil laugh}}'')
** [[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE26AppointmentInCrimeAlley "Appointment in Crime Alley"]] has Batman trying to find and defuse explosives that have been set by Roland Dagget to level the old neighborhood at exactly 9:00 while he's speaking at a business meeting.
* In the [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Bugs Bunny]] cartoon "Hare Trimmed," Bugs and Yosemite Sam are involved in a duel. Bugs manages to count off the paces and have Sam in the middle of the street so he gets run over by a bus. Bugs checks his watch: "Yep...right on time!"
* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'':
** In episode [[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE25TheClockKing "The Clock King"]] this trope is justified. A ScheduleFanatic has been ruined by (in his eyes) Mayor Hill's suggestion to take his coffee break at 3:15 instead of 3:00. Exactly 7 years later, the villain prepares a [[ComplexityAddiction complicated]] DeathTrap for Hill and a diversion for the local hero Batman who surely will try to stop him. [[WhyDontYaJustShootHim Why doesnt he just shoot Mayor Hill?]] Because his whole motivation is to be ''on time.'' He ties Hill to the hands of a ClockTower that will crush him at 3:15. ''Hill's death is not enough, it has to be Right On The Tick.''
-->'''The Clock King:''' ...you have an appointment to keep at 3:15 precisely with the grim reaper! (''{{evil laugh}}'')
** [[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE26AppointmentInCrimeAlley "Appointment in Crime Alley"]] has Batman trying to find and defuse explosives that have been set by Roland Dagget to level the old neighborhood at exactly 9:00 while he's speaking at a business meeting.
* In the [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Bugs Bunny]] cartoon "Hare Trimmed," Bugs and Yosemite Sam are involved in a duel. Bugs manages to count off the paces and have Sam in the middle of the street so he gets run over by a bus. Bugs checks his watch: "Yep...right on time!"
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* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'' has two examples. "Speed Demon" has Buttercup impatiently eyeing the clock to hit the dismissal time. "Him Diddle Riddle" is unusual in that the entire episode elapses in real time, with the tower clock in downtown ticking off time as the girls race to solve Him's riddles.
* ''Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse'':
** ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'':
** *** In episode [[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE25TheClockKing "The "[[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE25TheClockKing The Clock King"]] King]]" this trope is justified. A ScheduleFanatic has been ruined by (in his eyes) Mayor Hill's suggestion to take his coffee break at 3:15 instead of 3:00. Exactly 7 years later, the villain prepares a [[ComplexityAddiction complicated]] DeathTrap for Hill and a diversion for the local hero Batman who surely will try to stop him. [[WhyDontYaJustShootHim Why doesnt he just shoot Mayor Hill?]] Because his whole motivation is to be ''on time.'' He ties Hill to the hands of a ClockTower that will crush him at 3:15. ''Hill's death is not enough, it has to be Right On The Tick.''
-->'''The --->'''The Clock King:''' ...you have an appointment to keep at 3:15 precisely with the grim reaper! (''{{evil laugh}}'')
** [[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE26AppointmentInCrimeAlley "Appointment *** "[[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE26AppointmentInCrimeAlley Appointment in Crime Alley"]] Alley]]" has Batman trying to find and defuse explosives that have been set by Roland Dagget to level the old neighborhood at exactly 9:00 while he's speaking at a business meeting.
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** ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Unlimited'': "Task Force X" has this invoked. The plan is ordered to be followed Right on the Tick and it does not permit unnecessary killing. It works because it was planned by Clock King, who is TheSociopath himself.
* In the[[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Bugs Bunny]] ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' cartoon "Hare Trimmed," Bugs WesternAnimation/BugsBunny and Yosemite Sam are involved in a duel. Bugs manages to count off the paces and have Sam in the middle of the street so he gets run over by a bus. Bugs checks his watch: "Yep...right on time!"
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** ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Unlimited'': "Task Force X" has this invoked. The plan is ordered to be followed Right on the Tick and it does not permit unnecessary killing. It works because it was planned by Clock King, who is TheSociopath himself.
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* ''Series/{{Chernobyl}}'': Legasov kills himself at the exact time, 1:23:45, that the Chernobyl accident. happened, exactly two years later. This is accompanied by several shots of a clock. Episode 5's HowWeGotHere calls attention to the exact time of events happening that led to the explosion, culminating once again at that particular second.
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* ''Series/{{Chernobyl}}'': Legasov kills himself at the exact time, 1:23:45, that the Chernobyl accident. accident happened, exactly two years later. This is accompanied by several shots of a clock. Episode 5's HowWeGotHere calls attention to the exact time of events happening that led to the explosion, culminating once again at that particular second.
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* The TropeNamer is ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII''. The original has the Hill Valley clock tower struck by lightning at precisely 10:04 P.M. on November 12, 1955. Doc then comments how the post office should be as efficient as the weather service in the future. This foreshadows the ending, when right after [[spoiler: the [=DeLorean=] is struck by lightning, a man from 1955 Western Union delivers a letter from 1885 to Marty,]] which was instructed to be delivered not only at an exact time, but at an exact location.
* The first half of ''Film/IndependenceDay'' has Goldblum's character David intercepts a signal that the alien cruisers are preparing to attack all major cities at once at a specific time, identified by a countdown timer. And exactly that happens.
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* The TropeNamer is ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII''.''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'': TropeNamer. The original has the Hill Valley clock tower struck by lightning at precisely 10:04 P.M. on November 12, 1955. Doc then comments how the post office should be as efficient as the weather service in the future. This foreshadows the ending, when right after [[spoiler: the [=DeLorean=] is struck by lightning, a man from 1955 Western Union delivers a letter from 1885 to Marty,]] which was instructed to be delivered not only at an exact time, but at an exact location.
* ''Film/IndependenceDay'': The first halfof ''Film/IndependenceDay'' has Goldblum's character David intercepts intercept a signal that the alien cruisers are preparing to attack all major cities at once at a specific time, identified by a countdown timer. And exactly that happens.
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* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'', the world ends at exactly 6:00 A.M. on the fourth day unless Link does something about it.
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* The ending of ''Film/ASeriousShockYesMadam'' have Cocco finding her kidnapped son, with a TimeBomb strapped on him. After a bit of WireDilemma (with Cocco ready to ''[[MamaBear die with her child]]'' if all else fails) the bomb eventually stopped... witn '''1''' second on the timer left.
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Compare RaceAgainstTheClock. Contrast ClockDiscrepancy. See also WhenTheClockStrikesTwelve, a trope specifically about midnight. All examples related to midnight should be listed there rather than here. See also ExactTimeToFailure, which is about relative time rather than absolute. For other references to clocks or time, see StoppedClock or TwentyFourHourTropeClock. For a character who's determined to keep everyone on time, see ClockKing. See also ClockworkPrediction and ThreeTwoOne Despite the name, has nothing to do with ''WesternAnimation/TheTick''.
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This trope can be pulled with the help of a CuckooClockGag. Compare RaceAgainstTheClock. Contrast ClockDiscrepancy. See also WhenTheClockStrikesTwelve, a trope specifically about midnight. All examples related to midnight should be listed there rather than here. See also ExactTimeToFailure, which is about relative time rather than absolute. For other references to clocks or time, see StoppedClock or TwentyFourHourTropeClock. For a character who's determined to keep everyone on time, see ClockKing. See also ClockworkPrediction and ThreeTwoOne Despite the name, has nothing to do with ''WesternAnimation/TheTick''.
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** In ''Discworld/WitchesAbroad'', the villain is trying to make a Cinderella-type story happen and the witches have to stop it, so one thing Nanny Ogg does is mess with the clock so it strikes midnight at only half past nine.
** In ''Discworld/ReaperMan'', Death knows his replacement the New Death will only attack at midnight - there's no ''reason'' why he couldn't do it earlier, but he's the type to use [[AC:Drama]] like that.
** Deconstructed in ''Discworld/MenAtArms'': Vimes has the culprit in his gonnesight and very much wants to shoot him, but knows he's still a Watch officer - duty-bound to bring the killer in alive - until the clock chimes the hour and his retirement becomes official. Clocks all over the city start chiming, apparently freeing him to do as he wishes, but ''none of them are correct''; clockwork technology in Ankh-Morpork isn't advanced enough to be relied upon, and some Guilds even set their clocks wrong on purpose. It's not until ''after'' Carrot has talked Vimes down that the watch he'd received as a retirement gift - a much more accurate timepiece - actually does chime the hour.
** In ''Discworld/ReaperMan'', Death knows his replacement the New Death will only attack at midnight - there's no ''reason'' why he couldn't do it earlier, but he's the type to use [[AC:Drama]] like that.
** Deconstructed in ''Discworld/MenAtArms'': Vimes has the culprit in his gonnesight and very much wants to shoot him, but knows he's still a Watch officer - duty-bound to bring the killer in alive - until the clock chimes the hour and his retirement becomes official. Clocks all over the city start chiming, apparently freeing him to do as he wishes, but ''none of them are correct''; clockwork technology in Ankh-Morpork isn't advanced enough to be relied upon, and some Guilds even set their clocks wrong on purpose. It's not until ''after'' Carrot has talked Vimes down that the watch he'd received as a retirement gift - a much more accurate timepiece - actually does chime the hour.
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** In ''Discworld/WitchesAbroad'', ''Literature/WitchesAbroad'', the villain is trying to make a Cinderella-type story happen and the witches have to stop it, so one thing Nanny Ogg does is mess with the clock so it strikes midnight at only half past nine.
** In''Discworld/ReaperMan'', ''Literature/ReaperMan'', Death knows his replacement the New Death will only attack at midnight - there's no ''reason'' why he couldn't do it earlier, but he's the type to use [[AC:Drama]] like that.
** Deconstructed in''Discworld/MenAtArms'': ''Literature/MenAtArms'': Vimes has the culprit in his gonnesight and very much wants to shoot him, but knows he's still a Watch officer - duty-bound to bring the killer in alive - until the clock chimes the hour and his retirement becomes official. Clocks all over the city start chiming, apparently freeing him to do as he wishes, but ''none of them are correct''; clockwork technology in Ankh-Morpork isn't advanced enough to be relied upon, and some Guilds even set their clocks wrong on purpose. It's not until ''after'' Carrot has talked Vimes down that the watch he'd received as a retirement gift - a much more accurate timepiece - actually does chime the hour.
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* The chapter headings for every book of ''Literature/{{Gone}}'' list the exact time to the climactic event of the book, to the second. In the first book, this refers to the exact time until [[TheHero Sam]] turns 15 years old, in the context that anyone over fifteen years old in the FAYZ disappears.
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Not all examples of attention paid to the time of day belong here. It's only RightOnTheTick if a) it has already been established in a work that this time is significant; and b) special attention is paid to the passage of time or the proximity of Time X. Such attention can include shots of or descriptions of watches or clock faces, but the significant time can also be indicated by tolling church bells or the chiming of a distant clock. For example, if you're watching a movie in which aliens attack only at 7:07 A.M., and the characters in the film keep watching the clock to see when the aliens will attack, that's an example of RightOnTheTick. If, on the other hand, the aliens' kill happens at a randomly chosen time, and the camera just happens to pan out and show us that Bob became breakfast at precisely 7:07 A.M., that may have dramatic significance, but it's not an example of this trope.
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Not all examples of attention paid to the time of day belong here. It's only RightOnTheTick Right On The Tick if a) it has already been established in a work that this time is significant; and b) special attention is paid to the passage of time or the proximity of Time X. Such attention can include shots of or descriptions of watches or clock faces, but the significant time can also be indicated by tolling church bells or the chiming of a distant clock. For example, if you're watching a movie in which aliens attack only at 7:07 A.M., and the characters in the film keep watching the clock to see when the aliens will attack, that's an example of RightOnTheTick.Right On The Tick. If, on the other hand, the aliens' kill happens at a randomly chosen time, and the camera just happens to pan out and show us that Bob became breakfast at precisely 7:07 A.M., that may have dramatic significance, but it's not an example of this trope.
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Compare RaceAgainstTheClock. Contrast ClockDiscrepancy. See also WhenTheClockStrikesTwelve, a trope specifically about midnight. All examples related to midnight should be listed there rather than here. See also ExactTimeToFailure, which is about relative time rather than absolute. For other references to clocks or time, see StoppedClock or TwentyFourHourTropeClock. For a character who's determined to keep everyone on time, see ClockKing. Despite the name, has nothing to do with ''WesternAnimation/TheTick''.
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Compare RaceAgainstTheClock. Contrast ClockDiscrepancy. See also WhenTheClockStrikesTwelve, a trope specifically about midnight. All examples related to midnight should be listed there rather than here. See also ExactTimeToFailure, which is about relative time rather than absolute. For other references to clocks or time, see StoppedClock or TwentyFourHourTropeClock. For a character who's determined to keep everyone on time, see ClockKing. See also ClockworkPrediction and ThreeTwoOne Despite the name, has nothing to do with ''WesternAnimation/TheTick''.
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** In episode [[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE25TheClockKing "The Clock King"]] this trope is justified. A ScheduleFanatic has been ruined by Mayor Hill for and advice to take his coffee break at 3:15. Exactly 7 years later, the villain prepares a [[ComplexityAddiction complicated]] DeathTrap for Hill and a diversion for the local hero Batman who surely will try to stop him. [[WhyDontYaJustShootHim Why doesnt he just shoot Mayor Hill?]] Because his whole motivation is to be ''on time.'' He ties Hill to the hands of a ClockTower that will crush him at 3:15. ''Hill's death is not enough, it has to be Right On The Tick.''
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** In episode [[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE25TheClockKing "The Clock King"]] this trope is justified. A ScheduleFanatic has been ruined by (in his eyes) Mayor Hill for and advice Hill's suggestion to take his coffee break at 3:15.3:15 instead of 3:00. Exactly 7 years later, the villain prepares a [[ComplexityAddiction complicated]] DeathTrap for Hill and a diversion for the local hero Batman who surely will try to stop him. [[WhyDontYaJustShootHim Why doesnt he just shoot Mayor Hill?]] Because his whole motivation is to be ''on time.'' He ties Hill to the hands of a ClockTower that will crush him at 3:15. ''Hill's death is not enough, it has to be Right On The Tick.''
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* Creator/DorothySayers' ''Busman's Honeymoon'' also references the 8:00 A.M. execution time; at the end of the book, Literature/LordPeterWimsey [[spoiler: falls apart at 8 A.M., because he knows that the criminal he helped catch and convict is being executed]].
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* Creator/DorothySayers' Creator/DorothyLSayers' ''Busman's Honeymoon'' also references the 8:00 A.M. execution time; at the end of the book, Literature/LordPeterWimsey [[spoiler: falls apart at 8 A.M., because he knows that the criminal he helped catch and convict is being executed]].